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April 18, 2021 - No Agenda

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	The podcast story that you picked up on your vacation.
	Oh, it wasn't that great in hindsight.
	I saw...
	Oh, no!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, April 18, 2021, this is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media Assassination, episode 1339.
	This is No Agenda.
	19 ounces and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here at 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 we've noticed the news is over.
	It's over.
	I'm John C. DeVorex.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	What do you mean the news is over?
	If the news is over, the show is over.
	That can't be.
	The news is over.
	They've ended it.
	What happened?
	What did I miss?
	I don't do it on Sunday, but I did it anyway.
	The three networks.
	I'm talking about getting out of Afghanistan.
	Maybe we have to go back.
	Maybe we have to go back.
	Wait a minute.
	This was the news this morning?
	There's no news on Sunday morning.
	It's meet the press, face the nation, some other show on ABC. Right, right, right.
	Okay.
	Anyway, it seems like the news is over.
	They don't really have anything to talk about except COVID, getting out of Afghanistan, going back.
	We may have to go back.
	But we're not even gone.
	What are they talking about, have to go back?
	We may have to go back.
	I don't understand how that works.
	But we have to go back.
	I don't understand how any of that works.
	And they also had Whitmer was on.
	I saw her.
	Yeah, I saw her.
	Actually, I think I have...
	She didn't have much to say.
	She didn't have anything to say.
	No, she had something stupid.
	She's getting a very North Dakota accent, if you haven't noticed.
	She had something really stupid.
	Actually, I didn't clip her.
	It was so stupid.
	She was blaming it all on the rest of America.
	Oh, no, America didn't act fast enough, so, you know.
	Yeah, Republicans.
	Trump.
	Trump.
	But, you know, something happened Friday night, since you kind of bring it up, unless you want, was there a third observation from the news that's over?
	No, there pretty much, it was, no.
	I didn't get anything worthwhile.
	All right, well, Bill Maher, of the Bill Maher show.
	Shootings, there were shootings.
	Yeah, there were shootings.
	Well, there's a lot of that news.
	Bill Maher, who's a very left kind of guy.
	Yes, I watched this show myself.
	I didn't clip it.
	And I'm wondering what you got.
	Oh, I only clipped, well, two parts.
	He had a whole seven, eight-minute rant in his New Rules.
	I don't know if you watched the New Rules part.
	I never got that far.
	Ah, okay.
	Ah, okay.
	Because I didn't see the beginning of the show.
	I got this one like, hey, you got to watch, you got to watch this and watch this.
	Well, let me tell you, before you do that, then I'll just give you a briefing.
	Yes, what's the briefing on the show, please?
	He had Sharon Osbourne on.
	Oh, brother.
	Was she any good?
	And the two of them just ragged on the talk and how Sharon was right.
	Oh, interesting.
	And all she did was defend her friend Pierce Morgan and she was called a racist for doing it and Bill Maher went on and on.
	That's terrible.
	That people get called racist for no good reason, and then they left, and that was the end of it.
	Okay, well...
	That's in a nutshell.
	All right, so that's actually not too bad.
	That's admirable.
	Yeah, okay.
	So Bill Maher has been canceled before, we know, after 9-11 with his show Politically Incorrect.
	He lived up to the name of the show and said things that were deemed incredibly wrong.
	I'll explain what it was.
	Yes.
	He came out and said that the American military are cowards.
	The hijackers, he said, were not cowards.
	Yeah, the hijackers were not cowards because they had the guts to go blow themselves up.
	And the American military, who was sending missiles in from long range, cruise missiles, we were the cowards.
	Boom, he's off the air.
	He was off the air.
	Well, what was interesting about what he said on Friday's show, by itself was interesting.
	I just cut out a couple of pieces.
	It's about the media and COVID. So the politicians, he conveniently skips healthcare professionals, but okay, but also the media and how they are, in effect, helping us get sicker or certainly stupider.
	But what was most interesting was the crowd response.
	And I think this is a true crowd response.
	He has audience back.
	He's back with an audience.
	So I don't think it was canned.
	And you can...
	You know, the biggest problem I'm seeing, certainly around places like Austin, where everyone knows that there's all this crazy crap going on, but people are afraid to say it because that's what the cancel culture does.
	You know, if you are...
	Cast out of the group.
	That's horrible for some people.
	For some, it could mean economic demise.
	There's all kinds of reasons.
	So everyone's waiting for someone else to clap.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like, well, if one guy claps, maybe I could just clap along.
	Yes, maybe I could clap along.
	So here's Bill Maher.
	And this is his intro here to politicians in the media and medical reporting.
	Over the past year, the COVID pandemic has prompted the medical establishment, the media, and the government to take a scared straight approach to getting the public to comply with their recommendations.
	By the way, everything you hear as a no-agenda producer, you're going to be like, so?
	Like, we didn't know that?
	But the point is, it's Bill Maher saying it.
	I'm from a different school.
	Give it to me straight, Doc.
	Because in the long run, that always works better than you can't handle the truth.
	Already, they're kind of liking it.
	Now, I get it.
	Doctors tell people lies because they don't trust you to finish the antibiotics after your dick starts feeling better.
	That by itself, does your doctor lie to you, John?
	No.
	And the other thing is, that is a very poor thing to say because the reason you finish the antibiotics is not because you feel better and you just feel like stopping.
	There's a real sound reason for finishing the antibiotics.
	Right, and I've known that since I was seven years old.
	You always know you have to finish your antibiotics.
	Yes, so to wipe out the little bitty bugs that are just hanging in there because they can resist a little bit.
	Right.
	And you've got to get rid of them because those are the ones that can resist the next round of antibiotics.
	So if you don't finish your antibiotics, you could easily just be creating a worse bug.
	Right.
	It's responsible.
	It's like the thing, well, wear the mask because you're being responsible to other people.
	In the case of antibiotics, this is actually true.
	Right.
	Well, he's acting like doctors lie about that.
	I don't think they lie about it.
	Everyone knows this.
	But it doesn't matter.
	And media?
	Well, I think we all know if it bleeds, it leads.
	The more they can get you to stay inside and watch their panic porn, the higher the ratings.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, they're recognizing that.
	But when all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left.
	Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble, which of course is very real.
	Ask anyone who works at Hillary's pizza parlor.
	And we do know conservatives have some loopy ideas about COVID, like the third of Republicans who believe it couldn't be spread by someone showing no symptoms.
	Isn't that true?
	Am I a Republican now for thinking that this asymptomatic spread was indeed bullcrap?
	Well, yeah.
	You're a Republican dummy.
	I thought that it didn't spread.
	Wasn't that like we had a study that said this is just like the surfaces?
	Did I miss something?
	Yeah, the surfaces one is a good one.
	There's a lot of stuff if you read enough studies that you can pretty much...
	But no, he's bigoted.
	That's okay.
	But the next part...
	Is really cool.
	But what about liberals?
	You know, the high information by the science people?
	In a recent Gallup survey, Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question, what are the chances that someone who gets COVID will need to be hospitalized?
	The answer is between 1 and 5%.
	41% of Democrats thought it was over 50%.
	Another 28% put the chances at 20 to 49.
	So almost 70% of Democrats are wildly off on this key question and also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID-2 and the mortality rate among children.
	All of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states.
	So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn't liberal media have to answer for, how did your audience wind up believing such a bunch of crap about COVID? I didn't even know the statistic.
	That's fantastic.
	I sensed that this was true.
	Well, yeah.
	I sensed it from my neighbors.
	Yeah.
	The doctors, they haven't left their house for a year.
	Key term.
	The doctors, they're doctors.
	I know.
	Mimi's not thinking that maybe they're quacks.
	Yeah, well, there's a second part to this.
	A new report in The Atlantic says the media won't stop putting pictures of the beach on stories about COVID, even though it's looking increasingly like the beach is the best place to avoid it.
	Sunlight is the best disinfected, and vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system.
	Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently, and their infection rates went down, in part because of people getting outside.
	So let the sun and wind do their thing.
	Look, listen, listen.
	But to many liberals, that can't be right.
	Because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors.
	But life is complicated.
	I've read that the governor of Florida reads.
	I know we like to think of Florida as only middle school teachers on bath salts having sex with their students in front of an alligator.
	But apparently the governor is also a voracious consumer of the scientific literature.
	And maybe that's why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than did the governor of New York.
	And clapping again.
	Those are just facts.
	I know it's irresponsible of me to say them.
	I'm not saying it was wildly enthusiastic, but at least people are hearing something here.
	That's a different message.
	Especially when you, I mean, DeSantis, if you even say DeSantis has good hair, you get canceled for that.
	I've never heard anyone at that level...
	Even Horowitz won't say good things about DeSantis.
	Now, the governor was also a part of a controversy...
	Controversy this past week as Twitter was not allowing anyone to post video or audio or even articles about the roundtable that the governor of Florida put together regarding COVID. Because, oh my God, you know, it's disinformation.
	We can't have that.
	We can't be posting that on social media.
	So let's play two quick clips from it.
	So that everyone can see what the reason was why this just could not be allowed.
	And let's start with the children.
	Martin Calder, do you agree in school there's no need for them to be wearing face masks?
	Children should not wear face masks, no.
	They don't need it for their own protection and they don't need it for protecting other people either.
	I mean, I think schools...
	How do you teach a child to read with face masks on Zoom?
	Or, you know, I think the children develop by watching other people, and I think it's developmentally inappropriate, and it just doesn't help on the Z spread.
	I think it's absolutely not the right thing to do.
	Yeah, so we can't have that on Twitter.
	That would be completely wrong.
	We need to ruin the children.
	This is...
	Thinking of the children.
	Yeah, well, you got Jack Dorsey Hates Kids.
	Yeah.
	There's a second one from Scott Gottlieb.
	But I think the problem became the fear.
	The fear in the public, it was sort of like the fear was another contagion, I used to say, because we had...
	A dramatic impact of the need to get tested, the rush to get tested, this sort of obsession about testing, whereas testing was very valuable.
	The point of testing is to save lives, not to document every infection in low-risk people.
	There's your mass hysteria.
	It's all so obvious.
	Even quacks like us can figure it out.
	Well, I never thought there was much to figure out.
	There was some sort of a scam going on.
	It was at some different level.
	It was begun and run by a level that we're unfamiliar with.
	We didn't ever see anything like this happen before.
	The marketing and everything was just fine-tuned for it.
	Everyone fell for it.
	I don't know what to say.
	You're correct.
	It has been done before in precisely the same manner.
	And it failed.
	And we did pick up on it.
	And we did not fall for the scam.
	We didn't fall for this scam.
	No, but I want to play a flashback where I show what...
	And it's uncanny when you hear this, by the way.
	We're going back to the No Agenda show.
	I think this was episode 109.
	And this was back when vaccines were all in play.
	Remember, this was the anti-smoking vaccine, the anti-cocaine addiction vaccine, the anti-drinking vaccine.
	None of those came to market, of course.
	But it was the big thing back in the day.
	And then we had the swine flu.
	That's why we go back to July 3rd, 2009, and listen to what we were discovering then.
	The stories are all over the place, and the one that really got my attention this morning, somebody sent in.
	I don't have it in front of me, so I can't credit him, but I'll actually blog it and credit him there.
	I might have it.
	The 600 million doses of swine flu are needed for the U.S. That's exactly what they're doing in every other country.
	Two for each individual.
	300 million people, two doses, forced vaccinations coming your way.
	That's ridiculous.
	They're not going to get away with it.
	Well, do you mind if I play you a little piece of video from...
	This is an official speaking.
	Let me just get her name and then I'll fast forward to the relevant bit because she actually explains how the forced vaccinations will take place, what rights the U.S. government already has as of today to enter your home, to quarantine you, and to give you a forced vaccination.
	Are you interested, John, in hearing how that works?
	I'd rather talk about Britney Spears.
	Okay, so we were...
	We were great even back then.
	But do you notice the swine flu, they were trying to push the two vaccinations.
	They might have had the mRNA lined up, then they tried to do it.
	Well, I don't think they did that.
	I don't think they had the mRNA.
	I mean, they've been playing with mRNA for a long time, yeah.
	But...
	Well, a couple of things.
	I remember most of this.
	The two vaccines, no one was going for that.
	They didn't like the idea.
	And there was never really a good reason for it.
	And then somebody broke ranks.
	The thing was, there was not a...
	A unified front.
	This is the problem they had back in the day.
	Right.
	2009, back in the day.
	Back in the day.
	The unified front wasn't there.
	So somebody broke ranks and said, well, we can combine one shot.
	We can do one shot and we can combine it with the regular flu vaccine.
	Remember they did that at the very end?
	Yes.
	Yep.
	I remember that.
	Yep.
	Made the whole thing, wait a minute then, you're scamming us to tell us that we had to have two, two, two, two, two, you kept talking about two and now you can do one and combine it with the regular vaccine?
	Which they did, by the way.
	They put the H1N1 flu vaccine.
	Did they wind up doing that?
	Did they wind up putting that on the market?
	I believe so, yes.
	I seem to recall something like that, yeah.
	The idiots.
	And it didn't make any difference.
	It was just bull crap anyway.
	But the other thing was the triggering mechanism of the virus.
	It came out of Mexico.
	Now, every flu and screwball disease...
	With rare exceptions, at least we were always taught this, and I'll remind people what it was.
	They had not mentioned this once during this epidemic, because now it's coming from bats.
	But they all came out of China because people would have their pigs and their poultry mixed together in their farms, and these things would be...
	I can't remember the exact word.
	Where it jumps from animal to man to animal, one animal to the other, and it creates some bug and it gets out.
	And it's always the way all the flus come from this problem in China.
	No one was ever creative to bring in pangolins.
	I mean, that was new.
	They had a new writer for that one.
	That was good.
	Well, they came up with a bad idea because it was a coronavirus and it wasn't a flu.
	So they gave up on the flu, influenza, even though that's what the Spanish pandemic was.
	So they created something in a lab and released it.
	Let's summarize.
	So, talking about the two doses.
	Two doses, maybe going to one dose.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	That is not in the interest of anyone like Pfizer.
	Tonight, the CEO of Pfizer saying a booster shot will likely be needed within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated.
	And it's possible people will need to get the COVID vaccine yearly, just like the flu shot.
	A likely scenario is that there will be likely a need for a third dose somewhere between 6 and 12 months.
	Oh, 6 and 12 months.
	I love Andrew Horowitz's response to this news.
	He's on Twitter.
	He's nothing but sad face.
	Yeah, Andrew, it's time for your next shot.
	Come on now.
	Come on now.
	I suggested to him in an email.
	Maybe it was a tweet.
	I think it was an email, though.
	I said, well, here's the deal.
	What if this is the situation?
	The mRNA screws with you so much.
	With your own system so much that now for the rest of your life you have to have these boosters to keep it from going out of control.
	Oh my goodness.
	Wouldn't that be harsh?
	Right out of good science fiction story.
	You get the shot.
	You need the shot otherwise the mRNA is going to kill you.
	Yeah.
	So you need these counter shots.
	You have to have one every year.
	What we're kind of finding out, and it's a little confusing, but people who get the shot are apparently shedding spike protein, even though that is not the coronavirus, but they are shedding it around people.
	We heard that from the Belgian guy, what was his name?
	How do you shed it?
	Well, the same way that when you're contagious.
	Yeah, but it's just a spike protein.
	It's like sneezing out a bunch of cornflakes.
	I mean, what difference does it make?
	What I understand is that if you're next to someone who has that, you can get the spike protein, your body responds to it as if it's the virus.
	Well, since it's not going to kill you, the spike protein is not.
	Right.
	It's just a random spike protein.
	So what?
	Well, I don't know.
	I'm just throwing it out there.
	I'm trying to figure stuff out.
	What I do know...
	If you're vaccinating someone who has certain illnesses, which is not really being discussed now, there's something called the antibodies-dependent enhancement process that takes place, which can make you very sick.
	And this may be some of this blood clotting, some of this other stuff that's taking place, which, by the way, is not unique to Johnson& Johnson, of course.
	But here's Fauci in 2020 addressing this in a very short clip This should be played or replayed and people should pay attention to what he's saying here.
	Does the vaccine make you worse?
	And there are diseases in which you vaccinate someone.
	They get infected with what you're trying to protect them with and you actually enhance the infection.
	You can get a good feel for that in animal models.
	So that's going to be interspersed at the same time that we're testing.
	We're going to try and make sure we don't have enhancement.
	It's the worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate somebody to prevent infection and actually make them worse.
	So you don't hear that discussion anymore, do you?
	Well, what was the key in there?
	Well, the key is there are certain diseases and people should not be vaccinated.
	No, that was the overall theme.
	Well, what do you mean?
	What was the key?
	You need to test it against animal models.
	And what is the one thing they did not do?
	Test it on animals!
	Yes!
	Adam Curry, Austin, Texas.
	He wins.
	Well, we all know what's going to happen with this thing, and the Australian Channel 7 News, they know exactly what's going on with the vaccine.
	An Australian biotech company has developed a new treatment it hopes will prevent people dying from COVID vaccine.
	Okay, so Australia trying to save us from dying from vaccines.
	But this story that came in from Arliss, one of our producers, is fantastic.
	It says, When the big day came for her first shot, my friend called her to make sure she was doing okay.
	She seemed much calmer, less agitated.
	She was no longer ranting about the Chinese.
	She claimed no real side effects except Remember, she's 80 years old.
	Hours after getting the vaccine, she had an orgasm.
	And then the next morning, another one.
	Without any sexual contact at all.
	Years of having not had any sexual pleasure.
	She's having orgasms on a regular basis.
	Now this is some marketing.
	Just by standing around?
	Yes.
	I guess.
	Just by standing around.
	I don't have the details.
	But yes, a spontaneous orgasm.
	There is an affliction.
	There is something that some women have, or I've read about, where this happens all the time.
	Yeah, no.
	Never mind.
	I'm not going to say any more.
	I've heard it such a thing.
	But I thought that was a very interesting side effect.
	Something we did not consider yet.
	Well, that would be the way to do it.
	Put it into whatever that is that you did.
	Put it in the vaccine.
	Everyone will just flock to that one.
	Well, it's kind of interesting that the Chinese, again, ahead of Pfizer on this, they're the guys that are supposed to have the boner pills and the libido stuff.
	Now, the Chinese are horning in on the female side of the action.
	You've got to be careful with these Chinese.
	They've got all kinds of good drugs.
	From Pangolins.
	Let's look at some of the marketing.
	Now, I can't say that these are specifically Pfizer-related money, but we know that there's $3 billion the U.S. government is giving away to market against vaccine hesitancy.
	Here's one influencer on TikTok who explains how that works.
	To debate or anything, but I've just seen obviously the vaccine tab and teach their own.
	If you want to get the vaccine, get the vaccine to each your own.
	But I did just want to make a little note that I've received two vaccine campaigns paying thousands of dollars to go and get a vaccine or go get the vaccine and record it and take a selfie while getting the vaccine.
