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1483: Jacked Up Joe

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	It's time to rubbleize!
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's Sunday, September 4th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination Episode 1483.
	This is no agenda.
	Dead than Red!
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6, In the Morning, everybody!
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're still waiting for this Artemis thing, I mean, what is it gonna take?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Quack Pot and Buzzkill!
	In the Morning!
	I have a sequence of clips!
	And from what I understand, they already knew they had problems when she was talking about this.
	Everything is a go so far for tomorrow's planned launch of the Artemis 1 mission to the moon.
	Forecasters say the weather is expected to cooperate.
	The blast off window is tomorrow afternoon.
	And from what I understand, they already knew they had problems when she was talking about this.
	So the next day.
	Well, for the second time this week, NASA's Artemis rocket did not fly.
	The space agency scrubbed the launch of the massive rocket after a new technical issue surfaced and attempts to fix it failed.
	CBS's Mark Strassman is at the Kennedy Space Center.
	Mark, earlier this week it was an issue with the engine.
	What happened this time?
	A lot of frustration here.
	NASA just announced it looks as though they're going to have to roll the rocket back to the garage, back to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
	That would delay the next launch window until later this month, more likely later next month.
	Today's problem came up a couple of hours into loading the rocket with propellant.
	It happened at the bottom of the rocket.
	Right about here, they discovered a leak in the liquid hydrogen fuel line.
	They tried to troubleshoot it three different times, all without luck.
	And at that point, the launch was a scrub.
	Scrub!
	Second time in five days that NASA has been luckless on the launch pad.
	Both times, a liquid hydrogen leak was an issue.
	And frustration comes after years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns.
	And, Lilia, this rocket still hasn't left the launch pad.
	Yeah, it's kind of, uh, analogous to Joe's, uh, whole deal.
	It just don't work?
	Here's the fun final short clip.
	That's right.
	I mean, we were waiting all day today, back and forth, a lot of communication from NASA to the public, and it didn't happen.
	Just big picture here, Mark.
	How important is it for NASA that Artemis 1 succeed?
	It's everything.
	I mean, NASA has a timeline to return astronauts to the moon, but first, they have to have a successful test flight around the moon and back from Artemis 1, a minimum of drama.
	And right now, they can't even get it off the ground.
	Nice sexual kind of connotation there at the end.
	They can't even get it off the ground.
	Hey man, here you go.
	Minimum of drama.
	And right now, they can't even get it off the ground.
	Can't even get it up, man.
	Can't get it up.
	Do I have a few, uh, to get this off?
	Yeah.
	When are they going to fly this thing again?
	Try it again.
	Never.
	You know, just go look up Operation High Jumper.
	You know the real problem.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Uh, I have a few mad couples I want to get out of the way.
	Yes, we had a few.
	You even wrote that in the newsletter.
	I have three of them.
	I was surprised.
	We're never wrong.
	What are you talking about?
	Well, you're wrong when you just... Well, sometimes you're not really wrong, but you...
	You made a mistake.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	This is not about we have some mea culpa.
	Is this stuff that I did wrong?
	No, it's me.
	Oh, okay.
	You never make a mistake.
	No!
	God knows.
	Hey, how's that DW-40 doing, huh?
	A WD-40?
	No.
	WD-40.
	I was right.
	Yes, a WD-40.
	You were right.
	Well, you weren't right.
	Whatever you were reading or whoever that guy was was right.
	Oh, excuse me!
	Excuse me!
	I didn't hear you.
	I was what?
	You're right.
	Okay.
	It was water displacement number 40.
	It was used to coat these rockets.
	So who knew?
	It just seemed fishy.
	The other thing is, it's not dirty crude, it's sour crude.
	Yeah, but I told you that was hyperbole of the newsreader, whoever that woman was.
	It was, I think so.
	No, Ursula.
	There's two kinds of crude, there's two kinds of major crudes, crude oil.
	One is sour, it's loaded with sulfur, and the other one is sweet.
	It's sweet crude.
	And the sweet crude is the good stuff because you don't have to desulfurize it.
	It's also more expensive.
	Can you cook with it?
	I guess not.
	I never tried, but I don't think so.
	It's kind of grimy.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that was Queen Ursula who said, dirty, dirty Russian fossil fuels.
	Dirty.
	Yeah, so now we understand what she was talking about.
	And the last one was Sadr, the guy in Iraq, is a Shiite, not a Sunni.
	The Sunnis, there's really no, the Sunni faction of Iraq is mostly... Now what guy are we talking about here?
	Well, I said that Al-Sadr, the guy who's... Al-Sadr, yeah.
	Al-Sadr was a Sunni.
	And I got called out, you're full of it.
	He's not a Sunni, he's a Shiite.
	And he is.
	I mean, I should have known that because Iraq is mostly a Shiite country, even though it was always run by Sunnis.
	Hey, man, it's okay.
	You're allowed to make a mistake.
	That's why we have the best traditions.
	I want to get this Iraq thing straightened out because it's going to be an issue for the president.
	Oh, it's a big issue.
	Oh yeah.
	So I've got a bunch of clips on it too.
	Okay.
	So, but let me explain what's going on here is that this guy is, who's something of a phony in terms of quitting.
	He's never going to quit, they say, the experts.
	And I have one of these experts from, of all places, Johns Hopkins.
	Oh yes, this is where the experts live.
	Yeah, they're all there.
	So he is a Shiite who hates Iranians hate the Iranian Shiites and he's actually up against a faction of the Shiites running for office in Iraq are Iranian Shiites or the pro-Iranian Shiites.
	They're Iraqis.
	And he thinks they should be kicked out of the country and associated with the United States.
	So he's a hardliner of a certain sort that is Very popular, very popular guy, and I have some clips.
	I have an Iraq report, which I did pick up from Al Jazeera.
	I'm glad you have this, because a lot of people see what's going on.
	We talked about the Green Zone being under attack on the last episode, which is really just not reported.
	The green zone's basically gone.
	The walls have been blown down.
	They took the walls down and they're running into the green zone.
	The green zone's a fiasco at this point.
	But the whole country hasn't had a government for over a year and it's a mess.
	Hey, that's what we do.
	That's what we do.
	We rubbleize.
	Foam finger number one!
	Look what we did everybody!
	We did it again!
	So I looked around because I knew I couldn't get any of this information from any mainstream, you know, anti-Trump local news.
	So I went to Al Jazeera and they had a couple of reports and I picked one apart and this is the one I've got.
	This is Iraq report one.
	A political crisis in Iraq has erupted into violence after the powerful Shiite leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced he was quitting frontline politics.
	Gunfire and explosions have rocked Baghdad's high-security green zone in the past few hours, with reports of heavy fighting between rival Shiite factions.
	At least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the worst fighting the Iraqi capital has seen in years.
	Victoria Gatembe begins our coverage.
	Chaos in Baghdad's heavily fortified green zone.
	Rival Shiite factions targeting each other.
	My goodness.
	The fighting escalated late on Monday night after a day of violence and political turmoil.
	It's probably better as a visual report, but I do like the sound effects.
	The sound effects are great.
	I had to cut most of them out because there were bombs and they were just going crazy with the sound effects.
	Yeah, I've seen some of the footage.
	But they had a lot of visuals showing these maniacs just holding up a gun and shooting it wildly into the green zone.
	But you know what you don't see?
	You don't see anyone... I mean, it's a chaos in these videos, but you don't see anyone getting shot.
	You see, just hear...
	You don't see anyone going down or anything?
	Well, there's a lot of bodies laying around here and there, so it's not really completely true.
	Somebody is getting shot, but it's maniacs.
	It's just like, you know, if you remember the war in Iraq where you have these show-offs that like to stand in the middle of them, standing up, holding a gun and shooting from the hip.
	Yeah, and then killing their son or their friend.
	Yeah, they're just nuts.
	So, let's go to part two.
	Protests broke out after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he was quitting frontline politics.
	His supporters broke into the presidential palace, which houses the prime minister's office.
	Many even taking to the palace pool.
	This is a thing now, isn't it?
	It's like, if there's a revolution, you better show plebs jumping in the presidential pool or something.
	That's kind of the thing.
	The pool was packed.
	I'll bet it was.
	It looked like a communal pool in the Bronx or something.
	It was packed.
	Palace pool.
	Our demands are to dissolve parliament and to hold the corrupt to account.
	And we say, my master, Muqtada al-Sadr, their pride is under your feet and we will sacrifice for you.
	Victory is ours.
	Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi halted cabinet sessions until further notice.
	But Iraq's political life was already in limbo.
	There's been deadlock for almost a year since Muqtada al-Sadr's party won the largest share of seats in elections last October.
	It wasn't enough to secure a majority, and Sadr hasn't been able to form a government of his choosing.
	He told his MPs to resign in June, and his supporters have been protesting since July.
	Some even briefly occupied parliament.
	They want new elections without the participation of Iran-backed groups.
	This is an Iraqi revolution.
	Iraq should be returned to its people.
	This is not the first time Sadr's announced his retirement from politics, and many have dismissed it as a bluff to gain leverage over his rivals.
	Already several protesters have been killed and hundreds wounded, and it's feared Sadr's latest move could lead to yet more instability.
	You know, this is really quite a sad example of an overthrow of government.
	I mean, look at us, man.
	January 6th.
	Now that was, that was insurrection, brother.
	What you guys are doing is nothing.
	So, uh... What exactly is the problem?
	That he couldn't form a cabinet?
	It was a parliamentary system?
	He couldn't form a government.
	A government or a cabinet?
	It's a parliamentary system.
	A government.
	Right.
	A government.
	Yeah, I'm sorry, cabinet.
	A government.
	He couldn't form a coalition.
	That's the term I'm looking for.
	And so the other group all ganged up and they made a fake one.
	They ganged up?
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	This guy's a populist guy.
	He's the one who wants to, you know, Iraq first.
	Let's get rid of these Iranian influencers.
	Let's get this out of there.
	The Sunnis, meanwhile, of course, have been taken out of the picture largely because they're the ones who turned everything over to ISIS.
	Right.
	That wasn't a good one.
	So that's the end of their political career because they're useless.
	And then the Kurds are the odd man out and it's hard to say where they're headed.
	None of this is being covered by the Western media because we're so preoccupied with the January 6th investigation and listening to Biden.
	Melania's underpants.
	We were ahead of the times, brother.
	We knew it was coming.
	We were ahead of it.
	Well, yeah, we got that part right.
	So, but the thing, this is a major, you know, I don't know if it reflects poorly on the United States and our nation building and all the rest and these idiots.
	And our stupid green zone.
	These people that started this stupid war.
	We don't even defend our turf, our green zone.
	We're out of there.
	The green zone, they're on their own.
	So the green zone's done.
	So that whole idea was a cool idea.
	There's a lot of pools there.
	How come they're not diving into the green zone pools?
	I don't know.
	There's probably a few of them.
	I just started recording it.
	Now, a friend of mine lived in the Green Zone from high school.
	He got a hold of me some years ago and he told me that the Green Zone is the closest thing I can... Country club.
	...for my edification.
	The closest thing he knew that he could compare it to was Hayward.
	Hayward, California, this kind of a suburban community.
	It had all these house-tracked homes.
	Oh, really?
	It looked like America.
	But didn't they have, like, a Pizza Hut and Burger King?
	No, no, it was just like Hayward.
	Exactly like Hayward.
	Yeah, that's why we want to see some of these Iraqis, like, you know, busting down a Burger King.
	Kick him back in a Taco Bell.
	It looks to me, because there's a bunch of, this is a long report, I only took like four clips, but they had one guy that he wouldn't go in there.
	He says it's a mess.
	He says because bullets are just flying every which way from both sides and he says you can't go.
	So you can't really get what you described.
	You can't get that in and out.
	It's the problem.
	Yeah, I mean it's a mess.
	This is really something that should be reported.
	Let's go to clip three.
	With more on how the Iranian government is reacting to the violence in Baghdad.
	Well, we've heard from officials in Iran who have advised their citizens not to travel to Iraq.
	They have also canceled all flights to Iraq as a result of the instability that is ongoing in that country.
	There's a travel advisory for all Iranian citizens to avoid travel to the country.
	They have also closed all the land border crossings between Iraq and Iran.
	Of course, the two countries are neighbors and they share a very long border that stretches about 1,300 kilometers.
	We also heard from the foreign ministry spokesperson a little earlier this evening.
	And he said that the Iranian government believes that there is no political impact, that Iraq can't solve itself and that the Iranians are recommending that Iraq pursue.
	to a solution to political misunderstandings that they're having based on its constitution, which is interesting, of course, because one of the main issues that is at the core of the disputes between Muqtada al-Southers supporters and the government is the constitution itself and the laws because one of the main issues that is at the core of the disputes between Muqtada al-Southers supporters and the government is the constitution itself and the laws that have been Yeah, that was our doing, mostly.
	Yeah, it sounds like it.
	They're just going to kick that, throw the Constitution to the curb and do whatever they do or whatever they used to do or whatever they're comfortable with.
	And what they're comfortable with is not having a bunch of foreigners there, it seems to me.
	But now we take it to the last clip.
	Yeah, I'm just doing that to fill up the color so we sound the same as the clips.
	Yeah, that's a good idea.
	The last clip is our expert from Johns Hopkins who comes in to make a couple of comments.
	Ooh, I'm excited.
	By the way, listen to the guys.
	See, this guy's from Johns Hopkins, but he speaks like a guy who's... I don't know, he doesn't sound like a very... You'll see.
	Albert Wolff is a research associate at Johns Hopkins University.
	He isn't shocked by Sadler's announcement.
	Frankly, I think this is Sadler being Sadler.
	I do believe that this is, I wouldn't call it a stunt per se, but I do believe that he's jockeying for leverage in this current political crisis.
	Past two elections have yielded the same exact results.
	One of the things that's pushing him is that he has not been able to get a prime minister of his choosing.
	The coordination framework nominates someone who is, quote-unquote, independent from Nouri al-Maliki.
	That's one thing that's pushed this.
	And the second thing is, is that, you know, he's resisting, you know, U.S.
	and Iranian influence.
	So these are a couple of the things that are pushing this.
	But these are tactics that have been used since 2003.
	I think the United States has just dropped all foreign policy except Russia and Ukraine.
	And EU.
	Everything else is just gone.
	You don't seem to be doing anything.
	Well, we're doing a crappy job of it.
	And this is a joke now.
	I mean, this is why I think it's not being covered.
	They're told not to cover it because it reflects poorly on all this Bush, Cheney, Democrat, Republican.
	We gotta keep people focused on the scary MAGA Republicans.
	Yeah, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.
	So that's my, now where I think everyone's caught up with Iraq.
	Yeah.
	Nightmare.
	Did I have something on Iraq?
	I thought I might have had... No.
	No.
	No, we're caught up.
	It's not good.
	What else?
	Don't mess with us.
	We'll come in there and screw it up and screw up the screw up.
	Rubble eyes!
	It's time to rubble eyes!
	Alright, so everyone's in a tizzy about the Biden speech, and I'll give you a boots-on-the-ground from the Hill Country.
	I have a bunch of clips from the speech, but they're all short.
	Except I got one, the definitive long bitchin' moan about MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.
	I got that too, but give us a boots-on-the-ground.
	What do people think there in Hill Country, Texas?
	So, Paul, my septic tank guy, he came by.
	Now, Paul is larger than life.
	He's got a dually, huge dually pickup truck.
	He's got a flip phone.
	When he jumps out smoking his Marlboros, my dog doesn't even bark at him.
	This guy is like... He's in command of everything.
	So we're fixing some small problem.
	And he's like, hey, did you go see Ted Nugent?
	I said, you know, I actually did look.
	I said, Tina's a big fan.
	I really want to go.
	By the time I looked, it was all gone.
	We had a box, 12 seats, people serving us drinks.
	It was great!
	And he just goes on to tell us, you know, all the shit Ted would say about the government and the ATF.
	And then he says, what do you think about our country, man?
	And before I can even say anything, he's like, I'll tell you, a lot of people are fed up, fed up, fed up.
	I was a little concerned.
	Uh, with, uh, seems to be frustration bordering maybe a little bit on anger.
	And from Paul, you know, there's some crazy dudes.
	I don't want to say he's crazy, but I don't think anything would happen, but they seem like pushed to the edge with this one.
	And that's more narrative, I think, than what actually took place.
	But man, how cool.
	Did they think that ABC News executive did the red lighting?
	Was that his doing?
	Like, we did such a great job on the January 6 trial.
	Let's have this guy do this thing.
	I don't think so.
	What do you think?
	It was just an accident?
	Somebody's going to have to explain it to me, because it was dumb.
	And all the memes coming out of it, with Beelzebub, and Baphomet, and lizard heads, and everything.
	Lizard heads, a good one, and of course Hitler, Stalin, you name it.
	Yeah.
	Actually, you know, I got a little one-minute clip here.
	I think it was Jimbo, producer Jimbo, sent this to me from V for Vendetta, you know, one of the classic movies.
