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1446: That 70's Podcast

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	You can't handle the yak.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, April 28th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning GiveOnNationMedia assassination episode 1446.
	This is no agenda.
	Tweeting my life away and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I declare this 70s day, I'm John C. Devorak.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	We got something for that.
	Let's see.
	He's calling it 70s.
	He's declaring it 70s day.
	That means that something is happening with our call back to the 1970s.
	It's time now for No Agenda 70s Flashback.
	Just one of many jingles I'm sure we'll receive.
	Here's the deal.
	Yeah.
	Here's the deal.
	Oh, hello, Joe.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the deal.
	No joke.
	I have a list of 70s terms that some of them came from the late 60s and swept over the 70s and even went into the 80s, but most of them are from the 70s.
	And out of this huge list, huge list.
	Is OWOW on it?
	Of course.
	Yes.
	Good.
	But it's not one of the ones I picked, although I could use it.
	I'm going to use 10 of these words in today's show.
	Okay.
	It's up to you to ignore them or ring the bell.
	Let me know that you're aware.
	I think you'll miss probably most of them.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, you'll miss them because you're kind of already talking this way.
	And...
	Oh, wow.
	And...
	And then I'm going to drop in a term that I've isolated as only from the 80s.
	There's no way it was ever a 70s term.
	And I'm going to use that one.
	And it will be interesting to see if you can...
	That's the only one I wonder if you can spot.
	It'll be interesting to see how you're going to do this.
	So you're going to have a normal conversation with me, but yet you have this background process running to insert words throughout the show.
	Okay.
	Yeah, far out.
	Come on, man.
	You already have three of them now.
	So there's only seven left.
	I told you I'm not using a wow.
	Oh, okay.
	Two of them.
	Well, everybody wants to know our opinion.
	About what?
	As usual.
	About Twitter.
	About Elon Musk buying Twitter.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're the one that said he wasn't going to do it.
	No.
	Uh-uh.
	That's not what I said.
	I said he will destroy Twitter.
	That's what I said.
	It's very different.
	It's very different from he's not going to do it.
	And I had a whole opinion.
	But then I read your substack.
	And it helped me a little bit form an opinion of what I think might really be happening.
	Ah, another stop.
	Opinion number two.
	V2. Version 2.0.
	The result is still the same thing.
	But it's a little different based upon your substack, which was outstanding, I might say.
	Oh, yeah.
	Movie.
	Before we do that, let's just have some fun listening to the M5M talking about this deal of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter.
	The deal is done.
	Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk.
	My tummy meter says there's something just not great about this.
	He talks about it being a free speech platform.
	I'm not sure what that means.
	This guy has no experience whatsoever with any of the lines of business involved in Twitter.
	It seems to me that it's about free speech of straight white men.
	In many ways Twitter has been a dark, dark place.
	I hope it doesn't get any darker.
	You know, this is a weird guy.
	It's gonna be a private company.
	Our public conversations shouldn't be at the whims of anybody.
	Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also throwing shade at the deal, questioning whether China would gain more influence over Twitter.
	If you have $44 billion and you use it to buy Twitter, you make bad decisions.
	This affects all of us in terms of misinformation.
	You know, I guess billionaires want to take over free speech, and I'm not here for it.
	He talks about it being a place where there's trust, where there's open algorithms.
	So it's a lot of words and it's kind of a word salad.
	I'm confused about what to do.
	You know, we all use Twitter.
	Do I stop or do I wait and see what happens?
	And for me, that is something that is a bit scary.
	It was beautiful to see.
	Just for however long this lasts, apparently people can post anything they want now.
	Bots are returning to everyone's account.
	Follower numbers are up.
	People who are shadow banned are no longer shadow banned.
	Have you been following some of these observations?
	I see a lot of tweets that say, hey, can you see this now?
	Can you see me?
	Yeah.
	Did your follower count go up?
	No.
	Oh, mine did.
	Huh.
	Yours didn't go up at all.
	Not even 100 or two.
	No, not really.
	Oh, I must have gone up at least 500.
	And it's all bots.
	It's crap.
	I didn't get any bots.
	I must have bots already.
	It's Bitcoin bots.
	Bitcoin bots.
	That could be.
	That was...
	So that was...
	Obviously, I didn't make that super cut.
	But there was an even better clip that we have from Ari Melbourne from MSNBC who just without even understanding how...
	How blatantly he's letting the truth come out or what you say by yourself, but you come to the house.
	It's just one of the most beautiful clips.
	It's 30 seconds.
	I think it'll be an evergreen.
	You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you.
	You don't have to explain yourself.
	You don't even have to be transparent.
	You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates.
	All of its nominees.
	Or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election.
	Oh no!
	Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper.
	Gee, is that possible?
	Do you think that could happen during an election?
	That they would dial down opponents and maybe...
	Not talk about the...
	Hunter Biden laptop.
	Stuff like that.
	Yeah.
	Jen Psaki.
	These guys are so...
	These guys are so...
	I don't know what their problem is.
	They're so...
	It's beyond me.
	Of course you know what's going on.
	You know exactly what it is.
	Because they know that this is exactly how it's worked.
	And they're worried that they're going to lose this capability.
	It's not like Ari doesn't know how the system works.
	Democrats say, stop that.
	See, that's the difference between you and me.
	I think there's a level of sincerity that you don't think exists.
	Well, it's very sad if he's 100% sincere.
	Well, he may be.
	That guy's dope.
	Well, now you can go.
	Now you're getting it.
	The White House also quite concerned.
	Here's Jen Psaki.
	Just a quick one on the breaking news.
	Twitter agreeing to let Elon Musk purchase.
	Do you have a response to that?
	And does the White House have any concern that this new agreement might have President Trump back on the...
	Oh, Trump!
	Well, I'm not going to comment on a specific transaction.
	What I can tell you as a general matter, no matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms.
	He doesn't even know what they are.
	Well, you know, this is Section 230 talk is what this is.
	They're ramping, oh, now Section 230, we may need to look at it.
	The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms.
	Power!
	The power they have over our everyday lives.
	Has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause.
	He's been a strong supporter of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal, including reforms to Section 230, enacting antitrust reforms, requiring more transparency.
	And more.
	And he's encouraged that there's bipartisan interest in Congress.
	In terms of what hypothetical policies might happen, I'm just not going to speak to that at this point in time.
	Yeah, Section 230, anti-competitive.
	Yeah, we should be looking at all this.
	So before we get to your sub-stack, What really happened over the weekend?
	It was quite interesting how we went from poison pill, not going to happen, to all of a sudden, oh, looks like the deal's done.
	Looks like it's happening.
	And, of course, it was a bloodbath Monday in the markets.
	The Dow Jones was down almost 1,000 points.
	And now, I heard a couple of things.
	One is that Twitter might be set to report really bad earnings, and so they didn't want to have the share price go down too much because that would give Elon the opportunity to bid lower.
	Did you have any insight on this?
	No, but I didn't see any of that.
	The market was flying around, though.
	Why do you think this happened so quickly, suddenly, in the background?
	Well, it was started probably before we knew about it, and they...
	I don't know.
	I mean, they just...
	I think that the word is that the shareholders demanded it because they want to make some quick profits and, you know, get out of Dodge because Twitter is always blasted as a, as a dog at just in sheep's clothing.
	And, uh, I don't know.
	I never know what the speed of it.
	It just, it just happened.
	I did poison pill thing.
	Horowitz and I were discussing what happened to that.
	I didn't do anything.
	No.
	Um, I thought that they had filed it.
	I know.
	I think right now the company is sabotaging the deal.
	I think that's why your numbers went up and the bots are back and the employees.
	There's a good Babylon Beam video that's floating around.
	I'll post it on No Agenda Social.
	About, you know, the employees being all bent out of shape about this, because the whole operation apparently is woke.
	Yeah, I suggested that they were sabotaging as well, and I immediately got hit back.
	No, they were told to freeze the code, no many changes.
	Yeah, right.
	People don't...
	Yeah, you're told to freeze the code, and everybody obeys.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yes, that's what techies do.
	Yeah, of course.
	They lockstep obey.
	They don't know about throwing a wrench in the works or kicking somebody in the nuts.
	They don't know anything about that.
	By the way, I do have to mention something because I had to go back and it was within a few minutes, but I had to add a disclaimer on one of the tweets that I had posted within the thing because people kept saying, you know, that wasn't serious.
	I had one of those same tweets, a similar tweet in the newsletter.
	And I want to read this tweet.
	Okay.
	Because I had a bunch of tweets interspersed within the column.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Showing people being all panicky.
	So this one is from Dr.
	Matt Walsh, Women's Studies School.
	And he says, My four-year-old pan-gender child, Stardust...
	Just asked, Matt, if Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, will hate speech be normalized?
	Is democracy over?
	Will life even be worth living?
	I looked at them and replied, yes, yes, and no.
	And we simply held each other and sobbed.
	Yeah, Matt Walsh, even his Twitter description there, women's studies, he's...
	This is all obviously a joke because he's like a Bannon war room type guy.
	Now, I will say a couple of things about this guy.
	It's extremely well done.
	For example, he has the four-year-old pan-child, not saying dad, he says Matt.
	Yeah, I like that too.
	Which is a good bit.
	And then he does the other one.
	He calls the kid them.
	Because at four years old, the kid has been properly taught by the teachers of this country to decide to be a them.
	I just thought it was a beauty.
	So I had to put a little disclaimer on there saying this is not a serious tweet.
	It's a satire.
	But I guess some people were, did you know that this is not true?
	This tweet was out of sight.
	Was that on your list?
	Yeah, I ought to say it is on the list.
	I'm not sure it's possible.
	Don't worry, man.
	I think I can catch them all.
	Now, let's just talk about your Substack for a second.
	You're looking good.
	This was old Silicon Valley knowledge, as in length and depth of historical knowledge of how things work.
	And this was, well, why don't you just give a synopsis because this was, I don't know Fred Gibbons.
	Am I supposed to know who this is?
	Fred Gibbons was the, it's a very sad story.
	He's a professor, but he started, he was one of the big three in the beginning of the personal computing revolution.
	It was Bill Gates, it was Mitch K. Poor with Lotus, and then Fred Gibbons, the personal software.
	He's the guy who left the Beatles.
	He's Pete Best.
	He's Pete Best.
	So Fred was the third guy in the big three that were kind of running and dominating the early days.
	He'd rent personal software and people were going to look it up and see the kind of stuff they did.
	It was very early on office kind of things.
	And pre-Microsoft doing it.
	And Fred was, I think he's in his 20s or something.
	He's a skier, avid skier.
	Had a stroke on the slopes.
	And it took him years to recover from it.
	It screwed up all his being in the business.
	So he went off and became...
	He's the guy, by the way.
	One time I saw him at some meeting.
	And he made sure to corner me and to tell me, this is I think in the 90s, he says, I'm the one who invented the term information at your fingertips.
	Bill Gates stole it from me.
	I totally believe that.
	Oh, I totally believe it too, of course.
	And it's not the kind of thing Gates would dream up.
	Gates is not a great slogan guy as far as I know.
	No, I've never heard one slogan.
	He's not a slogan guy or a joke teller.
	No.
	Hey, two Jews walked into the bar.
	He's not going to do that.
	So Gibbons is a great guy, and he became a professor in electronic engineering, but he teaches a lot of business courses.
	And so I had lunch with him, I don't know, about two or three years ago.
	And he says to me, he says, Elon Musk is the real deal, because there's all these guys that come and go from Silicon Valley in there.
	They're kind of lucky entrepreneurs, but he's actually a guy who is a visionary.
	And he thinks outside the box, and everything you see from him is maybe...
	Did he ever make any money in anything, or is he, again, the Brian Jones of this...
	Did Gibbons?
	Yeah.
	Did he make any money in Silicon Valley?
	No.
	No.
	He's totally the Brian Jones.
	Oh, jeez.
	As far as I know, I mean, he's not poor and he lives in the Valley.
	He was a professor.
	If you have a house in Palo Alto, you've made plenty of money just sitting there.
	Right.
	So he's okay.
	But, so when he tells me that, I said, okay, I didn't really think much about it.
	But then, I've watched Musk since then with that in mind, and I have to say that the reason he must have bought Twitter is for a business reason that he's not talking about.
	And then I start thinking about some of the elements of Twitter that were just throwing money away.
	They're not advertising properly.
	They're not using the user base.
	They're not doing anything right.
	They're running clickbait ads here and there, and they stink.
	I think it's a goldmine.
	And so the only question I have is, where does the gold mine come from?
	Because the Substack explains very well about how much you can glean from even a list of a database of email, how much that, you know, some of this has been, of course, has continued to be used to understand your business.
	Years ago when I was doing this radio show called Software Hard Talk, I had a guy on and it was in the 80s.
	Guy comes in from maybe the early 90s.
	I got to listen.
	I got to hear this show.
	Hard Talk from John C. Dvorak.
	I'm hitting hard at the software industry.
	I didn't name the show.
	I think it was maybe around 93, 94.
	Because the guy comes in.
	He's got these algorithms.
	He's got all this stuff.
	He says, here's what we do.
	And I wished I'd lost his card, as I would tend to do, because I've always wanted to get a hold of this guy again and see what he's up to.
	But he, at the time, had this company that would go into a corporation and then get all the email without really, you know, identifying anybody.
	Yeah, right.
	And...
	Slam through all the email messages from person to person, just everything, and be able to glean out expertise based on who people wrote about, what they said, what they did, and figure out that there are people within the company that would be good at a job they're going to have open that's going to be a very special job for somebody that knows about, you know...
	You joints or who knows what.
	He says that most companies are filled with talent that they don't know how to tap.
	And he talked about how you could do this by analyzing email.
	And I always thought this was like, besides being a breach of privacy, I always thought it was genius.
	And that's the kind of thing that Facebook kind of does.
	Yeah.
	Twitter has the better opportunity.
	They can kick total ass if they wanted to pull a stunt like that, just based on public tweets, so you don't even have to raid their email to do it.
	It's got to be worth billions of dollars.
	It's just wide open for that.
	But they're too stupid because there's moderating and trying to protect the Democrat Party to ever take advantage of it.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	And it doesn't even have to be advertising.
	So just a couple things where we get to my kind of conclusion where I'm at right now.
	First of all, the unleashing of the bots and everything, I think that has another reason.
	Why would they necessarily do this?
	Why would they sabotage it in that manner?
	I think...
	The deal right now is in due diligence.
	They have until October 24th to complete the deal.
	In that time period, there's a breakup fee.
	If Elon Musk pulls out for reasons other than stipulated, like, you know, lies.
	Lies of their user numbers could be one.
	I mean, there's a lot of, you know, how many...
	He probably has a million outs.
	He has outs, but...
	It doesn't really matter.
	The breakup fee is a billion dollars.
	So it would be a fun thing to do just to take them all the way to the end and melt down the entire Twitter universe for a billion dollars.
	If you have a lot of billions, it's a fun ticket.
	Something to waste some money on.
	Now, Twitter also has a breakup fee of a billion dollars if they accept an offer from another suitor, another company, and I find it odd that no one has stepped up.
	I mean, if the Valley knows how smart Elon Musk is, how dumb is the Valley?
	Where's John Doerr?
	Where's Sequoia Capital?
	Although they're probably in the deal with Elon, but where's Google or Apple?
	No one is interested in making an offer?
	I just find that odd.
	Google apparently in 2014, and there's some tape of it floating around, I have a copy, offered to buy Twitter and they weren't going to go for it.
	This was after, you know, one of the guys behind Twitter's is Evhead, Evan Williams, who invented blogging.
	By the way, Twitter didn't start as a micro-blogging platform, just to correct you.
	It started as a podcast platform.
	Well, when I listened to the lecture from Evhead, who was on Silicon Spinner, who hated me.
	To join the club.
	They made it sound like it was always a micro-blogging platform.
	Yeah, bullshit.
	It was audio.
	It was the...
	When we were at a pod show.
	And then they never really...
	They did launch for about a month, and then they closed it down, and they took the whole infrastructure of RSS and turned it into Twitter.
	And, of course, RSS didn't scale for them that way, so that's why you had the fail whale for years.
	And it started out only as text messaging, if you remember.
	You couldn't even do it online.
	Do you remember that?
	I don't remember any of that.
	Yeah, I got a weird memory that way.
	But okay, microblogging platform.
	So as I'm looking through what could happen, first of all, if you don't de-platform everybody and everybody can say whatever they want, I think the game kind of gets less fun.
	Right now it's a real game between left, right, you know, black, white, you name it.
	Like, oh, let's see what I can say before I get suspended.
	Ooh, he got kicked off Twitter!
	That's an outrage!
	You know, the game kind of...
	I don't think that would be super detrimental to the entire operation.
	But you already heard Psaki saying, oh, 230, anti-competitive, Section 230, we have to see what we're going to do.
	The European Union, they actually will block shit they don't want.
	They're doing a lot of this already.
	They have that new Digital Services Act, which makes it very clear that hate speech cannot even be posted, and you have to have all kinds of systems to get rid of it and be able to remove it immediately.
	If it truly is Elon Musk doing the free speech, say whatever you want, I think the European Union, maybe other countries are going to block it.
	I've never really...
	I've envied anybody who has to run Twitter who gets the call from the president from Zimbabwe.
	You know, like, hey man, people are trying to kill me.
	Shut that shit down.
	Or, hey man, this guy's no good.
	Or maybe Macron.
	Hey, you gotta press down on that Le Pen.
	She's getting too popular.
	I mean, you can just imagine what the call list is like.
	Yeah, but you know, there's the other side of it, too.
	You know, Craigslist, the thing about Twitter and their blocking has always bothered me is that you can report Carl Reiner, the number one hater on Twitter, and people I know for a fact have been reporting him left and right about calling Trump a criminal.
	And he's still doing it, by the way.
	Go to Carl Reiner's feed.
	It's just all about Trump.
	It's always been about Trump.
	This guy should have been kicked off.
	Well, this is still about Trump.
	Yeah.
	It's still about Trump.
	Go right now and go look and you'll see every other tweet or every tweet will be about Trump.
	Why is this guy on?
	And meanwhile, and people have also talked about being impersonated.
	I know one guy personally who's got copies of him floating around Twitter.
	He bitches and moans about it constantly.
	Nothing comes of it.
	Oh, that's you.
	What are you saying?
	I'm sorry.
	I was looking up Carl Reiner and somehow you slammed me and I missed it.
	No, I didn't slam me.
	I was just saying that you have like phony Adam Curry people on Twitter that you can't get rid of.
