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1417: Get Boris!

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	Are you talking like this?
	That's not oxygen.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, January 16, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1417.
	This is No Agenda.
	MacGyvering more hotel studios than any podcast and broadcasting live from Big D, Dallas, Texas, FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, do you ever notice he always has the same FEMA region wherever he is, even in Denmark?
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	I've never been to Denmark in my life.
	Denmark.
	Please.
	Denmark's funny.
	Denmark's fantastic.
	Denmark is an outlier.
	How would you know?
	Because I have friends there.
	And I get regular reports, and they're very different from the...
	They're the happiest people in the world.
	Well, because they're the most medicated.
	We all know it.
	They love their SSRIs out there.
	Weren't they number one on the list for both?
	Yeah.
	Happiness and SSRIs.
	Hey, man.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I am happy.
	So, it's been a while, but finally, another road show.
	Yeah, it sounds fine.
	It's amazing.
	I did so much testing with other audio boxes that I was able to refine my existing setup with the Motu, the mark of the unicorn.
	And it's really reduced to such a minimal amount of cables.
	And I can set up and get going within 20 minutes?
	It's really quite humble.
	The only problem is that this hotel that we're in, in Dallas, had no desk and no chairs.
	No table, actually.
	Even if you ordered room service, there's what would be the desk against the wall under the television.
	Except it has drawers in it.
	So I had to pull these drawers out and then...
	I mean, there's no chairs.
	Yeah, I had to ask for a chair.
	They had to bring me up a chair.
	How are you supposed to eat your breakfast when they bring room service up and there's no chairs?
	Okay, so what I think is going on these days, certainly in cities like Dallas, New York, I'm sure Los Angeles, every hotel is kind of like the W hotel format.
	They've got a bar up on top, which is a huge pickup spot, and all the beautiful people are there, and there's music, and it gets kind of loud after people have finished eating around the restaurants that are up at the top, and these are all very expensive with great views.
	And then the rooms, I think, are basically just to bang and do drugs.
	I'm not sure.
	You're not supposed to have room service here.
	You're supposed to go down and have your breakfast in the restaurant or drink upstairs.
	It's an interesting format that I've identified now.
	I've been to W Hotels.
	There's been chairs in there.
	I've never actually been in a hotel where there's no chair.
	I know.
	That was the one weird thing.
	But there's no reason for it because you can't place it anywhere.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, I will say, Dallas, which I also have not been in a while, reminds me of, well, two things.
	One, how pretty and handsome the people are in Dallas.
	It's just a pretty town.
	Oh, yeah.
	Unbelievable.
	Pretty girls.
	And the diversity is off the hook.
	I mean, Austin is a joke.
	You know, you want diversity?
	It's about 50-50 here.
	ADOS, you know, black Americans.
	It's really, and it was refreshing to see, quite honestly.
	It's like, oh yeah, that's right.
	I don't know what people think of Texas, but come to Dallas, man, if you want to see some diversity.
	How many Asians have you seen so far?
	Well, there were a couple at the wedding, so there were a couple at the wedding.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I would say Austin may have a lock on that, you know, just because of the companies that are downtown and in the area.
	But, I don't know.
	What do you mean they have a lock?
	What do you mean a lock?
	It's like they win.
	Austin wins.
	I think there's more Asian Americans in Austin.
	Yeah, I think so.
	I think so.
	Um...
	Met Tom Starkweather and Alex for coffee.
	That was nice.
	They had a meet-up, which we couldn't go to, but it was fun to hang out with them a little bit.
	How many Pacific Islanders were there?
	Have you seen?
	I didn't ask for their cards, so I don't know.
	Any other races you'd like to check?
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, you make it sound like this place is the nirvana of some sort.
	It just sounds to me like it's half white, half black.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, well, that's diversity.
	To me, it seems to be diversity, not just black and white people.
	No, no, no.
	When you're talking about liberal media diversity, that's what we're talking about.
	These are the people who can't get to DMV for a voter ID, that kind of stuff.
	This is the people that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is for.
	The ones eating $50 sushi at the top of this restaurant.
	Which I learned, if you want a boxed sake, what would that mean to you if you saw that on the menu, a boxed sake?
	Well, to me, it would mean, well, I think it would mean to most people like a boxed wine, but to me it would mean one of those little sake boxes that you drink out of.
	Yeah, the wooden sake.
	Exactly.
	And that's what I ordered.
	I had a bunch of those at the house.
	Yeah, and that's what I ordered.
	And you know what I got?
	A literal juice box of sake.
	It was exactly what you didn't expect.
	Like with a straw attached to it.
	You actually got a juice box of sake?
	Yeah, with a straw attached to it.
	You know, like a kid's juice box.
	Wow.
	Yeah, I took a picture of it.
	Kids in Japan are living it up.
	They're having a good time, yeah.
	A bunch of drunks.
	Anyway, so it was a beautiful wedding.
	Catholic Mass, which was fun.
	I don't think I've ever been to one.
	It's short, actually.
	The ceremony was quite short.
	There's a great church.
	And here's the thing that was surprising.
	So we're sitting there and the pastor, I guess, he's doing this.
	Priest.
	I don't know if he was a pastor or a priest.
	He's an OP. What does that mean, OP? Office of the President.
	Okay.
	Or original poster.
	Exactly.
	So he's doing his thing.
	And there's these callbacks in the Catholic Church.
	Kind of like Diamond and Silk.
	And people who are in the Catholic Church know this.
	And so, you know, it's like, come on, John, you grew up Catholic.
	You know what I'm talking about.
	They have things they say.
	Yeah.
	And all of a sudden I hear my wife, the keeper, like doing these callbacks.
	I'm like, what?
	Who dis?
	I had no idea that she, I guess I knew that she was raised Catholic.
	It was really interesting, and I had this feeling that I think is a little bit like the No Agenda show, when you first hear the show and you hear all these codes in the morning.
	Especially this particular show.
	Go on.
	What are you talking about?
	Sorry, go on.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
	Damn.
	It was Zephyr went by.
	Yeah, well...
	No, I'm just saying, you know, you talked about it.
	Never mind.
	It was a joke that fell flat.
	Just continue on.
	Okay, so she's going Dominus Vobiscum or whatever she says.
	And it's cum spiritu tuo or whatever she's saying.
	Was this all in Latin?
	Hey, man, I don't want to bore you.
	We can move on from here.
	Let's go to something else.
	Let's talk about what happened while we were here.
	And we begin tonight with that breaking news as we come on the air on the west coast.
	There is a developing hostage situation at a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas.
	Just moments ago, one person was released unharmed.
	The incident happening during a Sabbath service that was being live-streamed.
	Authorities say a rabbi and at least three others were taken hostage.
	The FBI and ATF are on the scene now, along with local officials.
	According to a law enforcement source, the armed suspect is demanding the release of a convicted terrorist.
	Authorities say he was carrying backpacks and claimed to have explosives, but authorities do not yet know if that's true.
	President Biden has been briefed, and the White House says he is monitoring the situation.
	I love how they kind of soften that down.
	Like, well, you know, police source says it has nothing to do with a jihadist, possible Islamic terrorist in keeping a rabbi hostage.
	Well, they did a better job.
	I have the NPR version.
	Oh, good.
	I think they tried to get a little more information out, but I think you're right.
	They're trying to cover up something that's a little more sinister.
	I think so.
	Especially in this area, there's been all kinds of crappy things that's happened.
	Remember the cartoon drawing contest?
	No, I don't.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was the draw the Mohammed cartoon and then the cops actually help the guy come over and start shooting the stuff up.
	Yeah, it was a total setup.
	Exactly.
	So where's this?
	What clip do you have here?
	Screwball hostage deal in Texas.
	One male hostage has been released from an hours-long standoff at a synagogue in North Texas.
	Police say the person is unharmed and doesn't need medical attention.
	There are several other people still being held hostage at Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, and FBI negotiators are in communication with the suspect.
	Bill Zeeble of member station KERA has more on the hostage taker's demand.
	According to the Associated Press, this man wants Afia Siddiqui, who's been convicted of trying to kill U.S. military officers while in custody in Afghanistan.
	So she's in a federal prison in Texas.
	So that may be the reason why this man is in Texas.
	Bill Ziebel reporting.
	The hostage taker is demanding he be able to speak to Siddiqui in prison.
	His relationship to her is unclear, and it's not clear to what extent the hostage taker is armed.
	The White House and Homeland Security are monitoring the situation.
	Hmm, okay.
	That is definitely more information.
	And that was ABC, my report.
	So NPR, kudos to them for getting at least some info out there.
	Something.
	You know, is this a part of a bigger messaging thing that's going on?
	Because this was just an odd clip, again, from ABC, if we're talking about Islam and...
	Or really, specifically, if we're talking about Palestine and Israel, which is always on someone's agenda in the United States, listen to this report.
	We begin with a new claim about dolphins being put to use in the military.
	The Palestinian terror group Hamas released a video claiming it captured an Israeli military dolphin off the Gaza Strip, wearing a harness with a spear gun-like device capable of assassinating Hamas fighters.
	Yeah, baby.
	Killer Dolphin!
	This is an old story.
	Oh, is it really?
	Yeah, there's been reports of different groups, but the Israelis in particular are training dolphins to carry bombs and blow themselves up with, I don't know, either a ship or get under a boat.
	It never works out.
	It's a non-story, obviously.
	So, you know, what is going on with that then?
	You know, it just seems like the cranking it up.
	We didn't have any of this the past five years.
	I'm thinking this is another anti-Semite style of story.
	Yeah.
	Anti-Israeli, anti-Semite.
	It's like these horrible Israelis are torturing these dolphins because how is she going to get them to do this?
	And then they carry around a bomb and blow themselves up.
	It's sick.
	And it's all that gets a message across that these guys are sick.
	That's the way I see it.
	Yeah, something like that.
	There's no reason for that story.
	You're right.
	It's a non-story.
	It's funny, though.
	It's definitely funny.
	It's hilarious.
	Oh, there's something I want to help everybody with because you probably saw or at least heard about the story of the Ronald McDonald house in Canada where they kick the family out.
	Vancouver.
	I need to explain a little bit about this because people have it really wrong.
	In my mind, this is a huge crisis for the Ronald McDonald House.
	And the thing that people need to understand is that Well, back it up a little bit, because I think we have some clips that we never played, maybe.
	Oh, do you have it?
	I don't think I ever pulled a clip.
	I mean, it was a couple of shows ago.
	I can't get to it, but at least explain the story.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm sorry.
	Well, this is kind of what I need to explain a little bit.
	What Ronald McDonald House does, first of all, there's misconceptions.
	People think that they're like St.
	Jude's and they treat children...
	It's not.
	Ronald McDonald House is there and it's always near a hospital for families who have their children being treated in the hospital and would have to travel too far.
	So they get really a home away from home.
	So they get a room, like a hotel room.
	There's meals and everyone participates and it's really more of a community.
	They've got computers, the whole thing.
	It's really a complete house for the families.
	And it's really important.
	Anyone who has kids and you have to put them in the hospital, you know how important it is that you can be close to your kid.
	So that's what they do.
	Now, they have such a strict policy in Canada in general...
	That this family was not, the whole family was not all vaccinated because their youngest child, who I think was four, not even five, is being treated for leukemia.
	They were probably there not necessarily for him.
	It might have been for another child in the family or even he was there temporarily.
	He didn't have to then stay in the hospital overnight.
	So he's not vaccinated for some obvious reasons.
	And they say, well, we're sorry.
	We have to evict you.
	Now, that's the story.
	And as far as I know, they have not rescinded that decision.
	What people need to understand is that every single Ronald McDonald house is its own entity, its own profit and loss statement.
	It has to get its own donations.
	There's relatively little coming in from corporate or really from McDonald's itself.
	You know, there's contributions from Happy Meals and Roundups and stuff like that.
	But it really has to come from the community itself.
	Otherwise, they just don't work.
	So each one also makes its own individual decisions.
	And what is happening here is affecting everything because people think it's one big organization.
	Well, screw those guys.
	I'm not going to donate to the Austin House.
	And that's really, really sad.
	And I don't know how they're going to resolve this, but it's hurting an otherwise good organization.
	And I think it's because they're afraid to go against the Canadian government, who would seem to be somewhat out of control.
	Yeah, I think that's all correct.
	So that's the story.
	Yeah, well, I mean, if you're a news organization, especially in this country, what they're doing in Canada is outrageous, so you can kind of push that and get some response.
	Have you been following the cell phone tracking in Canada?
	Not closely.
	Oh, no, this is really good.
	Let's see, here's a Canadian report.
	If you've got a cell phone, your mobile carrier is collecting information about your movements every day.
	That data is often sold, and it turns out the Public Health Agency of Canada has been one of the buyers during the pandemic.
	A ping on a map just because you or I went to Costco, how does that impact or how does that affect public health policy?
	That question will be put to Canada's top doctor, Theresa Tam, and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos when they appear before the Parliamentary Committee looking into this.
	For now, the Public Health Agency of Canada says that data will be used to analyze the movement of populations in Canada to help inform public health policy during this pandemic.
	The information gathered was de-identified, meaning no data could be linked to individual Canadians' movements.
	But privacy experts say it's not bulletproof.
	You have to use strong de-identification protocols combined with a risk of re-identification framework that reduces the likelihood of re-identification but doesn't make it impossible.
	I love these stories.
	People are so dense.
	The whole point of the story is the company you're paying to give you this communications is selling your shit.
	They're just buying it on the open market.
	it's available then even the privacy commissioner for kandenavia daniel terrien he's like well you know that's just what it is bro i agree with the intention behind former bill c11 to give organizations greater flexibility to use personal information even without consent if that is done for legitimate business interests
	This should be done within a rights-based framework that recognizes the fundamental right to privacy.
	Greater flexibility for corporations should come with greater corporate accountability.
	What is needed is not more self-regulation, but true regulation.
	Meaning objective and knowable standards adopted democratically, enforced by democratically appointed institutions like my office that can ensure organizations are truly accountable.
	Did he just say democratically appointed institutions?
	That's a great one.
	Way back, I didn't hear it.
	That's really good.
	These rules, these laws, here we go.
	Needed is not more self-regulation, but true regulation, meaning objective and knowable standards adopted democratically and forced by democratically appointed institutions like my office that can ensure organizations are truly accountable.
	There you go, democratically appointed institutions.
	Well, I can see where you say that phrase.
	Okay, sure.
	You vote to create a person who can assign things.
	Yes.
	Right.
	It sounds like an oxymoron.
	It does.
	I mean, I could go into what's happening in the U.S. with these democratically assigned institutions, but maybe you want to do some other stuff first.
	I don't know if you want to do Russia, if you want to do COVID. That's the whole country.
	Are you kidding me?
	I'm sorry?
	Every agency in the country is democratically assigned.
	Yes.
	They're all democratically assigned lawmakers.
	It's out of control.
	Well, the bank heist is the one that's the most interesting to me.
	The Biden-Warren bank heist is underway.
	Okay, tell me about it.
	Okay, here it is.
	This is the most...
	Okay, this is Charlie Gasparino.
	He's one of those dudes on the business channels.
	And he's talking about the new appointee who we discussed, Jamie Raskin's wife, now a part of the Federal Reserve Board.
	Probably.
	But the latest one to be nominated is Sarah Bloom Raskin as the head of bank supervision for the Fed.
	And every banker I talked to in the last 24 hours said that this is like back to the future, meaning it's going to be the same relationship they had with Dan Tarullo during the Obama years, which was highly adversarial, in your face.
	You know, we want you to do stuff.
	You'll do what we say.
	Her big push will be on, you know, progressive energy policies based on her background and academic background.
	She's done writing on this.
	So what the banks are expecting is hers to make them, as part of their stress tests and everything else, make them do more lending to what is generally considered ESG investing, environment and social government stuff.
	Away from pure investing, you know, in the best investments and do stuff based on social merit, including on the environment.
	That probably means, you know, not as much lending for oil and gas exploration.
	It does have an impact.
	Now, she needs to be confirmed by the Senate.
	You know, maybe there'll be a contentious Senate debate on this because the banks are going to push back a little bit with their lobbyists.
	Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of pushback for her.
	I don't know if she has actual qualifications.
	But there you have it.
	ESG. Environmental Social Governance.
	They want to control where the money goes and how it flows and probably for climate change.
	And you add that to all the other...
	Interesting pieces in the administration, certainly in the finance sector.
	You know, if you're looking for a left-wing agenda, how it actually gets promoted and how it impacts economic policy, what banks and companies do, you have to look not just at the people nominally at the top of the ticket, meaning Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Janet Yellen at the Treasury, and a few other people.
	You have to look at who they put in the vast bureaucracy and what these people represent.
	Again, Gigi Sohn at the FCC, very progressive on all sorts of issues.
	If she gets confirmed by the Senate, that means...
	That policy that involves telecommunications and tech, a very big industry, will reflect those progressive views.
	If Sarah Bloom Raskin gets in there, that means the banks are going to have to comport to her progressive agenda.
	Because she's their chief regulator.
	Remember, the Fed is the chief regulator of all the banks.
	Has been mainly since the 2008 financial crisis.
	So this is how liberal policy and progressive policies get pushed through to corporate America, through the regulatory apparatus.
	And it's just one more.
	Unless, for some reason, Joe Manchin says enough's enough.
	I can't tell you.
	Or Kyrsten Sinema.
	We don't have good insight into that just yet.
	Back to you.
	All right.
	But somewhere Elizabeth Warren is smiling.
	All right.
	You know, I forgot to mention her.
	I forgot to mention her.
	I thought the FDIC regulated the banks.
	Wasn't that the communist woman who was supposed to get that gig and did not get, or she dropped out?
	No, the FDIC is the insurance company.
	Deposit insurance.
	Yeah.
	Deposit insurance corporate.
	But she was talking during her, you know, during her lead up to her non-hearing about, oh yeah, we regulate the banks.
	I don't know.
	Well, I guess at some levels they do, because they have to.
	Yeah, they have to make sure that they have the deposit.
	Isn't this just the deep state?
	Isn't this the definition of it?
	Well, I don't know.
	Is it?
	I think so.
	I don't think of it as a deep state.
	I think it's, in this case, just a bunch of communist incursions.
	Incursions!
	Oh, good term.
	That's what Putin's planning on doing.
	You don't invade, you incurs.
	I've been thinking about this Putin thing ever since the last show.
	Vicky is out again.
	I got more Vicky.
	I was thinking more of what else could Adam have said?
