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May 2, 2021 - No Agenda
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1343: McClintock Effect
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You're like a spandex granny.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, May 2nd, 2021.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1343.
This is No Agenda.
Stomping the buzz and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern California, where our horse did not win place or show, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
You mean known agenda?
What?
I thought it was no agenda.
They kept saying no agenda.
I know it sounded like it.
That was the number two thing tweeted to me this weekend.
Oh man, your horse!
No, not really.
So the horse didn't even run?
He came in 7th or 8th.
Oh, okay.
So that didn't show.
No prizes.
Didn't win places to show.
Yeah, nothing.
In fact, the favorite horse, which was owned by that horrible guy that runs Dubai who kidnapped his daughter.
It's a terrible story.
Shouldn't have been in the race.
He came in 4th.
Wait a minute.
Which guy is this?
I forget.
The Prince of Dubai.
Check him out.
Just look at him.
Oh, I remember this story about his daughter.
Is she locked up in a house?
She's tried to escape the country two or three times.
Yes, I do remember that.
He sends a bunch of spooks out to go grab her.
And now, at least from all reports, she's a prisoner in the palace.
Wow.
But not dead.
Right, right.
Human rights groups have tried to get her, you know, check, find her, just say hello or anything, and it can't be done.
Meanwhile, this guy gets to run a horse in the Kentucky Derby, and there's no consequences whatsoever.
Good work, people, there in Kentucky.
Of course not.
It's a red state.
They love death and destruction.
They don't care.
You know what the number one most tweeted and emailed comment was to me?
The horse lost.
No.
Your sound is all wrong!
Your microphone sounds horrible!
Oh my god, it sounds like you're talking through a metal straw out of your anus!
Yeah.
That was disastrous.
It was disastrous.
It wasn't that bad.
It was.
It was.
And, you know, it was worse because after...
So what happened was, I've had these microphone problems, big problems.
I've replaced microphones.
There's some buzz that just occurred once when I hit it.
Once when I hit it.
And then another one just occurred again.
I think I'm under attack from directed energy weapons, which is en vogue, as you know.
Well, they just blow up the house.
I don't get why they're fooling around with your mic.
Go on.
Well, so I had a very bad night Thursday night because people were saying, oh, my son.
And, of course, I had recompressed by accident.
So that made things...
Oh, well, that's...
That's what made it happen.
Yes.
Like, John sounds good.
Clips sound good.
What's wrong?
Too much treble.
That's my favorite.
Too much trouble.
Anyway, it's much appreciated because everyone knows how much I care about it and they care.
So Thursday night, I was ready to rip everything apart and I said, no, I'm going to sleep on this when I wake up.
I got up at five in the morning, straight upstairs, and I start to reconfigure the replacement microphone, the Procaster.
Is that what you're on now?
No, no, I'm not.
Check it out.
So then I'm just walking around.
It's dark.
I'm drinking coffee and think, wait a minute.
And because, you know, we're looking to sell our house and to move a little bit further out of Austin.
So I'm a little more, I'm thinking a bit more about floor plans.
I say, you know, this studio is above the kitchen.
So I'm like, you know, maybe it's some lights.
It's possible.
So Tina turns on.
I'm yelling down.
Tina's down there.
As the show starts, I'm going to turn on the blender.
And that'll fix him.
So after some sleuthing, it turns out there's one light switch.
If you put the dimmer in just a very specific spot...
Oh, dimmers are noisy.
And it's downstairs!
It's downstairs!
And so, you know, she turns the light on and says, nothing.
I said, move the dimmer.
And all of a sudden, it flies past it.
And so now, there's this one spot.
So what happened was, because I usually tune the dimmer Put it in some specific spot, or maybe that's the spot where I was put it, and now something's a little dirty in that spot on the dimmer slider.
And that was the whole problem.
So now I have two beautiful electro voice mics working perfectly.
What about the third one, the original?
Now, that one I just threw out.
I thought that was really, really...
You threw it out?
I don't know where it is.
I have no idea where that one went.
Wow.
But I think that was a different issue.
I think it was different.
Anyway, I'm very happy to be back in full force.
It makes me a happy man.
And I apologize for all the horrible sounds everybody had to listen to.
And to make it up, I think we should start off today with the latest Pfizer marketing for the vaccine.
It's just, it's too good.
It's too much fun.
It brings a smile to everybody's face.
What do you think?
I love marketing.
Okay.
So the great reset, the great marketing reset.
Pfizer has pretty much gotten rid of every single one of its competitors.
It is taking over globally.
It is running large countries by telling them that they need to give them their military bases as...
Some kind of collateral.
It'll soon be its own country.
Yes, if it isn't already.
And we know that they have been paying influencers on Instagram.
TikTok is really the place where most of it happens, though.
Up to a couple thousand dollars.
If you actually show the poke, the jab sinking into your arm, that can be extra.
And from time to time, one of them just goes so super viral.
It's beautiful!
This girl is a Pfizer!
This girl is on Pfizer.
She's hopped up on Pfizer.
This girl is on Pfizer.
Oh, I think she should get a little bonus.
Very good.
Do a star search when you need it.
I'm hopped up on Pfizer.
And then this one was a little longer with the whole dance routine.
This is Missy Shot Vax.
And she does a whole thing with her influencer cash.
She's got lyrics.
It's Pfizer, my Twitter baby, my J&J, I'm fascinated by how I feel.
It's a little over-modulated, but that's how it ended up on TikTok.
This is so good.
These guys are genius.
And they don't even know how smart they are by doing this.
And it's always interesting that it's not disclosed as per FTC rules.
They're pouring...
By the way, this is getting galling.
Every show we do, we keep bringing this up, and the FTC does nothing.
No.
Why would they?
It's just to save the world.
They're the ones who made the rules.
I mean, if you want to just say there's no rules, do whatever you want, go plug what you want, take the money and run, that would be fine, but that's not what they said.
And people have been busted for plague and stuff, and now this goes on?
Just like the scientists felt that we didn't need a control group and we should vaccinate the people who received the placebo, these circumstances are a little different, John.
Sorry you don't see it that way.
But they're making big mistakes, I think.
They still believe, even though all the award shows have proven true, that celebrities, the traditional mainstream Hollywood celebrities, have no more influence.
They are not the influencers.
They are not the ones who are influencing people to do things.
They could not do it during the lockdowns.
They were not taken seriously.
No one wanted to see them in their million-dollar mansions telling them to stay home.
We forgot that episode.
Yeah, and just look at the award shows.
No one cares.
There's no more industry around it.
Who do we care about?
We care about the fitness models on TikTok or on Instagram.
We care about the singing Pfizer girls on TikTok.
This is what entertainment is.
You've lost it.
Hollywood has lost it.
And still, still the traditional marketing...
Over there at Pfizer, they have, oh, well, let's bring, listen, people, we need some black people vaccinated.
Bring in Latifah, where's the queen?
For too long, black community health concerns have been ignored.
Under-resourced, under-appreciated, under-valued.
COVID-19 has highlighted deep racial and ethnic disparities across the United States.
But now, you can have a voice in what happens next.
People from all backgrounds are needed in clinical research, especially our black communities.
Be represented.
Go to Pfizer.com slash clinical trials to learn more about our commitment to ensuring all communities are represented.
Yeah, so you got the queen.
It's like night and day comparing the two methodologies.
And I think this is weak.
You hear the TikTok?
Yeah.
You hear the TikTok girls that are up to date?
Yeah.
It's happening.
Sounds spontaneous?
Hardly.
But it sounds...
It's current.
It's happening.
It's now.
It's today's sound.
It's today's sound.
And then you got this other thing?
It gets worse.
It gets worse.
Now, if you could think of the perfect black pitchman, according to Hollywood mainstream, who's the guy who can really tug the heartstrings?
Who's the man who can get black America to take this shot, to have the poke in their arm?
Bill Cosby?
Close, close, close, close.
No, man.
John Legend, of course.
Oh, that horrible guy.
This is our shot.
Our opportunity.
COVID-19 has taken so much from so many.
But this is our shot.
Our shot!
At returning to the faces and places we love and miss.
The COVID-19 vaccines are ready.
And so is Walgreens.
With pharmacists, you know, who know you.
So when you're ready, they'll be ready to give it to you safely for free.
This is our shot at bringing our communities back together.
Providing healing, not just for some, but for all.
This is our shot.
This is our shot.
This is our shot at reconnecting with the ones we love, with the world we've lost.
This is our shot.
That's very cute, the R-shot game.
Yeah, yeah.
But they're blowing it.
But this idea that you go to the pharmacy, even though people do it, to get a shot, I just keep thinking of that guy's grandma who went in and the shot went into her bone.
Well, by now about half of all eligible Americans have gotten the shot.
So we finally know at least half of all Americans aren't stupid.
We just don't know which half yet.
We'll know in a couple years probably.
But this is another failed marketing exercise.
We had all these piano voiceover, together we can do it, our show.
This was being thrown in our face incessantly during the lockdown.
And all these corporations, now Walgreens has to go and get John Legend.
Please.
Please.
Now, I think Detroit, they've got a, you know, a kind of more pragmatic idea about it.
About 2 million Americans are now getting vaccinated every day, but that's down from a high of 4 million per day.
Many cities are offering incentives.
Detroit is paying drivers $50 for each person that they bring for vaccination site.
That's how you do it.
Come on, Detroit.
I think if anybody's got it, unless they're idiots, you just wait, wait it out and take 100 bucks and get the shot if you really want to get the shot.
You've got a question, though.
How important is this shot, really, that they're paying you to take it now?
It's free is one thing, but they're paying you to take it.
Okay.
Well, if you're going to take it, you must get paid.
But we still have Dr.
Demure Osterholm, the liar of the county, Out there telling us what we need to do.
They just keep bringing him back.
It doesn't matter how many times he overstates something happening, two and a half million dead.
We're in the mouth of the monster.
The hurricane is upon us.
We're sort of at a vaccine clip where supply is outweighing demand.
What's happening?
You know, we knew that this would happen eventually when the vaccine first rolled out.
One was the last mile, getting the vaccine to the locations it needed to be so that it could be given to people.
And during that period, we had many more arms that wanted vaccine than vaccine was available.
Now, it's no longer the last mile.
It is solely down to the last inch, getting the needles in people's arms.
It's the last inch!
It's just incredible.
So we talked a lot on the last episode about women and their menstrual cycles reigniting, being heavy, severe, clumping, all kinds of stuff.
I am always surprised, or maybe it's been in the past year, how many women and girls listen to this podcast.
I don't think it was like that in the past.
Yeah, it wasn't like it is now, but we always had a higher audience.
And women would listen, too.
Yeah, but all of a sudden, they're coming out of the woodworks.
Lots of reporting, all similar.
Here, just to follow up on your reporting about the weird period bleeding associated with the vaccinations.
I'm a labor and delivery postpartum nurse.
I've taken care of several women who casually mentioned they were recently vaccinated and were admitted for preterm labor slash early ruptured membranes.
This includes one woman who had a fever and broke her water within 24 hours of getting her second shot.
She went on to deliver a 35-week infant, which is early.
And they can have issues.
This week, this event could not be a coincidence, and the doctor even noted it on her H&P. Ah, good for him.
What's an H&P? Is that like a form?
It's a thing you write on.
Okay.
Oh, one of those.
You mean like a tablet?
Okay.
Now, I don't know why a pregnant woman would get a shot in the first place.
It just seems like...
Because the medical community told them that it was safe.
That's why.
Most pregnant women, when I've known women who are pregnant, they're very cautious about just about anything.
Yes.
I don't think I can eat that sauerkraut.
I don't know.
Yeah, but that's different this time around.
They're being told you really need it to keep your child safe.
I mean, this came out of Fauci's face.
That's not a joke.
Here's something that's a little...
I want to do a little counter-programming here.
Out of the blue, Amy Goodman comes up with this story about all these menstruation problems that are going on.
It might just be caused by tear gas.
Do you have a clip of this?
I do, and I want you to listen to it carefully because there's a funny line in here.
Tear gas story.
Hold on a second.
You've got a lot of clips here.
Okay.
Too many.
Too many.
Medical researchers have found a link between police tear gas and abnormal menstrual cycles.
Some 900 people exposed to tear gas during protests last year in Portland, Oregon reported being affected with symptoms including increased cramping, unusual spotting, or increased bleeding.
And this is all of a sudden out of the blue.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And by the way, did you listen to it carefully?
No.
What kind of coverage has increased crapping?
I was going to make the joke, but I knew what she said, and I refrained, and still, you took it home, John.
I'm proud of you.
I was not going to be that juvenile 17 minutes in.
That's what she said.
She said cramping.
Crap.
I did do a little bit of research and people have been sending me stuff.
And even the menstrual synchrony, as it's known, is not proven by any science.
The idea that women...
It's just a thousand years of experience and every woman will tell you this.
I know, but if you look for any articles, you know, it's like, well, it's the McClintock effect.
McClintock did a famous paper, and she's the one that said, hey, it looks like women are synchronizing.
It could be the pheromones they exude through their armpits or their pubic hair, I think, specifically.
And that's just always kind of been pushed off as, well, maybe.
I couldn't find any proof for it.
But somehow it plays into the now debunking.
It's down to terms that we don't know.
And we need some real experts on this.
We have the Wikipedia.
Yeah, sure.
So the debunking of what is happening with women goes like this.
That's anti-vaxxer propaganda.
You can't shed a vaccine.
And, you know, some people say it's prions.
There's all these different things.
It's just not enough.
Yeah, the prion one is the one that's the farthest out.
I don't know.
Where did that come from?
I don't know.
But it's all over.
Now, at the same time, Pfizer, in their clinical trials, made very specific mention of women...
And adverse side effects they would have coming into contact with women who had been vaccinated and either through inhalation or skin contact.
So, does that mean that they're getting it through their skin or it's on your skin and you rub your nose?
It doesn't say that in the actual paper.
So it's hard to say, other than anecdotally, a lot of people I know have witnessed this or know someone very close who has had the same thing.
And I think we both liked, what's her name, Christine, what's her last name?
Northrup.
Northrup.
Christiana.
Is it Christiana?
Okay, Christiana.
I think so, I think it's Christiana.
So the Clip Custodian came across an earlier clip of hers.
And so just take into...
We have to play this because you can't say, oh, I just played the stuff that I agree with.
Here's what she was talking about, I think, in December of 2020.
This was a webcam chat she was on.
This is the question.
This COVID vaccine is like nothing we've seen before.
Am I correct in that?
That is correct.
We have no experience with this at all.
A nanoparticle is a tiny, tiny, tiny robot.
heart rate, your breathing, your relationships, whether you have sex, what drugs you're on, where you're going, who are you going with, and sends that data up to the cloud.
And then they want to use that data to at the very best, you know, sell you stuff.
By the way, that is such a good answer.
It's like, why do they want to do this?
Usually the answer is to track you and control you.
And she just says, nah, it's probably just to sell you stuff.
That part I appreciate.
Yes, you got the right reason, the right rationale, but come on.
It gets better.
At the very best, you know, sell you stuff, like know your every move so that they can send you emails to get whatever product.
But at the very worst, this one about connecting you to cryptocurrency so that we have a cashless society, facial recognition, the ability to control a whole population.
And there are aspects of this that are very nefarious, which is that with 5G then rolled out, which is being rolled out in some places, that's 60 gigahertz.
And that vibration, that radiation can literally adversely affect the hemoglobin in our bodies, making it very hard to be oxygenated.
And that looked like what was happening, by the way, in China at the beginning, and also New York City, where people would come in, you know, blue, unable to get enough oxygen.
And then they were put on respirators and killed that way.
So, individually, all of these pieces are interesting to look at, but when you string it all together like that, that's taking it a bit far.
I don't want to say she's nuts, but come on.
She's nuts, and by the way, let's go over the 5G, the 60 gigahertz, the high frequency.
