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1306: Antigenic Drift

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	Got a box that took off the truck here for you.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, December 24th, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 1306.
	This is No Agenda.
	And broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're into year two of COVID, and where's the Kraken?
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Well, forget COVID and the Kraken.
	We got a Brexit situation going down.
	Good.
	Take it.
	Deal is done.
	And we have no idea exactly what's in the deal.
	I'm sorry, you're cracking me up.
	Yes!
	Cracking me up!
	Woohoo!
	So I watched some of the live announcement this morning.
	And man, a lot comes to mind here.
	But the devil will be in the details.
	Boris is running around like he's got a peacock strutting his stuff.
	Oh yes, we've got it done.
	And the first thing I read in the first release notes is, well, at least for the next five years, fish will be safe in the North Sea.
	So this is, you know exactly what's going on here.
	I think the EU somehow put the squeeze on Boris...
	And this happened in between shows, so I'm just surmising stuff that has happened in the past week.
	They had this very contagious new variant all of a sudden, still not captured, proven.
	I mean, it's very iffy as to what that is.
	Everyone's talking about it.
	And right away, the EU locked down the UK. I thought, on the eve of the Brexit negotiations ending, this had to be some kind of pressure tactic.
	Oh really?
	You want to see what it's like when we're not friends?
	Watch this bitch.
	And they just shut it down.
	You could see the trucks from space.
	That's how many trucks were lined up trying to get across the channel.
	And then all of a sudden it's like, well, okay, we're going to ease it up a little bit two days later.
	And then Brexit's announced.
	Tell me that's a coincidence?
	Am I just...
	I think not.
	I don't think so either.
	It's too weird of a coincidence.
	Nah.
	No way.
	And this phony baloney second strand of COVID, which is the common cold.
	It's a variant.
	It's a variant, my friend.
	It's a variant.
	A variant.
	Yeah, that's what the common cold is.
	I have a...
	I have a couple of clips regarding the variant because I think, seeing as how well it worked in the UK, might as well use it on the rest of the slaves of Gitmo Nation.
	This might be a good little tool.
	Just tell people there's a new variant that's much more contagious.
	Be afraid!
	The common cold is much more contagious.
	This variant of the virus is stoking some alarm with some countries temporarily blocking travel from the UK. But so far, experts are saying it's no more lethal or transmissible than the current strain.
	This is ABC World News Tonight.
	So what do we need to know?
	Yeah, I mean, on a day of such optimism with the vaccine, now we're dealing with this new variant.
	And there is some cause for concern.
	And I'll give some reasons why scientists are sort of concerned about this particular variant.
	One, this version is replacing rapidly other versions of the virus.
	And we've seen this rapid increase in cases Wait a minute.
	Isn't a mutation a variant?
	I don't understand.
	Now this variant has seven mutations of its own?
	That sounds weird.
	It's just gobbledygook.
	Well, they're really pushing it, John.
	Really pushing this shit.
	On the part of the virus, the spike protein, that is used for entry into the cells.
	So these mutations potentially are creating increased transmissibility of the virus.
	But there's some important caveats.
	One...
	We see variants like this emerge all the time, and the data is very early, and so it could be biased with the fact that we saw increased mobility and travel, and so maybe we're just seeing artifacts of data, and there's really no evidence that this virus is more lethal.
	Okay, so there's no evidence yet it was used in the UK and everyone got freaked out.
	I'm going to go back and forth between ABC and CBS for a moment to show you some differences or similarities.
	So that's ABC. Now we have CBS with Michael Osterholm.
	Now, this is the guy who I think is responsible for freaking a lot of people out early on.
	In March, when I was on Joe Rogan's show, he came on right after me, and he was the guy saying, it's going to be two and a half million dead.
	This is horrible.
	You have no idea what's going on.
	And he was rewarded.
	He is now in the coronavirus team for the president apparent.
	Here he is talking about this new strain.
	It's not just in the U.K., I do want to ask you about this new strain of the coronavirus being identified in both the UK and South Africa.
	What does it mean for us here in the United States?
	Well, first of all, let me just say that I don't speak for the Biden-Harris transition team.
	These are my own professional opinions.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm very concerned about this.
	I think that it does represent a real challenge to us globally.
	And that this particular variant, which is very different than any of the previous variants we've seen.
	How come we didn't hear about any previous variants?
	We were saying, hey, it looks like this is mutated.
	Yeah.
	There's a bunch of things about this guy.
	One, he's just got the voice...
	He's got an incredible voice of authority.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's got the right tone.
	He doesn't stammer.
	He's not all excited.
	No.
	He's just got a beautiful voice of authority.
	This guy could do some damage.
	This is why I like when he starts off by saying, just so you know, I don't speak for the Biden-Harris transition team.
	I speak...
	Wait, hold on.
	Hold on.
	Oh, ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
	Same old, same old, going at moderate speed.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Zephyr report where seven is the new normal.
	It used to be eight, but we know the mail wagon is no longer attached.
	Please alert the guys at Swakbox, CNBC. We have a stable economy.
	We're running forward into the new year.
	Bitcoin, $23,212.
	Oh my God!
	Listen to that horn!
	Bitcoin has kind of benefited, you might have noticed.
	I don't know, Bitcoin is kicking ass.
	Could very well substantially increase transmission of this virus.
	And for the fact of how the vaccines and others may protect us is really unclear at this point.
	I find that interesting because a lot of people are asking this morning, we've said that this virus is potentially 70% more contagious.
	What does that actually mean?
	How does a virus become more contagious?
	Well, what happens is, in the heart, the virus actually may go to a much higher level.
	Wasn't that good?
	It was just a pause that refreshes.
	So, how does it happen?
	How does it work?
	What does that actually mean?
	How does a virus become more contagious?
	Well, what happens is, in part, the virus actually may grow to a much higher level in an individual's throat and respiratory tract.
	And there's actually data from England supporting that, that the people who are infected with this strain actually have more virus, which then might very well make them more infectious.
	And if that's the case...
	All you have to do is increase, even marginally, the number of people that any one individual infects.
	And then you have potentially very rapid growth of the virus in the community that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
	And that, I think, is what's actually being seen right now in England.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	That's right, baby.
	The new variant is going to give you the whole load.
	Let's go back to ABC, to Dr.
	John Brownstein, and let's see if there's going to be a problem with the vaccines.
	I think the question on everyone's mind, you mentioned the good news about the vaccine.
	So could this impact the efficacy of the vaccines that have now been deployed in any way?
	So, so far, scientists don't believe so.
	We think that it takes years for these mutations to build up in a way that they would have an impact on the vaccine.
	Unlike monoclonal antibodies, vaccines make actually what we call polyclone antibody response.
	And that means that there are multiple ways that the vaccine can protect you.
	So a few mutations of the virus will not impact the ability for the vaccine to prevent you from getting severe COVID disease.
	The bigger concern is around what we call antigenic drift.
	And this is the change in the virus over time.
	Hold on a second.
	What do you call that?
	Anthrogenic drift.
	Beautiful.
	Can I do that in my sports car?
	Can you put that down as a possible show title?
	Antogenic?
	Was that what you said?
	Anti.
	Antogenic drift.
	Antogenic drift.
	This is an awesome word.
	And I said it.
	And I mean it.
	We can use this.
	You can pick up chicks with this word.
	But not with that voice.
	And this is the change in the virus over time.
	This is what the flu virus is to undergo, which means that we need a new flu virus vaccine every year.
	And so what we're thinking more is the long term needs of vaccines and how we may need to change this vaccine over time.
	But the concern immediately over the existing vaccines are just not there.
	And we should be proceeding as we have been thinking that we're going to really have an impact on this virus with mass vaccinations over the coming months.
	Right.
	So then you go over to CNN and Sanjay Gupta has a whole produced piece explaining kind of, but he leaves a lot open out.
	Again, I feel this variant or new variants or whatever they want to do is going to be used in the future against us to keep us locked down and, I think, to get a vaccine every year.
	Mutation is a word that conjures up all kinds of images.
	Radioactive waste, viruses, they're generally not pleasant.
	But the truth is, mutations aren't always dangerous.
	For viruses, they're actually pretty mundane usually.
	We have genetic material, DNA, in all of our cells.
	As cells multiply and DNA gets copied, mistakes get made.
	In fact, your DNA mutates all the time and you almost never notice.
	But sometimes those changes do matter.
	They can be good changes, linked, for example, to lower risk of diabetes.
	Or they can be harmful, for example, the mutations that can cause cancer.
	Viruses mutate as well, especially those with genetic material made of RNA. RNA is one strand instead of two strands, and it mutates even more easily than DNA does.
	Usually these mutations are neutral or even harmful to the virus, possibly making it less lethal.
	But this also explains why there's a new flu vaccine every year.
	Flu viruses constantly change, and these changes can eventually make the virus unrecognizable to the immune system.
	The novel coronavirus has mutated in a way that affects its spike protein.
	That's a protein that allows it to enter human cells.
	And while this mutation may make it spread more easily from person to person, it doesn't seem to make people any sicker.
	Okay, there you go.
	We might need a new vaccine, just like the flu vaccine.
	But don't worry, it doesn't really seem like it makes anybody sicker.
	But you know what?
	If you have a city that needs bailing out, if you have a stimulus relief bill on the table possibly coming through which benefits your town, your city, You know, you might just want to say this variant is here and good to go.
	Tonight, Britain locking down again with more than 40 countries banning travel to and from the UK. This after a new, potentially more contagious mutation of the virus was confirmed and is spreading rapidly.
	As soon as we were briefed in UK government on the fast transmissibility of this new strain, we took prompt and decisive action.
	What has people alarmed is how infectious this version may be.
	Early estimates indicate that it could be as much as 70% more contagious.
	The WHO also seeing an increase in the infection rate.
	But scientists around the world aren't convinced yet, saying more studies needed.
	The head of Operation Warp Speed saying they're now awaiting more evidence.
	I think scientifically, to date, there is no hard evidence that this virus is actually more transmissible.
	Despite dozens of countries banning flights from the UK, planes are still coming into the US without government restrictions.
	The authorities say they haven't found the strain here yet.
	I believe, intuitively, it's already here.
	There you go.
	Shit!
	This will be used against the city of New York.
	New strain, new variants, careful, stay home until we have some money.
	Yeah.
	Everything is...
	The way I see it, there's three things going on.
	Okay.
	One, you've got the ABC-CBS thing.
	When you show the comparison, you see one network getting more money from Pfizer than the other.
	So there's an ad buy involved here.
	Definitely.
	Trying to normalize the ad buys between the two networks.
	The other one is, there have been a lot of articles that have been going on for about a month discussing the possibility of needing a shot a year.
	Yes.
	Because that's just money in the bank.
	Because these blue guys, where should they make all the money?
	We can have more expensive product and make it harder to get.
	Aren't the flu guys the same as the COVID guys?
	It's the same guys.
	The flu guys have kind of...
	I think they branched off into just specialists.
	Oh, it's actual flu guys now.
	Call the flu guys.
	Yeah, they're called the flu guys.
	And they also will clean your chimney.
	For an extra E. And the other one is I think that there's an element of the vaccine doesn't work.
	In this report.
	That is, in other words, you get the shot, you get the shot, you end up getting COVID. No, no, no, you got the variant.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	Oh, no, man, you got the variant.
	Sorry.
	Back to square one.
	This could be just a backstop for ineffective vaccines.
	Oh, okay.
	Pretty good trick.
	In other words, you give people a shot that's useless, and then when they get to COVID, which is probably still low, the opportunity for getting it is low, especially at the end of the cycle here.
	There's nothing going around except for these tests.
	Tests indicate a lot of stuff that's bullcrap.
	And so you end up getting COVID after the vaccine.
	They need to tell you something.
	Why did I spend all this?
	There was something that a lot of our producers caught in the last show, just regarding the vaccine, that we need to ask questions about.
	This was the Fauci clip with the kids where he's talking about Santa Claus, and that he went and he vaccinated them, that he vaccinated Santa.
	But there was something he said here, which both of us missed, because, you know, we were so incensed by this a-hole lying to children.
	Here it comes.
	How did Santa get the vaccine?
	And is it safe for him to go in the house?
	It's in Fauci's answer.
	I'm just playing this for context.
	Santa will be able to visit me in coronavirus this season.
	What if he can't go to anyone's house or near his reindeer?
	Well, I have to say I took care of that for you because I was worried that you'd all be upset.
	So what I did a little while ago, I took a trip up there to the North Pole.
	I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself.
	I measured his level of immunity.
	Right there.
	What's this?
	I measured his level of immunity.
	I have not heard this.
	Good catch by whoever caught it.
	Multiple producers.
	Yeah, well, it's catchable.
	And can you give someone a vaccine, fictional or not?
	And then, I mean, I can't believe we're actually discussing this.
	And then check their immunity right away?
	Is that a thing?
	He's lying to children.
	He's lying.
	It's just a lie.
	He didn't check.
	Well, he's lying anyway because he never gave Santa a shot.
	Right.
	Ignore that and assume he gave somebody a shot.
	Right.
	Some real person a shot that was outside of the North Pole.
	Somebody lived in the United States and maybe was a nurse.
	Gave her a shot and then checked her level of immunity.
	But how do you do that?
	I've never heard of this procedure.
	You don't.
	It's bullcrap.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	I just wanted to make sure.
	It's concerning...
	That Fauci would throw that out there.
	Maybe, you know what, maybe somebody did some studies early on and the more sore your arm is, the more painful the shot is, the more your immunity is going on.
	There was some guy who was getting a shot on one of these shows and he actually said that.
	Or they said, he said, oh my, they were discussing it, the guy, I got my shot this morning, the guy says, well how do you feel?
	He says, well my arm's really sore.
	And the other guy, or he said, one of them said, oh that means it's working.
	The pain means it's...
	The severe pain means it's working.
	Your vaccine...
	The science is in.
	Your vaccine is working when it hurts like crap.
	Well, it finally happened.
	We reached stage five here in Austin, Texas.
	Now, in California, we'd be locked down and they'd be welding the door shut.
	Now, Abbott, our governor, has said, I'm not going to lock down the state come hell or high water.
	Adler, our mayor, has an obvious problem.
	He needs to virtue signal.
	He needs to show that he's concerned.
	He needs to say something, but not too much because, you know, he's kind of on the ropes with his timeshare visiting Cabo, where family timeshare, where he was telling everyone to shut up and stay indoors.
	Here's a quick report.
	Texas just reported a record high number of new coronavirus infections.
	Infections!
	Not cases.
	Now it's infections.
	And we've reached the highest local risk level.
	Stage 5.
	Hospitalizations are spiking and Christmas is just two days away.
	Enhanced restrictions are recommended.
	Recommended.
	Aha!
	You see, here's where it gets interesting.
	In the Austin-Travis County area.
	Here's what that means.
	Businesses, including restaurants, are advised to move to a curbside pickup and delivery.
	You see what's happening here?
	Advised.
	They're being asked to do something.
	There is no mandate.
	He can't do it.
	That's kind of what it is around here, too.
	I disagree.
	They're not giving restaurants citations if they stay open.
	And the restaurants, well, I don't need to play the report.
	They're all saying, yeah, we'll be extra careful.
	They're not going to close down.
	They're not doing it anymore.
	They're not going to be destroyed this Christmas.
	No, I'm just saying that's the same as it is.
	The part that's the same as it is here is that if you really look into it, these are all advisories.
	The fact that they shut down the restaurants is different.
	But is the restaurant shutdown?
	Is that mandatory?
	I thought that was mandatory in California.
	The only thing that's mandatory is you can't have indoor dining.
	Right.
	So they have not done any of that here.
	They say, please do curbside.
	Apparently a bunch of scofflaws there in Texas.
	They're risking the health of the public.
	The public is okay.
	In fact, Florida is the same way.
	They've done nothing.
	I talked to Horowitz about this.
	They've done nothing.
	Everything's wide open.
	Go to the beaches.
	The beaches are open.
	And how does he feel about it?
	Well, he has mixed feelings about it because he's really turned into a kind of a liberal.
	Oh, man.
	You're going to do that again on the show at the end of the year?
	He's going to kick you off that DH. It's just going to be unplugged.
	I'm going to tell you what.
	I'm going to let Sharon, his sister, make the final determination on what his politics are.
	I pulled a classic clip from almost 10 months ago.
	I think this was yours.
	Just to remind you what we're headed into.
	And it's a tad bit frustrating where we called so many things happening and saw them so early from the PCR, which is not a test.
	The cycle count stayed on that for a long time.
	The death count, oh my God, I've got a couple of the TikTok doctors on that one.
	But one thing we said very early on is get ready for it because this is where we're headed.
	I'm going to a different place, which is a new normal. A new normal. A new normal. A new normal. A new normal. A new normal. Embrace the new normal. The new normal. The new normal. The new normal. The new normal. This new normal is going to look very, very different. Not normal, but a new normal. The new normal. very different. Not normal, but a new normal. The new normal. New normal. There will be a new normal. A new normal. New normal. A new normal. The new normal. A new normal. This is the new normal. This is our new Our new normal.
	A new normal.
	Our new normal.
	New normal.
	The new normal.
	We're new normal.
	We will transition into the new normal.
	This will be the new normal until a vaccine is developed.
	And we have the vaccine and your new normal is about to show up.
	That's exactly what they promised us.
	Until the vaccine.
	Then we get the real new normal.
	And that's what it's going to be.
	It's going to be freedom passes.
	It's going to be all kinds of groovy stuff.
	Freedom passes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, no, I have Freedom Pass stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, it's coming, baby.
	Hold on.
	This is NBC News with an update on, well, I think they call it the Health Pass.
	Don't worry.
	Freedom Pass is a better name.
	Proving you've been vaccinated will be vital, and tech companies are designing ways to show it.
	Julian Kent has more on that.
	With vaccines on the horizon, new health apps are springing to life.
	IBM and Clear apps are springing to life.
	The tech company known for expediting security screenings at airports are both creating new apps to take in real-time vaccination information.
	They could eventually be used for admission to concerts.
	And live sports.
	So here's how it works.
	The app gives you a health pass to show before you go into big stadiums like this to streamline the process to make it safer and faster for you to get to your seat.
	It'll flash green if your health information meets requirements.
	A stadium or venue would not see your personal health data.
	Everything is opt-in and you control your information.
	But how much information will Clear have, even though the stadium may only see the green?
	It's a secure identity platform.
	We don't hold your health data.
	The LA Football Club.
	Notice how they chopped up what must have been a 20-minute interview into the most important things.
	Hey, listen, as you're making this report, I just want you to cut it up.
	All we need to have from her is she says, we don't have your data, your data's safe.
	It's the obligatory part in the report.
	Make it seven seconds.
	The stadium may only see the green.
	It's a secure identity platform.
	We don't hold your health data.
	The L.A. Football Club, a major league soccer team, says Health Pass is part of their reopening plan next year.
	How much do you need technology like this to be able to fill these seats again?
	It's going to be a must.
	It's an expectation of government officials that ultimately will decide when and how we can bring fans back.
	We also want to know that when we get up to go to a concession stand, when we walk into the team store, that the other people...
	Notice that he's saying, whenever you spend money of us, we want to make sure that you're safe doing it.
	We want you to come back and do it again.
	When and how we can bring fans back.
	We also want to know that when we get up to go to a concession stand, when we walk into the team store, the other people that came through the gates and are here with us are also safe.
	For live events, Ticketmaster is exploring several options, including a smartphone verification system for vaccination status and negative tests.
	The Australian government has also said it may require proof of vaccination in the future for entry into the country.
	A glimpse into a vaccinated future and a new normal.
	Joe Lincoln, NBC News, Los Angeles.
	The new normal comes back.
	The new normal, baby.
	We are in a technology pharma-controlled biosecurity state.
	And you'll have to learn to live with it.
	It's your new normal.
	Now, if you are on the wrong side of things, we may have to punish you with the new normal.
	This is Anna Navarro.
	There's something that really gets stuck, I think, in my craw and other people's craw, the idea that people who have been enabling Donald Trump downplaying the COVID virus, calling it a hoax, who have attended, spoken at, encouraged, promoted and participated in so many of his promoted and participated in so many of his reckless rallies where people have been packed like sardines and have spoken at these rallies knowing people are there maskless, who have attended super spreader events at the White House.
	Shoot them.
	We've seen so many people get infected with COVID at them.
	And then, after they've been selfish, after they've been reckless, after they've been servile to Donald Trump, then they get to jump the line and go in front of people who are in nursing homes and go in front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months?
	What a bigoted creep that woman is.
	If you supported Donald Trump, no vaccine for you.
	We're going to kill you.
	And that goes pretty much unchallenged.
	That's fantastic.
	Of course not.
	Who's going to challenge her?
	I love it.
	I love it.
	It's really good.
	This is a fun time to be a podcaster.
	It's just beautiful.
	This is, oh yeah, this was a good one.
	We have a real problem.
	We need to get 300 million people to take this vaccine.
	And there's some apprehension, most notably amongst our black community.
	It's a community, people.
	Go find the zip code.
	Let me know where it is.
	And they have good reason from the Tuskegee experiments.
	And this needed to be addressed.
	It needed to be.
	There's a lot of stuff, but this needed to be addressed.
	So we roll out the Surgeon General.
	Dr.
	Jerome Adams.
	And he's, of course, he's a member of the black community.
	So he's the one to convey the message.
	And he does a great job.
	People talk about Tuskegee all the time, but a lot of people don't know what happened.
	In 1932, black men who had syphilis were recruited into a government study and told they would be treated for their syphilis.
	Unfortunately, there was never an intent to treat these men.
	It was intended to follow them.
	But what's really horrific is that 15 years into that study, they actually came up with a treatment for syphilis, an effective treatment, and it was not given to these men.
	And this study went on for 40 years.
	And what people don't know is the Office of the Surgeon General actually oversaw that study, the United States Public Health Service.
	So every day I walk into my office, I walk past a wall of men who actually did this to people like me.
	And I'm sorry it makes me a little bit emotional when I talk about this, but this is something that we have to acknowledge.
	We have to acknowledge that this has happened to people, and that mistrust comes from a historical place.
	I don't know if that really helped any.
	It helped at all, but there is a twist that they could employ if they had some sense, which is that the thing that happened in Tuskegee, which is what he mentions, is that the treatment was withheld.
	Yes.
	They weren't experimented on like Dr.
	Mengele, let's say.
	No, they had zero treatment.
	They were told they were given treatment.
	So they had no treatment.
	So the way to play it is that, oh, we don't want to give the black community the vaccine.
	We want to withhold it.
	We want to withhold it once again, and they would demand the vaccine, and they would all take it.
	Once I have the zip code, or the area zip code, of the black community, I'll send you there, and go try that one out.
	I think it's in Oakland.
	No, that's as white as hell these days.
	What are you talking about?
	No, no, no.
	There's no black community in Oakland anymore.
	When he passed 35th Avenue, it's all black.
	And it's called the black community.
	It's a sign.
	So the Chinese Communist Party, I mean the World Health Organization, has decided to use TikTok, a fine Chinese platform, to deploy the TikTok doctors.
	We've spoken about it before.
	Newsday Australia, I guess that's the Murdoch station.
	There's some disdain for China in general in Australia.
	Did quite a piece on these TikTok doctors.
	Explaining how a vaccine works isn't easy.
	So these TikToking scientists have got creative.
	They're dancing, obviously.
	This is the TikTok way.
	Answering all sorts of questions to allay vaccine concerns and promote confidence.
