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	Normal.
	Take a look around, Anabash.
	Nothing's normal.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 25th, 2021.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 1324.
	This is no agenda.
	Fanning the flames and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I see a lot of coal cars lined up along the tracks, all empty.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, yeah, don't you know, we don't need coal anymore.
	It's over, baby.
	We don't need coal.
	We got wind and solar back in Texas.
	Everything's back online, John, as if nothing happened.
	How's the weather?
	I mean, we had 80 degrees the other day.
	It's just crazy.
	Makes sense.
	Yeah, everything's just kind of back to normal.
	I so loved how everything just went out the window, though, with all the COVID stuff.
	And it's not really coming back except for the masks.
	You know, social distancing is a little different now.
	I think once Texans got a taste of some real danger, there was a reset.
	That could be.
	That hasn't happened anyplace else.
	Yeah.
	Well, Florida's always been wide open, so that doesn't make any difference there.
	I guess South Dakota and North Dakota.
	Yeah.
	Well, the machine is still incredibly strong.
	The mainstream media machine is pushing, pushing, pushing.
	I don't want to make light of it, the 500,000 people dead.
	But man, was this taken to a next level or what?
	With the vigil and the crying and...
	Ugh, it's just everywhere.
	We don't have any vigils or crying here in California.
	I mean, I don't want to make light of people dying, but, you know, we've had no vigils.
	Every year, what is it, 2.3 million Americans die?
	And we had no deaths from flu, so, you know...
	No, it went from like 400,000 to 400.
	Less like that.
	Listen to that.
	So here's a couple of M5M reports as the bells were tolling for the half a million dead.
	In the meantime, the National Cathedral rang its bells for nearly one hour Monday, marking 500,000 U.S. deaths from COVID. The bells rang once for every 1,000 deaths.
	Only once for every death would have taken 28 days.
	See, I think they should have done that.
	They should have just done 500,000 bell tolls and just kept it going 28 days.
	He's all on Biden's watch.
	What's he doing about it?
	President Biden and the First Lady leading a moment of silence before the President addressed the nation, drawing on his own experience with grief.
	The day will come.
	Oh, not again.
	And the memory of the loved one you lost will bring a smile to your lips before a tear to your eye.
	And for me, the way through sorrow and grief...
	You know, they really play up that dead family angle on the president.
	It makes him relatable, but he keeps bringing it back.
	It's always like, I know what it's like.
	I know, it's horrible, the empty chair at the table.
	That seems to be the only thing he can really be relatable about.
	Not a relatable guy.
	Well, let's continue with this 500,000 dead with Meet the Press, Chuck Todd with Herr Fauci.
	Dr.
	Fauci, welcome back to Meet the Press.
	You hear the somber tone already.
	Before I get into some of the specifics...
	I just want to give you a chance to take a step back.
	A death toll of half a million.
	We're basically at the one-year mark of this pandemic.
	And if you think about it and compare it to what this nation faced in 1918, and we have modern medicine today, just how deadly in the big picture has this pandemic been in this country?
	This is a very easy question to answer.
	Big picture, yeah, it kind of replaced some things.
	You know, we may have a little bump.
	What do you think the total extra death rate is, John?
	Is it anything?
	I mean, it must be some.
	Well, Dave, I don't know how they play this.
	I mean, if I was running the newsroom, I would be playing those clips from those guys up in Canada showing that all these numbers are bogus.
	You have a short-lived career in the newsroom.
	You would not be running that.
	It's stunning, Chuck.
	Horrible.
	I mean, if you look at what has gone on now, and we're still not out of it, half a million deaths.
	It's just, it's terrible.
	It is historic.
	We haven't seen anything even close to this for well over 100 years since the 1918 pandemic of influenza.
	It's something that is stunning.
	When you look at the numbers, almost unbelievable, but it's true.
	It This is a devastating pandemic and it's historic.
	People will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now.
	Yes, because you are writing the history.
	You are telling us what happened here and I think it's pretty disingenuous.
	But this was all just a little bit of messing around in the margins.
	If you really want to do it, you do it right like Breonna Keillor over there on CNN. She knows, she knows how to deal with 500,000 deaths when you're...
	Wait, wait.
	Let me guess how she does it.
	She blames it on Biden.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It's time for the waterworks, baby.
	Even as a nation where many have become numb to this astronomical loss, I know that these stories of our fellow Americans puncture that armor that is natural to have accumulated over the past year.
	And that's okay.
	We need to remember the people that we have lost, even if we didn't know them personally.
	I know it is hard.
	I hear it from so many of you.
	I know you're tired.
	I know you're tapped out.
	It has been more than a year since the first reported coronavirus case.
	The quarantining, the hoping that this would subside only to realize that it wouldn't anytime soon, the struggling to make ends meet, the worrying that if this is the day you might spike a fever or start to cough, the juggling your job while you're homeschooling your kids, being afraid to see your grandparents, being afraid to see your grandkids, knowing that there's a vaccine that you or your loved ones can't yet get, struggling with mental health.
	And for almost 500,000 Americans this past year, losing their lives.
	This is a collective loss.
	We're taking this moment to acknowledge that.
	You are not alone.
	And if you are lucky enough to still have a little fuel in your tank today, it is a good day to remind someone in your life that you were there for them.
	John, I just want to remind you I'm here for you.
	Yeah.
	Wow, thanks.
	Thanks.
	I'm still here for you.
	Yeah, I bet you are.
	She's got to believe in this.
	I mean, she's not an actress.
	That's not a performance.
	That was real.
	She was very sad.
	Did it very well.
	Get her off the air, then.
	No, this is the ratings, baby.
	This is how it goes.
	This is what we want.
	Meanwhile, the real story is in other dead people.
	Meet Ken McKenzie.
	We actually have to give a reservation code to a family just so that they could be seen.
	When people call him, he says they usually want to interview him to decide if they want to use his services.
	But now...
	The first question is, are you taking cases?
	The panic in their voice is just so sad.
	McKenzie runs his own funeral home here in Long Beach, California.
	He is busier now than at any other point in the pandemic.
	A year ago, people were complaining about not finding toilet paper.
	This time of year, we're concerned because we're running out of granite for headstones.
	Among the nearly 500,000 people who have died with COVID-19, three members of the Rangel family who McKenzie cremated.
	In a span of 16 days, all three of them passed due to COVID. Luis, Jerry, and Alma Rangel.
	My sister was alone.
	We had to watch her on an iPad, take her last breath.
	I had to ask a doctor that I didn't know to hold her hand for me.
	It was the Rangel family walking into his funeral home with back-to-back deaths that just broke him.
	I have never broke down.
	I'm supposed to be the professional, and it was yet another death with the same family, and I sat there and cried with them.
	This is just, it was non-stop, this type of reporting.
	It's like collectively roll out the death stuff, boys.
	I think they're trying to milk this a little bit more than they should.
	Well, you know, I don't know.
	I mean, we still have all these different factions and the different teams at play.
	I'm not quite sure.
	I think the idea was the president will go out, we'll do our vigil, everyone will participate, we'll all cry, we'll toll the bells, and that will be then, we can put that behind us.
	But I just don't see the media doing that.
	They're just not stopping it.
	They continue to push and push.
	I think, I mentioned this in the newsletter, I think they're freaked out that they're going to just dwindle down to no income if they have to do this fear porn.
	Yeah.
	I mean, they're doing it on ABC. I do have a series of clips when you're ready.
	Now, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	I don't have anything really specific.
	I have a lot of different things.
	Well, most of the stuff I got was international, but I did get these clips about the...
	There's a number of screwball things.
	Yeah.
	Let's play these vaccine clips.
	Oh, you want to do vaccines first?
	Okay, vaccines.
	All right, we can do vaccines.
	This is the COVID yak, yak, yak, yak, yak vaccine one.
	I'm going to play these three clips, and one of them I want to ask you some questions about before we go to it.
	These are short.
	This is the part one of the series.
	The new 62-page report from the FDA out today saying the one-shot vaccine is safe and effective.
	Emergency use authorization could now come within days.
	Those welcome numbers tonight, the vaccine is 86% effective at preventing severe illness here in the U.S. And 100% effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths.
	And at least 70% effective against asymptomatic spread when you have no symptoms, when you don't even know you have it.
	If we can halt that, we can reduce transmission.
	All of this comes after Pfizer said just yesterday that it will meet that deadline by the end of July, 300 million doses.
	And Moderna saying 300 million doses by the end of July, too.
	That would be enough for all Americans.
	And all of that was without the news from Johnson& Johnson tonight.
	So this evening, what does this all mean for the timeline?
	Could vaccinations happen sooner, even if it's just weeks sooner?
	And we're tracking more FEMA vaccination sites opening just today.
	This one in Queens, New York, aiming to administer 3,000 shots a day.
	This one in Houston tonight, hoping for 6,000 shots a day.
	So this evening, what you need to know about this new one-shot vaccine and how soon could we see it?
	Dr.
	Jha standing by and ABC's Eva Pilgrim leading us off.
	Alright, now we're going to have a couple of things.
	David Muir there, he hinted about things like, what do we need to know?
	What's the difference with this new vaccine?
	And on and on.
	Okay, let's play part two.
	Tonight, just days away from potential emergency use authorization, the U.S. is now likely on the verge of a third vaccine.
	And this time, a single dose.
	And the news is promising.
	New analysis today finding the Johnson& Johnson one-dose vaccine safe and effective.
	86% effective for preventing severe illness in the U.S. alone and 100% effective in preventing hospitalizations or deaths.
	Another key finding?
	The report saying the single-dose vaccine may also...
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You'll notice that all she does is reiterate what David Muir said.
	Oh, I have noticed this in general, and you'll hear it a couple more times in the clips.
	The way the reporting goes is, the president said it would take five years to accomplish this, and they go to a clip.
	It'll take five years to accomplish this, and they go right back.
	No, they don't go to a...
	Well, this is worse, because this is not going...
	They're going to the clip, and the guy's saying what you said is just proof.
	Yeah.
	But this is different.
	There's no proof here.
	You have...
	One reporter saying it's 86% effective.
	And what do you have to say about it?
	It's 86% effective.
	It's another reporter reporting the same facts.
	And a new number, though.
	100% effective at stopping hospitalizations and death?
	Seriously?
	Yeah.
	Well, that's interesting.
	David Muir said the same thing, and then she said it again.
	And they say it again in a later clip.
	Yeah, but they're reporting.
	They're reporting on the previous report.
	That's how you do it.
	You're already reading from the same memo.
	Yeah, this 100% thing is a bit questionable, if you ask me.
	Be careful with that advertisement, is what I'd say.
	Hey, you said 100%.
	I'm suing you.
	Oh, no, you can't.
	Well, they never...
	Ah, you're right.
	That was the report.
	You're correct.
	All right, let's listen to the whole thing, then.
	Preventing severe illness in the U.S. alone and 100% effective in preventing hospitalizations or deaths.
	Another key finding?
	The report saying the single-dose vaccine may also prevent some asymptomatic disease when you don't even know you have it, which means it could help reduce the spread of the virus.
	Preliminary analysis suggests that the vaccine provides a 74% protection against asymptomatic disease, which is important because if you can prevent asymptomatic disease, then you will also reduce transmission.
	The FDA saying the vaccine had the expected side effects like fever and fatigue, but no reports of severe allergic reactions.
	Overall, the vaccine provides very robust protection throughout the world, including against the worrisome viral variants.
	So what does this mean for the vaccine supply in the U.S.? Johnson& Johnson says it could have 3 to 4 million doses sent out next week.
	It could have 100 million doses by the summer.
	Pfizer and Moderna already promised enough doses for all Americans by the end of July.
	So this newest vaccine could simply add to that supply.
	The U.S. could actually have a surplus, enough for 400 million people by midsummer.
	The prospect...
	Of a potential third approved vaccine is very encouraging.
	This is the monkey vaccine, right?
	Well, it's an adenovirus vaccine.
	It's a style of vaccine that is...
	I don't know if it comes from the monkey.
	I believe so.
	I believe I saw the documentation.
	Yeah, I've been looking into it.
	It's a totally alien kind of thing.
	Which brings us to the point where David Muir is now going to introduce another doctor, a doctor, and he's going to ask the questions that everybody is asking.
	Everybody is asking these questions.
	And this doctor's going to clear things up.
	What would be, like, the questions you'd ask when they say, well, there's a Johnson& Johnson vaccine.
	What would you ask?
	What would be a typical question you want answered?
	Well, in general or at this point in our trajectory, if I was an ABC type of person, really cared about my audience?
	You're a person out there that wants to know stuff.
	Oh.
	Does it work?
	Yeah.
	Well, I think they said it works.
	How about this for a question?
	Does it create herd immunity if we all get this vaccine?
	I think that's a valid question.
	I expect that to be asked.
	Or does it hurt?
	I think that's another one.
	Also, what is the difference?
	Here's the question I'd ask.
	Ah, what's the difference between this and the Moderna and the Pfizer's?
	What is the difference between this vaccine and the Moderna and the Pfizer's?
	Explain to me why this one doesn't need refrigeration.
	Those do.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	Well, nothing needs refrigeration, now we've learned.
	Yeah, but it doesn't need to be frozen.
	You can just throw it in the fish bait freezer.
	It's fine.
	So I want to know the difference, because should I get this shot instead of the other shot?
	Because what if I'm allergic to everything and I need to get a shot?
	That's probably, as a journalist, the most important question is, what's the difference between this and the previous vaccines?
	And why are you at 74%?
	I would say that's the number one question.
	I agree with that.
	What's the difference?
	Okay.
	Well, where do you think we end up going?
	Okay.
	Black and brown people?
	Misogyny?
	Will trans people benefit?
	I don't know.
	Where do we go with this?
	Well, this clip's called Vaccine Q&A. We know you have questions at home, so let's bring in Dr.
	Rashid Shah, the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
	And Dr.
	Shah, always great to have you here with us.
	And you and I were on the air here after Johnson& Johnson first released their own early data.
	Now, weeks later, and this new FDA report tonight, just as encouraging, let's just reiterate here, 86% effective against severe illness here in the U.S. Here we go again.
	100% effective at preventing hospitalizations and death.
	A single shot doesn't have to be stored at those deep freeze temperatures, normal refrigeration.
	So I guess the question tonight is, is this a game changer?
	David, thank you for having me back.
	Is this a game changer?
	How is it a game changer?
	Because you don't have to freeze it?
	You're only going to have 3 million doses anyway.
	Okay, but don't worry.
	We still have time.
	Muir can still ask.
	What's the difference between this vaccine and the others?
	Let's get there.
	Thank you for having me back.
	It's wonderful news.
	It's just one more piece of really good news on the vaccine front.
	I think it's gonna make an enormous difference.
	It's gonna be so much easier to store and get out to people.
	And look, what we care about most is those hospitalizations and deaths.
	And this vaccine seems terrific at preventing that, and that's what matters.
	And Dr.
	Jha, obviously, we just don't know how this could affect the ultimate...
	Well, right there, if we're going to pull this apart, I mean, the whole, and we've heard it twice now, 100% effective against hospitalization and...
	You've heard it four times.
	100% effective against hospitalization and death.
	And deaths.
	So, death...
	So, I mean, to me, it would be, why would we even take any vaccine except this one?
	This is the one you want.
	You don't want to die.
	Does Moderna and Pfizer, why do they not provide that guarantee?
	There's your questions.
	That's another of the many questions that need to be asked.
	And don't worry, we've still got time left.
	You never know.
	He's terrific at preventing that, and that's what matters.
	And Dr.
	Jha, obviously we just don't know how this could affect the ultimate timeline for vaccinating Americans, and no one wants to overpromise here.
	But let's look at what we do know tonight.
	Pfizer and Moderna have both promised to meet that deadline of 300 million doses each by the end of July.
	That's enough for all Americans.
	To ease the subject.
	Now Johnson& Johnson saying, if approved by week's end, they can get another 100 million doses by June.
	So you do the math, and that's enough to vaccinate 400 million people.
	Again, without any promises, could this potentially help with this timeline?
	Could we get more Americans vaccinated a bit sooner?
	Absolutely.
	I suspect that vaccines will become widely available to people by May.
	And by June to July, pretty much everybody who wants a vaccine should have been vaccinated by then.
	The timelines here are getting better by the day.
	And look, this is really important and it's going to make a big difference as we get into the summer.
	And I gather, Dr.
	Dr. Jha, that even though there could be a third vaccine in very soon, that your advice still would be to get whichever vaccine becomes available closest to where you are?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	The number one goal is preventing hospitalizations and deaths, preventing those severe illnesses.
	All three vaccines are terrific.
	That's what I'm recommending to my family.
	Whenever it's your turn, get any of the vaccines you can.
	That's what matters.
	Zzzz.
	What?
	Zzzz.
	It doesn't matter.
	I thought this was going to be a Q&A about the Johnson& Johnson.
	A game changer.
	Just get any shot.
	And by the way, I don't know how they got from 3 million to 100 million doses, but okay.
	That was pretty cool.
	They did that.
	But this is the worst piece of crap.
	Reporting didn't answer or address anything.
	They just brought some shill on from, you know, some dean of a medical school who probably doesn't even follow it technically.
	Oh, just get a shot.
	He was available on Friday night.
	He's on the call list.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's good.
	He does what he's supposed to do, which is say nothing.
	Meanwhile, the CEO of Pfizer had a big interview in Wall Street Journal.
	Yeah.
	They will be doing $15 billion in COVID-19 vaccine sales this year.
	Woohoo!
	I'm not paying for it.
	Who's paying for it?
	Where's this money coming from?
