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2,000 and turkey!
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, May 14th, 2020.
This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1242.
This is No Agenda.
Freshly cut hair, don't care, and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Boston, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're all wondering whatever happened to the Ice Bucket Challenge.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
Somehow I doubt everybody's wondering what happened to that.
Yes, they are.
No, this is not true.
No, they're not.
No one's wondering about that.
Whatever happened to the money?
Did you ever get any money out of that thing that was just dumping ice on people?
Yes, that was for ALS. The money went to ALS. Who organized this?
Oh, well, I don't know, man.
You should dive into it.
I want a full report.
I want a full report Sunday.
I want to know all about it.
Hey, I had a haircut.
I had a haircut.
It's okay with me.
I'm so happy I had a haircut.
It's so nice.
But what an experience.
I thought you liked long hair.
No.
Well, I did.
Well, no.
Actually, I've never liked it.
It just looked good on me at the time, back in the day.
Remember, I have a small head.
In order to work well on TV, you need a big head.
So if you don't have a big head...
It's not that small, by the way.
It's not as big as Pat Sajak's.
Or Vanna White.
Or Little Richard.
Have you ever seen the size of that guy's head?
Yeah, a big head.
Well, Little Richard was anything but little.
He was pretty big.
He was pretty big.
So, I learned a little bit about returning back to work and what it means when the governor on a Friday afternoon says, hey, guess what?
You guys with hair salons, you can open up on Monday.
You don't think about it as a customer, obviously.
I'm like, oh, that's fine.
Great.
So I immediately, this was, yeah, I think it was Friday.
I saw the news.
I immediately started texting Johanna, my hairstylist, to the stars of Austin.
And she said, oh my God, we weren't ready for this.
We had no idea.
We thought the 18th is the last we heard.
The 18th, we would be able to take a look and figure out a timeline, but all of a sudden, they threw it on them in two days.
This was not a smart idea.
I've heard about this around the country.
There's different areas, and there's always the hair salons.
And I was thinking to myself, I'm thinking to myself, self, how hard is it To boot a hair salon, you need your scissors, you need a little buzzing thing, you need a bucket of goo for the cones.
This is exactly what I thought.
How hard can it be?
This is what I thought.
Or at least the impression I had.
First of all, what happens is, without you knowing it...
Does shampoo go bad or something in the meantime?
Wow, man.
I hope the next person who cuts your hair sticks scissors in your eye.
You're a horrible person.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Seven cars on the Zephyr, ladies and gentlemen.
We're still in a state of depression.
Yep.
No.
So the first thing that happens is without any knowledge that this would take place...
What do you mean you want somebody to stick scissors in my ass?
That's not nice.
Well, I'm warning you, really, because you're...
My hairdresser, haircutter...
He doesn't listen to the show.
Nobody listens to the show in that business.
Can I just tell you what the experience was so you understand why I think you're wrong about all you need is some goop and scissors and some shampoo?
So imagine it's a Friday night, you don't even know what day it is anymore in the lockdown, and all of a sudden someone of importance says, oh yeah, Monday you can go back to the hairdresser.
What do you think happens?
They get swamped orders.
And they're caught off guard, and a lot has to happen.
We have very strict city ordinances, despite what the governor has ordered.
The city of Austin is going, we'll get into that in a moment.
So you have to have policies.
It has to be published.
You have to let everybody know.
Everyone has to wait in the car before they come in.
You have to clean off all surfaces.
There's a lot of different things that have to take place.
And then the fear.
It's not like the whole hair salon wanted to come back.
There were other hair cutters that were like, no, I'm terrified.
So can you open up with half a shop?
There's a lot of questions.
Yeah.
I, too, didn't think about it, but then when you get into it, it's really weird to have your hair cut with a mask on, and even Johanna's looking at me like, I know this sucks so bad, but it's a requirement.
Not legally, but it's a requirement based on shaming.
Let me play these clips and you'll understand.
We kind of started on this, but...
When the governor of Texas said, okay, here's what can happen.
We can open up.
There's no requirement for masks in public or even indoors.
I mean, it can be up to the proprietor if they want to force people to wear underwear on their head.
But Adler said, oh, no, no, no, no, we're just going to tell everyone they need to wear a mask.
I think we had the clip on the last show.
And even though I can't fine you or send you to jail, knowing that you've killed somebody should be enough if you don't wear a mask outside all the time in 90 degree heat.
So now the Texas Attorney General has sent a warning to Austin and its mayor.
At a time when some Austin staples like Shady Grove have closed their doors for good, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a warning letter in part to Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhart saying that the local health orders issued last Friday were confusing and unlawful because the order doesn't clearly differentiate between recommendations and requirements.
The restaurants fully support contact tracing.
Kelsey Erickson-Struford is with the Texas Restaurant Association.
They also sent a letter to Mayor Adler asking him to change Section 11 of the local order.
It encourages restaurants with a capacity of 75 or less to keep a log of all customers and employees who came in, including the dates and times they were there and where they sat.
TRA says if small businesses are doing this, so should the big ones.
But when a small business's options are to do this or to be publicly shamed, that's not really much of an option, right?
And so we really are treating this like a requirement.
City and county attorneys are now reviewing Paxton's letter.
But in a statement to CBS Austin, a Travis County spokesperson said, in part, our initial thought is we disagree with the attorney general.
Mayor Adler also sent us a statement saying, in part, up to this point, we have avoided the naked politicization of the virus crisis.
I will not follow the AG down that road.
The city's order complements, incorporates, and does not conflict with the governor's orders.
Adler also brought it up during his daily virtual address.
We asked restaurants to do that voluntarily, and I guess the Attorney General's office doesn't like that we asked for that voluntary act.
So, Adler's trying to do a Cuomo every single day from his office there above the W Hotel in downtown Austin.
I don't think he's left his home at all.
He's the guy that's a pussy.
He's the one that's sitting inside and requiring small businesses and particular restaurants.
We had this happen when we went to the first restaurant opening.
You've got to write down your name.
You've got to sign a piece of paper.
And, of course, people are going to revolt against that.
It's not even a requirement by law, but you heard it.
It's the shaming.
That's where all of this is headed.
One more clip of the response from Adler regarding the defiant Austin, Texas.
Your state is opening up, but your city is not yet.
Why not?
Well, we're opening up to the extent that the governor has...
Put it in his order, so we're compliant with the state.
But the messaging that we're trying to send to our community is to take this cautiously and slowly, because no one knows what the impact of this is going to be, and it's going to take us three weeks, maybe four weeks, to get the data on hospitalizations that we need to see, to see whether or not our toe dip here is putting us on a path to another surge.
So it's more...
Other surges.
There was never a surge in Texas to start with, but he feels that there's a surge.
Surge.
So it's more of a messaging element than anything else.
We have a lot of community members that know that while these things are opening, it doesn't mean we have to go, and it doesn't mean that we have to open.
The governor has allowed those things to happen, but we are urging our community to take this cautiously And slowly, so that we can measure the impact before we end up with another surge.
Another surge.
You said it twice.
And I checked just to make sure.
Maybe I missed the wording somewhere.
There's not even a headline with surge in Texas, Travis County, or Austin.
This is about shaming.
And I was surprised because I kind of scoffed when you said it, but my hairdresser...
She said, oh my god, I never, and she's definitely liberal.
She says, I never expected to see, it was kind of funny, this level of social shaming from liberals.
I'm like, what?
Okay.
And she said, literally, it's very clear.
If you wear a mask, you're a Democrat.
If you don't, you're a Republican.
It's exactly what you said about California.
It's exactly what it is.
It's all over the country.
And even she recognizes it's only to make you feel good.
These are the masks, like the ribbons after 9-11.
You know?
Never forget.
There's also a community aspect to it.
I've noticed this.
When you go around without a mask, with people who mix some masks and no masks, you start to see the connection.
You can see that The no mask people, you see a lot of macho guys, motorcyclists, it's kind of like that Larry David episode where he wore the Trump hat.
You just start to see it and you see these old guys that just aren't going to do it, you know, old Marines type of guy.
Oh, you just gave me a great idea!
Here's what you need.
Red, make America great again masks.
Hello, this is the perfect, this is the perfect.
It's a funny idea, but there's not going to wear the mask.
No, are you kidding me?
I think Republicans will wear the mask out of spite.
Well, in an area where you have to wear the mask to get into the store at Whole Foods, for example, you get a big good mask.
Yeah, Great America, Make America Great Again, or Mega Masks.
It's a Mega Masks.
Where are they?
They must have already been made.
I can't believe we haven't said that.
Well, it just came up.
And another thing, when I'm watching television, and I'm seeing actors, I'm seeing commercials, they don't represent the American public anymore.
I demand that every single commercial, the actors wear masks in the commercial.
I'm looking at masks all day.
And I come home and all I see is faces.
Ooh, ugly.
Put a mask on that.
Put a mask on it.
You know what?
I don't want to be the sexist everyone thinks I am.
I don't like that.
So you run into this situation again.
It just happened the other day.
It's like there's some leggy girl or...
Is it somebody with great legs?
Let's just be honest about it.
And she's got the mask on.
And then you start seeing...
You're wondering, does the face match the rest of the great body?
Does the face match the legs?
Or is it an older woman with great legs?
Because you see that every once in a while.
You would run into that in Florida a lot.
This is also a godsend for older women because they can have a scarf or something.
Like Nancy Pelosi.
You have a nice scarf that you have around your neck.
You can pull up if you need a mask situation.
But in the meantime, women love hiding their, you know, if they are unhappy with their neck.
A lot of older women are.
And so it can work as a fashion statement for them.
Well, on the topic of these masks, I do have an Amy Goodman clip.
Well, before you do that...
Which epitomizes...
Well, I'm sorry.
Well, I have to apologize first.
You can't just...
Well, I made a mistake.
I made a mistake on the last show.
I made a big deal about the Fauci clip, which was listed as May 6th.
Turns out it was March 6th.
And he was clearly saying, no mask whatsoever.
It's not necessary.
It's even dumb.
And people got mad at me, John.
Why?
This is why we can't listen anymore!
Curry's so obsessed with Fauci!
So she's wrong!
Wrong!
You got two letters.
Come on.
Okay.
Dude, I get my letters and yours.
Dude!
And yours.
Let's be serious.
I get my letters and your letters.
So stop with me.
I want to play the original and then I want to get to Amy because I have a Judy and Judy will lead to Amy.
That makes a lot of sense.
Amy is about the masks.
I know.
I know.
This is about the masks.
This is Fauci on the mask.
Judy on the mask.
I saw this breakdown of Fauci.
The thing was labeled...
When the clip went out, and anyone's criticizing you for playing this clip and giving a wrong date, there's two things.
One, it was mislabeled.
I saw these clips.
They had a mislabel on them.
They were labeled May.
And the second thing is, this is just proving that Fauci wasn't that into the whole thing early on.
And now they're blaming Trump with quotes, which I have on certain clips.
I have a clip saying, oh, and Trump wouldn't listen to Fauci.
Fauci was not into this until later.
So here is the original.
This is from March.
And even though it's an outdated opinion, I don't see how the science of what he's saying changes.
Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.
You're sure of it?
Because people are listening really closely to this.
Right now, people should not be walking around with a mask.
When you're in the middle of an outbreak...
Wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet.
But it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.
And often, there are unintended consequences.
People keep fiddling with the mask, and they keep touching their face.
And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there?
Of course, of course.
But when you think masks, you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill.
So very clear.
It sounds to me like he's talking scientifically.
This just makes no sense.
By the way, have some hair that's cut off your head fall in between your mask and your face.
See how that feels.
It's a shitty experience.
So now we have April 3rd, so that's still a month ago.
Here's Judy on PBS asking Pope Fauci about the masks again.
Masks.
Oh, by the way, that's my ISO candidate.
Masks.
We are told that the Trump administration is on the verge of urging Americans to wear masks when they go out.
Tell us about the thinking on that, because just a few days ago we were told that the thinking was it was not necessary.
It's a great question, Judy.
There's no way to edit anything in after that great question.
The thinking was it was not necessary.
It's a great question, Judy.
And the thinking is really now influenced by information that's coming in.
And the information is that more and more accumulation of data indicate that that people who are without symptoms at all can transmit the virus but importantly they can do it merely by speaking Now, this, I want to see this report.
I don't know what he's referring to, but now you can transfer it.
Before it was a droplet, maybe, highly unlikely.
Now, just the force of your voice.
So there's been a recent...
Hold on.
Stop, stop.
There was, I just want to mention that I picked up on this in a couple of recent clips.
I may even have one of them, I'm not sure, because I didn't think it was a trend, but they're saying they're talking.
Yeah, just talking.
This goes back to your theory about the mask being just a shut-up slave thing.
A muzzle.
It's a muzzle.
It's a muzzle.
You're talking.
Shut up.
Thank you, that's a good point.
Just by talking, you're very dangerous.
Yeah, muzzle.
They can do it merely by speaking.
So there's been a recent study that came out that said even the force from your voice of speaking, there is a degree of aerosolization.
Namely, the virus can come out not very far, but a few feet and down.
So even though the perfect solution to this is if everyone at all times could stay six feet separated, So in all the years, in 35 years of infectious diseases and viruses, now all of a sudden this one is different than all the rest where just the force of your voice can go out a few feet and down and it can kill people.
It's just, I'm surprised.
I'm just surprised.
That's all.
At all times.
It's a genius virus.
Hey, have you ever spoken to an Arab at a Lebanese fish market?
No.
Well, they spit on you.
Stay six feet separated from another person.
But as you correctly mentioned, this is not always feasible.
There are times when you have to do necessary functions.
You have to get food.
You have to get drugs from the pharmacy.
And you might inadvertently be in a situation where you're close enough where that kind of transmission can take place.
And importantly, I think what people don't fully appreciate is that putting a mask on yourself is more to prevent you from infecting someone else.
Alright, so, but it's still not a legal requirement.
It's not something you have to do by law.
And why?
Well, because unfortunately we can't throw people in jail.
And the same question about masks that I was asking about staying at home.
If these are things that save lives, keep people healthy, why not require them to do this?
You know, Judy, I understand where you're coming from, but it becomes difficult when you say required.
By what?
By penalty?
By putting people in jail?
I mean, that becomes something that...
Really can be counterproductive in the society that we live in in America.
Perhaps you might be able to do that in China.
I think it would be difficult to do it here.
Notice how he says, he doesn't say, well, if you want that kind of crazy, you've got to go to China.
That's where they force the people to do stuff.
No, he's saying, you've got to be China if you want that.
Just wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
You might be able to do that in China.
But I think it would be difficult to do it here.
So what we're relying on is for people to really understand the importance of this.
Yes.
And the importance indeed.
So after the hairdresser on the way home, I'm like, I'm hungry.
I'm going to get me a sausage biscuit and a hash brown at McDonald's in the drive-thru.
And this was my experience.
Because the order taker, who already, you know, they have the headset with the microphone, she had a mask on!
She had a mask on!
I'm like, could I have a sausage biscuit?
And...
Uh, what?
Uh, yeah, I'll have a Dr.
Pepper.
I just gave up.
I said, I don't know what you're saying.
Give me a hash brown.
You and Hendry.
Oh my goodness.
So, that was a good bit, by the way.
What do you think of this ISO? Masks.
For end of show.
I think it's boring, but I don't have anything to compete with it, so I don't really have a disadvantage.
You have no standing if you have nothing to compete with.
You can't tell me my shit's boring.
All right, let's see.
What do you got with Amy?
Okay, so this is back to the idea.
This is the original idea, and I think this is more important than a lot of this, especially throwing people in jail part.
Although I do like the bit, you should do a bit of the person wearing a mask.
And by the way, they're isolated anyway.
They're over by themselves, the people that are on the McDonald's microphone.
But okay.
This is Amy talking about a big confab going on.
And there was – Trump had one of these too with the governor of Nebraska and the governor of Colorado.
And when they pulled the camera back at two sides of the room, the Colorado governor is wearing a mask.
And his assistant – they were all wearing masks on one side and the other side – The Republicans from Nebraska weren't.
And Amy notices this elsewhere.
And it's becoming a thing.
Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Wait, is this the one?
Confab?
Is that what you want?
Well, we're going to start today in Washington, D.C. As President Trump claims, the U.S. is prepared to transition to greatness and the COVID-19 death toll surpasses 81,000.
Two of the nation's top scientists told the Senate committee Tuesday that needless death would result if States reopened too soon.
The stark warning from the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, and Dr.
Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, came just a day after NBC News published an unreleased White House report showing a surge of coronavirus cases in heartland U.S. communities.
Okay, now we have to watch out for this word because now they're just throwing it in anywhere they want.
And what is the definition of a surge?
Is it a number?
If you have one case in your county and then you have two.
A sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by natural force.
Well, it has to be more than.
Including Nashville, Tennessee and Des Moines, Iowa, Central City, Kentucky, top the list.
The report, based on a May 7th internal memo, directly contradicts Trump's claim Monday that the number of COVID-19 cases is rapidly declining around the country.
In a surreal scene, Dr. Finkley.
Fauci, Dr.
