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	This is green screen.
	No, it's not, man.
	It's green.
	It's green screen.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 20th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1435.
	This is no agenda.
	Reliving 74 and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where I normally have something very clever and hilarious to say.
	But I don't.
	I'm Jossie Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill in the morning.
	It's okay, even though we're a comedy show, sometimes you can just start off without a joke.
	That's fine.
	It's not a problem.
	I'm sure you had one.
	I'm sure you have.
	Yeah, it was hilarious.
	Oh, it cracked me up.
	So, speaking of such, you hear my voice is still messed up?
	A little bit.
	Yeah.
	Excuse me.
	It rained pretty well in the area of California where we pointed the rain sticks on the last show.
	Good.
	I got a lot of reports.
	People like, hey, man, this worked.
	It's great.
	Now the problem is...
	It's dangerous.
	It's so good.
	Well, I'm worried because, you know, the back end of the stick is what Texas always gets a couple days later.
	So who knows what's coming?
	Hopefully rain.
	We need it here, too.
	You just had rain, didn't you, recently?
	Not good rain.
	No, no, no.
	We need real rain.
	We've had freezing cold.
	That's what we've had.
	35 degrees in the morning, 75 in the afternoon.
	I want to shake it again, because I could use some more rain down here.
	Yeah, if you want.
	I mean, do you think...
	How about just a single?
	I was going to say, I don't think a double is responsible.
	Hold on, let me get it.
	Let me get my tool!
	You don't have it at the ready, like in the sheath?
	I need a sheath on my belt, yeah.
	The big rain stick hanging off of it?
	Now, these are made by producer Sherry in Utah.
	These are real rain sticks.
	These are not toys.
	Do not try this at home.
	We are professionally trained rain stick operators.
	Can you imagine a kid getting a hold of one of these things?
	Noah's Ark.
	It would be over.
	Galveston all over again.
	All right, so only one twirl, right?
	No doubles, just once over?
	Yeah, once over.
	Okay, what area of California?
	Well, you know, it's fine here.
	We need it in the Bay Area.
	All right, Bay Area, Bay Area.
	Here we go.
	Ready?
	Yeah, we're supposed to have a heat wave next week.
	Yeah, you're getting rain.
	Ready?
	One, two, three.
	Good to the last drop.
	Thank you.
	Alright, sheath that thing, Dvorak.
	It's dangerous.
	Ooh, Ukraine is in the news.
	Yeah, I've heard about this.
	In...
	There's a lot going on, and there's a lot to deconstruct.
	What's to deconstruct, from what I can see, is the fact that they're giving us news items, and they're leaving out important details constantly.
	Yeah, I would say that's true.
	For example, just to say, and I have some clips that show this, from Shep Smith.
	Oh, you know, I've been watching Shep Smith myself a little bit.
	I gotta say, he has kind of a fun show.
	It's different than anything else.
	You know what's interesting on all the networks, besides Shep Smith's show, which is good to a point, but he really does a poor job in this Ukraine thing.
	I think, and I have some examples.
	But every show, every network now, I think NBC is the best example.
	And I think it's because of MSNBC and also CNN. They've decided on NBC Now, which is their streaming service, which competes with MSNBC. Yeah.
	Everybody's got their own news show.
	So Halle Jackson's got a show.
	Tom Yamas has got a show.
	What's her name?
	I'm always ridiculing her name.
	Joy Reid?
	No, no.
	Stephanie Ruhle.
	Rachel Maddow.
	I don't know who you're talking about.
	No, I'm talking about NBC. These are NBC personalities.
	No, Nora's...
	Debra, what's her face?
	Who's the...
	Katie Turr.
	Oh, Katie Turr.
	Oh, she has her own show on MSNBC? No, these are...
	I'll start over.
	Now you got me going.
	NBC has a thing called NBC Now.
	It's streams.
	Ah, I got you.
	Okay.
	It's online and it's also on different networks.
	Ah, so they're doing like a Fox Nation where everyone has their own show, which is on the streamer, which everyone believes is the future.
	And that's why they're all there for no money.
	For no money.
	For no money, by the way.
	Now you're on the track.
	Yes, I know what's happening over there.
	No money.
	No money.
	Okay.
	So they all have shows, and there's more of them.
	There's a whole bunch of them.
	Those are the ones that are the most prominent.
	Yamas, who should be an anchor anyway.
	He's good.
	And then Jackson and Turr, and there's a couple others.
	And they're all this exact same news show, differently produced.
	Yeah.
	That's how you do it.
	You can watch the regular Lester Holt show for a half hour or watch any one of these and they're an hour.
	They're one hour.
	And they're generally better.
	Now, the Jackson one, if you get to watch that, It's slightly overproduced with a lot of graphics flying around, and every time you see a graphic, you hear a ding or a bong or a whoosh.
	And it's like, and all of these, but they're all the same news show, except they, you know, each one has their own take, because each of the anchors is their own editor-in-chief, and they think it should be this way or that way.
	Yamas' show was really good.
	Yeah.
	The other two are spotty.
	Yeah.
	Out of two, there's a bunch more.
	And these are hour-long shows?
	Yeah, they're hour-long news shows.
	Yeah, okay.
	All pretty much with the same content.
	I don't know.
	Oh, I thought you were going to play a clip of one of these fine programs.
	Oh, no, I don't have one.
	We've actually played clips from them now and again, but no.
	Shepard Smith, I consider him in the same league.
	I do have a clip from him.
	Okay.
	I do have, I think this will be the, we're looking for a summary show.
	I didn't look at my list yet.
	I'm looking at your list.
	I don't see anything with Shep Smith in here.
	Yeah, the ones that say CNBC are all Shep Smith.
	Bogged down report.
	Let's start with that.
	All right.
	Not much in terms of Russian troop movements, but much more in terms of Russian missile strikes.
	We heard about one out here in Lviv overnight.
	Essentially the Russians are moving their strikes further to the west trying to interdeck those supply lines.
	This is going to be a major issue.
	We've got to keep that military aid flowing in and humanitarian aid flowing in to keep the forces in Kiev and sustain them over time.
	Separately, out here in the east, the Russians still getting bogged down, struggling in terms of logistics and resupply, and keeping these corridors open, constantly met by Ukrainian opposition.
	That's obviously a surprise for them, but the bigger story ultimately is down here in the south.
	I think we're good to go.
	And Phase 2 looks like they could focus both here on Odessa, trying to seal off the southern part of Ukraine, and encircle Kyiv.
	But the Ukrainian military is doing an amazing job, and they have more weapons on the way.
	The U.S. and its allies bringing more javelins in for anti-tank, more stingers for anti-air, and you heard President Zelensky say he would like to receive MiG jet fighters.
	You've heard debate about that in the country.
	Lots of hesitation that might be an escalation to war.
	The S-300 is an anti-missile, essentially anti-air defense weapon system used against cruise missile strikes.
	Slovakia may provide those in, and Russia has also said that if they do, they will try and intercept these as well.
	I'll just blow them up.
	Wait, I think I had a clip on that as well.
	Yes, here's the clip on the weapon shipments.
	This is from CBS, the Central Intelligence Broadcast Systems.
	Defense Secretary Austin stopped in the Eastern European nation of Slovakia to lobby for an urgent shipment of the air defense missiles which Ukraine has been using to keep Russian warplanes at bay.
	Our goal has been to continue to reinforce those things that have worked for the Ukrainian forces.
	Slovakia uses the same Russian-made system known as the S-300 as Ukraine, so it could be pressed into service immediately without any need for training.
	It has a range upwards of 80 to 100 miles and can gauge targets up to 80,000 feet.
	Retired Air Force General David Deptula.
	They've been firing those missiles.
	They have the radars, they have the launchers.
	What they need are the replenishment missiles.
	The Ukrainians also need a resupply of the anti-tank weapons they have been using against Russian armored vehicles, especially the Javelin, which pops up and strikes tanks from the top where the armor is thinnest.
	On Wednesday, President Biden promised to send 2,000 more Jaguars, plus 7,000 other anti-tank weapons.
	That's far more than the number of tanks that the Russians have inside Ukraine right now.
	So I think that leaves them in very good shape to continue this campaign for some weeks or months to come.
	Weapon shipments are being driven across the border from Poland and Romania.
	So far, the Russians have been unable to intercept them.
	They're going to simply have to do that to shut off the flow of lethal aid.
	And if they don't, the tide could turn against them.
	As a television producer, I keep looking...
	I keep looking for the Stingers and the Javelins.
	They have thousands of them.
	And thousands more coming.
	They've already sent, I think, either $2,000 or $26,000.
	And they're going to send another $2,000 or $26,000.
	And I'm just not...
	I'm not seeing it on the screen.
	Where's the money on the screen?
	I want to see some money shots.
	I want to...
	I mean, I've seen some.
	Some, sure.
	I've seen some.
	Some.
	Maybe five.
	How much you want to...
	Not $2,000.
	How much do you want to bet we get a whole bunch of javelins and stingers showing up in Africa in a couple of months?
	Well, it would probably be longer than that.
	But the stinger thing is more interesting because the Russians aren't flying.
	In fact, listen to this report.
	You can catch very subtle.
	They won't discuss it in any detail.
	This is what bothers me about these coverages.
	This is the attack on Lviv, CNBC. Russian forces have largely stalled across Ukraine, but Putin's offensive is widening toward the west.
	As we reported here, Russian forces attacked the city of Lviv, about 50 miles from the border with Poland.
	A Ukrainian official said a Russian jet fired six missiles right over the Black Sea toward the city.
	Lviv's mayor reports the missile struck an aircraft repair plant near the city's airport.
	He said work had already stopped there, so nobody's reported hurt.
	So what did Russian forces do attacking Lviv?
	And what do they plan to do next?
	Okay.
	He asks the question, never answers it.
	I'm going to tell you.
	They attacked Lviv for two reasons.
	There was a NATO training camp there, which they blew up.
	But the main thing was, just outside the airport, was the number one facility to work on those MiG-29s.
	The only one in the country.
	Ah, okay.
	And they blew it to smithereens.
	It's not in Lviv.
	They didn't attack Lviv.
	He kept saying they attacked Lviv.
	They attacked...
	And if you listen real carefully, they say Russian MiGs or Russian Jets or...
	They weren't the MiGs, the SUs.
	Shot them...
	Shot into those facilities from over the Black Sea.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's...
	But that's the thing with the Russians.
	They literally can fly within their own airspace and fire from there.
	Their range is incredible, so they're not even flying over Ukraine when they do this, if they do this.
	They flew?
	You know how far that is?
	Yeah, it's quite a while.
	Quite a ways.
	It's 500 miles.
	Yeah, well, they can do more than that.
	No, they have cruise missiles that go 3,000 miles and supposedly, in fact...
	I have a list of them, of the cruise missiles.
	Russia has the biggest variety of cruise missiles in the world, A, and the ones that can go 5,000 miles, even though they don't usually carry those on jets, but these may have been carried on jets with a range of about 700 miles, they can hit within 12 meters of the target.
	I have a clip.
	We start with the war in Ukraine and Russia claiming to have used hypersonic missiles for the first time in this conflict, striking a weapons depot.
	Hypersonic missiles seen here in Russian video of a training exercise last month are nearly impossible for ground defenses to shoot down and can be fired from more than 1,200 miles away.
	Putin turning to the air as his ground forces stall.
	Russia's defense ministry releasing this video, not independently verified by ABC News, claiming to show a precision airstrike on a Ukrainian military vehicle.
	Tonight, an urgent search is underway after a strike on a military facility killed dozens of Ukrainian troops.
	These images are from Kharkiv, a city devastated by Russian bombs, rescuers digging through the rubble there, talking to a man buried in the wreckage.
	They were able to pull him out alive.
	And here in the U.S., former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush showing their solidarity with the people of Ukraine, wearing blue and yellow ribbons on their lapels, bringing sunflowers, the national symbol to a Ukrainian church in Chicago.
	Okay, I call bullshit on that clip.
	What do you mean?
	The clip is clearly bullshit.
	They're talking about something they have no video of.
	Besides the bullshit part of the clip, that's obviously bullshit.
	But I call bullshit on the beginning of the clip.
	There's no evidence that they're using hypersonic missiles because they don't have any in production.
	They've got these other ones.
	They've got tons of them.
	And the reason for this clip...
	I believe, because I have a clip, another clip, talks about how we need more money to build hypersonic missiles because the Russians and the Chinese have them.
	Yes, exactly.
	That's the only reason.
	The war machine is going full tilt.
	Full tilt.
	But they are cruise missiles.
	They're shooting them off 500 miles away or longer, and they put the coordinates in.
	They have their own GPS system, and they drop them on these spots that they want to blow up, including the NATO facility, which shouldn't be there in the first place.
	Which is people mostly by Canadians, according to Canadian news, and the facility to do the repair.
	So if you get any jets over there, now they can't even fix them.
	And as you know, planes like that need to be looked at all the time.
	Yeah.
	So...
	So we're getting just like bits and pieces of coverage.
	It just sucks.
	Well, how about this?
	This is my favorite.
	We went from the bioweapons labs, or maybe they were just bio labs, or maybe they were just labs, or who the hell knows what, but we've just changed that.
	Good evening and thank you for joining us on this Thursday night.
	You're welcome.
	Tonight, even with Russia stalling in its invasion of Ukraine, the brutality of Russian forces has shocked the world.
	The Secretary of State with an ominous message today, warning that Vladimir Putin is growing more and more desperate and could be preparing to use chemical weapons.
	When did this...
	I told you they were doing this.
	All of a sudden, bioweapons are now interchangeable with chemical weapons.
	There's even less evidence of the chemical weapons than there is of the hypersonic missile.
	I have seen no evidence of the chemical weapons.
	No, but it's fear-mongering.
	Oy, oy, oy.
	Um...
	Did you see that the Nobel Peace Prize officials want to reopen the nomination process so that they can have Zelensky be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize?
	I love that.
	Yeah, he's a peacemaker.
	So...
	There's so much fakery going on now, and even BBC took down videos and said, oh, these are deep fakes of presidents, and it's not true, and it's both Zelensky and of Biden.
	And there's this other video, which I did want to play real quick, just a little piece of it, of President Zelensky walking on Maidan Square.
	At night.
	Now, it's that iconic shot.
	You know, it's kind of the yellowish light.
	And he walks, you know, he's walking up to the camera.
	And so there's this raging debate online.
	It's like, this is green screen.
	No, it's not, man.
	It's green.
	It's green screen.
	And we can easily tell if it's faked because we have the audio and we are audiophiles.
	Tell me if this sounds like it's outdoors in Maidan Square.
	That's Studio Hiss.
	That's not outdoors.
	It's totally hit.
	And you can't talk at that level outdoors.
	No.
	No.
	You generally don't talk like that outdoors.
	No, complete bullcrap.
	Yes.
	Now, from what I understand, I don't know if you've seen it, But it really does appear that Zelensky and Putin have had communications and saying, well, you know, we just can't be a part of NATO. That's the only way to stop this.
	It's not getting a lot of play.
	No, it's getting no play.
	Okay.
	Sorry.
	It seems like there's consensus for these guys.
	I agree.
	But the show must go on.
	That's the way I see it.
	That's right.
	By the way, you mentioned changing the rules for the Nobel Peace Prize.
	Listen to this one.
	This is like, what?
	Play the gold medal clip.
	South Dakota's lone U.S. House member Dusty Johnson says he was moved by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's speech this morning.
	Zelensky addressed Congress by video from Kyiv.
	Johnson released a video on social media with his reaction.
	And he talked to us about how America, as the leader of the world, needs to be a leader of peace.
	And he asked us to continue doing what we're doing and go a step further, put secondary sanctions on those who are doing business with Russia, make sure that they're held accountable, and provide the Ukrainians the tools that they need to defend themselves.
	It was a powerful address, and I think it is going to change the tenor of the conversation here in Washington.
	Today, Johnson introduced legislation with Representative Victoria Sparts, a Republican from Indiana who was born in Ukraine.
	Their bill is the Defenders of Ukraine Congressional Gold Medal Act.
	The bill would collectively award the congressional gold medal to the defenders or people of Ukraine.
	Johnson says it would make clear that America stands with Ukraine, and it would honor those defending their country.
	The congressional gold medal is the highest civilian award in the U.S. They're really laying it on thick now, aren't they?
	So they're going to give...
	Not even Americans.
	They're just going to start giving them to Ukrainians?
	Yeah, of course.
	Yes, they are the world.
	They are the children.
	They are peace.
	They're bringing it.
	Well, before we go on to anything serious...
	But it's all so performative.
	It's just...
	It's 100% performative.
	This is a theater show.
	It's a dinner...
	It's like Tommy and Gina's wedding, this.
	It's stupid.
	11 seconds.
	Calls for renewed spending.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, this is obvious.
	Some of the funding.
	For one, high profile.
	Thank you.
	As the war rages in Ukraine, there are renewed calls for more military spending here in the United States.
	But the one and a half.
	That clip needed re-editing.
	I botched that clip.
	I've got a couple clips here just about the propaganda, what they're bestowing upon us, but we do have casualty counts.
	I was asking for it.
	I want it on the screen like COVID, but they're not going to give that to me.
	CBS has two reports.
	The Russian casualty report, 33 seconds.
	The Ukrainian casualty report, one minute and one second.
	Russia first.
	According to U.S. intelligence, since the start of the invasion three weeks ago, more than 7,000 Russian troops have been killed.
	A dozen of them are here, a refrigerated rail car in Woznesensk.
	Some still teenagers.
	Perhaps, like so many, they didn't even know they were going off to war.
	The Russian military won't even acknowledge they exist, says this scout, codenamed Ghost.
	Russia is treating their own soldiers like meat, leading them to rot, he says.
	That doesn't sound at all like propaganda, does it?
	With pictures of dead children, dead young boys.
	Ah, that's fantastic.
	Treating like meat.
	Yeah.
	Let's check out...
	By the way, you don't treat meat like that.
	You don't leave it to rot.
	You put it in the refrigerator.
	Exactly.
	Here's the Ukrainian casualty report.
	In Kiev.
	I mean, if you want to start a report, that's the way you do it.
	A crying babushka.
	Nothing like that.
	In Kyiv, a son cries over the body of his mother.
	Killed when a downed missile sent shrapnel and shards of glass tearing through the neighborhood.
	The Ukrainian military said this is the result of a missile that was intercepted.
	And you can see the level of destruction.
	Every single window is smashed out.
	Not just here, but in the surrounding buildings.
	Imagine if this was a direct hit.
	Nadia Yerosiek told us she has nothing left.
	And where are you going to go now?
	I don't know, she said.
	I am alone.
	My son died a year ago.
	I don't have anyone.
	I hope that Putin dies.
	I curse him.
	Nadia is not alone in her anger or fear.
	With Russian troops unable to make any significant ground progress toward the capital in recent days, they're increasingly turning to launching strikes into civilian areas with devastating and terrifying effect.
	Now, the Russian counter to that is, hey, you know, they were putting tanks.
	It's the same as the Israelis and the Palestinians.
	It's the same old, same old.
