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July 12, 2020 - No Agenda
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We need cohesion!
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Sunday, July 12th, 2020.
This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1259.
This is No Agenda.
Fully muzzled and broadcasting live from the mouth of the rat in the number one Rona hotspot in the nation.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, we just missed an eight-car Zephyr right on time, and we're still trying to figure out what Joe Biden actually says.
I'm John C. DeVore.
It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning.
Yay!
Well, in the morning to you, John.
In the morning to you.
And all in the morning, I'll show up to see boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs of the water, all the dames and knights out there.
Yeah, I'm happy to hear that we're still stable at an eight-car Zephyr.
This is good news.
We do like hearing this.
That's excellent.
And I am in Florida.
What?
I'm in Florida.
And by the way, that was spelled W-U-T. What?
Very good.
What?
Yes, I'm in Florida.
Okay, good.
I know why.
It's Tina's birthday.
Yesterday was Tina's birthday.
You're absolutely right.
Friends and family.
Well, no.
Well, friends and family were supposed to come to us, but no one came.
So I decided I would surprise her, and we hopped on the flight.
Friday morning, and flew down here, and so she is able to see at least one of her friends for her birthday.
But yeah, no one wanted to fly.
Also, some of her family work in the medical field, so they have an actual legitimate reason to not necessarily want to come to Texas.
So we decided, and by the way...
Texas is scaring people off.
Flying and traveling, the best deals ever right now.
Yeah, there's some $39 deals out here.
You get $39 deals?
The airport is fantastic.
It's like flying private, almost.
It is!
Well, of course, Southwest is pretty much the only airline that you can kind of rely on right now, I guess.
And, you know, they have no direct flights to Florida now, so we had to go to Dallas and then from Dallas to Florida.
But there was a max 40 people on each flight, so it was fantastic.
Yeah, of course, and this is a consistent theme, no service.
There's no service anywhere.
So we're in a hotel.
No peanuts?
No.
No peanuts.
We're in a hotel.
And this is the worst.
It's so bad.
There's not a single glass.
The room has, you know, just plastic cups.
There's nothing in the minibar.
You go down, you have breakfast.
They bring it out in styrofoam trays.
You've got disposable cutlery.
Those will be living in Russia.
Room service comes in a brown paper bag.
It's...
It's really, really disappointing how the service sector has to conduct itself just to have some people at all.
Everywhere masks are 100% mandatory, including, and this is crazy, the gym.
You don't really want to be wearing a mask at the gym.
She went down to the gym yesterday morning, which she had to reserve.
There was only one other person there.
Hold on.
Before this question fades...
The daily rates at the hotel, I assume, are lower?
Oh my goodness.
It's like, yes, considerably lower.
And of course you get what you pay for at this point, but yeah.
So now's the time to travel.
Now is the time to travel.
Also, not only is the rate lower, not only do they give us $50 extra to spend on anything we want every day, the resort fee is waived, and what was it like some other benefit that we got?
Oh yeah, fourth night free.
It's fantastic.
And I'm really happy.
I'm happy that they're doing it, but this morning I wake up to the following news.
So, 333 Florida testing labs, you can't make the number up, of course, today reported 100% positive tests in the state.
So, 333 of the testing labs in Florida, which did 3,528 tests by this, so that was, I guess, yesterday, 100% positive.
Is that even a probability, logistically speaking?
No.
So that would be 34% of today's reported 10,360 new cases.
How can it be 100%?
It just seems so unlikely.
That's how it actually could happen.
Or?
Bullcrap.
Or?
Or more bullcrap.
What if we actually have that kind of spread?
What if it's finally there where we have, oh goodness, herd immunity or something like that?
Is it crazy to think this?
Well, if it doesn't want, if it's, it is crazy to think that unless it somehow hurts Trump, benefits the button.
Yeah, Trump is here, or at least he was, I think, Friday.
I didn't even know that.
Are you in Mar-a-Lago?
No, no, we're in the Fort Lauderdale area.
And I think he...
Didn't he do a...
Where's Mar-a-Lago anyways?
Palm Beach.
That's Palm Beach.
Yeah.
So it's...
I mean, that's mind-boggling to me.
So I'm just going to say, sure, they're all accurate, I guess.
Then we're in a whole different realm of...
It's nonsense.
Well, you know, okay.
333 is a giveaway.
I can't help that.
100%.
I mean, come on.
But where we left, we left Texas.
We left Texas in shambles.
Well, at least you left Texas.
Get out of that hellhole.
We left Texas in shambles.
Listen to what Austin was being subjected to on Friday.
Okay.
We still need people to wear the mask in public.
We still need people to keep social distance and isolation.
Ryan, the one thing I want to try to get across today is we need to do that when we're in our homes also.
As you know, I'm a lifelong San Antonio and grew up there, worked there for many years, and I know how many multi-generational families that we have.
Who's that talking?
Oh, this is the guy.
This is the DSHS official who keeps coming in.
I should have set that up.
Who keeps appearing in the Austin City Council meetings and saying, well, we've either got to do 100% masks or 35-day shutdown.
What's he doing in the Austin City Council meetings?
I'm sorry?
Does he live in Austin?
I don't know if he lives in Austin, but it's all Zoom video, so I don't know where he comes in from.
San Antonio, because he's lifelong, he said.
This interview, I think...
No, I think the background is Austin, so he may have been in Austin, but typically he's in San Antonio.
But this is the guy.
This is the guy who's in charge of it.
But listen to what he has to say, because it's...
I've worked there for many years, and I know how many multi-generational families that we have.
And while we believe the community is doing a great job of following the rules when they're outside of the home, we really need to be thinking about doing the same thing when we're inside the home.
All of us are capable of catching this disease.
None of us are immune from this.
Now listen to the rationalization, though.
It's mind-boggling.
And the fact that we need to get across this in order to protect ourselves, we need to protect our families and our loved ones.
We really need to be thinking about the care that we're providing inside the home right now to make sure that we're not spreading this disease inside the home and then making it come outside the house.
So let me get this straight.
What you're effectively saying is that people should be wearing masks inside their own homes now?
Ryan, I'm saying if you can't socially distance and can't socially isolate, or if you've been out in public and exposing yourself and you haven't decontaminated yourself good enough when you get home, if you have someone that has underlying medical conditions at home, we really need to be thinking about that.
Now, if you're the same two or three people that are living in the same house and you're really taking care of yourself and you're following all the rules, then you probably don't need to wear a mask in your home.
Here's the thing that gets me.
Now that the WHO has come out and themselves have said, well, you know, it looks kind of like we have spread through the air, aerosol spread, which we here at the No Agenda show have known for, what, when did we talk to the dog?
Six weeks ago?
Five weeks ago?
A month?
It was too long to remember.
So this was exactly what we heard.
And the best place to be is outside, not at home.
And certainly not, you know, we have 100 degree plus in Texas where people immediately go inside.
You got the air conditioner.
There's all kinds of ways to get spread in that manner.
But if you only open a window or turn on the ceiling fan, you'll be much better.
And here's the thing that pisses me off the most.
Mask, mask, mask, mask, mask.
Every wear a mask.
N95 masks are dangerous to my health.
And I want everyone to understand...
That we've been told, well, first you needed to have the N95 mask or we were going to die.
And this is four months ago.
Everybody needed an N95 mask, which is a mask that filters in but has a valve and you blow out unfiltered air.
You're not filtering anyone.
You're not protecting anybody if you wear that.
But that's not being said.
Would you be told to wear a mask?
Wear a mask inside.
Wear a mask when you're having sex.
Report right here.
Couples should wear face masks during sex, new study insists.
I mean, what is going on?
This has nothing to do with medical science at this point.
No, they're just...
They're screwing with us.
What else would we get them to do?
Well, so we got the reports of the...
Well, actually, let's listen to the text.
Did you actually read a sex study that says you should have before a mask?
No.
Yes, I do.
I read the studies.
Absolutely.
No, no, no.
Is there a study?
I thought you were just putting me on.
You were just pulling a Matt Taibbi on me.
No, I'm not like you.
There actually was a study where couples were encouraged to wear face masks during sex.
Will they do that at the S&M clubs?
We're being led down a very dangerous path.
I would like to now turn to the turncoat governor of Texas, Greg Abbott.
I have no idea...
Either he's being threatened or he is on a massive power grab and I have misjudged this man from the beginning.
Let's listen to his story about the rise in the testing and the deaths.
And I would like to remind ourselves, in July, hospitalization deaths always increase.
And the reason why they increase, crazy enough, is because this is when the new doctors come into the medical field, they leave school, they come into the hospitals, they're doing their first service as doctors.
We not only had a clip about it, we also had a cartoon about it.
Oh, that's right.
We had animated no agenda about it.
Yes, exactly.
So this is a fact, and that is, if you look at the numbers, it's a slight increase.
It could be exactly this, but let's listen to the governor of the great state of Texas.
Governor, we have seen the deadliest week in Texas since this all started, and we just hit a new high for hospitalizations.
Do you feel that we...
Okay, I need to stop.
When they talk about hospitalizations, what is not being told is we now have let all of the elective surgeries come in.
Elective means people who have cancer, other issues.
Elective means not emergency.
So there are a number of beds and there are a number of ICU units that have been reserved for COVID-19, approximately 30% of the total.
That is not being discussed.
So when you hear the ICUs or beds are maxing out, that is for only the COVID portion, which is, as I said, about 30% of Austin hospitals by their own numbers.
You have to read all the way down the bottom of the news story in order to get that small detail.
The more interesting thing is she said this is the deadliest.
How many people died?
Yeah, I don't understand this either.
Looking at every chart, I don't see how it's the deadliest, but I mean, I don't know what she's basing it on.
You said deadliest, it should be the deadliest.
I know, and I can't find that in the numbers.
Governor, we have seen the deadliest week in Texas since this all started, and we just hit a new high for hospitalizations.
Do you feel that we've seen the worst already, or do you believe that things are going to get worse before they get better?
Things will get worse, and let me explain why.
He's such an uplifting guy, isn't he?
The deaths that we are seeing announced today and yesterday, which are now over 100, those are people who likely contracted COVID-19 in late May.
There's no data to back up what he's saying, by the way.
There's no data that says, here's the number of days people typically are in the hospital or the ICU until they die.
I think he's just pulling this out of his ass.
Oh, these are the people who had it in May.
Okay.
Massive spike occurred in the second or third...
May?
Hold on, May?
He says these are people...
Wait, wait, wait.
May, June, and now halfway through July is taking 45 days?
Give me a break.
It's supposed to be two weeks max.
This is why I can't believe any of it.
That's why there's a 12-day quarantine.
You don't have a 45-day incubation period.
Where does that come from?
His butt?
That's just a blatant lie.
I'm pretty sure it is, too.
But that's what I'm saying.
There's something else going on, and I think we can figure it out quite easily.
Which are now over 100.
Those are people who likely contracted COVID-19 in late May.
Remember, this massive spike occurred in the second or third week of June.
And that's what led to this massive increase in hospitalizations as well as...
There's no massive increase.
People going to ICU units.
And so, actually, the worst is yet to come as we work our way through that massive increase in people testing positive.
That said, it's also essential to make sure that people in the greater Lubbock area understand this, and that is, this isn't something that's relegated only to the big cities of Dallas and Houston.
Now, Lubbock is interesting, and apparently there's something going on in Lubbock.
Lubbock is a big college town.
They're known for spreading all kinds of disease around.
Didn't they have the blue...
What was that thing in Lubbock?
The blue fever or the...
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was some venereal disease that the college kids there were passing around.
Yes, we did a whole show about it.
The Blue Waffle!
Yeah, the Blue Waffle!
Don't you remember this, the Blue Waffle?
I do not remember that for sure.
Look up the Blue Waffle.
I'll play the rest of the clip.
You're seeing hospitalizations in Lubbock double.
You're seeing a massive increase in people testing positive.
The reason is because we now have what's called widespread community spread of COVID-19 in the Lubbock area.
When someone in Lubbock goes out to any place they go to and engage with somebody else, neither of them know whether or not the other has COVID-19.
That's how massive it is.
That is exactly why we made this request that people begin wearing face masks.
The only way that we can keep our businesses open, the only way that we can have people continue to have a job they need to pay their bills is for everybody to adopt this practice of wearing a face mask.
Doctors have proven that this is a safe way to engage in commerce while also slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Bless you.
I hope you're okay there.
So, his numbers come from strange places.
I'm not quite sure.
I can't find any of this in the literature, but we'll just have to take his word for it.
And he goes a little bit further here in his double down of the situation and where it's going to take us.
If the mask order is not enough to make a difference soon, what is the next step?
Great question.
It's important for people to understand.
Is that a great question?
Not a great question.
If the mask order is not enough to make a difference soon, what is the next step?
Great question.
It's important for people to understand.
She's really asking for, that's a procedural, where you ask, what is the next step?
Asking what is the next step is not a great question by any means.
Just to double down on what you just said.
It's actually just a regular question for procedure.
That's how it should be.
Could you turn your speakers down just a tad, John?
I'm coming through kind of hard there.
If the mask order is not enough to make a difference soon, what is the next step?
Great question.
It's important for people to understand this.
So the way you ask it is if the mask order is not enough.
I will tell you this.
If people use face coverings, it will be enough.
So the only way that it would not be enough is if the public does not adopt this practice.
And the public needs to understand that this was a very tough decision for me to make to make this level of requirement.
Listen.
I know that your mayor strongly supports this.
That's Austin Mayor Adler.
But we need the community to strongly support it.
And the reason is this.
I made clear that I made this tough decision for one reason.
It was our last best effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
If we do not slow the spread of COVID-19, with that rise of hospitalizations that you're seeing in Lubbock, with the increased death rate we're seeing in the state of Texas, the next step would have to be a lockdown.
The last thing I want to do, the last thing anybody in Texas wants to do is to see another lockdown.
Hence, the best thing everybody can do is do this thing that is inconvenient of wearing a face covering, knowing that it will keep your jobs open, your economy open, and your businesses open.
Okay, let me just give you some boots on the ground.
And bearing in mind that 333 floor...
We might as well just stay with the bullcrap.
We'll stay with everyone's bullcrap.
So by Abbott's bullcrap, we have to do this.
We have to stop immediately.
And you can see Florida, which does not have a lockdown situation, has many more cases than Texas.
It's number one.
They now have 100% positive rate at many test centers.
Isn't the entire idea to build up immunity?
And if we have that at this point, and we don't have massive amounts of people dying, then what is this really about?
The vaccine is intended to also create a version of herd immunity.
Enough people have to take it.
Enough people have to have antibodies.
So what is stopping us at this point?
Well, I think Tedros, the president, CEO, and chief douchebag of the World Health Organization, can tell us exactly what this is about.
Make no mistake.
The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself.
Okay, can I just replay that?
The greatest threat we face right now is not the virus itself!
This must be good news!
The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself.
Rather, it's the lack of leadership.
Oh!
Lack of leadership!
Let's see what else is going on with that.
And solidarity.
And solidarity.
At the global and national levels.
Oh!
We need global cooperation and leadership, okay?
That's why I said earlier, each and every individual should reflect.
And we cannot defeat this pandemic as a divided world.
We cannot defeat the pandemic as a divided world?
The COVID-19 pandemic is a test of global solidarity and global leadership.
Oh!
The virus thrives on division.
The virus thrives on division!
Ladies and gentlemen, vote for Biden!
We need cohesion!
Vote for Joe!
Don't vote for Trump!
That is divisive!
And the virus will win!
We will die!
It's like a Star Trek episode.
To take all the fear out of your brains, it eats all your fear and grows.
The virus thrives on division, but it starts when we unite.
Okay.
Now...
How can we have, on one hand, people telling us, you need masks, you're having sex, have a mask, wear a condom and a mask, and a mask over the condom and a condom over your head?
Wherever you are, make sure you're wearing the mask.
N95 doesn't matter if you're exhaling direct virus, it's fine, just put a sock on your face!
That's fine!
Come on, man.
We're being hoodwinked here.
That's the guy.
That's the number one guy that everyone points to when he's saying the virus is not dangerous.
It's our divisiveness.
Yeah, that's what he said.
That is...
Because we're not one world government.
That is just completely nuts.
But...
One world government.
This would not have happened.
And it looks like President Trump is kind of coming along a bit.
Good evening, John.
A lot of news from here tonight.
And we want to start with what you were just showing.
The president over at Walter Reed having a chance to meet with some of these wounded service members.
The president also allowing cameras into the hospital for this shot that you're seeing right here.
The president, along with members...
of the armed services and his secret service detail wearing a mask.
The president wearing a blue mask with the presidential seal on the side of it.
This is the first time that the pool or really the main press pools had a chance to see the president walk around with this.
The president had been asked about whether or not he was going to wear a mask and now the president doing just that.
This is certainly a shot that the president wanted to see captured on camera.
It will be interesting to watch the fallout from all of this.
Okay, so it looks like he's all in on the unity and quite appropriate.
You know, they probably, they had to have had a meeting.
Can we get a mask that's red and says, Make America Great Again?
That's coming.
There's no doubt that's coming.
They're already out there.
They must be.
They must be out there.
But the presidential seal is pretty cool, so it's fine.
No, it's totally cool.
He looks like a bandit, a bandito.
Well, so we're coming down.
All these things are kind of, I feel like, coming together right now.
And this is the last push as we get ready for the vaccines.
And where we're at right now is hurting a lot of people.
And we'll get to that.
I know you have a couple of clips.
I just want to remind us about this concept of asymptomatic vaccines.
We also need to think of something called pre-symptomatic spread, asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, not the same thing.
