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	There's nothing that gets our attention better than a smiling cow.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, July 10th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Give All Nation Media Assassination, episode 1467.
	This is no agenda.
	Repeating the line and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6 in...
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I just saw a 43-car train headed to China, I'm John C. DeVore.
	Well, while we're doing local reports, we're going to have 110 degrees here in Fredericksburg, Texas.
	Today.
	Sounds warm.
	Yeah.
	It's warm.
	It's hot.
	I think they're messing with us, John.
	That's hot.
	They're messing with us, man.
	Well, it's a dry heat.
	Oh, yeah, that's what it is.
	It's always a dry heat.
	It is a dry heat.
	Yeah, it's very dry.
	We have this really crazy wind now that goes along with it.
	Dry wind.
	A very dry wind, yeah.
	I'd say it's kind of like turning on a... You go outside, you shrivel up, and it's right before your very eyes.
	Pretty much.
	Like a prune.
	I don't know what we're gonna do.
	You know, we never got any of the rain that everyone else got.
	It went right around Fredericksburg, which is what Fredericksburg is designed to do, or why it was chosen.
	Chosen?
	Yes, it was chosen by the American Indians and later by the Germans, because when it rains out here, I mean, it's crazy.
	I mean, it's destructive rain.
	So this was less rain because of the elevation.
	That's the story.
	So it's safer.
	Well, I guess if you're an American Indian or a German in the 1800s.
	Yeah, you could wash that out.
	I mean, who needs that agony?
	Yeah.
	I wanted to start this off with, I found this fantastic interview, what is it, Facts Matter?
	It's probably from, who are those anti-CCP guys?
	NTD?
	No, not NTD, the other one.
	Epoch Times?
	Epoch Times, yeah, yeah, Epoch Times.
	And it's also important to do it before this thing is over, because I think it will be over pretty quickly.
	I'm talking about the farmers in the Netherlands.
	This is now world news, and we've been talking about these protests from the farmers and what's going on in the Netherlands for, if not weeks, months.
	And, you know, so now Tucker has found his go-to Dutch lady.
	Have you seen her?
	Why don't they just invite you on the show?
	Well... It would help the podcast.
	No kidding!
	Well, the producers listen to the show, so... And she's... What's her name?
	Vlaardingerbroek is her last name.
	She's a Dutch... She's not as famous in Holland as you are.
	Correct.
	She's getting pretty famous.
	But, you know, and I think she works for PragerU, and, you know, it's a very, very... PragerU, okay, enough said.
	It's very political.
	I think she's engaged or married to some guy, like, I want to say... That would usually be the case.
	No, but someone who's, you know, kind of like a Twitter, YouTube-type person.
	Oh, there you go.
	Ah, trolls, I'm counting on you.
	Anyway.
	Um, and you know, and she actually gave a pretty good report.
	Uh, I think I saw it on Thursday or Friday.
	The good and entertaining Dutch accent?
	She has a very entertaining Dutch accent and obviously you cannot ignore her tele-telegiosity.
	Oh, she's pretty.
	Her telegenity.
	Like you haven't seen her?
	It's telegeneity.
	There you go.
	Telegen- show title.
	Tell her.
	Tell her.
	No, I have not seen her.
	I haven't been watching Tucker.
	Oh, okay.
	I usually fall asleep after like the first monologue.
	And Tina's always like, man, did you see what he said?
	I said, well, no.
	You have to roll it back and look at it.
	Anyway.
	This was a really good interview with Thierry Baudet, and he is the leader of the Forum for Democracy party in the Netherlands, one of the biggest, but very much in line with Geert Wilders, very much in line with, I guess it would go back to Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated in early 2000.
	Who was on track to win and become the biggest political party.
	His party did.
	Of course he wasn't prime minister because he was dead.
	Killed by a nut job animal activist who now is actually out roaming around free.
	Yeah, and you kill somebody in Holland, you save, serve some time, you get out.
	And he really explained exactly what's going on.
	What happened to the pretty girl?
	I thought she was going to be talking.
	No, who cares about the pretty girl?
	Let's get the pretty boy.
	Now, he's probably late 30s, early 40s, very young.
	Um, he, you know, he has one of these images that can easily be despised in the Netherlands because he comes across as what they would call, uh, studenticos or like a, like a, um, like a, um, almost like a Bernie bro in college.
	You know what I mean?
	Except he has, he always great suit.
	He has the right shoes.
	His office has Chesterfield furniture.
	Are you getting the picture?
	Yeah.
	So, you know, a lot of people are like, oh, that's just so hateful.
	Not what I would think of as a Bernie bro, but okay.
	Nah, I'm sorry.
	Well, do you have a better example?
	I don't have a better example.
	What?
	Not of a Bernie bro?
	No, no, no.
	Uncamped?
	Pants sagging?
	No, oh, no, no, no, no.
	He's, no, no, no.
	That was a wrong one.
	Anyway, definitely more Trump than anything else.
	Let's just put it that way.
	So universally hated by the establishment, but of course a lot of people in the Netherlands vote for him and for the party and they like him a lot.
	So here he is explaining the grand scheme of why this is taking place and why the Netherlands.
	How is it possible that in an age where everybody's talking about possibility of food shortages, of insecure supply chains, The Dutch government is pursuing this policy which will lead to even more dependency on international supply chains and thus uncertainty for the Dutch consumers.
	The answer is that the people governing this country are following the script written by the EU to realize what they call a great reset.
	They want to make us more dependent on international supply chains.
	They want to weaken Dutch sovereignty and autonomy.
	And also, they want to continue mass immigration into the Netherlands.
	And if you're going to bring more people to the Netherlands, in a very small and densely populated country, You're going to need to take the land from the farmers and put houses there.
	That's the agenda, to turn the Netherlands into a giant city without its own means of production, without its autonomy in terms of sovereignty, but also in terms of food production, and to make people dependent on the international rulers, the globalists, who are trying to take over.
	Now, he didn't mention it specifically, but this is part of the Tri-City project, which includes Rotterdam and Amsterdam and Brussels and all the way up north in Holland-Groningen.
	And they've already mapped it out, mapped out the highways, mapped out the bullet trains.
	And all of the Netherlands will be this massive city that will, you know, where people will just live and exist and do whatever they're supposed to do.
	A giant bedroom community.
	Yes, yeah.
	With nothing else.
	And so all of the food, well, we know where it's going to come.
	It's not actually going to come from outside.
	It's about the right size.
	And think about the advantages, by the way.
	I'm in on this.
	Groovy.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	You got this giant suburban area that's just a massive bedroom community.
	It's monstrous.
	And if you really need to control the people, you just open up that big dam that was built and flood them out.
	The off-slide deck.
	Shut up or we flood you!
	So what they're using as the lever, the politicians in the Netherlands, is something that dates back to 2000, a project part of the Sustainable Development Goals, of course, which is all the, you know, Agenda 21, which is now Agenda 2030, and he gives that a little attention here.
	I'll give you a very quick update on the whole nitrogen and how it came to pass.
	This is the nitrogen issue.
	This is why the farmers have to leave, because of the nitrogen in the soil, because of their animals.
	In the 1990s, the European Union introduced the NATURA, so that's nature, 2000 guidelines.
	And that means that certain areas in Europe were picked for the preservation of certain forms of vegetation.
	And as it happens, the Netherlands was picked to protect moss and clover and some other form of hay and other form of vegetation that do well in relatively poor surfaces where there are not too many things for plants to eat.
	And so nitrogen In itself, more nitrogen oxides in the Netherlands would not be a problem for nature.
	It would be a problem for maintaining the specific vegetation goals that were set in the Natura 2000 guidelines.
	And the politicians here are unwilling to do the most simple thing that anyone protecting the Dutch national interests would do, which is write a letter to the EU.
	stupid guidelines.
	There's enough clover and moss elsewhere in Europe.
	We are going to protect our farmers and we're going to have more trees and other forms of vegetation, which would be a consequence of a bit higher level of nitrogen oxide.
	That would be the logical thing to do.
	They're not doing that.
	They're sticking to these bureaucratic rules that 20 years ago, someone said that the Netherlands had to maintain a certain percentage of moss and clover and hay.
	And indeed, the real agenda behind that is that they want to have a stick to beat the farmers with.
	I think they could use the same thing.
	Hey, we're going to open the dikes if you farmers don't piss off.
	Be a lot easier.
	Think about it.
	You do the trick.
	Yes.
	I'm just reminded, I should say this, this is kind of a mirror image of what they did.
	This idea is something, I have some thoughts on this because I had a discussion with JC, who's friends with the, one of his best friends is the, amongst the ruling elite of Sri Lanka.
	Oh, goodness, yeah.
	Lots to talk about there, too.
	And so there's this mimicking it because they were the farmers that have been screwed over by the globalists.
	In fact, I'll just move on that for a second.
	Uh, where was it?
	This, uh, it's completely based on the Green Agenda.
	Here it is.
	Sri Lanka has a near-perfect ESG score, 98.
	Yeah, I saw that too.
	Which is higher than Sweden.
	One of the highest in the world.
	Which is higher than Sweden, 96.
	Now the United States only 51.
	We suck!
	Now of course there are other things behind, there's a lot of stuff going on, the 2019 bombing, that hurt tourism, but the biggest and main problem from this article that's in the show notes, causing Sri Lanka's fall was its ban on chemical fertilizers, nitrogen anybody, in April of 2021, so only a year ago.
	Over 90% of Sri Lanka's farmers had used chemical fertilizers and after the ban, 85% experienced crop losses.
	After the fertilizer ban, rice production fell 20%, prices skyrocketed 50% in just six months.
	Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice despite having been self-sufficient in grain just months earlier.
	The price of carrots and tomatoes rose five-fold.
	Tea, the nation's main export, also suffered thereby undermining the nation's foreign currency and ability to purchase products from abroad.
	That's called getting screwed.
	Yeah.
	What's left out of all these stories, all of them, is the fact that the United States has been angling to turn Sri Lanka into a military base.
	Oh, interesting.
	Oh, this is perfect.
	And they're not necessarily going for it, but the Chinese are doing what they can to keep this from happening.
	And it's because we can't seem to get a base in India.
	They won't allow it.
	Right.
	And the Pakistanis just can't.
	I mean, they're too close to China.
	They're letting you do it, but they know this would not be in their best interest.
	Yeah, you can have this little square meter over here.
	So, of course, there's some other stuff going on in the background in the Netherlands of all of this.
	It's not just to facilitate the continuous immigration.
	There's also a perhaps spiritual or deeper thing that is looming behind this, which is that farmers and in general people living on the land and of the land and with the land, they have a strong connection to the history They're proud of their often family companies that have been in the family for several generations.
	And so these are not post-modern, post-historical, post-national people.
	They're proud family people who have their own business, who live of their own land, who have a connection to the history and to the nature of this country.
	And so they form a direct threat to the globalists Post-territorial, post-identitarian agenda.
	The real point here is the Great Reset, mass migration, transnational governance, and that's why people have to become atomized.
	They have to lose their connection to the land, and that's why they're hitting on the farmers.
	Sound familiar, anybody?
	Fill in your country name here.
	I mean, that's totally what's happening in the United States.
	It's the only way you're going to get people to eat bugs.
	We're so close to that.
	And also, it's the only way we can really have the continuous stream of migrants keep coming into the country.
	It's not a stated goal in terms of part of the same government agenda.
	They're doing this as if it's an isolated phenomenon, but it is a stated purpose, a stated goal of this government to continue mass migration.
	And also our current Minister of Housing has been with a camera around the country pointing at farmlands and saying, this is where we're going to put people in the future.
	So if you put one and one together, it's very obvious that this is part of the agenda.
	But it's not that they would formally say, we're now expropriating the farmers in order to buy housing.
	They're smart enough not to say it like that, that loud.
	But anyone who is clever and connects the dots will realize that this is the plan.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so the Minister of Housing is just walking around.
	Hey, see that farm over there?
	Houses.
	Houses.
	This is pretty brazen.
	Well, this is kind of what happened in Santa Clara Valley here in California.
	Do tell.
	Santa Clara Valley was probably one of the richest farmland areas, and actually where I was raised was pretty... It's almost as good a part of Thalameda County, Niles in particular, where they grew all the Bing cherries, which there's not a cherry tree left in the area.
	But Santa Clara Valley was just a breadbasket, and now it's what?
	All houses and tech companies.
	And porn studios.
	Or a different valley.
	That's San Fernando Valley.
	A different valley.
	And I think that was probably an agricultural area, too.
	And it became a bedroom community.
	But we've got a lot of land here.
	It's not like Holland.
	Right.
	No, exactly.
	Well, and of course, this final clip.
	By the way, the Japanese have this sort of pressure on them, too.
	But they resist it.
	Like, you can't even import rice to Japan.
	I mean, we grow a lot of rice in California.
	In fact, we grow some of the Saki rice that they use to make Saki, the Japanese Saki rice.
	And the Japanese will not accept it.
	They have to grow their own rice.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	No, you can't.
	No.
	In fact, if we make Saki here and we make some Saki manufacturing that goes on in the United States, it's world class.
	Forget it.
	You can't get it into Japan.
	Hey, can I ask you a question?
	Is this the official pronunciation, Saki?
	That's the way I pronounce it.
	Okay.
	Well, I just want to know because I've always said sake.
	Sake, sake, sake.
	It's also the same.
	It's the pronunciation for the same as the salmon when you eat sushi, the sake.
	Sake.
	And it refers to the – there's a reason for it being called that, and I will not discuss it now.
	Continue, please.
	Gensake.
	All right.
	Oh, I'm not going to discuss it now.
	This must be something very extraordinary.
	No, it's going to be lengthy and it's off-topic.
	All right.
	Final clip from Bodé here.
	Unfortunately, he agrees with me that this probably will just end in the typical Dutch capitulation.
	If they set up a strike, a general strike, where they won't deliver us any fish anymore, they won't deliver us any meat anymore, any milk anymore, they won't sell their cheeses to supermarkets anymore, if they genuinely say, okay, this is enough, stop, this is our existential battle, Then in about two or three days, you're going to see it in the supermarkets.
	And people are going to be like, I'm hungry.
	Where's my food coming from?
	But this can only work if the farmers and the fishermen and all the people, perhaps even internationally, they really form a coalition and stick to it.
	And we would support it.
	But I'm afraid that what will happen is More like aggressive demonstrations and then the public opinion will turn against them and that government will just top up its offers and give them a little bit more money and some people will say and they will break the unity of the protesters and some people will say well I'll take my share and I'll start something else or I'll send my kids to college or whatever.
	So I'm pretty pessimistic.
	I'm pretty afraid that they will on the one hand lose the public support by Demonstrating too roughly instead of simply not delivering any food anymore, going on strike, and secondly that many of them will choose their short-term self-interest rather than the long-term interest of the nation as a whole.
	Yep.
	Probably true.
	They're so beaten down.
	Do we need to revisit Sri Lanka?
	No, I think I just wanted to mention the U.S.
	base and the fact that the Sri Lankans are resisting that because the Chinese are helping them and they want Sri Lanka part of this Belt and Road.
	It's amazing that none of this, none of this gets discussed in the M5M here.
	Now, instead, here's a 23-second report.
	This is the derivative we get that's called news, CBS.
	Massive protests broke out at the homes of the President and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
	A mob stormed the President's home, breaking through security to enter the building.
	Later, some took the celebration to the property's private pool.
	The Prime Minister's home was also mobbed and then lit on fire.
	The protests come amid the country's financial crisis.
	Both the President and Prime Minister have now agreed to resign.
	Nothing about food, nothing about bases.
	They don't mention the fact that they forced them into this green, you know, these farmers.
	And by the way, the farms in Sri Lanka are, there's millions of them and they're small.
	Yeah.
	And nobody gives a shit about what anyone's telling them to do because they've been doing something traditionally forever.
	And so then they tell them they can't use, you know, basic fertilizers that they've been dependent on for decades.
	Exactly.
	Now, instead, we get... They can't grow anything.
	They get 20% of their normal crop.
	It's not coincidence that you're not getting this information.
	No, instead, oh, everyone's doing backflips in the president's pool.
	Let's show a video of that.
	Yeah, you're right.
	It's not a coincidence that they won't tell you that these policies and the green bullcrap is not working.
	Not only not working, it's counter-working, but then again, maybe it is working.
	It's working to achieve some other end.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, no, of course.
	The one that's going on in Holland, the one with the giant bedroom community that you can flood.
	Man, imagine how easy it'll be to transport the drugs when Holland has all of those bullet trains and stuff.
	You know, it's pretty efficient now through the port of Rotterdam, but still, just think about how great it will be.
	And we'll have our customers right there in the giant bedroom community.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's wasted.
	And, you know, people are going to all be working from home, so they'll have, you know, they'll need some kind of challenge.
	Because it's a new right.
	It's a new human right.
	They voted on it.
	It's a right.
	It's a right to work from home.
	And you know what that's going to result in?
	Swingers.
	It's just going to be one big batch of swingers.
	Oh, it's going to be a sex party.
	All of Holland will be one big sex house with drugs.
	That's too bad, man.
	I got to get my daughter out of there pretty quick.
	This is bad.
	Bad, bad, bad.
	So yeah, a lot of interesting things happened since our last show.
	In fact, on the day itself.
	But really, the one thing I just wanted to put a little bit of focus on is what happened in Candanavia with their internet.
	I mean, we didn't hear much about it because, oh, I don't know, their internet was completely down.
	Rogers.
	Rogers, yeah.
	Now, they only have... I mean, Rogers, what is that?
	At least 50, maybe 70% of all internet access?
	Canada Bell's pretty big.
	Right, but I think it's about half.
	It's big.
	It's big.
	And so it was down a real total of 24 hours.
	You know, it came up and down in certain parts, but it was very serious.
	So here's a Canadian report with the CEO of Rogers apologizing.
	He won't use the word, but go look online everywhere the term is.
	It was a glitch!
	I apologize.
	We all here at Rogers apologize for the outage.
	Rogers is saying sorry, following a nationwide outage that left millions of customers without internet access, cell phone and cable services for most of Friday.
	Contrary to what many thought was a cyber attack, one of the country's largest telecom networks admits it's responsible for the widespread service disruptions.
	We've narrowed the cause to a network system failure.
	We had a maintenance upgrade in our core network and that caused our routers to malfunction.
	The malfunction affected pretty much everything Canadians use on a daily basis.
	Emergency services, travel, and... They were really, really hooped and not able to, in this busy season coming out of COVID, to make critical sales.
	Interac says services are back after debit and mobile banking transactions came to a halt.
	Rogers admits it has not fully restored services to everyone across the country as of Saturday.
	It plans to credit customers for two days worth of service.
	For some people that'll be enough, but for other people who are inconvenienced, is a $15 or $20 credit really going to cut it?
	This is the second time in the last two years Rogers has had a nationwide outage and the company's president and CEO could not say for certain it will not happen again.
	I'm committed to make sure that we are doing everything to ensure the resiliency of our network.
	Without a definitive plan B, the ordeal has called into question the competition, or lack thereof, in Canada, with Shaw, Bell, and Rogers dominating the telecommunications playing field.