	Very great movie.
	Remember, remember the 5th November, gunpowder, treason, and plot?
	And so this is the Chancellor, and the Chancellor's on this huge screen in front of, you know, whatever the council is, and he's commanding them.
	And it looks very similar to the Joe Biden set with the, you know, the red on both sides, and also kind of what he said.
	Every day, gentlemen.
	Every day that brings us closer to November, every day that man remains free is one more failure.
	347 days, gentlemen.
	347 failures!
	Chancellor, we do not have the adequate force.
	We are being buried beneath the avalanche of your inadequacies, Mr. Creedy!
	Tonight, I will speak directly to these people and make the situation perfectly clear to them.
	The security of this nation depends on complete and total compliance.
	Tonight, any protester, any instigator, or agitator will be made example of!
	Yeah, kind of like that.
	Wow, we should go right into the Biden, the long part of the Biden speech that I have clipped here.
	Okay, uh, which one is that?
	It's Biden MAGA cancer.
	Okay.
	I give you my word as a Biden admi... You know what, how about I play one into the next just to make the whole effect perfect?
	Just a little tale of this one here.
	Okay, it was the wrong clip anyway.
	I need the Biden... Biden Mega Rant Redux is the one you want to play.
	So why don't you play him back to back?
	Yeah, just a little bit of this one.
	Okay.
	Tonight, any protester, any instigator, or agitator will be made example of!
	We must be honest with each other.
	And with ourselves.
	Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal.
	Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.
	Now I want to be very clear, very clear up front.
	Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans.
	Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.
	I know, because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.
	But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
	And that is a threat to this country.
	These are hard things, but I'm an American president.
	I just want to stop it there for a second because there is something here that he said that, of course, because of all the rest that he said, gets snowed over.
	But he's very clear in this, or the speechwriter is very clear, Joe is just jacked up on something that I would like to try at some point in my life.
	Well, since you stopped it, I will mention this.
	I thought he was jacked up on something different, and I think it's the same thing.
	He was jacked up when he was in Wilkes Bar, Pennsylvania, because it was the same kind of cadence and he was all jacked up.
	The next day, and I have a clip of him the next day.
	He was half dead.
	He was half dead the next day.
	We have some comments about that too, but the other thing that's interesting about this particular spiel from Biden is that there were sirens going off in the background constantly.
	Yeah, it's Pennsylvania.
	There was some guy on a bullhorn yelling, fuck Biden.
	And let's go Brandon.
	There was that too.
	And let's go Brandon.
	And it was a disaster.
	I thought it was a mess.
	Listen to this one bit because this is something that I think is overlooked because he did point it out specifically.
	Intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.
	But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
	So, extrapolating here, he is in fact saying that the Republican Party is driven by these crazy nutjobs, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, but I think he means specific politicians, right?
	Would you say?
	I mean, obviously it doesn't matter, but just, we're gonna... I'm not sure what you mean.
	Yeah, there's a bunch of politicians that are... Right, but he's not talking about Republican voters, because that was the big thing.
	Republican voters, Paul, the septic guy... Oh, I see what you're saying.
	They're saying, hey man, he's saying this about us, you know, we're insane, we're extreme.
	Yeah, I think you might be right.
	I think it's possible that he's assiduously avoiding, assiduously avoiding calling the whole base of Republicans deplorables and anything stupid like Hillary did.
	No, no, no.
	Biden is smart.
	He has Kareem Abdul Jean-Pierre von Claude Van Damme to do that for him.
	Yeah, I think it's more Valerie Jarrett doing that for him than her.
	Listen to this.
	And again, we see majority of Americans who disagree.
	And so when you are not with where majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme.
	That is an extreme way of thinking.
	So if you think for yourself... You're extreme.
	You're nuts!
	So she's the one that's screwing it up.
	Anyway, we'll continue with this.
	I got some clips from her making some funny errors.
	Let me just... She's dumb.
	Let's listen to the rest of the president.
	Or the person jacked up to be the president.
	And that is a threat to this country.
	These are hard things.
	But I'm an American president.
	Not a president of red America, blue America, but of all America.
	And I believe it's my duty, my duty to level with you, to tell the truth, no matter how difficult, no matter how painful.
	And here, in my view, is what is true.
	MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution.
	They do not believe in the rule of law.
	They do not recognize the will of the people.
	They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they're working right now, as I speak in state after state, to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.
	MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards.
	I love MAGA forces.
	Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
	Oh no.
	They promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence.
	...that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
	Matt Taibbi did a pretty good job deconstructing this, and he said it is almost word for word lifted from George W. Bush's 2002 speech, which kicked off the whole, you know, terrorist under every rock.
	Who said this?
	Matt Taibbi.
	Oh.
	Yeah, it could be.
	I mean, Biden's notorious as a plagiarist.
	But it was specifically, I will not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories, which I don't think you had.
	Did we have that one?
	Yeah, we had that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bush said, I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer.
	I will act.
	I will not stand by.
	I put it in the show notes.
	Read the Taibbi piece.
	The Taibbi also said that he thought that the speech from Biden was, he noticed it was jacked up too.
	Oh yeah.
	But he said it was, in terms of his normal flubbing, it was flawless.
	I've got some, I don't think so.
	Well, it didn't do anything that was highly offensive.
	Is this the grubbing package?
	What is this?
	Well, the grubbing package is a good idea because I repeated it.
	I kind of sweetened it a little bit so you could hear it over and over.
	What's he trying to say here?
	Play the grubbing package.
	I believe we could lift America from the depths of COVID.
	So we passed the largest economic recovery package since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
	And today, America's economy is faster, stronger than any other advanced nation in the world.
	We have more to go.
	Man, Biden is economic Viagra.
	This guy, he's great.
	He said that the American economy is faster than any other country in the world.
	Faster, bigger, more girth.
	What does that mean?
	What does that mean?
	I'm asking you.
	It's faster.
	That means the velocity... And what's a grubbing package?
	Well, you know, if you look at the true definition of inflation, the velocity of money is important, so maybe that's what he means.
	I don't think so.
	I don't know.
	I don't think so!
	And what's this grubbing?
	Did he say grubbing or grabbing?
	It sounded more like grabbing.
	He said grubbing.
	Really?
	I believe we could lift America from the depths of COVID so we pass the largest economic grubbing package.
	Economic grubbing package.
	Economic grabbing package.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	Grabbing the economy.
	Don't you think he said grabbing?
	Grubbing.
	He's a money grubber is what he said.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I'll take that.
	I don't think so!
	Drugs really hit the peak.
	This is where he's... This is a six-second clip of him fast-talking.
	I'm, like, taken aback by this.
	Patriotism, liberty, justice for all, hope, possibilities.
	We are still, at our core, a democracy.
	Yeah.
	That was, uh, he was peaking.
	He was tweaking at that point.
	He was tweaking.
	So, I got another sheet.
	I wonder if I can do, hold on a second, can I do this?
	Can I, can I give him, uh, wait a minute, a little bit, uh, let's give him a little tempo here.
	See, let's do him like Ben Shapiro.
	He's getting pretty close.
	Let me see if this works.
	Hold on.
	Patriotism, liberty, justice for all, hope, possibilities.
	We are still, at our core, a democracy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, even sped up.
	It's pretty good.
	Good old Joe.
	Uh, here's another one.
	It's the pro-bag-mega-pro-what?
	Uh... Oh, here we go.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we can't be pro-ex, uh, pro-ex, pro-insurrectionist.
	Yeah.
	Another hard word for him.
	Yes.
	It's hard.
	Yeah.
	But that's just stuttering, man.
	You're being mean to a stutterer, okay?
	He has a disability.
	He's never a stutterer.
	He's a victim!
	No, I got the longer clip.
	This is the mega cancer, which I thought was a good little bit.
	I give you my word as a Biden, I've never been more optimistic about America's future.
	Not because of me, but because of who you are.
	We're going to end.
	Timing is great.
	Never been more optimistic about America's future.
	That's perfectly timed.
	I give you my word as a Biden, I've never been more optimistic about America's future.
	Not because of me, but because of who you are.
	End cancer as we know it.
	Mark my words.
	We're going to create millions of new jobs in a clean energy economy.
	We're going to think big.
	We're going to make the 21st century another American century.
	Because the world needs us to.
	That's where we need to focus our energy.
	Not in the past, not on divisive culture wars, not on the politics of grievance, but on a future we can build together.
	The Maggie Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail.
	They believe America Not like I believe about America.
	I believe America is big enough for all of us to succeed.
	And that is the nation we're building.
	A nation where no one is left behind.
	Okay.
	He did a lot of cliches.
	No, that was a cliche fest.
	But I will say, now that I've listened to this very carefully and I've heard him single out specifically these politicians who are the ones they want to throw in jail, I'm of course not justifying this, I think Trump said equally as flammable things about Democrat politicians.
	It's just inflammatory.
	Inflammatory, yes, yeah.
	Inflammatory, thank you.
	That's why there's two of us.
	He said a lot of that stuff, and we were all cheering.
	Now, the thing that's weird... I wasn't cheering.
	I never listened to his speech.
	It's hilarious!
	But the thing that's weird is... I understand he did a two-hour set.
	No, but wait a minute.
	Before we talk about his gig, when he was running, all the MAGA people were out, and the stadiums are still full.
	People love it.
	They're cheering, like, you know, lock her up.
	It doesn't matter what it is.
	Lock her up.
	You know, so Biden is kind of doing a similar thing.
	Actually, Kind of poorly because he, you know, he doesn't have the stage presence and so they kind of add that with, ooh, ooh, red.
	But what's weird is that the Democrats aren't out there going, yeah, yeah, lock him up!
	They're not energized by it.
	They also kind of find it creepy.
	Or maybe everyone's just tired of this particular type of campaigning.
	Which I think, and I watched a lot of Trump, he's still doing similar stuff.
	I got two more clips to play here.
	And I want to play, just to ask you a question, this is the end of the MAGA speech, which is what I'm calling it, and I thought it was weird the way it ended, because instead of playing Hail to the Chief or some uplifting thing, they walked him off with some Bullshit!
	You know, some, some... Some horrible walk-off, and then as he left the place, they played America the Beautiful.
	I thought it was just, just listen to this, and this is the way it ended.
	Democracy!
	Thank you.
	It's a mash-up of America the Beautiful and Yankee Doodle Went to Town.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it sounds like something you'd hear on the Rocky Bullwinkle Show.
	Or from Disney.
	It's a Disney production.
	Oh, perfect.
	You nailed it.
	The whole thing was done by woke people at Disney.
	They did the lights.
	They did the marines.
	They did the music.
	They gave the shot.
	They gave, you know, originally to Shirley Temple and later Britney Spears.
	You know, they give that to Joe.
	Totally!
	Disney!
	yeah crazy so the next day you know i didn't clip it because i was like oh that's interesting to see
	Trump, at the end of his rally, he, during his whole last spin up, you know, which is that we will make America better again, handsomer again, more orange again, more beautiful again.
	And then, you know, and while he's doing that for about three minutes, they have a new track that plays, you know, very inspirational, big orchestral music just building up to the very end.
	It's timed.
	Now I wish I'd clipped it because this is a joke compared to that.
	It is a joke, there's no doubt.
	And then Biden also staggers off, you know, he's still unsteady.
	His wife has to be there to actually walk him off the stage.
	Yeah, to escort him.
	So he doesn't fall over.
	I think that, you know, the Obama people, and I'm just starting to uncloak everywhere.
	This is an Obama person's speech.
	This is not even someone in the White House.
	Well, the people in the White House are Obama people.
	You know, we watched the Elvis movie.
	Oh yeah, which turned out to be a box office flop, I guess.
	I loved it!
	I really loved the movie.
	But I could not help but be reminded continuously that You know, Biden is kind of like Elvis with Dr. Nick.
	It's like, if you've seen the movie, you know, Colonel Parker's doctor, Dr. Nick, he's the guy that kept jacking Elvis up even when he was literally fainting.
	And that's what they gotta have for Biden, a Dr. Nick.
	Well, it's probably a Dr. Nick.
	So the next day, this stuff wears off, and so the next day he does this crazy little event where a bunch of people win some award or something, and Biden comes out, it's in that stupid little room, the green screen room they have outside the White House.
	It's the TV studio, it's not a little room, it's a stage.
	No, it's a stage, it's a sound stage.
	It's a little stage.
	It's a big stage, but it's divided into four or five sets.
	Well, he comes in there and he's got a little cheap table.
	Yeah, that's too low.
	That's too low.
	Yes, he's got a cheap low table and he sits on a cheap, and I'm talking cheap, plastic chair that's got those little, you should look at this.
	I mean, go back and look and see the chair he and I guess it was Granholm or somebody else sitting in the other one.
	And this cheap, it's just cheesy.
	Cheesy plastic chair, cheesy little desk, and then like a Zoom thing going on, and he's like completely out of it, and he's just, and he's like almost falls asleep a couple of times, but I do have this one little clip of him babbling about not even making sense.
	Next day Biden is the clip.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Okay, got it.
	I took a look at this as a transition investment.
	I'm so proud to announce 21 awardees up on the screen here who each received between 25 million and 65 million jobs to turn their plans into action.
	How many jobs?
	25 and 60 million.
	Oh man, tell me you got the clip of Kareem Abdul, Jean-Pierre, about the... Where she says there's 10,000 million jobs?
	Yeah, do you have that one?
	I do have it.
	Oh, let's play that, please.
	Of course I have it.
	Oh, that's so good.
	Where is it?
	CP, SuperFlux, I think that's SuperFlubber?
	Yeah.
	As you know, the good news is in August, the economy created 315,000 jobs, which is important.
	We have created nearly 10,000 million jobs.
	I don't think so!
	Since President Biden took office, which is the fastest job growth in history.
	So you're asking me, where's the success?
	Here it is.
	Wait, let me finish.
	Wait, wait.
	Hold on.
	This is where I'm sure Ducey was trying to say, you made a mistake, teacher.
	You said 10,000 million.
	I'm sure that's what was going on.
	I have the exact same impression.
	I didn't even have to look at the rest of the clip.
	And she wouldn't let him correct her.
	No, that was the beauty of it.
	It's funny, but that's not a true... I mean, the thing about extreme Republicans, that's terrifying.
	This lady is so crazy.
	Now, I do have... Let me see.
	He's just kind of in the primetime purge of all things Trump and Republicans that fed into this speech.
	By the way, it looks like Google Play has kicked off Truth Social and the Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, also known as CREW.
	Remember those, Jamokes?
	CREW.
	They're calling for both Apple and Google to, it should not be on app stores!
	Yeah, that's what you get when you live in that ecosystem.
	Yeah, I know, this is what's so funny.
	You don't hear us complaining.
	No, I got my graphene, I'm loving it.
	Loving it, everything works fine with me.
	So I have, oh yeah, so this is a little bit of color.
	from CBS Weekend.
	And it's just a relatively short clip about Barr and Barr's comments.
	I think Barr's comments on Fox now being commented on by CBS Weekend about the classified documents.
	I can't think of a legitimate reason why they could be taken out of the government, away from the government.
	In an interview with Fox News, Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr shot down the former president's justifications for possessing possibly still classified documents at his private residence.
	If, in fact, he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, I hereby declassify everything in here, that would be such an abuse.
	Meanwhile, on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the Department of Justice and the FBI, calling the bureau, quote, totally corrupt, and claiming they stole items from his home and rifled through the former first lady's closets.
	Plural.
	Oh my God, she has more than one closet!
	And Attorney Bar shot him down.
	That is so... by the way, let's just call that what it is.
	Chicken shit.
	Shot him down, baby.
	Shot him down.
	Classified!
	Okay?
	Forgot about that one.
	Whoopee.
	So there's a couple of things I was thinking of because they made a big fuss about this.
	First, they show the photo of all this Top Secret stuff.
	It's thrown around.
	On the rug, on the casino rug.
	And then the next day, like the last couple of days, they've been making a fuss about the fact that the folders were empty.
	Oh, really?
	He has a bunch of folders that are marked classified, this and that classified, and they were empty.
	What was in those folders?
	You know, it's someone who's a collector.
	Archivist.
	An archivist.
	And Trump seems to have some of these elements, although he's also a neat freak.
	He's a tchotchke collector.
	Now his office is piles and piles of shit.
	Yeah, he's got piles of stuff.
	So he's not the neat freak you are, for example.
	But he is.
	So not true.
	But he's like, he can't shake hands.
	He's got, you know, the touching problem.
	Oh, really?
	If I saw, you know, say I'm leaving the White House, and they're taking top secret documents, they're putting them away, and then they leave the folders, these cool looking folders that say top secret, and this and that, and they're very official looking.
	I'd take the folders!
	Yeah.
	And so I'm thinking that maybe... Just the folders, they just took folders.
	He literally just took Folder.
	Happy birthday, darling.
	Look what I got for you.
	There's a card inside.
