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	Fabulous!
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 15th, 2021.
	This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media Assassination Episode 1373.
	This is No Agenda.
	Inspired!
	And broadcasting live from the heart of Texas Hill Country.
	We're in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm getting out of Afghanistan.
	Toot, sweet.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Man, it's deja vu all over again.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, we're both flabbergasted.
	I know.
	Please, after you.
	It's unbelievable.
	We've been doing this show for 14 years.
	It's just restarting.
	And the thing that I can't get any clips from, well, this is going on.
	Well, we're running out of Afghanistan like maniacs, like our hair's on fire.
	Thank you, Pentagon, for the great job you've done.
	And of course, they blame everybody.
	Oh, you should have kept people there.
	Yeah, okay.
	Why are we bombing Somalia all of a sudden?
	It's like nobody's covering this bombing.
	I'm not supposed to talk about that.
	Isn't there a...
	I'm so certain there's a pipe...
	I've looked at this.
	I think there's a pipeline deal going down there.
	Well, maybe.
	It would make sense, but there's got to be some reason.
	Well, I mean...
	Okay, well...
	Oh, by the way, can we do a little housekeeping before we start?
	Yeah, of course.
	Yes.
	I have some other stuff.
	We can do all kinds of things.
	Housekeeping.
	Housekeeping.
	I've got a bunch of stuff, but housekeeping is important.
	One is...
	So we...
	I don't know where this...
	We got this information about the Mercola and having his information taken off of the Wayback Machine.
	Yeah, archive.org.
	Well, this was done because Mercola wanted it done.
	It had nothing to do with the archive.
	Oh, really?
	We besmirched them.
	Well, it was...
	I mean, if you don't...
	Look, if you look for a URL on the archive.org and it says nothing available at this URL and there's no other information, well, yeah.
	The archive.org never takes anything down except at the copyright holder's request.
	Ah, okay.
	All right.
	And I guess Mercola got a letter from the FDA, a warning letter.
	Yeah, about his products, right?
	I think it's his products that were the problem.
	Yeah, his products and his claims.
	Mostly his claims about the products.
	It was almost, you know, this is going to happen to Alex Jones pretty soon.
	And so he freaked out and took his whole website stuff down and they took everything off the archives.
	Did you talk to Brewster?
	What?
	Did you talk to Brewster?
	Brewster Kale?
	No, Brewster's on vacation.
	I talked to the guy who runs Archive.
	Oh, okay.
	Mark Graham.
	In fact, I haven't heard from him.
	I knew him from years ago.
	He used to be involved with FidoNet.
	Oh, my goodness.
	FidoNet.
	My head just exploded.
	Yeah.
	Storing forward, baby.
	Yeah.
	He was also involved with The Well during a certain period of its era.
	Yes, I have a copy of the final edition, print.
	And so Mark's an old pro, and he runs archive.org.
	And he denied that, but he turned me on to a bunch of stuff they're doing and what's up.
	It's astonishing.
	They have their 25th anniversary this year.
	I'm going to write it up.
	Give me one of the astonishes.
	Lift up the veil a little on one of these astonishing things they're doing.
	This is good news.
	They have almost every 78 record ever produced, archived, and available for listening.
	It makes the Library of Congress collection of old recordings.
	It looks sad.
	It's pathetic.
	They have, for example, not to belabor this, but they have, and you don't even know who this guy is, but I do.
	It seems as if they may not have every one, but they have most of all the recordings by Smith Ballou, who is a famous tenor from 1929 to about 1935.
	More importantly, do they have the entire archive of the No Agenda show?
	I don't know.
	Do they?
	You didn't ask?
	It's like, if you're comparing this to the Library of Congress, I want to be in there.
	I want to make sure every single one is in there.
	I'm sure I'll talk to them again.
	But it's unbelievable what they've got.
	And I complained to them.
	They said, well, you know, I can't find anything there because it's very difficult.
	Yeah, their search does not work like Google the way you expect it to.
	Right.
	It's a different way of doing things.
	And so he sent me a couple of master links that I just spoke.
	Okay, I'll put them in this column when I write it up.
	But anyway, so he wasn't too upset, but he did get a hold of me because he got some notes from some people grousing about, you bastards, you took down this and that, you're supposed to be archived.
	And he said, no, that's not what happened.
	Okay.
	So that's that.
	The other thing is, I got a note from our Hollywood producer, Brunetti, that I think I should read.
	Uh-oh.
	We've got information from the M5M, ladies and gentlemen.
	Brunetti on the case.
	He says, I'll be sending a donation soon, probably for next Thursday, so I have time to write you guys and have time to read my war and peace.
	Okay, now, this is the interest part.
	It's not that much.
	That guy in Idaho who is living on his land in an RV with his wife and kids is nuts.
	He's going against the Airstream life now.
	He says, even with the two Airstreams, me and Alex broke up every other week.
	And that was purely because of the Airstreams?
	No, it's because when you do...
	Everyone I've known who've tried this project, they move out onto some land, live with their wife and kids in a trailer, and build a house?
	They always get divorced.
	The house I'm living in...
	Is proof of this theory.
	...is one of those houses.
	In fact, we got this place in the song because they built this house.
	It's a big house, as you know.
	We got it for a song, relatively speaking.
	But it was this couple that decided to build a house, did the same kind of thing, and they couldn't take each other and got divorced afterwards.
	It's classic.
	Tell him to live there alone.
	Now, Eric built a house.
	Yes.
	And he moved a trailer out there.
	But he left his wife and kids at the other house, and he lived like a hermit out by himself.
	Smart man.
	They didn't have this problem.
	He still hasn't really recovered.
	Well, that's just Eric.
	Tell him to...
	Not true.
	Tell him...
	No.
	Tell him to live there...
	I don't...
	I mean it lovingly.
	Tell him to...
	Brunetti continues.
	Tell him to live there alone and have them come visit on the weekends or something.
	They should go live with the relatives until the house is done.
	Oh, man.
	Okay.
	So that's good info.
	Yes.
	Another great tip from your No Agenda show.
	A great marital tip.
	Yeah, and he had two air...
	So I was always assuming that two airstreams would do the trick, because I knew this problem existed.
	But I guess even two airstreams doesn't do it.
	No.
	So, there you go.
	There's your tip.
	Now, I've been following up on your mass hysteria theory, and I've come across something really interesting.
	But before we do all that, I'd actually, just looking at the titles of your COVID clips, because Afghanistan, I think, is a whole thing by itself.
	Just to understand what's happening right now where we're in, this mass hysteria thing, I like it a lot, and I found something I think that you might be interested in.
	However, Just to show how the Matrix has restarted, how this glitch has taken us back 10 years, and producers who have a lot of time on their hands have been scouring through the archives.
	I need to take you back to 2010, episode 228.
	How long ago was that?
	That was a while ago, and that was after the Deuce Club special, episode 200.
	You would remember that, wouldn't you?
	Yes, the Deuce Club special.
	Exactly.
	Eric Constable found this, and just listen to what we were talking about in 2010.
	I'll just finish up because, you know...
	We'll just bring out the last depressing piece of information you dug up this week.
	Okay, well, no, this is just staying on this vaccine stuff.
	So the superbug that was found in the United Kingdom due to medical tourism...
	Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
	Whatever happened to that guy?
	Well, no, it's now spread to Canada.
	So now it's been found in Canada in someone who actually had some medical work done in India.
	So, you know, this is, you got to stay here and you got to, you know, the insurance companies have to soak you here and you can't go anywhere else.
	It's got to all happen here.
	And in Wales, news now leaks out that the Welsh government was so worried about the pandemic That they had actually prepared mass graves for 40,000 people.
	But they essentially expected, or they actually had the number, 37,074 victims of the Welsh population to die of swine flu.
	As we know, that was a big scam, and there was all kinds of insider stuff at the WHO, who had links to the pharmaceutical companies.
	Yeah.
	How dumb are some of these governments?
	No wonder, yeah, I think the well should re-evaluate their leadership.
	It also suggested local joinery firms could be commissioned to construct simple coffins in the event of a coffin shortage.
	Or, if the event is extreme, body bags could be used instead.
	Yeah, I would do some hefty bags, man.
	Just throw the slaves in some hefty bags.
	But it's not like the plan is still there, because, you know, obviously, obviously, it can come back at the drop of a hat.
	It can happen any moment now.
	They're working on a better version of that bug now in a lab someplace.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, they're mixing it with...
	Dude, I'm telling you, you forget about what we were bullcrapping about 10 years ago, but is it any different, really?
	Except for, you know, now we've gone into this mass hysteria mode, and we didn't lock down back then.
	Well, everything is like a test run for the next worst case scenario.
	I mean, they're going to examine what happened this time and say, well, how can we make this even better?
	How can we do it even better?
	Yes, exactly.
	I don't know how they're going to beat this one.
	This is pretty tough.
	This is a good one.
	This is like very nicely done, I have to say.
	Let's do your COVID clips.
	Sure.
	Let's see what we've got.
	I have, I think, a couple of thematic clips.
	Yeah, this is kind of interesting.
	I think there's a, for one thing, I think they're, of course, I've been saying this for about a month.
	They're trying to wind this thing down.
	They're trying to push it back.
	And so I ran into this series of clips on one of the bald guys that hosts on CNN, which is most of them.
	It's either Smirconish or Seltzerwater.
	I think this is Smirconish.
	Yeah.
	You'll hear his voice and you can tell.
	I don't watch that.
	Yeah, I'm a fan.
	They're backing, they're trying to back something off and CNN's part of it.
	COVID vax, no vax, CNN, without the number.
	This is the beginning.
	A recent Wall Street Journal piece called The Power of Natural Immunity, Johns Hopkins professor Dr.
	Martin McCurry says we should be including survivors among the immune, writing, some 80 to 85 percent of American adults are immune to the virus.
	More than 64 percent have received at least one vaccine dose, and of those who haven't, roughly half have natural immunity from prior infection.
	Macquarie cites a recent study by the Cleveland Clinic of 1,359 people previously infected with COVID who were unvaccinated.
	Quote, none of the subjects subsequently became infected, leading the researchers to conclude that individuals who've had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination.
	Macquarie's point being that the people who've had COVID should be counted among those who have immunity.
	But these recent restrictions suggest otherwise.
	It's impossible to know how many people who have had COVID have also gotten vaccinated because the CDC doesn't track those numbers.
	The closest thing that we could find to an estimate comes from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
	Its survey from May of 2021 found 59 percent of those who say they have tested positive for COVID-19 at some point have also received at least one dose.
	This is similar to the share who have not tested positive, who said they've gotten at least one dose, 63 percent.
	Shouldn't those millions who didn't get vaccinated but have immunity as COVID survivors get to see the Foo Fighters?
	Yeah, man.
	This is one of the most frequently received emails I've been getting.
	Well, I have two sorts.
	One from the healthcare community, but one from people who are saying, what if?
	I have to take a vaccine even though I had COVID? They're flummoxed, really flummoxed.
	Well, the problem they've run into, I think they're backing off on this.
	This is where the passport fails.
	Unless you can get these people on the passport and you can't.
	There's no way.
	It's too late.
	And this is a mistake they will correct in the future, 10 years from now.
	Yes, they'll do it better.
	When we're on episode 6,000.
	Remember when we talked about that back in 2021?
	In the 20s, I tell you.
	In the 20s.
	Now, the reason I think they're backing off on this is because we always have to remember an old phrase, which is the business of America is business.
	And if you start segregating, people say, no, you can't do this.
	You can't spend money.
	You can't spend money on my product.
	You can't because of this or that.
	No, no, no.
	American business is not putting up with that.
	I don't like the idea of losing money because of your stupid games.
	So this is backing off.
	So here we go.
	Part two is they start to pile on now.
	Joining me now is Dr.
	Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
	He co-authored a piece on this subject for Smirkanish.com titled The Beauty of Vaccine and Natural Immunity.
	Dr.
	Bhattacharya, make the case, why should someone who's had COVID but not vaccinated get to see the Foo Fighters at Madison Square Garden?
	The key thing is that if you've had COVID, you have very, very complete protection against severe disease and bad outcomes just like the same way with the vaccine.
	You're protected in exactly a similar way.
	So why discriminate against people who have had COVID and recovered?
	They're protected just like the vaccine in many ways.
	The other thing that's important to remember, Michael, is that it's the COVID hasn't hit randomly in the population.
	It's had this sort of almost discriminatory effect.
	It's minorities and poor populations have hit harder by COVID in some ways.
	And they're also the more vaccine-hesitant parts of the population in some cases.
	So in a sense, we're like discriminating against people who are sort of on the margins, but with absolutely no public health reason behind it.
	Now they're going to use racism to back out.
	I love it.
	I do too.
	It's such a handy thing, that racism.
	Gosh, I love that.
	This is going to grow in the public psyche.
	Part three.
	You wrote that for my website, as a matter of fact.
	You said businesses that exclude the unvaccinated are, in effect, discriminating against the working class and the poor who have already suffered through the disease.
	Okay, how would this work in practical terms?
	I mean...
	I mean, I can tell you on one side, like I think a lot of these venues, they could ask for antibody or sort of if you had an antibody level, for instance.
	Also, if you have had COVID, presumably you saw a doctor and learned about it or had a positive PCR test before.
	That should actually be enough because if you've had COVID and recovered, then you're immune.
	Again, in the same way the vaccine.
	So I think just asking for like a doctor's note, I think could be enough.
	I mean, that would just like the same way you ask for a vaccine card is essentially a doctor's note.
	Dr.
	Bhattacharya, maybe a naive question from me, lacking your expertise, but what if I've had COVID and don't necessarily show antibodies?
	I mean, that doesn't mean that you are protected.
	In fact, quite the opposite.
	Antibody levels do fade, but there's other mechanisms of immune protection, T-cells and other mechanisms of immune protection, that last much longer than antibodies.
	So even though the antibody levels don't maybe turn negative after a few months, still you're protected, again, in the same way as antibodies against COVID from the vaccine.
	The mechanisms of immunity are actually quite similar from the vaccine and natural infection.
	So why are we discriminating between the two?
	Oh, wow.
	Good catch.
	This is a walk back.
	Holy crap.
	Yeah, it's a big one, too.
	I'm sorry.
	Just to analyze the walk back, and they're going to have to keep this up because this has gone too far.
	Again, let's go back to the future and say in 10 years they're going to have to fix this issue because this is a problem.
	This really invites, the next time around, invites more careful tracking of people.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	And I was reading, well actually, I want to jump into this because you say the business of America is business.
	In a local story, Austin, I think we talked about it maybe last show, two businesses had against the mandate and I guess the executive order of the governor of Texas had declared that if you wanted to eat in their restaurant, you had to show proof of vaccination.
	And I've been to Laundrette, so that's a total, total communist outfit.
	I mean, everybody in there is like, Antifa or communist.
	Good food, though.
	And so they decided that they would take the hit.
	Now, it's a small place.
	I think they maybe only have 20 tables.
	It's hard to get a reservation even.
	It used to be just on regular days without COVID. So they decided, well, you know, we'll be fine.
	We're just going to virtue signal like this.
	But...
	Even they have their limits when it comes to the business of America.
	A pair of Austin restaurants just pulled their new rules requiring customers to prove COVID-19 vaccination after getting a call from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
	We told you how Laundrette and Fresas announced they wanted to make the change.
	Turns out they cannot do so based on a Texas law passed in the legislative session.
	The TABC told them they would violate the law from Senate Bill 968.
	The COVID law banned vaccine passports in Texas, and it made it so if any business did try to require one, state agencies could pull their permits, such as a liquor license, if necessary.
	The TABC telling us they don't want to do that and would rather educate business owners before having to go that far.
	And so these restaurants capitulated right away because, you know, they like to virtue signal, but not for the most profitable part of their business.
	Not going to do that.
	Now, regarding the passports, I completely agree with you that they have messed this up.
	And in 10 years, they're not only going to have to take natural immunity into consideration, but now listen to the language because there's something very specific about this.
	How can you have a passport if you're not fully vaccinated?
	And a full vaccination will require a third dose.
	Because the immunocompromised may not get the same level of protection from two doses of Pfizer or Moderna, they would be eligible for a third dose of either vaccine, though it's recommended they stay with the same manufacturer.
	There was no decision for those given Johnson& Johnson because there's not enough data.
	Love that, by the way.
	The CDC pointing to studies that show 40% of hospitalized breakthrough cases involve those with weak immune systems.
	But the agency is not calling the third dose a booster.
	It's very clear the CDC is labeling this a third dose as appropriate because the first two doses were not adequate enough to get the full potential of immunity.
	Very different from a booster dose.
	As hospitals face a crushing wave of new COVID cases, experts say boosters for the fully vaccinated are likely a matter of when, not if.
	So you're going to get a third dose and boosters.
	So how can, you know, the system is not in place to, as you point out, record post-infection people who have natural immunity.
	The system is also not in place to add on extra vaccinations.
	They just don't have, I'm sure of it.
	I'm sure that's not in place.
	Well, the card has room for about five spots.
	Right, but if you've already sent it in, you have your digital passport or something like, you know.
	Oh yeah, no, once you get, right.
	Once you go through all that, then it's going to be pretty much impossible.
	Right.
	Do you have another COVID clip here?
	Yeah, I got a couple more.
	Okay.
	Two more.
	Go.
	Okay, this one here is just a classic NPR BS clip.
	They haven't been read in yet on the walkback.
	On the walkback?