Redfield, and Food and Drugs Commissioner Dr.
Stephen Hahn all join the Senate Health Committee remotely while they quarantine after being exposed to the virus or to a staffer at the White House who tested positive.
Republican Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee was also in quarantine.
After his staffer tested positive, he presided over the hearing from his home.
Of the senators who joined the hearing in person, most Democrats wore masks or balaclavas.
Most Republicans did not wear masks.
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine began the hearing without a mask, but put one on during.
Republican Senator Dr.
Rand Paul of Kentucky, the first senator known to test positive for the virus, did not wear a mask.
This is so important for her.
Oh, yeah.
The mask.
He didn't wear a mask and he was exposed.
And he had tested positive.
And they're making...
You're right.
It's just shaming.
This is all about Trump.
Yes.
And do you know why or when it will be safe to go outside without a mask?
Because I know when.
There's going to be an exact moment that we will all feel safe.
Do you have any idea what that is?
No, but I bet you do.
It's when the soccer mom says so.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You said this maybe on Twitter, I think.
I did?
I don't remember that.
Oh, somebody did.
I just want to read something from Washington Post.
A buried lead, I feel.
And this was...
When did this thing come out?
Monday.
During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, that's the Ambassador Lieutenant Colonel General, the physician who oversees the administration's coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Berks and others were frustrated with the CDC's antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics, such as mortality rate and case count, by as much as 25%, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it.
Which, of course, I can't believe this either, because we don't believe it in any case, but I'm just reading it.
Two senior administration officials said the discussion was not heated.
Quote, there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust, Burke said, according to the two of the people.
Redfield defended his agency, but there was general agreement that the CDC is in need of a digital upgrade.
Oh, that'll fix the problem.
What are you doing, abacus counting?
We're relying on this data of who dies of what, and oh, well, we should have always gotten more attention.
I actually have a couple of clips regarding this.
One, Fauci is the one that's saying, well, I think the numbers are probably a lot lower than they really are.
I'm sorry, he's saying exactly the opposite.
He had a whole testimony where he said it's probably double what it is.
Yes, what I said.
No, you said the opposite.
He said the numbers are much lower.
What did I say?
You said much lower.
No, I would ask you to go back.
But Fauci says that the numbers are...
I probably put it poorly.
You did.
Fauci has been saying that the numbers are higher than we're reporting.
Yes, he says he believes it's double.
And other people, like you said, are saying the opposite.
Including Burks, who is Fauci's...
And Burks.
Well, listen to this one.
I got a good one here.
This one is...
I don't know if I can find it.
My clips are still not well organized.
Rick Bright.
No, no.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
This is fun.
I love hearing you struggle.
It's okay, we got time.
No one's going anywhere.
I can play a little interlude music if you'd like while you look for that.
Well, let's do the big conf...
Well, I want to go back to the Amy clip first.
You missed a little gotcha in there that she had.
Okay.
She made the point...
She made a point...
In that clip of saying that the Democrats are not only wearing masks, but they were wearing balaclavas.
I heard it.
I laughed even when I heard it.
Balaclavas, whatever, however you pronounce it.
Balaclava.
Yeah.
What are they?
You know what these things are?
They're just like a Muslim thing.
This brings us back to Suronymous and his claim that we're being turned into a Sharia state.
Ha!
I forgot about that.
Yeah, yeah.
Balaclava.
Well, a balaclava to me just looks like just some kind of kerchief.
Well, if you look it up, there are the full-face ones that cover your whole head.
Right, right.
And there's the ones that could be printed with that.
That's interesting because I don't think a single person was wearing an actual balaclava.
You're right.
That's not true at the meeting with Trump and the Colorado governor.
His health director was.
Well, a balaclava, the definition is a close-fitting garment covering the whole head and neck except for parts of the face.
So it would have to go over your face, over your head, and you have the eyes and the mouth open.
Also seen in many clubs in Amsterdam, this outfit.
I got it.
It's funny.
I found your clip.
It's a COVID desk exaggerator.
COVID desk exaggerator.
Now, this is a classic.
We have to point out Illinois' own state health director, who at a recent press conference...
Wait, stop the clip for a second.
This is your buddy, Laura Ingraham.
Yes.
And I have a few clips from her.
But I believe she actually says, Illinois's...
We have to point out Illinois' own state health director, who at a recent press conference just casually admitted this.
If you were in hospice and had already been given, you know, a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death.
Even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it's still listed as a COVID death.
Well, this story, of course, has been told a thousand times on a thousand YouTube videos by a thousand doctors.
This is the consistent story.
Everyone knows it.
Yes, it's very consistent.
In fact, those two doctors that were taken down, the ones that were taken down by YouTube, discussed this in great detail.
But it just keeps coming up.
Yes.
Except Fauci.
Right.
Fauci says the opposite is true.
Yeah, Fauci says it's probably double.
And he said that in testimony, and that's when everyone went apeshit once again.
And I have the...
You have Ron Paul.
I don't know if Ron Paul spoke.
I got a Rand Paul clip.
I have the Rand Paul clip.
It's Rand Paul.
I put Ron Paul because it was late.
Okay.
Is it the same as mine?
Because I already got it queued up.
Let me see.
Is it the testimony that you have?
I don't have the testimony.
No, I have them discussing, I believe, with Judy or one of the...
Oh, oh, oh.
Well, how about this?
Why don't I play what he said in the Senate, Rand Paul, and then we'll go to what he said at Judy.
How does that sound?
If it's related.
Yeah, it's about the schools and about getting back to life.
No, I think he's just moaning.
Well, hold on.
Let's listen to this.
With regard to going back to school, one thing that was left out of that discussion...
I should probably mention that Rand Paul, I think he's a physician.
Is he an ophthalmologist?
But he's a physician.
I believe he's an ophthalmologist, yes.
But he's still...
But he's a doctor.
He's a doctor.
He's a doctor.
He's an M.D. Is mortality.
I mean, shouldn't we at least be discussing...
Let's put it this way.
He's more M.D. than Tedros.
That's for sure.
With regard to going back to school, one thing that was left out of that discussion is mortality.
I mean, shouldn't we at least be discussing what the mortality of children is?
This is for Dr.
Fauci as well.
You know, the mortality between 0 and 18 in the New York data approaches 0.
It's not going to be absolutely 0, but it almost approaches 0.
Between 18 and 45, the mortality in New York was 10 out of 100,000.
So really, we do need to be thinking about that.
We need to observe with an open mind what went on in Sweden where the kids kept going to school.
The mortality per capita in Sweden is actually less than France, less than Italy, less than Spain, less than Belgium, less than the Netherlands, about the same as Switzerland.
God bless the Swedes, man.
God bless you.
Thank you.
That was Switzerland, he mentioned.
Yeah, but it's Sweden.
He says Sweden's the one that stayed open.
And I say, God bless Sweden.
God bless them for doing that, otherwise we'd have no other proof.
But basically, I don't think there's anybody arguing that what happened in Sweden is an unacceptable result.
I think people are intrigued by it, and we should be.
I don't think any of us are certain, when we do all these modelings, there have been more people wrong with modeling than right.
We're opening up a lot of economies around the U.S., and I hope that people who are predicting doom and gloom and saying, oh, we can't do this, there's going to be a surge, will admit that they were wrong if there isn't a surge, because I think that's what's going to happen.
In rural states, we never really reached any sort of pandemic levels in Kentucky and other states.
We have less deaths.
In Kentucky than we have in an average flu season.
It's not to say this isn't deadly, but really outside of New England, we've had a relatively benign course for this virus nationwide, and I think the one-size-fits-all that we're gonna have a national strategy and nobody's gonna go to school is kind of ridiculous.
We really ought to be doing it school district by school district, and the power needs to be dispersed because people make Wrong predictions.
And really the history of this, when we look back, will be of wrong prediction after wrong prediction after wrong prediction, starting with Ferguson in England.
So I think we ought to have a little bit of humility in our belief that we know what's best for the economy.
And as much as I respect you, Dr.
Fauci, I don't think you're the end all.
I don't think you're the one person that gets to make a decision.
We can listen to your advice.
But there are people on the other side saying there's not going to be a surge and that we can safely open the economy.
And the facts will bear this out.
But if we keep kids out of school for another year, what's going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don't have a parent that's able to teach them at home are not going to learn for a full year.
And I think we ought to look at the Swedish model and we ought to look at letting our kids get back to school.
I think it's a huge mistake if we don't open the schools in the fall.
So Fauci is obviously being worshipped, certainly by elements in the media and politicians, and he's untouchable no matter how many times he contradicts himself or said it was no big deal, and I think you've got some clips coming up.
There's one thing I wanted to mention about Fauci.
When the Vatican was looking for a new pope, I predicted this pope by name.
And I want to tell you, and I think I explained how I did that, but I did it by looking for two, well, really for looking for one thing.
I knew it was going to be some priest from South America, and I knew it had to be a New World Order guy, because I am a firm believer that the last real pope was Pope John Paul I, who, by the way, was eliminated after exactly 33 days.
On his papal throne, one of those magic numbers that we're always wary of.
Yeah, that was essentially what the Godfather 3 movie was about.
Yeah.
The assassination of a Pope.
Right.
Well, I think he was the real deal, and then they had to get some of these New World Order guys in.
And then I saw that Francis, that he's a Jesuit.
Now, I only know one Jesuit.
I mean, really know.
Well, not really, really know, but I know him well enough, and that's the Padre from Twit.
And looking at his psychological profile, which I think is representative of the...
Of the Jesuit model is that of submission to control.
And there's also a lot of historical stuff about the Jesuits and Freemasonry.
And before you know it, you're down the rabbit hole of Illuminati.
But it turns out Fauci's also...
A Jesuit.
And then it kind of comes together.
You've got the Pope, he's sitting there in the Vatican with his billion dollar empire, and here's Fauci, sitting there at NIH with his billion dollar empire, telling people what to do.
I think he has a bit of a God complex and is being played into.
If not a much deeper agenda.
Yeah, that's an interesting point.
I didn't know he was a Jesuit.
I only found out myself just a couple days ago.
I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
I really don't...
Hey, if you're a Jesuit sitting at home and you're mad at me, then let me know what's going on.
I'm sure we have a number of Jesuits that listen to the show because they have to.
Yes.
Yes.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But that's something to follow, you know?
That's code, people.
Yeah.
So, now that you mention Sweden, I want to bring up a Laura Ingraham clip, because this is, when she did this, she's doing this new, you know, they got all these gimmicky things they do, and she's got this traitors, frauds, and winners or something.
I don't know what it is.
An item.
She has an item in the show.
It's like a fickle finger kind of thing she does.
Okay.
Yeah.
When she did this little bit, these are all short, I thought to myself, besides thinking about Sweden, I said, this isn't being covered very well.
She's absolutely correct.
And this is the Ingraham, Florida and Georgia clip.
And now on to the frauds.
Let's start with Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, who weeks ago ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients.
Well, while thousands of residents saw their loved ones and family members die, Levine quietly extracted her own mother out of harm's way, reportedly moving her from a nursing home to a hotel.
My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied, to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak.
My mother is 95 years old.
She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions.
I'd rather have her mother be Health Secretary of Pennsylvania, frankly.
Well, that wasn't the Ingraham, Florida and Georgia clip, was it?
I thought it was.
I thought that was Ingraham on Pennsylvania Health Secretary clip.
I apologize.
It's the I. Alright, should we try that again with the correct clip?
Well, yeah, I want to go back to the Florida and Georgia, but since you played that clip...
Yeah, there's something to say about it.
I want to play it again because I want you to listen to this woman who is the Pennsylvania Health Secretary, and she's a very strange-looking person.
She's kind of a squat-fat woman with a long, gray, scraggly hair...
And she talks and sounds, and if you listen to that clip, I don't believe that if you look back on it, you'd think it was a woman at all.
It sounds just like a guy.
Now, is it a transgender person who is the health secretary in Pennsylvania?
An old, old transgender?
I don't know.
The voice of this woman is just a head shaker.
Oh, okay.
This is Rachel Levine.
Oh yeah, no, she's obviously a transsexual.
Oh, okay.
Well, that makes sense with a voice.
Yeah.
Play it again and listen to it.
Okay, well, I don't even need to play it again.
And now on to the frogs.
Let's listen to it.
Let's start with Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, who weeks ago ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients.
Well, while thousands of residents saw their loved ones and family members die, Levine quietly extracted her own mother out of harm's way, reportedly moving her from a nursing home to a hotel.
My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied, to move her to another location during...
Yeah, obviously.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
That's an observation.
I don't know if it's that interesting.
Off-putting.
All right, now here she is talking about, this is the story that nobody's going to want to cover, apparently, if any of it's true, but this is the Florida and Georgia clip.
You don't want to talk about those elderly homes for a minute?
You want to go straight through the Florida and Georgia?
Well, all I was interested in is the fact that this 95-year-old woman was moved out of the home when they moved all the COVID people in.
It's just kind of, you have more to talk about?
It's a sick situation.
I don't understand what they're thinking.
This is very important to stop.
So this is the problem.
So first of all, It's not discussed because if it's brought up and really you delve into it, you will find that Governor Cuomo made a mistake and at the end of March ordered sick people,
COVID-19 patients, to be put temporarily in nursing homes and homes for the elderly and allowed for COVID-19 positive staff to continue working Yeah, they want him to be president.
Okay, so let me just break this down for a second.
This is obviously, now that we have the numbers, and it turns out that over 60% of all infections took place in the home, and over 50% in New York of the deaths are in nursing homes.
So I'm sure that Cuomo or whoever made this decision is not an evil bastard and it was a mistake.
Someone was not thinking, probably because they were completely obsessed and preoccupied with the surge and the hospital system.
And this killed people, and it has to be admitted.
Someone has to say, you know what?
We made a really big mistake here, and we learned from it, but in the United States in particular, but look at Italy, every other country, it's people over 75, and mainly those who are in, in this case, state-run care.
We don't give a shit about the elderly in the United States.
We don't care about them.
Let me get this straight.
What you're advocating is that somebody admit to making a mistake?
You have to!
In a litigious society like this, somebody's going to make a statement like that?
If no one makes the statement, then what will happen is there will be lawsuits.
That may happen anyway, but for the death toll in general, we have all these people dead, whether it's legitimate count or not.
It's important for us to understand it's not children, and it's mainly people, the majority of people who died were elderly in nursing care facilities.
Who, by the way, shared it with COVID-19 positive patients and staff.
That would help people understand.
How does this put forth the Biden-Democrat agenda?
No, I'm not...
I'm speaking as a human being.
I'm not speaking as a media analyst.
I'm speaking as someone who says that this will not fly.
You have to admit the mistake, because we know it already.
The information is out there, and no one's going to take anything seriously.
And I'm sorry, Cuomo or his team made a horrible mistake and we have to acknowledge it and move on and mark it down as something we won't do in the future right next to don't open up the hair salons 48 hours before they know.
I mean, come on, this is a learning moment.
I'm sorry, people died.
This doesn't help the Trump clock.
It's got to go up.
I don't know what you're thinking.
This is really sick then.
Oh, huh.
So what you're saying is, in order to get at Trump, I can now deduce this, what you are implying is Trump is hated so much, we have to up the people dead.
Who do we have?
Um, fuck it!
How about those old people?
Send some COVID over there!
That's what you're saying?
Yeah.
Well, if that's true, then God save the republic.
Well, it's going to need saving the way these guys are operating.
You're being facetious.
You don't really think that's true.
I'm not completely facetious.
I'm skeptical.
Wow.
I know no one's apologizing, and that's not going to happen.
But it's also good to know that...
Most people really are not at a huge risk of dying.
It's interesting.
I had this eye issue, and we talked about it on the show.
And Sunday after the show...
I wish you'd taken a picture and posted it.
Sunday...
It was ugly.
Sunday after the show, I get email after email after text message.
Dude, dude, dude, dude, this is how it starts for some people.
Infected eye.
I got Agent Orange, who was down for ten days.
He says, oh, it started with me with an infected eyelid, and then the runny nose, and then the cough, and then I was out for ten days.
And one after the other, I'm like, oh my god, what poetic justice to give me the Rona.
So, of course, the I passes, but then last night, it's like, we're after dinner, it's like 7.15, 7.30, and we're outside drinking a coffee, and all of a sudden, my nose starts running like crazy, like crazy.
The power of suggestion, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, and you know what I did against that for the power of suggestion?
I thought to myself, what would JCD do?
So I immediately went and grabbed 50,000 megaborks of vitamin D, hammered that shit down, and today it's gone.
I am not dripping from the nose, so I don't know what it was, but I feel good.
They might have been right.
It's a good thing you jumped on the D3. WWJCD? Came right to me.
I'm not a doctor.
You are not a doctor, but I was very happy.
Very happy I did say.
I think I had this thing.
I had a similar, not an eyeball thing followed by that, but I thought I was catching something during the era that J.C., Buzzkill Jr., had.
He did have it, and apparently Jesse had the version where you lost your sense of smell.
Yes, I've heard this, too.
During that little period, I was catching something, and it was weird too.
