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1455: Systemic Rivals

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	George Soros, help us!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, May 29th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1455.
	This is no agenda.
	Decoding elite speak and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region 6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we all said, oh no, when the Holland driver drove into the wall.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Wait a minute.
	What happened?
	Who drove into a wall?
	Here's what I heard you say.
	When the Holland driver drove into the wall.
	That's exactly what I said.
	Explain.
	I'm watching the Indy 500 for the first time in 15 years.
	Oh, oh, Max Verstappen.
	No, the VK guy or whatever his name is.
	Oh, thank goodness it wasn't Max.
	No, no, Max is in Formula 1.
	Oh, there's a Dutch guy in Indy?
	Yeah, and he's a top driver, and he's doing better every year since his third or fourth year in it.
	Driving an orange car with an orange jumpsuit.
	I have not followed him, unfortunately.
	First wreck of the race.
	Is he okay?
	Yeah.
	Man.
	You know, the last Dutch guy who won, I think, two in a row was Adi Leyendijk.
	I was there when he won in second.
	Leyendijk's famous.
	Yeah, he's a really nice guy.
	He lives in Arizona.
	In case you want to go check him out.
	He's always like, hey, if you're ever in Arizona, look me up, man.
	I'm like, I'm not going to Arizona for any reason.
	I just can't imagine that.
	You're there for spring training.
	Yeah, that's right, John.
	You and me.
	Spring podcast training.
	That's what we'll do.
	So I was a little concerned last night as I was scouring the Twitter.
	Uh, and I see you post a speed test result of your Comcast and you have some ridiculously low number throwback to cable modems, like the early cable modems.
	Maybe even ADSL, barely.
	What happened?
	Well, this has been going on since the show two Sundays ago.
	Yeah.
	And this is, and what's interesting is if you can finally get through customer service, which is a nightmare.
	I see your motive's not running right now.
	We'll, we'll reset it and call you and we'll, we'll send you a text message.
	We'll send you a bullet.
	We'll send a bullet down the line.
	We'll send you a text message in 10 minutes and you can call us back.
	And they say, and we're gonna send it to this, and then they give you the phone number from five years ago that doesn't work, so you have to say, no, no, no, I don't want you to send me a text message.
	I'm not getting text messages.
	Oh, goodness.
	But they won't pick it up.
	Okay, then we'll reset your modem.
	No, I don't want my modem reset.
	You know, it's a robot.
	Right.
	And you can't get past this robot.
	The robot system is a piece of crap.
	You can't get, no, we've gotta reset your modem.
	Well, that's not gonna do you any good.
	I gotta talk to an agent, agent, agent, agent.
	No, no, you can't talk to an agent because we've got to reset your modem and we'll send you a text message when we do it.
	This never ends.
	I have to hang up.
	Now, did you get really angry because we've determined that some AI wants that?
	Yes.
	I got angry knowing that might kick in.
	No, it doesn't kick in.
	Crap.
	You get angry and you get this.
	Oh, okay.
	We will reset your modem.
	Sounds like you're angry.
	That's dystopian.
	That could be right in a movie.
	Well, I'm going to do it again because I know they're not going to change that.
	I'm going to go record the whole thing.
	You'll see.
	Oh yeah, but also test the AI and the algo with, you know, like saying a couple cuss words, you know, like frustrating, and then what is it, Xfinity?
	Is that who you call now for Comcast Xfinity?
	I still use the old Comcast number.
	It's very easy to remember.
	1-800-COMCAST.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Maybe that's your problem.
	Maybe there's a new path, a new... I got the new number, too, and I called it, and it's exactly the same.
	Well, this is the future of aviation as well.
	As we're at the end of the month, and Memorial Day weekend, three and a half thousand flights cancelled, KLM halting ticket sales.
	Holy mackerel, they cancelled everything!
	Yeah, this is happening everywhere.
	In the Netherlands, KLM has halted ticket sales for Amsterdam flights.
	You can't even buy a ticket.
	In the UK, this was on the BBC.
	People are going on holiday.
	Travel disruption.
	These people are going to Turkey.
	After hours of waiting, he and his family finally boarded a plane, only to be ushered back off at the last moment.
	The pilot said they had run out of hours they were able to work, so everybody had to disembark.
	It's not like we didn't know this.
	So I'm waiting.
	I'm waiting for the old Obama throwback, the next-gen aviation system talk to come back.
	It's almost perfect for those jamokes.
	Let's just automate everything.
	It'll be great.
	No one wants to fly in an automated plane.
	Oh.
	You know, there's enough people who trust Elon Musk enough to let their Tesla kill them.
	Yeah, well, that's what's, you know, I don't like it.
	Well, since you, before I can finish my story about Comcast.
	I'm sorry, I didn't know there was more to it.
	I'm all ears.
	Well, yeah, no.
	Yeah, no, let's go.
	But, since you brought up travel.
	Mm-hmm.
	I haven't asked Adam.
	Oh goodness.
	I was not expecting that.
	Okay.
	Um, you know, I should have, there's two, you see, you see, ask Adam answer.
	You don't want to play that.
	You want to play ask Adam open.
	Okay.
	Now this, this, this is a, in advance of listening is a country is now going to allow people in.
	And I want you to guess which country it is.
	Play the clip.
	Preparing to welcome back tourists after more than two years of coronavirus restrictions.
	Starting June 10th, visitors from select countries with low infection rates, including the U.S., will be allowed in.
	But they are not free to roam.
	Visitors must sign up for a guided package tour that includes transportation and accommodation.
	Okay, the question is, which country is doing this after two years?
	Hmm.
	It's going to surprise me, no doubt.
	I mean, my inclination is to say Afghanistan, just to throw something off the wall.
	But maybe Germany?
	You can go to Germany, can't you?
	I don't know.
	I haven't checked.
	I have no reason to go.
	You might not know because this is a screw.
	When I heard this, I said, what?
	And you can play the, this is the, you don't have to play the whole thing, but you can play the answer because the answer's at the beginning.
	Here we go.
	Japan is preparing to welcome back tourists.
	You know, and I thought, and I thought it was Japan because, you know, Tina and I had this big trip planned, but I thought that they were kind of, you know, like just never, ever going to open back up.
	That's amazing.
	Let me hear the whole thing.
	Japan is preparing to welcome back tourists after more than two years of coronavirus restrictions.
	Starting June 10th, visitors from select countries with low infection rates, including the U.S., will be allowed in.
	But they are not free to roam.
	Visitors must sign up for a guided, packaged tour that includes transportation and accommodation.
	And at the end you wake up in the bathtub with your kidneys cut out.
	What kind of a deal is this?
	Who wants to go anywhere where you're required to go to some packaged tour?
	Do you remember that the Japanese government, before COVID and their lockdown, They had invested, or they were making a lot of money available to boost tourism.
	That's why Tina and I were like, holy crap, this is good.
	You know, there's all kinds of deals, they're subsidizing stuff.
	So maybe they're bringing that in now, taking that subsidy money and, you know, obviously putting it into the hands of party loyalists who have their guided tours.
	And they've just kind of, you know, made a little more interesting to them instead of, here's a cool tour you can do.
	It's like, here's the tour you're doing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, sucks.
	Yeah, we're not going to go for that.
	No, of course not.
	No way.
	We would.
	No normal traveler would.
	Some stooge would buy into that.
	You wouldn't think so.
	No.
	I want to ask you a question because as I was mentioning the guy who wrecked in the Indy 500, so I'm watching the race.
	And I was thinking about this because I'm going to give you, for one thing, they have some guy with a Cockney accent announcing this American race.
	I don't get that, but okay.
	And the race goes like that.
	Oh, he's into the pits.
	He's in the pits and now he's getting four new Firestone tires.
	And there he goes with his Firestone, new Firestone tires.
	Oh, here comes Billy Bob and he's in there.
	He's getting Firestone tires, new Firestone.
	And there he goes.
	He's got new Firestone tires.
	And then he says, and here's the Firestone, you know, he's got to get some picture of the speedometer of the cars as a Firestone gauges and fight.
	So I'm wondering if, cause you were in the advertising business doing sleazy stuff like this.
	I was waiting for it.
	Thank you.
	What?
	Now you mentioned before about when you were working for MTV you had to say... The Michael Jackson deal.
	Michael Jackson, the king of pop.
	You had to always say that.
	Well no, during a special weekend where they had made a deal to have Michael appear on the Video Music Awards.
	That was part of the deal.
	We had the planetary premiere and for the whole three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, We had Michael Jackson packages and videos, but we had to go back and re-record that whole weekend because the memo had not come down to the studio that every single time we said Michael Jackson, it had to be Michael Jackson, comma, the king of pop.
	So yes, sleazy deals.
	Now, the question in my mind is, because I'm watching this and it's going on and on about the Firestone tires, by the way, and if they want to make these races more competitive, have competitive tire brands, not one brand of tire for the whole race, which is what they do.
	You do know that the race is pretty much about tires, right?
	Well, this race is about tires.
	This race has always been about tires, but it used to be competing tires.
	And then they normalize it all.
	Back to the question.
	Okay.
	Are there any deals where the more times you say the word, you get paid for each time you say it?
	Is there ever a deal like that in advertising?
	I've never come across one.
	I've never been offered one.
	These are, well, there's two things.
	I think the pit stop would be a guaranteed mention.
	Of course, the gauge cam would be a guaranteed mention.
	Any driver that drives under the Firestone flag.
	Anything else would be gratuitous and is usually done to suck up to the corporation.
	I'll say that... Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	They were very kind of focused on saying Firestone tires, Firestone tires.
	And I want you, if you watch NASCAR, they never say, you rarely say, well, NASCAR is Goodyear, isn't it?
	Goodyear, yeah.
	But they don't say Goodyear tires, Goodyear tires all the time.
	This was saying, said so many times, it was annoying.
	In fact, to be honest about it, just for anyone out there listening, in my entire life from now on, I will never buy Firestone tires.
	I will never buy them.
	This in-your-face thing is so beyond the pale.
	It's crazy.
	It makes you crazy.
	I'm not going to buy Firestone Towers ever.
	So I'm thinking, if it was paid by the number of mentions, I thought that would be kind of cool.
	So they keep saying it and saying it, so it becomes ludicrous, which is what it was.
	And then it's brought me back to thinking of Sean Hannity and some of these other people who always say, Mark Levin, the great one.
	What is Mark Levin?
	Is he paying a fee for this?
	No, no, you know better than that.
	That's sucking up.
	As I said, it's just sucking up.
	Let me give you a few data points here.
	Actually, I have a question.
	Did at any point the camera cut to the Firestone calendar models?
	No, but that would have been better.
	I would have changed my attitude.
	But see, whatever wokeness we have in our television culture has destroyed the balance of these types of irritating things for you and for many other people in the Indy 500 audience.
	I think there's a heavy emphasis on tires, and by coincidence, I saw a couple of tire advertisements, just randomly, while some stuff I was watching during the week, and I was looking around, and the next climate change, what is the title of this article here?
	The next car pollution disaster, this is from The Drive, which is some, yeah, gearhead magazine, I guess.
	is going to be tires.
	And specifically, it's the rubber that comes off the tires.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	I know, I... Yeah.
	Right?
	Right.
	The amount of rubber that... It's not just the tires, though.
	And I never got to... This is interesting you brought this up.
	I never got the name of the chemical, but there's some chemical they've been using in tires to make them wear longer.
	And because as the tires grind around, they leave...
	Minuscule particles of rubber.
	Yeah, it's microplastics is what they're talking about.
	Yeah, but there was one specific chemical.
	It wasn't just the microplastics.
	They were talking about something and it's only been added like maybe five or six, seven, eight years ago.
	Atrazine?
	I'm just guessing.
	Turning the frogs gay!
	I don't know.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I saw that.
	So there may just be, it may just be a heavy emphasis on tires in general, uh, in the next period, because you know, this was kind of written as here comes the shit again, you know, after, after diesel gate.
	Well, the tire companies would love to get these, this stuff out of the tires.
	I'm sure it may be to benefit them.
	So you wear your tires out faster.
	There you go.
	Yeah, let's do that.
	Exactly.
	Ooh, more shrink flation.
	Yeah, it's a version.
	You have to sell twice as many tires to somebody to get 40.
	I mean, some tires are designed to go 80,000 miles.
	I don't even know how you manage that.
	So with the pending, I guess we're going to have a rubber crisis too, aren't we?
	With oil shortages, there'll be a shortage of rubber.
	So we're going to have to go to the old World War II staple, which is wooden tires.
	What else are you going to do?
	Now imagine if all of a sudden there's a shortage in tires.
	What a mess that would be.
	And I think it's totally possible.
	So back to my Comcast story.
	So I bitched and moaned on Twitter.
	And that's what Twitter's good for.
	It's always helpful.
	Makes you feel good.
	That's for sure.
	So if you get enough followers, they go, okay.
	And so they send you some private notes and they're working on it.
	And then when I told the guy, uh, he sent me this morning, I got the notice.
	Is your speed any better?
	No.
	Two megabits per second.
	Yeah.
	What was your overall results?
	Two megabits per second.
	But here's what's interesting, and this is what I wanted to point out more than anything else I could have, the story can go on forever, but at two megabits per second, if you're surfing the web, but just going from page to doing stuff, it's really not, it's fast enough that you wouldn't notice it.
	Just for general surfing, I agree.
	I agree.
	You wouldn't notice it.
	So if there's a problem, because the one thing I got out of talking, finally getting a hold of some people to talk to, who upsold me, they were not even in service, they were sales, upsold me to a 600 megabit new program, which is cheaper supposedly, but I only get two megabits out of it, so what good is it?
	But both of them said, oh, you should be getting some pretty good numbers now that they were in your neighborhood recently upgrading the service.
	Now you know what happened.
	Your service was upgraded for your experience.
	And it was upgraded about the time of not this last Sunday show, but... Two weeks ago.
	Last Sunday show, yeah.
	When we were having trouble, remember?
	Yes, I remember.
	I remember well.
	I remember good.
	That was that I guess was in the range of when they upgraded around here some some guys there was a yeah truck roll.
	I love it when that happens.
	And then for them to say, man, you must be digging it.
	Porn must be flying in, old man.
	And I'm glad they mentioned it, because I told these other guys, oh, well.
	And then when I told this one guy on the Twitter guy who's Comcast's Xfinity character, he says, And I said, I described to him, well, what happens is I got connections for about 10 minutes and it goes dead for a minute or two.
	Yeah.
	Well, did you, did you mention you the best, not just any podcast, but the best podcast in the universe while this happens?
	I haven't pulled that out.
	I give you permission to play that card.
	So, and then when I said that, I said, I said, and then I put some times because I kind of put some times up from last night when I said, go out and then maybe back.
	And if you try to watch TV, go out, be back.
	Uh, as soon as I mentioned this outage, he goes, Oh.
	I could just hear it.
	He wasn't even talking to me, but I could hear him go, oh, great.
	Cause they know it's a wire.
	Oh, it has to be physical.
	It has to be a little wind blowing or something or anything like that.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that sucks.
	But you know, so I'm screwed for, I'm going to go with G5.
	Yeah, 5G.
	Yeah, whatever.
	I think, I think you should just get a, get a hotspot.
	I mean, I have all kinds of hotspots, just as backup, and you're right, it'll be, the problem is not so much, the problem is not that, I have Tina in the house, what does that have to do with anything?
	Hotspots.
	Oh, very funny.
	Oh, brother.
	You're right that the speed is actually, that's okay, that speed.
	That used to be a T1 line, by the way.
	We used to put a whole company on that speed that you're not bitching about.
	A whole company.
	The problem is your ping was very high, 156.
	And are you running DNS locally?
	Because that will speed everything up.
	You don't think that's going to do anything, do you?
	And I haven't got, with the new modem I got for my new 600 megabit service, I can't, I'm not doing any more, I can't do too many things at once.
	Because I know what the problem is, is wires.
	What happened last time, it was a wire, and that time was a squirrel.
	Yes, this was several years ago, I recall this.
	In 2018.
	Yeah, several years ago.
	The point I'm making is that if it's an area-wide thing, because of some guy, Bonehead, that came out here and upgraded things, And people are just around here, let's say there's 25 Comcast users on my little route.
	And they're all just surfing the internet.
	They're not going to notice that their speeds have gone down from 160.
	No, of course not.
	They're not podcast professionals.
	Hello?
	So it doesn't come, so they don't get the complaints.
	Squirrel.
	Anyway, that's all I have to say.
	Well, I'm sorry you had to go through that.
	That's a time sink.
	Although somewhat entertaining.
	Time sink, five hours.
	Five hours yesterday.
	Didn't have to go down to the Comcast store to get some new gear.
	It was a complete waste of a day.
	I'm sorry.
	It's a nightmare.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's horrible.
	Well, luckily, I didn't have those problems, and as you rightly pointed out in the newsletter, this is Memorial Day weekend here in the United States.
	I think it's also a holiday weekend.
	For some reason, other countries, maybe in the EU, have some holiday weekend.
	And so there's really no serious media doing anything.
	Everyone's taken off.
	Everyone has a special edition.
	Welcome to the special edition, which we recorded on Wednesday.
	Or maybe even last week, especially this year.
	Last year.
	It's the one from last year.
	We'll put new wraparounds.
	And not so with the best podcast in the universe.
	We fight Xfinity.
	We slay Comcast just to bring you this show.
	I just want to point out the value that we provide.
	And I was very happy to spend my last few days watching the wrap-up of the elites in Davos, the Davos douchebags, At the World Economic Forum, which was extremely enlightening!
	Yes.
	Now, you'll recall on the last episode of the Davos Douchebags, we listened to Queen Ursula, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the... By the way, you need to pop open a browser and search for the following person, doesn't matter what search engine.
	Nina Brink.
	N-I-N-A B-R-I-N-K.
	And this is just to show you that I know this kind of woman.
	And it is specific to be a woman.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah.
	She's exactly the same woman.
	Yes.
	She may even be Nina Brink.
	I don't know.
	Um, but it's exactly the same.
	She's got a, she's got a bigger smile.