	Competition's a good thing, and it works for everyone in such an impactful way, and I can only think that something like this elevates the conversation around internet service providers, Given the major disruption, there are now calls for a public inquiry into the outage and for the CRTC to investigate.
	Yeah, right.
	Okay.
	So that's the story.
	Of course, we have dudes named Ben in the BGP space.
	Our BGP boys named Ben.
	Border Gateway.
	Yeah, I noticed that they don't tell us anything, any details.
	What router brand was it?
	Is it Huawei gear?
	Is it Ericsson gear?
	Is it Cisco gear?
	What kind of gear are we talking about?
	Why don't you at least give us a hint?
	So here's one of our Border Gateway Protocol boys who deal with this very layer of the internet, which is, you know, how routes are determined.
	And he says, hey, me and the other BGP boys have been watching this Canada mess all morning.
	Rogers' AS numbers are unadvertised.
	Now, that's a very serious issue when your address space numbering is not being advertised.
	You know, it's basically like having a map of roads, but then it's all jumbled up.
	So you want to, you know, Dallas would wind up in Germany.
	So, no.
	And he says, no American press is talking about that.
	This is about 27% of Canada's internet down.
	My company, an unnamed multi-billion dollar insurance powerhouse, where I am AVP of network operations, has about 15 offices this morning, offline, most of which aren't even on Rogers.
	So this was a little more widespread than just Rogers.
	My boss and I... I think that's just interlinking.
	Could be.
	My boss and I are speculating someone hit the kill switch in Canada.
	9-11 and most Visa card services are down in the greater Toronto area.
	So then he comes back later with an update.
	All of our shit is finally back up.
	Here's the latest interesting tidbit.
	We had four office locations where we saw this really weird stuff happening with DNS after general service was restored.
	We specifically filter where we send DNS queries.
	All of that traffic appeared to Cloudflare and FortiGuard to be intercepted, even though the head-end firewalls for those sites were clearly online, otherwise passed through normal, unencrypted traffic.
	Now, this could just be Rogers getting their shit back in order and happened to bitbucket some secure DNS, plain DNS, and other random HTTPS sessions, or it could have been man-in-the-middle intelligence related to Bill C-11.
	And C11 is... Jordan Peterson did a full-on episode about this.
	This is the follow-up to C-10, which was the censorship law.
	They're talking about censoring or at least monitoring all live or all video streams that originate from Canada to make sure that you adhere to the same rules as the M5M, as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
	And that, you know, this may be stuff to, you know, to stop stuff, to block it, and maybe that's what the router upgrades are, and it may not be ready for primetime, or something like that.
	I like that.
	I like that theory, that it's about upgrading to this new build to be compliant.
	Yeah, C11 compliant.
	Compliance.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, you gotta be compliant.
	And so, in the process, they screwed it up, or somebody Maybe.
	Oh, yeah, they screwed it up big time.
	Well, if you're doing man-in-the-middle stuff, it's hard.
	I think there's also some guys in there that would like to throw a little monkey wrench into the works if they can.
	Oh, goodness, yes.
	Well, goodness or not.
	Yeah, no, that would be great.
	Yeah, no.
	We need more of that.
	We need more of people that's sabotaging stuff.
	We gotta move this agenda forward.
	It's not like the UK.
	They don't need the router man-in-the-middle stuff.
	They have this new bill that journalists, if they leak anything from, or if they publish anything that was leaked, that comes from the government, they can go to jail for life.
	Go to jail!
	Whistleblowers, journalists, and publishers focusing on national security-related matters may be most at risk of being prosecuted.
	Any person who copies, retains, discloses, distributes, or provides access to protected information can and will be prosecuted.
	Yeah, that sounds right.
	Well, this is very important as we come up to the Charles administration.
	King Charles.
	Yeah, we have to get everything in line.
	Why are they waiting so long to announce the Queen is dead?
	I mean, it's crazy how long she's been gone.
	They don't want Charles.
	Hello?
	Yeah, who's they?
	Everyone.
	Okay.
	MI6, MI5, the public, the journalists, people who know Charles, the foreign governments.
	Good point.
	There's a couple of things I wanted to...
	We do some stuff about Obby.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This was made by a shotgun, a handmade shotgun.
	This was pretty crazy.
	It's kind of funny.
	But I wanted to get this, because we talked about this last show, and I wanted to get the details back out of the way, because we talked about Brittany Griner, who's taking up a little too much of the news cycle.
	But Boot, this guy Boot, B-O-U-T.
	Yeah, it's not Max Boot.
	He is a Russian.
	He is a Russian, and I would recommend people go to Max Boot, not Max Boot, what's his first name?
	Can I just correct us?
	You and I were both talking about Max Boot in this context on the last show.
	We were corrected, obviously, it was not Max Boot.
	No, but this guy's name is Booten.
	It's spelled B-O-U-T.
	Yeah.
	And I would recommend you go to the wiki page.
	Well, I'll tell you why.
	Well, let's play these.
	I only have two clips.
	And this is about Booten and Griner.
	And this is... And he is Russian, supposedly.
	And here is the Griner Booten 1 NPR clip.
	Reports out of Russia indicate that the Kremlin is interested in a prisoner swap for Russian arms dealer Victor Booth.
	Can I just ask you, is that something, as a former ambassador, that the U.S.
	should consider?
	Well, when I was the ambassador and I worked at the White House even before then, Victor Booth was in jail during that time and we heard many, many offers.
	Uh, of trying to get him out.
	Remember, he's not just an arms dealer, but in the Russian system, he's probably linked.
	And now I'm speculating here, but if you just look at his background and what he did in the past, it sounds like he probably has connections to Russian intelligence services.
	And remember the president of Russia does too, Vladimir Putin.
	So they want to get him out.
	They've wanted to get him out for a long, long time.
	Uh, it presents a problem for the United States system because he's a real criminal.
	Who is this speaking?
	He's one of the ambassadors to one of the Eastern European countries during the Obama administration.
	Okay.
	I hear Boot is also connected to 9-11 in some odd way.
	Well, he seems to be connected to everything.
	Okay, got it.
	But the thing is, if you read his wiki page, and I recommend people do that, I'm trying to bring it up.
	He, you find out how he got, he's a real criminal, he goes on and on, he's a real criminal.
	You try to find the crime in there.
	You know what the crime is?
	No.
	The old FBI entrapment game.
	Really?
	The US government arranged to sell arms to some Dooshbags that were on the list of, you can't sell arms to these people or we'll come after you.
	And it was all government, American government agents that set this guy up and pretty much, here, here, push the button and the arms deal will go through, you're under arrest.
	Oh, okay.
	So the Russians got really P.O'd about this.
	about this arrest and the fact that he's in jail because they claim that this is, it was bullcrap.
	It was entrapment of the highest order.
	And even, even in the wiki page, it explains it.
	And it, and they have never gotten anything else on the guys.
	One of those situations where it's like Al Capone, you had to get him with a tax evasion because you couldn't get the goods on him.
	And this guy seems to be that sort of person is extremely, uh, uh, talented as a gun arms dealer, but he was also working for the Russians.
	It seems to me.
	So this, he's genuinely a genuine criminal and then Britney's not?
	She's a criminal.
	She was smuggling dope, marijuana juice into Russia.
	That's against their laws.
	I mean, what are you supposed to, well, the Russian laws, well, they're useless.
	You know, we can smoke it in California.
	So this whole report really irked me from that perspective.
	She is a criminal in the country she's in.
	If you're in a country where you can't get divorced and you get divorced, it's a crime.
	You're a criminal there.
	In Texas, if you have more than six dildos, it's a crime.
	Is that true?
	Yes, believe it or not.
	No, I know there's a bunch of stupid laws like that.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	And if they catch you... That would be one of them.
	And if they catch you, you're in trouble.
	What do they do to you?
	I don't know.
	I don't know if you can walk.
	I don't know, but I don't want to find out.
	Can you walk to the car?
	No.
	So anyway, so I found that annoying that they would put this... I think this guy's been unjustly arrested and held for a decade or more already, and it's like, okay, because it was an entrapment deal.
	But he's probably a bad guy.
	Hey, Victor, what are you in for?
	No arms, dealing to the wrong people.
	What are you in for?
	Seven dildos.
	Well, I'll make it.
	I got something to trade.
	Okay, so now the...
	Uh, so the guy, I mean, law enforcement has their own kind of behind the scenes way of looking at stuff.
	They say, this is a bad guy.
	He's a bad guy.
	We got him in jail.
	We finally got him in jail.
	And it's like corn pop.
	He's a bad dude.
	Yeah.
	Uh, corn pop.
	So it's like, So, you know, we got him in jail, but it was like trickery and, you know, underhanded, you know, illegal, illegal methodology, which is that he makes you a crook.
	But OK, fine.
	And Brittany, she's jealous.
	She poor girl.
	But and then I'll play part two of this in a second.
	I just have another complaint.
	You start listening to these reports.
	There's now she's got some lawyer, some representing her wife going on about, well, if she was a white guy or LeBron James, she'd be out by now.
	And I'm thinking, what do you notice the kind of privilege she has?
	They don't mention the fact that there are two white guys that they're trying to also get out of Russia who got arrested for one reason or another.
	Very similarly, you know, they kind of like, let's arrest these guys for no good reason and throw them in jail.
	They're not getting any attention.
	She has basketball player privilege that is above and beyond all this other bullcrap.
	It's called BBPP.
	There you go.
	Let's play the second half.
	He's a real criminal.
	And the Department of Justice convicted him and he's in jail for a good reason.
	Brittany Greiner is not a real criminal.
	And so they feel very uneasy about doing those kinds of swaps.
	That said, we've done it before, just earlier this year, the Biden administration.
	Traded Konstantin Yaroshenko, another Russian prisoner, convicted criminal for Trevor Reed.
	And back in 2010, when I was in the government, I was working at the White House at the time, we swapped spies.
	A dozen of them that we picked up here in the United States in return for four Russians that we wanted to get out of Russian prison.
	So there is a precedent for these things to happen.
	Would freeing boot actively hurt American national security?
	That's a tough call.
	I can imagine my colleagues in the Biden administration struggling with that and having differences of opinion.
	My personal view is It's a trade worth taking.
	I would add others, by the way, not just Brittany Greiner.
	Paul Whelan is unjustly being held.
	Mark Fogle is another American convicted for 14 years in prison in Russia for the same alleged crime as Brittany Greiner.
	So I would pursue a swap to get all those Americans out.
	But I think it's worth the trade.
	Yes, I would take the deal.
	I want to talk a little bit about the U.S.
	response so far over the last six months.
	It feels like in the past few days, there's been a much more organized push from people in Brittany Greiner's orbit to get the U.S.
	government to take action.
	Even though she was detained in February, the U.S.
	did not declare Greiner wrongfully detained until May.
	Why, in your view, hasn't there been more urgency from the U.S.
	government on responding to this?
	You know, I don't want to presume that that is true.
	It feels that way, of course, to those that have loved ones in jail.
	Oh man, okay.
	First of all, the whole thing is just kind of funny against the backdrop of the United States incarceration system where we have 1.5 million black men in jail for drugs.
	Alright, let's just put that there.
	Second, you're right.
	This is trending.
	It's annoying.
	It's too much.
	Remember, I got the call from Pchenik.
	You know, not the call, but I got an email like, oh, we have to do a trade.
	So this is something's up.
	And it's either this is the out, this is how we settle things in Ukraine.
	It's like, OK, you know, we're going to settle things and we can do a swap and we're all going to be friends, kind of.
	Or it's to embarrass Biden and it's coming from the State Department.
	Which is what I suspect.
	Well, you know how my thinking on this would be?
	It would be to embarrass Biden because I'm of the opinion that they've been trying to get Biden.
	I agree.
	Especially since he announced he's going to run for re-election.
	And this is going to continue until he either Guys of old age or... Well, okay, so now we have something else.
	We had Abe in Japan, and I have it on my schedule to call Uncle Don, because although it's known that he was in Japan for, gosh, eight years or so, he's never been allowed to write about it.
	The agency won't let him.
	It's not in his Wikipedia.
	Hmm, I wonder what was going on in Japan.
	Probably stuff with the Bank of Japan.
	But he may know Abe, even though he left before Abe came into power, and of course he still was very active in Asia.
	So I hope to get some kind of lowdown.
	But at the same time, first of all, this is called an assassination.
	If you are an ex-president and you're shot, is that not just murdered, killed?
	Is it also technically an assassination?
	No, it's always an assassination.
	And is that for presidents?
	Is it also for congressmen?
	It could be for secretaries.
	You could say that your Secretary of State was assassinated.
	It's anything.
	Anything that's in government, generally speaking, as an officer.
	So, the Supreme Court... That's just a word you could say.
	I mean, you don't have to use the word assassination.
	No, but I think it's interesting.
	It has political implications.
	Assassination always has political implications.
	So, is this a message to Trump?
	Saying, hey, you can be out there endorsing people, but we can get to you at any time.
	Could be.
	Or?
	Or it's just some random rando nutcase.
	I don't think so.
	Who was, well, I mean... Obviously, at some point you're a rando nutcase if you do this, yes.
	But was there a motivation?
	Do you have anything?
	Well, his motivation was supposedly his mother It's the Unification Church.
	Okay.
	Yeah, this is interesting.
	bankrupt investing in some Abe scam, religious scam that he had done and nobody can identify what this is.
	It's the Unification Church.
	Okay.
	This is interesting.
	The Unification Church has links to the Moonies.
	I only got this in the I thought the Mooneys were the Unification Church.
	Oh, well, there you go.
	So it's the same thing.
	And, yeah, so the guy was pissed off that his mom had given away all of her money, I guess all the family's money, to the Unification Church.
	And he initially wanted to kill the leader of the Unification Church.
	But instead, that was too difficult for some reason, so he decided to go after Abbe, because Abbe had indeed been doing this The Korean-based church should probably be a lot more difficult.
	Abe's connection to the Unification Church goes back to his grandfather.
	The whole family was in this thing.
	And I don't know anything about it.
	I don't know much about the Moonies.
	You might be able to fill us in.
	All I know is that whenever... It's a cult.
	It's a cult by our standards, generally speaking.
	It was run by the Sun Yang Moon guy.
	They named it after him.
	I mean, it's derisively called the Moonies.
	And it was a religion that was very similar.
	That's why I think the Chinese are so freaked out about things like Falun Gong, because these things get out of control.
	And if they're not...
	I remember whenever we were young and we'd visit Don and Meg and the cousins in DC, because when I was very young, like six or seven, we lived in Maryland.
	And so we'd go visit them, and then we'd be driving at night, and I remember so clearly my aunt and my uncle kind of almost excited to say, look, look now, you can see it, the Mooney church is always lit up at night, you can see it for miles, it's the brightest thing in all of DC.
	And it was kind of like, I don't know, because of course I paid no attention to any, I didn't understand any significance of it, but it was kind of like, there's that thing that's in the midst of all the stuff we're doing.
	If that makes any sense.
	Well, I don't know what to do with that story, but it's a good story.
	That's like most of our stories, John.
	You can't do anything with them.
	It's just a good story.
	Just a good story.
	It's a good story.
	I got some clips we can play.
	I don't think we're going to get anything out of it from that perspective, especially if you're going to think it was some sort of a grand conspiracy or messaging.
	But let's go with Obby, Dead, NTD.
	This is the basis for the next two clips.
	Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is dead after a gunman opened fire from behind him during a speech.
	Japan's NHK television reports that he was assassinated while on the campaign trail.
	The 67-year-old former Prime Minister was delivering a speech for a candidate's election campaign.
	At around 11.30 a.m., two shots rang out shortly after he began his speech in the western Japanese city of Nara.
	He was airlifted to a hospital and later pronounced dead five and a half hours after being shot.
	The professor in charge of emergency medicine at the hospital says Abe bled to death from deep wounds to the heart and the right side of his neck.
	Abe was the country's longest-serving prime minister.
	The shooter was arrested and identified as 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami.
	He was cited by NHK as telling police he was dissatisfied with Abe and wanted him dead.
	Video from the scene shows what looks like a sawed-off shotgun lying on the ground near the alleged shooter as he is being restrained.
	World leaders offered condolences via Twitter.
	Oh, it's the way you do it, via Twitter.
	You know, I thought the kicker at the end was the key.
	Yes.
	They offered condolences by Twitter.
	It's kind of sad.
	This is that person.
	That's so sad.
	So sad.
	Well, I tweeted about it.
	Yeah, check the box.
	Now here's some kind of insight from NPR, maybe or maybe not, they're trying to explain some things about Obby and his, he's the one who developed Obbynomics and all the rest of it, which they're trying to, and he's a little, he had Trump being like, again, it's another Trump thing, and maybe, This is a great picture which I caught on Twitter, of course.
	Do you remember at the big summit, I think it was the climate change, or whatever the hell it was, or G7 or G20, and there's this picture of Trump sitting down and on the other side of the table it's Merkel, you know, leaning over with her arms, you know, on the table and it's Trudeau and all these people are looking at him and he's just there with his arms folded going, yeah, whatever.
	Yeah, I remember that picture.
	It's a classic.
	Standing next to him is Abe with the exact same arms crossed, yeah, whatever.
	I never noticed that before.
	Well, I didn't notice it either, so I have to go back and look at that picture.
	Okay, let's go with part one.
	I'd like to also ask about... Oops, wrong one.
	Pot one.
	Better understand Abe's political legacy.
	I'm joined by Jeff Kingston.
	He's a professor of history and Asian studies at Temple University's campus in Tokyo.
	Professor Kingston, welcome to All Things Considered.
	Hello.
	As I mentioned, Abe really reshaped Jeff.
	At least the guy got the message, hey, listen, we're here on NPR, so when we greet you, you have to either do a little sexy thing or say like, hello, hi, hey, how are you doing?
	And he did his best.
	Campus in Tokyo.
	Professor Kingston, welcome to All Things Considered.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	As I mentioned, Abe really reshaped Japan's economy during his time in office, so much that the term Abe-nomics is often used to describe the economic changes in Japan under his policies.
	Can you describe exactly what that means?
	What were Abe-nomics and how were his efforts kind of received by his constituents?
	Well, it's really interesting.
	I mean, certainly Abenomics made its way into the global lexicon.
	But I have to say that the general consensus now is that Abenomics pretty much fizzled out.
	And the current Prime Minister, last autumn, when he was running to become the leader of the LDP, He was quite critical of Abenomics and he was asserting that it actually accentuated disparities in society and didn't provide a solid foundation for sustainable growth.
	And many people have dismissed it as welfare for the wealthy.
	Do you have any examples of that?
	Of policies that he implemented that now are kind of considered just things that ended up helping the rich?
	Well, I think there's a perception that Abenomics was geared towards pumping up the stock market.
	They pressured the national pension system to invest more in stocks.
	The Bank of Japan made massive purchases of ETFs, exchange-traded funds.
	And so Abenomics was seen to gain the system in favor of people who own stocks.
	So not many Japanese own stocks.
