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	Go back to printing money.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, November 17th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1504.
	This is no agenda.
	Tooting the Fediverse!
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 16.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's talking about FTX.
	Or, or they're not.
	I'm John C. Duborek.
	That was sloppy on all sides.
	Sloppy on all sides.
	So my voice, man, it's like, when it happened last show, my voice is kind of crapping out.
	I'm not quite sure.
	It sounds exactly the way it's always sounded.
	You'll hear.
	Well, except for the constant coughing.
	That's ever since COVID.
	Yeah, it probably is.
	I think that cough just will linger for about a year.
	Or more.
	I remember having a cough once that lasted probably three, four, five months.
	I remember this.
	We were all very concerned because it wasn't just like a phlegm cough that I have.
	It was like you could hear your lungs vibrating.
	I don't know about that.
	Yeah, I do.
	We were very concerned about you.
	We had meetings.
	We had meetings about you.
	So they're having meetings, you know, we're talking about, I've got some FTX clips I'd like to, because I, you know, you brought it up, people, you know, and there's all this thing about the Ukraine involvement, the Democrats getting all the money and all the rest of it.
	But, and there's a, but there's other things and a couple of things are these celebrities who got involved.
	We're getting sued.
	I love it.
	We've talked about them and we both made the conclusion, well, you know, these guys just, they did all these endorsements and they probably just got paid in FTT or some coin.
	Combo, combo.
	So they really didn't, although some of them did invest, but most of them probably didn't invest.
	They just took to, you know, get some free stuff.
	Of course.
	But yes, according to, in fact, there's a big story in today's Hollywood Reporter.
	These celebrities are all getting sued by investors.
	The implosion of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, one of the most powerful figures in the industry, has left investors grappling with the aftershocks.
	How much of this is effectively an empty product?
	FTX's CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, is facing multiple investigations after reports that he mishandled billions of dollars in customer funds, causing the 30-year-old to see his own $16 billion fortune erased overnight.
	Now the stunning collabs reverberating across the trillion dollar industry.
	Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Kim Kardashian and Matt Damon among the celebrities who have endorsed the crypto craze.
	The four simple words that have been whispered by the intrepid since the time of the Romans.
	Fortune favors the brave.
	So does fortune favor the brave?
	For those that invested $1,000 in crypto.com when actor Matt Damon started touting it just over a year ago, that investment is now worth less than $300 today, dropping almost 70%.
	Bloomberg reporting that billionaire Mark Cuban's investment in the Titan token tumbled 99% this August.
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady bought an equity stake in the now-failed FTX.
	You know what?
	Along with Brady, tennis Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, basketball star Steph Curry, and baseball Hall of Famer David Ortiz among top athletes who will reportedly lose millions with the collapse of FTX.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, Moon, slow down.
	You getting into crypto?
	With FTX?
	But no franchise took a bigger hit than the Miami Heat basketball team, who terminated their 19-year, $135 million naming rights deal with FTX, leaving them scrambling for a new sponsorship partner one month into the season.
	That's interesting.
	I have a report, a little shorter, but it has different celebrities, which I think is just interesting.
	Where is this from?
	What outfit?
	I believe that was from NTD.
	This is ABC, so let's see if we can find it.
	Well, yes, they're going to probably slant the celebrities, but I do want to mention the one thing that wasn't in that report and it's just going around now, which is the fact that these same celebrities are getting sued by investors.
	For doing those ads because it was misleading, they were suckering them.
	That's my clip.
	This is a nightmare.
	Listen.
	He is among the A-list celebrities being sued for promoting the failed crypto company FTX.
	What do you think?
	Are you in?
	You know what?
	Last year, Brady and his then-wife, Gisele Bundchen, appeared in this ad for the crypto exchange, which filed for bankruptcy last week after, at one point, being valued at $30 billion.
	And Brady isn't the only big name at the center of the new class action lawsuit, accusing FTX's founder and its brand ambassadors of deceptively targeting unsophisticated investors in what the lawsuit describes as a Ponzi scheme.
	This is Steph Curry, the world's leading expert on cryptocurrency.
	I'm not.
	That's a lot of celebrities.
	It's FTX.
	It's a safe and easy way to get into crypto.
	I don't think so.
	Lawsuit is seeking to recover part of the $11 billion that lawyers claim was lost by consumers.
	One other celebrity included in the lawsuit.
	It's FTX.
	It's a safe and easy way to get into crypto.
	I don't think so.
	And I'm never wrong about this stuff.
	Never.
	Comedian Larry David, who appeared in a Super Bowl ad for FTX, jokingly warning people not to use the platform.
	The big names aren't the first to be sued for advertising crypto.
	Just last month, Kim Kardashian settled with the SEC for more than a million dollars after she promoted a cryptocurrency without revealing that she had been paid a quarter of a million dollars to do so.
	I just want to point out that this is all basically altcoins, shitcoins, call them whatever you want.
	ICOs, although just by a different name, call it an exchange token, it's still an ICO, initial coin offering.
	And this was a problem five, six, seven years ago.
	And Snoop Dogg, lots of people got in trouble for endorsing this.
	Crap!
	So, I mean, who is advising these people?
	I do have some thoughts on that, but... Well, they do have agents.
	Yeah?
	And they have to go through the agent.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
	Now, there's one little interesting tidbit in there, which is the Larry David one.
	He might not get sued because he said, no, no, no, I was telling the truth.
	That's what I'm thinking, because in his ad, he goes, I don't know about these things.
	It was some negative commentary.
	I don't know why they used this ad, I mean, or even invented the ad, I guess, just because, I don't know, it was just creativity, I guess.
	But I wonder if you could sue him, because it's like, hey, here's my exact words.
	Maybe.
	But these other guys are going to get sued, and it's going to be a nightmare for them.
	Yeah, we'll see.
	Maybe that'll get fixed up somehow.
	I don't know.
	I have a couple other things.
	These things linger.
	I have no people that got involved in these sort of things.
	They linger.
	You're in and out of court.
	It's a nightmare.
	I have a few things to discuss.
	I wasn't going to do this now.
	I'm glad you brought it up.
	I got a couple things to do.
	You have any more clips?
	I have one more.
	I don't think it's about this leverage.
	It's just the FTX.
	Oh, what is this FTX?
	Oh, Australia.
	Oh, this is a good one.
	Yeah.
	This is what happened in Australia to the investors.
	They don't have any recourse.
	And the fallout from FTX is hitting Australia as well.
	Thousands of crypto investors there have found themselves in a precarious situation.
	They now face the risk of losing their entire investment following the collapse of the crypto exchange.
	Investors, crypto markets and regulators were all caught off guard in a dramatic series of events that triggered a massive bank run and withdrawal.
	This caused FTX to collapse due to a lack of liquidity.
	The company's bankruptcy proceedings cover FTX US, but do not include the subsidiary FTX Australia.
	It's all going down.
	Everything is going to melt.
	There's a lot more to come.
	It's going to be super fun to watch.
	And there's just a lot of information.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, no, I love this.
	This is what any...
	Toxic Bitcoin maximalist loves to see this or I'll be honest about that But the Sam Sam Bankman freed the character he has said a lot and he's in a lot of interviews just going all out and You know they had It's so much to read.
	They had their own therapist who worked there and lived in the Bahamas and would make sure that they had talking sessions.
	And of course he also prescribed medication when necessary.
	But it was really nobody almost.
	I mean, you know.
	So there's a bunch of jacked up 25 to 35 year olds Living in a $40 million penthouse and these very sophisticated investors.
	I mean, Sequoia Capital, I went through the ringer with Sequoia to get, you know, like $8 million out of them.
	My butt still hurts.
	It's not that easy.
	So, you know, just to be calling people up, there's some either you've got some magic mojo, you've got some Some force behind you?
	Or maybe something else is going on?
	Just one example of one of these where he just talks and talks and kind of covers the Ukraine base.
	Although not inconclusive, but it's fun to listen to.
	I think this is CNBC.
	And this is before the collapse.
	And also the news model is just all jitty over the guy.
	The last time we talked, we were talking about philanthropy and I know you set up, working with the Ukrainian government, ways to use crypto to raise money for the government.
	I just wanted to ask you quickly, because obviously they've also changed the rules, concerns about sort of spillover effects and substitution away from their currency.
	How much money did you raise and what do you think about this as a tool for the governments but also the risks associated with it too?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I think that that gets to the point that this can be a great It's a really messy thing, but I think that at its core, we've seen millions of dollars go through the systems we've given.
	I think something close to a million ourselves as well.
	You've got to just listen to the little bits and pieces, the shards that fly around.
	Well, there's been millions through our system with Ukraine, and while we've thrown in a million, it's just millions running through it.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I think that gets to the point that this can be a great thing for the world.
	I think it can also be a really messy thing.
	But I think that at its core, we've seen millions of dollars go through the systems we've given.
	I think something close to a million ourselves as well to support humanitarian aid and growth in Ukraine.
	I, you know, I think when you think about what it would take to get, uh, you know, to get funds, both to the, the government there, where we do have a relationship with the Ukrainian government, um, for raising capital, for them, using cryptocurrencies, um, that, that runs... So wait, they were fundraising for them?
	This is exactly what he said.
	Now they're fundraising?
	This is so wrong.
	The government there, we do have a relationship with the Ukrainian government for raising capital for them using cryptocurrencies that run through FTX.
	Whether it's getting money to the government or whether it's getting money to individuals that are in need, there are literally tanks outside of the Thanks.
	And this gets to, I think, one of the places where it can be really important to have a fully digital banking system and a fully digital way of handling payments.
	I think that's an international one.
	That's the core.
	Solving problems that have been solved already, but we've been helping to support in Ukraine.
	OK, news model.
	I think it's a healthy conversation to be having, away from some of the noise of digital assets and cryptocurrencies themselves, that the work goes on beneath.
	Sam, great to chat to you.
	Come back soon, please, because I have a million more questions for you, but as always, not enough time.
	Thank you.
	Sam Pakman, pleased to see you.
	Thank you.
	This guy has also, he has this quality, I've seen this before.
	Where people throw in weird shit during the conversation like, What is the point of the comment there's tanks outside of banks?
	What has that got to do with anything?
	Sloganism.
	And they're throughout.
	They're little rhymes, little ditties, throughout the piece, throughout the conversation, that have nothing to do with anything.
	They're fillers.
	And I've seen guys talk like this before.
	It's very strange.
	Subversive.
	MKUltra, trying to program the audience, give you little things to think about, to hold on to.
	I think that's exactly it, to be honest about it.
	I don't know that he's doing that on purpose or it's just a style, but it's a style I've seen before and it's always been annoying to me because, you know, I'm always looking for do believe and things like that.
	So this kind of thing is like, what?
	I'm going to finish this up in a minute, but I need to say one thing.
	Please do not ask me to come on your podcast and explain the FTX situation.
	It's tedious.
	I don't want to even be associated with what happened there.
	The whole thing.
	And here's the one I really despise.
	And this crops up for me and I think it's gotten worse.
	People will ask or post... I've even had... I think it was Tom Woods who asked me this.
	Explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old.
	I really despise that.
	A five-year-old?
	You ever talk to a five-year-old?
	Well, my answer is, you'll understand when you grow up.
	I mean, that's how you explain it to a five-year-old.
	That's actually how you talk to a five-year-old.
	You nailed it.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, it's E-L-I-5.
	That's, you know, it even has a little acronym now.
	Explain it like I'm five.
	And people... I never heard this.
	It's all over Twitter.
	Especially with this one.
	Yeah.
	Explain it like I'm five.
	No!
	Go away.
	Where's your mother?
	But, there is some interesting stuff.
	Use a napkin!
	Good one.
	That's the one right there.
	Explains me like I'm five.
	Use a napkin.
	Very good.
	Now, but I will say this.
	Totally unnecessary to use all those words.
	It's like, I do believe.
	I will say this.
	I do believe I will say this.
	All of this is connected.
	All of these exchanges, Binance, yes, I think even Coinbase is going to have some weird exposure, even though they're a publicly listed company.
	And by the way, I used to purchase my Bitcoin through them.
	I now go through one of the, you know, like River Financials, just a pure, that's all they do.
	They don't do anything else.
	It's all connected.
	I think it's all going to melt.
	It is in meltdown.
	But one of the few times I'll agree with the doomsayer, Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini.
	He's the Black Swan guy, isn't he?
	He predicted the Black Swan event.
	Not that I know of.
	Yeah, Roubini, yes.
	Well, keep talking and I'll look it up.
	Yeah.
	Ruby, R-O-U-B-I-N-I.
	No, I'm just going to look up Black Swan and I'll see who wrote it.
	So there's all these different conferences.
	We have the G20, or if you're Indonesian, the B20.
	I guess they had to do their own signage called the Bali 20.
	And you have the Global Financial Conference.
	There's all this stuff going on as we speak.
	And Rubini was at the crypto session, and he started off with giving us the seven C's of crypto.
	What are the seven C's of crypto?
	Concealed, corrupt, crooks, criminals, conmen, carnival barkers, and finally, CZ was just on the stage right now.
	I was supposed to debate him a year ago here in the AUE.
	At the last moment, he decided to escape.
	He didn't want to be on the same stage as me.
	Guess what?
	Two years before, I debated Arthur Reyes, CEO of BitMax, and a week later he was indicted and ended up in jail because I wrote that he was a crook.
	At your seat, who was supposed to be here just today, Kevin Leary was a paid hack for FTX.
	Good reasons.
	I hope that CNBC is going to get rid of him.
	Unfortunately, this is an ecosystem that is totally corrupt.
	Unfortunately it is, and I think the lesson of the last few weeks is these people should be out of here.
	I can't believe that CZ and Binance has a license to operate in the UAE.
	He's banned in the UK.
	He's under investigation by the US Justice Department for money laundering.
	$8 billion of money from Iran.
	And he's here on this stage, and he has residents in this country.
	The regulators should be thinking carefully.
	That's a walking time bomb.
	I think I was wrong.
	Nouriel did not write that Black Swan did.
	Nassim Talib.
	Different Arab name.
	I don't know if that ticks the Indian.
	Yeah.
	Arab, who cares?
	Who cares?
	Anyway, but he's right.
	All of this stuff is a ticking time bomb and it's all going to come.
	Melting down either quickly or in different ways.
	And we had another, some other thing is failing as of last night.
	You said yourself that you saw evidence of these exact same cycle of, you know, boom bust with these other companies up to five or six years ago.
	Yes.
	I don't think it's going to happen.
	And once this is, it's a slow drip.
	Well, right now it's all connected and everything is super leveraged.
	But let's just go back to what Rubini is saying.
	He's like, He's basically saying, how is it possible that people are allowing this to take place?
	Where are the regulators?
	Hey, the regulators are going after Martha Stewart.
	It's a dated joke, but I still like it.
	We need a new one.
	And as I'm just kind of thinking, I'm like, you know, This is because it's all like this.
	This is how all of Wall Street operates.
	It's all bullcrap.
	It's all corrupt.
	It's all phantom stock and leveraged and, you know, but of course there's bailouts and there's, you know, too big to fail.
	And there's, you know, emergency brakes on things that start to crash and there's halts.
	But it's all just like this.
	That's why no one bats an eye.
	Like, oh, it's cool.
	These kids got it going on.
	The same shit over here.
	Hey, it's a new Wall Street.
	Beautiful.
	We can run this.
	And then I heard this guy, Darren Beatty, on Banyan Show.
	And it fits completely with an extension of what I just said.
	But really, I'd say what you can say about it is this.
	There's some comparisons of FTX to Theranos, the famous scandal whereby some Scam woman pretended to be a nerd and basically swindled a bunch of, you know, old, dumb, former government revolving door figures, including Mad Dog Mattis, who crawled away from his litter box for two seconds to get swindled by a young woman.
	But actually, the right comparison here is not Theranos.
	It's actually Something called BCCI, which is a bank that was set up in the 70s.
	It was full of scams.
	Everyone was scamming it.
	The depositors were scammed, but it wasn't touched for quite some time.
	And the reason it wasn't touched is that part of the people taking advantage of the scam bank were the intelligence agencies themselves.
	And in fact, the CIA used the BCCI bank to conduct various money laundering operations.
	It was instrumental in the Iran-Contra affair and other things.
	And so the BCCI model, I think, is the appropriate sort of heuristic, the antecedent, if you will, within which we can understand not only FTX, but certain other crypto scams that might even have more dire consequences for the crypto community and perhaps the economy at large.
	And so the BCCI bank... You've got a big... You've got... Yeah.
	It makes total sense to me.
	What a great way to do your business and to grow it.
	They were in a growth market.
	I don't know what you mean by it makes sense that BCCI is the analog.
	The intelligence services using... Yeah, but you think the intelligence services... Well, they were the Ukrainian thing in play.
	Yes!
	And God knows what else.
	I mean, alright.
	Unless you didn't come to their rescue.
	No!
	Or maybe it was... Maybe it was tripped on purpose.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it was tripped on purpose and the whole idea was to... It sure got a lot of people.
	Yeah.
	I mean, big names, not, you know, besides the small investors.
	Well, there's a lot of benefit here.
	There's, you know, benefit to discrediting Bitcoin.
	There's a benefit to discrediting lots of stuff.
	There's all kinds of benefits in this.
	We'll see where it lands.
	In the meantime, it also benefits, I guess, the, I think, is it 12 Twelve banks, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who are starting a three-month central bank digital currency trial.
	What?
	I can't believe that's happening.
	I know.
	You don't think it'll ever happen.
	I don't.
	I don't.
	I don't think our public is ready for it or wants it.
	No, I agree with that.
	But the banking system might need it.
	The banking system would like it for sure.
	I mean, it's great.
	It's a fabulous idea.
	Let me go to the G20 for a moment.
	A big gala opening.
	The second speaker on the list for all the elites of the G20 or B20 if you're in your Bali.
