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	She's just flubbing, flubbing, flubbing.
	but she's a flubber.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, May 15, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination, episode 1451.
	This is No Agenda.
	Enjoying the view from here.
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the sun is shining and everyone's happy.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	That's all that's going on in California?
	Sun is shining, everybody's happy?
	That doesn't sound right.
	Yeah, I saw it.
	That doesn't sound right at all.
	It is right.
	You haven't lived here long enough.
	Well, no, I left screaming, that's why.
	Wait, that's not fair.
	I left Los Angeles screaming.
	Oh, yeah.
	That was Daz, Daz, Daz.
	Well, even though it was a shoo-in, I do think that we should pat ourselves on the back once again.
	Well, you know, now I'm, this is like the 10th time in a row that this happened.
	What do you mean the 10th time in a row that this happened?
	Every year is the same old, same old.
	You take a look at the political system or the system, the news, political news around the world, and then you see, well, what country's beleaguered?
	We do.
	Let's just give them the award.
	That means this award is a bunch of bull crap.
	Well, this is the fun thing about Eurovision.
	I do need to discuss this for a moment.
	Even though we went to the Hollywood executives party in Austin last night, we were able to watch almost two and a half hours on Peacock, which I acquired specifically for the mission.
	Something about this right off the bat.
	The whole idea of the Eurovision Song Contest for over 50 years has been it's camp, but the people who broadcast it take it seriously.
	Except for, you know, the United Kingdom because they almost always lose and it became such a running joke that this very straight-laced Sir Terry Wogan started doing funny drunk commentary.
	So what does Peacock do?
	They completely miss it.
	And they hire Johnny Weir, the former skating champion, who is there in a studio in a box in the lower corner of the screen with angel wings on, being super gay, and then still doing a straight read every time about each act that came up.
	Completely...
	Ruin the experience.
	Especially because this year, and I'm sure you didn't watch, there were some decent songs.
	I was very surprised at the level of songwriting.
	I mean, there were some songs in there that I think could easily be contemporary, you know, top 40 hits on today's radio.
	So, as I was watching my sisters in the little siblings group talking to each other, They were really pissed off.
	They were somehow surprised that this was clearly a politically motivated vote, which, by the way, came from the public, not necessarily from the professional judges, which is a combined vote.
	And I'm like, this has been this way ever since I've watched this thing.
	We always saw Moldova vote for either Ukraine or Russia.
	We saw Lithuania vote for Russia, Russia vote for Lithuania.
	It was always this way.
	And yet now everyone's kind of surprised.
	Oh, this is bullcrap.
	This is political.
	No kidding.
	So, but still, we called it.
	Come on.
	We got props for that.
	We get to say that.
	Yeah, well, it's a no-brainer.
	Here's the winners, by the way.
	Mm-hmm.
	I did see these guys.
	What's the guy with his whole face is like tattooed or is he in blackface?
	What is that?
	No, that's Russian tribal war paint.
	I don't know, John.
	Oh, yeah, those Russian tribes.
	I mean, what bothered you more, that or the pink hat the guy was wearing, which is pretty much a pussy hat.
	Not quite.
	It didn't have the ears knitted, but, you know.
	I thought the blackface was more offensive.
	Here's their message as they won the entire song contest.
	I ask all of you, please help Ukraine, Mariupol!
	Help us all the time, right now!
	Help Ukraine, Mariupol!
	Help us!
	Yay!
	Now...
	Have you been able to observe this video or this song, this performance?
	Because at one point there's a very interesting kind of flute that one of the guy plays.
	Did you see this?
	No, all I saw was the guy in blackface I refused to watch.
	Okay, so it might have been the guy in blackface who certainly has this long, I'd say it's about two feet long, and he blows in one end and holds it almost like a peace pipe at the other end and uses his finger to create the tones.
	And it's kind of a familiar sound.
	And I think that's part of the hook of the record, but I was concerned that Moldova would win over Ukraine until I noticed that they had a secret weapon in their arsenal.
	They brought in a shill musician.
	Listen to this flute.
	You hear this flute?
	Bye.
	Bye.
	Yeah.
	See?
	There's something else in there.
	Yep, yep.
	Clearly.
	Clearly they wouldn't have won without your standing by them, John.
	I'm so proud of you.
	Thank you.
	The Kalush Orchestra.
	I didn't have time to watch, I only had time to play.
	Kalush Orchestra, everybody.
	Yeah, so instead we went to the Hollywood executives Austin party.
	Which was pretty good.
	Interesting people.
	Anything you can report?
	Met a guy running for Austin City Council.
	Is there a VC guy named Webman?
	Webman?
	Webman?
	W-E-B-M-A-N? Not that I know of.
	Leon Webman?
	There's a million VC people nowadays.
	Yeah.
	Well, I guess that's his uncle, and that guy's a billionaire.
	I said, who gives a shit about him?
	What are you doing?
	He's a Hollywood guy.
	A lot of Hollywood people.
	A lot of people who were fresh in Austin.
	And it was kind of nice to see how they were enjoying it in this little enclave of not ultra-left people.
	So they all felt kind of like, wow, it's so nice to be at this party where we can say stuff.
	So imagine like a no agenda meetup, but then with better drinks probably.
	Well, that wouldn't take much.
	It was interesting.
	Nothing I can really share.
	Nothing I can really share.
	Yet.
	Until it comes time to predict something.
	That's how predictions work.
	One quick update on the Bahama resort case.
	You'll recall that, so this is three people died, one woman.
	I guess she's still hanging in there.
	And no one knew what they had died of.
	And we, of course, immediately went toward them doing toots and getting fentanyl, because that's us.
	One of our producers said, no, no, no, how about Freon from a leaky fridge?
	And now comes a report, this is not official yet, It turns out they had those air conditioning units inside the villas, which makes sense because the hotel would have central air conditioning.
	You know the ones that are over the door and you have a remote control by the bed?
	They don't really ever work that well, but they'll blow some air on you.
	They're white, usually kind of like a sound bar above the door, you know what I'm talking about?
	Yeah, they're all over the place.
	So apparently, if that was leaking Freon, which is something that happens all too regularly...
	That could have been the culprit.
	And that would kind of make sense.
	If it's hot, you close all the windows, you turn that thing on.
	And the same thing, Freon starts from the bottom up.
	So, maybe.
	Maybe.
	Well, Freon, they don't use Freon anymore anyway.
	That's been banned worldwide.
	I think they use it in those...
	Some other gas is not good for you.
	Are you sure they don't use that in these...
	I don't think so.
	I don't even think they make Freon anymore.
	That's the stuff that was causing the big hole in the ozone layer.
	No, that was my hairspray and mine alone.
	Also, our network is vast.
	Sir Francis of SRQ knows the no-flying experience pilot who landed the plane.
	Why am I not surprised?
	Yes, and he was a little pissed at me.
	Actually, I'm surprised that the pilot didn't want a listener.
	Well, the pilot is going to be, I think, Savannah flew down to interview him, so he'll be on the Today Show or something, and we'll hear more about it.
	And he connected me on email and said, Dude, have you ever flown Flight Simulator?
	Nope.
	Do you run drugs for a living?
	No.
	So I guess our theory is out the window.
	No, it's mostly your theory.
	No, your theory was the original pilot did a toot before he...
	Well, that's different.
	Yes, I did that.
	My theory was the pilot again snorted fentanyl.
	People, stay away from these things.
	Thought it was cocaine, it was fentanyl, it dropped right there on the spot.
	One of these days you're going to be right about that.
	The rest of it was all yours.
	Drugs.
	One of these days you're going to be right, I'm telling you.
	One of these days you'll nail it.
	There's no proof I wasn't right on this.
	True, true.
	We'll keep it open.
	Well, since we started with Ukraine, maybe we should talk a little bit more about Ukraine today because this is part of the trauma-based entertainment that we are receiving couched as news.
	And it works very well still in other countries.
	You know, our producer in Finland who left the show in disgust because we were laughing at babies being killed in Ukraine.
	Which is kind of a shortcut to what happened.
	It sounds more like the people didn't like the fact that I sent out a second newsletter today or yesterday.
	What does that have to do with anything?
	The same kind of result I got from two or three people.
	Well, what did you get?
	You stink for sending this out.
	You're always pestering us.
	And then you look the guy up.
	He's never opened a newsletter, ever.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	Although we lost 75 people.
	75 people unsubscribed because you sent out an emergency newsletter because the original one...
	And by the way, did you send this from a different email address?
	No.
	Because here's what I noticed.
	I have a filter set up in my email, which is not Gmail or anything related, and when something comes in from you, it goes to a special box, because I love you and I want to read you.
	Unlike, you know, me, where you have to, like, search for something.
	Oh, yeah, you sent that a month ago.
	Yeah.
	It's alright, because I love you anyway.
	But the newsletter specifically is filtered into a newsletter box.
	This time, it went into your special alert box, and I looked, and it was sent from jayatdvorak.org instead of, I think, noagendaatdvorak.org.
	Could that have been part of the problem of the initial fail?
	The initial newsletter was sent from the exact same address.
	But you don't always send it from that.
	You sometimes send it from no agenda.
	I know.
	That's on Thursday.
	Oh.
	On Sunday, it's always J. This is a sorting mechanism.
	But the difference, the only real difference was one was a HTML email and the other one was plain text.
	Yeah, that'll do it.
	The plain text goes through to everybody.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that'll do it.
	But, you know, they're always encouraging.
	And I would say Gmail, everybody, all these systems.
	Oh, HTML, email, use that.
	And yeah, it's a lot prettier and you can do a lot more with this.
	It's cool.
	And you put photos and you make everything look...
	And then it immediately gets blocked.
	It's blocking the same people.
	I had a couple super guys that knew what they were talking about.
	Talking about these little details that MailChimp does and maybe I should find some way to get some of these little signaling systems within the headers and all these email systems.
	I had two guys who were very specific about specific things that should be changed and so I'm going to see if I can do it.
	Well, here's what we learned back in the pod show days when we had a system where you could request a password reset and other things and just sending out notices to users that if you basically have to pay these companies who are completely venture capital backed,
	I forget their name, You pay them $150,000 a year, and everything that is sent through their mail server, because that's what you do, you use their SMTP server, is whitelisted with Google, with every other big email provider.
	And otherwise, you go into wherever you're directed to go to by the email provider, mainly Gmail being a big culprit.
	So there's a toll to be paid.
	And it's the same people who finance Google who finance these rip-off artists in the middle.
	It's disgusting.
	It's a cartel.
	Well, I'm thinking that, yeah, there's a bit of that.
	But, for example, one letter, like one of our producers says, I'll just read part of it.
	Part of your mail delivery prompts might be that your domain DMARC settings look wrong.
	SPF looks okay.
	It looks in the message shows like it's working.
	But DKIM and DMARC could use some tender, loving care.
	Well, you know who is an expert in that?
	Void Zero.
	He is the expert, and he will tell us exactly what to do.
	So this is the call.
	Believe me, I got two guys here that both have pretty much the same messaging, and I don't need to...
	I mean, Void Zero's the best, but I hate to keep bothering him for anything.
	Okay.
	Unless I want to set up my...
	I mean, maybe he can help me.
	I'll just get off MailChimp and do this right on my own and save the money.
	MailChimp's not that cheap.
	So here's the bottom line.
	Again, that's an effort and then all the old MailChimp stuff.
	I could just keep it as a kind of a skeleton and use it just to look up some old stuff.
	But, I mean, MailChimp does maintain a huge database of old newsletters and such.
	Well, since we're discussing it and we're writing the book on value for value, it's important for podcasters who are interested in surviving this way to understand that there's multiple parts that are incredibly important in the value for value process.
	Feeding back, of course, in the donation notes is important.
	But we've learned, and that's really all on you because you're an expert in this field, we've learned that the newsletter is what is critical to remind people that we have a show coming up.
	Remind people to support the show.
	Now...
	We also know that there's a fine balance between content and asking for people to listen to the show again and to support it.
	If you do lots of content, you get zero support.
	We've noticed this is like the massive failure.
	Wow, that's a great newsletter, John.
	Lots of interesting stuff.
	Yeah, and then it's horrible.
	This is a fact.
	So, for us, living as value-for-value podcasters, when you see only six or eight donations coming in, that's like when you're like, okay, how's rent going to be?
	It's going to be a little tighter, so you think immediately, did we fuck something up?
	Are we horrible people?
	Did we, you know...
	I don't know.
	Is the economic collapse upon us?
	No one has money to support us with?
	These are scary things when that happens.
	These are all misinterpretations.
	What?
	This is misinterpretations by me?
	By either one of us.
	I mean, when you see something like that, you have to assume it's not you.
	And the fact that one of the things that people should know who are podcasters, and we have a lot of them that listen to this show, going back to what you said initially, is people, your podcast, whatever, even no agenda, is not the first thing on anyone's mind.
	At all.
	Ever.
	They're all obsessed with, you know, This song contest, Eurovision.
	Well, I don't, even that's, they're obsessed with the gasoline price.
	Yeah, of course.
	Costco sale starts today or tomorrow.
	Um, starts Wednesday, by the way.
	Um...
	So you have to do all these little dipshit things.
	And people criticize you for it.
	But the people who criticize you for it usually aren't team players.
	And sometimes they don't even...
	I don't even know if they really...
	Maybe they hate listening to the show.
	It's hard to tell.
	It's possible.
	So anyway, back to our Finnish producer who is...
	Knight has been a producer for a long time.
	He lives in Finland.
	He's lived there for a long time.
	And he was very disgusted.
	And I understand because Finland has a very different view of Russia because they are their neighbor.
	And so, even though he claims he no longer listens to the show, he does send me articles from Finland to keep me up to speed on the vibe and what's going on there, which I highly appreciate.
	But in this most recent email, he gave me all this and he said, by the way, I still haven't gone back to listening to the show and no agenda social.
	Oh my God, it's so radical.
	It's like everyone works for Russia and I really suspect several of them are taking payments from FSB. Yeah, that's unreasonable.
	That's completely, that's like, how do you, and I see no agenda social all the time.
	How do you get there to actually thinking that there's people on no agenda social being paid by Russian intelligence services to post pro or maybe not anti-Russian stuff?
	How do you get, that has to be some form of cognitive dissonance.
	It can't be any other way.
	Makes no sense.
	And part of that is, you know, Finland now applying for NATO membership official as of today, along with Sweden.
	We knew this was coming, but Finland, I think, is first out of the gate.
	And of course, they have nothing to worry about because the UK will back them up if anything happens.
	But did you see what's happening with Turkey, though, before we get into your clip?
	Well, that's the clip I've got.
	Perfect, perfect.
	Because this is an interesting little thing that took place.
	It's not a long clip, but it explains a little bit of it.
	In fact, now that I think about it, it's from NPR, it doesn't really explain anything.
	It just tells you what's going on.
	It tells you what's going on, but we can explain it maybe.
	Sweden-Finland-Turkey clip.
	Sweden-Finland-Turkey clip.
	Foreign ministers from Turkey, Finland, and Sweden are holding talks to resolve disagreements over Finnish and Swedish plans to join NATO. They are both getting ready to apply to join the military alliance after Russia's invasion.
	That was an interesting flub.
	Why didn't they edit that?
	She went from all to they both.
	That's interesting.
	Shit, this woman, by the way, she's only been on a few times.
	I can't tell you how, just like she does maybe an hour news.
	She's just flubbing, flubbing, flubbing.
	She's a flubber.
	They're all getting ready to apply.
	but they're both getting ready to apply to join the military alliance after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
	Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called their plans unacceptable and outrageous.
	The Finnish prime minister expressed confidence that a solution will be found.
	NATO Secretary General is not in attendance at gatherings in Berlin after testing positive for COVID.
	Yeah, it doesn't really explain anything.
	You want to get out of a meeting?
	Yeah, I got COVID! Well, what's going on is Erdogan first came out and said, you know, we're not...
	And the way NATO works is all 30 member countries have to agree to a new member to expansion.
	And if one says no, then it's not happening.
	So Turkey said, well, there's way too many problems with immigrants in Sweden.
	I don't know if he said Finland as well.
	Of course, our Finnish producer immediately went...
	There's no problem here!
	There may or may not be.
	I thought there might be some problems.
	But this is mainly, if you look at Sweden, look at Stockholm, just go look at any news site and type in Sweden, and you'll see the issues they have.
	And the word riot.
	Yeah, and of course, a lot of these immigrants came there thanks to Turkey.
	Who started just letting them go.
	They took the migrants, the refugees, really, from Syria, which were driven out mainly by us, and they held them in pens until they said, hey, Europe, you're not doing what we like, and they started letting them out, and that started flowing into Europe and certainly into Scandinavia.
	And now they're saying, oh, you've got to fix all that before we say anything.
	I think his foreign minister walked that back a tiny bit.
	But, of course, Turkey has very interesting relationships with Russia, so maybe Turkey's looking for a payoff.
	I mean, let's just say it's probably certain Turkey's looking for a payoff from somebody.
	I think it's whoever is the highest bidder right now.
	Will it be Russia?
	Will it be the U.S.? Somebody's got to help them make up their mind.
	Well, they voted no, and so now this...
	Well, they haven't voted no yet.
	They haven't voted no.
	There's been no vote yet.
	No, but they're not going to...
	I don't see how everyone can approve this.
	They're screwy if they do.
	It's called the Great Reset.
	Nothing surprises me.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I know you don't believe me.
	It's fine.
	Alright, what else do you have?
	I have stuff on Ukraine.
	Well, I got a little rundown.
	We can keep up to date here.
	Again, back to our friends at NPR. Oh, can I say something about NPR before we continue?
	Because NPR clips are important for us.
	We had a discussion about the legality of NPR doing native ads.
	Oh, yes, and I said I didn't see why they wouldn't be able to, and you said, no, no, they can't, they can't, they can't.
	Although, I think the word legality is up for debate, but you obviously have something here.
	Yes.
	They do not offer any products on the radio.
	That contain native advertising.
	There, it's very strict, brought to you by...
	That's kind of...
	Now, I didn't get into their charter and how that works with the government, small subsidies that the government pays, but they really can't do native advertising.
	They certainly don't offer it.
	But podcasts, which of course are exactly the same content as the radio, which is where you and I get our clips from.
	I'm quite sure you didn't get any clips by recording the radio.
	That's where they have the Halo units.
	Custom designed for each sponsor to promote a brand support of specific NPR content with an embedded content module.
	It's not native advertising.
	It's an embedded content module.
	So that's how it works.
	That's why we have these, that's why we're being bombarded with native ads from, well, not bombarded, but from NPR because it's podcasts.
	And that's where they can do whatever they want.
	Well, that ad about the taco pizza, which is the best way to describe it, I guess.
	It's the Mexican pizza, I think.
	That's just the right word.
	It seems to me that it was, I mean, yeah, I picked it off the stream, which was online.
	I didn't get it over the air.
	But it seems like it was over the air to me.
	It seemed like it was repurposed over the air material.
	I could be wrong.
	I mean, I don't know why they slipped this into the stream and not put it over the air.
	Because they don't offer that product for, I think, specific reasons.
	It doesn't matter.
	At least we know what's going on.
	We know what to look for.
	Yeah, oh no, it's very easy to see.
	It's the two minutes of BS. Well, here we go again with more BS, but I don't think this is a native ad.
	This is their Ukraine rundown, and this is, you can hear it.
	I put BS on here because it sounds like a bunch of bull.
	Ukraine won.
	Russia is suffering a major setback in Ukraine as it becomes clear that their forces are retreating from the city of Kharkiv.
	Since the first days of the war, Russian troops attacked and attempted to encircle Ukraine's second largest city.
	But Ukrainian officials, international military observers, and NPR's own Jason Bobian on the ground in Kharkiv say Moscow's forces are now slowly but steadily being pushed away from the city.
	And Jason is with us now from Kharkiv to tell us more.
	Jason, welcome back to the program.
	Thanks so much for joining us.
	No, it's great to be here, Michelle.