	It's inconceivable to these news analysts that anyone would do that.
	But believe me, I'm telling you, I would.
	I believe you.
	This is no dispute.
	This is a cute folder.
	This is a dynamite-looking folder.
	I could use these.
	And I, you know, the folder itself just says Top Secret.
	I would grab them just for you.
	Because I know how happy it would make you.
	And you would!
	Yes, of course!
	You would!
	I believe you would!
	You got me those buttons.
	Buttons, buttons, yes.
	The buttons.
	The buttons.
	It'll take me a year, but I'll send them off eventually.
	Yeah, I'll figure I'll get them someday.
	You know the love is there, brother.
	Yeah, sure.
	Now, let's look at some legal aspects because, you know, there's a lot of punditry going on.
	Sarah Azari, I think she's a lawyer who used to, I think she used to be a welcome on CNN, but she's now shifted over to MSNBC, Ari Melbourne, you know, so there's always lots of rap lyrics being quoted.
	But here is her analysis on why Trump is completely indictable.
	If this was one of my clients, I'd be having a conversation with them about what will happen when you're indicted, not if you're indicted.
	I would be speaking to prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida and D.C.
	about how we can help you help us.
	What do we do about Bond?
	What do we do about the initial hearing?
	But this is, of course, a former president who's gotten a lot of deference.
	When he was sitting president, he got deference with respect to the Mueller investigation crimes.
	Then he got cut slack with Ukraine.
	Then, you know, January 6th is all the struggle with I don't know how an impeachment equals got slack, but okay.
	He got deference, baby!
	A president who's gotten a lot of deference.
	When he was sitting president, he got deference with respect to the Mueller investigation crimes.
	Then he got cut slack with Ukraine.
	Then, you know, January 6th is all the struggle with intent and knowledge.
	And now we have the issue of, well, it's unprecedented and he's a former president.
	But you know, when you look at whether or not he's going to be indicted, Katie, you really have to look at what it's like to be in Garland's shoes.
	No, I'm sorry.
	I thought this was Ari Melbourne.
	I guess this is with Katie Turr.
	Garland has to make sure that he can check off all the boxes and has sufficient proof beyond a reasonable doubt, because we're in a court of law.
	It's about we know what you show, right?
	And so he has to be able to feel confident that he can prove every element of every one of these offenses.
	And I'll tell you something, as someone who's defended people on obstruction charges, No, you have to prove reasonable doubt.
	You don't have to prove elements.
	Exactly.
	We know what you show, right?
	But she actually says a little, it's a little creepier what she says if you go back a bit here.
	What it's like to be in Garland's shoes.
	Garland has to make sure that he can check off all the boxes and has sufficient proof beyond a reasonable doubt because we're in a court of law, it's about we know what you show, right?
	And so he has to be able to feel confident that he can prove every element of every one of these offenses.
	And I'll tell you something, as someone who's defended people on obstruction charges and violations of the Espionage Act, Typically, the government does not prosecute, the DOJ does not prosecute just on Espionage Act violations alone, unless obviously they're very egregious, but that sort of mishandling of classified information type of charge.
	If, however, it is in combination and aggravated by an obstruction charge or something more egregious, like what we're starting to see with Trump and his orbit, then that is a very serious consideration for indictment.
	And so here we have a president who, with respect to knowledge, not only the DOJ has witnesses that it has alluded to in the, you know, unredacted portions of the affidavit and then the recent filing, but Trump and his lawyers have been filling in the blanks.
	You know, essentially, his lawyer's been putting herself at the crime scene, making herself a witness, incriminating her client.
	Her client, Trump, is on truth social admitting to Knowing that he was in possession of these documents because they were in cartons and they were not in the way that the FBI displayed them for the FBI.
	So, you know, to the extent that there's any dots to be connected or any blanks to be filled, Donald Trump and a group of very incompetent, I'm sorry I have to say that, law school graduates for the past several weeks have been doing the job of DOJ helping in this investigation.
	So, you know, he is indictable.
	He is indictable, but for the fact that we have these policy and political considerations of dealing with a former President.
	Oh, please.
	You know, this has been going on since 2016.
	Can you dig up the clips?
	Remember, there was a series of his super cuts.
	And it was, the walls are closing in, the walls are closing in.
	From 2016, 2017, 2018, the walls are closing in.
	All this, Trump is going to be indicted.
	He's going to be thrown in jail.
	The walls are closing in.
	Yes.
	And it was just like, how much of this does the public have to put up with?
	Well, I think they lap it up, to be honest about it.
	At least the Democrats do.
	Oh man, there's so... Do you know how many super cuts we have here?
	This is why I think you're talking about.
	Why do you think these attacks are becoming so much more frequent now?
	It's not surprising that Donald Trump is increasing his attacks.
	The walls are closing in on him.
	It feels like the walls are closing in on the White House.
	It feels as if the walls are closing in here.
	I think the walls of justice are closing in on President Trump.
	Increasingly desperate, feeling like the walls are closing in.
	The president clearly feels all the walls closing in on him in terms of the Russia investigation.
	The walls are closing in.
	I think at this point the walls are spinning.
	It does feel like the walls are closing in.
	I think that the administration at this point can start to see the walls closing in.
	He feels the walls closing in on him.
	Everybody he talks to says the walls are closing in.
	This is another potential wall closing in.
	This president is feeling the walls are closing in.
	The walls, meanwhile, are closing in on the president of the United States.
	I think he's feeling the rush investigation.
	I think he's feeling the wheels, the walls closing in on him.
	I think he knows that the walls are closing in.
	The walls may be closing in higher up at the White House.
	The president apparently believes that the walls are closing in on him.
	The walls are closing in on the president right now.
	Donald Trump feels the walls closing in.
	Feeling like the walls are closing in around him?
	Yes.
	Does it seem like the walls could be closing in on this president?
	Feels like we are finally at a tipping point.
	The walls are closing in on President Trump.
	Feels like the president is sitting in the White House.
	The walls are closing in around him.
	And that's why there's this sense of the walls closing in.
	As it appears the walls are closing in, in terms of the Mueller investigation, the walls are closing in.
	The walls are closing in.
	I do feel that he feels the walls closing in on him.
	Legal walls are closing in on Donald Trump tonight.
	From a democratic perspective, this is the president who feels like the walls are closing in.
	As he feels the walls are closing in.
	Any indication that, legally speaking, the walls are closing in on the president.
	He feels some of the walls closing in on him.
	He feels that the walls are closing in on President Trump.
	The walls are closing in on the president.
	I wonder if by playing this, it jolts people into remembering, oh yeah, how insane that was.
	Or do they slip into the beta state and go, yes, walls are closing in on the president.
	Walls are closing in.
	Walls are closing in on him.
	That was a series of clips.
	From 2016 and 2017 when everybody, if you remember the... In fact, I won bets against the old Lib Joes that used to talk to me.
	I think probably kept taking their money.
	This was a period... That's not a way to deal with your friends, John.
	Don't take their money all the time.
	Duh!
	This was the period, if you recall, where Trump, and all the Lib Joes were convinced of this, was going to resign.
	He was going to resign the presidency because the walls were closing in on him.
	He was going to resign.
	This was a big trend.
	I mean, this insanity has not ended since 2015 when he got the nomination.
	That's when it began and it's just not ceased.
	What was this?
	Was this it?
	EJ is exactly right.
	That is a guidance.
	It's never been litigated.
	I don't know... No, wait.
	No, no, no.
	There's a lot of different resign clips we have.
	A lot of people say- Oh, here.
	Will resign soon.
	Who is this?
	Oh, Dianne Feinstein here?
	No, I don't know what that is.
	Anyway, yes.
	Just insanity.
	Insanity, and they keep doing it over and over again, and everyone plays along!
	I can't watch this stuff.
	Leave that to professionals like John and myself.
	Yeah, we can watch it and then laugh.
	Yeah, I mean... I mean, yeah, it's kind of like being on the Titanic in a weird way.
	But it doesn't matter because we have a new drug that I'm seeing advertised by some big names that I think is going to help everybody with the November midterms and the 2024 election.
	In fact, this is even endorsed by the very famous, very talented Lindsey Vonn.
	Remember Lindsey Vonn?
	The skier?
	The name brings a bell.
	The skier?
	I'm trying to get... The Olympic and the World Championships... Oh, Lindsey Vonn, the skier, yeah.
	The skier, yes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, you know, after she gave up skiing, retired... Did she retire or she might have blown out her knee a couple of times?
	I think she got injured or she couldn't compete and, yeah, she would have kept skiing as long as she could.
	Well, you know, there's one thing... She's a maniac skier.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yes she was.
	She was kind of reckless.
	Didn't you have a brother too?
	Like another maniac skier?
	I don't know.
	So after she gave up professional skiing, you know something really odd happened to her.
	She could not sleep.
	She could not sleep.
	Have you ever had insomnia?
	Have I ever had insomnia?
	Yes.
	Or if you can't sleep.
	I think a couple of times a year I can't really get to sleep, so I just get up and do some work until I get tired and go back to bed.
	That's exactly what I do.
	Except then I do some work.
	You take advantage of it the way I see it.
	I do some work, then I take an edible, then I go back to sleep.
	But it doesn't matter.
	You don't have to go that far.
	The edibles last too long.
	You end up waking up stoned.
	I don't like that at all.
	Oh, we loved it when you did that one day.
	Then was this.
	There was a- Oh, that's bullcrap.
	It was not true.
	Oh, there was a Sunday and you said, Hey, uh, I didn't- You said exactly that.
	You said, I don't like it.
	It lasts too long.
	You said exactly that.
	You did an edible the night before and it still bothered you.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's okay.
	Well, whatever the case is, I don't like waking up stoned.
	No, I know.
	I know.
	I gotcha.
	It's a lifestyle choice.
	So, Lindsey Vonn, she doesn't like waking up stoned, but I think this new medication, Quivivic, I think it's even better than that!
	I'm Lindsey Vonn, and ever since I retired from skiing, I've had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep.
	You know, insomnia.
	Before I found Qvivic, an FDA-approved insomnia medication for adults, you would not believe the things I used to think about when I couldn't sleep.
	Hey, Lance!
	I need you to sign this business contract, all 114 pages.
	Lindsey!
	Lindsey!
	Hey, Lindsey!
	It's workout time!
	Hey, Big Man, we're in the middle of something here.
	Yeah, it's called physical fitness!
	Just a couple dozen more questions, Lindsay.
	Don't forget to pack your phone charger for tomorrow morning's flight.
	It's plugged in right over there.
	Insomnia can impact both my days and my nights.
	That's why I take Q-Vivic nightly.
	Q-Vivic can help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.
	And more sleep at night may mean feeling less tired during the day.
	Q-Vivic works differently than medication you may have taken in the past.
	Now get ready for what this stuff also does.
	Q-Vivic is thought to target one of the biological causes of insomnia, overactive wake signals.
	Do not take Q-Vivic if you have narcolepsy.
	Don't drink alcohol while taking Q-Vivic or drive or operate heavy machinery until you feel fully alert.
	Q-Vivic may cause temporary inability to move or talk or hallucinations while falling asleep or waking up.
	Q-Vivic may cause sleepiness during the day.
	Q-Vivic may lead to doing activities while not fully awake that you don't remember the next day, like walking, driving, and making or eating food.
	The same depression, including suicidal thoughts, may occur.
	Most common side effects are headaches and sleepiness.
	It's Q-Vivic.
	Ask your doctor if it's right for you.
	This sounds like the same as the old stuff that was so dangerous only a maniac would take it.
	Oh, um... Shantix or Shantix?
	Well, Shantix was the smoking cessation drug... That was the smoking one.
	...which drove people crazy.
	You're thinking about Haldol.
	No, I was not thinking about health.
	Haldol wasn't for sleep disorders.
	It was for psyche.
	That's what Bon Jovi's doctor gave us on the plane back from Russia, and we were pretty tripped out.
	We slept for two weeks.
	I bet you did.
	For two weeks.
	That doesn't sound good.
	No.
	Anyway, that just sounds sad.
	Oh, I've got contracts, and oh, I need a pill.
	And, you know, I might be doing things during the day that I don't know I'm doing.
	Like, you know, walking or eating.
	Oh yes, everybody, it's beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	All right, let's move over to Europe because things are bad in Europe.
	We actually have a Boots on the Ground regarding energy prices report and also just everything that's happening.
	It's very, very disturbing.
	Just a couple, before we even play this Euronews report.
	We've got stores turning off lights in Rome due to 500% increase in power bills.
	Life in blackout Britain.
	Experts warn of energy rationing this winter.
	Families could be asked to ration their wind energy when the wind isn't blowing to avoid blackouts.
	And these are not... I mean, I don't know how bad it is, but here's Euronews, kind of the official spokeshold outlet of the EU.
	It could be a dark, cold winter as Russian energy giant Gazprom cuts a major gas supply route to Europe.
	The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was due to reopen after three days of maintenance work.
	However, the company says the taps will remain off due to a technical issue.
	As the bloc scrambles to reduce its dependency on Russian energy, the Group of Seven have pledged to impose a price cap on Russian oil, in a bid to limit the Kremlin's war chest.
	Germany's finance minister says this means that marine insurance for Russian oil experts can continue to be provided.
	But on the condition that Russian oil and oil products are purchased below a certain price.
	So we want to limit Russia's revenues and reduce the economic damage for our societies.
	Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels must introduce its own measures as Moscow's assault on Ukraine continues.
	She says I firmly believe that it is now time for a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to Europe.
	These are short-term measures, and of course we'll talk about medium-term changing the structure of the electricity market, that is decoupling gas prices from the general electricity price.
	As Europe prepares for a possible total shutdown, and while soaring inflation and skyrocketing energy prices continue to squeeze consumers in rich and poorer countries alike, The French government says it hopes to avoid forced blackouts this winter.
	Paris has called for European solidarity, including gas and electricity contracts with Berlin and Madrid.
	So, they're trying to do this cap on Russian, dirty Russian fossil fuels, which seems futile.
	Russia has shut down the Nord Stream.
	Nord Stream 2 is, I don't think, ever even opened properly.
	Nord Stream 1 was closing down for maintenance.
	I think they only did, they were at 20 or 30% capacity of what they used to give.
	So a lot of it may be replaced already by other sources, which appears to be, you know, China and other countries buying it from Russia and then selling it back to the EU.
	Yeah, making a profit as a middleman.
	Great idea.
	I'd do it.
	Totally smart.
	But you heard something in there about Queen Ursula saying, well, we have to disconnect the electricity markets from the energy or something like that.
	and And we have a note from producer Olaf.
	Well, yes.
	Well, there's also something in there about cutting off your wind power to... There was some... It was confusing, that clip.
	There was something about cutting... If I have wind power, I have to support it or something.
	I couldn't follow it.
	I don't think she said that.
	I mentioned... Well, somebody said something about wind power.
	Yeah, that was me.
	That was me.
	No, during the clip.
	Oh.
	That's okay, continue.
	The beginning may tell us something.
	It could be a dark, cold winter as Russian energy... The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was due to reopen after three days of maintenance work.
	However, the company says the taps will remain off due to a technical issue.
	As the bloc scrambles to reduce its dependency on Russian energy, the Group of Seven have pledged to impose a price cap on Russian oil.
	In a bid to limit the Kremlin's war chest, Germany's finance minister says this means that marine insurance for Russian oil experts can continue to be provided.
	Okay, so they will continue to provide insurance for the ships.
	This is, I think that's part of the price cap.
	Like, if you don't do the price cap, then we're not going to insure your ship so you can't sail around the world.
	And do you think Putin will give a crap about that?
	But on the condition that Russian oil and oil products are purchased below a certain price.
	So we want to limit Russia's revenues and reduce the economic damage for our societies.
	In what world do these people think that'll actually work?
	The guy, I mean, he's already burning gas.
	He doesn't care.
	I know about the oil, but...
	Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels must introduce its own measures as Moscow's assault on Ukraine continues.
	She says, I firmly believe that it is now time for a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to Europe.
	These are short-term measures.
	And of course we'll talk about medium-term changing the structure of the electricity market.
	That is decoupling gas prices from the general electricity price.
	Decoupling gas prices from the general electricity price.
	You know what that sounds like?
	That sounds like nationalizing.
	Oh yeah, that's what it sounds like.
	And this is what Olaf says as well.
	He says, you may remember how the energy market in Europe's crime, he's in the Netherlands, in the crime capital of the Netherlands is structured.
	I will give you a refresher.
	I forgot all, actually I never witnessed this because this all happened after I left.
	This may be the same in many European countries.
	Here we pay a monthly advance.
	The advance is based on your historical use of your address.
	At year's end, the balance is made up and either you get money back or you have to pay extra.
	A lot of people find it annoying to pay a large extra sum at year's end, so they all choose to pay a little higher monthly advance.
	A lot of people will be getting hundreds of euros back and all at the same time.
	Add the following into the mix.
	Up until last year, the energy companies were offering fixed-rate contracts, ranging from one year up to three years.