	No.
	We haven't heard.
	The walkback has just begun, so I don't expect NPR is going to be last to hear about it.
	Because they're on their own.
	They do their own thing.
	But let's listen to this.
	This is COVID BS NPR. This is the story about Asheville.
	In Nashville, Vanderbilt University Medical Center declared itself completely full on Friday, meaning they are turning away many transfers, often from out of state.
	Methodist Le Bonner in Memphis, which serves residents of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, had just three ICU beds open with no sign that hospitalizations will slow down.
	Dr.
	Shalesh Patel says vaccinations are the key.
	If we do not take action now, we're going to be in a lot of trouble.
	We're not going to have the ability to care for people.
	Patel says at his hospital, 96% of COVID-19 deaths since June 1st have been among those who weren't vaccinated.
	For NPR News, I'm Blake Farmer in Nashville.
	They're way behind.
	And then here's another, this is the last clip I have.
	This is the booster.
	I call this clip and this is the booster creep, which is kind of what you just addressed, which is the idea that these vaccines don't work and they need a lot of boosters and they're going to probably need them forever if you expect a vaccine to work.
	By the time that they ever do work, they will be, the virus will be gone.
	But Booster creep is what I like to refer to as this.
	Oh, again, you need another shot.
	Oh, maybe two more.
	Let's play this.
	Santa Clara County is now allowing people with compromised immune systems to get a third vaccination shot in hopes of boosting protection from COVID-19.
	This comes days after US regulators announced transplant recipients, cancer patients and others could get an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
	Dr.
	Jennifer Tong is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
	We wanted to be ready to offer this as soon as it was approved by the FDA and recommended by the CDC because we knew that this population was the highest risk even when they've done everything that we've recommended.
	We haven't killed them yet.
	I love how this is for people who have weak immune systems where I think it's been clinically proven how this works.
	These mRNA vaccines actually are intended to weaken your immune system temporarily.
	Well, the other thing is there's counter-programming that...
	This is a local report, but there's counter-programming saying, well, if you're over a certain age, because you have a weakened immune system, you shouldn't take the shot under...
	And so you hear those reports, and you hear this report, where you need a booster, you need a booster.
	And then you have what you just pointed out, which is you have the counter-programming between the use of the term booster and third shot, or...
	I mean, it's out of control.
	At this point, it's a mess.
	I should have mentioned that the state of Illinois has been using Experian, the credit reporting company, as their identity verification provider.
	So when you send in your card for your vaccination pass, your digital pass, they check your ID against Experian.
	Isn't that cool?
	I wonder how long it'll be until credit karma starts to give you extra karma points if you are triple vaccinated.
	Oh, that's around the corner.
	They're ever meeting as we speak.
	These are things you really don't want to be involved in.
	So the vaccines is one thing, but there's something else.
	I'm going to come back to this mass hysteria, because I think you called that correctly.
	And we're also hearing terms like dictatorship, but I think totalitarian regime is the most overused or most used.
	Oh, it's totalitarian.
	Let's just do a quick trip around the world.
	This is a quick report from Roland.
	Los Angeles, now we know, no movie, no restaurant without proof of vaccination.
	In Germany, Roland says, the government has overridden the vaccination committee's recommendation to not go all out and vaccinate kids.
	Some schools are doing field trips to vaccination sites.
	Guess what they're doing there?
	Getting the kids vaccinated.
	Additionally, the rhetoric in private and public forums is getting more evil by the minute.
	People who don't want to get vaccinated are called vermin.
	Some even want to put them in camps.
	Yeah, Germany, he says.
	Oh, Germany, I got to leave her.
	Lastly, he says, in San Francisco, I can't go to a restaurant, bar, gym, or club anymore starting on the 24th of the month.
	San Francisco Jazz just announced on Thursday they will also only admit fully vaccinated people 12 years and older.
	You can bet the symphony, opera, and theater will follow their lead.
	The symphony's already done that because Jay just went to the symphony with her boyfriend and he had to have a vax card.
	Meanwhile, the EU is pondering to admit only visitors who are fully vaccinated.
	I hope I slip in under the wire, by the way.
	So we're looking forward.
	I'm not very excited about the pace of all this.
	It's eight more days or nine more days.
	Now, what is happening in Australia?
	Is kind of off the hook.
	And I'm completely tapped in.
	Sir Chris Wilson is locked up like a dog.
	He's been making great end-of-show mixes.
	He's passing on all the information.
	The resistance.
	There is a true resistance happening.
	But here is just a short report.
	Not even a report.
	This is New South Wales with their new measures for COVID and who they're for and what they do.
	I'm also told the New South Wales Government will be requesting from the Commonwealth more troops, so more members of the Australian Defence Force to try and police these orders because simply as it stands right now, Lizzie, it is not working what we're doing.
	The Police Commissioner and the Police Minister have put their heads together and they're trying to fix it themselves.
	And this is all happening now, but any idea of when we might see these changes?
	I'm told 48 hours have been given.
	The New South Wales Police forced their legal team to redraft these public health orders, essentially to make the health orders work for the police rather than work for the public.
	Because at the moment, the public, we're the people who are ensuring that this lockdown is continuing.
	A small group of people continually breaking the public health orders.
	Police don't believe they have the tools or have the ability to be able to stamp it out.
	And that is now what they're chasing.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	That actually was the report, and here she is.
	Government areas, including deployment of specialised commands, and including a riot squad, highway patrol, and increased presence more broadly.
	From Monday, there'll be 500 extra Australian Defence officers on the ground as well, following a request by New South Wales Police.
	There'll be enhanced random checkpoints at key roads with accompanying electronic warning signs so that police have every ability with that increased presence to clamp down on people doing the wrong thing.
	From Monday, the health orders will be formally enforced from midnight.
	However, between now and then, police will still be able to impose these additional fines, even though the health orders kick in on Monday morning after midnight.
	Between now and then, if police have evidence that you're doing the wrong thing in any of these categories, these additional fines will apply.
	So $5,000 for on-the-spot breach of home quarantine, which is currently $1,000.
	$5,000 on the spot for lying on a permit, which is already a criminal offence.
	$5,000 on the spot fine for lying to a contact tracer, which is already a criminal offence.
	$3,000 on the spot fine for breaching the two-person exercise rule in any way.
	$3,000 on the spot fine for breaching rules going into regional New South Wales.
	In Greater Sydney and other lockdown areas, but not the local government areas of concern, The 10 kilometre rule will come down to 5 kilometres.
	So you can obviously do activity within your local government area, but instead of 10 kilometres from your home, it will be 5 kilometres from your home.
	And that's for all of Greater Sydney.
	All those areas which aren't the local government areas of concern will now have imposed on them the 5 kilometres instead of the 10 kilometres.
	In affected local government areas, we want to stress that exercise means only exercise and supervision of children.
	So the word recreation will not leave any doubt that word is taken out in terms of those local government areas of concern.
	I mean, this is really quite severe.
	We've taken out the word recreation, only exercise.
	You better be doing jumping jacks, you shit.
	You pleb.
	It seems insane.
	So...
	I want to point out, and I have one clip in this regard too, which is the French riots.
	Oh, let's do that.
	Let's do that.
	But I want to point out that this is so underreported in the U.S. media.
	In fact, the French clip, which is in the U.S. media, you can see how they downplayed.
	Well, everyone's rioting, but it's no big deal.
	They won't even talk about the Australian thing.
	I have never seen a report on this.
	On the Australian situation in American media, that goes into the details we have.
	There's no reporting on, no real reporting on what's happening in the European Union, multiple countries, no reporting on what's happening when it comes to protests, the UK, with all of Australia.
	It's just, it's completely absent.
	There's also no reporting on Hunter Biden, you know.
	Just so you know, there's a lot of things that are going unreported, but this is a big one.
	The Biden stuff is just off the rails.
	And the fact that it's not being reported, I'd like to know what's wrong with the Americans.
	And I will say this, John, in defense of the American journalists, even though I wouldn't consider myself an American journalist at this point.
	But...
	I know there's a bunch of people working for these news organizations that would love to report on the Hunter Biden thing because it's juicy.
	It's fun.
	It's hilarious.
	It's the editors of these crapping major corporate news operations.
	It's the editors who are preventing it.
	They're preventing it and I'm sure that they, well, maybe some of my analysis in a bit will explain what's going on with them as well.
	Good.
	Let's do the French thing.
	I want to hear the French riots.
	Yeah, here's the French report that I think came off NPR. More than 200,000 people amassed across France today for a fifth round of demonstrations against the so-called health pass law.
	As Rebecca Rossman reports, the law took full effect earlier this week.
	Macron, don't pass.
	Led by the far-right Patriot Party leader Florian Philippot, demonstrators in Paris shouted, Macron, we don't want your pass, while carrying signs that said liberate us and corona madness.
	France's health pass requires people to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test to enter bars, restaurants, cafes, or to board a train or plane.
	But recent polls show that despite the vocal opposition, the majority of France's 76 million people support the health pass.
	Government data shows nearly two-thirds of the eligible population is now fully vaccinated, and the government says it expects to reach its target of vaccinating 50 million people by the end of August.
	For NPR News, I'm Rebecca Rossman in Paris.
	If they say 200,000, you can bet it was probably closer to 2 million.
	Yeah, I'm sure it was closer to that.
	They always lowball that kind of stuff.
	But then they backed it off.
	You know, just a bunch of jerk-offs.
	Yeah.
	Most people are very happy.
	Everybody's real happy.
	Well, they're not, and we all know it, because all you need to do is take a look at Twitter and see the hate and the just real vile back and forth.
	You only have to look at the...
	Well, I look at all the emails coming in.
	Families...
	There's this one great video, it's a sad video of some Australian guy whose wife, who also works in healthcare, had him arrested for a so-called mental breakdown because he refused to accept the vaccine into his life.
	The wife had him arrested?
	Yes, and they put him in a detention center for the mentally ill.
	And he's doing videos from that.
	Don't marry an Australian woman.
	I get lots of emails from producers whose spouse is pressuring them, or spouse accepted vaccine, spouse sick, what do I do now?
	All these kinds of things.
	Yes?
	Yes.
	I would love you to re-read the note that you had.
	You don't have to do it now, but if you could, it'd be great.
	The note that you had from one of our producers, who happened to be a Duke, whose mother-in-law kept pressuring him and his wife to get the shot, and then when she got the shot, she It ruined her.
	And now she's a babbling idiot because of the nature of the shot and the old women.
	That was a couple shows ago.
	That would be hard for me to find.
	Yeah, it was more than a couple shows ago, actually.
	But it was an example of this.
	And then she got the shot and I guess there was some syndrome that does happen occasionally to somebody where you just go mentally ill.
	Yeah.
	And you just go nuts and you go bad and you have to be locked up.
	But what is happening is, I think you and I and all the producers of the No Agenda show started at the beginning.
	In fact, it's interesting that the government says, well, you know, these anti-vaxxers, these deniers, they look at a lot of data, those crazy people.
	So we were looking at a lot of data, and we're like, this is bull.
	Look, we have the experience, even though we couldn't really consciously bring it up.
	So we have the experience of this exact same situation.
	We know to be very skeptical because that's what it's been in the past, including what we played 10 years ago.
	Yeah, 10 years ago.
	So when it comes to our amygdala or whatever it is inside our brains, we're not slipping into the trap of being all in and...
	And we can recognize people who are all in on what I think we would consider to be at least partial if not faulty information.
	So what is happening?
	You mentioned mass hysteria.
	We have people talking about totalitarianism, dictatorship.
	Reiner Fullmacht.
	You remember him?
	He's the lawyer who's suing the World Health Organization.
	He's got hundreds of lawyers and doctors and they're building their case.
	Good luck.
	Well, I totally agree.
	But the way he's doing it, he's doing basically depositions online.
	And he has, I mean, the one I got is deposition number 63.
	So, you know, he's been doing a lot of this.
	And he has three other lawyers in the room.
	And they even have kind of those deposition mics that are on the table.
	You know, the little pointy, you know, the little stick mics that point up.
	So it has a whole, it truly comes across, but it's on Zoom and so they bring in people from all over the world.
	And this next guy, I think, nails it.
	He was surprised himself.
	His name is Matthias Desmet.
	He's from the University of Ghent in Belgium.
	And he is a professor in, I think, clinical psychology with a master's in statistics.
	In fact, here's his credentials.
	Just a minute so you can kind of get into his voice.
	It takes a little bit, but I think you'll be okay.
	Everyone will be okay with understanding what he has to say.
	I'm a professor in clinical psychology at the Ghent University, and I also have a master's degree in statistics.
	But in this crisis, I've been taken...
	Sorry?
	I said everyone can get into it because they've heard this voice a million times.
	This is your voice.
	You're pointing it out very good.
	Okay, so we know exactly how to listen to him.
	This is great.
	In this crisis, I've been taking the perspective of mass psychology, yes, indeed.
	In the beginning of the crisis, I have been studying the statistics and the numbers.
	And actually I noticed that they were often blatantly wrong and at the same time people continued to believe in it and to go along with the mainstream narrative.
	And that was why I started to study it rather from the perspective of mass psychology because I knew that Mass formation has huge, huge impact on individuals' intelligence and cognitive functioning.
	And I had the feeling that this was the only thing that could explain why highly intelligent people started to believe in the narrative and the numbers that were, in many respects, utterly absurd.
	So this guy had my attention.
	As a statistician, he was looking at the same numbers we were.
	We saw the switcheroos.
	We saw the models.
	And we said, no, we don't have to be statisticians.
	We don't need a master to see that they're fooling around with the numbers.
	And then he switched to his true expertise, which is math or psychology.
	And so he uses a term called mass formation.
	And you will hear that again in another clip.
	Mass formation is mass hysteria or mass hypnosis can also be a term.
	To get into this state of mass hysteria, You need four elements.
	Four things need to exist or need to be in place if you want large-scale mass phenomena to emerge.
	And the first thing is that there need to be a lot of socially isolated people, people who experience a lack of social bond.
	The second one is that there needs to be a lot of people who experience a lack of sense-making in life.
	And the third and the fourth condition is that there needs to be a lot of free-floating anxiety and a lot of free-floating psychological discontent.
	If you have these four things, lack of social bond, lack of sense-making, free-floating anxiety and free-floating psychological discontent, Then, society is highly at risk for the emergence of mass phenomena.
	And these four conditions existed shortly before the corona crisis.
	There was like an epidemic of burnout.
	Over 40 to 70% of the people experienced their jobs as completely senseless.
	This is described in the book, Bullshit Jobs.
	And then if you look at the use of psychopharmaceuticals, it was huge.
	And then this shows how much discontent there was in our society.
	So, we had an interesting timing of events here with a society that was disconnected, depressed about their future, bullcrap jobs.
	A couple of things that also, just to point out, come to mind immediately, by quarantining the healthy instead of the sick, which would just exacerbate item number one.
	Now you're separating everybody.
	And the edicts Including one I think I put in a newsletter, a picture of it.
	No talking!
	Yes!
	Exactly!
	Exactly!
	Don't talk to your neighbor!
	Wear a mask and no talking!
	So he talks about these free-floating anxieties.
	Here's what that means.
	Free-floating anxiety is the most painful psychological phenomena someone can experience.
	So it's extremely unpainful.
	It leads up to panic attacks, to all kinds of extremely painful psychological experiences.
	So, what people want in this situation is something to connect their anxiety to.
	They are looking for an explanation for their anxiety.
	And now, if this free-floating anxiety is highly present in a population, and...
	The media provide a narrative which indicates an object of anxiety and at the same time describe a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety.
	Then all the anxiety connects to this object and people are willing To follow the strategy, to deal with this object, no matter what the coast is.
	That is what happens in the beginning of mass formation.
	Then, in a second step, people start a collective and heroic battle with this object of anxiety.
	And in that way, a new kind of social bond emerges and a new kind of sense-making.
	Suddenly, life is all directed at battling the object of anxiety and in this way, establishing a new connection with other people.
	Hello, Twitter.
	The New York Times.
	Yes, yes.
	Let's take it to the highest standard, NBC, CBS, NPR. All of them.
	And this is, turns out that this is very, very dangerous when this takes place.
	So we have this complete lack of understanding of what is going on, why is it happening, I'm isolated, quote-unquote, from other people or even from your family, and I don't know what's going on.
	Then all of a sudden, ah, it's the COVID. We all have to attack the COVID. And we do that with wearing masks and we do it with vaccines.
	And the crowd now goes from complete isolation to a complete sense of community and belonging and collectiveness.
	And that's the sudden switch.
	Of a negative state, a radical lack of social connection, to the opposite, to the massive social connection that is experienced in a crowd, the sudden switch leads up to a sort of mental intoxication.
	And that's what makes mouse formation or cryo-formation the exact equivalent of hypnosis.
	So, all people who have been describing, who have been studying mouse formation, such as Gustave Le Bon, for instance, MacDougall, Canetti, have remarked that mass formation is not similar to hypnosis, that mass formation is exactly equal to hypnosis.
	Mass formation is a sort of hypnosis.
	Okay.
	Go ahead.
	Well, a couple of things come to mind.
	One, by the way, this is a clip of the day when you're done.
	It's funny that Scott Adams, who got the vaccine, is the master hypnotist.
	He's the master at spotting this sort of thing.
	He did note my mass hysteria column, even though he said he didn't quite buy it.
	Although it was kind of written with guys like him in mind.
	But he noted it.