	Oh, you're paying for it.
	What?
	I was told I wasn't paying for it.
	Not directly, you're not.
	I was supposed to be free.
	Yeah, it is.
	At retail, but it's already been settled, son.
	The Pfizer CEO believes the profit stream could prove to be long-lasting because people will likely need booster shots in the future.
	Mm-hmm.
	They're counting on it.
	It's in their models now.
	They've given it to the analysts.
	They've let everybody know this is an ongoing thing.
	We're good to go.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't anybody think this stinks?
	And he's very happy that regulators, U.S. regulators, have allowed Pfizer to now put six doses into a vial instead of five.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's the same vial.
	I know.
	They just call it six.
	Why would it even be...
	Why do you even need a regulator to tell you what you can put in the vial?
	Maybe you do.
	I don't know.
	I don't know anything about that.
	But this vaccine from Johnson& Johnson is quite magical.
	And we will keep our eye on this.
	The 100% guarantee that you're not going to become sick or have to go to the hospital or die.
	And Dr.
	Kat gave us a little update.
	You know, Dr.
	Kat, Team Halo, she's one of the paid stooges on TikTok.
	Yeah, she's got some exciting news about the vaccine.
	Hey, Dr.
	Kat, epidemiologist.
	So this person's question is regarding some of the news that you've probably heard rumblings about.
	Rumblings!
	That in Israel, we are seeing some reduced transmission rates of COVID-19 in vaccinated individuals.
	So the data is looking very positive in this regard.
	Stop!
	I know.
	Yes.
	Isn't that the idea?
	Well, it's very positive.
	If you get vaccinated, you're not going to be...
	Of course.
	But they're just glossing over it like it's the most normal thing in the world.
	This is what I don't understand.
	Where are people saying, hold on a second.
	If I get vaccinated for...
	If I get the MMR, then I won't get mumps, measles, rubella, and I won't pass it on.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	Then what kind of vaccine is this?
	That is the assumption of the vaccine world we live in.
	Yeah, well, no, she's all...
	That's out the window.
	She's all happy that, oh, it turns out you can't get it.
	Maybe it's not so severe.
	You'll get it.
	Israel has given Pfizer access to their patient records, which is an electronic patient database full of 9 million people in Israel.
	That's nice.
	Hit by anybody?
	About half of those people, about 45%, have been vaccinated.
	And the findings so far is that it is protective of the individuals, but also it looks like there's a reduction in asymptomatic spread of disease.
	Now, a reduction?
	I thought asymptomatic spread was already debunked.
	It really was so infinitesimal, it doesn't make any difference.
	Did I miss an update somewhere?
	Yes, you missed an update.
	And what was the update?
	They decided to go back to asymptomatic.
	Yeah, but now luckily the Pfizer vaccine slows it down.
	It's very confusing.
	Additionally, out of the UK today, we saw a preprint come out of the SIREN study, which is 23,000 vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare workers, and saw a significant decrease in asymptomatic cases in that study as well.
	So when data is finalized, I'll report on it.
	It makes no sense.
	I didn't even know what she's happy about.
	All you really want to hear is it works.
	They started early on with this percentages and...
	Yeah, I remember the 93% and one company came out with 92% and said, oh, we got 93%, oh, we got 94%.
	Remember the 90s, the 90s numbers that just came out with right after Trump got voted out of office?
	Yeah, 96, 98 and then now it's 86, 74, 100%.
	Random numbers.
	The one that gets me the most is people who get COVID after having received the vaccine, including my sister-in-law.
	A good four or five weeks after her second shot, she got COVID, 105 degree fever, but was really flipping out because of the fear.
	And once she was talked down off the ledge, it got a little better.
	But do you know that people who have gone through this have no way to report into the system?
	What do you mean the people who took the vaccine?
	And got COVID. And then got COVID, which makes no sense.
	If you go back to your vaccination spot, they'll be like, uh, cool story, bro.
	I don't know what to do with that.
	You know, you should call someone.
	There's no feedback loop.
	And there's quite an article about it.
	FiveThirtyEight.com.
	We're quite upset about this.
	It's like, if you don't even have a mechanism...
	Yeah, they do have an observation period, which I think is initially 15 minutes, and then, you know, who knows if they track you?
	Clearly not.
	No one's called my sister-in-law and said, wow, hi.
	So that's bogus.
	Hi, it's Tom here from Moderna.
	We'd like to talk to you about your product, which did not live up to his expectations.
	We're really sorry.
	Let's see what happened and let's get some data from you.
	She took the Moderna?
	Mm-hmm.
	I believe so.
	I believe it was the Moderna.
	Now, you remember Bad Chat?
	How about this idea?
	Let me just throw this out there just as a possibility.
	This stuff doesn't work.
	Okay, possibility one.
	Yes, it's saline.
	Now, there's something in it for sure.
	There's something in it, but it doesn't mean it works.
	It's experimental.
	It's an mRNA vaccine.
	They've never been able to get these to work, and they're experimenting on the public.
	I think this is well established.
	Do you remember Bad Chad from Boulder, Colorado?
	He would write us...
	He's the EMT. You don't.
	He once wrote us about how he crashed his mountain bike and he had to go to the bathroom and he found the toilet paper and it was hilarious.
	No, I don't remember that either.
	So, Bad Chad is an EMT in Boulder.
	He's been that for 20 years.
	What?
	I'm sorry, I missed that.
	Oh, Bad Chad.
	I said, Bad Chad, he wrote me a note about his experience with the vaccine.
	And he's an EMT. And he's been an EMT for 20 years.
	He's in the fire department.
	He's the guy that you want when you're in trouble.
	When he comes through the door, you'll be happy.
	He's told us a lot about, in fact, he was within hours of the George Floyd, he said, oh yeah, excited delirium because he deals with all this stuff on a regular basis.
	So he sent me a note, and it's in his prose, but I do think it's worth sharing.
	As he says, I had a bit of a scare recently, which I thought you might be interested.
	And so, again, he's been in medicine for 20 years.
	I caved and went and got the stupid vaccine.
	It was just hubris, maybe, that led me to it.
	At worst, I thought it would do nothing.
	I expected nothing anyway.
	It seemed a mere convenience.
	Work would quit hassling me.
	I'd have my golden ticket.
	I figured it to be just another layer of asshole camouflage like a mask or any of these other trendy contrivances.
	Besides, I've already been participating as a test subject in a university study to identify antibody rates in asymptomatic first responders and have at least one of the three studied COVID-19 antibodies consistently for the past six months.
	Which I guess means he would have had it and has the antibody and got over it.
	Funny thing about that, about half of the study group was positive for these antibodies among asymptomatic participants.
	But herd immunity without vaccine isn't a thing, so shut up science.
	I was assigned the Moderna vaccine.
	I walked into a hospital conference center where I'd been told to report and they gave me a little card that said Moderna on it and wandered into the Moderna line.
	The whole thing was weird from the get-go.
	I'm a clinician.
	I've been inflicting medical care on people for 20 years.
	I forgot most of the medicine a long time ago, but the truly important part, the Theater of medicine is like riding a bicycle.
	It's the subtle art of manipulation.
	It's how to talk a crackhead into the back of an ambulance.
	How to convince someone to let you take care of them.
	All the monkey skills I can teach you in a week.
	The people moving is the part that takes years and years.
	Anyway, I can appreciate the monolithic clinicality of a metropolitan hospital, a great cathedral to an unquestionable religion, the way the pyramids controlled the Egyptians.
	However, these guys ruined it.
	And this is interesting.
	They had candy and balloons and party music playing.
	Everyone kept telling me, congratulations, like I'd won the damn lottery.
	It was surreal.
	I was dazed by the unexpected nonsense of it all.
	I even forgot to pop my Alka-Seltzer in my mouth and flop around on the floor 14 minutes after the injection just for grins.
	No, it was already too strange.
	I've heard this from people.
	You go to the vaccination site and they're handing out balloons and lollipops and it's completely the opposite of how you would want it to be.
	The seriousness of it.
	The seriousness of it, yeah.
	The first shot didn't hit me too hard.
	I had a sore arm and a goofy brain fog for about 12 hours.
	But the second one knocked me on my ass.
	My wife and I both were both essential workers, got our second hit within a day of each other and were almost incapacitated for five days.
	Fever, chills, crippling aches, lethargy, brutal.
	After about a week, everything seemed back to normal.
	And here it comes.
	Twelve days in, shit got weird.
	I cannot say definitely that the following was caused by the vaccine, but I can say that I've had almost flawless health to this point in life, blood work, labs, annual physical.
	Even my family history is relatively unremarkable.
	No allergies, no medications.
	I exercise, I eat pretty well.
	I'm at my computer the other night.
	I start to feel my eyes getting tired.
	I mention to my wife that I seem to have a small blind spot that hides parts of the words and makes them hard to read.
	We laugh a bit about getting old and needing new glasses.
	At the time I was working on a freehand 3D sketch of a loft I was planning on building in the garage.
	I was getting tired having a difficult time getting the lines to make sense.
	I looked back up at the computer and tried to read some of the headlines but I found myself reading them several times through to understand them.
	About this time I started to feel that something was very very wrong.
	I picked up a piece of mail from my desk and tried to read from it.
	The words were sticking in my head.
	I tried to read the page out live, but the words would not come out of my mouth.
	I tried several times in disbelief, each time fumbling the word.
	Not garbled or slurred, just not even close.
	The word managed came out...
	It was like everything I read became lost on the way to my mouth and got stuck in that place just on the tip of my tongue.
	Sounds like he's having a stroke.
	Well, it was terrifying, Adam.
	I immediately started thinking about snow crash.
	This is the Neil Stephenson book about the Matrix, Metaverse, about my base programming crashing.
	That's what it felt like.
	And anything agnostic in my mind, any question of a human soul beyond this malfunctioning mass of wires and connections in my head was lost and the beautiful but ultimately physical nature of my mind was revealed to me.
	There was no immortal thing in there.
	Only a fragile assembly of sparks and gaps as easily and surely disrupted by the wiping out files in the root folder as I have on my laptop.
	But this was really happening.
	I began to come to grips with the idea I was probably having a stroke.
	So he goes on.
	He went in.
	No stroke.
	They have no idea.
	He tried to bring it up with them that this was the vaccine.
	They shut him down right away.
	Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
	And now he's okay.
	He's very tired still.
	But I would say this is a very scary experience.
	Sounds like he took an LSD shot.
	Ooh.
	Hmm.
	I've never done LSD, so I have no idea how that feels.
	The disassociated, maybe.
	But man...
	You know, so something's in there.
	But the idea that he connected that to Snow Crash and kind of like base programming kind of fits in with the whole mRNA CRISPR gene splicing thing.
	Well, who knows what was going on.
	I mean, that thing doesn't sound safe.
	Hey, it's 100%.
	Oh, no, that's a Johnson& Johnson.
	That's a Johnson& Johnson.
	All right, let's see what's happening with the 96% of Pfizer's second dose.
	I thought it was 95%, but okay, now it's 96%.
	And this morning, a new Israeli study on the Pfizer vaccine suggests people who receive both shots are almost 96% less likely to get sick.
	This weekend, the country's starting to get back to normal, easing COVID restrictions and using green passes to residents who have been vaccinated.
	Now, if you listen to that clip, instead of, hey, you've got a vaccine and it works, wow, we have great news, 96% you won't get sick.
	I mean, this is just not a functioning product.
	And they're just saying it.
	Well, here's another little aspect to this.
	If we listen to all these different reports, if they're going to have it, if it's going to be possible by mid-summer to have everybody in the United States vaccinated, they always say this, everyone who wants it.
	Who wouldn't want it?
	Yeah, you want it, baby.
	But if you could have the whole population vaccinated by mid-summer, Why are they still talking about we're not going to get back to normal till Christmas or until 2022?
	Well, I happen to have a...
	Oh, you have a clip to explain this.
	Well...
	It makes no sense to me.
	It's Fauci.
	I want to leave on an upbeat note here.
	We've had cases come down dramatically.
	And this is after what some people feared might be a holiday spike or a Super Bowl spike.
	We're not getting that.
	Really?
	One Johns Hopkins scientist argued in the Wall Street Journal, this means herd immunity is coming even faster than perhaps folks thought.
	What say you to that?
	I begin with the what say you to that.
	What say you?
	I've never understood.
	And what's interesting about that is that is the reverse grammar that you use in Germanic languages.
	Well, you know who said that the most on these cable shows?
	I'm sorry?
	The guy, I think, who promoted it.
	I don't say invented it because it's something that goes way back, but he said it all the time.
	He said it to every guest he ever had, and that's O'Reilly.
	O'Reilly was the what say you?
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	Hmm.
	He's gone now, so...
	Thought.
	What say you to that?
	Yeah, I'm not so sure that this is herd immunity that we're talking about.
	We had a big peak and was starting to come down.
	Certainly, the number of people that have been infected are contributing to that.
	Also, some contribution with vaccines.
	Not a lot.
	I don't think we've vaccinated enough people yet.
	I think you're seeing the natural peaking and coming down.
	The one comment I want to make about that, Chuck, for the viewers and the listeners is that the slope that's coming down is really terrific.
	It's very steep and it's coming down very, very quickly.
	But we are still at a level that's very high.
	What I don't and none of my colleagues want to see is when you look at that slope to come down to say, wow, we're out of the woods now, we're in good shape.
	We're not, because the baseline of daily infections is still very, very high.
	It's not the 300,000 to 400,000 that we had some time ago, but we want to get that baseline really, really, really low before we start thinking that we're out of the woods.
	So keep wearing your masks, everybody, at a minimum.
	Anyway, Dr.
	Fauci.
	I'm glad you said it, Chuck.
	We will scream it as much as we can.
	Anyway, as always, sir, thank you for coming on.
	Because he hates being the double-triple-mask guy.
	He's tired of being ridiculed for his idiotic measures.
	So, of course, the infection rate came down.
	If you look at the charts, it was pretty much around the inauguration day, maybe a little bit earlier.
	Yeah, the day it was inauguration, boom, it started rotting down.
	And that's when the WHO said, oh, you know, the PCR, we've got to lower the cycle count.
	Everyone lowered their cycle count.
	And in The Lancet, we had a report coming out this week.
	that quite clearly states in our view current PCR testing is not the appropriate gold standard for evaluating a SARS-CoV-2 public health test.
	So all of this will come out now, even funnier.
	Remember the bleach drinking?
	Even though Trump never said it.
	I don't have the material in front of me, but the bleach drinking thing, or maybe inject something.
	Yes, I have it.
	Because they're injecting in the Moderna and the Pfizer vaccine, they actually are injecting a disinfectant.
	I believe it's propylene glycol.
	It's one of the glycols.
	Yeah, propylene glycol.
	It's the same stuff that's in a vape.
	Yeah, right.
	It's propylene glycol.
	It's in the vaccine.
	They're injecting.
	And now, in some areas of Georgia and, I believe, Tennessee, they want to spray propylene glycol into the air.
	And they're getting approval to do this.
	And this whole thing is just, they have really screwed with us.
	Yeah, the propylene glycol, which we talked about, well, we had a study, maybe it was nine or ten months ago, that showed very clearly that viruses die on contact, which is why I've been vaping my ass off.
	And I haven't gotten sick.
	Yeah, that's the reason.
	No, who knows?
	No, I mean, you tell me what the reason is.
	But now they're also doing nebulized peroxide, which appears to be a very simple remedy.
	And you just inhale it with a little inhaler.
	And good to go.
	You know, all this stuff that was ridiculed, laughed at, turns out it might actually work, might actually be true.
	Yeah, but it only works because Trump's not president.
	Well, hello.
	He made all things unsafe.
	I've got another piece of, another, like a baffler.
	Since we know that the discussion of where this virus came from goes on back and forth, but it's never the lab.
	No.
	Never the lab.
	It can't be the lab.
	Uh-uh.
	So now Trump's out.
	So we get this thing.
	This is the COVID Pompeo commentary.
	Pompeo's still out there, and he just wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal that he's going to talk about with this guy, with this Chinese guy.
	Where was Pompeo during this whole time where it wasn't the lab?
	Listen to this.
	Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his senior China policy advisor Miles Yu are demanding that the Chinese Communist Party take biosafety seriously.
	They also call on the international community to hold the CCP accountable if it fails to uphold global biosafety standards.
	In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal this Tuesday, Pompeo and Yu argue the CCP's negligence on biosafety is putting the world at risk.
	They say, quote, most signs point to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or WIV as the source of COVID-19.
	They put then director of WIV's warning in 2018 that the biosafety laboratory is a double-edged sword.
	It can be used for the benefit of humanity, but can also lead to a disaster.
	The then director also acknowledged China's biology labs lack operational technical support, professional instructions, and feasible standards for safety requirements.
	Pompeo and Yu also highlight that a 2016 safety survey conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology on 75 bioresearch labs in China finds that WIV didn't even make it to the top 20 in terms of quality.
	Pompeo and Yu also say the State Department confirmed last month that the WIV conducts secret bioweapons research with the People's Liberation Army, or PLA.
	They say this is why the PLA sent a general to take over WIV soon after the outbreak in Wuhan.
	They say the world has a responsibility to make sure the CCP is not given a free pass on biosafety.
	Reporting by Allison Lee, NTD News.
	NTD? What is that?
	NTD. It's a news organization out of Taiwan that seems to have some association with Epoch Times.
	If not, they have some protection from them.
	It's something like that.
	But whatever the case, where does this come from?
	Pompeo saying most scientists agree that it came from the lab?
	Oh, he's just using old tricks.
	You just say that.
	I'm sure most do, but you've just got to say it.