	The price of these contracts, of course, had been calculated by smart economists at the time, but they were structured in a way that the company had no to only minimal risk.
	The price of these fixed contracts was simply higher than the flexible rate.
	And since nearly all Dutch people get these contracts through brokers who offer some nice incentives, no Dutch person ever saw the flexible rate.
	So in fact, they were giving away incentives up to 360 euros.
	Basically, that's several months for free.
	So we just switch providers.
	This swapping of green energy here, green energy there, it's happened all the time.
	So what's going to happen, according to Olof, is that these energy companies, mainly foreign-owned, same in the UK, will go broke.
	And then the market will be nationalized, at least temporarily, but we know how that goes.
	And I think that's probably a good prediction.
	Sweden has already offered energy guarantees to energy firms after the Nord Stream shutdown, so there's already a subsidy going out.
	And once that happens, oh man, that can't be good, can it?
	Well, the taxpayers will pick up the slack, so it won't be as noticeable.
	Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, he has a very simple way to lower your energy bill this year.
	If you have an old kettle that takes ages to boil, it may cost you £20 to replace it.
	But if you get a new one, you'll save £10 a year for every year on your... £10 a year every year on your electricity bill.
	I'm buying, what, electric tea kettles that they use there?
	You need to buy a new one.
	You need to buy a new one because, you know, your old one... The new ones aren't any different than the old ones.
	I just bought a new one.
	They're all made in China.
	What did you buy?
	I use these things.
	It's a molar or something.
	It's got some German name, but it's made in China.
	They're all exactly the same.
	They sell them at Costco.
	They sell them all over the place.
	And they're all the same.
	They all break.
	I haven't had one for more than a few years before the element either blew up or the thing wouldn't turn off, which is really a problem.
	And they're junk and it is full of shit.
	Um, I would like to counter that.
	I have had a Breville, uh, water kettle for All going on eight years, the same one, and Tina even used it to kill a cricket with.
	She hit the cricket.
	She slammed the bottom of this thing onto the cricket, and I had to bend some pieces back, but it worked again.
	It's the Breville IQ electric kettle.
	I don't know if that's... Breville's an Australian company.
	I'm sure it's still made in China, but maybe not.
	I don't know.
	But Breville is a very high-end, high-quality product.
	That thing is not cheap.
	The ones I'm talking about are $20.
	Yeah, no, this was much more than 20 bucks, but look, I've had it for seven years, and you've had to buy a whole bunch of new ones.
	I've had a whole bunch, but mine last about three, four years.
	You said about two years!
	Well, I'm exaggerating a little bit.
	But they still fall apart, no matter what.
	Now, have you gotten word yet from your officials there in Northern California, or have they asked you to start shutting things down between 4 and 9 p.m.?
	No.
	No?
	I'll tell you something else that's funny watching this.
	We're supposed to have this huge monstrous heat wave.
	Yes.
	In our area.
	Are you dead yet?
	Well, it's about 65 out right now.
	So, uh, that's your heat wave.
	So, so they started predicting this last week before the Thursday show that we're going to have, it's going to be 110 on Sunday and it, and actually they predicted it was going to be over the, first it was going to be Friday, then it was going to be Saturday and they pushed it to Sunday, Sunday, which is today.
	It's supposed to be this boiler and then, well, there's the low pressure and then they moved it again.
	So now it's Tuesday and they're thinking maybe it's going to go to Thursday.
	Oh man.
	These guys are predicting global warming and this is the way they do it with this?
	Climate's not weather, John.
	Only when we say it is.
	Only when it's hot, then the climate is weather.
	So it's going to get hot probably on the other side of the hills, but I don't think around here it's going to be hot at all.
	I mean, it might get to 80.
	Whoa, no.
	I don't have any climate change clips, but this little nugget, which went unobserved, what's-her-face is out, Gina.
	Uh, from Boston as the, as the climate czar.
	Remember she was the, wasn't she a health and human services and then Gina McCarthy?
	No, no, she, she was the EPA woman.
	I'm sorry, she was EPA and then she became the, the climate change, uh, advisor.
	Yeah.
	To Biden.
	So she left.
	So she left.
	Guess who is now in charge of the Obama?
	Oops.
	Who is in charge of the Biden Clean Energy Innovation Strategy, which includes some Obama, which includes $370 billion in investments from the from the the Inflation Reduction Act.
	You will never guess who has been tapped and accepted as far as I know, as the senior advisor.
	And it's not John Kerry.
	Nope.
	No.
	It's a blast from the past.
	We're going back to... We're going back to... 2009.
	No.
	No.
	We're going back to... 2009.
	No.
	No.
	We're going back to 2015.
	2015-2016.
	A real devil.
	Who kind of disappeared.
	And here's the uncloaking.
	Think about it.
	Who was coming on the scene in 2015-2016 besides Trump?
	Who is uncloaking now from the Obama team?
	Who is it?
	$370 billion in climate change funds.
	Well, you've got me cornered.
	Okay, I give.
	John Podesta.
	Yep.
	John Podesta, the guy who is notorious for liking kids?
	Yep.
	That's the one.
	What was it?
	The witch?
	The... Abramovich.
	Abramovich.
	The... No, no, not... I'm talking about the witch dinners.
	The... Yeah, that was... Yes, Abram... Yes, that was Maria Abramovich with the...
	Yeah, they had these devil dinners or something, some Satanist thing that they would do.
	Yeah, I forget what it was called.
	They'd drink blood at the table.
	Spirit cooking.
	Spirit cooking, thank you, Trolls.
	Spirit cooking, yeah, that's it.
	Spirit cooking, and we had the whole Pizzagate thing, and we had his emails that were hacked.
	This is a great guy!
	Let's read from the Wall Street Journal.
	As a senior advisor to Mr. Biden on clean energy innovation, Mr. Podesta will shape how the government disperses billions of dollars in tax credits and incentives to industries that are developing wind and solar energy, as well as to consumers who want to install solar panels, heat and cool their homes with electric heat pumps, or buy electric vehicles.
	Oh, I see how it goes.
	In addition to his time in the Obama administration, Mr. Podesta, now 73, served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, was chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for president in 2016, he founded the Center for American Progress, And is now chairman of its board.
	From that perch, Mr. Podesta has informally been advising the Biden administration, pushing the White House to act more aggressively on climate change.
	So what does he know about... Is he a climatologist, this guy?
	Is he some sort of an expert, a PhD in physics or anything?
	If you cross him, you may disappear.
	Well, he's probably the right guy to put in there, because this sounds like a corrupt program, and you need old pros, people that know what they're doing.
	Know what they're doing and how to do it, know the lay of the land.
	Know how to do it, know how to do it, and you end up with some sort of money being stuffed into people's pockets.
	Yeah, some kind.
	Yeah, I got an interesting email from one of our producers, JR.
	He said there's a real problem with all this electricity that we're rolling out.
	And he's getting me more stats, but I, you know, there's a lot of NIH.gov studies and information on EHS, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which I know is a real thing and some people have it with Wi-Fi specifically.
	Yeah.
	That's why I advise people that have some of these issues to go to the in-circuit... Oh, you mean the power line networking?
	Which works terrific.
	I've had pretty good luck with it, too.
	To get to the garage for the mining machines.
	It's been pretty good.
	It'll clip out from time to time.
	My garage is lower with mining machines.
	It is, man!
	What are you harping on me?
	Hey, what are you doing with that computer?
	What is that computer doing in the closet?
	That old computer?
	Oh, it's just in there.
	I don't know.
	Well, I can use it!
	No, man, these are S9s.
	These are real ASIC mining machines.
	It's 98 degrees in my garage.
	I bet it is.
	Well, if it ever snows, you got it made.
	Anyway, EHS, um...
	Now this could be 10%, it could be as high as 30% of the population who have some effect from particularly Wi-Fi frequencies.
	By the way, I think that the surge in tinnitus in this country is partially from electromagnetic frequencies.
	And certain 5G frequencies.
	We'll probably come in that area.
	It's not your typical, not the one that most have rolled out.
	I think some of the old, maybe some of the old Sprint stuff has been converted.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	Our producer says, there are people who cannot sit in an electric vehicle.
	You basically, people get irregular heartbeat, fatigue, all kinds of stuff happens to us.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	I never thought of that, but yes, the electric vehicles are loaded with electro... With electric stuff, electric dust, man.
	Yeah.
	That makes sense.
	He says no one is talking about this, but it will become a big problem.
	What does he say here?
	He says a friend of mine purchased, he has an example, a friend of his purchased a Tesla, began to have chronic issues, aforementioned heart, irregular heart, fatigue, went to the doctor who told him you have symptoms of, oh it's lineman's disease, of course!
	It's been around for a long time, the linemen who, the linemen of the county who would work on the lines.
	Oh right, they'd be right up there against the high frequency power lines, yeah.
	There you go.
	It's been around a long time.
	This, uh... Kills birds, too, occasionally.
	It's not a great thing.
	Um... Where was he now?
	Uh... Now, something else no one is talking about.
	EMF devices, such as Wi-Fi, have a negative effect on the gut biome.
	I was about ready to turn off on this, but I kept reading, because he said it's well-researched, and there is some NIH research, but I'm not qualified to say if it's well-researched.
	What happens, certain bacteria start to multiply faster than others multiply less, throwing the balance of the biome completely out of whack.
	The distinct effect of Wi-Fi frequencies On this balance, check this out, is that the bacteria that gain dominance release toxins that reduce your metabolism, so you will start to gain weight for no reason.
	Ah, you get fat from Wi-Fi.
	That's right, baby.
	You Wi-Fi glutton you.
	Yeah.
	He says you will not be able to shed weight even if you control your diet and work out.
	How about that?
	Well, that was a stretch, but okay.
	I like it.
	I'm not saying I don't like it.
	I like it, but it's a stretch.
	We can probably sell Curry Dvorak amulets or something.
	No, no.
	Do you want some biome pills?
	I got this one retula, this one particular lactobacillus that it's supposed to be.
	I'm writing it down.
	Biome pills.
	I don't even know what biome is.
	What is the biome?
	I don't know.
	I like the word.
	It's all right, but we're selling them.
	We're selling y'all some Biome.
	Biome and Ivermectin in a blister pack.
	It's a winner, John.
	It's a winner.
	Did you see the report that came out about some 80,000 people were studied and ivermectin did turn out to be a benefit to people that got COVID?
	Oh, yeah.
	It's even back on the CDC website.
	Now, it says under investigation, but they... It's been under investigation for two years.
	But now that they've got this data and everybody, all the gloaters are out there.
	Oh, you know, I told you so.
	And then they're getting kicked off of things left and right because of being... Don't gloat, people!
	All right, let's do a couple of mandates and booster clips here, since I have a few, just so we can get up to speed, because we have a new approval!
	The CDC has approved updated COVID boosters.
	That means shots could be available as soon as this weekend.
	The newly designed vaccines take aim at the most common Omicron strains, which now cause nearly all COVID infections.
	The government has bought 170 million doses, which will be available for free to anyone 12 and older.
	This is for free business.
	I'm a little tired of this.
	Why don't the insurance companies start ponying up a little bit?
	Let them get screwed.
	Of course, it'll screw us indirectly, but still.
	I'm a little tired of this.
	No one on the FDA advisory board wanted to approve it.
	It's only been tested on mice, which, of course, I have clips for them to explain this.
	And it's like, why is it free again?
	Isn't this, at this point, voluntary?
	Well, they did make the point that they're going to run out of money for this.
	Oh, no, that's why Biden asked for $47 billion for Ukraine and other things, but only $13 billion is going to Ukraine.
	The rest is going to COVID, which is going directly into the pharma.
	Oh, so he needs it for his buddies at Pfizer.
	Totally, totally.
	Let's go to ABC on this.
	Tonight, those new Omicron-targeted boosters starting to roll out.
	I got my COVID vaccine in my left arm and I got my flu vaccine in my right arm, so I'm all set for the fall.
	A few thousand locations across the country are offering the retooled Pfizer and Moderna shots designed to take on the BA4 and BA5 sub-variants.
	The supply is set to ramp up at tens of thousands of pharmacies, community health centers, and doctors' offices in the coming weeks.
	The new booster is the only authorized booster now that will be available.
	So anyone that had an appointment for that old booster will be rescheduled.
	The new Pfizer booster is cleared for anyone over 12 and Moderna's for anyone over 18, two months out from their last shot.
	There's no magic number when it comes to thinking about the spacing for the next booster.
	Two months is the minimum and it's especially important for those that are high risk to make sure that they get that protection ahead of any possible fall surge.
	Pay no attention to anything working.
	I mean, just plowing ahead like nothing happened and like it's all great and you need your protection.
	And you know what's so funny is the two-month thing that they're promoting.
	You just got a shot two months ago, and now you're going to get another one because the shot sucks?
	Oh, but you're going to have to get another one because, you know, after a disappearance for not one but two years, flu is back.
	Ariel joins us now.
	And Ariel, health officials are warning we may also be facing a tough flu season ahead.
	That's right, Mary.
	Dr. Fauci warning that we could be bracing ourselves for a pretty bad flu season.
	He says the best time to get your flu vaccine is by the end of October, but it's never too late.
	And just like last year, officials say that it is safe to get your COVID-19 vaccine and your flu shot at the same time.
	Mary?
	Ariel, thank you.
	Same time, baby!
	Yeah, just get ready for it, because I'll be in one magical shot pretty soon.
	The bivetment.
	So the local news story has it.
	And I didn't clip it.
	University of California, Berkeley.
	If you don't get your flu shot, because now you have to document your flu shot.
	Yeah.
	If you don't get your flu shot, you have to wear a mask on all classes.
	Oh, man.
	Really?
	Now I'm looking at this thing.
	Wait a minute.
	At Cal, I went there.
	There were flu, for all the years I was going there, they had the flu was in and out, and they had swine flu, and they had all these other things.
	You never had to wear a mask then.
	What changed?
	Why do you have to wear a mask now all of a sudden?
	It became the uniform of the Democratic Party.
	It became the uniform of the obedient.
	Oh man, you said that so beautifully.
	I'm gonna write that down.
	Not for show title, but just for myself.
	Still not for show title.
	No, for myself.
	Uniform of the Obedient.
	Yeah, you totally nailed that.
	A local story from your neck of the woods, KCRW, they discussed in some great detail, I chopped this down to under two, some great detail this new booster and how it was tested or not and how you should look at it and, you know, no surprise from this NPR product that You know, just don't worry about it.
	Everything's be okay.
	You know, it's all fine.
	The guest who is speaking is Catherine Wu.
	And I guess she's a doctor, but she is from the Atlantic.
	So I understand that these vaccines have not been tested on humans or there's no human data available right now.
	Yes, that's right.
	So the human data is coming.
	Both Moderna and Pfizer are in the process of either planning or starting those trials, but they're not going to be able to get together data until after the rollout begins.
	And you know, this is a little different from how we have greenlit COVID vaccines in the past.
	A little?
	Just a teeny But it's not that atypical from other vaccine approval or authorization processes.
	You know, we just sort of look at what happens in animals, but it is a little tricky.
	Do you sound confident when you listen to this?
	It's not much different from the way we do it in other vaccines.
	We just kind of look at the animals.
	We pet them.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's different from how we have greenlit COVID vaccines in the past, but it's not that atypical from other vaccine approval or authorization processes.
	You know, we just sort of look at what happens in animals, but it is a little tricky.
	I will say that, you know, we do have some safety and sort of immune response data from a different version of the vaccines, which mixes together the original recipe with ingredients that target The original Omicron variant.
	Wait a minute, weren't people dying from that one too?
	You didn't improve the myocarditis bit on any of that stuff?
	No.
	Any improvements?
	Or are we just using that data?
	No.
	And that's clean, good to go?
	It hit us last winter.
	Good to go.
	But it's not specifically with this formulation.
	So it's going to be a little tough to say, hey, get this vaccine because we know that in clinical trials it gave us, you know, 85 to 90% efficacy.
	Those familiar numbers are not going to be a leverage point this time around.
	Yeah, but that's not what anyone's doing.
	They're just saying, get it, get your booster, you can get it now, you're old enough, you're young enough, it's time for you, you got your ticket, you gotta read books, get it, get a flu shot, get it, more, more, more!
	No one's talking about efficacy.
	You need this!
	No, why bother?
	Why bother when the public is lining up like, you know, lemmings just to go in?
	Yeah.
	Listen to her.
	So listen to what she just said and how this woman addresses what she just said.
	Vaccine, because we know that in clinical trials it gave us, you know, 85 to 90 percent efficacy.
	Those familiar numbers are not going to be a leverage point this time around.
	Yeah.
	You know, these are still...
	There's your journalism right there.
	Yeah, so she just said look we don't we don't know if it's gonna be effective We can't use any numbers to say it's effective.
	We looked at the animals.
	Everything's good You know, so it's gonna be a little more tricky and all this woman has to say is Yeah, you know instead of saying What I would have said in this, after listening to that bullcrap, I would have said, so why would anyone in their right mind take this shot?
