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1426: Pre-Bunk

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	If you can go outside, you are free and clear.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 17, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Kimber Nation Media Assassination, episode 1426.
	This is no agenda.
	Sneezing for the CDC and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region 7.
	6.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're shelling the kindergartens, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Oh, man.
	Can you turn yourself down just a biscuit of the dog?
	Just a little bit?
	You went like...
	Did I over-modulate?
	No, no, no, no.
	But you were peaking.
	You were redlining.
	I want to make sure you're okay.
	I don't want to hurt yourself there.
	Are you okay?
	Because just before we started and we were playing the fat lady, it sounded like you let out a cry of anguish or pain or both.
	Yeah, I kicked this same device.
	I keep the thing in this room that's on the floor.
	It shouldn't be there.
	And I kicked it.
	And it hurt.
	So I yelped.
	I said, ah, I kicked this damn thing.
	I don't know why.
	I just don't move it.
	I imagine like a bucket, except there was a brick under the bucket.
	Someone would put it there just to mess with you?
	Yeah.
	Okay, no.
	A boots-on-the-ground COOF update.
	Oh yes, this is the priority to bombing the shelling of the kindergarten in Ukraine.
	You want to do the, I mean, okay, if you want to do kids first.
	I don't, I just, it's just something I'm going to read, so you're going to have to do this update first.
	I don't, there's no, I have no clips.
	Is someone bombing and shelling the kindergarten or is this?
	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	Those Ruskies.
	Yeah, I gotcha.
	Can't be trusted.
	All right, so today is day nine.
	And I have to say that this COVID thing is not what I expected it to be.
	Again, I've not had any fevers or anything after the first couple of days, which I think I attribute to this as a Virto kit.
	You're going to have to explain what did you expect it to be.
	Well, I expect it to be like a flu, where after you've had the fever and you've had a couple days where you feel a little bit fuzzy, that then you get better and then, you know, you gradually just kind of like, okay, I'm just good and back to go.
	About a six, seven day cycle.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Max.
	Max, for sure.
	I mean, flu for me would be five.
	Yeah, five, six.
	Seven, then you're completely back.
	So no.
	It's these weird waves that come back.
	And not a fever or anything, but of severe fatigue.
	Waves of fatigue?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Now, I'm still working.
	I still do four shows a week, so it's not like I'm sitting at home like, oh, I've got COVID. But then I am wiped.
	Like, we were walking the dog two days ago.
	And whatever happened, the leash dropped and she was about to run after some varmint.
	I'm like, ah.
	And so I'm running to step on the leash.
	And maybe three yards and I'm out of breath.
	It's like, okay, that's not normal.
	The brain fog is kind of okay.
	I don't have any problem.
	You know what's interesting is the amount of people, when you have it, who will immediately start emailing you with everything you're doing wrong and what you should be doing.
	You're doing everything wrong.
	It's pretty much like that.
	No, no, no, man.
	You shouldn't be doing this.
	You've got to be doing this.
	This is what works.
	There's a lot of that.
	But also, people, now that I understand what it is, now people are sharing with me and I comprehend what they're saying.
	I mean, there's healthy 40-year-old guys I know who took three weeks and they had dizziness and all kinds of weird things.
	A month.
	A month?
	Yeah.
	And he's what, 27?
	27.
	No, he's like 30, he's born in 85, figure it out.
	Okay, so he's 36.
	So he was one month of fatigue, on and off fatigue, exactly the way you're describing it.
	Hmm.
	And then there's the phantom smells.
	I went outside yesterday to walk the dog, and right away, it's like, it smells like the ocean, and the fish are kind of rotting.
	I mean, that was weird.
	Jay, another example of a COVID survivor, she, by the way, contradicted my comparing your screwball taste and smell to hers.
	You said yours was metallic?
	Yes.
	No, yeah, I had a sip of wine and it tasted like tinfoil.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That's the graphene oxide.
	Hers was more sulfuric maybe, or like you're now getting with the smelling sulfurous aromas for no good reason.
	Right.
	And I'm sure the zinc is not helping.
	I'm still taking zinc.
	You know, that can mess up your smell and your taste a little bit.
	So there's that.
	And then the final thing is, you know, we have the antigen test from Abbott Labs, because I'm not putting anything from China out of my nose.
	Not taking the Chinese test!
	By the way, so I better put a picture in the news.
	This Chinese test...
	So this company that is in, the company, look them up, they're in Palo Alto.
	You're talking about the test the government sent you?
	Yeah, the test the government sent me.
	They're located in Palo Alto.
	The test does say made in China.
	The company in Palo Alto is made in China.
	It's owned by two Chinese companies.
	Yeah, isn't that wonderful?
	In fact, this Chinese company in China, duh, makes most of these tests all over the country.
	What would happen to Biden's Made in America thing?
	And I know that Abbott Labs has plenty because we have a friend who gets them wholesale.
	So we got six tests.
	They send them to us.
	Very sweet of them.
	Now, so, you know, it's like, I don't know what good...
	It's not PCR. I don't know what good these tests are.
	But, you know, after eight days...
	And Tina has nothing.
	She has no symptoms.
	Nothing's wrong with her.
	She's fine.
	And it's a little weird for her because she says, do you feel okay?
	I said, well, yeah, no.
	It's hard to explain.
	It's like, I know I look okay.
	I'm working.
	But there's sometimes just, you know, severe fatigue.
	Okay.
	The thing that...
	Okay, so the test...
	We both took a test yesterday, and I'm still testing positive.
	And this is eight days yesterday, and whatever that means, right?
	Who the hell knows what these tests are showing?
	But whatever I have, she doesn't have, or she had some kind of different test because she gets a negative for COVID. The thing that I had earlier this week, I actually had to sit down and talk to my wife about it.
	I said, I can feel this thing in my body, and it makes me mad because I've been violated clearly by some foreign thing that some fuckers made in a lab somewhere.
	Yeah, by a bioweapon that was...
	It was intended to be not released.
	Well, maybe it was intended to be released.
	Who knows?
	But it's annoying.
	Yeah, I would say you'd be irked.
	And I got a little anxious from it.
	You know, I'm just walking.
	I'm like, what is this thing doing?
	You know, and like in your chest, we're just like a little anxious.
	And of course, you know, I got my head on straight and I talked to Tina about it.
	I'm like, I'm feeling kind of weird about this.
	So calm down.
	But I can see where people who really haven't been investigating and deconstructing for two years getting totally freaked out.
	Really freaked out.
	I think a lot of people die from being freaked out.
	Yes.
	That's why I think the numbers in the United States, which have been primed, the American public has been primed by the media to freak out, by the media and the government and pharma.
	I think that because of that, I think that accounts for the maximum death.
	Why does the United States have the most deaths in the world?
	I mean, it doesn't make any real sense if you stop for one second and think about it.
	No, at all.
	We even prepared for this pandemic.
	I think they've decided to scare people to death, which can be done.
	Easily.
	And the New York Times this morning has a whole article.
	COVID patients may have higher risk of mental health problems.
	I knew...
	No, that's never going to be the case with you.
	No.
	But, you know, what they're saying is, if you had COVID, you could have mental health problems.
	Please ignore the anxiety of it being a man-made bioweapon.
	Please ignore the anxiety of mandates, the incessant, oh my God, we're all going to die from the media.
	That's what's making people crazy.
	A big study they did there.
	Of course, it's COVID. COVID did it!
	Not anything else.
	Not the media itself.
	Not the New York Times.
	And now here comes the kicker.
	So, just two, three weeks ago, I asked you if you would feel comfortable sticking something up your nose that the government sent you.
	And I know that that made you pause, and you probably have not done so.
	Of course not.
	Of course, that was, you know, a, I'm just a crazy-ass conspiracy theorist.
	I mean, why would you even think I'm a nutcase?
	And then the CDC posted this video yesterday.
	Remember that nose swab you took?
	If it was a PCR test, around 5 to 10% of them end up here, in laboratories set up to conduct genomic sequencing.
	Genomic sequencing is a process used to analyze the genetic makeup of viruses.
	It's sort of like creating and then assembling really large puzzles.
	The SARS-CoV-2 genome is about 30,000 vases long.
	It's an RNA, single-stranded, positive RNA virus.
	And that length, if you just typed out the A's, U's, and G's, and C's, is about the same length as the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
	All viruses, like SARS-CoV-2, continually evolve as they replicate.
	Those changes in the genetic code are called mutations.
	A variant has one or more of these mutations.
	Labs continuously analyze the genome of SARS-CoV-2 to keep track of variants that pose threats to public health.
	A lot of the laboratory testing itself is, you know, moving one of the tubes around.
	The example of contagion gives you a good sense of what that process kind of looks like on the back end.
	Blue is virus, and the gold is human, and the red is the viral attachment protein.
	We have tools like Nextrain and Micoreact and others that allow us to put sequence data into place and time.
	Okay, so without...
	My consent, I've done a PCR test in the past, it's possible that that was taken by the CDC and put into their testing and their genomic sequencing, and he says here, we have tools that we can put that down right to place and time.
	So, when you're sent something by the government to your address which you registered for, who the hell knows what they're doing?
	This is egregious.
	Can they just do that?
	Well...
	I mean, it did, obviously.
	This is a clip that's got nothing to do with COVID, but it's got to do with what you just talked about.
	Play Rape Kit DNA clip.
	Ooh, hold on.
	A woman whose San Francisco DA Chessa Bodine says had her DNA from a rape victim kit used against her in a different criminal investigation will not face charges in that case.
	Bodine says he will not use DNA obtained in an unlawful way and he is dropping felony property charges filed against the woman.
	Bodine says he is now aware, based on information from the San Francisco Crime Lab, that using victim DNA from rape investigations is a routine practice, not only in San Francisco, but around the state.
	We're here today to stand up for survivors of sexual assault, for their constitutional rights, for their dignity.
	San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott says the city's DNA collection policies have been legally vetted and do conform with the state and national forensic standards, though he says He is committed to ending the practice if it is confirmed rape kit DNA has been used against victims.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is, this is, now we're really in the territory.
	What?
	Let's go, let's go one step further.
	Let's take that, that story that we just heard.
	They're not going to use, they're, no, can't do it, can't use it, no, no good.
	What if the person, instead of, she was caught for a petty, petty theft or something?
	Mm-hmm.
	What if the person was a serial killer and this rape kit DNA identified her?
	What would you do then?
	Yeah.
	What would the judge do?
	Sure.
	What would anybody do?
	Yeah.
	Well, of course, guilty.
	Bull crap is what I'm saying.
	Guilty.
	Right away.
	Guilty.
	Off with the ghoulies.
	Done.
	They're not going to...
	This sounds good on paper, but no.
	What do you mean?
	What?
	Once your DNA is captured and put in a database, it's in there.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	But now we can see the cavalierness.
	Hey, you know, do you remember that swab that we did of you?
	Which we all said, like, they're taking your DNA. No!
	Oh, 10% probably.
	10% is a good sample of America.
	That'd be a nice-ass sample of DNA, don't you think?
	And the Chinese would love to own that information.
	Well...
	They're the ones collecting all this stuff.
	Right!
	On your Chinese test kit from a Chinese company in the heart of China, known as Berkeley.
	I'm not going to swab myself and then swab to China.
	Who knows where it goes?
	It's not going anywhere.
	It's a home kit.
	Oh.
	You throw it out.
	And they come by and they collect it and they get them all and they got your address.
	I'm telling you!
	It's when you throw it out that they get it.
	They grab it from the garbage cans.
	Yes, yes.
	It's got a tracker in it.
	That's exactly right.
	You have to burn it.
	Graphene oxide tracking quantum tattoo.
	Whatever.
	Okay, so that's the CDC. But we really don't have to be worried because the CDC has been there the whole time.
	And whatever the CDC says, we know you just kind of got to follow it because those are the guys that would know.
	Or has that changed, Dr.
	Scott Gottlieb?
	You know, the CDC guidelines have been confusing, they've been befuddling, they have seemed to defy science as we know it in some ways, but I guess this is the reality, and this is probably why they changed those guidelines to reflect exactly what we're seeing right now.
	I mean, I don't understand why they didn't say that at the time, but...
	Knowing that you're going to have, what did you say, 1% of the population being infected, having 10% infected at any point in time as we've been moving through the last several weeks, is that what the CDC saw and knew?
	Is that why we've gotten this kind of crazy guidance?
	Well, I think the CDC guidelines reflect the reality that a lot of the spread right now is being done by people who are mildly or asymptomatic and aren't turning over their infections.
	and sort of impose all the regulations and restrictions on a small percentage of people who are actually getting diagnosed and self-isolating, isn't going to control this epidemic, just like we're not doing contact tracing right now.
	A lot of schools aren't making recommendations to quarantine students when there's a case in the class because there's just so much infection that you're not going to be driving this epidemic by the infections that you're turning over.
	I think with respect to the CDC guidance more generally, the reality is that the CDC is not an agency accustomed to talking to the public.
	They usually issue their recommendations through public health agencies to providers.
	In this epidemic, they were thrust into a position of having to issue bottom-line recommendations to consumers.
	It's not something they do.
	I think we made a mistake all along for the last two years looking to the CDC for guidance on how we were going to live our lives.
	We really should have been looking for more local authorities for that kind of guidance.
	Ultimately, you need to reform the CDC.
	We need some kind of federal public health agency capable of doing this.
	The CDC was not that agency, and it's very hard for an agency to self-organize and reform itself in a setting of a crisis.
	CDC has been unable to do that.
	Holy...
	I mean, my mind is blown.
	Thrown the CDC under the bus?
	For what purpose?
	Because everything...
	Look, someone's got to take the blame.
	Everything was wrong.
	The masking was wrong.
	You won't get COVID was wrong.
	So who do they blame?
	The faceless.
	The faceless CDC people.
	No one's going to get in trouble.
	We have to have a new...
	Is that Walensky woman from the CDC? No!
	No, no, no.
	We just need a new public health agency.
	We need to reinvent this shit, bro.
	What's the FDA? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	FDA is, they know what they're doing because they are the pharmaceutical companies.
	Come on!
	The fact that this was not a, that this didn't go viral, people are like, what?
	Gottlieb is now saying the CDC, we should have not trusted them throughout the entire pandemic because they don't really know?
	Come on!
	This is a moment in history that must be bookmarked.
	Crazy.
	Seriously crazy.
	Ah, oof.
	Let's see, we have to keep covering up for myocarditis.
	Let's find other reasons than possible gene therapy shots.
	A new study of adults showed a 4% higher risk of a major heart problem up to a year after infection, such as blood clot, stroke, heart attack, even in previously healthy people who had mild COVID. Researchers estimate around 3 million Americans have suffered heart complications.
	Isn't that unbelievable?
	Yeah, well, this is kind of the clip we played last show.
	Yeah, but it just keeps coming.
	They're trying to make it sound as though it's got nothing to do with the vaccine.
	Oh, no.
	Of course not.
	It's long COVID now, all of a sudden.
	It wasn't that before, but it is now.
	On the testing front, Google's provider of COVID-19 tests, QHealth?
	Have you heard of QHealth?
	QAnon?
	C-U-E-Q Health.
	Well, they went public.
	Yeah, under the symbol HLTH. It's now a $3 billion company.
	And they have this...
	I'm looking at the IPO picture.
	I don't see any Chinese there.
	They have a device that you have in your home, of course, Internet of Things, and you insert a tube.
	And they can do all kinds of tests.
	So right now, it's like a COVID-19 test, and then you stick it back into the device, and then you're good to go, human resource.
	You're good to go.
	You can leave.
	You can go outside.
	You are free and clear.
	Or something like that.
	So where's Bill Gates, man?
	He's way behind on this.
	Is the Slate Podcast, does that belong to WAPO? Is that Washington Post?
	WAPO, WAPO, WAPO. Is it WAPO? Yeah.
	Okay, so this is Washington Post then, kind of.
	Well, it wasn't originally, but they ended up buying it.
	They bought it, they bought it.
	And it's under the auspices.
	So they identify a symptom of COVID. Oh man, your speaker's a little loud too.
	Everything's out of whack.
	So they identified a new symptom of COVID, which we have not discussed.
	And what's kind of weird about it is the term that they use to describe this, particularly to women, it felt very lame.
	And just playing it down like it's some big joke.
	I don't even know if this symptom is real.
	I sure hope not.
	Do you know anything about COVID dick shrinkage?
	Yeah.
	What?
	So, in terms of why there are negative effects- She's a doctor who's speaking, by the way.
	COVID on the penis, right?
	The main reason that we think this occurs is something what we call endothelial dysfunction, and I'm using jargon words here, but that's basically the cells that line your blood vessels.
	They're smooth muscle cells and they align your blood vessels and they're really important for the function of many different organs.
	And COVID gets into those cells and so that means it affects many different organs in your body, not just your lungs.
	Because the erection is a blood flow event, you get hard because a whole bunch of blood moves into your penis and stays there.
	When those blood vessels are affected, then you can get the erectile dysfunction.
	There's actually a really cool study that was done by some urologists in Miami where they took samples of penis tissue in men who were undergoing a penile implant surgery and And they looked for COVID in the penis, and they found COVID virus particles in people's penises, and this was after they had completely recovered from the disease.
	So we totally know that COVID dick is a real thing, and people aren't just making it up.
	COVID is actually in your dick.
	I get it now.
	I get it.
	You get what?
	I see it.
	It was a Chinese development to level the playing field.
	Wow.
	It's called equity, John.
	Equity.
	Dequity, we call that.
	Dequity.
	You know, so first of all, it's just unbecoming for a doctor and anyone to talk about, when you're talking about a medical issue with men, to say, you dick, dick shrinkage, COVID dick.
	Yeah, I agree with you.
	I didn't like that.
	That wasn't very nice.
	There has to be a medical term that was applied.
	You've got a medical term for a hangnail.
	You've got a medical term.
	But now, all of a sudden, you've got dick shrinkage.
	But they also laugh about it.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	But, this being America, where we are totally influenced by our media, you know what this gives people?
	Erectile dysfunction.
	Yeah, it doesn't take much.
	Any man knows it doesn't take much.
	Unless you're 19, it doesn't take much.
	I got COVID dick, man.
	I might have COVID dick.
	What's going on?
	Come on, buddy.
	Come on.
	Please.
	It's disgusting.
	It's very disturbing.
	Again, it's suggestive.
	This is a post-hypnotic suggestion.
	Very.
	Wait a minute.
	This has been going on for over two years, and this is the first we've heard of this?
	Mm-hmm.
	Post-hypnotic suggestion by women at the Washington Post.
	Yep.
	The men-haters of the universe.
	Now, we have heard from some of our producers who had erectile issues being with a partner, a woman, specifically the examples we have, who was vaccinated.
	You remember that?
	One of our producers had some issues.
	Oh, yeah, because they were the exosome.
	That was the exosome moment on the show.
	He broke up with her.
	Rightfully so.
	Sorry, I couldn't resist.
	So who knows?
	Who knows?
	But yeah, I mean, if it gets into...
	It is a blood event.
	She's right about that, the doctor.
	Well, I cannot give you any boots on the ground information because I'm a bane.
	I'm not allowed to kiss her.
	I can hug her.
	I'm not allowed to kiss her.
	Yeah, probably a good idea.
	Yeah, of course.
	You don't want the mama sick.
	When the mama bear gets sick, then things suck.
	No, then you're screwed.
	I just want to wind it up by saying, I can see where a stronger strain, if that's even a thing, who knows?
	Can't trust the CDC, really.
	Scott Gottlieb.
	No, they're no good.
	They're no good.
	Yeah, it was a mistake to trust them.
	Mistake.
	That...
	See?
	There it is.
	I can't think any straights anymore.
	Brain fog!
	Brain fog!
	I'm 54, thank you.
	I'm 57.