	Well, is that the one with... No, I say we're a square smile and she smiles more.
	But now look for the picture where she has two thumbs up.
	I got it.
	Okay.
	So she was on top of the world, proud of her relationship with the Rothschilds, and she created a number of companies, successful companies, but she created World Online.
	And it was a big... By the way, there are hundreds of pictures over two thumbs up.
	That's all she does.
	The reason for that is going to become apparent.
	Two thumbs up, she's in the top of the elites, not just, you know, but really in Brussels, and she comes from an elite family, exactly the same as Queen Ursula, lived in Canada, the whole thing, it's so, it's uncanny.
	And she put together this huge roll-up of an internet service provider, and she was going to float it on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
	And, uh, when they went public, and everyone invested, of course, because Queen Nina, you know, was the show business people, the captains of industry, how could this, this, this was a sure thing.
	And, um, and so they go public and she's got her thumbs up, you know, like... It's the translation of kop shtook.
	I need the sentence.
	Is it K-O-P-S-T-U-K?
	K-O-P-T-S-T-U-K.
	Yeah, it means you are the face.
	Ah, the face.
	Yeah, Korpusheadstuk.
	You're the headpiece.
	You're the leader.
	So she, you know, she was the rainmaker.
	And so she does these two thumbs up and maybe 30 minutes later, people start to discover that she sold all of her shares pre-IPO like a week before.
	So the minute that happens... That's what you do when you're scamming the public.
	And boom!
	The stock tanks!
	People lost almost all their money.
	So that's why you see the two thumbs up thing is what she'll be remembered for.
	The douchebag who stole your money.
	So with that in mind, these people make mistakes.
	And watching this Davos stuff in the World Economic Forum, They are so all in and so smoking their own dope.
	You know, they got Andrew Ross Sorkin doing a panel on the metaverse and people are, oh yes, no, this of course, this is going to be what it is.
	Obviously, we'll have the whole workforces will be in virtual reality, but we'll get augmented reality.
	How long have we been hearing this?
	How long have we been hearing this?
	Well, when the computers first show up on the scene.
	Exactly.
	I would say we've been hearing this in some way, shape, or form since the 70s.
	But they're all making this assertion that the technology is here, or it's right around the corner.
	And it's not about Facebag and their metaverse.
	It's now become an elitist concept that is going to solve everything.
	It's just going to solve the whole world's problems.
	And Andrew Ross Sorkin, he's on CNBC.
	Co-created billions.
	You know, he's the golden child, New York Times.
	Everyone sucks him off.
	And it was just... I got no clips from that because it was so insulting and so stupid, we wouldn't have even laughed about it.
	Now, when it comes to this type of person, there is one unique individual in the news, cable news arena, who has the exact same upbringing as Queen Ursula.
	And their fathers probably knew each other.
	Because Ursula's dad was an ambassador, you know, politician, lifelong politician.
	They lived around the world at all kinds of cool posts.
	She went to all the right schools.
	Also went to Stanford.
	You know, the whole deal.
	Who do you think that person is in the United States?
	I'll just give you a clue.
	It's not on Fox.
	And it's not on CNN.
	So who could be the perfect woman to interview Queen Ursula?
	Joy Reid.
	Exactly the same upbringing.
	Oh, Mika Brzezinski.
	Oh, CNBC.
	Mika Brzezinski.
	She's on MSNBC, isn't she?
	That's what I said!
	I said... You said CNBC.
	I'm sorry.
	MSNBC.
	Well, Joy Reid is on MSNBC, not CNBC.
	That's why I... You got me there.
	It's true, but Joy Reid's funny anyway, no matter where she works.
	Well, obviously, Mika... I think Mika and Ursula probably know each other from growing up together.
	Maybe they went to the same school.
	That's an excellent point, because her husband, her dad, the horrible man that he is... What did you say?
	Uh, yes.
	Yeah, I'm sure they're pals.
	Well... And I bet you Scarborough feels real out of place.
	And this is my spouse, Chuck.
	Yeah, this guy.
	This guy.
	So, they sit down, and they're in Davos.
	Mika's in Davos.
	I think... What's his name?
	What's her husband's name?
	And I forgot his name.
	Who?
	Brzezinski's husband's name.
	Oh, Scarborough.
	Chuck.
	Chuck Scarborough?
	No, not Chuck.
	No, what's his name?
	What's his... Joe.
	Joe Scarborough.
	Yeah.
	He's in Florida.
	I think he's in the studio.
	She's whispering over to Mika saying, why is his mouth so small?
	What's the deal with that?
	I think Joe is in Florida in the studio.
	I don't think he's in Davos.
	Uh, so they're, the setting for them is, uh, what was it?
	The global citizens, uh, uh, you know, everyone has a house there.
	You have like the Holland house and the, the EU house.
	The Russian, what was once the Russian house is now the Russian.
	Yes.
	What is it they call it?
	Russian war crimes house.
	They changed it.
	The Global Citizen House.
	You know, Global Citizen, that's the douchebag outfit that does the big concert in Central Park every year.
	We know who sponsors it all, and it's Laurene Powell Jobs, and the whole Atlantic Magazine people, and Open Society people, and the banks.
	So Mika, of course, is hanging out there with Ursula.
	Now, when they start talking, Um, Mika does something kind of weird and uncomfortable, and it's not really of great news value, but Mika tries to throw out the, hey, wow, you're such an awesome woman!
	Especially one who's older!
	You know, she's trying to like...
	Do like a woke thing, you know?
	Like, this is so good.
	You're so good.
	And Ursula is taken aback.
	She's like, you bitch.
	Can't you see how old I am?
	What kind of bitch are you?
	That's what I was thinking.
	Why would you do that?
	You guys are already told never to go there.
	For some reason.
	My bit is always, oh, are you her sister?
	That's my old thing.
	Which always everybody appreciates.
	Yeah, I'll bet.
	I'll bet.
	So, and Ursula comes back to it a couple times.
	Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact at 63 in your 60s?
	And what is your advice to young women starting out?
	She's already like... She's doing it... No, hey!
	I'm gonna argue with your premise here.
	Okay.
	I think she's doing it on purpose.
	I think the two of them have some little fight going on here.
	Oh, alright.
	I will listen with virgin ears.
	Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact?
	One third possibility?
	Mika's insanely jealous.
	Because this should have been her career.
	Instead, she's got the dude with the small mouth.
	How about that?
	Okay, let's add that to the mix.
	Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact at 63 in your 60s?
	And what is your advice to young women starting out?
	So, of course, I did never imagine that.
	But what I always had were dreams.
	I love it.
	And if I can, I see many, many young people in this audience.
	That's wonderful.
	Of course, there are a few over 60 like me, I guess, but not so many.
	So I had dreams.
	And if I can give you one advice from my experience, it is never, ever let anybody make you a bad conscience about what you're doing.
	Never, ever.
	Stick to your dreams.
	Go for it.
	Tell that to Hitler.
	Because only then it is possible to see that you're going much wider than you ever dreamt.
	Go wider, Mika.
	And what the over 50s or 60 years old are concerned, there is a very nice saying in Germany that says, well, the young ones are running faster, but the older ones knows the shortcut.
	Oh!
	One of those, uh, one of those sayings from the old country.
	Oh yeah?
	Right there.
	So what do you think after hearing the whole thing?
	Is it A, Mika trying to be woke and it's failing?
	Is it B, Mika doing this on purpose because she has some cat fight with her?
	Or is it C, Mika's own shortcomings and jealousy?
	I think it's a combination of B and C. Okay.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I'll take it.
	I think the woke thing is... Maybe.
	It's possible, but she's no good at it.
	She's definitely not.
	I think it's D all of the above, probably.
	All right, so now they have a sit-down, and it's one of these where they're on the couch in what's clearly a hotel room.
	That's, you know, the window right behind them, and, you know, how they then sit like side-saddle looking at each other, which is really...
	It's a weird interview setting.
	I don't know why they do that, if that's because that's how women are supposed to interview them, but it wasn't very emancipating, I would say.
	And Mika dives right into the pre-screened questions.
	You'll even hear her sometimes.
	I cut out most of her questions, but in this case, I think I left the intro in.
	She's not just leading the witness.
	The witness gave her the question.
	EU countries continue to purchase billions of dollars of Russian oil and gas.
	Doesn't that undermine the sanctions from the West and also fuel Putin's war machine?
	So this is the core thing that everyone's talking about, has been talking about in the EU and in Davos, is are the sanctions working, but doesn't it actually kind of, isn't it failing because the price of petroleum products has gone up?
	And the key phrase, remember here, it's fueling Putin's war chest so we can commit more war.
	And the sanctions were always intended to stop exactly that.
	Is this backfiring?
	We have issued now five packages of sanctions.
	The sixth one is on the table and these sanctions are hitting the Russian economy hard and that's what they have to do.
	But you're also right, when this war, this invasion started, Europe was heavily dependent On Russian oil, gas and coal.
	We got rid of the coal by now.
	We are in the process of winding down the use of oil and we have just issued last week a big package.
	We call it Repower EU.
	Yeah, this is the big package.
	This is where we're going to save our skins and get off of all of Russian petroleum products.
	What was it?
	Refuel EU?
	What the hell did she call that?
	Yeah, we'll back it up and play it again.
	...have just issued last week a big package, we call it Repower EU, to get rid of the dependency of Russian gas.
	This is diversifying away from the Russian gas towards reliable suppliers like our friends in the United States.
	I have an agreement with President Biden on LNG gas, for example... How about that?
	How about that?
	Maybe that's why we're funding the Ukraine stuff, because we're gonna... Someone is going to get LNG from us.
	Could this mean additional resources are necessary from the US?
	This is kind of a backhanded deal.
	It's kind of a backhanded deal there.
	Yeah, yes.
	By the way, in the process, let's just screw our own public.
	Yes, with a price.
	And give the EU our gas that we could be using to heat our... For anything!
	For anything!
	For anything.
	We could turn it into plastic.
	We can use it for anything.
	All right.
	So that's part one.
	Like our friends in the United States, I have an agreement with President Biden on that NG gas, for example, that we'll replace from next year on one third of the Russian supply.
	So we're going to replace one third?
	That seems like a lot.
	That's a lot.
	I don't know that we have as many tankers as we need to get this stuff over there.
	This is impractical.
	It's not green by any means to take in and haul this natural gas instead of putting it in a pipeline and distributing it in the Northeast, instead of putting it in a tank or liquefying it, putting it in a tank or hauling it all the way to Europe and then selling it to them.
	It's not green by any means.
	Okay, I agree.
	Let's continue.
	Just saying, it's not good for the climate.
	Okay, it doesn't sound like a great idea.
	We got it, we got it.
	It could be good for some people here in America though.
	Oh yeah, if you got an empty wallet.
	You know, when you're running an oil company, you're running some sort of gasification operation.
	Sure.
	All right, here we go with this.
	Take farm.
	In the United States, I have an agreement with President Biden on that NG gas, for example, that will replace.
	This is by stop.
	The more that I hear this, it's a scandal.
	Okay.
	I consider it a scandal.
	With the shortage that we have and the price of gasoline here in this country, to be doing that is scandalous.
	But this is natural gas that's been liquefied, that's not the same as gas you put in your car.
	No, it's not.
	But you can mix that gas in.
	You can do a lot of stuff with it.
	You can do... It's part of total energy.
	It could go into the power plants.
	We have power plants.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay.
	You have to pay so much for electricity.
	I have to pay more.
	That's where it's a scandal.
	I agree.
	Okay.
	In the United States, I have an agreement with President Biden on energy gas, for example, that will replace, from next year on, one third of the Russian supply.
	The second part is energy saving, but the third part is the most... Okay, hold on a second.
	I love that she just did that.
	So she has three parts.
	And the second one, she says... What does she say here again?
	One third of the Russian supply.
	The second part is energy saving, but the third part is... She just skips over energy saving.
	Do you know what that means?
	It means austerity.
	Energy savings means you're going to have to turn off your gas supply.
	You're going to have to take shorter showers by law.
	All kinds of things.
	Use less electricity.
	Savings.
	She skips over it because that's where the pain is.
	By the way, scandal and scam.
	Shouldn't that be a scandal?
	Scandal.
	Scandal.
	I was just thinking of it as a word.
	All right.
	One third of the Russian supply.
	The second part is energy saving, but the third part is the most important, and this is accelerating the green transition.
	This is the investment, heavy investment, in renewable energy.
	Wind, sun, hydropower, hydrogen.
	Hydrogen, baby!
	Got any hydrogen?
	Well, she got the hydrogen in there.
	It's hydrogen.
	It's not hydrogen.
	It's hydrogen.
	Hydrogen.
	Hey, Gene!
	Hey, Gene!
	I'm wet!
	It's hydrogen.
	Wind, sun, hydropower, hydrogen.
	So this is the way to go.
	Therefore, if there's anything President Putin has achieved, it is that he lost his best client.
	Europe will never come back.
	And that he pushed us, and that's good, into the direction of renewable clean energy.
	Okay, so there it is, in a nutshell.
	He'll never get us back as a client.
	I mean, that seems pretty clear.
	There's no off ramp for Putin's efforts in Ukraine or whatever else he's doing.
	It's just end of story.
	She just said it.
	Yeah, but what she said is kind of dubious, and I'll tell you why.
	Weren't they moving toward green energy at a rapid pace as fast as they could anyway?
	And so now, what, he's accelerating?
	How can he go faster than fast?
	Well, it has accelerated, and Mika caught this too, John.
	Brought together NATO, as never before.
	Has brought together the European Union, as never before.
	And has inspired, as never before, the Green Revolution.
	There it is!
	That was the whole plan!
	Right there!
	Putin has inspired the Gre- We should have a statue.
	Vladimir Putin inspired the Green Revolution like never before!
	Never before!
	Look at all the Ukraine flag emojis!
	People are ready for this!
	Fuck you, Putin!
	Thanks for inspiring me to go green!
	Have some pain, it's gonna be good at the end.
	Yes, and I must say, his brutal aggression must be a strategic failure.
	Now this was weird for me.
	His brutal aggression must be a strategic failure.
	I'm not quite sure what she means.
	And this is what we're proving right now.
	So back then to an embargo, there's no chance of a full embargo, because wouldn't that be the most effective way to impose upon him that he has committed a strategic failure?
	So now what everybody knows is that Italy, mainly Italy and Germany, they're still buying gas from Russia.
	They're phasing out oil, as Queen Ursula said, but it's still going on.
	It's no big secret anymore that Italy in particular has found ways to pay Russia for the gas they're getting.
	Well, what we always have to do is find the right balance between not hurting our economy too much, because this is the strongest leverage we have against this Russian aggression, Putin's aggression.
	Putin's aggression.
	And I take the example of oil.
	Where we have to be careful is that if we would completely cut immediately, as of today, of the oil, he might be able to take the oil that he does not sell to the European Union to the world market, where the prices will increase, and sell it for more.
	And that's fill his war chest.
	So we have to be very strategic in the way we approach that topic.
	And therefore, it is also so important.
	What a weasel.
	He's weaseling her way out.
	Let her finish.
	Let her finish.
	She's about to wrap this up.
	And sell it for more.
	And that's fill his war chest.
	So we have to be very strategic in the way we approach that topic.
	And therefore, it is also so important that we convene the rest of the world to really make sure that we that we deplete his war chest.
	So a full embargo would really be years away?
	Over time what we do is get rid of the overall dependency of Russian fossil fuels all three of them and never to go back again.
	This is Mika.
	It was orgasmic for her.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Okay, so that could not be more clear.
	And, of course, the next question you'd expect is, well, what will Russia do?
	What will Russia do when the European Union takes none of their products?
	Has anyone thought about this?
	I mean, isn't the answer kind of obvious?
	They link up with China and Iran and create their own front?
	I mean, surely this cannot be a well-thought-out globalist position.
	Definitely not.
	We'll finish it up here with Mika and Ursula.
	So with that in mind, what have we, you, learned about the Russian invasion?
	What have we, you, learned?
	And it's weaponization of its energy relationship with the EU.
	This is why I love this clip.
	So with all that, all this, you know, we're going to cut them off, we're not going to be their customer, none of their products ever again.
	Mika comes out and says, so, you know, how do you feel about Russia weaponizing their energy?
	Excuse me?
	You're weaponizing their energy!
	Am I carrying water for Putin now?
	You've been carrying water for Putin for months.
	It's because of the hydrogen.
	So with that in mind, what have we, you, learned about the Russian invasion and its weaponization of its energy relationship with the EU?
	And does it set off in any way alarm bells about the EU's economic relationship or dependency with China?
	So the fossil fuel dependency with Russia is a unique one, if I may say so.
	And this is something where we are working hard now to get rid of it.
	I would take the bigger picture.
	I think for us in the democracies, we're standing up.
	against the aggressor, the autocrat that is trying, who's trying to wipe out Ukraine from the map and therefore others are watching very closely whether we will win that struggle, that battle and therefore it is so important that we are successful and we are successful in making clear that this is not acceptable, this falling back into behavior of the last century.
	So is the China issue sort of a little bit down the road, but more clear now?
	I mean, what can and should the U.S.
	and the EU be doing together to more effectively manage China's expansionist goals?
	Yeah, by helping them make friends with Russia.
	It seems like a great plan.
	Economically and militarily.
	I think it is very important that we show the resolve that we're showing right now towards the Russian aggression and invasion.
	With China, we have a threefold approach.
	We are very clear that we say there are some topics where we are negotiating partners, for example, fighting climate change.
	Yeah, how about Uyghurs?
	The same interest.
	My children.
	We are economic competitors, but we are systemic rivals when it comes, for example, to human rights issues.
	Oh, there it is.
	That, by the way, is a beauty.
	Systemic rivals.
	Isn't that beautiful?
	It takes me back.
	It's just like, wow.
	Great phrase.
	But it's literally true.
	They have different systems.
	Yeah, it is true, but you could phrase it a lot of different ways, but that little gem there is going to hold up.
	Systemic rivals.
	We'll keep it in the vault.
	Keep it in play.
