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	And there'll be great slaves working for us.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, May 8th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation media assassination episode 1449.
	This is no agenda.
	We have lost our minds.
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're wishing everybody a happy Mother's Day.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	Yes, indeed.
	Although I looked at the donations and I think we're back to hating moms again.
	That's what it looks like.
	I mean, it's like during COVID, you know, everybody was like, oh, mom, help me, help me, help me.
	COVID's over for now.
	And it's like, oh, Ukraine.
	Ukraine.
	Ukraine.
	Who cares about mom?
	It's Ukraine.
	Roe v.
	Wade.
	America's lost its mind, John.
	Why?
	Did you see all these protests, counter-protests, all this crazy stuff going on?
	There's not much going on around here.
	No?
	Hmm.
	Well, I mean, maybe.
	I mean, no.
	Not really.
	Interesting.
	This is Texas.
	No, no, no, no.
	You just started it.
	No, here's Chicago.
	Local report.
	An abortion rights demonstrator screamed back and forth in Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago.
	Abortion is a very important issue because it is a direct attack on the women, and specifically the women of the working class, black, brown.
	Chicago for abortion rights.
	Various groups and activists call for Roe v.
	Wade to be codified into law.
	The We Won't Back Down rally kicked off today to defend abortion rights.
	This rally comes after the leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v.
	Wade.
	I don't know who leaked or what their motivations were, but we have this information now, so we have an obligation to speak out.
	Regardless of what the laws are, abortion is going to keep happening.
	And so our choice really isn't do we want to have abortion or not, but do we want women to be safe, do we want women to have access to care, or do we want them to have to take it into their own hands?
	Give us liberty or you give us death.
	What does that mean?
	That means that if you don't give people with uteruses the liberty to make their own choices, then you're not giving us a choice.
	We are not anti-woman.
	We are not infringing on women's rights.
	We are protecting the women's rights inside the womb.
	Organizers today told me it took them four days to plan this event, and they say they're already planning the next one.
	So this is all polluted, huh?
	Where was that?
	Illinois, it said?
	Chicago.
	It's legal in Chicago.
	What are they complaining about?
	Because they're activated.
	This is political.
	That's nothing to do, actually, with women.
	It's totally legal.
	You know, if you want to get objective reporting, you've got to go overseas.
	Oh, please.
	Where they don't know anything.
	Okay.
	Do you have something?
	I actually do.
	I have quite a bit.
	In fact, included in there is a nice Ask Adam.
	Let's go to Roe v.
	Wade F24 from France.
	A draft ruling in favor of being overturned was leaked to the Politico website.
	It sparked fury among many.
	Why is there a British woman reading on France 24 in English?
	A lot of French people, when they learn English, they learn it from a Brit.
	Oh, you think she's a French native speaker speaking English?
	Oh, okay.
	A draft ruling in favour of being overturned was leaked to the Politico website.
	It sparked fury among many, with US President Joe Biden saying such a decision could imperil a wide range of other civil rights.
	A decision on the draft opinion isn't expected until later in the year, leaving a divided nation to debate and prepare for a possible life without Roe versus Wade, as Monty Francis reports.
	As protests rage across the U.S., the nation's Supreme Court is set to turn back the clock on abortion rights.
	A leaked draft decision indicated that the court would overturn the 1973 decision, Roe v.
	Wade, that for decades secured a woman's right to an abortion.
	President Biden warned the court's reasoning on privacy could lead to other setbacks.
	That children who are LGBTQ can't be in classrooms with other children.
	Is that legit under the way the decision is written?
	What are the next things that are going to be attacked?
	Yeah, this is the talking point that they're all spouting.
	Oh, this is just the beginning.
	What will happen next?
	I like the way the French F24, France 24 picks up on American talking points.
	Yeah, isn't that interesting?
	Yeah, I find it fascinating.
	Isn't that interesting?
	The giant liberal media conspiracy.
	Yeah, no, I had corroboration of this talking point, but it's too long.
	We'll play that later.
	Here you go, Roe vs.
	Wade 2.
	Companies such as Amazon and Citigroup and many others are offering to cover travel costs for workers seeking abortions across state lines.
	There are also reports that the Biden administration is considering whether travel funding could be made available through Medicaid.
	Yeah, this is...
	They are really...
	Really doing everything they can to activate their voting base.
	That was clip two?
	Yes.
	Yeah, no, they are.
	And they're doing everything they can.
	And, you know, somebody pointed out, I was listening to the right-wing talk radio people, and they pointed out...
	That the voting base is, you know, the people aren't changing their minds over this.
	Everyone's decided already who they're going to vote for, but it's all about getting out the vote.
	Yes, activating.
	Activating is what it's called.
	Activating.
	Now, I've got an Ask Adam here.
	Oh.
	This is Roe vs.
	Wade Part 3.
	Um...
	So they're going to bring an American expert on to talk about this.
	Boots on the ground.
	Mm-hmm.
	Okay.
	Who do you think it might be?
	So the Ask Adam is before we play the clip?
	The clip is the payoff?
	I believe I made it that way, yeah.
	Hold on.
	I'm good to play my jingle.
	All right, so...
	It's a guessing.
	It's more of a...
	Ask Adam as though it was a quiz.
	Okay, all right.
	Can I have the question one more time, please?
	Who is going to be the American representing all of the U.S., all the women...
	And everybody in the United States, who is it going to be at France 24?
	Who would it be?
	Just take a couple guesses and then we'll go on to it.
	All the women.
	Well, Michelle Obama's too big a name.
	Correct.
	Oh, man.
	Could it be Rachel Levine?
	Come on.
	Wow.
	Pretty close.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Bruce Jenner.
	Bruce Jenner.
	I mean, Caitlyn Jenner.
	You're getting close.
	Well, not quite.
	Okay, so let's play this clip.
	And joining me now from New York is Molly Jong-Fast, a contributing writer of the Atlantic and the author of its newsletter, White.
	Molly, yeah, she's out, man.
	She's out there.
	Molly, jump fast.
	I just thought you'd get a kick out of there.
	That's very funny.
	Thank you.
	I feel much better with my guesses now.
	Yeah, okay.
	Go to clip four.
	We'll get this wrapped.
	What, Molly, thank you very much for your time.
	What conversations have you been having with your daughter about the fact that she will now have less rights than either yourself or her grandmother?
	So abortion became legal with the passing of Roe in 1973.
	So we've had this right for 49 years.
	So my mother actually grew up without the right to choose and then as she got...
	That just, I just have to stop it for a second.
	Fundamentally, that's just a lie.
	There was no abortion right that was given.
	This is the fallacies that people are just being shoved down their throat is what?
	What?
	You're going to try to turn back the tide of lies.
	Yes, I just need to say it.
	You have brought this up before and you're going to bring it up again, which is fine because you're right.
	It's about privacy.
	It's not about any rights.
	And if anything, I think the...
	You are just going to...
	No, the reason I... There's futility.
	No, it is futile, but I want to bring it up again because I think it behooves the government to have this Roe v.
	Wade overturned so we can have federally mandated vaccinations.
	So, you know, this privacy right, if it's for women, then it's for everybody.
	Unless it's not.
	It's 73.
	So we've had this right for 49 years.
	So my mother actually grew up without the right to choose, and then as she got older, into her 30s, then abortion became legal.
	Wait a minute!
	So we might not have had Molly Jungfast, whatever her name is?
	Is that what she's saying?
	Now that you mention it, it's kind of what she said.
	Oh my goodness, I'm sad we didn't have that then.
	My mother actually grew up without the right to choose, and then as she got older, into her 30s, then abortion became legal.
	But I've talked to her about it, and I think it's quite shocking for all of us.
	It's funny.
	In America, we sort of saw this coming because there was a Texas abortion ban called SBA, which was put into effect in August, and this Supreme Court refused to overturn it.
	So we sort of saw where the Supreme Court was headed.
	And remember, Trump did put these three justices in.
	Remember?
	With the goal of overturning Roe, and he even said it at the time.
	So I don't know that this is a huge shock, but it is in the same way also a huge shock.
	So by heading in this direction, Molly, America is doing a complete U-turn as other countries liberalise their abortion laws, such as Ireland or Argentina.
	So what does it mean for women's rights in general?
	Remember, Mexico legalised abortion.
	Canada is now saying American women can come there to get abortions.
	I mean, it's really dystopian what's happening here, and it's really, really, really out of step with the rest of the world.
	Really, really, really.
	You know, this is the highest court, and the highest court is very conservative now.
	I don't know what that's going to mean, but I think it will have a lot of reverberations throughout the rest of American life for generations.
	Is it too late to do anything, in your opinion?
	Okay, do we have the answer to that question?
	Now, I'm just pointing that all the clips I got on today's show are from overseas sources.
	I think it was set for a couple of laggards from previous shows I didn't use.
	And it's just more fascinating than ever how the talking points that you pointed out, and you could play another clip to prove it.
	We know this.
	These talking points are worldwide.
	It's like the way the shutdowns, the lockdowns, the vaccines, the Pfizer and everything else.
	It's no longer just local.
	No, it's global scale.
	It's worldwide and it's lockstep.
	And that, in fact, was the name of the program that was published called Lockstep, Operation Lockstep.
	Get everybody in lockstep with all the messaging.
	They've achieved this accomplishment.
	I think they have.
	Yeah.
	I could get the same exact clips from Deutsche Welle.
	I could almost get the same clips from Chinese CGTN. Almost.
	Not quite.
	Okay, so I got one more.
	I think one more.
	Yeah, one more.
	No, I don't think it's too late.
	First of all, the president has a lot of power, and he could conceivably do any number of things.
	I mean, there are...
	I mean, you know, and the Senate could codify Roe.
	I mean, I don't know what that would do.
	I mean, the president could expand the court.
	I mean, there are all sorts of things that Democrats could do.
	Democrats tend not to be that aggressive, which is, I think, very problematic.
	But there are certainly always options.
	And right now, Democrats control the Senate, the House and the presidency.
	So, yeah, I mean, they could add new justices.
	I mean, it's not popular, but they could do it.
	The Hollywood executive and his wife stayed overnight last night, and he says it's crazy.
	He says every third email he gets at the corporation is a memo about this, or about black, or transgender.
	That's where it's all emanating from.
	It's just put into the media, into all our media, all that we consume, sports, entertainment.
	But where is it coming from?
	Here's one of the origins.
	Earlier today, we sat down with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her first interview since that leaked draft opinion.
	Oh my goodness, her first interview since that draft opinion.
	Here we go, an exclusive CBS. Mm-hmm.
	I thought she...
	Wait.
	Oh, you're right.
	Okay.
	She did this...
	By the way, I didn't get this clip.
	I should have.
	And I was on my list.
	But if you notice, I have too many clips.
	Yes, you are over-clipped.
	And I'm glad you got this clip.
	She went...
	This was the first one.
	Then the next day...
	Just so people can know this.
	The next day, Hillary did an interview with Judy.
	Mm-hmm.
	On PBS. Mm-hmm.
	I swear to God, you could take one woman, Judy, and then replace her with Nora, and then replace her with Judy, back and forth and back and forth, and the interview would be identical.
	Oh yeah, same script.
	With the same handler sitting next to her.
	Same script, same boring.
	Same script, same handler.
	There's the woman, and the woman's sitting next to her, nodding her head constantly.
	Oh, my head's going up and down, and something's wrong with me.
	And, yeah, okay, so now you're on your way.
	And I would like to say that, you know, this is a value-for-value podcast, and we have a lot of, in fact, none of you are listeners, you're producers, even though some of you are also trolls.
	And neither of us got this clip.
	This was delivered by the Clip Custodian.
	Who has taken a vow of pain to sit through things like this and grab this clip.
	She says the consequences of overturning Roe v.
	Wade would go beyond abortion rights.
	This is about controlling women.
	This is about turning the clock back on half the population of our country.
	In the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump made it clear he would nominate justices who would overturn Roe versus Wade.
	Did you imagine it would happen this quickly?
	I warned about it in the campaign.
	I could see that the man I was running against...
	Would literally do anything to get the votes of the extreme faction of the Republican Party who were willing to totally upend precedent and deny women their rights.
	So I did warn about it.
	But, you know, it's hard to warn in the abstract.
	And I think a lot of people would say, well, that'll never happen.
	No, but nobody will do that.
	This opinion is dark.
	It is incredibly dangerous, and it is not just about a woman's right to choose.
	It is about much more than that.
	And I hope people now are fully aware of what we're up against, because the only answer is at the ballot box to elect people who will stand up for every American's rights.
	And any American who says, look, I'm not a woman, this doesn't affect me, I'm not black, that doesn't affect me, I'm not gay, that doesn't affect me.
	Once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for next.
	Ah, there it is!
	Total Hitler Nazi reference.
	First, the whole thing.
	First they came for this, then they came for that.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And the joke of it is, it also, to me, reflects the famous Dutch saying, what I say you are is what I am.
	Yes, exactly.
	But you say it yourself, with your heart to the heart.
	And that's what she is.
	This is what she wants.
	She wants to be Hitler.
	Yeah.
	She does, literally.
	I don't know about literally, but...
	Yes!
	Well, literally it's impossible because she can't be Hitler.
	She wants to be a Hitler.
	A Hitler.
	So here are the talking points.
	Turn back the clock.
	The extreme faction of the Republican Party.
	Right.
	Dark.
	It's dark.
	People's rights.
	It's dark.
	No, I'm not convinced that she dreamed any of this up.
	She's part of the cabal.
	No, she's part of the messaging system.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	But I'd like to know who dreamed it up because it was almost like the whole thing from the stolen document to the talking points and everything was presented as a package, including the protests.
	Yep.
	On both sides.
	On both sides.
	Both sides were ready for this, John.
	It's equal.
	Although in the reporting, like the Chicago, you heard, well, the pro-choice rally had some name for it.
	But the other people, it's not like the pro-life rally.
	Don't mention that.
	No, they're just the protesters, you see.
	But it's both sides, almost equally as if that too was, in my mind, the way I see it.
	I think that was engineered as well.
	I don't know.
	I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon because I think, and the reason I say that is because the overseas reporting reflected none of the other side.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right.
	Good point.
	Let's just double check with our president.
	Let's see what his historical stance has been on abortion, 2006.
	I do not view abortion as a choice and a right.
	I think it's always a tragedy.
	And I think that it should be rare and safe.
	And I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions.
	Ooh, Joe.
	Joe.
	Oh, that must have been 40 years ago.
	It was 2006.
	It wasn't yesterday.
	Well, maybe not.
	16 years is a long time.
	Yeah.
	I mean, 16 years is a long time.
	But then again, maybe it's not because they were going after Judge Kavanaugh's sex life 50 years ago.
	So I suppose that...
	Big Tech, according to Axios, is very worried if Roe v.
	Wade is overturned.
	Well, you know, then they're afraid that they're going to have all kinds of...
	Legal requests for information.
	Should these people, you know, did they communicate with a doctor?
	Was it geolocation somewhere near an abortion clinic?
	This is a real story.
	How about that?
	Oh, that's the reason they're worried about Big Tech.
	I thought it was because most Big Tech code is an abortion itself.
	And that's what I was...
	That was my take.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	No, big tech in Silicon Valley is afraid that law enforcement will just go rampant and just swamp them with requests.
	Out of control.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So we have to activate the base, everybody.
	Activate the base.
	So that's all that's about.
	It's all about activating the base, the only thing.
	I don't think this is going to get anywhere, but I want to play these clips.
	These are clips from NPR. NPR analysis.
	This is the filibuster clips.
	And this is talking about the filibuster.
	Explain the filibuster for people who don't understand the filibuster.
	Because we have a lot of Europeans and Asians and everyone all over the world.
	Europeans.
	Yeah, a filibuster is a...
	In Congress, you can go up and waste people's time by just talking and talking and talking forever and then passing it on to somebody else who's going to talk forever and then nothing can ever get done.
	It's a procedural thing.
	It's a procedural thing.
	So they came up with a thing called a cloture, which is a vote against it, and then they came up They had all these things.
	This went on for decades.
	All these problems because it was one little flaw in the way the U.S. Senate operates.
	And so they came up with this rule that you can't pass anything without 60 votes.
	It's not a simple majority.
	You need 60 votes.
	And now it's called the filibuster rule.
	And they name it.
	It's a misnomer in some ways.
	So, everyone's agreed, the Democrats and Republicans, for a long time have agreed that this is fine because, you know, that way a Republican or a Democrat, in this case a Democrat, you can't have a Democrat-majority House by one vote, a Democrat-majority Senate by one vote, or tied because the Vice President can be a tiebreaker.
	And a president as a Democrat because now you can just run anything through as fast as you can.
	But that's only on the 60-vote majority.