	They're part of Team Halo, an international group of experts put together by the UN, and they've generated more than 20 million views on TikTok.
	Now, do you think that they're popular and they've generated more than 20 million views, or do you think the Chinese algorithm has been generating 20 million views by forcing it in front of people?
	Don't worry.
	In China, you know, it doesn't take much more than a couple of blinks and you get 20 million.
	Right, but this is the U.S. version.
	Oh, yeah, it's probably an algo.
	U.S. and world views.
	No, it's an algo and it's pushing in front of everybody, obviously.
	Well, it says U.S. and world.
	Believe me.
	Wouldn't take much.
	And they've generated more than 20 million views.
	By the way, that's what TikTok's success is.
	TikTok's algo is its success.
	Whether it's manual or not, they pick the hits, the ones that are great, and they just throw them at everybody.
	It's a very sticky algo.
	On TikTok.
	This year we've been working almost exclusively on making a COVID-19 vaccine.
	Anyway, I picked one of these out.
	This is Dr.
	Cat.
	We've played some of her stuff before.
	Very irritating woman from Team Halo.
	She's got the big exaggerated glasses.
	I think they're, you know, red.
	Sometimes they're white.
	So you really, you know, oh, that's the crazy doctor lady, Dr.
	Cat from the TikToks.
	Yeah.
	And she's going to tell us how we're wrong, wrong, wrong about the death tolls.
	You have no idea what you're talking about, you idiots.
	Hey, Dr.
	Kat, epidemiologist.
	I've been talking since the summer, and in videos like this one, about excess mortality and how we have more deaths than expected in 2020 versus previous years.
	Despite this, there are people committed to spreading the misinformation that we're actually on track to have fewer deaths in 2020.
	To arrive at this conclusion, they're using provisional death counts from the CDC website and comparing those back to final death counts from previous years.
	So it's okay for everybody else to look at numbers and report them at the moment on the spot as true, but it's not true because it's provisional and you're being dishonest.
	Okay.
	I talked in this video about why that is not an appropriate method.
	Okay.
	Now in 2020, it's been announced that we are on track for the first time in U.S. history to have more than 3 million deaths in a single year.
	It's kind of what epidemiologists have been saying all along.
	I'm hoping now we can all get on board that this virus is not a hoax and that people are dying and they're dying in greater numbers than expected.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, if you really look at the numbers, Dr.
	Kat, sure, it went from 2.85 million to 3 million, so that's 150,000 more.
	We didn't take into account any population growth, did we, Dr.
	Kat?
	No, of course not.
	There's also the aging population.
	There's a lot of things.
	There's a lot of things in here.
	But Amy Goodman did the same thing, and the way she did, I'm trying to see if I can find the clip.
	Would it be labeled with Amy?
	She had a very similar thing.
	She went on about this.
	Oh, three million dead?
	Is that the one?
	No.
	Yeah, that must be it.
	Now, listen to it.
	The reason I clipped this is because they're starting to push this, and you just confirmed it with the cat clip, which is that they're now trying to equate the total death count of the country with COVID to confuse the public.
	I'll bet you, if you went up to the man on the street and asked him at some point, did you hear about three million dead from COVID? They'd say, oh yeah, it's bad.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's horrible.
	Don't you think?
	I absolutely think that's what they're trying to do here because there's no other reason to be discussing this.
	Well, the United States hit the grim milestone of the worst day yet of the coronavirus pandemic this week with 3,350 COVID-related deaths Tuesday alone.
	This comes amidst reports that 2020 has been the deadliest year in US history.
	The United States is on track to top 3.2 million deaths this year with 400,000 more deaths than in 2019.
	Wow!
	That, just throwing the three million out there.
	Yeah.
	And this is the same thing.
	There's no difference in this sort of, I would call, jargon creep or whatever you want to call it, where they change the rules of, like, all of a sudden we go from cases to infections, you know, or test positive.
	Test positive equals cases.
	Cases equals infections.
	Thus, test positives equals infections.
	They keep doing this sort of thing.
	It's just a way of...
	From day one, jargon.
	It's very dishonest.
	From day one, they've been changing numbers, changing graphs, flatten the curve.
	I mean, hospitalization rates, save the NHS. You know, and I wanted to say something to Australia.
	I was talking to James Cridland.
	He does pod news.
	Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas, Australia.
	Yes, indeed.
	Merry Christmas, Australia.
	And I said, you know, so how's it going over there?
	He says, actually, it's not too bad.
	We're open everywhere.
	I think he said Sydney has a few problems, but here's where they're at in Australia.
	They think that it's done, that they've succeeded.
	They don't understand, Australia.
	You are three months behind us.
	Please learn.
	I've been trying to warn you every step of the way.
	So this is what we had.
	This was the summer months.
	Everyone's like, ah, it's going to be okay.
	We're letting up.
	And then your flu season comes, which is opposite ours, down under.
	So you're going to be locked down in a couple of months.
	Just be ready for it or be ready to counter the bullcrap.
	But already, Australia has their system where wherever you go, any restaurant, any building, anywhere you enter, you have to scan a QR code, which then leaves your contact information.
	So it's their high-tech version of...
	Writing down, in Austin we had that a couple times, write down your contact information.
	So since people obviously were falsifying that information, you now have to log into a QR code anywhere you go to sit down.
	To which I say, congratulations Australia, you've just reinvented Foursquare.
	You should gamify it.
	Say, hey, I'm the mayor!
	Checked in!
	I'm the mayor of Starbucks!
	But the biggest problem they have right now, and again, I warn our friends down under, be careful.
	The biggest problem they have is there is a shortage of Marmite.
	Oh no!
	Yeah, there's no more Marmite.
	What are they going to do?
	I think it's called...
	Start shriveling up.
	It's called Armate there.
	And the reason why it's in short supply is because apparently it's made of beer dregs.
	Yeah, they know how to recycle there in Australia.
	Which begs the question, what are you eating on your bread over there, Australia?
	Beer dregs.
	I think that is what it's made from, actually.
	Yes, that's what he told me.
	Anyway, um...
	So, in a way, we want to feel hopeful and we want to look forward and the people who believe that, you know, all these things will help them, it will make a huge difference, but we're being scared.
	And I agree with you.
	If you say, did COVID kill 3 million people in the U.S.? People say yes.
	If you said, do you know that 3 million people a year die in America?
	The majority will say, no way!
	No!
	You've got to be kidding me.
	No, that can't be possible.
	I'm sure of it.
	It is gross misunderstanding and a total lack in education.
	Total lack.
	But we've got the president apparent on his way, Joe Biden.
	He had his holiday message.
	Before I take questions, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
	Hold on, let me give him a look.
	I need to spike this up a little bit.
	For his holiday message, let's give Joe Biden some sleigh bells.
	Before I take questions, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
	This has been one of the toughest years we've ever faced as a nation.
	And the pandemic, the economic crisis, calls for racial justice, historic and punishing wildfires and storms.
	So this season of reflection carries a much deeper meaning than it usually does.
	Over 320,000 lives lost to this virus.
	And Jill and I send our prayers, as I'm sure all of you do, to all who are facing this dark winter with an empty seat at the dinner table where a loved one used to sit and talk and laugh and reminisce.
	Our hearts go out to all of you who have fallen on hard times through no fault of your own, I might add.
	Unable to sleep at night, weighed down with the worry of what tomorrow will bring for you and for your family.
	Merry Christmas, Joe!
	The whole thing is like that.
	This is not a Christmas message.
	Well, I'm sorry, holiday message, as they positioned it.
	This is just horrible.
	The guy sounds like he's a walking dead.
	It's so bad.
	But I did realize one thing as we move towards the Build Back Better zone and the universal Great Reset, which still to me looks like the idea is let's ruin economies by killing small business.
	That gives us extra damage.
	Let's try and do it everywhere and then we'll swoop in.
	And Joe Biden is saying very clearly, we're going to get your money while you're locked down and get some more stimulus for you.
	And then we're going to build back better with new industry and we'll get money to build new stuff.
	You know, the green new jobs.
	It is part of the system.
	And so for Scott Adams, who doesn't listen, doesn't even know the name of our show, who says the Great Reset is bullshit, even though he's been interviewed on it, who says it's bullcrap, the Great Reset, oh yeah, some guy says it, so what?
	Very, very short-sighted because it's so big he can't see it.
	But it's real.
	It's real.
	It's real.
	So this comes amongst the backdrop of something that delighted me, just delighted me, and I see you have a couple clips about it, so I'm going to toss it to you in a moment.
	This is the COVID stimulus bill, which was so completely botched on its rollout that they screwed it up to no end.
	The minute you hear people saying, well, we're giving money to Venezuela in our stimulus, it's because it wasn't a stimulus bill.
	For months, for months, Congress has been trying to pass, you know, it's the funding bill, it's the omnibus, in order to fund the government so we don't shut down, which was quietly renewed with 24-hour periods over the last week.
	You have to put a huge spending bill into place for the next year.
	I'm delighted to see that now everybody sees what we've been seeing and looking at and talking about for 13 years.
	This is where all the bullshit goes.
	All the deals, it all goes into this and they smother it with...
	By putting it into multiple acts, into one big spending bill, so the National Defense Authorization Act, which the president had been threatening to veto because it did not include, he feels, a Section 230 change or repeal because he feels that Chinese companies or Chinese-influenced companies It's a cause for national security concern.
	Obviously, we just hate the Twitter and the Facebook.
	But that's also in here.
	So we have $900 billion for so-called...
	Well, actually, they are separate enough that Trump did veto the NDIA. Well, you can veto each individual one, no problem.
	And the COVID stimulus is Section M of this omnibus bill.
	So instead of saying, here it is, they said, oh, here's this whole bill, and then everyone, and all the stations were conflating this.
	I was like, okay, this is kind of cool because now people see how your money is getting stolen every single day by Congress for these weird things.
	And the beauty of it is the total bill, which no one is really talking about, is not $900 billion.
	The total bill is $2.3 trillion, of which more than $700 billion is just for the National Defense Authorization Act, which the president has sent back.
	So...
	We'll see if they add anything.
	So that's almost the whole nut there.
	And then there's all kinds of weird crap that they threw in there, which is actually quite funny to look at.
	And a couple will discuss.
	But what people are doing now is they're calculating.
	Say, wait a minute, if you get 600 bucks.
	So let's say that's 300 million Americans.
	Let's just do it simple math.
	Get 600 bucks.
	That's 180 billion dollars.
	Out of $2.3 trillion, now people are getting mad.
	And I'm very happy to see this.
	and the still president is throwing gas on the fire.
	Throughout the summer, Democrats cruelly blocked COVID relief legislation in an effort to advance their extreme left-wing agenda and influence the election.
	Then, a few months ago, Congress started negotiations on a new package to get urgently needed help To the American people, it's taken forever.
	However, the bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated.
	It really is a disgrace.
	For example, among the more than 5,000 pages in this bill, Which nobody in Congress has read because of its length and complexity.
	Okay, I'm going to stop him right there.
	That's bullshit.
	And AOC said this as well.
	Oh, we were given just two hours to read it.
	And we all know that there's rules that Obama put in place that there had to be 72 hours in order for the American people to see it.
	72 hours online.
	But it's a lie.
	That's just people backpedaling once they saw the outrage of the failed rollout.
	These bills have been on the table for months.
	These have been discussed ad nauseum, every single one of them.
	So it's a total bull crap lie.
	And I did like how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, the dilemma many were dealing with was because these things weren't tied together.
	It made clean COVID relief impossible.
	You can largely thank Mitch for that.
	I'm not saying this is all one party, but he's awful.
	And then she goes on to say, and then she says, anyways, the omnibus has most of the gross stuff.
	Always.
	Thank you.
	It's a plague.
	As long as she doesn't say any who.
	She'll get there.
	She'll get there.
	It's called the COVID relief bill.
	No, it's not.
	But it has almost nothing to do with COVID. This bill contains $85.5 million for assistance to Cambodia.
	See, that's literally not in section M. So he's being very disingenuous, but I think it's extremely effective.
	$134 million to Burma.
	$1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military which will go out and buy almost exclusively Russian military equipment.
	$25 million for democracy and gender programs in Pakistan.
	This is a good one.
	This is either CIA black budget, or this is some congressman's kickback scheme.
	What the hell is that?
	You know there's an NGO who's getting this money.
	There's something really fishy about that particular thing he puts it up.
	I mean, he makes little comments about each one of these, like he did about the Russian arms, which is accurate.
	Yeah.
	But this one here, when I heard it, I said, this is just, you're right, it's just some sort of a scheme or CIA-monition bullcrap.
	Yeah, he's highlighting it for a reason.
	And in fact, I think when they even make some of these, I think they put them together to sound like a joke.
	So it's a wink-wink in the use of it.
	Gender studies in Pakistan?
	That's black ops, man.
	Yeah.
	It's definitely shady money.
	$1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military, which will go out and buy almost exclusively Russian military equipment.
	$25 million for democracy and gender programs in Pakistan.
	$505 million to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
	$40 million for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which is not even open for business.
	$1 million for the Smithsonian, and an additional $154 million for the National Gallery of Art.
	Likewise, these facilities are essentially not open.
	And there's another problem with some of these just elderly lawmakers in Congress.
	They can't keep any of the money straight.
	They can't even do math.
	This is Republican Senator John Kennedy.
	Oh, it's real help.
	It's a trillion dollars, for God's sakes.
	Uh, what is that?
	One thousand million dollars?
	And, uh...
	I mean, I'm done.
	I'm just done.
	One thousand million dollars is a billion, you oaf.
	You boob.
	Ugh.
	That's what I mean.
	So I'm kind of happy that people are seeing how this works and how your money is spent.
	My favorite piece in this bill, which just for effect we will call the COVID stimulus bill, because then it sounds more like we hate it, is it would make illegal streaming of copyrighted content a felony.
	This was a good one they shoved in there.
	I missed that one.
	There's a lot of stuff they shove in these things, and this is really pathetic.
	And to slip some of these things in there just because they know there's never pass on its own, it's really abhorrent.
	And this is the way Congress operates.
	And people are starting to see it, which I see as a benefit.
	And I appreciate what Trump did there.
	Well, you know, Trump has advised not to give this speech.
	He was advised of a lot of things.
	I have a Kraken update if you want it.
	It's not that long.
	Well, let's finish this.
	Do the COVID. Yeah, you're right.
	Because the reason for having this particular long clip is to follow up with the way the networks held his feet to the irons.
	They left all of what you're hearing now.
	They wouldn't even discuss any of it.
	I mean, Rand Paul was one of the few guys who would.
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	They just won't discuss it.
	No, no, no, no.
	We're the media.
	We don't want to discuss it.
	We don't want the public to know anything.
	It might be illegal for you to view that, citizen.
	Only we can look at that.
	Yes, my all-time favorite.
	Let's finish this guy up.
	Yeah, he's done.
	Trump is done.
	Oh, I had the whole thing.
	Oh, no.
	The whole thing was long.
	Well, the whole thing incorporates more stuff.
	It's funny, you started at the same spot.
	I don't think we need to play the whole thing.
	I want to hear the responses more interesting to me.
	Well, the reason I wanted to play the whole thing, we don't have to, but I'll summarize, is that he says a lot more afterwards about how he wants to deal with it.
	And the part that he says afterwards, which is that they've got to fix this in a nutshell.
	Mm-hmm.
	That's all the networks play.
	They refuse to play any of the boondoggle and pork crap that he went on and on about, which is what his speech was really about.
	Did you also see in the COVID bill, and they should have mentioned this, because there's $80 billion for rolling out vaccines, which I thought was already pre-approved and put into budget, and Operation Warp Speed was already funded.
	I could be wrong.
	But there was...
	No.
	The answer is no.
	No, it's not?
	They didn't mention any of that.
	Here, let's listen to the reports, and you can hear what they mentioned.
	Let's start with Shep Smith.
	Shep Smith, everybody.
	Smith's show on MSNBC.
	And this is Shep Smith on the COVID bill, part one.
	Well, Shep, a leadership aide described the mood as one of irritation and befuddlement after President Trump's 11th hour challenge to members of Congress who had already left Washington, having passed the two trillion dollar five thousand plus page bill covering both government funding through September and about nine hundred having passed the two trillion dollar five thousand plus page bill covering both government funding Now, President Trump wants to strip certain spending provisions his administration requested and increase the amount of the direct checks.
	But neither of those is expected to move forward, I have learned from sources.
	GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, a key ally of Trump's, is expected to object to Democrats' efforts to seek unanimous support for $2,000 checks.
	And in response, McCarthy's plan is to address President Trump's concern on spending by separating out State Department and foreign aid from the rest of government spending.
	Democrats are expected to object to that, and we will be back again at square one.
	The question then becomes, will the president actually veto it?
	The New York Times is reporting that McCarthy told his Republican colleagues on a call this afternoon that he talked to the president who told him he hasn't decided whether or not to veto it.
	Now, Trump could also quietly veto it, the so-called pocket veto, by letting 10 days left before signing it, but unemployment benefits would expire, and the government would shut down before that actually happened.
	Shep?
	Kayla, also before he left, the president vetoed the massive defense spending bill.
	I was going to say, the one thing that might have been interesting for them to mention was the 3.7 increase across the board in Medicare fees.
	That was not mentioned.
	That's a lot of money.
	Nope.
	That wasn't mentioned, and they didn't mention anything.
	All they did was find the same old slam Trump one way or the other.
	And listen to this part, too, about where she discusses the veto of the NDAA. That's right.
	This was a separate 740 billion dollar bill funding the military and he had long said that unless it included protections for the names of military monuments and stripped content protections for these big social media companies That he would veto it.
	And that's exactly what he did.
	Those are the reasons that he cited this afternoon in doing so.
	But some of the Republican senators who had criticized the president for trying to add some of these unrelated issues to defense spending are not backing down.
	Senator Jim Inhofe, who is one who ended up in Trump's crosshairs, For refusing to combine specifically the tech and military issues, just today tweeting this in response, saying, The NDAA has become law every year for 59 years straight because it's absolutely vital to our national security and our troops.
	This year must not be an exception.
	Our men and women who volunteer to wear the uniform shouldn't be denied what they need, ever.
	We should note that that NDAA had a veto-proof majority in both chambers, and we're expecting the House to meet on December 28th to override that veto.
	I just realized, it struck me that the mainstream media doesn't actually know about these bills.
	I don't think they really ever read them or care about them.
	And they didn't read this one either.
	They're just going on whatever the top-line stuff that comes off the wire, whatever the controversy of the day is.
	Don't even look into...
	Because the President did write a four-page memo about the National Defense Authorization.
	And he's talking about foreign interference, also in elections, and how social media needs to be held accountable for national security.
	It's not all of a stretch if you listen to all the Russian disinformation talk.
	Then there should be accountability.
	There's also another element that he doesn't like about this.
	The NDAA, his main bitch was Section 230.
	His only bitch.
	Oh yeah, there's a little more in there.
	There's a couple things in there.
	His main bitch is about Section 230.
	And they put in the bill that the president can no longer remove troops.
	Oh yes, that he's not in charge of troop drawdowns.
	And there was one more.
	There was one more thing that was in there.
	I think there was the third item.
	But no, no.
	Let's listen to how NBC covers it.
	What do you think?
	They say the reason that Trump refused it.
	This is the worst report of the day.
	I'm giving myself a clip of the day.
	I won't get it.
	Because these people on NBC are shameless.
	And Kelly O'Donnell is the worst reporter at the network.
	If you listen to this, here's the setup.
	This is the Covingville NBC setup clip.
	Okay.
	Just as it seemed, help was on the way to millions of Americans struggling in this COVID-battered economy.
	President Trump tonight appears to have thrown a monkey wrench into the plan, suggesting he may veto the coronavirus relief bill agreed to by Congress this week.
	The president demanding bigger amounts in those direct payments to Americans than what Congress spelled out, a position that Democrats are eagerly embracing Embracing.
	Kelly O'Donnell tells us where things stand tonight.
	Okay.
	I like it.
	So now we go to Kelly and she's going to give us the low down here.
	And she is so full of crap and so bigoted and biased that it's an embarrassment to listen to this because I had to produce it and now I have to listen to it again.
	This is the part two right now.
	Leaving today for Christmas at his Mar-a-Lago club.
	President Trump said nothing about his surprise threat that could tank COVID relief for millions in need.
	People like 36-year-old bartender and graduate student Nick Mott.
	I do feel scared.
	All of my savings is gone.
	Mott's income and tips cut by more than half as diners stay home.
	Counting on emergency aid from that massive $900 billion COVID package that includes $600 direct checks, $300 weekly enhanced unemployment benefits, rental and food assistance.
	I was really hoping for that.
	I was really hoping that...
	That I could at least have a little bit of comfort again.
	But in a White House-made video, President Trump injected chaos, demanding Congress increase those direct payments to $2,000.
	Send me a suitable bill, or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package.
	Today, Speaker Pelosi put pressure on Republicans to answer the president's demand.
	So far, only silence.
	Yeah.
	Only silence from these creeps that don't want to give this poor bartender $600.
	A-holes.
	The way she says it, it's like, gee, he doesn't want to do that.
	He wants to give him $2,000.
	And the way she makes it sound as though this is like less money.
	Yeah.
	She starts off the report by making a point that he's going to Mar-a-Lago.
	He's going to Mar-a-Lago while you're staying at home.
	Yeah.
	Which is the White House.
	The Mar-a-Lago is his second White House.
	All presidents have him.
	It's not like a big deal.
	But now let's get into the real crux of this woman's reportage and her bigotry is in part three.
	Small businesses on the brink need a second round of loans like Denver restaurant owner Stephanie Bonin, who was forced to lay off 25 employees at Duo.
	That is a really, really frightening moment for any entrepreneur, any business owner.
	And tonight, a separate and stunning veto of the National Defense Bill.
	The president rejecting that bipartisan measure, in part because it calls for renaming military bases that honor Confederate leaders.
	Lester?
	That's what it was.
	That was the third.
	He's so petty, that Trump.
	What a petty, small little man.
	He vetoed a $700 billion budget for the military because of Confederate names.
	We're going to be taking off some military bases.
	That racist.
	Can you guys get off of it?
	No, no, of course not.
	TWS, baby.
	Trump withdrawal syndrome.
	They're going to have, and they're going to go after him.
	Trump will be in the brig.
	That's, they will not let up, and then they'll still have closed caption cameras peeking in on him to make sure they can do a report on how he's doing.
	That's their dream.
	Whenever someone says, you people are assholes, which liberals have been saying to conservatives, and you're Nazis, and you want to kill people, remember what you say to yourself.
	This is what they actually planned themselves.
	Anyone who was an apologist, meaning you have an opinion, Oh yeah, all of this is coming to head.
	It's going to be very interesting.
	And people should beware.
	The only way to combat this is to look at your local politics, and it's for everybody.
	This shit is going on all over the world.
	Every country has it.
	Different version, different names, but it's all the same stuff.
	And it's a power grab.
	It's promoted by the media.
	They're part of the grab.
	That's their job.
	The whole thing is a scam.
	Yes.
	Now, I got a couple more clips here on the same thing.
	Here's Amy.
	This is Amy's version.
	We know what Trump said and what he was bitching about and why he won things change, but now let's hear what Amy Goodman says about the whole thing.
	President Trump threatened to thwart the $900 billion bipartisan coronavirus relief package, which he called a disgrace in a video released on Twitter Tuesday night.
	Asking Congress to amend this bill in a ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple.
	I'm also asking Congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package and maybe that administration will be me.