	So what is it that you're seeing there in Kharkiv that makes you say that Russian forces are moving back from the city?
	Well, first, you know, top military officials here are saying that this is happening, but we're also hearing it from Ukrainian soldiers when we're out at checkpoints and also just talking to people here.
	They're saying that the Russian artillery positions are no longer able to pound the neighborhoods on the edge of the city like they were before.
	And just today we were able to get out into some towns and villages that were occupied by the Russians as recently as just a few weeks ago.
	So it's very clear that the Ukrainian troops are regaining territory north and east of Kharkiv and they're pushing the Russian forces back towards the Russian border.
	Russia's grabbed a lot of Ukrainian territory in the east of the country as well as the south.
	How significant is it that Ukraine appears to have won this battle for Kharkiv?
	You know, it's very significant.
	Russia at first attempted to take the capital, Kiev, which is the largest city in Ukraine.
	That failed.
	Now, Moscow's attempt to take the second largest city, Kharkiv, also appears to have failed.
	Oh.
	And also just geographically, this moves that last Russian front line further east, pretty much pushing the Russians out of the north and the heartland of the country.
	What are you hearing from the people there?
	It sounds like a strange question, but are they celebrating?
	It sounds like an orchestrated question.
	No kidding.
	Are they celebrating?
	So what is this guy, a mind reader?
	Oh, there's a lot of that going on.
	Do we have any clue?
	Is there an insider there in the meetings?
	Do we know that Russia tried to take...
	There's no evidence of that.
	No evidence.
	There's no evidence whatsoever.
	They kind of skirted it.
	Didn't even come near.
	They weren't pounding it with ballistic missiles like they have in Marsupol, Marsupol, Mari, whatever it is.
	Marsupolami.
	That place.
	That place has been flattened.
	So they can flatten a place.
	They didn't do anything like that.
	You see, when you laugh about flattening places, we lose listeners, John.
	Stop it.
	Stop it.
	News listeners for sending out a second newsletter.
	You're not good for the show right now.
	Calm down.
	And so this is bull crap.
	They're just making it up.
	We don't know that the whole thing wasn't a scheme.
	I mean, it's like the Georgia situation where we've heard it from the...
	I played that clip a long time ago from that guy from the...
	I think the London School of Economics or whoever it was who was an expert on this and he described what happened in Georgia and he said they were never intended to take over Georgia...
	They keep saying Russia wants to take over Ukraine.
	There's no evidence of this.
	I have some other weird things from mainstream, but I'd love to hear the second NPR. Well, let's hear the rest of this.
	But I'm just saying, it just seems like they're just making it up.
	Yes.
	They're just making stuff up and putting it out there as though they know something.
	They don't know anything.
	But that's kind of what news is.
	Immediately get the opinion.
	No, no, no.
	Here's the format.
	Report the headline, then bring in the opinion guy who will make it sound like that's what happened.
	That's how all news works these days.
	And it's the opinion person.
	I'm of the opinion this is the way news has worked for longer than just these days.
	Well, yes.
	Probably since before we started this show.
	But it's gotten more apparent.
	Well, that's because we've brought it to the fore.
	And we're not the only ones.
	Other people have been pointing this out, too.
	I think they were trailblazers, but not the only game in town.
	No, no.
	But we are the best game in town.
	Oh, absolutely.
	We're the best.
	No, not at all.
	People here are still very cautious.
	They're very nervous.
	The bombardment of the city was incredibly destructive.
	And this offensive by the Ukrainians, it's been a long, slow slog.
	The concern that the battle might turn again.
	There are some people that are still sleeping in the subway stations here and other bomb shelters every night because they're still not believing that this is true.
	But out in some of the towns that were occupied by the Russians, people there, they're just elated.
	They say our boys have come and liberated their towns.
	And I have to say, these towns really have been blown to bits.
	I met this one woman, Pavlenko, Victoria, and she was cleaning up her house in a village just east of Kharkiv.
	So you understand just like in this house, in my house, they've been living for a month.
	Russians, they've been living for a month here.
	The Russian occupiers rammed her front gate.
	She says they drank all of her homemade wine.
	They shot both her toilet and her television.
	Victoria and her family...
	Wait a minute.
	They shot her toilet?
	You know, I heard...
	It stopped me, too, when I heard that they...
	So the Russian bastards who went in there, at first they shoot their television so they themselves can't watch TV. And then they shoot their toilet.
	And then they look around and say, where's your crapper, you know?
	And then they shoot it.
	Nah, you can't take a crap now, lady.
	V! V! For Mother Russia!
	It just sounds like one of those contrived, you know, inventions.
	No, this is a meme.
	Something's going on with this.
	Shooting the toilet.
	Shooting the toilet.
	I've never heard of such a thing.
	I mean, I can see it as if someone had a soldier had a huge sense of humor, there's something funny about it.
	There's no doubt about that.
	It is to dehumanize people to not give them a dignified place to poop.
	And you will see this report coming on NPR. You will see this report coming on NPR. We're catching it now.
	The shooting of Ukrainian toilets will be a thing.
	I've been around.
	Shoot the toilet!
	The Russian occupiers rammed her front gate.
	She says they drank all of her homemade wine.
	They shot both her toilet and her television.
	Victoria and her family, they spent weeks sheltering the basement of a friend's house during the occupation.
	There was no electricity, gas, or running water, but the Russians still wouldn't allow them to leave.
	We've been like a hostages here, because the moment they invaded, they blocked all the roads that is possible to escape from the city.
	I know that people are trying to do it, but I don't have any information if some of them managed to do it.
	But yeah, pretty much we've been like our hostages.
	She says she knows at least three people in this village who were killed by the Russians during the occupation.
	Her neighbor told us about a young girl being raped by a soldier.
	We can't confirm these accounts, but the physical destruction in this village and others, it's very plain to see.
	And while residents, you know, they still face major challenges to rebuild, they were telling us today that they're incredibly happy to be back now as part of Ukraine.
	Those Russians are real shit shooters.
	Ah!
	Well, if you think NPR is off the hook, let's go.
	Let's take a little...
	I'm telling you, you may be right about this toilet thing.
	I'm telling you, I can smell this...
	You can smell this a while, a mile away.
	Hey, we'll be here every Thursday, including the second one.
	So, MSNBC, Chris Hayes, who's back from his COVID. Because, you know, double jab, double boosted, got the COVID, of course.
	He's back.
	He's back on the air.
	And he had Michael D. Weiss on, who is a...
	Contributing editor at the Daily Beast and director of special investigations at the Free Russia Foundation.
	The Free Russia Foundation, which I only noticed that that was...
	You're thinking of Free Russia?
	This is a good idea.
	Well, I think this...
	Let's see what this is.
	The Free Russia Foundation is an international organization supporting civil society and democratic development in Russia.
	Sounds like an NGO that will introduce regime change.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sounds like an NGO, CIA NGO. Yeah.
	They're headquartered in Washington, D.C., but they have regional offices.
	Are you ready for it?
	Regional offices in Kiev, or as we say Kiev, Ukraine, Tbilisi, Georgia, Prague, and Berlin.
	We actively support political development and economic reforms and defend democracies against autocratic threats in countries neighboring Russia throughout Europe and worldwide as we see the success of these processes directly linked with progress in Russia.
	So, basically, I read this as a regime change organization designed to change Russia from the inside.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Anyway, so he's a journalist.
	That's never been tried before, especially with a country like Russia.
	Well, I'm sure that it went well with Tbilisi, Georgia, and Kiev, Ukraine.
	I'm pretty sure those guys might have been involved.
	Yeah, well...
	So, anyway, here he is, and he brings us the news that Putin, President Putin, is indeed deathly ill.
	Deathly, deathly ill.
	He's got the big cancer.
	Rumors have persisted that Putin is ailing from some malady, including cancer, for many, many years, going back way before the invasion of Ukraine.
	However, a few weeks ago, I came into possession of a tape of a Russian oligarch who I know and could easily authenticate who he was because he more or less identifies himself on the tape.
	Chattering to a Western venture capitalist about various things.
	One, how miserable this war is for oligarchs like himself.
	He says that Putin has single handedly driven Russia back 50 years.
	He has the blood of 15,000 Russian soldiers on his hands.
	This is more of a calamity than the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
	But then he says, Putin is very, very ill with blood cancer.
	He says, and he makes the suggestion that we all believe that he is going to die before this war is out, and we all hope that he will.
	Which is kind of a shocking disclosure in a number of ways, Chris, because one, if this is the truth, well, wow.
	This oligarch is talking out of his hat.
	Speculating, you know, idly doing kind of remote diagnosis the way that a lot of people that are quoted in the tabloid press are doing.
	Okay.
	Or number three, and perhaps most tantalizing of all, if this is some cleverly cooked up piece of disinformation that Russian elites have disseminated into the West and also within Moscow itself in the sort of inner sanctum of the Russian government, then it suggests that it's designed to make Putin look vulnerable and weak and perhaps susceptible to a coup.
	So, this guy...
	Now, wait, wait, let's back up.
	Now, this guy is with that NGO that you were talking about, that's got the offices all over the place, and you believe it's just a bullcrap operation trying to overthrow the government?
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, this sounds like that's exactly right.
	Thank you.
	And I will add something to that.
	Hold on.
	But do they really think that this bull crap is going to fly?
	Oh yes, because they have the receipts, you see.
	They can tell you where the information came from.
	You were asking, do they have someone on the inside?
	NPR, of course, but is anyone reporting?
	Well, of course.
	We know when it comes to Russia, what is the most credible online source you can think of?
	Twitter?
	No, I mean a specific information source.
	When you hear it, you will shit yourself, but you won't have a toilet.
	Washington Post and New York Times.
	No, no, neither one, neither one.
	Much better than that.
	There's some other reporting in this piece, courtesy of Christo Groza.
	He's the rather brilliant investigator at Bellingcat, you know, the website that has unmatched...
	Bellingcat!
	The rather brilliant investigative reporter from Bellingcat.
	Yeah, okay.
	Are you done yet?
	Give everyone a background on Bellingcat as what we know so far.
	Well, the way I see it, and we've done a lot of deconstruction on Bellingcat, goes back to the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot out of the air over Ukraine, mainly Dutch people on the flight, which is why I know a lot about it.
	Most of the Dutch families are still outraged.
	The black box was never released.
	There's lots of information.
	Although, we mentioned that the black box was found.
	It exists.
	It apparently exists, yes.
	Russia showed that it could not be them.
	There's many, many theories.
	But it also makes no sense.
	If anything, it was a horrible accident, which was then used for gain.
	Really, to start a lot of this stuff up.
	Because this even happened...
	Didn't that happen before...
	Was it MH17? When was that?
	Did that happen before the 2014 coup?
	Let me see.
	That's a good question.
	Oh, 17th of July, 2014.
	Okay, so same year.
	We'd have to look at the exact dates, but it didn't help make Russia look good, that's for sure.
	So Bellingcat has all kinds of very suspicious ties, and they're the ones that the...
	Oh, they have a name.
	It's a special group, the MH17 investigation group.
	I'll come up with it in a second.
	They use Bellingcat information to prove that it was Russia that shot down the flight and not Ukraine.
	And...
	I can't go much deeper than that because I forget more than I remember, but we went deep into Bellingcat, and it seems...
	Let's take a look at Bellingcat's homepage at the moment.
	Okay.
	Are you doing that?
	Are you doing that now for us?
	I've got it right here.
	It's unraveling of the killing of Shireen Abu Akle, the journalist that's at the top, but then it goes to Russia's QAnon followers.
	Oh!
	Ooh!
	Can't make up their minds about Ukraine.
	That's like right up there.
	Also, latest resources.
	This new tool lets you analyze TikTok hashtags.
	So I guess there's something going on with TikTok hashtags.
	Bellingcat is banned in Russia.
	Here's how to beat the block.
	How to archive Telegram content to document Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
	Those are the tools.
	Then they have, these are the cluster munitions documented by Ukrainian civilians.
	Invasion of Ukraine tracking use of cluster munitions in civilian areas.
	So they specialize in what they call fact-checking and open-source intelligence, also known as OSINT. A lot of stuff on cluster bombs here.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, that's them.
	You can go look them up.
	It's bellingcat.com, spelled like it sounds.
	Let's go back to the genius, brilliant reporting from Bellingcat.
	There's some other reporting in this piece, courtesy of Christo Grozev.
	He's the rather brilliant investigator at Bellingcat, the website that has unmasked Russian spies and assassins, including the Navalny poisoners and the Skripal poisoners.
	And Christo, I put this across to him several weeks ago.
	He came back and he said, look...
	I was skeptical of this at first, but I have a source in the FSB who said that several weeks before, the Lubyanka FSB headquarters issued a communique or a decree to all the regional directorates inside the Russian Federation territory to the FSB. Any rumors about the president's terminal health conditions should be treated incredibly suspiciously, almost a sabotage.
	Please ignore and please dismiss them.
	Well, of course, this had the opposite effect of convincing a lot of people in the FSB that, in fact, these rumors are true.
	Of course.
	In fact, it's true.
	You know, this is the old...
	Wait, so there's a memo that said the FSB released that said that this is some sort of plot and this is all bullcrap.
	Please ignore such things.
	And so that means it's actually true?
	Let's hear that end again.
	Please ignore and please dismiss them.
	Back a little bit.
	...should be treated incredibly suspiciously, almost as sabotaged.
	Please ignore and please dismiss them.
	Well, of course, this had the opposite effect of convincing a lot of people in the FSP that, in fact, these rumors are true.
	There was a picture of the May 9th celebration someone sent to me, and I did the old Google search.
	We do images.google.com, drag the image in there, and it's a shot of Putin, head and shoulders shot, looking to his left, and he looks exactly like everybody I've seen in the cancer ward when my mom was dying.
	The really puffy cheeks from the pretenosome, the lips kind of shriveling.
	Now, he's also in his 70s, and so I wanted to see if there was an original image, if it was doctored.
	I really couldn't find that image more than twice, which by itself was interesting.
	But I wonder.
	I mean, we don't know, of course, and we can't know, but when I saw that picture, I'm like, wow, either someone did a great job on this, Or he may really be sick.
	That was just my personal observation.
	Like, holy crap.
	There are Photoshop people that could do unbelievable things.
	And so I am very skeptical of any photo.
	Any photo that I see.
	Any photo at all.
	Any photo.
	Any photos.
	And then there's this one, which I love.
	More discrediting of Russia and telling the West...
	How things are deteriorating in the interior.
	It's just no good.
	That's why we need guys like this on the inside who can change the country's hearts and minds and have a coup take place.
	Meanwhile, U.S. officials say Russia is now being forced to use semiconductor chips from dishwasher and refrigerators in their military equipment, all because of U.S. sanctions and global shortages.
	Okay, so I would love to see the data on that.
	So, hey, Boris, we need a chip.
	Ah, wait, let me get it from the washing machine.
	The chip is in the washing machine.
	Because that's the same chips that you need in military equipment.
	It's the only thing.
	Hey, there's one thing.
	It's called a chip.
	It's a chip.
	You need these chips.
	It's just chips.
	They work in Ford F-150s.
	They work in washing machines, and they work in Russian military equipment.
	Universal chips.
	That's right.
	And it's worse.
	You know, where did you get that?
	Because anyone who would report such a thing...
	ABC. ABC. Oh my god, what is wrong with these people?
	Well, it's fun to report.
	I mean, it's funny.
	It's funny.
	It's funny.
	You want to make a joke of everything, sure.
	Well, how else will you entertain yourself if you do a horrible M5M morning show?
	And God knows those Russian washing machines are so high-tech, it's unbelievable.
	We pull them, we plug them.
	I'm surprised they don't export them because those things are on.
	They're so good.
	They're chips up the butt on those things.
	I can't believe that people aren't breaking into homes and stealing washing machine chips.
	I mean, this is a hot commodity like copper.
	And while you're at it, shoot the toilet.
	But it's worse because they're just like Nazis.
	A U.S. official says Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainians and sent them to so-called filtration camps.
	That's where they're questioned about potential ties to the government or military.
	And according to the U.N., at least 100 children were killed in Ukraine just last month.
	Okay.
	All right.
	There you go.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	You know, the Davos crowd comes together in a week of the World Economic Forum.
	It's going to be at Davos once again.
	And guess who is doing the opening keynote?
	Musk.
	Zelensky, of course.
	Oh, Zelensky.
	Zelensky.
	Yes.
	Come on, man.
	You know that.
	That thing is, I feel that Davos is an ill repute.
	It'll be great to watch.
	I mean, this year will be...
	You have to be out of touch with reality or what's actually going on in the world to attend this with all seriousness because it's a fiasco with this Klaus Schwab guy.
	No, no, no.
	They love you.
	Oh, you're all going to rent from now on.
	Everything's free.
	Yes.
	And you're going to live a happy life with no property.
	Yes.
	I mean, that's sort of thinking.
	It's like, why would...
	Does anybody pay attention to anything?
	I think a lot of these guys are cloistered.
	I have to tell you...
	I don't know if I told you the story before.
	Christina, about two months ago, you know...
	A lot of the work she was doing had dried up with lockdowns was quite severe in the Netherlands.
	And so she was going to go take a job in a bar, a restaurant, a restaurant bar, I think, just to make money.
	Because she couldn't make rent.
	So she went into a panic spiral because she said, Oh my God, I don't think I can socialize.
	I don't know if I can do it anymore.
	You know, as a young woman, sometimes you spiral and that's when you call your dad and you get talked off the ledge.
	But it was really severe.
	And I reminded her of this when she was here.
	Of course, she got over that and her boyfriend was very helpful and everything worked out.
	But She was really traumatized and in that traumatized state she said to me, I just wish the government would just send me money so I wouldn't have to go outside.
	And I reminded her of this, and she said, yeah, that was the deepest I've been.
	This is something that I think is a cause of everything that took place.
	People say that and then, just take care of me, just get rid of my student debt, just give me $1,000 a month, just help me with my rent, don't have me evicted.
	And the more of that you get, the more people want it.
	It's a very normal human response to traumatic circumstances.
	Luckily, I knocked that out of her, but gee, it was...
	So, yes, I think that these things are very destructive.
	And that comes from the World Economic Forum that says you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
	Yes, and I think it's succeeding.
	Here's the clip I had that I wanted to play last show.
	This is the $40 billion to Ukraine.
	It's actually $53 billion.
	$40 billion is the clip.
	The House of Representatives passed a $40 billion package for Ukraine last night.
	All Democrats and around 70% of Republicans voted in favor.
	But some members of the GOP are raising questions about the aid and the repercussions it could have on Americans.
	The House on Tuesday night approved an additional $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine.
	This is just weeks after lawmakers approved $13.6 billion in emergency aid for the war effort.
	Combined, this totals roughly $53 billion over the last two months.
	Not only does this go beyond what President Biden requested, it's also poised to amount to the largest foreign aid package to pass through Congress in two decades.
	While the aid was passed with few questions or objections, a few Republican members of Congress voiced opposition.
	Fifty-four million dollars in COVID spending in Ukraine, but there's no formula for American babies and mothers.
	Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene asked Congress why it's sending this money to Ukraine, yet failing to find solutions to crises at home.
	Such as the border crisis, supply chain issues, and skyrocketing inflation.
	Representative Matt Gaetz warned about where all this money and military aid may be heading.
	Do we have amnesia in this house?
	Is memory loss a consequence of the gerontocracy of Congress?
	Just a year ago, we lost a war against goat herders waving rifles.
	Gerontocracy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, that's...
	Who started that meme?
	We use that.
	We've heard someone do that.
	Yeah.
	Someone started the gerontocracy.
	This kind of is interesting because it belies the, I've said this before, but this idea that Biden promotes that the ultra-mega have taken over the Republicans, when in this case there was 100% of the Democrats voted for the $40 billion package and 70% of the Republicans.
	So there's only 30% that might be MAGA. Ultra MAGA. At the most.
	They're ultra MAGA. It's a small number.