	Who could that be?
	Who could we bring in from the elites to sell something to the good people of the G20?
	None other than Her Royal Highness Queen Máxima!
	Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to join with you virtually and to support Indonesia's G20 presidency.
	I thank you for this opportunity to put financial inclusion at the heart of our discussions.
	Oh, there it is!
	You mean... Oh!
	People aren't ready for it, but we need to put it at the heart of our discussions, people.
	These are difficult times for people everywhere.
	Yes.
	And we're all seeking new ways to tackle the challenges before us.
	From COVID, to conflict, to inflation, to climate change.
	By the way, I edited the crap out of this.
	Inclusive finance offers new opportunities to build resilience, weather shocks, and invest in a more prosperous future.
	Okay.
	Now, what does that mean?
	And there's a reason that I'm going to play this clip, because she says certain things in here that triggered me to think about something that's going on in the world that might be related.
	So, we know that she's the High Priestess of Central Bank Digital Currency.
	She has an actual title.
	And she's here to sell something.
	In my work as a U.N.
	Secretary General Special Advocate... This is the Angelina Jolie position.
	I have seen the remarkable difference that inclusive digital infrastructure in concert with digital financial services make for people and small businesses.
	We also need continued commitment to put in place a digital financial infrastructure that is inclusive, safe and equitable.
	Okay, so we need a new financial infrastructure.
	The old one does not work well.
	And I would like to point out, I met this woman.
	I met the Queen.
	I chatted with her.
	I had a nice chat with her.
	She hair-flipped me.
	I need to remind everyone of that.
	My wife never forgets.
	Although, man, bad hair.
	Bad hair.
	She was more interested in talking about Ivanka Trump.
	She didn't say, gee, Adam, what do you think about financial inclusion around the world?
	Which you'd expect at some bull crap cocktail thing, wouldn't you?
	No.
	So, this is all scripted.
	Greater connectivity and digital IDs allow access to financial services for millions previously left behind.
	Fair competition and interoperable payment systems help markets work better for even the smaller scale customers.
	India offers a good example with the India Stack, which combines ID cards... Now, when she said this, What did that trigger for you, this here?
	India offers a good example with the India Stack.
	The India Stack.
	She said India Stack?
	That's what, yes.
	It comes back later.
	The India Stack.
	She's talking about a technology stack.
	Now, we were just talking about the technology stack.
	Yeah, Elon.
	Yes!
	India offers a good example with the... Is that coincidence we hear the word stack?
	Well, you know me.
	No.
	That's not a coincidence.
	I mean, especially from the Queen of the Netherlands.
	India offers a good example with the IndiaTAC, which combines... See, I didn't understand it when she said it the first time.
	IndiaTAC... No, no, it's okay.
	But... No, it's not a word that she should be using.
	It's not a word anyone uses.
	Why is it suddenly in play?
	Because we're at the implementation stage.
	We're ready to bring in the new stack.
	Yeah.
	That's what Elon said.
	Yeah, well, they should bring in a new stack.
	Yes, yes, but the stack, listen.
	India offers a good example with the India stack, which combines ID cards, a payment interface, and account aggregators in one easily accessible platform.
	Okay, so digital ID, payment, aggregators, okay.
	Public-private collaborations are key for innovation and scale.
	Public-private!
	Who is good at public-private deals?
	Who knows how to get the government to pay for his business edits?
	Private-private partnerships that provide services across entire value chains is also crucial.
	Yeah.
	Value chain!
	Value chain!
	Why is she using the word value chain?
	What is she, a Silicon Valley geek?
	Hey man, she's a hip queen!
	Where's the value proposition?
	Where's that?
	Is that going to be in there too?
	I wish she would say, the total addressable market.
	If she did that, then I would poop myself.
	Or even better, the TAM of the stack.
	Suddenly, these SMEs leap forward and connect to larger markets beyond the brick and mortar presence.
	Critical here is the transparency in the collection, sharing, and usage of customers' and SMEs' data.
	Ah, yes.
	Critical is the sharing of the data.
	Who has data?
	Who collects data that maybe would be less interesting for advertisers?
	Fuck them.
	Let's piss them off anyway.
	Most customers grant consent without reading the terms and conditions, which are often long and hard to comprehend.
	Individuals and businesses often do not know the value of the data they create.
	And even if they do... Hold on a second!
	How does she transition from dreaming up this system to everyone being a customer now?
	I mean, we're not citizens.
	What do you mean, we're not?
	How does she get the customer out of the blue like that?
	She went from public to private, from private to private.
	A public-private partnership and then she said, and private-private partnerships are also important.
	Value chain.
	Hello, this is why we're here.
	We're in the value chain.
	And what she's saying now is, but your data is a valuable part of the value chain.
	That's why we're going to have Elon look after it.
	Individuals and businesses often do not know the value of the data they create.
	And even if they do, they find it difficult to assert their rights or benefit from the value in the form of better products or lower costs.
	This is urgent as platform-based businesses... No, it's not!
	Listen, she gives a reason for the urgency.
	This is urgent as platform-based businesses increasingly explore using customers' data footprints to embed financial services in social media, e-commerce and entertainment platforms.
	Now, say it with me.
	Oh, Elon!
	Oh, yeah, it's crucial because we're embedding financial services into social networks.
	Who's doing that?
	During today's summits, You'll be able to discuss all these important issues.
	So, let us ask, how can we finance, design, and govern this digital stack infrastructure in a more inclusive way?
	How can we empower individuals and SMEs with their own data?
	Anne, how can public-private and private-private collaborations further take advantage of these digital transformation possibilities to provide services to the vulnerable as well as enable them to benefit from the digital economy?
	All I hear say is to take advantage of the vulnerable.
	Somehow my brain doesn't... It will require action from all stakeholders.
	Stakeholders!
	Especially the many leaders from the business, policy and financial sectors here today from Indonesia, There you go.
	So, it's an alley-oop.
	So obvious to me.
	I just, I can't help myself.
	It's a, uh, this is an attack on the homeless.
	Oh!
	This is an attack.
	This is a cruel attack on the homeless.
	Oh, do explain.
	Do explain how it's an attack.
	With a digital economy, the homeless can't ask you for a dollar.
	They can't get any money.
	In fact, in Berkeley, it's illegal.
	No, but they're going to have a QR code on their jacket.
	They're not going to have any QR code on their jacket.
	Why not?
	Because there's no way... Jack's gonna get stolen from him, for one thing.
	But let's... Berkeley's had to deal with this because of the complaining citizenry there, which is that... Can I... I'm sorry, I just have to stop you.
	The QR code, if someone steals the QR code, you don't put the jacket on and then magically the money goes to you.
	Doesn't matter, you won't have your QR code, you won't have a jacket, you won't have nothing.
	They'll tattoo it onto people.
	Well that's a possibility, but some people won't want to tattoo.
	Okay.
	But tattooing is one way of doing it, just a number, a number on the arm, a good long number would work.
	Lightning ID, yeah.
	You know, you've seen this.
	This is an attack on the entire world.
	This is a very bad idea.
	Now, Berkeley has a law that does not allow any operation, and it started with one store, to be no cash.
	You have to accept cash, because the homeless don't have credit cards.
	A lot of people don't have credit cards.
	They won't get any of this.
	This is an attempt for mass murder, the way I see it.
	Yes, but it doesn't stop with the homeless.
	I think you're completely right.
	It doesn't stop with the homeless.
	No, not everybody will get killed.
	Yes!
	Hello!
	But of course, this idea of population control doesn't...
	You know, it doesn't work with me because 11 years ago we had 7 billion people, now we have 8 billion people.
	Who mentioned population control?
	I saw it coming down the road.
	Bullshit!
	No!
	You always bring up population control.
	You better be careful with your accusations.
	I never blink.
	This is about enslavement.
	I understand exactly what this is.
	Because what is Ford going to do with 40% less people than it takes to make these automobiles?
	We've got to put a QR code on them.
	They're all going to be homeless.
	Well, I like the idea for a science fiction story there with a QR code on them of all things.
	Because a QR code is a failure.
	You know, they thought it was an early failure and it caught on late.
	Yes, thanks to COVID.
	No, QR codes were in play long before COVID.
	No, they were in play, but they had fallen out of favor.
	You're not going to tell me you don't think they were revived thanks to COVID.
	The whole world started using them thanks to the COVID passports.
	That was QR heaven.
	Menus all of a sudden.
	All of that came back with COVID.
	I don't think it really went that far away.
	I don't think QR codes were dead in the water in 2019.
	They were not being used.
	They were showing them on televisions.
	They have them on television in the lower corner.
	You don't watch enough home shopping network.
	That's your problem.
	Here's the comparison.
	Never mind.
	I'm just talking to a brick wall.
	You are?
	Yes.
	Why do I even bother?
	I'm a brick wall.
	Yeah.
	Brick wall.
	But thank you for making my case for me.
	That's exactly the problem with the central bank digital currency, which will be integrated into Twitter, and that's why Elon doesn't care.
	He doesn't care.
	Yammer, yammer, yammer.
	He doesn't care.
	It's all lined up.
	It's good to go.
	Maybe what they're saying in the, I love this, Germany.
	Germany's stepping up efforts to print cash just in case there's a blackout this winter.
	What?
	What's crazier, what I'm saying or what they're saying?
	Actually, that's pretty smart.
	It's Reuters reporting this.
	Go back to printing money!
	Yes.
	So yeah, they're gonna have cash ready.
	But what are they expecting?
	Seriously?
	They're expecting everything to go black?
	I mean, come on.
	There's no reason for that.
	If he had some control over it, I would put everything into black.
	I'm going to snap them out of this whole idea of, you know, going green.
	Here's a small piece, not even a minute, of a non-politician.
	Besides, well, you know, Queen Moxie Ma is kind of not a politician.
	By the way, that little thing you play with that woman, that woman.
	The Queen.
	Who wrote this for?
	Yeah, I'd like to know.
	I mean, I don't care what leader there is out there, you can't talk like that, like you're some Silicon Valley jerk-off.
	The digital stack infrastructure.
	It just doesn't, it's dumb.
	It's not the way politicians speak, ever.
	Well, I would say that you and I would be more than happy, with the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group, to write her next speech and make it really punch and hit home and be funny!
	She needs some humor in there.
	How about a joke?
	You only need one piece of humor.
	It's hard though because she was on remote.
	She wasn't in the audience.
	It was pre-taped.
	She's nervous about reading English.
	It's amazing she can do all of that.
	And lead the world down a path of destruction and slavery.
	What does she want to know about Ivanka Trump?
	That's what she cares about.
	That's all she wanted to chat about.
	I love New York.
	I love New York.
	I love Manhattan.
	I lived in Manhattan.
	Well, where'd you live?
	56th and Broadway.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, you know, Ivanka, my friend Ivanka lives around there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hang out with Ivanka?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yes, that was our conversation.
	And then the king came back upstairs.
	When was this?
	When I had that special lunch with the king and queen.
	Do you not remember?
	No, I don't.
	Okay.
	Did you get the Marconi Award?
	Right after that, yes.
	Right after that, because I got the Marconi Award.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Yeah.
	And then I, you know, and I had lunch with the king, and then the queen was chatting with me, and then... Yeah, and they were gonna meet up with you down in Austin, I think, at one point.
	No.
	That never happened.
	No, that never... She landed in Austin, got on a bike, rode around, and never called me.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Anyway, so other royalty was there.
	This is just a piece of it, but it's the important piece that everyone probably saw.
	Herr Klaus Schwab, apparently also a very important person to have at the G20 Summit of Politicians and Countries and Nations and the World Economic Forum.
	Of course.
	If you look at all the challenges, we can speak about the multi-crisis.
	An economic, a political, a social, an ecological, an institutional crisis.
	But actually, what we have to confront is a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world.
	And this will take some time.
	And the world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process.
	Politically, the driving forces for this political transformation, of course, ...is the transition into a multipolar world, which has a tendency to make our world much more fragmented.
	You know, you just want to give the guy the hook, but you have to take it seriously.
	I hate this guy.
	I know you do, but let's take apart his words.
	A multipolar world means that we will always be at war with Eurasia.
	I presume something like that.
	The North American Union will prevail.
	Well, let's play the North American Union clips that I have here.
	There's the alley-oop, ladies and gentlemen.
	John C. Dvorak for the hoop!
	Amero, baby, NTD.
	Talk of an EU style of government in the Americas has raised red flags with U.S.
	Congressman Matt Gaetz.
	The congressman wants answers from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
	NTD's Daniel Monahan has the story.
	Mexico's president says he has been holding discussions with U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
	The topic is the possibility of merging the American continent into one government based on the model of the European Union.
	President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Blinken talked about consolidating the North American region and that it is something they both agreed on.
	The Mexican president continued that he is in favor of the unity of the entire American continent, the integration of Canada, the United States, all of the Americas.
	Representative Matt Gaetz sounded the alarm on Fox News.
	I don't want my constituents having to live under the socialist, tyrannical lockdowns enacted by Justin Trudeau Castro while their nephews being poisoned by Mexican fentanyl.
	But that apparently is the globalist order that the Biden administration supports here as they give away our money, and our chance of a brighter future overseas.
	Concerned that Blinken appears to be having such discussions abroad, he sent a letter to the secretary to find out more.
	He asked the following questions.
	One, is it your position that the North American continent should be united by a regional constitution to further the economic interests of its member states?
	And two, is the position of the Department of State that the United States, Canada, and Mexico should become a union of states formed in the likeness of the European Union?
	A spokesman from Gates' office recently said that the congressman hadn't yet received a response from Blinken.
	Do you remember where the USMCA fits into this?
	Wasn't that one step closer?
	The United States, Mexico, Canada?
	Yeah, but in this case, they actually want to bring in most of Central America.
	Oh yeah, right!
	Come on, people!
	And which accounts for the fact that they just opened the border, as though we've already done this, because it's like the Schengen agreement, just come on, yeah, just fly, or go anywhere you want to, even though you can't get into Canada without a vaccine.
	Um, that's part two of this.
	Lincoln traveled to Latin America to attend the Organization of American States General Assembly.
	That is a United Nations-style organization that was formed in 1948.
	At the completion of the summit, the 35 member countries adopted the Lima Declaration titled Together Against Inequality and Discrimination, Deripation.
	During his remarks in Lima, Blinken said in his words, when all communities have equal access to development, all of society benefits.
	Yeah!
	And because more equal democracies tend to be more stable and secure partners.
	The Lima Declaration describes its goals within the diversity, equity, inclusion framework.
	It is a framework that is criticized for favoring diversity over merit and an assumption that white people are inherently racist.
	The Declaration focuses on economic issues, climate change, and bolstering inclusion for minority groups, especially around the world.
	around gender.
	Gender.
	It states that there is a need to achieve significant financing increases in investment from a wide variety of public and private sources.
	It also calls for international development cooperation to achieve diverse, fair, and more prosperous societies.
	American taxpayers fund nearly 50 percent of the Organization of American States budget, which in 2023 is set to be more than $90 billion.
	Regional analyst Orlando Guterres Boranat told the Epoch Times that a consolidated North American region could offer mutual economic benefits and create regional stability.
	However, he says a supranational union of that sort must be based on solid principles of freedom and democracy, not on what he calls the absurd ambiguity towards the tyranny of, for instance, President López Obrador in Mexico.
	Some critics of Mexico's president believe the country's democracy is fragmenting under Obrador.
	They cite the silencing of critics, defunding regulatory agencies, and looting state-controlled trusts.
	The same week Blinken was in Peru, he met with Colombia's newly elected leftist president, Gustavo Petro.
	Petro is a former member of the M19 guerrilla group, which was a 1970s-era Marxist organization.
	They discussed climate action, the migration crisis, and a holistic approach to countering narcotics trafficking Yeah, this is already so there.
	I was just talking to Tommy, our landscaper.
	He was gonna help us with some trees.
	And he was complaining about his pizza not being delivered.
	Finally, an hour late, it shows up.
	And he, of course, being a racist Texan, assumes, are you Mexican?
	Because you didn't speak any English.
	No, Venezuelan.
	I mean, they're already integrated.
	Completely... Venezuelan is cute.
	Yeah?
	I'm from Venezuela.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	Yeah?
	Don't call me a Mexican.
	Them's fighting words.
	Yeah?
	Those fighting words can't do that.
	I'm just saying it's already been together.
	Why does gender go to the top of the list, by the way, with the inclusion thing?
	Why is that at the top of the list?
	It was very clear in there that as far as Blinken's concerned, gender Inclusion is more important than anything else, this gender thing.
	Why?
	Because he's insane.
	He is insane.
	In fact, the whole government is.
	And then what is this holistic approach to drug trafficking?
	What does that mean?
	What's a holistic approach to fighting drug trafficking?
	Total filler words.
	It means nothing.
	I think in this case we'll all look at it and go, well, can we get our peace?
	Yeah, get peace of the action in the drug trafficking stack.
	The drug trafficking stack, nice!
	You know, before we play your third clip...
	This makes total sense with what Chuck Schumer said yesterday, or the day before.
	Now more than ever, we're short of workers.
	We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.
	The only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers, and all of them.
	Because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here.
	Yay!
	Tell me that isn't exactly what the former New York banker said.
	It's all they care about.
	Stacking up people.
	We just as long as... So, you're right.
	I am talking about population, but not in the way you presume it.
	These people, the elites, they want just as many people as possible, but they don't want, you know, smart, educated, integrated people.
	No, they want people who come from a different culture and, you know, can be treated as slaves.
	Hey, you're a slave until we make you legal, so ha-ha-ha, we're gonna hold this over your nose all year long and keep that going.
	That's all they want.
	And meanwhile, dogs.
	Everyone's got a dog.
	Shouldn't we be encouraging having families and making babies and that we might have done 50, 60 years ago?
	Maybe?
	No, it's discouraged.
	It's discouraged by the colleges and universities, by the high schools, by the whole upbringing.