	And one of the things is the...
	You mean to Megyn Kelly?
	What can I say if somebody brings this up with me?
	Uh-huh.
	But always, you know, he laments the end of the Soviet Union.
	He wants to build back the Soviet Union.
	Right.
	You're referring to my Megyn Kelly interview where she said, no, no, this Putin wants to do all this expansion stuff.
	No, and all she does is she threw every Putin trope that has been developed by the...
	The media over the last...
	Yeah, every single one.
	The anti-Trumpers over the last four years.
	Yeah.
	So one of them was...
	I'm sorry, I'm congested this morning.
	That's okay.
	So, Putin, when did Putin first get in office?
	And he pretty much stayed in there ever since, even though he switched back and forth with Medvedev.
	Medvedev, yeah.
	They did a little back and forth there.
	But that was only for a short time, and now he's changing the Constitution.
	He's kind of like Xi in China, just because I'm going to be here forever, so get used to it.
	Right.
	So this guy wants to reconstruct the Soviet Union.
	So the question is, okay, he's actually been a dictator of Russia, a czar, which is really what he wants to be.
	He's been the czar of Russia since 1999.
	So he's been in there 22 years.
	And the people hate him.
	Exactly what has he accomplished?
	The people hate him.
	They just hate him.
	They don't want him there.
	They hate him.
	That's obvious.
	20 plus years, they hate the guy.
	But what...
	Obviously the people like his economics results because if you look at their GDP, it's gone way up since he got in.
	But it's just blipped a little bit.
	But what has he done?
	What landmass has he tried to conquer?
	What has he done?
	I mean, there's nothing except Crimea, which makes sense because it's their main port.
	It's not what he's done.
	It's what he's about to do.
	I want to set you up because I know...
	Why does he take so long?
	I want to set you up because I know you have clips for this.
	I do too.
	But I just want to set you up with two to get this started.
	Going back to the re-emergence of Victoria Newland.
	Oh, by the way, the fact that I said Victoria Kagan-Noodleman was immediately seen as anti-Semitic by some.
	You know, because I... On Twitter, of course.
	Where else?
	Oh.
	Because, you know, you use...
	Her name was Noodleman, wasn't it?
	Well, I guess her father's name was Noodleman, and he changed it, you know, when he immigrated or whatever.
	So, you know, I threw in the Kagan.
	So the name Noodleman...
	So by saying somebody's actual name...
	Yeah, you're clearly anti-Semitic.
	You're anti-Semitic?
	That sounds like bullcrap.
	Well, here is nine seconds from...
	And by the way, what does that...
	And how does that compare to people who promoted the idea of calling Donald Trump Donald Drumpf?
	Yeah, I mean, that's, you cannot, that's not how it works.
	That's not how it works.
	Here is the relevant piece from Victoria Nuland's re-emergence as assistant, I think she's, is she assistant secretary, deputy secretary of state?
	I think she's assistant secretary of state.
	Assistant secretary of state.
	Here is what we talked about during her re-emergence.
	It is Russia that has prepared internal sabotage, destabilization, and false flag options for Ukraine.
	So we discussed this in some detail on Thursday's show about the false flag, which is odd because we heard...
	We've heard for years that false flags are a conspiracy theory.
	Governments don't do that to their own people.
	It's just, it's a nut job to even talk about that.
	Certainly not America, but when it comes to Putin...
	What's the latest on this U.S. intelligence?
	Wolf, what has alarmed the Pentagon from the beginning here is the multi-layered approach that the Russians have taken from the beginning here.
	It's not just the soldiers on the border or the tanks, the military equipment.
	It is propaganda efforts to justify an invasion.
	It is the presence of intelligence operatives.
	Including teams that have the intention of assassinating Ukrainian political leaders.
	And now you have this latest piece which is the possibility of creating false flag operations.
	In other words, sabotaging Russia's own pro-Russian forces inside Ukraine to create a pretext To allow for the Russian invasion.
	And now we're seeing all of these things play out here.
	The concern is that at any point, Putin, the Kremlin, pulls the trigger here, and then that would bring a full-on invasion of Ukrainian territory.
	So a full-on false flag against his own troops!
	You know, I heard this report, too, and every time I hear this, the way they're dealing with Putin and the...
	It's that old Dutch saying, I am what I say you are.
	We're the ones who pull these tricks.
	What you say, you are what you say you are.
	No, no, not you are what you say you are, I am what I say you are.
	What you say, you are what you are saying is what you are.
	That's the saying.
	Yeah, but it refers to the fact that the person saying it is someone.
	Of course, yes, of course.
	You say it to someone, yes, exactly.
	So what we're saying that Russia is going to do is the kind of stuff we actually might do.
	Yes!
	You want to hear my quick Vicky clips?
	She did an interview on Sky in the UK, which was done at NATO to reach out to all of the other international partners.
	I can just imagine.
	Just put this moment in context for us.
	How serious is it?
	How worried are you and how worried should we be?
	Well, Mark, it's extremely worrying.
	You know, a nation does not deploy 100,000 troops on the border of another nation and put its saboteurs inside a country without some malign and aggressive intent.
	You're so right.
	Yes, you're speaking about yourself.
	That is a very expensive and difficult and dangerous operation.
	You would know.
	So why now?
	And why now particularly when Russia itself has only half its population vaccinated and Russians care about taking care of COVID and taking care of their schools and their hospitals and their infrastructure?
	It makes no sense.
	What I think is happening, and remember, Vicky has been all over Russia.
	Russia is in her portfolio.
	The more I listen to what she's saying, and these are all pretty short, the more I listen to her talking about this, the more I think that she wants to start a color revolution in Russia.
	And when you hear the sanctions they're planning, that may actually be the plan.
	That may be the prize that they're going for, is to rile up the Russian people because, you know, COVID is rampant and we're all, you know, Putin's not doing anything.
	He's not focusing on the people.
	He's focusing on the wrong things.
	And of course, he's creating false flags.
	You talk about operations within Ukraine.
	We've heard today this idea of a false flag operation.
	Russia looking for a pretext to war.
	They want an excuse to invade, so you say.
	Well, this is straight out of the Russian playbook.
	There we go.
	The Russian playbook.
	Do you have a copy of that?
	I've been trying to get it on Amazon, but I haven't seen it.
	I think it's on state.gov.
	Who wrote the Russian playbook?
	Yes, state.gov.
	They've got the playbook right there.
	Through sabotage operations, through false flag operations, through blaming the other guy to create that pretext, to give an excuse to go in, or to make it look like the Ukrainians were the aggressors when in fact the first aggression was perhaps even done by Russians against Russians to blame the Ukrainians.
	So it's all very dangerous and the way they operate is very non-transparent.
	I mean, literally, literally what she did with her gang over there, what she did is what she's accusing Putin of.
	Now, this comes on the heels of the talks collapsing between the US and Russia.
	We've had a week of diplomacy.
	It appears to have gone nowhere.
	Mark, I wouldn't say that.
	I would say that in the first instance, the Russians came to the table in the US-Russia format, in the NATO-Russia Council format, and at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where the Ukrainians also sit.
	And they had a chance to hear from all of us, and particularly at NATO. They heard a unified message from 30 allies, including the UK, saying, let's resolve any issues through diplomacy, not through war.
	Nobody needs that now.
	Okay, so again, I think she's talking to the Russian people, and here is her money shot.
	Sorry, sorry.
	There's a little tell in there that I thought was interesting.
	She said that the NATO stand together, blah, blah, blah, including the UK. Now, why would she say including the UK at the end of that as kind of an afterthought?
	Are the UK objecting to what we're up to here or what?
	That's a good question.
	Well, she's on UK television, so that's probably the most obvious reason she's trying to tell the UK people.
	We know from history that sanctions don't tend to work.
	So, you know, if they do invade, what then?
	That question hasn't been answered.
	What will you, America, do if Russia goes ahead and invades?
	First of all, Mark, to your premise.
	I was involved in the preparation and implementation of consequences for Russia.
	This is the term we have to be on the lookout for.
	Our playbook is Consequences for Russia.
	She says it like there's a report out there that literally has that title.
	Consequences for Russia.
	What could they be, Vicky?
	I was involved in the preparation and implementation of Consequences for Russia.
	At the beginning of that, I would remind you it looked like Moscow and its proxies were going to go all the way to Kyiv.
	And they stopped far short of that.
	Now, they did grab Crimea, obviously, which was a tragedy for Ukraine and international stability.
	What we're preparing this time is far more severe and painful for Russia economically in terms of its potential complete economic isolation from the global financial system as well as political isolation.
	And again, why do the Russian people need that now?
	They need what we all need, which is to be building back better and dealing with COVID. This has got to be unbelievable.
	You know, just so stupid to hear her say that she's talking about war and everything in between war and pestilence for all practical purposes.
	Then she says the Russian people should be building back better, which is one of the things Putin rejects the entire idea, which he sees as a globalist threat to the country, which it is.
	It's a globalist threat to every country.
	And COVID. I mean, this is ludicrous.
	That clip is ludicrous.
	It sounds to me like she's trying to spark or prepare for a Russian color revolution.
	And it's feeble.
	It's feeble.
	What else could it be?
	We're going to cut them off from the money?
	No doubt.
	But what you're saying has to be exact.
	There's no other explanation.
	No.
	But to use the leverage she's using is naive and stupid because...
	It only works in places that have been pre-propagandized to an extreme, like us, with the media and everybody being all in on this COVID fear, to get everyone all freaked out and, you know, pearl-clutching.
	It just makes no sense in Russia.
	In fact, my reports, which we will get to in a second when you're done with these clips, NPR kind of...
	Well, let's do that.
	They don't go in that direction, but I think your analysis is better, because I think it's the only thing that explains the crazy talk that she's doing.
	Here's how we can assist Victoria Nuland in her messaging.
	I think we can get Sir Gene to help us to come up with a translation, and Jeff Smith can just do a Russian version.
	For a better life beyond your freedom, build back better.
	Ah, comrade!
	For your comrades.
	Yep.
	Maybe we can help him out.
	One of these days, these jingles are going to work for diplomacy.
	One of these days, someone's going to give us some money for these jingles and we can split it with the writer.
	Jeff.
	Jeff, you bet.
	You bet.
	All right.
	I'm interested in your NPRs.
	Yeah, this is a three-parter, and it has a couple of stop and goes here, but the long one is Russia warnings and the updates of what's going on.
	According to NPR. The U.S. is issuing new warnings about Russia's military intentions in Ukraine, saying the Kremlin may seek to provoke conflict after a week of diplomatic efforts failed to ease tensions over the 100,000 Russian troops now near Ukraine's border.
	NPR's Charles Maines joins us on the lineup from Moscow to tell us more.
	Charles, thanks so much for joining us.
	Happy to do it.
	So the White House came out with strong statements Friday warning that Russia may be planning what it called a false flag operation against Ukraine.
	Could you just tell us more about what they're talking about and is there any reaction from the Kremlin?
	White House officials say Russia pre-positioned operatives to stage a possible attack against Moscow's own forces or perhaps its allies in East Ukraine, all with the goal of giving the Kremlin a pretext for war against Ukraine.
	Now, the U.S. clearly is issuing this information to try and keep it from happening.
	Moreover, the U.S. isn't providing any evidence, which was seized upon by Russia.
	The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, called the idea of a premeditated attack unfounded, said it wasn't confirmed by anything.
	And whether it's true or not, we don't know, but the U.S. has certainly expressed concern all along about what the White House calls the Russian playbook, in other words, trying to provoke conflict rather than pursue diplomacy.
	Well, about that diplomacy, we saw that there were hours and hours of talks in European capitals that really seemed to go nowhere.
	What can you tell us about that?
	Like, why the empaths?
	Russia and the U.S., together with its allies, are really talking about different things.
	The West says it wants to see this de-escalation of Russian troops along Ukraine's border.
	That's what we've heard so much about.
	Russia calls the idea of a pullback from its own territory absurd and denies it has any plans to attack.
	And yet Russia is clearly using a credible threat of force to negotiate what it sees as these historical injustices coming out of the end of the Cold War.
	So Russia wants a ban on NATO membership for Ukraine.
	That's part of it.
	But it also wants this rollback of NATO to where it was before these former communist nations like Poland, like Czech Republic, entered into the alliance in the late 1990s.
	Yeah, that sounds kind of what Russia is thinking.
	It's a little more balanced.
	Yes, and the Russians are still irked about the fact that we promised that we weren't going to make a move toward them with NATO. Encroach.
	Encroach.
	We wouldn't encroach, and we did.
	We broke our promise, and it turned out it wasn't a promise in writing.
	If we remember, we discussed this in detail.
	What was the name of the Accords?
	They had a name for it.
	I forgot, but we weren't going to do anything.
	Oh, don't worry about it.
	We're all good to go.
	Especially after the fall of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	That's when we said, don't worry about it.
	You guys are good to go because these countries will be great.
	I think it was the Helsinki Accords.
	Helsinki Accords.
	I don't remember if that's exactly what this has to do with.
	Oh, Minsk.
	The Minsk agreements.
	Something like that.
	The point was that we assured them.
	We had our people.
	But we never wrote it down.
	And now, you know, it wasn't written down, so screw you.
	We took one of those deals about, hey, he's in writing?
	I don't think so.
	And so, but you said.
	And the Russians are still pissed about the fact that we essentially officially lied to them about the whole thing.
	And then when Poland joined NATO and a couple other countries, that was the end for this.
	And this is not bullcrap.
	We're not putting up with this anymore.
	You guys are going to be right on the border.
	It's like as if you think the Warsaw Pact should have Mexico.
	And so, you know.
	Yes, it was the Minsk Protocol.
	I think the fact that it was called a protocol was the reason why we could slip out of it.
	Hey, man, that's just a protocol.
	Yeah.
	Who cares?
	So that's what the Russians are about.
	And meanwhile, Vicky Newland is making up stories about false flags.
	It has to do with COVID. What?
	No, that's what they should.
	Putin should be focusing on COVID and building back better.
	So dumb.
	It's weak.
	It's weak.
	What has Russia got to do with Build Back Better?
	They're still building.
	This is the case of these people, I mean, Victoria Nuland, the whole Biden administration, they're smoking their own dope.
	I mean, do you think anyone...
	Look, we're highlighting this, but it's really not a big news story, is it?
	Is this really on people's radar?
	They're trying, but that's my point.
	Does it really get through to people?
	People have heard Russia for so long.
	Whatever.
	Russia, Ukraine.
	Americans don't care.
	Americans don't care.
	It's crying wolf.
	It was written all over it.
	Yes, crying wolf.
	Russia, Russia.
	Okay, we're sick of Russia.
	But then again, you had Megyn Kelly.
	She was all in.
	Well, okay, let's play part two of this clip.
	And if you listen to the language coming out of Russia's top negotiator, this is Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ipkov, it doesn't seem like there's a lot to negotiate.
	We need ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof, legally binding, guarantees, not assurances, not safeguards.
	You hear all that?
	Yeah, actually, I heard Victoria in that Sky interview talk about military transparency.
	That's the kind of stuff we're offering.
	But this guy's going on and on because this again refers back to the fact that we promised we weren't going to encroach.
	And so now we need bulletproof.
	We need this in writing.
	We need a notary.
	Hey, I think the guy can come by.
	He's got his stamp.
	We could do that maybe Thursday on his lunch hour.
	Guarantees.
	You know, and of course the U.S. and NATO have called the Russian demands mostly non-starters.
	So the question now is what happens when and if Russia doesn't get what it wants.
	Do you have a sense of how this is seen by Russians themselves?
	I mean, is there a sense of the country on the brink, as it were?
	You know, it kind of feels like this is something no one thought was possible over the fall, but is slowly becoming a reality, you know, with President Vladimir Putin now talking about a possible military technical response.
	That's what he's vowed so far without elaborating.
	The U.S. also argues there's been this massive uptick in propaganda in Russia over the past several months.
	And, you know, Yes and no, I think.
	I mean, there's always a lot of propaganda surrounding Ukraine anyway.
	But these stories of the Russian buildup were initially reported by Western media, and then Russian media came in to look into it.
	And some of that, of course, is part of this kind of pro-Kremlin propaganda squall.
	But, you know, muddying all that message, on Friday we saw the arrest by Russia's security services of members of this ransomware evil hacking group, and that was at the request of the U.S. So you can understand if Russians are left scratching their heads a bit.
	Now, that wasn't reported.
	No.
	So they mention it here, but I don't know of any reports about it, and I definitely was not in the mainstream media about the Russians.
	You know, we asked them to do this, and they did it.
	So they made a big fuss about these evil hackers, and they blamed the state for it, and then the Russians went out and arrested the guys, and no report?
	What's going on here?
	I have the report about the hackers, the cyber attacks.
	Well, let's play part three and let's play that.
	So I want to go back to this idea of Russia creating a pretext for war.
	What are we hearing from the Ukrainians?
	First of all, they're coming to grips with this cyber attack on Friday that took out some of their government websites.
	It seems now not to have done as much damage as it first feared.
	Meanwhile, Ukraine's military intelligence says it has captured intercepts about a possible plot by Russia to stage a faked attack against Russian troops in a breakaway region of Moldova.
	That's to the south of Ukraine.
	The plan here essentially is to attack Russian troops stationed at a weapons depot near the border and then blame it on Ukrainian forces.
	Holy shit.
	Opening up.
	Holy shit.
	Did they discover the playbook and the actual tactical manual for this operation?
	They've got it right down to where it's going to happen, how it's going to go down.
	Yeah.
	Yellow cake.
	Wow!
	Weapons depot near the border and then blame it on Ukrainian forces, you know, opening up the possibility of a wider Russian incursion.
	Now, the U.S. has said it's willing to give weapons to help Ukraine carry out a protected guerrilla campaign if it comes to a Russian attack.
	And that's the wider concern here about this whole week of failed diplomacy, that it was, you know, always designed to fail and open a path for Russia to claim, you know, well, we tried negotiating, and now all there is left to do is to fight.
	Wow, they're just literally saying where they're going to do it.
	So we can just wait for this to take place and they're going to blame it on Russia.
	Putin.
	Actually, specifically.
	Putin.
	And here's reports that Sweden, Gotland, which is one of their islands, which is about 1,500 kilometers south of Ukraine.
	No, Ukraine is south of there.
	The Russian-Ukrainian border there, of course, north of it.
	And now they've got tanks rolling out through this town because, you know, Putin could get crazy.
	He could come up here.
	Seriously, this little town, this little island.