	Yeah, they're using the human shields.
	They're doing this.
	They're doing that.
	Now, I was listening to one report, and they were talking about, like, this kind of, what we're doing, the deconstruction.
	They said, what are we going to do about Western media using Russian talking points?
	Yes, I think we need to lock people up.
	That will be the start.
	Oh, there was that.
	That was part of it.
	But what are the Russian talking points that anyone's using?
	I don't know what they...
	I mean, I think I may have used one myself a few shows ago, which is denazification.
	Denazification, that's one Russian talking point.
	The other one is, you guys started it.
	So if you recount the history going back to 2014, if you go back to 2005, then, you know, the provocation, it was constantly on the table.
	No, that is in fact carrying H2O for the Pootie Poot.
	Well, let's listen to, I got some clips from, I can't believe it, I got the opportunity because I haven't seen him for a while.
	John Brennan.
	Yeah, he's back on the scene.
	I noticed that.
	And just, I didn't clip it, but last night we watched Bill Maher on HBO and he had Ernest Moines on.
	Do you remember him?
	Ernest Moines was in charge of the nuclear regulatory agency during Obama with the crazy white hair.
	It kind of looks like a mushroom on his head.
	Oh, that crazy-looking guy.
	The crazy guy, yeah.
	So now he's with some think tank to stop nuclear war.
	But he was talking, and it was the cadence, the word choice, 100% Brennan.
	I'm sitting there, I'm going, like, this guy's a spook.
	He probably sleeps next to Brennan.
	I should have clipped it.
	I'll bring it for Thursday.
	It's really incredible.
	Yes, actually, you should, because I do...
	I do.
	I do think...
	You do think...
	That Brennan is in a milieu that has that cadence and it's an intelligence milieu.
	And the spooks that are always trying to keep hidden as best they can really need to do something about this.
	This is like that woman that was the old...
	She's out and about.
	She's the woman that was in charge of disguises and some other stuff.
	She's retired.
	Oh, the CIA lady who was on with Kara Swisher?
	Yeah.
	She mentioned that...
	But their agencies are always weirded out about social media because they don't know if you're on too much.
	If you're not on at all, does it make you look like a spook?
	Well, how about this one?
	If you sound like a spook because you're in the milieu, does it make you look like a spook?
	Because you are.
	Okay.
	Just a little tip for him.
	A little tip, everybody.
	Focus less on the social media and more on the words coming out of your pie hole.
	Yeah, how about hanging out with different people?
	Let's go with Brennan on War One.
	Now, by the way, he was on Shep Smith, and they brought him in as, you know, like, oh, a great guy.
	And half the stuff he says he can't possibly know.
	Okay.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said China is already on the wrong side of history for not condemning the invasion.
	Officials today would not say whether in today's call President Xi described Russia's actions as an invasion at all.
	Shep?
	Kayla Tausche, live tonight.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Sean Brennan now, former CIA director and an NBC News senior national security and intelligence analyst.
	Director Brennan, thanks.
	Isn't this Russian invasion against the Chinese interests?
	I mean, they're investing in infrastructure around the globe as part of their Belt and Road Initiative.
	War in Europe, I mean, that hurts that.
	And yet, they're staying on the sidelines, at least in public.
	Absolutely, Shep.
	It is against Chinese interests.
	And I also think it just demonstrates that President Xi, I think, took President Putin at his word that it was going to be a quick invasion, that the Ukrainian military was going to be able to fold over.
	And it's not.
	And now we're after three weeks of this military onslaught by Russia.
	I think President Xi realizes that, quite frankly, he's made a mistake in terms of maintaining this neutrality and also not counseling Putin against going in.
	American talking points.
	He took Putin at his word.
	How does he know that?
	He doesn't know that.
	He doesn't know that at all.
	He took Putin at his word that he's going to be in and out in two days.
	Really?
	Right.
	Okay.
	So he's full of crap and he's just kind of making it up as he goes along.
	But considering President Biden had a chat for two hours with President Xi and not much came out of it, what are they teeing up?
	Are they teeing up Russia and China?
	Are we setting China up for something else?
	I mean, what is the point of it?
	We know it's bullshit, but what's the reason for it?
	I haven't figured it out.
	Well, maybe when we play...
	I have some really good Biden...
	Some analysis of the Biden talk.
	Okay.
	But let's go to Brandon going on and on about stuff he doesn't know anything about.
	He's just making it up.
	And by the way, I can't not listen to these clips and not hear...
	The Brennan commentary about being guilty until you're accused of a crime.
	Shall we remind everybody?
	Yes, please play it.
	Yes, this is on MSNBC. People are innocent until, you know, alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
	That's right.
	American way.
	That's right, baby.
	That's how we roll.
	First Amendment, Second Amendment, all of the amendments.
	All right, here we go.
	This is a longer clip.
	I think I can cut it off, but this is Brendan on the war.
	But for the U.S. to lead now NATO nations in this consensus against Russia certainly is contrary to what China has tried to do, which was to take advantage of fissures in the West, and they don't like the idea that now the United States is leading this coalition of NATO and the international community against Russia.
	Okay, stop it there.
	He does this a couple of times, and I want to make sure that everyone's aware.
	This, we've known from our own clippage and what we both have put together, is that the United States is not leading this.
	No, in fact, the EU led the SWIFT sanctions by law.
	No, we're not in charge of much.
	No, except we're in charge of the purse strings because they're using our taxpayers' money to ship.
	Purse strings and marketing.
	Come on, we got the marketing gig.
	We got the marketing.
	We got the purse strings.
	We're spending the money.
	That's right.
	EU's calling the shots.
	He's making it sound like they're not, and oh, we're leading the way.
	That's bullcrap.
	And by the way, one other little tidbit here, not to just keep criticizing this guy.
	No, please feel free.
	But let's listen to this comment about, oh, China doesn't want to see this.
	China doesn't because it's a Belt and Road.
	I'm thinking China might want to see this.
	They can go in there with their big money bags and say, hey, we're going to rebuild for you.
	We're the good guys.
	And go in there and rebuild Ukraine for all we know.
	They're learning.
	China might be thinking about, hey, this is good.
	Good, rubble eyes more.
	Which was to take advantage of fissures in the West.
	And they don't like the idea that now the United States is leading this coalition of NATO and the international community against Russia.
	Director Brennan, were China to actually come out against the invasion, how would that change the situation on the ground?
	Let me just interject.
	There may be some truth to what he's saying, because if you're China, you're probably saying, wow, man, that would suck if they took away our yachts and planes and money.
	And kick this off the network, I think that's valid.
	They're probably looking at that going, hmm, what's happening here?
	And the other interesting little thing about the, I agree, the other little interesting thing is they keep talking about how Russia's run out of bullets and they're going to ask China for stuff.
	What kind of maniac thinks that?
	Let's listen to the question again.
	Director Brennan, were China to actually come out against the invasion, how would that change the situation on the ground?
	Well, I don't think it would change much.
	But also, I think it's very important for that international forum, like in the United Nations.
	China does have a very important voice, especially in the Security Council.
	And so therefore, I think it's important to be able to have this international coalition, even to include China, that is going to signal to Russia and to the Russian people that this is a war that is not justified in any regard.
	And so therefore, I think President Biden wanted to make sure that President Xi understood what our assessment of the situation in Ukraine, warned him against siding with Russia in a material way, but also let him know the consequences if President Xi and China decide to try to help Russia evade sanctions.
	Which is something that I know that the United States and its coalition partners really want to make sure are going to strangle Putin as he continues this military invasion.
	Speaking of, you know, he appears increasingly angry in speeches.
	Just yesterday he called Russian protesters and those who fled the country scum and traitors.
	And then today that big propaganda rally.
	What's the intel assessment of the Russian leaders, I don't know, wherewithal these days?
	Hold on a second.
	The propaganda rally was fantastic.
	Did you see any of that?
	I did.
	It's like it was a Trumpian kind of thing.
	And that's exactly what was being said.
	Now with Trump, everyone said Stalin, dictator.
	Now with Putin, and this has got to irk the guy, You're like Trump.
	And here's the opening.
	I thought this was...
	You want to talk Trump show?
	This was it.
	President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin!
	That was great.
	Sounds more like WWF. It was fantastic.
	The whole stadium filled up.
	Oh, my goodness.
	That was so funny.
	And it's just like, oh, now it's Trump.
	You know, like Trump, he pays him to be there.
	We all know what's going on.
	It's not real.
	It's fake.
	Just yesterday, he called Russian protesters and those who fled the country scum and traitors.
	And then today, that big propaganda rally.
	What's the intel assessment of the Russian leaders, I don't know, wherewithals these days?
	I don't know.
	Well, I think he has made a very bad strategic miscalculation.
	And so I think he's very fearful right now.
	He's feeling humiliated.
	But as many autocrats do, he's decided to go on the offense.
	And therefore, he continues to engage in this propaganda and disinformation with his people.
	He wants to make sure they continue to rally behind his calls about denazification of Ukraine.
	But when I look at Putin, I see somebody who has painted himself into a corner.
	He doesn't have a lot of good options.
	I think he's going to intensify the shelling of the cities.
	And therefore, I think he's going to continue with this very strong man attitude and position to try to, again, get the Russian people to stay behind him.
	Director Brennan, thank you.
	Do you need the rest?
	Do you need the rest of this clip?
	Hold on.
	I just want to listen to Brennan one more time.
	Now let's listen to Moyntz.
	Let me see.
	Play.
	Gen X is reliving the childhood concerns about nuclear weapons.
	You can't hear it?
	No, barely.
	Because of Putin's rather reckless language.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I hear it there.
	I hear the pacing.
	It's the most dangerous period.
	Yeah, it's totally in the milieu.
	That guy's a spook.
	It's a milieu.
	Yeah, that guy's a spook.
	Total spook.
	He's got the hair color.
	He doesn't have the beard, though.
	He needs the beard to be full-on spook.
	So...
	But it...
	It's incredible that now that, and we'll get to that, the Hunter Biden laptop is now being considered real, which he, amongst others, discredited.
	Didn't say entirely what the way Fox News is putting it, but...
	They discredited it, and he's out at the same time that this is going on.
	It's like, it's so obvious.
	The question in my mind is, why doesn't Shep Smith ask him about it?
	Yes, yes.
	Hold on a second.
	I got something really fun here.
	President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin!
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to rob a lot!
	Wow.
	Rubble eyes.
	Rubble eyes, everybody.
	All right, so let's stop laughing about the fate of these poor Ukrainians.
	John, we're insensitive.
	Insensitive.
	ABC Good Morning America does a good job of telling us about the refugees.
	This is the first stop for so many refugees fleeing Ukraine.
	You can see a lot of them here have just arrived on trains from Ukraine.
	Some of them have spent the night here.
	In some cases, some of them are also getting back onto trains.
	You can see them lining up at these counter here to get to other parts of Poland and other parts of Europe.
	Lots of volunteers here, all these people with yellow vests are volunteers trying to get refugees to their next destination.
	Some of them even holding signs offering rides to places like Sweden and Germany.
	We're seeing more and more refugees coming in from western Ukraine.
	And that is the big concern here, that as Russia ramps up its attacks on western Ukraine, that could set off a new wave of refugees.
	And already volunteers here tell us they have seen an influx in the amount of refugees coming in from western Ukraine.
	More than 2 million refugees have now come to Poland.
	3.1 million refugees have fled Ukraine.
	And growing calls now for the U.S. to take in more refugees.
	So far the U.S. has only taken in a few hundred Ukrainian refugees since October.
	The Department of Homeland Security is saying it has sent refugee officers to Europe to assess the situation, help screen Ukrainian refugees, and determine how many refugees the U.S. is willing to take in.
	Well, great.
	Completely depthless reporting from ABC's Good Morning America.
	It's like, oh, people, how many are we going to take?
	This is a tragedy.
	This is the true tragedy of Ukraine.
	And if everything gets rubbleized, these millions of people will be in Western Europe where they will feel at home.
	Because unlike ABC, the BBC NewsHour did a very interesting report about the acceptance of these refugees.
	It also seems to me that race and racism do play large roles in how people interpret refugees from the Middle East and from Africa.
	And we see evidence of this in the way that Ukrainian refugees are spoken of as being civilized, As being like us, as being educated and cultured.
	And in the surprise that was initially spoken of that people from Europe would have to go through something like war and displacement.
	And what that spoke to was a kind of normalization of violence in other places around the world.
	And it really brought to the surface a stereotype that people from the Middle East and from Africa were not to be trusted, were uneducated, uncultured, uncivilized, and so forth.
	Which, of course, is absolutely not the case.
	And this led to a kind of hostility and fear of refugees.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	The EU is completely racist against the color of the refugees.
	Completely.
	And I just want, let's just all realize it.
	You feel extra bad about this because these people look like you.
	That's it.
	Yeah, well, except for the bubble.
	And, no, and these people have all been, you're being brainwashed.
	You're being told to care about one thing and one thing only.
	Colors and symbols, very powerful.
	Blue and yellow are very powerful colors.
	Oh, yeah.
	And you cannot distinguish color frequency from sound, from all kinds of things.
	I mean, this is frequencies that are hitting you, and they make a difference.
	Sweden.
	Sweden?
	Blue and yellow.
	Are they exactly?
	Well, they're not the same blue and yellow.
	I thought Sweden had some white in there.
	No, the PMS is not exactly the same.
	But it's a pretty flag.
	And Ikea?
	Ikea?
	Ikea?
	Inviting.
	It's blue and yellow.
	I have a new clip from Colonel McGregor, who was on a podcast.
	He keeps showing up on Tucker Carlson.
	Okay, I guess I was wrong.
	I think they kick him off for sure.
	Yeah, he's not been kicked off, but we've had emails and communications from producers who are saying, McGregor is being set up.
	They're giving him enough rope until they pull some horrible, nasty stunt on him and some horrible thing comes out or some tweet or some audio clip.
	Oh, that can happen to anybody, yeah.
	Right, right.
	And he has a very different view on what's going on.
	And in this particular video on Rumble, he actually has a map up and you see the entire eastern part of Ukraine is occupied.
	There's Russian forces all around from the southeast all the way to the northeast.
	And he says there's reasons for that, and he doesn't think there's going to be rebelization at all.
	Well, on the southeastern side, towards the bottom, you have as many as 60,000 Ukrainian troops that are completely surrounded in what the Russians are referring to as a cauldron.
	That's been going on for several days now.
	No one knows what the status of those forces is.
	They're probably running out of water supplies, ammunition.
	The Russians would prefer that they surrender.
	Some have.
	But there may be pressure now to end this, which would result in the mass slaughter of some 60,000 troops.
	And I don't think the Russians are interested in that.
	I think what the Russians are interested in is what you see.
	They've gone to the large population centers.
	They've tried to avoid the center, the central portion of Ukraine, because that's the agricultural area.
	In fact, Russian troops have been told to stay out of the fields.
	The Russians realize that we're on the verge of spring planting in Ukraine.
	They're not interested in destroying the wheat and barley crops at all.
	They would prefer to see that go ahead.
	So the issue for the Russians right now is that everything worth controlling is controlled.
	This notion that you hear over and over and over again on television, well, they haven't increased their territorial control.
	They're not interested in territory.
	The entire operation from day one was focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces.
	That's largely complete with the exception of those that are still surrounded.
	They've got a huge problem in Mariupol, which is off to the right, where you have roughly 3,000 of these fanatical fighters in the Azov regiment or battalion, whatever you want to call it, who are refusing to allow any of the civilians in the city to leave.
	In fact, I saw footage this morning of these Ukrainian Azov troops telling the population there, you can't leave, even though the Russians had opened a corridor for humanitarian assistance and evacuation.
	Again, these things are not reported in the West because it tends to damage the narrative.
	So my great concern is the determination to annihilate the Azov crowd that could result in real destruction in Mariupol, which would be terrible for the people there.
	But again, one doesn't know what the thinking is at higher levels.
	I suspect there's a desire to end this, get this over with.
	But as long as Zelensky stalls, the more Ukrainian forces will be killed.
	Yeah, I look at the map and I see what I'm actually being shown, and that rings true.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I wonder about some of these other things that are going on because the Russians have sent in over a thousand of these cruise missiles and that's been doing most of the damage and they're very well targeted.
	Precision, we call that surgical precision, John.
	I don't know how surgical it is.
	That's what Obama always called it, surgical precision.
	But the...
	Well, 12 meters, you know.
	Hey!
	We might take off the wrong leg.
	Oh, well.
	Oh, well.
	Surgical.
	So...
	I think a lot of these missiles have been thrown off target from one way or another, shot at as they come through, and maybe they hit stuff, and that's not good.
	And I think a lot of these buildings I've seen in Mariupol were all, looked like they were shelled, but they're saying this is shelling.
	The only guys that have got the artillery seem to be the Ukrainians.
	I wonder if they're shelling their own buildings.
	I think there's a lot of weirdness going on.
	That's what I said at the beginning.
	The reporting stinks.
	One of our producers put together a nice little compendium of historical Ukraine Nazi stories.
	And they're all YouTube links.
	You can look at them at your own leisure.
	They're all between...
	Two minutes and 20 minutes.
	I'll just give you the titles.
	BBC Newsnight.
	Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine.
	BBC Newsnight.
	Ukraine on patrol with the far-right national militia.
	BBC Newsnight.
	The far-right group threatening to overthrow Ukraine's government.
	Time.
	Inside a white supremacist militia in Ukraine.
	The Guardian.
	Ukraine's far-right children's camp.
	I want to bring up a warrior.
	City News.
	Canada's meeting with Ukraine's self-professed Nazi paramilitary.
	I mean, this was all reported on.
	But yet, talking point.
	Talking point.
	Here's my question.
	Elon Musk maneuvered Starlink over Ukraine and said he was making it operational for the people to get internet.
	What are the chances that's being used for some kind of military function?
	Of course it is.
	Why wouldn't it be?
	And could it be taken out?
	There's a lot of little, those little satellites are hard, you know, that's not true.
	What do you mean?
	You get one of those nets, the ones that the Chinese have?
	They got a net?
	Well, maybe.
	You just fly through the swarm?
	Russian GPS and that would screw up.
	Why isn't somebody taking out the Russian GPS to screw up?
	That'd have to be us.
	I'll tell you.
	Something was going on yesterday.
	Maybe even the entire week, Friday and Saturday.
	DNS was a mess.
	Did you notice any weird connection issues?
	No, not here.
	DNS was flaky.
	It was all over the place.
	Who knows?
	We had DNS poisoning.
	People are doing crazy shit.
	You've got guys who do open source software putting malware into their projects on purpose that will activate when it senses geolocation Russia.
	And these are projects that people use for software.
	JC was talking about somebody's been with a Ukrainian IP or something or running through a Russian IP. They were collecting damaging information on...
	All kinds of stuff.
	Like the gigabytes worth of damaging information about one government or another and some Yahoo took it out because it had the IP he didn't like.
	He thought he was doing him a favor.
	Yeah.
	And just destroyed all this good data.
	These guys are nuts.
	Don't be a vigilante.
