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Didn't we start on episode 8 or 9 or 10?
With value for value?
Do you recall?
Well, value...
No, not...
Well, maybe.
It was early.
It was around maybe episode 10.
But the concept was...
We never used the value for value phraseology.
You brought that in.
That was much later, probably?
Months and months and months.
Maybe a year into it.
You came up with the idea.
V for V. But hadn't we already decided that it would just be open-ended way before the value-for-value moniker?
Yes, it was always open-ended, and that's because we got all these weird numerological donations that we read.
Yes!
Yeah, the 69-69, I think.
Wasn't it 69-69 the first one that really was massive?
No, I think it was mostly numbers, like dates of the calendar dates, 1394.
Oh, okay.
There's a bunch of them, and then...
We quickly moved to the...
We quickly moved to...
This is a little history for people out there.
Yes, yes.
This is 14 years in a nutshell.
I had this thing anyway in my craw about knighthoods.
That's right.
Because I always felt it was unfortunate that the Queen of England could give these things up.
Wasn't that around the time that I visited the Queen of England?
No, it was before.
You visited her before.
You said, I'm a knight.
So, that came into play early, very early, and then it expanded to what it is today, which is a big deal.
And then you came up with the, after that, the next thing was the next development, and I think it was pretty much the last real development.
It was the second show.
Yeah.
No, the second show came, I think, before the nightings.
The second show came on pretty quickly.
Oh, okay.
Then it was promising a third show for about three years.
That's right.
Until we looked at it and went, this is a very bad idea.
We should not be doing three shows.
We actually had done a third show.
I'm just checking here.
One, two, okay.
This is there for eight cars.
No report.
Let me finish my stories.
Because I kind of remember this pretty well.
And we did the third show thing as a tease for about three years.
And then a couple of times, for some reason or other, we actually did a third show that were specials.
And it pooped us out so much.
Yeah, you're right.
Gosh, I remember that.
We were only doing like an hour and a half shows, the two hours, but doing the third show was, for some reason, so taxing.
Did we actually do it?
Did we do a third show?
We didn't do a technical third show.
We did like, you know, kind of a third.
It wasn't really a third show.
We did three shows a week.
A couple of times over a number of months, and every time we did it, that week was ruined.
It just doesn't work.
I think it's because...
What was funny is that even though that didn't work, the continuing lengthening of the regular show continued.
Yes.
To the point where we're at three hours plus.
We were at 2.30 for a long time, two and a half, for a long, long time.
And then it went to 245, and then it kept bumping and bumping and bumping.
And next thing you know, we're at...
Next thing you know, COVID. COVID hit.
COVID were eight hours.
So we might as well do three shows, but doing three shows turned out to be different than doing two long shows.
So the next development was you deciding that everybody's a producer, not a listener.
Oh, yeah.
And then that evolved into creating, and this was kind of a joint thing, creating the executive producer, associate executive producer gimmick to give people genuine, you know, it turns out, genuine credits.
Yeah, just like a knighthood, only this one's a little more recognized.
And this became very popular to the point where we had people trying to copy it.
Including that guy, your friend down in Southern California, the guy who talks a little bit like this.
Little lispy guy, the short...
Why am I not remembering his name?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
In Southern California?
Yeah, the Southern California podcaster that stole the Twitch show thing from Leo.
Jason Calacanis.
Oh, Jason Calacanis.
This Week in Startups.
Oh, okay.
I got it.
So Calacanis decided that...
It's not a list, but it's more like this.
It's okay to talk like this.
I'm Jason Calacanis, and I'm an investor.
She takes my money.
Angel investor.
And I have no problem mocking him, because he does a voice of mine, too.
Yeah, he does all kinds of...
He can handle it, by the way.
I'm not worried about Jason Calacanis.
Well, I don't...
Anyway, so he decided, oh, he made a big point saying this is one of the greatest ideas that podcasters have ever come up with, this executive producer idea.
So he decided to do it.
A month later, he was back to ads.
Yes.
He couldn't do it.
It's like there's a...
There's a trick to doing it, and he never figured that part out.
Well, the trick is, and this is what we learned, it's really about what we call producers, but we mean it.
This is the new type of radio.
It's not just, I'm broadcasting to the audience.
No.
They're going to feed back to you whether you like it or not.
It's up to the podcasters to decide what to do with it.
Yeah, we have a two-way communication that's a little more extreme than a normal broadcast.
I'll say.
I'll say.
And remember, the number one trick is an outstanding product.
Right, which Calacanis didn't have.
That was the problem.
Ah, yes.
Now, yes, the product was there.
But these ideas were kind of, the feedback was really what makes them work.
I mean, we never came up with douchebag or any of these things.
That was all done by the audience, and the audience and producers, they're the ones who created half of this idea, and they're the ones who adopted them, and they're the ones who went along with the idea of being a knight or a producer, which we had two.
I remember during this era where all these experts would come in and tell us what we should be doing, and my favorite one was...
Experts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And my favorite one was this guy, your problem is you guys have got to do gamification.
Who was this brilliant light?
This was way, this was like in about the fourth or fifth year, this gamification guy.
And I kept looking at him, or he didn't look, I mean, it was corresponding on email, I'm thinking...
Do you have any clue what knighthoods are?
What kind of consultant are you?
I mean, do you have any...
This reminds me...
I mean, gamification is the first thing we did.
Yeah.
But...
It was like, these are like the experts, these social media experts that work for these corporations.
I'm the social media expert at Salesforce.
And you go to their Twitter account, they got 1,200 followers.
Was this Gary Vaynerchuk who gave you this advice?
No, I never corresponded with him.
No, me neither.
But we should say that, again, a lot of that was the producers pushing that.
No, and the producers...
They wanted it.
They wanted to play games.
That's the whole point.
For Humanity was a big flop.
I mean, we had a lot of stuff that didn't go over, but the stuff that went over, we picked up on it because we were very close to the audience, the producers themselves.
They responded, so we continued with their...
Otherwise, we would have never gotten to people being Dukes, Grand Dukes.
This just never would have happened if nobody was responding positively to it.
I can't believe that you actually brought up Nap for Humanity.
Nap for Humanity.
What was the promotion with that?
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
We were supposed to sleep to save carbon dioxide?
It was something to do with shortening the show, I think.
I'm not sure.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Nap for Humanity.
That was one of the major flops.
The other thing is we have done, I don't have a list of them, somebody could probably put one together, of all these ideas that just never went anywhere.
Oh, we had a lot of ideas that were total duds.
Yeah.
So it's really hit and miss.
It's the only way you can do it.
Well, so far it's been a super fun ride.
And as long as it's fun, I think we can keep doing it.
It's been too long.
Okay.
Okay.
Don't say these things.
People get very upset.
Now our function seems to be serving the public with the kind of information they can't seem to get from the media.
The media has dropped the ball.
Yeah, before we were just a lark.
Now it's like people tune in and depend on us.
Yeah, kind of.
The difference is like the media has just...
I don't know what they've dropped the ball, I can say.
And they can't seem to find a way to pick it up.
What do you mean they've dropped?
You mean the ball for them to...
They're not providing the public with the information they need.
It's interesting you say that.
They're lying to the public.
The next door neighbor was on Gutfeldt.
Laura Logan.
And she reiterated something that I learned about her stance towards what is happening in the world and in particular towards M5M. And since you bring this up, let me play this because I think she's got the wrong idea about what to do with this ball that's been dropped.
And you know what's disturbing about it, Greg, is they actually want you not to believe what's right in front of you.
We can all see it.
But they're saying, no, don't believe reality, right?
We're going to create a safe zone where you can be one of 230-something pronouns.
Yeah.
And you can change your gender 32 times in a day.
Because believe me, there's even memes about that.
And the southern border cannot exist.
Right.
It can be wide open.
You can have over a million illegal immigrants coming in.
And by the way, we're just going to remove the word illegal and only talk about it as if it's migrants and it'll all just, you know, go away.
Actually, if you look at the political agenda...
They don't care about the chaos.
They don't care about the crime rate going up.
They don't care about the people in the inner cities in Minneapolis whose life is that much harder.
They actually want that.
Because when you create that chaos, you get to be the solution.
And they want us to give up on our media.
Our institutions, our FBI and our DOJ, they want you to say, no, I'm giving up.
You know why?
Because they have such a tiny bit of support.
And if we all give up, it's the only form of victory that has to be given.
You cannot win it.
They want all of us to give them that victory.
And that's why it's so important for Americans to not accept that they're so divided because it's not true.
And for us not to surrender.
I just disagree.
I don't think the media wants you to walk away from them.
It makes no sense.
I also think it's a bad strategy.
Blow them up!
And yeah, the FBI, who needs it?
Who needs the FBI? The media has decided somewhere along the line, well, okay, the way I see it, the media, for one thing, has been infiltrated by the woke.
Yeah.
And the woke have a perspective that they're just so adamant about that they're just promoting it.
They don't want anyone to walk away.
They just think everyone's going to flock to the woke because they think this is the right.
They're self-righteous.
And so there's none of this scheming that's going on.
This is all sincere.
They're not insincere.
Well, yes and no.
Yesterday, this was the day before yesterday, on MSNBC, I was on the porch so I couldn't record it.
I'm not counting NBC in my commentary, but go on.
Well, it was about the Netflix protest, which, you know, this walkout, which of course was a huge dud.
It went from thousands to like a dozen people.
But the lead lady inside Netflix, she was on, and it became apparent very quickly that this is not about getting Dave Chappelle off of Netflix.
Oh, no.
No, no.
What their demand is, and this is why I'm pissed.
I looked for the clip.
I couldn't find it anywhere.
Their demand is more money for messages that are pro-trans in the name of equity.
This is shakedown.
It's a former Shakedown.
I think I have that clip.
She was on NPR. Oh, okay.
We had her on the last show.
Yeah, do you have her on the last show?
No, we had her on the last show, but I'm saying I got a newer clip of her on NPR. Okay.
I think.
It was a long rant by her, and I'm not remembering clipping it, putting it in here.
It's got to be in here.
This is fun.
Let me see.
It's not on a Biden.
Usually it'd be NPR. You'd put it in there.
No.
Maureen Scheller?
No.
Molded Howard?
No.
Are you sure?
Super hard wood.
That sounds like a Chappelle joke.
I don't think you have the trans sports bill.
That's not it.
No, the trans sports bill.
You sure it's not super hardwood?
No, it's not super hardwood.
No, that's a shame if I don't have it.
Oh, man.
Oh, okay.
It was...
Well, anyway, she was on.
I can still get it, because they played it on NPR, and I do have a copy of it.
She went on, and you're right.
That's exactly what it was.
Her comment was, which is why I wish I had it, she said, because she's the one who leaked the details about the money they spent on the Chappelle show, which is quite a bit.
Yeah, like it's a little better than the podcaster life.
She said that instead of spending all this money on the Chappelle show, they could do 100 shows addressing trans issues.
And those 100 shows would be serving this and that.
It's all about the money.
It was nothing to do with anything.
No, they just want funding for their own projects.
And she had some example of some show or documentary that was just...
Would have packed them in, by the way, according to her.
That's all people want to listen to.
It's trans documentaries.
It's like, we didn't get the promotion we deserve.
Like, oh, okay.
That, by the way, sounded a lot like a podcast network.
It did.
We're not getting any of the money.
We're not getting any of the sponsors.
We're not getting the promotion.
That's what it sounds like at Spotify, by the way.
You can count on it.
Oh, yeah.
You get the podcasters in and you get the groaners in.
Yeah, once you have the stars, then after that, it's all downhill.
Yeah, because everybody else bitches.
And there's one other thing for people who are relatively new who came in during COVID or after hearing about us on Rogan.
The way the show has worked since day one is neither John nor I discuss what we're going to bring to the show.
Clips are kept to ourselves.
Topics...
Sorry?
Yeah, it's a trick.
Everything's a gimmick or a trick with you.
No, this is a professional tactic that only we can really pull off because most people who do shows can't think without smoke coming out of their ears.
Well, they need rehearsals.
They need post-production.
They're not chatterboxes.
And it's not just being a chatterbox that helps.
It's, I think, and I might be overdoing it here, but I think that at least as chatterboxes, we have enough background because we're older that our stories are kind of interesting because they're either new or they have some insights that, you know, a Gen Z would never have gotten because they're not old enough to achieve it.
So it's like, so we can do that.
I don't think everyone could do that particular trick, which is to come in the show dead, performance-art-oriented.
The reason why we did that is because we both agree that the worst thing, the biggest violation of mainstream media, is the pre-interview.
It always ruins everything.
Yeah, we have the...
We even have, after the show, that's why we never talk to each other.
That's because we don't like each other.
That's why we don't talk to each other.
But besides that, we also ruin the show.
Yeah, totally.
Whenever we've come up with something scripted, an idea, or something we have to do, it's always failed.
Yeah, but now it's become kind of a running gag.
No, still we're kind of incapable.
I don't know why.
That's because we don't have in-studio producers, so we just avoid the whole problem and rot around it.
Yeah, that's another thing.
We don't have in-studio producers, and the show is completely ad-libbed from the beginning to the end.
We don't know where it's going to go, and it's always that way.
It's always been that way since the beginning.
So that, to me, creates life.
Life.
The show's lively.
It's real.
Above all, the show is real.
It's real, man.
Hey, man, it's real.
Oh, no.
And now, back to real news.
Yeah, I think we got to discuss the real news of the week.
This is a big one.
This is very, very interesting.
We're going to begin with the latest on the deadly shooting on a movie set at a ranch in Santa Fe.
Tonight, actor Alec Baldwin, who fired the shot that killed the cinematographer and injured the director, called it a tragic accident and said his heart is broken.
Investigators spent the day on the set trying to piece together what went wrong.
A Baldwin spokesman says a prop gun misfired.
Police say it has not yet been determined whether a live round had been placed in the gun by mistake.
So the reason I think we should discuss this, one, is because I certainly do.
You may also have experience with firearms on a movie set or on a set.
It is interesting to me how the M5M, which I'll kind of lump in with Hollywood, how little they know about Hollywood and how it works and how difficult it is to figure out what happened.
Whereas this is relatively simple, and let me start my analysis by saying Alec Baldwin is responsible.
He manslaughter at minimum.
At minimum.
At minimum.
I agree.
I don't know why they're stalling on making this conclusion.
So here's what I know.
There's only one time I worked on a professional set with a firearm, and that was the only time I've been on a professional set, by coincidence, which was Swamp Thing.
Swamp Thing was filmed.
It was done, you know, 35mm.
I was blown away by how it works, how tight these sets are, certainly back in the day.
I mean, an assistant producer or PA would get you from your trailer.
They'd walk, and while you're walking, like, talent coming in, and the other people on the set, talent coming in.
You know, then it's like hot set, all these things.
It's very, very coordinated.
And there's not a moment that you're left to yourself, except in your trailer, when you might fuck something up.
And it's, everyone has these jobs.
So, in the script, I was supposed to shoot my manager.
Not kill, but shoot my manager.
And so we had to do this from a couple different angles, and we did one rehearsal.
And the way I recall it is, of course, there was what's called an armorer.
These are all union jobs.
You can't really run a union shoot without these individuals on the set, I think, as far as I know.
Well, let's stop right there, because I'll just...
I'll throw in some color on the side.
Please do.
According to at least one source, Alex, who is part of one of the producers, they didn't have any union prop guys or armorers on that set.
Seems like a violation.
They were...
It's a violation in California.
Well, for sure, I'll bet you...
They were in New Mexico.
I'll bet you that their COVID shit was all locked up.
I bet they were all masked and they were social distancing and that they were all vaxxed.
I'll bet you that.
But they messed up on this one.
But there was, again...
No, there was an armorer.
There was an armorer, a young girl who's the daughter of a well-known established armorer in Hollywood.
The set was considered non-union?
The best reporting on this, if anyone wants to read the whole boring thing, is in the Daily Mail.
They did an unbelievable job, and they went on and on and on.
It's a huge article.
What's interesting is there's a lot, and this is what I think is happening, there was a lot of union grousing, because IATSE was definitely on that set.
And they had complained hours earlier about, you know, the typical things.
We're working too long.
Where's our check?
You know, quick to point out in every story, it was low budget.
But, be that as it may, the armorer is responsible for the state of these weapons and passing the correct information on.
I, too, receive, now that I think about it, I also receive my gun from the assistant director.
But the armorer was right nearby and handed it to the assistant director, so we don't know that part of the story.
Now this concept of a prop gun, in my experience and what I've heard, is there's no such thing as a prop gun.
It's not like a water pistol.
It's much easier to get a real gun and load it with a blank charge.
But there's still a lot of rules that take place around this.
Color coding, etc.
Now the assistant director came up to me, said here's the gun, it was a revolver, opened it, showed me the one round in there that was a blank, The director and the director of photography were behind the camera, behind a shield, just in case anything popped out of this gun.
And we had to do it three or four times for different angles, and every single time I went up to my co-actor, I forget his name, experienced character actor, and I showed him, I said, okay, I'm going to point this at you, and here's what's in here.
And this is the blank.
And he was annoyed by it.
I remember that distinctly.
He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you want to get shot with a real bullet?
He was annoyed.
He was annoyed because that is, I think, very typical of Hollywood.
You know, we've got a bitch about guns, but we don't know shit about them.
And I don't care if you're a police officer, if you're a citizen, if you're an actor, you have responsibility when you have a firearm in your hands.
Alec Baldwin committed manslaughter at minimum.
In my mind.
I agree.
You're not going to get any argument from me on that.
Yeah, and it's disgusting that people are blaming all kinds of other people.
According to the Daily Mail, and that's not according to one of my contacts, Alec Baldwin was given, they asked him if he had any experience with weaponry, guns.
Yeah.