	We better arm ourselves here in Berkeley.
	Here's the CNN report on the cyber attack.
	You know, what's really interesting, and I want you to elaborate on this, Jim, it comes as Ukraine is now blaming Russia for a wide-ranging cyber attack against Ukraine.
	Is that a precursor for a possible Russian invasion?
	No.
	Based on all of Russia's war plans, their shadow war plans, hybrid war plans, this is absolutely part of the Russian playbook here.
	We've seen it before in other countries that Russia has taken territory from, from Georgia to Moldova, attacks on Estonia in the past.
	This fits the pattern.
	As you say, The U.S. has not yet attributed this.
	The Ukrainians have.
	And by the way, the U.S. strongly suspects this cyber attack comes from Russia because it fits a pattern.
	You set the ground for a formal invasion, and cyber attacks are often a way to weaken their opponents before they come in.
	This is all so, so worrisome.
	Indeed, a major, major threat on the horizon over there.
	Let's hope it doesn't happen.
	Jim Sciutto, thanks for your reporting as usual.
	This is all so, so major.
	It's just so, so major.
	I mean, gee, we found the playbook.
	We have the operational playbook.
	We have the target.
	We know where it's going to take place.
	I mean, right now, CNN should have a countdown clock on Lower Third.
	Click, click, click, click.
	Moments until the cyber attack invasion and the false flag from Putin.
	It's pretty sad.
	It's sad.
	It's sad.
	But, you know, people read headlines, take screenshots.
	No one goes to get any information.
	No one reads.
	Well, I don't know what's going to happen, but it's obviously that we're behind whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	Why are we involved in the first place?
	Well, because of what I said to Megyn Kelly.
	In my view, it's because if you have 80-year-olds running the country, which we have Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Biden, there's tons of people close to their 80s, you get 80-year-old baggage along with it.
	Which is this hard-on for Russia and subsequently Putin and the expansionism, and I think it's trauma from the 60s.
	You know, they were all hiding in their cellars.
	The 50s, probably.
	50s?
	Yeah, the 50s were...
	Well, the Cuban Missile Crisis was...
	The Cuban Missile Crisis was early 60s, wasn't it?
	Yeah, that was 60s.
	That was the end of it.
	Right.
	Well, that's the kind of people I think are freaking out about this.
	They're now 80s.
	Or at least they're susceptible to it as a narrative.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to argue against it because they're all 80 and they're all acting like it.
	Well, it's just trauma.
	Everybody's got some kind of trauma.
	Then you have a bunch of opportunists like Victoria Nuland and others that are just looking for sources of power and they're just troublemakers.
	They'd like to see the world blow up.
	Yeah.
	They're dangerous.
	I don't understand how people like that have got so much influence.
	I wanted to mention in this context of Build Back Better and build bullcrap in governments, a video that we discussed several months ago is now making the rounds going viral, which is of a politician from the Forum for Democracy questioning the Prime Minister, Rutte.
	We talked about it a few months ago, but now someone puts subtitles on it, and so people are going, holy crap.
	And it was this call out of, hey, you know, you sent this nice letter to Klaus Schwab thanking him for the Great Reset book and that you enjoyed it so much.
	But he didn't say it that way.
	He asked the Prime Minister, do you know this book?
	Have you read it?
	And the Prime Minister goes, no, I haven't read that.
	And then he confronts him with the letter, you know, the courteous note, the courtesy note to Klaus Schwab saying, hey, man, thanks for your book.
	I loved it.
	Which, of course, we know he didn't read it.
	Of course not.
	He's going to read it.
	Of course.
	Hey, by the way, Where are all the Build Back Better hats?
	You know?
	Shouldn't everyone be all jacked and jitty about this?
	There's your color revolution, Victoria.
	We need Build Back Better hats for Russia.
	Can you imagine a Russian wearing a...
	Of course, it'd be in Cyrillic, but even so, having anything to do with Build Back Better, this has got to really gall Putin.
	Maybe that's part of the point.
	Maybe the whole thing is just to make Putin blow his head off, you know, just go nuts.
	Go crazy.
	My God, I can't believe it.
	That's possible.
	Build back better.
	Well, I think that that may be going on with Putin.
	We have another problem in the system, and that's Boris Johnson.
	I have a clip.
	Go, what you got?
	The Bojo clip.
	It's about the latest vision and moaning about poor old Bojo.
	Calls continue to grow for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign after he and his number 10 Downing Street office had to apologize twice last week for several parties that appeared to violate their own social distancing COVID restrictions.
	And Pierce Frank Langford has more from London.
	Tobias Elwood, a former government minister and fellow member of Johnson's Conservative Party, told the BBC the Prime Minister needs to, quote, lead or step aside.
	Elwood is among a handful of Conservative Party lawmakers suggesting it's time for Johnson to go.
	Other political parties, including Labour, the Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats, have all demanded Johnson step down.
	Last week, Number 10 apologized for holding two parties last April on the eve of the funeral of Prince Philip.
	The Queen's husband.
	At one party, people reportedly brought in bottles of wine in a suitcase, a stark contrast to the Queen, who the next day sat alone and masked in a chapel mourning the loss of her husband.
	A couple of things.
	Yes.
	One was lead or get out of the...
	What is he doing if he's leading?
	I mean, what more can he do than what he's doing?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Now, that's one thing.
	The second thing was, now they've decided to go with imagery.
	And the imagery is, guys, they're having a big party in the backyard, a bunch of them that are illegal, and they bring in suitcases filled with booze so they can all get plastered while the queen is by herself in the chapel mourning the loss of her husband to make it look like they're a bunch of cold-blooded bastards.
	Yeah, you got Bojo dancing like an idiot.
	Yeah.
	It's like, wow, man, that was embarrassing.
	Well, one of our producers is on the case here, and what we identified there, the lead or get out of the way, our producer says, what's happening here?
	And this leaked, you know, it all started with the leaked video of the press secretary, you know, rehearsing for these questions and laughing about, oh, well, it wasn't socially distanced and it was just wine and cheese.
	And that's what kicked this off.
	Our producer says this is an inside job.
	This is his own party and own affiliated people.
	What's happening, and I have some clips to back it up, Dominic Cummings, who was arguably the guy that got the Brexit set up and done, He's angry at Boris, you know, ever since Boris came out of the hospital with the COVID. The new Boris.
	He was the new Boris.
	The fake Boris.
	He's angry with the new Boris.
	Here's a clip.
	This is Peter, it's a radio interview and you'll hear the interviewee is Peter Osborne of the Daily Telegraph.
	Dominic Cummings seems to be at the heart of this story in the sense that he is believed to be the leaker of some of this stuff, quite a lot of it, and he appears to be conducting what might be called Operation Get Boris.
	The narrative in Whitehall at the moment is that these emails, photographs, etc., Many of them are coming from Dominic Cummings.
	He was hired, as you say, in 2019, and he remained as senior advisor to the Prime Minister.
	He advised Johnson in taking Britain out of the European Union, and then he advised Johnson on the general election.
	And then there was, reportedly, quite a significant power struggle between Dominic Cummings and Carrie Simmons, as she then was, then the Prime Minister's fiancée, now his wife, For really, you know, for control over how things were run.
	Cummings lost and he then left.
	And he left with him, according to this narrative, basically a trunk full of information, documents, emails, etc.
	Trunk!
	He is a very skilful political operator, Cummings.
	He has an agenda.
	He feels that Britain would be better governed without Johnson.
	If that narrative is true, we can expect future developments, future revelations.
	There's a second part to this about future revelations.
	We don't know that it's coming.
	We all suspect that it is.
	Whoever is orchestrating this is doing it brilliantly.
	Rather than dumping the information about...
	Many different parties in one go into the media.
	It's being steadily leaked in the most considered way for doing the most damage to Johnson.
	Johnson has lots of enemies.
	Cummings is but one.
	But if it is Cummings, he's doing a brilliant job of maximizing the impact of all of these stories.
	Yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	These are dynamite clips.
	It's Johnson's fiancé that was going against Cummings?
	Yeah, I mean, I had no idea.
	What kind of an idiot is she?
	Well, what kind of an operative is she?
	That's the question.
	Because Boris is clearly the numbnut.
	Or cockwomble.
	Womble.
	What are they called?
	They have all kinds of words now in the UK. Yeah, they get some words for the numbnuts.
	They never use numbnuts.
	No, no, I haven't.
	It's knobsocket, wankpuffin, or spunktrumpet.
	These are the terms they're using now in the UK. So...
	We have to look into her because that's the issue.
	Who does she think she is?
	She wanders into this quagmire.
	This reminds me of Hillary back when Clinton first got elected and she decided to her by herself that she was the health minister all of a sudden and she's going to create the universal health care package.
	And she did this as though she was running the place.
	Yeah, one of those.
	It's good, man.
	It's not boring.
	That's dynamite.
	So it's a move to get Boris out.
	Again, just shows you how cynical it is that this whole COVID thing...
	If Dominique Cummings is behind it, Boris is done.
	I think so, too.
	But consider the scenario they're painting.
	Because of Boris's then-girlfriend, now-wife, that Cummings lost her?
	Like, her advice?
	That's the piece that we don't have enough background on.
	Where is she coming from?
	Where did she pop up from?
	I mean, I kind of remember, but we didn't really pay attention to her as something that would be an issue.
	She was an operator.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	But you see how cynical it is that, oh, COVID, COVID, COVID. They're using it for everything, mainly for politics.
	And it's from the beginning, from the beginning, the beginning.
	Everything Trump said, oh, it's the opposite.
	Oh, it's the opposite.
	Oh, that's no good.
	I'll never take vaccines from Trump.
	Yeah, one of those clips in the newsletter, the last newsletter.
	Who was that?
	I'm never going to take anything.
	I'm taking this second shot, come and get me.
	Yeah, who was that douchebag who did that?
	Oh, just another Twitter douchebag.
	Just another douchebag.
	Another douchebag, yeah.
	You want to do a little COVID stuff?
	Because I got some clips about, you know, they're pushing COVID. They're really going out of their way.
	CBS is a perfect example.
	Well, let me lead into you something.
	This is Dr.
	Campbell.
	We all know and love Dr.
	Campbell, the YouTube doctor from the UK. And he just has a quick analysis for us of Omicron.
	And then we can take it from there.
	Just to frame our reporting.
	So that illustrates there very clearly in Germany.
	So what we see there is, and again as we predicted, Omicron is displacing Delta and is associated with less hospitalisations, less deaths and less patients being ventilated.
	It's almost as if Omicron is protecting us against the ravages of Delta.
	Well, it's not almost like that.
	It actually is that.
	It's really quite incredible.
	And we know Omicron gives immunity against Delta as well.
	So whatever you make of that, that's the data.
	If you don't want to accept my interpretation there, you have to accept the data, I'm afraid, because that's...
	Well, it's straight from the Robert Koch Institute.
	There you go.
	Accept the data, people.
	It's actually helping us get out of this.
	Nobody accepts the data.
	No.
	Not now.
	Not anymore.
	Now we can't accept the data.
	So, I've been noticing the propaganda push has been, again, thanks to Pfizer, Because this is the end of this situation.
	They got to get rid of, get these vaccines out.
	They got to make as much money as they can for the, you know, because they're going to have a downturn in profits.
	Yeah, before they get the 1.1 version out.
	Yeah, and even then, it's questionable.
	I'm curious whether they're going to have the kind of success they've had with this.
	The success.
	Yes, the promotional success has been good.
	The actual results are somewhat disappointing, to say the least.
	Who cares about the actual medical results?
	So the thing right now is they're pushing as hard as they can, and you see it in the reporting, for kids under five.
	Yeah.
	We've got to get this vaccine because there's lots of kids under five and they need to get shots.
	We've got to stick it right into the womb.
	And that even...
	Well, that's coming.
	Yeah, I think so.
	So that starts with a Pfizer Kids ad for the vaccine.
	Oh, goodness.
	This was put out by Pfizer.
	It was distributed and not pulled, but it was on all over the place, all over Twitter.
	And it's a bunch of kids in there.
	You just have to imagine that there's a bunch of kids wearing capes and jumping all over the place.
	Ah, superheroes.
	Because they're all superheroes because they got the shot.
	And they're going to play this little...
	This is called Pfizer Kids ad.
	Welcome to Primetime here at Fox.
	So glad to have you.
	You're the perfect...
	I saw this ad.
	I saw Bill...
	What's all this?
	Superhero.
	I think you left some shit on the beginning here.
	I did.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	It starts here.
	I got it.
	This year, thousands of kids like us around the world joined the COVID-19 vaccine trial.
	Kid power.
	And when they did, they became all superheroes.
	Ah!
	Ah!
	To all the kids who volunteer, we'd like to say...
	Yeah, we've seen many variations of this.
	Yeah, it sucks.
	It's terrible.
	So let's go to CBS and we got the COVID and kids CBS 1.
	We are going to begin with the coronavirus and the difficult decisions faced by parents as the Omicron variant surges among kids and some schools, including the entire Chicago system, are forced into remote learning.
	So take a look at this graphic.
	There's been a massive jump in pediatric hospital admissions for COVID in recent weeks.
	In just the last seven days, the CDC says an average of 824 kids per day were admitted for the disease.
	Here's the tricky part.
	Those numbers include kids who were in the hospital for other reasons and then tested positive for COVID. Yeah.
	Did you hear that little way?
	The Weasley way he did that last phrase?
	Sure.
	Replay?
	Per day were admitted for the disease.
	Hold on.
	It goes back a little further.
	Seven days, the CDC says an average of 824 kids per day were admitted for the disease.
	Here's the tricky part.
	Those numbers include kids who were in the hospital for other reasons and then tested positive for COVID.
	Tricky part.
	Mmm.
	Science.
	In the lower third, it said it had something like under five-year-old kids, you know, something about under five-year-olds kids are getting COVID left and right is what it implied.
	But they were pushing, pushing, pushing this under five thing in this report to get the parents who have kids under five.
	Is it even approved for under five?
	I want to approve the vaccine.
	I want to approve the vaccine.
	Oh, goodness.
	They're going that route?
	Oh, my baby.
	Yeah.
	And they're doing it.
	I mean, there's only a few clips from this extremely long, pounding report about the under fives, and it ends up with, you know, some little kid in the hospital is two.
	Oh, the poor little two-year-old, even though he has leukemia, which seems like a bigger problem to me, but okay.
	So that's part two of this.
	Janet Shanley is at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where there's been a surge in kids going to the ICU with COVID. Different story there.
	Janet, good morning.
	Good morning.
	This is the nation's largest pediatric hospital, and it is seeing a spike in COVID cases.
	The latest numbers are troubling.
	More than 75 children are hospitalized with the virus.
	Some are on respirators.
	A dozen of those infected are babies.
	Babies!
	This is Jameston Rogers on Christmas Day.
	This is the two-year-old now, recently diagnosed with leukemia and fighting COVID in the intensive care unit of Texas Children's Hospital.
	Gosh, this is in a way kind of a throwback to the incubators.
	Yeah.
	Same mechanism.
	Oh, that's an interesting point.
	Same mechanism.
	The phony baloney incubator story that came out of Kuwait.
	Yeah.
	And it turned out that it was a PR woman that made the whole story up.
	They made the PR, I think, guy's daughter do it or something.
	Yeah.
	Tell this story.
	Right, right.
	How these evil people were going in and they're throwing the babies out of the incubators onto the floor.
	Yeah.
	Damn.
	Yeah.
	That was a good one.
	That was a good one.
	This is not quite as good.
	And so CBS is promoting the under five vaccine.
	That's all it is.
	But it's not approved for under five.
	Is it?
	There's no approval.
	No, it's not.
	But this is the point.
	Look at all the horrors that are happening.
	It's all under five.
	It's not approved.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	They're putting the screws to the regulators.
	It's shameless.
	I've never seen anything like it.
	The headline, of course, for this week was the Supreme Court of the United States deciding that President Biden's backhanded way of mandating larger corporations, 100 people and over, for taking, well, the mandate was vaccination or test.
	Of course, companies, all afraid for their ESG score, immediately went all the way.
	No testing, you just got to get vaccinated, shut up.
	I don't even know if any companies are really going to turn that back, but here at least is a quick rundown from ABC on the decision.
	Good evening, it's great to have you with us here on this Thursday night, and we begin tonight with the Supreme Court blocking President Biden's vaccine mandate for large companies.
	The vote 6-3, the conservative justices against it.
	When they say blocking...
	Is that, to me that always means like it's open for appeal or something.
	That's kind of how it always, it's blocked for now.
	It's not overturned or shot, you know, completely obliterated.
	It's blocked.
	Is that just me reading too much into it?
	To be honest, I can't say.
	They did allow for the rules to move forward for 17 million healthcare workers at federally funded hospitals and facilities in this country.
	The Supreme Court decision coming late today, the conservative majority saying OSHA does not have the authority to enforce a vaccine or testing rule for large companies.
	This affects some 80 million employees across the country.
	Their own companies and bosses will now make that decision.
	Many companies, of course, already have.
	As I mentioned, they did allow for a separate mandate to move forward for millions of health care workers at those federally funded sites.
	Tonight, President Biden's response, saying in part that justices blocked what he called common sense life saving requirements.
	Tonight, the president is now calling on the states and employers to do the right thing.
	Do the right thing, people.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Do the right thing is not happening in some of the states.
	I was surprised that they...
	It's interesting the way the Supreme Court went on this.
	Six to three.
	I don't think they...
	That's six?
	No, there's six.
	I think there's...
	With Roberts, who is barely considered a conservative.
	Roberts is kind of a swing either way.
	I think he's the one that's not really considered the six, but I think he was in there.
	It was the three new...
	No.
	It was Sotomayor.
	It was...
	Who's the...
	I can't remember their names.
	But it was...
	It would be Sotomayor, Kagan, and...
	Kagan, and...
	Not Gorsuch, but...
	No, maybe it was...
	I don't know.
	Maybe it was...
	What's his face?
	Breyer?
	Breyer?
	Well, the Breyers, maybe.
	We should look at it.
	We should know the Supreme Court justices.
	This is pretty weak.
	The point is that I thought it was kind of touch and go the way it was going, but then they came out with this decision, which is the right decision.
	These mandates are bogus.
	It's pretty sad for the medical system.
	There's a lot of people who really don't want to leave their jobs, I guess.
	And they're going to have to.
	That remains in place.
	I think it's only if your hospital is reimbursed through Medicare or any institution that's reimbursed through MediCard, which is quite a lot, who get the Medicare.