	Trump did not say whether he would veto the bill, which passed with a veto-proof majority.
	Top Democrats seized on his remarks Tuesday night to repeat their own calls for higher direct payments.
	House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reminded Trump Republicans block the It
	is so sad.
	What is happening here?
	They're tricking the public, once again, into focusing on what are they going to do?
	It's going to be a $200 increase, or maybe they'll double it, whatever it is.
	Even $2,000 is a joke compared to what's really going on here.
	And they're just, oh no, you should be focused on the money.
	Be focused on the money you're going to get, because you're going to get a lot more.
	And I don't know if you saw Joe's holiday message, but he said right after he's in office, he will go back to Congress and ask for another stimulus bill.
	This is why I put money in Bitcoin.
	I don't care what the former New York banker says about immunized money.
	That's just not...
	I don't think you can immunize this much.
	It's crazy.
	It's got out of control.
	This won't create inflation at all.
	Not a problem.
	Well, there was some counter-programming on Fox.
	They brought out our friend, your friend in particular, and she actually is the only commentator in the whole group that made any common sense.
	Ah, this must be Tulsi.
	Told it like it is, and this is the bill, Tulsi Gabbard, on the COVID bill.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Tulsi...
	This is Bill.
	Oh.
	First word is Bill.
	I got it.
	So joining me now is Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman from Hawaii.
	She is one of two House Democrats who broke with their party and voted against the stimulus bill, and she joins us now.
	Congresswoman, great to have you here tonight.
	Thank you for being here.
	So why did you vote against the bill?
	Because this bill is a slap in the face to the American people.
	People who are sitting in their cars waiting in line for hours to get free food from the food bank.
	People who've been without jobs for months.
	People who are concerned about getting evicted from their apartments or their homes because they haven't been able to pay their rent.
	To say that it's okay to give hundreds of billions of dollars to corporate special interests, to foreign countries, to the military industrial complex, but to the American people who are struggling and suffering and who need help the most, you get $600.
	It's an absolute insult, and the American people deserve better.
	I have thoughts about Tulsi.
	First, her new hairdo, dynamite.
	Dynamite.
	It's softened her look.
	It's given her a slightly intellectual edge.
	It has a little bit of what I would say the real liberal women like, which is the gray streak.
	I think she stopped with the real pinkest where she was going.
	I didn't see this at all on this Fox show.
	Oh my goodness.
	Dynamite new hairdo.
	And she's retiring from Congress, so I believe Tulsi has financing, and she's going to make a serious run.
	She'd probably make a run at Hirono's spot.
	She better take Hirono out.
	Hirono's a moron.
	But it's also possible...
	Hirono's an embarrassment to the state of Hawaii.
	No, you can say to the country.
	I think it encompasses all 50 United States as a moron.
	Well, she's a terrible person.
	So, Tulsi, I'm sure that she has something shored up, maybe the Senate, but she also might try again for President.
	I think she should go for Senate, because that's an easy one.
	No, she should go for Senate, and I... I think we both predicted she was going to run for the Senate against Hirono during the debates because she doesn't...
	She's not...
	The president, I think, was the way she...
	She has a team.
	My point is she has a team.
	There's a team working on her.
	There's a team making good decisions.
	She's going on Fox when it matters.
	She's breaking from the herd when it matters.
	She's going to be very popular probably in the midterms.
	I think this is a good move that she's making.
	And...
	When does Toronto's term come up?
	I don't know.
	We'll find out.
	I'm a fan of Tulsi, but she's very easy to...
	She'll go along and virtue signal when necessary.
	We've identified this several times.
	So she's also...
	She has a disingenuous bit to her.
	Yeah, I agree with that, too.
	She's kind of a phony.
	But let's listen to what she has to say on the NDAA, which I thought was more insight, much more so than all the pundits on CNN combined.
	You know, on the defense bill, as I said, there is $7 billion in there.
	We heard from General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that he was very concerned about the Chinese buildup of the Navy.
	He feels that we are unprepared in terms of our naval ships, and he wants to put that money towards that.
	Do you think that that is a wise idea?
	And how ready do you think we are, given your own experience and your service in Iraq?
	Well, that's a very big topic about our defense priorities, and whether you look at the big, massive spending bill that I voted against a couple of nights ago, that's one area where we should be asking questions about how are taxpayer dollars being used in a responsible way that best serves the emergency that we're facing.
	I think you're also talking about this National Defense Authorization Act.
	I've actually voted against this bill when it came to the House floor for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, it is a massive, bloated spending bill.
	It heightens up the new Cold War we're in.
	With increasing tensions between the United States and Russia and China, really with serious consequences.
	We're talking about nuclear armed nations here, and we've got to focus on how we can best de-escalate those tensions.
	But it also includes a provision in there that ties this president or any president's hands as they're trying to bring our troops home from Afghanistan.
	Yeah, she nailed it.
	She got it.
	Nobody else mentions this.
	Well, no.
	That would be off the reservation.
	Let's listen to part two of what she has to say.
	You know, I know Trump vetoed this bill earlier today, and one of the main reasons he did so was because of this provision, Section 230, right?
	This thing that has to do with giving big tech companies like Google and Facebook and Amazon total legal immunity.
	And the reason why he's taken a stand on this, and I support his position on this, is because Congress has failed to act in making sure that the American people have a fair and free opportunity to the public square and to make sure that these tech companies that are censoring people, that are choosing whose voices are heard and whose aren't, taking sides in political elections, that they are not immune from lawsuits.
	And so I think it's a critical thing to hold Congress's feet to the fire because Congress I've introduced legislation to fix Section 230.
	Other people have as well.
	They have failed to take action, and the American people deserve to know that these big corporations don't have greater influence over their representatives in Congress than the American people do, which is unfortunately the situation that we're in right now.
	This is a lot different than what Kelly O'Donnell told us on NBC, that the whole thing, that he vetoed it because of the use of Confederate names at Fort Hood.
	Racist.
	So this is...
	I will say this.
	I do have one last Tulsi clip where she just...
	This is a little different one.
	She just...
	I included it because I thought you'd get a kick out of this.
	She goes after AOC. Just quickly before I let you go, I know that you spoke out about the fact that some members of Congress, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was showing off her vaccination.
	She did a cute Instagram video of, you know, the whole thing.
	And it sort of rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
	What do you want to say about that tonight?
	I think of people like my aunt.
	She's 65 years old.
	She has a severe underlying health condition that's compromised her immune system.
	She has basically been imprisoned in her home because she knows that if she goes out, she faces a very real danger of dying if she catches COVID. It is people like my aunt.
	It is the elderly, the most vulnerable.
	Who should be getting this vaccine first, right alongside our first responders and high-risk healthcare workers, because this is really a matter of life and death for them.
	For others, if my colleagues, I've called on them, members of Congress, if you are healthy, if you are under the age of 65, join me in refusing to get the vaccine until our seniors and elderly Americans are able to do so.
	Yeah, she did a little Instagram video walking through the woods talking about how horrible this was.
	Yeah, she was an idiot for getting that shot.
	Hirono's term is up in 2024, so I don't know what Tulsi's going to do.
	There's nothing else to run for.
	Who's the other senator in the state?
	I think the other senator, I can't remember who it is, but I think they're untouchable.
	Hirono's the only weak one.
	Hmm.
	Well, the things to look out for, no agenda nation, to save yourself is very obvious, is to support some local politician, get them on the city council.
	We got one here.
	We got Michelle Kelly in Austin.
	She's not in my district.
	I supported her.
	And I don't even know what political affiliation she has, but she hated the current city council and the mayor, and she doesn't like the camping, the so-called camping, so she has my support.
	Now we've got someone in there.
	Now I'm going to go corrupt her.
	That's how it works.
	So you do that.
	And then when it comes to social media, find somewhere else.
	Start your own social media network.
	Stop with your narcissism.
	You don't need the likes.
	You'll find people.
	NoagendaSocial.com is a good example.
	Let me get back to...
	COVID for a second to play a couple of contrasting clips.
	Yeah, a couple of contrasting clips, but this time contrasting both contrast on the same network in the same report.
	Excellent.
	I'm always trying new things.
	That works best.
	So this is NBC News again, and they're talking about the vaccine.
	And the first part of the report, it sounds like What's going on with the vaccine and all the people getting vaccinated is good.
	Okay.
	But then when they kick it to the reporter, everything going on is bad.
	And it's kind of a subtle self-contradictory.
	It's only a minute, 30 combined.
	But first, let's play the beginning, which is that you're going to hear implications.
	You're going to feel the vaccine.
	What's going on is good.
	This is the good part.
	Despite calls to stay home, some 85 million Americans are expected to travel for the holidays, stirring fears of a new post-holiday COVID surge.
	But there is encouraging word from the CDC tonight.
	One million people in the U.S. have now received their first doses of the COVID vaccine, and the U.S. just cut a deal to double its Pfizer doses.
	More now from Tom Costello.
	Okay, sounds good.
	We've got a deal.
	Sounds good.
	Everything's popular.
	A million people.
	This is good.
	A million.
	We're on our way.
	We're on our way.
	Okay, it's good.
	So now Tom apparently didn't get the memo.
	So he's going to play the same.
	He's going to be the same information.
	This is the way you do stock market analysis, by the way.
	Whatever happens, you can make it sound like it's good or bad.
	Either way.
	But Costello's going to give us the same, instead of the up-tempo, he's going to give us the grim version.
	This is all within a one minute and 50 second period.
	They turned it around.
	Here we go.
	Tonight, health experts fear a super spreader event is playing out in real time as a million travelers a day fill airports nationwide.
	I don't have any pre-existing conditions.
	I'm thin and I'm feeling confident if I do get COVID that I'll survive.
	The most travelers since the pandemic began.
	Despite official pleas to stay home to ensure loved ones are alive next year too, many people say they can't stay away from family any longer.
	We haven't seen my two granddaughters and my daughters since last Christmas.
	And they grow so much.
	And we see them on Skype, but it's just not the same thing.
	20 states plus D.C. now have travel restrictions for new arrivals.
	Concerned about a more infectious strain of COVID in Britain, New York Mayor de Blasio today ordered anyone arriving from the U.K. to self-quarantine.
	Sheriff's deputies will conduct verification visits.
	Violators will be fined.
	If you violate quarantine, $1,000 for the first day.
	If you violate any day thereafter, $1,000 for each additional day.
	With vaccinations continuing nationwide, the CDC reports just one million Americans had received the Pfizer vaccine by this morning.
	Only one million!
	What I expected to hear was 329 million people have not received the vaccine.
	That would actually be the next step.
	That would have been the best part.
	That would have been the best way to do it.
	But he just says, just only one.
	Oh, it's no good.
	Blown opportunity there.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, it was a blown opportunity, but it was bad enough the way this report went down.
	But this is...
	Really, this network is really losing its ability to deliver any kind of consistency.
	You know, as we discussed before, today's viewer, today's audience is not even watching cable news.
	They're watching clips on YouTube and TikTok and other places.
	And there is no difference, no difference in the sets, the personalities, the Between, you know, a Dave Rubin show or NBC News.
	To today's audience, it's just a different app that's streaming.
	This sense of authority is waning.
	And this is a good thing.
	Of course, it's going to get very confusing because no one will know who to turn to except your No Agenda show.
	Because we get it at least 50% of the time right.
	We're as good as a coin flip.
	That's right.
	As good as a coin toss.
	I've got to write that one down.
	As good as a coin toss.
	They're from the future.
	Excellent.
	Some other errant vaccine news.
	The Russian scientist who was working on a new COVID-19 vaccine plummeted to his death.
	Oh, no.
	Yes.
	Uh-huh.
	Let's see.
	Enormous protest going on at Stanford Hospital, carried out by staff who are enraged by the decision by hospital executives to give themselves the COVID vaccine and administrators who are at home before giving it to staff.
	That's never a good look.
	Let's see.
	Uh...
	Yeah, so they're starting to make a little noise about warp speed is not fast enough, so we'll have something to blame Trump on.
	Oh, warp speed.
	They couldn't get enough lithium crystals.
	Oh, yes, this was...
	Dilithium.
	This was dilithium, you're right.
	So we had Deborah Birx...
	Who was busted going to her family home for Thanksgiving, which she then lied and said, oh, I was winterizing the home.
	And now she's announced...
	They've got to sell it.
	Now she's announced her retirement.
	Yes, she said, I've worked since 1980 in the federal government.
	And she said that it was very disturbing to see how her family were treated because of this mishap.
	So she got the brunt of social media and she took it seriously.
	Yep, yep.
	And she's retiring.
	You know, you don't think about this much.
	But those of us, which includes, I would say, the majority of this audience, have been in computing.
	Online and elsewhere, I mean, from the days of CompuServe, where they used to have forums on CompuServe, and then AOL used to have them too, where you would get flamed.
	Yeah, flame wars.
	You're some poor innocent little kid, you say something stupid, or they even go to Usenet where you'd mention something and they'd just give you nothing but grief.
	You kind of get hardened to it.
	Yeah.
	To the point where you realize that it's just a few people that make a lot of noise.
	Yes.
	And it could be a thousand people, but there's still a few.
	There's still a thousand, yeah.
	But it is a thousand.
	I've been called an arrogant a-hole since I was 19.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, for good reason.
	Yeah.
	Hey, blow me, Dvorak.
	That's not true.
	I was on television, that's why.
	So you get used to this kind of thing.
	It's just like, yeah, whatever.
	I mean, it could be right, but it doesn't matter because it's just a bunch of noisy trolls.
	She is obviously unprepared for one little complaint.
	It was very interesting.
	We had drinks with the former New York banker and his wife Tuesday night.
	And, uh, now I, I, something was going, we were outside of an outdoor place with a fireplace, and some of the smoke was coming into my face, which didn't help, but there was cedar, something was going on that I am not, I have no protection against, so I was dying, I wasn't, I, uh, so I was a little low on energy, but I did hear...
	Cedar is nasty.
	It's very nasty, and the minute I was home, it was, it started to get, well, it got better over time, but...
	He was going to say?
	It's used to...
	If you get some nice cedar and you put it in your closet, you don't have moths.
	Correct.
	And it smells nice.
	It does.
	It smells great.
	But when the cedar is oozing or whatever it does, it's not good.
	Not good.
	It's toxic.
	But he said two things which were interesting.
	And I just wasn't getting into it with him because I was just like, I don't want to do this.
	But I knew he was trying to kick it off with me.
	And one is...
	That the people complaining and saying that Trump won the election, that's just Twitter.
	It's a very, very small amount of people.
	So just so you know, Twitter amplifies things, and it's really no one who thinks this.
	And the second one is, although surprising, 50% were mail-in ballots, clearly there was just a lot more people voting this year.
	That sounds like a Lib Joe thing.
	And I just wouldn't take the bait.
	I'm like, sure, that's fine, whatever.
	Who's trying to get you going?
	He's trying to get you all jacked up?
	Yeah, but now we have the conservatives from Brooklyn, and they just moved to Austin.
	Yes, you didn't give us a report.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and I've got to be careful because he's a CFO of a large entertainment company.
	It would be too easy to find out who he is.
	But they basically escaped Brooklyn after living there for 16 years because they're conservatives.
	And they were completely in the minority of 700 people who were in their neighborhood.
	I think two people.
	Yeah, they did one.
	No, one of two.
	And the other person may have just made a mistake.
	And so we went to this place called the Odd Duck in Austin.
	And it was, you know, it's a nice restaurant.
	But the thing, here's what was wrong.
	First of all, the waiter came over.
	He had a bald head.
	But you only saw really his eyes and his bald head because he had a gator.
	But the gator was pushed all the way down his neck and all the way up to his nose and right under his eyes.
	John, it looked like a crowning dickhead, I'm telling you.
	It was so weird to look at this guy.
	It's just like...
	Was it flesh-colored to make the effect even more dubious?
	That's all that was missing.
	And he was going on about, okay, we're going to use this table here, and this is like a serving station, so we don't have to come around too close to you, so we don't have to have too much interaction.
	So I'm going to put, here's the water, you can pour the water yourself.
	We're going to put the plates down here, and then you can take them.
	You can show them over here.
	I'm like, okay.
	And as he walks away, I'm like, man, life's going to suck.
	To which he made some kind of sneery comment behind me.
	Uh-oh.
	There goes the tip.
	The conservatives from Brooklyn paid.
	To which, subsequently, everything was served normal.
	No one put it on the little serving table after his whole song and dance.
	But that wasn't the worst.
	The worst part.
	I decided to have one of their featured cocktail drinks.
	I like a cute little cocktail, and it was some frozen margarita.
	So, I'm like, okay, I'll have that.
	You had a frozen margarita.
	Yes, it was a signature frozen margarita.
	But they, of course, this being a complete virtue signaling environment, they put a metal straw in it.
	Well, can I please tell you this is one of the worst ideas which I found out myself.
	Because you put the straw into the drink, and then when you put your lips onto the straw to suck, your lips will immediately be frozen stuck to the metal straw.
	That would be good for a laugh.
	Were they all watching you?
	Yes, and I tore a piece of my lip even.
	I couldn't get it off.
	It's a very dumb idea.
	So that's the odd, Doug.
	Well, a couple of things.
	First of all, I would never, ever drink from a metal straw at a restaurant.
	I didn't really realize.
	I just stuck it in my mouth.
	Uh-oh.
	Right away.
	Mainly because how do you get the things cleaned?
	I mean, do they have bottle brushes that go through?
	I don't trust it.
	It should be disposable.
	So that's out.
	And the second thing is, why would you drink a margarita through a straw?
	Mm-hmm.
	It was there.
	I wanted to suck on something, John.
	I don't know.
	What's wrong with a frozen margarita having a sip?
	That's not that weird.
	Well, through a straw.
	I'm not...
	Okay.
	So what, did you learn anything from the conservative guys?
	Were they happy to be in Austin, which is a conservative, which is not a conservative town?
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Well, it's not a completely liberal enclave, but we have a liberal government.
	Yes, the main thing they were extremely happy about is people, and they were taken aback several times.
	Oh my God, oh my goodness.
	People say, Merry Christmas here.
	I guess they got kind of moved away from that throughout the years in Brooklyn.
	Happy Holidays!
	Happy Kwanzaa!
	Happy Hanukkah!
	Chanuka!
	Whatever we gotta say.
	Interesting.
	The main thing outside of that...
	People say Merry Christmas here and I'm in California.
	It's not like a...
	It must be worse in Brooklyn.
	New York has really gone off the rails.
	It must be worse there.
	It must be worse there.
	Yes, the entertainment business.
	I spoke specifically with him about the Warner Brothers' plan to release all of their movies in a one-month period on streaming, which you can imagine now it kind of makes sense why the National Defense Authorization Act included a clause to make illegal streaming of copyrighted content a felony.
	You think the two are related?
	Yeah, they are.
	He says it could possibly kill Hollywood.
	I think it could.
	I went back and forth with Brunetti about...
	Brunetti thinks so, too.
	Well, actually, no, I take it back.
	Brunetti does not think it'll kill Hollywood.
	Well, what they had to do...
	He thinks Hollywood's dead.
	He said they had to go to...
	The actors, and pay them $10 million extra, the big name actors, because of the loss of income that they'll have.
	Piracy?
	Oh, because they all want points.
	Yeah, of course.
	That's where you make your money on these movies, is on your residuals, the back end.
	You'd have to buy them off.
	Yeah.
	And the directors?
	No, it's all Chinese money anyway, so who cares?
	But I don't think this is a very good idea.
	People are now so accustomed, they...
	It's just another part of, is the NBC News guy more newsworthy than Tim Pool?
	Not really.
	It's all kind of the same.
	Except Tim Pool's more funny and endearing.
	And it has less technical effects.
	But to most people these days, hey, I'm getting it on my iPad.
	It has the same weight.
	So movies, I'm a little used to it now.
	This is going to kill that industry.
	Well, everything is now a Hallmark film.
	What do you mean?
	It's on TV. It's just a TV movie made for TV. Oh, yeah.
	Wonder Woman, whatever it is, 1984, is just a TV movie.
	It's supposed to be very good.
	I'm going to watch it.
	Yeah.
	It's coming out tomorrow, as a matter of fact.
	Let's see, a couple things to wind up here.
	The PCR test is going to be replaced.
	Oh, then we can get our numbers normalized.
	Yeah, they're going to get right down to it.
	They're not messing around.
	Yes, it will be a CRISPR-based test.
	I've been waiting for this to happen.
	So, this mRNA vaccine, which isn't really a traditional vaccine, it's Telling your DNA to do something.
	I keep saying this is part of genome splicing.
	Experts tell me, shut up.
	You don't know what you're talking about.
	It doesn't change anything.
	But now the actual software, the CRISPR, which is used to splice genes, that technology will be used to test for COVID-19.
	I'll bet you it'll be very, very accurate.
	But to tell me that this mRNA vaccine is not a part of a larger genomic push is pretty hard to defend at this point.
	CRISPR base.
	Run away from the term CRISPR wherever you see it.
	This is not good.
	And my favorite story, after the American Medical Association had to retract their...
	Advice towards doctors regarding hydroxychloroquine, which means that now doctors can prescribe that again.
	What are the chances one of the largest pharmaceutical factories that produces the precursors for hydroxychloroquine in Taiwan has burned to the ground without They're the big explosion.
	You know what?
	Do not mess with big pharma.
	They do not care who you are.
	You want to prescribe that?
	Watch this.
	So I'm sure...
	I mean, assuming that the election worked out to the benefit of Big Pharma, it was designed by Big Pharma to get Trump out.
	They refused to discuss.
	Big Pharma said this.
	We did not talk about the release of the vaccines until after the election on purpose.
	Yeah.
	And they had the gall to do that.
	They had the gall to admit it.
	No, no, no.
	We're not going to...
	No, no, no.
	There's no discussion of the vaccine being finished and ready to go until after the election.
	After the election, we'll mention it.
	And that's just because we don't like Trump.
	We don't like his policies.
	We like Joe Biden.
	We loved Obama.
	We gave him all that money so he could run.
	Big Pharma, Joe Biden, Big Pharma, this is going to be a match made in heaven.
	That's your investment opportunities.
	Burn down the competition.
	We do not.
	They're a bunch of gangsters.
	You know, I have seen...
	They are a bunch of gangsters.
	They are.
	They're gangsters.
	Have you seen some of the CEOs of some of these big pharma companies?
	Oh, total goombas.
	They look like gangsters.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we're going to take care of this.
	Don't worry about it.
	The vaccine will be out when it's out.
	They're just horrible, gangster-like guys.
	I got you at the front of the list for the vaccine.
	I got a box.
	I took off the truck here for you.
	Don't worry about it.
	Don't worry about it.
	The result is that doctors are actually, and I said actually, that doctors are now oblivious.
	I know.
	Doctors are now...
	By the way, I got to write it down.
	Never mind.
	Just keep talking and I'll tell you what my...
	I had a bitch the other day and I forgot to bring it up.
	Is it about me?
	No.
	Okay.
	Doctors are now oblivious to many of the treatments that seem to work.
	Invermectin is another one of them.
	Hydroxychloroquine has been withdrawn and now it seems that it's okay.
	This is Dr.
	Merrick.
	He discusses what is going on now with doctors and patients.
	So then tell me this, and we talked about it a little bit before as well.
	The situation is becoming so much weird that it is the patient who is educating the doctor saying, please give me ivermectin.
	And doctor is saying, no, not at all.
	You cannot have ivermectin.
	I will not.
	What the hell is this?
	So you're absolutely true.
	It is the most astonishing thing.