	OK, now, because this is the No Agenda show, the next two clips are unique to what we do.
	Why are they unique?
	Because the content that's in them is it you know it takes a little bit to get into to get out of it what's was really there and the main reason is it's george soros and
	Davos ends, the whole Davos experience isn't over until they've had the big George Soros, I don't know if it's the George Soros or Open Society or whatever it is, it's a big dinner, he gives a speech, and then there's questions and answers.
	The question and answer video is in the show notes.
	It's well worth watching the whole thing, it's like 45 minutes.
	They have a name for it, it's called the George Soros Show.
	It's the George Soros Show!
	Hey everybody!
	It's the George Soros Show!
	Um...
	And anybody who's... everybody who's anybody, anybody who's anybody, is invited to this.
	And it's fun to watch people asking questions, because it's in a dinner setting.
	So George is up on stage with a guy who has a microphone in his hands.
	He's kind of holding... it's like a stick microphone, you know, like a singing microphone.
	He's holding it... sure, actually.
	He's holding it in his hands really tight.
	And then he's sitting right next to Soros.
	And when Soros doesn't understand something, the guy goes into that mic It's not amplified.
	You don't hear that.
	It's going into his ear.
	And the guy's sitting there with a fucking honker of a mic.
	What?
	Yeah.
	And the guy's on the phone next to him, you know, and he's checking stuff and he's doing that.
	He's whispering a little bit in his ear from time to time.
	But also fun is when a woman stands up and you look at the other tables behind it, and they're all decked out.
	These are the beautiful people.
	These are the elites.
	Elites from news.
	I say mainly a lot of news elites because a lot of the journalists were not working there.
	They were invited guests a la Bilderberg and these types of clubs.
	And you can see the women looking at these other women, eyeing them up and down and checking everything.
	It's really worth watching that.
	So judgmental, some of those women.
	The men are just eating like pigs.
	Not looking at anything.
	They're journalists.
	Journalists at a table.
	They eat like pigs.
	He might as well put a trough.
	And then you get guys getting up and asking questions, which he has to like to ask you questions.
	And then he tells his whole life story and everything he thinks and what he believes.
	And it's like, you know, 10 minutes of just postulizing to make himself look smart.
	People are falling asleep with their face and their food.
	And George is, I mean, he's, it's amazing the guy's alive.
	So, there were two main things that he wanted to make clear.
	And so I took the first one, which is the long one, and I cut out almost every single happenstance of him doing...
	It was an eight-minute...
	Getting DeSoto's voice down, that's pretty good.
	Well, I've been listening to it for hours this morning, and I cut it all out.
	We'll need to stop during some of this first clip.
	Okay.
	We got the picture.
	You produced the thing to death.
	I had to, yeah.
	So let's play.
	It's a very interesting subject, and I think that... Just a sec, he's talking about the oil embargo.
	I'm sorry, it's hilarious already.
	But can you, you think you can understand him?
	Because I mean... Uh, yeah, here's the... No, but...
	I have the feeling, and I think you should let it go for a minute, that it's... I listened to this guy before, and once you pick it up, it's like a Cockney accent.
	Yeah.
	Once you pick up what the hell he's trying to say, you can start to understand it.
	So I think everyone will feel the same way.
	Just let it go.
	All right.
	But that's why I stopped it to set it up.
	The question is about the oil embargo.
	Will it work?
	Is this the right way to go?
	The oil embargo...
	It's a very interesting subject, and I think that Putin has been very clever in sort of blackmailing Europe, threatening to cut off the gas.
	But actually his case is much less strong than he pretends.
	Because last year he didn't release gas, but put it into the Russian reserves.
	Okay, so in case anyone is still getting into it, he's saying, hey, this whole oil thing and this embargo is really this kind of...
	Crazy, because Putin doesn't have a position as strong as everybody thinks, and the main reason is, and he'll get the details, is because Putin has been putting the gas supply that he's not been sending over to Europe into the Russian reserves, which is, you know, I guess a big storage.
	And by doing that, he pushed up the price of gas enormously and basically made a lot of money.
	I think since the embargo was imposed, Russia has made a lot more money.
	Let me tell you, it was a minute and a half for him to say that sentence.
	But since the embargo, he's made a lot more money.
	This is exactly what Mika and Nerstler were talking about.
	Hey, isn't this backfiring?
	Isn't this filling his war chest?
	Then was impounded by the very clever trick of the US to seize the dollar assets of the Russia.
	So he filled up the reservoirs that Russia has and they'll be full in July.
	And if he doesn't release it somewhere They'll overflow.
	And because the equipment is so antiquated and badly preserved, he will have to start shutting down the he will have to start shutting down the oil fields in Siberia that are producing the gas.
	Could you imagine this guy and Joe Biden having an argument?
	So this is interesting information.
	He says the Russian reserve tanks will be full by July at the pace he's going and so he will have to start shutting down his, what Soros calls, antiquated production facilities and that has an interesting consequence.
	...that are producing the gas.
	And because of this old equipment, if you restart it, you lose at least half the output.
	And this is starting in July.
	So he's actually in a crisis.
	And he has managed somehow to terrify Europe.
	He's basically bluffing.
	He is in a tight situation.
	He has to do something with that gas.
	And the only place that can absorb it, because the pipelines are in existence, is Europe.
	So Europe has a much stronger position than it recognizes.
	And I have approached the authorities to point this out.
	I've sent it to Draghi because he is the man who is most capable in championing this.
	Uh, the letter has been sent.
	I sent it yesterday.
	So the word is out.
	The letter has been sent.
	Wait, wait.
	He said somebody, he named somebody.
	Mario Draghi.
	He's the prime minister.
	Oh, definitely.
	Italy, the very country that is continuing to buy Russian goods.
	And what Soros is saying, and the letter has been sent.
	He went on to say, I haven't heard back, sent an email, so I don't mind discussing it here.
	He said, I hope that Draghi himself would come out and say that.
	So this is, he was a little surprised.
	So he said that in this public setting because he didn't get a response right away.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	So he wouldn't have said this otherwise.
	That's correct.
	We'd still be in the dark.
	That's correct.
	So this is new information.
	Yes, and it's a big deal because what he's describing is the collapse of the natural gas market that speculators should know about.
	This is something that he would, you know, this is the kind of something that he would be in on.
	This is how he makes his money.
	Exactly.
	He's what he does.
	He's a professional.
	And so he's didn't get the results he wanted in a normal fashion of sneaky, sneaky.
	And so he says, okay, let's blow this information out and see what happens with it.
	Now, everybody, this'll take a while before the investment community finds out about it.
	I mean, our show's a little ahead of the game, generally speaking, as anyone who listens to it knows.
	And once they do, this is going to be a situation that's going to occur.
	Now, Russia could do a number of things.
	They could flare off gas.
	If what he says is true, which I don't fully believe... You do or you don't fully believe?
	I don't fully believe it.
	What I don't believe is that to restart the wells, the gas wells in Siberia, he's going to loot because of the equipment being junk.
	Well, I love Gitmo Nation because we'll get an answer from that before the show is over.
	We have people who know that stuff down.
	They got that down cold.
	So we'll find out.
	Well, there's also the possibility of replacing the junk equipment.
	That is not impossible.
	There's plenty of fenders in the United States.
	I think it takes a while to spin that up, though.
	But anyway, yeah, of course.
	With all the money he could build, he could be building new stuff now.
	You don't need, I mean, what's the rush, the way I see it?
	If you have to shut down the wells, bring in the Chinese engineers, bring in Indian engineers, bring in our engineers, bring in new people.
	Now, you say the market will collapse?
	Wouldn't that make the market go crazy?
	No, if he shuts down the wells, it would make him go crazy, but if he doesn't shut down the wells and they have all this excess and they're still pumping, the market should collapse.
	Oh, right.
	Okay.
	So it could go, you know, who knows?
	What was interesting is to hear Soros talk about the pipelines, and I believe that to be largely true, knowing the pipelines of Europe.
	Not all of them, of course, there's a lot, but having studied many of them since episode, what, 600 or something?
	I'm pretty sure he's right about the fact that the true way for him to get it out of his storage is through the pipeline network.
	It's not really something he's going to do Siberia and start some LNG there and ship it where, I don't know.
	So, that part I think is right.
	I think so too.
	I think he's probably right.
	I think what he said is largely true.
	About losing half of it is the thing that I have issues with.
	Now if we were engaged as the Curry-Dvorak consulting group, here's the recommendation I would give to Putin.
	You ready?
	Turn your excess gas, once your tanks are full in July, into on-site containers of Bitcoin mining machines.
	Power that.
	By gas?
	Yeah.
	And just mint the crap out of Bitcoin.
	Just be mining all day long with that excess gas.
	Can you imagine?
	Well, it's a different solution, that's for sure.
	No.
	Hey, it's Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
	You want the regular fare?
	Go get McKinsey.
	Well, McKenzie's not going to be much use, either.
	No, if you want... What do you mean, either?
	If you want out-of-the-box thinking... Sorry about the either.
	Well, yeah, either.
	All right, so... Any more?
	Yes, I have one more clip, and this is maybe even more mind-blowing.
	This is George Soros, and he's 98, by the way, so it's amazing the guy can talk at all, really, you know, considering how he's... And still make more money than we can.
	Considering he kind of always spoke like this, it's not his natural, you know, his native tongue, he's always done this long-winded crap, which makes him that much more interesting, which is why it's unique to us to really listen and hear what he's saying, because other people heard it too.
	Um, so now we have, this is, this was mind-boggling.
	So this is one of the, those guys who was asking a question the whole setup, his whole life, and he ends it with this bit before, you know, he goes into the actual question.
	Oh no, actually, this is his fear.
	What can we do?
	Oh my God, the sky is falling.
	George Soros, help us!
	I think you're right that in the end Olaf Scholz and the Germans have always done the right thing but I think that the European project and the unity of the West is going to be tested in ways that it hasn't been tested for a long time in the months ahead and I was wondering what you think
	We can do now, during this period of time before 2024, to help Europe hang together and also to prepare for a world where, I hope it won't happen, but where Trump returns to the White House.
	He's deathly afraid of Trump returning to the White House!
	What do we do?
	Who was that guy?
	He's a German journalist.
	We went on for ten minutes.
	What is the problem with these people?
	Well, there's... Again, this is Davos.
	These people believe all the dope that they're handing out.
	He believes the metaverse will save the world economy.
	Well, it's not over.
	I mean, that was just the question.
	I mean, can you play that part again where he stumbles all over?
	Sure.
	...do now during this period of time before 2024 to help Europe hang together and also to prepare for a world where, I hope it won't happen, but where Trump returns to the White House.
	He specifically says 2024.
	I mean, that's the date of the U.S.
	general election, so... The guy's... he's truly freaked about it.
	I don't know.
	What are we missing?
	Well, what you're missing is what George is about to say.
	I have actually been very impressed by the unity and decisiveness and the willingness So, I'll kind of spoil it up front.
	What he's saying is, we're in such a unique position right now.
	We are saving the world.
	More of a federation.
	So I'll kind of spoil that up front.
	What he's saying is we're in such a unique position right now.
	We are saving the world.
	We are saving Ukraine.
	We are the world.
	We are the children.
	That we need to use this moment in time to strengthen the federation, the European Union federation.
	Not just any federation, the financial federation.
	So, this idea of the partial federation... He says... What he meant was... I had to listen to it three times.
	He meant financial federation, but it came out as... More of a federation.
	So, this idea of the partial federation superseding confederation.
	is a very important step forward.
	And I think what is more actually discussed, and I didn't discuss in my paper, that Europe is incomplete.
	Europe is incomplete.
	Uh-oh.
	A project.
	And it has a central bank, but it doesn't have a treasury.
	Europe is incomplete because it has a central bank, but it doesn't have a treasury.
	And the needs Financial needs that Europe has to face are so enormous that you need to take that additional step and also benefit from the positive developments in Europe and allow
	The European Union to raise its own source of income so that it can borrow in the commercial markets.
	So Europe needs its own treasury so it can raise its own social income, not quite sure what that means, in the commercial markets.
	That is a missing step.
	And there isn't yet a really determined policy on this.
	So, to meet the tremendous needs, financial needs, Europe must use its improved credibility to actually borrow market in its own name.
	Because right now, it can only borrow from its member states.
	It hasn't yet the ability to borrow from the market.
	And that needs to be repaired.
	I think this is big news.
	Because he kind of said that's in the works.
	You know, if this guy lived long enough, you'd hear the following.
	The problem with the project is not complete.
	We have our own central bank, we have our own treasury, but we don't have our own military.
	Well, his son Alexander will carry the flag, no doubt.
	And then the Europeans will have completed the project of being a giant Fourth Reich.
	Yeah, there it is.
	And the UK out of it.
	Yep.
	And then there'll be a bomb in the UK again, London.
	Yep.
	Although it'd be cyber bombs or something more sophisticated.
	This is not the kinetic club.
	This group is not kinetic.
	Although some of the old guys still like blowing shit up.
	You gotta blow stuff up.
	But of course... You spend a lot of money and then you get more money to spend.
	But this sets everything up.
	This is a perfect setup.
	Because if you have a treasury, then you also have centralized taxation, I would think.
	Oh, that would be another one missing.
	Yeah.
	Central, of course, you have to fund the treasury.
	Which we're trying to do with the world tax.
	It's like our version of the world government is going to be competing with their version of the world government at some point.
	We have to face that.
	Well, and you're right about the army because for the euro to become the default reserve currency, which is obviously what the founder The brains behind the European project have always wanted.
	You need to have, in order for the Euro to have the full faith and credit of the European Union, you got to back it up with guns.
	That's how the big fiat reserve currency game is played.
	And they're making their move.
	Well, George is making the move.
	Well, they're making their moves.
	I sent an email to Draghi.
	They're sidetracking themselves with this Green New Deal crap.
	Well no, but this is all to fund the Green New Deal.
	Yeah, I'm saying that, but you can see the results.
	They're freezing to death.
	They already screwed up the deal with Russia where they had cheap gas coming in like no tomorrow.
	Couldn't figure out how to stop the Ukrainian thing, which could have been done.
	It's been mentioned a lot in the military, I don't want to call them the trades, but like Defense One and some of these other newsletters, and Biden coming out when everyone else say, no, don't worry about it, even in Ukraine.
	No, they're going to attack.
	They're going to attack this week or next week or the week after.
	And whose authority did that come?
	Who knew that?
	And if you did know it, which somebody apparently did because it happened, Uh, much of the chagrin of everybody.
	If you knew that weeks in advance, why didn't you throw every, uh, every diplomatic tool you had in the box at the situation before it happened and give, gave, give Russia what it wanted, which was who knows what now?
	We can't tell.
	Instead of just letting it happen.
	So they screwed up every which way.
	This project of theirs stinks.
	It's poorly managed by lots of morons.
	This is why we have the great reset.
	The reset's not what you think it is.
	I think it's not going to happen either.
	I will say my feeling, and I talk to people of course, mainly in the Netherlands, If you think the Europeans are going to protest energy prices and freezing to death in their homes, I think we know that's going to be short-lived.
	Look at the COVID lockdowns.
	People went out, protested, got their heads cracked open, went back home.
	That was, that was the whole precursor.
	Well, if the whole situation, then there's no reason for a great reset.
	You just, you got, you got them.
	You got the things over.
	It's a great, it's a great, it's a great currency reset.
	That's really what I think is going to have to happen.
	Something with the currencies and this, this is why he's calling for a treasury.
	Maybe it's central bank digital currencies.
	I don't know.
	I think your tax thing was on the money.
	Well, that's always a plus.
	It's just a new way to gouge everyone.
	But how about borrowing money from, you know, central banks that just print it up?
	I mean, isn't that the dream?
	Modern monetary theory?
	Let's build the European Union project on that?
	Yeah, well, then it brings in the argument that, well, if you can do that, why tax anyone for anything?
	What's the point of taxing if you can just print money?
	Control mechanism.
	Well, then you don't need to print the money.
	You just tax the people to death.
	And by the way, the old taxes will be in play.
	I mean, it's like the VAT over there is ludicrous.
	The amount of money you pay taxes just to buy something is ridiculous.
	I got a bonus clip, 21 seconds from the dinner.
	A little bonus clip.
	Ukraine today is rendering tremendous service to Europe and to the Western world, to open society.
	Our survival.
	Ukraine is rendering an enormous service to our Western world.
	Open society, of course, is his double entendre.
	Did he say survival at the end?
	Yes, he did say survival at the end.
	It's existential, man.
	Old crap.
	Don't be flippin' me, man.
	Y'all, there's gonna be a huge opportunity for all the big contractors to rebuild your crane from scratch.
	Keep bombin' it.
	It'll be one of the most modern countries in the world.
	Yeah.
	Well, there you go.
	The hydrogen stuff I still find kind of fascinating.
	There's lots of people sent me lots of information about hydrogen.
	I saw the video where the thing is Toyota is storing the hydrogen in these disks that then can be pulled out with a laser and you and you and you and you and you and you emailed me and said, that's scammish.
	So you think?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	It was on a car podcast.
	Well, you know, on that on that website that the company, I forget the name of them already.
	I should take some notes.
	Maduro.
	Who's on the board of directors?
	Who's the CEO?
	There's no mention of any of these people.
	I don't know.
	Well, this one guy's an inventor.
	He invented one thing, uh, which he thinks is... Well, they showed, but they showed videos.
	They showed videos.
	Uh, there's like an industrial video of this stuff, supposedly working with a laser, you know, beaming into the stored hydrogen on a disc.
	I mean, the dream is great.
	And the guy even insinuates, well, you know, this was kept under wraps during the Obama administration and the Trump administration, making it sound like it was a miracle.
	Well, I did a little research because I'm fascinated by hydrogen technology.
	So what we're talking about is nothing more than magnesium hydride.
	That's all it is.
	And magnesium hydride, which is the chemical on those disks, It has about 6.5 to 7.2 percent hydrogen.
	I think you have about 6.8 that can be taken out and put back, taken out and put back maybe 50 to 100 times depending on the technology.
