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1501: Under Salt

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	Uh, it's an elder abuse on your part.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, November 6, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1501!
	This is no agenda.
	Jet-lagged again!
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all wondering why Adam is jet-lagged.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Well, of course I'm jet-lagged.
	This is what happens twice a year when the elites decide to mess with- Oh, this is what Mimi complains about.
	Now, how am I supposed to take this?
	Are you now calling me a girl?
	Yeah.
	I thought so.
	Just wanted to make sure.
	I'm a whiny girl!
	Do you know that in China... It's one hour!
	Do you know that in China... If you fell asleep at the computer and you conked out for a while, would you be jet-lagged then because you would lose track of time?
	No.
	I remember even traveling between the UK and the mainland and the continent.
	It would be worse than the six hour time difference with New York, weirdly.
	You have not exhibited any signs of jet lag in all your travels for the 15 years I've done the show with you, yet!
	They turn the clocks back an hour, giving you one extra hour of sleep.
	Maybe you're not jet-lagged, but you're dope, you're kind of drowsy.
	I'm dopey.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Dopey.
	I think that's the problem.
	I'm dopey.
	Well, and I learned that in, I think in China, they have one time zone.
	Or at least in, like, there's three time zones that they do one, I think.
	It's just one major one.
	Yeah.
	And what they do, Instead of changing the clock, they just start the day later.
	The kids go to school an hour later, so they're not going to school in the dark.
	Oh.
	That's one way of doing it.
	I think that's an outstanding way of doing it.
	So then all the parents need to be later, so then we just start, you know, an hour later.
	It's well known that- I think we need a scientific fix for this.
	Oh, pfft.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	We need to set up some sort of an energy component and knock the Earth into the right tilt so we don't have this issue at all, ever.
	Well, that is the primary issue.
	Solve kilter.
	Maybe we can use that dart technology we tried on the asteroid.
	You know, crash that thing into the Earth somewhere and jolt it a little bit, see if we can get the wobble back to where it's supposed to be.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, this year we have a novel excuse for things that happen because of the daylight saving time.
	And PBS was very clear, it was their top issue as it comes to the clock change.
	Like almost all of us in the country, Scott Yates is about to set his clocks back one hour, as we do every fall, when the nation falls back to standard time.
	But Yates, like a growing number of Americans, is sick of it.
	You know, if somebody snuck into your house and changed your alarm clock so it went off an hour earlier than your body was expecting, you would be so mad.
	Absolutely.
	And yet, the government doesn't.
	Every year, we're also sleep-deprived.
	We don't really know how to respond.
	In every state except Arizona and Hawaii, clocks spring forward in early March to start Daylight Saving Time and fall back in early November to begin Standard Time.
	A few years ago, Yates' wife said, stop complaining about it and do something.
	What do you think of this human interest report they're doing on PBS?
	I found this fascinating that this is how they'd approach it this year.
	But there's a reason.
	So we started a blog compiling various studies and reports about why we change our clocks, what the economic impacts are, even some pretty striking evidence that this back and forth switching can harm people's health.
	You can compare what's the heart attack data on the Monday after the spring forward time change in places that do have the change and then places that don't have the change like Arizona and they don't have a spike in heart attacks on that Monday morning after in Arizona and they do everywhere else and so it becomes really pretty clear evidence.
	I can't wait.
	I can't wait to see how many heart attacks we have due to daylight saving.
	They're top, they're top issue.
	Not, you know, people feeling jet-lagged, not economics.
	No, no, no.
	Heart attacks.
	We got the data!
	And speaking of trying to... Do you think they have a heart attack because they look at the clock and they see the wrong time?
	I don't know.
	And it frightens them and they drop dead?
	Well, yes, just like, you know, when you hear the referee whistle.
	They also drop dead.
	It's the same people.
	I don't know what their commonality is, but it's the same people who drop dead when the right whistle goes.
	Without saying it, you're actually suggesting that they're going to use this as one more excuse for all these kind of inexplicable heart attacks due to the COVID vaccine.
	Which is what's really going on here, that's what you're suggesting.
	Yes, because you know when I see, I mean the most recent one that came out in USA Today a couple days ago is literally, drinking alcohol may increase the risk of having a stroke in your 20s and 30s, study finds.
	Okay, gee.
	I mean, since when is drinking in your 20s?
	Is this time correlated?
	So we have a look of 10 years ago?
	Let's see.
	Or is it just suddenly, just started now?
	Let's see.
	Researchers used the Korean National Health Database to study 1.5 million people in their 20s and 30s, asked them about their alcohol consumption over the course of six years.
	According to the study published Wednesday in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
	So there you go.
	So... I don't know, they just... I mean, you know, there's all kinds of good stuff.
	Groovy.
	Oh, and hey, the watch is on again, John.
	I'd like to know, 14 seconds, you tell me, is it going or not?
	NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is on the move, starting its slow rollout from an assembly building at Kennedy Space Center to the launch pad overnight.
	NASA says after many setbacks, it's confident Artemis will be ready for takeoff November 14th.
	November 14th?
	November 14th?
	What do you think?
	Will they make it?
	What's wrong with tomorrow?
	It takes that long to roll the damn thing to the launch pad, apparently.
	It was on the launch pad for a while and then they rolled it off and they could roll it back.
	Why don't they do it tomorrow?
	It doesn't take months to roll it on.
	The 14th?
	That's a ways away.
	That's 10 days.
	It takes 10 days to move the rocket?
	Well, they gotta do the PR, get everybody all jacked up, they gotta have interviews.
	I think it's purely marketing reasons.
	Maybe three days at most for getting it ready and then, you know, another Another seven, eight, another week to get the PR ramped up.
	Sometimes things don't work out, as is the case with the C-SPAN call-in fails.
	Oh, straight to it?
	Wow.
	Here we go.
	All right.
	Scott in Effingham.
	I guess we lost Scott.
	So Willie is next.
	Dallas, Texas.
	Democrats line.
	Willie, you gotta, you gotta mute your TV.
	Talk on the phone.
	Are you there?
	Yes, I just want... I guess we lost him too.
	Sorry about that, Willie.
	Rick, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
	Independence Line.
	Yes, good morning.
	Well, that does not sound good.
	Let's try... Does she, doesn't she have a package or something she can toss to?
	She needs to get out of that.
	Help this poor woman!
	Thank goodness.
	Yes.
	Okay, so that's C-SPAN, and here's, you know, a human being struggling, clearly.
	Now let's go listen to the hype of a nothing burger.
	Well, this is terrifying.
	A forty-six... I mean, it just starts... Wow, now that's the way to start of a news segment.
	You know that this is going to end with nothing.
	Wow, this is terrifying.
	Well, this is terrifying.
	A 46,000 pound chunk of Chinese space junk is expected to hurtle into Earth's atmosphere on Friday.
	It's China's most powerful rocket, the Long March 5B, that was used on Monday to launch part of China's new space station.
	Now, it's flying back towards Earth at about five miles per second.
	It's expected to mostly burn up when it hits the atmosphere.
	Your chances of getting struck by debris are minuscule, about six in ten trillion.
	So they start off with terrifying, and the report... What kind of a report is this?
	And the report was six in, what is it, two... More than the population of the earth times ten.
	I mean, the chances of you winning the Powerball are greater.
	Much greater.
	Much greater.
	No, much greater.
	Much greater.
	Yeah, that's what we have to do.
	I do like the chunk of Chinese space junk.
	I kind of like that.
	It's felt nasty.
	Know what I mean?
	Okay, I have a couple of things I think we should go through before we get to what appears to be a mini-series of sorts that you have compiled of President Biden.
	I'm not sure about your clips, but it seems to be dominated by Biden.
	Well, I don't know what happened.
	See, I got one, two, three, this, but I have said, take a look at the times.
	Fourteen seconds, ten seconds, twelve seconds, four seconds.
	Well, how are you going to fill your part of the show?
	Well, with these biting clips.
	I can come in and out with them.
	Wait, before we go there... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 biting clips.
	It's a record.
	Before we go there, let's get a little quick update on the Pelosi saga, because this just continues to delight all.
	Breaking news.
	A Paul and Nancy update.
	Stop the hammering!
	See, when we have a jingle, now we gotta do a little segment.
	Here's ABC World News Tonight.
	Tonight, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressing that vicious attack on her husband one week ago.
	On camera for the first time.
	It's gonna be a long haul, but he will be well.
	And it's just so tragic how it happened.
	But nonetheless, we have to be optimistic.
	Paul Pelosi now recuperating at home after being released from the hospital.
	This, as lawyers for the suspect, David DePapp, and state prosecutors appeared in court today.
	What is clear is that he was targeting the speaker, that he did not find her in her home, instead he found her- Yeah, but this is the prosecutor, so that's why they put it in the report, you see.
	Prosecutors appeared in court today.
	What is clear is that he was targeting the speaker, that he did not find her in her home, instead he found her husband.
	And by the way, that's how the justice system works in concert with the media.
	Whether it's intentional or not, she knows exactly what she's saying, this lawyer, and she wants that to be the soundbite.
	That he did not find her in her home, instead he found her husband, and that he enacted violence on her husband.
	According to the San Francisco DA's office, the defendant startled Mr. Pelosi awake, soon asking, where's Nancy?
	Where's Nancy?
	The PAP allegedly threatened to tie up Mr. Pelosi about 10 times over the course of their encounter, at one point saying that it was the end of the road for Mr. Pelosi.
	Pelosi, able to grab his phone in the bathroom and call 911.
	Authorities say when San Francisco police arrived, they witnessed DePapp striking Mr. Pelosi in the head at full force with the hammer, which knocked Mr. Pelosi unconscious.
	Pelosi remaining unresponsive for about three minutes, waking up in a pool of his own blood.
	Woo!
	DePapp allegedly saying he was on a suicide mission and was planning to target- So, when you hit him in the head, and the police was there, Do they just let him lay in a pool of his own blood?
	Is that what they do?
	Is that the procedure?
	That's the official San Francisco police procedure.
	Okay.
	Let's let him wake up in his pool of blood.
	Don't worry.
	Don't touch him.
	Let him wake up.
	Oh, there he is waking up now.
	How much time has gone by, Bill?
	About an hour.
	Okay.
	He's up.
	He's up and about.
	Okay.
	Prosecutors are considering- I'm sorry, we're back- Pelosi remaining unresponsive for about three minutes, waking up in a pool of his own blood.
	Tapap allegedly saying he was on a suicide mission and was planning to target others too, including a professor and several prominent state and federal politicians and their relatives.
	We're not disclosing who those people were.
	Tonight, Tapap remains in a county jail as U.S.
	authorities face new questions about how the Canadian citizen Both of them.
	There it is.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	illegally for years and tonight nancy pelosi also thanking her supporters in this heated political environment adding both of them there is no question that our democracy is on the ballot there it is oh there you go there you go that's that's how we abuse your husband with his bashed in brains prosecutors are considering showing police body camera video from that attack here at the pelosi home last week nancy Not only in the trial, but also in the preliminary hearing next month.
	The DA stressing today that everything remains on the table.
	Meanwhile, David DePapp has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
	See, this is the part that I don't get.
	He has these huge confessions and lists of people that he was going to target.
	And he said, yeah, but I'm not guilty.
	How does this work?
	By the way, I haven't seen that testimony or an affidavit with anything to that kind.
	There is none.
	Not that I know of, nothing that has been published.
	This whole narrative will change completely after the elections.
	Well, that's what I'm thinking, like, oh, you know, the trial is not until a month from now, or the preliminary, so it's done.
	They've gotten out of it as much as they can, and they can't do any more with it.
	I agree.
	Now, of course, they had the big scandal with Almaguer on NBC.
	You have clips of that?
	Almaguer who?
	Oh, you didn't know about this?
	No, I have no idea what you're talking about.
	Well, then I'm an idiot for not clipping it, but I can explain it.
	Yeah, please.
	NBC, I think it was last Thursday, or it could have been Friday.
	I'm sorry, I have a life.
	Unfortunately, I don't get everything.
	Everyone was talking about it.
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	They played a report with Elmagear on the street there in San Francisco talking about how the police went to the door and Pelosi opened the door and as soon as Pelosi saw the police he went back toward the guy, the peppy, and then all hell broke loose.
	That part of the report and the entire report was actually expunged from the NBC News website?
	Ah, I have it!
	Okay, I know what you're talking about.
	I have the actual expunged news clip.
	Well, that's Elmagear.
	Would you like to hear the expunged news clip?
	I'd love to hear the exp... I've heard it, but I'll hear it again.
	Craig, good morning.
	When officers arrived here at the Pelosi home exactly a week ago today, they initially didn't have any idea exactly what was going on.
	They knew they had a high-priority call on their hand.
	What was unclear, what was happening inside the property just behind me.
	This morning, Paul Pelosi is home, back at the house that became a crime scene a week ago today.
	NBC News learning new details about the moment police arrived.
	Sources familiar with what unfolded in the... I love this reporter, by the way.
	He has just a little tinge of kind of like semi-gay excitement at the end of each sentence.
	There's something... He has a very distinctive presentation.
	Al McGeer, who's that, and Jeff Pegues are both the most distinctive reporters on the cruise.
	A producer emailed me.
	I feel really bad now.
	Apparently Jeff Begay suffers from the same disease that Robert Kennedy Jr.
	has.
	I didn't know that.
	I thought he just really had some constipation issue.
	Hey, I just thought that was his voice.
	I didn't know that was his illness.
	I feel bad.
	You're a bad person.
	Thank you.
	I feel bad.
	You're always doing that.
	You're always doing the take and pinching the loaf sound when he's trying to talk.
	Well, I didn't know.
	It's shameful.
	It's shameful.
	I knew.
	I knew all along.
	Oh, well, you should have informed me.
	No, and we know why you didn't, thanks.
	NBC News learning new details about the moment police arrived.
	Sources familiar with what unfolded in the Pelosi residence now revealing when officers responded to the high-priority call, they were seemingly unaware they'd been called to the home of the Speaker of the House.
	Okay, stop it right there.
	Yeah, it was like a wellness call or something.
	Well, there was that.
	There was that element.
	But the fact that they're trying to convince us that the San Francisco Police Department, to a man... Hey, Bob!
	Let's go check out the Pelosi's mansion!
	...doesn't know who lives in that house.
	Who do you think lives here?
	Probably some rich guy.
	They all know exactly who lives there.
	They know where Danielle Steele lives.
	They know where Pelosi lives.
	They know where everybody lives.
	If they're even remotely famous because if you're a cop, it's good to know.
	And it's just like ridiculous to assume that they don't know.
	And that's what they keep trying to convince us of.
	They knew.
	But let's continue.
	No.
	I'm trying to figure out why, of all the famous people in that area in San Francisco, you chose Danielle Steel.
	Well, she's the only one that has this unbelievable mansion in pretty much the same area.
	And it's a huge, monstrous place.
	I know where it is.
	I didn't know where Pelosi's place was, but I'm just assuming that the cops knew, and I'd be stunned if they didn't.
	There's other people I could mention, but I'm not sure they live there anymore.
	...responded to the high-priority call, they were seemingly unaware they'd been called to the home of the Speaker of the House.
	After a knock and announce, the front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi.
	The 82-year-old did not immediately declare an emergency or try to leave his home, but instead began walking several feet back into the foyer, toward the assailant, and away from police.
	So I hope we get to see that part on the body cam footage they want to show us in a month from now, but not really.
	This may be, what he's describing, may be the reason they won't release the body cam footage.
	Although you just heard him say that they were thinking of showing it in the preliminary.
	So maybe they have... Maybe the body cam footage shows something different from this report.
	That's also possible.
	We have to keep... Both are possible.
	We have to keep that in mind.
	It's unclear if the 82-year-old was already injured or what his mental state was, say sources.
	According to court document... I like that.
	Instead of sources say...
	Say sources.
	82 year old was already injured or what his mental state was.
	Say sources.
	According to court documents, when the officer asked what was going on, defendants smiled and said everything's good.
	But instantaneously, a struggle ensued as police clearly saw David DePap strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
	After tackling the suspect, officers rushed to Mr. Pelosi, who was lying in a pool of blood.
	Oh, oh, oh, there it is again, a pool of blood!
	Pool of his own blood.
	So they had that early on.
	Clearly saw David DePapp strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.
	After tackling the suspect, officers rushed to Mr. Pelosi, who was lying in a pool of blood.
	What we do to... Blah.
	Blah.
	I'm sorry.
	This guy's accent is great.
	who was lying in a pool of blood.
	Pelosi, who was lying in a pool of blood.
	What we do know is he brutally attacked Mr. Pelosi and attempted to kill him.
	After spending several days in the ICU, Pelosi, who is recovering from a fractured skull and serious injuries to his arm and hand, is now home, where Capitol Police remain on alert.
	Investigators have previously said Pelosi did not know DePap when when the 42-year-old broke into his home.
	Why Pelosi didn't try to flee or tell responding officers he was in distress is unclear.
	Fear takes over.
	Fear freezes people.
	This morning, the 82-year-old, lucky to be alive, after an intruder nearly killed him in his own home.
	Law enforcement officials tell us the bottom line here is this was a terrifying situation.
	We still don't know exactly what unfolded between Mr. Pelosi and the suspect.
	For the 30 minutes they were alone inside that house before police arrived.
	Officials who were investigating this matter would not go into further details about these new details.
	Craig, back to you.
	One thing's for sure though, he is lucky to be alive.
	Miguel Amalgaer for us.
	Miguel, thank you.
	There was something else interesting.
	They didn't want to go into details about these new details, you know, because of the details.
	It was very interesting.
	Details about these new details.
	That house before police arrived, officials who were investigating this matter would not go into further details about these new details.
	Further details.
	They wouldn't go into details about the details.
	Very nice.
	Now, of course, I feel a bit ghoulish, but, you know, it's not like This hasn't been, you know, completely weaponized by the media.
	Because if someone really got his head bashed in, I hate that.
	That sucks.
	And we really don't have no transparency.
	I mean, it seems to me, if you really want to play this up, if you think you've got the October surprise on hand, first of all, you drag this guy in front of the cameras right away into a preliminary.
	So they can't use it for whatever reason.
	And you have doctors show us x-rays.
	I want to see the bashed skull x-ray.
	I want to see how lucky he was.
	Is he still alive?
	No, I don't think that's coming.
	You don't think so?
	No, it's falling apart.
	I'd be stunned to see a bashed head x-ray.
	Or how about this?
	This is what I would do if I was running the newsroom.
	A bashed head x-ray, but not Pelosi's, just to show an example.
	Yeah.
	You've seen that, right?
	Oh, that would be good.
	This is very similar to Mr. Pelosi's injury.
	Yeah, they bring a doctor on, one of the UCSF doctors who are promoting vaccines, bring one of them on and have him point things, pointed things on the x-ray.
	Wearing his white lab coat.
	Does he have the stethoscope in the breast Well, you have to have a stethoscope on, and you have to have your embroidered name on one side or the other of the lab coat.
	And we got it down.
	And we ended by saying, luckily, Mr. Pelosi was fully vaccinated and boosted, so we're very happy that he's home safely now.
	That's the way to go.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why we don't get work.
	So a couple of things that came out in these local reports was that The neighbors, some neighbors were finally, you know, talked to because they're all standing around.
	And one of them said, there's never a moment where there's not a cop somewhere in front of that house.
	Always.
	24-7.
	Oh, I believe that.
	The whole thing is, but he came in through the back door.
	Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
	He's this back door man.
	She said, people can't even get to that front door, you know, without getting stopped.
	And this is constant.
	We're having a pass.
	A hall pass.
	Or whatever they do.
	They probably do something like that.
	Anyway, what a story.
	What a story.
	It's great!
	I mean, it's... It's all mega-mega.
	Mega-megas.
	But I'm sorry that it's petering out, you know.
	Unless they decide to bring the something forward, then it's over.
	So, it's not... For whatever reason, they can't do enough with it.
	If we don't see Bashtag... I think it's done.
	It's done because we don't have enough time for much more of this.
	We've got the Fetterman thing going on.
	We've got some real problems over there.
	Even though he still leads in the polls, which tells you something about Pennsylvania.
	I think you would look really good in a white lab coat with some diplomas on the wall in the background.
	Oh yeah, I could do it.
	You could totally do it!
	You should go from being the tech grouch to being the...
	The PharmaShill.
	I mean, you could totally pull it off.
	PharmaShill.
	I could do the PharmaShill.
	I have a bunch of phony diplomas.
	Yeah.
	A dystethoscope, an old-fashioned one.
	You know, with a big, with a horn on the one end.
	I think you would be a TikTok sensation.
	You know, it's a possibility.
	It's something I should think about.
	I'm not kidding.
	I'm not kidding either.
	And you give wine tips.
	I mean, it's perfect.
	Wine tips?
	No, if I'm going to be that guy, you can't drink wine.
	It's going to kill you.
	Take a pill.
	Uh, a girl can dream.
	A girl can dream.
	All right, let's hear your Biden stuff, man.
	I've been excited about this all morning.
	I'm thinking John's got a Biden Megas collection.
	Ah, just a bunch of dumb clips of Biden.
	That's all right.
	I'm behind, I'm behind on these clips, so I thought I'd catch up all at once.
	Okay, this is a catch up.
	Now there's a couple, I'm going to play the long clips.
	One of them is a whole, a whole minute.
	Oh, it's actually a two-parter that's a minute and then 18 seconds, but this is, So most of these clips came from the big rally in Pennsylvania for Fetterman and this other guy.
	Did you see the flags?
	Oh, that was different.
	Yeah, that's different.