	You have issues with them.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And they don't do anything about it.
	No, I report it.
	But if you were like, you know, but Trump gets kicked off the platform and all these other things happen that are all, oh, geez, we've got to get rid of that person.
	I mean, they have literal Nazis, Nazis in terms of Black Lives Matter Nazis on the platform calling for violence and they don't do anything about it.
	It's really unbalanced.
	Yes.
	So I'm thinking, what, so after reading your substack, I'm like, okay, I know Elon Musk is a government shill, you know, everything, he just launched another NASA, SpaceX mission, Skylink, there's so many things.
	He works to government angles better than anyone.
	That's a way to put it.
	He works the government angle.
	Or maybe the government angle works him.
	That's just a matter of opinion.
	So, clearly, he has to have a real good reason to...
	Because he's also...
	He's leveraging his own Tesla stock against this, which is fun for people who like shorting Tesla because...
	You know, if something really goes wrong with Twitter or the perception is wrong and that something might happen to the investment leveraged against Tesla or if Tesla just goes down a bit anyway, he could get margin calls.
	I mean, there's all kinds of things that could happen that would make it exciting for people who play the stock market.
	So he has to have a good – I agree.
	He has to have a good business reason.
	And when I read what you would discuss with your professor friend there, I'm like, yeah, that's it.
	That's where the value is.
	But it's not quite there yet.
	And I think we will see one change and one change only, which fixes everything that is wrong about Twitter.
	It also introduces a huge problem.
	And Elon let this cat out of the bag when he was discussing...
	Actually, Jack Dorsey was doing some conference.
	I have no idea.
	It might have been a Twitter conference.
	The audio is understandable, but you have to kind of listen to it.
	It's only about a minute.
	Dorsey says, what can we do when he was still, this is a while ago, what can Twitter do to make Twitter better?
	And then Elon has an answer which I think holds the future and the key to what we'll see from Twitter.
	Give us some direct feedback.
	Critique.
	What are we doing poorly?
	What could we be doing better?
	And what's your hope for our potential as a service?
	If you're running Twitter, by the way, do you want to run Twitter?
	What would you do?
	I think it would be helpful to differentiate between real and, you know, like, a real, not just, like, verified, but, like, Can you even hear what he's saying?
	No, I can't understand what he's saying.
	I could kind of understand, Dorsey, what would you do?
	Would you want to run Twitter?
	So what he says is the problem is you can't really see what is real opinion, what is bots or what is a troll farm going after or something to shape opinion.
	So he keeps coming back to it would be really interesting to use Twitter to understand what people really are thinking, what the mood is of the country or the world of a group.
	And then it hit me.
	It's so simple.
	And Twitter should have done...
	Well, it's probably time for Twitter to do this.
	We are going to go to a Twitter which will be, I think, pretty much open for you to say whatever you want within some obvious constitutional for the U.S. and maybe other countries have issues how they want to deal with some things.
	But slander is still a thing.
	There's tort laws that are in place.
	So you can kind of let everyone say what they want.
	But every single account will be verified with identification and authentication.
	It will be impossible.
	Actually, Musk, somewhere along the lines in the last few weeks, has mentioned this exact same thing.
	That's exactly what was on this recording.
	Make sure everyone has to be real.
	Not just real, verified, authenticated.
	We have identification from you.
	And I think it would be great for Twitter then also to have the universal authentication for everything.
	I have all.
	But forget how it's done.
	For your COVID passport...
	For your regular passport, it could be the Twitter authenticator.
	Well, that's one way of getting the government in.
	Well, of course!
	That's why it's not going to be a problem.
	The governments will love that.
	We're not going to give it to the government.
	We're going to sell it to the government.
	And we can sell opinion.
	So you can really see what people think.
	If you remove all of the bots, if you remove all of the advertising, all of the bull crap that's on Twitter, and it's actual people...
	And you know it's people, and now we kind of see how genius the blue checkmark idea was.
	Well, it's going to be perfect.
	It will be another piece of the puzzle that Musk is fitting together with Skylink, the global tracking system, and I think everyone will go, oh, yeah, cool.
	Well, Twitter, we can say whatever you want.
	You just have to give them your driver's license.
	What do you think?
	I liked it as a thesis.
	I think you got a good one there.
	It could happen.
	I mean, I think it's ambitious.
	I think the fact that even the checkmark never really worked out when you had...
	No, but the checkmark was elitist.
	That was the problem.
	That's what Twitter was so stupid.
	It had fictional names with getting a checkmark.
	Of course!
	Of course!
	Bull crap with the checkmark.
	It's just ridiculous, so I don't know.
	Well, this is exactly why we're going to have to...
	Look...
	I think that everybody, if Elon Musk says, okay, here you go, it's open season, say whatever you want within the obvious guidelines of your country or whatever it is, say it, do as you wish.
	He might even adjust the algorithm, because the algorithm doesn't really matter at that point as long as people keep talking.
	He doesn't have to sell anything.
	He just wants to know what people think.
	He wants to know, oh, let me see.
	All these people have Sir or Dame in their handle.
	Okay, let's see.
	Well, this seems to be some kind of cult.
	This is a cult.
	Let's see what they're thinking.
	Yeah.
	So, in that regard, it's genius, and of course, that will ruin Twitter.
	Because I'm not going to authenticate myself on Twitter.
	I'm not going to do it.
	Are you going to do it?
	Probably not.
	No.
	I don't see any reason why I'd want to, except for promoting the show.
	Yeah.
	Now, I will say this.
	Mimi had another idea in the third angle.
	What if Musk comes in and just...
	In fact, I think people should be doing this.
	I've always felt this way about OS 2, for example.
	My favorite OS. Come in, take the code base, and turn it open source.
	And just let it out there.
	This is exactly what Jack Dorsey has been saying, is as a protocol, he feels Twitter is fantastic and very valuable.
	That's all Elon needs to do.
	Here's the protocol, by the way.
	Excuse me.
	You should be able to set up different versions of Twitter with the protocol.
	Once it's just a protocol, it doesn't matter.
	The only caveat will be you have to be a real person.
	You'll be identified and authenticated.
	And the world, I mean, that's the grid.
	It's the final piece.
	And that will ruin Twitter, but it will complete Elon's mission.
	This guy's fantastic.
	I mean, I gotta hand it to him.
	Gotta hand it to him.
	Skynet.
	Of course it's Skynet.
	His thing is called Skylink, and now we can connect everybody to it.
	So now we know exactly who's walking there.
	Not just Twitter user JoeBlow359.
	No.
	John C. Dvorak, right there, posting, tweeting about the show.
	Let's see what that show is.
	He's still there.
	I don't know.
	Where's he going?
	He's not going anywhere.
	He's staying right there.
	We're going to...
	Okay, bring in the black chopper.
	He seems to be in the same spot for weeks.
	He doesn't move this location.
	Except there's some building.
	What is that?
	Hmm, post office.
	I wonder what this guy is doing.
	This is very suspicious.
	That makes sense.
	And that's also the reason why no one else jumps in.
	They all know.
	It's like, okay, this is a government deal.
	The government's going to get everything they want while being bitches towards Elon while this is setting up.
	And they're going to have kind of a controlled opposition.
	Oh, it's so horrible.
	Free speech.
	Oh, no.
	Can't do it.
	Meanwhile, the governments of the world will love this.
	Of course, we will continue to build out Mastodon.
	There was quite an increase in the Fediverse Mastodon users, more users coming online, which is fantastic because it's all complete lefties.
	And there's quite a mix of left, right, all kinds of different people on the Fediverse.
	The Fediverse is, in fact, a bit of what Twitter could be, except that Twitter having it all verified, everybody really, you'll know that this is not a bot.
	This is not an exercise.
	This is the real deal.
	It's, in that regard, just brilliant.
	Okay, so that's it, everybody.
	Send your driver's license to Elon.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	The way you describe it is a downer.
	Let's move to Ukraine.
	I saw you've got quite a sequence, so I'll set you up.
	Overnight, a drastic move.
	Russia cutting all gas deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland to NATO members.
	This comes after Putin's ultimatum last month, demanding that, quote, unfriendly nations pay for gas in Russian rubles.
	Poland's prime minister not backing down.
	Saying, we will be able to protect our economy, protect our households, and polls against such a dramatic step by Russia.
	Yep, yep, this is a fun one.
	Yeah, I have a series on the Russia-Poland-Bulgaria deal, which brings in the pipeline.
	My favorite?
	Usually I do these segments, but you've jumped into my lane.
	Yeah, this pipeline is coming in from Norway, and they're passing it off as though it's going to be online and ready to go any second.
	Wait a minute, are you talking about Nord Stream 2 now?
	No, the Norway pipeline.
	The Norway pipeline, okay.
	And they talk about it in here in some detail.
	But it won't be online until they say late this year.
	And, you know, you and I both have been...
	Well, you started the whole pipeline thing.
	And these things are always off.
	They're never on the timeline.
	They always fall behind.
	That's not always.
	Are you sure that this isn't...
	Which pipeline is this?
	I need to know.
	It's discussed in the...
	It's a pipeline from Norway.
	Ah, okay.
	Norway to Poland.
	Okay, I see.
	Yes.
	All right.
	We begin the day with Russia starting to squeeze the flow of Europe's energy supplies.
	The Russian state-controlled energy company Gazprom says it has suspended natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, because neither country complied with a Kremlin demand to start paying their bills in rubles.
	The European Union says Russia is attempting blackmail, with commissioned president Ursula von der Leyen promising an end to European dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
	Russia's latest move in the conflict goes beyond the battlefield in Ukraine to the gas pipelines into Europe.
	In what has been seen as an aggressive move, Russia has cut the gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria.
	Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had turned off the gas tap to the two EU and NATO members after not receiving payment in rubles.
	The Kremlin demanded that bills be paid in its own currency as a response to international sanctions, which left it unable to utilize foreign currency and its own reserves.
	Those immediately affected were quick to respond.
	The Polish prime minister declared his country was energy safe, having built up reserves, and implied that Poland's preparations, including an alternative Baltic pipeline, might help the EU wean itself off Russian energy.
	Yeah, in fact, this one's called the Baltic pipe.
	you I don't see the, you know, if Russia's giving them gas and oil, and they can't pay Russia in the normal fashion because they've been cut off, and Russia's, okay, well, if you want the gas and oil, you're going to have to pay us in rubles.
	How's that blackmail?
	Well, it depends on...
	We just want to get paid.
	I'm over here.
	You owe me money.
	Hey, Adam, you owe me money.
	Yeah.
	Send me some PayPal money.
	Oh, I can't use PayPal anymore because my PayPal account's been shut.
	You're blackmailing me!
	Well, then you're going to have to send me a check.
	Yeah, blackmail.
	How's that blackmail?
	It's not.
	I just want to get paid.
	That's it.
	Period.
	I have heard...
	Okay, but we're going to keep on this because this is the theme.
	This is from Deutsche Welle and, you know, they're not too happy.
	I have heard...
	There we go.
	Part two.
	Let me remind you that we have interconnectors to Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as our gas terminal in Svinouci, which can receive even larger amounts of liquefied gas.
	so we will try to rise to the occasion in this difficult time.
	Bulgaria, a country almost totally reliant on Russia's gas, looked to the EU for solidarity and security.
	I spoke with Ursula von der Leyen, who said that a unilateral breach of the agreement between Gazprom and Bulgaria is not just a problem for Bulgaria.
	This is a problem for the whole of the EU, and the response will be united.
	His hopes were echoed in a strongly worded tweet from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
	By the way, I have heard that traders have found many ways around the conversion to rubles.
	They're doing it through certain derivatives.
	So the purchasing, especially Italy, is full of crap.
	They're buying it through all kinds of ways.
	An aside, the problem remains.
	I stopped it there because there was a little ditty at the end that I just thought was priceless.
	Well, you talked over the little ditty.
	I didn't say anything.
	Oh, I thought that was you.
	Let me hear it at the end then.
	His hopes were echoed in a strongly worded tweet from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
	Yes, strongly worded tweet.
	A strongly...
	Oh, hey, if you don't stop it, I'm going to write a strongly worded tweet.
	What's a strongly worded tweet?
	Is this the modern version of what?
	In a strongly worded tweet?
	Come on!
	Well, what was the tweet?
	It's like a bunch of children.
	I'd like to know what the tweet was.
	A strongly worded?
	A strongly worded, clearly.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Supposedly this gas comes from Norway.
	Is that how it works?
	Yeah, Norway's a major world supplier.
	They've got plenty.
	Go Norway!
	Yeah, they're taking advantage of the situation.
	Onward.
	Gazprom's announcement is another attempt by Russia to blackmail us with gas.
	We are prepared for this scenario.
	We are mapping out our coordinated EU response.
	Europeans can trust that we stand united and in solidarity with the member states impacted.
	British Foreign Minister Liz Truss called on all of Europe to cut off Russian energy imports, a plan that is in the pipeline, although Russia might try to preempt that move.
	It has just stated that it might halt the gas to other EU countries.
	Let's explore this with Dr.
	Benjamin L. Schmidt.
	He's a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
	He's also served as European Energy Security Advisor to the U.S. State Department.
	Welcome to DW. Why do you think Russia started with Poland and Bulgaria?
	Well, that's a very good question.
	Maybe starting with Germany would be too obvious?
	So they bring this guy, and I'm not a fan of this guy.
	He's kind of full of crap, and he's a hack from, I think, Obama.
	It goes way back, and he's like his astrophysicist that somehow got an energy policy, all this sort of thing does happen.
	He's wearing a hoodie and he's a big fat guy.
	And he says a few things in here that are questionable, but I think he's reflecting Biden policy.
	But at the end of these clips, you'll hear one specific thing that I think negates everything he says, but we can start listening.
	Why do you think Russia started with Poland and Bulgaria?
	Well, it's a great question.
	I think that, you know, in part, they're able to go after Poland because they've, in particular, cast Poland as a, quote, unfriendly country to the Russian Federation.
	This is obviously not true.
	Ha!
	But this is something that, from a public perception in the Russian Federation domestically standpoint, that I think is part of that decision.
	It's really going to backfire, and I'll tell you why.
	Poland, of all countries in the EU, is one of the most...
	Forward-looking over the past decade, but especially over the past seven or eight years, on building up diversification infrastructure.
	Remember, back in 2015, the European Union built up its European Energy Union policy framework, where you were basically looking at the EU building out diversification infrastructure to reduce its physical infrastructure and volumetric hydrocarbon reliance on Russian energy resources, but also build up...
	Hold on a second.
	I want to hear him say that again.
	Volumetric bullshit.
	By the way, as you know...
	Since during our show, the Russians killed off the entire Polish government some years back with that fake airplane crash.
	Oh yeah, that was great.
	And then they had a bunch of guys out there shooting the guys in the head.
	Hey, there's one alive.
	There's one alive.
	Get him.
	Yeah, of course.
	There was video everything.
	No, no, Russians and Polish, they're good pals.
	Buddies.
	Buddy, buddy, buddy.
	Give me a break.
	break.
	I want to hear that sequence of words again.
	You building out diversification infrastructure to reduce its physical infrastructure and volumetric hydrocarbon reliance on Russian energy resources, but also...
	Wait a minute.
	Volumetric So what he's saying is the large amount of shit they need from Russia?
	Is that what he's saying?
	Volumetric hydrocarbon reliance on Russia.
	In other words, they need the Russian gas.
	But no, that's not, that's, oh, that's so cool.
	...infrastructure to reduce its physical infrastructure and volumetric hydrocarbon reliance on Russian energy resources, but also build out its regulatory models to push back on Russian, in particular, Gazprom's monopolistic practices in the market.
	So what did Poland do in response?
	It went out and built the Baltic Pipe.
	That's going to come online later this year from Norway to Denmark to Poland to bring natural gas for the first time from the North Sea directly to Central and Eastern Europe.
	It has expanded its capacity at the Swinoista Terminal on the German-Polish border, and it's looking to do other things.
	It has built up a connector with Lithuania and is also looking to build out a Gdansk terminal for floating...
	Well, have picked the wrong target.
	Man.
	So how was Russia anti-competitive?
	Were they holding a gun?
	Well, I guess they were holding a gun to Poland's head back in the day when they killed to hold the whole half of the government.
	But how is it anti-competitive?
	They don't let anyone else sell gas?
	Or is it just not a lot of people have gas?
	How come Norway hasn't done this a long time ago?
	They probably wanted to, but Russia, they're very competitive.
	They keep the prices low.
	It comes pouring in.
	Competitive, yes, but not anti-competitive.
	That was the accusation.
	I don't see any evidence of that either.
	No.
	They're giving a 25% discount to India right now.
	Yeah.
	That's just racist.
	That has nothing to do with competition.
	I think there's a lot of this being very poor analysis.
	But anyway, the real kicker comes in the next clip.
	Explain to us, if you can, some of Russia's thinking, because of course it's under heavy financial sanctions because of this war.
	So turning off the taps to Poland and Bulgaria, one presumes robs the Kremlin of much needed hard currency.
	So, what were they thinking?
	Well, look, I think there's two actions here that the Kremlin's trying to get across in terms of its response.
	Russia has weaponized energy, and I've talked about this on the day many times, weaponized energy for many, many years.
	They've threatened or overtly cut off gas to Europe through Ukraine, through other conduits on numerous occasions, and this is just the latest in that.
	What they're trying to do is two things.
	Number one, they are desperate to increase the value of the ruble.
	The ruble's value has plummeted since international sanctions.
	Yeah, no.
	It's rebounded quite nicely.
	Okay, now this was from yesterday.
	Really?
	It's from yesterday.
	So if this guy and the ruble recovered within, I don't know, less than a week.
	And it's at higher levels than it was before the invasion.
	Now, it's not back to 2014 levels when it definitely, when it got weaker after the Maidan invasion.
	But it's back to those levels.
	It's back to 2014 levels.
	So this guy, this is from yesterday.
	So if this guy's the big expert that DW is going to have on the show, and he doesn't know that one simple thing and makes this claim that's not true, this lie, he either knows it and he's lying, or he doesn't know it, which means why are we listening to him, which is the way I ended up approaching it.
	And I stopped it.
	That was the last of these clips.
	He goes on with some other analysis.
	Now I don't believe a word of it.
	Yeah, nor can you.
	But I'm glad we listened to five clips that now you just told us was all bullshit.
	Thanks.
	Thanks.
	Good to know.
	I had to get the volumetric requirements or whatever the hell it was.
	Volumetric hydrocarbon requirements.
	Okay, your gas tank is empty.
	I do have a couple of clips.
	There's some concern in the European Union.