And he says, well, no, a little, but not, you know, he just kind of waffled about it.
I guess he could have said, well, yeah, I've got a lot of experience.
Where was this?
Where was this?
Where was this that he was asked this?
On the set before the scene, according to the Daily Mail.
And he was kind of waffled about it and acted dumb.
And as soon as I read that, and in fact, I think the theme, if I was going to talk about the story, I did not make any clips and I didn't intend on talking about it.
But if I was going to, I would say, this just, in the olden days, they used to teach gun safety in high school.
Yes.
Everybody in the country.
There were rifle clubs in most of the United States of America.
You brought your.22 rifle to school.
Yes.
They had rifle clubs in high school, and they always had gun safety.
They don't teach any of that anymore, despite the fact that the Second Amendment is right in the Constitution, that this is all legal stuff, and people probably should learn about One other thing.
I think this might have been a shotgun and not a revolver.
What would be a shotgun on it?
Well, first of all, it's a period piece from the 1800s.
I think shotguns would be much more accurate, possibly.
No.
We'll find out.
They showed the gun.
It was an old revolt.
Who showed the gun?
It's a.45.
Who showed the gun?
It pictures the gun in the Daily Mail report.
Oh, okay.
I'll take that as fact.
Well, I don't know about that.
I mean, yeah, you can mock the Daily Mail.
Yes!
Yes, I will mock the Daily Mail.
Okay, well, we'll see.
I mean, I don't have any problem mocking the Daily Mail.
All I'm saying is, it might be a shotgun.
Kind of hand shotgun.
It wasn't a weapon.
Okay.
I have a feeling we'll find out more about this.
That feeling of yours will slowly fade.
Yeah, just like vaccine passports.
Wait a minute.
Discussing antique weaponry and associating it with your vaccine passport prediction is not anywhere near close to the same.
One's a prediction that is part of a long-term trend.
The other thing is some historical fact that doesn't exist that you're just asserting for no reason.
I'm asserting it because I don't think the Daily Mail is correct.
That's all.
The guy was shot.
The woman was killed by a.45 caliber bullet.
Yeah.
Oh, that's okay.
Well, I got different information.
That's okay.
I cannot prove otherwise, so I'll just wait.
Shotgun.
I'll just wait.
What I liked the most, though, was what immediately went viral on Twitter, which, of course, had been removed, but we had a screenshot of this poor woman, Helena Hutchins.
A so-called tweet from her that says, I have information that could put Hillary Clinton in jail.
And this tied together so nicely with the story that her husband is a lawyer at Latham Watkins, and of course that means that this is a takedown by Hillary Clinton who had to kill this poor woman because she had inside information from the lawyers.
Yeah, by her number one hitman, Alec Baldwin.
Yes.
We've probably been killing a lot of people for all we know.
That's the part that's actually believable.
But not the other part.
I just love that.
Whoever did that was so fast.
I mean, it's very cruel.
It's not that hard.
No, but it's very cruel.
It's cruel to do that.
I'm not saying it was fast because it's hard to do.
I'm saying it was...
They jumped right in.
Do they have a cruel thought like that?
Yeah.
First thing you think of is Hillary?
Yes.
That's pretty bad.
You've got to be sick.
Which is why Twitter is so much fun.
Almost everybody is mentally sick on that thing.
Well...
Get on Mastodon.
Well, now that you bring up that...
This was the other interesting news.
Now, the former U.S. President Donald Trump is launching his own social media network.
Donald Trump says it will be called Truth Social, and it will rival the current liberal media consortium and fight back against the big tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The former U.S. leader says, we live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced.
So, I think we were talking on the previous episode.
I said, oh, Truth Social, that's interesting.
Maybe it's going to be Mastodon.
Maybe it'll be Federated.
And lo and behold, a huge fracas erupted.
Oh my goodness!
It looks like it's Mastodon!
And he's stealing the code!
He has 30 days!
Otherwise he'll be sued for breach of license!
They must be so afraid of this that they have to come up.
I mean, it was The Verge.
It was Axios.
Everyone jumping on.
Oh, Trump is stealing.
He's stealing source code.
Isn't it open source?
Well, it's interesting that under this particular license, you have to allow anyone who's using...
So if you use the code and you modify the code, which is not a big deal, okay?
There's also customization, which you could say is modification.
Then you have to enable any user of that system.
So if you're on Truth Social...
You have to have the ability to download the source code of the platform you're on.
That's in the license.
That's it.
And so what happened is they put up a terms of service where it said all of this is proprietary and that's what triggered people who can't read because if you read the next sentence it says or appropriately licensed.
So there was no storm to start with.
Oh my god, he's calling it proprietary.
They stole our code, stole Mastodon.
And this is the interesting thing because the whole concept behind Mastodon, GNU chat, all based on ActivityPub, which is, ActivityPub is completely, you know, you can do whatever you want with that.
Google runs an ActivityPub.
Podcasting 2.0 runs an ActivityPub.
That's nothing special.
But those people were always about federating, about doing something big, you know, about having this whole place that is not controlled by one central resource.
And it's these exact social justice assholes who built this, who were out there complaining and saying, we can't have that!
He's going to ruin it!
It's the most beautiful moment in the world!
Let's remind the people listening to this.
That the Macedon people themselves are social justice assholes.
Yes!
We don't mention that enough.
Well, by days we would say in Holland.
Yes, of course.
And they even called us KKK Nazi quadroons for some reason.
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Which is how it's supposed to work.
I mean, that's okay.
I don't mind that.
If they want to be creepy and have a list, a recommended block list, that's fine.
I really don't mind.
But shut up.
Just block.
If you don't like it, block it.
Now, by the way, there's no evidence that they will be using this in the full rollout.
There's no evidence that they will be federating at all.
And I know just from Aaroner, who runs our 10,000 user instance, it's a lot going on.
It's a lot of resources.
Yeah.
Like a shitload.
But what people overlook somehow is he essentially has a war chest now.
Is this SPAC real?
Did they cash in on that?
Is there now $800 million or is that just the value?
What do they have?
With his funding.
Did you follow any of that?
Nope.
Okay, because apparently this Trump Media LLC, whatever it is, was backed into a SPAC, which now is worth $850 million.
And that's how they're going to fund it.
So they got money.
They definitely got money.
How much money do you need?
I don't know.
If you go against Twitter, I guess you need billions.
I don't know.
Maybe, maybe not.
I mean, if they were to federate in some kind of...
I don't know.
Look, I could come up with a million different ideas.
We just don't know.
But what's interesting is no one, no one I know, thinks Trump or his team or anyone he knows or works with is capable of pulling this off.
And that I find interesting.
People who like Trump, too.
He's like, nah, he can't do it.
If Gab couldn't do it, no one can.
I'm like, okay.
It's a weird phenomenon.
People do not think he...
And I believe that's because people think, have been hypnotized by Facebook and by Twitter to believe these things.
Oh, you can't compete with that.
You need billions.
I'm not so sure.
We'll see.
Well, I guess I'm kind of falling into that camp.
A little bit.
If it were federated, you might not need that.
I don't know.
But there's stuff going down.
There's yet another...
We'll get to Facebook in a moment, but have you followed any of these new documents from Google?
This is fantastic.
This just came out in a lawsuit.
That Google has an entire team inside Google called G-Trade, and their whole business, mainly because of the AMP system, which is their compressed, deliver the content really fast, which they...
I've never really looked into how it works, but everyone knows it's kind of an advertising tracking system.
But I think they know before, you know, because the way Google works is you go on exchange and you bid and you bid for keywords, you bid for different things.
It's always been seen as a black box.
Well, so what this lawsuit that's just been filed says is they have a team inside that is manipulating the pricing.
And may even be doing a version of front-running.
After all, it's an exchange.
This is all...
Well, in the stock market community, this has always been assumed.
Right.
But that's why it's a black box.
People assume it, but they can't prove it or they don't know and they won't talk about it at their meetings.
It's like the black box is a trade secret.
But it's always been assumed that there's some corruption mechanism that makes it work so well because they make way too much money.
Well, this is, let me just, I'll read you the title.
This is the Southern, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and it is Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation.
This is going to get fun when people find out what a scam they've been running.
And from just these documents, who knows if that's true?
I mean, it could be Daily Mail reporting for all I know, even though it's filed with the court.
Still, that means nothing to me.
They're even doing things where they win bids inside Google that aren't even the highest bid.
This is fantastic.
This is really a scandal.
Because, you know, advertisers, they will vote with their feet.
Yes, in fact, they will.
And I believe that they even had some kind of deal with Facebook.
So there may have been some collusion and maybe even price fixing.
That would be bad.
That would be super bad.
That would be fun, though.
Well, yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
These Google guys aren't the dumbest guys in the world, let's face it.
Yeah, well, you and I differ of opinion.
Not that they're not dumb, but, you know, the public is still the public.
I've lived and died by the public all my life.
Sometimes the public says, F you, and walk away.
Yeah, they do.
And I'm using DuckDuckGo more than I use Google.
Yeah, because they don't track anything.
They say they don't track anything.
Yeah, they do.
They're explicit that they track.
They just serve you ads on some basic tracking.
They say they don't want to know the name of your dog.
I've seen the ads.
But anyway, I use DuckDuckGo, and I still have to go to Google for certain things.
I have to go to Google for the mapping, because the street view is so much better than anything else, and their maps are generally better than anything else.
And I go to Google for maybe one other thing, and I just have to type it and go to Google.
When I'm looking up, for example, this is a little dilettante-ish, but when I'm looking up a certain French chateau, Bordeaux, I'll go to google.fr.
Yeah, you're right.
Whatever word you just use, that's what this is, yes?
I go to google.fr and use the servers in France to do the searching, and it works quite well.
And they hand it back to you in French?
Well, not necessarily, because most of the sites in Bordeaux and Burgundy, the site itself has multiple languages.
So, you get it in English.
I'm still using Neva, and I really like it.
Yeah, I can't remember the name of it, and I don't have it on my portal.
N-E-E-V-A, neva.com.
And I'm still on a free thing for just being early, and I think I got four or five months free.
But to me, well worth it.
Well worth it.
And I trust them as far as I trust DuckDuckGo.com.
And I used that other one with the X on the end, which then I've lost track and I stopped using it.
With the X? There's one, the chat room, the troll room knows that it's something, something with a big giant capital X. Oh, CRX, CRX, yeah, yeah, we use that.
Search, yeah, search with an X. CRX, yeah, yeah.
That's pretty good.
Yeah, I haven't used that in a while.
Brave also has a search engine which people like.
I've never found the Brave search engine.
Where is it?
Well, this is...
Brave has issues.
I think if you go to search.brave.com, that's a search and then you add that to your...
Yeah, there it is.
And then you add that as your default search.
Oh.
So it's search.brave.com.
It's pretty good.
Well, he's supposed to be that guy.
Of course, the guy who runs Brave, we have to remember, is the guy who was kicked out of Mozilla.
He's the Mozilla guy.
He's a no-agenda producer.
Is he?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Well, he got kicked out of Mozilla because he was the bad boy.
And he brought in woke people and they kicked him out.
This is what happens.
A good message for him, when you want to hire the woke, you're out.
Well, and the problem was that he had supported some group with $5,000.
No, he gave five bucks to a charity that happened to be like maybe a little white right wing.
No, it was anti-gay or something.
I don't even think it was that.
It wasn't.
No, of course it wasn't.
They just wanted to get him out.
We'll use whatever we can to get people out.
That's how it works.
Yeah, this is horrible.
People don't realize how bad this is.
You've got to be super alert about these people.
These people.
These people.
So, just going back for a second, CNN... had a very long piece about Facebook and its role in the insurrection, which I find interesting because I have been paying attention to this, thinking that there might be some quid pro quo here between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Why don't we together go after Facebook?
We'll let you guys off the hook a little bit with your insurrection January 6th.
Right.
And?
Well, let's listen to this.
Of course, it's not the full thing, but it is two and a half minutes.
If you don't like it, let me know.
But I think you will.
On January 6th, Facebook executives condemned the attack on the US Capitol, but internally, some employees began to push back.
Facebook, they suggested, was culpable.
One writing in an internal Facebook company chat, All due respect, but haven't we had enough time to figure out how to manage discourse without enabling violence?
We've been fueling this fire for a long time, and we shouldn't be surprised it's now out of control.
Another wrote they were tired of thoughts and prayers from Facebook leadership.
There were dozens of Stop the Steal groups active up until yesterday, and another Facebook employee responded...
Stop the Steal, the conspiracy theory movement that helped fuel the insurrection, had been organizing on Facebook for months.
How did you guys hear about this event today?
Through Facebook.
Facebook events?
Man on the street, always the best, right?
Here's proof, here's proof, all those people.
But picking two, this is great.
Instagram, how have you been promoting this?
Yes.
Well, I created a Facebook event for yesterday's event, and I posted after the fact that we were again coming today, I will be again making another event in regards to tomorrow.
Facebook provided the fundamental coordinating infrastructure.
They were sharing rideshare information.
They were sharing resources.
They were talking about, you know, what they were going to wear and if they were going to have Trump flags.
We now know that an internal Facebook report described the company's attempts to crack down and stop the steal as piecemeal.
That document leaked by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who spent her final months at the company photographing thousands of internal documents and company chat logs.
Who does that?
And...
Thinking about this, once again, here we have a distinct British accent.
This has got to be GCHQ. This is the British spooks, in coordination with CIA, running an operation.
And they're running it through this spook woman.
Yeah.
And they even deliver the package.
See, this is a very complex package.
There's a lot of pieces to it.
This is not just something thrown together with a voiceover, and it's done by a Brit.
That always tells you something.
These documents are vindication that what we've been saying as a field has been true all along and that Facebook knows it and could take action on it and decides not to.
For many years, people have been talking about the Facebook effect, what Facebook is doing to culture, to society, to politics.
But we didn't really know from data from Facebook whether these theories were true.
What Francis has given us It's an extraordinary archive of material that helps us see exactly what's going on and what they know is going on.
And it is the biggest and most important contribution to understanding this incredibly important problem that we've ever had.
That's Lessig, by the way.
Many just becoming public were given to a consortium of news organizations, including CNN, formed the basis of a complaint to the SEC where Haugen alleges the company misled investors and the public about its role perpetuating misinformation and violent extremism relating to the 2020 election and January 6th insurrection.
Okay, I stand corrected.
It was an Irish accent, so maybe that is a bad theory.
But hearing the end of this clip again, of course.
This is the international coalition.
It's an international coalition of news organizations who are running this operation.
And of course they're run by the CIA! This is like the Snowden thing all over again, except there's no Glenn Greenwald to keep everybody honest.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, Facebook is under fire.
Under fire.
It's a beautiful thing.
I love it.
Let's see.
Insurrection, January 6th.
That's if you're here.
By the way, let's go back before we drop it at that.
Let's go back to a column I recently wrote in Substack.
And my continued assertion is that media is so freaked out about Facebook because it's Facebook doing $85 billion a year in advertising.
It's right out of their pockets.
Yep, and I think there's no coincidence that we now see Google being outed as a cheater on the ads, and they're linking Google's cheating to Facebook, that they have some kind of collusion.
They're after them.
Yeah, of course they are, but I don't know how effective this is going to be.
I mean, it's like...
It's effective when Trump comes in with something.
And the reason I say that is people in America certainly are simple.
You can fool us for a long time.
But when we figure it out, then we figure it out and we're not going to let you mess with us again.
And I think even the simplistic name of truth social...
It's NLP to the max.
Oh, it's a truth.
It's a truth.
Someone just re-truthed that.
Did you post the truth?
I sure did.
This is smart stuff.
This is smart stuff.
I know.
It seems dumb to us.
It seems dumb to us.
But it's still...
Look at the number one shows.
You know, it's still America's Funniest Home Videos.
Okay?
We're simple.
We're simple.
And we like it that way.
Yeah, well, they're funny.
Of course they're funny.
Now, I have a question for you after this clip.
Tonight, House Democrats and nine Republicans vote to hold former Trump administration advisor Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
Bannon has refused to turn over documents or appear at a deposition before the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.
People recognize that what happened on January 6th can't go uninvestigated.
Republican leaders urged a no vote.
The select committee despises Steve Bannon's politics, so they're abusing their power to put him in jail.
The committee wants to know what Bannon told Mr.
Trump ahead of the riot, about his work with Stop the Steal organizers and his reported presence in a war room near the White House with Trump loyalists, including Rudy Giuliani, on January 6th.
But former President Trump's lawyers have told staffers not to comply with the probe, claiming executive privilege.
All we're asking is that Steve Bannon be treated the same as anyone in America who defies a lawful subpoena.
And if he's not going to come in, then he should stand in an orange jumpsuit and tell a judge why he thinks he's above the law.
Does Congress have this power in this particular case?
Can they throw someone in jail because they did not want to show up to, at very minimum, say, I plead the fifth, let me go?
Well, he wouldn't plead the fifth, he'd say, I claim executive privilege.
Right.
That's debatable.
There's a lot of discussion on this about whether they have this power or not.
They're not an investigative organization.
That's the first thing that's supposed to be the Justice Department.
They're a legislative body.
They can only do investigations on things that involve legislation.
That's one look at it.
Right.
So what they're doing is above and beyond their official duties.
But you could say, well, we're investigating what happened for the laws we need to write so that we...
That's not what they're saying, though.
They have never said that.
Oh.
Why not?
They're stupid.
Hello?
Okay.
So, well, for Bannon's part, I get it.
I do the same.
That's promotion you can't buy.
Yeah, I know.
Just haul me off, put me in the orange jumpsuit.
Dude, if they ever threaten us, I'm going.
Can you imagine?
Yeah, I'd have the show to myself.
No, there would be no show.
No, I'd have the show to myself.
I'd just do both voices.