	And so the people who tended to benefit most from those efforts to boost the stock market would be wealthy investors and hedge fund investors.
	You know, I watched a short documentary about the Bank of Japan the other day.
	So after World War II, the bankers came in and set up the Bank of Japan and then, you know, go through a long history of stuff.
	At a certain point, we remember how Japan was just booming and it's like they were coming over here, they were buying CBS and Columbia and, you know, Sony was huge and, you know, this was... So that was in the 80s?
	In the 80s, yeah.
	In fact, in fact, there was a number of books that came out around 1985 and this all, of course, collapsed in the late 80s.
	This economic, the Japanese miracle.
	And my favorite book was, I wish I could remember the title of it, but it was written by one of the, uh, it was written by a kind of a friend of mine who's, uh, and he wrote the book at the very peak of this whole thing.
	And he wasn't alone.
	And everybody was saying, you probably don't remember, you do remember this.
	Sure.
	We should do everything the way the Japanese do it.
	Let me explain this.
	So in this documentary, they show that what was really happening is the Bank of Japan was forcing all of the banks that were connected through, I would call it the window advice or something, to pump all kinds of money into loans for real estate.
	And they were telling them what their quotas were.
	And so at a certain point, no one left to buy a house.
	Then just give it away almost for free.
	So you had people on very median salaries with second and third homes But what we saw in the U.S., I'll pick it up where you just left off, is you saw Silicon Valley guys, you know, like Larry Ellison.
	Oh, I have to get into the ancient art of Japanese Zen and I got to get my katana because these guys, they have the fantastic management style.
	You had shadow management teams inside the U.S.
	corporations that were like, we have to, oh, the Japanese.
	And all it was, was free money into real estate.
	You know the funny thing about that, another story in that regard is I was actually talking to John Doar one time in 1986 and he was bitching and moaning, he was always complaining, he was bitching and moaning about how the Japanese are killing us because, and the reason is because our banks won't lower interest rates to one.
	Well that's it, he wasn't wrong, he wasn't wrong.
	That's exactly what was going on.
	He's wrong.
	But then the thing was that they went so happy.
	They were mad happy.
	The Japanese, they bought up half of Hawaii.
	Yeah.
	And they were cleaning up on Hawaii until the.
	Until it all popped, collapsed.
	Well, no.
	Before the pop, in fact, what happened was when the 747 stopped landing on its trip to Japan, because the Japanese were happy owning property in Hawaii because they could just pick up a flight to Japan easily because all the jets to Hawaii from the United States would stop in Honolulu, but then they just started skipping Honolulu because they had the longer range.
	Right, the different jets.
	Oh, interesting.
	They picked up the long-range 747s and the rest of it and flew straight to Japan without having to stop.
	And that was the end of the property boom there.
	And so they lost their asses.
	And the best one was when they bought Rockefeller Center.
	Oh, I remember that.
	I was in New York at the time.
	It was like, what?
	Yeah, the Japanese are going to buy everything.
	That was the big fear.
	Japanese bought Rockefeller Center and it was such a turkey of an operation that it was losing so much money and it continued to lose so much money that the Japanese never sold it after they bought it.
	They walked from it.
	Here you go.
	I'm just leaving it at the curb.
	I'm out of here.
	It's yours.
	I remember in the in the late 70s, early Not even early 80s in the Netherlands.
	Japanese tourists, man.
	Everywhere, and it was just clickety-click, and it was just buses and buses and buses for them, and everybody was scamming them.
	Oh, I'll take a picture of you and your family, but that'll cost you 50 guilders, you know?
	It's like, oh, okay, that's tradition here.
	Okay, hi, hi, hi.
	And you remember they come over to visit and they do these trade visits.
	I remember we had Think New Ideas.
	And they come in.
	And at first, there was some like pre, like a forward operating team would come in.
	Okay, you know, and how about, you know, Poochie San, whoever's going to come in, the grand poobah director of this company.
	And here's how you accept his business card and don't put it in your back pockets.
	That's like putting his face on your... Yeah, right.
	And we all had all of our business cards.
	There's Japanese in the back.
	Japanese letters, yes!
	I still have some of those.
	And they would always come with gifts.
	Gifts.
	Oh yeah.
	And then you feel like a shitheel.
	Why don't we have any gifts for you?
	Here's a t-shirt.
	We got a hoodie.
	No, you have to have gifts.
	We got a hoodie.
	They're big gifts.
	The airports have special shops for people traveling to and from Japan that were the gifts that you'd give somebody you're visiting.
	And some of the gifts, I remember getting a couple.
	They were just these, some of them were extremely lame.
	Yeah.
	But you see this airport gift.
	Tax-free shopping.
	It comes in a yellow bag.
	Yeah, so yet again, another great story that you can't do much with, but hey, you come for the news, you stay for the stories, people.
	So anyway, yeah.
	Part two of this?
	Yeah.
	I'd like to also ask about... Sorry, yeah?
	Yeah, onward.
	I'd like to also ask about Abe's role with Japan's military.
	I know that in 2014, his administration reinterpreted a World War II era law to expand the country's defense capabilities.
	Can you talk a little bit about how the former Prime Minister had an effect on Japan's military?
	Yes, in 2014, he reinterpreted Article 9 of the Constitution that had been written by the Americans.
	And the idea in Article 9 was that Japan was banned from going to war and from maintaining any armed forces whatsoever.
	Now, the government has sidestepped that ban by arguing that it could maintain defensive forces.
	And this then paved the way for the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines in 2015, which greatly expanded what Japan is committed to do militarily in support of the United States anywhere in the world.
	And then later that same year, he passed legislation The collective self-defense legislation that provided a legal basis for Japan to actually live up to those commitments.
	But that legislation was deeply unpopular, sparked massive protests outside the Diet.
	And even today, I'd say the Japanese public support for that legislation is lukewarm because the concern here is that somewhere, somehow, at the behest of Washington, Japan's going to be dragged into some conflict that doesn't really have a lot to do with the defense of Japan.
	And so the pacifist identity That has become embedded in the Japanese psyche is challenged by Abe asserting that Japan can no longer afford this unilateral pacifism.
	I think that Trump and Abe were kind of playing from the same, let me say, playbook when it came to modern monetary theory, changing the ministry of finance, making it more powerful versus the central bank, and then still pumping up the stock market.
	It seems like it was very analogous what those two were doing.
	Well, they were doing similar things for sure, especially when it comes to pumping up the stock market.
	Yeah, which is how you do it.
	So anyway, there's... She's dead.
	And that's the end of it.
	Yeah, there's... Daywrecker.
	Here's a story I need to follow up on because people tune into the No Agenda Show to get information and understand what's happening in their world versus what the M5M is telling you.
	American Airlines is paying up for a computer glitch over the July 4th weekend.
	Technical problems removed pilots from more than 12,000 flights this month.
	The airline now says it will pay the pilots triple pay to cover those shifts.
	Meanwhile, United Airlines says the flight delays we've been seeing this summer won't Of course, the You're No Agenda show has producers all over the world in every single vocation you can imagine.
	From our anonymous, unnamed airline pilot.
	I'll get right to the hot news!
	Contract negotiations are in full tilt at all airlines, including Federal Express.
	To all, so not just passenger airlines.
	United was quick to put out the first contract, and their management team was quick to pound their chest saying they were ensuring their pilots were taken good care of.
	And by the way, in this TA, as they call it, the Tentative Agreement, do you know what one of the big issues was for the United pilots, what they wanted?
	No.
	A to-me suitcase.
	This was a negotiating point, that each one of them got a Toomey suitcase.
	So they were like getting the cream, right?
	I was like, oh, let's see what we can get.
	So they're asking for stuff like the suitcase.
	Well, you know, they drag around it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So United Pilots, they also stayed home.
	They got COVID money from the government, you know, it was like, so in United's world, they were okay.
	But then American came out with a contract.
	That made United look foolish, because of course America was like, eh, we're not going to give them Toomey suitcases.
	So the United Pilots Union withdrew their tentative agreement, and said they were going back to the negotiating table, probably to take the Toomey suitcase off.
	Delta is idling on the sidelines, waiting to see what the other two get.
	Then, of course, they will beat them both.
	While contract negotiations are in play, pilots are required by the Railroad Labor Act to fly their awarded trips.
	So they're doing just that, nothing more.
	Thus, a lot of trips remain open with no pilots to fly them.
	So, of course, the glitch last week in the trade trip system from American Airlines, this is the big news, pilots can actually trade trips with one another with the approval of scheduling.
	Last week, something happened and all of the trips that were proffered, proffered up, were essentially deleted from the pilot's schedule.
	This means the company had to buy the trip back from each pilot, essentially paying them to stay home.
	So this sounds like sabotage to me.
	That sounds like sabotage to me, because that software that does that has been in play for over a decade.
	A long time, a long time.
	Because the stewardesses were using it, because I talked to the... I always go back and chat with the stewardesses.
	Hey girls, and guys.
	Hey, how you doing?
	And I was told that this is a bit, because I was asking about this switching around.
	They're called flight attendants now, John, just letting you know.
	Yeah, whatever.
	Yeah, whatever.
	I was told, oh yeah, this great software they would go on and on about.
	We can switch with anybody anytime we want.
	It's in real time.
	And as long as you, you know, and nobody's, everyone seems to do it right.
	And it was fabulous.
	And it was just a matter of time before the pilots did the same thing.
	So American immediately recognized what had happened, began placing the trips back on the pilot's schedule.
	However, contractually, this is illegal.
	So the union stepped in, told the company they could not do this.
	The company with no choice offered pilots 200 and in some cases 300% pay to take the trips back.
	If you wonder why your airline tickets are going up in price.
	The union stance after exhaustive negotiations with American management seems to be, enjoy your paid time off.
	So, now he says, probably what was happening 4th of July weekend, although there were some, you know, there were cancellations, it wasn't anywhere near the mayhem that might have been expected, except Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, which was another disaster.
	But they don't celebrate 4th of July.
	He says that... Wait, are you telling me they don't have 4th of July in Amsterdam?
	Yeah, please.
	You're distracting me from my story.
	I'm sorry.
	He says probably just for these negotiations they really did their best.
	Um, but this will spill over and this will become a problem.
	And we're not just talking about American airlines, but all airlines.
	We're kind of put on notice, like, let's do our best for this weekend.
	Um, so it'll probably hit within the next, he says, within the next five to seven days, it's going to be a mess.
	Cause that's when every, that's when the dominoes start falling again, because pilots are out of time.
	There's not enough pilots getting paid to sit home, not coming.
	It's it's the system is breaking, just breaking.
	Well, they broke it themselves when they pulled the stunt with the COVID vaccine.
	Well, of course.
	And we still have... Man... So, now there's... One of our producers was reading the Federal Register, as you do as a producer.
	And, you know, everyone is still working on this COVID pass on a digital, it's not even called a COVID pass.
	It's a digital ID.
	We, we saw the European union parliament.
	Um, we saw them vote for it, you know, uh, yeah, we can, you know, we don't need it, but we might as well just still keep it around the UK.
	Hey, why are you hiring people for this, uh, passport scheme?
	That's going away.
	You know, this might be handy just to have it, you know, shut up, shut up.
	Don't need to ask questions.
	Um, We have, what is the other one here?
	The United States, we have still on the books, requirement for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for non-citizen, non-immigrant air passengers arriving into the United States from a foreign country.
	This is why my daughter's long-term boyfriend cannot come along and visit.
	And so now they want to make that official, and in the Federal Register, the CDC has said, well, we can do this, we can maintain this, but we need to be compensated for 65, let me have the exact number, 68,000, 45,825 burden hours per year to be compensated for in order to do that.
	And I'm sure it'll get funded.
	burden hours per year to be compensated for in order to do that.
	And I'm sure it'll get funded.
	They'll pay for that.
	And then we basically have the same system.
	Worldwide, you can't get in without some proof of vaccination.
	And in Canada...
	They have ArriveCan, which is the app you have to use if you want to leave Canada, you have to be vaccinated.
	If you want to arrive into Canada, you have to be vaccinated.
	So this app is still plaguing everybody.
	And here is the World Economic Forum board member and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who was asked about the ArriveCan passport scheme.
	Why has your government kept the ArriveCan app in place after making changes at the border?
	Um, you know what, let me start by saying, um, and you know, Canadians believe in modesty and humility as a national virtue.
	Is that true?
	As a national virtue?
	And I think that is a good thing.
	And certainly I don't think anyone, um, Would argue that it's a problem to have political leaders who are too modest or too humble.
	I think people might have a problem going in the other direction.
	What the hell does that mean?
	Like you don't want Trump?
	Is that what she's saying?
	You don't want Trump here or something?
	I have no idea what she just said.
	She's just babbling.
	She's a babbling idiot.
	I do want to say one thing that Canadians should be quietly proud of.
	Collectively.
	All of us together.
	Collectively.
	And that is how we have gotten through COVID so far.
	There was a study published either last week or 10 days ago That compared 11 comparable rich industrialized countries and how they did in COVID.
	And Canada was second from the top.
	Only Japan, which is in a very different environment, did better than us.
	And to put some numbers behind that, if we had had the same level of mortality in Canada that they had in the United States, very, very close to us, 70,000 more Canadians would have died.
	Okay, so this is great.
	What do you mean, from false reporting?
	Is that what she's saying?
	Yeah.
	70,000 more Canadians would have died if the Canadians managed everything the way the United States did.
	Thanks!
	Think about that for a minute.
	Think about that for a minute.
	We would have lost 70,000 people.
	Our parents.
	Our grandparents.
	This is psychological operations right here.
	Think about that is a command.
	Neuro-linguistic programming.
	Think about that.
	Think about it.
	Your brain can't help but think about it.
	Your grandparents.
	Your family.
	Your dog.
	Thousand more Canadians would have died.
	Think about that for a minute.
	We would have lost 70,000 people, our parents, our grandparents.
	So I think overall, like, yes, the measures that we all endured during COVID were unpleasant and were difficult.
	And I don't know, maybe you want to call it the COVID recession hangover that we're getting through right now is not pleasant.
	But let's not lose sight of the fact that, by and large, these measures worked and they saved 70,000 people.
	I mean, the audacity to say it saved 70,000 people is, within 30 seconds, is bullshit of the highest degree.
	The Arrive Can app was one of a suite of measures that were part of this highly effective COVID response.
	Now, the environment today is different.
	Um, you know, all of us are here.
	We're not wearing masks.
	Um, we're living in, uh, a reopened national economy.
	And so as we go, we constantly need to look at which measures are appropriate and which are not.
	There you go.
	So she's not going to answer the question.
	They're keeping it in place and it will digital ID.
	It will be a thing.
	And the air is about as far away from the question as you could get.
	Of course.
	And this airport stuff is a part of it.
	You know, the Canadian airport, which one?
	Is it Toronto?
	No.
	Maybe Ottawa.
	Also, the Netherlands, Amsterdam, they're all part of the Known Traveller Digital ID, KTDI.
	To me, this is problem-reaction-solution.
	It's like, hey, it's shit at the airports, hey, we need the digital ID, we got the infrastructure all set up, it's so easy.
	Well, since we're on COVID, I have a revealing clip.
	Okay.
	Or revealing clips.
	Okay.
	And Osterholm is back.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's new vaccine money coming out, I guess.
	Yeah, but he went to a school now.
	He's a professor.
	Oh, is that new?
	Is that new?
	I think it is.
	I think it is new, but I got, there's a three, one minute, one, one and a half minute clip, one minute.
	I don't know how long they are.
	On COVID and the new BA5.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, baby.
	BA5.
	So let's catch up.
	Let's catch up to the scene with the BA5.
	BA5, a sub-variant of Omicron, is now dominant in the U.S.
	and it accounts for more than half of all COVID infections.
	Its quick rise corresponds with an increase in reinfections and hospitalizations.
	NPR's Allison Aubrey joins us now with more.
	Hey, Allison.
	Hey!
	Hi, Allison.
	Good to be here.
	Good to have you.
	Okay, so tell us more about BA5.
	Does its rise mean we're going to go into another surge here in the U.S.? ?
	I think we're in the midst of a silent surge at a time when most people use rapid tests.
	It's hard to know just how many people are infected.
	One indicator, Elsa, is that hospitalizations appear to be rising slightly again and reinfections are on the rise, too, according to some data from New York, for instance.
	Some people who were infected with Omicron in December or January are getting it again.
	Here's Michael Osterholm, who's an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota.
	This is really a hyper transmissible virus.
	Whoa!
	Hold on a second.
	Whoa!
	What happened to the children's vaccine program that he's running up in Dallas?
	I don't know, but this is the children's magazine is coming up in the third clip.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	That's wrong.
	I'm wrong.
	I'm thinking of somebody else.
	You got the wrong guy.
	I got the wrong guy.
	Osterholm, he's never been identified as a professor that way, but okay.
	This is really a hyper transmissible virus.
	And if you look right now, as BA5 is increasing, we're seeing this exposure now at the level of infections of this virus is, if you have a good elevator ride, you very well could get infected.
	This really struck me as an idea.
	I can see the PSA already.
	People get into elevator, ding!
	With one elevator ride, you could get COVID and die.
	Ride, you very well could get infected.
	This really struck me also, this idea that an elevator ride with an infected person could be enough of an exposure, even for those of us who've been vaccinated and boosted.
	I mean, I'm one of those people who got COVID back in December.
	So where does this leave us?
	What does this mean for the fall, you think?
	Oh, wow.
	Oh, my goodness.
	I mean, just one elevator ride, you could die.
	I knew you'd appreciate that.
	No, I way appreciate it.
	And then she goes on about she just had it in December and she's been double boosted.
	I'm one of those people.
	I'm one of those people who got COVID.
	I mean, even though I was vaxxed and double boosted, but you know, I'm a victim.
	Yeah, it gets better.
	The more curveballs this virus has become, it's just hard to predict.
	But I think what is clear, according to lots of the infectious disease experts I've talked to, is that even as the sub-variants have become even more transmissible, the bottom line is that the impact of a BA5 surge, or whatever sub-variant comes next, Will not likely be on the scale of last winter.
	We will be able to manage better.
	I talked to Anna Durbin, a physician at Johns Hopkins about this.
	She said we're already seeing this.
	The combination of prior infections, vaccinations is protective.
	She points out hospitalizations are up but only slightly and there are more tools to treat people who do get sick.
	Most people have some underlying immunity that is helpful in fighting the virus.
	We have antivirals, and I think because of that, we're not seeing a rise in deaths, and that's very reassuring.
	That tells me that this virus, even BA5, is not so divergent that it is escaping all arms of the immune system.
	Yeah, by the way, that's total bullshit, but I'll wait until we play the last clip.
	Well, the last one talks about, tell me where it's total bullshit, what you were going to say.
	Oh, there's a, now it's pre-print still, but it will be for the New England Journal of Medicine.
	I'm sorry, British Medical Journal.
	The Lancet?
	Not the Lancet, BMJ.
	COVID vaccines more likely to put you in hospital than keep you out.
	BMJ editors analysis of Pfizer and Moderna trial data finds.