	Just going to throw that out there.
	Now, shouldn't that be some kind of FTC violation that you're paying influencers to just go film themselves getting the vaccine as a stealth native ad without disclosing that?
	You have to remember, let's go back again on the little machine of ours and realize that If you recall, around, I'm thinking six years ago, the FTC and some other group that was during the Obama administration made a huge fuss about people on Twitter, specifically, pretending to like something because they got paid to pretend to like it.
	Right.
	And they were supposed to, now they had to be disclosed.
	You had to disclose doing this.
	Yeah, that's what I thought.
	Well, I don't see any disclosures going on on TikTok.
	That woman's little bust out there, which I thought was admirable on her part, I would say indicates that there's a bunch of people that you see them showing up, taking the vaccine, and then they're getting paid.
	This is against the law.
	That's what I was thinking.
	That's not the way it's supposed to work.
	Where's the enforcement?
	You know, one of my pet peeves.
	Where is the enforcement, he said?
	Where is the enforcement of such a law?
	We need to follow the rules.
	It's a law.
	It's not a rule.
	It's a law and it's being broken left and right and nobody's doing anything about it.
	They should be arresting people left and right and throwing them in jail.
	That's what I think.
	The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reached an agreement with popular video game deals Twitter account Wario64.
	Yes, Wario64 has about 900,000 followers on Twitter, and they've come to an agreement so that the Twitter account, not saying it's a person, a company, just the Twitter account, Wario64 will now be paid to announce COVID-19 vaccine availability nationwide.
	I mean, these are good little deals you can get from the government today.
	Shit, man.
	Exit strategy.
	We'll just reverse everything.
	Take some dough.
	Tell everyone vaccines are great.
	And then we'll split it all.
	We'll make everybody whole on the back end.
	Yeah, exactly.
	As we exit.
	Bye.
	States see rise in unused vaccines as demand flattens.
	Yeah, this is what our producers are reporting everywhere.
	But the best part of the marketing or the Pfizer marketing that is coming undone is a story from Norway.
	And as you know, we have producers everywhere, including Norway.
	The Norwegian doctor Per Andre Holm.
	Who first published the AstraZeneca vaccine blood clotting side effects, which led, of course, to the stop and overall distrust of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Norway and other northern European countries.
	Well, guess what he didn't disclose?
	That he has about $100,000 worth of reimbursements from Pfizer.
	This is so blatant.
	They don't even care.
	They're getting careless.
	It's very careless.
	But the thing is, it doesn't matter.
	There's no...
	Well, somehow they've talked to government The corruption must be everywhere.
	At all levels, including the enforcement arms.
	And once the corruption hits enforcement, which obviously is done, then you're doomed.
	I mean, this is like trying to get justice in Mexico.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's pretty sad.
	You're right.
	It's just sad.
	Well, Big Pharma, they're really powerful.
	Well, they got the media already in their pocket.
	So once you get the media in your pocket, you got it made.
	And the media is shameless.
	Yeah, they are.
	Here's a commercial that one of our producers picked up.
	This is how bad it is in the United States.
	Now, as you know, we have pharmaceutical advertisements are allowed here.
	And is it also New Zealand?
	Is that the only other country in the world that allows this?
	I believe it's New Zealand.
	I don't know that they do.
	I thought we were the only ones.
	We're the only one that matters because we're big.
	So it is so bad in America with the pharmaceutical industry, with the pills and the potions and the stuff that people are jammed with by doctors, just jammed full with it.
	Now we need to have commercials like this one.
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	You don't believe this?
	No, this is either a Saturday Night Live sketch or something else stupid.
	There's no old man that spends an hour a day sorting pills.
	Bullcrap.
	I believe this one.
	I'll get to the bottom of it.
	I believe this.
	Yes.
	You've been ahead.
	No, no.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think so.
	Maybe.
	Well, okay.
	Here's one that's definitely real.
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	The various COVID-19 vaccines work differently, but all do the same thing.
	They stop COVID-19 from making you sick.
	When someone usually gets sick from a virus, that virus has been able to get into the body cells and force them to make more of the virus.
	And until a body has had enough time to make antibodies to fight the virus, that person will stay sick.
	But when you get a COVID-19 vaccine, it tells your cells to pretend to look like COVID-19 cells.
	And because your body's defenses think those are COVID-19 cells, even though they aren't, your defenses start preparing antibodies to fight the virus.
	Even though you don't have the virus.
	And your body won't attack your cells that look like COVID-19.
	Now with your body prepared, if the real COVID-19 virus comes along, your body is ready to stop it right away.
	So you won't get sick.
	All because the vaccine prepared your body.
	So, get your vaccine when it's available.
	So your body is protected.
	A message from Cincinnati Children's.
	Well, we've explained this mechanism on the show a million times, and that's exactly how it's supposed to work.
	The problem is, does it ever stop producing?
	You know, there's issues.
	Yeah.
	Which is, does it ever stop producing protein spikes?
	You go and sends a messenger RNA, and they say, hey, make these spikes.
	And a bunch of cells say, oh, well, I don't know.
	I got nothing else to do.
	So I'm going to do that.
	I'm going to make spikes.
	It starts making spikes.
	And it starts making more spikes and keeps making them.
	And meanwhile, some other cells probably got the word from this mRNA vaccine.
	It says, I'm going to make spikes, too.
	I can make more spikes than you.
	And they start making all these spikes, and pretty soon your whole system's clogged up with spikes.
	Is that possible?
	I think that what is happening, if you take this first 20, 30 minutes into account, is that even people who really are all in, not all, because there's going to be a segment that are just completely lost, I think people are starting to wake up.
	And you see this, oh, what, a booster?
	Six months?
	What?
	What?
	Every year, and people, as you pointed out in the newsletter, people are down to comparing the side effects of each vaccine.
	Well, I know I can handle pain better than nausea, so I'll take the Pfizer.
	This is insane, the level that people have gotten to.
	The comparison was on a TV. We have TV shows now, and we have Zoom conferences, and people are comparing side effects.
	Yeah.
	When has this ever happened in our lifetime?
	Yeah, never.
	Side effects are supposed to be rare.
	There's supposed to be a side effect that maybe there's just something that could happen.
	And it's the little thing at the end.
	If side effects are now normalized, I don't know how these drug company ads are going to work because if side effects are normalized, pretty much everything you take is going to kill you.
	They say so in the ad.
	Yes, if they actually have to do side effects, you're so right, because when you're an officially FDA-approved medication, not emergency use authorization, I think you do have to put all the disclaimers on the TV ad, so they just won't do it.
	And why would they?
	Well, they have to.
	They just won't do ads.
	Why would they?
	Look at all the free ads.
	I don't know what they're going to do about this.
	Look at free ads.
	They've created a monster.
	And let's just remind ourselves of what Dr.
	Bill told us could be the possible side effect.
	Nothing more, nothing less.
	So the data showed that everybody with a high dose had a side effect.
	Yeah, but some of that is not dramatic, where it's just super painful.
	But yes, we need to make sure there's not severe side effects.
	The FDA, I think, will do a good job of that, despite the pressure.
	Well, no.
	The FDA has not done a good job.
	We have women all of a sudden menstruating when they haven't.
	We have women getting orgasms when they haven't.
	I'm not saying it's a bad side effect.
	Diabetes?
	Diabetes, blindness, temporary blindness.
	A lot of people just drop dead.
	The super painful part seems to be just part of the overall equation for everybody, no matter what.
	Well, I do have some COVID clips.
	Okay.
	But they're all rap clips.
	They're all clips of, you know, trying to get things wrapped.
	Well, that's good.
	Let's do that.
	Let's do that.
	Let's start to wrap things up.
	Even though, by the way...
	It's not going to wrap.
	This is not a wrap on COVID by any means.
	No, I'm going to give you that.
	I'm going to kind of give it away.
	But the wrap is that this is going to continue.
	Oh, gee.
	Spoiler.
	Yeah.
	Let's go with COVID Report CBS 1.
	Staggering new milestone.
	More than 3 million lives now taken by the virus.
	For context, that's more than the population of Houston.
	What?
	Hey, hey, hey, hey, stop!
	What is this?
	I thought the same thing.
	Why Houston?
	Why are you picking on Houston?
	That's not cool.
	You know, when they do something like that, I'm always thinking, is this code?
	Yeah, this is code for Republican...
	No, is this code for some bad thing that's going to happen in Houston again?
	I think so.
	Yeah, sure they are.
	So now's the time to disinvest from Houston?
	You remember the story Rubicon, which is now, I guess they're replaying it somewhere on one of those networks.
	Yeah.
	The whole intelligence scam, quote-unquote, from all these small intelligence operations was just to find good investments.
	So here's what I'd say.
	Governor of Texas Abbott came out two weeks ago now, I believe, and said, hey, we're close to herd immunity and we're all good.
	And if you look at the New York Times from, let me see, I have the date on this.
	This is April 11th, so last week, headline, has Texas achieved herd immunity?
	There's no way on God's green earth, an expert says.
	So they're going after Texas because he, just like Bill Maher said, with Florida too, but I don't think I had that in the clip, but Yeah, mask mandates dropped.
	Cases went down.
	It's counterintuitive.
	We can't have that.
	So maybe they're planning a super spreader event.
	Houston is great for that.
	We have a very diverse population.
	A lot of obese people in Houston, just anecdotally from having been there recently and being at the airport in Houston recently, which is probably the biggest health problem we have.
	So yeah, maybe.
	And notice they've gone from half a million people dead in America to three million, which is the worldwide figure.
	So that's kind of fun to do.
	You just want to scare people.
	Staggering new milestones.
	More than three million lives now taken by the virus.
	For context, that's more than the population of Houston.
	For the latest, Tom Hansen joins us in New York.
	Tom, good evening.
	Hey there, Adriana.
	Well, health officials are concerned over a spring surge.
	The United States has reported nearly a quarter of a million cases in the past week alone, even as vaccinations accelerate.
	Tonight, cases on the rise with several states across the country battling new infections.
	The CDC blames dangerous variants and relaxed...
	Hold on.
	Battling new infections.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Your cases can go up.
	People do PCR testing.
	They get it.
	You're positive.
	You're not seething with infection, lying dead in the ICU. There's no battling.
	People get testing positive.
	They go home.
	97% will be fine.
	They're not battling anything.
	It's certainly not infection.
	This is disgusting.
	Who is this again?
	Oh, CBS. CIA Broadcasting System.
	Tonight, cases on the rise with several states across the country battling new infections.
	The CDC blames dangerous variants and relaxed restrictions, including ending mask mandates for the increase in cases.
	All roads to defeating the pandemic go through the path of successfully and quickly vaccinating the country.
	It's a race for shots with nearly a third of American adults now fully vaccinated.
	50% have received at least one dose.
	We're trying to get it as soon as possible.
	Like I said, we want this then as soon as possible.
	But with the variants infecting young Americans and more than 37,000 people hospitalized nationwide, experts warn the U.S. strategy to out-vaccinate a mutating virus could derail progress.
	Oh my goodness.
	This report...
	I mean, it's even like...
	Yeah, John, I'm out here.
	I'm battling the coronavirus.
	It's really, really bad.
	You know, we see there's cases that are just up all over the place.
	But the battle goes on.
	We will not unmet!
	That last little thing he said at the end there was kind of, I don't know if you can call it a non sequitur maybe.
	It's like self-contradictory.
	I'm not sure, but can you play just the end of this and listen carefully to what he said as a conclusion?
	Now fully vaccinated, 50% have received at least one dose.
	We're trying to get it as soon as possible.
	Like I said, we want this done as soon as possible.
	But with the variants infecting young Americans and more than 37,000 people hospitalized nationwide, experts warned the U.S. strategy to out-vaccinate a mutating virus could derail progress.
	Wait, out-vaccinate?
	Trying to out-vaccinate the virus could derail progress?
	Should we stop taking vaccinations?
	Is that what he's indicating here?
	Let's listen to that last bit one more time.
	Spitalyze nationwide.
	Experts warn the U.S. strategy to out-vaccinate a mutating virus could derail progress.
	Oh, I understand.
	Oh, no, I get it.
	This is a new meme.
	The idea is...
	And I said...
	Please explain.
	The meme is, and I think Whitmer is the one that's at the front of this, we have to lock down again.
	The variants are, you cannot out-vaccinate the variants, it's time to lock down again.
	That's what's going on here.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay.
	Now listen to it.
	By the way, I'm going to say it, normally I'd catch stuff like this, you caught it, very poorly executed.
	Let's listen to it again in context now.
	The variants infecting young Americans and more than 37,000 people hospitalized nationwide.
	Experts warned the U.S. strategy to out-vaccinate a mutating virus could derail progress.
	Mm-hmm.
	Progress.
	Okay, well, there's still an issue here with that commentary.
	Mm-hmm.
	It could derail, in other words, taking all these, pushing vaccinations like crazy because we're number one, could derail progress.
	What progress?
	Oh, economic recovery?
	Or great reset?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I think it's still crappy.
	It's very poorly done.
	Well, no, it's...
	What network was that?
	Was that CBS? CIA Broadcasting System.
	Oh, that's below their standard.
	I agree.
	They usually are better.
	Well, that guy will...
	He's done.
	Yeah, someone will have a talk with him.
	Now, okay, well, we're still staying with these series, because it turns out to be a series.
	It goes on and on.
	Oh.
	So they go right from there to the part two in the same report, and this time we're talking to Justin Trudeau.
	For some reason, Trudeau just shows up, and now we're talking about Canada.
	Oh, of course we know why Trudeau shows up.
	You know, it's about lockdowns.
	Canada is the king of lockdowns.
	Numbers are higher than they've ever been before.
	In Canada, officials are sounding the alarm.
	Infection rates now outpace those in the U.S. and threaten to overrun hospitals.
	It's worse than the provinces of Alberta and Ontario, where police now have new powers to curb the spread.
	This wave is different from previous waves, in part because the variants of concern are more communicable, And better news here in New York.
	Hospitalizations are at their lowest point since December in the state.
	And New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio says 5 million New Yorkers should be vaccinated by June.
	Adriana?
	Okay.
	Variants of concern.
	Great term.
	I have the health officials from Ontario explaining the rules, if you'd like to hear those real quick.
	Okay, then we go to one more country after this.
	Yes, we'll stay in Canada, then we go to the next country.
	Here's the intro of the officials of Ontario explaining the lockdown rules.
	We've implemented the strictest measures in all of North America.
	Yeah!
	And the difficult truth is...
	They're number one, you see.
	Every public health measure we have left comes with a massive cost to people and their lives.
	But we have never shied away from doing what's necessary.
	We have made the deliberate decision to temporarily enhance police officers' authority for the duration of the stay-at-home order.
	Moving forward, police will have the authority to require any individual who is not in a place of residence to first provide their purpose for not being at home and provide their home address.
	Police will also have the authority to stop a vehicle, to inquire about an individual's reason for leaving their residence.
	And our inspectors will also be ensuring that those who absolutely must come to work are strictly following the public health measures.
	For our employers and employees, take note.
	This is your last warning.
	And then they had a Q&A. What was the first warning?
	The guy just says this is your last warning to be just a big Canadian dick?
	Yeah, when...
	Employers were not taking this seriously.
	They were allowing their employees to come to work, even though they were not deemed essential enough to do such activities.
	And the Q&A came in, and obviously you'd like to know what happens if you don't play along.
	I'm wondering about these new police powers to just randomly stop someone walking down the street or to pull over a car.
	What happens if a person refuses to answer the police questions?
	So by issuing these new additional enforcement measures, it allows police officers to ask the person why they are not at their place of residence and what their place of residence is.
	And specifically to your question, if you are not willing to comply, then you are Breaking the law.
	Woohoo!
	Breaking the law.
	Canada, what have you allowed to happen?
	The law that they just put in place.
	Yeah, what happened?
	I'm sorry?
	Why don't they get rid of these people?
	Well, maybe they will after this next one, which is about snitching.
	If someone sees their neighbors breaking these new regulations and having a party in their yard, that sort of thing, should people call police on their neighbors?
	In terms of people calling to snitch, to inform, look, we all have a personal responsibility.
	If it means saving lives, then I think we have to think about what your social responsibilities are as an individual to make sure that you don't empower other people and invite a whole bunch of individuals to your home.
	Man, we talk about America becoming China, but ha-pu-ta-ta-ta-ching-ching over there of North Canada.
	What are you allowing to happen?
	Gee, this is pretty extreme.
	Well, the thing about the Canadians, I've had this theory...
	About addressing the Americans and the Canadians at a base level.
	And the base level begins with the American Revolution, where we just did what we did.
	We pulled out a bunch of guns and rousted the British.
	The Canadians never did this.
	They left them there, but they got their way by complaining a lot.
	And if you go to Canada enough, you start to notice that Canadians are really good at complaining.
	And they bitch and moan, okay, okay, okay, whatever you want.
	And they get their way often.
	So this new moment seems to be a challenge to the Canadians.
	Can they complain their way out of this mess?
	So you're saying Canadians complain and then the government eventually relents and says, okay, we won't do that because you're all complaining.
	That's what your assertion is.
	That's basically what I'm saying, yes.
	They're complainers.
	That sounds reasonable.
	Compared to Americans, we pull out a gun.
	I wish we were still doing that.
	We don't.
	Well, we're still doing it enough that everyone's worked up about it.
	But we're not...
	I have to say, the complaining methodology is not a bad one if you do it right, because that's what a lot of the protests and the like and such tend to be focused around.
	And we're trying to make ourselves more complainers than we are violent.
	But it may or may not be working.
	So we're becoming Canadians.
	I think, well, we're trying to.
	We're trying to become, because they're so peaceful.
	It's so nice of them.
	If you notice, a lot of Canadians, especially Canadian actresses and actors, they're all in on the whole, all this protest, anti-Trump stuff.
	And it's all, the anti-Trump stuff is all based on complaining.
	Trump never did anything, one way or the other.
	But let's bitch about him.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's interesting.
	Well, it's just a thesis.
	Onward, onward with the final COVID. Yes, CIA broadcast systems.
	The CIA broadcasting system.
	What are they trying to tell us?
	This is...
	They keep going.
	They plowed right through Canada.
	And now we're going to the real good one.
	The one that we can't prove because nobody's down there to report.
	No, no.
	We've had our producer reporting that there were Chinese vaccines and it was okay.
	No one's dying in the streets.
	I agree.
	We have foots on the ground that tend to give us...
	The straight dope.
	But no, no, no.
	The networks and the American public, they don't know what the hell's going on.
	Brazil might as well be on Mars.
	So let's hear our Brazilian report as we continue on with CBS's COVID rundown.
	A deadly COVID variant tearing through Brazil has that country's medical system at a breaking point.
	A CBS News team traveled there this week.
	And as Manlo Bahorquez reports, the situation is dire.
	Villa Penteado Hospital in Sao Paulo is not only full, it no longer accepts anyone but COVID-19 patients.