It wasn't like the normal kind of like, oh, I think I'm getting a cold, I'm getting the flu or something.
And I just said, I'm just taking some D3, and that was the end of that, and it was all over.
We'll see down the road if you have antibodies.
Anyway, let's go to, okay, I think we're over with that little segment Florida and Georgia thing, which is what I wanted to discuss initially.
Yeah, that was the initial idea.
The two states that opened up first, Florida and Georgia, both are continuing to see declines in COVID infections.
Well, shocking to liberal haters, but not to you.
Because we told you that the virus was probably weakening and that people would innovate to stay safe.
Innovate?
Well, I don't know what she means.
Innovate means six feet apart or who knows what.
But whatever the case, nobody is discussing that when Georgian, more than Florida...
Yes, they busted wide open.
So what's going on?
Everything's fine.
And everybody jumped all over him, especially the Republican governor, because you know Stacey Abrams wouldn't have done this.
No, Stacey Abrams wouldn't have made this huge mistake.
Yeah, in the basement you'd be still.
Yeah.
Stacey Abrams would never make a mistake like that.
But otherwise, I guess it's just fabulous then.
Well...
Well, the whole...
This is getting more annoying.
The problem is this is not...
This is a New World Order...
You know, the Amazing Polly found some document saying this whole thing was a test.
Yes.
Of course, of course.
Of course I've seen the Amazing Polly.
It is amazing.
So the Amazing Polly does this thing.
And by the way, if you've got the last newsletter, there's a link in there.
It's still up.
It won't be up forever.
Yeah.
Because people see this and there's nothing in there that's inaccurate.
She's just taking from official documents and showing them.
But they find ways to go, oh no, this is bad.
It's a bad influence on the youngins or something.
I don't know why they take her down.
Well, the beauty of it all...
Is that in, certainly in the United States, not so in other countries, but in the United States, it is all voluntary.
I mean, we have court case after court case being struck down against people who are being arrested, etc.
So it is really up to us.
And it's actually much bigger and much more frightening to me that we have this social control of shaming.
Shaming.
Yeah, it truly is shaming.
I mean, just because we're still on opening up and stuff, I have two clips about California.
Because it's very confusing.
Is California open?
Is it closed?
Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles County has extended the stay-at-home order through August.
But what does that mean?
Let's start with the stay-at-home orders.
Your top health officials said yesterday expect us to extend the orders for another three months.
But explain exactly what that means.
Sure.
I think we have to all recognize.
that we're not moving beyond COVID-19, we're learning to live with it.
It's important not to overreact, but it's important to take this serious because it is as dangerous today as it was the first day that it arrived in our cities and our country.
So quite frankly, there's no so-called open state or open country that doesn't continue to have health orders telling us to cover our faces, physically distance, and to tell people that you're safest working from That's all that the county health director was saying, and we can't expect that to disappear in a matter of weeks or even a few months.
At the same time, we're learning a lot of really important lessons about how to safely reopen sectors and places.
And we have to assess each of those steps, give three or four weeks time to see, is there any additional spread?
Are we endangering more people?
And how can we keep our most vulnerable safe?
So we are learning to live with it at the same moment that we are also learning the lessons of how to do that.
So I believe that he also recognizes he has absolutely no power to tell people or to keep people at home.
They're just using New World Order terms now.
Stay-at-home order.
Doesn't mean you have to stay at home because they can't actually enforce it.
It's a trick.
It's a mind control.
Well, we're learning to deal with it.
Stay at home.
It's learning to deal with it.
We're learning here.
No, you're mind controlling people into feeling unsafe and afraid of other people.
And so the restaurants, like Texas, open up with spread out, I think it's 25% capacity max for the next foreseeable whatever.
And in California, I will say, here's some of your innovation.
All right, what have we got here?
We've got, oh, look at this.
Look closely at this.
That's a restaurant that's using mannequins to fill out the half-empty dining room.
What's the story behind this one, Ash?
Yeah.
Yeah, because it looks so crappy, they're putting mannequins at the other table so the restaurant looks more fun and full.
Instead of actual people.
Smoking mirrors out there.
La La Land.
Wow.
Yeah, so it's...
Who's got that kind of money?
Those things aren't cheap, those good mannequins.
You can't run a restaurant at 25% capacity.
You can't run it at 50% capacity.
No, you lose your ass.
You can't run it.
You can't.
It's crazy.
The shaming thing.
Let's get back to the shaming thing.
This is interesting.
It's just like the whole thing is like, and it's the Democrats that are the shamers.
It's the Democrats and the shamers.
Let's just be honest about it.
No, no, but even Johanna, she recognized it and said it.
She said, I'd never expected this kind of shaming from liberals.
Yeah, shame, shame, shame, shame on you.
Yeah.
Which of course is...
And it eventually tries to become shame on you for voting for Trump.
Shame on you for being a Republican.
Yes, if you vote for Trump, you're voting for the virus.
A vote for Trump...
If I was a Democrat strategist, I would be all over that meme.
A vote for Trump is a vote for the virus.
We're giving this material away.
We are giving it away, ladies and gentlemen.
That was a $100,000 idea and two points of all the media buying.
Damn it.
Damn it, damn it, damn it.
Should have known better.
So what is going to...
It's weird, because the testing is now...
It's been kind of...
It's not really in the conversation at the moment.
What?
Well, no.
Not the way it was.
But it's going to come roaring back.
Because China just...
I think this is a move against Trump.
And Xi Jinping says the CCP will be testing 14 million people in Wuhan in 10 days' time.
14 million people.
I guess Trump has been showing this chart.
Oh yeah, this is an information war and China is saying, ha, look at you with your stupid orange man over there.
We're going to test 14 million people in Wuhan in 10 days, which means you've got about 15, you have to have, that's 900 tests a minute for 24 hours a day for 10 days.
So I don't know what kind of army and if they're going to go into people's homes and roust them or how they're going to get that done in 10 days.
Stick a probe up them butt.
But this whole thing, I don't think it's true.
It may well be, but I'd be surprised.
It's to make China look like they're the boss.
They're doing it the best way.
This is the way to go.
World Health Organization.
We know what's up.
Trump, bad.
Bad, bad, bad.
Orange!
It's not going to end with this testing, which is like the ultimate.
We cannot go back to work.
We cannot fully function until we test everybody every day, five times a day, and we have a vaccine.
The irony to the testing is the obvious thing.
which is that the more you test, the more cases you uncover, because most people don't have symptoms and never will.
Yeah.
So you have.
And so that makes the numbers go up and then the numbers go up and makes you need for more testing, which means the numbers go up even more and that we got to stay at home longer because there's more numbers.
There's a surge.
There's more cases.
What are we going to do?
We're all going to die.
I'd like to do a quick review of the three trillion dollar package that the Democrat Party announced.
I was introduced to be, well, I was introduced into the house.
Yes.
Because I read it, and it wasn't hard to do because I... Well, okay, I want you...
Can you do that after I play two clips?
Namely, Amy's take on it, and then Trump's rebuttal.
Yeah, definitely.
Okay.
Where are we?
Well...
I guess this is not my day.
But let's try this.
Let's try the big confab.
Maybe that's the one that's got the stuff about the bill.
Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, the first senator known to...
No, no, no, no.
That can't be it.
Loser relief bill promoted by DNN. DNN, is that it?
DNN. Yeah, that's apparently it.
On Capitol Hill, House Democratic leaders have unveiled a massive...
Don't be so damn creative with your titles because it's messing up the workflow, Dworak.
That was a really bad title.
Loser relief bill promoted by D.N. Odd.
I mean, that's a title, man.
That is a damn title right there.
On Capitol Hill, House Democratic leaders have unveiled a massive 1800-page coronavirus relief package worth $3 trillion.
The so-called HEROES Act would fund expanded unemployment benefits through January 2021, send most U.S. adults another one-time $1,200 stimulus check, and provide $1 trillion in assistance to hard-hit state, local and tribal governments.
It would also expand SNAP food benefits, fund hazard pay for frontline workers, increase funding for COVID-19 testing and provide $25 billion in funding to the U.S. Postal Service.
The bill would not expand Medicare to cover millions of newly uninsured Americans, nor does it provide for rent and mortgage relief or recurring cash payments to U.S. households.
The bill would expand the Paycheck Protection Program to bail out corporate lobbyist firms.
Climate activists say the bill also fails to close loopholes for big polluters.
Greenpeace USA tweeted, quote, This was a slanted report as if this bill was a corrupt bill to protect polluters.
It is a crap...
I just want to respond immediately to one thing.
Wait, let's play Trump's response to this.
Just one thing before I forget.
The lobbyist thing...
I just need to...
Because that was...
Let's listen to how she reported that, because it was really lame what she did there.
Hold on.
...to provide for rent and mortgage relief or recurring cash payments to U.S. households.
The bill would expand the Paycheck Protection Program to bail out corporate lobbyist firms.
Okay, so to say that, because I read this thing.
To my knowledge, nowhere in the bill does it say, oh, here's a special provision for corporate lobbying firms.
That is not reporting what Amy did there.
That is editorializing because there is a joke now going around in D.C. that the lobbying group that represents lobbyists has said they need Payroll Protection Act money Otherwise, they can't help Washington write the very bills that they're voting on.
So it's a circular thing.
They want money from the bill they helped write so they can continue to write bills.
But there's nothing in that bill that says, it's going to help lobbying firms.
So I don't know why, because it's really a slam against Pelosi.
I'm not sure why she would, I would think she would be all in.
But maybe that's how you make it seem balanced.
She twists the story in such a way as though the Republicans had some input and it's all their fault.
Well, believe me, the Republican Party I see on the Hill had no hand in this.
Well, here's what Trump thinks.
This is Trump on the Pelosi bill.
Do you agree that stimulus should move forward?
There's been some Republicans who suggest that...
I don't know.
It depends.
Certainly not the package that I saw today.
Basically, if you look at that package, what they want more than anything else is it's a voting package.
They want to be able to make sure that Republicans can't win an election by putting in all sorts of mailing ballots.
Now, that's the problem with mail-in ballots.
Are they going to dump a whole pile of ballots on your desk just before the election?
So the problem with the mail-in ballots is subject to tremendous corruption, tremendous corruption, cheating.
And so I'm against it.
And if you look at the bill that Nancy Pelosi is putting in, it has a lot to do with elections.
and we're not going to lose elections because of that.
I don't find that to be true.
I don't think Trump's truthful either.
I mean, I went through this bill.
I reviewed several different reviews of the bill because there's a lot of legalese.
What this is, it's really, and it's typical, it's an omnibus bill.
So they take a whole bunch of stuff that's been waiting around, has been in the process, been in committee.
It's different people's important little bills.
It's like sweeping up the mess.
Yes, and they put it all together into this huge bill, and therefore it's disjointed.
The only way it flows together is by continuously saying, we're going to give, so an example, $25 billion to the United States Postal Service to help combat the coronavirus and COVID-19.
You understand how they do it?
So it's just $1 billion to the No Agenda show to help combat coronavirus and COVID-19.
If only.
So, a lot of existing bills wrapped into one.
Almost every inspector general gets a little extra budget, usually from a million to several million, so that they can accurately have oversight and investigate any misdoings with the money which is meant to investigate and to support and combat coronavirus and COVID-19.
$100 million.
And by the way, these numbers, you realize like $100 million here, $500 million here.
It's really nothing when you're talking trillions.
It's $1,000 billion.
So much money.
So $100 million to violence against women and other domestic abuse victims.
Community-oriented policing, which I... I love it.
Sounds like something I want a part of.
$300 million.
There are state bailouts to compensate for revenue shortfall.
$540 billion.
Sounds about right.
That's what New York, California, and Illinois need.
So that's in there.
$25 billion, as I said, to the United States Postal Service.
A couple of billion for some work programs.
Every single department gets a top-up.
Hey, you need some money.
$30 million extra for you to combat coronavirus and COVID-19.
Oddly...
The Ryan White HIV program loses $10 million.
They're taking that away from the dead AIDS boy for COVID-19.
I don't know why exactly.
But they turn around and give half a billion to the NIAID, which is Fauci's group.
He gets $500 million to combat coronavirus.
$7 billion for state's child care services.
$90 billion for schools.
Then there's the student loan forgiveness, up to $10,000.
And, of course, there's another second stimulus check of $1,200 and extension of unemployment benefits.
Infrastructure, oh boy, they put it in there.
$15 billion for highways, which is like, no, that's nothing.
But they did add another $15 billion reserve for overrun, because that's how the government works.
It might be double that.
$100 billion.
$100 billion for rental assistance.
I don't know what Judy read, but it's right there in the document.
$100 billion for...
What?
That was Amy.
Amy.
11 billion assistance for the homeless?
What was she reading?
Everything you're saying here had nothing to do with her interpretation.
I don't know.
I'm just telling you what I saw.
11 billion for the homeless assistance, which interestingly was not worded as people experiencing homelessness.
It was just homeless assistance.
And then they shored up the language around relief funds.
So the stimulus, so the SBA loans, who can have it, who can't.
And I think this is the big point that, you know, if you listen to Tucker Carlson, which I did not clip, they're going to give the money to illegals!
So it's not...
Oh, good enough.
You don't need to clip.
Sounds just like him.
Nowhere in this document does it say that, but...
Remember, this is the Heroes Act.
So the Heroes Act wants to honor the heroes.
And the heroes...
That's right.
I keep forgetting this is called the Heroes Act.
Right.
And the heroes include people who are...
What kind of workers do we have right now?
We have what?
We have...
Essential and non-essential.
Yeah.
Grocery store checkout clerks.
Right.
Heroes.
And as we have discussed many times in the past, in the United States, if you are living here illegally, you are undocumented.
If you have a job, construction, domestic work, restaurant, kitchen...
You can obtain from the IRS a TIN, a Taxpayer Information Number, and you can pay taxes every single month or every two weeks, and it's completely legit.
So you're not committing tax fraud even though you're here illegally and don't have all your other papers in order, and of course there's no payroll, there's a whole bunch of things that don't work, but this has been accepted behavior for decades.
As long as you pay your taxes in America, it's okay.
So what they specified in this bill is how anybody should be eligible for relief funds retroactively as long as they have a taxpayer identification number.
So you don't have to be here legally.
And in addition to that, essential workers...
Cannot be deported.
They need to be protected, these heroes, because they work in kitchens, they work in cleanup, etc.
And that's quite a lot of people, a lot of heroes who are here illegally and work in those jobs and are thus considered essential while illegal.
And that is, it's an amnesty.
Because once, you know, if it's like, hey, during coronavirus you can't deport people who work in kitchens or work in cleaning services or etc.
It's quite broad.
Podcasters are also essential personnel.
Literally stated podcasting.
Podcasting is actually mentioned in the bill?
Yes.
No, no, no, no, no, not this one.
In the one, in the original from the federal government under media services.
Under media services, the original bill, or the original recommendation, because there's no bill.
Not sure of that.
Yeah, I am, because I put it in the show notes.
I remember these things.
Well, I'd like to see it.
Oh, God.
Right after I... I'm just saying.
It just seems unusual.
Okay.
I've only seen it put in one document, and that was the Los Angeles County Health Department.
I'll get it for you.
So anyway, that is, of course, a non-starter because it's a sneaky way of providing some form of amnesty, and until coronavirus is over, which it never will be, Then these people could not be deported or could not be dealt with as illegals.
That's an interesting trick.
Tucker's right.
But it's not entirely true the way he says it.
So then there are payroll tax cuts for corporations who have employees working during the pandemic.
And then all of a sudden, a whole telecom section.
No price gouging rules.
There will be money for free Wi-Fi at and around schools and libraries.
Emergency broadband for those who cannot afford it.
And if you can't afford any kind of phone or any kind of device, we've got the new Obama phone!
And they call it the enhanced lifeline with 4G LTE. Yeah, you've got a 4G LTE. Trump phone, exactly.
Corona phone!
And all of a sudden in there, and this is how it's so obvious that this is just a bill stuck together by other bills, there's a heading that says, don't break the T-band.
And I'm like, what is this?
It's clearly a slogan.
And yes, it is the repeal of the T-band auction for telephony.
That's very important for coronavirus, obviously.
And whatever lobbyists from the telecommunications industry who put that in there with the existing headline, don't break the T-band, that was really, for me...
That's pretty sloppy.
I was like, okay, this is horrible.
It's sloppy.
I mean, of course, Trump already said it's DOA and the Republicans aren't going to vote for it anyway.
So they're going to have to redo it.
But if this is this bad right off the bat and they're going to massage it a little bit, could it get worse?
Because eventually something's going to get passed.
Well, let's listen to Pelosi on Tapper, just so we can get into her head.
She's wearing her little kerchief around her reptilian neck.
I can say that because I don't like it.
A baklava?
She's wearing a baklava?
No, it's not a baklava.
It's a kerchief.
It's a kerchief.
And the fact is that in all four of the bills that have passed before, they've all been bipartisan.
And we've all in our caucus have agreed that everything is coronavirus centric and also in a timely way that relates to the virus.
It's too deadly to our lives, to our livelihood, to our democracy for us to use it for any other purpose.