	That's gonna be squashed.
	Well, that's why we need to talk about it and have it in the show notes.
	So I'm just saying, that's bullshit.
	She just said, you're more likely to do this or that.
	All they say, everything they say is bullshit.
	But here comes the whopper, because no one's talking about what they're going to talk about.
	It's a little spot of information that will not get to the mainstream.
	I don't even know why they brought it up here.
	But when it comes up, you'll know.
	She says as more children are vaccinated and new boosters come online to specifically target Omicron, which could happen around September, this will be helpful.
	Well, about children, it has been, what, three weeks since very young children, we're talking between six months old and five years old.
	They've been eligible to get COVID vaccines, so have parents actually been getting their little children vaccinated the past three weeks?
	So far, only about 1% of the roughly 20 million kids in this age group have gotten their first shot.
	The CDC just released first numbers last night.
	It was 267,000 children.
	My first reaction to that was, wow, after hearing from so many parents were so eager, it was quite low, it seemed.
	The only parents you heard who were eager on NPR, a hand-selected lady, please.
	I spoke to Dr. Cameron Webb.
	He's a senior advisor on the White House COVID response team.
	He says the expectation is that many parents will ultimately opt for vaccines during well visits.
	Well visits?
	Yeah, well visits.
	Oh, goodness.
	You take your kid in routinely, they do this and all for everybody now.
	Ah, it's the marketing.
	Throw in there, just for no good reason, so we could gouge the U.S.
	government, all the programs and insurance companies, so they can raise the rates, and it's well visit.
	What we heard from parents is that they wanted to get their kids vaccinated, overwhelmingly, in their pediatrician's offices.
	Yes, sure.
	And nearly half said they wanted to do it during a regularly scheduled visit.
	And so you're going to continue to see a steady stream of parents with kids under five getting their kids vaccinated in the weeks and months to come.
	I don't think so!
	Wow, NPR's getting creative.
	I like that.
	Alright, I have a couple of clips to back this up.
	Because, really, I mean, if we just put it into NPR terms, I mean, this is, I mean, it's crazy.
	You can't get bubbly enough.
	Well, that's true.
	It's so contagious.
	I mean, elevators.
	Everyone is infectious.
	There's COVID everywhere!
	Here's the number I like to use at my place at UCSF.
	This is Dr. Bob Watcher from UCSF.
	He's from the hospital there at the University of Southern Carolina.
	Southern California.
	Southern Florida or San Francisco?
	San Francisco, yes.
	In San Francisco, we test everybody who's here for anything.
	So you come in for a hernia surgery, open heart surgery, or a colonoscopy, we're going to test you.
	You have no symptoms of COVID.
	That number, the test positivity rate of people who have no symptoms of COVID, at the lowest point of the pandemic, pre-Delta, was 0.2%.
	One in 500 people would test positive.
	Today, it's 7%.
	One in about 16 people.
	Whoa!
	So if you are...
	Say you're boarding an airplane with, let's say, 50 people on it, there's about a 99% chance that somebody on that airplane has COVID.
	COVID!
	You know, in a restaurant of 20 or 30 people around you.
	COVID!
	It's 90-ish percent, 90 to 95 percent.
	You're eating it!
	You're eating COVID!
	There is a lot of COVID around, and because this variant is more infectious than the last one, and the last one was more infectious than the one before it, if you're not being careful, there's a pretty decent chance that you can get it.
	And even if you're vaccinated!
	Because, you know, you're gonna get COVID everywhere!
	And double-boosted!
	But will the new vaccinations work?
	Will they work?
	Will they work, Dr. Bob?
	Are you optimistic about a booster shot coming in the fall that might target BA4 and BA5?
	I'm optimistic that there will be a booster shot in the fall that is a combo of the original virus, because you don't want to lose that, and a vaccine booster targeted against some version of Omicron.
	They're working really hard on one against BA45, because the one they worked on two months ago against the original Omicron doesn't have as much effect against BA45 as we hope.
	I'm hopeful that they'll have it.
	I'm hopeful that it will work better and last longer.
	Not that hopeful that it's going to be magic and all of a sudden give you immunity superpowers against BA45.
	The reason to get it is sort of the reason why you get a booster today.
	What doctor?
	Do you think that's in the medical literature that a certain type of vaccination can give you superpowers?
	Not that hopeful that it's going to be magic and all of a sudden give you immunity superpowers against BA45.
	The reason to get it is sort of the reason why you get a booster today.
	I still think people are going to be vulnerable to infection, but the main reason that you want to be boosted against the virus that you're likely to be exposed to is to prevent severe infection, hospitalization, and death.
	The thing I guess I'm most worried about is, okay, BA-4-5 is now coming into our world.
	Let's figure out a booster against it.
	By the time we figure it out, it may be that the virus that we're being exposed to in October-November is a new one that hasn't even, doesn't even exist yet.
	Oh, it's just a never-ending stream.
	We need more money.
	Pump it in!
	See, let me think.
	We even talked about this a decade ago.
	There's no vaccine for coronaviruses.
	Nope.
	It's the same as the common cold.
	That's why there's never been a vaccine for it.
	It's a coronavirus.
	For this very reason.
	What's changed?
	Nothing's changed.
	These vaccines don't work.
	Let's go to New York.
	1010 wins.
	Dr. Jay Varma.
	And you'll hear a gaffe right at the beginning of this, so I might as well get it out of the way.
	When you say the vaccine outsmarts us, is it outsmarting the vaccines, though?
	I mean, come on, lady.
	You meant to say the virus is outsmarting the vaccines.
	So that goes in the pile?
	That goes in the pile in the gaffes.
	When you say the vaccine outsmarts us, is it outsmarting the vaccines though?
	I mean, I think a lot of people I know are saying, geez, should I get the booster or should I get the second booster?
	They're afraid that in the fall we might need a different kind of vaccine to outsmart the latest variant.
	Yeah.
	I mean, basically what you're summarizing is the strategy that we have left to us as scientists, which is that, um, you know, first of all, I really want to emphasize something, you know, getting repeated doses of the vaccine does not cause any harm.
	There are many vaccines like the flu vaccine that you get annually and many others that you need to get boosted with regularly.
	That guy, he'll be sued.
	He'll be sued for killing people.
	I'll tell you this, what he's saying there is untrue.
	Yeah.
	Every time you get a flu shot, you're not getting boosted.
	No.
	You're getting a different shot.
	Yep.
	So that's just a lie.
	No.
	Really?
	So the problem is that COVID don't sell no more.
	No one's interested.
	No one wants to hear it.
	Now, of course, people are still incredibly scared.
	And, you know, they're not going out.
	That woman in that clip at the very beginning, she was she had a nervous sound.
	She was she was.
	And there are people out there that are literally shaking in their boots.
	Yes.
	And when they bring it up, oh, my God.
	We saw it out here at the 4th of July parade in Fredericksburg.
	You could identify the Democrats clearly.
	They had their little float and they all had their masks on.
	On the float?
	Sure.
	They were on the float?
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	It doesn't matter.
	If they want to do that, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	I'm actually happy that that's going on because I don't want them sneezing on me.
	But that's not good enough for television.
	We have to come up with new stuff.
	We are a fear-based, a trauma-based, a trauma-entertainment-based society.
	Nothing plays unless it's really, really cute, like a dog on TikTok doing something cute, or unless it freaks you out.
	So let's just run through a couple of possibilities that are in the news.
	An extremely rare brain infection has been found in a Missouri resident.
	It's caused by what's commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, and it's almost always deadly.
	This is the first confirmed case in the state in 35 years.
	The patient is in the ICU.
	Someone can get infected by inhaling contaminated water.
	It's often found in warm, fresh water like lakes, rivers, and ponds.
	The Missouri Department of Health is not reporting where the person was exposed.
	Okay, so we've got that.
	We've got the brain-eating amoeba.
	Always fun for a little off-color report in the news.
	But Ghana has reported its first ever cases of the Marburg virus.
	Yeah, this is a good one.
	Marburg virus.
	Marburg is a version of Ebola.
	Yeah, it's a hemorrhagic disease and you basically poop yourself to death.
	You poop out just blood.
	Blood.
	And guts, and it's just horrible.
	It's the worst.
	Of course we know that Bill Gates does have a vaccine in the works for Marburg, but I don't think that's where they're going.
	Oh, and the Netherlands, they do this a lot.
	They come back with the Q fever.
	Have you ever heard of Q fever?
	Yeah, Q fever.
	That's another, that's a good one.
	That's another evergreen.
	Yes, it's coxiella burnetti, I think.
	I don't know.
	It's a bacterial disease.
	Uh, so, so the Netherlands keeps trying that one, but clearly, clearly we're still, I mean, it's, it's on the down low.
	It's only gays people.
	So don't worry about it.
	It's just monkey pox.
	Here is professor Dr. Tedros.
	I continue.
	Who is not a doctor.
	...to be concerned by the scale and spread of the virus.
	Across the world, there has now been more than 6,000 cases recorded in 58 countries.
	Testing remains a challenge, and it's highly probable that there are a significant number of cases not being picked up.
	Europe is the current epicenter of the outbreak, recording more than 80% of cases globally.
	In Africa, cases are appearing in countries not previously affected... By the way, the music and the... It's all edited.
	This is an official WHO promo video.
	Why would they put a bunch of dramatic music in it?
	What are they trying to do?
	Let me think, what could that be?
	Could it be to enhance the trauma?
	You know, to add a little feel to it?
	I mean, shit, it's total stock crap music, but they have the right idea.
	Cases are appearing in countries not previously affected and record numbers are being recorded in places which have previous experience with monkeypox.
	My teams are following the data closely.
	I plan to reconvene the emergency committee So they are updated on the current epidemiology and evolution of the outbreak and implementation of countermeasures.
	I will bring them together during the week of 18th July or sooner if needed.
	WHO is working with countries and vaccine manufacturers Now you hear what he says there, to break the stigma around the protests.
	And need to be accessible to the most at-risk people with civil society and LGBTIQ plus community, especially to break the stigma around the virus and spread information so people can protect themselves. especially to break the stigma around the virus and spread Now you hear what he says there, to break the stigma around the protests.
	They have totally linked this to gay men, or gay and bisexual men, who apparently the ones who get monkeypox only have sex with men, even though they're bisexual.
	virtual.
	That's what's going on, and it's travesty!
	Get rid of the gays!
	The gays are not good!
	The L's are next, the lesbians are next, they're nothing but TERFs, trans-exclusionary radical females.
	The world is supposed to be transformative with just trans people.
	It's sick, but that's clearly what's going on.
	Well, that's what it looks like.
	That's for sure.
	Meanwhile, 57,000 National Guard reserves have been basically sent home without pay because they're unvaccinated.
	Now that's safe.
	I think that's about all.
	Oh, I just wanted to mention that... What's the face of this guy's name?
	Ramesh Sunny Balwani.
	He was the Theranos president.
	Wasn't he also Holmes' boyfriend?
	I think he was the CEO.
	Either CFO or CEO.
	He wasn't the CE, I think she was.
	He was like, you know, CTO.
	Yeah, of course he handled the money.
	So he's guilty on all 12 fraud counts.
	And he could go away for a long time.
	Just to remind everybody, the FDA approved that.
	You know, the FDA said, oh yeah, this is good.
	You won't see any FDA people go into jail for approving a totally bogus, bogus system.
	That was kind of easily provable when you, you know, if you read all the books and have seen all the Netflix specials.
	That's the same people who approved this for your kid.
	Which no one seems to want to take, strangely enough.
	One percent.
	But Yahoo News takes the cake with the headline of the day.
	The new Ninja COVID variant is the most dangerous one yet.
	Oh my god.
	Ninja, John.
	They're literally... Yeah, I get it.
	Ninja.
	They have to go to Ninja.
	Which implicates Japan, by the way.
	It's kind of racist.
	Kind of?
	It is totally racist.
	If you can't say Wuhan, then I don't think you can say Ninja.
	That sounds wrong.
	Let's go to the Red Book.
	Shall we?
	Before we take our break, the Red Book was interesting this week.
	Elon Musk says he's terminating his mega deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company's board says it will see him in court.
	ABC's economics correspondent Deirdre Bolton is here with more.
	Deirdre, where do you think stand now?
	Well, just get ready for a long, painful, protracted legal battle between one of the world's richest men and Twitter's board.
	Elon Musk, who runs Tesla and SpaceX, sending a letter to the social media company on Friday saying he's ending his $44 billion plan to buy the company.
	Twitter's response?
	Basically, see you in court.
	So Brett Taylor, here's what he tweeted out.
	The chairman of Twitter's board of directors.
	Long story short, saying, we are going to win this in the Delaware court of chancery.
	One wedge issue.
	Twitter reporting that fewer than 5% of its users were fake or spam focused.
	But Musk says that number may not be accurate.
	and says the statements are either false or materially misleading.
	Legal experts say this is going to be an elongated, somewhat painful court battle.
	And for Musk, there is a breakup fee of $1 billion minimum.
	The price for Elon Musk to walk away.
	One point worth noting, though, is that the court could actually force Musk in certain circumstances to buy the company.
	That's why there's going to be a lot of legal wranglings.
	Big fight ahead.
	We'll have to watch to see how it all plays out.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's got plenty of lawyers to keep him from paying the billion.
	There's no way that's going to happen.
	But I will say, I'm going to stop you.
	I will say that, and I put it in the newsletter even, you called it.
	You're in the red book with a check mark next to your name.
	The only person in the world who made this outrageous prediction at the time, it seemed logical to me that he could buy it for various reasons.
	I saw opportunity.
	But you said from the get-go, from the very get-go.
	I said he's going to destroy Twitter.
	He's, and that was his goal.
	Yes.
	Yes, that's what you said.
	So far, you're about 99% there.
	So you also put in the newsletter, you know, the reasoning for this is unclear.
	That's the reason, now we're talking about, so I want to know your reasoning.
	Okay.
	For coming up with this prognostication.
	I have been following Elon Musk for a while.
	I met him back in the pod show days at an event at...
	Sequoia, who was the big guy behind Sequoia Capital?
	His name evades me for a second.
	I lost track.
	Well, he is now number two, or he's moved back a little bit in Sequoia.
	And Rulof Bota, another South African, is now the CEO of Sequoia Capital.
	So it wasn't just Sequoia, because Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, we had an investment from both of them, were kind of working together.
	And Elon was heralded as just this magical, I mean, you can barely even come in his orbit.
	He's so phenomenal.
	And I met the guy, and he's just like a quiet, like, he didn't say much, you know, kind of like a doofus.
	Then Ray Lane, sorry?
	Yeah.
	But he had this... Now remember, this isn't the time when Kleiner Perkins had set up the Green Investment Fund or something like that.
	They had... and it was massive.
	All the investors took a bath.
	Yeah, of course.
	But this was part of that scheme.
	And this is the part when Gore was always hanging out there.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Gore, of course, still involved with Kleiner Perkins and Bono, U2's green investment bullcrap.
	So it was to such a degree that Ray Lane, who was kind of our main partner at Kleiner Perkins, he asked me and Bloom and I think Marta as well, to fly on his jet, which was an I think it was an Embraer.
	I mean, this is like a 15-person jet.
	Here we are, three people flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where they had the launch of the Tesla in a hangar.
	And, you know, you couldn't drive it yourself, but you could wait in line and then you'd sit in there.
	Was that the little Tesla?
	Yeah, that was the Roadster.
	The Roadster.
	Which was basically the, what was the name of that car?
	The Lotus.
	The Lotus, yeah.
	It was the Lotus body, and they had the battery in there.
	Now, you weren't allowed to drive yourself.
	They were driving through this hangar.
	And, of course, the great thing was the acceleration was out of control.
	It had a big light board up in the hangar, and it showed everyone who had just put money down to buy one and what number they were.
	So this was a total, like, look at my dick.
	I got two of them.
	Now of course Elon, so here's where I come from.
	So that experience and my generally conspiratorial, non-trusting attitude towards the world, I said, this guy is not Tony Stark, all right?
	Everyone's pretending he's Tony Stark.
	He's so magical.
	He's a South African with a momager, okay?
	His mom is his manager.
	He did not invent PayPal, he basically sold his domain name for the X company or whatever and they hated him and they got rid of him because he's probably not a really cool dude.
	So then, with his Sequoia guys and with Kleiner Perkins, they bought Tesla.
	That history has been almost, almost washed.
	And single-handedly, Elon Musk has brought to much applause from the tech community and tech boys and girls, has brought us into the era of loss of freedom with electric vehicles, totally part of the Green New Deal.
	You know, there's no infrastructure for this.
	He pushed everyone.
	It became the hot new thing.
	It's like, oh, hello, Tesla.
	Who can have a Tesla?
	There's a million of these cars.
	And, you know, at the same time, you know, I'm sorry, the grid's going to go down.
	You know, none of this stuff is going to work.
	Okay, fine.
	Thank you, Elon.
	And then...
	Then he's, oh, Bitcoin.
	Bitcoin is great.
	We're accepting Bitcoin for Tesla.
	And then the ESG bullshit came in and it was time for him to start the meltdown.
	Oh, we're not going to accept him on Bitcoin until we figure out how we can fix the proof of work and it's bad for the earth.
	And I think even though an unintended consequence possibly, certainly with his Love of Dogecoin.
	He kind of kick-started the crypto winter and what I think is great is this complete meltdown and all the shit coins that are all going bankrupt and you can finally see where the scam is and obviously Bitcoin still kind of stands out there.
	But he is the one that decided to tip the scales.
	It was right before he went on Saturday Night Live.
	So he is a destroyer.
	He's a destroyer of freedom, a destroyer of autonomy, a destroyer, I mean, my personal beliefs of Bitcoin, I think, but he destroyed and certainly destroyed the momentum.
	So when he came in with Twitter, it was obvious.
	Transform them, which he said, he said, I need to have, everyone needs to be verified.
	Everybody has to have a check mark.
	We'll have your driver's license.
	We'll know who you are.
	That way we keep the, which is a generally good idea.
	If you want to look at it that way, it's like, Hey, you can say whatever you want, but if you slander someone or et cetera, there'll be no handles.
	You know, you'll be this guy and someone can come and beat you up and you'll have to deal with it.
	Which, in essence, destroys Twitter.
	All the fun will be gone.
	So either transform it, and if you can't transform it, destroy it.
	And him starting out on the bots, and I've read his letter which includes accusations that Twitter lied in documents that are, of course, are relevant at the SEC level for investors about the percentage of bots and non-human accounts.
	They say it's 5% or less, he says you can't identify it, you lied about it.
	So, maybe, I mean, what is going to happen, and it's interesting because I even heard Kara Swisher, she's like, oh, you know, this is all bullshit, there's no, it's definitely 5%, this is crap.
	These people are now protecting Silicon Valley's business model.
	Because advertisers, they may not be saying it, and it's not going to be published easily, but they're all sitting around going, wait a minute, What if it's 50?
	Elon Musk says significantly more.
	What if it's 10, 15, 20, 25 percent?
	What am I paying for?
	And this will bleed over to Facebook and to Google.