	Well, you should say that to Sean Hannity, the warmonger.
	Oh, this guy's out of control.
	Over on Fox.
	Listen to this.
	Listen to Tucker and then they switch to this guy.
	It's hilarious.
	Although, I'm getting pretty tired of Tucker's rap, too.
	It's like, okay...
	Now the Russian military...
	Sorry?
	You can't just listen to Tiger over and over.
	It will get...
	I find myself falling asleep more and more.
	Now the Russian military will hear about shows like this.
	They need to stop taking orders from this murderer.
	They need to take him out.
	The world needs to agree that Putin should no longer be running Russia.
	He's a murdering, authoritarian thug, killing innocent civilians, and civilized countries need to agree that he must be removed sooner than later and by whatever means necessary.
	Oh my God!
	Whatever means necessary.
	This is the kill Putin meme.
	Yes, this is not a good thing to do.
	No!
	What happens if you kill the guy?
	Then all of Russia stands up, rejoices, and everything goes back to normal?
	You're living in a dream world.
	Yeah.
	Now, this guy, it seems to me, for one thing, I think the logic goes like this.
	First of all, you think he's a murdering fiend.
	He throws gays out of windows!
	And then you threaten his life?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Who's nuts?
	Who's the nutso?
	Well, there's plenty of canceling of Russia going on, and the mainstream media continues to keep that moving forward.
	CBS? Let's turn now to Moscow, where WNBA star Brittany Griner will be held in jail for at least another two months.
	That's according to Russian state media.
	Greiner was seen entering court today, her first public appearance since her arrest at an airport last month for allegedly having cannabis vape cartridges in her luggage.
	Greiner was part of a group of WNBA stars who played in Russia during the off-season.
	We'll see if we can make her into some kind of martyr.
	They haven't quite succeeded yet.
	That's a suck report.
	I got a better one.
	Let's play Mike Reiner.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Easy on the suck report.
	Come on, man.
	Well, she's terrible.
	WNBA star Brittany Griner's detention in Russia has been extended.
	A Russian news agency reports that a Moscow court has decided to detain her until May 19th, another two months.
	Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport last month after Russian officials say they found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
	The 31-year-old faces up to 10 years in a Russian prison.
	She was in the country playing for the EuroLeague, where she's played on a Russian team for the last seven years.
	The WNBA season starts May 6th.
	Wait a minute.
	Now that adds a little perspective that I wasn't aware of.
	Tell me about it.
	That's why CBS stinks.
	No, the suck report.
	Good morning at CBS this morning with the suck report.
	We stink.
	So she plays for a Russian team.
	For seven years.
	So she's in Russia all the time.
	Yeah.
	Oh, brother.
	Well, then she should know better.
	She's basically a Russian.
	She's a commie.
	Now that this is what we need her to kill Putin.
	We need to get her the cyanide.
	So here's what I'm thinking.
	I'm looking at this.
	She was set up by us.
	Yes, of course, as a martyr.
	Exactly right.
	Drop a couple of those vape cartridges in the bag.
	Or just tip off Russian customs.
	Oh, man.
	Because that's what you do.
	For seven years, she's been going in and out with these same vape cartridges.
	I don't think they had to put them in there.
	No.
	They just told the Russian cousin, look, we've got to do something.
	We've got to make a martyr here.
	Let's set this girl up.
	Now, they're going to keep her in jail until the 19th of May.
	That's another detail they left out.
	And they left out of the CBS report.
	And then the WNBA season begins in May 9th or 10th, which means she's going to be late to practice, which is another detail CBS left out.
	So this whole thing is just too fishy.
	Well, how about this one?
	How about this one?
	I thought this was pretty good, too.
	The Russian cosmonauts arriving aboard the International Space Station are raising questions with their wardrobe, all three clad in yellow suits of blue trim, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
	People around the world wondering if the crew was trying to send a message, but the head of the Russian space agency tweeting that the crew supports the Russian army.
	One cosmonaut saying they had extra yellow material that needed to be used.
	So this is very confusing.
	When they were at the sewing machine, that's when they figured this out.
	So they board the space stations like, oh, look, there's solidarity.
	And these guys are like, no, we just had some extra yellow.
	I had extra yellow.
	But the BBC... Have the funniest, funniest deplatforming of Russia I have heard in years.
	The BBC is resorting to broadcasting news bulletins over shortwave radio in Russia.
	That's after the country blocked access to BBC websites.
	BBC announced it was bringing back the World War II-era broadcasting technology in the region just hours before its sites were banned.
	News of the ban was also reported by Russian state news agency RIA. Shortwave radio, as we know, uses frequencies that carry over long distances and are accessible and portable sets.
	BBC says the shortwave broadcast will be available on frequencies of 15735 kHz from 4 p.m.
	to 6 p.m.
	and 5875 kHz from 10 p.m.
	to midnight, Ukraine time.
	News will be read in English, which the BBC says will be available in Kiev as well as parts of Russia.
	So this report is...
	Baffling to me.
	Because Russia has blocked websites, we're now going to broadcast on shortwave radio, which no one except the nutty hams in Russia will be listening to.
	No, nobody has shortwave radios.
	People have smartphones.
	The BBC could have done podcasts.
	They could have done a number of things.
	But this had to bring back shortwave radio?
	Are you kidding me?
	This is a joke.
	It's a joke.
	It is a joke.
	It's a total joke.
	It's so baffling that they, oh yeah, this is great.
	This is great.
	Yeah, shortwave.
	We'll get him now.
	We'll tell him the truth.
	Punching through the ionosphere.
	The BBC. Shortwave.
	Please.
	Shortwave.
	Please.
	It's so dumb.
	All right.
	Let's go to Biden's call to China.
	Yes.
	So it was not recorded.
	It was not...
	There's no transcript.
	The Chinese had something to say right away.
	We had nothing to say.
	But it was a perfect call, no doubt.
	It was a perfect call.
	So here we go.
	I got two clips.
	I got Biden warns China CNBC. This is the CNBC take.
	President Biden's warning to China.
	If you provide any help for Russia's brutal and horrific invasion of Ukraine, there will be consequences.
	The White House says Mr.
	Biden personally delivered the stern warning to the Chinese President Xi Jinping during a nearly two-hour video call just today.
	It comes after reports that Moscow is asking Beijing for military aid, including drones, to help turn the tide in Ukraine.
	Meantime, Russian cruise missiles raining down on NATO's doorstep.
	We're told the Russians attacked an airport repair plant on the outskirts of Lviv, that city less than 50 miles from the border of Poland, our NATO ally, where American troops are deployed right now.
	Lviv has been relatively peaceful, and it's a crucial supply route for weapons and military aid from the West.
	Vladimir Putin continues to show zero regard for human casualties.
	The mayor of Kiev says Russian shelling killed at least one person and wounded 19 others, including several children.
	So Shep Smith says they bombed an aircraft repair shop.
	That was the one you were talking about, where they're fixing the planes.
	Well, of course that's a target.
	But the way he said, oh, it's a...
	I mean, what are you fixing?
	A Cessnas?
	Piper Cub?
	Well, that's an outrage they would bomb that.
	Come on, Shep.
	This is war, bro.
	Let's go to NPR, how NPR handles this kind of thing.
	Biden call one.
	It was a nearly two-hour conversation today following an intense and lengthy exchange between the national security adviser and his counterpart in Rome this week.
	A senior administration official described today's call as substantive and direct, with President Biden outlining the U.S. assessment of the situation in Ukraine and the coordinated pain wrought on Russia's economy by allies and the private sector.
	But the readouts from each side showed a tale of two very different conversations.
	The Chinese summary, which it began releasing 20 minutes before the call even ended, highlighted This is not NPR. This is more of the...
	He says Biden call one.
	That's exactly what I played.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm just telling you what it is.
	I just mixed it up.
	This is the second part of the Shepard Smith conversation when this girl comes out and does this analysis.
	And she's kind of breathless.
	But it is interesting, but it's not a good analysis.
	Keep it playing.
	The readouts from each side showed a tale of two very different conversations.
	The Chinese summary, which it began releasing 20 minutes before the call even ended, highlighted Biden saying the U.S. does not seek a new Cold War with China.
	It does not aim to change China's system.
	The revitalization of its alliances is not targeted at China.
	The U.S. does not support Taiwan independence, and it has no intention to seek a conflict with China.
	By contrast, the U.S. summary, released four hours after the call concluded, said the focus of the conversation was on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians.
	Today, the White House acknowledged that President Biden stopped short of asking Xi not to assist Russia, saying Beijing will have to make its own call.
	China has to make a decision for themselves about where they want to stand and how they want the history books to look at them and view their actions.
	And that is a decision for President Xi and the Chinese to make.
	Yeah.
	You know, I doubt they even spoke.
	I don't think they had a chat.
	It's...
	I'm not going to argue one way or the other because I don't know, but a couple of things that were in there is that one had one message, one had the other, and they threw Taiwan into the pot for some reason.
	They could have had a chat.
	I think they may have, if you listen to this report, which is NPR's Ukraine and China analysis.
	The president had a two-hour call yesterday with China's leader, Xi Jinping.
	What do we know about what was said?
	Short version, we don't really know.
	The White House has not provided a transcript or even really a detailed summary.
	Why would they?
	The Chinese have provided a readout that suggested that they don't want to be lectured about Ukraine and Russia, or Taiwan for that matter, and they were miffed that the Biden administration wanted to talk about it.
	Any of this with them in this manner.
	Instead, we're told that President Biden laid out a program of consequences.
	That's the word that was used.
	Economic sanctions akin to those imposed on Russia and Russians.
	Not as severe, to be sure, but akin to them, depriving China of some of its access to markets in the U.S. and Europe, if they decide, if they decide to go with the Russians on this.
	Ukraine's President Zelensky spoke to U.S. lawmakers this week.
	Memorable appearance.
	Asked for more help.
	An answer came hours later when President Biden announced an additional $800 million in security assistance, but not a no-fly zone.
	Not a no-fly zone.
	That seems clear.
	But, Scott, it's hard to imagine you could be the leader of Ukraine right now and not be begging the world to intervene, to send troops, to send their fighter jets, or at least to eliminate the Russian bombing from the air by setting up a no-fly zone.
	He has to be doing that.
	Zelensky must.
	But he also has to know that European powers and the United States are not going to go for any of those measures, including the no-fly zone, with all the risks of nuclear confrontation that that entails.
	At the same time, by building up a lot of public expectation and support around the no-fly demand, he's making the Western countries more likely to max out on everything else.
	If you can't give us what we want, give us what we need.
	This is how he makes sure he gets the military aid and economic aid that NATO and the US can give him, and that it comes as fast as possible.
	Wow, man.
	They don't even talk about refugees anymore.
	Just fire and brimstone and death and weapons and kill Putin.
	Yeah, that's all we care about.
	There was the interesting thing on the Shep Smith side of it, of these two reports, where somehow, somewhere along the lines, the Russians are so hard up for stuff, they're begging the Chinese for drones.
	Yeah.
	I didn't hear this.
	I've heard this from a couple of reports.
	Oh, they want to get drones from the Chinese.
	Of course, we're going to send them drones from our side.
	Nobody can use these drones, by the way.
	It takes expertise that you can't learn overnight.
	But these, what, the Russians don't make their own drones?
	They use Chinese drones?
	What are we talking about here?
	Well, okay.
	What we're talking about here is the complete cancellation of Russia.
	And it's working.
	And this has nothing to do with Ukraine anymore.
	Just a lot of people are taking advantage of it.
	There's stuff being covered up.
	The corruption is being burned, being wiped, being scrubbed.
	I think the last rat lines of weaponry is being used.
	Ukraine may no longer be...
	Useful for money laundering for the Biden crime family and other elites.
	And of course it's being used for political gain to say, oh it's Putin is Trump, is Trump is GOP and carrying water for Putin.
	And the military industrial complex.
	This is all a rape of Ukraine.
	A complete rape by American people here.
	Because that's what they're saying.
	They're just, we're just gonna, we don't care.
	But meanwhile, it's about removing Russia entirely, and I think that's, we gotta focus on what's going on there.
	There's some lying going on.
	What?
	Yes.
	Boots on the ground report.
	Now, is it your understanding that McDonald's has closed their restaurants?
	Yes.
	My understanding was they were going to close them.
	I don't know that they've actually closed them.
	No, that's not my understanding.
	Oh, my understanding was they were going to close them, but not going to desert them.
	That was my understanding, that they were going to close them and not desert them, too.
	That's exactly mine.
	Okay, well, we have Brian, who's in Russia, near the Ural Mountains.
	He says, there's at least one McDonald's here, and I was inside of it just this week.
	Business was booming.
	If they plan to close later, I don't know.
	I'll look into it.
	He says, by the way, I'm perfectly safe and the Russians are being great and gracious hosts, unlike how the Russians are being treated in the U.S. Stay safe!
	Coke Industries, going against the deplatforming, say, you know, we're not going to leave Russia.
	We don't have a lot of people there, but it would do more harm than good, so we won't do that.
	They're not leaving, so they will be excoriated.
	Well, they're excoriated anyway.
	They're used to it.
	They don't care.
	Now, the financial thing.
	Being removed from SWIFT. And this is supposed to be a severe sanction so that Russia is in all kinds of trouble.
	They had a debt payment coming up, 112 or 117 million dollars on some sovereign debt.
	I played some clips on the last show.
	Say, well, if you can't actually pay in dollars, then the The people who own the debt will have to accept something else.
	If they want to, they don't have to.
	And everyone was looking at a possible default of Russia's sovereign debt.
	Well, I guess not everybody's playing in the game.
	I want to share this breaking news with you.
	Sorry, this is Bloomberg.
	I want to share this breaking news with you from the team down in Washington.
	Russia has transferred U.S. dollars to settle coupon payments due back on Wednesday, Wednesday.
	On two euro bonds.
	Do you remember the amount?
	$117 million.
	This according to people familiar with the matter.
	The story goes on to read, the people declined to be identified because they aren't authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
	A Treasury spokeswoman said U.S. sanctions on Russia don't prohibit Russia from making these debt payments, mirroring a statement similar to the one that we got on Wednesday.
	I want to bring in Damien Sassar of Bloomberg Intelligence on this story.
	Bloomberg Intelligence.
	Damien, figuring this out piece by piece...
	It's really difficult.
	I know you spent a lot of time on it Wednesday, Thursday, again this morning.
	Run us through what's been happening here, where we've had difficulties, and what it might mean for future payments.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, okay, so basically the $117 million, from what I understand, J.P. Morgan would have never sent those funds onto Citigroup.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Let's listen to that again there.
	Future payments.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, okay, so basically the $117 million, from what I understand, J.P. Morgan would have never sent those funds onto Citigroup if the U.S. Treasury had not authorized it to do so.
	So, yeah.
	It seems to me that the U.S. government is fine allowing Russia to pay from non-sanctioned accounts to its foreign creditors.
	So it's not going to block that payment.
	It looks like Russia is fulfilling that payment.
	Those monies will hit the accounts today.
	I think the real question, Jonathan, that we need to ask is, why on earth would Russia pay U.S. dollar creditors' coupon when it's trying to wage this war in Ukraine and its economy is suffering so very badly?
	So the answer, really, there's three cases.
	There's the conspiracy theorists who think that those bonds are owned by Russians, which I... I applied little faith too.
	There's the optimist that said, look at the timing yesterday.
	We were perhaps in a de-escalation and Russia said, you know, maybe we'll buy some time here because we want to avoid the fall.
	I put little faith in that also.
	For me, I'm taking the pragmatist argument.
	The fact that if you look back to July of 2019, when Crystal X pierced the veil of sovereign immunity for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, basically, the Supreme Court upheld the Third Circuit Court of Appeals allowing private creditors to go after offshore assets held by not the Supreme Court upheld the Third Circuit Court of Appeals allowing private creditors to go after offshore assets held by not just the sovereign, And creditors will aggressively go after Russian assets offshore if the fault actually is triggered.
	And so I think Putin's trying to buy himself a little bit of time because the last thing he needs on his desk right now are creditors accelerating the process against all Russian assets located offshore.
	So how about that?
	J.P. Morgan just transferred some of Russia's dollars to Citi to pay off the debt.
	Well, what kind of sanctions are these then?
	Is Washington not sincere?
	Is Swift full of crap?
	What is this?
	Something's up.
	I mean, that sounds more like someone's in cahoots with Russia than anything.
	Well, it also sounds like there's something, there's some Russian assets offshore, which you said at the end.
	Yes.
	That must be really a gem.
	There must be some good shit.
	But, you know, it's like, well, first of all, everybody's lying, that's for sure.
	But I... Do you have other stuff on Russia?
	Because I'd like to move off.
	I don't know if you have anything else you wanted to play.
	Yeah, I do.
	Okay.
	I actually have two overviews that I thought would be good, but then maybe we're too late for that.
	But I will play this.
	If you're going to...
	Well, you know, I had set this up to be an Ask Adam.
	Mm-hmm.
	And maybe we could...
	It's the Marjorie Taylor Greene clip.
	It's that everybody in Congress is trading stocks.
	What does this have to do with Russia?
	You'll hear.
	Oh, okay.
	Everyone's trading stocks.
	And so they pick one person out of the blue to go after who's a small-time player, to say the least.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	And the way I was going to structure this is, guess what?
	If people were trading based on the war and they're going to be trading in munitions companies, who do you think they would go after?
	Are they going to go after anybody?
	Well, just play the clip and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	On Capitol Hill were trading stocks in defense companies, just as Russia was getting ready to invade Ukraine.
	One of those lawmakers is the Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
	Records show she bought stock in the defense contractor Lockheed Martin just one day before the invasion started last month.
	Lockheed Martin and Raytheon jointly make these missile launchers called Javelins.
	The United States already sent thousands of them to Ukraine, and President Biden just promised the country thousands more to help defend against the Russian forces.
	On the same day Congresswoman Greene made the Lockheed investment, she also tweeted in part,"...war and rumors of war is incredibly profitable and convenient." She later responded to criticism of the investment saying, our investment advisor has full discretionary authority over our accounts.
	We have owned this American company for years and this small investment was part of our overall investment strategy.
	Okay.
	Okay, first of all, he takes a line out of something.
	She's bitching about this war.
	And he took a line making it sound like it had something to do with this investment.
	It had nothing to do with anything.
	And then at the next half of it, so Shepard Smith has gone from okay to bad.
	And this is a ridiculous hit piece on this poor woman.
	She's a loudmouth, so what?
	And Boebert's the same way.
	And in the second half of the clip, she says, well, everyone's trading on this.
	But you have to ask yourself, this is the part two, and then ask yourself, then why pick on her?
	The critics say lawmakers should not be able to trade individual stocks.
	They receive all sorts of information that all the rest of us do not.
	And there's a new push to pass a bill that bans lawmakers from doing exactly that.
	CBC senior congressional correspondent Elon Moy now.
	Elon, this isn't just Congresswoman Greene.
	Well, yeah.
	Okay.
	When you finish making your point, I'll counterpoint.
	That was my point.