	It just sounds like, like, it sounds like snake oil.
	It sounds like snake oil.
	Oh no, it sounds like oil, but not snake oil.
	It's coming up.
	Five to 90% efficacy.
	Those familiar numbers are not going to be a leverage point this time around.
	Yeah.
	You know, these are still new vaccines, relatively speaking, but this is sort of an ingredient substitution.
	You know, if we sort of compare it to baking, I know it's not exactly identical, but, you know, sort of subbing and shortening for butter, it may... Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I see.
	This vaccine that you have not tested, but the animals looked okay.
	It's sort of like substituting shortening for butter.
	Oh, you mean like when you gave us Crisco, which was melted repurposed candles?
	To use as shortening?
	This is, this is, this is an admission of epic proportions here.
	It's like Crisco!
	You know, the stuff that, you know, we couldn't sell the candles, so we turned it into shortening.
	Substitution, you know, if we sort of compare it to baking, I know it's not exactly identical, but, you know, sort of subbing in shortening for butter.
	It may slightly change the effects here, but we're not dealing with a completely new vaccine.
	So, you know, I am not a vaccinologist like Dr. Offutt is, but the many, many, many other experts I've spoken to have said they don't need a new vaccine.
	So, you know, I am not a vaccinologist like Dr. Offit is, but the many, many, many other experts I've spoken to have said they don't have concerns about the safety or efficacy here.
	They are quite confident that this vaccine is going to be very safe, as all other iterations of COVID vaccines have been, and that this is likely to offer an improvement in terms of generating a better immune response against Omicron sub-variants than the original recipe, which is kind of hitting the point of diminishing returns at this point.
	A lot of cooking references here.
	Recipe.
	Shortening.
	That's probably all she can do if she can even do that.
	Maybe she, does she do the cooking column at the Atlantic?
	I have no idea why she's here, Ms.
	Wu.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What's the point?
	She doesn't know anything.
	She's not a vaccinologist, as she put it.
	And she's got the, her analogies are corny.
	And she doesn't know, what's the point?
	Why are we talking to her?
	Probably friends.
	She's not an expert?
	Probably friends.
	But she's talked, take it back, she's talked to many, many, many.
	Many, many, many, many other experts.
	Very distinctive way of putting it.
	I really liked the way Canada's health, or I should say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's health minister, discussed the boosters, the new boosters.
	He's much more to the point, this guy.
	Vaccine protection is like a phone battery.
	It's like a phone battery.
	I'm sorry, I'll just, I'll translate for it.
	Various vaccine protection is like a phone battery.
	It needs to be recharged from time to time.
	Recharging our protection after six months is important.
	Otherwise, we are left without the power to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
	Getting everyone caught up with a vaccination is a top priority.
	This is not only true for COVID-19 vaccinations, but also for routine vaccinations for all children and adults.
	Merci.
	Thank you.
	Miigwetch.
	How dumb are these people?
	Who is that?
	He's the health minister.
	Oh, that guy.
	But how stupid can you be to say, oh, here's an analogy for you.
	It's a phone battery.
	Except ours magically only needs charging every six months.
	So think of it as a phone, which everyone knows you charge every night.
	These people are stupid!
	No, I think that was smart.
	You're getting people used to getting a vaccine daily.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the charged-up vaccines.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. Devorin.
	In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Currier.
	In the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls who are in the troll room.
	Trolls be hanging out.
	Trolls be helping out.
	You guys helped out already.
	I appreciate that.
	It is a Sunday, so let's see how we're doing.
	Oh, look at them scurry away at the trolls.
	Woo!
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	Many, many, many trolls who are in there, just like this.
	Many, many experts.
	Many, many trolls.
	And, of course, you can get that automatically notified with the Podverse app or the CurioCaster app.
	If you'd like to find all kinds of cool apps, newpodcastapps.com.
	That is the podcasting 2.0.
	Your show will never disappear.
	It updates within 90 seconds.
	It's the best thing since Crisco!
	And of course, you can also follow us.
	There was another article about Mastodon the other day.
	One of those... It was like Fast Company.
	Who is... Is Fast Company... Do they have bots over there?
	They have actual people writing articles.
	They have people writing there.
	I think they got bought some years ago by WAPO or somebody.
	It wasn't necessarily WAPO.
	WAPO owns a lot of weird stuff, so they own, for example, Foreign Policy, that magazine.
	Really?
	Yeah, a spy magazine.
	Well, with the, what is it, Fast Company, You know, they always have to compare.
	Well, it's no Twitter, man!
	It's still not a Twitter!
	It was supposed to be the Twitter replacement!
	Well, I don't think that was exactly the idea.
	Well, it's still not, it's just, it's not, it's not a great experience.
	Freedom always takes an extra step.
	And guys and gals who write these types of articles, they're like, it's not like Twitter, man.
	Hey, how come the Twitter rep didn't call me?
	How come the mastodon PR guy didn't call me?
	Tell me what I should write.
	They talk about Mastodon as if it's a company, even though they explain it's not.
	Plus they go, oh, Mastodon should do this.
	Mastodon doesn't do stuff.
	Doofus.
	We do stuff with Mastodon.
	noagendasocial.com.
	About ready to open up.
	I'm waiting for, let me tell you, Erinner.
	Unleash the hounds!
	Put the link up!
	Let them fill it up!
	Let's go back up to 10,000.
	There you go.
	The hounds have been released.
	I want to be able to do some invites.
	I want to get Brunetti back into the fold.
	Okay, you got it.
	I'll send you an invite right after the show.
	What?
	Did he get kicked out?
	No.
	He lost his password.
	Don't even start with me.
	You know what?
	I'm going to look at his email and I'll log in and I'll bet you that he was purged for inactivity.
	And there you go.
	You lose your snooze.
	That's how it goes, bro.
	No agendination.
	Of course, we have artists who do insanely good and fun work for us, which is Quite unique to this program.
	That's why we have a new piece of artwork every single time across all podcast apps.
	We profusely thank Matthew Dropko for bringing us something that we didn't really talk about, but it was kind of related to the rainbow opioids, the rainbow fentanyl.
	It was the sidewalk chalk crazy art.
	It was mentioned.
	Oh, was chalk mentioned in that report?
	I didn't realize that.
	Yeah, it was mentioned.
	We didn't talk about it, you're right, but it was mentioned.
	Otherwise, I would have put the kibosh on it.
	Well, it was a really good piece.
	We kept coming back to it.
	Yeah, because it was a lively piece.
	It was colorful.
	It was pretty.
	It was very charming.
	Cool elements.
	He's got the little jokes in there, the whole thing.
	It was dynamite.
	What were the jokes he had in there?
	He had, uh, tastes great, probably non-toxic.
	Kids love to eat it.
	But what's cool is that people have no idea what the show is or even listen to the show.
	They see that on Twitter, they go, they have to laugh.
	It's like, this is spot on, whatever it is.
	It was one of those.
	We had a lot of, when did we have a lot of, a lot of Uh, Gorby Chips, yes.
	Oh, of course, I should mention that, uh, this is for, uh, episode, uh, 1482, which we titled Gorby Chips.
	And I realized, I may, would you have spelled Gorby with an I or a Y?
	Y. Okay, because I saw some people talking about Gorby with an I, and there were a lot of Gorby Chips here.
	Different Gorby Chips, none of which you liked.
	Most of the people that did the art called them Gorby.
	Yeah, you didn't like many of the Gorby Chips.
	No, I didn't.
	I didn't think there were, uh... For one thing, I don't... It was... It was ridiculing my... My flub.
	So I took offense.
	Immediately.
	Really?
	You took offense?
	As I always do.
	I always take offense at my flubs.
	Why would you do that?
	Because people are mocking me unfairly.
	Unfairly?
	No, we're laughing with you.
	You're inventing fabulous things.
	Show titles.
	You've inspired art and then you feel that you're being mocked.
	You're being mocked like a dog.
	You're being lifted high.
	I'll tell you why I didn't like the Gorby.
	Because the art was not interesting.
	It was a Gorby thing.
	Compared to the Dropco piece, no.
	There wasn't anything close.
	That's true.
	I did like the Parker Pauly Doritos with the MK Ultra kind of twisty thing.
	I liked that.
	Yeah, that was kind of cute too.
	Yeah, you're right.
	But compared to the chalk, it was so big.
	And it was also big.
	Yeah, it was big.
	It was big.
	So you can chalk one up for a drop coat.
	Oh, there we go everybody!
	Noah ArtGenerator.com.
	You can follow these in any of these cool podcast apps.
	By the way, if you want, if you're on iOS, you want to ditch your Apple podcast app, try Castamatic.
	Now that thing will blow you away.
	And you'll see this art there, or you can follow along if you're listening live by going to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Refreshing, you can always go back later and see all the different choices.
	And bitch about us on No Agenda Social that we did the wrong one.
	You could actually contribute.
	Oh, we're always going to get that.
	And curiously, it's various artists who do most of the complaining.
	Well, of course, we're bitching about... Wait a minute, let me narrow it down.
	It's Comic Strip Blogger who does most of the complaining.
	Why was he... was he complaining?
	Oh, he's always... What?
	What am I thinking?
	Yes, he's like furniture, though.
	We love him dearly.
	NoahJennerArtGenerator.com.
	Now, as part of our Time, Talent, and Treasure, you already heard some of it right there, the time and talent that's being put in by our producers.
	We also have people who bring the treasure, and we would like to thank our executive and associate executive producers, just like Hollywood, these credits.
	Who said that the other day?
	Were you telling me that?
	Uh, yeah, I was in confidence.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I don't want to embarrass you.
	You're right.
	I'm sorry.
	I remember.
	We kick it off with our top donor for today.
	Look at this!
	He did my birthday in big-ass numbers.
	Don Tommaso di Taranto, 9-0-3-64 from Kettleby, Ontario.
	Very creative, I like it.
	I love it, are you kidding me?
	9 would be September, 03 would be the day I was born, and 64 the year.
	And he indeed says, Happy birthday, Adam!
	Gefeliciteerds!
	No jingles, no karma.
	I had a great birthday, actually.
	It was just kind of me and Tina.
	Oh, was it a Dutch birthday?
	Tina made it a 100% Dutch birthday.
	So you're all sitting in the corner, like around in chairs, just staring at each other, not saying anything?
	That kind of birthday?
	Yep, yep.
	Tina, myself, and Phoebe all sat around and just staring at each other, not saying anything.
	However, she did blow up all the balloons.
	She made all my favorite food.
	Made a huge banana vanilla trifle.
	Which, that'll give you diabetes.
	And my favorite gifts.
	She gave me a 20-foot flagpole and a United States flag and a Texas state flag.
	You know, the big official ones.
	I'm very excited about getting that in.
	So people know!
	Megaforces live here!
	I like the idea of you having a flagpole outside your house with the American and a Texas flag swinging freely in the breeze.
	And I'm gonna hoist the Jolly Roger if I have to.
	My grandfather had the, of course, a flagpole in Armonk and whenever, I think it was the youngest grandchild who was visiting, which was me for a while, it was your responsibility to raise the flag in the morning and take it down in the evening and not, and if it rained, and not get it, let it touch the ground.
	And you had to learn how to fold it.
	So it's kind of second nature.
	You have to learn how to fold them.
	Yeah, you got to know when to fold them.
	Yeah, you gotta know when to fold them.
	Or when to hold them.
	Okay, onward!
	Thank you very much, Don, and yeah, he didn't need any jingles or karma, but I do appreciate it.
	Good for him.
	John Kumar's next on the list.
	He's Sir John, to be honest about it, in South London.
	And guess where he is?
	He's in London!
	London, UK, 39133.
	After seeing the magic number 33 around a few times in the past few weeks, I got the hint that the universe was trying to tell me something.
	Please accept this donation at 333.33 plus $58 for Adam's birthday!
	Yahoo!
	This donation also takes me to Viscount.
	I don't know if he's on the list, but he should be.
	I mentioned it.
	Me too.
	Please could I henceforth be known as Viscount Kumar of South London?
	Will you check and see if he's on the upgrade list?
	No jingles requested.
	But please could you give me a shot of that new air horn karma?
	It's a blast!
	Regards, Sir John of South London.
	Yes, he is on the upgrade list.
	One time for the one time!
	You've got Thank God.
	Yeah, we've done it now.
	Now a donation from Boise, 333.33, from Danny Shadix.
	I looked, I couldn't find anything.
	Did you find anything for Danny?
	No, I didn't.
	Any note anywhere?
	He'll send us something eventually, maybe today, maybe tomorrow.
	Karma.
	He gets a double up karma.
	Christoph Herring in München, Munich to you Americans.
	Deutschland 333.33.
	ITM, keep up the good work and happy birthday to the OG Adam.
	Thank you.
	Holding the line in Chengdu, China.
	Oh, he's in Chengdu, China.
	That's where he is.
	Yeah.
	He's not in Deutschland.
	Nope.
	Which got locked down today due to COVID-19.
	Yeah, this is the best.
	The mania continues, Sir Chris, Knight of the Blockchain.
	All right, and no jingles, no karma.
	This moves along nicely.
	Frankie Gravato is in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
	333.33.
	John Adams, been a while since my last donation, wanted to show my support for this awesome content you two gents put out twice a week.
	Happy trip around the sun, Adam.
	Goat karma and I got ants.
	Okay.
	A little bit of ants and some massive goat karma.
	Ants.
	I got ants.
	You've got karma.
	And thanks to the producer who sent me the book with the essay, Argentine Ants Within.
	Sir Baron John Helmer's next on the list from Shawnee, Kansas.
	He's a First Associate Executive Producer, $258.
	And he just says, double up karma!
	Double it up!
	Sir John in Shawnee, Kansas.
	You've got That's crazy how these notes are short.
	We're just blasting through it.
	This is nice.
	David Loeb, I would say, in Greenwood, Indiana.
	Row of Ducks 222.22.
	My first donation in seven years of semi-regular listening.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	No jingles but requesting a combined job and moving karma.
	Thank you for creating the best podcast in the universe.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	In Metairie, Louisiana, $200.01.
	Just listening to the MacGuffin episode and the show mix with Sir Chris Wilson.
	I had taken a break from listening.
	I was taking a break from news as a mental health break.
	Started back up today on September 1st and had a much-needed laugh.
	Thank you!
	Oh, I love it how that works.
	So he came back right with that massive I mean, the thing with Dame Jennifer and the agenda reassignment surgery.
	Yeah, agenda reassignment.
	Oh, good, man.
	That worked out perfectly then.
	And finally, Kavan Drozic, I think.
	Brentwood, California.
	$200.
	Thank you, gents.
	Your work is much appreciated.
	I don't think we've had a short list like that or short notes in a long time.
	Never.
	I don't think we've ever had it.
	No.
	I think what happened is everyone went, yay, 58, let's do 58s.
	And that worked out well.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm happy.
	Yeah, the chatterboxes.
	I can't wait to thank everybody for that.
	Okay, well, thank you.
	These are our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1483.
	The way it works is you donate any amount you want, anything over $200 gets you associate executive producer, anything over $300 an executive producer.
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	Thank you again for your time, town treasure, for episode 1483.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Shut up, brain!
	Shut up, sleep!
	So while we're here, I did want to get rid of the Claude Pierre Jeanne Dame, whatever the hell her name is.
	It's Karine Abdul Jean-Pierre Van Damme.
	So she has a couple of clips too that are interesting.
	One of them is not really something I want to mock.
	It's just something I think you'd get a click out of.
	There I am.
	Mock me, people!
	A kick out of it, which is the airline dashboard seems to be up and running.
	Today, the Department of Transportation officially launched the dashboard and we're proud to report that airlines vastly improved their plans.
	Their plans?
	Graphic right behind me.
	We love graphics here, as you know.
	Before the Secretary's letter, there were significantly more red X's across this table.
	None of the airlines had guaranteed that they would cover meals or hotels when they are at fault.
	Now eight of the top airlines cover hotels and nine of them cover meals.
	Before Secretary Buttigieg's letter, only one airline guaranteed they would rebook you at no cost.
	Now nine out of the ten do so.
	Yeah, so the headline that I see this morning is, US airlines cancel and delay thousands of Labor Day weekend flights!
	So it seems like that's really working out well.
	What is that all about?
	You know, they're starting to suck, man.
	It totally blows, is what it is.
	There's another aviation story, and then we'll get back to your Jean-Pierre.
	Yeah, I only got a couple.
	This bugs me, this story.
	The reporting is minimal.
	I can't find much on the pilot forums.
	No one really knows a lot.
	But I'd like to just give some color to this story that happened in Tupelo.
	Like, he right on top of our house.
	Today, terror in Tupelo, Mississippi.
	A plane police say was stolen, circled over homes and businesses in the small city.
	Authorities say the man at the controls, Corey Patterson, said he intended to crash into a Walmart that forced an evacuation in the area.