So when the money for state and local is to defray the cost of the outlays they've made for coronavirus and the revenue lost because of the coronavirus.
Testing, testing.
The three pillars.
This is very interesting.
Listen to how she doesn't really care about anything but power and...
Did you notice that she was about to say?
Yes, that's why I stopped it.
That's why I stopped it.
She's about to say a number of things here.
Just listen to what she's really saying, and you tell me if she's concerned about the virus or about her position and party and, well, orange man bad.
The coronavirus.
Testing, testing.
The three pillars.
Okay, the three pillars.
I thought it was going to be testing, testing, testing, but the three pillars, oh no, it's very different.
Honor our heroes by supporting our state and local entities.
Honor our heroes.
So that they don't lose their jobs.
These heroes don't lose their jobs.
How about opening up the hospitals for other things, Nancy, instead of, oh, honor them.
What does it mean?
How do I honor our heroes so they don't lose their jobs?
What can I do with my honoring them?
How will that possibly help?
These heroes don't lose their jobs.
Open up government by testing, tracing, treatment, etc.
Testing, wait a minute.
So the most important question we have, this is the most powerful woman in American politics.
How do we open up our states?
I want to know.
Opening up my state here in Texas, what do I need to do again, Nancy?
Don't lose their jobs.
Open up government by testing, tracing, treatment, etc.
Testing, tracing, treatment, etc.
That's worse than Trump's plan!
It's not...
That...
Maybe it's just me.
And the third is putting money in the pockets of the American people.
All of it timed and centric to the coronavirus.
It would be an endless amount of money if we put our wish list for the future in there, but that is not what the case is.
And sometimes I get a little heat from my own folks who say, why can't we do this and this bill and that and that, because that's not what the bill's about.
This bill is for this purpose.
And it's a big price, but it's a big problem.
And the chairman of the Fed said, think big because the interest rates will never be lower.
And so they've used the interest rates to...
Now, here it is.
This is where she goes into full-on partisan mode.
She said, well, the secretary said interest rates are low.
They use it for that.
We're going to use it for this.
They did that.
This will never be lower, and so they've used the interest rates to give confidence that credit will be available because the interest rates are low.
We want those same interest rates, and they use it to bolster the stock market.
We want to use it to bolster the American people.
So true, Nancy.
This woman is horrible, and it leads me to another horrible individual, and only because you were talking about the Irish helicopter money?
Yes.
Did you find this story?
They're throwing money out.
No, I found another helicopter from the Mooch.
Anthony, are they doing too much or too little?
Well, I think they need more helicopter money, to be candid.
I mean, we did that analysis.
It's about $3,000 a person and $1,500 for a child.
And they're offering up $1,200 and $500 respectfully.
So yes, I think they need to put up more helicopter money.
They just injected or they're going to pass a $250 billion additional small business stimulus.
And I predict that they will send more helicopter money to the average American.
This will be a Main Street and Wall Street recovery program.
Helicopter money.
I guess that should be a show title one day.
I mean, geez.
Helicopter money.
Where is he using the term?
Well, maybe he has a helicopter and wants to throw some cash out.
I don't think I've ever...
I've heard the term, but it's like helicopter parents.
The parents aren't actually flying in a helicopter above the kid.
Well, I did, because I had a helicopter.
You're hovering around.
I actually did that.
Okay, so we've done the bailout.
Excuse me.
Well, before you go on, because Pelosi did say something there, on the interest rates will never get lower.
Let's play another Trump clip from his little meeting there.
Trump on negative interest rates.
Chairman Calladay said both that he wasn't interested in bringing interest rates negative and that he saw a need for additional stimulus from Congress.
I know that you said that we could wait and see on the stimulus and that you want negative rates.
So it wasn't in your reaction.
Well, I'm a believer in negative rates only if other countries that are competitors look at it.
Look, Germany, they're an ally, they're friends of ours, but they're still competitors on trade and other things.
So Germany, Japan, others have negative rates, and I think if they do, we're the most prime of the world.
It's based, many countries, based on the dollar.
The dollar is by far the strongest, most powerful currency in the world.
We've made it more powerful.
We've made it stronger.
And certainly if they're going to have the advantage of negative rates, we should too.
I feel strongly we should have negative rates.
Negative rates is basically where they pay you interest if you borrow money.
This is a new one.
I've been looking for something like that all my life.
That's a pretty good one.
But certainly if other countries are going to be paid for putting out money, I mean, think of it, they're borrowing money.
Instead of paying interest, they're getting paid.
It's the craziest thing.
But you know what?
Other countries are doing it.
Look at Germany.
Look at Japan.
Look at others.
And we're the most prime in the world right now.
And we have the currency and we have the power of the dollar.
Wow!
Just step the hell back and take this one.
Are you kidding me?
So Trump is all in on the negative interest rates.
Well, there you go.
He wants it.
He wants it.
And Powell doesn't want it.
And Pelosi's full of shit when she says it won't go any lower.
Right?
The end is near.
Oh, my God.
So, well, of course, from his perspective, we're not competitive with our rates.
So we have to go to negative interest rates.
Woo!
That's going to be fun.
And all of this a mere day or two before the Bitcoin happening.
Oh my goodness.
What is going to happen in the world?
You know, Bitcoin's going to go to $400,000 in the next month or two.
So, I'm just saying.
Yeah.
According to Max.
There you go.
You can cash your coin and quit the show.
Meanwhile, what?
And give up show business?
Yeah, I know.
Meanwhile, the European Union is in such disarray over Germany.
Because Germany, you know, I think the European Union is now kind of realizing that Germany actually runs the show.
Yeah.
If there's the new German Republic, the new German Empire, they're finally figuring this out, even though the Brits have been telling him this forever?
Yes.
At least some Brits have noticed it, but we've noticed it.
Yeah, very, very dismayed over how things are going financially in the European Union.
Yeah, well, once the French figure it out, then war.
Yeah, yeah, you're not kidding.
Just a little update.
I've been working a lot on my computer setup.
I'm pretty much all command line now.
So I also took the time to...
Well, you know what?
Back to the future!
I have...
I decided that computers are, first of all, they're just getting lower throughput from you to the machine and back.
I mean, this is why we have pads and touch and please don't actually do anything.
You can't get the computer to do anything unless you go to a system that lets you program your apps and string them together yourself.
It doesn't matter.
I wanted to get rid of the contactless thermometer spam.
Because I... Wait, wait, what?
Okay.
I keep receiving emails, which is spam, for contactless thermometers.
You know, the ones you point at your head.
Oh, contactless.
Which you cannot find if you want to go buy one at CVS or anywhere.
I mean, all thermometers are sold out.
So this spam is all over the place.
And it keeps getting through the spam filter.
I've never gotten one of these things, ever.
Well, I'll never get one ever again because the word thermometer is the one and only word banned now.
But I figured out what they're doing.
They reverse engineer Bayesian logic in the body of the message.
So the subject line, they'll literally say, contactless thermometer, you need it now, or something like that.
And then in the body of the message, they have these sentences strung together, which will always include my first name, and maybe a topic...
Of interest to me, which I think they probably got from, you know, maybe it's on a forum or from Twitter or something.
You know, they scrape stuff.
And through that, they literally go against the Bayesian logic that would determine that to be spam by putting these elements in, and the spam detector just can't stop it.
It's, you know, those guys should be advertising for real products because they know what they're doing.
It's very interesting.
Well, I'm glad it drove you to go command line.
No, I'm totally command line.
It's actually, I'm HJKL. That's where I live.
Okay.
You know what HJKL is?
No, I don't know what HJKL is.
No, the HJKL and L keys on the keyboard are the universal keys for navigation on command line.
So H is left, J is down, K is up, L is right.
Huh.
It's like an old word star.
Oh, the VI works that way.
But also, if you go to Twitter, just the web Twitter, and you go to, it doesn't matter what it is, hit the J key, it'll go down.
Hit the K key, it'll go up.
Hit the L key, it'll like that tweet.
Hit the T key, it'll retweet.
So this has been something that efficient data engineers have been doing for a long time.
That's what they do for a living.
They have to sit at the keyboard.
They've got to get things done.
And as it turns out, this is what I do for a living.
I sit at the keyboard all day managing data, managing emails, managing RSS feeds, managing stories, managing clips.
Exactly.
Exactly why I did it.
I'd like to talk about...
Maybe it's a break time.
What do you think?
No.
No, I think we should do a quick thing on China, and then we'll take a break.
Don't you want to do China afterwards?
I like China.
Well, it sounds like you've got some China.
Well, then we'll take a break.
I've really got no China.
That's the reason.
Oh, you just don't want me to do China.
Maybe I've got...
No, I want to do China.
No, you know what?
Never mind.
We will go into a break.
Oh, I do have a China clip, yeah.
Oh, it's a good one.
We're going to do that after the break, but before we do that, I do need to play this clip.
You've got to ask yourself...
What level has John McAfee sunk to if he's doing interviews on the Nick the Rat Show?
Clearly, clearly unawares of what the Nick the Rat Show is.
Wait a minute, hold on, stop.
So you get a phone call, hi, would you like to do my show?
What's it called?
It's the Nick the Rat Show.
And he's oblivious to the name of the show itself, so much so that he doesn't figure out what's going on or even listen to an old show.
He's in a sewer.
Nick's in a sewer doing a show.
John McAfee does an interview with anybody.
Anybody.
Regardless of who you are, where you are, audience size, it doesn't matter.
Which is one of the reasons why I have no interest in speaking with him, because he's already been everywhere.
But I think that Nick the Rat deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor for asking the following question.
We have time for one more question.
Okay, one more question.
Last question is, do you know John C. Dvorak used to write for PCMag?
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is not safe for work, and I'm not in the habit of bleeping it out, but it's not safe for work.
You have been warned.
Of course I do.
Apparently you owe him a lunch.
Nonsense!
That motherfucker owes me way more than a goddamn lunch, alright?
I'm just telling you now.
Every time he brings you up, he's like, John McAfee, he owes me a lunch, but I was wondering.
Fuck that shit.
He owes me a good article, as a matter of fact.
That was my last question.
Thank you so much, John.
And interview ends, of course, after that fabulous question.
Of course.
But, you know, I heard this because Nick sent me a copy.
Of course.
And I thought to myself, first of all, it's dinner.
Yes, I know, I know.
So that was irksome.
And then McAfee's full of crap.
Well, what is this?
You owe him a good article.
What kind of side gigs are you running, Dvorak?
I'm not running anything.
He just throws that in.
Okay, I'll give you a good article.
Here, I'll mail it to you.
I think you should do an article about how McAfee is overexposed on low-level podcasts.
Not including Nick the Rat, by the way.
I have not written about John McAfee since he created the entire virus environment on computers.
It was pretty much moribund until he popularized it.
He popularized it.
For all practical purposes.
Yeah, of course he did.
He was a super brand.
McAfee was it.
First, he created the idea of viruses.
And then he created viruses to sell virus software, didn't he?
Is that how it worked?
Well, we don't know that he created any viruses, but there's some suspicions.
He retired rich because he sold off his old company, then he spent all his money.
Literally on hookers and blow, which is kind of awesome.
I guess when he says, I owe him an article, because...
I'm thinking he feels that he's done so many spectacular things.
Not to say that he hasn't, because he's definitely been a newsworthy guy.
And I should have written something about him.
Yes.
Well, that's true.
That's what I think he's thinking.
That's a good point.
You know, McAfee gets plenty of ink.
I don't know what good it's doing.
I would just like anybody, just someone who's never done a podcast, just to contact McAfee and say, I want you to do a podcast.
Just make up a crazy name and see if he shows up.
Well, you could actually, I bet you could do this.
And then you could actually get an interview.
Say, I am going to inaugurate a new podcast called, whatever you want to call it, you call it the John McAfee Dog for John.
I really don't care.
He would do it.
I am very proud of our very own Nick the Rat.
You can hear Nick the Rat Wednesday evenings.
He broadcasts live from the sewer.
And, of course, you can often hear his show on noagendastream.com, where we have all these crazy people, including ourselves, and trolls, and all kinds of fun.
And, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the China clip block.
John C. Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls.
Mentioned them just a moment ago.
Let's do a quick troll count, see how we're doing here.
Ooh, we're low today.
1550.
Usually, like, 1617.
100, that is.
Yeah, I think it's leveling off.
It is.
Well, people are going back to work, I think.
You know, Thursday, people have other things to do now.
Yeah, they shouldn't be listening to a live stream.
Seriously, you must have something better to do.
Unless you get a live stream, you can get the internet while you're...
While you're driving, you can probably put it on your car.
It's kind of a fun thing.
It's true.
The trolls hang out at noagendastream.com.
We have a chat there, which is 24-7.
It's IRC. You can log in all kinds of different ways.
Even on the go, you can talk to the trolls, troll away.
And we also simultaneously listen to 24 hours a day, seven days a week of the No Agenda Stream podcast from all around the globe.
All talk, no commercials, completely devoid and free of commercial interests.
Therefore, probably stunningly fun to be.
A reminder that you can get an invite for noagendasocial.com, our node of the federation of the true social network of the Internet, the Federated Mastodon Servers.
We'd love to see you there.
And, of course, you don't have to sign up.
You can also just follow any of the people at noagendasocial.com.
And you can follow me, Adam, at noagendasocial.com.
Also, big in the morning to our artists for episode number 1,244.
We titled that one Curtain Wranglers.
And it was good to see cesium-137 back again.
And with a typical cesium-137 classic piece of art.
So well put together.
The Chinese McDonald's French fries.
The fries are hypodermic needles.
We've got a little, what was the goofy, oh, the Microsoft Bob?
Yeah, Microsoft Bob.
Peeking out from the background.
And a unique font.
It was a beautiful piece.
Did we look at other things?
Yes, we did.
There was a competitor to it that we looked at.
Mm-hmm.
And this was the one that had vaccines with a big C on it, the ugly McDonald's.
And that was done by Nick the Rat, actually, coincidentally.
But he came in later.
I think we'd already chosen the artist.
Maybe not.
I'm looking now.
Let's see what we got.
Maybe not.
He may have, but the thing is, Nick on Twitter said that That I... No, he came in earlier, actually, than cesium.
Cesium came in later.
Oh, you're right.
I see it now, yeah.
And so he says, well, Nick, who had me smeared on his show, says on Twitter that I was probably...
I, not you.
As though I'm picking the art.
Because it's not true, believe me.
We both pick the art and we argue about it.
He says that I, specifically, was afraid of the clown.
And then it created a thread of John's afraid of clowns memes.
Oh boy, that must have kept you busy for an afternoon.
No, I just blocked him.
You can block the entire thread.
I saw the thread of Comic Strip Blogger being blocked by you.
That was pretty funny.
Which one?
I blocked it.
I don't know what it was.
Oh, no, exactly.
No, he was just complaining that you blocked him.
And even though you literally said why you blocked him...
He's saying, eh, it's because he doesn't want me to ask if his mother is Polish, has Polish passport.
Like, what?
He knows my mother is Polish.
Your mother's not even with us.
She's dead.
She's dead-ish.
Sorry.
She's dead-ish.
But she did, she got to 90, which is kind of a goal.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
It's not great.
It's not like that woman in Pennsylvania, the transgender woman who's got the mom, 95, and according to her, she's a genius.
Even at 95.
Anyway, I just wanted to...
You explained it very well.
He's a backchanneler.
Because...
And it's true because he sent me a message.
Backchannel.
DM. Asked Vorak about his mother Polish passport.
Meanwhile, he's asking you the same thing.
And you're blocking him for it.
So it's like, I don't like that.
Don't do that.
My daughter used to do that.
Daddy, can I have this?
And then, you know, he already has gone to mom and gotten some kind of, you know...
They're tricky.
Yeah, it's double dipping.
It's double dipping.
Now, not that we don't love him.
Jeez, man.
He does good work.
I forgot to save this.
Oh, my God.
Someone sent me...
Oh, I think I... I probably...
Why did I not...
Someone sent me the old comic strip blogger jingle, but I don't remember what I did with it.
Oh, you'll find it.
Let's start.
Let me read off some names.
Oh, here it is.
Here it is.
Okay, this should be it.
Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger.
Hey, it's not like we don't have jingles for him and stuff.
Wow.
It's pretty official.
Well, let's talk about something that's more official, which is Christopher Berry coming in with $1,000 from Williamsville, New York.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'd just like to thank Season 137 one more time, noagendaartgenerator.com.
And is this an insta-nighting for Christopher Berry?
Oh, well, it looks like it.
Since it's in blue, code blue.
I think we have a...
Our InstaNight sound!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Huh.
ITM, Jensie writes, long-time listener, 500 since the 500s, first-time donor, like to be known as Sir Endernot, wavebender of Spark.
Okay.
He needs a de-douching?
All right, hold on.
Getting the douche up and the de-douche sauce.
You've been de-douched.
He says we both rock and he'd like a little goat karma.
You might die with a simultaneous two to the head.
Oh, I think we can do that.
You might die.
You've got karma.
All right.
Did he have any...
Does he have a name?
Oh, yeah.
He has that Sir Endernaut.
Nothing for the roundtable, though, right?