	You know, in...
	So here's what we can probably expect to see here soon.
	In the UK, you may have seen this video of an anesthetist and the UK health minister is visiting a hospital.
	And I think it's a live shot.
	And, you know, it's a typical PR thing.
	The health minister, oh, everyone's good here.
	Oh, NHS. Oh, good.
	We're doing for the NHS. It's very wonderful.
	And this guy is behind him.
	He says, excuse me, minister.
	You know, it's like I'm being asked to leave even though, you know, I've had COVID. I've been working here since day one.
	It's not appropriate for me to have a vaccination, yet I'm going to be fired under your rules, which kicks in in April.
	Because let's do it in April because God knows there's no emergency now, right?
	We can certainly wait a couple months to fire people.
	As a reminder, here's this interaction, then I have a follow-up to it.
	Now a video clip of an unvaccinated doctor challenging the health secretary of the government plans to make the COVID jab mandatory for all NHS staff very soon now has gone viral.
	Dr Steve James is a consultant anaesthetist at King's College Hospital in London and he's been working in the ICU there since early 2020, the beginning of the pandemic.
	And on a visit by the health secretary, he told Sajid Javid the science isn't strong enough to support the policy of mandatory vaccination for NHS staff.
	Let's hear what he had to say.
	You're not happy about it, don't you?
	So, I've had COVID at some point.
	I've got antibodies.
	I've been working on COVID IT since the beginning.
	I have not had a vaccination.
	I do not want to have a vaccination.
	And for that, I would be dismissed if I don't have a vaccine.
	The science isn't strong enough.
	Right, so that's the clip that went viral a couple of weeks ago now.
	So, this is Good Morning Britain.
	They bring this guy on.
	For 15 minutes, all I did is I just created like a mini cut of their questions of the two hosts.
	And this guy's entire message is, look, there's 100,000 people in the national health system who really don't want to get this.
	Many of them have had it.
	Most have probably already had COVID. They've been working there from day one.
	You're allowing vaccinated people who have COVID to come back and work, but we're getting kicked out.
	But listen to the badgering from these.
	These are just morning show hosts talking to a professional in the field and listen to how they treat him.
	Well, Dr.
	Steve James is joining us live now from his home.
	As Susanna said, that thing went viral.
	So many millions of people have seen it.
	And basically, Dr.
	Jones, that's made you the poster doc for the whole anti-vax movement.
	But that's not a hat that you want to wear.
	And you've come on Good Morning Britain to try and put the record straight.
	So where exactly do you stand on vaccination?
	Okay, but can you do what I think you're here to do, which is to explain why you're not anti-vax?
	You see, he wasn't giving the right answers, and then they literally say, could you please get back to why you're here?
	Remember the pre-interview we had, the stuff you're supposed to say?
	Great.
	So where exactly do you stand on vaccination?
	Okay, but can you do what I think you're here to do, which is to explain why you're not anti-vax?
	But being fit and young and well is no defense against COVID. Young, fit people have died from it.
	Just to be clear, you are speaking entirely in a personal capacity and not as a representative for the hospital.
	You won't get vaccinated, and you've explained why you believe you don't need to.
	I just want to establish, you say you've been exposed to COVID. Have you actually had COVID? Do you know that?
	Do you guess an antibody test offered to you in your work?
	You've had one, sorry?
	You've had one?
	He's had an antibody test done, and that would be privately, presumably, would it?
	Just to clarify then, if anybody is carrying antibodies to COVID, are you saying that that automatically means that they must have been infected with it at some point?
	So that's the kind of Novak Djokovic defence against vaccination, isn't it?
	Isn't it?
	Dr James, you are not going to get vaccinated.
	Here comes the push.
	This is what we're going to see here.
	You've said that.
	You've had that argument with the health secretary.
	Of course, that comes with a penalty within the NHS, because from April, if you aren't vaccinated, you'll lose your job.
	Are you prepared to simply lose your work for the sake of taking a vaccination, which we know, and you have explained, is enormously beneficial?
	Well, are you arguing this purely from, if you like, a civil rights point of view?
	Or are you also suggesting, as I think you might have done in that exchange with Javier, that you don't trust the vaccine all the way?
	You don't think it's been researched fully enough?
	Am I right?
	I said nothing like that.
	James, what I don't understand is you're prepared to lose your job and put your department...
	Under pressure as a result of you losing a job because I don't know how easy it can be to get an anaesthetist with your training and qualifications in there.
	Despite the fact you believe the vaccine is safe and effective, I'm not sure I understand it.
	Anyway, let's talk to Dr.
	Hillary about it, because Dr.
	James says he doesn't want to be a poster boy for the anti-vax movement.
	I can't see how he avoids that, frankly.
	So this is what they're going to do.
	You are a horrible, horrible person because you are actually weakening the system.
	I like the bit that was in there that confirms that was when she said, you're going to ruin your own department because you're not replaceable.
	Yes.
	And the retort should be, well, if I'm not replaceable, then don't replace me.
	I'm not taking the vaccine.
	Yeah, that wasn't his retort.
	He didn't get a retort.
	She went straight to the in-house doctor who then continued to discredit this guy, of course.
	That's how it goes.
	This is disgusting.
	This is worse than the kind of communist stuff that you've heard about, you know, back in the day.
	No, no, that's something even worse.
	The show trials.
	It's a show trial.
	There's stuff even worse.
	You want to get back to the kids for a second?
	You got some more kids stuff?
	Oh my God, this is really horrible.
	This is in Massachusetts.
	Now, if you had trained a dog to detect COVID, which has been done, it's universally known now, it's a great way to...
	Dogs are amazing.
	Dogs are really good at this stuff.
	It's because of the sense of smell.
	Right.
	Now, would you...
	It seems to me, if you're going to use a dog to detect COVID at a school, certainly a grade school, you would have the dog at the entrance.
	Right.
	Right?
	And the dog can, kind of like at the airport, the dog can sniff you, maybe you have to walk past the dog, and the dog will be like, okay, you're good to go.
	I mean, if you can get sick from COVID outside wearing a mask and you're too close to somebody, I'm under the assumption that the dog can sniff your COVID. Is that how you and I would do it if we were consulted on this?
	I would have kids walk past the dogs here on the way in.
	Yeah, well that's not...
	Like having a metal detector outside the school.
	Yeah, that's what seems logical.
	But no, no, no, not in Massachusetts.
	Let's terrorize the children by having the dogs running around while they're in class.
	This is Punta.
	She's a black lab.
	She's 14 months old.
	And she's a warrior.
	In the fight against COVID, Hunter received training to recognize the scent of the coronavirus.
	If she smells it, she will give a signal and then get a toy.
	Nothing found in this second grade gym class at the LG Norse Elementary School in Norton, Massachusetts.
	So she goes on to play with some of the children.
	But then Hunter is brought into the school library.
	Good girl!
	And while first graders have music class on the other side of the library, Hunter abruptly sits down.
	A signal that...
	We do have some odor, presence of COVID odor.
	COVID odor!
	On this bookshelf.
	She just, um, she actually just sat.
	Good girl.
	So what I'll do is I'll praise her, good girl, let her wait it out a little bit, kind of dial it in, try to narrow it down.
	We know COVID-19 primarily spreads through the air, and Hunter is searching there too.
	An odor is almost like a cone.
	If you could picture a cone, the source of the odor is strong at the base like it was on the bookshelf, and then the odor goes out into a cornstarch.
	This is Duke.
	He's Hunter's partner in the canine COVID patrol.
	This is the school cafeteria.
	He stops abruptly and sits too.
	He just found something.
	And then, two minutes later...
	What did he find here?
	Same thing.
	So what happens after Duke and Hunter make their discoveries?
	We notify parents in terms of if we have information that a student is specific in that seat, we want parents to have that right to make a decision about do they want to test and state the student, do they want to pull the student, or just keep an eye out for symptoms.
	In addition, after the detector dog makes a hit, the areas are disinfected.
	How traumatizing must this be?
	No, it could be a lot better.
	I would say you do exactly what they're doing, but then when the dog sits down, a group of goons comes in and throws a bag over the kid, like they do in China, and then they drag the kid out by his legs.
	With hazmat suits.
	No, the guy's got to immediately put hazmat suits on.
	Immediately.
	Hazmat suits.
	Come in with hazmat suits.
	Rouse the kid.
	Bag him.
	Bag him, Dano.
	You got to bag him.
	Yeah.
	And it sets him up for so many other fun dog interactions in their future life.
	You know, for drugs, other great stuff that you might not have a problem with in school.
	This is so sick, man.
	This is just sick.
	Don't do that.
	Because it showed like, oh my god, don't stop.
	Don't come near me.
	Oh no, no.
	Oh no, no.
	The dog's sniffing me.
	Oh no, don't sit down!
	Well, a lot of kids don't even react well with dogs of any sort, so this is not a good idea.
	Yeah.
	So...
	That's just so sad.
	I don't have any more kids, but I do have something that I think you'd be interested in, because I specifically grabbed it for you.
	Okay.
	COVID in...
	Okay?
	Okay.
	COVID in Holland.
	The Dutch government has eased some coronavirus restrictions, but not for the hospitality sector.
	Terry Schultz reports some cafes and restaurants have opened in protest.
	Stores, hair salons and gyms may now open until 5 p.m., but cafes, restaurants, bars and museums must remain shut until at least January 25th.
	Eating establishments in more than a dozen communities across the Netherlands said they would open their doors Saturday in protest.
	New infections in the Netherlands are at a record high, but hospitalizations are decreasing.
	I mean, this was the three weeks, and they've extended it, extended another two weeks, and they're taking all the fun stuff away.
	How many infections have there actually been in restaurants?
	How many restaurants have been super spreader sites?
	I don't think I can recall one instance.
	One.
	French Laundry.
	It wasn't a super spreader.
	No, I know.
	It was a douchebag containment center is what it was.
	Douchebag spreader.
	The mandate being shot down or blocked by the Supreme Court is very troubling to many people, certainly our elites, and we go to our resident constitutional scholar when it comes to ABC. If you ever want to know a real good opinion on the Constitution, you want to talk to Sonny Hostin, who is a key member of The View.
	Well, you know, I think that this is a direct result of the conservative majority in the composition of the Supreme Court.
	We know now that Chief Justice Roberts is conservative, Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
	And we know that it's also a result of the hypocrisy of the Republican Party Who, you know, filibustered and now have, you know, three Supreme Court justices that are conservative.
	And they changed the rules for that, but they won't change the rules for voting rights.
	What do you mean?
	What is she referring to here?
	I don't know what she's referring to, but it was the Democrats who changed the rules about approving judges.
	Yes.
	They're the ones who changed the rules and the Republicans took advantage of it.
	The only reason that they're also bitching about the fact that Merritt Garland didn't get any at the end of the Obama term.
	Yeah, didn't get a vote.
	That's because he was never allowed.
	They never had the hearing.
	That's different.
	And look at the bullet we dodged.
	The guy's nut job in Department of Justice.
	Oh, the guy.
	Right.
	Crazy.
	Crazy.
	And he looks it, too.
	And he's doing kind of crazy stuff.
	...that are conservative, and they change the rules for that.
	Hold on.
	Yeah.
	One more thing on that about the Garland thing.
	Some of these guys, it always looks like, well, they're just doing this for some political reasons, but in fact, in political circles, a lot of people know somebody's crazy.
	Yeah.
	I mean, they just know, oh, that guy's nuts.
	And so they put the kibosh on the hearings so he doesn't even get a chance to get voted on because you know the guy's nuts.
	You're doing the world a favor.
	Everybody knew it.
	We all knew the guy's no good.
	We'd rather have the boof guy.
	No, give us that guy.
	Give us the boofer.
	Justices that are conservative, and they change the rules for that, but they won't change the rules for voting rights.
	And so, while it's not a surprise, it does highlight their...
	Hypocrisy, because this was for a 6-3 vote.
	And so I say to Americans, I hope that you're enjoying your freedoms, because this is based on freedom, right?
	The concept of freedom.
	So now you have the freedom to get COVID, like Glenn Beck just said.
	You have the freedom to die from COVID and your freedom from mandates.
	And you now don't have the freedom to vote.
	You don't have the freedom to read Toni Morrison.
	And you don't have freedom.
	Women don't have freedom over their own bodies.
	Wait, who's Toni Morrison?
	What is this?
	You don't have the freedom to read Toni Morrison?
	I have no idea what the Toni, so she's a writer.
	Toni Morrison.
	I don't know.
	What's that got to do with anything?
	I have no idea.
	What's she talking about?
	Toni Morrison is, let's see.
	Is she banned in Boston or what?
	American novelist.
	You've heard of her?
	Oh yeah.
	I think she's in the Bay Area.
	What do you mean we don't have the freedom to read her?
	I didn't understand that.
	I... I don't know.
	I don't know what she's talking about.
	She's a lunatic.
	But you hear at the end, you hear the...
	You have the freedom to die from COVID. Yeah.
	And when someone has the freedom to die from COVID, this disturbing trend, which is, I think it's stemmed from a subreddit, which is Michael Caine Awards.
	Not Michael Caine.
	Yeah.
	It was the pizza guy who passed away, who ran for president.
	Michael Caine.
	Yeah.
	What's his name?
	Caine.
	Herman.
	Herman Caine.
	The Herman Caine Awards or something.
	Like, ah, ha, ha, ha.
	Herman Caine was against the mandates.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	He died from COVID. That's just sick nature.
	Let's go to CNN and laugh some more.
	Well, here's a moral question peculiar to these days.
	Is it wrong to mock people who publicly crusade against the COVID vaccine and then die of the disease?
	Or does it drive home the message about saving lives?
	There are entire websites that are devoted to such mockery.
	SorryAntiVaxxer.com gleefully tallies stories and photos of anti-vaccine advocates who end up in the ICU, intubated and or dead from the disease.
	One recent case of this kind of tasteless taunting spurred two dueling opinion pieces in the Los Angeles Times.
	Orange County Republican Kelly Earnby, a former assistant DA and state assembly candidate who had lobbied publicly against the COVID vaccines, passed away earlier this month at age 46 from COVID complications.
	She was unvaccinated.
	Earnby's death unleashed a torrent of reaction on the Internet.
	On her own Facebook page, under a Christmas collage that she had posted, there are now more than 4,600 comments.
	Some are sympathy notes.
	Many others are not.
	In response to the piling on, L.A. Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg wrote,"...I don't understand how crowing over the death of others furthers useful debate or increases vaccination rates." But a few days later, Goldberg's colleague Michael Hiltzig published a column expressing the exact opposite.
	Quote, Mocking anti-vaxxers COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes, but may be necessary.
	There you go.
	Beautiful.
	It's very necessary.
	This is good.
	Of course, that stuff stays around for a long time.
	So people who do that, that might come back to bite you in the butt.
	It's just worth mentioning, I have no clips, but 270 healthcare professionals also categorized as doctors, which they're not.
	They're not all doctors.
	No, this is one of those mailing lists.
	We've talked about this years ago on the show.
	That's exactly right.
	Every time you turn around, the same 1,100 people have signed some petition against Trump.
	I actually went through the trouble of trying to contact a couple of them.
	I can't believe this has got to be bullshit.
	And they didn't even want to talk to you, did they?
	No, they contacted me and they said, yeah, they signed it.
	It wasn't a phony deal.
	That's what I thought.
	It was like people just using people's names.
	But no, it was legit.
	But there were a bunch of left-wing nutballs, all of them.
	So this open letter to Spotify, well, the headline reads, this is interesting, experts confront Spotify over misinformation in Joe Rogan podcast.
	And if you read this open letter hosted on WordPress.com, which is kind of cool, They immediately go to Dr.
	Robert Malone and accuse Joe Rogan of allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions.
	If you're a healthcare professional, I don't know if you can determine societal harm, because they're talking about, I believe, the mass formation discussion.
	And then they go on to say, we are a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, professors, and science communicators.
	I'm a science communicator, spanning a wide range of fields such as microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and neuroscience.
	And we are calling on Spotify to take action against the mass misinformation events.
	Notice that.
	Notice that little thing.
	That's a little tell there, a little bit of NLP.
	Mass misinformation events, referring to mass.
	It's like mass.
	Yeah, it's cute.
	It's cute.
	Which continue to occur on its platform.
	With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE is the world's largest podcast.
	It has tremendous influence.
	Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of information on its platform, the company presently has no misinformation policy.
	And then they go on to talk about how Twitter was good because they deplatformed them.
	And here it is.
	Notably, Dr.
	Malone is one of two recent JRE guests who has compared pandemic policies to the Holocaust.
	These actions are not only objectionable and offensive, but also medically and culturally dangerous.
	Huh.
	The Hitler's Trump.
	We, the undersigned doctors, nurses, scientists and educators, thus call on Spotify to immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform.
	I get a kick out of 270 people getting this much attention when 35,000 scientists wrote a letter about the fakery of global warming, and they got no attention whatsoever.
	It's just astonishing how this works.
	There was a lot of attention focused on Rand Paul and Fauci in the most recent hearings.
	I think it was in the Senate.
	Yeah, in the Senate.
	About the gain of function, their back and forth, the big show, which is all great.
	Everybody kind of wins for their own team and stuff like that.
	The people lose.
	But there were some other things, particularly about the VAERS database, that came up and this question was posed to both CDC Director Walensky and Fauci.
	And the question is very simple.
	It's like, okay, so this VAERS database, it's showing thousands of people who have died after the vaccination.
	Now, we know that the discreditation has been in from day one.
	Well, you know, it's just self-reporting, blah, blah, blah.
	And of course, on the other side, we hear, well, it's probably only 10% of all the real cases.
	But there seems to be no accountability of what has happened to people today.
	After vaccination, if they died from it, has it been documented?
	Although in this exchange, you will hear both Walensky saying that they do document it, do have the numbers, but she's going to completely deflect about the VAERS database along with Fauci.
	And this to me is, this is another one of those that in years from now will look back and say, what a bunch of lying scumbags.
	Walensky, it's been reported by some virologists and scientists that this year around 170 people Now, this is what I'm hearing.
	I'll give you a chance to refute that or confirm it here.
	You know, is this true?
	Are we having that many people die after taking one of these vaccines?
	Senator Tuberville, thank you for that question.
	The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a mandatory system of any adverse event that happens after being vaccinated.
	So if you get hit by a car tragically after getting vaccinated, that gets reported in the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System, their system.
	So the vaccines are incredibly safe.
	They protect us against Omicron.