	You know what?
	Even someone who's 67, I wouldn't want you to get it.
	The older you are, the harder it is to bounce back from this crap.
	Okay, so I have received 15 emails at least of people saying...
	Something's wrong with your audio setup.
	There's something off.
	I keep hearing alert sounds, bongs, like dings and dongs.
	What's wrong?
	We always play bells.
	No, no, John.
	Your new device has to be banned.
	Why?
	Because people think it's Windows alert sounds.
	They think it's the doorbell.
	Oh, really?
	It sounds really weird.
	It's distracting people.
	Is it that clear?
	Yes.
	No, it's not really clear.
	It comes through like it's an alert from Windows.
	Or something else.
	It drives people nuts?
	It drives me nuts.
	Oh, you keep hearing it, Windows Alerts.
	But I did...
	Okay, I'm going to play one more little thing.
	Okay, wait a minute.
	You can do a riff, but you can't just be like indiscriminately sneaking it in there because people get confused.
	Now, okay, let me...
	I got two things to do.
	I'll put it in abeyance.
	I've got other devices, believe me.
	I believe you.
	But I am going to learn to play Happy Birthday, the song, on this thing.
	Okay.
	Now, if I played it, by the way, instead of with the nice soft thing, I instead played it with a hard stick like this.
	Let me hear it.
	It'll sound Chinese-y and it won't sound like it.
	Let me hear it.
	Let me hear it.
	But I don't like that sound.
	It's not melodic at all.
	It sounds terrible.
	Yeah, it's crap.
	It's been retired.
	You're fine to do it if you're doing the whole riff, but not just sneak it in there because people don't know what's going on.
	Those poor people.
	That people have never complained about your noisemakers.
	They're that!
	People think it's the doorbell.
	They're like, what is that?
	What is going on?
	Yes!
	Believe me, there's nothing more annoying to me when...
	I'll be honest about it.
	So I'm listening to some radio or something or a commercial and somebody rings a doorbell on the commercial.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I have that on.
	And it happens to be the same doorbell ring I have.
	It's like, is somebody at the door?
	Yeah.
	Or the dog will start barking.
	That's...
	Ooh, yeah, that sucks when that happens.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	No!
	I apologize to everybody out there for...
	But I will thank Judy for sending me this device, but I will learn how to play Happy Birthday to You on it.
	Yeah.
	And then we'll use it eventually.
	I'm excited about that.
	No, I'm excited.
	I'm excited to hear your concerto.
	I already played it a few times.
	But in 14, almost 15 years, no one has ever complained about any of your noisemakers like this.
	And not really complain, but they were saying that I had a problem with my audio.
	Now, that's where your noisemaker steps over.
	Well, we've been getting that before I brought that noisemaker up.
	And I've listened to some of these complaints.
	And somebody says there's buzzing and there's this, there's that.
	And I listen to this show.
	I don't listen to it religiously, but I do listen to it.
	I haven't caught any of this.
	It sounds fine.
	People.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	We have a couple...
	Oh, yes.
	So then the other thing we've been tracking, which just, you know, how it was popping up in the news, and this goes back to the original weird alert we got about some vaccine trial in Australia that they halted it because people were all of a sudden testing positive for HIV. And HIV has been a thing throughout this entire...
	Pandemic, possibly there's some piece of HIV in the virus itself.
	There's some evidence, well, not even evidence, but some of the boosters were administered with, or not the booster, the Pfizer pill with an HIV drug.
	You know, so it's been around and now and now all of a sudden.
	Next to a breakthrough treatment curing a woman of HIV.
	The middle-aged American woman needed a stem cell transplant for leukemia.
	Doctors used donated umbilical cord blood that contained a rare HIV resistant mutation.
	The patient essentially developed a new immune system after the procedure.
	She's the third known case of HIV remission.
	But health experts say that the treatment is not ideal for large populations.
	And this, I think, was the point of the piece or of the news is that the umbilical cord stem cells, it's not ideal for everybody.
	But you know what's coming next.
	You know what's coming!
	Can they apply what they did for this woman to others, so we see more people, quote-unquote, cured of HIV? And that's the hope, Yasmin.
	They're actually hoping two different things.
	One, that they could use this on other people, but they're only using it on people who have leukemia and need that type of treatment because it is a dangerous treatment.
	They have to essentially kill their immune system and then give them a new immune system in hopes that they don't have HIV in there and it helps their leukemia.
	And they think around 50 people in the U.S. a year could be eligible for this.
	At the same time, though, it's giving them a lot of information on what direction they need to take with HIV research to try and get that elusive cure that they've been working on for decades.
	And we're one step closer now.
	Yeah, this is of course going to be an mRNA solution.
	You can see it being teed up right before our very eyes.
	Here it comes.
	So...
	Sorry, is the circus coming to town?
	What was that?
	It's coming down to Broadway.
	And so we already know that there are some people that can't get HIV. Their systems have got something different about them.
	Their immune system cannot get HIV. There's a roadway into that.
	Wait a minute.
	Say again what you're saying.
	I didn't understand.
	There's a bunch of...
	There's a group within the population in general that can't get HIV. They just can't get it.
	And it has been discussed in the literature.
	And it's not everybody.
	It's a few people out of a lot.
	And...
	It's got to have something to do with their immune system being somewhat skewed or different or something.
	And I think this is a road, a pathway into creating that in other people.
	Oh, because you have some kind of cool resistance and we're going to hack into you anyway?
	Equity!
	But that umbilical cord or whatever it was that they used as the basis for the cells.
	Mm-hmm.
	Stem cells.
	It was one of those people.
	That's why it worked.
	I question that because there's one other example of a placenta, I think, or maybe it was also.
	There's some black woman whose DNA has been or its cells have been used for like thousands of different cures.
	Yeah, I mean, Mo had a whole bit on it.
	And it's like, no one ever knows, you know, it's just like, and it was stolen from her, and her family...
	Patented.
	Well, yes, and the family's like, hey...
	She must die now.
	Well, the family sued.
	You know, it's like, hey, we need some money.
	You're using her.
	You use it without permission.
	Anyway, I wonder if it's hers.
	I wonder if that's what it's from.
	Oh, that's a funny idea.
	Henrietta Lacks.
	That's her name.
	Thank you, trolls.
	Henrietta Lacks.
	It's a very interesting story.
	I'd never heard of it before, but her stem cells have been used for a lot of different things.
	So maybe that's what it is.
	You know, there are some...
	I'm not going to make this leap of faith, but there are some people who are notorious for being healers, literally.
	So when they actually, you know, put hands, like to say, or give you a hug or something, they transfer whatever crazy exosomes they exude, and you actually will get cured.
	And I don't know, maybe this lax woman has...
	Some of these characteristics.
	I don't know.
	That's like faith healers.
	Yeah, faith healers pretend to do this.
	Most of them can't.
	Huh.
	I mean, they can't.
	No, of course not.
	They try to sell it, and they're mostly full of crap, and that's what you see on TV. But there are people...
	I've never run into one.
	But there are people supposedly that have the skill to do that.
	And it's been documented too many times to ignore it.
	That's cool.
	And this woman lacks it.
	It's like maybe some proof of that.
	Yeah, it was definitely something she had that...
	Something weird about her.
	Yeah.
	Something weird about her, I'll tell you.
	The Senate confirmed Dr.
	Robert Califf to be the commissioner of the FDA. Now, this guy was already once commissioner of the FDA. Yeah.
	And he has all kinds of contracts, $8 million worth of contracts with major drug companies.
	And now that was deemed kind of problematic.
	But looking over the scene, it's okay.
	Five Republicans cross party line to confirm him.
	Who are those five Republicans?
	Murkowski, Collins, Romney, and I'm missing two who I don't know.
	Those are the main ones.
	Yeah, those are the ones.
	I mean, that's horrible.
	They're basically Democrats that call themselves Republicans.
	I was listening to Kara Schwisher.
	Not my hate listen.
	She's kind of, by default, a hate listen.
	But she has this podcast called Sway.
	And it's interesting.
	She has good guests on.
	And of course, she still is completely tarred the way she talks.
	But it doesn't matter.
	I want to hear these people.
	It's not too long.
	It's just perfect, actually.
	And she had a guy on who wrote a book about the Sackler family, the opioid Sackler family.
	And, you know, the whole conversation is about, oh my God, and the FDA and the Attorney General, everyone's all in and it's corrupt and there's favoritism and blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And at no point does this dawn on Kara Swisher that we are in the middle of an exact same event on a magnificent scale.
	The exact same thing.
	Why would it dawn on her?
	Because I think she's smart.
	I think she's smart.
	And she can't even condemn the government people.
	Oh, those evil Sacklers.
	This is what I've been reading Naomi Wolf.
	Holy crap.
	Naomi Wolf, I mean, she wrote three sub-stacks, really worth reading.
	The one that caught my eye was, is it time for intellectuals to talk about God?
	She has resorted to prayer.
	Now, she's really a character.
	I love that she's doing all this because she has been in the center of liberal elite douchebaggery, I think, her entire career in life.
	Major, major, major league lefty.
	She even wrote an article called Thinking Like a Tyrant where she describes one of these dinner parties at a hedge fund guy.
	And they're all hating on Greece because Greece was voting in their referendum against austerity.
	And he was bitching at those stupid Greeks because, of course, he had a bet that austerity would happen.
	It did ultimately happen.
	And she was trying – and what she does in the sub-sac is try to explain how these otherwise probably kind of nice people just go nuts.
	You know, like the experiment that we've all probably seen on YouTube where someone says, go ahead, shock that fucker.
	And it's because it's someone from the CDC who's in control and has authority.
	Oh, okay.
	And then people have no problem doing it when they have some authority telling them that it's okay to do this.
	But then the praying thing, I have to say, her argument is, this is so evil.
	This cannot be just humans concocting this evil scheme.
	She says, therefore, I have to believe in the counterforce of God.
	It was very compelling, I must say.
	Very compelling.
	Just crazy.
	Anyway, that's where we're at.
	The people who are...
	We're at the point where Naomi Wolf has to get down on her hands and knees and pray.
	That's how bad things are.
	I mean, that's got to say something.
	And of course, all eyes on the courageous Canadians who just have stolen the world's heart.
	Everyone loves what they're doing.
	And it's being replicated worldwide, not reported.
	Trucker protests are happening everywhere on all kinds of scale.
	Okay.
	Are you going to go to that or can I do a counterpoint before you do?
	Go for it.
	The problem is the counterpoint's long.
	It's like multiple clips.
	Oh, then let me just set us up and then why don't we do point counterpoint?
	You do the point.
	Okay.
	First, a background from ABC. Tonight, Canada taking drastic new action to put an end to the so-called Freedom Convoy trucker protests, paralyzing the country's capital city.
	Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act, a never-before-used law granting the Canadian government broad powers, including the ability to remove vehicles and freeze bank accounts.
	Occupying streets, harassing people, breaking the law.
	This is not a peaceful protest.
	The time to go home is now.
	Tonight, officials blocking people from crossing the border into Canada.
	The Canadian Border Services Agency is already turning back non-Canadians trying to enter Canada to participate in blockades.
	For the past three weeks, truckers have been clogging the streets of Ottawa, disrupting daily life, shutting down schools and businesses to protest vaccine mandates and all COVID restrictions.
	But tonight the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest land border crossing between the U.S. and Canada, is back open.
	Police finally clearing the remaining protesters Sunday, arresting more than two dozen people.
	The end to the week-long blockade can't come soon enough for American automakers.
	Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors all forced to shut down plants and cancel shifts due to the disruption in the supply chains of car parts.
	David, this new emergency deployment, which will not involve the military removing protesters, could last as long as 30 days.
	So, I'm just going to play a couple clips that just accentuate what's going on regarding the Emergencies Act.
	That was, I think, quite a shock to Canadians.
	And it's not going over well.
	I tried to get the whole clip.
	I didn't do it and break it down from Trudeau, but I mentioned this.
	He said the Emergencies Act is not the...
	The thing to do as a last resort after the first things have failed.
	And then he says, and now that I mentioned it, after the second things have failed.
	What were the first and second things that failed that he had to do this act that he never says?
	I have no idea.
	He made a point of saying, I'm only doing this because the first and second things have failed.
	Seems like some legal mumbo-jumbo he had to mention to make it stick.
	It seems to be really about one thing and one thing only.
	This is the Deputy Prime Minister of Sisyah Finance.
	We are announcing the following immediate actions.
	First, we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use.
	These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.
	The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.
	Our banks and financial institutions are already obligated to report to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, or FINTRAC. As of today, all crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use must register with FinTrack and they must report large and suspicious transactions to FinTrack.
	It seems to me that that's really what this was about, just to be able to usher that in and stop any kind of money flow.
	Because it was.
	Yeah, well, that's for sure.
	But the funny thing is, if you listen to that carefully, she says, they have to report all large and suspicious.
	Is it large or suspicious or large and suspicious?
	Well, in the finance world, it's known as an SAR. So it's Suspicious Activity Report, which can be large or just suspicious.
	Hold on.
	How suspicious is it?
	Because these crowdfunding things, they clearly state what the money's for on the website.
	Oh, you know, Missy so-and-so has got cancer and we're collecting money for her.
	Suspicious means you don't know what it's for, right?
	That seems to me...
	No.
	She's very clear that this falls under the terrorism financing laws because the truckers have now been deemed terrorists, domestic terrorists.
	That's the whole point.
	I agree with that, but the way she ended it was different.
	She talked about they have to report suspicious.
	Right, but suspicious would be if the money's being raised for terrorists.
	That's suspicious.
	How is that suspicious?
	You know exactly what it's being raised for.
	Okay.
	Ladies and gentlemen, your new Prime Minister of the Year.
	No, I'm just, I'm not on his side.
	No.
	Take a look at the definition of suspicious.
	No, I'm with you.
	That is bullcrap.
	But, hello, it's bullcrap.
	The fact that the Prime Minister is calling his own people terrorists is an issue.
	One of the crowdfunding groups, one or the other, they made a public statement that most of this money, because the Prime Minister also implied that it was Americans and other troublemakers sending the money in, said most of the money is coming from Canadians.
	Well, listen to...
	This is Trudeau's justice minister, who was questioned about giving, and he's a little muddled, but listen to his answer.
	Look, you just compared people who may have donated to this to the same people who are funding maybe a terrorist.
	I just want to be clear here, sir.
	This is really important.
	A lot of folks say, look, I just don't like your vaccine mandates, and I donated to this.
	Now it's illegal.
	Should I be worried that the bank can freeze my account?
	What's your answer to that?
	Well, I think if you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who's donating hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be willing.
	So the Canadian justice minister says if you're a pro-Trump guy or gal...
	What?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and you know what?
	Maybe that's what part of this is about.
	Maybe this is to have some transnational, oh, you know what?
	Our terrorists here in America, our domestic violent extremist terrorists, January 6th, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	January 6th.
	They are now crossing the border.
	So we have to go after Americans now for the Canadians issue.
	Yeah, this is part of the long-term attack.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	There was pushback.
	Some beautiful pushback, in fact.
	I'll play all two and a half minutes of Melissa Lansman.
	She is a conservative party.
	She also has a whole bunch of other excellent qualities.
	She's Jewish and she's lesbian.
	Married to a woman.
	So, kind of, you kind of can't argue against her.
	I mean, she always wins.
	She wins!
	She wins!
	And she, uh, I think she schooled Trudeau.
	Mystic, hopeful vision for public life isn't a naive dream.
	It could be a powerful force for change.
	If Canadians are to trust their government, their government needs to trust Canadians.
	Those are the words of the Prime Minister in 2015.
	Wow.
	These people, very often misogynistic, racist, women haters, science deniers, the fringe.
	Same Prime Minister, six years later, as he fans the flames of an unjustified national emergency.
	So, Mr.
	Speaker, when did the Prime Minister lose his way?
	When did it happen?
	The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
	Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas.
	They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag.
	We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, who be able to get their lives back.
	These illegal protests need to stop, and they will, Mr.
	Speaker.
	I just want to remind the Honourable Members, including the Honourable Right, Honourable Prime Minister, to use words that are not inflammatory in the House. to use words that are not inflammatory in the House.
	And that's for both sides.
	As an aside, once again, it's really a shame we don't have this type of cool shit in Congress.
	So much more active, lively, fun to listen to.
	You get to, you know, use words to really butt-slam somebody.
	In that regard, the parliamentary system is more media-friendly.
	You're right.
	It's more media-friendly.
	I find it to be insulting to the intelligent public.
	I liked it when I first started seeing it, and Canadian stuff is...
	Probably superior to the British, which you don't see it as much, but it's better.
	It really gets lively and starts cussing.
	But after watching the Australian version with that red-headed woman when she was the prime minister, and she was...
	So arrogant, but she was better spoken than pretty much anybody else in the place, and she just burned the crap out of anyone that even said anything against her.
	The problem I have with it is that if you get somebody that's incredibly erudite and very sharp and good at this, one of the guys who's the head of the Oxford Debate Society kind of guy, somebody who's really dynamite, it becomes onerous.
	I don't like it.
	Well, then we will not vote you in for Member of Parliament.
	You won't.
	I'll be on the outside looking in.
	...that are not inflammatory in the House.
	And that's for both sides.
	The Honourable Member for Thornhill.
	Here she comes.
	Unbecoming as a Prime Minister.
	It's been 48 hours that the government went from doing nothing to a national emergency.
	48 hours into using the measures.
	48 hours without providing Parliament with a justification.
	So my question is simple.
	When will the Prime Minister admit that he's lost control of the situation, that he's lost control of his country, that he's lost control of his caucus, and that he's lost control of his leadership?
	The Honourable Prime Minister.
	Thank you.
	On the question of caucus and support for these blockades, the Conservative politicians need to make a choice.
	Are they for the blockades or are they for communities, our economy and regular Canadians?
	The member from Provence pointed out about the illegal blockades, he has never seen such a patriotic display in Canada.
	There's nothing patriotic about hurting fellow Canadians.
	The member from Grand Prairie McKenzie claims that the economy is not being held hostage.
	All the while, hundreds of millions of dollars were being lost in trade drew to barquades.
	And the member from Sarnia Lampton doesn't believe her constituents need guaranteed access now to the Blue Water Bridge.
	Mr.
	Speaker, we stand with Canadians.
	So, you know, Justin is the pretty boy of the class, of the elite class.
	He had a lot of standing.
	He's pretty.
	You know, when you're pretty in politics, you just get some extra points.
	He has no idea what he's doing.
	That whole piece he was all reading, someone else had to write him that rebuttal.
	And all eyes on him.
	And so I think that he feels like, well, I can't screw this up.
	I mean, I have to end this.
	I have to stand strong.
	And everyone else is like, well, if someone's got to go, it might as well be that drip.
	So it's kind of like the whole...
	To me, it feels like the world is watching what's going to happen.
	And around him, I mean, even the Quebecians, the Quebecians, the Quebecs, they're like...
	Quebecois.
	Yeah, Quebecois.
	This is shit.
	This is no good.
	It's making no sense.
	And our favorite crack smoker, Doug Ford, although he waffles around, but here's what he said.
	You know, you can go to Costco, you can go to Walmart, you can go shopping.
	You know, you don't know if the person has a shot besides you or not, but we also know that it doesn't matter if you have one shot or ten shots, you can catch COVID. See, the Prime Minister has triple shots, and I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught COVID. We just have to be careful.
	We've got to always make sure we wash our hands and move forward.
	But, Colin, we can't stay in this position forever.
	We've got to learn to live with this and get on with our lives.
	I bet if I asked every single person in this room, do you want these damn masks or do you want them off?
	They want them off.
	They want to get back to normal.
	They want to be able to go for dinner with their families.
	And there's every single person, including myself, knows people that are unvaccinated.
	You know, sure, there's the rebel rousers.