	Like, 97% of all are scientists.
	That's not my point.
	My point is, where was this when Trump was president?
	Oh, not from Pompeo.
	No.
	Pompeo is a CIA guy.
	He was never on Trump's side.
	Obviously.
	No, of course not.
	But all of a sudden, we switch from, oh, no, it's not the lab.
	It couldn't be the lab.
	There's no chance it's the lab.
	That's bullcrap.
	To most scientists agree, it was the lab?
	I didn't see that article.
	I'm very annoyed by this.
	Because we've been saying all along that it's probably the lab.
	It's the only thing that makes sense.
	Ever since that French guy, the Nobel Prize winner, the doctor...
	Yeah, whatever happened to him?
	We haven't seen him back on the scene in a while.
	Well, he's been marginalized to an extreme.
	No one wants to talk to him because God knows he's only got a Nobel Prize in medicine.
	And he's French.
	But he said that from day one.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, this is very, very...
	Got a couple of answers on the military not being...
	The vaccine not being mandatory for the military.
	And multiple people sent the same note.
	Yes, the vaccine's voluntary since it was given emergency approval by the FDA. Ah, that's the trick.
	Well, but yes and no...
	Because I got another note that says the military does not follow the FDA. They get all sorts of waivers and many other loopholes.
	The military is ruled by the UCMJ, not the Constitution.
	In a nutshell, each service member is property of the U.S. military.
	By the way, Agent Orange, nuclear testing, hello.
	I guess if they wanted to test it on you, they could.
	But that tells you something right there.
	It tells you something right there.
	Let's not give it to our boys and girls.
	Let's not give them that thing.
	We need a fighting force.
	Yeah, we need a force.
	Can't read.
	Can't see this thing.
	Three of them in front of me.
	Can't get words out of their mouth.
	One of them's moving.
	Yeah.
	Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is a big man on campus now for the Biden administration, he's all jacked.
	He can't wait to get to the kids.
	Will high schoolers be vaccinated by the fall?
	Will elementary school children, I mean, when do they get the shot?
	Yeah, give them the shot!
	Yeah, I think it's possible that this vaccine gets moved into the high school age population in the fall.
	And that really should be the goal because we've seen the spread happen more in the high schools than the elementary schools.
	And we know that high school students are probably at equivalent risk in terms of contracting this and spreading the infection.
	There's less risk in the grade school age children.
	I don't believe that this vaccine is going to get moved to 12 and under heading into the fall.
	The studies are underway right now looking at that.
	It may be a question of trying to reformulate the vaccines at a lower dose for younger kids because they develop a more robust immune response from their vaccine.
	What's likely to happen is maybe it's not licensed for 12 and under, but we have it available if we have to put it in that age population, if in fact we run into trouble.
	But I think students are likely to start school without being vaccinated for 12 and under, and maybe in the high schools we introduce the vaccine.
	It's like Gardasil, man.
	Why do children need this at all?
	I thought that was not necessary.
	If you look at the death rate charts, it's always hardly anybody...
	And that may even be dubious, those numbers.
	And it's not like a childhood vaccine where you get one and you're good for the rest of your life.
	No, it's just like a flu vaccine.
	You get one every year in a booster or a third shot or God knows whatever.
	So with all of this, with vaccines rolling out, with Joe Biden as president, time to bring in Herr Fauci and talk to him about getting back to normal.
	You and the president have suggested that we'll approach normality toward the end of the year.
	What does normal mean?
	Do you think Americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022?
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, I think it is possible that that's the case.
	And again, it really depends on what you mean by normality.
	Right.
	That's what I want you to define it.
	It's important because if normality means exactly the way things work...
	Because he knows that everything has been destroyed and normal.
	Take a look around, Dana Bash.
	Nothing's normal.
	People are poor.
	Restaurants are closed.
	Economy destroyed.
	Dana, Dana, Dana.
	Get a time code there, please.
	That's what I want you to define it.
	Exactly the way...
	No, Dana, it's important because if normality means exactly the way things were before we had this happen to us, I mean, I can't predict that.
	I mean, obviously, I think we're going to have a significant degree of normality beyond what the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year.
	That as we get into the fall and the winter by the end of the year, I agree with the president completely that we will be approaching a degree of normality.
	It may or may not be precisely the way it was in November of 2019, but it'll be much, much better than what we're doing right now.
	Whatever that means.
	Sure.
	And I love how they stretch it up until the flu season of this year, and they're already signaling, oh, flu's going to be so bad this year.
	It's going to be the worst ever flu year.
	No evidence of this.
	We'll be locking down again.
	Oh yeah, we're going to lock down.
	There's a little more about the timeline.
	Your timeline is taking us out a year, maybe two years, maybe even longer.
	No, you know, I can't say that, Dana, and I don't want it to be said that because then it'll be a soundbite that's not true.
	I'm saying we don't know.
	We don't know.
	You mean like your mask soundbite?
	The president said it very, very well.
	At the very end of this press conference, when he was in Michigan at the Pfizer plant, he said, you know, you asked me to make projections.
	These are just projections that are estimates, and a lot of things can happen to modify that, and that's the That's the reason why we've got to be careful.
	Because you have variants that you need to deal with.
	There are so many other things that would make a projection that I give you today, on this Sunday, not being the case six months from now.
	Understood.
	It's unbelievable.
	And no mention of, hey, remember you said two weeks to flatten the curve?
	There's a million things they could call this guy on.
	Really, they've got to get him off the air.
	I don't think he's effective anymore.
	He's really not pulling.
	That other guy that you kept promising he was going to take over, I haven't heard anything from him.
	Osterholm, we've been playing clips from him for weeks.
	I don't know this.
	Yeah, we played him last week.
	He's all doom and gloom.
	That's the guy, the hurricane is coming.
	He's terrible.
	The hurricane is coming.
	We're just weeks away.
	Well, I haven't asked Adam for it since we're right in the middle of this.
	Okay.
	This is a COVID term.
	COVID-19 pandemic term.
	I want you to tell me what it is.
	Long haulers.
	Long haulers.
	No, they discuss this on ABC as though everybody knows this.
	So I expect that you would know it.
	I never heard of it.
	A long hauler to me would be a truck driver who drives cross-country.
	That's a long hauler.
	That's the first thing that popped up in my...
	In regards to COVID. It's a guy who drives the truck that brings the vaccine.
	No, it's not that either.
	Well, hold on.
	Let me think about it.
	Since it's apparently so obvious...
	Long hauler.
	Well, to them, make the claim is a regular term.
	I've never heard this term.
	Is this people who are still locked in their homes like American soldiers on Japanese islands after 30 years?
	No, Japanese soldiers, not American soldiers.
	I thought American soldiers did that too.
	No, we were not that much.
	No, we took them home.
	All right.
	Well, I give up.
	Yeah, of course you do, because I never heard this term, but all of a sudden now it's a term that we have to live with.
	Play this, you'll hear it.
	Well, I'm looking for the clip.
	Which one is it?
	It says, uh, new term.
	Term.
	All right, long haulers.
	Just give me one more second to think about it before we reveal all.
	Long haulers.
	So you're in it for the long haul.
	If you're in it for the long haul, then...
	Well, let's find out.
	You won't get it.
	I won't.
	And tonight, news for the thousands of so-called long haulers, COVID victims who still have symptoms months later.
	The National Institutes of Health has announced an official study into long haulers after a recent study found about one-third of COVID patients followed reported lingering symptoms as long as nine months after being sick.
	Wow.
	And no, of course we haven't heard that term.
	Why would they ever want to introduce that?
	Well, they just didn't.
	The little key in there is the comet one-third of One third of anyone who's had COVID has lingering effects up to nine months so far.
	I mean, it could be longer because, you know, we're still in the phase of, you know, we're only at nine months.
	Do they have a clinical description for these people or just, you're a long hauler because nothing worked for you?
	I don't know.
	But it seems to me that there's a lot of this kind of weirdness going on.
	And this is so disorganized.
	It's ridiculous.
	And I think our EMT guy is a good example where you have all these.
	Or we actually know your sister-in-law is even the better example.
	She has all these issues and nobody cares.
	Oh, whatever.
	You already got your shot.
	Get out of here.
	Yeah, shut up.
	What's your problem?
	It's unbelievable.
	And this is what is just to do.
	I mean, Biden was talking about mismanagement.
	Oh, the whole crisis has been mismanaged.
	Vote me in.
	So how's it better managed?
	What's changed?
	Well, I think it's pretty apparent that nothing has changed and everybody kind of knows it, except for, you know, we're doing more celebratory bell ringing for dead people.
	We are trying to move the needle though.
	Sports desperately trying to get back and we had the Australian Open and there were people who were allowed to go watch this and they expressed their thoughts about the Australian government as the boss here of the tournament speaks to the crowd.
	There are many other people to thank that enabled this great night to take place in the last couple of weeks.
	The top of that list is the Victorian government.
	without you we could not have done this.
	And not just a little bit.
	And it just keeps going.
	And a huge thank you.
	And a huge thank you to the thousands of people.
	Mind you, this is a.
	When you're finished.
	This is a tennis match.
	This is not the approved behavior for a tennis match.
	It's not a Yankee game.
	No.
	And in New York, we're desperately trying to get something back, get something going in the garden.
	A sign of hope in the pandemic is more sports fans being allowed inside to arenas.
	CBS's Mola Lenge at Barclays Center in New York says there are procedures.
	Sorry, Barclays?
	For fans, they're asked to bring along proof of a negative COVID test.
	And, once arriving on site, undergo another test that takes about six minutes.
	Everyone will have on a mask.
	Adina Irwin is the general manager of Barclays Center.
	We'll be in an arena with 300 fans, and so everybody will be spaced out.
	Bag checks are now touchless.
	Food and drinks, they're all prepackaged.
	A few miles away in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, they welcomed fans back by the thousands.
	Never been to a game in a 20,000-seat arena with 2,000 people spread out?
	They probably can't even make money just by turning on the lights.
	Oh no, they're losing their ass.
	Got to be.
	Got to be.
	And someone sent me this clip from, and I'll probably go watch this on Netflix, a 2017 movie starring Michael Douglas.
	It's just one of those irritating things when it comes across your desk.
	The title of the movie is Unlocked, which I've never heard of.
	No idea what this was about.
	Well, when you hear the clip, you'll get an idea what it was about.
	But just a little bit of predictive programming in here, which I thought was interesting for 2017.
	That a girl, huh?
	How many dead?
	Enough to get our attention.
	Global viruses are the biggest threat to mankind, and Washington is a sleepout.
	It's an American affliction.
	You know, they trucked by the World Trade Center in 93.
	It takes 9-11 to make an impression.
	Ebola hops across the Atlantic.
	We ignore that warning, too.
	Some kind of sick wake-up call?
	No.
	I call it a stress test of America's bio-defense.
	Those American guests next door are gonna fly back to Oregon or to Oklahoma, and each one of them a ticking bomb.
	And when they go off, Washington will appreciate its staggering lack of preparation.
	And do what exactly?
	Legalize what's needed for the next time.
	Force isolation of all contacts.
	Quarantine camps and the troops to secure them.
	Real-time access to private medical records.
	You're talking about medical martial law.
	I'm talking about keeping up with Mother Nature.
	Gosh, it sounds so prescient, doesn't it?
	So funny.
	To make all that stuff legal.
	Exactly.
	We cannot lose sight of this.
	The Netherlands, it's now in the caretaking government, as they call it.
	As you know, the parliament fell about a month ago, so they have a caretaker government.
	It's the same people.
	They have decided, despite the case being won against the state of the Netherlands, that the government does have important business to do here, so the curfew can stay in place until March 15th.
	That is two days before the Dutch go to the polls.
	And yes, if you are elderly, you are more than welcome to mail in your vote.
	Mm-hmm-hmm.
	It's a great setup.
	That's the scam of the decade.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There's some good clips coming up.
	This Sunday, I've got to bring these clips of Naomi Wolf going off.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	She's on Tucker moaning about the...
	About everything.
	Well, that's what she does.
	But my favorite one is a clip on The Rebel, where this guy comes into Canada and he just refuses to go.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, he refuses to go into quarantine.
	Everything.
	And he says, no, no.
	He says, I'm a Canadian citizen.
	And then he names the laws that apply.
	And he says, I don't have to wear a mask.
	I got a medical condition.
	I don't have to take a stupid test.
	I don't have to produce any of these documents.
	And they let him go.
	Take him.
	He comes in.
	They push him right out of the airport.
	And he says, with a ticket.
	They gave me a ticket.
	And he says, this green ticket, which apparently they give out in, I said apparently, in Canada all the time for people who don't go by the rules.
	He says not one of them has ever been prosecuted.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So it's all theater in Canada.
	Well, I'm sure it's theater here, too.
	I mean, all of it is theater.
	All of it.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Now, the thing that is just phenomenal to watch amidst all of this is the alleged murderer of old people, Governor Cuomo, Of New York State.
	This guy...
	What is he made of?
	Like...
	Teflon or Kevlar.
	I mean, they're shooting everything at this guy.
	Now it's sexual harassment.
	He said, hey, baby.
	And I believe the sexual harassment because I believe all women.
	I believe all women, too.
	But, you know, they're just hammering at the guy.
	She doesn't look like the type.
	She's not like one of those biddies.
	She looks like the type of woman who would be harassed by a guy like this.
	Yeah.
	So Jonathan Karl was pestering Pesaki, Jim Pesaki, about, what's going on here, Jim?
	OK, I want to turn to another controversy that raged this week.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Notice how he's a little bit nervous.
	Under fire for allegedly not being transparent and misleading on the number of nursing home deaths in New York.
	Last spring, President Biden cited Andrew Cuomo as the gold standard for leadership during the pandemic.
	Take a listen. - Your governor of New York's done one hell of a job.
	I think he's sort of the gold standard.
	Yay!
	So now we've seen...
	There's that reporting that I love so much.
	It's like, why even bother play this clip?
	Your governor...
	He repeats exactly what he said.
	Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard for leadership during the pandemic.
	Take a listen.
	Your governor of New York's done one hell of a job.
	I think he's sort of the gold standard.
	What a waste of airtime.
	So now we've seen that Governor Cuomo has allegedly undercounted nursing home deaths, misled legislators in New York, and he called New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, raising questions, you know, basically...
	Bub, bub, bub.
	To destroy him, I think, was his actual words.
	So does President Biden still consider Andrew Cuomo the gold standard when it comes to leadership on the pandemic?
	I'm not even going to play the answer because, you know, it went nowhere.
	But he did follow up.
	All right.
	But, Jen, my question was, does President Biden still believe that Andrew Cuomo is the gold standard, represents the gold standard on leadership during this pandemic?
	Just a yes or no.
	Well, John, the president...
	Well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John.
	Oh, yes, it does.
	If you're President Trump, it has to be a yes or no answer.
	Whataboutism, but hey...
	Just a yes or no.
	Well, John, the president...
	Well, it doesn't always have to be a yes or no answer, John.
	I think the president is focused on his goal, his objectives as president of the United States.
	He's going to continue to work with Governor Cuomo, just like he'll continue to work with governors across the country.
	And I'm not here to give new labels or names from the president.
	I'm here to communicate with you about what our focus is on and what his objectives are as president.
	You know, I can tell you what the answer should have been.
	Do you think it's the gold standard?
	Yes or no?
	She should say, I really don't know.
	I haven't talked to him about this specific subject.
	Next?
	I mean, how hard is that to say that?
	I don't know.
	She never says, I don't know.
	She has yet to say that.
	She says, I'll come back around.
	Circle around.
	Circle back.
	Circle back.
	I'll give you a circle around.
	Reach around.
	Reach around.
	I'm going to do a reach around on you.
	I'll be right back.
	No, she never...
	She could easily say...
	I don't know.
	I have not talked to the president about the specific subject.
	Next time I see him, I'll ask him.
	Although I don't think it's that important.
	If you wanted to take it a little further.
	I think that Jen, Jen Psaki, that she thought it would be easy.
	She thought, okay, Orange Man Bad is out.
	Everything can go back to normal now.
	And I'll just take my questions.
	I'll have my tabs.
	The binder.
	The binder.
	We know they get the questions in advance.
	So I'll kind of know.
	And it's getting very irritating for her.
	Particularly...
	Peter Doocy, Fox News, he gets to be in the front row and he gets to ask all the tough questions, which is hilarious, as we now have a new version of kids in cages.
	I'm sorry, not in cages.
	Hey, Jay, we spoke yesterday about immigration and this facility, HHS facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, for migrant children, and you said it is not kids in cages.
	We've seen some photos now of containers.
	Is there a better description?
	Is it kids in containers instead of kids in cages?
	What is the White House's description of this facility?
	Let me give a broader description of what's happening here.
	We have a number of unaccompanied minors, children, who are coming into the country without their families.
	What we are not doing, what the last administration did, was separate those kids from Rip them from the arms of their parents at the border.
	We are not doing that.
	That is immoral, and that is not the approach of this administration.
	They are unaccompanied minors.
	Who are you going to rip them from, Jen?
	This is total bullcrap that Ducey didn't pick up on it, by the way.
	If they're unaccompanied minors, ummies, then there's no parent to rip them away from, and they are in containers.
	Okay.
	It's a little better.
	They cook better in containers.
	The cages, you know, it's just as open air.
	It's more like a rotisserie.
	So, Saki, we've got to remember, she never had this job at a high profile.
	She was the Defense Department.
	No, no, no.
	Secretary of State Department.
	State Department.
	I thought it was Defense.
	No, she was State Department.
	Well, she was still, it was that layer.