That's wrong.
It's not at 60 gigahertz.
It's totally wrong.
It can barely penetrate your skin.
The problem that you have with it in terms of its danger to human health is that it possibly causes cataracts or other corneal issues because it's right on the surface.
It heats your skin up.
But it doesn't go into your body.
It can't get in there.
And it's not going to do anything to the hemoglobin.
It's just a technologically dumb thing to say.
The only thing I would say is that the other side of 5G is what you have in your pocket.
I'm not so sure.
Right next to your balls?
Yeah, I'm not so sure.
Not a good thing.
I'm real happy about that.
I think that that's probably a bigger problem is what the 5G handset is doing.
Yeah, what I have in my pocket is a couple of nickels.
My phone is in the drawer downstairs.
No, but let's just stay with some of this.
We still need to look at this thing as a bioweapon.
And a lot of people sent me two different pieces of information reminding me about things that we've discussed.
One is that you'll recall the Dutch embassy sent out a note that said, okay, if you have had the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or I think any Western vaccine, you are not allowed to go into China.
So that was sent back to me as, hey, you know, maybe they know what's going on with this vaccine, and so that's why people who had been vaccinated by these, whatever they are, mRNA, were not allowed back in.
That order has actually since been rescinded, so I have links in the show notes showing that you are allowed to enter China, even if you've had Western vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna, so that's not it.
There was a slew of articles around August of 2020 where scientists were working on self-transmitting vaccines.
And I guess it couldn't really come up with a...
It was big magazines like Science and Nature.
And someone must have sent out a press release at the time saying, oh, you know, we can have these vaccines.
They'll vaccinate people on site.
Maybe that's in there.
I don't know.
Possible.
And then there's the obvious, which is Bill Gates is involved somehow.
And one of our producers said, hey, Bill was talking about this at the Munich Security Conference back in 2017.
And I went and pulled the clip.
And the Munich Security Conference is where all douchebags of the world in the military-industrial complex get together to do hookers and blow and sign some orders.
Like, yeah, we'll buy some of those from you.
And Dr.
Bill, for some reason, he was there.
You can't think it's just a coincidence.
We also face a new threat that the next epidemic has a good chance of originating on a computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus or a contagious and highly deadly strain of flu.
So the point is that we ignore the strong link between health security and international security at our peril.
Whether it occurs by the quirk of nature at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists show through their models that a respiratory spread pathogen would kill more than 30 million people in less than a year.
And there is a reasonable probability of that taking place in the years ahead.
Just kind of coincidental, eh?
Could be.
What do you mean?
No, Bill doesn't show up somewhere by coincidence.
In the 1980s, they were writing novels about this.
Right, but this is Bill Gates at the security conference.
It was just closer in.
2017.
Yeah, but it's not as though it was not in the air or in the wind that this thought was floating around, and Gates came up with it.
I think he's late to the party, to be honest about it.
What do you mean, late to the party?
Like I said, there were books written about it, papers.
People talked about this in the 80s.
Right, but he's the one making money on it.
Oh, he's not making money on anything.
The guy makes money.
That's what he does.
Yeah, but I'm just saying, 2017 isn't all that long ago to be saying it could be a deadly version of the flu.
I'm just thinking it's a coincidence.
Oh, wow.
You should join the Surgeon General.
Listen...
This is an all-hands-on-deck effort where we've all got to chip in.
We've all got to chip in.
I thought he said we all get a chicken.
I said we all got to chip in, man.
Chip in.
Chip in?
Yeah, instead of $3, chip in.
Now you've got to chip in.
Get the jab.
Chip in.
By the way, if you want to go into conspiracy things, so since we're still doing the poppy thing, It's bugged me, and you know I've been bitching about this since this all began a year ago.
The constant showing of people getting shots, and you said it was to desensitize people.
It's desensitizing them to shooting heroin?
I think that's exactly what we discussed.
Of course.
The pharmaceutical industry is around us in everything.
Everything, everything that they touch is death and destruction.
George Floyd opioids.
It's all destruction.
And it comes from the pharmaceutical companies.
They're...
The opioids, it just kind of went by all of that during the Rona lockdown.
No one really talked about it, but there were big lawsuits, big convictions.
No one goes to jail.
Big fines paid.
No one talks about it because these same people buy off the media.
This is the never-ending story of no agenda.
And many people who probably weren't listening at the time, but we brought back twice the 1979 60 Minutes documentary.
One time you did it, and then I brought it back thinking it was new, but actually we had played this about five years ago, I think, maybe even during swine flu or SARS, one of the two.
It's a classic.
It's a classic.
It keeps coming back.
And you have it ready to play.
Well, I have a clip that we typically don't play from it, which someone sent to me.
And I appreciate it.
Oh, you've got to play this.
Here's all the clips.
We've kind of played that a million times.
But...
Call back to celebrities and promoting the jab.
Well, that's not all that new.
As part of informing Americans about the swine flu threat, Dr.
Censor's CDC also helped create the advertising to get the public to take the shot.
Let me read to you from one of your own agency's memos planning the campaign to urge Americans to take the shot.
The swine flu vaccine has been taken by many important persons, he wrote.
Example, President Ford, Henry Kissinger, Elton John, Muhammad Ali, Mary Tyler Moore, Rudolph Nureyev, Walter Cronkite, Ralph Nader, Edward Kennedy, etc., etc.
True.
I'm not familiar with that particular piece of paper, but I do know that at least of that group, President Ford did take the vaccination.
Did you talk to these people beforehand to find out if they planned to take the show?
I did not know.
Did anybody?
I do not know.
Did you get permission to use their names in your campaign?
I do not know.
Mary, did you take a swine flu shot?
No, I did not.
Did you give them permission to use your name saying that you had or were going to?
Absolutely not.
Never did.
Did you ask your own doctor about taking the swine flu shot?
Yes, and at the time he thought it might be a good idea.
But I resisted it because I was leery of having the symptoms that sometimes go with that kind of inoculation.
So you didn't?
No, I didn't.
Have you spoken to your doctor since?
Yes.
And?
He's delighted that I didn't take that shot.
I never heard that part with the celebrities.
I didn't either.
That's Mary Tyler Moore.
She's like, no, they just used my name?
Just said it?
That's pretty outrageous.
They were already powerful then.
And notice that she didn't say, I sued them over that.
Or I objected.
Hmm.
Well, this was in the 70s, I think 76.
76 is when, yeah.
Which is the first swine flu trial balloon.
And for people who didn't hear this original big clip, it turned out that the whole thing was a giant scam.
Yes.
And these shots were...
It was a trial run.
I think they did it, and they tried it.
The swine flew again during the era of the No Agenda show, the No Agenda era.
Yeah.
And they keep working on these bits, and they've got it down now.
On their bits.
Pfizer showed the way.
Well, there was some counter-programming, and it was from a local Nashville news program, and here is the story.
Brandi Parker McFadden is confined to her hospital bed at Vanderbilt.
Can you walk right now?
No, I can't walk.
Less than 24 hours after receiving her second Pfizer COVID shot, she explains she lost her ability to move from her shoulders down.
I thought maybe, if anything, I'd probably get flu-like symptoms because I'd already had COVID, but I never in a million years thought I would never be able to get up and go to the bathroom or get up and walk to the other side of the room or...
Stand up and hug my kids.
The usually active mother of three is speaking out, not with the intent of causing fear.
I'm not saying don't get your vaccine.
I'm just saying that COVID is really real.
And still really new she continues including the vaccine, which is why she feels any possible adverse side effect should be investigated, even if it is extremely rare.
There's been, I don't know how many people have been vaccinated and been fine, right?
But we have to tell everything, otherwise we will get nowhere in this thing of COVID. Uh, sorry, wow, I can't believe that they're doing that.
And they did reach out to Pfizer for comment.
In the meantime, Brandi is focused on the positive.
I have gotten some movement in my toes, which is great.
She will start intensive physical therapy this week.
Alex Dennis, News 2.
We reached out to Pfizer.
The company spoke to us by phone.
They said they are closely monitoring side effects and released a statement which reads in part, to date, more than 200 million people around the world have been vaccinated with our vaccine.
It is important to note that serious adverse events that are unrelated to the vaccine are unfortunately likely to occur at a similar rate as they would in the general population.
Yes, your body was defective, young lady.
We're sorry.
It's your body.
It's your body, your problem.
Your body, your fault.
It's unrelated to the vaccine.
I thought I said we reached out to Pfizer for more advertising money so we could kill this story.
That's going to start happening, by the way.
That's the way the media operates.
So it was phenomenal to see four different publications with the following type story.
Atlantic Magazine.
The hot person vaccine.
The internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna.
Mm-hmm.
That's in Atlantic?
Uh-huh.
Under technology.
That magazine has fallen from grace.
Yeah.
That is pandering to an extreme.
That whole article needs to be...
That is unbelievable, but it doesn't surprise me.
Atlantic, which is owned by Loren Jobs and is run by a bunch of liberal douchebags, it's just a horrible magazine.
Mm-hmm.
The whole article is worth reading.
And the bottom line is, and from The Atlantic, the problem is white Republicans.
That's the problem.
That's why we're all going to die.
USA Today did the same thing.
White Republicans.
And all of a sudden, this is highly politicized.
I think we identified from the get-go how the media was politicizing this.
Let's go to the next one.
Slate Magazine.
How Pfizer became the status vax.
The double-dosed Pfizer elites insist they're joking.
Not everyone is so sure.
You see, this is, I think, is native advertising from Pfizer.
Slade is the Washington Post, so let's make sure everyone knows.
Yahoo News from NBC. They kind of republish, only hot people get the Pfizer vaccine.
Vaccine rivalries descend onto TikTok.
Hello, Pfizer marketing.
And the final one is the New York Times.
When vaccines become an internet personality test.
Yeah.
If you have the Pfizer, you're cool, you're happening, you're a good influencer.
Because that's where the money is.
You're right, it's native advertising.
It has to be native advertising.
It's too far over the top not to be.
What was this one?
Was this also from the Atlantic?
Um, hold on.
Oh, this is from USA Today.
No, the Today Show.
The Today Show.
The Today Show.
Today?
Today?
Uh, the Today Show.
Yeah?
Yeah, the Today Show.
Go on.
People wear black ball gowns, black tie to get vaccines.
Quote, biggest event of my lifetime.
I mean, when you propagate this stuff on people...
What a crock of shit!
It starts to work.
Yeah, this was actually the one.
You want to get the vaccine to fight FOGO. Which is fear of going out.
That's a new one, you see.
Fight FOGO with the vax.
This is the Atlantic article that was so egregious.
What was this one?
I do a FOGO for my yoga.
The anti-vaccine influencers who are merely asking questions.
And this is pretty much about Tucker Carlson, I would say.
They got a real hard-on for him.
They do.
They hate him.
Oh, my gosh.
They want him so, so gone.
So gone.
Alright, let's go to our favorite topic.
What is happening in India?
And this clip is related.
Well, by the way, do you have a rundown I want to get out of the way?
Well, let me do the intro clip.
And then you get your rundown.
There's growing fear and desperation for thousands of Australians tonight over the government's threat to jail or fine anyone who tries to come home from India.
The Treasurer insists it's a temporary measure, but it's left many feeling abandoned in a country where the crisis is only deepening.
India today recorded more than 400,000 new COVID cases.
It wasn't that long ago an Australian passport was like gold, a guarantee of protection.
But as of last night, if an Australian citizen in India tries to come home, our government is threatening to lock them up.
We need to put in place these secure measures with respect to people coming from India to Australia.
Travel is forbidden from India as the country faces a COVID catastrophe.
Australians who try to get around the band by transiting through other countries face five years jail, a $66,000 fine, or both.
A measure never imposed when the US or UK were in a similar boat.
So I'd play that just to show the severity of the global system coming together to make this sound really bad with a lot of cases.
Well, you discussed that to an extreme in the last show.
This is pathetic, the clip you just played.
The Australians should be up in arms.
Yeah.
What's the value of your citizenship if you're an Australian citizenship, if they lock you out of your own country?
Well, they've locked people up in their own country, too.
I think they already kind of figured out what the value is.
I mean, I have only two clips regarding this, so you do whatever you want to do.
My clips are about India and world cases.
Cases, cases, cases.
My clips are about India, too.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't really have the...
This is a rundown.
It's pretty good.
You're going to get a kick out of it.
This is COVID. India Update 1.
India has recorded 3,500 new coronavirus deaths and a record 386,000 new confirmed cases as the world's second most populous nation faces a catastrophic collapse of its health care system with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen.
Is she on the telescreen where she's reporting and we're all nodding like, yes, Amy, we believe.
Public health officials fear the true death toll is far higher.
Residents fear the worst is yet to come.
This situation is horrific.
Absolutely terrible, according to what I see.
Everyone is afraid, every single person.
People are afraid that if I'm talking to a person, maybe I won't get to talk to them tomorrow or in the near future.
The death toll is 200,000 today.
It can go up to 400,000 or even a million.
Everyone is terrified right now across the country.
The environment is a fear.
We are Delhi residents, and it is pathetic over here.
We don't even have oxygen cylinders or its parts.
The Indian writer Arundhati Roy writes in a new essay, quote, Now that woman that she puts...
She's a communist.
She's a communist troublemaker in India.
And she's anti-Modi.
She hates Modi.
And she hates Modi like all the communists do and all the lefties and all the socialists, so-called socialists.
And so Amy pulls a quote from her out of the blue, Amy being a communist for all practical purposes.
So we're listening to the Communist Report.
So they're not going to give us...
Communism Now.
The Communism Now Report.
Communism Now.
It should be Communism Now.
The Communist Report.
The War and Communism Report.
So let's play.
Now, part two, she goes to do a little international rap if you want to hear a few of those.
Yeah, yeah, I'd love to.
The total number of confirmed COVID cases across the globe has now topped 150 million.
This comes as coronavirus deaths are also soaring across Latin America, which recorded more than a third of global COVID deaths last week as it faces a major vaccine shortage.
On Thursday, Argentina recorded 561 new deaths, its highest daily death toll since the start of the pandemic.
Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay are experiencing a new surge in cases, and Brazil's official death toll has topped 400,000, the second highest in the world behind the United States.
Oh, man.
It's the perfect storm.
You got Modi, who a lot of people from the outside hate.
Not the least of reasons because he was a Trump lover.
We've got Pfizer, who in cahoots with Bill Gates wants India to buy the Pfizer vaccine, not give them the intellectual property to create it in any generic fashion without paying for it.
You also have China next door with their investments in Pakistan, who just want India dead, and Pakistan might want that too.
So this is a trifecta.
It's beautiful.
It's a winner.
It's a big winner.
It's affecting us, too, here in the U.S. Good evening, and thank you for joining us on this busy Friday.
We're going to begin tonight with breaking news.
The Biden administration says it is banning travel to the U.S. from India.
With the coronavirus crisis, they are now spiraling out of control.
Spiraling out of control!
As we come on the air, new infections in India, which is a key U.S. ally...
Infections are not the same as cases.
Infections!
We've reached more than 386,000 in just the past 24 hours.
With so many people now sick and with so many variants of COVID-19 circulating there, the CDC... No, no.
Thank you for saying it.
It's cases.
This is a lie.
It's positive tests.
This is PCR tests not even appropriate for testing this.
You're a liar, Nora.
You're a liar.
With so many people now sick and with so many variants of COVID-19 circulating there, the CDC recommended the travel ban out of fear that new strains of the virus could make it into the U.S. And obviously, you know, the U.S. is in on this gag because we don't want to give them any of our intellectual property.
No, no, no, no, that will not happen.
So we're just contributing and to throw, just let's throw something on top.
I'm only going to give you a minute of this CNN fear porn video.
Now again, there's over a billion people who live in India.
So when you hear 200 people died, even in Delhi, more people die in Delhi on a daily basis from other things.