	Dr.
	Daniela De Jesus says the virus's victims are getting younger, and once they are here, the odds are against them.
	In your experience, how many of these nine people in this one room will recover or not?
	Less than half will recover.
	You really get the sense of worst case scenario being in this hospital.
	In this room, people are being intubated.
	In the other room, we saw someone getting chest compressions.
	It's exhausting work, emotionally too.
	You're the last person they see before they die.
	Some of them.
	For many here, suffering is taking different forms.
	The virus's economic toll means food insecurity is surging, especially in the favelas, lower income settlements.
	This young man, Antonio, made it clear to us what he'd have to do if it weren't for the daily community lunches distributed here.
	If you did this, meaning robbing people would be the other option.
	This is a horrible report.
	You think?
	And again, bringing in, oh yeah, I'm the last person.
	I'm the last person they see before they die.
	That's right.
	Look at me.
	I'm the angel of death.
	You need to see your faces all covered up.
	Oh, of course.
	This was...
	Angel of death.
	A couple of things that were in there.
	One was the...
	What was it called?
	He had some word for the low-income or...
	Yeah, the favelas.
	The favelas.
	The low-income favelas.
	Favelas are slums.
	It's not just low-income.
	Shanty towns.
	They're built out of nothing.
	They're just thrown up there.
	It's what we're starting here in Austin.
	We're taking that model.
	Yeah, the favela model.
	The favelas of East Austin.
	Always my Brazilian friends, especially in Rio, one in particular, kind of a famous writer down there, he would always bitch and moan about the favelas because the problem with the favelas is that they're not managed by the city itself.
	They have their own government.
	They don't have a government that's official or one that's legal, but they have their own government.
	And it causes nothing but problems.
	And that's what's going to happen in Austin.
	Because you end up with some gangs taking over the whole favela.
	Drug gangs, usually.
	Or robbery gangs or strong gang.
	No, no.
	Here it's just Democrats.
	Democrats have taken over the favelas.
	They have yard signs, John.
	They have yard signs in front of their tents.
	Saying vote no on Prop B. I mean, you don't get to have a yard sign.
	What?
	Yes.
	Well, Prop B is...
	Oh, where's the photos?
	Yes, I'll get that for you.
	I know exactly.
	It'll still be there, so I'll drive by, I'll get a photo.
	That is a fabulous, and I use the word judiciously, concept of a bunch of Democrats in homeless tents.
	And the party chief, they're going, you know, I think it's the future of our party.
	We get a lot of votes out of these people.
	We need to run the favelas.
	We'll run the favelas.
	We'll get them all to vote Democrat.
	They'll line up and we'll keep an eye on each of their ballots and we'll make them all vote Democrat.
	This is what it's all about.
	It is sad.
	It is sad.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so we really don't know.
	This could be total bullcrap.
	It's just, they're just filling up stuff.
	Just filling up news time.
	They don't have an orange man to yell at, so let's show other people who are in dire straits and distress.
	Ha!
	Not only are they getting the COVIDs, they live in favelas.
	Shacks!
	There's got to be some subliminal message there, too, you know.
	It could be you.
	Whatever the case, which is a line I stole from you, you're not allowed to talk about this in Congress, and this is the outrage du jour, which is kind of cute, just to listen to it, as I guess it was Scalise and Jim Jordan, and they had Fauci in the hearing, and I didn't clip all of this.
	In fact, the Scalise thing, although funny, he was holding up pictures of the I would say asylum seekers.
	You can't call them immigrants.
	The asylum seekers, the inappropriate procedure asylum seekers at the border in their cells, you know, looking like hot dogs wrapped up in tinfoil with no masks, no social distancing.
	And, you know, they're being put on planes without being tested to go fly to other parts of the country.
	So it was very obvious how...
	You know, how stupid it is.
	It's like you get yelled at if you're breathing for three seconds through your nose on Southwest, but yet it's okay for people from all over South America to come in and not be tested and be flown around.
	So that's the outrage on social media today.
	And with that comes a couple clips.
	The governor of our third largest state meets with physicians and that video is censored because they dare to disagree with you.
	Oh, this is about the DeSantis roundtable that was censored.
	Dr.
	Fauci?
	So I just want to know, when do Americans get their First Amendment liberties back?
	You know, I don't think anything was censured because they felt they couldn't disagree with me.
	I think you're making this a personal thing, and it isn't.
	It's not a personal thing.
	No, you are.
	That is exactly what you're doing.
	No, your recommendations carry a lot away, Dr.
	Fauci.
	We just had the chair of the Financial Services Committee said she loves you and you're the greatest thing in the world.
	Will the gentleman yield?
	My recommendations are consistent.
	Will the gentleman yield?
	Can I answer the question, please?
	My recommendations are not a personal recommendation.
	It's based on the CDC guidance, which is underscored.
	What measures have to be attained before Americans get their First Amendment liberties back?
	I just told you that.
	I know you haven't given anything specific.
	You said, we hope when this...
	Tell me specifically.
	Right now, we have about 60,000 infections a day, which is a very large risk.
	Infections!
	We're not talking about...
	Again, we went from cases...
	Of positive polymers chain reaction amplification process cases to infections!
	Which is a very large risk for a surge.
	We're not talking about liberties.
	We're talking about a pandemic that has killed 560,000 Americans.
	That's what we're talking about.
	And I don't disagree with that.
	And I understand how serious that is.
	But I also stand as pretty serious when businesses have been shut down.
	People can't go to church.
	People can't assemble in their own homes with their friends, with their families.
	People can't go to a loved one's funeral.
	People can't get to their government, petition their representative to redress their grievances.
	I also understand the First Amendment's pretty darn important.
	And it's been a year.
	And I want to know when Americans will get those First Amendment liberties back.
	So, Jim Jordan is a dick here, too.
	He's grandstanding to an extreme.
	Oh, you know, and you know Fauci can say, if I was Fauci, I'd be Fauci.
	Yeah.
	Jordan, uh...
	I'll be Jordan.
	I got nothing to do with Twitter.
	Wait, I'll be Jordan.
	I'll be Jordan.
	Dr.
	Fauci, when are we getting our First Amendment when he's back?
	Hey, I got nothing to do with Twitter.
	I'm not even a shareholder.
	What are you blaming me for?
	Twitter.
	I got nothing to do with Twitter.
	He's grandstanding.
	It's ridiculous.
	I mean, seriously.
	Oh, when do we...
	Hey, you know, we have these rights.
	That's the way to look at it.
	But no, not this Republican.
	No, he's doing it for effect and for his own political career.
	Oh, he's hoping to be president.
	He's just not...
	Well, of course, this is the moment for these guys.
	They want to shine.
	They're going to gates him, too.
	Ooh, I like it as a term.
	They're going to gates him.
	Very nice.
	Of course, both sides of the aisle needed to speak up, and this is what happened from the Democratic side.
	Sparks were flying on Capitol Hill as Dr.
	Anthony Fauci clashed with the Republican lawmaker.
	What does it have to be?
	You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.
	Congresswoman Maxine Waters ending the tax exchange telling Republican Jim Jordan to shut his mouth.
	Wow!
	You need to shut your mouth!
	Man, that's out there, Max.
	She's a complete...
	I'm glad she's there because she's nuts.
	Yeah.
	Now, I got to play this.
	Now, since you brought up the numbers, I want you to listen carefully to this NPR report.
	This is the COVID worried numbers report.
	Now, they're talking about the numbers and they're talking about the deaths and all the rest.
	And I want you to listen carefully to what underlying bogus assumptions are made in this report.
	More than a year into the pandemic, the world has seen more than 3 million deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
	NPR's Dave Misty reports.
	COVID-19's global death toll officially topped the 3 million mark as of Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
	But many experts say the actual count is almost certainly higher, with some deaths over the past year likely misattributed to the flu or other illness.
	In the United States, the virus is to blame for well more than half a million deaths.
	As the U.S. and other developed nations have seen death rates decline in part due to widespread vaccine rollouts, some areas of the globe, like Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, have emerged as hotspots.
	Leaders at the World Health Organization say the current rate of global spread is worrying.
	Dave Mistich, NPR News.
	Okay.
	First of all, this guy is from the World Health Organization milieu.
	Who else says Dez?
	That's Tedros.
	He never says deaths.
	He says Dez.
	This guy said Dez.
	He did.
	He said Dez.
	You're right, it's a milieu.
	So, but he also said...
	It's called a milieu catch.
	An MC. Right here there was something.
	But many experts say the actual count is almost certainly higher, with some deaths over the past year likely misattributed to the flu or other illness.
	Bullcrap.
	That means it would be lower.
	No, hold on.
	No, no, he said, no, he, no.
	What he said is that the COVID death number should be higher because somebody died of the flu.
	They actually died of COVID. But we know from the death counts of year after year, flu after flu, the numbers are in the tens of hundreds of thousands.
	They're down to nothing.
	There were no deaths.
	There was no Dez.
	And so you end up with more being attributed to COVID, not less.
	And the fake numbers where a guy got, you know, knocked over, you know, got killed on his motorcycle and gave it a COVID death.
	And now you got Sandy Ocasio-Cortez going on and on about how they could fake up the numbers to get some free money from the government to bury the dead.
	We're number one!
	So the COVID numbers have got to be bogus to an extreme on the high side.
	But that's exactly how I interpreted it.
	Because you know the facts of the matter.
	The way they're telling it is, well, those numbers are definitely not the real numbers, which are much higher.
	Give me a break.
	There's no way they're higher.
	And I love the milestone, which is a talking point they sent out.
	Oh, milestones.
	Oh, we got a milestone.
	Three million deaths.
	I want to hear this report again, just to hear the deaths.
	More than a year into the pandemic, the world has seen more than three million deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
	Hold on, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	You have to start it over again and listen to her first...
	She runs out of air.
	I don't know how you can run out of air in 10 seconds.
	More than a year into the pandemic, the world has seen more than 3 million deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
	She's practicing for that big gig, you know, the Jeff Begay's gig.
	NPR's Dave Mistage reports.
	Death toll officially tops the 3 million mark as of Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
	But many experts say the actual count is almost certainly higher, with some deaths over the past year likely misattributed to the flu or other illness.
	In the United States, the virus is to blame for well more than half a million deaths.
	As the U.S. and other developed nations have seen death rates decline in part due to widespread vaccine rollouts, some areas of the globe, like Asia, Eastern Europe and...
	Wait, this is, this whole report, everything, this reporting is all Ministry of Truth.
	I mean, what does he say here?
	As the U.S. and other developed nations have seen death rates decline in part due to widespread vaccine rollouts, some areas of the globe, like Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, have emerged as hotspots.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Anyway.
	Fine.
	The whole thing is...
	Out of control.
	The whole thing is messed up.
	It really is.
	Let me see if I have any other important things.
	One of my producers is a doctor of philosophy.
	Okay, well, you've got plenty of doctors of philosophy, I'm sure, that listen to the show.
	And he said, Adam, I like your new approach for telling people you won't be getting the vaccine.
	I've been doing the same thing, only I have a variation.
	Instead of saying, you know, I had COVID, so I don't need to have a vaccine, you should say, no, no, no, I'm a COVID survivor.
	Because it immediately disarms people, triggers the nutjob brain, and they switch to virtue signaling.
	And of course, they're responsible.
	Oh my gosh, you poor thing.
	How bad was it?
	You see?
	And so then the whole conversation is removed.
	I love COVID survivor.
	Yeah, COVID survivor.
	Yes.
	We got buttons and we got alert to the no agenda shop.
	Yeah.
	Buttons and t-shirts.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Hats.
	Hats.
	Armbands.
	All three.
	The big three.
	The big three.
	And a mug.
	With a happy smiley face.
	COVID survivor.
	I want a COVID survivor mug.
	You could have a variation.
	How about long hauler?
	Long hauler.
	Just done.
	That's a little inside baseball.
	Most people don't know what that means.
	Okay.
	But COVID survivors.
	In fact, when I got a note from some long hauler recently, and I kept thinking he was a truck driver.
	Yeah, no.
	I wasn't understanding what he was talking about.
	I like this because you're not lying.
	You're a COVID survivor because you survived the onslaught of propaganda and bullcrap.
	This is exactly the same as Holocaust survivors.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Okay, people don't realize, but a Holocaust survivor doesn't mean you were in the Holocaust.
	Ah, it means you're a descendant of.
	No, it doesn't mean that either.
	That's not a Holocaust survivor.
	A Holocaust survivor is somebody that was alive during the Holocaust, is Jewish, and was somehow in one of the countries that was involved in the war.
	Somehow I think...
	Holocaust survivor is not necessarily somebody that was in a...
	You know, I was always led to believe that a Holocaust survivor was somebody that was in a camp.
	Yes, that's how it feels when you hear it.
	Yeah, I was in a camp and I got lucky because the Allies came along and I was released at the very last minute.
	I got away with it.
	And I got out.
	And the...
	No, that's not what it means at all.
	So you can say COVID survivor because you're involved with it.
	And I believe it's true.
	We are COVID survivors.
	Yes.
	It's a fact.
	It's scientifically proven.
	I'm here.
	Well, that's a show title.
	Write it down.
	COVID survivor.
	I'd write it down, but my pen stopped writing.
	Is it just I'm a COVID survivor or just COVID survivor?
	I think that's all I need, right?
	I think just as the punchier, it's punchier as COVID survivor.
	COVID survivor.
	Yeah.
	And then on the other side, world's greatest dad.
	Let's get our money's worth.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in COVID survivor, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning, the ships at the sea and the feet on the ground and the subs in the water and the dames and the knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room who have been very good today, very helpful and funny.
	Let's, uh, hands up, trolls!
	Let me count you.
	2006, there you go.
	It's a Sunday.
	Good to see you.
	Nice to have you all on board.
	That's noagendastream.com.
	This is a groovy place for you to go and hang out.
	It's a chat.
	It's a live stream all at the same time.
	We have live shows which go on and on and on and on.
	And even if you're in there and it's a podcast that's playing, you're all hearing it at the same time.
	So it's a lot of fun.
	Noagendastream.com.
	Many people there will be happy to show you how to register at noagendasocial.com.
	We've reopened.
	I'm going to be shutting it down pretty soon again because immediately bots started showing up, of course.
	Did I just open it without the invite?
	Let's see, just to see what the uptake would be.
	Man, immediately, all kinds of bot, bot, bot, bot behavior.
	But noagendasocial.com is a great place for...
	I mean, it's a social network.
	And what you find after being on it for even just in a couple of hours, you feel pretty good about it.
	You don't feel stressed.
	You can have a...
	For as good as you can have a conversation, the social media thread, that's happening all the time.
	There's no real outrage that continues.
	It always fizzles out because there's no algorithm that's pumping that in your face.
	And as I said, you can register for a noagendasocial.com federated Mastodon address today, or you can use any other platform.
	Mastodon server that federates, which means you're part of the Fediverse.
	And you can subscribe to Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com or at John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	And we'll see you there.
	It's a great place to hang out.
	It's dynamite.
	Then we'd like to thank...
	Actually, I need to thank our artists first.
	For episode 1335, this is the one, you know, since we always thank our artists on the show after the art was chosen, we never were able to thank Kendra.
	I'm not sure if it's Kendra or Kenny Ben, who got the artwork for episode 1335.
	And I just need to check and see what that artwork was to remind us.
	The artwork for 1335 was...
	Ah, yeah, that was the Easter egg, of course.
	That was the smiling Easter egg with the little goat and the 33 next to it, if you recall.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	The artwork for episode 1335.
	The Easter special.
	Oh, the Easter...
	Oh, yes.
	Are you with me now?
	I'm thanking the artists since we didn't thank the artists.
	Oh, you're doing a retrospective thank you for the artists that we never thanked before because we actually didn't do a show.
	We just did a clip show.
	Yes, exactly.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, go on.
	Well, I was just saying that was the cute Easter egg.
	We liked that.
	It was a bunch of Easter eggs and it had the really cute, smiling kind of emoji-like Easter egg and then next to that an Easter egg with a goat and next to that an Easter egg with a 33.
	So it was a very nice...
	Very nice effort.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm glad I did that.
	And then we want to thank the artist for episode 1338, and that was done by Parker Pauly.
	This was the Better Leet Than Never artwork with all hacks or from beginning to end.
	Nice piece.
	Yes, it was a nice piece.
	In fact, they use it in the newsletter.
	We've done this maybe three times total where the newsletter art was the same as the show art.
	Very rare.
	And the newsletter got through, which is also nice.
	Kind of.
	People have problems?
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, it just seemed like you could have had better numbers.
	Oh.
	Looking at...
	There were a lot of pieces of artwork.
	Now, although we liked it, we didn't choose the Stick It to the Chimp artwork, which was very done.
	That was also a Parker Pauly piece, actually.
	We had like a row of bananas, and it looks like the bananas looks like a hand flipping the bird.
	All good to pieces.
	Yeah, that was the finger.
	Yeah, the finger.
	And lots of people coming in with artwork about hitting the bell against the microphone, which is indeed what broke it.
	Yeah, you have a new microphone.
	You bought another one.
	This is your third EV. This is a great scam.
	They can sell a $450 microphone to one person three times.
	Yeah.
	I think I only paid $3.20 for it, or $3.29 or something.
	No, it's on sale.
	Well, maybe it's the Chinese one, although it came with all the paperwork.
	It looked official.
	Yeah, they always look official.
	That's the idea.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the artwork that is uploaded for every single episode.
	It is...
	Well, actually, if you get one of those fancy Podcasting 2.0 podcast apps, you can see a lot of the art we talk about rotating.
	Also, art that's just used for chapter markers.
	Go to newpodcastapps.com to find that.
	And thank you again, Parker Pauly.
	And that is part of our Time, Talent, and Treasure value-for-value model.
	That's the only way that it can work, that we can...
	Even start to compare COVID survivors with Holocaust survivors, because believe me, we'd be off the air anywhere else in the world, except here.
	Oh yeah, we'd be done.
	And it's because you guys produce it.
	You are the producers.
	Just the first half of this show, we'd be fired.
	Oh yeah, done.
	We wouldn't even be talking about art.
	We'd be dragged out of the studio by the scruff of our neck.
	Um, let's thank our executive producers and associate executive producers who brought the treasure for episode 1339.
	Well, first we have to thank Sir Dogpatch, or Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch in Morris Lobovia.
	Oh!
	Because memory sent in a cruel...
	$1,307 in accrual.
	In other words, he couldn't get us the money.
	Oh, that's right!
	Right, right, right, right.
	I do remember.
	Because he was overseas and he couldn't send his typical cash.
	Okay, so the plot thickens.
	So we have him...
	Sending in that amount, which is 1307.
	But then he also sent in, he just wants acknowledgement of this one, but maybe the number's important, I'm not sure.
	But he also sent in a February donation, which didn't go on the books at 1509.
	Wow.
	And he sent a note, what?
	Two notes.
	One note and then two separate envelopes.
	Both came at the same time.