Oh, okay.
Why don't you try that on Thursday?
I will.
Give it a shot.
Hello, I'm Adam Curry.
Oh, okay.
Well, how are you doing, Adam?
What's things like?
Well, my dog is next to me right now, and I've had to feed the pooch earlier.
Well, we don't really want to hear about the dog.
I like that.
No, why not?
I think it'd be a great show.
I don't know if I could sustain it for three hours.
Wow, it must be so lonely to be you.
It must be so lonely to be you.
Clips.
Oh, yeah.
What do you mean by that?
That voice that little girl likes.
That's pretty messed up.
All right.
Oh, before we look at what's going on in today, let us go to the future.
When we go to the future, we know we're going down under.
In this case, we're not going to Australia.
We're going to the future in New Zealand.
The worst.
The premier.
Premier.
And Jacinda, the lady who runs the show, was interviewed, and it's an eye-opener.
Since it's hard to hear.
The guy...
Well, she'll be better, because this guy's off mic.
He's saying...
So, even though you said you didn't want to do that, you've essentially created two different classes of people, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
So, that is the question.
So, you basically said this is going to be like, well, it's almost like, you probably don't see it like this, the two different classes of people if you're vaccinated.
That is what it is.
Can you describe it?
You were previously hoping not to have to do that, I guess, when we still feel like we could maintain elimination across the whole country.
I guess that has now changed because...
I think it was less because necessarily of the elimination determining that and more because we, of course, maintained and actually we have managed very high vaccination rates generally without the use of certificates.
But actually what has become clear to me is that they're not just a tool to drive up vaccines.
They're a tool for confidence.
People who have been vaccinated will want to know that they're around other vaccinated people.
They'll want to know that they're in a safe environment.
It is a way that we can give confidence to those who are going back into hospitality or events.
And so that is something that I think we should offer to people who have been vaccinated.
That confidence that we're doing everything we can to keep them safe and that they can come back out and start enjoying those things safely.
It's really one for the books, you know?
She said, yeah, that's exactly what we're doing.
We have two different classes of people now, and we focus only on the ones who follow the rules, and we're going to give them safety and security and a feeling of belonging, and they can do all the fun things, and we don't really even have anyone to consider those other people.
They just don't participate.
She's a sick woman.
She's very sick.
Although I like the idea of, you know, knowing where all the vaccinated are because that's likely where there's a lot of transmission.
We know, according to science.
So that's what they did down under.
That is still a possibility for our future.
As we know, in the United States, we did it a different way.
We went after people with hamburgers and lotteries.
And we looked at Ohio two shows ago.
This is North Carolina's local news.
With much fanfare and hope, North Carolina launched its vaccine lottery.
We are doing research, finding out what motivates people.
What would get them in here to get that shot?
But that motivation didn't come in the form of possibly winning a million dollars or a college scholarship.
Were you excited to learn that you won a million dollars after receiving your COVID-19 vaccine?
Yes.
Researchers who published the findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the effect of the vaccine lottery to be near zero.
Every state had one, including North Carolina.
When we looked at the timing of announcements for these vaccine lotteries, we tested for whether or not there was a change or an uptick in vaccination rates, and we found that vaccination rates remained essentially stable.
Economist Benjamin Hansen was part of the research team.
Our point estimate would be 0%, you know, that there was effectively no change at all.
Despite his team's findings, Hansen applauds states for trying, but hopes this is a lesson.
But when you find something doesn't work, then you want to turn to something else that might work better.
Because there's always going to be a next time.
Always a next time.
How about that?
How about those news anchors?
Oh, we'll get it right next time.
There's always a next time.
What?
I thought they were just supposed to report news.
No, no, this is a tag.
When you come out of the package, you've got to have something quippy to say.
And he said, well, there's always a next time.
We can get it right next time.
Okay.
So these mandates are starting to fall apart.
This is good.
People are protesting not having it.
I have a few clips all relatively short.
This is Fire Department of New York City.
Today the fallout continued in New York City over the mayor's new vaccine mandate for the city's more than 300,000 municipal workers who face mandatory unpaid leave if they are not vaccinated by the end of next week.
With barely half of all firefighters vaccinated, there is already talk of firehouses closing.
The chiefs are hearing from members that are saying they will absolutely not comply.
And what happens in two weeks will be anyone's guess.
I can tell you, because I've heard it from them.
Let it burn is what they say.
All right.
Let it burn.
They're very sad.
They say, let it burn.
Dudes named Ben, who are getting kicked out of their businesses.
They're like, let it burn.
All right.
Good luck.
Good luck maintaining that server.
Good luck.
I'm in total agreement with their attitude.
Here's COVID Navy mandates, which is a longer report from New Tang Dynasty.
The November deadline for all Navy active duty personnel to be vaccinated is approaching.
In the Navy's new order, unvaccinated sailors could be discharged or possibly fined to recoup money spent on training them.
Earlier I spoke with Mike Barry, the First Liberty Institute's general counsel, who is representing 40 active duty Navy SEALs.
And while the Navy says sailors will be able to apply for religious exemptions, Barry said some of them who applied are being harassed and intimidated while they wait for a response.
He says what the Department of Defense is doing is unconstitutional.
And the reason is because these brave warriors have sincere religious objections to this vaccine.
They're submitting religious accommodation requests, but the Navy has said they don't intend on granting or approving any of those requests and that they're going to begin, just as you said, processing them to kick them out of the Navy.
And a lot of these SEALs have been told, even if their religious exemption is approved, they're going to be kicked out of the Navy SEALs, which is just adding insult to injury, if you ask me.
Let's look at this from a public health perspective.
The Defense Health Agency said in July the vaccine efficacy is very good, with relatively few breakthrough cases reported among those in the military.
Is there a way to carry out this vaccine mandate that's legal and fair?
Sure there is.
Look, the Department of Defense absolutely has the ability and the authority to issue a vaccine mandate.
But when it does that, it's going to have to follow the law.
Just like any other military order or directive that's ever been issued in the history of this country, the commander, the general, the president, whomever issues that order, they have the right to issue an order.
But the order has to comply with the law.
And in this case, that law happens to be the First Amendment.
It happens to be federal law.
There's DOD regulations that all say, look, if you're going to make a vaccine mandatory, you have to allow for medical exemptions, religious exemptions, administrative exemptions, and it seems like the DOD is picking on people of faith and saying, yeah, we're going to grant medical exemptions, but we're not going to grant religious exemptions.
Which is a big mistake, lawsuit-wise.
Big mistake.
So, Oklahoma...
I'm sorry?
Yeah, okay.
Well, you play Oklahoma because I got Illinois lined up.
Oh, I got Chicago, too.
Well, I'll do Oklahoma first.
The Oklahoma City Police Department doing an about-face.
The department changing their stance on COVID-19 vaccines and that decision announced today.
Our leadership has chosen to remove the vaccine mandate, which means that those individuals who are applying to the police department are no longer required to receive the vaccination.
Current police officers were never part of the mandate and were told the department hopes dropping the mandate will help boost recruits.
By the way, new police recruits are eligible for a new $5,500.
Bonus.
In fact, I understand that Oklahoma is recruiting officers from Chicago.
So, your COVID Illinois got it here.
A group of parents in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against nearly 150 school districts and public officials challenging mask and quarantine policies.
Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an order over the summer requiring masks in school for everyone, regardless of vaccination status.
The parents argue that Illinois schools do not have the authority to mandate masks or quarantine without parental consent and an order from a local health department.
Pritzker, the superintendent of the state's Board of Education, and the director of the state's health department are also listed as defendants in the lawsuit.
No comment from Pritzker on the lawsuit.
By the way, this is important what we're doing here because these are local reports.
These are foreign reports.
They're anything but typical United States M5M reports.
You don't hear about this.
You don't hear about the pushback that is taking place.
They will not play this stuff on the mainstream media.
Now listen to what's happening in Chicago.
Today, two Chicago aldermen took steps to repeal Mayor Lori Lightfoot's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
It's through an ordinance that would ensure that any policy that puts city employees on a no-pay status gets full approval from the city council.
Anthony Ponce has the story.
This is a draft ordinance that would repeal the mayor's vaccine mandate, and also for any future similar mandates, it would require full city council approval.
Not surprisingly, the mayor today came out fiercely against it.
It's foolishness, and I'm going to do everything I can to stop it.
Mayor Lightfoot tearing into 23rd Ward Alderwoman Silvana Savares, who filed an ordinance this morning designed to check the mayor's executive power when it comes to mandates.
Let me tell you something.
The mayor does not get to pass laws on her own.
That is why we have the city council.
I would like to give a huge shout out to Alderman Silvana Tavares.
Not surprisingly, an ordinance curtailing mayoral power has the full support of FOP President John Catanzara.
This is not government control right now.
It is dictator control.
When one person is putting forth city policy and it is a golden edict that can't be challenged, that is a major problem.
And honestly, I really don't understand a woman of color carrying the water for a guy who's demonstrated over and over again.
He's racist.
He's a misogynist.
He's xenophobic.
He hates immigrants and refugees.
This is so good.
So she's telling the news media that this Latinx alderman woman That it's unconscionable that she would support the leader of the fraternity of police, fraternal order of police.
I mean, this is a police organization.
That the guy is racist, misogynist, homophobic, and hates immigrants.
One more time, please.
Now, it is dictator control.
When one person is putting forth city policy and it is a golden edict that can't be challenged, that is a major problem.
And honestly, I really don't understand a woman of color carrying the water for a guy who's demonstrated over and over again.
He's racist.
He's a misogynist.
He's xenophobic.
He hates immigrants and refugees.
Tabara has called the mayor's remarks divisive, saying that this ordinance is about good policy, not personality conflicts.
I mean, she is the mayor, but these are our constituents, and they deserve our respect because they have been working throughout this pandemic.
Man, that Lightfoot.
How can she get more passes to continue?
I don't know.
She's really creepy.
Beetlejuice, as we like this.
Yes.
Well, Larry, everyone in Chicago calls her Larry.
I have two final ones that encroach a little bit on your territory, but I think they're important in this context.
They are of the president.
Because I think we need to move this to this block.
I think you will have clips.
This town hall that he did was one of the most bizarre things.
And in context of mandates...
Vaccine mandates.
These two clips, I think, are what does it all.
As many as one in three emergency responders in some cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, right here in Baltimore, are refusing to comply with city vaccine mandates.
I'm wondering where you stand on that.
Should police officers, emergency responders, be mandated to get vaccines?
And if not, should they stay at home or let go?
Yes and yes.
Notice how quickly the applause came.
By the way, I waited until...
July, to talk about mandating, because I tried everything else possible.
The mandates are working.
Well, okay, fine.
They're working somehow, but it was this piece that was one of the most bizarre things a U.S. president has ever said.
The two things that concern me, one are those who just try to make this a political issue.
Freedom.
I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID. No, I mean, come on.
Freedom.
Freedom.
Number one.
Number two, the second one is that, you know, the gross misinformation that's out there.
I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID. Not a joke.
Come on, man.
Guess what?
Someone wants him 25th Amendment-ed.
Did you think this was a normal town hall that he had?
Well, this is a very interesting topic of discussion, so before we play any clips...
Well, you already played two, but before you play any more, let's discuss what was up with this town hall.
There was everybody on the right, and some people on the left were wondering why this took place.
There was no demand for a town hall.
People weren't demanding a town hall from Biden.
Why did he do the town hall?
I mean, it was long.
He was made a fool of himself.
He would have these long pauses.
He had these indecipherable comments.
It was unbelievable.
So what was the point?
Why did he do it?
Well, some people think it was to make him look feeble and weak and stupid and out of it and demented and 25th Amendment ready.
Yeah.
That's what I took away.
I love the memes.
I mean, the memes, which have not been taken off Twitter.
The Beavis and Butthead meme is the best one.
Have you seen that one?
Yes.
I think the pony is still so good.
Have you seen the pony?
No, I did not see the pony.
So, at a certain point, the president has his hands up like he's holding two ski poles while he's being asked a question.
Do you remember this moment?
Yeah, there's a couple of those.
So, you know, people have had Let's Go Brandon signs, but there's one where he's straddling a pony...
He's holding on to the reins.
I mean, the fact that that's still up, they want this man gone, or they want to show that he's feeble or something, because you're right, there was no reason for this.
There was no reason.
It was so out of the blue.
Yeah.
It was out of the blue.
All of a sudden, there's this big town hall, and it's a massive town.
It was long.
And they had all the scripted questions from the Democrats and Republicans, and they were all smiling.
And they all seemed so amenable, and they all seemed so...
They liked him.
They gave him standing ovations for no good reason.
But it was still to the viewing audience on the television, even though it didn't get a lot of people watching it, duh, because it was football, for one thing.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's what you want.
That's what you want.
You want it to be out there.
You want it to be on record.
You don't want it to be a ratings bonanza.
Not that it would be.
You want people to be distracted.
Still, now that what people are doing is they're doing what I do.
You take the clips out of context.
Oh, it's fun.
He would be cognizant every so often.
Let's go over some of these things.
First of all, I want to play the...
Before we even get to that, I want to play something he did say that was deconstructed by NTD. And...
This is the, and this will be in the, you'll find the Biden lies about Taiwan.
This is not a clip directly from, this is from, he's got the clip in there from the town hall, but this is a story from NTD clarifying what amounts to a Biden lie about Taiwan.
President Biden says the United States is committed to defending Taiwan if the Chinese regime attacks the self-ruled island.
It could signal a change in the U.S.'s strategic ambiguity strategy.
China just tested a hypersonic missile.
What will you do to keep up with them militarily, and can you vow to protect Taiwan?
Yes and yes.
Probably did that twice, huh?
Militarily.
China...
Russia and the rest of the world knows we have the most powerful military in history of the world.
Don't worry about whether they're going to be more powerful.
What you do have to worry about is whether or not they're going to engage in activities that will put them in a position where they may make a serious mistake.
And so I have spoken and spent more time with Xi Jinping than any other world leader has.
So are you saying that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense if China attacked?
Yes, we have a commitment to do that.
The United States doesn't have a commitment to defend Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, but Washington is required by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
The Chinese Communist Party claims Taiwan is a province of China, but the democratically governed island has its own constitution, military, and political parties.
Biden's comments come after Beijing escalated military harassment against the island, most notably with a show of military force in Taiwan's air defense zone.
So that was a lie, what he said.
We're not obligated to defend Taiwan.
Can I ask you a few questions about this?
Why are we even pretending to want to defend Taiwan?
What is the U.S. official reason for defending Taiwan?
Is it just because the Chinese Communist Party are a bag of dicks?
Is that why?
Or are there other reasons?
Well, the main reason goes back to the late 40s when the Chinese Republic formed in...
They went to Formosa, the Garden Island, to...
It was a revolution in China and the Republic of China, the Republicans, a democracy kind of, even though Kuomintang was a, or the Kuomintang group was kind of a dictatorship under Chiang Kai-shek.
But that was who we associated with immediately, because the Chinese communists were communists, and we hate the communists, and when we fought in Korea, it was against communism, and we fought in Vietnam, it was against communism, and so that's the reason, and these weren't communists.
So we associated with them, and then along the way, as we had a clip that explained this in more detail than I can do, Nixon...
Followed by Clinton, kind of gave in and said, well, you know, we're going to recognize you, the big China, and these other guys will kind of marginalize them for a while.
But our real original intent was to protect these guys from the big boys.
One of our producers is a retired CEO of a German semiconductor manufacturing company, and he also sold a startup to Applied Materials.
And he says that there's this term out there that is being used as the reason for protecting Taiwan, and the term is silicon shield.
You heard this term?
No.
Which is, you know, we're protecting Taiwan from China because China wants Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing, which is substantial, he says, in terms of foundries.
But he goes on to say that if you hear this, that's bullcrap because 70% of all processing equipment in a semiconductor fab is, you know, made by applied materials, which is in Singapore.
Of course, ASML, the lithography, that's a Dutch company.
So he questions this Silicon Shield.
But you hadn't heard of Silicon Shield?
Because maybe it's just out there.
No, I think that's nonsense.
What's nonsense?
I think it goes back to the fact that this is a democracy.
I'm agreeing with you.
I'm just saying that that's what the industry appears to be saying.
Well, I haven't heard that personally.
It doesn't mean it's not something that's going around.
So it's still just us protecting democracy?
That's funny.
Well, it's our old friend.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like, you know, more than just a democracy, it's kind of a, when it first began, it was kind of a dictatorship, but it was still not the communists.
Right.
So there's that, because we have a very, we're pretty consistent about being anti-communist, generally speaking.
Hmm.
So, there's that.
I don't know.
Whatever the case is, the way Biden puts it is wrong.
So, let's listen to some Biden clips.
Let's start with some of the longer ones.
This is a Biden ramble that leads to some concept of childcare.
I look back, it was great for us having grandpops and relatives there.
I don't know how my parents quite did it, but I remember one night, I'm serious, it was in high school.
And dad, see, I could feel.
My dad was restless.
He moved and I could hear.
And I asked the next morning, I asked my mom.
It's a true story.
I said, what's the matter with dad, mom?
He said he got bad news, honey.
His company just said they're no longer going to pay for health insurance.
Well, guess what?
My dad used to say, everybody's entitled.
All we're looking for is just a little breathing room.
Just a little bit of extra room.
A little breathing room.
How can we compete in the world of millions of American parents, especially moms, can't join the workforce because they can't afford the cost of child care or elder care or they have to stay home?
I heard my colleagues speaking before I did.
Here in Pennsylvania, the average annual cost of child care for your toddler is $11,400.
So what he's rambling about is some justification for changing the child tax credit to a direct payment, which is the future.
The future of all governments is to pay you for stuff.
A couple of things I've noticed.