	They protect us against Delta.
	They protect us against COVID. They don't protect us against every other form of mortality out there.
	Do we keep numbers of people that died following taking a COVID test from taking this vaccine?
	Do we have any idea?
	I'm just asking.
	I'm sorry.
	Those who have died after taking a COVID test?
	Died following taking the vaccine.
	Is there any number count?
	Do we keep records on that?
	Absolutely, yes.
	I couldn't give you the absolute number off the top of my head, but our staff could absolutely get back in touch with you.
	We collect those data.
	You know Dr.
	Fauci?
	You have any clue on that?
	I don't have a number, but I think part of the confusion is that when you do a reporting, if you get vaccinated and you walk out and get hit by a car, that is considered a debt.
	I mean, that's the thing that gets confusing, that everything that happens after the vaccination...
	Even if you die of something completely obviously unrelated, it's considered a death.
	So if I had metastatic cancer, got vaccinated and died two weeks later, that's a death that gets counted.
	And every one of those is adjudicated.
	You've looked over the database.
	You can see very clearly what happened.
	I've never seen a car accident reported in the VAERS database.
	He should have at least said motorcycle accident because we know there was a story about that.
	But yeah.
	No, I don't remember that.
	I think it was in Australia or New Zealand.
	First death from Omicron COVID. Guy crashed on his motorcycle.
	I want to play a clip that shows you the...
	The problem with the veracity of the medical establishment.
	This is from 2007.
	And this is in Canada.
	And this is a discussion they had.
	And this is just pre-pig flu.
	I think it was 2008 or something like that.
	Yeah, pig flu.
	Yeah.
	And this is about the flu vaccine.
	And this explains a lot to me, especially the fact that during the COVID 2020 period, nobody died of the flu.
	Well, if you listen to this clip, it may actually have been legit.
	Let's listen to this.
	It's a 2007 clip that one of our producers sent me.
	Some other seasonal number crunching that's raising eyebrows.
	Official figures on the flu deaths in Canada.
	The numbers are often cited as a reason for you to get a flu shot, but just how many Canadians really die as a result of the flu?
	Our health reporter Kelly Crowe takes a look.
	As the fall days grow shorter, Canadians brace themselves for the chill of flu season, and with it the annual predictions of imminent death.
	2,000 people, 6,000, 7,000, up to 8,000 Canadians facing death from influenza every year.
	Just for the record, how many deaths from the flu have been reported so far this year?
	One.
	When's the last time we had 8,000 deaths from the flu?
	I don't think anybody knows.
	So when the Public Health Agency of Canada puts this fact on their website...
	This is a scientific guess.
	This is not the truth.
	Because no one is actually counting deaths from flu.
	People may have the misconception that every person who dies from the flu is somehow counted somewhere, and they're not.
	Where do those numbers come from?
	It's all mathematical models.
	In this model, all deaths from heart and lung disease are considered possible flu deaths.
	This could include people who died of a heart attack that had nothing to do with flu, but the feeling is that anybody who died of flu should be captured in there.
	They also count the number of deaths officially listed as flu and pneumonia on the death certificate.
	That gives the range.
	And by this calculation, the annual death toll from flu could be as low as a few hundred.
	Yet the experts don't tell us that.
	There's about 4,000 deaths due to influenza per year.
	And in a bad year, that can go up to 6,000 to 8,000 deaths.
	So quoting that number is a bit misleading.
	Well, it's actually a lot misleading.
	The truth is somewhere in between the upper limit and the lower limit, and it's somewhere in the middle.
	How close to the truth are any of these numbers?
	I don't think they're reliable at all.
	Dr.
	Tom Jefferson has reviewed all of the world's research on influenza and concludes that fears of flu are exaggerated.
	There's no estimates, no real figures on death for influenza.
	They don't collect that information.
	So if they don't collect that information, how do they know there's a threat?
	And if they don't collect that information, how do they know that the policies will work?
	Science!
	So, when you heard that clip that you played where they said, right from the VAERS database, that 140, 160, some people died of the flu vaccine, that's probably how many people actually died of the flu, too.
	The vaccine is probably killing as many as the...
	Yeah, people don't die from the flu, you die from pneumonia, mainly, I would say.
	Well, and other things, but they don't even make the count.
	They don't even care.
	No, of course not.
	There was no political or global benefit to it until now.
	There's a huge benefit to reporting high numbers if you're trying to sell vaccines.
	Yes.
	Pathetic.
	Yes.
	I just have a quick thing that one of our producers sent.
	I think he received it, too, from the Federal Register.
	And this needs to be reported from the court services and offender supervision agency pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 as amended.
	Believe me, I didn't look any of this up.
	The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia, it's D.C., is issuing a public notice of its intent to create the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia Privacy Act System of Records.
	The Employee Religious Exception Request Information System will now be implemented.
	The system of records maintains personal religious information collected in response to religious accommodation requests for religious exemption from federally mandated vaccination requirement in the context of a public health emergency or similar health and safety incidents such as a pandemic, epidemic, natural disaster, national or regional.
	Does this mean that the government is collecting and storing and making accessible, at least internally, your religious beliefs?
	Yeah.
	What?
	That is...
	Is this okay?
	I think if you're going to be a communist country, it's fine.
	Good to go!
	Sheesh!
	You've got to keep tabs on people.
	I don't know.
	That's not going to get anywhere, I don't think.
	What do you mean?
	It's not going to get anywhere.
	They're just doing it.
	It's just an announcement.
	He's going to get killed.
	The courts are going to strike it down.
	Something's going to happen.
	You really think so?
	You think anyone cares about this stuff?
	That anyone even notices this?
	What you just brought is not a big secret amongst the right-wingers.
	Right.
	Someone's going to make a huge stink about it.
	Okay.
	They should.
	Yeah.
	Quite disturbing.
	Well, I think we've got it all so far, haven't we?
	Have we done everything?
	Have we covered this whole, like, just about every horrible thing that we have to before our break?
	Let me see if there's any more horrible stuff.
	Come on.
	I got the crime story about the L.A. That's kind of horrible.
	Let's do that and your quitters.
	I want the quitters I'm interested.
	Let's do that after a break.
	Because right now I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the COVID odor.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my partner and friend, Mr.
	Mr. John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curiel, in the morning, the ship's sea and the boots on the ground, the feet in the air, the subs in the water, the dames and the knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to them, and of course the trolls who are all in the troll room last night.
	Let's see how many are with us today on this holiday weekend in the United States.
	Hands up there, trolls.
	Okay, there we go.
	They're scurrying as usual, running around.
	Brrrr!
	Ooh, $25.92, almost $2,600.
	That's better than I thought.
	It's pretty good for a Sunday.
	It's on par.
	Well, that is good for a holiday Sunday.
	For a holiday Sunday.
	It's dynamite.
	Good to have you here, trolls.
	You can join them at trollroom.io, which is a pretty fun place to hang out if you like trolls.
	Maybe you're one yourself, or you'd like to be troll adjacent, or maybe you're in transition.
	Go have a look at Trollroom.io.
	You can listen live to this show, to many other programs on the live stream, at NoAgendaStream.com.
	It's part of the community.
	Or you could follow us on Mastodon, John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com, Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	I'm seeing the follow things coming through now.
	It's starting to catch on.
	I'm seeing even people from Mastodon.social start to follow us.
	Which was kind of the...
	They banned us early on.
	Remember we were KKK Nazi quadroons or something like that?
	Yeah, I thought that was still the case.
	No, it seems that people are following us.
	They're following me, so I don't know.
	I consider that to be a good thing.
	They may block...
	The federated part, but you can still follow people individually, I believe.
	So that's good.
	Please follow us, because Twitter is not going to be very useful for much longer, if it is at all at the moment.
	It's a nightmare.
	Yeah, we've got to thank our artists for episode 1416.
	We titled that Endemicity.
	Fantastic word.
	And the artwork was Rick Harris, who brought us just a nice...
	A nice piece.
	Well, it was really your pick immediately, John.
	You want to discuss this?
	This was the bird with the mask, with the beak mask.
	The beak mask.
	Yeah, that's that character, I think, is derived from Greek, or not Greek, but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
	Oh, really?
	The beak or the character with the hat?
	That's what I'm talking about.
	In the hieroglyphs, he wasn't wearing a hat.
	Anyway, this is like an image that floats around the subconscious.
	But that's what I'm seeing, because everyone's wearing these N95 masks, and they look different, and they're not like, you know, whatever, people are wearing gaiters and everything in between.
	But now they're all wearing this stupid bird-like mask.
	And so this is the art.
	At the wedding yesterday, interesting, several people had black N95 masks.
	That was pretty swanky.
	I haven't seen those yet.
	Swanky.
	I have seen a couple.
	But not a lot.
	I don't know what the...
	I've yet to see a red mask of any sort.
	Except the Gator, maybe.
	The MAGA mask.
	What's the deal with black?
	Why not red?
	Why not yellow?
	Well, it's to blend in with the black tie wedding, I think.
	We worked with the wedding.
	Not to stand out that much.
	It was a really nice piece.
	I particularly like the Guggenheim style of the character, and then just really accentuate that mask, and then...
	Bring out your N95s.
	The whole thing, the background.
	It was just slick.
	It was a nice piece.
	What else did we look at?
	It was very slick.
	I was disappointed with the Nine Clear, which is the MU Uncooperative who did that art, which is the two nuclear plants with nine in smoke between them, which would have been dynamite if this artist had finished the piece.
	It was like just a blue background.
	It had great potential.
	It was also phased.
	It was a little bit like...
	It was faded.
	Not phased, but faded.
	No agenda wasn't black.
	It was kind of...
	You know, it was faded.
	It was like bluish black.
	It wasn't a jumpy piece.
	You liked that piece.
	I didn't even notice it.
	No, I liked it, but the execution, we both said the concept, great execution.
	No, it just didn't quite do it.
	Do you also like bareback better for some reason?
	No, I didn't.
	No, I didn't.
	I thought you did.
	No, you did.
	You said, oh, that's kind of cool.
	No, I may be, but okay, what else do we have here?
	That was Parker Pauly.
	I don't know if there was much else that was in consideration.
	The only thing I really liked was the evergreen piece that was up at the top, which I almost used for the newsletter, but I'm going to use it eventually for something, which is the...
	My mouse is out of...
	I'd have to use the...
	Your mouse is...
	Touchpad.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, it's the worst.
	The one that was like a badge, it said, no agenda, creative work 33.
	Oh, approved.
	Yeah, it's on the second page.
	No, that was Capitalist Agenda?
	It's up on the first page.
	Oh, yeah, just the logo, you mean.
	The dynamite logo.
	Yeah, that's a beautiful piece.
	That would be good on a mug.
	Or just a pin or a challenge coin.
	That's right.
	It'd be like a little pin.
	It'd be a dynamite pin.
	During this wedding, they exchanged rings and they did the lasso, which I'd never seen.
	What's that?
	It's a rosary beads and they put them and they're connected with rosary beads and they put them around the bride and the groom.
	Never heard of this.
	Yeah, for a certain point.
	But then they also had this exchanging of coins.
	I'm like, cool.
	They got challenge coins in this wedding.
	Do you know anything about the coins?
	Challenge coins at the wedding?
	It must have been something.
	They had the rings and then they had coins.
	I've never heard of these things.
	And I say to Tina, I say, this is challenge coin.
	This is cool.
	I want a wedding challenge coin.
	Did you check the coin out later?
	No, no, I didn't get an opportunity.
	I was too busy dancing with the keeper.
	They had an 11-piece live band instead of a wedding DJ. Would anyone get any videos of you dancing?
	That'd be great.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'll be sure to send that to you right away, John.
	Because I can trust you with that.
	Put it in the newsletter.
	That's right.
	Me and Bojo, baby.
	You could mash it up together.
	It would look just the same.
	So...
	I also like the...
	I like the certified therapist with the cow.
	Yes, you did.
	And that was kind of cool.
	Next to the badge, I did like that.
	But we felt that the joke wouldn't be understood...
	Without the actual words and without...
	It was just not enough context.
	It was Darren.
	It was Darren making another swing for the fences.
	That was correct to record, I think.
	The cow therapy?
	No, no.
	The one I'm talking about is right next to the bench.
	Ah, ah, ah.
	Yes, I see.
	Yes.
	That's the one I like.
	The one with the cow in the chair was not...
	No, I didn't care for that so much.
	I like the one that Darren did.
	It had the joke was out there, certified therapist showed a cow.
	It was good.
	Yeah.
	Darren has been on second place for a lot of these things recently.
	He's got to keep it up.
	Is this your encouragement?
	It's my job.
	Go, Darren.
	You can do it.
	Here's your encouragement, man.
	We know you got it in you.
	Seriously, you do.
	Thank you, Rick Harris, for bringing and winning the album art for this episode, for the previous episode, which is...
	Just a great piece of the value for value that we receive that makes the show better.
	There are very few podcasts who change their artwork continuously and to be relevant and fresh and just dynamite execution.
	We have such a trunk to choose from at noagendaartgenerator.com.
	You know, now is the time to get a modern podcast app because who knows how long Joe Rogan will last.
	He's in year two.
	He's got another year left.
	They're probably in negotiations.
	You know, he may have to come back.
	And he's not going to be on Apple Podcasts.
	So you might as well go to newpodcastapps.com.
	You can see all this art flying by.
	That's one of the many features of it.
	And it's immutable.
	People can't de-platform podcasts off of these new podcast apps.
	Now let us thank our producers who supported us financially.
	They get titles, executive producer and associate executive producer, consequently or subsequently.
	Then we kick it off with Dame Zephyr, who comes in with $1,160 from South Dakota, from T, South Dakota.
	I was not aware there's a name.
	A place called T, South Dakota.
	And she writes, last week my husband Travis and I went to the Fairbalt Woolen Mill in Minnesota and the sales associate told us that part of the reason why their inventory of wool blankets is low is because President Biden requested them to make blankets for the Afghan refugees.
	What?
	Holy crap!
	This is content.
	They also make blankets for the military, so I guess it makes sense that they would be called upon to do this task of refugee blanket making.
	Anyway, this amount of 1160 is in honor of Travis's birthday tomorrow, January 16th.
	Afghans can't make their own blankets?
	What's the deal?
	Isn't there a thing called an Afghan, which is pretty much a blanket that they do?
	Yeah.
	I'm a better person because of my husband, and I could not ask for a better partner in life to navigate this world of craziness.
	Please knight him.
	Sir Munn of the Greener Pastors.
	This is beautiful.
	She aims to knighting for her husband.
	No request for the roundtable, but for jingles, please play Get Vaccinated, and I Call Bull Crap.
	I think that's what it's called, she says.
	And, yes, we actually...
	I have these two.
	And I found that other one you were looking for.
	And she winds it up with saying, love is lit.
	Dame Zephyr.
	Get vaccinated.
	I call bullcrap.
	There you go.
	Thank you for your support.
	And we'll see your husband at the round table in a bit.
	I think that was Lauren Boebert who said bullcrap and I think she's been deplatformed from Twitter.
	Oh my.
	Sorry to hear that.
	Sir Stephan Barron of the Fox River Valley.
	Excuse me.
	In Oswego, Illinois.
	Fox River Valley.
	90619.
	I received a 100% return rate on karma.
	Back in July, I asked for a relationship karma and found my vivacious vixen.
	So I obviously must complete my Viscount.
	Oh, the Viscount.
	Yeah.
	Vivacious vixen.
	Vixen.
	Vixen.
	The Jobs Karma from November worked out well.
	I only had 24 days unemployed, and that was over the holidays.
	As much as you deserve a chunk of the severance, I didn't have to spend...
	Watch that sentence up.
	Counting below, please promote me from Baron of the Fox River Valley to Sir Stephen Viscount of the Fox River Valley and the Chicago suburbs.
	No jingles, no karma.
	I'm finally in good shape.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Excellent.
	Next up on the list, we have Sir Silent Night from San Antone, Texas.
	333.33.
	It's one of those fantastic executive producer donations, which everybody should have one of those at least once in your life for a media property.
	And this is the special Martin Luther Day special, so it's a special executive producership.
	Will that be titled as such on the show itself?
	These people get to add that to their IMDB entry?
	Yep.
	It's a diversity.
	It's a diversity award.
	It's a diversity award.
	It's a diversity award is what it is.
	We're being good doobies here.
	Keep it up.
	Good job.
	Dinners with the...
	Oh, Jingles, Dinner with the Obots, Fauci, Wheeze, R2D2, Karma.
	Hey, house cleanup, please retitle me from Sir Silent Night to simply Sir Franco.
	So I won't forget it again, says Sir Franco.
	Well, I think we can do that for you.
	It's another installment of Dinner with the Obots.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Make sure that change is made here.
	Jack of the Heartland, $333.
	He is in the U.S. The Heartland, actually.
	I often find it extremely amusing when critics of the show insist that the name of the show is clearly false advertising.
	So I'd like to clear up a few things on this.
	One, advertising works.
	Two, everyone has an agenda, so this is a lame argument.
	Lame-o.
	It's a human interest show.
	Boom.
	So, what are we really here for?
	News?
	Politics?
	Conspiracy theories?
	Yes!
	To all of the above.
	He's going to be our new PR guy.
	Sharing the human experience is one of the most beautiful things we can do.
	So, thank you for your courage, brother.
	And in the morning.
	He is truly the Sean Spicer of the show now.
	This is really good.
	I like it.
	This is Sir Jack of the Heart.
	Above all you could mention, it's a comedy show.
	Let's be clear about that.
	It's okay.
	We can brief him later.
	Then he has a bunch of stuff not to read.
	And that would be that.
	I don't think there's anything else going on.
	Christopher Sullivan is in Ventura, California, 333.
	Thank you for that, Christopher.
	Thank you for the consistent quality work.
	First donation via PayPal today.
	Gratefully, Chris Sullivan, Ventura, California.
	I think he may be new to the show.
	Just in case, I want to make sure we get any stink off of them.
	You've been de-douched.
	Just to make sure, you know.
	New guy.
	Yeah, I saw this note too, and it seemed a little light.
	New guy.
	New guy.
	Sir Stanford, Sir Stanford, Sir Stephan, or Stephen Vacher, or Vischer.
	I'll never get his name right, but let's put it this way.
	Stephan Curry has ruined the pronunciation of Stephen.
	For all these people that were, S-T-E-P-H-E-N has always pronounced Stephen when I was a kid.
	But now you have to wonder if it's Stephan.
	It's one of those things.