	That was not clippable, obviously.
	But for people out there, you can find this on the net.
	Fetterman goes in front of a big audience.
	On the net.
	Hello, Homer.
	Hello, the well.
	You can find it on the well.
	I never said the well.
	I did.
	In fact, I never used the well.
	I tried to get on it, and it was like so complicated, and they were kind of elitist, and I don't know.
	Kind of.
	You couldn't, you posted, you're posting in the wrong place.
	Kind of.
	Wow.
	People, look it up, okay?
	Whole electronic, what was it?
	Whole Earth Electronic Library, was that it?
	The well, just look up the well.
	And that actually kind of stemmed from, just to go back in a little history here, there was a thing called community memory.
	Community memory, this is a good one.
	Yeah, this predates everything.
	I don't know about this, I don't think.
	Yeah, look it up, community memory.
	It was invented by Lee Felsenstein, the guy who also architected the Osborne 1 computer.
	And Lee's still around, he's a great guy.
	But he did this thing called community memory and it was kind of like an internet in Berkeley.
	That was just in Berkeley mostly and I think it also extended into parts of Silicon Valley through a network and it was a terminals where you could look stuff up or do I don't even know what you could do on it but you could say hello to all your friends and they had one at an arcade up in the off of Durant Avenue in Berkeley it was upstairs they had this weird when I was a kid You had to go to the arcade upstairs.
	It was right next to the asteroids.
	It was right next to the asteroids.
	And we had to log on to community memory.
	That's how we posted back in the day.
	And you had to wait until the next day for the replies?
	No, it was a batch.
	So Fetterman's out in front of a bunch of American flags and there's a huge windstorm.
	I think he's announcing Obama, isn't he?
	He's introducing Obama?
	No, no, the Obama thing was indoors.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, I thought Federman was announcing Obama.
	But yeah, sorry, continue, you clearly saw it.
	So he was like, just introducing himself, not in the way he did at the debates where he said, goodnight everybody, which was...
	What is the funniest thing ever?
	It's like, the emperor has no clothes, like, lesson one.
	You know, everyone's like, hey, that was, you did a great debate, man.
	He kicked, the mofo kicks it off with, goodnight, everybody.
	I mean, it's like, goodnight, Cleveland.
	I mean, if he'd had Cleveland, it would have been really funny.
	So anyway, so he's in front of all these flags, the wind's blowing, really blowing, and it blows all the flags over like a bunch of dominoes, so there's no flags behind him.
	And everybody put it on, if you're on Twitter, you've seen this, so.
	Anyway, let's go with Biden on Fetterman.
	Here he is talking about what a great guy Fetterman is and how he should be elected.
	Look folks, I want to be very clear, clear, clear, and I mean this sincerely, about what's on the ballot this year.
	Your right to choose is on the ballot.
	Your right to vote is on the ballot.
	Social Security and Medicare is on the ballot.
	There's something else on the ballot.
	Character!
	Character's on the ballot!
	When I think of character, I think of John Fetterman.
	You know, in his endorsement of him, the Philadelphia Inquirer today said, John knows what his values are.
	Well, in my view, I've been saying for a long time, I'm a Pennsylvania boy born and raised in Scranton.
	But for the longest time, Delaware, like many other small places, did not have a television station.
	So Philadelphia TV had to cover me the same as they covered all the Pennsylvania senators.
	I was known as Pennsylvania's third senator.
	My point is, I know Pennsylvania well, and John Fetterman is Pennsylvania.
	Man, he was the third senator of Pennsylvania.
	This is fantastic.
	He just makes it up as he goes along.
	But Pennsylvania should be ashamed of itself for even voting for Fetterman.
	Fetterman should be in the hospital.
	You know what would be a great gaffe for him?
	A great gaffe would be somehow to get him to refer back to the Russia pee tape.
	And for him to talk about it and say, I know!
	Because I was there!
	I mean, something like that.
	I was there.
	Now I'm just trying to be cruel.
	Uh, it's elder abuse on your part.
	Okay, so let's go to the best part, to the short part by Nonfederman.
	John has character, integrity, and he's going to be a hell of a good senator, United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
	And the other thing is...
	Don't worry, we're gonna talk about Iran.
	Courage!
	Courage is also on the ballot.
	When I think of courage, I think of Josh Shapiro.
	This guy... John Shapiro?
	Wait.
	Josh Shapiro.
	Josh Shapiro?
	The other guy.
	So what else is on the ballot?
	We have courage, democracy, the right to vote, the right to choose.
	What else?
	Courage.
	Integrity.
	I don't know.
	He's rambling.
	But the way he changes subjects, the way he did that one there is just like ridiculous.
	And then he says, don't worry, I'll talk about Iran later.
	He just throws that in.
	He never talked about Iran.
	No, I think there might have been something.
	Someone flashed something like, you got to do the Iran bit.
	The Iran bit.
	Don't worry, I'll do that later.
	Maybe?
	Meanwhile, he's in the same group.
	He's going to tell us this.
	This is Biden on I don't know, this needs a little discussion.
	This is Biden on capping mines.
	By the way!
	No, wait, wait, wait, stop.
	Capping mines and shutting down coal-powered power plants.
	Is that what the clip says or the same clip?
	By the way, Josh and John know that we can cap oil and gas price wells, abandon mines.
	We can do that in Western Pennsylvania.
	We can create thousands of good-paying jobs for the same people who dug those mines in the first place.
	Okay, so let me just see.
	We can cap the oil and gas mines, and that somehow creates good-paying jobs for the people who are out of jobs?
	Let me hear that again.
	By the way, Josh and John know that we can cap oil and gas price wells, abandoned mines.
	We can cap oil and gas price wells and capping mines.
	Let me hear.
	That we can cap oil and gas price wells, abandoned mines.
	Oil and gas price wells, abandoned mines.
	Holy macaroni.
	We can do that in Western Pennsylvania.
	We can create thousands of good-paying jobs for the same people who dug those mines in the first place.
	Oh yeah, sounds like it.
	How does that work?
	Sounds completely possible.
	How does capping a mine or a well create anything but just eliminating these possible job sites?
	I mean, explain.
	The same way the Inflation Reduction Act didn't reduce inflation?
	Exactly.
	You got it.
	You nailed it.
	Here's another one.
	He's going... This is Biden and... Here's where he loses... This is not the same... I'm going to go back to the Pennsylvania speech.
	This is a different speech.
	But he's... Stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Does the entire election, does everything in the US universe to be determined on Tuesday, no I'm sorry, to be voted on Tuesday determined, you know, with glitches and expected delays much later?
	Is it only down to Pennsylvania?
	Is there anything else that we care about?
	Or is it only this race?
	This I don't understand.
	All the campaigning is in Pennsylvania.
	Everyone except Michelle Obama, which is interesting.
	They've floated around elsewhere.
	Not really.
	Where Biden and Obama got together with this Josh guy, who's a midget, and this huge hulking guy.
	Wait!
	You can't do that.
	Who's Josh the midget?
	Josh is the guy running for governor, I think.
	He's the governor.
	Josh the Midget.
	And Josh the Midget.
	Oh, Josh Shapiro.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Did you look up Midget and you found his name?
	Yes.
	Let me see what the picture is.
	I hit it right away.
	Josh the Midget.
	Right away at joshshapiro.org.
	Let me see the images.
	That's funny.
	You gotta see the three of them up on stage.
	So Josh the Midget thinks he's gonna win.
	But meanwhile, you got this other guy, this Federman guy, who's a monster.
	He looks just like the character in Young Frankenstein.
	He looks like Peter Boyle, the Frankenstein monster.
	This is great!
	And he doesn't smile, and he doesn't smile, and he goes back and forth.
	I'm just waiting for him to break out in song, putting on the Ritz.
	That's all that's missing.
	Yeah, it's pretty bad, man.
	It's fantastic.
	I mean, hopefully these MP3s will be discovered centuries from now and people will have a record of this time.
	You know, and they'll say, holy cow.
	That's what they're going to say.
	Well, let's go to this one then.
	This is the classic.
	This is just Biden gone, gone, gone.
	I think it's just interesting to hear.
	The $2,000 cap on prescription drugs, gone.
	The $35 cap on insulin, gone.
	The tax credit for lower energy costs, gone.
	50% corporate tax, gone.
	Wait, did he say that the tax credit is gone?
	Play it again.
	The tax credit for lower energy costs, gone.
	The tax credit for lower energy costs is gone?
	Is that, is that like a good thing?
	I don't know why that's gone.
	It's kind of surprising, but that's what he said.
	Gone?
	He's just saying everything that he can think of is gone if you vote for a Republican.
	So anything good?
	Your wife is gone!
	Your son is gone!
	Oh, I see.
	I see.
	You'll be back in chains!
	Remember that?
	And then the very last thing is a corporate tax something or other you can barely understand.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me just do this.
	This is an old one.
	He's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules.
	Unchain Wall Street.
	They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
	Yeah!
	That's the Joe we all like.
	They're gonna put y'all back in chains!
	Play the gone, gone, gone one more time.
	Okay.
	The $2,000 cap on prescription drugs, gone.
	Alright.
	The $2,000 cap on prescription drugs, gone.
	The $2,000 cap on prescription drugs, gone.
	What does that mean?
	That means he's gonna, they're pushing through this cap on prescription drugs.
	But it's gone right now.
	Well, it's not in play yet, so it can't be gone, but the idea is it will be gone if you vote Republican.
	Okay, so if you don't vote Republican, y'all be back in chains!
	The $2,000 cap on prescription drugs, gone!
	And y'all be back in chains!
	The $35 cap on insulin, gone!
	Okay, that's not even there right now.
	The tax credit for lower energy costs, gone!
	I get it.
	What else will be gone?
	50% carpentry, gone!
	50% carpenter ants?
	He's gone.
	50% carpenter ants?
	What?
	Let me hear that again.
	Yes!
	Gone!
	50% corporate tax, gone!
	50% corporate rates?
	What he meant to say is 15% corporate tax.
	Whatever it was, it was gone.
	Wow.
	Poor Joe.
	Let's play this clip.
	Cole is out.
	No one's building new coal plants because they can't rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant.
	We're going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.
	Yeah, this is, it's interesting you play this.
	There was a, you know that talk TV in the UK, it's basically a radio station, but then I guess they put it on.
	cable or satellite or whatever.
	Yes, with microphones in front of everybody, and it looks like a radio show.
	Of course.
	Trendy.
	There's this one lady who does a morning show, I think, and she brings in people on Skype or on Zoom, and she had one of these climate people on.
	She just kept hammering back.
	But the main theme was fossil fuel is unreliable.
	See, this is what they're going with now.
	It's unreliable.
	What?
	Yes.
	And I didn't clip it.
	I mean, I can find it if you want, but I didn't clip it because it was so long.
	I didn't think that the point was made well enough.
	Oh my goodness, I'll never find it.
	I'll find it for the next show.
	But it was mind-blowing.
	And she just kept on undressing this guy with very basic facts.
	But the whole thing was, oh no, we can see from the war in Ukraine that that's economic problems.
	The fossil fuel is unreliable.
	And what I love is for the people who actually believe in that, which is okay, that's fine, and you've been programmed that way.
	Where did I have this here?
	There's now a coalition forming around the countries that provide You know, the, like the nickel and other minerals and I guess rare earth as well.
	And, and they're just going to be the new OPEC, you know, like, well, you know, we have all this stuff here.
	We're not going to let you in that easily.
	And then they're going to try and manipulate the price.
	In this case, it will be of, you know, batteries and stuff.
	And if anything, he's unreliable.
	Here it is.
	This is from oilprice.com.
	The next OPEC-like cartel could be in battery metals.
	Large nickel producer Indonesia sees merit in the formation of an OPEC-like cartel.
	Who else are they talking about coming in?
	It's in the show notes, have a look at it.
	Indonesia and Australia have the largest nickel reserves.
	Australia is totally loaded with stuff.
	But they're our bitch, aren't they?
	They'll just do whatever Klaus tells them to do.
	But it could be advantageous.
	Could be advantageous for Australia.
	They could be the... Where is all that?
	Where are those minerals that they're loaded with?
	Near the aborigines?
	All over the whole aborigine land.
	All right, so we're going to have some good protests coming up.
	Get ready, Australia.
	Hooey hooey on the way, baby.
	So here's one.
	Let's go with Biden AFA BS.
	In fact, they want to do away with the Affordable Care Act.
	And that means millions of people with pre-existing conditions lose their insurance completely.
	You're easily amused.
	And that means millions of people!
	Okay, I like trying to figure out what the president is actually saying.
	I think it's a service.
	You know, the funny thing is, I've noticed this, this is worth noting, which is that if you listen to him long enough, You can kind of figure out what he says.
	You know who else was like this?
	Ron Paul.
	Ron Paul used to mumble and cut sentences in half.
	It was horrible listening to him.
	I think we discussed that.
	After a while you could hear it.
	And this one here I could actually hear.
	What's happening is the staff who are close to the president, they're so used to translating in their head what he's saying.
	Kind of like if you wore glasses that project everything upside down within three days, you know, you see normal again.
	Yes, this is a fact, yes.
	Yeah, I think that's what's going on.
	Well, let's listen.
	With pre-existing conditions, lose their insurance.
	And I know it's something about losing your insurance, because that's at the end.
	With pre-existing conditions, you'll lose your insurance.
	Which is not true, by the way.
	You don't lose your insurance, you just don't get covered for the pre-existing conditions.
	So he's a liar.
	But besides that, that's what he said.
	Pre-existing conditions, lose their insurance.
	Completely.
	Well, isn't that exactly what Obama... Completely.
	Whatever.
	Okay, next one.
	Stupid Biden.
	You're making me mad now.
	You actually understand him.
	Well, that shouldn't make you mad.
	It'd make you feel sorry for me.
	I think you should get ready.
	You can be that doctor.
	I can be the doctor.
	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jean-Pierre Van Damme will intro you.
	I'm here to discuss the Pelosi skull fracture.
	Here's another mumble.
	This one here's a tougher one.
	This is the Biden cap mumble.
	We put a cap of $2,000 a year in construction for seniors on Medicare.
	Okay, I think I can do this one.
	We put a cap- We put a cap- for seniors- for $2,000- $2,000- a year in construction- a year in construction- for seniors- $2,000 a year in construction for seniors on Medicare.
	Okay, $2,000 a year for construction and seniors per year.
	Great.
	Prescriptions for seniors per year.
	We put a cap of $2,000 a year in construction for seniors on Medicare.
	Okay, we put a cap of $2,000 of prescriptions for seniors per year.
	for seniors on Medicare.
	Okay, we put a cap of $2,000 of prescriptions for seniors per year.
	So seniors have to pay $2,000 out of pocket is what that means.
	But that's a max.
	Yes, and then they don't pay any more.
	It's called the donut hole, is it not?
	It's called a... asshole, is the way I see it.
	So... Let's go with Biden beating Big Pharma.
	This is a good one.
	Okay... here we go.
	Spent a lot of money and supported a lot of folks.
	Well, guess what?
	Not this year.
	We beat Big Pharma.
	Hey, you know what we need?
	And I appreciate the guy who put together Joe Rogan interviewing Steve Jobs.
	I don't know if you've seen that.
	I watched a little bit of it.
	It's like, okay.
	No, I haven't seen it.
	It's like AI put this interview together.
	So take pieces of a Jobs interview and pieces of Rogan.
	Yeah, it's doable.
	I'm sure it wasn't AI in the long run.
	It was some creative person.
	Yeah, I think a creative person might have done a better job.
	We need a debate between Biden and Fetterman in the same vein.
	I mean, you can truly even mix this from Biden together with a Fetterman bit.
	Spent a lot of money and supported a lot of folks.
	Well, guess what?
	Not this year.
	We beat Big Pharma.
	We beat Big Pharma.
	Big Pharma's in the Oval Office, Joe.
	What are you talking about?
	Pulling at least one of your strings.
	And then there's this one.
	This is Biden and we're almost done.
	That's OK.
	Well, let's start with this.
	I'm jumping around because I'm looking at the list.
	But let's go Biden.
	Poor get poor.
	The middle class gets stiffed.
	The poor get poorer under their policies.
	You saw what happened.
	I like the middle class gets stiffed.
	The middle class gets stiffed.
	The poor get poor under their paws.
	You saw what happened!
	The poor get poor under their paw.
	The poor get poor.
	Now see, this is, again, listen, Biden speak, he said, the word, although what you heard was Paul.
	Yeah.
	They get poor under their Paul.
	What he actually said was policy.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	Let me hear that again.
	The middle class gets stiffed.
	The poor get poor under their policy.
	You saw what happened.
	Oh, under their policy.
	I think, you know, you could even have a job in a little corner of the screen.
	In fact, you know, I don't know, man.
	I'm just saying exit strategies are a plenty today.
	Plenty of exit strategies.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay, let's go.
	Biden, this is a longer one.
	This 34 says where he loses his train of thought, can't remember what he was doing in New York when he went and he can't remember the name Armonk.
	And so we get this for commentary.
	I was just in Syracuse, New York, where I went to law school.
	And the company called Micron is investing $100 billion to manufacture chips, the biggest investment of its kind ever in America, in American history.
	$100 billion.
	That's our money.
	Before that, I was a little further down in the middle of New York.
	Okay, so now we finally understand.
	They're investing in these chips for serious.
	Anyway, I won't go through them all, but, you know.
	Okay, so now we finally understand.
	When he says, I won't go through them all, that's because he really has forgotten something from 20 to 30 seconds ago.
	That's when he gives up.
	When his memory fails, the default is anyway.
	Or I've taken up too much time.
	It would be funnier if he just said, I have a senior moment.
	That would be great.
	He wouldn't do that.
	I think he said my con.
	Instead of Micron?
	Oh, let's have a listen.
	Micron.
	I was just in Syracuse, New York, where I went to law school.
	Did he go to law school there?
	The guy's amazing.
	He went to law school in every single state.
	And a company called Micron is investing... Yeah, Micron.
	Micron.
	Oh my god.
	Okay.
	Armonk.
	Poor Joe.
	Now we get- yeah, Armonk, he can't remember that.
	Here's Biden getting applause for vaccina- just, I think- I don't- not sure, I can't remember where this clip came from, but it's the applause clip.
	The day I was sworn in, only 2 million people have been vaccinated.
	Now, more than 220 Americans are fully vaccinated.
	So we move!
	Wow.
	So this is again being able to understand him.
	When there's a nanosecond pause, you have to insert the word million because he's not going to do it.
	No.
	So instead we have 240 people who have been vaccinated.
	Please play one more time.
	Let's hear that again.
	One day I was sworn in, only 2 million people have been vaccinated.
	Now more than 220 Americans are fully vaccinated.
	He does this a lot.
	So we moved!
	So we moved?
	What?
	So he does this a lot.
	This particular gaffe of forgetting the denominator?
	I would call it a modifier.
	Modifier, I'm sorry.
	Of course, now the last clip I have is the... this is a real good one.
	This is the Dead Sun Flub clip.
	Oh yeah, yeah, I saw this one.
	Which is a lie and then up on it he's trying to dig himself out of the lie and I've got it... I jacked up the sound in and out enough so you can hear what he says.
	Here we go.
	And they talk about inflation.
	You know, we're dealing with it for a whole second.
	Inflation is a worldwide problem right now.
	Because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia's doing.
	I mean, excuse me, the war in Ukraine.
	And I think in Iraq because that's where my son died.
	Because he died.
	This is such an amazing, this is, if Trump, I know it's a whataboutism, but if Roosevelt, if Kennedy, if anyone, if any president had done this, first the wrong country for the theater of war, and then say that's because I'm so lost or so convinced that my son died in Iraq.
	Twenty-fifth must be on deck.
	They've got to cut him loose after this midterm.
	I don't know what they do.
	Something has to happen.
	I mean, no, I'm sorry.
	What am I asking for?
	We need this to continue.
	It's good for the show.
	It's great for the show, but since he mentioned the word inflation, Let's follow up with Joy Reid, and by the way, I've got two clips here.
	The longer one that says JPY Reid is the one you want.
	38 seconds.
	This is Joy Reid on MSNBC saying probably the stupidest thing imaginable about the American lexicon, and she uses the word lexicon incorrectly, this is unbelievable.
	The people I ever hear use the word inflation are journalists and economists, right?
	So that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk.
	So it's interesting that Republicans are doing something they don't normally do, right?
	Which is not use the common tongue, right?
	Not use just common English to sort of do on their campaigns like they're doing with crime.
	But what they've done is they've taught people the word inflation, right?
	Most people who would have never used that word ever in their lives are using it now because they've been taught it.
	Including on TV, including in newspapers, they've been taught this word.
	And they sort of wrap this word around whatever it is that they really want to vote.
	Now, I have to think, this is the only thing that makes sense, that she was on location.
	This is not her typical studio show.
	I think she was freewheeling.
	I think she was just ad-libbing, and this is her true brain at work.
	Oh, this is very... I like this.
	Instead of when she's in the studio, she's reading, and she does a very good job of prompter reading.
	She's a prompter reader.
	She's a prompter girl.
	She's a prompter reader.
	Prompter girl.
	She was out in the sticks.
	This was a remote shot.
	There was no prompter around.
	There was just a camera out there.
	And this is her.
	This is her being as stupid as she is.
	I ran an N-gram from Google.
	An N-gram?
	Explain, what is an N-gram?
	Oh, an N-gram is a calculation that Google does on its monstrosity of a collection of books that it has digitized from the libraries all over the world.
	And there's plenty of books.