I think when he says true story and some of these things, he's lying.
I think those are all tells.
First of all, let's begin with the premise.
If I'm not mistaken, he was in high school in the early 50s.
I think he was born in like 38 or...
Could be.
Or he was born somewhere around there.
So in the early 50s, the concept of health insurance is not today's concept of health insurance.
There was no such thing.
No, I don't think there was.
No, there wasn't.
When I was a kid, which was later than him by a lot, Health insurance wasn't even on the table.
There was no such thing.
You just paid.
You go to the doctor, you paid the doctor.
You went to the pharmacist, you paid a reasonable price for the pills.
There was a kind of health insurance which was only for being hospitalized on your deathbed.
To pick up the cost for that.
But today's health insurance style where you were pretty much as a middleman for everything and just cleans up and be and is a profit or making business.
You have to remember back in that day during Biden's era, it was illegal to make money to make big profits on some of these systems.
You couldn't do it.
Nixon's the one who changed that law.
Where all of a sudden health care became a profit making operation.
And if you want to know how this works, get a dog.
Go to the vet.
You'll see that having pet health insurance is going to be cheaper for you.
But of course, the actual pet veterinarian work has gone from $50 to $500.
Yeah, it's a complete scam.
And we saw this happening.
We saw this happening.
It happened during this show.
Yeah, I watched it happen myself.
Now, so Biden's full of shit, where the dad, oh my God, they're not going to pick up my health insurance anymore, as though they can't go to the doctor.
This is a bogus story.
This guy is a liar.
This guy is a liar!
See?
That's the voice.
That's the voice.
I told you.
I know.
I can do the show.
All by myself.
You could.
Here we go.
Let's listen to...
Anyway, that one really irked me.
I can tell.
Let's listen to his rationale for Build Back Better.
Oh, yes.
Which means it's always a good bet to bet on America.
That's what these initiatives do.
They bet on America.
It's about believing in the American people.
About believing.
About believing.
Just look at the history of the journey of this nation.
What becomes clear is this.
Given half a chance.
Half a chance.
The American people have never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever let the country down.
Just a fighting chance.
No guarantees.
Just a chance.
No guarantees?
What?
So he's saying if we spend the $3.5 trillion, this is giving the Americans half a chance.
Half a chance.
Just half a chance.
The more this thing is being put together and I watch the mainstream news do.
Oh, what's in?
What's out?
What's in?
What's out?
Oh, what's in?
So this is $3.5 trillion.
I think the banks need it.
Just do something.
Print it!
That's how ridiculous this has become.
We don't care.
Say it's all for Republicans.
Just print the money.
Here's another one.
This is a reiteration of something that came up a long time ago and he's brought it back.
This is that crazy notion about higher roads.
Uh, hi.
Oh, right!
So that's what I'm talking about.
You know, we need more, stronger levees, stronger power grids, more durable, able to withstand ever-increasing ferocity and intensity of extreme weather.
Any road, it used to be, you have a catastrophe.
And the road gets washed out, you build it back to what it was before.
You can't build it back to the same standard.
You've got to build the road back literally higher.
Not a joke.
Why didn't he use better there?
He could have been build back better, build back higher.
Build back higher.
Build back higher.
Everything should be build back higher.
Now, he's just a couple of things.
He kept saying, think about it.
Think about it.
I thought that was weird.
Listen to this.
Here's an example.
Biden's short clip.
Think about it.
That's who we are as Americans.
Not a joke.
Think about it.
From those of you who teach history, think about it.
Yeah, think about it is, to me, is like a really old neuro-linguistic programming trick, you know.
Think about it.
And you're thinking about it.
When someone says, think about it, it's like me doing the show by myself.
Think about it.
So here we go.
See, you couldn't help.
You thought about it.
Listen to this.
Now, by the way, there's more clips to be had, and I'll move them to Thursday because this town hall is loaded with gaps.
It's worth it because it's not just the gaps.
It is a display of complete dementia or something like it of the President of the United States.
I know.
It's unbelievable.
If people can find this and watch it, you'll just be shaking your head the whole time.
Yeah.
So I want you to try to, this is Biden, exponential, whatever this word is.
Just tell me what this word is.
We know if we can put these wires underground, we increase exponentially.
Exponentially.
Exponentially.
Oh, wait.
So there you go.
There's your Build Back Better plan.
Wires underground.
Yeah.
Exponentially more expensive, Joe.
Exponentially difficult to repair.
Exponentially.
This came out of his rant about the wires up in the mountains that, you know, click and the next thing you know, you got a fire because they didn't trim back the tree, which is the problem.
Yeah.
But you can't build underground wiring in the middle of nowhere, rural, because in many cases you can't get that wire to the house.
You need a pole.
If you're Build Back Better, baby, you can do anything you want.
Well, anyway, this was borderline pathetic.
And it's being analyzed and analyzed to an extreme because we still don't know why he did it.
And why did CNN get all these gigs?
Well...
I don't know.
And it was Anderson Cooper, too.
Last time it was Don Lemon.
So maybe they're just rotating amongst the hosts.
But, yes, CNN, they're in, man.
They're in.
What can I say?
They're in.
They're in.
Well, the questions were all lame.
Yeah, they were.
I'm a Republican, and I think you've done a great job.
It's crazy.
And here's Jill Jensen from Ohio.
Hi, and she's a Republican.
Hi, I'm Jill.
I'm a Republican, and you're the best president ever.
I mean, come on.
Not a joke.
Come on, man.
Think about it.
Yeah.
Guess what?
What?
That's what he says all the time.
Guess what?
I've always wanted to say that people keep saying guess what or you know what.
I say what?
Am I supposed to guess?
I got a disturbing note.
We got a lot of disturbing notes.
By the way, shout out to John Deere, entered their second week of strike, not for COVID mandates, no, because of the huge amount of profits that everyone made over there, including management, and these guys have not gotten anything.
And they're saying, screw you, screw you, Justin of the wrong kind of podcast.
Shout out to the GE electricians who walked off.
Um...
Sorry, I'm going back on this, but I forgot to mention this.
I just got a report, and I have a screenshot of it.
Chicago police officer took his first dose of vaccine and died.
It's documented in the death investigation report, which I have a copy of.
They said he had pre-existing conditions, blood pressure.
However, very interesting to note he had received the vaccine, which is on the certificate, on the investigation report.
So we'll see if that becomes a news item.
Who was it?
A Chicago cop.
Chicago cop gets a shot and drops dead?
Yep, pretty much.
And it's reported that way in the death investigation.
Yeah, problematic, problematic.
And there's Ernst& Young.
I mean, there's so many different things.
Ernst& Young just turned off everyone's access badges.
Hey, you haven't told us if you're vaccinated yet.
No entrance for you.
Well, I don't have the clip.
I should have it.
Mimi sent it to me.
But this happened in Washington State.
Oh, really?
Yeah, a state senator...
It turns out all the state senators can't get into their own offices now because the badges have been turned off because they haven't taken the vaccine.
Because Inslee, you know, Herr Inslee, their Fuhrer is like running this state into the ground.
Well, it may be important.
This is, I think, what I've said for years is it's got to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
And I think we're entering into that.
We're turning base.
We're almost final.
We're really going to have a rough time.
Supply chains, regardless of the reason, there are weird things happening.
And this is from one of our producers who said, I own a small business with my brother and we're primarily in the golf course industry.
We've been direct with several major chemical manufacturers for a long time.
We received notice to expect glyphosate slash Roundup herbicide was going to be in short supply about two weeks ago.
We recently went to quote out some Roundup herbicide for major golf courses.
When we did this, we found out that Roundup had tripled in price in just four months.
We have connection in the agricultural world as well.
As stated, we primarily deal with golf courses.
We called an agricultural contact to see if this pricing was legitimate to get a second opinion.
He told us if we could get any at up to $38 a gallon, he would buy up to three truckloads We were selling it in June for $18 a gallon.
There is no supply, he says, no supply for his agricultural customers in southern Alabama and Mississippi.
Most of our major crops, this is the reason why I think it's interesting, of course have been transitioned to Roundup Ready, which means without Roundup you can't really effectively fight the weeds and the crops may not do too well.
And so is there a shortage of glyphosate?
Well, something did happen.
But there is a bit of good news.
This is from AgWeb, by the way.
These are the real agriculture dudes.
But there is a bit of good news when it comes to the supply chain issues involving glyphosate.
Here in the U.S., we have learned the Bayer glyphosate plant in Louisiana is now back online following damage caused by Hurricane Ida.
China is also a major exporter of glyphosate.
Now, It's estimated over 80% of the country's supply is exported.
And right now, parts of China are plagued with an energy problem.
That's despite Beijing's efforts to boost coal supplies and manage electricity use.
Reuters reporting the rebound in global economic activity is exposing shortages of fuels used for generating power in China and other countries.
One expert we spoke with thinks the worldwide glyphosate shortage could last for at least two years since stocks were Now, I'd love to hear from our farmer producers.
You taught me everything I know about glyphosate.
Your thoughts?
Well, to me, what we're witnessing is a very coy version of how you make a monopoly work.
Price gouge?
Yeah, it's a price gouge.
And here's the way it works.
You get everyone dependent on this stuff because you're creating these round-up-ready crops.
And everything's going along swimmingly, you know, at $18 a gallon.
Well, let's say we had a hurricane.
Oh, and they shut the plant down.
We can't make it.
So for some unknown reason, now there's going to be a two-year shortage.
How does that work?
You can crank the production up.
It's not that hard.
It doesn't take a genius.
And so, but no, no.
We're going to have this shortage, and to make it so it's fair, we're going to have to jack the price up so the people who can afford it, they'll get it.
This is an obvious gouge.
This should be investigated.
This is the Africa scam.
The India scam.
This is what they did.
Monsanto was Bayer now, but we're talking about Monsanto.
It's a division of Bayer, so it's the same people.
They didn't fire anybody.
No, no.
And so they got all the farmers hooked on glyphosate and the seeds, and then they own your ass, and they can do whatever they want.
And go look it up.
How many Indian farmers have committed suicide?
It's hundreds of thousands, I think.
It's some insane number.
The Indian farmer situation is a scandal.
Insane number of...
So, I'm worried for our farmers.
I'm worried for our crops.
Not everyone's going to be able to just pony up five times the price for the glyphosate if it's available at all.
And you're right, it may be a total scam.
Price gouge probably is.
Well, it makes sense.
I mean, that's how monopolies do business.
Once you establish yourself as a monopoly and you've created a situation where there's no other game in town, there's no other game in town.
Why wouldn't you raise the price?
Oh, yeah, you have some excuse for doing it so you don't have to worry about the government going after you.
Oh, there's a Hurricane Ida.
That's what it is.
Hmm.
Our producer, David, who explained how the states have actually been controlling some of the alcohol shortages because they're dicks.
He says shortages coming to the wine industry, and I bring this up because I thought it might interest you.
He says we are having trouble fulfilling stateside wine orders.
The reason we are given is because of a glass bottle shortage.
For some reason, wineries can't get bottles to fill, probably because a lot of the wine industry special order bottles that don't use the standard 750-slash-1.5-liter bottles.
The 2021 vintage, he says, may die in the vats.
Again, I go to the expert, John C. Dvorak.
What do we know?
What are you learning?
What am I learning?
I'm learning whatever you just said.
Where is he and what is he talking about?
Where is he?
I don't know.
I don't have it on hand where he is, but they do bodily.
Okay, let's take the first obvious question that needs to be asked.
What do you need a special bottle for?
If you can't get your special bottles, why don't you get the 750s that are very common and available and use those instead of the funny-shaped 750 that you obviously have custom-made because you can't get them for some unknown reason.
It doesn't make any sense, this story.
Nothing's going to die in the vats.
Well, I actually had a thought about this.
How about jugging the wine up if you think you're going to worry about it?
No, you're close.
You're close.
I'm thinking, stay with me, because we are uniquely positioned for this.
This is an exit strategy.
No agenda, box wine.
Think about it.
Well, I'm game for no agenda, box wine, except for there's a couple problems.
One, most of these places have bottling facilities on site.
The bottling facility to make boxed wines is specialized equipment that would cost more than it's worth.
Really?
I thought, well, then why do they even put it in boxes if it's so expensive and specialized?
Well, that's because they have Franzia and those guys who make the boxed wine.
The inventors of it pretty much are France.
I think it's some European companies.
That's what they have.
They have this specialized equipment that makes boxed wines.
We can't just order from them a whole bunch of boxes?
You'd have to get the wine to them and they'd have to job it to you.
Well, this doesn't sound...
I don't think it would be...
I mean, there are other people making boxed wines.
I've noticed them.
You know, these different kinds of generic boxed wines that Target has a bunch of crazy labeled...
Right!
This is where we should be in Target.
We should be in Target with a dynamite packaging and it should be like, you know, it should be an Easter egg where people are like, Dude, have you tried the new No Agenda boxed wine?
It's like, that's just really good.
Yeah, John C. Dvorak, renowned judge.
That would actually, I would say this.
I have had good boxed wines since always French.
How about No Agenda woke wine?
There is a possibility of making boxed wine that's quality wine in the United States.
I've just never had it.
Right.
I'm just thinking ahead, you know, for when we're 80.
Well?
You know, we could have a whole wine.
I'm game for this.
I'm game to build out a boxed wine company.
Yes.
No agenda woke wine would be one.
Woke wine.
Let's call it that.
Well, I think we want to have some other sub-labels, perhaps.
Woke.
Woke.
Wine for you.
Big black letters.
Woke.
It's the wine for the progressive liver.
Something like that.
And actually, progressives, believe it or not, are the ones who drink a lot of the boxed wines because they don't know any better and they put it in the refrigerator.
That's what's cool about it, especially the whites.
The box goes in the refrigerator and you go in, would you like a glass of wine, honey?
And you go open the refrigerator door and you squirt out some of the boxed wine into a glass and you bring it out.
Just some shard for you.
And I said, and a shard?
Some shard for you?
Shard.
Or a shard.
Pinot Grigio.
Shard.
By the way, we had a guy at the time.
I gotta get this winemaker's name.
The guy was up at the...
Wait, wait, wait.
Woke Wine.
It's the wine for the progressive generation.
Come on, man.
I'm feeling it.
I'm in.
Shard for you.
I mean, there's...
Shard.
It's never ending.
It would say that on the side of the label.
Shard.
Yeah.
Cab would be the other one.
Cab, shard, cab.
Shard and cab.
I'm so happy I got you excited.
I thought I was not going to...
Merlot, no.
How about that one?
Merlot, no.
Merlot, no.
Yes.
I know.
And think about the fantastic art we could have.
And by the way, we'll put lost dogs on our carton.
We've got to bring in more of these great elements.
I like the lost dog.
Yeah.
It would be huge.
I like the idea of a big black cube, though, just as the art.
For woke.
Something about just a black cube with the word cab on the side and huge letters like Franklin.
That wouldn't be Franklin Gothic.
You'd want some serif font, but you'd just have it on there.
It was super bold, super heavy.
Yeah.
I'm so...
Oh, shit, man.
Someone already has wokewine.com.
What the hell?
Oh no!
There goes our exit strategy.
No, it's still available.
You can buy it for $3,500.
You can lease to own.
You can lease a domain name.
Only $292 a month.
How much?
$2.92 a month.
It's least to own.
How about woke.wine?
I think there's a.wine.
They don't get that.
Is there a wine TLD? If there's not a.wine TLD, I'd be stunned.
Well, it might be.
Let me see.
Woke.wine.
Well, no.
It has to exist.
No, but I can't find a.wine top-level domain.
I don't know if it exists.
There's got to be a seller.
There's probably one guy.
Probably Gallo bought the whole thing.
I think we have a product here.
Everyone can chip in.
Everyone can work about it.
They can chip in.
Chip in, yes.
Chip in.
We probably have a producer that listens to this show that knows all about boxed wines.
Probably works for one of the big wine boxing companies.
Oh, and by the way, Small Batch.
Oh yeah, Small Batch.
Artisan.
Artisan boxed wine.
There you go.
Artisan.
And we need...
Patrols are already offering to invest in this project.
Yeah.
I know.
This could be dynamite.
We could do one of those public...
There's a type of investment you can do that is where people...
Breweries do it constantly.
Yes, I'm familiar with it.
And you get the straight money in there, boom, next thing you know, we're the boxed wine guys.
Yep.
Right, who's going to run it?
Who's going to run the business?
Oh, we have to hire somebody.
Yeah, I know.
Anyone we know?
We're going to do auditions?
We're going to have job interviews?
Auditions?
That's a funny way of putting it.
Isn't that what it is?
Yeah, kind of.
I think we should put it on the burner.
It's on the burner, ladies and gentlemen.
It is on the burner.
The woke wine.
And with that...
I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who literally just put the sea in the shard, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
John C. Devorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam McCurry.
Also in the morning, ships seek boots on ground, feet in the air, subs of the water.
Name is nice out there.
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That's why we think it's entertaining if people come in and are all triggered about stuff.
And this is a very nice community that we have.
10,000 souls on noagendasocial.com.
And you can follow that from any Mastodon account.
I think these days, I believe mastodon.social has unblocked us.
I think you can follow us from there.
We may not be on the timeline, but I think that you can follow.
I may be wrong.
Or set one up yourself.
It's not that hard.
You can download it.
It's open source.
You can set it up on a little server, like an old laptop at your house, on your cable modem.
It's all possible.
If you have trouble, then go into the troll room.
They'll help you out.
So you can follow Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com, John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com, and hit us up.
Follow us.
Yeah, smash that like button.
smash it the artist for episode 1392 which we titled trans noodle which was a unanimous decision on the title was brought to us by capitalist agenda dynamite piece uh anyone over a certain age certainly recognizes the rock'em sock'em robots uh which became the jab'em stab'em robots very good very good Very well done.