Let's just remind you what the World Health Organization, the only statement they've ever made, it's not current, it wasn't today, but the only statement they've ever made about asymptomatic spread is the following.
From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.
It doesn't matter, because we just need to call them the silent spreaders.
And new research indicates asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases are a primary driver of the virus spreading.
Scientists have found that silent transmission could be responsible for half of COVID-19 cases.
Silence.
Wait a minute, we got one woman from the WHO saying that nobody's spreading this way, and now we have somebody saying half of them?
Where did this study come from?
Oh, there's studies, there's a million studies.
them but but the key here is the global warming studies the money's flowing apparently for these studies the key is silent spreaders this is intended to make you fearful and and demand that everybody wear a mask because they're going to kill you remember as we've learned from black lives matter silence is violence
The study found more than one-third of these infections would need to be identified and isolated to suppress a future outbreak.
The model assumed COVID-19 may be most contagious during the pre-symptomatic state.
So, you know...
Wait, wait, it's gotten even worse.
Apparently, the spread is worse during pre-symptomatic.
Yeah, oh yeah.
So, that's why I can't take it seriously if everyone says, wear a mask, wear a mask.
But it's really, you can make one of a face cloth.
You can put your old underwear over your face.
N95 mask is great.
You're exhaling directly through a valve, unfiltered.
Don't worry about it.
You're saving life.
Come on.
That's insulting to anybody.
It's just crazy.
And this is what it's about.
Replace the word mask with vaccine.
Then you know why we're going through this.
That's the only conclusion that makes sense.
It's controlling you, forcing you to go along with the program, to not kill other people, even though on the face of it, it's bullshit.
Makes no sense.
Don't wear it.
Go ahead.
So you're right.
I'm not going to argue any of this.
But I'm now kind of curious about Abbott flip-flopping and Trump wearing the mask and then the constant references to Lubbock, college town.
I get the sense that they're just saying, okay, you're going to play this game?
Your colleges aren't opening up.
Let's see how long you can live on that endowment.
Yeah, you can do fly-by-wire classes.
Oh, I like that idea.
Well, Lubbock is, because I hadn't heard of Lubbock until this particular report.
You said it was the Blue Waffle Center.
No, I hadn't heard of them in the context of coronavirus or COVID-19.
It's the first I'm hearing of some explosion there.
Yes, I didn't either.
This is new.
Yeah.
So I'm thinking, what about, these universities are a scourge in terms of they don't teach American civics, history, anything that's positive about them.
It's all switched over to a socialist, Howard Zinn sort of curriculum, which is hate America.
Yes.
Which we don't need.
I mean, it seems like the last thing you want is just brainwashing kids to hate America.
So when they come out, they can't work, they can't get jobs.
It goes on and on.
And so let's see what happens and put the squeeze on them.
That's a very odd strategy.
It costs a lot of money to run one of those things.
You can't just shut down.
And how many students are going to pay full tuition?
In fact, Kaylee made mention of this in her last press conference.
I did not get this clip.
Oh.
Because I ran out of room.
But Kaylee said, well, you know, maybe you should talk to my alma mater.
She, I guess, graduated from Harvard or someplace.
She's a hot shot.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
She says, why don't you talk to these people about why are students paying full tuition and they don't even get to go to a class.
They have to take it all by wire, you know, by Zoom.
She said, why are they paying full tuition?
Why don't you ask that question?
Which is, you know, the way she does things.
And...
I'm asking it now.
Well, again, it's all politics, and none of it benefits us.
Okay, great.
So now we've got the president playing the same shitty politics, and meanwhile we are the victims of it, just more so because of this?
And what if Abbott says 35-day lockdown?
He's not going to do that.
Let's just assume he's not going to do that.
At least let me assume that he's not going to do that.
And this whole thing is targeting the universities at this point because they can't hold it off anymore.
So, okay, we'll play your game and let's see what happens at these universities.
They talk about reopening the schools.
They're talking about reopening the schools that kids go to.
Kids who really don't get COVID. They're not talking about reopening the universities where adults...
Yeah, you're 18, 19 when you go to university, but you're old compared to like a 7-year-old or 8-year-old.
So it's possible...
So I like the theory that they're...
Well, really, I think across the country we're seeing these big institutions are going down.
I mean, it'll never come back.
The whole concept, there's too many strikes against Harvard and Yale.
I mean, sure, the elites will still get their papers from them.
They won't even attend.
It's all going to be as cheap as possible.
No one wants to pay this full tuition anymore.
If that's to bring that down as part of the plan, okay.
You know, it's very annoying to me.
And to be threatened with a 35-day lockdown is stressful.
It gives me agita.
I don't like it at all.
Yeah, but you're a media exec.
Not the point, as you know.
I mean, even Robert De Niro, his coronavirus has ruined his finances.
What?
Yeah, Robert De Niro is ruined because of the coronavirus.
It's all working out for the best.
No, listen.
He put all his money in Tribeca Grill, in the hotel.
He's got money in Nobu.
All of that shut down.
And his ex-wife, she demands a $100,000 a month Amex limit.
How many women are these?
He's out there with his accountant saying, I'm ruined, man.
I don't know if I can get through this.
I only make seven and a half million dollars a year now.
I can't afford to live this way.
That's Robert De Niro literally complaining in the press about that.
All right, I want to hear what you've got for COVID, and then I want to get into vaccines.
Yeah, we've got some vaccine stuff to talk about.
I've got a number of ways to go.
I mean, I've got the...
Well, I mean, just specifically to COVID, but bringing up this...
Something that San Antonio had mentioned, and we talked about the little kids going to school, and they're not going to get anything, although they can bring it home.
Right.
which has to be considered.
But there's this thing going on, this pre-K.
They always try to do this with pre-K.
They're trying to brainwash the kids, and so you can't brainwash them in college just because these guys are all going to go under.
And that's where the big brainwash is.
I don't know how much brainwashing you can do to a kid, but somebody must have some evidence of something because they keep pushing for pre-K, pre-K, pre-K.
Let's listen to this clip's pre-k for San Antonio 1.
So first of all, I just wanted to ask you to tell us why pre-k matters.
You're a former teacher.
You're an administrator.
You've also taught education courses at the university level.
So you kind of have that bird's eye view of the whole system.
Why does pre-k matter?
Well, pre-K is really about brain development.
We know that young children's brains develop about 90% of their architecture in the first five years.
And so we really need to focus on those first years to make sure that children have the underlying academic concepts and brain structures to learn at high levels later on.
So it's a really good investment, a good way to get children off to a great start.
Whoa!
I don't know what clip two is, but this is a borderline.
So these kids are what?
What is kindergarten?
Kindergarten is five?
Yeah, these are four-year-olds.
Four-year-olds?
We've got to get their brain structure just right.
Well, if you play that clip again, she says academic.
Yeah, structure.
They need an academic structure in their brain at four years old.
Hold on, let me see if I can find it.
Have you ever even met a four-year-old?
So we really need to focus on those first years to make sure that children have the underlying academic concepts and brain structures to learn at high levels later on.
Whoa.
Academic?
Academic concepts at four years old?
Are you kidding me?
Who was this woman?
Who was saying this?
She's the head of this operation called Pre-K for SA. Wow.
This is on NPR. Of course.
I'm now mining NPR. People are going to get a lot of good stuff.
Beauty, beauty, beauty.
All right.
And so she's got this thing going on with them.
There's a lot of money involved, and they are all concerned that not everyone can get in on this.
And pre-K always seemed to me to be like, you know, it's a babysitting service.
Totally.
And if anybody thinks they're getting academic anything, they've got their heads...
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So, this is a great...
This is the biggest problem parents have.
People need their kids to go back to school.
I know people who are spending $190 or $200 a week in childcare so that they can work.
If the government now will step in and say, give them even earlier.
Don't worry.
We're going to give them the right...
Brain structure for higher learning later on.
Mmm.
Yeah.
Which is a crock, but okay.
She's got a good pitch.
Let's listen to part two.
It's longer.
It's my understanding that your program spends an average of more than $11,000 per child compared with about $9,000 per child for public school.
What accounts for that difference?
And I understand that that is a source of some criticism, so how do you answer that?
Isn't that the VIG? Doesn't everybody know what that extra two grand is?
We know what that is, of course.
Come on, lady, we know what that is.
It's called acquisition cost.
Hello!
Right.
So what I say is we spend what it takes to get quality because we know that only if you have high quality are you going to get those long-term outcomes that are associated with early learning.
But we also invest in our people.
So we pay a livable wage to our assistant teachers and our teachers.
But also, we offer a program that goes from 7, 15 in the morning until 6 o'clock at night because we know that families, when they're working, they can't leave at the end of the school day at 3 o'clock to come pick up their children.
And so ours is a 10-hour program for families that are working full-time or going to school full-time.
And so that's where some of the additional dollars go as well.
And then here's the other side of the criticism, as I understand it.
There are kids in San Antonio who don't qualify for pre-K-4 essay.
As we mentioned at the outset, it's for families of limited income, it's for military families, and for English language learners.
But then the kind of high-quality pre-K that you're talking about is very expensive.
There have to be families that are stuck in the middle.
They don't qualify for pre-K for SA, but they can't afford these private programs.
So what's the vision for them?
Well, that's exactly right.
So we go up for reauthorization in November, and in our next eight-year authorization, that's where we're going to focus.
We are going to make pre-K for SA free of charge to families who are in that middle class that making up to $65,000 a year, they make too much to qualify for the free pre-K in the public sector, but not enough to afford it in the private sector.
So that's really where we're going to focus.
And we're going to work with our partners in other programs to make those high-quality seats available to all families across San Antonio.
Because that's really our goal, is to make sure that every family in San Antonio with a four-year-old who wants their child to go to a high-quality program has access to that.
Okay.
I just want to talk briefly about this high-quality education they're getting at four years.
Is it possible that they, whoever pre-K for SA is, and I'm sure this is elsewhere, want to get the message in?
White privilege, white fragility, want to get Black Lives Matter incorporated into the child's mind very early on, with a result which is the lieutenant governor of Texas was talking about, unfortunately, on the Laura Ingraham show.
I dislike her even more these days.
But it was...
Frau Ingraham, it's a great statement by the lieutenant governor.
Look at this, and I think most Americans look at this the same way.
We know that each black life matters, but black lives matter as a group?
They're a communist organization, and what you played earlier, they're trying to take over the school boards and take over the education of the system, and not will it just indoctrinate these students to embrace communism, It will turn them against their own parents.
Because this is not the way we grew up.
So people in America need to understand Black Lives Matter is a communist organization, but each Black Lives Matter is important to every one of us.
What better than to get them even earlier to turn them against their parents?
Well, that's a theory.
I mean, that is an old communist precept that you get the kids...
You know, this goes way back to the Greek and Roman times where the kids are just removed from their parents and brainwashed from day one.
To get them to a point where they have some of these ideas kind of pushed into that early era, it's possible that it...
I don't know if it works or not.
I mean, there's some evidence that it doesn't.
I'm sure there's plenty of evidence that it doesn't.
Well, if we look...
By the way, this is 10 hours a day of propaganda.
If we look at who is going to be teaching these pre-Ks, it's going to be the new graduates from the schools who have come out with a lot of this thinking.
And the thinking is inspired, not just inspired, but is reinforced by Robin DiAngelo.
Absolutely.
And Brene Brown.
Does anyone remember that name?
No.
Review, please.
Okay.
Brene Brown, highly respected.
She's like one of Oprah's mentors.
She started this corporate understanding of privilege and shaming, a lot about shaming.
And in fact, when I was in therapy years and years ago, she was brought up in the context of shaming.
And I actually listened to some of her stuff, but I had never put together all the different pieces.
The things that she has been doing predates Robin DiAngelo by, gosh, maybe even a decade.
Actually, she did a little conference not too long ago, and I have a few short clips.
So this is Brene Brown.
And again, she is Oprah's guru when it comes to these types of issues.
And our collective story in the United States is a story of white supremacy.
That is the story.
That's our story.
And we have not owned it.
So now...
It owns us.
It still owns us.
And it defines us.
Because we have not had the courage to step in and own the story and say, this is the truth about where we come from and what we've done.
And this is part of the 1619 Project, which we've only talked about a little bit.
It's this big New York Times.
Project, which is now also being introduced into school, which says, no, no, America, the United States is not 1776.
It goes back to 1619, when the first people were enslaved, your favorite word, enslaved, and it really rewrites the history as I learned it and as you learned it, and it's now being taught in schools, and this is the kind of result.
In every class I've ever taught, we do a privilege exercise where I say, Tell me about...
Oh, right.
Yes.
Hold on.
Stop.
You got her?
I remember...
This is what we did a whole show on these privilege exercises.
Mm-hmm.
Where they ask you a question.
This was the...
Yeah.
I didn't think it could get worse than this, but...
It's been with us all along.
And we've kind of laughed at it, I guess, and like, ah, whatever.
But it really got integrated.
It's just...
I got these two short clips here.
Hold on.
Privilege in your life.
And you have to remember, I'm looking at on a class.
It's 25% African American, 25% Latino, Latina, Latinx, 25% Anglo, and about 25% Asian American.
Some people transfer to international students.
And in the last several years, I've had a signer, an American Sign Language translator in my classes.
So we're talking about the real thing.
We're talking about what America looks like.
Okay, no.
No?
That's not the American.
No!
We don't have 25, 25, 25.
Well, at 25, the numbers seem to be wrong.
Yes.
By the way, I will say this, though.
When she says that, this is what America looks like.
This is actually a belief.
And I think it's mostly held by the Democrats.
Hardcore, yes.
And the Democrats actually think, by berating the white voter, and you have to remember, let's go back to demographics, 75% of Americans, and many of them are Latinx, self-identify as white.
And you start telling a whitey that he's an idiot, You're going to pick up a lot of votes with that strategy, and that's what the Democrats are doing.
It hit me this morning.
As I'm prepping in the darkness, it hit me.
If someone would call me a racist or someone with white privilege, go ahead, John, just throw it on me.
Just do one of those, and I'll give you my new line.
I don't have to, because you have white privilege, dude.
Excuse me.
How dare you use your privilege to assume I am white?
Come on now.
Come on now.
That will shut people up.
Excuse me?
Did you just use your privilege to assume that I am white?
Is that what you think?
I'm white?
John, you can say it.
You can say...
You don't have to say I'm not.
You say...
You use your privilege to assume that I'm white?
Says enough.
They will never say, I can tell you what...
Oh, really?
Oh, really?
You can tell that I'm white?
Yeah, you could pull that off.
The exact nutjob stuff that they believe in themselves, and they will believe it.
I mean, it's not helping society.
We're all going to die in the end anyway, but at least I'll feel good in the interim.
Oh, you'll get a kick out of it.
But I think the COVID... And the Black Lives Matter and the lockdowns and this type of the Robin DiAngelo, the equality, diversity, inclusivity training, all of this is coming together and there's some real destruction.
And I think it's targeting women, primarily.
This is why we have the Karens.
I mean, it's sick what is happening.
And it's focused against white people and men.
I'm going to read you an email that came in this morning, and I know two other cases that are similar of people I know.
It's one of our producers.
It's horrible what I'm reading here.
In the morning, I'm not able to give a donation as to this right now, but I wanted to write you before my phone is cut off tomorrow and I no longer have access to the internet.
It's from Brian.
I wanted to give you and John an eyes-on-the-ground report from Eastern Kentucky about what this virus has done to the poor.
Now, he doesn't know exactly everything that's been done, but he says, since the virus began, my life has been turned upside down.
My wife filed for divorce and became a lesbian.
I got the virus and missed work and lost my job, and now, as they say, I am suffering from homelessness.
This is happening to many I know, especially the divorce rate surging.
I feel somehow the powers that be has found a way to create a record-setting single-parent homes and get rid of all dads.
You and John have kept me sane these last few months, so I want to say thank you.
I don't know when I will finally find a job and get internet again to be able to listen.
Anyway, so Brian, first of all, thank you for your courage.
I have heard, not necessarily lesbian, but I've heard...
Women hating men and hating their husbands and having visceral reaction to it during this lockdown.
Well, this lockdown definitely brings men and women together.
Part of it is coming from...
Yes, getting rid of the heteronormative patriarchy has been a goal for years, and a lot of it is the romanticization, and you see it in Hollywood.
Romanticization.
I got you.
I got you.
Of single moms.
Yes.
Oh, she's a single mom.
Single mom.
Everything's okay.
Everything's great.
You don't need a dad.
Single mom.
And as you and Mo Fax even discussed, I mean, the idea is to really have a...
Old-fashioned nuclear family is always a better thing to do, so far as raising kids are concerned.
But they romanticized the single mom, and this has been going on for years.
And part of this pre-K for SA is really targeting single moms, because they have to work.
Exactly.
And you got the four-year-old, and you know...
You've got to do something with the brat, so you might as well send them over to these people.
Whereas we all know you really want children to work in the enterprise around the house.
You know, you want them either working on the farm.
That would be ideal.
You want them doing stuff for the newsletter.
I mean, you want them, you know, doing artwork for the show or whatever your business is.
And that's why we originally had kids is to be part of the enterprise around the house to some chores.
I can feel it.
This is so big what is taking place.
And I have heard consistent stories of women becoming whatever they call feminist and really just seeing all the issues with men.
And how can you not?
We have joked about it for several years.
The worst people on the planet has got to be straight old white men.
Eventually, that stuff leaks in and someone's going to start believing it.
And if it's institutionalized the way I'm hearing it, it's concerning.
And this is not a unique story.
I don't know.
I am...
I'm at a loss for words is what I am.
But it comes from way, way back.
And now...
I think that...
