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	I can't get on, I can't pose, blah blah blah blah.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 13th, 2021.
	This is your award-winning Game on Nation Media, Assassination Episode 1346.
	This is No Agenda.
	And broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's Trash Day, I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Woo, everybody.
	It's Trash Day here on Tuesday.
	So, do you get two a week or do you get one a week?
	We get one.
	Yeah, we get one too.
	I don't know too many places that have two.
	I remember back in the day.
	I think.
	And then only once every two weeks do we get the recyclables.
	Oh no, we have green bins, recycling and trash all every week.
	Yeah, and then once every eight months you can throw your microwave out.
	The bulky items.
	No, we have once a year.
	You can throw anything out.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The bulky items.
	Anything.
	It's like a spring cleaning or something.
	It's a bonanza.
	Do you have a 3x3 for us today, being Thursday?
	Yes, I do.
	Yeah, everybody.
	Checking out the networks early in the morning.
	Okay, so first I started off, it's all commercials.
	What?
	What?
	There's commercials?
	Yeah, too many.
	So let's start with CBS... Oh, a big special on some woman that was arrested for being a high school phony.
	She was some old woman that was pretending to be a high school student.
	And so they turned it into a retrospective of every movie ever made.
	What?
	By the way, CBS is turning more into what ABC used to be.
	Yeah, where they were promoting other entertainment products.
	And so they had every movie of everybody, and actually the segment of the different clips they took from the movies were pretty funny.
	I have to say, whoever put this bit together had a sense of humor.
	It was worth watching.
	Then you had NBC, and all they had was kind of a promotion for this movie, D equals documentary, The History of the Sesame Street Show.
	And they had a bunch of interviews with different people who worked from Sesame Street.
	It was boring.
	Boring!
	Who cares?
	Then good morning America!
	Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	I saw something cross my path this morning.
	Is there some celebration, some 100 years of Sesame Street?
	There's a reason for that.
	Sesame Street began in my lifetime and I'm not 100 yet.
	Okay, alright.
	I think maybe 50, maybe 50.
	I just saw there was some story about it.
	Could be 50, but it's the promoters documentary.
	Okay, I got you.
	So, good morning America.
	Uh oh.
	I'm watching the new hot podcaster.
	She's everything.
	She's everywhere.
	She's the most important person in the world.
	Wait a minute!
	Who's the hot new podcaster and why have I not blessed this?
	Glennon Doyle.
	Glennon Doyle?
	Let me try.
	Exactly the reaction I'd expect.
	Let me try.
	Good morning, everybody!
	Glennon Doyle with you!
	No, I don't know.
	It's not a great podcast name, but okay.
	Glennon Doyle.
	Is this a...
	I don't want to say that she's possibly a spook, but they gave her like 15 minutes and she's like in a one box.
	One box on one side and four boxes on the other half the screen.
	And they have...
	Michael Strahan forced to discuss, I think, ask her questions about her wife.
	And Michael Strahan is the big football player, so let's humiliate him and have him talk about lesbianism.
	That was good.
	And then we have...
	Oh, okay.
	I got you.
	In the four box, and I'm not saying that lesbianism has anything to do with the CIA, and then in the four box...
	Oh, really?
	Really?
	I've been looking at that.
	And then in the four box, you see Stephanopoulos looking off camera...
	For just a split second, looking over to the right, to the side, as if, why are we doing this?
	So Glennon Doyle, a podcaster, was a famous blogger.
	She was married and then she ran out with some woman.
	And she was a blogger and she started a podcast, which is now number one is the best.
	Of course.
	She was a number one New York Times bestseller.
	Yes, a couple of books.
	I see it here in the wikis.
	Those books show up.
	And the book, the number one Times bestseller was blog posts.
	It was about our blog posts.
	So that's always a winner.
	Now, she's done a few things.
	She coins words.
	She's got that part of the podcast.
	Oh, she's a word coiner.
	And she does pod squads.
	Pod squad!
	Oh my goodness.
	I was going to write that one down.
	What is a pod squad?
	I don't know.
	It's a meetup.
	Oh!
	Well, why don't you just say meet-up, pod-squad?
	Well, it's different than a meet-up because it's like a book club.
	Oh, okay.
	So you have topics to discuss.
	Wow, is that another exit strategy for us?
	Pod-squads?
	I don't think so.
	Well, yeah, we get the right help from a certain government agency.
	Except we do pod-squats, which is completely different.
	Pod-squats.
	Pod-squats.
	She also coined the word Brutiful.
	Wow!
	She is a wordsmith, huh?
	Oh, she's killing it.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	And was there anything that came out of this 15-minute segment?
	Well, it may have been longer than 15 minutes.
	I had to turn it off to get to the other two networks because this was going on forever.
	And no, I mean, yeah.
	She's anxious.
	She's scared because of COVID. And there was a lot of discussion about her being frightened all the time because of COVID. And luckily she has someone to hug.
	And it was a horrible segment.
	I find it to be insulting to the audience personally.
	It was insulting to me anyway.
	I'm glad that everyone tuned in this morning so you can...
	Witness some true entertainment.
	Because we got it lined up for you, baby.
	Well, before we start, I would like to play a clip.
	Oh, okay.
	I have a Fauci clip.
	Before we start, we'll start with a clip.
	Before we start, let's start with a clip.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me open your bin.
	Where's your bin here?
	I have your bin.
	Should be something that says Fauci in there.
	No, I was just looking for...
	There it is.
	There's your bin.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	Straight into it?
	Yeah.
	I'd say even if you live alone, I would wear a mask in the house, especially in the shower, because, frankly, droplets can make their way through the drain and come up through somebody else's toilet, infecting them with COVID through the anus.
	Ballpark in two to five to 20 years, we can start thinking about Considering the idea of pondering the thought of conceptualizing the possibility of maybe, perhaps reopening, but probably not.
	I would avoid having any fun whatsoever in the near to far future.
	That guy's pretty good.
	He's very close.
	Very close.
	Well, okay.
	Then I'll take it.
	By the way, for anyone out there, you should look him up.
	He's a comic, a comics comic.
	Only comics seem to know much about him.
	But his name is Tyler Fisher.
	N-S-F-I-S-C-H. And he also does a, I would say, is close to anyone doing a Bill Burr.
	Oh, okay.
	I can see how he would be able to do that.
	Cool.
	Well, let's just stick with the mask then, since you brought it in.
	I did.
	Now, we know that the CDC came out with kind of silent guidance.
	Said, yeah, you know, that thing outdoors with getting infections, yeah, not really a thing.
	Which we knew about a year ago when we talked to Maurice the dog, we knew that it was aerosols.
	And as it turns out, almost no one got infected outside.
	But still, you know, in Austin, they're happy to wear masks outside.
	And you just heard Fauci.
	But this has become a bit of a problem.
	And Jose Gupta, our man on the scene over there at CNN, he's taking the CDC to task.
	And I have to say chapeau to Jose.
	Sanjay, it's so important that we have faith in our public health institutions, and that brings us to a moment that we saw yesterday at a Senate committee hearing where Senator Susan Collins of Maine said this about the CDC. I used to have the utmost respect for the guidance from the CDC. I always considered the CDC to be the gold standard.
	I don't anymore.
	I mean Sanjay, there are many people who agree with her.
	What do you think?
	Yeah, it pains me to say this, but I see where she's coming from, Senator Collins, on this.
	I mean, I think for a long time, the concern was the CDC was providing guidance, you know, at the beginning of the pandemic that was not scientifically based.
	And as a result, we didn't do things that we should have done in this country that could have greatly mitigated what has happened here.
	And now I think it's almost a little bit of the reverse problem.
	The science is not necessarily being followed to the same extent.
	And as a result, we're probably doing things that we don't need to be doing.
	So, in the end, the CDC needs to be just a science-based organization.
	What does the science say?
	You don't need to wear a mask outside.
	It's just one of these things that, again, we've known this for some time.
	We didn't know in the beginning.
	We've all learned a lot over the past year.
	But now we know it's not clear that there's really been any cases of outdoor transmission.
	Maybe a couple of cases throughout the last year in the entire world that have really been documented.
	So it just doesn't happen very commonly that this virus spreads outside.
	It doesn't like to be outside.
	It doesn't like UV light.
	There's all these different things.
	But again, now we know that.
	I don't like bleach either.
	Kill me now, please, Sanjay.
	Science, everybody.
	Science!
	Doesn't like UV light.
	What?
	What?
	So what we've been dealing with is bull crap.
	But here's what's so fascinating.
	KVUE here in Austin, Texas.
	Based upon the CDC guidance, which came out in March, they have changed the rules for schools.
	Kids, believe it or not, in Austin, will be allowed to play outside without a mask on.
	This is so fantastic, but what?
	What?
	This feels a little bit like the rug was pulled out unnecessarily.
	The changes were too quick.
	That's how Austin ISD parent Erin Lago feels.
	There's only three weeks left in the school year.
	Wednesday morning, Lago woke up to this email from AISD. It says masks won't be required for outdoor activities when kids can social distance.
	End-of-the-year activities can now be held outdoors.
	Quarantine time is cut to 10 days, down from 14, and visitors are allowed on campuses as long as they're screened for COVID-19.
	The relaxed masking rule is what caught Laco's eye because she says it makes her feel uneasy.
	I'd really like to understand how that decision was made and why and whether or not there's any room to consider a possible adjustment of that policy.
	Austin ISD says the decision was made Tuesday and they let families know immediately.
	Officials say parents have to sign off on their kids not wearing masks outdoors.
	We've put in those safeguards in place so that parents have time to process and make the best decision for their students.
	Our cases are low within Austin Travis County, but also within Austin ISD. So as we have reviewed the data and also the recommendations that have come down, we have decided to make these changes.
	Leggo says she recently signed up her 14-year-old to get the Pfizer vaccine, and we're looking forward to that.
	But now she has to decide if she'll keep her kids in class for the next three weeks.
	I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt that Austin ISD is really trying to do what's right for all of the kids.
	They're so butthurt that they weren't consulted and told weeks ahead of time.
	Instead of being happy, the rug was pulled out from under us!
	We weren't expecting that!
	Goodness!
	Goodness, people!
	Get a grip!
	And despite all of this, despite the...
	You know, this is the funniest, much funnier than the phony Fauci.
	Well, let's go back to Fauci, because despite all of this evidence, no, no, no, no, no.
	So what is this?
	Okay, let's get to mask wearing, because this is where, you know, at what point can we stop wearing masks outside?
	At what point, if vaccinated people get together, do you take the masks off?
	And are we going to, but is the mask going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?
	You know, that's quite possible.
	I think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks, clearly, if you look at the data, diminishes respiratory diseases.
	We've had practically a non-existent flu season this year, merely because people were doing the kinds of public health things that were directed predominantly Against COVID-19.
	The Australians during their winter, same thing.
	They had almost no flu.
	Largely due to the kinds of things including mask wearing.
	So it is conceivable that as we go on a year or two or more from now, that during certain seasonal periods...
	Stop for a second.
	Of course.
	So it's, I guess, looking at the data, it's 100% effective against the flu.
	No, that's some of the mitigation that we did, John.
	No, no, I'm just saying.
	Mitigation, like lockdown and masks.
	The way he's putting it, because somebody has to explain this flu phenomenon.
	So if the flu drops to nearly zero with whatever we're doing, how come COVID hasn't dropped to zero?
	Does COVID have a different kind of a...
	It's different than some sort of magical alien beast?
	Yes, it comes out at night.
	It's nocturnal.
	Well, it does come out at night.
	That's different than the flu.
	That's true.
	So you have to have these curfews.
	So maybe that's what it is.
	But it seems to me that if one goes down, they should both go down to whatever, near zero.
	Is it possible, of course, what we would think, I think you would agree, They're being conflated.
	Somebody's got the flu.
	They get really sick because people get sick and die from the flu constantly.
	Not COVID. Wow.
	I mean, it's not as if we didn't see the numbers being reported as flu-like influenza or influenza-like symptoms and that was conflated with the COVID numbers.
	Yeah, I think...
	You know what bothers me?
	And it's a problem that you and I have with this particular show.
	A year ago, we pretty much had already figured most of these things out.
	We figured out the droplets.
	We had the numbers.
	We saw the flu cases were gone long before that was recognized.
	We looked at the true data.
	We saw the bait and switch charts and graphs that they kept pulling up.
	I think Osterholm still thinks we're going to die next week.
	And, you know, the gain-of-function research, all of this stuff, all of this stuff we have talked about, and, you know, of course, branded by many as COVID deniers and nutjobs.
	Conspiracy theorists.
	Yes, and then it comes out.
	All we're doing is playing clips, I might add.
	Adam Curry's a nutjob.
	And the only...
	By the way, I think you should sue him.
	For not actually being a nutjob?
	I think it was libelous what he said.
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah, I could talk to an attorney about this.
	Exit strategy, anybody?
	Well, that's...
	Hey, hey, I'll split it with you, John.
	One way to go.
	Call Thomas J. Henry.
	That's the guy I always see on TV. Anyway, where was I? What were we talking about?
	I completely lost the plot.
	You were on a rant about this?
	This has been...
	This is...
	What we're witnessing is a rehash of what we have been talking about since March of last year.
	And then what happens is people send these new information.
	And I get irritated.
	No one can help it.
	It's me.
	Like, gosh, do I have to rehash all this shit?
	It's like, oh, this is really big news?
	Oh, this is not new.
	There are videos coming out now that we played clips from a year ago.
	And people think they're new.
	So it's just hard, you know, because it feels like we're too far ahead of the curve.
	We've got to slow down a bit.
	We need to predict things, you know, like maybe a month ahead.
	Even a month is too much.
	People don't remember that.
	Okay, so let's go back to stuff we know now out in the open.
	Against COVID-19, the Australians during their winter, same thing.
	They had almost no flu, largely due to the kinds of things including mask wearing.
	So it is conceivable that as we go on a year or two or more from now, that during certain seasonal periods when you have respiratory-borne viruses like the flu, people might actually elect to wear masks to diminish The likelihood that you'll spread these respiratory-borne diseases.
	Or maybe, you know, maybe we'll tell you to lock down or something like that.
	You know, it's all totally possible.
	Don't let us forget the potential for the environmental lockdown.
	No, no, no.
	You're going too far.
	Too far.
	You're going to have to hold back on that one because we're going to transition straight into it.
	After we hear a little more from the doctors about the flu.
	Just when you were ready to get back out there, the pandemic perhaps ready to take another toll.
	After a year of hardly any seasonal flu cases, doctors are predicting a possible surge.
	It is expected that these viruses will start circulating at high levels again.
	Thanks to masks and social distancing, there have been fewer than 2,000 lab-confirmed cases of the flu this season to date, a tiny fraction of what we normally see.
	But while COVID-19 mitigation may have lessened the spread of the seasonal flu, it may have also left many without immunity they would have normally built up, especially children.
	There are more susceptible kids than there has ever been in a given flu year because those kids didn't have the opportunity to be infected with flu.
	While no one can predict how bad the flu season will get, doctors say there is a way to take control.
	You want to stay out of the hospital?
	You want to not die of flu?
	Well, then get your flu vaccine.
	I suggest getting your vaccine in early fall and maybe hanging on to some of those good habits gained through COVID, like hand washing and staying home if you're sick.
	Lessons learned from a pandemic that could prevent seasonal flu from adding to the toll.
	I think what we're good at here is identifying trends, trends in the M5M, you know, what they're pushing.
	And this is the trend with the flu.
	Here comes Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner, and also on the board of Pfizer.
	So is it fair to interpret what you're saying is that if I've been vaccinated twice, even if I'm in an elderly population, that essentially the risk for me, I shouldn't think about it as a new thing, but I should think about it basically the way it would be with the regular old flu.
	That where we are now is comparable to something we know before in terms of the kinds of risks we would take when we operated in regular life.
	Look, I think that that's right.
	People get uncomfortable when you start comparing the rate of death and the risk of COVID to flu because of some of the comparisons that have been made in the past.
	But I think for most consumers who need something to anchor against, I think that that's a fair assessment, that if you're fully vaccinated against COVID with one of the Western vaccines, your risk of having a bad outcome from COVID is about comparable to flu and maybe less because the vaccines for COVID are more effective than the vaccines for flu.
	So I think that that's a reasonable way for the average consumer to anchor their thinking about COVID right now.
	Again, the only residual concern I think a fully vaccinated person should have is, are they themselves immunocompromised?
	And you know if you are, if you have a chronic disease that makes you more vulnerable, you'll know that.
	And the vaccines won't be as effective for you.
	And are you going to be around people who are immunocompromised?
	And there you want to be more careful.
	That's where I would still exercise some caution.
	Who's that weenie?
	That's the former FDA commissioner and the current board member of Pfizer.
	Oh, Pfizer.
	Yeah, that's Scott Gottlieb.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	There are brand new, newfangled vaccines, much brand new.
	Those old flu vaccines, they're no good.
	Shit, keep that in mind.
	You know, when they move to the mRNA flu vaccine, then we're going to get somewhere.
	That's what he's trying to say.
	Yeah, but I'm sorry.
	You mispronounced it.
	MRNA. That's not the right way to say it.
	The basic scientific research the companies like Pfizer and others are going to be doing with their enema.
	MRNA. With their enema.
	It's the enema vaccine, don't you?
	You got to understand this.
	Now, Okay, it's fun when sometimes a politician really tells you the truth.
	And this was not just a truth wants to come out moment.
	He just came out and said, Doug Ford, who is the premier, is it Ontario?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Up there in Scandinavia.
	He made it very clear that when it comes to public health and people like Fauci, and he has his own versions of Fauci, it's just not a good idea as a politician, not a doctor, to disagree with them.
	I'm going to be very frank.
	There's no politician in this country who's going to disagree with their chief medical officer.
	They just aren't going to do it.
	They might as well throw a rope around their neck and jump off a bridge.
	They're done.
	I'm telling you the facts.
	It's very simple.
	And I think he's right.
	Look at what they did with Trump.
	You do not disagree.
	You do not disagree with the medical professionals because you might as well just tie a rope around your neck and jump off a bridge.
	And that's why everyone is going along with the program.
	This is where I dove in a little bit deeper as to what exactly is happening.
	We've...
	I think for sure when Trump first started talking about treatments, now casually just discussed like UV light and ivermectin and Regeneron and certainly hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc.
	When he suggested it, that's when the big pharma-controlled media just went...
	And they may have done it on their own accord.
	Of course, at a certain point we had that...
	Remember that phony baloney study that was done by a bunch of people from a modeling agency and it made it all the way into the top medical journals?
	And that was immediately used as the proof that hydroxychloroquine is dangerous.
	Dangerous.
	Could kill you.
	Yeah, could kill you.
	That's the smoking gun as far as I'm concerned.
	But the media, and probably prompted by the profit-driven, big pharmaceutical companies who advertise and control all the money and control the media, and I'm going to prove that...
	Maybe what happened...
	You're going to prove what we know?
	Yeah, thank you.
	You're going to pound it home is what you're going to do.
	I'm going to pound it way home, exactly.
	I'm not different than proving.
	I'm sorry, you're right.
	I think what probably happened here is they went all in on, Trump, idiot, stupid, killing people, people are drinking hydroxychloroquine, they're drinking bleach, they're sticking UV lights up your butt.
	You also have to remember that Pfizer publicly said after the election...
	That they held back on announcing the finishing of their vaccine because they didn't want Trump to get re-elected.
	The CEO, for all practical...
	I think he may have actually said it outright that he didn't want Trump getting re-elected so they weren't going to make this announcement until after the election so Biden would win.
	I have to...
	Having worked in magazines mostly...
	There are PR people who are constantly hounding the editors about one thing or another.
	And I have to assume, with all the money that this dropped, I think I've had the number on one of the shows, 3.2...
	Is it one or three billion dollars that Pfizer spends a year on advertising?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, at least, yes.
	So they have somebody there calling and saying, you know, our people know that you can't take this, this stuff is dangerous.
