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1484: Do It For Ukraine

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	How patronizing is this dude?
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's Thursday, September 8, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1484.
	This is no agenda.
	Ah, show day.
	Show day.
	She did it on a show day.
	of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're all saying the same thing.
	Long live the queen.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Ah, show day.
	Show day.
	She did it on a show day.
	Or they did it on a show day would be more accurate.
	Well.
	You know, I mean, the timing is perfect.
	Get the new Prime Minister in.
	Shake hands with the Queen.
	So that isn't a question.
	It would be horrible if she passed away before she accepted the new Prime Minister.
	And then, done.
	Perfect.
	Did you see the pictures of her shaking hands with Liz Truss?
	Oh, I thought that was Liz Schreier.
	Okay.
	I'm not going to do the joke.
	Yes, I did.
	She's lost about a foot in height.
	You know, that's not the woman I met, I'll tell you that.
	And it probably wasn't.
	You know, and she looks like that one shot where she's leaning over and she's got her bag on her arm, which is, you know, kind of her signature look and her cane.
	I mean, she looks just like a wax figure.
	Just like a wax figure.
	Anyway, this of course kicks off the Great Reset.
	I've been waiting for the signal.
	Here it is.
	On deck.
	We still have the Pope.
	He will resign, of course.
	And Liz Truss.
	I think she'll become the Margaret Thatcher of her age.
	What do you think?
	No.
	Me neither.
	Have you heard about her plan?
	So she's coming and everyone's hurting.
	She's got some new phrase for the country, too.
	The Britain, the country of the future or something.
	Some crazy little ditty she's dreamed up.
	Oh, I didn't hear this.
	I've obviously only heard it once and I can't remember it.
	For our British producers, we're sorry for your loss.
	I know that in a weird way you guys really care about that stuff.
	I get it.
	And now we move on to making fun.
	So Liz Truss, she's another Prime Minister.
	She has to hit the ground running.
	She has to, you know, we had to get Boris out.
	She has stuff to prove.
	Let's start with resetting, I don't know.
	Liz Truss will announce a freeze to average domestic energy bills at £2,500 for up to two years.
	Now, universal grants of £400, already announced by Rishi Sunak, will still apply, bringing that down to £2,100, close to the current price cap of £1,971.
	But without intervention, that figure will rise 80% to £3,549.
	cap of 1971.
	But without intervention, that figure will rise 80% to £3,549.
	And to stop that increase, the government will borrow to make up the difference between the cap figure and the real cost to suppliers of buying energy.
	So taxpayer money will go to energy companies to pay for our bills.
	Now, the cost of filling that gap for all households would be about £40 billion a year.
	But that's without anything So, this is very interesting.
	in wholesale gas markets.
	Government sources say the total package won't exceed 100 billion pounds a year, but it is impossible to accurately predict the cost because of the volatility of energy markets, and there will be concern this could be a blank check funding energy company profits.
	- So this is very interesting.
	- By the way, that report was as good as it gets.
	- No, no, no, no, we have-- Confusing numbers flying around.
	Oh no, this is happening at the Queen Ursula level.
	I mean, I know it's separate from the UK and they're not quite doing the same, but here's what I understand.
	They put a cap on it.
	Let's just say your total yearly bill would be two and a half thousand.
	I can't be more than that.
	If your bill, because of the deregulated electricity markets, is for some reason $5,000, then the government will borrow the $2,500 that you can't pay because of the cap, which I guess is determined by the electricity companies, who as we know are just trading desks, trading energy back and forth, futures, five, ten years into the future.
	They'll get that money, which of course I think is kind of a self-feeding machine.
	Doesn't that mean that, you know, they'll do everything they can to raise the price because it comes off the government anyway?
	And then, of course, they're borrowing.
	I'm not sure what they mean by that.
	Does that mean they are they doing money?
	Thank you.
	That's what I wanted to make sure it was.
	So they will create money, which creates inflation, which will just make the prices go higher.
	So it's a self-fulfilling machine, right?
	I'm not crazy in that thinking, am I?
	You know, it's kind of funny because it reminds me of the student loan crisis, where all of a sudden you create, you allow students to get these loans that really were just a signature, and then coincidentally the prices of the tuition go up.
	And so the student loans get more, you know, there's more of them, and so the prices of tuitions go up.
	It's kind of the same thing.
	Well, this is now, this was rolled out yesterday by Queen Ursula.
	I'll just get right into it.
	I have a couple, they're all short clips to explain it precisely because this is a disaster and all that anyone got from her speech, which at first I was like, oh man, this is great.
	When I, you know, Tucker Carlson had this clip, everybody sent me this clip.
	But that's all they ever looked at was this one clip from Queen Ursula rolling out her energy and electricity plan.
	And this is what is expensive.
	Because in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into the market.
	So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands.
	We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours and we will work very closely with the member states to achieve this.
	Now of course everyone correctly identifies the flatten the curve, get ready to be locked down or turn off stuff by command, by rule, and as you heard that Queen Ursula and the European Commission, of which he's the president, They're going to mandate, mandate, the member states go and reduce their peak hours.
	And so that's now, instead of flattening the curve of, this is the same fun game we get to play, instead of flattening the curve of infections and deaths, now we get to flatten the curve of peak demand.
	So, Ursula lays out this strategy for the European Union.
	It's a doozy.
	It's this on steroids.
	So, and by the way, man, she must be like two feet tall.
	And she wears skinny jeans, like she's got toothpicks and a big head with that hair.
	You see her from the side.
	It's kind of creepy.
	Are you still with me?
	Yeah, I'm just listening.
	Okay.
	She's not kind of creepy.
	She's very creepy.
	So she comes out, does 15 minutes.
	I got a couple of clips.
	This is just kind of the intro, a little status, where we're at, and you know, oh, it's so great, and everything's fantastic, and we're kicking Putin's ass.
	But, you know, we do have a few issues.
	And we were able, if you look at the cuts that Russia has done in gas, we were able to completely compensate so far the gas imports through other reliable suppliers.
	And of course the third step is the most important.
	This is massive investment in renewables.
	We have RepowerEU on the table.
	Yeah.
	The renewables are cheap.
	They are homegrown.
	They make us independent.
	We will deploy... When she says the renewables are cheap, they are homegrown, does she literally mean the sun and the wind?
	Because she's not talking about the stuff that converts renewables into energy, is she?
	They're not cheap.
	And they're not homegrown.
	Well, even the homegrown stuff's not cheap.
	I think she's just talking purely about wind and sun.
	Yeah, that's homegrown.
	It's homegrown.
	The sun is hitting my property.
	It's homegrown right here.
	I grew that.
	Hey, I should be able to get a car.
	If I put a petunia out there and the sun hit it and it grew the petunia, I could say the petunia is homegrown.
	Homegrown.
	Because of the sun.
	Why you come up with petunia?
	I don't know, but I like it.
	It's very cute.
	And of course the third step is the most important.
	This is massive investment in renewables.
	We have RepowerEU on the table.
	The renewables are cheap, they're homegrown, they make us independent.
	No, John, she's not talking about that.
	We just determined she's talking about the sun and the wind.
	They're cheap, they're homegrown.
	Well, the sun and the wind are cheap because they're there, but to get the energy out of them and put it into play is not cheap.
	But that's why she's saying this.
	I'm just deconstructing.
	She's not lying.
	Like, hey, sun and wind is cheap.
	Oh, I'll turn it into something cool.
	Renewables are cheap and homegrown.
	I'd like it, Queen.
	We will deploy renewables this year.
	Renewables!
	Come here with your renewables!
	That are an equivalent to around about 8 billion cubic meters.
	So the renewables are really our energy insurance for the future.
	But we also see that the Russian manipulation of the gas market has spillover effects on the electricity market.
	Manipulation?
	So there's on one hand the Russian manipulation, but there are also other factors during this summer.
	We see the effects of climate change.
	We see the drought.
	There's a drought.
	Hydropower has been reduced by 26% in the European Union, and if you look at Portugal, 46%.
	And we have the fact that we have less nuclear electricity in the European Union at the moment being.
	I like how she... At the moment being.
	At the moment being.
	Because she knows it has been dismantled in her own country and so she can't even finish the sentence properly.
	We have the fact that we have less nuclear electricity in the European Union at the moment being.
	Yes.
	And this is the reason why we are now confronted with astronomic electricity prices for households and companies, and with an enormous market volatility.
	Therefore, we will put forward a set of five different immediate measures.
	Okay.
	Are you ready for your five measures?
	You're going to love every single one of them.
	And your task is to be on the lookout and let me know if at any point any of these five measures sounds like nationalization of any market.
	Because it's kind of hard to determine what nationalization is.
	I mean, is it literally we own it, we have to have the pink slip?
	Is that when true nationalization takes place?
	As opposed to what?
	What you're gonna hear.
	Well listen to this.
	So here's your five points.
	Measure one.
	The first one is smart saving of electricity.
	What has changed over the summer because of the elements I was just mentioning, that we see there's a global scarcity of energy.
	So, whatever we do, one thing is for sure, we have to save electricity, but we have to save it in a smart way.
	If you look at the costs of electricity, they are peak demands.
	And this is what is expensive, because in these peak demands, The expensive gas comes into the market.
	So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands.
	We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours and we will work very closely with the member states to achieve this.
	So there's the full clip of Flatten the Curve.
	And she's correct, because when there's peak demand and your free and homegrown renewables can't cut it, and gas has to come in, and that is now four to, I guess, ten times as expensive.
	So let's go to measure... So this means we have to save smart.
	She didn't really explain what that is, but... And she didn't explain how to do it.
	I mean, there's a reason it's called peak demand.
	Yes.
	It's when you need it the most.
	So stop needing it so much, you slaves!
	Stop it and flatten the curve.
	So that's going to be mandatory unplugging of stuff.
	And I'm sure that there will be...
	Well, you know, they're pushing this process here in California because we've had these hot days.
	It's another one today.
	You get phone alerts.
	I never got a phone alert, but...
	Sorry, didn't mean to do that.
	What the hell was that?
	I tripped over the sword, over the knighting sword.
	Sorry.
	Geez.
	What they're telling us is that don't run the dishwasher, don't run your clothes washer, don't run these mechanical devices, that should be enough.
	So you cannot wash the clothes at between four and eight.
	I don't even know why this peak demand, the time of it is weird to me.
	It's like four to eight or something like that.
	Let me see what it is.
	I happen to have the, the ERCOT.
	Let me see what it is in Texas with the peak, cause you can see the curve.
	Let me see the peak starts at, of course.
	Oh yeah, here we go.
	Yeah, around, yeah.
	No, actually, the peak starts around 6.
	I mean, the real peak... 6 p.m.?
	The peak is 8 p.m.
	But I mean, it's all fine up until, you know, up until 6.
	Well, ours is supposedly at four, but... Now, why does it go up?
	I guess people come home from work and they turn on the air conditioner, maybe?
	I don't know what... Or they come home and they do the dishes, or they come home and run the washing machine?
	They move their life from elsewhere to their home.
	That's how it works.
	Everyone comes home... Yeah, and once you do that, once you get to the home... It shifts away from other... But it should shift away from other places.
	Screw you is right.
	It's all bullshit, John.
	It's all bullshit.
	It's all manufactured.
	Here we go.
	Measure number two.
	The second measure.
	We will propose a cap on the revenues of companies that are producing electricity with low costs.
	Okay, so this is interesting.
	There will be a cap on revenues, which they call a inframarginal.
	It's a great term.
	And she had this great chart which explained it later.
	So the way electricity works is the price of electricity is priced at the most expensive source.
	So if it's coal or gas or whatever it is, that price that that entity is offering, that will be the price for all electricity.
	Now, if you have wind or solar, you know, the homegrown free stuff, Your cost is very low.
	So what she is now saying is, these companies are getting such a free ride, these renewable companies, that all that extra profit, we're going to take.
	Because screw you!
	The second measure.
	We will propose a cap on the revenues of companies that are producing electricity with low costs.
	Now, I don't know, she says revenues, I think she would mean profits, but I'm not sure.
	No, she probably meant revenues.
	So they want to cut straight into the revenues, which is just phenomenal.
	The low carbon energy sources.
	So you don't deserve them!
	because they have low costs but they are high prices on the market enormous revenues revenues they never calculated with revenues they never dreamt of so you don't deserve them and revenues they cannot reinvest as far you can't even spend it that's so much money the uh this goes it takes us right back to the 70s and this is price controls what ...would normally be called price controls.
	These revenues do not reflect their production costs, so it is now time... Did we even tell you what you should be making?
	I mean, when the government says, you're making too much revenues, this is not equal to your production costs, We suckered you into getting into this business, promising big profits, big money, big revenues.
	And now that you've been suckered and you're in it, we're taking your money.
	These revenues do not reflect their production costs, so it is now time for the consumers to benefit from the low costs of low carbon sources, like for example the renewables.
	We will propose to re-channel these unexpected profits.
	Re-channel the profits?
	We channel them to the member states so that the member states can support the vulnerable households and vulnerable companies.
	So, it's interesting because she uses terminology here, which, as we'll find out in a moment, is specific for the renewables.
	And she says, we will re-channel your profits, which to me means that the government can actually just intervene in that payment traffic.
	Yeah, we're looking at your revenues, we're looking at all, you know, you make a lot of revenues.
	I'm going to shunt that, we're going to re-channel it.
	Over to the consumers.
	So this is how we're going to give people stimulus.
	They should take another look at Apple.
	Do it with them.
	I know it's got nothing to do with energy, but they're making too much money.
	They should re-channel it.
	Hold on.
	I love this re-channeling.
	Now, don't you dirty, horrible, world-killing, baby-killing, human-killing fossil fuel companies think you're getting off easy.
	Uh-uh!
	For some reason we can't re-channel you.
	We've got a special term for you.
	The third measure is that the same goes, of course, for the unexpected profits of fossil fuel companies.
	Oil and gas companies have also made massive profits and therefore we will propose that there is a solidarity contribution for fossil fuel companies.
	A solidarity contribution, comrades!
	What the hell?
	She left comrades out.
	This is such socialist bullshit.
	A solidarity contribution at your discretion, comrade.
	And therefore we will propose that there is a solidarity contribution for fossil fuel companies because all energy sources must help to overcome this crisis.
	Member states should invest these revenues to, as I said, support vulnerable households and vulnerable companies, but also to invest them in clean, homegrown energy sources, as the renewables are, for example.
	So, you're going to voluntarily... You're going to voluntarily give your money to the other guys that have already taken all the money from?
	Yes!
	What's the point?
	Why don't you just let those other people just keep their money?
	This is...
	It's not like I'm reading a lot of news stories deconstructing this at the very same time the Queen dies.
	So, we're not done yet.
	Two more to go.
	We still have these pesky electricity providers.
	Now, these are the companies that really are just trading energy, and they're just buying transit, and buying futures, and a lot of them are foreign-owned, Spanish, uh, not Italian, Spanish, um, I don't know Spanish, French, Wall Street, Enron people.
	So, you know, we need to help them, these poor, poor, poor energy traders.
	The fourth point is addressing the energy utility companies that must be supported to be able to cope with the volatility of the markets.
	And here it is a problem of securing future markets.
	And for that, liquidity is needed.
	Liquidity?
	These companies are currently being requested to provide unexpected large amounts of funds now, which threatens their capacity not only to trade, but also the stability of the future markets.
	It is a liquidity problem.
	Therefore, we will help to facilitate the liquidity support by member states for energy companies.
	We will update our temporary framework and enable, thus, state guarantees to be delivered rapidly.
	Let me translate from Brusselese.
	Liquidity problem means they don't have the money.
	So we will give them liquidity support means we're going to give them the money.
	To buy these contracts, which I'm sure in the models shows fully well that within a year or two it'll be back down.
	We might even make a profit on them.
	What do you think?
	Well, of course, that business is highly leveraged, so they probably do have the money.
	But I think they've been whining, and these people are so stupid that they bought into it.
	Yep.
	That would be my opinion.
	And where will this liquidity come from, do you think?
	Taxpayers.
	Printing the money, or taxpayers?
	Oh, no, well, the combination of it.
	You have to gouge the taxpayers, so you can print as much as you want, but you have to gouge the taxpayers to make them think that...
	That they're helping.
	They're doing it for Ukraine.
	They're doing it for Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	They're doing it for Ukraine.
	They're helping Ukraine.
	It's all about Ukraine.
	We've got to help them.
	For Ukraine.
	Poor guys.
	So the final one, the coup de grâce.
	Yes, this is what we'll all get behind.
	The whole world is going to join in this one.
	We aim at lowering the costs of gas.
	And therefore we will propose a price cap on Russian gas.
	Of course the objective is here very clear.
	We all know that our sanctions are deeply grinding into the Russian economy with a heavy negative impact.
	But Putin is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues.
	So here the objective is we must cut Russia's revenues which Putin uses to finance his atrocious war in Ukraine.
	Yeah, that's gonna happen.
	Sure.
	That's how free markets work.
	Hey everybody!
	Let's not pay more than this!
	Okay!
	I'm doing India-Pakistan.
	Iran.
	Yeah, you're doing something.
	So is this anywhere close to nationalization of the energy market?
	No, this is a socialistic...
	Which is ironic since they're dealing with the Russians who are, you know, into that too.
	So this is going to be butting heads I think.
	I got some Ukraine stuff that kind of doesn't follow that particular...
	I can transition you.
	I can transition you right into Ukraine, since we were saying for Ukraine.
	Did you see President Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelensky, ringing the bell on Wall Street?
	Did he change his t-shirt?
	Man, yes he did.
	His t-shirt, he had a different t-shirt on and said t-shirt.
	Did I say t-shirt?
	That's interesting.
	A different t-shirt.