	I was reading that the Biden administration spent, they hired a think tank and spent six months coming up with the MAGA and ultra MAGA term.
	Six months.
	And then the minute they came out with it, immediately it got turned around and turned into something beautiful.
	Yeah, that's good.
	I like those terms.
	I was like, yeah, that's kind of cool.
	We'll use that.
	Of course, there was one Republican in the House who pulled a dirty trick.
	If this gift to Ukraine passes, our total aid to Ukraine will almost equal the entire military budget of Russia.
	And it's not as if we have that money lying around.
	We will have to borrow that money from China to send it to Ukraine.
	The cost of this package we are voting on today is more than the U.S. spent during the first year of the U.S. conflict in Afghanistan.
	Congress authorized force, and the President sent troops into the conflict.
	The same cannot be said of Ukraine.
	This proposal towers over domestic priorities as well.
	Yeah, so some kind of procedural thing where Rand Paul said, no, there'll be no quick vote unless we get an inspector general to oversee the expenditures, the $54 billion, which seems kind of reasonable.
	I'd say.
	It's an amendment.
	I don't know what the status is, but at least that slowed down a bit.
	Why bother keeping track of the money?
	Because we did so well with Afghanistan.
	It was fabulous.
	Now, the U.S. Treasury is also getting in on the game.
	Janet Yellen had some crazy things.
	I'll just read what she said.
	This was a policy statement.
	That Russia's war on Ukraine is one of the biggest considerations in the U.S. Treasury's latest strategy document.
	There we go.
	Which outlines how the agency wants to combat significant illicit finance threats.
	And of course, illicit finance is a major national security threat.
	Nowhere is that more apparent than in Russia's war against Ukraine, supported by decades of corruption by Russian elites.
	We need to close loopholes, work efficiently with international partners, and leverage new technologies to tackle the risk posed by corruption, an increase in domestic violent extremism, and the abuse of virtual assets.
	Oh yeah.
	Never mind the cash, the mountains of cash that we see everywhere, including our weapons that we gave, sold, lent, whatever to Ukraine, now showing up in Telegram for sale.
	You can buy any of the weapons we sent over there.
	Beautiful.
	And of course, this is actually...
	Ushering in some form of famine, social unrest, hunger, winter, call it what you want, supply chain issues, great reset, whatever.
	This grain helps feed 400 million people around the world.
	I'm sorry, this is...
	I should set that up.
	Where is this?
	I don't know why I can't see what this was.
	Oh yeah, this is the World Food Programme.
	United Nations outfit.
	They're running lots of different spots, kind of like PSAs, talking about the problem of hunger now that there is no wheat coming out of Ukraine.
	This grain helps feed 400 million people around the world, and these ports are shut down because of this war.
	We need to get the ports open, operational.
	Otherwise, we're going to have catastrophe on top of catastrophe.
	Millions of people around the world starving to death.
	It's hard to believe how devastating this is really going to be on the poorest of the poor around the world.
	And we need these ports open and we need it now.
	So the ports, the ports is the problem.
	We need the ports open, but the ports can't open because the ports are booby-trapped with, I guess, their mind.
	Could be.
	It makes sense.
	No, I'm pretty sure they are.
	Let me see.
	Did I have a clip of that?
	Interesting.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Sorry about that.
	I looked at the Ukraine wheat production.
	Global wheat production all around the world is 28,370,280 tons.
	No, I'm sorry.
	That's Ukraine's wheat production.
	The total world wheat production is 765,769,635 tons.
	Ukraine is 3.7% of global production.
	So while not great, it's not really going to break the bank.
	However, this will.
	Tonight, the G7 industrialized nations are condemning India's decision to ban exports of wheat, warning it could worsen the global food shortage.
	India says it just wants to safeguard its own supply.
	The price of wheat has shot up by more than 40% this year, mainly because of the war between Ukraine and Russia, which together produced a third of the world's wheat supply.
	And here's the thing.
	No, that's not it either.
	Interesting.
	I thought I had another clip about the harbor being mined.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	So, I think India is way up there.
	Is India not the number two wheat exporter?
	I don't know the numbers and who's the one, two, and three exporters.
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
	I thought we were the...
	I think Russia-Ukraine is number...
	Russia is number one.
	We should have it right in front of us.
	We should.
	I'll take a look.
	I'll look it up while we speak.
	Yes, here's a report from India.
	It exports with immediate effect as part of its steps to control the spike in prices at home.
	Now only export shipments for which letters of credit have been issued on or before the notification will be allowed here on.
	Now this is being seen as a U-turn by the government as just two days ago they had set a massive target of 10 million tons of export.
	I got it.
	Yeah, what do you got?
	India?
	Here are the 10 countries with the most wheat production.
	All right.
	Number one.
	Russia.
	Guess again.
	U.S. Guess again.
	India?
	China.
	Oh, of course.
	Hello.
	Could have known that.
	China's number one.
	India's number two.
	Russia is number three.
	We are number four.
	Canada is number five.
	France, Pakistan, and Ukraine is at the bottom of the list.
	So, this is good because now you can see that this, I think, almost planned food shortage, famine, is being covered up by the war in Ukraine.
	Ukraine has very little wheat production that matters.
	It's Russia, it's India, it is...
	I mean, this...
	China...
	Oh yeah, we can trust China for our wheat.
	So that's interesting.
	The messaging is horse crap.
	Now there's a new, I think you may have played clips from this lady before, from WION. This is the Indian News Network.
	Yeah, you have to.
	Palky Sharma?
	I don't know.
	Oh, this is...
	She's a character.
	She is...
	If you can understand her.
	I don't know if we're talking about the same one.
	I can understand her just fine.
	She's cute.
	She's cute.
	She's direct.
	She has a great camera presence.
	We've got to get rid of this shitty accent, but otherwise, she's fantastic.
	Now, this is a long clip.
	You can stop it whenever you want, but she did something that I would love to see any American news outlet do.
	She said, we have economic crisis, which is resulting in food shortages.
	That's the fact.
	And Sri Lanka is melting down.
	As you know, Sri Lanka's Prime Minister resigned.
	The protests were so intense.
	And what she did in this package was...
	Is Sri Lanka the only country?
	Could this happen anywhere else?
	And she does this unbelievable rundown of other countries which should make anyone who is showing a Ukrainian flag in your profile ashamed of what you're really not looking at.
	There are 69 countries that face all the three risks.
	Food, energy, finance, all three.
	69 countries could go the Sri Lanka way.
	25 in Africa, 25 in the Asia-Pacific, and 19 in Latin America.
	Which countries are these?
	We'll start with Egypt, the land of pharaohs.
	It is in the throes of a financial crisis.
	Egypt is the world's largest importer of wheat.
	Russia and Ukraine were its top suppliers.
	As they fight now, the supplies are running out.
	Last month, Egypt said that its wheat reserves will not last more than three months.
	Next, we have Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
	Its economy is overheating.
	Foreign debt accounts for 100% of its GDP. The trade deficit has widened to $800 million.
	Inflation stands at 7%.
	Fuel prices at record highs.
	Experts say Tunisia could soon face civil unrest.
	The same warning has been issued for Lebanon.
	The Switzerland of West Asia.
	Well, not anymore.
	In 2020, the Beirut blasts destroyed Lebanon's largest grain stores.
	Food prices went up by 11 times.
	The Lebanese pound lost 90% of its value.
	Public debt grew to 360% of the GDP. The war in Ukraine complicated things further.
	Lebanon imported 80% of its wheat from Ukraine.
	Those supplies have fallen.
	There's a bread shortage.
	A scarcity of sunflower oil.
	Lebanon has been forced to take a $150 million loan from the World Bank to ensure food security.
	Then we have Argentina.
	The land of Tango also caught on the wrong foot now.
	Inflation is paralyzing its economy.
	External debt is mounting.
	Argentina has defaulted on debt repayments nine times.
	To avoid a tenth default, it has gone to the IMF. It wants to refinance a $45 billion loan.
	It may give Argentina brief reprieve, but it will not quell the civil unrest.
	Also, you know, I don't know if you're still enjoying this, but it also gives you a little insight into how ridiculous this $53 billion is compared to what some other countries...
	Like, just give us $150 million!
	We'll be okay with that!
	No, Ukraine, that's fine.
	Analysts say Argentina is staring at a long and cold winter this year.
	Some other Latin American countries are also at risk, like El Salvador and Peru.
	They face hyperinflation in commodities, tumbling bonds, food shortages, detonating prices and mass unemployment.
	Very much like Sri Lanka.
	Reports say both countries could soon face civil unrest.
	In sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia could be the worst hit.
	In Ghana, debt levels are soaring, interest payments are choking the economy, a debt crisis looks imminent.
	In Kenya, the debt has climbed to $70 billion, that's 70% of its GDP. Last week, they got a $244 million loan from the IMF to weather this economic storm.
	In South Africa, the debt has reached 80% of its GDP. There's a looming threat of state collapse, a rerun of the 2021 civil unrest.
	Next comes Turkey.
	The currency is sliding.
	The debt is soaring.
	Upwards of 54% of the GDP. Inflation has touched 70%.
	GDP forecast cut to 3.3%.
	There's a food shortage.
	Turkey is getting 50,000 tons of wheat from India.
	And these were just a few examples.
	The World Bank says that in the next 12 months, as many as a dozen developing economies may not be able to service their debt.
	This will be the largest debt crisis in a generation.
	I thought that was a dynamite rundown.
	It'll be fun to watch.
	Oh, man.
	You've got mail.
	I'm sorry.
	We got a message.
	Message.
	A message from Klaus Schwab.
	No, Agenda does not take care of the planet and people.
	Nobody will be safe from the dangerous misinformation.
	You will be punished.
	Okay, Klaus.
	Okay, sorry.
	You will be punished.
	You will be punished.
	No, Agenda.
	So that doesn't sound really good.
	No, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
	And the banks are going to take a beating.
	A beating.
	Yeah, a beating.
	Well, they usually deserve it when they get it, but they always come out ahead somehow.
	I don't know how they do that.
	They take over a lot of assets, and then they straighten things out, and then the country writes itself, and then they make money on the assets that they confiscated.
	I love your optimism.
	I really do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's good.
	That's good.
	Your optimism is good.
	Now, let's just talk about wheat.
	Now, growing up, I never really heard about the importance of wheat.
	Now it seems like without wheat, we're all dead.
	Is this true?
	Is wheat...
	From the sounds of it...
	Yeah.
	Well, it's a valid question.
	What do you think?
	Well, we're not...
	If you say we lose, we're going to lose...
	The Russians are going to move their wheat somehow.
	What we're losing is the 24 million tons of Ukrainian wheat, and I think most of that will be recovered.
	At least half of it will get used and shipped somehow over the land.
	Mm-hmm.
	I don't see this as being...
	I think this is a crisis that's being exaggerated.
	Hmm.
	I mean, it doesn't help when India decides to take itself off the market and say, now we're just going to keep our 100 million tons and keep it here.
	Hmm.
	I'm looking at these numbers and I'm just saying, okay, so let's say Ukraine loses all $24 million.
	A lot of it's been in granary, so they're not obviously shipping it all anyway.
	I just don't think so.
	I think they're making this worse than it has to be.
	Oh, well, isn't that the point of a great reset?
	Isn't that exactly the point?
	Make it much worse than it has to be?
	Yeah, I'd say so.
	But it's all part of this messaging...
	Let's talk about baby milk for a second, because we kind of ignored that story for obvious reasons.
	It didn't really hit our environment that much, and it really cranked up, I think.
	Oh, they cranked it up to the max over the last week.
	Because it's a political football now.
	And then all the right-wing talk shows, I guess this stems from a member of the...
	Border Patrol.
	Yes.
	Who took a picture.
	Yes.
	You've seen this.
	Yes.
	A picture of all the baby milk formula that is waiting for the refugees as they're coming across the border.
	And they've saved it for them because they don't want to look as if they're, you know, making mothers or making babies starve to death.
	So a lot of the...
	Of the milk formula has been redistributed to the borders instead of being in the shelves where American women who have to use formula.
	It does go back a little further to...
	It's January or February of this year when the, I think the Food and Drug Administration shut down an entire plant in, of all places.
	Abbott Labs.
	Yes, Abbott Labs, because they do your COVID test and they screw up your formula, which interestingly is in Sturgis, that particular plant.
	Production facility.
	And they closed it down because babies were dying from their formula.
	They had to have an entire recall.
	Here's Jen Psaki from back in the day.
	Important to note that the reason we're here is because the FDA took a step to ensure that babies were taking safe formula.
	There were babies who died from taking this formula, so they were doing their jobs.
	We have been working, this administration has been working for weeks now to address in anticipation of where we thought there could be shortages.
	We have also seen an increase over the last four weeks of supply available, which has been an increase over the four weeks prior to the recall.
	That is a good sign.
	But obviously the steps the President took today are an acknowledgement and a recognition that more needs to be done.
	Exactly.
	So what I didn't know, and what's now kind of come to light, is that there are only, I think, three or four companies who are authorized to produce and distribute within the United States said formula, and that is mainly because there's deals with the WIC, the Women, Infants, Children program, which I find a misnomer.
	I'd like that to be changed.
	It should be...
	It should be people who identify as women, infants, no, birthing persons, infants, and children, and not women.
	This wick has to change.
	That's completely wrong.
	The...
	They blame Abbott Labs for this, and they did not do anything about the production, knowing that Abbott Labs produces about 42% or 43% of all formula.
	Interestingly, we can blame President Trump for not getting anything from Canada, because if you recall, he protected all dairy and all dairy products, and they made the tariff on...
	Canadian dairy products, unobtainable to import anything.
	But Abbott, I went looking around, and it's like Abbott has a very different opinion of what happened.
	And they investigated everything, and I didn't find anyone talking about it, but I do have a statement from their website.
	The voluntary February recall involved four companies of the Cronobacter sacrazali, a common environmental bacteria.
	Four complaints, I say.
	So there are four complaints.
	Two children got sick, two children died.
	And it's from the Cronobacter sacrazali, Sakazaki bacteria.
	Have you ever heard of this?
	No.
	So, apparently a common environmental bacteria, and they found it in infants who consumed instant formulas produced in this plant.
	Two infants became sick, two tragically passed away.
	The facts about what was learned about the cases have not been widely communicated.
	Yeah.
	No, that's weird.
	Yes, after a thorough review of all available data, there's no evidence to link our formulas to these infant illnesses.
	So they are out there with a statement saying no.
	Now what did happen...
	Oh, that must have been covered in the New York Times.
	I'm sure it was.
	Because they usually print all press releases.
	You'd think.
	And it seems like a pretty important one.
	Yeah.
	Genetic sequencing on the two available samples from ill infants did not match strains of Cronobacter in our plant.
	So everyone has this apparently...
	See, now we're under the impression...
	I didn't know this.
	I'm glad you brought this in.
	Because I think the public is under the impression that it was rat poop.
	And the rat poop inspectors found it.
	The rat poop inspectors, which are the health department guys, they found the rat poop at the Abbott labs and they had to shut them down and so they shut them down.
	That is, I'm telling you, this is the way I think it's being received, this information.
	Probably.
	And what the FDA did is they gave them a so-called 483 letter, which makes them change, improve some of their systems and protocols, which they have been diligently doing.
	But that is part of the reason why we have this shortage.
	And mind you, there's no shortage in Europe or Canada or anywhere else.
	It's really in the United States.
	These deals, no one else could really get into the business unless the Defense Production Act is invoked.
	And you'd think that if this was all known in February, in February, that something like that would have been done.
	Which is...
	I don't know.
	It seems like a huge gaffe on the part of the administration.
	Now, what happened is people start going crazy on Twitter, of course, which is great.
	Bette Midler saying, shut up!
	Just hit him up with a boob!
	You got two boobs!
	Those socks are full of milk!
	Give them milk!
	Who needs that shit at?
	Now, as The Keeper and I were returning from Austin last night, we were discussing this.
	Do you know what the percentage is of women in America who exclusively nurse their babies for the first three months with breast milk?
	I have no idea.
	24%.
	I think it would be higher.
	you'd think it would be a lot higher because the whole point of baby formula, and this is the argument that's, well, here's Stephanie Rule from MSNBC to give us the argument.
	And to everyone out there who's saying, why don't women just breastfeed?
	Give me a break.
	That is a ridiculous idea.
	There are women out there who simply can't produce enough.
	There are women out there who have children on formula for months, if not years, and they can't.
	And for any man out there who's right now saying, just go with breastfeeding, go pick up a breast pump, I invite each and every one of them to purchase a breast pump, put it on their tongue, and as tight as— I'm sorry?
	Hey, why is she bitching about us men?
	She should be directing her comments on MSNBC against Bette Midler.
	I invite each and every one of them to purchase a breast pump, put it on their tongue, and as tight as they possibly can, and have it go for 20, 20, 20 minutes, six times a day, because that's what using a breast pump is like, and it's absurd if they think that's going to solve this problem.
	Yeah, I have seen those takes.
	It's not a faucet, gentlemen.
	You don't just turn it on and off.
	Oh, shut up, Chris Hayes.
	Oh, my God.
	What is with these people at MSNBC? There's two things to this clip.
	So one is there's women who can't produce breast milk.
	Absolutely true.
	That is a small percentage.
	The rest of the clip is about I don't want my nipples hurt, which is, I think, the largest reason women have been convinced I've been convinced to not provide breast milk but to use formula.
	You know, it's a PSYOP. It's like, you know, how many Gerber babies are there?
	Well, is it a PSYOP or is it just a marketing campaign?
	Is there a difference?
	Or do you call a marketing campaign PSYOP? Yes, I do.
	Which I think you could legitimately do.
	Yes, it's a marketing campaign.
	I call it a PSYOP. Don't call it a PSYOP! However, there's one...
	This is something Mimi's always complained about.
	She always thought that formula was not even a quality product, generally speaking, as good as the real deal, because there's all kinds of crazy chemicals in female breast milk, mammalian breast milk.
	There's certain things that keep the kid from getting sick for years.
	It's unbelievable.
	Well, my first wife...
	Who bore our child.
	There was no way she was going to breastfeed for her own personal reasons.
	She just, nope, not going to have it, not going to do it.
	And Christina, to this day, is saying, I have all kinds of issues because my mom didn't feed me from her breast!
	She's probably right.
	She's probably right.
	I know.
	There's one other cynical aspect to this, though.
	Very cynical aspect to forcing moms who just didn't want to abuse their own breast milk or provide it.
	You know, just didn't feel like it.
	And by the way, fine with me.
	It's your choice.
	It's your baby.
	Do whatever you want.
	I'm not saying, oh, this is an outrage!
	I did query Tina in the car.
	I said, you know, like in 1905, you know, what did they do if they didn't have, you know, if they couldn't provide breast milk?
	Well, there, of course, was many periods throughout history where we had wet nurses, so other pregnant women would feed the babies of the elites.
	Also, a lot to be said that that's not a good idea.
	The wet nurses.
	The other thing was, if you look, you can find this in old movies as a reference.
	They used to, if they had to give the baby the bottle, it was just cow milk that was warmed up.
	Yes, another interesting choice.
	But here's the cynical part brought to us by my new favorite ex-liberal, Naomi Wolf, who has found a home.
	Do you know where she has found a home for her regular appearances?
	Yes.
	Austin.
	War Room.
	Oh, no.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	Yeah, Bannon would probably like her.
	Oh, Bannon loves her.
	Now, listen to what she has to say about women being forced to provide their own milk to their children.
	Yeah, so much is going on, but super fast.
	I do want to issue a warning about breast milk and vaccination, and it relates to the What has been a theme about the baby formula going back to the border and we're running out of it.
	So here's the situation.
	There are signals about dangers of breast milk for vaccinated moms, lactating moms.
	And it makes sense because the spike protein goes through the whole body, which means it likely goes into breast milk.
	But the point is some of the signals in the Pfizer documents are discolored breast milk.
	And nobody, according to the doctors we're consulting, has yet actually analyzed the breast milk of vaccinated mothers, which is insane.