	I didn't clip this particular bit.
	It's all in the show.
	Most people can go check it out.
	He said that it took him six months, this professor.
	He said, I didn't understand what was happening.
	And after six months, I slowed...
	Because someone said, you know, could this be your colleagues who have been paid to do this and create this?
	He said, no, no.
	I don't think most of them are aware.
	He said, I wasn't even aware that it was actually taking place.
	And once you're in that state, which according to the...
	It happens to anybody.
	It happens to everybody overboard on our show.
	For sure.
	They're goners for sure.
	But when you get into the state of mass formation or mass hypnosis, a lot of crazy stuff can be done to you.
	So what happens is that at that moment, when people experience this mental intoxication, it doesn't matter anymore whether the narrative is correct or wrong, even blatantly wrong.
	What matters is that it leads up to this mental intoxication.
	And that's why they continue to go along with the narrative, even if they...
	Could know by thinking for one second that it is wrong.
	Because for people, it doesn't matter when the narrative is wrong.
	And what we all try to do is we all try to show constantly that the narrative is wrong.
	But for people, that's not what it is all about.
	It's all about the fact that they don't want to go back.
	To this painful state of free-floating anxiety.
	I'm so on board with this.
	I completely believe that's what's taking place.
	It makes nothing but sense.
	But let me add another little element, which I forgot in the last segment.
	When he talks about the new community that forms under this mass hypnosis state, and it's like, oh, we're relieved a little bit of this.
	That's the community.
	That's where the stay safe, which is Heil Hitler.
	The Germans were in a community.
	They're all, you know, Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler.
	And the other one, which is, are you vaccinated?
	Yes.
	Did you join the party?
	Which, are you vaccinated is the same as if you had the training in Est?
	Yes.
	It was a cult?
	Yeah.
	Have you had the training?
	Have you had the training?
	Oh, yes, I have.
	Oh, okay, you're a member of our group.
	Have you been vaccinated?
	Oh, good, you're a member of our group.
	We can be happy together.
	It's very sick at this point.
	Sick.
	It is so sick that this state that people are in can make them completely, since all they want to do is not go back to the pain of the isolation and the misunderstanding and the unknown...
	That you can actually inflict pain on them and they won't even know it.
	As a consequence of mass formation, people do not get egoistic at all.
	Rather, to the contrary, mass formation focuses your attention so much on one point that you can take...
	Everything away of people, their psychological and physical well-being, their material well-being, you can take it away and they will even not notice it.
	And that's one of the major consequences of mass formation.
	And it's exactly the same as hypnosis, as classical hypnosis.
	During hypnosis, someone's attention is focused on one point, You can cut in his flesh.
	The person will not notice it.
	That is what happens all the time when hypnosis is used as a kind of anesthesia during surgical operations.
	A rather simple hypnotic procedure is sufficient to make people completely insensitive to pain.
	And I think that we're beyond that state.
	We're in the next phase.
	And this is where he got my attention as he equates this mass hypnosis, this mass formation, with totalitarianism, which is not what you might think it is.
	Another consequence that is very typical for totalitarian states is that people become radically intolerant for dissonant voices.
	If someone tells another story or if someone claims that the official story is wrong, then this person threatens to wake the people up.
	And they will get angry because they are confronted with the initial anxiety and the initial psychological discontent.
	And so they direct all their aggression at these dissonant voices, at the other voices.
	And at the same time, they are radically tolerant for their leaders, for the people who pronounce the mainstream narrative.
	These people can actually cheat and lie and manipulate and do everything they want.
	They will always be forgiven by the crowd because the crowd seems to think that they do it for their own sake.
	And that's also part of the mechanism of mass formation.
	So, of course, they get completely radicalized.
	They hate you.
	They hate you if you go against the narrative.
	A lot of people, they say, he's not my friend anymore.
	Oh, yeah.
	They divest themselves.
	You're dead to me.
	All of that stuff.
	Family members, it doesn't matter.
	And it's not.
	And I think, well, I only have one more clip and we can discuss it.
	But here's the kicker of the situation we are in right now.
	Is this a medical tyranny?
	Is this a biosecurity state?
	Perhaps.
	But when it comes to our leaders, this is the most interesting thing.
	If there is one difference between mass formation and totalitarianism, because the two are almost identical, on the one hand, and classical hypnosis on the other hand, then it is that while in classical hypnosis, the one who hypnotizes is awake, His field of attention is not narrowed down.
	In mass formation and in totalitarianism, the field of attention of the leaders of the masses, of the totalitarian leaders, is usually even narrower than the field of attention of the population.
	Meaning that the totalitarian leaders and the leaders of the masses usually really believe in the ideology According to which they try to organize society.
	So they are convinced, for instance, of transhumanism.
	They are convinced of mechanistic materialism and so on.
	They are convinced of the ideology.
	They are convinced that this ideology will bring people in a kind of artificial paradise because that's something that is common to all kinds of totalitarianism.
	The leaders of the masses and the totalitarian leaders, not usually, always, said Gustave Le Bon and Hannah Arendt, they're really deeply convinced of the ideology.
	We are effed.
	Big time.
	I've known this for decades.
	I know, I'm just waking up to it.
	So, with our quote-unquote...
	This is very good.
	This is the top...
	This is the kind of stuff...
	Of course, our listeners and producers, mainly everyone's a producer, except a few out there.
	Our producers are...
	We've kept them from falling into the abyss.
	I mean, at least I'm only saying that not based on what I think.
	I'm saying it based on what they write in.
	Yes.
	And they keep telling us this.
	And so we have to assume this is true.
	And I just want to make sure that everyone recognizes the fact that we're on top of it.
	So, his whole talk is interesting.
	Very hard to pull short enough clips.
	This was much longer than typical, but I think it was worth it.
	I could have listened to more of it.
	But what he says is that, okay, so, we cannot...
	What doesn't work with the mass formation is...
	Facts.
	None of that works.
	He says, first, everyone needs to embrace these people who are so afraid of the pain of going back to where we were or the free-floating anxiety.
	We have to understand that and embrace that.
	And he says the second thing, and he completely went on a whole rant about Hitler, Germany, World War II. He says the most important thing is everybody has to keep speaking.
	You have to keep speaking your truth.
	When that shuts down and it's...
	It's happening on Twitter.
	It's being shut down.
	The mainstream media was shut down.
	It's shut down on Twitter.
	It's shouted down.
	And now it's being censored.
	And so that is why it's so critical that we continue speaking our own truth.
	As long as we still make noise, we still have a chance.
	His words, the professor.
	But whoa, we're in a pickle.
	We're in a real pickle.
	And by the way, once the COVID thing blows over, you've got climate change to fall back on, and climate change is the exact same mechanism.
	Oh, and it's already started.
	The connector is there.
	Did you catch it?
	I'm sure you caught it.
	Which one?
	Oh, here's the connector.
	Here it is.
	This is a report from the Bay Area NBC. We had a record number of spare the air days last year and were told to stay inside.
	Outside, we were told to wear N95 masks to protect ourselves from that toxic smoke.
	And now a study shows that COVID infection rates actually spiked during those high smoke days in 2020 and that there was a correlation between particulate matter and positivity rates.
	It is an observational study at this point by the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, but it's something to look at.
	As the authors say, it shows that pollution makes people more susceptible to infection.
	So a reminder of what you can do.
	People most susceptible.
	You hear what this is going on here?
	So because of the wildfires, because of climate change, more people got sick with COVID. And this is not just the local NBC. The Washington Post headline, new study says wildfire smoke linked to increased COVID cases and deaths.
	Axios, excess COVID cases, deaths linked to wildfire smoke in new study.
	And it is indeed, it's a preprint.
	It's not peer-reviewed.
	But this is okay.
	Oh, we got to push this one.
	This has got to be it.
	This is it.
	Here we go.
	We got it.
	They got the link.
	And what do you do when you have climate change, which creates fires, which makes more people get sick with COVID? You put them inside.
	I'm going to take my clip of the day before I forget, by the way.
	Oh, yeah.
	Don't forget.
	Sorry.
	I mean, they are actually quite few and far between these days.
	Let's take it now.
	Clip of the day.
	So...
	Yeah, it makes nothing but sense.
	Yeah, I'm a little concerned about it.
	Somewhat.
	Well, here's what I'm really concerned about.
	Is the collapse of the healthcare system.
	Which, at this point, I'm thinking it's almost intentional.
	Which would be perfect for universal healthcare, by the way.
	I'm sure that's still on deck.
	I have report.
	Boots on the ground.
	And I will reiterate my position, which is it's counter to universal healthcare.
	Because the elements that are collapsing would be part of universal healthcare.
	I just do not see how they can pull this off.
	They're screwing it up.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's possible.
	Okay.
	But there is a crisis, manufactured or not, and it's all staffing related.
	All of these reports, because you'll see a report, oh, in Oregon, hospital beds almost full, ICU units, COVID cases.
	And the main reason is, they can't get the staff.
	They laid off a whole bunch of staff through the first cycle of this, and Which was never fully explained.
	No.
	First of all, let's go back to the olden days.
	February, March of 2020.
	COVID is bad.
	They have the two Mercy ships coming into dock in New York Harbor, unused.
	Javits Center filled to the gills with beds, unused.
	The hospitals, they show reports of all the ambulances, but then every blogger in the world went by with their cameras, found nothing going on.
	In the meantime, the hospitals were supposed to be stocked full of people, and I guess one was, which was kind of the test case.
	And then they lay off a bunch of people because...
	They just laid off a bunch of people everywhere.
	What was the point of laying off people because they weren't COVID specialists?
	None of it made any sense.
	So just a few headlines and a few quick boots on the ground reports.
	Shenandoah Valley.
	Some nurses choose termination over getting the vaccine.
	Tennessee is one of our producers.
	A lot of people just quit.
	Just quit.
	They're just tired of it.
	They're tired of the stress because they're understaffed.
	Uh, Phoenix.
	Mandatory hospital, uh, vaccines for hospital workers are spreading with Phoenix Children's Hospital now requiring the job by October 1st.
	I had lunch with a friend whose wife is a surgical manager at the hospital and the employee staged a walkout over the new requirements.
	According to her, roughly 40% of the surgical staff is not vaccinated and has reported no intention of getting the jab.
	Hospital leadership is concerned.
	This is the best one.
	And of course, the question as to why they're not getting the jab is never addressed.
	Now, why would you?
	There's amion.com, A-M-I-O-N, is a staffing scheduling program used by hospital and urgent care facilities nationwide.
	My wife works for Sutter in Northern California.
	This week it's been discovered that schedule shifts for physicians seem to be disappearing from Amion.
	Amion, of course, links to Apple and Google calendars, and most people have a sense of when they're working, but they check before they show up for their ER or UC shifts.
	No...
	Am I on shift?
	They assume they're not on the schedule and don't show up.
	Result?
	An artificial shortage of medical staff to deal with the worsening pandemic, leading to longer delays and, wait for it, overflowing emergency rooms.
	ER waiting rooms.
	Look out for news stories about the pandemic overwhelming ERs in the next week or two.
	They will either not mention the problem with scheduling or they will simply mention a staffing shortage just as the crisis goes.
	Ooh!
	And he says, I note that Sutter did not say M.I.N. had been hacked, just that shifts are mysteriously disappearing.
	I don't know, man.
	This could be intentional stuff.
	I don't know.
	Could be intentional.
	And then you get all of the...
	This is globally.
	You get people who work in government, and they're now also forced into vaccination.
	In Canada, the transport minister, Al-Ghabra, He says, yeah, the vaccine will be mandatory for federal employees and those working in some federally regulated industries.
	Airlines, railways, banking, broadcasting, telecommunication.
	This is not a recommendation.
	This is a mandatory requirement to work in a federal workplace or work in the government of Canada.
	So, you know, but when it comes to the healthcare system, it's...
	Let me ask you this.
	In aviation...
	The pilot and co-pilot never have the same meal for a very simple reason.
	If one of them is bad, then, you know, the other one probably won't get sick and can probably still fly the aircraft.
	How does that work if everyone's vaccinated in the hospital and something's wrong?
	Who takes over then?
	Who flies the plane?
	It goes down, man.
	Yeah, man, it goes down.
	I'm concerned about this.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, the whole thing, it's...
	I mean, all we can do is deconstruct the news.
	Oh, yeah, of course.
	No, that's all we want to do.
	I know, that's actually...
	That's a fact, by the way.
	There's nothing else I want to do.
	That's all we want to do.
	We don't want to deal with this crap.
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	Do I have anything else?
	I want to mention a couple of things.
	Also, back to that guy's little talk.
	When he talked about the book Bullshit Jobs, which I was unfamiliar with, but he talked about the lead-up to this whole thing and the jobs thing where people were dissatisfied with their jobs.
	They've been brainwashed.
	Another brainwashing thing we don't discuss much is the brainwashing about a job.
	Then the kids have been brainwashed.
	Don't do anything that you're not passionate about.
	It's a mainstream thing.
	When I was a kid, I just did anything to make money.
	And I'd always go for the most, you know, I'd go work a union job or something, doing something.
	Lousy.
	A job that's not much fun, but it's a lot of money.
	And that used to be an attitude of my group and the baby boomers.
	We used to go, yeah, I'll go work on an assembly line.
	I hate it, but I'll do it because it pays well.
	But over the years, everyone's been convinced, don't do anything unless you really love it.
	Well, there's very few jobs in your life that you're ever going to really love.
	I mean, hobbies.
	You want to love something?
	Take up a hobby.
	Become a photographer.
	Start podcasting.
	Do podcasting.
	There's over 4.5 million people that have tried to do podcasting.
	Go for it, peeps.
	And you can love doing that or not.
	I mean, you might get sick of it.
	Most people would like you that's mentioned in all the stats.
	They do five podcasts and then they quit.
	Because it's not as easy as it looks, especially when you do this many.
	So this idea has created this dissatisfaction.
	And Bullshit Jobs is just a reflection of it.
	And that's accounting for...
	These people that aren't going back to work.
	I think a lot of it, you know, the Republicans all blame it out.
	Well, you're getting free money from the government.
	You're never going to go back to work.
	You know, the humans of today, and this is where I think in 10 years when they roll the new script, they'll have to adjust.
	They had too much communications.
	They had too much time to think.
	No hardship really of getting food.
	Oh, make a note of that.
	We've got to make food a little harder because they were not concentrating on the basic necessities that much.
	They were concentrating on evaluating their life and like, hey, you know, I can do with a little less money and I can do something else and have more fun.
	Instead of being a slave for that a-hole.
	In New York now, young people are advised not to take any job, even if you're one, two years out of college, for less than $72,000.
	That's how they talk amongst themselves.
	What?
	Yes.
	Yep.
	You know, everybody thinks...
	By the way, let's add another element to this, the self-esteem movement, where people's self-worth is way out of proportion of what their real worth is.
	You're not worth $72,000 a year for not knowing anything and having zero experience.
	It's just no.
	No.
	And the narrative now is, oh, it's a workers' market.
	Yeah, they can sit there and demand more higher wages.
	Sure.
	Tell that to the robots who are taking over your job.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	I hate that at HEB when I walk out.
	I had to get some barbecue stuff for the grill.
	And I had maybe eight items, you know, small, carrying in my arms.
	I just go through the self-checkout.
	And as I'm standing, I'm like, this is it, man.
	It's no more kids no longer needed for packing bags.
	It's not needed.
	Soon you'll just throw it into a trough and it'll come out the other end packed.
	Tap your wrist with your chip.
	It's like the book publishing businesses now.
	You can actually print one book.
	Yeah.
	Because it's all automated.
	Yeah.
	Publish on demand.
	These kids are in for a rude awakening, especially when the economy collapses and they wish that they had developed some experience at a low pay.
	Well, no.
	They will all be thanking me that I invented Podcasting 2.0.
	Oh, yeah.
	100 million podcasters.
	Possibility.
	They're trying to value for value.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Hey, if two old dudes can do it, who can't?
	You know what I'm saying?
	This is where you go.
	Yeah, anybody can do it.
	Anybody can do it.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the seas in the COVID climate link, ladies and gentlemen, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to the trolls in our troll room, all lined up, looking purdy, good to go.
	We like to count them just to make sure we got enough to make it worth us, worth our effort.
	Here we go.
	Oh, troll count.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, they're scurrying away.
	Oh, okay.
	2285.
	Is that a topper or are we five below?
	Was it 20?
	No, no.
	The topper is 23 something.
	Oh.
	Well, you wrote it down.
	I have it here if I can find my glasses.
	Okay.
	Well, you'll look for that.
	Well, Trolls, good to see you.
	You can find them and join them at trollroom.io.
	2314.
	2314.
	Okay, so we're below.
	We're below.
	But we're not bad.
	Anything above 2,000 is good.
	I think so.
	It's good, yeah.
	Now, the trolls, which you can join, they hang out over there at trollroom.io, but also noagendastream.com.
	You can listen live to this podcast, many other podcasts all across No Agenda Nation.
	You can troll the host if they're reading along.
	Or, you know, you just troll each other.
	It's fun.
	It's a good place to be.
	It's kind of where the discussion starts and then it usually flows over to No Agenda Social.
	That's our Federated Mastodon instance, which is available through any other Mastodon server that you can join up to.
	You can certainly start your own.
	ITMSlaves.com is a good example of that.
	You can probably join there still.
	ITMSlaves?
	Yeah, ITMSlaves.com.
	That's a good one.