	And then there's just hardworking people that just don't believe in it.
	And that's their choice.
	This is about, again, that democracy and freedoms and liberties.
	And I hate, as a government, telling anyone what to do.
	We've just got to get moving forward and get out of this and protect the jobs.
	You know, I think a lot of people, Colin, probably yourself too, everyone's done with us.
	Like, we are done with it.
	Let's start moving on and cautiously and, you know, we've followed the rules, all of us, like 90% of us, for over two years.
	The world's done with it.
	So, let's just move forward.
	So he's not, you know, a lot of people are like, yeah, he butt-slammed Trudeau.
	He said, we're not having it.
	No, he didn't really.
	He's basically on Trudeau's side.
	That's what it sounds like to me.
	He's no friend.
	No, he has been since the beginning.
	If you watch his earlier clips, he was very much on Trudeau's side.
	He's afraid of being bum-rushed by the public and decapitated.
	Which is probably a valid fear.
	Not a bad idea.
	And the other guy who was on Trudeau's side is the police, chief of police.
	Didn't he resign?
	Didn't he resign?
	Yeah, he quit.
	But he was on Trudeau's side.
	I don't know.
	It makes no sense that he quit.
	Don't you know why?
	He's black.
	The racists threaten him.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	This is a story!
	Is that what he said?
	Yes!
	He got out for good.
	The real reason is he knew that this is not going to end well.
	Exactly.
	He doesn't have anything to do with it.
	Fun clip floating around of Pierre Trudeau.
	That was funny.
	I mean, you sent the newsletter.
	Yeah, it's cute.
	How did that happen?
	Well, I know how it happens when you brought it up in the last show and it got stuck in my brain because you talked about his dad, Pierre.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so for some reason it got stuck.
	So I wrote the newsletter.
	You said Pierre Trudeau instead of Justin.
	I'm like, whoa, COVID, man.
	This is crap.
	I had to think about it, too.
	Wait a minute.
	That's not his name, is it?
	Scratch, scratch.
	Here's one of those fun little videos that comes back to...
	It's out of context, no doubt, but it's always fun to listen to.
	Even with Sun TV watching for any slip, he was asked which country he most admired and referred to China.
	There's a level of admiration I actually have for China.
	Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast as we need to start, you know, investing in solar.
	I mean, there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he could do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.
	Of course, they all love it.
	Not just Trudeau.
	They all love it.
	They all love the dictatorship idea.
	It's just great.
	It's so much fun.
	And the joke of it is, of course, China's more industrialized in terms of, like, just pollution than anyone.
	And watching the Olympics is just hilarious, especially that ski jump, which is right in the middle between a bunch of cooling towers.
	Nuclear cooling towers.
	What?
	They're nuclear cooling towers, aren't they?
	Looks like it's a million.
	Well, that type of cooling tower can be for anything, but I don't know if there's a nuclear plant there or not.
	There might be.
	There should be, because you're right.
	That's what I'd be showing.
	When you see that type of cooling tower, it tends to be in a nuke.
	See, to me, and I'd like to know, because to me it kind of said China says, oh, look!
	There's no coal here.
	We got nuke.
	We're clean.
	We're clean.
	But to see the guys on a snowboard flying high in the air on the big air, whatever they call that one thing, and a cooling tower in the background is weird.
	Some of the photos are priceless.
	Yeah.
	And, I mean, that whole event thing is just out of control.
	Meanwhile, I do have these clips I want to get out of the way, which are kind of the opposite of the way we see things.
	Okay.
	And this is all over the country, and we can't deny it exists.
	It's everywhere.
	These are the left-wing, not left-wing, but actually centrist...
	There's centrist talk show guys who actually carry water for the left.
	Really?
	Who are these guys?
	They're all over.
	They're everywhere.
	We have one here at KGO. The lineup on KGO AM here in 810 has got mostly these guys.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it's California, so yeah, you're going to have these guys.
	No, they're everywhere.
	Don't kid yourself.
	All right.
	And they're always local, though.
	They don't really have, you know, there's no syndication for them because what they're really, I don't think they have the ability to get syndicated.
	Their stuff is too, well, you'll hear it.
	They're obsessive.
	I want you to listen to him go off on Tucker Carlson.
	And this is very common with the left all over the country because we don't fully understand it.
	Tucker brings it up once a while on the show.
	But let's listen to John Rothman on TC810. John, I'm very, very worried about what Russia is about to do.
	Invading Ukraine is going to create a worldwide catastrophe.
	Now, we've talked about this a lot, but I want to approach this from a slightly different situation.
	I'm in the business of being a commentator and a talk show host.
	I'm not in the news business.
	I do essentially what others do in this business, including Tucker Carlson.
	So I want to ask a question.
	The Fox News host, Tucker Carlson.
	And I use Fox and News together with deep regret.
	He has called Ukraine's democratically elected president, Zelensky, a dictator, and has questioned why the U.S. isn't on Russia's side.
	In his show on Monday, which I watched when I got home, Tucker Carlson claimed Democrats in the United States were wrongly framing the Russia-Ukraine crisis as good versus evil because he claimed Ukraine is not a democracy.
	Carlson...
	We should remind you, we've previously sought to directly compare Russia to Ukraine despite their different political systems.
	You understand Russia is an authoritarian regime ruled by Vladimir Putin, while Ukraine is a democracy.
	Zelensky was elected.
	I want to ask you what you think about this.
	I want to know whether you consider...
	Tucker Carlson to be in the category of Tokyo Rose, broadcast for Japan during World War II. Or maybe like Lord HaHa, who broadcast for Germany.
	So I guess we're off COVID then.
	I thought we weren't on COVID. No, we were on the truckers.
	We were talking about the Canadians.
	Yeah, the truckers, yeah.
	Oh, no, it comes in.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	COVID? Oh, you poor guy.
	This is just an aside.
	This is just an aside.
	I want to play this little aside just so you get a feeling for this guy.
	And his ilk.
	It's not just him.
	Tucker Carlson.
	This is the John Rothman aside.
	Tucker Carlson.
	And I got to tell you, he's a pure propagandist for Russia.
	Do you think I'm wrong in saying that?
	And then you have Prime Minister Trudeau, who invoked emergency powers to quell the COVID restriction protest, and the right is accusing him of being a dictator.
	Where does this John Roth come from?
	John Rothman.
	Yes, John Rothman.
	I'll look him up.
	Yeah, look him up.
	If you just put him in Google, he'll show up.
	He's actually a book writer, and he was always a Republican, and he's written a lot of books on the Republican Party.
	He worked for Nixon.
	He worked for the Nixon 68 presidential campaign.
	He is a...
	What he is, he's a...
	He's...
	Probably puts himself out there as a talk show host as a left-wing Democrat for his audience.
	But in fact, he is probably, I would say, a liberal Republican who is an adamant never-Trumper.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	Just hates the guy.
	Yeah, like most conservatives in California.
	Just hates the guy.
	Mm-hmm.
	So let's go...
	So the premise is set.
	Tucker Carlson is Tokyo Rose, and Fox News is the Hitler Network.
	Let's take a couple calls.
	Let's go with John Roth, Caller 1.
	Caller 1, you're on.
	Let's go to Roger, calling from Alameda.
	Roger, welcome to KGO. Hi, John.
	Tucker Carlson is anti-American because he's anti-democracy, and he's also in favor of dictators and strongmen like Putin in Russia.
	And John, I need to disagree with you on one thing.
	Please.
	Well, agree and disagree at the same time.
	I agree that Donald Trump was not a dictator, but he, with all his heart, He aspired to become a dictator.
	Oh, I agree with you.
	I agree with you.
	I just listen to him now and I'm appalled.
	These people are insane!
	This is the pajama class.
	This is the pajama class, baby.
	These are not...
	These are...
	I don't know what...
	Let's go to Caller 1, Part 2, and now we talk a little bit about Canada.
	So he would have loved to become a dictator, Donald Trump, and to have his children inherit somehow his process.
	And I want to say regard Canada.
	John, there is a big difference between people rioting, like on January 6th of 2021, to overturn a free and fair election, to corrupt that election, versus people who are rioting and demonstrating and breaking versus people who are rioting and demonstrating and breaking the law to try to stop common sense, factual, medical means of controlling a pandemic.
	One is trying to overthrow a democratic process, and the other people are trying to impede a process to keep the citizens of their country healthy.
	That guy was from New York, though.
	He wasn't from California, was he?
	Oh, Alameda.
	Oh, California is lost.
	California has fallen.
	Raise the wall.
	You have the same people in Austin?
	Which I left.
	Austin has fallen.
	And you probably have the same people nearby, but there's just not as many of them in the hill country.
	They have targets on their back.
	It's very sad to see.
	Yeah, well, they probably should.
	But that guy, I think Caller 1 was the best.
	I do have Caller 2, if you want to just hear a little bit of him.
	He won't be as good as this first guy.
	His analysis of the Canadian protests.
	Riots.
	They're riots.
	I don't know what these guys are seeing.
	If anyone does any research...
	Wait a minute.
	January 6th was a riot.
	Well, he also said it's different than the riots in Canada.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	This is misdism and mal-informed people.
	They're mal people.
	They're dismal.
	Let's listen to Caller 2.
	Let's go to Rich calling from Sacramento.
	John, does the terms shamelessly pandering to the lowest common denominator of your audience, facts be damned, make any sense to you?
	Because it sure does to me.
	Well, I can't agree with you on one thing.
	Tucker is pandering shamelessly, and the question is why?
	I don't have an answer.
	Well, I think I can probably pretty much come up with one.
	You have a Republican Party that is looking right down the face at becoming almost irrelevant, and certainly a minority party for the very foreseeable future, at which point they will grab at anything and any...
	Yeah, these are people who are stuck on Twitter and Facebook, and the only thing they can do is think in political terms.
	Everything is political for them.
	Everything.
	Well, when you take a look, for example, at a Rob Reiner Twitter feed, all it is is he never even tells a joke.
	It's all politics.
	Yeah.
	Mostly about Trump still.
	Well, they're on a mission because, you know, if they don't get him in jail or kill him, he might become president again.
	This is a problem.
	Oh, my God.
	Problem!
	I have one last short little clip that I don't know why it's on here.
	It may be just that it's a seven-second thing, so it must have been something stupid, he said.
	John Roth on email.
	Okay.
	Rob emails, go Freedom Truckers.
	Go where, Rob?
	Go where?
	Yeah.
	That was his idea of humor.
	Oh.
	Hey, go Freedom Truckers.
	So he gets an email from someone that says, go Freedom Truckers.
	And so his retort is, go where?
	Yeah.
	Go where, Rob?
	Go where?
	So in other words, if you were at a football game and say, go team, go where?
	Where's the team going to go?
	I mean, come on.
	Well, that's just, the guy's clearly not a good radio guy.
	He should consider a podcast, maybe.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's got one.
	Okay, so I think we should go into Russia now because that...
	That's, by the way, I just wanted to play these because that's the other side of the coin.
	I will reintroduce this guy because I have yet...
	Let me give you some background.
	When I'm driving around, I listen to this guy and he's talking about vaccines and one person after another is calling in saying, people who don't take the vaccine should be killed!
	Right?
	I mean, they're stupid.
	They're dumb people.
	There's anti-vaccine.
	And one after another, and he's got that kind of, yeah, I think you're right.
	I feel the same way.
	And so I wanted to get those clips, and I ended up getting these clips.
	Let me read the headline from this morning.
	I have some clips, but it seems like you have it covered really, really well.
	I'll start off with Jen Psaki from Yesterday.
	Well, she will be traveling, as many of you have been following this know, to Munich, Germany, to attend the February 18th to 20th Munich Security Conference.
	She will build on the President's and the national security team's intensive engagement with European allies and partners and emphasize and continue to emphasize with our partners our inclined commitment to our NATO allies, underscore our commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity,
	and reaffirm our shared interest in upholding the principles that have underpinned I know her team is planning for a preview call for all of you, I believe later this evening, to give you more details of those bilateral meetings.
	But I would say in terms of her engagements and what the President expects, he expects and knows, given she is the first in the room and the last in the room, that she will continue to...
	Oh, last in the room.
	To the rest of the world, again, our NATO allies, our commitment to defending the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, and our commitment to putting in place severe economic consequences should Russia invade.
	So that preview call was done, and here's the Washington Post version, and they hedge really well, but they set it up for, you know, Kamala could be the heroine, or who knows?
	Harris is leading the American delegation to the Munich Security Conference, a high-profile annual gathering with big stakes for the Biden presidency, Harris's political future, and a continent shadowed by one of the gravest military threats since World War II. While Russian President Vladimir Putin masses 150,000 Russian troops on the Ukraine border, Harris will be holding a series of meetings with European leaders and delivering an address to hundreds of officials.
	It's a pivotal moment for a vice president with little foreign policy experience, one who has presidential ambitions, but no long-term connection to President Biden.
	Ben Rhodes...
	Deputy National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama said that other nations will be turning to the U.S., meaning Harris, for guidance, especially if hostilities erupt during the three-day conference which starts Friday.
	So they're ready for her to be the hero, but they're couching it.
	Well, I have to say, before I get into this, but I have to say that I'm now becoming more and more in line with your thinking that this is an attempt to build Harris from scratch.
	And I was convinced of that by the three-parter that I got from NPR discussing exactly what you just brought up.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	And they do a much better job than the WAPO or anybody else when it comes to building up bull crap.
	I'm so happy you got this.
	Oh, you should be.
	I got COVID, man, okay?
	So I couldn't find everything.
	This morning?
	Yeah.
	I'm going to read this from a newsletter I get called The Debrief, which is some spook thing of some sort.
	Can you subscribe me?
	Yeah, I'd do that.
	It's the Defense Department stuff.
	Cool.
	Another worrying indicator.
	By the way, they're predicting...
	Worrying indicator.
	Before we go with another worrying indicator, let me read some other stuff.
	Well, first they talk about, they're all in on the idea that the Russians are making up stories about Donbass.
	And, by the way, evidence on the, quote, evidence on the grounds Russia is moving toward an imminent invasion tomorrow or today, according to America's ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas.
	She tweeted Tuesday morning, quote, This is a crucial moment.
	Today's council meeting should not retract us from that.
	It should focus on what is happening right now in Ukraine.
	And she predicted today or tomorrow is going to be an invasion.
	It's on her Twitter.
	So they go on and then there's this.
	Goes on about what happened to the TAS News site, blah, blah, blah.
	Oh, sorry.
	I got this thing printed on both sides.
	Another worrying indicator, this from the debrief.
	Alleged Russian back forces struck a kindergarten with artillery fire on Thursday.
	That's this morning.
	Yeah.
	In Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, Olga Tokaruk of the Center for European Policy Analysis flagged on Twitter with a few supporting photos.
	Oh.
	Wait, what's the name of her outfit, please?
	This is the Center for European Policy Analysis.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	We can deconstruct that any time.
	Yeah.
	Precise casualty numbers are unclear.
	The Journal reports two teachers were wounded, but fortunately no one seems to have been killed in the attack.
	So now, we're pre-told that the Russians are going to, first they do a cyber attack.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Stop.
	The Center for European Policy Analysis is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit.
	Well, that tells you all you need to know.
	All right, people.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Keep going.
	So the way I... So the Russians were going to start with artillery.
	So the first thing, the wisest thing to do is shell...
	A kindergarten.
	Yeah, that's how you do it.
	Yeah.
	Take that, Harris!
	You American Yankee!
	Now, further analysis later in the newsletter indicates that this is probably Ukrainian separatist forces firing the shells into the kindergarten because they got nothing else to shoot at.
	And one of the analysts of this stuff says, there's no way that the Russian separatists are going to fire...
	The word is that the artillery, if they have any artillery, but they do, it never gets fired without the explicit approval of Putin.
	Oh, of course.
	Goes without saying.
	I got these guys lined up.
	Call Putin!
	So call Putin.
	That's the way I see it.
	Call Putin.
	All right.
	Just briefly, because I'm obsessed with this stuff, this SIPA we were talking about.
	So the chairman of the board is Larry Hirsch, which is a huge hedge fund guy.
	Makes total sense.
	The vice chairman of the board, State Department spook.
	I mean, come on, people.
	This is so insulting.
	These guys, this is...
	This is, it's like a very thinly veiled pitch company.
	I bet you they're on K Street too, dicks.
	Where are they?
	Alright, here we go.
	Alright, what are we doing?
	Let's go back to Harris.
	I guess the best word is grooming her to take over the job, which is your thesis.
	I'll give you credit for that.
	And I'm going to be in agreement.
	And let's listen to Harris in Munich.
	Harris in Munich.
	Another piece of all this.
	Vice President Harris leaves tomorrow for Germany.
	She'll meet with allies on edge about Russia.
	Harris will be speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
	That's an annual gathering of kind of the who's who of global security leaders.
	This is her fifth trip overseas and by far the one with the highest stakes.
	NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordonez has more.
	Franco!
	Vice President Harris is relatively new to international diplomacy.
	And in her first year on the job, it didn't...
	Okay, we have to...
	NPR! You've got to hire other people, or at least try and EQ that a little bit.
	This is not radio voices, people.
	...international diplomacy, and in her first year on the job, it didn't always go smoothly.
	What happens abroad is of priority to the United States of America, and that is why I am in Guatemala today.
	On that trip, her first, she fumbled a question about her strategy on migration and why she hadn't been to the U.S. border.
	And I haven't been to Europe.
	I don't understand the point that you're making.
	Her subsequent trips have been a lot smoother, including one to Europe, meeting the major leaders at a big summit in Paris.
	This week and this visit included many conversations with many foreign leaders.
	I believe there are at least 30 heads of state who have attended the various meetings that we have been having.
	And she has also been in the room for some of Biden's biggest national security decisions, the evacuation of Kabul and the U.S. raid that killed an ISIS leader.
	The vice president who is increasingly playing a larger role when it comes to U.S. foreign policy.
	Haley Soifer was a national security advisor to Harris in Congress.
	She says Munich is a real opportunity for Harris to showcase her leadership.
	Ha!
	Great!
	So right now the Dow Jones is down 400 points.
	NASDAQ down 300.
	Stocks extend losses as Russia-Ukraine tensions weigh on markets.
	You know, just wait.
	And what do you think?
	Will it pop Monday or Friday?
	When are they going to do it?
	When are they going to do the big pop when Harris solves everything?
	This is so obvious.
	You know, if somebody knows what the timeline is, I don't.
	I wish we knew.
	This is good.
	All right.
	Harris, that was the end?
	Is that the whole clip?
	Yeah, that was the end of one.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, she's being groomed, and they make it very clear in here.
	They can't really hide their motives, these people at NPR. What do you mean?
	This is like a native ad.
	They were brought into the whole scheme.
	Yeah, it's like a native ad for Harris, you're right.
	So let's go to part two.
	She's delivering a message from President Biden, and she is in her own right the leader from the administration who really is serving as the point when it comes to national security.
	That message is expected to be about the U.S. support for Ukraine.
	Biden says he's looking for a diplomatic resolution with Russia and wants allies to be united.
	The source of our unbreakable strength continues to be the power, resilience, and universal appeal Of our shared democratic values.
	Because this is about more than just Russia and Ukraine.
	Harris will deliver remarks to the Munich conference, and she will also meet one-on-one with some leaders to make sure everyone is on the same page about what to do if Moscow does invade.
	We are potentially at the cusp of the most significant military operation in Europe since World War II. Ivo Dalder served as a U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration.
	He says there are a lot of diverse interests in NATO, so it's crucial that Harris sees this moment to show the U.S. can bring everyone together.
	Oh, man!
	You know what's just going to be funny?
	Even this, she is capable of screwing it up.
	Oh, capable.
	I'd take money on her screwing it up.
	This setup is so good for her.