	So people contact me because their doctor won't prescribe ivermectin.
	So what I do is I send them the data and say, give this to your doctor.
	Let him read it.
	And what's interesting about half of them, the doctors will then prescribe ivermectin.
	And so we're in this unusual situation that the general public are now teaching the doctors how to treat COVID.
	Is this not a complete national catastrophe that doctors are so uneducated that we have to rely on the patients to educate them?
	There you go.
	Well done, everybody.
	Good job, Pharma.
	Good job.
	You know, a report came out of San Francisco that 670 people have died of drug overdose this year.
	Which is three times as high as the amount of people who have died in San Francisco of COVID. Yeah.
	Overdose deaths 621, COVID-19 deaths 173, and that's the inflated number.
	Okay, cracking update before we take our break.
	You know, I do want to mention that I'm looking for a clip for it.
	I thought I had a clip.
	That apparently the government's going after Walmart for over-prescribing...
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I just thought that's great.
	Let's see if anything comes of it, though.
	Well, you know...
	With Walmart.
	Well, I mean, they're not over-prescribing.
	They are taking in prescriptions that are questionable at best.
	Yeah, they're just writing as much as they can.
	Of course.
	No, not writing.
	They're doling.
	Fulfilling, yes.
	They're fulfilling.
	Yeah.
	Well, we also had the Purdue company admit and get fined for hooking people on drugs as a common-ass drug dealer, selling to the pill mills, fully aware of what they're doing, making sure...
	I mean, it happened during COVID, so why would it be on television?
	Those are the advertisers.
	Yeah, they're drug dealers.
	We have drug dealers at the top and drug dealers at the bottom, and the people behind it, I would say, are the same people.
	We need the drug business.
	Okay.
	Yeah, alright.
	Kraken, there we go.
	I did have, if you're interested, ambulance driver in California, boots on the ground.
	If that's of any interest.
	I have a good election, three-part election breakdown from this guy Robert Barnes.
	Why don't I just do the Kraken update?
	We'll do that, but I'd like to get to these three-parters.
	This, I think, puts it together better than we've done so far by any one person.
	Good.
	You mean the path forward?
	Yeah, he breaks it down as best it can be broken down.
	I am not a subscriber to this, but I have to say that he has the best breakdown I've had.
	It's going to be perfect.
	The schedule's perfect.
	I'll do the quick update.
	It's a little more than quick.
	But then I'll do the update.
	Then you do Barnes and then we'll be up to speed because that's exactly what we need.
	We start off by the backpedaling.
	People are dumping the president.
	They're running away as fast as they can.
	They just can't stand it anymore.
	They're afraid.
	Whatever the deal is, including Newsmax and Fox, who are under such pressure.
	I think there's some huge liability lawsuit that many outlets have been threatened with because this is what happened in this past week.
	Let's start with Newsmax, and this is all about the Dominion voting systems we've heard and seen reports.
	There's multiple reports of how these things were bogative.
	Here's Newsmax.
	Since Election Day, various guests, attorneys, and elected officials have appeared on Newsmax and offered opinions and claims about Smartmatic and Dominion Systems, both companies that offer voting software in the US. And Newsmax would like to clarify its news coverage and note that it has not reported as true certain claims made about these companies.
	Okay.
	There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware of.
	Newsmax has found no evidence that either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business association with each other.
	We have no evidence that Dominion uses Smartmatic software or vice versa.
	No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.
	Smartmatic has stated that its software was only used in the 2020 election in Los Angeles, was not used in any battleground state contested by the Trump campaign.
	Newsmax has no evidence to the contrary.
	Dominion has stated the company has no ownership relationship with the Pelosi family, the Feinstein family, the Clinton family, Hugo Chavez, or the government of Venezuela.
	Wow, I can just see this.
	I can see.
	A dozen lawyers came in with that to read?
	Oh, no.
	No, no.
	More than a dozen.
	The money, honey, over on Fox, who has been all...
	Fox Business, who has been all over this story...
	All over it.
	For weeks.
	Now, she won't stoop as low to do what that guy just did.
	Instead, they did this.
	Welcome back.
	In our weeks-long look into election integrity, we have heard concerns about both voting machines and voting software.
	Specifically, a software company called Smartmatic.
	This week, we reached out to Eddie Perez for Insight.
	He is the Global Director of Tech Development at the Open Source Election Technology Institute.
	His team develops open source software for elections.
	Who cares?
	We asked him what he knew about Smartmatic and the claims some have made about that company.
	So they have to...
	Whatever the legal paperwork that came in that scared the bejesus out of Newsmax did the same for Fox, but they solved it in a different way, which I thought was very funny.
	Have you seen any evidence that Smartmatic software was used to flip votes anywhere in the U.S. in this election?
	I have not seen any evidence...
	That Smartmatic software was used to delete, change, alter anything related to vote tabulation.
	Smartmatic says its software was never used outside of L.A. County in 2020.
	Do you know whether or not that's true?
	That is my understanding.
	I am not aware of that.
	This is just some dude, some random dude who works on election software, and they're going through the whole legal disclaimer part that Newsmax just did, except they're saying, oh, here's our report.
	And when there's no evidence, see, we did a report.
	I'm having any other direct customer's relationship.
	This is the difference between a professional operation, even though I think they could have done a better job than this.
	Oh, this is laughable, but yes.
	It's laughable, but it's the difference between a professional operation and some boneheads who just read from a sheet that they're told to read.
	I thought this was so sad.
	Sad for the money, honey.
	Sad for humanity, really.
	With election officials in the United States.
	What about Smartmatic and Dominion?
	Do you know if they're related?
	Whether one owns the other?
	Whether Dominion uses Smartmatic software?
	Both.
	How does the technology guy know all that?
	Dominion and Smartmatic have...
	Individually and respectively put out very clear statements from their corporate headquarters, each of them indicating they are independent companies, they are not related to each other.
	Have you seen any evidence of a connection between George Soros and Smartmatic?
	I'm not aware of it.
	This is great.
	Ask the tech guy.
	Hey man, has Soros been logging in?
	They are independent companies.
	They are not related to each other.
	Have you seen any evidence of a connection between George Soros and Smartmatic?
	I'm not aware of any direct connection between George Soros and Smartmatic.
	It is my understanding that an executive at Smartmatic has some sort of relationship with one of Soros' foundations.
	That's the extent of my knowledge.
	Have you seen any evidence of Smartmatic sending US votes to be tabulated in foreign countries?
	No, I'm not aware of any evidence that Smartmatic is sending US votes to be tabulated in foreign countries.
	As others have pointed out, irrespective of which voting technology vendor we're talking about, in the United States, the ballots that are cast in the United States are tabulated in the United States.
	Are you aware of any instances in which Smartmatics technology...
	This guy didn't even do the interview.
	I'm telling you, this guy is in the booth doing these questions after in the edit.
	All right, let me get it.
	In the United States, the ballots that are cast in the United States are tabulated in the United States.
	Are you aware of any instances in which Smartmatics technology was banned in the U.S. in 2020 due to security weaknesses or wrongdoing?
	That's not a legal question at all.
	I am not.
	I'm not aware of any instances where Smartmatics technology was banned in the U.S. Again, it is my understanding that outside of one customer in Los Angeles County, Smartmatic has no presence in the voting technology marketplace in the United States.
	So that is where we stand right now.
	We will keep investigating.
	Okay.
	Those two combined clips, you get a combined clip of the day.
	Oh, okay.
	That's a nice one.
	Clip of the day.
	Atrocious.
	That's very, very interesting.
	I didn't catch any of that, and that was the dynamite stuff.
	But it's atrocious.
	It's atrocious.
	Something is up.
	Well, it's...
	Well, somebody's suing somebody, and it's probably a major lawsuit because there's misinformation being pushed out there, and it got onto the mainstream, and then next thing you know...
	They've targeted Fox and Newsmax and probably a few others.
	Here's what I'm thinking, though.
	No, they really wouldn't want a lawsuit because that would trigger discovery and all kinds of stuff could pop up in discovery.
	So why a good news organization wouldn't take that on?
	I mean, this is clearly the legal department said, holy crap, we've got to do something right now.
	You've got to disclaim this.
	You can do it in this way.
	You know, just get someone to say, I don't, to my knowledge.
	You know, it's completely meaningless, but it's someone got freaked out about it.
	How about this?
	Maybe some advertisers said, okay, you got to do something.
	I don't know.
	It had to be from that angle, the advertisers, because...
	You're right.
	If you're a news organization with deep pockets, Newsmax, I will say, probably just needs to read this sheet.
	Yeah.
	But Fox has deep pockets.
	There's a major news organization.
	They would love to get into discovery.
	That's my point.
	With all these people so they can just go through these papers and develop stories so they wouldn't really be sued.
	Unless...
	So this had to be an advertiser.
	Unless...
	Fox also has things they don't want to come up in Discovery.
	That could be true.
	That's also possible.
	Let's face reality.
	We've done this enough.
	Advertising.
	It's advertising.
	Okay, so now we're going to get into Kraken.
	It won't take that long.
	And I believe your clips, which come after that, explain the path.
	There is a path.
	The path depends on Pence, which is on January 6th.
	And as a part of...
	The strategy, it seems, or what is left is...
	My clips do not say that it depends on Pence.
	Well, I'll tell you what I've learned, and then we'll see how it fits in.
	It would depend on, well, first it would depend on a number of votes taking place.
	You need someone from the House, you need someone from the Senate to contest a vote, then you go into two hours, then you go into votes.
	Ultimately, Pence could do quite a lot, and the question is, what will Pence do on January 6th?
	To get ready for it, we have the wild protest!
	And the wild protest is scheduled on January 6th in D.C., and this is intended to show lawmakers around the country what they'll be up against if they don't, quote-unquote, do the right thing.
	In fact, the Friends of Fair and Honest Elections D.C. meetup is listed on noagendameetups.com Tuesday, January 5th at 8 p.m.
	in the evening at the J.W. Marriott.
	On Pennsylvania Avenue.
	It's an actual protest.
	Noagendaprotest.com.
	It's on the list for later.
	So the idea to get a million people, show the force, show MAGA Nation, and that the right things have to be done, and there's a lot of different ways of explaining what could be done with the electors, who's counted, what's legitimate.
	Hopefully we have something to address that, but Just to show you how down to the wire this is, I believe, is the big Oval Office meeting that was talked about.
	And this is the way CNN categorized some of that.
	Well, it's very clear that as President Trump continues to refuse to accept that he lost this presidential election to President-elect Joe Biden, the president is also still consulting aides and allies for more ways that he could possibly move to continue to contest this election or at least undermine the legitimacy of Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the the president is also still consulting aides and allies for more ways We're told that on Friday, the president met with Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor, who was pardoned by the president despite having pled guilty to counts of lying to the FBI.
	And his attorney, Sidney Powell, who has been trafficking these deranged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that have been roundly and thoroughly debunked.
	The president, nonetheless, during this meeting apparently was talking about potentially naming Sidney Powell as a special counsel within the government to investigate voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite a total lack of evidence of any widespread voter fraud in this election.
	And he also discussed apparently this idea that Michael Flynn has brought up recently about using martial law to rerun the 2020 presidential election.
	I want you to listen to this.
	OK, so.
	So.
	There were three people, actually four, in the Oval Office, from what I understand.
	And the reason I like these clips is because one of the four was Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock CEO, who, according to his own account, has spent over a million dollars on doing all of the forensics everywhere possible on the Dominion voting machines.
	Sidney Powell in...
	Not what CNN reported there, the president's lawyer.
	She's not the president's lawyer officially, so that's just incorrect.
	And Patrick Byrne went all out on as many streaming shows, podcasts, anywhere he could get heard, probably on Newsmax as well, although I think he's even straight away from that, saying a couple of things.
	One, he says he was there for four and a half hours.
	He did...
	I should tweet a video of him walking into the White House on Friday night.
	So I believe that he was there.
	He has no reason to bullcrap.
	But he says in four and a half hours there was not a single talk about any military move, any martial law or anything like that.
	And it seems like it's really down to just a few people because the president's advisory team, his lawyers, they want him to give up and get out.
	President Trump has been buried in lead.
	I was in the room when President Trump, so at one point, Pat Cipollone and one of his hissy fits yelled at the president, stood up and was yelling at the president.
	I almost decked this guy.
	He's a rude little son of a bitch.
	And Flynn stood up.
	I mean, Flynn is a real gentleman.
	As gentlemanly as it gets.
	And he even took to his feet at one point at three lawyers who were screaming.
	And standing shoulder to shoulder with Flynn and facing off with these guys, there was almost a fist fight.
	President Trump said later, there's probably not been a meeting like this in 200 years in the Oval Office.
	And he went on to explain exactly why these guys are all acting this way.
	You know why they're doing it?
	Because the signal has gone out.
	If you're good boys and you get the president out on January 20th, there's a million and a half dollar...
	In fact, President Trump said to one of the people there, one of the three lawyers, it was his last night.
	And he was leaving that night.
	He stayed to midnight with us, but he left.
	But President Trump said, you know why this guy's leaving us?
	He just got an offer for ten times the salary from another law firm in D.C. What's happened is all these people know that if they get the president out on January 20, there's jobs waiting for them at law firms and lobbyists for a million dollars and up jobs.
	But if they don't get him out, and if they do, they're going to be invited to the right socialite parties in New York.
	Hey, I've been to those socialite parties.
	You aren't missing anything.
	You know, it's slumming as far as I'm concerned.
	Hanging out with a better class of people than going to hanging around that crew in New York.
	So they're being tempted with offers like that, and they're being told, I'm told by people involved, they're being told if you don't get him out on January 20th, all of that goes away.
	So these people are privately being offered massive jobs if they just get President Trump out.
	Yeah, that's kind of the way it works.
	These days, if you can get into government, you are golden when you come out.
	That's the revolving door.
	Everybody loves it.
	This was his third and final clip.
	I think this is the most important one.
	We know that John Durham, with his thousands of sealed indictments, is a special counsel, special investigator.
	So it would be much...
	And that'll be for the Russian collusion hoax.
	We'll see.
	This guy may never surface.
	But at least he shouldn't or can't...
	Is that your ashtray that dropped?
	Something fell over, sorry.
	Where was I? Yes.
	You're talking about Durham being a douchebag and having all these indictments, but he's a special something or other.
	He's now a special investigator, special counsel to the president, so he will carry over.
	And this clip from Patrick Byrne leads me to believe that Especially in light of all the mainstream M5M news reports saying that this will be crazy, there's no way, it's rumored, whatever.
	I think he did appoint Sidney Powell as special counsel to the president or White House for the election.
	Here's Patrick Byrne recounting his experience.
	I saw President Trump...
	And Cipollone, the general counsel, said something like, if you really, you don't even need me, you can just do this verbally.
	If you really want to appoint Sidney Powell special counsel, you can just say it.
	And after 15 more minutes of arguing, President Trump said, you know what?
	You don't, you said, I don't, he said, you don't even need a pencil and paper if you want to do this.
	But if you do that, you know, this and that.
	And 20 minutes later, Trump said, you know what?
	I've made my decision.
	Cindy Powell, you were appointed White House special counsel.
	And somebody objected, well, she doesn't need, she needs a clearance, and that's going to take X money, this and that.
	And President Trump said, you know what?
	I have the ability to give a clearance with my word.
	I hereby give you a TSSCI clearance.
	This is done.
	This decision is done.
	We're going.
	We'll see if it holds water.
	We'll see if it's real.
	Because we do need to find out, and eventually these things come out two, three years down the road, and this will be interesting.
	If Pence truly can affect what happens, he's got to be thinking to himself, do I stand next to the president and do everything I can to change this?
	What have I got to lose?
	Does he have something to lose?
	Yes.
	If it doesn't work, then he'll be out of politics forever.
	He'll be back to doing the morning radio show.
	Or, as I've read in Alternet, he intends to leave right after he certifies Trump's loss and he'll leave the country.
	Oh, I love Alternet.
	They're nailing it.
	He is scheduled to be in the Middle East, so it's very possible.
	That's because Alternet...
	This is where the Libjoes get their material.
	That's why I read it.
	That's why I read it.
	And there's one other one.
	Progress Now.
	And they have been convinced that...
	That Pence is going to be indicted and jailed.
	Well, he's leaving the country to make sure whatever happens.
	Yeah, he has to leave the country.
	Otherwise, he's going to be indicted and jailed.
	And I ask, it goes like this.
	He's going to be indicted and jailed for what?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, he's a criminal.
	He's a criminal and he's done bad things.
	And what those criminal acts are, we don't know yet.
	They're beyond them.
	Pence sure sounded positive at the Turning Point USA rally.
	I don't think I have to tell you this.
	So for all we've done, for all we have yet to do, stay in the fight.
	Stay in the fight in our elections.
	Stay in the fight in Georgia's election.
	And stay in the fight every day that follows.
	And as our election contest continues, I'll make you a promise.
	We're going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted.
	We're going to keep fighting until every illegal vote is thrown out.
	And people are pretty pumped up.
	Pretty pumped up.
	The middle name is George Custer.
	The January 5th and January 6th MAGA Nation descends on Washington, D.C. This should make for some excellent coverage on television.
	It won't cover it.
	No, they won't cover it at all.
	Of course not.
	You won't see a single thing.
	Of course not.
	Now, I'd love to hear about your clips about the legal...
	This is the way forward.
	I thought this was a pretty good rundown, breakdown, I have it.
	This Robert Barnes...
	I have to say, something like this...
	Well, actually, play the first clip, and then I'll tell you where it ran.
	But he starts off...
	It does take a long series of three clips, five minutes.
	It pretty much breaks it down.
	I'm not buying it.
	I don't think anything's going to happen on January.
	I think it's going to be, there'll be a few guys that'll stand up, be stand-up guys and do something.
	And he even admits this is possible.
	But this is the way it would go if it would go, if anything's going to happen at all.
	And this is the end of it after this.
	Welcome to Robert Barnes, who is joining me now from his humble abode where lots of legal thought and analysis goes down.
	And so he joins me now to discuss the...
	Brother, could you have left that part off?
	I only left it in there because he mentioned his name and I needed it for the clip because I produced it after I recorded it.
	Okay.
	...election.
	Robert, everybody seems focused on January 6th right now, including the President of the United States.
	Your take on where we're at right now and how confident are you that January 6th is the day to be watching?
	Now, are you watching Owen's War Room every day or did someone send you this?
	I caught it myself.
	Sure.
	Okay, Mr.
	Infowars.
	I did.
	Nobody sent it to me, but I will say this.
	Some people may have suggested it.
	And I normally...
	No, you know where I got it from?
	I got it from that fake YouTube, that real YouTube, whatever it's called.
	There's some alternative YouTube.
	Rumble.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, it's called something RealTubeU or something like that.
	Well, you found it.
	I'm good.
	I'm glad.
	Well, thank you for nothing.
	Now, the point is that I was on there looking for obscurities because all the stuff I had was all network.
	I'm thinking, I've got to have something a little off the wall.
	Oh, this is your bridey arm.
	It wasn't that, but it was that.
	I'm saying, I've got to find something a little different here.
	And so I found this.
	I said, this is pretty interesting.
	It was from Infowars, but okay.
	All right, let's continue.
	You busted me for that.
	Thanks for nothing.
	I was going to be a surprise.
	Like I couldn't hear Owen's voice?
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, I don't know that you listen to this all the time, apparently.
	It definitely is.
	Ultimately, the constitutional remedy for a presidential election that goes AWOL was always intended to be Congress, more so than the courts, more so than the state legislatures.
	That's why the Congress decides whether to certify electors.
	If they do not certify 270 or more electors for any one candidate, then under the 12th Amendment, it goes to the House to vote by state delegation.
	So the president's legal constitutional remedy is for Congress to take up the issue on January 6th.
	And it could take days because there could be objections to multiple states.
	There's anticipation of at least seven states being objected to.
	They're supposed to spend two hours apiece, each chamber, on their own accord debating it.
	They should allow for argument and evidence to be presented in that time frame.
	And so consequently, you could have, you know, 14 hours or more of debate time.
	So if we can spend two weeks on a bogus impeachment, we can spend at least a few days on a legitimate election contest.
	And I think that's the president's position, and it's a sound one to have.
	And then what he needs and what he wants is for there to be a mass audience outside so the House members and senators can witness the power of the support that Trump has for this election contest to occur.
	And if the evidence and arguments are properly heard out, then there's an excellent opportunity for Trump to at least succeed in the Senate, and then there's open question in the House.
	Right.
	Okay.
	That makes sense.
	That's kind of what I've learned.
	So hopefully he has more in-depth on this, how those pieces work.
	Well, here we go to part two.
	This is parallel track for Trump, because if he doesn't prevail, he wants it to be the case that Pelosi and Biden helped steal it for Biden.
	And that's the other utility of going through this process.
	Not only is it the constitutional process, not only should he prevail if they actually apply the facts and the law and the Constitution, because this election was not done in a constitutionally consistent manner in a sufficient number of states to give Joe Biden any form of electoral college majority.
	But the other advantage is if for whatever reason it doesn't work, if it doesn't work because Pelosi is the obstacle in the House with Democrats having a slight edge, then it gives Trump a key talking point for the next four years.
	It gives conservatives and Republicans a key talking point for the upcoming midterms.
	And Trump can rebuild and expand his populist movement going forward.
	So Trump's always...
	Since Art of the Deal, his mantra has been hope for the best, plan for the worst, and the January 6th plan is both.
	It's both that the best can happen, should happen, but in case it doesn't, the backup plan, it works for the backup plan too.
	So it works for both.
	So it's an intelligent path for the president to be taking.
	It's the constitutional path.
	It's the legal path.
	And it's the only path he's been afforded effectively at this point because the state governors refuse to take action.
	The state secretaries of state refuse to take action.
	The state courts in those systems refuse to take action.
	The state legislatures in those states could not convene.
	And then the federal courts have also refused to take action.
	And so, as the President said yesterday, as his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows laid out, the protocol is to go forward on January 6th because it's the only remedy available.
	And he just has to overcome Mitch McConnell trying to instruct everybody in the Senate.
	To not vote on it.
	But I think that ship has sailed.
	Senator Perdue out of Georgia said if he wins re-election, he's going to challenge it.
	Senator Tuberville is talking about challenging it.
	Senator Paul is talking about challenging it.
	Senator Hawley is talking about challenging it.
	These are good clips.
	Very interesting.
	First, I wonder what it would be like if you're sitting in Congress and you've got a million people outside and you can hear them.
	I wonder if that does play into the psyche.
	I wonder.
	Sure, it must have some effect.
	It must.
	They've got to be loud.
	I have no doubt that it's going to be very loud.
	But even then, if you listen to this two-pronged strategy, so to be able to use this for the midterm, oh man, I'd hate to be a legislator in any of these states.
	It's going to get really difficult for them.
	There's going to be all kinds of stones overturned for these people.
	This is good.
	At the local level, I'm very happy this is going to take place, one way or the other.
	All right?
	Let's let him wrap.
	All right.
	So, the other thing that's useful about this, however it turns out, is it's going to put everybody on notice of who's a Trump loyalist and who isn't.
	Make him have a vote.
	So to know who in the House really is aborting the President and who is not.
	Have you seen Chris Christie with his Goombas?
	This guy's making a run.
	Oh yeah, Chris Christie's out telling everybody, oh yeah, he's making the rounds.
	Trump's got to get out, and he's got goomba goons with him.
	He's going to make a run in 2024.
	Who in the Senate is really supporting the president, and who is not?