	The Japanese have been working on this for a lot of time and the Chinese have been working on this for a long time.
	And this guy's, but yes, best price.
	And this guy has been getting pretty much the same patent over and over and over again since about, I think it's, I know 2012 for sure, but maybe as far back as 2008.
	And it's essentially his way of taking the hydrogen out and putting it back and taking that, putting it back.
	And he, the thing is with magnesium hydride, which is what we're dealing with here with five or 6%, 6%, let's say hydrogen that can be removed and replaced.
	Uh, it takes 300 degrees to get it out to break the magnesium hydride bonds and release the hydrogen, which is what the laser's for.
	Release the hydrogen!
	And it's not a new technology and this idea of using recycled junk to get hydrogen from methane or methane mix or whatever comes off of garbage as it rots is supposedly one of these little gimmicks that makes it green, a very green technology.
	Yes, green hydrogen.
	Even if you start reading between the lines on his own website, This thing is pretty much bigger than a giant battery.
	It's bulky.
	And the bulkiness, it doesn't show any of that, of course, in these displays.
	You've got this little disc, it's like a little CD, that's what you think.
	I actually have a PDF of the Green Hydrogen and I got a I got a note from a producer, which maybe I should just share with you before we continue.
	I don't know anything about this.
	You're the guy that knows about this.
	He says, I've been hired to study the hydrogen economy.
	And he attached a paper, which he did not write, but it's a public paper, so I put it in the show notes.
	Here's the short of it.
	There's nothing better than 100 LL and Jet A1.
	That's never going to change.
	Hydrogen has a major infrastructure problem and will not be installed into existing pipelines.
	NIMBY, not in my backyard.
	If hydrogen were to develop, steam methane reforming will be how it will develop.
	It's proven technology and it's used every day to make fertilizer, etc.
	But it creates a lot of CO2.
	If clean hydrogen were to develop, it would be via the green hydrogen model using electrolysis.
	A waste of time, he says in parens.
	It requires a ridiculous quantity of nearly perfect distilled water.
	We cannot even make clean drinking water in California.
	And the energy required would be higher than the energy we can get from the H2 itself.
	Yeah.
	I believe that to be true.
	I believe that to be true.
	No, it is true.
	It takes too much energy to break it, and then you don't get as much back when you burn it.
	So once again, they're full of crap.
	They're smoking their own dope out there.
	They believe that that's, that's, you know, we heard... Well, but that's not the same as the magnesium hydride.
	No, I know, I know, but that was just a side thing, and you're debunking it.
	So, it's good.
	Fuck those guys.
	They're no good.
	The magnesium boys.
	The magnesium men.
	Get rid of them.
	It reminds me of Hyperloop.
	There's a guy in Colorado...
	Who I may have even chatted with him once.
	Yes.
	You just remembered the chat?
	That was weird.
	You're like, yes.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Oh, that was a good chat I guess.
	It was a while ago and I can't remember if I just knew about him.
	Yeah.
	Somebody introduced me.
	I think I had a phone conversation.
	Anyway, he has, and what he emphasizes, he has all the patents that Elon Musk wants.
	The ceiling patents, the vacuum patents.
	Oh, really now?
	Oh, he's got everything.
	He's got patent after patent on this technology.
	And he's got a test track somewhere.
	I think it's up in Colorado or somewhere.
	I think Elon has one too.
	But Elon can't, according to him, can't get past these patents.
	Why wouldn't Elon license them from him?
	You know, that's a question I didn't ask and I should have, but I think it's, I think Elon doesn't like doing that.
	I think Elon like wants stuff.
	He doesn't like that.
	You know, if you start licensing from someone and they keep patenting away like maniacs, you're kind of indebted to him.
	You might as well just give them the operation.
	It depends.
	And he may want too much money for his patents.
	Well, Elon may want a patent, but not going to pay that much.
	It's impractical in Silicon Valley.
	I mean, Apple pays all kinds of companies licensing fees for patents of their cell technology.
	I mean, it's kind of a normal thing.
	Yes, but it's a merry-go-round.
	I'm using your patents.
	You're using my patents.
	You've got my chips.
	I'm using your patents.
	I use a license for you, and you give me a license.
	I give you a license.
	So it's a wash.
	They're patent swingers.
	I think they are.
	Okay.
	Moving on to just a few, actually.
	So that's the end of hydrogen for us.
	For now, for now.
	Well, you know, I was doing some research and I did not know the following.
	The Hindenburg, which famously exploded in or caught fire in New Jersey.
	The Elmhurst.
	The Elmhurst, yes.
	Oh, the humanity video.
	Who hasn't seen it?
	The supposed reason for the fire was a static spark and the fact that the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen.
	Now, what I learned is that the- Stop saying hydrogen, because there's actually a trademark product called that.
	It's not hydrogen.
	Well, maybe... Can you make energy from it?
	I don't mind you making... I do that same thing, but this one's annoying.
	Okay.
	I don't want... God forbid I annoy you.
	Yeah, I know.
	You don't want to annoy me.
	So it was filled with hydrogen, and that was a... And to this day, it's like, oh, hydrogen is very, very bad.
	Where a lot of people have said there's a lot of good to hydrogen and does have some issues, but what I learned is that this was not the first time the Hindenburg came over.
	We had an airship industry in the world in the 1800s.
	People were choosing this over Ship travel across the ocean.
	It was still faster.
	It was incredible.
	We had that USS Akron and we had a bunch of these.
	We had that big giant hangar in Moffett Field.
	Yep.
	Down here was the giant hangars for one of those things.
	It was incredible luxury.
	People really liked it.
	It was like a luxury liner, only in the sky.
	It was much smoother.
	You didn't get seasick.
	You can fly around the weather.
	Oh yeah, you're going 70 miles an hour, but you did it in 10 days instead of 18 days.
	But what's interesting is the Hindenburg had made the crossing 34 times!
	On helium!
	This was the first time the Hindenburg crossed on hydrogen.
	And the entire world's press was there waiting for the Hindenburg, why that was special, the 34th trip versus the first.
	It's baffling!
	There is also, as far as I know, in the research I've done, there's no actual video or film or photograph of the initial spark, of when it happened.
	It's only the flames and it's coming down.
	So, you know, you just got to wonder about that stuff.
	Is hydrogen, what is, I mean, can you see a good future for hydrogen in any form that makes sense for the energy mix or anything else?
	Getting high off of it?
	Can we breathe hydrogen?
	Will that help?
	You have a nice squeaky voice.
	I thought that was helium.
	Same thing.
	They like gas.
	You can breathe in.
	Argon, for example, is a good gas to breathe in.
	And you get this huge, deep voice.
	The problem with doing it with argon is you can't breathe it out because it's a heavy gas and it just lays in your lungs and you drop dead.
	Okay, let's not do that.
	That's off the checklist.
	So just for the people out there who are leery of these things, If you get, I use argon a lot in wine.
	For wine, yeah.
	And so, and in fact, rich vineyards is one of the few wineries that actually uses it instead of carbon dioxide or nitrogen when they cork the bottle.
	And it's better because it sits on top of it.
	So if you think you've breathed, or if you're going to play around with that stupid idea of getting a deep voice, you have to, you lay down on a bed and get yourself kind of upside down.
	So it literally flows down?
	Yeah, it'll flow, I get, that's the only, it's because some of it will get stuck in your lungs, but that, because it's a heavy gas, you have to literally, if you get one of those things where you hang upside down, yeah, and then boom, come right out.
	But then, but then you lose the deep voice.
	If you were upside down breathing in argon and then as it came out and you were exhaling and talking in the deep voice and also being oxygen depleted, which is the same with helium by the way, but it comes right out of you.
	So, so, so, so far we have cheesy gimmicks and sealing wine.
	Any other uses for hydrogen you can think of?
	No, this was argon I'm talking about.
	Okay, back to hydrogen.
	Yes, it's the only clean fuel for jet engines if they're adapted for hydrogen.
	So they don't give out any, you think you have vapor trails now?
	Wow, I was just thinking about that.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's a great fuel.
	In fuel cells, it's very old technology.
	It's just the fuel cells are not efficient or why don't people use it?
	What is the main downside of storage and transport?
	Storage of the fuel, you have to have 10,000 pounds per square inch tanks that are made out of fiberglass because you have to really compress a lot of hydrogen to get it into the tanks.
	And you still only go 300 miles on the tank.
	So it's the same kind of problem with the electric cars.
	You can't get that far.
	Refilling though, the hydrogen is really fast.
	So that's something.
	Yeah, it's like you're done, right?
	Well, it's just like, I think it's a little faster than filling up a tank of gas.
	Oh, okay.
	We'll see.
	But not hours on end.
	Well, these are all good things to know.
	And please, for those of you who know much better than us, it's john at dvorak.org.
	Because, you know, everyone's going to email me.
	Hey, what's talking about?
	I'm good.
	I'm a hydrogen expert. - Hmm.
	Two more quick things, just in general, because we've been talking about them as a part of what's going on with the economy, certainly in the United States.
	The first thing is, we were looking for a 70s fractal of price control, which is what Nixon famously probeered, probeered?
	That was Dutch.
	Tried in, or implemented in, I think, 74?
	Uh, and it failed miserably.
	As they always do, and that's what he was told.
	And he was a Republican, and they were the ones against the idea.
	Uh, well, so, Senator Elizabeth Warren is has put a bill in, which is called the Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2022.
	It prohibits, quote, unconscionable excessive prices at any point in a supply chain or distribution network during an, quote, exceptional market shock triggered by a range of events, including public health emergency, The law applies to any good or service offered in commerce and would authorize the Federal Trade Commission and State Attorneys General to enforce the prohibition.
	Additionally, during exceptional market shocks, the law requires public companies to disclose and explain changes in pricing and gross margins in quarterly SEC filings, raising the specter of SEC enforcement with respect to those disclosures.
	Now, so this can only happen I'm going to ask you about this in a moment.
	That sounds like price controls to me.
	Would you agree?
	It's so convoluted.
	I could agree or disagree.
	I don't know.
	But what she's saying is in the certain circumstance, or what the act says, in certain circumstances such as a public health emergency, any other emergency like that could be a war in Ukraine, you know, and that's an exceptional market shock.
	All these things are defined.
	An exceptional market shock.
	In that case, If prices are going up, then the government can step in and say, no, no, no, you can't raise your prices.
	Sounds like price control.
	Yeah, I would say that's yes.
	It only happens during an exceptional market shock.
	And it has to show that said companies have unfair leverage.
	in order to take advantage.
	What is unfair leverage?
	And this is the last, Pete, and I'll just read the definition.
	Unfair leverage is earning $1 billion in revenue in the last year, discriminating between otherwise equal trading partners, being a critical trading partner, or having a characteristic described in any rule issued by the or having a characteristic described in any rule issued by the FTC further defining unfair leverage. - Businesses earning less than $100 million in gross U.S.
	revenue during the preceding year can raise an affirmative defense by showing a preponderance of evidence the increase in price is directly attributable to additional costs outside of the business's control.
	Wow, let's just add more bureaucracy, there's nothing... Brother.
	And this will fail, of course, because we know they always fail, as you just said.
	They always fail.
	No, they do.
	I'd learned something else about Elizabeth Warren, which is kind of relevant to the show.
	She's nuts.
	She's evil.
	You'll recall that we found out from a producer that Bose, specifically Bose, had lobbied and spent a lot of money lobbying Elizabeth Warren.
	To have the change in hearing aids made, where amplification devices could, which is what Silicon Valley has, you know, the, hey, you get these in the mail, you put them in, boop, boop, boop, you shoot some tones into your ear, you got hearing aids, it works perfectly!
	And I've been against this from the beginning.
	You're on the warpath.
	I am, yes, because it cheats people.
	Against Elizabeth Warren.
	Yes!
	Yeah, AdamMcCurry.com.
	That's right, baby.
	I'm on the warp.
	I'm hunting down Pocahontas.
	I'm not letting up.
	It's bad because you need an audiologist.
	You and I know sound.
	So when I hear sound like this is the sound I want, people don't understand that who have never dealt with this.
	They just hear shit.
	And so when you do that, and I've tried these products, they're not great.
	They're not good at all, at all, not compared to the rather expensive high tech that is available on the market today.
	So, the whole idea was so that Bose could get into this market, they are known for audio products, and she proposed a bill that would allow these devices to use the term hearing aids, even though I disagree with the categorization.
	It was redefined to benefit some company that gave her a lot of money.
	So, yes, exactly what happened, and she did it, the bill went through, it happened, and the whole world started delivering the promise of hearing aids that you can just get them at home, you pop them in, you configure it yourself, it's great, it works perfect.
	It's like the straightening your teeth operation.
	Yeah, exactly like that.
	Um, so, last, um, was it Friday, I think?
	Yeah, it was, uh, maybe Thursday?
	No, Thursday night.
	After the Thursday night show, I'm going to bed and I go to take my hearing aids out.
	And my hearing aids are behind the ear.
	That's a little, little small device that contains each processor, quad core, massively cool technology, a little wire, and then what they call the transmitter, which goes into your ear.
	It's really a speaker, but they call it the transmitter.
	And on that transmitter is a rubber dome.
	And the rubber dome is to block, you know, it's to really make the transmitter sit comfortably in your ear canal.
	Um, you know, otherwise not banging around the sides.
	And also the shape and design of that dome is incredibly important and can be customized by a professional to add, you know, outside sounds of appropriate for your situation.
	So I take my hearing aids out.
	My hearing aid comes out, but the dome is still stuck in my ear canal.
	And I panicked.
	It's a very weird feeling.
	I'm like, hold it.
	This is deep in your ear canal, so you can't even really see it.
	Can I just stick your hand in there and pull it out?
	Well, of course, Tina's like, hey, let me get the tweezers.
	Flashlight.
	And I'm like, hold on, let me just do a little search here.
	Ah, if this happens, if the dome pops off, one, don't panic.
	Okay, I feel better.
	Two, never yourself or let a family member or friend try to get it out.
	Go to an audiologist.
	So I find one in Fredericksburg and I go there the next day and this thing is in my ear.
	And of course, it's in my ear during the day anyway, but now I can't hear.
	It's a good thing it didn't happen on Saturday.
	I would have had to wait.
	Yes!
	I was quite worried about that because it's blocking off the sound to my ear now.
	Actually, that's my best ear, my left one.
	So it's kind of equal with the right, but now I'm pretty deaf.
	And I can't just reinsert the hearing aid.
	So, I find the audiologist here in Fredericksburg, nice guy, Brad.
	He gets the equivalent of what's a roach clip, like a high-end medical roach clip, with the tiniest little roach clip on the end, like a scissors.
	And he puts on his headlight, and he goes, and then he pulls it out.
	And then we're talking, because, you know, he's like, oh, are you looking to establish care?
	And he says, I live here, of course.
	You're my audiologist now.
	I like you.
	And so we start chatting.
	I talk about this scam that Elizabeth Warren set up.
	He said, well, You know, on the boards.
	So I've got the right guy.
	Says, you know, on all the audiologist boards and the dark web where we talk about stuff.
	Bose has already withdrawn all their products because they found out they can't get them to work properly and people are disappointed with their choice.
	So there you go, Elizabeth Warren.
	Oh, complete fail.
	You know what she said to that when it happened?
	No.
	No sweat off my balls.
	I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the court, Argonne.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Mr. John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships at sea.
	Ah, boots on the ground, feet in the air, substance in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	You okay there, Chief?
	Everything good?
	You rockin' and rollin'?
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	I see you all, trolls.
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	Let's thank our artists.
	One second.
	Our artists for episode 1454.
	We titled that one Green Transition, which is exactly what the EU is going through.
	And we want to thank Darren O'Neill for his artwork, which was really kind of not about the energy part.
	We always like to have the art and the title be about different topics.
	We try to, but different topics discussed in the show.
	This was about the speech being violent online and it was just a simple violence-o-meter which showed you free speech on the green zone and violent speech in the red zone and of course no agenda is spiking all the way, the needle is stuck in the violent speech zone.
	And this was our choice.
	Silence is violence, huh?
	Because that doesn't make sense.
	So we had a lot to choose from here.
	Yes, we did.
	And we argued about a bunch of it.
	And I'm not being offensive to...
	Darren, although I have to, you know, I noticed he played a Iron Maiden song to finish his little segment this morning, which is just an incredibly violent tune called Die With Our Boots On, I think is the name of it.
	Yeah.
	But he's playing this song, and it's an unlistenable song.
	It's terrible music, but it's classic metal, head-banging, horrible music.
	And I just imagined Darren sitting there bouncing his head up and down like a maniac with his hair flying, but he doesn't have long hair, and playing air guitar to himself through the whole song.
	And that image I couldn't get out of my head.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	So we settled on this art.
	We did because there was a lot and we had We didn't agree on much, I guess.
	Well, we agreed on a couple of things.
	What you liked, I had issues with, and what I like, you had issues with.
	What did I like?
	I don't remember what I liked.
	Well, I remember what I liked the most, which was just a head by Capitalist Agenda with a guy sitting on a cannon pointing in the wrong direction.
	And the problem with that piece of art was one simple thing, which was media dissection instead of media deconstruction.
	He said media dissection instead of media deconstruction.
	Yep, yep.
	But invalidated.
	He would have won.
	He would have won, yes.
	If it said media deconstruction, yes.
	Yes.
	The Bazooka Joe one next to it, I thought it was very funny.
	I like that.
	You didn't have any... I thought it would just... Because it's Bazooka gum control.
	It just felt a little too... Yeah, you didn't like it.
	You know what?
	Should I tell you the reason why?
	It's personal and it's triggering and it's an issue.
	Oh, well, I think now we're all ears.
	I went to the dentist.
	I knew what was coming.
	I should have probably done this seven or eight years ago.
	When was this?
	I just recently went to the dentist for a cleaning.
	Oh, okay.
	For a cleaning.
	Haven't been in a couple years, you know, for a whole bunch of reasons.
	But I knew it was coming and they took one look and went, Yeah, off to the periodontist with you.
	No, they do that all the time.
	No, no, no.