	All she has to do is just wait for the package to roll when she declares victory and smile and don't cackle too much.
	I don't think she can handle it.
	I think you're right.
	I don't think she can either.
	She's going to say something stupid.
	You know why?
	Because she doesn't get it.
	Now I look back on it, I don't think she's that bright.
	No.
	No.
	I never really gave her much credit.
	She's going to drop the ball on something.
	She's going to be asked a simple question.
	She's going to have some snide remarks.
	She's going to offend somebody.
	Yeah.
	She has no clue about some of these European mentalities when it comes to being offended.
	Here's where she'll screw it up.
	She'll try to be tough and she'll answer something with a tough guy attitude and it's just going to be wrong.
	Hilarious, though.
	I think that's a very possible scenario.
	That's what she does.
	Trying to be tough.
	But this is do-or-die time.
	They tried it with the Jesse Smollett lynching thing and the lynching bill, and she was supposed to be the hero of the blacks, and that failed because, guess what?
	The blacks went, uh-uh, reject.
	And so now they're going to try it with Putin.
	And so what do you think?
	If you were Putin...
	I think I would do everything to make this work for her.
	I would want her to be president so bad.
	Don't you think?
	Well, I never thought of it that way.
	That's a good concept.
	Why not?
	Thank you, COVID. Why not?
	Thank you, COVID. That would be great.
	He's like, oh, hey, hey, Lavrov, let the stupid woman go.
	No, now that you mention that idea, and again, like I mentioned, the write-up I did in Substack, That Putin's always, they always say this, and I've always irked by the fact that all of a sudden they're not saying it anymore.
	Putin's playing chess while we're playing checkers.
	And if that's still true and plays out, that's exactly what he wants.
	Of course.
	So to get some dimwit like Kamala Harris is president of the United States, he could do whatever he wants.
	Him and China, both of them do high fives if she got in.
	So, the question is, do you do the long swing from Friday to Monday?
	Because he's talking to his buddies about it.
	Hey, I play this woman good.
	This'll be fun.
	Place bets.
	Guys like Lavrov aren't slouches either.
	Lavrov is highly intelligent.
	I mean, he's surrounded by a bunch of, you know, smartasses.
	Here we are, carrying water for Putin again, John.
	Yeah, carrying water for Putin.
	Here we are, calling him smart.
	We're horrible.
	I hope Megyn Kelly doesn't hear me.
	You guys are idiots.
	I hope Megyn Kelly doesn't hear it.
	Whoever knew that they had any intelligence.
	Let's play part three.
	And it is very important that in order to either prevent it or to respond to it, NATO and all of our allies speak with one voice.
	There's been a lot of uncertainty in Europe about how much the US still cares about European security.
	Look, I think people in Europe, you know, know that America is on the cusp of really significant demographic and political changes.
	Constance Stolzenholler writes about transatlantic issues at the Brookings Institution.
	Wait a minute.
	What was that?
	I don't understand what that woman said.
	Is she talking about America?
	Yes.
	She's from Brookings.
	This is actually the best part of these three clips.
	Okay, I'm going to start it over.
	I'll give you a brief.
	So you can kind of hear where she's going.
	I'll give you a brief.
	I'll give you some of my heads up.
	America is changing.
	And we're not a white country anymore.
	We're not going to be.
	We've got to put forward a new look.
	Harris is the new look.
	She is the look of America.
	She's the new Coke.
	And as such...
	She has to make sure that the old rules still apply.
	In other words, America's gonna look different, but we're gonna be the same toughies.
	Yeah, because Kamala, she's the tough top cop on the beat.
	And it is very important that in order to either prevent it or to respond to it, NATO and all of our allies speak with one voice.
	There's been a lot of uncertainty in Europe about how much the US still cares about European security.
	Look, I think people in Europe, you know, know that America is on the cusp of a really significant demographic and political changes.
	Constance Stolzenmuller writes about transatlantic issues at the Brookings Institution.
	She says there's little doubt where Biden and his generation stand, but Harris can help define what it will look like for the future.
	This is an opportunity for the vice president to step onto the stage in Munich and to say, I am the face of the next America, and this America cares about its place in the world, and it cares about peace in the world and rules and democracy, and we will stand by our allies.
	Because, she says, the crisis is as much about confronting Russia as it is about establishing whether Europe matters to the next generation of Americans.
	Oh, man, this will be the speech of her career.
	This will be the one that.
	She can't deliver a speech.
	She's got that whiny voice.
	She's going to blow this up.
	There's no way.
	If she gets through it, I mean, the Russians are going to have to help her.
	Yeah, they're going to have to.
	So, timing-wise, she's flying there.
	It starts tomorrow.
	So we would need...
	Maybe the kindergarten was a little trial balloon.
	They need something a little more concrete, a little scarier.
	We had the...
	The jets flying by, naval vessels.
	We need some of these things to kind of ratchet.
	It goes on all the time.
	The market is doing its job.
	They've figured it out.
	This is good.
	Scary, scary.
	Scary, scary.
	Wow.
	Oh, wow.
	You didn't say oh, wow.
	You said wow.
	The Hill reported, just as an extra benefit, the U.S. drawdown of its embassy in Kiev, as we like to pronounce it, because we carry water for Putin,...has included the destruction of some immigration and travel documents as part of protocol to protect sensitive information.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Monday the U.S. would shutter its embassy in Kiev amid threats of Russian invasion into Ukraine.
	The document destruction was discussed on a call February 12th between Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian McKeon and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks, notes of which were provided to congressional staff and obtained by The Hill.
	All embassies are spy stations.
	I think the embassy in Ukraine, as we know from who was there during the Trump administration, what was going on there, that just might have been handy to burn some shit behind him.
	Let's just clean everything up that might involve Joe or Hunter or anything like that.
	What do you think?
	Well, yeah.
	In fact, we got a note from one of our producers whose son is in the Foreign Service and keeps up with this stuff, and he's in one of the embassies where they do this sort of thing.
	And he says that they're destroying and getting rid of all the computers, even though they could move them.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	They're going to Lviv, this other little town that's close to Poland.
	They're moving everybody there.
	It's actually where they're going.
	They're not leaving the country.
	Right.
	But there were some comments about there's going to be like a million dollars worth.
	The phone system has been yanked out.
	Oh, yeah.
	The Cisco servers, to the tune of a couple hundred thousand dollars worth, are being destroyed or hacked up.
	And so I guess there's some...
	What you said is probably...
	Yeah, part of it.
	Yeah, I mean, it's handy to do that.
	And they said they can't.
	The other thing is, now they won't be able to move back in, because once they move out of there, the Russians will go in and bug the hell out of the place.
	You'll never be able to use it again.
	So the place is now just abandoned, I guess.
	I'm going to play a couple clips from the CIA broadcasting systems.
	It's their job, obviously, to ratchet this up here stateside.
	Good evening, Nora.
	U.S. officials tell CBS News that it's likely...
	Brit, of course.
	Always bring in the Brit.
	Russian cyber actors have already targeted Ukraine's government, military and critical infrastructure to collect intelligence.
	It's feared an invasion could be preceded by devastating cyber attacks.
	The Russian government claims this video shows columns of its military vehicles leaving Crimea.
	But today's satellite images of Russia's troop buildup on Ukraine's border reportedly show heightened military activity, as well as a new pontoon bridge and a large field hospital.
	Both in Belarus to Ukraine's north, where Russia's carrying out a massive military exercise.
	There's, you know, what Russia says, and there's what Russia does, and we're watching very closely what steps they're taking, but they remain amassed in a threatening way at the border.
	There's skepticism from Washington all the way to Ukraine, where thousands gathered today to demonstrate their unity in the face of the Russian threat.
	I have my emergency bag in my flat and I'm ready to defend my country.
	It's two different countries and they must understand that it's two different countries.
	Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, also says he's seen no sign of a Russian pullback.
	He observed Ukrainian military drills today.
	If there's an invasion, it will be a David and Goliath battle.
	Ukraine's military is estimated to have roughly a quarter the manpower of Russia's and less than a tenth of Russia's fighter aircraft.
	Do you still think it's possible that Russia will invade?
	Please don't have any doubt on that.
	Petro Poroshenko is the former president of Ukraine and told us this crisis is just one episode in a new Cold War between the West and Russia.
	My two pieces of advice.
	First, don't trust Putin.
	Second, don't be afraid of Putin.
	So, there's your setup.
	I love the people.
	I have my bag.
	I got my gold bag.
	I'm ready to go.
	I defend my country!
	Ah, beautiful CBS. Someone deserves a raise there on the remote team.
	So let's do two quickies then from the evening news.
	Margaret Brennan is conducting.
	What are you hearing from your sources when Russia might strike?
	Well, Russia is poised to attack at any time.
	But U.S. officials now believe the timeline for potential attack has pushed out another four or five days.
	That puts us past the Olympics, past The key gathering of leaders this weekend in Germany.
	And in fact, Ukraine's president is scheduled to be out of the country at that summit over this weekend, which sources have indicated to me may not be the best idea for him.
	But right now, given the threat level to his country, more than 60 percent of Russia's standing army is at high alert right at the border.
	I mean, you'd have to give Harris, if you're Putin and you're playing this game and you want her to be the next president, because this is the biggest PSYOP ever, I mean, you have to do something so that she can say, hey, don't you dare, Russia, and he could go, okay.
	It has to be something big, but then something you can move away right away, something, I don't know.
	He doesn't have to do anything because they've got all the video planned, I'm sure.
	The video's been already pre-produced.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's my final clip, then.
	We want to know, of course, what is Putin's strategy, actually?
	That's really interesting about the timeline.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's really interesting about the timeline.
	I mean, I can't even think why that would be interesting, but it's really interesting.
	Hang on.
	That's really interesting about the timeline.
	Hang on, hang on.
	What do officials think Putin is really after here?
	What's he doing?
	What's his strategy?
	That's what has kept everyone guessing.
	But really, what I hear is that Putin gives himself many different options.
	That's the way he plays this.
	And U.S. and European allies are slightly different in their assessment.
	Some Europeans believe that he is trying coercion, negotiating with the West while it has a gun to its head.
	Others, like the United States, think he actually does intend to use these military forces.
	And one potential flashpoint is in the southeast of Ukraine, in this region called Donbas.
	There are pro-Russian separatists who have been fighting there, and Putin has been running propaganda claiming there's a genocide underway.
	He may try to use that as a predicate to justify an invasion, which he could do at any time.
	Meanwhile, the U.S. is just trying to talk him out of it.
	Trying to talk him out of it.
	That will be Vice President Kamala.
	Well, I have a couple of...
	I have the State Department briefing from yesterday.
	Groovy.
	Is Matt in there?
	Ned Price.
	Yeah.
	You know, Ned Price was the guy who left the CIA because Donald Trump spoke at the...
	Remember when he spoke at the CIA? And he was only speaking to the press.
	He was disrespectful of the men and women on the wall.
	And that guy's...
	And he wrote this whole op-ed about how he had Washington Post.
	Oh, jeez.
	What a drip.
	He's a total drip, and he's arrogant, and he's just...
	I do have a little bit of Matt, but Matt wasn't going to be there long.
	He had to get on a plane because he hasn't got a flag coach to get to Munich.
	Oh, he's at the conference, of course.
	Good old Matt.
	I wonder if Matt...
	Matt could still ruin Kamala's plan.
	Matt could.
	They kept him in abeyance in this little president.
	Matt, Matt, let it go, man.
	It'll be a lot more fun if she's president.
	Just let it go.
	I think it's dangerous if she's president personally.
	I don't like it.
	I'm still not arguing the point.
	So let's listen to the opener.
	He comes in and he gives us the briefing.
	This is from yesterday now.
	And he gets one follow-up question from Matt, which is just to say, I'll preview this.
	Ned says, you can't believe anything anyone says when it's from the official sources.
	And Matt comes on to only say, so that I guess would include you.
	Woo!
	And then another woman comes on after the second question.
	She comes on and asks them, hey, weren't we supposed to be at war today?
	Yeah, hey.
	Because yesterday, Wednesday, was the day the Russians were supposed to attack.
	Yeah.
	What happened?
	We forget that.
	Your intel.
	Let's go with the State Department briefing Wednesday opener.
	You heard from the Secretary once again today that we are doing everything we possibly can to seek to find a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
	He sounds like Trudeau, by the way.
	Oh, he does a little bit.
	You're right.
	Yeah, Ned Price is openly gay.
	And he has a Trudeau cadence and sound.
	It's a milieu thing.
	I didn't know Ned Price was gay.
	Openly.
	I mean, is he walking around like...
	Hey, I'm gay!
	I don't know what that means either, but it's not a secret.
	That's the opener of our show, that's for sure.
	You heard from the Secretary once again today that we are doing everything we possibly can to seek to find a peaceful resolution to the crisis Moscow has needlessly precipitated.
	But those efforts, as we've said, will be effective only if the Russian Federation is willing to de-escalate.
	To be very, very clear, we have not seen that.
	In fact, we have seen the opposite.
	In recent weeks and even in recent days, more Russian forces, not fewer, are at the border.
	And they are moving, concerningly, into fighting positions.
	This is cause for profound concern.
	past several weeks, we've also seen Russian officials and Russian media plant numerous stories in the press, any one of which could be elevated to serve as a pretext for an invasion.
	This could happen, we are concerned, at any time, and the world should be ready for it.
	It could involve claims about Ukrainian military activity in the Donbass, false claims of U.S. or NATO activities on land, at sea, or air.
	Even claims of Ukrainian or NATO incursions into Russian territory.
	We are particularly concerned about President Putin and other Russian officials, their ongoing mentions of quote-unquote genocide in the Donbass.
	There is no basis of truth to any of these allegations.
	This, however, has not stopped the Russians from advancing these false claims to include reports of unmarked mass graves of civilians allegedly killed by Ukrainian armed forces and statements that the United States or Ukraine are developing biological or chemical weapons, the latter for use in the Russian controlled territory.
	Holy crap, man.
	We do this for a living.
	Have you heard any of that nonsense?
	Did you hear anything about biological weapons?
	Not yet.
	Uh-huh.
	Thanks, Ned.
	Or that the West is funneling so-called guerrillas and terrorists in to kill locals.
	These allegations, again, are entirely, completely false.
	They are entirely untrue.
	These are false narratives that Russia is developing for use as a pretext for military action against Ukraine.
	In December, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu accused NATO and the United States of planning to quote-unquote commit provocations by delivering tanks of quote unidentified chemical components to the Donbass region for Ukraine's use.
	These are straight out of Russia's well-documented playbook, including from its previous military incursions into Ukraine and Georgia, And from disinformation operations in other parts of the world, including in Syria, where Russia continues to conduct a disinformation campaign to defend Syria's use of chemical weapons.
	What?
	Chemical weapons?
	Chemical weapons?
	They keep putting it back in play?
	That's brazen.
	That's really brazen.
	It's unbelievable to me.
	This is the spokesperson for our Blinken's, Tony Blinken Winken's State Department.
	This is pathetic.
	Hey, what kind of name is Ned, anyway?
	Ned.
	My name's Ned.
	Because it's short for Edward, but how do you get Ned out of Edward?
	Ned Flanders.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	And he looks like a Ned.
	He looks like a...
	Yeah, well, let's listen to the quickie before he leaves, because he's got to catch Coach to get the immunity.
	Does he say that?
	Does he say Coach?
	Does he have to fly Coach?
	No, he never says that, but you know he's pissed off.
	Associated Press is not flying in first class.
	He's not allowed on the vice presidential aircraft.
	That's what's happening.
	They've kicked him off.
	Yeah.
	Because he's annoying.
	No, he's not going to be on any government plane because he's not playing ball.
	Right.
	Well, let's listen to the State Department.
	The briefing, part two are...
	People must treat any and all of these claims with the appropriate and healthy skepticism, especially when they come from Russian state media sources and aren't backed up by independent media reporting.
	Russia relies on confusion.
	Russia relies on obfuscation.
	Russia relies on misinformation and disinformation to cover its tracks.
	We should all expect that, and we should all be ready for it.
	With that, happy to take your questions.
	Thanks, Ned.
	But you would expect the same thing for claims and allegations that you guys make, that they shouldn't just be accepted on face value?
	It is your job to ask questions.
	It is our job to offer the best information that we have available to us.
	Thanks, Ned.
	Troublemaker.
	So let's listen to this woman.
	This is the last one on this press event.
	The place was really...
	Nobody goes to these things.
	The State Department press event, there's maybe five people there, six?
	Sometimes Andrea Mitchell goes.
	Yeah, these are all...
	You should come to this one because we're going to say something that's going to be important.
	Yeah, so we can use a clip on the show.
	Hey, here's what I want you to ask so you can use that clip on tonight's broadcast.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	That's what they do.
	State Department, this is the one, where's today's attack, this woman's asking.
	This is a pretty good little exchange.
	She's not as aggressive as Matt, but she at least puts the question out there.
	Speaking of intelligence, US officials and others have heavily pointed towards this week about the potential start of an invasion, specifically today.
	There was like a lot of alarm across Twitter in Ukraine last night.
	It hasn't happened yet.
	So is that assessment, is that intelligence still valid?
	Are you pushing it a little bit towards next week?
	Can you explain why?
	Wow!
	She's just saying, hey, are you going to push it off to next week?
	This obvious scam you're putting together?
	She's kind of saying that.
	Still valid.
	Are you pushing it a little bit towards next week?
	Can you explain why it hasn't materialized?
	We've said for some time now that we are in a window where Putin could order an invasion or an attack on Ukraine at a moment's notice.
	That has been the case for some time precisely because this buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine's borders in Belarus, other tactics and moves that we've seen have poised, have positioned Russia to be able to do this at any moment.
	That remains our assessment.
	It could take place tomorrow.
	It could take place next week.
	It could take place before the end of the Olympics.
	It could take place I want to be very clear.
	Our concern has not diminished an iota.
	And our concern continues to grow, given that we have yet to see de-escalation, and given that, in the absence of de-escalation, we've actually seen escalation.
	In the absence of escalation, we've seen escalation?
	No, in the absence of de-escalation, we've seen escalation.
	Man, if it's true, if this thesis is true, they are really going all out on this.
	What other possible...
	Well, of course, everyone saw your substack.
	The crisis in Ukraine is driving up oil and gas prices here at home.
	Gas prices are now averaging $3.35 per gallon nationwide, but many experts warn prices will likely average $4 by spring.
	Some Democrats want to suspend the federal gas tax for relief.
	Oh.
	Oh, how about that?
	No, no, wait.
	Let's get this straight.
	I didn't get the clip, but I can tell you the clip.
	I don't think I have it.
	So we have a new gas tax going into effect in June.
	In California.
	Yeah, I added another 50 cents or something to our price, which is already, yeah.
	Per gallon?
	Wait, wait, per gallon?
	Something like that, yes.
	It's for the roads.
	Even though the gas tax on the gasoline already is supposed to be for road fixing.
	No, no, no.
	They stole all that money for education and whatever else that they stole.
	Actually, not even that.
	Their lottery money now goes toward education.
	So I don't know what they did with it.
	They pocketed it.
	And so they're going to add some more.
	And Newsom is showboating.
	No, no, no.
	We should not put it in place because it's too expensive.
	But meanwhile, the Democrat legislature, no, no, we're putting it in place.
	And they're telling him no.
	So this is showboating.
	You know, it's the old, oh, no, no, don't do this.
	Like the wrestler in the old wrestling days.
	Don't hit me.
	Don't hit me.
	And then he gives him a gut punch.
	And so this is nonsense.
	The Democrats, nobody is going to pull the federal gas tax out.
	They won't do it.
	They'll talk a big game.
	And then when it comes down to it, they'll either vote no, I'm not going to just leave it as it is, or they're going to vote present.
	They won't do it.