	It was lower.
	And, you know, it's not covered by the mainstream that much.
	No.
	You have an AP guy asking a few questions and maybe a Russian or two.
	And that's about it.
	Well...
	So it was easy.
	I think it was easy going for her.
	And it's not easy in the State Department briefings anymore either.
	Who...
	He's back with a vengeance we haven't heard from him for years.
	Finally, on the scene once again, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	Matt Lee, stirring it up!
	And I think that demonstrates that our strategy, including the legislative strategy, the strategy that, of course, Congress has been behind, has been working to good effect.
	So we'll continue to work closely with Germany.
	We'll continue to work closely with our other allies and partners in Europe to uphold Europe's own stated energy security goals.
	I think it's a bit disingenuous to claim credit for the 18 companies winding down.
	All of this work was done under the previous administration.
	You guys have only been in office for a month, right?
	Are you telling me that in the last four weeks, these 18 companies all of a sudden decided to say, oh my god, we better not do anything.
	I am speaking for the unit.
	You guys are taking credit for stuff that the previous administration did.
	I am speaking for the Department of State.
	The people who have been working this, the people who are working this now, were the same people a month ago, were the same people three months ago, four months ago.
	Burn!
	They thought it would be a walk in the park.
	Thank goodness.
	We've got a few real journalists.
	Matt Lee.
	Matt Lee, man.
	Gotta love him.
	I'm glad somebody's doing something.
	Yes.
	No, it's going to be the whole time.
	And Pisaki's got to go.
	She's no good.
	I don't think they have anyone else who can take the beating at this point.
	Oh, there's plenty of people that think they can.
	But, yeah, she's going to quit.
	In fact, it'll be interesting to see how long she lasts.
	It could be a pool, like you put a bedding pool around her.
	I think she'll stick it out as long as she has to.
	She's not a quitter.
	I'm giving her four months.
	Four months, okay.
	You want to put it in the book?
	Yeah, put it in the book.
	Okay.
	I don't think she's going to go away.
	She's going to get a handle on this.
	She'll have a blow-up with somebody, and she'll show her teeth.
	And they're going to have to reset because they're getting too fresh, these journalists.
	Getting too fresh with their questions.
	Can't have that.
	What we can have is a moment where I thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the kids and containers, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, before we do that...
	We get this can.
	We get this can.
	That's the river.
	Oh, that's the river.
	Beautiful.
	Mmm.
	Oh, good.
	This is actually...
	There it is.
	As you heard by the crack of this thing, it was flat.
	Yeah, it didn't really spritz very, very well.
	No, and I'll tell you what it is.
	It's a Waterloo sparkling water, which I normally don't drink.
	Just some of it showed up.
	Sure it is, John.
	Sure it's sparkling water.
	And it's flat as a pancake.
	Mm-hmm.
	Sparkling water.
	Just putting it out there for...
	Just informational.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curran, also in the morning to all the dames and knights and supporters of the No Agenda show.
	And in the morning to our trolls in the troll room.
	If you have no idea what the troll room is, think of it this way.
	It's Clubhouse with trolls.
	So go check it out at NoAgendaStream.com.
	You can chat at the same time.
	You can listen to the live streams, which are live when they're live, and everyone's hearing the same stream when it's pre-recorded.
	But it's a great place to go hang out, talk to people.
	And yeah, I agree that Troll Room is a little better than Clubhouse.
	I was just kidding.
	Trolls don't get all pissed off at me.
	And in the morning, too, our artist for...
	Wait, first I need to tell everyone to hurry up and go over to noagendasocial.com.
	You can get an invite at the troll room.
	We're about to close it down.
	Once we hit 10,000 members, you can still federate for sure.
	We have gitmo.life is one of the new versions of MassDom with a whole different look and feel, a whole different type of software, but it connects to the same federated stuff.
	And go ahead and we'll see you at noagendasocial.com.
	Then we'd like to thank our artists for episode 1323.
	We titled that one Bidenista after the...
	It's after the OG Bidenista, Anderson Pooper.
	And this was brought to us by TSN. This was a very interesting piece of art.
	It was Obey with a head with a mask as the O, the B, and the E with syringes.
	And this is one of those pieces of art that some people did not see it, which I found surprising.
	Some people said, what is bae?
	B-E-Y. What is B-E-Y? I said, really?
	You don't see the O? What do you mean?
	I said, look at the head.
	Oh, obey.
	And I think it's because we're so used to the movie.
	What is it again with Roddy Piper?
	With the glasses?
	It's not they live, they're here.
	They live, they live, they live.
	You're right.
	That OBEY, that OBEY is so, you know, somehow burned into our retina that I recognized it immediately, but not everybody did.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	We loved it, though.
	I thought it was fantastic.
	There were a couple other, I believe, a couple other things that we looked at.
	Was there anything that you...
	Wait a minute.
	There was something we specifically had to discuss.
	Let me see.
	I don't know that there was anything else that was really competitive.
	Well, I liked Tonta Neal's Birds on the Wire.
	That was pretty.
	I think we discussed Get the Jab.
	A lot of gritty stuff, which we didn't use.
	That, by the way, holy crap, did I predict it or what, that you'd have all these stories about Texas energy customers, now $7,000 bill!
	Oh, yeah.
	Which is one company, one small energy company, 29,000 customers, and that's the deal they made.
	You pay $9 a month.
	And you split.
	Whatever you use, you pay the wholesale price and you pay your share.
	And the risk is it could be very expensive.
	And in the summer months, the price has also gone up briefly to $8,000 or $9,000 per megawatt hour.
	So this is not something new for these people.
	Anyway, I digress.
	You're right.
	We didn't have any artwork.
	I don't think that we...
	Jeez, I'm so sure that there was something we were talking about.
	Hmm.
	Anyway, for sure you will see these whizzing by on your...
	Podcasting 2.0 compatible app if you want to see what it looks like with transcripts, searchable transcripts with chapters, images, tons of features.
	Go to newpodcastapps.com and we thank our artist for episode 1323 and we look forward to seeing many more pieces for today's show.
	And if you'd like to check them all out, go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Part of our Value for Value Network, where all we ask in return for you enjoying the value you receive is give it back somehow.
	People got lots of ways to do that, time, talent, and we do appreciate the people who send in treasure.
	We have our executive producers and associate executive producers right now to thank for episode 1324.
	Starting with Kelly Gibson.
	We have a very interesting anomaly today.
	We have a bunch of nightings, but it's all dames.
	Oh!
	So Kelly Gibson, $1,000, San Diego, California.
	Hey guys, I felt I needed to donate before my...
	Neighbors, Damon and Sir Mike, FEMA Region 9, called me out as a douchebag after you're listening.
	Please de-douche me.
	Oops.
	The de-doucher wasn't plugged in yet.
	Hold on a second.
	There it is.
	You've been de-douched.
	I just received $333 from a football pool.
	Good for you.
	And my no-agenda-trained mind thought, why not put that towards the $1,000 to get to the roundtable?
	Thank you for making my maskless dog walks that I look forward to every day.
	I would like to be referred to as Dame of the Crushed Grapes, the winemaker.
	Yeah.
	whole load in China asshole, as well as good night left nut.
	Since I recently purchased a rubber bullet gun.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	It's all the same sentence as well as good night.
	Since I recently purchased a rubber bullet gun at the round table, I would like a steak and Paul Meyer proprietary red wine.
	Ooh.
	Hey, you know, when there's a whole...
	So we have dames today.
	If it was all nights, then we would maybe call it a sausage fest.
	What do you say when it's women?
	Is there a female equivalent of sausage fest?
	Ladies night.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	Chinese asshole!
	Good night, left nuts.
	There you go.
	Ladies night.
	Meanwhile, Dame Lisa Bemrose in Everett, Washington comes in with $600.
	In the mornings, by Sir Ryan Bemrose's calculation, this should be enough to upgrade him to count.
	Nice.
	If you would apply this to his title change, it would be greatly appreciated with love and hugs and some sanity, please, Dame Lisa.
	We can do all of that for you.
	Sir Charles Knight of the Coin-Operated Laundromat in Broomfield, Colorado, 366.33.
	He needs trains good, planes bad, whoopee, get on my vagina, stereo, goat car, my dear John and Adam.
	Please credit this donation to Courtney Couch.
	With this donation, my smoking hot wife, Courtney, will be joining the roundtable accounting below.
	Because she's a millennial from Colorado, please give her the name Dame Courtney of the Important Mountain.
	All right, nice.
	Okay.
	Done.
	But with the millennial pronunciation of important mountain.
	Important mountain.
	Important mountain.
	Please add cannolis and Cabernet to the round table.
	Order.
	I think that Paul Meyer will do the trick.
	Um...
	Soon to be Dame Courtney and welcome our first human resource on Election Day 2020.
	You saw our newborn daughter in John's Inauguration Day newsletter wearing her Don't Eat Me Bo Jiden onesie.
	Thank you both for the sanity you've provided to our family, especially in the past year.
	Please note this donation is a dollar per day for the past year, plus 33 cents.
	I've chosen Jingles R, Goat Stereo, shout out to MoFax.
	What, what, what?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It just repeats the jingle.
	I skipped a line.
	Yeah, it's alright.
	Okay, so the plane parts apparently landed a couple miles from our house, plus some birthday karma for any listeners.
	Becoming parents.
	She wants planes good.
	That's because of the plane.
	Whoopi, get out of my vagina.
	Three and three.
	Goat.
	Okay, goat karma.
	Shout out to Mo Fax.
	Love your show.
	Denver Meetup crew, we hope to join you all soon, and we love hearing the reports.
	And Adam, get your butt on Grimerica.
	Your interview is long overdue.
	Sir Charles of the coin-operated laundromat and Dame Courtney of the important mountain do not read on air.
	And then she says something else.
	I'm not going to read it.
	Hey, just so you know, the Grimerica, I'm in touch with them.
	We're getting it set up.
	It's something we want to launch together, so it's coming.
	All right?
	It's all taken care of.
	Here's your jingles.
	All aboard!
	Train's good, plane's bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	Get out of here!
	My vagina!
	Get out of here!
	Get out of here!
	My vagina!
	You've got...
	Come on.
	Anonymous, 330-334 from Minnesotanets.
	I ask to remain anonymous.
	Thank you, Adam and John, for your awesome work.
	Please do a shout-out to the Steve Deese show.
	They also do interesting COVID reporting.
	That's Steve Deese.
	Anonymous from Minnesota Nuts.
	Anonymous.
	Uh...
	David Egan.
	David Egan.
	No, I'll do this.
	He's in Austin.
	Hey guys!
	He doesn't even say that.
	$333.33.
	They'll do it.
	Been listening ever since Adam was on Rogan's podcast late last year.
	Thanks for keeping me informed these past 12 months.
	Yeah, it has been that long.
	I want to try something a little different.
	I'm really tired of using dating apps.
	They just aren't very good.
	But now, they are full of virtue signaling and photos of people wearing masks.
	Let's see if I can meet that special someone with a donation to the No Agenda Show.
	I am 35, male, in Austin, dapper good looks, good job, and a dog.
	If you listen to No Agenda or Rogan, I'm pretty sure we'll have a lot of similar interests.
	You can find me on Instagram at DREAGAN8602. If you're interested, send me a DM. DREAGAN8602. How about just go to No Agenda Social, man?
	It's asking for trouble.
	It's asking for trouble.
	You're going to get a bunch of crazy...
	We got a bunch of goofballs that are going to just harass you.
	Why don't you read the next one, too?
	This is from Jeffrey Morgan from the United Kingdom, 33333.
	We appreciate that.
	A runaway slave hiding out in the dominion of Dame Sheila.
	Please forgive me, Podfather.
	It's been a year since my last donation.
	For my sounds, clips...
	A couple of goat sounds followed by, it was a great rodeo, which I have attached as an MP3. Having recently cashed in some health karma, which works, by the way, listeners, I thought it only right to chip in and replenish the stocks with a fresh batch.
	And then he has a whole thing here, which I don't know if we...
	I don't think we have to read this.
	It's like something from Wikipedia.
	So I'm going to skip that, Jeff.
	Maybe something we can do in a future show.
	But it doesn't really relate to your note.
	So I don't know if that was an anomaly or if you're trying to communicate something.
	But here you go.
	Code.
	Yeah, for sure.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Code.
	Exactly.
	Duke Bereslaw Marinoff in Trabuco Canyon.
	He needs some $333.33.
	He needs some jobs karma.
	I've been out of work for over six months and I know I need jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Kelly Classen in Abbotsford, BC, 333.33.
	By the way, it's actually really $253.04, but Eric put it in this slot because that's what it is in Canadian money.
	Ah, yes.
	So he did our work for us.
	He needs Biden a whole load.
	Wash your hands.
	You will obey.
	And today is my 100th episode, so I thought I should pay up.
	Unlike Barry, who is still a douchebag.
	Oh no, douchebag!
	This is my second installment on my way tonight.
	You guys contributed a lot to my life.
	And now that my wife Sarah, one of those Kelly's a guy.
	Kelly is a male.
	Now my wife Sarah is listening too.
	Although, could be a female, who knows?
	Life is even sweeter.
	Thanks for all that you do to keep us sane.
	Kelly, executive producer, no agenda, 1296 and 1324.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	Remember to continue to wash your hands and stay safe.
	You will obey.
	I kind of like that one.
	That is good.
	I sound like Jeff Pegues.
	Dennis Kiyohane in Hingham, Massachusetts.
	That's 333.
	No note that we can find.
	So if you have something to say, let us know.
	We'll read it in a future episode.
	Jason Young in Houston, Texas.
	333.
	By the way, if you're going to send a note in outside of the PayPal note box, make sure you put donation in the subject line.
	It does help.
	Long-time listener, first-time donor.
	This is, again, Jason Young in Houston, 333.
	In the last four months, I've been consistently traveling for business, starting in Melbourne, Australia, and going through Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Texas, and right now I'm passing through time in quarantine in Bangkok, which is the best process so far.
	I must say, there is no place like Texas right now, and it felt so good to be free while I was there.
	Yes, absolutely.
	I need some karma as I'm moving the family back to Melbourne, from Melbourne to Austin.
	Austin.
	Nice.
	To escape the prison island that Australia has become.
	Well, you know, you always go back to your old roots.
	We need to escape before their economy crashes as they currently have $800,000 on unemployment, $1.2 million on JobKeeper, and $1.5 million on JobKeeper.
	Yeah, $1.2 million on JobKeeper and $1.5 million on JobKeeper.
	I don't know.
	He's giving us bogus information.
	Basically, one-third of the workforce is on government handouts.
	35% of small businesses in Melbourne went under during their lockdowns, and they didn't have that many people that were dead.
	Right.
	This is really kind of ironic.
	My wife's been monitoring the Canadian news broadcasts.
	Yeah.
	That's all they talk about.
	Oh, one more died.
	Yeah.
	Keep locked down, and two died.
	We play a clip in the last show from the Prime Minister of Manitoba moaning about three people who died.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	During the lockdowns, 80,000 households are under mortgage deferments.
	There's no tourism at both domestic and international exports blocked by China, specifically coal, which is their lifeblood.
	Well, that's interesting.
	They manufactured absolutely nothing in Australia.
	They chased away all the business like the auto industry and international businesses like mine can't operate at all.
	The government news via ABC, an Australian broadcasting company, is consistently announcing how the economy is back to pre-pandemic levels and only 6.4 unemployment.
	I have nothing good to say about their government or how their constant self-congratulatory attitudes about the spectacular job they've done.
	Done.
	I can't even get home right now, leaving me along with the other 40,000 Australians outside the country while the Australian government has all the travel insurers cancel our health policies while outside the country.
	Nice.
	I enjoyed my time in Australia and love the people, but I'm going back to Texas.
	I'd rather deal with a few power outages than be arrested by the Dan Andrews personal police force for speaking out loud.
	Sorry if the anger comes through, but I have plenty of it.
	Can you please put a plug in for my business so I can write it off on my taxes?
	I have a small cybersecurity company operating out of Houston and Bangkok, silverbulletsecurity.com.
	And there's your plug.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	You want no jingles, no nothing?
	No, no, no.
	Just a plug.
	Just a rant.
	Keith McColpin, Imperial, Pennsylvania, 333.
	This donation goes out to the Netherlands producers who made me laugh uncontrollably listening to their super-secret Whisper Meetup report.
	That was a good one.
	Well, I'm sure they heard that.
	Sir Rocketman, Baron of the Bay, Kilo Golf 5, Zulo Foxtrot Alpha, 73s.
	287.25, Bay St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	Classic jobs, Carmen, please.
	As a fellow engineer trying to relocate back home to Arkansas, I genuflect in Sir John Fitzpatrick's general direction.
	Okay.
	Sir Rocketman, Baron of the Bay.
	KG5ZFA, Black 6, whatever it means, you got it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Luca, Carmen.
	Baronet Saroga the Taverns in Victoria, BC. A lot of taverns there.
	I know it's closed.
	254-31.
	He wants the Celebration Horn 6969 Go podcasting 99 glitches.
	I don't know any of these things.
	And Go karma.
	I don't know any of those.
	Yeah, you do.
	You know them all.
	You know every single one of them.
	Yeah, you know them all.
	Hello from the prettiest little city on the West Coast, Victoria, BC. I agree with that.
	When they're open, it's a big party here.
	The donation of $3.35 Canadian dollarettes.
	Oh, we had to move him up.
	Ooh, yes.
	Move him up.
	It's in honor of my podcast WP Plugins A to Z, making it to episode 500 today.
	Hmm.
	The show can be found at WPPPluginsAtoZ.com.