	We had some ISP connection issues, so stuff is going up and down, and we had a couple of short down periods, and that's why it's distributed.
	So now only 10,000 people couldn't communicate across the network, but ITMSlaves.com still could.
	This is why we need more of that.
	So follow John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com or Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	And I'd like to thank...
	Our artist for episode 1372.
	We titled that Grope Line.
	Of course, we were honoring the Cuomo sexual governor.
	And right along with that, from Comic Strip Blogger, came a fabulous piece of art.
	Fabulous in multiple ways, certainly in its simplicity.
	We had Boy Robin with the...
	Fabulous!
	We had Boy Robin with the pride-colored font, and I went looking, and there is indeed a picture of Boy Robin that is that picture.
	Oh, no.
	Yes, that's...
	You mean Comic Strip blogger took a photo from someplace else?
	He didn't actually make that photo himself?
	Exactly.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh.
	So that's not one of his photos.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Let me see.
	We were also looking at a lot of other things.
	A lot of buts.
	Too many buts.
	Too many buts.
	There's one good but.
	I like the but.
	Well, let me go.
	I didn't.
	Well, you like Nestworks' but.
	I like Nestworks' but.
	Nestworks did a good but there.
	Yeah, we didn't.
	We decided not to.
	There's no buts about it.
	We didn't do buts.
	What else was there?
	No, we didn't.
	I thought Fletcher's was very creative.
	Just a black background.
	And it said, not clip art was the title of it.
	So that was very good.
	The no agenda FDA vigilant sacrifice.
	Cute.
	Cute.
	There was a number of kind of quasi-evergreen pieces that were...
	You know one that you liked and it was like, I didn't like.
	Trust the protocol.
	Yeah, trust the protocol.
	Right, Darren.
	It was just, it was boring.
	Well, okay.
	I mean, it was hypnotic and I kind of, maybe I just fell into my hypnotic state.
	Well, yeah, it was a problem.
	That's why there's two of us.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	That was kind of it, I think.
	I don't think it was that good of a collection.
	No.
	It was a tough show to draw art for.
	This is also true.
	This is also true.
	But, you know, stuff like Pfizer pussy vaccine.
	Yeah, that's just not going to happen.
	No agenda.
	Fart away.
	Anti-fart oral vaccine.
	I mean, no.
	No.
	Yeah.
	No.
	Fart and booger and dick jokes is what it's called in the trade.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	It's not something we want to go toward.
	Trying to stay away from that.
	Well, thank you very much, Comicstrip Blogger.
	Appreciate the artwork and all of...
	Comicstrip Blogger, of course, has been around for...
	Oh my goodness, man.
	He's been around before the show.
	Oh, you're right.
	He's around doing Yo Agenda.
	No Agenda, Yo Agenda.
	His whole orientation in life was to bitch about us personally and bitch about the show.
	Yes.
	That was his thing.
	And he still kind of is that way.
	No, that is his thing.
	Nothing's changed.
	And he draws cartoons.
	I just like the consistency of it.
	And he draws cartoons and he has a podcast about artificial intelligence.
	Yeah, I didn't know that, did you?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I did not know that.
	Yeah.
	Is it called Blow Agenda?
	You can see all of these fine pieces of artwork expertly crafted in our cloud chapters by Dreb Scott if you're using a podcasting 2.0 compatible app.
	And I wanted to mention for those of you who want to do a video podcast, you can now upload to Alex Gates' No Agenda Tube, noagendatube.com.
	Ooh, yeah.
	And then it automatically, it will get a feed and it will show up in the new podcast apps.
	And it'll play video.
	Ha ha!
	So there's no storage cost, yet it shows up everywhere.
	So, haha!
	Newpodcastapps.com.
	And now, let us thank some of the producers who brought the treasure of the three Ts, time, treasure, and talent, or time, talents, and treasure.
	And we'd like to congratulate our executive producers and associate executive producers right off the bat.
	Well, let's start with Anonymous, 34572.
	And this is for DC. By the way, it's not a big list of people to thank today.
	We got shorted because everyone saw that we had a big donor last time.
	This always works out like that.
	It evens out in the end.
	It evens out in the end.
	This is for DC Girls Damehood.
	I'd like to get this in for the Sunday show, which she did.
	She would like her name to be Dame DC Girl of the Virginia Lovers.
	Oh, yeah.
	She had no input for the roundtable items, so just the usual stuff.
	So they had a meetup, the spooktacular meetup, and they sent in a meetup report, which you'll hear later.
	I'm telling you, there was not a single spook in there.
	There were maybe six, and you can hear it.
	These guys are like, oh, spook!
	There's so many spooks in that.
	It's insane.
	I mean, you'll laugh your butt off when you hear it.
	Like, oh, spook.
	Another guy's spook.
	But that's what we love about it.
	The spook community is welcome here at No Agenda.
	As long as the amygdalas are correctly sized, everybody can't participate.
	Thank you very much.
	I think the spooks, they add a dimension to us.
	An important dimension.
	Very important.
	Things are going on.
	There's like an underworld of things going on.
	I don't know what to say.
	DC Girl will see you on the podium in a bit.
	John Craig, 33817.
	And he's from Centennial, Colorado.
	Please dedouche me!
	You've been dedouched.
	Avid listener since JRE last year.
	And smacked my smoking hot bride of 20 years.
	That's the...
	Oh, 817.
	I got it.
	Oh, 817.
	It's their anniversary.
	And they never had a fight.
	Give us some anniversary love with karma.
	Thank you for all your efforts making the truth obvious with humor.
	Well, we'll certainly try the humor part.
	You've got karma.
	Now we have Marshall Scarpula, who is producing a movie.
	I've got to find his original note here.
	Do you need a moment and I'll read the next one?
	Yeah, read the next one as I find the right one.
	Martin Radloff from...
	Maringaden West in Queensland, Australia.
	I hope I got that right.
	33333.
	And he also emailed.
	Good day, Adam and John.
	Martin Radloff here from near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
	My donation today of 33333 Aussie dollary dues is a double whammy executive producership and it will finally take me to knighthood.
	It's been a long road financially with many obstacles along the way, including six months overboard.
	Thanks, Obama!
	In 2005, I started listening to Adam's Daily Source Code and Twit with John as a panelist.
	Yes, Leo there called podcasts, not netcasts, you numpty.
	John's dry wit and common sense take on things was refreshing, and I love the varied content and perspective on music that Adam delivered.
	Transmitters?
	We don't need no stinking transmitters.
	Imagine my delight when John and Adam came together with their own show.
	Can't convey enough how important you guys are to me and my sanity.
	So I'm brimming with pride that I become a knight of the round table and kneel before you as your mighty yet surprisingly rusty swords are waved above me.
	Please recognize me as Sir Martin of the Western Downs and have our round kitchen maids prepare some barbecued lamb chops washed down with a dozen Bundy and Cokes.
	Let's bookend this with some karma, a little gurier, and don't laugh.
	Happy to do so.
	See you at the round table.
	Thank you!
	Yay!
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	You've got karma.
	Shut up.
	I found the right note.
	And this is a good reminder when people send notes to be read.
	If it goes back and forth with me or anyone, keep the original note in there, so whatever note I pick up, because I've got like 10 notes I've got to look through to find the right one.
	Oh, Squirrel Mail doesn't thread them?
	If you send me a note and you don't attach the other notes that were sent in the meantime, what's Squirrel Mail supposed to do?
	Scroll mail does thread them.
	But again, I got notes.
	There's a lot of notes.
	Let's put it that way.
	Yes, we are drowning in notes.
	$333.33, and this is the important note.
	As a longtime listener and knight of the No Agenda show, we'd like to let everyone know about the movie we are currently making called Project Lone Star.
	Oh, cool.
	It's a science fiction allegory that explores what could happen if the current media and social media conglomerates currently in control of society and culture is taken to its logical conclusion.
	We are self-funded in this movie because the people in Hollywood are literally afraid of it!
	Yeah, I'll bet.
	I can tell you this.
	People in Hollywood are not afraid of making money.
	No.
	So don't kid yourself.
	We have many stories, but suffice it to say, the response to seeing our script was breathtaking.
	One must not question the official narrative.
	We could really use some help with standing sets because they are so expensive.
	Our Indiegogo campaign has five days left to go.
	Please donate this week.
	If you cannot donate and you do live near Las Vegas, contact us.
	We are short-handed for many production jobs.
	What's the GoFundMe?
	Does he have it in there?
	I'm getting to it.
	Okay.
	We promise value for value for anyone in No Agenda audience willing to back this kind of route of Hollywood, this kind of Hollywood content.
	Here's the URL. It's igg.me slash at at slash Lone Star.
	L-O-N-E dash star.
	Okay.
	And you can also check out our movie webpage at LoneStarMovie.com.
	And if you go to LoneStarMovie.com, I think there's a link to this.
	That would be easy.
	LoneStarMovie.com.
	That would be easier, yeah.
	Okay, I'll put it in.
	I just said I think, I think.
	No, I know, but I'll put it in.
	I'll put it in to make sure that we do that.
	Best regards, Michael Scarpino.
	Hold on a second.
	Is there something omitted from this note?
	Is there a PS somewhere?
	For your bit part?
	I didn't see anything about my bit part.
	Well, this is a travesty.
	I'm very disappointed.
	This is your big break.
	I know.
	Good flight down to Las Vegas, although I haven't been flying anywhere, so I probably wouldn't be able to get out of the house.
	I don't have my papers.
	You don't have my papers?
	You don't have my papers?
	You don't know how to get out of the driveway?
	What are you talking about?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Lockdown.
	Anyway, so that's Scarpool.
	Onward.
	Yeah, William Hrinko Jr., parts unknown in the U.S., 333, dedouching and jobs.
	Karma, please, for this federal employee who refuses to get the vaccine.
	You've been dedouched.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got jobs.
	I'll grab this one too.
	Okay, yeah.
	Let me move ahead.
	Sir Crushalot, Black Knight of the Lilanao Grapefields.
	330.57.
	In the morning, gentlemen, I thought it was time to gain another producer credit simply so I can comment on the return of the surge.
	Yes, this is a good feedback loop.
	Honestly, if the Delta variant hadn't come along when it did, public health authorities would have had to invent it.
	They were standing at the precipice, facing the very real prospect of having to relinquish their extraordinary powers.
	The only person I can recall in history who willingly relinquished extraordinary power was George Washington.
	Fortunately, their clarion calls amplified by the state-sponsored media have brought the aggressively compliant out in droves.
	This time around, they've been joined by what I choose to call the joyously fearful.
	The CDC's schizophrenic mask-on-max-off debacle reminded me of the scene in Arrested Development when GOB tries to seduce his father's secretary.
	The only logical explanation for the CDC's performance, aside from the fact that Rochelle Walensky is hopefully overwhelmed by her job, is that it is a three-step program for the imposition of vaccine passports.
	I was well into a discussion on those steps when I realized I was writing War and Peace, so I stopped.
	Good.
	My donation of $3.30.57 represents three cents per word of my completed novel CPHS Rules.
	That's Committee for Public Health and Safety.
	That's 110,191 words for those keeping score at home.
	It is now complete and I am looking for representation.
	If there are any agents in Gitmo Nation, please contact me.
	Yes, I'll put your email in the show notes.
	michaelgodell at gmail.com Uh, no jingles, just some publishing karma.
	Keep up the good work.
	Well, we are making art here on the No Agenda show.
	Very nice.
	You've got karma.
	It's a creative day.
	It's very...
	The creators are out there.
	Creators.
	Sir Vanderhelm.
	Ah, Luke.
	Sir Luke Vanderhelm.
	Yeah, this is our first associate executive producer.
	$284.39.
	He's in Helsinki.
	He knows the two of us.
	Yes.
	Um...
	After having, I think we used to get phones from him.
	Yeah, back in...
	It's a long time ago.
	We're talking 2007, 2008, something like that.
	He was our phone contact.
	After having spent a few months at my summer retreat without access to podcasts and other media, it is now time to climb back on board.
	Here, my back to school donation.
	Jingle request comic strip blogger.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	You remember...
	And Karma.
	You remember, he used to do Yo Agenda with the Comic Strip blogger.
	It was the two of them.
	Yes.
	Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger. Comic strip. Comic strip. Blogger.
	You've got karma. - I'm a strip blogger who will have to be cleaning his underwear now.
	Anne Dunev from St.
	Charles, Illinois.
	2333.
	And I sent this donation to...
	Oh, I sent a donation of 233 to celebrate my August 14th birthday.
	Happy birthday, since being part of the No Agenda Producers is a real gift.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	I was hit in the mouth during the lockdown by Pam McInnes.
	The contribution to my sanity was immense.
	As a neuropathic practitioner for 25 years, I have watched conventional medicine get wackier every year as the greed and corruption of big pharma spread like a cancer.
	The No Agenda show is a natural medicine for the pandemic of fear and isolation.
	As Ben Franklin said, we must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
	That's what Hillary Clinton said too.
	Thanks for being real as well as being very funny fellows.
	You guys set the bar by creating the best podcast in the universe.
	Karma for everybody who needs it, please.
	Thank you very much.
	It's a very sweet note.
	I appreciate that.
	You've got karma.
	And we do have the best producers.
	How many shows have their very own neuropathic practitioner?
	None.
	Zero also ends it with love is lit.
	Oh, thank you.
	I missed that.
	Love is lit indeed.
	Mike Robinson at $202.15 comes in next, and he's in Salem.
	Don't inhale him, Oregon.
	$202.15 equals $200 plus $2.15.
	I'm on no agenda.
	I'm no agenda tithing.
	Ah, 33%.
	My recent bonus for working through the scandemic and kicking my $2.15 Google Plus settlement up to the best podcast in the universe.
	Woo!
	Settlement.
	Wow.
	He got a settlement.
	He got it as part of the class lawsuit.
	The class action.
	At least $2 more than most people get in these things.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Forced vaccination is getting pushed hard here.
	Oregon law prohibits mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers, but Kaiser Permanente and others are mandating it anyway.
	Wow.
	Can I get an R2-D2 and Jobs Karma and a Biden?
	No, I'm serious.
	For we robot slaves.
	ITM serve furry with fur, furry with anger.
	Oh, fury.
	I'm sorry.
	Let's do that again.
	Serve furry with fur and fury with anger.
	No, I'm serious.
	Think about it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	When did that become a pickup?
	The Biden thing?
	You know, it's interesting you ask that because I've never seen this as a request and I went into my system and two searches and...
	No, I'm serious.
	Think about it.
	It's one of your clips.
	And usually, when it's one of your clips, I mean, I'm just saying it, just going to go ahead and say it, usually it's hard to find because of some of the misspellings.
	And this was spelled properly.
	Although the B, the I, and the D of Biden were uppercase.
	Which is interestingly how...
	Bitch, bitch, bitch.
	No, I'm not.
	No, interestingly, I was going to say something.
	This is how I remember things.
	So if I do a search for a certain type of jingle, it's often the misspelling or the uppercase things that draw my eye to it.
	That's my journalistic background.
	So I remember a lot of these clips.
	You spell things wrong so you can find them.
	It works.
	I'm telling you, a lot of these I find visually, not just by the title, but, oh, I remember kind of these words grouped together.
	I don't know.
	I'm autistic.
	What can I say?
	Rachel Epperson.
	I'm not bitching at you.
	$200.
	Guys, I love you.
	You're a hefty slice of comfort pie.
	Today's question.
	Can you think of one particular event in your young lives that set you on the path to becoming the creators of the best podcast in the universe?
	Well, that's a good question.
	You can't think of a single...
	Well, I mean, when I was a paperboy, maybe.
	Really?
	When I was a paperboy.
	Yeah.
	I can remember it.
	It's clear as day.
	It was a Sunday.
	And the Sunday papers were big, giant things back in the day.
	Huge.
	And on the back of my bike, I took a paper and I was good at porching the papers.
	I had a good arm.
	But porching the Sunday's papers was something of a challenge because you really had to heave it and kind of threw the bike off the kilter.
	Because these things were big.
	So I heaved the Sunday paper.
	I'm way off on the shot.
	It hits right in the middle of a giant plate glass window of the front room.
	And did it shatter?
	No, it bounced off the window, landed perfectly on the porch.
	And from that day on, I said, I'm going to do a podcast.
	Ah, there it is.
	Okay, very good.
	True story.
	I remember it very well.
	There's a picture of it.
	I have the picture somewhere, I believe.
	I was five years old.
	I was sitting in the closet.
	Hold your joke.
	I was sitting in the closet with a naked light bulb above me.
	And I was pretending to, I was speaking into the microphone of one of my dad's old, and I'm talking old, old, 1960, this must have been 69 or 70, reel-to-reel tape machines.
	Which wasn't, I mean, it was used for dictation or something, but it was a big one.
	It was big and gray and clunky, I remember.
	And I had the microphone in my hand.
	And what I remember is that my mom took the picture.
	And why I remember this is probably because the picture's around.
	And she said, your grandfather would be so proud of you.
	And my grandfather was in the communications corps, landed at Normandy Beach on DJ. Oh, I thought he was a collaborator, the way he made it sound in the closet and all.
	Okay, thanks for just linking that to one of my cherished childhood memories.
	And it was at that point that I thought, I'm going to be a podcaster.
	Okay, it's as good as my story.
	Or better, actually, because it has pictures of it.
	And I have no picture of mine or proof.
	And you weren't in a closet.
	See, I was in a Cludio just a few years ago.