You just have to look at it in proportion.
Those numbers are never given to you because it wouldn't be fun to tell you that it's 0.0004% of the population.
So they put this guy at a, I think they call a mass crematorium site.
So there's, I don't know, maybe eight fires burning behind him, which is how they cremate people in India.
And he's just standing there and, oh, well, you know, this is, it's horrible.
He's standing in front of fires of burning humans.
That's the idea.
Please, let's warn our viewers about these disturbing images you're about to see.
We've been showing you scenes this week of crematorians operating in some Indian cities around the clock, and Al-Samkali is at one of them in New Delhi.
We can just see behind you so many piles burning.
Just give us a sense of what you're seeing.
This is an idiot woman who doesn't even know how...
People burn people differently.
We bury people differently in other countries.
Surprise, lady.
She's like, the body's burning!
It's like Game of Thrones!
Warning to our viewers that you might find some of these images disturbing.
Well, Linda, just in this area alone, it's about the size of three-quarters of a football pitch.
There are close to 50 pyres burning.
This crematorium believed it would probably process about 150 bodies today.
There's estimated about 600 people dying every day here in New Delhi.
But the truth of the matter is the numbers must be much higher in this crematorium.
Oh, they always must be higher.
They actually have to join a queue before they can be seen.
This is funny.
...day here in New Delhi, but the truth of the matter is the numbers must be much higher in this... Why?
Why must they be higher?
Because that's what they always say.
They're lying.
Don't focus on that.
Focus on the funny part coming right after that.
People dying every day here in New Delhi, but the truth of the matter is the numbers must be much higher.
In this crematorium, the dead actually have to join a queue before they can be seen, before they can...
The dead have to join a queue.
Hey!
Hey, you zombie!
Get in line!
...be given their last rights.
People accompanying them have to take a ticket like you would going to see the doctor or getting a bank.
Oh, brother.
Wait their turn, and then they will be brought out to one of these locations.
A ghee, which is a butter-like oil substance poured on them, the wood piled on top, and they're given their last right.
And that's how they...
Okay.
Yes.
I'm going to give you a clip of the day because that clip is so weird.
Clip of the day.
Now we have two boots-on-the-ground reports to put it into some context.
From our producers.
We have more than two producers in India.
Good.
We have doubled our...
We only have two that help.
Well, we have doubled our producer coverage to four now.
We have two more coming in.
Let's see.
This is our producer responding to requests for boots on the ground reports from India.
Cases.
And it's interesting, the Indians, they do like to put things in outline format with little heads and subheads, and I appreciate that.
Cases.
Cases all over the country spiked at the beginning of April.
How the whole country sees the spike around the same time is beyond me.
However, the same state as last time where I am led the tally to...
We have 28 states.
Very soon, the best managed states during the previous spike started spiking.
These are the national capital and its surrounding states known as the National Capital Region, the NCR. The main difference this time is there are a lot more hospitalizations given our population.
Hospitals are reporting that there are no more COVID beds.
Key term, COVID beds.
We've learned that when they say there's no more COVID beds, that doesn't mean they're out-of-hospital beds.
It's just the beds they set aside.
For COVID, was it, John, typically 10%, 10% to 30% of their beds?
Dependent on where we were in the pandemic.
Nowadays, it could be like five beds in a hospital.
As our producer continues, reporting is very weak on how many COVID beds we have, but we're out of COVID beds.
Reason for spread.
This is going to sound so familiar.
Political rallies.
This is our producers.
Oh yeah, Modi likes to put on the big Trump-style rallies.
Trump went to one of them and was blown away by the fact that they're in a soccer stadium and there's 100,000 people and Trump was actually jealous.
Politicians have been out and about holding campaign rallies with thousands of people, especially Modi.
Blatant flouting of reopening rules.
This is your rule follower thing.
No one seems to be following the limitations set in place to open up businesses and avoid lockdowns.
My state is back into lockdown.
Treatment.
All the groups are rife with requests to source remdesivir and toxilizumab.
What the hell is toxilizumab?
Well, let's look it up for a second.
It's T-O-C-I-L-I-Z-U-M-A-B, which is, oh, that may be just another version of remdesivir, I guess.
Or it could be ivermectin.
Let's see what it is.
It's an immunosuppressive drug.
From LaRoche, it suppresses cytokine storm.
Okay, sounds right.
Now, vaccinations.
This is where it gets interesting.
Vaccinations are on for all people above the age of 18.
However, most locations are out of any brand of any vaccine.
The two main ones we were using are Covishield and Covaxin.
Now, Covishield is the Wallapun family's version of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
We have a massive distribution set up already in place, but now we have no vaccine supplies.
You see what they're doing?
This is one of the main points being used to call for Modi to resign.
It's the same thing as Trump.
Vaccination centers are literally in every urban locality.
I have one right outside my apartment complex, and for the last few months, vaccinations were going on very smoothly.
Across the country, friends and family were reporting getting their first shot and some getting their second, but now most of the second doses are struggling to find supply.
So that's Pfizer, by the way.
Pfizer-Moderna.
That's not AstraZeneca.
So, people in India, you're being played.
And here's the second...
That's our producer...
I won't mention his name just to make sure.
Our other producer sent in...
That all of the areas where we have spikes, the local officials at the beginning of April, and some even in March, stopped handing out the ivermectin Z-Pak kits that you and I saw, I've received photos of, they stopped handing them out to people.
And now all those areas have spikes in cases.
Yeah, the ivermectin story has come up a couple of times.
The doctors aren't prescribing it.
You're right, it's a handout.
It's a $2 pack.
Yeah.
Yeah, that'll do it.
Yes, exactly.
That will do it.
Pull the plug on the treatment or the prophylaxis is what it is.
Yes.
So, I don't know.
Yeah, you're being played.
It seems that way.
I mean, all the reporting is as suspicious as ever.
It's the same script.
It's the same type of scenario.
We've got political things going on.
It worked to get rid of Trump.
It did.
So why not just play it again?
Let's get rid of Modi.
Let's get rid of Bolsonaro.
They're having more trouble in Brazil, but they've still got to get rid of Bolsonaro.
Get rid of these guys and put some good globalist guys in there.
That's trying to run the place.
Yeah, get some good globalist people in there.
Yeah, exactly.
And there's only really one question I have for our president here in the United States is, what now, Joe?
You promised.
On the first day I'm inaugurated to say I'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask.
Just 100 days to mask.
Not forever, 100 days.
And I think we'll see a significant reduction if we incur that.
That occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerably.
We are past our 100 days.
We did it, everybody.
Masks off.
Yep.
Time to reopen.
It's not going to happen.
Face mask requirements.
They're not going to get rid of Trump.
Oh, wait a minute, they did.
Oh, wait a minute, they didn't.
They keep bringing him up in the news.
Well, they have to.
Have you seen the ratings?
The ratings, it's...
Even Fox is down.
Surprisingly, Fox down not all that much.
But the...
CNN, MSNBC, the nightly newscasts, all really down 30%, 35%, 40%.
It's pretty drastic.
So they have to start bringing Trump up.
It's all they got.
I mean, what else?
They really don't have much on January 6th.
They don't have any real people to point to except for the shaman guy.
They have no visuals.
They've got no orange man to put in front.
They need something.
I think this is about all that they've got.
Well, I mean, they could have more fun with Biden than they do.
The new current story, this is off the COVID topic.
I think we're done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think we're done.
This is the current Trump story that's floating around.
This is the clip that says Cripes.
Okay.
Back in the United States, the Inspector General of USAID, the Agency for International Development, has criticized the Trump administration's politicization of humanitarian aid for Venezuela.
In a new report, the watchdog said the White House's push to deliver aid to the Venezuelan border in 2019 was driven more by the administration's desire for regime change than based on the actual needs of Venezuelans.
The report said the Trump administration used the aid as a, quote, key tool to elevate support for the U.S.-backed opposition leader, Juan Guaido, and that decisions were made to reinforce Guaido's credibility.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Huh.
That's it.
Yes.
That brings everything.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Trump bad.
Orange man bad.
We already know he's bad, so what's the point?
There actually might be something that was quite bad that Trump did.
That we're feeling the effects of, and this is regarding the chips that we seem to have a shortage of for mainly automobiles, but there are other shortages now popping up.
And one of our producers has been in the semiconductor industry for almost 20 years.
Most of that being in the fab.
And I'm just going to read his note.
The fab is the clean room where the chips are fabricated.
Return to the USA from China.
I want you to know that in China, especially Wuhan, the chip manufacturing is expanding.
Wuhan will be the site of the world's largest memory fab once YMTC is fully built out.
The Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation.
In Shanghai, my main client was SMIC.
Once SMIC was placed on the restrictive list by the Trump administration, my work in China was severely limited.
Imagine a fab trying to keep high-volume production with no support from Applied Materials, LAM Research, and other U.S. equipment manufacturers.
ASML is a Dutch company...
I'm sure they are restricted as a U.S. ally.
How much this plays into the world's chip shortage, I'm not sure.
It did impact my work in China, so much so that I had none.
The chip maker, so this is SMIC shares.
Of course, they were delisted.
They were delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and moved to the OTCQX. And they announced on December 4th, 2020, that it was added to the list of Chinese military companies by the U.S. Department of Defense, and that U.S. persons will be restricted in their dealings in its traded securities, etc.
So, is it possible that some of these restrictions have led indirectly to this chip shortage that we're seeing?
Well, I don't know.
That is something you'd blame on Trump.
I mean, things have to be done.
I'm not saying you're blaming it on him, but that it was an unintended consequence that, you know, a lot of these restrictions are still in place and probably no one's looking at them.
It could be.
I mean, I have people in the chip business I know very well, and I'll contact them and see if it's...
I've never thought to ask anybody what the hell's going on with this chip shortage.
It just could as easily be the Chinese putting the squeeze on us.
And here is a note from one of our producers who's in the automotive industry.
And this could have some good tips in here for you, producers.
Our producer says, I developed national incentives for a major manufacturer.
This is a very real problem, only the tip of the iceberg.
Talking about the chips.
We are on the precipice of huge production cuts for most manufacturers, and my company is planning on rolling back our incentives on most models starting next month to reduce sales for upcoming supply shortages.
Microchips are only part of the problem.
There are also major shortages of foam seats, resin used in plastics, and nylon that are currently all or will soon be causing many to scale back production in a big way.
For microchips, one of the main suppliers had a fire at their factory in Japan.
Other microchip makers don't want to sell to automotive because it's not as profitable as phones.
This is a very significant disruption that I've not seen in the 10 plus years I've been in the industry.
If any producers are thinking of buying a new car in the next six months, I'd do it today because the incentives are going down across the board for almost all manufacturers.
We're seeing high demand from people that put off purchasing during the pandemic, everyone getting stimulus checks and strained supply from production cuts.
Also, since people can't buy a new house due to the out of control prices in that sector, they will turn to the next biggest purchase, a car.
And if Biden decides to do something as stupid like cash for clunkers, too, well, that would be like pouring gasoline on an already out of control fire.
A no-agenda-buying tip.
Buy your new car now!
Wow.
How about that, huh?
That's a good note.
It sounds like some oil products.
This is where you've got to think about, you don't want oil?
You want a green economy?
If you don't want oil, you're screwed.
You get nothing.
You get no seats.
You get no foam seats.
All that stuff.
That's all petroleum products.
Yeah, you get no dashboard.
The foam's a petroleum product.
The nylon's a petroleum product.
All of it.
People don't realize that when they want to stop oil.
Part of it goes to gasoline.
My goodness.
My goodness.
And keep it coming, producers.
That's the kind of stuff that we need to hear more of.
Yes?
That's interesting.
Well, what that would mean for the market?
The chip thing is probably more complicated than the simple memory shortages.
The Koreans pick up the slack for a lot of that stuff.
So you're saying it's more complicated that there's probably some nefarious action going on there?
I think it's complicated.
I'll find out exactly what it is and it'll be complicated.
It might be a column.
Oh, another sub-stack with more buying tips.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
In the morning to you, the man who put the sea in Delhi crematorium, ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak.
A little early today.
Well, you always bitch about the show being too long.
It is too long.
I'm John C. In the morning to you, Mr.
McCray.
In the morning to you, Mr.
McCray.
I'll open it up for you.
I'll open it up for you.
That's blue and a beautiful.
Beautiful.
Mmm, so good.
Yeah!
Now available at noagendashop.com, your official No Agenda PBR kind of bug mug.
That No Agenda new PBR mug they've come up with is dynamite.
And I want to make sure that...
I hope they send us one.
Yeah, I want to make sure that they don't get sued over it.
I think there's enough difference in it.
No, no, no.
There's no suing involved with it.
Besides that, their logo is so public domain.
It's so old.
Well, it's a beautiful piece at noagendashop.com.
Hey, in the morning to the trolls in the troll room who are there diligently.
Let me see how many we have.
Can you stick your hands up?
Some of you have hooves.
Yeah, just wave them in the air.
There you go.
Let's count them.
1,985.
Not bad for a Sunday.
That's the number of people who are listening right now.
And if you're in the troll room...
What you do there is you log in, you go to noagendastream.com, you hang out, you troll, you do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, hand off some one-liners, get kicked off, come back in, yell, shout, and tell people how great noagendasocial.com is.
About to shut it down as we have purged 1,500 accounts.
Those were inactive and they're filling up quickly.
So once we get close to that 10,000 number, we're going to stop registrations once again.
But that doesn't matter.
Because anybody can join in the fun by joining any Mastodon instance.
You can even set one up yourself.
It's not all that hard.
You can go to a place like masto.host and for, I think, $4.99 a month, you can have your own.
You can set it up and have coming in there.
You can control it completely.
Give accounts to your friends.
Have a cool domain name.
And then you can just follow at adam at noagendasocial.com or at johncdvorak at noagendasocial.com.
You'll federate.
It works perfectly.
No algos.
People love it.
It's a good place to be.
Good place to hang.
And then, thanks to the artist for episode 1342.
We titled that one Disinfo Dozen and the artwork.
Was this not an evergreen that we picked up?
Yeah, we pulled it out of the evergreens.
Yeah, we did.
This was the Mao Approves A nice piece.
It was done by Monsieur Piri.
And if you look at today's submissions, some of which have already come in, I can see that one artist was not happy with our choice and created a, let me see, who was this?
Kenny Ben, a dog peeing on an evergreen air freshener.
I think that is a message to us, that the artists were disappointed we chose an evergreen piece.
Are you looking at it?
Are you looking at it?
Yeah, well, Kenny Ben, maybe if Kenny Ben would put a little more effort into making actual art.
Instead of protest art.
What did we have?
There was a lot of menstrual art, which, no, that's just not going to happen to people.
That's just not going to happen.
That's not going to happen.
Ovaries.
No, it's not going to happen.
The microphones.
You do realize that most of that microphone story was not on the show.
It was outside of the show.
Most people didn't hear that.
It had no context.
I think I'd like the Darren O'Neill Seduction Secrets K. Yeah, bye.
That was cute.
Yes, you were a fan of that piece.
I actually, yeah.
You went to the Evergreens and you had the Mao thing and that thing was like...
That was a good, just a genuinely nice piece.
It was a good piece.
Very good piece.
And you can see all of these in a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.
Today, I... And podcasting is under attack.
It's under...
Do you have a moment to listen to a funny clip about how Silicon Valley and...
No, I've got no time for this.
How a-holes talk about podcasting.
So let's just say...
You and I were interested in the offerings from Apple and Spotify, and Stitcher looks like they're getting in on the game.
It's owned by SiriusXM, who just bought 99% Invisible Ronin Mars.
Oh, they bought him.
They own him.
So, when they talk about all these great offerings that's going to save podcasting or save them for them, tell me exactly...
There's like three million...
You have the number, but it's like three million podcasts.