No orders?
Nope.
Doesn't seem so.
Okay.
Good.
Harvey Smith's next on the list at $345.67 from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Seems the U.S. government has stimulated me into making this value-for-value purchase.
Yes, you've got a check in the mail.
And we recommend everybody take some of that free money and send it our way.
No jingles, but some great general-purpose goat karma would be lovely.
Thanks for all you do.
You've got karma.
This is followed by Jeff Anderson of Carmel, Indiana, $333, ITM John and Adam.
Thank you for a great show.
It's changed how I view everything.
I used to be a rabid Republican beholden to the daily infotainment cycle until a high school friend mentioned your show.
This is a good point, by the way.
Yes, thank you.
A lot of Republicans were...
That listen to the show.
We have Democrats and Republicans.
I think rabid Republican is a good descriptor.
Rabid Republicans, and they tend to listen to Alex Jones and Fox, and that was that.
Hannity.
Hannity's the best.
Hannity's the worst.
He's the worst.
I love that guy.
We had him on for a second last night.
It's all, the New York Toilet Paper Times, which I thought, he says it over and over.
I've said this before.
He has got to be the hardest working guy in show business.
And it shows, because it's mediocre.
He took over where James Brown left off.
The only thing...
The whole show.
The Washington Toilet Paper Times.
But I thought what's funny is the Washington Compost.
That one I hadn't heard.
I thought that was funny.
Oh, yeah.
I think Mark...
Well, anyway.
It's tiresome if you do it over and over again.
It's like, what are you doing, man?
Washington Compost.
He's bad.
All right, anyway, rabid Republicans.
That's another one.
Anyway, he goes on.
He says, That's true.
I would like to call out David Brantley, who hit me in the mouth.
As a douchebag.
Douchebag!
And Drew Williams as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Because I do not believe they have ever donated.
Oh no!
I would also like to be de-douched.
You got it.
You've been de-douched.
I want to mention a little, just a little housekeeping here.
To donors that like to douche people and de-douche themselves.
I believe, cosmically, It's quite likely that a de-douching after calling out people for being a douchebag doesn't de-douche you, but possibly de-douches the douchebags.
Do we have any empirical evidence or just anecdotal?
This is totally anecdotal.
And I got it from sources.
I got it from sources, intelligence sources.
People familiar with the matter.
And intelligence sources agree.
So I just want to mention that.
No, the intelligence community.
The intelligence community.
They all agree on this, according to sources.
Yes.
So put your de-douching up front.
Up front, yeah.
Just for your own safety.
What can it hurt?
Anyway, no jingles, no karma yet, as I do not believe I have earned them yet.
Well, thank you, Jeff.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your courage.
Jonathan Fedorik in Westminster, California, another 333.00.
First off, I want to thank you for the priceless information.
It has been essential for my mental health.
Can I please get a dedouching?
That's the way to do it.
You've been dedouched.
I would like to call out my smoking hot babe, Liana, for being a douchebag.
Douchebag!
As well as my friend, Brandon.
Douchebag!
Okay, I have another piece of housekeeping here.
Okay.
I'm noticing a trend for men and women both to use this exact same term, smoking hot.
Right.
I'm...
I'm just requesting personally that somebody dream up another term indicating a similar concept.
Okay.
Because I'm kind of tired of it.
I don't know about you, but it's just me.
Hey, people supporting the show, you're doing it wrong.
I recently had the Abbott antibody test done.
Oh, right, right, right.
Unfortunately, I tested negative.
I was really hoping to boost my No Agenda antibodies badge and not be a fraud.
Looks like I'll be a fraud for now.
This brings me to the question.
By the way, there was a report, it might have it on my clip list, that there's like 40% of these things are...
Oh, faulty.
Faulty.
Faulty, yeah.
Abbott says no, they're not faulty.
I have one data point that's fun from our official No Agenda pharmacist.
He sent me a report.
It's a pharmaceutical industry report.
The serology testing.
Do you know how big that business is or will be?
Billion.
65 billion.
Wow.
65 billion for swabbing.
Swabbing and testing.
Beautiful.
That's probably a lot of blood tests counting in there.
Yeah, well, whatever.
There's no serology.
Serology.
It means serology.
I think it includes blood testing.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Who cares?
It's a lot of money.
If someone gets the antibodies and tests and tests positive, does this positive test get added to the daily confirmed new coronavirus cases?
I would hope so.
I was supposed to, isn't it?
That would obviously be a major discrepancy, but considering how problematic the date has been, I would not be surprised.
Hopefully you guys can shed some light.
Thanks again, boys.
Can I get a karma and a dealer's choice?
Sir J from the land of Scruffle Butters.
What kind of dealer's choice?
I hadn't really thought about something.
You got something you want to play?
I'm good.
Well, we have to do something.
I marked it down specifically to ask you.
Oh, yeah, there was one I had in mind.
I can't think of it, though.
Oh, never mind.
I got to write it down.
I'll do one of my own.
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.
You're getting me flat-footed.
But you had to wrote it down.
You should have told me earlier.
I could have been thinking about it.
Oh, I'll send you the scripts.
I'll send you the scripts from now on.
See if you can pronounce this.
Liesel.
Liesel.
I would say Liza.
L-E-I-S-S-L-E. In Calvertton, New York.
Yes.
30303.
Oh, here we go.
That's tonight's number.
ITM, this donation from my smoking hot wife, Dame Adrienne and her daughter...
Violet, another girl named Violet.
We have a lot of them.
In fact, yes, we have a couple of them.
Even they went to the Oakland meetup, there was a little baby named Violet.
That's a nice name.
On May 13th, she donated last week to herself, so please de-douche me.
You got it.
You've been de-douched.
If you turn 303 on its end, it spells mom.
Is that why it's a 303?
Thank you, John.
Oh, that's nice.
For all you do.
I like that.
Mom, mom.
Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom.
303 is the mom donation.
It's a good one.
Cool.
If you want something for your mom, 303.
You can call her Smokin' Hot.
It's fine with me.
Thank you, Joseph.
Going down to the associate executive producer, starting with Lucas Taima.
Taima.
Oh, that's right.
I'm sorry.
I'm thinking...
Okay.
Lucas Theimer in Oogsticht.
Oogsticht.
Close enough.
Whatever.
256 is obviously in Holland.
Yearly podcast feat for 2020.
Yes, thank you.
Happy enjoying the show since 2009.
Keeps good work.
He's been with us for a long time.
So nice, Lucas.
Thank you.
Jordan Olson in Nebraska, Bellevue to be exact, $233.33.
Por la mañana.
Can I cancel my ride on the Zephyr due to the wishcom flu?
And I figured I would put that money to good use.
I'd like to call out my buddy's dad, Max, for being a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Blink, blink, drip, drip.
Can I get some I Got Ants followed by a goat karma?
Well, we can't do the whole thing, but we always do like to play the little intro and the first bit of the ant song.
I Got Ants.
I got ants.
You thought.
Karma.
Ashley LaSage in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 23333.
From Ash the Thrash.
L.A. Sage ITM. Gents from the great state of Wisconsin where our Supreme Court has just struck down our unconstitutional stay-at-home order.
Yes.
Right, which is an article that we could have been discussing on the show.
They did strike it down because it's illegal.
Yes.
Well, we talked about it.
We mentioned this happening.
We mentioned it, yeah.
It's funny.
Woohoo!
In other states, I was rightfully called out as a douchebag last week, and I'm in desperate need of a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
My cousin Matthew Rockwall hit me in the mouth about a year and a half ago, and I haven't missed an episode since.
He's a very intelligent young man, but has always had different insights that I don't get from the news or talk radio.
I could not express how grateful I am for all the work you guys do to provide us with this podcast.
Times are tough.
We put a lot of work into this podcast.
Yes, we do. we do.
Keep up the incredible work and thank you for your courage.
Can I get a goat karma for the Tristan Onion Martens who is finally able to have his back surgery today and a that's true for Mike the Shark because we use it in our daily conversations and it's hilarious.
Trust me, it'll get old eventually.
I think John and I, we've even gotten over it.
What was I going to say about this?
That's true.
I was going to say...
Yeah.
About this show, actively, for every show, and this is kind of the secret of the value-for-value model, there are hundreds of people producing every single episode.
And just listen to who was being thanked, besides these financial producers who were supporting us.
We have Void Zero and Bemrose and Darren O, and we got Nick the Rat, and we got CSB, and we got Sir Paul Couture for the Art Generator.
I mean, I can go on and on and on and on.
Hundreds of people per episode.
That's why it's the best one in the universe, people.
That's true.
You've got...
Karma.
Neil Eide in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
200.
Only mentioning because John and Adam...
Oh, he's talking about his name pronunciation.
Yeah, we had trouble with it.
This donation is dedicated to the birthday of my smoking hot wife, Amanda.
Yes.
Thank you for the show, which supports our mental health, brings us closer together, and strengthens our relationship.
Adam.
Yes.
Thanks for inspiring me to finally getting a ham radio license.
Well, thank you very much.
See how that works?
I win again!
Happy birthday, Amanda.
NJNK, Neil K... Oh, for ACM 73s.
Yeah, 73s, Kilo 5 Alpha, Charlie Charlie.
And I was, of course, influenced by John to get my ham ticket.
And, of course, I did the real deal.
I'm a general, and John, you know, he's like, pfft, he's a walkie-talkie guy.
Two meters, 70 centimeters.
Wow, what a bigot.
Yeah, I did the real test, man.
You did like the little entry test there.
But okay.
Yes, we are hams and proud of it.
Noagendahams.com.
Check it out.
Yet another group of fantastic people supporting the show.
You know, I do have a call sign, and when all hell breaks loose, and I have to save the day, you know, I could pretty much use any gear I want.
Oh, yeah.
You're just going to try and figure out how to configure it to work with the repeater, and then after the...
Hello?
Okay.
Onward to the next person.
Tom Turner.
I have one question.
During the entire Rona crisis...
Have you once turned on the radio, your handheld, to see if you could reach anything or even listen for one minute?
Answer, no.
This is what hams were born for, man.
We're in the middle of...
This is the apocalypse.
This is the apocalypse, and all you can do is joke around.
We need to take your ticket back.
I've got to renew it in November.
I may upgrade it to extra.
Now here we have Ham Radio, guys.
Ham Radio is the public service network of last resort.
When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
Right?
Well, we're it, dear producer.
Adam and John, we're the hams that are going to save the world.
Okay.
So, you know.
And we need more people to get their license.
Tom Turner, meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tom, have you got your license?
You have 200 bucks here for us.
Thanks.
Hello and greetings from the moderate to low risk and low alcohol content state of Utah.
Been listening to Adam since he was on Rogan.
Ah, another one.
And this is my first donation.
What I liked about the Rogan people, and there's been about, I think you probably picked up a lot of listeners.
About five.
Not in the thousands, but I think a lot.
Okay.
And they got into the donating mode faster than listeners from other sources.
I agree.
I agree.
You're right.
Because they come in pretty, and they come in at the executive and associate executive producer level pretty quickly.
There may be some $5 subscribers, but so I'm impressed with Rogan's audience.
And that says to me, do the show again.
Well, first of all, we're not calling them audiences.
We call them media tribes now.
And there's huge overlap between his tribe and our tribe.
And people who produce this show listen to his show.
So and I'd love to go back.
Joe is I mean, I was trying to get Joe over here.
He's complaining.
It's like, because I told him that we went to Lonesome Dove and I sent him the menu as It was like, oh, we were thinking about renting a plane.
We can't eat anything.
We can't go anywhere.
We're all bummed out about it.
I'm like, go Rogan.
Rent a plane.
Come on, baby.
Hang out.
But I'm sure I'll be invited back on eventually.
You should be one of those guys on standby.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
I don't want to be the guy on standby.
You just want to get on if you could be on standby.
Excuse me.
Okay.
All right.
Never mind.
This is not Twit.
It's the Joe Rogan show.
I'm trying to get on the overnight show.
I've just been unsuccessful.
What overnight show?
The old, what used to be, you know, that overnight show.
It's called Overnight.
I think it's the name of it.
Oh.
Somebody knows the name in the chat room.
Hmm.
It's the one that talks about, you know, flying saucers at midnight.
Oh, Coast to Coast.
Coast to Coast.
That's the name, yeah.
That's the show I want to get on.
See, I don't want to be on that show.
Anyway.
Yeah, I do.
I want to be on Coast to Coast.
Okay, well, someone please set that up.
And it's john at Dvorak.org.
Do not, repeat, do not email me, and do not email Coast to Coast AM and pretend you're me or John and fill out a form and put our email addresses.
No.
Ugh.
Anyway, he continues on his note.
Wishing to beat my overachieving limey father-in-law, who's actually very close to receiving a real knighthood from the queen.
Love the show and deliberating possible knighthood names such as Sir Thomas of the Church of the Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Ain'ts.
Please.
Or possibly Sir Tom, the underachieving son-in-law of that overachieving limey father-in-law.
Thoughts?
Sounds like all winners to me.
Yeah, regardless.
Thanks for the incredible show and take care, Tom.
Alright, take care of yourself, Tom.
Thank you very much, Tom.
Of course, he's from Salt Lake City.
We have a lot of LDS producers as well.
We take them all.
We'll take your rabid Republicans.
We'll take your libtards.
We'll take your libtards.
We'll take your libtos.
We'll take your libtos.
We'll take anything.
Yeah, I'll tell you, the libtards and the libtos don't like the show.
It shakes up their worldview, and they don't like it.
It makes them uncomfortable.
It makes them uncomfortable, yeah.
Well, we're pretty comfortable knowing that we have at least some tribe out there who is supporting the work and happy with it, and I love seeing the trolls.
The trolls are very active today in the troll room.
Before we continue, I have to mention something.
It's raining.
Yeah.
It's raining.
We're in the middle of May in California, the desert.
They had snow in New York earlier this week.
Very strange.
Well, it's HARP. It's all part of the program.
HARP, HARP. Thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers for this episode, 1,242.
It is highly appreciated, and we'll be thanking more people in our second segment, but these are the ones that really can go immediately to put these titles to good use.
They are true entertainment titles.
If you're looking for stature or maybe just work, put it on your LinkedIn.
Apparently, people have some success with that.
And we will be here for another program on Sunday.
Please support us at the following website address.
Once again, you're up to speed on all things Rona, where we are Rona Central.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, Slay.
Premature.
Say again, kid.
Shut up, Slay.
Shut up, Slay.
There we go.
You should probably also mention that the younger producers, executive producers, can incorporate this credit into their pickup lines.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
And I just remembered I would like to give a special jobs karma to our very own Sir Gene, Duke of the South, as the Rona has taken away all of his clients.
And he didn't ask for this, but I'm going to give it to him.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yay!
Because, you know, when someone is like, hey, man, I've got to find a client, I'm like, who do I know?
How can I think of anything?
I'm like, shit, I've got the most powerful weapon at my disposal, the jobs karma.
Why am I messing around thinking about who I can call?
Yeah.
So that's, hopefully, hopefully, the jobs karma will do its business.
I want to mention something that happened.
Guardian printed this article, and I don't know why, because Woody Allen's on the outs, but this is a Guardian article, and it says, Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York Tops Global Box Office.
So they've been rolling out this movie that was paid for by Amazon.
Amazon Studios kicked Woody out after, you know, Dylan Farrell made a fuss again, even though this has been done in court, and one of Woody's...
Other kids say it's bullcrap.
But he's been accused of being a molester.
And so they won't let his movie...
So they won't even...
He's been outed...
Not outed, what's the word?
Canceled so badly that they won't even release this movie in the United States.
And I saw this movie.
Wasn't it on Amazon?
No, no.
Amazon refused to put it on.
I thought they had it on briefly.
Where did you see it?
I got a screener.
Interwebs, yeah.
I've got a screener.
And I watched this movie.
It's a little after it came out.
I think this is maybe one of his best New York.
He's got a series of new movies he's done about New York.
I think this is one of his best ones.
I think it's award-worthy.
I mean, it's about neurotics in New York again, but it's a little bit more about celebrity and the shallowness of New York.
But it's an ode to New York.
I think it's one of his best New York movies ever.
And unfortunately, the American public will never get to see it in the theater.
Of course, who cares nowadays?
All the theaters.
What was the renewed interest in canceling him?
Was it Ronan Farrow's Me Too work?
Or what was the...
It was some of Ronan Farrow, and Dylan came out again and started making a fuss.
They made a big fuss, and using cancel culture techniques, they started hounding Amazon, because Amazon had picked his contract up.
Oh, right, right, right, right.
And so they started hounding, and Amazon, he's also supposed to do some TV work for them, and he did this horrible, really bad piece of work.
Uh, and he gave it to them.
It's just junk, and I think Amazon was sick of that.
It's just so hypocritical, you know?
I mean, I'm not a huge Woody Allen fan of his movies.
I've seen, you know, some of...
Of course, there's some seminal ones that, you know, how could you ever live without it?
Um...
Just seeing some of these great movies, but you're really into it, and I'm like, eh.
I've been a fan since I saw his first movie.
Yeah.
Which was that?
What was the first one?