	And maybe that's why gender is so important.
	We want to make sure that we have compatible genders coming in to make more and that they're incompatible with our fluidity.
	All of this seems diabolical.
	It is diabolical.
	The way I'm viewing it today.
	Third clip here.
	That's the theme for today.
	Let's go to part three.
	In Chile, Blinken met with socialist president Gabriel Boric to discuss similar issues.
	Boric has open ties to Chile's communist party.
	Meanwhile, there's another player wooing the United States' southern neighbors.
	China is now South America's largest trading partner.
	With its Belt and Road initiative, the CCP has sunk sizable investments into the region and is now one of its biggest lenders.
	The CCP has built ports, roads, dams, and major power projects throughout Latin America over the past 20 years.
	Hey, do you think this is maybe why, and it doesn't make sense to play because the audio is so bad you have to read it, why Xi publicly humiliated Trudeau?
	Because they're already in, they're taking over, they're getting ready for the Belt and Road extension through the North American Union.
	Did you see that dress down he did?
	I did not.
	Tell me about it.
	I mean, I knew there was a back and forth going on between Trudeau and Xi, there's no doubt about that.
	Now we'll do something that we love doing on the show.
	I will read along live for you.
	It's only one minute long.
	I will read the translator's words.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let me just set the stage.
	So this is at the G20.
	They're kind of hanging out in the lobby, you know, where all the stands are, the booths.
	The booths, like, hey, get your climate change fix here, those booths.
	And Trudeau is just hanging around.
	And Xi comes right up to him, which I don't think I've ever seen Xi come up to somebody and talk to them in their face.
	And he's in his face and he'll look at it, but he won't really look at him.
	He's like talking, spitting at him, and then he turns to the translator.
	Translator starts off, If everything we discussed with them leaked to the paper, that's not appropriate.
	And that's not the way the conversation was conducted.
	If there is a problem, if there is sincerity on your part, Oh, in Canada we believe in free, open and frank dialogue and I hope that that's what we will continue to have.
	We will continue to work constructively together.
	But there will be things we will disagree on.
	And she puts his hands up!
	He's like, hey, shut the fuck up!
	Let's create the conditions first.
	He smiles, shakes his hand, doesn't look at him, walks away.
	And this is the video everyone should watch because Trudeau walks away like he pooped his pants.
	He literally is almost keeling over and he scurries away.
	So what happened?
	Is Trudeau, someone in the Trudeau government leaked to the papers that Trudeau had been a big guy on campus and said, hey G, here at the G20, I told G to go stop meddling in our elections and stuff, man.
	That's what happened.
	So G went up and said, dude, you leaked that to the paper and that's not what went down.
	I found it quite extraordinary, actually.
	The G would do that.
	Well, we'll have to see what becomes of it.
	I know that this was going on because Trudeau has been trying to make hay with his own public by kind of condemning the Chinese, even though they're partners in many things.
	And I guess this ticked off his G. It really ticked him off.
	Meanwhile, speaking of- I was unfamiliar that this little event happened.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, it's pretty cool.
	It's all cool to me.
	It's cool, man.
	Meanwhile- Maybe they'll bomb him.
	Not to be outdone by Hurricane DeSantis, Ron Superstar DeSantis in Florida, our governor Greg Abbott tweeted out, I invoke the invasion clauses of the U.S.
	and Texas constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion.
	I am using that constitutional authority and other authorization and executive orders to keep our state and country safe.
	And then he has a list of what he's going to do.
	We want to hear?
	Yeah!
	Because no one reported on this and it is from his Twitter account.
	One.
	Deploy the National Guard to safeguard our border and to repel and turn back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally.
	Deploy the Texas Department of Public Safety, DPS, to arrest and return to the border immigrants who crossed illegally, and deploy DPS to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity.
	Build a border wall in multiple counties on the border.
	Deploy gunboats to secure the border.
	PT-109!
	Designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
	Interesting.
	Same thing Trump said.
	Enter into a compact with other states to secure the border.
	Enter into agreements with foreign powers to enhance border security and provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the border invasion.
	I mean, that's kind of fightin' words.
	Not much for him.
	I'm liking his attitude.
	I have a little clip here that talks about it.
	He better do something about it.
	He's still bussing people away.
	Here's this illegals to Philly clip which talks about this latest... I mean, I'm gonna put gunboats at the border!
	But first let me bus some of these people to Philly, okay?
	I'll be right back.
	Border Patrol reported a record 2.2 million encounters with illegal immigrants along the border in the fiscal year 2022, which ended in September.
	It's the first time the numbers exceeded 2 million in one year.
	And Texas Governor Greg Abbott has sent his first bus of illegal immigrants to Philadelphia.
	It was scheduled to arrive Wednesday morning.
	Governor Abbott's been sending illegal border crossers from Texas to sanctuary cities to protest what he calls Biden's open border policies.
	He says since Philadelphia's mayor fought hard to get sanctuary city status, it's an ideal place to send people.
	In the past, Abbott's sent buses to New York, Chicago, and the nation's capital.
	He says he'll continue doing so until the Biden administration tightens border security to prevent illegal immigrants from pouring into his state.
	Well, you probably didn't hear with the news this morning, the Republicans now with their swagger.
	They got the swagger because they got the majority in the House.
	Yep, they're not wasting any time, but wasting lots of our time actually and taxpayer money and all the stuff that we want because here it comes.
	We're releasing a report today that details what we have uncovered.
	We're also sending letters to the Biden administration officials and Biden family associates renewing our request for voluntary production of documents relevant to this investigation.
	This is an investigation of Joe Biden, the President of the United States, and why he lied to the American people about his knowledge and participation in his family's international business schemes.
	National security interests require the committee conduct investigation, and we will pursue all avenues, avenues that have long been ignored.
	Committee Republicans have uncovered evidence of federal crimes committed by, and to the benefit of, members of the President's family.
	These include conspiracy or defrauding the United States, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, tax evasion, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit I want to be clear.
	The Biden family's business dealings implicate a wide range of criminality from human trafficking to potential violations of the Constitution.
	In the 118th Congress, this committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden's relationship with his family's foreign partners and whether he is a president who is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence.
	Foreign dollars?
	I want to be clear.
	This is an investigation of Joe Biden.
	And that's where the committee will focus in this next Congress.
	All right, everybody.
	You know what's coming, John?
	Thousands of sealed indictments.
	Where's Joe DiGenova when we need him?
	He'll be surfacing soon.
	He'll be back.
	No doubt he'll be back.
	NBC is all over the place.
	What are we going to do?
	Oh, the House.
	Oh, the House.
	I want to talk about what this new round of sort of this split in Congress means for both parties.
	We know overall it likely means a lot of gridlock, so I want to ask you something specific that maybe we can understand.
	What could this mean for the future of existing committees?
	Like, for example, the January 6th committee in the House.
	Yeah, well that's just one of the things that we expect to change.
	When you look at the slim majority that Democrats have on the Senate side and Republicans have on the House side, you can see how difficult it's going to be for President Biden and Congress to get anything done these last two years of President Biden's first term.
	Okay.
	By the way, the January 6th committee, it should have been done in the Senate in the first place, although I think it'd probably been harder to lock out the Republicans as they did in the House.
	Right.
	Yeah, that would have been impossible.
	But this now is just going to be flipped, and the committee is going to be- Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	Okay, you know, I watched Trump.
	I watched Trump announce.
	Did you watch it?
	I watched it, yeah, I got some clips of you, I got the rundown clip, the Trump running 2024 and a half, a couple of Biden threat clips that came out of the same reporting.
	Well, first, just a general impression about his announcement.
	So, of course, I was disappointed that he did not shake it all up by announcing the MAGA party, America First Party.
	That was too bad.
	I understand his strategy is, all right, you like Ron DeSantis, he's Trump without the drama, so I'll give you no drama.
	And he also gave foreign policy and things that, you know, I don't think DeSantis or anyone else can comment on, certainly not now.
	So uniquely he can do that.
	He was very calm.
	He didn't say anything really about the 2020 election.
	I mean, yeah, but not the drama.
	He didn't call anyone, you know, by their cool nickname.
	So, while I understand that, you get no media coverage when you're just boring.
	That was his whole hook.
	So, I mean, have you really seen a lot of clips of him?
	No.
	All you see... Boring?
	Yes!
	Hyperbole, you got the New York Times editorial board with a pre-written piece that would have read a lot better if he had done crazy shit that night.
	But it didn't.
	It was like, you know, Trump says this!
	It's pretty factual.
	CNN, we fact-checked Trump!
	And when I read the CNN headline, we fact-checked Trump, my heart sank.
	And I felt kind of like, like the air let out of me.
	Like, do we really have to go through this again?
	Will we have other things to do?
	You know what I mean?
	Did you not have any of that?
	You didn't feel kind of tired, tired of it?
	Oh, I've been tired of it before this happened.
	And my argument is, well, I mean, Trump, you know, would, I don't know, maybe catch up with lost time if he got in.
	But the problem with having Trump being elected again is that you can't reelect him.
	So you'd have another one-term operation here, and then the Democrats would probably win in 2028, probably with Gavin Newsom or somebody like that.
	As opposed to DeSantis, who if you put him in and he's Trump-lite, there's no doubt about it, and he could pick himself up a little bit.
	Trump would be nice if it would help him, but he won't do that because he's too prideful.
	But if DeSantis became president, he could be re-elected, and that would push off Gavin Newsom to 2032, or beyond, or if ever, And I think it would be a benefit.
	You can't do that with Trump.
	It would be another one-term deal with the Republicans and it would be a mess.
	And it would also be a mess from all kinds of other perspectives.
	And I don't like this Trump reading from the prompter, and I put it in the newsletter, an analysis of this.
	Trump made a big fuss when he ran in 2016 about Obama's teleprompter and he'll never do it and blah blah blah and now he's like glued to the prompter and he's not a good prompter reader.
	He's dull.
	Obama can orate.
	He switches so obviously and then he just goes into reading mode.
	I agree.
	He's a lousy prompter-reader.
	Obama was a good orator.
	Trump, he won't have anyone coach him on this, obviously.
	And he down-talks in a funny way, and his style is almost somnambulistic.
	It's very tiresome to listen to.
	Somnambulistic?
	Hold on.
	You can't throw that.
	Somnambulistic.
	Look it up.
	S-O-M.
	I'm not a fan.
	I think we've seen Trump do his thing and blah blah blah.
	But let's listen to these clips.
	Hold on a second.
	You don't just throw out your whole opinion and then shut up, Adam.
	Here, listen to some clips.
	Blow me!
	Well, you do that to me constantly.
	No, I don't do that.
	I always let my elders go first.
	Uh-huh.
	Apparently I'm not included in that.
	Well, what I'm seeing, and by the way, as predicted, all of Republican megadonors are certainly being announced as pulling back, for sure.
	Oh yeah, we don't know any of that to be true.
	No, but, well, some of them have come out and said it.
	Everyone's pointed out there's a concerted effort to keep Trump from doing this.
	I mean, there's a very big article and list on CNBC, so I'll take them with some, if they're quoting people, saying, no, no, we're not going to back him anymore.
	It's quite an extensive list.
	Now, of course, he didn't need anybody's money to win the first time either.
	And I'm trying to figure out what the strategy is because this is not the way.
	He's not on Twitter.
	He doesn't have any of that.
	He doesn't have the voice.
	If he's not crazy, they're not going to use clips from him.
	So I'm just trying to now what he's saying.
	I agree.
	I'd say most of what he said.
	I agree with the state.
	Whether he was responsible for it or not, but what happened in a couple years, and the way things were, now I think we were still destined for this inflation, all of that.
	And he kind of weaseled out of the vaccine by saying, anybody who, any government worker, military, who got fired or had to leave for refusing forced vaccination, they should be reinstated with, you know, full back pay, etc.
	So, that's how he's kind of trying to weasel out of that.
	I just don't understand The strategy.
	And, uh, Occam's Razor says he's lost the plot.
	He has the right idea, but he has no way to execute anymore.
	So now let's listen to clips.
	Start with the, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said there.
	Trump running 2024.
	Well, maybe I should put glasses on so I can actually read this.
	Trump running 2024.
	America's comeback starts right now.
	Trump addressed guests at Mar-a-Lago with a sobering tone on Tuesday night.
	He called attention to the current state of the nation under President Biden's administration.
	We are here tonight to declare that it does not have to be this way.
	Trump decried the crisis at the southern border, record high inflation, and violent crime rates.
	In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.
	The former president says he wants to tackle inflation and vowed to immediately reinstate border security policies like remain in Mexico if elected.
	He also promised to be tough when it comes to dealing with China and touted the benefits the country received from the trade war when he levied tariffs against them.
	We were getting hundreds of billions of dollars.
	Many people think that because of this China played a very active role In the 2020 election.
	Just saying.
	Just saying.
	Sure that didn't happen.
	If Trump wins another presidential bid, it would make him only the second president in history to serve non-consecutive terms.
	This will not be my campaign.
	This will be our campaign altogether.
	He described the task as being not for any one individual, but as a movement involving all walks of life, ethnicities, and political backgrounds.
	We love both sides.
	We're going to bring people together.
	We're going to unify people.
	President Biden tweeted out, Donald Trump failed America following the announcement.
	Aides filed the official paperwork with the U.S.
	Federal Election Commission earlier in the day, setting up a committee called Donald J. Trump for President 2024.
	Okay, I have a show note here.
	This is boring.
	The information is good, and NTD does a much better job of anyone else, but I can't, I'm losing my focus of how he's talking, so, and it's, it's not, there's nothing to deconstruct.
	We do need some other things besides NTD.
	Okay, I'm going back to democracy now.
	Here's ABC.
	In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.
	ABC's Jonathan Karl is at Mar-a-Lago right now.
	In fact, he's outside of the room where he was watching this play out.
	I mean, this is a report!
	Jon, this seems rather different from the Golden Escalator speech.
	It's live!
	Can you just describe this announcement?
	Yeah, I mean, first of all, it was a much more disciplined Donald Trump.
	He basically stuck to the script.
	You know, he gave a speech that Republicans, the kind of speech that they want him to give, which is contrasting what they see as the successes of the Donald Trump administration with the problems facing America now under Joe Biden.
	We're a failing nation.
	For millions of Americans, the past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety, and despair.
	As we speak, inflation is the highest in over 50 years.
	When Trump was president, we had low inflation.
	The border was secure.
	America had good relations with China and North Korea and Iran and Russia were in check.
	And now the whole world's falling apart.
	Not really the portrait of reality, but it's the kind of contrast that Republicans would like him to focus on rather than talking endlessly about how the 2020 election, you know, was stolen and all that kind of stuff.
	Let's deconstruct why ABC is doing this.
	They are actually making Trump sound good versus Joe Biden in this case.
	That's bizarre.
	I mean, they could have done a whole bunch of different kinds of coverages, but to say, well, you know, everything Trump said is kind of true, it's not exactly kind of, but it kind of feels like it?
	That was an attack on Biden.
	By ABC.
	I had to think about that.
	It sounded like it.
	But you know, John Carl, who's an anti-Trumper to an extreme, who did that report.
	Is he a spook?
	I don't know, that's a good question.
	I'll tell you why, I'll tell you why.
	So this is a weird thing, take for what you want.
	So I wanted to look, someone sent me the registration of him filing to run for president, and I wanted to see, okay, what's in this document.
	It's one-pager and it says, you know, as a Republican, like maybe there's some weird language in there.
	And then I see this bank.
	The official bank of the campaign.
	And it's a bank in McLean, Virginia.
	Which immediately is like, what?
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	And this is, what is the name of this thing?
	It's run by a guy named Peter Fitzgerald.
	And he has traditionally been Kind of like a dark money type of bank guy.
	He was somehow involved with the Valerie Plame CIA case.
	It's like this joke in Washington, D.C.
	that he has spook money.
	He's in McLean, which is like Berkeley.
	In McLean, Virginia.
	It means a lot.
	And so I was just thinking, just a weird thought.
	What if Trump is going to a different intelligence agency?
	Yeah, gone from defense to other intelligence.
	Maybe CIA?
	Fitzgerald is definitely a Republican conservative dude.
	A fixer, I think, too.
	But that's where all the money's going.
	Well, that would account for the report.
	That's kind of what I was thinking.
	It's possible.
	And Carl could be, because he's very unusual in a lot of different ways.
	So they brought this guy on NTD, and I agree with you, there's less drama to these reports, but they bring in some guys once in a while, do a little interview with them, and this is an interesting one.
	This is the Trump-Biden threats NTD.
	Joining us now is Lee Smith, columnist and author of The Plot Against the President.
	He's also the host of Over the Target on Epic TV.
	Great to have you on to discuss former President Trump's big announcement, Lee.
	President Biden last week said that his administration has to demonstrate that Trump will not take power if he runs.
	Biden said they will use legitimate efforts of the Constitution to ensure Trump will not become president again.
	Do you expect Biden will use the DOJ or another federal agency to hurt Trump's chances of becoming president again?
	Well, certainly they've been doing that.
	That's what the Democrats have been doing.
	And Joe Biden has been part of that operation since he was Barack Obama's vice president in 2016.
	So I have no doubt that Joe Biden used the Department of Justice, the FBI, and whatever instruments are under his unlawful control, the way he's weaponized these different institutions to target his political opponents.
	Joe Biden has just made clear What everyone has seen happening since 2016.
	If Joe Biden wishes to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, then Joe Biden should focus his energies on governing the country correctly.
	Governing the country reasonably to cultivate American peace and prosperity.
	And then he can run against Donald Trump in 2024.
	That's how he can prevent him from becoming president.
	Not by weaponizing the agencies he and his progressive faction have been using since 2016 against Trump, Trump aides, and Trump supporters.
	You know, what was the premise of this little discussion?
	This kind of eludes me.