	Oh, Bulgaria, Poland, now who's next?
	What's it going to cost?
	What's the fallout going to be?
	I'm sorry, I should say this is an oil futures trader.
	This is a major shot across the bow, and I think he picked the low-hanging fruit initially by targeting Poland and Bulgaria because they're not going to impact the entire pipeline system under Europe.
	The bigger concern now is that they cut off a larger country, that if they cut off Germany, for example, the entire continent is going to see reduced gas flows.
	And because of that, they're going to have to use other fuels to keep the lights on.
	And that means diesel fuel, that means oil, and right now the world doesn't have enough of this.
	And we've already seen a major impact here in the United States because of Vladimir Putin's action.
	We've seen natural gas prices surge, but really where we saw it hit hardest was a record-breaking rally in diesel fuel.
	In New York Harbor, where we price most of our diesel for the country, we hit an all-time record high because of this at $4.75.
	That is the equivalent in the real world of about $200 a barrel crude oil, and that means truckers across America are going to see record high diesel prices, and it could get worse if Putin decides to go any further.
	Putin.
	It's Putin now.
	It used to be Putin.
	It's Putin's fault.
	No, it's Putin, not Putin.
	You replace the T with a D. Putin.
	Putin's fault.
	Hmm.
	I think that the war in Ukraine was used very effectively in the French election, and I would expect this to continue in the U.S. midterm election now that the State Department is asking Congress for aid for Ukraine for the next five months.
	It's five months, but you don't even need the aid for Ukraine.
	You just say, hey, Democrat, Democrat candidate, you're for Ukraine.
	Republican, clearly Russia.
	Emmanuel Macron has been re-elected as president of France, defeating far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.
	It's viewed as a sign of continued support for Ukraine after Le Pen spoke out against economic sanctions on Russia.
	She's known for anti-NATO and anti-immigration policies.
	Macron won 59% to 41%, but analysts say the election results show the far right is now mainstream in France.
	Yeah, baby.
	So I think that'll be used here quite effectively.
	I agree and don't agree.
	I agree that it'll be used here quite effectively by this crowd.
	I think not.
	Okay.
	It should be used effectively, but yeah, this crowd.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	So President Biden's asking Congress for new powers.
	Well, before we leave that area, I do want to play the Moldova stuff.
	Oh, sure.
	Well, this is still about Ukraine, but yes, you've got Moldova for sure.
	Boldova is in the crosshairs according to at least the way the European media sees it.
	We're not talking about that in this country yet.
	I think we're holding back because I think we can instigate something that may do more for the midterms.
	If we get another country to feel bad for, we get some Moldova juice in there?
	And I think the Moldovians, the woman that runs that country, because I'm watching her speak, and she looks like, she just has this look on her face like, hey, we need some love too, you know?
	You're sending all this stuff over to Ukraine, and they're going to just transship it to the Middle East.
	Who knows what they're going to do with all this shit.
	They got more Stinger missiles.
	In fact, the Stinger...
	Do you know the Stinger missile hasn't been made for 20 years?
	Yeah, 18 years.
	I do know that.
	Yeah, of course.
	That's why you want to give them away.
	And so they're giving them away and they're going to end up in the Middle East or someplace else.
	They're going to make some good...
	It's a bank.
	Bank.
	They make bank on moving these missiles out of there.
	You know, Moldova could use some cash.
	Now, Moldova is, I believe, directly in the pipeline trajectory that comes from Ukraine, I think?
	It's right.
	It's down at the bottom.
	No, it's to the left.
	Bottom left.
	It's just outside.
	It's just north.
	I'd say northeast of Odessa.
	No, northwest of Odessa.
	Northwest, you're right.
	Northwest of Odessa.
	It's east of Romania, north of Bulgaria.
	I'm going to check it out.
	I think the pipeline goes through Moldova.
	It wouldn't surprise me if it plod right through there.
	But let's listen to what's going to happen there because it turns out there's a small strip of land, very small strip of land, reminding me of a Woody Allen movie where the guy holds a little piece of land in his hand.
	I have a small piece of land.
	That's on the east coast of Moldova that's butted up against Ukraine.
	And a bunch of Russians are there and they've been there forever and they don't seem to want to leave.
	And it's just like the bad, you know, it's like either a bad penny or the neighbor who comes in to stay overnight and stays for a month.
	And stays forever.
	So this situation is becoming an issue and they...
	I think that we, the United States, can turn this into something big that we can use to leverage our voters for the upcoming elections.
	Let's play these clips.
	There are growing fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over into neighboring countries.
	The UN has called for calm in Moldova, which is next door to Ukraine after a series of explosions, a targeted radio masts used to broadcast Russian programs in the breakaway territory of Transnistria.
	Around 1500 Russian troops are already based in the region, which has been controlled by separatists since the war with Moldova about 30 years ago.
	So here's a look at what's been raising tensions there for the last few days.
	Thank you.
	Stuck in their Soviet past, but still marching in step with Moscow.
	The army of Transnister on parade.
	Soldiers in the service of a breakaway state, unrecognized by the world.
	Russian troops are also here.
	They supported separatist forces after the region broke away from Moldova.
	A ceasefire ended fighting in 1992, but the conflict was never truly resolved and Russian forces never left.
	Long seen as an anomaly on the map of Europe, Transnister could soon be pulled into Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
	Transnister is sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine.
	Kyiv believes Russia plans to capture the port city of Odessa and then drive to the border, opening a corridor to the breakaway region and linking up with its troops there.
	The region is politically and economically dependent on Russia.
	The majority of those living here are Russian speakers, like in eastern Ukraine.
	Kyiv has long feared that Russia could intervene here too.
	It cannot be ruled out that the armed forces of the Russian Federation could carry out provocative actions in the Transnistra region of the Republic of Moldova so that they can accuse Ukraine of aggression against a neighboring state.
	Oh man, I'd forgotten all about Transnistra.
	This is like a little strip of land.
	It's nothing.
	It's a joke and they have these soldiers marching around like a bunch of idiots wearing old costumes from the 1918 era.
	I mean, the whole thing is like a Peter Sellers movie, this little area.
	It's kind of like a big Civil War reenactment.
	Exactly.
	And they're trying to make hate with this.
	And it's like, okay.
	Well, we do have a quarter of the population are Ukrainians.
	Of course, 30% are Russians.
	But, oh yeah, how many people live there?
	In Moldova as a whole?
	No, no.
	No, Transnista.
	Just in Transnista.
	Screw Moldova.
	Transnista is the hot place.
	It can't be more than 50,000 people.
	Mm-hmm.
	No, no, no.
	Here we go.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Yo, 347,000.
	Well, it's bigger than Iceland.
	Yeah.
	Well, all right.
	This is good.
	This is not being covered yet in this country.
	This is going to happen.
	You watch.
	And it's also fun to say, trans-dista, you know, that fits in with our current narrative.
	Oh, it's a trans.
	It's a trans.
	Yes, you see?
	Ah, the trans.
	Okay, well, let's go to part two of this.
	Yes, all the people there are called they.
	Moldova has opened its doors to those fleeing the war in Ukraine, but it too fears becoming a victim of the conflict.
	Part of the country is already under Kremlin control, and its leaders want to avoid a repeat of events in eastern Ukraine, where separatist forces appealed to Moscow for help.
	The troops of the Russian Federation have been illegally stationed on the territory of our country for decades.
	That makes us vulnerable.
	We cannot feel safe in the region, especially after witnessing the war in Ukraine.
	Much depends on whether Putin's forces can make inroads in southern Ukraine.
	If so, Transnista, a state that doesn't formally exist, could become the new focus of Russia and the West.
	Now I'm confused.
	Is it Transnistria or Transnistra?
	Or do you just kind of swallow the eye there?
	I just trans.
	Just to make it easy.
	Transland.
	No, Transland.
	Transland, John.
	Transland.
	The idea is that if you look at the map, people should look at the map and see where this place is.
	It's like a little edge.
	It's the edge of eastern Moldova.
	And they think that Russia will take Odessa.
	I don't think so.
	And then they're going to sneak up and then grab onto this chunk.
	So they're going to have a kind of a U-shaped attachment to Russia.
	It's not now.
	But they're going to...
	I think we're going to try to make that happen.
	I think our State Department would love to.
	Because one of the...
	They didn't talk about this in our news, but one of the shots they had of the woman talking, then they did a pullback, and boom, there's Blinken.
	He's there.
	He's there with her.
	Oh, really?
	In Moldova?
	Yep.
	Then it's on deck.
	Yeah, of course.
	It's on deck.
	Great catch.
	Okay.
	Yeah, there's tons of pipelines going through there.
	All from Russia, several through Ukraine.
	People don't realize.
	But okay, cut it all off.
	Can't wait to see how it gets in the winter.
	Nice and cold.
	So as a part of this, we continue to deplatform Russia as much as we can.
	And President Biden, or whoever is pulling the strings, will be proposing a comprehensive legislative package.
	That will enhance the United States government's authority to hold the Russian government and Russian oligarchs accountable for President Putin's war against Ukraine.
	Now, of course, I have not seen any legislation yet, but the question is always, will it be specifically for Russians or will it just be for any old oligarch or anybody that the government deems no good?
	The measures would result in the forfeiture of property linked to Russian kleptocracy.
	Allowing the U.S. government to use the proceeds to support Ukraine.
	So this is cool.
	Yeah, we steal the money from one bunch of criminals and give it to...
	Take it from Peter, give it to Paul.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Under the proposal, authorities would be able to impound property in the U.S. owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs and have a connection to specified unlawful conduct.
	Biden wants to criminalize any person to knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government.
	Well, shit, man.
	That could be a PayPal to us.
	I mean, anybody who has...
	PayPal's cut off Russia, so I wouldn't worry about that.
	I know, but someone else could be a straw man, you see.
	Straw man!
	Yes, straw man.
	You could be a straw man for Russia, for Putin.
	Putin!
	None of this is good.
	No, it's not good.
	They can take the money from anyone.
	They can just flip a switch.
	Next thing you know, they're stealing everybody's money, which is what they're trying to do anyway.
	When the White House was asked, they could not yet explain what would be determined to define corrupt, which is also kind of an open term.
	Yeah, good luck.
	What about Hunter Biden?
	Is there anything involving him?
	I don't know.
	That's whataboutism, John.
	That's whataboutism.
	False equivalency.
	I want to go back to what you said, which is you said whoever's running the place.
	So we have to come up with some theories here.
	My thinking is the following.
	The National Security Council, which started off as a small two or three people, has become a large bureaucracy.
	I think there's like 300 people in it.
	It's like it's got its own offices.
	It's got a bunch of people in there and they're all deep state.
	And Jake Tapper, Jake Sullivan is the guy running it.
	But he's like a dork and I don't think he's running it in any real way because he went to Saudi Arabia.
	Got kicked out.
	He got into a shouting match, supposedly, with the prince there.
	Yeah.
	Because he brought up something about Khashoggi, which wasn't going to fly, and so the guy got ousted.
	So he's just a bonehead.
	And you watch him, he's like a robot with a funny-shaped head.
	I think it's very obvious who's running Biden.
	That's Obama.
	Now, I'm not saying Obama is the brains behind the operation, but he...
	Did you not see him with Kamala Harris walking through, totally ignoring...
	Oh, yeah, and poor Biden roaming around by himself like an idiot.
	I think we talked about that after the show.
	Yeah, we all saw that.
	It was worse.
	I didn't realize, because I think we were talking about after the last show...
	So yeah, it's the White House reception, and Obama is hanging out with Kamala, talking to everybody, and Joe Biden is behind him, puts his hand on his shoulder, and holds it there, kind of like, hey, Barack, Barack.
	Daddy, daddy, daddy.
	And he's being ignored.
	Totally ignored.
	And Obama doesn't even look at him, sees out of his peripheral vision that it's Biden, and just ignores him, turns right back.
	That said everything.
	Obama is...
	Come on, Jen Psaki.
	Oh, I love coming to work and working for President Obama every day.
	Yeah, truth wants to come out.
	You know, could be just a flub.
	I don't think so.
	I think he's running it.
	Now, is he being run by the same people that ran him previously, i.e.
	intelligence, most likely CIA? Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
	No, I think it's the National Security Council.
	It's the same people.
	Yeah, it is the same people.
	They all switch jobs, but who...
	I want to know who...
	We have people in these operations that listen to the show.
	I'd like to know.
	I want a name.
	There's got to be one guy that's a dominant character that really calls the shots.
	Who is it?
	I don't think it's Obama.
	I think Obama's a good front man.
	Obama's definitely their top honcho representative.
	No, no, no, no, no, because he's not out and about typically.
	He is the representative internally.
	And people, you know, they're, oh my God, it's the third term.
	So, you know, Obama wasn't making the decisions when he was president.
	Most presidents don't.
	Trump was an anomaly.
	He's actors.
	Yeah, Trump, that's what they had to get rid of him.
	Yeah, they can't have the president thinking and acting for himself.
	Being a president?
	No, that's no good.
	So, it could be Pelosi, for all I know.
	It could be, all kinds of people could be in this.
	We know it's not Pelosi.
	We don't know it's not Pelosi.
	We don't know.
	We just don't.
	We don't know anything.
	And it's either much, much...
	It's much more sinister, you know, like some banking family.
	It's possible.
	Or, you know, it's Open Society Institute.
	You know, I doubt Soros is going there.
	I'm just asking people, is there someone that must know that can just throw a name at us and say, hey, it's this guy.
	It's some, you know, French muck.
	I mean, we go, who?
	Never heard of this guy.
	Exactly.
	You'll never hear of him either.
	You know, Vindemann.
	Someone like that.
	Oh, God.
	I love, speaking of Pelosi, she's so smart.
	She knows how to do this stuff.
	Even the old cow.
	She's going to have the Ukrainian ambassador unveil a photo exhibit of the Russian invasion at the Capitol.
	So another PR moment.
	We can show the horrible Putin.
	Putin, you know, that gets tons of ink and coverage.
	Yeah, by the media.
	But the public doesn't care.
	I think the public is...
	I think they're all in on the idea of helping Ukraine, but that's about it.
	Okay, we'll help them.
	I don't think that's going to affect the vote, because the real kicker, and everyone talks about it, they've talked about it forever, it's the price of gasoline.
	It's the inflation.
	That's what gets you voted out.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	But they're doing what they can, and it's not like the news is focusing on anything else.
	So the programming is still very strong, but yeah, I agree.
	It probably is too little, too late, and it's all the wrong stuff.
	So we have yet another package being put together.
	So I've lost count, but we had $800 million, $800 million, now I believe another $700 million.
	We're just throwing money at them, and the potholes are not being fixed in this country.
	You know, Christina came back from New York with us to stay here for a few days until she goes back to Holland.
	Oh, she did?
	Yeah.
	That's ginchy.
	That's what?
	That's...
	Hey, if it's unrecognizable to me, I'm just going to consider it from the 70s.
	So, you know, take a chill pill, man.
	I don't get a bell for that?
	I don't have my bell.
	I'm not near the bell.
	There you go.
	Come on.
	I was leaning back in the chaise.
	You weren't right.
	Ah, there you go.
	And she says that in the Netherlands, people are pissed because, of course, they have refugees coming in.
	You cannot get a house in Holland.
	There's an incredible housing shortage.
	Students, that's been a problem for 30 years.
	Now, they can't even go to school.
	They cannot get a place to stay.
	But, miraculously, the perception is that the refugees are taken care of.
	And it's pissing people off the same way...
	Sending all this money and aid or aid more than money to Ukraine is pissing off people about the border and inflation, all the issues that we see, the simple, simple questions or the simple gripes.
	I got to throw this in since you brought that in.
	Mm-hmm.
	There's a lot of stories.
	I don't have any clips, but there's a bunch of news stories about how Afghani refugees are being kicked out and Ukraine refugees are being moved in and it's causing all kinds of problems.
	And this is where?
	In Europe or here?
	In Europe and here.
	Here, too.
	In fact, a lot of Afghanis, they gave them like $2,000 or $1,000-something.
	Very low money.
	And they gave them a place and they can't pay rent now.
	And they're booting them out left and right.
	This is going to be a huge problem.
	We're going to have a bunch of murders and crazy things happening with these Afghani refugees who have failed to learn English.
	I mean, it's a nightmare...
	Almost ready to happen.
	It's going to happen.
	Well, this is all part of the great reset.
	I don't have to tell you.
	The great reset.
	The great bullet reset.
	Well, you have to break something before you can reset it.
	It has to clearly be stuck.
	Well, they've done a good job of that.
	Speaking of good job, the BBC did a good job of very short explaining where this money is going to.
	And, of course, it corroborates completely with our thesis.
	And extra military assistance as well.
	$700 million of that.
	What do you think they're going to get?
	What are they asking for?
	$300 million of that is going to the Ukrainians directly.
	That's for them to spend on whatever they think is required.
	And the other $400 million is going to other NATO members.
	So basically it's going to people who've got to neighbouring countries, many of whom have old Soviet equipment that the Ukrainians already use.
	It's basically to allow them to donate that to Ukraine and then buy new equipment for themselves.
	What?
	We're funding NATO so NATO gives all their crap to Ukraine and buys new stuff from us!
	This is an answer.
	It's fantastic.
	It's really, really good.
	Yeah.
	How come we're not in any of these schemes?
	Pisses me off.
	We're having fun reporting on the schemes.
	So just about France, you know, the Ukraine war was used there as some talking points for Macron's victory.
	A lot of video evidence I've seen of the French ballots.
	I don't know if you caught any of this.
	No, none.
	The way the French ballots show up at home, it's in a sealed bag, almost like one of those plastic bags that is made of the aluminum balloons.
	You have to pull it apart.
	It's completely sealed.
	And in there, there's two pieces of paper about index card side.
	One says Macron, one says Le Pen.
	And the Le Pen one is ripped.
	At the bottom.
	And there's this video of people opening up ballot bag after ballot bag and every single Le Pen ballot is ripped, has like a cut, a rip on one side of it, which from what I understand invalidates the ballot.
	Could be true, don't know.
	Well, I'm sure there's some hanky-panky going on.
	There are all these elections.
	Democratic countries.
	Yes, that's how democracy works.
	In a funny way, it is.
	It is.
	It's just who can jack the ballots better.
	It's always what it's about.
	You either do that or you don't.
	On the heels of the election results, there was a deliberate, deliberate sabotage, multiple fiber cuts, Across France, physical cable cuts, multiple locations.
	It cut off, and I believe it may still have cut off, large portions of networks that deliver the Internet to France.