Well, actually, this first movie was kind of an overdub.
The first movie was Take the Money and Run.
The real first movie was Take the Money and Run.
And that's where he holds a sign over, gives a note to the teller.
He's going to rob a bank, and the teller says...
I've got a gub?
What's a gub?
So give me your money.
I've got a gub.
I don't know.
I've got a gub.
No, it doesn't say gub.
And he says, yeah, it does.
Here, look.
Oh, yeah.
It says gub instead of gun.
Everything you always want to know about sex, I saw probably when I was nine.
Yeah, it's a cute movie.
And we're like, oh, this is so great.
Look at this shit, man.
There's sperm.
Look at it.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Well, I'm glad.
Thank you for that Woody Allen update.
Relevant to no one.
I really appreciate it.
It's really great.
Yeah, everything's relevant.
China.
China.
Let's talk about China for a second.
China.
China, China, China.
I have my one China clip.
Yeah, you want to do your one China clip?
Yeah, let's do this clip, because this clip is kind of like, I don't know what to do.
They don't know quite how to handle this clip, because the Chinese-influenced news media, I'm sure, have mixed feelings, but they've got to run the story.
FBI, Chinese hackers.
I like how you say influence.
You can just say control, but influence is warm and fuzzy.
CBS, yes, CBS is on a tear.
Here we go.
Tonight, the FBI and federal cybersecurity agents are warning that hackers linked to the Chinese government are trying to steal research on coronavirus vaccines and therapies.
The FBI says the potential theft could jeopardize the treatment of patients here in the U.S. Here's CBS Chief Justice and Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Begays.
While the coronavirus was sweeping across parts of China in January...
My God, Jeff is in rare form right now!
U.S. officials say...
Stop one second.
I want to mention something.
In this particular thing, especially when he's reporting from home, I am now wondering...
Because you like to make fun of Jeff and...
I think he's really a great reporter, but he's got this funny voice.
I think he's got the same condition that J.F.K. or Robert Kennedy Jr.
has.
When you hear him reporting from home, that's when you're going to hear it.
And I haven't looked into it, but I'll bet you he's got the same condition because he's got these qualities.
Well...
I don't know why you have to take my joy away, that he just has to poop.
I just did, I know.
I'm Jeff Begayes.
I got about a minute here before I can do this report real quick, but I'm like crowning, man.
Security correspondent Jeff Begayes.
While the coronavirus was sweeping across parts of China in January, U.S. officials say Chinese hackers were already focused on the United States, trying to steal research from universities and pharmaceutical companies that were working on a cure.
John Demers is the assistant attorney general for national security.
The Chinese for years have targeted biomedical research, and there's nothing more important than COVID-19 research right now in that field.
The hacking charges ratcheted up tensions over the virus between the U.S. and China.
It should have been stopped at the source, which was China.
But it's not just China.
Iran is also on the attack.
Researchers at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future say the Iranian state targeted an executive at Gilead Sciences, the manufacturer of the promising coronavirus treatment drug Remdesivir.
But Demers said China is desperate to be first with a vaccine.
You call this a holy grail of information that these foreign hackers are going after?
There's nothing more important right now than these treatments and perhaps most significantly for China for geopolitical value to be able to say that they were the first to develop a vaccine.
Tonight, in a statement, Chinese officials said the accusations were without evidence, but U.S. officials say anyone working on a vaccine should be on hyper alert.
Margaret.
Well, when I heard him speak, kind of in the interview, I heard what the condition is called spasmodic dysphonia.
That's what Robert Kennedy Jr.
has.
Could be.
Could be that he has some of that.
It sounds more like he just overworked his voice.
I don't know what happens when you blow your voice out, but it could sound interesting.
Well, CBS is doing all kinds of reports about China, and this was 60 Minutes this past Sunday.
It was just kind of interesting how their version of the timeline of Corona and China and Trump told us to direct questions about the origin of the virus and to the Director of National Intelligence.
The Chinese Communist Party has also blocked the truth.
In the earliest days, the doctor in Wuhan who discovered the outbreak was silenced by local officials.
He later died of COVID-19.
In February, the Chinese did allow a visit by an international team of experts, including American scientists.
We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China.
Initially, President Trump praised China, but in the following weeks, testing in the U.S. failed to catch up to the need.
Vital equipment was short, bodies filled refrigerated trailers, and science was continuously challenged.
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.
And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute.
And is there a way we can do something like that by injection?
As the U.S. led the world in illness and death, the White House moved the focus to the Chinese government.
That's where this began.
Last Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China.
A debunked theory, this has got to stop reporters, journalists, just saying something is a debunked theory is not journalism.
That is the mighty CBS 60 Minutes.
Pompeo is trying to revisit a debunked conspiracy theory.
That there has never been debunked.
Of course it hasn't been debunked.
What's he talking about?
Why is he saying it's debunked?
CBS. Where's his evidence that it's debunked just because somebody else said it wasn't the case?
Because it's CBS. And we still, you know, here's what's not resolved.
People keep saying this.
They say there's no bats being sold at that wet market.
And other people say, well, it came from bats being sold at the wet market.
And other people say they don't sell bats at that wet market.
It's a seafood place.
As our president himself says...
Covering up the spread of the coronavirus.
Everybody knows what's going on there.
Everybody knows what's going on.
Did you see the altercation with the Asian American reporter?
That's perpetual.
Which one is this?
Oh, this is a new one.
This was a new reporter.
And she's one of the activists.
The activist reporters that are now showing up to these conferences, men and women are good-looking.
They're young.
They're good-looking.
The guys are kind of hunky.
The girls are really cute.
And of course, if they have anyone who's either of color or Journalists of color.
But if you can get an Asian American to ask a question about China, that's even better.
But this, I think she jumped the shark on this one.
You'll hear why.
Yeah, go ahead, please.
You've said many times that the U.S. is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing.
Yes.
Why does that matter?
Why is this a global competition to you if everyday Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases everyday?
It's like a typical, unimportant, unimpressive question that is only meant to attack the president's demeanor or how he talks about something.
And she's wasting her time with this, but then this happens.
Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world, and maybe that's a question you should ask China.
Don't ask me.
Ask China that question, okay?
When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer.
Yes, behind you, please.
And here's what's really interesting.
She came back after he said, well, why don't you go ask China about that?
Which he's very consistently say, China knows, everybody knows it's China.
But remember, she's Asian American, so she gets to ask this follow-up question.
Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?
I'm telling you, I'm not saying it specifically to anybody.
I'm saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.
That's not a nasty question.
Please go ahead.
Do you really think she expected the president to say, well, clearly you got splitty eyes, you're a gook, what do you want?
I mean, what the hell are these people doing?
Is that really what she thought?
Is that really why she asked?
Why do you say that to me?
Is it because I look Chinese?
This is infantile.
The White House can ban these people.
I don't know why they let them in.
Well, then you're banning a woman of color.
Well, then I would blame Carl at ABC. He's the one who heads up the correspondents that get to go to that thing in the first place.
Of course, he's the guy that's bringing all the activist journalists in.
Yeah.
And then another good-looking journalist from CNN. Why does it matter?
Okay.
Anybody else?
Please, go ahead in the back, please.
I have two questions.
No, it's okay.
But you pointed to me.
I have two questions, Mr.
President.
Next.
Next, please.
You called on me.
I did, and you didn't respond, and now I'm calling on the young lady in the back.
Please.
I just wanted to let my colleague finish, but can I ask you a question?
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
It's unbelievable.
Clearly, Clearly some kind of attitude or something.
And he's like, all right, not you anymore.
And oh, but then we're just like, that's not fair.
You called on me.
It's my turn.
It's my turn to ask a question.
Everyone got a question.
I want a question.
Bunch of kids.
I'm surprised.
What's her name?
The Kaylee.
She also walks out.
I mean, at some point.
Are you just there to be harangued by the media?
These are not legitimate questions.
Well, they're legitimate questions if you're National Enquirer.
Not even there.
These are just questions to harass the president.
And he doesn't have to even show up.
Obama, I think, went over a year without doing a press conference at one point.
I mean, Trump's doing him a favor if they're going to ask actual questions.
But I didn't hear any questions there.
It was just like, why are you showing a chart?
What kind of a question is that?
Well, I'm showing the chart because I think it's interesting and I wanted to show it.
You can answer it yourself while you're showing a chart.
Well, we are in...
In a modern kinetic war, which means there's no bullets, but the kinetics come from money and regulation and maybe viral warfare.
But the Trump administration is now talking to as many chip makers as possible about building fabs in the U.S., which some are, of course, going to do.
Apple is moving a significant amount of their iPhone production from China to India.
It was kind of interesting to see Van Jones.
He had some backpedaling to do.
He was supposed to speak at some conference.
And he tweeted, I guess he found out by himself, that, oh my God, I'm glad this got canceled because I couldn't have ever even done it.
No, I found out it was sponsored by Huawei.
And my takeaway is, that's exactly what's going on.
There's so much...
Because Van Jones wasn't just going to go speak just to be a nice guy.
He's getting paid.
Sure.
All these people are getting...
You don't speak for free, generally.
I mean, some people do, but their speeches are worthless.
Yeah.
But I guess the...
Even a professor in Arkansas, University of Arkansas...
He didn't want his money because he thought...
Wait a minute, he...
Okay.
The way it's usually done, somebody books you to begin with.
You don't just show up to speak.
So somebody calls you up and says, we're doing a conference, blah, blah, blah, blah, we're going to pay you so much money.
In his case, he probably makes pretty good money.
A 10 grand minimum.
Okay, I'll do that.
Because you have to give a speech to this audience.
The next thing you do And I would say all speakers do this.
You check out the event.
So you go to their webpage and see who's going to be there and who the audience is because you've got to adjust your speech to the people.
If it's a bunch of all women, you've got to think about this.
So you go to the thing and you go to the webpage and the webpage clearly tells you who's sponsoring it.
At the start of the show two hours ago, you said, I don't know why people think I'm a misogynist, but really, you've got to be careful if it's a conference with all women.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm not going to deny it.
So you go to, yeah, because, yeah, you do.
I mean, I'm not an idiot.
So you go to the website, you check it out, and on the website, the most important thing you see on there is who's sponsoring the thing, and the Huawei people would be front and center.
So this is no surprise.
He's full of shit.
Well, you walked right into it.
Because this was a conference of the NABJ. Which makes it even worse.
The National Association of Blowjob Artists?
Close.
No, black journalists.
Oh.
And so the National Association of Black Journalists are sponsored by the Chinese.
Just want you to understand that.
And he tweeted, I accepted invite.
This is verbatim.
I accepted invite.
He's already speaking Chinese.
I accepted invite.
I'm on a roll today.
I accepted invite to participate in NABJ webinar.
A webinar.
Warning black community about COVID misinformation.
I said yes without knowing the sponsor.
Glad NABJ canceled.
I would not have participated.
I'll keep raising alarm about pandemic's impact on vulnerable people, though.
And he has a post that says that it's Huawei.
Hold on a second.
So he cancels after they cancel.
Correct.
And then he decides to virtue signal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I am not buying it.
But what he's doing is he's busting the National Association of Black Journalists that they're in bed with the Chinese.
He's busting it because they canceled his money-making event.
Okay.
There you go.
Now, thank you.
It always comes down to the money.
Professor at the University of Arkansas arrested for undisclosed ties to China?
Arkansas, man.
Arkansas.
At least went to Arkansas.
Another one of these Thousand Talents program did not disclose the money, the deals that he had.
They charge and arrest these guys.
Now, this is not some slap on the wrist.
Well, good.
Yeah.
I think so, too.
And I think we should talk about Flynn.
This is Flynn.
Oh yeah, I got Flynn clips.
Well, it's time to do it now.
Because we are in a very interesting situation.
Where really the news wants to focus on death and destruction and corona and scary things.
We have all kinds of documentation coming out that seems and appears to back up pretty much everything that has been said about the Mueller investigation, the Russia collusion investigation, about the spying on the president.
The president is now also tweeting...
Trumpgate.
Is that what it is?
Obamagate, I'm sorry.
Obamagate.
My God, the jingles are showing up.
Obamagate.
This is better.
Hashtag Obamagate.
It's what's trending.
There you go.
That's Jennifer.
That is Jennifer.
It's what's trending.
She has a very distinctive voice.
She's very...
Just from a professional point of view, from listening to, you know, doing voices.
I mean, I don't do voices, but just listening to voices.
She's borderline professional voiceover.
She has a couple of anomalies that, once they're corrected, they're very minor.
She has got the voice that's worth a lot of money.
Whoa, that's quite the endorsement.
I mean, the way I hear it, she would fit perfect in our morning zoo.
It's like, everybody, it's out of a job!
That's right!
Yeah, that's right!
Don't you think she would fit perfectly?
She would do a zoo.
What does she need to be corrected?
Do you want to correct her live?
Do you want to do it live?
Well, there's an inconsistency In her sweet sexiness.
And I can only express it this way.
It's like when you try to do one of your voices, like an imitation of somebody, and you can't maintain it.
You can do a bit.
You can do a little bit.
You can do a little short thing that sounds like Christopher Walken or someone.
But you can't really maintain it.
And she is at that point where she can do it.
But there's a maintenance issue, and so she apparently doesn't...
She just needs to be able to hang in there a little bit longer with the sexiness.
All right.
A maintenance issue.
Okay.
Maintenance.
Maintenance by maintenance, I mean maintaining the...
Oh, maintaining the level of voice.
I got you.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's very interesting...
What I would suggest everybody read, and I put it in the show notes, nashownotes.com.
And yes, I'd like to reiterate, search.nashownotes.com and bingit.io no longer work.
The developer who made the search engine has abandoned it at the beginning of the year.
Multiple people have tried to reach out to him.
The site doesn't even work now.
You can still go to nashownotes.com.
The drawback.
All the show notes.
Yeah, it is a drawback.
All the show notes are there.
Everything is in structured XML data, so if anyone wants to build a new search engine, please feel free.
We'd be happy to resurrectsearch.nashownotes.com.
Anyway, so we're back to...
We're back to the...
Yeah.
I don't know if it exists.
I have three clips.
Okay.
I just want to give a little backgrounder, and then I want your clips.
We really need a Daily Flynn podcast, because this is truly about the deep state, and if we didn't already have a wedge in this country, it's going to get a lot more interesting.
And I would...
Well, I just want to say that Sidney Powell, who is General Michael Flynn, and how this all fits together, hopefully your clips will start to explain it.
Sidney Powell is his new lawyer, and she's the one that has pretty much successfully brought all of this to light.
She has a complete timeline of everything that's taken place, and I will sum it up as follows.
The Obama administration and the Democrat Party with Hillary Clinton were keeping tabs on Trump.
That's why they had this research that was done and paid for by Clinton and a law firm.
And this was all known that they even worked with Russians to get it because they just needed something.
They didn't really think it was going to win.
And just to make sure everyone got in the game and we figured out how to use some phony baloney information from multiple people to go through the FISA, the Foreign Surveillance Act court, to be able to wiretap and listen in, well, not actually get previously recorded conversations from multiple people, one of them being General Flynn.
And just so everyone understands why this is a big deal, we have a Constitution in America.
You can't do that.
We have a Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment.
There's a number of other amendments this would violate.
But after 9-11, we all as a country said, you know, if we had only known more about these terrorists, then we could have caught them and all these people wouldn't have died.
So the Patriot Act, which was written a long time before that, but it showed up, and in that there was a new deal.
You could listen in on American citizens, which is unconstitutional at the heart, But we made a special law that you could do that if you got a warrant from a secret court.
Secret!
But you could trust it.
Don't worry.
It's secret.
Because it will be of the highest bar.
It will be so difficult to get a warrant to spy on an American citizen.
I mean, we might as well not even have the court at all.
And, of course, you have to be very truthful and confident in the evidence you show to that court to obtain this warrant.
None of that happened in this case, and spying was done.
Here's where it all went wrong, in my opinion.
Trump won.
The Obama administration and all the people who were involved with this, everyone who had quote-unquote unmasked a Flynn call with the Russian ambassador, they were in on it, including Joe Biden, and that's documented, and they had a discussion on it on January 5th, just right before the transition, And Obama said, oh man, we've got to do it by the book.
But everyone sat in that room and they knew that if they handed over all of the information they have, which you're supposed to do from one president to the next in the transition, one administration to the next, If they truly were honest and gave it all, then Trump would know immediately he had been spied on and who had been doing it.
So they suppressed that and they doubled down trying to implicate Trump in a Russian spying scheme with Flynn, kind of the point of the spear, which served two purposes.
One, we had to get Flynn out of there because Flynn would be the one to investigate and figure it out.
And two, we needed a fall guy to really stick the knife into Trump.
And that's now starting to unravel because they didn't get Trump out in time.
They weren't able to impeach him.
And I presume the president's just been sitting on this and now it's time to release it.
And I think every day we'll get a new piece.
And this latest piece that we've received is a list of 39 people.
39 or 29?
It's a lot.
Around 30 people who all requested unmasking of these phone calls.
And if you want, I have a two-minute clip of NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers explaining how that works.
It's an older clip because he's the guy...