Very, very well done.
Now, is this a pro-artist or capitalist agenda?
Yeah, well, it sure looks like it to me.
I mean, I don't know who he is, and he's never sent us his email or anything.
He just doesn't say who he is.
But I look at his art, and there's too many pieces in there that look very pro.
I mean, way too many.
He's the one who's done the...
Mondrian stuff earlier you liked.
Which he called Bauhaus even though it was Mondrian.
He's done a lot of pieces for us and he's got a nice style.
Very nice.
And created.
A lot of people like this.
It was a gorgeous piece.
Now, we had a lot of other good pieces.
Let's see what we had.
This is all at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.
If you want to follow along, you can bring up the page if you're listening live.
Or if you're on a Podcasting 2.0 app, you can see it switching before your very eyes.
NewPodcastApps.com.
Give it a shot.
So what else did we like here?
Well, I think that there was kind of a nice...
I guess it was just a thought piece by Nick the Rat, Trans Noodle, which is the name of this piece, which was kind of okay.
I like the dog with Darren O'Neill's dog with the RCA dog.
Yeah, with the...
Let's see.
There's a lot of...
People did a lot of dogs.
We rejected all the dog pictures.
Yeah, it was a bit much.
Which was way too many.
And I believe...
Oh yeah, the dog parents.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a dog tag that was cute.
Beautifully done.
Well done.
Well done, that one.
We had Celine Dion in some kind of broken limb pose.
There was a very good piece by Roger Roundy of the people saluting Nazis.
Oh, yeah, the In-N-Out Burger.
Yeah, but the problem is we never did the In-N-Out Burger story.
Yeah.
Well, he's learning.
He's learning.
This is a problem with the new artists.
A lot of people, even the pros have done this, people that have done the show a lot, they jump to the conclusion that we're going to talk about something, create an art piece for it, and then we never talk about it.
And that's usually because we've seen the art piece.
It's very, it's an odd thing.
No, that's not the reason.
It's an odd thing that happens to us.
But it's a funny thing to say.
It's very odd.
Darren O'Neal is best known for doing that constantly.
Yeah, we love him for that.
He's always predicting what we're going to talk about and misses.
He misses a lot.
We love him even more.
Now, the one today that I'm going to tell you, we're not going to run a picture of...
The cab?
The black cab square?
No, of, what's his name, the gunman.
Oh, Alec Baldwin?
Alec Baldwin.
Disclaimer, that's not been proven in a court of law.
Just an alleged gunman, alleged murderer.
Alleged manslaughterer.
Alleged.
Yeah, no, definitely not.
Definitely not going to do that.
But most people know that.
I think today would be a good 14 day.
We'll see.
We'll see what people come up with.
I like this.
You know, there's...
Yeah.
This is...
There's a real funny piece on here today.
This is the beauty of what we've all created here together.
This value for value.
You heard earlier about its inception, and it really went far.
I mean, to be quite fair, it started on a technical level.
Void Zero, of course, had the troll room.
The troll room is almost as old as the show.
He set up infrastructure for us.
Then we got search engines, and we got all kinds of websites, the book club, Gitmo Nation Life.
There's a million.
The art generator.
There's so many things that are completely, entirely, autonomously run by the producers.
We have no access.
The art generator, if it doesn't work, we've got to email Paul, too.
Yeah, we're screwed.
Every once in a while, crap's out.
But the beauty of it is, here we are.
It's still functioning.
It's still working.
It's a, hey, spit and a prayer.
This system of ours is glued together with masking tape.
But it holds up.
I prefer gaffer, but yeah, masking is what it is.
Gaffer's tape is better than masking tape.
It'll hold up a long time.
Or duct tape.
Well, we really want to thank everybody.
Just looking at the artists, let me see.
How many album art pieces have been created, I can tell you right now.
Current count, 23,162.
I mean, that's 20 times more, almost, than episodes.
Top that, Chapo Trap House.
Yeah.
Now let us thank our executive producers and associate executive producers for this 14th celebration, episode 1393.
And we do have some people who came in to support us for the show today.
Yeah, starting with Catherine Garrard in Pa-Rump.
Pa-Rump-a-bum-bum.
Pa-Rump.
Pa-Rump.
$1,395.
And she sent a note in, actually on paper.
And she says, I'm enclosing a check for $13.95.
I recently donated, but it was a long time ago.
The episode that I was a producer for was number 177.
Wow.
So she feels she needs a dedouching.
I think that's in order.
You've been dedouched.
I believe that this amount brings me to double damehood, which will make you a baronetess.
Yes, there's no double damehood.
I would like to be known as Sand Cat of Southern Nye County, Nevada.
The land of hookers and blow.
It is kind of the land of hookers and blow.
I would like to have bulgogi at the round table with OB beer for all.
What is...
Bulgogi.
Bulgogi is the beef dish in the Korean restaurants you get.
It's bulgogi.
It's delicious.
It's that real thin sliced beef that's kind of barbecued.
It's in a sauce.
Yum.
Well, everyone will enjoy that.
Thanks.
Thanks for ordering.
Everybody needs bulgogi.
I am calling out Eric DeShill as a douchebag because he never sent my dame ring or replied when I emailed about it nine years ago.
Dad, you can't douchebag staff and management.
And I'm pretty sure that he sent it out.
I think that we've douchebagged each other once in a while.
Yeah, but I'm not going to douchebag Eric.
He has no defense.
Okay.
Yeah.
No, I don't want to douchebag him.
Now, whatever I say doesn't matter because, to be honest about it, I'm telling this to Catherine.
Adam has the last say in this because he has the button, the douchebag button.
I can't push it from here.
That's right.
That's right.
I'm not going to douchebag Eric.
So if he doesn't push the douchebag button, there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
I'm sure we can commit to making sure your ring arrives.
It's certainly nine years ago.
By the way, let's make the douchebag call-outs a little more timely.
Thank you.
There's your rule right there.
You can't wait nine years.
That's not okay.
Eric DeShill has had two sex changes since then.
I'd like R2D2 karma, long-legged mac daddy, two to the head, and shut up slave.
Keep up the good work to the best podcast in the universe, ITM. As a side note, I have it from the Chief of Staff of the Virginia Southern Nevada Health Care System that veterans will not be turned away from receiving treatments if they refuse the COVID-19 vaccination or refusing a flu shot.
And by the way, Catherine is a Master Sergeant.
Not the Virginia Southern Nevada, but the VA. The VA. Oh, did I say Virginia?
You did, yeah.
I meant VA. She is a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, retired.
Wow.
Yeah.
What does a Master Sergeant do?
How is that?
Is that above, obviously above a Sergeant?
Master Sergeant is one of the women, men, says, hey, hey, go fix that jet engine.
Get to work.
Ah, okay.
That's their job.
I love it.
Sounds like a gig.
The Long Leg Magnetic!
You've got...
Karma.
Yeah, want to grab this one?
I'll do the next one.
Sure.
Jim Schneeberger, a.k.a.
Sir Jim Bobway.
Jim Bobway.
And he's in Cary, North Carolina.
He gave $1,000.
Ooh, thank you.
And he says, great show, and congratulations on the landmark episode of 14th Anniversary.
Please accept a small donation from Jim Schneeberger, a.k.a.
Sir Jim Bobway, and my gorgeous wife, Marianne Schneeberger, a.k.a.
Marianne, Dame of Disaster.
Aluta continua and God bless.
Dave, this is a small donation.
I'm curious to see what your big one will be, Jim.
Thank you very much.
No genius, no karma?
No.
Here we have Sir Dave Fugizotto.
We know him as the Duke of America's heartland in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Fugazotos, with 347-47, this must have a meaning, send their heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of 14 years of amygdala shrinkage.
Now, more than ever, we need a 15th year as our world seems beset with a case of the crazies.
We had lunch with my cousin a few weeks ago and her husband, who runs the Total Soccer Show podcast, which we all know he says John secretly tunes into him.
Was intrigued by the value-for-value concept and organic NA meetups.
His jaw just about dropped when I told him that people all over the world regularly meet up to hang out with nothing but the Noah Jenner Show as the common denominator.
It speaks to the genuine community that the two of you have spawned during the past 14 years.
I request Jobs Karma Please, the previous one worked well, as I shall be coming out of retirement to once again join the ranks of the working stiffs.
Give me the big one, since I'll apparently be working with applications of AI and machine learning for the Army.
What do I know about AI and ML, you ask?
Not a damn thing!
Insada!
A good dose of karma will get me started off right.
Thank you for your continued service to maintenance of our collective sanity.
And here's to the future.
Love you, mean it.
Familia Fuguzotto.
And we certainly appreciate that.
Non-stop support from the family.
Thank you so much.
Jobs.
You've got karma.
All right, man.
You've got the Jobs.
Jobs.
Once the Jobes is out, it might work.
Medic Mike.
Medic Mike.
Medic Mike is next on the list.
He's in Marencho, Santa Maria.
Or Margarita.
Yeah, 333.33, California.
Please redact my last name.
Just Medic Mike from Santa...
Okay, we did that.
The NA show has kept me sane for the 15 months I've been away from home doing COVID work.
Oh.
I wonder if he's one of those traveling doctor nurses.
Nurses, yeah, possibly.
Makes all the money.
Medic Mike, what do you think?
Maybe he's in the healthcare field.
I wonder.
Thank you for your courage, he says, and karma, please.
Medic Mike, man, thank you.
Thank you for what you've done, and we're glad we could play a small role.
You've got karma.
Let's see, Gregory Pierce from Cockiesville, Maryland, 33333.
It's the magic executive producer donation.
Everyone should be one.
At least once in their life, nothing wrong with doing it on the 14th anniversary show.
Hello, Adam and JCD. With this donation, I have reached the level of knighthood.
See, attached accounting.
At the round table, I will like Chesapeake blue crabs and Natty Bo.
Bo.
Bo.
Natty.
What is this?
Natty Bo.
B-O-H. I know what Natty Bo is.
Natty Bo.
I've never heard of Natty Bo.
Trolls?
Well, I ordered it, but I haven't seen it come in yet.
I'm losing it!
I haven't seen it.
I have no idea.
Maybe it's the kind of crab?
Well, we'll be able to look it up.
Or somebody in the troll room can look it up for us.
And report back.
Any karma or anything?
No?
No, no, no.
No request.
We're going with Baron Sir John of South London.
He's up next, Baron Sir John.
And he's in London, UK, 333.33.
It's a National Bohemian Beer.
Sorry, National Bohemian Beer.
Natty Bo.
I got it.
After seeing a series of 33s in my local neighborhood, I knew the universe was trying to tell me something.
Happy anniversary!
Here's a donation at 333.33 for your special day.
May you have many more, i.e.
please no exit strategy yet.
Well, those days may be over.
Yeah, woke wine in a box, baby.
We may, yeah, maybe end in it.
Thanks for the many years of, and by the end, you know, you get a good company like that going that you can sell it and retire.
Thanks for the many years, the constellation.
Thanks to the many years of laughs and thought-provoking analysis.
I count myself lucky that I was able to meet you both in person on your respective London trips.
Yes, I remember you.
I remember too.
And they will likely never happen again.
As they will likely never happen again.
Maybe not.
You're disappointed.
Well, not in the current environment with these local ridiculous travel restrictions, he writes.
Please, could you give me a massive jobs karma and a dealer's choice in Jingles?
Thanks.
By the way, I think I know why Otter.ai keeps getting JCD's name wrong.
Ah.
John C. is an Indian name.
Ha, ha, ha.
Yes.
And the dude named Raj.
It's J-H-A-N-S-I. Which is an Indian name.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
And he says, and the dude named Raj, who works there, probably misheard John C. and told the program it was John C., which is pronounced simulolib.
Om Malik and his Indian cabal strikes yet again to annoy JCD.
Let's go, Brandon.
Regards, Baron Sir John of South London.
Outstanding observation.
I think you're probably right.
It's racism.
It's Indian racism.
That's what that is.
It is.
I agree.
Because their algos and their AI are racist because they get a bunch of racist guys who put it in.
I just pulled a random jingle for you, Massive Jobs Karma Will Be Goat.
How about that, huh?
You've got...
That's a couple years old.
Yeah, I'd say.
Next up, I'll do the next two, actually.
We have Ario Vape from Maple Valley, Washington.
33333.
Please credit Ario Vape.
It's a cannabis vape.
Pronounce Ario.
Thank you so much from the best weed vapes in the universe.
Use ITM at checkout for 33% off at rvorape.com.
I mean, I said RVO Rape.
It's REO Vape.
Vape, not Rape.
Get a free Rape at REO Vape.
REO Vape.com.
All right.
Good.
By the way, I should mention that these 33333s are all special executive producers for the No Agenda 14th Anniversary Show special.
Yes.
And do they get a special heading?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's a special.
It's special.
Beautiful.
It's special.
Then we've got Sir James Fukumoto, Black Knight, 33333, so one of those special executive producers, Salem, Virginia.
Please find attached a religious exemption karma jingle shot that Sir Man on the Mount made to give karma for those that are seeking a religious exemption from accepting the jab into their life.
Did you see this?
I don't think I saw this.
I didn't see it.
It says a religious exemption karma jingle.
Can you just...
Oh, jeez.
We're going to have to dig it up.
Can you just finish reading this for a second?
I'll check and see if I missed it somehow because I can check pretty quick.
Oh, okay.
Well...
Just finish his hoo-ha.
ITM, Jan says, or my two human resources refer to you as the boys when they hear the show on.
We're the boys.
Thank you for your courage and thanks for the excellent shows on the first and second Sunday or Thursday every week.
Cheers.
James Fukumoto.
Yeah, I don't think...
Oh, wait, what is this?
18th of October.
G-E... I have a note from him, but I don't see any jingle, so maybe I'm misunderstanding what he's saying.
But we can give you a big-ass karma.
Anyway, that's the religious exemption of karma for whoever seeks it.
Here it is.
You've got karma.
Jacobina...
Yeah?
I was going to read it.
Jacobina Koonen, Dame of the Doomsday Deniers from Rosmalen in the Netherlands.
33333.
Thank you for all you do.
It means a lot to me.
And she signs off with Jacobina Koonen in Rosmalen, the Netherlands.
Dame of the Doomsday Deniers.
Thank you so much, Jacobina.
John Hojboer.
I'll do these, Susie, quick.
John Hojboer, which would be my Dutch pronunciation, but he's from Bristol, Tennessee, so maybe it's Hojboer!
33333, thanks for all the shows and free format flow.
You're more than welcome.
It's got to be a Dutch name, Hojboer.
Yeah, it means a hay farmer.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Well, Just Ed is next.
No bullshit name here.
33333.
Hey guys, hey guys, just listen.
Great listen.
Please dedouche me.
You've been dedouched.
Thinking of getting a meet-up started in northern New Jersey, just ed.
Okay.
Alright.
Get it going.
Patrick Perrine in Bellevue, Bellevue, Illinois.
Illinois.
33333.
ITM, enjoy the show.
Here's to 14 more years, Mike.
Oh, those are notes we can live with.
Thank you very much, Mike.
Josh Purcello from, is this Australia?
33333.
Dear Uncle John, Uncle Adam.
Sending over another 3333 for the special 14th year anniversary executive producer donation for the best podcast in the universe!
I'm now two-thirds of my way towards my knighthood and aim to complete it before year's end.
We'll be here, ready for you.
For jingles, protect their freedoms.
Yes, we have that one.
Build Back Better full song at end of show.
I got it queued up for you.
It's about time.
And R2D2 Karma for all producers.
I did want to plug my YouTube channel, Vivid Iceland, once more.
Yes, I've been corresponding with him about this.
As I had such a great response from the No Agenda family for my previous donation.
I also want to extend the invite to all No Agenda listeners who visit Iceland to get in contact with me as I'm more than happy to take you out on the glaciers here in Iceland for a little bit of a wander.
Best place to contact me is via Instagram at vivid.iceland.
Iceland is slowly but surely dropping all their domestic rona restrictions and I'm just hoping they drop the border restrictions sooner rather than later.
I'll keep the NA family updated with the latest Rona news from this little volcanic rock.
Before signing off, I want to mention that during my work as a glacier guide here in Iceland, I've seen firsthand the effects of climate change on the glaciers.
And believe me, it's nowhere near as catastrophic as the M5M and Greta want us to believe.
Yes, the glaciers are retreating here, but it's well within the natural cycle slash fluctuations one would expect.
And I estimate that within the next five years, we will be seeing the glaciers here in Iceland begin their advancement once more.
I'll provide a more in-depth climate report on a future Boots on the Ground update.
Wishing you two all the best.
Thanks for 14 great years.
I'm looking forward to at least another 14 more.
Love is lit.
That's Josh, the Glacier Guide.
You'd think the Glacier Guide would know about what's really happening to the glaciers.
He's on the front lines.
He's a front-line worker.
A front-line glacier climate denier.
Yeah.
Nobody wants to hear from him.
Nope.
Except us.
He's got too much good information.
Andrew Martin's next on the list.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I have to do his things.
Intelligence work takes place within a strong legal framework.
We operate under the rule of law and are accountable for it.
In certain countries, secret intelligence is used to control their people.
In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms.
Protect their freedoms.
You've got...
Karma.
Karma.
Now, Andrew Martin comes in with $333, and he's in New South Wales.
And he has a pre-note, which he doesn't necessarily want us to read, and I won't.
But he does have his clip mention.
He wants to play the Maxine Waters song with Scumbag Kicker.
Well, it's not that I have a jingle.
I don't know if I have a song.
But he did mention in his pre-note, this kind of, just in passing, I'm going, and this is a question for now.
Have you looked into these reports of the vaccines contain some sort of self-assembling nanotechnology one assumes with some manipulative purpose?