What does it need saving from?
Well, two things.
One, it's a boardroom fight.
Apple needs to show that they still have own podcasting because, well, didn't you guys invent it?
And when Spotify came along, the Apple board went, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
How can these guys claim they've got podcasting?
And then, you know, the other big media companies who have nothing better to do, like SiriusXM, oh, we'll buy some stuff!
We'll buy Rowan and Mars!
It's just like Joe Rogan, only different!
And so then they come up with subscriptions.
Subscriptions, which I don't think anyone's waiting for.
Yeah, possibly some mainstream.
But this is what podcasters are now supposed to do.
So just think about what we're doing now.
We...
Typically deliver what we call an outstanding product.
That's all we work on.
If you say, why are you successful?
The answer is always going to be the same.
It's an outstanding product.
And we do that with our producers.
It's not just us, but it's an outstanding product.
This is how Silicon Valley and mainstream want you to think about podcasting.
We are really well positioned to offer subscription products.
We have subscription products across our brands today, including at Stitcher, where for some time we've had a premium podcast subscription in market, which does provide capabilities for listeners to listen to podcasts ad-free, to get early windows, and to have premium exclusive content.
Okay.
Please explain to me how we manage windowed content, premium content, exclusive content and early look content around our podcast.
Well, first of all, why would you want to?
Well, this is what they're telling everyone podcasting needs to be.
So, of course, we don't want to.
But who are these idiots who talk this way?
They're not podcasters.
They've never been in the business.
They've never had a podcast.
They've never tried to make money from a podcast.
These are the same people that I'm going to...
Okay, just to go back in a little bit.
So, PC Computing, which was a very successful magazine...
Because of a couple of magazines that showed up out of the blue and became fat and sassy, even though they had no circulation, but they were huge, thick magazines.
Industry Standard was one of them.
It freaked out some losers at Ziff Davis, and they said, look, we've got to kill...
PC Computer is making money.
It wasn't making PC Magazine money, but it was making money.
But no, no, no.
They had to switch...
They changed the name of the magazine to Smart Business.
Yeah.
Out of the blue.
Yeah, it was a winner, no doubt.
They changed the magazine to Smart Business and they run these business articles.
And there'll be articles like the 10 most important things you need to know about running your business written by a guy who reviewed computer products, has never had a business in his life, has never run a business, doesn't know what he's talking about, but he's writing these articles.
Right.
And the whole magazine was full of this stuff.
These people who have never been in, they have no experience whatsoever, they're just talking out of their asses, and they're in these meetings telling people how things should be.
It's ludicrous to listen to it.
Anyway, continue.
Well, you kind of answered the whole question.
Yeah, so no one wants this, no one cares, but it's still under attack because they will market you to death and tell you that that's the only way it works.
So...
Try out a different podcast app which has way more functionality.
It's Podcasting 2.0.
Today, I would like you to check out Hypercatcher, hypercatcher.com.
And for all of the Podcasting 2.0 compatible apps, the future of podcasting, go to newpodcastapps.com.
And thank you, Monsieur Perry, for your contribution.
Evergreen or not, we loved it.
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We always look forward to seeing what our artists bring us.
Sometimes it's a whiff.
Sometimes it's just a miss.
It's okay.
Don't have to feel bad about it.
I think you know what happened.
And as part of our time, talent, and treasure value for value model, which means, hey, you just got to give back what you get out of it.
If you're doing finances, if you're supporting us with some money, all you have to do is put a number down that is significant to you.
You determine the value and you show us that by sending us notes and comments.
And mainly through PayPal, and we'd like to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers right up front, so here we go.
Yes, caught me off guard, so I have to open the spreadsheet.
Well, I can start with...
Starting off with, we don't have any big giant donors today.
We have more petite donors like Stephanie Noble.
She's petite.
Stephanie Noble.
She's noble.
She's in Destin.
Destin, Florida.
She's destined for success.
$333.33.
ITM, first-time donor, long-time douchebag here.
Therefore, I'm in much needed of a de-douching.
Yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm sorry.
You caught me off guard there.
You were opening the spreadsheet.
I forgot to open the de-douche machine.
You've been de-douched.
And then magically she writes, Ah, much better.
My amygdala feels born again.
A no-agenda baptism, if you will.
Oh, that's an interesting way of putting the de-douching.
Yeah.
Yeah, no-agenda baptism.
Speaking of, thanks to you two, thanks to your two-to-the-head news deconstruction every week.
My 32-year-old amygdala has never been sexier.
On Thursday's show, 1342, today's 43, I believe.
I was called out by Sir William Wallace out of the Palmetto State who hit me in the mouth several years ago.
Yes, years.
You read it right.
I know.
Shame on me.
Repent, repent.
I hope you can forgive my sins while I begin my ascent toward damehood in this treacherous journey to the round table.
I write to you from the free state of Florida.
Where the sunshine burns right through the COVID spike proteins and where the pandemic is thankfully feeling more and more like a distant nightmare.
Thanks to Governor DeSantis, I finally don't cringe every time Florida makes the headlines.
I would like to give a birthday shout-out to my amazing niece, Allie.
Allie Christensen, who turns 11 on April 30th.
Also, some jobs coming would be much appreciated.
I'm on my way to becoming a senior DBA with my company and am doing business as.
I think database administrator would be closer.
Oh, okay.
Hopefully some no-agenda juju will be just the edge I need.
I'd also like to do some health karma for my wonderful mother, who has a tough past year.
Thankfully, she survived the second jab and has no adverse effects to report, so I can only hope that continues to be the case.
I want to thank you and John and Adam for your courage and for all that you do.
You have Help to keep this millennial from drowning in a deluge of libertard propaganda that dominates my social media feed.
Wow, that's a t-shirt.
What?
I was a millennial drowning in deluge of libtard propaganda.
Yeah, it's not a bad t-shirt.
In preparation for the Great Reset, would you please get the following jingles?
Resist We Much Theremin?
Will you obey?
Two to the head?
Stay woke?
We haven't played that for a while, actually.
Okay, thanks.
Bye.
Eleven lights, Stephanie.
But Resist We Much.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
You will obey.
My millennials, stay woke!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Next is Mark Hardwick.
I have no note from Mark.
I don't know where he's from.
$333.33.
Yeah, nothing from me either on that part.
I got nothing?
No.
And onward to Atomic Samson in Amarillo, Texas, right in your neck.
Otherwise, 33333.
You want to read that note?
He's on page three.
Yes, I have.
And greetings, John and Adam.
Please find my long overdue executive producership.
I trust that qualifies for a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
This first of many donations is for the many hours of thoughtful entertainment, mental stimulation, and for the work you both do.
You too both do.
As the powers that be clamped down on dissident thought communities like No Agenda.
As the powers that be clamped down on dissident thought, comma, communities like No Agenda serve as anchors of sanity in a sea of double-think propaganda.
I'll keep this short and save the screed for when I reach knighthood.
May 29th is the inaugural Amarillo, Texas meetup.
Yes, see No Agenda meetups.com for details.
Please call Alex of Grand Island as a douchebag.
Apparently a second douchebagging.
Be careful.
And I'd like some F cancer karma from my mother and my dad's cousin.
The doctors are watching her blood work for possible recurrence.
And my dad's cousin has been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
And if it isn't too much to ask, I'd love some relationship karma as well.
Best regards, Atomic Samson.
Yes, sir.
You got it.
Throwing in a goat.
You've got karma.
And then we have Molzer, Jeff333.
Look for email from Jeff.
Okay.
Well, that's in the spreadsheet, but I didn't get that in before today, this morning.
And it didn't have the subject line of donation.
So it wasn't pulled out.
Actually, we'll maybe get to it.
I'll look for them later.
Well, watch.
If they sent it to you and to me, it would show up.
But these things...
No, I just don't have it.
I mean, if I don't have...
Well, you know, if you use the subject line donation, because I do a search.
I have like 500 emails a day, so it's easier to search subjects.
Mm-hmm.
And so when I see donation, I put them and I send those all to Eric.
And they get in the spreadsheet, as opposed to this showing up late.
Remy Koter, cute Koter, from Forber in the Netherlands, 333.
Dear Podfather and Pod Pope, this donation is a dame drive for my blistering hot wife and soon-to-be dame Bem-Bem of the Sweetwoods.
I keep hearing how you don't know a lot of people that had a hard time with the...
Oh, coronavirus.
A little boots on the ground then.
I had a pretty rough time dealing with a bilateral pneumonia in March and April last year, which had me down with fever for about five weeks.
Almost all the time I thought I'd get out of it with the great care of my keeper, and I did.
Back in June, I was back on the Miley Feld protesting the scandalous lockdown measures.
That's in front of the...
That's in The Hague, near the government.
Now for some long hauler info.
I was one.
Five months later, I was still struggling with the post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome, PVCFS, which took me out in a narcoleptic state once or twice a week.
I have that every night, man.
I'm sitting on the couch.
I have a narcoleptic state.
I still end up going to the infamous HCQ doctor in Holland.
He measured high amounts of citrulline in my urine indicating asaphidication of my mitochondria, the fuel cells of the body.
Nothing unusual after a severe viral infection, he said.
Like an almost dead battery, I would have only about 10% of my energy at the start of the day.
I was given a gazillion units of vitamin D and B12 injections for about two weeks, then all sorts of pills to reset some kind of no cyclist.
Long story short, long hauler no more, and even for this kind of aftermath, there is a treatment.
Love and Lit!
Keep smelling that special foam finger, number one, and At and Jan Karol, you are the best.
Alright, so I found a Jeffrey Molzer note.
Oh, you have jingles?
No, I just want to say that's our Dutch names, At and Jan Karol.
Okay.
If I can't trill it, it's not as good.
Yoncaro!
Yoncaro!
There you go.
Jeffrey Moser writes, Are we in a depression?
Mac and cheese is flying off the shelves.
And then he sends me a Wall Street Journal article about it.
Yeah.
About Heinz in particular.
Kraft Heinz is making more ketchup than mac and cheese.
So I guess it was just an informational note.
Thank you, Jim.
Well, we have, of course, been tracking the mac and cheese for about 10 years.
We could have had a mac and cheese tip sheet by this point, a mac and cheese economic indicator, another exit strategy that has passed us by.
Yeah, we screwed up.
$333 from Sir Addison, the CEO of Shitpost from Chesterfield, Missouri.
No agenda social, Adam and John.
PayPal was acting weird on my mobile browser last week and turned a 333.33 donation into 133.33.
Hmm.
It's been damn too long since I've donated.
Forgive me, Podfather, I have sinned.
Noagenda Social is the best thing to happen to social media in recent memory.
Even when I let it sit for several days, I can always jump back in and the timeline is perfect, the responses are on point, and no one's an asshole!
Just pure federated community.
Brilliant.
Share this, please, at TheGeneral at NoagendaSocial.com.
I've had more business connections come from NES, which is short for NoagendaSocial.com, than I ever did from LinkedIn.
You hear that, John?
It doesn't surprise me.
No, but it's time to spark up your LinkedIn check to troll people on Noagintosocial.
Explain again?
Well, you should have your hot woman on LinkedIn have her open a Noagintosocial account.
What hot woman on LinkedIn?
The one that you're pretending to be.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, her.
Her, yes, her.
Yeah, yeah, I should log in for her and see what other douchebags have been hitting on her.
Sir Addison continues, I believe in working with free-thinking people going forward into the Great Reset.
As always, producers and douchebags alike take 33% off ebulls.com CBD with the code NOAGENDA and hit me up on NAS for any discussion about e-commerce, cannabis or shitposting.
Obviously, thanks for building the best community of reasonable people online in 2021.
Federate we much.
No jingles, no karma, just positivity and love.
Sir Addison, CEO of Shitpost.
And I'll thank Aaron once again for being the steward of No Agenda Social, who keeps it running from his bat cave.
And we really appreciate the work he does.
Well, Sir Max Powers, the Baron of the State of Jefferson, came in with $333 and a note, which I have right here.
I actually have the actual note.
Hey guys, thank you for the years of infosainment.
Please credit this donation to my mom, to her damehood.
She's a fantastic woman who did her very best raising us wild kids.
I love her dearly, even though we drove each other crazy at times.
Love you, Mom!
Here's an idea for a vacation show.
I would love to hear a crackpot slash buzzkill deep dive discussion into Professor Ted, the whole history, college years.
This is network TV stuff.
But hold on a second.
Is there a request here for us to work for an extra special show?
Put in more work?
Yeah, he's under the assumption...
He's making some assumptions here that are not correct, but let me finish.
Yes.
He wants a deep-dive discussion that Professor Ked did the whole history, college years, MKUltra stuff, the bombings, the writings, the new forensic tools used, and how that changed.
John, this is it!
This is early window exclusive content.
It's superior.
This is your exclusive content that we need to put on Spotify for subscription.
Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Anyway, he continues.
No agenda social and meetups are fantastic, by the way.
State of Jefferson peeps need to get together again soon.
Thanks so much for all you guys do.
No jingles, no karma.
And then he has in very large letters, stay safe with a smiley face with a note.
The Kansas City meetup clip was hilarious.
I hear John now every time I hear, stay safe.
Yes, and well you should.
I've been hearing it a lot during the India coverage.
Okay, Punjabi, stay safe.
Oh, thank you.
Nancy Nichols is our first associate executive producer up the road about an hour and a half in Waco, Texas, 282.35.
Dear John and Adam, in the morning after several months of trying to come up with a dame name so I could join the illustrious roundtable, it finally came to me.
Please accept this donation and decree me as Dame Nancy, the road trip girlfriend.
At the round table, I would like Brendan's Sweet Margarita, the sampler platter with habanero, chili, tamales, enchiladas, and tostadas from the Texas Chili Parlor.
Really?
We'll have no room for the mutton and mead.
Please send some exit strategy screaming dogs karma so I can be more of a road trip girlfriend and less of an 8 to 5 slave, especially now that all the vaccinated zombies are going to harm the rest of us with their bodily secretions.
Thank you for your courage and for producing the best podcast in the universe.
No, thank you for producing the best podcast in the universe.
It's a mouthful, but we'll get it for you.
Here's a note that we can all appreciate from Amanda.
Amanda Hedrick down in Normal, Illinois, 251-33.
The note itemizing the value I've received from No Agenda would be too long for the show.
So instead, take my money and keep on doing what you're doing.
Can I please get a jobs karma for anyone who needs it?
Note of the show.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Lift off.
Sir Pete's up two, three, four, five, six.
Jingles if you wake up with the blues.
Train horn enthusiast.
Booster dose of Jobs Karma to all.
Thank you for your courage.
Another winner.
He's in Holland, Sir Pate.
Yeah, well, Sir Pete, Sir Pate, always.
Now, this is the, I think he's talking about the Jeff Smith jingle or end of, that's a full song, so I'll play just a little bit of it, and we'll play it in the end of show mix, but this is what Oni's talking about.
Somewhere Jeff sings around here.
Thank you.
Hit it, Jeff.
Get up in the morning.
Hit the ground running.
It's the meteor assassination.
Oh, my God!
Woo!
Listen to that horn!
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
Alright, full song coming at the end of the show.
T.J. Johnson, $210, local 1919 in North Carolina.
That's interesting that it would come in as a city.
He has a note.
I have the actual paper here.
Too short story I told in jingles.
Fauci wheeze, goodbye left nut, build back better.
Happened to my ex in Iraq.
Thank you for letting me listen to the show even though I don't have a podcast.
It's a joke somehow.
I don't get it.
When I'm asked if I have the vaccine, I smile sadly and say, my amygdala is too small.
And that's all.
I don't have any more of the note.
That's it.
I like it.
He just has it.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
That's okay.
We'll just do it.
Good night, Left Nut.
Build back better.
Bend down on bending knee.
Bear the brunt of all the burdens.
Like broken ones should be.