	Point is, this isn't just Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	Then why is she the one that you bring out of the blue to humiliate when she's a small-timer?
	She's not even a big...
	She's not a splurger, a rich billionaire that happens to be a congressperson.
	They hate her.
	Okay.
	All the Democrats hate her, and this is just showing us that Shep Smith is part of this Cabello.
	Okay, first of all, I'm surprised that you're surprised they're doing this to a Republican or anyone with a political label.
	You can't actually be surprised by that.
	Particularly because it takes the heat off of all the other shit that's going on with people, Democrats.
	But it was very effective, this hit piece.
	The Keeper definitely has always thought Marjorie Taylor Greene had a fun, good, big mouth and that she liked a lot of what she said.
	She liked what she stands for.
	However...
	Um, unprompted by me, she said, oh my god, Marjorie Taylor Greene was investing just like all those other a-holes, and it just goes to show they all suck.
	All of them suck.
	That was her takeaway.
	All of them suck.
	And I'll add to that, as you know, I married her for her money.
	And she had her annual call with her money manager and she, in that call, was making very sure, I don't want any war shit and I don't want any BlackRock or Vanguard.
	She said, I may not make all that great money you're going to propose, but I don't want it.
	And I think those principles is what is very American and Marjorie Taylor Greene Even though she probably had nothing to do with it, it was a money manager making those buys for her, she got screwed.
	She should have known better.
	It makes a difference to Americans.
	Well, it doesn't make any difference to me.
	I'm sure that the minute this kicked off, I'm sure you were immediately buying Lockheed and Raytheon.
	Because I know you.
	I know...
	Oh, okay.
	You didn't?
	No.
	Why not?
	I didn't want to.
	I don't like...
	You know, I just...
	I'm not trading.
	I'm looking at real estate.
	Looking at real estate.
	Let me see now.
	Ah!
	So what is now taking place is we have expensive energy, which is mainly due to inflation and other Biden policies here in the United States.
	I didn't want to talk about Europe.
	They're up to $10 a gallon.
	They're the ones that are really going to get screwed.
	So I look forward to the repeat of the 70s.
	I look forward to the repeat of the 70s.
	I've been putting my list together.
	Well, did you see the announcement from the International Energy Agency?
	No.
	The International Energy Agency has unveiled a 10-point action plan it hopes Western countries will implement to curtail oil demand.
	Get your list ready.
	Reduce speed limits on highways at least 10 kilometers an hour.
	This is how we wound up with 55 miles an hour in the United States, is it not?
	During that era, it was 50.
	50.
	You're right.
	But it was lowered to conserve oil.
	Okay, I can tell you, because I remember this clearly.
	There were numerous places, especially in Nevada, and I think places back east, and of course the Autobahn in Europe.
	But in Nevada, there was at least half the state had no speed limit.
	So you could take your Countach, You take your Ferrari to Nevada and you could punch it and you could go like a bat out of hell on some road in Nevada and be pretty safe.
	Thanks for the history lesson.
	Was the speed limit in general lowered to 50 to conserve oil or not?
	Yes, yeah.
	Thank you.
	I thought you wanted a history lesson.
	I was going to give you some more stories, but go on.
	The International Energy Agency says the impact will save around 290,000 barrels of oil use per day from cars and an additional 140,000 barrels per day from trucks.
	The next suggestion, work from home up to three days a week where possible.
	That's your de facto climate lockdown.
	Now my favorite, car-free Sundays in cities.
	I called it.
	I called it.
	The Impact every Sunday saves around 380,000 barrels per day.
	One Sunday a month saves 95,000 barrels per day.
	Make use of public transport cheaper and incentivize micromobility, walking, and cycling.
	So much for your progress, slaves.
	Alternate private car access to roads in large cities.
	I'm not quite sure what that means.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Alternate.
	Yeah, so you won't be able to drive on even days only on odd days.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen.
	It's going to happen.
	Increase car sharing and adopt practices to reduce fuel use.
	Well, of course.
	Promote efficient driving for freight trucks and delivery of goods.
	That's your Tesla trucks.
	Use high speed and night trains instead of planes where possible.
	Hello, Warren.
	I use the high-speed night train here in the Bay Area.
	Hello, Warren Buffett.
	Avoid business air travel where alternate options exist.
	And reinforce the adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles, which is exactly what happened in the 70s.
	Half of these points took place, including, as I just learned, in 1974, apparently, the United States did pass law to keep daylight saving time consistent.
	And people were yelling and screaming within four months and they overturned it.
	I didn't even know this happened.
	Yeah.
	We talked about it on the show.
	But I didn't know it actually passed law.
	Here is...
	No, it was a test law, though.
	It was only going to go on for so long and see what...
	A test law?
	What the hell is a test law?
	It's a law with an expiration.
	Oh, okay.
	Test law.
	Okay, here's the latest...
	Play this.
	Latest time change news.
	Hold on a second.
	So you can keep up.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I need to keep up.
	Where are we?
	Here we are.
	Dr.
	Beth Mallow, a neurologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, testified that it would be healthier for Americans to stop changing their clocks.
	But she thinks permanent daylight saving time is the wrong option.
	She supports, brace yourself, permanent standard time.
	It's called standard time.
	Because standard time lines up with our natural biological rhythms.
	Permanent standard time, with sunnier mornings and darker evenings, would be healthier, especially for frontline workers and school students with early waking hours.
	The best answer, according to daylight saving time expert Prerau, is to do nothing at all.
	The current system that began in 2007 of changing clocks in March and November is the product of decades of study and compromise.
	I personally think the current system that we have, with some flaws, is still the best we could have.
	The House has no immediate plans to take up the Senate-passed bill, but there is bipartisan support for it.
	The Biden administration hasn't taken a position on it yet.
	The history lesson here, be careful what you vote for.
	I think permanent standard time is a better idea.
	Yeah, I'm just saying...
	Go ahead.
	The problem is that if you have permanent daylight savings time, when you come around to the dark part of the year, it's dark in the morning, and that's why you switch back to standard time, so it's not pitch black in the morning when the kids go to school.
	Right.
	That's exactly what will make everyone so depressed.
	So I... Yeah, so they're proposing a law, but they're proposing it the wrong way, the wrong one.
	Created in 1974 to ensure the security of oil supplies, the International Energy Agency has evolved over the years.
	So it was exactly these guys who implemented or pushed through the previous oil crisis bullcrap.
	And they're back on the scene.
	I'm sure they're much more powerful.
	And, you know, I know we differ of opinion on this, but I've been following the ESG, environmental social governance.
	I've seen enough of what's taking place.
	We are going into climate lockdowns.
	It's going to be blamed on Putin.
	It won't be blamed on anything about, you know, any inflation.
	And it's going to be done by executive order.
	And I have classic clips, recent classic clips.
	Rachel Maddow, sadly, but it's more about Chuck Schumer.
	It might be a good idea for President Biden to call a climate emergency.
	Why?
	Because it relates to what you're saying.
	Then he can do many, many things under the emergency powers of the President that wouldn't have to go through, that he could do without legislation.
	Now Trump used this emergency for a stupid wall, which wasn't an emergency.
	But if there ever was an emergency, climate is one.
	So I would suggest that They explore looking at climate as an emergency, which would give them more flexibility.
	After all, it's a crisis.
	It's a crisis.
	It's a crisis.
	We're talking about having major climate legislation through the reconciliation process.
	Pressuring the president or asking the president to...
	Just asking.
	Let them look at it.
	You know, I have a lot of faith in that they'll make a good and right decision.
	And this could actually be happening.
	Jen Psaki.
	On another subject, the Congressional Progressive Caucus recommendations for executive action are out.
	They're asking for a decision to declare a climate emergency and ban all U.S. exports of oil.
	Is that something the president is thinking about doing?
	There are a range of really good ideas out there.
	The president's looking at all of them, but I don't have anything to predict for you at this point in time.
	Oh, really good.
	A range of good ideas out there.
	This is the same crap that Inslee, when he was running for president, promoted, if you remember.
	He says, when I'm elected president, the first thing I'm going to do is declare a climate emergency.
	And by the way, he up in Washington has just decided to extend his COVID emergency powers indefinitely.
	Yeah?
	It's great when you have these emergency powers.
	This is the kind of dipshit Democrat demagogues that all want to be little Hitlers.
	They're all in the same boat together.
	And Schumer's one of them.
	I don't think it's unique, though.
	I don't think it's unique.
	When these little MFers get power, Republican, Democrat, I don't think it affects people all the same way.
	Well, I'm not going to argue that the fact that the Republicans are just as bad as they're proving during this Ukraine crisis.
	But, in fact, they may be worse in some situations.
	So now let me bridge what I think is going on, because again, I see this only as financial, and there's a reason why Russia was allowed to make their coupon payment, even though it's supposed to be this big, you're deplatformed, you can't use the SWIFT system anymore.
	So that's bullcrap.
	They're bringing down the whole system.
	And the ESG-captured corporations are all in on it, and it's going to come down to punishing us.
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	There's your carbon credits built right into your credit card.
	And by the way, I think the fast-talking dipshit is perfect.
	Shows you where they're coming from.
	Yeah.
	Don't listen.
	Don't listen too close.
	So, it makes no sense.
	It really doesn't.
	Something is very amiss with this situation.
	And Putin is also lying.
	Putin could be in on it.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	That one clip from Bloomberg Intelligence, that just kind of told me, like, hmm.
	So all of that is just nonsense?
	I can't wait for the carless Sunday.
	Car-free Sunday, everybody.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen.
	It'll happen in Europe.
	Why do you say it's not going to happen?
	Why do you say it's not?
	Oh, okay.
	Well, in Europe, for sure it's going to happen because they're used to it.
	And they're going to do throwback video packages.
	Remember a time when the world was friendlier.
	And they're going to make it all great and make you feel great.
	Walk.
	Walk to work, citizen.
	Walk.
	Get on your hands and knees and crawl to work.
	Unless you go assassinate Putin, walk to work.
	Now, this is...
	Why would you waste this crisis otherwise?
	Let's just look at the scala of things they can do with this crisis.
	Money printing is one because you already identified that.
	We need more stuff.
	We're behind.
	Putin has hypersonic missiles.
	We don't have that.
	They've got some other evasive moves that was new to us.
	We need to have that.
	We need more money.
	But it's so true.
	It's really, really true.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	Anyway, look for UNICEF to be out in full force with their hashtag creators for peace.
	So we're going to get a lot more TikTok shit coming your way.
	Let's see if I had anything else here.
	Oh yeah, what's up with the...
	So now Russia has said, you know what, go ahead, put your Iran nuclear deal together.
	What's going on with that?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I do know, before you go there, since you were talking about climate change and all the rest, I do have an electric car supercut that I've been hanging on to.
	Okay.
	Have we heard this one?
	I don't know.
	Let's listen.
	The future of transportation is electric.
	Gas prices have hit a new record high in America and expected to keep rising.
	We need to make sure that it becomes relatively more attractive to have an electric vehicle instead of a gas vehicle.
	You want gas prices to go up and oil prices to go up.
	You need it to reflect the true cost of carbon.
	Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry.
	No more drilling on federal lands.
	No more drilling, including offshore.
	No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill.
	period ends record high gas prices the national average now at four dollars and 29 cents a gallon a 60 cent hike in just one week the president is really focused on making sure that people are not hurt of the pump several around la that are more than six bucks a gallon if you drive an electric car this would not be affecting you clearly there's no sound or fuel how many barrels of oil does the u.s consume per day i don't have that number in front of me so how do i know it's actually working
	What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?
	That is hilarious.
	Perhaps if you let the market work in this respect, people will feel pain.
	They'll take a second look at that Ford F450 Gigantoid truck.
	They'll reconsider a Tesla.
	I'm willing to pay $4 a gallon.
	Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla.
	I have a Chevy Bolt.
	That is my car.
	I lease a Bolt and I lease solar panels.
	I drive on Sunshine Girl.
	Record-breaking prices at the pump nationwide.
	One of my favorite topics, electric school buses.
	Electric school buses that have big batteries underneath it.
	Yes, we are very excited about electric school buses.
	Some prices are as high as seven a gallon.
	You usually can smell it and you can hear it.
	You can hear the guzzling sound.
	People from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV. So our vice president, when she's in the bus and it's not electric, she can literally hear the guzzling down the tank?
	Wow, you literally hear it.
	She's insane.
	Well, since we are...
	And that was Granholm, by the way, who laughed at the question about the drilling.
	Yeah, our energy secretary.
	And that was Granholm, who's got the bolt.
	And that was Granholm.
	She's in there quite a bit.
	Yeah, she's our energy secretary.
	She's the one who could answer the question about how much oil we use.
	She is the energy secretary, and she has no clue how many barrels of oil we use, and she should have it at the tip of her tongue.
	Which brings us to our final topic, subtopic for Russia, and I have a mini-cut of my own.
	Hunter Biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely Russian disinformation.
	I get pretty fired up about how this works because, look, I mean, if the New York Post tells you your mom loves you, you should check it out.
	We are not talking about fully reliable sources here.
	It feels like a repeat from last cycle.
	It's the, you know, but her emails again, and it's kind of ridiculous.
	Featuring all the usual suspects.
	Hunter Biden, mysterious emails, Ukrainian businessman, dot dot.
	So that was just a very small sampling.
	Everybody remembers this was not true.
	It was Russian disinformation.
	And the media did the American public a large disservice, unless you were in the Democrat Party or Joe Biden.
	So the media made it all not true, made it fact-checked false.
	They suppressed it, and they also kicked you off social media if you even mentioned it.
	Yeah.
	Now, there was a lot of weaseling around.
	So the reason this popped up to the forefront is the New York Times did not, by the way, admit Hunter Biden's laptop is authentic.
	They said, according to people familiar with the matter...
	The laptop appears to be authentic, but they have no proof of that.
	And they were clear to point that out.
	And that it is being looked at in context of Hunter Biden's tax issues.
	Or some other court case.
	No, I read the article.
	It wasn't that vague.
	The way it seems to me, the way they presented it, it was though, oh yeah.
	So it's a matter of fact.
	No, no, no.
	It wasn't quite like that.
	It was a little vaguer.
	You can pull it up and then I'll tell you what the intelligence community actually said.
	Because they just weaseled.
	They were wishy-washy too.
	Well, let me just read it so people hear it.
	And you look up the New York Times article.
	No, I'm not going to do that because it's going to take too much time and I don't have the screenage for it.
	But I will say this.
	I do have two clips on this.
	Yeah, well, let me read this and then you play your clips.
	Yeah.
	It is all for these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden's son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
	We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not, and we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.
	Just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.
	Yeah.
	That's what they said.
	Yeah.
	Which was enough.
	Of course it was enough, but it's the media.
	The media...
	It's to blame here.
	And with that, I mean social media.
	It is truly these corporations.
	Well, I don't think that the intelligence community that signed that letter, which is a bunch of retirees that are mostly creeps, Brennan, Hayden, etc., gets off scot-free for this.
	No, of course not.
	But if anyone, you read that, like, okay, fine.
	These guys are full of shit, but it doesn't matter.
	They didn't lie, and the media was lockstep.
	They're the ones that get away scot-free, who gives a shit about Brennan.
	I think they should all be punished, but okay.
	Well, yeah, of course.
	Of course.
	But the one we actually have control, can see right in front of our face, is the New York Times, is the NBC, CBS, ABC. Don't leave Facebook and Twitter out of this.
	And they took the ball because all of those media companies said that's false information.
	And then that just became fact.
	I think we've beaten that up, but I would like to ask you, how many of these people do you think were actually sincere?
	Every single one of them.
	I get that sense, too.
	They truly believe this.
	Dude, absolutely.
	I'm convinced of it.
	Yeah.
	No, this is the problem.
	This is really the problem.
	Now, does Brennan know that...
	That Hunter Biden is a piece of crap and that he's a problem?
	Yeah, of course he does.
	They got tabs on him.
	He's not sincere.
	No, he's not sincere.
	But the media and subsequently people who watch it, the same people who can't listen to our show anymore because we are not lockstep on hating anybody, especially Putin, and we haven't denounced him and denounced everything Russian.
	And, okay...
	Sergene is no longer my friend.
	I denounce him!
	I denounce him!
	Red scum!
	Because people are traumatized.
	We're still in COVID land.
	And now you've got all this.
	And oh my god, these people are white.
	They look like me.
	They don't even know they're being racist.
	Okay, so here we go with, and I don't like playing these clips.
	There's certain people that are kind of off limits.
	But in this case, with the Hunter Biden laptop, because it's so funny that everyone's coming around and saying, oh, I guess it was, you know, real.
	I think it's time that we go to the war room.
	Yes!
	To the war room.
	I have a war room clip later, too.
	What?
	I know, I know, I know.
	By the way, so we were talking about real America's voice, right?
	By the way, that entire Lara Logan clip, which is longer than the one you played, is fabulous.
	The whole clip is great, absolutely.
	But people keep telling me, you're wrong, they're huge!
	I said, no, look at the actual ratings.
	They have no ratings.
	The people that listen to the Laura Logan clip on our show represents most of the people who listen to the Laura Logan clip.
	Yeah.
	In other words, probably ten times as many as listen to it on the original, on the outlet.
	Yeah.
	And to say, you know, Bannon's War Room is on Real America Voice, yes.
	But I think people listen to the podcast and watch it on Rumble.
	Real America, there are measurement systems for cable.
	And I looked it up.
	They've got an asterisk.
	Asterisk, yes.
	Yeah.
	There's no ratings.
	Not enough numbers to count.
	But people are like, you're wrong!
	Millions of people, all of MAGA tuned in.
	No, they tuned in in other places, but not Real America's voice.
	That is not...
	Yeah, sure, they're watching some...
	But it's really online.
	Somebody that watches everything.
	Anyway, when it comes to television stuff, you and I kind of know what we're talking about.
	When I was at Tech TV, because when they first started off, when it was ZDTV, we did actually get some ratings.
	They did some Arbitron.
	I forgot who Arbitron does radio thing.
	I can't remember what the rating system was.
	But when the first ratings were going to come out, I think it was about six months into it, they were worried sick.
	They didn't get asterisks.
	But they were worried sick about getting asterisks.
	And someone asked me, yes, there are measurement systems for podcasts.
	We do not participate, but the Interactive Advertising Bureau has a standard which is very rigorous and has been fleshed out amongst the industry for a long time.
	So yeah, there are measurement systems.
	It doesn't matter.
	It has to be.
	Because when advertisers are involved, and there are, not with us, but when they're involved, they need to know real numbers because they don't want to throw money away.
	It's that simple.
	And I will say the podcast measurements are just as phony, baloney, and wonky as Nielsen.
	They're all full of crap.
	Well, it could be.
	No, it is.
	I'm the podfather.
	Do not question me.
	Hunter Laptop 1.
	Okay, I want to get to John Solomon.
	John, the New York Times admitted, and I know you get deeper analysis as you always do, but I just got to ask you one thing.
	The New York Times finally has come out and admitted, I think it was yesterday, that the laptop from hell was 100% authenticated, right?