	I'm somewhat confused by his methodologies.
	But he sent in the note and the money for the accrual, which was last month's donation.
	And so it's not on the spreadsheet because it's already been on the spreadsheet.
	Ah, okay.
	So it's just...
	The numbers aren't screwed up enough that we have to live with this.
	Now, I'll mention a couple of things.
	He bitched about the fact that he can't, and the other note, which I don't have, I put it somewhere, but it's just a short note saying, just make sure you mention it.
	Let me know that you got the February numbers.
	On both of these donations, this time he added a foreign note of currency.
	Oh, and...
	Which in some countries, by the way, is illegal to do that.
	Right.
	Now, the February note, I believe, was the one that had 101 in it.
	It had some Chinese money.
	Mm-hmm.
	And the one from last month, the 1307, had a Pakistani rupees or whatever it is.
	A beat-up bill, by the way.
	It was unusable.
	It's just a beat-up old bill.
	I don't know where he got it.
	So I'm now thinking that if he's not in some sort of agency, a researcher, or he could be a salesman.
	He could work for Caterpillar.
	Yes, he could.
	Yeah.
	So here's his most recent note he once read.
	From Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch, thank you to all the producers that make this show.
	And by the way, why don't you look up those notes for this next donor?
	Yeah, I've got it.
	I already have it.
	Thanks to all the producers that make this show the remarkable product that it has grown to become.
	Keeping it short to speed up the show, and because this is my late March donation, I was sort of off the grid to relax and sending an envelope of cash from some locations, I'm guessing Pakistan or China, and I'm not sure he wants me to mention that, but he wouldn't have put those bills in there.
	He never says he was in either one of those countries.
	No, John.
	Hello?
	Don't you understand?
	You're missing the whole point.
	These numbers, none of this is for us.
	Rubicon, baby.
	It has to be, but he could be an Arkansas editor.
	He could be a coin collector for all we know.
	But we know that China and Pakistan...
	They're working together.
	So this is, there's code.
	This is code to the U.S. intelligence agency.
	Something's going down.
	Could be.
	We'll see.
	Okay.
	And, okay, let's put another little piece of information in them that may or may not be or should be revealed.
	The Chinese won was a beautiful, clean, brand new note and the Pakistani rupee or whatever it was.
	I don't know.
	I don't have it in front of me.
	Uh...
	Was beat up to crap.
	Not even.
	Oh, well, there's more code.
	By the way, I've been corrected.
	It's not.
	It's you on.
	We've been pronouncing it incorrectly.
	I've heard my whole life.
	I've heard one, but apparently it's you on.
	Yeah, well, maybe it is you on.
	But when I I've been to China at least a dozen times and it's pronounced one there.
	You've been to China a dozen times, at least Hong Kong doesn't count.
	I actually went to Hong Kong first, years and years earlier before the...
	I went to Hong Kong...
	Hong Kong doesn't count.
	Hong Kong is so expensive, nobody should go to Hong Kong.
	Well, my advice.
	So, yeah, they all said Yuan, but for some reason now we're wrong, it has to be Yuan.
	Yuan.
	And what were you doing there all those times?
	I was always going for PC Magazine.
	We had PC Magazine China, of sorts.
	Oh, it was actually PC Computing.
	I went for PC Computing.
	And I went with PC Magazine, PC Computing, and I got a couple of trips from the Taiwanese.
	And then I swung around and went to China.
	Okay, so...
	Yeah, well, there was a lot of business to report on back in the day.
	I was a big shot.
	Well, John, you're still a big shot.
	Yeah, sure.
	You're too big for all those crappy little magazines that are web-only.
	Please.
	You'll write for nothing less than New Yorker Magazine, Vanity Fair, or Vogue.
	Unboxing.
	I got a paper cut once.
	I can't unbox.
	I've been injured.
	That's right.
	All the beat reporters now do is unboxing.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	No, for you, and I'm going to manage you on this, nothing lower than Vanity Fair or Vogue for you, my friend.
	Yeah, well.
	I bet Vogue, you could write killer articles for Vogue.
	I probably could.
	About fashion.
	Keeping it short and to speed up the show.
	As we continue kibitzing, and because this is my late March donation, I was sort of off the grid to relax sending an envelope of cash from some location is either likely to be misdirected or confused with poppy funds.
	So he was in a little note there.
	Maybe Afghanistan.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Well, no, no, no, no, no.
	Afghanistan, of course, borders on Pakistan.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Down in the problem area.
	I have no idea.
	We're never going to figure this out on our own.
	He's going to have to have a beer with us and tell us.
	All right.
	As I return to the U.S., my appreciation of our republic only increased.
	I enjoyed John's article on Alinsky, it's Substack.com.
	Alinsky, and commonly used number four and number five to the many that defend, to quote-unquote, defend our democracy.
	My most successful response is, quote, so you don't believe in our Constitution, followed by, quote, you clearly know little of the founding and history of the U.S. or its Constitution if you somehow believe we are a democracy, unquote.
	The structure was to protect the minority, and he says this, the structure of a democracy or of the republic that we have was to protect the minority from the will of the simple majority, which is true.
	And that's what they're trying to overturn in the Senate.
	We have a simple majority, just one vote, 51 votes, running roughshod over the minority, which is 49 votes, and having their way.
	It's democracy, man.
	Read about it in the Constitution.
	Our current Senate, unfortunately, has become a simple majority ruling junta.
	And you notice I said junta as opposed to junta.
	Junta!
	Or jicima.
	I expect it will end in two years, but for now I find strength in knowing simple democracies have a long history of failure, while republics, including those as flawed as Rome, can last for centuries.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Well, Seronymous of Dogpatch and Loris Lobovia, thank you so much.
	What was his final number that he came in?
	What is the code number for...
	Well, that was already revealed.
	That was 1307, and 1509 was something the month before.
	So we have April coming up with the next code.
	Okay.
	But if he's going to be in Pakistan, and if he's going to be in the mid-Eurals in this area, he's not going to be able to get us any money.
	No.
	I like it, though.
	We'll get what we get when we get it.
	We appreciate it, Seronymous, and we diligently will continue to pass on the messages as they are passed to us.
	Yeah.
	Derek Gnarlock came in with 555.55.
	Sack of fives.
	Fairbalt, Minnesota.
	And writes in a handwritten note, In the morning, gentlemen, been listening since around Obama's first term, and I admit, I did not immediately take the bait.
	However, after multiple tries, I finally got hooked.
	Haven't missed an episode since.
	This donation sets me up as a knight.
	I would like the title, Sir Gnarles the Gnarly Gnarlock.
	I got it.
	I would like to add to the roundtable, walleye pulled from the rainy river and Gerber multi-tools.
	Man, I have to write that down.
	The numerology behind my donation is in honor of my grandfather, a Polish farmer in North Dakota.
	After his passing, I inherited his wallet.
	In it was one silverback, $2 bill, and a $5 bill with a serial number with five, five times on it.
	It was his lucky $5 bill.
	Ooh, I appreciate this.
	He's passing on luck.
	This is not to be taken lightly.
	As an unruly young man, I spent that $5.
	Oh, geez.
	Sorry, Grandpa.
	Adam, please give me some R2-D2 karma so that I may find another.
	Please add Derek Narslock to the birthday list for April 18th.
	He's on it.
	You guys continue to kick ass after all these years, and I'll miss you after you find that exit strategy.
	Kind regards from FEMA Region No.
	5, of course, new ULM Minnesota nuts.
	All right, so we do have some R2-D2 karma for you.
	I'm sorry you spent your grandpa's lucky $5 bill.
	You've got...
	So that's a repenting donation, man.
	Yeah, whatever works.
	Anonymous comes in from Sylvania, Ohio.
	What is Sylvania?
	Uh, $3.50.
	And Anonymous says, I've been looking for replacements to the personal technology that I use.
	Found a company called...
	Oh, yes.
	This guy, this is worth looking into.
	He wants some opinions.
	Okay, well, I'm very familiar.
	Very familiar with Purism.
	Okay, Purism.
	Todd Weaver, the founder and CEO of Purism, did an interview with TFIR, available on YouTube with the title, Todd Weaver, founder of Purism.
	I deep dive into the swamp, something, swap, no, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Anyway, somebody's name.
	Google that.
	Respectfully request Adam and or John to look into the company.
	Okay, Adam already did.
	I did too.
	I like what I saw, but Adam, I know would know more about this because it's his thing.
	I'm just the guy who sings the song.
	The following is for you to read at your discretion are constitutional, God-given rights, freedoms, liberty, and attempting to turn into commercial, communist, fascist, government-based privileges at national and international levels.
	An alternative name for the deep state and global elitists.
	Soviet slash Nazi, Kovaz, Sovaz for short.
	Orwellian technocrat Sovazi is politically Soviet, medically Nazi.
	The idea for the artist is to blend in the hammer and sickle Soviet and swastika and all the all-seeing eye.
	All right, so he's trying to coin a new term.
	Future Sir Psychobot.
	He's trying to coin a new term by combining socialist and Nazi and comes up with Sovazzi.
	Now, it sounds too much like a Greek dish.
	Hey, I got some Sovazzi.
	Would you like some...
	Give me some Sovazzi.
	Yeah, Purism.
	If you're getting a laptop, I'd say Purism is fantastic, and I'd love to hear what you thought, John.
	Well, wait, wait.
	Back up, back up.
	What is the point of this Purism?
	It's a security-oriented company.
	Yes.
	Off the grid.
	And what they do is the way they source the hardware is of particular note.
	And they have switches to turn off any external piece of the hardware.
	They source only open-source pieces and drivers.
	So it's very anal, and if you really think about it, if you want to be secure, yeah, absolutely.
	That's where they really get in, is through all the other nooks and crannies.
	Now, I believe they also have one of those Linux phones, which is going to be a piece of crap.
	Maybe one day it'll be great.
	But, no.
	I mean, I've tried out all of these phones, and was that the Librem 5?
	And again, they have the right idea.
	You have hardware switches to turn off every single piece of this thing, but the user experience is not...
	I mean, I tried it.
	I wanted this.
	This is exactly what I hoped for.
	Oh, I can have a Linux machine in my pocket.
	Yeah, no.
	No, it just doesn't work.
	It's a long way away.
	It took a long time to develop Android and iOS.
	These things are not easy, so they'll get there.
	For right now, laptop, absolutely.
	If you need that level of security, I'd totally recommend it.
	Phone, no.
	How about you?
	That's in a nutshell.
	Was there anything else you wanted to add to that?
	No, I think you ran on the money.
	Okay.
	Alexander Harrington's next on our...
	Do you have any jingles?
	I don't believe so.
	No.
	Alexander Harrington, I think, does.
	33333.
	And he does.
	He's got a de-douching he needs right away.
	You've been de-douched.
	You can go for 33 is the magic number and a R2D2 Karma birthday call out.
	Lady, get over it.
	420, a bunch of threes from my ripped dishwasher.
	Lady, get over it.
	For her magic number, birthday, 0420, and towards her damehood, please de-douche her.
	You've been de-douched.
	And hit her in the mouth with some R2D2 karma as she competes in the Emerald Cup Bikini Division on April 24th.
	You can find her at...
	Training a champ on Instagram.
	Well, hold on a second.
	And see her inspiration and progress.
	Love you, babe.
	Hopscotch.
	Today's code day.
	Jeez.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me see this.
	Training a champ.
	There we go.
	Oh, sorry this page isn't available.
	Mmm, I smell a rat.
	How are you spelling it?
	Well, I copied...
	Oh, here it is.
	I copied it straight from the...
	Here it goes.
	Oh, you don't do the at sign.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Oh.
	Damn!
	What?
	Well, you got this...
	She has before and after...
	You gotta stop the show for her.
	She's a showstopper.
	She's before and after pictures.
	I guess she's trained real hard.
	No, for sure.
	Dude, she could beat you up just by looking at her back.
	Tina loves following people like this.
	This is great.
	They're very inspirational.
	I agree.
	I mean, not for me, personally.
	I'm like, oh, I don't want to go work out at all.
	But, you know, these training type people on Instagram, yeah, they inspire a lot of people.
	So, looks great.
	Good luck in the bikini division of the Emerald Cup.
	And here's your requested jingles.
	33, that's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Onward to...
	MFDX in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
	321.60.
	Happy pandemic, gentlemen.
	Please accept this donation, the amount of 420.69 in Canadian.
	It's a 420 donation.
	We'll bump him up.
	Nice.
	Well, I don't have to.
	No, we don't have to bump him up.
	He's already bumped.
	I've named this donation amount the Afternoon Delight.
	Celebrating 420 is a simple puff in the park.
	42069 takes on a whole new dimension.
	Best enjoyed on a rooftop deck or a secluded beach.
	This year the prospective keeper and I will play a simple game I've come up with called Fetch.
	All you need is a drop of honey.
	With this donation, I've achieved knighthood.
	He's changing the subject.
	Please knight me as MFDX. Of Anjou.
	No sir, please.
	Okay.
	Well, good luck.
	Okay.
	I would like to claim my East End Montreal hometown as my protectorate.
	Appropriately, Pepsi and poutine should be served at the round table.
	Alright.
	We've had poutine at the round table.
	We've had it before, for sure.
	Jingle request.
	Afternoon delight.
	Okay.
	Accounting, April 2nd, blah, blah, blah.
	He's got a bunch of numbers.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Hold on a second.
	Why is this failing?
	Here we go.
	Skyrockets in flight.
	Woo!
	Afternoon delight.
	Why people want that, I don't know.
	There it is.
	I don't even remember it.
	Yeah, I do.
	Sir J.D.'s back on the list from the Baron of Silicon Valley, 26740.
	Yeah.
	And he's from San Jose.
	From the Baron of Psycon Val, better to be two times leet than never leet.
	Thanks for all the lulls and keep up the great work.
	No jingles, just goat scream karma.
	And 1010010110.
	You've got karma.
	Can't get more Cody than that.
	We're a Cody today.
	I wonder what that is, binary.
	Check it out while I think...
	I will.
	Alexander Von Abel in Bronx, New York, 23318.
	Welcome back, gents.
	Please accept this mathematical donation of 23318.
	Fun fact, the phrase conscientious objector was originally widely used to refer to parents who elected not to vaccinate their infant children.
	Interesting.
	Mm-hmm.
	And that was after the British Vaccination Act of 1898.
	It added a conscientious clause to allow for it.
	It makes little sense to me that today's people Can only opt out for medical and religious reasons.
	One may appeal to a holy book, but not to rational concern.
	Yeah, of course.
	Anyways, can I please get a goat karma and a little girl yay?
	Yes, and I have solved the riddle of the hacksaw, of the decimal code, actually.
	Yeah, and what does it mean?
	666.
	No.
	666.
	You've got...
	karma.
	John Keosisis?
	Keosis.
	200.
	In River Grove, Illinois.
	I've been a listener since 2015, hit in the mouth by Joe Joseph of the HMS Pinafore.
	But this is my first producership.
	I'd been on a $20 a month subscription starting in 2016, but when PayPal randomly canceled it, it never got around to updating it.
	I never did.
	It happens all the time.
	It happens constantly.
	Therefore, I'd like to request an official dedouching.
	Yes, a good reminder.
	People, check your PayPals.
	They'd cancel that and then blame it on us.
	Yeah.
	Trust me.
	That's one thing we won't do.
	We have never canceled one of these things.
	We're not going to cancel your donation.
	No.
	You guys have been on the foundation of sanity and truth for all of us over the years and I don't know exactly how I'd be surviving the most deadly virus in human history if it wasn't for you two.
	I'd like to request some house buying karma because the market here in the Chicagoland area is wild.
	We're 0-2 on offers, 0-2 on offers, and going in on our third one today.
	Are you buying?
	Oh, he's house buying.
	They're buying.
	Oh, and he's already at 21K over asking.
	Welcome to California.
	Not to mention we sold our house, moved into my grandma's empty house, staying here with our two toddler human resources while we find something.
	And a big shout out to my smoking hot pregnant wife, now you have three, who has been a rock doing it all.
	Lastly, I'd like to call out Matt Shenone and Michelle Cross.
	Douchebag!
	As douchebags.
	Let's go.
	Donate to the best podcast in the universe.
	Keep up the great work, guys, and glad to have you back.
	Hope you enjoyed the well-deserved time off.
	Jingles Money Shot, Reverend Al Dealer's Choice.
	All right, something about this, because these are young people, and this is what's happening, and I was talking to...
	Sir Gene and I went to the meetup yesterday.
	At Doc's Backyard, the 512 No Agenda Meetup, it was cold, so we didn't stay long.
	No one really stayed long.
	We were still the maskless who are pushed to the back in the corner so all the maskholes can sit in the sunshine.
	They need it, of course.
	And we had the millennial couple were there, and people know a lot about real estate.
	And especially since I have made it known that we're moving out of Austin proper, I'm getting a lot of people telling me where to go.
	Yeah, but don't they do that anyway?
	What, give me advice?
	No, tell you where to go.
	Yeah, aw.
	But Gene had a very good analysis of what's taking place in Austin specifically.
	Indeed, homes are going for, as you see here, 21,000 over asking.
	The young people who want to buy homes cannot win because the homes are being purchased in Austin, not by people, but by banks.
	And the banks, it's JP Morgan, it's Goldman, they're buying up anything they can get.
	They'll just throw $150,000 over ask if they have to to get it because they know that they can come in, swoop it from the generation with two toddlers and one on the way and jack that price up.
	They're not going to sell it.
	They're going to rent it to them.
	And that is kind of what the Great Reset promised.
	And it's really disgusting when I see this, that you're not bidding against another couple who want to buy the same house with their two toddlers and one on the way.
	No, you're bidding against J.P. Morgan.
	You have no chance.
	It's disgusting.
	But that's what's really going on here.
	Is that also what happened in California?
	Well, not in the home market, but in the condo market for sure.
	If anything is overpriced in California, it's San Francisco condos.
	Yeah, this is single-family homes.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't think that's going on around here.
	Well, it's definitely going on around here, and it's quite disgusting.
	But okay!
	That's a show of money shot!
	Woo, Jesus!
	Woo, Lord!
	Look at that!
	That's a money shot!
	Kenan Conway is a money shot!
	R-E-S-B-I-C-T You've got karma.
	You know, there's always the opportunity for some, well, eh, maybe not.
	Eh, maybe not.
	That is the end of our, we don't have a lot today.
	We've had a very slow day, except for Anonymous, which is really a make good.
	And I would think that the next show, which is going to be Earth Day, which we missed last year.
	Oh, we missed Earth Day?
	Yeah, last year.
	Earth Day is the least successful of all of our promotions.
	No, well, Mother's Day used to be until COVID. Until COVID. Then everyone realized mom was pretty damn important.
	Well, they're really pushing.
	In fact, I may even have a clip on this.
	We have to end the segment.
	The CIA broadcasting system is going full tilt on Earth Day.
	Okay, well, let's do the clip then.