	It was like power to the people or some bull crap like that.
	With a fist.
	Here's financial news stopping, stopping their reporting for this breathtaking moment.
	All right, we want to pause here because we've got the opening bell this morning.
	And there's someone quite interesting who's ringing the opening bell on this Tuesday morning, first trading day after Labor Day.
	And that's remotely President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ringing the opening bell remotely, as you can see there at the New York Stock Exchange.
	Now, so that's all that you really saw, but what he really did, he had a little preamble before he rang the bell.
	I want to play that for a second.
	This is Zelensky basically begging Wall Street to invest in Ukraine, which, I mean, that's what he's saying, but I think he's saying, hey, send more military industrial complex shit.
	This is fun.
	I invite you to Ukraine.
	Invest in Ukraine.
	This will be your victory and a new success story for your companies.
	Slava Ukraini!
	Start your walk!
	So he's saying, hey, invest in Ukraine.
	This will be great for you.
	This will be very successful.
	Put some money into Ukraine.
	I'm going to ring the bell.
	And here's how it translates on television.
	Quite a stark reminder here that, of course, the war is still ongoing.
	We talked earlier in the show about the implications of that war for the natural gas supply to the rest of Europe and the effect on energy prices.
	But that war just sort of gruelingly grinds on as Ukraine tries to reclaim, with some success, some of the territory in the south of its nation.
	And him continuing sort of the PR offensive, if you will, as well, making sure that those of us in the West are still aware of it and still talking about it.
	She has no idea what he did!
	No idea.
	Oh, it's just for awareness.
	Yeah, this is very good.
	He's there for awareness.
	He's doing it for Ukraine.
	Just everything now.
	If anyone says thank you to me, go ahead, try it, John.
	Hey, thanks, Adam.
	Hey, thanks, Adam.
	No, no, don't thank me.
	Thank Ukraine.
	I think that's the way to go.
	Thank Ukraine for protecting our democracy.
	All right, what kind of Ukraine clips do you have?
	Well, this is a little wrap-up of what's going on, kind of the up-to-date, there's a lot of action in Ukraine.
	Yes, yes, ringing bells.
	Let's take a look from the Shep Smith show.
	Oh, hello everybody.
	Because he had the last, yesterday, because I guess Jim Cramer had a sore throat or something, they gave him two hours to do the news.
	Uh-oh, was it a train wreck?
	Was it good?
	No, it wasn't at all.
	It's like he's an old pro and he could put the two-hour show together rather, you know, like it was smooth, but it was two hours.
	It went on forever.
	He called all his buddies to come on.
	Actually, you could kind of tell it was one of those last-minute call you, I'm calling you, Adam, because I'm going to be on the show and I need you to be on the call.
	Here's how it goes.
	Shep, Shep, Shep, man, you got to do it.
	Shep, Shep, do it for Ukraine.
	That could be, but I... actually, well, maybe.
	Here we go, let's go to Ukraine 1, CNBC.
	Ukrainian troops are going on an offensive.
	It now appears in a big way.
	Here's the new information.
	They just launched a surprise counter-offensive in the countries North and East.
	In an attempt to recapture territory near the Russian border.
	Now, the Russian invaders were already facing a fierce counterattack down in the south.
	It's a huge gamble by Ukraine that could potentially turn the tide after more than six months of a grinding war.
	Here's what happened today.
	The day that Vladimir Putin vowed he will keep fighting until the end, as he put it.
	In a moment, we'll get expert geopolitical analysis from Michael O'Hanlon.
	First, NBC's Jay Gray is live in Kyiv.
	Jay?
	Jeff, good evening.
	And during his speech, Vladimir Putin was defiant at times, combative, taking a swipe at the U.S.
	as well as the economic sanctions being levied against his country as the fighting does intensify here in Ukraine.
	A defiant Vladimir Putin promising to press on with Russia's war in Ukraine, saying his country has lost nothing in the almost seven months of fighting.
	Mocking Western sanctions he calls stupid and labeling the U.S.
	a dick dictatorship and foreign affairs, saying it's brazen and aggressive attempts to force others how to behave, deprive them of their sovereignty, and force them into submission.
	Russian troops have stepped up attacks in Kharki, shelling civilian targets, including apartment buildings, grocery stores, and a coffee shop.
	President Volodymyr Zelensky insists Ukraine forces are gaining significant ground with their counteroffensive now fully engaged, saying in a national address, we will liberate all our land, all our people.
	But that liberation comes with a heavy cost.
	Injured Ukrainian soldiers telling the Washington Post, they threw everything at us.
	We lost five people for every one they lost.
	This was a very uninteresting report from a sound perspective.
	They had very little effects.
	They could have had bombs and machine gun fire.
	My eyes were glazing over this.
	Al Jazeera knows how to do it right.
	But they did mention the Ukrainian bitching about the fact that we're losing...
	We're losing five and they're losing one.
	Wait a minute, that's not what you, you always have to push it the other direction.
	You don't say something like that.
	They're killing five of us for every one we kill.
	No, no, no, no.
	At least they're dying for Ukraine.
	That doesn't sound like a good thing.
	Anyway, let's go to part two.
	Let's turn to Michael O'Hanlon for analysis now.
	He's a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializes in U.S.
	defense strategy and national security policy.
	He's authored 20 or so books on war, the military, and NATO.
	Michael, thanks so much.
	The EU wants to cap how much it pays for gas from Russia.
	Putin says if that happens, he'll cut them off completely and, in his words, freeze them.
	Is energy his most powerful weapon right now?
	Well, he certainly has not lost any revenue this year from all the sanctions.
	By the way, that's a gross mischaracterization, because I got what I think are pretty accurate translations of Putin's speech, and what Putin said was, you will freeze!
	You will freeze!
	He didn't say, I'm gonna freeze you!
	Like he's, you know, Captain Freeze or something.
	It's like Batman vs. Dickens.
	Was it Mr. Freeze?
	I don't remember who it was.
	It was Freeze and everybody.
	Yeah, the Freeze guy.
	Thanks so much, Freeze guy.
	Mr. Freeze.
	Mr. Freeze.
	There you go.
	Mr. Freeze.
	Arnie.
	Mr. Freeze.
	Captain Freeze.
	And NATO.
	Michael, thanks so much.
	The EU wants to cap how much it pays for gas from Russia.
	Putin says if that happens, he'll cut them off completely and, in his words, freeze them.
	Is energy his most powerful weapon right now?
	Well, he certainly has not lost any revenue this year from all the sanctions.
	And in that sense, it is a weapon for him because he doesn't need to keep making money.
	He's not at a point where hard currency is his main constraint.
	He's lost a lot of access to our best technology.
	We see that in what weapons he's able to build.
	The Russian economy is taking a hit because a lot of American and Western firms have pulled out, but his revenue from oil and gas has not declined at all.
	And he may be willing to do some kind of a cutoff in order to just wreak punishment and havoc and revenge against this.
	However, I'm not really clear what purpose that serves him in the long run, because I think it would accelerate Europe's efforts to diminish further their reliance on Russian oil and gas.
	And perhaps by next winter, not this one, but next one, maybe he could have found alternative sources.
	So it's a game that I think he'll play to some extent, but I'd be surprised if he really cuts Europe off altogether.
	I wouldn't.
	He's drawing the line.
	Well, he's definitely, like the guy said, and nobody else wants to say this, but he's made out.
	Yeah, like a bandit.
	Yeah, because his price, what was the oil price before this thing began?
	$40 or something like that.
	And he's selling through the back door, and he's probably got straw men in the middle to jack it up.
	Of course, that's what you do.
	Yeah, no, he's selling to somebody else, then he ends up in Europe anyway with twice the price.
	John, I talked to Christina.
	It's bad.
	The government's going to have to step in.
	She said people can't pay for anything.
	They can't afford the groceries.
	Now the electricity is off the hook and it's all this prepay stuff.
	So now you got to prepay 4,000 euros, huh?
	Wow.
	That's a pretty good stiff bill.
	Yeah.
	This is a real problem.
	They will freeze already without the price cap shut off that Putin's talking about.
	Without that.
	Yeah, it's bad.
	Well, whatever.
	Let's go to clip three not good.
	So I think that this is far from over, even if the momentum is now on Ukraine's side.
	You said it doesn't end before the winter.
	We heard from a top Ukrainian commander today who said he fully expects this war to keep going well into 2023.
	Has the West armed Ukraine sufficiently to sustain this fight?
	I think we're doing the right kinds of things, but we're going to have to keep it up.
	You know, we've given them about $10 billion in American arms, so a little over a billion a month.
	We're probably going to have to get used to that kind of a number.
	Hold on, stop, stop the clip.
	Woo-hoo!
	Woo-hoo!
	Does that, when I heard that, it reminded me of something.
	Wait, let me, let me, let me see if I can get, that particular piece, hold on.
	The piece where he says we're spending a billion dollars a month.
	Oh, Afghanistan.
	Yeah, and Iraq.
	Yeah.
	And everywhere else!
	I guess it seems as if a billion dollars a month is the vig that we need to produce.
	We gotta find some stupid war.
	Which is why they had to get rid of Trump.
	He wouldn't do it.
	We had to find some stupid war where we could toss a billion, billion, billion a month, billion a month, and so we can keep our industrial base of militarization producers, our military producers.
	The guys, the Raytheons, the Lockhees, the Grummans, those guys, they need this billion a month.
	It needs to go out to keep them going.
	You know, that's a very astute observation.
	I think you're right.
	That's the number.
	It's just, hey, you know, we got a number, and we got that number, it's got to flow, because it flows through the whole system.
	Everybody gets paid off, everybody's happy, and then, you know, then we go for the real work.
	Zelensky!
	Ring the bell!
	Oh, and by the way, back to that, just to mention the Solinsky ringing the bell and begging people to invest.
	I mean, this is what you do after rubalization.
	Yes!
	You let things rubalize, you bring in Bechtel and the big boys.
	And you have them rebuild the country.
	They can rebuild whole cities, they can put it in more modern terms, make it more modern instead of these winding roads or whatever they had to begin with.
	They'll leave Lviv and some of these tourist traps, these kinds of places will be left untouched.
	But here's the problem, here's the problem.
	This guy is asking, begging.
	You don't have to beg Brechtol and KKR and these guys.
	I think they just, they're not planning on rebuilding anytime soon.
	It's not rubbilized.
	Our job is not over.
	They're just doing this to let the, just to give the guy a little, a little, uh, shut up.
	Hey man, we'll let you go on TV.
	This thing is a NASDAQ.
	Ring the bell.
	Well, you know, the full rebelization, like you got in the Middle East, Iraq and Northern Iraq and places where it's just, you take a look at the photos, it's like, wow, this is really flattened.
	It's like, I don't think you need that.
	I think, you know, like one missile into an apartment building, yeah, the place isn't leveled.
	Because deconstructing, in other words, tearing down buildings is also a moneymaker.
	Of course.
	I think there's a lot of money to be made in Ukraine.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to rubble ice!
	All right, back to the clip.
	I think we're doing the right kinds of things, but we're going to have to keep it up.
	You know, we've given them about $10 billion in American arms, so a little over a billion a month.
	We're probably going to have to get used to that kind of a number, and yes, it could go into 2023, I agree, if not even longer.
	This could be like World War I, where there's sort of a natural On the Western Front, sort of a natural end to the fighting season when you get to winter.
	People go back and rearm and come up with some cockamamie scheme for the next year's offensive.
	That, by the way, is also Afghanistan.
	How many times have we heard, oh, the fighting season's coming, the fighting season's coming.
	The guy's explaining it literally.
	It's not even longer.
	This could be like World War I, where there's sort of a natural Hmm.
	on the Western front, sort of a natural end to the fighting season when you get to winter.
	People go back and rearm and come up with some cockamamie scheme for the next year's offensive, and you just do a repeat and a replay like Groundhog's Day for two or three or four more years.
	I don't know, but I do agree that this thing could have a long ways to go.
	All right, Shep Smith.
	We need a little humorous intermezzo that is right in this.
	Of course, the gas has been turned off.
	Now, do you get the impression that Putin said, I'm not turning on the Nord Stream gas until all sanctions are taken off, which I guess would include even being put back on SWIFT?
	Or did he say, because of the sanctions, we don't have the parts, we can't open it up?
	I would think it's closer to the second thing, even though it turns out that this is something bogus about the whole thing.
	I got one more clip.
	Well, let me just play this one very short clip about the Nord Stream pipeline.
	So, you've heard us say this, that what we see Russia's doing, and we've been very clear about this, is that they're using energy, they're weaponizing energy, and it's choosing to, one of the things that has been out there, to shut down the pipeline of Nordstrom 1.
	Yeah, let's go shopping!
	Nordstrom 1.
	Wow.
	Nordstrom.
	Well, you know what she's got on her mind?
	She's clock-watching.
	Shopping!
	I gotta go shopping!
	Nordstrom is a large shopping chain.
	It's a shopping chain mostly on the west coast.
	It's out of Seattle.
	Well, we have them here, too.
	Doesn't go very far east.
	Wait a minute, Nordstrom's New York is huge!
	I've never seen a Nordstrom's New York.
	Okay.
	Where is it?
	Oh, boy.
	In Manhattan, even.
	Nordstrom's... Well, you look it up when we play this clip.
	This is the clip I wanted to get to because this is such bullshit and I don't get it.
	What is the point of trying to imply that Russia's running out of gas and they're running out of ammo and they gotta go to North Korea to buy ammo?
	Give me a break!
	The clip is bogus.
	I got it.
	Could the war in Ukraine draw Russia closer to countries like Iran, China, and North Korea?
	The Pentagon says Russia is reaching out to North Korea to buy ammunition.
	I'm not able to provide any more detail than that at this point in time, but it does demonstrate and is indicative of the situation that Russia finds itself in, in terms of its logistics and sustainment capabilities as it relates to Ukraine.
	White House also said on Tuesday that Russia could be about to buy literally millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea.
	The State Department also confirmed that Russia is in the process of buying the weapons.
	Russia's ambassador to the United Nations dismissed the report saying, I haven't heard it and I think that's another fake being circulated around.
	White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby noted that this is a potential purchase.
	He said there were no indications that the purchase has been completed or that the weapons would be used inside Ukraine.
	Oh, please.
	Stop.
	Uh, the New York- This is the biggest crock.
	I mean, this story makes no sense.
	The rationale, by the way, every time I hear this story, is that Russia, because of its great sanctions, I guess, the yachts, the sanctions, the Russians can't- How about Swift being kicked off Swift?
	That's a sanction.
	Yeah, it is a sanction.
	That actually does something.
	But because of the sanctions, they can't get the products they need to make the bullets and rockets, so they have to go to North Korea.
	Because God knows, North Korea has no sanctions!
	I mean, the logic is unbelievable!
	Now, if we put this all together...
	This weapons thing.
	And everything is against Russia.
	And we brought up Afghanistan.
	How Ukraine is the new Afghanistan scam.
	How about this?
	How about a twofer?
	So we've got the military-industrial complex pumping out a billion a month, plus all the bennies and we get a little extra package.
	A little weapons package.
	Afghanistan, we repeated something we did, I think, in the late 70s, which was arm the Mujahideen.
	Except this time, we armed them with 700,000 weapons.
	All kinds of cool shit.
	This could all be against Russia.
	I'm sorry?
	What do you mean against?
	Isn't it against Russia?
	But us deserting Afghanistan and leaving all the materiel behind, the 80 billion dollars you always complain about.
	Yeah, totally.
	Isn't that the same as arming the Mujahideen?
	Is it any different?
	Doesn't seem like it's the same.
	Well, we're not training them.
	I think at least with the Mujahideen we were, you know, giving them some support from our special forces people.
	But I can see what you're saying is you're blocking the Russians from that direction too.
	And you actually might be helping them stave off the Chinese when you want the lithium that's there.
	And you're still making your money every month.
	I understand these guys.
	The New York City Nordstrom flagship campus, flagship campus, comprises two locations at the corner of 57th and Broadway.
	All right.
	I lived in Manhattan, man.
	Don't tell me Nordstrom doesn't have a big store.
	They didn't have a Nordstrom's there when you were living there.
	Yes, they did.
	They've had one for ages.
	Okay, I'm going to note this down.
	I'll call corporate.
	Yeah.
	Now, you're correct.
	You call Seattle to get corporate.
	I'm going to call corporate and ask them when the first date of the New York stores was.
	Now, when were you in New York?
	Give me the dates. 87.
	It was 1987.
	Nordstrom was there in 87.
	Okay.
	And while you have corporate on the line, wouldn't mind asking why they let Russia shut them down?
	I think they voluntarily left, that is a good question though.
	No, the Nordstrom 1 pipeline.
	Okay.
	Oh wait, you think there was a Nordstrom in Russia?
	I don't know.
	You just, you implied there was with that question.
	No, I implied that the Kareena Boole joke... Yeah, I know, I get the joke now, but I'm saying you made it sound as though there was, since you're now the Nordstrom's expert, since they had a store in 87 in New York.
	I have to, I have to now defer.
	I have to defer.
	Are we really, are the two of us In our 60s and 70s, are we really deferring about Nord Stream?
	Yeah, okay.
	It's sad, it's sad.
	There was a question, actually, there was a question about Afghanistan.
	Another fun one with Karine Abdul-Jabbar Jean-Pierre Van Damme.
	And, let's see, what was this?
	She can't get a break, man.
	No, she doesn't deserve one.
	No, she doesn't.
	She doesn't.
	Here she is being asked about... Oh, there's a DHS report, which I put in the show notes.
	And a DHS report says, well, you know, we really didn't do such a great job of screening all of the Afghanis who were welcomed into our country.