	Yeah, this is part of the 10 days of darkness.
	Those are two listeners.
	The 10 days of darkness.
	Remember, this is part of what we were promised with Trump.
	The power would go out, the internet would be shut off, and then all of a sudden we're reborn.
	And everything's good again.
	But people cutting fiber is definitely a problem because the internet is used for more than just Twitter.
	Important things like The show.
	But also, you know, health, finance, all kinds of things run through it.
	Commerce.
	Bad actors, bad actors afoot.
	Well, I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often, to be honest about it.
	Right after...
	I mean, like fiber in this country, fiber in the rural areas is clearly marked.
	We have it up in Port Angeles.
	You drive around, and where the fiber is, there's a bunch of sticks that come with orange colored things, and they're telling you there's fiber there, so don't dig around there.
	They're just like to warn you from, you know, excavating.
	No, I've seen the photos.
	This is not someone putting a backhoe into a fiber.
	No, this is an actual, and they didn't just cut it.
	They cut it in two places, so they remove the piece.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying, is that you can find the fiber if you wanted to pull that stunt pretty easily.
	Yeah, it's not that hard to do.
	And cutting out a piece, though, that's kind of, that's chicken shit, because that means you've got to do double splicing.
	Yeah, you've got to do two splicings.
	You've got to splice the one and another.
	It's just extra time.
	Extra time.
	Well, let's just continue with our great reset stories while we're at it.
	So we get that done with.
	Right after Macron won the election, France immediately announces a digital ID passport, not for COVID, but digital identity, that they had tabled.
	Several months ago, like, eh, we're not going to do that now.
	And boom, it's back on.
	And they are now spearheading with all of the EU an international facial recognition system which fits right into this.
	Weren't you writing something or researching about digital ID? Did you give up on that?
	No, I don't give up on anything.
	I'm still working on the vinegar book, for God's sake.
	Actually, Wired has a story about it.
	Europe is building a huge international facial recognition system.
	Yes, surprise.
	But France is just like, boom, we're back in.
	It's good to go.
	They're going to link this to DNA. I've been telling Christina, I said, I don't know what your plan is, but you better move out of there, out of the EU, before I'm going to have to do an extraction.
	It's going to suck.
	It's much harder.
	She probably should leave.
	Yeah.
	She has to.
	It's horrible.
	It's all going to shit.
	And it's always Europe where the wars take place.
	Yeah.
	And it's always France and Germany.
	Europe's in the moment of peace, which, you know, I think the 60s, perhaps, 70s.
	I mean, it's great.
	But it has, for some it's jinxed.
	I don't know what it is.
	It goes back too far historically to figure out exactly what the mechanism is that causes it to go to crap every so often.
	Money.
	Money.
	And maybe money.
	It's always about money.
	Money's got something to do with it.
	Don't think I had much.
	Oh yes, other than a disturbing trend from MasterCard.
	MasterCard is a big partner of the World Economic Forum.
	They are doing the carbon credit card, so you can track your carbon based upon your purchases, and I believe you can set levels yourself to stop yourself from purchasing something once you've reached your self-imposed carbon limit.
	Which will be self-imposed first, before it's government-imposed.
	And here's the internal communication.
	We're linking employee compensation to ESG sustainability goals.
	And here's what they say.
	Hello, employees.
	Last year, we introduced the new compensation model for our executives at the executive vice president level and above.
	Their bonus was determined in part by the company's performance on three environmental, social, and corporate governance priorities.
	Carbon neutrality, financial inclusion, and gender pay parity.
	Because of their work and yours, we either met or exceeded our goals, which is kind of a bullshit thing to say.
	Did you meet it or not?
	So this is how it will work.
	You as an employee will be compensated.
	Your compensation will be determined by how well you did in these areas in your regular job.
	This is where you go...
	This is where you go, I'm looking for another job.
	Yeah.
	You lose good people with these kind of policies.
	Yeah.
	We'll see.
	I mean, once you mandate this stuff, it's kind of de facto mandate.
	Every company has this now.
	Every company is going to require its employees to, I mean, it flows all the way through.
	The ESG starts with your employees, but also your customers, and you're going to have to turn customers away.
	I'm really sorry.
	We can't have you as a customer.
	You're not ESG friendly.
	We don't like you.
	And every single employee will become...
	You're not woke.
	Get out.
	Every employee becomes part of the ESG score of the entire corporation.
	So you will be penalized for throwing a wrapper on the ground, as an example.
	It's extreme.
	Extreme, but I like the image.
	I have a few more clips for this discussion.
	I want to get these out of the way.
	One of them is the fact that now the EU hates Hungary.
	Yes, of course.
	Because he likes Tucker Carlson, so everybody hates Orban.
	Yeah, yeah, Orban.
	He got just re-elected and that's, oh God, they rolled their eyes and said, this guy's getting on our nerves.
	And so here's the latest on that.
	The European Union has initiated a never-before-used procedure against member nation Hungary over alleged violations of the rule of law.
	It could see EU funding for the Eastern European country cut and comes just over three weeks after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's re-election.
	Now, I didn't quite understand what the issue was.
	They're cutting them off from a lot of the EU funding that they normally give them.
	They give them free money like we do.
	We do that with all the states.
	The United States government gives...
	But under what legal pretext are they doing this?
	Aren't they a full-fledged member?
	He mentioned it was something obscure, some obscure rule.
	I want to hear it again.
	The European Union has initiated a never-before-used procedure against member nation Hungary over alleged violations of the rule of law.
	It could see EU funding to the Eastern European country cut and comes just over three weeks after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's re-election.
	This feels very incomplete to me.
	I need to understand this.
	I'm not going to argue that.
	It's very incomplete.
	I'm going to try to find out the whole story.
	It's not going to be reported here, so I have to dig around in the European sources.
	Here's another one.
	This is one from NPR that I kept it around.
	This is something.
	It's about sanctions.
	If you listen to this report, these sanctions are not to accomplish anything.
	They're just to punish sanctions.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's not like it's not going to teach anybody anything other than pain.
	No, it's not going to change anything, so it's pointless, but it makes us feel good because we can punish.
	Do sanctions work?
	That is a question worth asking as U.S. and other Western nations keep hammering Russia with economic sanctions.
	If the war in Ukraine drags on for months or even years, how many more sanctions can the West impose?
	And what is the endgame?
	Emma Ashford is an expert on foreign policy at the Atlantic Council, and she joins me now to talk about this.
	Welcome to All Things Considered.
	Great to be here.
	Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday the new sanctions did, quote, achieve certain results.
	So how have sanctions impacted Russia's economy?
	So far, the sanctions that we've put on Russia's economy have caused the ruble to go into decline.
	I think up to 600 multinational corporations have left Russia.
	And so the Russian economy is suffering from sanctions.
	What we don't know yet is the extent of that suffering and whether or not it will translate into any actual policy change.
	Well, first, how are these sanctions harming ordinary Russians who have nothing to do with the war?
	I mean, I've spoken to people in Russia who say it's hard to travel abroad now.
	It's hard to even access foreign-made medicines.
	Inflation is high.
	So how do these sanctions affect the ordinary person?
	In theory, targeted financial sanctions are meant to hit a government and not the people within a country, but in practice that's very difficult to do.
	What we actually see in much of the studies that have been done on sanctions is that leaders, particularly in authoritarian states, are very good at insulating themselves from the effects of sanctions.
	Certainly, Vladimir Putin himself has been sanctioned.
	The people around him have all been.
	But that doesn't necessarily mean that their lifestyles at home are going to suffer.
	They may be able to pass some of that burden on to other people inside Russia.
	And so this, again, is one of those big problems.
	And unfortunately, the history of sanctions suggests that we're good at causing the economic pain.
	We're not good at getting policy changes out of it.
	I have, while we were playing and listening to that clip, I understand the rule of law mechanism, which is what the European Union is using against Hungary.
	This was only approved about a year ago, right in time.
	It was created by the European Union as a tool to withhold funds from member states that breach the rule of law.
	For example, curtailing judicial independence or eroding the separation of powers.
	In Hungary's case, according to the accusations...
	I'm reading here from Deutsche Welle.
	Hungary, a large recipient of EU funds has come under increasing criticism over the past few years for veering away from democratic norms with policies such as exerting excessive control over the judiciary, stifling media freedom, and denying the rights of LGBT people.
	So it's pretty vague how they're using this, but they can remove up to 55% all money that they get from the EU to a country, a state, but 55% I think is what they're aiming at.
	So it's always vague, bullcrap EU things.
	It's like, we don't like how you play the game.
	It's funny because those same things about stifling free speech and fooling around the judiciary in particular.
	It's pretty much what Ukraine does.
	Yeah, and they're just throwing money at them.
	Well, they're not a member.
	They don't have to play nice.
	They're not a member of the EU, so they get to do whatever they want.
	That's kind of nuts.
	That is very nuts.
	Now, I have two more clips, but I can push these off.
	No, no.
	Let's do your two more clips, and then we'll hit a break.
	There's a show that's kind of like the BBC's Hardball, where they ask these questions.
	The person that's the interviewer is mean.
	Oh, yeah, well, if you say that, blah, blah, blah, there's just a mean kind of interview show, which the Europeans have more of these than we.
	We have none of these shows anymore.
	Oh, this is Andy, what's the name?
	Andrew...
	I saw this guy recently.
	Okay, forget about it.
	Yes, I know exactly what you mean.
	I know exactly.
	Like a one-on-one, and they just spit questions at you.
	Yeah, but then they're slamming him, and they're slamming him.
	It's a hard...
	It's a rude...
	The guys are rude.
	The interviewers are rude.
	Yeah.
	You could do a show like this.
	By American standards.
	You could do a show like this.
	You'd be great at this.
	We don't do that.
	We soft-pedal it.
	Okay.
	So the DW has a show.
	It's called Explosion or Targeting.
	It's got some crazy, very aggressive name.
	It's very similar to the BBC show.
	And this is this guy, Andy, who's kind of a spokesperson for China.
	And he is on talking about China's relationship with Russia.
	And are they really going to go along with the crap that Russia's doing in Ukraine?
	And it's a mean-spirited interview, but...
	It goes off the rails and starts talking about nuclear war and how cool it would be.
	We generally recognize that a use of nuclear weapons would be a very bad thing, certainly would set a terrible precedent.
	But we also need to see, though, Tim, that this is not happening in a vacuum.
	Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State Austin and Blinken were recently in Ukraine.
	There were comments made by the Defense Secretary that weakening or degrading the Russian military is now seen as an American objective.
	So again, I think we come back to this idea that is this an unprovoked action or is there some precipitating event?
	And is that precipitating event causing a legitimate response or not?
	I think we don't know.
	You didn't answer my question, Andy Mark, as to whether this nuclear war would be a red line, at which point Xi Jinping would pick up the phone to Mr.
	Putin and say, that's too far, we're not going with you on that.
	Well, the other way we can interpret this, Tim, is if the U.S. provokes a nuclear attack by Russia.
	How will the world, including China, respond, I think is a question I hope no one has to answer.
	But, you know, again, to just frame this...
	You're not going to give me a straight answer on this, are you?
	Let me put it another way.
	The joint statement issued by your two governments, Russia and China, in early February, talking of a no-limits partnership...
	It was apparently the first time China explicitly joined Russia in opposing any further NATO expansion.
	If NATO is expanding, it's because the threat is expanding.
	Russian expansionism in Europe and Beijing's increasing militarization of the South China Sea.
	Can't you understand that that's a reason why NATO is expanding and why people are looking to join because they require more protection in these dangerous, uncertain times?
	Wait a minute.
	Where's this show air?
	Deutsche Welle.
	Oh.
	But is he talking?
	Who's worried now?
	Are they all just shaking in their boots about nuclear war?
	You know, I'm watching this show and it's like, again, it's like these shows where it's confrontational.
	Which I kind of like the fact that somebody does force the question to be answered if you ask it.
	Yeah, they're kind of all shaking their boots, and then he's kind of implying that the Secretary of Defense guy is inviting a nuclear attack so we can, like, figure out what to do.
	The whole thing is nuts, but let's play the rest of it.
	Well, I just want to say, you also see...
	Every...
	There's lots of news reports.
	You know, a Russian foreign minister says, oh, you know, we won't hold back.
	Putin says, oh, we'll be swift.
	The media interprets that as nuclear war, nuclear strikes, first strike, first attack.
	I mean, I personally don't think that's going to happen at all.
	Well, let's hope not.
	No, it would be a day wrecker.
	I'm just saying, I don't think...
	It's a day wrecker.
	Let's play the next clip.
	We wouldn't be doing this show anymore, for sure.
	Well, it depends.
	You know, we could...
	Maybe just without you, California would be a prime target.
	North Korea is the one that targets Texas.
	Not Russia.
	You might be right.
	They're definitely not going to hit Fredericksburg.
	No.
	No offense.
	Well, I would agree with the last part of what you're saying.
	To answer your question, I would say...
	Don't you remember...
	The map, back in the Obama days, Kim Jong-un, he had a map and it showed Boston as a major strike zone for nuclear weapons.
	Do you remember that?
	I don't remember it, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	But it wouldn't surprise me.
	It was a big joke.
	We have a clue.
	It was a big joke at the time.
	Yeah.
	Well, I would agree with the last part of what you're saying.
	To answer your question, I would say it really depends.
	And again, if the U.S. launched a nuclear attack against Russia and Russia retaliated in kind, this would be one situation.
	If Russia was not provoked and used a nuclear weapon, that would be a completely different situation.
	I think we're unfortunately in this gray area.
	And this is, again, to simply answer your question, I would say it depends.
	And I have no way of knowing.
	Let's talk about the South China Sea for a moment.
	Why did China break a specific promise by Xi Jinping in 2015 not to put military equipment on the Spratly Islands?
	He said at the time relevant construction activity that China is undertaking does not target or impact any country and there is no intention to militarize.
	We now see on these islands anti-aircraft, anti-ship missiles, runways, seaports, Well, Tim, again, unfortunately or fortunately, we do not live in a static world.
	Times change, interests change in the...
	And promises get broken.
	Well, I think, again, times change, and I think people have to adapt, countries have to adapt.
	Is your government intending to do to Taiwan what Russia is doing to Ukraine?
	Is that what all this is about?
	I think any country, especially any large country, especially a continental country with increasingly global interests, I think cannot reduce its security concerns to a single issue or to a single dimension.
	So when we look at Taiwan, it of course is very important to China, but China, again, has increasingly complex, I think, security challenges, and I would say also opportunities as well.
	But with Taiwan, clearly the government's position has been peaceful reunification is the goal.
	If other courses of action became inescapable, then that is also on the table as well.
	Whatever.
	I can't believe you could stay awake throughout this whole interview.
	Oh, well, I watched the whole thing.
	It went on for, it was a half an hour show.
	That's what I'm saying.
	It seems like, oh, okay.
	You're right.
	Well, so just a half an hour of this guy apologizing for everything China does or says.
	Yeah.
	It's just like the classic apologist.
	And we're going to talk about China after I thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the double fiber cut, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
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	That is a two-hour show before we...
	or one-hour show before we get started.
	Um, we had discussed, just briefly we discussed on the last episode that there was really no reason why we are starting so early on show days and that, like we did on, when I was in New York, we did our show two hours later.
	I'm seeing people, some actually happy about this and I've seen no pushback.
	What is your experience?
	I haven't heard anything one way or the other.
	So can we start Sunday at our new time?
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	Yeah, let's make it a special event Sunday.
	So let's lead up to it instead of just jumping into it on Sunday.
	This is now the second show we're talking about.
	What?
	This is the second show we're talking about.
	The lead up is there.
	I mean, I'm talking about a big lead up, like a week or two, or maybe like the first of July 4th we do this show, you know, at the new hour.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	Why?
	Because I'm in a rut.
	Kind of enjoy it.
	Only getting up at the time I get up.
	I get up at 9 to do the other...
	I mean, we could do it this Sunday, but I would like to get a little more feedback.
	I want to wait at least until May.
	That'll be the last show of April.
	I just want you to understand, you're in a rut, but it's different from you.
	My production schedule...
	It's a lot tougher because you get up at 9 or whatever.
	When do you get up?
	No, I don't get up at 9.
	The show starts at 9.
	I get up at 8.
	You get up every day at 8, right?
	Yeah.
	I get up two days a week at 5.
	It's very disruptive.
	So what happens is I never really wait.
	After 15 years, you're complaining?
	Yeah.
	Yes, I'm complaining.
	Exactly.
	After 15 years...
	You want to jump to the 11 o'clock block right away?
	After 15 years, yes.
	No, it's not right away.
	It's half a month we've been talking about this.
	And we determined that the...
	No, no, no.
	We haven't been talking about it half a month.
	We started talking about it after your little sojourn to New York.
	That's 10 days.
	Okay, it's a third of a month.
	But this is not 15 years.
	That's not true because I used to do the show in the afternoon when I was in Europe.
	That was the first 100 episodes.
	That's where we came up with it.
	I'm game and I'm convinced we're going to have to move it to the 11 o'clock spot.
	Can we just wait until next Thursday?
	Yeah, of course.
	Thank you.
	I forced an answer.
	Good.
	Next Thursday.
	Perfect.
	It won't be Sunday.
	No, you tricked me.
	Yeah.
	I did.
	I'm proud of it.
	Okay, so May.
	May, we began the new hour.
	Well, I think Sunday.
	Sunday is May.
	Sunday is April.
	Really?
	Okay.
	So Thursday, Thursday, yes.
	Thursday the 5th, which is May Day.
	May, okay.
	There you go.
	There's your promotion.
	There's your promotion.
	We have something to celebrate.
	Good.
	Well, thank you very much, trolls.
	Sanco de Mayo, it's not May Day.
	May Day, I think, is May 1st.
	All right.
	Sanco de Mayo is even better.
	Well, May 1st is Sunday.
	No.
	Yes, Sunday is May 1st.
	30 days, half September, April, June, and November.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're right.
	May 1st is Sunday.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	What?
	I didn't hear you.
	We could do it on May Day then, and then Sanco de Mayo...
	No, let's do it Sanco de Mayo.
	Sanco de Mayo is better.
	Yeah, because Sanco de Mayo, I think, fits into it.
	Because we're a Sanco de Mayo show.
	We are the OG Sanco de Mayo.
	You say Sanco de Mayo on every show we've ever done that's had the fat lady saying it.
	On every show that's been good.
	Every fat lady show has got you saying Sanco de Mayo for at least a decade.
	Because if I didn't say it, then the show inevitably sucks.
	Then something goes wrong.
	Superstitious as hell.