No, we don't.
The only thing I will say, because there's no proof of any of this, and people can take a vial, you know, and go re-examine it for themselves.
Well, he refers to the Spartacus letter when he says this.
Yeah.
Which I don't think the Spartacus letter mentioned at all.
I will say this one thing.
Why isn't the Pfizer vaccine sold in the United States approved by the FDA? Yeah.
Somebody sent us in one of the letters from the FDA, and I'm going to read from it later.
I think I have it in the show notes.
I think I actually put it in there.
It's a good thing to put in the show notes, but the guy had highlighted certain parts of it, which I'll look at and we'll read later, especially this one highlighted piece where the FDA says these are technically the same, but they're legally different.
Something like that.
Some crazy concept that was like this.
No, it's a disclaimer.
I put it in the show notes.
It's a disclaimer at the very bottom.
And it says that technically they are the same.
They're created the same.
It's just a different name.
No, no, no.
Hold on.
That's okay.
Hold on a second.
And it's not at the very bottom.
It's in the middle.
No, the one I saw was at the FDA stance.
Okay.
I have revised August 23rd, 2021 vaccine information.
I'm reading from the picture of it.
For recipients and caregivers, at the very bottom, it has a footnote.
And I'm going to read it verbatim.
The licensed vaccine has the same formulation as the emergency use authorization authorized vaccine and the products can be used interchangeably to provide the vaccination series without presenting any safety or effectiveness concerns.
The products are legally distinct with certain differences that do not impact safety or effectiveness.
You read the right piece.
And what does that mean?
It's bullshit.
It's like there's some crazy shit in there that they're lying about.
They're not lying.
They told you right there, straight up.
Well, they're not telling you what it is.
They're not telling you what it is.
Now, what is the term?
So, legally distinct.
What does that mean?
So, they are different?
Distinct?
Yeah, it means they're different.
They're different.
They're the same, but they're different.
That's what you just read, which is in the show notes.
People should go look at it.
It's a big letter.
What they just said was, they're exactly the same except they're different.
That's what it says.
Recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.
Wow.
The products are legally distinct, so that means they're different legally, with certain differences that do not impact.
So these certain differences is kind of concerning.
Well, there's certain differences may be the self-assembling nanotechnology.
And that is activated by 5G. Thank you for coming to the dark side.
I've been saying this for two years.
Sometimes you've got to let the people discover it on their own.
It just seems to me to be fishy.
Alright, so it's fishy.
For sure, we've seen a lot of microscopic enhanced video of shit swimming around.
Maybe they could also be saying the following.
The Pfizer vaccine is not made as well.
It's got a lot of garbage in it.
There's fingernail clippings in it.
What are we going to do?
Ultimately, all anyone wants to know is, are you buying it?
Ugh, I'm not.
So in the morning, guys, let me finish the note.
Please accept this as an opening salvo and a war against my own douchebaggery for not having donated for a long time, so please hold the de-douching for now.
I've been listening since about the 400s.
It was actually Webster Tarpley who hit me in the mouth.
Webster Tarpley hit someone in the mouth?
Webster Tarpley's never mentioned in the show.
That's very hard to believe.
He has a blog spot.
Well, there you go.
Well, it's stated that it was his.
He was linking to you guys and Mike Rivero.
Well, that could be.
The three of you back then, you were my path to political enlightenment.
But then, sadly, in the Dimension AB Wars of 2015, yeah, thank God those are over.
We lost Webster.
He was carried off to the Soviet Union along with all of those with a hysterical hatred for Trump and somehow Russia.
It was you guys who steered me right.
Your analysis is the best, and the laughs are so important to slaves in lockdown Australia.
Yes, I hear that.
I salute you, gents.
The only thing I had in mind for jingles was an older song about Maxine Waters.
Maxine Waters has come up twice in the conversation.
Oh, no, it's the same conversation.
If you have it.
The scumbag one.
Let's aim Maxine's ire at the pharmaceuticals.
It has to do something.
It has to do something.
Okay.
Cheers.
And no karma, just Maxine?
That's what he says.
It's clear to me.
And I just think the American people had better understand what's going on.
This is a bunch of scumbags.
That's what they are.
That's what I remember.
Thank you, Andrew.
Sir Bernie of the Yummy Gummies, 333.
And, oops, switcheroo alert in the morning, gents.
Sir Bunny of the Yummy Gummies here.
Please give this donation to my smoking hot wife, Kelly.
Is that Kelly Yummy Gummies?
Kelly of the Yummy Gummies?
Come on, man.
Help us out here.
We want to do the switcheroos.
Do it right for you.
On this date, ten years ago, we went on our first date.
We got married a little over seven years ago and now have two adorable human resources.
When I heard that the 14th show anniversary was on the same day as our 10th year meet-a-versary...
Oh, bro.
Bro.
Please.
I was able to give that one up after five years.
Tina would still kind of be celebrating the meetiversary, you know, like, eh, alright.
Although I still know exactly, I know exactly when it was.
I knew that a commemorative donation to the best podcast in the universe was in order.
Yes, with this donation, Kelly has reached the treasure threshold for knighthood, which will be a dame, and will claim her seat at the round table.
Henceforth, she'd like to be known as Dame Burney.
B-U-R-N-E-Y. Nothing for her at the round table, please.
She's fasting.
I love you, baby.
Best ten years of my life.
Can I get some jobs karma from my mother-in-law, Marianne?
Bye!
Bye!
Bet!
And congratulations to the two of you.
Ten years metiversary, and they never had a fight!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
I see.
We're getting close to the big giant storm, which is supposed to hit us.
I mean, it's already raining like crazy, but the big river of doom.
Yeah, this is so cool.
I'm so excited about this.
Yeah, and it's also blowing everything.
It's like I got a big oak tree next to the house here and just banging into the side of the house.
Now, could your house slide down that hill that you're on?
No, it's a rock.
Ah, shit.
No sliding.
No sliding here?
No sliding alone?
No.
Nairobi Dino from Scotland writes in, in March, with $333 donation, and he has a long note about AstraZeneca, and then he has, all he really has is, he says we can't have his modern note, but he does have these requests, which I'm going to add to.
You have to do it.
This is, don't raff.
Why are you raffing and this is a scam?
And then the one which we've banned from the show, which is we told you so on no agenda.
We don't use that.
We don't brag about the fact that we're right all the time anymore.
So he's...
Anyway, he got the AstraZeneca vaccine and he became ill three hours after the injection with the severe headache.
Oh no.
Yeah.
Alright, so if you can find those.
And then give him a karma if you can...
Yeah, I'm just trying to...
I'm trying to figure out...
Scam clip.
Do we have this as a scam?
I don't think we have this as a scam.
Yeah, it's something I said.
It's a JCD scam maybe?
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I guess we do have that.
Okay, don't laugh.
Don't laugh.
Why are you laughing?
Shut up.
Shut up.
Why is this a scam?
That's all we have.
That's not it.
That's all I got.
Wait, do I have...
That's all I have.
I don't have any...
You don't have We Told You So anymore?
It's a scam!
That's the one he wants.
There I am.
We're going to play Told You So?
I thought that was...
I thought that was...
Oh, it is banned.
It is banned.
Well, not too late.
You already made me look for it.
Gosh, it's been a long time.
Thank you to...
Yes.
Whatever his name is.
Tommy and Sarah G. From Wilmington, North Carolina.
$260.
These are our first associate executive producers for episode 1393.
This donation is a celebration of our 12th anniversary on October 24th.
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Hmm, interesting.
Let's see why this number.
Hey, Adam.
Hello, Mr.
Dvorak.
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It's an honor to share my birth, my 38th birthday, with the best podcast in the universe.
De-douche, please!
You've been de-douched.
I'd also like a birthday biscuit and a jobs karma for everyone, for me and everyone else who's ducked out of being quack-cinated.
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2-2-2?
2-2?
Is it ducks?
Ducks.
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And he writes, and he's got a birthday...
Greetings, John and Adam.
Per Adam's request from Thursday's show, I wanted to provide you with a quick meetup report from our CU Next Tuesday weekly meetups in Chicago.
They have weekly meetups.
Yes, they do.
Bottom line, it's been like a party every week.
Great people of all walks of life and great conversations.
Special shout out to John, J-O-N. He's been a regular at the meetups, but just took a job in another state.
That being said, I got fired after last week's meetup, and we're going to be switching venues to Delilah's going forward.
Oh, wow.
My boss was a douchebag anyway.
Douchebag!
I'm sorry, gratuitous douchebag for me.
The good news is I'll be able to mingle from the other side of the bar now.
Please add my grandma, Gertrude Jositis, to the birthday list.
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She turns 105 on Monday the 25th.
We call her the Energizer Bunny.
Dude, 105.
Send pictures.
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That is...
Sir Matt.
I think that's one of the oldest birthday wishes we've ever received, I think.
No, it is.
It is, yes.
I'd love to know what she eats.
Please give us some more deets.
We're loving this.
Thank you very much.
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We need deets on this.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yikes.
Thank you.
And then our final, I think, here, yes, our final associate executive producer, Dave Schwanenbeck, $200.
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Did I forget one?
Is that all?
We got everything?
No, I said man because you said new information.
I said man.
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Our formula is this.
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I should mention that the anniversary officially is on Tuesday.
Yes, this is correct.
And it will continue.
So this coming Thursday show, it will still be collecting for the anniversary, just to extend it a little bit, because some people still maybe might want to continue the party.
Okay.
Continue the party?
Continue the party.
I've not been invited to any party.
The party.
This is the party.
You're in the party.
It's the party.
It's the party.
The party.
Interesting...
Wait, I'll skip that.
How about, this is what I want to do.
I need to go to climate change because we haven't done enough climate change recently.
Ah, good, because I have a climate change clip, too.
Yes, well, I'll kick it off.
It's a short one.
Tonight, tens of millions of people living in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are bracing for a blast of what's called a bomb cyclone.
Woo!
It's a supercharged storm powering up in the Pacific and closing in on the coast.
It's expected to deliver a river of rain to the region, causing fresh flooding, mudslides, and even evacuations.
Wait, wait, stop.
It's going to deliver evacuations?
How does that work?
And let's hear that end again.
It's expected to deliver a river of rain to the region, causing flash flooding, mudslides, and even evacuations.
No, it's not delivering.
It was okay.
But you've lived through one of these bomb, what was it called again?
Oh yeah.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb cyclone.
You've lived through one of these a couple of years back.
We'd never heard of it before then, but here we are back with the bomb cyclone.
What's the status on the ground?
Well, they call it, this is actually, if you look at the satellite imagery, it looks like a giant hurricane that's half the size of the Pacific Ocean because it's in a circular shape.
It's spinning like a giant hurricane even though there's no eye.
But it's just the way it looks.
And it ends up bringing a lot of moisture in from all over the place, and it drops it on the West Coast.
And it's going to drop it mostly here.
It starts probably around mid-California, and all the way up to Washington, all the way up to where Mimi is, and a little bit into Canada.
And so Oregon always gets the worst of it.
And...
It's just going to rain for a few days, so it's a big deal because it rains at all around here, so it'll fill up, put a bunch of water in the reservoirs and probably cause some minor street flooding here and there.
A couple underpasses will be up in the water.
Now, is this being billed as a climate change event, or...
Is anyone talking about this saying...
Not yet.
They're just saying bomb cyclone a lot?
Because typically they will say...
No, they call it river of...
River of...
River of...
I call it river of doom, but it's river of...
River of rain.
A big river.
Which is what we get every two or three.
California is a very cyclical weather pattern.
It's like dry, dry, dry, dry, dry.
The whole, from about October 15th to February, it just rains all the time and it fills everything back up.
And then, oh, I don't know what we're going to do.
Well, we can't lower the prices on the drought pricing for water, so we'll keep it what it is.
There's a new report out.
I'm sorry, I should call it an assessment.
About 27 pages.
Which is a collective view from all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies.
Can you name all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies?
I can get pretty close, but I can't name them all.
Me neither.
This is their first look at what climate means for national security.
I think that's not true.
I think they've been looking at this for years.
But this report paints a picture of a world failing to cooperate.
This is from the BBC. This is the BBC headline.
Climate change will bring global tension, U.S. intelligence report says.
So the report paints a picture of a world failing to cooperate, leading to dangerous competition and instability.
It has been issued just ahead of President Joe Biden attending next month's COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Mm-hmm.
The report warns that some countries will try to defend their economies and seek advantages in developing new technology.
Mm-hmm.
New technology.
How about trying some nuclear, you doofuses?
Some nations may also resist the desire to act.
That's interesting.
Resist the desire to act.
That's an interesting way of putting it.
So they really want...
The word resist seems to be in play because of the vaccine.
But it's resisting the desire.
So they have desire to act against climate change, but they're resisting.
They don't have desire.
They're resisting desire.
Oh, they're resisting the desire.
Oh, okay.
But that means the desire is powerful.
Well, they have to.
It must be or they wouldn't have to resist it.
I just find that odd.
With more than 20 countries relying on fossil fuels for greater than 50% of total export revenues.
Yeah, fine.
Whatever.
So we have that to look forward to.
I think there's a cool new job that we should have in the United States, Sierra Leone.
As temperatures around the world continue to rise, the risks related to heat waves are also increasing.
Yesterday, the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone appointed Africa's first chief heat officer.
She's tasked with raising awareness about heat waves and implementing cooling solutions.
I love chief heat officer!
This is a great position.
She brings the heat.
She brings the...
I love...
This is cool.
I like it.
But this is the one that has everybody really worried, and this comes from The Guardian, just as reliable as the Daily Mail.
Fox News, check it out, is about to launch a 24-hour weather channel.
Ha ha.
And this has climate crisis researchers worried about the channel's reach to perpetuate misinformation and advance political goals through the weather.
Wow.
This is so obvious.
I'm pissed at us.
I'm pissed at ourselves for not seeing this obvious exit strategy.
Yeah, start a weather channel that debunks climate change nonsense.
Yes!
What were we thinking?
Yeah, well...
We weren't.
We weren't.
Fox Weather, everybody, with Shep Smith.
Bring him back.
A 24-hour channel devoted to all things meteorological...
Promises cutting-edge display technology.
Forecasting experts surrounding every major weather event.
And I bet there'll be panel discussions.
Boots on the ground.
I want to work for this outfit.
That looks like fun.
Let's bring in our panel.
We'll talk about the weather.
I had this one for Thursday's show.
Didn't get to it.
Greta Thunberg is back on the scene because, you know, of course, you know, It's ramping up.
It's time for COP26. Now, is she still sailing around the world, or is she in Sweden?
She's just leaving that for what it is.
She got back a long time ago.
Yeah, but has she been to the United States?
I mean, she went to the United Nations.
Did she take the boat again, or did she fly this time?
No one asked the question.
I don't know.
I don't think she took the boat.
No, of course not.
No one in their right mind is going to take the boat again.
So there was a climate concert, which was just the audience, so it's a stage, it's the lighting, it's, I don't know if it was, I don't know which concert.
Footprint, don't you think?
Well, of course.
Um...
And it was like a Taylor Swift audience.
Just teenage girls mainly, just screaming and flipping out.
They love the Greta.
They cannot get enough of Greta, and she was a little uncomfortable, I could tell.
Was she singing?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
And I have a recording, which we need to listen to.
We are no strangers to love.
Out comes another dude.
You're on the roof, and so do I. Ah!
Some dude comes on stage to do this duet with her.
It's not Rick Astley who's singing, by the way.
So she's dancing.
She's dancing in exact opposite rhythm.
So when you dance, you're on the two and the four.
She's on the one and the three.
The girl has zero rhythm.
Zero.
Cannot dance.
Yet all the comments are like, Greta dancing her ass off.
Yeah, unrhythmically.
Yeah.
And no strangers to love.
Oh yeah, baby.
I know the rules, and so do I. Sounding good.
I don't know if that's what I'm thinking of.
Get this from any other guy.
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling.
Got to So, that's your superstar.
How dare you?
What is this?
Has she learned to sing from that woman that sings Let's Get Social?
I think so.
I think she went to the same conference.
It's unbelievable.
This is what we call jumping the shark.
Greta jumped the shark vaguely.
So lame.
And that's all I got, climate change.
I don't know how to transition from that to my clip.
No, I'm sorry.
You screwed me over.
I didn't realize.
We can skip it or we can come back.
We can do it now, whatever you want.
Well, let's go to it and get it out of the way.
Okay.
Because it's the weirdest climate change story I've run into for a while because it makes no sense.
But who knows what this guy's thinking.
This is the Saudis.
Oh, yeah.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, says it's aiming to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2060.
The BBC's Alan Johnston has more.
This announcement came at a climate conference in Riyadh.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said more than $180 billion would be poured into making the economy greener.
The energy minister said this transition could be made without adversely affecting the kingdom's finances and that time was needed to do things properly.
Climate activists are likely to feel that this tone is too complacent.
The Saudis have in the past been accused of moving too slowly.
Their neighbors in the UAE, another big oil exporter, plan to reach net zero emissions 10 years earlier than Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis have got a bunch of oil refineries.
They drive Bugattis.
What are they talking about?
Marketing.
This is necessary for one reason and one reason only.
Three letters.
ESG. This is the attack.
They have to have some environmental social governance that they can point to and show their little chart and their PowerPoint.
Otherwise, they're uninvestable.
You can't invest in anything the Saudis are doing or anyone is doing if you don't have a green sticker.
That's what it looks like.
Yeah.
It's fun, though.
I thought it was weird that they had this meeting in Saudi Arabia for climate change meeting.
That wasn't covered.
Amy wasn't there.
Oh, then it didn't really happen as far as I'm concerned.
There's another weird meeting.
I just want to bring this clip into play.