	And so they, you can put a word into the N-gram viewer and to Google and you'll get to the site.
	You can put any words you want in it.
	And I do this every so often to check on word usage and changes.
	I've got a good collection of difference between using gender or non-binary and words like that when they cropped up.
	It was very recent, by the way.
	But inflation, I decided, and I posted this on the No Agenda social.
	I may have posted on Twitter, but I moved over.
	And the N-gram for inflation shows that the word peaked, peaked in huge popularity and has been declining ever since 1979.
	Huh.
	So there's not a new word in the lexicon.
	It's a word that's been fading.
	But if you're a complete idiot that's out of touch with reality, like she is, you'd think this was some word the Republicans invented last week.
	No, not the case at all.
	In fact, it's not even trending up in this.
	It might be trending up in these engrams to end in 2019.
	So it might be bouncing back up.
	This Engram viewer is very interesting.
	Before I came on the scene in 1987...
	Adam Curry's, the peak of Adam Curry... Wait, wait, stop.
	So the first thing you do when you open the end graph is look yourself up.
	You better believe it.
	I wanted to see.
	1884 is when I was last popular.
	But then in... 1884?
	Yes, 1884, and then before that it was 1861, and the previous peak was 1872.
	I wanted to see.
	1884 is when I was last popular.
	But then in 1884.
	Yes.
	1884.
	And then before that, it was 1861.
	And the previous peak was 1872 in the literature, John.
	When I was Adam Curry, Adam Curry.
	Yes, when I was mentioned in the literature.
	Or the name was mentioned, it could be a novel, it could be a lot of things.
	Yeah, your family goes way back, so that makes nothing but sense.
	And so then in 1983, which is correct, that's when my hockey stick curve starts.
	It catapults at 89, which of course is, you know, now I'm at MTV, that's in sync with MTV.
	I go up to Peak!
	In 1996, which is three times as high as my ancestors.
	But then... After... You kicked their ass!
	After 1996, I drop!
	I drop into, at 2000, I'm over.
	As far as Google Ngram's concerned, I'm dead.
	I'm dead water.
	Dead in the water.
	Has been.
	Has been and over.
	With a comeback.
	But the comeback starts around 2002, 2003.
	Peaks like crazy in 2007, podcasting.
	2003 peaks like crazy in 2007 podcasting.
	Of course, you know, this is when.
	My father.
	Yeah, that's when the serial, I guess, no, that wasn't that soon.
	No, I guess, yeah, pod show.
	Then I drop like an Olympic ski jump tattoo.
	Attraction.
	Yeah, you stop with the metaphors.
	I'm down.
	And the last, they had me to 2018, and I am below my 2000 trough.
	So I had a V, I had a V recovery.
	A couple ups and downs.
	Followed by a severe depression, actually, a depression.
	Wow.
	And by the way, I know it's a simile when you say that, the way you put it together.
	Because people are always listening.
	You said metaphor when it meant simile.
	Well, that's fascinating.
	Again, it ends in 2019.
	2018.
	Oh, 2018 is on your zone?
	Yeah.
	No book since then.
	Again, it ends in 2019. 2018.
	Oh, 2018 is on your own?
	Yeah.
	No books since then.
	They've all been burned by Republicans.
	Republicans.
	All right.
	Well, I'm glad you fascinated yourself and enlightened us.
	Thank you very much.
	Hey, I know quality entertainment.
	By the way, also a reflection of the number of books and articles written more recently than there was back in 1860.
	Yeah.
	So you probably are, you know, people back in the day are obviously famous too.
	I just find my fall from grace very disturbing.
	Alright, so I have a couple of Biden clips.
	You needed a publicist!
	Right?
	Yeah, that's exactly what I needed, a publicist.
	Are you familiar with the Smart List podcast?
	No I am not.
	Very popular podcast with actor Jason Bateman, actors Jason Bateman, of course you know Jason Bateman, often confused with Justin Bateman, which does not exist because his sister is Justine Bateman.
	Sean Hayes, of course you know Sean.
	Yeah, I have heard this, I take it back, I have heard this podcast.
	It's a bunch of celebrities.
	And Will Arnett, yeah.
	So those three, and I would say... They're always trying to one-up each other.
	Unlike our show.
	So no, we're always backing each other up, John.
	We're there to catch the other guy.
	Exactly.
	You fall backward with faith.
	You know I'm gonna be there to catch you.
	And I would say even across the political spectrum, you know, people listen to them because they are quite funny and it's not my kind of show, but President Biden was on the show and they talked about, like, Twitter stuff.
	But here's the point about your question.
	I think the biggest thing that's changed is technology.
	There are no editors anymore.
	Right.
	By the way, this is such a It's not even a boomer.
	What is he?
	What comes before boomer?
	Silent Generation.
	But you can't be a silent generationer.
	That's what it was called.
	It was called the Silent Generation.
	We should stay silent on this because he believes the internet is just like publishing without editors.
	And this is the problem.
	And he's talking about Twitter, of course.
	And so, you know, there's a lot been written and I started to write a book about it.
	I don't obviously have the time to do it now.
	He started to write a book about it!
	You're going to write a tech book?
	Why are the guys writing about technology?
	This Biden guy, he doesn't even know how to turn a computer on.
	He's, no, he's talking about there's no editors.
	That's, but you know, he did say he doesn't have to, obviously he doesn't have time now because he's president.
	Obviously, time to do that.
	If you go all the way back to Gutenberg and the printing press, it changed the nature of the world and how nations got along.
	These guys have never read a book, so just keep going.
	Well, I know, but look, look, I'm, I'm, I'm getting a television.
	Okay, I don't know if that's intentionally funny, but it was.
	But think about how things have changed.
	In every new technological change, it changed the way we interface with one another.
	Whether it was a telegraph, or the radio, or then television.
	But now, the internet, for the first time, there's no editors.
	There's no editors at all.
	And so how does somebody know what is true?
	Hey John, in publishing back in the early days, were there editors there back then?
	Was there an editor for everything before it went out?
	Or is he just referring to gatekeepers?
	Couple things.
	One, he says it changes the way we interface with each other.
	Doesn't he mean interact?
	Why would you use a term like interface?
	Hey, I'm interfacing.
	I'm interacting.
	You interact with people.
	You don't interface with them.
	So why is he using that word?
	Nanu Nanu, I'm interfacing with you.
	So, editors are... John Payne or the guys who did some of the early Revolutionary War stuff, there was no editors there.
	Ben Franklin didn't use an editor.
	He may have been one.
	It comes and goes.
	For tweets?
	What would you need an editor for?
	Do you need an editor for essays?
	To stop the hate, brother!
	To stop the antisemitism!
	Hello?
	That's the context.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	He's a maniac.
	And these three guys, no one's going to question him because, oh God, look who we got on the show.
	Well, let's see what the second piece is here.
	Yeah, and the difference between, you know, I think that you should do an executive order where you could do, you can post- I like this.
	Hey, you know, we're all on your side, Joe.
	Prez Joe.
	You should do an executive order!
	It's like, this is, this is, I imagine this is how people talk to Elon.
	But to the president, hey man, you should do an executive order.
	It's so cool to do those.
	Yeah, and the difference between, you know, I think that you should do an executive order where you could do, you can post on the internet, on social media, but you have to have your name, your address, and your phone number.
	And then we'll see if people change their tone a little bit.
	Isn't there any way for the FCC or someone to put a rating system or the equivalent of saying, this is just opinion, this is actually facts?
	Oh, you've wanted this for a long time.
	Like, you should be able to have to hit a certain threshold.
	You can't just, everything can't look the same.
	It should have a little qualifier.
	Twitter does it or did it with the last guy's tweets.
	It's a sickness.
	It's a sickness.
	It's a sickness to want to control it.
	Oh, you've been wanting this for a long time.
	Yes, I'm sure we can figure out what's false and what's not right.
	I'm sure we can figure it out.
	Don't we have the technology?
	This is, it's a sick thinking.
	It's really sick.
	It's sick, you're right.
	It's totally sick.
	In fact, I'm going to give you, not because it's so sick and stupid, and because of the stupid part, I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
	Well, that is very sick of you.
	It is.
	And it just reminds me that when Steve... You've been wanting this a long time, haven't you?
	You've been wanting this a long time.
	Yeah, this is your thing.
	Total control.
	This is your thing.
	And it reminds me when Steve Jobs presented podcasting in iTunes at the time for the first time on stage.
	Kara Swisher was right there, first thing out of her mouth.
	So how do we filter out the bad bits?
	Right away to the gatekeeper.
	Your first thought, not, wow, this is great!
	This will liberate broadcasting!
	No!
	How do we make sure that we don't hear any dirty words?
	We've got to protect people!
	I'm Chris Fisher!
	I have to protect people!
	All right, so I have two... I think this will hopefully be the last... We don't have to do much more on Elon except summaries as we move along after today's report, because it's all spelled out now in his own voice, in his own words, but you didn't get any of that in the mainstream, not even on Twitter itself, where people are just tweeting little clips.
	No, if you don't keep it in there, if you don't look for the full clip and all the context, you will never know what's going on.
	Here's ABC's report of the latest with Elon and Twitter.
	Tonight, fired by the world's richest... FIRED!
	FIRED!
	Is this news?
	Is this how you present news?
	That's like headless body and topless bar!
	FIRED!
	Tonight, fired by the world's richest man, Elon Musk announced massive layoffs overnight, telling employees they'd get an email today telling them their fate.
	Right, wait, stop, stop, stop to start over.
	I think that they reason that they emphasize fired like that in a negative way.
	Trump!
	Because, exactly.
	Trump, you are fired.
	You are so right.
	Tonight, fired by the world's richest man.
	Elon Musk announcing massive layoffs overnight, telling employees they'd get an email today telling them their fate.
	That email, subject.
	Your role at Twitter.
	In the email, today is your last working day at the company, and signed simply, Twitter.
	I found that my work laptop was remotely wiped and access to Slack and Gmail revoked.
	Must reportedly laying off about- Oh!
	Like this is special!
	When you get fired, when- whatever, if you leave, Everything gets cut off.
	And this guy is being presented, at least it comes across the way it's put into this report, as if some Nazi cut off all communications.
	A work laptop was remotely wiped and access to Slack and Gmail revoked.
	Musk reportedly laying off about half the 7500 member global workforce.
	50% is a jaw-dropping number and really goes to the bone and heart of the Twitter ecosystem.
	I don't know what it means either.
	Well, ecosystem refers to the structure of the company.
	Billions more than most analysts believe it's worth.
	Well, let's stop again.
	I don't know what it means either.
	Well, ecosystem refers to the structure of the company.
	Internally, yeah.
	So you have your ecosystem, but he used the word ecosystem, which had some deep irony, it seems to me, in its usage.
	Oh, good catch.
	His ecosystem runs on an ecosystem.
	That's true, no lie.
	Jaw-dropping number and really goes to the bone and heart of the Twitter ecosystem.
	Another jaw-dropping number, the $44 billion Musk paid for the company.
	Billions more than most analysts believe it's worth and the nearly $13 billion he borrowed to close the deal.
	To try to raise revenue, Musk floating the idea of a pay-to-play platform, an $8 monthly charge for verified accounts with the blue checkmark.
	But the platform profits most from ads, and companies are increasingly concerned about Musk's plans to change how Twitter moderates content.
	One study shows an unsettling increase in hate speech on Twitter since Musk took over.
	At an investor conference in New York City today, Musk blamed pressure from activists who fear the platform becoming a playground for hate speech.
	We've done our absolute best to appease them, and nothing is working.
	So, this is a major concern, and I think this is, frankly, an attack on the Postal Inventor.
	This was really surprising to me, this report.
	Well, in a way, surprising in a nut.
	So, Musk was indeed interviewed by Ron What's his name?
	Ron Barron, who runs a very large hedge fund, and this is his... kind of like Warren Buffett's deal, you know, everyone comes together and, oh, you're so great.
	The whole thing is available on YouTube, you know, he's there for an hour, and all they do is get some wild mic sound of him saying...
	You sound like Musk.
	And it's only about content moderation.
	I got one more piece of this report and then we'll tell you what's really going on.
	And David, critics like the NAACP say this is not a First Amendment issue, calling on companies to pull their ads from the platform until Twitter, quote, rids itself of any content or account that spews hate or disinformation.
	That, of course, creates a big challenge as Musk tries to make Twitter profitable.
	Yes.
	So this is the general mainstream reaction to the acquisition.
	Twitter in chaos!
	On fire internally!
	People en masse moving to Mastodon!
	That's the funniest.
	And, you know, you see all these tweets, people are like, I got signed up, but they don't get it.
	It takes a little while for people who are discovering it.
	Don't worry, you'll figure it out.
	Just, you know, sign up somewhere, hang out, you'll figure it out.
	But, you know, like Dave Weiner even went to Mastodon.
	Well, now you know the hell is frozen over.
	So it's all, it's all just, oh, Oh, it's all this hate speech, and he's got no moderation, and now, now I think it's interpublic!
	Big ad conglomerate, recommending to their advertisers they put everything on hold, and they did!
	So, how could this possibly work out for Elon, because clearly, now he's going downhill, going down the tubes!
	He's gonna die!
	He's gonna die!
	So we will have to interrupt at least one clip.
	I have four.
	Most are short, but then there's one, which he really lays everything out.
	And of course, it's exactly what I expected it would be.
	But then we can be done and we'll know what he's up to and what the plan is.
	And then we can view every other piece of news in that context.
	So here it is.
	Ron Barron himself is introducing Elon, is interviewing Elon on stage.
	He's 80 years old.
	Elon's 51, but they're clearly, They're good business partners, and I think that the majority of all the extra investment, maybe not the initial money that Elon needed to make the purchase, but he's going to need a lot of money moving forward.
	I think it may be coming from this group, the Barron's group, because if you listen, and I've heard this with big investors, not little ones.
	Well, except Jason Calacanis.
	But big investors, they always say, well, we fired this many people.
	We are doing this for the future.
	We... You know what I mean?
	Oh yeah, and they're bloodthirsty about, or not bloodthirsty, but they're bloodless.
	Yes.
	They have no sense of shame.
	They don't care that it's people.
	They don't care who gets fired.
	They just gotta get their numbers from A to B. And it's always we.
	It's not you, Elon.
	It's we.
	Because it's not Elon.
	It is we.
	It is the we, it is the money people, and they have a strategy.
	Here's the intro.
	So I saw this article.
	It says you bought something called Twitter.
	And it says, uh, Musk puts off lifting Twitter bans.
	And so obviously the big deal in, to me anyway, in Twitter, is that, so we had this incredible, it was incredibly poorly managed, this business.
	And, uh, but those guys somehow did great for their shareholders by selling it to us.
	Right.
	But we didn't buy what they're selling.
	We bought something of what it's going to become.
	Oh!
	Yes.
	I mean, I think it's, most people would say, like, given how the market has evolved this year, the price is on the high side.
	Right.
	Right, but that's on base of what it is.
	Yes, but in terms of what it what I think there is a tremendous amount of potential That it will be very difficult to achieve but I think possible And I think ultimately it could be one of the most valuable companies in the world so Clearly, Mr. Barron is in on it because he knows, hey, we didn't buy that piece of crap for what it is, but for what it can become.
	And he's doing this in front of his investors or limited partners or whatever they're called, the people who invest in his fund that he then goes and invests the money.
	And so this is all about... And we should also note that these guys think along the lines of, besides Head count, which has got to go.
	And it's always a positive to get the head count down.
	They always think in terms of, it's a term we don't see much.
	I've talked about it before on the show, eyeballs.
	Once you've captured this many eyeballs, now the world is, you know, you can do whatever you want.
	You can get the eyeballs.
	One other thing.
	The TAM.
	What's the TAM?
	What's the TAM?
	Total Addressable Market.
	Yes, that's a newer one.
	That's another one.
	The Total Addressable Market is... And also the thing that's never discussed because it's assumed is brand recognition.
	There's a lot to be... They're not just buying Lionel train company.
	In fact, they see a much bigger TAM than the social media networking.
	So you have to.
	Yes.
	You always have to.
	You always have to be able to take over the world and completely take over all aspects of the entire world.
	It has to be at the end.
	It's your end goal.
	Even though it's never achievable, it's always the goal.
	And these guys all think the same.
	Man, you have done too many Silicon Valley pitches.
	That's exactly what it is.
	So this next clip is the long one, but this has everything in it.
	Every single thing that is really going to happen, the real initiative, and the smoke screen, the smoke screen is this noise right now, which is great because that's exactly what's happening, the noise about
	Verification, paid $8, $20, restoring accounts, but really the noise is about, oh, it's all anti-semitism, the N-word for... I'd clip that off just to shorten stuff up, but even Ron Barron said, well, you know, I'm a Jew, I don't want anti-semitic stuff, I don't want people using the N-word, so this all leads into
	The moderation red herring, which is just going to keep everyone talking about that, while he has a very different plan.
	We should be able to figure out with software how to moderate this and prevent that from happening.
	Is that true or not?
	Yes, absolutely.
	I totally agree.
	Content moderation policies have not changed at Twitter, and it is not okay to engage in hateful conduct on Twitter.
	So, for a man who is pro-free speech, or free speech absolutist, how does he come out of the gate with, well, hateful conduct is not allowed?
	Well, doesn't that, by definition, preclude hate speech, whatever it is?
	Well, a couple of things to note.
	Is he really a pre-speech absolutist when it comes down to his properties?
	No, he doesn't care.
	He does not care.
	It's all a red herring.
	Wait, wait.
	Why is none of this reported by the mainstream if they want to give us an in-depth analysis of what's really going on instead of the bullcrap?
	Oh, because they are very shallow.
	This is the same, because I've noticed this with Kara Swisher, who has a so-called tech podcast called On with Kara Swisher.
	And she truly believes that the playbook is, you know, get some revenue with some subscribers, they get a couple of extra features, which she won't do because she doesn't care.
	She just wants to be a regular person.
	And advertising.
	And they still believe that this is an advertising play, and that's the part that the mainstream is going after.
	That's why they mention it.
	No more advertisers for you, schmuck!
	Because they're in competition!
	Of course, when it comes to advertising, they want to bring everybody down.
	They love reporting that Meta or Facebook is now sub $100 a share price.
	They love talking about how TikTok is eating everybody's lunch.
	And it's all about the ads.
	So Elon is a genius for playing this card.
	It is not okay to engage in hateful conduct.
	And when I say...
	When I say, by playing this card, I mean he's purposefully doing bullcrap stuff, like, oh, we're gonna have a content, you know, Starfleet Command, who will decide who can be on and who can't, and there's no hateful conduct on Twitter.
	Oh, yes!
	Very good!
	Hold on a second.
	Stop again.
	By the way, we are the two people I believe, and I almost want to say I do believe, who can actually deconstruct this particular story with this material that we have.
	And you're right, it's baffling that no one else has done it.
	Why is an audience applauding anything?
	Is this like a Greek chorus and they're showing approval and who's the approval being shown to?
	Elon?
	Is it to encourage him?
	What is an audience in this?
	This is a discussion between a bunch of people, right?
	Well, no, no, it's just Ron and Elon and this is... They're on a stage though, right?
	Yeah, they're on a stage, yes.
	And they're talking to each other.
	We've seen these events a million times.
	You see them all the time.
	They're trying to like...
	Get some messaging out.
	And why was the point of the applause?
	Well, the point of the applause is the people in the audience, it's their money, and they're a little concerned about their investment in this anti-Semitic racist platform that their man, Ron, has chosen to bring in.
	Are these people actually investors?
	I thought the company was being taken private.
	No, these are investors in Ron Barron's fund.
	The guy who keeps saying we, us, the guy who owns Musk, at least partially, he owns Musk.
	It's his money.
	So this audience is there to indicate their approval or disapproval?
	of the way the money's being spent, and so when Musk says, let me be clear, there's no place for hateful content on Twitter, conduct on Twitter, they're always like, yes, don't let, don't let anyone use our money to call people, don't be anti-Semitic, are rice hashed.
	That's what it is.
	We clear?
	Okay, so they're a bunch of minion investors, dumb money, as we call it.
	Probably.
	Go on.
	Yeah.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	actually, oddly, like, targeted attacks, where temporarily people have been able to put some hate speech on Twitter, but then it's been taken down immediately.
	So part of what I'm trying to achieve with this sort of enabling everyone to be payment verified with Twitter Blue is to try to get as many people payment verified.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Why does he go from moderation to payment verified? .
	Not verified.
	Payment verified.
	I don't know.
	You're the one that's been analyzing it.
	Where temporarily people have been able to put some hate speech on Twitter but then it's been taken down immediately.
	So part of what I'm trying to achieve with this sort of enabling everyone to be payment verified with Twitter Blue is to try to get as many people payment verified As possible.
	It's only eight bucks a month.
	Although, for some people that were complaining about that, and these are people who pay more than that for their latte.
	I'm gonna be one of your Twitter customers.
	Thank you, thank you.
	It's part of its revenue, part of it is payment authentication.
	Hey!
	First he used payment verified, then he used the real term payment authentication.
	I just want to point out this is exactly what I've been saying.
	Authenticate everybody.
	Get your KYC.
	Just like the boys over at Smartless were.
	Yeah!
	You get the name and the phone number and the email address and the home address.
	Let's see if they do all that hate speech.
	This is exactly the book of plays.
	As part of its revenue, part of it is payment authentication.
	And so if somebody Because there is a huge problem with spam and bots and trolls on Twitter and organizations trying to manipulate public opinion and just generally making the system worse.
	But I think that there is an answer to that, which is to get as many regular users of Twitter to be a subscriber for $8 a month.