	It should happen immediately.
	But that said, I'm hearing multiple accounts from people who work with lactating moms about babies having GI problems when they're nursing with moms who are vaccinated.
	And the babies are having failure to thrive, and they're going to the doctor, going to the doctor, the doctors are mystified.
	So what this goes to is, what are those moms going to do?
	There's no formula, right?
	And the last thing I want to tell you, which is absolutely demonic, is I found that Bill Gates has a new startup, which is called BioMilk with a Q, and it is lab-produced breast milk.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	Naomi's finally on our side.
	You brought this up last show.
	I know, but it's nice to have the Naomi Wolf, the Naomi, confirm it.
	Yeah, it's good for them to see these other people catching up with us.
	On the war room.
	Now, do you want to do some COVID? Because I got some new Bill G stuff.
	I was going to do something on that Buffalo shooting.
	Let's do the Buffalo...
	Yes, please.
	You're a good point.
	Because I don't have that much other than the six-week cycle seems to have been shortened to four weeks.
	Because just four weeks to the day after the New York subway shooting, seemingly random crazy shooting, now we have this very disturbing random shooting...
	With associated cut and paste manifesto, which seems cut and paste from the Christchurch shooter.
	It's an 18-year-old young man.
	White, of course, pointed out immediately a premeditated hate crime.
	And I think there's an extra dimension in here where he live-streamed, very graphic, first-person shooter.
	I would say that if this was some kind of kid they set up to do something truly horrific, which seems easy with an 18-year-old, I would say this is also a warning they're coming for your video games.
	I don't care what you say, how many studies.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	I like that.
	I don't care how many studies.
	You saw the tape.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The first person he shoots is a white woman.
	I think that should be mentioned, but no one does.
	But he guns down some poor woman out in front who's white, clearly white.
	And by the way, it was streamed on Twitch, which is where all the gamers stream.
	Another important data point.
	Well, the other thing is, your theory about the four weeks, moving to a four-week cycle might be valid.
	And not only that, not only just a four-week cycle, but let's do three shootings instead of one, because there was the Milwaukee shooting, which still doesn't make any sense, and a Los Angeles shooting at the market, the Central Market, which is a place I go.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so there were three shootings all at once.
	And they all pretty much coincided with each other.
	And you could pick and choose which one was the most successful.
	And so the choice was Buffalo.
	And a lot of it has to do with gun control.
	But let's listen to this NPR report.
	This is odd Buffalo shooting.
	A shooting in Buffalo, New York, killed at least 10 people at a local supermarket.
	Officials called it racially motivated.
	The shooter's name has not been released, but he has been identified as an 18-year-old white male.
	Authorities say he was heavily armed and wearing tactical gear.
	He also live-streamed the mass shooting.
	Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the shooter was not from the community.
	Buffalo is known as the city of good neighbors nationally and internationally, and for someone to travel for hours to come to our community and perpetrate this horrible crime is just absolutely unconscionable.
	A total of 13 people were shot.
	11 of the victims were black.
	The FBI is called in to investigate the case for violent extremism.
	While the suspect will face state murder charges, federal charges are also possible.
	President Biden and the U.S. Attorney General have both been briefed.
	Yeah, this is what is so dangerous about our news media is when this happens.
	And we just don't have enough.
	What I do know is that on 4chan, I know to go to 4chan right away when something like this happens, they're all using the term glowy.
	Are you familiar with glowy?
	No.
	G-L-O-W-I-E, glowy.
	Glowy means this person is so obviously a spook or a shill that they're glowing in the dark.
	Well, they showed him, I don't have the clip, but on local news, they had a package they brought in from Fox or somewhere, and they had the guy in court, and you could kind of see him.
	He's pimply-faced, good mop of hair, and he had a, wearing some sort of a weird, I don't know what the hell it even was, like a paper suit.
	Oh, yeah.
	In the courtroom, you mean?
	Yeah.
	That's what they give you if you have body armor.
	Hey, you can't wear your body armor.
	Let me give you something else.
	And so, he had a public defender, and you can't tell.
	But this was turning political almost immediately, and I have two Meet the Press clips from this morning.
	And if you want to see something odd, this was Meet the Press, and when Meet the Press brings in Al Sharpton...
	Oh, there you go.
	Time for the racial anger.
	Before you do that...
	Because this is current.
	This is from this morning.
	So that's really important.
	Can I play two short clips, ABC and CBS? No, play yourself out and then we'll go to meet the press.
	Yes.
	And so this is what we were talking about earlier.
	So the NPR clip actually was pretty factual, although they also said, well, you know, 11 people were black.
	Okay, thanks.
	We got it.
	So clearly racially motivated.
	And it might have been, we don't know.
	But what ABC and CBS did is, you know, here's the headline, let's bring in someone to bring you all the color.
	We begin tonight with that breaking news, a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
	Witnesses say a gunman, dressed in army fatigues and a helmet, walked into a supermarket and then opened fire on shoppers and staff.
	At least 10 people are dead, several more wounded.
	Officials say the FBI is investigating the shooting as both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism.
	First responders encountering numerous victims at the scene.
	The suspected shooter, who police say was armed with a rifle, was taken into custody.
	Relatives of those who were inside the supermarket among those gathering at the scene, anxious for word on their loved ones.
	Witnesses say they heard dozens of shots fired.
	And tonight we're told President Biden and the Attorney General have both been briefed.
	I apologize.
	That wasn't what I thought it was.
	This one is.
	This is CBS. Tonight, the 18-year-old accused of shooting more than a dozen people, identified as Peyton Gendron, was arraigned on charges of first-degree murder.
	Authorities say he drove hundreds of miles to the Topps Friendly Market, three miles north of downtown Buffalo, heavily armed and in body armor.
	He shot four people in the parking lot, then went inside and continued shooting.
	When I first saw him shooting, he shot a woman, he shot a deacon, he shot another woman, and then he went in the store and started shooting again.
	Investigators say a security guard who's a retired police officer shot the suspect multiple times, but his body armor protected him.
	The suspect shot and killed the security guard, then surrendered to police.
	This was pure evil.
	There we go.
	It was straight up racially motivated.
	This is police.
	From somebody outside of our community.
	Police say the gunman was live streaming the incident and was yelling racial slurs.
	The neighborhood he targeted is predominant.
	Hear any racial slurs on the video?
	No.
	No, we watched the video and there was that head sound.
	You could hear the thing popping away.
	He didn't say anything.
	When he got out of the car, he said, here I am at the place, and then he got out.
	But not racial slurs.
	I didn't hear anything.
	Somebody outside of our community.
	Police say the gunman was live-streaming the incident and was yelling racial slurs.
	The neighborhood he targeted is predominantly black.
	This is the worst.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You have to understand.
	They're providing color now with...
	The police chief, who already is making a lot of assumptions...
	...say the gunman was live-streaming the incident and was yelling racial slurs.
	The neighborhood he targeted is predominantly black.
	This is the worst nightmare that any community can face.
	And we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community.
	This seems a little early to be focusing on 100% hate crime.
	But now we're going to meet the press.
	This is hot off the press from this morning.
	Very extreme and dangerous segment of our political dialogue.
	And I take responsibility for that.
	There's a culpability for that.
	And it is tied to the violence.
	But Matt...
	Racism has gone from being French to mainstream.
	That's the problem.
	That is the organizing tool.
	It's like a political organizing tool at times.
	But the problem is that it's been normalized.
	You have to remember, this is an 18 year old that is accused in Buffalo.
	When he was 15, Charlottesville happened.
	The president of the United States at that time said there are good people.
	So this gives him comfort.
	That's why Joe Biden, who I believe is a decent and good man, needs to set a different tone.
	And we need to deal with guns.
	Because a tone was set while this guy was a kid, being impressionable, that this is all right to be marching and saying, Jews will not replace me.
	That's what he saw at 15 years old.
	And he saw it from the White House.
	Oh, man.
	Man.
	Unbelievable.
	So now, Trump is worse than guns.
	Trump.
	Trump is worse than guns.
	By the way, I don't know that the guy shot any Jews, but it seems unlikely.
	But somehow, it was about the Jews.
	And then, of course, the big lie.
	The big lie, which is capitalized.
	Yeah, he brings the lie in.
	So Sharpton brings in the big lie to slam Trump, which is, you know, that's what you have to do when you're in politics.
	That's what he does.
	And, uh, you have a whole panel there of, uh, including a Republican and, uh, who doesn't seem to be much.
	I've never seen or heard of this guy before.
	So I got the Southern accent.
	It looks like a dummy.
	And, uh, you have Washington post woman and then you got Chuck and you got somebody else.
	There's a bunch of people.
	Nobody corrects this lie.
	Um, Because they just don't, because it's not politically a good thing, and this Republican that was on there isn't about to do it.
	So nobody says anything about the lie, which is part of the problem, it seems to me.
	If you're going to just lie to the public, you're going to get people irked.
	So the Washington Post woman jumps in right after Sharpton talks his game there.
	And let's hear what she has to say.
	And he saw it from the White House.
	And there's something particularly devastating about the fact that Joe Biden said he was impelled to run for president.
	Because of Charlottesville.
	And he seemed to mean that sincerely.
	And now you look, it's what's happening, and it feels like nothing has changed.
	The culture is the exact same.
	Oh, man!
	Washington Post lady.
	Wow.
	So they can't even...
	You know what?
	These people are, in fact, super racist.
	They don't care about the people that are dead.
	They don't give a crap.
	All they care about is, hey, another thing we can blame on Trump in January 6th.
	Ooh, we can't wait for the...
	Oh, when are we getting the January 6th commission report?
	Isn't that coming up pretty soon?
	Is this timed nicely?
	Is this what they need now to carry over through to the election?
	Because we know everything else you've done is too early.
	Will this do it?
	I don't think any of this...
	In that regard, I don't think any of this is working.
	It's not working.
	They're not doing it right.
	If only they would hire the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group.
	Well, we could definitely do a better job than they're doing.
	What's worse taking?
	In terms of propagandizing.
	But this is like...
	What's better?
	It's so lame, but what's so pathetic is that it's almost predictable.
	Trump...
	Yeah.
	What's...
	Ultra mega.
	It's his fault.
	Yeah.
	Do you know that a part of that study, you know, the ultra...
	Ultras is used mainly for football hooligans in the rest of the world.
	Oh, the ultras.
	So they really...
	I did not know this.
	Yeah, I got a couple emails about it.
	So they really thought, oh, this is great.
	The world will hate the ultras, the ultra magas.
	So what is worse, do you think?
	Kerry Dvorak Consulting Group working to help the Democrats or to help Russia?
	I don't know which one we should work for, maybe.
	Well, the Russians are hard to do.
	The problem with doing anything for Russia is seriously politically incorrect.
	It doesn't work out.
	No.
	And they don't seem to know what they're doing.
	It's unbelievable.
	So you might as well just give them a pass.
	The Democrats are too dumb to hire us.
	So you got stupidity on one side and hopelessness on the other.
	We're not getting any business, let's face it.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Cronobacter sakazaki virus.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
	John C. Devorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning in all ships to sea, boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names of nights out there.
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	Well, he did, but he didn't do it right.
	And we're trying to do it right.
	You can follow John C. Dvorak at NoAgendaSocial.com, Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	Yes, new artists.
	It's true.
	Because of the time shift, artists are typically...
	Well, the way it works when we do the show live, artists are creating art on the fly as they hear a topic, vying for that coveted art spot.
	For the album art.
	And I think we have, well we definitely have different people who are able to listen now because of the slight two hour time shift.
	So yes, there are different artists.
	I think also in some cases some of the existing artists are doing better work because they've slept longer.
	Did you notice this?
	Well, I've noticed it's changed a little bit.
	The look of the pages have changed.
	I don't know if it's better or worse, necessarily.
	Okay.
	Well, I thought what Darren O'Neill produced for episode 1450, we titled that one New Collar Worker, which was the Fisher-Price plastic...
	Cockpit, so you can learn how to fly, now with cell phone, and the requisite...
	And as usual, in this case, I was dead set against this art, but you...
	Well, we...
	No, that's not how...
	You cried like a baby.
	You said, oh, it looks like a little airplane cockpit.
	We've got to pick it.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so, and with that, we'll believe everything you say from now on out.
	Actually, we both like the different piece.
	I'm trying to find it now.
	What was that piece, John?
	The piece we both liked.
	Oh, yeah, what was it?
	Well, I... Oh, yes.
	It was a problem.
	There was a problem with it.
	There were two problems with two of his pieces.
	Yes.
	Matthew Dropko had two pieces that were both very usable.
	I liked both of them, actually.
	Which was bug-alike?
	But then I really started liking the No Agenda Ultra Mega detergent, because it was really well done.
	Which I could have gone with.
	Yeah.
	And why didn't we, John?
	Because they're blurry!
	Exactly.
	How does that happen?
	I don't understand.
	You punch it up to the regular size.
	Well, it's because something he's doing wrong.
	Because you punch it up to the normal size by clicking on it, and it shows up as a standalone under episode 1450 artwork, Laundry Soap by Matthew Dropko.
	Big, big thing.
	And it's blurry.
	It's just blurry.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So he's either submitting it as too small, and when you blow it up, it doesn't work.
	And his other piece, which I don't remember which one it was, but it's up here.
	You might be able to find it.
	Which was...
	Yeah, that was the Bug...
	Bugalack.
	Bugalack, yes.
	Yeah, Bugalack was another good piece, which I liked.
	That's the one I thought was the best to begin with, not the other one.
	That thing about O'Neill's piece was part of one of our fabulous skits.
	We had a skit that I'm unaware of.
	What skit was this?
	Yeah, we had a skit.
	So anyway, so the Bug Elect is the same way.
	And if you blow it up, click on it, it says complete nutrition for your baby's first year.
	It's almost impossible to read.
	So I don't know what you're doing wrong, Matthew, but snap out of it.
	Was there anything else that we thought was good?
	I think the Darren O'Neill piece was by far the most acceptable on the group.
	Yes, and considering I cried and threw a tantrum on the ground like a baby was probably a good idea.
	I mean, who would want to see me completely have a meltdown over that?
	Darren O'Neill.
	Oh my God, this guy.
	I don't know what I'm going to do.
	I picked that piece.
	Darren O'Neill, thank you very much for your courage.
	Great piece of work.
	Really, really appreciated that.
	All of the artists are worth looking at.
	Darren is a multifaceted talent.
	He just has these little touches that he does, but now with cell phone and a cheap plastic cell phone, As part of it is showed there.
	It's just dynamite.
	It just has that little, what do we call it, je ne sais quoi.
	Just that little thing.
	Yes, that's exactly what we call it.
	Yes, we call it je ne sais quoi.
	That's the little things that Darren seems to be able to add to that.
	And of course, Darren is also our rock and roll pre-show meister who brings us one or two hours of live programming before we even start to get, you know, To get everyone into the mood.
	Get them all jacked up.
	Jacked up and ready to go.
	We appreciate it.
	If you'd like to see pretty much all of these images, you can go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Also, if you use a modern podcast app, then you can see that in the chapters.
	Dreb Scott doing that for us.
	Go to newpodcastapps.com.
	You will not regret it.
	And, of course, if you...
	Subscribe to a podcast that gets deplatformed from Spotify or from Apple or Google or Amazon or Wondery or whatever else you have.
	It won't be deplatformed because there's no deplatforming in Podcasting 2.0 world.
	What was that?
	I just think it's so, you know, this idea of deplatforming a podcast.
	The whole invention of the podcast, the whole mechanism, is so it's almost impossible to do that.
	Or it should be, unless you go to some system, you know, that is run by Google.
	Or Apple.
	Poor Apple.
	Apple could do it and they've done it.
	That was the reason I started this with Dave Jones is because Apple took down Alex Jones, the X-22 report.
	I mean, just a couple of podcasts, you know, whatever.
	But they did it in coordination.
	If you remember, Facebook, Twitter, everybody deplatformed all these guys at the same time.
	And it was just a coincidence.
	Yeah, it was like coordinated.
	Yeah, so that was the call right there that we need to change something.
	Now let's thank our executive and associate executive producers of episode 1451 of the best podcast in the universe, a value for value proposition, which means we ask you to support us with whatever value you get out of what we do.
	Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not good, but we always know it's an honest representation of how people value us.
	And we start with Janice Hall.
	From Sacramento, California, right at the top, $1,000.
	Sadly, no note that I could find.
	Did you find anything from Janice Hall?
	Well, no.
	She writes this when she feels like writing.
	It's usually just casually.
	The last note I have from her, I do have up, which was from May 12th.
	Which is kind of, but this is based on the Bong Bong Who newsletter.
	And she says, she's talking about the general election.
	She said, she made a note that Biden's extended his emergency authorization this spring without an end date.
	And the White House announces we could see 100 million new cases of COVID this fall.
	Thanks, Pfizer.
	And not much else, just some notes.
	100 million?
	Well, yes.
	Well, yeah.
	One hundred million?
	Oh, no.
	Yes, everybody.
	Hmm.
	So.
	Okay.
	Well, then I'll read the next one since, you know, I'm going to give her a karma.
	I mean, okay, for not sending a note, extra karma.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah, for not sending a note, double karma.
	Double karma with a goat, you bet.
	You've got...
	Then we go to Anonymous.
	$1,000 as well from Bloomfield, New York.
	Anonymous writes...
	I have enjoyed your podcast for many years and am finally in a place where I can donate.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Also provide me moving karma as my wife to human resources and I find our new home while selling our current one.
	Douchebag call out for Jeff Goldman in Buffalo, New York.
	Douchebag!
	He got me into your show back in 2016 and please, if you wouldn't mind, knight me as Sir Vision Quest of the Aether.
	Because this is an instant night.
	For the round table, I would like to request bean burritos and some B12. Yes, it's the combination of vegans.
	You got it.
	Now, he wants to be anonymous, so I'm not going to give out his call sign.
	That doesn't seem like a great way to stay anonymous.
	No, that's not anonymous.
	You can look that up in the federal database.
	You can see exactly where he lives and his address.
	So we're not going to do that.
	But we do appreciate your support.
	We'll say 73s.
	We'll say big 73s.
	Kilo 5, Alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
	Okay.
	Wait, I'm sorry.
	That was a karma.
	Karma requested for that.
	Almost messed it up.
	You've got karma.
	Ryan Smith's next.
	He's in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	$455.
	I got no note from him.
	I'd looked around and he's also another free...
	He sends stuff in when he feels like it.
	So maybe if he feels like he'll send something in.
	So I'll give him a double bonus karma for not sending a note in.
	People don't have to send in notes.
	No, but if it's content, we like it if it's content.
	If it's content, we love it, but you don't have to, you know, just, you know, say...
	All right, but from now on, it's obvious now he gets a double karma for doing that.
	You've got karma.
	You've got...
	I'm going with Tim Elcott.
	Karma.
	Tim El...
	Yes, it was double karma.
	Tim Elcott.
	It was double karma.
	You asked for it.
	33333, back on track.
	Odenton.
	Odenton, Maryland.
	In the morning.
	First time donation.
	De-douche me, please.
	I love that.
	You've been de-douched.
	And then he says he heard Adam on the Michael Malice You Are Welcome podcast.
	Mm-hmm.
	And John on the Who Are These podcasts.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, with Carl Hamburger.
	For jingles, I can only ask for yak karma for all.
	By the way, I have a yak story to tell.
	Love is lit.
	Tim.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Alright, tell us your Yak story.
	Content.
	Well, you know, the Yak guy.
	Is that his name?
	The Yak guy?
	Is it Yakguy.com?
	He should have that.
	The Yak guy.com.
	He kind of almost does have it.
	Let me get his thing here.
	He's the Desert End Yaks, Dell Yaks, and he is in Montrose, Colorado with the email.
	Oh, he's emailed.
	No, it's a homepage.
	Nah, the homepage isn't possible.
	It's dmea.net slash desert, desert end slash yak.
	Anyway, look him up.
	He's in Montrose.