	You can just put WPP plugins or WP plugins.
	WP plugins, not WPP. That would be some sort of thing.
	You get a free check.
	It's the longest continuous running WordPress podcast.
	That's interesting.
	This is a show focused on WordPress and the plugins used to make it run.
	What better way to honor my 50th, 500th episode than by donating to the best podcast in the universe.
	A No Agenda Show has made an inspiration of ideas for me.
	For the past eight years, I've been listening to you.
	I have been working over the past three years to improve it even more and move to a V for V model, value for value.
	I now have an inspirational community of producers that has come together.
	And many of the show's producers, some of them from the No Agenda community, contribute to aspects of the show I can never get to, such as unique jingles.
	So I can stop stealing yours.
	Ha ha ha.
	Huh.
	But I do credit you a lot.
	The other work that needs to be done, Adam, you mentioned in the last show you thought you had to put down a Red Book entry about Rogan being free again.
	Yes, you did that back in December.
	And I recorded it at naredbook.com.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	I did not know.
	It's a site I created for tracking the Redbook entries.
	I sent you an email about it a couple of times, but they must have gotten lost in your massive inbox.
	Yeah, it's my massive inbox.
	Adam never reads his email.
	We know that.
	NARedbook.com was created as a way to track as many Redbook entries as I could catch and record.
	If others would like to submit any that I missed, there's a form on the page, so go there.
	Please be sure and check out...
	This is really fun.
	Can I just read a couple of the red book entries?
	Sure.
	Okay.
	January 21st, made by John.
	All COVID ends April 4th, 2021.
	Things open up by Easter to beat Trump.
	January 21st, by John.
	All testing and...
	I can't even read that.
	Here's my favorite.
	January 17, 2021.
	John, you predicted Biden will live for four more years.
	That could still be true.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There it is, December 13th.
	Joe Rogan's show will come back on open market within a year.
	Well, it's not completely back on the open market, but it's showing signs.
	I have a couple of my old Red Book.
	I'm wondering if they're in that thing.
	1-16-20.
	Adam predicts Pence quits the campaign.
	Is that on there?
	I don't think so.
	What's the date?
	Here's another one.
	February 2nd, 2020.
	Oh, 2020.
	Hold on a second.
	That'd be 1-16-20.
	That's when you predicted Pence would quit the campaign.
	No, he doesn't have any of this.
	How about this?
	February 2nd, 2020.
	No, his NA Red Book prediction starts January 2021.
	There's nothing older than that.
	Oh, you missed these good ones.
	Listen to this one.
	February 2nd, 2020.
	Mark my words.
	There's a quote.
	Mark my words.
	Joe Biden campaign is over.
	Who was that?
	You.
	You.
	No.
	No.
	I didn't put that in the book.
	I would never put that in the book.
	I put it in the book.
	If anyone wants to go back, here's the show.
	I'll tell you what the show number was.
	I mean, I'll tell you the date.
	And I lost it.
	There's too many of these.
	February 2nd, 2020.
	And the quote from you is, Mark my words, Joe Biden campaign is over.
	This was before the South Carolina primary.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, that's primaries.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	So, do you want to keep doing this?
	What, you got some more about me?
	Yeah, there's all about you.
	There's only failed ones from you.
	Oh, that guy.
	That guy.
	Don't go to his product.
	NARedbook.com.
	Thank you very much, Baronet Sir Rogue of...
	The Taverns, here's your sequence!
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Go podcasting!
	If you have computer problems, I feel bad for you, son.
	I got 99 problems, but a glitch ain't one.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Karma.
	Jerry Tanner's back up.
	$250 from Dixon, Tennessee.
	We got a lot of Tennessee people.
	Between COVID measures and my mandatory corporate equity training at 33 years old, I feel like I live in an alternative universe.
	I suppose shut up slave is what I need to tell myself to keep my career moving forward.
	Thanks for keeping me sane.
	Request good karma for my close friend Philip Welch.
	Who turned me on to this show.
	Yeah, there was a...
	I think there was a big meet-up in Tennessee, so that's maybe why we're seeing some donations here today.
	Ah, that makes sense.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Sir Doom, a Night of the Black Swamp in Holland, Ohio, 223-87.
	Sir Doom-Arrest here.
	Hmm.
	What would be better for my 40th birthday on February 26th, you're on the list, than to finish off my barony?
	Adam, let me do the birthday list as well as Jobs Karma.
	Submitted for approval by the Peerage Committee, I would like to claim Northwest Ohio, a.k.a.
	the Great Black Swamp region, and hereby be called Sir Duma, Baron of the Black Swamp.
	Okay.
	Keeping with tradition, yes, this is approved.
	Keeping with tradition when being granted a piece of land that is already covered by a higher peerage level, I pledge my fidelity, I think it's fealty is what you're supposed to use, To Viscount Sir Patrick of Enormous Noggins, who already has claimed all of Ohio as his protectorate, at least according to the noagenda.org slash peerage map, and has to be granted this parcel of land to protect within the territory, and it's very appropriate.
	So he wants no karma, no jingles.
	I'm a little confused about this next one because it says it's $200 and says, here's my jingles.
	Wow, so high.
	That's true.
	Mac and cheese.
	Dog karma.
	Anonymous, please.
	So, again, but then also wants to be on the birthday list.
	Anonymous, please.
	In the morning, Jen's first-time donor.
	I've been listening off and on since John's appearance on Grimerica and became a steady listener after Adam's first Rogan appearance.
	I would also like to be put on the birthday list, even though I don't have a birthday this year.
	Leap year.
	Ah!
	I'll be 33 years old this non-birthday year.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm a high school teacher.
	Wait, hold on a second.
	What is the process?
	Does he explain?
	If you were born on the 29th of February, and you're 40, you should be 10.
	Yeah, I wonder what he does.
	What day do you pick?
	What do you do?
	What happens?
	We need info.
	I'd like to know what the process is.
	I will be 33 years old this non-birthday year.
	I'm a high school teacher and have seen so many coworkers fearful of returning to work.
	They shoot their noodle gun by complaining to the principal if they see any rule breakers.
	Our campus is almost empty, but don't dare think about stepping out of your class without a mask on!
	I am not on the list for a vaccine, even though we get emails about volunteering every other day.
	I'm in my early 30s, so I'm saving my spot in line for the teachers that need it more.
	That's the only correct answer.
	I teach world history, so this has been an interesting time to teach.
	There are some teachers on our campus who read the Zinn book some years back.
	I'm not quite sure.
	The sentence doesn't make sense.
	Anyway, he read the Zinn book and he's rethinking about what he learned prior.
	I started to despise Columbus and my view on American history began to shift.
	It wasn't until you discussed this that my eyes were opened.
	Wait a minute.
	Here's an educator.
	Who has been taught from the writings of Zinn.
	And what's the other guy?
	Marcuse?
	Henry Marcuse?
	No, that's Herbert Marcuse.
	We're talking about Howard Zinn and the book that came out in 1980.
	Most people aren't old enough to have been influenced by Marcuse, except for the fact that critical race theory stems from that guy in the Frankfurt School.
	Right, right.
	So he was all in on it until he heard us.
	One podcast changed the life of education.
	And could change education for many, many pupils who this anonymous donor is going to be teaching.
	I like that.
	Thank you for all you do.
	Also, F cancer for my dad who has been battling throat cancer.
	Yes, sir.
	I hear you.
	Wow.
	I am really high.
	That's true.
	you've got karma Stop me!
	No!
	I want to stop!
	You're a hot pig guy. .
	You've got karma.
	I get a kick out of the fact that this is a teacher and the sentence he writes is the following.
	There are some teachers on our campus, I read the Zen book some years back and it made me rethink what I learned prior.
	Yeah.
	Ah, yeah.
	D minus.
	Show your work.
	Show your work.
	I got some clips finally on that situation.
	That was racist math?
	Yeah, racist math.
	Good, good, good, good.
	Looking forward to it.
	Benjamin Troller, $200, parts unknown.
	In the morning, long-time boner or first-time donor, I'm making a quick pit stop here before I rush off to a job interview I have in the morning this week.
	Thursday's show on the...
	Oh, it's going to be interesting during the show.
	Mm-hmm.
	Having her jobs come and work for so many others, I figured now would be a good time to get some of my own.
	Can I get a magical shape-shifting Jews jingle to send me into the interview?
	Thanks very much for all you do.
	A dude actually named Ben, who is also a dude named Ben.
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	Well, good luck with that, Ben.
	Good luck.
	You should do okay.
	Roll up, roll up with the magical shape-shifting juice.
	Step right this way.
	Roll up.
	Roll up with the shape-shifting juice. Roll up. The magical shape-shifting juice. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You got karma. .
	Now, we want to thank everybody who is an executive and associate executive producer for the show, but I'm going to have a request here if you can get your little search engine out, because I think there's enough new listeners that have not Because people keep saying, well, these guys talk in code.
	Do we have the clip of where the dude named Ben, which was the congressional hearing, came from?
	I can't remember the congressman.
	Yes, it was Jason Chavitz.
	It was Chavitz, right.
	He's grilling some woman about...
	Some situation that involved the IT department, and she said she couldn't really answer the question, and he made some commentary that was a ridicule, and that's become the dude named Ben Meme.
	Yes, this is a very good point that we should replay that, and we've got so many...
	I stalled as long as I could.
	I know, you did a pretty good job, but let me just say, dude...
	I know.
	I know, I know, I know.
	But there's so many dude named Ben clips.
	Oh, it was Lerner.
	I think it was under Lerner, wasn't it?
	It may have been Lerner that he was grilling.
	She was running the IRS at the time.
	Lois Lerner.
	Lois Lerner.
	Yeah.
	Damn, man.
	That's really crazy.
	It must be misnamed somehow.
	Uh, maybe under IRS. Hold on, let's try IRS. It's a good idea.
	Yeah, well, I'm sorry I brought it up now.
	Nah.
	Damn.
	You know what?
	Someone, uh, someone in the troll room can find that and send it.
	It's worth playing.
	I have a whole bunch of...
	Okay, we'll play it when we get to it.
	I have a whole bunch of Shaffetz.
	Maybe I'm misspelling his name.
	Shaffetz is with a C. Yes, it's C-H-F-F-E-T-Z. Shaffetz.
	Let me see.
	Wrong consequences.
	Lie under oath.
	More details.
	Maybe in the clip that I developed, I wouldn't have it all screwed up.
	Yeah, it must be misnome somewhere.
	Anyway, someone maybe can send that, because that would be very good to play.
	But the bottom line is she didn't know who had deleted emails or had made backups or not.
	And she said, I don't know, it was some guy from IT. Who?
	I don't know, it was Ben from IT. That's it.
	Ben, some dude named Ben.
	And that's where it came from.
	Well, he's the one who used the word dude.
	She just said Ben and kind of left it.
	So he called her out.
	Ah, here we go.
	It is the closest the Treasury Department Inspector General has come to acknowledging potential criminal wrongdoing in the Lois Lerner affair.
	Are you investigating any potential criminal activity?
	The entire matter continues to be under active investigation, yes sir.
	For potential criminal activity?
	This isn't it.
	That revelation is a rare late night hearing in which the IG disclosed his office has obtained 32 IRS's Martinsburg.
	What the hell?
	It was dysfunctional and right in the normal process.
	The IRS made it on the emails.
	Ah!
	This is very annoying.
	Whoever gave you that's a bum steer.
	No, that was...
	You ban him.
	Kick him off the system.
	See, I got the...
	I think his first name may have been Ben.
	A guy named Ben.
	A dude named Ben.
	There you go.
	That's the short version of it.
	Kind of loses something without the whole setup.
	His name may have been Ben.
	What kind of an answer is that?
	No, that's how people think about IT guys.
	Ben, I don't care.
	Who gives a crap?
	And we know.
	We know better.
	We know.
	We know.
	We know it's just the opposite.
	It is exactly the opposite.
	Before we finish up, I did want to thank the folks over at Stuhlmuller Vineyards.
	Is this where you went?
	No.
	No.
	I got the wine from where I went.
	Yes.
	The Stuhlmuller Vineyards.
	Did you get wine from them?
	Yes, I did.
	I got the same wines you did.
	The Sauvateur?
	I've only had a couple of them.
	They're good.
	It was a Shard, I think.
	The one I was kind of impressed with, I haven't opened any of the Cabernets.
	The Zinfandel actually tastes like an old-fashioned Zinfandel that I'm always looking for.
	Alcohol a little high, but Zinfandel flavors were there.
	Yeah, we had the cab last night.
	Whoa!
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	I just want to thank him for that.
	Is it now just because you go and taste some wine somewhere and everyone's like, hey man, I've got to get on that show.
	I've got to send her some wine to talk about it.
	Yeah.
	Cool.
	You want to get more free wine?
	Anyone out there?
	Dame Grape Crusher here.
	She must have something to do with some wine.
	Finally, finally getting some free stuff like the big boys over there to CNN. Thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers for producing, as you should, episode 1324 of the No Agenda Show.
	Thank you.
	You keep it rolling.
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	And if you'd like to find out more about it, if you'd like to support us for the next show, please go to dvorak.org.
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	Shut up, slay!
	So I have this new source of news.
	They're actually playing normal news.
	It's the kind of stuff the networks won't do.
	They just talk about COVID. Right.
	And there's a lot of good stories that are just exhuming bias that we're not covering because nobody wants to talk about them.
	And I want to play a few of them.
	Yes, an example would be...
	Well, let's start off with this one because a bunch of artists already figured we're going to talk about this.
	I don't know whether it's art worthy, but this is the whistleblowers at Coca-Cola.
	You know about this?
	Is this the Woka-Cola?
	Yeah, Woka-Cola.
	They've got critical race theory at the company.
	If you're white, you suck.
	Yeah.
	Yes, I have heard about this.
	Am I looking for a clip?
	Because I can't see it.
	Yeah, it's called Critical Race Theory at Coca-Cola.
	Oh, I was looking for Whistleblower, I'm sorry.
	Coca-Cola is apparently training its employees on how to be less white.
	That's according to photos posted online by an alleged whistleblower.
	The slides appear to draw on Critical Race Theory, which is inspired by Marxist thought.
	Let's take a look.
	Try to be less white.
	That's apparently what one Coca-Cola training slide concludes.
	Whistleblower photos show the company is training its employees on confronting racism and understanding what it means to be white.
	But what does it mean to be less white?
	According to the photos, it means being less oppressive, less arrogant, less certain, and breaking with white solidarity, among other things.
	One of the slides claims in Western civilization, white people are socialized to feel they are inherently superior because they are white.
	It's not clear where the photos were captured.
	Coca-Cola said the images are not part of its training program.
	The company said its Better Together global training covers topics including diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Coca-Cola didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
	Conservative lawyer Harmeet Dillon wrote the slides appear to show blatant racial discrimination against white people.
	And conservative commentator Candace Owens called on employees to sue the company.
	She took to Twitter saying, If a corporate company sent around a training kit instructing black people how to be less black, the world would implode and lawsuits would follow.
	The training slides appear to support critical race theory.
	The theory echoes Marxist thought and reimagines class struggle based on race, gender, and sexual orientation.
	Over the past few years, critical race theory has crept into classrooms, workplaces, and even the federal government.
	Former President Trump banned this type of training for federal employees.
	And Biden re-established it.
	Of course.
	What I understand is that this was a part of LinkedIn's company training package that I think you can give your employees access to.
	That could be.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Well, along the same vein, a story that's not being reported, even though you heard of that one, you haven't heard about this woman out of Smith College who quit.
	Yes.
	And maybe suing the college.
	Yeah, Tina told me about this.
	She gave up her job.
	She has a GoFundMe.
	That's how dire this is.
	Before we go there, though...
	I just want people to know that MoFax, with Adam Curry from, what was it, two days ago, or Tuesday or Wednesday, is partially about this Woka Cola and how it all ties back to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which we can talk about maybe after we do the Smith College Lady.
	Well, actually, I got something after that, because it all ties in.
	This Smith call is just a longer clip, but it's interesting.
	You can be interrupted if you feel like it.
	Jody Shaw resigned last week due to what she calls a racially hostile environment at Smith College.
	She says it's caused by critical race theory-based anti-racist training programs.
	Shaw worked as an administrative assistant at Smith, where she was also an alumna.
	She previously blew the whistle on what was taking place at the college and wrote an internal complaint.
	But she says nothing's changed.
	Shaw was then given a choice.
	She says she was offered a settlement from the college in exchange for her silence.
	But she turned it down so she could speak out.
	In a video posted to YouTube Friday, Shaw says she was faced with a decision between comfort and freedom.
	And I chose freedom.
	Amen.
	Thank you.
	And that process made me realize that freedom's not always comfortable.
	You can't always have both.
	Shaw says it was an extremely difficult decision, having to give up financial security in order to tell the truth and speak out against what she says she knows is wrong.
	She says that unfortunately, she thinks more people are going to be having to make the same choice, since critical race theory in the form of racial sensitivity training for white people is permeating institutions all around the country.
	Although Shaw is a self-described lifelong liberal, she says that what passes for progressive today at Smith and at so many other institutions is regressive.
	Shaw's resignation letter has been published by journalist Barry Weiss.
	In it, Shaw wrote that race-based stereotyping, quote, taps into humanity's worst instincts to break down into warring factions, and I fear this is rapidly leading us to a very twisted place.
	It terrifies me that others don't seem to see that racial segregation and demonization are wrong and dangerous, Being told that any disagreement or feelings of discomfort somehow upholds white supremacy is not just morally wrong, it's psychologically abusive.
	And now she says she's taking Smith College to court in order to set a legal precedent.