Well, let's go back to...
Maybe go back and tie this back into corona, because I know you have some other reports.
Well, let me get some of these corona reports out of the way.
Let's just bear that in mind.
Bear in mind, we're looking at a total political issue.
We heard it from the World Health Organization, from the president himself, Ted Ross.
This is not about the virus.
This is It's about leadership, doing everything together.
Masks is the first thing.
The whole world will have to wear a mask.
Now in the Netherlands, it's starting to crop up more mandatory masking.
Same in Belgium, which is where the European Union government is.
So it's going to spread from there.
And it's not about the medical part.
You can put a sock in your face and it's okay.
They say that.
You can make it out of cloth.
Good.
Here's my sock.
I tie it around my face.
It's great.
So it's not about a medical issue.
It is about compliance.
I never thought it would be.
I even laughed at people who said that.
And now I can't.
Well, you know, you have mixed responses.
You didn't necessarily laugh at people who said that.
You're the first one that says it was a muzzle.
Yeah, a free speech muzzle, but now I'm seeing that everyone just does it to not either, well now in Austin, to get ticketed, to not have other people point at you and yell, so you're just kind of complying with the crowd.
Hello, does that sound familiar to the entire past years that we've had with privilege and whiteness?
It's all part of the same thing.
I had a clip of somebody yelling at somebody.
I don't know if it's on here.
What?
I can't believe you had a clip of someone yelling at someone.
No.
Let's go to...
Let's finish these COVID things up.
Let's go to the...
Let's go to...
Let's go to the NPR. I'm going with them.
This is the update in Brazil.
We know that Bolsonaro is a horrible right-winger populist.
He's got to go.
We need a guy that wants to, you know, become a globalist.
So we've got to get rid of him by condemning him.
But let's play the Brazil report.
So, meanwhile, in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has been downplaying the threat from COVID-19 from the beginning, and yet the virus has hit the country very hard, and this week Bolsonaro himself tested positive.
So, Philip, what's been the reaction to that development?
Well, it wasn't really a surprise, as you mentioned.
I mean, he's made a point of flamboyantly ignoring social distancing, and not only that, actually of subverting it.
Even when he went live on TV this week to confirm that he had tested positive, he took his mask off.
His opponents see the fact that he's now infected as proof that he's reckless and irresponsible, a danger to people's lives and entirely incapable of handling this crisis.
But there's also some speculation that Bolsonaro might try to turn this to his advantage if it turns out that he only has light symptoms and he emerges relatively unscathed.
He could use himself as an example that, you know, what he's been saying all along is true, that regardless of the fact that COVID-19 has killed more than 70,000 Brazilians so far, that this virus really isn't all that serious and that most people will be fine, especially if they're like him, a fit and healthy person.
And especially if they take hydroxychloroquine, a drug that he ardently believes in, even though most medical experts, not to mention the World Health Organization, do not.
Oh, brother!
Well, watch.
He'll walk through a hospital like our president, and he'll wear a cool-ass mask in the hospital.
Eventually.
Yeah, which is just to say, you know, I get it, in a medical space, whatever, fine.
But if he catches it, if he's...
The hydroxychloroquine dig, which is awful.
But okay, let's go back to NPR and listen to their Sweden rundown, which has got a little gotcha in here statistically, which interests me.
Early on, Sweden took an approach to this pandemic that was just different from that of most similarly situated countries.
So, social distancing, yes, but no shutdown of the economy, hoping that as part of the process the country would achieve some sort of herd immunity.
How did that turn out?
Yeah, there's no getting away from the fact that Sweden ended up with a death rate several times higher than its Nordic neighbours.
Looking at the latest figures from John Hopkins University, 54 deaths per 100,000 people.
That's ahead of the US, where it's 40 deaths per 100,000 people.
But if you compare it to other European countries like the UK, Italy, Spain and Belgium, who all had strict lockdowns, their figures are worse.
I think where Sweden really failed was in its strategy to protect the elderly, the most vulnerable.
50% of deaths have taken place in care homes.
And in terms of the...
But wait a minute, I just want to...
We're still talking about 0.005% or 0.5?
Is it half a percent or 0.05?
Well, if you're going to go with 64 over 100,000, you can make that, that would be, what, 0.6, I think?
No, I... I hate statistics.
Well, somebody pull out a calculator in the chat room and give us this number.
Yeah, the trolls are going to give it to us.
100,000 and 64 per 100,000.
I want to get it right.
I had immunity.
It wasn't the over...
No, but stop.
You might say she stopped the clip.
Okay, stop the clip.
Let's do a couple of things we should note.
One...
First of all, they downplay the fact that Sweden is lower than the rest of the Europeans that had the extreme lockdowns.
And that would include Italy with those ridiculously high numbers.
But we can also assume that the Italians had the first because they were connected to Wuhan directly because of the garment industry in northern Italy.
And so they were just having the Chinese come straight over and infecting everybody with the first iteration of the of the virus, which is the strongest version.
And that was the one that ended up maybe in New York that was just killing people left and right.
And it's deteriorated over time, which people don't want to discuss because nobody wants to admit that this is a lab-created animal.
Yeah.
Here it is.
So they downplay the fact that Sweden actually did better than everybody else.
And then secondly, if you take that 50%, they had half of these deaths, these 64.
Half of them are from the old folks' homes, which means they could be misdiagnosed.
There's a million things that can go wrong there.
So their real number is 32, which is half of the 64.
Wait for it.
So that is...
0.032%.
So that is a three one hundredths of a percent.
Yeah, that would be like the regular flu.
Maybe even a little lower.
Lower than the H1N1, which is another topic of conversation.
Yeah.
Because apparently during the Biden-Obama administration, they actually ordered them to stop testing.
This is a huge scandal that's not coming out in the mainstream media.
Tell me you have a clip.
No, you don't have a clip, of course.
No, because nobody's talking about it.
It's just in writing.
You can find a lot of documentation.
You can find there was a report that was done on CBS by Cheryl Atkinson in 2009.
If anyone can find this clip, it'd be a miracle.
I have not been able to find it.
Cheryl Atkinson is talking about it now, but she's not talking about it on the air.
In 2009, they were asking the question, she was asking the hard question, why are we stopping testing and we're stopping reporting on H1N1 when the death rates were going up the same way they were here?
Now, Tina was...
They stopped, literally stopped testing.
Tina was telling me...
So...
Hold on.
Tina was...
We got some kind of weird lag on the line.
Tina was showing me some article that said, even though Sweden has not had a single death in the past two days, they're still the worst people on earth.
I'm paraphrasing the headline.
But...
There's a concerted effort against Sweden to make sure everyone thinks that they did it wrong, despite it looking to me like they did okay.
I think they did better than okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it was all voluntary.
The masks were there.
They weren't there.
It depends.
There was some social distance.
The Swedes can do this stuff.
But they didn't shut down the whole economy like maniacs.
Well, they did shut down...
Well, not like maniacs.
No, they were all volunteer shutdowns.
It wasn't like an edict.
Yeah, there was a lot of volunteer stuff.
And the mobility, a lot of people worked from home.
And they're set up for that.
And we are, too, now.
And if that was part of the objective...
Should we play this clip, the Sweden rundown?
Continue on that.
Yeah, play the rest of it.
1,000 people.
But if you compare it to other European countries like the UK, Italy, Spain, and Belgium, who all had strict lockdowns, their figures are worse.
I think where Sweden really failed was in its strategy to protect the elderly, the most vulnerable.
Stop!
Yeah.
How do you say what she just said is unbelievably ludicrous?
Yeah, they failed.
How did they fail when their numbers are lower than the numbers she just cited?
She just cited the numbers and what they did.
But somehow, that was a failure on Sweden's part.
Can you explain this NPR logic to me?
Yes, I can.
They are getting ready for the new pre-K for SA children who will ingest this information and believe...
Sadly, exactly what Orwell said.
Pre-K for S-H-I-T. Yes is no.
Good is bad.
Black is white.
The world is upside down.
I would like you to back it up and play that segment one more time.
Yeah, I think that that is necessary.
Here we go.
Getting away from the fact that Sweden ended up with a death rate several times higher than its Nordic neighbors.
Several times higher is a mathematical descriptor.
That means a multiplication several times.
So two times, three times, several.
What is several?
Is several three?
Or a couple would be two.
So can we say three?
What do you think?
What do you feel?
Four?
Can we just call it four?
That's not true.
Thousand.
but it's not true no well she's talking about her nording neighbors what finland i'm gonna play the whole thing again let's listen to this this is this is some this is some crazy mind control early on sweden took an approach to this pandemic that was just different from that of most similarly situated countries so So, social distancing, yes, but no shutdown of the economy, hoping that as part of the process the country would achieve some sort of herd immunity.
How did that turn out?
Yeah, there's no getting away from the fact that Sweden ended up with a death rate several times higher than its Nordic neighbours.
Death rate, John.
Not number of deaths, death rate.
Looking at the latest figures from John Hopkins University, 54 deaths per 100,000 people.
That's ahead of the US, where it's 40 deaths per 100,000 people.
But if you compare it to other European countries like the UK, Italy, Spain and Belgium, who all had strict lockdowns, their figures are worse.
I think where Sweden really failed was in its strategy to protect the elderly, the most vulnerable.
50% of deaths have taken place in care homes.
And in terms of the...
Every country had that happen.
We had that happen.
Oh, my goodness.
It wasn't the overall goal, but it was something that scientists predicted would happen.
And we aren't seeing very high levels of antibodies in the population here.
And we're also seeing more science and research suggesting that it's unclear what will happen in the future, even for those who do have antibodies.
We're seeing more science and research that says it's unclear what we'll see in the future.
What kind of science and research results is that?
Come on!
This is the world's worst report.
This is NPR. I'm so glad you're doing this.
Research suggesting that it's unclear what will happen in the future, even for those who do have antibodies.
So, are Swedish leaders acknowledging that they didn't get their strategy quite right?
Swedish leaders have admitted that things went wrong in terms of the death toll, specifically in elderly care homes.
But I think what's important to point out here is that it's the public authorities, the scientists employed by the state, they've really been at the forefront of this crisis.
And there wasn't a huge amount of political debate at the beginning.
But as the death toll has turned out to be a lot higher than predicted, as debates have continued globally about why Sweden's been doing things Oh, man.
There's just too much money for this stuff.
Too much.
The commissions are coming and going.
Biden's pushing for commissions, commissions, commissions.
Let's do the one more.
This is a two-parter.
This is a COVID rundown.
And this, I wrote down switcheroo, so there's some switcheroo going on here with the CBS report.
The coronavirus is taking a heavy toll on the United States.
Many areas are seeing a dramatic new spike in cases, and officials are taking steps to help curb the spread.
In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards ordered a statewide mask mandate on Saturday.
It's set to go into effect on Monday.
Bars will also now be restricted to takeout orders only.
And in Atlanta, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms ordered the city to roll back its reopening plan to Phase 1 after Georgia reported a single-day record for new infections on Friday.
Under that phase, Atlanta residents will be required to stay home except for essential trips and wear face masks in public.
Across the country, more than 3.1 million cases have been recorded.
And there have been more than 134,000 deaths...
Michael George has the latest details.
Okay.
Now this, you have to listen to the way this was presented.
This was presented as though they hooked up the new count, the 3 million cases, and then dropped in, because they're talking about the surge and that next batch and all the rest, and then they drop in the overall 134,000 dead number at the end as though it's somehow connected.
Okay.
Like CO2 and climate change, baby.
So I'm listening to this going, and they're just throwing these numbers out.
And they've started, all of them are doing this.
I noticed Nari Srinivasan was doing this, and all these guys on PBS are doing this.
They're doing now, instead of doing the daily death, they're doing the seven-day average, moving forward, rolling average.
They're coming up with all these mathematical models to make the numbers sound worse than they are.
Yeah.
And it's like a concerted effort.
It's like, how much...
They can't be...
This is not a good thing for the country.
Do you think they're helping their cause somewhere down the road?
I don't get it.
Let's listen to part two of that clip.
Bars, restaurants, and the young made their way into the crosshairs of governors of southern states where the virus is surging.
This executive order will prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages at all South Carolina restaurants and bars after 11 p.m.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster threatened to strip liquor licenses from violating proprietors.
At a Kentucky test site, bartender Michael Whitler knows what can happen after 11 p.m.
Once it gets too late at night, it's just unbelievable.
It's been pretty nuts.
Enough to make you want to get tested.
In Tennessee, Shelby County restaurants require customers to fork over their contact information before they'll be seated.
Infectious disease Dr.
Manoj Jain is on the local task force that mandated the rule.
I think it's really important to have people's names and phone numbers because if there was someone who was positive...
In that restaurant at the same time, then the owners can tell everyone else.
Chef and owner Michael Patrick will hang on to the information and seating charts for the better part of a month to help trace patrons who test positive.
I would hate for, God forbid, someone to get sick here, but I would feel like it was a public obligation to let people know who ate here.
For some, crowded restaurants and bars are seen as a toxic cocktail.
Okay.
As I'm sitting here listening to this, and please tell me about the switcheroo, and then I just want to give you my feeling of what we're seeing here.
No, the switcheroo was in the previous clip.
That was adding these numbers as though it was part of the surge.
So, and I realized this this morning, I got an email from a guy who I used to syndicate my radio show with, and he's big in the radio syndication, Westwood One, all this stuff, and he's doing podcasts, and he already sold a podcast advertising company.
It doesn't matter.
So we're going back and forth, and I'm telling him I'm not interested.
I said, no, we're not doing Patreon.
You should look into what I've been doing for the past 15 years, whatever.
Fine.
And I said, I'll see you next time in New York.
He replies to me.
Yes, next time in New York, or if I'm in Austin, of course, once we have the vaccine.
And you and I and everybody...
The no agenda nation, we know that we're not that concerned.
This is a reality check.
I believe people outside of our little bubble have this firmly in their heads.
It's not over until we have a vaccine.
It's not over until we have a vaccine.
Everything will be abnormal until we have a vaccine.
You can ask people, they will say it.
I think the programming is very close to complete, and who knows?
I don't know.
I guess phase three, act three starts, but this is what this is all about.
We have to take it through November.
We have to get rid of Trump, but everyone's using it.
The whole world is coming to this.
Oh yeah, I don't have any doubt about it.
What were you talking to this guy about?
He wanted us to get Patreon?
What is he talking about?
No, he was just trying to figure...
He wants to...
Hey Adam, how you doing?
Podcast, I should sell ads for it.
That's not the point.
He's an old time radio guy.
He's a legend in advertising.
Knows all the NPR scams.
I learned a lot from him.
I bet you did.
Well, let's get back to this.
Okay, so the vaccine, yes, that's exactly what everyone's thinking when the vaccine comes up.
Here's what I always like to say.
What's the name of this?
It's SARS-CoV-2.
Yeah.
Is the actual name of this virus.
Yeah, the virus, yeah.
There used to be another one.
I don't know, it was about 10, a little more than 10 years ago.
It was before we started doing our show.
SARS-CoV-1.
Yes.
Also a man-made lab-based thing that came out and then disappeared after a while.
Why wasn't there ever a vaccine for that, and why isn't it still around?
If you want to go down the vaccines, I'm ready for it.
Oh, no, I don't want to go down the vaccines.
I just asked me a simple question.
No, we have to, because this is exactly where we're headed with all this.
Well, that's just a rhetorical question.
Let me get to it.
I think I have one more.
This is a funny clip.
This is Covis, it says.
The two dubious cases in China.
What is the point of this story?
I wanted to ask you.
This is a local story that's been played all over the country.
Meanwhile, in China, officials reported two new COVID-19 cases yesterday.
Both were imported from foreign countries.
The National Health Commission says that brings the total existing cases in China to 330.
Now, this is the switcheroo.
In the background of all of this, obviously, we have the first country that took this unprecedented move of a shutdown of a city of 11 million.
They set the tone.
They set the template.
Their media partners set the entire strategy.
So this part of it is, oh, by the way, you're giving it to us.
Boo, you're bad.
See, they're flipping it around.
They're flipping this around.
This is also about Trump.
OK, I want to talk about the vaccine because the team that is in place is fascinating.
And I've been talking to a number of producers who have a lot of insight into the Catholic Church, into the Vatican, into what the Pope is doing or not doing, and is it really the Pope if Pope Benedict only resigned his ministry and not his office?
That's just a cool conspiracy theory I'm launching right here.
You have to speak Latin in order to understand that one.
But Redfield, the CDC director, another Jesuit, Interestingly enough, appointed by Alexander Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary, who also has some, I think, orthodox, I have it in the show notes, some kind of orthodox Christian version of Catholicism.
So they're all kind of involved and they've all known each other for a long time.
And Alexander Azar is a guy, I mean, that's a huge pharma guy.
He was running Pharma in 2009.
I mean, the guy is revolving door shill.
So let's listen to Redfield.
Now, this is him on Pooper with Sanjay Gupta.
And Pooper is trying to trick him and nail him down, like, why are you caving in to President Trump to help him open up the schools early?
Why are you changing your guidance?
But what Pooper, like all other completely under-informed and over-socialized people, has been told, What has been told is that the CDC never recommended shutting down schools at all.
There's no recommendation for shutting down schools.
Never has been.
So the only thing that is coming out now is, well, since you shut down, here's some strategies which are called guidance that you can use to get back to some normalcy.
But Pooper is trying to nail the CDC director on some horrible fallacy that he's committed by kowtowing to President Trump.
Yesterday, the president tweeted saying, I disagree with CDCGov on their very tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools.
While they want them open, they're asking schools to do very impractical things.
I'll be meeting with them.