	Did Biden actually threaten in such a way?
	I mean, I've heard all these speeches.
	I played the clip on this very show.
	Uh, let me see, it was... Find the clip again, please.
	Yeah, yeah, it was, it was just recent.
	I know it was recent.
	Um... Under what circumstances?
	Here it is!
	Here it is, I think this is it.
	Okay, let me see if this is it.
	We have to demonstrate that he will not take power, um, by, uh, if we, uh, if he does run, uh, making sure he, uh, under legitimate efforts of, uh, markers of constitution, does not become the next president again.
	We discussed this very clip.
	Yes, we did.
	But where did, what was the, what was, where did this come from?
	This was a news conference Biden did.
	I thought it was a one-on-one interview with someone.
	Well... Was he sitting across from somebody?
	That I don't know.
	That I can't remember.
	It's interesting they would, uh, yeah, well it brought...
	I seem to have suppressed it because, uh, I do remember the clip, but I don't remember it being as serious as these guys make it out to be.
	And then now that they bring it up in, in these terms, I'm thinking, well, it's because I just hear Biden babbling like a, like a moron, but okay.
	Let's go to Trump Biden threats too.
	Federal law enforcement agencies are weaponized to target Joe Biden's political opponents.
	It's sick.
	This is unconstitutional and it's disgusting.
	And it's not just the Mar-a-Lago raid.
	We've seen Joe Biden use the FBI to go after January 6th defendants.
	And now we understand, by the way, how many FBI confidential human sources were on the grounds of the Capitol on January 6th to frame Trump supporters.
	We've seen them go after school parents who object to the Biden administration's push for CRT as well as trans ideology.
	So again, the Mar-a-Lago raid is certainly a big part of it.
	And now it turns out, I think, was it Washington Post?
	Yes, Washington Post published a piece that, as you predicted by the way, That the documents that Trump had at Mar-a-Lago were pretty much just souvenirs?
	Just shit to have?
	The stuff that you were saying, exactly.
	Like, you'd love to have that.
	Some top-secret folders just to put documents in.
	So the Washington Post admitted that's kind of what it seems that it was.
	Yeah.
	Makes sense.
	I'd love to have some of those top secret folders.
	I'm sure some, you know, why do I think that some of our producers just might be a little bit... I think that maybe the No Agenda shop... Should just make some.
	Should just make some.
	Yeah.
	Top secret for your eyes only.
	Somnambulism.
	An abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts such as walking are performed.
	It's like zombie.
	Yeah, somnambulistic is the word I used specifically.
	Very good word.
	Oh, it's a great word.
	I'm well impressed with your prowess.
	Somnambulism.
	No, somnambulism.
	Somnambulism.
	Show title for sure.
	I don't know.
	Maybe not.
	So here's the problem.
	So this is new and improved Trump.
	He's getting some love from ABC.
	Oddly enough, ABC, John Carl.
	I don't know.
	Is it?
	It's the Chain Bridge Bank, by the way.
	Who knows if there's some connection there.
	But meanwhile, the base, MAGA country, is pretty much like Matt Baker, Matt Baker goes to lots of city council meetings.
	You've probably seen him.
	He has some dreadlocks and a beard.
	He looks like he might be a dude named Ben, but his name is Matt.
	And he went to the Maricopa city council meeting, and this is how Trump's base feels.
	Good morning.
	Once again, the eyes of the world are upon Maricopa County for another botched election.
	Am I here to accuse you of stealing the vote?
	Heavens no, for that would make me a terrorist, wouldn't it?
	Let me ask you, if you took your life savings to a bank, and the teller put them in a machine, and the machine kicked out one out of four of your bills, and the teller said, don't worry, we'll put them in box three over here, and we'll let you know how many were in there later, we'll send them off to a separate location, and someone will be sure to get back to you and tell you how much money you have, would you be okay with that?
	No, you would not be okay with that.
	Now ask yourself the question, which is more valuable, your vote or your money?
	Now ask a lobbyist that same question.
	Now ask a campaign manager that question.
	Now ask Mark Zuckerberg that question, which is more valuable, your money or your vote?
	Or your country!
	Or this world!
	Or the corruption that is taking over every single county in this nation!
	And then you look into your own soul and you look back at yourself in the mirror and realize that you are the cancer that is tearing this nation apart!
	Good day!
	Thank you.
	Our next speaker... I love the ending.
	Thank you for your courage.
	And that's how a lot of people feel.
	Not necessarily about the election, but just in general.
	And he just, it was good.
	He did it in his two minute allotment.
	He got it out.
	And I just love how no one cares.
	Thank you.
	Next speaker.
	I just want to play this one clip before we do anything else.
	Before you do that, I'm looking at the John Carl bio.
	He has no earmarks whatsoever of being a spook.
	In fact, he graduated from Vassar.
	A girl's school.
	He's not even spook adjacent.
	Spook adjacent.
	So he has no, there's nothing.
	And there's always a giveaway.
	You know, if you look at this stuff, even though they try to cover it up, there's always some little item in there that lets you know.
	No, nothing.
	Zip.
	There was this clip that I've been meaning to say this for two shows and specifically because maybe you can bring it up with Horowitz or maybe you guys will bump.
	I just want to put it in your ear because looking at some of the numbers, I'll play this clip from Bill Gates.
	I don't even know where it's from, but it was a, It was the numbers that he was talking about.
	...he's making because of very, very high medical costs and a lack of willingness to say, you know, is spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient, would it be better not to lay off those 10 teachers and to make that trade-off in medical costs?
	But that's called the death panel and you're not supposed to have that discussion.
	So I don't want to talk about the death panel.
	It's the amount of money.
	And I was looking at some numbers.
	I think there was a big demonstration, maybe it was Egypt.
	People can't afford health care.
	And I'm looking at health care debt in the United States.
	It far outstrips anything.
	And people, you know, like your insurance pays for stuff, but there are people with hundreds of thousands of dollars and then just on a forever payment plan and one hiccup and they're done, they're out.
	I think that's the real problem that no one's looking at.
	Have you heard anything about healthcare debt?
	Well, considering that the drug companies and the health HMOs do so much advertising on mainstream media that you'll never hear anything about something like that.
	That's a good point.
	I think, no, I have not.
	I've, you know, and I think I explained why.
	Yeah.
	But it's got, yeah, it's probably unbelievable.
	And it should be, something should be done about it.
	Instead of.
	What?
	Forgiving student loans.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Just a thought.
	Let everybody.
	Anyway.
	No, I don't see how any... I mean, my insurance company, Oscar, you know, is like, hey, you know, we see that you're paying us, is it not like $1,600, $1,700 a month for the two of you?
	Since you don't use it, since your deductible is $8,000, why don't you get our bronze plus package, you loser?
	You know?
	Which means I just got shrinkflation down.
	I pay pretty much the same, but I get less services and a higher deductible.
	Hello.
	Good work.
	This is not okay.
	It's not.
	Yeah, you got a long ways to go before you get to Medicare.
	Yeah.
	You'll probably be ratcheted up by the time.
	You'll probably be up to 70.
	Well, the good news is my wife is going to live forever.
	Congratulations to the keeper and her 75 hard group.
	Day 75 today.
	She lost 10 inches.
	More than 10 inches.
	She lost 10 inches?
	Is she shorter now?
	How tall is she?
	Yes!
	The metric is waist and arms, I think.
	And boobs, breast, chest.
	Whoops!
	Anyway, there are some people who lost 30 pounds in the 75 days.
	It's unbelievable.
	So she's going to outlive me.
	One thing I wanted to... She'll get all the podcasting gear.
	She's like, could you sign a couple of checks just in advance, just in case?
	From Mechanics Bank.
	I just want to have a couple, you never know.
	Because you're not on the account.
	Could come in handy.
	Could come in handy, exactly.
	We put the No Agenda show on Mastodon four years ago, five years ago, four or five.
	Something like that?
	You're referring to noagendasocial?
	Yes, noagendasocial.com.
	Started in my closet.
	And we built it out, and now... And you came out of the closet, finally.
	I did, and Aaroner took over the duties, and it's now... He lives in the No Agenda Social Closet.
	And at first, when this kind of movement started... So, what I'm saying is, we were already... We're in, we have experience, we know how it works.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're way ahead of it.
	We are in the Fediverse, we know what's going on.
	So, it's been interesting to watch Or the Fetty, as they like to call it now.
	Yeah, I'm not doing no pot about the Fetty.
	So we're seeing people come in, and at first it's like, well, and some of the adoption was, you know, traditional because people are like, I don't have any followers, how do I get, my follower count's not right.
	Most people figure out that's kind of not why you're there, and it doesn't matter.
	And I thought it would die down, but something miraculous is happening here.
	Journalists are setting up their own instances.
	And so they're federating so you can follow them, but they have their own, like, journo.host, and these are recognizable names.
	Who, to me, it's actually a little more interesting because now they really are chatting amongst themselves about stories and they're kind of giving their opinions.
	They feel a lot looser.
	They don't feel like they're being watched because they're not.
	Because, you know, a lot of people are following them.
	So, I think that this is catching a little bit of steam.
	Now, granted, this is led by people like Jeff Jarvis, but, you know, power to him.
	At least he's bringing people in.
	But there's serious reporters, you know, former New York Times, current Washington Post.
	So, we'll have to see what goes on with that.
	It's interesting.
	I did not expect it to catch on with any group, but for journalists to get it?
	I thought that was interesting.
	Well, Jarvis has enough of a techie background.
	Yes.
	That would make sense.
	Yes.
	That he'd be the instigator.
	Well, he's not just the instigator because you see it happening in the UK.
	You see it happening around the world.
	And what's interesting is that they're setting up their own home.
	And that's what makes it fascinating.
	Yeah.
	Journalists getting a dot Mastodon accounts, whatever.
	Or Mastodon dot social.
	But making their own.
	Yeah.
	Hey, and uh... I can't believe it!
	It took off!
	We rise together, back to the moon and beyond!
	Woo!
	Who wrote this?
	Buzz Lightyear?
	I have the three clips on this, again from the boring NTD, but they have some interesting information that I was completely unaware of and nobody else has reported on this.
	Okay, so hold on.
	We do your backgrounder and then I'll do my backgrounder?
	Just so we can, whenever you say it's ready.
	First of all, Since we, our theory is that they're not going back to the moon.
	I think we both agree on that.
	Uh, they might, but assuming that they're not going to.
	Excuse me.
	We don't, we don't agree.
	It's the word, the word back.
	The word back is what we disagree on.
	You just said we never went in the first place.
	They're not going to.
	But let's, but let's drop, I'm dropping that part of the argument because it's too speculative.
	But how are they going to, now that they've launched this thing, do you have any prediction on what's going to happen?
	We're going to see video of something.
	Are they supposed to land on this mission?
	No, no, no.
	They're just going to flop around and come back.
	They'll flop around, come back, and then they'll say, yeah, we're ready to go in 2025.
	And then we won't hear of it again.
	And then, you know, we need $100 billion.
	That's not my prediction.
	Oh, what's your prediction?
	It's going to have a fail.
	You already predicted it wouldn't take off.
	So you want to double down?
	I'm doubling down.
	It's going to fail on the way back.
	Going back to the moon, this morning a new moon rocket by NASA took off heading towards Earth's largest satellite.
	And liftoff of Artemis 1!
	NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight on early Wednesday.
	It had three test dummies aboard, which brings the U.S.
	a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.
	NASA plans to put real astronauts back on the moon's surface by 2025.
	Whoa!
	Stop!
	Did you hear what he said?
	NASA plans to put real astronauts on the moon this time.
	Instead of the fake ones?
	Years ago, NASA plans to put real astronauts back on the moon's surface by 2025.
	The 32-story Space Launch System, or SLS rocket, surged off the launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, descended to Orion capsule on a three-week test journey.
	About 90 minutes after launch, the rocket's upper stage fired thrusters, propelling Orion out of the Earth's orbit, on course for the moon.
	That put the capsule on track for a 25-day flight that will bring it within 60 miles of the lunar surface.
	Today we got to witness the world's most powerful rocket take the Earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it.
	And it was quite a sight.
	That's quite a sight.
	The moonshot follows nearly three months of fuel leaks that kept the rocket bouncing between its hangar and the pad.
	Also, back-to-back hurricanes.
	The rocket was forced back indoors by Hurricane Ian at the end of September, but later stood its ground outside as Nicole swept through last week with gusts of more than 80 miles per hour.
	But why are we trying to go back to the moon?
	Wait!
	It's shorter?
	Let's just get the hyped-up CBS Morning Report version of it?
	Liftoff of Artemis 1!
	How about that?
	Identical open!
	Well done, NTD!
	Liftoff of Artemis 1!
	As a human-made spectacle, this Artemis 1 launch was tough to beat.
	NASA's most powerful rocket ever, pushing through Florida's night sky and Earth's heavy atmosphere with 8.8 million pounds of thrust.
	I mean, this is just poetry.
	Poetry compared to NTD.
	Listen to how he says thrust.
	I've got, it's got thrust.
	Look at that, that missile going upwards with thrust.
	Ever.
	Pushing through Florida's night sky and Earth's heavy atmosphere with 8.8 million pounds of thrust.
	Today we got to witness the world's most powerful rocket.
	Take the Earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it.
	And it was quite a sight.
	On Monday morning next week, Orion will fly within 60 miles of the lunar surface, then push 40,000 miles beyond the moon for space high drama.
	It's Glimpse Back on Earth.
	After orbiting the moon, Orion will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for the mission's top priority, testing the capsule's heat shield against temperatures of 5,000 degrees, about half as hot as the surface of the sun.
	From Houston, Rick Labrode will lead the team in mission control.
	A successful mission could lead to a new era of moonwalking.
	NASA is hoping for a crude lunar landing later this decade.
	Fair to say there are lots on the line here?
	Oh, yeah, that's very fair to say.
	I mean, yeah, we gotta have a successful flight.
	Otherwise, you're not putting astronauts on the next mission.
	A question!
	I mean, I understand.
	The little ditty at the end says it all.
	Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	If it messes up, hey, all bets are off, bro.
	But I don't understand.
	Actually, I think the story that, you know, whatever the technology, we had the money then, we have the money now, we got rid of it, whatever the technology.
	Okay, so now we have the most powerful rock and roll.
	It shook the world by its edges.
	We're making it up to the moon.
	And then we're just, I mean, we're just kind of a little moon lander thing.
	I mean, No, no.
	We explained this on a previous show.
	I read the list.
	No, they're going to put a space station that's going around and around the moon.
	They're going to set up a shop on the moon.
	A welding station.
	Yes, okay.
	A welding station with a big arc welder up there.
	I'm very excited to see the picture.
	I really hope that they're going to send an actual picture of Earth and not one of these composite pictures.
	I want to see the blue marble.
	Yeah, okay, I don't care about that.
	Let's go back to, who is this guy, this Neil Armstrong wannabe poet that's in both these reports who talks about the rocket going up and it's shaking the wicked?
	That's Mark Strassman.
	What's the, what is he talking about, shaking the wiki?
	Oh, no, no, that was, no, I'm sorry, that was the, uh, that was the NASA guy.
	Yeah.
	I don't know who the NASA guy was.
	I don't know who the NASA guy was.
	What's he talking about?
	It was a very powerful rocket.
	Well, yeah, it was a pretty rocket.
	It has a nice flame.
	I mean, this is, this is the guy who did this.
	We rise together, back to the moon and beyond.
	No, no, it was a different guy.
	Really?
	No, yeah, it was a different guy.
	Well, I don't know, then.
	Well, it was in that clip.
	And it was in my clip, too.
	But the guy's talking about shaking the wicked!
	I know, but... Or something.
	The wicked.
	I think he meant the wicked.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	Okay, okay, let's listen to it.
	We have to listen.
	Liftoff of Artemis I!
	As a human-made spectacle, this Artemis I launched with Guy and Earth's heavy atmosphere with 8.8 million pounds of... Witness the world's most powerful rocket.
	Take the Earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it.
	Shake the wicked out of it?
	It's what he said!
	It was in my report, too.
	I've never heard of this.
	Shake the wicked out of the earth.
	So the guy's trying to be poetic.
	He's talking about the rocket.
	Who is this guy?
	What's he talking about?
	What's the wicked got to do with Jack?
	Oh, Job 38 verse 13.
	That it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it.
	The wicked out of what?
	Out of the earth.
	Satan.
	Satan.
	Misuse of the Bible again.
	I would say.
	And who is this sanctimonious bullshit artist that's making these comments?
	What's he got to do with the price of bread?
	Is not Neil Armstrong jumping on the moon?
	Hey, this is a media offensive, man.
	What else we got?
	We don't, I mean, that thing may have dudded out halfway.
	We don't know.
	Just send them back some CGI.
	I mean, hey, you know what?
	Whitney, when they have that space station out there, take a picture of Elon's Tesla.
	All right?
	That's what I want.
	Take a picture of that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Go find it.
	I want to see a picture.
	So let's go to the part that was interesting to me in these next two clips, which is talking about the workforce and some of the details.
	This is a couple of one-minute clips.
	This is Artemis Launch 2.
	And these details were not expressed anyplace else but NTD.
	Because our call is we're going out to explore the heavens and this is the next step.
	Learn how to live on the moon in order to prepare to send humans all the way to Mars.
	This moon undertaking is Apollo's successor program, and it's called Artemis.
	Artemis is the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, and Apollo's twin sister.
	Spectators at Space View Park, directly across from the launch pad, cheered as Artemis 1 blasted off into the night sky.
	One of them was a former NASA employee who worked on the Artemis rocket.
	He says he knows hundreds of others who worked together to make this work.
	So dedicated and diligent to make it work right.
	And that's what I thought about and tears came to my eyes, I have to admit it, you know.
	I just was overwhelmed.
	The Orion capsule is expected to splash down into the Pacific Ocean on December 11th.