	And let's be clear, it's not just supporting the president, it's supporting reality.
	Trump won this thing in a landslide, everybody knows it, so anybody who wants to vote against it, whether it's a Democrat or a Republican, they're just voting against reality.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And they're voting against a constitutional election.
	And they're voting against the constitutional process for resolving a contested election.
	So what it does is it puts on notice who's really so deeply tied to the swamp that they're unwilling to even exercise their constitutional obligation to resolve a contested election where a constitutional election clearly elects the president.
	It's only an unconstitutional election that elects Joe Biden.
	And so let's see if some of these would-be presidents like Senator Hawley and others will step up to the plate or not.
	And every senator and congressman who does not step up to the plate for a constitutional election and object to the electors from these states that did not conduct a constitutional election...
	Then they should be primary.
	They should be focused on to be challenged in 2022 and 2024.
	So it's a great opportunity to get a clear and clean discernment at who is with the country, who is with the Constitution, and who ain't.
	Yeah, I think that'll be the result.
	That's what he just said at the end there.
	Who is for it and who's with the country and the Constitution, who isn't.
	And that'll be a nice list to have.
	Well, we'll find out.
	And after the 6th, we'll be done with this, hopefully.
	I mean, I don't see what else there could be going on.
	But, again, I do not underestimate the American public.
	And this wild protest could have influence.
	I don't know.
	Tears will come somewhere.
	Somewhere tears are going to come.
	Don't worry about it.
	The vaccine will be out when it's out.
	...to understand how elections work, no matter what happens.
	Because we're just going to go into dark times, my friends.
	Dark times with Joe.
	We're going into dark times.
	We've got the darkest days ahead of us.
	Hey, Merry Christmas, everybody.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in, in as good as a coin toss, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, and sumps in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to all of the trolls in the troll room.
	You can find them at noagendastream.com.
	Let's see.
	Let's do a little troll count here.
	Hands up, trolls!
	Let's see what we got.
	We have...
	Did I get anything out of it?
	Oh, 1555.
	Well, it is Christmas Eve.
	It's already Christmas in some places.
	I believe Denmark celebrates on the 24th.
	So, Merry Christmas, trolls.
	I'll be nice to you.
	But thanks for showing up once again.
	They come into the troll room to listen to the live show.
	You can listen to lots of stuff, 24-7.
	We've got a stream running, and you can talk about it with the other trolls.
	But the live shows, of course, are the most fun, where you can just troll the people doing the show.
	I mean, what better way to contribute?
	Sometimes there's valuable info in that.
	And you can ask anybody in there for an invite to noagendasocial.com.
	Get away from the programs that you are trapped in from the algorithms.
	It's really not worth your time or your sanity.
	Keep your amygdala at the proper size.
	Join up at noagendasocial.com.
	It's a federated social network without algos.
	Impeccable signal to noise.
	You will enjoy yourself, certainly if you like hanging out with people from Gitmo Nation.
	Special thanks to Dreb Scott for doing all of the great chapter work on the brand new Podcasting 2.0 app.
	You can find them at newpodcastapps.com.
	And you'll see right now, if you look at it, you'll see the artwork for episode 1305.
	We titled that one The Palin Pardon, and this was Fletcher.
	Fletcher scored with this basic...
	It was Santa Claus with a big red circle and stripe going over his face.
	What were the problems?
	You had things to talk about for this artwork.
	I know.
	The ones I liked.
	We had issues.
	I didn't like much, personally.
	No, you didn't like anything.
	Not really.
	You're obviously the Scrooge.
	Was there nothing I liked?
	No, there was absolutely nothing.
	You can't identify anything you liked.
	I don't think so.
	You were saying bah humbug and you were spitting a lot.
	I don't know what was going on with you.
	Oh no, the one I liked, I liked the COVID Enforcement Task Force with the Angry Santa.
	I liked that one, which you didn't.
	I was too tired.
	I wasn't going to fight you.
	We decided no syringes, of course.
	Lots of Christmassy goat stuff.
	You're not dead.
	By the way, what is going on with the TV networks that are showing the syringes being stabbed into people?
	I mean, I have to turn away from it.
	I can't watch them sticking people with a needle.
	This is part of the agenda.
	They did surveys...
	And the best way to roll it out is to talk about getting the vaccine in your arm.
	And part of that...
	Yeah, but why are they making me cringe?
	It's the new normal, John.
	Get used to it.
	It's the new normal.
	It's to get you used to it.
	It's in your arm.
	It plunged.
	They're showing this over and over again to put you at ease.
	You will feel less cringy once this is all over and you submit.
	Yeah, sure.
	Well, the ones I really liked, the ones you didn't like at all.
	Well, you liked the ornament that said, it was a dumb ornament.
	I didn't mind the ornament, but that wasn't what I picked.
	That was a Daryl piece of art.
	It was these ones, it was the ones from Mountain Jay.
	She took old antique cards, including a funny one where Santa's looking in on some little girl like a pervert.
	I thought that was funny.
	You're not dead.
	You're not dead, uh, ornament.
	That's what you wanted.
	No, I didn't.
	I wanted these two from Mountain Jay that said 1305 on them, and you said they were too busy.
	Oh, they're too busy.
	They're too busy.
	I think all of these classic Christmas-looking cards are too busy.
	At small scale, as they're displayed on album art, they don't read well.
	I don't think so.
	I didn't think this one read particularly well either, but at least it was an anti-Santa message, and who doesn't love that?
	So, uh, you were just not in the mood.
	That's the way I see it.
	And you're right about one thing.
	Stop showing syringes.
	John can't handle it.
	We had our classic butt picture from comic strip blogger.
	Always another butt crack.
	I don't know what he's getting at.
	What he's trolling for.
	So he can make a clip using podcasting 2.0 protocols, I might add.
	And then tweet that about him being on the show.
	Yeah, we're playing into his hand.
	Another one I like that you hated...
	I don't hate anything.
	...was Greetings from Covexit.
	Yeah, I didn't like it.
	You're right.
	Maybe I just wasn't in the mood.
	You're right.
	Nothing struck me.
	It's personal.
	Art is a personal choice.
	Nothing worked for me, but I was happy to jump on board with what we chose, which was Fletcher.
	Now, there was one from Sir Effigy that says, Episode 1224 Artwork...
	Which is on the page.
	Oh, really?
	Which is Santa getting the injection.
	Really?
	It would have been funny if it was...
	I used that for the newsletter.
	I would still promote it for today's show.
	By the way, the newsletter, fantastic.
	I love all the Santa Claus cigarette ads.
	That is fantastic.
	It wasn't my original intention.
	I was going to do some Santa Claus ads over the years, and I started seeing all these cigarette ads, and I said, let's make this thematic.
	There's more than enough cigarette.
	It's as though Santa Claus can't get enough smokes.
	He'll smoke anything.
	It's interesting how Santa has been used and abused in the past for big programs, big advertising programs, and I think you're right.
	I think the...
	Maybe we should pay closer attention to Santa and vaccines.
	Do we have a lot of Santa being vaccinated?
	But they should do it.
	Because that's what Fauci signaled it, right?
	Fauci signaled it.
	That he went and checked with Santa.
	Now, please, don't do this.
	We're not going to pick art of Santa getting a vaccine in the arm.
	It makes John uncomfortable.
	I'd use it on the newsletter.
	It still makes you uncomfortable.
	You don't like the plunging in the arm.
	Well, that particular one I made an exception for because it was so well done.
	That was your effigy.
	We appreciate the work that all of our artists do, and what we're really doing here is critiquing you because that's why you send it in.
	You want to win?
	If you don't win, you'd like to know why not.
	Well, it's because I was tired and John has crazy ideas.
	And then all of a sudden...
	I'm out of control!
	It shows up!
	And that's how it works.
	We look forward to all of the talent and time that producers put into the production of this show.
	Every single person who is involved in it is a producer.
	And we'd like to thank...
	It's a little bit later than usual.
	It's going to be a long show today.
	It's a Christmas show, so that's fine if we go a little bit overboard.
	We've got a lot of people who are very thankful for being a part of this grand experiment we've been running for working on 14 years and we're going to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1306 and say in advance these are titles that you can really use anywhere they are official and thank you for your courage because we've got quite a list to get through today.
	Starting with Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Loris Lobovia.
	There he is.
	His monthly.
	And here he comes.
	Finishing the year off with 2222.
	Holy moly.
	.00.
	Wow.
	And again, code we don't understand.
	It's always a different amount.
	So we have to maybe assume there's some coding going on here.
	Uh...
	And he always writes a very nice note.
	He does.
	An informative note.
	This one's got a little bit of code in it, so we don't know what he's talking about in a few spots.
	Okay.
	The year of the dame-slash-lady drive is ending, and the new dame-slash-lady count is dwindling as reminders and income waned under COVID. Producers, consider making the Year of the Dame Lady Drive a year with a baker's dozen number of months to permit new year title gifts from stimulus checks and to make 2020 the longest year on record.
	With Chameleon Harris serving as lady-in-waiting, expect her voice will support ESG and ESG limitations on trillions of dollars in investment funds only apply to U.S., European, and developed Asian countries and companies.
	Many South American, Asian, excluding Japan and Korea, or examples Japan and Korea, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern countries and companies are excluded from ESG standards.
	What is the ESG? What does it stand for?
	I have no idea.
	Look up in an acronym, see if ESG means anything.
	Yeah, I'm looking for it now.
	ESG standards still qualify for investing.
	These non-compliers often receive international subsidies.
	Oh, brother.
	Of course.
	Environmental, social, and governance.
	It's part of the sustainability goals for 2030 of the United Nations.
	When you put a board member on, they have to be black or gay or dead.
	Or a plant.
	Or CO2. It could be a plant.
	It could be a tree.
	A bag of climate change.
	It could be a redwood.
	It could be anything.
	Please, just put something on there with an ESG stamp.
	African and Middle Eastern countries and companies are excluded from ESG standards and still qualify for investing.
	These non-compliance often receive international subsidies to fund compliance and their leaders abscond with the funds.
	Meanwhile, developed companies put on debt and suffer competitively in their effort to comply.
	So what he's saying here is that this is a scam to screw Western companies.
	E-Environmental is certainly running well, and the financial cost of obedience has already moved heavy manufacturing to China, where E-Policies are limited.
	Meanwhile, U.S. and European taxpayers agree to pay for eventual cleanup, dash the Paris Accord being a super-duper colossal super fund funded by those participants to clean up China and India someday.
	If someone ever says, what is the Paris Accord?
	You can just say, oh, it's a super-duper colossal super fund.
	Yeah.
	Meant to screw us.
	To clean up China and India because they won't do it.
	To clean up India and China someday.
	Yeah.
	S&G again.
	U.S. and European companies will find weapons manufacturers having reduced market access.
	Non-union U.S. or low worker wage firms will be forced to increase wages and prices, making them less competitive.
	Board leadership will become diluted as membership expands and internal company management concentrates its power, a common issue with expanding boards.
	Ugh.
	Meanwhile, the countries that are not required to comply continue to grow with slave labor and corrupt leadership and toxic byproducts.
	Professionally, U.S. administration changes lead to higher activity and profits.
	This will be my ninth administration change, and so far, this is better than the shift from Bush 2 to Obama, but not quite the Obama-to-Trump shift.
	I hope you and others benefit as well.
	Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to all.
	No jingles, no comma.
	Sir Dogpatch of Lower Slobovia.
	Giving us a lesson in economics.
	Yeah.
	It's just another tip lifted of the veil as to who is truly Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia.
	We cannot thank you enough for your unwavering support that you've brought us throughout.
	How long has he been supporting us now?
	Several years, I think.
	Number of years.
	Number of years.
	Always in the same format, although sometimes emailed from different places.
	I think over five years.
	Yeah.
	Well, Happy Hanukkah or Chanukah, as we're supposed to say, Smokey Robinson.
	You're supposed to say Chanukah now?
	Oh, you didn't see the Smokey Robinson bit?
	Oh, that's hilarious.
	No.
	I don't know anything about Chinooka.
	It sounds like a fish.
	Are you familiar with Cameo?
	The app Cameo?
	So Cameo, they approached me.
	They actually courted me for a while trying to get me to sign up to this god-awful service.
	Snoop Dogg is one of the main ones.
	You get on this app and you can pay a celebrity to do a custom video greeting for you.
	Oh, yes, I've seen.
	This is old.
	It's been around for quite a while, yes.
	Yeah, I know this.
	But so Smokey Robinson did a cameo, and he was asked to wish Happy Hanukkah to whoever was the recipient of this video, and he kept saying Chinooka.
	We need a clip.
	Oh my goodness.
	I didn't even clip this thinking this is now two weeks old.
	It was hilariously viral for a moment there.
	Well, you should still clip it.
	Anyway, thank you very much, astronomers of Dogpatch and Lois Labovia.
	We really appreciate that.
	Cameron Dodd is next on the list from Pearl Land, Texas, and he gave us $1,306, which is the show number.
	That is the show title, the show number right there.
	So he's a club member.
	Club member.
	ITM, a colleague, told me that the pandemic was just going to speed up things that were already progressing.
	It was going to be a catalyst for all things good and bad.
	Can't...
	Good and bad.
	I can see it happening on friends' marriages that have ended in divorce during all of this, and again in new relationships starting between long-time friends, and I can think that you guys are producing the best content that you have since I've been a listener, which is where you were headed at the end of 2019.
	Thank you for doing the work that we so desperately needed in this country.
	It is much appreciated.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	We appreciate the note and certainly appreciate the club membership.
	Now we have a person, let's just say Gardner, I'm not going to say his last name because he might want to be anonymous, but I can't find a note from him.
	And he's in Kapa'a, Hawaii, and he gave us $1,000 and I couldn't find anything, a donation or anything, note, or anything by his name anyway.
	So send us another note, Gardner, and we will follow up.
	Thank you.
	Tony Cabrera, 86183.
	Encloses this year's final contribution from the No Agenda shop.
	There you go.
	Made possible by listeners who stopped by to pick up some of the formula-propagating merch featuring art by No Agenda artists who also just got their share of the profits as well.
	2020 should have been an amygdala-destroying year if we're not for your bi-weekly dose of mainstream media deprogramming.
	Less talky, more karma.
	A manning Bitcoin and a true por favor.
	Oh.
	And thank you very much for being part of the No Agenda Value for Value concept.
	Just to remind you, anytime artwork is used from NoAgendaArtGenerator.com on a t-shirt, a mug, a hat, etc., a split is made between the artist, the show, and the shop itself.
	We have no idea how these guys do this.
	There's no agreements.
	It's just friendly, and it shows up, and we're super happy with it.
	And we appreciate you being with us throughout this Rona period as well, No Agenda Shop.com.
	Tony Cabrera, thank you for your courage.
	They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	So the anonymous lesbian picked up a pink baseball cap from this shop.
	Oh, from the No Agenda shop?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it said No Agenda or something.
	It had some saying or something on it.
	She was wearing it around Manhattan thinking it'd be kind of funny.
	And so I went and said, it's a good looking woman's hat.
	It's pink.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so I couldn't find it on the site.
	And so I sent it back to her.
	She said, yeah, you've got to really dig.
	There are some things they've got.
	I will give the site a little criticism here.
	Constructive.
	If you've got hot sellers or something like that, pink hat, that should be in the front.
	The front of the store.
	And you shouldn't have to dig around for it.
	Yeah.
	Was it a hot seller?
	I don't know if it was.
	It would be.
	It's just a dynamite-looking thing.
	Anonymous lesbians are one of those people with taste.
	Oh, taste.
	One of those people.
	Yeah, they're out there.
	Not too many.
	I just, like, I couldn't find the hat.
	I'm so happy that we have the scanner now, so I can see the notes.
	I really appreciate that.
	It's nice to see them.
	So the first time I'm seeing the United Federation of Planets Starfleet Command logo on the letterhead for our next donation.
	Yes, this is Sir Rodonnell of the Fire Bottles, County of Eastern Washington, Spokane Valley, 777.77.
	And he sent his note in.
	77, 77.
	He says, I began my seventh year of listening to No Agenda with a sack of sevens.
	I knew it was time to donate when again, when my name came up on episode 1302, when Adam wondered if I might be affiliated with the Galactic Federation.
	No, my place is with the United Federation of Planets, as John noted.
	Oh, good.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean to cause a space ruckus.
	You insulted him.
	Totally.
	Several points with respect to COVID. One, while COVID may now arguably be the single biggest cause of death, most deaths are caused by other things.
	No kidding.
	Have you noticed that the news reports on COVID deaths initially often stated the age of the victim, but now it is seldom mentioned?
	No, of course.
	We can't have that.
	We can't have you figuring out statistics for yourself.
	My question to COVID fear mongers, how many of these supposedly died of COVID would have been alive today if there was no virus?
	Probably less than half.
	The empty chair guilt trip narrative is mostly false.
	I love the empty chair.
	Oh, is there going to be an empty chair?
	There's always an empty chair unless you don't have enough chairs.
	Don't you think?
	And if grandma dies, do you actually leave an empty chair open at the table?
	With a meal in front of it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	For grandma?
	With a place setting?
	Possible.
	Come next Thanksgiving and Christmas, there will be empty chairs, but most of these empty chairs will be due to diseases other than COVID. Also, most empty chairs caused by COVID all will be because of the virus being contracted somewhere besides the family get-together.
	Family members here are being cheated out of...
	Out of a final gathering with their now departed relatives because of the government-induced fear, funded by taxpayers, of course, and promoted by the media.
	Hello!
	Yay!
	Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles, Count of Eastern Washington, Spokane Valley.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	Thank you very much.
	Sir Mike of Maquoketa, Knight of All Tradition, sent a note in.
	It attaches a WAV file, and he's got a WAV file at the end.
	I don't know if you got that.
	Here's the note.
	Greetings from...
	He's got a file for the pronunciation.
	I'm not going to pronounce it again.
	After my brother Matt insta-knighted me on show 1301, I figured I would be using Christmas as an occasion to finish his knighthood.
	This donation, along with 556 from episode 1286, should get it done.
	Unless he brokers an objection, I would like him knighted as Sir Matt of MacQuilquetta, Knight of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
	I don't know if he's on the list or not.
	This is a note that came in through email.
	I didn't get this email, so I'm very confused about this.
	I didn't get an email.
	I didn't get an attachment.
	And I certainly don't see Mike on the list.
	Okay, so it's Mike...
	Sir Mike of Macqueta, or Keta, I can't, I don't know.
	I'm going to have to play this.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	Sir Mike of Macqueta.
	Knight of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	I'd also like to call him out as Kilo Zero Kilo Brava from his brother's November Zero Papa Tango Tango.
	Keep up the great work, guys.
	If there was an awesome title other than Best Podcast in the Universe, you would certainly deserve it.
	No jingles, no karma.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	Sir Mike.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'll put that aside and go on to Moose.
	Moose.
	I want to do this one.
	Okay, you got it.
	It's a reed.
	Wait, we can do it with some jingle bells, because he made a little poem for us.
	Twice the night before Christmas went all through the house.
	Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
	The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
	The producers were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of deconstruction danced in their heads.
	And Adam and his kerchief, and I and my cap, had just settled down for a long winter's nap.
	When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
	Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
	The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave the luster of midday to something below, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a deranged moose asking to be knighted Sir Spike Fork, the wandering knight.
	Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
	Energy!
	Anarchy!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Performed...
	I believe he is...
	Performed exactly...
	Performed exactly as he instructed.
	And I believe he's on the list.
	Yes, he is on the list.
	Brian Martin in Parkland, Florida, 350.
	ITM, one of my neighbors is a proctologist and I marvel at the idea of his chosen profession is to gander at assholes to diagnose irregularities and illness.
	Nice.
	It dawned on me that you also look at assholes to diagnose irregularities and illness in the mainstream media it's called.
	Pretty much.
	You are a media proctologist.
	It's a perspective that makes your study of Amy Goodman and Yamiche nothing short of heroic.
	For this Christmas season, my proctologist neighbor got sugar cookies.
	You get this donation.
	Which brings me to knighthood.
	Woo!
	Please knight me Sir B of the New Republic of Florexas since Florida and Texas will soon succeed.
	Succeed.
	It's a seed.
	I want to get out in front of this thing and lay my claim.
	It's like buying Bitcoin when it was a dollar or 25 cents.
	Yeah.
	For the round table, I simply asked for the center cut of the mutton.
	You got it.
	Also, a birthday for me.
	Please add me to the list for coded 33 day of 12-21, which is 12-21 is 3-3.
	21 is 3-3, yeah.
	Nice.
	Yeah, I had to meet you.
	To the Christmas listeners, Merry Christmas, and to the entire No Agenda family, I wish you all peace, health, and happiness.
	No jingles, no karma.
	We appreciate that.
	Brian Martin of Parkland, Florida.
	And he's got his accounting below for his knighthood.
	Yep.
	And he's there.
	Ready to go.
	Okay, good.
	Then we move to Brittany Truesnik.
	Truesnik.
	I'm looking at her name.
	I know the pronunciation is Truesnik.
	Interesting.
	333.99.
	I will be a dame with this donation.
	Penny, please?
	Penny?
	Oh, penny.
	Yeah, I got a penny.
	Penny.
	She needs a penny.
	There's your penny.
	There it is.
	Sounds kind of like a lead penny.
	I would like to be addressed as Dame Brittany of the Swamps.
	Okay.
	May I request frog legs and codeine for the round table to celebrate the Dirty South?
	Okay.
	Sure!
	I don't know what this got to do with the dirty sauce.
	I don't know, but I like it.
	Frog legs.
	Frog legs are delicious, by the way.
	Can I ask for the F cancer karma for an amazing woman that we lost in the 22nd who was both a mother figure when I needed one the most and a fun drinking buddy.
	May she have all of the Puerto Rican cigarettes they let her have in the better place.
	I would...
	I would also like to hear the Eat Kale, Not Donuts jingle, to laugh at Crash Diet Week, a.k.a.
	First Week of January.
	And last but not least, my husband, Baron of the Philippines, wants the General Purpose TPP jingle.
	Happy Holidays, everyone.
	We got a lot to do.
	Like eat kale, not donuts.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Wow.
	That came off without a hitch.
	Yeah.
	333.43 from Waialua, Hawaii.
	Or Hawaii.
	PayPal rejected my donation, so I decided to do this odd, old-fashioned way.
	Sorry about the handwriting.
	You can probably guess what I do for a living.
	Thank you, John, for your last newsletter with the something of...
	I can't read that.
	The last newsletter with the comparison of physicians versus administrators.
	Right.
	I don't know if you've watched any Studio Ghibli, but this...
	This group reminds me of the...
	I can't read that either.
	I don't know.
	I think I can read this.
	I don't know if you've watched any Studio 6.
	I think that's what it is.
	But this growth reminds me of the scene where no fair grows and grows and grows in spirited away.
	Okay!
	Anyhow, this donation is for my husband who has requested to remain anonymous.
	He has previously used the alias...
	Babalucci, his childhood nickname, which means snail in Italian, this donation may bring him to knighthood, but I don't know how to check.
	It's been years since he donated, and he's been busy taking care of his family.
	If you're able to like to wish him a happy birthday on your show with his alias Babalucci, he turns 43 on December 27th.
	Thank you for all you do.
	Merry Christmas to you and your family.
	And yes, I checked with my husband.
	It does indeed bring him tonight, which he says.
	And there's his email.
	So let me just check and see if he's on the list.
	I tried to underline these things before they get scanned, so I underlined happy birthday, so it should be on that list.