Then shortly after, the vice president announced, with you standing by his side, he said this.
The president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough.
And that's the reason why next week...
CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools.
Kaelin Collins then asked you at that same press conference if you're changing the guidance because the president said he doesn't like it.
You didn't answer the question, so I just want to give you another opportunity because it does sound like CDC is caving to the president's demands to essentially weaken guidelines to make them less tough.
I know a lot of thought was put into those guidelines.
Now all of a sudden you're issuing new ones?
Thank you, Anderson.
First, I want to really stress that the purpose of the CDC guidelines are to provide a variety of different strategies for schools to use to help facilitate the reopening of schools.
You're saying you're not putting out new guidelines, but the Vice President just said it all right there.
He said, we don't want them to be too tough, so you're going to be releasing new tools.
I know you said you had already planned this.
It sure seems like a coincidence now that these are going to show up next week.
Especially because usually these things take so much time to go through.
I don't understand either recommendations are based on science or they're not.
Why come out with new ones?
These guidelines were worked over for a long time.
Yeah, they're not new guidelines that we're coming out with, Anderson.
We've started the guidance for K-12 back in February and higher learning back in March.
We continue to update them.
The guidance that we put out recently for K-12 and higher learning Is our guidance.
We continue to expand that with different tools like I was trying to complete.
We have a tool to help schools understand how to test for symptoms.
We have a tool coming out on how to use face masks in the school setting.
We have a tool coming out for parents to understand a checklist of understanding whether their child should come out to school.
So the Vice President was referring to the additional tools that we have that we're planning out, but there's not a change in our guidance.
So here's the background on this Redfield guy, who was pretty good there.
He and, you remember, Burks.
Of course, Dr.
Deborah Burks, who I used to simp so hard for her.
She was a colonel in the Army.
Redfield was also a ranking officer.
They together ran the AIDS trials, the HIV AIDS trials, which in the armed services, it was horrific.
They had PCR tests, the same we have now, that had a high rate of false positive and about half as high rate of false negatives.
And then people were quarantined on base in what people called the HIV hotel.
And the vaccine was tested on them, which I think was GP-160.
Long story short, all of it's in the show notes.
They were both brought before a commission who found that they had fudged the numbers in order to accelerate the development of this GP-160 HIV-AIDS vaccine, but nothing was done with that information.
It's called, was it, Lurie v.
Department of Army 970.
So it's in the show notes if you want to look at it.
So these people have been doing this with the...
AIDS vaccine, they're using the same platform.
In fact, here's our new friend, Dr.
Francis Collins, updating the Senate on the vaccine development.
Just a couple of interesting background points.
Thursday, scientists overseeing development of coronavirus vaccines assured lawmakers help is on the way.
We are all optimistic that the goal that we have set to have a vaccine that works and is safe by the end of 2020 will be met.
Dr.
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says Operation Warp Speed is testing and manufacturing promising vaccines.
All being conducted side by side.
But Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt raised concerns about speed versus safety.
Do you have any concerns on the vaccine side that FDA is not going through every safety step?
No compromise at all on the safety and the efficacy standards.
Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin pointed to a defective 1955 polio vaccine that sickened tens of thousands of children with the disease and killed 10.
Can you reflect on that for a moment?
That was a terrible tragedy.
I think I could reassure you and the American people that that strategy of trying to administer a killed vaccine is not currently being pursued.
Dr.
Collins says thanks to billions in federal dollars, his team is making great progress.
But Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray worries drug companies might get greedy at the expense of the public.
I'm very concerned that pharmaceutical companies have dictated the terms.
The goal is to ensure the vaccine access for all Americans.
CDC Director Dr.
Robert Redfield says he's cautiously optimistic the vaccine will be ready by April of next year.
So that report, that editing, was in the actual TV report.
They're taking two-word sentences from people to try and stitch together whatever story they want to portray.
But something is up with the HIV. The team, it's the same team, and Bill Gates is giving away something.
They just had an HIV summit 2020, which I didn't know about.
And he's now also mixing in HIV and COVID. The pandemic is disrupting the supply chains and therefore slowing our progress in the fight against all other diseases, including AIDS. Both the UN and the Global Fund have released projections showing that these disruptions could prevent hundreds of thousands of people from getting the treatments they need.
And that's just in sub-Saharan Africa.
So we have our work cut out for us, but I remain optimistic.
I remain optimistic that we will defeat COVID-19 and we will continue to make strides against AIDS and other health crises.
I believe that for several reasons.
First is science.
In the global race to detect, treat and vaccinate against COVID-19, researchers are making great advances.
Faster, better diagnostic tools are being developed to help identify those infected.
Also, we're making great progress on vaccines.
These platforms won't just be useful against this particular virus.
They will also help us specifically for HIV. Okay, I think that they're setting up a whole other round of HIV vaccine and there's a whole new money push.
Which, of course, we haven't, you know, this has been 30 years, there's been no HIV, AIDS vaccine.
No, it's not easy to do.
There's a number of reasons.
This goes, takes us right back to the very beginning of this whole ridiculous fiasco.
Uh, Where the Nobel Prize winning physician in France looked at the coding and says this was an attempt to make an HIV vaccine.
Yes, there you go.
Via the COVID structure, the platform, the COVID platform.
It was a chimera.
Holy crap!
This is it!
They're going to say we have the vaccine, it doesn't fix COVID, but we've cured AIDS. Well, I don't think your cure is a very good one at the moment.
Oh, gosh.
Wow, you're right.
I'm so happy you remembered that.
What up with that?
Good memory.
That's exactly it.
Now, we get punished with all this data glut that you have to really concentrate and go back to.
That's right.
This had all the HIV penetration bits or the spiky proteins or whatever it was.
Yeah, the idea was to put an HIV, just to take a COVID. Oh!
Which is the spikes that can penetrate and then put an HIV, some HIV, dead HIV in there and get it into the system and make it a kind of a vehicle for as a kind of a roundabout vaccine.
These are all experimental ideas.
Which includes a DNA experiment that they're going to try to pull off against a bunch of dummies like your friend who's going to be more than willing to stand in line and get a shot.
Of this COVID vaccine, even though, again, I ask the question, will SARS-CoV-2 even be in existence as such, unless they reintroduce it, which I don't think they will, because I think that was...
I'm still sticking to this story, that the Chinese destroyed all the original versions, so they can't reintroduce the early...
The deadly version that got loose.
Right, that was the L strain or whatever it was.
It was the original, let's just say.
The OG, the OG, Corona OG. The OG Corona, and it comes out, kills everybody, starts to deteriorate back into a cold virus, which is pretty much what it is now.
If you look at these death charts, there's nobody, you know, it's like people have it in there, but they're not dying like they used to.
Okay, so let me tie it all together now.
So we have the whole AIDS team.
Makes sense because they're justifying all the money and future funds because we have this platform.
And by the way, the platform is great.
I mean, we know how to do this.
I won't even play the rest of the clip, but Gates continues to say we got to make sure we roll it out across the platform to Africa and South America.
So they're setting all of that up.
In the meantime, we need to really get everybody on board because we have this strong anti-vax issue.
And let's just start with the Catholic Church.
I just learned that our friend NIH director, Dr.
Collins, is on the permanent member, lifetime board, there's only 80 people, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which is pretty much the Vatican think tank.
I thought he was an evangelical Christian.
Yeah, he is.
Or that's what he claims he is.
So he's a Catholic?
Well, he's on the Pontifical Academy.
Yeah, that's what he claims.
He's a Catholic.
Yes.
That's what he claims.
That would be technically a charismatic as opposed to evangelical, but if he calls himself an evangelical, there's something up with this guy.
There's a lot of stuff that doesn't make any sense, which I said the last time.
And you've pointed out when he didn't say, you know, God bless America or whatever.
I think part of this is about destroying the Catholic Church.
Church is going on everywhere.
These guys are in cahoots with the Vatican.
And it's not the Pope that is running the show.
It's the Secretary of State for the Vatican.
It's this other guy.
So many of these guys.
So he's kind of running the show, and then we've got China paying $2 billion a year to the Vatican for something, and then this current Pope essentially blesses some of these phony cardinals in China who have this kind of Catholicism, but everything else is underground.
We've got churches burning everywhere.
I mean, there's something going on here.
Something's weird.
And yeah, Collins, I think, is a big part of it.
That's...
Dan Brown?
Dan Brown?
Where's Dan Brown?
A big player in the pro-choice, pro-life battle.
So they gotta go.
I think you're right.
There's a whole bunch of reasons.
You have to go.
So you emphasize all the negative things about the institution.
Listen to this.
Try to destroy it.
Associated Press.
This is one of those shaming articles about who got government money for the PPP. Oh, yes, exactly.
Mimi was ranting about this.
So this one, there's a number of articles.
This one is, and I think this is a misnomer, the U.S. Roman Catholic Church, which I don't think exists.
There's a Roman Catholic Church, but there's no U.S. Roman Catholic Church.
Used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least 1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
That's the opening of the article.
Boom shakalaka.
Yeah, it's a hit piece.
It's a great piece.
That's fantastic.
Wow.
Yeah, something's up.
I think you spotted something there.
I didn't notice it myself.
Because when Mimi's ranting about this, I said, well, it's not a deconstruction thing.
Not really.
But now that you mention it, it fits right into the show.
And what was burned in Washington, D.C. during the Black Lives Matter?
Church.
Right.
A little church.
A California mission founded by your boy, Junipero Serra.
What's his name?
Well, I don't know if this was a Unipero-Sera church, but yes, a recent mission down in Southern California, burnt.
It was under renovation, just like the Notre Dame.
Another example, probably a better example, mysteriously catches on fire and is taken out of service.
And meanwhile, the guys running the show with the vaccines ready to stick the needle in your arm are all in on it.
With the Chinese!
Woo!
It's a good time for a podcast like this one.
Well, no kidding!
If I didn't have you to talk to, I'd be going nuts right now with this thinking.
I think I need some, I need a pill or something.
This is not good.
I need some Vaxillin.
Oh my goodness.
That's good stuff.
How about this?
We'll take a breather right here.
I'll thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in so many things we've discussed, John C. Dvorak.
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships see Booster and Ralphie in the air, substance of the water, names the knights out there.
Yeah, well, in the morning to the troll room.
Noagendastream.com is where they are known to hang out.
And let me see.
I can do a little quick troll count, even though I'm on location.
Wow, 1738.
So that's pretty good.
I mean, it's not our typical...
We've been doing a little higher on Sunday.
We've been doing close to 1900, but they're there.
And they're trolling, and they're doing a great job of it.
We love them.
Kind of, I guess.
And you can join them at NoAgendaStream.com.
When you're in there, ask for an invite.
You can ask Doug for an invite to NoAgendaSocial.com, which is our federated social network with very high signal-to-noise ratio.
And let's say in the morning to the artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1258.
We titled that appropriately The Dummy Placebo.
This was Dan McCall.
And, oh yeah, he had the Cleveland Unicorns football helmet, which I think we were both kind of good with.
Yeah, no, what happened was we were having trouble finding the right art, and this is the last piece that came in, and it was a nice...
Other people have tried to do this because it caught on the idea of a team named the Unicorns, but he actually put it on a helmet and made it look like a real team.
Yeah, it did look good.
In fact, every time I look at it, I say, maybe there is a team that...
A lot of people responded...
Maybe it's their team.
I mean, I'm almost convinced.
Could be.
Yeah, it was good.
It was a nice piece, and it was very well done.
And he had the little subtleties, like the little thing, the strap right over part of the logo covering it up.
Yeah, that was well done.
Extremely professional.
Although I still maintain, for some reason, I feel like the helmet should have been facing to the right.
I don't know why that is.
Yeah, I don't know why you insisted on this thought.
It grates me for some reason.
I don't know what it is.
Something weird.
It's me.
Thank you, Dan McCall.
And thank you to all the artists, because a lot of people are submitting, a lot of people doing some outstanding work.
It's not a judgment.
We love you.
We have to pick something that will behoove the show.
And also, we had the title.
We didn't want to...
We try not to have the title and...
The artwork be the same, which would have been dummy placebo.
But this is part of how it works.
It's our great value-for-value network where you get out of it what you put into it, and a lot of people are helping produce this show, as well as our financial producers bringing it.
The executive producers and associate executive producers for $12.59.
We have a couple.
Yes, we do.
We have two.
When you say a couple, we have two executive producers.
This is a little lower than we've been getting.
Sir Paul, the trusted advisor, is our top guy.
$333.34 from Dallas, Texas.
He's from Dallas, Texas.
Dreams from Dallas, Texas.
Donating in the spirit of my grandpa, passing naturally.
L&L. I don't even know what that says.
L&L? Where's his grandpa passed?
I don't know.
Oh, no.
Love and Light.
Okay.
For RLTVs receiving SRC-2.
Come on.
Jobs Karma for Abraham.
Please dedouche.
Oh, he needs a dedouching.
Let's start with that.
Okay.
Wow.
This is like some kind of text shorthand.
You've been dedouched.
So he needs a...
I don't know what the SRSC-2 is, but Jobs Karma I can decode for Abraham.
Jobs Karma for Abraham.
And then a happy birthday to Dame G-Money, the hysteria skeptic.
And belated 33rd birthday to me, Sir Paul.
So there should actually be two birthdays on the list.
I don't think so.
What do you mean?
That they're not both on the list?
That's what I'm guessing.
Okay, hold on a second.
Two Dame G money, a hysteria skeptic, and a 33rd for him, Sir Paul.
By the way, anyone who has a 33rd birthday has to become an executive producer for a show.
Yes.
Okay, so I'll do the jobs karma then.
I think that's it.
I can't see anything else that we missed in that one.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You thought.
How much?
Onward with our second associate executive producer, Jamie Stinson, three $333 in the morning.
Jay here from Kiyama.
First off, I need a dedouching.
Okie dokie.
You've been dedouched.
This donation is for our new human resource, Odin.
Really?
Huh.
Which will be starting here in Kyama in November.
Hope he signs the sign-up form with the right tick box.
He's an Australian.
His kid's named Odin.
Okay.
Is that weird?
Is there something I should be aware of?
Well, Odin is just not a name that I would think, you know, is just like a Greek god or something.
Somebody in the chat room should brief me on Odin.
Okay.
Otherwise, we're in trouble.
Also, shout out to my boogity, boogity, boogity, smoking hot human resource incubator, Anna.
Cute.
Who lost her father last week.
Sorry.
I wish Odin got to know him.
And please know, all is going to be okay.
Trust me.
As it is her birthday today, please add her to the shout out birthday list.
Happy birthday, babe.
Can I get some new human resource karma?
And some jobs karma.
Jingles, L Sharpton medley, China's asshole.
And thanks, Obama.
Jay from Kiama, New South Wales, Australia.
Any no-agenda people down here want to meet up, let's do it!
R-E-S-P-I-C-T. China is asshole!
Thanks, Obama.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Emily Shade is up, and she sent a note in, which I do have.
She's in Portland, Portland, Oregon.
She says, hi, John.
Donation note to a company by PayPal initiated so-and-so for $264.75.
She's an associate executive producer for $264.75.
She's requesting first-time home buying karma and a self-birthday shout-out.
Okay, she needs to be added to the birthday list, apparently.
Emily Shade.
Emily Shade for July 14th.
Love the show.
So that was simple and easy.
So we just need to give her a house buying karma.
Okay, and I'll put her on the list now.
You've got karma.
Hold on.
Emily.
Emily Shade.
Emily Shade.
How old was she?
She didn't give her age, but it's July 14th.
Okay.
Oh.
Alright, so we're well in time for that.
Okay, groovy.
Alright.
Okay, I have to go look up Lady Butters.
Oh no, you don't say.
Oh yes.
I was ready to do my squirrel mail.
Okay, Fugusoto.
2.30, 4.56 in Gladstone, Missouri, which he's not.
He's stuck.
I know.
Oh, my goodness.
In Saudi Arabia.
Yeah.
He didn't send a note of any importance.
He just said, still stuck.
This is Dear Jake and Elwood.
Still stuck.
Send karma.
Thanks for your courage.
So he needs a karma to get out of there.
Yeah.
I actually emailed him this morning when the note came in.
I'm like, I'm going back and forth.
See if there's anything we can do for him.
I think it sucks.
He still sucks.
He hasn't seen his wife and daughter for what now?
Four or five months?
Mommy, mommy, who's that strange man?
You've got our money.
Worst thing ever, Dvorak.
I'm sorry.
Worst thing ever.
Oh, man.
They're a military family, so I'm sure they're fine.
They're a military family.
They can do this, but it's tough.
Tough for anybody.
Jeez.
Alright, do you have the Lady Butters now?
Do you have her email?
I do have Lady Butters.
Just while you were berating me for being a cold-hearted prick, I am going to read Lady Butters.
No, she came in from Tiverton, Rhode Island, 232-88, and she writes...
I would like to propose a toast to Sir Knives of the Providence Plantation for his 32nd birthday on July 13th.
Another, of course this is a random number, so all of these will have a birthday on them.
Then you're not going to have to hand do while you're stuck there in Florida.
So this is Sir Knives of the Providence Plantation.
30 becomes 32 on July 13th.
Everyone in the No Agenda tribe, please grab whatever you're drinking and raise it with us.
Cheers to your next year on the road to magic number 33.
We'll be celebrating with our weekly husband and wife, No Agenda Sunday brunch after hosting the Southern New England Summa Pool Party meetup at our home the previous day.
More to come on that for the next Thursday show, though I'm sure there'll be more photos and so on and so on.
In the meantime, please make sure my hellishly handsome husband is on the birthday list that we just put in there.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Could you actually give me that again?