	My teeth, this is hereditary, partially.
	It's the bone.
	It's the bone.
	So most of my teeth are going to have to come out.
	And the options are gum control with false teeth or implants.
	Exactly.
	Dude, I was telling a cowboy like Texas Slim about this, and this guy who has broken 16 bones from rodeo riding went, ugh.
	Exactly.
	So, looking at that... Well, you didn't mention that.
	No, I didn't.
	I didn't, but it's been very triggering, and actually Tuesday is my first visit where we start to schedule out this stuff.
	I think you've told us enough.
	Well, excuse me for just denying my issue, but I think you told us enough.
	No, I think you told us enough because it's making everyone cringe.
	Okay.
	And that's why.
	And so that's why.
	And I didn't even realize it at the time, but now I understand.
	It was all me.
	We could have chosen it.
	I'm sorry.
	Well no, it's not a great piece either.
	I mean, the piece we chose is a good piece, it works out.
	But dude, you had some other one you liked.
	Yeah, the one I liked, wasn't it the Sound of Davos?
	Yeah, I thought it was ESG Power, the Davos with the spinning beanie.
	You did like that, you said you liked ESG Power.
	Which one was it?
	By Capitalist Agenda.
	We both... I liked it, but I didn't think it was good enough for album art.
	It just wasn't there.
	But what's Sound of Davos, then?
	It's down below.
	Down below.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, okay.
	Here we go.
	This is what happened the first round.
	Yeah, and you know why this one got rejected?
	Because you said the Sound of Davos, it's the wrong color.
	It's blue.
	It doesn't pop.
	It was blue on blue.
	Pretty much.
	And I liked the original Sound of Davos, and then you pointed out, hey, that's AOC.
	Yeah, she has nothing to do with it.
	No, the first time, yeah.
	The first time, I'm talking about the Sound of Davos AOC.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	It's AOC, that makes no sense.
	No, I thought there was a second Sound of Davos on here.
	Yes, the one down below, which was Klaus Schwab.
	That one made sense.
	With the wrong color, the wrong color title.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, Sound of Davos, if it was in black... If only we could get some professional artists to do this, John.
	Every single time that people are making some basic, basic mistakes.
	Well, this works as far as I can tell is a professional.
	I don't know what... what he was thinking, to be honest about it.
	But, of course, we're nitpicking and it gets people mad at us.
	No!
	This is, what do you mean it gets people mad at us?
	No, it doesn't.
	It makes people appre- Dame Kenny Band was mad at us, and somebody in the chatroom was so mad, he said he'd stop sending in art.
	Now, who was this somebody?
	I don't know that he ever sent in art in the first place, but he stopped sending it in.
	Okay, well if you'd like us not to review it, just say hey.
	No, we have to review it.
	No, no, no.
	What I'm hearing, what I'm hearing, let's just, look, these are producers.
	These are not artists, these are not listeners, not philanthropists.
	This is a value for value.
	So, if you don't find it valuable that we tell you why you weren't chosen, well just congratulate the winner and that'll be it.
	And then we'll be like, hey man, how come I didn't win?
	Well, we're not going to tell you anymore.
	We kind of missed this one, I'm looking.
	The artwork Klaus by Steve8008 with the girl's butt in the Klaus Schwab's face?
	Oh wait, where's this?
	I don't remember this.
	Oh no, yeah, his face is on the Mercedes.
	It's not a good piece of art.
	What's wrong with you, man?
	Anyway, so then we just looked at Darren's and we said, this is clean.
	It's clear what it is.
	It has a humorous aspect.
	I like his blocks around the letters.
	I think it's a style.
	Yeah, that would be the speedometer blocks.
	That's what Darren does.
	Yeah, Darren does this.
	He takes the easiest route and cranks two or three pieces out effortlessly.
	And, uh, he hits them every month he gets one or two.
	While headbanging.
	It's unbelievable.
	And air guitar.
	Head going back and forth, air guitar.
	Um, you can see all of the chicks, man, where the chicks, you can see all of the art discussed.
	Uh, if you use a podcast app from new podcast apps.com, it's podcasting 2.0.
	We have, uh, the Dreb Scott puts all of these images in the chapters.
	So you can easily go back and find a certain part of the show.
	You can search the transcripts.
	And as of today, I think it works maybe in Curio caster and podverse.
	I'm actually, uh, we have the live streaming stuff set up.
	Where the app notifies you when your podcast goes live and you can listen to it live in those apps.
	And I actually have a little camera focused on the mixer so you can kind of see what's going on.
	And that's all to be found at NewPodcastApps.com.
	It's the revolution.
	We're moving the revolution forward.
	Now let's thank our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Please note these are producers, these are not listeners.
	Someone berated me on Twitter, actually.
	And actually berated you.
	And it was something like, you know, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO YELL AT PEOPLE?! !
	They're just showing you gratitude.
	I just want to remind you, no, no value.
	It's not gratitude, it's value.
	We provide value, you send value back, everybody's really happy.
	Some people like to be yelled at.
	Definitely.
	You're called producers, not listeners, not philanthropists, not casual diners who tip.
	No, value for value and that's how it works.
	And people are new, they'll get into it.
	Well, some people are never going to get into it.
	The person who would write a tweet like that is a loser.
	Okay, let me just see who that is.
	Now I have to go find out who it was.
	It was this morning and I actually replied like I can tell you my reply.
	Hold on a second.
	I think I do this by going to there.
	Tweets and replies.
	There we go.
	Oh, I'm so proficient on Twitter.
	Okay, here we are.
	The tweet was from at partisan censors.
	Her profile, her, I don't know if it's a her, I identify as vaccinated.
	Pronouns in your bio mean you won't be taken seriously.
	Okay.
	And her tweet is, lecturing people who voluntarily send you money doesn't encourage others to do the same.
	It comes off as ungrateful.
	How does a 10 minute lecture beat seven additional minutes of notes?
	There's a more tactful way to get this point across.
	To which I replied, 15 years of experience says you're wrong.
	This is value for value, not philanthropy.
	And that's the truth.
	Because you're producers.
	Right?
	Yeah, producers have to take guff from the people putting movies together, and they can deliver the guff, too.
	Yes, well, of course, we get lots of- It's a two-way street.
	Yes, we get lots of- Valor for value.
	Guff for guff?
	What is guff?
	Can you give us grief?
	We're here.
	We're here for you.
	We're here for grief.
	It's definitely a grief.
	What is guff?
	What is guff?
	What is the definition of guff?
	Grief.
	Is that literally the definition?
	Give me grief.
	Give me guff.
	It's like talk back.
	It's the same as giving someone grief.
	I think it's almost a synonym.
	Well, the definitions I'm reading here is nonsense, humbug, trivial, worthless, insolent talker ideas, unacceptable behavior, especially ludicrous false statements.
	Buncombe.
	Buncombe.
	What's this?
	Buncombe, too, with an E at the end.
	That's how it's spelled.
	You wouldn't know.
	Buncombe.
	That's Buncombe.
	What is Buncombe?
	Does debunking come from Buncombe?
	It's like bunk.
	It's bullcrap.
	Bullcrap's another synonym.
	Same thing.
	The more you know, the more you learn.
	The more you know that, in this case, you don't learn anything.
	Let's thank our very first executive producer for episode 1455.
	There he is, ladies and gentlemen.
	Who doesn't know him?
	He comes in once a month to save the day.
	Suronymous of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	Who, of course, lives in Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	1574.
	Oh my goodness.
	He has a... Do you have his note in front of you, by any chance?
	I do.
	Okay.
	You want me to read it?
	I would love for you to read it.
	Okay.
	I've got it right.
	Uh, thank you.
	Uh, thanks.
	Thanks to all the producers for continuing support.
	He's thanking you producers and providing outstanding content.
	Thanking the producers again, making this a valuable six or seven hours a week of easy listening.
	That's right.
	No agenda.
	Easy listening.
	We bring you Davos.
	We bring you Davos in the key of D.
	Like John, I was an adult through the 70s and have a few thoughts I can share with less experienced producers worried about things.
	Whatever people suggest about the current market, if we are replacing the 70s, remember we can get worse and be bad for a long time.
	Yeah, it was about a decade.
	This is the rainy day you were told to save for.
	What?
	You didn't listen?
	Importantly, the world does not end.
	Good companies survive and we move forward.
	A modest comment on ESG.
	If you have holdings in large index funds, especially BlackRock, move them to an actively managed fund that share your values.
	The so-called passive index funds have become leaders Well, yeah, index funds have become leaders is ESG.
	I don't know what... No, I think it's supposed to be in.
	I think it's in.
	Leaders in ESG as demonstrated by BlackRock's index holdings influence on Exxon.
	The concern of passive managers becoming active shareholders was highlighted over a decade ago, but ignored.
	Of course.
	So get out of those operations that are pushing this crap using algos.
	Unfortunately, I am, that's me, not him.
	And he back to back to anonymous.
	Unfortunately, I'm scarred by experiences in ESG and market volatility, but know it is tough to stop a title surge and have already changed perspective to deal with the debris as it recedes.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Animas of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia.
	Let me just add to the content of the donation segment with a quick little tie-in to that, because we won't get to any other ESG stuff, I think.
	There was a story you may have read about women being sexually assaulted in the metaverse.
	So, you know, this is people, you know, this was kind of the whole point of Second Life is you'd lure some- Yeah, so you could pat girls on the ass.
	Yeah, and then you'd throw down sex balls and other things that would then animate both of the avatars and doing some lewd act.
	That was the whole point of it.
	And usually the hot chick avatar was a dude.
	Yeah, usually a dude.
	So anyway- Or some kid.
	So there's this big news story.
	This is all in the show notes, so I just want to... Here it is.
	New York Post.
	Women are being disturbing reports of sexual assault in the metaverse.
	It's a free show!
	And so, this is a whole article.
	But I read, of course, I read the article, and one 21-year-old woman says she was raped within one hour of being in the metaverse!
	Let's just understand that this metaverse violence is virtual.
	So she was... I don't know how that works.
	Couldn't your avatar run away or, you know, teleport out?
	Anyway, this is according to a new report from some of us.
	Is there an off switch to the computer, maybe?
	That would, uh... It doesn't work when you're getting... It doesn't work when you're getting raped in the metaverse.
	By the way, it's really offensive, because rape is no laughing matter, and it really trivializes it.
	No, it's not.
	It is offensive, and I agree, but except for the fact that we're dealing with make-believe bullcrap.
	This is like listening to Amber Heard.
	Ha!
	I got it in.
	You got it in.
	But this is interesting because they're normalizing this type of reporting and making it, you know, It's triggering.
	I think it's bad of the New York Post to report it, but the reason why they report it is because it comes from some of us, S-U-M-O-F-U-S, a non-profit advocacy organization, an online community that campaigns to hold corporations accountable for a variety of alleged infractions.
	So, of course, I look these people up.
	And the first thing I always do is I go to the donation page to see if, uh, if, you know, if it's anything fishy there, you know, are they, and they're a 401c.
	41C4 Corporation, so they're a lobbying organization, and they do about $7 million a year.
	Some of us, and here it is, some of us exist to challenge corporate power and fight for people over profits so we can take a dime, and so we can't take a dime in corporate or government money.
	The vast majority comes from our funders and thousands of members across the globe.
	Can you chip in and help make sure we move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us?
	Does that stick out to you, John?
	Besides chip-in?
	Chip-in!
	No, of course!
	Chip-in!
	This is some political outfit that is exactly like the Democratic Party.
	Yeah.
	Now, where do they get their money from?
	Some of us partners with a number of foundations and non-governmental groups, including Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Packard Foundation, Sunrise Project... Lefties, lefties, lefties, lefties.
	Soros!
	And then they have, and then I'm done, their annual report, which I downloaded and you also have in the show notes.
	A key aspect to achieving success is educating and activating investment firms and advisors to demand companies such as Facebook shift its toxic business model.
	To advance this goal, we have produced a risk report for investors to examine the numerous concerns that Facebook's management and practices raised for their shareholders.
	Particularly the environmental, social and governance funds.
	They're bringing ESG into this phony baloney metaverse for more control and it's systemic.
	It's built into it.
	It's dynamite.
	On to Breanne Beasley.
	Now, I happen to have Breanne's note for some reason.
	It also came in at an 88 level.
	I know the story behind this, so I'm going to read her note.
	She is Saddle Tramp.
	And you recall Saddle Tramp was mentioned on the last show where you were moaning about casual listeners.
	Now, I know Saddle... I don't moan about casual listeners, was I?
	No, no, it was... It was, like, casual listeners who don't donate, don't... Whatever it was.
	Yes, you were bitching about casual listeners.
	I should be.
	I apologize in advance.
	No, no, no, because it was me that has to apologize.
	You did nothing wrong.
	I made a joke because I know Saddle... Saddle Tramp, who makes leather products or... She makes all kinds... I'm afraid to say anything because she's on...
	Instagram and she's always making her stuff.
	You know, she's showing the product she makes and she has no agenda blaring in the background.
	She is the one of the most dedicated listeners.
	So me me as ha ha he he Mr. Funny DJ.
	I said being an asshole your normal self.
	Exactly.
	I get it.
	it and i said wait wait can i get a wallet okay go on Continue, continue.
	So you're talking about casual listeners.
	I think, oh, I'll do a fun little name check and say, yeah, like Saddle Tramp.
	Well, she takes it a little more literally and she goes off the hook and she starts a damehood drive with her products by immediately slashing her prices and collecting $1,000 for an instant damehood.
	And here is, and here is, and she's from Wyoming, Sheridan.
	Here's her note.
	In the morning, gentlemen, Saddle Tramp here to defend my honor, loyalty, and dedication to the no agenda cause after being referred to as a casual listener on episode 1453.
	Congratulations, you successfully goaded me from douchebag to damehood in one fell swoop.
	Good work.
	So I'd like my name to be Dame Saddle Tramp of the casual listeners, and I would like to quaff pints of Montucky cold snacks while feasting upon Spam Musubi at the round table.
	Thanks in advance.
	Love what y'all do.
	I take every opportunity to tell anyone with ears the benefits of listening to no agenda.
	Keep up the good work.
	Goat karma for me and the Trampede, pretty please.
	Love and lit from Saddle Tramp.
	Of course we have.
	Just one question.
	What is Musubi?
	I have no idea.
	M-M-U-S-U-B-I, Musubi.
	And it's made from spam, too.
	Anyway, I'm gonna give you a free deducing there.
	You've been deduced.
	And we look forward to seeing you on the podium, Saddle Tramp!
	You've got... Karma.
	Alright, onward with, uh... Sir Moses, $348, parts unknown.
	And he sent in a check.
	And here's a note that came with it.
	From Sir Moses, parts unknown, $348.
	This donation amount is $2 for each episode since my last donation.
	Nice!
	Requesting R2-D2 Karma?
	Thank you!
	Excellent.
	You've got... Karma.
	That's the way to roll.
	Sir Don Francis is next from Chandler, Arizona, and we're looking here at 333.33, by far one of our favorite donation numbers.
	In the morning, John and Adam, this donation and executive producer credit is a switcheroo!
	In honor of my smoking hot wife's birthday on Sunday the 29th, so please add Stephanie Francis to the birthday list, and we're going to immediately switcheroo her.
	From Sir Don Francis to Stephanie Francis.
	Okay.
	Make sure the back office gets that note.
	This donation also earns her a seat at the round table.
	Oh my goodness.
	So please add her to that list as well.
	Dame Stephanie Francis until she comes up with something else.
	Okay, I have to add Dame now.
	I am totally and utterly blessed to have such an amazing woman as my partner in life and amygdala shrinkage.
	She's a phenomenal mother and mentor, an intelligent and kick-ass businesswoman, and my best friend.
	I love you, Stephanie.
	Jingles!
	A biscuit on her birthday, also wants a get vaccinated, of course, followed by a no, and some health karma for all.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	Get vaccinated.
	No.
	Thank you very much, Sir Don.
	You've got karma.
	Sam Onan in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
	333.33.
	And he has a nice note that says, thanks once more.
	Why don't you do the next one while you're at it?
	Lubor Benda in Praha, Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic, I think.
	Czech Republic.
	There is no Czechoslovakia anymore, dummy.
	333.33.
	He has no note that I can find.
	That means a double karma.
	It's a shorter version on turbo now.
	Sir J.D.
	Barron of Silicon Valley, 33325 from San Jose, California.
	Dear Crackpot and Buzzkill, in the morning, keep up the great work.
	Please accept these executive producer USDs as some value back for the excellent value you provide to the community.
	Gina requests original jobs, and there it is again, R2-D2 Karma for a new startup funding success.
	This producership is to mark my 51st trip around the sun and to commemorate 25 years of wedded bliss to my life.
	And they never had a fight!
	Please also mention the upcoming Saturday, June 4th, 4pm Cyber Meetup in San Francisco at Chesty's Bar and Lounge at the Marines Memorial Hotel near Union Square.
	This is the weekend before the RSA Security Conference, so expect to see dudes and dudettes, knights, dames, spooks.
	I've heard a rumor JCD might even attend.
	Details on the meetup site.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir JD, Baron of Silicon Valley.
	What say you, Mr. Dvorak?
	Well, it's in a location I've wanted to visit, so it's a distinct possibility.
	We like that.
	I'll make a final determination long before the date.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Yeah!
	You got...
	Karma.
	Thanks.
	Uh, Pierre, in quotes...
	Pierre!
	So it's not just any Pierre, it's Pierre in quotes.
	It is Pierre!
	You surely honor Pierre!
	Pierre, he does the hair of the elite of women.
	Pierre.
	333 in Farmington, Connecticut.
	I'm a knight!
	He yells.
	Three donations of 333, previously recurring payments of $35.
	A knight named Sir Pierre of the Farmington Valley, Connecticut.
	Okay.
	I would like, at the nighting, Kara-Aji.
	Thanks for the pronunciation.
	Kara-Aji.
	Thanks for the pronunciation, God.
	I would have said that wrong.
	And martinis.
	So Kara-Aji and martinis.
	Resist we much?