	They haven't got the guts.
	To give you an idea of how that works, there was a prime minister in the Netherlands when I was growing up there named Wim Kok.
	K.O.K. Very famous guy.
	And he was Prime Minister...
	No, I guess it wasn't when I was growing up.
	94 until 2002.
	So I was there.
	I was there when he was still around 2000.
	Because I had come back.
	And he said, okay, people, we have a huge deficit.
	This is just before the Euro, so there was all kinds of shenanigans going on.
	Who knows why we had to do it, but we need to put a 25-cent extra tax on gas per liter, by the way, per liter, not per gallon, per liter.
	And it was called the Kvartse von Koch, Koch's Quarter.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
	I gotta write that one down.
	Cox Quarter.
	So, Cox Quarter, to this day, people still make that joke.
	Oh yeah, just like Cox Quarter, huh?
	Never came back.
	Ever.
	Ever.
	They don't do that.
	Not with gas.
	Ever.
	It's one way only.
	When's the last time they revoked taxes?
	They just go up and they keep going up.
	Income tax is more flexible.
	Now, I do have three last Russia clips.
	Let's do it.
	No, let's do it.
	By the way, since you played this stuff from CBS and some other sources, this is from NPR and I think NPR has done the best job of the PR. Well, of not overdoing it.
	In other words, they took the government line, but it's done in a very delicate way.
	I think they did a good job of presenting this.
	And this is a three-parter on the Russian-Ukraine situation on NPR. So this is part one.
	Is Russia escalating or de-escalating its military positions along the borders of Ukraine?
	There are conflicting claims about what's happening now and what could come next.
	We'll spend the next few minutes talking through where things stand on both the military and diplomatic fronts.
	And we're going to start with NPR national security correspondent Greg Myrie.
	Hey, Greg.
	Hi, Alyssa.
	So what's the latest on Russia's military positions?
	Well, there's no hard evidence of a big Russian move in either direction, either escalation or de-escalation.
	Now, Russia's been saying for a second day that it's pulling back some troops, and the Russian Defense Ministry has put out a couple videos.
	One shows a train hauling armored vehicles away.
	But the U.S. and NATO and Ukraine say they're not seeing anything of real significance.
	Moving a few troops or vehicles around doesn't amount to a pullback when there's a force of 150,000 troops in place.
	And the NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says NATO is seeing some signs of an ongoing buildup.
	And lastly, Ukraine's defense ministry and the country's two biggest banks have suffered cyber attacks, with Russia as the suspect.
	So what's happening on the diplomatic front?
	So Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave some interviews today, and he said Russian leader Vladimir Putin could pull the trigger today, tomorrow, or next week.
	But Blinken says he's still willing to talk with Russia.
	In Brussels, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is meeting with defense ministers from other NATO countries.
	They were literally standing shoulder to shoulder in a show of NATO unity, which does appear to be pretty good.
	It sounds like he said shit show.
	Yeah.
	What did he say if he didn't say shit show?
	I think he still was shit show.
	He stuttered on show and it became shit show.
	Lloyd Austin is meeting with defense ministers from other NATO countries.
	They were literally standing shoulder to shoulder in a shit show of NATO unity.
	Truth wants to come out.
	It was truly shoulder-to-shoulder shit show!
	Putin is meeting with defense ministers from other NATO countries.
	They were literally standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a show of NATO unity, which does appear to be pretty solid at the moment.
	Solid shit!
	And in Moscow, Putin and his top aides say there's still room for dialogue, but we have seen several weeks of phone calls and meetings.
	What we're not seeing, though, is a breakthrough.
	Right.
	Okay.
	NPR literally had a guy say, shoulder to shoulder in a solid shit show.
	I mean, that was just a beautiful piece, NPR. Well done.
	Gosh.
	That's a good one.
	Did you hear that when you were clipping it?
	Yeah.
	That's great.
	Shit show.
	Idiots.
	All right.
	I mean, it's possible he just stumbled over it.
	Of course it is.
	He said shit show.
	Shit show.
	So let's go on and move on to part two.
	This says part 21, but it's actually part two.
	We've been hearing a Russia invasion was imminent, with today cited as the most likely day.
	Was that intelligence just off the mark?
	Well, first, again, it's just quite remarkable that the U.S. is declassifying and sharing such sensitive intelligence.
	No.
	But such specificity really should be treated with real caution.
	The U.S. isn't sharing the proof.
	And when this information first emerged last week, it raised a lot of questions.
	How did the U.S. get this intelligence?
	How certain were they that it was correct?
	Wow.
	Matt Lee has to go break down that door and NPR. Oh, we're coming through the door Matt Lee opened.
	Yeah.
	Oh, he didn't prove anything, Ned.
	Correct.
	Was perhaps Russian disinformation.
	And Putin is well known for a discussion.
	Associated Press, they share everything.
	So it's actually legal to steal Matt Lee's angles.
	Of course it's legal, but you know what I mean.
	It's like, they could have tossed him a bone.
	Have you ever heard anyone toss Matt Lee a bone?
	This show bones him a lot.
	We bone him all the time.
	A COVID bone.
	Correct.
	It was perhaps Russian disinformation.
	And Putin is well known for disguising his plans, sending conflicting signals, keeping his opponents off balance.
	So even if this might have been his plan last week, it clearly was not his plan today.
	So given all that, is the strategy working of the U.S. declassifying intelligence and going public with it?
	We'll still have to see, Alyssa.
	The U.S. is clearly trying to pre-bunk Russian claims rather than waiting for Russia to act or say something and then debunk it.
	Now, Russia has been mocking this.
	They say the U.S. claims are false, that the West is engaging in hysteria.
	One Russian official said wryly today that wars in Europe rarely start on Wednesdays.
	Yeah!
	Okay.
	Pre-bunk.
	Wow.
	So this is a great time to be a podcaster.
	I cannot believe how quickly mainstream broadcasting, M5M, is devolving into a solid shit show.
	Yeah.
	It's a total shit show.
	It's really great.
	It's really great.
	And they're so disappointed.
	Yeah.
	Well, it didn't happen on Wednesday, and we could have known because they don't start wars on Wednesday.
	Ned!
	I know, that's the kicker on the whole.
	That's why I left that as the kicker.
	They never start wars on Wednesday.
	Everybody knows that.
	Ned, you lied to us, man.
	You said it would be Wednesday.
	We got everything positioned.
	We ordered the satellite time, and it's nothing.
	It's a big bunko.
	Nothing.
	Lame, Ned.
	So, let's go to part three.
	The U.S. national security community, there is this sense.
	Wow, this guy.
	I just want to make fun of him as much as I can.
	Well, I'll say this.
	This guy, Myra, is M-Y-H-R-E, I think.
	He actually gives a very good...
	He tries to pull himself away from the litany from the State Department and that Ned guy.
	Oh, really?
	And he balances pretty well.
	At the beginning, you notice he says there's no evidence that there was an escalation or a de-escalation.
	There was no evidence of anything moving.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	Which is counter to what Ned said twice, which is all the Russians are loading up.
	But...
	He says this Wednesday after he's been disappointed, you see.
	I think it was the girl that was disappointed.
	This guy didn't seem to care.
	Let me finish him.
	The U.S. national security community, there is this sense that the U.S. needs to combat Russian disinformation given the events of the past few years.
	What?
	But there are also some concerns that you can't keep crying wolf too often or you erode your own credibility.
	Right, right.
	Well, that was NPR's national security correspondent, Greg Myrie.
	Thank you so much, Greg.
	My pleasure.
	Yeah.
	And he indicated crying wolf too often, you know, which is what we're doing.
	Yeah, we.
	It's going to be Wednesday.
	It's going to be Monday.
	Now it's any minute the guy's going to move in.
	Putin, or actually Lavrov, announced that, oh, you want to de-platform us from the SWIFT system, which is the money network.
	That was a threat, yeah.
	Yeah, that everything clears through the New York Federal Reserve, the New York Fed.
	And said, oh no, we've got alternatives, including crypto, and we are now making Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sovereign in Russia.
	Their strategy is called Fortress Russia.
	Fortress Russia.
	Yeah.
	None of this is going to happen.
	The thing is that you never, you know, CNN and MSNBC and even Fox, who are the biggest warmongers.
	Fox is terrible.
	They are right on board.
	If you think Fox is the lone, sane voice, no, no, no.
	They're all in on this.
	That's like Megyn Kelly.
	She's like, oh, he's a bad guy.
	Whatever this programming is.
	It's war sells papers.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it does.
	It's just...
	Anyway, it's insulting at this point.
	No one in Europe is worried.
	Remember, people in Europe were worried when North Korea...
	I remember going over to...
	I reported on it.
	I think I was visiting Christina.
	It was during Obama still.
	And people were really, oh my God, North Korea, this crazy guy.
	He could kill us any minute.
	They're shooting missiles right over.
	He was on the show.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they were really freaked out.
	Like, what is wrong with you people?
	It's got two missiles and a small A-bomb.
	So, alright.
	Well, it'll be interesting to see the timing.
	All eyes on Kamala, all eyes on Vlad.
	Let's see if we can get a little gambit going here so everybody wins.
	Everybody could be a winner.
	Yeah, you know, I was looking at some pictures that they had some pictures that were, one in particular that was even in the Wikipedia, which is the Ned Price page.
	I saw his picture.
	Well, there's a picture, most of his pictures on there is masked.
	But there was one picture, it was like a Biden meeting, and there was a bunch of people that added to the usual suspects.
	They all had, I mean, it needs, desperately needs to be captioned.
	And you can see Kamala there, she's sitting up at the front.
	And you look at her, and she's got her hand on her face, and you could just see a thought bubble.
	And it was, why the fuck am I here?
	Yeah.
	Now that more I see her in these different photos, it's always that.
	She's wondering what is the deal with her being where she is, and now they're shoving her over to Munich, which I don't think she's happy.
	I don't think she's a happy camper.
	She's not performing well.
	She's giddy, and she's laughing at everything because she's nervous.
	This is a nervous laugh.
	It's not like she thinks anything's funny.
	She's a wreck.
	But I think this Munich thing may turn out very badly.
	She could start the war.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who tried to keep the sea out of the COVID, Dick.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	John C. Dvorak.
	Well, good morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yeah, that was definitely over-modulated.
	That definitely pushed the limits in the morning to all of the trolls out there in the troll room.
	We are definitely running a bit behind today.
	Let's count you guys.
	All right, hands up, trolls!
	Let me see who we got here.
	Who do I have here?
	Who do I have here?
	Oh, I can't do that.
	Oh, crap.
	Could somebody please do the troll count?
	I got logged out.
	Let me see.
	This is embarrassing.
	I tried to count.
	Ah, 2188.
	Thank you very much, Doug.
	2188.
	2188.
	Low!
	Low, low, low.
	What's happening?
	Are you guys going back to work or something?
	Come on, give me a break.
	That can't be true.
	The trolls...
	Actually, I mean, I remember when we had 200 trolls.
	So it's beautiful to see everybody.
	Now that they know...
	Someone was in there saying it was the first time ever they forgot it was a show day.
	So that must be COVID. COVID is hurting the show.
	You can join these trolls.
	It's a chat room, but what's cool about it is you also listen to the show live when we do it on Thursdays and Sundays.
	It's a 24-hour live stream or 24-hour stream, noagendastream.com.
	And there's many live shows, also some pre-taped.
	And people like to kind of tune in and troll.
	And sometimes they have great one-liners and very helpful for the show.
	But trolling is the operative here.
	If you just want to have a conversation, you can follow John or myself at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	It's Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	John C. Devorak at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	This is where we spread out across the Fediverse.
	You can follow us from any Fediverse federated Mastodon server.
	It's the...
	The Twitter that is uncensorable to a degree, certainly within your own community, and it has no algo.
	So it's a very calm experience, and we often have normal conversations.
	Go figure!
	And we need to thank the artists for episode 1425.
	Title of it appropriately was Brain Fog.
	The artwork was brought to us by Nessworks.
	And this was our Valentine's Day show.
	So we're always looking for a little bit of cheesecake and something really pretty.
	And I think that this Valentine's collage really worked for us.
	I liked it.
	You even questioned if I would like it.
	You said, oh, I don't think you like it.
	Well, the one I liked the most, but then I would never pick, was the one by Dame Kenny, Ben, which was gratuitous cupcake art with some, let me just say, some hooker on there saying Happy Valentine's Day, and that was a little too much.
	Wait, where was the, I didn't, did I? Borderline lewd.
	Did I see the hooker one?
	Yeah, you saw it.
	It's okay, take the one you're looking at.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, up.
	It's just a buff from Russia with love.
	Uh...
	Hold on a second.
	Uh...
	Oh, okay.
	One, two, three, four, five, six...
	Oh, yes.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Too much.
	A little too much.
	Too much.
	And even saying, hey, but a lady did it, wouldn't work.
	We just can't.
	No, no.
	Hey, man, a lady did that, man.
	A lady did that, so be good, man.
	What else was there?
	There was some other Valentine's Day stuff.
	I liked the truck one, which I used in the newsletter, which is the First Amendment boobs one, which was down a couple.
	Yeah, that was a good piece.
	That was a very good piece.
	It was just a nice piece.
	That was also done by Ness Works.
	And also children that play with the mean-looking rat from Dame Kenny, Ben.
	And she licensed that art.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	It's kind of a joke because she bitched about the fact that we questioned her once before about her art that she licensed.
	Parker Pauly's from Russia with Love.
	I kind of like that with the arrow.
	You didn't like that.
	No, I didn't like it.
	It was too simple.
	Yeah.
	Now, we also had, of course, some football memes in there, as I incorrectly predicted the outcome of the Super Bowl.
	Yeah, and I correctly predicted.
	Yes, you did.
	You did.
	Although, we did get some riots in Los Angeles.
	That was nice to see.
	Which was, we predicted that, too.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So that was...
	That was a plus.
	But I realize, in hindsight, the geopolitical nature of this battle, I completely missed it.
	It's obviously working class...
	Working middle class people from Ohio, elite douchebags from LA. Boom!
	That's what we should have seen, and that's what the fight really was, and that's why it was even more disappointing.
	And I thought they had it going for a while, though.
	For a bit there, it was okay, wasn't it?
	Did you think?
	I mean, Cincinnati was doing pretty good.
	You didn't watch?
	I watched parts of the game.
	I had no interest in who won this game.
	It's But it was a good game.
	It was fun to watch.
	It wasn't that much fun.
	You didn't watch!
	By the way, I've given up on the idea that watching the Super Bowl so you can watch the commercials.
	I talked about this on Horowitz.
	No.
	Yeah, 20 years ago, 1989, maybe that was a good idea.
	How many years are going to go by when you watch the commercials?
	These commercials can go blow.
	And by the way, every one of these commercials, they're now playing on the Olympics.
	So there's nothing special about these commercials except they're expensive.
	So I didn't watch any of the commercials either.
	This is exactly what I said on Sunday before we did your Horowitz show.
	I said the real problem is people don't want commercials at all.
	This is the problem.
	The Super Bowl...
	Now, clearly they didn't have a problem.
	I didn't look at the ratings, but I'm sure it was fine.
	No one cares about commercials.
	Commercials are no longer a part of the new television watching lexicon.
	They don't want it.
	They want streaming.
	You're right.
	They want streaming.
	They want streaming and they don't want it.
	And that's...
	We subscribe to Hulu.
	Mm-hmm.
	And Mimi pays the extra 10 bucks or whatever, so you have no commercials.
	And so you watch any of these shows, NBC, CBS, all these shows, you watch them, you wait a day, what's the rush, you don't have to see them when they come out.
	And so you wait a day or two, or a week, or a month, and you watch them and there's no commercials, and they just shoot, they just blow by, you don't have to do fast forward or anything, boom!
	They just play the show.
	It's great.
	And that's why the Olympics...
	There's a lot of problems with the Olympics, but it's the same thing.
	People are not interested in interruptive advertising models.
	And if you think it's going to be great for your podcast moving forward, then I got something else coming for you.
	Because that's just...
	It's stupid.
	It's over.
	It's done with.
	It'll take a decade before it's really gone.
	For me, the most exciting thing was...
	My beautiful wife.
	You know, the funny thing is, this shit could have been easily predicted if anyone followed the history of HBO. Of course.
	When HBO first showed up and it got very popular, before all these stars and Cinemax and all the rest of these guys copycatted their way into the same business, but...
	It was extremely popular, and part of that popularity was there was zero commercials.
	You paid $25 or whatever it was a month that was not cheap, but that's about what it would probably get them in commercial advertising, and people would rather...
	Do it that way, then watch, you know, movie...
	Whatever happened?
	Remember this in the olden days?
	On ABC, CBS, NBC, all of them had Movie of the Week.
	And they'd have a first-run movie.
	Commercial-free!
	Commercial-free Movie of the Week.
	But NBC, ABC, and CBS had commercials.
	HBO comes out with this...
	Basically the same thing.
	Movie of the week, every day of the week.
	Yes.
	No commercials, people flock to it.
	Yes.
	Hello?
	Hello?
	Exactly.
	So Tina made her homemade chili, which was great because I wasn't feeling super great right after the show.
	I kind of ran out of steam at the end.
	Last Thursday?
	Sunday.
	Sunday?
	Last Sunday?
	Yeah.
	At the end of the show, yeah.
	I think I was speaking Dutch at some point.
	You claim you spoke Dutch in the middle of the show.
	At the second donation segment, just some Dutch came out.
	I was like, okay, I'm tired now.
	So I'm watching the game.
	I'm into it.
	I'm like, who am I? I'm totally into it.
	I'm like, screw LA. I'm hating on it.
	It's my one day a year where I'm a sports fan.
	Then I'm always for the underdog, of course.
	But Tina, she's not really paying attention.
	And some commentator comes on.
	She goes like, oh, that guy played in the Bengals.
	I said, what?
	She knows everything about football.
	And basketball.
	It's for her.
	It's unbelievable.
	A lot of women like sports.
	But she doesn't watch and she doesn't like it and she doesn't give me any tips or pointers or betting advice.
	So it's a little disappointing.
	The best betting advice is don't bet.
	Wow.
	There's so many ads for online betting during the Super Bowl.
	The whole thing is kind of twisted.
	So I was looking into these betting scams and there's a number of interesting lectures on YouTube about betting and winning.
	Mm-hmm.
	And they all have the same interesting little end point.
	And there's ways of betting and winning.
	Now, it's not a lot and you have to be careful, but you have to, you know, be close to the vest.
	And you can pick up a couple hundred bucks here and then you keep winning.
	You can win and win and win a little bit.
	But you keep winning.
	And once that happens and the algos catch up to you and you keep winning, they kick you off the platform.
	What?
	So you win and you get deplatformed?
	Yeah.
	Every one of these betting tipsters that is on YouTube, and they show the screenshots.
	Here's what happens when you win a lot.
	Boom!
	Your business is no longer welcome.
	Oh, it makes nothing but sense.
	And by the way, Matthew Dunnage in the troll room.
	No, no dibs on Tina if I die.
	Get out of here, troll.
	Horrible thing to say.
	Dibs on Tina.
	That's funny.
	That's how it is.
	Oh, the halftime show.
	Did you just want to mention?
	You didn't watch that either, did you?
	No, I never watched the halftime show.
	I think it's stupid.
	Well, this was very stupid.
	It's always overdubbed.
	It's bullcrap.
	There's no live singing going on.
	So in this case, it was the West Coast hip-hoppers.
	And, you know, so it was Snoop Dogg and Dre and 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige.
	And, you know, it was entertaining, but it was, you know, really, it was just the griff that Jay-Z had pulled out, you know, you'll recall, because of Colin Kaepernick.
	The NFL was seen as a bunch of racist white a-holes, the owners.
	So they said, well, you know what we'll do?
	We'll get Jay-Z to produce it.