	I got the keeper saying it's not Sanko, it's Cinco.
	She's half Mexican, so now she's correcting me with her Mexican half.
	Never hear about the pipelines in Lithuania from your Lithuanian half.
	Cinco de Mayo.
	Why do we say Sanko?
	You say Sanko.
	Oh, you just said it.
	I say it too.
	Okay.
	Cinco de Mayo.
	All right.
	Hey, Trolls, glad you're here.
	Uno, dos, tres, cinco.
	That's right, Cinco.
	Yeah, uno, dos, tres, Cinco.
	I don't know.
	Don't worry, Trolls.
	We'll let you know in plenty of time.
	It's all going to be good.
	It's just, you know, I'm almost 60.
	I can use a little more regular sleep.
	I'd like to get up the same time every day.
	It's fine if it's seven.
	I thought you told me you were getting up at five every day so you can stay in the groove.
	I hate that.
	That's my point.
	I'd like to have a life.
	It's a good way.
	You get up with the sun, you get to work.
	That's the way to go.
	Okay.
	Now you're going to sleep in.
	Oh yeah, the big sleep in.
	We thanked our trolls.
	Yes.
	Oh yeah.
	You can always follow a lot of the lively conversation.
	The now ever popular, more than ever popular, Fediverse, Mastodon.
	All the lefties are running to it, so balance it out.
	Set up your own Mastodon account.
	It really is a great place to still be anonymous and say whatever you want.
	You're not going to get this with Twitter in Elon Musk's world.
	So consider following Adam at noagentosocial.com or John C. Dvorak at noagentosocial.com or any of the people you see at noagentosocial.com.
	The way the system works, you'll automatically start to see everything posting through to wherever you are on the Fediverse through the Mastodon network of servers.
	And a big thanks to the artist for episode 1445, the title, Trusted Flaggers.
	And with that, thanks goes to Dame Kenny, Ben, who just nailed it with the plastic choo-choo train with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, our Transportation Secretary.
	I mean, did we even consider anything else?
	Yeah, we were looking at things.
	Okay, let me see what we're looking at.
	I'm looking to see what it was.
	Yeah.
	I think we both, in this case, we're jointly attracted to this piece because it's just a pretty piece.
	It has a nice kind of a...
	It has a...
	Well, the plastic train is just beautiful.
	It nails it, which I'm sure is clip art.
	It's just a smart piece, yeah.
	It's clip art of a train.
	Now, I want to do a call-out for Sizzletron, because there was a piece that he did previously that I looked at.
	I don't think we even talked about it, but we never complimented it, that's for sure.
	And that's when we were bitching about the artists, you know, overdoing it or getting carried away.
	Overproduced.
	Overproduced images.
	Overproduced.
	So he did a piece, he, or she, I think it's a he, did a piece called Too Slick by Half, And it shows somebody scribbling like a maniac and then one of those talking bubbles coming out of my Dvorak saying, calm down Picasso.
	Huh.
	And...
	And so what I did was, I'm going to start doing this more often with these overlooked pieces that are really good, is I mined his page.
	He's done art for a number of years to find a piece for the newsletter.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so I went back and found the oldest piece I could find by him, which was, since I was talking about some new memes, where it was a picture of Martin Luther King saying, I have a meme.
	Yes.
	Which is just a bad pun.
	But I just wanted to call out Sizzletron for doing this Calm Down Picasso piece that we overlooked completely.
	I don't even know where it is.
	You have to go back to page two.
	I saw the sizzletron.
	Let me see.
	Go back to page two and then you've got to go down.
	Oh, it's the scribble.
	Okay, I see it.
	I was looking for something else.
	I don't remember seeing it before, to be honest about it.
	Yeah, because it's, although I get the joke and the reference, because it's totally something you'd overlook.
	Because, like, what does it even mean?
	You see, you have to be...
	I think we need to be careful sometimes with...
	For instance, a lot of people put in Windows, blue screen of death, failing Windows.
	Well, no one heard that on the show because we cut all of that failure right out of it.
	Yeah.
	So this is a mistake.
	But you're hearing on the live stream, you have to consider that some things...
	There won't be a joke there.
	The CNN Plus stuff...
	What was interesting about that is all the artwork depicts CNN Plus going down the drain, the Hindenburg, which was kind of funny.
	The Hindenburg is funny, but not going to happen.
	No, but also, that's not what happened.
	We deconstructed it and told you exactly what happened.
	It had nothing to do with not enough subscribers.
	It was not part of the new owner's idea.
	And that's why it was cancelled.
	So, you know, that would just be propagating dumb Twitter meme shit.
	Well, I will say another thing.
	You're bringing up this kind of complaining.
	We're not going to use Elon Musk on the cover art.
	No, of course not.
	Of course not.
	It's just not happening.
	And you're saying this because there's already five or six pieces with Elon.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine pieces.
	Yeah, and why won't we use Elon Musk as cover art, John?
	Explain.
	Explain why we won't do this.
	Well, a couple of things.
	One, it's actually illegal.
	It's illegal?
	What do you mean it's illegal?
	You can't use the image of some public personality to use it as promotion in any way, satirical or otherwise.
	It's illegal.
	Hold on a second.
	Without paying them.
	You have to pay them for their image.
	A public personality.
	If you just throw their picture up on an ad, I love this show.
	It's illegal.
	Well, how are these ads?
	These are satirical images.
	These are ads.
	They're going to be used for our album art.
	Satirical works in most situations.
	It doesn't really technically work.
	I mean, we've slipped it in here and there.
	But generally speaking, especially with somebody high profile like Musk, Not going to happen.
	But is Biden okay, or Trump is okay, or Pelosi is okay?
	There's a difference between a public figure who's a politician.
	Ah, okay.
	But if you have them promoting, in other words, if you use them as an ad saying, I recommend the No Agenda show, which somebody might do, as opposed to ridiculing him like we do with Biden.
	That's different.
	There's a fine line in here, and all I'm going to say is two things.
	One, The illegality of using Musk's image, A. And B, I think he's not an attractive image.
	He's not an attractive man, by the way.
	He's just a weird-looking guy.
	He's not attractive.
	And I can't say.
	He's not ugly or not ugly.
	He's just a weird-looking guy.
	He looks different.
	So that's part of it.
	And the other thing is, he's getting enough, but what do we need to give him publicity for?
	Thank you.
	That's the only reason that's valid, is who gives a crap about that guy?
	So, no, he's out.
	Okay.
	Elon's out.
	Just so you know, Elon is out.
	I'm talkative today.
	You are, and I like it.
	It's probably because you get two hours more sleep than I do.
	That's one of the reasons, but the other reason is because I'm trying to...
	I'm trying to get everybody stoked.
	Oh.
	And so I'm looking for opportunities.
	You can't slip them by me, Dvorak.
	I think I'm five for five now.
	You're tripping.
	Six for six.
	That's interesting because tripping is used very commonly in hip-hop parlance today.
	Yeah.
	Thank you very much, Dame Kenny, Ben, for bringing us.
	Mayor Pete, our Transportation Secretary in the United States, in his little train, doing nothing for the air transportation system.
	I must say, we only had one delay of our flight coming back from New York.
	We flew out of JFK on Delta.
	And, of course, we got this delay message while we were in the car on the way to the airport.
	It was not busy at all in the Delta Terminal.
	We were pretty much the only people.
	We walked in.
	Everybody who was there at the desk was masked.
	We were not masked.
	It's no longer necessary in airport terminals.
	But the signage was still there, mask mandatory, which was interesting.
	I felt personally that when we were dropping our bags off, I always make a chat with people.
	I'm always like, hey, how you doing?
	I felt that the masked Delta employees were kind of a stink eye of shitty towards us.
	Probably, look at these, they're probably Republicans.
	Republicans going back to Texas.
	Don't forget, Delta's woke.
	They were part of that woke group that we bitched and moaned about.
	Massively woke.
	Now, we had the delay, so we, of course, went to the Delta Sky Lounge.
	As we discussed previously, the Sky Lounge at JFK is huge, and it has to be because of all the delayed and canceled flights.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	And again, you walk in, everyone's masked, all the people.
	We were the first ones in.
	It got really busy, which is why, again, it's so big.
	Employees all masked.
	And there's a big mask mandatory sign that they still have up there.
	But of course, you don't use it.
	You don't have the mask.
	And I would say on the flight as well as in the lounge, 40% masked.
	Oh, I forgot.
	Oh, can I just tell you one more story about the wokeness of New York?
	Yeah, I love it.
	So, Tina was going to have the afternoon with her daughter, who lives in Brooklyn.
	And Christina and I were like, okay, we're going to go hang out.
	We're going to go find something to do.
	We're going to go to a bookstore.
	She loves buying books.
	Let's go find a bookstore.
	And we're in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn.
	Fancy.
	I don't know if it's fancy or not.
	It's all woke.
	Fancy, fancy.
	So there's a bookstore nearby.
	It's about half a mile.
	And...
	So we start walking.
	In a famous Adam tradition, we're walking exactly the wrong direction.
	And all of a sudden, we're in the Hasidic Jew neighborhood, which was phenomenal to see.
	And boy, no masks there, I'll tell you that.
	But it did get a lot of weird looks.
	What are these Gentiles doing here?
	So we pop in an Uber, and we go to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
	Which I have no idea.
	I think this is probably where Hillary Clinton had her headquarters and there's a lot of new buildings there.
	And we go to the Greenpoint bookstore.
	And the doors are wide open and we walk in.
	It's a sizable bookstore for any New York bookstore.
	Walk in right away.
	Excuse me, do you have your mask with you?
	I'm sorry, that's not how I went.
	Excuse me, do you have your mask for you?
	No, we don't have our mask.
	Oh, well, here's the mask.
	Oh, well, thank you for the free mask.
	And it was hard because I had not had a mask on in a long time, and I just remembered.
	I can't breathe.
	My glasses are fogging up.
	This bookstore...
	It was the wokest bookstore I've ever seen.
	Everything was Black Lives Matter, black women, women who love black women, Stacey Abrams, all of her books.
	It wasn't even divided by section.
	It was woke, more woke, wokest.
	And just on a lark, I'm like, hey, do you have a religion section?
	I'm looking at...
	Oh, you!
	Eight books!
	Eight books way in the corner by the bathroom.
	I think there were probably seven books about Judaism, and the rest was atheism.
	It's just, it was unbelievable.
	Just, and Christina just tries, I can't find, she wound up getting a Vonnegut book.
	That's about the only thing.
	What was she going there for?
	She likes reading books.
	She likes buying books.
	Well, why would you go to that bookstore in New York?
	I did not know it was...
	I did not know Greenpoint Bookstore.
	It looked like a nice big...
	I looked at the pictures on the search engine.
	I was like, oh, that looks like a nice big bookstore.
	So you were just unaware.
	Yeah, of course I was unaware.
	It doesn't say, hey, the wokest bookstore in Brooklyn.
	That's what it should say.
	The wokest bookstore in Brooklyn, everybody.
	You must have been tripping.
	Now, the...
	You already used that one.
	Now, the worst part is, as we're driving to the...
	We're having dinner...
	We're going to join a dinner, and we're somewhere around dinner, and we're in the car, and I'm relaying this story to Tina.
	Christina says later, the driver of the Uber was rolling his eyes, shaking his head.
	She said, I thought he was going to kick us out because of what I just said, the way I explained it to you.
	I was the same, like, this place was so woke, and the driver...
	My advice is...
	So you had a woke driver.
	It's all Wokey style.
	The place is corrupt.
	I'm telling you, New York City is really...
	It's gone.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	I mean, I don't know what to do about it or what to say about it.
	Stay away.
	Yeah.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	Stay away.
	There's no reason...
	I felt discriminated against.
	I just felt like, wow, man, people are just looking at me like I'm an a-hole.
	Yeah.
	You were discriminated against.
	No, I am, of course.
	I am an a-hole, so that makes it even more interesting.
	Well, that's beside the point.
	In case you're dealing with the...
	Well, you know what?
	Don't go to New York City.
	Don't go to Woke Brooklyn.
	Don't go to the Woke bookstore.
	And don't use Woke podcast apps like Spotify and Apple.
	Ditch those.
	There's a roundabout way to get to your point.
	I'm so happy I did that.
	Please try a new podcast app.
	You can't be deplatformed off of the Podcasting 2.0 apps.
	And there's all kinds of super-duper features.
	Is super-duper a 70s term?
	I'm trying to work in my own.
	No.
	Super-duper features.
	Grab one at dupodcastapps.com.
	There's a lot of different ones to try.
	You can try them all for free.
	You can use them for free.
	But it's a total upgrade of your experience and censorship resistance.
	Now let us thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1446.
	We don't have a lot of execs and associates, but they did send in long notes for some reason.
	Yes, and I think you should cut them down, especially this one note that's so long, I can't read it if it comes to me because it just blows up my page.
	And it's immaterial information.
	It's not like interesting.
	It's a guy talking about his pal.
	Very annoying notes.
	We appreciate all the support, but you do have to understand that you're not the only person sending in a note.
	Other people send in a note.
	And before you know it, we're doing an hour of its content, but an hour of your notes.
	And some of it is just a little off point.
	But we start in Dublin, Ireland.
	This has not happened for a while that our top donor comes from Dublin or Ireland or anywhere in that region.
	Peter McClay, 333.50.
	Now, I do not know if this is the total euro amount or if this is a specific dollar amount that came through.
	I just don't know, unfortunately.
	But maybe we'll find out here in the note.
	In the morning, gentlemen.
	I'm a producer.
	Read the note in a brogue.
	Did you say brogue?
	I say brogue.
	Whatever that is, it's a 70s throwback.
	I am a producer since Adam appeared on Tom Woods in June 2021.
	I don't know what possessed me to check in on an episode involving an XMTV hack.
	But I'm sure glad I did.
	It's kind of rude.
	No, I'd say.
	M5M wisdom here in Ireland holds that the Biden-Harris ticket is a safe pair of hands.
	Zelensky is a saint and lockdowns, masks and wonder drugs have saved us all from the killer plague.
	Well, I guess Ireland is very similar to Brooklyn.
	Needless to say, the once fighting Irish now lumber around the island under the weight of their badly swollen amygdalas.
	Yeah, sad.
	I can believe it right away.
	That's why I'm so glad to have found the bi-weekly dose of no agenda sanity.
	You guys have kept me going during the never-ending craziness of COVID, and I'm more happy to continue supporting your deconstruction of the rest of the clown world.
	I complete my 50th journey around the sun tomorrow, April 29th, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to reward myself with an executive producership.
	A proper de-douching would also be appreciated.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you for your courage, and may you never find an exit strategy, and let's go, Brandon.
	Peter McClay.
	Thank you, Peter.
	Very nice.
	Congratulations.
	You are, of course, on the list.
	John Brownlee's next on the list, and he's in Decora, Iowa.
	Could be Decora.
	I think it's Decora.
	333.34.
	My first donation.
	Oh.
	You know, he doesn't ask for it, but give him a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	He says he's a former Austinite who fled the city for rural Iowa.
	That's a nice move.
	Yeah, some stick in Fredericksburg.
	By the way, people don't realize rural Iowa, which is the land of those covered bridges, Madison County, is beautiful.
	It's hilly, it's rolling hills, it's a beautiful, beautiful area.
	Keep up the important work.
	Sign John in the Iowa Driftless area.
	Why don't you grab the next one and I'll do the longer one here.
	Samantha.
	Happy birthday to my smoking hot husband, Peter 3.
	She says, let me see if I can expand this.
	No, I guess not.
	Peter 3, love you and thanks for hitting me in the mouth.
	Goat karma, please?
	Okay, Samantha Fuggin.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Oh, I should mention...
	I should mention that she gave $3.333 for me.
	And she's in a town called Beauty Point in Tasmania, Australia.
	Wait, Tasmania?
	Is Tasmania Australia?
	I thought Tasmania was New Zealand.
	Am I nuts?
	No, I'm pretty sure it's Australia.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Bill Crocker lives in Bedford, New Hampshire.
	Associate Executive Producership, 333.33.
	We love these types of executive producer numbers.
	This is a rather long one, so I'll see if I can do some editing on the fly.
	It says, in the morning, gentlemen, my donation is a good old-fashioned switcheroo.
	Just to make it even more interesting.
	Hmm?
	Yes, switcheroo.
	Switcheroo.
	And I'm going to do the switcheroo right now so I don't forget that at a certain point.
	Hold on a second.
	Boom, switcheroo initiated.
	A good old-fashioned switcheroo.
	Anybody can buy somebody a lame gift, get by easy with a gift card, or give them a bottle of booze on their birthday.
	But a true friend or family member would give the gift of a donation to the greatest podcast in the universe, the No Agenda Show.
	You two are a very important part of our weekly Sunday fun day.
	We get together every week and enjoy time together.
	And as a family, we drink our craft beer, smoke our medicine, and enjoy our dose of information from you guys.
	As he sits down today and smokes his Cuban cigar, takes a sip of his Sam Adams Utopia, and enjoys his 40th trip around the sun, this donation is a surprise birthday gift for you, Mark Ginty!
	Or Ginty.
	No pronunciation guide provided.
	Ginty.
	Ginty, you think?
	Ginty?
	I think it's Ginty.
	He prefers to go by the pronouns of douchebag, prick, or asshole.
	This man called me out as a douchebag last month and when he gifted a donation for his brother, in return, I will take the call out and give my donation to him.
	That's very nice.
	He's not only my neighbor, best friend of over 35 years, but he's truly my brother.
	I wanted to take this time to say thank you, Mark, for everything we've been through and we have so many more adventures in front of us.
	There are not many people who have someone like you by their side.
	You're a great husband.
	You are the number one dad.
	You fight like hell to protect your family and the best friend anyone can ask for.
	Truly no words I can say to express how thankful and blessed we all are for all the things we have been through together.
	I also want to give a shout out to his wife, Jasmine.
	Her birthday was April 15th.
	I couldn't donate to both.
	She's the glue that holds the rock together and introduced me to my future wife, best wife in the universe.
	Oh, this is very tough.
	There might be swingers, John, in the future.
	I'm thinking we have some swinging action.
	Yeah, they sound a lot like swingers.
	Where are you, man?
	Come on, wake up.
	Where's your punchline?
	We're currently waiting for immigration to letter in from the Philippines.
	Hello?
	We've only been waiting for two years to finally get her here.
	That's a long time.
	We could have just joined the convoy and walked across the southern border, but decided against it.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Thank you, Adam, John, for all you do.