	Yeah.
	Okay, now, that wasn't the clip.
	The next clip is the good one.
	But that guy with that accent, you know, talking about the way it was built and all the rest of it.
	I'm thinking, what's this guy with these accents that we're starting to hear?
	Now, this next clip and the last clip... Isn't that just the people who go watch these things in Florida?
	No!
	This whole rocket, this whole thing is from the Deep South.
	There's no Houston people involved.
	There's no Vandenberg people involved.
	Listen to this last clip.
	This is untold story.
	NASA's new Artemis 1 rocket is the most powerful rocket yet, and it's the culmination of years of work for hundreds of people.
	Let's take a look at what's gone into the project.
	Behind NASA's Artemis 1 project are hundreds of workers.
	Many of them are based in two major facilities, one in Mississippi and one in Louisiana.
	A manager says the workers all live in those regions.
	And so when we think about the technology and the advanced technology of space travel and large liquid rocket engines and astronauts sitting on top of these engines and flying into space safely, And that's being done by Mississippians.
	That's being done by Louisianans.
	Many of the workers are second or even third generation, meaning their parents or grandparents also worked on NASA space programs.
	An engineer says they take pride in that.
	Workforce is very important, right?
	We can't do this, you know, this wasn't a one or a two-person job, you know, this was teams of hundreds of people that came in that had different backgrounds.
	Yeah, son!
	We build rockets!
	experiences that all made this happen together so this area has that kind of talent uh you know it's been rooted down here for generations and a lot of people see it as it's a badge of honor to work here yeah son we build rockets we build rockets down here y'all hey is that hold on hold on hold on here we go this is it Thank you.
	Oh, well deserved.
	No, of course I didn't know that.
	And even the trolls are going like, wait a minute, I thought that was in Alabama.
	Everyone has heard of different places, but not.
	Louisiana, Mississippi.
	Right.
	So that's a skunkworks of epic proportion.
	I would say total skunkworks of epic proportions.
	And this is the only time I've heard of it.
	Even still, nobody else is reporting on this.
	Well, I take it back.
	NTD, this was not boring from NTD.
	This was a good one.
	Really?
	But they do some digging once in a while.
	So when this thing crashes and burns, which is what you predict, Then it's easy to go, oh, yeah, it's those rednecks in the South.
	They don't know how to build rockets.
	They don't know what to do.
	They don't know how to build rockets, man.
	They're no good down there.
	That's when it'll come out.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	Very good, John.
	Very good.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Cosmic Welding Station.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. Taboran.
	Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Carlson.
	Good morning to the trolls in the troll room who have been entertained by Darren O'Neill this morning.
	Another great rock and roll pre-show.
	It's all live.
	That's Thursdays and Sundays.
	Oh, before I forget, can we do Thanksgiving Thursday earlier?
	Can we start earlier?
	Because my day ends, you know, I end two hours later and it's like almost time to sit down to dinner.
	How about an hour earlier?
	Oh, you want to do two or one?
	We can do one hour earlier.
	I think one will be better.
	One will be fine.
	Okay.
	Alert the affiliates.
	I'll be groggy otherwise.
	I've gotten used to this new schedule.
	And by the way, I congratulate you for coming up with this dynamite.
	Dynamite schedule!
	I know, I know.
	It's like I wake up every day at 7.
	It's like instead of twice a week messing me up, it's thank you all for understanding.
	I know we lost trolls along the way.
	I know.
	Because, you know, there were so many people who loved listening live and we ruined their lives.
	I got emails.
	You've ruined my life, Curry.
	I vote we go back.
	I love that one.
	I vote we go back.
	Please.
	Here, play the five-second clip.
	Peterson Trolls.
	Hold on a second.
	Peterson Trolls.
	The trolls, and they're not trolls, they're psychopathic, Machiavellian, sadistic narcissists.
	Yeah!
	That's our people!
	That's our people right there!
	Oh my goodness.
	Did he say at trollroom.io?
	Let's count them for a second.
	Hello you narcissistic trolls!
	1843 today.
	One more time for the trolls.
	The trolls, and they're not trolls, they're psychopathic Machiavellian sadistic narcissists.
	Psychopathic.
	Hold on.
	Psychopathic.
	Machiavellian.
	Sadistic.
	Narcissist.
	Narcissistic.
	What was the last?
	No.
	Narcissistic.
	No, they were sadistic narcissists.
	Trolls.
	And they're not trolls.
	They're psychopathic, Machiavellian, sadistic narcissists.
	Narcissists.
	Okay.
	Uh, PMSN.
	There you go.
	There's your acronym, trolls.
	PMSN.
	Well, the trolls, we love when they hang out, because of course they listen live, noagendastream.com, or you can get it all at trollroom.io, or did you download Podverse yet?
	Because that one automatically trips a live notification, and in the very same app that you're listening to your podcast in, and it's completely backwards compatible with legacy stuff like Apple, and oh my goodness, people, stop using Google.
	Something happened, and I'm not sure exactly what, but the Google Podcast app wouldn't play this show, even if people deleted the app and reinstalled it.
	And I think to myself, at what point do you give up on the legacy?
	Newpodcastapps.com.
	Or, of course, No Agenda Social.
	Yeah, it is weird.
	It was really weird.
	I don't think, oh.
	They lost the plot.
	Another thing.
	The No Agenda Roku app.
	So I don't think we were deplatformed.
	I think the developer, I don't know if I mentioned this, the developer of the app, if he didn't update to Sparkle Sprite 2.0, whatever their framework is, it was automatically taken down.
	So if the developer, I don't know who did it.
	It's been around for so long.
	I heard from him some time ago when he was not maintaining it when he went back to it.
	I don't know, maybe he's just given up.
	Maybe he hates us.
	Well, Grand Duke David Foley told me this is probably the reason.
	He said, look, if the guy doesn't show up, I'll do a new one.
	How cool would that be?
	That'd be good.
	He's our TV guy.
	And I still get emails from people saying, hey man, I'm cut off my supply.
	I used to listen on Roku.
	That's so interesting.
	People must live inside Roku.
	There's people that, there's, you know, everything has got to, you know, this is like... Hello!
	I'm in my Roku!
	Let me out!
	This used to be called the long tail.
	Long since forgotten idea, but that's what it is.
	That is the long tail right there.
	Our tail is so long, there's zoomers stepping on it.
	We want to thank the artist for the episode art for episode 1503.
	It was titled Strung Out, Man.
	Strung Out.
	Thank you, everybody, for sending me millions of clips of people in old movies going, can you dig it?
	Can you dig it?
	Can you dig it?
	Dame Kenny Ben brought us the I Got My Fluster Shot.
	Which looked suspiciously like a Mattel logo on the round part.
	I had to trust my colleague John C. Dvorak on this choice.
	For I have enough color blindness that I pretty much can't see this at all.
	And I have no problem flying aircraft.
	I have no problem seeing the red from the green lights.
	All that stuff.
	But when it comes to in one image?
	No.
	It just doesn't work.
	I liked it.
	There was another one.
	For people out there who could kind of imagine not being able to see the I got my part of this.
	Just there's nothing there.
	Right.
	Yes.
	That would be Adam.
	So we had a debate between, I got floosted, which is the, uh, which was the Contineo piece, which he liked, but I, I, I didn't like the bandaid being there because the needles were under the bandaid.
	I know it just bothered me.
	Uh, I liked this, this little guy cause it was, uh, it stuck out and, uh, and there wasn't, there was a lot of other stuff that was borderline, but it wasn't quite, Jazzy enough for our taste.
	I like the piece I was using in the newsletter, The Laundering Money by Igor.
	But the thing about that piece, it looks like Eastern European cartoon repurposed.
	Yeah.
	Because it's got a style of an Eastern, you know, you've seen these cartoons, these cartoonists that are in Yugoslavia.
	The Yugoslavia Cracked magazine would have this cartoon.
	Something like that.
	And so it looks stolen.
	So I don't know if it was or not.
	Well, we didn't bring up the stolen nature.
	I just thought it was confusing.
	No, I brought it up to myself when I was thinking about it for the newsletter.
	And I looked at his previous art and he has no evidence of being a cartoonist.
	You know, if you look up Mike Reilly, he does a cartoon, he says, was that stolen?
	You look at his previews, all of his stuff, you know, is Mike Reilly's cartoons.
	He does a lot of cartoons, so you wouldn't even consider it being stolen.
	An honorary mention to Lorenzo Rojo of the Sam Bankman Free Cucumber.
	Oh yes, we both thought that was hilarious.
	I almost used it for the newsletter, actually.
	There's something just stupid about that particular piece.
	So stupid, but so good.
	And the Atomcast IRL, by the way, if you're listening to this, you can always go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Refresh if you want to see what's happening now, but you can see all the art.
	It's almost 30,000 pieces.
	We have so much to choose from.
	Uh, but what's interesting, the art isn't so interesting, but we had a conversation where I said, you know, this guy's never gonna invite me, I don't care, and then I did a horrible impression of him.
	Well, that translated to some producers as, Timcast!
	Timcast!
	Adam Curry really wants to be on the show, but you haven't invited him, he really wants to be on the show!
	What?! !
	I love the way these, yes, this kind of thing can happen.
	Not helpful.
	Just don't want, I want no part of it.
	Thank you to Kenny Bentley.
	If you go on the show, if you go on the Tim Cash show.
	I'm not going on the show.
	You have to wear a beret.
	There is no, there's no benefit.
	No, I don't think so.
	They are verbal Twitter.
	I'm not, it's not interesting.
	I'm sorry, it's just not interesting.
	And I know the first question will be...
	Explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old.
	No, I don't want to go there!
	I do not want to go there.
	But thank you very much and thank you to all of our artists.
	It is incredible what you do.
	It is one of the... It is the cherry on top of the cake that we bake twice a week.
	It really is.
	It really, really is.
	And thank you for putting your Albie wallets in there so I can get you on the boosts.
	Let's thank some of our executive and associate executive producers.
	Short list today, but we do have some make goods still left over from the 1515th anniversary celebration week.
	And, oh, do you have Matthew Price's, I don't have his note handy yet.
	Do you have his note?
	The note, the number one donor?
	Yes, the number one donor, 345.67.
	I do, I have it.
	Okay, yeah, go for it.
	I have it right here.
	Thank you, thank you.
	It was part of a card that had to be disassembled so it could be scanned, and it didn't scan very well anyway.
	So, but Matthew Price is our first guy, top of the list, with $345.67 in Indi-Atlantic.
	Where the hell is that?
	Indie Atlantic?
	It says Indie Atlantic, Florida.
	Okay.
	Never heard of it.
	Happy anniversary, gentlemen.
	Congratulations on 15 years of media deconstruction.
	This donation will put me over the threshold for knighthood.
	And this is not doubling anything.
	This is straight up.
	And as a humble human resource, I would like to be knighted as surplus to requirements.
	Okay.
	Is he on the list even?
	I don't know.
	Uh, we have, let me see.
	I think so.
	No, it's just in blue, so I guess he is.
	Let me check, let me check, let me check.
	While you're doing that, I'll read the rest of the notes.
	Cheers to 15 more years.
	Yours, Matt.
	Thank you very much.
	Baron Jim Bobway and Baroness Marianne Schneeberger.
	No strangers to this list.
	Ah, the Schneebergers.
	The Schneebergers are here!
	Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Baron and Baroness Schneeberger.
	333.33.
	They know how to get our attention with that number.
	Cary, North Carolina.
	In the morning, gents, thank you for the sanity.
	Monthly donation herewith.
	They're going monthly, John.
	Wow.
	Thank you.
	That's good.
	That's better.
	I mean, so we are worth more to you.
	Almost double a cable bill.
	Well, some cable bills are... Are 300, yeah.
	That's humbling, man.
	Thank you.
	Aren't as much.
	But Baron Jim Bobway, Baroness Marianne Schneeberger, my light in the darkness.
	I'll bet she is.
	Thank you both very much.
	Appreciate it.
	Sir Thomas McKean in Lake Wylie, South Carolina.
	333.33.
	Jingles?
	Sorry, John and Adam, Biden whole load.
	Trump massive dumps Fauci wheeze.
	Obama, you might die.
	That's true.
	Too many jingles.
	Five.
	But I think Adam might be able to do it.
	ITM Gitmo Nation, first off, I'm calling my stepdad out as a douchebag.
	This donation is to ask Gitmo Nation, does anyone remodel cargo vans as mobile homes?
	For example, a Mercedes Sprinter.
	Or have a contact accepting referrals.
	I am based in the Charlotte metro area, but I can be anywhere in the lower 48 as needed.
	I would love to send my value to a fellow No Agenda listener if possible.
	Contact me, and he's got NML at noagendasocial.com, which is actually his name on No Agenda Social.
	But he has an email, I'm going to read it, so he can get swamped.
	S-T-M-C-K-H-O-L at gmail.com.
	You can rewind this if you want to hear that again.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Thomas McKean.
	I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
	They did dumps.
	They call them dumps.
	Big, massive dumps.
	You might die.
	That's true.
	Okay.
	Yikes.
	Thank you very much, Sir Thomas.
	Natalie Swirsky is our only Associate Executive Producer today.
	She's in Kingwood, Texas, 212.12, nice palindrome.
	And my husband hit me in the mouth multiple times over the years.
	How many times do you need to get hit in the mouth?
	At what point do you wake up?
	He actually talks like this.
	I told him I wanted to live in my happy little bubble.
	I didn't want to hear about the news.
	One day, however, I decided to give your podcast a shot, and I haven't looked back since.
	Love ya!
	That's a story right there, man.
	Nice!
	Thank you, Natalie.
	May I give you a karma for that?
	You've got karma.
	Oh, nice.
	Oh, nice.
	And that concludes our list of executive and associate executive producers.
	Again, short.
	But would you like to do our make-goods now?
	Hopefully, it would pick up later.
	Yes, please, let's do some make-goods and we'll eventually be all caught up.
	Okay, now these are make-goods from 1499, 1500, 1501, more or less.
	We apologize, but I think we're getting closer.
	For brevity, we're not going to do jingles, but we will do douchebags and de-douchings, etc.
	Dakota C., Adam, John, thank you so much, incredibly much, for the 1500 episodes.
	I began my quest for knighthood in 2019, pro-COVID, pre-COVID, pro-COVID, we've always been pro-COVID, pre-COVID.
	Your deconstructing worked in so much as a millennial finishing working in electrical field who just acquired a human resource.
	Also, I've started from episode one.
	Wow.
	Please see accounting below along with double credits.
	Sorry to hear that.
	From last month brings me to knighthood.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Grey Rider of the Templar.
	And I'd like to call out R.C.
	as a douche.
	Douchebag!
	Please bring smoked brisket tacos and the Three Creek Stonefly rye beer to the round table.
	Thank you very much.
	And he says, P.S.
	John, why were you so sure of a Republican president in 2007?
	I've begun the quest of listening to all the episodes.
	Well, because sometimes he's just wrong.
	What?
	Yeah, so when we started the show, this Dakota C. has started listening from episode one and says, John, in 2007, why were you so sure of a Republican president?
	I was, uh, not up to speed.
	You hadn't been hitting the mouth properly yet.
	Something was wrong with me.
	David Wright in the morning?
	That sounds kind of sad, the way you said that.
	Something was wrong.
	Thank you, Crackpot and Buzzkill, for 15 years of courageous service and happy show 1500.
	Here's to 1500 more.
	Shout out to Sir Burgess of the Ozarks for hitting me in the mouth nearly a decade ago.
	And this donation, doubled, finally brings me to the round table and leaves an extra penny for the jar.
	Please lightenight me, Sir Lucid of the Ozarks.
	Thick chicks and thimerosal for the round table.
	You got it.
	Andrew Feltz.
	Apologies for this note going to the wrong address.
	I'm a relatively new listener to the podcast.
	Heard Adam on the WhatBitcoinDid podcast this summer.
	He hit me in the mouth.
	Instant night donation of 800.85.
	Please dub me SirOculus of Mount Cornea.
	I would like all natural glaucoma meds and ooey gooey cookies at the round table.
	All right.
	C. Baker.
	I was in the flood of donations that couldn't be read and didn't know... that couldn't read and didn't know to email these addresses.
	My apologies.
	It's alright.
	We're fixing that.
	Q1, everybody.
	First and foremost, I probably need a triple dose of the Massengill de-douching.
	First donation.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you for all you do while the MSM pollutes the minds of the sheep.
	I would be like to known as Sir Ogre of Portsmouth.
	At the round table, I'd like bacon, Mad Dog 2020, and Milwaukee's Best Light.
	Can you pick up Edward Tattnall?
	I don't have this open, sorry.
	Edward Tattnall.
	Make good, please.
	Around 2.38 or so of episode 1498, it was announced that my switcheroo donation brought my wife, Doreen Tattnall, to damehood.
	But alas!
	She was not included in the ceremony and so languishes in the realm of the untitled.
	Please pronuncicate her, Dame Doreen, Adele of the Snickerdoodles.
	She requests rumballs and apple pie moonshine at the round table.
	Thank you very much.
	The entertainment and information delivered by you two is, in a most professional way, continues to amaze, amuse, and enlighten.
	What would we do without you?
	Thanks, and keep up the good work.
	From Ted, Sir Fodfather, Baron of the Circle City.
	By the way, these people will be Black Dames or Knights today.
	You're not going to open it at all?
	You're just going to make me struggle through this?
	Oh, you want me to go and open it?
	Well, you know, there's only five, six, seven more.
	I'm going to give you an offhanded compliment.
	You read these so well.
	Yeah.
	For some reason, because you actually have sincerity, and you're just great.
	You know why?
	Because I care about people, John.
	Yeah, you do, and I think that because you do such a great job, I just, as far as I'm concerned, I can start sorting your garbage.
	Here's the thing.
	So my voice is cracking, and all of a sudden I hear you go...