	Okay, why don't you read the next one and I'll check while that's moving.
	Onward with Andrew Ponabianco.
	It's Bianco, okay.
	Ponabianco.
	This is why they give Hollywood stars different names.
	333.33 in Peoria, Arizona.
	Dear John and Adam, the spirit of giving this season, I'm grateful for giving you the above donation to TBPC, the best podcast C. I don't know what that is.
	I was made possible by my loving 88-year-old mom, Jay.
	She presented my sister and me with an early Christmas present of a four-figure check.
	Whoa!
	When handing me the check, she said, now you can go fix your teeth before I go.
	Thanks!
	Being the wise-ass son...
	I said, Mom, you will be waiting a long time before that.
	I later that day told her of my plans to purchase a new optic for my Armalite and make contributions to several charities and podcasts.
	Gentlemen, thanks so much for making 2020 more bearable.
	And please extend to your listeners the best for 2021, jingles only, jobskarma, For those who need a job or assistance with their small business, best wishes for the holiday season.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	All right.
	Gents says...
	I'll do one.
	It's a long list.
	Zachary Childers, Zachary from Healdsburg, California.
	Gents, as the winemaker at Stuhlmuller Vineyards in the Alexander Valley...
	Pay attention, John.
	I've been absolutely jitty with all the recent wine discussion.
	After hearing John talk about the Verite tasting slash protest, I told my wife that we needed to meet these producers, Amy and Chris, and lo and behold, we encountered them the next day at a Christmas tree farm.
	Amy was sporting her no-agenda hat.
	Easy to identify.
	I knew I had to donate.
	Anyways, I'll send you both a few bottles of what I make for my day job and the side protect my wife and the side project my wife and I recently started, Camp Rose Cellars at CampRoseCellars.com.
	Price for the working class plebs who can't afford Verite or Sarlouis and Sons.
	I'd be remiss if I didn't call out Kevin O'Dell as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	He's been making big claims of insta-nighting for well over a year.
	Finally, I'd like to request karma for my smoking hot wife, Caitlin, who is currently Vessel for our third human resource.
	Merry Christmas, and thanks for the info, Samen, guys.
	Well, thank you as well.
	Here it is for the Vessel.
	You've got karma.
	It's a lot of attractive no-agenda hats.
	Definitely.
	So that's interesting that Amy was wearing one just in the same area.
	Oh, I see, yes, Zachary's in Healdsburg.
	That's a wine-grown area.
	Mm-hmm.
	That's where their winery is.
	David Michael Beachwood in Southgate, Michigan, 333.33.
	He sent a note in...
	My son informed me of your podcast a few years back.
	I need to be de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	I have listened without reciprocating.
	Sorry for waiting so long.
	Anyways...
	What have we started?
	What have we done?
	I went for Any Who.
	That's what I'm...
	Any Who.
	We want Any Who set on television.
	Your breakdown of the news is essential to all of us.
	This kind of critical thinking you do is a positive contribution to the universe.
	It's just deconstruction.
	Thanks for the instructions.
	I write books under a pen name.
	My latest book is We Sleep, They Live.
	We Sleep, They Live.
	We Sleep, They Live by David Michael Beachwood.
	The book is a story of how perhaps fewer than 9,000 people rule our world.
	It's available on Amazon.
	I hope that you can mention this book.
	We just read the note.
	It sounds like we mentioned the book.
	Which, for the most part, supports your efforts.
	I am enclosing a check for 333.33.
	Also included is a card which allows one free download of the e-book, which I used it.
	And I haven't started reading the book yet, though.
	I'm sure it's outstanding.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	Paul Hooper, $333.
	This donation is in honor of the love of my life.
	Lisa, his wife, who is in the home stretch of obtaining her damehood, she would get there in the next couple of months.
	Merry Christmas, sweetie.
	We have been listening to the show for several years now and found out what they say is true.
	Families that know agenda together stay together.
	And why wouldn't they?
	Anyways, the best podcast in the universe, it should be spelled with a Z by the way, excuse me, has been a lifesaver for us and improved our mental hygiene bigly.
	Thank you, John and Adam, for this great show and that you...
	And thank you to everyone that makes up the wonderful community that has gathered around it.
	If you're able to please place Smokin' Hot Wife Lisa, a bit of ants, and little girl yay.
	Also, a dollop of goat karma would be appreciated.
	Lord, I want to thank you for my Smokin' Hot Wife tonight, Lisa.
	Everybody loves it.
	Can't stay away from it.
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	You've got karma.
	Karma.
	Circus Media in Missoula.
	What's M-Y? Well, Missoula's in Montana, if I'm not mistaken.
	Yeah, this must be a transfer issue.
	333.00 Merry Christmas, John and Adam.
	Just donations to get the universe off my back with all these 33 synchronicities and return some of the great value I've received from the show.
	I'm on the lookout for my future dame, so I'll appreciate some dating karma.
	Thanks, Circus Media.
	Alright, ladies, pay attention, Circus Media.
	You've got karma.
	On the loose night!
	A loose night!
	Night on the Loose.
	Night on the Loose.
	Mary Bailey Fitzgerald in the Concord Township of Ohio, $333.
	By the way, thanks to everybody who really came in for this show.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because nobody's listening to it.
	Because it's Christmas.
	Someone's listening.
	In the morning.
	This donation is from my husband, Bruce.
	Bruce Wayne Fitzgerald, so he can become an executive producer for Christmas.
	This is Witcharoo.
	We've got to make a note.
	I got it.
	I've done it.
	It's good to go.
	This gift that we'll keep on giving, he hit me in the mouth last April, and we are a couple that no agendas together.
	This is a first-time donation, so he definitely needs a de-douching.
	You've got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	We like the Bitcoin jingles.
	And thanks.
	Well, thank you very much.
	This is a beautiful thing for a wife to do for her husband and vice versa, guys.
	They're saying that all hell is going to break loose and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
	You've got karma.
	Now we have a humorous note from Jacob.
	Jacob Kitson in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Nuts, 333-00.
	Today's donation is a birthday gift to my hunk of a hubby, Tomas.
	He turns 36 today.
	1224 is on the list for a birthday can call out.
	He really wanted me to plug my Christmas EP and music video, so why not share it with the best producers in the universe?
	Since Lithuania was mentioned in the last two shows, I'll mention there's a Lithuanian verse on the recording.
	I don't remember mentioning Lithuania, but it's good to know.
	Songs of a Distant Christmas is streaming everywhere, and links can be found at jakeorjacob.com.
	That's J-A-K-E-O-R, jacob.com.
	It's all one word.
	Gaze who knows.
	No agenda together.
	What?
	Sure do turn heads at parties.
	Especially when Rachel Maddow is there.
	Are they at the Rachel Maddow parties?
	Apparently.
	Oh my goodness.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm looking at this website now.
	And then he says, TDS and TWS, Trump derangement and Trump withdrawal syndromes, are just as contagious as COVID-19.
	A great cure is two shots a week and no agenda.
	I'm requesting cancer karma for Tom's mom.
	Hold on.
	These are his songs.
	Oh, he has the rape song.
	Have you seen the website?
	This is fantastic.
	He has the gayest jumpsuit on ever.
	It is.
	I know that he's got to be laughing going like, yeah, I did that on purpose.
	Oh, this is great.
	Well, good.
	I'm going to play this.
	Now it's more somber because he's requesting cancer karma for Tom's mom.
	She is well and now in radiation to support of this community.
	We valued happy holidays and Merry Christmas to all.
	This will always make you feel better.
	You've got...
	Thanks, Jake.
	And Tom.
	Tyler Stewart in Chillicote, Ohio, 29540.
	To be knighted on Christmas Eve, a gift to me, from me, to me.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you.
	And thank you for everything he writes that we do.
	T.Y. the Flat Earther here.
	I'd like to be henceforth be known as Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth and Bear Taria.
	It should be Barataria, I think, but okay, Barataria.
	I want to invite all producers this Christmas to accept the greatest gift the world has given.
	The eternal Son of God took on human flesh to be born of a virgin and live a sinless life so he could be the perfect sacrifice required by God to pay the penalty for the sins of all who would believe.
	We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, Jesus Christ alone.
	The wages of sin are death, but Jesus offers eternal life.
	P.S. You do not have to be a flat earther to be a Christian.
	But it helped me.
	I was going to add something.
	This is...
	Go ahead.
	I'll just finish this note.
	PPS, please add biscuits and piping hot gravy to the round table.
	Shout out to Owen, Benjamin, and the Bears.
	I just love this whole piece about the internal son of God took on human flesh, and I was just thinking, we are saved by the grace alone, through faith alone, and Jesus Christ alone.
	The wages of sin are death, but Jesus offers eternal life.
	And you're going to need a Bitcoin.
	That's what needs to be added after it.
	And then we're done.
	So, good.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Now, I want to...
	There's another little...
	I have two peeves I want to get out of the way.
	Right in the middle of this.
	Mm-hmm.
	One, as you mentioned, apparently, or what was it you said?
	It was actually.
	Actually.
	And I caught myself saying it.
	You caught it?
	Not a problem.
	The one that we never really bitched about, but it used to be a classic problem on radio.
	And you very rarely hear it, but you'll start, you start, I've heard it a couple of times that I got irked by it.
	Basically.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, we don't do basically.
	I don't think we've done basically.
	No, I don't think we've done basically, but I'm sure someone can find us saying it.
	But basically and actually, it's the same stupid word.
	It's just as bad.
	I think actually is horrible, and I catch myself.
	They're bad adverbs.
	They are very bad.
	Now, the other one, which this reminds me of because it's something I was irked about forgetting, now I'm reminded.
	What the hell does piping hot mean?
	What is piping?
	You know, why do I... Martha Stewart says it all the time.
	I guarantee you, you've had this complaint before.
	I remember this, and you even said Martha Stewart as an example.
	And I think it comes back to stovepipes.
	Um...
	No, please.
	The expression was used as early as late medieval times, referring to the steam that shot out of a spouted tea kettle.
	A device is used at least once ancient Mesopotamia.
	In other words, piping hot means boiling hot.
	I'm not buying it.
	Okay.
	That's according to the Village Voice, so you're clearly homophobic.
	So, get out of town.
	I may have to do some research on this, because I don't like the word, and I don't even understand where it comes from, and I don't think anybody else does.
	And why don't you like...
	Why don't you like the word?
	Oh, it's piping hot.
	It's piping hot.
	It's piping hot.
	Man!
	I've never done that.
	You should be concerned about other things in life.
	This is not that big a deal.
	No, my concerns in life are all trivial.
	Okay.
	But, not so with Dame Anne of Grey Rock from Crozet, Virginia?
	Crozet?
	C-R-O-Z-E-T? I don't know.
	Crozet?
	I've given up.
	I've given up.
	I don't care anymore about pronouncing anything correctly.
	250 bucks.
	She's got a couple of jingle requests.
	Reverend Manning, you're going to need a Bitcoin in China's asshole.
	Thank you for all the sanity this year.
	Looking forward to seeing some very fine people with normal-sized amygdalas on Sunday at the Charlottesville meetup.
	Can I get a sanity goat karma while I keep my perpetual motion machine of an eight-year-old daughter?
	She's eight and she's still running around.
	Wow.
	Resting for the next three months so her knee heals from the small fracture.
	Ow.
	Tie her down.
	Day two.
	I'm already pulling my hair out watching through the window and she jumped out of a tree.
	Kids.
	Pain means nothing to her.
	Here's the good news.
	Also, she needs a TPP jobs karma for anyone who needs it.
	Merry Christmas, Adam.
	John and all the Gitmo Nation dame as Dame Anne of Grey Rock.
	The good news is it never ends with these kids.
	They stay with you forever like luggage.
	Just saying that all hell is going to break loose and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
	You've got karma.
	Jason Mageau in Chelmsford, Ontario, $250.
	He sent an email in.
	I don't know if you got a copy.
	You did get a copy.
	I did?
	Okay.
	Yep.
	Does that mean you want me to look at it?
	No, no, I don't think so.
	Because he starts off with the words we love to hear.
	No jingles, no bullshit.
	Move on with the show and clips.
	Okay.
	Is that it?
	No, no.
	No, he's got a five-page note.
	I got to get the right glasses to read this in six-point type.
	Oh, great.
	This is $250 U.S. dollars or $338.
	Okay, we need to bump this guy up.
	He moves up.
	Bump up.
	Bump up.
	Beautiful.
	Make a note.
	Merry Christmas.
	And before we go on, I want to...
	Okay, now let me read this note, then I gotta do something else.
	The new world order will equalize the digital dollars soon, and it will be close to knighthood.
	I'll be able to make this donation after...
	Selling some Bitcoin shares when it hits 30,000 Canadian this Friday.
	Yeah.
	January 6th is my birthday, so I can't wait for the mayhem and the No Agenda show on the 7th.
	That's right.
	We come on right the next day.
	That's right.
	I've given you my time, my talents, and now more treasures.
	My wife's still crazy hot.
	Less cranky than before, but still hot.
	Stay safe, slaves.
	He's in Northern Ontario.
	He's cranky, but still hot.
	We love that.
	And thank you very much.
	And we have bumped you up to executive producer status.
	We have $250 from Frauke Jasmijn van der Erve.
	In Hilversum, the Netherlands, my love, my buddy, my rotz in the branding, my really, really, really ridiculously good-looking husband, it is time for you to take your place at the roundtable and officially also become my knight in the shining armor.
	Surrealists in the fool-footers realm, Merry Christmas, Moëleifer, to you and to Adam and John, everyone else out there listening, all your loved ones, may our hearts be filled with warmth and trust.
	Love from Dame of the Crystal Core, and she says, for her husband, her love, the draatjesvlaes and glühwein at the roundtable.
	So a lot of Dutch in there.
	clap But the one I like...
	By the way, Frauke is a great sounding name.
	Frauke.
	Frauke.
	I'm sorry.
	Frauke.
	Frauke.
	Hey, Frauke, get over here.
	Bring me another beer, Frauke.
	It's a Friesian name, which is very close to Welsh.
	But yeah, that's exactly if you encounter a frauke in the wild, just say, get me my beer, frauke.
	It always works.
	It always works.
	And I like how she talks about her husband, my rots in the branding, which is my rock in the angry surf.
	You can always climb onto your rock.
	Beautiful.
	All right.
	We'll take care of that.
	And we've got the drachysfleis and glue wine at the round table.
	Onward with Joseph or Joseph Tyler.
	And he's in Canada somewhere, it looks like.
	In the morning, from Soviet Kanekistan.
	Kanukistan.
	He's in Canada.
	He's in Kanukistan.
	I like that.
	Let me start using that.
	I'm donating 333 as another guy gets pumped up.
	Yep, he gets pumped up.
	Yep, you got it.
	Make a note.
	This is going to be a complicated end of show.
	Yeah.
	I'm donating 333 snow pesos in honor of my 33rd birthday on Boxing Day.
	Please dedouche me.
	Okay.
	You've been dedouched.
	He's a converted Roganite.
	Rogan donation.
	There you go.
	And I'm hitting people in the mouth as fast as I can.
	Thank you for finally bringing some common sense to the airwaves.
	I have been reading a lot about economic.
	We do a slick show.
	We're too tight for this market, really.
	Die Yeah.
	I have been reading a lot about economics since COVID and discovered a book, Aftermath, by James Rickards that predicted this pandemic three years ago and very clearly explains the global financial justification for why they would do it.
	Great reset!
	I'll leave it at that for brevity.
	Please call out Dr.
	Steve as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	And send some goat karma for my goat farming operations.
	Hey, send pictures of said farming operations.
	Yeah, goats.
	Karma.
	And I want a goat named after me, and John needs a goat named after him.
	Come on, this is an obvious promotion.
	Yeah, with John the Goat.
	I think we should have a promotion for who gets to name the goats.
	Dan Pinkerton, yes.
	Definitely.
	Definitely.
	Dan Pinkerton in Chula Vista, California, 23456.
	ITM, gents, this will be my 54th trip around the sun.
	What better way to celebrate than an associate producership that will finally make me a night?
	One thing I have not heard clarified in my five years of listening is how to attach to the accounting.
	Do you want a spreadsheet or a list of dates or donations?
	I don't know.
	Please clarify.
	As recently, I inherited a Harley.
	Please knight me as Sir Softail, Knight of the Southwest Sunsets.
	At the round table, I'd love some cognac, cuvee if available, and Cubans.
	Cognac and Cubans.
	You got it.
	I think we have cuvee.
	I don't know if we have Cuvé, but for Cuban cigars, you want Napoleon Cognac.
	I will...
	Hold on.
	I have to change the order.
	Yes.
	Napoleon.
	Okay.
	Goat Karma, please.
	They don't even make that much anymore.
	It's almost become out of vogue, this particular blend, but it's designed for cigar smoke.
	Goat Karma, please.
	Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to all.
	And thank you very much for your courage and see you at the round table.
	You've got...
	The best notes next.
	Robert Brussaux in Pickney, Michigan, 23456.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Here's a portion of my recognition for 2020.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	No jingles or karma.
	Thank you, Robert.
	Jared.
	Jared Pfaffenbach.
	In Byron, Minnesota.
	204.30.
	Please credit this value-for-value contribution to my wife, Lindy.
	She has been on a $4 subscription plan for several years and mentioned to me a few months ago that she was only $200 away from damehood, so I figured I could use this information to my advantage and give her a Christmas present that would push her over the top.
	I would like to request a delayed daming as the accounting needs to be certified...
	We'll take your word for it.
	We'll dame her today.
	Okay.
	Now you're talking.
	And as a dame name needs to be chosen.
	Oh, well.
	Okay, we won't dame her today.
	We should probably wait until she has a name.
	But she'll get the contribution today.
	Jingle request.
	The goat says, attached, and a good old-fashioned karma.
	Thank you for your encouragement.
	Merry Christmas.
	Did we get the goat says?
	I don't know.
	I didn't get anything.
	I didn't get any attached.
	I'm sorry.
	Just give me some good old goat karma.
	We always got goat karma, of course.
	You've got karma.
	Tancing these sound effects on the same day doesn't work that well.
	No.
	Francisco Becerra in Pasadena, California, 200 bucks.
	My cousin Aaron Moreno hit me in the mouth a lot of shows ago.
	He called me a douchebag twice, and I'm finally donating.
	Therefore, as his Christmas gift, $100 goes towards his knighthood and $100 towards mine.
	Thank you for keeping us sane, especially since we live in the left coast.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas to you, Pasadena.
	I want to mention a note that's not on the list, $200, because it came in as a cash donation.
	$200 in plastic money from Canada.
	Oh, you love that plastic money.
	It's indestructible.
	And he was using it with a Krampus card.
	He sent it on a, not a Christmas card, but a Krampus card.
	People know what that is.
	Krampus, the evil guy who stole his children.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe and close to find 200 Canadian plastic pesos.
	Seeing as how I live in what was once Upper Canada, I will credit my peerage account a full 200.
	Yeah, okay.
	That's the idea.
	He's Gumby Nerds Viscount of the Troll Room.
	So he's already a Viscount.
	He's up there.
	But thank you for the Krampus card.
	Onward.
	Stacy DeHart in Clarksville, Tennessee.
	200.
	These are all 200.
	This donation is from my wonderful husband, Donald Hart.
	Lauren and I wanted to help you get a little closer to becoming a knight.
	Oh.
	Oh, Lauren and I, okay, your daughter probably.
	And I wanted to help you get a little closer to becoming a knight.
	That's what I should have said.
	Michael Cox.
	And thank you for that.
	Michael Cox.
	Do I have a thing from him?
	I do.
	It's actually Brandon Cox, but it's Michael Cox on this thing for some reason.
	He donated the name under the name Michael Brandon Cox.
	The Christmas donation should be credited to my smoking hot wife, Michelle Cox.
	Make a note, please.
	This note, this donation gets switcherooed.
	Are you there?
	Yes, I'm here.
	There's a lot of stuff I have to do today, John.
	No, I've just asked you if you were there because I haven't heard from you for a while.
	I'm here.
	And I'm yakking away like a maniac.
	I'm here and I'm listening to you.
	No, you've got to go back to Dan Pinkerton.
	What about Dan Pinkerton?
	No, Dan Pinkerton.
	If I had to start reading again, I'm guessing it would have to be...
	She has recently started listening to NoGen and no doubt intrigued by her excellent COVID analysis.
	I relayed minus ISOs.
	I, analysis, I relay minus ISOs over the frequent whining and crying of our, oh, they listen, over the frequent whining and crying of our three-year-old and three-month-old human resources.
	John, if you can keep the wine tips coming, Michelle will be a listener for life, especially for cabs.
	Call her a cab.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	Can I get a karma for my wife as she starts back to work from the harder work of maternity leave?
	Yes, we can do that.
	You've got karma.
	And that's the end of our lengthy list.
	I want to thank all these people, 28 of them, for contributing to this show 1306 and making it possible.
	And it's especially important because we really, normally, in most normal years, we get very little Christmas donations because many times we used to take it off for that reason.
	Have we ever really taken Christmas off?
	I don't think so.
	Yeah, a couple times.
	Really?
	Really?
	Yeah, over the 13th years, yeah.
	At least once I can remember.
	So there's a couple of things that would need to be addressed.
	It's when it fell right on Christmas.
	When you're doing something for your husband, I'm looking at you, Frauke.
	Make sure you tell us your husband's name so we can congratulate somebody becoming surrealist.
	Mr.
	Frauke.
	Yeah.
	Then also, there was something that came in way down below, which I think got missed.
	This is from Ivo Velten in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
	Hey, Adam and John, PayPal's transaction history doesn't go back more than seven years.
	Who knows?
	But I believe...
	That with this donation of $12.34 and the upcoming monthly 11.11, I'll reach knighthood in 2020.
	Can't think of any better way to end this eventful year.
	So, I think this was missed because of where it came in, but he wants to be knighted Sir Evo Knight of the Failure Zoom, and I'm pretty sure that he made that.
	This is someone who's been doing 11-11s or 1-2-3-4 for a long, long time.
	You do it for years and years and it catches up to you.
	Yeah, it's fantastic.
	He goes on the list.
	He's on the list.
	I've got you listed and he wanted a foamer, a boogity-boogity and some jobs karma, so we'll do that for you.
	No problem.
	Oh, my God.
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Now we have a mate good from John Pacifici.
	Who was upset that his note was not read.
	He was knighted on the previous show.
	Even though we did have it scanned, I don't know how we missed it, so I will take a stab at it.
	He says, the first check in the amount of $333.33 is made on behalf of me and the name of my older son, Patrick, who turns 16 on December 14th.
	Please add him to the birthday list.
	So I'm going to put him...
	I don't even know if we did that.
	He's on his way to his own knighthood.
	I've been unknowingly hitting him and his brother in the mouth almost every school day for years, and I was pleasantly surprised one day.
	We went for a drive, and he asked indignantly why the No Agenda show wasn't playing.
	We now listen together all the time, and many jingles have taken permanent residence in our household vocabulary.
	China is asshole is a particular favorite.
	Given their newfound interest in all things, no agenda, I recently dug out episode 420 to play the donation segment for them.
	All right, Dad.
	And their reaction to hearing my name and letter being read was to go absolutely bananas with excitement.
	You'd have thought I'd done something like play it out with guns and roses.
	Yeah, I used to hang out with those guys.
	No big deal.
	No, I knew at that moment that making a donation to the show in Patrick's name would be the perfect birthday present.
	So he's excited and honored to be called out as a douchebag followed by getting de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	And finally, for his birthday, he'd like a China is asshole.