	Shamaria Robinson got a panicked call from her mother who lives just minutes away from the targeted shopping center.
	Just so close to her home.
	Yeah, so close to our home.
	It was crazy.
	Investigators say Patterson was employed by an aircraft maintenance company at Tupelo's regional airport and took off in the twin-engine aircraft when air traffic controllers were not on duty.
	The pilot posted on Facebook a message and in essence it said goodbye.
	After about five hours in the air, Patterson landed in a field roughly 40 miles north of Tupelo, uninjured.
	The suspect is now in custody.
	He will get the help he needs as far as whatever he's dealing with.
	You know, so this is a 29-year-old who's been working at the airport for 10 years, and then he steals an aircraft, a King Air C90, which is, now he had no formal flight training, but he'd been around a while.
	You know, I've flown a King Air C90 with an instructor.
	You can't just hop in that without quite some experience.
	It's turbine engines, it's a turboprop, so you gotta know how to fire those up, two of them.
	Two engines, you have to really be trained on two engines.
	Now, his landing, he basically belly flopped in the field, so... I was like, if that guy landed the C90 with no training... But this whole thing sounds weird.
	Just doesn't, it sounds something, and then we're not getting the information.
	Why was he targeting Walmart?
	Why was it the end?
	Why does he want to kill himself?
	By crashing into a Walmart.
	Yeah, of all places.
	Is there, is Walmart, here's what I went looking for, is this particular Walmart the scene of some abuse?
	There's got to be something with this guy.
	Yeah, this story is as hollow as it gets.
	Hollow, yes, hollow.
	I saw this too.
	Okay, back to CP32.
	C3P2, yes.
	Whatever her name is.
	So here she's doing a little thing on the Uyghur report from the UN.
	This was good.
	Lastly, I want to make a few comments on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on Xinjiang that was released just last night.
	The United States welcomes this report, this important report, which describes authoritatively the abhorrent human rights treatment of the Uyghur and other minority communities by the People's Republic of China government.
	Oh, bruh.
	What was that word she used?
	I think she tried to say authoritatively.
	Let's listen to her.
	Authoritative, but she said authoritative.
	Lastly, I want to make a few comments on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on Xinjiang that was released just last night.
	The United States welcomes this report, this important report, which describes... Wait, she stopped there.
	Important, important report.
	She had to say important.
	Important.
	The United States welcomes this report, this important report, which describes authoritatively...
	Authoritatively.
	Hey man, 10,000 million.
	Do you have the 10,000 million clip?
	Yeah.
	We did the 10,000 million clip already.
	We did.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	Play it again.
	Super flubber.
	It's very short.
	It's so good.
	10,000 million.
	As you know, the good news is in August, the economy created 315,000 jobs, which is important.
	We have created nearly 10,000 million jobs.
	I don't think so!
	I remember now.
	I don't remember her, but I remember you.
	Okay, here we go.
	Now, this is the last one, and this is one where I think this is very funny.
	She's talking about Enduring Freedom, which is that... Operation Enduring Freedom.
	Operation Enduring Freedom, which is the... Afghanistan?
	Afghanistan.
	I'm flubbing myself listening to her.
	Are you authoritative on this?
	Well, no, but she is.
	She makes a flub in here that I think is... It's kind of a weird, classic flub where Maybe it means, maybe she's got good feelings or something, but listen to this one.
	We have an update on the Enduring Freedom the Operation Allies Welcome, what it looks like long-term.
	This is an update that the Department of Defense announced recently.
	And so, look, our commitment to our Afghan allies is endearing.
	What?
	What?
	We have... She meant...
	Did she mean enduring, but it came out as endearing?
	Yeah!
	She's falling apart.
	She's falling apart at the seams, Jim.
	This was a gem.
	And she didn't correct herself.
	She just kept... You got this short.
	Play it again, because... That was beautiful.
	To me, it's like she had endearing on her mind.
	And instead of saying enduring, she said endearing, which I thought was cute.
	She's probably microdosing psilocybin.
	Oh, you know what?
	Boy.
	Right?
	Nice catch.
	That could be.
	...to our Afghan allies is endearing.
	Wait a minute, I want to hear a little bit further back than that.
	Yeah, Operation Endearing Freedom.
	Commitment to our Afghan allies is endearing.
	We have welcomed nearly 90,000 Afghans to our country over the past year and have been providing relocation assistance over the past year as well.
	Yeah, Operation Endearing Freedom.
	That's it.
	That was George W. Bush.
	Operation Endearing Freedom.
	Beautiful.
	Oh, I love it how someone in the troll room says, it's enduring, man.
	Why don't you turn up the volume?
	What?
	Oh, pay no attention.
	This was a point, dummy.
	Pay no attention to that.
	Hey, did you hear that the CFO of Bath, Bed and Beyond jumped off of the balcony of his skyscraper in Tribeca?
	Leapt to his death?
	I wonder what's going on there.
	Oh, this is one of those ape stonk stocks.
	Yeah, you know, it's a stonk and they jacked it way up and then... Yeah, and then it crashed.
	Well, of course it's going to.
	It always will.
	I mean, that's what these things do.
	This is what people don't know we're talking about.
	We're talking about these guys of Reddit groups and some other that take a worthless or fairly worthless company or company in bankruptcy.
	That is heavily shorted.
	That's heavily shorted.
	And heavily shorted.
	And they run the price up to burn the short guys, because somebody just hates short sellers, I guess.
	No, but once you get the short sale, the squeeze, then you just make money.
	You make money.
	You make money.
	Right.
	The stock skyrockets, because everyone has to get out of the short, because you can go broke with a short if you're not careful.
	And it's infinite losses.
	So you have to get out.
	And so you get out, and it jacks the price way up.
	And then some companies like GameStop, who had this happen to them, they at least played their cards right and were getting loans and buying other companies.
	They were doing what they're supposed to do when your stock's worth a lot of money.
	I don't know what, this doesn't make any sense to me unless this guy was, there's some corruption in there that he's trying to get.
	Let's see, Bed Bath & Beyond.
	Investor Ryan Cohen exited position when the stock was 28, sending the shares plunging in the days following the company announced plans to try and reduce costs and stave off bankruptcy, including a $500 million financing agreement in order to help pay its vendors.
	He lives in this Jenga building, which is badass, man.
	It's like one apartment per floor.
	This guy was rolling in it.
	He's been around.
	He was a CFO for Avon and Procter & Gamble.
	Something must have been wrong.
	How old was he?
	52.
	Some was hinky, man.
	52.
	18th floor.
	Sad.
	Not good.
	Maybe somebody tossed him out the window.
	Russians.
	Yeah.
	Bored apes, who knows?
	Somebody had made the funny Russian joke that's going around, I guess, in Russia, is when that Luke Oil guy was throwing out the hospital window.
	Yeah, smoking a cigarette.
	The joke in Russia is, hey, I guess they've run out of polonium.
	Did you hear this from your Putin connection?
	No, it's another Russian connection, but it's Ukrainian, actually.
	So we have all this stuff going on, going down, I should say, in Europe with the prices.
	Will they predict that 6 out of 10 British businesses will have to shutter because of energy prices?
	Yeah, I forgot who said that.
	That's somebody's idea.
	Well, the prices are pretty high.
	Yeah.
	That's for sure.
	But we got lots of cool stuff going on over here.
	Uh, we have a water crisis in Las Vegas and New Mexico because, uh, I guess what happened is there was a lot of, uh, it was a big fire.
	What are you drinking today?
	Oh, uh, Evian Mind.
	You mean Evian?
	Evian Mind.
	Evian.
	Evian mind.
	Are you drinking your Evian with your crudités?
	No.
	It's just, and it's got magnesium and zinc, raspberry and ginseng.
	Oh.
	It's a natural, a mineral-enhanced drink.
	And I'll tell you this, I bought a bunch of it because it was on sale.
	Yeah, did I gross out?
	It tastes like shit.
	I'm telling you right now.
	That's like the vaccine.
	If it hurts, you know it's working.
	I mean, it really does not taste good.
	It's vile.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, enjoy that.
	Yes, thank you.
	That's pretty much the way the water tastes in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
	So they had a wildfire, 340,000 acres.
	But because some of the carbon got into their water supply, it reacts with the chlorine that they use to treat the water.
	And that can become... This happens in a certain way.
	Yes, I've heard this phenomenon.
	And it becomes carcinogenic.
	That's what the article says.
	Well, if you've heard this, what happens then?
	It makes the water undrinkable.
	Exactly.
	And or carcinogenic.
	So they have 20 days of fresh water left.
	They're trying to figure out how to fix that.
	Then we have Jackson, Mississippi.
	I actually didn't play these clips from the last show.
	I do want to do that because we have a boots on the ground report.
	President Biden has approved an emergency declaration for Mississippi as residents of the state capitol try to find clean water.
	Thousands of people in Jackson lined up for hours at distribution sites for bottled water, with some supplies running out.
	The mayor says the city's water treatment plant failed after years of neglect, staffing shortages, and recent flooding.
	These are challenges that, first and foremost, are beyond partisan.
	These are human rights challenges.
	And so, we've been saying that it's not a matter of if our systems would fail, but when our systems fail, and we've seen it far too frequently.
	He says it may cost billions of dollars to fix the water treatment system.
	He's vowing to organize more water distribution events in the coming days.
	Water distribution events, also known as a WDE.
	There's a kicker to this, I guess.
	Hundreds of National Guard troops will be in Mississippi and will be handing out bottled water today to the people of Jackson, suffering without clean water.
	So far, there's no timetable for when the long-neglected water treatment plant will be up and running again.
	The governor says a rental pump could be functional later today, which is only one step toward alleviating the problem.
	Yeah, so boots on the ground from one of our producers.
	This goes back to Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
	That's when the water treatment facility needed the full overhaul.
	They never did that.
	Then in 2020, they outsourced.
	I can just see whoever did this.
	They outsourced it.
	That failed.
	And so now it's like, oh, they need to fix it, but they have no time and their water is undrinkable now.
	Yeah, I suppose even with boiling like you guys have to do every so often.
	Not anymore!
	We're out here now.
	We got our own well.
	We don't boil water.
	That's the way to go.
	Yeah.
	But the boiling is not even gonna work with that water.
	I guess it's that fucked up.
	It's crazy.
	Crazy.
	Well, I got... Go ahead.
	I got some clips from my last show I wanted to bring forward.
	About all the war stuff going on.
	Like everyone's getting ready for some sort of war.
	Mm-hmm.
	And these are the clips that you have to look them up.
	They're called War Games.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I got, uh, let's start with the War Games 1, Russia, China.
	Chinese troops have arrived in the Primorsky region of... Let me guess, New Tang Dynasty?
	Yeah, of course.
	Chinese troops have arrived in the Primorsky region of Russia's Far East.
	There, a joint multinational military exercise is set to begin.
	Video footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows the opening ceremony of the drills, named Vostok 2022.
	The exercises are scheduled to begin September 1st and will last one week.
	Along with Russia and China, India, Belarus and Tajikistan are among the countries taking part in the war games.
	Earlier this month, China's defense ministry said its participation was part of an ongoing annual agreement with Russia.
	Relations between Beijing and Moscow have grown closer in recent years.
	Last summer, the two countries held a joint exercise with over 10,000 troops in north-central China.
	In October, their navies held drills in the Sea of Japan.
	Only days later, Russian and Chinese warships sailed to the Western Pacific, where they held their first joint patrols.
	Okay, that's not good.
	Let's go to War Games 2.
	This is continuing elsewhere.
	The U.S.
	and South Korea have resumed their largest joint field exercises in years.
	That's after the downsizing of previous drills due to diplomatic efforts and COVID-19 restrictions.
	The exercises began less than 20 miles from the fortified border with North Korea.
	On the field was live fire from American and Korean howitzers, tanks, machine guns, and mortars.
	Apache helicopters were also involved.
	The two allies see the drills as a key part of deterring North Korea and its growing nuclear arsenal.
	But North Korea has condemned the drills as a rehearsal for war.
	Colonel Brandon Anderson is the deputy commander for the exercises.
	He said the drills are not aimed at any one adversary, but did allude to the threat from North Korea.
	Currently, there are more than 28,000 U.S.
	troops stationed in South Korea.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this continues.
	Now we've got War Games Japan.
	Hold on.
	Did I see that Jon Stewart hosted the Department of Defense War Games or Ceremony at Disney or something?
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	I was trying to look it up.
	I don't know anything about that, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	I have to look into this.
	It sounds terrible.
	Yes.
	It's a very bad, bad look.
	Were there Emmys last night?
	Did we miss the Emmys?
	I think there may be some daytime Emmys or nominations.
	Oh, okay.
	Alright, alright.
	They were usually on Sunday, it would be today.
	Oh, it's the creative Emmys, I'm sorry.
	That's right, Obama got an Emmy for reading... What did he narrate?
	Read a book?
	Yes, he read a book.
	Oh, he read a book!
	That's great!
	No, for narrating... Emmy win for narrating Netflix documentary.
	Let me see, which documentary was this?
	Oh, they had to give him something.
	Okay, I got it.
	Oh, our great national parks.
	Terrific.
	Okay.
	Why do you get an Emmy for that?
	Because no one watches it.
	No one cares.
	It's embarrassing.
	Their whole Higher Ground production series is an embarrassment.
	Michelle Obama's podcast is an embarrassment.
	The podcast with Obama and Springsteen is super embarrassing and kind of cringey.
	And so they had to give him something because they want him there!
	War Games Japan.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Let me see.
	War Games Ja- I don't have this clip.
	I'm sorry, I spelled War W-A-T.
	Oh, what games?
	Well, I just- too much.
	Japan is increasing its defense budget and building missiles that they previously didn't allow themselves.
	It's part of a military expansion to counter threats from China and Russia.
	Japan says it will develop and mass-produce a cruise missile and a high-velocity ballistic missile.
	They will be able to strike at greater distances beyond the current range limit in Japan's constitution.
	The Defense Ministry didn't specify the exact range of the weapons or say how many they plan to make, but if deployed along the Okinawa island chain in the southwest of Japan, the weapons would have enough range to reach targets in mainland China.
	This month, China fired five ballistic missiles into waters less than 100 miles from Japan, prompting alarm about China's regional ambitions.
	I gotta presume all those guys also have their version of military-industrial complex.
	Isn't this just fireworks for dipshits?
	Maybe.
	You know, they're just shooting shit off.
	At some point, you know, you arm yourself to the teeth and you gotta... I mean, unless you have some place like Ukraine to ship the stuff to and then go, well, we got rid of that stuff.
	You know, Ukraine is now the largest weapons sales country.
	Closely behind Afghanistan.
	Yeah, give me a break.
	It's crazy.
	Thank you.
	Thank the American taxpayer.
	Well, no, American taxpayers to be ignored is what we were talking about earlier.
	Overseas tonight to the war in Ukraine.
	The White House now asking Congress for more than $13 billion in additional military aid.
	Yeah, but again, that's not really the... He's asking for 47... Here it is.
	President Biden asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency... $47 billion in emergency dollars that will go toward the war in Ukraine.
	That's 13.
	So there's... What?
	What do we have left?
	34?
	The response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	Hello, Pfizer.
	The ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
	What?
	What?
	And help for the recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.
	You could add Mississippi in there.
	Aren't we already budgeted for this sort of thing?
	These disasters?
	FEMA?
	I mean, don't we already have that in the budget?
	The ridiculous budget?
	Isn't that already budgeted in?
	We need more money for this?
	I don't know.
	We probably have the money for everything except for the Ukraine stuff.
	It seems like 15, 20 billion every single month.
	It's out of control.
	Got a lot of feedback from our producers about the reactor that the Russians are currently occupying.
	Oh yeah, right.
	Did you ever hear from Atomic Rod?
	No, I think he's checked out.
	I think he's man overboard.
	I could be.
	I think he's man overboard.
	So a lot of people, first of all, you do need electricity with your nuclear plant.
	If it just gets cut off, it's a problem.
	I still don't kind of get, I understand why you need electricity, but if the plant is producing electricity.
	Yeah, you think you need to route it back.
	It can't, it's like, you know, unplug it.
	You know, once you got it fired up, but everyone says, oh no, you're crazy.
	I love this one though.
	Sir Robert of the Smoky Mountain Brass, also a retired Navy nuke commander.
	So, atomic rod, you know, as far as I'm concerned.
	He's been dishonorably discharged for insubordination.
	We got a new guy.
	We got a new guy on the block.
	Sir Robert of the Smoky Mountain Brass.
	If the reactor shuts down either by default or planned, external power, either commercial or from big diesel generators, are needed to maintain control of the reactor even in a shutdown state.
	And to start it up, Pressurizer, heaters, circulation pumps, instrumentation.
	True for commercial or naval reactors.
	This is why submarines have huge shore power cables when they shut down.
	Also why nuclear submarines have a big diesel generator and a pretty big battery.
	Which is kind of what I'd expect a nuclear power plant to have.