	Oh, it didn't even.
	Mine has no fizz now.
	My Dr. Pepper is flat.
	No, you heard me open a can.
	Okay, I drank.
	Parker Pauly here from the Sasquahanna Valley.
	WSQV!
	Sasquahanna Valley Top 40 Radio!
	I've been to that station.
	Adam and John, in the morning, thank you, thank you, thank you for your insights, your sanity, your humor twice weekly.
	I'm a better person for having listened all these years.
	No joke!
	I also have a blast creating No Agenda art, and it's a thrill when my creative product is selected to provide value to the show.
	With this donation, I have the honor of bellying up to the round table, please knight me sir dude named Parker Pauly.
	With this title, I want to re-establish that I am a man, a fellow, a gent, a male, a dude, equipped with twig and berries.
	I beseech you, misgender me no more!
	We have done this consistently.
	And we'll do it again.
	Adam, this starving artist... I don't think so.
	This starving artist humbly requests prune pierogi and pumpkin whoopie pies at the round table.
	I have no idea what a prune pierogi could even be like.
	Makes you poop.
	Makes you poop.
	I'll bet it does.
	It's been a privilege.
	Congratulations on 1,500 shows.
	I raise a glass to no agenda, past, present, and future.
	Thank you.
	Ron and Mary Nelson from Moores Hill, Indiana.
	Crackpot and Buzzkill, before you read any more, please call me out as a douchebag.
	I've been listening since around 2012 and there's no excuse.
	I'd be grateful if you would see fit now to de-douche me.
	Okay.
	You've been de-douched.
	Please, just de-douche me with the knockoff Chinese version since I'm not worthy of the homegrown.
	It's okay.
	We gave you a full authentic.
	We actually didn't get any of the knockoffs in.
	You better hurry up.
	No, we're restocked with good stuff.
	Oh, this is the good stuff?
	Yeah, no more of these.
	No knockout.
	The way you get around that, I'm just telling anyone who wants to import stuff from China.
	Quality control.
	Now that I've been released of this burden, I just want to say how grateful I am for the two of you influencing the way that I see the world and the media.
	You have had a profound impact on my life and for that I'm grateful.
	Your service to humanity!
	Your service to humanity... I can't even say it right.
	I need Lloyd Bridges.
	Your service to humanity during the pandemic will be known for generations.
	Let's hope so.
	You know, we used to say when there's a million No Agenda CDs... When I was a kid we used to listen to the No Agenda Show.
	You need to download episodes onto USB disks, onto drives.
	You need to have these things everywhere that's possible if we really want to survive.
	Don't think that noagendanation.com slash archive is going to be a great spot for it forever.
	So your analysis and reasoned approach helped us, a lot of us, not suffer.
	Mass formation under the power-hungry tyrant spell.
	Your introduction to us of individuals like Professor Matthias de Smet and a host of others goes way beyond the pennies I give you.
	As a flight attendant for a major airline for 38 plus years, this became a real challenge with the possibility of being terminated.
	However, in part due to your steady analysis and humor, and most of all, my faith in Jesus Christ, I was emboldened to resist.
	I was granted a religious exemption and joined other flight attendants to support each other in a group that we called the Organics.
	You should have called us the Unleadeds.
	I would like my night name to be Sir Hydration Transfer... Sir Hydration Transfer Engineer of the Shadowlands.
	At the round table, I'd like to add my wife's amazing sweet cinnamon bread french toast and black Nicaraguan coffee.
	My smoking hot wife of 35 years called me a douchebag when I started sharing No Agenda with her.
	She felt I was bringing shame to our good name for not donating, so she'll be relieved that this stain has been removed and I am now a knight of the No Agenda roundtable.
	Oh!
	Forgot!
	I hit my sister Pam in the mouth in a year and I've noticed she hasn't donated, although I'm feeling a little guilty in calling her out since I was in the douche camp for so long.
	Okay.
	Thank you very much, Ron.
	And Mary.
	And Ron Nelson.
	And everybody.
	Thank you.
	Sean D. He doesn't want any pagan karma, by the way.
	I'm not giving any.
	I didn't get credited for producer show credit on either show 99, 1500, 1501, 1502, 1503.
	PayPal donation receipt shown below for 333.
	Sent on October 30th.
	Mr. Sean, you're doing Sean D's?
	Yes, this is Sean D. Okay.
	Donation receipt shown below for 333.
	Sent on October 30th.
	This is Sean.
	You're reading Sean D's?
	Yes, this is Sean D.
	Okay.
	Why?
	I was just wondering why you didn't do any jingles.
	I haven't done any.
	I'm not doing any jingles here.
	I already pre-announced that.
	We have to do something.
	I don't blame you.
	Alright, then don't bring it up.
	I mean, you want jingles?
	You want to go back and do all the jingles again?
	No, I do not want jingles.
	What is wrong with you?
	I'm a maniac.
	No comment other than keep up the good work.
	Thanks for all you two do.
	Sir Sean, knight of the cisgendered third world jungle.
	You got it.
	Martina.
	No, Martina.
	Here's... I think it's Martina.
	It's not Martine?
	No, I'm pretty sure this is Martina.
	I think she's a female airline pilot.
	Believe.
	Uh, and I hope I didn't misgender Marty.
	We have a lot of pilots.
	Yeah.
	We have a lot of people in the airline industry and cops.
	And military.
	And by the way, just for the people out there that need to know, I did it.
	I finally did it after two years.
	You renewed your ham radio license.
	It's the biggest pain in the ass anyone could possibly imagine.
	The website is unusable.
	It's been un- yeah, this is known.
	It's been proven unusable.
	If anyone wants to renew their license, just let the AARP do it for you.
	You subscribe for one year and they'll do it.
	The AARP will renew your license?
	Yes, you get a note when your license expires from the AARP.
	Hey, you want your license renewed?
	We'll do it!
	Cool!
	I'll wait for that!
	Take them up on it!
	I had to call Washington D.C.
	and talk to the FCC and have to be, I, me, I had to be walked through the website.
	Oh, how embarrassing!
	It's very embarrassing and then there's a bunch of stuff like... Wait a minute, wait!
	So, uh, one, uh, FCC, one... No, no, no, we can't let this go by, John.
	We can't let this just go by.
	I got some old dude who can't figure out the website.
	Am I right?
	No, not at all, because you could tell that all these guys do.
	It takes about 45 minutes, by the way.
	And my comment is something like this half the time.
	I'm supposed to put what in there?
	And it's like, he says, yeah, the FRN number.
	I said, but the FRN number's already on the page.
	Oh, goodness.
	I said, no, you just put the pull down and put it in, but it's already on the page.
	It seems redundant.
	Oh, goodness.
	And so my comment is mostly, well, that seems redundant.
	Well, that seems redundant, the guys who keep walking me through.
	And so I get finally, and you click over here.
	The guy's really annoying.
	Can you take this call?
	He says it's all redundant.
	Redundant.
	So, it's a... I don't use this term lightly.
	Pull it down and put it in, old man!
	It's a piece of shit.
	Which is pretty much like every ham radio website on the internet. - Yeah.
	Does it still use blink tags, this thing, to renew your license?
	No, I didn't see any, but they had a lot of drop downs.
	You crack me up.
	So back to Martina.
	With a double credit, this will get me to damehood level.
	If you would chip in one penny.
	Well, of course we're going to chip in one penny for you.
	Where's my penny?
	Where's my jar?
	Who took my jar?
	Oh, there it is.
	Right behind you.
	I got it.
	I would like to be named Dame Kicking and Screaming.
	And I would like to request the following at the round table.
	Roll mops and trick drop with stroopwafels.
	Yummy!
	Trek drop is like the really thick black, like, you can pull the licorice apart.
	Stroopwafels, you know what those are.
	And rollmops.
	Yeah, they actually sell the stroopwafel here in the United States a lot.
	And do you know what rollmops are?
	That's the pickled herring rolled up.
	Yeah, rollmops, they're called.
	Oh, you know rollmops?
	Oh, I didn't know that, okay.
	Hey, yeah, rollmops!
	Robert Campbell, I've been a fan.
	It's got a pickle in the middle and a little herring.
	A little bit of onion, yeah.
	Robert Campbell's been a fan since day one, and when he saw the promotion leading up to show 1500, he knew my dream of being a knight was in sight, he says.
	When I realized my donation for show 1499 was missed, I was upset.
	But after listening to the number of producers listed in the show since, I was not surprised.
	I humbly ask for a make good and a knighting, you shall be black, sir.
	Nothing special for me at the round table, but I'd like a de-douching.
	Sorry.
	My mistake.
	How did that happen?
	There we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	That's better.
	All right.
	Thank you very much.
	Peter Rosinski.
	We're almost there, folks.
	By the way, that was genuine content you just heard.
	In a morning John and Adam, after episode 1503 dropped, I wrote a concern note about my pending knighthood.
	From 1500, which had yet to happen.
	I wasn't listed as a title change or anything on the show credits.
	This morning I finished actually listening to episode 1503 and heard Adam read my note, which was nice.
	Yes, I do listen to the donation segments.
	Thank you.
	I was not, however, called up to be knighted.
	Strange.
	Doesn't that normally happen on the same show?
	Yes.
	I know you guys probably get a lot of notes like mine and are fatigued.
	Not really.
	Please understand I'm not complaining.
	It's okay.
	But I and probably others are confused by the process.
	Oh, you know what?
	We're all confused.
	We're all confused.
	It's not a process.
	The process.
	I love the process.
	Q1.
	Q1.
	We never expected this to be last for 15 years.
	We now have to really fix the process, which is a process.
	Seeing that my earlier donation was noted, okay.
	We will take care of you.
	You bet.
	You will be knighted today.
	Uh, Christian Lair?
	Uh, well, I'm two more here.
	Uh, I would like to split this donation to two, five hundred, a thousand with a double credit, to my smoking hot wife, Debra, to make her an insta-dame.
	To the love of my life, mother of my child, and reason for getting up every day, you are now an official dame and executive producer of the No Agenda Show.
	I'm thrilled we can now dine and drink together at the round table.
	And I'd like the other 500 to get credited to me, Sir Christian of Phoenix, no title change for now, just the much sought after executive producer credit.
	And you also, your dame will become a black dame.
	And Matthew Bauwens is our final make good.
	And this might actually clear it all up.
	This might be the last of the backlog.
	I want to check in on an Instant Knight contribution during the 15th anniversary special I submitted.
	You got the receipt, of course.
	I mostly want to make sure the show received the donation and I didn't screw it up.
	See, thank you.
	A couple people, hey, I don't care about the mentions, so make sure that you got it.
	That's always appreciated.
	That's very sweet.
	Typically, yes.
	Thanks.
	Oh, did you get the Zelle?
	Someone tried to do a Zelle?
	I'm working on it.
	Yeah, Zelle will probably be in play in a week or so.
	Q1, Q1.
	Where was I?
	Thanks to you and Adam for hosting the best podcast universe all these years.
	I started listening long before episode 200.
	I am well overdue for a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	And here is the show and its producers.
	And its producers have taught me so much over the years, and it's past time for me to contribute some treasure.
	If my contribution still counts towards an Instant Night, it does, with black in front of it.
	Night Meets for Matthew, Mutton and Mead at the round table.
	Of course, that's going to be there.
	Ames, Iowa.
	Matthew, thank you all so much.
	Apologies again that this is forcing us into a process, which is good.
	That's a very good thing.
	Thank you again to the executive and associate executive producers for episode 1504.
	And we'll be thanking more producers later on.
	And we've got a lot more show coming up.
	So with that, I would say if you'd like to be a producer, go here.
	Thank you for 15 years of your time, talent and treasure!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water! Water!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Oh, and I wanted to thank Cabbage Paps for the official Adam Curry strain.
	It is approved, and I can't wait to see it grown all over the world!
	Finally, finally, he's reached his pinnacle.
	He sent me seeds.
	Yeah.
	Oh, he did.
	Good for you.
	Grow him.
	In Texas, you can grow that stuff.
	You'll be arrested.
	Go to jail.
	Grow him, he says.
	Do you want an exit strategy?
	That's a smart move.
	So I've got a bunch of clips because Jordan Peterson was on the Pierce Morgan show.
	Oh, that's why you had the clip.
	Okay, good.
	And that's where that clip came from because he talks about, and I think you'll like these clips because it's about Instagram celebrities, it's about psychopaths online, it's about everything you talk about with your undereducated, over-socialized.
	But he thinks it's more than that.
	He thinks there's a lot of nutcases.
	In the process, I want to pull just a side clip out.
	In the process of discussing this, Piers Morgan makes the following clip.
	This is the Piers Morgan clip.
	Just play this and tell me what lunatic would say this.
	Hold on.
	I'm under Piers.
	I don't see... Oh, here.
	P-I-E-R-S.
	I got it.
	Actually, I had a psychopath test done on me, actually.
	A lengthy questionnaire.
	And they concluded I was a good psychopath.
	A psychopath test?
	They had a psychopath test done on him, and it turned out that he's a psychopath.
	But a good one.
	Well, then Peterson kind of went, well, uh... Hold on, let me hear that again.
	Actually, I had a psychopath test done on me, actually, a lengthy questionnaire, and they concluded I was a good psychopath.
	A good psychopath.
	Well, sounds about right.
	Describes it.
	Alright, so let's listen to some of these clips.
	This is pretty funny stuff.
	So, uh, let's go with the...
	We can do it with a crazy women clip, but let's go with Peterson on Insta Influencers.
	I just got a paper sent to me today by Jonathan Haidt.
	He didn't write the paper.
	It will be published.
	It's published in a journal called Personality and Individual Differences, and it's an examination of the personality traits associated with, let's say, excessive and self-promoting Internet usage.
	And if you don't mind, I'd like to read you a couple of the descriptions of what the people found, because it's so absolutely spot on and relevant.
	I don't think we are descending into tribalism.
	I think what's happening is that the virtualization of the world is enabling People who behave in a particular antisocial way, in a self-grandizing and self-promoting antisocial way.
	And I'll just read you the descriptions that are taken directly from this paper.
	So it's an actual study of online behavior.
	Women characterized by high self-centered antagonism, neurotic narcissism, Machiavellian views, Machiavellian tactics, so that's manipulative, manipulativeness, meanness, disinhibition, Physical sadism and indirect sadism used Instagram for a longer time and more frequently than did men.
	In women, verbal sadism and emotionality was associated with longer, while honesty, humility, and conscientiousness was with a shorter Facebook usage time.
	Furthermore, women high in agentic extroversion, so that's manipulative self-promotion, and indirect sadism used Facebook for a longer time and more frequently than men.
	And so I've thought for a while that one of the things that's happening to us as we virtualize the world is that we're enabling the small percentage of people, it's usually about 3% in general populations,
	Who use manipulation and reputation savaging and denigration and self-promotion, so the genuinely psychopathic types, to dominate the social conversation and to spew their poisonous and manipulative venom into the public domain, not only with no fear of being stopped and no inhibition, which is almost all applied socially, but also while being monetized and promoted by the people who run the social media channels.
	Okay, I'd say two things.
	One, it's being amplified, this 3%.
	Two, 3% seems low.
	percent to three percent seems low well i think his three percent always refers to the percentage of the population that are genuine psycho or sociopaths But then 30% is copycatting those psychopaths.
	Is that what I'm supposed to take away?
	I don't know about that, but... 3% is... I don't know why you think it's low, because the number of people... If you go on Instagram... Insta.
	And you find some of these people, I follow a few of them.
	It's just like fascinating to watch them just take pictures of themselves over and over and over and under any circumstance.
	Picture, picture, picture.
	You know, okay.
	I can't help but think of Scott Adams.
	This is exactly, this is exactly the woman he, he, Scott Adams posts some weird stuff.
	He posted, I'm going to paraphrase, but I think it was, uh, what is Instagram good for?
	No, no, I'm sorry.
	It was, uh, why did I get married?
	Because I wanted to have a week long of fantastic sex with an Instagram model in Vegas or something like that.
	It sounds exactly like how they met.
	It's destructive.
	I mean, that woman, and I'll say that woman, who totally suckered Scott Adams, not a sophisticated player at all, has damaged him.
	Insta indirectly has damaged him.
	And I think she is an example.
	If I were to call anyone or say anyone has maybe some psychopathic, that would be one I'd be looking at.
	There's lots of them.
	And I think it's just, you know, she's one of many.
	Yeah.
	And if you, if you've, it's just like frightening to see some of them and they're just a, I'm not kidding.
	But anyway, part two of the same, uh, as he wraps this, this part.
	Every society forever has had to contend with a small percentage of people who will utilize all the benefits of society only for themselves.
	They had to contend with the fact that those people, if not brought under control, can demolish the structure of the entire society.
	And I think the polarization that we're feeling is a consequence of their untrammeled expression online.
	Instagram, Facebook, and in online comment...
	Oh yeah, well, I think the reason that it applied in this study, in women, is because Instagram is very heavy image use.
	are specific to women.
	Presumably it also applies in other ways to men as well on social media.
	Oh yeah, well I think the reason that it applied in this study in women is because Instagram is very heavy image use, it involves heavy use of images and there are reasons to assume that because of that it attracts women who are directed towards short-term impulsive mating strategies it involves heavy use of images and there are reasons to assume that because of that it attracts women who I I wish he would deconstruct dating apps.
	Oh, he, you know, he'd be, this one, you know, he's, he did this interview with Pierce Morgan and people can look it up, but he also did a longer thing with the Hoover Institution and that guy that, you know, does these interviews over there.
	Victor David Hanson?
	No, no, Victor David Hanson's the guy that's usually being interviewed by the guy who does the interviewing.
	Although Hanson has gone off and done his own podcast.
	No, I can't remember the guy's name.
	Robinson, I think, is his last name.
	And he does interviews and he had a great time.
	An hour-long, it was more of a lecture than anything else by Peterson.