	That's only on certain types of votes, correct?
	Other things still are?
	No, it was for all votes and then they started making exceptions.
	Oh.
	And the first big exception was for justices because as things became more partisan, the Supreme Court confirmation was getting ridiculous because they couldn't agree on anything and they would filibuster guys they didn't like and it was getting worse and worse and worse to the point where it is now where they're really having trouble.
	So the filibuster was, so they could never get anyone to pass.
	So you'd have, the Supreme Court would be half empty.
	If they didn't pass this exception.
	Right, right.
	Hey, this was very good.
	The more you know in the morning.
	Seriously, I'm playing that in all seriousness.
	So they're having a lot of issues with certain things, like they want to pass certain things they can't get passed, like the idiotic $3 trillion spend money on babysitters law, which they tried to do.
	So they keep wanting to, well, let's get rid of the filibuster and go back to the good old days.
	They're always bitching about Republicans wanting to go back to the old days.
	But don't Republicans also do that from time to time when they're in power in the Senate?
	Don't they also come up with that?
	Yeah, they bitch, but they have never made a move that I know of, unless somebody can cite one for me, to actually get rid of this rule.
	Right, okay.
	The Democrats keep trying.
	And the Democrats have two or three smart Democrats like Manchin and that woman down in Arizona.
	That woman?
	Another that woman.
	Can you define woman for me, John, so I understand who we're talking about?
	Yeah, I can, but I won't.
	Cinema.
	Cinema.
	Cinnamon.
	And so she's down there.
	Because she's in a Republican state and she has to be careful.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And she's doing fine.
	So Manchin's the same way.
	He's in a Republican state.
	He has to be careful.
	So they're not going to let this happen.
	And so it's never going to happen.
	I mean, Romney will go the other way, but that's about as far as it's going to go.
	Now...
	But they keep talking about it, and the joke of it is what they're talking about insofar as let's get rid of the filibuster so we can pack the court, just add injustices that are all Democrats.
	Yeah, so we can play the same game.
	But nobody thinks it's going to happen, but they keep trying to make it happen instead of just...
	Ending the filibuster for one vote and voting abortion as the law of the land.
	Why don't they do that?
	That's what Biden wanted to do in 86.
	You know, make, you know, in other words, codify Roe versus Wade in favor of abortion, legal abortion for the entire country.
	Yeah, but that's not constitutional.
	It's not a law that Congress can write.
	Yeah, they can.
	Because, as is mentioned in Roe v.
	Wade, the Constitution does not forbade, or it has nothing to do, abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, so it's not, no matter what you do, it can't be unconstitutional.
	Okay, but also Roe v.
	Wade is not about abortions.
	No, it's not, but you could, I know, it's true, but you could pass an abortion law, make abortion legal for all the states, and Congress can do it, and it wouldn't be overturned.
	This has been discussed a lot.
	They won't do it.
	No.
	Now, in order to remove the filibuster rule, you have to have a 60-60 majority?
	Yeah, you have to.
	That's cool.
	You have to get past the filibuster to cancel the filibuster.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	That will take some big payoffs and favors to get that done.
	Well, it won't happen.
	I don't see that happening.
	But they're going to bitch and moan about it.
	So let's listen to some of the complaining.
	This is the NPR analysis filibuster.
	This is the specious clip.
	The leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft decision published by Politico this week sent shockwaves through people and politics.
	The draft said that access to abortion, a right legally grounded in privacy, is not a constitutional right.
	And if this opinion holds, it would overturn Roe v.
	Wade, which has protected the right to have an abortion without excessive restrictions for half a century.
	President Biden said he believed the reasoning laid out in the draft decision would challenge other privacy-related rights, including same-sex marriage and access to contraception.
	We're joined now by NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
	Ron, thanks so much for being with us.
	Good to be with you, Scott.
	When what the president said sounded like alarms for those who've fought for causes like access to contraception and the right to same-sex marriage, is this a rallying cry for Democrats and do they have the votes?
	Yes, it is certainly a rallying cry, and they will respond to that, Democrats, most of them.
	But on your second question, no, they do not have the votes for legislation that would protect abortion rights or same-sex marriage or any of the other rights.
	In the House, yes, but in the Senate, we are still living with the filibuster.
	A lot of rights they're talking about there.
	A lot of rights that don't actually exist as written rights.
	No, they're not written rights.
	But the joke is that in there, they won't bring this up, is that it's this modern Supreme Court, the conservative Supreme Court, not the one with Amy Comey Barrett, but they're the ones who pretty much legalized same-sex marriage for the whole country.
	So that doesn't make any sense, that they would all of a sudden change their minds.
	No, that's just fear-mongering to activate the base.
	This is bullcrap, yes.
	Fear-mongering.
	What I would be happy with is Congress codifying a law that says every individual has bodily autonomy.
	That's one of the talking points.
	And I would like that.
	I think that's absolutely okay.
	And then if you want to...
	Interpret that for abortion.
	Okay, that's up to the state, I believe, but okay.
	But also, that would then go for other types of medical procedures that I have bodily autonomy over to have or not have, like vaccinations.
	So we could all win.
	We could all win.
	On to clip two.
	It still takes 60 votes to cut off debate and proceed to a vote on legislation.
	So there will be an attempt to do that next week, probably on Wednesday.
	It will get all or nearly all the Democrats.
	It will be opposed by all or nearly all the Republicans.
	There could be one or two defections on either side, but that doesn't matter.
	They won't get 60, so it's moot.
	Moot!
	Yet, it's a chance for senators to show their colors, to stand up and be counted, maybe make speeches, maybe make videos to show in their campaigns.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And that depends on voters tuning in and engaging with this.
	Many Americans don't and won't.
	Yeah, that's exactly what they want.
	And they want to drag it out as long as they can.
	You were right last show, you brought it up.
	They popped it too soon.
	Exactly.
	They popped it way too soon.
	Look how short the war lasted.
	They know that these things, that's what his October surprise is.
	Because it's the last minute stuff that kicks ass, not the stuff you do six months in advance.
	Okay, well hold on a second.
	That's good.
	So they can't keep this up for six months.
	No way.
	October Surprise, they're going to need something in the meantime.
	But maybe they're actively planning an October Surprise.
	Who knows?
	Well, if that's true, then good for them.
	Part three, and we're done with this.
	Ron, if this draft decision comes about and Roe is overturned, could that galvanize the Democratic Party and voters in the midterms?
	Well, Democrats have said for years that everything would be different if the Republicans finally got their chance to repeal abortion rights and perhaps other rights regimes as well, to revisit the struggles of the 60s and 70s and reverse the perceived outcomes.
	Now we're going to see if they were right.
	You know, with Friday's robust jobs report, you can begin to imagine a Democrats bumper sticker for this fall that says, jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs, jobs, jobs.
	Dobbs, of course, refers to the...
	Wait, wait, what is it?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and what was the second part?
	Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's the blank look I was expecting.
	What the heck is that?
	Well, he explains it when the clip continues.
	But when I first heard that, I said, what?
	Who cares?
	Dobbs?
	You know, with Friday's robust jobs report, you can begin to imagine a Democrat's bumper sticker for this fall.
	It says, jobs, jobs, jobs, and Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
	Dobbs, of course, refers to the Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization, the 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks lower courts had ruled to prevent enforcement.
	Wait, so NPR is now making up the slogans for the anti?
	Their expertise shows.
	A bumper sticker that says jobs, jobs, jobs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs is the stupidest idea imaginable.
	Dobbs, of course, refers to the Dobbs v.
	Jackson Women's Health Organization, the 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks lower courts had ruled to prevent enforcement before it was brought to the Supreme Court.
	That's right.
	I'm talking in Supreme Court code, calling it Dobbs.
	But in this case, lower federal courts had looked at these cases and looked to the Supreme Court for new guidance.
	You know, 50 years ago, when Roe v.
	Wade burst on the American consciousness, at first no one knew what those names meant either.
	But, you know, it's hard to find anyone who doesn't know Roe v.
	Wade now.
	Maybe one day that will be true of Dobbs.
	And will Republicans try and capitalize politically off these results, too?
	Some are going to play it down, stick to talking about inflation.
	That's what consultants advise.
	But campaigns, especially midterm campaigns, are not so much about persuading people in the middle.
	They're about motivating the people who already agree with you, so they'll get out to the polls.
	So the Republicans will point to the Dobbs decision in some cases and say, see, we promised and we delivered.
	Every vote to overturn Dobbs was a justice appointed by a president named Bush or Trump.
	Alright, well, okay.
	So he too is just admitting this is all political.
	It's about getting the people who already agree with you to get out and vote.
	Yeah, instead of sitting home.
	Geez.
	Well, a lot of people won't be able to get out and vote because gas is too expensive.
	And I'm wondering if the paper shortage will be an issue with mail-in ballots.
	So, by the way, we had a note from our toilet paper.
	Yes, I'm glad you brought that.
	We learned a lot about toilet paper last weekend.
	Do you have it anywhere near you so we can read it?
	Well...
	It's from Baron Nuts...
	Baron...
	I don't know if it's Baron yet, but it's Sir Munchnuts, and he happens to work at Charmin, and...
	He's the one who sent me these big giant rolls.
	Yeah, was it the Freedom Roll?
	Wasn't that what it was called?
	I don't know what they were called.
	The Freedom Roll.
	Huge rolls of toilet paper.
	I don't know if I can actually find it this quickly, but I do remember the takeaway.
	The takeaway was mind-blowing.
	I mean, he's anonymous enough, right?
	Munch Nuts?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Unless his name is Munch Nuts, I don't think so.
	Will employee munchnuts please come to the CEO's office?
	HR would like to speak with employee munchnuts.
	It's very possible, John.
	I don't know.
	Well, it's a good character name for a book.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me look it up because it's worth looking for.
	But the takeaway, because I'm saying, hey, man, the Charmin rolls are different.
	You're moaning and groaning about the harshness or the cut of the side of the toilet paper.
	He answered all these questions and also discussed the various grades of Of the various Charmans.
	And also, but he should get a bonus, by the way, from Charmin.
	Also, he mentioned that toilet paper you get from, that big giant roll that you can get.
	This comes from the Minnesota operation that has a slightly different, probably a different...
	Well, what he was saying is that, because I said, look, these things look a little ragged on the edges.
	What's going on with that?
	And he said, oh, no, they're apparently sawing so much toilet paper that they let the blades go a little duller than normal.
	Than they should, yeah.
	Yeah.
	But here was the big one.
	I'm still searching for his email.
	Here was the big one.
	He said, well, you know, you think that you have the feeling that there's less toilet paper or it's thinner.
	He said, no, that's not the case.
	But we actually shortened the sheet length.
	So you still have the marketing of, you know, 500 sheets, but the sheets are actually shorter.
	That's shrinkflation.
	It's shrinkflation, yeah.
	But everyone's doing it.
	I mean, you can't blame them.
	No, I'm not blaming them, but...
	Well, you could.
	Anyway, employee munchnuts, I'm sorry if we outed you on that one.
	There's a lot of interesting things happening.
	You know, the war is over because it's just over.
	We'll have some war stuff to discuss because...
	Lots of people don't want it to be over, but it's been overshadowed by Roe v.
	Wade.
	It's the next important thing that we're all running around after.
	And we're starting to crank up some more COVID fear.
	And Pfizer did just a masterful, masterful job of marketing.
	They need to get all kinds of awards where we know the Pfizer document dropped on the same day.
	Another part of the document dropped showing that they really covered up a lot of adverse events in their trials and there's incomplete and redacted data still.
	This dropped on the same day as the Supreme Court opinion draft leak.
	So there wasn't really a lot of information, and, you know, it's kind of out there that, hey, man, some of these vaccines is hurting people, so what do they do with their brilliance?
	They blame it on Johnson& Johnson!
	Oh, yeah, it was beautiful.
	Hold on a second.
	I have a sequence here.
	And back to the J&J vaccine.
	Of the 17 million Americans who got the shot, nine people have died.
	Yeah, nine people have died, or as we call it.
	First of all, this risk is extremely rare.
	We're talking about one in two million people ended up having a really horrible outcome.
	A really horrible outcome, John.
	It's called dead.
	Yeah.
	Death is a horrible outcome.
	Here's a Good Morning America report.
	This morning, the FDA limiting the use of the Johnson& Johnson single-shot vaccine following an investigation into reports of rare blood clots.
	Federal health experts saying there are safer options.
	And now only those 18 and older who don't have access to a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or won't take them can still get J&J.
	If you had the J&J shot a long time ago, there was no cause for panic.
	This is a rare side effect that happens in the days and months after the shot.
	The days and months.
	Could you define months?
	Like months, two months, three months, six months, no reason for concern.
	If you had the J&J shot a long time ago, there was no cause for panic.
	This is a rare side effect that happens in the days and months after the shot.
	But even with that small risk, it meant that the FDA would acknowledge that.
	Overnight, GMA spoke with Emma Berkey, who was 18 when she got the J&J vaccine.
	It's just one shot.
	It's quick.
	And I just never in a million years imagined something like this happening.
	A week after receiving the shot, Emma says her life has never been the same.
	Thirteen months ago, I was hospitalized for about four months as a result of having brain bleeds, blood clots, four strokes, three brain surgeries.
	And notice she never really says because of the J&J vaccine.
	This is going to have much deeper consequences, and the news media is not investigating, not going any deeper than that.
	It's just 109 people.
	We're pretty sure it's a lot more if you add in Pfizer adverse events.
	But what I'd like to know is what are we going to do with all of the pilots who took the J&J, the one and done?
	Remember that?
	Oh, man, I got to do this crap, but I want to fly.
	I want to keep working.
	I want to provide for my family.
	I'll just take the J&J.
	And now we know that this could be a problem.
	So do you ground these pilots, dragging the air transportation system into even deeper misery?
	Luckily, there's another Pfizer product to save the day.
	Health officials also reporting more people are turning to the drug Paxlovid to fight COVID. Oh, yeah.
	It's interesting because he made a rhyme here.
	I thought it was Paxlovid.
	That's how I understood the pronunciation of this.
	I always thought it was Paxlovid, too.
	I would pronounce it like that.
	So he says Paxlovid to combat COVID. Hey, made another rhyme, James Brown.
	Health officials also reporting more people are turning to the drug Paxlovid to fight COVID. That sounds like a marketing slogan to me.
	It's use up tenfold in recent weeks, but among patients who took the pills, scientists are now investigating some reports of a relapse in COVID symptoms.
	After taking the five-day course, 63-year-old Lauren Martin was first thrilled when she started to feel better and tested negative.
	But a week later, those symptoms came back.
	My symptoms, second time around, especially just right from that first day, were stronger than my symptoms the first time around.
	In clinical trials, Paxlovid cut the risk of hospitalization by nearly 90%.
	Despite some reports of relapse, many health experts still confident in the drug's benefits.
	That sounds great.
	We're still confident.
	Oh, man.
	And people are still just...
	They just want it.
	They want it, they want it, they want it.
	You remember, what's her name?
	America Ferreira?
	She was like a really hot actress for a while.
	Right, America.
	America Ferreira.
	What was the name of that show?
	It was kind of like a Devil Wears Prada, only a sitcom.
	And she was like, you know, the homely Hispanic girl who came in.
	Yeah, I can't remember.
	And it was really big, and then Oh man, I wish I remember what that was.
	Ugly Betty.
	There you go.
	Ugly Betty.
	So she is now out shilling on behalf of the CDC. This is a CDC public service announcement.
	I don't know if she was paid for this, but here she is.
	We can't wait to either have a vaccine for children under five or for our children to turn five.
	And my son knows that on his fifth birthday, if it doesn't come sooner, his fifth birthday will be a cupcake and a shot.
	Oh, God!
	Right?
	Oh, my God!
	Yeah, a cupcake and a shot.
	How could you even...
	Don't, you know...
	It baffles me.
	Yeah.
	So, we've not...
	It actually doesn't baffle me at all.
	We've had...
	A couple of weird adverse events, although they're not being categorized as such, but we have children globally coming down with hepatitis.
	Not viral hepatitis, but...
	In essence, liver failure, which is hepatitis.
	And they've been looking at, you know, they've been scratching their heads.
	They can't figure it out.
	I'm sure there's not one person in the world that can't figure this out.
	What's the coinkie thing?
	Well, let's go to the CDC to make sure that we're just conspiracy theorists.
	Another health concern tonight, the growing mystery outbreak of hepatitis among children.
	The CDC saying the number of cases has grown to 109, including five deaths across 25 states and territories.
	More than half had an adenovirus infection, but the cause remains under investigation.
	The CDC has ruled out COVID vaccinations as a possible cause.
	So they just ruled it out, so just forget about it.
	I don't care what you say, it's ruled out.
	The CDC is shut.