	Who cares about closing the segment?
	I don't know if I got the clip.
	Well, you look for the clip, and I'll just tell everybody that we really appreciate what our executive producers and associate executive producers do.
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	Sorry, did you locate it?
	No, I didn't.
	No, I didn't.
	But I'll just say that they're going to have a bunch of specials.
	They're going to try to promote the hell out of it.
	Really?
	They did play some Earth Day kind of clip.
	I didn't think I was looking for that.
	They played some sort of an offbeat clip on...
	Yeah, they played this for one thing.
	This is the China-USA climate hellos.
	Oh, brother.
	The United States and China have agreed to cooperate with other countries to curb climate change.
	The agreement came after a two-day visit to Shanghai by the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry.
	A joint statement said the two countries are firmly committed to working together and with others to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
	The U.S. and China are the top carbon polluters in the world.
	No, that's not true.
	That is not true.
	I have new evidence who the top polluters in the world are, and it's not China and it's not the United States.
	This may come as a surprise to you.
	Because I've been, ever since the, I'm sure you read the blurb that Scientific American, the publication, is now joining the trend, and we're not calling it a climate crisis.
	The new term officially is climate emergency.
	Well, that was always in the mix.
	Right, but now they've made it official, climate emergency, and if you, and you're going to be shamed?
	Because it's a climate emergency, and in Australia they're shaming you, but they're really shaming John and Adam.
	19 grams of CO2. So, what's your carbon thumbprint?
	Belong, carbon neutral, mobile and internet.
	To see the impact of your mobile data, visit belong.com.au slash carbon thumbprint.
	So, obviously, a virtue signaling, a VMO, a virtue signaling mobile operator, Who wants you to know that when you download or when you stream a podcast, that's 19 ounces of carbon, which I don't know what carbon is.
	That's not a greenhouse gas, but okay.
	So this show, with what we think is an average of about a million people who consume the program, that's 41,000 pounds of carbon per show, making us truly the most carbon-polluting podcast in the universe.
	Yeah, well, we're one of them, that's for sure.
	Bad boys.
	I want to mention something in that clip, though, to get back to something else, which is what they said in this NPR clip.
	China is still in on the Paris Accords, but they don't even do one bit of implementation until 2030.
	Yeah.
	That was the big deal they made.
	Oh, well, we're going to be in too, but we're going to set it up and we're going to do it all in 2030.
	Isn't the world going to come to an end in 2032?
	I mean, it's a little late to the game.
	Nobody brings this up in the conversation.
	Oh, yeah, they do.
	On Twitter.
	You got to go on Twitter and say, this is crazy, man.
	No one ever said that China's not going to do anything in 2035.
	That's exactly what they...
	This is Twitter feed.
	This is shit that people use to go on Twitter and argue.
	It's completely inconsequential.
	Okay.
	Don't you think?
	That's the best I can do.
	I'm going to stop because I've got to get to something before I forget.
	I don't want to forget.
	I've got a reminder from one of our producers, which I appreciate, by the way.
	Normally, this never happens.
	We very rarely execute this and make it work.
	I'm going to remind you to talk about...
	The podcast story that you picked up on your vacation.
	Oh, it wasn't that great in hindsight.
	Oh, no!
	The only one time I've managed to do this.
	We suck.
	Now, I saw the note, too, this morning, and I'm like, what was that story about the podcast?
	I'm like, I don't think there was any good podcast story there, honestly.
	Oh, my God.
	You mean you can't even remember it from one show to the next?
	So you were jacked up.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I got a story.
	You got to remind me to tell you about this podcasting story I got on the vacation.
	Just remind me.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm trying to think what the story was because I didn't write it down.
	I thought it was a memorable story that you didn't need to write down.
	But you apparently thought so too.
	And I said apparently.
	I think it had to do with the Brogans.
	Remember there were a whole bunch of Brogans walking around?
	Guys who looked like Joe Rogan?
	But you talked about that on the show.
	I know.
	Well, do you want me to try and recall the story?
	You're just going to slap me in the face.
	No, I'm so disappointed that I will never do this again.
	I'll never remember anything that you tell me to do.
	But maybe...
	But maybe I'll tell you the story and you'll like it and then you'll be very happy.
	But you don't want to hear it anymore.
	It's okay.
	No, it's fine.
	You now recall the story?
	I just don't think if there's a big payoff...
	Okay, well, tell the story and we'll see if there's a payoff.
	I'll make the payoff.
	But if there's no payoff, then you can't excoriate me for telling a lame story.
	No, I won't.
	I will say, great story, Adam, is what I'm going to say.
	So there was this bunch of people, and they were celebrating a guy's, I think, 40th birthday, and they all had kind of this build, you know, like the Joe Rogan build.
	Yeah, the Rogan build.
	Right.
	And I couldn't quite figure out who they were, and it turns out, because I spoke to the guy's dad, who was, he's like Jim, I forget his last name, but he started the Metro Electronic or Electric Supply Company in St.
	Louis.
	So, a well-to-do family, but very Midwest.
	And he was telling me about his son that he had started this business called First Form, I think, P-H-O-R-M, which is a very popular supplement brand.
	And they do a podcast, which I had heard of, called Real AF. You know what that stands for.
	And it is a popular pot as fuck.
	You've never seen AF anywhere in your life, but okay, that's what it means.
	Although it actually stands for the guy's name, whatever it is.
	And this is going to be such a dumb story.
	And so the dad is sitting there just telling me, like, you know, they're bigger than Rogan.
	This is shit.
	You know, Rogan's nothing compared to these guys.
	They're the biggest.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I'm just sitting there like, mm-hmm.
	And anyway, the long story is that Tina was busting me.
	He said, why didn't you tell them that you invented podcasts?
	I said, no, I kind of had too much fun just listening to people brag about how great their podcast is.
	And there's no end to the story, so I don't know why I ever said, please remember it.
	I think it was a reasonably good story.
	I mean, it'd be nice if you had, you know, if Tina was right.
	Of course, it would have gone like this.
	I should mention to you that I invented podcasting, and then the guy would crack up and go, all right, and then walk off.
	I'd have to fight him over it.
	Okay, well, that was totally no good.
	Okay, well, onward.
	What do we have on my list here?
	Well, congratulations to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
	She quit?
	No, no.
	She won the Freedom of Expression Award.
	What?
	What?
	Who gives this out?
	I was looking for video, and I just thought the headline was funny enough.
	The Freedom of Expression Award.
	The Stalin Foundation?
	Who gives this out?
	Well, what's even funnier is that YouTube was co-sponsor of the event, so it's very...
	Oh, let's give ourselves awards now.
	Exactly.
	We haven't done that yet.
	Exactly.
	Well, here we go.
	This is the Freedom Forum.
	And let's see who the sponsors are of the Freedom Forum.
	Salesforce.
	Sotheby's.
	YouTube is the signature sponsor.
	Wow, that's really...
	How about that?
	We're going to give ourselves an award as the signature sponsor.
	Not just, you know, something off on the side.
	This is a big operation.
	Altria Group.
	Goldman Sachs.
	The Knight Foundation, the Kirschenbaums, Kleiner Perkins.
	Whoa, this is big.
	How did we miss?
	How were we not nominated for this?
	I'd like to know myself.
	Let's see.
	How did we not know about this?
	I would love to have recorded her acceptance speech.
	That would be a gem.
	Well, there was a whole festival, April 12th to 15th, the celebration of the Free Expression Awards.
	The Freedom Forum presents the first free expression festival, sponsored by YouTube.
	Bastions.
	Obviously, bastions of freedom of expression.
	Yeah, they try to keep this to themselves because they're going to ridicule to death.
	Hang on one second.
	All right.
	Oh my goodness!
	I've got Pax Blue Ribbon on my mind!
	Pax Blue Ribbon!
	You can't catch me off guard, man.
	I'm ready.
	I'm ready for you.
	Jeez.
	Okay, here we go.
	Oh, here's the winners.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	There's more people.
	Honorees.
	Oh, they've got cool names.
	Okay.
	Julie K. Brown.
	Who is the investigative reporter for the Miami...
	Isn't that the...
	Yes, Julie K. Brown is the one...
	Downtown Julie Brown.
	No, she was the one reporting on...
	Didn't Kill Himself.
	Epstein.
	Yeah.
	She was kind of the it girl insider down in Florida.
	Well, anyway, she won the Power Shift Award.
	Oh, she's the one who got the whole ball rolling.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	What's she got to do with YouTube?
	She's a reporter for a newspaper.
	Hello, Freedom Forum.
	She won the Power Shift Award.
	Don't ask questions.
	DeRay McKesson was honored.
	He, of course, is one of the main activists for Black Lives Matter.
	Also, now I believe, the chairman of the board of the Podcast Academy.
	The Global Freedom of Expression Leadership Award went to...
	General Colin Powell, that's right.
	If you want the freedom to express complete bullcrap about your little anthrax tube...
	That was the tube of a yellow cake.
	Yellow cake.
	Powell's your man.
	What else do we have?
	Lifetime Achievement Awards for Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Cokie Roberts.
	What did any of them do that warrants a Lifetime Achievement Award?
	No, Cokie Roberts did...
	You know, she's been...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	They are the founding mothers of NPR. No, they're not.
	That's what it says right here.
	Founding mothers of NPR. Susan Stamberg, first woman to anchor a national nightly news program.
	Let's see.
	Who's next?
	Nina Totenberg, NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent.
	Linda Wertheimer is an NPR award-winning national correspondent, and Cokie Roberts was a trailblazing reporter and commentator for ABC News and NPR at a time when women's voices were rare on the politics beat.
	We missed a good one.
	I don't think that's true.
	No, but it sounds good.
	Oh my goodness, we missed a good show.
	Yeah, well, as usual.
	Yeah, we weren't invited, so...
	They're not inviting these two stooges.
	Stooges.
	Let's talk about guns, then, because that seems to be the other thing that we're being pelleted with.
	Well, before we do that, since we're talking about NPR and winning all these awards, I want to play...
	This is the state of NPR. I'm going to play two short clips...
	That I consider some of the worst stories, and again, I'm not here to be a misogynist, but I think maybe the worst host you've ever heard, leading into a story that is so boring I didn't even bother clipping much of it.
	Okay.
	The name of this clip is Worst Host and Worst Story Ever NPR. I'm Sally Hersheps, in for Stacey Vanek-Smith, and I'm here today with NPR economics reporter Scott Horsley.
	Good to be with you, Sally.
	Scott, you stumbled on today's story in your own backyard.
	Well, at least close to my backyard, in my neighborhood.
	There's a bank that I walk past every night when I take my dogs out, where there used to be a bank.
	Not long ago, I was walking by, and I noticed that the ATM was gone.
	The door was locked.
	The sign had disappeared.
	The bank had just suddenly closed.
	Oh, I'm riveting.
	What happened?
	Well, apparently this bank that he used to walk his dog by, never did business with, and he can't even remember the name of the bank, closed.
	Oh no!
	So they did a whole half hour on this.
	No.
	How can you do that?
	Well, then, did you listen to it?
	Did you find out what the whole story was?
	Was it a sad neighborhood, or what was that angle?
	I'll wrap it.
	I'll do the wrap.
	It was these small little banks that closed in certain sketchy neighborhoods usually results in the neighborhood getting more run down.
	Hmm.
	And it's like something like 3% of the banks have closed over the last time.
	It was a bullcrap story.
	Okay.
	So then I'm listing away and I find, well, here's another dead-end story.
	They're going to play it to the hilt.
	This is another bad report.
	And this one is a report on people being tired.
	It's under another.
	Oh, I gotcha.
	If you're struggling and feeling physically exhausted a year into this pandemic, you are far from alone.
	Mental health care providers say a lot of people are right there with you.
	They also say it's a normal reaction.
	Our bodies are having two very abnormal times.
	NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports.
	Dr.
	Jessie Gold says in recent weeks, she's often felt wiped out and needing to catch up on sleep.
	For me, that can feel like this overwhelming sense of like...
	Can you imagine going to your doctor and having this talk to you?
	I can't keep my eyes open for one more minute.
	If somebody asks me to do anything else, I'm going to scream kind of feeling.
	And Gold, who's a psychiatrist at Washington University in St.
	Louis, says exhaustion is the number one complaint she hears from her patients these days.
	It's like this, I don't know what it is, but I can't function.
	I'm so tired.
	Wow!
	Okay.
	Kudos, Clip of the Day, for that tired voice.
	Clip of the Day.
	That's the doctor?
	I didn't expect that, to say the least, but this whole thing went on for a half an hour about how people are tired.
	Well, hold on, because I have a related story.
	I'll read the headline here, because I picked it up.
	This is from EV Magazine.
	This is not like an electric vehicle.
	Yeah, E-V-I-E. Over 50% of liberal white women under 30 have a mental health issue.
	Are we worried yet is the headline.
	A 2020 Pew Research study reveals that over half of white liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point.
	Does this mean there's a correlation between progressive ideas and mental health?
	Well, when I hear this, and of course during the pandemic it's only been exacerbated with mask holding, etc., and virtue signaling, Yes, of course you're tired because you're completely stressed all the time about not offending anybody and saying the right thing yourself.
	Yes, I think liberal women are probably exhausted.
	Give it up.
	Give it a rest.
	Yell at someone in traffic.
	When they yell at someone, they're called a Karen and arrested.
	That was a liberal woman in Central Park that was being jumped by some poor black guy that was just jogging by.
	Yeah.
	Conditions like depression and anxiety thrive in silence.
	There also seems to be a lack of confidence in women when it comes to knowing our own bodies.
	And instead our mental problems are written off as being too overly emotional.
	Oh my!
	Really?
	I think this is a plague.
	I think it's a real plague.
	But to me, mainly, because they bring in the liberal, you know, that's this study.
	That takes a lot of nerve, by the way.
	To say that, to write that, to say liberal women.
	Well, it was a Pew Pew study.
	Oh, Pew's pretty good at it.
	Yeah.
	Well, their stuff's all political, so they can do it.
	Yeah.
	But no one, you don't see any newspapers picking it up.
	They don't know what to do with this.
	Nobody knows what to do.
	The only thing they know to do is the report we just listened to, the opening of this.
	Women are tired.
	Oh, I'm so tired.
	I'm tired.
	And on and on and on about, oh, I'm tired.
	I'm just so tired.
	Oh, a bank closed.
	There's a bank.
	It was there.
	Now it's gone.
	It used to be there.
	What are we going to do?
	I don't know.
	Let's talk about it.
	This is the kind of crap you get on NPR. NPR is a real sick puppy.
	Oh, they're also dying on the vine.
	I mean, they've got the big billion-dollar endowment, but that's it.
	You're right.
	Dying on the vine is correct, and in about eight years, they'll really have no more money left, or stations, or people to run anything local.
	You might as well just keep it going on the Internet, because no one cares anymore.
	They can't keep the stations on the air anymore.
	They have no staff.
	No staff.
	First class phone?
	What does that mean?
	I have a first class phone.
	I own an Apple.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Any more NPR? I'm looking for the other ones.
	I see here you have Chad.
	Problem with Chad.
	Well, this is just a news report.
	I think I would just play it for informational purposes.
	Nothing NPR-ish about it.
	The State Department today ordered non-essential employees and their families to leave the U.S. Embassy in Chad because of possible violence.
	A travel alert said armed insurgents in the northern part of the country appear to be moving towards the Capitol.
	The State Department has long urged Americans not to travel to Chad because of the unrest.
	Oh, Chad.
	Chad, I thought I was like, who's going to go to Chad?
	Here's an NPR thing.
	This was brought up.
	I'm not going to go on beyond this.
	I was really looking forward to that podcasting story.
	Gun violence as a public health problem.
	Another dead-end discussion on NPR. They just...
	I don't know why they can't come up with something more interesting than these things, but this is gun...
	So here's what happened.
	The basis for the story is that Biden, in a drug-induced stupor...
	He said, this gun violence has got to stop.
	It's a public health issue now.
	Uh-huh.
	Yes.
	And so the NPR people, oh, oh, oh, oh, what did Biden say?
	He said it's public health.
	Oh, we can do a story about that.
	Let's bring it, let's talk about it and bring in a public health guy.
	Maybe he can give us some insight.
	And so this is what you get.
	Late Thursday, a gunman opened fire at an Indianapolis FedEx warehouse facility, killing at least eight people and injuring several others.
	Police believe the gunman also killed himself.
	Here's a fraction of what also happened in the last 72 hours, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
	A total of four people were killed in gun violence in California, West Virginia, Rhode Island and Texas.
	A total of 20 people were injured by gun violence in many other states, including Kansas, Colorado, Michigan and Minneapolis.
	So that's where we're going to start the program today.
	The president has called this a public health crisis and an international embarrassment.
	If that's the case, then what would be a public health response?
	To help us think about this, we've called Dr. Paul Nestat once again.
	He's assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
	OK.
	So they bring this guy on.
	He says, OK, I'll go on.
	But then he's dumb, and he has no answers for anything.
	But because they have these set lengths, it's like 15 minutes of what you're going to hear for the next 30, 40 seconds.
	Play that second part.
	So before we jump into your sense of what solutions might be, I just wanted to ask, what was your reaction as a scholar in this area to the shooting in Indianapolis?
	Is there something that stood out to you?
	Unfortunately, what stands out is just how frequently these things are happening and continue to happen.
	It's almost as if we're starting to just a little bit get back to normal after the pandemic, and it's reminding us that a big part of normal are these shootings.
	If we were to look at this as a public health issue, I mean, obviously, you know, the politics starts immediately.
	People start talking about gun safety measures, gun control measures and so forth.
	But if we were to start talking about this as a public health crisis, what would that conversation look like?
	When we think of something as a public health issue, we think about how to address it at a population level.
	And so that's why policy does become a big part of that response.
	Policy, government policy, whether it's state, local, or federal, ends up the best way we have to intervene in situations like this, to affect people on a population level.
	So some of the policies that can be passed that are starting to be looked at will ultimately be, I think, part of the solution.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	What did he say?
	Nothing.
	He said absolutely nothing.
	Nothing.
	Did you notice that her patter is very much like Yamisha's?
	Yeah, a little bit.
	I think it's just Amelia.
	Yeah, Amelia.
	All right, so here's, there's an interesting, in this report by itself, yes, now that we're back, getting back to normal, we have to remember that with normal comes gun mass shootings.
	Guns.
	Yeah, no.
	And by the way, no one ever talks about the Vegas shooting anymore, now do they?
	No, no long talk about that.
	No, it's all about this person, that person.
	The most recent one, well, there were a couple, the FedEx Processing Center.
	Interesting that the shooter was known to the FBI. His mom had called him a year before.
	You know, we don't know if they had any ongoing contact, but it's another one of those FBI stories where nothing happened, even though they were called in, or did it.
	Because you've got a question at this point.
	Then we have the Chicago 13-year-old, which is a very disturbing story, mainly because...
	Well, here I have a clip.