	And this is not a small thing, because you had, as you pointed at the time, the New York Post and Rupert Murdoch's team did the due diligence, and we got it all up there with the great Bob Costello and Rudy Giuliani in a team effort.
	And remember, I think it was Emma Jo Morris who's over at Breitbart now, I think.
	And, of course, you had Miranda Devine, all the great heroes at the New York Post.
	Miranda's got the book about it.
	But you had, John, I've got to go back.
	You had that full-page ad by Brennan and Clapper and Hayden and all that crowd, the anti-Trump intelligence crowd that said, no, this is Russian disinformation.
	That was a lie, and they should have their security clearances pulled for this.
	They intruded into a presidential race.
	You're talking about Russian collusion?
	They did.
	This is the deep state collusion.
	John Solomon, now that the paper of record comes out, as we always knew, and this is why Jack Maxey, the War Room is not on Twitter for one reason.
	Don't think it's because I made a metaphor about Fauci and Reyes being heads on pike.
	That term is used every day, all day long, in the Oval Office, everywhere.
	It's because Jack Maxey, our co-host at the time, was putting up nonstop stuff from the hard drive from hell, both the pornography and the compromise of the Chinese Communist Party and others, the Ukraine and others, of the Biden family.
	John Solomon, what say you since you've been at the forefront, the tip of the spear of this thing for years?
	March 2019, I wrote the first story raising serious questions that Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine constituted, at least at the very least, a conflict of interest for Joe Biden, and the worst may have involved criminal activity.
	I wrote that story not because I had anything from Rudy Giuliani at the time.
	I had just barely met Rudy and started working on this.
	I wrote that story because I had FBI and State Department sources who told me what was going on.
	Mm-hmm.
	Hey, John, what say you?
	What say you?
	What say you?
	I don't know.
	What say you?
	I say things often.
	What say you?
	What say me?
	I say, what say you?
	I say, what say he?
	What say they?
	You know, that's O'Reilly's bit, Bannon.
	Get over it.
	Oh, is that really?
	I didn't even know that.
	Hell yeah.
	Oh, yeah, he does that.
	What say you?
	By the way, that's the grammar in the old country in the Netherlands.
	That's how you would ask the question.
	What say you?
	Instead of what do you say?
	What do you think?
	Or tell me what you think?
	There's a million ways to say it.
	What say you?
	But they also, in the old country, say what think you?
	They do.
	Let's just talk like that.
	Let's just do that.
	Well, thank you.
	What do you two?
	That Hunter Biden had engaged in things, the Justice Department was kind of walking around gingerly, didn't want to really look at it.
	And so I put together a series of stories, and by the summer of 2019, every one of those stories would be called a conspiracy theory.
	It was a conspiracy theory to think that Hunter Biden did anything wrong.
	It's a conspiracy theory to think Hunter Biden didn't pay his taxes.
	It was a conspiracy theory to think that it created a conflict of interest.
	It was a conspiracy theory to believe that Burisma was even worried about a non-existent criminal investigation.
	Over the last three years, that conspiracy theory became a factual theory.
	It always was true.
	But now people like the New York Times and the network news are beginning to realize what we wrote and what Miranda extended with her great work at the New York Post and what you did with Rudy was, All of that was true.
	The question now is, who directed the machinery to call all of this a conspiracy theory?
	Who directed those national security people to write a fake letter?
	Who directed Jane Mayer at the New Yorker to write a big article saying that it was a conspiracy theory when it wasn't?
	All those people were directed by someone.
	They all used the same language.
	They all used the same tactics.
	They all gathered together to stage a fake impeachment.
	We need to hold those people who took this country through the idea that everything was okay with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, when his son was under criminal investigation the very moment they were uttering the words conspiracy theory.
	Every person that engaged in that campaign should be brought to justice, brought to light in the court of public opinion for what they did.
	Okay, before we go there, here is from the New York Times.
	This is what they said.
	People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity.
	Those emails were obtained by the New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.
	The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and the investigation.
	So that's pretty positive to me.
	Not that wishy-washy.
	Authenticated by who?
	Well, they said that if you read that article, that entire article from beginning to end, in fact, if you read the New York Times from the beginning to the end of the newspapers, they don't name people anymore.
	They stopped doing that.
	All right, good.
	But I think that the Democrat Party is very happy with Steve Bannon and the war room.
	This is it.
	Biden's out.
	They're going to wrap up Ukraine.
	Yes, they're going to totally annihilate Hunter.
	Hunter is going down.
	He's going down.
	Well, yes, for sure.
	They're going to use him to take down President Biden for whatever they have next.
	Repeat of the 70s.
	Nixon, I'm telling you, we are in a fucking win.
	He quit.
	He quit in the middle of his office.
	We are in the Twilight Zone.
	I'm telling you, I've been putting a list together of what's going on in the 70s, and it's unbelievable.
	I'm living in a Twilight Zone!
	I think that'd become the end of show, ISO. That's got to go.
	Yes, that's got to be it.
	I just got to put it in there right now.
	Holy crap.
	Biden is toast.
	This is it.
	He's done.
	He's done for.
	But then we have a problem.
	Houston.
	Yeah, we have a huge problem, but so what?
	I mean, Biden's not running anything.
	Bring in cackling.
	It's fantastic.
	Jake's the guy who's running everything, so there you go.
	This is the terror laptop of doom.
	This is the terror laptop of doom.
	Here's a question asked from Patty.
	What's going on with this laptop?
	The New York Times has authenticated emails that appear to have come from a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden in Delaware.
	The president previously said that the New York Post story about this was a bunch of garbage and that it was a Russian plant.
	Does he stand by that assessment?
	I pointed to the Department of Justice and also to Hunter Biden's representatives.
	He doesn't work in the government.
	So, there you go.
	It can only go down.
	You're right.
	You know, they've got to do something, so I guess they're going to have to pull this off.
	Well, there's...
	Now, it looks like...
	By the way, the next thing was because of a cover-up.
	Same thing.
	Exactly.
	However, the question...
	If they don't kill Hunter, which they have no incentives to do because everyone wants Joe out...
	Then Hunter will throw his own father for the wolves.
	I guarantee you.
	This piece of scum is going to implicate his dad.
	Oh yeah.
	Definitely.
	Dad made me do it.
	It's going to be beautiful.
	But then we are definitely going to have to stay on a long time for President Harris because that's going to be dynamite for the show.
	Yeah.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the program of Consequences.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	John C. Dvorak.
	Well in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all the ships at sea, boots on the ground, the subs in the water, and all the feet in the air, and all the dudes out there.
	Well, in the morning to the trolls in the troll room on this wonderful Sunday as we broadcast live across Gitmo Nation.
	That's at noagendastream.com.
	But we also have the troll room.
	The troll room is where the trolls hang out, and they do exactly what trolls do, live and scurry under bridges and troll away and make all kinds of comments.
	Sometimes they're good, they're useful, but they are having a good time together.
	That's what counts.
	Let's see how many are in there today in the troll room at trollroom.io.
	All right, hands up there, trolls.
	Let's see.
	2,542 on deck.
	Okay.
	They're like, we're useless.
	It's okay, trolls.
	Don't worry about it.
	We love you anyway.
	Now you can always follow all of these trolls individually or you can follow us.
	John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com This is our little part of the Fediverse.
	There was an interesting conversation going on yesterday about how Mastodon, it's kind of decentralized, but it has a drawback.
	And I just want to ask you what you thought of this.
	So the drawbacks of the idea is you have your own server.
	You can have as many or as few people on.
	That can just be you and your buddies, your family, or like we have a cap of 10,000 producers who have accounts who have been there for several years.
	And you can communicate with anybody on any of these servers typically, although a server, a community can say, no, we don't want to see your stuff.
	And, you know, they can sit at any level, like they could still follow you, but they wouldn't show up on the timeline.
	It's completely different.
	Each server is allowed to make their own rules.
	And what I was told is this is not good because it promotes tribalism.
	And I'm like, isn't that exactly the problem today that we're trying to desperately get rid of tribalism?
	Isn't tribalism okay, certainly in this context?
	Well, this is like saying that, whoa, the Bohemian Club supports tribalism.
	Oh, wait, the Berkeley Women's Club promotes tribalism.
	Or the 4-H promotes tribalism.
	Or the Boy Scouts promotes tribalism.
	So what?
	It's not promoting tribalism per se.
	It's clubby.
	It's promoting...
	There's another word for clubs, and this is what it promotes.
	It promotes fraternity.
	It promotes fraternity.
	Fraternity, that's a good...
	But that's not bad, is it?
	You want fraternity.
	People need to meet and greet and have friends that they can talk with.
	That's what the No Agenda meetups do.
	Promote fraternity amongst like-minded individuals.
	Exactly.
	It just seems so weird.
	I mean, I think, you know, because you say, like, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts.
	Well, unfortunately, they've been through the tribal bullcrap mill, and they have to have, you know, girls in the Boy Scouts because it was too tribal.
	Yeah, well, that's because...
	And I'm in total disagreement with that.
	I mean, to a point.
	I mean, I think it should be allowed in certain situations, but...
	We don't want girls in the Boy Scouts.
	I mean, you're just promoting sexual activity in the tents.
	We don't want girls in the Boy Scouts.
	We can't have that.
	No, no girls.
	G-I-R-L-Z. Girls suck.
	Backwards S. No, exactly.
	So, we kind of love our tribe, and I think human nature is by definition tribal.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	I love it when our tribes intersect.
	Really good things come out of it.
	This is one of the best experiments I've ever been a part of.
	And thank you again to Erin, who has been running this for us for several years, and we really appreciate it.
	It became too unwieldy for me.
	These things are quite, takes a lot.
	So that's noagendasocial.com.
	Follow us there.
	And let's thank the artist for episode 1,434.
	We titled it The Second Lady.
	Thanks to our president being confused about who has COVID and what gender they are.
	And Dame Kennyman brought us the art, which was presented in Smell-O-Vision.
	It was the leprechaun, St.
	Paddy's Day background.
	And you couldn't see this as well as I could.
	No.
	Because the green, you have the green colorblindness.
	I do have the colorblindness, but you were just...
	So you're seeing grays, and I don't know what you see.
	You just had a...
	No, I see the green...
	I don't see the real difference between the light green and the dark green.
	But you had a hard-on for your smell-o-vision thing, because you had clips, and you're like, oh, it's so exciting.
	That wasn't the reason.
	That's exactly the reason.
	It was the good...
	It was the best of the art.
	Yeah.
	It looks good.
	I would say, although it would confuse you even more, is that to do this right, it should have had a green beer.
	Yeah, that would have been better.
	Because these St.
	Patrick's maniacs, they die into the Chicago River.
	But...
	The artist should know that if it's a show on a holiday, a theme, a Valentine's Day or something like that, it should be reflected in the art because we tend to pick that.
	Unless somebody came up with something that was so good you couldn't ignore it.
	We do pick holidays, that's correct.
	And there were a number of St.
	Patrick's Day pieces of art.
	Sir Ned did a couple.
	Who else came in here?
	Toast.
	Kenny Ben, though, has licensed a bunch of clip arts that are high quality, and she drops them in these constantly.
	And it's pretty hard to beat her composition.
	I saw on Twitter, I think, someone with, oh, using clip art to win awards.
	No.
	Commercial artists use clip art a lot.
	I'm just telling you what the comment was.
	I'm not saying that that's...
	Well, the comment didn't come from an artist.
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	It never comes from someone who's done the work.
	No.
	But we have maybe hundreds of artists who do the work, have done the work.
	We're currently just looking at the most recent submission.
	We have 25,281 pieces in noagendaartgenerator.com, which is unbelievable the amount of time and talent that goes into this, which is exactly what we want to see in our value-for-value model.
	Time, talent, and treasure.
	And you can see not just the art, but we're getting pretty close with Podcasting 2.0, doing comments that work in any app.
	And if you want to see some of that work, I think Podfriend is currently surfacing the comments as well as Podverse.
	And it's cool because they interact with the Mastodon.
	So you can just be in any random podcast client listening to our show and you'll see comments appear there that may have been put on the Mastodon or even federated from somewhere else or from an entirely different app.
	Yes, we are protecting and extending podcasting and you need a modern podcast app today by going to newpodcastapps.com.
	Now let us thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1435, as my voice is on its way out.
	You know, you might move toward the gravelly side.
	I don't like it.
	It's also very tiring.
	There's a couple of sportscasters whose voices are so ruined.
	Everything they say is like this.
	You're not making me feel any better about the situation, unfortunately.
	I thought I was trying to help.
	Next time you have an eye thing, I'll talk about how cool you look with a patch.
	Okay, next time you have your eyes operated on.
	I was nothing but supportive.
	I was nothing but supportive of you and your eyes.
	Here you go.
	Just tell me I'm going to be an old sportscaster.
	How you doing, kids?
	Sir Mark, the Duke of Japan.
	I want to take the points.
	I've got a Villanova in the points.
	Sir Mark, Duke of Japan.
	The Japan Sea and All Disputed Islands comes in as our top donor today with $600.60.
	He is in Tokyo, and it's in yellow, which means there's something afoot there in Tokyo.
	Of course, Sir Mark and Dame Astrid, long-time supporters of the show.
	And let's see what Sir Mark says.
	Here, there it goes.
	Dear Adam and John, this Tuesday, 22nd of March, is a special day.
	It is a very auspicious birthday for Dame Astrid, Duchess of Japan, the Japan Sea, and all disputed islands.
	Of course, we are not discussing numbers, but let's just say the donation amount will give you some clues, and let's say she's been listening to you for almost a quarter of her life.
	She's 600 years old, John.
	I can't believe it.
	She looks dynamite.
	Yeah, Methuselah was older.
	She looks great for 600.
	In Japan, this birthday is known as Kaneki.
	Rather than being seen as getting older, it is viewed as a rebirth.
	Oh, that's nice.
	When a person turns this age, they have gone through the Chinese zodiac cycle a total of five times and are now back at their original birth zodiac.
	The word kanreki itself derives its meaning from the words can, return, and reiki, calendar.
	Simply put, reaching this age is viewed as your chance to start over again.
	So here's to the next chapter, Astrid.
	I can think of no better way of celebrating than supporting the best podcast in the universe for the best business partner in the universe.
	Thank you for your courage, love and lit.
	Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, the Japan Sea and all the disputed islands.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka, jingo please, one of her favorites.
	And maybe something from Club 33 if you're reopening it for one night only birthday party.
	Hmm.
	Oh, Raven.
	Let me see if I have the...
	I think we got the...
	And we may even have an extra long one here, I think.
	Reseda.
	Reseda.
	Let's see.
	Hold on a second.
	I didn't catch the...
	Reseda.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven.
	Give it up!
	And we'll hit her with the karma.
	You've got karma.
	Happy birthday, damn Astrid.
	Yeah, happy birthday, Damien.
	I also want to thank her because she sent me a birthday gift for my upcoming birthday.
	How did she know?
	Which she does.
	And she sent me some sumo-related, because she knows I'm a big fan of the Grand Sumo Tournament.
	Yes.
	Some sumo-related items, including a crazy-looking fat salt shaker and a sumo, oversized sumo sake glass and a crazy pouch.
	Cool.
	All sent directly from Japan.
	I want to thank her for that stuff.
	Very nice.
	And onward with our donations with Amy Poussin.
	And she claims to have sent a note.
	And I actually have a note from her.
	Her claim is valid.
	And it says donations.
	I didn't isolate it.
	Why is that?
	Oh, because she sent it at 7.46 this morning.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, my.
	Oh, my.
	Did you spank her?
	I didn't know she wanted to be spanked.
	Dear John and Adam, I want to thank you for defending me when Baron John, the fabulous ruler of the Glacial Drumlin Trail of Wisconsin, attempted to call me out on show 1430 as a douchebag.
	He thinks he's quite funny when accusing me of sucking off the government tit.
	When I was unemployed, also, I think he'll laugh hysterically at John reading the previous sentence.
	Okay, well let me read it correctly then.
	He thinks he's quite funny when he accused me of sucking off the government teat when I was unemployed.
	Got that spelling.
	I am now gainfully employed and will be once again sharing my treasury via monthly donations, but I thought I'd make up for it by matching his 33333 and doing one better by adding 8008 because I like hearing JCD say 8008s.
	Thanks for all you do.
	She's a dirty woman.
	Thanks for all you do to keep us sane.
	Baronetess Amy of the Central Iowa Bike Trails.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I should have told you this earlier, but she wants to play.
	And you can write these down.
	I'll stall in the meantime.
	Noodle gone.
	Pasta glock.
	This is the one clip.
	Little girl, yay, which is easy to get to.
	And R2D2 Karma, so she's not asking for too much.
	She's just asking for you to dig up the noodle gun.
	Good.
	I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist piece of shit.
	I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
	Wow!
	And if I... And if I didn't say so...
	Karma.
	We had an R2-D2 Karma.
	It was 4-13-41.
	Okay, onward.
	Then we have Anonymous from Aurora, Colorado.
	And I see this is on one of our notes that came in.
	Let's see what this is.
	Is this Anonymous?
	Yes.
	Wow, this is a long note.
	The note is too long.
	Very hard to read, actually.
	And it's printed in five-point type, and the ink cartridge is almost gone.
	So it's in light gray.
	It's in light gray, five-point type.
	It actually looks like a fax that has faded.
	For the show, thank you for your courage and your continued deconstruction.
	It's been far too long since my last tithing.
	Please de-douche me.
	Yeah, we got that for you.
	You've been de-douched.
	No jingles, no karma from Sir Anonymous, Baron of the ADFC and Arapaho County.
	So I think that's all we have to do for him, right?
	Well, he says...
	Does he have more here?
	He wasn't on...
	This is the 15th time I've contributed monetarily to the show.
	I'm still unwilling to allow my true identity to be revealed on the show, so please keep my name anonymous on the show.
	I will likely decloak after I've retired from my agency.
	Holy crap.
	Decloak already?
	We've had notes from him before, but it's been a couple years.
	So here I am donating again.
	As I have stated before, you must continue your work.
	It is vital to our nation's interests, and the citizens are better for it.
	As the peerage grows, the knowledge spreads.
	As I hit people in the mouth, they are illuminated by the light that is the No Agenda Show.
	As the tax returns roll in over paying like the good little slave that I am, I return a small sum in kind, paying back the value for value in any small way I can.
	I have donated before, and I've managed to rise amongst my peers to the level of barren.
	Hopefully I can continue to contribute my wage-earning years, which are rapidly diminishing.
	This particular donation in the amount of $369.99 is a special contribution that I call the Triple Intel Treat.
	That's treat, not threat.
	Yes, the T-I-T. This donation celebrates the power of three and the almighty Executive Order 12-3-3-3, pronounced E-O-12-3-3-3.
	Yes, that's Executive Order 12-3-3-3.
	Bing it, bitch!
	Yes, this is a very good one to look at.
	It's the stuff conspiracy theories are made of.
	Bring back Nassara.
	Trump's going to make it all happen.
	XRP, QFS, off-world transactions!
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you so much.
	Really appreciate that.
	Yeah, I like this guy.
	Me too.