Yeah, why don't you play that and then I'll play these three.
This is about Biden mostly, but it also brings in Trump and Trump...
It'll be the last clip, and Trump previews what's coming, or predicts.
Right.
Anyway, go on.
So here is how the process works of someone obtaining the call that they're interested in, of an American citizen who would be redacted, and now we have to know who that person is so we can understand what the call is about.
So with respect to unmasking...
The following criteria is applied.
First, for the National Security Agency, we define in writing who has the authority to unmask a U.S. person identity.
That is 20 individuals in 12 different positions.
I am one of the 20 in one of those 12 positions, the director.
Secondly, we outline in writing what are the criteria that will be applied to a request to unmask.
In a report, and again, part of our process under 702 to protect the identity of U.S. persons as part of our minimization procedures, when we think we need to reference a U.S. person in a report, we will not use a name.
We will not use an identity.
We say U.S. person 1, U.S. person 2, U.S. person 3.
That report is then promulgated.
Some of the recipients of that report will sometimes come back to us and say, I'm trying to understand what I am reading.
Could you help me understand who is person one or who is person two, etc.?
We apply two criteria in response to their request.
Number one, you must make the request in writing.
Number two, the request must be made on the basis of your official duties.
Not the fact that you just find this report really interesting and you're just curious.
It has to tangibly tie to your job.
And then finally, I said to you, but there's a third criterion, and that is the basis of the request must be that you need this identity to understand the intelligence you're reading.
We apply those three criteria, we do it in writing, and one of those 20 individuals then agrees or disagrees.
And if we unmask, we go back to that entity who requested it, not every individual who received the report, but that one entity who asked for us.
We then provide them the U.S. identity, and we also remind them the classification of this report and the sensitivity of that identity remains in place.
By revealing this U.S. person to you, we are doing it to help you understand the intelligence, not so that you can use that knowledge indiscriminately.
It must remain appropriately protected.
And...
So, 29 people got to see this.
Yeah, and even though you notice Roger says there's 20 people qualified to ask.
Yeah, I'm a little unclear whether that means...
I thought it was 20 people can approve someone who can look at it, but it's a little unclear to me.
What is interesting, though, is the response from the New York Times.
And the New York Times, they cannot deny the paperwork that is coming out over this.
Their headline is, Trump White House rewrites history, this time about Flynn.
And their article shows a different picture by omission.
So they're leaving a lot of things out and background, and it's quite sad to see them.
I think they're in trouble because not only...
Can not just anybody go looking at these names, but to leak that name to the press, which happened repeatedly, and I think there's some documentary evidence of that, that's a jailable offense.
I think somebody's going to get in trouble.
These guys are...
Well, sadly, I have thoughts on who.
Yeah, sadly, I have thoughts on who.
But let's listen to your joke clips, and let's get into the...
see how this will affect our future.
There was a kind of a follow-up, kind of a cascade effect from Joe Biden going on Good Morning America.
And so just before the list comes out, Joe goes on.
This is kind of edited down, but this is Biden on, it says CMA, but it's GMA contradiction.
Here we go.
I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, number one.
Number two, I thought you asked me whether or not I had it.
No, she killed that clip.
I'm sorry.
That's the clip.
I have to play that clip later.
Play clips from GMA1. Sorry.
I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, number one.
Number two, this is all about diversion.
This is a game this guy plays all the time.
The country is in crisis.
We're in an economic crisis, a health crisis.
You were reported to be at a January 5th, 2017 meeting where you and the president were briefed on the FBI's plan to question Michael Flynn over those conversations he had with the Russian ambassador Kislyak.
I thought you asked me whether or not I had anything to do with him being prosecuted.
I'm sorry.
I was aware that they asked for an investigation.
But that's all I know about it.
I saw this and I have an observation.
Well, wait.
Okay, well, give me your observation first, but then I have an interesting point to make.
My observation is, when this question was being asked, and the follow-up, Joe had an IFB, And he was wiggling it in his ear, and he cocks his head to the left, and I guarantee you someone was saying, No, Joe, you've got to answer it this way.
That's not the right way to answer it.
This is what you've got to say.
And you can see his face tilt again in recognition, and then he comes back with the, Oh, no, no, I was talking about this.
He was being souffled.
Well, now that you bring that up, I would say you're probably right because he was asked one question.
He says, I thought you were talking about prosecuting, which was the second part.
When you take the first part from this earlier part of the conversation and then you put the second part, which is what I have here in this contradiction clip, when you take those two together, this is what you really got.
He never said anything or even thought anything about your question being about prosecution.
Listen to this clip.
I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, number one.
Number two, I thought you asked me whether or not I had anything to do with him being prosecuted.
There it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, but he switched midstream.
I'm telling you, he switched.
Yeah, you're probably right, because he's so dumb that he never thought that he's already made the mistake.
No, I thought you said something else.
You said you wanted orange juice.
I didn't know you said milk.
Tina and I were watching last night, and I said, did you see that?
And I rolled it back, and she saw it too.
I said, look, he's getting instructions.
You know, the holding your left hand, the IFB is the intercom, and depending on how it's set up, it could have been Joe's people talking to him, it could be the TV network talking to him, it could be just the...
Same thing.
Bingo.
Exactly.
And you've seen it before, where the newsreader goes, hold on, hold on, I'm getting important information.
One moment.
So he makes one of those moves with his hand, he's cocking his head, and he's getting information.
He's being told what to say.
This is going to be great.
I hope there's a debate with Trump.
But sadly, I think something else is going to happen.
Well...
Are you ready for it?
What?
Someone has to go down for this spying.
And Biden's name turns up on the list.
And he's lying here, clearly, because he knew all about it.
He heard the call.
Well, but hold on.
Why is Biden being highlighted besides it being Joe?
I think it's time to finally take him down so Hillary can come in.
Well, I'm not going to...
Well, of course...
I still have never pulled my Hillary prediction, so I'm going to stick with it.
But let's go on with this theory of yours in mind.
And this is Ron Paul.
It says Ron Paul, but it's not Rand Paul.
And he's talking about the Biden unmasking questions.
To have Rick Grinnell address the acting intelligence official.
Senator, where does that stand?
Is Rick Grinnell going to testify to your committee?
Have you got confirmation of that?
No, but I did send a letter last evening to the Director of National Intelligence, Rick Cornell, and asked him if he would declassify this.
And we got this information today and released it.
And I think this is astonishing that Vice President Biden and really all of President Obama's inner circle individually were requesting the unmasking of a political opponent.
And you know, you remember there was a whole to-do about trying to impeach a president saying they were using the power of government to go after a political opponent.
This is a smoking gun if there ever was one, that Vice President Biden was using the power of government, abusing that power to go after a political opponent.
Essentially, unmasking someone is the equivalent of illegally wiretapping them.
The government had permission to listen to the Russian ambassador, but to protect Americans, we masked their identity.
But you got the whole President Obama's inner circle clambering around, listening to the private conversation, I think illegally, and I think with ill-begotten motives.
Do you know, Senator, whether these unmasking requests then, in each and all of these cases, occurred after the election?
I mean, obviously the assessment was, prior to the election, that Hillary Clinton was going to win.
Obviously that didn't happen.
So did a lot of this then transpire after the election itself?
The document that we got listed all the names and listed the date that they did the unmasking.
So the Vice President unmasked General Flynn to listen to his conversation, which I think is reprehensible, but so did James Comey, so did James Clapper, so did John Brennan, so did Samantha Powers, and so did President Obama's Chief of Staff, and a dozen other people.
So think about this.
It's illegal to listen to people's private conversations.
You can listen to, if you have a national security matter, a foreigner.
But it's thus the foreigner saying, we're going to blow up the Capitol and will you help me?
You don't get to listen to the other person's conversation if they're just talking.
He never directly answers the question, but the Kislyak conversation took place after the election.
There's no other reason to do it.
But now we have the president...
Chiming in on this, and he talks about it at that meeting of the two governors, and here he is on unmasking, and he puts a little predictive thing at the end here, which makes you wonder what's coming next.
Comment on the release of those names.
Well, the unmasking is a massive thing.
I just got a list.
Who can believe a thing like this?
And I watched...
Biden, yesterday on Good Morning America, being interviewed by one of your colleagues, George Stephanopoulos, and he said he knew nothing about anything.
He has no idea.
He knows nothing about anything.
Nothing at all.
And then it gets released today that he was a big unmasker.
So how do you know nothing if you're one of the unmaskers?
It's one of the very big stories, and I suspect you'll have...
If it's possible, even bigger stories coming out.
Yeah, he's been holding on to this.
I think he's going to hold on Obama until after the election, because he wants Obama down.
I know he does, because this is Trump.
And that White House press correspondence dinner, that's when Obama dressed him down They publicly ridiculed him.
That's called dressing him down, is it not?
Oh, I thought it had something to do with transsexuals.
Sorry.
You are on a roll today.
Hate for women, confused about transsexuals.
I don't know what to do with you, man.
I don't know what to do with you, man.
I'm telling you.
I love the smoking hot ladies.
All kinds of issues with you today.
So where we're at now is Bill Barr, the department, the attorney general, said, hey, To the judge, I think, in Washington, D.C. We're dropping all charges against Flynn.
Clearly, he was railroaded.
We have evidence.
We have handwritten evidence of what the FBI agents were doing.
You know some of the names, like Strzok.
I mean, come on.
It's very clear.
And the judge...
He said, no, man, I don't know about that.
I think we should bring in another.
We need to have some voices chime in here.
So, one, he's got a retired judge who's going to come in and tell everybody Flynn should be drawn and quartered.
And at the same time...
This doesn't happen often, but I lost my train of thought.
The whole point was...
Oh, no, I remember.
The 2,000 names.
They got the 2,000 name list.
The lawyers who were always writing everything.
Prosecutors.
The same old lawyers?
Yeah.
2,000 attorneys say Trump sucks.
Yes, that's exactly what they did again.
They sent out a message to the email list, and you have the list.
Well, you had the list.
You have all the names.
There's a list.
I have it, yeah.
If you go back and look at the story...
No, I have the list because I bailed a couple of these guys to see if they were legit or alive, and they were, and they're all part of a Trump-hating crowd.
Hold on.
Let's do this.
Let's look at how many stories we've had about the 2,000 prosecutors.
So February 17th.
Bill Barr resignation.
More than 2,000 former prosecutors.
Okay?
Let's see who else we have.
That's all February.
Let's go back a little bit further.
Because this has been used over and over again, hasn't it?
Yeah, but the media loves it.
Yeah, so it was those guys who wanted Barr to resign.
There was another example, though.
Oh, they wanted all kinds of stuff.
I don't know how you search for it.
2,000 prosecutors is the search I'm doing, and it's popping up everywhere.
But I have to go back further.
Wait, I can do tools.
Let's do last year.
Let's see.
Past year.
No, that's past year.
Anyway, it's the same group, and they're like, oh, hey, I got an email from the group.
What are we doing?
Sign it.
Okay.
So that's where we're at, and that's going to be very interesting to see what happens.
But someone's got to go down, and it would be great if it was Comey.
It would be great if they closed the FBI. But Brennan, I think Brennan could be in trouble.
But Brennan, according to everybody, is in trouble, but he's not in trouble.
And I'd like to know if anybody can confirm that his security clearance was pulled.
I've never heard that it was confirmed.
I don't know.
You're talking new stories from three years ago.
Okay.
All right.
Now, did you have more on the thing?
No, that's all I got.
I just got the Biden stuff, and I think you're probably right.
This may be the one.
It may not be the one, because you still have the same old John Coopers out there, these guys who are...
You know, old hacks from the Democrat Party, and they're the ones who pushed Obama past Sanders because they're not putting up with, you know, losing all that banking background, all that bankers money, and the bankers all said, and the Democrats are more beholden to the bankers than the Republicans are, from what I can tell.
Seems so.
Oops, hold on.
One, two, three, four, five.
Five.
Oh, my God.
Is that a Zephyr?
No, that's the coastal coming down from Seattle.
But the coastal's always low.
But I thought it was six last time.
Now it's five?
Now it's five.
It's normally 12.
That thing is in bad shape.
You know what that means?
What?
Negative interest rates.
It probably has something to do with these three states because this effort goes to Chicago and this comes from Seattle and goes down to Los Angeles.
And these states are all Democrats and, oh, God, you know, don't get on a train.
Yeah.
Anyway, where was I? I was going to switch gears.
If we're done with Flynn, I want to do a quick thing on Bill Gates and then thank some more people.
Okay.
On show number 780 of this No Agenda Show Best Podcast in the Universe from December 10th, 2015, this is what we discovered.
And Trump is saying, yeah, Bill Gates knows what's going on.
Oh, man.
Apparently, at the time, Trump was all over Bill Gates.
And we have to do something.
We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening.
Apparently he was all in on Bill Gates.
I don't think so, so much anymore.
And here is the obligatory once-a-show clip of Bill Gates telling us what's going to happen, what needs to happen, and it's going to be an RNA vaccine.
And sure, people will die, but it's the only way to go.
There's an approach called the RNA vaccine that people like Moderna, CureVac, and others are using.
By the way, these are the companies that either he personally, but certainly the Gates Foundation has put money into.
Moderna would be the number one.
That's why he mentions it.
That in 2015 we'd identified that as very promising for pandemics and for other applications as well.
And so if everything goes perfectly with the RNA approach, we could actually beat the 18 months.
We don't want to create unrealistic expectations.
The efficacy of vaccines in older people is always a huge challenge.
It turns out the flu vaccine isn't that effective in elderly people.
Most of the benefit comes from younger people not spreading it because they're vaccinated.
This is an interesting little tidbit, and I just kind of like highlighting that since we know that the previous flu shot, the 2017-2018, increased the likelihood of the person who received the shot of developing increased the likelihood of the person who received the shot of developing a respiratory infection
If you've got old people in nursing homes who I'm sure are pretty much told you're getting this vaccine, even Bill Gates knows they're not very effective on older people because of the state of their immune system.
Also, in order to make it effective, they've got to jack it up.
I think that's what you use the adjuvants for, the hamburger helper of vaccines.
And that could make that viral infection even worse, possibly.
And that benefits on a community basis, the elderly.
Here, we clearly need a vaccine that works in the upper age range because they're most at risk of that.
And doing that so that you amp it up so it works in older people and yet you don't have side effects.
You know, if we have, you know, one in 10,000 Side effects, that's way more, 700,000 people who will suffer from that.
So really understanding the safety at gigantic scale across all age ranges, you know, pregnant, male, female, undernourished, existing comorbidities.
It's very, very hard.
And that actual decision of, OK, let's go and give this vaccine to the entire world.
Governments will have to be involved because there will be some risk and indemnification needed before that can be decided on.
here's the question you With all this Moderna and all this work on the RNA vaccine, which is in no means a vaccine in the traditional sense, because it's changing RNA versus building immunity, By introducing a toned down and or dead version of the virus.
Attenuated.
Well, here's my question.
With all this focus from Bill Gates, clearly on this RNA vaccine, what if it doesn't work?
Are we in parallel doing the old growing it in an egg thing?
I don't hear anyone talking about it.
I mean, we are not...
Coronavirus apparently does not...
That's what Fauci said himself in one of these little ditties.
There may never be a vaccine for coronavirus.
It's like AIDS. It's one of those things.
Well, like AIDS, like MERS, like SARS, like all these things, like Ebola.
Yes, all these things.
Well, Ebola, they do have something.
But it changes just enough that it can't really, a vaccine is ineffective.
And what they mean, generally speaking, by it changes enough, not so much with AIDS, but with these coronaviruses, that they degenerate.
And the next thing you know, they're not affected.
They don't really have the impact anymore.
Laura Ingram mentioned it.
The French guy who talks about this, the guy who has the Nobel Prize in medicine, that guy who thinks he's nuts because he goes against the grain, who says it's bullcrap.
This thing isn't going to last more than a year because it's going to just turn into dust.
You can't reproduce and live.
You're not on the right program today, man.
What are you talking about?
And that is what Trump thinks, too.
Yeah.
So this whole thing is that's why they're in such a rush to get a vaccine out so they can at least have something to sell.
Right.
Well, and let's get back to the hydroxychloroquine.
Let's play one last clip from Laura.
This is Ingram on OCQ. Now I told you about seven weeks ago that hydroxychloroquine was likely saving lives.
And now another study confirms that conclusion.
And it was conducted by NYU's Grossman School of Medicine, where researchers looked at 932 COVID patients who were on hydroxychloroquine along with zinc and azithromycin.
They concluded that the triple combo that, well with that, they were 44% less likely to die from the coronavirus.
Good news.
Take that, FDA. Yeah, I like the practical results more than just these damn studies that are rigged and you've got certain age groups.
Whether it's positive or negative, I like hearing this from Texas.
What happened to this nursing home was one of the first big tests of its kind in Texas.
I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not an acceptable risk.
A third of patients said this place in Galveston County got the coronavirus.
So Dr.
Robin Armstrong used hydroxychloroquine pills to treat 39 of them.
Most of the patients have done well.
You said most of the patients have done well.