	So he sent me, me and me ordered some more yak stuff.
	So we got some steaks.
	So he's, because he got so many extra orders, old Dell did, that he sent me a bonus pack free that's not for sale that I can tell.
	A bonus pack?
	And I knew exactly what they were when they said yak fries.
	Mm-hmm.
	Now, yak fries are balls.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	How do you possibly know that yak fries are, and let's just use the proper term, testicles?
	So these yak balls, I mean, I know they're, I knew this from when I saw it, because I like to, I've tried everything, I went out of my way to find something.
	You love yak so much, you couldn't, you're like, you know what, if I could only taste the yak's balls.
	Beef balls.
	You're a ball eater!
	So I went to Texas where you can get beef balls, that's where you eat beef balls.
	If you want to eat balls, you go to Texas.
	Okay.
	So at the Fort Worth, there's a big restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas that specializes and they call them beef fries.
	That's what they call it.
	That's where I learned the term proper use is fries.
	You can look it up.
	And so I went there to have some beef balls because in Texas, it's the only place you can get them, you know, a restaurant and normal fare because the Texans are just gobbling these balls like there's no tomorrow.
	And so I had them, and they're tasty.
	If you cook them right, they're kind of like sweetbreads, if you cook them right.
	Which is veal balls.
	No, sweetbreads is thymus and thyroid glands.
	No, I always thought sweetbreads were balls.
	No, no, that's not balls.
	Balls are fries.
	Gosh, I live in Texas.
	I didn't even know this.
	Oh, you're the only Texan I know.
	I'm going to call you that for now.
	Yes, thank you.
	You're a Texan that doesn't eat balls because most Texans just eat balls all the time.
	Baller!
	Shot collar!
	20-inch blades on the Impala!
	You are the big baller, Jar.
	You are the man.
	Well, I haven't had these yet, but I'm still working on finding the recipe.
	Everybody in the family now wants to have this meal.
	There's only a few bowls in there.
	I mean, the sack.
	Now, does it come in the sack and you have to extract the bowls?
	It's a plastic sack.
	Oh, so it's not the OG sack.
	No, it's not the OG sack.
	God, no.
	And...
	There's not enough balls to go around, to be honest about it.
	Well, there's two per yak.
	I mean, do they sell them in a pair?
	I don't know how many are in this thing because it was freeze-dried and then put in one of those vacuum pack.
	There may be four balls in there or maybe two.
	I can't tell.
	Well, I'm very interested.
	I just thought I'd mention it because it's...
	Well, could you...
	Who is the yak man?
	I'd like to know again.
	I'd like to order some yak.
	This is Dell.
	Mm-hmm.
	He's in Montrose, Colorado.
	And Desert End Limited Yaks.
	I'll give his phone number out.
	There you go.
	This will be his phone number.
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	970-249-1734.
	Call now.
	Call 100.
	Get free yak balls.
	Well, you're not going to get the balls.
	I think he eats those himself.
	But, you know, they're good for you.
	Onward.
	Thank you.
	That was actually some pretty good content.
	Appreciate that.
	Dame Anne of Greyrock is next from Crozet, Crozet, Croissant, Virginia, 333.33, our favorite executive producer number.
	My new progressive lens glasses cost 233.33.
	I figured keeping my ability to see through the M5M was worth at least $100 more.
	We love that.
	Thank you for thinking that way.
	Jingles, Reverend Manning, Bitcoin, China is asshole, and karma for Gitmo Nation from Dame Anne of Greyrock.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. China is asshole!
	That was the wrong one.
	So hold on.
	You've got karma.
	Sorry about that.
	How did I get the wrong one here?
	This is the one.
	That's saying that all hell is going to break loose and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
	There we go.
	I'm sorry about it.
	So on the ball, I missed it.
	Lard Nico in Gallatin, Tennessee.
	That is indeed his real name.
	333.33.
	First donation, please de-douche.
	Oh, nice.
	You've been de-douched.
	Shout out to Sir Eagle Eye, who first hit me in the mouth a few months ago.
	Travel karma for Eagle Eye.
	Goat karma for everyone in Gallatin.
	Lord Nico of the Gallatin Hills on my way to knighthood.
	Lord Nico, I'm sorry now.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	This is moving along nicely.
	We have Dreb Scott, who doesn't know him.
	Sorry, Elliot.
	No, I don't want to do that.
	I'll bring Elliot right back into the hook.
	Elliot Blazick, perhaps.
	This is a really cool sequence of letters.
	B-L-A-S-Z-C-Z-Y-K. Blazick.
	Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 33333.
	Donation.
	Thanks for everything, fellas.
	My 33rd birthday is May 16th.
	May I please be added to the list?
	Yes, of course.
	I'd like a Dvorak ghoulish donate noodle gun and goat karma for all.
	Don't stop!
	Donate!
	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.
	Dreb Scott333.33 from Oceanside, California.
	It's been a while since my last donation.
	Keep up the great work.
	Also looking forward to episode 100 of Fun Facts Friday with Lila and David.
	On Friday.
	Yes.
	Which is one of the podcasts we do.
	Or we play on the stream.
	Yes.
	No jingles, no karma.
	They are also fully podcasting 2.0 compatible.
	And Dreb Scott, who does chapters for us, also does chapters for the Fun Fact Friday.
	It's Layla and David.
	That's her dad.
	And it's a very nice podcast.
	I enjoy it very much.
	Thank you, Dreb.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Vincent and Sinead Visconti are in Lantana, Texas.
	333.33.
	Okay, gents, they say.
	We are finally getting around to making our 11-year-old daughter, Aoife, a producer of the show.
	Please accept this 333.33 donation for her.
	Nope!
	Unacceptable.
	She has been at our sides listening with us ever since we heard Adam.
	So this is a switcheroo.
	She gets the credit.
	Oh, good point.
	Thank you.
	Let me just put that in here right now.
	So this will be permanent record.
	So for the rest of her life, she will be tainted.
	Very good.
	Continues.
	She has been at our sides listening with us since we heard Adam's first JRE interview over two years ago.
	Broken donation.
	She constantly reminds us any time there's a 33, like 33 past the hour, if we're going 33 miles an hour, or any 33 for that matter, she tells us, Mom, Dad, time to donate!
	Okay.
	Good kid.
	This is a good kid.
	Your kid's going to grow up just...
	That's a good kid.
	Great.
	Oh, she actually says it in your creepy voice.
	Do the whole thing.
	The kid loves it.
	Donate!
	Donate!
	33, Mom!
	Uh, okay.
	Sorry about that.
	We need you guys to continue.
	Yes, we need you to continue, too.
	Thanks for the email reminder to contribute.
	There it is.
	Proof.
	Proof.
	Please play her favorite jingles, Foamer, Don't Eat Me, Bo Jiden, You're Scary, and please de-douche her.
	Of course we'll de-douche her.
	You've been de-douche her.
	And send her a little goat karma as well.
	Thanks, fellas, from Aoife's mom and dad.
	Oh, my God!
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	That wasn't Emily.
	You've got karma.
	Wait a minute.
	What happened to Emily?
	That's a labeling problem.
	Hold on, John.
	Don't eat me, Bojart, and you're scary!
	So scary!
	That's what they wanted to hear.
	I want to make sure we do the right ones.
	Anonymous is up from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 33333.
	Anonymous donation, long overdue donation.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	Request work karma for Seabare and myself.
	So we just call that jobs karma then, since that's kind of what work karma is?
	I think it would be the Canadians, you know, you never know what they're thinking.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You never know what they're thinking.
	Let's start calling it work karma.
	Sir Cunkelberry is in Atlanta, Georgia, 33333.
	In the morning, sorry for my recent donation drought.
	You're excused.
	And he has a reason.
	Last month, I was a passenger in a car accident, which put me in the hospital for three of the past five weeks with 20-plus rib fractures and other injuries.
	Well, that's hardly an excuse not to donate, but we do feel...
	Please request...
	Come on.
	Please request health karma for my rehab.
	Absolutely, Sir Kunkelberry.
	I'm praying for you, ma'am.
	You've got karma.
	So Suzanne Tetz from Moraga, California, just over the hill, $333.
	I don't have a note from her, so we'll give her the double karma.
	Oh, this is the double karma.
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	Well, we need a better double karma jingle, obviously.
	Yeah, we'll work on it.
	We'll work on it, yeah.
	Peter Eich is in Hudson, Wisconsin, 333.
	NJNK, short note, happy anniversary again, Dame of the Ten Key.
	Oh, so he's doing another happy anniversary to his dame?
	That's so beautiful.
	Very nice.
	Thank you very much.
	Sir Greasemonkey of the West Texas oil fields, Odessa, Texas, 333.
	Odessa.
	This is a make-good.
	I appear to suffer from premature nitrulation.
	I'm sure it's more common than I think, and I shouldn't be embarrassed.
	I intended to be nighted in the future episodes so the Cincy Chili would have time to cook when the round tail was.
	John noted, Cincy Chili isn't eaten alone.
	It's a sauce usually served over spaghetti and covered on a pile of And covered on a pile of freshly shredded cheddar for a three-way, add onions or beans for a four-way, or add both for a five-way.
	Also used on conies with mustard, onions, and cheese.
	That I did not know.
	And you're a chili guy.
	I'm surprised.
	You would know this.
	I didn't know you put in a hot dog.
	But it makes sense.
	Chili dog.
	Cloves are not the special ingredient in most, John, but chocolate.
	Chili with chocolate, and it is something special.
	There's something about the chicken.
	Well, the ones I had was, what was the name?
	Skyline, I think, is the name of one of the two major ones.
	There's two companies in Cincinnati that have these chains of restaurants.
	And I thought I tasted cloves.
	Anyway, it all has the...
	There's nothing special about the chicken in Cincinnati.
	It all has the bird flu and is being slaughtered with the rest.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Next time the round table is set, maybe toss them four ways and conies down for everyone's enjoyment.
	Regardless, this donation of $333 brings my total up to $1,000 from 667.
	I've respected.
	It repeatedly hit my friend's sky in the mouth, but I'm not sure it's worked yet.
	Maybe...
	Hearing his name and letting the world know what a douchebag he is.
	Hold on.
	Douchebag!
	Will get him to listen regularly and perhaps trek toward knighthood himself as worth a shot.
	I'm sure he'd love a dealer's choice of Rev.
	Allen and a job karma as he's debating a new job or sticking with what he has.
	Sir Grease Monkey.
	So he already got NIDA, so this...
	Yes.
	But that's a beautiful...
	Yeah, that's very cool, man.
	And this is how the system works.
	Thank you for doing that.
	Yeah, thank you.
	It's an honor system.
	Very cool, man.
	There's no real conflict!
	Jobs.
	Jobs Here in Texas, which, you know, they're onboarding ranchers and helping people get good animal protein directly from the ranch, from the rancher.
	And KNC Cattle is, I think, one of their first they've onboarded.
	And he says, we are more than willing to arrange a ball bash or calf fry for you here in Texas.
	Sounds good.
	I think ball bash is the term.
	A ball bash.
	A ball bash, yeah.
	Very cool.
	I know where you get all these balls, but they got them there in Texas.
	Tristan Cavalier, or Cavalier, is in Hayward, California, 333.
	Longtime douchebag.
	No karma.
	Not sure I did the note slash donation bullshit right, but I emailed something about the fake meat industry you guys might appreciate.
	Perish the note.
	Heem is fermented.
	Hem, hem, heem, heem.
	Heem is fermented in Mexico by the IF company by GMO Soy, super nutritious.
	Were we talking about heem?
	I think, no, he's talking about, no, he's talking about the fake meat.
	He's talking about Beyond Meat.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Well, a lot, yeah, a lot of that stuff is fermented in Mexico, but the taste and texture comes from a former chemical company in the Netherlands.
	That's the HEMA or whatever that stuff is.
	Yeah.
	HEMA? HEMA? Like hemoglobin?
	I think it's for HEMA. Yeah, and it is actually based on something that's actually in meat, but it's an organic compound, but it's not.
	It's vegan safe.
	It's vegan safe, so the vegans won't freak out.
	This is...
	I don't even want to...
	This makes me sick.
	Since he said, long-time douchebag, no karma, I will de-douche him, even though he didn't ask for it.
	You've been de-douched.
	John Alberini, 31313 in Gurneville, California.
	I don't have a note from him.
	I'm not sure he'll send us one.
	We'll give him a double karma.
	But I want to mention something first, which I say every time I see this.
	When I was a kid...
	Oh, there we go.
	There we go.
	When I was a kid, it used to be pronounced Gurneville.
	Hmm.
	And somewhere along the lines, they changed it to Gurneville.
	It doesn't have a...
	Gurneville sounds nice, and Gurneville doesn't sound good.
	Just my comment, sorry.
	Sir Corwin...
	Oh, you give him a double karma for no note.
	Okay.
	We've got to come up with a better jingle for this.
	You've got karma.
	You've got...
	We have Sir Corwin Underwood, Baron of Butler County, Ohio.
	$300 in Hamilton.
	Sorry, donations are low for this cycle.
	Hope this donation helps.
	Yes, many heard the call to action.
	Incredibly appreciative.
	I am a quiet Baron of Butler County, Ohio.
	The Noah Jenner Show helped me through a six-month deployment during the height of COVID hysteria.
	November 2020 to May 2021.
	Believe me when I say the military fell right in line with mandates and vaccination pressure.
	Yes, I think we covered that rather astutely.
	Wearing a mask while deployed to the Middle Eastern Desert was not fun.
	Holy crap.
	No one told us about that in the desert.
	That's idiotic.
	Love your hard work and everything you do, Sir Corwin Underwood, Baron of Butler County, Ohio.
	And he is in the Air National Guard.
	We appreciate that.
	Master Sergeant.
	Yes, thank you very much, sir.
	Gregory D. Bernardo in Canton, Georgia, 25033.
	He'll be our first associate executive producer for today's show.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	Once again, I have succumbed to another guilt trip I received from the, quote, we can't get our emails through, email that I assume was penned by John.
	You got me the last time you sent an email saying we were all ungrateful douches.
	And you got me again this time.
	That was verbatim what you said.
	Keep going and I'll be a knight.
	Maybe my name will be Sir.
	Am easily manipulated by poignant emails.
	I'm just kidding.
	You boys are doing a lot of heavy lifting every week, and your analysis is always dead on.
	Shame on all the freeloading douchebags like my friend Steve.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Steve deserves it.
	Douchebag!
	Shout out to my buddy Sean from church.
	He told me he had heard my last donation note and had no idea I had been hit in the face.
	This is in the mouth, by the way.
	ITM, Sean.
	And then, does he have anything on top of that?
	Yeah, can you give me some...
	Reverend Al, thanks.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. I kind of find that humorous and delightful that people are at church.
	In the morning, that is.
	In the morning, bro.
	In the morning, bro.
	Could you please, could everyone just turn around and say hi to your neighbor?
	And you just turn around and go, in the morning, and someone else goes, in the morning.
	Ah, that would be nuts.
	Amy Mullen is where Phoebe comes from.
	That's her hometown, Bastrop, Texas.
	A row of ducks, 222.22.
	In the morning, gents.
	This gets my dude and I to peerage.
	But we had too much fun at the NA meetup in Austin today to send accounting.
	Oh, yes, there was the big Austin meetup.
	Stay tuned.
	Okay.
	Thank you for the house karma.
	It worked.
	Please send a goat karma to all in Gitmo Nation and love is lit.
	You've got karma.
	Reed Gilbert in Everett, Washington.
	222.22.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	Please de-douche.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Another row of duck de-douching.
	Love it.
	You've been de-douched.
	Fantastic show.
	I love your humor, and I wish there was always more.
	Please, can I have a strongest dose of karma?
	Is the yak's karma strong?
	I'd like to try it out.
	Reed Gilbert in Everett, Washington.
	Reed, you're in luck today.
	Yak karma with balls!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Christopher Balderrama is in New Orleans, Louisiana, 218, Associate Executive Producership, and says, I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at Monday's big Low Country...
	Oops, I just lost my place.
	Low Country Lovapalooza Meetup.
	Yes, this is the...
	Tina and I are leaving tomorrow morning early to go to South Carolina.
	The Low Country Lovapalooza Meetup.
	Big shout-out to Dame Jennifer for putting this thing together.
	It is quite a production, 110 people.
	Anyway, since I'm already a proud knight, and if it pleases the committee, I would like to apply my donation to Lavish of Behind the Schemes podcast's future knighthood.
	I think that's totally possible.
	You guys need to keep track of that yourself and mention it when you come to the podium.
	And he winds up with P.S. John, the Curry and the Keeper podcast rules.
	Stay woke!
	All right, Christopher, thank you.
	Mark Butcheri in Greenwood, Indiana, 210.
	Switcheroo!
	Uh-oh!
	Switcheroo!
	It's a switcheroo donation for Trevor Green, a.k.a.
	Sir Ripoff the Maple.
	Weiss dot r sub blah blah is an email address.
	From the crossroads of America tribal...
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah.
	Cross.
	Christ.
	May crosswords of America tribal meetup drawing.
	I can't make heads or tails of the sentence, but there it is.
	I'm not sure what that means.
	This is a meetup title.
	May Crossroads of America Tribal Meetup Drawing.
	So it was the May meetup of the Crossroads of America Tribal.
	Meetup.
	It was drawing.
	I don't know.
	They were drawing.
	Okay.
	Maybe there was a lottery.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I do know that Sir Michael Anthony is in Rosedale, New York and sent 202.
	Thank you, Associate Executive Producership and more for him because this donation of 2,020 dimes is in memory of my mom.
	No.
	She had a heart attack in 2020 on the 22nd of May, two weeks after Mother's Day.
	She loved the number two, especially in pairs.
	A healthier diet could have saved my mom's life.
	That's how my dad and I have overcome obesity, diabetes, clinical depression, and more.
	But these medical miracles are considered misinformation because we got healthy eating almost nothing but fatty red meat.
	Meanwhile, Bill Gates and his buddies are trying to force us all to eat so-called alternative proteins made from beans, bugs, and bovine stem cells.
	That's because they want their slaves to be weak, sick and thus profitable.
	And they know that meat, real meat, is much healthier for us and for the planet.
	Have you tried the balls?
	This war on carnivores is just another part of the Great Reset.
	Back me up on this crackpot and please look into it, Buzzkill.
	I'm all with you on that, brother.
	No jingles, but I do request goat health karma for anyone who needs it.
	As ruminant animals...
	Ruminant?
	What is it?
	Ruminant?
	Ruminant?
	Ruminant.
	Ruminant animals.
	As ruminant animals, goats are highly nutritious.
	What is ruminant?
	What does that mean?
	They eat anything.
	They're highly nutritious because they eat anything.
	Also, with this donation, I claim the title of Baronet.
	If allowed, I would like a...
	Yes, you can.
	You can always order something at the roundtable.
	A rotisserie chicken, my mom's favorite meat for the roundtable.
	Pasture raised if possible.
	Is there any other kind?
	Please continue to call out the anti-meat agenda.
	Our future as a species depends on it.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Soon to be Baronet, Sir Michael Anthony in New York.
	Of course, Sir Michael Anthony.
	Thank you for your courage.
	You've got...
	Parma.
	Dean Scott comes in with $200.02 and he's in Parland, looks like Parland, New Jersey.
	He wrote a note on paper and you can hear the paper because it's in my hands.
	This is $202, finishes my long drive started in 2018 to become a knight of the No Agenda podcast.
	I wanted my first act as a knight not to, I guess, I don't even know that he's on the knight list, is he?
	Let me check.
	As my first act as a knight, not to be requesting anything but announcing the first Central New Jersey Soviet Slaves Meetup in Keyport, New Jersey on June 18th at 2 p.m.
	at the 3BR Distilling.
	It's a nice distillery that tries to recreate some of the booze of the Soviet Union.
	Yes.
	I don't know if anyone's had this booze.
	I actually have some, I still have a bottle of, it's only half used, of Shmir, not Shmirnov, but what's the good, Stoli.