	As refugees were being evacuated from Afghanistan into the U.S.
	last year, why weren't they all being thoroughly vetted?
	we screwed up no it's the ig saying hey you guys didn't do a good job and this came up and then as refugees were being evacuated from afghanistan into the u.s last year why weren't they all being thoroughly vetted so are you talking about what do you what are you what are you referring to well
	so as the white house was managing the afghanistan withdrawal last year we were told no one is coming into the united states of america who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process But now there's this DHS inspector general who says CBP admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.
	That is not good.
	That is different than what you guys said.
	So how did this happen?
	No, it's not different than what we have said.
	That very report did not take into account the key steps in that rigorous, you heard from us, rigorous and multi-layered screening and vetting process the U.S.
	government took before at-risk Afghans were permitted to come to the U.S.
	Again, I would refer you to the DHS comments office.
	It did not take into full account of what the other agencies are involved in making sure that this multi-layered process and screening process, it is a multi-agency effort and this particular report did not include that.
	She is on the ropes for a whole bunch of reasons.
	By the way, I have to say, I think her outfits every day are cute.
	She does have cute outfits.
	Vibrant colors, very alert, alive.
	I think they're going to get rid of her very soon.
	And probably this judge that is requiring Dr. Fauci and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to hand over their emails that they had with Jack Dorsey of Twitter regarding censoring posts.
	I have a clip.
	Oh good, because this, this, this is going to be the end of her.
	And I think that's why she's, now she's just nervous, she's messing everything up, she can't catch a break.
	And of course it really is abusive and in fact racist what they're doing to her.
	Surprise!
	I think this is the clip.
	This is weird censorship lawsuit.
	A Trump-appointed judge Tuesday ordered the government to quickly produce documents after it was sued by the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri in conjunction with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, or NCLA.
	The NCLA is representing plaintiffs who were censored on social media for disagreeing with the White House's COVID-19 policy.
	Two of the plaintiffs are world-renowned epidemiologists.
	The initial tranche of Discovery was released a week ago.
	It revealed that more than 50 government officials applied pressure to social media companies to censor users.
	But some officials refused to answer questions, including Dr. Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
	The government claimed they should not have to answer all questions or provide records, saying the documents are not relevant to plaintiffs' claims.
	But the judge Tuesday said they need to comply.
	He said Dr. Fauci's communications would be relevant to plaintiffs' allegations of suppression of speech related to the COVID-19 lab leak theory and efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns.
	The judge said Jean-Pierre's communications as White House press secretary, along with her predecessor's communications, would be relevant to all examples.
	That includes suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.
	As for Fauci, he also has to answer questions regarding his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
	NCLA lawyer Janine Yunus, who's representing some of the plaintiffs, said they know from the previous round of discovery that censorship efforts came from the very top.
	In her words, Americans deserve to know Anthony Fauci's participation in this enterprise, especially since he's publicly demanded that specific individuals, including two of our clients, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, be censored on social media.
	Yeah, that won't look good.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	It is literally the whole point of the First Amendment.
	Now, what's interesting to me is the group, is this NCLA.
	These guys are taken over from the ACLU.
	Oh, that's right.
	Those are the guys you pointed out, and they were all jacked and jitty on Twitter that you did that.
	And I got the credit.
	Yeah, I got the credit.
	It was even funnier.
	Good.
	Give you the credit.
	It shows you they're not that accurate, but that's okay.
	But this group, this NCLA, took the reins pretty much of true civil liberties stuff from the ACLU.
	It's just become a stooge for the socialist left.
	It was just sitting there waiting to be plucked.
	Anyone could have grabbed this.
	It's so obvious.
	If people want an organization to represent civil liberties, sure they do.
	Oh, just come on in, walk in and take it.
	Shoot, that was an exit strategy if you ever saw one.
	Missed it again.
	By the way... Yeah, we're not lawyers.
	Andrew Horowitz's exit strategy of horticultural-based therapy?
	Worst idea ever.
	Oh, poor, you can't say that.
	No, but he was saying we should be doing it.
	Oh, no, that's not going to happen.
	For him, it's great.
	It's core competency.
	We don't know how to talk to plants.
	You're right, that's more his core competency.
	Yeah, he's good at talking to plants.
	He does that all day.
	All right, let's just stick with the primetime purge for a second and with Kareena Abdul-Jabbar because she's...
	She's gonna go down.
	And now everything's just happening.
	Ducey really noodled her with this one.
	A follow-up about the MAGA Republican attention.
	So, we're all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen.
	What about the 2016 election?
	I'm not going to go back to where we were or what happened in 2016.
	We're going to focus on the here and now.
	We're going to focus on what's happening today.
	This inflection point that the president pointed out very clearly, very decisively in a few speeches.
	About what the country needs to do at this time to bring the country together.
	And he believes that's where the majority of Americans are when it comes to protecting our democracy, when it comes to protecting our rights, and when it comes to protecting our freedoms.
	That's what we're going to talk about.
	That's what we're going to focus on, on where we are today.
	But just in trying to understand the new attention on the MAGA Republicans, you tweeted Oh, I knew this was coming.
	I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question.
	Well, then you better be well prepared to answer it!
	You tweeted Trump stole an election.
	You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election.
	Denying election results is extreme now.
	So let's let's be really clear that that comparison that you made is just ridiculous I have been I have been well you're asking me you're asking me a question.
	Let me answer it I was I was talking Specifically at that time of what was happening with voting rights and the what was in danger of voting rights fact-check false You got to get your story straight if you're expecting the question Exactly that's like false equivalency man.
	Don't be so flippant man do see It's not good to be in Trump's orbit though.
	People are getting in trouble left or right.
	If you just replace Biden with Putin or just any dictator, you're really seeing They're thinning out the field around Trump.
	A New Mexico judge has removed a county commissioner from his position and banned him from holding public office because he took part in the Capitol riot on January 6th.
	Riot!
	Coy Griffin, who founded the group Cowboys for Trump, is the first official in more than a hundred years to be unseated under a 14th amendment provision that disqualifies insurrectionists from holding office.
	Ah, we have a model!
	We have an example, we have a model, so... Well, that gives the lawyer something to do.
	Yeah, well, it should be appealed.
	I don't see how that... Well, of course it's gonna be appealed.
	Insurrection.
	Uh, bad, bad day, uh, for Banyan?
	This morning, ABC News confirms the FBI recently tried to interview a person currently in former President Trump's inner circle.
	Sources say William Russell was not home when agents showed up at his house to ask questions related to the January 6th investigation.
	The 31-year-old was a special assistant to President Trump in the White House.
	Russell moved to Florida when Trump left office and still serves as one of his aides.
	Meanwhile, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is expected to surrender to authorities in New York today, where he faces new charges in connection with a group called We Build the Wall, which raised $25 million to build a section of President Trump's border wall.
	Much of that money coming from small donors, who were told all of the funds would go toward the wall.
	A physical barrier on the southern border in support of President Trump and what President Trump's trying to do.
	In a separate federal indictment, Bannon was accused of using some of the money for personal expenses.
	Bannon never went to trial.
	Trump pardoned him before leaving office.
	But that pardon does not apply to a state indictment.
	So completely different government sovereign.
	Federal case versus state.
	So there's no overlap there in terms of his liability.
	In response, a Bannon spokesperson calls the new charges phony.
	I didn't realize this, if you get a pardon, that, well yeah, not at the state level.
	I didn't realize this.
	Well, they think that with this particular case, this Bannon situation, which by the way, I think Bannon was scamming.
	I wouldn't say he was scamming, but he was loose and easy on the expenses, which is, I think their intention, we talked about this at the time, I got a lot of pushback, because I said their intentions were good, but he screwed it up.
	We're easy.
	We're easy with the money.
	We're easy with the messaging.
	Yeah, you're going to have to be real careful.
	If you're going to get involved in something like this, you don't spend anything.
	No, you got to document.
	You got to be right.
	You take a beating or a meeting?
	A meeting.
	I lost my ass doing this deal.
	That's the way you go.
	That's the way to do it.
	But anyway, that's not what happened.
	Now, he has an interesting point though, he says, this happened, he gets arrested just before, he's got a very high opinion of himself, he gets arrested just before, like a few weeks before an election cycle, so it's like he just got arrested because of the midterms coming up in a couple of weeks.
	Yeah, we can't have him on the war room blathering about, this is no good.
	Yeah, because he's so influential.
	Yeah, we gotta lock him up!
	Lock him up!
	We gotta lock him up!
	You know, it's a coincidence it's there, so it's possible, but I think, you know, who listens to him?
	Oh, lots of people listen to him!
	What are you talking about?
	It's one of the slowest moving pod... I should have it for what's wrong with this podcast.
	It's slow moving.
	It is not an entertaining podcast by any means.
	No, but it's great for clips.
	You got some?
	No, no, not today.
	Well, it's not that gravy, is it?
	Uh-oh, uh-oh.
	Hold on a second.
	Oh, what's this?
	She's... Oh, she's... She's back in orbit.
	There he is.
	Oh, Hillary.
	Swooping around.
	She was on CBS with Norah O'Donnell and Norah asked the question right out of the gate.
	Would you ever run for president again?
	No.
	No.
	But I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and ...upholds our institutions.
	What if Donald Trump runs again?
	He should be soundly defeated.
	It should start in the Republican Party.
	Grow a backbone.
	Stand up to this guy.
	And heaven forbid, if he gets the nomination, he needs to be defeated roundly and sent back to Mar-a-Lago.
	The Florida mansion now in the spotlight after an FBI search for classified documents.
	Donald Trump is saying that this search of his home is politically motivated.
	Well, I'm sure he would say that.
	I like how she said, no, no, no.
	Because the question was, will you run for president?
	Not, what if we beg you, Hillary?
	What if no one's left?
	Let's hope not.
	I have some moral... Wait, wait, wait.
	I got two more of Hillary here.
	We're not done with her.
	Oh no, I don't want to leave Hillary behind.
	Leave no Hillary behind.
	In 2016, Hillary Clinton was under investigation for her own handling of classified information and questions about using a private server as Secretary of State.
	Then-FBI Director James Comey ultimately recommended Clinton not be prosecuted, but said she and her team were extremely careless.
	I had a very different situation where I was cleared and the guy just kept talking and talking and then came up with a new reason to talk some more ten days before the election.
	James Comey.
	Yes, and there was no doubt at all that he impacted very negatively my chances of winning.
	So, it was in the middle of an election, there was no there there, and the guy never shut up.
	So I think it's a really different comparison to what's going on here, when it appears that the Justice Department and the FBI have been incredibly patient, quiet, careful, until they finally, apparently, thought that national security was at stake.
	Hey, did she just put Comey on the hit list?
	Pretty much, on the hag.
	The HAGLESS.
	It's the HAGLESS.
	What does HAGLESS stand for?
	Hillary Assassination Group.
	Ah, okay.
	It's the HAGLESS, man.
	It's what it sounds like because, you know, these guys... Well, I'm also thinking that this is very smart of her right now to just, okay, let me clear it out.
	I'm not going to run.
	But she can decide to do that again if Trump is the clear nominee and they're begging her.
	You're the only one that can do it, Hills.
	We don't really like you, but you're the only one with the skills that pays the bills.
	And then this last clip.
	Well, then she'd have to run against Biden.
	She'd have to take him out in the primary.
	Oh, he won't last two more years.
	That's not a lot.
	Well, you think he's going to drop dead before the Great Reset is underway?
	The Pope?
	Biden?
	It's all going to happen very quickly.
	It's all going to happen.
	Who's the other one on that list?
	Zelensky.
	Zelensky is a goner.
	Now, this one was interesting.
	Because this shows you everything that is wrong with politics and media, social media, and in a way, the way we think culturally about people and accomplishments in general.
	Because it doesn't really matter what you accomplished, whether it's good or bad.
	If you accomplish something, you don't get credit from those groups, including the public, unless you do it right.
	President Trump says he created the vaccines, and he deserves credit for that.
	Well, you know what?
	He did.
	He did.
	He did launch a program that was very... Operation Warp Speed.
	And you know what?
	If he'd had a professional, acceptable response to the rest of the pandemic, not telling people to drink bleach and the other stuff that he did, I think he would.
	I'd like to wear a mask.
	Yeah, nearly dying and getting out of the hospital to drive around so that people could see that he was still alive.
	If he had more about public health than his own performance, he would have gotten credit.
	He would have gotten credit that the government that he was currently the head of deserved.
	What a douchebag.
	I think Hillary, she thinks ahead.
	She tries her own version of 3D, 4D chess.
	I think this was brought in, you know, why I haven't heard Trump talk about not getting credit in a while for the vaccines, rightly so.
	I think it's a setup.
	They're going to blame him for rushing it, for rushing it through.
	Never should have rushed it.
	Warp speed!
	That would be, that's what I would advise.
	Would you not?
	The Curry Dvorak Consulting Group?
	I like the idea.
	I like it a lot.
	I have a clip.
	This is not where I wanted to go.
	This is so sincere.
	But since you said this, this was, what is this one?
	This must be the student loan one.
	No, no it can't be.
	What is the...
	Oh man, this is a funny clip because they're blaming Trump and Trump has all these, uh... He turned it back on him pretty nicely.
	Oh, I can't figure out which clip it is.
	Oh, here it is, the finger pointing over the education fallback.
	The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed last week blaming the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten, for apparent learning loss among children.
	That came after the National Center for Education Statistics found that nine-year-olds' reading and math skills dropped to the level it was two decades ago.
	Weingarten then responded by sending a letter to the Journal, blaming former President Trump for school closures and the learning loss that resulted in it.
	While former President Donald Trump and his education secretary, Ms.
	DeVos, ranted and raved, their successors put the safety measures in place to get reopening done.
	The White House is taking a similar stance.
	The press secretary said the Biden administration is to thank for schools reopening because the American Rescue Plan allocated over $120 billion towards reopening K-12 schools.
	Every Republican Congress voted against that money.
	That is the reality.
	We had to do this on our own.
	Schools are open now, but much of that money still hasn't been spent.
	The press secretary says they'll try to use the money to help students who fell the furthest behind.
	Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers say Trump advocated for reopening schools sooner.
	And say it was Democrats who pushed back.
	If governors do not want to open the public schools, the money should go to parents so they can send their children to the school of their choice.
	So we say if a school doesn't want to open or if a governor doesn't want to open, maybe for political reason and maybe not.
	They point to a video published by the Democratic National Committee in 2020, criticizing Trump for wanting to reopen schools.
	Desperate to reopen schools, because he thinks it will save his re-election.
	According to the White House, around half of all schools were open when President Biden took office.
	So these guys are jocking for position, these parties.
	Totally.
	This chicken shit, you know, just blame everything on Trump.
	But you know, Trump did the same thing, kind of, by blaming everything on Obama.
	Well that's what you do.
	So when has this not happened?
	So here's some other additional data.
	So this judge who ordered these emails to be released, the way I believe the judge worded his order Well, that was interesting.
	And to me, this seems like, yeah, this judge has got to be friends with Trump.
	In his, to determine, you know, this is like intent to provide the 15 bucks, the White House Counsel's Office granted the request.
	So, you know, this is going against the narrative that the White House knew about it with providing the FBI access records in question as requested by the incumbent president beginning as early as Thursday, May 12th.
	So now this judge is starting to put stuff out there saying, well, you know, the White House did know about it.
	So this is all so political and it's just so tiring to watch this show.
	This may actually confirm, this may confirm the idea that they're trying, they're looking for a good excuse to get rid of Jean-Pierre.
	She's done.
	I'm telling you she's toast for so many reasons.
	So if the incumbent president's got anything to do with this and then she's on the hit list.
	She's done.
	Yeah, because they just can't fire her because it would be like a, you know, a loose face.
	Oh man, we picked this dumb shit and she's like no good.
	I can't do that.
	Yeah, this is typical.
	Um, you know those folders, the top-secret folders?
	I had a thought.
	What are the chances, if you're Trump, and you see a whole bunch of these top-secret folders laying around, I'd grab a stack of those.
	Imagine saying that as a birthday card.
	You know, just putting some stuff in there.
	Oh yeah, that'd be a great gift item.
	That's the kind of stuff he would collect, I guarantee you.
	No, that was my thinking originally.
	Two more things.
	Specifically about Biden's speech, which is kind of the genesis of all of this.
	CNN was questioned about the changing of red to kind of the pinkish hue.
	And they said, oh no, no, no, no.
	This was a technical glitch that came from the CBS video pool.
	As far as I know, no one has questioned CBS about that.
	But here's one that I was surprised to read and not read from one of our many producers, therefore I question its validity.
	This is a post from a Marine, former Marine, retired Marine, who says, I don't know what those guys were doing, who were standing behind the President, and I've been out of the service for about 25 years, but unless the military has adopted new posture for men in dress uniform, the posture exhibited during the POTUS speech is non-compliant.
	If you're standing there the way they were, your hands will be behind your back, not in front.
	As far as he knows, there's no posture for this that is military code.
	Wow.
	And no one mentioned that.
	No one's brought that up in the mix.
	So were these guys just central casting?
	It would make sense with that Disney music they had at the end.
	Just a thought.
	Just a thought.
	Well, it's definitely something to the eye.
	Well, it needs explanation.
	Well, I don't know who they're going to get.
	Where's our guys?
	Where's our guys?
	We got all these Marines.
	We got people watching.
	They know what's up.
	Something's up.
	Hold on a second, John.
	I need a breath.
	And now, back to real news.
	Can we just get to the real news of the day?
	The big news of the day?
	The only news that matters?
	Can you guess what it is?
	What?
	Apple saved its top-selling product for last.
	We're going big with iPhone 14 and even bigger with iPhone 14 Plus.
	With an always-on display, a faster chip, camera upgrades, and out-of-this-world assistance.
	Emergency SOS via satellite.