	Things have not changed for me.
	I'm still spitting in a mic in a closet.
	Asta, next on the list, is Asta...
	I don't know.
	Can you think you can maybe get closer to this pronunciation than I can?
	I can try.
	Asta...
	Astrauskite.
	Astrauskite.
	She's Lithuanian.
	She's Lithuanian, yes.
	Ever since we brought up Lithuania, we've got the Lithuanians on board.
	The keeper is half Lithuanian.
	Greetings.
	Oh, that's interesting because she looks it.
	No, I'm serious.
	I've known many Lithuanian women.
	Greetings from Vilnius, Lithuania.
	Me and my husband have been listening since Adam's second appearance on JRE. Already played the jingle.
	So this donation is long overdue.
	Please de-douche.
	We've got a stuck douche.
	There we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Recently, my husband, who works in the film industry, lost a gig in Norway due to quarantine requirements for the unvaccinated, which include a stay in a quarantine prison for up to 10 days.
	Wow.
	A job's karma would be greatly appreciated.
	During Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, which we'll never hear the end of, Lithuanians would secretly tune into broadcasting Operation Voice of America to escape communist propaganda.
	Today, as we are being occupied by COVID totalitarianism, we listen to no agenda to cut through the Orwellian BS surrounding us everywhere, as we discussed earlier in the show, coincidentally.
	Thanks for all you do, you guys rock.
	P.S. All Lithuanians listening and never donating, you are douchebags.
	Yours truly, Asta.
	These are two people who know what totalitarianism is, who had to sneak listen to the voice of America, and I feel bad that...
	To maintain their sanity.
	Exactly, to maintain some bit of sanity, and here we are again, and they used the word.
	So happy to have you as associate executive producers.
	Thank you.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	And that ends our short list of executive and associate executive producers for show 1373.
	Yes, and we very much appreciate that.
	Everyone should try to at least be an executive producer once in their life, and these people certainly have qualified.
	We'll be thanking more people later on in the broadcast.
	This is part of our Value for Value model.
	It's up, it's down, it's all over the place.
	We're still doing it.
	So the experiment works.
	Everyone is producing.
	And if you'd like to join in on that, go to...
	We'll do it all over again on Thursday.
	Thank you very much for producing 1373.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order! Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	You want to do Afghanistan?
	done?
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, let's do Afghanistan.
	I only have two clips, but they're pretty...
	I think I have two.
	Oh, no, I have a couple.
	I got a couple.
	I have the Afghanistan rundown, but let's do the rap, which I think is best.
	This is on NPR. Okay, hold on a second.
	And this is actually three clips.
	I got Taliban rap, NPR, and then two, and then their little connection to China, which is going to become a huge humiliation for China, I think, if people get a clue.
	But let's start with Taliban rap.
	In recent days, the Taliban have captured huge chunks of territory in Afghanistan, including many of the country's largest and most important cities.
	President Biden issued a statement reaffirming his decision for a U.S. withdrawal and explaining the steps he has taken.
	But the situation is dire.
	The U.N. estimates that since May, nearly a quarter of a million people have been forced from their homes due to the conflict.
	And there are reports of Afghans fleeing to the capital, Kabul, desperate to find a way out of the country.
	The surge defied all predictions, and it's forcing all the key players to reassess as they try to figure out what could happen next.
	For a look at the possibilities, we're joined by NPR national security correspondent Greg Myrie.
	Hi, Greg.
	Hi, Don.
	Hi, Don.
	Bring us up to speed on what's happening today.
	The Taliban claimed another big prize on the battlefield today.
	They seized the important northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
	This was one of the last big cities the government had.
	The Taliban now control virtually all the northern, southern, and western parts of Afghanistan.
	The Associated Press is reporting the Taliban appear to be within 10 miles of Kabul.
	President Ashraf Ghani just has the capital in some other parts of eastern Afghanistan.
	He gave a recorded speech that was televised.
	He said he would prevent further instability.
	Hard to imagine that that would reassure anyone.
	There's no sign that his government is capable of stopping this Taliban surge.
	So given that, what options does the government have?
	They are shrinking by the day.
	They can rally and put up a fight to defend Kabul.
	They do have resources, but it's really not clear that they have the will.
	They could try to negotiate with the Taliban, but power sharing isn't realistic right now.
	It would be more perhaps about the terms of surrender, which has happened in other cities in recent days.
	And a third possibility is just a total collapse that the government and the troops will simply flee.
	The thing I don't understand, but you'll maybe get to it.
	Why is the military-industrial complex allowing this pull-out?
	Is this the non-pull-out?
	Is that exactly what is going on here?
	They're not going to pull out at all, right?
	But they're going to have a lot of explaining to do.
	The Pentagon has got to have a lot of explaining to do because they wouldn't let anyone leave.
	And if you remember, I don't know if you remember this, but this was about...
	Two or three years ago, we played a bunch of clips.
	Somebody went and did an investigation on our involvement in Afghanistan.
	And they went in there with a tape recorder and they recorded all these generals and their opinions.
	And this was just before Trump got elected is when this took place.
	And it was played during the Trump administration.
	That's when General Flynn was the one who kind of blew the whistle on this whole thing being a giant farce.
	Like a big money suck.
	Yeah, it was a big farce, and he was the only general who came out and said so.
	Well, and it didn't come out, that was around the Afghanistan papers.
	Yes, that's right.
	That's what it was.
	The Afghanistan papers.
	Right, right, right, which showed just trillions of dollars going everywhere.
	Yeah, it was a farce, a scam, and it was bad news, and Flynn was the only one who said it, and it was recorded saying it, and that put a target on his back, and you saw what happened to him.
	Yep.
	But so there is, and I believe there was a direct connection between what Flynn had to say about Afghanistan and what happened to Flynn.
	I concur.
	He wasn't on board.
	He wasn't a team player.
	No, he was embarrassing everybody.
	Yeah, you're not a team player?
	Yeah.
	Here's what happens to you.
	Yeah.
	And so he ended up getting screwed over, and...
	But this whole thing is a fiasco from the get-go.
	It was a fiasco during the...
	It was a fiasco when Bush didn't go...
	Bush didn't follow the lead of his dad of doing something quick and easy.
	Get in and get out.
	I mean, that old man at least knew that much.
	He got in and stayed in, and then he got stuck in there, and then so Obama ran it for presidency, if you remember.
	He'll take it to the bank, as a matter of fact, that he's going to get out.
	He never got out.
	So Obama was in for eight years with Biden, and then never got out.
	So what was that all about?
	So then Trump gets this and says, we're getting out.
	And then they wouldn't let him get out.
	So he didn't get out either.
	And so Biden now gets this out.
	And Biden's already, I don't have a clip, but there was a bunch of them there.
	You can hear him.
	Biden's blaming Trump.
	So it's all Trump's fault.
	Well, you know, the historical Biden clip is the one that's so funny, though.
	And you have it.
	Yeah, I think I do, actually.
	President Biden tonight publicly silenced about the Taliban's accelerating takeover of Afghanistan, privately consulting with his secretaries of state and defense, as well as his national security advisor.
	The rapidly deteriorating situation following the president's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from a war he believes has lasted too long and cost too many lives, sparking fierce criticism.
	Well, it's a disgrace and it's a national humiliation.
	This didn't have to be this way.
	The president's aides today standing by his comments from just 72 hours ago.
	We're going to continue to keep our commitment, but I do not regret my decision.
	But now many are questioning the execution of that plan.
	He owns this now completely.
	It isn't Donald Trump's Afghan policy, it's Joe Biden's.
	The rush to remove Americans now drawing comparisons to the chaotic U.S. evacuation from Vietnam more than 45 years ago, despite the president's promise otherwise.
	There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.
	Still, for those who served and sacrificed disbelief and sadness.
	I'm really upset.
	I'm angry with what's going on right now.
	So, what I'd like to ask you...
	Before we continue, is that moment, the withdrawal, was it like Saigon?
	Was that the embassy with the helicopter on top?
	All Saigon, yeah.
	You were older than I was then, so what was that like?
	Was it a feeling of defeat?
	Was it similar to now?
	Was it the same, like, what the hell did we do?
	You know, I don't think that the American public ever saw any of these things as defeat.
	I believe, because I think I can reflect this, I think the American public saw these things as fiascos.
	They never went into the war seriously.
	They were always police actions.
	And we got rousted because our heart wasn't in it.
	If our heart was in it, we would have dropped A-bombs on these people.
	But it was just like a fiasco.
	The same thing with the Korean War.
	A fiasco.
	This was a fiasco.
	This is a fiasco.
	Iraq was a fiasco.
	These are fiascos run by our military.
	And intelligence.
	And our intelligence agency squandering money, maybe doing us a favor.
	We don't know because they always like to say, well, if you only knew what was really going on, you'd be so happy.
	You'd be pooping.
	You'd be happy and you'd be saying, wow, you guys are the best.
	But instead, there's a lot of money squandered and I probably would be happy if someone would finally, somehow, audit the Pentagon and see where this money is going.
	It's not going to happen.
	We had the Afghanistan papers.
	No one even really investigated that.
	No.
	At least not publicly, not with...
	It's just a bunch of corruption, as far as I can tell, unless somebody proves me wrong.
	So let's go on to clip two of the rundown.
	Reflecting on these fast-moving events, President Biden put out a statement earlier today detailing the steps that he's taking, but what sort of recalculations is he making?
	Yeah, he summarized a lot of what he's done and talked about working with his national security team to bring this military mission to an end.
	One thing that really caught our eye, he said that 5,000 troops will be in Afghanistan for an orderly and safe withdrawal.
	Now, this number is even higher than the Pentagon has been saying in the past couple of days.
	And we've now understand that the president is talking about 4,000 new troops that are going to Kabul as plus 1,000 that are already there.
	Some of these new troops have been arriving and should mostly or all be in place by the end of the weekend.
	They'll be at the Kabul airport to secure the departure of U.S. diplomats and Afghans who have worked with the U.S.
	Now, he says this will all be completed by the end of the month, President Biden, that is.
	But that really feels like a long way off right now, and the U.S. plans have already changed.
	There was this plan to keep a sizable embassy operation going to support the Afghan government.
	But NPR obtained an embassy memo yesterday that talked about emergency preparations for leaving.
	It called for destroying sensitive documents and desktop computers.
	The Biden administration really needs a plan now for a possible Taliban takeover.
	Oh, man.
	It's 5,000 troops.
	Is that a reinsertion?
	They're going to say it's not.
	I don't know whether it is or not.
	We'll know.
	Just the tip.
	The Japanese are also pulling all their people out of their embassies, which is only reported on the Japanese news, but I guess everyone's leaving except the Chinese, which I have the next clip on.
	Oh, okay.
	And I want to mention that because of the nature of the TV news talk shows and the corporate media, especially the stuff on television, because I was watching Meet the Press and the other couple morning shows this morning.
	I didn't clip them.
	I may clip them for the next show.
	They have a bunch of intelligence agencies, stooges as we know, and military stooges that are now commentators and they just own the place.
	I have a clip in a minute.
	Good, because the one I heard today that was a beauty was, I don't understand why we're leaving.
	It's stupid.
	They say it because of lost American lives.
	Are you kidding me?
	Here's the meme.
	We had more deaths today by COVID than all last year in Afghanistan.
	When one day more Americans died of COVID! You want to hear my spook clip?
	Yeah, hear the spook clip before I go to China.
	Well, it's CBS, so what kind of spook do we get?
	We get top spooks.
	Yeah, top spooks, CIA broadcast system.
	Now, when you want a pundit, you can't have Brennan, he's NBC... CBS has Mike Morrell, of course.
	Oh yeah, he's a classic.
	Mike Morrell.
	The Taliban seems to be retaking Afghanistan faster than anyone predicted.
	How are they able to do it?
	Without the U.S. military there, the capabilities of the Afghan security forces to fight has been significantly degraded.
	But the bigger issue is the willingness to fight.
	Wait, wait.
	Evaporated.
	How, just once we leave, how is their ability degraded?
	What's the mechanism?
	I'm glad you asked.
	I will tell you my version, and Mike Morrell will then tell you his version.
	My version is, I was in Iraq in 2003 with the Dutch Marines, the U.S. Marines and forces were in charge, but we went around to all different bases, all across southern Iraq, in the middle of Iraq, in Samoa province, and I saw many of the Iraqi forces being trained by the Allied forces, mainly Americans, but there were also some Dutch and I think maybe a couple French or Japanese, it doesn't matter.
	I saw the training.
	It was ridiculous.
	These guys, they don't know what they're doing.
	They're dumb.
	No one understands each other.
	They say about face, half turns left, half turns right.
	The other half is like doesn't know what's going on.
	There was never any training, and it was all under the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, yeah, we know, but you know, it's like, and the money, it's really, you go to train them, but while the troops were being trained by the local training officer, in the back, in the tent, they're drinking their tea, which is the, you know, tons of mint jammed into a glass with hot water, sitting around, counting out the piles of money, because that was always a money drop.
	You know, stacks, stacks and stacks, racks and stacks of cash.
	And so for this village and for that tribe and for that tribe.
	So all of this training was really just a money drop.
	That's all I ever saw.
	It was despicable.
	So I cannot imagine that Afghanistan was any different.
	Mike Morrell gives his version of why.
	The Taliban seems to be retaking Afghanistan faster than anyone predicted.
	How are they able to do it?
	Without the U.S. military there, the capabilities of the Afghan security forces to fight has been significantly degraded.
	But the bigger issue is the willingness to fight evaporated when President Biden made the announcement that we were leaving.
	After 20 years of work from the U.S., hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 2,000 American lives, why are the folks that we allied with and trained walking off the job?
	Because the will to fight is more important than the capability, and because the Afghan government is one of the most corrupt in the world.
	Now we have 3,000 troops going back in.
	The lead elements are already there on the ground.
	What concerns you most tonight about their safety?
	Suicide attacks from the Taliban.
	And the main issue there is, will the Taliban see the new troops coming in, not as there to protect the people being evacuated, but as the first set of troops in a reinvasion of the country?
	That's a real danger.
	And then the other concern that I have is there are many Afghan security forces who are deeply angry at the United States.
	And a green-on-blue attack, right, where a member of the Afghan security force takes out their weapon and starts killing Americans is something we have to focus on.
	Oh, did you hear what he was going to say is not something we can tolerate?
	But let's hear it again.
	And starts killing Americans is not something we can, is something we have to focus on.
	Has the Taliban won this war?
	Absolutely.
	Mike Morrell, thank you very much.
	You're welcome.
	So, Mike Morrell feels clearly this is probably not a good idea.
	We need five...
	He's part of the contingent coming out of the Pentagon and the intel agencies that believes we should just be there forever.
	And I could probably get on board with that thinking by saying stuff like this.
	Hey, we've had troops.
	We still have troops.
	We have more troops in Germany.
	Than we had in Afghanistan.
	We have more troops right now.
	We have more troops in South Korea than we had in Afghanistan.
	So what is the point of leaving?
	Well, there's another reason why we can't leave.
	And Mike Morrell would know personally...
	Because his agency is a part of the big annual report that came out.
	It's always coincidental, the timing of these reports and these things that are happening.
	This is the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime Annual Opium Report.
	The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released together with the National Statistical Office of Afghanistan, NSIA, the results of the 2020 Opium Survey in Afghanistan.
	Despite the challenge of the COVID pandemic in 2020, this is a demonstration on how...
	Is that Zsa Zsa Gabor?
	No.
	No, it's actually...
	I'm sorry.
	I think she's...
	I'm not sure what nationality she is.
	But listen to her glee about the Opium Report.
	Despite the challenge of the COVID pandemic in 2020, this is a demonstration on how NSIA, together with UNODC, we were able to find innovative solutions and to overcome the challenges and still present to the international community the results of the survey.
	Showing a 37% increase in opium cultivation and a production of opium of around 6,300 metric tons.
	It is in the spirit of respecting the impartiality of official statistics and producing high quality statistics that we share with NSIE that we present together the results of the 2020 Opium Survey.
	I mean, it's like she's doing the Eurovision Song Contest.
	It's up 37%.
	63,000 metric tons.
	That's a lot.
	This is good, everybody.
	We're very proud to present the numbers to you, despite COVID. We're so happy.
	We did get a letter from one of our producers talking about how they had...
	Somebody, one of their family members, somebody, it's not a surprise in a No Agenda show, that they were bitching about being over there and guarding the poppy fields.
	But the farmers were the ones that are the most irked because, according to him...
	Before we arrived, the poppies were still growing and the Taliban would just steal them, steal the crop.
	They wouldn't pay the farmers.
	We pay the farmers.
	They get paid by us.
	They don't get paid by the Taliban.
	Right, right.
	So that's a problem.
	But if you remember the propaganda before this whole war began is the Taliban were supposedly burning down the poppy fields because they hated the idea of poppies.
	But I have to reevaluate that thinking they only burned down the poppy fields with the farmers who wouldn't comply.
	Mm-hmm.
	So there's something.
	These guys are bad news.
	But let's play what happened, what the Chinese are doing.
	So I get my last clip.
	It was quite the photo op.
	China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, wearing a gray suit and stern face, posing with nearly a dozen senior members of the Taliban, including as chief negotiator and top political leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
	This very public, very sort of overt engagement is definitely a first.
	Medea Afzal is with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Although there have been informal backroom talks between the Chinese and the Taliban over the years, Afzal says this is the first time they were held so openly, which she says is a boon for the militant group.