	It's beyond me how the CDC has not been just dissolved by now.
	Well, they were close.
	They were going to do it, and then somehow they dragged it back.
	But listen to this.
	The UK Health Security Agency, which might be similar to the CDC here, they are on the trail.
	So they, of course, also have unexplained hepatitis.
	That would be the liver inflammation.
	Very rare in children.
	And they have discovered something.
	70% of these children, 70% of these children have dogs.
	So they are now looking at dogs possibly being the problem.
	Really?
	Dogs are the problem?
	What about the other 30%?
	That's an awful lot of people without dogs.
	Dogs investigated over possible link to mystery hepatitis case among children.
	Relatively high numbers is what they call that, John, 70%.
	Relatively high numbers of affected children either came from families with the pets, the pets, or had exposure to them.
	Report finds.
	How does anyone not have exposure to dogs?
	That means everybody.
	The pets.
	The pets, please.
	That woman, the pet.
	So, yeah, this is very disappointing that it's not the...
	I mean, it's such an adenovirus that was...
	Was that AstraZeneca?
	No, no, that is Johnson& Johnson.
	That is Johnson& Johnson.
	Well, why don't they...
	Actually, maybe AstraZeneca, too.
	It's the technique that was used to develop the Ebola vaccine.
	And it's very effective.
	It works.
	But, you know, adenoviruses are not unusual.
	And it's like...
	When you say the word associates with Johnson& Johnson, I think that's one of the reasons they're jumping all over them.
	I think that was done as a ploy by the experts.
	Where's Johnson& Johnson's marketing people, by the way?
	How did they get there trampled?
	They're getting steamrolled by the Pfizer folk.
	How does that work?
	I think the team was so busy on covering up and blaming the Sackler family on...
	On all of the opioids.
	They had other problems.
	They had other issues.
	They had a $25 billion fine, but they had to make the Sackler family with their $5 billion fine look bad.
	These companies are all mobbed.
	They're mobster-like companies.
	They're designed after the mafia.
	It's horrible, these operations.
	Bill Gates, back in the news, did a long-form interview with the anti-constitutionalist Farid Zakaria, the globalist.
	Remember when he was also speaking in Ukraine?
	He's on the Ukraine train.
	Yeah, he's probably got some connections.
	He was speaking at a big conference, paid.
	In Ukraine, before all this came down.
	How much was he paid, though?
	That's the question.
	I don't care.
	I don't like him.
	I'll just make him look bad.
	He's creepy.
	He's creepy.
	He hates America.
	There's somebody who hates America.
	Yes, he hates America.
	And he's on some list that they keep giving him work.
	How does he even get any jobs?
	Yeah.
	Let's start, shall we, with, I've got three short clips from Bill Gates here, with his assessment and during the beginning of the pandemic, the foundation experts' assessment of what this COVID-19 really is.
	It wasn't until early February when I was in a meeting that experts at the Foundation said, there's no way.
	There's been too much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this.
	And then, at that point, we didn't really understand the fatality rate.
	You know, we didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.
	So that was a pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast as it needed to.
	So he's letting some very important information out there.
	You know, elderly people, very low mortality rate.
	We didn't know it.
	Okay, so can we just move on with our lives then?
	And how about those lockdowns?
	If all we would have had to do was, say, a 45-day lockdown, Hello?
	Hello?
	hasn't dropped the cases to zero.
	So the counterfactual of, OK, how much worse would it have been if we hadn't had this lockdown is unclear.
	There was a lot of uncertainty about, for example, school shutdowns.
	To this day, you know, there's still arguments about how many cases that avoided.
	It's pretty clear, because young people don't get sick from the disease very often, that we probably...
	Everything we know today, we would have shut schools down a lot less than we did during this pandemic.
	I mean, yes, it's tricky for the elder adults.
	It's tricky in a lot of ways.
	And you mean by that high school and under?
	Exactly.
	Exactly!
	Going virtual tends to work awfully well.
	The infection levels are a little higher as you get.
	Wait.
	No, it doesn't work at all.
	For college, going virtual.
	This is a computer geek saying that.
	No, but it doesn't work at all.
	No.
	What it did do, by the way, it did alert the parents to the crappy education they're getting from these socialist teachers.
	Well, what he's saying here is that it did.
	That's a plus.
	He's saying that it did work for college and university students.
	He said it worked pretty well.
	I don't believe that's true.
	I don't believe it either, but there you go.
	In a lot of ways.
	And you mean by that high school and under.
	Exactly.
	You know, for college, going virtual tends to work awfully well.
	The infection levels are a little higher as you get up into that age group.
	But K through 12, we have a learning deficit that...
	It will take us a long time to erase that, and sadly it's a deficit where the inner city is where it's almost two years, suburban schools less, private schools in some cases, like my kids, almost no deficit at all.
	Of course not, you elitist prick.
	No kidding.
	Elite just prick.
	And what he's saying...
	My kids, they went to a private school.
	They didn't miss any school at all.
	They're right on track.
	And the whole thing was designed for that purpose.
	So all the elitist kids, all the people that went to private schools, they're good to go.
	The rest of the kids are going to fall way behind.
	And they'll be great slaves working for us.
	Okay, that's the end of the show, everybody.
	Once again, we've made our message clear.
	It's obvious where this is all headed.
	But wait!
	But wait!
	Don't get too excited about these lockdowns not working.
	We're still going to need them.
	You with your freedom?
	What's wrong with you?
	There could be...
	More variants come that would be immune escaping because their shape of their spike protein would be a little different.
	And sadly, they could even have a higher fatality rate.
	I rate the chance of that as maybe 5% to 10%.
	But...
	If you tell people that risk isn't there, then the whole idea of, okay, throw your masks away, don't get your boosters, you're going to put people incredibly at risk.
	For now, we need to keep boosting, particularly the elderly.
	And even though we have a lot of cases, we don't have to use masks.
	The public should be ready and not view it as a deep infringement of their freedom that when you get local outbreaks, which in the fall we'll have some of that, it helps a lot.
	To have very high vaccination levels and, in certain settings, mask wearing.
	Should we be willing to accept some restrictions on our liberty?
	absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely let's hear that again Very high vaccination levels and in certain settings, mask wearing.
	Should we be willing to accept some restrictions on our liberty?
	Absolutely.
	But, you know, the U.S., that's not our greatest strength.
	No!
	Making, in some cases, sacrifice for the collective.
	Ah, you see, we don't care about the collective.
	You know, the public should be ready and not view it as a deep infringement of, you know, their freedom, making, in some cases, sacrifice for the collective.
	Sacrifice for the collective.
	Isn't that, that's got to be some kind of Marxist term.
	Sacrifice for the collective.
	Well, that's a variation of some classics, that's for sure.
	And make no mistake, Clip of the Day, by the way, for that.
	Just because of that part.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Well, I did work hard on that.
	Clip of the Day.
	I mean, most of it's just, yuck, yuck, yuck.
	But I have to say, this is like, screw your freedoms.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Absolutely!
	You should have restrictions.
	Even though they don't really work.
	Which he just said.
	But make no mistake, there's a new wave coming.
	We're up to number six.
	Hey, Adriana, good evening.
	Here in California, some counties are already on their sixth wave of COVID. Sixth wave!
	The expectation is that after the summer, there will be another explosion of infection.
	Sixth wave!
	The White House is sounding the alarm about a new COVID wave this fall and winter, driven by new Omicron subvariants.
	It projects up to 30...
	Notice that it's now Omicron variants.
	It's no longer variants of which Omicron was one, but it's now a variant of the Omicron.
	I guess.
	Well, you know, if we could just stop for a second and reconsider these graphs that we saw, that Omicron was created like a separate entity from the rest of them.
	Right, and functioned like a vaccine almost, as Bill Gates even himself said.
	Right.
	It was a different animal completely.
	It's almost as though the lab put this out there to knock the other ones out of commission.
	Which is what that would be.
	And I think we do have another wave.
	Darren O'Neill couldn't do the rock and roll pre-show.
	He has COVID. I think again.
	Oh, I should have given him the hour I had.
	I should have given him that so he can have something back up.
	He can use it when he feels like it.
	Well, Mimi has it.
	She has it.
	She still has it?
	And it's not the normal one.
	Yeah.
	It's like a nasty one.
	Yeah, that's what...
	Darren said he had 102 fever, but it was coming down.
	But wait, Mimi's been a week now.
	She still had fever and stuff?
	No, what happens is the fatigue and the cough.
	Oh, the dry cough that makes you want to puke at a certain point?
	I don't know about that, but she gets tired and she doesn't like to do that.
	And it backs off, it goes away, it gets almost gone, it's almost gone.
	Uh-oh!
	I'm sick as a dog again.
	And it's kind of like the original COVID, but it doesn't seem to be as deadly.
	But she is irked about it.
	Well, yeah, understandably so.
	That's not cool.
	All right, here we go.
	The White House is sounding the alarm about a new COVID wave this fall and winter, driven by new Omicron sub-variants.
	It projects up to 30% of Americans could be affected and is urging Congress to pass billions more in COVID prevention money now.
	CBS News medical contributor Dr.
	David Agus.
	We need to be on top of it.
	There should be no more deaths from this virus.
	About two-thirds of Americans are now living in high or substantial COVID risk areas.
	New infections and hospitalizations are increasing nationwide.
	What's the status of the pandemic at this point?
	There's a lot of immunity out there.
	Over 90% of the country has immunity.
	And we have Paxlovid, which is a fail-safe.
	If that of your high risk can get it, you can treat it.
	So this is a new era of living with rather than hiding from the virus.
	Still, about a third of Americans are not fully vaccinated and only half have been boosted.
	What's the impact of not having everyone boosted?
	The more people get the virus and the higher your viral count, the more chance of a new variant coming.
	It's not changing to get more deadly.
	But by luck of the draw, there could be a change that can make it more aggressive or to evade the vaccines, and then we're in trouble.
	Here in L.A., most infections are happening in offices and at schools.
	Dr.
	Agus says part of learning to live with COVID means that we have to change our workplace culture.
	If you're symptomatic, don't be a hero.
	Stay home.
	Don't be a hero.
	You remember the international health regulations?
	There was a big meeting, the World Health Organization, and we were sending our delegates, our U.S. delegate, everyone sending someone over there.
	Well, they came up with some changes.
	They've changed the pandemic rules.
	I put the document in the show notes.
	The biggest one, I think, is it really gives, seemingly gives the World Health Organization more power.
	They now no longer have to consult with the member nations in a health emergency.
	They can just call it out and call it whatever it is.
	They don't have to wait for everyone else's numbers to come in and everyone to call it individually before they call it endemic, pandemic, you know, whatever.
	A couple of things to, you know, continue that, but I have a couple of things to note about the WHO when you're done.
	Go ahead.
	No, go ahead.
	First of all, the WHO now is 20% funded by governments and 80% funded by individuals or corporations.
	So they're now an arm of Pfizer.
	Yes.
	And the Gates Foundation still.
	And one of...
	Actually, the Gates Foundation, which is...
	Which is Pfizer.
	And so meanwhile, there's something not being reported at all here.
	And my scanning the international scene...
	Uh-oh.
	Pfizer marketing to the rescue, trying to cut us out.
	I'm sorry, you cut out on Pfizer marketing scheme.
	Coincidence?
	I think not!
	There is a beef, a huge beef going on in India over the numbers and the way that who is treating India.
	And I have two clips from one of the Indian TV shows.
	And I think we'll start with, this is the COVID, no, the first one would be the COVID India numbers.
	Here we go.
	The day after the World Health Organization announced that 47 lakh people had died in India due to the COVID pandemic, the government has come out strongly against the global body's COVID deaths data.
	The Indian government has rejected the report at multiple levels, questioned the validity of the model used by WHO. This, in a sense, is sparking off a face-off between the World Health Organization and the government of India over excess COVID death numbers.
	Yes!
	I have the Reuters story, where Reuters is saying, World Health Organization says, oh, almost three times as many people died from COVID. Ah, they've skewed it too.
	Yeah.
	Because the India reports have it 10x.
	Oh my goodness.
	But that's really people who died of other shit, of course.
	Yeah, well, they've got the documents.
	Indians do have a health system that is, they have doctors that are great and they come over here.
	Yeah, they come over here and heal us.
	We love them.
	And they have a reporting system that they consider to be accurate.
	And their number, and I should mention this for people who listen to these reports if they're out of India, they use the word lack.
	47 lack people.
	And it's not a tribe or anything.
	47 lakh.
	Lack is a factor of 100,000.
	Lack means 100,000.
	Oh, okay.
	So 47 lakh people is 4.7 million.
	Bitcoin lakh.
	What?
	L-A-K-H, what?
	No, I was just saying Bitcoin lakh.
	Bitcoin 100,000.
	Bitcoin lakh.
	Good luck.
	Yeah.
	And so the...
	Number the Indians say that is the real number is 470,000.
	They say the factor of 10 is, they're off by a factor of 10.
	And, you know, we've, our discussions here and in Canada where they discovered they went through all the death records and they found that, you know, maybe, you know, this guy was, he is the COVID, died with COVID or died after, they gave him a COVID test after he died in a motorcycle accident, the COVID death.
	Yeah.
	And so, this 10 to 1 thing may be accurate in more countries than just India.
	But let's listen to the second part of this where this guy rants about what he thinks is a corrupt WHO. Direct and indirect COVID-related deaths, but there will be those again, Professor Mukherjee, who will just question the credibility of the World Health Organization right from the start of the pandemic.
	The fact that they seem to delay the warning the world, that they've been very soft on China in particular, and here you've got a situation where India is being accused of hiding deaths.
	And we still don't know what the actual numbers in China are.
	And the WHO doesn't seem to be doing enough.
	Instead, they seem to be masking China's death while targeting India is one of the concerns expressed by officials here.
	Wow.
	The Indian producers are doing great work sending you these clips, John.
	Oh, wait.
	They didn't.
	No, I got these clips.
	Yeah.
	We have no Indian...
	We have one or two, I think, Indian producers.
	But that's...
	Yeah, no, these...
	I dug this one up from India Today.
	It has a broadcast.
	And there was actually part of an interview.
	He was interviewing some woman who was a professor at one of our schools in Madison, Wisconsin or someplace.
	But she was Indian.
	Of course, they have to keep it in the family.
	Yeah, of course.
	And she was an apologist for Pfizer and the WHO. He couldn't get past it.
	He's just condemning her left and right, but she wasn't budging.
	Boots on the Ground report from Shanghai from Professor JJ. He's been updating me regularly.
	Locked down like a dog.
	About a month ago, the model that the local government cited declared that cases would be zero by the 3rd of May.
	That came and went.
	Whereas they were reporting 29,000 cases per day a month ago, the latest numbers, as of May 7th, are under 4,000 positive cases, with only about 180 being symptomatic.
	So that's an important little number there.
	So 4,000 people tested positive, PCR, no doubt.
	Only 180 have symptoms.
	Since January 2022, the government says that in Shanghai, 563 people have died with coronavirus and all had comorbidities and were elderly.
	We anticipate grocery stores will open and we will be able to venture out of the compound by next Friday, May 13th, which I think will now make it close to eight weeks later.
	That people have been locked down with limited food, and luckily our professor does not live in one of the apartment complexes, so he's actually able to get some things and some fresh air.
	CBS spent some time on this.
	Let's see if the numbers match up with our boots-on-the-ground report.
	Elizabeth, China's zero-COVID strategy has seen millions of people locked down, shipping and manufacturing seriously disrupted.
	Is the country's leadership showing any signs of modifying or changing course?
	No, as you just mentioned there, after this very high-powered meeting of the Committee of the Communist Party, where President Xi was present, they kind of doubled down.
	They said that the current COVID policy, these draconian lockdowns nationwide, are both scientific and effective.
	You also mentioned that they...
	Wait a minute, Bill Gates literally just said it's not scientific and effective.
	Did he not?
	I don't know if you said it in those words, but basically.
	Yeah.
	I like the way it's a substitute for safe and effective, though.
	Yes.
	You know, this show is effective.
	Safe and effective.
	Smart and effective.
	I like safe and effective.
	We're safe and effective.
	Don't worry.
	COVID policy, these draconian lockdowns nationwide, are both scientific and effective.
	You also mentioned that they had brought up the fear of infections and deaths.
	And that's probably true.
	You know, China has not got the best It doesn't cover everybody adequately.
	And their vaccination program hasn't been a massive success.
	For example, only 20% of people over 80 years old have been boosted.
	And so if the virus really was allowed to rip through the population, there probably would be a lot of deaths.
	The question is, though, whether the endgame, the way to deal with that, is to keep these endless rolling lockdowns that are so disruptive and which are really starting to annoy some people, or to come up with a better solution.