	Rockefeller Entertainment.
	So he did that last year.
	And they, of course, couldn't go straight with hip-hop and Black America.
	So he did Shakira and J-Lo, if you recall.
	And this year went all in.
	And hearing from Mo, Black America was like, oh, really?
	That's all you got?
	What an opportunity missed, Jay-Z. So it kind of fell flat everywhere.
	It was supposed to be the big, you know, kind of portraying Colin Kaepernick's dream, you know, that was supposed to be some kind of feedback, like some equalizer for what had happened to poor Colin, and so that failed.
	But the ratings were good.
	Did you see them?
	I guess the ratings had to be good, right?
	I don't know.
	Again, it really didn't mean that much to me, and I was disappointed in the whole thing.
	If you care about podcasting, then you need to drop your legacy apps and grab a brand new podcasting 2.0 app at newpodcastapps.com.
	There's a lot of features that you can use.
	And also, every single time you open one of those apps, your No Agenda show will be there.
	There's no guarantee with any of these legacy apps you may still be using.
	So get off of that already, newpodcastapps.com.
	And let's kick off our thanks here for executive.
	We have a list of executive and associate executive producers for this particular episode.
	We do it for every single episode.
	Value for value.
	There's no commercials here.
	No, we knew that was never going to work.
	And you can't be honest.
	You can't say what you want to say.
	You get screwed.
	So we just ask you to send us whatever you think the show is worth.
	That's all that it is.
	That's how it works.
	You send us your time, your talent, your treasure.
	We'll take it all.
	From Wannaroo, Western Australia...
	Sent us $4,000.
	Nice.
	Holy crap.
	That's...
	But there's no note.
	Email coming.
	That's an Insta Baron.
	But...
	We have no note.
	I mean, did he forget to send it to us?
	Well, it's coming.
	It'll come when it comes.
	I wish he would have sent it now.
	No.
	We'll get it.
	We want to thank him.
	And I presume that...
	That he'll want his insta-barony and he'll want a protectorate and all that.
	Because he's already a sir, he probably gets bumped up to God knows what.
	Earl or Viscount or something.
	Maybe Duke.
	When I saw the spreadsheet come in this morning, my heart sank.
	Why?
	Only 66 kilobytes.
	Oh yeah, small.
	It's a small spreadsheet.
	We just have a couple of guys at the top that kind of carry the load.
	We got lucky.
	I mean, there must be at least 30% less.
	That's what concerns me.
	Yeah.
	30% less?
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, we got this weather situation on the East Coast, which I think is hurting donations.
	What?
	People can't donate?
	Also COVID. People are getting back to work and they're saying, what do we need?
	What do we need them for?
	What do we need that new sheriff who stopped the crime in the city?
	Yeah.
	You know, get rid of him.
	Yeah.
	Now, hey, take an old Western.
	We're like the Western sheriff who fixed the town and now the town's fixed, so get out of here.
	Now the brothel madam won't even sleep with us.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Well, thank you very much, Sir Ty Tran.
	I'm going to give you a goat karma in advance of your note and your obvious crowning of some sort.
	Thank you.
	You've got karma.
	Meanwhile, Sir Chris Vox from Elk River, Minnesota, also comes in with $1,000 a lot, which is the top-heavy part of the show.
	Sir Chris Vox here.
	This donation is for my SHW, Samantha, which is...
	Smoking Hot Wife.
	Oh, Smoking Hot Wife.
	I thought it was some part of Western Australia.
	Smoking Hot Wife, Samantha.
	And trim.
	So she may be Dame Samantha for the Nashville meetup tomorrow.
	Ah, yes.
	The Nashville meetup.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Or no karma for all, sorry.
	No jingles, but karma for all.
	And love is lit.
	Yes, indeed.
	The love is bigly lit.
	You've got karma.
	So I did dial in to the Nashville meetup, and I spun about 30 minutes of records.
	It was the weirdest gig I've ever done, John, because there was no video.
	It was just Sir Patrick who texted me, and we set up the clean feed, and he says, okay, well, we'll come to you when it's time.
	I'm like, okay, is it going to be introduction?
	Will I be able to hear anything?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Also, it's like, boom, hey, you're live!
	And I say something in the mic, and I can hear it booming through the whole roller rink.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, and I was like, okay.
	And so I just played some skate songs and played a couple jingles, and I was like, I have no idea.
	You know, it's really weird, because I didn't know if people were skating.
	I couldn't see anything.
	I'm just...
	No feedback.
	Zero.
	Except Dame Jennifer.
	She started texting me.
	It's great!
	Oh, my God!
	I was just singing with White Girl Overbite.
	I'm like, okay, so pictures, please.
	I think it was a good time they had there.
	And I really missed not being there.
	Yeah.
	Joel Nelson is in Richfield, Minnesota.
	And he sends us 380.38.
	John, Adam, keep up the good work.
	The show has kept me sane.
	See?
	This is a guy who recognizes what we've done.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I almost forgot.
	Oh, no, he did his karma.
	I'm requesting house selling and buying stereo goat karma.
	Let me get a little bit of stereo goat karma here.
	Okay.
	With this executive...
	Oh, it's an executive boobs donation.
	Okay.
	So, 90 is 09 plus 90, 06 plus 80, 08 plus 60, 09 plus 60, 06.
	Do you understand this sequence?
	No, no, don't ask.
	No, I don't understand.
	Jingles, uh, oh my god, can you see that juice?
	And it's so juicy.
	And the Lu, the stereo go karma.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	And it's so juicy.
	Oh god.
	It is juicy.
	That's really bad.
	Okay, good creativity there.
	Sir Babalucci, wife and daughter, 33333, donation from Sir Babalucci at the Nashville Skating Rink.
	Thank you to the organizer, and it is wonderful to see so many people outside their comfort zone.
	Love and lit, Sir Babalucci, wife and daughter.
	Very nice.
	Chris Willis, dude named Ben.
	Hendersonville, Tennessee.
	Dear Crockpot and Buzzkill, hard to believe, but I've been with the show since the Bush administration.
	That's right.
	That was from the very beginning.
	That does sound wild, doesn't it?
	Yeah, that's true.
	We cut the end of the Bush administration.
	We did.
	I had the pleasure of meeting Adam and...
	Redacted at the Big Bang Bar during the Hot Pockets Tour, as well as the indomitable Right Honorable Sir Jeff Smith.
	That's right, in Tennessee.
	Thank you for helping me have a sane perspective at least part of the time during all of these insane times.
	All producers should be grateful for the foresight and wisdom to keep these things decentralized and sustainable lest we all be listening to Rachel Maddow on NPR instead.
	Indeed.
	Well said.
	Jingles anything by Jeff Smith, dealer's choice, and a goat karma, if you please.
	I figured I'd play two by Jeff Smith.
	If it rings true, it is true.
	Sometimes fun, sometimes a drag.
	When you're on the face bag.
	You've got karma.
	The man is a genius.
	It's an old classic.
	The man is a genius.
	On the face bag.
	Chap Williams comes in from Edmond, Oklahoma, and he does this on every couple of shows, 333.33.
	And these are bank checks that are coming in through that bank payment system, where you go to time payment, you go to the bank, or one of these...
	Systems.
	It's an online system.
	So he hasn't...
	I don't have a note from him, but he keeps doing this, and so I'm expecting a long tome or something from him pretty soon.
	Okay.
	And I want to thank him for 333.33.
	I want to move on to Jared Hodgden in Sussex, Wisconsin.
	That's a 333.
	Donations from my smoking hot wife, Maureen.
	She says we share my 33.33 monthly donation.
	I don't agree.
	Okay.
	But de-doucher.
	You've been de-douched.
	I love you, Mo.
	Happy 37th birthday.
	I don't think she's on the list, so it would be in yellow.
	Oh.
	Thanks for hitting me in the mouth.
	So she hit him in the mouth, and Maureen is now 33 on the 17th.
	Okay, hold on.
	I'll read the next one as you put her on.
	Yeah, please.
	Zachary Fogetic.
	In Sheridan, Wyoming, 333.
	I would like this donation in honor of Brennan Beasley, a.k.a.
	Sadie Tramp's birthday.
	There's another birthday that seems...
	Oh, okay.
	If any of these birthdays are missed, I can explain it.
	Okay.
	Well, I got to pick it up.
	Okay, I'll put this.
	Breanne Beasley.
	Yes, aka Saddle Tramp.
	Saddle Tramp's birthday, 219.
	This is a first-time donation.
	We are in desperate need of a de-douching.
	We appreciate the service you guys provide.
	Can we get a biscuit on my birthday karma?
	Yeah, let's do this first.
	You've been de-douched.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	You've got karma.
	Okay, so this is from Zachary.
	I'm just doing the admin here.
	Yeah, well.
	Okay, keep going while I do this.
	Zachary.
	Good.
	Andrea Butler.
	This is our first associate executive producer, $233.33.
	Thank you for the show.
	Happy Valentine's Day.
	The couple that know agendas together, well, you know the thing.
	Hey, baby jingle in John's voice, please.
	Baby jingle in John's voice.
	Yeah, I got it.
	I don't know what that means.
	Yeah, I do.
	I have no idea.
	Plant potato famine crop for a reason.
	P.S. Plant potatoes is a famine crop for a reason.
	Okay, whatever that means.
	Well, I think it's very sound advice.
	Plant some potatoes because famine is coming.
	I understood it.
	Yeah, but the famines, if you recall, the Irish had a big famine and all they did was plant potatoes.
	But they didn't know that you could eat them.
	Yes, it is.
	They didn't know they could fish off the coast.
	Was that the problem?
	Yes, that was the problem.
	Oh, shoot.
	Hold on.
	Listen, here's your jingle.
	Hey, baby.
	See?
	I remember it.
	Oh, okay.
	That's you.
	Hey, baby.
	Hey, baby.
	Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
	This is a ringtone.
	Hey, baby.
	I like that.
	Okay, that was our first associate executive producer, Philip Smith, our second, with a row of Canada geese, 222.22.
	Donation from Sir Jeremy Champati, the half-witted.
	Short note will be emailed to John.
	I guess this is it.
	I don't have it.
	I don't know why you didn't put it in there.
	That's it.
	Short note.
	I'll read this one.
	Anne Dunev, also a row of Canada geese, 222.22, St.
	Charles, Illinois.
	Boots on the ground report from the naturopathic practitioner.
	There we go.
	My colleagues and I... We're having a lot of people contact us with all kinds of weird symptoms.
	The lab work often shows very disturbed immune systems.
	This is not a note I think we're going to be happy with.
	Those patients who are recovering from COVID are not surprised.
	Some people who have been vaccinated may recognize that their health took a nosedive after their first or second shot, but sometimes they don't think it can be vaccine reaction because they were told the vaccines were completely safe.
	A few people told me...
	Hold on.
	Safe and effective.
	That has been the mantra.
	Yeah, safe and effective.
	You make an excellent point.
	Now you see how people get duped.
	A few people told me that they thought no one else in the world was having any kind of reaction to the vaccines except them.
	Others who felt forced to get the vaccine due to family or job pressure have said it was the worst decision they've ever made.
	Long-haul COVID is a real thing.
	My point is that many people need help to rebuild their immune systems right now and they are not going to get any help from the medical establishment.
	I urge producers to find natural and functional medicine practitioners and get help if they are suffering from lingering effects of the virus or the jabs.
	None of us knows what we can expect long-term from this insane medical experiment and it's better to get early help rather than wait until a more serious adverse reaction appears.
	As always, thanks to you guys for creating the best podcast in the universe and to all the producers for the many contributions so we can survive and thrive together.
	Love is lit, health is real.
	Love is lit and health is real wealth these days.
	Nice.
	So you still have your voodoo doctor, don't you?
	I sure do.
	Yeah, he probably knows all the latest on...
	Oh, I've sent people to Dr.
	Ron Banuelos at Heal Austin.
	He has protocols to help you with that.
	I don't know what they are, but...
	You'll be finding out.
	No, I think I'm going to...
	I hope.
	I don't want to...
	There is this IV thing you can get.
	Which, if I feel worse than I do now, then I'm going to get it.
	And I'm not an IV guy at all.
	I hate that shit.
	But I will do that just to see if I can clear some of it out.
	You got it.
	On to Grant Convy in Lincoln, Nebraska, 217-91.
	And he wrote, sent in a check and wrote a note.
	And to prove it, I can wiggle it, piece of paper.
	Jingles, Putin on the Ritz.
	Nice, nice.
	Luge goat karma.
	Yeah.
	I haven't heard that.
	It's perfect.
	Why is that we've been playing that?
	We should have been.
	Yeah, I know.
	We're nuts.
	Luge goat karma.
	A douchebag call out.
	He's got a douchebag call out right at the beginning.
	Okay.
	For Brad Jezuski.
	Douchebag!
	Note, ITM, John and Adam.
	I hope this donation gets to you in time for the February 17th show, which lands on my 31st birthday.
	Nice.
	Is he on the list?
	I doubt it.
	Okay.
	Keep going.
	Your valuable and frequently hilarious perspectives has taught me the importance of looking at current events from many angles as possible, and that some conspiratorial thinking can both lighten the mood and shed some light on deeper truths.
	Further looking forward to becoming a knight soon.
	Thank you for your courage, Grant Convini.
	As a side note, you don't have to read, but I'm going to read it.
	A week or so ago, the topic of mRNA as a way to treat cancer came up, and I'd like to give a reminder that this show over a year back uncovered how BioNTech was originally developing an mRNA as a targeted cancer treatment based on the individual's DNA before Pfizer co-opted them for the COVID jab.
	The complaint being that they're now using this as a one-size-fits-all shot rather than a targeted treatment catered to you specifically.
	So the coverage talking about mRNA as a cancer treatment is really going back to what it was being developed for in the first place.
	Just to mention a little history there, and it's true.
	We had talked about this.
	If you're blue and you don't know where there's fake news, why don't you get your Gitmo fix?
	Put it on the Ritz.
	Dressed up like a million dollar trooper.
	Trying not to look like Anderson Cooper.
	Super pooper.
	Come let's mix where John Podesta walks with kids.
	Oh, I mean pizzas in his midst.
	Put it on the Ritz.
	You've got...
	Secret Agent Paul, everybody.
	Don't get to play that one often enough.
	It's back in vogue, man.
	It's cool.
	You can play him again.
	That is groovalicious.
	Then we go to Sir Lorne, Super Freak of the Catawaba Wiver.
	The Catawaba Wiver.
	Belmont, North Carolina, 217-22.
	Ah, okay, there's a couple of jingles here.
	Come on already, it's science.
	No, that's shut up.
	That's shut up already, it's science.
	Don Lemon, stick it in me.
	Nope, it's inject it in me.
	Wild West Pimp Style.
	Yes, you got that one right.
	And Lady Ooh.
	Okay, well, that would be with an H. Close enough.
	In the morning, gents, it's Sir Loin, super freak of the Cadaba River here.
	There we go.
	Please credit this donation of 2-17-22 to my diabolically hot-birthing comrade, Allie.
	Oops.
	So we just say Allie?
	Yes.
	Allie.
	Well, let's say hot-birthing.
	That'd be funnier.
	Hot-birthing...
	Comrade Allie.
	Okay, switcheroo is made.
	Comrade.
	Comrade Allie, we got you.
	I refuse to let her go to her first meet-up tonight in Charlotte as a douchebag, so please de-douche her.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's right.
	Good men don't let their wives be douchebags at meet-ups.
	Also, I'm interested to hear if either of you have watched the documentary Century of Self.
	That's the Adam Curtis, I believe.
	Is it not?
	It sounds like it's a classic title from Curtis.
	Yeah, I think it's five eight-hour episodes.
	I haven't watched that.
	I have.
	A while back.
	And if so, what are your thoughts?
	It's a great documentary.
	It's a little confusing.
	Everything Adam Curtis does is great, except I think he's being slightly redundant with some of these things.
	That one was the epitome of redundancy.
	It was very long.
	Yeah, he's done them all before.
	And at a certain point, you don't really know what the hell is going on, and then you kind of get into it.
	Oh, okay.
	It mainly focuses on Edward Bernays and his method for all things propaganda, amazingly relevant for these past two years.
	Well, hello, you are no agenda producer.
	You don't have to ask us what we think of this.
	You know it's good.
	Once again, thank you for all you do.
	Honk, honk, truck, yeah!
	I haven't actually done my honk, honks yet today.
	Yeah, honk, honk, truck, yeah.
	Sir Lloyd and Super Freak of the Catawba River.
	Shut up already!
	Science!
	Inject it!
	Put it in me!
	Wild West, temp style.
	Ooh!
	Very funny.
	Nailed it.
	Jeffrey Holland in Winter Springs, Florida, 217-22.
	He writes you to...
	Are the best at deconstructing the media and thank you for all you do.
	I submitted my first artworks this week and look forward to hearing your feedback.
	I'm trying to earn my knighthood before Dame Meow-Odison's Orlando NA meetup part two at the Hourglass Curryford on February 27th.
	See you all there.
	Please send a goat scream and karma to the No Agenda community.
	Love is lit.
	Go UCF Knights.
	Jeff's Winter Springs, Florida, reserving my soon-to-be knight named Goatee, Fisher of the Space Coast.
	P.S. Goatee is an early 18th century pronunciation for fish, not to be confused with the gangster family Gotti.
	Okay.
	How does it pronounce Gotti?
	Yep.
	But not to be confused.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Mmm...
	MFDX of Anjou in Toronto, Ontario, Scandinavia, 217.
	Good day, gentlemen.
	With a request for karma interrupted by a double tap.
	I would like to thank the ridiculously dim-witted Francois Legault, Premier of Quebec, for inadvertently putting an end to the mandates around the world and possibly Justin Trudeau's career.
	Oh?
	It was a Quebec's announcement to require vaccine passports at liquor, cannabis, and specific sections of big box stores that forced a groundswell of Canadians to put their molasses down and say, hold on a minute, eh?
	That's not science.
	Oh, I didn't know this.
	Then, as the world watched and mocked, our leaders were forced to revisit their science-based mandates.
	The so-called Freedom Convoy wins.
	As for Trudeau, his days are numbered...
	He can hem and haw all over my unvaxxed member in parliament.
	I would like to send him some karma, rudely interrupted by a double tap.
	I've seen it work.
	Thank you for the continued coverage and courage.
	You've got...
	There you go.
	Craig Nosley.
	In Cumberland, BC. Talking about Canadians.
	$200.
	Everybody's favorite Scandinavian crackpot slash home cook at getting cooked.
	Calling...
	Oh, he's a cook.
	He's a favorite.
	He's one of the favorite.
	At GettingCooked, calling in for some travel, house buying, and house selling karma, as my missus, missus, is on her way from Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia to find our forever home in the woods.
	Alright, we got it for you.
	You've got karma.
	And that closes our list of associate executive and executive producers for show 1426.
	Yes.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for helping us out and make this show a possibility.
	Also, they receive credits for doing this.
	These executive and associate executive producer titles are the real deal.
	They are accepted wherever credits are recognized.
	You can use them multiple places.
	You can put them in your LinkedIn profile.
	Use it on your Tinder or your Grindr profile.
	Yeah, you grind her.
	There you go.
	Hey!
	Grind.
	Yeah, why not?
	Is that thing still in business?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Grind her.
	Grind her.
	As far as I know, I mean, I'm reliably informed.
	And even just go to IMDB. You can go ahead and look.
	Look for No Agenda executive producers.
	They're real Hollywood people who have them and are proud of them.
	That's why they display them.
	If you want one as well, here's what you do.
	Go to this website to learn more.
	For those who did it for this episode, thank you for producing the best podcast in the universe.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	And it's so juicy.
	Shut up, Slade.
	That is just a great...
	We gotta just throw that in more often.