	A pretty big battery or diesel generator.
	Now this guy's been around.
	He was commander.
	What do you have here?
	The USS Flying Fish?
	USS Houston?
	USS Simon Bolivar?
	The Blue Crew?
	He's the subs in the water guy now.
	He's the Mac Daddy.
	Hey, remember, it's not gay if you're underway.
	It's cool with us.
	Welcome to the show.
	I learned this from all the submariners.
	That's the first thing I learned.
	These Navy guys.
	Our question has kind of been answered about Gorbachev and the funeral.
	Today, a final farewell for the last leader of the Soviet Union.
	The funeral for Mikhail Gorbachev was held at Moscow's Hall of Columns.
	He died this week at age 91.
	Gorbachev did not receive state honors, and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend, saying that he was working.
	I love the inflection she gives us there at the end.
	Almost saying he was working.
	Putin did not attend, saying that he was working.
	Working!
	Working, that bastard!
	Putin did show his respects.
	He came by and dropped off some flowers before the funeral.
	He's a good guy.
	But the same thing, it was like, no, this guy's not... I think it was the round table pizza or whatever.
	Whatever the pizza company was he was involved with, probably closed the deal.
	The Roundtable Pizza?
	Look at my pizza, pizza and Gorbachev.
	He did a commercial, a great commercial, ran I think in this country and maybe in Europe.
	And I think he introduced one of the pizza companies into Russia.
	Really?
	It was a big deal.
	Yeah.
	He's the one who introduced the first, I think, the first American franchise into Russia.
	Pizza Hut, 1997.
	Pizza Hut.
	Let's take a look.
	We have it right here.
	This is a Gorbachev Pizza Hut ad from 1997.
	Play.
	We're seeing Moscow, the Kremlin.
	We're seeing shitty-ass Russians.
	It's in snow.
	Hillary Clinton, for some reason.
	Ah, now they're all inside the Pizza Hut, everybody's smiling.
	There's Gorbachev.
	He doesn't say anything.
	He doesn't say anything.
	Did he say anything?
	He does eventually.
	At the end, let me go to the payoff.
	No, the payoff is the guy saying, no, Gorbachev's a good guy, he made peace.
	Yeah, hail to Gorbachev.
	Za Gorbachev!
	Za Gorbachev!
	Za Gorbachev! Za Gorbachev!
	Sometimes nothing brings people together like a nice hot pizza from Pizza Hut.
	Za Gorbachev!
	Ha ha ha!
	You know what brings people together?
	What brings people together is what Larry Lightfoot of Chicago said regarding Texas busing up the illegal Immigrants and sending them off to Chicago.
	The first bus went to Chicago, I think, beginning of this week.
	Finally, they sent one.
	No, no, she knows how to make people feel welcome.
	We begin with breaking news out of Argentina and apparent... Oops, that wouldn't be the right one.
	That's this one.
	Texas, obviously, if none of these migrants were sent anywhere else, would have to bear all the brunt of this themselves.
	Aren't these migrants better off going to places like Chicago, welcoming cities to get cared for?
	Well, you know, I think Alderman Raboios kind of alluded to this.
	I'm happy to take and drain Texas.
	Of all of its residents.
	I wouldn't want to live in a state with a governor like that.
	I certainly wouldn't want to live in a state where they are doing everything they can to strip people of their basic rights.
	And let's not forget about what they've done to women and others who are seeking reproductive health care.
	So we welcome Texans to Chicago.
	And we'll rent the buses next time.
	Bullcrap.
	She's a liar!
	You could see her when she said that.
	She kind of got... And we'll do the buses.
	And you could see that she kind of regretted that.
	Because that's going to come back to bite her in the ass.
	What are you Texans doing to women?
	It sounds like you're beating them up or something.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah.
	No abortions here.
	Can't have them.
	Can't even talk about them.
	Can't even think about them.
	That's gonna change.
	But Texas has to become more.
	It just has to.
	We're too big for this.
	So let's go to the man on the street again.
	This is a Juan guy, Justin character.
	He's got a YouTube channel, or a TikTok channel.
	Oh, oh, this is going to be horrible, isn't it?
	Idiots on the streets.
	And this is in Manhattan, in Times Square, to show you the kind of geniuses we have.
	Of course, these are, like you say, somewhat rigged.
	But still, these are real people.
	What country is the Queen of England from, originally?
	I definitely don't know.
	Give me your best guess.
	I guess a country.
	What is a country again?
	Give me a guess.
	This is embarrassing.
	What is a country?
	Canada.
	Yes.
	If you have a job, and you make $10,000 a month, and you work for an entire year, then how much money did you make at the end?
	Can you ask me that again?
	You make $10,000 a month, and you work for a year.
	How much money did you make?
	I don't know.
	Around how much money?
	Take a guess.
	I don't know, mister.
	Give me your best guess.
	Fucking thousand dollars.
	One thousand?
	Yes.
	Do you know how many stars are on the flag?
	Fifteen?
	Yes.
	This guy is relentless.
	Now the funny thing about this one is that people say, well, they, you know, they don't know the country.
	This woman didn't know what a country is.
	What's a country?
	What's a country?
	Is this all in New York though?
	I'm trying to figure out where he does these.
	It looks like he's in Manhattan.
	No, that was in Times Square.
	I know where he was doing it.
	That's Manhattan.
	Yeah, it's Times Square, Manhattan.
	He was in Times Square with a bustling... I know where he was.
	There's a little kind of an island.
	No, man.
	When's the last time you were in New York?
	There's no more island.
	It's all rubber bricks.
	You fall down drunk, you bounce right back up.
	There's no danger.
	There's no danger.
	And that's... Cement Island.
	That's what those people...
	Now that I know it's Times Square, with the rubber bricks, no wonder.
	That's where they go to be safe, so they don't have to wear the helmet during the day.
	These cannot be good people.
	I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda!
	So we do have a few people to thank for show 14, what is it, 1483?
	83.
	83.
	Yeah, we start off with your friend, my friend, our friend, the show's friend, Dame Astrid, the Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea.
	Oh, hello, Astrid.
	In Tokyo.
	Yes.
	Tokyo.
	Tokyo.
	$158.
	And she says, happy birthday, Adam.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Happy returns.
	She actually says, many happy returns.
	Thank you.
	Sir Cristobal of the Upper Trinity, 133-33, uh, in Dallas, Texas.
	Andre Coleman in Everett, Washington, 115-58.
	A little, a little action there, a little extra.
	58 for your birthday.
	Oh, thank you.
	Uh, Susie Hoibor.
	Very good.
	In Bristol, Tennessee, $100, I'm sure it's pronounced differently there, $100.33.
	It's also her birthday on the 3rd, so that's cool.
	Yeah, she's your birthday with you.
	Yeah.
	Shawna Norberg in Seattle, Washington, $100.
	It's my birthday, she writes, and she wants to mention that Jay is a total douchebag.
	Do you know who else is a September 3rd?
	Ferdinand Porsche?
	Charlie Sheen?
	I'm a year older than Charlie Sheen.
	How scary is that?
	That's pretty bad.
	Yeah.
	John Robineau, $100.
	Baron Ladekin, $100 from Houston, Texas.
	Matthew Smith in North Royalton, Ohio, $99.99, a.k.a.
	Sir Smitty.
	Derek Shack in Luzerne, Michigan.
	He needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'm here with the boobs donation of 8-0-0-8, along with guest Hood, Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, lover of America and lover of boobs in Locust, North Carolina, 8-0-0-8.
	Kenneth Pirro, 8-0-0-8, in Pullman, Washington.
	Sir Pauly Bravo, Pauly Bravo, in Greeley, Colorado, 8-0-0-8 for more boobs.
	And Aaron Slagle in Le Tits.
	Pennsylvania.
	His boob from the tits doesn't get much better than that.
	Yeah, and he wants a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	His little pronunciation thing there, lie-tits, he says.
	Lie-tits.
	Lie-tits, got it.
	Le-tits, lie-tits, your-tits.
	Uh, Christian Bowers in Duluth, Georgia, 78, 77.
	He needs an F-karma cancer for his brother, Tim.
	Uh, we can do that at the end, you can do it now.
	No, I'll do it right now.
	You've got karma.
	I like to act faster than, uh, cancer.
	I don't like to let it... Ryan Cartini in Torrington, Connecticut.
	Seventy-four, twenty-one.
	Rian... Rian Kaczynski, uh, in Carsland, Alberta, Canada.
	Seventy-two, thirty-two.
	Uh... needs a de-douching for her amazing man, Zach.
	You've been de-douched.
	He also has a birthday coming up.
	Yeah.
	Angela Pickering in Sour Lake, Texas.
	At 12th anniversary to her smoking hot husband, Chris.
	Never had a fight.
	59-10.
	And then we have John Donovan.
	These guys are ad-libbing the birthday donation.
	58-33 in San Jose, California.
	Sir Michael Anthony in Rosedale, New York.
	58-33.
	Got a happy birthday for you.
	Sir Chris Protector of the Psychotic Sausage Dogs in, I don't know, is that Sachse, Texas?
	Uh, probably.
	I don't know, actually.
	Well, I'm calling it sexy for now.
	$58.33.
	And the following donors are all $58.
	Happy birthday, Adam donors.
	I'm going to let you read them.
	Thanks.
	And you can start with Mr. Scott Riley.
	And he's from Meridian, Idaho.
	Thank you.
	Stephen Shirk from Mensa, Wisconsin.
	Sherman Atkinson in Park City, Utah.
	Will you look at the right, John, if there's anything there that I'm missing?
	Okay.
	Survived the virtual reality Beaverton, Oregon.
	Dame Tutola from Oudenbosch.
	And Dame Tutola, Oudenbosch, thank you.
	Surveilled Baron of FEMA Region No.
	4, Palmetto, Florida.
	Sir Chris Abram from Arlington, Virginia.
	Lydia Terry Dominelli, Rochester, New Hampshire.
	Sir Quijiboo from Lorenzweiler.
	That's Lausanne, I believe?
	No, Luxembourg.
	Is it Luxembourg?
	That would be Luxembourg.
	Luxembourg, yes.
	Anonymous from Phoenix, Arizona.
	Christopher Hill, Swanview, Washington.
	Sir Brent, Castle Rock, Colorado.
	Steve Nelson, Issaquah, New York.
	Washington, I'm sorry.
	Sir Davey, Rome, Texas.
	Mandy and Archie from Tigard, Oregon.
	Devin O'Connell, Boylston, Massachusetts.
	Brandon Glenn in Goddard, Kansas.
	DVT, incoming Georgia.
	I don't know.
	I think he is, man.
	TIE, Austin, Texas.
	David French, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	Sir Frederick the Terrible, Knight of the Airborne Paratroopers.
	Hello.
	Robert Taylor, New Brighton.
	By the way, Sir Frederick the Terrible.
	Is that not our buddy Fred Castaneda?
	I don't know.
	I think he is, man.
	Is he a paratrooper?
	He was in Vietnam, and I'm pretty sure.
	Is this the one in Austin, Texas?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He sent me a note.
	He sent me a note.
	Okay, well, I think that's him.
	I got a note from Sergeant Fred regardless, and I'm very happy that he reached out.
	I'm glad all is well.
	Robert Taylor in New Brighton, Minnesota.
	Baron Sirfenom, Appleton, Wisconsin.
	Rita Harrington in Sparks, Nevada.
	Ivan Babic in Astoria, New York.
	Sean Thorpe in San Luis Obispo, California.
	Sir Jeff of PA Route 33 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
	Adriana Oporto in Hayward, California.
	Baron of Southern Illinois, Sir Lyman of the Net, Anna, Illinois.
	Randy O'Rourke in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
	Eric Fredrickson, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
	Kristen McChesney in Baytown, Texas.
	Timothy Beshears in Cookville, Tennessee.
	Jessica Sanchez, Dickinson, North Dakota.
	Christian Sutton Jensen in Marinette, Wisconsin.
	Alina Avavari in Leidschendam.
	Thank you very much.
	With love.
	Back to you.
	Garrett Fathereed, Westward Village, Texas.
	Andrew Smith, Indian Land, South Carolina.
	Sir David Fugazotto, Duke of America's Heartland and the Arabian Peninsula, Gladstone, Missouri.
	Thank you very much to the family as well.
	Shane Rugg in Wyoming, Missouri?
	No, Wyoming, Mississippi?
	What is this?
	That's interesting.
	M.I.
	is Mississippi.
	Yeah, it is Mississippi.
	Rose Ann Lincolns in Landisville, Pennsylvania.
	Actually, M.I.
	is Michigan.
	Michigan, right.
	We're in Michigan.
	We sound like this.
	Hey, what state is M.I.?
	I'm sorry.
	See, this is how it happens.
	Roseanne Lincolns, Landesville, Pennsylvania.
	Sir Skip Logic in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
	John Grumling in Battlement Mesa, Colorado.
	Brandon Logan in Athens, Ohio.
	Larry Mason, Thompson Station, Tennessee.
	Mara Gabrielle in Amsterdam.
	What does she say?
	Leafs from Amsterdam?
	Thank you.
	Stephanie Schmidt, San Francisco, California.
	Support from a librarian, thank you.
	Biloxi, Mississippi is where Chad Belcher is.
	Lauren Bell in Slidell, Louisiana.
	Paul Wagner in Middleton, Ohio.
	Dennis Adams in Westchester, PA.
	Sir Craig Porter, the Ronin, November 7.
	Foxtrot Sierra, November.
	73 is Kilo5AlphaCharlieCharlie.
	58 from Carlsbad, California.
	This list is long, it's appreciated.
	William Torres, Chesterton, Indiana.
	Richard Altman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Scandinavia.
	Derek Skanil, Watkins, Minnesota.
	Anthony Tomaszewski, Montebello, New York.
	Sir Daddy Cass, Baron of the Center of the Universe in Mechanicsville, Virginia.
	Alex Loosh or Lesh, Chicago, Illinois.
	What is he?
	Oh, he has a switcheroo.
	He says Loosh.
	Loosh, I think it is.
	He says, Monday my card was declined, but my boy named Sue covered me and threw an extra 20 bucks for gas, which is three gallons, so it should be in his name.
	Gitmo Region 5 resident spook.
	Happy birthday.
	Oh, okay.
	We got all that.
	Elliot Johnson, continuing with the 58th birthday celebration.
	Congratulations.
	Morristown, Arizona.
	Mark Oliveri in Cedar Park, Texas.
	Mark Stokesbury in Centennial, Colorado.
	Jessica Barrett in Leveland, Texas.
	Mary Corbett in Glenview, Illinois.
	Eric Curtis in Detroit, Michigan.
	Hendrik Schuitjens in Riverview, Florida.
	Gefellis die Flopstad.
	Thank you.
	Patrick Coble, Sir Patrick Scoble, Fairview, Tennessee.
	Duke of the South.
	Baron Chris, Protector of North Austin in Austin, Texas.
	Joshua Sparks, Burlington, Ontario, Candanavia.
	Eagle Rivers for Stucker with the 58, that's Alaska.
	SirNBS in Chicago, Illinois.
	And finally, James Poulos in Reno, Nevada.
	These are the people who just love me!
	Thank you.
	That was a long list.
	It's very, very humbling.
	Very nice.
	Really appreciate it.
	And thank you for all the personal notes.
	I have responded, I think, to almost everyone personally.
	If not, I'll get back to you.
	It's very nice and humbling.
	I feel very blessed.
	Yeah, it was very good.
	Onward, Brian Furley, 5510.
	Andrew Ekternach in Round Lake, Minnesota, 5510.
	Sir Tom Darry.
	Oh, by the way, for Andrew, I need a de-douching for his new human resource, Scotty Marie.
	You've been de-douched.
	33 days old today.
	There you have it.
	Anonymous in Salem, Oregon, 5001.
	James Sheremeta, 50.
	The following people are all $50 donors.
	Name and location.
	Uh, Sheremeta's in Nappanock.
	Nappanock.
	Loretta Vandenberg in Provincetown, Louisiana.
	Anna Drake in Whitestown, Indiana.
	That's Provincetown, Louisiana.
	Whitestown, Indiana.
	Kenneth Pericks in Castaic, California.
	I didn't even know it was Castaic in California.
	Sir Matthew Janiszewski, Janiszewski in Chicago.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Michelle Layer, I think.
	Um, in Henderson, Michigan, and she has a note.
	I punched, I was punched in the mouth by douchebag co-worker Eric.
	Uh-oh.
	I think he needs a douchebag call out.
	Oh!
	Douchebag!
	Sorry.
	There you go.
	And last but not least, Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	I want to thank all those people for making this show a possibility and especially for all the $58 donors that once a year come to the rescue of the show by wishing Adam a happy birthday and supporting the show at the same time.
	It's a fantastic idea.
	It did, it did really do, it did do both.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	Now I have a couple of, um, notes.
	Or as I like to say is, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Sean Stedman, uh, who apparently donated a while ago is still waiting for his, uh, karma for his mom.