	You kept us sane while we were in the COVID jail, while in Panama getting an injection of alien stem cells, and also helping us smack people in the mouth and educate our friends and family to what is really going on in the world.
	You know, those stem cells they're doing in Panama, I've been hearing about that, some miraculous stuff is going on, and it's illegal, or, you know, it's not, it's, yeah, illegal in the U.S., I guess because it works, that would make sense.
	Yeah, bitching.
	Yeah.
	I would like to request a solid round of goat karma and R2D2 karma to get us through the road ahead.
	Also, a true de-douching for Mark on his birthday.
	You've been de-douched.
	I hope this is one of many great gifts and donations from Mark.
	Happy birthday, my brother.
	Thank you from Bill Crocker.
	You've got karma.
	Jasmine, Nancy, and Alexander DeGrate in Nagatuck, Connecticut, 33333.
	I started listening to guys during the vid time because of my husband.
	I started listening to guys.
	You guys.
	Probably you guys.
	My husband's been listening to guys for years.
	Again.
	Thanks to him and your UR podcast that keep me away from to all the insanity.
	Since then, I look forward to listening to you guys every Thursday and Sunday.
	He donated for my birthday last year.
	He also donated for his little brother, Alexander the Great, for his birthday last month.
	And now it's time to surprise him to donate for his birthday.
	His smoking hot wife Jasmine, his mother Nancy, and his little brother Lex come up the idea to donate for husband Mark Ginty turning 40 today.
	Again, this is like the note you just read.
	Ginty.
	Oh, this is a Ginty note.
	Okay, that's interesting.
	Please add him to your birthday list.
	I think he's on there.
	And dad does him.
	I think this may be Russian native speakers who are writing this.
	Give him a little bit of leniency.
	I've done my best.
	You've been de-douched.
	D-dosed.
	Maybe he meant D-Dos.
	Just D-Dos him.
	D-Dos him.
	You're off the internet, buddy.
	D-Dos that boy.
	During COVID time, I noticed he kept dropping his beer glass.
	I told him to slow down with the IPA. You're getting drunk.
	And to go see the doctors.
	It was a long process after the doctor's appointment and test.
	He was diagnosed with MS, which is horrible.
	Oh.
	A month after that, we all got the COVID. I feel like I got hit with tornadoes.
	During all the craziness, my husband is still nonstop.
	He built our walkway while he had COVID. He was doing work and kept drinking beer.
	He said the beer took his headache away.
	He's the most strongest man I've ever known in my life.
	I love him to the moon and back.
	I pray God will put him through for me, pull him through for me, and our two human resources.
	I learn a lot from him, especially here in America.
	Ah, she's the Filipino woman, and proud to be an American, and she's learning English.
	Okay, so I give her slack on her first two sentences.
	A little bit more than slack, Jarm.
	I'm giving her slack for two sentences.
	I'm reading the rest of it from, I'm editing as I go along.
	Can I have karma for his MS? 33 is the magic number, the noodle gun, and China is asshole.
	Absolutely.
	This has been in the country long enough to know those.
	Of course.
	We are international.
	You don't have to live in America to understand that China is asshole, the noodle guns, or the 33 is the magic number.
	And we're very, very happy.
	Jasmine, it's fantastic.
	Can't wait for you to join us here in the United States.
	You are welcome.
	33, that's the magic number.
	There it is.
	It's the magic number.
	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.
	China is asshole!
	Oh!
	You've got karma.
	Very nice.
	Elizabeth Yancey, Dame Anonymous of the Colonial Places in Richmond, Virginia.
	The Colonial Place, 333.
	John, in your Substack essay, did you make up the tweet about Stardust, the pangender, four-year-old?
	I want to believe that over the alternatives that some scholar of women's studies, whose name implies he is male, has abused his child into believing it's genderless, fearing Elon Musk, and probably believing the world will end due to climate change before its eighth birthday.
	Keep up the good work!
	Thanks, Dame Anonymous of the Colonial Place.
	Excellent.
	Well, we know how that went down.
	We discussed it.
	So, very good.
	Baronet Surfer comes in with a note.
	He wrote a check.
	Send it in.
	Orlando, Florida, $320.
	He says, ITM Great work.
	Keep going.
	Love and lit.
	All that shit.
	Nice.
	Baronet Surfer, Orlando, Florida.
	There's a note for you.
	Yeah, makes up for the other ones.
	It's a give and take.
	It's like a put a penny in, take a penny out.
	It's working out fine, actually.
	I think we're just right in the balance today.
	Jacob Wicklund.
	Is in Bellingham, Washington, a row of ducks, 222-22.
	De-douching, please.
	You've been de-douched.
	Also, douchebag call-outs for Sean Green.
	Douchebag!
	And John Banasik.
	Douchebag!
	And thank you for your courage.
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate it.
	Short, sweet, to the point, and effective.
	Sir Ever of the Watt from Linwood, Michigan, $200.
	Now, he wrote a note that's actually explanatory.
	I don't have to read it.
	But he was given a title upgrade, and he was short money.
	Well, he assumed a title of Baron, and it was put on the list as Baron.
	We titled him as Baron, but we questioned if his numbers added up.
	It's all the honor system.
	So you questioned that, and he got back to us through a donation, which is, of course, the right way to do it.
	And he also changed his title to Baronet, which he thought...
	I'll read this part.
	He says, additionally noted our titles are mutually independent fiscal events, though I thought a Baronet was a lady, not part of the royalty hierarchy, and it's Baronetess for these ladies.
	To correct my foibles, I have sent $200 in the donate website, which puts me in his money.
	Baronet, you know that...
	Baronet of you know that place.
	So that's what he is now.
	Cheers from...
	He's in Ecuador.
	Nice.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, he's in Ecuador.
	I've never been to Ecuador, but it's supposed to be gorgeous.
	Hold on a second.
	Let's see if we have this note.
	No, we don't.
	So he will...
	A rare title downgrade today on the show.
	Yeah.
	I think this is a first.
	It's true.
	It's very rare.
	I don't think it's ever happened.
	No, I'm going to give you a goat karma just for that.
	Best for being super honest, man.
	Thank you.
	Karma.
	No, I really like that.
	Joshua McLean is in Bryan College Station and says that a donation was sent from this email.
	I don't have an email.
	I don't know if there's intended to tell us.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	I'll go look, but you read the next note, which is our last and final contribution.
	Very short today.
	Very short.
	Twelve total.
	Eleven, actually.
	Yeah.
	It was very disappointing.
	But, you know, people are trying to get back in the groove.
	So once you read that, I'll go see if I can find an email from this address.
	And by the way, I wanted to say hi to Eric, whose mom told him to donate and hit him in the mouth and is listening to the show.
	I just want to make sure we said hi.
	We look forward to that.
	Anonymous is from Clark Summit, Pennsylvania.
	$200.
	You don't have to read the email.
	No, we won't.
	Don't worry about it.
	I'm emailing you about two things, though.
	First, Adam asked about AutoSears.com.
	On episode 1445, and ANTPQ-36 Firefinder radar.
	So he explains the auto-seer, which I don't think we have to explain, but...
	There was something about the...
	What was this other thing?
	The...
	Here we go.
	They've got a few YouTube videos for the ANTPQ-36 Firefinder radar, which we're sending to Ukraine.
	Oh, that's the things we're sending to Ukraine that you supposedly can zap stuff out of the air.
	No, I thought that radar was for the purposes of finding where it was shot from.
	Well, this is why he sent a Wikipedia entry, which we could have looked up while we were talking about it on the show.
	How stupid are we?
	Let me just see what it says here before we thank him.
	Mobile radar system...
	Yeah, detect and track incoming mortar artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for counter-battery fire.
	Yes, we got it.
	Fantastic.
	We appreciate that.
	Thank you for the...
	I think we put that on the show correctly.
	We probably did.
	And here's a couple of links there to some auto-seers, Glock Switch and Fire Finder, which are all just fine weapons.
	And I really have no problem with people having those.
	Legality, of course, is an issue in the U.S., but we think with cannons it should still be allowed.
	All kinds of weaponry.
	It sucks if bad guys have them.
	You can't kind of want one and not the other.
	So Anonymous will give you a karma for that.
	Thank you very much for supporting the show.
	You've got karma.
	That was rather short, despite the longer notes, but, you know, our producer...
	Well, I got the note from Joshua McClain...
	Oh, groovy.
	...who did not put donation in the subject line, which probably...
	Violation.
	But he put donate.
	When I search, when I go through my email, I just do D-O-N-A-T, and I don't do the I-O-N or E. Yeah, okay.
	I'm just giving you a tip.
	He writes, he wants jingle requests, Ham Save the World and Goat Karma, and he is KG5PDU, 73s from him, ITM. Dear John and Adam, greetings from the Bryan College Station, Texas.
	This is my third associate executive producer credit for the month of April as I'm chasing knighthood.
	I cannot say enough good things about the quality of the show.
	show the audio quality sets the standard for the industry and has set me on the journey to acquire quality gear for my eventual podcast we need more podcasters the overall production is fantastic bringing a truly unique experience for the producers of the show the content is relevant and brings understanding regarding current events the mainstream media should be doing this however they cannot be bothered to do their jobs
	i'm glad we found the note instead they offer hyperbole and completely incorrect reporting with misrepresented facts and non-existent existent, quote, sources familiar with the matter, essentially keeping us dumb and afraid.
	Now he goes into a long exposition on the battle of victory It was the Battle of Jumanville Glen, which I'm not going to read.
	And he talks about how it only lasts 15 minutes, but he finishes with ITM 73's KG5 PDU. Well, in the morning to you, and 73's KG05 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	Right!
	You've got karma.
	Just slipped my mind.
	There was something I was going to say.
	I was about the ham.
	What was the beginning of his note again, John?
	How did you start that off?
	I just closed it.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	There was something in there.
	Oh, you can hear it.
	I found it.
	Greetings from Bryan College Station.
	This is my third executive producership.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Can't say enough good things.
	Oh, I know what you want to hear.
	Oh, it's the best audio quality.
	stop, stop, stop, stop.
	That is what triggered it.
	If you're listening to the podcast, you don't know this, but on the live show, we had an epic crash of the system while I was in New York, and it gave me a blue screen of death.
	Yes, it did.
	Like a fool, but I really did it because the stream was down.
	It was down for 15 minutes.
	I had to reboot everything.
	It was nuts.
	And I tweet this screenshot of it.
	And I just want to say a couple things.
	If you use Linux, please don't be an a-hole.
	Because you don't know what you're...
	We go through this every single time.
	Everyone who uses Linux is an a-hole.
	It's a known fact.
	Well, I use Linux every single day for everything I do except the show for a very specific reason.
	Thanks, John.
	And here's what you get.
	Besides the, a lot of people, unplug it, plug it back in.
	I blocked people over that.
	So if you're blocked, that's because you're a dick.
	Did you get my note?
	No, I didn't see your note.
	I bet it was dynamite.
	What did you say?
	Jiggle the handle.
	Jiggle the handle?
	Okay.
	Also, lame, but on par.
	The one that really disturbed me, get it, strip it off, use Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux.
	And so I've been through a long series of experimentation to get Linux to work with a particular, very specific device that I use.
	But people think that the problem of audio devices with Linux has been solved, but they have no idea what they're talking about.
	Now, it's okay.
	I'm like, okay.
	I'll take a breath.
	It got so bad that I finally said, I will give anybody $5,000 in Bitcoin bounty if you can solve this problem for me.
	So, you know, now I can just ignore people who say, and actually, I bought LinuxMotuBounty.com, and it points to this tweet and this thread.
	And still, people are, you know, just, it works, man.
	You're just not doing it right.
	You need pipe wire.
	I've been running a professional studio for five years in Linux, but okay, you know better, Curry!
	That's a good voice.
	I should use that one more often.
	I like that voice.
	I enjoy that voice.
	So I got really frustrated.
	Now, it turns out there is another model of exactly what I used that had been upgraded because it didn't used to have noise gate functionality.
	And it possibly could work.
	And I was delighted.
	So I immediately order one of these devices.
	They all cost about 500 bucks.
	I'm like, wow, this could really solve it.
	I could do the show on Linux because it's really just the interfacing and the drivers and there's a special little service that has to run to be able to manipulate the digital signal processing to create said fantastic production values.
	And so I ordered this while we're in the lounge before we fly.
	When we land, there's a voicemail.
	Hey, it's Don from Sweetwater.
	I ordered from Sweetwater.
	And the way the Sweetwater operates, you get a guy and they walk you through it.
	And of course, they're to upsell as well.
	And he says, well, Adam, we haven't charged your card.
	I just want you to know, currently they're out of stock, and sadly it could be a while before we get them because, well, there was a huge fire.
	The entire factory was destroyed a year and a half ago, and they don't expect to be able to get chips for another two years.
	So could I interest you in something else?
	So the Linux production of this program will have to remain elusive for quite a while.
	What are the odds of having a complete fire melting down your entire production facility during a supply chain problem where chips are impossible to get?
	I mean, that's some bad karma.
	And with that, his head was gone.
	No, it was just locked.
	Everything was locked.
	I couldn't do anything because normally when I have a dropout, I just reset it real quick and then it's usually, you know, it doesn't...
	No, everything was frozen.
	So what are the odds of us discussing Linux for the show because Windows sucks and then your Windows machine just has a kernel panic?
	It does.
	You hurt its feelings.
	And we want to thank all of our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1446.
	These are titles that are real.
	Now, we only handed out 11 of them today.
	Yeah, 11.
	But they are to be used anywhere.
	Executive producer and associate executive producer titles are recognized.
	Look at IMDB. See if you can find some.
	Because some Hollywood bigwigs are indeed very proud of displaying those.
	Put them on your LinkedIn, your CV, your resume.
	It's great.
	It's a good thing to have.
	And if anyone questions that, he'll be happy to vouch for you.
	And before you kick that off, one of the bigwig former executive producers' friend died, and it's on the notes there.
	It's a lesser donation, so it's probably...
	But he wants some karma or something.
	You may want to look at that.
	It's a very famous singer.
	Oh, yes.
	Now, hold on a second.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Tillian Pearson, he's a rock singer that has got amazing chops.
	Where is this?
	You bring it up, but I don't know where it is.
	They have a weird band name.
	It's Run Gavin Newsom Run.
	No, it's Run Gavin Run, I think.
	Oh, I thought it was Gavin Newsom.
	Wait a minute.
	Where is this note?
	It's on the bottom of the...
	Oh, I know.
	I have it here.
	Email from Eric.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm sorry.
	I got it here.
	Hey, guys.
	I donated $30 in PayPal, and I know you don't usually read those, so as a backup, I wanted to ask for emergency karma for executive producer and tremendous singer Tillian Pearson and the kick-ass band Dance Gavin Dance.
	They lost their bass player, Tim Fierik.
	Just 34 years old, 10 days before kicking off a tour.
	Huh.
	That sucks.
	Well, forget the tour.
	The first show was Saturday, April 23rd, and music is how they cope.
	Give them strength to push on, love, and lit.
	Of course, we got a karma for that.
	Sorry to hear it, guys.
	You've got karma.
	That does bite ultimate ass.
	If you'd like to be an executive producer or an associate executive producer, then all you have to do is go to this website.
	Thank you very much for bringing your time, talent and treasure to episode 1446.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Before we get into another topic, just wanted to bring up something that I found rather interesting, particularly in the days of political pizza playbook, where pedophilia and groomers is bandied about everywhere.
	Christina told me, and we actually watched it, the three of us, that there's a documentary on Netflix about Jimmy Savile.
	The Jumalfixit guy.
	And this is a horrific story because the guy was just revered by the entire United Kingdom.
	All of Britain loved him because he did great things for children, for children's hospitals.
	And then it turned out that he was having sex and inappropriate contact with lots of children, but even people who were 80 years old.
	He was a necrophiliac.
	The whole thing was just a horrific, Horrific story, and it broke around 2012, and we know it very well because we covered that extensively on the show, mainly because I was also, I think, no, I wasn't living in the UK at the time, but knew a lot about it.
	And so we watched this thing, and so we watched the first part, and there's a lot of background, a lot of great historical footage, and then we watched the second part, What I thought was episode, and we're about 45 minutes into it, I say, Christina, how many episodes are this?
	You know, this is it.
	It's just a two-parter.
	I'm like, what?
	And so this entire thing, which, by the way, is not a documentary, it's actually produced by kind of a commercial production house who do promo reels and stuff like Big Brother sub-shows, stuff like that.
	It's called 72 Films Production.
	And I was like, this is a cover-up.
	This is a cover-up of what went down.
	And I went to bingit.io just because this has indexed our show notes for, well, certainly back to 2012.
	Do you remember Jill Dando, the journalist who tried to bring out that there were sports people, 75 BBC executives, tons of politicians who were involved in this.
	There were bones of hundreds of kids found outside of orphanages on the Isle of Jersey.
	It was incredible.
	And everything got shut down.
	There was corruption in all the reporting.
	And I put the link to the...
	One of the prime ministers of the UK was a pedophile.
	Edward Heath.
	Edward Heath.
	All of this.
	And none of that was in this documentary.
	So I just needed to bring this up as...
	Smokescreen.
	Well, how about smokescreen or just...
	Oh, when you bring up Savile Noss, oh, that guy.
	But, I mean, Jill Dando, the country stopped for a week because she got shot in the head in front of her house in London.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They weren't too pleased.
	Have a look at the Bingit.io search query if you want to know more about that.
	But I bring it up because, yeah, there's a reason this was done by some production house and was billed as a documentary.
	Stinks the way you do it.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't like it.
	In other words, something's still at play.
	Something's at play.
	Something's up, yes.
	Something's up, for sure.
	I mean, if it was just over and done with, and Saville was in the...
	He already died, and who cares?
	It would have been a real documentary.
	It would have been interesting.
	But no, if something's still going on, this is, you know, let's do this.
	Well, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of stuff coming out.
	The UK's got these issues.
	Well, not just the UK, John.
	Not just the UK. This is about the UK specifically.
	I don't think it was a...
	I don't think Saville was part of an international group.
	Maybe it was.
	We learned a lot about connections between people, between Saville and Epstein.
	So yeah, I do believe so.
	And a lot of that was...
	I do believe.
	I do believe.
	No, I do believe.
	I do believe.
	I caught myself.
	Thanks.
	I caught myself.
	Um...
	Yeah, I think something much bigger is bubbling up and...
	Lord knows, but eyes open.
	Eyes on it.
	By the way, I will mention, you know that X-22 podcast?
	Yes.
	That guy, all he does is say, I do believe.
	He has never once said, I believe.
	He says, I do believe.
	I do believe.