	I like him too.
	I like our Mr.
	Anonymous there in the middle of nowhere.
	Sir Mike in Clinton Township, Michigan, 333.33.
	In the morning, John and Adam.
	This is Sir Mike of...
	Axeheadwatch.shop.
	The wooden watch guy.
	Our wooden watch guy.
	Did you order your watch yet?
	No, I still haven't ordered my wooden watch.
	I keep forgetting.
	The show ends.
	I'm tired.
	I'm smoking my spliff.
	I forget.
	I'm going to order my watch today.
	Of course, you know, he goes on.
	He's the watch shop guy.
	Axe head watch shop guy.
	Axe head watch dot shop.
	Liberator of Michigan 9th District checking in.
	Things are still going good here at the watch shop.
	We just had our first ad on the Tom Woods show, which resulted in a number of purchases coming in with Tom's promo code, but followed by a note saying, in the morning.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure this is due in part to Adam's recent visit to the show.
	Or maybe John's recent mention during the oligarch story.
	I just wanted to make sure people know promo code ITM will always get a discount for our No Agenda family.
	You don't need to wait for me to check in.
	We have also upgraded to our newly redesigned website, axeheadwatch.com.
	Oh, what happened to the dot shop?
	Okay.
	We couldn't have done any of it with our fellow Noah Gent.
	I think he meant because of the producers.
	Who have still planted more trees than any other podcast we go on.
	Ah, that's right.
	Yeah, you plant a tree when you get a watch, yeah.
	Please supply this to my smoking hot wife, Kelly's damehood.
	She should be two-thirds of the way there.
	Please give some jobs karma to me as I begin my 2022.
	Is there more to that?
	I don't think so.
	Let me see.
	Oh, yeah, it might be.
	2022 Congressional Campaign.
	Oh, that's right.
	He's going to run for office.
	And play Yeah, No.
	Love is Lit.
	Okay.
	It is indeed axheadwatch.shop.
	And go have a look.
	Yeah, no.
	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, no.
	I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Our next associate executive producer with one of those great numbers, 333.33 from Peoria, Arizona, James Pyres, a.k.a.
	Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel.
	Good morning, John and Adam.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe and the best comedy podcast in the universe.
	Finally, recognition.
	Please add myself, Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, to the birthday list.
	March 19th is the day.
	That was yesterday.
	You're on.
	I want to send a shout-out and thank you to Adam, who recently helped me out and shared some of his formidable knowledge with me.
	A very gracious mensch you are, AC. Okay.
	What is this?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, he asked me something and...
	Uh, yeah.
	He had questions and I answered them.
	And I answer everyone's questions.
	Uh, John and Adam, the Noah Jenner Nation has been an anchor for me over the last decade, plus, and the world would not be the same without you.
	As you can see on my note, I am no longer in California and have moved to Arizona.
	I have a quick question regarding peerage committee, for the peerage committee.
	As my knighthood title is tied to a physical location, must I change it now that I have moved?
	No.
	My wife, Dame Jasmine of the Hidden Jewel, has the same challenge.
	Your guidance is appreciated.
	So that's a no.
	You don't need to change anything.
	You're good to go.
	I mean, it's like Meghan Markle is still the Duchess of Cornwall, even though she's in California.
	So yeah, I think you can use that.
	My shameless plug to find me at wiresworld.net and at SirWire on No Agenda Social.
	Please support podcasting 2.0 and Bitcoin.
	Adam lays it out beautifully in the Glenn Beck interview.
	Please play drone again, naturally.
	Yes, we have the drone again, naturally.
	And share my thanks to all of the No Agenda producers and listeners to donate to No Agenda, SirWire of the Hidden Jewel.
	Ooh!
	And I did not, that misfired what happened there.
	Here we go.
	Fire.
	And onward with Chap Williams, who, by the way, this is a check that comes in from a bank.
	Hmm.
	And so we get those, and people go in and fill out forms, or you go to some website, and you just send checks automatically.
	These come in about once a quarter.
	3333 from Edmond, Oklahoma.
	And I've never heard from him, and I just looked him up in an email, and there's nothing in there.
	So one of these days, he'll chime in, I'm sure.
	I hope so.
	He's probably got enough to be a baron.
	John Edwards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is next on the list, and he wrote in, I do have his note, and I will read it.
	Let's see if there's anything I should give you.
	In terms of jingles, I'll put this at the beginning.
	Just replay the little synth riff at the end of the D-douche jingle three times.
	What?
	You've been de-douched.
	There's a little thing at the end.
	Yeah, but I can't do that.
	No, you can't do that.
	It doesn't work that way.
	Hey, John and Adam, please accept my humble donation and de-douche me.
	Oh, you can play that.
	That we can do.
	Of course, we can do the full-on de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's a bass, isn't it?
	It's a synth bass.
	I haven't been a listener since last year when my friend Steve hit me in the mouth.
	I laughed so hard when I... And almost drove off the road!
	Listening to John turn World Economic Forum, WEF, into WEC and then WC on one of the recent episodes.
	That was a classic.
	I meant to donate for some time, but that really pushed me over the goal line.
	They say laughter is the best medicine, and at this point it's statistically better for you than the booster at preventing the Rona.
	Probably.
	I have evangelized the best podcast in the universe to anyone who will listen to me, which is fewer and fewer people these days because I, quote, carry water for Putin.
	And, quote, don't believe in the science.
	Oh, no.
	And often I refer to the M5M as, quote, fake news media.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, boy.
	Please keep up the excellent deconstructions.
	To look at an issue from multiple angles is the essence of truthful journalism.
	I'm happy to promote and produce your honest and unbiased commentary.
	In terms of jingles, could you just replay the little synth and we tried that and it can't be done?
	So you got your de-douching and we'll give you some karma instead.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, I can't be editing stuff on the fly.
	And he came in with 3.33.
	Sir Cal, our buddy Sir Cal, 320.22, Northville, Michigan.
	Hey, please send a karma shot to all my supporters out there, he says, as three out of four online sales are from No Agenda Folk.
	Thanks for everything.
	That is Cal from lavenderblossoms.org.
	I had a fun experience.
	We moved product.
	Now you sound like Howard Stern.
	Loot everybody!
	Celebrities need to know we moved product here at this show!
	We are, we sell, we sell salve!
	Oops.
	This is what I wanted to do.
	You've got karma.
	We sell salve, man.
	Aaron Erotocritus.
	Sounds right.
	Eratocritus.
	Pretty sure.
	In Nashville, 300 bucks.
	Wishing my smoking hot better half, John, a.k.a.
	Sir Harvey Wallbanger, a very happy birthday.
	He gifted me a donation for Valentine's Day and I am climbing towards Damehood.
	So I can sit next to him at the round table.
	Jingle request?
	How you doing, Booster?
	How you doing, Booster?
	No, you were close.
	I never heard that before.
	No, it's a podcasting 2.0 thing.
	Okay, let me go to Mark Ginty because I can't find a note from him and he's in Nagatuck, Connecticut at 23333 and you can go and take it from there.
	Yes, I have anonymous from Texas, 222.22.
	And it says, note coming by email.
	This is what you had, I believe.
	I don't think I have this one.
	This is exactly what we talked about before the show.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have.
	I'll take this and you take the next one.
	This is a note for the anonymous from Texas, 222.22.
	And jingles.
	He needs a de-douching.
	We have that.
	You've been de-douched.
	And at the end, he's going to need a big jobs karma, please.
	I don't know, please.
	Big jobs karma, please.
	A little girl, shut up, slave.
	Okay.
	Okay, ITM, John and Adam, thank you for everything y'all do.
	I first of all need a deduce.
	You know, we just gave you that.
	The donation is in honor of my 32nd birthday.
	I think we put him on the list.
	I hope.
	Maybe I didn't.
	Maybe I did.
	Yes, we did.
	On March 22nd, and please add me to the birthday list.
	I've been listening since the start of the vid and haven't missed an episode yet.
	Yeah, the vid is the COVID, baby.
	Oh, the COVID. Where you been, man?
	Wow.
	I'm already forgetting.
	Please hit me with a huge jobs karma.
	I'm a teacher that is fed up and tired of teaching other people's woke human resources.
	Say that again.
	I'm a teacher that is fed up and tired of teaching other people's woke human resources.
	What a nightmare.
	No kidding.
	I have completed two interviews and need some karma to land this amazing and significantly higher-paying job.
	My 2.5-year-old little girl often listens to the best podcast in the universe with me and loves the Shut Up Slave at the end of the first donation segment, and it would make her so happy to hear it twice.
	You might want to do that.
	It's short.
	Love and Lit Anonymous from Texas.
	Shut Up Slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Shut up, slave!
	Good luck.
	Good luck.
	We've got three for you.
	Thank you.
	Now we move to Boris Chippanyuk, who's in Pleasantville, New York.
	$200, associate executive producer, Shippa.
	Says, I was compelled to write about Ukraine.
	I know this note is long.
	Sorry.
	It's okay.
	We won't read it all.
	First off, even for the No Agenda audience, I must preface this by saying F. Putin, hope he hangs from a lamppost soon.
	See, this is one of these, John.
	Fortunately, historically speaking, when Russians removed autocratic warmonger leaders in the past, nothing bad has happened.
	I was born in Kiev.
	Well, he spells it K-I-E-V. Says that's how I spell it.
	I don't read or speak a lick of Ukrainian.
	Good.
	So I didn't offend him.
	Grew up in America.
	My whole family spent a lifetime over there.
	So my perspective is not quite firsthand.
	I am 100% Jewish.
	Historically, this meant I'm a Jew from Ukraine and not Ukrainian.
	Interesting take.
	I was as shocked as anyone they elected a Jewish president overwhelmingly.
	While their elections are shoddy, they're certainly quite superior to Russia's and the state of Georgia and Michigan.
	I don't think many people had a President Barack Hussein Obama on their bingo card either.
	A few things people should understand.
	This note is long, but it's content.
	I like this.
	This is good.
	This is important content.
	This is the kind of stuff we need to be talking about.
	The difference between Russians and Ukrainians is quite a bit less than Protestant and Catholic Irish.
	The entire Ukrainian ethnic identity is built on hating the Russian state And before that, the Polish and Austro-Hungarian state, and for good reason.
	Ukrainians will generally not admit this.
	This invasion has created a new level of national unity and mythology that clearly Putin, nor I, expected.
	Whatever Zelensky's main faults, I believe he flipped the script and was supposed to flee and create the perennial government in exile our spooks love so much.
	This upset Russian plans.
	Some quizling was supposed to surrender by now.
	Crimea will return to Ukraine maybe the day after Texas returns to Mexico.
	Yeah.
	The Donbass region is way more Russian than Texas or California is American.
	And the story of Ukraine and the Nazis in World War II is not good, but is, in fact, quite a bit more nuanced, so I think that's a very superficial trope.
	As much as I hate to say it, I would read Stefan Bandera's wiki entry.
	The very short version is, as far as leaders from the last 100 years, he is really the only one who emerged who fought for an independent Ukrainian state against Poles, Russians, Nazis, and Communists.
	I'm not defending the guy in the least, but nations and cultures need their heroes and find them where they can.
	Had he lived in the 1700s, he would have been glossed over in the fog of history.
	As others have said about Poland, Ukraine has the misfortune of being between Germany and Russia, not on the West Coast.
	Hold on a second.
	Where am I? Not on the west coast of the United States.
	That's where it ends for me.
	So what is our takeaway here?
	He wants Putin dead.
	Well, I think a lot of Ukrainians would say that.
	Yeah, right now, for sure, someone's invading your country.
	Yeah.
	No matter what degree, of course.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	I don't see that he's condemning us.
	No, no, no.
	All we do is deconstruct the news and then try to make something out of it.
	No, I actually appreciate that he sent this note in.
	That's very helpful.
	Alright, onward.
	Do you have any requests?
	No, no requests that I could see.
	Like how Dirty Dick Bangs is last on the list, and we wrap it with him.
	He came in with $200, and he's in Washington, D.C. Whatever that tells you.
	This donation is for one thing and one thing only, he writes.
	Happy birthday, Archer Campbell Bangs from Uncle John and Uncle Adam.
	I believe he's on the list.
	Yes, he is.
	Archer's turning five years old.
	He enjoys roller coasters, hockey, lacrosse, and basketball.
	And, ladies, he'll be available in 13 more years.
	Maybe ten.
	He'll be attending kindergarten at Blessed Sacrament with his big brother, Barrett.
	Barrett.
	Barrett.
	Archer, we're so proud of you.
	Happy birthday.
	Archer loves drone effects.
	Oh, I should have known this.
	Yeah, keep going.
	He's going to take the drone.
	Why don't you find the drone and launch it?
	Here it is.
	There it is.
	There it is, Archer.
	Wait, hold on.
	Here we go.
	There it is.
	Flying off.
	You're losing your touch.
	You went left, should have went right.
	Love Mommy, Daddy, Barrett, and Colton, Viscount, Dirty Dick, Bangs, DC. P.S. Will Guerin, you're a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Making me call you out on Archer's birthday.
	What's wrong with you?
	Just donate.
	Good karma will come.
	You owe Archer an apology and a present.
	Ruining his birthday call out by still being a douchebag.
	My goodness, the McCoys are fine, really.
	This is great.
	Always good to have Viscount Dirty Dig Bangs checking in.
	That is...
	Our list are executive and associate executive producers for episode 1435.
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	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up!
	Shut up!
	Get that thing out of here!
	Alright, I'm moving it.
	I'm moving it.
	It's gone.
	Okay, so while all this has been taking place, quietly, Deltacron is sneaking up on us.
	Yeah, everybody.
	You think you could just be all in?
	Just careful?
	No, no, no.
	We're switching up the team.
	We've got new teams coming in.
	Although Fauci is back.
	He's doing some interviews.
	We have a new COVID czar.
	Did you know we had a new COVID czar, John?
	Curiously, I did not know.
	Yes, the new COVID czar is Dr.
	JHA. And who does he replace?
	He replaces somebody.
	Well, I have a clip here and I'll find out who he replaces.
	Oh, here it is.
	Jeff Zients.
	Remember that guy?
	Jeff Zients, the guy who also did...
	That guy never got anywhere.
	He never showed up.
	No, they called him to fix the Obamacare website.
	He's a fixer, so they're getting the fixer out.
	Bringing in a doctor, Dr.
	Jha!
	Just bringing our friend Dr.
	Ashish Jha, the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
	And Dr.
	Jha, let me start with congratulations.
	President Biden has asked you to be his new White House COVID-19 response coordinator.
	Tell us how you see the job, what your number one job is in that role.
	Yeah, good morning, George.
	Thanks for having me back.
	Look, we're not done with this pandemic.
	As much as we all wish, we are not.
	And so the president has laid out a plan for how we're going to prepare for future surges, future variants, and what we need to do.
	And, you know, I'm part of the team that's going to help implement that plan, because whatever the pandemic throws at us, George, we have got to be ready for it, and we've got to get the American people through that time period.
	It's throwing BA2 at us right now.
	What do you make of that?
	You know, look, BA.2, about a quarter of the case is here already.
	It is clearly a bit more transmissible.
	The good news about BA.2 is our vaccines work just fine.
	It's the same virus as BA.1.
	How can anyone with a straight face say, our vaccines work just fine?
	We know this is not true.
	They don't work just fine.
	But he's repeating the big lie.
	The good news about BA2, George, is our vaccines work just fine.
	It's the same virus as BA1 that swept across America in January.
	So Americans have to get vaccinated and being boosted is the best possible protection against it.
	I'm pretty confident we're going to get through any BA2 surge that comes our way as well.
	And Pfizer is now requesting authorization for that second booster shot for people 65 and over.
	Are we heading towards a world where everyone's going to need a second booster shot at some point?
	Yeah, it's a very good question.
	We've always wanted to be driven by data on this.
	We have not seen the full set of data yet.
	They've just filed it with the FDA. I suspect we probably will end up needing to give that second booster to high-risk people, whether other people will need it or not.
	We're just not sure yet.
	We don't want to see that full set of data.
	Dr.
	Jha, thanks very much.
	Thanks as always for your time and your information.
	Oh yes, your timing, information, Dr.
	Jha.
	No information whatsoever.
	Now it's not just Pfizer who's pushing.
	Now the drug dealers are literally coming to your door and saying, hey man, it's time for you to buy some more, you know, otherwise you won't be on the route anymore.
	The request from Moderna overnight goes beyond what Pfizer requested earlier this week.
	Moderna is asking the FDA for emergency use authorization for all adults 18 and older to be eligible for a second booster.
	That's a fourth shot in all.
	Pfizer's request only included those adults 65 and older.
	Now, Moderna says this was meant to provide more flexibility to federal regulators as they determine who should be eligible for an additional dose, including those at higher risk of severe COVID-19.
	The concern here is waning immunity as health officials are tracking an Omicron subvariant known as BA2.
	New COVID cases worldwide increased this week by nearly 10% following a six-week decline.
	And CDC Director Dr.
	Rochelle Walensky is now warning that it's certainly possible that mask recommendations could have to be re-implemented, anticipating there could be an increase in new cases.
	Currently, BA2 now makes up nearly a quarter of all new cases in the U.S. A range of estimates show the subvariant is between 30 and 80% more transmissible, but so far no indication.
	That it causes more severe disease.
	Okay, let's take a look at this disease.
	Let's follow the science.
	Let's go to the root of all evil, to the World Health Organization, also known as the Water Closet.
	Maria von Kerkhofer, she is explaining, and this is a produced video, so apologies for the music up front here.
	That's how critical it is that you get into the mood as she's about to tell you about BA2, the subvariant.
	Ah, ah, ah.
	Yes, we are aware of this recombinant.
	It's a combination of Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1.
	It's been detected, but there are very low levels of this detection.
	The recombinant itself, this is something that is expected given a large amount of circulation, the intense amount of circulation that we saw with both Omicron and Delta.
	I'm just going to interrupt for a second so people don't get too hypnotized by that music because that is intentional.
	And given the sheer number of changes and mutations within Omicron, it was much easier for researchers, scientists, public health professionals, people who are studying the genome to be able to detect these recombinants.
	We have not seen any change in the epidemiology with this recombinant.
	We haven't seen any change in severity, but there are many studies that are underway.
	Unfortunately, we do expect to see recombinants because this is what viruses do.
	They change over time.
	WHO has been aware of this because of our technical advisory group for virus evolution.
	So this is something that's on our radar.
	It's something that we are monitoring.
	So it's really critical that we have testing and it's really critical that we continue sequencing, that we have good geographic representation of sequencing around the world, and that the systems that have been put in place for surveillance, for testing, for sequencing, right now be reinforced.
	These are the systems that we have in place and so we will update you on any new information that we have as soon as we have it.
	This is exactly the music they put out.
	Question.
	Yeah.
	That is an announcement, a specific kind of an announcement about a specific kind of thing.
	What is the point of the music?
	That's why I left it in there.
	It's mind control.
	Well, you couldn't take it out.
	No, but it's mind control.
	Total mind control is total horse crap.
	I might produce a couple clips.
	The New York Times...