	And you'll get a lot more than just a blue checkmark for $8 a month.
	Now, pay attention here.
	So, apparently the price is now $8 a month.
	I don't understand his numerology.
	He always has $4.20, $6.00, $9.00.
	Why is he doing $8.00?
	I think... I also got... I should mention that I have been offered this deal.
	Oh, you got the deal?
	Are you in on the deal?
	Did you pick up on this item?
	Call her, call her, call her.
	Not yet.
	You have to for the show.
	I know I do and I'm going to, but it's $4.99 for me.
	Yeah, because you're being grandfathered in, no pun intended.
	That's what I'm guessing.
	I'm guessing the old blue check marks are being grandfathered in for some cheaper rate.
	And supposedly the benefits include being able to edit tweets.
	Well have you also, on your Twitter, do you now see a verified tab?
	Because you should.
	Or maybe that's only in the app, it might not be on the website.
	What do you mean a verified tab?
	So when you go to Twitter, you have home, which is everyone you follow, or whatever the algo gives you.
	Then you have all, which is all tweets.
	Yeah, I know what you're saying.
	You get all mentions by you.
	That verified tab has been on my feed.
	Forever?
	Forever.
	For a decade or more.
	Does it work?
	Yeah, it works.
	You click on it and you just see verified people that are commenting to you.
	So that tab... It's handy.
	It's handy kind of.
	No, no, no.
	That tab is the new Twitter.
	Listen on.
	Users of Twitter to be a subscriber for $8 a month.
	And you'll get a lot more than just a blue checkmark for $8 a month because now we can afford long-form video, long audio, podcasts, and we can also start sharing revenue with content creators.
	I mean, come on, hold on a second.
	He's going from a blah-blah chat troll site to longer content, blog posts, newsletters, video, podcasts.
	We're going to pay content creators.
	What?
	You believe this?
	Well, I'd like to see what mechanism they're going to use to pay content creators.
	Well, once you're payment authenticated, it becomes easy after that.
	How's that?
	Because you still can't... Are you going to charge for the content?
	How are you going to do that particular mechanism?
	Make that mechanism work?
	I have no idea!
	I don't think it's actually true.
	I don't think he's actually ever going to do it.
	Podcast.
	Podcast on Twitter.
	And would... Hasn't... Haven't we seen... Can I just move my substat column over to Twitter?
	Yeah.
	Why not do both?
	There you go.
	No, it's very odd.
	I think it's just spouting off stuff like, hey, Silicon Valley, we're going to do YouTube, we got you.
	Reddit, we got you.
	Exactly.
	It's the standard list of stuff that we're going to do.
	Standards, very standards.
	And again, this is all just smoke and mirrors and hot air.
	And we can also start sharing revenue with content creators, which is essential.
	Give them a chance to make money.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yay!
	Are you excited, John?
	Are you pumped?
	Are you pumped?
	I'm jacked, man!
	That you'll be able to make money with Twitter!
	Really make money!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	I mean, right now, if you're on Twitter, you'll see a lot of links posted to YouTube and TikTok, and that's because, at least until now, Twitter has not even given them enough video length to post their video, and then they give the content creators no means of monetizing the video.
	So we're going to change that rapidly at Twitter.
	It's going to be transformative.
	Transformative!
	It's going to be transformative.
	Another Silicon Valley buzzword.
	It's monetizing the video.
	So we're going to change that rapidly at Twitter.
	It's going to be transformative.
	But if we can get enough verified users, and we're going to prioritize Twitter search, replies, mentions by verified users first.
	Yeah.
	Yes!
	That's what's called amplified?
	Yes!
	You see, the guy, Ron, lets it out of the bag.
	That's what's called amplified?
	That term is not out there yet, as far as I'm concerned.
	But you will be amplified.
	I think that the idea is, you're verified, you're amplified, you're hydromified, you're transhumanized, because you will show up in priority.
	In a priori.
	You will show up... These terms remind me, I have to, this is a question, just kind of a general question, maybe the...
	So a friend of mine in Hollywood has been moved into social media.
	And one of the terms that keeps cropping up is funneling.
	And I don't remember hearing that as one of our Silicon Valley specials.
	Have you heard of funneling?
	Is that so you funnel people, you catch people in a net and you drag them behind your walled garden?
	And you go through the funnel hole, yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	The funnel hole?
	Well, the funnel hole's not the term.
	It's funneling.
	It's called funneling.
	I want the funnel hole.
	And this is like Silicon Valley, Southern California.
	Those guys are nuts.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	They're incompetent, to be honest about it.
	It's bullcrap.
	We know it's bullcrap!
	We saw it with Facebook.
	It was very difficult for Facebook to put everything into their app.
	In fact, they started with podcasts, made big announcements, pulled out.
	YouTube, same.
	Yeah, you can't do... Yeah.
	There's only so much you can do.
	When Facebook's got a lock on a whole mechanism, they want to do all this other stuff.
	This is actually Achilles heel of Silicon Valley.
	But this is not what's happening.
	This is just the bullcrap.
	Twitter search, replies, mentions, by verified users first.
	Now this is the part that I like about his scheme.
	- I think that's what it calls amplified. - Amplified. - Yes, so if you're payment verified with blue check mark, then you're pre-prioritized. - Oh, priority. - The point of this is to make crime not pay.
	- Now this is the part that I like about his scheme.
	So taking, I'm just gonna jump ahead a little bit, give you some thinking, I think it comes up.
	The idea is get as many people as verified as possible.
	You don't need to be verified, but you will have the equal priority to bots.
	Now, what Elon has discovered, and I think this might be genius, what he's discovered is that, and there was a news story today, where is it, that a lot of the bots are political parties, Sure, there's Chinese and Russian misinformation, whatever, but if you look at... What was this story?
	There was a story here somewhere.
	Oh, under Ukraine and Russia.
	Massive anti-Russian bot army exposed by Australian researchers.
	And so this spun up on day one of the illegal invasion.
	And it was all pro-Ukraine.
	92%... 90.2% of all tweets, both bought and non-bought, came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine.
	So these researchers, you know, found... We have to stop and remember, and a lot of people soon forget, That of all the hackers in the world, the Ukrainians and the Russians are at the top of the list and the Ukrainians are at the top over the Russians.
	The Ukrainians have always had a hacker community.
	In fact, I know a friend of mine who's Ukrainian and half Russian, half Ukrainian, who is a software developer and he has most of his team is in Ukraine.
	The Ukrainians are superb at hacking and black hat stuff.
	And in fact, I think we mentioned this maybe a decade ago, where somebody says they're trying to track somebody from, you know, some scammers that are doing some horrible thing online.
	And as soon as they see a Ukrainian IP address, they just say, we have to give up.
	I see this differently.
	To me, what Musk is seeing is enormous efforts by Department of Homeland Security, Democratic National Committee, individual, maybe the military-industrial complex, large bot armies trying to influence Americans.
	It's Americans influencing Americans about how they should think and this is taking place on Twitter.
	And this is large, large bot networks.
	What Elon is now saying, I believe, and I think this may be a genius plan, is, hey, if you aren't verified, you will be payment authenticated, you will be pushed down to the bottom of the heap where no one cares, with the rats and the bug eaters and the trolls and the unverified.
	Let me summarize what you're going to say.
	Elon, because he tried to do research on how many bots there are, he said, okay, well this thing is loaded with these, it's infested, which is what you just said.
	Yep.
	Infested?
	How can we make money off the infestation?
	Exactly.
	Let's just get the bot guys to give us eight bucks.
	Hey, you have a hundred bots that are doing this propaganda?
	Eight bucks.
	Exactly.
	You have a thousand bots?
	Eight bucks.
	He has different numbers.
	If your payment verified with VoodooCheckMark, then you're proprietized.
	Wait for it.
	The point of this is to make crime not to pay.
	Because right now, to create a bot on Twitter costs less than a penny.
	Um, so the cost of crime is so cheap and that's part of why crime, um, and hateful conduct pays.
	But if somebody risks losing even eight bucks, they, it's too expensive to now have a hundred thousand fake accounts because they have to spend $800,000 a month as opposed to, you know, $800 a month.
	Okay.
	I really liked this.
	So did you notice the gaffe?
	What was the gaffe?
	He says you'd have to pay $800,000 a month as opposed to $800 a month?
	Well, he's saying a penny.
	Oh, okay.
	I thought he was referring to the fact that you can, you know, you can have a hundred thousand bots, but it'll be this.
	You can have a hundred bots for eight bucks.
	Right, right.
	So no, he's saying, so you could have your bots.
	The penny would, right.
	Okay.
	The math was correct.
	Okay.
	So again, the thinking for me is, you're right.
	Oh my God, this thing is low.
	Because that was the problem.
	Bots, bots.
	But instead of, instead of, how about this to blow your mind?
	Instead of, I need to know how many real people there are.
	How about, he's like, I need to know how many government bot networks, I need to know what the real TAM is.
	My TAM here is government.
	My TAM is PR firms.
	It's Hill and Knowlton.
	You know?
	It's the ADL.
	It's anybody who wants to have influence on this Twitter network, which has been just free.
	Now he's like, hey, you know, go ahead.
	You've just got to be verified.
	And I'm sure there'll be some corporate verification standard.
	Because he's clearly making it clear that the bots are welcome as long as they're verified.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	a quarter dollars a month.
	And then we also, since we're using payment authentication, we're piggybacking on the authentication system of the payment system.
	And we're also piggybacking off of Apple's authentication system, which is another layer of security.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	First of all, we're going after rich people first.
	So this is all going to be in the Apple iOS.
	And we're not just going to use your payment authentication.
	No, we're going to use Apple's authentication.
	We got all the goods on you.
	As opposed to, you know, $800 a month.
	We know who you are!
	And then we also, since we're using payment authentication, we're piggybacking on the authentication system of the payment system.
	And we're also piggybacking off of Apple's authentication system, which is another layer of security.
	So the net effect will be over time that the verified users will be ‑‑ will pretty much always be at the top of comments and search.
	And you won't really see ‑‑ you'll have to scroll far to see the unverified users, which will be the bots and trolls and whatnot.
	You hear that?
	Hey, users, that's you!
	If you don't pay, you're going to be down there with the bots and the trolls.
	This is sort of analogous to Google search.
	If you go to page 8 of Google search, there will be a ton of scams and stuff.
	Call it page 8, page 9, something like that.
	And, but the thing is that Google search results are so good for page one that you never go to page eight.
	So, it's rare.
	And like the old joke is like... Something we don't want to see gets pushed way down.
	Yeah, just basically the bad stuff gets pushed way down.
	And then crime stops paying and they stop trying to do all these things.
	So, I mean the joke is like, what's the best place to hide a dead body would be the second page of Google search results.
	Nobody ever goes there.
	Now I have to admit, that was a good one.
	I hadn't heard that joke.
	Yeah, I said, oh yeah, he got that from someone else.
	Alright.
	So I think that this is a possible moneymaker.
	It's interesting.
	I still don't think it's really what he's doing here.
	In fact, I know as we continue with the second piece of this.
	To be frank, Twitter was having pretty serious revenue challenges and cost challenges before the acquisition talks started.
	And any company that is dependent on advertising has had a hard time.
	Now listen to what he's saying about the advertising market, about Twitter's particular type of advertising, and I think it's clear that he doesn't see this as any type of revenue driver.
	If you look at, say, Snap or Google, Facebook, whatnot, they've all had a difficult time with advertising revenue dropping, and Twitter is currently more vulnerable than they are to advertising because and Twitter is currently more vulnerable than they are to advertising because most of Twitter's advertising is large brand advertising as opposed to So it's kind of like a much more over-discretionary ad spend than it is for
	Like, if you can do direct response for a specific product.
	And then we also recently had a lot of difficulty with activist groups pressuring major advertisers to stop spending money on Twitter.
	This is despite us doing everything possible to appease them and to make it clear that moderation rules and hateful conduct rules have not changed and we're continuing to enforce them.
	And by the way, this would have been a news bite even for Fox News.
	Elon's saying, hey, we've done everything to try and appease them.
	We're really trying to work with the crazies.
	We're really trying to help them out.
	A number of major advertisers have stopped spending on Twitter.
	But this doesn't seem right because...
	That's not right!
	There's been no change in our operations at all.
	Do you hear this?
	There's been no change!
	We didn't change anything!
	It's all illusion!
	You're imagining things!
	It's not fair!
	But nonetheless, the activist groups have been successful in causing a massive drop in Twitter advertising revenue.
	And we've done our absolute best to appease them, and nothing is working.
	So, this is a major concern, and I think this is, frankly, an attack on the First Amendment.
	If activist groups can pressure advertisers, upon which Twitter is fundamentally dependent, to suppress free speech, then that doesn't seem right.
	A tepid applause.
	Okay.
	Does this sound like a guy who's really sincere when he says, I mean, about an advertising-based company, that his defenses or his strategy for his advertising, which has now been cut off at the knees, his strategy is, it's not right!
	It's an attack on the First Amendment!
	Well, a couple of things to note.
	One, Musk is not a guy of all these billionaire types, and there's a small group of them.
	He doesn't seem like, and he's the richest of the group, just through pretty conniving techniques using the government mostly to leverage everything.
	The stories about him and his first wife and leaving her and the kid on a bus stop and saying, I'm out of here.
	And some of the other things he's done.
	I don't know if this is the guy you'd want to piss off.
	Are you saying that about me?
	Like I should be quiet and not say anything?
	No, you're not pissing him off.
	I'm not talking about you.
	You're not hurting him at all.
	You're just analyzing.
	I'm talking about people who cut advertising from his operation.
	General Motors, for example, and some of these other companies that he's in competition with anyway.
	And he's irked about it.
	You can tell if you listen to him.
	of a note that Will Hurst talked about that he found in his grandfather's, William Randolph Hurst's... Billionaire Will Hurst.
	He's a billion hair.
	He's a billionaire.
	Billion hair.
	He found this note in William Randolph Hurst's pile of documents and the note was about Some advertisers who had pulled out from advertising in the Examiner, one of these papers back in the 1800s, early 1900s, probably 1900s, and it was like, we're going to do everything we can to destroy this company.
	We're going to write articles about him, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and I've always thought that, I've never thought that was something that would be a surprise, it was a surprise to him to read this note, but it didn't seem like a surprise to me.
	There are businessmen out there that don't put up with this kind of thing, and to be pressured by a bunch of weenies, the Rob Reiners of the world, as opposed to just doing what you're supposed to do, which is advertise.
	You're not supposed to take sides in political debate.
	I really think Elon is going to make a point of ruining some people's lives.
	Oh, and I think that's probably true, but...
	Again, bearing in mind this was an investor conference, these people put a lot of money, a lot of trust, and of course I saw the entire Q&A, the entire interview.
	You would expect, if this was his direction, he would say, you know, he can do this, it's not right, it's an attack on the First Amendment, and here's our strategy, what we're going to do about it.
	But that didn't come.
	Instead, the true strategy unfolded.
	And you can go on the list of the whole thing.
	I cut out most of the ums.
	It comes right after this whole bit about the moderation and the advertising.
	And here it is.
	What's the vision?
	What's the real strategy?
	Once Twitter is set on the right path, I think it is a much easier thing to manage than SpaceX or Tesla.
	And I really understand the internet and how to make I wrote software personally for 20 years.
	I was one of the key people behind x.com, which became PayPal.
	and so also like I'm aware of like I know how to make a way better PayPal.
	So first of all, he says PayPal.
	Yeah, this has been your sub-theory.
	Your original theory was one thing, but your sub-theory came into this in the fact that he's going to go after PayPal, which is very funny.
	Yeah, what I said, he's going to ruin Twitter, which is true.
	He will deliver exactly what the sleepless boys, smartless guys thought.
	Yeah, you know, once you get a name, a number, let's see what a smartass you are, you're going to get that because you're verified.
	Otherwise, your bot status, the bots will have to be elevated.
	He'll have some cash flow for that.
	But when he says, yeah, you know, I was one of the, he's not, this is not Ron Baron saying, it's Elon saying, yeah, I was one of the, I basically, I created PayPal.
	I mean, x.com.
	Notice, X, because he has a hard-on about that, because I think that's, they kicked him out.
	This is his lucky, lucky letter.
	Well, they kicked him out and they said, and take your damn X.com with you.
	And so he's been holding on to this for 22 years.
	I mean, I really understand the Internet.
	Wait, wait.
	This again is part of my thesis that he could, he's a guy with a long memory that can hold a grudge.
	It's not a grudge.
	It's a hard-on.
	This is his albatross.
	This is his metaverse.
	I mean, I really understand the internet and how to make... I wrote software personally for 20 years.
	I was one of the key people behind x.com, which became PayPal.
	And so, also, I'm aware of... I know how to make a way better PayPal.
	Way better!
	Yeah.
	Wait a minute.
	I talked over my own clip.
	What did he say here?
	It sounds like he's saying I like underwear, which is kind of weird.
	I know he's saying I'm aware, but I also like underwear.
	I also like I'm aware of like, I know how to make a way better PayPal.
	Because you built PayPal.
	Because you built PayPal.
	Because you built PayPal, right?
	Right, Elon?
	Because you built PayPal.
	That's what you promised me when I gave you all this money.
	A way better PayPal.
	You may have caught that.
	That catch may be worth it.
	A way better.
	It may have been the scheme that Baron was presented from the get-go.
	This is what I'm saying!
	Yeah, it was that, and so Baron is excited now, so that's why he's excited, he's getting jacked, and so he had to throw that little in, he had to throw that in there to assuage any doubters.
	Yeah, he's all amped.
	It's because you built a way better PayPal.
	It's because you built PayPal.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	I mean, it was a lot of other people.
	Oh, okay.
	There's a product plan I wrote which I wish I'd kept a copy of in July of 2000, where I thought it would be possible to make the most valuable financial institution in the world.
	There you go.
	The most valuable financial institution in the world.
	And we're going to execute that plan from 22 years ago, which amazingly no one has done.
	and And so I think that's part of why I think Twitter will be ultimately extremely valuable.
	Because I'm going to execute the x.com game plan from 22 years ago.
	Is it clear, everybody?
	He's going to execute that plan from 22 years ago, build a better PayPal, the most valuable financial institution in the world.
	He does not give a crap about your tweets.
	With some improvements, and then we're also going to obviously make Twitter just a way better system.
	I mean, it stands to reason that if a social media company is is not taking steps to make it positive to be on that social platform, then people won't come or they'll leave, you know?
	So you speak of sort of anti-Semitism or racism or anything like that.
	Well, I mean, who's going to stay on a platform if that's prevalent?
	Okay, so now you see how he goes right back.
	He's saying, okay, I'm going to build my dream, 22 years, the most successful financial institution in the world.
	I can build a better PayPal.
	And of course, I need some idiots to hang out.
	So I'm going to turn it into a news site.
	Because of course, all the news, all the reporters, all the news companies, everyone will pay.
	They'll pay $3,000.
	Because they won't be able to quote tweets anymore for their news reports.
	Exactly!
	Instead of actually going out and getting a quote.
	And they will push this, they will build this, they will tell you to get verified.
	They'll get it right.
	And again, it's come to, and you say verified, Elon says authenticated.
	That's obviously, yeah.
	I mean, come on.
	It's inherent wrongness.
	Now, but listen to what he says about the moderation.
	This is very interesting.
	His true thinking.
	If that's prevalent, like that's, that's obviously, yeah, I mean, come on, as a part of its inherent wrongness, who's going to stay on the platform?
	So like you want to be, it needs to be something where, like our goal with Twitter is like, how do we get 80% of America?
	Maybe not like the sort of far left and the far right, but maybe we don't want to necessarily.
	So those of you on the far left and the far right, maybe we don't want you necessarily, but I wonder if there's going to be some kind of admission process.
	Thank you.
	So you have to be payment authenticated, but we just might not want you.
	Too much work.
	Far left, far right.
	Our goal with Twitter is how do we get 80% of America?
	Maybe not the far left and the far right, and maybe we don't want them necessarily, but how do we get 80% of the public So there's his trick.
	He told you exactly what he's doing and he's couching that in a red herring.
	and exchange ideas and maybe once in a while change their minds.
	Oh, yeah.
	So we're back to that.
	So there's his trick.
	He told you exactly what he's doing, and he's couching that in a red herring.
	And one of our producers, who shall go on name because he worked in the anti-money laundering industry at Thomson Reuters, Nice, Actimize, and a couple others, He says, I would call myself an expert in know your customer, fraud screening, due diligence, and he says, this type of authentication has two parts, CIP, Customer Identification Program, and due diligence.
	Most people are only speaking about the customer identification program aspect of Twitter.
	This requires the institution to verify at least four elements of an identity.
	Name, date of birth, address, social security number, what is a TIN?
	Is that some identifier?
	In order to verify these and any additional Personal identifying information elements in an institution needs to look across a myriad of data sources.
	You can verify the first three with the driver's license, but not the social security number.
	You can verify the social security number with the SSN card, but not an address or date of birth.
	This leads to a system where institutions will rely on official documents like those in addition to credit header data from the bureaus, telco data, utility data, etc.
	So Elon wants to turn Twitter, according to him, our professional, into a universal, unique identifier.
	And this is apparently the holy grail.
	Thomson Reuters is supposedly one of the best at this, where he worked.
	The idea that you, on a monthly basis, will confirm Your financial information, which includes with that what you need for financial information already available once you've been authenticated financially, you also are confirming your address.
	And apparently this stream of data, of knowing that someone's address is verified every month is worth a lot of money in this industry, in the financial industry, and in the identity industry.