	He says it at least ten times a show.
	No, he says a couple of things.
	He says, I do believe.
	He also says, the private Western Central Banks, the private Western Central Banks, the private Western Central Banks, the private Western Central Banks.
	And he says, let's talk about your health.
	Let's talk about your safety.
	Let's talk about your food.
	But there's something about the show.
	You have to keep listening.
	You can't not listen to the show.
	The Patriots...
	We're at war against the private Western Central Banks.
	Let's talk about our health.
	It's a good podcast.
	Only available on podcasting 2.0 apps.
	It's been kicked off of Spotify and Apple, probably because of the I Do Believe.
	We're out.
	Mm-hmm.
	China.
	I have two quick clips to bring us up to speed on what's going on in China, specifically Shanghai.
	Turning to the pandemic, China is installing what's being described as COVID cages around some buildings and neighborhoods in Shanghai.
	The barriers are part of China's increasingly strict zero COVID policy.
	Shanghai has been locked down for weeks amid China's worst COVID outbreak so far.
	Meanwhile, in Beijing, people in some areas are now required to get tested three times per week.
	You know what's interesting is that they're now, it's five or six weeks this has been happening with, specifically with Shanghai.
	And we have producers in Shanghai, a couple of them, and I'm very concerned.
	You know, I'll be emailing and saying, you know, they say, well, yeah, it's true, you know, we're not really in the apartment problem where the lights are on and you got a bucket to poop in and And, you know, a bottle of water and they're separating kids.
	But even they are like, no, things are fine.
	You know, we got three pickles.
	I'm like, do you realize?
	I mean, I think that they've become accustomed to it.
	Being accustomed to the Chinese just saying, no food for you.
	And maybe they've been in the country too long, but they really feel, no, no, we're fortunate.
	We've got 50 eggs, three pickles, and some corn, and we'll be good for the next month.
	I mean, it's really interesting.
	And I keep saying, don't you want to leave?
	We'll see.
	Once this is over, we'll see how it's going.
	My heart goes out to them.
	I hope they're okay.
	Because things are not good in China.
	This morning, China racing to control a rise in COVID-19 cases.
	In Beijing, enforcing and expanding mass testing in 11 of its 16 districts.
	Lines snaking around the block with residents waiting to get swabbed.
	Authorities are cracking down.
	Police restricting people's movements.
	They're stepping up their efforts to prevent a larger outbreak like the one in Shanghai.
	Shanghai has now been shut down for five weeks.
	For the city's 25 million people trapped in their homes, fences are put up where COVID cases have been confirmed to stop residents from leaving.
	Speaking to ABC News, one resident holed up in her apartment with her two children and parents since the beginning of March.
	A lack of access to readily available food forcing her to eat just one meal a day.
	I'm angry, but I have no choice actually.
	I have no power to use.
	I don't have any right to do something.
	Those who do test positive are sent to an isolation facility like this one.
	Multiple people forced to share rooms, some in cramped and unsanitary conditions.
	But these strict measures, two years after the start of the outbreak, have broader implications.
	In Shanghai's port, cargo ships filled with trade goods from around the world are backed up, threatening the global supply chain once again.
	And I just want to point out that this is complete deja vu all over again, including the report that has come out now, the world's first H3N8 bird flu human infection reported in China.
	This is kind of the way it goes.
	Now, this is COVID and bird flu, two different things, but they're going to do anything they can.
	It's so obvious to me.
	Any kind of virus, they can figure out, oh, we got that one to jump to humans, we're all going to die.
	And, you know, maybe we'll die from the bird flu.
	I don't know.
	But China, they're asshole.
	We've got to stop this now.
	I really believe they're going to try and do this again.
	Well, good for you.
	And good for them.
	They're out of luck.
	But I mean, also to us.
	I wish you had...
	Do you have the clip?
	If you don't have it, I'll get it for Sunday.
	Of the guy screaming, kill me, kill me now, kill me.
	No, how come you don't have that clip?
	Well, I have a thing I do with clips.
	But this leads into something that we've been talking about, and we actually had questions about how treatises work in the United States, and now the World Health Organization has a promo video out, and this is happening.
	It's not stopping.
	It will be ratified, approved everywhere in the world.
	It is the...
	The World Health Organization pandemic treaty, which directly affects the international health regulations, which is a thing.
	The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the biggest challenges we are facing.
	It's been a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe.
	There will be other pandemics and other major health emergencies.
	No single government or multilateral agency can address this threat alone.
	Together, we must be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly coordinated fashion.
	The 194 member states of the World Health Organization resolved to work together towards a new international instrument for pandemic preparedness and response.
	This renewed collective commitment is a milestone in stepping up pandemic preparedness at the highest political level.
	Such an agreement rooted in the World Health Organization Constitution could strengthen existing international health instruments, especially the international health regulations, and provide a firm and tested foundation on which we can build and improve.
	The agreement also has the potential to foster an all-of-government and all-of-society approach, strengthening national, regional, and global capacities and resilience to future pandemics.
	This could include greatly enhancing international cooperation to improve alert systems, data sharing, research, and local, regional, and global production and distribution of medical public health countermeasures such as vaccines, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment.
	The agreement could also recognize the one health approach that connects the health of humans, animals, and our planet.
	To achieve this, WHO will support its member states in their work and facilitate the involvement of relevant stakeholders, including from civil society and the private sector.
	Pandemic preparedness needs global leadership for a global health system fit for this millennium.
	To make this commitment a reality, we must be guided by solidarity, fairness, transparency, inclusiveness, and equity.
	Throw some equity in there.
	You're making me sick.
	Trump had the right idea of getting rid of this operation.
	Yes, he did.
	He had the right idea.
	And I'm going to make a prediction.
	It'll be very similar to my prediction that I made in 2015.
	By the time 2024 rolls around, it is my belief, and my sincere belief, or I could say I do believe, that people, even people on the left, will be begging for Trump.
	They'll be begging for him to come back and fix it.
	That's my prediction.
	You can write it down.
	That's a pretty wild one.
	I want to stop the show for a second and say, just not to throw back to earlier, Defense One alert just came out through the email system.
	There's been a nuclear strike.
	No.
	Not yet.
	Requests will help fight Russia in the longer term, Biden says.
	They're asking Congress to approve another...
	What was it, 700 million they did this morning?
	There was 800 million, 800 million.
	700 million was the new number?
	They're doing another one?
	33 billion to provide more military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine so they can go the long run.
	Are you kidding me?
	No.
	No.
	President Joe Biden just asked Congress on Thursday, that's today, for $33 billion.
	My goodness.
	It doesn't seem like a lot, actually.
	$33 billion.
	It's got nothing to do with it.
	It's just throwing $33 billion away.
	But why is it $33?
	What are they trying to tell us?
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, that's another story.
	Please, please explain.
	It came out just during the show to let us know that my earlier thesis that the National Security Council is running everything.
	They're listening to us.
	Just to throw this in, it shows up right on my...
	Just to let us know.
	This is for us.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Trump will be, people will be begging for him, although he's stupid because he says he's not going to join Twitter.
	Even if he's invited back, he won't rejoin Twitter because he's got Throat Sensual.
	Have you heard about his new social network?
	Yes, we have.
	We both have accounts.
	I had to give the American people their voice back by building something called Truth Sensual.
	What?
	He said Throat Truth Sensual.
	He doesn't even know his own social network.
	That was bad.
	Throat Sensual.
	It was bad.
	Throat Sensual.
	Come on, man.
	I didn't get that one.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Well, you're still talking about China.
	Let's talk about Australia and China.
	There's a bunch of other stuff that's not being reported.
	The Europeans talk about this.
	Australia is having issues with China right now, and everyone's freaked out.
	Australia's government says it's very likely that Beijing could deploy Chinese troops on its doorstep in the next year.
	The warning follows the signing of a new security pact between China and the Solomon Islands, which are about 2,000 kilometers from northeast Australia.
	A leaked draft of the deal suggests that China could deploy security forces to the island, or even build a military base there.
	Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says that's a red line, and with federal elections less than a month away, this has become a hot political issue.
	Australia's opposition has promised a defence school to train neighbouring armies if it wins the May election.
	This as a response to China's potential military presence on the Solomon Islands.
	The prospect of a Chinese base less than 2,000 kilometres from Australia's coastline is dramatically detrimental to Australia's security interests.
	And that is the Colonel Mr Morrison's watch.
	The Labour Party is criticizing Prime Minister Scott Morrison over a security pact announced last week between China and the Solomon Islands.
	A leak of the draft deal in March indicates that Chinese military personnel and naval ships could be permitted to land or dock here.
	That has sent shockwaves across the region.
	Where's this report from?
	Deutsche Welle.
	This is my news source for today.
	Okay.
	I like it.
	Part 2.
	But China denies seeking a military foothold there.
	The cooperation aims to help the Solomon Islands maintain social order, respond to natural disasters, and carry out humanitarian assistance.
	The island nation has also defended the pact to its public.
	Let me assure the people of Solomon Islands that we entered into an arrangement with China with our eyes wide open, guided by our national interests.
	But the Solomon Islands is far from united about the decision.
	Deadly unrest erupted last year after the government switched ties from Taiwan to China.
	Australia sent troops to restore calm.
	And soon after, China began to train local riot forces on the island.
	A move that caused anxiety in Australia.
	Then came the new security pact.
	It has accelerated Canberra's plans to purchase long-range missiles.
	I am concerned about the outlook.
	I'm concerned about not just the next few years but over the course of the next decade as well.
	There was a working assumption that an act of aggression by China toward Taiwan might take place in the 2040s.
	I think that timeline now has been dramatically compressed.
	I think China's been very open and honest about their intentions and certainly not just through their words but through their actions.
	With elections looming next month, issues around regional stability will continue to take center stage in Australia's domestic politics.
	I think there was maybe two or three years ago that there was already some worry about...
	Yeah, that's when the Solomon Islands said, we're not going to recognize Taiwan anymore.
	We're going to recognize China, and that opened the door, and now we've got this.
	This is a big deal in Australia.
	That's all they're talking about.
	No, no, no.
	They're talking about the price of gas.
	And inflation.
	And inflation.
	It's kind of scary, though, because I think Australia is rather vulnerable.
	Do they?
	I mean, I guess we'd have to...
	Well, they're not part of NATO, so they can't count on our help if they need it.
	Oh, they can count on our help.
	They're part of the Five Eyes Network.
	Are you kidding?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, true.
	True.
	Flip three.
	Well, DW's chief international editor Richard Walker caught up with former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott at a security conference in Delhi and asked for his view of this deal.
	There's absolutely no doubt that having secured much of the first island chain, they're now turning their attention to what they call the second island chain.
	The Solomon Islands are very strategically significant.
	You might remember that one of the most savage battles of the Pacific War was at Guadalcanal, which of course is part of the Solomon Islands.
	So...
	It's absolutely understandable that from China's purposes they would want to secure a significant foothold, ultimately perhaps a major military base in the Solomon Islands.
	Likewise, as far as Australia is concerned, as the Prime Minister said, this is really a red line that shouldn't be crossed.
	And I want to ask about that.
	As you say, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called that a red line.
	What does that mean?
	If China crosses that red line, what happens?
	Well, that's a very good question.
	Nothing.
	And one of the things that sensible statesmen try to ensure is that we don't over-telegraph what might happen.
	I am very confident that the entire Australian apparatus is bending every energy right now to ensure that this Chinese base doesn't happen and that the Solomon Islands and their people appreciate that their long-term best interests lie in maintaining The long and happy friendship that they've had with Australia.
	Just to drill down on that, the language of red lines tends to imply that if they are crossed, there could be some kind of military action taken.
	Is Australia really threatening some form of military action if China takes that step?
	Well, I think everyone needs to understand just how serious this is.
	The world was comparatively oblivious To what happened in the South China Sea.
	And we're now confronted with a very drastic alteration of the situation on the ground, the facts on the ground.
	Wow, this is an interesting turn of events.
	I mean, it was the Japanese, now it's the Chinese.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Is there something...
	I guess it's the location of the Solomon Islands that makes it so perfect for this.
	They're trying to block off...
	And set up a situation where they can't be blocked off themselves for their trading paths.
	Right.
	They don't need Australia in their way.
	I put this thing up there.
	This will stop Australia from getting too involved with anything.
	I just want to go back to the war machine for a second and Trump because I forgot one clip that I thought was kind of interesting because there's a little more information behind the recent losses that Boeing reported.
	Boeing, of course, big contractor for the military.
	And the CEO mentioned something in this, I think it's a CNBC interview, about these losses.
	And I looked it up and it's pretty funny.
	Dave, they set it up perfectly.
	You missed on the top and the bottom line.
	You had a number of charges in there.
	It was not a good-looking quarter at all.
	What do you say to Boeing investors who are looking at their shares moving lower now and tell them that you believe you have a game plan for not only second quarter but the rest of this year?
	Phil, first, great to have you here in South Carolina and great to see some tails behind us on the production line.
	Messier quarter than any of us would have liked.
	Familiar themes, supply chain constraints, COVID, inflation, have disproportionate impact on our company in one specific area, and that's our fixed price development contracts that we do with our defense business.
	And they took a hit, without a doubt.
	We had Air Force One, which is a program most people know a lot about.
	It took a hit.
	Our trainer took a hit, and our MQ-25.
	We love those development programs, and we love the work we're doing and the performance of the airplanes, but the accounting proved to be difficult.
	The accounting proved to be difficult.
	So I looked into this.
	If you recall, President Trump at the time made a deal with Boeing for Air Force One.
	It was a big deal.
	There's going to be new planes and two planes, actually.
	And Boeing lost over a billion dollars on the deal.
	How did it happen?
	Something incredibly interesting.
	Trump did something that the U.S. government never does with the military-industrial complex.
	He put in there that overruns would have to be paid for by Boeing themselves.
	And I don't know if they missed it.
	They didn't miss it.
	They came up $600 million short or something like that.
	Per plane.
	Per plane.
	And they had to come up with that themselves.
	I'm whining now.
	I love that.
	Finally someone who did something right with those a-holes.
	Let them pay for it with your overruns.
	Yeah.
	Bologna overruns.
	He saw that.
	I mean, everyone knows about this scam.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay, we got a low bid.
	Now we just run it up.
	Yeah.
	That's where things, you know, they bid it out at like a billion and it goes for three and a half billion when it's finally done and we pay it.
	The taxpayers pay.
	Of course.
	Yeah, I know.
	I saw that report.
	It's very interesting.
	Some news for you from the food intelligence sector.
	We discussed your yak fest on the last show.
	And the yak meat, and what was yak burgers?
	Did you have yak burgers?
	Yeah, yak burgers.
	Yak burgers.
	I got some yak steaks coming, and I got another report coming on Sunday.
	Well, here's the power of John C. Dvorak.
	I got a note from Dr.
	J. He says, Brother Adam ordered yak meat from the Colorado farmer that John mentioned in 1441.
	I told the owner, who wrote me a very nice note after he received payment, that I'd learned about his farm from No Agenda.
	He told me there'd been an explosion of orders.
	Now he's listening to No Agenda 2.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, is he?
	An explosion of orders, I say.
	Might be time to make the yak the official No Agenda Gitmo Nation animal.
	Well, that may be taking it a bit far.
	The goat will not kick the side that easy.
	No, it could be our No Agenda dinner meet.
	You know, I've looked into it a little more.
	It's got, besides being 97% fat-free, and the fat that it does have is the good duck fat, basically.
	For the most beef that is that fat-free is tough.
	This is not a tough meat.
	That's what makes it interesting.
	And it's actually a light and kind of, I would say, fluffy.
	It's also referred to, for marketing purposes, as Himalayan beef.
	Well, that's no good.
	Yak is much better.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	But they said apparently that the American, you know, squeamish American consumer...
	Oh, we can't handle the yak.
	Yak, I can't eat that.
	You can't handle the yak.
	So, I'll have another report, a complete report on Sunday regarding my situation with the yak.
	Well, if Americans are having trouble with yak, they're not going to like this.
	Well, brave volunteers are putting their taste buds to the test at the University of Adelaide.
	Researchers are preparing common insects for consumption, insisting sustainable food sources are the future.
	Sustainable!
	Crickets, ants, and mealworms, usually the last things you want to see in a kitchen.
	But forget using words like creepy or crawly to describe the dishes they're plating up at the University of Adelaide.
	Crunchy and flaky.
	It's pretty delicious.
	People often assume that what they might taste like is kind of this insect and that's often something that's a bit squishy and squelchy and not too appetising.
	Researchers want to change that.
	Frying, roasting and dehydrating insects to be included in an everyday diet.
	They're also really high in protein and good fats.
	They can be raised using very little environmental resources.
	And that's a big win.
	Global food production accounts for more than a third of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
	Researchers say the way the insects are prepared is key.
	Now I'm told the roasted mealworm is one of the most palatable for beginners, so bon appetit.
	Mmm!
	Tastes like poop.
	A bit like roast chicken.
	Chicken.
	Oh, shit.
	Chicken.
	Feedback from the uni's taste testers will create a sensory guide which can then be used by industries for product creation or by anyone curious enough to try.
	A lot of our retailers in Australia have their insects available online.
	Taylor Jones, 7 News.
	And if you think this is just a fun little joke with everybody listening to this podcast, it's not.
	It's coming.
	We've been predicting this for over a decade.
	We accurately predicted mac and cheese as being the only food you'll actually serve your children.
	And Northern Ireland is the first to have a shining example.
	You heard it there.
	It's like, beef bad?
	Animals?
	Nope.
	No good.
	You can't have animal protein?
	No, you need bugs.
	Here's what's happening.
	Northern Ireland...
	We'll have to either cull, remove, or stop breeding over a million sheep and cattle to meet climate targets of the sustainable development goals of the Starship Command and European Union and all that crap.
	A million.
	So they're making you kill the birds.
	My sheep are mostly used for wool.
	So not only are they freezing you out by not giving you Russian gas, but now you can't even wear a sweater.
	But you can eat bugs!
	The whole thing is so disgusting.
	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.
	We do have a few people to thank for show, what is it, 1446?
	1446, yeah.
	Starting with Mr.
	Benjamini in San Francisco, $188.88.
	We've got a couple of things.
	I've got to read this.
	BruceFenton.com.
	He's a good guy running for a candidate for New Hampshire.
	I know what he's got to do with San Francisco, but there he is.
	Please de-douche Jonah Miso.
	You've been de-douched.
	Otherwise, he'll be in the soup.
	James Donaldson, El Paso, Texas, $100.33.
	He sends a nice note.