	They'll call up and point people to the studies and say, you should look at this, you should look at that.
	And they're just constantly hounding the editors to do this and do that.
	And it does force the decision to be made to all of a sudden go after Trump.
	And they didn't like Trump to begin with, so it didn't take a lot of work.
	Because the media hated Trump.
	They still do.
	In fact, they still do to an extreme.
	So it's not hard to imagine how this played out.
	Especially the hydroxychloroquine.
	Well, but that's where the problem comes in.
	Because obviously...
	And I don't need to prove it.
	All of these treatments being used around the world, although banned and outlawed and federal offense in some countries, things are working.
	People are getting better.
	There's just too many doctors out there.
	There's too many people talking about it.
	And now the media and the pharmaceutical industry is frozen in its tracks because they can't now say, well, we were wrong.
	They just can't.
	They got stuck in that and now we just have a vaccine and nothing else is being done.
	No other treatments truly are being done.
	And I think I mentioned on the last show this Dr.
	Peter McCullough Who is no slouch.
	He's, I think, the president of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons.
	And actually, in this first short clip, he intros and gives his credits.
	He was on the Tucker Carlson Today, the hour-long show.
	And there were some phenomenal things that were said in there.
	And I only have two clips from it.
	And I think we can get to the bottom of...
	How this all started and why we are just not being treated as human beings, literally treated with treatments that help ease COVID if you get it.
	I testified under oath.
	I have 600 publications in the peer-reviewed literature.
	I'm the president of a major medical society.
	I'm the Headed up 24 data safety monitoring boards in major drug trials and stopped drug trials early for safety reasons.
	I'm telling you, I have no agenda, but I am deeply concerned that something has gone off the rails in the world.
	It involves science.
	It involves the medical literature.
	It involves a regulatory response.
	It involves populations kept in fear and in isolation and despair.
	This is upsetting.
	But it's also fascinating, I think.
	You've alluded a couple times to something being up, I think is the phrase that you used.
	Can you put a slightly finer point on that?
	Okay, so the guy is real.
	He's the real deal.
	And he has not been cancelled as of yet, although when he first...
	I think even his testimony in the Texas house may have been thrown off of YouTube for a week or two.
	It's all kinds of crazy stuff, but this guy is legit.
	And throughout this entire interview, he keeps saying, like, something's up, something's up.
	And you heard him saying about some kind of groupthink in the literature, in the pharmaceutical industry, in the media, and they continued.
	Do you believe that NGOs, the enormous non-profits that have a lot of sway, it seems like, in the public health arena, are exercising influence over COVID policy in the direction that you're describing?
	Is it that?
	Is it some international regulatory body?
	Is it...
	WHO? I mean, what is this, do you think?
	That's really going to be the goal of investigative reporters to figure this out.
	There must be stakeholders or there must be some fundamental drivers for a groupthink.
	Now, this is a groupthink.
	It's in the minds of people.
	Is anyone profiting from it?
	I have no idea.
	I'm just focusing on the situation right in front of me, Tucker.
	I can't tell you, but I have seen things in the last year that I can't explain as a doctor.
	Why are other doctors not helping with a simple illness to help these patients avoid hospitalization and death?
	Why are they not doing this?
	Okay, and that was really the problem.
	Despite it being Fox Nation, the mighty Fox broadcast network did not...
	And I saw these two looking at each other sometimes when I was about, what's going on?
	Who's behind this?
	Who's profiting?
	I don't know who's profiting.
	Not once did they say pharmaceutical industry.
	Not once did they mention Pfizer.
	It is foreboding for them to talk about it because even though it's on the Roku or on the app or online...
	If Tucker Carlson really goes after the pharmaceutical industry, then it's game over.
	That's how powerful Big Pharma is.
	A full hour on an internet app, and no, could not mention it.
	And they know exactly what's going on.
	Wow, this is fabulous.
	So where does this come from?
	How did this happen?
	And someone sent me a YouTube link to a documentary that I've watched a long time ago.
	I think it's from 2000 or 2004.
	And it's about cancer, cancer forbidden cures.
	Which is not pertinent.
	It's in the show notes.
	You definitely take a look at it because you'll learn a lot that you may not know about alternative treatments for cancer.
	These types of things have been going on for a hundred years, or even longer than that, where we have the homeopaths versus the...
	What is the opposite of that?
	Uh...
	The allopaths.
	Well, there's homeopathy, there's osteopathy.
	But it goes back...
	Go ahead.
	No, I wasn't going to...
	No, I was saying you have the allopaths.
	This goes back to when...
	Allopaths.
	Allopaths, yeah.
	So those are kind of the...
	I think that's the regular doctor.
	That's the big pharma guy, the regular doctor.
	And the homeopaths...
	MDs, MDs.
	Exactly.
	And the...
	And the homeopaths were much more natural things, and the allopaths were, oh, let's put some mercury in you, some lead, and stuff like that.
	And I'm talking about way back before anesthesia, they were sawing your leg off.
	This is just one clip from that documentary that I think gives us a little insight.
	The takeover of the medical industry was accomplished by the takeover of the medical schools.
	Well, the people that we're talking about, Rockefeller and Carnegie in particular, came to the picture and said, we will put up money.
	They offered tremendous amounts of money to the schools that would agree to cooperate with them.
	The donors said to the schools, we're giving you all this money.
	Now, would it be too much to ask if we could put some of our people on your board of directors to see that our money is being spent wisely?
	Almost overnight, all of the major universities received large grants from these sources and also accepted one, two, or three of these people that I mentioned on their board of directors, and the schools literally were taken over by the financial interests that put up the money.
	Now, what happened as a result of that is that the schools did receive grants They were able to build new buildings.
	They were able to add expensive equipment to their laboratories.
	They were able to hire top-notch teachers.
	But at the same time as doing that, they skewed the whole thing in the direction of pharmaceutical drugs.
	That was the efficiency in philanthropy.
	The doctors from that point forward in history would be taught pharmaceutical drugs.
	All of the great teaching institutions in America were captured by the pharmaceutical interests in this fashion.
	And it's amazing how little money it really took to do it.
	Just all fact-based.
	And that is why today's physicians, doctors, often, not all of course, often are car mechanics.
	They can do some, you know, the actual mechanical stuff, bones, heart, fascinating, fantastic medicine, works well, you're in and out often with a lot of these things.
	When it comes to anything else, they've been trained.
	This is what I identify, here's what I prescribe.
	Nothing else.
	No holistic approach, even.
	By the way, the third angle of medicine is the osteopaths.
	What is the osteopaths?
	The osteopath is an actual legitimate...
	I think you even can do prescriptions.
	You become a doctor.
	And it's the group.
	And there are a bunch of schools that were never taken over by the allopaths, the drug guys.
	Right, drug guys.
	And...
	They are the natural guys.
	I don't know how else to describe it.
	Oh, Alex Jones.
	No, Alex Jones is not a doctor.
	That Mercola guy.
	Oh, yes.
	Mercola.
	Well, he sells the same stuff.
	He's an actual doctor, but he's an osteopath.
	And the allopaths always like to call the osteopaths a bunch of quacks.
	Well, he...
	And quack is actually the origin of that word is from the cure for cancer.
	That's where it comes from.
	Today's conspiracy theory back in the day was quacks.
	And by the way, Mercola, he just took every single article about COVID off his blog because they were threatening his business.
	They were threatening to shut down his supplement business and he took everything.
	It's all gone.
	He took it all down.
	That's how powerful the allopaths and the allopathic industry is.
	Now, just replace those names, Rockefeller or whatever, with Gates.
	In fact, Frederick Gates, Bill Gates' grandfather, I believe, was put on the board on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation.
	I don't know that Frederick Gates is Bill Gates' grandfather.
	Okay, well, I'm pretty sure.
	Somebody in the showroom can look that up while we're talking.
	Okay, even if I'm wrong, just replace those names with Gates.
	It's just a good name to have.
	Gates.
	The philanthropy funds...
	Well, in fact, I have...
	Let me add this to it.
	This is very short.
	This is the CFO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Alex Friedman, explaining how they actually do it.
	If you've ever wondered how the money flows within this enormous foundation, well, you may be surprised.
	Traditionally, foundations have separated two worlds that coexist inside of them.
	One is the group that gives out the money, and the other is the group that invests the money.
	And those that invest the money, their job is to maximize returns.
	Those that give out the money, their job is to make the world a better place, whatever the social mission that the foundation is focused on are missions.
	To never the twain shall meet, so to speak.
	What we're doing is basically borrowing from the side of the house that invests the money in a very small amount and hoping that we can help galvanize additional money to flow to the other side of the house, the one that helps on the social mission side.
	It's hard culturally for a lot of foundations, I think, to address that.
	It's often a Chinese wall between one and the other.
	The other set of kind of complex dynamics, there's a fair amount of risk analysis that has to go in and a fair amount of financial deal structuring competency.
	And I think some foundations have more of that than others, and many are starting to move in that direction.
	So, in fact, only 5% of the Gates Foundation is gifted, And the rest, sitting right there in the same building, is trading and investing based upon the policy issues that are being set by grants to, I don't know, medical schools, medical journals, WHO. It's sick.
	It's sick.
	And it's been going on for a long time.
	I want to go back to Dr.
	Peter McCullough for one moment because there was something that he said in...
	Let me see.
	Is this the one?
	Something that he said in a different interview that I found that made me go and research something and I have to say I could not be more delighted that I found this guy.
	Of bioterrorism, the original Wuhan strain called the wild type strain that hit America...
	Early on, now it's basically gone.
	The most recent CDC estimates as of end of March is we have 14 different strains or mutant strains in the United States.
	And the most common one is the United Kingdom variant.
	The wild type is basically gone.
	The vaccines, by the way, are coded for the original Wuhan wild type virus.
	So the vaccines and they're very limited, narrow type of immunity.
	It's just against the spike protein.
	This is very important.
	There's no immunity against the nucleocapsid or polymerases.
	Looks like very little cellular or innate immunity.
	It's simply a transient, very high-spike antibody protection that these vaccines are trying to offer to individuals.
	What I learned from him is that there really wasn't, like in a different interview we said, the SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the swine flu from 2010 is 80% identical.
	I think we kind of knew that.
	Yeah, I thought, well, I recall something like it.
	And so I said, that's interesting.
	I still have not...
	I'm amazed I have not had anything.
	I'm out and about with people, even the vaccinated people.
	Everyone's all around me.
	Nothing's happening.
	So I just, on a whim, I start searching and boom, right at the top from January 11th, 2011, people who recover from swine flu may be left with an extraordinary natural ability to fight off flu viruses.
	And this was, in fact, this theory brought them to some of the initial vaccine concepts they were working on.
	Beating a bout of H1N1, the body makes antibodies that can kill many other flu strains.
	And this is from the Journal of Experimental Medicines.
	Well, guess who had swine flu?
	I'm invincible!
	I had the swine flu!
	Do you remember?
	Do you remember?
	I was in San Francisco in the hotel room, sick for about five days.
	The cough was bad.
	Dude, I have super immunity.
	I have super immunity.
	And check it out.
	There's a test because this is called T-cell immunity.
	And the FDA has authorized this new T-cell test.
	Now, they're doing that for long haulers, but it's, what is it called?
	Home T-detect.
	Now, they do have to draw blood.
	Not my favorite thing, but I'm going to do this.
	And I just may have superimmunity.
	T-cell superimmunity.
	And this leads right back to, these people, like myself, should not be vaccinated.
	People who have recovered, had coronavirus and recovered, should not be vaccinated at all.
	It's everywhere.
	Now you're giving medical advice.
	No, I'm saying it's in the literature.
	It's everywhere in the literature.
	But that doesn't matter.
	We just need to keep marketing that stuff.
	Just keep marketing it away.
	Okay, sad update when it comes to vaccines.
	First, once again, the dictionary has changed a definition.
	Okay.
	And I would say that you and I are not anti-vaxxers.
	We are, in fact, probably pro-safe vaccines.
	But according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, there is a change now.
	The definition of anti-vaxxer, spelled with double X in the dictionary, A, a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination.
	Now you're an anti-vaxxer.
	Not a my body, my choicer.
	Pro-choice.
	No.
	You're anti-vax.
	Huh.
	Mind-boggling to me.
	Mind-boggling.
	And I wonder how many diction...
	Well, of course, we know they can't copy it word for word, but they're going to have to do something.
	Uh, the other thing, I received a note from one of our producers, very concerning, and this now turns out to be a thing.
	About two months ago, I met a woman here in Austin, says our producer, February 15th.
	We dated briefly, casually, for about two months, about two months on the weekends.
	She informed me that she had taken the vaccine and took the second dose about three weeks ago.
	I haven't, but I had trouble maintaining an erection with her.
	She even said, hey, maybe that's something you should check.
	I'm 55, have never had an issue before, only around her.
	I also experienced strange sensation in my head and left ear that have since disappeared but was extremely annoying and kept me awake at night.
	It would be accurately described as tensor timpani issue.
	Since we're not seeing each other anymore, both issues have disappeared.
	Now, from the people who brought you Viagra...
	Comes the shot that now, let me see, this is, well, Sky News.
	It means you gotta take Viagra or else.
	That's right.
	COVID-19 can infect penis tissue and could lead to erectile dysfunction, study says.
	I mean, these guys are genius.
	They are so smart.
	The marketing is right in the product.
	It's fantastic.
	Oh my goodness.
	That's what I'm very, very proud of.
	Oh, also, have you seen the magnetic COVID arm yet?
	No.
	Oh, this is great.
	It's everywhere on YouTube or TikTok or Instagram.
	Oh, this is a scam for sure.
	No, I don't think so.
	People who just received, right on the shot where they have the Pfizer, you can put a little piece of metal or, you know, something that would be attracted by a magnet.
	And it's sticking to his coin.
	It's sticking to people's arms.
	I think it's true.
	What coin has got iron in it?
	Hey, I'm just telling you.
	I'm just asking.
	I'm not making it up here.
	I'm just telling you what I see.
	Okay, the...
	Well, while you're doing this, the Pfizer thing, let me do it.
	You know, since you complimented Pfizer, I do have a couple of clips I want to get out of the way.
	Because it's my only clips for COVID. I was thinking, when I first heard this, I said...
	This is, you know, they've gone after everybody they can.
	Johnson& Johnson, they kind of took them off the market.
	I did the pricing on these different vaccines and I could see why Johnson& Johnson is such a threat.
	The price for the, it's all paid for by the government, which is hundreds of billions of dollars so far.
	Almost, just an unbelievable amount of money they're throwing at these companies.
	The AstraZeneca, I'm sorry, the Johnson& Johnson vaccine is $10.
	For one shot.
	The Pfizer vaccine is $19.50 for one shot and you need two.
	So there's more money to be made with Pfizer.
	But the Moderna shot is $30 a pop.
	Oh, so $60 total.
	But that's pre-approved pricing.
	Once they get the full approval, it goes to the roof.
	They can do whatever they want.
	I don't know if that's going to go up or down.
	But you don't know.
	It could go down to nothing.
	But the AstraZeneca is the other one they really don't want to see on the market.
	I didn't get the price on that one.
	But they've come up with a great story.
	And I got a copy of it.
	It didn't go very far, but it was on, at least it was on the McDojo podcast.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And this is the exploding leg syndrome.
	Hey guys, Rob here with McDojo Life.
	Yeah, play here.
	It is COVID exploding leg part one.
	We're going to be discussing an ex-Taekwondo world champion whose leg exploded after an infection.
	Let's check out the story.
	Whoa!
	Dave Myers developed an infection that got progressively worse until his leg exploded and doctors at Cambridge Addenbrooke's Hospital were forced to chop below the knee.
	Dave Myers, age 58, who was crowned Taekwondo champion at the World Martial Arts Championships in 1984, flew home in April of 2020 after work dried up in the pandemic.
	He set up home in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which I'm pretty sure I butchered, but I tried my best, and lived an ordinary life until March 5th when he developed flu-like symptoms and a sky-high temperature.
	Mears said this came hours after his AstraZeneca vaccine shot before getting worse over the month.
	He fears it could be linked.
	However, doctors insist the cause is not known.
	A team from Peterborough City Hospital took one look at his limb and rushed him to the hospital for a two-day stint before being transferred to Cambridge's Addenbrooke Hospital.
	It was there that Dave's plight came to a gruesome head as his leg exploded, sending blood everywhere.
	The 50-year-old said, there was blood everywhere.
	It was terrifying.
	I had the operation and they amputated the leg and I lost five units of blood.
	It was pretty serious and I was feeling pretty poor after that.
	He added, I just find it strange that I became ill for weeks on the night of the vaccine, which has resulted in me losing my leg.
	I think it's got to be linked.
	It has put me off from having the second one.
	The doctors say it's hard to prove that it was linked to the COVID shot and that the infection could have been there for some time, but I don't think it's a coincidence.
	Doctors told Dave they'd have to operate immediately and initially said to him that he might lose a couple of toes.
	Gradually, the medical team informed him that his infection had gone so deep into the bone that they would have to chop below the knee.
	It's the allopath from hundreds of years ago.
	It's almost as though something like this obviously happened.
	It's not a bogus story.
	And the Pfizer marketing guy said, how come this isn't getting more publicity?
	Yeah.
	And so they still couldn't get much out there.
	This ends up on this podcast.
	No, it's not enough.
	It's just not enough.
	I mean, hello, Curry DeVore at Consulting Group.
	We're here for you.
	He said, at first the doctors...
	I don't know if we...
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Play part two.
	I might lose a couple of toes.
	Then it was half my foot.
	Then finally it was, I'm afraid you're going to lose your leg.
	The infection has gone deep into the bones, so they took no chances and amputated just below the knee.
	Recently, MHRA Chief Executive Dr.
	June Rain said, Our position remains that the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, against COVID-19, with its assorted risks of hospitalization and death, continues to outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people.
	The balance of benefits and risks is very favorable for older people, but is more finely balanced for younger people.
	And we advise that this evolving evidence should be taken into account when considering the use of the vaccine.
	Ha ha!
	Oh, You know, there's another thing that's kind of illogical, which is this older people, younger people thing.
	Especially when younger people don't even get COVID. And especially since the Norway group, where they gave it to a bunch of oldsters and all of them, over 80, died.
	This is really a bad situation so far.
	These health officials are the problem.
	And that brings me to a report from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who, according to the report, and I have it here, it's a nice PDF, infiltrated a COVID skeptics community, and they did a report on it, and you know what they found?
	They found that skeptics, COVID skeptics online, place a high premium on data analysis and empiricism.
	Yes.
	They believe in science.
	Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process and not an institution.
	This is worth your time to read.
	It's fantastic that people are so crazy about analyzing and visualizing data.
	And of course, they have no business doing it because, you know, just because you have Excel doesn't mean that you're a scientist.
	But maybe we should point the obvious out when it comes to these experimental use authorization vaccines.
	And that is the Nuremberg Code.
	I've not heard a lot of people talk about it, but it may be important just because of the way people are pushing this onto us.
	And the Nuremberg Code came out of the Nuremberg trials where Nazi war criminals were tried, along with many of the medical staff who had conducted horrible experiments, all kinds of nutty stuff.
	Didn't they hang people at the Nuremberg trial?
	Yeah, they hung them.
	They hung them.
	And they came out with the 10 points.
	Well, there's a lot more, but here's the 10 most important points of the Nuremberg Code for permissible medical experiments.
	And I just want to run down so we can just check that what's happening before our very eyes is not in violation of what we learned from the Nazis.
	Right.
	I think it would be useful.
	Number one, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
	Do you think that we violated that yet?
	Like, forcing people to get it?
	I think so.
	Yeah, I think a lot of companies are violating it.
	I think all the schools that are requiring the shot, that's a violation of the Nuremberg.
	Number two, the experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study and not random and unnecessary in nature.
	I'm not even sure what that means.
	I kind of know what it means.
	It means you can't do things to people to cure somebody if there's alternatives.