	And of course that's what he's going for.
	And it'll be a better PayPal and, you know, I think it'll be dollars or whatever.
	Maybe he's part of the central bank digital currency gang.
	Maybe it'll be Doge.
	I don't know, but that's what he's up to.
	And Twitter's going to be ruined because you'll have, you know, you're going to, well, I would love to see what you have to do to get verified.
	If you get in now, maybe you don't have to bring all four pieces.
	Maybe.
	I'm gonna definitely sign up.
	Yeah, please!
	You should!
	Yeah, he's got quite the vision there.
	Whether he can execute it or not remains to be seen.
	Oh, I don't think any— There's probably reasons that the 22-year plan wasn't done by PayPal, who knows why.
	They hated him.
	They thought he was a dick and kicked him out.
	Well, he probably was a dick.
	Well, I also don't think that it was X.com first.
	I think there's dispute over that.
	And even those little things can really break up a partnership.
	Well, let's face it.
	Let's look who is in this partnership.
	Peter Thiel.
	Peter Thiel, who is a crackpot.
	And he is the, you know, the right winger.
	He's also intelligence with Palantir.
	Extremely smart.
	All these guys seem to have a lot of brains, which is weird that they do something so kind of like lackluster like PayPal, which is not like Like a chip company, let's say, where you really have to put a lot of effort into it.
	Then again, you might not want to put a lot of work into it.
	But Teal, they all seem like hard workers.
	And then you have Pierre Omidar.
	Yep.
	And he is a, uh, you don't see so much of him, but he's the left winger.
	Yep.
	And so, and I think Musk was the libertarian.
	So you had this kind of, although, uh, Tio, Tio would argue that he's a libertarian, not a right winger.
	Right.
	But you have these three guys and they're strong personalities and they don't get along.
	And, uh, or it seems that they don't get along cause you don't see him doing it.
	They never brought the band back together.
	Right.
	And, uh, who knows?
	I mean, You know, Elon didn't invent Tesla.
	He raised the money with his investors and bought Tesla and kicked out the original founders.
	Yeah, he's good at that.
	Yeah.
	SpaceX, he took a lot of cast-offs from NASA.
	He saw that wide open.
	Yeah, that was a shoe-in.
	You know, a lot of these guys, you have to say, what is their real talent?
	Their real talent, you always have to get beyond what it looks like.
	Like, one time I was in France with a friend of mine who was driving me and Mimi around to Paris.
	I mentioned, what do you think the French are really, what is it that the French are best known for?
	What are the French really good at?
	They're so good that they're the best in the world.
	And I'm thinking what he's going to talk, agriculture maybe?
	Wine growing?
	I don't know.
	And he surprised me with the answer and as soon as he said it, I said, absolutely.
	Civil engineering.
	The giant sewers, the high-speed rail, the roads.
	The first time I went to France, I noticed the roads were no potholes, unlike our roads, especially Highway 80 out here, which is just loaded with potholes.
	No potholes in France.
	No potholes.
	So I'm thinking that Musk's real success is from human resources.
	He knows how to hire people.
	Yeah, I think he does.
	Yes, probably does.
	He's one of those guys.
	And I don't know too many of them.
	I'm not one of them.
	But I know the guys who are really good at hiring by whatever mechanism they use.
	They're very successful.
	It's a very successful.
	The two of us, our best success is just doing something simple.
	But, you know, not hiring a bunch of people.
	It's a pain in the ass and it's hard to figure it out.
	That's a very astute point.
	Sucks.
	Totally blows.
	Totally blows chunks, man.
	So I do have a couple of thoughts.
	I don't see so much of that with Peter Thiel or Omidar.
	I mean, Omidar's intercept operation is a disaster.
	He had good people.
	He had Matt Taibbi as one of the early founders.
	He had Glenn Greenwald.
	He couldn't keep him because he hired some losers that got in there and screwed it up.
	And that's a real problem too.
	Hiring the woke.
	Hiring the woke is bad.
	Hiring the woke is not a good idea.
	So I think we now have enough information.
	When the stories come out, we can just view this from afar and we don't have to get... Yeah, no, I think you're right.
	I think we've got the information we can... everything can be put into this kind of box that we've created and we can just... now the only question is when are they going to do an IPO?
	And I did have other thoughts briefly about Mastodon.
	Because, you know, the Mastodon, we use it for noagendasocial.com.
	And it seems like, and maybe someone has done this, maybe I'm just unaware of it, but it seems like there could be a very easy, in fact, I found something today, or someone sent me this, it's called Pinafore.social, Pinafore.social.
	And what you do is you go to it, and it's just on the web.
	I don't think they have an app, but that's not the point.
	The whole point is it's a web-based interface.
	You put in noagendasocial.com, and then if you're using a browser that you used with No Agenda Social before, it'll pop right up and say, hey, will you authorize this app to access your account?
	Which I, of course, have done.
	And then it gives you a whole...
	So you go to pinafore.social, it gives you a whole interface on top including, in settings, you can do all kinds of changes to the interface, the way it looks, you can add hotkeys or even wellness settings.
	Which are designed to reduce the addictive or anxiety-inducing aspects of your social life.
	Choose any options that work well for you.
	Hide follower counts.
	Hide boost counts.
	Hide favorite counts.
	Hide unread notifications.
	Show abusive timestamps.
	All kinds of... So what you could do is use the same type of interface.
	And why wouldn't you just give someone an algo across the entire Fediverse?
	So, you know, you could have like, oh, you log in and you're still getting your people.
	But the algo is doing what Twitter does, you know, puts angry people up the top.
	So you do it.
	I mean, all these great things.
	It could be across all these instances.
	It seems like that's what people are missing is where do I go for my for my hit?
	You know, it's like this chronological stuff instead of algo is just not giving me what the juice that I need for no agenda nation.
	We know that this is obviously this very healthy and we're happy with it.
	I also, as I was thinking about this, which seems like probably pretty hard to do, do you know what was really good back in the day before Twitter?
	And it was the same across every mass communications mechanism.
	And I think probably CompuServe had the best, because they had their CB, which was their community bulletin boards, but of course it sounded like a citizen's radio.
	It was called CB simulator for a reason.
	Yeah, like it was a CB radio.
	Yeah, but it's the same as Usenet groups and bulletin boards and forums.
	We had topics.
	So, why wouldn't, I mean, why wouldn't you just have, like, I want to go, you know, adult!
	Remember that?
	Oh, you had to be 18 or older.
	You couldn't just get into the adult room.
	Yeah, and you can be sure that no kids under 18 were in that room.
	Never got in.
	Never got in.
	Never.
	But that was the beauty of it, that made it cool.
	And also, politics.
	It would be, oh crazy, this is where you go and you fight and you yell.
	Wouldn't it make sense to just go back to something like that instead of one... Isn't that what Reddit kind of tries to do?
	Yeah, very successful.
	I would say, yeah.
	I guess you're right.
	Except Reddit has, you know...
	I don't know.
	I left Reddit when I left Facebook, years ago.
	So I don't know.
	Anyway, if anyone wants to do something cool, maybe you can do something, do an algo if you want to.
	And you'll see that he's going to sell different algos.
	Oh, do you want your happy algo?
	And you know, you'll get your happy thing, your laughter on Twitter.
	Oh, that's coming.
	But really, it's about one thing.
	We know now.
	There we go.
	Now, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in chunks of Chinese space junk.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeMora!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to all the trolls in the troll room.
	Hello, trolls!
	Uh, notice...
	Notice for our trolls, I guess something changed?
	On how the, if you go to trollroom.io, somehow, some browsers no longer, you get the stream, but some browsers are no longer showing the box to log into the troll room.
	We're trying to fix this, obviously.
	There's a direct link so you can get to it that way, if you want to.
	Now, why would you want to do that?
	Well, you have no life, or you hate your job, or you're so good at your job, you just want to hang out.
	And do other stuff because you're just an autopilot.
	Or maybe you're a troll.
	It's all very possible.
	So that's where the trolls go.
	And they listen to us live every Thursday and Sunday.
	There are... Stop!
	Is it possible that that's the reason for the lagging numbers?
	This was suggested to me.
	It is possible.
	It is possible.
	I wouldn't say a bunch, but yes, I would say it could thwart some stream starts.
	Yes, definitely.
	And also, maybe they're just tired, you know?
	They're trolls.
	The time difference got them off.
	They're feeling weird.
	I don't know.
	Let's see how many we have in there.
	Hands up there, trolls.
	Let's see how many we got.
	It's Sunday.
	Let's see what we got going.
	1981 for today.
	1,981.
	We're not even cracking twos anymore.
	we got going.
	1981 for today.
	1,981.
	Not even cracking twos anymore.
	Yeah, it should be 2,200.
	That's the number it should be.
	Maybe they're dying off.
	I don't think so.
	I don't know.
	They can't get on for some reason or something because there's no reason for the drop-off.
	Yeah, I love your analysis.
	You're probably right.
	Well, I got to figure this out.
	And by the way, we need a great TrollRoom.io webpage anyway.
	So if anyone will make a great webpage, host it somewhere, put the elements in, you know what they are, I will point TrollRoom.io to you, as well as NoAgendaStream.com.
	Make it something nice.
	You can do it.
	That's how we roll here with our value for value model.
	It's not just about the treasure.
	It's the time and the talent that people can give us.
	It's the boots on the ground.
	It's the professional reports like our anti-money laundering specialist.
	It's artwork.
	It's all kinds of things that you can do.
	And as we just discussed, you can follow us in the troll room, but also at knowagendasocial.com.
	And we're still open for new signups.
	Well, it's probably running out because everyone's just going to Mastodon.
	We can't be with the evil Twitter.
	Well, welcome to the party, everybody.
	Signup.noagendasocial.com Let's thank the artists for episode 1500.
	This was the big one.
	It was a great celebration.
	We had a really good time, really appreciated all the well wishes, even though we couldn't read any of them on the show.
	And we're still recovering from this, but we're getting closer.
	The biggest problem is make goods and And really, people who enter as much information as they're allowed into the PayPal notices, or the bank transfer, or on the check, they're the ones who, it rarely goes wrong.
	Email is just, it's so broken also.
	Yeah.
	So give us a month and we'll have it all straightened out.
	So don't start complaining yet.
	But remind us.
	Remind us.
	Remind us in one month from now.
	No, remind us as we go along so we can get into the system.
	We really are working on this.
	I mean, we have to do this because we have to have answers when the next podcasters come along surpass us and don't want their value for value model to break in front of their eyes, which is kind of what happened with the feedback loop.
	Thank you for all sticking with us and thank you Nico Syme for bringing us the artwork for episode 1500.
	I don't know what it was.
	It was something about just the artisticness.
	I like the Curry Dvorak subdued nature of the art.
	We were not not that important, which I like because of course we're celebrating 1500 episodes of all of all the producers.
	You know, we're just, you know, we're just your cruise guides.
	I mean, there were so many.
	There were lots of 1500s.
	There were too many.
	Of course, there were too many.
	Not that we're complaining about it.
	But there were too many.
	This was the one that stood out the most.
	We talked about it.
	A lot of people liked it because it was 70s-ish or something.
	I don't know what it was.
	It grabbed us.
	And we looked at all these pieces and we finally decided that was the one that we could live with.
	There was like, I liked the mouth, the open mouth.
	Yeah, Capitalist Agenda, that was kind of cool.
	It was a little small.
	It was very pretty, but it was like, you know, whatever, okay.
	That's exactly how the meeting went.
	What's the point of the mouth?
	It was, 1,500 episodes was way too small for it to be visible as art.
	There was one, the one you like, as usual, you put an altimeter on there and Adam likes it.
	Well, that's what Darren O'Neill knows.
	No, that was Rick Harris.
	Interesting.
	And I always nix it for various reasons, mostly Adam's basic reasons.
	You can't read anything on there.
	The basic fun thing about whenever you put an altimeter, because it's not the first time, the discussion always goes like this.
	And I know, it's okay.
	But just so you know, you don't have to do altimeters anymore.
	John will say, Yeah, I can't read anything on this compass.
	I never said that, ever.
	Yes, you did.
	You said compass.
	You said the compass thing.
	I said, that's an altimeter.
	The compass.
	So, you know, there you go.
	That's why I'm the pilot.
	I'm the pilot.
	I'm going to start taping.
	You're just making it up as you go along.
	I'm going to tape these conversations.
	Exposure.
	And now another one.
	The one below it.
	Exposure.
	We both liked it, but it's like, who needs this mess?
	I mean, it's bad enough that the donations were so messy.
	The 1500 episode sign, episodes without an exit strategy, that one?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It did reflect poorly on our professionalism.
	Now, I liked both of the embossed things by Capitalist Agenda.
	They were nice, yes.
	You got the black roundy, which I guess Roger also did a nice one.
	That was beautiful, what roundy did.
	And roundy did one.
	But it was too, I mean...
	Yeah, yeah.
	There was also a Red Wing.
	Dame Kenny Ben did one.
	There's all these people.
	Roundy was the initiator, it looks like, and so everyone else took off from it, because it was classy, and it had a nice quality to it, but not as much as the 70s messy thing that we picked.
	Now, I always like the microphones, but Adam hates them.
	It's so corny.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I'm not going to disagree with the corniness.
	And then, uh... It's not even a microphone we use.
	Nobody uses.
	Yeah, there are some people who use that who are just trying to look cool.
	Glenn Greenwald used one like that for a while.
	Oh, please.
	Sure makes one.
	I bought one.
	It's a piece of crap.
	I bought one of those.
	Why wouldn't it be?
	Sure, that looks like an old-timey mic.
	It's a total piece of crap.
	It looks cool.
	Yeah, it looks cool.
	I did want to say thank you, first of all, to all of the artists, all who have done close to 30,000 pieces throughout the years.
	Thank you so much.
	And, of course, a lot of this is used just for enjoyment.
	People go there and look at it.
	It shows up at No Agenda shop.
	.com on t-shirts, hats, hoodies, belt buckles, all kinds of crazy stuff they got out there.
	Newsletters.
	Another one I should mention, that I did like the 1500 from Dame Kenny Bend with all the references to MK Ultra and the Illuminati.
	That's always a winner, obviously.
	Yeah.
	And, um, I've been doing some work on stats of our show.
	Stats!
	And not how many people are listening, all of that information is bullcrap anyway.
	But it does turn out that a large amount of people use the Pocket Cast app, which is not yet podcasting 2.0 compatible.
	However, I did have a chat with Matt over there at Automatic, and they just open sourced it.
	So if you're interested in adding things like, oh, I don't know, the chapters, so everyone can see the art.
	You can put in a PR, a poll request, and actually add that and be a part of the Podcasting 2.0 ecosystem.
	I gotta keep that in there.
	Our ecosystem.
	And if not, then go to newpodcastapps.com.
	Get one of the apps that does show it, because there's many of them.
	And thanks again, noagendaartgenerator.com for all of our artists.
	And I just want to say a big hello to everybody who we saw yesterday in Luling, Texas.
	Luling?
	Ludding, Texas, where Hometown Meats opened their very first, I guess the Beef Initiative's very first, that's Texas Slim's thing, processing plant.
	They were doing tours and we got to see all their Black Angus cows, which they have hundreds of them.
	It's unbelievable.
	You went on the tour?
	Yeah, I went on the tour and they had the processing plant.
	Did you get to see them kill the animals?
	No, they were not showing the killing, as we call harvesting, or pre-processing.
	The beginning of processing.
	Pre-process.
	That was USDA approved, and of course they work with K&C Cattle, which you got your Texas Slim Beef from, and there were so many No Agenda producers there, it was not even funny.
	Was it supposed to be funny?
	No, thank you.
	That made no sense what I said, you're right.
	I mean, it was very delightful, is what I should have said.
	It was delightful to see so many No Agenda producers there.
	Some people from Philly, some from all over Texas, Arkansas, you name it.
	It was nice.
	It was the cattleman's kill it and grill it.
	It's a good phrase.
	These guys got humor, if anything.
	The ranchers got humor.
	They got humor.
	Now let us thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1501.
	We are still catching up.
	Later we will do a number of...
	Make goods which we're trying to catch on up on from $14.99 and $1500 and We are I guess I mean no, we're delighted to see that some of these 15 15th anniversary 15th well wishes have just spilled over into Into today's show will take a little bit longer a lot of them a lot of we just another long segment However, and we have all these suggestions that are coming in.
	I have one.
	I want to throw out there See what people think Yeah.
	That we only read the notes from the top 10 donors.
	Oh, okay.
	People are giving us suggestions.
	Yeah, possibly.
	I mean, what I see now on today's show, I see the notes are very short.
	Well, note number 8, or line 8, which is note number 9, actually, even though it's from Sir Mark, is long, but it should have been read on the last show.
	Yeah, no, we're doing our best here to fix all this, but anyway, keep the ideas coming, we will figure this out, and thank you to everybody who raised their hand with thoughts and ideas, and we kick it off!
	With Marcel van Dongen in Kiratown, which is, where is this place?
	I gotta expand this.
	Central region, what, Uganda?
	UG, I have no idea.
	I'm thinking that's Uganda.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Let me look it up while you read it.
	Marcel says, congratulations guys.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Shout out to my Dutch No Agenda buddies.
	And next time I will bring more Ivermeme to Holland.
	For a title I'd like to be named Sir Marcel of the Ivermeme.
	Please give any karma necessary to the entire karma world.
	I'm happy to do that.
	You've got karma.
	That's indeed Uganda.
	How far is it from Kampala?
	I don't know.
	You mean Kiritown?
	I have no idea.
	Get a map up.
	Mark Shanka's up and he's in Egan, Minnesota.
	$100,000.
	This donation is for me to become an Insta Knight and for my wife to become an Insta Dame.
	Nice.
	It's still in play.
	I will send a note.
	Feel free to read it on the next show.
	Thanks, guys.
	Thank you.
	Sir Moses sent in a written note.
	Greetings, comrades.
	I hope this arrives in time for 1500.
	This donation amount is 826 with double credit.
	Should put me at barren status.
	Requesting R2-D2 baby making karma.
	Hold on a second.
	I hadn't quite gotten that.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	We got some R2-D2.
	You've got karma.
	Nothing like some R2-D2 karma.
	Maria Triantafilli, I'm thinking, and Mark Butchert.
	Well, no, it's, I think it's with an L. It's, it's either Bucherl or Butcherl.
	One of the two.
	Greenwood, Indiana, 679.
	Based on accounting, I donate 839.40 to bring myself and my keeper into No Agenda royalty.
	Maria, my queen, love of my life, I thank God every day for bringing us together and for our sharing all those No Agenda Live Saturdays, Sundays together at our monthly meetups with our Indy No Agenda family in Indianapolis.
	Happy fourth anniversary, sweetheart.
	Aww, four years and they never had a fight!
	Henceforth, Maria will be known as Dame Maria of the Great Kingdoms and Mark will be Sir Mark of the Crossroads, Warden of the Greenwood.
	I don't know why that's funny.
	Goat karma for everybody.
	Yeah, we got some of that for you right here.
	Service goat coming up.
	You've got... karma.
	Uh, Peter de Vries, or as we would say in Holland, Peter de Vries.
	512, Middleton, Wisconsin.
	Keep up the great work, says Pete.
	That's it, easy.
	I'll hit Mack Vegdal, Vegdal, right after that.
	He's in Savage, Minnesota.
	511.05.
	Uh, de-douche please.
	D-douche, please.
	You've been D-douched.
	There.
	Let me see what he has.
	Wait, wait, wait!
	I wasn't finished reading!
	Oh.
	He says, de-douche, add to the birthday list, uh, for November 5th, uh, so that's, uh, yesterday.
	Request TPP jobs, karma, uh, night name, wife's choosing, will be Sir Matt the Tolerated Round, uh, Sir Matt the Tolerated Roundtable Edition Tattoo-A-Hay, Tattoo-A-Hay cigars.
	And he says, note, congrats on 15 years with the show!
	Jobs!
	Jobs!
	Joe, you've got karma.
	There we go.
	All right, so Mark, uh, uh, Duke of Japan, uh, uh, Japan Sea and the Disputed Islands in Tokyo, 580.
	This came in last week, actually.
	Last show.
	But here it is.
	Dear John and Adam, wow, what can I say?
	Thanks for the changing our lives and filling them with amazing thought provoking content for 15 years and 1500 episodes.
	It never gets old.
	The early shows are pretty boring.
	Simply amazing!
	Having been a producer since day one, I want to mark this momentous occasion by naming my daughter Mila, who is in her final year at school and will be heading to a university in Europe.
	She is simply amazing, too, and I wanted to wish her luck as the decade as she decides where to go.
	In other words, she doesn't know yet.
	And even more luck as she prepares for her final exams.
	Dame Mila has a fantastic ring to it, and I'm sure the title will really help her open doors, especially in Europe, and take her places.
	If you could prepare under John's supervision some of the finest smoked salmon and Iberico ham at the round table, she will be even more... and you got the big holder of that ham.
	I got it.
	You got one of those too?
	She will be an even more avid listener forever.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for your warm, warm friendship over the past 15 years, and of course, thank you for your courage.
	Sir Mark, Duke of Japan, Japan Sea, and the Disputed Islands.
	Thank you very much, Mark.
	And of course, if you want, we'll make her the 1500 producer so that her credit corresponds.
	But if, you know, as always, if anyone challenges her credit, we're here to vouch.
	Curtis Rose in Cedarville, California, 500.
	And Curtis says, what does Curtis say here?
	He will become Sir Geothermal of the Surprise Valley Hot Springs.