	Some Stoli that says made in the Soviet Union on it.
	Like she's on the label.
	Mm-hmm.
	Anyway, I've had some other Soviet stuff.
	It's usually not that good.
	They do some interesting experiments like ginger liqueur.
	Doesn't it come from Poland?
	Oh, the best vodka does, yeah.
	But the Russians have good vodka.
	Sure they do.
	And actually, the modern Stoli is quite tasty.
	It does some interesting experiments like ginger liqueur.
	Unfortunately, due to regulations from my fine state, they can't have beer on tap.
	Really?
	You can't have beer on tap in Jersey?
	Well, that's weird.
	But that doesn't sound right.
	But they have some nice cocktails in this place.
	You can bring your own food in several places nearby.
	For my jingles request, I want any Soviet jingle from the Wayback Machine.
	I don't think we have any.
	I don't even know what that means.
	I don't think we have a Soviet jingle.
	Spot the Spook, we got that, which we haven't played for a while.
	Two to the head and R2D2 karma.
	I'll take whatever the round table is there.
	I'm not picky.
	And then he has a little subtext here.
	But he doesn't say what his night name is, so we're going to night him his name.
	No, we do have his night name.
	Oh, what is it?
	We do.
	His night name will be Sir Nobody of the Third Printer.
	Oh, okay.
	And why not?
	Sounds good to me.
	Oh, those of us...
	Spot the spook.
	Spot the spook.
	Everybody wants to spot the spook.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And as usual, the lower we get, the longer the notes get.
	It's crazy how that works.
	But this is from Sam and Courtney, who are in Alexandria, Tennessee.
	$200 associate executive producers shared amongst them together.
	After listening for several years, this will be my first donation, so I request a dedouching.
	You've been de-douched.
	I have been astounded by your ability to accurately predict and describe the machinations of our reptilian overlords years before anyone else.
	Thank you for your tireless efforts in bringing the light of amygdala shrinkage to a world so badly in need.
	I want to mention a project that my heart-stoppingly breathtaking life partner, Courtney, has been working on these past several months.
	We adopted three sisters from foster care three years ago and has been a true challenge helping them grow and process the trauma they went through.
	The oldest daughter is 12 and she had to essentially be a mom to her two younger sisters for years before we adopted them.
	It has been an agonizing several years for her.
	She needs some extra help to heal from this time.
	She experienced things no child should ever have to.
	So after months of prayerful consideration, she's now staying at a therapeutic boarding school specializing in helping girls with her specific set of trauma responses.
	This school is not cheap.
	To help raise money for her tuition, Courtney, my aforementioned smoke show of a spouse, has put together a very special cookbook called The Best Ingredient.
	It's chock full of recipes from our vast network of amazingly supportive friends and family.
	It's truly a labor of love and actually a great addition to any kitchen shelf.
	People can go to thebestingredient.com to learn more and find a link to purchase the book if they feel inclined to help our family heal and thrive.
	We've already seen amazing results from her stay at this school, and we are hoping and praying that we'll be able to afford to keep her there for the duration of the program.
	Thank you so much for the years of sanity in this insane world.
	No jingles, no karma, love and lit.
	Sam and Courtney.
	And I like this.
	I think that's very good.
	Most people just go straight with a sob story and a GoFundMe.
	You guys did something else.
	That's really appreciated.
	I think it's great.
	Yeah, and it's useful, these books.
	Yes, and I'm going to give you Goat Karma just because you deserve it.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	So our local library has this book sale every year where they just pretty much dump everything because everything's being discarded.
	Nobody wants books anymore and people donate their books.
	So I always go there and buy a bunch of books.
	They're usually a dollar or something.
	It's like one case, five books for a dollar.
	Because Lord knows you need more stuff.
	I need more books.
	But I always try to find some classic cookbooks and I got a first edition of the 1933 Good Housekeeping Cookbook.
	Oh, first edition!
	Yeah, it says First Edition.
	That's pretty cool.
	Does it have a stamp in it that says First Edition?
	It's printed in there, First Edition.
	Okay, cool.
	But I started looking at, you know, 1933 is the bottom of the Depression, so the food that they...
	So I've decided I'm finally going to make something I keep seeing in these old cookbooks.
	It's called Raisin Sauce.
	Raisin Sauce?
	And Mimi said the same thing when I brought it up.
	She says, yeah, I keep seeing raisin sauce.
	I've never made it.
	I think my mom used to make raisin sauce.
	It's stuff that you would put over beef, as an example?
	Is that what you put it over?
	Because it never says what to use it for.
	You're supposed to know.
	I have not here handy, but my mom...
	She wrote a personal family recipe cookbook in longhand, a beautiful, it's like a hardcover notebook, with no lines, and she just wrote all these recipes in it.
	And I'm pretty sure there's raisin sauce in there.
	I'm going to look it up for you.
	And I think she used to make this.
	Yes, send me a copy of that recipe so I can combine the two.
	Yeah, I think she used to make it.
	I think, yes, raisin sauce goes great over yak balls.
	That's what it was.
	I wonder.
	Shay Young is next on our list here.
	And Shay is in Winfield, Alberta, Canada.
	$200.
	Heard Adam on the first Rogan appearance.
	Should have donated sooner.
	Keep up the great work.
	Rogan Donation.
	You know I had to do it eventually.
	Of course.
	Sandy Block is in Nashville, Tennessee.
	We're almost at the end of our associate executive producer list.
	And Sandy says, can't thank you two enough for keeping us all sane throughout these crazy years.
	And they haven't stopped.
	I recently moved to Nashville and can't wait to meet the No Agenda community in Tennessee.
	Is there a karma for finding a husband?
	Ha ha.
	Very best and God bless.
	Well, you are talking to the right people, Sandy.
	You want, you know...
	Um, there was a, it was a, my hate listen, it was, um, you know, Scott, the professor and Cara Ann's pivot, the podcast I hate to listen to, the liberal intellectual elites, and they were talking about how dating has become really difficult for people, uh, particularly, actually more for women, more so for women than for men, as it turns out, uh, And the real problem is that we've resorted to technology to meet each other.
	You're missing very important social cues when you meet someone in person.
	So the answer to that was born organically.
	That is the no agenda meetups.
	This is where you can meet people to become friends with.
	Put down the phone.
	Hang out for a bit.
	Seriously.
	It's really healthy.
	And, you know, maybe you won't meet your future husband at the meetup, but you might meet someone else who knows somebody.
	These are the things that are super important.
	So, we do have a karma for that.
	That, of course, is goat karma.
	Are you okay, John?
	Karma.
	You're hacking up a goat ball.
	You all right?
	I'm trying to miss a goat ball.
	Boris.
	Oh, there it is.
	There it is.
	There's the money from Russia.
	There's Putin's agent.
	Boris.
	Boris.
	He's in Pleasantville, New York.
	200.
	Can't think nor gender enough.
	I've been dealing with a lot of family issues and I look forward to every show.
	Please, health karma for my dad.
	Thanks.
	We were doing the whole Russia bit.
	No, you can't make fun of that.
	Health karma for your dad, Boris.
	You've got karma.
	I need a logic.
	You get your lozenge.
	I will thank these executive and associate executive producers of episode 1450 of the No Agenda Show.
	These are credits that you can use anywhere.
	Credits are appreciated and understood and recognized.
	That includes the IMDB, the movie database, where all the bigwigs have it in there.
	And some bigwigs have no agenda credits.
	Go take a look at it.
	Also, your LinkedIn.
	Anywhere.
	But it also shows that you are someone who understands value and value for value.
	And you never know where you might meet somebody.
	Could be in church.
	Could be at a meetup.
	Could be at work.
	There's in the mornings flying everywhere.
	We really appreciate this, particularly people who stepped up after the fail of the original newsletter.
	Thank you so much.
	And we'll be thanking more people in our second segment.
	For you, of course, these credits are so real that we will vouch for you if anyone has any questions.
	If you'd like to learn how to become an executive or associate executive producer of The No Agenda Show, Kids, sing along now.
	Thank you for your time, talent, and treasure in bringing us 1451.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up.
	Sleep.
	We're talking about oddball food.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to get this out of the way because you may be eating jellyfish.
	Okay, I'm all ears on this.
	Let me see.
	Is there a jellyfish?
	Yes, here it is.
	Is it from Al Jazeera?
	Yeah, it's from Al Jazeera.
	The sea here in southern Thailand is almost devoid of fish.
	The only species that can still provide an income for these fishermen is jellyfish.
	I don't know what's going on underwater, but there are no more squid, no more shrimp, no more shellfish.
	There's nothing left.
	But with jellyfish, I can earn between 25 and 50 euros a day.
	With traditional fishing, that was only 10.
	Their catch is then delivered to the largest jellyfish processing plant in Thailand.
	There, it gets clean.
	And once the tentacles have been cut off, the rest of the animal is sliced up.
	And it's not just for the Thai market.
	Our main export markets are Japan, South Korea, China, and also the United States.
	But there, it really only appeals to the Asian American communities.
	Some scientists describe jellyfish as renewable based on the way they reproduce.
	No matter how many you catch, there'll be plenty more to take their place.
	So there's far less concern about over-jellyfishing.
	And health experts say they're good for the human diet with next to no calories, but an ample supply of protein.
	The reaction in restaurants, however, is mixed.
	That's excellent.
	It has a sticky, rubbery texture.
	I eat it a lot, and I really like it.
	Sometimes I get jellyfish pasta.
	Right now there's still fish available, but if one day there's no more fish, I'll eat jellyfish.
	Back at Thailand's largest jellyfish factory, orders are coming in from more and more Asian countries.
	Three tons of jellyfish leave this site every day.
	Sales have doubled in the last ten years, and they keep on growing.
	Interesting.
	I have never really heard of people eating jellyfish.
	I didn't know that was...
	I mean, it doesn't surprise me in some Asian countries they may eat that, but is it besides the rubbery texture, is it worth it?
	Do we know anything about this?
	I mean, you're the guy that eats balls.
	I had jellyfish once.
	It was in a sushi bar in Hawaii.
	And I don't think it sat right with me.
	I wonder why.
	I was sick afterwards.
	And that's when I discovered these cute little pills that the Japanese sell amongst themselves usually.
	Or it may even be Chinese, but I think it's Japanese.
	And they're little creosote balls.
	And you take two of these things and you can, no matter how upset your stomach is, it's just the creosote, the two creosote pills.
	The actual creosote, they're soft and kind of mushy and you just take these two down.
	I was sick, but I had to get an airplane ride the next day.
	Ah, this is hence your rule of travel.
	Yes, it was a violation.
	Yep, you violated the number one rule of travel, no seafood the day before.
	But I had these little creosote pills, and so I'm in the airplane, and I'm starting to get sick again after a few hours, and so I opened up this little jar of the creosote, And I didn't realize it at the time, but I did shortly thereafter and took the pills that they creosote, and I still have some of these.
	You open this thing up, it stinks up the airplane, and oh, they're running up and down the aisles wondering if the plane's on fire.
	Really?
	So I had to, oh, I'm not saying anything.
	Did you take them?
	Yeah, of course I took them.
	You felt better and you were okay?
	Yeah, they're great.
	Anybody, any Asians out there know what I'm talking about about these pills?
	Now we all know why the C is in John C. Dvorak.
	Creosote.
	Creosote.
	Right there, baby.
	Interesting.
	To me, once I saw the octopus teacher, that documentary about the guy with the octopus, I have never eaten calamari since.
	And I had the feeling that the jellyfish may kind of be in the same...
	Are they intelligent?
	No, they have no brain.
	They literally have no brain.
	Fry them!
	They're just an organism.
	They have no brain.
	The octopus is a smart animal.
	No, jellyfish has nothing.
	All right, we can eat those then.
	Good.
	I'd like to do a little bit of COVID stuff because we do have a new Bill Gates interview, but it's only fun if we play some of the recent happenings with COVID because while we're looking at the Eurovision Song Contest and racist people killing black people and, oh my goodness, Putin, everything else you can think of, The COVID is ratcheting up again.
	Mass mandates are being pulled in.
	I mean, it's so crazy that now all of a sudden we also have to have North Korea.
	North Korea now in the game.
	In a sign that things are serious, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un wore a mask for the first time in public as he visited what state media called his epidemic prevention headquarters in Pyongyang.
	Despite including a special unit of workers in hazmat suits in last fall's military parade, North Korea claimed it had not seen one case of COVID until this week.
	Now, as Kim declares countrywide lockdowns, the official line is one person has died of the virus and 187,000 are being isolated with what's being called a fever.
	At the start of the pandemic, North Korea sealed its borders, apparently hoping to keep the virus out.
	Then, while the rest of the world mounted vast vaccination campaigns, North Korea refused to accept a single dose.
	Even though the vaccines were being offered by the United Nations COVAX program.
	The result?
	No North Korean has had a COVID shot.
	The great irony, say analysts, is that the no-holds-barred patriotic parade on April 25th may have been North Korea's super-spreader event.
	Sure.
	How many of those journalists have died that attended the Washington Correspondents' Dinner?
	They all got COVID, but no one's died.
	They're all double-vaxxed and double-boosted.
	Double-vaxxed and double-boosted, exactly.
	So, I got a clip from this.
	This is an NPR clip on the North Korea.
	What they want to do now is lockdowns.
	North Korea is imposing a nationwide lockdown as it reports 21 new deaths from COVID-19 today.
	Pyongyang admitted a COVID outbreak for the first time just this week.
	NPR's Anthony Kuhn has more from Seoul.
	The Korean Central News Agency says more than half a million people have shown signs of fever since late April, and there were more than 174,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday.
	Given North Korea's limited testing capacity, the actual number could be higher.
	State media quoted leader Kim Jong-un as saying that the outbreak is one of the greatest turmoils to hit the country since its founding.
	Kim urged officials to study the successful experience of China, which has enforced a strict zero-COVID policy.
	Despite the lockdown in North Korea, work on key government construction projects continues, and the country's military tested three ballistic missiles the same day the lockdown was announced.
	Oh, geez.
	Oh, man.
	How come that wasn't big news?
	Oh, I don't know.
	I do have an interesting clip about the North Korean launches and the rest.
	Al Jazeera has an interesting take on it.
	They said that this is routine and it's a posturing event.
	It's kind of explained here.
	I've never heard this before.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Now, North Korea has fired what's believed to be a ballistic missile for the second time this week.
	Japanese and South Korean army leaders say it was launched into the sea off North Korea's east coast, landing just outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.
	It's the 15th test this year and it comes just days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol.
	The U.S. has warned North Korea could be preparing for a nuclear missile test within weeks.
	Robert Kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at Busan National University, and he thinks it's likely Pyongyang wants to send a message to South Korea's new president.
	So Yoon becomes president in a couple days, I believe on May 10th, right?
	And I think the idea is to sort of signal to the South Koreans...
	You know, we're still here.
	You have to take us seriously.
	You can't push us around.
	The North Koreans have done this in the past, if I remember correctly, when Barack Obama was inaugurated, there was a test.
	And I think when Park Geun-hye was inaugurated for the president of South Korea, there was a test.
	The North Koreans have a long history of sort of doing this, and it's kind of a mix of sort of signaling and bullying.
	Interesting.
	Yeah.
	All right, back to COVID, if you don't mind.
	Back to COVID. So we have the North Korea...
	Lockdown.
	Lockdown, super spirit event.
	And President Biden definitely signaled that we need more money!
	Our Chief White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega and Cecilia COVID, a main focus of President Biden today.
	Yeah, George, exactly.
	He is calling this a tragic milestone today in our country.
	We will see him issue a proclamation at some point today commemorating these lives lost.
	He's also going to order flags to be lowered.
	And he's addressing, as you guys mentioned earlier, this global COVID summit.
	These are going to be pre-recorded remarks, though.
	Let me go back to that statement that he issued this morning.
	Take a look.
	The president says, We're
	Securing funding for more targeted vaccines and therapeutics is crucial.
	But, Michael, while this country this morning is mourning all of these lives lost, the White House mourning, these lives lost the message today from here anyway from this president is still going to get vaccinated and boosted.
	That is what is going to save lives.
	Do whatever it takes, Cecilia.
	Thank you so much for that.
	Do whatever it takes, Cecilia.
	Now, that's what's interesting.
	Do whatever it takes, Cecilia.
	That was ABC Good Morning America.
	And now we have also ABC Good Morning America.
	But this was, I believe, the...
	No, this is ABC Live.
	Here we go.
	This week, the nation marked one million American lives lost to COVID-19.
	And one of the groups most affected by the virus has been those in nursing homes and care facilities.
	According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, there now have been over 150,000 resident COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and care facilities.
	And according to the CDC, nearly 75% of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have been among people over 65.
	Oh, really?
	Okay.
	So, it's not like we didn't know that that was the risk group, but that was exactly the risk group that we ignored in the old folks' homes.
	Well, especially in New York.
	In New York, for sure.
	And we've got more from ABC. They're discovering things that we knew...
	Two and a half years ago.
	And it's certainly not just about more boosting for everyone.
	People who have high antibody levels, there's the potential.
	I want to underscore the potential.
	We haven't seen any evidence of this, of this immune phenomenon known as tolerance, where if you already have high antibody levels and you get another booster, that your immune system can start to say, well, what am I needed for?
	And can kind of start to shut down.
	Wow.
	If you're in that category of people who...
	Listen to that again.
	That is stunning to hear from ABC. From any mainstream outfit.
	I can guarantee they get a call.
	That your immune system can start to say, well, what am I needed for?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Your immune system can go, I don't think I'm...
	It's called blowing out your immune system.
	It's called boosting out your immune system.
	Yes!
	And can kind of start to shut down.
	And so if you're in that category of people who the FDA and CDC is recommending to get a booster 50 and over, 65 and over with a with a chronic medical condition.
	Yes, by all means.
	But everyone else don't think that more boosting is the answer.
	We don't know that that's what.
	That's very important information.
	We appreciate it.
	Thank you very much, Dr.
	Jen.
	Whoa, thanks, Dr.
	Jen.
	She's out.
	From the same ABC! And a new ABC News analysis of federal data shows a growing proportion of COVID deaths are from breakthrough infections.
	In August, fully vaccinated Americans made up nearly 19% of COVID deaths.
	By February, that number increased to about 40%.
	And that same month, 25% of deaths were among people who were vaccinated and boosted with their first dose.
	Health experts say the numbers highlight the risk of waning immunity, especially for older and vulnerable Americans who are more than a year out from their primary shots and have yet to receive a booster.
	These data should not be interpreted as the vaccine's not working.
	In fact, it reaffirms the incredible protection that these vaccines are affording, especially when you're up to date with boosters.
	This is my favorite, favorite quote of all time of this week.
	Listen to this again.
	People are dying after having been boosted, vaccine boosted, which, by the way, the same ABC just said that, you know, your immune system might just give up.
	And then to claim this!
	These data should not be interpreted as the vaccines not working.
	In fact, it reaffirms the incredible protection that these vaccines are affording, especially when you're up to date with boosters.
	Am I just confused, John, or does that seem like bullshit?
	This is very close to doublespeak.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You're dead.
	It shows it works.
	It is double speaking.
	You're sick as a dog after getting the shot.
	It shows it works.
	It's working.
	It's working as we speak.
	It's working.
	If it hurts and you're dying, it's working.
	All right, Bill Gates.
	These are all relatively short.
	He was on with Anderson Cooper.
	Now, Bill Gates has been doing the CNN rounds.
	He was on with the anti-constitutionalist America hater Farad Zakaria.
	Farid.
	Farid.
	Farad.
	Sherrod Vicaria.
	And now with Anderson Pooper.
	And they have something in common.
	Can you guess what Anderson and Bill have in common?
	Conflict of interest.
	A new report finds one half of COVID deaths among adult Americans could have been prevented since early last year if the vaccination rate had reached 100%.
	That's about 319,000 lives lost.
	I love that statistic, by the way.
	If everyone had just been boosted, 319 people would have lived.
	How do you even know that?