	You know, it's like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	So far, we're two for two.
	I think so.
	I think so.
	Number three, the experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance of the experiment.
	Well, I think we skipped the animal trials, did we not?
	Yeah, we skipped them because they would kill everything.
	In a blatant violation of the Third Nuremberg Code.
	Four, the experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
	Exploding leg.
	Hold on a second.
	Oh my goodness.
	You know, when I did this the first time, just silently to myself, I don't remember getting to number five and having them all, but you're right.
	Here we go, five.
	No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, except perhaps in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
	Well, this is an interesting one because you have this dilemma where Fauci got the shot, we think.
	We think.
	I'm sure the CEO of Pfizer got the shot, but we don't have any.
	He's never said he has, but I would hope he did.
	This one I would have a question about next to you.
	Okay, all right.
	We'll put it in the gray zone.
	Six, the degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
	Well, I think we've already kind of gotten past that one, haven't we?
	The percentage of people who...
	We're harmed from COVID, contracting COVID, not just having a case, but from contracting it, I believe to be much smaller than the percentage of people who've been harmed by a vaccine at this point.
	Well, this is the big question.
	I mean, I think we can assert it, but I don't think we can prove it.
	I think you go back to that clip you played of the doctor, producer, who said the...
	There may be more deaths from the shot than there from COVID. That's possible.
	Number seven, proper preparation should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.
	Yes, I think that's how it works with a drive-through vaccination, right?
	It's like, hey, if you die, at least you die in your car.
	So, that's done.
	The experiment should be conducted by only scientifically qualified persons.
	The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
	I don't think we can say much about that.
	During the course of the experiment, the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to be impossible.
	I'm there.
	I'm sorry.
	We have to stop this because it's mentally challenging for me.
	And ten, during the course of the experiment, the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage if he has probable cause to believe in the exercise of good faith, superior skill, and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.
	And I think that that is, and I can play, this will be, I think, one of the last clips I have.
	Here's the, here's Dr.
	McCullough again.
	Well, let me state that the FDA when it evaluates drug products or other biologic products There are two assessments of causality.
	One is by the local doctor and then by the sponsor or the manufacturer of the product.
	The FDA doesn't opine on causality.
	The FDA honestly doesn't differentiate on whether anybody thinks a death, for instance, was due to a product.
	But a typical new drug, for instance, at about five deaths, unexplained deaths, would get a black box warning.
	And your listeners would see that on TV. It may cause death.
	And then at about 50 deaths or new product, it's off the market.
	It's pulled off the market.
	And currently, according to the openvares.com, which is an abstraction of the VAERS database, we're at almost 4,000 deaths.
	And as you just heard, it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter if it's causality or not.
	Someone died around the time they got the shot.
	They typically stop the experiment.
	But okay, it's emergency use, so use.
	I guess it's okay.
	And here's the most pertinent thing the doctor said about how things are being communicated through the media.
	There is a trusted news initiative, which is very important for Americans to understand.
	This was announced December 10th.
	And this is a coalition of all the major media and government stakeholders in vaccination where they are not going to allow any negative information on vaccines to get into the popular media because they're concerned about vaccine hesitancy.
	That if Americans got any type of fair balance on safety events, they simply wouldn't come forward voluntarily and get the vaccine.
	So the Trusted News Initiative is really troublesome because we're now at record numbers of deaths.
	So, yeah, it's really troublesome.
	It's not the only thing that's going on, my friend.
	And now let's go to the...
	By the way, who is that again?
	Dr.
	Peter McCullough.
	That's a great clip.
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day for that one.
	Thank you.
	Clip of the day.
	So now we had one of these moments where we often say, that's why there's two of us.
	If I say something boneheaded and you catch it, or either way, it's like, yeah, okay, good.
	There's two of us, and that's why we keep each other in check.
	And we had a slight disagreement on the previous episode about the Colonial Pipeline, about the ransomware hack.
	And, you know, I think you tied it more to Bitcoin, also a little bit to Russia.
	That didn't really play out that well, but...
	I didn't tie it to Russia.
	No, no, you said you talked about how she was pretending to point toward Russia in her report.
	But you said it was about Bitcoin.
	Well, no, I said about making some money, yeah.
	Just so you understand, we were both right.
	So we were both spot on the money as to what this ransomware hack is all about.
	And it started very quickly on the, as I said, no, no, this is Texas, just like the grid, the idiot Texans can't keep it running, even though that's not true.
	We know that it was speculation and energy trading, Enron-like tactics that took everything offline.
	Yeah.
	Hey, this is just dumb shit.
	We need new infrastructure.
	We need a national grid.
	And it didn't take long.
	MSNBC's Nicole Wallace.
	A massive cyber attack that has shut down a major U.S. pipeline is exposing a hole in our infrastructure security as a country.
	The FBI says a group called Darkside, believed to be operated by a Russian cybercrime gang, is responsible for compromising the colonial pipeline, which stretches more than 5,500 miles and supplies roughly 45 percent of the East Coast fuel supply.
	Today, President Biden is using the attack as another reason to push for his proposed $2.3 trillion spending on infrastructure and jobs, As his focus turns this week to making a deal with an impossible GOP that's far more focused on opposition to President Biden, the Democratic agenda and any sensible anti-Trump rhetoric.
	We have efforts underway with the FBI and DOJ, Department of Justice, to disrupt and prosecute ransomware criminals.
	In addition to companies stepping up, we need to invest to safeguard our critical infrastructure.
	That's one of the many things my American Jobs Plan is designed to do.
	Yay!
	Of course, never let a good crisis go to waste, but it got better!
	They pulled Pete out!
	Secretary Buttigieg, is the fact that this one- I'm sorry, this is a- Yeah, this is a- This is where an attack could take down roughly 45% of the East Coast's fuel supply.
	We should be building additional pipelines going forward?
	Well, in this case, this was an issue about how a cyber attack impacted a pipeline that's there.
	I'm not sure it really speaks to the number or quantity of pipelines or their throughput.
	I do think it reminds us that we need to make sure that we have the most resilient and flexible infrastructure for the future, especially when it comes to something like energy.
	We've now had, you could argue, two major wake-up call experiences, one in Texas and now one here, each with a different cause but both reminding us about the work that we have to do as a country.
	Except he flubbed it because they were both in Texas.
	I don't know why he said one in Texas and the other one here.
	It happened in Texas.
	Gas prices.
	You know, the same thing that happened with Harvey.
	You shut that thing down.
	Gas prices go up.
	I do have two clips.
	I don't know how you made this segue to this topic, by the way.
	Very, very strange.
	No, because it's going straight into climate change.
	That's why.
	I promised your climate change.
	No, but you were talking about the deaths from the vaccine.
	No, and I said, we're done.
	And I said, we're done.
	I missed the done part.
	Did you miss the whole thing where sometimes we're both right?
	No, I heard that, but it was like, that was your segue, and I've been thinking, where are we going with this?
	Well, after an hour of COVID, let's do something else.
	Hold on a second.
	Oh, man, it was an hour of COVID. Um...
	Since we're on this topic, I do have a couple of clips I want to get out of the way, which is this hoarding.
	Ah, yes.
	This is pathetic.
	Yes.
	I have two clips.
	It's the same clip, part one and two.
	And unfortunately, I spelled one clip.
	I see it.
	I got you.
	Can I play it?
	Let's go.
	Meanwhile, here in America.
	Oh, wait.
	Who are these exasperated people?
	Okay, this is the good...
	I think this is CBS this morning.
	They do a lot of news stuff.
	And they do it in...
	It's almost like a modern way of doing the news where you have people...
	Do you remember the days of happy news that used to be called?
	It stopped being happy news when it became human interest.
	But it was a bunch of smiling guys yucking it up on the set.
	And at this local zoo, look at these cuties having a good time.
	Yes, it was along those lines.
	This was in the 70s, I think.
	In the late 70s.
	I know they referred to it around here as happy news.
	And everybody was yucking it up.
	They were having a great time doing the news.
	This is what they're doing on this CBS morning show with Gail and Anthony Mason and some other guy who's on this segment who I don't know who he is but he comes up a couple times in my clips but This is what you're getting.
	You were asked the question.
	That's the answer.
	There you go.
	Meanwhile, here in America, we do have problems, though.
	They are different in scale.
	Disruptions at gas stations across the southeast as a critical pipeline remains shut down due to a cyber attack.
	Huge lines formed across multiple states yesterday as panicked Americans started a run on gas.
	According to GasBuddy, Nearly 1,800 gas stations are out of fuel.
	Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia have declared states of emergency.
	While American Airlines says it is adding stops to some long-haul flights so planes can refuel.
	Our lead national correspondent, David Begnaud, is in Atlanta.
	David, good morning to you.
	The average price for a gallon of gas is right now at the highest it has been in nearly seven years.
	How are people reacting?
	Some people are panicking, Tony, and it's hurting people.
	By the way, that's a lie.
	It was higher during Hurricane Harvey when they shut down this very same pipeline.
	Well, I don't know.
	Do you know that?
	Because you never...
	What's the price?
	What's the price?
	He says it's the highest ever.
	What's the price?
	Good journalists would tell us what's the price.
	Because I'm telling you right now, in California, whatever it is there, it's still higher here.
	You know what it is?
	Best price.
	People are panicking, Tony, and it's hurting all of us.
	Take a look at this picture out of Alabama.
	This lady filling up gas cans in the back of her vehicle is exactly what we're all being asked not to do.
	Where we are in Atlanta this morning, 30% of stations are reportedly out of fuel.
	This is like when we ran out of toilet paper in Lysol during the pandemic because everybody made a run in the grocery store.
	We have enough gas in this country.
	It's just a matter of hauling it to where it needs to be.
	So please, experts are asking, don't panic.
	We got a call from family that said you better fuel up before you hit Tennessee.
	There is panic at the pump from Virginia all the way down to Florida.
	I was suspected just prices would go way up.
	I didn't suspect that there wouldn't be any the next day.
	Hundreds of gas stations across the region are starting to run out.
	We put a stop to the can sales today.
	People were coming in and trying to buy, you know, five and ten cans worth of gasoline.
	They're just hoarding it.
	The pipeline sends oil from Houston, Texas to Linden, New Jersey, near New York City.
	Hackers breached the company's computer system.
	So Colonial was forced to shut down the pipeline, cutting off a major source of gasoline, jet fuel and diesel to several states.
	You know, so when the population is in fear, these things are very easy to trigger.
	I don't think the media even has to do very much.
	But more importantly...
	What product can we talk about that we could, I don't know, perhaps invest in as an exit strategy that we could tell people is running out?
	It's from the Rubicon playbook.
	Which one can we choose?
	We need something that we can tell people it's running out.
	You know, something that is really stupid.
	Well, yeah.
	Toilet paper was probably the investment opportunity that was there.
	Coke Industries.
	Coke Industries.
	They got wood, they got toilet paper.
	Well, we have...
	Oh, by the way, do you know who was a co-owner of this pipeline?
	Coke Brothers.
	Coke Industries, their co-owner.
	Those bastards.
	And did you know that in March, a huge crack was discovered by two kids hanging out on their four-wheeling ATVs?
	This thing has leaked about a million gallons of gasoline.
	I wonder!
	Maybe it was time to bail out of this one.
	It's old.
	It was put in place, I think, in 1953 or 1963.
	Yeah, 1963.
	It's coated in tar, which is not great if it springs a leak.
	And it's Coke Industries.
	It's not like an old crotchety old pipeline that needs to go.
	I think there's a distinct possibility that that was some motivation.
	You know, you can't just abandon the pipeline.
	And then you have the government helping.
	Let the government help pay for the redo, the do-over for this pipeline.
	That is interesting.
	You want to play the second clip?
	Remind me, I want to get back to that.
	Yeah, let's play the second clip.
	It's just more of the same, but I do want to mention that the visuals on this were dynamite.
	They had some old woman With five-gallon gas, or five or ten, I don't know, they're huge gas canisters, and stacking them in the back of her Jeep Cherokee, one on top of the other.
	She must have had 50 gallons of gas.
	Bring a drum.
	Did you see the idiots putting gas in plastic bags?
	Oh!
	No!
	Yes!
	Yes!
	I have to say, unfortunately...
	There's going to be a lot of fires.
	Yes!
	All right, let's go.
	Here's what panic buying could do.
	Hurt consumers long term, warns GasBuddy Petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan.
	The first thinking is, oh boy, prices are going to skyrocket and I need to fill everything I can with gas.
	And so that's a self-fulfilling prophecy that actually makes the problem much more acute.
	This chaos left in the wake of Colonial Pipeline's ransomware attack has heightened concerns about America's cybersecurity.
	The energy grid and water supply have almost no federally mandated cybersecurity protections.
	And that vulnerability is costing millions of dollars.
	Listen to what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday.
	More than 350 million dollars in losses are attributable to ransomware attacks this year.
	That's a more than 300 percent increase over last year's victimization of companies.
	You know Colonial Pipeline isn't the only ransomware attack happening right now.
	Did you know it's also happening at the Washington D.C. Police Department?
	Hackers have reportedly stolen All kinds of information, including personnel files of police officers, and they're constantly releasing them until their demands are met.
	Bottom line, Anthony, some of the top officials in this country say we could have other infrastructure very right now of simultaneous attacks.
	Yeah, this is exposing how vulnerable we are, David.
	Thank you.
	Yes, and I guarantee you, with 99% accuracy, you will hear within the next few days of another Texas-based energy company with a ransomware attack.
	And maybe even a third.
	I think this is planned.
	Now, the people who are doing this are very expert and skilled at getting in.
	Can I put that in the book?
	You said 100% or 99%?
	99% certain you will hear of another.
	And please, write so you can read it.
	Because every single time I'm right in the book, you're like, oh, I can't read my handwriting.
	It's just starting to notice that.
	What do you mean, sir?
	Where's the last time I even brought this up?
	I know where you got that from because you listened to the Hollywood show and I bitched about the fact that I can't read my handwriting.
	You have mentioned it on the show, too.
	Anyway, yes, 99% certain you will hear of another energy company that has a ransomware attack.
	These are sophisticated attacks.
	The software being used itself.
	And please, are we kidding here that these attackers sent an apology note?
	Oh, sorry, we won't do it that way in the future.
	We're real sorry.
	That's kind of the giveaway that gives you some credibility.
	But it goes a little bit further.
	Because now, OFAC, which is the office of the...
	What is it?
	I'll come up with it in a second.
	Now they're putting regulations in place.
	It's convenient because Bitcoin is annoying anyway, so why don't we see if we can do a twofer, which is beautiful when you think about it.
	You've got the pipeline ransomware, so we need to get rid of these pipelines, this old stuff.
	We need windmills and DC infrastructure from coast to coast.
	Texas shouldn't be running anything.
	They're nincompoops.
	They're boobs.
	They can't do it.
	And Bitcoin is the problem because Bitcoin is what it's all about.
	And now they're coming up with federal regulations.
	How are they going to regulate Bitcoin in regards to ransomware?
	What they're going to do is they're going to make it a federal offense for you to pay off ransomware with Bitcoin.
	So it's fantastic.
	And timed right along with that, Elon Musk comes out and says, yeah, we're suspending taking Bitcoin for our cars because, you know, there's too much energy that goes into creating it.
	And they've deplatformed him from Bitcoin.
	They've done the ultimate.
	Elon, we're going to start counting your Bitcoin holdings and how much people spent in Bitcoin to buy your car.
	We're going to start adding that to your emissions, friend.
	You're not going to be completely emission-free.
	Boom!
	The guy is done.
	He's done.
	You're off the deep end here.
	No!
	What do you mean?
	He cannot promote Bitcoin anymore.
	He can.
	He's been sucked in.
	Absolutely.
	Now, let's listen to our Secretary of Energy.
	Her name is Graham, as she talks about this.
	Obviously, we have the acute issues with the colonial pipeline ransomware attack, but looking more holistically in a macro view, how does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction, since this is going to have an impact on people at DOE? Yeah, I mean, we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the President's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
	And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
	But it's just, it's another, I don't want to, this company is acting in a responsible way.
	Oh, yeah.
	They took their pipeline down so that the ransomware would not spread.
	And so up to this point, they're carefully reviewing so that they're doing this in a responsible way.
	The broader issue is a very important issue.
	It's an issue for the president's priority in the American Jobs Plan, the issue of investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it.
	So there's a lot...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	When you have a transmission grid, there's no cyber issues.
	Because it only happens to pipelines.
	The issue of investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it.
	Really?
	John, you're a technology journalist and columnist and book writer?
	Also known as Author, do you think that these cyber issues go away if we replace pipelines with transmission grids?
	It'd be worse.
	Investing in a transmission grid, for example, so that you don't have the cyber issues associated with it.
	So there's a lot of broader questions in this.
	And we hope that we'll be able to see that investment in infrastructure that will facilitate clean and renewable energy.
	Uh-huh.
	Oh, that's beautiful.
	Now, something went really strange, though, because I thought, as you would probably, we both probably agree, that the beneficiary of removing pipelines, such as the KXL pipeline, goes to Burlington Northern and Warren Buffett, another Bitcoin hater, I might add, just to tie it all together.
	So, the question arose whether trains or something else should be used, and I didn't understand her answer.
	Can you tell us what is the feasibility of using rail cars to transport fuel into the affected areas?
	I know that's being looked at.
	Yeah, um...
	The DOT is looking at that, and so we'll have to wait until their analysis is done.
	These are not easy solutions, because there may or may not be the right rail cars, there may or may not be the deep water ports available for the Jones Act to be able to respond.
	So this particular area of the country, this is why...
	It was baffling to me.
	Here, I'll start the answer over.
	It's baffling.
	There may or may not be the right rail cars.
	There may or may not be the deep water ports available for the Jones Act to be able to respond.
	So this particular area of the country, this is why we have doubled down on ensuring that there's an ability to truck oil in, gas in.
	But the pipe is the best way to go, and so that's why...
	Now, why does she laugh?
	Why does she do it?
	The pipe is the best way to go.
	Do you think they're looking at that replacement, maybe?
	Like, we already made the deal.
	It's going to be a new pipe.
	But the pipe is the best way to go.
	And so that's why, hopefully, this company, Colonial, will, in fact, be able to restore operations by the end of the week, as they have said.
	I read the preliminary report which was sent to me before publication.
	It did hit IT assets, never made it into the controllers, anything like that.
	The reason why it shut down, because they had everything isolated pretty quickly.
	I've learned a lot about this.
	The reason, because we have dude named Ben and Dudette's name Bernadette everywhere listening and producing this program.
	The minute you have this happen, the insurance company comes in and they take over.
	And they bring in whoever their auditor is, whoever their SWAT team.
	So it's out of Colonial's hands.
	This has been an insurance-managed issue from the get-go.
	And there's more coming.
	There is some kind of attack.
	It's great to have higher gas prices.
	It just fits right in line with the climate crisis.
	It all sucks.
	And then we have Whitmer, Governor Whitmer, threatening to turn off the pipeline to Scandinavia.
	It makes sense to stop its use until we can bury it.
	Basically in a more protected way under the Straits of Mackinac, as opposed to along the surface, the bottom.
	That's the head of U of M's Water Center, Jennifer Reed, speaking about controversial Line 5, the center of a growing dispute between the Whitmer administration and the Canadian energy company, Enbridge.
	Yesterday, Whitmer vowed to go after the company's profits from oil carried through that section of its pipeline, which travels through northern Wisconsin and Michigan to refineries in Ontario, if the company defies her order of shutting Line 5 down by today.
	Last November, she revoked an easement which allows the pipes to occupy the lake bottom.
	She's backed by environmentalists and native tribes who agree aging infrastructure makes Line 5 a threat to the Great Lakes.
	Reed says a top concern is an oil spill threatening northern Michigan.
	In a statement to Action News, the company says it will not stop operating unless ordered by a court or regulator.
	Line 5 is operating safely, reliably, and is in compliance with the law.