	He sounds like plenty of food at the round table to go around, so he doesn't need anything extra.
	Thank you very much.
	Suzanne Tetz 500.
	We have donated before.
	Uh-huh.
	But this is the first note.
	This, uh, we need, thus we need a de-douching and an F-cancer.
	Okay.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Maxim Belusov, Portland, Oregon.
	This is for show 1500.
	Probably a little late, but better late than never.
	We agree.
	Please deduce.
	You've been deduced.
	And please knight me in Portland, Oregon, as Knight Max.
	But we'll do it on the round table here, for sure.
	Take care of you.
	I'll do a couple more here.
	Christopher Willis is in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 500.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you.
	Paul Bowser, 500 parts unknown.
	John and Adam, I've been listening since episode 1300.
	Dedoosh me!
	You've been dedooshed.
	And of course, we continue with our 15th inflation special, so you will be instant-ited as Sir Big Dog of Bowser's Doghouse.
	He has followed you, John, since InfoWorld.
	Yeah, that's a long time.
	He would like, uh, some, uh, what does he want?
	Give me the full load, he says, but he means, uh, whole load.
	He wants a sexy, ooh, China is asshole, uh, and then shut up slave and some goats.
	I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
	Ooh!
	China is asshole!
	Shut up, slave!
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Mr. Brown.
	Another $500.
	Very respectfully yours from Mr. R.F.I.der?
	R.F.I.deer.
	R.F.I.deer.
	Okay.
	Requesting jingles.
	Nun.
	Knighthood.
	You have a nun?
	I don't remember that one.
	Knighthood.
	Sir Alfred, original sinner and edgelord of the Twilight Throne.
	But there's a bunch of weird characters in here.
	Yeah, I don't see that.
	The art and the show mixes, super cuts.
	Thanks again, Mr. RFID-er.
	Okay.
	Christopher Pruce, Bruce, in New Market, Maryland, 500.
	I need a de-douche.
	Yes, you do!
	You've been de-douched.
	I could smell it when you came in.
	My first donation.
	Should've done so when I had more money.
	Am I a producer?
	Yes.
	Am I a knight now?
	Uh, yes.
	With your BOGO 15-year promo?
	Uh, yes.
	Will I be Sir Sprucey USA?
	Yes.
	Thanks for what you do.
	Stay safe.
	No jingles, just jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Mika, or Mika Lovell, $500, no note.
	Peter Smith, $500, who would like to claim the title of Sir Strongbow Longfellow of the Last Frontier, and he would like grilled cheese and tomato soup at the round table.
	I'm gonna go order that right away, John.
	Pick it up.
	Yeah, first, I'm going to interrupt with this note that was scanned.
	You probably have it in there, scanned, from Captain Caveman at 500 bucks that came in last show.
	ITM, happy 15th anniversary and congratulations.
	And we'll put it on the list, the producers list.
	1,500 fantastic episodes, a substantial feat to be proud of.
	Way to go, gents.
	No jingles, just yak karma for all those beings doing positive things in the universe.
	Uh, where's my yak?
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry, where- did we have to put him on the list?
	We have to put him on the producer's- executive producer list.
	Okay, but I don't see his, uh, I don't- I don't see his note.
	Or his, uh, list.
	I humbly request- well, I got- well, I maybe didn't scan, but I got- was in the pile.
	Uh, I humbly request from the peerage committee the knight title.
	Okay, he has to be on the knighting list as Sir Captain Caveman.
	And I don't know what his real name is.
	Okay.
	Well.
	I'll read some more.
	I feel truly honored to have the opportunity to share some of the well-deserved treasure with you and Adam both.
	You two definitely deserve more, but this is the most that I've spent on anything in over a decade.
	Wow.
	And it's what I want to share.
	Well, I would, what I would like to do is have him send in a note with his actual name or something and what he wants.
	It feels a little, uh, so I just, okay.
	Tell me what to do.
	Well, I'm getting, I've got this is a handwritten note.
	Yeah.
	And I've got it.
	Do we have his first name?
	I think he wants to be anonymous.
	Okay, anonymous, and what will his... He'll be Sir Captain Caveman?
	Yeah.
	Sir.
	Captain.
	Caveman.
	Alright.
	He's on there, man.
	No problem.
	I don't want to interrupt you and make it worse, but... But?
	You might like this.
	He wants opium and MDMA at the table.
	Where do you think I am, man?
	Some kind of druggie?
	That's what it sounds like.
	MDMA.
	He says you have everything else covered.
	Of course.
	Don't worry, man.
	We also have a good, cool story about opioids coming up.
	Oh, yeah?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, good one.
	Funny.
	All right.
	Yeah, karma for me.
	Here we go.
	Thank you, man.
	You've got karma.
	And we have Kiski Technical Services 500.
	I'd like to be knight of the hole up knee.
	Hole up hula.
	Hole up key.
	Battling the G.A.
	Wumpke's for top billing.
	I should have given me a little bit of pronunciation guide.
	We've been making the aroma of cooked cabbage a thing for generations in Slovak households.
	I'd like to hit my sister Lori in the mouth.
	That was the pronunciation key.
	Go Wumpke's.
	We've had these on the show a couple last week.
	Last show.
	Oh, Go Wumpke's.
	OK, got it.
	Well, then we're set.
	C.K.' 's up.
	490 Reno, no note.
	Chris Marble in West Springfield, Massachusetts, 444.44.
	And he sent an email in that we don't have.
	Okay.
	Chris.
	Ah, he left me going to this one.
	Witz, Witz, Witz, Witzikowski.
	Ah, Wiener-Zukowski.
	Sarasota, Florida, 43210.
	No note.
	Sean Collier in Henderson, Nevada, 425.
	Thank you for everything, gents.
	This should get me up to knighthood.
	I'd like to be knighted as Sir Sean of the Hydrologic Cycle.
	I would love it if you could have Chicago deep dish.
	Chicago Deep Dish and Kirkland Chianti Classico at the roundtable.
	I've never tried the Kirkland Chianti Classico.
	I've tried the Italian Kirklands on and off.
	I'm not impressed.
	Hmm, interesting.
	A-K in Beacon, New York, 38750.
	ITM, it's A-K.
	This two-for-one thing makes me a knight.
	Accounting upon request.
	Please dub me, sir.
	Yeah, of there.
	Yeah, of there.
	Okay, yeah, there.
	Ararat brandy for the roundtable.
	God loves short notes.
	It's fact.
	It's fact to talk to him.
	David Kotz in Cullowhee, North Carolina, 350, sharing after recent promotion to CIO.
	Well, congratulations.
	This is a two-for-one with my three previous 100 payments.
	Please knight me, Sir Dave of Western North Carolina, Cristal Burgers and Stella Artois.
	At the round table.
	And please give me some goat karma.
	You got it, Stella.
	You've got... You know, this is funny because Crystal Burger, which is a clone of White Castle... Oh.
	Almost identical.
	I don't remember anyone ever requesting White Castle.
	No, he's definitely had White Castles, but never Crystal.
	And I've never, I know because I pronounced it Crystal, like the champagne.
	Yes, you did.
	Crystal.
	I think Crystal, well, it's like, this is like a prompter fail because I'm reading it.
	And I know the end of the line is coming, and it's capitalized K, and I'm like, oh, Cristal Burgers, okay, thank you very much.
	Chris Holloman is in Novi, Novi, Novi, we know how to, Novi, Novi, I know I'm doing this wrong.
	350, that's in Michigan.
	This brings me to knighthood.
	No jingles, just some election karma from my school board race on Tuesday, and please knight me, Sir Chris, or the mortar of the mortar and pestle.
	And we certainly will, and good luck.
	I'm gonna give you a little bit of goat to help you with that, sir.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Daniel.
	Take it, take it.
	Daniel Posselt in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	344.
	Go Packers.
	No Jingles, No Karma with the double credits.
	This brings me to knighthood.
	You got it.
	And does he have a name?
	No.
	We'll do whatever you need there.
	Brandon Toksaka.
	Can I interrupt for a second?
	Just for Daniel's sake.
	Have you guys up in Green Bay ever thought that Aaron Rodgers is actually throwing in the games?
	Just a suggestion.
	What a blasphemy.
	Brandon Tokisaka, Quaker Town, Pennsylvania, 333.69, no note found.
	Michael Sislow in Rotunda, West Florida.
	He says email's on the way.
	We didn't catch it.
	333.34.
	Darren in Henderson, Nevada, also 333.34.
	Please don't use my last name.
	in Nevada, also 333.34.
	Please don't use my last name.
	We didn't.
	Couldn't pass up on this deal.
	This should make me a knight.
	For now, just baby-making karma for me and my hot wife, and health karma for my sister and a new human resource that arrives at the end of the month.
	Of course, we'll give them some goat, that always helps.
	You've got... karma.
	Seems the goat gets the ladies going.
	Fizz Dis... Fizz.
	What a name.
	Fizz Dispense.
	Okay.
	In Unionville, Pennsylvania.
	Fetterman Territory.
	333.33.
	Happy anniversary, John and Adam.
	Please knight me Sir Nitrogen, Lord of Gases.
	Double Up Karma and shout out to the best manufacturer in the universe.
	Fizz Dispense at FizzDog.com.
	Shameless ad expense.
	What the heck is Fizz?
	Hold on a second.
	I gotta see FizzDog.com.
	What is this?
	FizzDog.com.
	I'm guessing it is to make CO2 bottles.
	I'm gonna give him his Double Up Karma first.
	Here we go.
	You've got Karma.
	Fizz Dispense Nitrogen Generators Made Easy.
	Nitrogen Generator?
	It says, Nitrogen Generators Made Easy.
	Interesting.
	Fizz is a boutique manufacturer of nitrogen and zero air generation systems with a broad range of purities and flows.
	Oh, use these in a bar I guess, right?
	Yeah, the nitrogen beer.
	You know, they like to pump and get a bunch of bubbles in there.
	They're useless.
	In the Netherlands, farmers are committing suicide because of the nitrogen crisis.
	And we're just throwing it away.
	We're just throwing it into our beer over here.
	What's going on?
	The world has gone crazy!
	Oh, goodness.
	All right, man, you got it.
	CompuPro.
	MinisterOhio333.33.
	I will send my note via email.
	Didn't get that yet, but you will be an executive producer.
	I caught the reference.
	The CompuPro?
	Yeah.
	It's a reference to an old computer maker from the 1970s.
	CompuPro.
	Yeah.
	CompuPro is out here in Oakland.
	Even before my time.
	Yeah.
	Oh, definitely.
	I'm surprised this producer didn't send it through Pony Express.
	I'm surprised he was able to.
	Actually, it's so long ago.
	It's like older than me.
	Now you're insulting him.
	Older than me.
	Joe Grillo.
	In Ewing, New Jersey.
	You've been there.
	333.33.
	Great show!
	No jingles, just a de-douching, as this is my first donation.
	You've been de-douched.
	Anonymous in Aurora, California.
	Also Colorado, which is where he is.
	$333.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	Did I miss the deadline for double credits?
	No.
	My cheap ass can't pass up a deal like this.
	Okay, Anonymous.
	Sandra Ferreira in Brooklyn, New York, 333.
	Thank you both for hours of information and entertainment.
	Greetings from Brooklyn!
	That's good.
	Love you, Ryan.
	Now donate.
	Herman Stuurman.
	In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3.33 in the morning.
	Gentlemen, congrats on the 1500th.
	Greetings from the Dutch Hotelier, where Adam had dinner with Robert J. Wow, that's a badass hotel.
	I would like to be known as Sir Jan, the innkeeper of Amsterdam.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Keep up the good work.
	Tell me about this hotel.
	It's a hotel restaurant with an outstanding wine list.
	Sommelier, the whole deal.
	Now, if I could only remember what it was called.
	I'm going to have to look it up.
	But I remember the experience.
	It was with Robert Jensa.
	I think we had lunch there, too.
	Lunch and dinner.
	Yeah, I will get you the info.
	Maybe he doesn't want that to be known.
	I'm not sure.
	No, what's the difference?
	Because he doesn't want to be overrun.
	Remember, remember, you know, I'm Adam Curry who just last week played a David Icke clip who has now been banned in the Netherlands from entering the country and the entire Schengen area.
	He is a level 3 terrorist threat.
	What?
	Yes.
	The Dutch, so he was supposed to go and do a speech in the Netherlands.
	You know, he does these tours and he brings in big, big people.
	Yeah, that's how he makes his money.
	He does a bunch of speeches.
	So, whatever they, whatever the problem was, the Dutch, um, it might have been a politician.
	A lizard.
	Well, no, but the press jumped on it.
	He's anti-Semitic.
	What?
	He's anti-Semitic.
	He equates Jewish people with lizards.
	There you go.
	He's anti-semitic, and so he's not allowed to enter the Netherlands.
	A quote, uh, level three terrorist threat.
	Which I don't know what that means, but apparently he's banned from entering the entire Schengen area.
	Is this the country that gave up Anne Frank?
	The Nazis?
	Gave her up, John?
	Didn't they give her up?
	Oh my goodness, I gotta tell you this before we continue.
	Here's some content for you.
	So you remember we were talking about that, we'll get back to donations in a second.
	Remember we were talking about that note, the Atlantic article?
	Yes, we were talking about it.
	Yeah, where it's like the woman She could not bring herself to apologize.
	She said, you know, well, you know, this is what the television was saying, and this is, you know, how everything, you know... Right?
	Right.
	Remember?
	Right?
	You gotta say what?
	Right?
	Right?
	Right, yeah.
	And so in that article it says, we didn't know.
	We didn't know.
	And it's even italicized.
	And I looked it up.
	And the... and I... because I knew it.
	I knew it.
	The Dutch have a saying...
	...which they use starting right after the Second World War, which is... ...which was always a joke about the attitude of the Germans during World War II and the Holocaust.
	...literally means, we didn't know.
	So I just want to point out to this lady that you are literally doing what we were supposed to.
	Never again!
	You are doing again!
	I looked it up.
	I was pretty proud of that.
	Oh, that's enlightening.
	Proud of it.
	Proud of that.
	Lawrence Abel or Abeli, Abeli perhaps.
	Ventura, California, 333.
	Thank you.
	Brandy Lees in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
	Uh, 333.
	Anonymous, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 316.
	And it puts, uh, this anonymous person, over 1,000, request, uh, title, Sir Charged.
	Okay.
	We'll make you Sir Charged.
	Tal Salas, or Tal Sales.
	I would say Tal Salas.
	Stanford, Connecticut.
	276.53.
	Actually, Tal's from Berlin.
	I'm sorry.
	Sending the note to Adam.
	Let me go... I have a feeling I might have missed this one.
	Could you keep reading?
	I'll see if I can find anything from Tal.
	Sean Cavanaugh's up in Manassas, Virginia.
	255.33.
	Happy anniversary.
	A simple note.
	Uh, from a complex guy.
	Kyle Rank in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 250.
	Thanks for your inflation credit special.
	This donation should make me a knight.
	Please knight me and you're on the list.
	Sir... KR of NC, short and sweet.
	Move on.
	Thank you for that.
	Dame Trish of Detroit.
	Trish of Detroit.
	Uh, in Brighton, Michigan.
	Sounds like she's in Brighton, not Detroit, but that's okay.
	$2.50.
	ITM John and Adam, donation toward knighthoods, uh, knighthoods for Steven from Ferndale.
	Uh, he contributes to local sanity, constantly hitting people in the mouth.
	John, please check your NOAA NA social account for a message.
	Yes, we have the offer to do facts for the site, named Trish of Detroit.
	Send me an email, johnatdvorak.org.
	You know, finding stuff, and you might, yeah, you may have DM'd me.
	I don't look at the DM's usually, but I'll go look specifically if your email's in there.
	I'll check that because we did.
	The fact, the fact for the NOAA Genesis show is long overdue.
	So you got ladies sliding into your DMs, huh?
	There it goes.
	Smart money.
	Then we have a 250 and this is a note from Malamalabada Fernando.
	Who is this?
	Malamalabada Bouge.
	Mala mala balaboosh!
	Fernando.
	Fernando.
	In North Richland Hills, Texas.
	I can read this note.
	I got this one somewhere.
	This was handwritten, which is always fun.
	Dear John Adam, apologies in advance for my poor penmanship.
	This donation, scratched off.
	With this donation, I become... He could have started a new note, but no.
	I become Baron Sir... Paper is scarce.
	Baron Sir...
	A Ratonan patron saint of hierarchies?
	I can't see exactly.
	I would like to claim the Mariner Valley as my territory.
	Gotta stake my claim before Elon gets there.
	You bet.
	No jingles, just karma for all.
	And we will see you at the round table, sir.
	Here's your karma.
	Thank you very much.
	You've got...
	I'll do this one.
	It's the one you were complaining about.
	It's so long!
	Hey, my baby!
	Paul Laster is Black Knight Sir Lastro.
	He's from Boverdy, Texas.
	234.56.
	Always fun.
	Hey, gents!
	Hurrah!
	Thank you both for what you do.
	Black Knight Sir Lastro here, breaking out of my regular monthly sustaining pittance for some shameless self-promotion and a rare and noteworthy moment of fame.
	I'm appearing on a new History Channel series.
	Hey, here we go.
	You better have your...
	Your credit's on IMDB, my friend.
	He will be starring in... appearing in Mountain Men, Ultimate Marksman.
	And I'm fairly certain I will be the only bonafide Noah Jenna Knight to do so.
	My particular episode, A Shot in the Dark, will be airing at 8.30 p.m.
	CST on Thursday, November 10th.
	I invite our Noah Jenna family and community to check it out.
	Follow my historical weapons adventures and related shenanigans at my Insta.
	The Orion Foundation, or at orionfoundation.org.
	Special shout-out to my ultra-smoke-and-hot keeper, Melissa, Human Resources, Genevieve, Josiah, Jackson, and Jacob, fellow conspiracy therapists, Thanks, man.
	I think I will watch you.
	So we have a gun expert and marksman?
	Is that what we're hearing here?
	Ryan Foundation Gang, and the irrepressible and inimitable Smothers Magoo.
	God bless you for keeping our amygdala small.
	And our knowledge and skepticism enlarged.
	Paul, many rifles.
	Laster, Sir Lastro, Black Knight in Boberde Tejas.
	Thanks, man.
	I think I will watch you.
	So we have a gun expert and marksman.
	Is that what we're hearing here?
	One of many.
	Yeah.
	In fact, the most critical would be the No Agenda audience.
	You better not make any mistakes.
	They'll be on his case.
	Yes, they will.
	They'll be on your case, baby.
	And we move on with Darren.
	Who is, uh... I'm just trying to move my little cursor here, sorry.
	Darren, uh... Blocklinger.
	In Pacific, Washington.
	23369.
	And his first donation needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he needs karma for the loss of his 14-year-old niece in a car accident on October 8th.
	Oh, goodness.
	This is some... Oh, God bless, man.
	You've got karma.
	Last on our big list is Anonymous222.22.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	I'm tired of being a douchebag.
	Please de-douche me if you have any left.
	You've been de-douched.
	You got lucky.
	Sure did.
	Congrats on the 1,500 episode, Milestone, and many thanks for all you do.
	Cheers and onward.
	Now we have our secondary list, which we'll read names and locations and amounts.
	Hold on a second.
	Um, I was thinking we just get out of this now and go, but you, you said our regular format was returning in the newsletter.
	I did?
	You did.
	So with that, that means we're done with this segment and we, uh, come back.
	If you want to go all the way through, we can do all, we can go all the way through.
	I did?
	Yes.
	Yes, you did.
	At least in the draft you did.
	Oh, interesting.
	Well, let me see.
	Well, I mean, what do you want to do?
	I... Now you've confused me.
	I think what we're... I think... So easily confused.
	I think we have a little more content.
	Okay, let's go back to the show.
	And we'll do these names and locations and we'll wrap them off.
	It's a small number so it's not crazy like last time.
	So we can do that.
	Okay, good.
	We have a couple of make goods which we'll get to as well.
	The make good list is longer than this list of people, yes.
	I'm going to blow through it.
	We're not doing jingles.
	Because if you can't fit your... This is my rule.
	If you can't fit what you want into the message, or if you can't get the message to us, I'm not saying it's your fault, then that's just the way it is.
	New rule.
	We will gladly read it and make do, but we can't, we just can't.
	until we have a better system.
	New rules.
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	Shut up, slave!
	I have just an offbeat clip for starters.
	This is a talk, one of my TikTok touches.
	There's some guy, girl, they, them, I'm not sure because it never says, never says.
	I don't want to figure it out.
	Walking down the street and he's got a theory about genders and the whole thing is bullcrap because it's been, it was Western civilization that created the whole gender scam.
	It's a hoax.
	The gender binary is a direct result of European colonization.
	And if we look globally and historically throughout the world and the ways that people have existed and talked about gender, the idea of there only being two genders is a new concept that is directly linked to white supremacy.
	Okay.
	I think NPR should be scouting over at TikTok.
	To catch guys like this, he's got the voice.
	Perfect voice, got the voice, got the right attitude.
	I think we should get him in for a sound test.
	Yeah.
	I'd like to.
	I'd say.
	NPR's doing some groundbreaking stuff these days, John.
	I'm not quite sure why, but I mean... Ah, you're poaching my territory, I see.
	Am I?
	Am I?
	Is this the... Well, I don't know.
	It's okay.
	I didn't get anything, so you're welcome to it.
	Well, I'm only going to play a little bit because it's not safe for my ears.
	This patient is not one of the patients you heard before.
	She's asked that we not use her name.
	She's from Michigan.
	She already has one kid.