	With the honks.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Honk first or honk second?
	I think honk first.
	And it's so juicy.
	You stepped on it.
	Maybe the other way around.
	And it's so juicy.
	No, that works.
	That's pretty funny.
	Hey, this was...
	Very interesting news.
	Very interesting news.
	Because I just watched on, I don't know if it was Netflix or if it was Ulus.
	I think this was one of the days when I was not feeling well.
	You know, I'm going to stop you right there.
	Feeling well or not feeling well, the fact that you said what you just said seems to be a marketing issue to me.
	I've had the same thing.
	I watched something.
	I was at Hulu.
	I was at Amazon.
	There's some problem that these guys are having because Netflix, which I think is failing...
	They're raising their prices.
	They have to.
	And it's like they're not...
	The association with the product and Netflix is lost now.
	Yeah, that's because Hulu was typically, like you said, that's where you watch your television without commercials.
	But for me, ever since they did Zoe's Playlist that was no longer on television, they did Dope Sick, that was the Sackler opioid thing.
	Excellent series.
	And I really don't know if I watched this documentary on Hulu or on Netflix.
	And I didn't get through the whole thing because it bored me.
	But then two days later, this news story pops up.
	All right, now to this important story.
	If you love guacamole, you'll want to pay attention.
	The U.S. stopped everything.
	All avocado imports from Mexico until further notice following a threat to an American safety inspector.
	The threat comes amid escalating drug cartel violence in the region where nearly 90% of avocados imported to the U.S. come from.
	The disruption could lead to an avocado shortage and, yes, a spike in prices.
	What was interesting is I learned about how the avocado trade exploded in Mexico, and in 1996 or 1997, the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, pretty much put the avocado growers in California out of business.
	And from looking through some of the material, this was something President Trump wanted to do.
	He wanted to punish Mexico.
	I remember there's a whole bunch of different things that he wanted, and probably to pay for the wall and anything else that he could come up with.
	He wanted to do this.
	And this is actually quite a big deal.
	The avocado is a very, very big business in the United States.
	So for them to stop this over some threat and then this whole...
	The cartels are running it.
	Sounds dubious to me.
	Could this just be like a Great Reset type thing?
	I'm reminded.
	No, I think it's a gouge.
	I think there's some money that needs to exchange hands.
	I'm reminded of something.
	When I used to write for the San Francisco Examiner back in the mid-80s, I wrote a bitch and moan column about this phony baloney stoppage of the grapes coming out of Chile because they found two grapes with pinholes in them that supposedly had cyanide or some damn thing they injected into these grapes.
	Which is like the likelihood of finding two grapes out of millions and billions of grapes is zero.
	Nobody ever explained how they did this and they never would.
	They just stopped the shipments and all of a sudden they said, okay, things are good now and they started them up again.
	It had to be some sort of a scam.
	There had to be some sort of a bribe or something that went on.
	I think the same thing's going on here.
	I have a longer clip that goes a little bit deeper.
	I am convinced, and we'll talk about that in a moment, that we have producers in our vast global audience who can tell us what the scam is because that's just the nature of...
	Of this show.
	Three days after the U.S. government suspended all imports of Mexican avocados into the U.S., the wholesale market has seen a slight increase in prices.
	Fox 5's Misha De Bono is live in Valley Center with how this is affecting local farmers.
	Misha.
	Yeah, so far it's minimum.
	And across the United States, there's about three or four weeks of avocado surplus that's already in the pipeline.
	So you don't expect to see a skyrocketing price in avocados on your shelves, nor do you expect to see...
	There isn't really a reason to panic.
	People shouldn't be worried because avocados are still flowing.
	But it is uncharted territory.
	For the first time since 1997, when the United States lifted a ban on avocados from certain areas of Mexico, the U.S. government has suspended all imports until further notice.
	We hear that there's a potential that an inspector's life was threatened, or a conversation got really heated where there were some very serious concerns.
	That's a concern to all growers.
	We want everyone to be safe, and we want the process to go smoothly, and we want a stable market.
	Most of the avocados consumed in the United States, that's about 2 million pounds a year, comes from Mexico, with the more seasonal crop, about 300,000 to 400,000 pounds, coming from California.
	For growers like Ben Holtz of California Avocados Direct, he says they can manage for three or four weeks, but after that, it's an unknown.
	We don't want avocados to double in price overnight.
	Nobody wants that.
	Stores don't want it.
	Growers don't want it.
	We want a stable market, and we want to have a steady supply.
	Holtz says he saw a little blip in business over the weekend, and already the price per carton has gone up by about a dollar on the wholesale market.
	That only equates to about a penny per avocado for the consumer.
	If they can resolve it in 7, 12 days, the consumer won't really see it in the grocery stores.
	You won't have empty shelves.
	There will still be avocados.
	If it does go longer, if it goes up to 3 to 4 weeks, then there will be more pressure saying, hey, now our supplies are really low here.
	And Farmer Ben, sources are telling him they think the issue will be resolved at the end of this week and that trucks will be rolling by next week.
	Time will only tell, and we certainly do hope so.
	From Valley Center, Misha Debono, Fox 5 News.
	Yeah, that does sound like a shakedown, doesn't it?
	It sounds like a shakedown, and a couple of things we should note.
	I love avocados.
	California avocados are great, by the way.
	Mexican avocados are good.
	The best avocados, if you see them, are hard to come by when you see them and they do come into certain places.
	Grocery outlet is one of them.
	The Peruvian avocado.
	The Peruvian avocado is astonishingly good.
	It just tastes better.
	It has a different ripening cycle.
	It doesn't soften up as much on the outside.
	It's harder to tell when they're ripe, actually.
	In fact, it's very hard to tell.
	And when you do open one up, it's always a crapshoot.
	But when they're perfect, which is most...
	And they have a longer ripe cycle.
	These other avocados, they can't stall too much because these things go bad.
	Avocados are very perishable.
	Very quick.
	According to AP, Mexico says conspiracy behind avocado ban.
	Mexico's president said Monday the U.S. suspension on avocado imports and recent environmental complaints are part of a conspiracy against this country by political or economic interests.
	President Andres Manuel Lopez Labrador put forward the conspiracy theory After the U.S. suspended imports of Mexican avocados on the eve of the Super Bowl following a threat against the U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico.
	In fact, says AP, the U.S. measure was due to years of worries that drug cartel violence in the western state of, western Mexico state of Michoacan, Mishwakan.
	Mishwakan, where gangs extort money from avocado and lime growers by threatening to kidnap and kill them, has spilled over to threats against U.S. inspectors.
	I mean, that's the key, right?
	So some inspector didn't get paid off.
	And they threatened him.
	They said, you know, we're sick of you, you shit, inspector.
	Don't you think that sounds right?
	Well, it could be.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	Whatever the case, yeah.
	Hey, before we change topics to anything, since you mentioned Hulu, we should mention this other show, which you turned me on to.
	Oh.
	And I couldn't really get through it.
	You're finally watching Lost in Space?
	No, I won't watch that.
	Okay.
	No, Pam and Tommy.
	Ah, yes.
	And Pam and Tommy's on Hulu.
	Yeah.
	And it should be...
	If you can watch it, you should only watch it for the acting.
	The acting is so unbelievable.
	And I say this for this reason.
	The lead actress, Lily James, who plays Pamela Anderson...
	Mm-hmm.
	She is a demure, brunette, English actress.
	She's British.
	And she plays in Downton Abbey and things like that.
	She always plays this.
	This is not her at all.
	She is really knocking it out of the park with this Anderson portrayal.
	And the guy, the Sebastian, I think it's Sebastian Stan.
	Stan Sebastian is one of the...
	He plays the douchebag of the douchebags, this Tommy Lee character.
	How about Ron Swanson being the porn guy?
	Perfect.
	And then also the fact that Seth Rogen, who I despise as an actor, actually acts.
	He's forced to act well because of these two other actors, these people that are knocking it out of the park.
	And then there's this comic...
	This is the only reason.
	You can watch a couple of episodes.
	You get the idea.
	But this comic, I think his name is Adam Ray, and he plays Jay Leno.
	Yes, yes!
	When I first saw this, I said, wow, they got Jay Leno on the show.
	No, it's not Jay Leno.
	It's this guy.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's just for the purposes of watching some superb acting and led by this Lily James.
	Yeah.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, I have another tip for you on Netflix.
	You may like this.
	It's called Murderville.
	We just started watching it.
	I've never heard of this.
	And Murderville, it's a set cast.
	What's his name?
	Will Arnett and some other famous good actors.
	And so it's a detective, a small detective office, you know, like cops.
	And they have a guest.
	And the guest comes in and there's a murder to solve.
	But the guest is completely ad-libbing, has no idea what the murder's going to be.
	So it's kind of like curb your enthusiasm away, except the guest is the one that comes in and has to play along, and then the other actors adapt the script to the guest.
	And they had Conan O'Brien on, they had...
	What's the guy, the football player?
	That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
	It's very well done.
	It's like...
	Because, you know...
	You can tell that sometimes they're just riffing so far off of any kind of script.
	It's good.
	You'll like it.
	If you like Curb Your Enthusiasm, you'll probably like that.
	Now, back to our fantastic producers.
	We got three highly qualified explanations of what happened with the Austin water plant.
	For the third time in as many years or four years, Austin once again had to boil their water, which stops commerce.
	Restaurants can't operate.
	It's very baffling.
	They got another $500 million in 2019 to upgrade.
	We pretty much got exactly what happened.
	And right now, because of course we talked about this on Sunday, there was an article that KXEN here in Austin wrote, and here's the telling part.
	So first of all, they screwed up And I'm just paraphrasing because everyone had very long, very detailed notes.
	They screwed up with the water softener.
	Somehow, alarms either didn't go off or were ignored, and they just kept it going.
	Someone didn't check it.
	Someone screwed up royally.
	One of our producers who works at a water plant, and a lot of our producers have long years of experience, said this is, quite frankly, unbelievable that this happened.
	It just makes no sense.
	And then there was one of our producers who said, well, you know, this could just be like government workers who are like, oh, you know, the boss said do it this way.
	We know that's wrong, but we're going to do it anyway.
	Do I paraphrase that?
	There's a term he's got in there.
	I don't have his note.
	Oh, okay.
	We'll keep going.
	Well, no, you actually commented.
	You said, oh, yeah, shit.
	I know exactly what that is.
	It's the government attitude.
	Well, actually the term, I wish I could bring that letter up because I should have printed it out myself.
	It'll take you forever to get it.
	The term that he's using is what it really amounts to.
	Well, if you can find the note, I'll read the KXEN article where the question from KXEN was, so was this an issue of employee negligence?
	Well, there's no evidence, says a plant worker, or a spokeshole, of what I would describe as gross negligent buyer employees.
	Nothing where employees were sleeping on duty, where they left the plant, or where they were fabricating data.
	Um...
	Council members have questioned staff about the training employees are expected to have.
	The assistant director at Austin Water said the facility operators must have a license from the state.
	Every employee has met these criteria.
	He said the public utility has experienced a high rate of turnover recently.
	20 people left the utility in January.
	That was the highest number of departures Austin Water has had in one month.
	Quote, we used to have a lot of operators that had 20 years or 25 years of experience.
	Those days are gone.
	So, what happens when 20 people leave in one month?
	Was it vaccine mandates?
	Yeah, probably.
	Possibly.
	Was it anti-work movement?
	Like, this is such a hellhole, I want no part of it?
	Or what?
	I mean, this is public health now.
	This guy, Steve, producer Steve, he says, you know, he goes, he has the same explanation of the turbidity thing.
	There should have been alarms and all the rest of it.
	But he also says, I think Adam's correct when we see more of these, we'll see more of these issues, not just in cities, but everywhere.
	I see these types of basic screw-ups in the paper, in the paper mills I go to, inexperienced managers.
	Yeah.
	Who have disdain for the operators on the floor.
	And they would, because you come in as a manager and the guys on the floor know what's going on.
	And they're managing you.
	But if you're going to be a dick, you manage them.
	Inexperienced managers who have disdain for the operators on the floor come up with some new initiative without any input from the operators.
	These situations lead to a, quote, malicious compliance attitude.
	Oh, that's what, malicious compliance, that's it.
	And that's the word, and malicious, and I sent him back, I said, you know, I think, I've worked in the, I've worked a lot, and I think I've done this, and I think that's where the cover your ass memo comes in.
	I think you do that on the show sometimes.
	You give, yeah.
	Really?
	You want that?
	Okay.
	Just kidding.
	So you're given an order that's dumb, or you're told to do something.
	Exactly.
	And you say, well, doing this is stupid.
	But the first thing you do, and you start doing it, you do it, okay, whatever you say.
	Yeah, right.
	Right.
	But meanwhile, you write a cover-your-ass memo discussing the situation in a note, so that goes into the system.
	They never read them, except when you have them pulled out.
	Right.
	And then you keep doing the thing, and so then when all hell breaks through, something doesn't work, they come and they blame you.
	Hey, you blah, blah, blah.
	And you say, wait a minute.
	This guy told me to do it.
	Here's the memo I wrote about it.
	Why don't you answer the memo?
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	The memo.
	Yes.
	That's how the cover your ass memo should work, and it does work.
	And you've got your job, and this guy usually gets chewed out.
	But malicious compliance.
	Great term.
	That's what's going on.
	That is a good possibility.
	Good term.
	Good term.
	Quick food intelligence update.
	New York Times, very excited this morning to report that, or to ask, to pose the question...
	Will we be eating...
	Wait, I want to get the headline right.
	Will we soon be eating chicken grown from animal cells?
	They're pushing ahead, John.
	Here's an early taste.
	Let me open this up.
	It's so disgusting.
	They have a picture of this, what is lab chicken.
	Boneless.
	Boneless.
	Where is this here?
	Until I read the release form, I wasn't concerned.
	There was a subtext here.
	I can't get it for some reason.
	But they're really all jacked about growing cells into food.
	And this...
	Here, the Upside Foods chief, Danielle Davila, They're all so jacked, like, this is so great.
	We're going beyond everything.
	This is the future.
	And then in Wired, in order to create the bug stuff, the bug food, there seems to be a problem.
	We need better bugs.
	They call for faster-growing, fatter critters that can provide the protein needed to raise more climate-friendly livestock.
	Faster-growing?
	We need more bugs in the world?
	Yep, that have to grow faster and be fatter.
	So we're going to have lab bugs turned into lab meat.
	Yeah, but these lab bugs will escape.
	Yes!
	Yeah!
	And then they'll...
	Oh, well there you go.
	There's men in black.
	Where people are actually bugs.
	It could happen.
	So I have a few Biden clips to close out my segment.
	Because I see the clock is like, yes.
	Yeah, and we have another segment to do.
	Yes, let's go.
	Yeah, I figure we can keep that short.
	So I got some Biden clips, including his dead dog clip.
	Oh my God, this was another a-hole government story.
	But I want to premise those with a couple of his other little clips that we haven't played, but they were recent.
	People have heard them.
	I want to start with the Lester Holt stuff that he went on about, including the wise guy clip.
	And I want to start with that.
	We're going to turn to the economy this morning.
	You woke up to some more negative numbers when it comes to inflation, 7.5%.
	I think it was back in July you said inflation was going to be temporary.
	I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is.
	Well, you're being a wise guy with me a little bit.
	I understand that's your job.
	The reason for inflation is the supply chains were cut off, meaning that the products, for example, automobiles, the lack of computer chips to be able to build those automobiles so they could function, they need those computer chips.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what causes inflation, Joe.
	They need computer chips.
	Inflation!
	Yeah, those missing computer chips is the reason there's $5.50 gasoline in California.
	Yeah, inflation, Joe.
	That's because of the computer chips.
	Don't be a wise guy, man.
	Don't be a wise guy.
	Here's the thing, another one.
	This is the personal freedoms clip, the same interview.
	...for this to be over and to be able to resume the lives that they remember.
	Well, look.
	Look.
	I love how people talk about personal freedom.
	If you're exercising personal freedom, put someone else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy.
	I don't consider that being very, dealing with freedom.
	It's about moving in a direction you know is likely to diminish the prospects that this virus continues to spread.
	And so I think people should get the shots.
	We know the shots work.
	We know they work for the variants that are available that we are dealing with now.
	We know we have so many more tools at our disposal to prevent death and prevent serious illness.
	And I just think they should be careful.
	And if they're not careful for themselves, at least think of their children.
	Think of their families.
	You know, I think screw your freedoms when I see this.
	No wonder they're desperate.
	Shit, let's pretend the war was Russia.
	We need something.
	This guy is a liability.
	Everyone sees it.
	Here's the interesting clip of the week, and this is one that's been floating around, but here's the whole long version of it, because I have a sub-clip from this, which gives me a clue about this whole clip.
	This is Biden and the dead dog.
	Matt's doing one heck of a job, and I'm sure he's told you the story I heard at my time in the county council.
	You know, I don't know about you all, but commissioner, councilman, whichever your title is, you knock on the door and say, my name is Joe Biden, I'm a candidate for the county council.
	They look at you like, okay.
	And you're wondering what the county council does, aren't you?
	Well, it affects our lives more than anybody else's.
	I know it really does.
	You were involved in everything.
	When a constituent called, she said, I represented a—we had—we have one county that has 60 percent of the state's population, and we had six councilmen.
	So a councilman's district was seven times bigger than a House member.
	And in the state house and three times bigger than a state senator.
	And I represented a middle class district to a working class district.
	There was one very wealthy neighborhood.
	And I got a call one night.
	A woman said to me, obviously not in the same persuasion as I was politically, called me and said, there's a dead dog on my lawn.
	And I said, yes, ma'am.
	I said, have you called the county?
	He said, yes, they're not here.
	And I said, well, I'll get them in the morning.
	She said, I want it removed now.
	I pay your salary.
	So I went over.
	I picked it up.
	She said, I want it out of my front yard.
	I put it on her doorstep.
	But I've gotten much better since then.
	I want to say something about this when you're ready.
	Well, first of all, First of all, I believe this is a bogus story.
	It's 100% bogus.
	It's a made-up bullcrap story, which Biden is notorious for doing, but he kind of gives it away at the beginning.
	That's why I wanted to play the whole clip, because listen to this sub-clip, and at the beginning of the story of his law, it goes on for a minute and 39, so it's very early before he actually tells the story.
	He says this thing in the sub-clip, which...
	Telegraphs the fact that it's a bogus story.
	Play this.
	I'm sure he's told you the story I heard at my time in the county council.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's told the story that I heard.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's the story he heard, and then he put himself into the story.
	And this is how I know.
	This was very uncomfortable for me to watch, oddly.
	Because his cadence, the way he did this story, is to a T, my Uncle Don and or my Grandpop.
	And Uncle Don, of course, government issue from day one.
	And the cadence is, you kind of mumble and then...
	The citizen is always portrayed as, I pay your salary!
	And it's always a louder thing, and it has this particular voice, and it is exactly, exactly the way I've heard members of my family tell stories that were not their own.
	That were stories that people just tell in the foreign services, State Department, intelligence.
	That's how they tell it.
	I'm like, holy crap!
	With emphasis on I pay your salary.
	I pay your salary.
	Madam, you know, the whole thing, it was uncomfortable.
	Like, holy crap!
	And that's when I really realized the disdain that many public servants have for their constituents.
	Because that's what it is, it's disdain.
	Yeah, that's what Biden was showing.
	And then to emphasize the disdain, he actually put himself into a position where some woman wanted a dead dog removed from her yard, and Biden put it on her porch, which was a total F you.
	Here's the dead dog.
	You want it off the lawn?
	Boom, on your porch.
	It is incredibly patronizing.
	It's condescending.
	It's not a good look.
	And he thinks it's hilarious.
	Oh, it was so funny.
	Of course, it was an audience of government workers.
	Yes!