	I'm a satellite!
	So, are they going to use continuous wave or what are they going to do to make these SOSs work?
	And how are they going to get to the satellite?
	You need some wattage to get to hit a satellite from the ground.
	Or at least a big antenna.
	I can tell you how it works, because I watched the presentation.
	Um, they have, through some space-age technology, have managed to put appropriate antennas into the new iPhone, but the only way it works, and of course you have to be outside in the desert, it helps if you haven't had water for a couple weeks, um, they have an app, and then the app will help you point the top of your iPhone So that it's most advantageous for hitting the satellite.
	And you can really only send, you know, very short messages, which take about 20 seconds, I think, to get uploaded in totality.
	I mean, you could also buy, you know, a top iPhone and grab one of those GPS devices that does the same.
	It's not... It's like, how is this the big deal that everyone makes it out to be?
	Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple.
	Oh, it's just Apple.
	Apple, Apple, Apple.
	You know, I've been using a Pixel 4 with Graphene OS, open source, you know, it's basically Android with all the... Does the camera still work?
	The camera works, but the selfie camera, or the one I use when I'm talking to my daughter on video chat, that stopped working.
	It just broke.
	Excuse me.
	Broke?
	Yeah, I was just broke.
	I don't know.
	It got cloudy.
	I don't know what happened.
	It's cheap shit.
	I've had it for four years, I think.
	So, time to get a new one.
	I ask our dude named Ben over there at noagendaphone.com.
	I said, what do I need?
	What's the current state of the art?
	He says, Pixel 6a will have the longest support.
	Okay, so, now what's great about this, you order a Pixel 6a online for $299, $399, depending on what color you want.
	I put a case on it anyway, in this case.
	So, it's real cheap, comes to the house, and then, you know, there's instructions.
	You can send it to him, and he'll do it all for you, but I figured I'd do it myself, and I set up the Google, the de-Googled Graphene OS phone.
	And that all went fine.
	That's perfect.
	But here, here was my, here was the thing I wanted to mention.
	So it was a fully, you know, uh, ready to go virgin Google pixel phone.
	So what you do have to do is you have to at least boot it up in the beginning, go through some of the, the, the, you don't have to do email address or anything, but you'd have to go through some steps to be able to get the update.
	Cause you have to update it before you are flashing this OS.
	John, This thing, the minute I turned it on, the only thing it didn't do was say, hi Adam.
	It had my location, was suggesting shit, it's talking to me, it's doing captions, it's playing video, it's sucking me in, it's telling me I need to log in.
	The whole thing, no wonder people are hypnotized.
	It's unbelievable what they do to suck you into every single piece of their world right off the bat.
	Hey, Fredericksburg, there's a great restaurant open right now.
	Huh?
	It's really frightening.
	Yeah.
	Well, I can give you my phone report.
	Yes.
	Did you get a new iPhone?
	What did you think of the new iPhone?
	Two months ago, I tried, you know, this T-Mobile, they had these deals and I tried to get... Two months ago, I kind of lost the number in the account.
	You lost the number in the account.
	And I was thinking, well, I think I'll just go screw T-Mobile.
	They stink.
	They can't get anything right.
	And so I think, well, I'm going to go to Target and get a track phone account and just put the little card in there and stretch it out as long as I can.
	And I haven't done that for two months.
	I have not had a cell phone.
	It could be three months, actually.
	It's been in the drawer, unused, untaken out.
	I haven't used one of these phones.
	For three months.
	And you know what?
	What?
	I feel better.
	I bet you do.
	All you need is pure beef protein and no cell phone and you'll be much longer.
	I did have one of the rib steaks from Texas Slim.
	You had one of the Beef Initiative rib eyes?
	Well, it was the big one.
	With the bone.
	This is the one with the bone.
	It's like the Flintstone one that you put on the side of the car and the car tips over.
	It's dynamite.
	Do you like it?
	Yeah, no, it's an incredibly good piece of meat this guy produces.
	Well, it's K&C Cattle in Austin, Texas.
	Okay, well, they do good work.
	But anyway, so I'm thinking, well, you know, if I ever needed, you know, you can still borrow a phone from someone if you had some emergency or you could You know, if you got side of the road, you need somebody to call you, you could wave your arms and make a phone sign, they'd call the cops.
	You don't need these phones!
	What do I need this phone for?
	So I get text messages all day?
	Exactly.
	And you know, remember when in the years ago, almost 15 years on this show, we would actually map quest stuff.
	Remember that?
	No.
	You don't remember map questing where to go?
	You print it out?
	Before we had smartphones.
	I thought it was... Oh, you mean before smartphones.
	Well, it was around the cusp, and we started around the time the first iPhone came out.
	The first iPhone came out in 2007.
	Yeah, but did they have Apple Maps?
	No.
	Not yet, but they had them pretty close.
	Yeah, I remember printing out directions.
	Now I do that still.
	I use the computer.
	I got to go someplace.
	I either print out directions, or I'll look at the map and figure out how to do it.
	It's better to do that than constantly having the phone tell you to turn left and turn right.
	But if it's very complicated, some really far out place that I don't care to remember how to get there, I'll just say, hey Jay, you wanna go for a ride?
	And she's got a phone.
	While we're just doing old memories, the other day I'm walking back with the dog, I'm walking up the driveway and it's, you know, the grass is cut and it smells nice and it smells like nature and it's kind of dusk, you know, the sun is setting.
	And I'm like, remember when we used to be out all day and this was just going home time?
	And where are we?
	I don't know, burning shit, hiding porno mags, running around.
	No one does that anymore.
	Well, I don't even know if there are any porno magazines.
	Who are you hiding them from?
	Okay, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Oh wait, before you do that, I have to tease, since you never let me get to the Mar-a-Lago clips.
	You want to do them now?
	No, I want to tease them.
	Alright, teaser.
	And here's how I'm going to go, I'm going to ask you a question.
	Teaser, teaser, teaser.
	What were they after at the Mar-a-Lago compound?
	What specifically were they after?
	And the answer to that, coming up next!
	As I say, in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in solidarity contribution!
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to Mr. John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you!
	I also, in the morning, shove the sea boots to the ground, feedin' the air subs, and the water, and the games, and the knights out there!
	In the morning to, uh... Hello, trolls!
	Hey trolls, how you doin' there in the troll room?
	Let's see how many we got there.
	Ooh!
	Oh boy!
	They've multiplied!
	2387.
	I think that's up there.
	We're getting back to... Yeah, last Thursday was 22, I believe.
	They've multiplied 2387.
	I think that's up there.
	We're getting back to...
	Yeah, last Thursday was 22, I believe.
	They're multiplying.
	They're multiplying.
	You too can become a troll.
	You don't have to do anything to multiply.
	You can just join them by going to trollroom.io Thursdays and Sundays.
	We do the show live.
	You can listen live right there on that webpage and get into the troll room and troll around.
	You can stay logged in for as long as you want.
	I mean, the stream is 24-7.
	It's the best podcast network in the universe.
	And of course, if you use Podverse or CurioCaster, you can get an alert.
	And be zipped right into the troll room and the chat, right from the same app that you get your podcast on.
	You might like it.
	Give that a shot.
	Good news, everybody.
	Signup.noagendasocial.com is now open.
	So we have several thousand slots for producers to join the Mastodon revolution.
	Again, signup.noagendasocial.com.
	Now, this is not a complete open registration, as our boy Aaroner has created something called the Quiz Cha, which I had not seen before.
	A Quiz Cha.
	Would you like to know what a Quiz Cha is?
	A Quiz Cha, like Cha-Cha-Cha?
	Like Cap-Cha.
	Oh, quiz cha.
	Oh, that's cute.
	Quiz cha, yeah.
	Now, he changes these regularly, so you have to answer three show questions before you get to the sign-up sheet.
	I like it.
	I'm all in.
	So, you want to do these?
	See if you can get them?
	They're pretty simple.
	Yeah.
	Although, a lot of people get the second one wrong.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the... Mouth.
	Mouth.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Number two.
	Ooh!
	This is already changed.
	Oh, and it even says, OK, how about this one?
	We're not going to just give it to you.
	The episode number for Jacked Up Joe aired September 4th, 2022 is... Is what?
	What number is it?
	What episode number?
	For Jacked Up Joe?
	I don't know.
	What do you mean?
	No sign up for you.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I could go figure it out, but I don't know what to tell my head.
	I don't know, and we're sorry.
	No, you start over again.
	There you go, you fail.
	What about question three?
	You didn't get past question two?
	I can't get to number three.
	Well, just assume I got past question two.
	Give me question three.
	I don't know what question number three is, because we didn't have the answer to question number two.
	Oh, okay.
	Put down 1482.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	You should have just played along.
	Well, I don't have the number.
	I don't know what it is.
	I mean, I can't play along if I don't see it.
	1482.
	Was I actually doing some work?
	No, that is wrong.
	That is wrong.
	1483.
	Okay.
	I don't know how many chances you get.
	Uh, 1480.
	Hold on a second.
	Our formula is this.
	Mouth.
	Okay.
	Is it now not letting me?
	Oh.
	I think because I got it wrong, it's kicked me out.
	Wow!
	Well, it does its job.
	I like this.
	This is good.
	Let me try it one more time.
	No!
	Uh, it was... I don't know, man.
	We'll never know.
	We'll never know.
	So you can join us.
	If you can answer those questions, be very careful.
	And spelling matters.
	We don't even know what it is.
	Spelling matters.
	It says it everywhere.
	Be very careful.
	And it changes frequently.
	It's just like the ham operator test.
	You know, who is this again that did this?
	Ehrener.
	Yeah, Ehrener.
	This is typical.
	Ehrener has turned into a despot.
	Yeah, that's what happens when you get too much power.
	Absolute power corruption.
	Power corrupts absolutely or something, I don't know.
	Whatever it is, I'm sorry.
	That's really nice for the guy who's been hosting this thing for four years out of his basement for nothing.
	He's gone off the rails!
	Refuses to take any donations, anything.
	He refuses!
	He refuses!
	I've tried!
	Yeah.
	At the moment.
	Then he gets you in a corner.
	Next thing you know, all the money goes to Aaroner.
	Answer the questions, or F off!
	Answer the questions, you phony!
	Yeah, well done, sir.
	Very well played.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah, so that's noagendasocial.com.
	You can follow, if you can get in, you probably automatically follow me, Adam at noagendasocial.com and John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com.
	Good luck from No Agenda.
	Now, let's take a look at the artwork and thank our artist for episode 1483.
	That was indeed title jacked up Joe, if only we'd gotten it right the first time.
	Too bad.
	And this was brought to us by Tante Neal, which was total cheesecake, totally sexist, but it was okay because a woman made it.
	If a woman does it, it's okay.
	It's okay.
	We determined this during our meeting.
	Yep.
	Um, pretty cool, had Artemis there, which looked like, kind of like a, a big magic marker.
	Uh, she had some, uh... She had some lube in her hand.
	WD-40, not lube.
	Yeah.
	It's WD-40.
	You're such a horrible man.
	Uh, now, let's take a, there was... I felt like we were lackluster.
	No, the whole thing was, it was, this was the only one we could pick.
	That's what I mean.
	We felt kind of lackluster.
	Let me see.
	What else did we have?
	So the mastermind did a pill with Wi-Fi biome, but then misspelled biome without an E.
	That was too bad because the size of everything was kind of fun.
	I like the – now, this was Dame Kenny, Ben.
	I can't believe it's not effective.
	Like it was butter, lard. .
	You didn't like it.
	You didn't get it.
	You didn't like it.
	The one I really liked, you refused with your veto.
	Yep.
	Which was the, uh, the women, uh, the three girls and the one dude swimming in the, uh... In the palace pool.
	In the palace pool.
	And I thought they looked super cute.
	You're like, no, that's insulting!
	It's insulting to Muslims.
	Why?
	You can't have these women swimming in the pool with that guy.
	And you can't have them in the pool in the first place.
	Forget it.
	They're not going to go in the pool.
	And when you saw the picture of the guys in the pool, just a bunch of, you know, swarmy guys, smarmy guys, I should say, in the pool jumping around.
	There's a lot of them, but there are no women in there.
	No, this is no good.
	I'm defending the Muslim women's rights.
	That's fine, but by the same rules that we allowed Tantaniel, if Sir Ned's name was Sir Ned Abdul, would it have been allowed?
	I would have questioned the legitimacy of this person.
	Because, uh, no.
	It still wouldn't be allowed, no.
	Wow, you're harsh.
	That's how it works, though.
	The one I liked the best was the flag, but it was no good for the show at some point.
	Very good flag, though.
	Yeah, Dame Kenny Ben.
	Very nice flag.
	And we also looked at Tonta Neal's Top Secret folder.
	It wasn't all that great.
	And that was kind of it, and it was just a beautiful... It was back to the garage.
	It had elements we liked, and cheesecake done by a woman, always a winner.
	Yep.
	We're just saying.
	We're just saying.
	Now there was a piece I like we didn't talk about, but it was the Disney characters carrying around a kind of a stiff Joe Biden with a flag.
	We're not using Disney characters ever.
	No, if you want to get sued.
	Even if it's a parody, Disney will still go after you.
	Exactly.
	Oh yeah.
	They don't care.
	Before we move on to thanking our producers, I went to the P.O.
	Box yesterday.
	Just a quick thank you to Sir Nathan Lee.
	He handmade a birthday card for me.
	Thank you, let's see, this was Jeff, who sent me some new No Agenda tea club to test, which is port?
	Uh, tea leaves infused with port?
	Yeah, he's got some dynamite stuff.
	It's noagendatea.club.
	He does have some dynamite stuff.
	Yeah, if you like tea, if you like loose tea in particular, you should get this guy's teas.
	He's getting teas from all over the world and packaging them with some noagenda pun.
	Did the pile fall over?
	You okay?
	No, but you know what fell over, believe it or not?
	It fell into the pot.
	It was the rain stick!
	Uh-oh!
	Oh-ho-ho!
	You're in trouble!
	No, I'm not!
	If the rain stick falls over and rattles, that means you're gonna get a microcell.
	I hope so.
	Thanks to Marty Phillips for his book.
	That was very nice.
	Wishing you a happy birthday.
	And then finally, I want to thank Sir Dave Goose.
	Did you get the chocolates from the one guy?
	I did not get any chocolates.
	I did get the... Oh, I think he wants me to get an address for you.
	Okay.
	I got the metal spirits.
	Bless you.
	The whiskey and the vodka.
	The rain stick.
	And the t-shirt.
	So thank you all very much.
	Bless you again!
	You okay there?
	And let us thank our executive and associate executive producers of episode 1484.
	These are the producers who, besides bringing us time and talent, such as many of our artists, again, noagendaartgenerator.com, thank you so much, Tantaniel, they bring the treasure.
	And we'd like to give special credits, just like Hollywood does.
	And, you know, for people who are, you know, wondering if, you know, you may have a podcast.
	I just want you to listen to how this... Who doesn't?
	How this works when people say, you know, value for value.
	This is how it works.
	It's actually content.
	It's programming.
	And it's this feedback loop and this, you'll even see today.
	There are donation notes that go back, you know, episodes ago with stuff that we've been talking about bringing it back.
	It's this loop that is critical if you want to make it in podcasting.
	Unless you want to, you know, unless you're BIPOC.
	If you're BIPOC, then you have no problem.
	Then there's a lot of... You can do a podcast, but no one's going to send money to you.
	Oh, no, you'll get hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate production fees and sponsorships.
	Oh, yeah, if you want to go that route, sure.
	That's good for your ESG score, right?
	I support a BIPOC podcast.
	What's the name of it?
	It's the BIPOC show.
	Okay.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Jay Humphries supports this show.
	He's in Washington.
	And he comes in with a cool $1,000.
	And I'm thinking this is... Let's see what he has.
	This is on behalf of my smoking hot co-creator of Human Resource and Love of My Life, Shauna Norberg.
	Oh.
	And he wants something here.
	Hold on a second.
	Uh, with this, please bring her up to Dame Hood.
	Okay, so he's giving it to her.
	And de-douche her for me, will ya?
	Of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	You came out the good work.
	Jay Humphreys.
	Thanks, Jay.
	This is very sweet of you to do that.
	I should mention he's in Paul's bow.
	You know him?
	No, I'm just mentioning the town.
	I'm going to mention something about Paulsbo.
	If anyone's in Washington State and you're going up 5, there's a little town called Paulsbo off the freeway that you should go visit.
	It is almost like a copy of a town in Norway.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	And they got the Norway flags.
	I'm sure it's Norway.
	Could be Sweden, but I think it's Norway.
	Norway, Sweden.
	I'm pretty sure it's Norway.
	But anyway, one has gas, one has ABBA.
	It's got a lot of shops with the pastry shops that have these Scandinavian, you know, products.
	And it's just a dynamite.
	It's one of the... It is a short, off the freeway, Thing where you can get a hell of a... Stinky brown cheese.
	You get a fun little time in a, you know, you feel like you're in Europe for about 15, 20 minutes and then you can go back on the freeway.
	But it's cool.
	Well, well worth the trip to Washington State.
	Well, I'm just saying if you're there, it's not a trip to.
	It's like the, uh, the Michelin one star.
	Give one star!
	Okay, got it.
	Because the two stars is worth a detour.
	And the three stars, you might as well fly over there.
	Onward with Patrick Remensberger.
	Remensperger.
	He's an Encino.
	922 bucks.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	Thank you.
	Wish you knew how much we care.
	Yoyi and me.
	Okay.
	We had an idea.
	Can you add a tip jar on top of a donation?
	Tax-free, to an extent, maybe?
	Answer?
	No.
	No!
	No!
	We're not going to be tax-free.
	How does that work?
	No.
	I'm not sure what he's asking for.