	$300.
	And he's in Australia, so it's definitely Stephen.
	I'm proud, and he'll give me a note.
	I'm proud to say this donation takes me over to Double Night Baronet.
	Not a joke, accounting listed below.
	If I may, I'd like to use this donation of $300 Aussie dollars to call attention to the recently released value-for-value funded documentary called Battleground Melbourne.
	So much has been reported on the show on how life has been for us here in Melbourne.
	The documentary is presented by a local filmmaker, Topher Field gives us real insight into how awful things have been during the dictator dance tyrannical COVID insanity and how the M5M covers for him.
	Naturally, it is already being shadow banned by YouTube, etc.
	Of course.
	Why?
	Why?
	Please check out www.battlegroundmelbourne.com.
	You can figure that out.
	Thanks to you both.
	All the best.
	Have you seen this?
	Oh, well, I've not looked at it, no.
	But I'm going to.
	I'm going to put this link in the...
	I'm going to link his name to it so people can go check that out.
	We encourage that.
	We go to Waterbury, Connecticut.
	Thank you, sir, Steph and Stephen.
	Let us know.
	It's Fisher.
	I'm sure it's a Dutch heritage there.
	Lawrence Moran, Waterbury, Connecticut, and sent in a note, of which I have a copy here, to John and Adam.
	Last time I sent a donation and made a couple of requests, you guys went off on a tangent and never played my requests.
	I demand restitution!
	That never happens.
	It never happens.
	It's impossible.
	That would be the mentioning of the following.
	One, please take a moment for the passing of our fellow No Agenda family member and producer, Bill Saturno, who passed away at 40-plus years of age September 2021.
	He was at the Monroe-Connecticut No Agenda meetup in September of 2020.
	I'm very sorry to hear that.
	Now, he has a couple other things that are here, but he winds up with the pledging fealty to the Archduke of the Arabian Peninsula and Lower Slobovia.
	I don't know if he, the Arabian, I don't think he's, Sir Dogpatch of Anonymous has never accepted a title.
	Also, the Archduchess Alicia Silverstone of Bastrop, yes, for the $10,000 donation, made in one, she should be made queen.
	Interesting concept.
	And here are some requests I have.
	The Huntsman speaking Chinese.
	Yeah, got that one.
	Why are you raffing?
	Don't raff.
	And no.
	Thank you.
	I hope you and your loved ones have a safe and prosperous New Year.
	From Larry Moran to be known as the Squire of Waterbury, Connecticut Hills.
	He's halfway to knighthood.
	He says if he doesn't die first, I'm 80.
	Hey, ma'am.
	You're not going to die.
	I'd like to know, in your peer group, can you do an informal survey and ask about Russia, how they feel?
	I mean, here's a unique opportunity.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Unique opportunity.
	Let's get him before he's dead.
	I mean, we better hurry up, the way he's talking.
	You know, when you get that old, it's hard.
	You don't know.
	I mean, you don't know.
	Honestly, I understand.
	You don't know.
	But we're happy you're here, man.
	Don't laugh.
	Why you are laughing?
	Shut up.
	No.
	That works.
	Shut up.
	That's pretty good.
	That's the first use of that combo.
	You've got karma.
	I actually like that.
	I actually like that.
	That was a good one.
	Shut up.
	No.
	I've got a couple here.
	We'll start with Ray Grill, 221.62, and he has no note or anything I can find, so if he has something to tell us, he will.
	But meanwhile, thanks, Ray.
	Sir Gray of Grimerica, our buddy's $202.20 in Alberta, Canada.
	No jingles, just podcasting karma.
	Thanks for stomaching all the M5M lies for us.
	I honestly don't know how you guys do it.
	It's the hardest part about...
	Can I get a Canadian accent out of this?
	I'm going to try.
	It's the hardest...
	I can't.
	It's the hardest part about listening to your show, eh?
	The deconstruction is great, though, and key, but the lies are hard to hear.
	Hold the line down there, you guys.
	Americans may be the only thing holding this Western global takeover at bay.
	We don't know what will happen up here in the great white mass formation northeast province.
	You're now a Canadian from Tennessee.
	I don't know what's going on.
	I'm drifting.
	You're off the rails, man.
	It's good.
	It's drifting.
	Each province is a tiny bit different, but all...
	It's not going.
	The same commie regime.
	Even as the people wake up, they understandably don't know what to do.
	Our newer podcast, Grand America Outlawed, is already one year old and Sir Gray has quit the day job.
	Ooh!
	Congratulations!
	Give this a real go.
	That's a good one.
	Congratulations, man.
	This show explores the deeper corruptions and censored topics.
	CCP, Big Pharma, etc.
	It sounds like us.
	H-T-T-P-S, GrimericaOutlaw.ca.
	And it's G-R-I-M, Grimerica.
	That's a good show.
	They're good.
	Good guys.
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	Sir Doris, Knight of the Wild Boar Mountains from Elst Utrecht, the Netherlands.
	$200.
	And he says, Dear Pritz and Klingel!
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	Sir Doris.
	Adam Knauss, meanwhile, in Wallastown, Ontario, of the Knauss family, 200.
	My wife recently took our one-year-old into the emergency room at the local hospital.
	When they found out she was unvaccinated, they told her she would have to wear a large yellow sticker shown in the attached photo.
	I saw it.
	It didn't have the pointy star bits, but it was a yellow sticker.
	Everyone else had a large white sticker.
	She informed them that as a person with Jewish heritage, she would be doing no such thing.
	Excellent!
	She's probably a Catholic.
	Well, everyone's of Jewish heritage.
	Everyone's Ask a Nazi Jew according to 23andMe.
	The staff had not seen this as an issue.
	Of course not.
	Being anti-Semites, they wouldn't.
	And was surprised by her refusal.
	I'm shocked.
	They eventually conceded and allowed her to enter without the Star of David.
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	Dog version as we are retaining a lawyer to keep our foster home open.
	What?
	Our local child protection agency is closing all unvaccinated homes.
	You're kidding me.
	This is the way it goes.
	In regards, Adam Knauss, the formerly free Ontario candidate.
	This is Canada.
	There it is.
	Same thing.
	They're going after the children.
	What are they going to do?
	Hey, it's dangerous to stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
	It's dangerous to stay at your foster home.
	Just come into the van, kids.
	We'll take care of you.
	It's creepy.
	This is creepy.
	Canada's out of control.
	Out of control.
	Yeah.
	Gosh.
	And the public can't do anything about it.
	Asian dog karma.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Yeah, pretty disturbing.
	Disturbing.
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	All right.
	Crime in LA. This is an interesting story.
	You have to see, this is the report from Australia.
	It's an international story.
	And it's about the looting of boxcars all over the place.
	Yeah, I believe I have missed on some shipments because of this from California.
	We get not here because Oakland doesn't have this issue, even though it's got the same kind of lousy district attorney, but it doesn't have this issue.
	And we get all our stuff and the stores are packed and I haven't missed the shipment of anything because of this pork town.
	But that's beside the point.
	This is a story that actually goes back to November of last year and is being reported over and over.
	It hasn't changed.
	It's still going on.
	And you have to see the visuals of this because the mess that is out there, it's just a mess.
	People are breaking into these cargo containers and stealing stuff left and right.
	Nobody's doing much about this.
	The incident in Chicago a couple of years ago was all over the Internet.
	And it has a bunch of looters just busted into a stopped train and cracking open the cargo container and throwing stuff out and taking as much as you can.
	And that's the obvious thing to do.
	And there's actually a Red Dead Redemption or whatever this video game was a couple of years ago that actually had a lot of the blueprints for this.
	I think a lot of people got it from the video game, this whole idea.
	Because it's a good idea.
	But this was in the game, this particular jack-in-the-train?
	Yeah, there was something in the game very similar, how to rob a train.
	And I think that may have something to do with it.
	But if there's going to be no enforcement, and no one's ever going to get arrested, or they're just going to go through a revolving door, this is going to continue.
	It's like crazy not to steal from these trains.
	No, that's not true.
	That's not true.
	Down in L.A., no one's got arrested.
	No, that's true.
	But they get a stern talking to.
	I think that solves it.
	They get a lecture.
	Yeah, I think that solves it.
	Very stern lecture.
	You should not do this again.
	Okay.
	Oh, there's your Canadian in Los Angeles.
	What is he doing there?
	Okay, I got my new...
	Okay, well, anyway, so let's play this clip.
	It looks like a rubbish tip, but this is an active train line in downtown Los Angeles.
	Thousands of boxes tossed across the tracks, the mess the result of looting, thieves raiding cargo carriages full of packages that were due to be delivered to people all over the U.S. I'm definitely surprised at the fact that there's open boxes and there's nothing in there and there's no people to be found and it almost seemed like a mystery.
	It was surprising to just be able to get the train open, the training locked.
	I've never seen such madness before.
	Yeah, it's shocking.
	Cameras caught this man running off the track with a bag.
	Here, an officer who works for the freight line chases after two people who were allegedly rummaging through boxes.
	It's understood the thieves target the trains when they've stopped to unload or they've been delayed.
	The mess here is absolutely staggering, but it's not all rubbish.
	There are still goods, items here that people have ordered and are waiting for, but the thieves have left them behind, deciding they're not valuable enough to take.
	They don't care if the train's moving or not.
	They jump on the trains, pop the lock and just start grabbing whatever they see.
	Some are just too big to carry, others simply discarded.
	The tracks are patrolled by the freight company's police officers.
	They say thefts have gone up 160% over 12 months in LA and they're now increasing patrols.
	The LAPD says it only responds if the company asks for help.
	In the United States, Miley Hogan, 7 News.
	Yeah, then we go to LA and listen to people bitch and moan about this Garcon character.
	I don't know what his name is.
	He's the DA who doesn't do anything.
	Anyone who comes in, unless it's a triple homicide, he...
	Sends them back home.
	They have the no-bail policy.
	Even wife-beating is okay there?
	That's okay in LA? Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, okay.
	Groovy.
	Let's bring in Andy McCarthy now.
	Andy, I was looking forward to talking to you about this incredibly important story affecting so many lives.
	And this is just an example of some of the people that are affected by Gascon's soft-on-crime policies.
	Listen.
	You're tearing L.A. apart by your policies.
	Your policies are garbage.
	Mr.
	Gascon seems to care a lot more for the criminals than he does for us victims.
	My son is dead.
	He's not coming back?
	Mr.
	Gascon doesn't have a compassionate heart for victims.
	I'm angry.
	I'm hurt.
	It makes me feel like I'm reliving that day all over again.
	You let us down.
	You're letting the people of Los Angeles County down.
	If you don't believe them, look at the numbers, what's happening in L.A. County.
	Andy, it's heartbreaking.
	You've got homicides up 48%, grand theft auto up 26%, aggravated assault, rapes are up.
	Excuse me.
	Yeah, that's Los Angeles for you.
	Makes a mess.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	One of the Soros sisters there.
	But you know, if you take a look at the...
	People have got to see...
	Maybe I'll get some screenshots of this.
	The mess by these railroad tracks, it's endless.
	It's miles of boxes of garbage.
	It's unbelievable.
	It is, and...
	It's interesting that this, you know, just because it's a train story, these train tracks got a lot of press.
	There was an aircraft incident about a week and a half ago where a guy in, I think it was a Cessna, he crash-landed and he got, I think he was trying to land on the road and then he hit the, trying to cross the railroad tracks in his rollout and of course it nosed over and, you know, he got stuck right there as a train is approaching.
	Wow.
	And so the story goes, I didn't clip it, it just kind of comes to mind now.
	The story goes, well, you know, bystanders pull them to safety.
	And then you see the train hitting this plane.
	But what actually happened is there were cops and EMT, because they have the body cam footage.
	They are pulling this guy out 10 seconds before this train hits.
	And you didn't hear a word about these heroes, these cops heroes.
	You don't want to do that.
	John, it's like 10 seconds.
	It's like, get out, get out.
	And the guy's bloody, they're just ripping him out of the cockpit or whatever's left of it.
	And they run to safety, and then bam, the train hits.
	It's just fantastic.
	But no, no, I'm not going to report on that.
	But this, this is, and I think I have something that was coming from Los Angeles.
	I've been waiting for it, and, you know, it's like a...
	It's like a Raspberry Pi type device, an umbral, and it hasn't arrived, and I haven't heard anything, and now I'm thinking, oh, okay, some douchebag has my box somewhere.
	We've probably discarded it.
	What the hell is this?
	It's no good.
	It was this thing.
	It says Bitcoin on it.
	Throw that out.
	Ooh, look, a TV. Throw that out.
	There was lots of stuff that I saw laying around there.
	COVID tests.
	Nah, I don't want that.
	One of the YouTubers went down in the piles and he started just taking a look at all this stuff.
	And yeah, he's found a bunch of COVID tests, boxes of those.
	Well, let's go to another store, which is kind of wasteful.
	Listen to this.
	This is like...
	This is beyond belief locally, but it's not even really being played up locally.
	It's only one station, KGO, that played this.
	And this is KGO's report on the wasted PPE gear that Santa Mateo County bought and let rot.
	Check this out.
	San Mateo County workers are scrambling to clean up a mess uncovered by the ABC7 News I-Team.
	Several million dollars worth of precious PPE purchased with your tax dollars left outside in the rain.
	Good evening.
	Thanks for joining us.
	I'm Amma Dates.
	And I'm Dan Ashley.
	Our Dan Noyes begins our I-Team coverage tonight with a story you'll see only on 7.
	He is in the newsroom.
	Dan, what a picture that is.
	Well, Dan and Amma, we all know how important masks and hospital gowns and other protective people are as the pandemic surges.
	This seems hard to believe, though, but top county officials didn't know that thousands of boxes of PPE were moved outside and forgotten for months until I told them.
	I got a tip on a recent rainy day and went straight to the San Mateo County Event Center, Gate 9, and couldn't quite believe what I found.
	Thousands upon thousands of boxes containing all sorts of brand new personal protective equipment soaking in the rain.
	Stacks of boxes collapsing.
	Oh, what a mess.
	Too many to count.
	Some breaking open and spilling their contents.
	Hospital gowns in all different sizes.
	Here's size M. There's large, and of course here's XXL. I also found pallets of face shields, vented goggles, and various types of coveralls.
	Boxes upon boxes of PPE just rotting in the rain.
	How did this happen?
	Our road to some answers and accountability started with a security guard.
	Remember, the county owns this property.
	Can I help you?
	I'm fine.
	I work at Channel 7.
	I'm Dan Noyes.
	I'm just taking some pictures.
	Did somebody invite you to come on the property?
	I don't need an invitation.
	Pardon me?
	I'm a taxpayer.
	I don't need an invitation.
	If you don't have an event, then you are not supposed to be on the property.
	That's it.
	I understand.
	I'll be done in a few minutes.
	Okay.
	I'll let my phone.
	That's fine.
	So the guy goes and gets this woman who's running this facility, and she comes by in her huffy-buff way.
	It's pretty funny.
	And then he reveals a couple of interesting little tidbits here at the end of it.
	His boss, Dana Storr, CEO of the non-profit that runs the event center for the county.
	Why is all this stuff going to waste here?
	So, can you stop filming?
	No.
	I work at Channel 7.
	I need to ask questions.
	I understand, but it's not going to waste.
	It's damaged.
	It was damaged.
	It was damaged or it's being damaged now?
	No, it was damaged in a previous storm.
	Soar would not provide more details.
	I'd later learned the event center moved all that PPE outside in September because it needed the space.
	And those big storms last October first damaged the PPE. It's not my property.
	I can't discuss it with you.
	But as the CEO of the Event Center, isn't it your job to protect the stuff that's been stored here?
	It was fully taken care of exactly the way it should have been.
	It's very, very disappointing.
	San Mateo County Supervisor David Caniba disagrees.
	It's because of your investigation, because of your investigation, that we have to acknowledge that we made a mistake and the public needs to know that a mistake was made.
	How costly was that mistake?
	What is all this?
	In just the past few minutes, a source confirmed to me the cost of all that PPE is more than $10 million.
	They also confirmed that a convoy of garbage trucks picked up a bunch of brand new PPE and took it to the dump in the past two months.
	That's a massive waste of your tax dollars that the county promises.
	Won't happen again.
	We'll see.
	Yeah.
	Where's the outrage?
	You have to see another huge mess of all these boxes that this idiot just left outside to get rained on.
	And most of it was paper products.
	Yeah.
	And it was like $10 million down the drain.
	And everyone's moaning and groaning about PPE. And we'll just print some more.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	So your little pie device.
	So what?
	Yeah.
	Plenty to go around.
	This cavalier attitude about things is getting out of control.
	Have you been following this kind of Web 3 Silicon Valley bull crap that everyone's buying into?
	I've been following the following, which is the debate between Web3 being a crock of crap and Web3 being some great thing.
	I don't even know what it is.
	I've not seen one of those good rundowns where you have Web1, Web2, Web3, and then a list, you know, the differences.
	Oh, one of those.
	Yeah, here's what it is.
	I'm waiting for one of those so I can understand what Web3 is supposed to be.
	Well, I wanted to give you an example of something that I feel is...
	Borderline scammish that is going around, particularly amongst podcasters.
	So maybe if we discuss it, some other people will come in and have some opinions or at least be on the lookout.
	And maybe you've received one of these emails.
	For the handshake, permissionless naming and solution to censorship is how this is billed.
	Handshake.io or.org.
	And they have historical investments from Andreessen Horowitz, from Mozilla, you know, kind of the Silicon Valley people.
	Actually, Sequoia Capital, I think, was also at some...
	They're on the website, so whenever I ask, people say, oh, no, they were involved early on.
	That was just how it went back then.
	But here's what's going on.
	Podcasters are getting emails.
	And the pitch...
	I actually have an example.
	I've received several from different people.
	And the pitch is a gift.
	Handshake.
	Permissionless naming and a solution to censorship.
	And there's a little bit of preamble and then what looks to be a...
	A form note that is copy-paste.
	Our namer community revolves around Namebase, which is the first registrar to operate on the Handshake blockchain.
	They strive to make the name auction participation a smooth experience and are front-running the broader Handshake adoption.
	While Namebase is a centralized service, Handshake is a proof-of-work protocol, a Bitcoin fork, which is not Bitcoin, and has a private wallet solution.
	Over the past year, myself and many others have been actively bidding on names recently named NFTLDs, or non-fungible top-level domains.
	One of our community outreach programs consists of the securing and gifting of these names to individuals and organizations that help pave the way for the decentralized Internet, combating censorship, and are on the forefront of new models of cooperative decision-making.