	And certainly the West seems to have discovered and proven that that is a better vaccine.
	Oh, a better vaccine.
	Ooh, that's kind of dangerous what she's saying there.
	That would be mandate of heaven.
	Here's the follow-up.
	How is Shanghai doing specifically?
	So give us the state of things.
	Shanghai, I think, has been locked down for about a month now.
	We had heard that certain neighborhoods, they would allow people to leave, but I don't even know if that's really happening.
	And then there's, of course, Beijing.
	Well, there's a lot of confusion.
	So broadly speaking, two and a half million people in the very center of Shanghai are still a month in under hard lockdown in their apartments.
	Another 16 million or so are in this funny limbo, allowed out.
	But often only as far as the perimeter of the garden or the compound around these buildings.
	And different parts of the city are administering or enforcing this soft lockdown differently.
	So there's a huge amount of confusion and frustration.
	There are several million people, six and change, who have been liberated in the suburbs of Shanghai.
	But they're complaining there's nowhere to go because things are still shut down.
	So it's a bit of a patchwork.
	It's unarguable that the number of...
	Is it inarguable?
	Unarguable?
	Inarguable?
	I heard that too.
	I'm not sure that that's not correct.
	I can't say for sure.
	I don't like...
	I caught my attention, you're right.
	Yeah, I don't like this lady.
	Let's just say it again.
	It's about six million and change.
	She's glib.
	She's too glib.
	Get her off the air.
	No, no, let's play 40 more seconds.
	There's nowhere to go because things are still shut down.
	So it's a bit of a patchwork.
	It's unarguable that the number of new cases is coming down.
	So, for example, a month ago, 25,000 and change new cases...
	No, no, no.
	It was 29,000.
	Not 25,000 and change, lady.
	We have the report on the boots on the ground.
	A month ago, 25,000 and change.
	New cases a day in Shanghai.
	We're down to 4,000 today.
	Correct.
	And the authorities say there's been like a real steady decrease from the 22nd of April on.
	So they feel they're making progress.
	The question is, though, if they threw the city open, will it rocket up again?
	Yes.
	And unfortunately, there's only one way to find out.
	Yeah, open those doors.
	She's Canadian.
	Liz, thank you very much.
	The Canadian?
	Advocating for opening up, please, lady.
	She said progress.
	Progress.
	She did say progress.
	She had another word in there.
	Didn't mention the 180 being symptomatic.
	And I'm guessing unarguable is a Canadian way of saying it.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	You're right.
	I think that's all I've got on COVID. It's just, they're going to push it again.
	They're going to try hard.
	They're going to try hard.
	There's still vaccines in the warehouse, in the freezer.
	Well, actually, I was reading that, you know, the Pfizer has a whole, like, hundred and million plus doses that are sitting on the shelf now.
	And they're about to expire again, even though they...
	Well, they gotta get rid of those.
	Gotta get rid of them, or, as you heard in one of those earlier clips, we need more billions, more billions for COVID prevention.
	No, we know what it's for.
	Well, I don't have any more COVID clips, but I do, since you were in China with your report, I do have some stuff, and you haven't heard about this either, because it's not being reported, about the Hong Kong election.
	Yeah.
	No.
	No, did not know anything.
	Now to Hong Kong, and the territory's next leader is going to be confirmed on Sunday.
	John Lee is assured victory, as he is the sole candidate and will be elected by a committee loyal...
	Go democracy!
	Adrian Brown reports now on the man hoping to revive the fortunes of Asia's financial hub.
	John Lee's career has been rooted in discipline.
	a career policeman who went on to become Hong Kong's security chief.
	During the turbulent spring and summer of 2019, he directed the response to anti-government protests.
	Now he's about to replace Carrie Lam as Hong Kong's next leader, at a time when the territory remains deeply divided and exhausted by COVID-19.
	It's been a short and strange contest without even token competition.
	It's an unusual election because there's just one candidate.
	It doesn't matter.
	Because the election is open to everyone.
	Even though we have only one candidate, we also need to vote for them.
	Lee's only rally on Friday was a small invitation-only event that included members of the committee that will elect him.
	In the coming five years, Hong Kong will become a caring, accommodating place full of energy and hope.
	Let's do one thing together, support the election on May 8th.
	Lee has the central government's backing, a sign it wants a Hong Kong leader with strong security credentials.
	Chung Kim Wah is a political commentator who left Hong Kong for England more than a week ago because he no longer felt safe.
	He says Lee doesn't have the right experience to lead a global financial center.
	If you look into the CV of John Lee, we know that he had no experience in economic affairs, international trade, and all major areas of social policy in Hong Kong.
	It looks like he has experience in cracking heads.
	That was his gig.
	So if you listen to the positive side, there's a couple of guys that come in as apologists, and one of them says, you know, we expect everyone to vote.
	I mean, what's the point?
	Well, hold on a second.
	So it's open elections, he said it himself.
	You know, even if there's one candidate, it doesn't matter.
	People still have to vote.
	Well, why don't we, Curry Dvorak, go in for a position?
	It's too late.
	Oh.
	It's already done?
	They already had the vote?
	No, I think the election is today or tomorrow.
	Crikey.
	Okay.
	Let's move on to part two, which has another kicker.
	It's a real eye-roller.
	And they're trying to make it seem as though this is all okay.
	Lee says his priority will be issues like housing, not more democracy or a free vote.
	He's also promised additional security laws and to increase patriotic education.
	He's very bright, which is what I like about him.
	So I really feel Hong Kong is ready for this kind of change.
	And plus, he has the trust of China.
	That is something very, very important.
	Lee's campaign suffered an early setback when YouTube shut down his account citing compliance with United States sanctions.
	That means he can't visit that country just like the outgoing chief executive.
	Hong Kong people will have no say in this election.
	That task falls to an election committee drawn from Hong Kong's business and political elite.
	A committee vetted by a panel that included John Lee.
	Oh man, that's democracy.
	That is democracy right there.
	That's how it should be.
	When you have the power, you just expand a little bit.
	Yeah, I like it.
	I look forward to talking about some democracy in Ukraine, but first, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the clock, we're turning back.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, and subs in the water, the dames and the knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	New time, second show.
	Let's have a count.
	Hands up there, trolls.
	Let's see what you got.
	How many do you have here with us?
	Oh!
	Okay.
	2269.
	It's back on the up.
	That's better.
	He's very happy to see these trolls.
	Everyone listening there, trollroom.io or noagendastream.com.
	This is a great place to hang out during the pre-show, really 24-7.
	You can be an IRC client.
	You can log in and just be a troll and not even listen to the stream.
	But it's more fun when you do because that's what everyone's talking about.
	It is, in fact, one of the most effective podcast networks in the universe because that's where Gitmo Nation does their show.
	They promote each other.
	They're on each other's shows.
	And we have breakout shows happening.
	And you know what?
	No meetings.
	No payroll.
	Wouldn't you say, John, that's a troll?
	We have a fascist up there in Washington who just puts on what he thinks is best, and that's that.
	Yeah.
	So definitely check out Trollroom.io.
	If you'd like to follow some of the conversation, the conversation is on NoAgendaSocial.com, which you can follow.
	You can follow me or you can follow John there.
	I'm Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	John is...
	John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	And that's really where the community lives and hangs out.
	And, of course, you can always go there and look at the timeline to see the local timeline and, you know, follow someone from your own Mastodon server or anyone that you're able to get an account with.
	And then we thank Nestworks for the album artwork for episode 1448 titled, That One, French Rats!
	You knew we were going to go for some kind of Cinco de Mayo gag, and a lot of artists knew that this was going to happen, and it was the mug, the happy Cinco de Mayo, the coffee mug, get it?
	That was a good one.
	With the sombrero, and then the management in all uppercase, which was an inside joke for the show.
	It was good, and let me see, there was other things that we liked.
	Let me take a look here in our listicle.
	What did I like?
	I liked something I was fighting for.
	Well, we discussed Matthew Dropko's Cinco de Mayo coffee tin.
	Yeah, that's one of them.
	We like that.
	That's the one I was really jacked up about.
	You like the pig with lipstick.
	Well, I mentioned it.
	No, you liked it.
	You were all jacked about the pig with lipstick.
	No, no.
	There you are.
	Gee, we have to go to the next page already.
	There was a lot of Cinco de Mayo with mayonnaise.
	I actually liked Rick Harris' Cinco de Mayo real mayo.
	What else?
	Was there anything else that we...
	I liked the rat.
	I liked the Matthew Dropko's rat on a bicycle.
	That's the one I was fighting for.
	Yeah.
	You didn't fight very hard.
	I did.
	And then...
	You liked the skull.
	I liked the mug a lot, though.
	You liked the skull.
	Cinco de N.A. by Toast.
	Was that the one you liked?
	Like the death mask?
	Yeah, I thought it was one of those you liked.
	No, that's the one.
	The death mask...
	Was it Toast?
	It was Moose.
	I thought it was Toast.
	Well, the one I liked, which I used on the newsletter, I think, is the one you're talking about.
	Oh, okay.
	That was a different one.
	In all, though, an outstanding selection for us to choose from cannot beat this type of value that the artists bring to us for every single episode.
	I mean...
	It's hard to imagine.
	I talk to other podcasters and they'll say, hey man, great art you guys do.
	I said, we don't do anything.
	We just sit there.
	We're lucky we do this show.
	Yeah, it's like, if we can automate us, we're good to go.
	Hello.
	Now, there's a project.
	Yeah, just draw on the sources from almost 1,500 episodes and create the voices and the theories.
	Robot show.
	Yeah, no, but our thinking, I think there's enough of us out there that AI should be able to get our thinking.
	Or how we're familiar with the matters.
	Anyway, and I just have to say, no, no, this is 10, 20, sometimes 50, could be 100 people who are vying for this honor of being excoriated by us, telling them their work is no good.
	And they seem to really enjoy it.
	And then, of course, when they win...
	Because we understand the heart of an artist.
	Yes, we do.
	You especially understand the heart of the artist, exactly.
	So, thank you very much to, what was it, Nestworks for the Cinco de Mayo.
	It was perfect.
	You can follow along at noagendaartgenerator.com or, if you'd like, drop that legacy app.
	Don't send me emails that, hey, my app is not working.
	If it's Apple or Spotify, go to newpodcastapps.com.
	You'll be updated when the show drops.
	Within under 60 seconds.
	Oh, by the way, I did like the Kenny band Let Me Grab My Sign art.
	That was also cool, yeah.
	But we needed Cinco de Mayo.
	Yeah, I... That's what we needed.
	Newpodcastapps.com.
	Go grab yourself a modern podcast app for all platforms, all versions.
	I personally like the web apps for some reason.
	They just seem to work great and you can store all your podcast lists and it works on any device.
	You don't have to install apps, but that's just me.
	You're the guy.
	I'm the guy.
	Did you see that Facebook canceled their podcasting initiatives?
	Yeah, I think.
	Didn't you mention that already?
	I might have.
	I might have.
	Yeah, it turned out that they couldn't make it work.
	Yeah, there's no money.
	Because they don't understand.
	You need value for value is what you need.
	It's the only way that this can work long term.
	I was telling the Hollywood executive that last night.
	I mean, you know, it's not going to last forever.
	People are going to stop paying for streaming.
	There's too much.
	You've oversaturated the market.
	I agree with that.
	He went, yeah, sure, you're right, but I'm rich, so shut up.
	He didn't say that.
	He agrees with me, of course.
	Let's thank our executive producer and associate executive producer for episode 1449.
	Yes.
	You know, you mentioned that I was watching some morning shows today, and they go, I said, well, what are you doing?
	And they're playing some show.
	This sounds like a great show.
	I'm listening to it.
	And they say, where is it?
	When does it start?
	It's starting Wednesday on Discovery+.
	Discovery Plus now.
	Discovery Plus?
	What's Discovery Plus?
	I think that's the big concept that they roll CNN Plus into, and they're going to create a huge, you know, the History Channel.
	Everything will be in Discovery Plus.
	That's going to be yet another streaming offering.
	It's going to be free?
	This I don't know.
	Probably not.
	I would doubt it, yeah.
	I would doubt it.
	All right.
	Our executive producers and associate executive producers for episode 1449.
	Luckily, we did have some people who loved their moms, but most didn't.
	Eleven.
	Eleven mom lovers.
	You know, once COVID passed, eh, screw mom.
	Who cares?
	John Cooper is from Honolulu, Hawaii, sent 50816.
	Aloha.
	And he says right away, a switcheroo in honor of my smoking hot bride, Sorrel.
	Sorrel?
	Would that be Sorrel?
	Sorrel?
	Sorrel.
	I bet you it's Sorrel.
	I think it's Sorrel.
	It's Sorrel and her superior birthing skills.
	All right.
	Happy Mom's Day from our three homeschooled human resources and me.
	We love hearing this.
	What does he say here?
	Please play Mac and Cheese, full load, which I'm going to presume is whole load.
	And 33 is the magic number.
	Thanks very much from John Cooper.
	Thank you, John.
	Living the Mac and Cheese life.
	Mac and Cheese.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	33, that's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	Onward with Steve Webb, also known as Sir OG Godcaster.
	He's the man.
	The one and only.
	And he's where he belongs in Riverside, California.
	333.77.
	ITM, I'm making this donation to No Agenda today in gratitude to you guys for being the prototype of successfully making V4V work.
	We have a book coming out on it, by the way.
	Yes, we've started, I guess.
	Yes.
	Many LifeSpring family members have responded to the V4V message on my show.
	The LifeSpring Family Audio Bible.
	Oh, that's the name of the show.
	The LifeSpring Family Audio Bible.
	It's the LifeSpring Family Audio Bible.
	LifeSpring Family Audio Bible.
	Got it.
	And I'd like to thank you two for showing how to communicate that message.
	Well, we got some of the ideas from megachurches.
	Yes, we did.
	It goes back and forth.
	Yes, we did.
	And thank you.
	And thank you, church.
	Thank you, church.
	Thank you.
	Adam, the lovely lady Leanne.
	Is that your name?
	The other name you used?
	No, that would be his wife, the lovely lady Leanne.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Just the way the sentence is structured.
	That's only when I'm hanging out with Caitlin.
	Adam, the lovely...
	Adam, the lovely lady Leanne and I have been really happy to hear you and the Keeper's God talk on CATK. God bless you.
	You guys went on a religious show now.
	CATK. It's Curry and the Keeper.
	It's our show.
	Oh.
	You haven't heard our show?
	Yes, I have heard the show.
	I have comments.
	If you want to hear them, you'll get mad.
	No, I don't want to hear any of your comments.
	Good.
	It's a good show, except for one thing.
	No, no, I'm not interested in your comments.
	Thank you.
	I'm not.
	I'm just not.
	Let's just not do it.
	All of Gitmo Nation is invited to Joe us.
	Joe us.
	Jeez!
	Come on!
	To join us as we're reading through the Bible in a year.
	After each day's reading, I share some thoughts about what we've read.
	Look for LifeSpring Family Audio Bible in your podcasting 2.0 podcast app plug or at an audio Bible link.
	Thank you for your courage and may God bless you richly.
	Steve Webb.
	Thank you very much, Steve.
	Walk away!
	No more comments!
	The Diloretto Sisters.
	I like this.
	Are they a group?
	Are they a singing trio?
	The Diloretto Sisters from Damascus, Oregon.
	Our favorite number, 333.33.
	And they start off by saying, Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
	What is the best way to celebrate the breast mother in the universe?
	You said breast.
	I said breast, but I was trying to talk over it.
	I'll start over.
	We'll fix it in the edit.
	Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
	What is the best way to celebrate the best mother in the universe?
	Celebrate her on the best podcast in the universe.
	John and Adam, we all thank you for your courage in keeping our amygdala tiny.
	My sisters, John, Kyle, and I would love to put this donation towards our mother, Joyce's Damehood.
	She has about $200 to go.
	Thank you, Mom, for your strength, unconditional love, and amazing perseverance through this rough time regarding your health and this wild life we live.
	We always look to you as an amazing example.
	We love you, Mom.
	Oh, also, you too, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	Oh, thank you.
	So, she has...
	I don't know if she has...
	Oh, she has 200 more to go after this.
	Okay, well, we should see her being damed very soon.
	Excellent.
	So nice of you.
	And she also misses Love and Lit.
	I don't see the Love and Lit.
	Oh, yes, I'm sorry.
	Oh, I didn't even see this.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, I didn't expand the spreadsheet properly this morning.
	Hold on a second.
	Oh, goodness.
	That means I've missed some jingles.
	Jingles.
	What does she ask for, jingle-wise?
	Biden, get vaccinated.
	Obama, no, no, no, no, no, which is a good combo.
	Yeah.
	Had noodle gun and health karma.