	A tip jar?
	You know what, just add some money to it.
	Was he looking for like, to add five bucks and then he wants to write off his taxes?
	Eh, just add five bucks.
	But thank you very much, Patrick.
	Drop some clothes off at the Goodwill.
	Keep the ideas coming.
	Then we have 333.58.
	I'm thinking that might be for my birthday still.
	Shingle Springs, California.
	In the morning, comrades!
	It's, as John calls me, BRUNETTI!
	Oh!
	This dispatch sent from Golden Cloud Ranch in the state of Jefferson, where it is currently 113 degrees and the pond and lake are dry and the fish are dead.
	Shake the damn rain stick and make it flood, don't be stingy.
	The deer are panting, the chickens are all huddled around a block of ice Alex put in the coop.
	This sounds bad.
	Yeah, it's gotta be bad up there.
	This is Dana Brunetti, of course, producer to the stars.
	I recently sold my house in that godforsaken Los Angeles, and my tractor currently has 333 hours on the meter, so I figured it was time to send some beans.
	You figured right.
	My issue with No Agenda Social is not really my password, but I can't remember what app to use to access it and toot.
	Um... Seriously?
	You can just use the web browser.
	That's what I said.
	That's what all the cool kids do.
	Sean Avery is a lurking douchebag.
	John, I've considered the proposal you made at our last dinner.
	Candlelit dinner.
	While I appreciate the offer, I must respectfully decline.
	It doesn't pay enough, and I don't have the time, and frankly, Adam is doing the gig much better than I could.
	Mm-hmm.
	There you go.
	Finally.
	Well, you know what, I don't know what you're thinking, but he came up with this idea to do Dana and the Keeper.
	You know?
	And I said I'd produce it if you wanted to do it.
	Now I'm already the producer.
	I'll just continue to produce and shut up.
	Let him do it.
	Well, maybe.
	It'd be a little different than your... It'd be different than your version because he would be drunk the whole show.
	You're doing me dirty, Dvorak.
	You're doing me dirty, man.
	And so I told him I would... Yeah, I'd produce it if you wanted to do it and then I get... I think Alex She's the one who put the kibosh on the idea.
	You know, she hates podcasting and she doesn't like us.
	She doesn't like us?
	Why doesn't she like us?
	I don't think so.
	No, she doesn't think so.
	No, no.
	And she didn't want to do this podcast, I guess.
	So that's the way it worked out.
	He also has this thing about, you know, he doesn't like being called Brunetti.
	I call him Brunetti all the time.
	He likes to be, you know what it turns out, he likes to be either called The Boss, D.B., like D.B.
	Hey, D.B., come here, D.B.
	Hey, no, D.B., that's a movie set thing.
	Hey, D.B., D.B., what do you think of this shot, D.B.?
	D.B., can you sign off on my per diem?
	D.B.
	But the name he really likes the most is Mr. Dana.
	It turns out that when he was in the Coast Guard, he was an officer in the Coast Guard, a bunch of these guys got together and they hired some Chinese coolie to work for him to clean up their place because they're messes.
	And he just got into the idea of being called Mr. Dana.
	Mr. Dana!
	He was on a ship?
	No, no, it was land-based.
	It was like some... It was like, you know, Government Island or someplace.
	I'm not sure where he was located.
	Cushy job.
	So wait a minute.
	So he retired from service or was he discharged?
	I... That part I don't know.
	I think he got discharged.
	I think he quit.
	He wasn't there that long.
	Okay.
	Anyway, then he has a number of douchebag call-outs.
	He says...
	Let me do him.
	Randy.
	Douchebag!
	Will.
	Stop!
	He's gonna renege on the Will one, so skip that one.
	Because I, you know, I've looked at it, I looked at the numbers, and our de-douching numbers, we only have like six to nine months left.
	What do you mean?
	Of available de-douches.
	So I don't want to waste one on Will.
	Oh, you mean we're out of de-douches?
	No, we're not out.
	We can go another nine months.
	And then we're out of de-douches?
	Then we're out of de-douches?
	Then the supply is over?
	It's going to be a problem.
	It's going to be a problem.
	Well, maybe we should run this kind of like the European Union.
	We get a cap on this stuff and we're going to have to jack the price up.
	Well, luckily we have a lot of douchebags left, so.
	Corey.
	Uh, Corey.
	Douchebag.
	Vinnie.
	Douchebag.
	And Phil.
	Douchebag.
	Are all douchebags.
	Oh yeah, there he is.
	Not Will.
	He donated but then got in trouble with his wife.
	You decide.
	He needs something else.
	He doesn't need a douchebag.
	He just needs another thing.
	Another D.
	Bottoms up!
	Keep me anonymous!
	Just kidding.
	Oh, and the 58th cent of the donation is for Adam's belated birthday, if you couldn't tell.
	The 333 is to prevent the bullshit associate producer's secretary credit.
	Which, by the way... Give it to Alex!
	Switcheroo!
	That's another thing.
	This is his long-term bitch.
	He says in Hollywood... Yeah, I know exactly.
	Associate executive producers are gophers.
	Right.
	Well, then he should have given more the first time.
	Well, he didn't know at the time.
	He's still complaining about it.
	But he's upped his IMDB credit?
	Yeah, no, he's fine.
	He's good to go.
	He just still has a... It's in his craw.
	Anyway, Dana... But can we give him some rain stick stuff?
	I don't mind doing the rain stick for here in California.
	Yeah, I'll do it.
	Hold on a second.
	And Dana, by the way, I just talked to Tina.
	She's fine.
	Mr. Dana.
	Mr. Dana.
	Hey, DB, you got the gig.
	You're good to go.
	Dana and the Keeper.
	We gotta come up with a better name though.
	DB and the Keeper, there you go!
	Alright.
	Alright, this is for you.
	This is for the ranch.
	I'm gonna target this specifically where?
	Is he northwest, northeast of you?
	Northeast?
	Yeah, he's in, like, Jefferson.
	What does that mean to me?
	Where do I point the thing?
	Give me a compass head.
	North of me, uh, slightly, uh, to the east.
	Like ten degrees to the east.
	I'm gonna do nine.
	I don't wanna do too much.
	Okay, ready?
	Two flips, two flips, two flips.
	Yeah, two.
	Go!
	One... and... two!
	Woo!
	Extenderama!
	Do your shake, Johnny!
	Do your shake!
	I did.
	I'm gonna do one.
	Especially for David.
	Alright.
	It should be raining in California within the week.
	Hold on.
	No, it's three days.
	I gotta re-rack my rain stick.
	Be careful, man.
	Just lean that thing against the wall.
	It can hurt somebody.
	There's a little switch on it.
	You can change the duration.
	You're up, Kevin.
	Oh, sorry.
	Yeah, I am up.
	It is Kevin Collins, a.k.a.
	Butt Flapperton.
	I don't remember that, but okay.
	He's in Christianburg, Virginia, 333.33 in the morning.
	I was hit in the mouth by the Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
	Well, thank you, Brothers of the Serpent.
	They hail from Texas Hill Country near Adam and talk about that cool ancient shit.
	Corporalites, literally.
	Love you guys.
	Butt Flapperton.
	Butt Flapperton.
	Look, I thought I saw a note for Bruno Baudry come in from Quebec.
	I'm sure of it.
	How come we didn't... That's interesting.
	Do you have anything from him?
	No, I got nothing.
	What I got was... It should be in.
	Okay, we'll just give him the double karma.
	You've got...
	That should do him.
	And I'll take Sean.
	Well, go ahead.
	You take Sean.
	I'll take Tom.
	Sean McCrossin's back from Tiga Cay, South Carolina.
	There's probably a story behind the name of that place.
	333.33 and all he wants is a de-douche me and a rub-a-lizer.
	You've been de-douched.
	Oh, this is something else.
	I never heard that one.
	India, tango, mic.
	Stand by. 33, 33, 33.
	Rub-O-Lizer, out.
	Up next, Tom Blowers from Brownsville, Texas.
	That's pronounced blowers.
	I like blowers.
	Okay, blowers is a good thing.
	Like flowers, I guess.
	Blowers, yeah.
	Blowers.
	25863, associate executive producer, which you just heard from your executive producer on this show.
	You're just small and meaningless compared to him.
	DB says you're no good, Tomblowers.
	In the morning, gents, please accept this treasure of 258.63.
	The two is to get my note read.
	Hello, happy birthday, Adam.
	The 63 is to celebrate my tats, T-A-T-S, of August 11th.
	Tats?
	Oh, I'll offer a little help.
	TANSTAFL is the acronym.
	Oh, T-A-N-S-T-A-A-F-L is the acronym for There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
	Okay.
	Alright, I gotcha.
	Then he says...
	By the way, my goat scream Howard Dean sandwich is delish.
	I should play that for you.
	No jingles, just some CDL test passing karma for MSHW Shelly, my smoking hot wife Shelly.
	Thank you for your courage, Tom Blowers from the tip of Texas.
	And we'll do this double for you, see if we can make this happen.
	You've got karma.
	All right, so now we have a switcheroo.
	And in Kennewick, Washington, 24233 from Isaac Henry, please credit this donation to my father, Ron Henry, for his 77th birthday on September 7th.
	Beautiful.
	7-7-7.
	Love you, Dad.
	No karma, no jingles.
	Uh, Jason is in Roseland, New Jersey.
	200.
	In the morning.
	Please only use my first name.
	Done.
	Also, please deduce it.
	You've been deduced.
	And please give me some of the strongest jobs karma you've got.
	It pays off.
	I'll cut you in, so don't hold back.
	Oh, hold on.
	Well, you need the, uh, TPP jobs karma in that case.
	Um, also some little girl yays for good luck, please.
	Okay, I think we can do that.
	Let's get you this job, Karma, out of the way first.
	JOBS!
	Uh, Home of the Mentees.
	$200.
	Uh, could I just hear John say, that's bullcrap?
	It cracks me up every time he says that.
	I call bullcrap.
	She says it well, too.
	But I'll say it with the way, when I mean it.
	That's bullcrap.
	There you go.
	A little slower.
	A little deeper and extend it a little bit.
	That's bullcrap.
	It still sounds a little red.
	Like you really mean it.
	Like communist?
	Let me help.
	I'll give you a set up line.
	Hillary Clinton's gonna run for president.
	That's bullcrap!
	See?
	Together we're a dynamite team.
	Yeah, well... Nailed it.
	Coaching always helps.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Is that it?
	Is that the last one?
	Yes, that is our last one.
	Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers of the best podcast in the universe.
	Your treasure matters to us.
	It keeps us going.
	And we'd like to thank you with titles, of course.
	You get the executive or associate executive producership.
	You can use it anywhere.
	Go take a look at DB.
	Go put it wherever DB has his title.
	Put it there.
	You'll get work!
	You'll get work.
	If you happen to be in the movie business.
	If you'd like to learn how, go here.
	Thanks again for bringing your time, treasure, and talents, and all that stuff.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Should probably do some COVID stuff, I'm thinking.
	I'm going to my Mar-a-Lago clip.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I'm trying to do it.
	No, I hate it.
	Here we go.
	Now, I'm going to ask you the questions.
	This is solved in clip three.
	We might even skip clip two.
	Ooh, straight to it.
	It's like Operation Warp.
	No, I'm not going to start with clip three, but I'm going to start with Mar-a-Lago analysis.
	NTD, this is from New Tang Dynasty.
	I want you to Guess what it is they were after in the place.
	They were all full of shit about what they said they were after.
	Do I get to say it now or do I have to wait until they're done?
	No, you can say it now.
	So it was they're all full of shit.
	It wasn't that.
	It was something.
	I really don't know, John.
	None of them, even the French intelligence agency, none of them.
	You know, I was kind of surprised by this too, but this actually makes most sense.
	But let's start with the analysis.
	I know, I know, I know, I know, I know!
	Proof that the moon landing didn't happen.
	So let's start with the first clip, Mar-a-Lago analysis.
	Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.
	Great to have you on, Mike.
	Thank you for having me.
	And as you know, a judge has appointed an independent special master to review the records seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
	What does this mean, and what does the judge's order reveal?
	I think what Judge Cannon is revealing here is that she does not have confidence in the Biden Justice Department or Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.
	There are clear problems with this investigation, and she talks about this.
	She said, quote, the swirling allegations of bias and media leaks.
	What I've seen with this investigation is that they are constantly leaking and lying from the investigation.
	First of all, the president had the absolute constitutional power to declassify anything he wanted before he left the White House, and President Trump did that.
	He had the absolute statutory power to keep and maintain these records in the office of former president and more logo.
	It is legally impossible for president Trump to have violated the espionage act or any of these government record statutes.
	So therefore it's legally impossible for him to have obstructed investigations of these non crimes.
	And I think judge cannon in the Southern district of Florida is seeing the impropriety, the, the illegal conduct coming out of the Biden, uh, Biden justice department.
	They're illegally leaking out.
	Thanks from the grand jury, which is clearly illegal.
	They're leaking out from this affidavit that they're hiding from the American people as too sensitive.
	They leaked out that Merrick Garland did not personally approve this raid.
	That was a lie.
	They leaked out that Trump had America's nuclear documents.
	That was a lie.
	They leaked out that President Biden and the Biden White House was not involved with this raid.
	That was a lie.
	President Biden had to waive President Trump's claim of executive privilege, which paved the way for this unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home raid of a former president.
	Am I supposed to know what they were looking for now, all of a sudden?
	Well, he... This guy is...
	Seems to be in some sort of in the know position.
	And I'm going to skip, he goes on and on about the master and what it means and all, you know, and why it came about because the Justice Department was leaking stuff.
	In fact, I was just watching CBS yesterday and they're going on about all the stuff that they've dug out of the Mar-a-Lago.
	And I'm thinking, well, how do they know this?
	The Washington Post just ran a whole bunch of stuff.
	And it's like, how do they know anything unless somebody is telling them?
	That's one thing and the other is it is against the law in fact in the United States to leak information from the grand jury, correct?
	Yeah.
	Is that like go to jail or just slap on the wrist?
	Yeah.
	Well, in this case, he'll be slapped on the wrist because it's the cops that are leaking it, or the FBI in this case.
	So let's go to what this is all about, which is clip three, Mar-a-Lago analysis.
	And this is the thesis that he has.
	And once he says this, I said, it could be, could be.
	People need to step back and realize what this case is all about.
	This has nothing to do with classified documents.
	This has to do with President Trump's declassified personal copy of his crossfire hurricane records.
	He declassified them on January 19th, the day before he left office.
	The Biden administration dragged their feet and did not publicly release these documents.
	But President Trump has these documents and they are damning on Russian collusion.
	They are damning for Obama, Biden, Hillary, Susan Rice, Brennan, Clapper, the FBI, the intel community.
	That's why the Biden administration, that's why President Biden and his administration had to do this unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful home rape because they had to get back these documents.
	Everything else is political noise.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this came up, though, early on, didn't it?
	This was one of the things that, uh... It was kind of... It was within a series of smokescreen items.
	I don't know that it came up that solidly.
	This guy just... This is it.
	Well, you know what this is.
	You know what this is.
	Thousands of sealed indictments.
	Yep.
	Well, I'm not going to deny the possibility that this is just another one of those 10,000 sealed indictments bullshit.
	Here we go.
	And this guy could be as full of it as anyone, which is possible.
	That's so great.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, can you stop tape for a second?
	Will you go to the next topic?
	Yeah.
	Behind the patio furniture.
	All right.
	Well, I have a quiz for you.
	Okay, I'm here.
	Okay, what items did the Nigerian customs seize from China?
	Uh, dildos.
	Officials in Nigeria say they've seized an illegal consignment of around 7,000 donkey penises destined for China.
	The animal parts were intercepted at the airport in the commercial capital Lagos.
	Ishak Khalid has the story.
	I love the donkey penises!
	The head of customs at Lagos airport told the BBC the animal genitals were found in 16 socks.
	That's the kicker.
	Where did they hide them?
	In socks.
	You sure he wasn't really saying socks?
	No, I think he said socks.
	I'm keeping it at socks.
	It can't be socks.
	That's also kind of funny.
	Oh boy.
	That more toilet humor.
	Time to check the polls and we begin with toilet paper and shrink flake sheets.
	One person calls it a double whammy for your fanny.
	While toilet paper rolls are shrinking in size, their price per roll is rising.
	USA Today reports Angel Soft has cut the number of sheets in a roll and the size of each sheet, going from 4 inches to 3.8 inches wide.
	The company says changes were made to make the sheets thicker.
	Remember, I told you this.
	I told you.
	I told you that something was going on with the toilet paper.
	I called this weeks ago.
	A double whammy for your fanny?
	Really?
	How embarrassing must that be to read that script on network television?
	You know, you don't have to read it.
	Of course she does.
	Network.
	Everybody has to read everything verbatim.
	Like The View, the same thing.
	All right, let's see.
	How are we hiding the dead bodies these days?
	Let's see.
	This morning, a news anchor's medical scare on live TV is raising awareness of women's risk for strokes, even in middle age.
	It's all soft.
	The Tulsa Air and Space Museum.
	Julie Chin was delivering a story to her viewers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when she suddenly found herself unable to speak the words on the teleprompter.
	The event features live... I'm sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody.
	Let's just go ahead and send it on over to meteorologist Andy Brown.
	Julie, we love you so much.
	We love you so much.
	I'm sorry.
	We have those days.
	But it was not just one of those days.
	Chinn later updating her viewers on Facebook, saying doctors believe she suffered the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke.
	I was looking for the obvious, like a small detonator or some trigger wires.
	It comes after former NCIS actress Polly Perrette recently revealed she had a massive stroke last year.
	She says it nearly took her life at the age of 52.
	But I'm still here.
	And I'm so grateful.
	Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in women in the U.S.
	One in five women between the ages of 55 and 75 will have a stroke.
	Symptoms include difficulty walking or talking, sudden vision changes, sudden severe headache, numbness, or paralysis.
	Doctors say early detection is key to survival.
	Time is tissue, and that means your brain tissue.
	And the sooner you get to us, the sooner we can fix it.
	Yeah, okay.
	So they don't even try to come up with reasons.
	You know, 55 to 75, of which none of these women were that old.
	But okay, it just happens.
	Justin Bieber's wife, stroke.
	It just happens.
	It just happens.
	And there's more fun stuff.
	And a new study finds a dramatic increase in cancer cases among people under 50.
	Dramatic!
	Researchers blame poor diet, sleep deprivation, and other lifestyle choices as risk factors for several types of early-onset cancers.
	Ooh, lifestyle choices!
	What kind of lifestyle choices are we talking about here?
	Vax.
	Mm-hmm, accepting it into your life, perhaps.
	And they just keep going, you know, it's like we just gotta keep scaring everybody, keep piling on.
	Oh, we got some arsenic!
	Dangerous levels of arsenic have been detected in the tap water of a New York City apartment complex.
	More than 2,500 residents have been told not to drink or cook with the water.
	Some residents say the water has appeared cloudy with a foul odor for about a month.
	No word yet on the source of the arsenic.
	Hey!
	Hey, Bob!
	Hey, Bob!
	Is something weird with this water?
	No, just as brown and cloudy as usual.
	Hmm, now we seem to be dying from it.
	And this is always a good one when it comes to fast food.
	Hello, McDonald's marketing!
	To the index now, in the E. coli outbreak that may be linked to Wendy's has spread to more states.
	The outbreak first reported in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania has now spread to New York and Kentucky.
	87% of the 97 people who have gotten sick reported eating a burger or sandwich with romaine lettuce at the fast food restaurant.
	More than 40 people have been hospitalized.
	You know, I'm now convinced that this romaine, it's always romaine lettuce.
	There's a bunch of lettuces that are grown, many similar to romaine insofar as they're, you know, kind of could be dirty.
	Why is it always romaine?
	Always romaine.
	And by the way, let's go, wait, let's take it one step further.
	Have you ever had a fast food burger?
	I would have to affirm.
	When did you have a fast food burger that had romaine lettuce on it instead of normal iceberg or any other kind of lettuce?
	Romaine lettuce is not the lettuce you put on a burger.
	No, no, no, it's iceberg.
	Because that rib in the middle lifts the bun off too high.
	Hmm.
	So why are these burgers suddenly Toxic by romaine.
	There's something fishy about this romaine, romaine, romaine thing.
	Well, I'm okay.
	I'm very curious if, um... I'm curious if Wendy's actually uses romaine less.
	You know, they use it for wraps.
	You know, or I'd like a breadless burger, please, and you wrap it in some, uh...
	Yeah.
	It's not romaine usually.
	Romaine's a skinny, long lettuce that is, with a big rib, crunchy rib in the middle that makes it so good.
	And it makes a good salad, lettuce.
	Yeah, of course.
	Probably most lettuce that we get, who knows where it's from, is probably grown in poisoned soil.
	Who knows?
	All I'm eating is beef.
	I'm just bringing up the fact that it's always romaine.
	And now they're accusing...
	And I'm sorry, they're accusing the burger place of using it on burgers.
	And I don't know, I see no evidence of this.
	Well, if that's not gonna kill you, surely the monkey pox will.
	And the White House has hired a monkey pox coordinator.
	Wouldn't you just love to have that on your door?
	That'd be a great title.
	What'd you do for the White House?
	Eh, monkey pucks.
	What do you mean monkey pucks?
	I was the monkey pucks coordinator.
	Everyone with monkey pucks had to go through me, if you know what I mean.
	Yes, and that probably makes sense in this case.
	I wish I could have been, we could have been on the meeting, saying we need someone to address this monkey pox, we need someone to talk to people, and of course it's not just men who have sex with men, it's many other people, it's not sexually transmitted, but we've got some stigma, how can we really Screw the gays!
	How can we put it all on the gays?
	The gays need the monkey pox!
	Not just any old gays, the male gays, the gays with penises!
	Let's bring out, oh I know, a gay guy!
	So I think, you know, this virus transmits through very close skin-to-skin physical contact, often in the setting of sexual exposure.
	But there are other mechanisms for its transmission, including if you touch objects that individuals who've had monkeypox touch, or if you have prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets.
	With that said, signaling to people who are in the gay, bisexual, other men who have sex with men communities and also transgender people who have sex with men that it's really important to have awareness of this circulating in the community is really a critical part of the messaging while not generating, you know, inordinate concern and really focusing on the infection as linked to an identity.
	So, it's just an infection.
	It's not linked to an identity.
	It just happens to be in the social network.
	It's in the social network!
	Did you hear that whole list he had?
	I gotta practice.
	Yeah, you're out of touch.
	Let's listen to that again.
	I mean, it was dynamite.
	He had men who have sex with men, men... Let's see.
	If you touch objects that individuals who've had monkey pox touch, or if you have prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets.
	That said... With that said, signaling to people who are in the gay, bisexual, other men who have sex with men communities... The bi... The gay, bisexual... Hold on.
	Gay, bisexual...
	Admit other men.
	Other men who have sex with men.
	Who have sex with men.
	So if you're not... So if you're gay... That's one thing.
	Wait, but there's more.
	If you're bisexual... But wait, there's more.
	There's more.
	Also transgender people who have sex with men.
	Transgender people who have sex with men.
	Okay.
	But what is this one category, this uncategorized category, other men who have sex with men who aren't gay or bisexual?
	Who are these people?
	That may be us.
	What's left?
	They've categorized everybody else.
	What are we?
	Who are in the gay, bisexual, other men who have sex with men communities and also transgender people who have sex with men.
	By the way, stop, stop, stop.
	It's the men who have sex with the other men who have sex with men community.
	So it's not like one guy.
	It's a community job.
	It's a whole bunch of guys.
	Where does this community live?
	You know what?
	I figured out what it is.
	They're not gays.
	They're not bisexuals.
	They're Trump supporters.
	That's obviously what it is.
	Other men who have sex with men.
	It's Trump supporters.
	Yeah, Trump supporters.
	They won't take them in to the gay community.
	They won't take them in as a bisexual.
	They're just other men who have sex with men.
	So like Richard Grinnell.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The former National Security Advisor.
	Yeah.
	The Director of National Security.
	Yeah.
	He's an other man who has sex with men.
	Because he's a Trump supporter.
	That's not... Don't smear the good gay name with him.
	No.
	Am I crazy or is this just really rude what they're doing here?
	Well, I see from some perspective it's rude.
	Seems really rude.
	Alright, let's see if we can scare everybody with some COVID, because you know, COVID has time to come back again.
	Once again, get ready for all your little restrictions and rules and regulations.
	Especially if you're in Canada.
	Things to remember is, COVID's not done with us yet.
	You might want to be done with it, but it's still around.
	How patronizing is this dude?
	COVID's not... You may be done with it, but it's not done with us yet!
	Things to remember is COVID's not done with us yet.
	We might want to be done with it, but it's still around.
	And yes, we have a lot more tools, a lot more understanding, a lot more knowledge on how to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe that have allowed us to get back to regular life in a lot of ways for a whole bunch of people.
	But we also know that as winter comes and as people get pushed back indoors, there is a real risk of another serious wave of COVID.
	One of the best things we can do to prevent that wave, prevent the pressure on our healthcare system, prevent provinces from having to take decisions around restrictions and mandates, is to ensure that everyone is up to date in their vaccinations.
	The recommendation is, you know, you should be up to date in your vaccinations if you have had a dose within six months.
	Everyone who has been a while since their vaccination should look at the fact that we have new vaccines coming out this month.
	Oh, restrictions and rules!
	Omicron that will provide better protection and everyone should get out and get vaccinated.
	If we are able to hit that 80, 85, 90% of Canadians up to date in their vaccinations, we'll have a much better winter with much less need for the kinds of restrictions and rules that were so problematic for everyone over the past years.
	Oh, restrictions and rules.
	Restrictions and rules.
	Did I mention the University of California I think I did in the last show.
	They require now that if you happen to have a flu shot, not to blame COVID, COVID's and you gotta get COVID, but if you don't have a flu shot, you have to wear a mask all the time.
	Sure.
	And I'll say it again, the flu has been around forever, every year, but why all of a sudden do you have to wear the mask of obedience if you didn't get your flu shot?
	And a lot of people don't get the flu shot.
	The flu shot's dumb.
	Because they have control and people will comply, particularly in your area.
	Particularly.
	It's as if nothing happened.
	Of course, nothing did because vaccines didn't work.
	Masks don't matter.
	Lockdowns were harmful.
	It's all been discussed.
	It's all mainstream.
	It's not a joke, man.
	But who gives a shit?
	Just keep pushing.
	Well, back in this country, the return to school is now being blamed for a spike in COVID cases among children.
	Data shows a 14% jump in pediatric COVID cases last week.
	The White House is urging parents to get their kids vaccinated.
	Turning now to the pandemic.
	Just days after the CDC gave the green light for those new COVID booster shots, major chains like Walgreens are now offering appointments.
	The new doses with protection against the most common Omicron variants and they are recommended for everyone 12 and over who has already been vaccinated.
	The CDC says only 49% of eligible Americans have had a previous booster shot.
	They should have just like the doctors, you know, like four out of five dentists recommend.
	They should have doctors like, hey, I recommend this.
	Hey, I'm so-and-so and I recommend this jab.
	I'd like to see it.
	Yeah, like the old cigarette ads.
	Yeah, yeah.
	When the doctors are recommending various cigarette brands.
	That's how, you know, it's our medical system at work.
	And the recommendation for now, for now, is not as dire as everywhere else.
	But for now, for now, it's still want to be up to date every year.
	Those updated COVID booster shots are rolling out this week.
	At the White House today, health officials said COVID shots will likely become a once-a-year vaccination, targeting the latest strains.
	The shots are free for now, but administration officials say the program needs another injection of funds from Congress.
	More money!
	More money, more money!
	It's all going to be free, free forever.
	And if you want to know what it's going to be like here in the wintertime, let's go to Australia.
	This is exactly, and I remember this was COVID, it hit summertime here and we'd had our beginning of lockdowns and everyone's like, well Australians, they're doing a good job!
	There's nothing happening!
	Remember that?
	They don't let anybody in.
	They got no COVID.
	They got one person.
	They killed him.
	And they buried that person.
	They set his clothes on fire.
	We're great.
	And then winter came.
	And of course, along with it came influenza.
	But okay, COVID.
	And now it's wintertime once again in Australia.
	Queenslanders are being warned that they might need a fifth COVID jab before the end of the year, as authorities monitor the spread of new Omicron variants.
	Live to Seven News reporter Georgia Costey, who was on the Gold Coast.
	Now, Georgia, what's prompted this?
	Good morning, Mon.
	Well, this latest COVID wave is decimating health care staff and putting extra pressure on hospitals right across Queensland.
	Around 700 people are being treated for COVID-19 in private and public health hospitals and on top of that 7.6% of Queensland health staff are currently off work sick themselves.
	Here at the Gold Coast University Hospital they have temporarily suspended Tier 3 services which is lower level planned care.
	Now this all comes after it was announced that from Monday anyone over 30 will be eligible to receive their second booster However, we are being warned by some healthcare professionals that this is unlikely to be our last booster and we could in fact need a fifth dose by the end of the year.
	Simone, it appears that this is something we will just have to accept as the virus and its variants continue to evolve.
	The way of life, alright.
	Thank you so much, Georgia.
	What was Georgia's contribution to this report?
	Nothing.
	Absolutely nothing.
	You sound like a, like a, oh I don't know, a hysteric.
	Little bit.
	Just running around.
	I think, you know, so they're gonna have to come back with the incentives again.
	Hamburgers?
	No!
	No, I think... A hundred dollar bill?
	No!
	I think we need to wrap it into our other program, and for every time someone gets a booster, we send another Stinger missile to Ukraine, so we can say, do it for Ukraine!
	Do it for Ukraine!
	And people, you know what?
	People, but you know, I know it's like, you know, it hurts a little bit, which tells me the booster's working, but I'm just really, I'm here, I'm doing it for Ukraine.
	People will love it.
	Well, if you want to take it further, you can have your name inscribed on the missile.
	Hey, this is good.
	That's a great idea.
	Just a magic marker, but still.
	Well, it could be anything.
	It could be one of those little inscription tools, or it could be a Sharpie, and you could put maybe five, you might, you know, because of the nature of it, you had to put ten names on there.
	F.U.
	Putin.
	Yeah, stuff like that.
	A little message.
	You pay extra for, you have to get, if you get your whole family vexed, then you can get to put a personal message to Putin.
	And then finally, again, something that people only got a little snippet from for the ha-ha, but the whole, the full 50 seconds of this clip is quite good, I found, and entertaining.
	Are Dr. Jha Who is the COVID response doctor, who I do not think has ever even met the president.
	Probably not.
	What's the name of that, by the way, what's the name of that Chen woman?
	Chen?
	Yeah, Chen.
	The one that's always on.
	Lina Nguyen?
	Lina Nguyen?
	Nguyen!
	Nguyen.
	Lina Nguyen.
	Yeah.
	Counts on foreign relations.
	Oh, surprise, surprise.
	Let me guess.
	World Economic Forum?
	I haven't found that.
	Young global leader?
	I just feel like she's going through the roster.
	Trilateral Commission?
	Maybe.
	Bohemian Grove?
	Possibly.
	It seems unlikely she's a human.
	Alright, here's Dr. Jha.
	So here's the simple version.
	If you're 12 and above, And previously vaccinated.
	It's time to go get an updated COVID-19 shot.
	Updated shot!
	Update me!
	Update just like an iPhone!
	Now here are a couple of caveats because there are always a- Oh my goodness!
	They should do every iPhone update, you know, like, oh there's a new iOS that has cool new emojis!
	You should be able to get the beta of that if you get your shot.
	Apple working with the government.
	I'm telling you, it'd be perfect.
	And you can still say, I'm doing it for you, Craig.
	Now here are a couple of caveats because there are always a few caveats.
	If you got a recent infection or were recently vaccinated, it's reasonable to wait a few months.
	Just hang back, hang back.
	Used to be strict, exact timing, temperature.
	You remember that?
	You remember the days where you had to be within like a three days window?
	If not, you might die.
	It'll take two or three months.
	Now, we expect millions of people to get the shot this month.
	For Ukraine.
	As folks get back to school, get back to work, and get back into their regular routines after the summer.
	And as the annual flu vaccination campaign kicks into high gear later this month and into early October, we expect millions will choose to get their COVID-19 shot at the same time.
	Oh!
	Or over the course of the fall when people go in for routine checkups.
	This guy actually sounds like Tim Cook.
	Doesn't he have a little bit of Tim Cook's cadence?
	You know, we expect millions- A little bit, a little bit.
	Yeah, we expect millions of people to use- I didn't pick it up right away, but I can see where you'd think that.
	Millions of people to use iPhone.
	We- Notice how they never say the iPhone or your iPhone, it's like iPhone?
	Millions of people are using iPhone.
	I guess you haven't noticed.
	Expect millions... No, I have not noticed it, but I'm now on the lookout.
	You just go look at that whole presentation and... We think iPhone should be this.
	It's like iPhone is its own entity.
	Its own godly entity.
	Which, from a financial perspective, it is.
	And as the annual flu vaccination campaign kicks into high gear later this month and into early October, We expect millions will choose to get their COVID-19 shot at the same time.
	Or over the course of the fall when people go in for routine checkups.
	The good news is you can get both your flu shot and COVID shot at the same time.
	It's actually a good idea.
	I really believe... Well, he's gonna tell you.
	He's gonna tell you why.
	I'm glad you stepped on it so I can stop it and bring your attention to it.
	He will explain.
	The good news is you can get both your flu shot and COVID shot at the same time.
	It's actually a good idea.
	I really believe this is why God gave us two arms.
	One for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot.
	Oh my God.
	Oh, geez.
	Okay, clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	He's sitting there saying, it would have been better if he said do believe, but no, instead he says.
	No, I was hoping for do believe, but he didn't say do believe.
	What else?
	What an a-hole. - This is my favorite.
	And the other one for the... Wait, no, no, I really... It's two arms.
	I really believe... One for the... Where was this?
	I really believe this is why God gave us two arms.
	Do you think he really believes that this is why God gave us two arms?
	Does he really believe it?
	No, he's a liar.
	I mean, that's... That's sacrilegious, man.
	Minimally.
	Don't be so flippant.
	Man, I really believe... Are we... Well, to be fair about it, you see those man-on-the-street questions.
	I mean, no wonder they talk to us like we're morons.
	I had a whole bunch of them.
	I can't even bring myself to play them.
	Oh, play one.
	No, I didn't clip anything.
	No, I'm forcing myself.
	I was going to clip one for today's show and I just felt the same way.
	I'm forcing myself not to do it.
	It's the same guy and he's got dynamite material.
	It's just, it's so sad.
	Sad.
	Yeah.
	It's not right.
	He also obviously hates women.
	Let's go to, I got some, I got a student loan thing, but I got, I want to get this out, I get, because I'm, one of my things I'm doing a running gag with is these Democrats that are convincing themselves that they're gonna do okay in the midterms.
	Oh no, this is, this is totally the narrative.
	I think Republicans are even saying, hey man, I think the Democrats are gonna do really well.
	Yeah, they are.
	It's a suckers game.
	It's been going on for a while.
	I have three pretty short clips.
	There's Dems winning the midterms.