	I thought he's back on form because Peterson over the last few years has just been, you know, trying to recover from his moment where he almost died from, you know, drug use.
	But he's got back on track, I think.
	And this is my second one.
	These are actually discrepant, but let's play just Peterson 1.
	should be required to implement know your customer laws, and then that the people who are posting who are genuine, verified human beings, willing to abide by their words with their personal reputation, should be put in one comment section, and then the online, anonymous, cowardly, narcissistic, and then the online, anonymous, cowardly, narcissistic, pathological troll demons who are polluting the public discourse should be put in a different comment section.
	And if you want to go to hell and visit the troll demons and see what they have to spew, you can, but otherwise you can be among the normal human beings engaged in normal civil human discourse, and that would separate the bloody psychopaths from the bulk of decent normal people.
	And, you know, 97% of people aren't psychopathic.
	See, this is the stuff I don't like Peterson for.
	So he's gonna tell us how to fix Insta, how to fix social networks.
	This is specific to Twitter, this particular content.
	It doesn't matter.
	No, I agree.
	But let me finish.
	What I would prefer this man say is avoid Silicon Valley altogether.
	It's a bug on the internet.
	Route around it.
	He doesn't have the experience.
	I know!
	That's why I'm a little disappointed.
	He's a Canadian.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I expect too much.
	You're expecting way too much.
	If he was if he was actually, you know, moved to San Jose or San Francisco, it wouldn't take much for him to figure that part out.
	But you see, he's he's in the Ben Shapiro group.
	And so he's he's sitting pretty.
	And those guys are all about fighting the new mainstream, which they think their fight is with Twitter and Facebook and all that stuff.
	Whereas there's no fight.
	Go over to the Feddie.
	Do a pod on the Feddy!
	I would like to know, do we know people who are completely narcissistic, nut jobs in the Feddy?
	No!
	Because there's no algos in the Feddy.
	So he's just wasting his breath telling people how to fix the stuff that is toxic we don't need.
	And people enjoy not being on it.
	I wish he would do that.
	But he's in the system, man.
	He's fighting a fight that's dumb.
	Oh man, he's a part of this problem.
	You dig it.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	Part 2?
	Part 2?
	This is not really part 2.
	I think it's slightly separate.
	This is Peterson Crazy Women.
	Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's wife, who does this podcast.
	Let me preface this.
	Crazy women, Meghan Markle!
	Have you listened to Meghan Markle's podcast?
	Um, let me see.
	No!
	Well, she's got a podcast and Pearson's brought up in the podcast.
	Pearson's more than happy to take a clip from her podcast, which includes him.
	Peterson blows up at this, and then he does something I've never heard him do before, and he doesn't do it as well as he could, but not as well as we do it, which is he mimics her and then does a little take on her voice, which he never does.
	And so I just thought this was quite interesting.
	It's very entertaining, and he just Pierce, we know, hates Meghan Markle, and I guess Peterson does too.
	I didn't know that.
	Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's wife, who does this podcast, Archiwell Podcast, or Archetypes, it's called, in which she seems to perennially play the victim, the female victim of all outrages, and your name got dragged into this.
	Let's take a listen to what she said.
	Raise your hand if you've ever been called crazy, or hysterical, or what about nuts, insane, out of your mind, completely irrational.
	I don't think that men can control crazy women.
	The use of these labels has been drilled into us from movies and TV, from friends and family, and even from random strangers.
	And the fact is, no one wants this label.
	What did you make of that, Jordan, to be suddenly appearing on Meghan Markle's podcast as a villain who is calling women crazy?
	The first thing I make of it is that her voice drips with the same falsehood that the voice of Kamala Harris drips with.
	It's this sanctimonious, faux-compassionate talking down to our audience and trying to be sure that we're all really on the same compassionate page here and we're all being victimized by terrible forces that are arrayed against us and none of that's really fair.
	And it just grates on me and I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
	You played a bit of a clip from me when I was talking to Pallia, Camille Pallia, the literary critic, and I do believe, I do believe, I do believe that it is the case that it's very difficult to control female antisocial behavior, often of the type that's been pilloried as hysterical, and I think that there is no shortage of clinical evidence to support precisely that claim.
	It's very difficult for women to control female antisocial behavior, and females who are antisocial, that feminine pattern, is reputation-savaging under the guise of compassionate care.
	And it's extraordinarily destructive.
	Yeah, in that playing field, yes.
	People who aren't a part of that aren't that way.
	I don't know.
	I like Jordan Peterson.
	I've liked him for a long time.
	I'm glad that he lives.
	But to me, it's just more of... Why do you even bring up... Why do you go on a show to talk about Meghan Markle?
	Why do you go on a show... Well, he didn't go on the show to talk about Meghan Markle.
	This is Pierce brought it up.
	I understand.
	But he's talking about crazy women on Insta.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I just don't like his advice.
	I think his advice would be, get off of it.
	Do something else with your life.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	A little bit of food intelligence.
	It's going fast now.
	So, this is just this week in fake food.
	Oh, we need a jingle.
	A startup has turned seaweed into delicious vegan bacon.
	The Dutch, I picked this up from the Dutch Telegraaf, have developed a coffee without a bean.
	What?
	Wait, don't coffee plants take carbon dioxide out of the air and they're valuable and they produce these beans and then you can make coffee out of them?
	What would you want to substitute that for?
	Well, how could it be more green than that?
	So this is, it's made of soy, palm oil.
	Why?
	Because we need to, okay, why?
	Because coffee beans are expensive.
	Why not just sell people the soy repackages coffee for the same price?
	That's why.
	By the way, we should mention, just for historical purposes, there was a product, and I think it still exists, called Postum.
	Postum.
	Postum.
	P-O-S-T-U-M.
	Which was a coffee substitute that became very popular during World War II.
	That's interesting.
	Oh, because there was no money?
	There you go.
	Well, that's why.
	World War II, everything was rationed.
	So they're getting ready for the next rationing period with basically warm crayon water.
	Bugs.
	I don't have bugs.
	From Euronews.
	Headline.
	It's like brewing beer.
	This startup makes baby formula with human proteins to mimic breast milk.
	Yeah, this is good.
	And this is the stuff that they're making.
	And people are going... Cockroach milk.
	It's not even!
	This is all lab grown.
	Now, just to show... This is another good one.
	In Berkeley, California.
	Perlita.
	Are you familiar with perlita?
	Perlita?
	No.
	It's a perlita.
	Let me see.
	It sounds like it's some kind of little oyster joint.
	No, it's a start-up.
	Pearlita, but they are from Berkeley, they've announced plant-based oysters!
	I mean, who needs the protein of an oyster?
	Get to plant!
	Get to plant!
	It's great!
	But the kicker today, John, just to show you where we're at, the Food and Drug Administration, you know them, has approved laboratory-grown meat for human consumption for the first time.
	And it's called Upside.
	Upside, is it called Upside Meat?
	Upside Foods.
	You can find them at, I think it's upsidefoods.com.
	Let's see, it's open.
	Are they traded?
	Upsidefoods.com.
	No.
	Well, let me see.
	I don't think so.
	They will be because there's some Oh my goodness, I haven't even seen this.
	They got celebrity endorsements.
	Hmm.
	Oh, lawsuit waiting to happen.
	Well, alright.
	Here is, uh... This is their chicken.
	So they have... Chicken?
	Yes.
	Let me see their product.
	I hope that's... Cheapest crappy meat in the world.
	They're gonna make it in our lab.
	Our foods.
	The upside of chicken?
	They have, uh... Uh... Coming soon.
	Oh, so they only have chicken right now, but coming soon they will have all kinds of meats.
	Chicken?
	Yeah, what is the science of it?
	Let's start with chicken.
	Yeah, hold on, we're gonna start with chicken.
	Here it is, so the science page.
	From one chicken to enough chicken for everyone.
	Our production process starts by taking a sample of primary cells from a chicken or fertilized egg.
	From this sample, our team selects ideal cells for developing a commercial cell line.
	The winning cells, get a blue ribbon, are chosen based on their ability to produce high quality meat and grow predictably and consistently.
	This process is called immortalization.
	Immortalization!
	Once a cell is established, we're able to draw from it for years, if not decades to come, reducing the need to take additional cell samples from animals.
	This is actually fascinating.
	Step two.
	In the production process, we have our cell line established and are ready to begin producing meat from those small samples.
	To make upside chicken meat, we need to nourish the cells.
	We've developed a proprietary cell culture medium, or cell feed, that's optimized for our cells' needs and consists mostly of common compounds found in animal feed and human food, including amino acids, fatty acids, sugars, trace elements, salts, vitamins, And then they cultivate it, and they put them into a vessel called a cultivator, where I guess it just ferments and becomes yeast.
	After about three weeks, the tissue is ready for harvest.
	We remove the tissue from the cultivators and separate out any remaining cell feed, and then it's good to eat.
	They need to pack it.
	Once harvested, the meat is ready to be inspected, prepared, packed, served, and enjoyed.
	They forget the whole process where they make it look like chicken.
	And who is the celebrity endorser?
	No one less than Sir Richard Branson!
	Oh, brother.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	Good to see you.
	Really excited and looking forward to tasting your latest rendition.
	Yeah, thank you.
	We're cooking a chicken piccata with butter and wine sauce.
	It already smells good, even from here.
	Butter, yeah.
	Look, all of you guys over there, can you just come over here and look at this?
	This is extraordinary.
	I know we're making a little film, but this is just everybody... By the way, in this film, he makes the crew and the producers eat it first.
	And then he takes a bite.
	He's not stupid.
	It's hiding in the background, so come and see this.
	This is just too good to be true.
	Oh, it's too good to be true?
	I just tried the chicken, it's like the best chicken I've ever had.
	I know, but it's just nice eating chicken that wasn't alive and clucking.
	Yeah, and didn't go in the battery farm.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Do you hear this?
	Oh, at least it wasn't a chicken that was alive.
	Because you wouldn't even know.
	And you know it hasn't got all that horrible stuff shoved in it.
	And you're eating chicken that's going to change the world.
	Yeah.
	Oh, change the world with this chicken!
	Yes, we believe that very much.
	That's great, thank you.
	And now Branson's going to try it himself.
	Wow, that is truly delicious.
	Someone's gonna grow a third arm and sue him for this.
	Absolutely, absolutely delicious.
	You've got a good chef there, but it's just so nice.
	We have one more thing for you.
	A big surprise.
	Come on over, Daniel.
	Oh, big surprise!
	It's chicken tikka masala.
	Oh my god!
	Oh my god!
	Absolutely.
	Thank you.
	We've taken this yeast laboratory grown goop of cell clusters you let ferment and we made it taste like chicken tikka masala.
	Wow.
	Wow!
	Quite brilliant, thank you so much.
	Better than the best Indian restaurant I've ever been to.
	Best ever!
	This excites me more than almost any company I've come across, because if you can grow enough meats and fishies and other things, you know, you could save the rainforest, you could save, ultimately save the world.
	So, cheers!
	Save the world!
	By killing humans!
	What they do is saving the rainforest.
	Oh, man!
	No, they're not public.
	They're not public.
	No, they will be.
	They're starting in the United States.
	Where do you obtain your cells?
	From Uyghurs?
	Are we actually thinking about it?
	The next step of this would be cannibalism.
	We could grow human edible tissue.
	Soil it green.
	And we could eat that.
	So this kind of flies in with a clip I have here on food.
	By the way, this was not a clip about food.
	This was a clip about some weird chemical crap people are being told to eat by Richard Branson, who couldn't even get out of the atmosphere.
	This clip is with Michael Pollan bitching about McDonald's french fries.
	Yes, you were an aficionado.
	Well, they've gone bad.
	They went south some years ago and they changed the oil and they changed the formula for the french fries.
	But I never thought about what he's going to talk about here, which is another reason not to buy anything from McDonald's.
	It's basically, it's just one step closer to what you just played.
	If you go to McDonald's, anywhere in the world, you will find French fries, or chips as you call them.
	I find that they're always made from the same potato, the russet burbank potato.
	This is a potato from America that's unusually long, and difficult to grow.
	But that's what they want, because when you're McDonald's, you like those red boxes with a little bouquet of very long chips.
	It looks really good.
	And so they insist that all their potatoes be russet burbanks, and they further insist that they have no blemishes at all.
	There's a very common defect of russet burbank potatoes called net necrosis.
	And you've seen potatoes with a little brown line sometimes or spots that comes through it.
	Well McDonald's won't buy them if your potatoes have that.
	And the only way to eliminate that is to eliminate an aphid.
	And the only way to do that is with a pesticide called monitor.
	That is so toxic that the farmers who grow these potatoes in Idaho won't venture outside into their fields for five days after they spray.
	And then when they harvest their potatoes, they have to put them in these atmosphere-controlled sheds, the size of a football stadium, because they're not edible for six weeks.
	They have to off-gas all the chemicals in them.
	So you see, the desire for a certain kind of chip leads to a certain kind of agriculture.
	Agriculture?
	You mean science experiment?
	That is disgusting.
	That's disgusting.
	Totally disgusting.
	Last week I went to the P.O.
	Box, was it two weeks ago?
	A week and a half ago.
	Got my hair cut, P.O.
	Box, did my round.
	Now we've been eating since, we're not stopping by though, we've had bacon, hamburgers, hamburger meal, not with buns and everything, but hamburgers for breakfast, beef, steaks.
	Yeah!
	Oh, it's great!
	Hamburger, nice little... You know, you don't put like ketchup and mustard and relish on it.
	Or you could.
	So you're substituting the hamburger for breakfast for pork sausage?
	No, we also have the pork sausage.
	We have it from Holy Cow.
	I mean, there's all kinds of stuff.
	I was so hungry driving.
	It's about an hour and 20 minutes from Austin.
	I can see this one coming.
	And I'm like, I'll just have a cheeseburger, a fries, and a Dr. Pepper.
	Medium, medium, medium.
	Dude, I hadn't even hit dripping springs and my body was rejecting this stuff.
	It's so horrible.
	Even what we get in restaurants now that we're used to getting it straight from the rancher?
	And you were talking about going to Costco and what beef you were buying, about it being USDA.
	I think you're wrong.
	A lot of that is from South America.
	It's branded USDA.
	But I can't even eat Costco beef anymore.
	I'm surprised you still can.
	It's not bad, but it's not primo.
	And that's what's happening here.
	All the good stuff, that'll be like caviar, really expensive, and we get Richard Branson chicken nuggets.
	Grown in the lab.
	What place did you stop at to get this burger?
	McDonald's.
	Drive-thru.
	The worst!
	Yes, that's what I'm saying!
	I've been reviewing these burgers on this show now for a number of years because I check one out every so often.
	I can't believe I did it!
	I was weak!
	It was very bad!
	Fell off the wagon.
	Carl's is better.
	Carl's.
	Carl's Jr.
	There was, uh... Anyway, um... No meat for you or dairy if you're at the University of Sterling.
	Where's Sterling?
	Uh, Britain.
	Meat and dairy products will be banned on university campus!
	The students voted to go vegan.
	Send your kid to that university, Sterling, where they'll fall down dead.
	This is an example of the use of democracy to assert the rights of the minority.
	I can't believe for a minute every single student, unless it was every single student that voted for this, that it would be acceptable.
	I believe it was... This is tyranny!
	Here you go.
	The Sterling University Student Union back to move towards a plant-based menu at the three food outlets it controls with activists to demand the policy is adopted across the entire institution.
	The campaign group Animal Rebellion Link to Extinction Rebellion said the move was the UK first and would help address the climate and ecological emergencies due to emissions linked to farming.
	So they're in the schools now telling you what your kid can eat as a political pressure group from the outside.
	Homeschooling people.
	Homeschooling.
	Much better.
	And there was a new study that came out, I think it was like 19 scientists or something, who did this?
	The Annals of Internal Medicine.
	Is that good?
	The Annals of Internal Medicine?
	I think it is.
	They found little correlation between red meat consumption and health problems.
	A number of organizations immediately contested the evidence, claiming it to be based on an irrelevant system of analysis.
	They started freaking out.
	The PSYOP has to continue.
	It's sludge in your body, man!
	Don't eat it!
	It gives cancer, man!
	It stays in your intestines for 15 years!
	All of that stuff.
	All of that.
	Old tropes.
	Very old tropes.
	I think we should just do a little quick stuff on Russia since, you know, we almost did have World War III or something like that.
	We haven't discussed it at all.
	Yeah, I get the one missile in Poland clip and I don't have any others.
	Well, I have the, hold on, I have the...
	I have the ABC... Oh, this is short.
	Ukrainian President Zelensky is pushing back after the U.S.
	and other allies said that that missile that hit Poland this week was apparently fired by Ukraine.
	They believe it was unintentional, fired as Ukraine tried to intercept Russian missiles.
	NATO officials say Russia is ultimately responsible, but Zelensky wants his officials to join the investigation.
	What does this remind you of when it comes to Russia and Ukraine?
	This is the shootdown of the Malaysian airliner.
	Oh, a little bit, yeah.
	Same thing.
	Russia got blamed.
	We know Ukraine did it, except for some reason, Bellingcat was sent away.
	They weren't allowed to do this one.
	And even Biden, everyone came out pretty quick and said, oh, yeah, that was a mistake.
	Which seemed coincidental with the $37 billion that was immediately made free.
	Well, this has been going on since day one with the Ukrainians firing missiles into neighborhoods and blaming the Russians.
	I mean, the whole operation seems to be one giant false flag with this Zelensky character.
	How many hundreds of thousands of people are supposed to be dead?
	There's supposed to be 10,000 dead soldiers on each side, and then there's got to be at least 100,000 civilians.
	Where are the bodies, man?
	They never show the bodies.
	Well, they don't show bodies anymore.
	Uh-huh.
	Okay.
	You don't think anyone's dead?
	Is that what you're making a claim for?
	I'm not making any claim.
	I have no idea.