	The state of Michigan has never presented any concrete evidence to suggest otherwise.
	The U.S. agency in charge of pipeline safety, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, has confirmed on multiple occasions that the pipelines are fit for service, a company spokesman says.
	The company goes on to say that this issue is currently being litigated in federal court, where both parties have been ordered to work with a neutral mediator.
	So she just said, you know, screw it, I'm going to take away your money.
	Just take away your money if you don't shut it down.
	Something is up with this.
	Something is very up with, especially involving her.
	Because she's dumb.
	I got a lot of notes from Michiganders.
	And every time I get one of these notes, it's like, why did you elect this crazy woman?
	Well, they didn't.
	It's Dominion voting machines.
	It's possible she's corrupt and she got in through some corrupt voting mechanism.
	That's possible.
	Nobody wants to go into that because then you go into Trump.
	Everything's fine.
	Everything's on the up and up.
	Don't worry about it.
	Now, just to wrap it up from my end, we've always followed the Norman Lear Foundation, the Hollywood group that writes scripts and...
	It's out of USC, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's a...
	I don't know if it's...
	It's not the same people.
	It's kind of a new group who have entered the fray, and there was an interesting piece on BBC Radio 4 with Cheryl Sleen, who is a...
	I think she's a playwright and a script writer for movies and television.
	She is a member of the NRDF, which is the Natural Resource Defense Foundation.
	And this is a drinking club for rich kids.
	I'll just give you a quick little rundown of their board of advisors.
	Frederick A.O. Schwartz Jr., just an example, a toy heir.
	But also we have in here, oh gee, Leonardo DiCaprio.
	We have Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
	You get the picture, right?
	Robert Redford.
	The usual suspects.
	The usual suspects.
	But they are not covering it up.
	They're not hiding it.
	They're going all the way.
	And they are believers.
	Welcome back to NewsHour.
	Telling the right story about climate change, while not overly optimistic or ruthlessly apocalyptic, is essential in the fight against the climate crisis.
	But is it something that Hollywood and the American film industry can do?
	Cheryl Sleen is a playwright and filmmaker working on a campaign called Rewrite the Future, which aims to help producers and writers change the way they portray global warming.
	I mean, did Norman Lear die?
	Is he dead yet, or is he still around?
	He's still around.
	Because, man, they're honing in on his turf here.
	That's exactly what he does.
	And here she's going to explain.
	I think that what we're seeing when we speak to people in the industry who are all pretty much without exception concerned about climate change personally.
	All pretty much without exception kind of definitely concerned personally.
	I think.
	climate because it's viewed as such a big global impersonal issue.
	It's viewed as, at least in America, somewhat divisive politically.
	So they don't want to alienate audiences.
	The writers and the producers we speak to, they kind of don't know how to go about it.
	And this is why you see a whole lot of narratives that are about apocalyptic futures, dystopic futures, where there's just no hope we're doomed.
	This is sort of like one of the main cultural narratives we're trying to change.
	We're certainly not doomed.
	And so if we can tell more stories that have characters where, yes, they are scared about climate, but then they step up to find out what they can do about it.
	And then this becomes a model for viewers.
	Oh, how entertaining!
	Or how they might do that.
	Yeah, I suppose you could also begin to have sort of cinematic tropes where instead of the baddies stroking Siamese cats and smoking cigarettes, they could be, you know, climb into their gas-guzzling SUVs or pickup trucks.
	Yes, or the oil executives who are hindering progress, yes.
	No, that's the level.
	Oh, yes, those guys who are hindering progress.
	Or having Leo DiCaprio get in his private jet and fly to the next meeting.
	Yes.
	And her answer is phenomenal.
	Is it really a danger in this?
	You're indoctrinating people.
	You're doing it subversively.
	Is there danger?
	Is there a slight danger in this, though, that, you know, clearly you are aiming to fight the good fight, but trying to sort of write scripts or shape scripts or shape studio ideas in a sense by committee, that it could be slightly deadening in the wrong hands?
	Oh, it's not about misinformation.
	It could be deadening.
	Like you said, boring.
	Absolutely.
	We are definitely not encouraging writing by committee, although that is what happens in writers' rooms, to be honest.
	But our aim is to give...
	You know what?
	I think that's her tell.
	I think she'd laugh because that's where they are.
	They put someone in the writers' room.
	That's what she's saying.
	Well, it is by committee, and we sit in the writers' room with everybody, and it's by committee.
	Absolutely.
	We are definitely not encouraging writing by committee, although that is what happens in writers' rooms, to be honest.
	Our aim is to give writers, creatives, creative executives, the information they need to then take that and use it in their creative process as they normally would.
	There's really sort of magical, psychological things that happen to us when we're transported by a story, which makes stories quite influential, quite powerful as a social change mechanism, just on its own.
	But the key is that it's got to be entertaining.
	So storytellers have to keep doing what they do.
	And then what we try to do is offer them this information and these details for their story that could, we hope, have this collateral effect of raising awareness in the viewer, changing the unhelpful cultural narratives about climate, like it's already too late or there's nothing I can do about it.
	Oh, man!
	This is going to be so interesting!
	You know, this is already...
	So, Andrew, this is already underway, and you can see it.
	I don't clip this stuff anymore, but you can see it when you watch any show.
	And a good example would be, like, to say you're watching the FBI, and right in the middle of the storyline, somebody will say...
	Well, I don't know.
	Why don't you throw that there?
	You know it should go into the recycling bin.
	Do you realize that 99% of all plastics end up in the ocean and kill sea turtles, right?
	There'd just be that moment in the show where somebody blows out a bunch of bogus information.
	It's kind of, oh my god, I didn't know that.
	Yeah.
	And then the guy will take the cup out of the garbage and put it in the recycling garbage, which every company has.
	And then they do a little approving nod to each other.
	Good work.
	Good work, detective.
	Yeah, and that's it.
	There you go.
	There's your big influence.
	And there's Leo DiCaprio flying on his private jet to some other place to help them get this into the script.
	It's so sick.
	It's so sick.
	I'm going to start clipping those moments again.
	Yeah, you've got to do that.
	I mean, we do need some of that.
	Because they're all over the place.
	It's just this moment where it's like, what has this got to do with anything?
	Oh, my goodness.
	Unless you have something on the climate.
	Oh, let's see.
	I do have something.
	Actually, I have something that was still in the COVID thing I wanted to go back to.
	Oh, I'm so sorry.
	But it's got nothing to do with anything.
	It's just more of a comedy sketch.
	Oh.
	And I wish I wrote down the name of this podcast.
	But there's these podcasts.
	A lot of podcasters.
	This is like a lot of podcasts.
	You know, the podcast, which is like a version of the morning zoo, a couple of guys, usually three guys.
	No, usually in the morning zoo, it's two guys and a woman.
	But in a podcast, it's three guys.
	Well, hold on a second.
	A morning zoo is a host, a sidekick, a female newsreader who sits in and does entertainment news, a black guy who does sports, and then you always have some wacky character who's on his way to the studio and always calls in with an excuse.
	That's the morning zoo for it.
	No, I disagree.
	No.
	No?
	Okay.
	My model is this, and the model is best.
	There's a couple of stations in Florida.
	I love going to Florida because the morning zoo is still prominent there.
	It's not a Bay Area.
	I don't even know if they have one.
	W-A-P-E, 95, the ape!
	It's the host, you're right.
	By the way, we can do a copy of this, and I think we should someday.
	There's the host, you're right, and the sidekick, and the woman who is not the newsreader necessarily.
	I mean, she's the newsreader, but she's also involved in the show, and she makes commentary during the show.
	No, she goes, oh, oh, John!
	That's her job.
	Yes, exactly.
	But she doesn't do show business news.
	The show business news is always a specialist, a gay guy.
	Gay guy.
	You are correct, sir.
	Yes.
	You are correct.
	Gay gal comes on and he tells show businesses, all four of them chuckle about it, and you can't tell what's going on because it's too noisy.
	And then there is a black sportscaster who comes in.
	He's also a specialist, and he tells us what's going on.
	He's called Coach.
	That would be ideal.
	Hey, Coach, give us the sports news.
	He's also the community affairs director, for some reason.
	There's always one of the guys, and they've got a lot of sound effects, and you've got the...
	Whoa, you got butt slammed!
	Oh, yeah!
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Yeah.
	So the podcasters don't have this model yet, but they come close.
	And here's a couple of podcasters, and there's a third guy.
	Usually with the podcasters, there's two guys, the two of us, only there's a third guy who rarely comes in, but he comes in once in a while, and he always comes in reluctantly.
	Ah, okay.
	But this is the podcasters bragging about being...
	Maxinated.
	Maxinated.
	Today is a very big day for me because I am, as of, what, 6 o'clock this evening, I am officially vaccinated because two weeks ago at about 6, 630 was when I got my second shot of Moderna.
	And so I am ready to party, except not really.
	I haven't changed anything and don't really plan on changing much, but nevertheless, at least I can walk around without fear of catching something that will make me dead.
	So I'm very excited about that.
	Okay.
	Congratulations.
	It'll be interesting to see how we all slowly warm back up to things.
	I think some people never stop doing anything.
	Some people are going to jump right into it the second they're allowed to.
	I think a lot of people are going to have a much slower ramp back to, like, you know, quote, normal, or at least, like, you know, quote, unrestricted behavior.
	Like, it's really, like, so today, literally just today, I was waiting outside my school to pick up my kid, and I heard from one of the residents that the town has officially dropped the outdoor mask mandate.
	And, I mean, first of all, I, you know, don't know if I should verify that.
	I probably should.
	But also, like, I thought, okay, well, should I take my mask off?
	Like, I, in theory, I'd want to, but, like, how many people around town?
	No.
	All right.
	You went out for an hour.
	Here's what's interesting.
	I know who this is.
	This is the Accidental Tech Podcast, and the last voice you heard there about a schoolist kid is Marco.
	And this is what's so beautiful about Podcasting 2.0.
	He's a developer and he has Overcast and he is now implementing Podcasting 2.0 features, even though we have very different opinions on a lot of things.
	Mask wearing, I bet you, is one of them.
	That would be one.
	We don't discuss it.
	There's nothing to discuss.
	I know his views and I don't care.
	And he knows my views and he doesn't care.
	We want to save podcasting.
	Yes, that is what this was.
	This was an accidental tech podcast.
	Mm-hmm.
	So that's kind of beautiful.
	I didn't hear any tech stuff in there, but okay.
	I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
	We must use this opportunity to achieve a national recovery so that jabs, jabs, jabs becomes jobs, jobs, jobs.
	That is our plan.
	We all must be jabbed.
	Any more on the COVIDs or on anything else you had there?
	Well, this is kind of offbeat COVID-related.
	This is about Zoom calls and the big scandal about the nipple-sucking teacher.
	I don't know anything about this.
	What?
	Are you watching Tim Pool again?
	I don't know anything about this.
	No, I don't.
	You know, I've never watched Tim Pool.
	I never watched him before.
	I don't watch him now.
	I watched Max, Kaiser, and Stacey on Tim Pool.
	Oh, my God.
	What a train wreck.
	Because, you know, when Max gets bored...
	No, it was unclippable.
	When Max gets bored, that's when he goes nuts.
	You know, he's clearly Asperger's on the spectrum or something.
	And I think Tim was just unprepared, was just asking him dumb, dumb viewer questions.
	What do you think Bitcoin's going to go to, Max?
	Yeah, pfft.
	And it just went off the...
	They turned down his mic at a certain point.
	He was yelling so much.
	And they ended the show half an hour early.
	Not good.
	So, okay, anyway, back to nipple-sucking, because this is...
	Oh, I should probably...
	Oh, where's the real news?
	No, but that wasn't it.
	That was not it.
	All right.
	We play?
	Okay, here we go.
	You know, it just seems that the country went bananas during the pandemic.
	Jeffrey Toobin.
	You remember Jeff.
	You know, just slipping off to the side to, you know, a little pleasure for himself.
	Oh, the camera's on?
	Oh, hey everybody.
	My bad.
	That's a morning zoo guy right there.
	No, he's a radio guy.
	Unfortunately, I wrote his name down and put his side.
	Someone knows who he is.
	But he's a radio guy, you're right.
	But he's a single hand.
	He doesn't do zoo.
	He's a single hander.
	Yeah.
	You'll see what that means when you keep playing.
	Thanks, Jeff.
	Thank you for that.
	Well, here's the headline.
	Here's the headline from Fox.
	New York City teacher caught sucking topless man's nipple during Zoom class.
	I'm sorry.
	What?
	Students at the prestigious Columbia Secondary School for Mass Science and Engineering got a bit of a lesson in something else.
	They watched a live class.
	Amanda Fletcher, 37, the teacher in the class, appeared to...
	Suck the nipple of an unidentified topless male while gyrating and rocking back and forth, according to the Special Commissioner of Investigations for City Schools.
	You have a Special Commissioner of Investigations for City Schools?
	I don't know what's more shocking, that or the nipplectomy.
	Before that, students watched Fletcher eating spaghetti with the shirtless man behind her.
	That, according to the SCI, that, of course, the Special Commissioner of Investigations ruled out for this case.
	After taking her mouth off the man's chest, Fletcher resumed teaching and discussing a worksheet.
	It's like, I'm sorry, are you high?
	Did you start methamphetamines this morning?
	What's going on?
	What is going through that small brain case of yours?
	Because she knows she's on the camera.
	She goes back to teaching class.
	You see, that guy makes more money than us.
	Oh, he probably does, and Darren O'Neal could be him.
	He could.
	Oh, man, we definitely need to do a zoo version of the show at some point.
	I know we could do this.
	I think it's doable.
	I mean, what you need to do is you need to...
	Ha, ha, ha!
	Good morning, everybody!
	Ha, ha, ha!
	Yeah, Dame Jennifer.
	What's going on in show?
	Did you see that?
	Yeah, Dame Jennifer would be the one to do the...
	That's right, Dame Jennifer.
	Come on over here.
	And then we need...
	Then we need one of, we need, and we can't do it ourselves because we actually need an actual gay guy.
	Yeah, well we got, oh we can get the official tranny of the morning show!
	So there's always that.
	Now, I do have these clips, which I don't know what they are.
	I think we should take a break and then...
	Well, this is a cool...
	Oh, yeah.
	It's getting late.
	It's getting late.
	Yeah, let's take a break.
	Are you in a rush?
	And then I'll get to the CNN clips.
	You going somewhere?
	You got a hot date tonight?
	Yeah, I'm in a rush.
	I gotta get out of here.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in colonial crack, ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	And in the morning to everybody in the troll room, let me count you all for a second.
	Hands up, 1678 is what we got on the counter.
	We have seen it better, but is it Thursdays usually lower than Sundays?
	I can't remember anymore.
	It's well over 1,500 people who are listening live right now and rocking along.
	What?
	You said Sunday?
	I said Thursday.
	Sundays are higher.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what I said.
	I don't even know what day it is.
	No, Thursday's always the low.
	Okay, Thursday's the low.
	Good.
	1608.
	There you go.
	So it's okay.
	It's in line.
	We've seen a couple hundred more.
	But they're there at NoAgendaStream.com where you can log in, listen live.
	We have a stream going 24-7.
	There's all kinds of live entertainment programming for you.
	And when there's not something live, we roll out some of the best podcasts of Gitmo Nation, which you can still troll on and still hang out with.
	Everybody, but people just always like to be there, lurk, do stuff, make sure everyone's okay.
	And they are all probably on NoAgendaSocial.com, our federated social network, which gives you the highest signal to noise anywhere.
	It's free to join, still open to join, and still doing well, I must say.
	And I got a note from...
	Actually, I saw one user was reporting all of the questionable porn that comes through the federated timeline.
	Now, just so you know, you can report all you want.
	I don't have time to go in and block every porn account.
	He's not going to do it.
	He's not going to do it.
	Thank you.
	He's not going to do it.
	No, I'm not going to do it.
	So why bother sending him anything?
	Well, I'm going to...
	So I said, you know, don't do that.
	I can't...
	I'm not going to do it anyway.
	I'm not going to block it all.
	He said, no.
	He wanted to invite some family members in so they could see how great the social network was, but he was afraid if they clicked on the federated tab, they would see porn.
	And to which my answer is...
	Set up your own Mastodon server.
	And you can federate with us.
	You can block anything you want.
	You can do all of that stuff.
	It's a great way to do it.
	And decentralize.
	You don't want us to be the center of your universe.
	What?
	Not my advice.
	What's your advice?
	Stay off all social media.
	Don't invite anybody.
	You're encouraging it.
	And thank you to Cesium137 who brought us the artwork for episode 1345.
	We titled that Peak Awoke.
	And neither of us could believe we hadn't used that as a title before, but turns out we didn't.
	And Cesium, there were a multitude of Mother's Day pieces of art.
	Is this the right one?
	Yeah, I guess it was.
	Yes, Peak Woke.
	And this is the one we chose.
	It was the most artistic.
	There were other things that we, of course, people should know when it comes to Christmas or other holidays.
	We're suckers.
	You know, Father's Day.
	Well, not Father's Day.
	Mother's Day, for sure.
	We want to have something with Mom up there.
	So people who guessed Mom, I think we're in the right realm.
	Let's see.
	We had Parker Pauly.
	Did a number of nice ones.
	Darren O'Neill.
	Kenny Ben, I liked his, although it wasn't quite, the execution wasn't really, the text wasn't large enough and it was a heart with the sash around it said, for the person who birthed me, which of course is woke speak for mom.
	I like that.
	What else did we look at?
	Well, we liked it.
	Mike Riley had a nice piece with a missile.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yes, the rocket.
	Yeah, that was a good piece.
	The rocket.
	That was quite creative.
	I was a fan of that.
	I was also a fan of one that had nothing to do with Mother's Day, and I used it in the newsletter, which is Cesium-137 in Pfizer we trust.
	Yes, yes.
	The Mike Riley rocket I used on the Bat-Signal, the pre-show art.
	Yeah, other Mother's Day stuff.
	World's Best Mom Mom.
	Yeah, the one insisted on the tattoo that was the season when we picked because it was, I don't know, it had a nice look to it and it did turn out to be hot when posted on the Twitter.
	Oh, it looked beautiful.
	It looked so beautiful.
	And then we also have one of our new professionals that came in.
	Mm-hmm.
	Which is Roger Roundy.
	And it was posted in our...
	Roundy couldn't...
	Roger Roundy is a famous artist that does high-end stuff.
	Oh, I didn't know about this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big shot.
	What piece was his?
	He did the one with the rule follower with our pictures and the COVID and this frog.
	Let me find that one.
	That one.
	And then Common Strip Blogger put it in for him because he couldn't seem to get an account on the site or something.
	He has bitched and moaned on No Agenda Social about this.
	Oh.
	I can't get on.
	I can't post.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And he's moaning and groaning and he decides to do something that's just every rule violation.
	I'm going to use this art, by the way, for the list of rule violations that I am going to put up as a webpage.
	Actually, I think it's one of the other artists is putting it together.
	But this art would be good for that.
	But we weren't going to use it, but he thought it was funny to...
	Figuring that if you just do it slick enough...
	That he would get chosen.
	He would get chosen.
	The coronavirus depiction, our heads, total violation.
	A version of Peppy.
	That's funny, I like that.
	That's good.
	So he, anyway, I'm surprised.
	I was shocked that he listens to the show.
	But maybe I shouldn't be.
	We have a lot of people that never told us.
	There's a lot of famous people that listen to the show and they refuse to be recognized or acknowledged.
	They just don't want to have anything to do with us.
	Thank you.
	God forbid I let anyone know I might listen to those jamokes.
	It'll be de-platformed in a heartbeat.
	Yes, of course.
	Anyway, so that was kind of an interesting aside.
	Well, thank you very much, CZ and 137, for posting and everyone who uploaded and continues to upload, when possible.
	I mean, sometimes this thing does break.
	Like everything else, it's value for value on the show, so we don't maintain any of our...