Sir Knives?
Yes.
Sir Knives of the Providence Plantations.
Yes.
Plural.
Providence Plantations.
Yes.
And he turns...
And he'll be 32 on the 13th.
Okay.
So now he says, she says, she says, he says, she says, with a couple more quick requests, if you don't mind.
Oh, okay.
Here we go.
But once Jobs Carmen, now to Tuffy.
Got that.
And China is asshole!
Hey!
She'd also like a that's true, if you could follow that.
China is asshole, that's true.
Yeah, I think we can do that.
She also says a snippet of the Russia and then it cuts off.
Oh.
So I don't know what she's talking about.
Her note cuts off?
Okay.
And it was Jobs.
Her note cuts off.
But then she says, thank you for your courage, Lady Butters of the Narragansett Bay.
And it was Jobs karma?
Jobs karma?
China?
And that's true.
You said it like a game show host for some reason.
It comes across really well.
I like that.
China is asshole!
That's true.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
I'm not quite sure why it works.
It does.
It does.
I don't know what I said.
I meant to go back and listen.
No, it's just the pleasant way you said it.
Why, yes, it's jobs karma.
Yes, jobs karma.
For you, jobs karma.
Yes.
Colin Anufri in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
By the way, Fort Lee, New Jersey, surely that's got to be racist.
Oh yeah, it's got to go.
That has to change.
You can't be from Fort Lee.
I don't like to know anything about Washington State.
It's got to go.
Make it part of Canada.
ITM Jensen, thank you for your courage.
First off, the de-douching is in order.
Boing!
De-douching.
I didn't boing.
You've been de-douched.
They're following immediately by a douchebag call-out from my co-worker Dave.
Douchebag!
I hit Dave in the mouth at the beginning of all this Wuhan flu shenanigans.
Some jingles, please, for Adam to cue.
I'd like to Huntsman Don't Trust China.
Coincidence, I think.
Not whole load.
You might die.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
This is not humanly possible.
You're right.
Okay, it's too much.
Alright, the asshole full.
So, okay.
Huntsman, asshole, after that what?
Huntsman.
Coincidence, I think not.
Ah, jeez.
There's too many.
Keep it down to four minutes maximum, please.
They do this just to horrify me.
Coincidence?
Coincidence, I think not.
Whole load?
You might die.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
This is not okay.
This is taking away from valuable show time.
And a Pelosi jobs carmere with a goat twist.
You could kind of be ashamed of yourself for doing that.
Yeah, I agree.
All right.
Now 23 and sucking on the teat of the unemployment system, the general theme of the tri-state area seems to be swollen amygdalas, no-holds-bar, virtue signaling in these 1984-esque times.
I pass these days by pushing back on the M5M narratives and hitting mofos in the mouth.
Any chance I can get?
To be red-pilled these days is a blessing.
Thank you both again, and thank you all.
All the producers out there.
P.S. Professor Ted quotes, are working wonders on the Gen Zs.
Drop acid, not bombs, and order your six-pack of Baofeng radios off Amazon while the getting's good.
Who knows what's in store leading to November?
Collins Onufri to November.
I'm sorry.
Professor Ted is trending hard.
He's trending hard.
And of course, I've been talking about Professor Ted for 10 years, longer.
And so in particular, the over-socialized, which I've been mentioning quite a bit, The Social Justice Warriors.
It's all in there.
He wrote it, what now, 40, 45 years ago?
And people are now discovering this, like, oh my goodness.
Yeah, that's right.
They had a whole series on Netflix not too long ago, which didn't discuss any of this.
But now people are figuring it out.
So, this is good news.
Donald Trump don't trust China!
China is asshole!
Coincidence?
I think...
Not.
I'm going to give you the whole load today.
You might die.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
All right.
Nice.
Almost perfect.
You did make one foul up, but it was a good sequence.
But I had the wrong coincidence.
You had the wrong coincidence?
Yeah.
The wrong coincidence, I think not.
No, that was fine.
You didn't have the Trump-Pelosi.
Oh, Trump.
Oh, I have to do that over then because...
Jobs.
Jobs.
That's not the right one.
Here we go.
Jobs.
Jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
All right.
You've got...
Karma.
And, producers, please, please, producers, remember your privilege when requesting sequences of jingles and writing long notes.
That note took up half the show.
Remember your privilege.
Sir Jobywan of Wikipog in 22434.
Had a great time at the Northeast Ohio meetup.
Man, we had some great producers.
Please provide Lady Cara and I much-needed karma, jingles.
Good to be here, brof.
Nice job, you idiot.
From Tucker.
And that's it.
So it's Sir Joby Wan of Weakapog.
I don't know about nice job, idiot.
I don't know anything about this.
I don't know it either.
So what is it?
So Brolf and what is the other one?
Nice Brolf.
Yeah, Brolf, which is Fauci Brolf, yes.
And then what?
Then the nice job, you idiot.
I don't have that.
Oh, wait, maybe.
That was an ISO idiot.
Oh, sorry.
For some reason, that part of show prep didn't work out today.
Here we go.
Good to be here, Bruce.
Thanks for the lecture, idiot.
That's it.
You've got...
There you go.
Thanks for the lecture, idiot.
That's actually a nice clip.
You said it to end the show.
Well, actually, I have two end of shows.
Should I test them out now?
Yeah, might as well.
We're so off the rails, you might as well do it.
Okay, let's go.
I got two of them.
I'm taking clips off the internet, and they're playing these commercials on me.
What?
So they played a spam commercial.
Okay, hold on a second.
So I have two spam ISOs.
You mean spam is in the product spam?
Yeah!
Really?
Actual commercial.
And where did you get those?
On YouTube?
Yeah.
Wow, okay.
You sure you're not being paid by the Spam Corporation to introduce this now, are you?
Well, you won't even know, but the place Spam won.
Spam.
Don't knock it till you've fried it.
I love the guy's voice.
Yeah, it's a great voice.
Yeah.
Don't mock it till you fried it.
Yeah, big bottom.
Again, here's the second spam ISO. Sizzle, pork, and mmm.
Nah, I didn't even like the audio of that one.
And this, I think this is a little too long.
Don't knock it till you fried it.
Versus...
Thanks for the lecture, idiot.
Come on, man.
It's clear.
It's clear who wins.
They're both good.
Yeah, they are.
Alright, onward with Sean Negrin in Clark, New Jersey.
A lot of Jerseyites today.
You from Jersey?
Yeah.
222.22.
Jersey has had a really hard time.
People are cracking under pressure.
They're turning to the show and it's giving them solace and they want to, you know, give us their thoughts.
I'm all in.
Been listening since Adam's appearance on Rogan.
Thought it was time to donate.
I love the show.
Can you please send my lovely wife some jobs karma?
She's been having a hard go since the Rona.
P.S. Is John related to the Dvorak and his unusable keyboard?
I've never heard of it.
When you put it that way, no.
Supposedly there's some relation, yeah.
And how about the composer?
Supposedly, everyone's related to that guy.
He was just out.
He was that guy.
Well, you know who you're also related to?
He was like a musician.
The same as, you know, like, imagine, you know, Mick Jagger.
It was the Mick Jagger kind of thing.
These musicians, all they do is they go, they chase women.
Hey, listen, I don't know why you said that, but you are also related, and he's very proud of it, the comic strip blogger.
Well, only in a meta sense.
Uh-huh, that's what you say.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yowza!
Okay.
Onward with David Metis in Pikeville, North Carolina, 2-12-33.
But I'd like to split this donation between me and my daughter.
You can do the accounting and it's fine.
Lila.
Meet us.
Meet us.
It's meet us.
Can I get a plug for our podcast, the Meet Us Pod, an audio fiction slash audio drama podcast.
And my 10-year-old daughter, Lila.
Leela's show, which is in Unicode, is something fun.
I wanted to share her hard work.
I can't read it.
I think it's Fun Fact Friday with Leela and David.
Oh, okay.
She wrote and recorded a theme song, does the audio editing as well.
She's a 10-year-old and does the show notes.
Oh, wow.
I'm very proud of her and wanted to share her hard work.
I wanted to ask her if she wanted to run ads.
She said, no, because if we take ads, then we can't tell all of our facts.
Nice!
She's been a no-agenda listener her whole life.
Hey, man.
Take that pre-K for essay.
Screw you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got our own methodologies here.
We know how to do it.
I also want to say that this community, and it involves jingles, and you at the essay for, pre-K for essay, you don't even know what a jingle is.
I would also like to say that the community that surrounds the No Agenda is amazing.
I've reached out to a few producers over the years and have never met with anything other than a friendly and helpful attitude, especially Jane Denifer.
Jane Denifer.
Jane Denifer.
Wow.
Okay.
Jane Denifer of Animated No Agenda.
Hoping to get a meet-up going here in Goldsboro, North Carolina soon.
De-douching, please.
You got it.
You've been de-douched.
And a jingle request of Detective Dookie.
You all played it for Leela when I donated on her first birthday, so it's her it.
Okay.
And...
And give him a karma.
Of course.
Detective Dookie.
Detective Dookie.
Police.
SPU. Special Poopers Unit.
You've got karma.
This is dumb.
Well, good luck with this podcast.
I like the idea of a 10-year-old doing podcasts.
She's got a future ahead of her.
She should get that together.
Sir Ben Naitis, Black Knight of Brooklyn in San Francisco.
Was there a birthday in that previous one somewhere?
I don't believe so.
No, I don't think so.
Sir Ben Naitis, oh, you mentioned her first birthday.
No, okay.
Black Knight of Brooklyn, San Francisco, California, even though he's Black Knight of Brooklyn, 20352.
Sadly with Catalina, let's finally move our QuickTime 732-bit.
He has to move beyond QuickTime 732-bit.
It's been a while since I've messed with it.
Audacity, here's a three-second ISO. Oh, shoot.
Was I supposed to get something?
I'm guessing yes.
I don't think I've seen this.
It's the least I can do as a baron until I pay off the last season.
We can do it later.
And then it's back to donating to the best podcast in the universe.
Wait, never mind.
I just read John's newsletter.
Okay, JRE Wave is over.
I just donated 33% of a check I got back from the San Francisco Property Tax Board.
$203.52.
I used to be the Black Knight of Brooklyn, but now I have to check in with Dave Foley to see if I can get a Baron of San Francisco.
You can easily be the Baron of San Francisco.
You're welcome to it, really.
Have at it.
Well, he says, Baron of San Francisco or Baron of Portrero Hill.
No!
You wouldn't be the Baron of San Francisco.
Nobody has requested that that I know of.
I'm glad you tracked this stuff.
Don't take some neighborhood.
Track that stuff, man.
Definitely.
I know, Phil, yeah, you're still obliged to deal with the Duke.
I know a fellow knight, Sir Peter Boyle, also a donator to Moe Faxon, the guy who hit me in the mouth, may be in contention.
Well, you got it.
I think I'm higher up in peerage, even though it's been far too long he's going on about this.
It's a long time since I met you in Hoboken in the Pizza John's first Hot Pockets tour.
I remember that, of course.
I don't have your ISO. You'll resend it to me.
Sorry, probably with the travel, but I do have this for you.
Hot Pockets!
Come on, I dug that one up.
So, yes, I remember it very well, our Hot Pockets tour.
Thank you, sir.
Alright, so you're a Baron of San Francisco now.
I think it should be updated.
I'm not sure if that's an update.
Yes, it is an update on the title later on in the show.
It's about time, but we need a Baron of Oakland.
Earl Walkman of the Buckeye, $201.07.
Jingle cue, I'm going to give you the whole load.
Oko, Yoko Ono, and stop the hammering.
Two to the head.
Thank you for the six hours of sanity every second Sunday of the week.
Please add stereo goat karma for no agenda nation.
That's all.
Earl Walkman of the Buckeye.
Although, hammering, this is also, the privilege has got to...
Stop the hammering.
I can do it.
No, I got it all.
It was whole load.
Yoko, stop the hammering.
After that?
It's something else.
I don't know.
You need to read along with me.
Okay, two to the head.
Yeah, two to the head.
Two to the head, and then stereo goat karma, which is also a special request.
You know, this is not all at the ready.
I'm going to give you the whole load today.
Stop the hammering!
. . *shrieks* You've got...
I will say this.
A lot of these jingle requests tell a story.
Yeah, they do.
They're narratives.
It's a lot of work.
It's good at most of the stuff you get on mainstream media.
It's a lot of work.
Eric Harvey from San Diego, California, 200 bucks.
As a closeted small amygdala working as a researcher in the enlarged amygdala world of academia, no agenda has been crucial to my sanity, especially over the last few months.
I've often noticed that many of my colleagues get frustrated when I don't immediately share the same levels of fear and hysteria over recent world events.
Wow.
And nod your head a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I could use some jobs karma as my NIH-funded postdoc fellowship is ending soon and I've yet to be offered any of that sweet, sweet Chinese bribe money.
How hard could finding a job during a global pandemic looming recession be?
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And this final donation was the donation that we discussed on the last show.
And you mailed the check to me because she mailed the check to you.
Oh, this is Victoria Peterson.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
From Antioch, Illinois.
We already read her note last show.
Yes, we did.
And she'll be on the list today, appropriately.
Thank you very much, Victoria.
Yes, and that concludes it.
That's our list of two executive producers and 110 associate executive producers.
With lots of things to communicate.
But it was certainly a good distraction from, I don't know, the world coming to an end.
I feel much better after that.
A good breather.
Thank you so much for being our executive and associate executive producers.
Now, these credits are real.
Anyone who sees that understands, okay, what you are and what you've done.
And just like Hollywood, you know, I mean, the whole...
Credits come early.
We don't have any of the hookers.
But neither is Hollywood now.
You can't get hookers and blowers.
I don't think Hollywood has hookers anymore.
No.
There's nothing left for those guys.
We're it.
You're looking at the future of show business.
You have to say, Harvey Weinstein's timing was impeccable.
I agree with you, Mortimer.
Such a good job he did.
Please consider supporting us for our next show on Thursday.
I'll be back in Austin, God willing.
I presume we'll be able to just fly back.
Weird.
And you can find out more information on how to support us and how to become an executive or associate executive producer or producer or just a supporter of the show.
Go to...
Well, I cannot wait to see what we'll learn next on this show.
Our formula is this.
We go out...
We hit people in the mouth.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Order!
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
On the last show, I teased the school board dust-up.
Yeah, yeah.
This was the...
And speaking of white privilege and fragility and all of that, this was a...
So I have a few clips, and they're just kind of snippets of the kind of things that were going on at this meeting, including...
I'm going to start with...
Sorry.
I mean, I could go with...
I got four clips, and any one of them will work.
I do have one that has to be the last, which is the short little bitty one at the end.
But you'll get the point.
You start hearing a code...
I'm getting code words out of this.
This is all about this book that apparently everyone has to now read, or you're not doing what you're supposed to do.
Yeah, this is the White Fragility.
But set this up.
Who are these people?
Who are these people?
These people are on a...
It's not the school board.
It's an advisory council that puts together some curriculum.
Is this a paid gig?
Or are they just volunteers, basically?
It's a volunteer organization, I found out later.
But it just has an elected head person, and they're all bickering with each other constantly, apparently.
You can really see the lines between social justice warriors and normal people.
Let's start with EDSU doing the work.
I've done my own work, and some of you have done what I'd like to speak.
I have a lot to say, but I'll keep it short.
This just illustrates to me...
Okay, stop that clip.
Let's bring that clip in later.
I want to get some people yelling.
Let's do the EDU Council bickering apologize.
Wait, wait.
Okay, let's start with this one.
Okay, they start yelling at each other, and there's a Latino, the vice president, comes in, and he's really, or this guy, by the way, walked out on a meeting, even though it was a Zoom meeting.
This guy's a Latinx VP, and he goes after, and he's really mad because they've been yelling at each other.
Let's go with this.
EDU meeting, a Latino VP goes after Social Justice Warrior.
Okay.
Nonsense.
That doesn't make a child learn.
That doesn't teach a poor kid anything.
Okay, so Ms.
Broci, before you start making accusations about me, about my one vote, you ought to get to know me.
You ought to sit down and have lunch with me.
But perhaps you don't know very many Latino people and you don't have lunch with them.
Perhaps you don't know very many poor blacks to understand.
So before you make these conclusions and draw these assumptions...
What assumptions had she made about him?
This part of it was not on the original clips.
No!
She had demeaned him in an accidental way.
And she was just going off on everybody.
We're talking about this one woman who's going to come in after he berates her.
And you have to imagine her.
She's kind of a sizable...
Young woman with big breasts, and she's one of these types that she has a lavalier that she's holding in front of her mouth.
You've seen this.
So wrong.
Idiots with lavaliers, they think it's a stand mic or something.
They're holding a stand mic.
I think it's actually one of those phone, like for a mobile phone, an older version of a mobile phone, where you have kind of a control unit and the microphone that's part of the wire, and she's plugged that into her computer, apparently.
So she's yelling in, she's holding that thing over to her mouth like an idiot.
Yeah, okay, finish.
You ought to get to know me.
And, you know, I'd like to get to know you.
I'd like to get to know Shino.
But for some reason, I don't deserve a say.
And that's all I have to say.
And I agree, and I support Maude Maroon, and I support what she's doing with the NISA grant and the integration effort.
And I am sure that we can get there if you just let her work.
And if you, in good faith, reach out to her and to others that don't happen to disagree with your hollow and shallow diversity of pronouncements.
Thank you very much.
Let me be.
Actually, Eric, can I please jump in?
I'd like to give other council members a chance to speak before we...
No, no, no.
I want to say something because I was called out by name multiple times.
That's fine.