This is another weird meeting that took place regarding Afghanistan that we another weird meeting.
We didn't attend.
And it sounds like we should have.
Listen to this one is Afghanistan.
Weird meeting.
Russia hosted talks on Afghanistan today involving senior representatives of the Taliban and neighboring nations in a round of diplomacy that underscored the Kremlin's growing clout in the region.
From Moscow, Charles Maines has the story.
The Moscow talks amounted to a step forward in the Taliban's quest for legitimacy, with Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, and India joining Central Asian countries, acknowledging the, quote, new reality of the Taliban coming to power.
The U.S. skipped the talk, citing scheduling issues.
Scheduling issues.
Still, Russia says it wants to see an inclusive ethnic government, progress on human rights and security assurances for allies in neighboring Central Asia before extending formal recognition to the Taliban.
Moscow also joined participating countries in calling for a UN donor conference to alleviate humanitarian suffering, noting countries that took part in the US-led war in Afghanistan should bear the lion's share of the costs.
Hmm.
What the hell's that all about that nobody's discussing?
And what was his scheduling issues?
Bullshit.
Lincoln couldn't make it?
Bullcrap.
No, Zawalaki, whatever his name is.
That's the guy running it.
What's his name?
The guy who's always been running this crap.
Yeah, this is sad.
I have a couple of China things.
There was another upset with an NBA player that upset China.
Good morning, Anne-Marie.
Yeah, basketball player Enes Kanter has Chinese censors up in arms.
The drama began when the Bostock Celtic Center touched one of Beijing's red lines.
Kanter tweeted a two-minute video of himself showing support for Tibet.
And during Wednesday night's game, he also wore shoes with the phrase, Free Tibet.
The communist country wasn't having any of it and pulled the Celtics games off Chinese media.
Kanter said he wanted to speak out about the mistreatment of the Tibetan people while calling the Chinese president a brutal dictator.
The Dalai Lama's office released a statement thanking him for his support.
China's foreign ministry spokesman said his words weren't worth refuting.
But Beijing has also pulled Philadelphia 76ers games from its airwaves because of a previous spat with the team's new general manager.
Kantor is from Turkey and enraged President Erdogan in 2019 after criticizing him publicly.
Yeah, you never want to go full Tibet.
Richard Gere hasn't worked in 25 years because he went full on Tibet.
This is pretty true.
It's really true.
Tibet is a...
Forget Tibet.
Tibet is totally...
It's the third rail.
Yes, it's worse than Taiwan.
Oh, it's way worse than Taiwan.
It's probably, it's worse than anything except the Falun Gong.
That's the other one that you probably, they're freaky about that too.
What is, what is, what was this dude thinking?
Like, this will work out well?
He wasn't thinking.
Well, just keeping with China, I'm going to bring it back to Russia since, you know, you had brought in that Russia clip.
Chinese scientists are building, they say building, which means probably they're there, anti-satellite weapons that can cause an explosion inside exhaust.
So what this system does is it can trail along in the, I guess, in the space wake.
Ooh, it's a good one.
Space wake.
I don't know why.
I don't like that.
In the space wake, and then at any moment they can just detonate and blow the satellite out of the sky.
Which is obviously...
Space Force!
...needs to be on the case.
And then we get this report.
Wait, wait, wait.
Don't go...
This is part of the story that I'm playing here.
I just want an explanation for this technology.
What's Space Wake?
Okay, I made up Space Wake.
Okay, I'll tell you what it is.
The device can lock itself into the thruster nozzles...
Ooh, this is like that little fish in the Amazon River, the little bitty fish that if you pee in the river, it goes into your penis.
Yeah, and then locks itself down at the bottom there, and you have to have your penis chopped off, literally.
Hey, of all things that I thought of when I heard this story, that was not on the list.
Well, it is now.
It's the penis fish, I think, is what it's called.
The limpet something.
Yes, so this...
Now, who touted this?
Oh, someone got a hand of a defense industry paper.
It could be total crap.
But, as I said, then this story.
Right now to a mystery in the night sky that may have been solved.
The American Meteor Society says that people in nine states from West Virginia to Illinois reported a fireball streaking across the sky early Wednesday.
Well, many thought it was a meteor, but experts say it was likely a recently launched Russian spy satellite burning up as it re-entered the atmosphere.
Mm-hmm.
Sure.
Recently launched, burning up, did it fail?
No.
It had one of those dingleberries in its exhaust.
Well, they explained it, didn't they?
After that, where you cut it off, there was an explanation.
Yes, yes, here's the explanation.
Space Force!
That's the only explanation we need.
I'm glad we have a Space Force.
I hope they know what they're doing.
These Chinese space, space wakers...
I don't know how we transition out of that.
I mean, just give it a shot.
I mean, I can transition to a million things.
How about some critical race theory?
Here's a New Tang Dynasty report.
Or actually, maybe this is NPR. This is the, I have the wait what clip.
This is NPR. Syria, Al-Qaeda won.
The U.S. military says it's killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in northwest Syria.
And Ahomsi has more.
Okay, I had to stop it there.
When did Al-Qaeda, I thought it was, wasn't it anything but Al-Qaeda in Syria?
Wasn't it these other guys?
I mean, when did Al-Qaeda reappear all of a sudden?
I thought they were wiped out years ago.
Well, it's just branding.
We got Biden and his president, now Al-Qaeda's back all of a sudden.
Yeah, yes, of course.
Okay.
But the problem is you're asking questions which you're not supposed to ask.
Well, you'd think somebody would ask it there.
And the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are in essence, I mean, it's all because of Afghanistan, I would say.
Whether it's true groups or not, it's just marketing.
Well, here we go.
Let's hear the part two and finish this clip.
Abdul Hamid Al-Matar was killed through a targeted airstrike, according to U.S. Central Command spokesperson Major John Rigsby.
Rigsby said the U.S. Army had no indication any civilians were killed in the attack.
He added that the strike against one of al-Qaeda's senior leaders will, quote, disrupt the group's ability to organize global attacks.
Syria's northwest is the last remaining major rebel-held enclave.
However, some al-Qaeda-affiliated groups also maintain operations in that area.
The strike against al-Qaeda leader al-Matar comes two days after a coordinated airstrike on a U.S. military base in southern Syria.
In that attack, no troops were injured or killed.
Hmm.
What?
Wait, what?
We had an attack on our troops by the al-Qaeda?
Of course, nobody was injured or killed?
Where was that report?
Well, is this now not maybe just the outsourcing of the U.S. military and its contractors and therefore it doesn't get reported?
This sounds like a crock of shit is what it sounds like.
Could be.
Yeah, it could be that too.
From Eurolands, there's trouble.
There's trouble in paradise.
Poland has been very difficult.
Poland does not want to adhere to all of the COVID mandates.
Poland has their own idea and has now come to a head where they're saying, hey, the whole idea was that we would still have sovereignty over our own European member states, our own stuff.
What's going on in our backyard?
Of course, we were also promised there would be no European army and no European central bank.
So that's really what they've received now, and Poland is now being blackmailed by the European Union, I think by Parliament, although they don't really have the power, that, oh, you know what, $48 billion in COVID relief?
You're not going to get it unless you play along.
And so now Poland went to their high court and they said, no, screw these guys.
Our law supersedes European law.
That's what this basically comes down to.
The sovereignty of the European Union law has now been questioned by the Polish.
And this is nuts.
Yes, of course it's good.
And it's not sitting well with the Starfleet Commandant von der Leyen.
Judges have seen their immunity being lifted.
And have been driven out of office without justification.
Yeah, she's given a little bit of...
Oh, it's scary over there.
Bad stuff is happening, yeah.
And this threatens judicial independence, which is a basic pillar of the rule of law.
We have taken a number of measures, we continue to have a regular dialogue, but unfortunately the situation has worsened.
And this is not only the Commission's opinion, this is what has been confirmed by the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
And now this has culminated in the most recent ruling of the Polish Constitutional Court.
Honourable Members, the European Commission is at the moment carefully assessing this judgment.
But I can already tell you today I am deeply concerned with, This ruling calls into question the foundations of the European Union.
It is a direct challenge to the unity of the European legal order.
Only a common legal order provides equal rights, legal certainty, mutual trust between member states, and therefore common policies.
Not going to happen.
The polls are done.
And now they're talking poll exit.
Poll exit?
Yeah, that's what it's called.
Poll exit.
Well, they should leave with the Hungarians so they can form at least a united front.
Did Poland keep their Zloty?
Yeah, I don't know.
I think they did.
They may have.
I don't know.
I think, by the way...
Comic strip blogger would know.
Poland does not use the euro as its currency.
That was wise.
You can't get out of there if you're stuck in the euro.
However, under the terms of their treaty of accession with the European Union, all new member states shall participate in, of course, they're a member of the Economic Monetary Union, which means Poland is obliged to eventually replace its currency, the Zloty, with the euro.
Oh, maybe it's coming down to that.
Maybe it's like, you know, we kind of like our shitcoin, the Zloty, compared to your euro, and stuff's coming down the pike, and there's going to be, Maybe a great currency reset?
Yes!
They saw what happened with Greece.
Greece was doing just fine with their own currency and then they switched over and they got Italy to a lesser extent.
And I don't think they've ever recovered.
Greece is still not recovered from any of that.
No.
Because they have no control over their own currency.
They can't play around, you know, the way we do.
Hmm.
So maybe there's a little bit more behind this, that there's definitely fear.
There's fear of...
And Poland's big.
It would be a big loss for the EU. How many people in Poland?
Like 100 million people in Poland or something.
Yeah, and they do all the hard work.
They do all the work.
They do all the work.
Exactly, exactly.
Go ahead.
Well, before we go to the thing, I was looking for old clips to celebrate our 14th anniversary.
It's just a few classics.
And I ran into one that I like to play, but before I ran into that, I ran into a new clip that reminded me of the old clips.
In fact, it's almost identical.
When we first started doing the show, this issue came up to the point where there was even some aspects of our show that was involved with this.
Tell me this doesn't remind you of something from 2008.
2009.
This is the rehab.
This is a new story.
Just came out.
Rehash of the Border Police Militia.
More Creek back behind me here.
Terry Anderson is the founder and director of Patriots at Large.
He was patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border when NTD reached out to him.
He pulled over to talk to us somewhere between Valverde County and Kenney County, Texas.
He said the border towns are disenfranchised.
They are left in a position where they have to defend themselves against a surge of migrants who cut through their properties and communities.
You know, the thing that I've noticed is that and people are the people that we have talked to, you know, they they said that they're scared.
They say that the people that they talk to in their communities are scared.
They don't go out.
The streets are kind of quiet.
Well, they're really quiet.
You see people out working.
You don't see any kids on the street.
Nobody's in the parks.
You know, he says it's nothing less than an invasion.
And he wants to help protect those border communities.
And I think that's what our country needs.
I think that, you know, we need to stand together as Americans and help protect our fellow American citizens.
You know, these are our brothers and sisters.
It's like this part of our country that has been forgotten down here, I think.
I mean, obviously we talk about it, and we try to do something about the immigration, but we forget about the communities that are down here.
He recently heard a story about a 70 year old woman that was assaulted and robbed by immigrants.
He says he volunteers to patrol because it's the right thing to do.
Earlier this week they had actually kind of saw some people and they actually kind of Just by, you know, use of their presence, you know, force them to take a different direction, and by doing that, then they radioed into DPS or the sheriff, I guess the sheriff, and it kind of funneled these migrants towards where the sheriffs were at, and they were able to apprehend about 30 people, from what I understand.
Anderson said people are volunteering around the country to help out along the border.
He even said his 80-year-old uncle wants to come down and help defend the country.
Anyone who wants to volunteer or donate can contact PatriotsForAmericaMilitia.com.
Holy crap!
Hold on a second!
PatriotsForAmericaMilitia.com.
I got my new AR-15.
Let's party!
LFG! I mean, this happened during the Obama administration, where nobody would do anything, so we had to have our own people, you know, just citizens creating these militias to guard the border, which is...
I mean, this is just a rerun.
This is proving that this is Obama's third term.
It's a simulation, and it's on repeat.
It's on repeat.
So did you have the throwback clip that this reminded you of?
The throwback clip comes from 2000.
This is a clip that goes back to...
This goes way back.
But I think it accounts for...
Chris Matthews got kicked off at MSNBC. He was...
What do you call it?
A misogynist?
Me Too.
He was a Me Too-er.
He got Me Too-ed out.
Isn't he on RT now?
Is he on RT? No, he's not on anything.
He's retired.
But I have this clip from a decade ago where he's talking to Mike Morrell Who's still, I think, with the agency.
Yeah.
Can you ever not be with the agency?
Well, yeah.
What am I thinking?
Hello.
So, Morrell is being chewed out by Matthews for putting up with the fact that the Bush administration went into Iraq with bad info and the reports were no good.
And he's just given it to him.
And I'm thinking...
That maybe when Chris got kicked off of MSNBC, it was one of those six ways to Sunday to get back at you.
Listen to this clip and listen to the way he treats Mike Murrell.
Was that true?
We were saying...
Can you answer that question?
No.
Was that true?
That's not true.
Well, why did you let him get away with it?
Look, my job, my job, Chris, is to...
You're the briefer of the president on intelligence.
You're the top person to go in and tell him what's going on.
You see Cheney make this charge.
He's got a nuclear bomb.
Then they make subsequent charges.
He knew how to deliver it.
He had the capability to deliver it.
And nobody raised him and said, no, that's not what we told him.
Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, what's my job, right?
My job...
Tell the truth.
My job, no, as the briefer...
As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the President of the United States, make sure he understands it.
My job is to not watch what they're saying on TV and say yesterday...
You think TV's a joke?
What?
You think it's a joke that Cheney said on TV? That's not my job.
Did you know he did that?
No, I wasn't paying attention.
I was studying what was on my desk every morning.
So you're briefing the president on the reasons for war.
They're selling the war, using your stuff, saying that you made that case when you didn't.
So they're using your credibility to make the case for war dishonestly, as you just admitted.
Look, I'm just telling you...
Well, you just admitted it.
I'm just telling you what you said.
They gave a false presentation of what you said to them.
On some aspects.
Oh, this is a very good...
You make a good point.
It's totally possible.
Hey, man, you embarrassed Mike Morrell.
Who are you to talk about?
He humiliated him.
And it was on MSNBC, the same channel where Chuck Schumer went on and said to Rachel Maddow, you don't want to mess with the intelligence agencies.
They've got six ways this Sunday to get back at you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is why I don't want the FBI or any of these companies.
SCIA can go away, too.
All of them.
All of them.
We're going to go down to the border, protect our own state, our country.
I'm ready.
Hey, see what?
Call Septic Paul!
Call Sheriff Mike!
So I'm listening to this, I'm going, holy mackerel, I don't remember this clip, but just listening to him ream morale, The way he did, I mean, it wasn't as though he was even kind or, like, even, you know, in any way.
He was just calling him a liar and a cheat and just giving it to him.
I would say, wow.
Not the best.
If I had thought about it at the time, I'd say, Chris Matthews is doomed.
He's going to get kicked off somehow.
And he was.
Bingo.
Boom.
Shakalaka.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
Meanwhile, we have a few people to thank for show 1393 for helping us.
And it's also our 14th anniversary show.
And we have a lot of $140 donors.
But let's start with Adrian Rambos, $154.33.
Followed by David Mako, $150.
He's in Lake Erie area.
Frank Bourne in Milton, Georgia, $141.41.
That's a happy 14th.
Never had a fight.
Peter Karnowski, $141.40.
John Taylor, 140 in Woodland Park, Colorado.
Baron Nubbin, 140.
Phillip Jordan in Stanley, Wisconsin, 140.
Eric Adler, 140.
James Johnson, 140.
Little Patch, Lily Patch, I'm sorry, Lily Patch in Santee, California, 140.
She sent a picture with her head between our two heads kissing our faces.
No, she's kissing your face, not mine.
Oh, you didn't see the other picture?
I only got the one picture with her kissing you.
Yeah, there you go.
Janet Kostrefsky, 140.
Lyndon Schenck, 140.
Sir Carl of Kerry.
These are all 140s.
I'll just drop the 140 and just say the names.
Sir Carl of Kerry.
Sir Ilan Shems.
What do you think?
Shemus.
Ilan Shemus, a Dutch knight in Tel Aviv, currently living in Colorado.
Surely you could have deducted that from the name.
I could have, but I didn't.
Wes Olson in Seattle.
Lydia Terry.
And that's the end of our little group there.
So then we go to John Donovan, Barron of Silicon Valley, Sycon Valley, 139-31.
And he says, please break for Barron.
Provide a bit of karma for the family health and job type.
Do it in a moment for you.
Dealing with a few tough things in all three areas.
Screw it.
I'm going to do it right now.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Got a break for the Barons, man.
He's a nice guy.
Dodge Gaskell, Sir Dodger of Panhandle, 139.30.
William Elliott, 114.
Weigh in.
Weigh in.
Cartini in Torrington, Connecticut, 100.
Bruce Sanguin in Victoria, B.C., 100.
Ian Field, 100.
Gavin Haberfeld, 100.
Matt Haberfield in Mitchum, Victoria, Australia, 100.
Francine Hardaway, Dame Francine, 100.
Kyle Janney in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, 100.
Got a long note here.
Oh, it's his birthday.
Same lands on...
On the 43rd.
Matthew Smith in North Royalton, Ohio, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99.
Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, Lover of America, and Boobs, our Boobs lover.
Boobs man, Boobs man is back.
This time he came with 8008.
Mm-hmm.
The big ones.
Normally he goes for the small ones.
Mm-hmm.
Anonymous for now, 8008.
Sir John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 8008.
What is this, Boobs Day?
Sir Herb Lamb, Duke of the Deep South, 8008.
Okay.