	Unlike Biden, we don't maintain or pay for any of our infrastructure.
	It all just appears, and sometimes it disappears.
	Um...
	That's noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And I wanted to tell you about Breeze, the B-R-E-E-Z, the Breeze podcast app, which is podcasting 2.0 compliant.
	And you can see these chapter images fly.
	Also, it works on auto Android now, so you can see a change in your car.
	And what is cool about Breeze is those guys are actually a lightning crypto wallet.
	And they put a podcast app into it so you can stream value for value lightning payments in real time.
	And you can find that.
	And all of the podcast apps and services and hosts that are going to save podcasting, save it, keep it going, preserve it, unlike what Apple and Spotify and Amazon and Google want to do, is control it.
	And you can find that at newpodcastapps.com.
	And thank you to everyone who participates in our value for value model here.
	Time, talent, treasure.
	We have executive producers and associate executive producers.
	These are the people who do want to be recognized for their production of the show.
	And we like to thank them as quickly as possible before even hitting the halfway mark.
	And we kick it off today with...
	Who do we have?
	We kick it off today with a thing that's not on there.
	Oh.
	So, I don't know if Eric...
	Eric's on the road, so it's possible that he didn't get the list of the checks, the big checks.
	Oh, the big checks.
	No, I don't think he got the big checks.
	So, we have two that need to be...
	And I'm not going to put this off to the next show because this donation is a show club member.
	Oh.
	$1,346.33.
	Okay.
	And you need to take your pen out because there's a knighting involved.
	Oh my goodness.
	Which I'm sure is not on there either.
	No, probably not.
	But okay, it's not a problem then.
	This is from Peter Eisch.
	Peter Eisch in Hudson, Wisconsin.
	No jingles, no karma, so that makes it easier on you.
	Is it E-I-S-C-H? E-I-S-C-H. Yes, Peter Eisch.
	Okay.
	This is for 1346.33.
	So this is a show club member.
	We love these new...
	A lot of people are coming up with the...
	We never thought after a show of 1,000 we're going to get that many show club members.
	Ever again.
	Ever again, no.
	And now we're getting them every once in a while.
	We're getting them every couple weeks.
	That's fantastic.
	So it's a nice donation.
	In the morning, in this donation, is in honor of our 15th anniversary on May 13th.
	Please bequeath...
	This is in honor of ours.
	This doesn't say anything else.
	Please bequeath unto her Dame Jody of the Ten Key from her husband, Peter.
	So it'll be Jody, J-O-D-Y... Yeah.
	...to Dame Jody of...
	The Ten Key.
	The Ten Key.
	Okay.
	Thank you for the first 15 years.
	She would enjoy a selection of chocolates at the round table.
	Ooh.
	Alright.
	I don't think we've ever had that requested.
	I don't think so either.
	I don't remember chocolates.
	You think that would be logical?
	Chocolates.
	Oh, I wish I... I'll see if we still have some of the ones that the Fuguzotto sent us for our anniversary.
	Those were good.
	Handmade.
	Yes.
	Handmade with camel dung.
	And that's 1346.
	No jingles, no karma.
	All right.
	Well, thank you very much for your courage and congratulations.
	15 years.
	And they never had a fight!
	I'm working on my morning zoo material.
	Yeah, well, I think it should be scripted.
	Tyler Boyd comes up from Cary, North Carolina with 3.56 and he writes, if I can find my keyboard, I can tell you what he writes.
	There it is.
	He writes, in the morning, today is the Eid Festival in which Muslims worldwide will mark the end of Ramadan.
	The month of the Quran.
	In honor of this grand occasion, I'd like to encourage Adam, John, and all my fellow producers to read the Quran and ponder, is it possible for such a book encompassing theology, law, history, and spirituality to be created by a human being who was illiterate?
	Or must it be divine revelation?
	A little-known fact about our Quran is that it is in Arabic.
	I don't think that's a little-known fact.
	That is a well-known fact.
	Well, the next part of the line, I think, is the little-known fact.
	It's not little-known to me.
	The entire book rhymes.
	That I didn't know.
	Yeah, that's the way you're supposed to learn it.
	If you're a devoted Muslim, you should learn Arabic for this reason.
	So basically, it's early hip-hop?
	Could be.
	Thanks so much for all that you do.
	Stay sane.
	No jingles, no karma.
	All right.
	Well, thank you.
	I have, of course, read some Quran.
	Certainly not all of it.
	But your question, I don't need to read it to answer your question.
	I think that would go for many of these religious books.
	But we appreciate it.
	And happy Eid.
	Now, there's another donation that didn't get put in, because I think Eric didn't get the checks, but maybe he did this improperly, because I tried to, I couldn't explain it enough to Jay.
	This is Alexander of Middle Cascadia, sent in $338.06.
	Is it Sir Alexander?
	Is it on there?
	No, no, I'm asking you, because I'm writing it in.
	I believe so.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	No, he's not a sir.
	Don't write that in.
	Okay, done.
	Removed.
	Because I'll read his note.
	Ex-Rogan listener.
	Rogan donation.
	Hold on.
	Rogan donation.
	He says ex-Rogan listener.
	Miss him.
	Screw data mining Spotify.
	Wow.
	That's a hard ask.
	That's harsh.
	John, in your best giddy girl voice, we just love numerology.
	And he needs a de-douching.
	Got it?
	You've been de-douched.
	Do I have a giddy schoolgirl voice I can use?
	Have you heard?
	Yeah!
	That?
	Is that it?
	We just love numerology!
	No, try more like Sophia with an F. I think that'd make them closer.
	Do what?
	Try more like a Sophia with an F type voice.
	I can't do her voice.
	A millennial.
	Oh, man, I'd have to think about this.
	I can't do it.
	Let's put it that way.
	But let me get to the point of this guy.
	He sent in 10 donations that add up to 33806.
	Oh, nice.
	And he says, anyways, this should be easy, no pressure.
	Your mission, accepted or not, is to decipher the numerology.
	Every check was a post office money order with a different number on it.
	Okay.
	Do you have the numbers?
	No, I don't have them.
	They had to give them to Jay to scan them in.
	If you successfully decipher it without help from the troll room, Adam, my piping hot wife says I'll have to become a knight by year's end.
	Good luck.
	Stay safe.
	No one sent me the scan.
	Dealer's choice.
	Health karma for get- well, nation, so he wants some health karma at the end.
	But, uh, we have the- I can take these checks, there's a pile of them, and read them off, but- How long are the numbers?
	There's just four numbers each.
	And there's ten of them?
	Well, just read them.
	I don't have them.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	See, he doesn't understand the process that we have to go through here.
	Eric's in the truck.
	Jay's got the scanner.
	You're handing off the checks.
	And what's Mimi doing?
	She's just brushing the dog's hair.
	She's doing the list for the meetups.
	Yes.
	So it's like, you know, I don't have the checks.
	I don't have the checks here.
	It's a machine here, ladies and gentlemen.
	It's like out of sequence.
	It doesn't make sense at what you want.
	So we're not going to do this.
	No.
	But I do want to know eventually.
	You know what you could have done?
	You could have just put a bunch of numbers in the note.
	And we could have gone that way.
	And you could have one single check.
	That would have worked.
	Maybe just said what you wanted to say.
	I'm sorry?
	No.
	Maybe it could have...
	Yeah, just say what you want to say, yeah.
	I don't want to disparage it, but it's kind of like...
	You'll love what's in this video.
	Hint, it has something to do with two shows ago.
	And then a link to an hour and a half YouTube.
	That's exactly right.
	That's kind of not understanding our process.
	But we do very much appreciate your support, Alexander of Middle Cascadia.
	Am I saying that right?
	Is that Alexander?
	Yeah, sounds right.
	And we'll get the numbers.
	I'll see if I can decipher it.
	But it'll be a bit...
	Yeah, unless they get deposited before we can do anything.
	Alright, in a karma form, as requested.
	You've got karma.
	I think we did Tyler Boyd, so let's go on to Robert Hausner, and he's in Marmosa, Canada.
	Marmora?
	It says Marmora.
	Marmora?
	I'm sorry.
	I'm taking mimosa.
	What am I thinking?
	I could use a mimosa right now.
	It's not a mimosa, baby.
	That's not your style.
	By the way, I'm going to open this can.
	Yeah.
	You played the jingle already?
	This can is a can of La Croix.
	I am sick of waiting for the case of Pabst.
	I'm not drinking it anymore.
	A LaCroix, they can send me a truckload of this stuff and it'll cost them like $40 max.
	Well, the clock is running.
	Before we move to the next carbonated beverage.
	I'm sobering up.
	Oh!
	Wow, okay.
	That LaCroix.
	By the way, the grapefruit's the best.
	Are you sure they didn't send you a case already in advance of this clear hijack of the Pabst Blue Ribbon?
	Get rid of that Pabst.
	It's done.
	So it goes with the jingle.
	Sorry for this, he writes.
	For some reason, PayPal did not complete the donation, or it must have been an error.
	But between the keyboard and the chair, I hope this one goes through.
	It did go through.
	He's blaming himself.
	He's blaming himself for being the heir between people and the show.
	Yeah, he shouldn't blame himself.
	Okay, well, thank you, Robert.
	Candy Holbein in Marendo.
	Marendo.
	Is there a Marendo City, Texas?
	In Texas?
	I don't know where Marendo City is.
	I've never heard of it.
	Well, she lives there.
	$333, and she says, Love y'all.
	Candy.
	Aww.
	Have you noticed how many women are coming out as listeners of this show?
	It's really quite remarkable.
	They may have been around.
	I think we've always had about half of them.
	I think it's pretty close to even.
	I mean, it started off because we got so many dudes named Ben and you got the carryover people from Twit, which is all men.
	But the wives started listening and a lot of women's got, you know, eventually we got, you know.
	I think the pandemic helped, you know, just like, oh, might as well listen to that, you know.
	Those guys make sense.
	Those two goofballs make sense.
	Those idiots.
	Miranda City is...
	Where is this place?
	Man, that's by the border.
	Oh, the border?
	Yeah.
	Randy Carlson's next on the list from Paul Hrump.
	No, it's not.
	Nevada.
	Sorry, it's in between Hebronville and Laredo.
	It's out there.
	By Laredo.
	Randy Carlson in Pahrump, Nevada.
	$300.
	No note.
	Thank you, Randy.
	Rob McCauley in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
	He's an associate executive producer.
	Greetings from Arkansas.
	Now the dude from Heber Springs knows he's not alone out here.
	In the quote-unquote natural state.
	Now, is that...
	Now, I don't know that...
	Is Arkansas called the natural state or is he writing this note naked?
	I think he's probably naked.
	Okay.
	I smell a meet-up!
	Speaking of meet-ups, I can't be the only one who hears JCD say, no agenda, biatch!
	When that meet-up theme music plays.
	Wait a minute!
	I don't say anything.
	Hold on a second.
	That can't be true.
	Let's take it to the task.
	Hold on a second.
	No agenda!
	Biatch!
	You can't!
	Biatch!
	It's not you, first of all.
	But it's funny.
	No agenda!
	Biatch!
	Yeah, I can hear it.
	Okay, well that isn't me.
	Good catch.
	Anyway, he says, either way, enjoy the earworm, people.
	Then he says, anyways, this is my first donation.
	I'm a Rogan convert.
	Yes.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Uh, now it's time to start...
	Hold on.
	Moving donations.
	He gets the live donation.
	Alright.
	I thought he had that already.
	Now it's time to start donating towards my eventual knighthood as Sir Fat Dad of the BM Exicans.
	Love is lit, jingles.
	Don't enslave me, Kamala, and dog karma.
	Don't enslave me, Kamala!
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Little Rock chimes in.
	Arkansas is one of the prettiest states, by the way.
	It's just a great place.
	Amy and Jim Burlingame from Bergen, New York, 210.
	Bergen, sure.
	Oh, is it Bergen, sure?
	I know Bergen, sure.
	I know Bergen.
	She says Bergen.
	I know Bergen.
	I know Bergen.
	Do you know Bergen?
	Jingle request.
	Donald hates Nazis, which is, I guess, where that comes from, too.
	And John's you will obey, and two to the head.
	I am making this donation to 10 in honor of our oldest human resource, who turned 21 on May 11th, is on the list.
	He gives a birthday shout-out to Jacob.
	He has been a long-time listener to your podcast, and his father and I would appreciate it if you would make him an associate producer for this episode.
	Ah, it's a switcheroo.
	It's a birthday present.
	It's a switcheroo.
	Yeah, got it.
	That's so sweet.
	I hope this donation hastens his journey to the roundtable, where his parents patiently await for his knighting.
	A family that knights together, oh no, that no agendas together, stays together.
	I think a family that knights together stays together.
	Thank you for your courage, Amy and Jim Burlingame.
	So they probably did like, he's got like 300 bucks to go, and they give him 210 for his birthday, and they're going to make him do chores for the rest.
	You watch.
	Very, very smart.
	Donald loves Nazis.
	Donald loves Nazis.
	CNN say that he's KKK. And he shall sing hail with it.
	Wow.
	You will obey.
	All right, Steve.
	Stephan.
	Stephan Springer, which is the proper spelling of Stephan.
	Yes.
	With an F. In Carlsbad, California, 203.33.
	Okay, this is interesting.
	I don't think she's...
	This might be light yellow.
	Donating for my smoking hot wife, Lindsay, her 33rd birthday on May 13th.
	Please check to see if she's on there.
	Can we get a house building karma in these crazy times?
	Yes, it may cost a bit more, but yes.
	Oh my God, building a house with this wood pral.
	No!
	Let me check.
	Was it Dame Abby?
	No.
	Lindsey.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	Not on there.
	That's Stephan.
	That's interesting.
	Stephan.
	And she's another 33.
	We have more people turning 33 to listen to this show.
	Isn't that crazy?
	That's our real core number, I guess.
	Lindsay, and 33 when?
	What date do we have her?
	May 13th.
	Okay, today.
	Nice.
	Now, he also says Donnie 4.
	Should she be the associate executive producer, you think?
	Donating for my...
	Yeah, I think so.
	Stefan, you're off.
	We're going to put her there, so it's a double switcheroo.
	And it's Lindsay.
	Sir Sorted Out, meanwhile, comes in with 200 bucks.
	And he says, or this is Sir Sorted Out, your recent discussion about taxing book income was incorrect.
	For an explanation, click this link.
	It's got a Google Drive link and I will go click it for the next show.
	So you can get some ransomware.
	You know, I looked it up.
	I didn't dream it up.
	I looked it up and that's what it said.
	Well, click on that link anyway.
	Let me know how that goes.
	I will.
	Paul in Renton, Washington.
	If anyone wants to correct, I think this is a good idea.
	You want to correct us because we're full of it or we got it wrong?
	200 bucks, perfect.
	In fact, I think that is standard procedure.
	Yeah, right.
	I think from now on, all corrections, 200 bucks.
	Renton, Washington.
	Paul from Renton.
	$200, another one.
	De-douche me, big boys.
	You've been de-douched.
	Also, I need the best jobs, Karma, you've got for my new venture.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Dear Sirs, Paul in Renton.
	Yeah.
	Jobs.
	in Oregon City, Oregon.
	That's the place to be.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Beautiful.
	Thank you, John and Adam.
	Or Adam and John, as he puts it.
	And that wraps up our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1,346 of the No Agenda show.
	It's value for value.
	This is how we've done it from very early on.
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	I do want to mention something about the last newsletter.
	Yeah, what happened?
	What happened there?
	Well, I think what happened was it was the strangest one.
	Nobody got the newsletter.
	A lot of people got it, and they got it in different boxes than usual.
	Some people got it in their spam box, which never had happened before.
	Mike up in Saskatchewan, who follows us closely, always gets it in his...
	Promotions box, he got it in primary.
	And that's Gmail.
	Other Gmail people never got it.
	So I got a lot of people who never got it.
	So I sent out a second note.
	The number of people who didn't get it at all is high.
	Oh, I hate it.
	For example, here's a note that came in.
	A note that came in.
	A note.
	Here's a note.
	This is Chris.
	I regularly use my mail app on my iMac.
	My Gmail account is linked to this app.
	I got the email, but no newsletter in my, the email meaning the second note, which is just a plain text.
	I got the email about no newsletter in my Apple Mail app, but I did not get the newsletter in my Apple Mail app.
	So in other words, the Apple Mail didn't get, they blocked our newsletter.
	Oh, interesting.
	And then I got a lot of Apple mail apps.
	But then he says, he checked his Gmail account on the web browser, and I see that I did receive the newsletter in my inbox.
	In other words, the Apple, because he has it forwarded.
	Not forwarded, but duped.
	So you can set your email up so it goes to both.
	Sends coffee, yeah.
	And a copy goes to his Gmail account, and a Gmail copy was received, but the Apple Mail app got nothing.
	I also noticed several Tom Woods newsletters in my Gmail browser account that did not show up in my Apple Mail app.
	Well, this is likely, we don't know for sure, but I will make an appointment with the Genius Bar.
	This is likely a part of their 14.5 upgrade, which broke their podcast app.
	Broke it.
	Things don't update on time.
	There's all kinds of issues.
	People don't like the layout.
	It's okay.
	Thanks, Apple.
	Maybe, and this is also the super secure version of their platform where apps can no longer track you without opting in.
	Like, I'm excited to opt in.
	And according to Facebook, only 4% of their tracking works anymore.
	So perhaps they shored up their email.
	Well, there's other lots of Google Mail they didn't get it to.
	He says he double-checked the all-mail on his Apple Mail app, and they are not there either.
	So I think, because this is not just peculiar to Apple, yes, it was a huge problem.
	Apple Mail app sucks.
	And a lot of people can't even get the No Agenda show on their podcast app now.
	It doesn't update.
	Right, I heard that too.
	But I think there was a, you know, all these companies, Google, all of them, they use various filtering systems.
	Yeah, I'm sure they do.
	To keep it from being a total mess.
	And I think that whatever filtering, I think the filtering systems changed some parameters and did a, you know, they sent out an update.
	And it's breaking everything left and right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's exactly what happened.
	And so our mail was poorly received.
	I may have to do another one of these and the next one if it comes out just as bad.
	I can tell because I monitor this with various people who send me the note.
	You know, I got it here, I got it there.
	And this was a disaster.
	And here's a real weird one.
	Somebody says, you know, I forgot I subscribed to the newsletter.
	In fact, I've never gotten a newsletter until this one.
	Wow.
	And what, did that person mention what email system they use?
	I forgot.
	I think it was, it may have been Gmail.
	Oh, no, it was one of, no.
	That was one of those, just like Dvorak at Dvorak.org.
	It's one of his, it's like a lot of people that have the personalized Email address, and they run it through some system or other.
	A lot of those broke.
	Ah, that could also be...
	Okay, I'll tell you what that is.
	Likely, Apple tightened down their DMARC, and when you are sending email through, for instance, Gmail, and you're sending it as adamatkurry.com, and you don't have your DMARC records set properly, it will get rejected outright.
	Yes, it does that.
	Yep.
	So, and if you're...
	Along with that, I would say I encourage people using their own email server.
	It's not a simple thing to set up.
	But if you're going to use any domain, please make sure you're doing it right.
	Or go to ProtonMail.
	I mean, I think those guys are pretty good.
	We'll see what happens.
	I didn't get any responses from ProtonMail users, but there's not that many people that use ProtonMail.
	So any ProtonMail users out there, give me some feedback.
	Yeah, more and more people have moved over to ProtonMail just for the security.
	It's in Switzerland, and they don't seem to be, you know, filtering for your convenience.
	Or outright reading your email, which we know Gmail does.
	Well, Google does.
	Yeah, they do it for your convenience.
	For your advertising convenience.
	For your own good.
	Yeah, for your own good.
	I'm going to get you straight into your CNN clips with something I promised on the last show.
	Beto O'Rourke was in Austin to discuss, of course, the extremely racist voter ID laws.
	Oh my God!
	We're so racist here in Texas.