Build with blinded loyalty Back the better ones than you For a better life beyond your freedom Build back better For someone else Alright, classics.
Classics here today.
The story that was there wasn't the best story, but it was a good story.
You're up.
I started, this is from, hold on a second, this is from Hot Shot.
From Jericho, New York, Hot Shot 20333, I started listening after Adam joined Joe Rogan.
And I knew I had to give the show a listen when Adam tried talking about the digital currency and Joe wouldn't let Adam talk about it.
I found myself screaming out loud, God damn it, Joe, let me hear about the digital currency!
Well, on my recent vacation, I saw there was a meetup in the area.
I knew I had to go.
It was refreshing to interact with people who see what is happening all around us, and we had a great time together.
I'd like to thank Sir Joho, the Swazzle Knight, for calling me out at the Myrtle Beach meetup for being a douchebag.
It was the push I needed to finally donate.
He said he heard us Roganites are generous, so I'd like to donate 20333 to help keep that up.
Please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
The various clips you play and comment on are by far the best news source I've encountered in recent memory.
The amalgamation of the news clips truly is amazing and condenses hours and hours of research I'd have to do on my own into just a handful of entertaining hours.
You hear that, John?
We're like the juice squeezer.
We're the reader's digest of podcasts.
I don't know if I'd take that title, but...
I'd only wish I'd have heard of the show sooner.
That way it wouldn't have taken me as long to see the light.
You two have become an integral part of my week and it showed me when you took your well-needed vacation.
Thank you.
You missed us.
Please call out Suraj as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
He needs to pony up some cash for his hours of listening since being hit in the mouth, and I'd like to request karma as I attempt to move from New York to the Myrtle Beach area to escape the zombie mob that now inhabits the city.
If anyone needs a certified public accountant, I'm looking to start expanding my tax-side practice.
That way I can quit my grueling job at an accounting firm and become my own boss as my full-time job.
I'm on no agenda social as hotshot at hotshot.
If you'd like to get in contact with me, much appreciated in advance.
Please play the beginning ISO of John from episode 1341, Bunny Hugging.
Whoa, hold on a second.
I don't have that.
I'm sorry.
You're asking me to edit stuff from a show.
What else is on deck here?
So scary, Bo Jiden.
And what else?
Uh, full load.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I wasn't prepared for that.
Is there any other end of karma?
I don't see it.
Okay.
Well, here we go.
Bo Giant says to wear.
I don't even know what that one is.
How many masks?
Two masks.
Who says that?
Uh, Bo Giant.
I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
Don't eat me, Bo Giant, and you're scary!
So scary!
I don't know if he needs...
See, he does need a karma.
You've got karma.
Sorry, I wasn't prepared for this fine print at the end there.
Missed it.
Gust van Poppel in Norway, $200.33.
Adam, I am Dutch, so my name is pronounced gust, as in the words rust.
Well, it's really...
Gust.
Okay.
Hello, Adam and John.
Go podcasting!
This week I learned that a good...
That a good faraway friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer a year ago.
She has beaten the cancer during her year-long treatment but is now recovering and waiting for the last test results that will inform her whether she will ever recover to her old self completely.
Since she chose to keep her illness a secret for most people, she does not know that I'm aware of what's going on.
I'm only in the new, thanks to a mutual friend who contacted me.
I feel we're breaching trust here, who contacted me, but I feel I should respect my friend's decision to deal with this in her own way.
Even so, I felt I had to do something, so I want to kindly request an F-cancer karma and a whole bunch of R2-D2 health karma so the universe can work its magic.
Thank you for the great work you guys do, and greetings from Norway.
Okay.
Of course, of course we'll try that.
You've got karma. .
Sir Ted of Leak Detection and Ozone Hole Mitigation in Menden, New York.
$200.01.
No jingles, no karma.
Thanks for keeping my amygdala small.
Sir Ted of Leak Detection and Ozone Hole Mitigation.
Thank you.
James Martin in Beaverton, Oregon, 200.
Planning on moving to Dallas in July and looking for some jobs, Karma.
Always love a noodle gun jingle, too.
No, thank you for your courage.
I'm going to shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist face shield.
No.
I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Sir John Knight of St.
Patrick, patron saint of engineers in Heber Springs, Arkansas, $200, sent a note.
I don't see a note.
I don't know where it went.
He did send one.
Okay.
And that's it?
Sorry, Sir John.
Email a note next time, or this time, and then we'll read it when it comes in as a make good.
We do have a make good from Sir Dave Fuguzotto.
Yeah, half of this didn't show up on our spreadsheet.
He says, I was a bit bummed that my note got mangled by the back office and its transfer to the spreadsheet.
The first half with the details of my vivid dream was entirely missed.
If it's not too much to ask, would you mind doing a make good read on the next show?
Okay, here we go.
This is the Dvorak.
You should read this.
It's a Dvorak dream donation.
You need to do this.
I don't have it.
Oh, I got it then.
This is a Dvorak dream donation.
As I woke up in the morning to a dream wherein I visited the No Agenda Clubhouse.
The actual structure, not some lame-o online audio chat and way better than the brick twit house.
While hanging out with you guys, John showed me the finer points of killing someone with a 12-inch Bowie knife.
You see, John explained to me, this is his dream.
This is his dream.
Not nightmare, dream.
You see, as John explained to me, the trick is not to stick him in the belly and cut upward, because then you have to saw through all those internal organs.
Instead, he explained, you should always angle upwards to penetrate the heart directly with the killing blow.
I'm so happy that we read this.
This guy's been in Saudi Arabia too long.
Ha ha ha!
And then, what else does he have?
Well, actually, he wanted me to play this.
In the morning.
Apparently, John C. Dvorak is not just a wine connoisseur, a Costco devotee, and man about town, but a stone-cold killer to boot.
What else did you learn as an air quality inspector?
Perhaps my amygdala is now too small because I'm pretty sure this dream should have been disturbing.
Still figuring out our future, but rumor has it the word of our mass sacking has reached the ears of MBS and Mohammed bin Salman himself and would want to be the guy that made that decision.
Now, they do have a place downtown nicknamed Chop Chop Square.
Cheers, fella.
Thank you for your courage and a karma once again for him being stuck there.
You've got karma.
And thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1,343.
Could not do it without you.
You are the producers.
Take these credits.
Display them proudly.
They still work on LinkedIn.
I hear that there's cool chicks who will follow your profile if you have a No Agenda title in there.
So that's worth consideration.
And if you'd like to help us out for the next program, that's very easy.
Go to our website.
And that'll be for Thursday.
For today, though, thank you for your time, your talent, and your treasure for the No Agenda show.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water.
Water.
Shut up, place.
Shut up, play!
I do have important Austin news, briefly.
Well, before you do that, I think we should read this note from the crazy, as I described it, the crazy net case podcaster.
Your girlfriend, yes.
She wrote in.
They gotta explain who it is.
People don't know who that is.
She was a clip I played prior to the Christiana Northrup clips about this.
She was reporting on Facebook and some of the things she's been reading and it was kind of off the rails.
I thought it was kind of nutty and I called her a nutcase podcaster, which I apologize for.
But she didn't find any offense.
She thought it was great publicity.
I'll read this short couple of sentences.
You guys recently used a clip of my show, Rogue Ways.
The episode titled Strange Cycles About Women's Reproductive Health Possibly Being Negatively Affected by Vaccine Shedding.
Thank you for the exposure.
Actually, I'm not sure you mentioned me.
No.
The show name or put me on the show notes.
No, we did none of those things.
Well, give it to her.
You should at least give her a plug now.
I did.
It's Rogue Ways.
That's the name of the podcast.
But anyway, I'd love so much to have you both on Rogue Ways sometime.
I live stream Sundays and Tuesdays at 7 Mountain.
She goes on.
She also has video.
Hope we can connect.
You guys do amazing work.
Lots of love to you, Lindsay.
Well, thank you, Lindsay.
You know, this is a trend that I don't like.
The trend is, come on my podcast, you're an asshole if you don't.
She never said that.
No, no, no, not her, but the idea of, you know, both of you should come on my podcast.
No, no, we do a podcast and we do the podcast together.
And another example, which I thought was really nice.
Oh, you're saying people that want both of us on their podcast at the same time?
Oh my gosh, the amount of times I've had that request.
Oh no, that's never going to happen.
But it's gotten one step worse.
Sir Gene has a podcast, Sir Gene Speaks.
Yeah, we knew it.
Yeah, but he's been interviewing a lot of the developers and people around Podcasting 2.0, which is very appreciated.
And then he scheduled an interview with my wife, with Tina the Keeper.
Which is, okay, now it turns out she had never actually been interviewed about herself anywhere, anytime, ever.
And I think she absolutely killed it.
She has more, there were more downloads of that show than, twice as much than any show Gene has done.
But now I get requests from, I won't say who, but podcasts who say, oh yeah, we want you and Tina on.
It's like, no, this is not going to happen.
It's like, this is my job.
Hey, you're a race car driver.
Why don't you come over here and race my car?
Hey, tell me a joke, funny man, comedian!
You know, it's just like, it takes a lot of time and effort, and I am very flattered, really flattered, but it's not, it takes, you know, it's like, there's a lot of work, and I have so many of these requests, and if you don't do it, then I can, I know people get irked.
Even me talking about this is like, oh, you're a douchebag.
That's too good for us.
Well, this is also true.
It's just like, oh, there's not enough time in the day to do all of this stuff.
Anyway.
And I want you to do it before these other guys.
We need an exclusive from you for premium content for our subscription with the early window to watch.
I have two notes from you.
Millennials.
Standing in line.
Millennials parking.
So there.
I've done my job.
I'm your secretary.
I've given you your topics that you wanted me to write down.
Okay, I do want to mention something that happened to me, because we've discussed this before, and it was a number of years back, and then the millennials came in and said, yeah, yeah, you're right, this is probably going on, which is that if you see a long line and somebody cuts in the line, the millennials in the line will do nothing about it.
They won't bring it up, they won't talk amongst themselves, what do you think we should do?
Don't say anything, don't say anything, don't say anything.
So that's the thing that was our old meme.
The newest one, which somebody else brought up first, I think, because I know we've talked about it a little bit, but it happened to me.
I'm at the Grocery Outlet Farmer's Market.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
The Grocery Outlet Farmer's Market somehow sounds like...
That's what they call it.
It's a contradiction in many terms.
Yes, okay.
It makes no sense, but it used to be called the Dented Can Company, but that's beside the point.
Much better.
Yeah.
So you go, I had a big pile of stuff in my cart.
Mostly, you know, just what you get in the grocery store.
A lot of stuff on sale.
A lot of stuff on sale.
So I got a cart full.
This is going to take a while to get out of here.
I turn and look right behind me.
There's a girl with a bottle of wine.
And I look at my cart, big cart.
Wait, wait, wait.
What was the bottle of wine?
Surely you noticed.
I couldn't see the label.
She was holding it tightly like a baby.
And so I look at her in a bottle of wine and I said, is that all you got?
And she said, yeah.
I said, go ahead and me.
Oh, no, no.
I can't.
No, no, no.
And this is the thing.
They don't know how to...
They like being in lines.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Did you try again?
You said, no, please, really.
Come on.
Just come on.
Come on in.
I didn't go that far.
Okay.
But next time I will.
But I could have begged her to go in front of me.
Go in front of me or I'm going to punch you.
I mean, there's a million things you could do.
But no, she was reluctant to just take.
It's like a compliment.
Some people can't take a compliment.
She should just take the suggestion, move in front of me and get the hell out of there.
Right.
I mean, don't you immediately say, oh, thanks, man.
That's really nice.
Thank you.
I've done it before.
I had this happen in the same store.
Different line.
There's an old black woman behind me.
Same thing.
She had a couple of items.
I motioned her ahead of me.
She said, thank you very much, and goes right in front of me and gets out of there.
And it's just strange.
I find it very peculiar.
Millennials have these little issues.
You like to say they're over-socialized, but in public situations, they're under-socialized.
No, no, no, no.
They're non-confrontational.
Yeah, but I think what you're seeing there is not under-socialized.
That is exactly...
They're frozen in the headlights.
It's like, what?
What, what?
And they're looking at you and looking, first of all, Okay, I'm just going to, I'm your typical, I'm going to say this is the Berkeley area kind of millennial, and now this old white guy is addressing me.
First of all, I'm terrified, because he probably has white supremacist children who are screwing their cousins, so I'm terrified as an old white guy.
He might be straight, which is the worst kind.
He's speaking to me, so already, like, what?
And you have a mask on, which it's just, all of this is now a problem.
So they're grimacing behind that mask.
Don't know what to do.
And then you're being kind.
It's got to be a...
He must be a Republican!
No, that's okay, man.
Thanks.
It's over-socialized.
Okay.
Now the parking.
That was my main thing.
Oh, the parking doesn't count?
Well, the parking is like, you know, this happened with my daughter.
There's no parking sign that they put up and down the street.
Yeah.
She immediately parks in the driveway.
Wait, but doesn't she live there?
Isn't she allowed to park there?
Yeah, no, she can park wherever she wants.
But she normally has this one spot.
She parks.
Her colorful Volkswagen, painted up Volkswagen Beetle.
I should put pictures of it.
With flowers, right?
It's flowers and flowers.
It's dynamite looking, to be honest about it.
Like a hippie mobile.
Yeah, it's a throwback.
People compliment her constantly about it.
They ask her to do work.
It's the only one left, I think, in California, an art car.
We should see this.
I would love to see a picture of this.
Oh, you'd go, wow, is what you'd go.
I can't wait.
What are you parking in the driveway for?
Should I park in the driveway?
So what are you parking in the driveway for?
There's a no parking sign.
Did you read the no parking sign?
No, it just says no parking.
The no parking sign is for next week.
They put these things up because there's nothing else to do.
Okay.
Millennials.
Okay.
There is a general thing amongst millennials.
It's not exclusive to them.
Not reading dialogues.
You know, of course, I'm working with a lot of app developers.
You can, as an app or any website, you can pop up something that has an error message.
People will just click it away and say, it didn't work.
Did you read the message?
Well, it wasn't working.
It's broken.
Speaking about parking, the keeper and I decided Friday night, hey, let's go down to our old stomping grounds.
Let's go check out the hood, the old 2nd Street, Colorado area.
Let's go have some sushi at Barchi.
So we go down.
Now, parking in Austin used to, when I first arrived here, but probably up until...
Six years ago, there would be a lot and there would be a unit with numbers that corresponded with the parking slots.
And each of these, it was metal, each of these numbers had a little slot, a vertical slot.
And attached with a wire was a flat piece of metal.
And the idea was, it was two hours to park.
$2 to park per hour.
You would take your dollars and jam them into your corresponding slot with a piece of metal.
I think I've talked about this in the past, how kind of cool that was.
Yeah, they had those in San Francisco, too.
Well, no more.
Of course, progress.
But now, and so it was $2.
Now, it's $5.30.
I don't know exactly if you have to pay up until 7.
It doesn't matter.
We park in kind of a lot nearby.
Same idea.
But now there's a machine.
And I stick my car to the machine and it says, 10 hours, $20, press green to continue.
And there's no other option.
And they took $20.
You can't cancel.
You got a plus-minus thing out there?
You punched a button?
No, couldn't cancel.
Couldn't do anything.
They just programmed it.
$20.
Press green to continue.
There's no cancel button.
And there you go.
It's got your card sucked in there?
It's got your card in there while it's doing this to you.
That's a great idea.
It certainly worked.
Oh, man.
Now, big news.
Yesterday, May 1st, Austin's Prop B, this was the reinstate the camping ban so that people can no longer camp anywhere they want, passed 59% to 41%.
A victory.
So even the people who really couldn't vote for it but wanted it to pass because they would feel too bad about themselves, enough people stepped up and now the waiting game begins.
What are they going to do?