	They're really not even discussing the real issue of what's going on here.
	This is the 13-year-old kid who a cop killed...
	Well, here's the story.
	Jackie and Taman, this attorney told a judge last week that 13-year-old Toledo had a gun in his hand when he was shot.
	The body camera video shows Toledo dropping that gun less than a second before police fired.
	It all comes down to the proffer, an outline of criminal charges that veteran Assistant State's Attorney James Murphy read to a judge in an April 10th hearing.
	He said Toledo had a gun in his right hand.
	The officer fired one shot, and then the gun Toledo was holding landed against the fence a few feet away.
	But that's not exactly what the body camera footage shows.
	Instead, Toledo appears to drop the gun less than a second before he was shot, exactly 842 milliseconds before as he was raising his hands.
	Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox has now placed that attorney on paid leave.
	In a statement, a spokesperson for the top prosecutor says, quote, An attorney in our office failed to fully present the facts surrounding the death of a 13-year-old boy.
	We have put that individual on administrative leave and are conducting an internal investigation into the matter.
	The office told the Sun-Times that attorney did not watch the body camera footage before the bond court hearing.
	He was in court for the case against 21-year-old Reuben Roman, the man who was with Toledo that night and whose gun Toledo allegedly had.
	So the whole story is about less than a second, 800 milliseconds.
	Was it appropriate or not?
	What is a 13-year-old doing with a gun?
	I know what's going on in Chicago, but that's not the story.
	It's like, oh, this is bad judgment by the cop, clearly.
	We can't have this.
	Cops killing people, especially black people.
	And I think this kid's nickname was Lil Homicide.
	Hello, Lil Yummy anybody?
	If you remember the whole catalyst for the 1990...
	What was it?
	The 1994 crime bill?
	Was the 13-year-olds who were shooting up our nation?
	Except now they've turned it around a little bit and they're going to use this dead young kid to cause more division and strife and anger because...
	Here's what happens.
	I get all the time emails...
	They're coming for the Second Amendment!
	No!
	Listen to me.
	Stop.
	You're shark bait for Twitter.
	You're being primed for the news machine.
	This is the news who wants to get you into the spin cycle.
	First of all, they're not coming for the Second Amendment.
	The Second Amendment, the Constitution is like a blockchain.
	You don't remove the Second Amendment.
	It stays there.
	You can add an amendment, and I think we know how that works.
	Don't we, when you need two-thirds of the states, do you really think that that's going to change?
	No.
	Of course not.
	So there's all this just spinning around and getting mad, and they're turning us into China, they're coming for the Second Amendment!
	Go out and vote, you idiot!
	Stop yelling!
	I did get a note from one of our cop producers about the unfortunate killing of Dante Wright, is that his name?
	Where the cop said she mistook her firearm, her service pistol for her taser.
	Dante, yes.
	Dante.
	Oh, that's right, Dante.
	Say his name.
	Adam and John was a cop for 13 years and was taser trained at two different departments.
	In a high stress situation, it is possible for someone with little training, this was a 26 year old, a 26 year veteran of the force, who was a trainer.
	It is very possible someone with little training to confuse the gun for a taser because the basic functions are the same.
	Both have a grip and trigger.
	In a fight or flight situation, you're not going to notice the weight.
	We were trained to keep our taser on the opposite side of our gun belt, so there is an unnatural draw, meaning the muscle memory is different for drawing a taser and a gun.
	My gun was on my right hip and my taser was on my left side, so just the left of my belly button, so I would have to cross my body to draw it.
	However, the officer was obviously untrained and or has found herself away from the high-stress situations in her career just based on the way she freaked out.
	trainer.
	Thank you again for pointing that out, John.
	From what I've read, that department keeps their tasers on their offhand.
	So if you're right-handed, you draw your taser from the left side with your left hand, and that should eliminate the confusion, which is why I think this officer hasn't trained in drawing her taser.
	At minimum, she should draw it at least once a day to complete a spark test, which is basically taking the cartridge off, pulling the trigger for a second to ensure it's working.
	One counter-argument I've heard is that she was yelling, taser, taser, taser as an order for someone to tase him.
	He says, we were trained to yell, taser, taser, taser, because the taser, when fired, makes a pop like a small caliber gun.
	We yell that to tell all the other officers who may have their guns out that the pop they're about to hear is a taser and not to shoot the person.
	So, in all, bad training.
	Bad training.
	And, adds, any producers in Minneapolis need to get out.
	I'd say.
	Minneapolis is a mess.
	Here's some color from Ando, Ando Cooper, who is, you know, his job is to lay it on thick, work the emotions, fails miserably, but he does a valiant effort.
	There is no way in good conscience to use the word good evening tonight, though there are many words to choose from.
	Mournful, tearful, and yes, as a country, shameful.
	Good is simply not one of them.
	Not after what happened overnight.
	When we began this program last night, we noted that between the police killing of Daunte Wright, the trial of Derek Chauvin, and the police shooting of a seventh grader, it was, in so many words, a lot.
	Then, late last night, a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
	Eight people were killed by a 19-year-old former employee.
	Several others were wounded or hurt.
	Countless more tonight are living the nightmare of losing someone close.
	And the toll extends beyond the victims and their next of kin.
	Now, this we know from experience.
	The shockwaves, they ripple out over time and distance.
	Fourteen years ago tonight, the country was reeling from the loss of 32 lives on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
	Do you remember that shooting?
	A month ago, we were watching the horrible images come in.
	Isn't it interesting he doesn't mention that that was an Asian who killed all those kids?
	It would have been fun to just add that, you know, since you always have black cop, black kid, white cop.
	You could have added that, Ando.
	Fourteen years ago tonight, the country was reeling from the loss of 32 lives on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
	Do you remember that shooting?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	A month ago, we were watching the horrible images come in from two mass shootings in and around Atlanta.
	Seems a long time ago, doesn't it?
	The sad fact is, though, that mass shootings have become so common it may soon be hard for one not to fall on the anniversary of another.
	Thank you, Ando.
	Does anybody bring up the stats?
	That show that the shooting situation in this country has gone down, down, and down from the 1980s to today?
	Does anyone bring this up ever?
	No, quite the opposite.
	Since a mass shooting event is, I think it's three people.
	They're changing the rules of the discussion.
	They're not bringing up the fact that gun violence is lessened in this country, and it has, and it's documented.
	Mm-hmm.
	Anderson Cooper works for CNN, which is the fake news outlet that Trump said it was.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	I find these things disturbing.
	Well, here's...
	So here's the...
	Texas is being funny.
	And on one hand, it's a great troll.
	On the other hand, there's a very good point.
	Now, when we had the COVID and we had the Black Lives Matter riots, the number one group of people who were buying guns for themselves to protect their family is black Americans.
	Yeah, with good reason.
	In fact, if you remember, we had some clips when Tavis Smiley was still on the air because they canceled him.
	He was with Big Mike, I think.
	And the two of them were talking to each other, discussing how great it is that the Second Amendment exists and black people are foolish not to embrace it because they're the ones that need the protection more than anyone.
	So here's what the Texas State Legislature is doing because, of course, we need our black and brown brothers and sisters to be able to go get guns.
	But as you know, As you know, the hurdle just to vote is already so high because our black and brown American brothers and sisters can't get ID, you know, because they don't know where to go.
	They don't understand it.
	And, you know, so we have to do away with ID laws in order for everyone to have a fair shake at voting.
	Otherwise, you're racist.
	Please see the FreedomList.io of companies who back this.
	Because of that, Texas said, well, you know, we really need to help our black and brown brothers and sisters because, you know, to get a concealed carry license in Texas, you have to take a course, you have to take a test, there's paperwork, you need an ID, you need, I mean, you need all kinds of stuff.
	So, well, we've got an idea.
	Let's be anti-racist.
	That 21-year-old pimp.
	I just launched into that.
	There's a bill, House Bill 1927, which says if you're 21 years of age, you can carry a gun, open or concealed carry, nothing needed.
	No paperwork, no tests, no nothing.
	Because, you know, otherwise it's a racist policy.
	And this is now being fought by the Texas Democrats with stuff like this?
	That 21-year-old pimp, that 21-year-old pimp, that 21-year-old trafficker who is not yet a convicted felon, roll on in to any place you want and buy a gun into this provision and walk around in whatever way you want.
	No training, no understanding, Wild West pimp style.
	That's what this bill does.
	And then that pimp can roll into whatever small businesses in your community with their stable of girls, and they can flaunt it.
	Wild West pimp style.
	I hope she realizes that using the term pimp is completely racist.
	She's a racist.
	The irony of her complaining is not lost on us.
	No, it's beautiful.
	It's okay, you know, for everything else, let them vote, vote, vote, vote, whoever you are.
	But yeah.
	Now, I agree in principle that to get these, I think gun safety is important.
	I think people need to take some training.
	I've never found that to be objectionable.
	I don't see any reason for it.
	They used to teach that sort of thing in high school in the United States.
	People forget that.
	Yeah.
	I mean, half our listeners don't know this.
	They used to have gun clubs in high schools in the United States.
	Yeah, you bring your rifle to school.
	And yes, you put it in the locker.
	Can you imagine?
	It was safe and you had gun safety and you learned how to use everything.
	You learned how to shoot and you learned how to target shoot and all the rest.
	But no, that's all been pushed out and to the point where, you know, we have some ludicrous situations now like this.
	I thought it was a cute idea.
	That's it.
	Greg, I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
	Oh, thank you.
	I don't know if I really deserve it.
	I'll take it.
	But I thought it was a very cute idea for them to say, you know, we really can't be racist here in Texas, so we have to unfortunately take away the regulations.
	Clip of the day.
	No more tests.
	Let's see.
	Oh, I do have some other fun stuff.
	Do you have any ISOs in the meantime?
	Ah, I think I'm low on ISOs.
	Let me see.
	I had...
	Yes, I have two ISOs.
	Well, actually, I have...
	I don't think it's too long, but I have one from that lady you just heard.
	Wild West Pimp Style.
	It's just too long, I think.
	I do have this one.
	What they've got here is a double whammy.
	It's not really great.
	I like that one.
	It's okay.
	Do you have anything?
	Do you have any ISOs?
	Yes, I went to the well and found my girl.
	And I thought this, for the end of show, I think this would be a good idea for an ISO. Because this podcast is life-changing.
	Life-changing.
	Ooh, you have a little blippy there that I don't like.
	Life-changing.
	I can kill it.
	I can kill it.
	Life-changing.
	And let's see, compared to this...
	What they've got here is a double whammy.
	Ooh, hard call, man.
	I think the double...
	Well, how about the combined double?
	That's such a cop-out.
	Life-changing.
	What they've got here is a double whammy.
	No, it doesn't fit together.
	You choose.
	I'm fine either way.
	You want life-changing or double whammy?
	I'm going to go with double whammy.
	Double whammy?
	Okay.
	Appreciate that.
	Well, it's two of us, and so it makes, you know, some sense.
	You can get more from...
	Believe me, she's a goldmine.
	So, something we've been following on the show for a long, long time is the serious situation with the White Helmets, which this show called out as bullcrap from day one, not just because we have eyes and we can see video and we understand what makes sense and what doesn't make sense, but there was a lot of reporting.
	And by the way, we also noticed that the people that were the dead kids and all the actors in there, it was an obvious ensemble operation.
	Yeah.
	Yes, and we have...
	Shame people.
	And we have video of them pretending to be dead in rubble and then getting up and having a good laugh.
	Remember, there were selfies.
	The whole crew took selfies with the dead people.
	And then the OPCW, because it fell under the chemical weapons...
	International laws, which turned out to also be not true.
	This was the barrel bombs.
	Oh, they're throwing chlorine onto the poor citizens of Syria.
	It was all bullcrap.
	And this came out, and I think there was even acknowledgement, am I mistaken, in my...
	In my memory here, that there was acknowledgement that there was fakery?
	That the white hats were full of crap?
	Yeah.
	Yes, there was.
	It came out a couple of times, but then it got repressed and went right back into play.
	Yes.
	So in the European, in the EU Parliament, they had a subcommittee.
	It still happens in the big boomy hall.
	And the subcommittee included the director general of the OPCW, which is the chemical weapons watchdog, I guess we'll call it.
	And here's Mick Wallace, who is a member of European Parliament for Ireland.
	And Mick asks a very...
	Very obvious question, kind of half of a statement, because remember, we had all kinds of bullcrap stories, mainly from one outlet, which is Bellingcat.
	Bellingcat, the so-called open-source reporting group, who know exactly that Russia shot the...
	Are you doing a reset yourself here?
	I forget all these things.
	I know!
	It comes flowing back.
	It's a great reset.
	And Bellingcat, you know, oh, they knew that the plane with the Dutch flying from Amsterdam was shot down by Russians.
	No, it couldn't be anything else.
	Bellingcat, Bellingcat, Bellingcat, Bellingcat.
	Oh, no.
	No, they report it.
	They reported on how incredibly horrible this was, what was going on in Syria with chemical bombs, chemical weapons, oil drums dropped out of helicopters.
	Well, Mick Wallace was having none of it, but then listen to how he is shut down, shut down by the speaker or the leader of this particular subcommittee.
	Director General...
	The credibility of the OPCW is at stake.
	Why will you not heed calls from renowned international figures, including the organisation's first Director General, José Bustani, and several former team leaders from the OPCW, to meet with all the investigators, including the dissenting inspectors?
	Director General, this problem is not going away.
	Are you going to investigate all aspects in a transparent manner?
	And you might also look at the fact that there was a false leak that went to Bellingcat and the BBC, which set out just deliberately to undermine the credibility of Bustani.
	What do I have you to say about this?
	I'll begin by saying what I feel I have to say after what I have just heard.
	The credibility that I'm concerned about is that of the European Parliament.
	Yes, there is no peace without truth.
	There is no peace with fake news.
	And I would like to apologize to the Director General of the OBCW for what he has just heard.
	As standing rapporteur for Syria, I would like to apologize to Syrian human rights activists that I have met, to the NGOs who work in Syria that I have met, to doctors in Syria who I have met for what they have just heard.
	I cannot accept that you can call into question the work of an international organization and that you call into the question the word of the victims in the way you have just done.
	And I would ask you, Director General, to please forgive what we just heard, which seems to me to be fake news.
	Mr.
	President, why am I the only one that has interfered with here?
	Is there no freedom of speech being allowed in the European Parliament anymore?
	What's going on with this list?
	You haven't said that we were entitled to our opinion.
	Today you're denying me my opinion.
	You don't have the floor, Mr.
	Wallace.
	You don't have the floor, Ms.
	Daly.
	I'm giving the floor to the Director General of the OPCW, and I think that the subcommittee should keep its honour.
	Who needs Farage when you got Mick Wallace?
	I'm liking this guy.
	Troublemaker.
	He's definitely a firebrand.
	It's hard to understand him, though.
	It's not quite as clear as Farage.
	Yeah, true.
	But can you believe that the woman just interjected and said, oh, I have to apologize on behalf of, oh, this is horrible what you just heard.
	I'm so sorry, Director General.
	Oh, this is just not okay.
	It's fake news.
	Yeah, it really seems like, you know, this European Parliament to me always seems like a bad science fiction movie.
	Okay.
	It's just really lame.
	But on they go, on they go.
	And now, did we not have an admission from the United States intelligence community that the Russian bounty...
	That just came up.
	For the Taliban to kill American soldiers, that turned out to be bogus, right?
	Well, this is not the first time the intelligence community, quote-unquote, Yeah, so I think they're repeating their initial guidance, which is according to whatever, this is the Guardian here that I have in front of me.
	The U.S. intelligence agencies have only, quote, low to moderate confidence in reports late last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants in Afghanistan bounties for killing U.S. soldiers.
	Yeah, it was used by Biden in his campaign.
	Right.
	So, that turns out, so we can agree now, is it out in the open that it was not true?
	Well, I thought so, but I'm guessing you have a clip.
	Well, no, the only thing I have is a super clip to remind us, just to remind us, because it's easy to forget how the media in the United States handled this Which was a lie, which had low to moderate confidence, which was only put in place to discredit Orange Man Bad.
	And so I personally, I find a supercut like this more interesting than Project Veritas where, shocker!
	CNN was trying to actively work against President Trump.
	Aw!
	No kidding!
	But let's look at the real travesty.
	What the American people were bomb...
	Not the no agenda producers, but the American people were bombarded with this crap.
	In our Worldly Today, President Trump dismissing the Russian bounty intelligence story as a hoax.
	The White House also responding tonight to a bombshell report accusing Russia of offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.
	From this reporting in the New York Times, which has since been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, that not only does the president know that Russia was paying for American soldiers' deaths.
	The Washington Post is now reporting that the alleged Russian bounties to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of U.S. troops.
	Like this New York Times story about a stunning U.S. intel assessment.
	Finding that Russia secretly offered Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. troops.
	So comes on the fire over those bombshell reports that the White House was told Russia was paying bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
	The most important application of that question is what did the president know about Vladimir Putin offering a bounty for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan and when did he know it?
	A senior Afghan official confirmed to CBS News that the reports were not only true, but the Russian government achieved some success with their plan.
	That Americans found out this weekend that Vladimir Putin is paying to put bounties on the heads of American troops.
	Telling CNN that the White House was warned about Russia offering bounties.
	Actual bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
	He's not even there yet.
	He's still suggesting that the reporting about the fact that there were these bounties offered is fake.
	Meanwhile, your organization, The New York Times and others, are getting some fairly detailed reporting about how it actually works.
	Despite those denials, over and over, sources tell CNN that last week the U.S. even shared that intelligence with British officials as some of the British troops would have been targeted as well.
	Yeah, to say nothing of putting bounties on American troops.
	It's unbelievable, Joya.
	There you go.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable, Joy.
	It's unbelievable.
	So this is a clip, and, you know, we always publish all of our clips.
	You can download this, put it on your phone, and when someone, you know, you say, hey, you know, mainstream media, they're full of crap.
	You say, yeah, you can say, yeah, listen to this.
	And notice the common sources.
	New York Times, Washington Post.
	Yeah.
	Well, the Wall Street Journal was snuck in there because the Wall Street Journal confirmed a New York Times report.
	One newspaper confirmed another newspaper.
	It's what you do.
	It's how it works.
	It's fantastic.
	Who cares?
	Hey, want some more lies?
	Let me give you some more lies.
	Listen to this report.
	Please remind me about the five dead people on January 6th.
	Were they all killed by white supremacists?
	None of them were killed by white supremacists at all.
	Not one.
	Okay.
	Did we have anyone who was shot?
	Yes, one woman was shot, and she was a protester.
	Ashley Babbitt, I remember her name.
	Yes, that's right.
	She got shot.
	And no charges were filed because they had no evidence, despite the videotape of the whole episode.
	Now, was there a police officer who died during this event?
	Yes, a police officer died at the scene.
	Or not at the scene, but shortly thereafter.
	And how did this police officer perish?
	I think he had a heart attack or something wrong with him.