	I wish they would tell us.
	Well, we don't know anything about anything because this whole war has been Wag the Dog style for us.
	And that's my point.
	Wag the Dog is what it feels like.
	Time and time again.
	Right down to the green screen questions.
	Well, here's my one lone clip.
	A missile hit Poland during an exchange of fire between Russia and Ukraine.
	Poland and NATO now say the blast may have been a stray from Ukrainian air defense forces, not a Russian strike.
	Yesterday, Russia attacked Ukraine.
	Ukrainian air defense, missile defense fired a lot of missiles to neutralize this Russian attack.
	It is estimated that maybe half, maybe a bit more than a half of all Russian rockets were shot down.
	The rest hit the Ukrainian territory.
	It is unfortunately highly probable that one of the missiles fired by the Ukrainian air defenses fell on our territory.
	The statement relieves global fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over the border.
	The missile landed on Polish territory four miles from the Ukrainian border, killing two people.
	Poland's president said it was a Soviet-made S-300 rocket, but there was no evidence it was launched from the Russian side.
	The blast occurred as Russia launched dozens of missiles at several locations in Ukraine.
	Kiev said it shot down most of the incoming Russian missiles with its own air defense missiles.
	The Russian Defense Ministry has denied hitting any civilian targets, but NATO said Russia still bears ultimate responsibility because it started the war.
	Question.
	Should we not have seen the NATO missile defense shield fire?
	Or at least alert something?
	It surrounds, as far as I understand, all NATO member states.
	Could be a phony.
	Maybe it's just a piece of scrap that was flying around, coming in from a distance.
	That's what it looked like to me.
	Looked like there was an intercept or something.
	Some poor guy.
	A couple of people that probably did get killed, but by accident.
	Or on accident, as some would say.
	Well, make no mistake, this was no accident.
	We know who's to blame.
	Ultimately.
	And once you get these guys coming out and making commentary, well, then you know it's all bullcrap.
	This is Lloyd Austin, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
	No, Miley's still the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
	He's the head of the Defense Department.
	Defense Department, I'm sorry.
	Secretary of Defense.
	We're still gathering information, but we have seen nothing that contradicts President Duda's preliminary assessment that this explosion was most likely the result of a Ukrainian air defense missile that unfortunately landed in Poland.
	And whatever the final conclusions may be, the world knows that Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident.
	Oh yeah.
	Russia launched another barrage of missiles against Ukraine, specifically intended to target Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.
	This tragic and troubling incident is yet another reminder of the recklessness of Russia's war of choice.
	New meme, Russia's war of choice.
	It's interesting.
	Yeah, I wonder what they're going to do with that one.
	There used to be a legal war.
	That's Russia's war of choice.
	Well, anyway, this went down and a nice little script unfolded at G20.
	This is an incredible piece of video.
	This is Rushie and Justy.
	I mean, Rishi and Justy.
	Rishi, the Prime Minister of... Dishi Rishi, the Prime Minister of the UK, and Justin Trudeau, PM of the Canadias.
	So they immediately called their friend Volodymyr to just check in and see how he was doing.
	And they did this on camera, in a little office, at the G20, together, on a cell phone.
	So this is the scene.
	They're behind a desk.
	We're seeing them both, you know, the torso with the cell phone.
	The cell phone's on the desk.
	They're both looking at the phone to call this really important person.
	- Communist Judo, Communist Jusenak, President Zelensky, please don't have you online. - Hello Vladimir, it's Rishi and Justin.
	I really wanted you to hear from us as friends.
	We absolutely know how difficult yesterday was.
	It was horrific for you and your country and we have called it out in the session that we've just had.
	And on the media here this morning.
	And we made that point loud and clear to everyone who was here that what your country had to live through yesterday was unacceptable and represented yet more barbarity from the Russians.
	We stood united in condemning it.
	Rishi and I really wanted to reach out to reassure you, to show you we're standing with you, and to say we're going to figure out this step-by-step all together.
	Thank you, Vladimir.
	Talk to you soon.
	Didn't even have the guy on the phone.
	What a crock of crap that was.
	And they filmed the whole thing.
	It was staged.
	For what purpose?
	To keep us informed, to show that we're all one family, to show that Ukraine's part of the Western scene.
	We can't take any of this seriously.
	This is their own version of propaganda to keep it going.
	Hey, we're calling you as friends, Volodymyr.
	They suck at it.
	Rishi and I just wanted to say hi.
	How's the wife?
	How's the palace?
	What a crock!
	I mean, that's ridiculous.
	I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	And we have a few people to thank for show, uh... 1405.
	1504.
	1504.
	1405.
	1504.
	We're almost at 1505.
	14.05. 15.04. 15.04. 14.05. 15.04.
	We're almost at 15.05.
	Yeah.
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	Then there's Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico.
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	Rod, that's a hundred bucks.
	Robert Petta is also a hundred from Sacramento.
	Brian and Suzy Morris in Liberty, Maine.
	Oh, Brian and Suzy.
	Okay, there was something.
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	They said, oh, you can just take our mini.
	And this is nine, ten, eleven years ago.
	The mini still exists and it turned, it went nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.
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	They sure did.
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	And as we wrap it up with Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas, our buddy, and Alexander Verdejo in Gig Harbor, Washington.
	I want to thank these folks for helping us get show 1504 off the ground.
	And you are producers of this show, so are you who came in under 50 for reasons of anonymity, but many of you are still on those subscriptions.
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	Sir Sean Smith celebrates.
	And Amanda Spartan, who we just heard, says happy 33rd birthday to his smoking hot husband, James Swart.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Now, so we have two knights, and then we have a nice little list of black knights and dames, who we, of course, read their notes earlier, so... Here's the anodized blade.
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	Thank you all so much for celebrating 15 years with us.
	1,500 episodes.
	Thanks for being patient.
	You're all black knights and dames.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Yeah, that doesn't stop.
	The meetups are unique to the No Agenda Show because they are completely producer-organized and people love them.
	Fort Wayne, Indiana, bring your report.
	Four score and seven years ago.
	No.
	Hello, this is the third meeting in Fort Wayne.
	This is the best place to be.
	The server's name is Hillary.
	We're not going to hold that against her in the morning.
	In the morning, PBR Street Gang!
	Indianapolis is truly a threat to democracy.
	This is Eli.
	I second what he said, and that's not hyperbole.
	This is Jonathan from Fort Wayne, enjoying my mac and cheese in the Eastern time zone, where election deniers are welcome.
	In the morning, Dame Trinity of the Pie Cake Inn.
	This is Shelly from Fort Wayne.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Jared from Fort Wayne.
	Not a spook?
	Not a spook!
	You guys are great.
	Yeah, one of these days we're going to make it out to that one.
	The Keeper's Old Stomping Grounds.
	Meetups, here's a quick list.
	Today, the Mile High Good Night Everybody Meetup at 630 Mountain Hanger 101, Lakewood, Colorado.
	You can make that easy.
	Charlotte's Thursday, 3rd Thursday monthly meetup, 7 o'clock, Ed's Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Saturday, Ben's and Bernadette's, That Brunch, 11 a.m., Takara, Fort Worth, Texas.
	The Shrunken Amygdala Support Group, 2 o'clock at Taft's Brewporium in Cincinnati.
	Flight of the No Agenda Meetup, 3-03-4.
	Electric trains are good, 3-33 p.m.
	at Red Car Brewery and Restaurant in Torrance, California.
	Also on Saturday, Local 1, pre-holiday at the rink.
	That's the private rink in Rochester, Michigan, so make sure you contact whoever you need to contact, noagendameetups.com.
	The KC of No Agenda BBQ is postponed due to lack of sign-ups.
	Good work, KC!
	And then on the next show day, Sunday, Crossroads of America, the Tribal Meetup, 3 o'clock at St.
	Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	The TMI EVAC Zone, November Meetup, 3.30, Evergreen Brewing in Camp Hill, PA.
	The Secret Society for the Prevention of Sobriety, 4 o'clock at Rock Island Public House, Blue Island, Illinois.
	We couldn't even done that on the radio.
	Do you think we could have even made that joke?
	I don't think so.
	Myrtle Beach, also on Sunday.
	Tourist season is over.
	Celebrated Arcade Bar, the old Malduros, by the mall in Murrells, Inlet, South Carolina.
	And finally, the no-agenda Friendsgiving Family Festival extravaganza, Skipper's Pier Coastal Cajun Kitchen, in Gladewater, Texas.
	And your host for that will be the Dirty Jersey Whore.
	He's a great guy.
	Go hang out with the Dirty Jersey Whore.
	Those are your meetups, the ones that are just coming up in between the next two shows.
	There are many more to see.
	You think that you're weird?
	You're gonna fit right in.
	We have every kind of, it takes every kind of people, just like Robert Palmer said.
	And you can find them at a No Agenda Meetup, noagendameetup.com.
	If you can't find one, start one yourself.
	I have a lot of weird ISOs.
	I I have one.
	Why don't you play yours and I think mine could top them all.
	Okay.
	Here's one.
	I want you to stay safe.
	Nope.
	Too muddled.
	Thank you, Vladimir.
	Talk to you soon.
	I kind of like that one.
	It's so hard to hear.
	Sub-level 33.
	No, you can't hear that at all.
	Sub-level 33.
	What's this?
	Shut them down!
	Shut them down?
	What's this?
	That podcast is filling your head with garbage.
	No, no, no.
	This is the only one.
	This is the only one I think is good.
	I like that guy.
	Yeah.
	Now, okay, you clearly... The disdain in your voice says you've got something really good.
	Well, I have something that's clear, and it fits in at the end of a podcast, especially ours, and it's just crazy.
	Crazy.
	That's a good one.
	You get no argument from me on that one.
	Normally, I like to fight you.
	Not on this one.
	Okay.
	That's good.
	Let me see.
	Final things.
	Artemis.
	We did all that.
	I really don't think that... I think I've kind of gotten through most of the things that were important.
	Oh, the... yeah, the big pharma.
	These are just some things.
	There's no clip.
	Just want to read these.
	We got some boots on the ground report.
	Okay, I've got, I can follow that with a COVID clip.
	Good.
	The fentanyl pills, the colored pills, these are anonymous producers.
	Adam wanted to add a note about the news reporting on the Fenta pills disguised as Xanax.
	Oh, this, yeah, okay.
	This has been potentially happening for a number of years now since the advent of darknet markets.
	The bulk drugs are illicitly purchased from underground Chinese labs as powder, then using counterfeit pill pressing machines are pressed into things like Xanax bars.
	The bars are usually pressed in Canada because the criminal code here for counterfeiting pharmaceuticals is a punishment of only a few years.
	Then the pills are brought over to the States and sold in bulk.
	These Chinese producers will make whatever you like so the people buying benzodiazepines have the option to buy fentanyl as well.
	Some darknet market sellers joked about putting fentanyl into the bars instead of Xanax.
	Some ended up doing it.
	So I did not know that this was being done in Canada.
	Wow.
	That's a good little note.
	That's a great little note.
	Now about Ativan.
	Remember we had the official Zoomer tell us that she suspected our vice president was on Ativan, which he called the CBD of antidepressants.
	And we have a boots on the ground report.
	Because I've never taken Ativan.
	It's very popular though.
	For about two years I took five milligrams of Ativan twice a day.
	I was in a crazy stressful job and have always had anxiety issues.
	On Ativan my work was perfect.
	Others were allowed a 2% error rate without getting into too much crap from management.
	My error rate was 0%.
	And I was buying 5 or 6 million in direct mail components and another million or so in postage.
	My golf game was better than ever!
	If Harris is taking Ativan, she's playing a dangerous game.
	The drug shifts your mind to the quote, fuck it gear.
	I found my financial and personal decisions were skewed to the don't worry about it and my credit cards recorded the reckless spending.
	I don't judge Harris as someone with great intellect.
	She probably has an average or slightly better IQ and few street smarts.
	That being said, lower IQ people have difficulty with introspective thinking on a powerful drug like Ativan.
	He says, for the last 20 years or so, I found the real cure for my issues.
	Have some faith in God.
	He doesn't want to see you fail.
	And he also says, the other component is a steady supply of THC.
	I'm not talking about getting all baked up.
	I'm talking about finding a nice place in your head and maintaining the dose from there.
	And so then on this comes a report from CCHR, the Commission on Human... Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
	Number of people taking psychiatric drugs in the United States.
	We finally have a breakdown!
	How many psychiatric drugs total number of people in the United States are on any kind of psychiatric drug as we speak?
	A hundred million.
	Yeah, you're a little over.
	76,940,157.
	Which means probably a hundred million.
	Pretty much everybody.
	Let's look at Adderall.
	My goodness.
	We got almost 2,000,006 to 12-year-olds on Adderall.
	pretty much everybody.
	Let's look at Adderall.
	My goodness.
	We got almost 2 million 6 to 12 year olds on Adderall.
	1,300 two to three year olds, 57,004 to five year olds, and of course 25 to 44 year olds, 3.2 million.
	Antidepressants, 25 to 44 year olds, 12 million.
	Wait, how about young?
	Oh, antidepressants.
	0 to 1 years.
	We still have 7,811 infants we have on antidepressants.
	Do you think that they were able to talk to the psychiatrist first?
	That's disgusting.
	Yeah, this whole thing is, it's in the show notes.
	Needs to be seen.
	Well, so that takes me to my clip.
	I'm thinking about going different clips here, but I'm going to use this one anyway.
	So you can, that's all fine and dandy, but if you veer away from the official party line, medicine has become just a joke now.
	Yeah, it is.
	And, and here's what could happen to you.
	This is the COVID clip.
	Listen to this.
	And in other news, Missouri Dr. Eric Neputi could face a civil penalty of more than $500 billion.
	The Federal Trade Commission has sued him for violating the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act.
	The complaint alleges that the St.
	Louis chiropractor profited from selling vitamin D and zinc products online while promoting those drugs as a treatment or prevention against COVID-19.
	The government's lawsuit says such claims lack scientific merit and says Neputi took advantage of people's pandemic fears.
	But the doctor says the government is only targeting him because he sought other treatments for COVID-19 instead of the vaccine.
	He says they want to make an example out of him.
	According to the CDC, vitamin D does help the immune system fight off bacteria and viruses.
	The case will stand trial in a Missouri federal court in March.
	500 billion, cool.
	Give me a break.
	This is a outrageous story.
	You can't sue somebody for 500 billion because they didn't follow your rules.
	Well, they're suing Alex Jones for a trillion.
	Yeah, big numbers.
	The good news is in, though.
	Big story, big, big story.
	Scientists have developed a fentanyl vaccine.
	How about that?
	We won't have to go in and kill any cartel.
	We won't have to stop the fun.
	You can just micro-dose this vaccine.
	Remember there was some other, remember they had this anti-smoking vaccine?
	Smoking, cessation, cocaine.
	There's a whole period during our show, about eight, nine years ago, where there was all these phony vaccines.
	That was the big financial conference.
	They're finally here.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, we've got Bandrew Says.
	And Bandrew is going to do something about Elon's real plans for Twitter, so I'll probably stay tuned and listen for that.
	End of show mixes, we've got two.
	We've got a brand new one from Mattie J and classic Fletcher Trap Dog.
	Haven't played that one in a long time.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return with you in our 16th year.
	On Sunday, join us here, will you please?
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until Sunday, everybody.
	Adios, mofos and such.
	And hoi, hoi.
	He's calling me a crackpot.
	Now beat it, buzzkill.
	Yesterday, I was a crackpot.
	Turns out it's a real buzzkill.
	Crackpot?
	A coup?
	Argent buzzkill once again.
	You think I'm some kind of crackpot?
	Uh, that's kind of a buzzkill.
	You have to be either an obsessive crackpot who's escaped from his keeper or a Samuel T. Cogley attorney-at-law.
	Buzz!
	I think we have a crackpot on the city payroll.
	I think it's a crackpot idea.
	Buzzkill.
	Is that crackpot?
	That long head?
	The drunken crackpot.
	Hello.
	Buzzkill.
	Captain Buzzkill.
	That's a right-wing crackpot.
	I mean the same with you, man.
	I was cracked.
	Crack.
	Buzz, buzz, buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I thought you were going to say pizza.
	Yeah, no, no, no.
	Buffalo wing.
	No.
	You want crack.
	Yeah.
	Buzz.
	Buzzkill.
	Crack.
	Crackpot.
	And, uh... Buzzkill.
	Crack.
	Yeah.
	Buzzkill.
	Crack.
	Crackpot.
	Buzz.
	Buzz?
	Crack.
	Crack.
	You're gonna crack at me?
	Buzzkill.
	Our government is a lie.
	Like shit.
	Buzzkill.
	Like the crack.
	Crackpot.
	Senile, amoral, back cut.
	Buzzkill!
	Now I've never had sex.
	Dude, you are going to love it.
	What a buzzkill that was.
	We begin with a battle over paternity leave.
	Paternity leave!
	I deserve it!
	Hey man, I should have this day off.
	I have privilege.
	I have this beautiful, beautiful, white Labrador.
	Labs are great dogs, good beginner dog.
	I gotta tell you man, this dog was looking at me like...
	Excuse me, I think we're going to adopt this dog.
	Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was.
	This, this, this, this, this is what it was.
	Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was.
	A trap dog, obviously.
	Whoa!
	Trap dog, trap dog, this is what it was.
	This, this, this, this, this is what it was.
	Trap dog, trap dog, would you like your free dog?
	She's now stuck there.
	When I'm frustrated with John, I need something to kick, so maybe this white lab will do.
	It just seems, uh, like the right thing to do.
	You can't do that.
	By the way, you have an adult dog.
	And they're either the calmest, greatest, really good dog, or they're nuts.
	No matter what.
	Well, I gotta tell you... Crap dog!
	Crap dog!
	That's what it was.
	That's what it was.
	If you don't listen to it, you have no idea how much content is in there, okay?

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