	You can't take that seriously as a data scientist, can you?
	No!
	Okay, thank you.
	Vaccination rate had reached 100%.
	That's about 319,000 lives lost.
	The findings come from researchers at Brown University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard and Microsoft AI for Health.
	Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned of the threat from large epidemics more than seven years ago during the Ebola outbreak.
	In his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, he looks at what went wrong in the COVID response and the lessons that can be applied going forward.
	Pleased to welcome Bill Gates back to the program tonight.
	Bill, thanks so much for being with us.
	Great to talk to you.
	So, first of all, I should mention that's something we both have in common.
	We both managed to go for more than two years of this pandemic COVID-free before catching it.
	I got it about three weeks ago.
	On Tuesday, you tweeted, you tested positive and you were experiencing mild symptoms.
	How are you doing?
	Not very lucky.
	I caught it early.
	I had access to Paxlovid that I recommend.
	I haven't had serious symptoms at all.
	In fact, this is just an endorsement that I'm doing for my buddies over at Pfizer.
	Hey, do you think it's possible that Pfizer is a little lagging on the advertising budget over at ABC? Is that maybe why some of that?
	Because no one mentioned Paxlovid at all in any of those breakthrough case reports.
	Yeah, obviously.
	That's what you do.
	That's got to be what it is.
	So Pfizer moved to some marketing money for CNN and Paxlovid.
	Well, let's see what...
	If you're pushing vaccines and pushing Pfizer...
	You're discriminating against Moderna and everybody else.
	Never mention Johnson& Johnson.
	Nope.
	Or if you do, it's because they're killing people.
	They're the bad guys.
	And say the budget's a, I don't know, let's say it's a billion dollars a year.
	At some point, you're going to pull back on the average.
	But it's like, no, no, no, you're giving us a billion last year, and we want another billion.
	Or?
	Or we start doing real reporting.
	So CNN is still obviously, they got a recent buy.
	I think it would be for Paxlovid, since that's where it started.
	Also, Dr.
	Bill says he had access to vaccines.
	Doesn't mean he took it.
	Here's the next question about boosting.
	So, I've been trying to figure this out for myself.
	I assume you know the answer to this, so I'll just ask you.
	When do you get boosted again?
	I mean, now that you've had it, you and I have had it around the same time.
	I've only gotten three shots total.
	Oh, Anderson, only three shots total!
	You're a bad doobie!
	At the same time, I've only gotten three shots total, only been boosted once.
	I guess we have immunity for a little while, but when do you decide to get boosted again?
	Yeah, so an infection where you'll get a high viral load would be like vaccination.
	But, you know, to be safe, every six months you're probably going to be vaccinated.
	As we get more data, they might even make that shorter for people who are, you know, say 60 or over 70, where the duration seems to be a bit lower.
	So we're in for ongoing vaccination to stay absolutely safe.
	Let me hear this again.
	So in other words, this is a real amazing piece of marketing.
	Because the idea of a vaccination is to give you a shot.
	For, like, I took a Prevnar 13 shot, supposed to prevent pretty much getting certain pneumonias.
	Oh, that's the super flu or the super bug or something?
	Well, the pneumonias.
	Yeah, pneumonia.
	The shit old men die from.
	It's not that old men die of.
	You don't want that.
	No.
	So you take the shot and you're good.
	You're good to go.
	Or in the olden days, you get a tetanus shot.
	It's good for 20 years, 30 years.
	So all these shots have been like, you have to take these shots when you're a kid.
	I got a smallpox vaccination.
	It's for life.
	It's a lifetime shot.
	That was the idea of vaccinations, right?
	Yeah, that's the way I understood them.
	One and done and good to go.
	Yeah, but now all of a sudden we've got some scam going where you have to get a shot every seven weeks?
	I think the story is about to get a little bit better.
	So this is what, I mean, you and I have tried to kind of, or I've tried to ask you about what the future looks like every time I've talked to you, and obviously it's a hard thing to know, but given what we know now, with all these variants that just seem to emerge every, you know, pretty regularly, is the future for much of the rest of our lives just, this is this thing that exists, and...
	Like a flu vaccine, you are going to get something every year or every six months, and we just have to deal with it?
	Is that what the future of coronavirus is?
	For the next several years, we probably won't have better vaccines.
	But one of the R&D things that we should invest in to really finish this off is longer duration, lifelong duration vaccines and vaccines that prevent you from even getting infected.
	So you can start to get that herd immunity we talked about.
	That's sort of assumed that people who are vaccinated are infected.
	Weren't part of transmission chains.
	And we don't have that yet.
	And so we're going to have slight outbreaks.
	But if a tough new variant came along, which we don't know the odds of that, we could have a big wave.
	So people are tired of hearing about this pandemic.
	And sadly, we need to keep reminding them, particularly about staying up to date on vaccinations.
	So, okay.
	Let's see if we can expand on this.
	So how real is that idea of a vaccine that vaccinates you from any future coronavirus?
	I mean, what needs tap?
	Is the technology there?
	Is it just a question of investment?
	What?
	What do you think?
	I think money?
	Maybe?
	I don't know.
	Maybe Microsoft Health AI can tell us.
	Well, the...
	Breath of protection, you know, we need to work on that.
	The durations and blocking the infection.
	And we have three constructs at an early stage that have promise there.
	But, you know, unfortunately, the current vaccines are good enough that if we just keep taking those, then at least in terms of severe disease and death, You have very good protection.
	I'd hope the duration would be longer, but the data coming out says that if you're older, it's not good enough.
	You need to keep revaccinating.
	I love it.
	So older people, 65 and above, we're going to kill them with over-vaccination and blowing out their immune system.
	And babies, we're just going to give them infected mother's milk.
	I mean, they're getting it.
	So the only ones, the only people are in the middle.
	And you know why?
	Because you're still useful.
	You can still provide some services.
	That's why.
	It's like mass murder.
	Given, I mean, you had Paxlovid, you've had the vaccines.
	Do you worry about the long COVID with the infection that you got?
	Well, COVID is an area that there's a lot of research on.
	You know, there's a ton of things about heart or diabetes that people are worried about there.
	I'd say we really don't know much, but it does look like if you have a mild case, which I'm lucky enough.
	Right in the blue, right in the middle of that, he says, we don't know much.
	I'm glad you caught that.
	Then why are we even listening to you?
	Or anybody else, for that matter, if it's we, we don't know much.
	Well, considering that he's been wrong about everything, certainly about the vaccines...
	Well, let's talk about his first book, The Road Ahead.
	Do you have an autographed copy of it?
	Yes.
	It says Bill Gates and that same signature he has is very famous.
	So in this book, which was done around, I think in about 95, maybe, something like that, he doesn't mention the internet.
	Because he was on board with the idea that AOL was, you know, which was a dominant force at the time.
	He would have made a lot of money if he had invested in it.
	And they had MSN was going to come in and compete with AOL. And Apple had eWorld.
	And that was a big deal.
	And they were going to...
	And everyone just kind of ignored the internet or brushed it off as whatever.
	And so this is the kind of visionary that we're dealing with here.
	None of these people can see anything an inch away from their nose.
	In their own business.
	It's ridiculous.
	I had this guy on everything predicting this and that as bullcrap.
	Yeah, and I'll add to that story that I had started on-ramp at the time.
	This was before Think New Ideas, before we went public.
	Very small.
	And we were always looking for cash because we were building websites.
	And Microsoft hired myself and Bloom to go consult them on the Internet.
	And it was literally about their corporate website, their individual business unit websites.
	They did not know what to do.
	And they flew us out.
	I mean, we flew out.
	It was part of the consult.
	It was horrible to have to do this.
	We sat in a windowless conference room with six people for three days.
	And they brought in pizza for lunch.
	No air.
	No wonder people can't get anything done there.
	And they had no idea what to do.
	We later, when they launched MSNBC, we wound up doing the chat room for them on Linux because they couldn't figure it out themselves.
	So yes, that guy writes books about pandemics and knows all, and Anderson Pooper's all in.
	We'll restart the clip.
	Given, I mean, you had Paxlovid, you've had the vaccines.
	Do you worry about the long COVID with the infection that you got?
	Sure.
	Long COVID is an area that there's a lot of research on.
	There's a ton of things about heart or diabetes that people are worried about there.
	I'd say we really don't know much, but it does look like if you have a mild case, which I'm lucky enough to be having, that the likelihood of long COVID is very low.
	And so again, it's a A strong thing that if you do get infected, getting access to the Paxilvid or other antivirals or antibodies as fast as you can is well worth it because your risk of long COVID, it looks like, is dramatically lower.
	This is where it proves to me this is a marketing exercise and Bill is there on behalf of Pfizer and Paxlovid because this was the perfect choice for him to say, the perfect moment for him to say, luckily I've been vaccinated and boosted so my COVID is very mild.
	That's the line.
	Instead he chooses to say, get your hands on some Paxlovid.
	Yeah, so you get the shots.
	You get shot one, shot two.
	Boost one, boost, boost.
	You're just throwing money at somebody.
	The government's throwing money at Pfizer.
	That will be our money, ultimately.
	One of our dames has a newsletter she sends out.
	She lives in New York.
	You know who she is.
	And she...
	She got COVID. And I'm reading about it, and she goes about how miserable it is.
	And she says, I got double, double, you know, got vax, vax, boost, boost, too.
	And she still gets it, of course.
	It has the same exact symptoms as Mimi.
	There's not milder cases or stronger cases.
	The vaccine does not work.
	Also, what should be noted is that there's no one-size-fits-all for this stuff, and there's also just purely health issues amongst American people.
	Most people, I know this dame, I know Mimi, both of them are pretty healthy women.
	But when you have obesity, diabetes, all kinds of other issues, which are mainly from eating substances that are billed and sold as food but aren't, yeah.
	That's when you're going to get in trouble with your immune system.
	So yeah, the vaccines don't work and the difference is how you treat your own body and vitamin D3 and all the things that you need that we've talked about that the government never tells you about.
	Anyway, let's wrap up this interview with Bill Gates.
	This used to be the first question Anderson Cooper would ask when he was all controversial that way, but now it comes at the end.
	How do you deal with conspiracy theories?
	You know, people believe you're tracking people through microchips inserted into the vaccine.
	I mean, given what you and the Gates Foundation and your former wife Melinda have done to help...
	Deal.
	I mean, just save millions of people's lives around the world.
	It's him and Melinda.
	Save millions of lives.
	Deal.
	I mean, just save millions of people's lives around the world for vaccinations, for polio, nearly wiping out polio.
	I mean, hot.
	Thank you, Bill, for nearly wiping out polio.
	In fact, was it not Sri Lanka where they killed all the children with their polio bullcrap?
	I thought it was India itself, but they banned them.
	They won't even let the group in there.
	No, I think it was the Philippines.
	Because it's all in public domain.
	They did all kinds of bad things.
	I thought it was, maybe it was the Philippines.
	Nearly wiping out polio?
	Yeah, we'll look it up.
	How do you deal with it when people have these ideas about you?
	Well, I'm not sure I know how to get rid of it.
	You know, simple explanations are kind of fun to click on, and they seem to spread and, you know, fill some, okay, there must be, you know, rather than this complex biology, maybe there's just some bad person behind this.
	You know, we've given billions for vaccines and safety.
	Ooh, that's interesting.
	Rather than this complex biology, maybe there's just some bad person behind this.
	We've given billions for vaccines and saved millions of lives.
	If you just kind of invert that and say, no, we're trying to make money for vaccines and not trying to save lives, that's A popular conspiracy theory.
	The one about tracking people, I don't know why they think I'm interested in knowing people's locations.
	That one I still have to laugh at, but if it's holding people back from getting vaccinated, then that's tragic.
	Wow.
	Wait, he's not baffled by anything but that?
	Yeah, he doesn't.
	Why do people think I want to track their location?
	Because that's what technology does?
	That's the most important thing is location tracking.
	I don't understand.
	Crazy.
	Alright, that would be our...
	Oh, no, one last thing I did want to mention from our producer Grant in Calgary, Alberta.
	He says the mask mandate in the province of Quebec, Canada ended yesterday, May 14th, 2022.
	It started...
	On July 18, 2020.
	666 days, exactly.
	Now, what started?
	I'm sorry, I missed that.
	The mask mandate in Quebec, Canada was initiated on July 18, 2020.
	It ended yesterday, May 14, exactly 666 days.
	And if you recall, which I didn't, he sent a video, The premier, François Legault, flashed a 666 hand signal during one of his early coronavirus press conferences.
	It's just coincidence.
	But worth mentioning.
	Yeah, that is weird.
	That's the kind of thing Anderson Cooper should be talking about.
	Get away with you, you stupid...
	Tracking.
	No.
	We know what's going on.
	It's evil.
	Just evil.
	I have a little interlude here.
	Okay.
	Still has to do with disease.
	Oh, nice.
	I'm going to play an ad, a drug ad for you, for HPV vaccine.
	Oh, my favorite.
	I want you to tell me what's weird about it.
	Okay, HPV vaccine.
	Here we go.
	I'm all ears in.
	Listen.
	It started somewhere between a cuddle and a struggle.
	It's the side hug.
	Between milestones like this may start at age nine.
	HPV vaccination, a type of cancer prevention against certain HPV-related cancers, can start then, too.
	For most, HPV clears on its own.
	But for others, it can cause certain cancers later in life.
	Welcome!
	Hi!
	Hi!
	Now as the dad cab, it's my cue to help protect them.
	Embrace this phase.
	Help protect them in the next.
	Ask their doctor about HPV vaccination today.
	Okay, first of all, that whole thing was weird, so I don't know what specifically you want me to highlight, but I found this.
	It started somewhere between a cuddle and a struggle.
	It's the side hug.
	The side hug?
	Killing me here.
	The side hug?
	Yeah, that means you got somebody, you hold them in a way that is, they're facing parallel.
	Yeah, it's a side hug.
	And instead of hugging face to face, their side's to you and then you hug them that way.
	Why?
	They could use the word side hug.
	I don't know.
	Hold on.
	Tween milestones like this may start at age nine.
	Alright, this whole thing is odd.
	Okay, tell me, what did I miss?
	I didn't get it.
	Where's the contrary indications?
	You mean the disclaimer at the end?
	Yeah.
	Huh!
	They did not air a disclaimer?
	I... First heard this, and I said, I just wanted to get the ad, and they said, where's the disclaimers?
	Because I'm collecting disclaimers for a long clip, you know, a supercut.
	And so I realized what they're doing here, they can get away with this because this is not recommending that you get this vaccine.
	Wow.
	Nowhere in there are they trying to sell a vaccine.
	Wow.
	To you.
	Yes.
	Do you mind if we listen to it one more time just so we can make sure there's no pitch in there?
	It started somewhere between a cuddle and a struggle.
	It's the side hug.
	Between milestones like this may start at age nine.
	HPV vaccination, a type of cancer prevention against certain HPV related cancers, can start then too.
	For most, HPV clears on its own.
	But for others, it can cause certain cancers later in life.
	Welcome!
	Hi!
	Now as the dad cab, it's my cue to help protect them.
	Embrace this phase.
	Help protect them in the next.
	Ask their doctor about HPV vaccination today.
	Well, ask your doctor about HPV... Well, I guess because they made no claims.
	That's...
	Wow!
	That's really good.
	And they end up with the ask your doctor thing.
	Yeah, but it's ask your doctor about getting the shot for someone else, not for you.
	No, I understand exactly what you're saying.
	Huh.
	The point is, is that it's not ask your daughter if it's right for you.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's for, you ask your doctor about getting your kids shot.
	After that side hug.
	That's a very good catch.
	I think it's onerous.
	What do you mean onerous?
	Well, now they got an out so they can do these.
	Yeah, you know, is your wife having a, is your bipolar wife?
	See if she can use this drug, you know?
	And they don't have to do any of this horrible shit at the end.
	No, no.
	Dr.
	Curry recommends divorce.
	It's much better.
	It's much better.
	Oh, there he is!
	Oh, no!
	The agenda does not take care of the planet and people.
	Nobody will be saved from the dangerous misinformation.
	You will be punished.
	I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	Alright, we're going to go through these.
	Hopefully we see how long I go before this thing kills me.
	Yep, there it is.
	He's done.
	So I will start off with Daniel Grossenbacher.
	Is it Bacher?
	Yes.
	In Mesa, Arizona.
	$150.
	Who said the...
	Oh, this is a Mesa, Arizona meetup donation.
	Good time had by all at our hybrid no agenda higher side chat potluck while sitting in the middle of the desert.
	That's what we're going to do.
	And then Michael Gilbert, you're back, I hear you.
	Michael Gilbert is in Greendale, Wisconsin and says, Tom is a big douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Alright, you're back.
	You're back?
	Are you up?
	Are you good?
	Yeah.
	We'll see how long it lasts.
	Mitchell Free in Concord, California, 111.33.
	Tommy Sandoval, $100.33 from Manteca.
	I'm sorry.
	Mitchell Free, he said he emailed a short note to you.
	He officially becomes a knight.
	Did he email a short note to you?
	Mitchell Free?
	I don't have a short note from him.
	Okay.
	Well, he will be knighted today.
	Is he on the knight list?
	He is definitely on the knight list.
	Yep.
	Well, then he'll be a knight.
	I don't have the note, though.
	Okay.
	Which is not unusual.
	Onward.
	I could go look and see if there's a note.
	Why don't you do that while I read Tommy Sandoval's donation.
	He's from California, $100.33, and he asked for a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	John Cooper from Honolulu, $100 in the morning, Jen's switcheroo, for my beautiful wife, Sorrel.
	Yes, and did a Mother's Day donation but failed to dedouche her.
	Unacceptable.
	Yes, we'll fix that right now.
	You've been dedouched.
	Gavin McGoldrick in San Francisco, also $100.
	Anonymous in Denver, $100.
	$100 from Richard Campbell in Syracuse.
	Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico with $100.
	And we're back, John?
	Did you figure it out?
	There's no note from either first or last name.
	You know, the problem, I will say this to people out there.
	I sent a note.
	If it doesn't have donation in the subject line, you're going to have issues right away.
	And if you don't use your name...
	We can't look it up.
	Cowboy at gmail.com.
	I'm not going to find the note because I don't open all my email.
	I get 500 pieces of email per hour.
	Per hour.
	A day, minimum, and I just, most of it I skip, because it's like, I don't know, what's this?
	Yeah, I know.
	So you were in what, McGoldrick?
	Where were you?
	Yes, no, you're up is Joey from East Syracuse.
	Joey in East Syracuse, New York?
	That guy, Joey?
	That guy, yeah, that guy.
	Jacob Long in Landenburg, Pennsylvania, 84-48.
	Kevin Fitzpatrick in Houston, 800-9.
	Oh, that's a boost.
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	Sir Layton in Dothan, Alabama, 800-8.
	Then we have Steve Niles in Santa Cruz, 8008.
	A lot of boobs.
	Yeah, there's a lot of boobs here.
	Barry Boniface.
	By the way, I think this is because of the milk story.
	Barry Boniface in Newport News, Virginia, 8008.
	Mark Mensik in Arvada, Colorado, 8008.
	Dakota, 8008 in Prineville, Oregon.
	What happened to...
	Oh, here he is!
	Right, you got one more.
	Sir Herb Lamb, Duke of the Deep South and Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	He's in...
	Oh, wait a minute!
	There's our boy, Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, lover of America and booze, and he comes in with 8008.
	Beautiful.
	This is boob day.
	It's boob-arama.
	Boobalicious.
	David Schlesinger in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7777.
	Jake Harvey in Fort Worth, Texas, where all the balls are, 7777.
	Nathan Garza in Whitestown, Indiana, 6969.
	And he says, hold on, he says he's one of those Outlook users who has never received the newsletter at all.
	Yeah, there's a bunch of Outlook users and people who use 365 and they use it for mailing, Office 365.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They can't even say, hey, I should be getting this, and you can't do anything.
	These systems stink.
	Outlook stinks.
	I did have someone who says, I got Outlook.