	And I think that as an agent of change, he works for governments.
	He gets paid by governments.
	That's where Tesla gets all their money.
	He might build it himself after destroying this.
	He might.
	I don't know.
	I also think there's a little bit more going on with Twitter as I reviewed the numbers.
	How can a company that has been in business for 15 years, in the last quarter, they did 1.2 billion dollars worth of revenue at a cost of 1.32?
	What kind of company is this?
	Why would he even be interested in that?
	I mean, after 15 years, they're still losing money at that level?
	And then to top it off, I think he's also possibly doing cloning experiments on himself.
	He now has a total of 10 children with, I think, four different women, birthing persons, some of which were carried by surrogates.
	He has a pair of triplets.
	He has twins, which of course is because of IVF treatments, born within several weeks from each other to different women.
	What the hell is going on?
	And everyone's just like, oh, he's Elon.
	He's like Tony Stark.
	He's eccentric.
	Bullshit!
	This guy is dangerous, an agent of change, and he's working for one, possibly multiple governments.
	But can I say one thing in summary?
	Sure.
	I'm sorry I asked.
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who's afraid to ask, but he did put the C in John C. Dvorak.
	Ladies and gentlemen, here he is, my friend on the other end, John C. Dvorak!
	Hey, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all the ships that see boots on the ground, feet in the air!
	Feet in the air!
	Subs in the water and all the names and heights out there.
	In the morning to our trolls in the troll room who are listening live as we speak.
	You might be listening in, uh, what do we have?
	We have, uh, Podverse, we have CurioCaster, I think one or two others.
	Now you can use those apps.
	You get a notification when the show goes live.
	You get the troll room right there.
	You get the live stream.
	And you can literally be one of the people I'm going to count right now.
	So let's see.
	All right, put your hands up, trolls.
	I want to see where you're going now.
	Hmm, let me see.
	I did not, did not get, did not get a count.
	Here we go.
	Oh, 2247.
	It's pretty much the same as last Sunday.
	That's good.
	But things have changed a little bit.
	I kind of like the shake-up.
	Different artists are popping up.
	Some artists have gone away because they can't listen live.
	We have a different level of trolling going on.
	They're more awake.
	Since we're doing the show two hours later, they've had their second, third cup of coffee, maybe even lunch, and so they're quite good at trolling.
	And you can join them, as I said.
	You can also go to trollroom.io and listen to the live stream today.
	As it's starting to pan out, there's noagendastream.com.
	Which is truly the best podcast network in the universe.
	Why?
	Because there's no ads.
	It's all No Agenda Nation.
	There's no money to be made through the traditional ways, which is why all of these dumb networks always fail.
	This is just a way for people to hang out together and do shows.
	And today we'll have, in total, five live shows on noagendastream.com.
	We could almost call it a radio station.
	It's really quite incredible.
	Yeah, I agree.
	That's exactly what it should be.
	All right.
	Wait!
	You can also follow us at noagendasocial.com, John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com, or Adam at noagendasocial.com.
	This is our federated little spot in the universe of the Fediverse.
	It's a Mastodon server.
	You can get one yourself.
	You can set it up.
	You can get an account almost anywhere.
	Follow us and the rest will soon flow through.
	Now we need to thank the artist for episode 1466.
	And I believe this was a two-in-a-row for Sir Paul Couture.
	Yes, it was.
	And that was unexpected.
	We haven't heard from Sir Paul in so long.
	This probably has something to do with the time change.
	Time change, exactly.
	And he had this adorable cow.
	Uh, with a milk bottle on fire, little windmill in the background, uh... Yeah, it was a Molotov cocktail.
	Uh, milk bottle.
	Oh, yeah, there you go.
	Molotov cocktail.
	With a Dutch flag.
	Look kinda... Look more like the French flag, color-wise.
	I mean, it is red, white, and blue.
	The gray in the middle, he probably did that for aesthetic reasons.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	We just loved it.
	We thought it was good.
	No, it was cute.
	There's nothing that gets our attention better than a smiling cow.
	True.
	Nailed it.
	It's a fact.
	Everybody loves to see a smiling cow.
	For sure.
	Let's see, what else are we looking at?
	A lot of people came in with nut sap, nut juice regarding the almonds, which I think you have a follow-up for later on.
	Yeah, I do.
	I did some research, too.
	What else was in here?
	A lot of Georgia Guidestones.
	It's like, man, I got an email from one of our producers.
	It's like, dude, the Georgia Guidestones are still there.
	Look at this video.
	We've been we've been we've been we've been snookered.
	Click on the link.
	And there's a guy showing the Georgia Guidestones.
	You know, uploaded today.
	Of course, it says right there in huge letters, live stream from 2018.
	I'm like, dude, what are you sending me?
	He said, oh, sorry, man.
	I was really high.
	People, do not send emails to us when you're really high.
	No.
	This is not good.
	You got to keep your producer hat on and straight at all times.
	Yeah, it makes us do extra work that we don't need to do.
	It was three clicks, I'm telling you.
	I hated it.
	It was three clicks, but there was time in between.
	The Ukraine meat grinder was kind of cute, although somewhat... It's maudlin.
	It's not just grotesque.
	Yeah.
	Uh, some Bojo stuff.
	We're not big fans of putting political figures in the artwork in general.
	I mean, of course, there's exceptions.
	We've done it.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, it's in... But we don't like doing it.
	You're right.
	Yeah.
	Uh, what was it?
	That was kind of it.
	There wasn't much else, was there?
	There's this one... The Spook did these pieces that had Bojo and the Georgia... Guidestones.
	...monument there.
	And I did that.
	And he, what do you mean?
	Did you know he didn't?
	That was like a mash-up of Biden on the gas pump.
	Is this something I'm not getting?
	Yeah, no, that was weird.
	So Sir Paul Couture, thank you very much for bringing us that artwork for episode 1466.
	You can follow along live, noagendaartgenerator.com.
	You can see, and we already have art for this episode incoming, I won't spoil it.
	So you can just sit there and hit refresh.
	I put on the newsletter, I put some art from episode 500, a submission for episode 500 from Nick the Rat.
	Ooh, what was it?
	It was just some dark monochromatic Nick the Ratchet.
	Nick the Ratchet, yes.
	Some reference to one of those old movies, Love the Bomb, or one of those.
	Ah, gotcha.
	It was just a nice piece.
	Of course, you do it to color coordinate the art with the headline colors and other colors that I use.
	You're colorist.
	I'm bored.
	I'm a bored guy.
	So, of course, you can also contribute.
	It's very easy.
	Go to artgenerator.com and upload, and you'll be in the running like everybody else.
	Thank you again to all of our artists for all of the work they do.
	It is very much appreciated.
	It makes us stand out.
	It makes us different.
	Whenever you look at your podcast, it's like, oh!
	Man, there's something new there.
	Oh, that's funny.
	What could this be?
	It works.
	It works.
	Just like the newsletter.
	These are all things that are part of the value for value system.
	The value for value model that we've been using for almost 15 years now, October 26, is coming up.
	And a part of that is the Trifecta Time Talent Treasure and we want to thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1467.
	And his notice is short and sweet.
	This contribution is from Sir Anonimo of Sarcasmo Island 111.11.
	ITM to you and John and Adam, we're looking forward to Adam's continued efforts to convince you of the upcoming Great Reset.
	Well, that'll go on forever.
	Thanks for all the work you do.
	No jingles.
	Oh, we love that.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	Was it, sir, Anonimo from what?
	Anonimo.
	Anonimo from Sarcasmo Island, so I guess you can put that on there.
	Sarcasmo Island.
	Okay.
	Which is anywhere in Florida.
	Pretty much.
	But Sanibel Island, that's the one.
	That's the spook island.
	Yes, I know.
	Sanibel Island.
	I looked into that, by the way.
	Is it a spook island or not?
	Is it not a spook island?
	Totally.
	That's funny.
	Well, I had another one.
	I don't remember the name of this island, but Horowitz mentioned it on the show.
	Captiva?
	Because he went out to Bahamas in somebody's yacht.
	They took him out to Bahamas.
	And they were having this big, and he was there with the CEO of Goldman Sachs, also DJs.
	He sent me a picture.
	He's like, this is a great weekend.
	And I was like, you know what it reminds me of?
	The Esther Dyson conference.
	Well, it didn't remind me of that necessarily.
	No, with the band, with the band, like always.
	Oh yeah, a bunch of bands.
	A bunch of VC guys.
	But the point is, is he, he mentioned an island that this guy's got a house on and all these other characters you've heard of, Jamie Dimon's got a place there and you can't get on the, you can't even get on the island without a permit.
	Wow.
	That has to be signed off by all the residents.
	So the guy has his own...
	He has his own DJ set there?
	He has his own DJ set there?
	All set up?
	On the island?
	The party was not at the private island.
	The party was at an adjacent island.
	Yeah, he had a DJ set up, I guess.
	He DJs a lot, this guy.
	They had a Goldman Sachs.
	That makes you wonder.
	That's a hobby.
	It's like golf.
	Instead of golfing, you're DJ.
	Yo, yo, yo!
	Hey, let's drop some E!
	Hey Horowitz, got any E?
	All right.
	So no jingles, no karma.
	Perfect.
	Thank you very much, Sir Anonymous of Sarcosmo Island.
	Don Morata is in Cupertino, California.
	8008.85, which is a boobs, massive boobs.
	Hey, after donating enough to be knighted during today's show and second-guessing my choice of jingles earlier, Dom was very interesting with his notes.
	He sent about 18 notes.
	He sent about 50 notes.
	Even this morning, last minute stuff.
	This is the best one we have so far.
	I mean, check your email.
	He might have updated us.
	I realized I couldn't do it all alone.
	A knight must have his dame by his side.
	So Audra Matthews, angel, you're coming to the round table with me!
	Grab her by the hair.
	Be sure to wear something that shows off your scorching hot milf bod with lots of cleavage.
	Oh my goodness.
	Okay.
	The Duke of Luna will love it.
	John, you're free to enjoy the view as well.
	Holy crap.
	This is a misogynist donation.
	Yikes.
	When she started listening two plus years ago, Adam, you were her favorite.
	But she's now a card carrying member of the John C fan club.
	Hearing John's voice is like Spanish fly for her.
	Really?
	For anybody who knows what that still is.
	Hey Audra.
	Oh goodness.
	I often have to pause the show when we listen together, otherwise she distracts me too much from the great media deconstruction when she's on the attack, like a cougar hunting her, willing and eager prey.
	You know what they say about couples that know agenda together.
	Audra, I'm looking forward to know-agenda-ing with you right after this donation and for the rest of our lives, even if it means returning to rerun should the boys ever find an exit strategy.
	She'd love Lego and white Russians at the round table.
	And I'd love another dose of R2-D2 relationship karma.
	Love you most!
	And she will be Dame Audra of Legoland.
	And these are his requested jingles.
	That's one mother I'd like to.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	I will mention that he came in with two donations, another $500 one that will probably show up in the next spreadsheet because it came in after midnight.
	According to him, PayPal wouldn't accept it.
	It was going to be $1,000 or something or whatever.
	And PayPal wouldn't take it, but they would take the $800 and a $500.
	Fine.
	Well, we're happy.
	Thank you very much, Don.
	Thank you, sir.
	Uh, yes, Don.
	Cole Hill's next.
	He's in Redmond, Oregon at $800.85.
	Now, what are these $800.85?
	We've got a bunch of those.
	Boobs!
	It's boobs, John!
	Boobs!
	Oh, boobs.
	Plural.
	Hello!
	Okay, okay, okay!
	Uh, treasure for your time and talent.
	This pushes me into knighthood, and so I would like to be named Sir Goose the Silly.
	Requesting a short I Got Ants and John's Hot Pockets.
	That's it?
	That was easy.
	I got hands.
	I got hands. .
	Hot pockets.
	All right, Roderick Pau in Malung, Sweden.
	Boobs as well, 800.85.
	First time donation showing off my boobs!
	Very nice.
	Using all this attention, hey, please look at my face, I would love for all your lovely listeners to consider donating at DonorC.com.
	D-O-N-O-R-S-E-E dot com.
	The creator was murdered.
	His death should not go in vain.
	Oh, yeah.
	This was a... We didn't say much about it.
	There's this guy who's, I guess, adored and he set up a non-profit and then he got murdered in his house in... I want to say it was Illinois?
	Huh, I don't know anything about this.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	It's worth a mention because it's like one of those stories that we just didn't get to because, you know, time.
	Let me see.
	Let me see, Donor C. Yeah, that was the name of his charity, Donor C, and it was apparently quite successful.
	I guess the website is kind of overloaded now.
	Oh, here we go.
	What was his name?
	Gret Glyer.
	You ever heard of him?
	No.
	Yeah, just before his passing, his murder, Gret wrote about the launch of the DonorSea Humanity Fund, a rolling fund that gets money directly to the poorest 10% of the world.
	I think it had a lot of corporate sponsors involved in this as well.
	I'm not sure.
	I don't know.
	We should look into it.
	A lot of people sending links about this, so I just don't know enough about the guy.
	We can do it.
	Yeah, we will.
	Mark's up.
	Uh, $500 from, uh... Oh, wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	Did I finish that?
	Uh, yes.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes.
	Go ahead.
	Mark's up.
	He's in Kirkenveld, uh, Holland.
	$500.
	I'll get it.
	Please take this money for all the hard work that you do.
	I'd like this donation to be credited to our cat.
	Sir Yuri Meows.
	Okay.
	Sir Yuri Meows a lot.
	To send him on his way to baronet status.
	Consider it done.
	I don't know, he's on the list.
	Well, he is now.
	After moving from the Netherlands to Russia, 1.5 years ago to be exact, we're now settling in a house with a modest piece of land.
	Imagining my surprise, finding out that the house has two actual toilets in it.
	Oh no!
	Wow.
	Russians indoor toilets, they hate them.
	Wow.
	To keep it that way, we ask friends and family to check their Kalishnikovs at the door in case one of them gets an urge to shoot a toilet!
	So far so good.
	Thanks to my mother-in-law, we have a thriving vegetable garden, and we'll soon be adding some chickens for fresh eggs.
	I'm amazed how many Russians grow and forage their own food, keep their own animals, and are generally well stocked for the winter.
	This is especially important right now.
	Prices in the supermarkets have been going up, up, up.
	Especially on imported products, which have doubled or tripled in price.
	Local products have not gone up much, so smart shoppers are still able to get what they need at a reasonable price.
	No empty shelves, by the way, just higher prices.
	Oh, and gas is pretty cheap for some reason.
	We're being misled!
	Because you're soaking in it.
	Of course you're being misled!
	So it seems that things are still kind of okay in Russia.
	He says, even with the current situation, we're happy to have left when we did, which is leaving Holland.
	COVID restrictions were pretty tight and swapping our noisy apartment for a house with land around it makes more sense now than ever.
	No jingle since I botched that last time.
	Just some baby making karma for us and whoever else needs it.
	Keep up the good work from Russia with love.
	Mark.
	How nice.
	You've got karma.
	John Bolland is in Brockport, New York.
	360 meetup donation.
	Yes, I have a report from them.
	From the meetup there for later on.
	Donation credit to Mary Schwan.
	Okay.
	Mary Schwan.
	Switcheroo.
	Got it.
	Uh, please look for her email.
	Did not get it.
	Did you get anything from Mary Schwan?
	I think I do.
	It's a later donation, I think, somewhere.
	Uh, I continue to read.
	Uh, if none from her, the Meetup email subject is Meetup report donation, the douche, oh, de-douche, de-douche, de-douche the whole group, everyone participated in a game which Mary won the executive producership.
	Ah, yes, okay.
	You've been de-douched.
	We have to come up with a format for this, I think.
	Yeah.
	Because when people donate from a meetup, you have to kind of... I mean, he did it okay in this case, I guess.
	We understand what's going on.
	We have switcheroos.
	After a few of these, we'll figure it out.
	We will figure it out.
	All right, so Mary Schwan will be credited and we'll look for her email, which may be coming up later.
	And then we'll expect a note from John saying, no, that was my money.
	John Buell, another John, in Vista, California, 333, And he needs 33's a magic number, Atlas Shrugged Yak Karma.
	"ITM, I received multiple signs it was time to donate.
	First was the sad puppy in the newsletter.
	The second was when I had to negotiate a concession from a price increase from my glass vendor.
	They wanted to increase the price on a quote that was expired by 33 days." - Uh oh. - And they wanted to increase it by 40%.
	After multiple requests from management, they reduced it to a 33% increase.
	Not the way I wanted to receive the message to donate, but it was received nonetheless.
	Lastly, the two of you have had discussions of what to do when the inevitable scarcity of one of your lives run out of time.
	While I can't imagine the show with anybody else than Crackpot and Buzzkill, the show must go on.
	As an executive producer of the Noah Genis show, I would like to propose an idea.
	I don't like this.
	I'll just say it.
	I haven't even read any further.
	But what is he saying?
	If one of us fucking keels over?
	Is that what he's saying?
	We're gonna find out.
	Alright.
	For the summer months of July, August, and September, we would start a monetary poll.
	If your donation ends with .88, then that signifies double infinity.
	The show must go on with a replacement host.
	If your donation ends with 22, that means you believe the Crackpot and Buzzkill cannot be replaced.
	And with the unfortunate demise of a host, the show comes to an end.
	At the end of summer, whichever amount is the most total donations of .88 or .22 would help you in the direction of whatever to seek out a possible replacement host or move on to something new.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Okay, to me, this sounds like one of us is getting whacked after September.
	I don't know.
	I don't like it.
	I got my eye.
	I got my eye.
	It's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	Atlas Drums.
	By Ayn Rand.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	I'm not going to say anything about it.
	I'm interested in what people think, but... We've done these before, these kind of quasi-polls.
	Yeah, but not with one of us dying.
	But we're quitting the .22.
	What are you saying?
	I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.
	Oh, I didn't like that.
	Sounds like John's quitting.
	You don't get enough responses to make it work.
	Mike Saliba is in Clinton Township, Michigan.
	333.34, going one above the perfect amount.
	In the morning, my donation of 333.33 plus one penny today is a double switcheroo.
	Okay!
	Switcheroo number one.
	This donation is for my smoking hot wife and employee of the month, Kelly, who becomes a dame with this donation.
	She would like to be Dame Kelly of axeheadwatch.com and macro greens and seafood platter at the round table.
	Oh, I know who this is.
	Then we have switcheroo number two.
	Instead of updating you on the watch company, where promo code ITM is still our most used discount, these are the wooden watchers, aren't they?
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you order yours yet?
	No.
	I keep... You know... I'm gonna order mine this week.
	No.
	Why are we not doing this?
	I mean, he keeps saying... Well, I'll give you one.
	I don't know.
	It's weird.
	We're weird.
	We're weird.
	We don't wear watches.
	That could be one reason.
	I wear one... Yeah, that's true.
	I wear one watch.
	That's it.
	Anyway, I'd like to update you on some of our other endeavors.
	I've officially accepted my party's nomination for U.S.
	House of Representatives for Michigan's 10th district.