	And he laid into the January 6th insurrection.
	This is a little bit of that.
	This is part of the insurrection that we saw on January 6th, where five people were murdered in the United States Capitol, including a Capitol Police officer.
	This is the biggest attack on American democracy since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
	That's why folks are calling this Jim Crow 2.3.
	So this is caught...
	What?
	The Voting Rights Act was an attack on American democracy?
	Is that what he said?
	That's what he said.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And that's why this is now called Jim Crow since the Voting Rights Act.
	See, I still prefer Biden's Jim Eagle.
	So what you heard him say, the egregious part was, January 6th, five people were murdered.
	Five people were murdered, of which two had heart attacks, one Capitol Police officer had a stroke at home, Ashley Babbitt was killed, but five people were murdered.
	And so some fine young folks here who I think upload this to AlexJones' band.video, maybe they are Infowars, these two girls, they confronted Beto.
	Of course, he was happy to come over and talk to him because, hey, young chickies, but didn't like the questions.
	Without naming names, the fact that you had the first successful breach of the U.S. Capitol since the war...
	Do you consider Ashley Babbitt a murderer?
	No.
	I consider the fact that people were killed in our Capitol, that members of Congress were almost murdered, that the Vice President was nearly hung by insurrections led by our junior Senator Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley of Missouri.
	So then no, not Ashley Babbitt, is that right?
	And he's gone.
	So, did you know the Vice President was almost hung?
	This guy is out of control, this Beto.
	Almost hung, and people were almost killed, led by, led by Ted Cruz.
	I gotta hear it again.
	Oh, Ted Cruz, yeah.
	I gotta hear it again.
	Ted Cruz, the guy who defeated him in the Senate race.
	Yeah, let's just hear it again.
	He has a grudge against it.
	Let's just hear it again.
	That was so beautiful.
	Breach of the U.S. Capitol.
	It's clippable.
	Do you consider Ashley Babbitt a murderer?
	No.
	I consider the fact that people were killed in our capital, that members of Congress were almost murdered.
	Almost murdered!
	That the vice president was nearly hung.
	I love it, Beto.
	That guy.
	That guy is so good.
	Almost hung.
	They had the noose around his neck.
	So close.
	So CNN goes off on this with just like the same thing.
	Bigger.
	They're promoting the murders and the whole thing.
	And a total denial of everything.
	So I got three clips about this.
	This is CNN. Well, yeah, you can find them here.
	One, two, and three.
	I see.
	Oh, yeah.
	One, two, and three.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	You want to start playing?
	Is that the idea?
	Yeah.
	Yes, I just started playing with the one.
	The facts of what happened on January 6th are being whitewashed before our very eyes.
	Just listen to some Republicans today at a heated hearing about this attack.
	The FBI is fishing through homes of veterans and citizens with no criminal records and restricting the liberties of individuals that have never been accused of a crime.
	Zero firearms from suspects charged with breaching the Capitol.
	Mm-hmm.
	All right.
	So, they don't, you know, whitewash, that, by the way, what he said is whitewashing.
	Saying that this insurrection, nobody was armed.
	How's it an insurrection if nobody's armed?
	And he went on, this was the bunch of hearings that went on, and so, and so CNN's all bent out of shape about this because it's like a whitewash.
	But let's listen to part two.
	It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others.
	Not true.
	Let's get to CNN. Not true.
	Some of these lawmakers were grilling the former defense secretary and acting attorney general who were in charge on January 6th.
	Some of them were not grilling them.
	What did we learn today?
	So the guy says...
	In other words, the murders that Beto's bitching about, and the Republican says, none of this happened that way.
	The one person who was murdered was Ashley Babbitt, and they wouldn't prosecute anybody.
	And then, not true.
	Not true.
	Fact check false.
	Not true.
	So by saying not true, I guess that covers your ass.
	It does.
	But let's listen to the end of this.
	Yeah, you know, Allison and Victor, this was billed as a fact-finding hearing by the House Oversight Committee, but it's been ongoing for four hours now, and it has really devolved into this partisan finger-pointing.
	Democrats, for their part, they've been tearing into the former acting defense secretary and the former acting attorney general, really allowing them little time to respond.
	While on the flip side, Republicans have been twisting the truth of what happened on January 6th.
	You heard it there, and we saw it from Republican Congressman Paul Gosar.
	He issued that lengthy, full-throated defense of the rioters, saying law enforcement is going after law-abiding U.S. citizens.
	And we actually just heard from Congressman Andrew Clyde.
	He said this was not an insurrection at all.
	He said instead it was an undisciplined mob, in his words.
	He claimed that they stayed in orderly fashion inside the Capitol, just taking videos and pictures.
	Of course, that's a far cry from what we saw unfold.
	And all of this is amplifying calls from several members of the committee to press for a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6th.
	Of course, the formation of that has been stalled.
	But things got particularly fiery when Democrats questioned acting defense secretary, the former acting defense secretary Christopher Miller's response time for giving the green light to the National Guard to move in to secure the Capitol and then called out Miller for seeming to backtrack on previous comments that he made that former President Trump's comments are what led to the Capitol attack.
	Here it is.
	Sir, because of your actions, I will be...
	There were 8,000 batched and credentialed police officers on duty.
	And you weren't there.
	The United States Armed Forces should only be used as a last resort.
	You were AWOL, Mr.
	Secretary.
	You were AWOL. Remember, as you said before...
	That's completely inaccurate.
	As you said before, you have responsibility for everything.
	Something goes wrong, quote-unquote, I own it completely, 110%.
	Sir, you partially own this mayhem.
	Anyway, this is going on right now.
	It's outrageous.
	Yeah, they want a 9-11 style commission.
	9-11 style commission.
	For all practical purposes, a few broken windows and they messed up a couple of offices.
	They didn't tear the paintings off the wall.
	They didn't spray paint the George Washington's...
	You know, Gilbert Stewart painting wasn't X'd out with red paint.
	They did stay within the lines.
	You know, they walked down the red carpet that was cordoned off.
	We saw that.
	We all saw it.
	We did.
	But no, which was ludicrous.
	But no, no, no.
	They were trying.
	It was a coup.
	And I've seen the idea that this coup attempt in all kinds of publications, always with the same kind of left-leaning editors, which is every editor now, Coup, coup, coup is a coup.
	A coup attempt.
	In other words, the president is trying to create a coup against himself.
	And the ongoing, the big lie.
	The big lie.
	It was the big lie.
	Which is to connect Trump to Hitler.
	And the poor media, they're so desperate for a tweet from Trump, you know?
	It's like, they need something.
	I mean, we all see the ratings.
	They're in the tank, across the board.
	Fox, less than the rest.
	You know, CNN, no.
	Joy Reid, MSNBC, had an actual asterisk the other day on her ratings.
	What?
	Yes!
	And Tina alerted me to it.
	You should explain what that is to people that don't know what the hell you're talking about.
	So in the ratings, they'll have overall numbers, but really the number you want is the share in the target group, which is 1849 typically, although depending on the time of day for some of these channels later on, the pharmaceuticals when they get that.
	Wait, before you continue, why 1849?
	What is the cosmic point of that particular age group?
	Well, that's the people who spend the money.
	You mean those are the people who watch advertisements and then maybe buy a product?
	Yes.
	No.
	Actually, I rescind that.
	These are the people who, after being incessantly told to talk to their doctor and ask their doctor about this itch, this rash, this thing, this extension of life, who are bombarded with pharmaceutical commercials.
	Yeah.
	And that's pretty much up to 50.
	And then later at night, you know, they throw in some stuff for the older folks, like the hero helper, you know, the pill sorter, all that stuff.
	Yeah, it's all that stuff.
	In fact, I think that the mainstream media, M5M, They're very disappointed that Facebook has still suspended the former president.
	I think they're all disappointed because it's hurting them.
	It's hurting the ratings.
	We're explaining the asterisk.
	So typical will be like during the day 1.3, 1.5.
	That's just your number and then it's typically times 1,000.
	But when you're under, I think, a 0.1, you get an asterisk.
	They don't count it anymore.
	Maybe a 0.4.
	They don't count it anymore.
	They just show it as uncountable because the percentage of, in cable that is, the percentage is so small, it's just a rounding error.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the statistical number of people watching you can't really be determined in any meaningful way.
	Exactly.
	So you get the asterisk.
	Yes.
	Which means you're a loser.
	Yes.
	Well, you're off the air in most, even when we were doing the tech TV era, you know, the asterisk was kept propping up on different shows.
	Nobody's watching this kind of stuff.
	And it was very touchy, yeah.
	Yeah, I was trying to find.
	It's kind of unfortunate.
	Didn't we have Al Sharpton saying Aztec?
	Maybe.
	I don't know where that went.
	Fantastic.
	Fantastic.
	There is a term that's being used, which I'm kind of working on, a supercut.
	It's been around for a while, but it's trending.
	In order to associate you and I with insurrectionists, they would say...
	Well, those two guys on that No Agenda podcast, they were trumpeting this.
	He trumpeted that.
	Have you noticed this?
	No.
	Yeah, that's the trend.
	I'll notice it now.
	Yeah, so instead of saying you're a dirty rat bastard Trump supporter, you trumpeted.
	It's beautiful.
	Well, trumpeted meaning you're saying something.
	Yeah, loudly.
	Loudly.
	Yes, correct.
	But still, trumpeted.
	It's a trump.
	It's a trump thing.
	You know it.
	I think it's, yeah, associative.
	Yeah.
	My...
	One of my rules of life...
	It's the media boomerang theory.
	If you abuse the media for your own ends, for your own personal gain, and you keep doing it long enough, it doesn't even matter how long you do it, when you're using it purely for your own personal gain, the boomerang comes around eventually and it hits you so hard with equal and sometimes more force.
	And this is happening to Bill Gates.
	I am surprised by this.
	Even you and I were like, you know, it's a divorce, whatever, who gives a crap?
	But now, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, all on people familiar with the situation...
	People familiar with Melinda Gates' thinking, according to sources, holy crap, Bill Gates is going down!
	This morning, new details about one of the most expensive divorces in history between Bill and Melinda Gates and what role convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly played.
	These are two billionaires that we're working with extensively committed.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, Melinda Gates began meeting with divorce attorneys in 2019, two years before filing for divorce.
	One source of concern, according to the report, was Bill's dealings with Epstein.
	Melinda Gates' divorce lawyers were having multiple calls right around the time that the New York Times published an October 2019 article detailing the extent of Bill Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
	We do know that this is a source of concern.
	In 2019, the New York Times reported Bill Gates had met with Epstein on numerous occasions, beginning in 2011.
	At least once, staying at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse until late into the night.
	Our understanding from a source is that Melinda Gates was frustrated and unhappy about that meeting.
	When pressed about his relationship with Epstein during a 2019 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gates said, I met him.
	I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him.
	So, for this to be happening to Bill Gates in almost tabloid-like fashion from the M5M is very surprising to me, particularly seeing his stature as Mr.
	Vax, Dr.
	Bill.
	Yeah, well, is it really a surprise to you?
	Because your basic theory is what it is, which is your boomerang theory or your media will do the opposite.
	Whatever they do to you, they're going to do the opposite to you because it just balances the world.
	Well, then this has...
	Are you really surprised or are you just feigning surprise?
	No, no, I'm extremely surprised because he's also the primary sales guy for the pharmaceutical industry who run the media.
	So there's a reason for this.
	And I think...
	Yes?
	Yes?
	Oh, I know where you're going.
	Do you?
	I think.
	Yeah, the pharmaceutical...
	Something's happened where they got fed up with him, the pharma, and they just cut him loose.
	You're on your own.
	In the most despicable of ways.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's really hearsay.
	It's really hearsay.
	Hey, us pharma guys.
	Hey, we can show you how it's done.
	I said this before.
	If you ever see the CEOs of a lot of these pharma companies, you'd swear they came out of central casting for a godfather movie.
	Yes, they are kind of gangstery, aren't they?
	Like the CEO of Pfizer.
	Yes, I'm in Israel.
	We've got it all.
	Yeah.
	So they're teaching him a lesson.
	Now, what this does evoke is a lot of speculation about Jeffrey Epstein, which is, I think...
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Before you go there, what did...
	Let's stop and try to figure out what Bill did to let this happen to him.
	What did he do to the pharma companies?
	He made a fuss about AstraZeneca.
	We documented that.
	Oxford, mostly.
	But it seems like he's been doing their dirty work.
	I think there may be a financial crime that is coming out, possibly.
	I'm just telling you what I feel.
	It is also possible that they were unable to handle Melinda's anger over his well-known womanizing, philandering, etc., And most importantly, and I think this is where it probably is, the real issue is, is MIT. Because MIT, Bill Gates, Megan Smith, Kara Schwischer's ex-wife, Joy Ito, Epstein.
	There's something there, and it's very little money, it's $8 million that he donated to, And we have Ghislaine with more counts of crimes, sex crimes.
	She's still to appear in court properly.
	She's jailed.
	And I sent you the links.
	Did you see Jenny Jardin's tweets?
	You sent me the links?
	Yes.
	Holy crap!
	Well, let's go over them.
	Okay.
	So let's first explain who Jenny Jardin is, who I know.
	I've met her.
	She's interviewed me.
	John, you've known her probably better than I do.
	And she was a longtime technology reporter, always kind of odd.
	I remember she interviewed me in like maybe 2006 or 2007, something like that, in Los Angeles.
	And she's odd.
	She's very nervous.
	And as she's been going through a 10-year journey battling cancer, she's been talking more and more about just some general things that she hates about journalism.
	And now she's just gone all out.
	And here's just an example.
	And her problem is mainly with MIT and the money and the Epstein money.
	And here's what Jenny...
	Do you want anything more about Jenny Jardin?
	She was also, apparently, she was in a sex cult.
	She's the one who started Boing Boing.
	Boing Boing, there you go.
	One of the most popular blogs in history.
	Yes.
	Kind of a news magazine.
	And she, I met her, I met her and sat down with her for lunch with, of all people, John Brockman, who's also associated with Epstein in an awkward way.
	Which she tweets about Brockman specifically.
	Yes.
	Yeah, well, Brockman, who she knows, and if she tweets negatively about Brockman, she should know better, because Brockman really is not a player in this Epstein nonsense.
	Brockman used to put on the...
	which I never attended, because it was...
	This is exactly what she's tweeting about, these dinners.
	These dinners that Brockman arranged, that's exactly what she's tweeting about.
	Okay.
	So Brockman, I can, without reading the tweets, I'm going to tell you what I know about this part, some of the things.
	Mm-hmm.
	Because I actually worked for Brockman as a...
	To get the girls.
	To get the girls.
	You're recruiting girls.
	No.
	Brockman is a...
	And you should be sympathetic to Brockman.
	Brockman is probably the poster boy for Tourette's.
	And that's why you have to be sympathetic?
	Yeah, you should, yeah.
	Because it's like, this could be you.
	Brockman is a...
	A very unusual book agent because the way he works the New York publishers is just beyond compare.
	And he's always selling, somebody described him as he could sell junk, he just sells junk science, even though a lot of the people are big names.
	People like Dawkins and people like that are his clients.
	What's his name, the guy with the Rastafarian hair?
	Yeah, Lanier, Jared Lanier.
	Jared, Jared, good old Jared.
	And Jenny was one of his clients, I believe, because he was in San Francisco, invited me over to have lunch with her and him, and then we shot the shit.
	She's very sweet.
	She's a sweet person, I think.
	But she's also kind of a lefty in a funny kind of a way.
	And so Brockman, for a period of about three or four years, did what he called the billionaire's dinner.
	And what he did, and they were always in Monterey, and it was during some event, and I was invited to these.
	And I think I was invited to the, I think it was like four or five of them, and I was invited to the first two.
	Never showed up to either one, even though I would have gotten to meet all these people, you know, everybody there.
	You know, everyone from a Richard Branson would be there, Gates and all these types of people.
	Anyone that was a billionaire.
	And a few journalists that were allowed, that were his friends, would go.
	I think Markoff went to these things.
	I didn't go because if anyone knows me, taking a drive to Monterey, California to go to a dinner is not something I'm inclined to do.
	I don't even like going to the San Francisco.
	I guess I stay home too much.
	So I never went to these things, but I knew about them, and they would publish all these pictures, and it was just that I did the...
	And Epstein got into a couple of these, I think back in New York.
	Yes, yes.
	And Epstein got involved, and Brockman, I've talked to Brockman about this, and he's never been on the plane...
	He's never been to Jeffrey's house.
	He just had him in because he was on the list of people you could put at these dinners to have photos taken.
	And it was just a publicity thing.
	It wasn't anything evil by any means.
	And I believe Brockman in his side of the story.
	And I know Brockman.
	I've known him for 20 or 30 years.
	And he's not that kind of guy.
	He doesn't seem to be that interested in chasing women.
	Well, that's not what she's saying at all, but it is guilt by all association, and these dinners were indeed where, as she says, Epstein connected with everybody, mainly the MIT guys, and everybody was fawning all over him.
	And I'll just read a couple quick tweets.
	Bill Gates, I am to believe one of the world's smartest, richest men didn't know what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all those girls.
	Girls, not women, girls.
	They are or were children.
	It's called rape.
	It's rape of kids.
	Bill Gates, you own this.
	Then we have...
	If your argument for taking Jeffrey Epstein's money is, yes, he was a serial child rapist and sex trafficker, but I was going to transform the money into something cool that benefited me personally, that's called money laundering.
	This is towards Joey Ito.
	Yes, Jeffrey Epstein is dead and Jelaine is in jail, but their Russian friends are still alive and well and operating in the United States right now.
	Everyone who benefited from the system of money laundering Jeffrey Epstein set up with Russia is still defending the system and their ongoing place in it because money, because greed, because guilt.
	I'm done being patient.
	Joe Ito, I see you.
	Eric Lander, Steven Pinker, George Church, John Brockman.
	Too many names to list here.
	Not a single one canceled.
	He's about the dinners.
	Um...
	And she's going off, and she said, this is my final work.
	I have nothing.
	I have no money, no husband, no house.
	It's very sad, but she's exposing something, and it's all focused around Epstein's investment in MIT, Epstein's investment in Harvard programs, and she's bringing in Alan Dershowitz.
	And I'm really implicating all of Silicon Valley, old and new, which when you think about it, they're all a bunch of creeps.
	So who knows what comes out of this?
	Back to Bill.
	Maybe Bill is being thrown out there.
	Yeah, it could be.
	I would say that she's hysterical, and I'm not buying it.
	I'm not buying her general thoughts on this situation.
	But if this is going to become a problem, which it is for all these guys who went to all these billionaire dinners, they need a scapegoat.
	And the best scapegoat of the group is Bill right now, because he's the one who really hung out with Epstein, it seems.
	And it also seems, as if you read this crap, I've been reading it too.
	A lot of it is very inaccurate, but interesting.
	But it always leads to the same thing.
	When the information about Epstein came out, and Bill got his name in the papers associated with Epstein, Melinda, at that point, that was the end.
	According to sources, say, people familiar with the thinking.
	I believe it might be.
	It makes sense.
	That's the only reason you can write stories that make sense.
	It makes some sense that she's not going to put up with it.
	I mean, Bill's a philanderer.
	You said it yourself.
	But it was fine.
	It wasn't like anything that was associated with a creep like Epstein.
	And that was the end.
	And I think that's what triggered the whole thing.
	And I think it's going to...
	That bill's going to be canceled.
	Maybe the Great Reset is really about canceling a bunch of these elites.
	Could be.
	There's definitely a few of them that are going to get canceled.
	We live in fantastic times.
	Here's another cancel story.
	The Golden Globe ceremony on NBC has been canceled amid growing criticism over a lack of diversity and ethical issues.
	NBC announced it will not air the Globes next year as the Foreign Press Association, which hands out the awards, faces backlash for not having any black members.
	The situation escalated yesterday as Tom Cruise returned his three Golden Globe awards.
	Major studios and other actors are also threatening to boycott.