	It works fine.
	Jason Dunn.
	In Flagstaff, Arizona.
	6969 is his birthday there.
	His birthday for his dad, and he would like his dad and this donation to go towards him to be de-douched.
	That is his dad, Mike.
	You've been de-douched.
	Mike is 53.
	And then we got Zane Peterson, 6565.
	And wait a minute!
	What?
	There's Sir Kevin McLaughlin.
	He's back!
	Oh no!
	He's Duke of Luna, lover of America, and boobs with a 6006.
	Small boobs.
	Small boobs donation.
	Small boobs.
	This guy.
	Tom Moore in Pateros, Washington, 5678.
	Christopher Dexter, 5678.
	Robert Stotz in San Diego, 5555.
	Nick Soaps in Peyton, Colorado, 5550.
	Triple nickel donation.
	Sir Michael, black knight of the dude's name, Ben.
	He's in Snohomish, Washington.
	5514.
	And he says, please add my mom, Carol, to the birthday list.
	I think she's on there.
	Also like to call her and my dad, Scott, out his douchebags.
	Douchebags.
	Huh, love is lit.
	I think there's two douchebags to call us there.
	Douchebags!
	Sabode, Peth, in Metairie, Louisiana, 5510.
	Sir, by his grace, 5510 in Neptune Beach, Florida.
	Lacey B in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, 5510.
	What's all these 5510s, you think?
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Yeah, but why?
	Why not?
	Kevin Hartle in Louisville, North Carolina, 55-10.
	And we move down to Richard Altman, 55, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
	Thomas Hurtado in Fontanic, California, 55-55.
	John Ferretti, 54-20, in Girard, Pennsylvania.
	Chris Rubio in Irvine, California, 53-33.
	Recalcitrant Crazy Steve.
	He's in the Sonoma Wino country, 5150.
	Chris Craddock in Stafford, Virginia.
	Please de-douche.
	That's John Craddock.
	John Craddock.
	You've been de-douched.
	John Kratting, he came in at 51.50.
	The following people now are $50 donors.
	Name and location if I have it.
	Starting with Dame Patricia Worthington, our favorite in Miami, Florida.
	Daryl DeVille in Newton, Mississippi.
	Jim Tucker in National Park, New Jersey.
	Fabio Alves in Monk's Corner, South Carolina.
	He should be at the meetup.
	Yeah.
	Patrick Cannon in Cranford, New Jersey.
	Rita Harrington in Sparks, Nevada.
	Sir Eric the Grease Monkey, Knight of Sunset Ridge in Concord, Virginia.
	Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona.
	Paul Romer in Fort Worth, Texas.
	You know what's there?
	Yep, Balls.
	Balls.
	Baron of Southern Shillanoys.
	Sir Lineman of the Net Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois, with the longest name we have.
	Sir Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina.
	Sean Smith in Belmont, North Carolina.
	Brenda Langanke in Meyer, Minnesota.
	James Woodhouse in...
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry.
	There's two things here.
	First of all...
	Sean Smith, who will be at the meetup in Charleston, says be sure to check out the Super Bloodflower Moon Monday morning, and we're getting up early, so we will watch that.
	And Brenda Leganski says, please dedouche me and my amazing husband, Jerry.
	Jeremy.
	You've been dedouched.
	Jeremy.
	Yes.
	She also says there's a gag waiting for the Mega King.
	Elon or you guys to come save us.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	James Woodhouse in Delmeny, Saskatoon.
	Brian Henderson.
	Oh no, he's in Delmeny, Sask...
	Not Saskatoon, but Saskatchewan.
	Saskatoon's the capital.
	The Paris of Canada, by the way.
	Brian Henderson in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Joel Nelson in Richfield, Minnesota.
	Jamie Hilliard in Newman, Georgia.
	Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Sir Chris Slowinski in Sherwood Park, Alberta, where all the abandoned mines are.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
	Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington.
	Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus, California.
	And finally, last but not least, Sir Spud the Mighty.
	In Marietta, Georgia.
	Thank you all for making this show possible.
	Yes.
	Thank you all for stepping up.
	We see the 50s there.
	You all heard the call.
	It's very much appreciated.
	Thank you for supporting and really producing episode 1451 of the No Agenda Show.
	Thanks again to all of our executive and associate executive producers who have that title.
	And if you'd like to support the show, Value for Value is what it's all about.
	Here's where you can learn more.
	Javorag.org slash NA. I'm going to go karma for everyone who might need it still.
	You've got...
	Harmony.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	Oh, no, my chance.
	Very short list today.
	Sir Michael does say happy birthday to his mom, Carol, 68, yesterday.
	Elliot Blazisick, 33, tomorrow.
	And Jason Dunn says happy birthday to his dad, Mike, 53, on May 22nd.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Title changes.
	Couldn't face this place.
	Title changes.
	Don't want to be too No douchebaginess for Sir Michael Anthony, who stepped up and becomes a baronet today.
	Congratulations, sir, and thank you for your additional support of the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe.
	We do have three knights to bring up onto the stage, so I've got a blade.
	You got the trident ready?
	I got one here.
	The regular one.
	That'll do it.
	Anonymous, James Scott and Mitchell Free.
	Gentlemen, please join us here at the podium because you have now achieved that.
	Covenant status of Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable thanks to your support and the amount of $1,000 or more, and I'm very pleased to pronounce the Kate V as...
	As...
	Here we go.
	What is this?
	Where's my chunk?
	Hit me with the chunk.
	There we go.
	Sir Vision Quest of the Aether, Sir Nobody of the Third Printer, and Sir Mitchell Free.
	Gentlemen, for you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, bean burrito and some B12, rotisserie chicken, your mom's favorite meat for the round table, past purees, of course, along with bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, and the...
	Ever effervescent mutton and mead.
	Please go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Make sure that you give Eric the Shill, the back office, all of your information, like your ring size and a place where you can send this.
	Also the wax so you can seal your important correspondence because they are signet rings.
	And in addition to that, a certificate of authenticity.
	Thank you very much again.
	And now let's see what's going on in the world of No Agenda Meetups.
	No Agenda Meetups.
	And the first thing we do is we review the No Agenda Crossroads of America May Tribal Meetup, which we were struggling with earlier.
	Here's a report about how that meetup went.
	Josh Springer here, just filling everybody's bottom.
	This is Dame of the Amazeballs.
	My smoking hot boyfriend, Josh Springer, is providing everyone with the bottoms-up beer here at the Folling Warehouse.
	Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there from Mark and Maria and another fantastic meet-up in the Indy region, whatever FEMA region we're in.
	And we continue our raffle tradition and no deuce-backs in this community.
	In the morning, Dame Swanee.
	Code 22, Code 22, yakety yak.
	Welcome back.
	Sir Benny here.
	Goodbye.
	Hi, this is Sirup of the Maple.
	Nine out of ten dentists recommend a no-agenda social.
	Hey, this is Emily.
	I figured out the whole stimulation issue, but I might be in a time loop.
	Shuffle crat.
	Spook.
	Ah!
	Bruce from Indy.
	Out.
	In the morning, or with the time change, is it in the afternoon?
	Let's go, Brandon.
	Mike Whistler of the EZPZ Empire.
	With the best bunch of folks this side of the Mississippi.
	Hailing from FEMA Region 5, this is Nathan Boyer from Indianapolis, Indiana, with my daughter Tallulah, and...
	We're gonna hit him in the mouth.
	This is Tallulah.
	Shut up, sling.
	In the noon!
	Happy Mother's Day!
	Very nice.
	Well done, y'all.
	Nice production.
	Meetups coming up today, actually, the Buffalo Western New York Park meetup.
	That is well underway, probably over.
	That was in North Tonawanda, New York.
	On Monday, there it is, the Low Country Lovapalooza with Curry and the Keeper, 6 o'clock at the Royal American in Charleston, South Carolina.
	Dame Jennifer with a cast of hundreds working on this, and we really appreciate it.
	On Tuesday, Tavern Fun Time, 6 o'clock at Henry's Tavern in Denver, Colorado.
	Duke of the South.
	That will be Sir Patrick Coble is organizing that.
	Interesting.
	May 18th, Wednesday, inaugural Guilford Meetup, 6 o'clock UK time.
	My old stomping grounds.
	It'll be held at the White House.
	I know it well.
	That's the White House in Guilford, Surrey, UK. Excellent.
	And next show day will be Charlotte's Thursday, Thursday, 7 o'clock Eastern, Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Drop your phone.
	Hang out.
	Play around with some real people in real time.
	Find a No Agenda Meetup.
	This is really important for your mental health.
	It's all producer organized.
	All we do is just mention them.
	Everything else takes place because that's what you are in desperate need of.
	Please give one a try.
	Go to noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one, oh please, start one yourself.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	Triggered all hell to blame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Like a party.
	Before we get into ISOs, I just wanted to thank I-Jams.
	I-Jams?
	A-Jams?
	I'm not quite sure how to pronounce his name.
	He is a professional musician who plays multiple instruments, has been playing since the age of six.
	And he just got over five years of writer's block, but something happened on episode 1432 of the No Agenda show.
	And if you recall on that show, we were talking about the NBC opening music they have, which we learned later was written and I guess produced by, is it John Barry?
	Who's the big film score guy?
	John Barry's one of them.
	Yeah, I think it was John Barry.
	Who scored that, and I think we were talking about how cool that would be to have some bombastic news music for our show.
	And he says, no problem, I just created one for you.
	He played all the instruments himself.
	Listen to this.
	This is where it kicks in.
	Ladies and gentlemen, today is Sunday, the 15th of May.
	This is your No Agenda show, with all the following items coming up.
	What do you think?
	I think it's well done, but it's not us.
	Okay.
	No, that's right.
	Us is ISOs.
	ISOs like this one.
	So no, we don't fit in your nice little box.
	There's that one.
	That's a good one.
	How about this one?
	This is the height of grooviness.
	Mm-hmm.
	Or just the plain old...
	In the morning.
	Mm-hmm.
	Or...
	Here's a good one.
	We have no evidence.
	I love that one.
	Or...
	Because it was, you guessed it, disinformation.
	Now, that's the one I like the best.
	It's a little long, but I like that one.
	All right.
	Well, I got a bunch.
	Okay.
	Let's start at the top with exciting.
	I think it's just super exciting and Ooh, you could have cut that little bit off at the end.
	Not really tight.
	Okay, let's move on to kill.
	I want to kill myself.
	Okay.
	Who was that?
	Oh, it was one of those NPR guys.
	So far, I'm liking that one the best.
	All right, what's next?
	Do you like that?
	Well, let's try thank you.
	Thank you for having me.
	Nope.
	Didn't she sound cute, though?
	No.
	Okay, well then we're going to go with this one, which is my favorite.
	I think it's a good end of show thing.
	We did it.
	We did it!
	Woo!
	Okay.
	Yeah, there's no doubt.
	No doubt about that.
	We did it.
	And we did do it.
	At least I feel we're doing it because this will be one of my last clips here.
	I think my prediction is coming closer to reality.
	Elon Musk says his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is now postponed.
	The world's richest man tweeted today, quote, Twitter deal temporarily on hold, pending details supporting calculation that spam and fake accounts represent less than 5% of users.
	The news caused Twitter stock to fall about 20% in pre-trading hours.
	Musk has been very vocal about wanting to remove spam bots that mimic real people on Twitter.
	And just days ago, he called that one of his top priorities.
	Let's bring in ABC News Business Correspondent Deirdre Bolton for more on this.
	Deirdre, after this tweet, Musk then tweeted again that he's still committed to the acquisition of Twitter.
	So what's going on here?
	Diane, this is so frustrating for journalists and investors alike.
	I mean, under normal circumstances, there is no deal on pause.
	There is no pause button.
	You're either buying a company or you're not.
	Okay, bullshit.
	That's bull crap.
	Who is this?
	This is ABC. And he has until October 24th.
	This is all coming out in due diligence.
	And this is exactly what we talked about when...
	People started getting unblocked, unbanned.
	The bots started showing up.
	They were so worried about their lies, about their true numbers of users, they tried to cover it up, and it's falling apart.
	But this is not what we say.
	Normal circumstances, there is no deal on pause.
	There is no pause button.
	You're either buying a company or you're not buying a company.
	I don't know who she is.
	If you look at this in the larger M&A business context, this is in the hall of fame of weird.
	So, okay, fine.
	He just tweeted that he's committed to the acquisition.
	What we do know, if we look at the stock, I mean, it is still below that $54.20 price that is, in theory, the acquisition price.
	So it just shows you that Wall Street investors not entirely really convinced, even when Elon Musk said he would buy the company that this deal was going to go through.
	You're right.
	I need to know who this woman is because she's an idiot.
	She should not be discussing business stories on anything, really.
	But...
	This is Elon Musk destroying Twitter.
	Can you imagine if he says, well, you know what?
	It turns out it's 15% or more.
	All bullcrap.
	Smoke and mirrors.
	That will destroy many valuations of many companies because then everything will come into question, which, to be fair, I myself, back in the day, by accident, but have participated in online number bullshit.
	And I can tell you my story, but go ahead.
	That this is what happened in the dot-com collapse.
	Yes.
	When the dot-com thing finally got to a head, people started realizing that this advertising system wasn't working.
	It was all bull crap.
	They were lying to the advertisers.
	The advertisers were throwing a lot of money, and the advertising group as a whole pulled back, and the whole thing fell apart.
	And it could happen again.
	I'm surprised it hasn't happened by now.
	Well, for Twitter to say in public filings less than 5% of their users are bots or spam or not real people, that by itself is iffy.
	And that would be, if a real number comes out, and that's, I mean, there's got to be a provision somewhere in this agreement that, you know, if it drops 50%, which it could easily do, then the deal would be off.
	And then Elon pulls out, Twitter's destroyed.
	I didn't mention a couple of things.
	Which is what I predicted.
	Yes, you did.
	Well, you predicted the destruction.
	I don't think he's going to pull out.
	I think he's going to end up buying it anyway.
	Still could be destruction.
	But he's going to get a huge discount.
	This is the reason this is going on.
	Which this woman doesn't seem to understand.
	Nope.
	That's what you do.
	It's called negotiating.
	Yeah.
	But, okay.
	There used to be a system.
	I don't know if it's still around.
	Somebody might be able to give me the URL. You used to be able to put anyone's name in.
	And it would tell you how many real followers they had.
	Oh, I think that's long gone.
	I think it's long gone, too, because I think they kept the database of fakes.
	Yeah.
	But even back then, when it was available...
	I would put anybody's in there, and very few people had less than 40% fakes.
	Right.
	It was all the half fakes, or half fakes, or three-quarters fakes, or 40% fakes was typical.
	So your numbers, if you've got 100,000 followers, you probably have 50, maybe, 50,000.
	That might even be bullcrap.
	Who knows?
	Yeah.
	But in Twitter, they're not ripping off advertisers because they got none.
	They're just a bunch of link baits.
	You want to do a last clip?
	We're running late.
	We're running way too late, but I'll do this so we at least catch up with this.
	This is Taiwan gearing up for war.
	All right.
	Show's too long.
	Taiwanese soldiers fire artillery shells at a target representing advancing enemy forces.
	Wow.
	The democratically self-ruled island is conducting military exercises to prepare for a potential assault by Chinese forces.
	They follow repeated incursions by Chinese warplanes into the island's air defence zone.
	Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, seen here watching army reservists train last week, says the war in Ukraine proves Taiwan needs to be prepared to resist threats from China.
	In a sign of increasing tensions between the two countries, reservists have been mobilized for 14 days this year rather than the usual seven.
	I think the training is very solid.
	We are now familiar with the nearby defensive terrain and also places we can use to fend off an attack.
	I think this 14-day reservist call-up is very useful.
	China considers Taiwan a breakaway province and has previously threatened to seize the island by force.
	The leadership in Beijing has been angered by recent reports of Taiwan finalizing its latest deal to buy military equipment from the United States.
	We firmly oppose the sale of arms by US to Taiwan.
	We oppose any official exchanges between the US and Taiwan.
	The Democratic Progressive Party authorities have repeatedly used the hard-earned money of Taiwan's taxpayers to buy US arms in an attempt to seek independence by force, but they will not succeed.
	In Taiwan's capital, Taipei, they've been demonstrating in support of Ukraine's resistance to the Russian invasion.
	And 4,000 boxes of medicine, food and blankets have been collected for Ukrainian refugees.
	Oh my, how much do you think we will be sending to Taiwan once China starts messing with them?
	Well, hopefully the way it's going in Ukraine, if they can twist the facts correctly, it'll make it look like the Ukrainians kicked ass, and the same thing will happen in Taiwan, it'll push this off for five or six years.
	Since we're going along...
	It's in no hurry.
	Yeah, since that was kind of a downer clip, I'd like to end on a laugh.
	Wasn't it a downer?
	It's a total downer clip.
	It's like people dying.
	It started with war and explosions.
	Now, I would like to take us to climate change, and all you need to know is this is the Vice President of the United States of America talking about what we're going to do and how we're going to work together to tackle climate change.
	That is especially true when it comes to the climate crisis, which is why we will work together and continue to work together.
	To address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements that we will convene to work together on to galvanize global action.
	With that, I thank you all.
	This is a matter of urgent priority for all of us, and I know we will work on this together.
	You told me I played a downer, but that is depressing that our vice president is an idiot.
	No, no, it's laughable.
	It's fantastic that she sits there stone cold and reads that, proves it all.
	Hey, take the word cold out and you got it right.
	Yes.
	Coming up next on noagendastream.com, let's see, we have Sir Spencer, Dame Lorian, and a guest reverend cyber trucker in a live bowls with buds.
	Get ready to boost the bowls with buds, everybody.
	That's going to be a good time.
	End of show mix is GWFF, who also is the voice of AI.cooking.
	We have some Leo LePuke back again.
	He's caught the fever.
	And our very own clip custodian, Neil Jones, with End of Show Mixes.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where nobody's sick, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. We return on Thursday for another jam-packed show and, of course, a report from the South Carolina Lovapalooza Meetup.
	Until then, everybody, adios, mofos and such.
	Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios,
	Adios. Adios. Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios, Adios.
	Adios, Adios.
	It could be the afternoon.
	And when you say that's not a great question, well, gotta go.
	It's the best podcast in the universe.
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	Did you see?
	Can you hear me?
	When I'm donating for you, I'm not a dispatcher, no, not a dispatcher.
	But when it's 9am and the show's not stopped I feel like I'm standing with a troll army of lands I'm pretty so known Adam can see trolls When you say in the morning No, it could be the after year And when you say that, that's a great question.
	Well, gotta go.
	Carry a tune.
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	The best podcast in the universe.
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	For millions of parents in desperate search for baby formula, shelves are increasingly empty across the country.
	The problem could go on for months.
	I drove 60 miles there and 60 miles back to get baby formula.
	But...
	We searched for like a week to find baby formula.
	I've had to become a expert on baby formula.
	Bare shelves Biden has continued to pass the buck.
	Just be in love.
	You are mine.
	Be in love.
	Just be in love.
	Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates being invested in a lab that produces synthetic presser to prevent climate change.
	Be in love.
	If you're an American, you're last.
	Now all of the baby formula is going to go to illegal immigrants.
	You know, if your baby really needs it, you should probably go down to Mexico, maybe a flight to Tijuana, then sneak back across the border into the United States where you'll be welcomed with open arms and then you can get baby formula.
	When there is a massive baby formula shortage in the United States, you've got to send it to the border because the Flores settlement and screw you and your babies.
	So you better wake up and smell the breast milk.
	Yeah, you gotta smoke them, everybody.
	Let me do a bong ripper.
	Let me do a bong ripper.
	Man, this show's gonna be long, long, long, long, long.
	But you know what?
	Behind every good man, there's a woman.
	And that woman was Martha Washington, man.
	And every day George would come home, she'd have a big fat bull waiting for him, man.
	When he'd come to the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip, lady.
	He'd have a big fat bull waiting for him.
	The best podcast in the universe!
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