	It's time for shrunken amygdalas in Congress.
	Yep.
	And that's it.
	He had something that he... not for the show, and he never closes the parentheses, so I'm just not going to read it.
	He says... He has to say thank you all.
	He says thank you all.
	Okay, good luck, Mike.
	Was this the guy who had the sign, like... No, that's a different guy.
	Because one of our producers is running for, also, a senate?
	A state senate, I think?
	Yeah, something like that.
	Oh no, a city council.
	And his slogan is, because you shouldn't have to eat bugs and mac and cheese.
	I thought that was a great slogan.
	Great slogan.
	Very, very good.
	Um, and there's no, uh, no jingles there.
	So, okay.
	Thank you very much.
	Oh, and I'll make sure we put Kelly as the recipient of the credits.
	Yes, she gets it.
	Ellen Dix is up.
	333.33 from Spring Hill, Florida.
	Uh, hey, uh, C.P.
	and B.K., it's my birthday on the 9th.
	You're on the birthday list, which you wouldn't have known without a note.
	But I could still use a double-up karma, and Rick P. is a douchebag!
	Adam D., Alan D. from Florida.
	There you go.
	You've got Farmer.
	Gippert Alexander, Athens, Georgia, 33333.
	In the morning, John Adams, my first donation.
	Please deduce me.
	You've been dedouched.
	Last summer, I found myself single for the first time in 25 plus years.
	She is not a fan of the show.
	Oh, well, we could have told you that without in the cards.
	All I request is some future relationship karma.
	My best to you both from Gifford.
	Sorry to hear that, Gifford, but, you know, as we said, sometimes these things can just be expected.
	You've got karma.
	And by the way, Shevnesh, if it wasn't the show coming between you, it would have been something else.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Silvana Gentile in Orland Hills, Illinois, 333.33.
	Do you fellas know there's something called yak balls?
	No, someone.
	Someone called yak balls.
	Oh, someone.
	I thought I said something.
	Someone.
	Someone called yak balls with a Z. John's secret identity, perhaps?
	Nope.
	Uh, encyclopedia, it's in the, it's in the, uh, whack balls.
	In the wiki.
	In the wiki.
	Yak balls.
	Yak balls.
	Love and lit, and goat karma to everybody.
	You've got... karma.
	Eric.
	You think he... I'm sorry?
	You think he asked for yak karma after that note, don't you?
	No, no, it's not happening.
	Eric C., Shirley, Massachusetts, 333.
	That rhymes.
	Hey!
	It's been a while since I donated, but recently realized I've been listening since show 650.
	So I've now been listening since more than half the show's history.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Eric C., thank you, Eric, and I'm glad you're still with us.
	Dame Mariella in Prineville, Oregon, 333.
	Check your email for a note.
	I have it.
	This one I have.
	I do.
	In the morning, Adam and John, today I make my customary donation to you gentlemen to honor the anniversary of my unlikely survival of a brain aneurysm.
	Yes, we know her well, of course.
	This year, I'm proud to do so for the first time as a dame.
	Five years ago, on this very day, my husband, the deaf, dumb, and blind knight, found me collapsed at our neighbor's house, and I lived to tell the tale after two months in the hospital, two brain surgeries, and seriously, lots of no agenda.
	Producers must never forget, this show is critical for brain health.
	Listening to the show grounded me in the hospital and continues to help keep my anxiety at bay and my marriage healthy.
	Thank you.
	That's a lot of praise.
	What?
	All caps.
	All caps.
	That's a lot of praise.
	Thank you.
	Now, I promised myself I wouldn't write a super long note this year, but there's just one more quick thing that's been bugging me lately, if I may.
	Oh, here we go.
	Build us up, cut us down.
	I'm a speech language pathologist here to tell you Joe Biden does not have a true stutter.
	Oh, this is information we didn't have.
	It is part of my job to evaluate and treat stuttering, and I do so on a regular basis.
	When I can present it properly for the show, I look forward to sending over a complete evaluation of the precedent that I conducted using a standardized assessment measurement, the Stuttering Severity Index, nice, and four different language samples from Biden.
	Sorry to say, his score indicates the guy is just an old, burnt-out jackass, not a stutterer.
	Stay tuned for that, and thank you, No Agenda family, for your courage.
	No jingles needed, just some screaming French bulldog travel karma for a busy mom of a family reunion would be great.
	Very sincerely, uh, let me make sure I get this, uh, which one does she want?
	The, uh, Asian dog?
	Dog Karma.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Dame Mariela of the Anterior Communicating Artery.
	Ella, great to hear from you.
	So happy that you're still with us!
	Russ Johnson's up and from Eugene, Oregon, 333.
	And he writes, does media truth only come from you two halfwits?
	You know?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Isn't that telling you something right there?
	You got it.
	John, listening to Twit years ago and knowing your tech news days were numbered, I couldn't be happier where you ended up.
	Fuck them.
	Adam, keep being Adam and calling out DB douchebag Fitz.
	Douchebag Fitz for me, okay.
	And this is from, I got a bunch of letters here, so it has to be Ross from Eugene, Oregon.
	I have to pass on a note to you, because this one kind of reminded me of it, and I wrote it down.
	This email, okay, it's short.
	Adam, it's kind of ironic.
	I'm gonna do the voice.
	It's kind of ironic that Dvorak blocked a response to his email despairing over the fact that no one is responding to his newsletter.
	The following is what he blocked.
	Could you please ensure he receives a copy?
	I'm gonna read this to you.
	John, I haven't responded since you became the leading outlet for Russian state news regarding Ukraine.
	Furthermore, you blocked me and denied doing so, which made every attempt at donation an ordeal.
	I once sent a note to your P.O.
	box asking for an address to which I could send you some wine as a GIFT, all caps, and you never had the decency to respond to it.
	Finally, I just got so tired of Adam's reflexive conspiratorialism and inter- Inverter it, whining, not to mention the bad information you both get from some of your insiders, e.g.
	the demise of Goldman Sachs.
	I'm at the least overboard, very likely so over you, Sir Crushalot, Black Knight of the Leelanu Grapefields.
	Huh.
	I don't remember getting a note from anybody about sending me wine.
	You blocked him.
	So I doubt the veracity of any of this.
	He said some very nasty things there.
	He's not a happy camper.
	No, sad.
	I think what happened, he shorted Goldman.
	Hey, we never said to invest, I mean... No, we don't give investment advice at all.
	I should have shorted Twitter.
	Just saying.
	Even that.
	Okay, that was who?
	Who was that?
	No, the last one was Ross Johnson, and I guess it's my turn to read Sir Robert Knight of the Naughty Bits from Essexville, Michigan, 333.
	Dear John and Adam, it's an honor to be part of the best podcast in the universe.
	You are, as an executive producer, key with the great work.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Regards, Sir Robert Knight of the Naughty Bits.
	Thank you very much, Sir Robert.
	Okay, certified millennial Dan Gehring.
	In Shrewsbury, Missouri, 250 bucks becomes the first associate executive producer for show 1467.
	Jingles, dealer's choice, Sharpton.
	Dear Uncle Adam and Uncle John, thank you so much for creating not only the best podcast in the universe, but the best online community in the universe.
	I am a long-time boner and first-time donor.
	I haven't heard that for a while, so please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	My brother, Charles Gehring, hit me in the mouth in 2015, and I've been listening ever since.
	Coincidentally, I've never heard him donning, so please call him out as a douchebag.
	I owe much to the great community you both have created at the start of 2022.
	My cohort, John G. Drew, and I launched the Millennial Media Offensive Podcast.
	Yes.
	We drew much inspiration from No Agenda in our style and we dissect media narratives targeted at the younger generations.
	The No Agenda community has been very welcoming to our new show.
	We look forward to following you men live today on the No Agenda stream.
	Also, I am hosting a fed-free NA meetup in, that'll be the day, in St.
	Louis, Missouri on July 16th.
	Details on noagentomeetups.com.
	Best regards, certified millennial Dan Gehring.
	Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back, or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance.
	But resist, we must.
	A classic.
	We must, and we will much about that be committed.
	Jobs.
	You've got Karma.
	Jobs.
	Thank you.
	Certified millennial, Dan.
	Aggie Latsis is in Fayetteville, Georgia.
	23456.
	Love that number for associate executive producership.
	See email for notes.
	Nothing in mind.
	Did you find anything?
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	I can guarantee I looked because I found her note from July 28, 2021.
	I'll just read a little bit of it because then you'll remember her.
	On Sunday's episode, I heard someone talking about his hot Latvian wife and how she might be the only Latvian listening to the show.
	Well, I'm here to correct the record to say I'm also a hot Latvian wife.
	Right on.
	Yes, of course.
	She goes on and on about the Latvians in Atlanta.
	Is that the one when she sent a picture?
	I don't know.
	Let me look at the bottom.
	Nope, no picture attempt.
	Chad Finkbeiner.
	Rowadux222.22 from Highland Heights in Ohio.
	Yak Karma and TPP Jobs Karma, please.
	Okay, well, we can do that.
	Hold on a sec.
	Jobs!
	Karma.
	Van Betsel in Pollocksville, North Carolina, 222.22.
	ITM, gents, switcheroo, switcheroo, switcheroo.
	Where do you get a guy for his birthday when he already has all the guitar pedals, especially when he's the guy who hit you in the mouth?
	Why, a donation to the greatest podcast in the universe, obviously.
	Please give all the credit to this row of ducks to Mr. Clayton Moses of Anchorage, Alaska.
	So done.
	Alaska, and it's in his recognition of his birthday on 7-11, which reminds me, is my daughter on the... That's very good, because you know who your daughter shares a birthday with?
	Well, with this guy, for sure.
	This guy and my wife.
	Oh, right.
	That's right.
	You mentioned that.
	So she's on the list.
	7-Eleven.
	Jay Dvorak.
	Uh, which is the only way I can remember her date.
	Please give him a... Were you not around when, uh, when she was born?
	No, you just hold it in.
	Hold it in.
	Tomorrow.
	Tomorrow.
	Did you have a meeting or what was going on?
	Yeah.
	Pretty much.
	Please give him a biscuit for his birthday and a shot of karma for his next trip around the sun.
	Van Betsel.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	There you go.
	You've got karma.
	Another one I gotta ask.
	Peter Campbell from Manchester, Vermont.
	222.
	Any email from him?
	Uh, no.
	Got nothing.
	Then I'll go on to Talia, uh, well actually... Talia, she gonna give him a double karma?
	That's exactly what I was thinking.
	I mistook my moves.
	Double karma for you.
	You've got... Pharma.
	It's interesting.
	When, when the jingle is pulled apart like that, and I know for a fact that it's, you've got karma, for some reason, people think she's saying, you've got pharma.
	In this particular jingle, which is weird.
	I'm not quite sure why that is.
	Talia Dupre-Douglas, McKinney, Texas.
	Hello, McKinney.
	201.
	Haven't missed a show since I discovered it in February, and I've been waiting to donate until I figured out something clever to say in my note.
	I think my SSRI made me do it because I got nothing.
	Thanks for all you do.
	I got a note from... Oh, do it.
	Remind me I got an SSRI note from a teacher.
	Seth's Morgan in Denver, Colorado.
	Two hundred dollars and one lone penny.
	It'll be weird to hear my name on a show.
	I listen so much.
	Donating because I'm doing because Adam is so cool with me in a discussion about another content post I like.
	Oh yeah, Adam loves talking about the pool men.
	Thanks to both of you.
	Jingles!
	Do you have anything Russian related?
	Yes, I do.
	Of course I do.
	Okay, good.
	Of course I do.
	That was it?
	That's his note?
	Yeah, that's it.
	He's done.
	He's done.
	Seth Morgan mentioning his name a second time.
	We haven't played this in a while.
	If you're blue and you don't know where there's fake news, why don't you get your Gitmo fix?
	Puttin' on the reds.
	Dressed up like a million dollar trooper.
	Trying not to look like Anderson Cooper.
	Super pooper!
	Come, let's mix where John Podesta walks with kids.
	Oh, I mean pizzas in his pits.
	Pooter on the Ritz.
	Love that one.
	Haven't played that in a long time.
	Oh, that's a goodie.
	Christine Hines, Manchester, New Hampshire.
	200 in the morning.
	Times are tough.
	Thank goodness I work in semiconductor resale.
	Semis!
	Here's some disgusting gross profit to sustain you both and keep the dissecting of BS media coming.
	Please play Shapeshifting Jews.
	Love is lit!
	Roll up!
	Roll up for the best new Shapeshifting Jews!
	Step right this way!
	Roll up!
	Roll up for the Shapeshifting Jews!
	You've got... Karma.
	Reminds me of the guy, it was earlier in the show, whose wife didn't like the show, hearing that particular jingle and moaning about it.
	Sir Selman Spahn in Eureka, California, $200.
	Sir Selman Spahn, peeking out from behind the redwood curtain.
	The sad beagle worked, John.
	However, delayed my response.
	Love you guys.
	Could use some random rev and stereo goat.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Okay, we got that for you.
	We will roll it out.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
	You've got.
	Come on.
	Officially known as Luge Goat, but okay, we'll leave it at that.
	Luge Goat.
	And then last associate executive producer from Brandington, Florida, $200, John Studebaker.
	And he says, I didn't think I was being long-winded, but according to PayPal, I was.
	So I had to send an email.
	The subject will be PayPal donation.
	Did you receive?
	No.
	Me neither.
	I'm going to take one more last look.
	If it actually would say PayPal donation, that would be the correct subject.
	So I would expect it to be in there.
	Well, anytime the word donation is in the subject line, it finds it.
	And, uh, I'm going to look up the exact words PayPal donation and see if it's something I made.
	It's very exciting.
	There's absolutely nothing here.
	Well send it to us and let us know and thank you John Studebaker and all of our associate executive producers and of course our executive producers for episode 1467 Value for Value.
	467 value for value.
	It's kind of the reverse of, um, how can I say this?
	You know how like a church says, you know, you should support the church or a non-profit support us?
	It's exactly the opposite.
	We say, did you get any value from what you heard?
	And whatever that is, you turn that into a number that's valuable for you.
	And it works every single time.
	Of course, it's a rollercoaster for us, but man, I love my job and I really appreciate you letting us do it.
	If you'd like to become an executive or associate executive producer of the No Agenda show, go here.
	And thank you again for your time, talent, and treasure for episode 1467.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out.
	We hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Order.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Let's see. Let's see.
	Did you have something special you wanted to roll out in this second segment here?
	Let's do the almond stuff and get it out of the way.
	Oh yes, very good.
	It's interesting, you had a note, a link for the show notes.
	I also have a separate link.
	And the premise of the last show was an email from one of our producers who says, I don't know what they're talking about with this almonds needing a gallon of water for one almond.
	1.1.
	1.1 gallon of almonds, water for one almond.
	And she's growing them in the Mediterranean.
	She says, I just don't see it.
	I don't understand it.
	It sounds like something's up.
	And so, and you, of course, I said, oh yeah, almonds, they're horrible.
	Because I was brainwashed, I'm from California.
	Of course, yes.
	I have to fight it every day.
	And so I have not listened to, although I've looked at my link, I'm very excited to find out what you've learned about the almond, is the almond water sucking crisis bogus or not?
	All right, so let's go to this clip first and get a little report, update on the almond business.
	Is it actually called Update on the Almond Business?
	It's called Almond.
	With all the shortages Americans are now facing, some are worried almonds could be the next hard to find item on their shopping lists.
	According to a recent report from the Almond Board of California, exports of the popular nut are down 13% this year.
	This, despite the crop doing well and shipments hitting a new record.
	The Los Angeles Times reports about 1.3 billion pounds of unsold almonds are stuck in processing and packing plants.
	Experts say while shipping costs have improved, they are still high.
	The industry is also worried that the ongoing drought in parts of California could impact its harvest.
	Still, they say sales of almonds remain strong around the world.
	Okay.
	Okay, so I looked into it, and we have a couple of show notes, links you can look into it yourself, but the 1.1 thing, I don't even, nobody even knows where that came from.
	It was developed by, it was developed overseas, and they started to apply it to California.
	No California farmer claims they do, it takes that much water to make an almond, but it does take a lot.
	It still takes at least a half a gallon of water.
	For one almond.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	But it's, yeah.
	And the problem is, of course, all nuts grown anywhere take at least as much as an almond does.
	They're all the same.
	So the idea is to focus on almonds or any fruit trees also suck it up.
	So is somewhat misleading.
	And so the farmers are irked about that.
	They think they can get their water usage down to less than what it is right now.
	The comparisons to cattle is bull crap.
	Let's just get that out of the way right away.
	California accounts for 80% of the world's almond supply.
	And that includes almonds that go to China, because it gets chopped up and put into food there.
	Marzipan is from almonds, and so you have a lot of almonds going to Europe.
	Almond flour, which is a major commodity, is from these almonds, and also almond starch.
	Almond meal.
	There's a lot of almond and nut butter.
	I'm sorry, not the nut butter, but the nut juice that people make almond milk.
	It's very popular.
	Nut sap.
	Nut sap.
	So almonds are a big deal.
	I, again, say I don't like eating them.
	I think they're kind of hard and they don't have a lot of texture.
	They just green up in your mouth.
	I'm not a big fan.
	I love marzipan.
	I don't have proof of this, but this seems like a very obvious one, and I'm focusing only on the nut sap, on the almond milk.
	I would say it's very likely that the almond Myth was thrown into the ether, since we can't find the origin, by the Dairy Lobby.
	I'm quite convinced the Dairy Lobby went, oh, almond milk, we can't have that, we want people to drink our milk.
	Hey, they're horrible for climate change, and they take up too much water.
	And then the Nutsap people, who by the way, if you notice, the Nutsap is on high rotation advertising.
	They went, oh yeah, dairy, take this.
	It's because of your farts and your cow shit.
	The dairy's no good.
	Go nutsap!
	This is a classic.
	Well, the myth about the dairy, you know, using more water than anything per ounce of beef is the biggest crock.
	Yeah.
	Because mostly grazing lands, you know.
	But don't you think that this was pure Yeah, it could be a fight.
	It could be like the old Boeing versus Airbus fights that we used to witness.
	Yes, it's pretty big.
	It's pretty big.
	It makes it nothing but sense, and I'm sure there may be something behind it.
	They're just trying to put the crimp on these.
	By the way, the almond guys also like to point out that the almond shells that are shelled in the process produce a lot of fuel.
	Which is a biomass fuel that is quite nice for burning.
	It's also good for smoking, by the way.
	Not as good as pecan shells, I will say.
	But it's good for smoking.
	Have you ever smoked pecan shells?
	But it's good for burning, it's good for fuel, it's good for... And they also grind it up and give it to cows to eat.
	Have you ever smoked... Ironically.
	Have you ever smoked pecan shells?
	I've smoked with pecan shells.
	With pecan shells?
	What do you... I just... I want to try it.
	I want to understand how it works.
	So you put tobacco and pecan together?
	I don't understand.
	I want to know.
	I'm talking about barbecuing.
	Oh, smoking!
	I thought you were like, wow, something new I can smoke.