	Just 62 days until Americans vote to decide, among other things, which party will control Congress.
	There's a new poll out.
	It suggests Democrats have some momentum with With registered voters.
	Here it is.
	45% of registered voters say, were the election today, they'd cast their ballot for the Democratic congressional candidate on the ballot.
	40% say they'd vote for the Republican.
	If you narrow that down to people who say they'll definitely vote in the midterms, Democrats lead 48 to 45 over Republicans.
	The GOP looking to turn that around this week.
	Republicans are launching a massive ad buy across eight states in an attempt to boost key Senate races.
	They're set to spend nine figures, so hundreds of millions, flooding the airwaves, including those in Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio.
	Much of that money is set to come from the Senate Leadership Fund.
	It promotes Republican candidates.
	A spokesperson for the group said they plan to spend the money defining Democratic And I think it's time for us to explain once again, because we do it every election cycle, what this is really about.
	Whenever it gets close to election time and we hear the, oh, neck and neck, neck and neck, it's pretty close.
	What is it about?
	It's always pretty close.
	So give us the networks, the TV media, the news media, the print media, any media.
	Give us money and we'll try to even things out because you know you need to advertise otherwise you're gonna get you're gonna get shellacked.
	And this will be the- Oh, look, look, look, you're losing!
	Look, you guys are down!
	Oh, man, you're gonna get wiped out!
	And this will be Mark Zuckerberg's true albatross, since he came out and stupidly said, we're not gonna take any election money.
	What an idiot.
	I mean that is, it's like this is the bonanza, this is the event.
	Remember we had Les Boombas?
	Trump rocks!
	It's like people advertising everywhere!
	It's great!
	Yeah, Les Moonves was straightforward.
	He was on a conference call to investors and it was like, this is going to be a great quarter because of the election.
	Should we play it again?
	Just real quick?
	Yeah, you might as well.
	The advertising climate couldn't be better right now and I've never seen it this hot for a number of years.
	Third quarter scatter was phenomenally good and fourth is even better than that.
	So as the year ends and we move into 16, Guess what?
	In 16, we have an extra AFC playoff game, we have the Super Bowl, and we have a year of political advertising that looks like it's shaping up to be pretty phenomenal.
	You know, we love having all 16 Republican candidates throwing crap at each other.
	It's great.
	The more they spend, the better it is for us.
	Go Donald.
	Keep getting out there.
	This is fun.
	Watching this, let them spend money on us.
	We love having them in there.
	We're looking forward to a very exciting political year in 2016.
	Yeah.
	Facebook is going to have a real problem with their numbers.
	Facebook's going to have a lot of explaining to do to the shareholders at a meeting.
	If I was a shareholder, well actually I am a shareholder as a matter of fact.
	You're a face bag shareholder?
	Yeah.
	Long?
	You're a long face bag?
	Oh totally.
	And all these things are evidentiary that they're going to, you know, Facebook is a depressed stock the way I see it because of this kind of thing, this kind of stupidity.
	Once they get rid of Zuckerberg and put somebody in who knows how to milk it, they can really do well because they're going to have to start buying publication.
	I got a lot of thoughts on it, but I'm not going to bring them up here.
	Let's go to clip two of the Dems winning.
	Right, there is a structural advantage for Republicans in gerrymandered districts in the House and in the Senate, in the Electoral College as well.
	Did you hear what she said, this expert that was brought in by Shep?
	Yes.
	Now I wanted you to explain to the people out there, what is a gerrymandered Senate district?
	It's a statewide election.
	You can't gerrymander the Senate.
	It's a statewide election.
	You're right.
	Each and every state.
	There is no gerrymandering of districts.
	That's right.
	You can't gerrymander, you know, that's like, yeah, you talk, guys, you can vote in here in California.
	What is she talking about?
	Well, Nazar, when you read now, when you redraw That's right.
	I mean, does a senator have a district?
	No, a senator doesn't have a district.
	A senator has a state.
	No, a district is the whole state.
	And is it... I'm sure they can explain it.
	There's no explanation.
	She's talking through her hat.
	Nice way to... I haven't heard that one in a hundred years.
	It's a good oldie.
	It's a very classic.
	I mean, it's a little lighter than talking through her ass, which is the less polite way of putting it.
	No, she's full of shit.
	That's another way of saying it.
	Yeah.
	Or bullcrap.
	You could throw that one out.
	It's bullcrap!
	Okay, here we go with the end of this little analysis.
	I want to show you what we just got out of Florida.
	You've probably seen this from the governor's race.
	Look at that!
	Ron DeSantis has but a three-point lead over Charlie Criss, the Democrat now, currently, used to be independent, used to be Republican.
	Are those numbers real?
	Do you buy it?
	It's so funny that you asked me that because I looked at that today and I said I don't buy that Marco Rubio's only two points ahead in the Senate race or that Charlie Crist is that close to a very popular governor in quite a red state.
	If we find out on election night, Shepard, that Charlie Crist won that race, I think it would be entirely because of the issue of abortion.
	And again, we won't know who is the most energized to get in a car that day, to get their friends out, to give money, to knock on doors, and produce a victory until we see it on November 8th.
	Now here's the two people, two people looking right at corrupt polling, designed to get people to spend more money on advertising, and neither one of them seeing it?
	Or are they just pretending they don't see it?
	I would say they're pretending.
	I would say that they're... I would say no to that.
	I would say that they're sincere.
	Yeah, these people maybe.
	Who are these people?
	Do they have any... That's Shep Smith and some analyst who thinks you can gerrymander the Senate.
	I wonder if she can tell me what time it is by looking at an analog clock on the street.
	Probably not.
	Might not be possible.
	What the hell's that?
	Why is it round?
	Vape Wars.
	Yes, it's the Vape Wars.
	Wars on the day.
	Being the cigarette.
	All right, the Vape Wars.
	Um...
	I'm going to deconstruct what I think is happening with this latest settlement between Juul and the states.
	Here's the report.
	Juul has agreed to pay $438.5 million to 34 states and territories over its marketing practices.
	While not admitting guilt, Juul says that it's all in the past and the company now has a new, more honorable mission.
	The two-year investigation finding Juul intentionally tried to appeal to children with ads like these featuring young, trendy models.
	Other marketing tactics included hosting launch parties for new products, offering free samples, Advertising on social media and selling products and flavors attractive to children.
	And it worked, apparently.
	In 2019, the same year Juul says it, quote, reset the company, more than 5 million young people said they tried vaping within the past 30 days.
	Just the year before that, the number was 3.6 million.
	Jewel commenting in a statement, the terms of the agreement are aligned with our current business practices.
	We remain focused on the future as we work to fulfill our mission to transition adult smokers away from cigarettes, the number one cause of preventable death, while combating underage use.
	All right, I've been following this very closely for many years.
	Even Trump almost got swept up into this bullcrap and they tried to stop it.
	So, to review, Juul was purchased by Philip Morris, you know, the biggest tobacco, I guess arguably one of the best tobacco manufacturers and marketers.
	And the problem with Juul, as it was out there on its own initially, is, as you heard, millions of kids stopped smoking tobacco or weren't smoking, let's put it this way, We're not smoking tobacco products, but we're either starting with Juul, which is a vaporizer and nicotine, no tobacco involved, or they might have stopped smoking altogether.
	The issue for the states, the states got this payout, that's why this caught my attention.
	The issue is that if kids stop buying tobacco products, the Master States Agreement doesn't work.
	And the Master States Agreement was amongst, I think, all the states, but certainly these 34 or 38.
	They get a piece of the tobacco sales to pay for people dying in their state because of tobacco.
	I know it sounds kind of ghoulish, but that's literally the deal.
	It is ghoulish.
	It's totally ghoulish, but you can just see them going for it.
	Well, you know, Bill, the fact is that people are going to smoke anyway.
	And there's nothing we can do about it.
	So I think if we actually take some of this money, it will probably push the price up and it will help people not want it because they can't afford it.
	So it's a win-win.
	It's a win-win for the state.
	Now, of course, all the states have already packaged that money years in advance, you know, into bonds and like, It's going to be a steady flow.
	People don't stop smoking, certainly not during shitty depression times.
	But then this Juul thing, this vaping threw them for a loop.
	And so what you're seeing here is a calculation and a settlement, in my opinion, between the states saying, We will let you continue with your plan, which I'll explain in a moment.
	But first, we gotta see some moolah, because we got screwed out of this deal by Juul.
	We didn't get all the money we needed.
	We need more money.
	Okay.
	We'll pay you the half a billion dollars.
	Boom!
	There it is.
	Shut up!
	And now comes IQOS.
	This thing is already, I think, up to 35% of the world tobacco market, particularly Asia.
	It is non-combustible smoking device and tobacco.
	So you don't actually burn the tobacco, according to... I have not tried one.
	I have yet to receive one.
	You don't burn the tobacco.
	It's non-combustible.
	If you call the PR people, you can get one.
	Yeah, but you know, if I called PR people, I'd have a free RODECaster Pro, I'd have all kinds of free shit.
	Yeah, that's the idea.
	Well, if you can call the PR people and one of these two-person electric EV tolls, that would be great.
	That ain't gonna happen.
	Anyway, so this is the idea because you can still vape these things.
	This is for people who have been trained to vape.
	It'll feel very comfortable.
	Oh, you charge it, you put a little thing in here, a little pod, and you can even smoke it indoors because it's smokeless because it's non-combustion.
	And it's tobacco, so they will go back to getting a piece of the revenue.
	This is what it's always been.
	And, of course, ABC has to help out with this mission, and so they're going to add a little bit of pizzazz by saying, hey, you know, you really, you shouldn't be using vape at all because nicotine will kill you in so many ways!
	Now, Dr. Sutton, there's a lot of conflicting info out there about the safety of vaping.
	So what does the data show?
	Well, Diane, there's a lot of misinformation and miscommunication on how much nicotine is in these products and also the dangers of nicotine itself.
	In fact, it's been found that two-thirds of those between the age of 15 and 24 do not know that Juuls contain more nicotine than cigarettes, when in reality, one Juul contains enough nicotine to accommodate 20 cigarettes.
	Yes, and they also don't realize that nicotine has dangerous effects itself.
	There's this idea that since there's no tobacco in these products that it's somehow safer, but nicotine has been associated with increase in heart rate, blood pressure.
	A study from the American Heart Association has associated nicotine to increases in cholesterol And triglycerides, which all increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes and other cardiovascular disease.
	And nicotine also negatively affects the brain.
	It can affect attention centers, mood centers, causing irritability.
	And this is especially important for young adults because many don't realize that the brain continues to develop until around the age of 24 or 25.
	Iqos is on the bullcrap report.
	Come on!
	By the way, this made me think about something.
	So these days, when you have a test, or you're anxious, and you're growing up, or you're worried about asking a girl out on a date, or a boy, it doesn't matter, you have anxiety, and what do we do?
	We give you SSRIs, we give you Lexapro, we give you stuff to remove.
	Yeah, you're probably better off with a smoke.
	Exactly!
	Back in the day, shit man, I got a test.
	You know, take a couple of hits, get rid of nicotine.
	You feel depressed in the morning, take a hit.
	Good to go.
	Donut black coffee.
	Mirka.
	And a shot of scotch.
	Yeah, what's your problem, people?
	Iquos on deck.
	Well, we'll see.
	We'll see.
	I'm pretty sure that it's about that time.
	It's great reset anyway.
	Might as well, like, bring that back in.
	I'm excited.
	Should be fun.
	Well, I want you to try this stuff.
	I want to try it, too.
	Yeah, I'm very excited about it.
	I mean, I'm not interested to say the least.
	You've never smoked, have you?
	No, I never have.
	No, never even a puff just to try it?
	No, never.
	Cigar?
	I have smoked cigars.
	Do you like it?
	I like the flavor of a good Cubano, but generally speaking, cigars taste terrible.
	So blunts are off the table?
	Blunts are out.
	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.
	So we have a few people to thank for show 1484.
	1484.
	84.
	84.
	Bruce.
	Starting with Bruce Schwalm.
	Bruce.
	Who's been giving us money recently.
	Bruce.
	I appreciate it.
	He's in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
	$150.33.
	Home of WSQV, the Susquehanna Valley.
	Zachary Uh, Hanzlick.
	Hanzlick, I think.
	And he's also in Pennsylvania, in Downingtown.
	A hundred.
	Weird name for a town.
	He wants a de-douching.
	He needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'll de-douche you, boy.
	No worries.
	Take care of you.
	He makes an interesting comment here.
	He says, I got him into this show during the twit anniversary years back and kept interrupting Leo, shouting, HAIL APPLE!
	We were doing this on our show!
	This is probably what caused many a rift.
	You think?
	Yeah.
	Because we were just busting on that shit non-stop.
	Dennis Price is up.
	He's in Pine Grove, California.
	He's in for $100.
	He sent an email about nuclear energy.
	Blair Williams in Austin, Texas, $100.
	Kerry Jackson in Watertown, Tennessee, $100.
	And then we jump to Sir Kevin McLaughlin, the Duke of Luna, lover of America, and lover of boobs!
	He's in Locust, North Carolina, and he gave $8008, and he's the only one!
	Nice.
	Sarah Wood, 58, 33, in Powell, Wyoming.
	Beth Pugie, in Henderson, Nevada.
	Andre Pichu.
	These are 58s.
	I don't know if you mentioned that.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Okay, well, no, the first of us, Sarah Wood, 58, 33.
	Hey!
	Yeah, these are your people.
	You start with Beth.
	Stay away.
	Stay away from my people.
	Beth Pugie, Pugie, Pugie, Moto Gucci, 58, Henderson, Nevada.
	Andre Pichu, Ramsdonk Sphere, 58, thank you, happy birthday.
	Sir Rob Knight of the Philanthropic Shareholders Federation in Leiden.
	Anything else?
	QQ and Key West, thank you.
	Sir Greg, the Mamet Knight of the Inner Banks in Newport, North Carolina, happy birthday.
	May all your exit strategies remain unrealized as we need you guys to keep us sane.
	Sir Greg with a double G.
	Angela Bull in Kingsville, Texas.
	Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Candanavia.
	Michaela E. King in Temecula?
	Is that what I'm saying?
	Temecula.
	Temecula?
	Go figure.
	Of course it'd be Temecula.
	California.
	Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Melanie Lawson in East Sussex, Great Britain.
	Jesse Smith in Woonsocket.
	Hey!
	I've been to Woonsocket.
	My mom grew up around Woonsocket.
	Home of the Pawtuckets.
	I think.
	Gavin McGoldrick, San Francisco.
	Matt Lossi in Odessa, Florida.
	Lossi.
	You know Matt?
	No, I know some other Lossis.
	Nathan Garza in Whitetown, Indiana.
	Brian Bowser, or is it Bowser?
	Uh-huh, uh-huh, see?
	In King George, Virginia.
	Brian Navarro in Los Angeles, California.
	And finally, Gergana Yankova in Buckinghamshire, in Great Britain.
	No, that's the swanky area.
	Buckinghamshire.
	Thank you.
	Onward with Keegan Sullivan.
	We do this all year round.
	We just keep this going.
	Yeah, just keep having birthdays.
	We'll see how long that this goes on before it peters out or people start complaining.
	Keegan Sullivan in Peoria, Illinois, 5624.
	Michael Gates, 5280.
	Jeffrey Kenyon in Klontarf, Queensland, They've got some great names for cities down there.
	5029.
	And finally, we go to our $50 donors.
	And I'm just going to do names and locations.
	We don't have that many today, anyway.
	Villarreal.
	Villarreal starts this off.
	And Matthew Smith in Colchester, Suffolk.
	A lot of Brits today.
	Oh, maybe because of the Queen.
	Yeah.
	James Scott in Parlin, New Jersey.
	Philip Kusinofsky.
	Kusinofsky is what it looks like in Austin, Texas.
	Edward Misurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Jonathan Meyer in Zinnia, Ohio.
	M. Jill Jaunty in Omaha, Nebraska.
	William Dolgay in Bristolville, Ohio.
	And last but not least, Sir Jason Deluzio, who is now situated in Miami Beach, Florida.
	I want to thank all these people for making the show 14-84 a winner.
	And especially for all of our Brits, since I know it's gonna hit you real hard, real soon.
	A little bit of extra jobs karma couldn't hurt.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	And, of course, thanks to all of these producers, also those who came in under $50 for anonymity.
	And, of course, you might be on one of those many subscriptions, which you can do.
	You can determine your own or put in some magic numbers.
	There's a couple that you can, in fact, there's many you can read about on our website, specially built there for...
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's a fast day, fast day.
	Oh, so much.
	Ah, short donation, short list.
	Isaac Henry, happy birthday to his dad, Ron Henry.
	77 on the 7th, happy birthday.
	Jeffrey Kenyon, you just heard him donate.
	Happy birthday to his son, Jake.
	He turns 29 today.
	And Sir Marty Williamson, happy birthday to his Rachel, his daughter Rachel.
	29 on the 10th, happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Uh, no title changes, but we do have one Dame, of course.
	We don't have a Dame name for her, but we'll just Dame her Dame, Shauna.
	Yeah, I got my blade.
	Here you go.
	Yeah, this is, uh... This is, uh... Where is it?
	Oh, hold it towards the mic.
	There you go.
	That's better.
	Let me grab mine.
	There you go.
	Up on the podium, please, if at all possible, Shauna Norberg!
	Shauna, you have been bestowed with the title of Dame of the Noah-Jenner Roundtable thanks to your husband's contribution, but I'm sure it's both of yours, right?
	So let me proudly pronounce the K-V as Dame Shauna, and welcome to the Roundtable, where we have Hookers and Blow, but maybe you'd like some Rent Boys and some Chardonnay, eh?
	It's never wrong.