	She's having her abortion at about 11 weeks.
	Nearly all abortions in Michigan are before 13 weeks.
	And like many patients at Northland, she said, So what they did is they recorded and they played an entire abortion.
	on the table and we're going to do that sedation medicine.
	- Okay. - I'm going to pull this out under your leg. - So what they did is they recorded and they played an entire abortion.
	And you hear, why?
	That is in fact the question.
	Why?
	I can only think it's to normalize it.
	I don't even really want to listen to the rest of the report because you hear the mother moaning a bit, you hear the vacuum suction.
	They're doing the abortion and she's under just local anesthesia.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	You want to hear a little more?
	It's pretty disturbing.
	No!
	Yeah, I think it's to normalize this.
	I'm really unsure why they're doing it.
	I want to send my tote bag back to them.
	I'm so outraged.
	Nasty, isn't it?
	So I got a clip.
	Yeah, nasty for sure.
	I got a clip because I've been looking and looking and looking.
	As you know, I'm a big fan of Al Sharpton and he just has not flubbed.
	He just hasn't made much flubs.
	Yeah.
	So I finally got something here.
	I got a 12 second and we can throw into pile.
	Really?
	It's not as good as Resist Rematch, but it's pretty good!
	On the defensive is whether it includes in the turnout who it includes, who it does not include.
	Are the specific voters the party needs?
	It's not that good.
	I don't even know what he's saying.
	That's good that he doesn't know what he said.
	What is he doing?
	What is he doing?
	I don't know.
	America... Oh, wait!
	This is... This is... I'm so glad I stopped myself.
	This has to be played and has to be understood and I can't believe even that this is a thing.
	I had to look it up.
	The clip came in this morning.
	I had to stop and am I hearing this correctly?
	On the heels of, I believe it was Friday, where yet another huge fine for CVS, and I believe Walgreens, For basically being pill mills.
	For processing way too many opioids.
	For handing them out like candy.
	Let me see, do I have that report still?
	This is the report, just 21 seconds.
	Breaking overnight, a major settlement stemming from the opioid crisis.
	Bloomberg reports Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens have agreed to pay around $12 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits from state and local governments accusing them of mishandling the painkillers.
	Opioids are blamed for more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S.
	in the last 20 years.
	Okay, so even though this is a faceless, nameless corporation, and no executives or anyone making any decisions gets in any trouble, Lord knows where the money goes to, this $14 billion, but you would think... It's always been your complaint.
	Based upon what we know about the opioid crisis, you just heard 500,000 people have been killed by illegal use of these drugs.
	What would make sense for our lawmakers or policy makers, maybe more accurate, in Washington D.C.
	regarding the prescription of opioids?
	What would make sense knowing that There's overprescription going on and these companies have actually contributed to it and they're paying a fine and kind of getting off without any, you know, not much issue.
	If you were a policymaker, what would you want?
	Me.
	Me personally.
	You personally.
	Yeah, I'd find the CEO, I'd get the CEO, give him a big hefty fine and throw him in jail for 10 years.
	How about moving forward?
	Would you want legislation?
	Would you want tighter controls on opioid prescriptions?
	Not if I could get a lot of money from all these CEOs and see them in jail, I wouldn't change anything.
	Well, they didn't.
	They didn't follow your advice.
	Your advice is don't change anything.
	Well, the CDC actually did change.
	We're going to start with a major move by the CDC to battle the nation's prescription drug crisis.
	The agency actually softening its guidelines yesterday.
	What?
	For doctors who prescribe oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.
	CDC says the new guidelines are designed to ensure that patients can get compassionate and safe pain care.
	It's the first time the CDC has modified its recommendations since 2016.
	So we have an opioid crisis.
	So this was just...
	So what you're doing here is you're presenting us with a switcheroo.
	You're going in one direction and these douchebags went in the other direction.
	I read from the press release information.
	The previous guidance from CDC succeeded in reducing inappropriate and dangerous prescribing, some experts say.
	So that was CVS, you know, and Walgreens, and so the guidance was helping to slow that down.
	The new guidelines are designed to ensure that patients get compassionate and safe pain care, you see.
	Now they won't prescribe, these same guys won't prescribe ivermectin under any circumstance, but this is okay.
	Right?
	Yes.
	Right?
	Yes.
	You see, the problem is because of the strict guidelines they had, which were so strict that it cost billions of dollars for CVS and Walgreens and others who were over-prescribing them, but they were so strict that it was only $14 billion in fines.
	This maybe fits into your thesis.
	We need to have a lot more of this going on, so we're going to relax the rules.
	Here are the relaxed three points.
	CDC no longer is suggesting trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.
	So the CDC previously recommended, do not stay on opioids longer than three days.
	Yeah, otherwise you get addicted.
	Now they're dropping that recommendation.
	To ensure compassionate pain care.
	Point two.
	The agency is dropping the specific recommendation that doctors avoid increasing dosage to a level equivalent to 90 milligrams of morphine per day.
	So that means they're not going to tell doctors to increase dosage levels to an equivalent of over 90 milligrams of morphine per day.
	More smack for you, children!
	And finally, for patients receiving higher doses of opioids, the CDC is urging doctors to not abruptly halt treatment.
	These are drug dealers with drug dealer motives, drug dealer rules.
	They do not care about you or your children.
	They care about money.
	And this is...
	And this is the NBC Today Show.
	We're going to start with a major move by the CDC to battle the nation's prescription drug crisis.
	The agency.
	To battle the nation's prescription drug crisis.
	To battle the nation's prescription drug crisis.
	The agency actually softening its guidelines yesterday for doctors who prescribe oxycodone.
	The way she presents it and the facts of even within their own presentation are contradictory.
	to ensure that patients can get compassionate and safe pain care.
	It's the first time the CDC has modified its recommendations since 2016.
	Wow.
	The way she presents it and the facts of even within her own presentation are contradictory.
	Yeah.
	You know, I would, we've only done this a couple of times, but I'm not going to do it today.
	But I'm going to give you a borderline clip of the day for digging that one up.
	Well, you could have given me two clips.
	No.
	No.
	No, not today.
	I'm just not in the mood.
	But I'll tell you this.
	I'm not in the mood.
	I'm in the mood.
	So that woman should be ashamed of herself, this woman.
	That was Savannah Guthrie.
	Yes.
	How about not just that woman, how about the whole industry?
	It's crazy!
	I am listening to that with sane ears, and my brain goes, this does not make sense!
	We need to combat the opioid crisis by easing the rules.
	Don't worry.
	More than three days is no problem.
	Go over 90 milligrams of morphine equivalents.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's good.
	Death people are death people.
	Death cult.
	Death.
	No, is this the CDC or the FDA?
	CDC.
	Yeah, this shouldn't even be in the business.
	That should be shuttered.
	Well, this is going to kill more people, I'm kind of convinced.
	Yeah, they're a bunch of ghouls, I think you used the word earlier.
	Ghouls, ghouls.
	Two more I've got here that I want to get rid of.
	New issue with the elections, of course we have elections in the United States on Tuesday, midterm elections.
	Oh man, we're all jacked, we're all jitty.
	They're going to spend...
	In total, I think, what is the number now?
	It's almost as much as the drug dealers had to pay in fines.
	Here it is.
	The total is $17 billion.
	Including candidates, super PACs, PACs, and advertising.
	Advertising.
	That's where a lot of the money goes.
	Advertising.
	$17 billion.
	Expected to far exceed the record set in 2018, which was $16.7 billion.
	Okay, here it is.
	Largest spenders will be super PACs.
	A lot of it goes towards advertising, which is why, just a reminder, it's a close race!
	It's neck and neck!
	In Fetterman's case, really neck and neck.
	What can we do?
	And a lot of people are anxious.
	And finally, you're not alone if you're stressed out about the upcoming elections.
	You're now with some tips for dealing with election anxiety.
	The internet agrees.
	Election day is so stressful.
	Is election anxiety forcing you to hide in your closet until this is all over?
	No, that's ridiculous.
	Are you running somewhere?
	I'm running away to try to escape the country.
	The hashtags election anxiety and election stress racking up more than 20 million mentions on TikTok alone.
	Anxiety is the number one diagnosis in our country right now.
	Anxiety is number one.
	More than two-thirds of American adults said Election Day is a significant source of stress in their lives, according to a recent survey by the American Psychological Association.
	So is election stress disorder real?
	Really what it's describing is the fear of the future.
	But in this case, that stress is focused on a specific event.
	You may be doing a lot of what I call doom scrolling.
	You're just sucked in by all the negatives.
	You also may be so deep in the social media that your head is spinning.
	The Mayo Clinic lists symptoms of election-related anxiety as tension in the shoulders, upset stomachs and headaches, and sleep issues like tossing and turning and worrying.
	Or if you just eat a burger at McDonald's.
	If you feel distressed and you're just downing a lot of alcohol, believe me, that won't help.
	Oh, please.
	If you feel distressed and you're just downing a lot of alcohol, believe me, that won't help.
	Instead, reach for some old-fashioned...
	What kind of advice is this?
	It does wonders.
	The doctor's advice.
	Yes, it does!
	If you feel distressed and you're just downing a lot of alcohol, believe me, that won't help.
	Instead, reach for some good old-fashioned H2O.
	It sounds a little funny, but always drink water when you feel anxious.
	Water does improve our concentration.
	Water is more settling.
	And if things start looking bad for your candidate or your party as results roll in, But I want you also to get moving.
	You will process information a little bit differently and a little calmer if I can go for a walk.
	Go for a walk!
	There you go.
	Anxiety, that is our epidemic.
	Well, we noticed this a couple of shows ago.
	This is starting to show up and NPR is talking about it incessantly and they're blaming both the Republicans.
	Trump!
	Trump And then we've heard inflation.
	By the way, The Guardian reporting that the UK government is running a war game or a tabletop exercise.
	No, they actually say war game.
	Whitehall officials have war-gamed program Yarrow.
	Y-A-R-R-O-Y.
	What is a Yarrow?
	Let me look up Yarrow.
	No, you keep talking.
	Okay.
	Yarrow.
	A blueprint for coping with outages for up to a week.
	The Guardian has seen documents marked official and sensitive which warn that in a reasonable worst case scenario all sectors including transport, food and water supply, communications and energy could be quote severely disrupted for up to a week.
	So a week with no subway service in London, no power in London.
	Is there any way of investing in looting?
	Is there some stock or something?
	Because this is what we're talking about here.
	The town of London will be looted.
	Yeah, maybe.
	I mean, it's not going to be pretty.
	It's going to be looting.
	That's what you do.
	That's what you do, maybe.
	That's what we do out here when there's a power goes off in San Francisco, like after an earthquake or anything, when the power's down.
	Dude, you guys... Looting.
	You guys, you guys loot all, it's like, it's a pastime.
	Up to $950, you're doing it all day.
	Looting.
	You can't, what are you talking about?
	Yarrow is a flowering plant with anti-inflammatory effects.
	That has been studied for wound healing, digestive disorders, and more.
	All I know about Yarrow.
	Why would you call anything Yarrow then?
	That's kind of... Because the exercise is healing.
	Program with a double M-E-E-R-O.
	All right.
	Anyway, so that's the direct result of the energy crisis, and of course a crisis because, you know, it's not stable, that fossil fuel.
	And Putin, Putin, Putin has made everything go up.
	And so we have inflation, we have shrinkflation, but now NBC brings you skimpflation.
	There may be a surprise waiting for you at the grocery store.
	Some companies are substituting ingredients in their products, often with cheaper ones.
	It's called skimpflation, and it's stopping shoppers in their tracks.
	Yeah, it seems unfair.
	It's so hard to say up to date on exactly what's going into your food.
	An anonymous survey of 300 large food and beverage brands showed that nearly two-thirds of them reformulated at least six recipes, 90% of them citing higher ingredient prices.
	Often water can be added, and we also see basically a shifting to what are less expensive ingredients, from sugar to high fructose corn syrup.
	Take a look at these two packages of Smart Balance Margarine.
	Look at the front.
	They look identical.
	Same weight.
	Oh, I see it.
	In very fine print.
	In the bottom left-hand corner, this one says it's 64% vegetable oil.
	percent vegetable oil.
	This one says it's 39 percent vegetable oil.
	And it's leaving customers with a poor taste in their mouths.
	Some writing, how to destroy a great product.
	New formula is not an improvement, and just simply, gross.
	So you gotta... Hold on.
	Hold on.
	Yeah.
	This is a report you got from a news source?
	NBC.
	What was the product you're talking about?
	Uh, margarine.
	Margarine has...
	Marcia, it's all oil.
	Yeah, but what they're saying is it was 69% vegetable oil, and the rest would be seed oil, and now it's 39% vegetable oil, and the rest is canola, seed oil, industrial sludge, you know.
	Bullcrap they didn't want.
	They want to put it in your body.
	And it's cheaper.
	It's dirty.
	They're putting high fructose corn syrup in.
	This is an attack.
	Actually, this is genocide, the way I see it.
	It's genocide.
	Yeah, that's the way you see it.
	They're killing people.
	They're killing people.
	Do you have anything else?
	Yeah, I got some John Paul clips.
	John Paul?
	Yeah, John Paul, Pierre, Van Damme, Kareem Abdul.
	Oh, groovy!
	Yeah, you want to do those now and then we can get to the final donation?
	Yeah, let's do them now because we're never going to get there.
	We're never going to get there.
	We'll never get done here.
	Alright, what you got?
	I think we had a clip from her on her last press conference, which was last Wednesday, but I went back and listened to the whole thing and there's some good stuff in there that we're not catching.
	Let's listen to this one.
	This is JP.
	She starts off her presentation with a long lecture about how the elections are important and it's a threat to democracy if you don't vote for Democrats.
	And then she, of course, during the, somewhere in the process, she says, you know, I'm not here to be, I'm not, I don't do political speeches on here because it's illegal, but I'm going to do them anyway.
	So let's listen to this one.
	This is JP under salt.
	Okay.
	As you all know, the president has long talked about our nation being at an inflection point.
	He has been clear, clear, clear.
	Democracy is under assault and we cannot pretend otherwise.
	She said under salt.
	Democracy's under salt.
	It's under salt.
	We have to be very careful.
	I wonder if it's under sea salt.
	It might be Florida's cell.
	That's kind of expensive.
	Oh, goodness.
	Okay.
	Okay, here she is.
	JP2 continues.
	The president will continue to call attention to the threat to democratic integrity and to public safety posed by those who deny the documentation.
	So if you listen carefully, it was a threat to democracy, which is the meme that's going around by everyone.
	I always highlight it.
	Threat to democracy.
	Threat to democracy.
	Yes.
	I guess the word got out that we can't say that anymore.
	It's on the ballot now.
	Now it's on the ballot.
	Because it's so stupid, but she can't not say it, so she almost says it and then she switches.
	So start it over and listen for that.
	The president will continue to call attention to the threat to democratic integrity and to public safety posed by those who deny the documented truth about election result and those who seek to undermine public faith in our system of government.
	Unfortunately, we have seen mega, MAGA Republican officials who don't believe in the rule of law.
	They refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections, and they fan the flames of political violence through what they praise, and what they refuse to condemn.
	Both parties.
	Both parties.
	He states strongly and unequivocally that violence has no place in our democracy.
	He believes other leaders of both parties on both sides have a responsibility to communicate this very clearly as well.
	The president has been emphatic and optimistic that Americans care about protecting our democracy.
	He has consistently talked about the fact that America has emerged stronger from some of our darkest moments.
	And today, there are far more Americans of every background and every belief.
	It almost sounds like she's reading a children's book, doesn't it?
	She's getting to the end here, and it's far away, in a land where children could believe.
	America has emerged stronger from some of our darkest moments.
	And today, there are far more Americans... Look at that, right there.
	Far more Americans... Totally, you nailed it.
	...of every background and every belief...
	See Spot run.
	See Spot be Joe.
	See Joe run.
	And today, there are far more Americans of every background and every- See Joe sniff Janes.
	And today, there are far more Americans of every background and every belief who reject the dangerous path of political violence than accept it.
	The president will continue to speak about the challenges facing our democracy and his enduring belief that America will persevere.
	Oh man, how tedious was that Jean-Pierre?
	Pretty bad.
	Now here she is, the last clip is a two-second clip of her trying to pronounce, pronounce, trying to pronounce the word philanthropic.
	Philanthropic, philanthropic leaders.
	Kind of sucks when your setup, when you stumble over your own words is the setup, John.
	Good try.
	Philanthropic?
	Philanthropic?
	Yeah.
	Does she know what it means?
	It's a theme for our show.
	I like it.
	I also have a super cut.
	This was stolen from Tucker's show.
	They're harping on the fact that Republicans have got nothing to do... The Democrats are running on a concept.
	Threat to democracy.
	It's an idea, it's got nothing to do with anything.
	It's on the ballot!
	It's on the ballot.
	And the Republicans are just harping on crime.
	And this is no good because the Republicans haven't got any new ideas.
	So here we go with the supercut on crime.
	There's a major concern surrounding the racist rhetoric that often goes hand in glove with the law and order messages.
	Republicans are pulling out all the old fear and loathing playbook, trying to scare voters about crime.
	They're not concerned about voter safety.
	They just want to keep voters scared.
	They have now turned to a strategy that sensationalizes crime, that weaponizes crime, and that racializes crime.
	The other guys play the crime card relentlessly and shamelessly.
	It's got racial elements to it.
	Let's just call that for what it is.
	The type of crime that scares Republican and independent voters the most to make them believe that crime is skyrocketing, that America is a hellhole.
	And the thing is, it works.
	Dystopian, nakedly racist video, preferably grainy security cam footage featuring, almost exclusively, black people committing crime in big cities.
	Clearly, this is major news.
	This is a former president of the United States getting subpoenaed.
	While this huge news event was breaking, what was Fox News airing?
	Crime, crime, crime.
	Crime, inflation, immigration.
	That's all they do all day, every day.
	Just going right to the fears of the American people.
	We saw J.D.
	Vance harping on the issue of crime and linking it to things like illegal immigration.
	Those are the types of issues, the things that drive fear.
	They're just coming straight out, and especially during election time.
	We see it's the caravans again, it's the fear of immigrants.
	They were scaring suburban white women with caravans coming to their neighborhood.
	You turn on Fox News any time of day, any day of the week, there are three messages on repeat.
	The border crisis, crime on the rise, and inflation.
	Oh, goodness.
	Hey, so we might as well just discuss it real quickly right now.
	What do you think?
	Tuesday, we don't have a show until Thursday.
	Will this be the red wave?
	Will we see... What do we see happening?
	Will the Republicans recapture the House and the Senate?
	I think they'll recapture the House pretty effortlessly.
	The Senate, I think they're going to grab the Senate by maybe two seats.
	With Fetterman in?
	Come on.
	I don't think so.
	I mean, Pennsylvania's stupid, but they're not that stupid.
	But come on, for the show.
	If Fetterman got in, it would be great for the show, but I can't make predictions based on what's good for the show.
	I could, but I wouldn't be right.
	I don't see Fetterman getting in.
	I say Fetterman gets in.
	I think Pennsylvania is insane.
	I think it's insane.
	They put such a focus on it.
	They need to show that Joe can carry a state.
	That may be the reason that they focused on it, that you brought up early in the show, that why Pennsylvania?
	Why Pennsylvania?
	Maybe it's just because that's the only state they think they can do.
	And I would say they will do everything they can to make sure it happens.
	Which means they rig it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's possible.
	I'm not going to say, I won't be stunned if he wins, but I will say this.
	I would like to, I'd love to be watching the probably CNN less so than MSNBC as they freak out.
	By any Republican that takes a Democrat out of the picture.
	We have taken all of Tuesday off.
	Not only just to vote, but to make sure we are watching the freak out in real time.
	It'll be fun, no matter what it is.
	But I say Federman by the nose, by neck, by nose, whatever.
	He'll win!
	By the neck, by the bulge on his neck.
	I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah!
	On No Agenda!
	And, in fact, we have a few people to thank, and we're going to both share these duties of reading their names, starting with Adam.
	Scott Barrell, Barrell, Barrell, 166.50.
	Parts unknown, but he's in the military.
	We appreciate his support.
	Scott Smith, Noblesville, Indiana, 166.50.
	This, of course, is because they will become executive producers because of the double up, so we'll make sure that you do get the credits.
	Surplus in Voorendal, the Netherlands, $1.65.
	Jason Babcock, Henderson, Nevada, $1.65.
	Andrew Spieler in Brandon, Missouri.
	Leveland, Texas, Jessica Barrett Fowler is there and sends us $1.65.
	Kendrick Hobbs, $1.65 from Pace, Florida.
	We have Tim Del Vecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania, $1.65.
	American Democracy, LLC!
	161.40, this is definitely taking people to different levels, so we're happy that this is happening.
	Sir Andrew Vecchi, Matthews, North Carolina, 133.
	These, of course, up until 100 will become associate executive producers for today's episode.
	David Wicker, my buddy in Jacksonville, Florida, 127.13.
	They're a beautiful family.
	Sir Sander Huxbergen in Zaandam.
	A row of sticks, or dicks.
	1-11-11.
	Gents, with this making-it-rain tribute to Bambi.
	Just days before the 5th of November, a special day for me.
	Birthday for my twin daughters.
	And I'll reach level of Duke of Switzerland!
	That's pretty badass, actually.
	Duke of Switzerland.
	Really?
	We'll see in a moment, Sir Sonder.
	Jason Petri in Rock Springs, Wyoming, who will become a knight today.
	Sir Al Soran, knight of the wire phone.