	Yeah, you'd be definitely in.
	Believe me, you'd know.
	Hey man!
	Can I put that in my bowl?
	The old Bee Cave BBQ out on Bee Cave Road out there outside of Austin that had a rig there.
	In fact, the guy had some, he made some of the best brisket in Texas.
	And he always relied on the pecan shells for the smoke.
	Yeah.
	It's a little trick.
	Texans use pecan shells a lot to make that flavor.
	I just got a little confused.
	Well, let's stay on the farmer tip for a moment.
	This is very disturbing.
	You know, we had a racially motivated handout from the Biden administration, which was sending, I believe, $5 billion to African-American farmers only.
	Remember this?
	Yeah?
	ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS!
	Get this, five billion dollars.
	Which, a lot of farmers went, oh man, that's kind of racist.
	But okay.
	I guess that's what Biden administration is about.
	So here is one of these black farmers, hat and all, on MSNBC.
	It's an indirect recording, but I think it's decent enough to play, otherwise I wouldn't have.
	And as I said on your show earlier, when Senator Lindsey Graham made those comments, you should be ashamed of yourself, because I certainly I've been lobbying him for years about the plight of the black farmers.
	We've lost millions of acres of land.
	We've lost our way of living, our livelihood.
	And the COVID relief spending bill that provided the $5 billion in debt relief, $1 billion for outreach and technical assistance, and the other $4 billion for debt relief, was a 30-year-old ask for myself and others.
	Even as I was promised debt relief in a settlement agreement, I still didn't get it after the Secretary of Agriculture told the local and county office to provide me with debt relief.
	I want to let the audience know it was white farmers who got basically all of the debt relief for the 30 years I was asking Congress and the courts to provide debt relief to black farmers.
	White farmers got debt relief in this country with ease.
	And black farmers like myself were denied the time and time again to get debt relief in this country.
	The stack has been stacked against us.
	We've been facing discrimination.
	As you noted, the banks who've been bailed out in this country were one of the very first to speak out against black farmers getting debt relief in this country.
	So the government has failed us.
	The banks have failed us.
	And it's almost like 40 acres and a mule.
	We were promised by these things.
	And every time there's a pot of money that's supposed to go to black farmers or black people in this country, we're told we have to wait.
	Last July at the White House, I was promised a meeting by President Biden that hasn't happened since that time we provided 50 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and other regions of the country, but we can't find a way to get the debt relief to blacks and other farmers of color in a time that matter.
	Oh, imagine that.
	It went to white farmers.
	Imagine that!
	Nothing went to blacks.
	By the way, racist trolls, horrible people in the troll room.
	Unbelievable.
	So, uh, yeah.
	Ignore it.
	The, uh, yeah.
	So Biden's full of crap is what it really amounts to in these guys.
	This is what the black community has to be stuck with.
	The Democrats.
	Everyone says we're wrong.
	We're being played.
	This is not true.
	So then, all right, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	That's fine.
	We might as a counter clip to prove that we're wrong.
	No, but that's fine because what I would call this then if it's not true, then that's another takedown of Biden.
	So that fits too.
	But yeah, find us a counterclip, douchebags.
	Oh my goodness, horrible racist pieces of crap in there.
	I already kicked someone off.
	You use the N-word in the chatroom, you're getting kicked out, losers.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable.
	Okay, let's go to G20.
	Oh yay!
	Big meeting.
	Yes, big meeting.
	So I actually have four clues.
	I got oil reserves.
	Do you know that oil reserves are being shipped out?
	Biden released all the reserves?
	Not all, but yeah.
	They're all being exported.
	Yeah.
	Now, there is something to be said for that.
	Is that, are those reserves, what is the level of crude?
	This is actually something you should know because it's my understanding Obviously oil is fungible to some degree, um, but that, uh, the type of crude we either have too much at our refineries or it's not the right kind or, and of course also there's, they're trying to sell off oil to pay, to pay the debt down, I guess.
	I don't know what they're doing with the money.
	Let's go to the G20.
	It's G21.
	This is from New Tang Dynasty.
	Oh, you don't want to do the oil reserves being shipped out?
	No, I think as long as we know they're being shipped out, we can deal with it later.
	The war in Ukraine and its impact on the global economy overshadowed a G20 meeting in Bali on Friday.
	Host Indonesia urged foreign ministers to help end the conflict, whose repercussions, including rising energy and food prices, would hit poorer countries hardest.
	Top officials from the West and Japan insisted the meeting would not be business as usual.
	Heckles greeted Russia's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as he arrived for the meeting.
	Lavrov accused the West of scuppering a chance to tackle global economic issues with frenzied criticism of the conflict.
	There is only rabid Russia-phobia, which they turn to instead of finding much-needed common ground on key issues on the global economy and finances for which the G20 was created.
	U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the sidelines that challenges from rising food and energy costs had been, quote, dramatically exacerbated by Russian aggression against Ukraine.
	During the plenary meeting, he confronted Russia about blocking the export of Ukrainian grain and stealing it, a Western official said.
	Ukraine has struggled to export goods, with many of its ports blocked as the war rages along its southern coast.
	It is the world's fourth largest grain exporter.
	Okay.
	So the G20, which is supposed to be an economic meeting so everyone can make more money and...
	Stuff their pockets with cash.
	Just became about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
	And of course we got everybody in on that bandwagon, except I guess India and China still refuse to go along with the program, which is a kind of an issue.
	And so then we kind of addressed that in the second part of this clip, which is from NPR jumping to a different channel and a different perspective.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart that the U.S.
	is concerned about China's support for Russia's war in Ukraine.
	Blinken also says he's concerned about what he calls the increasingly provocative Chinese rhetoric and activity near Taiwan.
	And Pierce John Ruich reports they spoke after the G20 meeting in Bali.
	China says it hasn't taken sides in the war in Ukraine and it has called for all parties to exercise restraint.
	But Blinken said China's words and actions, in fact, have not been neutral.
	He said China has shielded Russia and international organizations, amplified Russian propaganda, and even continued to conduct joint military exercises.
	He said Beijing is shirking its responsibilities as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
	And he said he expressed deep concern about China's alignment with Russia.
	The over-five-hour face-to-face meeting was the first between Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in months, and it comes with U.S.-China relations still hobbled by a range of disagreements.
	John Rewich, NPR News, Shanghai.
	I used to only leave the kicker on.
	But I had to leave this one on.
	Because this guy's giving a report about the G20 conference in Bali.
	And he's in Shanghai.
	Well, you might as well be in Berkeley.
	What difference does it make?
	Hi, I'm so-and-so in Shanghai.
	This is that thing that M5M does constantly.
	They put some guy in Paris, usually a woman.
	She's in Paris, just out of the hair salon, giving a report about Libya.
	Or Turkey or something like that.
	Yeah.
	I find it quite annoying.
	Well, at least he's close to the source of his information.
	He's close to nothing.
	Close to the source of his information.
	Yeah, the phony bolognese in Shanghai.
	Did you see the Washington Post?
	I wrote about this.
	Zelinsky at the G20.
	Was it the G20?
	He's virtual.
	He's always virtual.
	I don't know if he actually exists.
	We don't really know.
	They had him with Lindsey Graham and that creepy Blumenthal guy who visited him, son.
	They looked like they were there.
	So he says, you know, what really needs to happen is after the war is over, let me see if I can give you the exact...
	The reconstruction of Ukraine is not a local project.
	It's not a project of one nation, but a common task of the entire democratic world.
	All countries.
	All countries who can say they are civilized, Zelensky told hundreds of attendees.
	Restoring Ukraine means restoring the principles of life, restoring the space of life, restoring everything that makes humans, humans.
	His request?
	750 billion dollars.
	Oh yeah!
	750!
	Yeah!
	This guy's got his nerve now.
	He's got his nerve now.
	I got a clip here.
	I want to know how is the democracy, this great democracy that we're protecting, doing there in...
	Ukraine, this Ukraine political party's banned.
	Oh yeah.
	Bad news for the Communist Party in Ukraine.
	The party was banned in the past.
	Now a court has ruled to uphold that ban.
	The Communist Party of Ukraine is now permanently banned in the Eastern European country.
	Their assets and structural entities have been transferred to the state.
	The move comes after President Zelensky declared in May that all pro-Russian parties will be illegal.
	A number of other left-wing parties have been banned as well.
	Some of those are the Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, and the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
	Ukrainian officials have been trying to shut down the Communist Party for years.
	No right-wing parties were banned for being pro-Russian.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	That's a democracy for you.
	Yeah.
	No, they have a parliamentary democracy, don't they?
	Is that what they have?
	So sick of people calling everything democracy.
	Everything's democracy.
	No, it's not.
	Not everything is democracy.
	It's representative parliament of some sort.
	I don't know what the exact term for it is.
	Here's another Ukraine clip.
	This is some Putin.
	This is a short clip.
	It was just Putin making some nasty, you know, his normal snide.
	You know, Putin's pretty good at being snide.
	Use some snide remarks, snide.
	We are hearing that they want to defeat us on the battlefield.
	What can I say?
	Let them try.
	We have often heard that the West wants to fight us until the last Ukrainian.
	It's a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it looks like it's heading in that direction.
	Putin also said that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and the prospects for any negotiation would grow dimmer the longer the conflict dragged on.
	We'll be fighting Russia till the last Ukrainian's dead.
	It's a very funny comment.
	Putin also said that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine.
	Had barely got started?
	What kind of English is that?
	Is she not English?
	Native English speaking?
	Probably not.
	It's just kind of weird.
	I didn't think it was very good.
	Let's see, what else do we have?
	Oh, yes.
	You forgot to remind me about SSRIs.
	This goes to the... I did.
	The mass shootings.
	Which, by the way, wasn't there just a mass shooting in some other really unsuspected place?
	Yeah.
	Today?
	What was it?
	I don't know.
	In some... Oh, in South Africa.
	Thirteen people.
	Mass shooting.
	So... Only catching up to the drugs.
	So our assertion is that, or assertion, there is certainly a coincidence between mass shooters that are young men and their uptake of psychotropic drugs like SSRIs and then of course we also have the ADHD medication, Ritalin, Vyvanse, what's the other one?
	What's the meth one that I'm missing?
	Yeah, that's for some reason.
	Adderall.
	Adderall, thank you.
	So, we get a greetings here, John and Adam, as one of our knights.
	I am the social studies teacher who would give my students the No Agenda CDs.
	I have now moved on to administration and have noticed something regarding SSRIs and students, a topic you both discussed in the last episode.
	I deal primarily with student behavior.
	Because he's now in administration.
	When a student is misbehaving in class, some teachers often want me to find out if the student is on SSRIs, if they are taking them as they should, and if we can suggest they get on them if they aren't taking any!
	These kinds of teachers have an attitude that they know best, even better than the kid's parents.
	This attitude has coincided with research I've begun doing for my doctoral program regarding school and family partnerships.
	Since the 70s, research has shown that the increasing professionalization of teaching has directly diminished effective parent involvement in schooling.
	You're not going to get your degree.
	The idea is that teachers increasingly believe their job is so complex, there's no way some parents would ever be able to contribute anything useful to them.
	I think it would be interesting to see how this idea of increased professionalism diminishes stakeholder partnerships would apply to things like politicians as well.
	So what can parents do?
	Get involved, initiate contact with schools, and continue to be the squeaky wheel that teachers will not be able to ignore, and keep your kids off SSRIs, especially if it's your kid's teacher prescribing them.
	So that's it, ma'am.
	The teachers are just like, hey, make sure little Johnny's, did he take his meds?
	Can we check on him?
	Can we get his schedule?
	And these teachers are all left-wingers.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, as we discussed, you know, these SSRIs could potentially be turning them Democrat.
	Or at least conditioning them for liberal views.
	Ideology.
	Ideology's views, yes.
	Yes.
	That makes sense.
	I have a few things about Roe v. Wade I'd like to cover, because although everybody was all jacked up about Biden's stupid prompter flub, here it is.
	It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so, end of quote.
	Repeat the line.
	Women are not without electoral and or political, or maybe precisely.
	So I'm sure you saw this.
	Everyone was laughing about it.
	It's not that good.
	It's not that good.
	And also, the only thing that's good about it is that the official White House transcript has been changed to repeat the line to, let me repeat that line.
	So they just lie blatantly.
	He didn't say that.
	He didn't say, let me repeat the line.
	So people thought that was very funny, but really the egregious... Actually, let me play this.
	Here's the CBS story.
	This is the reason why the president was speaking at all.
	Under pressure from abortion rights activists and members of his own party to do more in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, President Biden issued an executive order aiming to expand access to FDA-approved abortion medication, protect online privacy and access to contraception, and provide legal help protect online privacy and access to contraception, and provide legal help for patients and providers and the right to travel out of But the president suggested his power is limited and urged Americans to head to the polls in November.
	There is no constitutional right to choose, only the way to...
	The only way to fulfill and restore that right for women in this country is by voting.
	The court now, now, practically dares the women of America to go to the ballot box.
	So, they wrote a doozy for this guy, repeat the line.
	Including a story which we have questioned, and now even the Washington Post is questioning this story, which the president, in his infinite wisdom of reading the prompter as well as he can, really doubled and tripled down on the story.
	This is going to get very embarrassing.
	What we're witnessing is a giant step backwards in much of our country.
	Already the bans are in effect in 13 states.
	Twelve additional states are likely to ban choice in the coming weeks.
	And in a number of these states, the laws are so extreme, they've raised the threat of criminal penalties for doctors and health care providers.
	They're so extreme that many don't allow for exceptions, even for rape or incest.
	Let me say that again.
	Some of the states don't allow for exceptions for rape or incest.
	This isn't some imagined horror.
	It's already happening.
	Just last week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim in Ohio.
	10 years old!
	And she was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the presidency and maybe save her life.
	That last part is my judgment.
	10 years old.
	10 years old!
	Raped.
	Six weeks pregnant.
	Already traumatized.
	Was forced to travel to another state Imagine being that little girl.
	Just, I'm serious.
	Just imagine being that little girl, 10 years old.
	Does anyone believe that it's Ohio's majority view that that should not be able to be dealt with? - Or in any other state in the nation?
	A 10 year old girl should be forced to give birth to a rapist's child?
	I can tell you what I don't.
	I can't think of anything as much more extreme.
	A court's decision has already been received by Republicans in Congress as a green light to go further and pass a national ban.
	A national ban.
	This is pretty outrageous, since there appears to be no source.
	Well, there's one source.
	This story was provided by a local Indiana news outlet, and it was Indianapolis OBGYN Kaitlyn Bernard, who said a doctor in Ohio contacted her about this case.
	This unnamed girl who lives in Ohio and was forced to seek an abortion in Indiana after a homestay barred abortion.
	But there's no proof of anything.
	The Washington Post now is like, well, okay, well, where is this from?
	Snopes!
	Snopes couldn't even come up with anything.
	So, is this again?
	He wasn't ad-libbing, this is on his prompter.
	They really want this guy to go down.
	Because it doesn't seem to be true.
	This is analogous to the babies in incubators that the Iranian Guard was tossing out.
	What are they doing to this man?
	This is going to get better.
	Well, I mean, come on.
	They haven't got him to budge, so let's just up the ante.
	It's going to be better.
	The gaffes and crazy shit in the next, I'd say the next two months, it's going to be out of control.
	It's going to be really good.
	Do you think they'll 25 him eventually?
	Uh, I don't think that, well, you're talking about the 25th amendment.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's not code for, you know, exterminating.
	It kind of is.
	It's a version of extermination.
	It would just be so much easier if he had a, you know, something horrible medically happened to him.
	I mean, they could induce that right away, but the timings, it's like, it's like the queen.
	Joe Biden is technically dead.
	The heart attack mechanisms are there.
	They're easy to use.
	No, I'm saying he's technically dead.
	They're just keeping him alive until they get the next Queen of America ready.
	Well, the problem is they still have Harris to deal with and they don't know maybe she's... Oh, oh, no, no.
	Oh, hold on.
	I have some Harris for you because they're making her look as stupid as possible.
	Well, listen, Dave... Sorry?
	Dave, you did a good job.
	Okay, go on.
	I want to hear... Yeah.
	It's hard not to.
	What will this administration do to try, in the coming months before the election, to codify Roe, to try to, through Congress, put into law some of these priorities?
	The president acted this morning, again, with an executive order.
	But we also need Congress to act, because that branch of government is where we actually codify, which means put into law.
	Oh, thanks.
	the rights that, again, we took for granted, but clearly have now been taken from the women of America.
	And that does have to happen.
	And we should not allow ourselves to minimize the significance of that, which is Congress needs to act.
	Now wait a minute.
	Weren't you in Congress?
	Weren't you a senator at one point?
	Didn't you do anything about it?
	Some senators have suggested that Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh misled them during the confirmation hearings on Roe v. Wade.
	Some Democrats have even called for those justices to be impeached.
	Do you believe they should be impeached?
	I mean, listen, I start from the point of experience of having served in the Senate.
	I never believed them.
	I didn't believe them.
	That's why I voted against.
	The funniest moment in this three-ring circus came during the press conference with Press Secretary Kareem Abdul Jean-Pierre, and it was, of course, Ducey, asking about, hey, this is kind of weird.
	You've got Supreme Court justices being harassed in restaurants by protesters.
	There are some actual laws on the book about what you can do and you can't really harass federal judges.
	There's real law against it.
	But okay, it's not being enforced, which creates a bit of lawlessness.
	None of that is important.
	What is important is what she says.
	The incredible, woke statement just slipped in the middle here about Ducey's line of questioning.
	People should be allowed to be able to do that.
	In a restaurant.
	If it's outside of a restaurant, if it's peaceful, for sure.
	Really?
	Peaceful protest.
	Whereas you were, your question to me was intimidation and violence.
	Did you hear that?
	Your question to me was intimidation and violence.
	This is the press secretary.
	Whereas you were, your question to me was intimidation and violence.
	It's violence.
	What is wrong with these people?
	Well, I think she just left a word about out.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	You really think that?
	Yeah, I honestly do.
	Oh, then I completely misinterpreted it.
	She gets flustered.
	She's no, let's start with a premise.
	She stinks.
	She's no good as a press secretary.
	She's slow on her feet.
	She repeats herself a lot, trying to figure out what the line is questioning really is.
	And this so she can catch her, her brain can catch up.
	She's just no good, and I think that was just a flub.
	Okay.
	And I don't think it was intentional.
	No, I'll take it.
	I completely misunderstood that.
	I was for sure, oh man, is this a black, the LGBTQ woke thing here?
	No, it was just a missing word.
	Okay.
	I know, I stand corrected.
	And I heard the whole thing, and that's exactly true, the way she interpreted the original question.
	Well, you should have stopped me before I hurt myself.
	Well, because I didn't know where you were going with that clip, because people have been sending us that clip about saying commended, which was bullcrap.
	She just flubbed there, too.
	Commended?
	No, I didn't say that.
	I had that clip, but I didn't... I found it was innocuous.
	I was wondering what you were getting out of it.
	I didn't understand.
	Oh, no, I completely missed it.