	Basically, you know, it was maybe the most significant stage that Baradar has received, that Taliban has received in terms of international legitimacy, in terms of sort of how the Chinese foreign minister interacted, even the things that were said.
	Foreign Minister Wang Yi called the Taliban a pivotal military and political force and urged them to hold high the banner of peace talks.
	All this while militants are capturing territory in Afghanistan and remain disengaged from the peace talks.
	Roger Baker is with Stratfor Rain, a risk intelligence company, and has been monitoring Afghanistan for decades.
	He says China doesn't trust the Taliban, but is hedging its bets.
	They still claim they don't pick sides, so they'll work with whoever claims to be the government of Afghanistan, so long as it keeps their interests stable.
	Baker says China's overriding concern in Afghanistan is security, in part to help protect its economic and investment interests in the region, including a massive infrastructure program known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
	Wait a minute.
	So the Chinese are really raring to go without U.S. protection?
	They're ready to go in and they think the Russians couldn't do it, the Americans couldn't do it, China can do it?
	Well, China's not fighting them.
	No, no, but they want to rape them of their...
	Minerals.
	Minerals and their poppies.
	Mostly minerals.
	The poppies, I'm sure, are part of the deal.
	But the poppy thing, again, there's another little aspect to this which keeps being thrown in my face, which is...
	Why do we care about the poppies anymore with fentanyl in play, which is a cheaper alternative to heroin, and it pretty much has the same effect.
	It's the artificial heroin is what it amounts to.
	So maybe that's what the war is.
	We've got the CIA going, hey, hey, hey, hey, this is our pipeline.
	We're still the OG poppy heroin guys.
	And meanwhile, back in Washington, it was like, yo, bro, fent is where it's at.
	We're getting out.
	We got the fentanyl.
	Something's up.
	And the Chinese, so the Chinese wouldn't be interested in the heroin because the Chinese are the source of the fentanyl.
	I mean, it comes up to this country, to Mexico, but the Chinese are the ones that produce most of it.
	But I still can't believe that...
	Okay, I just want to say this on the record.
	There's missing information.
	Yes.
	But to me, just analyzing what is happening, there was a promise.
	This is the continuation of the Obama promise.
	This is...
	This is Biden now...
	Here's what I'm really worried about.
	I'm worried about another...
	some kind of event, some kind of terrorism, because even though the story...
	The lead of the story focuses on something else.
	What's really in the details of what the Department of Homeland Security put out the other day that is quite interesting.
	So I'll just play these two quick clips of what DHS published.
	A new terror alert has been issued by Homeland Security tonight.
	Pete Williams is here.
	Pete, what do we know about this?
	DHS says this new terrorism advisory is not based on any actual threats or plots, but it says there's a rise in anti-government rhetoric.
	Some of it is opposition to COVID public health rules like mask and vaccine measures.
	Some calls for violent action are based on claims of election fraud or a belief that Donald Trump can be reinstated.
	Boy, do you remember me telling you about that?
	Oh yeah.
	About the reinstatement.
	I mean, I wasn't even reporting on it.
	These yahoos are using it.
	And DHS says the coming 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks and religious holidays later this year could be catalysts for violence.
	The last terror advisory was issued in May.
	It expired today.
	This new one says domestic extremism remains a threat priority, Lester.
	Alright, so I'll leave the domestic extremism for a moment because I think that's the red herring.
	If I look at the actual summary that DHS sent out, Actually, I'll read this because the opening paragraph is really what matters.
	The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States.
	The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment leading up to and following the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, as well as religious holidays we assess could serve as a catalyst for acts of targeted violence.
	These threats include those posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences.
	These actors are increasingly exploiting online forums and podcasts to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity.
	Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions.
	So they lead here on NBC with, oh, domestic, domestic terror, domestic terror, anti-government, but also September 11th.
	And the actual lead that Homeland Security puts out is about September 11th.
	And this was the giveaway to me, further in this memo.
	Additionally, leading up to the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula recently released its first English language copy of Inspire magazine in over four years, which demonstrates that foreign terrorist organizations continue efforts to inspire U.S.-based individuals susceptible to violent extremist influences.
	This is another rerun of the script.
	They brought out the old Adobe Quark publishing template.
	They got Inspire Magazine.
	They're going to be publishing PDFs again.
	Yeah, that's where the pressure cooker bomb came from.
	Pressure cooker bomb.
	Oh yeah.
	We didn't see any of this in four years of Trump.
	Zero.
	Zero.
	In four years of Trump there was none of this.
	Now all of a sudden it's back and the magazine's back?
	The magazine could have been back during Trump.
	No.
	Because the magazine is not produced by anybody but somebody in our government.
	Now let's listen to how the mainstream is playing it because the mainstream has their own agenda.
	The M5M, what they're really interested in is they're interested in the domestic side of it.
	So they kind of like that.
	Domestic is good.
	But they're lying.
	I mean, this CBS 20 seconds is a lie.
	A Homeland Security issued a national terrorism alert warning that violent extremists could take advantage of the easing of pandemic restrictions to conduct attacks.
	Now this updates the alert issued...
	That is literally a lie.
	What?
	The document itself says the opposite.
	It says because of tightening government measures and COVID measures.
	Not easing.
	So I don't know what...
	She's a liar.
	She's a terrible person.
	Must be.
	Must be.
	But ABC, I think they really took the cake with this story, because if we're going to create any kind of visual for you about who these crazy people are, this story does it.
	This morning, a tragic murder case highlighting the danger of wild conspiracy theories spreading online.
	Federal authorities claim a California father fatally stabbed his children because he followed a QAnon conspiracy theory that made him believe his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter were turning into monsters.
	The suspect, 40-year-old Matthew Taylor Coleman, and his wife owned a surf school in Santa Barbara.
	The pictures on their website show a happy family, but on Saturday, Coleman's wife reported her husband and children missing.
	According to a federal criminal complaint, she told police the family was planning a trip, but then her husband took the kids, not telling her where he was going.
	Two days later, officials say a ranch worker in Mexico found the bodies of the children near Mexico's Baja California coast.
	Officials say Coleman confessed and claimed he's enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories which made him believe his wife had passed her serpent DNA to their children.
	An apparent reference to the so-called lizard people's theory Which claims reptilian aliens have taken over powerful positions in U.S. politics, banking, and entertainment.
	The same theory allegedly inspired a man to set off a bomb in Nashville last Christmas, injuring eight people and damaging dozens of buildings.
	As for Coleman, authorities released this surveillance camera footage, showing him checking into a hotel with his kids, then leaving without them.
	He was arrested trying to re-enter the U.S. I mean, seriously?
	They got it down, though, man.
	They got it down.
	They got it down.
	The lizard people.
	It's a good bit.
	The lizard people.
	Why is the guy going to Mexico to begin with?
	And what is the deal with this David Icke thing?
	Well, I mean, I think we all agree that there's lizard people, but I don't know if, you know, the passing on your lizard seed to your children.
	They usually pay well.
	It's not that big of a deal.
	Anyway, the Department of Homeland Security will be responding by evaluating calls for violence, including online activity associated with the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives by known or suspected threat actors and provide updated information as necessary.
	So, a conspiracy theory is a theory, and you're not allowed to have them.
	And they're going to be calling us.
	They'll be calling me.
	I mean, how long could it last until someone says, oh, you should call that guy?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm the buzzkill.
	I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all.
	I just call you out for being one.
	Yeah, so maybe I won't get a call.
	No, they'll call me and they'll say, you have Adam's phone number.
	And you'll give it to them gladly.
	Oh, for sure, yeah.
	Right away.
	Right here.
	Right away.
	Or actually, I'll do whatever.
	You know, just email the guy.
	We understand he doesn't answer his email.
	No.
	Oh, yeah.
	I've heard that he doesn't answer his emails.
	Oh, well, I don't know.
	I don't really have his number.
	I actually don't.
	Well, I have your cell.
	That's true.
	Your old, old, old cell number, which I messaged you with.
	Yeah, I can give him that.
	I haven't seen this Frontline, but apparently a new Frontline documentary details the Liberty City 7.
	If you recall, that was the guys who were going to bring down Sears Tower after 9-11.
	Oh, yeah.
	I haven't seen it either, but I'm sure it's a gem.
	Well, they exposed the FBI as it being the six-week cycle.
	The FBI completely set up these schmucks.
	Yeah, dummies.
	It was the most high-profile case right after 9-11.
	Yeah.
	When are we going to learn?
	Whenever.
	That's why you have to continuously listen to this show.
	Yes.
	The show is like, we become the addiction.
	I'm telling you, it's crazy.
	And then of all the things that happens is we get an earthquake in Haiti.
	Oh yes, I think I have a clip for this.
	Could it be any more like 2010?
	2012 actually.
	No, 10 years ago, almost 9 years ago.
	Yeah, everything is repeating.
	This is fun to watch.
	Okay.
	I have a couple off-the-wall clips.
	Do you have a Haiti clip, though?
	Do you have no Haiti clip?
	I thought I did, but I don't see it.
	Well, I guess we should just note that the Biden administration is, of course, going to organize help.
	Are you going to organize a concert?
	Oh, no.
	That's coming.
	That's coming.
	We'll have probably a whole bunch of ex-presidents, you know, setting up a foundation.
	I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water.
	Just send your cash.
	Just send your cash for Haiti.
	We'll take care of it.
	Don't worry.
	Clinton Foundation, maybe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, possibly.
	But you know who the Biden administration has appointed to lead this effort from the USAID? I'm game.
	Samantha Power.
	Oh yes, she's been on.
	She's got that hang dog, oh God, I feel so bad about everything.
	Life is terrible look on her face constantly.
	She's depressing to look at.
	Yeah, I saw her in a press conference and yeah, she's got something to do with something.
	I don't know.
	I can't stand her.
	You know, our producers who track all the earthquakes, man, if you were to look at them and just look at the 7.2s, anything over 7.0, we've had five in two weeks.
	And it's North Pole, South Pole.
	It's basically, if you look at the globe of the flat Earth, on the top would be, you have a big epicenter, the bottom, and then on each of the sides, it's like the whole Earth is ready for something.
	There's a lot of tectonic shift going on.
	Seems like that's not good.
	Okay, here's news that's not being covered in the United States.
	This is the new Canadian elections coming.
	I bet we both have the same clips.
	Okay, yeah, go ahead.
	Mine came from CTV. I don't remember where mine came from.
	Okay, we'll play.
	Well, Robin, on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will walk across the grounds at...
	Listen to my clip.
	Well, Robin, on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will walk across the grounds at Rideau Hall to ask Mary Simon, the new Governor General, to dissolve Parliament, triggering the 2021 federal election.
	Constitutional experts say that the Governor General will grant Trudeau's request.
	That's because there has not been an election in recent months and no other party is trying to form government.
	The campaign will be 36 days, the shortest time allowed under federal law.
	That puts Election Day on Monday, September 20th.
	And while this is a snap election, it's hardly a surprise.
	The Prime Minister had openly stated 2021 would be an election year, even while denying that it would be his party that would trigger Canadians going to the polls.
	The Prime Minister's decision to launch a campaign means he has decided now is the Liberals' best chance of getting a majority.
	Justin Trudeau had to run a political calculation here.
	Go now and risk voters' wrath for triggering an election in a fourth wave and when COVID-19 numbers are growing, but the Liberals have good and not great numbers, or wait and potentially lose control of the narrative, handing timing of the election to the opposition and running the risk of the public mood and economy souring.
	The Liberals will likely frame this campaign as needing to seek a mandate from Canadians to spend more money and manage the challenges that they will argue were unforeseen in a pre-pandemic world.
	The only thing I've never understood about this system is this.
	What are the we have every two years, we have a midterm, every four years, we have a general election.
	How does it work with the UK, with the England related countries with these snap elections?
	I don't understand the mechanism.
	How does this happen?
	Well, the ruling government can call an election pretty much anytime they want.
	But why would you call an election if you're in power?
	Because you think this happened to, if you remember, this happened to the British when Cameron was running things and he did a, or no, what's her name?
	The horrible woman that was the prime minister.
	She called an election thinking...
	Theresa May.
	Theresa May.
	The reason you do it is because you are so overconfident that you think you're going to get more people on your side and you're going to have such a dominant...
	You're going to be so dominant in the House and whatever...
	Understood.
	But is there a term limit so you have to call an election within a certain amount of years?
	I don't know that part.
	That's what confuses me.
	It's like, if you got everything anyway, then...
	Well, they think they can get more.
	I understand that part.
	Yes, I understand that part.
	Well, unless you've got everything set up right, which I presume is why this is happening.
	Well, whatever the case, we have an election coming up in September and we'll see.
	It could change everything.
	If the Canadians have any sense, although after listening to your hypnotic guy talking about mass hysteria, I don't think the Canadians have a prayer.
	They're all going, okay, yes, we love this idiot.
	Trudeau is an idiot.
	He just, and he annoys me more than anything.
	He had a lot of bad prime ministers, but he's just a creep.
	He's a creep.
	He's a true technocrat.
	He's perfect for the job.
	He's an animatron.
	So they're going to probably, you know, yay for him.
	Hopefully they won't, but they, the way things are going, I don't see any, of course, then again, Theresa May made a mistake too.
	Anyway, here's part two of that because it does have some information.
	Is there any sense, Mercedes, what the Liberals will focus on?
	And is everyone on board in that party with calling an election?
	So while we haven't seen the Liberal platform, we can take a few things that we know from recent spending announcements, the spring budget, and the decision to go to an election now.
	Child care and social programs will likely feature prominently, but the ballot box question the Liberals want is who Canadians trust to govern through the pandemic and an endorsement for their pandemic recovery plans.
	Typically, going to the polls during a time of crisis favors the incumbent.
	But some senior liberals are worried about potential voter blowback.
	This will be a hard-fought election no matter what, Robin, with about a dozen key ridings where only one to two points could decide races.
	Getting out the vote will matter.
	But starting on Sunday, the Prime Minister will have to answer the question of why this is in Canadians' interests and not just the Liberal Party's.
	That's the key.
	I think I have a piece of information that is from this same piece that tells us why this is happening right now.
	Experts say mail-in ballots may become the safest and most popular option.
	Elections Canada anticipates 5 million people will vote this way versus just 54,000 in 2019.
	We may not know the final results of the election on election night.
	Oh, where have we heard that before?
	Yeah, this is the idea.
	Somebody's got a clue.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They said, look what we did here in the United States.
	We got this idiot Joe Biden to be president.
	What do you think we can do for you guys?
	It's smaller, easier to control, all mail-in ballots, which everyone knows is a bad idea, but okay.
	Yeah, let's do that.
	No, yeah, the COVID's still going on.
	Let's keep people in their house and do mail-in ballots.
	That would be great.
	You have an interesting...
	It's kind of like a Bobby's World voice you got there.
	Yeah.
	You have the ability to do that.
	Well, that's a voice I can do.
	I can do this voice when I have to.
	Because breakup occasion.
	All right.
	Let me see...
	By the way, just before you go into that, I do have a...
	Turkey's got a big flood.
	Yeah.
	And it's being covered, and there's a bunch of floods, and you're...
	Nobody except NHK is covering the fact that Japan is pretty much underwater.
	And I have seen no media coverage of this flood in Japan, except on NHK. Well, no one's allowed in, so why would they let anything out?
	That's weird.
	You can play this turkey clip if you want to hear it.
	In Turkey, the death toll from floods and mudslides along the country's blood.
	No, wait, stop.
	Before you play, let me set it up a little better.
	It's like, this is NPR, modern NPR. Yeah.
	You know, this is what Amy Goodman's been trying to do forever, and NPR's now just doing it.
	So they give us a little report, which could end with a report, here's what happened, but no, no, no, no, no.
	And when you listen to the end, you'll see what I'm talking about.
	In Turkey, the death toll from floods and mudslides along the country's Black Sea coast has climbed to at least 55.
	Torrential rains Wednesday caused flooding that demolished homes, damaged at least five bridges, swept away cars and left numerous roads unpassable.
	The Turkish disaster agency says eight people remain hospitalized.
	Rescue teams are working to locate those listed as missing.
	Thousands were evacuated, some by airlift off their roofs.
	This says climate change leads to more extreme weather events as the world warms because of the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.
	This is curious to me that you're not...
	I mean, yes, it's being covered with that angle, but they could do so much more.
	I mean, we have floods in China.
	They could do a lot, but they're really not using it for the climate change angle as much as I think they could be.
	I don't know what...
	I kind of agree with you.
	Seems half-hearted, you know?
	What's going on in Japan is unbelievable compared to Turkey.
	And, yeah, they could, but they just do this, and they get the little bit at the end of it.
	And, by the way, these floods are caused by burning fossil fuel.
	Nice try.
	You know what the problem is, probably?
	There's no real money behind it at the moment.
	There's no real advertiser.
	There's no push.
	The big oil and gas companies are...
	There's no Pfizer of climate change.
	Thank you.
	Well, that's maybe why they're trying to connect it.
	Connect it to COVID and maybe we'll get some Pfizer bucks in there.
	Some Pfizer fun coupons to play with.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Free trips.
	But this is all political and there's a lot of business going on.
	And the people be damned, they're in a hypnotic state.
	Let them go.
	You can't tell them anything different anyway.
	Remember how weird it was when people had to take off their masks the next day?
	It freaked them out.
	I think that was part of some kind of psychological operation.