	Thank you.
	Susie in Saugus, California, $100.
	Niece Jobs Karma, we'll put that at the end for you specifically, Susie, and the others.
	Joel Donaldson, Elko, Nevada, 8117.
	Sir Herb Lamb, the Duke of the Deep South in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.
	He realized he never made a donation this month.
	He expects to see you in South Carolina.
	South Carolina, big meetup.
	And guess who?
	Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of the Luna and Lover of America and Boobs at Concord, New Hampshire, 8008.
	I'm going to have to go back and see when he started this run, but he's setting records.
	Gary Blatt in Wayne, Pennsylvania, 7777.
	Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale, Arizona, 7575.
	Stephen Smith, 6996.
	And Crofton, Maryland.
	He's seen this 6996 before, so he had to join in.
	Sir Jamo of North Central Idaho in Lewiston, 6933.
	Ashley Davison, birthday man or girl.
	That's a by name.
	6666 in London, UK. Dame Judy Schwartz, the Baroness of Kendall County, Bernie, Texas, 60-65.
	This is some comment about this column.
	Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington, 55-10.
	Greg Nuzzo in Naperville, another birthday party.
	Illinois, 55.
	Miles Perolt.
	I'm pretty sure that's right.
	In Westminster, Massachusetts, 51.
	Derek, by the way, in West Jordan, Utah.
	Needs a dedouching, please.
	You've been dedouched.
	By the way is indeed his real name.
	Sir Chris, Protector of the Psychotic Sausage Dog in Saxe, Texas.
	And a happy birthday to his friend, John.
	Essex is switcheroo and should be in John's name.
	John Kimmich.
	Chance Barnett in San Angelo, Texas.
	And the following people are $50 donors.
	Name and location if I have them.
	Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
	Richard Gardner, Sir Richard Gardner.
	Greg Hartlob in Cincinnati.
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	Followed by Dale Fitch in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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	Anonymous in St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	Jack Schofeld in Yankee Town, Florida.
	Shane Morrison in Clark, New Jersey.
	And last but not least, our old friend Sir Alan Bean, who is now in Beaverton, Oregon.
	I want to thank these folks for making...
	Show 1446 a possibility.
	And we have a title upgrade from Dame Carol Ann who says, Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you for keeping me more sane in such an insane world.
	I'd like to update my title from Dame Carol Ann of East Hatchet Ranch to Baroness of Southern Colorado.
	Oh, there you go.
	I've been on a subscription plan for years and also have given some additional executive producer donations.
	I've been listeners since October of 2016 after my two sons, Sir Joshua and Sir Isaac, hit me in the mouth.
	We are hosting a two-day meetup on May 28th and May 29th.
	The 28th will be for those slaves interested in some free-range time on a ranch with an instructor present.
	May 29th will be just...
	Is it an Oryx Ranch?
	I don't know.
	I'm wondering, what is the instructor for?
	May 29th will be just non-triggering food and drink with some optional games.
	All are welcome.
	Just go to NoAgendaMeetups.com for information.
	P.S. We do have goats for real goat karma for all who attend.
	Well, that sounds like a dynamite affair.
	And I believe that is on the list, of course, at NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	And your title upgrade will be reflected.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you to all of our producers who supported us for episode 1446.
	Of course, people under $50 for reasons of anonymity, you can get on those subscription programs that you find there.
	Those are appreciated.
	If you'd like more information, check this out.
	Dvorak.org.
	Big Jobs Karma, as promised.
	You've got karma.
	And here's your list.
	Edgar Decker.
	Happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Beth Decker.
	That was on April 16th.
	Sir Chris, protector of psychotic sausage dogs.
	Happy birthday to John Kimmich, who celebrated on the 24th.
	Jasmine's husband, Mark Ginty, 40 today.
	Bill Crocker, also for Mark Ginty, 40 on April 28th.
	And Jasmine.
	Who celebrated on April 15th.
	Maria Calavrezu turns 33 today.
	The magic numbers.
	Peter McClay, 50 tomorrow.
	Tim Gaudrian says happy birthday to Arno, who turns 50 on May 2nd.
	We may be a little early on that one, but we'll do it again on Sunday.
	And Samantha Foggin.
	Happy birthday to her smoking hot husband, Peter.
	Craig Nuzzo to his brother, Scott.
	And Mark, builder of Fine Yard Walls, is celebrating.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	It's your birthday, yeah.
	T-T-T-T-T-T-Title changes.
	Turn it facelessly.
	Nice changes.
	Don't want to be a douche.
	And there she is, Dame Carol Ann of East Hatchet Ranch, now becomes the Baroness of Southern Colorado.
	And we have some information, I guess, about their two-day meetup.
	Thank you very much for your support, Dame Carol Ann.
	Welcome to the upgrade on the peerage list.
	No knights or dames today, so that does make that part much easier, although we're a little sad about it.
	So let's hit straight to the meetups.
	No agenda meetups!
	At the party!
	Noagendameetups.com.
	These are completely producer-organized meetups all around the world where you just get together, hang out.
	Maybe you have a drink, a little snack.
	It can be at bars.
	It can be at people's personal homes.
	It's a fantastic experience.
	If you've never been to one, you must go find something near you at noagendameetups.com.
	Let me see.
	We have a meetup report from Sioux Falls.
	We say they had another great meet-up.
	They talked about homeschooling, entrepreneurship, dude named Ben Ship, centralized maternity care, pet snakes, the history of silencers, and that was just what I heard at my end of the table.
	Special thanks to Woody, the Baron of Blood Run, and to all esteemed producers in attendance.
	Look for another gathering soon in April.
	That is from April, sorry.
	The Toronto meetup in the morning.
	Thank you again for no agenda.
	We had a nice and low-key meetup in Toronto, April 16th.
	It was Easter weekend, so many had family plans.
	But a few of us gathered together to enjoy a few beers on a heated patio.
	This is Canada, after all.
	And they sent a...
	A recording, which was just not for public broadcast.
	There was no beginning, no ending, just some people kind of uttering stuff, a little bit of Tourette's-like, oddly enough.
	But it is appreciated.
	And we do have one report from, I believe, Pennsylvania.
	This is the TMI evac zone.
	Let's see what their report says here.
	Hey John and Adam, it's Sir 737 from Crosswater for the Three Mile Island Evac Zone Monthly Meetup.
	This is Ed.
	Thank you to Adam and to the man who put the C in Crosswater Distilling.
	This is Laura Renegade and I'm happy to be here.
	This is Jake and headed to West Virginia next.
	This is Chris with my not-so-secret no agenda.
	Don't screw me, Mickey Mouse.
	Mickey Mouse is the buff fudge.
	Shout out to the old tech grouch.
	Good material lives forever.
	This is Sir Chad Farrow in the morning.
	Jason with the great re-tease.com here with my smoking hot fiancé, Natasha.
	Hey, John and Adam, we're starting to fill up restaurants.
	Hopefully someday we'll see you here.
	In the morning from Snob Knob, it's Patrick.
	It's just like a party.
	Thank you, they are here.
	In the morning.
	This is Mrs.
	Sir 737.
	Meow.
	I guess I gotta let the cat out.
	Um, Rob.
	It's good to be here.
	Big fan of No Agenda.
	Maxwell Reeves.
	Looking forward to seeing you, Adam, and the Keeper in Charleston.
	Some people say The Grouse will be the next great American movie, but JCD on Nick Lorette is one of the best interviews of all time.
	Did you go on Nick's show again?
	No, I went on once.
	Oh, so he's just talking about how great you are.
	You know, those guys are sent...
	What are you eating?
	I had a lozenge.
	I would cough.
	Okay.
	I listened to Adam and Texas Slim on a show in October 2021.
	Yeah.
	That show should be on a loop 24-7.
	This is from JD. Oh.
	What is he talking about?
	I did, well, Texas Slim, the beef initiative in Texas, they had a really big, their first conference in Kerrville, the weekend that I was in New York, I was supposed to speak at this, teaching people how to connect with ranchers, learning about beef, about where it comes from, the good beef, not just the crap that you buy in the stores, but you get it from the rancher.
	It's a whole push about teaching people what good food is again.
	We've got people being taught how to eat bugs and we have to have counter-programming.
	That's what Texas Slim is doing.
	So I have a podcast that I call With Adam Curry and it was Texas Slim with Adam Curry and really I used that podcast to take clips out and we played some of those clips on this show.
	Which I may remember.
	I never heard of this.
	You're fighting the good fight.
	Yes, yes, the very good fight.
	Against the reptilians who are teaching us to eat bugs and become like them and tastier to them.
	Meetups.
	Today, there are a couple meetups taking place.
	One in Bellevue, Washington at the Irish Bar Fun Times, 6 o'clock.
	Patty's Coins Irish Pub.
	The NA Central Iowa Meetup, 7 o'clock this evening at Poor Choices Neighborhood Bar in Grimes, Iowa.
	You have to RSVP. Return of the Denver City Park Meetup, 7 o'clock Mountain, Denver City Park today as well.
	Then tomorrow, the Oregon Local 33 ITM Extravaganza, 5.30 at Dick's Primal Burger in Portland, Oregon.
	We have, ooh, what is this?
	In Croatia.
	This is also on Friday, Rakia Malvizja and Loza in Emperor's Palace, 8 o'clock at Luxor Cafe in Hrvatska, Croatia.
	Ask for Alex.
	Details on NoAgendaMeetups.com Saturday, the New Hampshire Meetup at 1230 Eastern, Shooter's Tavern.
	We're everywhere, John.
	This is crazy.
	In Belmont, New Hampshire, Gitmo Nation Freelance Meetup, 4 o'clock, Kumo Sushi and Hibachi in Wyndham, New Hampshire.
	Saturday as well, Censored for Your Safety Masquerade Meetup, 1 o'clock, Harmonic Brewing in San Francisco.
	Rain in your backyard.
	You should go visit this one.
	The Shrunken Amyglo Support Group, Cincinnati, 2 o'clock Eastern on Saturday at Tafts Brewporium, Cincinnati, Ohio.
	The Punta Gorda Passi Parli, 3 o'clock at Propaganda Place.
	Uh, wherever that is.
	Local 1 final meet at the rink, 5 Eastern, the private rink.
	Oh, this is in Rochester, Minnesota.
	Or Michigan, I guess.
	Rochester, Michigan?
	Yes.
	Michigan.
	You have to RSVP for that.
	Local 251 International Brotherhood of Mouth Hitters in Jason's Deli Mobile, Mobile, Alabama.
	Stay in your lane, bowling night, 7 p.m.
	in Wynwoods Lane, Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
	Now we're into Saturday still.
	The most logical Midwest meetup, 7 o'clock at Shippingport Brewing Company in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Curious George meetup on Sunday, Bridge Brew Works in Fayetteville, West Virginia.
	And then May 1st on Sunday, the Lowlands Labor Day Meetup, 3 o'clock Lowlands time at City Beach in Harlem.
	This has been a change of organization, so make sure you check out noagendameetups.com.
	And I could go all the way down the list for all of May into June, even into July.
	I just want to highlight, we have the May 19th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
	North Carolina?
	No.
	May 16th, Charleston, South Carolina.
	That's the one that Keeper and I will be at, and that's a lot of people coming in for that.
	And, of course, Dane Jennifer is organizing.
	I think she's organizing a lot with the Keeper.
	I heard that even Mackenzie Kelly, our councilwoman, who has just become a no-agenda aficionado, that she may be flying there as well, the old councilwoman from Austin.
	Wow.
	And I think Nussbaum's coming in.
	Yes, Bob!
	And I guarantee you, Patrick Coble's going to be there.
	Oh yeah, he has to be there.
	It's going to be a hootenanny.
	Noagendameetups.com, if you have not been to a meetup, definitely go check one out.
	You will not regret it.
	It's like a party.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered all hell's flame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Got ISOs?
	you No.
	None?
	I forgot.
	What a thing to forget.
	What an interesting thing.
	You got freaked out?
	I freaked out and I didn't get any clips.
	You have any?
	Yeah, I do.
	I'm just trying to...
	Well, if you got some, sorry.
	I'm just trying to understand how you forgot.
	It's like, you don't forget something.
	It's just one of those things.
	I usually hear them and it reminds me, ah, this is a good one.
	I just didn't get any.
	Okay, let's try this one.
	Satan's controlling the church.
	No, I don't like that one.
	How about this?
	It's so hard.
	Childish, but we like it.
	This could be a one or a twofer.
	Is that true?
	I like that kind of.
	Especially if you do.
	That's true.
	We could do a twofer there.
	Is that true?
	Oh, that would be dynamite.
	That's true.
	Okay.
	I'm glad you like that.
	Let me cue them up properly.
	No, is that true?
	And then that's true.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, let me just cue them up properly.
	Make sure they work together.
	Put this one here.
	Is that true?
	That's true.
	Okay.
	Those two, right?
	Well, I didn't hear it.
	You just did the one.
	No, I did both of them.
	Is that true?
	I didn't hear it.
	Do you hear this one?
	Is that true?
	Are you hearing that?
	I hear that, but I don't hear the other one.
	That's true.
	That's the other one.
	Are you saying it?
	No, that's the other one.
	Would you like the regular That's True?
	That's what I thought you were talking about.
	Oh, well, no, okay.
	You didn't hear it.
	I get it.
	I get it.
	Hold on.
	Let me find that one.
	Where's the That's True, girls?
	Okay.
	That's true.
	Oh, shit.
	That's not the one.
	Where are they?
	That's true.
	Hold on a second.
	Where are these two crazy women?
	Here it is.
	That's true.
	Okay.
	Finally.
	Took me a half a day.
	Let me just boost this.
	Is that true?
	Okay, I'll roll this back.
	Sorry, everybody.
	Bear with me.
	Is that true?
	That's true.
	Okay, we got them.
	Fine.
	There you go.
	Now you're talking.
	Now we got them.
	Anything else before we get out?
	Because I know there's stuff that we should do, but...
	Okay, I can push it all off except for this one.
	Okay.
	Disinformation police.
	Oh, yes.
	I'm glad you got this.
	The Department of Homeland Security is now aiming to counteract fake news.
	During a congressional hearing today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that they've established a new disinformation governance board.
	Mayorkas says the board will combat threats to election and homeland security ahead of the midterm elections.
	Politico reports that the team will focus on news about immigration and Russia.
	Disinformation expert Nina Jankiewicz will head the board as executive director.
	Yeah, she's a piece of...
	Is this Soviet or what?
	She's a piece of work.
	Yeah, this is fantastic.
	I want to volunteer.
	Do you think they have a volunteer corps?
	Can I be deputized?
	I'd love to be part of the disinformation police.
	Unbelievable.
	I think it's disgusting that the government is going to have a censorship bureau.
	Thank you very much, Democrats.
	It's going to be fantastic.
	I don't know.
	What are you talking about?
	Think about the show.
	We're going to get censored.
	Who's going to censor us?
	It's Podcasting 2.0, baby.
	You're tripping.
	Okay, how did I do?
	Did I catch them all?
	You missed a socket to me.
	Oh, I missed that one.
	You missed Looking Good, which is actually the one that's from the 80s.
	Well, then that doesn't count, but okay.
	No, but that's the one I was hoping you'd catch, because that's the one you said.
	Right, right, right.
	You got Downer.
	You got Out of Sight.
	I got Out of Sight.
	Freak Out, Stoke, Trippin'.
	Oh, Freak Out.
	No, I missed Freak Out.
	I missed Freak Out.
	I said Freak Out twice.
	I know, and I didn't catch it as a 70s.
	Darn.
	Yeah, totally 70s.
	And the one I didn't get in was Righteous.
	Alright, I will have my 70s.
	See if you can catch him for Sunday's show.
	Okay.
	This is a fun game.
	We like to entertain ourselves.
	That's why we're podcasters.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm tripping.
	Suck it to me.
	Yeah?
	You're John C. Dvorak, yes?
	Oh, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Oh, crap.
	Coming up next, we've got AI Cooking, which is Comic Strip Blogger's podcast.
	You do not want to miss that.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. End of show mix is Sir Michael Anthony and GWFF and Sir Chris Wilson.
	Adios, mofos and such.
	I'm bringing mandates back.
	Yeah!
	Cause your New Yorkers don't know how to act.
	Yeah!
	You think it's over here, but here's a fact.
	Yeah!
	We gonna force all y'all to take the facts.
	Yeah!
	Safe and effective.
	Stay asleep.
	I'm going to muzzle because you're asleep I'll guarantee you if you misbehave I'll see if you ain't this a little day Take another booster Come here, Goyle Roll up your sleeve Pour the key To NYC Liberty is gone Liberty is gone!
	Liberty is gone!
	I'd like to keep Checkmark, it's a bummer if after all those years of patriarchy, oh Obama!
	Look, here's the thing, Twitter shouldn't be just left wing.
	I like to hide my racist views from you with a handle that larps so I can remain anonymous and hound those snarky snarks posting peppy memes and playing both extremes.
	Want to kill a live puppy on Twitter spaces?
	Woo!
	Oh, wheel on.
	Your goal to troll is truly on.
	Ooh, and those sphincters are reeling.
	Oh, wheel on.
	Illuminati proto-champion of the future.
	Which horseman are you?
	Am I on band now?
	After tweeting big massive dumps to Don Jr.
	After all my old accounts are uncovered.
	Oh, Elon, all you want to do is authenticate the room.
	You can tell it's real because it looks so fake, so fake, so fake.
	Oh, Elon.
	So fake.
	Your gold to troll is truly on.
	Ooh, and those sphincters are reeling.
	Oh, Elon.
	So fake.
	Illuminati, proto-champion of the future.
	Which horse, but are you?
	When he has a vision for Mars, it's the right vision, and I think he can articulate something really compelling, and I don't understand half of what he's saying, but I'm like, this guy knows what he's talking about.
	When he talks about moving equipment into the atmosphere for less money using reusable rockets, when he talks about electric vehicles, he has absolutely no vision here other than First Amendment blather.
	None of it makes any sense.
	What does he want to kill a live puppy on Twitter spaces?
	What is he talking about?
	Oh, Elon.
	Your goal to troll is truly on.
	Ooh, and those sphincters are reeling.
	Oh, Elon.
	Do you want to kill a live puppy?
	Illuminati proto-champion of the future.
	Which horseman are you?
	Who's a freak?
	Oh, Elon.
	Oh, wheel on.
	You can tell it's real.
	Your go-to troll is truly on.
	Ooh, and the sphincters are reeling.
	Oh, wheel on.
	So fake.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios.
	Mofo.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash.
	N.A. Is that true?

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