Coty Lowe in Fort Leard, Antique, Canada.
What's Antique, Canada?
Northwest Territories, which is also called something else now.
It's not called Northwest Territories anymore.
Is that no longer politically correct?
Yeah, it's got some Indian name.
Sir Bee Boop, Knight of the Frozen Tundra, 7777.
Anthony Tomaszewski in Montebello, New York, 6969.
Thank you for your courage.
David Forbes, 6006.
Kimberly Hillage, 60.
Phil Huxford, she has a birthday.
Phil Huxford in Easton, Connecticut, 57-17.
Sir Blardis...
Blardabartfast.
Slardabartfast.
Slardabartfast, 55-42.
Marcus Muller, and a birthday for him.
Marcus Muller, 55-22.
Herbert Garrett...
In Raleigh, North Carolina, 5514.
Sir Harry Pilgrim, Baronet of Mesaponics.
Yeah, this was the lost check.
We have a lost check.
We found it.
We found it, though.
We found a check.
Joel Rice, 5510.
Second donation.
Sir Ryan, Baron of Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, 5510.
He's got a note about vaccine status.
We'll get to maybe some time.
Gummy Nerds, Vicon of the Troll Room in Green Bay, Wisconsin, $54.45, $52.80 from John Gaynor.
Sir Michael Thoney, the mutton monger, $50.14.
Bevanour, $50.14, which I guess $14 is happy for her 14th anniversary.
Forrest Martin, 5005.
Michael Lacey in Springfield, Ohio, 5001.
And the following people are $50 donors, name and location, where appropriate.
Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California.
Rob Cardinal.
Greg Gandolfo in El Cajon, California.
Jason Brand.
Jesus Allen there in Austin, Texas.
Sir Patrick Maycomb in New York City.
Pamela Nyman in Amsterdam.
Todd Grubb in Capic, Michigan.
Kevin Silverman in Severn, Maryland.
Silverman in Severn.
And last but not least, Kerry Jackson in Watertown, Tennessee.
That's our group of producers and helpers for the people that got us through this show.
I want to mention there's a lot of people that donated $14 for the anniversary show, which we won't name their names because this is in the anonymous group.
But I want to thank them and everybody else that helped produce this show.
Yes, and you read over her name and I didn't catch it.
Dame Francine Hardaway.
It's good to hear from her, who support us with $100 for our 14.
Dame Francine has also been with the show a long, long, long time.
And Sir Dodger of Panhandle did provide us an important update, black balls update from Vermont.
This is the Brick Mason, who we informed us about a month ago, got black balls and almost died after his Johnson& Johnson jab.
He is slowly recovering, though still off his feet.
That was no joke, that guy.
No, it's not good.
It's not good at all.
So this has been a month.
Phew!
Alright, take that.
If it hits you for some reason, like goes into a vein or an artery which they won't check on.
Nope.
Super sketchy.
That's no good.
Well, thank you again and congratulations to everybody on the 14th anniversary of No Agenda.
Two days early, but we're celebrating on a show day.
We're in our 15th year almost.
It's hard to believe.
Longest gig I've ever had, for sure.
And enjoyed.
So we look forward to seeing more support for our next show.
If you'd like to do that, go to Dvorak.org.
Thank you all for your courage.
Here's a Karma.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Jason Brand says happy birthday to his daughter Helen, who turned 20 yesterday.
Bjorn Delacour, 38 today.
Kyle Janney, 43 today.
Coty Lowe, happy birthday to Vicky Antoine in Fort Lyard, celebrating today.
Sir Matt McVader, his grandma Gertrude Josiatis, turns 105 tomorrow.
Congratulations.
God bless you.
Rebecca Hyde says happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Stephen Streeter.
He'll be 40 on the 27th.
Sir Slardy Bartfast celebrating on the 28th.
And finally, Kimberly Hillard says happy birthday to her son, Dom Mamiya.
And we say happy birthday to everybody here on behalf of the staff and management of the 14-year-old No Agenda Show.
It's your birthday, yeah!
And we do have a, let me see, we have one, two, two, we have three dames and a knight.
And I did want to mention that the female producers, the birthing persons producers, have been on a tear recently.
The amount of stories I'm getting from birthing persons is a lot.
And I think that, you know, they kind of came in taking care of the family during the COVID because that's what moms do.
I think a lot of them are moms.
And now they're researching and they're crazy good at it.
Have you noticed this?
You're getting more notes from women?
Yeah, we get a lot of notes from the women.
Yeah, and good stuff too.
So, we need some good female bladage.
I brought this one.
This is the shiny one.
I like this one.
Do you have a blade?
Mine's matte finish.
But here it is.
Oh, it looks good.
All right, Catherine Girard, Marion Schneeberger, Kelly Burney, and Gregory Pierce.
All of you need to step up right now because it is time to thank you for your support of the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000.
And I'm very proud to pronounce the KV as Dame Sandcat of Southern Nye County, Nevada.
Dame of Disaster.
Dame Burney.
And Sir Gregory Pierce for you.
We've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay for the ladies.
Chesapeake blue crabs and Natty Bo.
Bulgogi at the round table with an OB beer for all.
It's crazy what we've got here today.
We've also got goat chops and goat milk, Polish potato vodka in honor of Poland against the EU. We've got...
Breast milk and pablum, but you don't need that.
Mutton and mead, that's what everybody likes.
It's here at the roundtable for our knights and dames, or dames and knight.
Go to noagendanation.com slash rings and select everything you need.
The type of sealing wax that you want to seal your important correspondence with your brand new signet ring.
And of course, you'll automatically also receive your No Agenda knight or dame certificate of authenticity.
Again, all completely legit on the up and up.
And thank you so much for supporting the No Agenda show.
Now, I didn't get my jingles lined up for some reason.
I'm sorry.
I'll cut this out.
out.
No one will ever know I screwed this part up.
No one should have meetups.
It's not a party.
So you've heard several people talking about the meetups in some of our donation People are always very excited about the No Agenda meetups.
They are taking place all around the globe.
I think it was Fuguzoto who was telling his buddy about it.
They are quite fantastic to be a part of.
You really have to go to at least one.
I guarantee you, you'll be hooked after that.
And here's a report from Monterey, California.
Test toast to the podfather out there.
This is the meetup in Monterey at Cousins Sportsman where we have music and super spreading.
I'm Zach Freitas, everyone.
Lil' Pill, Sarah Taylor, checking in here in the morning.
I'm Will Knight of the Roundtable.
Sir Robertson of Two Sticks, here.
This is Bo from Solid Dad.
I'm Bo's Smoking Hot Wipe.
He's the douchebag.
I'm from Solid Dad.
Alright, in the morning, everybody.
In the morning!
Ah, Mary Bunch there.
Fantastic.
Here's what's coming up today.
We've got a couple of meetups taking place.
The Spooky Boo, the Chicago Amygdala Massacre, which is already underway, 1 o'clock in Chicago, at the North Bar, actually.
San Fernando Valley, 3.33 this afternoon.
Could be a wet one.
The Thirsty Merchant in Valley Village, California.
On Tuesday, the Chicago See You Next Tuesday weekly meetup.
We talked about that earlier.
6 o'clock at Delilah's.
That's the new location.
New location.
So we can stand on the other side of the bar.
On Wednesday, the Avondale, Jackson, Florida.
No agenda meetup, 7 o'clock at Biscotti in Jacksonville.
And rounding out the month, we've got...
29th ITM Macau.
Holy crap.
We have producers in Macau?
In Macau?
I'd love to go to Macau.
That would be fantastic.
Send us a report.
I can't wait to hear how that went.
Oregon Local 33 on the 30th, along with Kent, Washington.
Arlington, Virginia on the 31st.
And rounding it out, October 31st, Todd Mission, Texas.
A meetup of the No Agenda producers.
Thank you all so much for organizing them, for having a good time, for just communicating with each other.
It's completely producer-led, as is everything in the No Agenda world.
And it's just dynamite.
Go to one.
If you can't find one near you, why don't you start one yourself?
It's very simple.
Go to NoAgendaMeetouts.com.
They are always like a potty.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Drink it or hail the flame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Max Verstappen, Dutch Formula One racer on pole position in Austin at the Circuit of America.
We wish him well.
I know Max.
I hope he kicks ass.
He's a great driver.
A pilot, I think you call him.
And on the same tip, I did want to mention that a new study is out and it's published on the National Institutes of Health website.
Cannabinoid inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication and promotes the host's innate immune response.
Hello.
Is this not exactly what I talked about?
Why I don't have it?
Yeah.
Did we know this?
Yeah, we talked about it.
Yeah, but have we ever seen an official word about it?
No, I don't think so.
No, same with the tobacco.
Cannabinoid.
Well, it ends with an L. Cannabinoid.
See?
Cannabinoid.
It's hard to do.
It doesn't say cannabinoid.
Anyway, this thing from the cannabis plant has potential to prevent and inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In fact, it apparently does a very good job.
So just want everyone to know that it's in the show notes.
Go have a look.
And it doesn't mean you have to smoke weed.
It could be CBD. It's that simple.
Fletcher's yelling, stay stoned!
Okay, okay.
That for me is just the morning wake-up call.
Isos.
I only have the one.
You got the one.
What do you got?
I see it.
I see it.
Here it comes.
We don't give up.
Oh, no.
I've got better ones than this, I'm sure.
I think you'll like what I have.
I have...
I have the freedom to kill you.
That's not bad.
Have you...
Listen to how he said that, by the way.
I have the freedom to kill you.
Doesn't he sound like an actor from some...
I mean, he's so lucid when he's saying this.
It's not his...
Listen to it.
Listen to it.
You don't think that it sounds like an actor?
I have the freedom to kill you.
It's like a line from a movie.
Okay, you may not like it.
I have this one.
Sitting in the Oval Office with no agenda.
No agenda.
It's a little long.
Yeah, I cut off ugly.
This one.
Yeah!
But I think this has got to be the winner.
Try harder not to suck.
I think that's the winner.
Oh, that's good.
Excellent.
Yes, that's our buddy Kennedy.
That's a dynamite one.
Try harder not to suck.
And I don't even know the context of how he said it, but I like him for it.
I like him for it.
All right.
I've got two clips left.
Okay.
One is a WTF clip called Boosters for Kids on NPR. We love our boosters for kids.
The Food and Drug Administration is considering Pfizer's request to give a lower dose of its COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5 to 11.
And a decision from the FDA and CDC could come early next month.
And Pierre Salina Simmons-Duffin has more on how effective it may be.
The FDA brief said that the benefit of the vaccine is going to depend on where the pandemic is going, right?
So if there's a lot of spread, it would have a big benefit.
Whereas if the pandemic is winding down anyway, it's a little less clear.
But the analysis concluded that even if there isn't much spread, the benefits of vaccinating this age group may still outweigh the risks.
And that's what advisors are going to discuss and vote on on Tuesday.
And then on Tuesday, that analysis of Pfizer's data goes before a public meeting where a panel of independent advisors will debate whether the shots should be given to those children.
According to CDC data, more than 1.8 million children in that age group have been infected with the coronavirus.
Officials say the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits and that it provides robust immune system response against all variants, including Delta.
Oh, and how about the Delta Plus?
How about the Delta Plus?
No, all variants you said, including Delta Plus, Delta Plus Plus.
Delta Plus Plus is coming down the road.
What outfit was this on?
NPR. Oh, okay.
National Treasure.
They're commercial too.
They sell ads.
That's Pfizer marketing.
You can hear it.
It's everywhere.
Pfizer marketing.
The thing that may happen this coming week that we didn't pay any attention to is this dog story that I had from August.
About the NIH using beagles to test on.
That story is now back and now people are outraged.
Fauci killed beagles.
And there's pictures of beagles sedated lying on little cots with their head in a box.
And in the box are bugs that are eating the beagle's head alive.
That is gross.
It's great.
This would be like, he can get fired over this.
Kind of like Cuomo got fired over, you know, touching someone's butt.
Who is he?
Fauci!
Fauci did this?
Fauci's under fire for it, yes.
Yes, they're saying that he okayed it.
He should be fired.
Well, but no, you weren't outraged when we talked about it in August.
No one was.
No one was outraged when the cop dropped dead.
Well, no one knows about that yet.
That just happened.
I don't think they know that.
This literally just happened.
That's why I got the note.
Yeah, but people were dropping dead left and right, let's face it.
Yeah.
Anyway, you got to see the picture of the dogs with their heads in the queue.
I don't even know if it's real.
I don't even know.
Yeah, it's one of those Daily Mail stories.
All right, what else do we have?
I have one funny clip to finish if you have anything you want to play.
No, it's good.
I have nothing but dead puppies.
This is the story about the new license plate, an Ohio license plate.
They've redesigned it.
There's a kick to it.
The state of Ohio unveiled a new standard license plate on Twitter Thursday.
It's a big deal because the last time Ohio updated its standard license plate design was in 2013.
The new plate honors Dayton's Orville and Wilbur Wright.
The brothers are credited with the first flight in a manned aircraft.
But the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles apparently got the design wrong.
Take a close look.
The banner is trailing from the wrong end of the plane.
The department sent out a tweet acknowledging the mistake.
In response, the North Carolina Department of Transportation jokingly tweeted, Y'all leave Ohio alone.
They wouldn't know.
They weren't there.
You see, North Carolina is where the Wright brothers actually made that historic flight.
The new Ohio plate will be available to drivers starting December 29th.
This is a good story.
Now I want to see where it's...
Oh, yes.
Okay.
Well, you have to understand the Kitty Hawk, which is why...
It was a funny design.
It looks like the back of the plane's in the front.
Yeah, because they were lying flat on it with the bicycle wheels, you know, turning the prop.
You can see the prop on the back, but yeah, it's just, there you go.
And this is why we have thousands of artists.
You can't rely on just one.
They'll screw up your whole state.
License plate.
All right, everybody.
Congratulations again, 14.
Which means you should just be sticking around.
Up next on noagendastream.com, episode 111 of Up is Down.
I don't think I've heard this podcast.
Didn't the Kitty Hawk have a little motor that ran the thing?
It wasn't bicycles.
I thought they just cranked it with their feet.
I think it was a motor.
I think it was a gasoline engine.
Oh, that's possible.
I like my version better, though.
Well, it's funnier.
They were laying down.
But it still has a funny-looking design.
Yeah, no, it's very...
It's funky.
Still works.
Oh, and we'll be back on Thursday to bring you another thrilling media deconstruction.
Until then, coming to you from the heart of Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region No.
6 in the governmental maps.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm awaiting the River of Doom.
The River of Doom is headed my way.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
End of show mixes.
We've got Fletcher, we've got Sir Jeff Smith, and Sir Chris Wilson.
We'll talk to you on Thursday, everybody.
Until then, adios mofos.
is remember us at dvorak.org slash na and Dutch.
A better day, believe it.
Be ready, be the one.
A bastion of our beauty, befriending everyone.
Blossoming around us, boldness of the brave.
Pushing aside an open mind to be like everyone.
Build that better, bend down on bending knee.
Bear the brunt of all the burdens, like broken ones should be.
Build with blinded loyalty, back the better ones than you.
For a better life beyond your freedom.
Build that better for someone else.
Yeah.
Build back better.
Bend down on bending knees.
Bear the brunt on all the burdens like broken ones should be.
Build the blind in loyalty.
Back the better ones than you.
For a better life beyond your freedom.
Build that baby For someone else Daddy Yes, Felix?
What have you got there?
It's my vaccine exemption from the doctor.
Really?
It says Dr Seuss.
Well, he has doctor before his name.
Would you like me to read it to you?
Not really.
I'll take that as a yes then.
What's with the dumb music?
You know, cheap laughs.
It's for no agenda.
I am Max.
I read the facts.
I do not want to take this vax.
Please go away and leave me be.
I do not want this vax in me.
I do not want it in my arm.
I do not want it in a barn.
I do not want it on a train.
Please get that through your pea-sized brain.
I do not want your free donut I do not want this in my butt I do not want this lottery So go away and leave me be You've locked us up for months on end For our safety you pretend Using laws you clearly bend And actions that you can't defend Now if I want my freedom back Then I have to take this vax To protect me from the latest version How is this not coercion?
I must not question the science, or Big Pharma Media Alliance, or the people they have funded, and government coffers they have plundered.
And I must do what they say.
It's for my own good anyway, or they'll pressure me until I cave.
So just shut up and be a good slave.
So let me say in summary, I don't care if you disagree.
Please go away and leave me be.
I do not want this vaccine me.
Daddy, are they going to take you to a camp for the unvaccinated?
Of course not.
This is Australia.
They'd never do anything like that.
Vaccine police!
On the ground!
Now!
Let's begin with a battle over Paternity leave.
Paternity leave.
I deserve it.
Hey man, I should have this day off.
I have privilege.
I have this beautiful, beautiful white Labrador.
Labs are great dogs, good beginner dog.
I gotta tell you man, this dog was looking at me like...
I think we're going to adopt this dog.
Would you like a free dog?
She's now stuck there.
When I'm frustrated with John, I need something to kick, so maybe this white lab will do...
It just seems like the right thing to do.
You can't do that.
By the way, you have an adult dog, and they're either the calmest, greatest, really good dog, or they're nuts, no matter what.
Well, I gotta tell you, trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was.
This is what it was.
Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was.
John, this dog, it It was so sweet.
It was just trap dog, trap dog.
This is what it was.
Not the dog.
The dog barks.
This is what it was.
Trap dog, trap dog.
You hear her?
We have no idea about this dog, really, other than trap dog, trap dog.
This is what it was.
When you call her, she comes.
This is what it was.
Trap dog, trap dog.
No, it's a big, big dog.
It's unbelievable.
This is what it was.
If you don't listen to it, you have no idea how much content is in there, okay?