	Watch this.
	Now tell them to do this.
	Now tell them to go back.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's good.
	And then slip in all kinds of information about red states and Republicans and Trump returning.
	I mean, we may have walking time bomb zombies around soon.
	Don't know.
	Just our heads are filled with hate and, not even hate, fear.
	I have to say it correctly.
	Fear of going back and these people that would cause it.
	So, must eliminate those people.
	Got to be careful, people, with what you're doing.
	Which is why I think they're trying to back it off.
	Yeah.
	Oh, maybe they've noticed it.
	But the people who are on TV doing that, they're all in too.
	They're hyper-focused.
	I love it.
	Alright, I have two Cuomo clips, since this is kind of an interesting thing that's taken place, and there's a little hidden gem in the second one.
	This is, oh yes, he did an exit interview with Vanity Fair, I think.
	That's what you do.
	I'm exiting, I'm going to do my big one exit interview.
	This morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is speaking out for the first time since announcing his resignation.
	In an interview with New York Magazine, Cuomo says, I feel like I did the right thing.
	I did the right thing for the state.
	It is a stunning fall from grace after a state attorney general's report found sexual harassment allegations against him credible.
	But with just days to go before leaving office, Cuomo remains defiant, telling the magazine he would win any impeachment case, saying he would have made the state legislature look like a ship of fools.
	But he didn't want to put the state through that ordeal, adding, I feel good.
	I'm not a martyr.
	It's just, I saw the options.
	Option A. Option B. Okay, so I would have won if I hadn't quit the fight.
	I would have won.
	I should have seen the other guy.
	So that's his side of the story.
	And after this whole thing happened, his secretary resigned quietly.
	She's the one that covered up the data for the dead citizens, the elderly, thousands, maybe 10, 15,000.
	We may never know.
	Okay.
	That investigation in New York and in Michigan and in Washington State were all stopped.
	Department of Justice stopped.
	Those investigations just stopped.
	Yeah.
	And now when it comes to this impeachment, are we going to have any follow-up?
	Will there be any investigation?
	Three days after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation over sexual harassment allegations, state assembly leaders said they will suspend their investigation.
	They concluded they did not have the authority to impeach Cuomo once he leaves office.
	All right.
	Done.
	No investigation.
	That's it.
	It's done.
	People.
	People, when do we get a clue?
	I don't care.
	That's it.
	Get him out of the way.
	He'll get a Netflix special in five years.
	He'll be fine.
	Oh, get a contract with...
	Yes.
	He'll be fine.
	He'll be fine.
	Well, speaking of douchebag elites, I... Because it was Martin Short and Steve Martin who were on the Bill Maher show over...
	What's it called?
	Overtime?
	No...
	Whatever.
	Bill Maher's show on HBO. I tuned in.
	I kind of liked those two guys, and I wanted to see where their heads were at.
	But it was the opening monologue that was quite surprising, the way Bill Maher handled the Obama Let Them Eat Cake episode, which, man, everyone was all over Barack Obama.
	New York Times wrote an opinion piece about it being Marie Antoinette-ish.
	So it's kind of tough when you're Barack Obama and you're getting slammed by your own paper, you know, the one that brought you to victory, the New York Times.
	There's a lot of anger about the visuals.
	And Bill Maher, well, I don't know if he was invited or not, but his response is interesting.
	The other scandal that the Democrats are facing, even though I don't think it's a scandal at all, but Obama had a big birthday party.
	Yes, because he's successful and he's 60.
	This is America.
	We don't want to punish success, do we?
	No, we don't.
	Anyway, but yes, it's true.
	In the pandemic, with everything going on, the optics were terrible.
	And they should have known that.
	The DJ they hired was named Tone Deaf.
	And it was, whoa, what, talk about an A-list crowd?
	Oh my gosh, Jay-Z and Beyonce, Spielberg, Don Cheadle, Tom Hanks, Bradley Cooper, John Legend.
	This was a swanky party.
	A lot of them were tipping the valet in Bitcoin.
	It's just like, he really protected Obama on that one.
	Yeah, it surprises me.
	Me too.
	Sometimes I think, oh man, you had the right weed.
	And sometimes, man, you've got to lay off that stuff.
	That can be really weird.
	Very weird.
	Yeah, that event, which we didn't cover on our show because it was like...
	Yeah, who cares?
	Incidental.
	I did get some clips.
	These are all from late July, but I had to pick them up because there's a bunch of rants in here against Texas.
	Yeah.
	Okay, now that you've worn me down for two and a half hours, you're going to try and get me with your rant on Texas?
	Well, no, I won't be able to do a very good job of it, but this is Gavin Newsom at a press conference.
	I said this to Mimi, and she comes in and she says, he's drunk, and I didn't even think of it.
	Really?
	But Newsom is drunk as a skunk doing a press conference.
	Oh, I've seen this one.
	Yes, I think she's right.
	Yeah, I didn't think about it.
	I don't know why I didn't think about it, but he's sitting there and he's like a mean drunk and he's sitting there with an angry look on his face.
	The visuals are fabulous of this guy with this look on his face.
	And here's just a nine-second clip of how it goes.
	This is Newsom homegrown team is how angry he is.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I had the other one.
	We'll get to that.
	Yeah, here we go.
	We're number one in all those categories.
	It'd be damn nice if our homegrown team started focusing on what's right.
	Do you, I mean, is he a known drinker?
	Well, he owns part of a winery.
	He partners with the guy who owns the Balboa Cafe and some other winery.
	I think he's a big owner of one of the big wineries up in the Napa Valley, a part owner.
	I think Plump Jack, it might be it.
	And he is, yeah, I think he is a big drinker.
	He's a San Franciscan, you know, yeah, of course he is.
	San Francisco politicians, they're all a bunch of drunks.
	Okay, I was wondering.
	Okay, yeah, good, thanks.
	Got it.
	Yeah, so I don't see him being any different.
	But I never thought about it because you just don't think about it.
	But here he is with his rant number one and he keeps mentioning Florida and Texas as though it's like some competition.
	Governor, California has the nation's highest housing costs, highest gasoline prices, and highest utilities.
	Wage growth has been spectacular in the Silicon Valley, but not so much for areas along the coast and in some inland areas.
	In a very real sense, the California dream is more like a mirage for people grinding it out day after day.
	How do you make the case that you, as governor, can deliver the California dream to all Californians?
	Well, let's talk about what we also are number one in, Stephanie.
	And guys, forgive me, I know I'm a little pointed today, but I've been taking a lot from a few folks for a lot of months, so it's nice to be able to express myself, too.
	I'm dealing with deep pride in this state.
	As a Californian, not as a...
	I'm a future ex-governor.
	It could happen in a few weeks.
	It could happen in a few years.
	But I love this damn state.
	We're number one in job creation.
	Tenth of all the American economy.
	559,000 jobs.
	Eat your heart out, Texas, Florida.
	We're number one in the Bloomberg Index.
	Of innovation and entrepreneurialism.
	We dominated, yet again, in venture capital.
	And that's not just for fancy folks in Silicon Valley.
	Yeah, it is.
	That's pushing out the boundary of discovery and opportunity and innovation that advantages each and every one of us.
	53% of nation's venture capital.
	Over 100 damn IPOs year-to-date in this state.
	80-plus billion-dollar budget surplus.
	80-plus billion.
	Not that 76 billion.
	We had another $3.9 billion in new cash.
	We have better health outcomes in Florida and Texas and better economic outcomes.
	Our economy contracted at a more modest rate than Florida and Texas.
	Wow, that guy is delusional.
	Well, he goes on about something I didn't clip, but Mimi pointed out to me.
	His comment that we're number one in lumber, we're number 10 or something.
	We're not even close.
	And she just gave me the stats on it.
	It's like, no, we're not even trying hard in lumber compared to Oregon's number two and Washington's number one.
	It's like IPOs and venture capital.
	I don't believe we've had 110 IPOs so far this year.
	I think there's been 110 IPOs on Wall Street, not all from California.
	No, I believe that's true.
	Yeah.
	Well, he goes, just one more little minute of this, and we have the...
	Excuse me, one more thing.
	I thought California had a deficit.
	Is this because they got COVID money that they now have a surplus?
	Cooking the books.
	Oh, sorry.
	Yes, I got you.
	80 plus.
	We have the highest personal income tax in the country because we can't bring our deficit down.
	We were broke.
	Yeah, there's some cooking the books methodology to use to make it sound like, oh, no, we've got plenty of money.
	No, you don't.
	And he found another $3.9 billion in the couch.
	Yeah, and he was happy about that.
	He has to blast Texas one more time.
	Oh, good.
	Do you know, Stephanie, that middle-class families in Texas pay more taxes than middle-class Californians?
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	Okay.
	I don't know why that doesn't get more damn attention.
	Because I care about working folks.
	That's a fact.
	I'm also proud of the fact that this state has almost tripled its earned income tax credit to allow working families to keep more with their earning.
	I'm proud of the fact that three quarters of Tax filers are getting a tax rebate, the largest in American history, $12 billion.
	I'm proud of the fact that small businesses are getting $4 billion in grants, not loans.
	I'm proud of the fact we're paying 100% of back rent, 100% going back to April last year, 100% through September 30th this year.
	Oh yeah, excuse me.
	Where's the landlord's bailout?
	Where's that sticking?
	100% of your back utilities and back water bills, because you're right, those bills have stacked up.
	I'm proud of the fact, you didn't mention it, Stephanie, that most electric bills are lower in the state, even though our per unit costs are higher, which you're right to note.
	But you didn't mention the bills, which are lower because of our energy efficiency and our low-carbon green growth plants.
	So the kind of drunk that he is here is, I think, the two-martini lunch where you're feeling good, I'm ready for this, I'm ready for the press, and then you go to your office and it's like, crap, I'm hammered.
	That could be.
	But he got started, and it was unstoppable, bitching and moaning.
	Yeah, and he was sweaty.
	He was sweaty, too.
	He was sweaty.
	Yeah, he was sweaty, and he had that look on his face of a guy.
	If you saw him at a bar, you don't want to even say hello.
	No.
	He just had that, wants to get into a fight look.
	He was in fight or flight mode, and he was in fight.
	He wanted to fight, and he was going to call out these reporters who had made his life miserable for the last month.
	He's pretty much digging his own grave here for his recall.
	But he's going to have to stay off the sauce.
	Yeah.
	He did a good bit, though.
	I have this.
	I don't even want to play it, actually.
	But it's about his fire.
	The fire is all the fires.
	We've got all these fires.
	He makes the point that it's the U.S. Forest Service, which he seems to be afraid of, of dissing.
	I rarely use that word.
	Because they have a completely different fires...
	Suppression methodology and theory.
	And I saw the guys ahead of the U.S. Forest Service recently talking about this.
	They don't seem to want to do controlled burns.
	Or if they do, it's like really weird.
	Which is the biggest problem.
	They have a huge issue with the way they handle things.
	And Newsom kindly called them out on it.
	And this is kind of in a different part of the discussion if you want to play.
	Yeah, sure.
	But I thought it was entertaining.
	Tomorrow we'll be asking the Biden administration specific things, access to more contracted DC-10s, access to more technology, including more permanent access to satellite technology through the Pentagon.
	We're asking for more Forest Service personnel, 5,000.
	I'm previewing it.
	We're asking that the U.S. Forest Service get paid more.
	But here's the final point, and here's the substantive answer to your question.
	And we're asking the U.S. Forest Service to get more serious about fire suppression.
	And I say that because the Tamarack Fire, which I visited yesterday with Governor Sislak, where you guys let me out of the state for the first time in two years, and I was with Governor Sislak, and we both expressed public frustration, not private, that this fire could have been suppressed before it became a 68,000-acre fire.
	It was under federal land.
	It wasn't under his jurisdiction or mine.
	U.S. Forest Service has a different approach to suppression, and we're going to bring that up with President tomorrow.
	That's a tough conversation to have.
	I love those guys.
	We all love the U.S. Forest Service.
	They've had a cultural difference of approach.
	In many of these large-scale fires, the vast majority are initiated on federal forest lands.
	And then they become Joint Incident Commands.
	And I get it.
	I'm tattooed with every damn one of my own.
	This is as close as I think Newsom will ever get to pulling a Brittany.
	I mean, this is his kind of meltdown mode.
	Yeah.
	I'm a former governor no matter what, eventually.
	Now, how does this work?
	So you have the recall, when is that coming up soon?
	September, about the same time as Trudeau gets.
	Okay, September, but the way it works, I understand, is they can recall him and then immediately vote for the person they want to replace him.
	The ballot shows two boxes.
	One, do you want to recall the governor?
	And you vote yes or no.
	And then I already have the samples.
	And then the other one is a list of all these bozos that the Republican Party, which is in disarray in California and has been for decades, the Republican Party won't endorse anybody.
	Everyone's talking about Larry Elder, though.
	That's what everyone's talking about.
	Yeah, Larry Elder and the guy who ran for governor last time, Cox, who's a real loser.
	And there's one guy, I can't remember his name, I'm going to have to dig it up.
	I think it's Hinkley or something like that.
	He's a state assemblyman.
	He's really sharp, but he's very young.
	He's like 30.
	But he's like the sharpest of the group.
	And there's another guy who says, I'm going to repeal the state personal income tax, which I vote for him.
	Yeah, right away.
	And a free pony!
	And a free pony!
	So I think what's going to happen is they're not going to get enough people.
	And I don't know how that, maybe just the guy who gets the most votes becomes the next governor, at least until the next election.
	But I think Newsom has a good shot at getting voted out.
	I think it's over a 50% chance he's going to get voted out.
	And he keeps condemning everybody.
	They have ads, local ads.
	I should collect a couple.
	He can't get many Republicans to come and back him up.
	Or Democrats, I'm sorry.
	He can't get many Democrats to come and back him up.
	Except one.
	And she has all the...
	Pelosi has all the...
	No.
	No, she can't get Pelosi.
	Elizabeth Warren...
	So you have Pocahontas on here.
	You know, you've got to vote these damn Republicans.
	They're trying to screw this poor governor of yours.
	And so she's doing her thing with her ads.
	And I look at him going, how is this helping?
	Bill Maher is also doing it.
	That's the stupidest thing we could ever do in California.
	Oh yeah, Bill Maher is a big fan of Newsom.
	That tells me enough.
	So yes, stupid.
	And so all the Democrats are either in denial like Bill Maher And they're not going to come out and vote.
	The real fear, and I think Newsom knows this, is that all his supporters, probably none of them, even because it's going to be mail in, it's not even going to be to the polls.
	They're not even going to, and they've already screwed, by the way, here's a good thing.
	They've already screwed this up.
	They've sent two mailings out so far.
	And I thought both were ballots.
	Oh.
	The first one was just, the first mailing, it was official mailing.
	Oh, you're going to throw the third one out.
	And I got it and I looked at it.
	Oh, the ballots came.
	I told you, say, Jay, the ballots came.
	We've got to vote.
	And they stayed on the tail for a while.
	So I opened it up.
	They weren't the ballots.
	They were saying a ballot's coming.
	Just a question.
	Then wait.
	Then a second, the ballot did get, then another one comes, a big giant thing.
	I said, this is it.
	This is the ballot.
	We got to vote.
	No, it wasn't a ballot.
	It was a sample ballot.
	I just want to understand.
	So the mail comes and you go, Jay, yay, the ballots are here.
	I mean, really?
	Well, I say, I want to remind you, because I get the impression she probably wouldn't vote.
	Oh, yeah, right.
	You're leading by example.
	Let's vote.
	Aren't you going to vote in person?
	I'm just being a good dad.
	Yeah, you should vote in person.
	It's the full experience.
	Well, you should, but they don't have, no, no, it's not an option.
	Oh, you can't.
	No, this is a mail-in deal.
	Okay, all right.
	But they're going to end up, mail in or not mail in, the big vote is you want to get rid of your governor.
	And it's not, Newsom keeps calling it the Republican recall.
	The problem is there's plenty of Democrats that don't like him either.
	All I know is two impeachments, four years of Trump, and these two guys resign.
	Gotta tell you something about statistics.
	I'm gonna show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, I don't know what you're doing in the morning.
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	He started at 1222.
	Thank you for everything you guys do.
	Please call out Eric as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Eric, I don't know who Eric is, not our Eric.
	No.
	Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico, $100.
	Scott Smith in Noblesville, Indiana, $100.
	Christopher Dexter, $56.78.
	Tiffany Johnson, $55.10.
	Stuart...
	Eikert, 5333.
	Kimberly Lewis in Davis, California, 5150.
	Oh, and since it's short, I can say, requesting anniversary weekend shout-outs to Sir Reptitious Knight of the Marin, Headlands from Dame Moneypenny.
	And that takes us right to our $50 donors.
	Very short list today.
	Every which way.
	And we'll read the names, name and location.
	$50 donation from Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
	Sir Brandon, obviously.
	Jamie Hilliard in Noonan, Georgia.
	Christy Staubach.
	Parts unknown.
	And Christy has a request for a de-douching, mainly because her six-year-old human resource asked what a douchebag was anyway, and she replied, it's a loser.
	She realized she had to donate and be de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	Sarah Gordon, Tucson, Tony Smith, Fort Worth, Texas, North, no, Fort Worth.
	Chris Slowinski, sir, in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Ian Sloan in Alt Attadale.
	Washington Attadale.
	Attaboy.
	Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami.
	She's a Baroness, I think.