	No, no, no.
	This is something else.
	Ratings, first of all, first and foremost.
	No ratings.
	And I think Ricky Gervais touched the third rail, and they're still pissed over it, and they have shitty ratings.
	Cancel those a-holes.
	I'm not going to disagree with any of that.
	I think it's an excuse to cancel.
	Because it's a closed...
	I think there's like 80...
	There's a small group of people.
	It's a drinking club in the highest order.
	And you have to be a member of the press.
	no black journalists in France, or if there are, they can find those guys and put them in the club if they want to join.
	It doesn't mean you have to join.
	Telling people how they should run their organization at this level, especially when it's a foreign press association, is ludicrous.
	So you're right that this is an excuse to get rid of it.
	And Tom Cruise leading the charge.
	Tom Cruise leading the charge.
	If I think anyone's nuts.
	And Tom Cruise with his bogus returning three.
	Oh, talk about virtue signaling.
	Oh, here's my, oh, you have to take these back.
	I can't, I can't, I can't have them on my shelf.
	I can't look at them anymore.
	They remind me of how racist I was.
	I'm Kim Crow 3.0.
	Now, the sad cancellation is well-deserved, but he's not canceled off of Spotify.
	But people are now calling him a conspiracy theorist and questioning, what has he been eating?
	What has Van Morrison been doing that turned him into a Republican?
	Who?
	Van Morrison.
	Van Morrison the singer?
	Yeah, he's being cancelled because he's gone completely nutjob, completely off the rails.
	His latest musical project, which is titled My Latest Musical Project, has 22 tracks on it.
	None of them are acceptable.
	Here's a little bit of one of my favorites.
	Hey, tell us that ignorance is bliss.
	I guess for those that control the media it is They are the media they control the stories we are told If you ever try to go against them you will be ignored cause they control They control the narrative They perpetuate the myth
	Keep on telling you lies Tell you ignorance is bliss Believe it all and you'll never get Never get wise There you go.
	Okay, now before we go on with this, I didn't know any of this, but I can mention something.
	We did on the show, and this was a few years ago, I had a Van Morrison clip of some little ditty he did specifically.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	You remember that?
	Yeah.
	And it was some anti-media rant.
	Yeah, this is called They Own the Media, and the other one was No More Lockdowns.
	Yeah.
	He was already walking the edge when he came out with that one.
	Yeah.
	So he was...
	So now they've decided to go just eliminate him from the discussion altogether?
	How does that work?
	Sounds like they brought him back into it to me.
	Well, that's how a good noodle gun works.
	I'll read you the headline here.
	What happened to Van Morrison?
	The fall from eccentric genius to conspiracy theorist.
	Who was the byline?
	Who wrote this?
	This is...
	Let's see.
	Ryan H. Walsh.
	And this appeared in what?
	Well, I don't know who the original is.
	It's Yahoo News.
	Let me see if I can find the...
	I should say in the beginning of the byline.
	Right after the byline.
	No, it doesn't.
	Ryan...
	Oh, Los Angeles Times.
	Oh, okay.
	Good enough for you?
	No.
	Go on.
	Well, let's see what it says here.
	Outside of the circles of his most dedicated fans, the arrival of a Van Morrison album in the 21st century has not been a news event.
	That trend stopped last week, however, when Morrison, 75, released latest record project, Volume 1, a 28-track double album that includes eyebrow-raising song titles such as Where Have All the Rebels Gone?
	Why are you on Facebook and stop bitching?
	Wow, I'm getting this album.
	Oh yeah, no, I bought it.
	And stop bitching, do something.
	This album is now very much news.
	Variety published a list of the 10 craziest lyrics from the record.
	While the Jerusalem Post rounded up all of the claims of anti-Semitism implied in his song called They Own the Media.
	I can see that going anti-Semitism.
	I can see people associating anti-Semitism with that song.
	Oh, it's funny.
	I didn't think about it at all.
	That was the first thing I thought about.
	I thought the pharmaceutical industry is what I thought.
	Unless he's got some anti-pharma songs, I don't think he was thinking pharmaceutical industry.
	That may be too advanced for him.
	I mean, he's a media guy anyway.
	If he's not a billionaire, I'd be surprised, but He's got to be kind of isolated.
	He doesn't live in California anymore.
	He used to for a while in the 70s.
	And he used to play...
	I must have seen him 10 times at least or more.
	And great stage guy.
	I mean, he'd just bring the house down every time he went on stage.
	A couple of lyrics.
	This is from Variety, who thought these were nutjob lyrics.
	From the track Mind Control Keeps Us in Line, which...
	I gotta cover that.
	Mind control keeps us in line.
	That's why we've got to think outside the blind, leading the blind.
	Have to police everyone's mind.
	Nowadays, you have to be careful of everything you say, but it's all by design.
	From the song Blue Funk.
	Got to get out of this blue funk.
	Stop listening to the mainstream media junk.
	That is known as a crazy lyric, according to Variety.
	Oh, crazy, crazy.
	From the song, Why Are You on Facebook?
	Man, I could do this.
	And now, Van Morrison's craziest lyrics ever!
	From the song, Why Are You on Facebook?
	Why are you on Facebook?
	Why do you need second-hand friends?
	Why do you really care who's trending?
	Or is there something you're defending?
	Are you looking for a scapegoat to blame?
	Because you're a failure time and time again.
	Then there's He's Not the Kingpin.
	Harsh.
	Yes.
	Harsh.
	Harsh.
	Let me see what else there is.
	I don't think there's anything about the...
	There's a lot of love songs that he wrote in the 70s.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	Well, so it's...
	I guess something got on his nerves.
	Yeah, maybe the guy has half a brain.
	Yeah, you'd think he'd be...
	This is such a hit piece on the guy.
	It's too bad, man.
	Too bad he went nut job.
	But of course, it's only old people who would still listen to him.
	So, ha ha ha!
	Joke's on you.
	Wow.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's pretty interesting.
	It's, again, great times.
	It was a great time to be a podcaster.
	Oh, well, let me do this then while we're here.
	Speaking of Facebook, Lester Holt did a rather long piece.
	On the nightly news about internet addiction and how this became a real thing all of a sudden during the pandemic.
	And they had examples, they interviewed people.
	So it's not like the internet addiction they talked about 10 years ago?
	No, no, this is new.
	This is because of the pandemic.
	It was never happening before.
	Would you like to hear?
	Oh, I'd love to.
	In our pandemic isolation, the internet became a lifeline, but for others, a life-altering portal to what some describe as a rabbit hole.
	I think this is to discredit us somehow, but I'm not sure yet.
	Scott Zayat says he's been down it.
	I would imagine it's like what any addiction feels like.
	You think about actually giving it up.
	Zayetz found himself spending more and more time online.
	In his case, feeding an insatiable appetite for politics.
	The election and capital siege particularly drew him in.
	Does it feel like you're just being swept down this tunnel?
	Yeah, yeah.
	They cycle the things that you want to see, or they know what you want to read, and so they feed you more and more of that.
	So I know I feed into it.
	Stop the presses.
	I know it's happening, and yet I still click and open that next article.
	Psychiatrist Dr.
	Howard Foreman says internet addiction is real.
	Just based on the volume of calls that I am getting, the volume of calls that my colleagues are getting, it is certainly growing.
	And I think we're going to see that this emerges as one of the major behavioral addiction Thank you.
	This is going to be used against you somewhere, somewhere, down the line.
	Oh, you have a very sad internet addiction.
	Which, by the way, used to mean jerking off to porn all day.
	I guess that went away during the pandemic because everybody was home.
	Though published research in the U.S. is scarce, overseas studies have noted sharp increases in internet dependence during the pandemic with links to anxiety and depression.
	I've had to go on blood pressure medicine.
	Scientifically, what is happening when we cross this line on the computer in addiction?
	We can probably get you drugs for it.
	Every time that you get a like or a follow or someone comments on something that you've posted, you get a surge of dopamine in a part of the brain that we call in layman's terms the pleasure center.
	And it gets very addicting once you get more and more of this surge of pleasure.
	Attempts to stop cold, he says, generally fail.
	The therapy that I always start with is that you Start out with a simple do and a simple don't.
	And the simple do is do engage in activities that previously were pleasurable to you before the internet took over your life.
	As for Scott, a healthcare worker, online disinformation and lies about COVID are still triggers.
	I know it's happening, and yet I still...
	Click and open that next article.
	Lies.
	A struggle between the healthy need to know and engage and the unhealthy fall into that rabbit hole.
	Oh no.
	Lies about COVID. Lies about COVID? Yeah, lies.
	Lies.
	Lies about COVID. What's a lie about COVID? This whole show.
	Did you give an example what a lie about COVID was?
	That asymptomatic spread doesn't exist.
	Wear a mask outside.
	That's the lie.
	It's so sad.
	So sad.
	Let's get to something a little more...
	Entertaining?
	Maybe.
	So I discovered this guy, Professor Hamamoto.
	And I discovered him through a Steve Pachenik tweet.
	Oh, I do too.
	Because Steve Pachenik was cited in one of Professor Hamamoto's.
	And he's got a very small following on YouTube.
	And he's only got...
	I think they take some of his stuff off because there's references to old videos that are not there.
	And Hamamoto is a...
	And I've listened to about two or three of his.
	He goes on for an hour to get to the point.
	It's unbelievably tedious to listen to this guy.
	But he's more or less doing spot the spook in every one of these podcasts.
	And he's really good at it.
	He's spotted a lot of spooks.
	I never thought were spooks.
	Or even considered it.
	So the way we do it, like, oh, that guy's a spook?
	Or he, I mean, is it all politicians?
	No, no.
	He has a lot of writers are spooks.
	Oh.
	And his rationale for how he, and the tale for the writers is pretty much the tale I have for certain writers that we see that are always cranking out material while really having two or three full-time jobs.
	Yes.
	There's no way you can do this.
	And a book.
	And a book.
	And another book.
	And another book.
	Anthony Bourdain is high on his list for this.
	Anthony Bourdain, he claims, was a spook.
	Or an asset.
	He doesn't know which.
	He was hanging out with Obama in Vietnam.
	He traveled the world.
	And then he was killed after going off against Hillary.
	If you remember his last interview, he was pissed about Hillary.
	Next thing you know, he's dead.
	Yeah.
	Well, the one that really caught my attention, because when you look back on it, and you take a look at the pictures, and you look at his history, and the fact that he's done 160 movies, and I only have a one-minute clip of this, of what he's accusing of being a spook.
	But it's like, okay, I can kind of buy this one and here we go.
	There was a 2002 adaptation of The Quiet American, not quite as good, but Michael Caine is one of the characters.
	I think he plays Fowler in this adaptation.
	I'll return to Michael Caine.
	He's an interesting character.
	He's British.
	He's an actor.
	And he's been in tons and tons of these types of spy movies.
	So that got me to thinking yesterday.
	I said, my gosh, Michael Caine must have an in.
	He must be connected.
	Maybe not an intelligence asset, but he's their boy.
	He's their guy.
	He is their icon that all these agencies are putting in there to be the public entertainment face of MI6 or MI5 or...
	Whatever intelligence organization that you're talking about.
	And it's a handsome face.
	It's an attractive face.
	And it's a face that we think is only there for our entertainment purposes.
	We don't associate it with raw power politics and the subversion and takeover of sovereign governments all over the world on the behalf of the City of London and the bankers, right?
	That's Michael Caine.
	Wow!
	That's interesting!
	Hold on a sec.
	Yeah.
	I felt the same way.
	Spot the spook.
	Everybody wants to spot the spook.
	Isn't he in Kingsman?
	Kingsman?
	He might be.
	Yeah, I think he was.
	But the idea that there's certain actors you want as the face of intelligence makes nothing but sense.
	Unlike in the United States where we have a pansexual millennial with anxiety issues who is the face of the CIA. Well, there's that too.
	The recruiting video, yeah.
	Yeah, well that, I don't think, that recruiting video, yeah.
	So he goes on about, and I was thinking about this because I've seen Michael Caine in a couple of talk shows, and it was very interesting because he's done like a million movies, like he says, 160 I think, when I looked it up.
	And he was on, I think, Carson or something years ago.
	And I just remember this.
	He says, oh, I have no interest.
	I can do his voice, but I'm not going to.
	I have no interest in doing anything but acting.
	It's fine.
	I get lots of work.
	I've got it made.
	I'm never going to...
	Because they asked him, why don't you become a director?
	Because everybody, most people in the business, they want to do something.
	They want to produce.
	They want to direct.
	They want to be more involved.
	No, no, he's good to go.
	Right.
	And I always thought that was peculiar, because I've never heard anybody...
	I don't want to do any other stuff.
	I'm good.
	I'm good.
	Huh.
	Well...
	Never heard that.
	Let's look at some of these spook movies.
	That's actually quite interesting.
	I'll just work in reverse order.
	Kingsman.
	The Secret Service.
	Um...
	Oh, of course, Austin Powers.
	All hilarious, but still spook movies.
	Yep.
	Um...
	What else was...
	He did a series of movies where he played Harry Palmer.
	There was three movies, and they were all spy movies.
	Interesting.
	And he played the head spook.
	Kind of a smiley-like character.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	That makes total sense.
	You know who Jenny Jardin said is a spy for Russia, or an operative for Russia?
	You ready for it?
	No.
	Yeah.
	Glenn Greenwald.
	Glenn Greenwald's been accused of this before.
	Mm-hmm.
	He's talked about it on one of his many long-winded podcasts that he's a spy for Russia.
	Yeah.
	Along with Matt Taibbi, also a spy for Russia.
	Well, Matt Taibbi and Glenn seem to be co-writers in some odd way at Substack.
	Matt Taibbi was in Russia for a long time with Mark Ames.
	Yes, learning Russia.
	And then he learned Russia and he did the whole thing.
	And I've seen pretty much no evidence of either one of them actually being a...
	I mean, since we do play spot the spook at some level, in every way we can...
	And I just don't see it.
	I mean, I don't see it from their action.
	I mean, you could say their writing's a little subversive, but...
	No, no.
	I think she...
	Well, she...
	Her claim is that this Epstein stuff is all a huge Russian money laundering scheme.
	A lot of people were in on it.
	And that Snowden, who of course is in Russia, and you'll recall that Glenn Greenwald shot to fame...
	More famous than he was when he was the one exclusively, well, really filtering to the mainstream media.
	If you recall, it wasn't just on Glenn Greenwald's blog.
	He was taking information from Snowden and then giving it to the New York Times and the Guardian to go through and publish what they thought was appropriate.
	So I can see where she's coming from because I certainly also thought, well, that's interesting.
	You got this scoop.
	Well, I mean, it would seem more likely because the New York Times is so spooky to begin with.
	I mean, it's just crawling with the CIA influence.
	If not assets, if not people just getting paid off or somebody like Kara Swisher begging to be recruited to the CIA. She's at the New York Times.
	I mean, it's just ridiculous.
	It's borderline crazy.
	If Greenwald is getting into the New York Times through the CIA, he's more likely to be a CIA guy than he is a Russian guy.
	Oh yeah.
	I'm just saying that that's just out there.
	Regarding the CIA, I did look into the new women running the CIA. Still don't know where Gina Haspel is.
	But the new women running the CIA... You've been saying this, and I've been saying, no, no, she's fine.
	She's somewhere.
	And I have no evidence of this.
	She could be dead.
	She could be dead.
	They get shot in Frankfurt.
	I think we should call this, the CIA used to be Catholics in action.
	I think we can now just say Coven in action.
	And I'm not really kidding.
	It's a Coven there, man.
	Coven?
	Yes.
	Like a coven?
	Yeah, coven.
	Did I say coven?
	You said coven.
	I meant coven.
	I meant coven.
	So you blew the joke.
	Well, I blew the joke.
	You blew the what?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Leave me alone, Dvorak!
	I'm gonna show my soul by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fun.
	I blew the Jew.
	I don't know why I said it.
	Truth wants to come out.
	Time to get out of that segment.
	Well, I'll tell you somebody that doesn't care what you say or who you're blowing is Bobby Newby.
	And he's not, he is kind of a newbie.
	He's from Hendersonville, Tennessee, and he came with $188.64.
	He's got a big, he's going to be a knight, so I guess you can read this note.
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	Please accept my contribution of $188.64, which completes the titular requirements for no agenda patents of nobility.
	I was hit in the mouth by John's frequent appearances on a Bay Area technology netcast, which has since pivoted to being a co-ed knockoff of The View for also rands about their lease Teslas and Donald Trump.
	But I digress.
	It has been a long and rewarding journey with no agenda, and one I've been joined with over the last few years by my gorgeous blue-eyed wife.
	Friday is our fifth anniversary, and as one of my gifts to her, I would like to grant her my upgrade to dame status.
	Aww.
	With a title to be selected by her at time of her choosing.
	Well, that means, so she doesn't get...
	I guess we don't dame her today, if it has to be...
	I guess not, but she's in blue, so it must be on the list.
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	As for the ceremony, I believe the dame will be having Chicken Street Tacos and Margaritas on the rocks.
	Okay, so we are doing that today.
	As for jingle requests, I would like...
	Here's what I think.
	She's going to be Dame today, but then she'll give herself some title later.
	Okay.
	So it'll just be her name, I guess, today.
	Okay.
	That makes sense.
	Yeah, we do that.
	As for jingle requests, I would like to request a Fletcher Putin and a dealer's request from Al Gore to remind us of how only Republicans would sink to contesting an election.
	Does he mean we have something?
	We don't have.
	No, no, no.
	Do we have?
	What?
	No, we got nothing.
	No, this is not a jingle.
	No, but I did select an Al Gore jingle, which is, I think, just as funny.
	Because of what's happening in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn.
	This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay.
	How are the mudflats, John?
	Still here.
	All right.
	Yep.
	I'm looking at them now, and they're still muddy as ever, and there's the freeway, which is at zero.
	It's right at sea level.
	It goes right by the mudflats.
	There's still no water on it.
	No fish.
	So I don't know what they're talking about.
	I'm just going by my eyeballs.
	Roger that.
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	Lynn Wigert, happy birthday to her son, Eric.
	He turns 30 on the 15th.
	And that was it, along with Randy Blazer, who celebrates today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	No titles.
	On another note, before you continue with the rest of this, I do want to read this.
	This is from one of our barons, so I wanted a note read.
	Yes, oh yes, thank you for catching this, exactly.
	Yes, this is Sir Brian, the baron of Connecticut River Valley.
	He says, hoping you can make an exception and break for this baron who is asking you to send the recovery karma to a good friend and no agenda producer, Simon, who was hospitalized after a serious car accident, returning home from spending time with his mom and family on Mother's Day.
	Mm-hmm.
	Simon will undergo a series of surgeries to set him on the road to recovery.
	This donation of 7084 stands for Simon and get well when the value of each letter is added together.
	Love and light.
	Love is lit.
	Recovery karma, please, Sir Brian.
	That's very kind of you to do that for your buddy and so sorry about that.
	Here we go.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, we have one, two, two knights, one dame standing by in the wings.
	I think we should get out our nice 13th of the month blades.
	There you go.
	Look at this thing.
	Woo!
	That thing's shiny too, man.
	Nice.
	Up on the podium, please!
	Jody Aish, Abby Newby, only got two dames, and Randy Balzer!
	All three of you have supported the No Agenda show in one way or the other, up to $1,000.
	That qualifies you for a seat in aggregate here at the Roundtable of the No Agenda Dames and Knights, and we have all the goodies here for you.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the KD as...
	Dame Jody of the Ten Key.
	Dame Abby.
	And Sir Curity, Knights of the Cybers.
	For you, we've got Hookers and Blow.
	We've got Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	We have a wonderful selection of chocolates and Chicken Street Tacos and Margaritas on the Rocks.
	Along with that Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pablo Man.
	Oh yes, your favorite, mutton and mead.
	Please, the three of you, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings and Eric the Schill, from his truck as he's on the road, will make sure he gets the right ring size and will send that off to you along with your sealing wax and official certificate.