Somebody listening to this might say, well, hey, he qualified it with most.
Have there been some who have not done well with it?
Well, I would say all the patients have done well.
On Sunday, these patients finished their five days of treatment, and Dr.
Armstrong said no one experienced any side effects.
But this 65-year-old anti-malarial drug has suddenly become controversial.
President Trump said it was promising for COVID-19 patients.
Armstrong admits he supports the president.
But Democrats correctly caution that this drug remains unproven for the coronavirus.
Well, let's say that the president didn't bring this drug up.
Would we be having this conversation now, I wonder?
Sir, that is about the best question I've had so far, and I don't think so.
I don't think this would even be a conversation, honestly.
No, I think the news reporting would be, hopeful results, good news, seniors saved.
Elders, it's not a death sentence.
I mean, all of this could have, no, but no.
And when all is said and done, and ten years from now, when we look back, we're going to see that there was a lot of stuff that could have been done, that the actual hate of the president, not even the president, the hate of a man, a man with orange hair, resulted in death.
Yeah, these Democrats are murderers.
Democrats, Democrats.
They're idiots.
It's the media.
By the way, there's many Republicans that hate Trump, too.
But this is political.
Everything you keep hearing about hydroxychloroquine is totally political.
The Democrats, doctors, and the rest of them, oh, no, it's no good.
And the Republicans, yeah, it's good.
It works.
We've done it.
I mean, come on.
When is this going to end?
It's going to end in the election in November.
I'm going to show myself by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
Jay, we've got a few people to thank for sure.
Starting with James Niemeyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, $124.20.
And he says he found a show on Snitcher.
What is Snitcher?
Isn't that Stitcher?
Oh, Stitcher.
I don't like Stitcher.
I never used it.
Stitcher makes a copy of our show and then they have different formats and quality and they put an ad in front of it.
If you really want people ripping us off, then you should use that.
Well, we have an open source policy.
Did you just get it some other way?
Nestor Molina, and he came in with $124.20.
Highly appreciated.
Nestor Molina in Walker, Michigan.
He...
He's at $100.
Then we have, sorry, Christopher Revolt.
I wonder if it's Revolt or Revolt.
I would just say Revolt.
I'm Mr.
Revolt.
WHCZ100, Chris Revolt with you, everybody.
It's a great name.
I love it.
That would be a good, yeah, jock name.
Jock name.
Jock name.
Christina Thomas in Drums, Pennsylvania, 100.
Sir...
How now, Brown Cow, in Arlington, Virginia, 85.
One of our Arlington fans.
We love those guys.
Forrest Tucker in Eagle River, Arkansas.
No, wait, no, no, Alaska.
Alaska, I'm sorry.
Oh, that's Alaska, yeah.
I'm sorry.
He even says it.
He even helps us with a little prompt there.
AR is Arkansas dummies, he writes.
You know how you can remember?
AR, AR-15.
It's, you know, the South, Arkansas, AK. It's almost near Russia.
AR-16.
Alaska's near Russia, so it's AK-47.
There you go.
Wow.
That works.
Yeah, it does.
Cody Wilson works, too.
Enough so that he can send us $66 from Rosanna, Victoria, Australia.
And he needs to call out Pippa McNamara as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
And Colin Wilson as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Meanwhile, Taro Reese in Urbana, Illinois, 6533.
David Forbes in Shakopee, Minnesota, 6006.
Sir, not appearing on this podcast in Richland, Washington.
5678.
Jace Hanline.
Hanline.
I don't know.
Maybe Hanlon.
Hanlon.
Hanlon would be good.
I'd use Hanlon.
5588.
Norcross, Georgia.
David Russell in Aurora, Colorado.
5510.
And he's going to be a knight.
Yay!
Sir, he's got the accounting and he's on the list.
Sir Buck of 2112 in Charleston, beautiful city, 55 bucks.
And he's got a- Charleston, South Carolina.
Yeah, he's got a- He says he wants to wish his smoking hot wife, Dame Jennifer, we know her, from Animated No Agenda and the voice that she's working on.
A happy birthday weekend.
That should be fun.
Yes.
He says that Jennifer's the best wife in the world, and you guys stay away from her.
I'm the luckiest man in the world.
I tell her all the time that, but she doesn't believe me.
He's like, hey, what's up with these no-agenda people around you all the time?
I'm not liking that so much.
Gee, the man security guy comes in at $51.11.
Has missed a show since Adam on Rogan.
Ah.
Right on.
That's six.
That's six.
He says that no agenda is exactly the podcast he needed to add to his rotation.
Oh, nice.
There you go.
I wonder how many podcasts he listens to.
He said he also hit his dad in the mouth not shortly after and started listening.
He started listening now, too?
Oh, man.
This Rogan appearance has got us seven new people.
At least.
Yeah.
Skylar Sanders in Oakland, California.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
He asked for a de-douching.
We missed it.
You've been de-douched.
D-Man, the security guy.
Well, some business partners are helping out.
Skylar Sanders in Oakland, California, 5111, says that he started listening about a month and a half ago at the behest of one of his business partners.
Cool.
Also a show producer.
So he will be called out for a birthday today.
For his wife, who is also a registered nurse.
Very good.
He says he's a business owner in Oakland with inside information leading to a boiling scandal by city officials that will be partially precedent for Elon Musk Tesla's lawsuit against Alameda County.
Oh?
He should probably have a lunch with him.
I'll reach out to you on your special note.
Yeah.
We do have one Elon Musk clip.
They're talking about this.
Thomas Jatenin in Vinata.
There's a lot of double A's in this note.
$50.33.
Takes me to knighthood.
All right.
TJ, you got it.
TJ. And the following people are $50 donors, name and location, starting with Robert Kerback.
In Essexville, Michigan.
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Or, as some people would pronounce it, Illinois.
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A lot of booze makers in that area.
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She's actually a baroness in Miami, Florida.
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Dvorak.org slash N-A It's your birthday, birthday!
And we've got a couple of birthdays to celebrate.
Today is the 14th of May, 2020.
Joseph Lizzle says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Dame Adrienne, and his daughter, Violet.
And that will be for...
Well, that was yesterday, so we're one day late.
Tim W. says happy birthday to his daughter, Anna.
She turns 16.
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Happy birthday to his dementia bee mother, Carol, who turns 78 today.
And she still reads the newspaper without her glasses.
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Happy birthday to, you guessed it, his smoking hot wife, Dame Jennifer.
And Skylar Sanders says happy birthday to his wife.
We say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
Happy birthday, yeah!
Woo!
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Wow.
Four nights and a dame.
Sounds like the beginning of a song.
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Sorry, I tripped over the wire.
I think you need this.
Yes, and I gotta pick mine up now.
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And remember, we'll be back on Sunday, dvorak.org slash NA. Let's see if we had anything else interesting.
I got a couple of things, but I promised to do the Tesla story.
So here's an Elon Musk update from Democracy Now!
Okay.
In Northern California, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has restarted work at Tesla's huge electric vehicle factory in Fremont, daring government officials to arrest him for violating a coronavirus lockdown.
On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted, California should let Tesla and Elon Musk open the plant now.
It can be done fast and safely, the president tweeted.
Elon Musk tweeted back, thank you.
Musk has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the coronavirus and called government-imposed quarantines fascist.
Los Angeles County's top public health officials said Tuesday, stay-at-home orders will be extended for the next three months.
At least 1,300 deaths in L.A. have been linked to COVID-19.
California State University's president Tuesday announced plans to cancel most in-person classes during the fall semester.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're good.
They can't do it.
It's not good.
Quick trip around the world.
I have Corona in Brazil and Africa, which is an interesting little report.
Not so in Brazil, which is emerging as a serious epicenter.
Even though President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters still cheer him on, he's provoked outrage as a COVID denier who still won't social distance.
And this weekend he went for a provocative spin on a jet ski.
As the number of coronavirus deaths past 10,000, local authorities put a COVID message on Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer statue.
Have a heart.
Wear a mask.
Man, they topped us.
Well, they're definitely, I mean, they have like 10,000 dead, and we have 80 pushing 90,000.
And we shut down the country, and Brazil didn't, and our population is 350, theirs is 250.
So their number should be higher.
I mean, it looks like an experiment.
Because Bolsonaro is a right-winger, supposedly.
He's a business-oriented guy.
The left press down there hates him.
They can just basically call him a fascist.
And so you've got the same kind of politics going on with Brazil.
You know what I want?
But their numbers aren't really being...
I don't think their numbers are high enough to be...
No, they're not.
No, they're not.
But, you know, just throw in surge and dead and whatever.
So, you have to see the statue with that big sign.
I'd love to see the statue.
I like to see it in person.
That's a beautiful statue.
What I think we should do here in America is we should put a big mask on the Statue of Liberty.
Yes, I think that's exactly what I was thinking.
Wear a mask.
Let's go to Africa.
In Africa and Southeast Asia, the virus does appear to be spreading more slowly.
Maybe because the population tends, on average, to be younger.
Wow, that's all you got?
You don't have anything about anti-malarials?
Okay.
But no one is sure.
And it's quite possible that the worst is yet to come.
Oh, a surge.
It's quite possible.
Worse is yet to come.
They can't stand it.
Boris Johnson goofed up during Prime Minister's question time.
Thank you, Mr.
Speaker, and I thank the Prime Minister for his update on progress of testing and tracing this invisible killer.
But can you confirm for the people of West Oxfordshire that the new systems that we are putting in place will in the fullest of time be able to detect local flare ups?
Indeed, Mr. Speaker, the intention is that the covid alert system in time will be sufficiently sensitive and flexible as to detect local flare ups.
So that, for instance, if a covid is detected in the water supply of a certain town or then steps can be taken on.
So people immediately went, what?
Correct.
Coronavirus can be in the water supply?
Please.
Well, what he meant, of course, he meant in the sewage system.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, okay.
Well, maybe that's not saying much for the water supply in England.
No kidding.
I have one last clip.
And this is just a wacky clip that the mainstream won't pick up on and the Bernie bros won't pick up on.
But Bernie, along with Ilhan Omar, these two communists have decided that they think that all of...
This is why the banks don't want this guy, by the way.
He's never going to be a candidate.
You should realize this.
If you listen to this insanity...
Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Minnesota Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar have joined more than 300 lawmakers around the world calling for the cancellation of Corne...
You had to start it over.
But I just wanted to mention, what 300 lawmakers?
She says 300 lawmakers around the world.
This includes like the communists in Venezuela and the socialists here and the socialists there.
These 300 lawmakers around the world aren't anyone in their right mind.
But go on, now play it again.
Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Minnesota Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar have joined more than 300 lawmakers around the world calling for the cancellation of poor nations' debts as they struggle with the COVID-19 crisis.
This comes as the United Nations warns as many as a half a billion people could fall into poverty due to the pandemic.
In a letter to the leadership of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Tuesday, Senator Sanders writes, quote, We cannot allow these countries to be deprived of the resources they need to purchase food, medicine, protective gear, and medical equipment, Sanders said.
Cancel everybody else's debt except ours.
Yeah, cancel all the debts around the world, which is you've got yourself in this situation and you want to just have it canceled.
You hope that it gets canceled.
He also wants to cancel all student loan debt.
He just wants to cancel everything.
I don't know if he understands Omar and the rest of them, but even though how the system works, we're not a socialist society.
We're not China.
We're a capitalist country.
It's just bullshit.
I mean, I find it to be offensive.
It's also short-sighted.
Look at what President Trump is saying.
His idea, I like.
His idea is, let's get negative interest rates, and then ultimately, when you take out a loan for school, you'll get paid for it.
It's real simple.
I don't understand why people don't understand.
This is great.
I can't wait for negative interest rates.
You're waiting for it all my life, he says.
Everybody's been waiting for that.
Well, CNN is...
And this will be my last clip.
CNN, just like when the Malaysian airliner was lost...
They went on for over a year every single day, and they had items and special shows.
So CNN is doing what they do best.
They've got to do their special shows.
So let's check out a promo for one of them.
Taking on coronavirus in hard-hit communities of color.
Join Don Lemon and Van Jones with Dr.
Regina Benjamin and Robert Smith.
Plus messages of hope from Mario Lopez, Samuel L. Jackson and more.
The Color of COVID. Live tomorrow at 10 on CNN. The Color of COVID. Did he say inspiring messages?
Hopeful messages.
Is there even one black person who watches CNN? Plus messages of hope from Mario Lopez.
Plus messages of hope from podcasters you love from around the world.
Yeah, there's that.
And then we have this little ditty, just as fun.
Join Anderson Cooper and Dr.
Sanjay Gupta with former Acting CDC Director Richard Besser, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and activist Greta Thunberg for Coronavirus Laps and Fears, live Thursday at 8.
I'm glad you got that.
I can't wait.
It's tonight.
Greta Thunberg, what the hell does she have to do with coronavirus?
Well, she had it.
So what?
So you're an expert because you caught a cold, so now you're a doctor?
Oh, and Van Jones is an expert on coronavirus?
Ugh.
Come on, man.
You've got to enjoy the little things.
This is fun.
You know it's going to be a turd.
It's really fun, man.
Come on.
Well, I've got one then.
Let's listen to some other...
Another idiocy.
This is Rick Bright.
He's going to testify in front of Congress.
Hold on, he's a virologist, but somehow he's magically become an epidemiologist.
Tomorrow on Capitol Hill, Rick Bright, the administration's former top vaccine researcher who is pushed out of his position, will testify that if the response is not ramped up, 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history.
Yes!
It'll be a cold and lonely Christmas without you.
I don't believe any of it anymore.
I really don't.
It's quite the BS. I don't believe any of it anymore.
It's tiresome.
It is a little tiresome.
It's amazing we can put a show together.
I mean, I have to struggle.
Well, that's a very good point, because I know that we both were digging deep and hard for material for today.
If you don't want to bore people, you've got to come up with new stuff, and here you go.
C-SPAN is still a beautiful thing.
Yeah, good place to get some stuff from them.
Coming up, if you want to hear the full Nick the Rat interview with John McAfee, that'll be on NoAgendaStream.com.
I like how these guys think!
Very smart here at No Agenda Stream.
And we have a couple of end-of-show mixes.
We've got, oh, Rolando Gonzalez, which I promised to play from the last show.
We've got Jason Lewis and Jesse Coy Nelson.
And we would love to see you back with us again to produce another episode of the Best Podcast in the Universe on Sunday.
Until then, I'm coming to you from the Opportunity Zone 33 here in Austin, Texas, FEMA Region No.
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In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley...
Uh, we're all wondering, whatever happened to hands up, don't shoot?
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
Remember us at thevorak.org slash NA. Until then, adios, mofos and such.
You know the nursery rhyme that goes, hickory, tickory, doc.
The mouse ran up the trump.
So the Trump death clock is a billboard that hangs over Times Square, and what it shows is an estimate of the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths that resulted from the president and his team's failed response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Guess who's here on Sesame Street today?
Trump's death clock.
And the mouse is right over there.
Thanks to Dr.
Fauci and leading epidemiologists, we now know that had the mitigation guidelines been put into effect just one week earlier, on March 9th instead of March 16th, 60% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths would have been prevented.
Ha! Okie dokie!
I'm ready to run up the Trump death clock.
And the clock is ready to strike one.
The Trump death clock stands at 46,485 and growing.
All right!
The Trump death clock stands at 46,485 and growing.
You've got a lot of nerve to drive without a mask.
COVID travels 60, maybe 30.
And you've got a lot of nerve to sit home and just podcast.
You don't have to leave home and drive in air that's dirty.
You say infections are down.
You know it's not like that.
The news says we're gonna die.
their models showing you laugh at me cause I drive alone wearing a mask Bye.
COVID goes through glass.
Don't you know it?
You see me on the street.
You always act surprised.
You say, how are you?
Nice mask, but you don't mean it.
This should never have happened.
This should never have happened.
This virus should not have spread all over the world.
They allow this to go into our country.
This should never have happened.
More than a dozen children in the New York City area have ended up in intensive care with severe symptoms possibly linked to coronavirus.
The finding has not been peer reviewed.
The rate of infection is rising.
They'll have a very fast heart rate, they'll have a high fever, and if their heart rate still stays very high, they will oftentimes come to the ICU for extra support.
strain of the virus.
They couldn't put out the fire.
The rate of infection is rising.
Like bringing a camera into focus.
These techniques give us a far clearer picture that help us to inform our actions going forward.
Thank you very much.
A new study finds the novel coronavirus that emerged in China mutated in Europe in February to become more contagious, speeding it spread around the globe.
The study draws sweeping conclusions about the virus that might not hold up to further scrutiny.
What's that all about?
Absolute fear over getting sick.
The rate of infection is rising.
Again, I encourage all businesses that are allowed to open to do so only if they fucking follow the guidelines to keep what you do safe.
The penalty for not wearing masks is that worry we're not hitting the ends.
I actually am scared.
I lose sleep over all of this.
The rate of infection is rising.
It is a joke.
It is unconscionable.
As a scientist, what leads you to that conclusion?
It is a joke.
It is unconscionable.
The rate of infection is rising.
The best podcast in the universe.
Adios, mofo.
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