	You and John, in this case, are obviously one of those individuals.
	We're one.
	And it would be my honor and a real pleasure to gift you the following handshake domains.
	And there's a whole list.
	.curry,.adamcurry,.adamspacecurry,.dvorak,.jdvorak,.jcdvorak, gitmonation, mofax, noagenda, all these names.
	And so I look at this, and to me, I think we've...
	Have we not been through the alternative DNS route several times in history?
	Yeah, there's a couple of these.
	These things took place.
	I remember the one where they were going to use Nick.
	You could register.
	Instead of having noagendashow.com, you'd just have noagendashow.
	And it was just names.
	Remember that?
	I can't remember the name.
	Okay, here are the ones.
	The OpenRootServerNetwork.
	These are all failed.
	Alternic, I think that's the one you're referring to.
	E-D-N-S. Open R-S-C. Real names.
	Real names.
	That was Microsoft's browser.
	Yeah, real names.
	Yeah, this is basically like the AOL keyword.
	And I have to say, I saw this.
	I'm like, oh, that's very sweet of you.
	That's interesting.
	And I start hearing other people have gotten these emails.
	And so I say, hey, so if I accept this and I have to do that with a wallet, because there's a coin.
	It's called the HNS, like BTC. It's HNS. It's an altcoin that's attached to this.
	I say, so if I accept this, then people can type in.curry and it'll work?
	No, no, no, no.
	No, no.
	That's not working yet.
	The Opera browser will work.
	The Opera browser will work for that.
	I'm like, what?
	So, you know, and so I start challenging a couple people, and there are some apparently OG Bitcoin developers, and this is all on the up and up, and I'm like, no, no, no.
	This is an ICO. So an initial coin offering, this is the airdrop portion of it where we give everybody free tokens.
	But in this case, the token is attached to a domain name that won't resolve without some extra thing or a browser that does it or a resolution app.
	Stuff that just has never happened historically.
	And it's couched in this goo of, well, it's going to stop censorship.
	No, it's not.
	I mean, yeah, if you can get everybody to change their DNS entries in every device they have and pray to God that ISPs don't reset that each time they connect, this is not something that normal users do.
	And then I kind of figured out all these people saying, oh, this is against censorship.
	And of course, what happens is the podcasters talk about it.
	And what's going on is they already have 10% of these coins in their possession in a pre-mine.
	This is a scam in my book.
	Hold on a second.
	So wait a minute.
	I'm not saying it's not a scam.
	It sounds like a scam to me too, but more interesting to me is why is Andreessen and Sequoia and all these big boys, are they so lazy now that they can't actually do investing in anything other than just some sort of a Bitcoin kind of deal?
	Well, it would be a shitcoin kind of deal, not a Bitcoin.
	Well, whatever.
	It's one of these coins, you know, couched in as some sort of a scam, couched in a sales pitch, couched in a whatever.
	So that's what they're up to now, Sequoia.
	They're supposed to be public servants, and the reason that they're filthy rich is because they've invested in things that wouldn't have ever gotten off the ground, but now they're doing this?
	Are you kidding me?
	Apparently.
	Yeah, it was just weird and I really appreciate it because I think that people, I don't think the people who are sending me these emails are necessarily malicious, but I look at their tweets and they're like, hey man, look at it, it's already at 26 cents value, this token.
	So I'm like, wait a minute, you're asking me to participate in something that's going to make a token more valuable that you already own.
	And something that's actually not going to do anything for me.
	Pump and dump, baby.
	Pump and dump.
	Well, you want to hear a great literal pump and dump?
	You heard about, or you probably saw the video of the volcano eruption, quote-unquote volcano eruption at Tonga.
	Yeah.
	Now, Tonga is an interesting place.
	100,000 people live there.
	Three days ago, two days before this happened, they had a big announcement.
	And I saw this announcement, like, I can't believe Tonga's in the news for, which, by the way, did that not look like a nuclear bomb that went off in the water?
	I can't see what it looked like.
	I'm sure it's the volcano because here's what the news was two days before.
	Tonga announces Bitcoin will become legal tender in Tonga by the end of the year and they plan to mine Bitcoin with volcanic energy following in El Salvador's footsteps.
	And then two days later you get this eruption.
	It was just a fun coincidence.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	How about the idea that maybe they're dicking around down there with getting, you know, access to the...
	Getting ready to the volcano and they screwed it up.
	And they set it off.
	Sure, I think that's totally possible.
	Sure.
	I don't know what's going on.
	I just thought it was...
	I mean, how often do you hear Tonga, you know, twice in a week?
	Never.
	Never, ever, ever.
	I don't think it's ever occurred, no.
	I liked it.
	Unless you're a Mormon.
	Hey, let's do the Great Resignation.
	We got some pushback on particularly your comments about the piece that was on 60 Minutes that we played some clips from.
	I think that our producer, who's a millennial, may have looked a little too deep into it.
	What was the pushback specific?
	I didn't hear anything.
	Did you read the note?
	No, I didn't read the note, I guess.
	Oh, um...
	To summarize, many of the people are leaving jobs they don't like to start their own businesses.
	So it's not that people are lazy.
	I read this note.
	That note I did.
	And I'm surprised Adam didn't push back.
	Well, I think what John was saying was something different.
	You were saying there seems to be propaganda going on to push this narrative towards people.
	Not quite the same as it's actually happening.
	My comment was simple.
	All this coverage, which is excessive...
	It's an attempt to actually get people to start quitter jobs.
	That's what the economy is to hold.
	That was your immediate take.
	It's got nothing to do with people quitting their jobs for one reason or another.
	And I read that note.
	I thought it was superficial.
	Right.
	But it was also not what we were talking about.
	I'm quitting my job because, oh my God, I'm quitting my job.
	I don't like it.
	I'm not getting fulfillment.
	I was a little bit of a mocking style that I have.
	I do that.
	Well, for sure, I think that there are a lot of...
	I think it was the passion thing that probably, you know, the exaggerated commentary about passion.
	And by the way, that's something I always say is I don't say passion.
	You know, that's what they used to say that, so what are you supposed to...
	Here, this is early days podcasting.
	All right, well, gee, man, what do I talk about if I'm doing a podcast?
	The answer was always, just talk about your passion.
	Talk about your passion.
	Well, I think in that same note he said that you, for example, are a guy who doesn't care about money.
	And you did the whole podcasting thing because you're just passionate and you love what you're doing.
	My typical advice is find something you like to do and then find someone to pay you to do it.
	While you're looking for that, you might want to have a job in the meantime.
	That's my basic advice.
	Most actors and actresses start off as waiters.
	That's a crappy job.
	And end up that way, most of us.
	Well, yes, most of us.
	Screenwriters, too.
	It's a plague.
	Let's listen to NPR's commentary on work and quitting and all the rest.
	And this is a little lengthy, but it's interesting, kind of.
	The numbers tell the story.
	According to a Labor Department report released last week, 4.5 million Americans quit or changed jobs in November.
	And that's higher than at any other time on record.
	And while a lot of attention has been given to so-called knowledge workers, people leaving in search of more fulfillment or something more in line with their true desires, it turns out the biggest churn happened among restaurant and bar workers, retail workers, hospitality workers and other jobs which typically offer lower wages.
	Across the country, wages are getting higher.
	A wave of states and cities are raising their minimum wage this year, and 44 cities will be increasing it to above $15 an hour.
	So that got us thinking about whether these numbers could signal changes in the way Americans at all income levels are thinking about work, about the meaning of work in our lives, and about the conditions necessary for people to thrive at work.
	Okay.
	Thrive.
	We need to thrive.
	Seems like a reopening to their...
	Seems like a what?
	You've got to hit the mic a little harder.
	Seems like a reasonable...
	Beginning to this thing?
	Yes.
	Is it going to go off the rails by any chance?
	Well, here's a switcheroo right off the bat.
	Oh, okay.
	Writer Jonathan Molesic has one idea.
	Burnout.
	He is the author of a book called The End of Burnout.
	Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives.
	This is a book promotion.
	He's had a number of jobs from parking lot attendant to sushi chef to university professor and has thought a lot about why people leave work.
	I spoke with him about how these recent economic indicators could also point to a larger shift in how Americans are thinking about the meaning of their work beyond the paycheck.
	Wages and benefits are obviously a huge part of the rewards that we get from our work.
	But those aren't the only rewards.
	A reward is not just monetary but it's social, it's emotional, it can even be spiritual.
	And, you know, simply being appreciated by your co-workers, your bosses, but also your customers, patients, clients, your listeners, is another reward that we can derive from work.
	So I think that job satisfaction, in terms of rewards, needs to encompass all of those different elements.
	Your bio says you've worked as a parking lot attendant, a sushi chef, a college professor, which you loved until you didn't.
	Can you just talk a little bit about what were some of the factors at play when you thought about your satisfaction with each of those roles?
	Yeah, well, I'll start by talking about being a parking lot attendant.
	So I earned my PhD and did not have any luck on the academic job market.
	And I ended up taking a job at a parking lot directly across the street from the university where I had just earned a PhD.
	And on the face of it, that sounds like a big mismatch.
	Someone with all this education Doing a job that doesn't require a whole lot of education.
	I mean, a high school student could do the job with no problem, generally.
	But I loved it.
	Alright, I'm curious where this is going.
	Well, that's what got me, is right there.
	That's where I stopped it.
	It's like, you'd expect him to have some sort of build-up to getting this job to his fulfillment.
	The job he liked the most was the parking lot attendant.
	Seems like a groovy job.
	Well, actually, when he explains it, it actually sounds like a pretty good job.
	Did you get to drive some nice set of wheels now and then?
	So he explains it.
	Yeah, he didn't say that, but it was most about the camaraderie.
	So I don't know what the messaging is here.
	So this is the reason I have these clips.
	What are they trying to tell us?
	Are they trying to back off from getting us all to quit work or are they trying to get us into taking menial jobs, which is what parking lot attendant is.
	I mean, it's menial.
	But it might be fun.
	It might be fun driving all those cars or whoever or whatever.
	But again, it's the messaging.
	I'm not quite picking up on it.
	That's why I thought the switcheroo at the end where the guy liked his job the best.
	Hmm.
	Kind of got my attention.
	So let's hear what he says.
	And the reasons I loved this job that, you know, is ordinarily has pretty low status is that first of all, I had this great sense of camaraderie with the other parking lot attendants.
	The other attendants would swing by the lot and hang out for a bit.
	They would cover the booth if you needed to take a break or go get a cup of coffee or something like that.
	And some of those people are still, you know, some of my best friends.
	And so like that sense of community that those good feelings that you get by working with people you really like is a big part of the reward of work.
	I would also say that being a parking lot attendant kind of stayed out of the way of my life.
	It didn't dominate my life.
	I would clock in for my shift, do the work, clock out at the end, and I wasn't exhausted.
	I could do all the other things that mattered to me because my job didn't dominate every aspect of my being.
	And what about, again, the other side of it, being a professor, which you loved until you didn't?
	Why do you think that happened?
	I see burnout as the result of being stretched across this gap between your ideals for work and the reality of your job.
	And so my ideals for being a college professor were sky high.
	I imagined it as the life of the mind.
	You know, the tweed-wearing professor asking questions about the meaning of life.
	And I literally did that.
	I truly asked students those kinds of questions.
	And at times, the reality lived up to those ideals, but oftentimes it didn't.
	You know, it's still just a job, and the students were often not as excited about these questions as I was.
	But in addition, you know, there's still boring meetings, there's still paperwork, and it did seem like I wasn't really doing the work that I imagined I would be doing all those years ago.
	Wow, there's a lot more that's going on with these people, this guy, besides just the work aspect.
	It's just a false sense of reality.
	Yeah, well, there's...
	Yeah, well, obviously...
	Life sucks sometimes.
	Life's not fair, my mom used to say.
	Adam Clark Curry, life's not fair!
	Did your mom not say that to you?
	Not in that voice.
	Because your mom wasn't my mom, that's why.
	But she said it, didn't she?
	Actually, no.
	No, I don't remember my parents ever saying that to me.
	Oh, gosh.
	I don't know why.
	Seems like they should have.
	But I just found this interesting because the messaging here is not what we're getting from the other ones.
	The other people are quitting.
	They're quitting.
	No, it's very different.
	So, I don't know if it's counter-programming or what this is.
	This is a book promotion.
	This is a book promotion is what this is.
	Well, it is a book promotion.
	There's no doubt about that.
	The book's called Burnout.
	You can play the last clip if you want, but I think the point's been made, which is menial jobs can be better jobs because you get, you know, you meet people that you like.
	Well, yeah.
	A bunch of pricks you run into at the university.
	Well, this is kind of interesting because, you know, Mike Rowe is coming back on Discovery with his dirty jobs after, I don't know how long, the show never stopped, but he wasn't creating new episodes for, I think, at least 10 years.
	And so that's coming back.
	There's a lot of vocational stuff that is this kind of...
	Actually, do you mind if I just skip to this one clip about something?
	Well, wait.
	You're going to mention Mike Raw.
	I mentioned another one that's kind of a similar example.
	It's written up in the trades.
	Michael Keaton is going to come back and play Batman again.
	And they had an interview with him on one of those podcasts.
	Variety's podcast.
	I don't have a clip.
	It was a pod.
	It was a pod.
	And he said he had to quit because he was supposed to do three Batmans to begin with.
	And he couldn't take it.
	He says it was a job.
	It was boring.
	I hated it.
	And he says I just quit.
	I couldn't deal with it.
	But he says after 20 years later, or it was maybe 30 years later, He says, well, now it kind of intrigues him again because the whole superhero thing has changed.
	The whole society has changed.
	And maybe he wants to see what it's like again or something.
	But it's like, I don't know, there's something societal with this kind of going back, going back to what you did before.
	And this is kind of a theme.
	It says this guy, this guy who did the book, he wants to go back.
	He went back in his mind, at least, to being a car boy, a car house, a parking lot attendant.
	And now you got these other guys going back, going back.
	You got, you know, you got...
	We haven't done that, but...
	Not necessarily, but...
	It's weird.
	I just find the whole thing interesting.
	Well, there's some other interesting signals in the market that may or may not tie into this.
	As ABC reports, we've got...
	This is pretty fun for young men who want to...
	Get their hands into something, a career early on.
	It is a real career, but it's also a real job.
	Teenagers with good driving records could soon find themselves behind the wheel of a big rig.
	The federal government is launching a test program that will lower the driving age for truckers traveling across state lines from 21 to 18 years old.
	The goal is to help ease supply chain backlogs.
	Which, of course, is bull crap because I don't think it's the drivers that we're lacking.
	But still, it's fun that we can get some young men and women, 18 years old, driving the big rigs.
	That should be groovy.
	And...
	As long as you're not racing up and down the Nimitz...
	There's another fantastic career which doesn't pay very well at all.
	You have to be in it for at least a decade before you make some decent money, and that is an airline pilot.
	And most of the airline pilots start off...
	Either regional carriers or, if they're lucky, they get to fly with a package company like UPS or FedEx.
	And that job's getting a little more interesting.
	To a request from FedEx to the FAA, the company now asking the FAA to allow some of its FedEx cargo planes be equipped with anti-missile infrared lasers for when FedEx flies over potentially dangerous contested regions.
	The defense system designed to divert missiles fired from the ground.
	The system would have to be approved by the FAA after ensuring it won't harm the plane or crew or other planes in the region.
	The company says it would help them having to reroute over dangerous territory.
	Oh, brother.
	That's cool.
	You might get paid a little bit more.
	Are they talking about Tennessee?
	What are they talking about?
	Yeah, probably New York City.
	Shoot, man, I'm going to fly over that.
	I want my anti-aircraft lasers.
	That's exactly what has going on there.
	So, I don't know.
	Zero Hedge, who you've got to take with their grain of salt, but they are saying it looks like China may lock down all the ports again, and then we will have the mother of all supply chain issues.
	Yeah.
	I like what's going on behind the scenes about these lockdown ports.
	Something.
	Well, you know, my entire stance remains that this is a financial problem.
	China has a financial problem.
	I need to shut some stuff down to stop the economy, I guess.
	And it's handy for everybody else.
	Let's reset it!
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	Yes, indeed.
	In fact, we do have a few people to thank for show.
	1417.
	1417.
	Thomas Gould being at the top of all this Palm Harbor, Florida, $180.
	And he does have a meetup.
	There's a meetup.
	They had 15 salty slaves, and this is the money they collected.
	I want to thank them for that.
	Gosh, man, you...
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I can't hear you.
	You're not even cutting through the noise gate.
	I don't know why.
	I don't know why.
	It has something to do with the connection because I am on the mic.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, then let me just crank it and see if I can crank it up.
	There's something going on here.
	Okay.
	I mean, I'm like...
	No, I believe you.
	I believe you.
	Allison Pellett, PLOT, in Portland, Oregon, $111.
	Michael Gaston, $100.
	Chris...
	You know, people always criticize me for, oh, I can't pronounce anything.
	It's not true.
	I have Chris, C-R-I-S-A-R-E-S-K-O-G. Now, how would you pronounce that?
	Chris Erskog.
	He's in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	$100.
	Burt Beavers.
	I can get that.
	Maplewood, Minnesota.
	100.
	I guess my congestion never went away.
	No, no.
	I can hear that, too.
	Yeah, Kelly.
	Hey, Kelly Hunt.
	And Kamiya, Idaho.
	Kamiya.
	Kamiya.
	Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico.
	Beauty.
	Smitty in North Royalton, Ohio.
	9999.
	There's a long note here you can read because he's going to be a knight.
	Yes, we do need to read this.
	New knight alert.
	New knight alert, he says.
	In the morning, gentlemen, this contribution makes me a knight.
	Please see the county below.
	Let me begin by thanking John C. for always pronouncing my name correctly, as we know how he struggles with such things.
	No, no, no.
	See?
	There you go.
	I began listening after Adam's first JRE appearance, although I'm a Gen Xer who grew up on Headbangers Ball and PC Magazine, when I decided to start contributing.
	I did a little research and read that $99.99 was not only a popular donation amount, but that Adam would state niner, niner, niner, niner during the donation segment.
	Well, that was a long time ago, but yes, we just did it.
	Since this is my tenth straight donation at that moment, I've only heard one other producer contribute at that level, and I've never once heard the Quad Niner proclamation from Adam.
	I must therefore declare that the Wikipedia guy is full of shit!