I think May 13th is when, after all the votes are done and the tallies in and the...
And the proposition is officially...
Then what?
Then you get...
I'm running one of the desks at the local TV station.
It's TV material.
I'm getting ready.
You stay on the police radio so when they start doing the rage, you bring the cameras out there and you show the mean old cops...
Moving people out.
My home is my home is my only possession.
And then they throw the crap into a dumpster.
It's all I have in my life.
And then they put that on the news and they run the guilt trips on all the liberals that live there.
Oh, this is terrible what they're doing to these people.
And it gets even better.
I can't wait.
This is going to be dynamite.
It's going to be great.
This is exactly what you're waiting for if you're running the news desk.
Well, finally, we got something!
Yeah, and we can throw in some...
We got some good material here.
And we'll cut to a sound bite of...
Oh, look at this old woman.
You also take the mic up to the...
Oh, it's all I had, and they took it away.
Oh, this is terrible what's happening here in Austin.
How can the people...
How can the city government be so cruel?
I can't wait for this now.
The 13th of May can't come fast enough.
You're so right.
I'm going to have a whole bunch of recorders running for that.
It's going to be...
Well, what's really going to happen...
Is nothing.
I hate to break...
There you go.
That's why you have to be on the police radio because you don't know what's going to happen if nothing...
A lot of these newsrooms have a bunch of police radios running on all the frequencies and there'll be nothing.
They won't get the story.
They're going to be irked about this, by the way.
Austin Police has been defunded We don't have, there's no graduating class from the academy.
There's been a lot of resignations.
911 is now moved to the city, so the cops don't pick up 911 anymore, as far as I understand.
And what I'm most concerned about is now our mayor is kind of turning this into a victory, even though he was against it and campaigned against the proposition.
Good move.
Oh, very smart, very slick, because now he's saying, well, that's right, well, we better get some homes for these people so we can move them off.
Oh, okay.
He still wants to spend the $400 million that we got in federal funds for the city of Austin.
They already bought a hotel on I-35 with 79 rooms.
They're going to have that one filled up by the end of May.
They're going to buy three more.
Adler, of course, is a real estate lawyer, a real estate guy.
I don't know if he's corrupt.
But it sure feels like it, and he's going to push for that.
We can't move these people.
We haven't closed on the building yet.
So I'm afraid of that, because this is an overwhelming show of support from the people who did come across party lines and any other stuff that's been going on.
That the media has pitted them against each other, and we can be very proud of that.
But now we have to...
I think we may have to still make sure the issue is enforced.
Sadly.
They won't get it.
I have my doubts.
I have my doubts.
It's not going to get enforced.
Now it's just nothing.
I like your idea better than...
Your TV news packages sound more familiar to me.
I think that's what I want.
If it does get enforced, that's what's going to happen.
And it'll all back off.
I mean, that's what the news media does.
It literally creates a story.
And this is the first city that has done this.
And I'm very proud of Austin for doing this.
As down as I am on a lot of things going on here, I think the residents of Austin did a good thing.
And they said no.
And now we'll have to follow through.
I want to lead you into your Biden clips, because it's Sunday.
It's Biden Day.
It's Biden Day.
I have only two clips for you.
The first is a supercut, which we always love as a supercut.
This is the media's response to the, well, was it joint session, or it wasn't really a State of the Union officially, was it?
No, it was a pre-State of the Union session.
Yeah, he was talking somewhere with 150 douches, and this is what the media's take was.
President Biden delivers his first address to Congress, laying out a bold plan to rebuild the country.
The President of the United States offering a bold new plan.
Big, bold, huge progressive ideas.
Big and bold, really bold, sweeping legislation.
Big, bold, ambitious plans.
We've been talking over these last few moments about how bold these plans are, how ambitious they are.
Perhaps the most ambitious progressive agenda since LBJ or even Franklin Roosevelt.
Like FDR or LBJ. It is either Johnsonian or Rooseveltian.
This certainly was a joint address like we have never seen before.
The president, though, seizing this moment to outline his sweeping, ambitious agenda.
President Biden laying out ambitious plans to Congress.
Ambitious in scope, intimate, and tone.
He was whispering at times.
The president also laying out his ambitious...
Ambitious.
Ambitious.
Ambitious agenda.
An ambitious agenda for the future.
Four trillion dollars in spending, that's ridiculous.
Really ambitious.
Ambitious, but may ultimately prove very popular.
It's a very popular plan according to our polls.
A lot of the things that are in those spending packages are incredibly popular.
Given that level of support in those polls, can't you try to cut a deal here?
Wow, they're right in step, aren't they?
As usual.
Shameless, shameless media.
These people should be ashamed of themselves.
But you have to blame the ownership at this point.
The ownership of the media properties.
The CEOs of these corporations.
The CEO of Comcast would be a good example.
It's his fault.
They're encouraging this.
If that was Trump that gave the exact same speech, they would have called him out as a douchebag.
Yeah.
And the only other thing I wanted to point out was there are commercials running continuously about his great infrastructure plan.
And it's being run by a group called Climate Power.
You can find them at climatepower.us.
They are not a non-profit.
They have no donation page.
But they have money and they're spending it like crazy on stuff like this.
President Biden's bold new jobs plan that rebuilds our country and tackles climate change with clean energy jobs.
Actually, I'm going to stop it there.
You just heard the bold word?
Tell me that isn't based upon the media buy that this contains this script.
President Biden's bold new plan.
You just heard every single talking head use the term bold.
It's paid and bought for.
President Biden's bold new jobs plan.
It rebuilds our country and tackles climate change with Clean Energy Jobs.
The American Jobs Plan will lead to a transformational progress in order to tackle climate change with American jobs and American ingenuity.
This is our opportunity, our moment, to fight climate change and build back better.
It's big yes, it's bold yes, and we can get it done.
There it is, you build back better.
Right there, perfect.
And I would just like to give you a few names on the advisory board of, this is the National Advisory Board of Clean Power who paid for that message.
Number one, Stacey Abrams, right there at the top.
Mustafa Ali.
He's the VP of Environmental Justice.
Let's see.
We have so many...
Former United States Secretary of Energy Moins.
Remember the guy with the wacky hair?
They pulled him out.
John Podesta is on this board.
This all counts on foreign relations people.
Yep.
Senator Harry Reid, Tom Steyer.
You remember him?
He ran for president.
Steyer, your California douchey guy.
Rosanna Arquette on the creative advisory board, along with Connie Britton, actress, producer, and activist.
Zooey Deschanel.
Oh, yeah.
Deborah Messing.
Oh, it's fantastic.
Kevin J. Patel.
Ah, Questlove.
Man, this is some, these people are, this is who you want in the drinking club.
They can perform.
They can do little tricks for you and perform music.
It is disgusting, this group.
It sounds very disgusting.
And you should look at it at climatepower.us.
It goes on and on and on and on this list.
And you'll recognize many people from it.
So this is the big push.
This is what Build Back Better is about.
It's two, four, maybe six trillion dollars.
Who knows how many times they're going to up the ante.
And Joe's going to do something which he was kind of incomprehensible there in his commercial, but it's bold.
Whatever it is, it's bold.
And luckily on Sundays, we have my partner in crime, John C. Dvorak, to decode the boldness of the president.
Yo, there's so much boldness in my clips, you're going to get a kick out of it.
Good.
Now, Biden gave two speeches, one in the Amtrak station in Delaware, and then...
Which he had no prompter for, and about five people listening to him in the audience.
And he was, I don't know if he was drunk or whatever.
But I knew it was going to be a good day when he did this opener.
This is the opener.
This is called the Amtrak opener.
This is 14 seconds.
This is how he started it.
And when I heard this, I said, ah, I got gold here.
Great to be back to 33 stations.
Blake, you didn't...
We didn't treat each other like family.
We are family.
Please sit down, guys.
Sit down.
So he was gone.
And that was the opener, so I knew because it wasn't like to have to wait 15 minutes before he starts falling asleep.
Was it so exciting that you yelled at the kids to bring you a drink?
Like you couldn't even leave.
You couldn't even go to the kitchen yourself.
Quick, get me a drink.
I'll need it.
So here he thanks a bunch of people.
This is the thanking unknowns.
It goes right from the third street station.
And then he thanks unknowns.
He doesn't know any of these people, and here's the way this goes.
Because Delaware is so small, there was a case in the Supreme Court.
Delaware, the state of, owns the Delaware River up to the high water mark of New Jersey.
Just want you to know that.
You've got to treat us with more respect.
And Mayor Kenney, thanks for the passport.
Great friend.
Thank you, Mr.
Mayor.
You're doing a heck of a job.
Also, Justin Gray.
I've mentioned Justin already and his dad.
And Greg Weaver, Jr.
Greg, you are family.
Excuse me, Blake.
Okay, I know what this is.
For most politicians, He'll have a meet and greet.
And there will be a couple of names on his piece of paper so that the politician can say, you know, it's like this young guy, Danny, that I met the other day.
Danny is an Eagle Scout.
He has to have a story, but he's forgotten the stories.
All he has is the names.
So I think your family, are you related to me?
Your family, Danny.
You are Biden?
Well, the last part of it, you kind of missed it.
It was just where he's thanking some kid and he realizes his name's Blake.
But he says you're family.
Yeah, but then he says he's got the wrong name.
Let me hear it.
And Greg Weaver Jr., Greg, you are family.
uh i mean excuse me blake i i use greg weaver your family i I mean, Blake.
Yeah.
He also does stuff like this is a...
I'll just play this as...
This is the...
He gets...
Because he's got no script.
He's got no prompter.
He likes to...
He does like to talk.
And so he'll go into great details about things that are just...
Who cares?
And this example here is his timetable of his trips up and down the Amtrak.
And this is the clip called 63726.
Hold on.
Oh, I see it.
Hold on a second.
Got it.
Every single day that I was in the United States Senate, got either the 728, it became the 732, and got home on.
If I got lucky, I got the Metro that left, the last one left at 6, or I got the 730 coming home.
Oh my God!
Listen to that horn!
He's a confused foamer.
Who cares what he's doing?
So now there's a two-part.
This is his Think About It clip series.
And he says, Think About It, and he starts rambling about one thing or another.
This is Think About It, the original, and then we'll go to the second part.
If you think about it, when great contributors to our country is we have to invest.
And so, you know, if you think about it, when we were when I was vice president with Barack, he allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak.
A reserve comment.
A reserve comment.
And now we go to part two.
He allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak.
And it had money for high-speed rail at 200 miles an hour from Charlotte.
Another line going from Florida down to Tampa.
Another line.
If we had moved, we'd have that tunnel fixed in New York now.
The money was there to get it done.
Holy crap.
This guy needs to be protected.
This is not good.
That clip that you just heard, the second part, was used by a number of right-wing talk shows.
Yeah.
In real time as they laughed over it.
Because this jump to this tunnel thing is just some earlier thought.
I don't think it's a lot.
That actually didn't tickle my funny bone.
What I thought was kind of more interesting is a tell.
Maybe this is a tell.
I'm going to go back to the first Think About It clip for a second.
If you think about it, one great contributor to our country is we have to invest.
And so, you know, if you think about it...
All right.
This is a weird projection tell, I think.
When he has lost his train of thought, he tells you to think about it.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, but I don't hear it that often.
It's not that often.
Oh, he's always saying think about it.
Oh, okay.
Oh, my goodness.
Pay more attention.
Yeah, I think...
So this one part here.
Play this thing.
Huh?
I think the second one is actually more interesting as he rolls off the rail.
He allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak.
And it had money for high speed rail at 200 miles an hour from Charlotte.
Another line going from Florida down to Tampa.
Another line, if we had moved, we'd have that tunnel fixed in New York now.
The money was there to get it done.
The only thing I don't understand is the tunnel.
I remember the North Carolina line.
I remember the one to Disneyland or some dumb shit like that in Florida.
What was the tunnel?
It was very early in his speech.
He brought something up about some tunnel, and I'm not sure it was...
I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe the theory continues on high-speed rail bitching about the Chinese having all these trains, and we don't.
And so here's Amitra, this high-speed 400-mile-an-hour train clip.
These are all short.
Two-thirds of all the high-speed rail in the world.
220 miles an hour.
And they're working on transit on trains that can go as high as 400 miles an hour.
Woo!
We're behind the curb.
That thing's taking off.
400 miles, yeah!
It's taking off.
Don't put wings on that thing.
Alright, two more from Amtrak.
Then we move to his short Georgia appearance, which he did.
One of the drive-in theater ones where he had some sort of prompt.
I never got a good look.
I never got a look at it.
It was straight ahead.
I think it was one of those big giant screens that you read in the back of the room.
It wasn't the back of the room.
He was in a drive-in theater.
They're honking at him.
I think this is lame, but let's play this one.
This is Biden's Amtrak Union jobs clip.
...which support existing Amtrak routes, including the Northeast Corridor, but nationwide.
And we're talking about union jobs, as I said.
Ah, I have it.
The high-speed train was supposed to be a $105 billion North Atlantic rail plan between Boston and New York City, hence the tunnel.
New tunnels out of New York City under the Long Island Sound, routing up trains through...
What a pipe dream that is.
That was Obama time.
And here's...
That was actually the last of the Amtrak clips.
He was way off the rails and it was kind of pathetic.
Now, the Georgia speech...
This is the opener.
I knew it wasn't going to be as good as the Amtrak stuff because he was reading most of it and he did a better job.
Hello, Georgia and the other county back there. - Thank you.
I love you.
A lot of folks out here tonight.
Well, I'm ready to go home because she never says that to me at home.
This is worth the trip, hearing that.
I am Jill's husband, is obvious to everybody.
I never get introduced.
She's my wife.
I'm her husband.
And, you know, I'm proud to be.
You know...
All right, so let's play a couple other things.
It's not going to be as good as the Amtrak stuff, but he said some stuff that I think is more...
It's kind of more interesting to talk about than the fact that he had a few protesters there demanding that they shut down the detention centers.
He said, just give five days and five days he'll fix that.
Right after the hundred days of masking.
So this was the one that got the most attention from me, which is his book tax.
Listen to this.
As I said last night, the middle class and working people in this country are already paying enough in taxes.
It's time for the richest 1% of Americans and corporate America to start to do their part.
Let me just give you a simple fact.
Last year, for example, 55 of our largest corporations in America paid zero dollars in federal tax.
Zero.
And they made 40 billion dollars.
Not a penny in tax.
Folks, if in fact we had a minimum book tax for corporations, for just the Fortune 500 companies, just a minimum tax of 15%, about all you'd sign up for 15% tax right now.
If in fact it was just 15%, we'd raise $230 billion.
Pay for all this.
Book tax?
Yes, I had to go look this up because I'm thinking, is this a wealth tax and is the book value they're going to tax people on?
Which is kind of, 15% is a little high because if you read my essay on wealth taxes, the numbers are pretty low in terms of the tax rate.
No, it turns out that book tax is the booked sales price.
So if your revenue is $100 million and your taxable revenue is like nothing or tan or something, in other words, this is the pure sales.
You get taxed over the $150 million.
You get taxed for your sales.
So whatever your sales are, you get taxed.
Isn't that a sales tax?
Well, it's a sales tax to the consumer.
Right.
This is receiving the money.
Wow.
So if I receive, so we do a business, let's say we have a steel mill and we bring in a billion dollars in sales, but it actually costs us $1.3 billion to even do the sales because we're a poor company, we're poorly managed and we actually lost $300 million on that billion dollar sales.
It's beside the point.
You're paying the 15% on the billion.
That's very interesting.
That's kind of like an alternative minimum tax for corporations.
Exactly what it is.
The theory is based on the alternative minimum tax.
And in this case, it's the book tax.
I just thought this was like...
That is interesting.
It's not the way you...
No, companies aren't set up for that sort of thing.
It's like a pie-in-the-sky idea.
It's not popular.