	Or if you'd like some Harlots and Howl Doll Pepper Well, of course, once you join the other knights and dames.
	uh, geishas and sake, vodka and vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils.
	We got all kinds of now.
	Oh, cowgirls and coffin varnish, but maybe it's the mutton and mead.
	In fact, it's going to be great.
	You're all alone here today.
	Well, of course, once you join the other nights and dames, but, uh, you have the first pick of the, the mutton and the mead.
	So enjoy that.
	And when you're done licking your chops and wetting your whistle, go to no agenda nation.com slash rings, Make sure that you give us information.
	We can send the whole package for your night, your damedom, which includes your signet ring, the wax to seal your important correspondence with, and of course the certificate of authenticity.
	Tina had a visitor here the other day.
	It was Dame Christina.
	I want to say Pearl, I can't remember.
	She's a flight attendant with Southwest.
	Oh yeah, this flight attendant you mentioned before.
	Yeah, it was really nice.
	She came by and they went out to dinner together, you know, do chick stuff.
	But she gave me a nice birthday card and it was sealed on the back with some lovely golden No Agenda round table sealing wax.
	Nah.
	It really is a nice touch, you've got to admit.
	It's pretty cool.
	Yeah, well I get all the mail for the box and so you see it a lot.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh yes, on the box too, exactly.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Well, the No Agenda Meetups is where you're going to find your community.
	I know because I've been to many of them and I think we've got another cool one coming up in Austin soon.
	Pretty sure we do.
	Like another Hill Country meetup, if at all possible.
	Anyway, people do like to attend them.
	Sometimes there's a lot of people that show up and, well, here's one, a report from the Knoxville meetup.
	In the morning, you people, this is number eight at the Knoxville meetup.
	Make way for the royalty and knights and whatnot.
	In the morning, No Agenda Tribe, this is Billy Bones embracing the rest of the tribe here in Knoxville.
	We'll see you around.
	The spook will not speak.
	Alright, this is Noah with Chris, Sir Seat Sitter at the Knoxville No Agenda meetup.
	Hey Adam, hey John.
	In the morning.
	Love y'all.
	This is Sir Seat Sitter here of After The Six Pack here with Noah.
	In the morning.
	This phone boy of the Lotus Effect, you may have heard of us.
	In the morning, y'all.
	Boom.
	Man, a meetup with Sir Seat Sitter and Phone Boy?
	I mean, you're talking... Oh my God!
	You're talking peak no agenda right there, everybody.
	Peak no agenda nation.
	Time to let you know what meetups are on the way.
	The EvacZone sent us a promo.
	Join us this Saturday at Blue Sky Tavern before you have an amygdala meltdown!
	Amygdala cores irradiated by MSM lights need to be shielded with no agenda, good friends, and small batch rye.
	Hope to see you there, and remember... Human resources like no agenda meetups too!
	Bring your resource!
	Ignore the air raid sirens and the exploding nuclear plant warnings.
	Bring your human resources.
	Today, at 6 o'clock Phoenix, Arizona time, we've got the Blanco Cocina and Cantina meet-up.
	I got corrected, it's Cocina.
	If you say Cochina, then that's something completely different, and I've got them straight now.
	That's in Scottsdale.
	Duke of the South is organizing that, he must be on location.
	On Saturday, the Benz and Bernadettes, that brunch, brunch together, stay together, 10 o'clock in Brood, Fort Worth, Texas.
	Also on Saturday, Greater Annapolis Let's Go Soap.
	What's Brood?
	It's the name of the place.
	Brood.
	Oh, Brood.
	B-R-E-E-D.
	B-R-E-E-W-E-D, yes.
	Oh, thank you.
	Could have been misconstrued, the Brood.
	Greater Annapolis, let's go social, 2 o'clock in O'Loughlin's Arnold, Maryland on Saturday.
	Also Saturday, the South Jersey Slaves meet up, 2 o'clock Eastern.
	Garden State Distillery, I've been there.
	Tom's River, New Jersey.
	It's my old stomping grounds.
	Now this is Sir R. Daniels, who's organizing this.
	If you want to get some inside dirt from some cool organizations, you want to check him out.
	Or is this a different one?
	No, this is also Mr. Daniels.
	Yes.
	I don't know, it's Tom's River, go!
	Mid-Vancouver Island meet-up, 3 o'clock on Saturday, the Rogue Oasis in Lake Cowichan in British Columbia.
	The Chicago Beach meet-up, long time no SEA, Montrose Beach, Chicago, and that'll be 4 o'clock on Saturday.
	South Mississippi meet-up, 5 o'clock on Saturday at Chandelure Island Brewing in Gulfport, Mississippi.
	It says MS.
	Wouldn't that be Missouri?
	No, M-O.
	M-O is Missouri.
	Thank you.
	Long COVID.
	Gitmo Nation reindeer meet up in Helsinki.
	Ho-ho.
	Woolshed.
	The Woolshed.
	What kind of Finnish name is that?
	The Woolshed.
	Hey Olaf, where is the meet-up in Helsinki?
	Is it the woolshed?
	Unless I'm misunderstanding.
	Sir Sammy is organizing.
	That'd be fun.
	Maybe Wonderhelm will stop by.
	And you just heard the Three Mile Island evac zone meet-up.
	That's Saturday at 6 o'clock.
	The Blue Sky Tavern in Edders, PA.
	Seafront, Apertivo, Northwest Italy.
	Il ciosco sotto il sol.
	Corso Garibaldi, Diano Marino, Italy.
	You better go to the website, because I don't know what the hell I just said.
	And then on Sunday, which will be September 11th, Show day.
	What could go wrong?
	Never forget, we have tiny amygdalae potlucks at the organizer.
	That'll be in Anchorage, Alaska.
	Man, it's all over the place, these meetups.
	Also on the 11th, 505 Cuz We Can.
	That's an urban 360 pizza in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Our very own Sir Jeff Toig is hosting.
	And finally, in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on September 11th, the OER Cup.
	Jasper is organizing in Harlem Town.
	The Harlem Town Meetup.
	Those are your No Agenda Meetups, at least the ones coming up in the very near future.
	You've got to go to one of these.
	At least once, I guarantee you, you'll come back for more.
	It's just like eating potato chips.
	noagendameetups.com.
	Start one yourself!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want to be.
	Triggered or held to blame.
	I have one mediocre one, but it might be good.
	I don't know.
	I got two, so we might as well do your mediocre first.
	I don't know if mine are any good.
	Do you have ice?
	I have two, actually.
	I have one mediocre one, but it might be good.
	I don't know.
	Oh, well, I got two, so we might as well do your mediocre first.
	I don't know if mine are any good.
	Okay, this is...
	Hold on.
	Let me boost you, man.
	Boost!
	Hold on.
	One, two, three.
	Very low, here we go.
	This is a safe space.
	What?
	This is a safe space.
	Is this a safe space?
	No, this is a safe space.
	Based on my interpretation alone, it won't fly.
	Let's try this.
	Fact check, true.
	That one?
	Already the winner.
	Well, wait, we have one more.
	We beat Pharma this year!
	We feat Pharma?
	We beat Pharma this year.
	You didn't hear Joe?
	Oh yeah, I heard that we beat Pharma.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	WE BEAT PHARMA THIS YEAR!
	You like Fact Check True better?
	Oh, yeah.
	And you're the one that gave me grief for putting Biden attempts in the ISOs and you'd keep doing it.
	Well, the re... Yes.
	Guilty as charged.
	I don't know what to say.
	That's okay.
	I like to fact check true.
	Yeah, let me just jack that up a little bit too.
	Get a little more oomph.
	Make sure the people here are good.
	Here we go.
	Let's try this.
	Fact check true.
	Yeah, I think it's good.
	What makes it work is that short, that extra beat.
	Yes, the true.
	Just blast the true in there.
	I agree.
	It's good.
	It's good!
	Um, let's see... Oh, yes, no, I do have an important... I have a couple important clips to play before we leave.
	One is this one.
	The Pentagon says tonight it is putting a pause now on deliveries of a popular fighter jet.
	The Defense Department says the F-35 from Lockheed Martin has a part made in China against regulations.
	And the Pentagon says it doesn't pose any national security issues, but will be replaced with a part from an approved vendor.
	They hope to resolve the issue quickly and resume deliveries.
	Okay.
	What's the part?
	Why would they tell us?
	That seems like part of the story to me.
	What is the part?
	Is it the radio?
	Is it the bomb site?
	I don't know.
	What is it?
	It's Chinese!
	They make it sound like it's a debolt.
	It's Chinese.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	That's terrible reporting.
	Let me see.
	I don't know who reported it.
	I have a Chinese story.
	I got one clip left.
	It's called the Chinese lockdown bring us up to speed on the earthquake and the stupidity going on in China.
	The death toll is rising and aftershocks continue in Sichuan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit the Chinese province on Monday.
	Over a million residents in surrounding areas are reported to have felt moderate tremors.
	Some homes and buildings are destroyed or severely damaged.
	This dash cam video shows the moment the quake struck in Luding, a county near the quake's epicenter.
	Tall trees and structures are swaying and shaking.
	At one point, the facade of one building just crumbles.
	Authorities locked down 21 million residents in the Sichuan capital of Chengdu because of rising cases of COVID-19.
	This social media video underscores the heightened tension among residents who are venting their frustration as they remain in lockdown after the quake.
	On social media, a man pleads.
	Do you understand the situation we are dealing with in Sichuan right now?
	Because of COVID, we can't go out.
	But because of the earthquake, we can't stay inside.
	Who can tell us where is the safest for us?
	The region has also endured drought and the worst heatwave on record.
	Man, what is up with the Chinese lockdown?
	No one seems to care anymore.
	It's just like, oh, they're on lockdown.
	But these are not insignificant.
	Do they know something we don't know?
	Or is this just what's to come for us?
	I don't think that they know anything that we don't know.
	I don't know why they're so freaky about it.
	It's gotta be political crap on their side, too, then.
	It's gotta be some bullshit that we don't understand.
	Yet.
	I have a few clips to end up with.
	I think they're all important.
	They're not that long.
	Otherwise, we'd just never get to them.
	The first one is just this thought this was interesting.
	Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is asking for a new trial citing newly discovered evidence.
	A jury convicted Holmes earlier this year of defrauding investors in her blood testing company.
	Now her lawyers say a witness for the prosecution has approached them expressing guilt over his testimony against Holmes.
	The witness, Dr. Adam Rosendorf, testified that he repeatedly warned Holmes that the company's blood testing was inaccurate.
	Dr. Rosendorf was clearly the main or one of the main government witnesses.
	He was the head of the clinical lab at the time that these events took place.
	So he was the person who knew what was happening in the lab, who had direct communication with Elizabeth Holmes, and also interacted with Sunny Balwani.
	If her request for a new trial is not granted, Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison.
	Sounds like you know more about this.
	Well, he never said that he gave false testimony.
	He just felt bad that she's going to, you know, she was found guilty.
	So he comes over her house and apologizes for testifying.
	And so she thinks this is a reason for an appeal.
	Oh man.
	Yeah.
	Poor Alyssa.
	Nobody out here thinks it's going anywhere, this whole idea.
	She should go to jail.
	She's a criminal.
	Yeah, the criminals.
	She's just lost.
	It's all those old horny dudes over there in venture capital land.
	They're the ones that egged this on and made her think her shit doesn't stink.
	I agree.
	They kind of pushed her into it.
	She's got a big head.
	Steve Jobs syndrome.
	A couple of good Joe bits at the end here.
	Tell me what our president is saying here, please.
	You know how much?
	You know how much I'm going to do with the debit this year?
	One trillion five hundred thousand.
	What exactly did our president say?
	You know what I'm going to do with the debit, deficit this year?
	One trillion five hundred thousand.
	Yeah, I think what he meant to say was, I reduce the deficit this year.
	But it comes out as, re-doodin' the debit, re-doodin' the debit.
	You know how much, you know how much I'm gonna do with the deficit this year?
	One trillion five hundred thousand.
	I love that, love that, love that.
	It was a big day for the president, the White House.
	A lot of activity.
	He had his true, his true boss and master over, Michelle Obama.
	History was made at the White House yesterday.
	The Obamas helped unveil their official portraits.
	The former president and first lady discussed what the two portraits represent to them.
	A girl like me, she was never supposed to be up there next to Jacqueline Kennedy and Dolly Madison.
	She was never supposed to live in this house, and she definitely wasn't supposed to serve as First Lady.
	When future generations walk these halls and look up at these portraits, I hope they get a better, honest sense of who Michelle and I were.
	And I hope they leave with a deeper understanding that if we could make it here, Maybe they can too.
	Michelle Obama even appeared to take a dig at former President Trump when she discussed the significance of a peaceful transition of power.
	Trump broke with tradition by not inviting his predecessor to unveil the portrait.
	Yeah, there was all kinds of guffawing.
	And I thought that they had already unveiled the portraits.
	I thought so too, but I guess not.
	And by the way, I think Michelle's portrait really stinks.
	It's ugly.
	It sucks.
	Barack's is great.
	She's got a nasty look on her face.
	She's not attractive in the picture, which is the opposite of what you're supposed to do.
	And she's low-resolution.
	Obama's is terrible.
	It's a terrible portrait.
	Obama's looks more like a photograph.
	It's actually pretty well done, but except for the background is kind of boring.
	Do you remember the previous stately portrait?
	Yeah, the one where he was in the bushes?
	Yeah, he was in the bushes!
	I guess that wasn't for the White House.
	Okay, who knew?
	I don't know.
	I thought that was the official painting for the White House, the bushes painting.
	No, that's what I thought too, but it's not.
	No, it's not.
	That was for like, I don't know, some other official thing.
	Isn't this a little outdated?
	Come on people, we got iPhone that talks to satellite, okay?
	You guys are still painting.
	What is this tradition?
	Why not do a 3D sculpture or something cool?
	Seriously.
	Well, it's a gallery of paintings, so, you know, I mean, you could go to Photoshop and do something, you know, a little more interesting than the painting.
	Unless you had a really great painter, but these painters they're using are not... Suck.
	Suck.
	Yeah.
	And then Jill Biden made a real good funny.
	Joe, honestly, everybody stood with Joe. - No.
	She gets a standing ovation, and then she calls out her husband, who fell asleep.
	And then he stands up.
	He can stand!
	He can die!
	Thank you, Michelle.
	For a friendship I treasure.
	Oh, Joe's alive!
	He can actually stand up by himself!
	Oh, so cool.
	There it is.
	Alright.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	End of show mixes coming up for y'all is Sound Guy Steve, and we're gonna do a little Deaf, Dumb, and Blind night, a little Vax-O-Lean.
	Haven't heard that one in a while.
	Roll that out for you.
	Coming up next on noagenderstream.com is Rare Encounters.
	Abel Kirby and Cold Acid.
	One of their episodes.
	Make sure you stay tuned for that.
	Boost those guys.
	I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, still in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	It hasn't been redicted or gerrymandered.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, we're FEMA Region 9, for your information.
	Uh, it hasn't been changed either.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday.
	Looking forward to meeting y'all here.
	It'll be the 11th.
	Show days are always fun.
	Uh, remember us at dvorak.org slash n-a-god-save-the-queen.
	And until Sunday, adios mofos and such.
	The moment you've been waiting for is here.
	It's time for you to go get your vaccination.
	When do people start to see the vaccine making a difference in case numbers, hospitalization numbers, and most importantly, those death numbers?
	So, vaccination!
	Everybody, stand there!
	We're still needing this large numbers of people getting vaccinated to see the impact.
	At some point after February, weekly deaths in vaccinated people surpassed those who didn't get a vaccine.
	So you've not been vaccinated?
	That's correct.
	We just need to get more and more people vaccinated.
	Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated after a case of polio was detected in Rockland.
	New York City accounts for almost 20% of America's largest ever monkeypox outbreak.
	The UK has authorized a booster vaccine designed to protect against two variants, the original virus and the Omicron virus.
	If you're fully vaccinated and especially if you got your booster shot, you are highly Very safe.
	Researchers have confirmed that the COVID vaccine is safe and effective.
	There's a new kind of vaccine coming soon, known as the ideal vaccine.
	A steady trickle of patients filed into this polio vaccine clinic in Rockland County.
	A booster vaccine is intended to be a reminder to your immune system.
	All that's required at birth is the hepatitis B vaccine.
	The head of the CDC is urging everyone who is eligible to get the booster.
	Get the updated version of the COVID-19 booster shot.
	Then there's the diphtheria tetanus, what they call the dip-tet.
	You gotta get them dip-tet boosters yearly or else we'll develop lockdown bacteria.
	There is a new COVID vaccine campaign that's expected to kick off soon.
	All children in London aged one to nine will now be offered an additional dose of the polio vaccine.
	I think the vaccine just breathed life into people.
	They will get everything they got at two months, except the hepatitis B vaccine.
	People who are fully vaccinated can still buy every day.
	People who are fully vaccinated can still buy every day.
	I am a gap machine.
	Don't you just realize?
	Come on man, can't you see?
	You'll get the whole load from me.
	I've known eight presidents.
	Three of them intimately.
	The time I've run for president.
	Lost twice because I lied.
	Now I'm in the basement all alone.
	We need a Vax'ilene now.
	Some say I've lost my mind.
	Keep mixing words up all the time.
	We choose to go real fast.
	Hopefully you knew it back.
	Like a fighting machine.
	of gasoline.
	I want to be real.
	I'm not going nuts.
	You dove this pony soldier.
	We need a vaccine now.
	Some say I've lost my mind.
	I keep mixing words up all the time.
	Hold on, look, here's the deal.
	Hold on, look, here's the deal The fact of the matter is I'm a giant in-cap machine Waiting for a vaccine
	The best podcast in the universe It's time.
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A.
	Fact check.

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