	Okay, so vaccinated, get vaccinated.
	Oh, this is like the hardest one.
	To find, for some reason, the Biden get vaccinated because it's...
	Okay.
	And then Obama, no, no, no, no.
	I didn't pre-select these.
	Obama, no, no, no, no.
	Okay.
	And what was after that?
	Noodle gun and then the health karma.
	Noodle gun.
	I'm going to shoot you with my noodle gun.
	Yes.
	No, I understand the...
	I'm sorry about this.
	And then a health karma.
	Get vaccinated.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hey!
	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.
	You've got karma.
	Jason Toliopoulos in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 333.31.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	I don't care what time you start this show, I'll be listening.
	Download.
	Thank you.
	I'm donating in honor of Mother's Day, in particular, three very special mothers.
	Mine, who doesn't listen, but who I love all the same.
	Bad mom.
	My mother-in-law, Mary, who is trapped in Communist Canada because she has convictions.
	I'm very lucky to have her in my life.
	Is she a convict?
	Is she a criminal?
	She has convictions.
	Oh.
	As in opinions.
	Oh, I thought she was a criminal.
	I'm very lucky to have her in my life.
	She may not know it, but she's a huge source of inspiration for me and many others.
	So she is obviously outspoken.
	And lastly, in honor of Dame Orchid Thief, I think that's her night name, Orchid Thief, I should know this, and her new human resource, Nadia, whom she recruited into the world last week.
	She's the mother of now five beautiful children, all of whom are being raised right and are proof that there is hope for the future.
	Can I get some health karma for my autistic sister who is having jab-related health issues?
	Oh, man.
	And some liberation karma for all Canadians trapped under Castro's boot.
	Well, for that, we need to roll out the goat.
	You've got karma.
	Amanda Ford is in Westbrook, Maine.
	333.
	Thank you, Amanda.
	In the morning, Adam and John, my name is Amanda from Westbrook, Maine.
	I'm making my first and long overdue donation.
	However, it is my husband Dan's birthday, so I'd like to switch this to his name.
	Another switcheroo.
	Dan Ford.
	Okay.
	I got Dan reflected.
	Because this is a first, could you de-douche him?
	Of course we can.
	You've been de-douched.
	His brother Brian hit him in the mouth about a year ago and now never misses a show.
	I will often catch Dan and his brother having their own late-night no-agenda meet-up on the phone and singing all the no-agenda jingles.
	Ha!
	That's something you need to record secretly.
	That would be cool.
	Two dudes.
	It's almost like a Budweiser commercial.
	What's up?
	What's up?
	Shut up, slave chemtrails.
	Budweiser.
	It's time to return the favor you do for us and share some of our treasure.
	Please give a shout out and happy Mother's Day to his smoking hot wife, that's me, his brother Brian, and Brian's smoking hot wife, Leslie.
	Also, call out Brian for the douchebag he is.
	Douchebag.
	For jingles, shut up, slave, and bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Thank you.
	Shut up, slave.
	I love bugs!
	Bugs, bugs, bugs.
	Tastes like poop.
	Michael Sizzlo is next on the list at $333 and he's in Rotonda West, Florida.
	This is Switcheroo, another one.
	Another Switcheroo.
	This is a donation from my beautiful bride Renee for a Mother's Day donation on her way to Damehood.
	She is the mother of my three human resources and has had the patience to put up with me for the last 27 years.
	Flowers would last only a bit longer than a politician's promise, but being an executive producer of the Mother's Day special for the No Agenda show will last forever.
	Ha ha!
	Thank you for all the infotainment.
	Hoping that all the mothers out there will have a great day and a better year.
	Renee's favorite jingle is Sleepy Joe.
	And could you throw in a Reverend Al Clip?
	Dealer's Choice.
	Thanks, Mike Sislow.
	Night in the making.
	Sleepy Joe!
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. Boom shakalaka.
	There you go.
	Val Steensland, Kirkland, Washington.
	Home of Costco.
	301.
	Thank you for your courage and for your intelligent and irreverent take on media and news makers.
	My mom in the 1950s watched the Senator McCarthy hearings on television after listening to every word of the hearings on radio during the day.
	She was bemused at the difference of the focus brought by the TV version to the public when compared to the tone and meaning of questions asked and answered verbatim on the radio during the day.
	Yes, that was C-SPAN back in the day.
	You listen to it live on the radio and then at night they gave you the skewed version.
	Now the McCarthy trials was...
	What was that, John?
	Was that the commies?
	Communism in the Army.
	Communism in the Army.
	She encouraged me to join the debate team in high school and learn how many versions of the truth debate teams could tell each other with an adamant voice and straight face.
	We were all required to research and debate both sides of the topic.
	1956 resolved that government subsidies should be granted according to need to high school graduates who qualify for additional training.
	Wow, that was kind of out of left field.
	I'm not quite sure what that meant.
	Do you understand the last part?
	Not completely.
	It sounds like some communist thing where, you know, to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities, something like that.
	And what she wanted, Val wanted us to play ants.
	We'll do a little bit of ants and cut it off with the karma.
	Hit it!
	I got ants.
	I got ants.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Sir Real Estate comes in with $250 from Highland Heights.
	He's an associate executive producer and he's in Ohio.
	And this is yet another switcheroo.
	Holy moly.
	For Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
	Happy Mother's Day to Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
	Since her mom passed away in 2014, Ashley doesn't really like to celebrate Mother's Day, so I couldn't think of a better gift than a no-agenda executive producership.
	Ashley's a beautiful, talented, and amazing mother to our six kids.
	Today is Kids Day.
	And deserves more praise than I can give her.
	I love you, baby.
	I also wanted to...
	Do that again.
	Do the I love you, baby with a little more heart.
	I love you, baby.
	I love you, baby.
	Perfect.
	I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to Adam and Dreb Scott for helping Dame Ashley and I... Get set up to deliver our Value for Value podcast, The Written Revolution.
	You did this?
	Yes, of course.
	Am I not the podfather?
	The podcast has a range of topics, including liberty, law, and cultural deconstruction.
	We are blessed by the support of time, talent, and treasure from the No Agenda community.
	As Stu Sparklemotion, Sir CEO of Shitposts, and Sir Timothy of No Fixed Title, where's Munchnut to mention a few?
	I would like to invite everyone to go to www.realpassageway.com.
	That's realpassageway.com and check out the podcast and sub stack.
	It's also available on all podcasting 2.0 plug apps.
	Finally, there'll be a Northeast Ohio meetup on May 21st.
	Check out the knowage and the meetups for the details.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Surreal estate.
	Where's Munch?
	This is going to be a thing.
	That's actually a title.
	Where's Munch Nuts?
	It's a modern Ferris Bueller type thing.
	Let me try.
	Okay, give it a shot.
	Give it a shot.
	Where's Munchnuts?
	It's a beautiful thing.
	Sir Jeremy Chumpati is in Oakland, Ontario 234.33 in the morning, gentlemen.
	I think it's fatty.
	Chump fatty.
	What did I say?
	Patty.
	Oh, chum fatty.
	I thought I said fatty.
	Well, maybe you did.
	Oakville, Ontario, 234.33.
	In the morning, gentlemen, it's been a week of 33, so time to donate.
	Exactly!
	Exactly how you gotta look at those things.
	It's a message.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Jeremy.
	Chum fatty.
	Sir Clay Alchemist of the Grand River in Wyoming, Michigan.
	222.22.
	Finally, somebody came up with a row of ducks.
	Yep.
	Last time, he says last time, the most you heard from me was this...
	The last time most of you heard from me, this time last year, days before I had a severe medical emergency, I had to be hospitalized for a manic episode.
	Leading up to it, it was over 240 days into long COVID. Oh, I was 240 days into long COVID. I was not improving, and I decided to get vaccinated, as many customers at that time were claiming it would help.
	Oh, he had caught COVID. It was 240 days into long COVID, and a bunch of customers, Tomei, get a shot.
	Sadly, it did not help.
	And very likely triggered my first and only manic episode in my life.
	What is a manic episode, exactly?
	It's like running around with your hair on fire.
	It's going nuts.
	Oh.
	Going nuts.
	It's going nuts.
	Oh, okay.
	Finally, for some good news, in the past few months, I finally got my mental health to the best point in my life.
	That's due in part to my quitting my job of 14 years.
	There you go.
	Where people gave me advice to get the shot.
	Yeah.
	I'm currently taking a sabbatical in Arkansas, appreciating the beauty of the...
	Who is it?
	Wichita.
	Wichita.
	Wichita Mountains.
	Arkansas is beautiful, by the way.
	You might say I've buried the lead, but I see it as saving the best for last.
	I have fallen in love with the...
	There you go.
	Most amazing woman who brings me so much joy.
	And on that note, I could use some relationship karma.
	John and Adam, thanks for helping me shrink the amygdala literally.
	Sir Clay, alchemist of the Grand River.
	P.S. I do not have a permanent job lined up yet, so if you have some custom illustration work, reach out to me on clayalchemist.com.
	Here's your health karma, brother.
	You've got karma.
	And Donald Francis also...
	Another switcheroo.
	Please do a switcheroo.
	We'll do a switcheroo.
	And credit this donation to my smoking hot wife, Stephanie Francis, towards her eventual damehood.
	Happy Mother's Day!
	Now, do we actually say smoking hot wife, Stephanie Francis, or just Stephanie Francis?
	Stephanie Francis.
	Okay.
	Otherwise, we're in trouble.
	Yeah, I know.
	We've got to be careful what we let people get away with.
	It's true.
	Then Carrie Jackson.
	Oh, no.
	No, that was it.
	Yeah, that's it.
	That's our group of associate executive producers and executive producers for show 1449 coming up on 1450 next Thursday.
	No, we appreciate those who do love their moms.
	And, of course, we'll be thanking more people who came in under the exec and associate executive producer level.
	But these people, these associates and execs, They can proudly take that credit that is now official and it is yours to display wherever you want.
	Try IMDB, LinkedIn.
	It's all valid.
	And if anyone has a question, you send them to us.
	We will vouch for you.
	No problemo.
	And thank you for producing episode 1449.
	If you'd like to be a part of this mayhem, go to your...
	It's time, talent, and treasure.
	We love it all, especially the treasure.
	Thank you.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Well, I have good news for you, John.
	You do?
	Yep.
	The war is officially over.
	It's officially over.
	I thought it was going to be over when Putin gave his speech.
	No, no, no.
	Do you hear this?
	Listen to this.
	That is Bono and The Edge from U2 doing what is billed as an impromptu pop-up song with some Ukrainian military in the subway in, well, they say Ukraine, but it looks like a film set to me.
	And they're singing Stand By Ukraine.
	When Bono shows up, you know that the end is near.
	You know that Bono will save the world.
	So, and have you ever seen this Subway?
	It's like, oh, they performed an ad hoc concert in the Subway.
	This is the Subway where Zelensky does his, it's all lit.
	It's a studio, basically.
	Is that the one where they have the steps and there's all the bags around it?
	Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yes, exactly.
	And you know we're one step closer to the war ending when we're taking away the toys.
	It boasts two helipads, a swimming pool and a movie theatre, but the 140-metre luxury yacht, the Scheherazade, will not be setting sail any time soon after being impounded by Italian authorities under EU sanctions imposed against Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
	Anti-corruption activists claim the boat, which is valued at 650 million euros, belongs to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, citing as evidence a crew list which contains the names of people who work for the organisation that looks after the President's security.
	But the Italian Ministry of Finance said only that it had found significant economic and business links between the ship's owner and eminent people in the Russian government.
	So Wait a minute.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Maybe we got Putin's yacht, maybe not.
	Let's take it anyway.
	I mean, first of all, first of all, I have another yacht story, too.
	But let's play mine before we, my thoughts on this bull crap in Italy.
	This is on Saki turned over the reins of her job to some black woman.
	No, no, it's not.
	Hold on a second.
	Not some black woman.
	We have to discuss her separately.
	It is Karine Jean-Pierre.
	Not just some black woman.
	She is the first groundbreaking black LGBTQ plus woman perthing person.
	How can somebody be LGBTQ plus?
	Isn't she lesbian?
	Well, it's a category.
	Well, it's a giant category.
	Does it mean that she's a...
	What's one of those...
	Go through those terms one by one.
	Could she be...
	Is she possibly gay male?
	Well, I'm just looking for the headline.
	I want to show it to you.
	That would be magical.
	Well, not show it to you.
	I want to read it to you because that was the way here.
	Yeah, that's the way she introduced her on the stage.
	Yes.
	I know.
	I saw this and they started crying together.
	It was kind of pathetic.
	Yeah.
	I was looking for the headline, LGBTQ. Here it is.
	Oh, it's a little different.
	This is CNBC. Karine Jean-Pierre has been named the Biden administration's new White House press secretary, becoming the first black woman and the first out LGBTQ person.
	To take the podium.
	So she's not an LGBTQ+. But in the full size, the plus part, isn't the associate also in there?
	Ally, ally, ally.
	Maybe she's just an ally.
	Or she's queer.
	Well, no.
	That's why they shorten it to LGBTQ in the headline.
	Because they know she's not an ally.
	They know she's not asexual.
	She's a gay male?
	No.
	That's a G. Why don't they just say what she is instead of throwing that moniker on there?
	Would you like to understand why they do that?
	Because I think you do know.
	Because that's their group.
	That's the activation group.
	That's the people you need to help.
	The poor LGBTQs.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Leave the pluses out.
	Yes.
	No, the pluses are not important.
	Or the allies.
	We're not in it.
	So let's go back.
	Let's go now.
	So they did that little event and then it's okay.
	This will be fun to watch when she takes over.
	And so the first thing they go to is this.
	This is the first thing when they do the press conference.
	The first thing they go to is the capture of yet another yacht without due process.
	And I want to deconstruct this a little bit and then talk about the Italian lot.
	I'm going to give you an update on a Russian oligarch's yacht that was seized that you may have seen.
	It's not meant to be funny, but I did want to note and make sure everybody saw it.
	Today, the Department of Justice announced that the Fijian law enforcement executed a seizure warrant freezing the motor yacht Amadea, a 348-foot luxury vessel owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Karamov.
	The yacht is worth approximately $300 million or more.
	This was done with support and assistance from the FBI, and Fiji acted at the request of the Department of Justice.
	Following issuance of a seizure warrant from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
	Fijian authorities executed the request, obtaining a domestic seizure warrant from a Fijian court.
	As you know, the president has made clear we will go after Russian oligarchs and their ill-gotten gains using every authority we have to hold them accountable.
	That is so crazy!
	Did they threaten Fiji?
	And what authority?
	What authority do we have?
	This is global police force now.
	Play that little last part of this again.
	It's just the last few sentences.
	Hold on, I already dumped it already.
	I got it.
	From a Fijian court, as you know, the president has made clear we will go after Russian oligarchs and their ill-gotten gains using every authority we have to hold them accountable.
	So I guess they have that authority then somehow.
	That I know of.
	But what is this ill-gotten gains?
	What are the ill-gotten gains?
	And what is their...
	Hold them accountable for their...
	Play that last wordage.
	...and has made clear we will go after Russian oligarchs and their ill-gotten gains using every authority we have to hold them accountable.
	Hold them accountable.
	Accountable to ill-gotten gains.
	Okay, so they got ill-gotten gains.
	Do we know that for a fact?
	What is ill?
	What are the ill-gotten gains?
	Is it drug money?
	Is ill the same as illegal, or is it just ill-gotten?
	Ill-gotten.
	Ill-gotten.
	What does that mean?
	It could be that you're sick and you got it.
	Let me see.
	Ill-gotten.
	Ill-gotten definition meaning.
	Here we go.
	Let's get into it.
	Okay.
	Acquired by illicit or improper means.
	Says who?
	Miriam Webster.
	There's...
	I'm glad you think that's funny.
	Who says that these gains that they've got were ill-gotten?
	On what authority do we have to make that assertion?
	Because nobody can have a yacht.
	And then to hold them accountable.
	Hold them accountable for what?
	For having a yacht.
	That seems to be the only answer.
	Where is the authority to do this with a Fijian's cave for no good reason?
	This is just beyond the pale.
	I don't get it.
	I do.
	I want to mention this.
	Global police force.
	That's what this is.
	What is it?
	Yeah, that was Interpol.
	And this is also keeping Jeff Bezos in check, keeping Bill Gates in check, keeping everybody with a yacht in check.
	Hey, you know, don't mess around, man.
	Ellis has got the biggest one.
	Yeah?
	Everybody with the...
	Oh, and you know what?
	They might go after his yacht.
	But they're going to go...
	Bill Gotten Gaines.
	Bill Gotten Gaines.
	That's right.
	It's a scam.
	Here's an article that's funny from 2020-57.