	Okay, but I'm just...
	I'm laying out the quilt work for you here.
	New York Times.
	Here's their headline.
	Another COVID surge may be coming.
	Are we ready for it?
	Subhead.
	We've been wearing rose-colored glasses instead of correcting our vision, one scientist said.
	So, they're gearing it up.
	While we're not looking, while we're all waving blue and yellow flags, and Ground Zero, once again, is going to be New York, where they still have mandates for commercial companies, for sports venues.
	You cannot get in or out without being vaccinated in corporate America in New York.
	This is not discussed, except...
	We do have a new health commissioner.
	Yes, the new team members in New York, boots on the ground.
	He's the new face of the city's COVID messaging.
	Today was Dr.
	Ashwin Bassan's first COVID briefing.
	Something you'll hear me talk about a lot is the emotional toll that this pandemic has taken on all of us.
	Right now, the city's color-coded COVID system still has us enjoying low levels of new cases and hospitalizations across the board.
	The seven-day average is a low 1.49 percent.
	But the BA2 Omicron subvariant is here and is accounting for more of the new cases.
	And things have changed since the surge around the holidays that had people waiting in long lines on the street for testing.
	For one, at-home test kits are much easier to come by.
	And even though the city only uses PCR test data to calculate the positivity level...
	I strongly encourage New Yorkers to use home tests if that's the way to get yourself tested.
	If you have a home test and you aren't feeling well in the morning, use that home test to know if you have COVID before you go to work, before you go anywhere.
	Getting treatment is also easier.
	Positive at home to call 212-COVID-19 and get treated.
	And some mandates have also changed.
	But the private sector vaccine mandate that has sidelined professional athletes in New York could very well continue into baseball season.
	It's not changing anytime soon.
	I think it's indefinite at this point.
	I think, you know, people who have tried to predict what's going to happen in the future for this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say.
	And I'm not going to do that here today.
	So, for his own ego, we're not going to take any risks here.
	I don't want egg on my face.
	He doesn't want egg on his face.
	Forget about your kid with a diaper on his head at five in school.
	There will be no egg under the diaper.
	Now, let me mention something here.
	This is kind of funny.
	Because I still think gambling interests are involved.
	And I like that.
	I like this theory because we're still waiting for Kyrie Irving to...
	Kyrie, currently the situation is that you can go into the arena without a vaccination and sit and watch a game, but you can't be on the floor without a vaccination and play a game.
	Unless you're from another team.
	So currently, other teams that have members that are not vaccinated can play in the arena in Madison Square Garden, but Kyrie still can't play there.
	Because there was a carve-out for sports and show business, I believe.
	I believe celebrities are also allowed to visit and work in New York without being vaccinated.
	But Kyrie cannot play on the court.
	Correct.
	No, of course not.
	I'm telling you, this is a scam.
	You know why?
	You know why that is?
	Because he's black.
	They're racists in New York.
	The whole team is black, but that's beside the point.
	Don't ruin my gag, man.
	Yeah, I know.
	I thought that the kicker was good.
	So I think there's something very suspicious about this.
	Yeah, you think it's the gambling, and I kind of like that.
	But it's because this guy didn't want egg on his face, apparently.
	Yeah, that guy didn't want egg on his face.
	No egg on my face.
	No egg on my face.
	Now, what's interesting about the...
	In other words, by the way, saying what he said and how he said it and where he said it and what the context was, the guy is a gutless wonder, okay?
	Sounds about right.
	Two fun facts.
	The first one is, you know, they tried to get the booster shot done, tried to get the approval for under five-year-olds.
	And now, in a somewhat mentioned report, the CDC has fixed their coding logic error, colloquially known as a glitch error.
	All-time pediatric deaths from COVID-19 reported on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID data tracker plummeted nearly 24% after the agency resolved a coding logic error on Wednesday.
	The CDC's COVID data tracker had presented a misleading impression prior to the fix that children were dying at a sharply amplified rate amid the Omicron surge earlier this year.
	The tool had reported 1,755 all-time deaths from children 0-17 on Tuesday, with 738 of the deaths occurring during the first 10 weeks of 2022.
	After CDC resolved the error, the pediatric death figure reported on its COVID data tracker dropped to 1,339 all-time deaths, a reduction of 23.7%.
	How can we trust them on anything?
	This is terrible.
	Yeah.
	And no one...
	I mean, this...
	Back in the day, this would be 60 minutes.
	This would be investigative reporting.
	Woodward and Bernstein would come out of the closet.
	I'd like to see some coders go in there and deconstruct the code.
	Yes.
	Coding logic.
	Oh, really?
	Code review.
	Okay, well, let's take a look at the code.
	Code review.
	Code review.
	Exactly.
	Code review.
	There should be...
	Americans should be able to have code review.
	The other fun fact...
	Just telling us this nonsense doesn't cut it, as far as I'm concerned.
	Not at all.
	The public doesn't know about code review, but that's what they need to do.
	They need to bring some experts in and take apart the code.
	Another fun fact from one of our producers, B-A-2, if you pronounce it Batu, B-A-2, the way you would look at it, Batu, it means big dick in Turkish.
	So I think we keep the Batu.
	We keep Batu.
	Batu is what it is.
	Batu.
	And we speak Turkish.
	And Gary mentioned that wastewater is not a trailing indicator.
	He says it is, in fact, a leading indicator, according to the officials who are doing this wastewater surveillance.
	Okay, this is interesting.
	I want to hear how it's a leading indicator.
	And let's explain to people what the difference is.
	Leading indicator means something that happens and it tells you that something else is going to happen afterwards.
	Whereas a typical coronavirus test provides results for one person, sampling wastewater for the presence of COVID-19 provides an assessment for a larger community.
	The results are a leading indicator of the status of the pandemic because infected individuals shed the virus in poop before they show symptoms.
	In fact, our producer Gary says...
	That would be a leading indicator if this is true.
	Our producer Gary says the lagging indicator is death.
	Which I thought was genius.
	Yeah, that's a fact.
	That is a good lagging indicator.
	So there you go.
	And they're doing this in Berkeley.
	So you might want to poop in a bucket because they're going to come knocking on your door.
	That's the way I've always pooped.
	Why does that not surprise me?
	Yeah, it's good for the soil.
	It's also good to throw in the next door neighbor's yard and figure out where it came from.
	Oh my goodness.
	Do you have any other COVID stuff you want to talk about?
	Yeah, I do have the COVID update from the UK so we can see what's going on there because they seem to be a leading indicator and they're not going along with the program or something.
	Unvaccinated arrivals at the British border will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result after the country's health minister said rising rates were to be, quote, expected, but the UK remained in a very good position.
	Two years after authorities first introduced travel bans with frequently confusing policy shifts around quarantine, costly testing and contact tracing, the British travel industry welcomed the end of the complex regulations.
	The UK's aviation minister, Robert Court, said the sacrifices made by the entire country had meant people could once more travel without, quote, bureaucratic restrictions, though emergency plans remain just in case concerning new variants appeared in future.
	A whole bunch of countries are lifting requirements.
	Except the United States, of course.
	Even as an American citizen, you have to have a negative PCR so-called test to re-enter the country.
	Yeah.
	And if you're not an American citizen, you need to be vaccinated as well.
	Well, you can also just enter to the southern border.
	It's a very old joke, but yeah.
	Yeah, you can.
	But it's annoying because people can't travel.
	And I don't know why we...
	Well, I do.
	Because this shit is coming down again.
	I think they're going to try it.
	I think they're going to try it.
	Smart money.
	They better try it soon, because once these midterm elections take place, they're going to all say, whoops, we're doing the wrong thing.
	And they'll pull the plug on all this right after the election.
	You watch.
	Right, which is why I think that they're ready to do it again now.
	Well, then they're totally hosed.
	Okay.
	Although, wait a minute, you might be onto something, because if you do it again now and you can call for an all-mail-in ballot, then you can rig the election again.
	What if it became...
	Look!
	Please see what the mainstream media has just done to everybody with Ukraine.
	Please look.
	Look, I mean, it's getting people who don't live in Ukraine...
	We've never heard of the place.
	To hate Putin, want him assassinated.
	This is bringing up a lot of anger.
	This is not just about Russia.
	This is three years of frustration people are having.
	And I think it's going to come again.
	And you know that there's enough people in New York and Los Angeles and all the big cities who are already walking outside still with masks on.
	They're afraid to take the mask off.
	Most people won't admit it.
	They don't want to take the mask off because they're worried that they'll be seen as a Republican.
	That's literally why people are still wearing masks.
	It's really not because they're worried about anything.
	If you say you're in the elite crowd that is manipulating the American public and you're getting them to do this and you're getting them to do that, don't you think it would be just unbelievable fun to just keep doing it with other things and just see how far you can go as a kick?
	Wouldn't you do it?
	I would.
	Let's see if we can all of a sudden make it so that people can't wear socks.
	You know, they have to go with, no, it's socks, because socks are something.
	We've got to dream something up.
	But we can do it.
	We can figure out some reason that you can't wear socks.
	And let's see what happens.
	I think it would be just nothing but endless yucks.
	Something even better is happening.
	As people now, with the war, not even saying the war in Ukraine, we just say with the war, with the war raging right now, and COVID, and we're going to have the Batuu right around the corner, CBS News knows exactly what people need.
	When it comes to stressful situations, taking college exams ranks right up there.
	So the University of Bristol was the perfect setting for British researchers to test their new anti-anxiety device.
	What do you think the anti-anxiety device is?
	I mean, it sounds technical.
	Anxiety device.
	What we got them to do was a maths test.
	So we had them to do some sequencing of numbers, some of which were impossible.
	So we really ramped up the level of anxiety.
	They tested more than a hundred students, giving a third of them this breathing cushion to hug before the exam.
	Its hidden inflatable pouch simulates slow breathing.
	That reduced their pre-test anxiety.
	So they still got anxious, but they got less anxious than if we gave them no intervention whatsoever.
	Based on questionnaires, researchers found anxiety scores for cushion-hugging students were similar to those who meditated.
	It just has a lovely, intuitive, simple feel to it.
	Textile designer Annie Lywood helped create the calming cushion and says dementia patients also find it comforting.
	It made a smile, which was lovely, and they didn't want to let go of the cushion.
	And they all said, oh, I remember when my child was this size.
	Testing is still in the early stages, and the pillow hasn't been tried on patients with diagnosed anxiety disorders.
	But researchers are hopeful.
	We can use therapies, we can use pharmaceutical interventions, but they take time, they cost money, whereas a cushion is just something people in church can interact with.
	And scientists say just a quick cuddle can put anxiety to rest.
	All right, so back in the day, You got a bullet wound.
	You know, it's like, here, bite on this leather strap and have some whiskey and we're going to burn it right out of you.
	We'll dig it out.
	Now, when you're anxious, you get the calming cushion.
	Mike Lindell's going to make a killing on this.
	Oh, Mike Lindell could probably jump on this right away.
	And have a special version that looks like a teddy bear.
	I think that would be even funnier.
	I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on right now.
	I mean, I haven't even followed the female swimming championships.
	Everyone's all angry.
	You know what we have right now?
	People are just...
	We have these social media martyrs where people are not even really talking about the issues anymore.
	They're trying to say stuff and see if it'll get them deplatformed.
	And other people go around saying, wow, man, he was really cool.
	He's probably going to get deplatformed.
	That's all they talk about now.
	Social media martyrdom.
	And you're losing out on anything, on anything.
	Anything sensical being discussed?
	Anyway, there's enough in the mainstream that'll just make you go, what?
	And now to a bill that would push to put a stop to black Americans being treated unfairly because of their hairstyle.
	The Democratic-led House of Representatives passed what is known as the Crown Act, and it bans race-based hair discrimination in employment and Now,
	black hair, particularly for black women, is third rail, can't touch it, stay away.
	But come on, what are we doing?
	This just makes no sense.
	It's out of control.
	Is there really an issue?
	Is there really an issue that people are being discriminated against?
	I mean, it's not just about hair, is it, John?
	We know what this is about.
	They're black.
	No, no.
	No.
	No.
	This is for the nutjobs who got their ear holes blown out and the face tattoos.
	Oh, yeah, the people with the face piercings.
	Everything.
	Normalize it all.
	Normalize it all.
	This started with Hooters.
	You have to hire me because I got my face tattooed and pierced.
	Exactly.
	Hi, what was your like burger?
	Was you like a bro fries with that burger?
	And you get your gruesome person up He's trying to ruin the American business.
	That was really a poor...
	You didn't do that well because they have a tongue piercing.
	It talks like this.
	Exactly.
	Now you're talking.
	That's what it sounds like.
	Exactly.
	You know, I've been clipping.
	Just before we go to the break.
	I have two more clips I want to play.
	I've been starting to collect Shepard Smith and all these other guys that have these little zingers.
	Let me stay on the LGBTQ Black Lives Matter.
	Yeah, you can't move away from that.
	We've got a couple more bullcrap stuff to play.
	Because just when this Crown Act comes in, Van Jones, recipient of $100 million from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, resurrects Robin DiAngelo.
	She's coming back.
	Here we go.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I'm going to focus...
	For those who don't remember, this is the author of White Fragility and a consultant to the stars to make sure you're not racist.
	And I'm going to focus my remarks.
	I want to be clear that all people of color experience racism in both shared ways and specific ways.
	But for purposes of you and my positions, I'm going to focus on black people.
	By every measure, black people are at the bottom and white people are at the top.
	And as Ibram Kendi says, there's really only two overall ways to explain that.
	Notice she's talking to Van Jones, a black man with $100 million.
	At the bottom.
	At the bottom, Robin.
	By every measure, black people are at the bottom and white people are at the top.
	And as Ibram Kendi says, there's really only two overall ways to explain that.
	White people are superior, and that's why we're on the top.
	Or a systemic racism.
	And then you add segregation.
	Most white people live segregated lives.
	And I think the most powerful message of white supremacy, it's that I could live, love, work, play, die in racial segregation with no sense whatsoever that anything of value has been lost.
	To me, that's the deepest...
	Message of all, the absence of any sense that is segregated life, that there's some value missing.
	What is up with that?
	What does this laugh tell?
	Let's listen again.
	Message of all, the absence of any sense that is segregated life, that there's some value missing.
	In fact, white people, if we're being honest, measure the value of our spaces by the absence of black people.
	John, let's be honest for a moment.
	Do you value your space by the absence of black people?
	Well, I do when I'm doing the podcast.
	I don't know if some black guy in here looking at me.
	And I have to say, there are laws in 28 states right now and more being pushed that would guarantee that we stay uneducated, which means that we'll protect this system.
	Stay uneducated?
	This must be critical race theory.
	Oh, I don't know.
	It could be.
	That tail is the one that really...
	You caught that.
	Yeah.
	There's something wrong with her.
	Now let's go quickly to ESPN. As you know, I'm always watching the women's basketball tournament.
	Love it.
	Trying to pick up some weed tips from the ladies.
	And this was an interesting little moment they had.
	Our LGBTQIA plus teammates at Disney asked for our solidarity and support, including our company's support, in opposition to the parental rights and education bill in the state of Florida and similar legislation across the United States.
	This is the so-called Don't Say Gay Bill.
	A threat to any human rights is a threat to all human rights.
	And at this time, Courtney and I, we're going to take a pause from our broadcast to show our love and support.
	So they had a moment of silence on the broadcast to show their love and support for the LGBTQI. For the bill?
	For the bill, yeah.
	And just so everyone knows, we have gotten to a place in the United States, and it's probably global, Where school believes that they should not just be educating your child, but really raising your child.
	And they feel it is an outrage that they cannot discuss sexual education of any kind before third grade.
	Third grade, yeah.
	Third grade.
	When you're, what, six?
	Seven?
	Seven.
	Seven, maybe.
	And this has become incredibly controversial because the way it goes, and then let's just present the other side, is, well, if you're then a...
	A trans child, male or female, irrelevant, younger than seven, well, you're going to feel out of place.
	So that's mean.
	And to accentuate this and to politicize it over the backs of children, as usual, they lie and say, oh, this bill says you can't say gay, which is also rude because they never bring in gay.
	It's always LGBTQIAPK, but no, they don't say that.
	So the whole thing is, this is what really bugs me about American politics, this.
	This thing.
	The lies?
	Cheating?
	Yeah, but it's always abusing some group.
	In this case, it's children.
	Let's do something else for political gain.
	Let's abuse some more black people.
	That's funny.
	Let's bring in the white lady to tell us how to do it.
	And I think I told you that your pick for Supreme Court justice was never going to pan out.
	You didn't?
	I did.
	I said, they're going to find problems with her because...
	Well, they're always going to find problems with her.
	But wait, the reason why is because I said it was, what's-his-face, the guy from South Carolina...
	What's the guy's name?
	Lindsey.
	No, no, no.
	Who got Biden elected.
	Or got Biden basically the nomination.
	Right.
	The black guy.
	Yes.
	What's his name?
	Cummings.
	No, it's not Cummings.
	It's the other guy.
	And he has his candidate.
	Yeah, I know that.
	I discussed that when I mentioned this.
	No, no.
	I think he felt he should be the Supreme Court justice.
	Oh, well, that's never going to happen.
	Well...
	And so this, what you're about to hear, is my contribution from the War Room, Bannon's podcast.
	He brings on...
	Oh, good, because I have a Supreme Court Justice clip, too, which will counter this, I hope.
	We'll find out.
	This is, who is this, Mike Davis.
	I have no idea who it is, but listen to the story that he has as to why her nomination is, quote, problematic.
	And I think it's the Democrats are behind this because they don't want this particular Supreme Court justice.
	Mike, is this just an effort to smear Judge Brown-Jackson, or is there really something here, sir?
	So, thank you for having me.
	Judge Kataji Brown Jackson has a 25 year record of advocating for lighter sentences for people who possess child pornography.
	And it's going it permeates her public record in her Senate Judiciary Committee disclosures.
	Thank you.
	Going back to her Harvard Law School note where she argued that our sex registry laws are unconstitutionally punitive, essentially, to her service on the United States Sentencing Commission, which is the policy-making body.
	They make recommendations to federal judges on the sentence ranges for various federal crimes.
	She made it one of her pet projects there to take on child pornography and And she's arguing that these mandatory minimum sentences mandated by Congress for these child pornographers, for these pedophiles are too harsh.
	And then you see this, Josh Hawley, Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, posted a Twitter thread on this where he documents, he has the receipts on there, he documents seven cases while Judge Jackson was a district court judge where she imposed sentences below even the recommended guidelines for these child pornographers.
	So it's a disturbing pattern that the Senate must explore when they start these hearings on Monday.
	I'm telling you, only the Democrats could be behind this.
	No, it's these guys.
	I think that this is a red herring that you played, and I'm glad you did because I don't have that.
	I think it's totally a red herring.
	It's totally a red herring.
	I believe that, and I'm going to play a clip from NPR about her confirmation hearings, and the thing you'd notice, it stands out like a sore thumb, is there's no mention of this.
	Zero mention of this pedophile thing, which they could go after her for, but I think the fix is in.