I don't think it'll be a popular idea.
Well, it's not going to go anywhere either because he talks a big game to make the people feel good, but he's full of crap.
Hey, 100 days of masking!
Yeah, 100 days of masking.
Okay, let's get these out of the way.
This is a little break.
Let's take the cough medley.
Ah, nothing like a Joe Koff medley.
Excuse me.
Folks, healthcare should be a right, not a privilege in America.
And here's the thing I'm most proud of, including the biggest nations in the world.
Damn.
Like half a lung coming out, Joe.
COVID cough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was a third cough moment in there I didn't catch.
Here's the soul clip.
This is his classic.
He keeps using this.
If we are too truly, he'll hear the soul of America.
We need to reject that sacred right of protected to vote.
All right, let's just hear that one more time.
If we are too truly, he'll hear the soul of America.
I'm all in on that.
That's an end-of-show mix right there.
If we are too truly, he'll hear the soul of America.
We need to project that sacred right and protect it to both.
You know, hey, James Brown, Joe Biden, separated at birth?
Come on now.
No one understands what James Brown is saying.
Hey, Joe, the soul!
If we are too truly, he'll hear the soul of America.
Soul, Joe!
Oh, they should do.
That's considering.
Now, this is his last one, which he seems to think that the good...
Well-paying jobs of the future involve only one thing.
So let's listen to his cybersecurity clip.
Investing in them and increasing Pell Grants.
They don't have all the money that comes from the large universities.
But their students are as competent to do anything in the future as anyone else.
But here's the deal.
No, here's the deal.
We're going to provide up to $47 billion over 10 years to increase their capacity to do everything but, you know, cybersecurity, all those things where the jobs of the future are.
That's all the jobs of the future.
That's right.
Just cyber jobs and Federal Express delivery and maybe some pizza.
That's it.
On scooters.
That's it.
Yeah, that's a series of fascinating Joe Biden clips for Sunday.
Oh my goodness.
This president.
And the car driving thing.
And also, I mean, we went from, although it was funny when Trump danced to the village people, It was kind of lame.
And now we have Biden coming out to celebration by cooling the gang.
These are 70s hits, people.
Can we hip it up a little bit?
Just a tad?
You know, the media, certainly in Texas, you know, there's a lot of people are being looked at for the midterm, and there's a lot of Trump stuff.
And I have to be honest that when I hear Trump, you know, sound bites from him on Hannity or wherever else, it's kind of like, oh, God.
He was quite annoying to listen to sometimes.
I mean, he jumps around just like Biden, only he's a little more coherent.
But, jeez, he's like Squirrel Man.
Man, over here, that's why we won, and it's the greatest.
It's pretty bad.
It was more fun when he was doing stuff, and then I didn't mind what he was talking about, because stuff was getting done.
That part I liked.
Yeah.
i've been tracking for a long time but it's come to the forefront i don't know let me just see how long you're you have a uh oh this is good the cigarette stretch story is that something that we can broach here well why don't you run this clip and we'll go from there The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban the sale and manufacturing of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
The FDA claims the move could potentially save 633,000 lives by 2050, with the benefits being most felt in the African-American community.
For decades, tobacco companies have heavily marketed menthol cigarettes to communities of color.
The ACLU, however, is warning this could lead to greater policing in areas where underground menthol markets pop up.
The ACLU cited the case of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York after being accused by police of selling untaxed cigarettes.
Oh, wow!
They bring that around.
Wow!
Was it a menthol?
Was it a menthol, Amy?
So, Mo fired this off to me the minute it came out at the beginning of the week.
And, you know, it's one thing to say, oh, you know, Republicans are so horrible.
They want poor black people who can't get an ID to go get an ID. It's racist.
It's voter suppression.
And now...
I mean, it's not that hard to supplant yourself.
30% of menthol cigarettes is smoked by black Americans.
Fact.
Were they marketed?
Absolutely.
It's their thing.
It's what they like.
You know, black Americans drink different things, smoke different things than white Americans.
A lot of white Americans...
What's the percentage of black Americans in the community overall?
16%.
Okay, so they disproportionately smoke menthols.
Yeah.
But there's still only 30%.
There's still 70% of kids or whoever smoking menthol.
But that's not the point.
The point is, why do you have to tell me what to do?
It comes across...
Yes, no.
That is the point.
I mean, it's like, who are you to tell me what I can smoke?
I'm too stupid to know that cigarettes will kill me?
And I'm too stupid?
I mean, it is the most...
It's a denigrating thing I've heard, the way it's being presented.
Well, CBS, I have a couple of clips here, and I'll tell you what I think is going on.
CBS, they spent a whole segment on this.
Clip custodian Neil Jones clipped it down for me, but man.
Well, tonight the FDA is signaling it wants people to put out those menthol cigarettes once and for all.
About 20 million Americans smoke that type of cigarette.
CBS's Ben Tracy explains why the Biden administration is trying to ban the mint-flavored tobacco.
A big move tonight in the battle against big tobacco.
The FDA says its proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars will help save lives, particularly among those disproportionately affected by these deadly products.
Menthol Chills.
The FDA says menthol, with its cooling sensation and flavored cigars, make it easier to start smoking and harder to quit.
Menthols make up 40% of the cigarette market.
They are the choice of 85% of black smokers compared to just 30% of whites.
For decades, tobacco companies targeted menthols to black communities.
This is a marketing strategy of the tobacco industry.
Philip Gardner has been trying to get menthols banned since 2008, but Big Tobacco always won.
You have a product that is worth $70 billion a year, and so what if it disproportionately kills black folks?
They're dispensable.
In a statement, the parent company of Philip Morris says science and evidence does not support such a ban.
Her lungs had collapsed.
Six foot of the poet lost her mom to smoking menthols.
She takes on tobacco executives in this spoken word poem.
How could you say that tobacco doesn't kill?
If we could at least save one person or get one person to put a cigarette down, for me, that would mean the world.
Now, the FDA's decision does not immediately ban menthol cigarettes or flavored cigars.
In fact, it's a process that could take years, and nor the tobacco companies are expected to fight it.
Okay.
This is very, very interesting because we know pretty much where this comes from and where it's going to.
And it was CNBC who told the truth about the ban.
It is not a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars.
No, no.
Hey, Carl.
The FDA is saying it plans to propose a ban on menthol incombustible cigarettes after a protracted legal battle.
Combustibles, ladies and gentlemen, Combustibles.
This is, once again, about the new way to smoke.
Now, they may have had a whole coronavirus in between, but I have not forgotten what the plan was.
And they almost hoodwinked President Trump into it.
People are changing.
They're not smoking.
They're not smoking combustibles anymore.
They're vaping.
That's why we have to ban all the flavors, because it's evil for children.
They get hooked on vaping, which is...
Is it the same as smoking?
No.
Is there nicotine in it?
By choice.
Are these chemicals necessarily good?
I don't know, but it's not smoking.
This is to promote the smokeless, non-combustible product known as Iquos.
Sir Dogpatchivanimous in Lower Slobovia told us about in the last donation segment.
It's rolling out everywhere.
It's high-end.
It's sold in an Apple store.
And...
If you want any product, if you want to launch a product, you want the black American community to be promoting it.
Because that's how you get it into popular culture.
There's nothing to do with anyone's health.
And they need it because the tobacco companies are losing money on all of the revenue, the tax revenue that they set up with the states under the state's master agreement.
Which said, okay, you can sell tobacco in our state, but we're taking this much tax revenue because you're killing people and people get cancer and they're in our state and they wrote bonds against it and now they're failing because the money's not coming in because people have moved to vaping and the trend continues.
So it's a total bullshit story, and it's only to benefit the tobacco companies, actually.
They pretend it's not.
And it may take years.
Yeah, sure.
We'll see.
This is not about saving black Americans.
And the fact that they pretend that it is is even worse.
Those horrible people.
Yes!
Not just horrible, douchebags!
I'm going to show my salute 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.
And we do have a few people to thank for show 14...
13.
1343.
1343, yeah.
1343.
Where is my...
Your 1433 thing?
1343 thing, yes.
Yeah.
Hey, come on, you don't get to do two in a row?
I didn't do the first one.
Okay.
So let's start with thanking a few people, including Thomas Higgins in Del Mar, New York.
181.30.
Let me adjust this so I'm sitting where I should be.
Sir Cal of Lavender Blossoms came in.
It was 161.80.
Sir Cal, how you doing, Sir Cal?
What's his website again?
Lavenderblossoms.org.
Paul Daniels, $134.20.
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Anonymous Batman.
Wishing his smoking hot Amanda very happy birthday.
She'll be on the list.
Happy birthday coming.
$100.00.
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He needs an F cancer for his mom.
Okay.
I'm going to put that at the end for him?
Yep.
Herb Lamb, Duke of the Deep South.
If he was in England, it'd be Herb.
Or Herb.
No, it would be Herb, right.
Herb.
No, in Jamaica, he's Herb.
80808 in Sugar Hill.
Steve Webb, 7777.
Michael Centenni, 7777.
Donation, honor of his son, okay.
Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale, Arizona, 75-75.
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It's got something in Chinese in the note.
56-84.
Steve Van Hoor in, or Sam Van Hoor in Amsterdam, 55-55.
Edward Hannon in Ireland.
He's an Irelandist, right?
He needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Ah, yes, then we get our Mayday donations.
Ah, yes.
Now we have May Day donations of 5121.
We got none of the $500 ones, let alone a $5,000 one.
This was not a successful promotion.
But it was still May Day.
It needed to be discussed.
Beth McGuire in Oro Valley, Arizona.
These are just names and locations for the 5121 donation.
Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona.
Sean Thorpe, Parts Unknown.
Sir Rotorhead in Anthem, Arizona.
Wow, three.
Arizona's listed in a row.
Dame Dane in Fredericksburg, Denmark.
Huh.
Hmm.
Just take May Day back, love and light.
Cheryl Andrews in Augusta, Georgia.
Laren Ball in Sladell, Louisiana.
Sir Joe, the Tone Knight of Nipah in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
James Agee.
Isn't that an ex-CIA guy?
Well, he's a cheap bastard if he is.
5121.
I don't know how you pronounce this.
Somebody tell me how to pronounce this.
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Rediker.
Parts unknown.
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Parts unknown.
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Protector of the Cape Coral and the Islands of Captives and Sanibel in Cape Coral, Florida.
5121.
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That's the end of the promotion.
And Todd needs a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
You know...
I'm glad you gave a little bit of history in the newsletter.
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May Day has been so twisted.
We had in Austin, there's some videos of it online, we had a bunch of communists with communist flags marching in Austin yesterday.
Yeah.
I know.
It's unbelievable to me.
Well, it's fine with me.
I mean, it's fine with me too, but it's unbelievable at the same time because, I mean, what is the...
Jeez.
There are communists, the amount of communists that have, like, moved into government and been causing nothing but trouble.
I mean, they would like our government to be overthrown and they want the capitalist system overturned so they can benefit.
Yeah.
And you have to suffer.
Because you can't, once commies take over, you can't get it back.
So they're horrible people.
You hear that?
You commies?
You're horrible people.
Rodney Lillibridge in Lewiston, Idaho, 5069.
Gabriel Garcia in San Antonio, Texas, 5033.
And he's a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Ooh, and he's got a douchebag call out for Joe, what is it?
Uh, Urigas?
Joe Urigas?
Yeah, I think it's Joe Urigas.
Douchebag!
You know who you are.
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Shelly Petty in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Anonymous, James Neff in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Andrew Oxenham in Knoxville, Tennessee.
There's a couple good barbecue spots there.
Eric Mintier, I'm thinking, 50.
And last but not least, our buddy Sir Alan Bean, who's now up in Beaverton, Oregon.
He moved from Tigard.
Sir Alan Bean used to be our mainstay in Oakland.
My goodness, he's gotten around.
He's been with us almost since the beginning, too, hasn't he?
Yeah, he's been giving us $50 a month for a decade.
Oh, my gosh.
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This is a podcast like almost none other.
People have tried.
They've tried to replicate it, but, you know, they just don't have the best producers.
That's what we have, and we've cultivated that.
We don't have any listeners, zero listeners.
How many people listen to your show?
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We've got a lot of producers, and they produce the show.
This is how it's done.
Time, talent, treasure.
Thank you.
We only read up until $50.
People who'd like to be anonymous can do the underneath that.
And also, there are several programs which you can get on, which we'd love for you to take a look at.
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So I've been listening to Prime Minister's Question Time.
Oh, I don't think you get to do that right now.
Okay, why, mistress?
Why?
Because we've been promising UFOs for a long time, and I've moved the show along.
Here we are, 2 hours 35 into it.
Is this not second half of the show?
Well, you know, I never said I was going to play these clips.
No, you just said there was Prime Minister's Question Time.
Yes, I do have a bunch of clips.
And I'm going to move them.
I'll move them to Thursday, but I have to tell you what's going on, because I think we're giving Johnson a bad rap.
We haven't been listening to what's going on in ink.
All right, all right.
You know what?
Let's do your Prime Minister's question.
No, I don't want to do the clips.
They're too long.
Well, you wanted to do them.
You're still not listening to me.
I'm going to push the clips off, but I want to explain what's going on.
Yes, honey.
I know I'm a bad listener.
Yes, I don't listen to you, dear.
I'm sorry.
You don't.
You have my undivided attention now.
Okay, thank you for your sarcasm.
So...
Two things have been going on in England.
It seems to be all that's going on.
Then you realize there's an election coming up.
We're paying no attention to it.
In like the 6th or the 8th, it's like next week.
Oh, in the UK? Really?
There you go.
I did not know this.
We kind of missed it.
It's shot under the radar.
Well, now I need to hear some clips.
Let me tell you what's going on and you can tell me if you're interested.
Alright, I'm interested already.
Two things are going on.
It seems as if Boris Johnson upgraded some aspects of 10 Downing Street, which is where he lives.
And this is a massive scandal.
Wait a minute.
So it's like he redecorated the Lincoln bedroom and it's a problem?
Yeah.
I'd like to hear it.
It's because who paid for it?
The taxpayers didn't pay for it, but it seems that maybe somebody paid for it, like maybe James Dyson paid for it, or some other schmuck paid for it, and you can't do that.
The whole thing is ludicrous because it's called cash for curtains scandal.
They can't get a sex scandal anymore, so they've got cash for curtains.
And it's like they're making a big fuss about this because he says he paid for it the way he followed the rules because I guess somebody else paid to get it started and then so he paid to finish it.
It's just ludicrous.
And that's all they want to talk about.
Now the other one, which is, it seems as if Boris Johnson made a comment, it may have been in October, but all they're doing is bitching about this.
Boris Johnson supposedly, according to the BBC and ITV, said, I'd rather see bodies stacked up, dead bodies in the streets, before we do another lockdown.
Nice.
Now, he denies having said it because it seems as if saying such a thing is a horrible thing to say.
And so the Labor Party and the Scots and the Welsh are all over him for making these comments.
And he says, I never said these things.
And one guy says, well, we've got...
Well, let's hear this.
Cash for curtains is funny, but I'd love to hear about this.
Well, let's...
Okay, I'm going to play a couple of things.
Let's play the opening labor salvo.
Including in the Daily Mail, the BBC and ITV, backed up by numerous sources, that the end of October, the Prime Minister said he would rather have, and I quote, bodies pile high than implement another lockdown.
Yeah.
Can the Prime Minister tell the House categorically, yes or no, did he make those remarks, or remarks to that effect?
Prime Minister.
No, Mr Speaker.
And I think what...
I think...
The right honourable gentleman is a lawyer, I'm given to understand.
I think that if he's going to repeat allegations like that, he should come to this House and substantiate those allegations and say where he heard them and who exactly is supposed to have said those.
Who exactly is supposed to have said those things, Mr Speaker?