	Seven Russian oligarchs, many involved with oil and gas, have recently died under mysterious circumstances.
	Oops!
	Though suicide is officially suspected.
	Yeah.
	That's what I do when I have a billion.
	It's a speculation about the criminal's involvement in violence.
	And then they list one after the other.
	They're all shot in their homes.
	Shot in their homes.
	The family shot dead.
	The kids.
	The wife.
	Everyone shot dead.
	Supposedly suicide.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	That's a murder-suicide then.
	One guy, yeah, the police, it starts with Loretta Mora, the Spanish police, a lot of them in Spain.
	I'll just read one of these.
	A day earlier, police in Moscow, about 3,000 miles away from the coastal city in Spain, made a gruesome discovery.
	Slov Avaev, another millionaire, and his wife and 13-year-old daughter were found dead in their luxury apartment.
	The Russian state news agency TAS reports that he had a pistol in his hand and a suspected authority was suspected of shooting his wife and daughter before killing himself.
	Incidents took place within 24 hours of each other and the presumed courses of events strikingly similar.
	There's like two of those, there are deaths for the latest in a series of mysterious deaths of Russian oligarchs, primarily from the energy sector that have taken place in 2022.
	In January, Leonid Shulman, a 60-year-old high-level manager at Gazprom, reportedly committed suicide.
	Then on February 25th, Alexander Tulyakov, another former manager at the Energy Giant, was found hanging dead in his house in St.
	Petersburg.
	Three days later, the Ukraine-born gas and energy magnate Mikhail Watford was also found hanging dead in the garage of his country estate in England.
	It goes on and on and on with one after the other.
	Huh.
	Yeah, nobody knows what's going on.
	Apparently, this took place in 2017, too.
	A whole bunch of oligarchs, quote-unquote oligarchs, wound up dead.
	No, Western media doesn't report on any of it or even care.
	And the curious thing is, is all these guys recently that were found dead, all of them were missing from the sanctions list.
	They were not listed as to be sanctioned against.
	And did they have ill-gotten gains and yachts?
	Well, I don't know, but they were sure held accountable.
	Yeah.
	We're held accountable.
	Man.
	Well, this is only adding to the problems that we have.
	The Euronews today was filled with, oh, that's it.
	G7's going to sanction.
	No more Russian imports of oil.
	They're saying oil, not gas.
	EU, nope.
	No more Russian petroleum products.
	So now we have all kinds of Interesting things happening, yes.
	In that regard, let's go back to your story about the guy in Italy.
	Why is Italy doing this?
	Unless they're getting cut off from the gas, or because they're going around about ways, and the Italians can do this, to pay the Russians for gas.
	They want gas.
	They're doing it.
	They're doing it.
	They are paying an intermediary who then pays the Russians in rubles.
	So why are they grabbing the yacht?
	Because...
	Because it's no different from you two appearing in a subway.
	Look what we're doing.
	Yes, but I'm just saying, if I'm giving you gas, and you're going to freeze to death without my Russian gas, why are you taking my yacht?
	I wish this was a real conversation that we were having.
	I don't know, man.
	Your yacht's tiny.
	Sucks.
	My yacht's a lot better than your yacht.
	It's virtue signaling.
	It is.
	And there's a lot of it going on.
	You know what?
	Oh, I got it.
	They grabbed the Russian yacht, the Italians did, to seize it so the Americans can't grab it.
	Oh, I like that one.
	And keep it safe.
	Because it was a different story about the Italian yacht.
	That didn't sound like it was coming from the U.S. Justice Department.
	No, they grabbed the yacht.
	Yes.
	Don't worry, boys.
	We got it.
	That's a good point.
	Fiji, those suckers, they should have done the same thing.
	Yeah, the Fijians, well, we still pry it from their hands.
	We couldn't do that with the Italians so easy.
	Do you remember The Who?
	You know, like, talk about my generation.
	Yeah.
	They were kind of like rebels back in the day, weren't they?
	Were they?
	Well, not anymore, for sure.
	One of our producers sent in a video of The Who playing Dallas.
	I think they're playing Austin this week.
	And they have, you know, they got screens, and oh yeah, they're flashing images of Zelensky and the Ukrainian flag.
	The who, ladies and gentlemen?
	The who?
	It's falling for this bullcrap.
	So, with all this, you know, with the energy markets upset, a lot of different things to talk about, kind of briefly, but diesel fuel is now at $6 a gallon.
	So, this is now pretty much...
	It's way past six bucks around here.
	Give me a break.
	It's a dollar.
	Really?
	What is it now?
	Close to nine, probably.
	I think diesel fuel, like in my immediate area, is probably around $6.75.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, I mean, that's too expensive.
	So that's hurting.
	You think?
	Yes, that's hurting everything.
	That is going to bring some version of food shortages, if only purely from delivery not being able to be made.
	We have warnings again now of electricity shortages, and they're cranking it up, particularly in Texas.
	Oh, it's warm.
	It's warm now.
	Yes, we are ground zero.
	It's warm now.
	We can't handle the load.
	We can't handle the load.
	It's cold.
	We can't handle the load.
	You mentioned the Discovery+.
	The History Channel is involved in a lot of predictive programming.
	And they actually did a history piece, which I will play a piece of.
	This is Nostradamus.
	Did you know that Nostradamus predicted all of this, John?
	Did you know that?
	He predicted all of this!
	Always focused on the big picture, Nostradamus was fascinated by crises that could have global consequences.
	If there was a famine that was bad enough to shut down American food production, where it would really look bad is not so much in America.
	It would be bad enough, but it would be catastrophic beyond America's borders because we are the breadbasket of the world.
	It's been estimated that if exports of food were cut off In a year's time, 400 million people in Africa might die from famine and starvation.
	Nostradamus sees this famine spreading out of control and our world descending into barbarism.
	The great famine which I sense approaching will often turn up in various areas and become worldwide.
	It will be so vast and long-lasting that people will grab roots from the trees and children from the breast.
	It would be so complete and virulent that babies would be snatched from the breast and man would eat his fellow man.
	Yeah.
	Mastradamus is terrified.
	I mean, he got it right, right down to Democrats eating babies.
	I mean, the guy nails it.
	No, he was a talented fellow.
	Do you know what he predicted would be the safest place to ride out the end of the world?
	It's an island.
	Oh, Catalina.
	No, Ibiza.
	Yes, the guy was a genius.
	The party island.
	That's where he wanted the end of the world.
	Of course.
	Anyway, we all know that climate change and Putin's price hike.
	Okay, you're not leaving Ukraine.
	I got Ukraine clips.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Bring on Ukraine clips.
	Let's go.
	First of all, let's listen to Ned Price.
	Oh, man.
	Not Ned Price again.
	I want you to listen to Ned Price, but I want you to listen to his voice.
	And Ned is what?
	National Security Advisor?
	No.
	No, that's Jake.
	No, Jake is the Secretary of State.
	No, Jake Sullivan is the National Security Advisor.
	What's Ned Price then?
	He's a spokeshole.
	Oh, spokeshole.
	He went from spook to spokeshole?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Russia's power in the region beyond is significantly diluted.
	And it is diluted because of something you referred to, Said.
	Those are the export controls, but also the economic sanctions that we have placed on Moscow.
	It's diluted because of the diplomatic isolation, the pariah status that President Putin's war campaign in Ukraine has bestowed Hold on a second.
	New talking point.
	Pariah status.
	I got this clip a week ago.
	It hasn't caught on.
	To your specific question.
	Yes, Moscow does have a defense industry.
	It is a defense industry that is not wholly self-reliant.
	It is reliant on key inputs and products.
	From the international community, including from the West, that is precisely what our export controls are designed to choke off.
	Because of that, Moscow's high-tech, its defense sectors, its aerospace sector, its energy exploration sector, a number of strategic sectors that Moscow would need for its regional and international It gets compost from China the way we do.
	community.
	You look at any number of votes at the UN, for example, where 141 countries, the vast majority of the world's countries have come together to condemn President Putin's behavior.
	it's bullcrap Yeah.
	He gets the same stuff from China that we do.
	Yeah.
	And India.
	India and China can provide Russia with everything.
	Okay.
	But that's not what...
	Actually, the more interesting thing...
	And there's another part to this.
	I'm going to skip that.
	Because I want to play...
	It was on Meet the Press.
	Mike McCall.
	He's a Republican.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's from Texas.
	He's a total douche knuckle.
	War monger.
	War monger.
	Yes, he's a war monger from Texas.
	And he's on one of the committees that's important.
	Foreign relations, I think.
	But it's not the point.
	You heard...
	Ned Price, and the way he tells you that things are, you've heard him.
	Yes, I did, because he's from the CIA milieu.
	But he's from the gay CIA milieu.
	He's a very gay CIA milieu.
	Yeah, he's out gay, let's mention that.
	LGBTQ plus out.
	This is Mike McCall.
	Listen to his cadence.
	The concerns that these attacks on Russia could actually lead to a wider war, maybe even retaliation with nuclear weapons.
	That's always a concern.
	The short-range tactical nukes is always...
	We discussed that with NATO when I was there.
	You know, they brought the butcher of Syria in to fight the second phase of this war.
	He's a very frightening man.
	He dropped barrel-busting bombs in Syria on civilians.
	That's being discredited, McCall.
	Chemical weapons with Assad in Syria to kill civilians.
	White helmets, bullcrap hoax.
	What would happen if a chemical weapon was dropped in Ukraine and or a short-range tactical nuke?
	The question there is would the world idly sit back and watch that happen without doing anything?
	What should we do?
	I just find it hard to believe that when I talk to the Secretary General of NATO, their job is really to defend NATO, not trigger...
	What?
	He sounded more like him when I did these clips, but okay.
	It doesn't sound just like Ned Price.
	No, no.
	Because he doesn't have an up-talk, and so it's...
	But the guy's a jerk.
	Well, allow me to play his counterpart, Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts.
	I only have 10 seconds left for each of you.
	On Fox News, interestingly.
	But if they wrap this in the Senate with a Ukraine funding and a COVID funding, you guys okay with that, Congressman Moulton?
	Look, I'm going to support it because it's the right thing to do for Ukraine.
	I mean, obviously there's a lot of politics involved and there will be domestic debates here at home about other policies and whatnot.
	But at the end of the day, we've got to realize we're at war.
	And we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians.
	We're fundamentally at war, although it's somewhat through a proxy, with Russia.
	And it's important that we win.
	What?
	We win.
	Yeah.
	We're at war with Russia.
	It's important that we win.
	Yeah.
	You know, because what he means is the Democrat Party is at war with Russia.
	Could be.
	Could be.
	I have a...
	This is CBS this weekend.
	Russian nuclear saber rattling.
	Oh, I always love a package that starts off with violence.
	This is how Russia rattles sabers.
	Testing a missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon more than 10,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from Moscow to Miami.
	Russia's foreign minister recently called the risk of nuclear war considerable.
	And Russian talk shows have debated how quickly a bomb could reach Europe, even showing how one might create a nuclear tsunami to wipe out the UK. Yeah!
	U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tried to play down the threat.
	But as the war rages on in Ukraine, a mushroom cloud wouldn't suddenly just appear on the horizon.
	The West would have intelligence.
	So there'd be a warning.
	Yeah, there would be warnings that these warheads were being deployed.
	A period where it's not available for sea.
	Retired Commander Andy Corbett captained two of the UK's Vanguard-class submarines, capable of delivering its Trident nuclear missile.
	How easy would it be for Putin to launch a nuclear weapon?
	My understanding of the Russian system is that it's very similar to the British one.
	So the authority to launch must come from Putin.
	Although the decision rests with the political leader, the ability to do that doesn't.
	So tomorrow is Victory Day in Russia, May 9th.
	And Victory Day is to commemorate the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, and the speculation is that Putin will declare a win on the Nazis in Ukraine, which is great.
	It happened on the same day.
	And I think he could do it, and he could pull it off.
	I think, if I was going to do a Photoshop job, I just didn't have time for this last newsletter, where it was going to be Putin placed right over Bush, where it said, mission accomplished in the back.
	Yeah, could be.
	The easier to talk about than it is actually to do it.
	Although it's not hard to do that type of Photoshop.
	So a friend of mine is a Ukrainian.
	He runs two large software companies and he's got 150 employees in Ukraine and 150 in Russia.
	And I talked to him over the weekend.
	And he says that...
	And he's Ukrainian himself.
	He was born in Kiev.
	And he also told me how to pronounce it correctly.
	Oh, and?
	Everyone's pronouncing it wrong.
	If you have a real...
	If you're Ukrainian, it's pronounced...
	It's like Kiev, only it's Kiev.
	Kiev.
	Kiev.
	Exactly.
	You actually nailed it.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm a Ukrainian.
	Kiev.
	So he's Kiev.
	Kiev.
	It's one syllable, not two.
	It's like how we say, Kevin, hey, Kiev.
	Hey, Kiev, come over here, man.
	Yeah, that's exactly what it's supposed to be.
	Anyway, so he says that the Ukrainians are now, and he's gotten 3,000 people out of the country himself, and he's got 150 employees in Kiev, and he's got another group in Russia, and this is a nightmare.
	And he says the Ukrainians are tougher than the Russians thought, and they're never going to beat them.
	And he says now the Ukrainians, because of the guns and all the...
	Bullets.
	They actually think they can push the Russians out of the country completely.
	And so I'm thinking, oh, great.
	So I told him the idea of Putin coming off and just saying he won tomorrow.
	And he says, no, he doesn't think so.
	But I think it's possible.
	Speaking of Ukraine, CrowdStrike, the renowned cybersecurity firm, is of course founded in Ukraine, Ukrainian management.
	They are now saying, hey, you know what?
	We did all that research on the DNC server, and we thought that the Russians had stolen the data.
	And of course, we know it was Seth Rich.
	They're saying, oh, you know, I think we might have relied too much on spoofed data.
	All this stuff is coming out, John.
	It's crazy.
	It's like the Pfizer stuff.
	Maybe they're just dropping it so they can say, hey, we told you.
	Yeah, we told you months ago.
	What were you doing meanwhile?
	We told you about it.
	Roe versus Wade.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Alright, I got two updates.
	Might as well get them out of the way.
	This is your crane steel plant update.
	Oops, sorry.
	Misfire.
	Ukraine says all women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from the Azostal steel plant in Mariupol, but Ukrainian fighters remain trapped inside.
	The plant is the only part of Mariupol still under Ukrainian control.
	Russia has stepped up its attacks across Ukraine.
	Observers say Russia wants a show of force to coincide with its Victory Day holiday on Monday.
	See, there you go.
	There you have it.
	The Donbass report.
	This is from NPR. That was from, I believe, Al Jazeera.
	This is from NPR. This is the Ukraine Donbass stalled.
	Ukraine's military says fighting in the eastern Donbass area is intensifying.
	NPR's Yulian Haida reports Russia is trying to break a defensive line that's held for nearly eight years.
	The military administrator in Ukraine's Donetsk region says that Russian bombardment either damaged or totally destroyed more than two dozen homes and businesses overnight.
	This reporter is CIA. He says the number of dead is relatively low, but expects to find more victims throughout the day.
	Russian forces have spilled across the line of contact here, attacking from the north and south, but they haven't managed to penetrate this particular area after almost two and a half months of all-out war.
	The line was fortified in 2014 when Russian-backed forces first attempted to seize the region.
	Russia may be looking for some key victories in the Donbas ahead of Monday's Victory Day celebrations when President Putin is expected We're good to make a major speech about the war in Ukraine.
	I guess the word is out.
	I guess that's where it's headed.
	This speech is going to be interesting.
	But it'll be at least a five-month longer war because that's what we paid for.
	$33 billion was for five months.
	So we do want to see our money on the screen, people.
	We're not just giving you money to then say, okay, we're good now.
	Uh-uh, uh-uh.
	We want to see that money up there on the screen.
	The Ukrainians, they can get their way.
	They can get the money and run.
	Alright, from Ukraine, now I'd like to just circle back, since we are talking about Psaki.
	When does she start on MSNBC? Does she start, like, this week, right away?
	I don't know that she's starting.
	The staff is all up in arms about this.
	I had a chat with my friend who works at NBC, and she said that that woman, by the way, that woman, the Jones woman, Rashida, she's been there for a while.
	And she's been trying to shake things up.
	Yeah, but Rashida is missing some important factors to be considered for this job.
	Skin color and sexual orientation.
	Well, she's got the skin color.
	No, not like Karine Jean-Pierre.
	What, you don't think she's black enough?
	No.
	And Karine Jean-Pierre is not ADOS. She's not African-American.
	No, she looks like Haitian.
	Yeah, Haitian.
	Exactly.
	There's a lot of Haitians calling themselves black Americans.