	Well, first we heard he got hit with a...
	First it was he was sprayed by a fire extinguisher, then hit in the head by a fire extinguisher.
	Yeah, that was that.
	Yeah.
	And by the way...
	That never happened.
	It's sad.
	I mean, anyone dying, and I think there were three...
	You don't like it, but the story about how he died is bullcrap.
	Let's listen to NBC News, Lester Holt, as he talks a little bit more about the January 6th events.
	Acting Chief Pittman watched events unfold that day from this command center.
	At some point you heard that Officer Sicknick had been killed.
	Do you recall that moment?
	Yes, I do.
	And just as a mother of two sons, to have to make that call to another mother to say your loved one, your child, is never coming home.
	It's just something you're never prepared for.
	So notice he says a couple of things here.
	He says the day the officer was killed, which is just a lie.
	It's not true.
	He was not killed.
	He died.
	And then she was sitting at the video command center?
	And she doesn't say, yeah, I saw it happen.
	It was one of the worst things I've ever seen.
	No.
	No, no.
	Instead of that, it's, well, it was a shitty phone call I had to make.
	Because...
	Oh!
	Won't somebody please think of the children?
	I'm so tired.
	This is abusive, what they're doing.
	Turn it off, people.
	Turn it off.
	Even the best podcast in the universe production crew has to turn it off sometimes.
	It's bad.
	It's very, very unhealthy.
	And it's bad on the local level, it's bad on the national level.
	Yep.
	Just bad.
	Here we have the woman.
	This is another one of these kinds of stories.
	This is Liz, and I spelled her name wrong in every one of these three clips.
	Her name's actually Liz Neumann.
	Yeah.
	You didn't even come close.
	Believe me.
	We got Boyman, Moyman.
	I went back to fix it, then I forgot to fix it.
	So, but Liz Neumann was the woman that worked at Department of Homeland Security that quit Around April of 2020, for whatever reason, and she then became one of the chiefs of Republicans against Trump.
	She was a never-Trumper.
	I'll give her your background, because they're not going to give her background on these clips.
	She's bitching about white supremacy and how President Trump encouraged it, and her background is she was a bushy.
	And then she got into the Trump White House as the assistant to one of the chief of staffs, the harsh looking guy.
	The harsh looking guy?
	Well, the one chief of staff that he had, it wasn't Mad Dog Madison, who went to, I guess he was in the Department of Defense, no, it was Kelly.
	Kelly, yeah, Kelly.
	She was a, and Kelly hated Trump, we know that.
	And somehow he got the job because he was forced into it.
	Trump was pushed into these hirings.
	And she was working for him, and then she quit.
	And it's a big deal because she's, you know, they're trying to make her look like, well, she was another one of those people that worked for Trump.
	Like Trump's sister.
	They get to milk her.
	She'll have a book.
	Yeah, well, she probably does.
	This is on White Supremacy 1.
	Now listen to her saying nothing.
	It has this rallying effect for a white supremacist who leads to this ideology that eventually there's going to be this massive war and the U.S. government's going to be overthrown and they're going to be able to establish this white nation.
	So it's not like they destroyed the capital.
	It's not like they disrupted the transition of power.
	But it was seen as kind of almost the starting point, perhaps, of the civil war that they have believed in their mythology was going to come at some point, a race war.
	And so you see on online chat rooms that you have groups using this as a recruitment tactic that it's finally happening.
	There's going to be this race war that we're finally going to be able to achieve our aim of ridding the country of all of these people we don't think should be here establishing our own country.
	And anytime you have for an extremist group or a terrorist group something that's symbolic It affects and helps them with their recruitment, with their morale.
	So these, certainly on the white supremacist side, we see an emboldening effect for those groups.
	Wow.
	It's about January 6th.
	I'd really like to see this group that are going to turn this into a white nation.
	Yeah, I'm waiting to see.
	Pretty powerful group.
	Boy, she's got it nailed.
	So let's go to part two and you get a little more details.
	Which of the groups want to see a race war?
	You!
	You, lady!
	This is, by the way, this is Terry Gross on Fresh Air.
	Oh my goodness.
	Terry Gross wants a race war.
	Is that her?
	Yeah, you'll hear her voice at the beginning.
	Oh my goodness.
	Shame on you.
	Which of the groups want to see a race war?
	And want to see like a civil war that leads to a white nation?
	Democrats.
	Okay, so you can stop right there.
	She's going to name names, actual groups.
	She's the big expert.
	She came out of the White House.
	She was studying this.
	She's now doing a book.
	She's part of some foundation that's stopping this.
	So let's hear.
	Name some groups for us, lady.
	So that particular strain is going to be in your white supremacist group.
	So neo-Nazis and other groups that borrow their mythology largely from Germany and Nordic countries.
	What you also see though is there's this other movement called the Boogaloo Boys.
	You may have heard of them as well.
	They also believe in a coming civil war.
	They also subscribe to an ideology of accelerationism, which a white supremacist might also ascribe to.
	That concept is that we are going to commit certain acts to accelerate societal collapse to encourage the oncoming of a civil war.
	So it's not just a belief that someday there will be a civil war As if you're being prophetic and you have awareness of something happening in the future.
	The accelerationism is, it is my job to help bring it about.
	So Boogaloo Boy believes in civil war and it may also have a white supremacist viewpoint, might believe it's a race war, but not necessarily.
	There are a lot of Boogaloo Boys who just believe that there's a coming civil war and it has nothing to do, at least at a winning level, with race.
	So One of the hard things in studying extremism, especially today, is that increasingly we have these groups kind of morphing and the individual may have multiple ideologies that they have cobbled together to form almost their own version of an ideology.
	So I'm sure that Terry Gross, fresh air, then immediately went and said, so why don't we go and arrest all the Boogaloo Boys?
	Since they seem to be the core problem, the only group you named was Boogaloo Boys.
	Boogaloo Boys, Boogaloo Boys.
	That's what she said, right?
	Well, she doesn't do that, of course, as we know.
	But I'm going to ask you a question.
	Now, we study current events probably as much as anybody, and we do it professionally.
	Have you ever heard of accelerationism?
	No, no, this is new to me.
	I agree.
	Acceleration is...
	She or her little foundation or whatever she's part of dreamed up.
	I've never heard of it.
	I mean, I'll look it up and maybe it's in the literature someplace, but it's nothing that's to the fore.
	It's not front of mind.
	I've never heard of this.
	But okay, let's finish her off with the third clip.
	And so you might easily have a white supremacist who is also a bugle boy.
	You also see the melding between the white supremacist groups and the anti-government extremist groups.
	There tends to be a lot of overlap there.
	But you could find somebody easily.
	You could find a militia or a member of a militia who hates racism, who hates white supremacy.
	They are just about the right to bear arms and be able to exercise protection for their neighborhood through a militia.
	So it's really hard to categorize with brushstrokes.
	Yeah, I'll say. - For the reason that Perhaps we haven't been able to take domestic terrorism as seriously as we should have is because of that decentralized lack of organization to many of these groups.
	You often see infighting between supposed leaders of these groups, and it can give this false sense that they don't have their act together, they're not actually that dangerous, because they're always fighting with one another, and they can't even agree on the issues that they stand for.
	So you've got nothing.
	No, but I do have accelerationism, and this is quite interesting.
	There is a Wikipedia entry which is quite extensive on accelerationism, and there is one small footnote.
	White nationals have been known to refer to acceleration of racial conflict through terrorism, societal collapse, and the building of a white ethnostate.
	But the political and social theory accelerationism is a real thing.
	It is the idea that capitalism and the technological change can or should be accelerated and drastically exaggerated.
	It's in fact accelerationism is an anti-leftist social theory.
	The goal of accelerationism is to trigger unprecedented revolt and establishment of new unique political and economic systems.
	It takes its lead from French critical theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's idea of deterioration as developed in the two volumes of their work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, as well as aspects of theoretical systems and processes developed by English philosopher as well as aspects of theoretical systems and processes developed by English And it's really about accelerating capitalism.
	This is a gross misuse of this word, which is purely a footnote, just a footnote in the whole term.
	And this woman is full of crap.
	What a dork.
	She was the head of Republicans Against Trump, which was modeled after the Lincoln Project.
	What shows is Trump, you know, he had no handle on hiring.
	I know that he didn't hire her directly, but jeez, you can smell a rat like this a hundred miles away, I'd think, if you're just near her.
	I would think.
	I would agree 100%.
	You can tell by the...
	I don't want to say sometimes by the looks of them, but...
	Now, there is a person who absolutely is driving a racial war, 100%, and I have proof.
	This person is driving and asking and requesting for race riots and racial war, and this person is boots on the ground in Brooklyn, not New York, and...
	No, no, it's Maxine Waters, because, you know, she's got to be out there to get ready for any kind of trial that may go the wrong way.
	Reform, reform.
	And so, yes, I would like to see the bill in Congress passed on police reform, but I know that the right wing, the racists, are opposed to it, and I don't know what's going to happen to it, but I know this, we've got to stay in the streets.
	Stay in the streets.
	We've got to demand justice.
	We're looking for a guilty verdict.
	We're looking for a guilty verdict, and we're looking to see if all of the faults that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we've got to not only stay in the streets, but we've got to fight for justice.
	I am very hopeful, and I hope that we're going to get a verdict that say, guilty, guilty, guilty.
	And if we don't, we cannot go away.
	And not just manslaughter, right?
	I mean...
	Oh, no, not manslaughter.
	No, no, no.
	This is guilty.
	For murder.
	I don't know whether it's in the first degree, but as far as I'm concerned, it's first degree.
	What happens if we do not go...
	First degree is not even charged with...
	I didn't hear you.
	What should protesters do?
	Well, we've got to stay on the street.
	And we've got to get more active.
	We've got to get more confrontational.
	We've got to make sure that they know that we need business.
	Right.
	So the answer there is clear.
	We've got to stay in the street, become more confrontational, become more active.
	Please.
	This is not how you calm people down.
	This is how you make a mess out of things.
	This is what Trump did and got him impeached.
	Why doesn't this woman get thrown out and get censored?
	She gets to tell other congressmen to shut up.
	She can do anything she wants.
	Shut your mouth.
	Now, we have a new ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, and she made some very controversial statements, and she said in a statement that the United States, as is encoded into our founding documents, we are the epitome of white supremacy and systemic racism.
	It's right there in our founding documents.
	Now, this is a controversial thing for her to say.
	So this came up in a Q&A session with Jen Psaki, who speaks on behalf of the president in the White House.
	And let's just have a listen as to how she addresses this issue of race and the Constitution and the ambassador who said this, which just seems like not a good thing to say if you're representing the United States.
	Is this policy for us to go around and say, oh, we're sorry, we're racist?
	Is this the new policy?
	Is that Build Back Better?
	The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas Grieffeld, talking to her group on Wednesday, essentially said that white supremacy is woven into our founding documents and principles.
	Now, this statement is getting widely criticized as essentially parroting Chinese Communist Party talking points.
	So, is the president going to remove her from her position?
	The representative before that body to promote United States values?
	Is the president going to remove an African-American woman with decades of experience in the Foreign Service?
	It's very important to point out what color she is.
	Thanks, Jen.
	Widely respected around the world from her position as ambassador to the UN. He is not.
	He is proud to have her in that position.
	She is not only qualified, he believes she is...
	Did she say he, she?
	Did she do a double pronoun there?
	She's going to be guilty of misgendering.
	He is proud to have her in that position.
	She is not only qualified, he believes she is exactly the right person in that role.
	Maybe that is her pronoun.
	Maybe that's her pronoun.
	Maybe her pronoun is she.
	We should look on her bio.
	She is exactly the right person in that role at this moment in time.
	I have not seen her comments.
	I will say that there's no question that there has been a history of institutional racism in this country, and that does require the UN ambassador to confirm that.
	So that's essentially the same lecture, though, that the Chinese delegation gave Secretary Blinken in Alaska last month.
	So does the president think our founding documents are racist?
	I would say that I will leave my comments to speak for themselves.
	And certainly I think most people recognize the history of systemic racism in our country.
	And she was speaking to that.
	Do you see how it's just slipped in now?
	The history of our systemic racism.
	Yes, we had slavery, but that has now become systemic racism, which means it's still here and it's encoded in our founding documents.
	Yes, because of the documents.
	You've got to get rid of these documents.
	That's the real goal here.
	By the way, Republicans slash conservatives, don't get pulled into this.
	The woman is unimportant.
	Who gives a crap about the United Nations?
	Don't go all freaking out on Twitter.
	Like the journalist, she must have been from Fox.
	Whoa, it's like the CCP. Okay.
	Hello?
	Get a clue.
	Well, I don't think it's as unimportant as you think.
	Mainly because that's where Susan Rice came from.
	Yeah.
	And a lot of people think Susan Rice, as of today, is running the White House.
	Well, yeah.
	That's what I mean.
	It's like, this is not surprising that these people talk like this.
	It doesn't surprise me at all.
	No, they hate the country.
	They do.
	That's face reality.
	They simply hate the country.
	This woman, our U.S. ambassador, is supposed to be promoting the United States and all its tentacles, wherever they may be.
	Supposed to be pro-American.
	But no, no, she hates the country.
	She's just assumed work for the Chinese, which is what she's doing.
	What is the job description of a U.N. ambassador?
	I don't know.
	You got to go to China to find it.
	Because it's the Chinese who define it.
	I'm going to show myself by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	Yes, and we do have a few people to thank for today's show.
	We have a make good.
	We've got to do a quick make good first.
	Oh yeah, why don't you read that while I open it up.
	Yeah, this is Kevin Locks, L-A-U-X. His note got lost for the last episode.
	He said, donated for show 1337.
	It was a 1133.7 or 267.40 donation.
	Yes, we remember.
	In my note, I mainly wanted some karma, but instead I was jinxed.
	My scalding hot fiancé and I, oh, here's another story, have been house hunting and the market is crazy.
	I bragged to her that we would be getting house buying karma and our worries would be over.
	On show day, we found out the construction house we have a reservation on will be at least $70,000 more than we expected due to supply issues.
	By the way, I think this is China as well.
	I think there's wood, certain types of pressed wood.
	There's all kinds of supply issues.
	I think they're not just messing with our chips, but also with our lumber and other supplies.
	He goes on, we have been hedging our bets and looking at resales as well as a house we were very interested in.
	It went under contract before there were pictures, before there were showings.
	Yes, because it's banks buying it, as we just explained.
	We didn't even have a chance.
	After everything on Thursday, she said, well, so much for the karma.
	I was confused by our misfortune and not able to listen to the show yet.
	When I was finally able to listen on Friday night, it all made sense.
	I found out you didn't get my note and my gloating jinxed me.
	Last time I donated, I received Jobs Karma, and it paid off for me with two promotions.
	Please give me an emergency triple shot of Karma house relationship jobs.
	I think I'll need them all to survive these crazy times.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got Karma.
	Now, threw in the house goat just to help you out.
	People should probably start looking for private sales.
	That'll bypass the banks.
	They're all over the place.
	There's a bunch of new systems out there, too, that allow for this.
	I want to read a note now that you read that one, which came in from one of our anonymous women.
	But she says, I'm a health care attorney over in...
	I'll leave that out.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	At least now I have somewhere to turn.
	Most of what I know is privilege, but some of it is not.
	I messaged you both on LinkedIn.
	Please put this for my damehood.
	She also says one other thing, which is I only have one request.
	No jingles.
	This is for an associate executive producer donation.
	Can you please provide, now this is, you can listen to this, I can't come up with this.
	Can you please provide a citation slash statute for the federal law you brought up on the show that says something to the effect of the federal government cannot fund vaccines if there is an experimental use authorization.
	No, no, no.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	She misheard us.
	Yeah, no.
	You cannot issue an emergency use authorization for vaccines if there is an approved treatment available.
	There are many treatments.
	You can buy them at the airport in Mexico.
	Some of them treat you for other things.
	Boing, boing, boing.
	But you can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Z-Pax, anything you want.
	Those are treatments.
	And from all the studies and surveys and everything we know, they work, but they can never be admitted because the minute they admit that, then the emergency use authorization is illegal.
	Now, which statute that is, I don't know exactly.
	But look for that.
	That's what you want to be looking for.
	Anyway, now let's go back to our list of well-wishers and producers for show 1339, starting with Steve...
	Bamstra in Nashville, $184.40.
	He's kind of a PBR donation.
	Dame Dane in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
	Or no, I'm sorry, Fredericksburg, Denmark.
	Oh, the real Fredericksburg.
	The OG Fredericksburg.
	No, no kidding.
	That's good.
	Denmark, $133.33.
	Aaron Farrell in Wadsworth, Illinois, 111-11.
	Sheila Ryan in Paris, France.
	Hello!
	Oh, by the way, I'm sorry.
	Dame Dane, I did need to mention this.
	I'm not quite sure how that happened, but if at all possible, and I'll do it at the end, she'd like a job's karma for her beautiful husband, who was a mainframe dude, Mainframe dude who was bullied into getting an ulcer, then fired from his last job.
	He has a jobs interview Monday morning.
	I'd really love for him to get a jobs confidence boost.
	Thank you for all you do.
	Noah Jen is the best podcast in the universe.
	Yes, we're going to give him a big jobs, a TPP jobs karma boost at the end here.
	How is he bullied?
	The mainframe guys usually do the bullying.
	Yeah.
	Aaron Farrell in Wadsworth, we got him a Sheila of Parisienne, $100 from Paris.
	I would thank the French who would listen in.
	Brianna Freger in Richmond Hill, Georgia, 100.
	Kurt Kubal in Wyzada, Minnesota, 99.99.
	Yeah, hold on.
	Hold on, Kurt.
	Something happening with Kurt here.
	Besides the annual birthday donation, this also makes him a knight?
	Sir Kubalpedia, is that still available?
	He wants to know.
	Yes, I'm sure.
	He says, that way people have to use my horrific, well, I have to use my honorific name when I expound my random knowledge on them, Sir Kubalpedia.
	Much these days from your show, I learned much these days from your show, would like to request peaches and rye PA at the round table.
	It has been ordered, and thank you for your courage.
	Sir Gary's up next, 7777 from Wayne, Pennsylvania.
	And I will mention he liked the climate change special.
	And particularly the Michael Crichton clip that was in there.
	John and Kim Watson in Aurora, Colorado, 77.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6969.
	Sir Timothy Brashear, 6969.
	Surveiled Baron of the FEMA Region 4 in Palmetto, Florida, 69, home of the Palmetto Beetle.
	Thomas Hurtado, 6528, Dame Sparkle in West Lynn, Oregon, 63.
	Happy birthday coming up for her...
	To serve Barrington.
	Baronet Laude Pipes in Charlotte, North Carolina, 61-40.
	Lisa Barnier in Clarkston, Michigan, 60.
	Daniel Mariano in Pflugerville, Texas, 55-10.
	Where Adam's moving to.
	Dean Roker from East Grinstead, West Sussex, 55-10.