	I'm a proud veteran of the United States Coast Guard and would like to be dubbed Sir Smitty the Burning River Coastie, as well as thank my fellow veteran producers.
	Normal fare at the round table would be lovely.
	And lastly, may I request Leo calling Adam a nut job followed by a shut-up slave.
	Well, I think we should at least give him that then, because that is one of my favorites.
	Here it is.
	Followed by a shut-up slave.
	Adam Curry's a nut job.
	Shut up, slave!
	Regards from Smitty.
	And we'll see you at the lecture momentarily, Smitty.
	Thank you.
	Hello?
	John?
	Yeah, I lost you.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Okay, we're back.
	We're at Sir Kevin McLaughlin.
	Oh, wait.
	Hold on.
	Yes, it's there.
	Is this Sir Kevin McLaughlin, the Duke of Luna?
	And?
	The lover of America?
	And?
	Boobs!
	That's the one and only.
	Wow.
	Every single, every single show.
	I think is...
	I wonder if giving him this much attention just encourages it.
	Well, he does request an F cancer this time.
	Oh.
	And it just says, save the boobies, screw cancer.
	Ha!
	You've got karma.
	Now, we typically don't do this jingles in the second segment, but for Sir Kevin McLaughlin, this is an exception.
	80008 is the donation he submits.
	John and Kim Watson in Aurora, Colorado, 77.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996.
	Sky Kilbury in Belfair, Washington, 6947.
	Michael Dunn, Sir MD, 2020, the Southern Kentucky Knight, Bowling Green, 67.
	Sebastian Now, here's another example.
	K-O-O-I-J-M-A-N, which is Amsterdam.
	It would be Koiman.
	Correct.
	Correct.
	In Amsterdam.
	Just correct.
	6621.
	Just correct.
	Of course it's correct, but I don't get credit for this.
	Are you still on that?
	Oh, man, please.
	Henry...
	Here's another one.
	Cocosolo.
	Yeah, the minute you mispronounce a name, the connection just drops.
	Now they're just messing with you.
	Yeah, you're in Dallas.
	Screw Dallas.
	No, it's you, believe me.
	It's not Dallas.
	The stream is up.
	The chat room, the troll room is up.
	It's you.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's just say, being me, I will say the entire connection, this whole show, on my side, has been breaking up constantly.
	Right.
	Yeah, I know.
	I've been hearing it, too.
	I've been hearing you break up constantly.
	Yeah, it doesn't happen when you're in Hill Country.
	Okay.
	Sebastian Koiman, we did him.
	Henry Cocosoli in Livonia, Michigan, 66.
	Michael Berrigan in Fireball, California.
	And he needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	And, while we're at it, Henry Cocosoli needs a dedouching.
	Oh, okay.
	Well...
	You've been dedouched.
	While we're at it, back to Michael Dunn, who donates in honor of his dad, David's 67th birthday, put him on the list and please dedouche him as this donation is credited to him.
	You've been dedouched.
	You've been dedouched.
	I'm catching up here.
	We get it eventually.
	Max Schmidt, 6006, Sir Ben Beboop, Night of the Frozen Tundra in New Brighton, Minnesota.
	Nuts at 5678-5678.
	Richard Futter in London, UK, 5510.
	Pfeiffer in the Troll Rooms, P-H spelled I-F-E-R, 5393.
	Carl Vogler in Dillon Beach, California.
	Oh, somebody else needs to be douching.
	Pfeiffer in the Troll Room.
	Adam called me a douche.
	Please de-douche me.
	Okay.
	My pleasure.
	You've been de-douced.
	No problem.
	That qualifies.
	Yeah, well.
	Carl Vogler in Dillon Beach, 5033.
	Wooten.
	Wooten.
	Let me see.
	Wouter Cook in Zootermier, the Netherlands, 5.05, and has a birthday shout-out to Sir Stinkfinger from the Cookies on that.
	Berencer Economic Hitman from Houston, Texas, $50.01.
	You can do the 50s.
	Yes, the following people are $50 donors, name and location.
	I'll get to them before we break up again.
	Phillip Ballou, Louisville.
	Brian Henderson, Indianapolis.
	Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
	James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
	Tony Smith in Fort Worth, Texas.
	Josh Adler in A.A. Military.
	David Shalona, my Shalona in Madisonville, Louisiana.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	Bruce Sanguin in Victoria, B.C. John Wynn...
	It's really not a great day.
	Where did we lose him?
	John Wynn from Austin, Texas.
	And he says, Happy MLK Day and please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Yancey Summerer, parts unknown.
	Jaime Hilliard, or Jamie, in Noonan, Georgia.
	Chris Lewinsky, Sir Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Todd Strobel in Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
	Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus, California.
	And winding it out, Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia.
	$50.
	We appreciate all of these producers, and especially those who came in under $50, Often doing $49.99 because we will not read anything under that level.
	And also, many of you are on the subscriptions, which you can find a lot about at this address.
	I do have a make good...
	Are you back with me now?
	Yeah, and I gotta read this note from...
	Yeah, from Anonymous.
	No, no, this is from Todd Strobel.
	Okay.
	He has a douchebag call-out.
	Oh.
	For Robin Cosme.
	Douchebag!
	And he says, and this is a very nice notice with the NASCAR on it.
	It talks about the differences in culture between Canada and Wisconsin.
	And anyway, thanks for that.
	Douchebag call-outs have accepted.
	We have a make-good from our previous episode, 1460, for Anonymous.
	And Anonymous writes, interesting, though, you need to get some credit for bringing me out of the status, out of that status, I guess, out of bushbaggery?
	I've been listening for months as you've been dissecting the meat industry in the transition to non-meat, also known as plant-based protein.
	I work for one of the largest meat processors in the world.
	You'll have to trust me when I say it's a household name.
	I'm not in the boardroom, but I'm pretty well connected when it comes to many of the things we do.
	In my experience, it's solely about profit.
	We dipped our toes into plant-based protein about a year and a half ago.
	We developed recipes, converted equipment, had a huge launch, but no one bought it.
	We ran it for just over a year and stopped producing it altogether.
	That's interesting.
	Another interesting thing is how much more difficult it is to produce.
	There's no fat in the soy protein, so you have to add oil, typically coconut, to help make it bind together.
	The lack of fat makes it flow through our equipment differently than normal protein products do.
	Hello, you need the new equipment.
	Do you not subscribe to plant-based manufacturing magazine?
	The other thing is the ridiculous amounts of spices and colorings you need to add just to make it look and taste reasonable.
	It also introduces allergens to facilities that don't typically have them and this requires increased cleaning and labeling information.
	It's more complex and labor intensive to make than animal based protein.
	Long story short, it was a huge pain in the ass.
	I heard there were decent sales on the Impossible Whopper, but they fell off pretty quickly.
	Most of it was attributed to curiosity rather than desire, from what I've heard.
	I can guarantee you, if it was profitable, we'd still be in it.
	It's just not very good.
	That's interesting.
	Well, it doesn't surprise anybody.
	I would like to hear from somebody who has some connection to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
	Yeah, with their nuggets.
	Their plant-based nuggets.
	I'll bet you that's a winner.
	I learned that...
	Do you remember Royal DSM, the Dutch company?
	It's been around for a hundred years.
	And they were a big chemical company.
	They did oil processing and industrial.
	They were an industrial company.
	It was Royal Dutch something.
	It's manufactured.
	Those guys, they show up now on the World Economic Forum podcast.
	They're the top producers, the top $8 billion in sales of food colorings and taste, and they have something called Canola Pro.
	This is cool.
	So don't call it rapeseed oil, just call it Canola Pro.
	Now, it's something even better.
	New and improved.
	$8 billion annual sales.
	So something's working.
	What's Canola Pro?
	It's just a rebranding now that everyone's like, hey man, here's the prediction.
	Because everyone's kind of on to this canola as rapeseed oil.
	So the next marketing, you can write it down.
	Organic rapeseed oil.
	They're just going to go back to the original and then put the term organic in front of it and it's going to be groovy.
	I think that's what's going to happen.
	This note is interesting because as far as I know, it's a bonanza, but maybe we're wrong.
	Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.
	We appreciate the note for sure.
	Thank you very much.
	And thank you again to all producers who supported the No Agenda show, including our executive and associate executive producers.
	And let's give everybody one goat karma to get out of this segment.
	You've got karma.
	Here's our list for today.
	Dame Zephyr says happy birthday to her husband Travis, celebrating today.
	Femke, happy birthday to Ramey Sir Stinkfinger, turns 49 today.
	And Arwen, who turns 16 on January 20th.
	Vauta Kuk also, happy birthday to Sir Stinkfinger.
	And finally, Michael Dunn, happy birthday to his son David, celebrating tomorrow, January 17th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy birthday, yeah.
	T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Title changes.
	Turn and face display.
	Tice changes.
	Don't want to be a douche.
	We do have a number of title changes.
	Sir Silent Night becomes Sir Franco, as we learned earlier during the donation segment.
	Sir Stephen Baron of the Fox River Valley becomes Sir Stephen Viscount of the Fox River Valley and the Chicago suburbs.
	And Sir Stephen Fisher becomes a Baronet.
	And that all thanks to an additional $1,000 to support the best podcast in the universe, The No Agenda Show, and we thank you very much.
	We do have two knights to bring into the fold today, so there's one.
	We'll do one for each.
	Travis and Smitty, hop on up here.
	Guys, both of you have supported The No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000.
	That means that you...
	Become a knight of the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
	Please hang out here with the other knights and dames and allow me to pronunciate the sermon of the greener pastors and Sir Smitty, the burning river coastie.
	For you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, Polish potato vodka, diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio, brown cheese and aquavit with small hova, hammers, brent, harlots and halbal, beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties and kashasha, cowgirls and coffee varnish, a favorite.
	Vodka, vanilla, long hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, geisha and seges and sake, and then of course there's...
	The mutton and mead, which is what the fair was requested for today.
	There was nothing special on the list, but everybody loves the mutton and mead.
	And while you're chomping down on it, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	That's NoAgendaNation.com, I'm sorry.
	NoAgendaNation.com and select your ring size and we'll get that out to you as soon as possible.
	Now on to NoAgendaNation.com.
	No Agenda Meetups.
	I'm a mess!
	Alright, two quick reports.
	No audio, but the first one is the Menominee Meetup Report.
	Nine No Agenda producers met at the Lissette Brewery in Menominee, Wisconsin on Thursday the 13th.
	No Lacek Meats were present.
	They told us a little more about their federal lawsuit with the USDA. A couple from Connecticut moved to Minneapolis to avoid the craziness there, only to get fresh vax mandates in Minneapolis and St.
	Paul this week.
	But the night of the Eastside made the handkerchiefs to commemorate the occasion, and they sent in a handsome photo of the event.
	Stay dangerous, says Christopher.
	The inaugural local 804 meetup, this is from Tim, says, well, the 2022 Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival meetup, Sorry for the cryptic name on the meetup site.
	It was a bust.
	Only one No Agenda person came to the festival, and that was only to pick me up to head to the restaurant portion of the event, and that was Emily.
	Thank you.
	There we did meet three other No Agenda producers and had a marvelous time.
	Started this one so I could make new No Agenda friends while traveling and make more friends.
	I got to be there when we created No Agenda Local Chapter 804.
	Okay, so...
	You created the chapter.
	You were there at the Genesis.
	Two dames were present for a total of five attending, and we're happy that that happened.
	And yes, this is a very good way to make connections that will probably last a lifetime.
	I hope to get a good report from the Austin meetup.
	There was also a meetup in Dallas, which we didn't make.
	So, sorry about that, but man, it's so wonderful to see all of these people getting together and just hanging out and having human interactions.
	Now, what's going on today in FEMA Region 9, that is the Santa Maria Brewing Company in Atascadero, California.
	Now, it starts at 2 o'clock.
	The Stay Safe Annapolis is underway now at O'Loughlin's Arnold, Maryland.
	On Monday, the Pittsburgh MLK Happy Hour at 6 o'clock at the Pittsburgh Bottle Shop in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.
	On Thursday, the next show day, Colorado Springs Local 719 meet up at 6 o'clock at Pikes Peak Brewing.
	Also on Thursday, Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday monthly meetup, 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern.
	The Brisbane Bandits meetup is at 7 o'clock Australian Eastern Time in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
	And our buddy for Me Immortals, Kieran Down, will be hosting that, so be sure to check it out.
	On the way, on the 22nd, Newhall, California, Cincinnati, Ohio, Colorado Springs, D.C. on the 23rd with Connecticut, Indianapolis, Long Island, New York on the 29th, and the Three Mile Island evac zone will take place on January 30th.
	These are the No Agenda Meetups.
	It's just a sampling.
	You need to check this out for yourself.
	It's a producer run.
	The entire thing is purely for your own enjoyment and for you to connect to humanity.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You wanna be where you won't be.
	Triggered or held the blame.
	You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
	You know these weddings, they give you like a goodie bag in your room of stuff, and sometimes it contains like a pack of aspirin for your hangover the next day?
	Yeah, great gag.
	Yeah, so you know what this one contained?
	It's a bottle of Boost Oxygen.
	Up to 100 one-second inhalations, 95% pure oxygen.
	This is pretty interesting.
	Can you tell?
	You're there?
	Yeah, can you tell that it's working?
	Are you talking like this?
	That's not oxygen!
	Alright, iso time.
	Let's go with...
	I have nothing.
	I got nothing.
	Oh, well, I got a good shot.
	If you notice the times...
	You have the shot.
	You definitely got a good shot, John.
	I have...
	Look at the times on each one of these.
	Let me see.
	Oh, one second.
	Yes, I see it.
	That's the perfect line.
	Let's start with ISO. Let human...
	Okay.
	Let the human talk.
	Okay, pretty good.
	Okay, that didn't get your attention.
	Oh, freedom.
	Oh, it got my attention.
	Oh, freedom.
	Oh, freedom.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	That's a dog.
	Shocked.
	I was shocked at some of this stuff.
	We have better than that.
	That's it.
	No, oh.
	That's it.
	There you go.
	You saved the best for last, didn't you?
	That's the one, man.
	That's the one I like.
	Yeah, it was Trump.
	I like that one.
	That's it!
	Trump?
	Yeah, it was Trump.
	What do you mean it's Trump?
	I'm just saying.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	I have one last clip.
	Okay.
	This is another one of my series of stupid stories on NPR. Okay.
	Oh, I see it here.
	And this is it.
	This is a goldfish story.
	Scientists at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have trained six goldfish to drive a small fish tank on wheels around a room and steer it into a mark on the wall to receive food.
	After a few days of training, the fish navigated to the target, the scientists said in a press release, and added, moreover, they were not fooled by false targets placed by the researchers.
	Like a sign that might have said, B.J. Lederman does our theme music.
	Their findings appear in the journal Behavioral Brain Research, and I'm left with a couple of questions, like, will goldfish now become long-haul truckers or Uber drivers?
	The vehicle options for Google Maps now include fish tanks.
	The ultimate proof that goldfish are not just endearing but clever is that the vehicle they drive is electric.
	Better for the environment.
	Oh my goodness.
	How could they mix up 18 more talking points in that one clip of nothingness?
	It's the best.
	Okay, since we're doing dumb animal stories.
	And an unbelievable story here, folks.
	It has been 72 hours since the world's first human to receive a pig's heart in a groundbreaking transplant.
	And the 57-year-old terminally ill patient, Dave Bennett, is now awake, breathing on his own, and can speak with his University of Maryland brilliant surgeon, Bartlett Griffith.
	The pig heart was genetically modified by United Therapeutics subsidiary, Revivacor.
	To prevent the patient's body from rejecting the organ, the breakthrough is pushing United Therapeutics higher by 3.6%.
	That's my favorite.
	This is only about the money.
	Hey, it's good.
	We got a pig.
	We jammed a pig heart in somebody and the stock is up.
	My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows!
	Alex is, again, ahead of the curve.
	Transhumanism, there you go.
	Into something.
	Transpiganism.
	Yeah, they've modified these pigs in such a way that you also have to transplant the thyroid, I think.
	That's right, yeah.
	But now they don't know what to do with the dead pig, and they won't eat him.
	What's the big issue?
	What are you going to do with this thing?
	I don't know.
	Turn it into...
	It's half human, so you can't eat the pig.
	Turn it into some AdBlue Plus.
	Or your diesel engine.
	Alright everybody, that is it.
	We return on Thursday.
	Keeper and I will be skedaddling on back down to the Texas Hill Country.
	And coming to you from Big D, Dallas.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	I'm from northern Silicon Valley.
	Where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday with another edition of your Media Deconstruction, the No Agenda Show.
	Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Until then, adios, mofos!
	Oh, by the way, end of show from Rolando Gonzalez.
	That's the only one I have.
	And next on the stream, abs in a six-pack.
	There we go.
	Adios, mofos and such.
	The truth must be based on science.
	Following the science?
	We're evaluating the science and looking at the epidemiology of the disease.
	This is fast-moving science.
	Are you feeling better?
	Is your cock gone?
	Fast-moving science.
	CDC now recommends eating straight off the floor at Waffle House.
	Fast-moving science.
	This crap trap I hear?
	This is fast-moving science.
	And we are now standing on the shoulders of years of science.
	Fast-moving science.
	It's exponential.
	Broke.
	We're trying to understand that.
	This is fast-moving science.
	You know, I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases, but I don't want to be held to that.
	What I will say is we've gotten a lot of support from our partners in our public health spheres, in our clinical spheres, and in our laboratory spheres as well.
	That means we need more testing.
	Many parents are breathing a collective sigh of relief so they can now protect their young ones from COVID.
	They're also thrilled that their kids can get back to doing activities that they have to use up during the pandemic.
	Like seeing their grandparents or playing with friends.
	And we continue at CDC to update our guidance in the context of evolving science, of evolving epidemiology, and what is practical and feasible in collaboration with our public health partners.
	Treatment technology and testing.
	I know that at times it gets frustrating.
	We need refrigerated trucks for the dead.
	The morgues are full.
	Right now this is as if the train is slamming down the track at an extremely high velocity under extremely stressed conditions.
	I think now people understand.
	Fast moving time.
	Models of the models.
	This is fast-moving science.
	Are you infected plus transmissible?
	Fast-moving science.
	And the tests don't measure that.
	This is fast-moving science.
	What are your qualifications to weigh in on medicine more than Dr.
	Anthony?
	Why is the guidance so confusing?
	It's entirely understandable why people can get confused over that.
	The data is junk.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.

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