	Much to the chagrin of many black Americans.
	But let's listen to CBS This Morning's report about this joyous occasion.
	Well, the new White House press secretary is taking over the podium.
	Karine Jean-Pierre will replace Jen Psaki starting next week.
	She will be the first black and first openly LGBTQ plus person to fill the role.
	Jean-Pierre is currently the White House's principal deputy press secretary.
	I'm just so grateful to have had Corrine by my side for this over the last 15 months, and I just can't wait to see her shine at the podium.
	Psaki has held the position since the start of President Biden's term.
	She will be joining MSNBC following her departure.
	She'll be joining MSNBC following her departure.
	She's going to shine?
	What is she, a shoeshine boy?
	Ooh, John, so racist.
	That's what she said.
	Yeah, well, I think you know what she meant.
	I think it was in subconscious, I'm telling you.
	So the view...
	She doesn't look like a generous person.
	The view went off script and off the rails over Corinne, and it wasn't even about Corinne.
	So we have Sonny Hostin, who is the...
	Also not ADOS. She's the cute brown curly hair lady who has the big Netflix deal, which is all about black women or women of color, people of color.
	That's her production company.
	Another Netflix winner, everybody.
	Look at your stock price.
	Tell me how that programming is working out.
	Uh, then there's the, uh, Republican, um, uh, consultant, uh, Anna Navarro, who doesn't seem like she fits in the Republican box.
	She's never, she's never voted Republican in her life.
	Probably not.
	And then, uh, uh, another, I think an actual ADOS black woman who is, I think she's a guest.
	I don't know her name offhand.
	And she says, hey, you know, like, you can be all kinds of different things.
	I can be a Republican, and I can still believe in pro-choice.
	This is not, you know, it's not strict, straight lines up and down.
	And Sonny Haas, now you have to imagine, we know this show is tightly scripted, right?
	This has been confirmed by many, many sources.
	Yeah.
	So it starts to go off the rails, and Sunny grabs her right ear with her hand, pushing her hair back, because that's where the IFB is.
	That's where the earpiece is.
	And you'll hear what she says, but just imagine, she's holding...
	Does she pull the earpiece out?
	No, she's almost like twisting it to turn up the volume, only she's twisting her ear to make it louder, because they're trying to tell her what to do, and she can't handle it!
	I know this may be a novel point, a novel idea for somebody who's, you know, a supporter of Trump, but there are people who are capable of being related and not having ethical interests.
	There's many things that I don't stand by that Trump did.
	Trump has done things that are racist.
	I'm a black woman first, so always understand that.
	But I do say that I have many conservative values that I will talk to you about.
	And so if you look at your network- Are you a Republican?
	Yes, and when you look at your network that you're standing behind, you're saying that you look at Chris Cuomo- I feel like that's an oxymoron, a black Republican.
	You feel like it's an oxymoron?
	I do.
	Why?
	Your friend right here is a Republican.
	We had this conversation.
	You do, and you say you feel like it's an oxymoron that you're a Catholic, but you're also a pro-life.
	I don't understand either of you.
	No, you don't understand yourself, then.
	I understand myself.
	I don't understand either of you.
	But it's not a personal conversation.
	We're having a personal conversation about sex.
	I don't understand how black Republicans and I don't understand Latino Republicans.
	Today, this is not about me and it's not about you.
	It's about celebrating Corinne Jean-Pierre.
	And we're out.
	Very good.
	So, Sonny Austin says black Republican is an oxymoron.
	Yeah.
	Come on, man.
	That's crazy.
	I know.
	And the grasping of...
	I don't understand.
	I don't understand.
	I don't understand either of you.
	I don't understand.
	I don't understand.
	Is she racist?
	Can we qualify that as racist?
	Bigoted.
	Bigoted.
	Well, bigoted is no good.
	It's no good.
	Yeah, the Republican Party was all blacks until, who was it?
	I had a bunch of clips on this.
	It was actually quite interesting.
	I just have to go dig those up again.
	How the Democrats took over.
	And it wasn't just Lyndon Johnson.
	It was a series of events that got the entire black nation to vote Democrat all the time.
	Very tricky.
	And it's still predominantly that way.
	And they use a lot of guilt on people.
	There's a good example.
	Your best example right there.
	If you're black, well, Biden said it.
	If you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
	That's right.
	There you go.
	It's very patronizing, I might add.
	The fact that anyone would put up with that without punching somebody is beyond me.
	That's your media.
	It's toxic.
	It's toxic.
	It is.
	And we would call the media the enemy of the people, fake news.
	I have to play this.
	This is our Mistress of Truth from the Ministry of Truthiness.
	There's just so many great...
	I've noticed something about her.
	This is Nina Jankowicz.
	She has an uneven chin.
	She's asymmetrical.
	That's why she looks so weird.
	And so what she does to kind of compensate...
	I'm a person who notices this because I try and compensate for my Tourette's, and so I'm noticing all these little things people will do.
	And she tilts her head so that it almost looks like, well, it's just the shot that one half of her chin is pointier than the other half.
	So, that's just me picking on her.
	That's just me picking on her.
	Nobody else would dare do this type of material.
	But it's important because if you're choosing someone whose job it is to be in the media, they should be symmetrical.
	She has the big head, that's good.
	You know the most unsymmetrical person that's gotten the furthest in the media and he finally quit is Brian Williams.
	Brian Williams has a broken nose.
	And he would always have his head to the left, I think.
	He'd always turn it.
	But if you just look at his nose, that nose is in the wrong place.
	That nose is off a good half inch.
	Now, this is 2020.
	So, of course, this is about Trump and Trump calling, you know, what's fake news?
	And really about having the government be in charge of what can and cannot be Replicated online.
	And there's a kicker at the end that is hilarious.
	Imagine that, you know, with President Trump right now calling all of these news organizations that have inconvenient for him stories that they're getting out there, that he's calling fake news and now lashing out at platforms.
	I would never want to see our executive branch have that sort of power.
	And that's why, you know, the legislative process with our duly elected.
	Well, it was two years ago, John.
	So she's allowed to change her mind, but she would never want to see...
	Okay.
	Yeah, you get it, right?
	...sort of power.
	And that's why, you know, the legislative process with our duly elected officials is really important, that sort of consultative rulemaking process.
	And we can't just govern by executive order anymore.
	I'll leave it there.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	We can't do it by executive order except the creation of your entire department by executive order.
	I think the reverberations in the free speech space are huge.
	Hold on.
	The free speech space.
	John, are we in the free speech space?
	Whatever that means.
	Well, I think that means conservatives.
	Not to mention this is exactly what Section 230 was designed to do, to allow the platforms to enforce the standards on their own spaces.
	No, no.
	Fact check, false.
	That is not what 230 was designed to do.
	What did she just say here?
	It was designed so that these private companies could manage their own content in their own spaces?
	No.
	It was so that they could not get sued over user-generated content.
	That's what Section 230 was about.
	It was a protectionary mechanism for them, yes.
	And by the way, I'm not against it.
	The idea was right, but now it's being misused, particularly when you have a ministry of truthiness that is telling them what to do in the back channel.
	I think I'll leave it there.
	I think the reverberations in the free speech space are huge.
	Not to mention, this is exactly what Section 230 was designed to do, to allow the platforms to enforce the standards on On their own spaces.
	So I think, you know, the entire conversation is being obviously blown out of proportion for political reasons.
	But in the more...
	And now that I think about it, if you recall, there was an update.
	There was a minor change to Section 230.
	And that was the so-called back page edition.
	And they needed to get human trafficking off of the web.
	So that's how they killed Craigslist.
	Because you couldn't do ads anymore for hookups.
	And at the time, I was like, no, this is very strict.
	This is deletion of this kind of stuff.
	It's only in certain circumstances.
	I have to go back and look at it.
	I have a feeling that that change is being utilized legally in all of these different deplatformings.
	That are taking place.
	So there was an addition, but it was minor.
	But in the more democratic countries, I'm thinking in particular of Poland.
	Poland has established this consultative process.
	Is Poland more democratic than the United States?
	I don't know what she's talking about I'm going to let her finish out the next 30 seconds.
	Do you recall she comes from the Wilson Center?
	And the Wilson Center is a government-funded operation that is supposed to provide transparency, I think in media, actually.
	That's where she comes from.
	And they have this consultative process where they send someone from the Ministry of Digitalization to discuss with Facebook's officers in Warsaw all of the instances of unfair content moderation, and some of them are being overturned through that political pressure.
	They have a tip line that people can kind of report when they think their content has been unjustly overturned, and the Trump administration has a similar thing.
	So it's Providing a lot of fodder for anti-democratic online governance.
	And it's very, very scary.
	And I think this is really where Congress needs to step in.
	I think we're seeing cooperation ramp up on a number of levels.
	So I will be completely honest and say that my program at the Wilson Center is partially funded by Facebook.
	There you go.
	Now we know where she's coming from.
	It's her job to usher in the Facebook legislation that will behoove Facebook, that will make Facebook unbeatable because only they can afford the type of regulations that will be created.
	She is the Trojan horse of Facebook.
	Yeah, good one.
	Good catch.
	That's a winner.
	Thank you.
	The Wilson Foundation seems to be...
	You've got to look this up.
	I keep finding it to help low-income kids.
	Maybe some other Wilson Foundation.
	And what's interesting is, it was my impression the Wilson Foundation is funded by Congress.
	Could be.
	So I don't know, how does Facebook get in there with partially funding something?
	Uh-huh.
	Here, you're right.
	The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is an educational non-profit created in 1921.
	Let me see.
	Well, I guess...
	There's a couple of different...
	There must be something else here.
	The problem is there's more than one Wilson Foundation.
	There's a lot of Wilson stuff.
	We should just call this the No Agenda Show, brought to you by Wilson.
	Unbelievable.
	Okay, well...
	All right.
	There you go.
	Maybe another clip here.
	You're off mic, man.
	You've got to get back into the...
	No, I'm sorry.
	I'm just mumbling.
	Hang on.
	Okay.
	Well, while you're mumbling...
	Oh, I got it off.
	Nice, interesting.
	I have a nice...
	Oh, let's talk about this.
	There's a clip.
	Dead Americans at Sandals.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is a crazy story.
	Authorities in the Bahamas are investigating after three Americans were found dead at a Sandals resort yesterday and a fourth was hospitalized.
	The health minister there, Dr.
	Michael Darville, says some guests had sought treatment for nausea and vomiting.
	I feel confident at this particular time that there's no potential risk to any of the residents on Exuma.
	Police say foul play is not expected.
	What do you think this is?
	Food poisoning, I'm guessing.
	To die from food poisoning?
	It's pretty hard to die from.
	Well, you could.
	I mean, the doctor saw them and one of them was all...
	To me, this was fentanyl.
	Something like that.
	It's got to be some crazy drug thing.
	I retract my food poisoning.
	Yeah, I was thinking, you know, it's two couples.
	They're hanging out.
	They're in Exuma.
	They're at...
	Yeah, they want to do some blow.
	Yeah.
	I'm laughing, but it's not very funny.
	But yes, they want to do some blow.
	They get some local blow.
	Yeah.
	And they wind up dead.
	Because they should have...
	I mean, I'm looking now.
	They should have an answer by now.
	We should know what they died of.
	Did you see the clip of Amber Heard taking a couple of toots?
	Oh, that was great.
	Oh, God knows what.
	In court?
	Yeah, it looked real to me.
	It looked real to me, too.
	The Hollywood executive said everyone's talking about it, so it looked real to Hollywood, but there's lots of pushback online.
	Oh, no, no, no, that's not true.
	But, I mean, that's not the only thing.
	Did you hear her testimony?
	I've heard some of it, yeah.
	About the bottles?
	Broken bottles and penetrating with bottles?
	What the heck, man?
	She's off the rails.
	And she's citing movie lines.
	Yes, they notice that her testimony is a lot of movie lines.
	A lot of movie lines.
	She's off the rails.
	Now, here's the thing.
	I know that we hate to talk about this sort of thing because it's real news.
	Yeah, because we don't care.
	But she gave her testimony and now there's a week off.
	So there's a whole week before they go into cross-examinations, which some people say, well, now it's going to give her a big edge because people are going to talk about her testimony.
	It's going to be a buzz.
	Oh, I know.
	I think it's just the opposite because what it gives the prosecutor, the litigator, the...
	The depth side of the thing.
	They can now go over her testimony with a fine-toothed comb, and they've got a week to do it, to cross her with all kinds of...
	Well, how about this?
	Because I think she's got timeline issues.
	How about this?
	How about they know what's coming this week?
	Power outages, food shortages, the internet's going to go down here and there, ATMs won't work.
	The judge was scheduled for a week to go to some event a year ago.
	Yes, yes, of course.
	Of course, some Freemason meeting.
	Okay, well, it is second half a show.
	Hey, but I... No, it's not even actually second half a show.
	We're not at second half a show.
	Second half a show happens after this.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	Oh, and here we go.
	Now, I want to ask Adam to read the hello to moms that are listed in here because we have a lot of Mother's Day greetings.
	Included with this particular donation segment, which is unusual, because we normally don't do this.
	So if you would, keep an eye out.
	I will keep an eye out.
	Yes, I will keep an eye out.
	Do we have Kerry Jackson's notes?
	Because I don't think I am in possession of that.
	That came in as a check, so that means there was probably no note.
	This is a bank check.
	So Kerry Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee, came in first at $100, and then Chris Abrams...
	Sir Chris Abrams comes in from Arlington, Virginia with $85.
	And he says, this is Sir Chris Abrams.
	Lost my mom to cancer 10 years ago.
	She was 75.
	Yeah, I lost mine to cancer too, but that was, oh my God, almost 18 years ago.
	She would have been 85.
	Happy Mother's Day, Barbara Ann Dunn.
	Love from your son, Chris.
	And he says, I always think about Adam losing his mom and his amazing heartfelt daily source code tribute.
	Oh, thank you.
	Yes.
	Michael Gilbert's next on the list from Greendale, Wisconsin.
	8008.
	Yes, and although he's a lover of boobs, like the next donor, he says, Happy Mother's Day to my pet rock.
	You know, I will mention that on the optional donation thing, we had three donations that involved Mother's Day donations.
	I think maybe we had one at the top of the list are 50816.
	I don't know if that was one of them or not, but it might have been.
	And then I, instead of having the, I just threw in 8008 as a possible Mother's Day donation.
	Huh.
	I think it was kind of funny.
	And we got exactly the same amount as usual.
	Three.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin's one of them.
	He's the Duke of Luna, lover of American boobs, and he comes in from Concord, New Hampshire with 8008.
	Interestingly, nothing about his mom.
	No.
	Just boobs.
	Brian Masterson in Aberdeen, New Jersey, 8008.
	He does.
	Yes, well, he credits this to Grandma Judy Johnson of Tunkahannock, Pennsylvania.
	Okay, she gets the credit.
	She does.
	Steven Mann in Plymouth, Michigan, 5923.
	He needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	We missed on Cinco de Mayo.
	Yep.
	Stuart Walton, Stafford, UK, 59-22.
	This is a Mother's Day donation.
	For our mom, Jill, 88 this year and still going strong from her sons, Stuart and Simon, and to my wife, Michelle, the best mom and wife after 22 years still putting up with me and looking after the kids even though they are both at university.
	Stuart.
	Thanks, Stuart.
	Rita Harrington says hello to her mom, 5922, from Sparks, Nevada.
	Noah Wattenmacher, Baron Serquota of the Sierra.
	Serquoia, actually.
	Oh, Serquoia.
	Ha ha!
	I missed it.
	I think my small amygdala mom would love the show, but she's not a podcast person.
	Here's to her anyway.
	Best mother ever, Noah Wattenmacher, Baron Serquoia of the Sierra.
	Kyle Rainey in Canyon, Texas, 5922.
	Happy Mother's Day to my amazing mom, Bridget.
	I wouldn't be here without you, and I love you very much.
	Thanks for everything you do, and I hope you have the best day.
	Can't wait to see you soon.
	Love, Kyle.
	Chris Kinney in Allen, Texas, 5922.
	Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Becky Chinney.
	Now there's a cool...
	Hey everybody, Becky Chinney, Z100. How you doing?
	What is it?
	Kinney.
	It's hard CH, like Chianti.
	Kinney.
	Becky Kinney.
	And to Jessica Kinney, my wife and mother of our 10, 10, 10 human resources.
	She needs de-douching first.
	She needs a crown.
	A tiara for you, lady.
	And please credit this donation towards Jessica's future damehood.
	Give her some karma and some Al Shark, and we'll do that at the end for you.
	That's your visa of the backside of Pikes Peak in Florissant, Colorado.
	Tammy and Sarah Gee in Wilmington, North Carolina say Happy Mother's Day.