	And we're going to establish, once and for all, that you cannot treat people differently in the workplace based on their skin color.
	Shaw says she knows she's not the only one suffering due to this ideology in the workplace.
	She says, quote, Our collective future as a free nation depends on people having the courage to stand up to this dangerous and divisive ideology, no matter the cost.
	Yeah, well, that's what needs to be done.
	She's very brave.
	People should support her for standing up for this.
	Yep.
	And Smith College is, of all places, an Ivy League school.
	It is interesting that Smith College, I know.
	You know, at the same time, what I'm missing, and I know that we have Asian-American producers.
	Where are my Asians?
	Where are my Asians at?
	We need to be bitching a little bit louder.
	You're getting all kinds of discrimination thrown at you.
	Yeah.
	Not really heard at all.
	At all.
	So if you want to take it, all of this is part of the same problem.
	Let's play these two clips.
	This is starting off Bad Math in Oregon.
	Oregon's Education Department is promoting a training program to help teachers, quote, develop an anti-racist math practice.
	The program is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and partners with many education and math organizations.
	According to the toolkit, teachers must work to, quote, dismantle white supremacy in math classrooms by visibilizing toxic characteristics of white supremacy.
	Did she say visibilizing?
	That's what she said.
	Critical race theory has definitely come to the fore when it comes to education.
	It's essentially unavoidable now.
	Critical theory has origins in Marxism, which separates the world into oppressors versus the oppressed.
	Critical race theory takes that framework and looks at the world through a racial lens, separating people into racist and anti-racist.
	Education expert Jonathan Butcher says this idea says people should look at narratives to describe the world.
	In other words, there are no absolute truths, only narratives.
	This is talking about injecting into a hard science ideas of oppression and supremacy This toolkit says it's white supremacy for teachers to ask students to show their work or focus on the right answer.
	Teachers are encouraged to ask their students to come up with at least two answers that might solve a math problem.
	A reference workbook similarly says the belief in objectivity is a characteristic of white supremacy.
	It claims it's racist to believe there is such a thing as being objective or neutral.
	Instead, one should assume that everybody has a valid point.
	But what this is doing is taking a very political and I think extremely circular and frankly logically incoherent concept and sticking it into math.
	I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I will paraphrase what Mo thinks of all this.
	And first of all, episode 59 is worth listening to because this National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Smithsonian specifically calls for the following white issues to be removed from society, which is the scientific method.
	Individualism, hard work, Christianity, and the stable nuclear family.
	These are all very racist, very white concepts.
	And the way most...
	First of all, this is all...
	It's so insulting.
	So insulting.
	And even if you read some of these rules and even legislation that's in committee right now about...
	Math.
	Mathematics being racist.
	There's a whole PDF for teachers that I put in the show notes.
	It is unbelievable how stupid this is.
	By the way, you should mention that these same things that were listed there at the museum are part of the laundry list put out by BLM, which is also promoting the end of the nuclear family.
	And if you look at who's on the board of this thing...
	I mean, it's the 400 of the top, well, not the board, but the sponsors, 400 of the Fortune 500 are on it.
	Every single one of them.
	This is, you know, they've got the biggest names, huge drinking club, and ultimately, the way Mo feels about it is that there's been so many numbers thrown out about African Americans.
	We had the super predators in the 90s that brought us the crime bill, which turned out to be bad math.
	So, when it comes to proof, a lot of the claims that are made of racism just don't hold up.
	Because the actual facts say something differently about the numbers, about the percentages, and equity is, in essence, giving everybody not appropriate to the share of the group, but everybody gets equal regardless of how big your group is of the overall larger group.
	And in order to obfuscate that, that it's bullshit, we have to just say, well, math is racist.
	Same as biology.
	Biology is also misogynist and racist and all these other things because biology doesn't want to admit that men are men and women are women.
	So therefore, biology is racist, misogynist, and is a white supremacist concept.
	And everyone is just going along with it.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, luckily that woman at Smith isn't.
	But let's play part two of the bad math clips.
	The fact is, American students struggle with math.
	And Butcher says injecting this ideology into math is especially not helpful for students, given the situation.
	According to a 2017 Pew Research poll, when comparing the average math score for 15-year-old students, American students rank nine slots under the average and 94 points below the top-scoring country, Singapore.
	At the pandemic, students have fallen back considerably in math, scoring an average of 5 to 10 percentile points lower than the previous year.
	Butcher clarifies this doesn't mean educators don't want to be sensitive towards students with difficult backgrounds.
	But this ideology isn't what it seems to be.
	And there is this sense that it sounds righteous and justified.
	But once you scratch the surface, and it doesn't take long, what you find in critical race theory is, frankly, frankly, intolerance and a new form of bias.
	And that's what's being perpetuated here.
	Yes.
	You think?
	Who does this benefit?
	With Singapore number one and us 94 on this list, because we're stupid, the Chinese are making out like bandits.
	Nobody else is doing this around the world, and they're going to just make us look like a bunch of dummies if you can't add two and two.
	Well, you could, but it might be six.
	You're not allowed to say show your work.
	That is inherently racist.
	And in math education, teachers...
	We need to take into account the home learning situations of African American students.
	That's literally in the documents.
	What the hell?
	That's like a Bidenism.
	Well, you know, poor people are just as smart as white kids.
	That's literally what's being said.
	Oh, no, black people are poor.
	Talk about insulting to the entire black world.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	They're not teaching this sort of math in Africa.
	They have mathematics classes in Nigeria.
	They're not moaning about white supremacy of math at all.
	So this is the academics problem.
	They're the idiots that are putting up with this because they haven't got the guts or nerves or balls to say no.
	And all those companies, same thing with them.
	All those companies that are supporting that museum, that annex, whatever you want to call it, they should be ashamed of themselves.
	But they've been all bullied into putting their names on there.
	You don't think anyone can believe any of that?
	That we should get rid of the nuclear family?
	I think Ford Motor Company believes that?
	If you pay attention to anything that comes out of the United Nations or any of these other groups, you will see that there was a great image that was going around.
	I was on a report.
	The United Nations report.
	On it, you saw black guy, white guy kissing.
	Black woman, white woman kissing.
	Black woman hugging herself, which means self-love.
	And I think that was it.
	The idea is to eliminate men, in case you hadn't noticed.
	Men are being eliminated.
	We're going back to Cleopatra times.
	I think that's what they want.
	How did Cleopatra come to power, by the way?
	I think she killed someone.
	She must have killed a couple dudes, right?
	I think she...
	With the ASP. ASP? Who knows?
	I got another one.
	This is...
	This is what you just said.
	This applies to that.
	This is the...
	And you didn't think this was going to start happening, but Amazon now is taking part in book banning.
	Yeah.
	That's banning or burning?
	Come on.
	Well, banning is all they need.
	They don't need to burn.
	The shopping giant made the move quietly.
	The author said he wasn't notified and the company has offered no explanation.
	The book is called When Harry Became Sally, responding to the transgender moment.
	It's written by Ryan Anderson, president of the Washington-based think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center.
	He learned about what happened when others told him they couldn't find the book on Amazon's platform.
	The book argues that the push to encourage those who feel like a different gender to undergo sex change procedures is driven by ideology rather than sound medical advice.
	That's according to Princeton University politics lecturer Matthew Frank, who reviewed it in 2018.
	The book disappeared around February 21st, the same time Anderson published an op-ed in the New York Post, critical of a Biden administration bill.
	If passed, the bill would add sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
	According to Anderson, it would, quote, vitiate a sex binary that is quite literally written into our genetic code and is fundamental to many of our laws, not least laws protecting the equality, safety and privacy of women.
	Congress may act on the bill as early as this week.
	Good night, left nut.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Yeah, why not?
	Why not?
	But, you know, this is just going to drive people towards alternative systems, alternative distribution.
	We don't need all these companies.
	Amazon, it's all bugs.
	The network routes around it is completely unnecessary.
	You're the eternal optimist.
	I am.
	I am.
	Well, let's take another.
	Again, going back to the Chinese, maybe they've got something to do with this.
	Do you know about this?
	And our UK listeners should be paying attention.
	Oh, yes.
	I do know about this.
	You know about this?
	The schools, yeah.
	I don't have clips, though.
	That's good.
	I like it.
	CCP buying UK schools.
	Hundreds of British schools are in danger of being bought by Chinese companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party or its military.
	The pandemic has left British private schools in a dire financial situation.
	Experts anticipate a feeding frenzy of purchases by firms, some of which are run by high-ranking members of the CCP. The acquisitions would expand the CCP's influence over Britain's education system.
	British newspaper The Mail on Sunday reports there are currently 17 British schools owned by Chinese companies.
	That number is expected to skyrocket.
	Nine of those companies are run by senior CCP members.
	Even before the pandemic, Chinese companies were acquiring British schools.
	Some of the campuses already use state-censored versions of content about China in their curriculum.
	As seen from Beijing's Confucius Institutes, these versions claim there's only one China and that Taiwan is a renegade province of the mainland.
	They also mask human rights abuses.
	Including those directed toward the Uyghur ethnic minority and conceal the crackdown on Hong Kong's freedoms.
	A professor from the University of South Carolina Eichen's Business School tells us that the situation is a concerning one for future generations.
	The CCP will definitely control the content being taught.
	It will also bring its system of brainwashing into the schools.
	Slowly, the CCP's ideology will be imported into Western society, and the younger generation will grow up to welcome and support the CCP more and more.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, I mean, why not?
	They're in all our schools here.
	Might as well.
	Just buy them.
	It's even better.
	Well, I'm sure that math situation is designed specifically to dumb us down too.
	Let's play part two of this.
	One Chinese company openly said that its acquisition of British schools is aimed at supporting China's controversial Belt and Road Initiative.
	It refers to an infrastructure project heavily criticized for trapping developing countries under heavy debt and using that to expand Beijing's control overseas.
	On its website, it details plans to use its British schools to help boost China's global economic and political influence.
	This by helping expand Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative to other countries.
	A key player in the school purchases is the Bright Scholar Company.
	It's owned by the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, a high-ranking member of the CCP's Advisory Council.
	That's one of the regime's most important organs.
	Bright Scholar already owns four British schools.
	Another player is Chinese company Wanda Group.
	Its owner, Wang Jianlin, is also on the CCP's Advisory Council and previously served in China's People's Liberation Army as a soldier.
	Wanda Group also owns two British private schools.
	The pandemic has made it even easier for Chinese firms to buy private schools in Britain, thanks to the sector's severe lack of funding.
	Enrollments have plummeted and fees have been slashed as pupils attend class from home.
	British boarding schools have reportedly seen fees fall by up to 35%.
	British schools.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah.
	I wanted to shift a little bit to what's happening in the mainstream as we have a...
	Well, the situation in Australia seems to have been resolved between Facebook and the Australian news industry.
	But we need to discuss this because...
	The way I see it, and I've got two jabronis here from some mainstream Sky, I think it is, newscast about the issue.
	I think the prisoners of Australia have gotten a bum deal with this.
	Let's just listen to what the resolution is.
	You'll recall that the Australian government said, no, no, you can't just be...
	We're using links from our news industry and you have to pay.
	And Google said, okay.
	And Facebook said, no.
	And now, well, we have some kind of settlement.
	A big win for the government and particularly...
	Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
	I will read from this statement that we've received from the Treasurer.
	It says the Morrison Government will today introduce further amendments to the news media and digital platforms mandatory bargaining code.
	Essentially it goes through a range of amendments made there but the final line The government's been advised by Facebook that it intends to restore Australian news pages in the coming days.
	Andrew, the Treasurer, spoke to Mark Zuckerberg three times today, three times yesterday, I'm advised.
	This is a big win for Frydenberg.
	He's got Facebook back to the table with the media companies.
	Very good news by the sound of things and the government, I reported last week the government was confident they could get Facebook back there.
	Even last night I was talking to some people in government who were a bit up and down on it but Josh Frydenberg was doing the work by the sound of things and I'm sure a lot of Australians would be happy to see those new sites back on Facebook.
	And some of the amendments, technical amendments, such as final offer arbitration, a last resort.
	It will be a last resort where commercial deals cannot be reached.
	So making it clear that any final offer arbitration is only at the last resort.
	Facebook back to the bargaining table and Australian News back on Facebook, which is a great outcome.
	Now, it's not a great outcome.
	This is a very strange situation.
	Government made a deal, and it's not on a per-access basis.
	They said, all right, just give our media companies some money, and I think it's 75 million Australian dollar dues, and that's split up amongst a couple of people.
	By the way, none of the people who have residual deals with these newspapers for, I see several photographers are saying, hold on a second, I'm getting gypped.
	I'm not getting anything extra from this new distribution avenue.
	In fact, I believe that this is being misused by the Australian government to have only news that they want to be passed around on Facebook.
	You can't go up there as a little independent publisher and say, where's my money?
	No, this is only for the mainstream, which really, I guess, would be Murdoch and the government broadcasting.
	But how is this good?
	And they're all jacked about, oh, this is fantastic.
	No, it's not.
	Not at all.
	Who's jacked about it?
	The Australian government and the news media.
	The guys getting the money are jacked about it.
	I'd be jacked about it, too.
	No, but the Australians think that they won somehow.
	You lost!
	You lost!
	This never should have happened this way, having them pay for the news that the government designates.
	Are you nuts?
	Good luck with that.
	Good luck with that.
	Meanwhile, back in the United States...
	There was a...
	I was looking forward to it, too.
	It was very disappointing.
	Yesterday, it wasn't even on C-SPAM. It was the Commerce and...
	Education and Commerce...
	Some stupid committee.
	And if you haven't noticed, there is a huge push right now to have Fox News removed from cable.
	Have you heard about this, what they're doing?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, this is a big deal.
	Big push.
	There are...
	House of Representatives members who are writing letters to the cable companies saying, you need to take this off of the air.
	And so they had a session which was all on Zoom, and it was called Fanning the Flames, Disinformation and Extremism in the Media.
	And the whole idea is you cannot have people with disinformation on television.
	That should be eliminated.
	And it's even worse that people are forced to pay for Fox News even though they don't really want it.
	And people are going nuts over this.
	Yeah, we've got to get them to remove Fox News.
	And who shows up in this conference?
	An old friend, Soledad O'Brien.
	Now, does she have a gig anywhere still, or is she consulted now?
	What is she doing?
	Because we know Sola Dad.
	Well, the last time I heard, she was working at HBO doing sports reporting, and I think she then got a gig at MSNBC, but her connection was to MSNBC almost forever.
	Right.
	Now, you worked with her where?
	At MSNBC. Oh, okay.
	Okay.
	Wasn't she on tech TV or a tech TV type thing?
	No, she was on the site on MSNBC, which was a tech show.
	Oh, the site.
	Right, right, right.
	That's what it is.
	So she's their expert who pops in the whole time in this conference.
	It just clipped about a minute.
	Obviously, you can get an idea.
	But again, what the heck, people?
	Stop.
	The press is the press.
	The media is the media.
	Leave it be.
	Stop meddling.
	So what to do about all this?
	Let me be clear that Congress cannot and should not regulate journalism in defiance of the First Amendment.
	But here's what we can do.
	Don't book liars or advance lies.
	Cover the fact that lies and propaganda are being disseminated, but do not book people to lie on your show because it elevates them and presents a lie as another side.
	Wow, this is such insight, Soledad.
	I mean, I'm glad I watched the whole session.
	Stop posing every story as having two sides.
	Some stories, in fact, have many, many sides and are more complicated.
	And also, lies don't have a side.
	Take the time to unravel and report and give history and context.
	We, as reporters, are verifiers.
	Stop it for a second.
	Verifiers.
	Here's a question for you.
	Or let me just predict what she's going to say next.
	She's going to actually give some solid examples.
	Of what she's claiming.
	She's going to have a clip or something, a showing, an example of some, I guess, is a professional liar, or a gal comes on and knowingly lies, or somebody who, or Trump.
	I think that's what she means.
	There's nothing but a cavalcade of former spooks, FBI agents, former government officials.
	That's what's going by, and they all lie.
	But okay, this is the big takeaway.
	Take the time to unravel and report and give history and context.
	We, as reporters, are verifiers.
	Every perspective does not deserve a platform.
	Media thrives on the open exchange of ideas, but that doesn't mean you have to book a neo-Nazi every time you book someone who is Jewish.
	Balance does not mean giving voice to liars, to bigots, and to kooks.
	There you go.
	I disagree with her.
	Me too.
	You need the kooks.
	I want to hear what these kooks have to say.
	I want to hear what the neo-Nazis, I want to hear what he has to say, defend himself.
	I want to say him with BLM. I don't think these are the most honest people in the world.
	I want to hear what they have to say.
	I don't think this should be banned.
	I don't think anybody should.
	No.
	If the guy's completely a nutcase, a flat earther, I'd still like to hear what he has to say.
	I'd like to hear the explanation for this crazy idea.
	Does this not go against all journalistic kind of principles, what she's saying?
	Yeah, I think so.
	I mean, it depends.
	Today's journalistic principles, you know, are probably not what they were when, you know, 20, 30 years ago.
	So I'm sure they teach slightly different at the schools.
	If you look at the people who are graduating now, it's interesting.
	I'm on a couple mailing lists, and I get to see the graduating class from the Graduate School of Journalism by the University of California, and you look at it, at the group, it's all women.
	Yeah.
	This is, I'm telling you, it's a power grab.
	Women are going to rule us.
	They want us out of the equation.
	Well, some of them do, that's for sure.
	Yeah.
	This would be great.
	Can we just be like the old Egyptians and we'll just service our women all day and not have to work?