	He wants for jingles along with That's True and Hot Pockets.
	Read in the style of Karen Jean-Pierre.
	Oh, he wants you to read the last bit.
	Yeah, I know what he wants me to read.
	I can't do it.
	I don't have her voice then.
	I can't do it either.
	I haven't heard her enough.
	And by the way, it's Kareem Abdul-Jump here.
	Yes.
	I can do a voice.
	I'll do a voice.
	Just a random voice.
	Amador is like an Italian number guy.
	No, that's not going to work.
	This is supposed to be a complete, woke, I-know-it-all, much-better-than-you douche knuckle.
	I can do this voice.
	There you go.
	You're close now.
	Go.
	ITM, look, I'm obviously acutely aware that my presence at this juncture represents a new, a few firsts.
	I'm white, straight, American man of Quebecois descent, and first of all, of those three, more or less to hold this position, this is the reason I've got the job.
	Representation does matter, and no one understands this better than Kraken Buzz, which is why this podcast is not only the most diverse in history, it's filled with barrier-breaking women and men, from the dudes named Ben, to the Knights, to the executive producers, to the listeners, throughout the podcast.
	I think this is a new voice for you.
	Well, it's kind of an effete, some sort of effete person.
	I'm kind of digging this.
	It's not quite who this guy represents, but... Yeah, but I like it.
	I give you an A- for that.
	I'll work on the voice.
	Please do.
	We must, and we will much about that be committed.
	That's true.
	Sir Sorted Out is in Houston, 333.
	He says Sir Sorted Out reporting for support duty.
	Good.
	I'll take the next one too, Mother of Dragons.
	Please keep name and location anonymous and get back to work.
	Okay, Mother of Dragons.
	We'll do just that.
	Now that's what I consider a great note.
	That's a good note, yes.
	So we move down to Associate Executive Producers with Sir Alexander of Middle Cascadia.
	He's been around.
	And he came in with 257 and he says, 257 AI, ITM gentlemen, since it has been established by the esteemed peerage committee that I have received black knight status, is a title change or a new knighting ceremony necessary to just assume the mantle?
	Many thanks in advance for the clarification.
	You just assume the mantle.
	It's that simple.
	But does he not need acknowledgement of that?
	Well, he just got it right here, you heard it.
	Okay.
	But if you want to put him on, if we have room today, for the title change, we'll give it to him in a title change.
	So he became, what is it?
	I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, I wasn't listening to you.
	What has he become today?
	Black Knight.
	A Black Knight?
	Yeah, he got, I don't know, something happened, something went amiss.
	Sir Alexander of Middle Cascadia.
	He wants to be known as Black Knight, Sir Alexander.
	Okay, so that's a title change.
	And so he gets an official... What do you mean, you guess?
	I guess.
	Yeah, I mean, come on.
	I've been doing this for a long time.
	I know what I'm talking about.
	He wants R2D2 health karma for all of Gitmo Nation, and he says, keep doing what you do.
	You've got karma.
	Our next associate executive producer 23311 from Falmouth, Cornwall in Great Britannia, Tristan Silva.
	Hey Adam and John, my smoking hot wife Francie Silva recently called me out for my laziness and douchebaggery on the previous show.
	Thanks love, you really are the best.
	Please de-douche me!
	You've been de-douched.
	I hope the shame washes off.
	We love the show and keep up the fantastic work.
	Francie would love to hear the fractals jingle.
	And may we also request a sprinkling more karma for Jack and Kathy McCandless.
	They deserve all the good fortune they can get.
	Cheers from Tristan Silva.
	Well, of course we can do that.
	Old school.
	Grind.
	Grind.
	Old school.
	Karma.
	It was a long time since it was one of those old ones we haven't heard forever.
	I like it.
	Ben Smith in Greenville, Texas And he says, greetings from Northeast Texas.
	Show day Sunday is my 66th birthday.
	You're on the list.
	And I can't think of a better way to celebrate than with a, with the best podcast in the universe.
	You guys rock!
	73s and keep up the deconstructions.
	K555, KF55WC, 73s.
	Yeah.
	K85AlphaCharlie.
	F55 WC73.
	Yeah, K-5 Alpha Charlie.
	I think he's K-5S WC.
	Yeah, he is.
	KiloFox5, share a whiskey, Sharma.
	K5SWC, yeah, you're right.
	Fonts, fonts.
	Sophia's next.
	Go ahead.
	You can wrap it.
	You do Sophia.
	Sophia's next, 200 bucks.
	Sophia from PartsUnknown, asking for a job in Relationship Karma.
	We got that for you, Sophia.
	You've got karma.
	And our final executive producer, associate executive producer is from Cleveland, Ohio.
	Hello, Cleveland!
	We're Christy Nipples!
	Miss Be The Bag Lady, $200, the right amount.
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	You're bloody well right.
	You're bloody well right indeed.
	I presume you made some clips?
	I have a clip and a couple of these oddball, I got some oddball clips because this was just like, to me, I never, who knew?
	This is from France 24 and this, I'm telling you, this is a totally, to me, a who knew?
	This is gender in Argentina.
	Did you know that in the world of transsexuals, The leading country, the country that's spearheaded most of it?
	I thought it was Brazil.
	Argentina.
	Interesting.
	Wait, they spearheaded it?
	Gender in Argentina explains it all.
	But we begin in the Latin American nation of Argentina, which has become a pioneer for trans rights.
	For some 10 years, people have had the right to choose their gender and change their ID papers without needing to consult either a doctor or lawyer.
	But the trans community in Argentina still suffers from discrimination in education, health and work, with life expectancy just 40 years old compared to the national average of 77.
	This report from our team on the ground.
	Oh, brother.
	is seven years old and in her room are all the usual things you'd expect.
	Roller skates, flowers, a dollhouse.
	But she was born a boy, even though she always knew she was supposed to be a girl.
	Her mother, Mariana, a little unsure at first, followed the advice of a psychologist to better support her daughter in her transition.
	We made the doll with a penis because we couldn't find one in Argentina.
	It was a doll It doesn't exist.
	We made it for her because the therapist told us it would be good for her.
	The family lives in Azul, a conservative town with a population of 70,000 people, some 300 kilometers away from the capital Buenos Aires.
	Getting the community to accept Juanita's transition wasn't easy.
	In some situations, like in hospital, she would get called by her male name.
	She'd answer, that's not my name.
	It stressed her out a lot.
	So we decided to look into changing her ID.
	They contacted a human rights lawyer to guide them through the bureaucratic steps needed to change the little girl's legal gender.
	Facundo Achaga took on the case in 2020, when Juanita was five years old.
	I tried to get to know her a bit, to see if she saw herself as a girl, without being too intrusive.
	I asked her to draw herself.
	She drew herself with long hair and a dress.
	Wow.
	So, this is the long-term goal?
	It would be to have this situation?
	Globally.
	Anita, the name she'd chosen for herself.
	The procedure for changing her ID papers took just one month.
	That's because since 2012, a gender identity law in Argentina enables citizens of any age to choose their gender and change it as they see fit.
	Wow.
	So this is the long-term goal.
	It would be to have this situation.
	Globally.
	Globally.
	And it's like, so a five-year-old who doesn't know it.
	Dude, when I was five, I identified as a dog at some point.
	Hey, my son, Buzzkill Jr., robot.
	He'd be a robot.
	He was just a robot.
	I mean, it's like, It was kind of heartbreaking on one side because these kids are just kids, let's face it, they don't know anything.
	And when you're five years old and decide you want to be a girl and you're a boy, you don't even know what a girl or a boy is or what the function of the... Shouldn't really, yeah, but the... But okay, but if you're going to open it up and make it so, okay.
	Well, that's the system.
	I mean, that's the... There's an entire infrastructure and a whole mechanism, a whole machine, which clearly is global, to scoop these cases up and bring them in and transmortify.
	Part two.
	Argentina was the first country in the world to introduce such legislation, which, even a decade later, remains some of the most progressive in the world.
	It's not necessary to have the opinion of a psychiatrist or psychologist, because with this law being transgender is no longer considered a mental illness, and no surgery or medical treatment is required.
	Over 9,000 people have officially changed their gender identity since the legislation came into force.
	Marcela Romero was one of the authors of the law.
	Ten years later, she's out on the streets to demand that legislators go even further.
	Further legal measures to foster greater social inclusion will be debated in Congress.
	But although Argentina is a pioneer in trans rights, trans people still struggle to access steady work.
	The life expectancy of an Argentinian trans woman is just around 40, because of how excluded we are.
	We live outside of the system, without access to healthcare, housing, jobs, and everything else that other people enjoy access to.
	This discrimination can also escalate into hate crimes.
	In 2020, 129 people were killed because they were trans.
	Fiorella has had to deal with violence against trans people virtually her whole life.
	She says it's a part of society.
	I lived on the streets.
	I had to do sex work.
	I didn't finish my secondary education.
	I couldn't find a job.
	I've been hugely impacted by this.
	Fiorella's story is just one of many.
	In Argentina, less than a quarter of trans people finish their secondary education and the vast majority are either unemployed or working on unstable short-term contracts.
	Most resort to prostitution to make ends meet.
	I don't quite understand.
	If this transitioning is encouraged and there's an entire support system for it, how come these people often wind up in such horrible situations and situations.
	I don't understand.
	Does it not work out?
	Isn't it a wild story?
	Yeah, it's like, this is all great.
	We help the children transition.
	At five, at six, at seven.
	But they grow up to be prostitutes.
	Which is what they want to do in Florida.
	But they grow up to be prostitutes.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's not a happy story.
	Oh, I never said it was a happy story.
	It's just an interesting story that we were totally unaware of.
	This is what happens when you, this is the idea of which is what they push.
	This is what happens when you're watching Amber Turd.
	You miss real stories.
	You miss real stories.
	It's like you've got this craziness going on.
	And you know, then again, am I wrong for saying that one?
	It's very libertarian.
	It's very libertarian.
	If a five-year-old wants to become a girl and he's a boy, okay.
	Interesting.
	You're saying that's a libertarian view of the world.
	Don't you think?
	I don't know.
	I think so.
	Honestly, I'm going to take shit for this, but I feel because people have said so many times to me, oh, you're libertarian, right?
	No, I'm an affiliate.
	I don't identify with any party.
	I think it's many people who are conservative in thinking They just don't want to take the shit of being a Republican, so they say, I'm a Libertarian.
	It's kind of a cop-out.
	That's my personal feeling.
	That's my personal feeling.
	I think you're right.
	We'll take shit from it.
	We'll take shit from it.
	No, no.
	Yes.
	This has been, I don't think it's as true today as it was 10 years ago when everybody was a Libertarian that was a Republican, because Republicans do have to take a lot of grief from the left.
	But I don't think it's, I don't think that's a bad commentary.
	It's just always been my feeling.
	You'll get no notes on it.
	Okay, can I ask you something we'll get a note about?
	Because it kind of fits a little bit into the story.
	There is an economic law which I believe is codified in multiple places online.
	You can look it up.
	It's called Dvorak's Law.
	And I'm actually going to do a search just to see If I am correct, I'm just typing in Dvorak's Law.
	And here it is, Dvorak's Law.
	Second hit on the search.
	Dvorak's Law.
	The worse the economy, not only do the hookers get better looking, but they get cheaper.
	Some postulate that additionally, hookers get more business during a worse economy.
	However, Dvorak himself attributes this to supply and demand, which often leads to an increase in business, i.e.
	tricks, which is driven by the need to compensate for loss of revenue caused by the same reduction in the cost stated in Dvorak's law.
	Holy moly, they've really taken this to an extreme.
	This law stems from 2013.
	So, you know, this is something, entire investment 401k strategies have been based upon the Vorax law.
	So I would, you're the guy to ask.
	This is the headline, tell me how it fits into our economic outlook based on your intimate knowledge and creation, in fact, of Dvorak's law.
	Headline, strippers say a recession is guaranteed because the strip clubs are suddenly empty.
	Yeah, just the opposite of Dvorak's law.
	And I have to relate, I read this too, and so I was thinking about, there was an era that's kind of, I think it's 70s, but it may be 60s.
	Uh, but I think it's mostly seventies.
	And it started off with the Condor in San Francisco where Carol Doda, who was a go-go dancer, became a topless go-go dancer.
	And it became a scandal.
	And some judge slammed the hammer down and said, no, it's fine.
	Women can walk around.
	No, draw on in these clubs or bars for that matter.
	And there became a huge – I should write this up myself.
	There was a huge boom in topless bars, at least around here and I think in L.A.
	The whole California was all topless.
	And so you could go, half the bars in the area were topless bars.
	And I can't remember how long this lasted.
	It just disappeared overnight.
	Okay.
	But those bars were doing a good business and it was during, anything during the 70s is during a depression because the market collapsed in late 69 and when it started going downhill and there was, the interest rates started going up and we had the price, you know, the price fixing and all the rest of it having to, it going in play.
	So, so I associate that era With any strip bars, and I'm thinking, why are these strip bars not having any customers?
	That means there's going to be a boom in the economy or something else is going on.
	These girls are wrong.
	So, so I don't, I love the story.
	I don't quite understand what does this mean according to the strippers story?
	I think the strippers are wrong.
	I think their economy is not going bad.
	It's just the opposite.
	You think the economy is going great?
	I think the economy must be going great based on what's happening in the strip clubs.
	Yeah.
	Girls, good news.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven.
	Give it up.
	Hey, you got your side hustle coming back then. - Yeah.
	Now, I think you misinterpreted it, but yes.
	No, I interpreted it right.
	I just needed to play the jingle.
	I needed to come up with some idea to play the jingle.
	While we're in South America, I want to play this clip because there's a country down there.
	Another country in South America?
	What?
	This is going to take a turn for the worse because you've got to remember what happened in Venezuela.
	They elected Hugo Chavez some years back.
	Dynamite choice.
	And he, you know, took the country right into the ground, and then the new guy's taking it even further.
	They can't have real elections anymore.
	It's all fixed now.
	It's rigged.
	Like, you know, just have a lot of mail-in ballots and vote in whoever you want.
	You have a mail-order president.
	I like that.
	Mail-order president.
	I hadn't actually heard of that.
	I got that from the woman in Australia.
	Which woman?
	On Sky?
	On Sky News?
	Yeah.
	Who does the bumbling Biden bits?
	Yeah.
	I have her name on here somewhere.
	Because I have a clip by her today.
	You put her to shame, actually.
	I think your Biden clips are better than what she does.
	You're funnier when you come out of them.
	She's all snarky.
	She's all snarky.
	She's all snarky like she lives here.
	Rita Panahi's the one who came up with Mail Order President.
	That's a good one.
	I like it.
	So I stole it.
	But I gave credit, so that's all that counts.
	Good.
	Now we can use it as a title.
	Great.
	Okay.
	Mail Order President.
	That's cute.
	Possibly.
	So here's what's going on in Colombia.
	Next, almost 38 million Colombians are heading to the polls this Sunday for the presidential election.
	And while there are six candidates on the ballot, the race has come down to three men, and the frontrunner is Gustavo Perro.
	If elected, he would become Colombia's first leftist head of state.
	Solange Mourjan has more.
	If there's something that Colombians agree on, it's that it's time for a change.
	A recent poll showed that 75% of them feel Colombia is going in the wrong direction.
	I hope for a change.
	It will be difficult to achieve, but it is absolutely necessary.
	Colombia needs empathy on political issues and in general because of corruption, health issues and people's lack of needs.
	Since the 2016 peace deal with the FARC, it is the economy that has become Colombians' top priority.
	60% so.
	60% say that it's hard to get by financially.
	But that doesn't mean voters agree on who should win Sunday's first round among the trio of candidates that have a shot at becoming president.
	I believe that the main challenge for the next president should be to unite the country and not to create so much polarization.
	I fear a populist government that tells a lot of lies, a lot of lies.
	The frontrunner for Sunday's vote is Gustavo Petro, the former governor of Bogotá.
	He is a leftist who has promised to provide free university education and to combat wealth inequality.
	Behind him in the polls is Federico Guterres, a center-right former mayor who has the backing of Colombia's traditional parties.
	And then there's business magnate Rodolfo Hernández.
	Running as an independent on his own funds, his campaign has been hurt by accusations of graft, which he denies.
	Either Hernandez or Gutierrez is expected to face off against Petro in a June 2nd round.
	Funny I didn't hear about that on Fox News.
	Yeah, the communist is going to become the president.
	Well, socialist, or leftist, I'm sorry, I mix up the three.
	He's going to do what happened in Venezuela, you can see it, right away he's promising free this and free that, free education, free this, free that.
	Alright, so do we immediately invest in coffee futures?
	Well, that's an interesting... Well, you don't know, because it might mean that coffee growing is the only substantive work you can get to be growing more coffee.
	Will cocaine become cheaper?
	By the way, also, we mentioned this on the show, one of the few things on our show you'd never heard anyplace else is that they're making a big push in China.
	Yes.
	Tell me about the push in China.
	To grow coffee.
	We've played clips on this.
	Oh, that's right.
	That's right.
	I don't think coffee futures are a good gamble.
	I don't know.
	Let me jump in on China then and a foreign piece of reporting which often is surprisingly good.
	Deutsche Welle.
	I take Deutsche Welle as a serious news organization.
	You?
	I agree to a point, but they were so anti-Trump that I thought they were skewed.
	They were very skewed.
	This is a Deutsche Welle piece on China.
	Of course, China, Beijing is now partially in lockdown, which is not really being reported, but I think 11 million people in Beijing are in lockdown.
	Of course, we still have, what's the other city that's been in lockdown?
	Shanghai.
	Shanghai.
	This piece is on the system.
	the system they call it sit they don't say the it's called system system is what controls everybody in China listen to this oh I I cut up the I cut out all of the long music pieces where to dramatize the report yes sorry Yeah, it's annoying when they do that.
	China has completely de-emphasized privacy and freedom of movement during the pandemic.
	In the brain of Shanghai's Pudong district, every suspected COVID-19 case is monitored.
	We installed a network of sensors in front of apartments.