Because what I certainly can tell him, and he asked about the October decisions, they were very bitter, very difficult decisions, as they would be for any prime minister, Mr Speaker, because no one wants to put this country into a lockdown with all the consequences that means for loss of education, because no one wants to put this country into a lockdown with all the consequences that means for loss of education, for the damage to Why didn't he just own it?
I guess he...
He feels he didn't say it I guess.
He didn't say it, maybe.
He didn't say it.
He doesn't want to...
You don't own something he didn't say.
Yeah.
He says no right off the bat.
But no, they pound him and hound him and hound him about this one thing.
Let's go to Liz Roberts, the woman, the Wales representative from Wales.
And she starts off...
Oh, you'll hear.
Right, let's just go to Subble Roberts.
Liz.
I think it's worth repeating the Ministerial Code 7 Guiding Principles.
Selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
The Prime Minister has spent the week ticking them off on his don't-do list.
At the same time, he tries to play down allegations of saying, let the bodies pile high.
Given that the sole judge on questions relating to the conduct of ministers and the conduct of the Prime Minister is the Prime Minister himself, What happens when a Prime Minister goes rogue?
Mr Speaker, the people of this country have a chance to make their own minds up on May 6th.
And when they look at what's happening in Wales, Mr Speaker, they have a chance to make a choice between a, I'm afraid, a continually failing Welsh Labour government or Welsh Conservative administration in Cardiff that I believe has a fantastic vision.
65,000 You know what he should have done?
I mean, Bojo should have just come out and said, You got a clip, bitch?
You got a clip?
No, no, that's what he did to the next guy.
The Scotch guys come out after him and make the claim.
I think it's the Scotch...
Before we go there.
This Liz Roberts from Wales.
She was born and I looked her up because she comes on.
She's on a Zoom call.
She's a old, well, I wouldn't say old woman.
She's older than you.
I calculate her to be about 58, 59 years old.
And she's got pink hair.
Yes, hysterical, like the artist here in Austin.
The Obama-bot artist.
Hysterical woman.
Now, I don't want to be an ageist.
I am.
But in this case...
Why does an older woman, she's past middle age, wear pink hair?
Is she trying to be hip?
Is that supposed to be cool?
You look like a spandex granny, is what you are.
It's a pathetic thing to do.
No offense, we probably have a couple of listeners out there that are 60 years old and they have pink hair.
Although I doubt it.
I just want to set that so you can kind of visualize these people and what they're up to.
Well, she's a politician and she's relatable to her constituency because a lot of them have pink hair.
So here comes this...
I'm really...
I'm likely not playing the cash for curtains, but let's play second Scott attack and I'm going to cut it short.
Including in the Daily Mail, the BBC... I'm sorry.
Second Scott attack.
Here we go.
Thank you, Mr.
Speaker.
And can I associate myself with the remarks of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition over the humanitarian crisis in India and the injustice over the horizon issue at the Post Office?
Mr.
Speaker, over 127,000 people have died from COVID in the United Kingdom.
People have lost their mothers and fathers, their grandparents and even their children.
NHS staff have given their all, fighting to keep people alive.
That's why so many people find the Prime Minister's remark that he would rather let their bodies pile high in their thousands than go into lockdown utterly, utterly sickening.
The BBC and ITV have multiple sources confirming that this is what the Prime Minister said.
People are willing to go under oath, Mr Speaker, confirming that the Prime Minister said these exact words.
Under oath, Mr Speaker.
Now, parliamentary rules stop me from saying that the Prime Minister has repeatedly lied to the public over the last week.
But can I ask the question?
Are you a liar, Prime Minister?
Prime Minister.
Mr Speaker, I leave it to you to judge whether the arrival of the gentleman's remarks were in order, but what I will say to him is that...
I just say, unfortunately, Rinaldo will not savour it and not what we would expect.
Oh, yeah.
I'm grateful to you, Mr Speaker.
But what I would say to the right honourable gentleman is that if he is going to relay that kind of quotation, it is up to him, in a place like Parliament, to produce the author, the person who claims to have heard it.
Because I can't find them.
He says that they're willing to go on oath.
Perhaps they're sitting somewhere in this building.
I rather doubt it.
Because I didn't say those words.
What I do believe is that a lockdown is a miserable, miserable thing.
And I did everything I could to try to protect the British public throughout the pandemic.
So I figured that was over, and so we go to...
This is the last.
I'm not going to play anymore.
This is the Scots 3.
Let's go back to Ian Blackford.
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
And of course, it's the Prime Minister's behaviour which is not in order.
This is a Prime Minister who is up to his neck in a swamp of Tory sleeves.
We've seen contracts for cronies, techs for tax breaks, and cash for curtains.
The Prime Minister has dodged these questions all week, and he's dodged them again today.
But these questions simply are not going to go away.
So when exactly was money funneled through Tory HQ into his personal bank account?
When did he pay back this money?
Was it an interest-free loan?
And who is the donor or donors who originally funded it?
Is the Prime Minister aware that if he continues to fail to answer these questions, that the Electoral Commission has the powers to prosecute to him?
Well, the Prime Minister published these details today, but is he going to wait until the police come knocking at his door?
Mr.
Speaker, as I've said, I look forward to what the Electoral Commission has to say.
So this is all they've got to talk about?
It's baffling.
It's very Trump-esque.
Very reminiscent.
It's totally Trump-esque.
No sources.
They haven't got the leverage.
And who's running against him?
Who's the opponent?
This character that's the head of labor, who I can't even remember.
I wrote his name down.
I said, I never heard of this guy.
Wrote his name down.
Forgot it.
Forgot it.
I forgot it again.
They have nobody running against them.
I'm surprised that the Tories don't just sweep.
And if all they've got, the fact that he fixed up No.
10 Downing Street and somebody helped pay for it, which is, I guess, some sort of horrible violation, and he made some comment nobody can really document and there's no recording of it, and that's all they're harping on?
What's wrong with those people?
I mean, come on, at least we do impeachment.
You guys are weak.
Weak!
Weak!
Very weak!
Here, like impeachment, you know, we accuse the president of inciting an insurrection.
You guys are no good!
The European Union's probably laughing at you now.
Wow.
Anyway, that's kind of what's going on.
So we've...
Haven't been paying attention because I think we both wrote off Bojo as a vaccine nut.
Yeah, and a Build Back Better climate change guy.
Yeah, but as I'm not seeing it, I'm seeing most of these guys attacking and a lot of these things doing out of reaction.
I'm going to move the UFO stuff to our next show.
However, I do have something of interest and import that we need to discuss.
Now, when this story originally popped up, I was all in.
Then I was told I was a conspiracy theorist, which is incorrect.
I'm a conspiracy therapist.
Then, well, maybe something.
We're not so sure, but shut up.
And now we definitely know for sure.
And in Washington, a federal investigation is underway, looking into what could be mysterious sonic attacks on U.S. soil.
One of them happened near the White House, where a National Security Council official was sickened.
Similar incidents happened in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, where authorities believe diplomats were being hit with directed radio frequencies.
So this is the Dues, the directed energy weapons, which I've been excoriated for, told them a nut job, crazy.
However, I'm here to say that this has nothing to do with directed energy weapons.
Well, I also want to mention that it turns out the last directed energy weapon fear that you proposed was...
Now it traces back to a dimmer switch.
So let's continue now.
Well, at least I don't show up with six minutes of cash for curtains.
So here's CBS. Which is good stuff, by the way.
Sure.
Here's CBS. Nothing beats a two-minute report from Jeff Begay's.
I don't care what you say, Dvorak.
The poop reporter is the man on the scene.
We want to turn now to a mystery right here in the nation's capital.
Law enforcement agencies are investigating two possible sonic attacks on government officials, leading to vertigo, pounding headaches, and nausea.
The CIA is now working to find out if possible attacks are being carried out by foreigners on U.S. soil.
Here's CBS's Jeff Pegues.
One of the alleged energy attacks occurred on the south side of the White House last November, sickening a White House aide.
That followed a similar incident in 2019 in a Virginia suburb, reportedly injuring an administration aide walking her dog.
Their conditions are not known, but the White House confirms that President Biden has been briefed on one of the incidents and senators are demanding answers.
There are personnel who have been harmed who we need to make sure and get the care and benefits they need.
It's critically important, and frankly, leaders are focused on this issue.
Officials say it's too early to tell what happened, but the National Security Agency has described an energy attack in the past as a high-powered microwave system weapon that can bathe a target's living quarters in microwaves and kill an enemy over time and without leaving evidence.
Energy attacks were suspected in Cuba and China several years ago, as U.S. personnel reported symptoms of what was called Havana syndrome.
Ear popping, pounding headaches, and nausea.
The mysterious noise victims heard during the attack has been described as sounding like this.
I woke up in the middle of the night.
Katherine Werner worked for the Commerce Department in China and told 60 Minutes about being attacked.
I could feel this sound in my head.
It was intense pressure on both of my temples.
At the same time I heard this low humming sound and it was oscillating.
And I remember looking around for where this sound was coming from because it was painful.
And Jeff Pegues joins us now.
So who does the U.S. government think is responsible?
Well, the Russians remain a primary suspect.
But at the moment, U.S. officials are skeptical that Moscow would try to pull off an attack like this just steps away from the White House.
Okay, so I, of course, am all in on directed energy weapons.
They have nothing here.
They have the same one person.
Oh, very nauseous.
I wanted to throw up.
That guy's in every single report.
They only have people going back to the Havana syndrome.
Why is this now on the radar?
Why are they doing two or three minute reports in every single evening news?
You heard it at the end.
Russia.
We need to ratchet up Russia.
We have nothing.
It's like, this is perfect.
Even, hey, if we say that there's directed energy weapons, even that nutjob from No Agenda might get on board for Russia.
This will be fucking great.
Let's get that guy on board.
But there's something a little more grotesque.
You notice the talk of the ellipse?
Have you heard this?
The ellipse?
This is where, the ellipse, right near the White House.
This is how they take out the president, John, and blame it on Russia.
His brain is going to fry.
Yes?
Come on, man!
His brain's like, oh, we're sorry, the president's brain is now completely gone.
We're pretty sure it came near the ellipse with a directed energy weapon.
Yes, sir.
You watch.
Put it in the book.
So here's the question on my mind, based on what you hear there.
This is what they should do.
You want to deflect something.
And by the way, people should look up the June bugs hysteria in Wikipedia because this is reminding me of it.
But how about 5G? How come 5G is never mentioned?
Sounds like 5G to me.
I don't know, dude.
It's science.
Yeah, it's just science.
What do you got for ISOs?
That was it.
That's all I got.
It's the worst.
It's the worst ISO ever.
Oh, well, I got two.
Okay.
I got the woman from Wales, and this is the Welsh ISO.
Okay, women from Wales.
Joachim Báwola Bárádá.
What?
Joachim Báwola Bárádá.
Joachim Bárádá.
What is she saying?
I have no idea.
I think she's saying hello.
That's pretty good.
I have no idea.
If there's any Welsh in the chat room, send us what she said.
We'll take that.
That's interesting.
I like it.
I like it.
What's your other?
Wrong.
Something's seriously wrong here.
Oh, yeah.
Come on.
Joe wins every time with something like that.
That's perfect.
That's perfect.
All right, so the cash for curtains is on the...
We're done.
I mean, I can move this.
I do have one story that's kind of interesting if you want to...
Oh, wait.
I did have another.
That is a fact check false.
I did have that ISO. I don't know if that's any good.
I think Biden's probably better.
Biden's always good.
Yeah, he's going to be a little better.
Well, I'm holding on to the UFO story.
I have...
Oh, this is actually...
We'll just end on this note because it's important for the show.
Lara Logan was on the Jesse Waters show.
And it was from Fox News.
Yeah.
He has a Saturday night show or something.
And I have a minute of what she was talking about, but the way she was introduced, that's probably more important.
I'll play, because she had a good little report on how kids are being used to smuggle drugs across the border and are being used for the pornographic film industry, even snuff films.
I mean, all kinds of crazy stuff she was talking about.
But it was the way that she was introduced by Jesse Waters that I think legally I have to take issue with.
Here to tell us more, host of No Agenda on Fox Nation.
No, no, no, no, Mr.
Waters.
That is, I think, a trademark violation.
Yeah, we're going to have to send them a note.
Yeah, you cannot say that.
It is Laura Logan has no agenda.
The agreement has been made.
It has been agreed to.
Can we fine them for this?
Can we fine them money?
I don't know that you can fine them.
You can just warn them.
If they do it again, then yeah.
You can sue them.
Yeah, it should be like $1,000 per cable household.
That's not the way it works.
That's the way it worked in my fantasy.
I guess I'm wrong.
And I think that's...
I think my, meanwhile, little tactic would be for all of our producers, listeners, to send Jesse Waters a note condemning him for saying it was him, it wasn't her that did it.
Yeah.
Get your shit together.
You come across as untrustworthy, Waters.
All right, everybody.
I'm going to get a hold of our attorney and have water.
You know what should happen?
Water should express an apology.
Yes, an apology.
I mean, he'll do it, you know.
There's some dumb podcast about a couple of losers.
Yeah, really.
But that's their real name is no agenda.
So we're required to say sorry.
I think that's an outstanding idea.
We deserve a proper apology.
Yeah?
Yeah, I think you're right.
All we really want, though, is for you to join us again for the next show, which will be on Thursday, and support us by going to Dvorak.org slash NA. I'm coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the capital of the drone star state.
It is Austin, Texas, FEMA region number six in the governmental maps.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
End of show.
Well, we have Grumpy Old Benz coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com.
End of show.
We have a special little thing from Neil Jones.
We've got a Fletcher Hog Story mix, and we've got that requested Jeff Smith in the Morning song.
I will talk to you on Thursday.
Until then, adios mofos!
And such.
I can't imagine what knob twiddling you're doing.
Okay, does this sound better?
Does this sound better?
Okay, does this sound better?
Does this sound any better?
Hello, I'm talking to you.
Does this sound better?
Does this sound any better?
Hello, I'm talking to you.
Does this sound better?
Does this sound any better?
I'd say it's 100% better than at the beginning, but it's still not right.
You know well, white supremacy is terrorism.
We went to Afghanistan to get white terrorists.
White terrorists.
White supremacy.
The terrorists attacked us on 9-11.
White terrorist.
White terrorist.
You know well.
And we said we would follow white terrorists.
The gates of hell.
The gates of hell.
You know well.
It's time to bring those troops home.
White supremacists in Yemen, Syria, Somalia, other places in Africa, in the Middle East and beyond.
You kind of see the gates of hell.
We're not going to ignore that either.
And we delivered justice.
You know well.
We degraded the terrorist threat of white supremacy.
Thank you.
And after 20 years of value, valor, and sacrifice, we have to remain vigilant against the threats of the United States wherever they come from.
You know well.
And we won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today.
White supremacy.
The gates of hell.
The Gates of Hell.
Get up in the morning.
Hit the ground running.
It's a meteor assassination.
Pick up the pieces, tear them apart.
Send it out to every nation.
Don't want to sit back.
Don't want to shut up.
Let the puppets call the show.
No more mainstream pumping.
I've been doing.
Tell me where I should go.
It's a little bit crackpot.
I'm telling it buzzed.
It'll hit you right in the mouth.
It's time to do it now.
Here's the morning.
I want to do it now.
Here's the morning.
Nothing better with it.
Here's the morning.
Watching the puppet show from up on the hilltop.
As the world and birds pass by.
Same old history of switching off the TV.
Tuning in and watching the sky.
It's a little bit crackpot.
Tiny did buzzed.
It'll hit you right in the mouth.
It's time to do it now.
Here's the morning.
I want to do it now.
Here's the morning.
There's nothing better with it.
Here's the morning.
It's time to do it now.
Here's the morning.
I want to do it now.
Here's the morning.
There's nothing better with it.
Here's the morning.
Adios, mofo.
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