	So I couldn't stop you.
	I understand you would have tried if you could have.
	I always try to keep from you injuring yourself.
	I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	And we do have a few people to thank, and this is show 1467.
	And we're starting with John Barrett in St.
	Petersburg, Florida, who came with $150.
	Casey Van Heel in Columbus, Ohio, $142.
	Casey Van Keel in Columbus, Ohio, 142.
	Charles Bennett in Chalice, Idaho, 133.33.
	Jason Maurer in Vancouver, Washington.
	That's where you can live in a city.
	Somebody sent me a note.
	I commented on it.
	I think he just moved.
	You moved to Vancouver, Washington.
	You're just across the river.
	Just one short bridge ride.
	It's not even, I don't think it's a toll bridge ride into Portland.
	So you live in Washington state.
	No state taxes.
	You drive to Portland to do all your buying.
	No, no sales tax.
	The Oregonians are always bitching about people who live in Vancouver, Washington.
	Anyway, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from him.
	Jason, Jonathan Reisman in St.
	Louis, Missouri, 111.11.
	Larry Pacheco in Santa Fe, New Mexico, $100.
	Sarah Warner in Austin, Texas, $100.
	Hello, Sarah.
	She had something here to say?
	No, I don't think so.
	Uh, Jason Klaus in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
	100.
	Uh, she says, Thursday's show is the best I've heard in four years!
	Oh, wow.
	Oh, wow!
	Even the artwork was amazing!
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	Yair, Yair, Yair Mor.
	This is in Israel, and this name is a Jewish name, and I can't pronounce Yair.
	I don't know how to pronounce it.
	Yair, Yair Mor.
	Isn't it Yair?
	Yair Mor, I think, yeah.
	He's in Israel, $100.
	And it's his birthday.
	Annual birthday present for himself.
	Oh, nice.
	And he's on the list.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Loon, American, lover of American boobs, in Locust, North Carolina.
	He's right at the top of the boob list today.
	Andrew Crosseffer, the boobs people up north, had put in $808.
	And what was it again that makes boobs?
	$800.85.
	Yes, for the mega boobs.
	Mega boobs.
	Boobs.
	Plural boobs.
	Andrew Crowe in Marietta, Georgia.
	8008.
	Anonymous in Woodstock, Georgia.
	8008.
	Kirkland, Ohio comes in with $77.77.
	That's Marjorie Santelli.
	And then we have Minister Cat in Austin, Texas. $75.
	Edward Jennings in North Haven, Connecticut, 6666.
	Sir Beboop, Knight of the Frozen Tundra in New Brighton, Minnesota, 5678.
	And that goes from him.
	And now we have this, I don't know, somebody wrote in a very long note.
	It's so long, it blows up my spreadsheet and I can't get their name up.
	It's Dustin Abad from Vero Beach, 5432.
	And this is for his beautiful wife.
	It says Carl's birthday.
	His wife Carl?
	Somehow I think it might be Carl.
	It could be Carl.
	And she's on the list.
	I hope her name is Carl because that's what's on the list.
	There's a call-out for a douchebag call-out in that note.
	Oh, also, Andrew, Jake, and Cody, you are all indeed douchebags.
	There's three of them.
	Ah.
	Douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	There you are.
	Ooh, I like that one.
	Thanks.
	Thanks, accountant.
	Grizzle.
	I like that double douchebag the way he did it.
	Douchebag!
	Now you're talking.
	Right?
	Grizzle in Victoria, BC, 5333.
	Mike Turek in Rogers, Arkansas, 5333.
	Stephen Hall.
	Oh, wait.
	You can't pass him up.
	He wants a de-douching.
	This is his de-douche moment.
	You've been de-douched.
	We're calling out douchebags.
	Well, then while you're at it, call out Stephen Hall for a de-douching.
	He's in Parker, Colorado.
	De-douching?
	Don't call him out as a de-douching.
	You're confusing me.
	You've been de-douched.
	He's in Parker, Colorado, $52.80.
	Mike Sisk, $50.50.
	Zachary Collett in Toronto, Ontario, $50.
	In fact, we have a bunch of $50 donors, name and location, and that's what I'm going to read.
	John Ford in McKinney, Texas, and he has a very nasty thing to say about bugs.
	Summer Norris in Denver, North Carolina.
	A birthday coming up.
	Greg Firek in Chicago, Illinois.
	Christopher Rivera, Nederland, Colorado.
	Jim Andrianatos in Glenview, Illinois.
	Richard Grabowski in Lynchburg, North Carolina.
	Carrie Gustafson in Warren, Ohio.
	Margarita Indenhood in Orangevale, California, which she was in the last show.
	She's a big supporter.
	She's a dame.
	David Schwendinger in Woodbridge, Virginia, rounds it out.
	I want to thank all these folks for making this show 1467 a reality.
	Thank you a lot.
	And also, again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers who we mentioned earlier.
	Those credits are real, just like any producer credit, but those execs and associate execs, you can put them anywhere where credits are recognized.
	I appreciate you if you do that.
	Also, thank you everyone who came in under 50, typically for reasons of anonymity, so we don't mess with those down below the 50, but we love the subscriptions, sustaining donations people have signed up for.
	This always helps when things get a little rougher.
	To find out more, go here.
	And we have quite the list.
	Ryan Chase, Sir Snacking Ham of the Black Forest.
	Happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Courtney.
	She turned 40 on July 7th.
	Alan Dick celebrated yesterday.
	DC Girls says happy birthday to Roger Roundy.
	His birthday is today.
	I wonder if there's something going on between those two.
	I don't know.
	Get a room, you two.
	Destin Abad, his beautiful wife.
	Carl, July 10th.
	I hope we got that right.
	Carl and Destin.
	Van Betsel, happy birthday to Mr. Clayton Moses of Anchorage, Alaska, celebrating tomorrow.
	Summer Joy Norris will be celebrating tomorrow as well.
	And Yair Morn, 37, on the 12th.
	Grizzle to her smoking hot mountain man, Win Cheesy.
	We do have to say happy birthday to Ronnie James Dio.
	Of course, unfortunately, he's no longer with us, but we celebrate his birthday.
	Jay Dvorak celebrating tomorrow on 7-Eleven, as is Tina Marie the Keeper, who celebrates the Big 6-0 tomorrow.
	And both she and Jay can get a free Slurpee at 7-Eleven.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Did you know that?
	7-Eleven.
	I didn't know that.
	So if you have a birthday on 7-Eleven, you can get a free Slurpee at 7-Eleven?
	That's correct.
	Well, that's nice.
	It's so nice of the folks at 7-Eleven.
	Right?
	No title changes, but we do have a couple of dames and knights to bring up, so this would be a nice Sunday Blade for you.
	Hello?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Here it is.
	I was dozing off.
	That's okay.
	You don't say.
	Uh, Courtney!
	Pop on up here, girl!
	Don Morota!
	Uh, Audra Matthews, Kelly Saliba, and Cole Hill!
	All of you now become Knights and Dames of the Noah Jenner Round Table.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the K-V as... Black Dame Courtney of the Chicken Coop, Sir Don Morota, Dame Audra of Legoland, Dame Kelly of axeheadwatch.com, and Sir Goose the Silly!
	For you, we've got...
	Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Lego and White Russians, Macro Greens and Seafood Platter.
	We got Ginger Ale and Jar Bowls, Vodka and Vanilla, Geishas and Sake, Rubenes, Woman and Rosé.
	We even got some...
	Mutton and mead if you're into it.
	Thank you all to all the mead people who have been telling me that I just got some shitty mead.
	Mead is great.
	We just have to... I mean, that's clearly... We don't have the stuff here from Meadworks on 290 at the round table.
	We got the good stuff.
	All of you now newly minted knights and dames, please head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Enter your information there so that we can get the rings out to you.
	We really appreciate I'm so disappointed that you'd have a place called the Mead Works and it's in Texas where all these guys you know they think they got it they're the best and it's lousy it's just it's just saddening.
	It was sad for both Mr. Mark and I were both very just we were like Jack like hey man we got some local mead.
	You only had one style?
	That's all he brought.
	I don't know if they have other styles, but it was kind of like drinking warm honey.
	Yeah, that's not what you want.
	That's not what you want at all.
	And by special request, and we'd love to do that for one of our end of show mixers, Tom Starkweather and the lovely Alex they desperately need.
	Some jobs and house karma.
	They're in Florida now, and they can just use your help.
	So let's do that.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And we wish those guys all the karma they can get.
	No one should have jobs!
	It's like a holiday!
	No Agenda Meetups kicking ass!
	As always, people love them.
	People who go hanging out with them.
	They're completely producer-organized.
	noagendameetups.com.
	People love doing this and sending us reports.
	Here's Brockport, New York.
	It's produced.
	Already too long.
	She was...
	Hi, this is Sir Johnny E for the Hawker Street Meetup in Brockport, New York.
	And here are some of the other guests.
	This is Jason, Serpent of the Finger Lakes, in the morning.
	Sir Vision Quest says, consume weed, not mead.
	This is K.W.
	Grinnan Barrett, in the morning.
	This is a dude named Isaac, in the morning.
	This is Word Fuller, thanks for all you do.
	Andy Fuller in the morning.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right, guys.
	Thanks.
	Hurt my ears on that one.
	Hey, there is an Arlington, Virginia meetup well underway.
	It's Roundy's Reverse Birthday Meetup.
	It may be over, Dudley Sportnail.
	I just did want to mention it since he's been such a big supporter of the show with a lot of his artwork.
	Also, Santa Fe Shakedown at 3 p.m.
	Mountain Time, Rowley's Farmhouse.
	That's Jeff Toig, who's doing that in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
	It should be well underway now.
	Illinois, Western Suburbs, 4 o'clock, Chaos, Brocade, and Kitchen in Plainfield, Illinois on Monday.
	Come on, people, we need to see if we've got anybody listening in Reykjavik.
	I think we do.
	The Iceland Frozen Slaves Meetup, 6 o'clock.
	See the website, noagenda meetup, meetups.com for details.
	And then on the next show day, Thursday, the suppertime, Pacific Rim Bistro, Atlanta, Georgia, 6 o'clock.
	And also on Thursday, this is new to the list, the Denver Area Sunshine Respecters Meetup.
	City Park, Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
	Bring a chair!
	And I'll be at 6.30, so I presume they're gonna watch the sun go down.
	A full list all the way through the 19th of August is available for you to view at noagendameetups.com.
	Definitely check that out.
	If you can't find one near you, start one.
	It's easy and always a party.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You wanna be where you won't be.
	Triggered or held lame.
	You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Alright, end of show, ISOs.
	I have one.
	I don't know, only one.
	Sad.
	Sad.
	Can I play it?
	The new wave.
	Oh god, no.
	No, okay.
	What you got?
	So I have, uh, four.
	Well, it's gonna be one of yours.
	Each one of them is better than that.
	Although a couple of them are pretty lame.
	Let's start with the Cajun one.
	Eh, como sa va, Basil?
	Eh, okay, I can see that working.
	Yeah.
	Fireballs.
	Fireballs?
	Fireballs?
	Just random, okay?
	Next?
	Mail.
	We'll mail you some.
	I can't even hear what she's saying, hold on.
	Romelius-some.
	No.
	Romelius-some.
	You can't hear it, really.
	Okay, then last is not enough.
	That's just not enough.
	I think that's the winner.
	Yeah, I think so too.
	I think, yeah.
	You knew that was the winner, too.
	Although, I do like the Cajun guy.
	Yeah, he's not bad.
	He's not bad.
	Uh, there was a, um, a story that made me really happy that it was, uh, that it popped up because we've had this in mind.
	Oh man.
	I don't know how long ago, I guess I could look it up.
	What's the date?
	I'm going to spoil it in a minute.
	Yeah, this is, this goes back to Obama era.
	Long time ago.
	This is from our climate change.
	Uh, you ready for it?
	Yeah.
	Why working less hours and sleeping longer can reduce carbon footprints and fight climate change.
	This is our old nap for humanity.
	Exactly!
	The jingle is still in play.
	Nice.
	Science shows that fewer hours spent working and more hours spent resting could be one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint again.
	Do we not have napforhumanity.com?
	I don't know, but we had t-shirts made.
	We did.
	And photos taken.
	Never had photos taken.
	Yeah, I had Butler's daughter model the shirt.
	Oh, you're right!
	You're right!
	I wonder where those are.
	I don't know, they're around.
	We need to bring it back, because Now for Humanity is just beautiful.
	I mean, how could you not want a photograph?
	The pictures are conked out, you know, with the shirt on.
	You gotta find that picture.
	I can find it.
	That's good.
	I just need to figure out the date of it.
	I have one last clip.
	I'm sure you do.
	It says it's for stark weather.
	You know, Florida's always been traditionally a blue state.
	Well, they now have officially become a red state.
	It's kind of interesting.
	Wasn't Florida always a red state?
	No, no.
	Florida's always been a blue state.
	Since when?
	But it bounces red every so often because of all the retirees from New York City that moved down there and they vote against everything.
	They're all Democrats.
	Okay.
	Not anymore.
	Got it.
	Good news for the Republican Party in Florida.
	The GOP has reached an all-time high of total voters in the Sunshine State.
	One expert says that's because of people migrating there from other states.
	Florida's Republican Party voter tally has reached 200,000 more voters than the Democratic Party, according to data obtained by the Epoch Times.
	That's the first time in the state's history.
	Just in December, the GOP outnumbered Democrats for the first time ever in Florida.
	Back then, their lead was less than 50,000 voters.
	By March, the advantage had grown to 100,000 voters in favor of Republicans.
	And another leap this quarter brings the total to an over 200,000 voter lead.
	A spokesperson for Governor Ron DeSantis told the Epoch Times that this lead is no surprise.
	She told the Epoch Times that Democrats are falling in line with Joe Biden's policies that are making Americans' lives harder and more expensive.
	But Governor DeSantis is standing in their way, making Florida the firewall for freedom.
	She added that they'll prove that Florida is a red state in November.
	Although the GOP has the advantage now, Florida used to be a blue state, especially during the Obama administration in 2008.
	When DeSantis was elected governor in 2018, Republicans were still 300,000 votes behind Democrats.
	One election expert says this change is due to Florida's successful branding across the nation.
	He says, the huge influx of people into the state is largely comprised of right-of-center voters from blue states coming to a better place to live.
	Today, there are one million more people registered to vote in Florida than just four years ago.
	I like the firewall for freedom.
	Ah, you caught that.
	Of course.
	Yeah, I agree.
	It's a catchy phrase.
	That's a killer.
	That's a killer.
	You know, there was a toss-away too.
	It was funny.
	All right.
	That's pretty much it.
	Yeah, I mean, there is other stuff.
	We'll get to it on Thursday.
	No doubt.
	Well, things will evolve, which is always the great part about the show.
	And we'll have producers weighing in and telling us, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, this is what's going on.
	I happen to be an expert.
	That's all part of the Value for Value model.
	Time, talent, treasure, please help out.
	It's been working so far.
	Do your part.
	Time, talent, treasure.
	So we'll be back on Thursday.
	I'll have lots to talk about, I'm sure.
	This is the big Tina Marie Curry birthday weekend.
	We're celebrating it like the Dutch do, man.
	Oh, you just sit around in a chair and stare at each other.
	Fantastic.
	Same story.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Join us then.
	We have end-of-show mixes from Sir Michael Anthony, Guf, Tom Starkweather, and up next, we have the Millennial Media Offensive with Dan Gehring and John G. Du.
	We'll see you on Thursday, everybody.
	Until then, adios mofos!
	and such.
	Hush, little baby, don't say a word.
	Time for your shots in your second and third.
	If your reaction is adverse, mama can't sue to get reimbursed.
	She's gonna say it's something else you got.
	If you don't believe me, I don't care.
	Thought she's still gonna be a millionaire.
	Who's got their thoughts?
	There's a middle between beef and bugs.
	You know, that was so obvious it just went right by everybody.
	They're ghouls, man.
	These people are ghouls.
	It's just amazing to me that they keep promoting it.
	God, this tastes just like human flesh.
	You can't do jack shit with it.
	And that's obvious.
	You know, we take less resources, but yet we're tastier than bugs.
	Oh, we gotta be tastier than bugs.
	What isn't?
	They eat the humans.
	So, yes.
	They eat the humans.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	By their logic.
	They'll own you and your rights.
	The mean and officious guys.
	Roughing up you.
	Lies bleeding through their pores.
	Plotting and baiting.
	Ooh, they're shitting on you.
	But their five eyes are now less than four.
	Oh, how many atrocities made you blink, forgetting you're free?
	Globalist defiles a weak-ass bunch, gamed by the scars of the Morningstar.
	Money's their pattern.
	If you're in it to own it, by 2030 you'll rent gas for your car.
	Oh, here's breadcrumbs!
	Watch out, Steve!
	They'll spew you up!
	Oh, hear the drums!
	They are bug eaters!
	What?
	Oh, here's breadcrumbs!
	Watch out, Steve!
	They'll spew you up!
	Oh, hear the drums!
	They are bug eaters!
	Explain to me how...
	I don't quite understand.
	That's a good one.
	Hey, Brandon, is that really you?
	I think I can see through your thin veneer of shedded skin and cold, dead hands and heart.
	Eternal, so is the matter.
	Ooh, the free boutique is where the high priest presents the a la carte.
	God, this tastes just like human flesh.
	And these people are ghouls.
	Whoa, here's breadcrumbs.
	Watch out, Slade, they'll spew you up.
	Whoa, hear the drums.
	They are foggy too.
	What?
	Whoa, here's breadcrumbs.
	Watch out, Slade, they'll spew you up.
	Whoa, hear the drums.
	They are foggy too.
	It hasn't played anywhere, probably.
	But it got an award for the new wave.
	Well, if there was ever any doubt that these new COVID variants were going to turn up the risk category for community spread, then you can take that doubt out of the question.
	And we even have drugs we can use to treat this.
	COVID cases are increasing this summer.
	You know, right now, we as humans can't catch up with the virus.
	Experts saying the new COVID variant, BA5, is the one fueling the new outbreaks in both New York City and Long Island.
	So, these new variants are coming.
	In the fall, we might need a different kind of vaccine to outsmart the latest variant.
	The new wave.
	Yeah, I mean, basically what you're summarizing is the strategy that we have left to us as scientists.
	All five boroughs in the city are back in the CDC's high-risk category.
	Experts saying the new COVID variant, BA5, is the one fueling the new outbreaks in both New York City and Long Island.
	Unfortunately, the virus keeps finding new ways to threaten us.
	Unless you're tracking it like we are, you don't really know that this is happening.
	When you say the vaccine outsmarts us, is it outsmarting the vaccines, though?
	Are we facing that again?
	And more and more, we're talking monkeypox.
	All right, let's talk about COVID again.
	Sorry.
	We've seen really across the country some indications that we might be experiencing what could be a new wave.
	Well, COVID cases in New York City are surging with officials now back to recommending masks indoors.
	We have to talk about the crash of COVID infections because it appears that a sixth wave is upon us here.
	The new wave.
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