	Am I still on?
	Yeah.
	Seth Dunbar in Spring Hill, Kansas.
	He has a request for a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	And a call out for douchebagging his brother Ben.
	Douchebag!
	And cousin Isaiah.
	Douchebag!
	Get on the stick, kids.
	Richard Futter in London, UK. 55.10.
	A lot of 55.10s.
	Alan Assoff in Fuquay, Verena, North Carolina.
	55.10.
	Michael Shambaugh in Topeka, Kansas.
	Same 55.10.
	Then we go to 50.05 from James Fredericks in McFarlane, Wisconsin.
	50.05 also from Sir Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri.
	The following people now are $50 donors.
	Name and location.
	And that will wrap it up for us.
	Jessica Young from Yuba City.
	Baronet Amen Fisbump from Montgomery, Texas.
	Where Adam's moving.
	Matthew Wells in Austin.
	That's where Adam's moving from.
	Marie LeBruyer in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	David Shalona in Madisonville, Louisiana.
	Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois.
	Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus, California.
	And last but not least, Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia.
	I want to thank these folks for making this show possible.
	We, of course, thank everyone who came in under $50 for anonymity reasons mainly, but also we have some great programs you can take a look at.
	These are sustaining donations, very important to the show.
	Even if you donate as an executive producer, just a producer, it's great if you can get on one of those because that really gives us a base when times are low.
	Like today is a very slow day.
	Personally, I want to thank the Fugizotos for the chocolates they sent the keeper and I for our anniversary.
	Very nice chocolates, chocolates.
	And Sir Keith Jacobs came through.
	The Etherwave theremin has arrived and I cannot wait to play it for you on Thursday.
	I'm very excited.
	Yeah, we're going to look forward to that.
	Yeah.
	I want a song.
	So far, it sounds like a lot of sine wave.
	I've got to work on it, but it's very interesting.
	It does work.
	I've never played one, and it still doesn't sound like I'm playing one, but we're going to work on it.
	This never played one may continue forever.
	Yes, well, we'll see how it goes.
	Thank you all very much.
	And here is the promised jobs karma for our mainframe dude who needs a little job booster.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Support the show for our next episode on Thursday.
	Visit borac.org slash N-A.
	And as promised, his annual donation, Kurt Kubal, April 15th.
	There it is.
	And happy birthday to you, Kurt.
	Joel Cox turns 43 on the 16th.
	Dave Sparkle, happy birthday to Sir J.T. Barrington.
	His birthday is today, as is Derek Narlock's.
	Alexandra Harrington, happy birthday to Lady Get Over It, her birthday on April 20th.
	And Breanne Freiger says happy birthday to her dad, Sebastian, in Lake Stevens, Washington.
	His birthday also on the 20th.
	And finally, not just from Sir Omar, but from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe and all across Kimbo Nation, happy birthday, Darren O'Neill, from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	Alright, one, two, three knightings on deck.
	That means we've got Maximum Blade ready to go.
	Let me pull this one out.
	Nice.
	Up on the podium, Derek Gnarlock, Kurt Cobal, and MFDX. All of you are now, now, now, now, Knights of the Noah Dinner Roundtable.
	That means we've got some accoutrements here for you, and I'm very proud to have the honor to pronunciate thee as Sir Gnarles, the Gnarly Gnarlock, Sir Cobalpedia, and MFX of Anjou.
	That's right, for you.
	We've got Hookers& Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay.
	By request, we have Pepsi and Poutine.
	Walleye pulled from the Rainy River and Gerber multi-tools.
	Peaches and rye PA. We got some extra ginger ale and gerbils.
	Some geishas and sake.
	Rubenes, ruben and rosé.
	Breast milk and pablum.
	And of course, mutton and mead right there for you.
	Right there at the round table.
	Thank you all for supporting the No Agenda show.
	And you can go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	And Eric LeShield will take care of you.
	We'll make sure that you get your ring, your sealing wax, and your official certification.
	Please post that.
	On No Agenda Social, so we can welcome you all to the roundtable, and everyone can see your accoutrements, your ring.
	It always looks beautiful.
	No Agenda!
	Beat up!
	It's not your comedy!
	Like a party, they are kicking ass.
	NoagendaMeetups.com, where people get together, who a lot of them have been getting together throughout the entire so-called lockdown, the pandemic.
	People just hanging out.
	But I went to the 512 Meetup yesterday.
	It's great to see everybody.
	It's a good group.
	You know, it's always fun to see how diverse everybody is, but yet everyone has a good time talking.
	No triggering.
	It's lots of fun.
	As is witnessed by this report from the Memphis Meetup.
	Hi, No Agenda Knights and Dames and No Agenda Slaves.
	It's Ty McMahon, and while I couldn't be there, my friends were over at the No Agenda Bad Beer protest here in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Check it out.
	So we're at the Hammer and Ale meetup in Memphis on April 17th.
	This is Todd Winton in the morning.
	Dame Shell, once again, right here.
	This is Ted O'Brien.
	My preferred pronouns are nobody and anybody.
	And I'm triggered by cowboy hats and the word anyways.
	In the morning.
	All right.
	Atlanta 404, come on in.
	Hey, this is Mark Hanson's Clever Name on No Agenda Social.
	We're here reporting from Atlanta Local 404 COVID Cookout.
	Lois Fulcher here.
	John, it's Dakula, not Dakula.
	Joseph here.
	Loving it.
	Having a great time.
	Kofirula here.
	Being adjacent to white people.
	Being white adjacent.
	Feeling great.
	Good morning, everyone.
	And a special message to John.
	Stay safe, please.
	Hey Adam and John, it's Mike Rauch, Dr.
	Sir.
	In the morning guys, one of your AMPs here.
	At Sabs on NA Social, Princess Peach in person.
	Hey, Squire Swan here.
	Stay dangerous, Adam.
	Hi, Maggie Mae here.
	Thank God for No Agenda.
	Eglo on NA Social, E-G-L-O. New No Agenda supporter, Mrs.
	Darling.
	Toot me soon.
	Dame Jennifer Wida of the Gypsy Nation, thank you for your courage.
	Thank you!
	It's nice to hear a couple of our amps in there, our Asian-American millennial producers.
	I'm going to have you guys at the meetup.
	Very cool.
	White-adjacent they are, but still, they can hang out with all these white supremacists who are right-wing listening to the No Agenda show.
	How is it possible?
	In the morning is Dave the Douchebag.
	Thanks for your courage, fellas.
	This is Edwin, the Convict Broadcast.
	Dude, name Ben, name Ben.
	In the morning, everyone.
	Thank you.
	Sir Sneaky from Australia here.
	Sorry I would donate more, but I had all my money in pandemic bonds.
	Thanks for the heads up, Horowitz.
	This is Phil from Morimu.
	I hate doing these things.
	In the morning, John and Adam.
	This is Sir Capo of Gunya Beach Down Under.
	Gunya, not Gunya.
	Thank you for your courage.
	And can I give you one little factoid, which is, do you know how many people have died in Australia this year from COVID? The answer is one.
	Do you know how many people have died from the COVID vaccine in Australia this year?
	The answer is one.
	Boom.
	It's Foxy in the morning.
	I'm representing for all the women that listen to No Agenda.
	I'm the only one at the meet-up.
	G'day John and Adam, it's the ginger hipster from Amsterdam here from Australia.
	Love and light, all the best.
	My name's Chris, Sir Chris the Drunken Minstrel, and I am an alcoholic.
	And I've been sober for three, no wait, four!
	Four minutes!
	And I know this is a no agenda meet-up, it isn't a 12-step program, it's just that I've never been to a 12-step program where somebody's come up to me afterwards and said, hey Chris, that was really brave of you to open up to us like that.
	Let me buy you a beer.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Chris.
	Have a Paps Blue Ribbon on me.
	Paps Blue Ribbon on my mind!
	In the morning!
	Man, Australia.
	They may be locked down like bugs in a cage, but they're having a good time.
	Final reports from, and we had a lot, this is all from the 17th, Kansas City.
	Hey, no agenda nation, it's Sir Spencer with your KC meetup report.
	Dame DeLorean here, enjoying some face-friendly freedom!
	Hey John and Adam, it's dude named Clem from Wichita, up in great St.
	Joseph, Missouri.
	I've got my double shot of courage and I feel extra special tonight.
	Darren from Kansas City, in the morning.
	Hey, this is Sir Pasty, checking in from the St.
	Joe meetup, Newly Nighted.
	This is Jordan from Bellevue, Nebraska.
	Alla manana.
	This is Flopdick from Amazonia, Missouri, here with my keeper.
	This is Douchebag JP. Thank you for your courage, and in the morning.
	Hey, this is Phil from St.
	Joe.
	Remember to be as healthy as you feel, not as sick as you fear.
	We'll be back next month when Sir B-Load's back in town.
	Stay safe.
	I should be screening those.
	Hey, excellent.
	Hey, excellent.
	Good work, everybody.
	Good work, everybody.
	You can tell that the vibe is in every single one of these meetups.
	You can tell that the vibe is in every single one of these meetups.
	And if you want to enjoy that for yourself and you are in the Denver area on the 22nd, that's this coming Thursday, there's the Denver area creatively titled meetup, which is the title at 630 at Waters Edge Winery and Bistro.
	On Friday, Oregon Local 33 Spring Meetup at 530 at the Willamette Park in West Lynn, Oregon.
	Also on Friday, Smiles.
	Welcome, Jacksonville, Florida at the Bottlenose Brewery.
	Here's what's coming up in April.
	Left to go.
	The 24th in Houston, Melbourne, Australia, Chicago, Illinois, the Smokies, Bozeman, Montana and Myrtle Beach and Santa Fe on the 25th.
	For May, Boston on the 1st, Nisswa, Minnesota on the 1st, the 7th, Charleston, South Carolina, May 8th, Oakland County, Michigan, the 15th of May, San Francisco, California, the 16th, Durham, North Carolina, May 29th, Rhode Island, and June 4th, even, we have on the calendar, Peterborough, Ontario.
	These are the no-agenda meetups, no triggering allowed.
	Everyone has a good time, all races, religions, creeds.
	Sex, gender, it doesn't matter.
	Because it's like a party.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	You will not regret it.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want me Triggered on hell to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Okay.
	Well, I've got a couple of clips that might be interesting.
	All right.
	But not for the obvious reasons.
	This is kind of a human interest story that was done on NPR. Mm-hmm.
	And it's a cute little girl talking about how she wants to get pants for herself.
	She's seven.
	And she wants pockets in the front of...
	I didn't realize this, but girls' pants generally don't have pockets in the front.
	They have what looks like pockets, but just sewed up.
	And now we're going to hear from a little girl who recently got a big lesson in the power of persuasion.
	I like to put my hands in my pockets, and they're very helpful.
	That is seven-year-old Cameron Gardner of Bentonville, Arkansas.
	She was learning how to write persuasive letters in her first grade class when she decided to put that lesson to work and address a problem that a lot of girls and women have complained about over the years.
	How come many pants for women and girls don't have real pockets?
	Her mom Kim Gardner says this has always bothered her.
	It had probably been going on for, I would probably say a year, where she just, it was something that was always on her mind, and she'd always tell us, I don't like these jeans because they don't have pockets.
	I don't want to wear these because they don't have pockets.
	And so after all of that, I just kind of encouraged her and said, well, what can we do?
	What do we need to do about this?
	And that's when she wanted to go to Old Navy and tell them.
	I happen to know something about this.
	There's a second part, so I don't want to step on anything.
	Okay, well, why don't you play the second part?
	And then I have thoughts on this.
	Okay.
	But, of course, they really like to milk the little girl's voice.
	Well, obviously.
	Yes, she's so cute.
	Okay, hit it.
	Cameron decided she would write to her favorite clothing brand, Old Navy, and she politely suggested that they start getting rid of what she calls fake pockets, you know, the kind that look like pockets but they're actually sewn shut.
	Dear Old Navy, I do not like that the front pockets of the girls' jeans are fake.
	I want front pockets because I want to.
	Put my hands in them.
	I also would like to put things in them.
	Would you consider making girls' jeans with front pockets?
	Don't eat me, Bulldog, and you're scary!
	I do not fake.
	Thank you for reading my request.
	Sincerely, Cameron Garner, age 7.
	Her letter caught the attention of Old Navy's product team, who wrote Cameron back saying they do make some pants with real pockets for girls, but they appreciated her feedback and would consider her suggestion.
	We did not know if we would get a response.
	That was something we had talked with her about before, that we were just going to send the letter and hopefully they would receive it.
	And so we were really excited and thankful that they responded.
	And they sent along a few other goodies for Cameron, too.
	Four pairs of jeans with front pockets in them.
	I got it right after we got from our vacation, and I even thought it was a birthday present.
	She's got her favorite pair picked out already.
	A kind that has shorts and they have white flowers on them and fringes.
	And now that she's had so much success with Old Navy, who does Cameron think will be the target of her next letter writing campaign?
	Um, the president.
	According to her mom, the first grader is also very passionate about putting a stop to littering.
	So President Biden, keep an eye on that mailbox.
	Wow.
	Blatant child abuse for commercial means.
	Well, I want to hear what you have to say.
	I put this together and thought to myself, this is NPR. Is NPR... Or somebody's really good at promoting something like this.
	Now taking on native ads?
	Because this is an Old Navy commercial.
	Yes, it is.
	And I will tell you why I know it's a native ad.
	There is a movement underway in women's fashion, women's clothing, so off the rack, not haute couture, For pockets.
	This has been an issue.
	I grew up with women.
	Women around me all my life.
	Particularly dresses.
	They have no pockets.
	Or as the little girl said, fake pockets.
	And I know for a fact that we people and J. Crew have an incredible push.
	They are now...
	It's like it's some big revelation.
	They've decided that they need pockets in all of their garments where women previously did not have them.
	Old Navy is jumping on this and abusing a child to get out ahead of the competition.
	Well, I think you're right.
	Things you didn't expect to hear from the No Agenda show.
	But yes, it's totally bullcrap.
	This is exactly what you expect to hear from the No Agenda show.
	Well, I mean, who knows about women's fashion?
	I didn't expect to have a relevance there.
	I'm talking about the fact that native advertising, which is a plague on journalism, is creeping in everywhere.
	And when I found this, I liked the story anyway, because I thought it was cute, especially the way she says, fake-a.
	She has this hard K, which is very interesting.
	But the whole thing being...
	It's all about how great...
	Her favorite store, they mentioned that, and her favorite store is Old Navy.
	And I know that The Gap, which owns Old Navy, is a huge subscriber to massive advertising effort.
	Oh, yeah.
	Totally.
	And this is...
	When I think of NPR, that's the last place.
	And I'm guessing now this is not the first example.
	I'm guessing now that there's a lot of this native advertising going into the nation's treasure, NPR, as these kind of human interest stories.
	And I believe if you timed it out, it would be probably 2.30.
	It would be a full-on commercially timed segment, sure.
	And we should be on the lookout for more of this, particularly for the pockets.
	It's a real thing.
	It's the hottest move in fashion, believe it or not.
	Oh, I'm so happy I got pockets.
	I had a second half of show segment, a true UFO segment.
	I'm going to move it to Thursday.
	But remind me to do it.
	No, forget it.
	To make up for my podcast story.
	Never happening.
	It's a doozy.
	Yes.
	So second half of show on UFOs.
	Also, I hope to have some theremin chops down for you.
	I got some time.
	Oh, perfect for the segment.
	Yes, I will accompany myself.
	Just bring this theremin out and play the theremin as you're doing the segment.
	I will accompany myself.
	It's something new in conspiracy theory world.
	No one's doing it.
	All right, okay.
	I'm still not reminding you.
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	It is in FEMA region number 6 if you're looking for it on the governmental maps.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA until Thursday.
	I say in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where everyone's saying, the show's too long.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Jesse Coy Nelson coming up, along with Doug Longenecker, end of show.
	We'll see you on Thursday, everybody.
	Till then, adios mofos!
	And such.
	There's a new Olympic sport.
	It's breaking barriers.
	We'll soon be on the global stage like never before.
	The falling solo sex acts on the desk of a female lawmaker.
	The moves keep your body twisting and turning.
	I'm shocked and I'm disgusted.
	It is shameful.
	It is a dance.
	It's a cultural dance.
	It has its own terms, its own meanings.
	Performing solo sex acts on the desk of a female lawmaker.
	Lewd acts.
	Lewd acts.
	It is just absolutely shameful. .
	It takes a lot of core and physical strength to be able to maneuver around the heavier parts of the desk.
	There's a new Olympic sport.
	It's breaking barriers.
	We'll soon be on the global stage like never before.
	Misogyny.
	Misogyny.
	Performing solo sex acts on the desk of a female lawmaker.
	Those parts are very explosive.
	Only the best of the best take part in these athletic games.
	Performing solo sex acts on the desk of a female lawmaker.
	And it has nothing to do with speed or strength.
	Pulling on a rope is only exciting for the first three seconds.
	If you're by yourself, who are you synchronizing with?
	A ball and a wall.
	A ball and a wall.
	We'll be right back.
	Why's everybody being so mean out there?
	You can read that exact same sentence without the word baseless.
	Another built back And the sentence does not change Fake news day I need a little girl to say Shut up, slave Does anybody know A baseless world From a stolen Lockdown game Behind the curtain.
	Look at the swollen.
	That's where we got our lizard brains.
	People numbers from.
	All that voice was is saying.
	All I really need is a Fletcher screen.
	The show is true.
	The show here.
	Nail it.
	The believe that a secret new.
	Space diapers.
	Or a carrying.
	World government or new world order.
	Just a stroll down capital.
	To the hallowed infamous hate.
	Stick your little needle in me baby.
	I won't feel like this.
	Save the discourse, engineer the civil chaos!
	What to be learning, dear boss?
	What say the crack pottery now?
	Muscular, you're turning, turning, turning Will you call it a fire?
	Holy glimmery!
	What difference at this point does it kill?
	Hey, let your friends start!
	It's your muscular!
	Careful, I die the word.
	Now I have a gender slash an A plate.
	My deep stick may be faking, but my heart's all a day.
	Always keeps the victim of the small.
	28% to believe that a secret or Italian.
	Let it live alone.
	World government order.
	A new world order.
	New world order.
	I will go to the next one.
	This is my way.
	We'll save your money, ship we stay, to civil hate's divide.
	We are more, we are mighty, we are the man in life.
	I thought you had seen you in the case.
	You are my friend.
	Fight for Jesus, please.
	You shall let go on.
	Careful, I die, don't hurt.
	Now let's touch it in the flesh.
	And hate me.
	My deep sting may be faking.
	But my smile slowly glows.
	My species taste is so good.
	Down, down, down.
	What's this, that?
	Huh?
	I've never given any free English down.
	Some say dollies for their pants?
	Where's the green?
	The human body. The human body. The human body. The human body. The human body. The human body. The human body.
	Exit strategy.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.

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