I made a mistake.
I want to admit...
Edward, I want to apologize to you.
Edward, are you going to give me a space to apologize?
I want to acknowledge that...
Calling out the one vote was an example of white privilege, and it was an example of trying to silence the legitimacy of your space on this council.
That was insane.
And I am apologizing.
Edward, I am apologizing, and you don't have to accept my apology.
And there's work, everyone has work to do.
And I have work to do.
I have 40 plus years of white supremacy I need to undo.
And that was unfair of me to make that point.
And I don't want to silence your voice.
And your voice has merit, Edward.
And I did sit with you before this council started.
And I would talk to you again.
And I'm sorry that...
Hurt you.
So, this is, I think, around page 26 of the Industrial Society and its future, also known as the Unabomber's Manifesto, where he speaks of this over-socialization where everybody is going to offend everybody in some way all the time, And this is the result.
Add to that the technological component of a Zoom call, which just screws up life altogether.
Welcome to your future.
Let's play console bickering.
Apologize more.
This is so much better than the clips I would have made.
So I'm glad you did that because I didn't see any of this part of it.
This is dynamite.
One of the things we should all learn to do, and I'm learning to do this.
When somebody tells you that you did something wrong...
The first thing to do is reflect on that and then apologize.
Even if you don't agree, you apologize.
That's what Robin did.
That is what you do when somebody says you did something wrong and you hurt them.
You're supposed to say, I'm sorry.
And that's how that works, Tom.
Some people said you hurt them.
You may not agree, but the least you can do is, I'm sorry I hurt you.
That is what grown-ups do.
So, it's okay for you to call Tom not grown-up now?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, you can be the judge of it.
What do grown-ups do when somebody says, you hurt me and you don't apologize?
Wow, and these people are indirectly involved with the education of your children.
The joke of this, by the way, this guy, Tom, who she's targeting, who I don't have any clips from him because he's too reasonable.
Finally, he makes this assertion, so Tom comes on and says, oh, okay, well then I felt hurt that you condemned me.
I want your apology.
And no one would apologize to him.
The apologies only go one way.
Oh, I see.
So no one...
Oh, my...
No one would apologize to Tom, because Tom's a dick, apparently, so they didn't like that.
So that's the bickering apologies, and then we had this kind of shaved-head Asian woman, and this is the doing the work clip, which is the keyword.
I want people to realize that the code word is doing the work, which means reading that stupid book, by the way.
I can incorporate this into my sentence.
Excuse me.
Have you not done the work?
Yes.
Are you using your privilege?
And I'm going to get to that, the parallel of that after this clip.
This is fantastic.
Or after the two clips.
We are learning good stuff here, people.
I've done my own work, and some of you have done...
I'd like to speak.
I have a lot to say, but I'll keep it short.
This just illustrates to me...
The need for anti-racism training, because some of you definitely, including myself, actually, I would say all of us, don't have the language to really talk about this in a way that's constructive and productive and growth-oriented.
And I have done my own work, and some of you have done work with the CEC. Marisol hosted courageous conversations, and some of you attended.
Clearly, we need more of it.
And that was really the intent of my letter to you, Maude.
I don't see you doing the work.
Oh my goodness!
Oh, just hold on a second.
I don't care.
You can't say anything.
That was without a doubt.
That was it.
Clip of the day.
I cannot believe...
Well, I can, sadly.
I can believe this, but this has to stop.
Tears will come, people.
This will not end well.
And it's...
This is destructive.
This is destroying people.
And what good is it doing anybody?
Well, it's making something...
It's making money.
And it's making a lot of money.
Let's play this little last clip.
And this is a four-second clip, which I just wanted to show you.
This is another person.
These are all different people.
And this is the last one that I recorded, which, just to summarize, she's got it nailed.
Bridge divides to learn what I need to learn to do the work.
Okay, it hit me.
Where have I heard this phrase before?
You've got to do the work.
Doing the work.
It's about the work.
Are you ready?
Are you ready for it?
I'm ready.
I lived with an actress for several years.
The entire acting community is about doing the work.
You've got to do the work to be able to get to that place to do this role.
Doing the work.
It's taken directly from Strasburg.
Strasburg, who's the lead?
Lee Strasburg is not the...
Yeah, the actor.
Yeah, the training coach.
Yeah, the method actors.
This is method acting!
They are teaching the method acting!
Well, doing the work is actually referring to what they really mean when they say it in this context.
Read the book, I understand.
Read that stupid book.
Read the book.
If you don't read the book, you're not doing the work.
Doing the work.
This is the closest thing I've seen, and I would attribute it to this book and this woman who is going around giving her seminars.
This is very reminiscent of the seminars you would get in the 70s, and it was that sprang out of Earhart...
Oh, wait.
ESM? Sensitivity training.
ESM! EST. EST. Yeah, that's what it was.
These are all EST. This is a rewrite of how EST worked.
It's a little more targeted, but it's the same kind of thing.
They sit you in the room.
They brainwash.
It's a brainwashing session.
Very well done.
I've gone through a couple of them.
When I was at the air pollution district, they made us go through one.
It was some variation.
But it was very...
They're great, and I can see how people get caught up, and the next thing you know, you're going broke, you've got no more money, it's all going to Est.
They haven't got that angle down yet, but they're getting there.
Because you can never finish.
That's the problem.
When you get stuck in one of these, you've got to keep going to seminars, you've got to take more courses.
And the key word back then, I used to use it all the time, because when I was at InfoWare, we had an Esty nutball working there.
It was one of the writers.
And I kind of, you know, you talk about it, you just kind of, why are you getting out of this?
You know, most of us thought it was nuts.
And I thought it was nuts.
But the key word that you could use on people to make them think that you were part of the cult is, have you had the training?
You could say, oh, have you had the training?
Oh, man.
Yes, I've done the work.
Have you done the training?
And was it not in the series, The Americans, that that guy got wrapped up in Est as well on the show?
Oh, I never, you know, people keep telling me I've never watched the series, but that's quite possible.
You know, it's about Russian spies in the United States in the 70s.
During that era.
During that era.
Yeah, that's when you would get wrapped up in it.
Wow, this is so good.
So it's really kind of a cycle.
It's a fractal.
And it's holdover.
Many of these people must be the same people who are coming into this.
I bet you there's plenty of them.
They know the old tricks, the old techniques, the training method.
Only now it's the work.
It's not the training.
It used to be the training.
Have you had the training?
Have you had the training?
Now it's the work.
Have you done the work?
Have you done the work?
It's just a different code word.
But that's the code.
And all you have to say, yes, I've done the work.
And oh, okay, he's one of us.
He's one of the pod people.
Let me try it.
Let me try it.
Excuse me.
I've done the work.
Are you using your privilege to assume that I'm white?
Oh, wow.
It's a double whammy, baby.
Yeah, it goes all the way through.
So I'm not even claiming I'm not white.
Oh, that is dynamite.
I can't wait to try it.
Yeah, tears are violence, man.
Holy crap!
Oh, man.
We're watching a rerun of this bull crap from the 70s with these people.
Yeah.
And they're just rolling in money like they used to.
The tricks always worked.
It was all the little spin-offs of S and there were a ton of them.
But John, but think about it.
So you have S, all these little tricks, and we should probably consider highlighting them because these are amplified through the mechanisms of social media.
They're amplified.
So when you do the work, you get lots of likes.
You know, then all the neurosis triggers go, and so this is highly addictive.
Of course, it never ends well, as you can tell.
What's happening here is a complete meltdown.
And then what happens?
You have to get on antidepressants or some other thing.
It's very destructive.
You're already screwed up if you're easily suckered.
Yeah, but okay.
Look, we're old white dudes, the most hated people in America, because in the world, maybe some sense is coming out.
This is a generation that grew up with the likes and the follows and the notifications and the bells and whistles.
You just tie it into something very easily Well, this is some heavy-duty thinking that went into this.
And it doesn't surprise me that the woman who wrote White Fragility is a psychologist or something.
She knows about these tricks.
This is applied psychology.
People didn't like to talk about it.
But the CIA knows about it.
The idea was, it's not psychology, it's applied psychology.
In other words, you use psychology to manipulate people.
And that's what's going on here.
People are being manipulated by this, and you see the results of these meetings, and they're disruptive.
Yeah.
the methodic guy there, plus Tom who was berated, and there was one other guy who was a defender.
There was two sides of this thing.
You can see clearly there was four people that were social justice types and four people that weren't.
And the people that weren't, and I have to say this just across the board, don't know what's going on.
Don't know what's hitting them.
Don't know how it works.
And really the only way you can protect yourself is by sticking close to us.
that No, your bit, the bit you just did, that is your armor.
You can do that.
That guy kind of did that in that one clip where he says, wait, are you accusing Tom of being immature?
Right, right.
That was using your own language against it, but you can't do it in this.
The problem, the way I see it, Doing that kind of thing in the way I would do it.
My snide, sarcastic manner.
Right, right.
But that is not the way to do it.
I just do it that way because I don't care.
But the way you described doing it, that's the way to do it.
I'm going to refine it yet again.
I've done the work and I am surprised that you use your privilege to assume that I am white.
Yes, that's even better That's a dynamite thing to say to somebody I think you have to step...
But that only works if somebody's calling you white.
Yeah, racist.
There's got to be some other...
White supremacist.
That mechanism is just a baseline, I think, for a lot of mechanisms that can be developed that would all push people back.
There was some guy, I think it was Ohio State or some college, this is a clip from like years ago, when these kids came in demanding this and demanding that.
And he used the idea of, you're in my space, and he threw all the same cornball stuff back at it.
Now I feel unsafe.
I just told these kids, and they all got out and left.
They didn't follow up on it at all.
They just left.
I don't feel safe.
It's fantastic.
It's fantastic.
And I think we have an example of one of these...
In this ongoing Massachusetts boycott of Whole Foods.
Remember I remarked that they had this really cute girl, young woman, who was doing all the talking about the Black Lives Matter face masks, which were not allowed.
So she's back in the picture now.
This is two weeks later, or maybe a week or ten days later.
And she is...
I'm thinking she is trained, and it's too bad we don't have video, because it's one of the few times you'd really...
Her name is Savannah something or other.
There's training that's going on.
Listen to this report, because she's good.
She's really good.
Customers and employees boycotting side-by-side outside of the Whole Foods in Cambridge.
We've been told to...
Take our masks off or leave without pay.
It's going on day 18.
Some employees walking off the job daily after being reprimanded by management for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks at work.
I think they should let us support Any kind of movement that is human rights and that's equal rights, until their bottom line is hurt and they see that people care, I don't think they're going to change.
Even the most loyal of shoppers are changing their minds about the company, standing in solidarity.
I feel completely uncomfortable giving them any of my dollars.
So we've stopped shopping here?
A Whole Foods spokesperson told CBS News their dress code policy prohibits visible slogans, messages, or logos unrelated to the company.
But their employees disagree.
We're gay pride pins.
We wear...
Here she is.
We wear Red Sox masks.
We wear Bruins masks.
We're encouraged to.
And I can't understand why they're not...
Changing this policy because it's so small.
Even though some of these employees are on the verge of losing their jobs, they vow to continue to walk out and to speak out until changes are made.
I think, and it's called a false equivalency, to use one of those great new words, to say that representing sports pride for your town or your state is equal to Black Lives Matter political statement.
In fact, it's actually kind of demeaning.
It's kind of demeaning.
It's just like sports to you, Mom.
This is one of those situations, unfortunately, I've said this before, it should have happened at Evergreen, where the kids should have been expelled.
Because a kid getting into college and then getting expelled from college has to go home to their parents and say, I got expelled.
Why did you get expelled?
There's no good reason.
They should just shut that Whole Foods down and leave town.
Yeah.
It's been 18 days, almost three weeks.
No, I shut it down.
Bezos has got the money.
He doesn't care.
Shut the Whole Foods down and leave these people.
Let them screw them and then make sure that's on their record.
They managed to shut down the store.
I know, but Bezos is in the same spot, man.
He's running commercials showing how good they are for the green earth and how good they are for Black Lives Matter and $2 million here.
Realizes that Bezos even owns Whole Foods.
This is happening.
Bezos is in trouble, too.
He's in trouble.
They're camping outside his house.
He's got to close that store.
All right.
Luckily, we have a complete disruption coming on the scene.
And this is real.
I have a lot of respect for what he's doing.
And I think there's a method to the madness.
This is Reuters.
The presser famously sang that no one man should have all that power, but it seems like rapper Kanye West wants some of it, announcing on Saturday that he would run for president in 2020.
Although it was not immediately clear if West was serious about vying for the presidency just four months out from the election, or if he had filed any official paperwork to appear on state election ballots, He posted on Twitter, The deadline to add independent candidates to the ballot has not yet passed in many states.
West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, have visited Donald Trump in the White House, and he already has at least one high profile supporter.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk replying to the tweet, you have my full support.
OK, I want I want to and I got to tell you, I've analyzed this guy.
I like him a lot.
And I like what he did when he went into the Oval Office and he was talking about the 14th Amendment.
And of course, people call him nuts.
And already TMZ has launched the headline, Kanye West in midst of bipolar episode, family concerned, according to sources who are familiar with their thinking.
You know, that kind of stuff.
This is a very interesting move.
He's a billionaire, by the way.
He is a very wealthy, very successful guy.
He comes across as nuts, and the media will portray him as however they want to portray him, the same they did for Donald Trump.
He has maybe not a real – certainly no shot of becoming president for 2020.
This is the wind-up.
This is a warm-up for Kanye for 2024, and he's a great choice because – and I vote for Vermin Supreme.
I like his platform.
Everybody gets a free pony.
I love the outfit, and it keeps me unaffiliated so we can do this show with clear conscience and heart.
But Kanye, wow!
So you don't have to vote for Trump for all the things you don't really like about Trump of being just a douche sometimes and being cringy.
But, you know, Kanye's not going to beat Trump, but he'll certainly take away a vote from Biden.
That is a very powerful position, and Kanye will have some power.
Maybe it's 1% of the black vote, ADOS in this case.
Who knows?
He'll have some peace, because a lot of people take him seriously, as do I. And this is a Ross Perot game-changer for this election.
And, hello, he's a black man.
He gets no...
Black man running for president.
He doesn't get any serious interviews, really, in Forbes, you know, like a kind of literal reprint of him saying wacky stuff the same way they do about Trump.
That's because they take him seriously, too.
They know he's a detriment to the whole idea of hiding Joe in the in the basement and having a unity consensus technocrat government surrounding him because that's what they're setting up.
It's going to suck.
What the heck?
This kind of sucked.
Shit, come on!
What's going to suck?
If Joe Biden wins with whatever, this whole unity...
Have you seen...
I have a clip here.
Hold on a second.
This is the Biden-Sanders unity task force.
And they rolled out the platform.
A task force set up by Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and former presidential contender Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent, released a sweeping set of platform recommendations on Wednesday that lays out a progressive roadmap for Democrats, the one that falls short of Sanders' push for radical change.
The task force, which was launched in May...
Laid out its platform recommendations on a number of key issues, including climate change, criminal justice reform, immigration policies, healthcare, education, and the economy in a 110-page document.
If you're wondering where all the toilet paper went, apparently the Hill used it to have their voiceover people talk through when they're recording their articles.
Not as bad as Biden.
Bring it, bring it, bring me some Biden.
All right, so Biden gave this speech in some little town in...
This was a big deal.
He came out of the basement.
He was out all of a sudden.
And so nobody mic'd him right.
They played live streams on CNBC or one of them.
CNBC, I think, CNN. I know the Washington Post.
They won't play a live Trump thing, but Washington Post even streamed it on YouTube.
And this is the best I could get.
And this is, not only that, but it started raining during the thing.
Oh, gosh.
So everyone had to come inside and violate the rules.
And at the end of the thing, I should mention, that they're, you know, they got these big circles.
You're supposed to stand in a circle because every circle is six feet apart.
Right.
And so that looked idiotic.
And then, of course, when the thing was over, they all mingled.
I mean, come on.
Make up your mind.
So it started raining, and Biden was freaked out by this, and so he thought it was raining, and he didn't think it was raining.
He kind of lost his sense of things, because the whole speech was read from a prompter, and he walked off immediately, took no questions.
No, he couldn't ad-lib about the rain.
But even in the process of doing this, he still screwed up, of course.
So this is the part where it starts raining, and Biden kind of freaks out, ad-libs.
And labor, unions, the only one that has that capacity to do it.
That's raining outside.
Come on in, guys.
I don't want anybody out there.
Are you guys in the rain?
Oh my gosh.
Or is that not rain?
I thought that was rain.
It is?
You guys can come on in.
Don't stay out there.
But look.
Determination, resilience, and grit.
The strength to get up no matter how many times you get knocked down.
Respect for hard work and for the people who do it.
These are the values I grew up with and all of you have grown up with.
Wow.
Mike, it was.
Wow!
Yeah, and it kind of reminded me...
Let me see if I can do this.
Let me see if this will work.
Oh my gosh, Joe.
My name.
Yeah.
A little walking in the rain, Ronettes.
I mean, this is beautiful.
It gives you such a vision of a powerful new leader.
Yeah, the guy, and this is unbelievable.
I got the one gaffe.
This is his Great Depression.
Yeah, listen to this.
Oh my gosh, I can't wait.
This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investment in ways not seen since the Great Depression of World War II. Whoa.
Not seen since the Great Depression of World War II. What depression was that?
I've got to make sure he was saying that.
This is a fact check.
We need to fact check.
This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investment in ways not seen since the Great Depression of World War II. He said of.
He wanted to say or.
I know this is on the prompter.