	When the door sensor registers people leaving the apartment in violation of the rules, we're alerted.
	District staff and the health department are then informed and can respond quickly.
	What's technologically possible is carried out with little regard for people's privacy.
	Criticism or resistance among the population is virtually non-existent.
	We've mapped the residential buildings in the district.
	Which ones are occupied?
	Where there are vacancies?
	Where elderly people are living alone?
	Where care or help is needed?
	It's all stored in our system.
	and can be called up in real time.
	Even those who do not dispose of their trash properly are recorded.
	Residents who aren't following the rules are captured on camera from three different angles.
	Their so-called brain acts swiftly.
	Whether it's an illegally parked car or unsolicited advertising, offenses can be handled by patrol officers who are connected to the control center via a mobile app.
	What's the problem?
	As soon as the squads and volunteers in residential districts spot an issue, they can report it and upload footage.
	They take a photo, report the issue, and then our system automatically decides which department to forward the matter to.
	Fear is freedom.
	Subjugation is liberation.
	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world, and you will all surrender to them.
	You pigs in human clothing!
	There's your future right there.
	Let's all hope Elon buys Twitter.
	All the sensors will be in place.
	It's going to be wonderful.
	God, that's a terrible clip.
	It's going to be wonderful.
	Wonderful, I tell you.
	Let's see if I can top that.
	No.
	I do have this clip, though, since we mentioned Rita Panahi.
	She's now can't get enough Biden stuff, so she's going after Kamala.
	Ooh.
	Oh, it's, it's, it's really, I mean, it's kind of cheap shots coming from Australia.
	That's, that's my only, that's my only problem.
	Mind your own business at the same time.
	Mind your, you know, I got a, I got a note from, uh, an Australian producer.
	I just want to share for a second.
	And I went back and forth with Anthony.
	And then here's kind of where it came down to.
	This is about the Uvalde shooting, or Uvalde if you're from Hill Country.
	U.S.
	gun culture is so easy to deconstruct.
	It's just big companies selling crappy products to consumers.
	They're using the exact same playbook as Big Pharma.
	Playing on people's fears and insecurities.
	And all the sheeples buy these things because they think it makes them into something or because all their friends have got one.
	From the outside, it's obvious the whole thing is BS.
	It's exactly like if you go to China, still everyone chain smokes.
	Even young people tell you it's good for your circulation and sex drive.
	They also tell you it's part of Chinese and national identity to smoke.
	They don't realize the rest of the world moved on and there are consumers spending money to buy products that kill them.
	No, Anthony.
	No.
	If you had a constitution, you'd understand.
	Wait, before I put my foot in my mouth.
	Does Australia have a constitution?
	I don't think they have anything that compares to ours.
	I think they just have articles.
	Like a Magna Carta derivative or something?
	Again, I can do a quick lookup, or you can just continue, because I don't think it's important.
	Because our Constitution is very specific to us.
	Yeah, my point is, this country was born with this culture, so to say that this is just... Now, I'll say one other thing.
	Definitely a lot of people just buying it for what they hope will be home defense and, you know, we'll see.
	I don't think there's people, little chance of people going out on the streets with their guns yet.
	Yet.
	But the way the Uvalde cops operated, we may be getting pretty close.
	You know, I talked to Mike, my buddy who was law enforcement in Kerrville, and he has anger management issues, so he quit the force, but he's my buddy, and his question is, Mike, what the hell went on there?
	He's going to get more info for me, but he's like, this is training.
	These guys had no training.
	They were told completely the wrong things to do.
	They even had level 4 vests and body armor.
	They could have walked in and taken an AR shot.
	Not to the head, obviously, but to their vest.
	And this complete failure.
	He says, any cop who has been trained properly knows what to do.
	You go right in.
	Honestly, and we don't need to talk about it, this whole thing, the timeline, the calls that were made, the things that happened, the strangeness, this stinks.
	And I've been thinking it for a whole week and I'm just going to put it out there.
	This feels like some kind of pedo thing is also involved in this.
	I don't know why.
	I'm just putting it out there.
	There's something weird going on.
	Why don't you work on it and give us a report however long it takes?
	Yeah, of course.
	I'm just telling you what it is.
	Alright, move on to Rita Panahi.
	Yeah, now here she goes after Kamala.
	But if you're worried that the president is just too dazed and confused to be leading the free world, then take comfort in the fact that his veep is ready and capable and is already tackling the really big issues like school buses.
	So I think about this subject of our yellow school buses in that regard.
	Because think about it, yellow school buses are our nation's largest form of mass transit.
	How about that?
	Every day.
	So yes, and let's applaud because it gets them where they need to go.
	Okay.
	But despite the mad cackling there, there was actually a deeper point the Veep was trying to make.
	She seems to think the existence of these school buses threatens the health of children and the planet.
	If your child rides the bus half an hour to school and half an hour back every day from the first day of kindergarten to high school graduation, They will experience the equivalent of 90 full days of exposure to diesel exhaust.
	And these fumes do not just threaten the health of our children.
	They also threaten the future of our planet.
	Diesel exhaust is a greenhouse gas.
	So one minute she's laughing madly about school buses and literally the next minute she's telling her bewildered audience that the buses are killing the children and the earth.
	Well, this is not fair, it's out of context, I'm not defending the Vice President, but this was about electric school buses.
	So, she laughs, I mean, she's saying, oh, one minute she's talking about great school buses, then they're killing the earth.
	I mean, it was about electric school buses, but she didn't disclose that in her little spiel here.
	The thing that's interesting to me is Kamala's assertion that the kids have got 90 days of exposure to diesel exhaust.
	Are they shoving the exhaust pipe into the bus?
	If you're in a bus and you get an exhaust pipe sending out whatever exhaust is coming out, it's not going into the bus.
	So they're not exposed to anything.
	This is bullcrap, what she's saying.
	They're exposed to pig urine.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Remember, that's AdBlue.
	Oh, the pig urine.
	I forgot about that crap.
	Yeah, they spray pig urine onto the exhaust as it's going out.
	The bus won't drive without it.
	It's just excess pig urine from China.
	I wonder if those buses are equipped with that system.
	Well, I think most of these buses... I'm seeing most school buses are either electric or... I think there may even be some hydrogen buses, I'm thinking.
	Well, I know there's some hybrid buses floating around.
	Hybrid, yeah, for sure.
	That's probably what you're thinking.
	I have one other clip that I want to get out of the way which I think is a funny clip.
	Another one from NPR where they're just giggling and this is tittering and this is a story that I'm surprised it got on NPR.
	It's kind of a funny story.
	It's about the first ancient graffiti.
	I guess Hadrian's Wall, the one that's up at the north part of England where the Romans took over and then they put a wall up to block out the Scots or whoever they were worried about.
	Uh, it had a bunch of graffiti on it, and so they've decoded some of it, and now they're making it into a funny story.
	This is ancient graffiti.
	Alright, let's go to Northern England now, where an amateur archaeologist discovered a rock graffitied with an ancient Roman message.
	Wait, why doesn't she say graffiti?
	Because she said graffiti?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Stop, stop.
	a rock graffitied with an ancient Roman message that feels, well, not so ancient.
	Inscription specialists identified the letters etched into the rock as second dinous cacor, which translates to second dinous the, let's say, the pooper.
	And based on the time it would have taken to etch the letters into the rock and the accompanying phallus...
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	I didn't get the innuendo.
	What exactly does this thing... I guess the guy that was up there who was managing the area, whose name was mentioned, is a shithead.
	Okay.
	Oh, so it's F the shithead?
	Is that what it is?
	Something like that, but they couldn't do that on NPR, so they had to say pooper.
	Which translates to second dinos, the, let's say, the pooper.
	And based on the time it would have taken to etch the letters into the rock, and the accompanying phallus also engraved just beneath the letters, experts believe it was definitely meant as an insult.
	He's a dick.
	This latest phallus is one of 13 carved into Hadrian's Wall in northern England.
	The wall was the northernmost boundary of the Roman Empire at one time.
	So, apparently, modern day middle schoolers and ancient Romans have more in common than you might think.
	Oh, brother.
	So, question.
	Why is it so hard for them to just say penis?
	And why is it so hard to say anus or some- and why do they have to come up with- Or shit, or whatever it was.
	Yeah, well, shit, okay, you know, whatever broadcast standards, but it's just weird if you're gonna laugh anyway.
	Haha, phallus!
	They say that the modern school kids and ancient Romans had something in common.
	No, you have something in common with the ancient Romans because you're just tittering.
	Imagine if two men did that story.
	NPR News, we've discovered some very interesting graffiti on this wall over there in the UK.
	It's very famous.
	My partner knows about it.
	Oh, really?
	Yes, indeed.
	Let's find out.
	Well, the guy who was in charge at the time, his name was Skadidus.
	Well, people didn't like him, so they called him a... Well, they had a depiction there of, let's just call it, a pooper!
	Oh my God!
	Yes, and then the phalluses, the phalluses below them, I mean, that kind of made it all clear.
	And there's 13 phalluses, apparently.
	Yes, wow, John.
	What a story.
	What a story it is.
	There you go.
	We can package that up, send it off to NPR.
	It's our audition tape.
	We'll get a job.
	Finally, we'll get a real job.
	Before we take our second break, a quick one that we kind of missed on the last show, but since a lot of people... I mean, we didn't really miss it, but there was something said very specifically that people said people would post, you know, typical.
	I can't believe you missed it!
	So let's find out.
	It was the executive director of Oxfam International and talking about COVID and the pharmaceutical industry.
	Rising billionaires has been unprecedented during the pandemic.
	And there's been several sectors where that has been mostly concentrated.
	And one is, in fact, the pharma sector, because COVID has been one of the most profitable products ever.
	So that was the line that we didn't respond to.
	COVID has been one of the most profitable products ever.
	And I think it's right for people to call us out on that.
	That's a very interesting term.
	The product COVID.
	I thought that was pretty good.
	Well, I'm glad they called us.
	I don't know why they just didn't mention it, but calling us out is fine.
	Well, they called us, I mean, because people truly, truly cannot believe that we missed that.
	Which is flattering.
	You know, if I'm looking back on the history of this show and everything we cover and the way we cover it and the way we deconstruct things, I'm stunned.
	That we can miss something like that.
	Agreed.
	Because we just don't miss stuff like that.
	We're the best.
	I also take it as a compliment for that very reason.
	It's like, I can't believe they missed it.
	COVID the product.
	Of course, yeah.
	COVID the product.
	Well, let's talk about COVID the product because I have a feeling that Pfizer is, they've taken their eye off the ball, maybe it's because all the 7 billion vaccines they can't sell that no country wants.
	We don't want that shit!
	So they've taken their foot off, they're pumping the brakes on the, they're taking their foot off the gas on the marketing, and they've just given up on variant names.
	We talked about this, I think, yesterday, Doctor.
	Just an update on this contagious variant of COVID.
	It seems with each new variant, the contagiousness, if that's a word, continues to increase, but maybe not the severity.
	That's what we're seeing, and I'm concerned about... The new variant is the BA 2.1 2.1.
	Come on!
	Is it getting from a software company?
	Thank you for pointing out the obvious.
	That's exactly what it sounds like, and you need to combat that, uh, that version number with, uh, some programmable, uh, mRNA.
	Let's do it again.
	So maybe not the severity.
	That's what we're seeing, and I'm concerned about... The new variant is the BA2.12.1.
	.12.1.
	BA 2.12.1. .12.1. BA 1.2. BA 1.2. 1.2.1.
	BA12... BA12.12.1.
	Lovely.
	That's the doctor from Fox News, by the way.
	I'll just let you hear what he says because, of course, they also have to adhere to the pharma overlords.
	That's a long word, but we're getting that in New York a lot, actually, and I'm concerned about it.
	It is not more severe.
	I don't think it's more severe, but the problem is that it does have symptoms.
	It's not causing an uptick in deaths, but it means we have to use more Paxilov and more antivirals for people at high risk and make sure that people get boosted.
	Or getting over COVID recently does help decrease your risk of severity.
	That's the key.
	We want to keep people out of the hospital, and so far we're succeeding at that, and I think we will.
	Oh, please, doctor.
	You phony.
	That's the guy that Tucker would always bring on to show the stupid videotape of people rolling joints.
	You're gonna die from smoking weed.
	And there's your Fox News, everybody.
	Not fans.
	But we'll have another one here that's kind of interesting.
	Tell me if these things is a native ad.
	Okay.
	Back to NPR.
	This is the circus is back.
	The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus is back, though minus the elephants, lions, and tigers, it seems.
	Ringling says five years after shutting down its three-ring circus, it plans to return next fall.
	Florida-based company says its new version of the circus will be interactive and feature audience engagement, while also celebrating performers from around the world.
	Okay, what do you think that means?
	Because I do have a follow-up to this.
	I don't know.
	I think it means... Yes?
	Go on, I don't have any... Well, I was... I was reading about... Go on that.
	I was reading about the Abba... The Abba-tars.
	Have you heard of the Abba-tars?
	ABBA?
	Like ABBA?
	Yes, ABBAtars.
	You mean the Swedish singers?
	Yes.
	So ABBA just launched a concert tour, kicked off in the UK, with lots of elites and royalty there.
	It's called ABBA Voyage.
	Now, the ABBA people are deep in their 70s now, although you can still see, you know, Both Agneta and Annafrit, they're still beautiful women.
	They're just, you know, much, much older, as are Bjorn and Benny.
	I know a lot about ABBA.
	Of course, I grew up and I saw them win the Eurovision Song Contest.
	And so what they've created is avatars, which people are paying to go to a stadium, big stadium.
	Oh, and they get to see a 3D image on the stage of them?
	So that's what it looks like?
	But I dove into it, because that's why they say avatars.
	It looks like holograms on stage.
	Yeah, and a new puck.
	Well, it's much better than that.
	I mean, it's high resolution, and I figured out why by reading the article.
	But I think this is, there's two ways to achieve kind of virtual reality or augmented reality.
	One is you put some glasses on and you got, you got some retina stuff, whatever it is, Google glasses or the stupid Oculus.
	And maybe you can see through them.
	You see the real world and there's things that pop in there, or maybe it's completely virtual with a, with a big thing on your head that will make people nauseous.
	Or, you do what the ABBA people have done.
	I'm going to read these two paragraphs.
	To create the spectacle, the band performed in motion capture suits for five weeks with 160 cameras scanning their body movements and facial expressions.
	Uh, those became reference points for hundreds of animators and visual effects artists to create the avatars of the band in their heyday.
	And they look dynamite.
	I mean, the women, their legs are at least six inches longer than they were back in the day.
	It's fantastic.
	Now, the ABBA choreography has always been, you know, it's just, it's kind of, hey, you know, a little, so I can see where 70 year olds could do the choreography.
	Affectionately known as avatars, the characters are not 3D holograms, as everyone involved in the production is at pains to point out.
	Quote, I don't think any hologram shows have been successful, says producer Billy Walsh.
	After five minutes, they're just not that interesting.
	I agree.
	It's just like, okay, it doesn't look real, it looks kind of green laser-ish, you know, it's not a real convincing experience.
	Yeah, it's not up to par.
	Instead, the characters appear on a massive 65 million pixel screen with lights and other effects blurring the boundaries between the digital elements and the real world in the arena.
	Amazingly, they've pulled it off.
	The images might be 2D, but impressive lighting effects and back-projections provide a crucial depth of field, creating the illusion the band are really in the room with you.
	I believe this is a genius way to go because it's so much easier to convince yourself that you're watching something that is 3D and holographic because the edges have been obfuscated.
	Your brain fills in that stuff really quickly.
	I think this is smart.
	And Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, they don't eat any animals.
	He just throws some smell of elephant shit in the room.
	A little bit of hay.
	And you'll be looking at it as if, I think, I think this is the future of concerts.
	I really do.
	Well, I, I, this is an argument I'm not going to make, but I would like to know who's the, who produces this and if they're publicly traded.
	Um, hold on.
	Uh, that's a very good question.
	Uh, I'm going to look into it for you.
	So I do know that Billy Walsh.
	There's a kind of thing Live Nation should be doing.
	And you're right because, you know, the only thing that's been a problem with concerts compared to like the record or music industry is that you can scale the record.
	If you're a record, you're, you're a band and you produce records.
	You can send those records all over the place without you having to leave home and it's scale.
	So you make millions of dollars just recording something.
	If you can do the same thing with your live performances, You can scale those like you can records.
	Well, get in that business immediately.
	So the producer is Bailey Walsh, who is a, who is a, um, let me see.
	I've done a lot of films, a lot of production for films.
	Such as James Bond, but also a lot of music video type stuff as well.
	I'll have to look into who actually provide, because it's more set design and lighting than it, obviously, you know, creating the virtual characters, a lot of work goes into that, but then to put it on the screen and to obfuscate everything and to make... I mean, once you do that once in the scales, you don't have to worry about it.
	It's crazy good, right?
	Yeah, that's a great.
	So what we can do is we can have two hot looking Curry Dvoraks.
	That'd be good.
	Right?
	And we'll and finally and and we'll do it and they'll just be voice.
	They won't actually be.
	I mean, they'll be us, right?
	And we're doing the show.
	Uh, only you'll see us on stage, interacting, you know, bouncing around and looking really hot and spry and cool, and then that could go on the road twice a week!
	I'm gonna 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!
	And indeed, we do have a few people to thank, whether we're on the road or not, virtual or otherwise.
	Dodge Gaskill leads it off from Barton, Vermont.
	123.45.
	Betty Boo in Dayton, Ohio, $100.11.
	Natalie Brown, $100 from Harriman, Utah.
	Birthday shout out for Sean.
	Rita Harrington in Sparks, Nevada, $100.
	M.E.K., which is a nice solvent.
	Cherry Hill, New Jersey, $99.99.
	Totally illegal nowadays in California.
	You can't buy a can of it if you wanted to.
	Saddle Tramp.
	There she is again.
	8888 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	She's got, uh, well, we already read her note earlier.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, Lover of America, and Boobs and Locusts, North Carolina.
	8008.
	The only 8008 for today.