	Sorry, I hadn't had that all set up.
	China is asshole.
	And what else does he want?
	Followed by the dueling Biden and Trump triple.
	It's wrong.
	It's true.
	Oh, God.
	I don't have those with me today.
	I'm going to have to owe you that one.
	And the second check is a long overdue 133.33 from me and signifies my renewed commitment to support the show more consistently, inspired by my sons.
	The deep bond that has grown amongst us over our shared love of the No Agenda show deserves no demands that I get my head out of my ass and make my own knighthood an urgent priority.
	I've been extremely fortunate.
	I've been able to keep working amidst all this shutdown insanity.
	Therefore, I plan to begin toiling towards this goal.
	Or if I'm lucky enough to receive a holiday bonus, I will use it to cover the remaining ground.
	to knighthood in one fell swoop off.
	All of them.
	Please give karma to any listeners who need it.
	And thank you very much for your courage.
	You two are truly doing a great public service.
	You dare, you are, I dare say, an actual national treasure in the best sense of the word.
	Chinese asshole!
	You've got karma.
	And I have a...
	Yes?
	I have a make good to read.
	Okay.
	This is from Sir Eric is Naked.
	I started sending Christmas cards again after a long hiatus.
	And by the way, we got a lot of Christmas cards, and I think these Christmas cards are coming back into vogue.
	I got tons.
	I wanted to thank a couple people.
	I got lots of beautiful cards.
	I think you got one from Eric.
	I might have.
	I saw it fitting, and I sent you and Adam cards.
	My note to both you and Adam, along with a hundo each, are included in the cards.
	Apologies for the scribbling penmanship.
	I was day-drinking hard that day.
	Good work.
	Keeping it short.
	Can I just request a Yoko scream, two to the head, and dealer's choice job karma?
	Yoko...
	It's the same as the...
	It's the exact same as the goat scream.
	Right?
	No, none of this is exactly the same.
	Oh, I thought the goat scream was Yoko.
	Well, yeah, but that's not exactly what he wants.
	Just watch this.
	You've got Harma.
	Harma.
	That's what he wants.
	There you go.
	I want to thank the Ray family for their beautiful card.
	I want to thank Gummy Nerds.
	Yes, I got the Gummy Nerds card too.
	Thank you.
	Dame Jennifer Weta.
	And the Ray family.
	Yep.
	Jennifer Weta, thank you.
	Also, I got Craig Nosley at Getting Cooked.
	Got that one.
	Thank you.
	Got a nice one from Sergeant Fred.
	We all know Sergeant Fred.
	He's been a supporter, producer of the show for a long, long time.
	And I wish a very, very Merry Christmas to him and his entire family.
	He's a podcaster, by the way.
	You should take a look at podcastreporter.com.
	Sergeant Fred has been part of the No Agenda Gitmo Nation for a long time.
	Now I have glitter everywhere in the studio, but the one I wanted to thank is this.
	I got a beautiful package from Craig Nosley and from the whole family.
	It's really, I mean, apparently there's a Dutch store near them, so he got me magnet clogged magnets that go on the fridge.
	Now, did you get the Dutch licorice?
	I got two different packages of Dutch licorice.
	Now, which ones did you get?
	I got the one that's a hard candy.
	Yeah, what's the name?
	Same as they got you.
	I'm sure they're exactly the same.
	Okay, so did you get the honing droop, which is the beehives, the honey?
	And did you get the...
	I did not get the beehives.
	Did you get the school chalk?
	That's my favorite.
	No, you probably didn't.
	Did that licorice, the little white things with licorice inside?
	Yeah, yeah, the white ones that look like chalk.
	That is delicious.
	The other stuff is inedible.
	Ha!
	The school chalk, I already ate it all.
	It's like crack.
	Yeah, you gotta be careful.
	You'll just eat it all.
	No, no.
	I ate it all.
	It's done.
	The hard candy licorice is inedible.
	Actually, Jay tried it.
	I tried it.
	I've never had a hard candy that's ammoniated.
	I'd like to know which one it is.
	I'll scan the package.
	I still kept the thing just to bitch about it.
	It's inedible.
	It's ammoniated candy.
	I've never had anything like this.
	It's the worst stuff ever.
	Sorry, but I had to throw it out.
	Thank you very much to our executive producers and associate executive producers of episode 1306 of the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It is our Christmas special.
	We really appreciate being able to thank all of you, the well wishes, the cards, the drawings, the sentiment in general, and just for being our companions, too.
	John and I, you know, obviously we're at each other's throats all the time, so it's nice to have other people in the room with us.
	Who send love and good cheer and good thoughts.
	And it's been a crazy year.
	We'll have more wrap-up at the end of it.
	And of course, we have the darkest days ahead of us.
	So a lot more great stuff to celebrate with the best podcast in the universe.
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	The three Ts of the Value for Value model.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
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	Shut up, lame!
	Again, we're going long, people.
	We're going long.
	We are going long.
	Very, very long.
	Okay.
	Okie dokie.
	Yes.
	That was a long segment.
	It was a long segment.
	Some good stuff in there.
	What do I have here?
	Well, I got a couple of minor things I want to play.
	Okay.
	This is a trend I'm starting to notice in the mainstream.
	Unprofessional, but it seems they like doing it.
	I don't know why.
	And I have a comment about this.
	This is the...
	Okay, I got two clips from this guy.
	But the one I want you to play is Reporter.
	Reporter in Tears Over Food.
	Political sparring continues.
	Millions of Americans remain in need.
	My colleague Gotti Schwartz met some of them as they waited in a long line of cars for food in the Los Angeles area today.
	During a live report on MSNBC's, Gotti's reaction to one couple's story was one most of us could identify with.
	This food that you guys are picking up today, para que es?
	Hola, cena de Navidad.
	He says that the food that they're picking up here is for their Christmas meal.
	Uh-huh.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you for sharing your story.
	Thank you.
	This is just one of the stories.
	I mean, you've got a parking lot filled with people.
	They're going to be picking up their meals, picking up meals for Christmas.
	Sorry.
	You guys are in tears.
	It's horrible to see, of course, if you see people at the food banks.
	Yeah, but I'm just talking about the reporting, and here's what I have to say about it.
	I've seen reporters go up to someone whose kid was butchered, stabbed to death, shot in the head, and they're not in tears over that.
	It's unprofessional to fall into tears over somebody's Christmas meal and then be deadpan serious when somebody's kid has been shot in the head by a drive-by shooting.
	Oh, really?
	So what do you have to say?
	And then they have the parents on with the drive-by who had the kid.
	The parents are in tears.
	They're just bawling like babies.
	And then the reporter's, okay, that's great.
	Back to you in the studio.
	Bob.
	I mean, what's going on here?
	Well, how about this?
	This reporter, this is a local report or is this a network?
	Network!
	Network!
	Doesn't really matter.
	The guy's local on the scene.
	He's making $35,000 a year.
	He's crying because he knows he's next.
	Yeah.
	I'm not kidding.
	There's an element of truth to that.
	He knows that he's one step away.
	One paycheck.
	Here's the same guy.
	They go back to Lester and he says, oh yeah, everyone's going to identify with this poor schlub.
	And so they throw it back to him a second time and the crying reporter's not crying anymore, but they do the follow-up.
	This is a crying reporter follow-up and he follows up with more of the story, not crying as much anymore.
	At any given food drive, there's always someone at the front of the line.
	And today in Santa Monica, it was Maria and Saturnino Villegas who showed up three hours early.
	Like so many others, Saturnino lost his job at a restaurant.
	He says they had a little bit of savings and now they're going around and they're looking for cans and bottles to recycle.
	And as these lines wind all across the country, inside cars are families that never thought they'd be waiting for food donations two days before Christmas.
	Coming from last year, going to restaurants on a regular basis and living life to the fullest, it definitely was a shock to us.
	The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has given out 120 million meals since the pandemic began.
	But when an estimated one in four people have been food insecure here during the pandemic, it's still not enough.
	The food bank's distribution has increased by 145% since the pandemic hit, and we're not necessarily reaching everyone who needs help.
	And as the Villegas receive their food, they tell us what volunteers hear again and again.
	They plan on sharing this blessing with others in their community that need it too.
	Well, it is real.
	There are people starving.
	I agree with this, and I don't know if the one in four is an accurate number, but if it is, it's beside the point, and so far as the reporting is concerned, why don't they report on the fact that this shutdown didn't work?
	And the shutdowns, and all the shutdowns, this is California.
	This is bullcrap.
	Especially in California, everyone follows the rules.
	They mask up.
	They stay distance apart and we're shut down.
	And meanwhile, Florida, the beaches are open.
	This is bullcrap.
	But they never cast blame on anybody.
	Instead of that report, they should be directing that report at Gavin Newsom.
	Well, why would they do that?
	They're in the same elite club.
	Yeah, well, he's just a bitch of mine.
	He's not happy.
	Rightfully so, John.
	Rightfully so.
	Now, I've been telling you for years to move out of California, but you're roughing it out.
	I have appreciation for that.
	You're going to ride the valley of your home all the way down?
	Apparently, podcasters do well in this thing.
	Well, since we're doing Christmas reporting, we have yet another sighting of our secret Santa at Walmart.
	I think it's a Christmas miracle.
	It started with a call and email from Walmart on December 8th that Latoya Lee didn't see coming.
	Stating that my layaway was paid off and I could come pick up my items.
	And I told her, I said, is this a scam?
	Is this the wrong account?
	It was definitely the correct account.
	An anonymous woman paid off her entire $233 layaway bill that was full of Christmas gifts for her daughter.
	It was amazing.
	I couldn't believe it.
	I was asking the Walmart associate, do you know who she is?
	Can I send her a thank you card?
	Can I get her information just to say thank you?
	And I know other families want to do the same.
	Actually two layaway angels, Walmart tells News 8, who wanted to pay what they could to bless other customers.
	Walmart says they came in on separate days with the same mission in mind, to bless others.
	We're honored to play a small role in these acts of kindness, and we love seeing the joy it brings to our customers this time of year.
	Now, this was in Indiana.
	I believe this to be different.
	I think the strategy Walmart has applied is paying off very well this year.
	typically it's a secret santa who then pays off everybody's uh layaway and just so you understand uh for people outside the united states even some people inside the united states before credit cards before we ruined everybody um you could save your money which was what we were encouraged to do as children
	or you could buy something on layaway which meant it was put aside and you can pay off an amount every month or as often as you can so when you get to the time when you want it you can kind of plan your payments it was still kind of a reverse saving but you're basically saving up to get the product this is not this is this is not the way of the world anymore we have to have credit karma and credit goo and credit up your butt and everything to you get your points and you're doing great you improve your score
	we'll give you more credit more loans.
	That's where they want you.
	I believe this to be a real layaway angel, which is the term they use.
	They differentiate between actual human beings doing this versus a paid-for advertisement from the corporation.
	And I realized this when I got a note from Tom Onimus.
	We've heard from him many times before on the show.
	I thought I could share a personal story about the secret layaway payoffs that might prove it's not all a complete sham.
	When my mom was young, my grandmother would go to her local Kmart every year and typically spend $200 to $300 paying off someone's layaway bill for Christmas.
	When her Kmart went out of business, she started going to the local Walmart.
	Although she is currently locked up this year in a care facility due to the Corona baloney, my mom, three aunts, and my two uncles for decades have continued this.
	They will typically spend $250 to $500 secretly paying off someone's tab for Christmas, often choosing Walmarts as their store.
	Does Walmart use this to their ad advantage?
	Surely.
	But as far as the Tomonymous family goes, it's a very real thing.
	I can't wait to hit them all in the mouth, and congrats on making it into the 1300s.
	I thought that was good.
	It is a nice thing to do, and I think this is different.
	This is the layaway angel, not the same as the Secret Santa.
	But I think it's a nice thing to do.
	I'm skeptical.
	Well, of course you are.
	Why wouldn't you be skeptical?
	Man.
	Ah, brother.
	Alright, I do have a clip I really feel, I have mixed feelings about playing.
	But I do have, it has to do with a feeling I have about Bill Gates.
	Well, we need to hear this because you don't like him much.
	I like Bill.
	I don't.
	Well, you're the one that doesn't like him.
	That's correct.
	But I don't like what he's doing.
	And I don't like the fact that he's setting himself up for some issues.
	I mean, he could get himself...
	He's maybe getting himself into trouble.
	Because he is...
	And he doesn't know this because he doesn't pay attention to anything outside of the high-end meetings he's constantly in, lording it over the WHO and whatever.
	But the kind of hate that is being generated targeting him is much worse than it was when he got pied.
	Oh my goodness, this is such a long time ago.
	Yes.
	I believe it was 20 years ago.
	Yeah, but this is before he had the Gavi and the Foundation and before he was Dr.
	Bill.
	This is before his medical education.
	Yes, before he got his MD. His MD, yes.
	His BS MD. Well, people now...
	I mean, we...
	Okay.
	Before you play whatever you're going to play, throughout this pandemic, we have seen nothing but hate for Bill Gates.
	He's evil.
	It's the Bill Gates vaccine.
	His fingerprints are all over this.
	He is no doubt...
	He's despised by millions at this point, let alone the children all around the world who were killed from some of his vaccine trials, which didn't turn out that well.
	Allegedly.
	So he, yeah, allegedly.
	So he's, I think he's putting himself at risk because I know, I remember that era of the pieing where he got pied.
	He got solidly pied by this pie guy.
	And what was that for?
	He was pieing everybody.
	Was that because of the anti-competitive nature of the browser?
	Yeah, probably.
	The guy was pieing, this is a very famous pie guy that was pieing and pieing and pieing.
	And if somebody sued him, he stopped pieing people.
	But he was doing it at every chance he could.
	And Bill was out and about.
	I mean, you could see Bill, he'd take a bus, he'd take a cab.
	He was just, he was not a, he wasn't cloistered.
	He used to fly coach.
	Yeah, that was something of a sham.
	That was a big story.
	Oh, Microsoft.
	When he was still at Microsoft, he was rumored to be flying coach so everyone else would.
	I have this story behind that story because I ran into him on a plane once.
	Oh.
	In first class, no doubt.
	He was in first class, but he bought a coach ticket.
	Because at the time, he would not take limos.
	He would take cabs.
	You do all these things.
	And he always flew coach.
	He did.
	He flew coach.
	But as soon as Bill Gates came on board any flight, they moved him in the first class.
	They bumped somebody out of first class to get him up there.
	They didn't want Bill in coach.
	Hmm.
	So, yeah, he flew coach, kind of.
	He bought coach tickets and flew first class.
	So that was a scam of a story.
	I mean, maybe he flew a few times and coached before somebody got a clue.
	But this situation, because he was pretty out, available, easy to bump into.
	You'd see him all the time.
	Before he got pied.
	Once he got pied, he got some security guys.
	And I was at some event once.
	This was, again, in that time frame, some time after.
	And he had security guys with him.
	The guys were talking to their little lapel.
	Hey, what are you doing?
	And he became closer.
	He became less and less available.
	And I think he's so cloistered that he doesn't realize the kind of hate that's being generated.
	I mean, he's putting himself at extreme risk from some nutball that's going to maybe go after him.
	And he doesn't even know it.
	I think he's totally clueless.
	But let's just listen to what David Icke said.
	No one has to say about Bill Gates and tell me that, you know, this is part of the problem.
	These events that are happening now are not about money.
	How do we get richer?
	That's a byproduct.
	And these people are so greedy, of course, they love all that stuff.
	But if you go to the core of the core, it's all about control.
	So you have a...
	This global web with a spider at the center, this inner core.
	And if you go to davidike.com, I've done a 16-minute animated film explaining how all this works and how through this they pulled off the pandemic.
	It's simpler than people think.
	And so you have a series of people, front people, Elon Musk's another one, who are cover stories for bringing technology and other things and funding woke organizations like BLM, which Soros does.
	They appear to be individual philanthropy and business at work, but actually they're just front people for this web, and they do what the web tells them.
	And so Gates, funnily enough, I wrote 85% of the answer, which I started last October, before all the lockdowns kicked in.
	In that first 85% of the book where I was pointing out what the plan is, Well, and then in this period since, what I said was the plan is kind of unfolded at a rate of knots.
	But the reason I mention this is that Bill Gates gets many mentions in the first 85% of the book, including these vaccine connections, before any of this lockdown kicked in and he became, you know, Mr.
	Health Policy.
	Because he funds loads of things, not least common core education in America, to program kids.
	Everywhere you look, he funds the media, which they're interviewing with softball questions.
	It's everywhere, Gates money.
	Well, this is not news.
	No, but it's the way he treats Gates in the second clip, which is just like, you know, if you're going to start demonizing people to this extreme...
	The person's at risk, and my point is that I don't think Bill knows this, and just listen to this part of it.
	But his prime role, among his others, for this cult is to front up control of health policy and vaccinate the world.
	And so he stepped down from Microsoft in March because he knew what was coming.
	That's why he was predicting, oh, there's a pandemic coming.
	Yeah, because you bloody know!
	Because you're orchestrating it with others.
	So he's a super, super psychopath.
	I mean, you have to have no empathy and no compassion in your entire being to create the catastrophe for human life that he has, knowing that that's what he's doing and that's what the outcome's going to be, because that's what he wants the outcome to be.
	I mean, this man is...
	I wouldn't even describe him as human if you use the term humanity in being human, human traits.
	I wouldn't describe him as even human because he doesn't have any of those traits.
	And his job is to control the World Health Organization.
	He controls Ted Rossi.
	He was the one that had him appointed, of course.
	And from this central point, he's controlling global health policy.
	This is not new from Ike.
	This is part of his overall...
	No, I know.
	This is a new presentation by now.
	Let me finish.
	I'm not against it.
	I'm actually all in.
	I'm not all in on Elon in that way.
	I... I think he's more a tool of the military-industrial complex, who's just letting him go, and lots of money somehow gets into pumping that stock beyond your wildest dreams.
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, way beyond anything.
	The only thing that would make sense for the success that Elon has is that he and others know that there's some free energy out there that will create electricity.
	Okay, get back to Gates.
	Yeah.
	So, Gates.
	Yeah, this guy has been a thorn in people's side for a long time.
	The Common Core was outrageous, and everyone all of a sudden was Dr.
	Bill the Educator.
	Now, I mean, it is part of some system that is definitely...
	Rooted in controlling the population.
	And Bill Gates is just an idiot savant.
	I think that it'd be easy to control him.
	That's what Melinda's there for.
	I mean, you yourself agree with this.
	She's the handler.
	She's the one that's controlling him.
	He's just a little puppet, really.
	He's a sad man who can program pretty well, but not that great.
	Well, the problem I have with this, and the point of these clips is not to bitch and moan about Gates one way or the other, is that when you start dehumanizing somebody, you call them not human.
	This is what the Nazis did to the Jews.
	This is what the American settlers did to the American Indians.
	This kind of thing gets you killed.
	Yeah.
	Because people, oh, he's not even human.
	I can kill him.
	I'll just shoot him.
	And this is where Bill's headed if he doesn't start paying attention and get the hell off the media.
	He doesn't even leave his house or his office.
	He has nothing to worry about.
	Well, he does get out of the house and he's floating around these big meetings with all these hot shots.
	He got pied.
	Gotta remember that.
	He knows he's susceptible, but he's kind of lost his way.
	I think, and I don't think he's at home, I think he's not at home most of the time.
	I'm just saying, if something weird happens and we hear about this assassination, you can blame all these guys who are promoting this kind of idea.
	Why would I blame anybody?
	I'll blame Ike.
	Why could I just not rejoice?
	Well, you could.
	Yeah.
	See, for me...
	But that's the point I'm trying to make, is that's not the idea.
	I understand.
	You don't want, like, what Gates is doing, either argue against him, get that much money and fight him, or just stop listening to him.
	I mean, the guy is not...
	I mean, he's good at a couple of things.
	He's good at identifying people to hire, and that's about it.
	Well, this is an interesting defense or pre-defense you have of Bill.
	I mean, clearly you like the guy or something because I really couldn't care less.
	I think he's evil.
	I won't dehumanize him.
	He has a heartbeat.
	But we're not even sure of that.
	So, no, I think that the people who I'd like to...
	No, I'm just stating my position.
	I'm not going to make an argument with you.
	No, no, but I'm allowed to say whatever I want.
	You can say whatever you want.
	You're not the boss of me.
	But I'm just saying I'm not here to argue about it.
	I'm just here to state my position.
	Got it.
	And I was continuing.
	You keep interrupting me.
	The people that I... I know.
	I'm not interrupting you.
	When do I ever interrupt?
	I have never interrupted you in this entire 14 years.
	So people also from Seattle, who should be held to account at the local level, and then we can deal with the gates of the world, who are clearly out for control, and yes, I think are the problem.
	here's the president of the city seattle seattle city council about the defunding the police that they've uh set in and here's the reasoning i just want you to understand uh bill gates's fellow seattleites uh how they're thinking up there and give you an idea of how bill gates what he has in his head you know i would have wanted to see something happen faster and more um and and be
	But at the end of the day, it would be difficult to, in one budget cycle, undo 400 years of institutionalized racism in a police department.
	What's the future of the Seattle Police Department in your eyes?
	What should it look like?
	We have asked police to solve homelessness.
	Affordable housing issues, mental health crisis and substance use issues, and poverty.
	And that is not the solution.
	Policing is not the solution to those issues.
	And so we need to, with the scalpel approach, begin the process of taking those duties and tasks away from the policing system and put them into the proper systems that have been getting defunded for years now.
	So now it's time to flip that script.
	This young lady should take a trip and go on a couple of runs with the police at night and see what it's really like what they're doing.
	And she feels that all they're doing is that list of things that they've been asked to do, which to me shows a clear failing of the city council and the city itself.
	And here's the strategy.
	What we ended up looking at as a strategy is, first and foremost, how can we prevent the police department from continuing to grow?
	We reduced their hiring budget by about $6.1 million in the form of transferring divisions out of the police department to make them a true civilian function.
	So it's a combination of cuts and transfers that led to a 20% reduction of the police department's budget.
	Does the rhetoric of defund and abolish, does that kind of complicate the picture here?
	I do think that it's an oversimplification of a very complex issue.
	Defund SPD isn't just about defunding.
	Recognizing that there is value in our black and brown and indigenous neighbors and community members.
	It's about making sure that we remember that we have under-invested in those same community members to an embarrassing degree.
	Using the police to signal your virtue is what I see from that.
	And that's what she's saying.
	That's exactly what that is.
	She's actually saying this.
	It's just...
	It's so wrong.
	She said actually.
	Fuck.
	We have not discussed the second hack uncovered after the SolarWinds compromise.
	Now we're learning that there has been a different actor or actors inside systems everywhere, possibly for months or years.
	Isn't it fun when the CIA and the NSA meet each other online and like, hey, what are you doing here?
	What are you doing here?
	Oh my God, we've been here for years.
	I'm me too.
	This is like the time where you get the DEA and the local police to have a shootout against each other.
	It's so obvious what is going on here.
	But to really understand it, once again, we go to Joe Biden's holiday message.
	The truth is this.
	The Trump administration failed to prioritize cybersecurity.
	It did that from eliminating or downgrading cyber coordinators in both the White House and at the State Department, to firing the Director of Cyberspace and Infrastructure Security Agency, to President Trump's irrational downplaying of the seriousness of this attack.
	Enough's enough.
	In an age when so much of our lives are conducted online, cyber attacks must be treated as a serious threat by our leadership at the highest level.
	We can't let this go unanswered.