He said the Great Depression or World War II. Yeah, he misread it.
So he can't debate Trump, which is why they're already pushing that.
No, they're going to get out of the debate you watch.
There's going to be voting by mail.
You know what?
No.
Watch out.
Some kind of genius blockchain invention is coming and we're all going to vote on the blockchain while we have our masks on making love to our partners.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Not us because you and I are out on the street, white man.
So, I did find a thing that Norah O'Donnell interviewed some time ago.
It was about, I'd say, maybe a year ago.
Actually, it was just before he got all his votes needed to be the nominee.
And he was in the studio, and it was actually pretty...
It was succinct, kind of, but there's something in this clip that I wanted to play, and this is, oh yeah, this is the fact that he won't, this is in June, and he wouldn't answer a question where Trump's name was invoked.
And it was actually a good question.
It wasn't a Trump question.
It was just a comment that Trump made that she wanted him to respond to.
He refused to say anything about it because it's Trump.
And she never called him back on it.
This very poor job by Nora O'Donnell here.
Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement?
Absolutely.
But it's not just in law enforcement.
It's across the board.
It's in housing.
It's in education.
It's in everything we do.
It's real.
It's genuine.
It's serious.
Look, not all law enforcement officers are racist.
My lord, there are some really good, good cops out there.
But the way in which it works right now, we've seen too many examples of it.
Do you support defunding the police?
No, I don't support defunding the police.
I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness, and in fact are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community.
Does it hurt Democrats' cause?
If there are some in your party that are saying defund the police, the president is suggesting that shows Democrats are weak in terms of law enforcement.
The president has no credibility on anything.
He lies.
He's the first person anyone can think of in modern history who's taken regular military officers and had the move against Wait a minute.
It was the National Guard, wasn't it?
Yeah.
And it was the officers.
You officers get out there and stop those protesters.
I thought it was generals.
He made the generals do it.
Generals, you have to do some work.
You're not doing anything.
Oh, my goodness.
Hmm.
Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.
Well, if you think that's the problem, and we'll just kind of continue this thread for a moment, ABC News has found out that our national parks are, in fact, problematic, which, and I have a new term for us, this needs, this situation with the natural parks needs to be normalized.
Can't be normalized.
Depends on how you want to use it.
The sweeping vistas stir the soul.
Wildlife and waterfalls awaken a sense of wonder.
The American wilderness a playground for old and for young and overwhelmingly white.
When you look around you don't see people that you identify with.
You don't feel welcome.
You feel out of place.
You feel literally like you are an outsider.
Ambreen Tarek is founder of Brown People Camping.
When she was eight years old, her family moved from India to Minnesota, where she fell in love with the outdoors.
20 years later, she's still astonished not to see more people like her.
Some people might say, isn't this just that people of color don't like to camp?
Yeah.
And to that, I would say, no, right?
That's a generalization.
And just because something isn't happening or the presence of someone is missing does not mean they don't want to be there.
To many Americans of color, parks, campgrounds, and forest land are stubborn bastions of self-segregation.
Damn!
Do you think this is true?
Is there some truth to this?
Seems wild, this accusation.
That blacks don't like to camp?
Yeah, John.
That was my question.
Uh...
That was a very strange report.
Oh, and it went on for seven minutes.
It was very in-depth.
Huh.
And I don't know.
Well, I know who to ask, of course.
But I never really thought about that.
And I've been in national parks.
Why don't you bring it up on the next show?
Yeah.
I've been around national parks a lot.
I don't know.
It always seems pretty diverse to me.
But maybe it's tourists.
I don't know.
Who knows?
National parks are problematic.
Huh.
Well, anyway, that's a showstopper, whatever.
I don't know.
Which you did there, but you stopped the show.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to stop the show.
Let's just play this clip, which I don't even know what it is.
Let's sit here and it's just beckoning called Fake Racists.
Okay, well, now, this could pick us up out of this show-stopping moment.
Raymond DeRosa and his family were having dinner on his wife's birthday, July 4th, at Carmel Valley Restaurant Lucia.
We were there just celebrating, having fun.
When that fun quickly disappeared, as the man you can see in the background of the celebratory picture began ranting.
Suddenly I hear this loud voice, um, effing Asians.
Arosa's niece, Jordan Chan, recorded what happened next on her cell phone.
Say that again.
Oh, now you're shy?
Michael Lofthouse gave the family the finger, then said...
Joe's gonna f*** you.
You f***!
You need to leave.
You do not talk about death like that.
You need to leave.
Asian piece of s***.
Oh my God.
He was full of hate and anger on me.
It's sad that there's still people that are like that in this world.
Let alone in this country.
A Lucia employee quickly stepped in.
Where did this trauma-based entertainment take place?
In Carmel at the Bernardus Lodge.
And who's the white person of this fracas?
Because that's how it's usually put together.
This white person is a...
All the news covered him as a...
Prominent Silicon Valley CEO of a company, a cloud-based company out of San Francisco, which is where the story gets interesting.
But you've wrapped that up and I'll tell you what the deal is.
I admire her for that.
In an emailed statement, the Vice President and General Manager at Bernardus Lodge and Spa in part writes, quote, We are proud of our staff at Lucia in keeping with Bernardus Lodge's core values.
Michael Lofthouse also issued a statement writing, quote, my behavior in the video is appalling.
This was clearly a moment where I lost control and made incredibly hurtful and divisive comments.
I would like to deeply apologize to the Chan family.
I can only imagine the stress and pain they feel.
I was taught to respect people of all races, and I will take the time to reflect on my actions to better understand the inequality that so many of those around me face every day.
He's just saving face, I think.
I think he really meant what he said and what he did.
I don't believe his words because his actions speak louder than the words he say.
Arosa says those actions in part include additional Instagram comments that appear to have been posted by Lofthouse directed at one of the family's supporters that include Asian expletive and come near me or my people and you are expletive dead.
Lofthouse did not respond to a request for an additional comment about the Instagram post or his role as Solid8CEO, a San Francisco-based tech company.
I can't say what he did was acceptable or right.
No, it isn't.
It isn't because a lot of people will probably disagree with me by saying I forgive him, but I do.
Okay.
Well, this is an interesting case that we have on our hands.
You heard her.
He's the CEO of Solid 8, a San Francisco-based tech company.
Yeah.
You've looked them up?
The Solid 8?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
What's going on?
I looked up everything.
Is this a hate crime?
First I had to find out where they're located.
And I sent a note to this.
This is an ABC report.
I sent a note to the reporter saying, you know, give me the address of where this company is in San Francisco.
Do you have it?
The San Francisco-based tech company is San Francisco-based.
He started this company two years ago out of his house in Los Gatos, and now it runs out of a mail drop in a shopping mall in Los Gatos.
It's the AIM mailbox company.
He's got his box number.
He doesn't have a company that I can tell.
This is like a porn company.
This is a porn company.
Come on.
I don't even think it's that.
Solid8, he does have a website.
You can go to, I think it's solid8.net or something, or TV or something, solid8.info, I don't know.
And it's just a dead site.
It was put together through GoDaddy anonymously, and it's been, I don't know, the site's only been up since.
So they spend all this time on ABC, your local ABC station, showing this guy a racist Silicon Valley CEO. What is up?
Yeah, and then it also ran in USA Today.
It ran at Gizmodo, had a whole piece on it, which called the President of the United States a white supremacist.
I mean, this is completely nuts.
This guy, as far as I can tell, this guy doesn't have a business.
I mean, it is an LLC that's registered with the state of California through that mailbox in Los Gatos, which is supposed to be the office.
And...
I don't know what the deal is.
What's the end?
What's the goal here?
A canned apology this guy had?
It was a canned apology?
How is this even a news story?
This is a sham.
So what is this?
Is this a jab at the real Silicon Valley to say, hey, we're just warming up over here.
This is what we can do?
I don't know.
Who owns Gizmodo?
He went after Asians for a reason.
Who owns Gizmodo?
Gizmodo is owned by that company that was after Gawker Media fell apart.
Is that Peter Thiel?
Did Peter Thiel buy it all?
I don't think so.
This is the one that Jezebel is also part of this operation.
China?
There's a bunch of social justice warriors.
I'll find the quote and put it in the newsletter.
It's pretty pathetic.
But this is a scam of some sort, and I can't put my finger on why.
Or maybe just the publicity stunt for the guy.
Well, that's a really lame way to go about getting some publicity for your cloud-based company.
What's the publicity going to accomplish?
Don't do publicity stunts unless it makes you money or sells books.
Exactly.
I'm going to show myself all by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Getting parched right now.
Ryan Smith's at the top of the list for the guys we want to thank for show 1259.
And he comes in from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Good old Raleigh.
188.33.
And he made it to knighthood.
Yowza!
He's going to be Sir Jerry Curl.
Knight of the All Things Greasy.
Yes, indeed.
And he went through beer floats and Jaeger schnitzel at the knighting ceremony.
Yeah, I already pre-ordered that, so we're good.
Okay, good.
Christopher Bolton in Newcastle.
Under Lime in Statfordshire, UK. 137.17.
I do have to read what he says.
Keep up the adequate work.
He's an understated Brit.
The adequate work.
Sir Knight of the Marshlands in Marshland, Wisconsin.
129.50.
Joe Campagna in Ontario, Canada.
He's got some jobs karma at the end for you.
$111.11.
Joe Anthony Coat in Manchester, New Hampshire.
$100.
And he, I think, wants a dedouching.
We're giving it to him.
You've been dedouched.
Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, is $100.
Rob Van Dyke, $100 from him.
He's in Holland.
Holland, for sure.
Sir Timothy, $99.99.
Jane Denifer.
I said it again.
What is going on with that?
You're flustered by Dame Jennifer.
Dame Jennifer.
Dame Jennifer.
What does she say?
Let me see what she says.
Let me see what she says.
Yeah, she's got something to say.
In the morning, more value for value from you all, from animated, no agenda.
My LGY, my dad would have been 83 on July 11th, effing cancer.
Happy birthday in paradise.
We miss you here in clown world.
Bet you're glad you are missing.
Hold on, let me expand that cell.
You are missing the chaos.
Pronounced Chouse of 2020.
XOXO Dame Jennifer.
Aw, that's so nice.
Sir Herb Lamb, the Viscount of Georgia, Baron of Buford Dam in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
And he's got a human resource, Max, who he wishes a happy birthday on the list.
He also says I'd like to call him out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Okay.
All right.
Now, this next...
This is a kid.
You're supposed to be paying his way.
Thanks for the excellent continued coverage of the plandemic.
A lot of people like that, of course.
Now, this next one, Steve Webb, I just need to stop for a moment.
Steve Webb is OG... I think he was the original God...
one of the original Godcasters when we were just starting 2004, 2005.
And he's, it just needs to, it's 77, 77.
He's in Riverside, California.
Just read a little bit of his note.
He says he took a few years off.
But he felt the calling to return to producing more content.
Lifespringmedia.com.
That's what I was getting to.
And he's doing 10 episodes.
And I don't think he's donated.
But he wanted to say hi.
And he wanted to support the show.
And I want to give him a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
Welcome back.
Onward with Baron Mark Tanner, as usual.
Comes in with 76.54 twice a month from Whittier, California.
Thank you, sir.
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Sir Jim Zuckel, 6969.
Beverly Hills, Sir Slardabart Fest.
Sir Slardabart Fest.
Yes, very important.
I'm not pronouncing that right.
Yes, you are.
Slardabart Fest.
You got it.
Of the Crinkly Bits in Hope, Rhode Island, 6543.
Two Rhode Islanders today.
Sir Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia, 60.
Troy Watson in Western Shore, Nova Scotia, 5575.
Darren Christie in Spokane, Washington, 5150.
Nathan Payne.
Payne.
Payne.
Paragon, Indiana, 5032, got a birthday.
Excuse me, the future Mr., Mrs., the future, Mrs.
Future Dame Payne.
There you go.
Gordon Veal of 5001.
He's a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
And the following people are $50 donor's name and location, if I have it.
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Drew Mochak in Mountain View, California.
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I think there used to be famous pottery made there.
Jeremy Silver in Stratford, Connecticut.
Jesse Hall in Friendswood, Texas.
Kimberly Redmond in Toronto, Ontario.
Yair Moore in Basel.
Basel.
Basel.
Switzerland.
Basel, Switzerland.
He has also got a birthday list and he needs a dedouching.
Yeah, we got that.
You've been dedouched.
Oh, did you do an interview with him?
I did.
He interviewed you and plugged the podcast on Israel's most prominent financial newspaper in 2012.
Ah, yes I did.
Alright, nice.
Good work.
And then Clayton Dunavant in Greenfield, Wisconsin, 50.
And keep on the great job, by the way, our Israeli friend says.
Okay, that would be concluding our 1259 show.
I want to thank all these folks for producing the show and keeping us going.
And I have a quick make good for Senor Miguel, who we highlighted as executive producer or maybe associate executive producer on the last show.
Mr.
Jobs Karma, good because you'll share it with everybody who needs it.
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It's your birthday, birthday.
I know what you're doing.
And here we go for the, uh, my goodness, the 12th of July 2020.
We have Yair Moore, who celebrates today, as does Chuck.
Sure has to hashtag blessed of the Cavitee aficionados.
Miss Future Dane Payne says happy birthday with smoking hot husband Nathan Payne.
He celebrates tomorrow.
Jamie Stinson says happy birthday to his smoking hot Anna.
Sir Paul, the trusted advisor, turns 33.
Sir Herb Lamb's son Max will be 19 on the 19th.
Emily...
Shade celebrates on the 14th, and Sir Knives of the Providence Plantations will be 32 tomorrow.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
Uh, only, uh, let me see, yeah, just one, uh, one nighting, but that doesn't mean that we don't need our blade.
I've got the travel version here, so if you can compensate.
Hold on a second.
Oh, that's compensation.
No, that's a big one.
All right then, Ryan Smith.
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and the Knights and Dames, and I'm very proud to pronounce the KB, Sir Jerry Curl, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
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We got the bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, but there is always the one favorite, mutton and mead.
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And thank you so much for producing the No Agenda show, the best podcast in the universe.
Yes, we have Sir Ben Nidus, Black Knight of Brooklyn, becomes the Baron of San Francisco, as you heard earlier.
That is now approved by the Peerage Committee.
And what were we still looking for?
We were looking for Oakland, I guess.
Oakland would be great.
Okay, Oakland, that is.
And thank you very much, Baron of San Francisco, for, of course, producing this program and the best podcast in the universe.
All right.
Well, we do have two meetup reports, which are always appreciated from meetups that took place in the past few days.
I believe we go to Northeast Ohio first.
So from the Northeast Ohio meetup, we are taking refuge in North Canton because Summit County and Cuyahoga County are both closed for business.
This is Sir Christopher of Macedonia saying hi and in the morning and I'll pass the phone around.
This is Sir Titsy.
This is the Earl Walkman In the morning.
Oh, this is Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
Hi, John.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Hello, John.
I think someone's smiling at you.
Hey, Dame Ashley, how you doing?
In the morning.
Oh, this is Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
Hi, John.
This is Sir Real Estate.
In the morning.
This is Sir David C. Pugh.
In the morning, fellas.
This is dude named Jay.
And I want to go where...
I'm with all the knights and dames.
I am not a sir and really don't believe to be...
deserve to be on here.
And I think you're getting in a lot.
I am getting in a lot.
My wife calling, wondering where I am right in the middle of it.
Sir Joe, we want here in the morning.
In the morning, John and Adam.
In the morning, Adam Denicola.
In the morning, Brian Bagus.
Bring back 69, dude.
Douchebag Kyle.
Glaine Maxwell didn't kill herself tomorrow.
In the morning, this is Deuce Bag with Jim.
Drew Sample, Northland and Columbus, Ohio.
Wow, this is big!
Sparky Johnson, Sandusky, Ohio.
Boris Ungerlieder, somewhere.
What?
Joe Bertolini, Akron, Ohio.
I think I got everyone, so this is the, again, Sir Christopher signing off from now Canton, Ohio.
In the morning.
Wow, man, I think they had 21 people or something.
It was off the hook.
That's pretty amazing.
I love that.
And this is all just...
They go from place to place because they shut down behind them.
I know.
They're running, like, breaking the law on the lam.
The No Agenda producer meetup in Northeast Ohio, where they're all clumsy together.
We also have a somewhat shorter report from Seattle.
This is Patrick at the Seattle meetup, and half of us are still here.
Hey, in the morning, this is Sir Art Vandelay, and we are having a good time.
Hey, sir, the original douchebag from Seattle, Washington.
Hey, coming at you from WKRP in Seattle.
I'm Kel.
I was hit and passed by one Jonathan Colton, and I am a colossal fucking douchebag.
Okay.
I don't watch the podcast.
We're gonna hit him in the mouth.
Hey, this is Will.
Hit him in the mouth.
Hey, this is Thomas.
Donald Trump, don't trust China!
China's asshole!
Hey, this is Bryce.
And believe it or not, not everybody in Seattle is crazy.
Sounds like there's some good ones up there.
That's so cool.
And I understand this.
And I'm going to the next Austin meetup.
It's important.
You want to get out.
You want to talk to people that at least won't look at you.
You don't have to worry about them.
You know, if you want to wear a mask, if you want to wear a hazmat suit, no one's going to care at the meetup.
If you want to have nothing, no one's going to care.
You're just going to be together.
You can talk.
You can't talk with anyone anymore.
You can't talk with your own kids.
It's nuts.
Hey, here's the rest of the meetups as they're scheduled for today.
We still have the Alexander, Virginia meetup.
I guess it might be ongoing as we speak.
Hi, guys.
And that was Sir William of West Pennsylvania.