	Gary Blatto comes in at 7777 from Wayne, Pennsylvania, and Joseph Weisch.
	In Miami, Florida, 7777.
	Bruce Schwalm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 6933.
	These are all checks that came in.
	Derek Johnson in Denver, Colorado, 6666.
	Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502.
	Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006.
	Those are small boobs.
	Zachary Maywood in Los Angeles, California.
	55-55.
	James Cashene II in Herndon, Virginia.
	Spooksville.
	Big time Spooksville.
	Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington.
	55-55.
	Sir Patrick, Duke of the South.
	Spooksville.
	Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington, 55-55.
	Patrick Sir Patrick, Duke of the South, 55-10 in Fairview, Tennessee.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	He has a note.
	This is Sir Patrick.
	A note from Patrick.
	New York meet-up alert for June 9th at Chaz Palmin... Palminteri Italian Restaurant, West 46th Street.
	Hopefully I will have a couple more speeches around the U.S.
	this year.
	And we'll make a meet-up for each one, like Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Kansas, and more.
	So, that's Sir Patrick Coble.
	He's just... He used to visit all the meet-ups.
	Now he's just creating them.
	And he's just going around the country doing it.
	Save or create.
	Yes.
	Hopefully Chaz Palminteri will be there.
	Sir Bias Grace in Neptune Beach, Florida, $55.10.
	John Craddock in Stafford, Virginia, $52.90.
	Jimmy Woo, $52.70 in Buffalo, New York.
	Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II in Sonoma, Wino country, as he puts it, $51.50.
	Andrea Nelson in Clovis, California, $50.44.
	And the following people are a $50 donor's name and location, if applicable.
	Chris Goodman in Leander, Miander Leander, Texas.
	John Barrett in St.
	Petersburg, Florida.
	Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina.
	Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
	Matthew Dixon in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Sir Richard Gardner, I think he's in New York City.
	50.
	Douglas Routtybush in Topeka, Kansas. 50.
	Greg Hartlob in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Sir James Durante in San Diego, California.
	Dale Fitch in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
	Wraps it up for show 1455.
	I want to thank all these people for producing the show and making it possible.
	Yes, and Sir James Durante said this is a happy birthday to my douchebag cousin Jeremy Jardin from Sir James Durante of the San Diego, of San Diego and the family, so... Nope, this one.
	And just circling back to Dodge Gaskill, he's from Barton, Vermont.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	He says, this donation should take me to Baron.
	Instead, for Memorial Day, I would rather have my late father, Admiral Richard T. Gaskill, knighted as Sir Dick of Marshall, Texas.
	Please bring cornbread and buttermilk to the round table.
	A shot of karma will do.
	So I did want to mention that his father was Admiral Richard T. Gaskill and he sent me, I know this, maybe two years ago?
	Maybe a year ago?
	He sent me Admiral Richard T. Gaskill's navigation slide rule as a nice little memento to keep and I'm very proud of it.
	It's beautiful.
	It has his name on it.
	It even looks like it's made of ivory.
	I'm sure it's not.
	So I appreciate that.
	And of course, on Memorial Day, I want to make sure that we got that out there.
	Thank you very much to these producers.
	Again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers and to everybody who came in under $50.
	That is for anonymity.
	So we just won't mention you at all, but would like to honor those people as they have opted mainly into subscriptions.
	Which we call sustaining donations.
	They're incredibly important.
	Keep things at least some base level when times get a little tough.
	So they are highly appreciated.
	And thank you again for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	We do have one note from Jim Schneeberger from the previous show.
	Where he sent $333.33 and he kindly acknowledged at the same time advertising with his note to go with it.
	He said he did send a short explanation that he will be donating this amount monthly, $333.33, which we encourage, instead of the sporadic payments he's given in the past.
	And he said, of course, he also gives a shout out to his smoking hot wife, Baroness Marianne Schneeberger, the damsel of disaster.
	If you'd like to learn more about the No Agenda Producerships, we'd love to have you on board.
	Go here to find out more.
	And for everybody who might need it, you've got karma.
	Here's our list for today.
	Sir Don Francis, happy birthday to a smoking hot wife, Stephanie, celebrating today.
	Kylie Thompson, her smoking hot boyfriend, Sir Andy of the Terrigal Beach, turns 54 today.
	Ben Smith will be 66 today as well.
	John Craddock congratulates his smoking hot wife, Mary, on her 56 today.
	Natalie Brown, happy birthday to Sean Allen Brown, who turns 38 on the 31st.
	We have M.E.K.
	33 on the first.
	Love those numbers.
	Jimmy Woo, happy birthday to Wendy Woo, turning 40.
	Andrea Nelson, her smokin' hot husband, Charlie Bonello, is celebrating.
	Sir J.D.
	Barron of Silicon Valley turns 51.
	Sir James Durante, happy birthday to his douchebag cousin, Jeremy Jardin.
	And Eric DeChill and John C. Dvorak both congratulate Henry.
	That's right, Henry Dvorak.
	I would just call him Dvorak to make it easy.
	11 on June 1st.
	Happy birthday, Henry, from everybody here at The Best Podcast.
	Mackie.
	Mackie.
	I know he's a Mackie.
	I'm just calling him Dvorak to make it easy.
	Henry Mackie, 11 years old.
	Happy birthday from Eric, from John, and from the whole Gitmo Nation.
	Come gather round douchebag, producer and slave.
	As we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave.
	And some of them nights, some of them days For the titles are a-changing Now I literally thought I had written down who became a Black Knight hero.
	Here we go.
	It is Sir Alexander of Middle Cascadia, now officially Black Knight, and well-deserved, of course.
	It was our mistake, and that's how you become a Black Knight ordained.
	One, two, three, four.
	We've got, uh, well, we've got some people ready to mount the podium here, John, so let's do a nice... Here we go.
	I got my blade right here.
	Memorial Day blade is very... Ooh, very nice.
	Up on the podium, virtually or not, Stephanie Francis, Saddle Tramp, Pierre, and, in spirit, Admiral Richard T. Gaskell.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you have all reached that status to sit here at the round table, the no-agenda knights and dames.
	You're a knight, or you're a dame.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the K.V.
	as Dame Stephanie Francis, Dame Saddle Tramp of the casual listeners.
	Pierre of the Farmington Valley, Connecticut, and Sir Dick of Marshall, Texas.
	For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay.
	Also on deck, Karaage and Martinis, Cornbread and Buttermilk, Pints of Montauki Cold Snacks, and Spam Musubi.
	And we'll throw in some Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils.
	Well, obviously, the mutton and mead, that is what everyone loves.
	So, while you're enjoying that, just write this down.
	NoahJenInTheNation.com slash rings.
	After you're done gorging yourself, head over there and let us know where we can send you a ring to and what ring size you need as well.
	And then a special health karma going out and Godspeed to OG Godscaster Steve Webb.
	You've got karma.
	He's in the hospital.
	Let me know.
	We had our inaugural meetup in Turkey.
	Alex was there, and he organized it, and he sent a video.
	The place looked dynamite with belly dancers and all kinds of cool stuff.
	Unfortunately, no one showed, but he's very enthusiastic about this being the perfect spot for a No Agenda Meetup, and it will come back onto the calendar when he organizes the next one.
	We appreciate his ultimate courage.
	Now, Scott Moskovitz gives us an update from the North Idaho Sanity Brigade Meetup.
	Scott, the shapeshifting Jew here for ITN News, bringing you the latest from Putin's meetup.
	In the morning, John and Adam, we got Jews and gypsies here hanging out.
	John, read your email.
	The attendees stayed remarkably calm despite the white supremacists overrunning the streets.
	In the morning, John and Adam.
	This is Mike.
	Mike in the morning!
	I'd like to call out my friend Tim Birdkick for being a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	This is Danica with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
	Keeping it sane up here.
	Over and out.
	Drinkers clutched their glasses as bullets whizzed by.
	Hey Buzz and Crack.
	Sir Road Dogg here.
	Love you guys.
	Mean it.
	No homo.
	And once again the fruit of peace has become the jam of war.
	Scott the Shapeshifting Jew here.
	North Idaho news as Coeur d'Alene burns.
	Okay.
	Thank you for the meetup reports.
	Appreciate it.
	If you hurry up you can just make the Kansas City meetup Northland's second chance barbecue picnic three o'clock Central time.
	Actually, you're late, but I'm sure they're going there.
	Kansas City, Missouri at Chateau Greenway Park.
	Springfield, Missouri Meetup is Tuesday at 6.30 Central Time.
	Bears, All-American Sports and Grill.
	And next show day will be Thursday, the Shawanguk, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, Mountain Meetup, number one, first one, 6.30 Eastern, the Inn at the Ridge in Wallkill, New York.
	We got a full calendar for June.
	I see June, I see July.
	Do we have anything on July 4th?
	No, nothing yet.
	Let me see if there's any crazy countries that we have meetups.
	We got, did I see Germany?
	Yes, Bayern Munchen in Germany, and another foreign country, Mont Laurel Township, New Jersey.
	Make sure you check all of those out.
	You can find out all about these meetups, or if you're crazy enough, you might even have to go start your own at noagendameetups.com.
	Whatever you do, give them a shot.
	Always guaranteed, like a potty.
	Hang out with all the nights and days.
	Indeed.
	You want to be where you won't be.
	Triggered or held the flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Indeed.
	Like a big party.
	Let's see.
	I got some ISOs here.
	Let me see.
	I don't think I have anything.
	Well, I have this one, of course.
	I got Mika's orgasm.
	And I have this one.
	Oh my gosh!
	How did you do that?
	I kind of like that one.
	Wow.
	I thought it was pretty good.
	I got two.
	Okay.
	I got white and male.
	White and male?
	Mm-hmm.
	Fits.
	Yes.
	And then we have was powerful.
	T'was... T'was Powerful Man.
	T'was Powerful... I kinda like that.
	Which one do you... To me it's between T'was Powerful Man... And, uh... Oh my gosh!
	How did you do that?
	It's a little long.
	I like it, though.
	T'was Powerful's good.
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	Uh...
	Because it was powerful.
	It was powerful, man.
	Man.
	Let me just jack up your audio here a little bit.
	Okay, good.
	Got that nice and loud.
	Parting shots, let me see, is there something?
	Oh, I did want to mention that my neighbor, Laura Logan, I guess she cut a deal with Mike Lindell?
	I'm very happy for her, by the way, because this is what Laura does.
	Laura is not someone who builds a media company or a property, or I don't think she can build a podcast, you know, build the community around it.
	She's an investigative journalist, and she knows how to put together great investigative journalist pieces.
	And she has a documentary coming out on July 16th.
	It's called Selection Code, and it is about the rigged voting machines.
	So I bet you it's good too.
	You want to hear the promo?
	The trailer?
	Local criminal investigations into Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters alleged voting machine security breaches continues.
	If I asked you this question before the 2020 election, are these voting machines secure?
	I would have said yes.
	And after the election, I would have said yes.
	What changed?
	Tina Peters admits she brought in a consultant to make a forensic copy of the Dominion voting system in Mesa County.
	I continue to think that our voting machines are too vulnerable.
	Voting machines in Georgia and Texas switch votes from one candidate to another.
	Virtually every machine was broken into.
	Ballot recording machines.
	Voting machines.
	Machines.
	Machines.
	Voting machines.
	Voting machines.
	Machines.
	Machines.
	Machines, which are vulnerable to being hacked.
	There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections.
	We've seen no evidence that any of our voting systems have been tampered with.
	The November 3rd election was the most secure.
	It was the most secure.
	Most secure.
	Most secure election in American history, period.
	The process is very secretive.
	These machines are built by private companies, which we don't have a right to know what goes on inside those.
	What did you see during the software update?
	We've uncovered something that they're afraid of.
	We didn't consider the machines.
	The information found there is the Rosetta Stone.
	They made a mistake and left the evidence in the machine.
	And you can hide it as well.
	It's only what the programmer tells us to say.
	It's literally like the difference between going from pickpocketing to credit card fraud.
	These people are being selected, not elected.
	It's about who gets the comfortable.
	They break down my door, terrorize my family.
	FBI, arrest her!
	What do you remember?
	Just my mom being handcuffed by the chief of police.
	This is not what we do in America.
	You could make it all go away, though.
	You just keep your mouth shut.
	You could have your life back.
	Whoa!
	Can't unsee what I've seen.
	Bombastic!
	There's money there.
	There's monies on the screen.
	I like the selected, not elected.
	That's why it's called Selection Code.
	Well, the timing is good, July 16th, so by the time people see it, you know, it'll be October Surprise.
	She's already been pushed into the camp of, oh, you're a Republican goon, so she might as well, you know.
	Well, Mike Lindell's not a goon.
	No, I'm talking about the left looking at these people as goons.
	As nutjobs.
	Well, or something.
	Un-American.
	Undemocratic.
	Trying to ruin the country.
	Yeah.
	Lies!
	Lies!
	Well, I got a fact-check false clip here to finish it off.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Does it need a setup?
	I don't remember what it is.
	Okay.
	Hey, how come it didn't play?
	I think it was not playing.
	We have a day where 600 kids come in from diverse communities and all of them raise their hand and say, we've never been here before.
	And they're yelling and screaming.
	And they're meeting people like Ed Wilburn, who was the highest ranking African-American in GM who designed the Corvette.
	Fact check false.
	Fact check false.
	Okay.
	So you're saying it was not a African-American who designed the Corvette?
	Well, I don't know what they're talking about.
	Are they talking about the new C8?
	If it was the new C8, then the guy who designed that is, let's see, I have his name here as a matter of fact, somewhere.
	Is his name Darnell?
	Kirk Benion is the guy who did the C8, at least the outward design.
	No, this guy should have been praised as a black man who is a massive top of the heap Manager, uh, who heads up the design department at General Motors, the international design department, he heads it up and he has all these people doing designs.
	He was sure he was the one who checked the box.
	Yeah, this design's fine, which is even better than being the designer.
	But he didn't design it.
	He designed the Corvette.
	No, he didn't.
	And he didn't design the original Corvette because the guy's currently about 71 years old and he'd have to be two years old.
	Not that it matters to me at all, but you gotta put this in the same bucket as a black American man created the light bulb, not Thomas Edison.
	You know, it's like these types of things that are being thrown out there.
	It's similar except for one thing.
	What?
	This is on NPR, the national treasure, and they're pushing false narratives out of the speaker hole.
	What?
	Out of the speaker hole?
	There's gambling going on in that speaker hole?
	Yeah.
	Well, we look forward to coming back to you again on Thursday with another deconstruction of everything that is your media, the world around you.
	Notice, no Amber Heard, no useless talking about theories of shootings.
	I snuck in Amber Heard.
	You did, you did, you did.
	I snuck in a little bit about Uvalde.
	But you do know a little bit more about the world is headed, at least if you are Queen Ursula and Prince Klaus.
	End of show mixes.
	We got an extra-long Neil Jones Diddy, which I think is quite nice, and Tom Starkweather.
	And up next on the No Agenda stream, Hog Story 5-Minute Limit.
	This is live with Carolyn Blaney, John Fletcher, and Ryan Bemrose.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I am Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley where I am John C. Dvorak with wires that aren't hooked up correctly in important places.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash NA.
	And until then, adios mofos and such.
	Everybody's gonna cut himself a nice fat slice.
	You forgot one detail, Mr. Bigshot.
	You forgot me, the prize stooge of the world.
	Hold on a minute, young man.
	Hold on, that's rather big talk.
	You're through deciding anything.
	Get off that righteous horse of yours and come to your senses.
	You're the fake.
	We believe in what we're doing.
	You're the one that was paid the 30 pieces of silver.
	Have you forgotten that?
	You're the big hero who's supposed to jump off tall buildings and things.
	You sit there back at your big cigars and think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.
	An idea that's brought thousands of them here from all over the country, by bus and by freight, in jalopies and on foot, so they could pass on to each other their own simple little experiences.
	Why, look, I'm just a mug and I know it, but I'm beginning to understand a lot of things.
	Why, your type's as old as history.
	If you can't lay your dirty fingers on a decent idea and twist it and squeeze it and stuff it into your own pocket, you slap it down.
	Like dogs, if you can't eat something, you bury it.
	Why, this is the one worthwhile thing that's come along.
	People are finally finding out that the guy next door isn't a bad egg.
	A thing like that's got a chance of spreading till it touches every last dot on human being on the world, and you talk about... about killing it!
	Or when this fire dies down, what's gonna be left?
	More misery, more hunger, and more hate.
	And what's to prevent that from starting all over again?
	Nobody knows the answer to that one, and certainly not you with those slammy bollocked up theories you got.
	Sit back there on your fat hoax and tell me you'll kill it if you can't use it.
	Well, you go ahead and try.
	You couldn't do it in a million years with all your radio stations and all your power.
	Because it's bigger than whether I'm a fake.
	It's bigger than your ambitions.
	It is bigger than all the bracelets and fur coats in the world.
	You bet it is, John!
	And that's exactly what I'm going down there to tell those people.
	You know I'm a bad boy.
	Don't let me start talking.
	I'm the loser.
	You hear me?
	Because I will bring a light called truth, called truth, called truth, called truth.
	That will expose your skinny butts and your wickedness and your dark shadows.
	You hear me?
	you hear me but it still ain't gonna stop me from getting you I'm coming for you nonetheless don't you ever forget it I'm coming for you
	But now we are taking our ambition yet to another level.
	Covid has been one of the most profitable products ever.
	The biggest question maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people.
	This one is not super expensive compared to the benefit.
	There is one person who was very deeply involved in Ukraine.
	And that's Biden.
	Conspiracy people.
	So, I think that's behind us.
	Everything went okay, and now I think we can move on.
	Individual carbon footprint tracker.
	Stay tuned.
	We don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're working on.
	Strong.
	Yeah.
	What does that mean?
	Popular support for measures is whining.
	This is putting our whole international order into question.
	Ukraine today is rendering tremendous service to Europe and to the Western world.
	But the product this time will not be textiles or machines or vehicles or even weapons.
	The product this time will be humans themselves.

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