	Please put that on noagendasocial.com.
	Boost that stuff out.
	Toot it.
	Let us see that you are now a knight or dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Thank you for supporting the show.
	No agenda.
	Be up.
	Yeah, I can't unhear it.
	No Agenda Meetups, noagendameetups.com, where No Agenda Nation comes together, where we have our pod squats.
	We do them together.
	There was one in New York City.
	Tom Starkweather brought us the report.
	Hey, it's DC Girl.
	I'm in New York, and I finally dragged all these New Yorkers out for a meetup in the morning.
	Hey, it's The Real NM, the out-of-work DJ. It's my first meetup.
	It's awesome, trigger-free.
	Hey, this is Chakra Daddy, and I'm still riding on the wave of fame from the 1313 episode cover.
	Hi, this is Jenny Jen.
	I'm new to the social channel, but I've been listening for a while, and it's great to meet like-minded people.
	This is unhappy New York in New York.
	This is Tom Starkweather, a.k.a.
	Melodious Alice.
	Thank you, DC Girl, for bringing out some great people to meet here.
	This is Progo.
	I don't have anything with you to say, sorry.
	In the morning!
	Sounds like a fun group.
	DC girl drove up for that.
	Here's what we have on the calendar.
	This is where No Agenda Nation comes together, where people from across all colors of the rainbow, places on the spectrum.
	We got a lot of places on the spectrum.
	Age groups, religion, everything.
	We have one thing in common.
	No triggering.
	Go hang out.
	Have a good time.
	Chat.
	Chat with human resources in real time.
	Meet people you've met on No Agenda Social.
	Saturday, San Francisco, sense it for your safety, masquerade meetup, 3 o'clock at New Belgium Brewing, the new woke company.
	You know, I might go to this meetup.
	Whoa!
	Stop the presses.
	The problem I have, of course, is that the new Belgian brewery, those guys are creeps.
	Yeah, they're a bunch of wokes.
	A bunch of wokes.
	You should get some of that torched earth beer just to taste how bad it is.
	You can count on me not doing that.
	But I might just do it because it looks like a hiding in plain sight.
	To go to a brewery like this.
	So I might go to this one.
	If I do, I'll send out a little note to the mail system.
	So if you order a drink, you should just look at the person who's serving and just say, you woke a-hole?
	Just give it a shot.
	See what they say.
	Okay, I'm going to absolutely do that.
	Also on Saturday, the Environmental Racism Meetup in Dallas, Texas at Dots Hop House and Cocktail Courtyard.
	Woo-hoo!
	Alliteration.
	I love it.
	On Sunday, Toast in the Attic.
	That'll be in Philly at 2 o'clock at the Attic Brewing Company.
	Also on Sunday, Local 99 Planning World Domination in Durham, North Carolina, 4 o'clock at Kickback Jacks.
	And on Sunday the 16th, Alexandria, Virginia Meetup, The Loft at Lena's, second floor of Lena's Woodfire Grill.
	And then for the rest of May, the 20th, Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina, Chicago, Long Beach, Kansas City, Missouri, Springfield, Missouri, Poplar, Buff, Missouri.
	Holy crap, there's three in Missouri on the 22nd.
	The 23rd, Sioux Falls.
	Consolidate!
	It's a big state.
	Sioux Falls, South Dakota on the 23rd, Myrtle Beach, Florida as well.
	The 28th, Santa Ynez.
	Knoxville, Tennessee on the 29th, Rhode Island, Houston.
	Amarillo, Texas and winding it out for May, Brisbane, Australia on the 30th.
	These are the no agenda meetups.
	It's just a good place to check your amygdala.
	Make sure everyone's all groovy.
	You're feeling good.
	You feel insane.
	You have a drink.
	And who knows?
	You might even find a date.
	No Agenda Meetups.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	They're fun.
	They're like a party.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me to drink it all out of the flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Alright.
	A couple of things I want to get out of the way.
	Do you want to do end of show ISOs first so we can determine how we get out?
	I only have one.
	Oh, okay.
	What is it?
	Reclaiming.
	Reclaiming.
	Reclaiming my time again!
	Mmm, I have, uh...
	Crap is crap!
	I have that, and of course my favorite...
	Adam Curry's a nut job.
	It's, yeah...
	I don't want to use the last one because it might weaken your case.
	Thank you.
	Yes, I agree.
	I mean, it was hurt.
	Actually, I just got physically kind of the emotional stress of hearing that hurt me.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	No, that's out.
	Reclaiming my time again!
	Yeah, it's not really super funny.
	It makes it sound like it was a waste of time to show, so that's out.
	What?
	Oh, really?
	I kind of like it.
	No.
	Reclaiming my time again!
	For that very reason, I think it should be in.
	Okay, then I can say...
	I clipped it for a reason.
	Okay, good.
	So be it.
	Okay, we can use that.
	I shall make it so...
	So Elizabeth writes in from Laguna Hills.
	And she's an artist, and she did one of the arts things that we won't get to see.
	Very good one, too.
	Art House Eclipse.
	I haven't been able to set up an account to get into the new agenda, our general, because I'm going to send her name to Paul and see what the problem is, because she's not the only one complaining.
	We had the same thing with the famous artist that couldn't get on, and how much a blogger had to carry him onto the pages.
	But she does say this.
	I love the show.
	I think I'm addicted.
	I can't wait for each episode.
	I can't wait.
	My husband donated to show 1333.
	He was a man of few words.
	He hit me in the mouth after getting hit in the mouth by his brother.
	Please don't ever find an exit strategy.
	No agenda is essential in this crazy world.
	We live in love and lit.
	Elizabeth.
	Vernick in Laguna Hills.
	So that is one issue.
	The other one is I have not been able to upload an image onto the No Agenda social for over a week.
	And other people have bitched about this.
	Oh, I just saw those bitches this morning.
	So it's being worked on.
	That is...
	A number of reasons, but there's so much disk space that goes into running this instance, even with 10,000 people, that how it typically works is we prune stuff that's older than X amount of time.
	So that has to now be initiated and apologies.
	You, in particular, probably could have contacted me earlier.
	If it's been going on for a week, I was really unaware.
	I only saw something today about it.
	So we'll fix it.
	If there was enough people complaining, I thought you would have picked it up.
	And I know it's your responsibility to fix the image engine.
	Well, it's...
	It's okay.
	I'm just saying...
	I will say this.
	Probably some of the greatest possible tweets, toots as they call them, ever, ever in the history of that whole system have been lost now to time.
	I apologize in advance for all the great things I didn't get to do.
	Because you had them all at the ready and they just didn't upload.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I'm so sorry.
	I feel bad.
	I feel super bad about it.
	I'll ask Aaron, and I'm sure he's aware now.
	And we do have a system account that you can toot.
	I'd rather embarrass you on the air.
	Well, thanks.
	I think of it as content.
	Anything else?
	Do you have anything nice to say?
	No, I'm good.
	I have a series of clips I want to play.
	I have four clips I want to play before the show ends.
	Good.
	Now, I could either play the one kind of funny clip, which is Alan Jones up there at Sky News in Australia bitching about Biden.
	Being a senile and the fact that he's the head of the free world, we should all be embarrassed.
	And I get a kick out of the fact that only in Australia and outside the country do we have anyone complaining about Biden.
	Everyone here are always great.
	Except for us.
	I mean, we complain about him.
	Only us.
	Yeah.
	So we can start with that, and then I want to get the Palestinian thing out of the way because we're on the border of World War III with what's going on in Israel and Palestine.
	So you still want the Biden thing?
	Personally, I find the Alan Jones stuff very boring because I know what he's going to say.
	I do too, but I love him.
	I love him.
	I don't find him boring at all.
	And you mean to say this like Biden isn't cognitively delinquent?
	Have a listen to this.
	The President of the United States of America.
	We have to do more than just build back better.
	We have to build back better.
	With regard to Russia.
	I know it concerns some of you.
	Okay, I like it.
	But I made very clear to Putin that we're not going to seek escalation.
	Putting Biden in this position of leading the world's democracies is elder abuse.
	His incoherence is not new but it surely can't go on.
	There will have to be a presidential resignation shortly.
	Listen to this from only a couple of weeks ago.
	The only way to spare more pain and more loss, the only way these millstones no longer mark our national morning...
	These milestones, I should say, no longer mark our national morning.
	Okay.
	God, help me.
	And then, this.
	I have never been particularly poor at calculating how to get things done in the United States Senate.
	So the best way to get something done, if it holds near and dear to you that you like to be able to Anyway.
	This is the leader of the free world.
	How can we believe any self-respecting world leader will take this bloke seriously?
	Can you imagine what it's like talking to him live?
	One wag had it right with a meme that was posted on social media that says it all.
	Hey, Sleepy Joe, I think it'd be less confusing if you just turned the teleprompter around and let us read it for ourselves.
	Look, it's easy to laugh.
	This is very, very serious.
	TV. Okay, I take it all back.
	I didn't know he had super cuts.
	That was a nicely produced piece.
	That was a great piece.
	So, okay, now we got this war, and this is CBS commenting on it, and this is actually another, the morning zoo on CBS Good Mornings.
	With Gail.
	With Gail.
	Yeah.
	Produced this, and it's kind of done by the newsroom, but they like running it in the morning.
	And this is a three-parter, and this people should be paying attention to, and it's important.
	We're going to begin with very serious news and it's in the Middle East with the worst fighting between Israel and Palestinians in nearly seven years.
	We're going to stop the clip.
	Stop.
	Stop.
	I want people to pay very close attention to all the sound effects they use in this report.
	The second clip, by the way, is even better.
	It's loaded to the gills with production.
	Okay.
	Listen and look at those pictures.
	You are looking at Israeli missiles exploding in Gaza overnight, just one of the many attacks since this latest confrontation flared up.
	Palestinian militants have fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
	About 50 people have been killed on both sides, including some children.
	Elizabeth Palmer is following all of this.
	Elizabeth, what led to the violence to begin with?
	Good morning to you.
	Good morning.
	Well, this round of violence actually started weeks ago with an Israeli court order to evict some Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem.
	But it really caught fire over the weekend just gone by when Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters around the very holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.
	Now, of course, it's morphed into open war.
	Yes, I've been following and I have info from sources.
	I'm curious about your whole presentation.
	Uh, just go to part two?
	Now, of course, it's morphed into open war.
	Overnight, Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza again.
	The target, says the Israeli military, are Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and their installations.
	The material damage is immense.
	And for humans in this overcrowded enclave, there is no safe place.
	Nine-year-old Yazan Zahara happened to be in the street when a missile exploded with shrapnel.
	The Palestinian Health Authority says 48 people have died this week, including 14 children, and hundreds are wounded and traumatized.
	The counterattack on Israel by Hamas and Islamic Jihad has been relentless too.
	Yesterday evening a rocket barrage lit up the skies over Tel Aviv while on the ground sirens wailed and people ran for cover.
	Israel's military says more than a thousand rockets have been fired from Gaza.
	Six Israelis, including a child, have been killed since Monday.
	The casualties and the damage would have been greater, but for Israeli interceptor rockets, the so-called Iron Dome, which blew most of the incoming missiles to pieces.
	But this is not just an air war.
	There's been violence on the ground, too.
	Last night in Ramallah on the West Bank, Israel's military fired tear gas to chase away hundreds of young men who, like most Palestinians, have had enough of the Israeli occupation.
	And there is no end in sight.
	Israeli's defense minister this morning said that more attacks were coming on armed Palestinian groups to bring what he called total long-term quiet.
	Tony?
	Yeah, no end in sight.
	Liz Palmer in London.
	We should recall that this is going on in Gaza, which is the size of Philadelphia, in a country that's barely bigger than Vermont.
	Why do they have Liz Palmer reporting from London?
	Don't have anybody, like, in the sand?
	Well, not only that, but if you listen to this final clip, which is, they bring it kind of home because this one reporter that's on the show, I don't even know his name, I've only seen him recently, relates because he's his kids over there or something like that, and we get no insight whatsoever.
	And the end result is that each night, families and children are going to bed afraid, terrified.
	But Tony, that made me think about you.
	Including my own.
	Your own children.
	Including my own.
	Some people may know.
	I have two older kids who live with their mother in Tel Aviv.
	They spent the night in an air raid, in a shelter.
	My daughter was in tears.
	And I'm also acutely aware of the fact that over in Gaza, there are children going to bed in a pile of rubble not getting up.
	And so you have a situation where for decades now, leaders on both sides seem to be finding the war instead of finding the peace.
	And until that dynamic changes, our children, my children, are going to be fighting and dying.
	Do you feel they're safe?
	Because how old are your two older children?
	Almost 12 and 9.
	Yeah, so they're very well aware of what is happening.
	They're very well aware.
	And when I say our children will be fighting and dying, I mean, my 12-year-old will be going to the military in six years.
	And everybody is sucked into the conflict in that region until there is a push or a restart to a search for peace.
	And when you have two people for one country, there's got to be two countries.
	That's the only way to do it.
	And I feel for you.
	Doing this job, worrying about your kids, new baby on the way.
	Oh yeah, thank you for your courage.
	You are such a brave, brave journalist.
	You should have let it play longer because they talked about how this wasn't going on during the Trump era.
	That's the whole thing?
	Oh, I see what you're doing.
	Oh, you played the whole thing?
	Oh.
	They didn't talk about how none of this happened during Trump.
	He got me on that.
	Now, I'm sure this is meant to ruin the...
	Was it the Jacob Accords or whatever it's called?
	Who knows?
	I have three pieces of insight on this.
	One, from Brian of London.
	I can name him.
	He's in...
	I think he's in...
	I don't know if he's in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
	So he was in and out of the bomb shelter with his family.
	And his whole thing is like, come on!
	Come on!
	Come on!
	Get me!
	So he's yelling at him.
	Then we have Agent Orange who says, okay, look, they've got special forces on the ground.
	He showed the tanks are rolling in, the rockets, Hamas admitting that they came from Iran.
	He says, this is heavier than it looks.
	Which I'm inclined to believe when he says that.
	But then the third is someone who works at a software company I know quite well.
	And he says, no, no, this is house of card shit, he said.
	I said, what do you mean?
	He says, oh, this is for BB to maintain power.
	Or at least it started by him doing this to maintain power after he couldn't form a coalition in the most recent elections, which was just a couple weeks ago, and the mandate was given to Yair Lapid.
	And Lapid, of course, to do anything, needs Arab support, so if there's a conflict, then the Arabs won't support the government, so it kind of stays in limbo.
	And this seems to be some mainstream thinking in Israel, that this is, again, Bibi Netanyahu doing things to maintain power through military might, because he doesn't really have it politically.
	So, take your pick.
	Well, I'm going to discount the ancient orange one, if I'm not mistaken.
	He's the one who got you to believe completely hook, line, and sinker that Trump was going to stay in office and they were going to find these micro-coded ballots and all this was going to...
	And that was him.
	So he's done, as far as I'm concerned.
	And others.
	As an analyst.
	The last guy I like.
	Yeah, me too.
	I think that makes some sense, because Netanyahu is just a nutty guy.
	That's why I saved the best for last.
	Although it could be just the opposite of that as a way to get Netanyahu out because he's still kind of seen as a Trump.
	Well, this can be turned at any moment.
	I mean, anything can happen.
	Well, this is not good.
	But I will correct that report.
	We created the Iron Dome, not the Israeli Iron Dome.
	Hello, USA foam finger number one.
	That's our technology, lady.
	I believe it's Raytheon.
	Yes, that's our stuff.
	Invented to stop the Scuds.
	All right, then I have one last 22-second clip just to make sure we cover it.
	The world has been anxiously watching and waiting for this moment, and overnight it happened.
	That Chinese rocket, the Long March 5B, as it's called, finally came crashing back down to Earth.
	Now, the Chinese space agency says it happened around 1024 last night.
	The debris re-entered the atmosphere over the Maldives, landing in the Indian Ocean.
	But the U.S. space agency says their calculations say it happened over the Arabian Peninsula.
	Uh-huh.
	So NASA says it came down over the Arabian Peninsula.
	You know what we have there, don't you?
	Gulf of Aden?
	Oh, where the Stargate is?
	Yes, sir!
	It went right into the Stargate!
	And you know what comes out of that Stargate?
	What?
	Fish.
	The best scripted bit you'll ever hear on this show.
	Where do you think all the fish come from, anyway?
	Ha ha ha!
	From the Stargate.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, DH Unplugged, the most recent episode titled Duhflation.
	Jesse Coy Nelson, Audio Ghost, and Danny Luce all set up with end-of-show mixes, and very appreciative of that.
	And we haven't quite started packing, but we will soon.
	So, for now, coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state, FEMA region number six in the governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	What's going to be the new Opportunity Zone number?
	I think it's part of the same...
	I have an idea.
	We'll talk about it later.
	I'm John...
	I'm in northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday, the second Thursday of the week.
	Please remember us for your support, your value-for-value support at dvorak.org slash na, noagendashow.net.
	Until Sunday, everybody.
	Adios, mofos!
	and such.
	Representative Liz Cheney of the Republican Party has been removed from her leadership posts.
	Screw you!
	You're fired!
	Liz Cheney has been one of the most vocal defenders of the policies of her father.
	3.2 million tons of trash.
	Dick Cheney.
	It's not about them.
	It's about us.
	It's about us.
	Well, you get immune to the smell.
	Liz Cheney has drawn closer to the neoconservatives.
	She and Bill Kristol have found a Keep America Safe organization that continually applies to scare the American people into believing Osama bin Laden is hiding under their bed.
	People have got to remember that Afghanistan is a place from which the terrorists planned and plotted and trained and attacked us on 9-11.
	Senator, what do you think of that?
	I think the Cheneys are unrepentant warmongers.
	They still won't admit that the Iraq war was a mistake.
	The Cheneys have been wrong about everything.
	America needs to quit listening to them.
	They need to fade into obscurity.
	We've got the sufficient number of troops on the ground to prevent safe havens.
	Screw you!
	You're fired!
	We had the conference meeting.
	You're fired!
	I am absolutely committed, as I said last night.
	Killer fire!
	Killer fire!
	And as I said just now to my colleagues, Killer fire!
	We were talking about Republicans voting Liz Cheney out of her leadership chair.
	Killer fire!
	Liz Cheney, I think, stands for this sort of neocon war hawks whose history is very well known.
	The cyber attack on U.S. pipelines has triggered a gas shortage, kind of.
	Get out of my vagina!
	Get infected.
	Are you ready for your vaccine?
	The side or responsibility.
	It will save us all, listen to me.
	Very frustrating.
	Because I'm a Vaxman.
	Yeah, I'm a Vaxman.
	That's really not the right attitude.
	This little job won't hurt at all.
	You can do it quickly.
	Thankful I don't vax you all.
	You can do it in bulk.
	That's the thing I really want to do.
	Cause I'm the vax man.
	Yeah, I'm the vax man.
	If you drive your car, I'll vax the street.
	If you try to sit, I'll vax your seat.
	If you get to call, I'll vax the seat.
	If you take a walk, I'll vax your seat.
	Vaxman!
	Cause I'm the Facts Man Yeah I'm the best man.
	They put together complete nonsense.
	You know, I consider the country as my children.
	Clearly that they touched in numbers.
	But to get back to my story...
	Watch everything you need.
	Viral drugs.
	I became more and more angry about my gag order.
	Okay, let's go to part two.
	So I had been given a gag order.
	I do.
	This is an experiment.
	You don't know what the...
	And of course my questions have no answers.
	Being given a gag order.
	The CDC. The drug.
	So after receiving no response...
	Fraud.
	Everything you need to treat and help people.
	And why hasn't the federal government put a national lockdown in the next space?
	You've been gagged and...
	Pretty much everything you need.
	I bought my gag or whatever.
	They are not the car actually.
	Viral drive.
	Well, but...
	Spread it.
	They knew that that...
	They can reach everything.
	Everything you need.

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