	That means making clear and publicly who is responsible for the attack and taking meaningful steps to hold them in account.
	Wait for it!
	Initial indications, including from Secretary Pompeo, Secretary of State, and Attorney General William Barr, suggest that Russia Russia is responsible for this breach.
	It certainly fits Russia's long history of reckless disruptive cyber activities.
	But the Trump administration needs to make an official attribution.
	This assault happened on Donald Trump's watch.
	When he wasn't watching, it's still his responsibility as president to defend American interests for the next four weeks.
	But rest assured, that even if he does not take it seriously, I will.
	Merry Christmas, everybody!
	This whole holiday message filled with horrible things.
	And it's Russia!
	It's Russia!
	This guy's gonna be the worst.
	It's Russia!
	Nah.
	You know, there's a reason why Kamala Harris is taking the COVID shot a week later.
	Let's see if we can get him to kick the bucket.
	It's still possible he might get ill.
	Any day now.
	Any day now.
	Well, he's acting ill.
	Man, you see him only a year ago.
	It's so different.
	Just a small year ago.
	It really went downhill fast with him.
	Yeah, it's true.
	It's true.
	Let's see.
	We do have another break.
	We've got some nightings.
	We've got other things to...
	We've got a lot of nightings.
	We do have a lot of nightings and birthdays.
	I did want to play one quick one.
	This came from America Thought Leaders.
	I always like listening to that podcast.
	This is Bill Gertz.
	He's a China analyst.
	We haven't bitched much about the CCP today.
	He has been looking through the CCP database.
	The one that is released has now been translated, and he has some thoughts on it.
	First of all, there's 93 million people in the Chinese Communist Party, so this is a relatively small percentage of their party membership.
	But I think what's significant is that it will allow people, researchers, investigative reporters like myself, to begin to trace some of the patterns of employment and penetrations by these places that then can be used to go and analyze to begin to trace some of the patterns of employment and penetrations by these places that then can be used to go and analyze
	I think that it will also help to really expose the corruption within China because a lot of the so-called princelings, the offspring of top party officials, they not only come to the United States.
	they park their money here, they send their children here to universities, they drive around in Lamborghinis, and some of them even manage to get U.S. passports.
	Man, this is going to be so good.
	We know what to look for, and China Joe is just going to let it all happen.
	We can just see those princelings driving the Lambos around downtown Austin.
	They're coming.
	You'll see it.
	Yeah.
	Now, this must be a thing in San Francisco.
	The princelings?
	Is that what they call them?
	Princelings?
	No, this is mostly an L.A. thing.
	Of course.
	Why would they hang out in San Francisco?
	Yeah, it makes no sense.
	Crazy.
	Beverly Hills.
	Before we take our value-for-value break, which is how we like to run the show...
	I've been keeping my eye on Spotify and how they're progressing, trying to get you to convert to listen to podcasting on their platform exclusively.
	And I think the writing's on the wall.
	This is not working out well, and I want your opinion as a media analyst.
	Two stories.
	Story number one, this is the first big announcement I've seen of a year-long partnership.
	It's being built as a partnership.
	I think it would be better to call it an advertising deal for the Joe Rogan Show.
	Have you heard of any announcements about big advertisers for the Rogan Show?
	Have you read anything about that?
	I read the trades.
	No.
	No.
	Well, big announcement.
	CBDMD signed a one-year partnership.
	This has been an existing sponsor.
	And so they have...
	This is the first big sponsorship that has been announced.
	But they already were sponsored?
	And they were already paying the foot in the bill?
	They were already a sponsor.
	On board.
	They came over.
	And also, wouldn't you want like a car brand or a big...
	Oh, yeah, Ford.
	Does she want something big?
	Even Leo got Ford for a while.
	I mean, and...
	Hey, we've got lavenderblossoms.org.
	It's a big deal.
	We've got a CBD sponsor, although he's not a sponsor.
	I just thought that was an odd first announcement, unless I missed one.
	But probably more concerning...
	This full article about Spotify's ambition to become your most preferred audio habit.
	Who wrote this piece of the India Times?
	That tells you enough.
	The India Times does have some pretty good articles.
	Yeah, generally speaking, better than the New York Times.
	This is what I've been saying, is that I don't see how Spotify is going to convert their existing music app listeners into podcast app listeners.
	I think it's going to be hard for them.
	I think they will have to use the open infrastructure.
	We'll see.
	But considering our history, and our history with Ron Bloom at Podshow and Mevio, tell me that when you hear the following term, that something is not doomed to fail.
	I want to read the whole sentence, because I think you'll love this.
	Yes, uh...
	So about 30% of the consumption on Spotify comes from editorial and algorithmic recommendation.
	So they're trying to say to people, oh, you like listening to this song, you'll love this podcast.
	And they're calling it algotorials.
	Tell me that isn't the kiss of death right there.
	That is totally the kiss.
	It's the kiss of ridicule in that.
	I mean, at least it's something we've heard before, like editorial or advert, something or other.
	But this is off the scales.
	This is a bloomism that is destined to fail.
	It is a bloomism.
	Algitorial.
	I saw that, and I'm like, okay.
	It's great.
	It's not going to work out.
	I've been a part of many, many of these types of terms.
	Has anyone ever succeeded that you can recall?
	No.
	Edutainment.
	We might work in a Hollywood meeting when you're trying to pitch something, but that's about it.
	But we wish them well, of course, and we wish them a very Merry Christmas.
	Everybody over there in the Social Justice Army.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	Speaking of the devil, there he is.
	Indeed.
	The devil?
	Yeah, Sir Kyle of Lavender Blossoms.
	Oh, Sir Kyle, yeah.
	Sir Kyle of Lavender Blossoms, right at the top of the list, $172.27.
	Thank you, Sir Kyle.
	Merry Christmas, he says.
	Merry Christmas to you, sir.
	Eagle Scout Brits.
	We have a lot of Eagle Scouts we should mention to listen to this show, and military types.
	Eagle Scout Brett in Monterey, California.
	Hold on.
	This is important.
	Adam and John have been a regular listener for four years.
	I am donating today due to a serious situation.
	My sister-in-law, Larkin, who I hit in the mouth, is going to call me out as a douchebag.
	Please de-douche me.
	Yes.
	You've been de-douched.
	Well, Eagle Scout, Brett.
	Surprising that you hadn't supported us in four years.
	It took your sister-in-law.
	Very nice.
	Yeah, I'd say.
	Ian Field.
	Eastleigh, New Hampshire, Great Britain, $100.
	Sir Chris of Carmel-by-the-Sea, didn't he just donate?
	Please add a lovely Dame Kristen to the birthday list for her husband Sir Chris of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
	You bet.
	Comes $29.
	He's in Walnut Creek.
	Jeff Phelps, $100.
	Cooper and Lily Vatzold, $100.
	A hundred.
	Who say, Merry Christmas, Dad.
	Hope this gets you closer to nighthood.
	Love from your kids, Cooper and Lily.
	Aww.
	That's nice.
	Sir Hashtag Null in Beverly Hills, $100.
	Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida, $100.
	Sir Dragonheart in Beverly Hills, another Beverly Hillser.
	How often does that happen?
	Not often.
	Not often enough.
	$100.
	And Smutskies from Pleasant Grove, California, $100.
	They all sent in notes, and I don't have them handy necessarily.
	I do have them somewhere, but we have so many people today to thank that I'm going to...
	We'll look the notes over later.
	Or you can look them over at them while I'm doing the rest.
	Okay.
	There's no way that's his name.
	Mepple.
	Holland.
	Holland.
	Richard Souverain.
	Yeah, it's...
	Richard Souverain.
	This is for his smoking hot girlfriend, Doreen Padding, who's celebrating her 33rd trip tomorrow.
	She's on the list.
	She is.
	Gabe Shabazian in San Francisco, California.
	Sounds like an Armenian to me.
	$79.99.
	Sir Paul Elvis in Toronto, Ontario.
	$78.33.
	Sir Jimmy was right.
	Give him a de-douching.
	Alright.
	You've been de-douched.
	William Elliott in Hawaii, 75.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 69, 69.
	I'm sorry, 69, 96.
	He always likes to do that.
	Thomas Beard in Tilburg, Netherlands, 69, 40.
	That's for his smoking hot lovely wife, Jacko, who turns 40 on Christmas Day.
	Hippie-pura.
	You got it.
	Oh, wait.
	No, wait a minute.
	My lovely smoking hot wife, Jocko.
	Oh yeah, it is Jocko.
	Okay.
	Yep.
	Got it.
	Sir Brian, White Knight in the Rainbow Nation, Houston, Texas, 6225.
	Another happy birthday shout-out.
	62.
	Coming up.
	David Forbes in Chicopee, Minnesota, 6006.
	Jeff Kett, I guess.
	Parts Unknown, 5678.
	Sir Abundance of Caution in Maitland, Florida, 56.
	$56 for 5,600 pages of BS, he writes.
	Nicole Gilbert, she also sent a note saying, do not mention my, I guess it's her boyfriend, Smokin' Hot Boyfriend's last name.
	That's because she donated $55.55 and asked for a de-douching for a Smokin' Hot Boyfriend.
	You've been de-douched.
	This is his Christmas gift for 2020.
	That's nice.
	Beautiful.
	She used to make six figures as a DJ. Yeah.
	Now she survives off measly weekly government crumbs in FEMA Zone 2.
	Yeah, there's not much DJing going on anymore, sadly.
	Let me read more of this.
	Thank God my boyfriend discovered no agenda when Adam was on J.R. Now we eagerly await each episode by singing your jingles with joy in animation.
	You guys are starting to rethink things.
	Sir Robert of Sous Vide in Holland, Pennsylvania, 5510.
	Sean DeSantis in Fort Pierce, Florida, 5510.
	Matthew Golian in Des Plaines, Illinois, 5510.
	Sir Brian Massey, Baron of the Connecticut River Valley, 5510 in West Hartford.
	Sir J-Boy in Aldi, Virginia, 5280.
	Nick Wagenfeller in Hav...
	Hav de Grace in Maryland.
	Hi guys, 5150.
	Megan Carlotta Purdy in Galloway, Ohio.
	It's for her dad's Christmas gift, Rick.
	He's a huge fan of the show.
	And yeah, you can apply it to his knighthood.
	Of course.
	Thanks, Megan, for doing that for your dad.
	Your dad, Rick Carlotta.
	Rick Carlotta.
	Natasia Holler in Portland, Oregon, $50.25.
	Forrest Martin, $50.05.
	Sir Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri, $50.05.
	And the following people are $50 donors.
	Name and location, if applicable.
	John Lawrence, unknown.
	Lucas Deaton in Dayton, Ohio.
	Todd Grubb in Capric, Minnesota.
	Sir Patrick Macomb in New York City.
	Jesus Allen in Austin, Texas.
	Matthew Grice, Andy Nauli, parts unknown.
	Michael Marmino in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
	Paul Contrimas in Westwood, Massachusetts.
	Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California.
	Sir Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	Julian Robbins in Aptos.
	Another Aptos dweller in Aptos.
	You two should get together.
	Two people.
	There's only ten people living in that town.
	You're smashing it.
	Sir Richard Hufford in Tampa, Arizona.
	And last...
	Kevin Silverman in Severn, Maryland.
	I want to thank these folks for making show 1306 possible.
	And Merry Christmas to all of you.
	Thank you for the donations, for the beautiful notes, and the P.O. Box stuff.
	I didn't get to half of it.
	The cards, some of the gifts.
	It's really heartwarming.
	Very, very appreciated.
	And just knowing that y'all have been with us throughout this, many of you for over a decade, some of you just since the start of this year, but you're part of something big here.
	You are producing this podcast.
	That's why it's the best one in the universe.
	We really appreciate these producers and those who came in under $50.
	I see a couple of $49.99 today.
	They definitely want to make sure they were anonymous, but we also have many of those monthly or by show or sometimes even weekly programs.
	You can start as low as $5.
	You can do whatever you want.
	The whole point of the value for value model is whatever it's worth to you.
	You put it in.
	$5 may be a lot of money to you.
	That's just as appreciated as anything else.
	And if you'd like to do it before the end of this year, we got another show coming up on Sunday.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. For everybody, a final Christmas goat karma.
	You've got...
	It seems that we've had a lot of people who are celebrating birthdays in the month of November and December, and today is no exception.
	Sir Brian White Knight in the Rainbow Nation turned 62.
	Jacob Kitson says happy birthday to hubby Thomas, who turns 36 today.
	Boys who gay together, listen to No Agenda together, or something like that.
	Sir Chris of Carmel-by-the-Sea, happy birthday to Dame Kristen.
	She turns 29 today.
	Rydzert Sovereign, his smoking hot girlfriend, Doreen Padding, 33 tomorrow.
	Thomas Biard to his smoking hot wife, Jocko, a.k.a.
	Shock, who turns 40 on Christmas Day.
	We have Sir Robert Smiley saying happy birthday to his wife, Debbie, also a Christmas baby, as is Sir Babanucci, who turns 62.
	Dan Pinkerton will be 54.
	Joseph Tyler will be 33 on the 26th.
	And finally, Anonymous says happy birthday to her husband, Brian, a.k.a.
	Babalucci, who turns 43 on the 27th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Before you read the next thing, I just thought of something.
	I think I hit Babaluchi twice somehow.
	Babaluchi got in twice.
	I don't understand.
	I wonder if our boys in Provincetown that were at the party with Rachel, if everyone was masked up.
	Which party with Rachel?
	They talked about being at a party with Rachel Maddow.
	Oh, the boys!
	Gays with no agenda together sure do turn heads at parties, especially when Rachel Maddow is there.
	And was she there when she was supposedly home with her sick partner?
	I'm wondering.
	Uh-huh.
	Now this just comes to mind.
	We need gays on the ground.
	Gays on the ground.
	Gays on the ground.
	Bring it, boys!
	No, seriously.
	All of a sudden, I can't help but seeing his album cover...
	I'm going to have to go look at it.
	It's hilarious.
	But before we do anything, we need to do a couple of knightings and damings.
	I need a big Christmas blade from you.
	Thank you.
	Here's the blade.
	Heather Krauss!
	Brittany Trostnick!
	Yeah, Babaluchi, there he is again.
	Moose, Tyler Stewart, Brian Martin, Fraukas' husband, Mark, jump on up here, Dan Pinkerton, Mike, and Ivo Velton.
	All of you have or have had contributed $1,000 or more to the No Agenda Show, Best Podcast in the Universe.
	And therefore, I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Dame Atomic Ginger of Caprock, Dame Brittany of the Swamp, Sir Babaluchi, Sir Spike Fork, the Wandering Knight, Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth and Bertaria, Sir B of the New Republic of Florexes.
	Sir Realist in Full Fooders' Realm, Sir Softail, Knight of the Southwest Sunsets, Sir Mike, Knight of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Sir Ivo, Knight of the Velua Zone.
	And for you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got some specialties.
	We've got a center cut of the mutton.
	We've got frog legs and codeine, biscuits and piping hot gravy, drachisflace and glühwein, Napoleon cognac and Cubans, and where else would we be without...
	Ruben-esque women in rosé, a couple of bong hits in bourbon, or ginger ale, and gerbils, and of course, the mutton and meat without the center cut, because it's already spoken for.
	That is for you, and you, this big list, please go over to noagendanation.com slash rings, and Eric DeShue will work very diligently to get you your, in fact, we just put in an order for rings, I think.
	Because we got another shipment to go out.
	And that will be accompanied with the sealing wax and your official certificate of authenticity signed by yours and Dvorak's truly.
	And we really appreciate this.
	Thank you so much.
	It's great.
	It's been a crazy-ass year, but this is going to be a fantastic Christmas, and we wish well for all.
	And you might even want to hang out.
	No agenda.
	Meet up.
	Start your party.
	The party commences or continues on Sunday, the 27th.
	Holy crap, that's on the show.
	That will be, as we heard earlier, the Very Fine People Meetup in Charlotte, Virginia at 3 o'clock at the Trump Winery.
	That should be a hoot.
	Before we round out the year, there will be a December 31st New Year's small amygdala bash.
	It's the 719 Colorado.
	Then, let me see, the New Year, January 5th, Friends of Fair and Honest Elections DC Meetup.
	We know about that.
	That's Sir Deucer for organizing.
	On the 9th, Bozeman, Montana bringing in the New Year.
	Also on the 9th, the Houston Raging Super Spreader Luncheon.
	The NA Local 512 Build Back Better Battle Planning.
	Gotta be a part of that one.
	And on the 16th, Durham, North Carolina.
	The local 919.
	The 17th, Southwest Florida.
	Pre-inauguration meetup.
	The 24th in Philly.
	Local 76.
	The 30th in Melbourne.
	And the question will be, is Melbourne really free?
	That will be down under.
	Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Titletown Green Bay, to be exact, on the 30th.
	And the last one we've got on the calendar is February 6th, the Love and Light Winter Meetup in Boston, Massachusetts.
	These are meetups, but can easily be made into protests there where your local regulations require that.
	Go to noagendaprotest.com or noagendameetups.com.
	Find one of these meetups near you.
	You've been locked indoors.
	You need some human contact.
	You can get it, and it'll be safe for you.
	It's a place where there's no triggering.
	Just good lass, good time, yakking about the show, and it is truly like a party.
	If you can't find one at NoAgendaMeetups.com, please consider making one yourself.
	NoAgendaMeetups.com Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days Bum, bum, bum All right.
	We have not done end-of-show ISOs yet.
	I only have one.
	Okay, what you got?
	Uh...
	To be on there is ISO. Uh...
	Let me see...
	Worst day.
	Worst day.
	Worst day yet.
	I have this one, which I thought might be fun.
	Huh.
	It's pretty science-y stuff.
	Doesn't punch.
	Forget about it.
	What is this?
	You know, I've murdered countless people.
	You can't even keep track of all of them.
	Sorry, that's a confession, not an ISO. I think worst day is all I've got, really.
	Worst day yet.
	Yeah, I like it.
	Yeah, I think we can do that.
	I think that'll work.
	I did have...
	Two things.
	I'm going to save the Chrome developers.
	We have somebody saying Merry Christmas wouldn't be bad.
	I don't think we have anyone.
	It's so unpopular to say Merry Christmas.
	Yeah.
	Well, worst day yet, then.
	We've got to wrap this up, but I did want to make mention...
	There is a song in the Netherlands which was done by Joop Funethek, who is a cabrace, which is an old-school name for stand-up comic in the old world.
	And he wrote this song, this must be 40 years ago, called Floppy.
	And Floppy is a song about a rabbit, hence the flappy, flappy ears.
	And what happens to Flappy, this poor boy's pet rabbit, on Christmas Day?
	And would you believe that this song, this floppy song, has been covered by Todd Rundgren, of all people.
	And I just want to play a little bit.
	You can guess how it ends, but it's just so weird to have this old traditional Dutch song, creepy one, covered by Todd Rundgren.
	It was Christmas morning, 1961.
	I recall the empty pen where my rabbit bed belonged.
	And my mother told me, don't go in the shed.
	And if I just behave, then I'd get something yummy later on.
	She also didn't know where Floppy was and said she'd ask my dad who was busy in the shed.
	You know what happens at the end of the song, right?
	The rabbit's dead.
	Yeah, they eat the rabbit for Christmas dinner.
	Yeah.
	I can't believe Todd Rundgren covered this.
	Well, maybe he likes rabbits.
	It's a horrible, sad song.
	The kids running all over the place trying to find Floppy.
	Flappy.
	And he's not in the shed.
	Where's Flappy?
	And then he's on the table.
	They ate Flappy.
	Yeah, well, it's kind of a sick.
	It's not for a sick.
	It's very sick.
	I just found it very odd that Todd Rundgren would do that, but maybe that's Todd.
	Yeah.
	I met the guy.
	Seems like a pretty normal guy.
	Everyone's met Todd Runrun.
	He's gotten around.
	Well, I think he lives around here somewhere.
	Well, ask him about it.
	I don't think I'll ever see him.
	Why do you hate rabbits, man?
	I don't have really anything upbeat.
	I think the only upbeat thing is kind of, well, no, it's not upbeat the way NBC presents it.
	No, let's not do anything.
	If it's not upbeat, then look, I had...
	Well, it's kind of upbeat.
	It's about the Trump pardons.
	I had the dead rabbit upbeat.
	Well, the Dead Rabbit's hardly upbeat.
	Let's see, journalists, no, we can put this off to the next show easy.
	All right, I'm calling it.
	We've been at it for four hours and eight minutes.
	Too long, too long.
	The show's too long.
	A little bit too long.
	We're done.
	And Merry Christmas to everybody.
	Happy New...
	Well, not Happy New Year, because we've got another show on Sunday.
	We're still working.
	Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas, everybody.
	Thank you so much for supporting us.
	I'm glad that you could hang out with us, those trolls who are here.
	They're still in there.
	We've got a lot of trolls hanging out.
	We return on Sunday, which will be, what will that be, the 26th, 27th, that will be the 28th?
	Yeah.
	It's going to be a hoot as we take out the old year and bring in the new normal.
	The 27th.
	The 27th.
	We'll be bringing in the new normal.
	After show mixes.
	Let me see.
	I'm unprepared.
	We've got Jesse Coy Nelson.
	We've got Greg Dalby and Sir Seatsitter.
	And coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas.
	FEMA Region No.
	6 on the governmental maps.
	If you're looking for it in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. DeBorak.
	Random thoughts next on noagendastream.com.
	We'll see you right after Christmas, everybody.
	Have a good one until then.
	Adios, mofos!
	and such.
	We'll be right back.
	She'd been shopping on essential and she didn't wear a mask.
	She said she didn't want that vaccine.
	our fault for not putting her on blast But we still shamed her at her funeral For her unnecessary death I'm sure the gunshots didn't help much We shot her Christmas Eve before we left Grandma got run over by Corona Because we went to her house Christmas Eve.
	You can say there's no such thing as COVID. But as for me and Fauci, we believe.
	On the 12th day of Christmas, no agenda gave to me 12 years before extinction.
	The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
	We're all going to die!
	11 jingles jingled.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Yum!
	And her head is gone.
	This is a bunch of scumbags.
	See that juice?
	That's true.
	That's a magic number.
	Nine Trump rotations.
	Narcissist.
	Mean.
	Long ties.
	Insane.
	Tweets too much.
	Small hands.
	Small penis.
	Big red button.
	Criminal.
	Eight glitches reported.
	Glitch.
	Glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch.
	Seven Obamas knowing.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Six foamers foaming.
	Oh, my God!
	Five emotional support goats.
	Four job commas.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Three John's chair squeakings.
	Two little grilliers.
	Yay!
	Yay!
	And an hour shot in dealer's choice.
	Is this Crown Hog Day too?
	Ho, ho, ho.
	Merry Christmas.
	Adios, mofo.
	Will Santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus this season?
	What if he can't go to anyone's house or near his reindeer?
	His level of immunity He can come down the chimney His level of immunity He can come down the chimney I'm vaccinated Santa Claus I vaccinated Santa Claus.
	I vaccinated Santa Claus.
	I vaccinated Santa Claus.
	Santa Claus is good to go.
	I vaccinated Santa Claus.
	Santa Claus is good to go.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Hold on a second.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Did he not vaccinate Mrs.
	Claus?
	She doesn't count.
	He's a misogynist.
	He's going to get the corona if this is true.
	From the elves.
	Nothing about the elves in the workshop.
	What about the elves?
	They get a shot?
	Yeah.
	Two.
	Everyone gets two shots.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.

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