	I mean, I'm kind of all in on that.
	Just say the word.
	Yeah.
	Anna Eshoo from California and Jerry McInerney.
	She signed off on all this.
	She's sickening this woman.
	Eshoo.
	Their senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communication and Technology sent a letter today to 12 cable, satellite, streaming TV companies urging them to combat...
	The spread of misinformation and requesting more information about their actions to address misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and lies spread through the channels they host.
	This is...
	Man, podcasting is going to be the last, last, last bastion They're trying to cancel everything.
	Well, when they get rid of AM Overnight, or whatever the show's called, that I've always wanted to go on, and no one could seem to get me a booking.
	Coast to Coast?
	Coast to Coast.
	Mm-hmm.
	That's all that is.
	The whole show, and it's fascinating.
	It comes on at the right time.
	If you're ever driving at night, and you...
	Oh yeah, it's a great show.
	It's a great show to listen to it.
	You're just listening to these people who are talking about people living in volcanoes in the center of the earth.
	There's just a lot of crazy stuff that is highly entertaining.
	And what, do you want to get rid of that?
	Why?
	Well, their concern is, I think...
	Trump.
	Yes.
	It's Trump.
	But they don't care about flying saucer discussions or space aliens or lizard people.
	It's just Trump.
	Let's face it.
	You're probably right.
	Anna Eshoo doesn't care about any of this other stuff.
	Neither does Soledad, who's also a Trump hater, I should mention.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	So.
	Quick few podcasting bits.
	I learned something new from Ben Shapiro.
	Ben Shapiro was on the Megyn Kelly podcast.
	I want to go on her show.
	No invitation.
	I learned something new.
	Without Rush, there is no Fox News.
	Without Rush, there is no Daily Wire.
	Without Rush, there are no podcasts.
	What?
	Without Rush, none of this stuff exists.
	Wait a minute.
	Rush Limbaugh now invented podcasts?
	Nope.
	The new podcast...
	Without Rush, there is no podcast?
	Is he nuts?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I mean, I'll give Rush Limbaugh a lot of credit for changing some landscapes, but that is just bull crap.
	Yeah.
	In a blatant rip-off of MoFax with Adam Curry, Spotify tries to hop on that ebony and ivory train and teams up Bruce Springsteen with Barack Obama for a podcast.
	Bruce Springsteen and former President Obama are co-hosting a new podcast called Renegades.
	Born in the USA, they are discussing a range of topics from race and the state of America to marriage and fatherhood.
	I grew up thinking...
	You know, my father was like ashamed of his family.
	That was my entire picture of masculinity.
	Did you have to deal with that?
	So my father leaves when I'm two.
	And I don't meet him until I'm ten years old when he comes to visit for a month.
	I have no way to come back to the guy.
	He's a stranger who's suddenly in our house.
	Why did you put a bunch of music behind it?
	Only an idiot would put all that music behind it because I can't understand a word they're saying.
	Why did you do that?
	That is the podcast.
	Wait a minute.
	Are you telling me, with all the money they've got to do a podcast and all the financing they have over there at Spotify and Bruce Springsteen knowing what good sound is, maybe...
	They put a bunch of loud music, stupid music I might add, country and western twangs, over the discussion.
	Did you hear the indirect micing?
	I thought that was even better.
	It's not like a nice close sound.
	No, it's like, yeah, you know, my father, he was, yeah, he left when I was two years old.
	That's great.
	And what, I will give him one thing.
	To call the podcast Renegades Born in the USA, like, I get the humor, Barack.
	I think that's pretty funny.
	We all know.
	We all know where you were born.
	Trying to sneak that in.
	Yeah, that's birtherism trolling right there.
	But you're right.
	I think it is all about Trump when it comes to the media.
	And Clubhouse is now the hot things.
	Clubhouse.
	And for the life of me, I do not understand why people keep asking me if I want to join them in the Clubhouse.
	Some guy did that to me.
	I said, I want to join.
	I want to check it out.
	I've joined Parler.
	I didn't like it.
	I thought it sucked.
	I've joined Gab.
	I don't like it.
	The only thing I've liked in the recent memory of social networks is the No Agenda Social.
	That's the only one that works very well.
	You can't get on Clubhouse because you don't have an iPhone.
	Oh, is that right?
	It has to be iPhone only?
	It's iPhone only right now.
	What?
	Yeah, but I just don't understand why people are all jacked about it.
	Well, I do.
	You can say that, but I don't understand anything about it because I can't see it.
	I don't know what it does.
	Is it like TikTok?
	No.
	Is it like No Agenda Social?
	Is it like Parler?
	What's it like?
	Okay, so it's audio only.
	And it's like one big audio Zoom call.
	So you go in, and there's all these different rooms, and then you can go into a room.
	It's like, wait, is it anything like 777, date a girl, late night calls?
	Hi, boys.
	If you're lonely tonight, just give me a call at 1-900-I-M-A-W-E. Is it like that?
	No, not at all.
	So just imagine.
	Okay.
	Do you remember our Thanksgiving Zoom call?
	Yeah.
	Okay, it's like that without video.
	Awkward, stupid.
	Oh my god, that's useless.
	And people go in there to listen.
	In a way, it's part of people liking to listen to podcasts because they want to hear...
	Oh, it's eavesdropping.
	Yes, eavesdropping, and then you can raise your hand.
	Maybe you'll be let in.
	And this is so popular that Mark Cuban immediately has announced that he's doing something just like it, only better, and podcasting 2.0, just to make it even funnier.
	But I don't understand why, if you have a podcast, why would you go and do this for some Chinese technology company, iOS only, and you're not getting paid for it.
	You're just sitting there.
	I don't know.
	What is the appeal?
	What am I missing that a guy like Joe Rogan has to go in there and do that?
	What am I missing?
	Why?
	Why?
	Did Joe Rogan go into Clubhouse?
	And this is where we get the Trump derangement syndrome.
	Joe Rogan with Tim Dillon.
	Now, Tim Dillon is kind of riding on Joe's coattails, and he's getting on all kinds of podcasts.
	He has his own podcast.
	And Lex Friedman, and they're talking to the CEO of Clubhouse, who's also in this room.
	His name is Paul, and hilarity ensued, as far as I'm concerned.
	By the way, that's the billion-dollar question.
	When does Donald Trump show up on this app?
	No.
	No.
	On this?
	Or on my podcast?
	No, on Clubhouse.
	Notice that Joe will never have Trump on his podcast.
	That was kind of interesting.
	And why wouldn't you want Trump on your podcast?
	Seems like it would be fun conversation, but OK.
	By the way, that's the billion dollar question.
	When does Donald Trump show up on this?
	No.
	No.
	On this?
	Or this?
	Yeah.
	Or is he on Clubhouse?
	No, on Clubhouse.
	Yeah.
	Is he allowed on here?
	Is he allowed on here?
	Silence.
	We, our community guidelines, have rules against the spreading of misinformation or hate speech or anything related to that.
	And if he violated that, then he would not be allowed on here.
	That's a weird way of answering the question.
	How do you define misinformation?
	Like, if two of us agree, who's misinforming?
	I don't think that's a simple answer.
	Oh, you're nervous as fuck, bro.
	That's the problem.
	That is a fundamental issue.
	You went into full panic mode.
	There's a lot of pausing.
	That's hilarious.
	I mean, look, Paul's my friend, but I'm going to hold his feet to the fire because these are the important questions.
	And he's going to have to figure them out because it's going to happen.
	You should have him on and Bill Maher at the same time.
	The fact-checking is how they're going to fetter these conversations for sure.
	Yeah, what are we going to do?
	Have a fact checker always on who's going to jump in?
	No, I mean, people are just going to say what they're going to say, and the listener will have to figure out what's real and what's not.
	That's just how the world works.
	Nobody knows in advance what the truth is.
	If we knew that, then we wouldn't even need to talk.
	How uninteresting is this?
	To listen to a bunch of guys on a phone call.
	Yeah, it's like a conference call.
	Yeah, I'm a little baffled.
	What did you think conference call?
	That's what I really should be named.
	Baffled by.
	But you heard it.
	You heard it.
	Oh, no, no.
	We have rules against misinformation.
	And rules!
	Oh, yeah.
	You know what that means.
	We're gonna get you with a noodle gun.
	I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
	I got a clip here that is very interesting because it's under the surface.
	It means a lot.
	It's somewhat ironic.
	And I don't think it's meant to do what it's going to end up doing.
	Because, you remember those rules, they had these different kinds of local laws that if you made a certain kind of a call to some area, you had a local law that you were violating the local law if you called somebody in that district.
	The idea of doing local laws that affect everything, especially if it's on the internet, has always been a danger.
	I mean, this is why people, you have to be careful when you put Nazi memorabilia up for sale, you get blocked in Germany.
	Germany, yeah, sure.
	Well, this could be even bigger.
	This is a big deal if you really look into this.
	This is the political discrimination law that was passed in Seattle.
	Businesses located in Seattle may have to face anti-discrimination lawsuits in the future, specifically anti-discrimination for political beliefs.
	Seattle has had laws on the books since the 1970s that banned discrimination.
	In 1999, the city included a fair contracting ordinance.
	Business contracts cannot discriminate against political ideology.
	That's according to former political science professor John West.
	So, Seattle is one of the only places in the United States that has banned discrimination in its civil rights laws based on political ideology.
	West said any company headquartered in Seattle is subject to this law.
	This includes big tech.
	The biggest big tech company that's headquartered in Seattle is Amazon.com.
	Basically anyone who's discriminated against by them can sue.
	So it's not just a Seattle resident.
	It's not just a Washington State resident.
	West mentioned Parler.
	Amazon Web Services hosted Parler and removed them after January 6th.
	Parler alleges that Amazon's representative to them raised all sorts of questions with them about whether Donald Trump was going to get a Parler account.
	If that's true, that might provide evidence of political ideology discrimination.
	According to West, companies with a presence in Seattle may also be subject to the law.
	He listed Apple, Facebook, and Google.
	Seattle and Washington state residents that suffered discrimination may be able to take legal action against those companies.
	This is not a symbolic law.
	The law allows punitive damages, pain and suffering damages, it allows attorney fees, it allows injunction relief, it allows affirmative...
	West said there has been much discussion about how to have checks against big tech.
	He has researched and written about the law to raise awareness of one possible check.
	Reporting by Emerald Chung, NTD News, Washington.
	Man, does this come from Cheddar?
	This is NTD. This is out of horrible editing.
	Crap!
	I'll tell you, there's two things.
	The editing is crappy, but the sound compression is really dynamite.
	I can see the waveform look pretty.
	I agree.
	It's just a straight out, it's like yours.
	Right, flat.
	It's flat as a pancake, so it's very easy to amplify and drop off and do all kinds of things, but I think this is a...
	Nobody's noticing this.
	This is a potential nightmare.
	I mean, it seems like you could sue anybody for anything in that case.
	I mean, isn't it kind of subjective?
	If you tie it into politics...
	Jeez.
	The idea was, I'm sure when they passed this law, it was, oh, we've got to make sure...
	Get rid of Trump.
	Protect from Trump, I'm sure.
	We've got to be able to let our people be communists if they're going to be contractors.
	We can't discriminate against them, so they wrote this law.
	But this goes in the opposite direction.
	I think that Parler has a case against Amazon.
	In fact, I think the...
	The clip we played earlier about the book that was taken off, off of the shelf, when Harry becomes Sally or whatever the name of it was.
	I think there's a lawsuit there.
	And punitive damages.
	Get the lawyers.
	Call up your lawyer.
	Let's go.
	To me, it's just, I am so over it, and it's got to be more like me.
	Who cares?
	I've got all the social media I want.
	You taught me where to get good e-books.
	There's so many different places to communicate.
	Who cares about all of this?
	Route around it already.
	Get a life.
	Stop trying to be a successful influencer.
	Stop.
	There's something wrong with the human psyche.
	Oh, I've got to be where everybody else is.
	Clubhouse, yeah!
	Ooh, yeah, I want to be on a conference call.
	Wow!
	I quit my job so I wouldn't have to be on conference calls anymore.
	But that's just me.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We do have a few people to thank for show.
	1324.
	This is 1331, I think, coming up.
	That's going to be interesting.
	Ooh!
	Palindrome.
	Nice.
	That's a good one, too.
	But I don't know if people are going to get jacked up about it or not.
	Nikki and the Lucky Dogs, $121 and 21 cents, comes in first.
	She had some kind of ordeal here, didn't she?
	She says, I picked up the lucky dogs from the vet.
	I found they had a total of 33 teeth extracted.
	Okay.
	So then she says, if Adam kicks in a penny, the donation brings my total to 1,000.
	She gets knighted.
	She gets damed, no less, and you got a penny right there.
	I'm excited.
	We read these usually.
	While I'm excited to be climbing the rank, the only clever dame named I've come up with is Dame Heir of Communism.
	Okay.
	When I ran it by the Lucky Dogs, they said most people wouldn't get it.
	I didn't get it.
	No, I didn't get it.
	You get it?
	No.
	Okay, well, neither one of us get it.
	Then they started chanting, Sir Ingeful of Novocain.
	Sir Ingeful of Novocain.
	Sir Ingeful of Novocain.
	With their swole little mounts.
	It was so cute.
	They're suggesting a knighthood because they think I'm a hero or do they just want pain relief?
	I wish I knew because they're dogs.
	A lot of these people talk to dogs.
	I shall skip any clever names and just accept Dame Nicky of Lucky Dog Sanctuary.
	You got it.
	On the list.
	On the list?
	Right there.
	Sir, and onwards, Sir Psycho Michael of the Potomac, Hancock, Maryland, $101.33.
	And he's got his smoking hot wife, Julie Reed, on the birthday list.
	Yep.
	Ian Field in Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK, 100.
	Anonymous, 100 in Livingston, Montana.
	Craig Chambers with a K in Collinsville, Oklahoma, 88-33.
	That was a birthday.
	Joshua Schmidt in Norwood Young someplace.
	My cell's too small.
	In Minnesota, that's 8-0-0-8.
	Sir Dwight of the Night.
	Or Sir Dwight of the Night.
	Sorry, Dwight of the Night in Burlington, Ontario.
	6-7-8-9.
	There's a birthday there.
	James Price in Katy, Texas.
	That's 62.
	David Forbes in Shakopee, Minnesota.
	That's 6-0-0-6.
	Small boobs.
	Paul Sorlastro, Black Knight of the Ninjas in Bolvard, Texas.
	He says something about...
	Oh, by the way, sorry.
	Let's back up to James Price.
	He needs a dedouching.
	Oh, you got it.
	You've been dedouched.
	Okay.
	He's got a note here, but yes, you credit this.
	You do the accounting on this.
	55 bucks.
	Jacob Jason Petri in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 5510.
	Kurt Labanowski in Ramsey, New Jersey, 53.
	That's a birthday donation.
	John Gaynor in Aldi, Virginia, 5280.
	Mark Dunford in Waco, Texas, Waco, 5033.
	Stephen Kirkpatrick in Langley, Washington, 5012.
	Forrest Martin, $50.05.
	And now the following people are $50 donors.
	Name and location is a pretty short list today.
	Kevin Silverman in Severn, Maryland.
	Todd Grubb in Capac, Michigan.
	Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California.
	John Lawrence.
	Sir Patrick Macomb in New York City.
	Kami Ramirez in West Jordan, Utah.
	Jesus Allen, your buddy in Austin, Texas.
	And last but not least, Leanne Shipley in Convington, Washington.
	I think it's Covington.
	I want to thank all these folks for producing show 1324.
	And a big thanks goes out to everybody who came in for this episode with your donation, value for value donation under $50.
	Many people like to do $49.99, guaranteed anonymity.
	We'll never eat anything under $50, but we have a number of cool sustaining donations that we'd like you to consider.
	Just to keep it, you know, keep a solid base there, of course.
	Our model is a bit of a roller coaster.
	But thank you for your time, your talent, your treasure for producing episode 1324 of the best podcast in the universe, just in case you needed it, a Jobs Karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma.
	And if you want to participate for Sunday, vorac.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday birthday.
	I'm so much and I'm almost at the end A couple more days to the end of February.
	Your birthday list for today, Sir Dwight the Knight.
	Happy birthday to his brother, Sir Hank Scorpio, celebrated on the 22nd.
	Craig Chambers turned 33 yesterday.
	Sir Psychomico of the Potomac.
	Happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Julie Reed.
	She turns 44 today.
	Dean Hertert, son of Sir Hoopensacker, turns 8 today.
	Sir Duma will be 40 tomorrow.
	Michael Berrigan, 33 on the 29th.
	And finally, happy birthday to Kurt Lewinowski.
	Happy birthday from all of us here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Hit it!
	No douchebags on deck today, so...
	Ryan Bemrose upped his status there in the peerage listing to count.
	Congratulations.
	Sir Duma becomes Sir Duma Baron of the Black Swamp.
	Gentlemen, thank you both for your support.
	The No Agenda Show as you move up the peerage ladder and the amount of $1,000 or more, it is highly appreciated.
	Now, as predicted and promised, we have four damings to get to today.
	So that will be the, oops, I dropped a penny.
	That would be the big female blade there.
	You got a blade for the ladies?
	Yes, I do.
	Ooh.
	Yes, the Lady Blade.
	Sweet.
	Kelly Gibson, Nicky, Julie Reed, and Courtney Couch, hop on up here, please.
	Ladies, you are about to enter the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and Dames.
	And I'm very, very pleased and proud to pronounce the KV as Dame of the Crushed Grapes, Dame Nikki of Lucky Dog Sanctuary, Dame Jam in a Jar, and Dame Courtney of the Important Mountain.