	And John will pick it up at the 100s, which will also be associate executive producers for today.
	Yeah, Colin starts us off in Lincolnston, North Carolina.
	Talia, that's 100.
	Talia Douglas in McKinney, Texas, 100.
	Brian Aguilar, Aguilar.
	In Bellefontaine, Ohio.
	Wayne Hyman in St.
	Petersburg, Florida.
	These are all 100s and so is Rowan Pike Erickson in San Jose, California.
	Kerry Jackson wraps it up with 100 from Watertown, Tennessee.
	Then we go to Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna.
	Lover of American boobs, as usual.
	He's in with 8008.
	Sarah Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, in Cantersbury, Kent, UK, 7474 from her.
	Wyan Cartini in Torrington, Connecticut, 7421.
	Critical Bandwidth in Nashville, Tennessee, 60.
	Baronet, Start a Bart Fast, Start a Bart Fast.
	John, hold on one second.
	I need to go back to Sarah Hubert's or Hubert's note.
	Uh, did you notice that this note is cut out in the shape of a pig?
	It was scanned and sent to me.
	And she, in fact, she says, uh, thank you for doing the work, keeping me sane.
	I love the show.
	Please de-douche.
	We should actually probably honor.
	We can honor that.
	Let me, uh, let me just give her the, uh, the de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	It's number one on the scans.
	It says, I'd be chuffed.
	I'd be chuffed if you glance at my murals at dancing.
	Dancing Decor?
	Dancing Decor?
	Decor?
	Decor?
	Decor.
	Dancing Decor.
	D-E-C-O-R dot com.
	And she says, in case you were wondering, this paper's made from cow dung.
	Oh yes, the cow dung donation.
	Hold on a sec.
	Oh, you got me started now.
	You got me started now.
	Cow dung donation!
	Cool.
	That was all?
	Yes, it was the talk of the town when it came in.
	The cow dung donation, the paper made from cow dung.
	This is what they've resorted to in the UK.
	That's part of the war gaming, the tabletop exercise.
	We'll have no electricity and we'll write on paper made from cow dung!
	No worries, we've got it covered, gov!
	Thanks, Sarah.
	That was great.
	You're welcome.
	Oh, Sarah.
	I'm sorry.
	Thanks to Sarah.
	Not you.
	Unless you're Sarah.
	Who knows?
	Why don't you read on from Stardy Bart Bass, because I never pronounce it the way you do.
	Baronet.
	Yeah, Baronet, Slartibartfast in Hope.
	Slartibartfast, that's... Rhode Island, 52, 42.
	Double nickels on the dime, Brian McFadden in Hampton, Virginia.
	John Monaco, double nickels on the dime in Highland Heights, Kentucky.
	Sir Tom Derry, Deforest, Wisconsin, 55, 10.
	Torrey Funderburk.
	Funderburk, Funderburk, Spokane, Washington, 55.
	Michael Gates, 52, 80.
	Michael Belcher in Yuba City, California, 51, 50.
	We know what that means.
	Lock me up!
	Preston Roberts is in Morgan Hill, California, 50, 33.
	Congratulations and happy 1500th.
	This donation is for my sister, Tiffany Kilgore.
	It is her 40th birthday around the sun.
	We'd love to get a special birthday mention shout out on your birthday list.
	Thanks for all you do.
	You got it.
	Sir Sergeant Postal, Miami Lakes, Florida, 533.
	And John, you can handle the 50s.
	Yeah, we're starting with Matthew Janiszewski in Chicago.
	Sir Matthew.
	Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas.
	Villarreal, Villarreal, who I believe is somewhere in Texas.
	Philip Kuzmanowski in Austin, Texas.
	A lot of Texans.
	Jonathan Ferris in Liberal, Kansas.
	Matthew Smith in Colchester, Suffolk, UK.
	Ryan Tiernan in North Providence, Rhode Island.
	Patrick Cannon in Cranford, New Jersey.
	And last on our great list is Sir Brett Farrell, who I believe is an OKC.
	I want to thank all these people for helping make this show a possibility and a success.
	Now the make-goods.
	Hopefully he won't do too many of these moving forward.
	We'll do more and we'll spread them out.
	So anyone who needs a make-good, you'll get one later.
	Ben Truman says, long time coming.
	Sadly, I was binned off PayPal for unknown reasons way back.
	Binned.
	Binned.
	Very British.
	Haven't got around to organizing this knighting since.
	I'm an uber douchebag for not getting around to sorting it out or contributing since.
	Can you knight me, Sir Truman?
	De la zush!
	And can I have a scotched egg and a sticky toffee pudding with custard for the round table?
	Oh, now I'm confirmed he's a Brit.
	Nasty.
	That's nasty sounding.
	Actually, scotch eggs are quite tasty.
	I don't like scotch eggs.
	Jason Schiffer, with your generous offer to double this 500 donation, and our most recent monthly donation, I and my smoking hot wife, Akko Schiffer, achieve knight and damehood respectively.
	You have been a light in the darkness for us both.
	Curry and Dvorak forever!
	Please dame her, Dame A. Bell of the 455 Shades Pixel Art Club, and me, Sir Lee of the Polymath Engineers.
	At the round table, she would like...
	Tonkotsu Ramen, Okon... You think it's funny, don't you?
	Okonomiyaki, and Pantone, and whatever.
	I can't... These roundtable requests, you're doing it to mess with me, I know.
	You're doing it to show off your culinary skills, and I'm never going to be able to pronounce all of this.
	N.A.
	Texas Slim Cowboy Ribeye, medium rare, with a bottle of New England Barrel Company straight bourbon whiskey.
	Do you think... I think people think it's funny when I run out of breath.
	You know, I never thought about it, but it is kind of funny.
	But that's what they're doing it for.
	They're doing it to... Hey, I know.
	Well, that's for this crazy, complicated thing!
	Because, you know, it's what we do.
	It's because they got time over there.
	These guys got time to do all kinds of stuff.
	That's an interesting thesis.
	No, it's to show people how... It's virtue signaling.
	I think you can show people what kind of lungs you got.
	You can yak and yak and yak, it seems to me.
	I'm telling you, this is... This is virtue signaling.
	Look how cool I am.
	I know, I know.
	I'm not afraid to say it.
	But of course, he will also have a bottle of New England Barrel Company straight bourbon whiskey.
	You got it.
	Congratulations.
	Andrew Echternacht.
	Good evening, gentlemen.
	Great 1500th episode.
	What a chaotic amount of knights and dames.
	Adam, you were correct by saying I was supposed to be knighted during the episode 1500.
	I would like to be knighted, sir.
	Andy Drew, Knight of the Southwest Minnesota Archers.
	Not sure if this makes me a Black Knight now or not.
	I don't think it's entirely fair to do that for the 15th anniversary, Meshuggahs.
	Thanks for everything you guys do.
	You kept my head on straight for the past year and a half.
	I've been listening to you.
	Thank you very much.
	You bet.
	Matt Shellnut.
	He just hit 1-0-0-1 with his donation for show 1500.
	And he says, probably lost in the sea of notes.
	No big deal.
	Just knight me Sir Matthew Shellnut.
	And Scott Riley's note.
	The latest donation, 300, makes him a knight.
	Thanks for your generous double crediting.
	I'd like to be known as Surveyor of the Fantasy Realms.
	No karma, but if possible, I'd like to hear Chemtrails jingle.
	I'll find that for you later on.
	Sir Donald Earl Mills of Make Good.
	Earl Mills.
	Make Good.
	Congratulations on 15 years of media deconstruction and entertainment.
	I've been with you the whole way from show number one.
	I know I've known of John since the Computer Chronicles on PBS.
	I was just watching that the other day.
	And as a listener on the Daily Source Code with Adam, thank you for all these years of sanity.
	My current night name is Sir Donald Earl of Mills.
	With this double donation, it puts me over the top to Baron.
	I've skipped over the gay-sounding baronet.
	I would like to change my knighthood to Surfer Baron of the State of Jefferson.
	Hoping you never find an exit strategy.
	You got it.
	David Chaney, congratulations, thanks for 15 years.
	My donation October 30th was missed in the credits, it seems.
	If it was truly missed, please credit it.
	On the next episode, I'm okay if it goes being missed.
	I'm happy to support the show uncredited, but I do appreciate getting the credit.
	Thank you again.
	Did I get my credit?
	You did.
	Michael Sean Becker.
	John and Adam, thanks for the last 15 years of keeping us sane in an insane world and everything you both do between No Agenda, DHM Plug, Podcasting 2.0, MoFax, Curry and the Keeper.
	I was understandably missed on show 1499, the craziness of the week.
	I would like to be knighted Sir Michael of the Burbank Junction.
	If there's any time, can I get an R2D2 karma at the end?
	I would love to help out with scaling the system.
	I think this is another area that shows outside of No Agenda could benefit from as well.
	Yes, shows could benefit if we figure it out.
	Wes Olson says, you definitely do not have to read this on the air.
	Thank you very much, Wes.
	And you, of course, will become a knight with that double up.
	Mike Turek, in the morning, this is a 50-50 donation.
	The first half is for Tim Hertig.
	His knight name would be Sir Maestro of his own symphony.
	The second is for myself, Mike Turek.
	My night name will be Ellie Fonts.
	And I have tools.
	We'll travel.
	Wait.
	L.E.
	Fonts of Have Tools Will Travel of the Nomads.
	All right, thank you very much.
	Owen Preda, or Preda, from Streetsboro, Ohio, would like to be knighted as Sir Wicked Buzzkill to match my Xbox Gamer tag.
	You got it.
	Brendan Flemmer.
	No note, but we did get a note from Brendan Takash.
	Happy Halloween to the best podcast in the universe and the graveyard of podcasts.
	Now we're gen... It's the shining mausoleum on the hill.
	With your generous treat of a double donation credit, I finally achieve nightmare-hood.
	I would like to be known as Sir Spooky of the Elm Streets.
	I request Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog at the round table.
	Oh, there's an original one.
	I appreciate that.
	I have newt.
	I have newt.
	And let me just put this in, I got it.
	You got plenty in the Texas hills.
	Along with toe of frog, I tell ya.
	And let me see, did we get them all?
	Yes, that was it.
	Those are the make goods.
	Thank you all so much for supporting.
	So far.
	Yes sir.
	No, we'll do many more, that's okay.
	We're looking forward to it.
	We're looking forward to hooking everybody up.
	Helping everybody out.
	And if you'd like to learn how to do this, go to... A general go-karma to satisfy everybody's needs.
	You've got karma.
	We've got Mac Vegdal, Vegdal, who's celebrating November 5th, Sir Sanda Hawksparriken, who says happy birthday to his beautiful twin daughters, and Preston Roberts, to his sister Tiffany Kilgore, turning 40.
	Well, happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	T-t-t-t-title changes!
	Turn and face the slate!
	Title changes!
	Don't wanna be a student, Indeed, no douchebaggery.
	We've got title changes for Sir Donald of Mills.
	He'll become Sir Furr, Baron of the State of Jefferson.
	Sir Ratonan, Patriot Saint of Hierarchies, becomes Baron of the Mariner Valley, Mars.
	Sir Moses, Baron of Parts Unknown, and Sir Sunder Hawksbaker becomes Duke of Switzerland.
	Congratulations, and thank you very much for the extra support of the best podcast in the universe, the No Agenda Show.
	We love you very much for it.
	It's time to talk to our knights and dames who want to be up on the round table today.
	Last week's blade, I still have it.
	It's still shiny.
	Oh, that's beautiful.
	All right, then.
	Time to bring up a whole bunch of knights and dames.
	And I will do, uh, the knighting with the- with the names, uh, simultaneously.
	So, uh, I am very proud to pronounce the KD as... Ouch.
	Ouch.
	Ouch.
	Really hurting.
	Here we go.
	Uh, Maria Trafiantifili.
	Triantafili becomes Dame Maria of the Greek Kingdoms.
	Arco Schiffer, Dame A. Bell of the 445 Shades Pixel Art Club.
	Millia becomes Dame Millia.
	Mark Bucherl becomes Sir Mark of the Crossroads, Warden of the Green Knight.
	Tim Hardick, Sir Myself's Own Symphony, Black Knight.
	Mike Churick, Sir Leigh Fonse of Have Tools, Will Travel of the Nomads, Black Knight, he says.
	Ben Truman, Sir Truman of La Souche.
	Michael Sean Becker, Sir Michael of the Burbank Junction, Surveyor of the Fantasy Realms, that's for Scott Scott Riley, Matt Shellnut become Sir Matt Shellnut.
	Andrew Ector Knox, Sir Andy Drew, Knight of the Southwest Minnesota Archers.
	Jason Schiffer, Sir Lee of the Polymath Engineers.
	Matt Vegdahl, Sir Matt the Tolerated.
	Curtis Rose, Sir Geothermal of the Surprise Valley Hot Springs.
	Texas Slim, no, that's not, it doesn't belong there.
	Maxim Bellasue, Knight Max.
	Paul Bowser, Sir Big Dog of Bowser's Doghouse.
	Mr. Brown, Sir Alfred, Original Sinner and Edgelord of the Twilight Throne.
	Christopher Pruce, Sir Sprucey USA.
	Anonymous, Sir No One the Great.
	Peter Smith, Sir Strongbow Longfellow of the Last Frontier.
	Kiski Technical Services, Knight of the Hole Up Knee, Sean Collier, Sir Sean of the Hydrologic Cycle, a.k.a.
	Sir Yeah of There, David Cox, Sir Dave of Western North Carolina, Chris Hallman, Sir Chris of the Mortar and Pestle, Daniel Posselt, Sir Daniel Posselt, Darren becomes Sir Darren, Fizz Dispenser, Nitrogen Lord of Gases, Herman Stuurman, Sir Young, the Innkeeper of Amsterdam, I look forward to seeing you again, brother.
	Anonymous in Virginia, SirCharge.
	Kyle Rank, SirKRofNC.
	Jason Petri, SirAllSaron, KnightOfTheWirePhone.
	Christian Andrew, Black Knight, SirChristianCoffins at DarkDocs.com.
	And anonymous becomes SirCaptainCaveman.
	For you, we've got Hookers & Blow, Rentboys, and Chardonnay also on deck.
	Tatuahe, Cigar, Some of the Finest Smoked Salmon and Iberico, Ham, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, Opium and MDMA, Toh, Kotsu, Ramen, Okamiyapitaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptaptapt All right.
	Brandy.
	Kristallburgers instead of Artois.
	Rubenes.
	Ruben and Rosé.
	Bong.
	It's a bourbon.
	Sparkling.
	Cider.
	Nesquik.
	Ginger ale and gerbils.
	And of course, Martin and me!
	Go to noagendernation.com slash rings to let us know exactly where to send your knight or dame ring, which includes the wax to seal your very important correspondence.
	I love receiving those little stamps on the back of the envelope that I get in the P.O.
	box.
	It's so cool.
	And, of course, the Certificate of Authenticity.
	And thank you again for becoming knights and dames of the No Agenda Roundtable for our 15th anniversary!
	No Agenda Meetups!
	It's like a party!
	And no meetup reports for today other than the Denver meetup report, which is the Mile High Huey Huey.
	Great success last Thursday in Denver, Colorado.
	Roughly 20 attendees.
	How about that?
	And if you'd like to know where you can hang out for meetups in the coming week, and I do want to say, especially after COVID, after lockdowns, get back into life.
	Go to one of these meetups.
	It's good for your spirit.
	And I would have to say, having been to a lot of no agenda meetups, if you feel you're introverted, on the spectrum, Asperger's, incel, messed up, you don't like how you look, go to these meetups!
	You have no idea!
	We're all like you!
	It's amazing, especially if you're interested.
	You will find that many people will want to talk to you.
	They get it.
	We all understand we're all messed up.
	For some reason, these No Agenda meetups have zero commercial interest.
	It's all producer-driven.
	Bring this kind of love and understanding to No Agenda Nation.
	So you have to go check one out.
	You can go today.
	Well, you're too late for today in Dublin, Ohio.
	It's probably already over, the Central Ohio meetup.
	4 o'clock Central European time, also today.
	It's over!
	De Heeren van Berg en Dal will get meet-ups, I'm sure, from the Dutch crew in the Netherlands.
	On Monday, though, the No Agenda Don't Tell Your Parents meet-up, 5 o'clock Eastern, the Food Court and West Town Mall, Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Really, people?
	We're meeting in food courts.
	And on Thursday... That's hilarious.
	The next show, The Big Easy, hooey-hooey, in New Orleans, 5.30 at Finn McCool's in New Orleans.
	There's a Nathan's.
	Again, you will, your life will be enriched by going to one of these.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one, start one yourself.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Drink it all hell to blame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	All righty.
	Oh, yes.
	Hi, brother, what you got?
	I got one ISO.
	End of show ISOs, that's right.
	I forgot, we're already at the ISOs.
	Let me see, where's your ISO, ISO, ISO, ISO.
	Ah, here's his ISO.
	Okay, I'm gonna play your ISO first.
	Hi, goodnight everybody.
	Should be the winner, honestly.
	That is Federman introducing himself.
	I think that should, although he probably should have done it on the last show.
	But, I'll accept it.
	Let me try mine.
	This is why you're not in charge.
	Wait, I have more.
	I have more.
	Transparent information.
	We got a thing!
	No, I think you win by a landslide on that one.
	Okay, I'll take it.
	Even though it's like low-hanging fruit.
	It is low-hanging fruit.
	That's why I used it.
	You don't see me with a selection.
	I just had the one.
	This is a good point and people who do their own podcast need to understand this.
	Sometimes low-hanging fruit is just the place to be.
	That's the way to go.
	You just want to be in the pocket.
	That's just where you want to do it.
	And I would say that concludes our broadcast day.
	I think so.
	We have end of show mixes from the very own...
	I'm Cliff Custodian, Neil Jones, and we have a Jesse Coy Nelson.
	Let me take a look and see what's coming up next on noagendustry.com.
	Oh!
	Oh, oh, oh!
	It's another live show, Battle of the Douchebags.
	This is the final, the final, the final showdown of the douchebags!
	Boobery, Lavish, Kretch, Rob Doo, Sir Bemrose, Tom Starkweather, and as always, Sir Seatsitter.
	It's a bonanza!
	It's a good show.
	It's a great show.
	And I look forward to who's going to be the ultimate douchebag.
	We return, of course, on Thursday with another episode of the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Thank you for being the producers who make it all happen and continue to make it happen.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, Well, it looks like we're gonna have rain and good rain.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash n-a.
	Until then, adios, mofos and such, and hooey, hooey!
	Everybody's going to cut himself a nice fat slice.
	You forgot one detail, Mr. Bigshot.
	You forgot me, the prized stooge of the world.
	Hold on a minute, young man.
	Hold on.
	That's rather big talk.
	We're through deciding anything.
	Get off that righteous horse of yours and come to your senses.
	You're the fake.
	We believe in what we're doing.
	You're the one that was paid the 30 pieces of silver.
	Have you forgotten that?
	You're the big hero that's supposed to jump off tall buildings and things.
	You sit there back at your fake cigars and think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.
	An idea that's brought thousands of them here from all over the country.
	By bus, and by freight, and jalopy, and on foot.
	So they could pass on to each other their own simple little experience.
	Why, look.
	I'm just a mug and I know it.
	But I'm beginning to understand a lot of things.
	Why, your type's as old as history.
	If you can't lay your dirty fingers on a decent idea and twist it and squeeze it and stuff it into your own pocket, you slam it down.
	Like dogs, if you can't eat something, you bury it.
	Why, this is the one worthwhile thing that's come along.
	People are finally finding out that the guy next door isn't a bad egg.
	A thing like that's got a chance of spreading till it touches every last doggone human being on the world, and you talk about... about killing him.
	Well, when this fire dies down, what's gonna be left?
	More misery, more hunger, and more hate.
	And what's to prevent that from starting all over again?
	Nobody knows the answer to that one, and certainly not you with those slammy bollocks-up theories you got.
	Sit back there on your fat folks and tell me you'll kill it if you can't use it.
	Well, you go ahead and try!
	You couldn't do it in a million years with all your radio stations and all your power!
	Because it's bigger than whether I'm a fake, it's bigger than your ambitions, and it's bigger than all the bracelets and play coats in the world!
	You bet it is, John!
	And that's exactly what I'm going down there to tell those people.
	You know I'm a bad boy!
	Don't let me start talking!
	I'm the law, sir!
	You hear me?
	I'm the loser.
	You hear me?
	Because I will bring a light called truth, called truth, called truth, called truth.
	That will expose your skinny butts and your wickedness and your dark shadows.
	You hear me?
	But that still ain't gonna stop me from getting you.
	I'm coming for you nonetheless!
	It is almost election day in New York City.
	Y'all can't vote for the mayor this time, though.
	Y'all are still stuck with me.
	But when you vote for governor, remember, Democrats get stuff done.
	Governor Kathy Hochul passed a regulation to quarantine anybody who got their cooties using the police.
	But the New York Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional.
	They stepped on her swagger like they done did T.O. Mayor.
	But Hochul is appealing so the government can imprison the sick, track down their friends and family, and search their crib and their phone.
	All, of course, for public health.
	And I am still appealing to keep my VAX mandate for city workers!
	That is why me and Kathy Hoku make a perfect team!
	We unconstitutional!
	Please do not make me work with Lee Saladin!
	He anti-mandate and anti-crime!
	Not true!
	Hell, if y'all vote for Lee Zeldin, I'ma have to do too much pivoting and shifting.
	So if y'all still want to be lab rats in a city full of rats run by fat cats, vote for Democrats.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Hi.

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