Probably also, let's see, no, still go tonight.
No, no, it's probably busy as well.
Stu at the Mostadome in Malta.
I hope that that went okay.
Then we have, coming up Friday on the 17th, Montreal, Quebec, 6 o'clock.
High Citizen organizing for you.
The venue is TBD, so go to noandjadameetups.com.
Also on Friday, in Croatia, at the Adriana Bar, Alex will be organizing at 7 p.m., Central European Time Zone.
I can't wait to get a report from that meetup.
Western New York Local 8008, The Boob, at 2 p.m.
on July 18th.
ETA, Eastern Time, help us plan this, says Sir Rodolf Baron of Western New York.
So go to noagendameetups.com.
If there isn't a meetup there on the list, and we have many more in the future, you can just start one.
It's fun, and cool people come out, and it'll be very good for your mental well-being during this global lockdown.
In fact, it's like a party.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be, triggered on hell's flame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Hey.
I wanted to take a moment.
I've got a couple of three clips, actually, of Chris Fenton.
I almost have two clips.
Chris Fenton is a producer.
He is like a movie producer, big time.
He did some of the Marvel stuff, Iron Man, a couple other movies.
And he...
As the story goes, was so tired of kowtowing to the CCP, as all of Hollywood does, that he's written a book, of course, which he is now promoting.
And I have not read it yet, but I look forward to.
And here's just a couple of clips of him talking about the hoops that they had to go through to have access to the Chinese market, which is really where all the money is.
Since the Clinton administration, that's what the deals have been all about.
So from Hollywood to the sports world, NBA, without China, without access, and they may take advantage of their position.
And they will cut you off, as we saw with the Hong Kong NBA fracas, which don't talk about that anymore.
So here he is talking about, I think this is Iron Man.
One of the things that China was extremely strict on us about was...
If you're going to have access to this market, and you're going to have access to market and promote this movie far beyond most movies, you need to shoot the movie here.
Not all of it, but parts of it.
And you need to have what they call first unit people over, which means having Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr.
Having our director over there and showcasing the movie by shooting it so many days in that market and having a certain amount of the movie take place in China in the final cut.
Unfortunately, what happened, Robert Downey Jr.
got hurt during that production.
So we lost a lot of potential shooting days that we could have done in China.
So we ended up shooting just second unit material in the market.
And we did certain things with the CCP's guidance to try to showcase the amount of movie making we were doing in that market.
And the amount of people that we were hiring with those second unit shots that were Chinese.
And the amount of skill set and exchange that we were doing...
To help them build their own film industry.
Because remember, the CCP is about how do we govern 1.4 billion people and keep them just happy enough that they don't revolt.
You can't make them all happy.
There's not enough resources on Earth.
So how do you keep them just happy enough that they don't revolt?
Part of that is giving them all of what they need and some of what they want.
But another big part of that is also building their middle class.
And how do you build their middle class?
Well, you create industries that hire skilled labor.
And the film industry is one of them.
And it's already all there.
There's nothing left.
Not much.
In Hollywood.
Yeah, well this is true.
Here's a funny anecdote he had about the movie Point Break.
I guess they did a remake of that movie, of Point Break, but again, a little interesting tidbit on how much control the CCP has over the storyline, even.
Point Break is another one, right?
Where...
We did the remake and there was a scene in that movie where we were going to open up the film with a cold open, which is always that high action sort of impact, three minutes that gets you right into the movie.
And it was going to take place in Shanghai.
And it was going to take place in a building way up, like on the top floor of one of those massive buildings in the Pudong District.
And it was a diamond store or a diamond showcase center.
And these motorcycles were driving through.
They got on the elevator.
And they started taking all the diamonds.
And then they drove out the building up on the 100th floor.
And they had parachutes.
And they were supposed to take the diamonds with them.
But because they're sort of Robin Hood characters, they were going to spread the diamonds all over the city from the air.
And then all the Chinese were supposed to pick up the diamonds because the Robin Hood effort won over the rich diamond dealers or whatever.
But the Chinese government said, you can't do that.
I was going to say, I'm sure that one didn't go over very well.
They said, well, number one is, our police would have caught them.
And number two is...
The Chinese people would not pick up diamonds that weren't theirs.
So this does not make sense.
That might actually be true.
Yeah, I don't think so.
We need to help the Chinese people.
We need to tell them what's going on.
Pick up a diamond if you see it laying around.
That's our tip of the day.
Our anti-CCP tip of the day.
If you see a diamond laying around, go ahead.
Pick it up.
It's okay.
It's the little subtlety that's got to drive these guys nuts, which is that our police wouldn't let that happen.
Right.
When you compare it to our storytelling mechanism, just on TV, for example, let's examine the show NCIS Los Angeles where there are bombings and shootings and car chases and explosions all over the place by these NCIS people and no local cop ever shows up.
Our police in Los Angeles don't give a crap.
You know, it's so predictable, but the cops are just going to walk.
They're going to leave.
People are going to find other things to do.
Oh, I think we're going to have a policing problem in this country.
Major.
Thank you, Black Lives Matter.
Good move.
It's a Marxist idea.
Yeah.
Major problem.
I mean, once you even just talk about defunding, it's over.
It's over.
Who wants that job?
Ah, it's very, very sad.
Okay.
So I have a couple of things to end with.
Please.
I thought this was...
I got one short Kaylee.
Let's get it out of the way.
She's bitching and moaning.
She did a press conference early in the week where all they asked her was about the Confederate flight.
The Confederate flight.
Because Trump tweeted something stupid.
See, this is what Trump does that will make people vote for Kanye.
It's this kind of shit that drives people crazy.
Okay, you can think that all you want.
But this is a classic.
She didn't have a setup.
She didn't have any target, but she did her classic close and walk with them yelling at her.
On ventilators and having to laters that we were able to deploy around the world and help other countries.
So that's what I would have to say on covid.
And finally, I didn't with this.
You know, I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag.
This president's focus on action.
And I'm a little dismayed that I didn't receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend.
I didn't receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week.
And over the last seven days, shootings skyrocket by 142 percent.
Not one question.
I didn't receive one question about five children who were killed.
And I'll leave you with this remark by a dad.
It broke my heart.
A dad of an eight-year-old lost in Atlanta this weekend.
They say black lives matter.
You killed a child.
She didn't do nothing to nobody, was his quote.
We need to be focused on securing our streets, making sure no lives are lost because all black lives matter.
That of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old girl.
Thank you.
We're glad to ask you a ton more questions.
We welcome you back.
We'll ask you all those topics.
Wow.
Wow.
That was...
What kind of...
What's going on with her?
She's irked.
That's her job.
She's irked.
She's smiley.
She's different.
Sarah Sanders is not much different in the way they approach these things, except Sarah always had this grouchy look on her face.
She never smiled.
When she did it, it was rare.
And she wasn't the cute, bubbly blonde, so the cute, bubbly blonde comes on, and she smiles, and she knows everyone's name, and then at the end, she turns on the group and yells at them for not doing their job correctly.
Which is why we love her.
It's just a fantastic act.
Which is why we write songs about her.
May we have her around long time.
But I don't know.
I'm worried for her future.
Oh, she's fine.
Says you.
I think so.
So I got two other clips.
All right.
Just a news clip.
This is the St.
Sophia.
This is a major story that they're playing on.
They played it on CBS, so I guess they're picking it up on a national level.
When we talked about the Pope earlier, then this happened, I'm thinking.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is another piece of the puzzle in the new Dan Brown novel.
Now, I have two of them.
One is, it starts with lowercase, I think, is the real clip.
The other one is an empty file.
The World Council of Churches expressed dismay today following a decision by Turkey's president to convert one of the country's most famous landmarks from a museum into a mosque.
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was built 1,500 years ago as an orthodox cathedral.
CBS's Holly Williams is there.
For nearly 90 years, Hagia Sophia has been a museum, built as a cathedral for Christians, later becoming a mosque for Muslims.
But modern Turkey's founder, Kemal Atatürk, wanted it to be a monument for everyone.
Now, Turkey's current leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced it'll be converted back into a mosque.
Delighting his devout supporters who celebrated outside Hagia Sophia chanting God is great.
But the decision horrifies those like Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk who want their country to remain a place where politics and religion are kept separate.
There are millions of secular Turks like Who are crying against this, but their voices are not heard because we don't have enough free speech and democracy in Turkey, unfortunately, anymore.
Hagia Sophia was built as a cathedral around 1500 years ago when this city, now known as Istanbul, was ruled by the Christian Byzantine Empire.
Then, nearly 600 years ago, it became a mosque when the city was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
In modern day Turkey, the religious and the secular rub shoulders, often surprisingly, sometimes uncomfortably.
The decision to convert Hagia Sophia back into a mosque has been criticized by Christian leaders, and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned against it.
When I hear this report, I am so happy that the state of Texas is lowering marijuana to a second-class drug.
I mean, this is crazy.
This is real Ottoman Empire Vatican shit.
This is, you know, like Crusaders.
There's something going on.
I've been to this place.
You think?
Oh, you've been there?
Okay, cool.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Oh, tell me.
It is unbelievable.
This thing was built in like 500 years.
And it is so big, it's absolutely impossible to believe that this was built during that era.
It's a gorgeous facility.
The other thing is, nearby there's another famous mosque called the Blue Mosque.
That serves the purpose.
I don't know why they're switching this back.
It was originally an Eastern Orthodox church, a massive, massive church.
I mean, you have to go visit this thing to imagine how monstrous it is.
And then, of course, the Ottoman Empire took it over and turned it into a mosque, and it works as a mosque.
Mm-hmm.
What do you mean?
What do you mean it works as a mosque?
It looks like a mosque.
Don't they need to change something?
No conversion?
They just hang a different sign on the outside.
What's the deal?
Take the cross down?
Well, if you go in the thing, it's pretty mosque-y already.
Hmm.
Okay.
Although there is some imagery in there, which they, I don't know what they're going to do about that.
Didn't they paint over the frescoes?
Yeah, they're going to paint over the frescoes.
They have to do that because they have this, the frescoes are nice, they're gorgeous.
Well, that's done.
It's a fabulous place that I don't understand why they're politicizing it.
Something else is going on, we have to assume.
End of times.
End of times, yeah, it could be.
Now, the last clip I have is an irksome clip.
As opposed to this.
As opposed to this.
Okay.
Yeah, that's pretty bad, too.
Yeah, it's up there.
Now, this is the pro sports team names and all these names.
You know, they're trying to change all these names.
This is a good story because it brings in an element that I do want to discuss before we quit the show, which is the notion that putting any sort of makeup on is akin to blackface.
And we have to remember that blackface is a specific insult and appropriation based on the minstrel era.
It's got nothing to do with painting your face at a football game red or blue or green or anything like that at all.
But in this case, no, everything's going to be equated to blackface.
For a long time, there have been calls for certain pro sports teams to change names that many view as racist.
Change has been slow to come by, but there is now a renewed debate.
Frank Morris with member station KCUR reports on what makes this moment different.
Lots of Native Americans loathe the name of Washington's NFL team, the Redskins.
Yeah, it's a dictionary-defined racial slur.
Full stop.
Crystal Echohock, who heads the advocacy group Illuminative, says a 30-year stalemate with a team suddenly broke when Washington's corporate sponsors demanded a new name, and the team agreed to consider it.
What changed was the murder of George Floyd, and it changed everything in this country.
That includes customer preferences.
Just this week, Walmart and Amazon joined others and stopped selling the team's merchandise.
Mike Lewis, a marketing professor at Emory University, says the Washington team name now has become more of a burden than a benefit.
And he says it's just the beginning.
The Indians second.
The Chiefs probably third.
The Braves and the Blackhawks don't take a lot of heat for whatever reason.
But at this point, I think all sorts of team names are now in play.
The Cleveland Indians have launched a formal name review.
That leaves primarily the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves, and the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team.
The three teams all claim to venerate Native Americans.
Crystal Echo Hawk says the names, Braves, Blackhawks, and Chiefs, alone are not racial slurs.
But they do carry heavy baggage.
It's the imagery that gets associated with those names.
It's the racist fan behavior when a fan paints their face red.
That is blackface.
Blackface is wrong.
I think most people in the country get that now.
If you paint your face red, that's blackface?
No, that's redface.
Now all of a sudden, blackface is generic.
Yeah, it's a concept now.
And that's not okay.
No?
By the way, you're painting your face blue?
That's not okay.
It's problematic.
That's blackface.
It's problematic.
You know, you're the one that banned that word.
No, I didn't ban it.
I said you got to look out for it.
And now we use it as like a rim shot.
You're using it, yes.
Well, you're using it.
I'm overusing the rimshot.
I decided not to ever use it, but you're using it.
Now I'm feeling obliged to go back to using it.
I used to use it all the time.
I'll slow down, but it still should only be a rimshot for us.
It shouldn't be.
We actually mean that.
I'd rather have a real rimshot.
We can't normalize that rimshot.
Well, I guess at the beginning of the games, when we have flybys of F-15s with Tomahawk missiles attached, that'll be okay.
And maybe the Chinook helicopter, or maybe the Blackhawk, maybe those will fly over.
I mean, come on, where does it...
Well, now I sound like an AM radio talk show guy.
Come on!
John, where does it end?
Where does it end?
Yeah, okay, boomer.
Well, it ends only with things that hurt Trump or that we can spin to hurt Trump or filling your local politician anywhere because this is not just taking place here.
Boris Johnson has it.
Many other...
Bolsonaro has got it worse than any of them.
Bolsonaro.
Yeah.
It's a great time to be a podcaster.
That's all I can say.
Very, very proud of.
With your own network to distribute yourself without having to go through Podbean or any of these operations going, oh, you know, we don't think your podcast is suitable anymore.
Grumpy Old Benz is next with Dame Carolyn Blaney on...
On the Iron Stick.
So you can check that out on noagendastream.com.
End of show mix is some fun ones.
We have, let's see, Jesse Coy Nelson.
We have very nice work from Professor Jones.
And Rolando Gonzalez checks in with his 15th mix.
And we will be back on Thursday.
Coming to you from the mouth of the rat here in the Sunshine State...
Florida, United States of America.
I'm not quite sure what the FEMA region is, but I hope to get out soon anyway.
It's the hot spot!
That's where we are.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where during the show, there were six motorcycle runs that shut down the freeway.
One of them massive.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
And remember us at Dvorak dot org slash NA.
Until then, adios, mofos and such.
According to our new ABC News poll with Ipsos, nine out of ten Americans say they've worn a mask in public in the last week.
Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.
But there's some partisan divide.
You said as late as March 31st, there was no consensus on wearing masks.
Let me explain to you what happened back then.
That's what it's all about.
But in general, if someone is well enough to be out in public, they're medically well enough to put some kind of face covering or mask on.
You can see here.
Nobody's wearing them.
Nobody's.
There you go.
An off-duty officer was seen body slamming a woman at a Walmart when she allegedly refused to wear a mask.
Face masks have become a little more than a fashion statement.
A symbol of submission or their virtue signaling.
They're showing that they're a good citizen.
They obey the instructions.
Okay, we're going to play that game.
Um...
A symptomatic soap?
That's just no good.
Say, who wants a vaccine in your neighborhood?
Young people are the sheep today.
Is the lockdown still annoying you?
We completed phases one and two.
Wear a mask and drive your car And visit all your friends and boss If the cases are spreading in your neighborhood Ouchie said it would Stay at home you should Now kids are super spreaders in your neighborhood So take our new vaccine today Still riding high in this fast wave Not going back to normal slaves You
have a duty now to us Hop along the COVID bus, cause the program is coming to your neighborhood.
Propagating good, keep profits looking good.
The program is essential in your neighborhood.
Just go back to sleep, Dr.
Gates will brand you sheep.
Get the passport of IG. So if you are not coming to the people's defense, then don't challenge us when young people and other people who are frustrated and instigated by the people you pay, you are paying instigators to be among our people out there, throwing rocks, breaking windows, and burning down buildings.
And so young people are responding to that.
They are enraged, and there's an easy way to stop it.
Arrest the cops.
Charge the cops.
Charge all the cops.
Not just some of them.
Not just here in Minneapolis.
Charge them in every city across America.
Where our people are being murdered.
Charged up everywhere.
That's the bottom line.
Charge the cops.
Do your job.
Do what you say.
This country is supposed to be about the land of the free for all.
It has not been free for black people, and we are tired.
Don't talk to us about looting.
Y'all are the looters.
America has a looting black America looted the Native Americans when they first came here.
So looting is what you do.
We learned it from you.
We learned violence from you.
We learned violence from you.
The violence was what we learned from you.
So if you want us to do better, then damn it, you do better.
If I say all lives matter, I'm a racist.
If I stand for my flag, I have to apologize for it.
I'm not allowed to go to church, but I can burn churches to the ground.
I'm not allowed to open my own business, but I can go loot and destroy other people's businesses.
If I wear a mask, have a gun, and I'm dressed in blue, I'm a racist to paint.
But if I walk around destroying my city with bricks and masks, I'm considered a peaceful protester.
I'm not allowed to peacefully protest the lockdown in my capital, but I can go destroying graffiti in my capital.
I'm not allowed to go to the park to play t-ball with my family, but I can destroy the park.
I'm not allowed to protect our historical monuments of history, but I can go tear them down and have them laying on top of people.
I'm not allowed to have an opinion on racial matters because I'm white, but if I don't have an opinion on it, I'm the reason why people are oppressed.
I can go riot in the streets with a BLM, but if I go to a Trump rally, COVID-19 magically appears.
Does anyone else not see the hypocrisy in all of this?
I'm done with your bullshit.
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