	For you, ladies, we've got Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	If you want the hookers below, we've got it for you as well.
	Also, steak and Palmeyer proprietary red wine.
	We've got some ginger ale and gerbils, maybe geishas and sake.
	We've got some bong hits and bourbon.
	That's good for you.
	Or if you like, mutton and mead for the ladies.
	Head on over to NoAgendaNation.com slash rings.
	Eric the Shill will take care of you.
	And make sure you get your sealing wax that goes with your signet ring and your official No Agenda Knight, or Dame in this case, certification.
	And thank you for being royalty here at the No Agenda Show.
	No Agenda.
	The No Agenda Meetups list is incredibly long.
	It's good.
	And, well, are you okay?
	No, the little scarlet fell off the shelf.
	Oh, careful.
	Careful with the scarlet.
	NoagendaMeetups.com is where you can find out about the meetups.
	Now, a meetup is where people who listen to the No Agenda show in the same general geographic area get together.
	What is so special about it?
	I was thinking...
	Obviously, it's a place where you can get together with people who are like-minded in so far that no one's going to get triggered by something you say, some opinion.
	In fact, they'll probably take it in and say, oh, I think different.
	It's very civil.
	But the best thing is the diversity.
	Where can you get a lab technician just happens to have time to sit and chat for 30 minutes with a truck driver?
	Where can you get a person who's in the military who is sitting down and meeting with someone who's in high technology?
	I mean, it's this cross between different groups of people who typically, you know, the scientists would be with the scientists, maybe some of the truck drivers with the truck drivers.
	No, it's all intermersed.
	It's fantastic.
	That is one of the great things.
	You will meet people you probably wouldn't meet anywhere in your milieu.
	And this also happened in Tennessee.
	This is the NA Little Fauci Weez meetup.
	I think it's from Nashville.
	What's up?
	This is Matt.
	In the morning, shout out, or rather, douchebag call outs to Andy and Brian.
	And here you go.
	Hey, this is Josh, the lone douchebag Kentuckian coming down here.
	Just want to say, go podcasting and keep up the good work.
	Yeah, it's John Knowles, the Baron of Murfreesboro.
	That's the way you say it, Dvorak, Murfreesboro.
	Anyway, in the morning.
	Hey, this is John, surveillance of Brentwood, Tennessee.
	In the morning, John, stay safe.
	Steve Banstra, back home in Nashville for my second meetup in four days now.
	And once again, just want to say Krieger's is still a douchebag.
	This is Steve's wife, Jessica Banstra, in the morning with my son, Charlie.
	In the morning.
	This is Patrick, Duke of the South, eating some Nana pudding in the morning.
	And yes, I did say intermersed, and yes, you can meet people to marry.
	I don't know how it came out of my mouth, but it did.
	And you can do just that today if you hurry up at 6 o'clock at the Houston Tabletop Games at Tea and Victory, or the Denver Pierogi Paloza at 6 o'clock in Kingus Lounge, or the TMI Evac Zone Meetup in Harrisburg, York, Pennsylvania, 633 at Crosswater, or perhaps Charlotte, North Carolina at 7 o'clock, Triple C Brewing.
	Or tomorrow, the inaugural Brisbane Aussie Shots in the Armed Slaves Meetup at 5.30.
	That is probably about to kick off as we speak.
	We have many more for you to take a look at.
	All of them are listed in great detail at NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	Go find one near you.
	You'll have a great time.
	If you can't find one on the list, start one yourself.
	It's easy.
	NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered on hell to blame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	I did want to mention I made the top of 4chan yesterday.
	You did?
	Yeah, the top of 4chan.
	For what?
	Well, you probably heard that the Fed line, the Federal Reserve...
	The financial network went down for several hours.
	And so this meant, this does not, this is not supposed to happen.
	ACH transfers, you know, this is $4 trillion a day.
	That's a big deal.
	Yeah, and so that went offline.
	And, you know, it was very, it was unclear as to what's going on.
	And so I tweeted, hey, it's no problem.
	This is just the Federal Reserve's Now connecting to the XRP Quantum Financial Services Offworld link.
	This seems like an obvious thing.
	That's just a small glitch.
	Top of 4chan.
	XRP just saved the Fed.
	Yes, this is it, boys.
	This is what I've been waiting for with a link to my tweet.
	As if I'm...
	They're all like, oh yeah, this is totally happening.
	Yeah, we're switching to the new quantum financial services.
	Look, Curry tweeted about it.
	It was a joke.
	No, that's how rumors get started.
	Guys, it's happening.
	XRP and the Fed is going to save us.
	Nasara!
	This is another one.
	I can't wait.
	Before you go too far off astray, whatever happened to meetups.com?
	They're still in business, aren't they?
	I don't know.
	I don't get any notifications if I joined about six or seven groups.
	I haven't gotten a meetup notification for months and months and months.
	Is it meetup.com or meetups.com?
	Whatever it is.
	I don't know.
	Meetup.com.
	But we used to use it for the no agenda meetups and it turned out to be just a terrible thing to do.
	Yeah.
	And all these requirements.
	Yeah.
	It was unbelievable.
	Why would anyone use the system?
	You should do insourcing.
	Do it yourself.
	Don't rely on these outside systems.
	The noagendaphone.com tells me that the Pixel 5G and the 5 are now supported by graphene.
	And Tim over there says he can disable the 5G if that's all you can get.
	Which is kind of nice, I guess.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah.
	That's good.
	Yeah, I am still...
	This guy's a genius.
	He is a genius.
	He is.
	Yeah.
	He has to be.
	How about end of show ISOs?
	I have a bad news clip.
	I want to get it out of the way so I don't play the good news clips later.
	Okay.
	Bad news.
	I see bad math.
	Try Fry's Closes.
	Ooh, yes.
	This is happening here in Tejas as well.
	After 36 years, Fry's Electronics will be permanently closing all of its stores.
	Starting February 24th, all stores will begin winding down regular operations.
	Fry's operates 31 stores across 9 states.
	It states that challenges during the pandemic and changes in the retail industry are reasons for its closure.
	I've been coming to Fry's for many, many years.
	It's just unfortunate to see the business closing up now.
	It's one of the few places you can get stuff, you know, like walk-in.
	The retail giant sold software, consumer electronics, household appliances, computer hardware, and other gadgets.
	Their stores were known for being decorated in a variety of themes, from the Industrial Revolution to Alice in Wonderland.
	Regular customers were disappointed upon finding the sudden notice.
	This mine-themed Fry's Electronics in San Jose is now officially closed.
	Customers who had their equipment being repaired here are asked to email customer service to schedule a time for pickup.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	An era.
	An era gone by.
	It's over.
	I think that was mismanaged.
	Huh.
	I mean, it was in the Christmas of what?
	It wasn't last Christmas in 2020.
	It was 2019.
	I had gone to a fries and reported on it on the show, and the thing was dead empty.
	It was falling apart as we spoke.
	I think their management changed.
	Something happened.
	Because they could have done it online just as well as anybody else, and you could go there and take an Amazon price on any item and say, I want this price, and I'll give it to you.
	Best Buy does that, by the way.
	People should always go to Best Buy with some low prices and buy the stuff at Best Buy.
	But it just was mismanaged.
	There's something they did wrong, and they dropped the ball.
	They could have had a bigger online presence.
	They did repair, which was a big deal.
	Nobody does that.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And I used to go there all the time because you go over there and I only get what you needed at a good price, but you could also find some other...
	Well, it was fun to shop.
	It was fun to browse.
	Yeah, it was a real shopping experience.
	That's what I liked about it.
	Yeah.
	Something happened.
	I have a couple of clips.
	By the way, if Bryce listens to this show, they can tell me what the mismanagement was.
	End of show ISOs.
	I have...
	Let's see.
	I've got this one.
	I know where you live.
	That's Cuomo.
	We have this one.
	Disinformation tornado.
	Kind of like that.
	I have this one.
	Ooh.
	Mmm.
	Good one.
	I like that one.
	Yeah.
	You got anything for me?
	The Cuomo one, it turns out that's what he was like.
	Yeah.
	The guy's a gangster.
	Total douche.
	Yeah, I do have one.
	It's called Vibrates.
	Vibrates.
	Okay.
	It even vibrates like real.
	Ooh.
	I think we can do a twofer.
	Oh, yeah.
	It even vibrates like real.
	Ooh.
	Nice.
	We got a twofer.
	Yeah.
	Dynamite.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Getting this out of the way, just to make sure that we play it.
	This is the...
	A rare Adam clip of Democracy Now!
	But so irksome, even I had to play her.
	The Federal Aviation Administration's grounded dozens of Boeing 777 passenger jets after an engine failure on a United Airlines flight Saturday nearly led to disaster.
	The National Transportation Safety Board says a preliminary investigation found the engine, manufactured by Pratt& Whitney, showed signs of metal fatigue.
	This follows two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed all 346 people on board.
	Clearly a Pratt& Whitney story, but now let's make Boeing look stupid.
	That was unbelievable.
	It's really not okay.
	It's not journalistic.
	No, it's not okay.
	No, it's not.
	This is like the bad journalism you get from these progressive news operations.
	I have one last clip.
	Well, actually, this is not like.
	This is the bad news you get from these operations.
	It's not like it.
	This is the shit that you get.
	It's horrible.
	So they got this new CIA guy, William Burns.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What do we know about this guy?
	Well, he was mostly an ambassador.
	In fact, when he did his hearing, it said ambassador on his little tag.
	Well, you know, every embassy is, in effect, a CIA office.
	Well, that's where I'm going.
	He was not any embassy.
	He was the ambassador to Russia.
	Now, if anybody doesn't think that's a CIA guy, then they've got their head screwed loose.
	And by the way, there's a new HBO, no, Netflix, I believe.
	Yeah, Netflix series called Spycraft.
	Yeah.
	Kind of worth a watch.
	Okay.
	So this guy, this is a semi-ironic presentation because they make it seem, when you listen to this guy's background, it's like, oh yeah, this guy's spook.
	But they make it sound like, oh, they're finally bringing in an outsider.
	It has nothing to do with the agency.
	He's going to straighten things out.
	I'm thinking, wow.
	Biden's pick to head the CIA, William Burns, spoke to the Senate Intel Committee on Wednesday.
	He called the Chinese regime a formidable authoritarian adversary that is strengthening its ability to do several heinous things.
	Here's Burns.
	There are, however, a growing number of areas in which Xi's China is a formidable authoritarian adversary, methodically strengthening its capabilities to steal intellectual property, repress its own people, bully its neighbors, expand its global reach, and build influence in American society.
	Burns worked as a U.S. diplomat for 33 years.
	He's been an ambassador to Jordan and Russia and he's held three senior positions at the State Department.
	Now he is president of an international foreign affairs think tank.
	Senator Marco Rubio pressed Burns on it.
	This group that you partner with, you know, the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a congressionally appointed committee, a commission, in August of 2018 said that they showed a clear intent to influence policy towards China.
	In the United States.
	So given your stated concerns about Chinese soft power influence efforts, why, while you were at the helm, did Carnegie Endowment for International Peace establish a relationship with and accept funding from this group, this China-United States Exchange Foundation?
	Here's how Burns, whom the Senate's already confirmed for various roles five times now, responded.
	On the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, this is a relationship that I inherited when I became president of Carnegie and that I ended not long after I became president, precisely for the concerns that you just described, because we were increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations.
	Burns said if he's confirmed, four priorities will shape his approach to leading the nation's preeminent spy agency.
	Those are China, technology, people, and partnerships.
	The nominees said out-competing China is key to U.S. national security in the years ahead, and he said that will require a long-term, clear-eyed, bipartisan strategy underpinned by domestic renewal and solid intelligence.
	Burns received bipartisan support from the lawmakers on the committee.
	It seems he is set to be confirmed as the first lifelong diplomat to be the director of the CIA. Hmm.
	Nothing against Russia, though, huh?
	That's odd.
	No, nothing against Russia, but he did mention the word partnerships.
	That means that a little operation here in Silicon Valley is going to be doing a lot of investing.
	Hmm.
	That's what that means.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	So, we got this new guy.
	You know, he's a hack.
	Probably do as good a job as Pompeo did.
	Probably better than Gina.
	Is she even alive?
	Did she ever make it out of Frankfurt when they shot her?
	That's a good question.
	I don't know.
	Hey, we are coming up on March 4th, March 6th.
	Oh yeah, that's when Trump gets inaugurated.
	Yeah, he's going to be sworn in.
	Less funny, although to us hilarious, what did we talk about when 23andMe first started?
	Did we think this was a good idea to give your DNA? No, we recommended people not put themselves in a database voluntarily.
	Yes, because anything could happen.
	Lo and behold...
	Have you ever sent a genetic test to 23andMe to find out more about yourself?
	Well, I have some bad news for you then, because that company is now merging with a corporation called VG Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition corporation that falls under the umbrella of Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
	Translation, your genome now belongs to Richard Branson, and he's going to do whatever the hell he wants with it.
	I love this.
	It's in a SPAC, no less.
	Of all the places to have your data resurface, This has always been a problem with, oh, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry about it, we've got it covered in the contract.
	And I always ask the question, what if you get bought out by some other company that doesn't give a crap about all these provisos?
	Oh, well, you know, we don't expect that to happen.
	And now it's not just a company that doesn't give a crap, it's a company that isn't actually a company.
	That's a SPAC. Can you explain the SPAC? Because I don't know if everyone understands what an incredible...
	To me, it seems like a scam.
	It's a special acquisition corporation.
	They're set out...
	The only way to describe it is it's like a pre-reverse...
	It's a reverse merger turned into an acquisition company.
	And it works by...
	It starts with a reverse merger, so you find some company that's worth 10 cents on the dollar.
	You can buy the whole company for like 100 grand because it's just a dead company and all they have is stock, so you get the stock.
	And then you get investors to all come in.
	You sell shares in this thing.
	You say what you're going to do.
	I'm going to buy these guys.
	And then you get all these investors in tens of millions of dollars and run the price of your company up to about $10 a share.
	And then you go out looking for your acquisition.
	You work some deal out one way or the other with an acquisition, usually through some nice bookkeeping.
	And then the stock, the SPAC company's stock skyrockets.
	Like, this is a real quick way to make, like, five or six baggers just, like, in weeks.
	This is a...
	People who follow these SPACs and are day traders, they love this environment.
	It's not going to last forever.
	Maybe we should have our own SPAC. We could.
	We could easily do it.
	Yeah, we'll just say we're investing in podcasts.
	We'll buy Spotify.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We could do that.
	We could.
	SPAC. All you do is find some guy who knows how to set this up, and then we need to...
	And I don't like to use the word crooked bookkeeper, but I'll use the word creative bookkeeper, and I've known a few, and boy, are they talented.
	A couple of those guys who can do leveraged buyouts and do these kinds of that kind of thing, do book...
	These SPACs use a lot of warrants, which is...
	Could we set up a SPAC whose only job is to buy other SPACs?
	Like a meta SPAC? No, you can't do that.
	Wow.
	That's too bad.
	You can't...
	Because this...
	Oh, they're already public.
	It's harder to do that, right?
	Well, it's not...
	That's not the reason.
	It's because the SPAC doesn't prove itself until it actually does its purchase, and the Skyrock's not worth the price.
	It's too expensive.
	Mm-hmm.
	You want to do what the SPACs are doing.
	You don't want to get a different kind of meta-SPAC. Call it meta-SPAC. What I said to begin with, let's just go buy up all the podcasting companies and Spotify and make one giant behemoth monopoly operation and then skim off as much money as we can and then see what happens.
	Okay, well why don't you get that started and we'll meet back here on Sunday.
	We'll meet back here on Sunday.
	I'll talk to Horowitz about it.
	Oh yeah, sure.
	It's doable.
	Coming up on noagendastream.com, Rare Encounter, episode 33 with Abel Kirby, Cold Acid, and guest Sir John Fletcher, so be on the lookout for that.
	End of show mix is Brian Rudder, dog Doug Longenecker.
	And that's about it.
	I got a sister-in-law coming in.
	Not the COVID one.
	So it should be a fun couple of days.
	Here in Austin, as we are open for business, we've got 80 degrees, we've got electricity and water.
	Come to Texas!
	We welcome you.
	Yeah, and stay there.
	And I'm in Opportunity Zone 33 in the capital of the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, it was about 75.
	It's not as hot.
	And we're doing okay here.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
	Remember, if you're looking it up on the governmental map where I am, it's FEMA region number six.
	Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Keep the grand experiment going.
	Until Sunday.
	Adios, mofos!
	And such.
	Big.
	We'll see you next time.
	It's so big.
	Oh my gosh.
	Can you see that?
	Big.
	It's so big.
	He's big.
	He's big.
	So, so, so big.
	He's big.
	Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big.
	They knew that and they know it now.
	Oh, fear porn music.
	Stay low.
	Oh, age of Aquarius.
	Drinking the soft totalitarian Kool-Aid.
	Music I don't know how long it's going to last.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We can write roll on it.
	Roll on it.
	Very fine.
	Unity.
	Come on!
	Wow.
	Come on, man, this people is great.
	We said forever.
	Everybody get together.
	There's a build back in right now.
	Oh, my God!
	It matters now, people.
	Let's arrest the Canadian pastor.
	Everybody get together.
	Let's build that better right now.
	Unity.
	Come on!
	Come on!
	People, let's create reset forever.
	Everybody get together.
	Let's build that better right now.
	Unity.
	Push it out.
	Energy!
	Make it stop.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	I am mofo.

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