	She desperately needs, uh, F cancer karma.
	Well, of course.
	I'm sorry that that got mixed up.
	Stop it!
	You've got...
	Armand.
	I'm not messing around with some goat.
	And then this DariusUnity, this has just been a cacophony of fun, of errors, really, to get this guy's note.
	He kept telling us that we missed his note.
	We said, well, can you send the note?
	We never had the note.
	That's the problem.
	We never got the note.
	We never got the note in the first place.
	So he sends me another.
	Sorry, didn't get you the note.
	You know, the note could have been attached to all these messages that went back and forth.
	He says, and I feel bad about it.
	So, order anything you want from the website, he says to me.
	And I'm looking at your website.
	What website?
	You didn't leave me a website to look at.
	Okay.
	Whatever.
	In the morning, gents and myriad thanks for your courage and serious apologies for my lack of brevity.
	Conversely, when a former U.S.
	Army sniper with mouths to feed gets a platform, Here we go.
	Shout-outs first.
	Mad love to the Keeper, Mom Dukes, and my pretty precious Princess for giving me a reason to Charlie Mike.
	Also, my fellow combat vet Lil Big Bro was born in 92 on 207.
	Him and his wife always give the best gifts, advice, and encouragement.
	Last, Famo himself, JF in Midland, Texas, hit me in the mouth back in November after the heavens blessed us to cross paths.
	Stay in touch and become co-hosts.
	Oh, he does a podcast.
	We're still redoing our first episode before publishing again.
	My mostly free blog has plenty of war stories, political commentary, pop culture reviews, etc.
	If no one in the nation feels compelled to tip or pledge a paltry sum to me, I guess you can do that.
	Now, it's peacefultidings.com.
	And we're sorry we missed your note, but we got it all squared away.
	Here's a karma for you.
	You've got karma.
	And then did we have one more?
	I thought we got Sir Jimmy's note.
	I thought we read him.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I think we did because we said he has two more Adam Curry signed holo books.
	Oh right, yes, we did get his note.
	Maybe he still has a couple of those.
	I was making fun of the fact that he only sold one.
	It depends on what he sold it for, I guess.
	I have no idea.
	Like $5,000.
	$5,000 million.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much for these fabulous birthday well-wishes for all of our producers, including the execs and associate execs, and of course, everyone under $50 who comes in typically for reasons of anonymity.
	Hello, Anonymous.
	Or maybe you're on one of those many programs.
	And did we get anyone doing $5.80?
	By any chance?
	Oh, I don't know.
	Uh, nope.
	No one did.
	Probably.
	Hey, I won!
	I remember some coming in.
	Won!
	We got one and I can mention her because it's Millennial Mel.
	Millennial Mel, she's out of money.
	Yes, well, that's okay.
	You know what?
	This could be a lot to her.
	This is very valuable.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	You're the best podcaster in the universe.
	Love, Mel.
	I thought it said love me, but it says love Mel.
	Thank you, Mel.
	Thank you, everybody.
	If you'd like to learn how to become a producer of this fab podcast, go here.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A.
	And we do have some other birthdays to contend with.
	Susie Hoibourg celebrated on mine, the 3rd, as did Sir Brent.
	Anonymous in Phoenix is celebrating today.
	Rosarianne Kozinski, she says happy birthday to her amazing man, Zach Horsley of Calgary, 41 on the 6th.
	And finally, Shawna Norberg will be celebrating happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Now I'm thinking that maybe we weren't sure if Sir Jimmy had upped his title, but I guess here he is on the list.
	Sir Jimmy of freeholobooks.com is now officially a baronet.
	We love seeing you here, Sir Jimmy.
	It was good to see you in South Carolina as well.
	Good to reconnect after all those years.
	Sir John of South London becomes the Viscount Kumar of South London, and we have a... I think we got a London meet-up report later on for today.
	But first... What's that?
	Say what?
	Spot on.
	Spot on.
	Yes, we have... One, two... No, what do we have here?
	We have zero knights.
	We have no knights?
	We're nightless.
	We're nightless, I tell you.
	Oh well.
	That's wild.
	Everyone blew their wad on my birthday.
	No one should have meet up.
	Start your comedy.
	Now we had three really nice meetup reports that came in.
	I love it.
	You guys are starting to produce.
	It's appreciated.
	Central Ohio, enter.
	This is Wild Bill of Ohio from the Central Ohio Meetup.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	Thank you.
	This is Maddie from Cincinnati.
	I took another road trip.
	And same thing.
	Great people, great beer.
	This is Nick from Central Ohio.
	It's a red night at Skype.
	Sky and night.
	Sailor's delight.
	I'd like to thank Bill for his courage for arranging another meetup.
	This is Josh.
	It's Meg CC in the his house!
	This is Mary Rose.
	In the morning, guys.
	Love you.
	Always yours in the morning.
	It's Abel Kirby.
	Clownin' it up in Ohio.
	This is Corsica Lynn, your favorite conspiracy theorist.
	In the morning, this is Sir Bubba Hotep, your favorite hoodbilly.
	Hotep and Bill.
	Thank you, gentlemen.
	Happy birthday!
	In the morning!
	Uh, Abel Kirby was there.
	They must have had a good time.
	He and Circe Benjamin, those guys are nuts.
	Uh, Indie!
	How's the NA tribal meetup going there?
	Hello, this is Maria from Indiana.
	And this is Mark at our latest meetup in August.
	Thank you for your courage and everything you do to inspire us, Adam and John.
	You guys are amazing.
	This is David, long-time listener.
	First time I had a meet-up and it's been great.
	Dame Swanee, in the morning.
	Sir Benny here, just hearing about all the kale recipes.
	ITM comrades, this is Cindy from Carmel.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Hello, this is Maddie from Cincinnati.
	Took a little day trip to Westfield, Indiana.
	Thanks for the warm welcome.
	Great food, great beer, and great people.
	Bruce here from South Broad Ripple.
	Hi, I'm Sir Ripple of the Maple.
	This meet-up is dope.
	We had mutton, we had mead.
	No round table, but maybe next time.
	In the morning to you, John and Adam.
	My pronouns are Cool Guy and Captain Awesome.
	Hello, this is Anthony Seven, a Viscount of Hamilton and the Two Pennies.
	Hello, it is I, Klaus Niruko von Schlab, and you'll eat the bugs in the morning.
	My name is Emily, and my mom hits me in the mouth really hard.
	That's what she said.
	My name is also Emily, but I'm a spook, and I'm gonna keep it short and snappy.
	Hi, this is Robert, living the international value-for-value lifestyle.
	In the morning, Drew Williams from Carmel, Indiana.
	In the morning, this is Nathan from Broderpool.
	I dragged my 14-year-old son here on his birthday to meet like-minded people and great times.
	Hi, my name's Phoenix.
	My dad dragged me here.
	How big is that meetup?
	That's a big meetup, and Maddie from Cincinnati was there too.
	I wonder if she's the spook.
	Since this is the Keeper's home turf, we gotta go to one of these.
	She's gonna be Deanna.
	Oh, that'd be fantastic.
	Yeah, definitely go.
	Or, or, or, we could fry the fry.
	We could fly to London to join the Gwiffers.
	Here's Gwuff.
	Gwuff does our report for today.
	Hey, this is Paul.
	We're by the Angel.
	Is it the Angel?
	Yeah, the Angel, by the Thames, which apparently is where the Pilgrim Fathers sail from.
	William Forsyth-Horman, one half of AI.cooking.
	Hey, this is Paul.
	We're by the Angel.
	Is it the Angel?
	Yeah, the Angel by the Thames, which apparently is where the Pilgrim Fathers sail from.
	No, but no, no, that's the Mayflower.
	Yeah, nearby.
	But yeah.
	Great show, guys.
	Great show.
	Keep it up.
	Brilliant.
	Yes, I'm back from where the forefathers came from.
	About 50 metres from me is where the USA started.
	I'm glad that I'm back here drinking pints with the No Agenda crew.
	Hi, I'm Rob.
	Is this thing on?
	Trying to think of something to say.
	Hyperthermiax pro-Ukraine.
	My children will freeze so that we can save Ukraine.
	ITM, John and Adam.
	Love the show.
	This is Sarah having a great time at my very first meetup.
	Hey, it's Mike here.
	There's no bugs.
	I said I would only eat the bugs if the Queen had one, but I guess she's dead.
	I'll have to deepfake that.
	Anyway, how are they going to convince vegans to eat bugs?
	Happy birthday, Adam!
	Also cool!
	I like that.
	We got some production coming to these things.
	Very good.
	Here's some of the meetups that you can attend.
	I'd love to go back to another London meetup.
	That was so much fun.
	You've been to one of those, right?
	The London meetups?
	Oh yeah.
	It's the same place I think they go to.
	That place in the corner?
	Yep.
	Today, the annual Pig Row South Jersey kicks off in about 15 minutes.
	That'll be in Medford Lakes, New Jersey.
	Dame One of the Lakes is organizing.
	On Tuesday, walk behind the six-pack Lotus.
	That's Buckethead Tavern in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Five o'clock.
	And on Thursday, our next show day, suppertime!
	Six o'clock.
	Phoenix, Arizona.
	Blanco Cocina and Cantina.
	I gotta say that.
	Cocina.
	Is it Cocina or Cocina?
	One of the two is wrong.
	Usually Cocina.
	I think, yeah.
	Cocina is like a nasty thing.
	Cocina is the way to say it.
	Scottsdale, Arizona.
	I'm just looking at this list all the way through the end of October.
	This is out of control.
	We have, well, it's not really out of control.
	It's completely, it is out of our control.
	Producers, producers organize this.
	Sir Daniel over there, noagendameetups.com.
	Thank you so much for all that you've done making this all come together so that people can find not just community, but in many, in many instances, partner, life partner, wife, husband.
	Oh yeah.
	NoagendaMeetups.com, meet your partner there!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Drink it on hell's flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Before we do the ISOs, I have some disturbing news.
	I would say, in a way, she was quickly becoming one of our favorites.
	Palki Sharma.
	You familiar with Palki Sharma from WION?
	She is the Indian newsletter.
	Oh, the Indian woman.
	Yeah, the Indian woman.
	She has either quit or she has been asked to leave by new management.
	Oh, of course.
	You buy a station like that to get rid of one person.
	Well, they succeeded.
	So she's out.
	She'll be somewhere else.
	I'm thinking podcasting 2.0.
	I was thinking the same thing, podcaster.
	Come on, Miss Sharma.
	I'll be happy to help you out.
	Alright, I'll do my ISOS first.
	I don't think they're all that great.
	Here's what I have.
	Experts are infallible.
	I have this one.
	Jiggle the handle!
	Jiggle the handle!
	Another one of those.
	Have you tried to jiggle the handle?
	Too late for that!
	Nah, those aren't good.
	Those are too long.
	I'm liking that last one.
	You like that last one?
	Hold on a second.
	Have you tried to jiggle the handle?
	Too late for that!
	I'd have to jack it up a bit in audio.
	Yeah, especially the front of it.
	Okay, I have a couple.
	I've got Burns.
	Okay.
	Till Burns.
	What?
	Till Burns.
	Still burns.
	It's kind of missing the beginning of that one.
	Yeah, it was bad.
	Okay, well here's the one that I like the most.
	I think it's something that makes nothing but sense to me to end the show with this.
	Call.
	What is that?
	Some Iraqi screaming in the streets.
	Yeah?
	I think it can work?
	But then I'd like to enhance.
	If I can, just to make it... With some guns fire?
	Yeah, that was kind of my idea.
	Let's see how we do this.
	Like that?
	I like it!
	Yeah, well... It's not all aggressive or creepy or anything like that.
	I think that's pretty good.
	We've succeeded once again.
	Oh, man.
	A couple of things before we go.
	What else do we have here?
	Oh.
	I love this, why can't this happen in America?
	In, I guess, kind of the Moscow or maybe even Russian... No, this is Chinese, isn't Yandex, isn't that a Chinese company, like the Chinese Uber?
	Or is that Russian?
	Yandex?
	Yeah, Yandex.
	Yeah, I think it's some... I don't know if it's... Yeah.
	I think it is.
	I had to do a mea culpa, but I think it's a Chinese company.
	I think it's a Chinese company, but they are running in Moscow, and someone apparently hacked into the system and ordered every single available vehicle to one spot in Moscow.
	The pictures are hilarious.
	I would love for this to happen.
	I mean, it sucks for the people who are driving Uber, but what a great hack.
	Yeah.
	Send everybody to the same address at the same time.
	It's good.
	It's funny.
	It's just a hint, people.
	Just a hint.
	Let me see.
	I think our code's probably better than the next code.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	Maybe not.
	What else did I have?
	Oh yeah.
	Finally, we're seeing more of these lawsuits.
	I think we mentioned American Express was getting sued for putting quotas on how many white people could be hired.
	Amazon is now facing a lawsuit over a $10,000 hiring bonus made exclusively to black Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs.
	These are all lawsuits waiting to happen.
	This ESG thing is a nightmare.
	And Bank of America, though, is apparently experimenting with no down payment mortgages for black and Latino communities.
	What could possibly go wrong with that?
	Oh, nothing.
	That's always worked.
	We've never seen anything screw up with that.
	All right.
	Anything else before we leave?
	I just mentioned that Amazon's taking all their solar panels off.
	It was in the newsletter.
	Because they were lighting on fire, right?
	They're just catching on fire spontaneously.
	Spontaneous panel combustion.
	Is that what it's called?
	It actually has a name?
	Spontaneous?
	Well, I named it that.
	Then let's get out of here.
	Alright, good idea.
	Good idea.
	Hey everybody!
	We've got more stuff on Thursday.
	Oh, we've got tons of stuff to do.
	I want to thank everybody so much for the birthday wishes.
	Yeah, you can wish them birthday on next Thursday, too, if you feel like it.
	Yeah, you could, but I feel special enough right now.
	Within five days, I think it's good enough.
	Not that I'd milk it.
	No, no.
	Why would you do that?
	No reason.
	Coming up next on No Agenda Stream and in the Troll Room, trollroom.io.
	Oh, it's live!
	Bowls with Buds!
	With Sir Spencer, Dame DeLorean and guest, uh, Mika?
	Mika Rock'n'Roll?
	Mika Rock'n'Roll?
	How is Bowls with Buds any different than Bowl After Bowl?
	How many bowl shows do we have?
	I think it's all kind of the same people who just never get up.
	They just keep doing those shows.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return again for you here on the No Agenda Show on Thursday.
	End of show, really, we've got Lee O. LaPuke and our very own Clip Custodian, Neil Jones.
	Enjoy those.
	Until Thursday, adios mofos and such!
	I'm talking about dishwashers.
	I'm talking about dishwashers, sinks, toilets.
	Sinks, toilets, and showers.
	You don't get any water.
	Try going and buying a new faucet.
	You turn it on, no water comes out.
	We won't talk about toilets.
	But how about the shower?
	I have this beautiful head of hair.
	I need a lot of water.
	You turn on the water, drip, drip, drip.
	It's a very unpleasant experience.
	A situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms.
	I'm talking about dishwashers, sinks, Imagine what you'd think.
	A symbolic win for Ukraine.
	It's been granted candidate status.
	It came as the U.S.
	A symbolic win for Ukraine.
	It's been granted candidate status.
	It came as the U.S. announced a new $450 million military aid package.
	Imagine.
	Did you ever think the United States?
	Tonight, the U.S.
	announcing a massive $775 million military aid package for Ukraine.
	We can do this.
	The U.S.
	announcing a major new infusion of cash to Ukraine, 1.7 billion.
	We have to do this.
	Sources say the military aid will total about $3 billion, adding to the $10.6 billion the U.S.
	has sent Ukraine since the war began.
	We just need to remember who we are.
	Tonight, U.S.
	officials are planning to announce a record $3 billion aid package to Ukraine as the war hits the six-month mark.
	Let's remember who in God's name we are.
	We are the United States of America.
	President Biden today asking Congress for an additional $33 billion to support Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion.
	We the people.
	Who we are.
	We the people.
	Who we are.
	House lawmakers have approved 40 billion dollars in new aid for Ukraine.
	That's $7 billion more than President Biden requested.
	And by the way, where the hell are we?
	Overseas tonight to the war in Ukraine.
	The White House now asking Congress for more than $13 billion in additional military aid.
	Please, please, please, please.
	Classify!
	Classify!
	Classified!
	Classified!
	At the end of the day, what am I going to do?
	Classified!
	At the end of the day, what am I going to do?
	Classified!
	What am I going to do?
	Classified!
	At the end of the day, what am I going to do?
	I didn't go to the lengths of setting up to find a server in Asia.
	At the end of the day, Cindy, I'm going to shoot some head.
	My God!
	That's classified!
	I think she should have been the Aussie one.
	What happened?
	Blast the fire.
	Perfect.
	All right.
	Have you ever been a secretary's pet?
	Podcasts in the universe!

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