	I think both sides are ready to push her through, because when you listen to this NPR clip, they don't even come close to mentioning that.
	And play this confirmation hearing clip.
	Clyburn, by the way, was...
	Yes, Clyburn.
	Clyburn's the guy.
	Looking at the Monday confirmation hearings for President Biden's pick to replace Justin Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court begin.
	What are you watching for?
	One thing we expect Republican senators to go after is her history as a judge of favoring pro-abortion rights.
	They will call this legislation from the bench.
	This is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
	Yes, that's right.
	That is right.
	And another is her record of defending drug dealers and other street criminals.
	Of course, she did this as part of her job as a public defender shortly after law school.
	That's an important part of guaranteeing some semblance of equal treatment under the law.
	But let's just say it's not a lucrative job.
	No current members of the Supreme Court are former public defenders.
	Neither are very many of the Senate Judiciary Committee members.
	That's the committee handling these hearings.
	Okay.
	They don't even come close to touching this topic.
	This topic is a third rail.
	They're not going to bring it up.
	It might show up in the hearings a little bit.
	She's a shoo-in.
	All right.
	Well, I'm still saying no.
	I'm saying no.
	Say what you want.
	I'm saying no.
	I don't know why you're saying no, though.
	Who's better?
	I mean, I looked at all of the candidates, and she's clearly the best one.
	She's personable.
	She's got the same kind of personality as the rest of them.
	She's kind of goofy, smart, got good credentials.
	The reason why I'm saying no is because it has nothing to do with her.
	It has to do with the power players in Washington.
	I don't think she...
	She may not be anyone's girl.
	Clyburn had a candidate.
	I considered her, and I always thought that if...
	Look at what Clyburn did to get Biden...
	I know.
	I looked at the Clyburn candidate, and I think Biden's already discussed it with him.
	He said, what about this woman?
	I like her better.
	She's more likely to get through with a lot of aggravation.
	The Clyburn candidate is kind of a schoolmorm type.
	She's no good.
	I'm telling you, the Clyburn candidate is Clyburn.
	Oh, well, that's not going to happen.
	Okay.
	This is a Pope moment.
	I mean, that's no offense, but that's out there.
	I like the idea, and you have done this, but you're not doing it with this one.
	He said black woman.
	Now, unless Clyburn identifies as a black woman, he's not getting in.
	Now, that's a possibility, considering the swimmer.
	We'll see.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda in the morning.
	Yeah, we have a few people to thank for show 1435, I think.
	Okay.
	Starting with Vince Cartier, Sir Mainframe in Yakusuka, Japan, 128.
	Jonathan Rowley in Aldergrove, BC, 12345.
	David Dorsey in Pittsford, New York, 100.
	Producer Roz in Scottsdale, Arizona, 100.
	Dodge Gaskill, Sir Dodger of the Panhandle in Texas, but he's in Barton, Vermont.
	Oh, I guess there's a...
	Is there a Panhandle there?
	9999.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, lover of America and boobs, 008 in Concord, new...
	We've got to give him a jingle.
	North Carolina.
	He's going to keep doing this.
	We might as well jingle it up.
	All right.
	Darren, Fletcher.
	Maybe how about Fletcher yelling boobs real loud?
	So creative.
	Boobs!
	So creative, Joe.
	So creative.
	Sir Ex-Media Tour in Hamilton, Ontario, 7560.
	He wants some peace karma.
	We'll do that at the end.
	Demetrius Damdenopoulos in Berlin, Deutschland, 75.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996.
	Sir Skip Logic in 6333 in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
	Brian Spanagel.
	In Arlington, Virginia, 6006, a birthday donation.
	I hope I got his name there.
	Dean Roker, Sir Dean, 5510.
	Then we have a very long note, which is attached to we don't know what because the note confused us.
	So we're not going to read the note.
	The note's too long anyway.
	Because it seems...
	This is from David Wicker.
	He came in with some 55-something.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	He goes on about...
	He is...
	Some amount over a knighthood amount, but then he says he's the baron.
	He wants to be a baron somehow.
	And it's so confusing.
	This note is so confusing and includes a list of thank yous, Academy Awards style.
	To Lindsay and Jackie Green and blah, blah, blah.
	And it's just we can't make heads or tails of what he has to say, whether he's a baron or he's a knight.
	There's no evidence that he's got enough to be a baron.
	So we're skipping the note.
	And when he straightens himself out and gives us something more concise and readable, we'll put him on the list for knighting or I don't know what.
	The part I will read is he turned 52.
	And so he's donating for that, and he is congratulating his smoking hot, red hot mama on 15 years of marriage.
	And they never had a fight.
	And everything else, yeah, you gotta tell us what's going on here, David, because it was very confusing.
	Three people looked at it, and no one could really figure it out.
	I couldn't figure it out.
	Adam couldn't figure it out.
	Eric couldn't figure it out.
	But we aim to please, so let's do this.
	Kevin Hartle in Louisville, North Carolina, 5510.
	Sir Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri, 5005.
	And the last group is a $50 donor's name and location, starting with Nathan Ross in Salisbury, North Carolina, 50.
	And he says, came across the show a few weeks ago due to my douchebag brother Ben.
	Uh-oh.
	Yes.
	Douchebag.
	Douchebag.
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	Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Eleanor.
	Dame Cassidy Eastwood of Dimension A in Oklahoma City.
	And she's got a birthday call-out to her best friend, Dave.
	Oh, this contributed to a knighthood and a birthday call-out for her.
	Dave.
	Okay.
	And then last two is Leon Shipley in Covington, Washington and Sir Jerry Wingenroth down there in Saugus, California.
	I want to thank these folks for making the show possible.
	Yes.
	This was a wonderful little show that we've done.
	We appreciate it so much.
	We're on my birthday's here.
	Don't my birthday set up?
	Birthdays are good to go.
	Thank you to these producers.
	They join our executive and associate executive producers in making this podcast, this episode, a reality.
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	Name Cassidy Eastwood of Dementia.
	Happy birthday to her BFF, Dave, who celebrated on the 15th.
	Sir Nathan Lee.
	Happy birthday to Sir Carice, Viscount of Greater Boston.
	His birthday was the 18th.
	Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, the 19th.
	Sir Mark, of course, said happy birthday to Dame Astrid, celebrating on March 22nd.
	David Basore.
	Happy birthday to daughter Sarah, 14 on the 22nd.
	Anonymous turns 32 on the 22nd.
	Then we have Dave Basore also to his son Joshua, who turns 23 on March 24th.
	Erin Erotakritos, her smoking hot better half, Sir Harvey Wallbanger, is celebrating.
	Viscount Dirty Dick Banks says happy birthday to his son Archer Campbell Banks.
	Also celebrating are Brian Sponoggle and David Wicker.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Then we have one night, and of course we have Dame Andrea, who sent in the top donation for Thursday's show.
	We thanked her.
	She had a dame name.
	And we promptly forgot her.
	And we didn't dame her.
	So I got a special make good blade.
	Curiously, back and forth.
	We should be a little back behind the scenes.
	Back and forth went on between Adam and myself about black dame.
	Which is typically...
	If we forget to bring someone up to the round table, to the podium, then a knight can become a black knight and add that to the name.
	And I guess we had a discussion about black dames not being a thing.
	Yeah, it wasn't a thing because most women don't want to be a black dame.
	It doesn't sound great.
	Like a black knight, I'm a black knight.
	I don't see the difference, honestly.
	And I said, and I argued that this is, you know, we don't do that black dame thing.
	And he's, and they kind of got in an argument with me.
	Next thing you know, she sends a letter and complaining about not getting her damehood and wants to be a black dame.
	Surprise, surprise.
	So I wasn't even close to being correct in this assertion and I relent.
	It's all right.
	Virtue signaling.
	It's okay.
	Hey, give me the blade.
	I got a blade here.
	This is our black blade.
	I got the special blade.
	This one's anodized.
	Here you go.
	Ooh, very nice powder coating, too.
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	Now we go to the flight of the no agendas.
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	Hey, this is Slick Rick.
	John, pass it forward.
	Alright, this is Angie, representing the ranch, in the morning.
	This is Eric, just want to say, stay safe, John.
	This is G-Force, waking up in the morning, really early, and listening to In the Morning.
	Thank you for your purge.
	This morning!
	It's a new one.
	Thank you for your purge.
	Pittsburgh celebrated Pi Day.
	So this is Sir Nathan at the dog pack at the Pittsburgh Pi Day meetup.
	And I'm quite happy to report that all we've done is just call spades spades and discuss how this yellow journalism is very dangerous for our democracy.
	Hey, this is Sir Andrew Knight of the Unapologetic Pale Males.
	This is Dan, in the morning.
	Brett and Gabriella, newer listeners, in the morning.
	Sir Molten Cheese, who's made it down from Scandinavia.
	The scoops!
	Kirk Gibson, recent donation, please deduce me.
	Volunteer spook, keeping tabs on my neighbors.
	Hey, this is Sir Signaled Virtue.
	And Lady Signaled Virtue.
	In the morning.
	They're turning the frogs gay again!
	Dame Orca Thief, just relieved that nobody brought a pie with bugs in it.
	I love bugs!
	And like the spook said, we're keeping Biden away one bridge at a time here in Pittsburgh.
	In the morning.
	Alright, getting real creative there with all kinds of music beds and stuff.
	The Pittsburgh Pi Day Report.
	Beat up, thank you very much.
	We now go to our last one, Peterborough, Ontario, Scandinavia.
	Oops, yeah.
	I'm your no-agenda server.
	Hey, John and Adam, it's Sir Richard Knight of the Coorthos here at the Peterborough Cottage Country Meetup.
	This is Joe O'Connor in the morning.
	Thank you for the dedouching.
	This is Pete from Peterborough.
	I'm the famous Mr.
	Fudd, and that's with two Ds, so not related to Elmer.
	And I just happen to be here with a bunch of people I don't have a clue who they are.
	LAUGHTER Cheers, guys.
	I'm Jay.
	How you doing?
	Cheers.
	I'm good.
	It's good to meet all these fine folks here, and good to meet some like-minded folks in Peterborough.
	Nice.
	It's Craig from Port Hope.
	First meetup, finally.
	This is Sir Kutuzov in the morning.
	This is Baron Chris of the Corps of the Highlands and Night of the Rare Encounter.
	I'm sorry, John.
	I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
	I'm sorry.
	In the morning!
	All right.
	Keep it tight, people.
	Keep it tight.
	We have a number of...
	Oh, my goodness.
	They got a whole special bed there.
	We got a number of meetups happening today.
	So let me tell you what's going on.
	In fact, the Free State of Florida Del Bodier Deplorables Dames and Douchebags Meetup is underway at Two Georges at the Cove in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
	Can't Catch a Koof in the Desert, 2 o'clock Mountain Time today in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Urban 360 Pizza.
	We have Annapolis Area Meetup, 2 o'clock, so all of this well underway at O'Loughlin's Arnold, Maryland.
	Crossroads of America, the No Agenda Tribal Gathering, 3 o'clock today.
	Fisher's Sun King Brewery in Fishers, Indiana.
	And we have the No Agenda TMI EVAC Zone 3.33 p.m.
	Eastern Time underway at Lydia Stone Brewing York Haven, Pennsylvania.
	and we have a promo.
	Well, California's as free as it's going to be, I suppose.
	So we're going to go for it, Bay Area people.
	We will be having the first ever Divided and Conquered Meetup, which will be hosted at the Hop Grenade in beautiful Concord, California, by me, Lavish, of the Behind the Schemes podcast, on March 30th.
	That's March 30th at 6 p.m.
	It's a Wednesday evening, yes.
	John, I know it's going to be a night before show, But if you do make it out, I want you to know that we will have bottles of wine for you.
	Make it worth your time.
	Hope to see you there.
	Thanks a lot.
	See you guys.
	Alright, you gonna go?
	Is that close enough?
	Bottles of wine waiting.
	I need more wine.
	You need lots more wine.
	Those are your meetups.
	There's many more throughout the coming weeks and months.
	You can find them all at noagendameetups.com.
	If you cannot find something near you, start one yourself.
	You're going to love it.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered or held the blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Like a party Okay, dude Do you have ISOs?
	Oh, we have one.
	We have the ISO, don't we?
	Didn't we already determine?
	We have the ISO unless one of these might bump it, but I don't think there's any.
	That's the one we should choose.
	I mean, that's...
	Yeah, I think we should do that.
	We should keep that as the ISO. I have a last clip.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second.
	What is your last clip?
	This is a news story that was played once on NPR and now played again, and I think it's a news story.
	It should be on the network news.
	I don't know if you've heard about it.
	$127 million the FBI paid out for not doing their job.
	Yes, I did hear some of this.
	Oops, sorry.
	Why is that not?
	There we go.
	The Justice Department has finalized a $127 million settlement with survivors and the families of some of the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
	NPR's Greg Allen reports that the settlement resolves lawsuits accusing the FBI of negligence.
	17 people were killed and 17 injured when a gunman opened fire in the high school.
	Survivors and family members sued, saying the FBI failed to act on tips it received about the gunman, former student Nicholas Cruz.
	One of the tips cited Cruz's guns, his disturbing social media posts, and his desire to kill people.
	The FBI never followed up on those tips or passed the information along to local authorities.
	It later apologized to the victims and their families.
	In a statement, the Justice Department says the settlement does not amount to an admission of fault.
	The gunman pleaded guilty to the shootings and is awaiting sentencing.
	Yeah, I did hear about this.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty crazy.
	Nothing else has.
	$127 million, but it's not our fault.
	We've got nothing but money to give away.
	Yeah, but this, I will say, I do believe, I will say, that that school shooting, I mean, holy crap, there was a lot of mess-ups from the FBI. I think we talked about this.
	I remember this coming across, and we were surprised that that was happening, that that's happening at all, because the FBI should be sued for all kinds of stuff.
	Well, this was, I guess, very egregious.
	But this is, again, counter to the narrative that we're being watched and carefully monitored.
	Yeah.
	And we're keeping track of everybody.
	They can't keep track of someone when they got the goods on them and their people are sending in, hey, this kid, this kid, this kid.
	Yeah.
	Eh, whatever.
	And they don't even bother to do anything.
	It's just like, what are they doing?
	Well, it's pretty bad.
	Is it about Trump?
	If it's about Trump, maybe we'll do something.
	Yeah.
	Well, we'll have to see what happens between now and Thursday.
	Go ahead, sue your local FBI. That's fun.
	I'd like to read that case, actually.
	See why in this case and why not many other cases.
	Maybe shut somebody up?
	I don't know, why don't you get a hold of it and take a look.
	You love doing that.
	Coming up next on No Agenda Stream, live!
	The Battle of the Douchebags!
	With Sir Seatsitter, Lavish, Boo-Burry, and Larry.
	Couldn't get any better than that!
	Alright.
	End of show mixes.
	We have a nice cornucopia, Amdusius.
	We've got Tom Starkweather.
	We've got Clip Custodian, Neil Jones.
	And another Rolando Gonzalez.
	And coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it rained the other day and as clear as a bell and beautiful today, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org.na.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	And such.
	A friend in need is a friend in need.
	But they know that we can't go there.
	They...
	Putin is trying to fake the trap so that we go in, and that could be the beginning of World War III. Putin totally irresponsible.
	If you hold a mirror near and dear to you that you like to be able to...
	We choose science over fiction.
	We choose truth over facts.
	To funding for the National Guard.
	That's a fancy way of saying governors.
	Governors need to be able to get funding when they need to bring their National Guard into play.
	Myself, when I see that, those tanks, I put in my own tank.
	I'd like to take it up.
	I mean, I think that every couple of them having more planes might be this way.
	But I'm not a military scientist.
	We have this notion that somehow before, you cannot do it.
	Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
	Putin may circle Kiev with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.
	Chris Van Cleve with the update on junk in your trunk.
	Thank you.
	That's why we want to talk about the junk in your trunk. Junk. Junk. Junk. Junk. Junk in your trunk. Junk. Junk. Junk in your trunk. Junk. Junk. Junk in your trunk. Junk. Junk. Junk. Junk in your trunk. Junk. Junk. Junk. Junk.
	You have warned that Russians could carry out a chemical attack.
	I hope it's not they use chemical weapons.
	Moscow may be setting the stage for a chemical weapons attack.
	Tonight, even with Russia stalling in its invasion of Ukraine, the brutality of Russian forces has shocked the world.
	Has shocked the world.
	The Secretary of State with an ominous message today, warning that Vladimir Putin is growing more and more desperate and could be preparing to use chemical weapons.
	Chemical weapons.
	Chemical weapons attack.
	attack chemical attack chemical attack chemical chemical weapons chemical weapons chemical weapons chemical weapons
	now we have to let you know everyone has been really enjoying the relaxed restrictions from recently getting us back to a normal life but there is still concern over covid Anthony Fauci telling ABC News today that we should not be surprised to see an increase in cases in the next few weeks here in New York City.
	Oh, and we begin with concerns about the latest COVID variant.
	New COVID-19 cases globally, nearly 10%.
	10% going in the wrong direction.
	They're up nearly 10%.
	COVID cases have been declining recently.
	Positivity rates in our area have been slowly creeping upwards.
	New details now emerging about the new Omicron sub-variant.
	BA.2 is a sub-lineage of Omicron, and it has been increasing over the past several weeks.
	We've been seeing that.
	The good news from countries where the strain is becoming dominant is that cases don't seem more severe than the Omicron we know, and it feels similar.
	Leaders are expected to talk about everything from testing to the positivity rate to that new Omicron variant, BA.2.
	Currently, there is no evidence that BA.2 causes more severe illness, increases risks, We're going to be following the guidance and the science from our federal colleagues.
	There's no evidence that Hunter Biden has done anything wrong.
	There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden, by Joe Biden or by Hunter Biden.
	There is no evidence that anybody did anything illegal regarding the Bidens and Ukraine, and Joe Biden was carrying out U.S. policy.
	There's no evidence that Joe Biden actually did anything wrong or did anything to sway things in Hunter Biden's favor.
	He's denied that his son ever lobbied him for anything.
	President Trump wanted dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden.
	Trump's claims about wrongdoing here are unsubstantiated.
	We have looked.
	Lots of outlets have looked.
	No evidence to support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son's interests in mind.
	Let's be clear, Hunter Biden didn't do anything illegal, and his father, the vice president, didn't do anything illegal or unethical.
	President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine.
	I want to point out there's no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.
	Hunter Biden did nothing wrong.
	Vice President Biden did nothing wrong.
	And every single media outlet has said that there's no there there to these allegations, lies, and smears.
	It's true that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden or that Hunter Biden broke any laws at all.
	There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden.
	Hunter has done nothing wrong.
	The bogus investigation of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
	It demonstrates the lifetime of integrity that have been represented by the Bidens for their entire careers.
	What it confirms is that Hunter Biden is a person of integrity.
	I've never read a memoir like this one before.
	This is Hunter Biden's book, Beautiful Things.
	It's breathtaking.
	There is nothing wrong that Vice President Biden did.
	We certainly did nothing wrong.
	I did nothing wrong.

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