	Nathan Cain in Frazier's Bottom, West Virginia.
	Your old stomping ground.
	He's right there.
	You were stomping the bottom.
	I'm all up in the bottom.
	Fabio...
	Alves in Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
	Phillip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Hendrick Jalink in Herd.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Okay.
	Fred...
	What?
	Hendrick.
	Hendrush.
	Hendrick.
	Hendrick Jalink.
	Jalink.
	Jalink.
	In Herd.
	Heard.
	Netherlands.
	And by the way, he also wants a de-douching first-time donor.
	Roganite learned about No Agenda when I saw Adam on the Jensen Show with Robert Jensen.
	Thanks for keeping me sane.
	You've been de-douched.
	The displaced Texan comes in from somewhere in the world.
	$50.
	Karen DeVos...
	Oh, Karen de Vos.
	Karen de Vos.
	Karen de Vos.
	In Londenseed.
	Londenseed.
	Londenseed, Belgium.
	Very good.
	Belge, Belge.
	België.
	Brian Henderson in Indianapolis.
	Sir Spud the Mighty, our friend in Marietta, Georgia.
	And last but not least, Sir Joey Wingenroth in Saugus, California.
	That's a group of producers for show 1373.
	May it live in infamy.
	And Sarah Gordon from Tucson, $50.
	That was for the DC Girl Dame Drive.
	Who's celebrating her birthday, and they had the big spook meetup, and so everyone was supporting her, getting her onto the podium, which she will be there today.
	Was there any other make goods we had?
	No, I think we're good.
	We got all of those.
	Yes.
	Thank you all so much for supporting your No Agenda show.
	We read a little bit more than we typically do, but it was short today, and anything under $50, that is for either reasons of anonymity Or people have some of these cool subscriptions that they get on board with.
	11-11s, 12-12s, 33s, there's 42s.
	You can make one up yourself, actually.
	For more information, go to...
	And a little bit of Go Karma.
	No one's requested it so far today.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Well, let's not get too excited over...
	Only two on the birthday calendar for today.
	We had all those 33s in previous shows.
	Anna Dunev celebrated yesterday.
	Happy birthday, Anna.
	And Montauk Crinklebottom turned 41 today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah.
	No titles, but we do have one dame and one knight, so I will bring up my rusty sword.
	There you go.
	Very good.
	Martin Radloff, pop on up!
	It's your time, sir.
	And DC Girl, everybody give her a hand.
	DC Girl with the game drive.
	Great to see you here.
	Thank you very much for your support of the No Agenda Show and the amount of $1,000 or more that entitles you to the title that you have chosen.
	And I'm proud to pronounce the KD as Sir Martin of the Wester Downs.
	And Dame D.C. Girl of the Virginia Lovers.
	For you, we've got hookers and blow.
	We've got rent boys and chardonnay.
	Also, by request, barbecued lamb chops washed down with a dozen Bundy Cokes.
	We've got some sparkling cider and escorts, bong hits and bourbon, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum and yes.
	Of course, we've got the mutton and mead.
	Both of you, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Give all the details to Eric in the back office, and he will ensure that you get your handsome knight slash dame ring.
	It's a signet, so you can use the wax to seal your envelopes with.
	We provide that as well, a certificate of authenticity.
	Thank you again for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	And we have meetups.
	All right.
	Pay attention.
	Spot the spook in the DC spook meetup report.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	Hey, this is Sir William of West Pensil-Tucky at the Arlington meetup.
	DC Girl Dame Drive.
	ITM, John and Adam.
	This is Sir William at Crystal Palace.
	Definitely not MI6. Hey, it's DC Girl in the morning.
	It's the infamous HL Cadman representing ITM Industries in my fly chain.
	Brian at the Arlington Meetup.
	I'm not a douchebag.
	This is Bobby at the Arlington Meetup with my gold 33s.
	David from Albemarle County.
	Roger, the extremely long-time douchebag will donate $33 to a DC girl's birthday drive.
	So, yeah, de-douche me when you get the time.
	Justin calling from Arlington, Virginia, where it's so very spooky.
	I am Abel Kirby.
	You can definitely trust me.
	Sir Wags in the morning.
	This is Bongo Boy coming to you from the communist state of Maryland in the double communist county of Montgomery County where we have new mask mandates all of a sudden but no one else does in the morning.
	This is Jacob.
	Forgive me, Podfather, for I've been a douchebag.
	In the morning, Sir Nicholas outside.
	Sir Jefferson or Duncan.
	This is Glenn, and this is my first No Agenda meetup, and I just found out that sex, religion, and politics should be treated with prurience, abstinence, and vigilance.
	Well, I heard at least five spooks for sure.
	They could have all been.
	When they do this, like, hey, I'm Brian.
	Like, hey, I'm Bobby.
	Like, uh-huh.
	You hear those voices?
	Were those pickle factory voices or what?
	They sound like it, yeah.
	They had the right voice.
	Glad you guys had a good time.
	I told you, you always hang out with great people.
	You'll have no problem.
	Everyone has a vow of silence over there.
	Here's the Fine Fine Wine with Good People meetup report.
	Hello, is this thing on?
	Ah yeah, this is Healdsburg, California.
	This is the long-awaited Healdsburg meetup report.
	Hello, is this thing on?
	Hello, is this thing on?
	I'm John.
	This is the meetup in Healdsburg.
	Fine wine for good people.
	There's more good people than fine wine.
	That's true.
	This is Chris in the morning.
	Hi, this is Baroness Sarah Rupert and Sucker Baby Violet.
	Hi!
	Yay!
	A dude named Ben named Ben, Baron of SF. This is Corinne, coming from Yosemite.
	Christy from Forestville, stoked to be here with good people.
	This is Emily from St.
	Helena, really happy to be here.
	Hi, this is Dave from Santa Rosa, out of my wife, my two main resources, and Thailand.
	Jim and Malou from Cameron Park, JRE converts.
	This is Matthew.
	In the morning, this is Justin Hillsburg.
	Loving it.
	Live from Delhi City.
	Hi, John.
	Stay safe.
	Sir Peperazzi from the East Bay and shocked by the wine that's here.
	This is Darren from Windsor and I haven't had a Von Pelsmacher donation in a while.
	Where is that guy?
	This is Marty St.
	Cross and I came here for a dedouching and now I'm all sticky.
	Yikes!
	That's true.
	Mimi, final words?
	Oh.
	Nope.
	One more time.
	Good morning!
	Very good.
	The No Agenda Meetups, they are global.
	Stuttgart, Germany, come on in.
	Sir Kevin of the Irrigated Rice Fields checking in from Stuttgart Meetup 1.
	Having a great time.
	Met up with some people from Cape Town and Munich.
	Just having a blast.
	So, I'm Oskar, the Swedish guy.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Hi, this is Sir Stefan from Swabia.
	In the morning.
	Ahoy, John and Adam, and all the producers in Wolkenberg and Mastryk.
	Hey!
	And does it heat okay?
	Do it.
	Damon Adam Scott is here once again with Damon The Making Dylan.
	She's going to be at her second meetup in six weeks here, so good to go.
	Hi, this is Laura from Stuttgart.
	This is Andre from Stuttgart.
	Third meetup now.
	Having a blast.
	Chicken fucking nuggets on my face.
	Okay, wasn't expecting that.
	Orlando, Florida.
	Alright, I don't know what's happening there.
	They seem to be in a very crowded room with poor micing conditions.
	Luckily, only 26 seconds.
	will go again.
	Fresh and coffins from Dark Doxade.
	This is Lisa from Michigan, local one, enjoying a free stage for once.
	Hi, I'm Michelle from Pennsylvania.
	I'm just, I'm hanging out here.
	In the morning from the Space Coast.
	No!
	In the morning.
	Hello.
	Hey, me out of here.
	So glad we got people to come out.
	It's a great time.
	Vote for your number one.
	In the morning.
	Do it again.
	That actually sounded so much like old CB radio.
	You listen to the static.
	Those in Florida?
	Yeah.
	Everyone blasting over each other.
	They just have more fun in Florida.
	I guess so.
	That's what some Gavin Newsom won't address.
	We got Chicago with a written report.
	Jazz in Lincoln Park.
	I decided to reinstate the Adam and Jod head cutouts from the old days.
	Nice to have you gentlemen join us, says Sir Tony in Chicago.
	That was very nice.
	These were these small heads.
	They were like Zika heads of us, but we were there in spirit.
	And from Edmonton, our first meetup in Edmonton, Alberta, where the money used to be, in over three years, was a smashing success.
	We had a knight, a dame who drove nearly two hours to be there, multiple Dutch speakers, a cute human resource, Trap Baby, and at least 16 awesome producers of all shapes and sizes who enjoyed the opportunity to speak freely without fear of cancellation.
	Nice.
	There was a solid interest in making it a semi-regular event, so we've already tentatively planned the next meetup for a few months from now.
	We share our sincere thanks for your promotion of the meetup idea and helping us all make some local connections who might have differing opinions but are willing to find what we do, share in common, and not let our differences ruin relationships.
	Yes, don't be hypnotized.
	Thank you for your courage, Levi and Sir Eric, who will code for coffee, Huff.
	Thank you very much.
	Sounds like a great report.
	Here's what's coming up this week.
	The 18th on Wednesday, the Human Resources Kids Meetup at 6 o'clock in Israel Beale Park in Redlands, California.
	Then on Thursday, show day, Charlotte's Thursday, third Thursday month meetup, 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern.
	And then just looking ahead for the next couple of weeks, or the next, yeah, actually, I'll do the rest of August.
	21st, Rhode Island, Charleston, South Carolina, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Malmo.
	Punta Gorda, Florida.
	New Braunfels, Texas.
	Adelaide in Australia.
	South Australia.
	On the 23rd, Philly.
	28th, Long Beach, California.
	Nelson, British Columbia.
	Portland, Oregon.
	San Antonio, Texas.
	And then the 29th, the Lowlands in Amsterdam.
	And finally, for rounding out August, Knoxville, Tennessee on the 30th.
	These are the No Agenda Meetups.
	These are completely producer organized.
	We do have a great website, noagendameetups.com, where you can coordinate it.
	Everything we were talking about, don't get hypnotized.
	Don't fall into it.
	Make sure you keep talking with everybody.
	And it can be from all walks of life.
	You'll see it at noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one, start yourself.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered or held the flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	My mouth is giving up on me.
	Ahem.
	Like this?
	Just start yourself.
	You can't talk anymore.
	Your mouth?
	Your mouse?
	My mouth.
	My mouth is giving out on me.
	And if you can't start one, start yourself.
	I'm losing coherence.
	Help me, Jim.
	Let's do some ISOs.
	I'll give you my two up front.
	I only have two.
	All right?
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	That's a Newsome.
	And this, I think, is my favorite.
	Live now.
	Die later.
	That's Jim Acosta.
	I think that's a nice one.
	Well, I have Look It Up.
	You have the same one?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	Okay.
	So that would seem almost like it's a shoe-in.
	I also have Newsome.
	Eat your heart out, Texas, Florida.
	No, no.
	I like this one better.
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	Yeah, that's kind of right there, man.
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	Yeah, I wish it was clearer.
	I mean, it wasn't mic'd.
	That press conference was poorly mic'd.
	You know, it was pathetic.
	He was drunk!
	Yeah, now as you mention it, he was obviously drunk.
	I mean, that's what's going on.
	I wanted to mention for today's end of show mixes, we have Sir Chris Wilson locked down like a dog in Australia, but with a time piece that he created for this time that we're living in.
	All of these mixes are now starting to become very, I think, might be important historical pieces of work in the future.
	Tom Starkweather did a great piece.
	What does he title his?
	Flash Drive Dependent Enhancement.
	And then sound guy Steve came in with some vaccination propagation.
	No, propagation.
	He says, vaccination propagation.
	Okay.
	They're really, you listen to these, like, holy crap, so much has been jammed in.
	It's amazing that we're still standing.
	That our amygdalas haven't exploded in fiery gusts of goo.
	That's why there's two of us.
	Thank goodness.
	You got anything to take us home?
	Well, I do have a...
	George Bernard Shaw, I took a clip from him years and years ago where he was advocating, this is during the era of eugenics and the rest of it, he was advocating that people would have to prove their worth to society or should be killed.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm excited.
	Yeah.
	It's hard to hear him because he's old.
	It's an old clip from the 20s or 30s.
	Now, explain to everyone who George Bernard Shaw was.
	George Bernard Shaw was one of the great men of letters who was just a playwright.
	He was a novelist.
	He was everything.
	He was the great genius, a guy who was one of the high-end thinkers.
	Was he a Shakespeare of the era?
	No, I wouldn't call him that, but he was a very, very important person.
	But obviously a douchebag when you listen to this.
	But there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill.
	Not in any unkind or personal spirit, but it must be evident to all of you, you must all know half a dozen people at least, who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth.
	And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board Just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every five years or every seven years, just put him there and say, sir or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?
	This reminds me, one of our producers sent me a link to an episode of Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek kind of takeoff, Odyssey or something.
	Whatever it was called.
	I never watched it.
	I watched about five episodes.
	One of them was a complete rip-off of a Black Mirror episode.
	Yes, that's the one.
	But what was interesting about it is they go down to Earth and there's the master feed, which of course resembles Twitter, with downvotes and upvotes.
	And everyone has a badge on and if you get X amount of downvotes or if you do something that people then stream onto and is accepted to the master feed and they think you're bad and it's a total spin with the television shows,
	then you have to go, as a tribunal, you have to do an apology tour And during the apology tour, if you can stick within your apology tour under 10 million downvotes, then you don't have to go to the reprogramming brain fry center.
	And it's very similar to that.
	Just let people on television determine if you should be reprogrammed or not.
	That could totally happen here.
	It's happening now.
	Sadly, I think you're right.
	Except it's not happening to individuals.
	It's on mass scale.
	Don't let it happen to you.
	Keep listening to the No Agenda show.
	Turn off your television!
	It's kryptonite for you.
	We can handle this.
	We're professionals.
	Don't try this at home.
	Coming up next on noagendastream.com, the adventures of Nick the Rats.
	I think that was from earlier this week.
	Always fun.
	He does it live, I think, Wednesday nights at least.
	Maybe Saturday nights too.
	Wouldn't surprise me.
	Guys all over the place, a damn rat.
	As said, end of show mixes.
	Sir Chris Wilson, Tom Starkweather, Sound Guy Steve.
	And I am coming to you from the heart of Texas Hill Country.
	We are located smack dab in the middle of FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where, I don't know, how about let's get freeing Julian Assange?
	Where is the news on that poor bastard?
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	We return on Thursday with another edition of your twice-a-week media deconstruction.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	Until Thursday.
	Adios, mofos!
	and such.
	Australians all should shut up, Slife, cause we're no longer free.
	Locked inside our homes and flats because of COVID-19.
	Our politicians and elites and multi-billionaires have profited from our demise.
	Advance Australia Unfair.
	We gave it up without a fight.
	advance strive unfair comply no I know you're going to put it back this and I know you're going to find something and go wrong with it the literature that supports all of that is in the flash drive that we presented to you has been given to the secretary I'm calling because we have vaccine appointments available for you Well, it's not preventing the transmission.
	You can still get the virus if you're vaccinated.
	You can still spread the virus if you're vaccinated.
	And I have to choose between that career that I'm committed to or put in an experimental drug that I don't know what it's going to do to me in my body.
	You need to know the condition.
	This is called antibody-mediated viral enhancement.
	Because you're mounting antibodies and those antibodies are able to neutralize the virus.
	But at the same time...
	The virus under tremendous immune selection pressure.
	Look that up, that's a fact.
	It was not until mid-December 2020 that variants with measurably different behavior emerged.
	Wow, I wonder what took place in December of 2020.
	Screw your freedom.
	People who have the vaccine are still able to be infected by this virus and that virus is still able to replicate inside them.
	Look that up.
	That's a fact.
	No vaccine prevents you from getting infection.
	You get infected.
	You shed pathogens.
	This is especially true of viral respiratory pathogens.
	Have you wondered about the health effects of forcing kids to breathe through sweat and spit and dirt-soaked rags every single day?
	Coronavirus and all other respiratory viruses, they are spread by aerosol particles, which are small enough to go through every mask.
	This is the mistake that you make when you think that, That whatever comes from the corporate press, the mainstream public health experts, is gospel.
	No one can make this virus go away.
	Do you know what it's called when you force your children to wear masks for fear of a virus that poses almost no threat to them?
	It's called child abuse.
	You want to look up a disease, look up Munchausen by proxy.
	I don't know why that doesn't get more damn attention.
	And then ask yourself.
	Get back to normal.
	People.
	People.
	Put simply, propaganda is the dissemination of ideas intended to convince people to think and act in a particular way and for a particular purpose.
	New CNN reporting shows there's been a sharp decline in vaccination ads on television.
	The COVID-19 vaccines have been proven safe and effective.
	There's a lot of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, so it's critical that you get the facts from sources you can trust.
	The fact is, the vaccines are safe and effective.
	More sickness and death across our nation.
	A campaign of shock and awe has begun.
	It's all of our responsibility to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
	People you know and trust are getting vaccinated.
	The most effective are black women.
	Black women.
	Everyone has to keep everyone else safe.
	The vaccines have all been through and met the necessary safety and quality standards.
	I beg the public to take this virus more seriously.
	The ultimate endgame of all this is vaccination.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	MoFo.

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