	Matthew Hulman, St.
	Charles, Missouri, 5922 say Hey Mom, Suburban Wizard.
	Justin Glover in Mays, Kansas says Happy Mother's Day to thank us for our work.
	Danielle Williams in Mount Shasta, California.
	Happy Mother's Day to Joanne Geary's, I guess, and the family.
	Linda Lydia Terry Dominelli in Rochester, New Hampshire, 58.
	Sir Bee Boop, Night of the Frozen Tundra in New Brighton, Minnesota.
	Uh...
	I'm sorry.
	5678.
	And 5562 from Lockport, New York, and Gregory Chenez.
	Andrew Terry in Brackley, UK. 5562.
	Joseph Tisch, 5562 in Pauline, South Carolina.
	5562 from Stephen Sprague in Kennewick, Washington.
	Greg Kovalik in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 55.
	Sir Dancing Mike in Maryville, Tennessee, 54.54 with a birthday coming up for him.
	Michael McKenna in Iola, Kansas, 50.49.
	The following people are $50 donors, name and location.
	Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Edward Mazurik, Sir Edward in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Jason DeLuzio in Miami Beach, Florida.
	William Dolge in Bristolville, Ohio.
	And that concludes our group of well-wishers and in-betweeners and people saying hi to their mom.
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	Oh, that was all I wanted to do.
	Here we go.
	It's short.
	Everything's short today.
	Only two birthdays.
	We've got Amanda Ford saying happy birthday to her husband Dan and Sir Dancing Mike who turns 54 on May 10th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
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	We highly appreciate that, Sir Clay the Alchemist.
	And that's all we have.
	No knights or dames today, but we do have some meetups to talk about.
	And we kick it off with a promo.
	A promo for a meetup.
	Hello there.
	This is Lavish, and we're having another meetup.
	We're going to have it in Concord, California, a Divided and Concord 2 Maskless Boogaloo meetup at EJ Fairs, which will be in Toto Santos Plaza on Saturday, May 14th at 6 p.m.
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	Hey, what's up?
	This is Brandon.
	Yesterday's price is not today's price.
	This is Paul in the morning.
	Hey, Sir Karis, Viscount of Greater Boston.
	In the morning.
	DM, this is Sir Penn.
	Steven, in the morning.
	And in the morning, Adam and John, thank you as always.
	Um, yeah.
	How long till, how long, how long till Kamala's?
	Hell yeah, alright.
	I'm just saying, it's, we're gonna have a, no, it's time to start a new country.
	It's the Pluto Return, and that's all I have to say for now.
	It's the Pluto Return, and thank you for your coverage.
	That's a cult fan, Sir Nathan Lee, who reminded me the moon is in Leo today, so anything crazy could happen.
	Last report from Punta Gorda, Florida.
	In the morning, John and Adam, this is the monthly amygdala meetup at the Propaganda Palace, and this is your sir-come-size guardian of the fat point.
	Leading this roundup, we had a nice crawfish boil, and I'm going to start passing it around.
	John and Adam, Sir Dave goes, just creating a bunch of misinformation.
	Sir Edward Jacobs, Knight of the Appalachian Piedmont.
	Thank you, Tony Cruz of North Carolina, for turning me on to No Agenda.
	We love you, John and Adam.
	In the morning from Mike No.
	2 from Rotunda.
	Eriko from Sarasota.
	Be there.
	Thank you.
	Christy and her two freedom-fighting human resources with us.
	Mike No.
	1 from Rotunda.
	Having a great time here at the Monthly Amigdala Meetup.
	This is Rachel.
	That's true.
	Dame Julia escaping Scandinavia for the land of the free.
	Woo-hoo!
	This is G from the fun state of Freedom, Florida.
	Woo!
	This is Kim from Fort Myers.
	Woo-hoo!
	Freedom!
	Freedom!
	Jake, Teresa, and Trap Baby here enjoying a great meetup.
	In the morning!
	Rowdy bunch, good-looking bunch.
	Thank you for your report.
	Coming up, meetup-wise, today, Mom's Day, the COA Mom's Day Fouling Meetup.
	Now, that's in Indianapolis, Indiana, so that's underway at the Fouling Warehouse.
	At 6 o'clock in Charlotte, North Carolina, this is tomorrow, no, Tuesday, I'm sorry, Boardwalk Billy's Raw Bar and Ribs.
	We have a meetup there, organized by the Duke of the South, so that, of course, is...
	Is Sir Patrick Scoble in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Interesting.
	He must be hanging out.
	Yeah, Coble.
	Coming up on the 14th, Bees and Mortal, Brabant the Netherlands, Durham, North Carolina, Madras, Oregon, Sunset Valley, Texas, Concord, California, Nashville, Tennessee, Mesa, Arizona, the 15th, North Tonawanda, New York, the 16th.
	Big meet up.
	Curry and the Keeper will be there.
	Charleston, South Carolina.
	And about 90 people now.
	May 17th, Denver, Colorado.
	The 18th, Guilford, Surrey, UK. My old stomping grounds.
	The 19th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	The 20th, Haltom City, Texas.
	21st, San Gabriel, California.
	Lindenhurst, New York.
	Goleta, California.
	Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Fresno, California.
	San Antonio, Texas.
	Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
	The 22nd, Longview, Texas.
	Vancouver, BC on the 23rd.
	Pueblo, Colorado on the 28th.
	And actually, there's two meetups, one on the 28th and one on the 29th.
	And we go all the way through June and July.
	These things are, it's a sight to behold.
	You have to check one of these out.
	They're everywhere, all around the world.
	Go to noagendameetups.com to learn more.
	Find out where there's one near you.
	If you can't find one, start one yourself.
	It's easy.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you won't be.
	Triggered on hell's flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	Bye.
	It's like a party.
	Okay, um...
	ISO. ISO, ISO. I only have one.
	Okay, I see it here, and we shall fire it up.
	1970.
	We didn't even talk about 1970 yet.
	We haven't done any 70s.
	Everything's 1970.
	What's wrong with us?
	Here's my selections.
	We will be forever sick.
	But I think the winner is clear.
	A cupcake and a shot.
	A what?
	A cupcake and a shot.
	I want a shot.
	Yeah, that's from the clip you liked.
	Yeah, I did.
	I like that clip.
	But you don't like it as an ISO? No, because when it's ISOed, it doesn't...
	I think it sounds like a shot of booze.
	Let me crank it up.
	A cupcake and a shot.
	Yeah.
	It's going to have to do.
	It's going to have to do.
	We don't have anything else that's really of any use.
	It's okay.
	It's good.
	Hey, interesting news.
	You know, who is this organization that tracks the baby names?
	The most popular baby names?
	I think it's the Social Security Administration, actually.
	Yes.
	New entry at number 10, Theodore.
	Yeah, Theodore was up and moving when they named him Theodore.
	I saw this trend.
	This is typical.
	This is what millennials do.
	They find out what's going on.
	They're copycats.
	Well, let's listen to the rest of the names.
	For boys?
	I'm sorry.
	Top ten.
	You're going to use top ten?
	Top ten.
	Top ten list backwards.
	Okay, top ten list backwards.
	Theodore at ten.
	Henry at number nine, which is another Dvorak...
	There you go.
	...grandchild.
	Lucas.
	Is there Lucas?
	Isn't there Lucas in the clan?
	No, no Lucas.
	There should be.
	Benjamin.
	William.
	James at number five.
	Elijah at number four.
	Yikes.
	Oliver at three.
	Number two, Noah...
	And number one, Liam.
	This is very interesting.
	A bunch of Brits over here?
	Noah, Liam?
	Yes.
	How does Liam become an American name?
	And now for the females, number ten, Harper, followed by...
	Harper?
	The private detective played by Paul Newman?
	I don't know.
	There's a number of Harper women around.
	I've seen them around.
	It's a cult.
	Evelyn, Mia, Isabella, Sophia, Ava, Amelia.
	It's Ava, isn't it?
	No, it's A-V-A. Isn't that Ava also?
	Okay, Ava.
	Tomato, tomato.
	Go on, go on.
	Okay, so is it Amelia then?
	Or is it Amelia?
	Amelia.
	Go on.
	Just keep reading.
	Amelia, number four.
	Number three, Charlotte.
	Number two, Emma.
	And number one, Olivia.
	Again, kind of British names.
	Yeah, Emma is totally British.
	Emma.
	Every other woman in England is named Emma.
	I think Amelia is also more British.
	I think you might be right.
	Amelia, yeah.
	And so is all Olivia.
	What's going on?
	It's a Britification.
	It's not good.
	It's concerning.
	I have Elon Musk, the Kim Kardashian of tech, as I call him, was at the Met Gala with Kim Kardashian, although he doesn't bring a date.
	He does bring a date.
	He brings on the date to the Met Gala.
	Not his mom.
	Yep, his mom.
	You bet.
	Ooh, that's what Kevin Spacey used to always do at the Oscars.
	Well, his mom, and this shot is really weird.
	His mom looks very overbearing.
	And this shot, it's on the steps, and he's standing maybe two steps or one step lower than his mom, and she's looking down.
	Is this documented that it's actually his mom?
	As far as I know, yeah.
	Has she been fingerprinted?
	No.
	But he lifted a couple of corners of the curtain about what he will be doing with Twitter once the acquisition is done.
	It's not...
	The goal that I have, should everything come to fruition with Twitter, is to have a service that is as broadly inclusive as possible, where ideally most of America is on it and talking.
	I think just generally, I'm looking for something that's, like I said, as broadly inclusive as possible, that's as trusted as possible as a system, and I hope we're successful in that regard.
	I've also vowed this publicly that we have to get rid of the bots and trolls and the scams and everything, because that's obviously diminishing the user experience, and we don't want people getting tricked out of their money and that kind of thing.
	So, I'm definitely on the warpath.
	So, if somebody's operating a bot and troll on me, I'm definitely their enemy.
	So, the New York Times published what they say is highlights from a pitch deck that Elon was shopping around to people possibly interested in investing.
	We've seen some people step up.
	Have you heard any of his plan?
	No, but I did get this one clip from an Asian source, one of the Asian broadcasters.
	Okay.
	They claim that they know for a fact that Elon's going to be...
	You can read the clip.
	Musk to be CEO. Okay.
	Billionaire Elon Musk likely to show Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal the door after the $44 million deal is closed.
	Reports say Musk himself could take over as a Twitter CEO. Yeah, I think he's admitted this, that he would be interim CEO. I don't think it's a secret.
	That other guy was just a placeholder.
	So here's the top line of the deck.
	By 2028, quintuple revenue.
	To $26.4 billion.
	So they're only doing $5 billion a year now?
	That's not much.
	No, that's why I mentioned this in the column.
	I think they just do nothing but crappy.
	The ads are no good.
	They're just clickbait junk.
	And he's going to cut Twitter's reliance on advertising to less than 50% of revenue.
	That makes sense.
	And then he says...
	So I guess they have a small payment business line, which I think actually involves some lightning payments for Bitcoin.
	That's about $15 million they expect to do in 2023.
	That should grow to $1.3 billion, which kind of makes you think, you know, all right.
	You know, he also has Binance as one of the investors, so maybe they'll transform Twitter into a payment mechanism as well for Bitcoin or other tokenized things.
	But the number one that I thought was interesting is he is completely considering charging corporations and governments money to use the system.
	Which I think is something I said would probably happen.
	Now, you said everyone's going to be charged.
	He's targeting the governments.
	No, I didn't say everyone would be charged.
	I said if you have a big presence, yeah, you'll be charged for that.
	Not everybody.
	Now, that would make no sense.
	It's already going to be bad enough that everyone will have to have a blue checkmark and be verified and authenticated.
	That's going to be tough.
	They can't even get you a blue check, Mark.
	If I get one...
	I know who you are.
	If I get a blue check, I'm closing my account.
	Uh-huh.
	Oh, yeah.
	I promise.
	You can't be on Twitter because everyone's going to have to have a blue check.
	Then I will not be on Twitter.
	Yeah.
	Boo-hoo.
	I've got no agenda social.
	Do I have anything else?
	I got stuff that can wait.
	Yeah, I got something about...
	Actually...
	Well, I got one thing that can't wait, and then everything else can wait.
	All right, what do you got that can't wait?
	You can finish with it.
	Well, we got to make sure everyone knows it's Biden.
	I did that, pointing at it.
	I got two versions.
	I got a long and a short version.
	Let's play the long version.
	Taliban on F-24, what's up?
	Report.
	Uh...
	I don't have WhatsApp.
	Just Taliban on F-24 report?
	Is that what it is?
	Taliban F-24 report.
	Now in Afghanistan, women must now cover themselves from head to foot, including their faces when in public.
	The country's Taliban leadership has ordered them to wear the burqa when outside their homes.
	The rule marks a return to a signature policy from their past hardline rule.
	The Taliban has already imposed a slew of restrictions, banning women from many government jobs and secondary education.
	Well earlier, we spoke to our correspondent in Herod, Shahzai Muala.
	Well, the life for the Afghan woman is becoming harder by every passing day in Afghanistan, even though there has been backlash by the women activists against this new rule.
	But the question here is that how long will this anger last?
	We have seen in the past that the Taliban have brought in restrictions targeting freedom of women, and then a backlash comes.
	And after a few days or a few weeks or months, it dies down.
	Here in Harat, where I am today, this new restriction comes...
	A few days after, the women were banned from driving.
	This morning, actually, we met two high school sisters who no longer have the right to study since the Taliban took power, like all girls in the country.
	And one of them dreams to become a doctor, but she says that her dreams have been shattered.
	Here in the Hiraat city, it was known to be a liberal city, but here many young women have already been covering their faces with masks, Wow,
	mission accomplished!
	Good work, Biden.
	So, you know, this, of course, is not reported anywhere in the United States.
	Oh, gee, I wonder why.
	Oh, man.
	These people.
	It's sad.
	It's just sad how everything has to go.
	But that doesn't matter.
	It keeps us gainfully working.
	Notice I say working.
	Killing ourselves.
	Watch TV so much.
	I'll tell you something.
	People are so crazy now in America, self-immolation is imminent.
	I'm just waiting for that.
	That'd be pretty cool.
	Or hot.
	It would not be cool at all.
	That'd be no good.
	Coming up, we got some...
	I figured we had no end-of-show mixes, so I pulled two Rexo Quozo, one Rexo Quozo and one Rexo Solo out.
	I thought you'd enjoy that as your end-of-show mixes.
	Up next, the Lotus Effect with Phoenix and Phone Boy.
	That is at trollroom.io or noagendastream.com, as you prefer.
	We really appreciate you showing up, all you trolls in the troll room.
	Thank you for supporting the show with your value for the value you receive.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday with another Deconstruction just for you.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Until then, adios, mofos!
	and such.
	The Hickory.
	In the morning to you, sir.
	In the morning to you.
	Rex O'Quozo, we're back with another one.
	So I feel somewhat obligated to play that because they are so good.
	It's a winner again.
	Rex O'Quozo.
	Rex O'Quozo.
	Oh, brother.
	Rexo Quozo.
	They need to be abused.
	This is concerning to me.
	Rexo Quozo.
	Rexo Quozo.
	Such a fantastic song.
	Wait a minute, hold on.
	This Rexo Quozo.
	Oh, that's pretty good.
	Okay, John, now it's time to turn the speakers up.
	Rex O'Quozo is that super duo that the keepers love.
	Speaking of, Tina followed me on Twitter.
	I take that as a good job, Rex, so keep it up.
	Now, let's get down to business.
	I'm talking donation, intermissions that some of y'all are missing.
	If you're on a mission to get your wife to listen, this is not a section that you should be skipping.
	Sometimes for douchebags to get a clear vision, they need to hear more than media demolition.
	They need to see how the sausage is made with precision.
	Also, the breaks have some of the best parts of the podcast.
	You skipping donations?
	I bet you eat your pizza crust first.
	Oh, brother.
	Then y'all moan more than Lisa about the length of the show.
	Just a bunch of little griefers.
	What you really need is some white boy reaper.
	Get out of your house and hop on your lawnmower.
	First break you weed eating, second break on the blower.
	And your Corbopill is off before the show's even over.
	It's really just a chance to take life a little slower.
	But you can miss an episode of Pod Save America.
	Because donation skippers probably think that's the merit of podcast greatness.
	GPI to you.
	There's only one for one and it's entirely up to you.
	It's a winner again.
	Rexo Quozo.
	Rexo Quozo.
	Oh, brother.
	Rex on close of that.
	They need to be abused.
	This is concerning to me.
	Rex O'Clozo.
	Rex O'Clozo.
	Such a fantastic song.
	Wait a minute, hold on.
	This Rex O'Quozo is pretty good.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Peace.
	Mopo.
	Dvorak.org.

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