	Stupid citizen!
	I'll give you your dead dog!
	I'm going to show myself the world by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Too slick for your own good.
	Thank you.
	Starting with Mark Buccieri, $165 from Greenwood, Indiana.
	He's got a long note there for some reason.
	You may look it over.
	There might be something in there of use.
	Thomas...
	Yes, I will say that Mark sent in a meet-up report from the No Agenda Tribal Meetup, and I should probably read this.
	We collected raffle donations and infant human resource.
	Grady drew attendee Brandon's name to receive credit for the donation, eliminating his douchebag status and sending him on his way to knighthood.
	Please de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you very much, Mark and Maria.
	Tom Biard in Tilburg, Netherlands.
	So I can't just name Biard.
	Biard?
	I can't pronounce it.
	Tomas?
	I got it.
	Tomas Biard.
	Tomas Biard.
	No, I don't know what that would, but he does say it's his yearly carnival donation.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	And a birthday gift.
	He is on the birthday list.
	Sir Cal's next from Northville, Michigan.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Hey, Sir Cal.
	Tom Moore in Pateros, Washington.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Nice.
	Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico.
	Yeah!
	$100.
	Allison Kendall, $100.
	Lydia Gaston in Charleston, South Carolina.
	Prettiest city in the country.
	Literally and figuratively.
	Happy birthday call out for Michael Gaston.
	Josip Pavik in Zagreb.
	Oh, Hungary.
	Croatia.
	No, no.
	And he needs a de-douching.
	This is Zagreb.
	He's come in before.
	We've got Croatians listening to the show.
	This is great.
	Here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Way to go.
	I used to write for a Croatian publication.
	Matthew, so I'm fairly well known.
	No, not like Brazil.
	Matthew Smith, Sir Smitty, the Burning River Coastie in North Royalton, Ohio, 9999.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, who could this be?
	Oh, he's the Duke of Luna, lover of America.
	And boobs!
	8008, Concord, North Carolina.
	Okay.
	Jason...
	Klaus in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
	North Carolina, South Carolina, both like boobs.
	And what he says, he loves the guy who loves the guy who loves America and boobs.
	And boobs!
	And yes, he likes to get all those American boobs and boobs and boobs.
	A lot of boobs in this show.
	Brian Taylor, 69, 13.
	Richard Futter in London, UK, 55, 10.
	Daniel Mariano, 55, 10.
	Mark Allen in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 51.
	Alexander Beattie in Houston, Texas.
	50-01, the following people, following names and folk.
	Hold on, I got to read Mark Allen's note from New Kensington.
	I recently donated to Mo Fax, and in my donation note, I praised Mo and told you I was going to donate to No Agenda, but I went to Chipotle instead.
	So he's making good on that.
	Oh.
	Thanks, bro.
	Well, at least we're worth the Chipotle.
	That's good.
	Chipotle's the worst.
	Colon blow.
	Phillip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky, $50.
	These are $50 donors, name and location.
	Jessica Young in Yuba City, California.
	Jonathan Peckham in Bristol, Rhode Island.
	Stephen Shoemake in Xenia, Ohio.
	Jamie Hilliard in Newman, Georgia.
	Sir Chris Slowinski in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
	Kristen Balthasar in Concord, California.
	Oh, she should be at the meetups.
	Ben Prigg, P-R-I-G-G-E, in North Branch, Minnesota.
	James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
	John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	David...
	Chalona, My Chalona in Madisonville, Louisiana.
	Josh Adair, Parts Unknown.
	Brian Henderson in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Marie Labrouillet in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
	Kevin Dill, Sir Kevin, as a matter of fact, in Huntersville, North Carolina.
	Tony Smith in Fort Worth, Texas.
	Michelle Stoops in Mackinac, Illinois.
	And she's got a birthday son for a son coming up.
	And last but not least, Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia.
	I want to thank these folks for making the show.
	What is it?
	1426.
	And we got a couple of donations.
	Dame Jennifer collected these at the Nashville Meetup.
	I'll read these.
	Donation from...
	Oh, we got Sir Babaluchi.
	We got that one, right?
	And did we also get Chris Wills?
	Okay, we got both of those.
	So those were already in our executive producers.
	We do have some make-goods.
	Max Cernel.
	Dear sirs, I sent a donation for the show.
	Felt like I needed to as Sir Matt Defender of inappropriately timed sarcasm.
	Indeed.
	He says he included two ISOs here to help the cause.
	These are from our podcast, the Busy Signal podcast.
	We deconstruct the local issues in western Pennsylvania.
	If anyone's interested, visit us at busysignal.me.
	We use the value for value system and don't take any money except from our producers.
	Heh heh heh.
	I'll give you the health karma for me and some F cancer karma for my grandfather and very dear friend.
	Keep strong and brave.
	We'll give you that.
	You've got karma.
	And Sir Babaluchi...
	Okay, we already had it with this corrected note.
	Okay, that's it.
	Thanks to everyone who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity, or you may be on one of the multiple subscriptions, which we call sustaining donations.
	They really are.
	It's incredibly important.
	If you want to support us longer term, full term, in between your executive producerships, you can get one of these, all kinds of different levels.
	Go to...
	How about a goat karma for anybody who needs it today?
	You've got...
	Karma.
	I want to mention one thing.
	You always do that.
	You always do that.
	It's the wrong spot.
	I know.
	I know.
	I wanted to do a...
	Make good for a karma for...
	Teresa's son, Kalen Beasley, as he heads down to Austin to record his next album.
	Oh?
	Really now?
	He needs a karma.
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, I can't.
	Michelle Stoops is very happy to congratulate her son, Riker Gemberling, who turned 13 on the 15th.
	Happy birthday, Riker.
	Grant Conby, 31 today.
	Michelle Stoops, 42 tomorrow.
	Tony Cote, 37 on the 19th.
	Thomas Biard...
	It's celebrating Lydia Gaston.
	Happy birthday to Michael.
	Zachary.
	Happy birthday to Saddle Tramp, who will be celebrating on the 19th.
	And Jared says happy 33rd birthday to Mo.
	Maureen, it is her birthday today.
	Happy birthday for everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah.
	We do not have any titles.
	We do have one daming.
	That was expected, so let's get our one daming blades out here today.
	All right.
	That's it.
	Samantha Antrim.
	Step on up, Samantha.
	It's all your solo today.
	Well, this is rather exciting.
	Thanks to the support of $1,000 or more, the best podcast in the universe, I am very proud to pronounce the cake these simply as Dame Samantha, Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	For you, I've got some Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	I mean, maybe that's what you want.
	If not, we do have some other things, such as taquitos and tequila.
	We've got diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio.
	Ahem.
	Ahem.
	Beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties and kashasha, Rubenes, women and rosé, gaishas and sake, vodka and nilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, breast milk and pablum, ginger ale and gerbils, and of course, as you've already dug in, mutton and mead, it's there.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings, Dame Amanda, and we'll make sure that we get the right size out to you, along with your wax that you can seal with your signet ring, because that's what your Dame ring is.
	And our Certificate of Authenticity.
	And thank you again for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Well, the calendar is overflowing.
	And I heard from Sir Daniel that we'll soon have an upgrade to the No Agenda Meetups website, which will be exciting.
	Here's a report, though, first from Sir Patrick Coble from the big Nashville shindig.
	It is a written report.
	It was an epic meetup for sure, and we missed the podfather and the keeper, but we did have Adam as a virtual DJ and even had some good jingles played.
	Everyone that worked at the skating rink took a solid hit to the mouth and was asking about the show.
	Even they noticed the family feel and commented on how awesome it was to see such a large group of obvious friends.
	They were kind of surprised to find out that a podcast connected everyone.
	We had a good spread from Nashville hot chicken to some epic brownies and cookies and Rice Krispie treats.
	We had about 133 people show up with around 85 people getting skates.
	Over 35 kids there.
	It was great to see them all hanging out playing arcade games and skating.
	We had producers from every state that touches Tennessee and even a few flights from Washington State and, of course, Dame Jennifer from Charleston, South Carolina.
	Sir Spencer and his family drove in from Kansas City along with some people from Michigan and Mary Brett, lady be good, made it from Texas in her bus and the infamous Minnesota Nuts as well.
	We had a podcast streaming station where producers got to talk to the stream and share stories and call-outs.
	As always, it was an amazing group of people with so many different jobs and life experiences that you just must be there to experience.
	Everybody was chatting.
	It was good to see.
	This is why I love meetups, says Patrick.
	Whether hosting or visiting, there was even an after-party when the skating rink closed.
	Editing the meetup mashup video for Sunday's show.
	Special thanks to Dame Jennifer with logistics help, the Patels for the salad dressing for the tender dipping, Mousy Bear's wellness gummies, and the artist that designed the Valentine's theme ITM banner.
	And the biggest thanks for Adam for phoning in and DJing with us with the Koof from Texas.
	Everybody loved it.
	And I'm really, really sad that we weren't there, but it does seem like this was one of the great no agenda meetups.
	Of course, That's what they're all about.
	In the morning, this is Maria.
	And this is Mark.
	We are the Eminem of Greenwood, and we're so happy to get together.
	We had a great crowd today.
	John, Adam, never give up.
	No exit strategy.
	Hi, this is Gary.
	This is the first time I've been here.
	This is Andrew.
	I'm a Gen Z. I'd like to call out Alex and Theo as douchebags.
	Hello, guys.
	Here we are sitting here having a good time.
	This is Sir Benny.
	In the morning, Dame Swanee.
	In the morning, this is Matt from New Palestine, the recurring spook.
	And I just have to ask Adam, why are we paying taxes?
	If you can just print your way out of this nonsense.
	Hey, this is Emily from Ohio and hostage in Indianapolis.
	And actually, I'm wondering if Adam is the spook.
	In the morning.
	Bruce the Rebelizer here from Indy.
	Out.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	This is the OG Brandon.
	I am no longer a douchebag.
	This is Ted from Indianapolis.
	Wait a minute.
	That's not John C. Dvorak.
	Hey guys!
	John C. fangirl, Brittany Baxter, in the morning.
	Ah, it's a syrup of the maple.
	Adam and John, no agenda meetup is the place to be.
	This is Tyler.
	I'm here with Laura and my new human resource, Grady, who picked Brandon.
	In the morning!
	It never gets old for someone to say, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's always funny for some reason.
	We don't know why that is.
	Good report, guys.
	Today, the Mississippi Coast meetup kicks off at 4 o'clock, so you can just make it.
	That'll be, let me see, am I saying this right?
	Wow, this seems like screwed up here.
	This is very odd.
	I have a whole bunch.
	This is like something is weird with the meetups that I have on my list.
	Well, I'll continue with what I have.
	February, so the Friday, tomorrow, where the Western stimulation begins, 6 o'clock, that'll be at Flip's Patio Grill.
	That's Fort Worth, Texas.
	Then we have Saturday, the Central Oregon Local 17 meetup at noon Pacific Time, Mecca Grade Brewery and Tasting Room in Madras, Oregon.
	Also on Saturday, the Masquerade meetup to the Electric Boogaloo, 1 o'clock at the Dubliner in San Francisco.
	The Shrunken Amygdala Support Group kicks off at 2 o'clock on Saturday at Taft's Brewporium in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Hootay!
	The TMI evac zone at 3.33 p.m.
	across water, Lewisbury, Pennsylvania, also on Saturday.
	And the flight of the No Agenda No.
	25, The Proud Bird in Los Angeles, where Leo Bravo will organize on Saturday.
	The Local 360 at 4 p.m. in Sedro-Wooley, Washington, Double Barrel Barbecue.
	That's again on Saturday.
	The Southeast North Carolina meetup at 4 o'clock on Saturday at Carolina Ale House in Wilmington, North Carolina.
	Capital 33 Congregation, 5 o'clock at Sparky's Brewing Company in Salem, Oregon.
	The Quarterly Congregation at Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill.
	That'll be at 5 o'clock.
	And the Central Virginia Meetup, the River City Roll, is the place for you in Richmond, Virginia.
	And then finally on Sunday, the 20th, the next show day, the 2202022 at noon, the New Berlin Ale House in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
	And the Resist We Much Meetup, 2.20 p.m.
	Sunday at Barrel House Brewing Company, Taproom at River Park in Fresno, California.
	Just a few of the many meetups that are scheduled all the way through March.
	Go to noagendameetups.com.
	Find one near you.
	Go there.
	Have fun.
	You will not be disappointed.
	If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
	It's easy.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered or hell's the blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Alright, I'll make it easy You got three ISOs.
	I don't think any of them are great for ISOs, although some of them are cute.
	And I'll play those and then you can hammer it home, okay?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Alright, here we go.
	Here's number one.
	It's a complicated question.
	Wow, that's even very low volume.
	I can't even count at all.
	Okay, next one.
	Yeah, and?
	In the morning.
	I just have cute kids.
	Cute kids are good.
	All I have is one.
	I got one that's astounding.
	Thank goodness we need one.
	What's it called?
	ISO astounding.
	Okay, hold on.
	Here we go.
	ISO astounding.
	For some reason it's not loading.
	Why is it not loading?
	What's going on?
	Oh, here we are.
	It's astounding!
	Yeah, it's good.
	We'll take it.
	We have nothing else.
	We have to take that one.
	I don't have to do.
	It's not that bad that you, you know...
	What?
	It's just not that bad.
	No, it's not bad.
	It's better than mine.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	Okay.
	Do we have anything else?
	I thought I had something.
	Let's just catch up with the news.
	I got one thing.
	It's a story about the stabbing in New York.
	This is not going to last much longer, this idea of these Soros sisters.
	These DAs who are letting everything slide.
	Now some poor woman was butchered by a madman in Manhattan who was just let go so she could go out and butcher somebody.
	With a makeshift memorial growing larger in New York City's Chinatown, outrage over Christina Yuna Lee's death is mounting.
	It could have been any one of us.
	This chilling surveillance video appears to show the 35-year-old secretly stalked by a man early Sunday morning.
	Police say he then stabbed her at least 40 times inside her own apartment.
	Osama Nash is now charged with Unili's murder.
	This was his eighth arrest since May of last year.
	He was out on supervised release.
	The case is now bringing scrutiny to the city's bail system.
	This is a horrific murder of someone who was in the prime of her life.
	Should this suspect have been on the streets?
	No.
	Two years ago, Democratic lawmakers here passed bail reform, which requires judges release defendants before trial for all but the most serious crimes.
	Supporters say it promotes alternatives to incarceration for people who can't afford bail.
	But police say it's leading to a surge in crime.
	New York City's new mayor recently told us he wants to change the law to give judges more discretion to keep defendants in custody.
	We can't continue to put dangerous people back on our streets.
	Loved ones are remembering Una Lee, who worked at an online music company, as a magical person, always filled with joy.
	We, as Asian women, are walking around in a level of fear that we have never had to before in my whole entire life.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yes, the Soros sisters is getting quite bad, but I don't think the New Yorkers still haven't caught on to what's actually going on.
	They're being boiled like frogs.
	Yeah, well, this may or may not fix it.
	He's a cop, so he's got some clue.
	Maybe.
	He's having lots of troubles.
	He's playing...
	I don't know.
	We'll see how he does.
	I have a screwball clip.
	Which is part of the...
	I don't know what it's part of, but it was like...
	It feels like an attack against Christianity or Catholicism or God or whatever.
	Naomi Wolf should be up in arms about this one.
	This is a weird story.
	Back here at home and in Phoenix tonight, thousands of baptisms are now invalid because a priest mistakenly used the wrong word.
	a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix using the wrong phrase his entire career mistakenly saying we baptize you instead of saying I baptize you the Catholic Church in Rome indicating they will need to be re-baptized now open question tonight about confirmations and weddings that came after the diocese says he remains a priest in good standing and will help those affected by his mistake I don't understand this story you
	You know, Stephen Colbert mocked this, and Stephen Colbert is a heads-up Catholic guy.
	Yeah.
	like a major league Catholic.
	And he mocked it, uh, in a very interesting way.
	And this is bull crap.
	I mean, they're saying that if you weren't baptized, then your, your wedding is null and void.
	No, it's just, it just seems like a phony story to me.
	I just, yeah, it's curious that, I don't like it because I think it's an attack for some reason.
	I'm not quite sure what it is.
	You might be right.
	I never thought of that in that way.
	Well, seeing as we can only...
	The guy says, we baptize you, blah, blah, blah.
	I baptize you.
	You know, the semantics more than it is anything.
	You get baptized, you get the water on you, splash you out of there.
	So it really comes down to the actual 100% words?
	No.
	It doesn't seem like it to me either.
	Well, we'll follow the story, unless it's just a bogus story, which it could be.
	Well, our producers know what to do.
	They'll have it figured out.
	I'm going to go read some Naomi Wolf.
	I'm telling you, man, I'm into it now.
	She's off the rails.
	No, I see the evil, too.
	I'm like, you know what?
	Maybe there's something to this God thing.
	Maybe that'll work.
	I'll try anything.
	If I can smoke.
	That'll do it for our deconstruction for today.
	Thank you all for producing the show.
	It's always a pleasure to be working with y'all.
	You are great.
	And let's do some great work again on Sunday.
	We have end-of-show mixes from B-Dubs.
	Tom Starkweather takes us through the Scandinavian emergency.
	And Amdusius...
	We'll cornhole us out.
	Next on NoAgendaStream.com, new show on the stream, Millennial Media Offensive.
	Make sure you check that out.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where everyone's in agreement and they're all yelling it.
	The show was too long.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios mofos!
	And such.
	So, Sarah, do you think that because this pandemic hit in the way that it hit, that everybody had an idea of where it came from, but nobody knew for sure, and no one was letting the science roll out to find out?
	Do you think that might be a reason people Roll out.
	Roll out.
	Roll out.
	Roll out to find out.
	We got that one horse pony.
	Ah, man!
	Full of bullcrap.
	Roll out.
	Anthony Fauci.
	Roll out.
	A complete quack.
	Roll out.
	They chillin' like crazy.
	Roll out.
	For the fat stacks.
	New world order on the fast track.
	And where'd you get this whack gene with that new tech in it?
	Countin' this adverse reaction, yet you lied to defend it.
	You got that big pharma funding with no bankroll limit.
	With so much blood on your hands, but you refuse to admit it.
	What in the world is in that jab?
	What you got in that jab?
	Shut up, slave.
	Quiet down and behave.
	Don't be making no waves.
	Do what you're told if you want to get paid.
	Got that one horse pony.
	Ah, man.
	Full of bullcrap.
	Anthony Fauci.
	Roll out.
	A complete quack.
	They shilling like crazy.
	Roll out.
	For the fat stacks.
	New world order.
	Roll out.
	On the fast track.
	Removes.
	Letting the science roll out to find out. . . .
	So make no mistake.
	The border cannot and will not remain closed.
	Everything is on the table because this unlawful activity has to end and it will end.
	The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use...are not fully captured under the proceeds of crime and terrorist financing.
	These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.
	Sir, it would appear this could be more political drama for the Prime Minister.
	He name calls people that he disagrees with.
	He wedges, he divides, he stigmatizes.
	Conservative party members can stand with people who wave swastikas.
	The government...
	And us do not want this law to be implemented, to be implemented, sorry, on the territory of Quebec.
	It is not legitimate and it is useless.
	Everyone's done with us.
	Like, we are done with it.
	Let's start moving on and cautiously.
	But the truth is, because of all of our efforts, We saved more lives in Canada than in many other countries.
	To rational and fair-minded individuals who may think that they're just participating in a peaceful protest but are actually now commingled with something that is much more nefarious.
	Hey everyone, thank you so much for wowing with us.
	Hit it.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Someone's getting cornholed today.
	Yay!
	Oh my god!
	Someone's getting corn-holed today.
	You're trying to make a statement, and it just looks dumb.

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