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	These guys are dumb.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, November 20th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media assassination episode 1505.
	This is no agenda.
	Surviving the lake effect and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in funeral region number six.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where Cal beats Stanford.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Yes, they beat it because of the lake effect, I hear.
	you Yes, exactly.
	Have you ever heard of, have we ever discussed the lake effect?
	I don't know, I'm very familiar with it.
	Oh, I don't remember it as a term.
	Oh, it's been forever.
	Oh, well, it's back.
	Turning now to a massive and dangerous lake effect storm moving from the Great Lake.
	Has it ever been massive and dangerous, though, is the question.
	They're always nasty.
	No, massive and dangerous.
	Massive and dangerous.
	Turning now to a massive and dangerous lake effect storm moving from the Great Lakes to the northeast.
	Several feet of snow is likely across multiple states.
	The storm is already being blamed for at least two deaths and there are reports of a partial building collapse just south of Buffalo.
	The snow is expected to pile up across the Great Lakes region through the weekend and nationally.
	Below normal temperatures are forecast from the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast and as far south as Texas.
	Global warming!
	Exactly!
	And since you're into sports... A lot of us are going to be watching football this weekend.
	The Buffalo Bills were supposed to play the Detroit Lions in Buffalo this weekend.
	The game has been moved.
	A Buffalo Bills game has been moved because of snow.
	If that tells you anything about what we're looking at, that actually brings us to our big number.
	This blinding snowstorm that's supposed to be coming here now.
	But 25 below, those are some of the wind chills expected to sweep through parts of the northern Rockies and Plains today.
	Some of the coldest temperatures so far this season.
	All of this just going into really a rough weekend of weather.
	And yes, the Buffalo, that whole area, western New York, a bit of a mess right now.
	Lake effect snow.
	I've been listening to Ginger Zee and Rob Marciano.
	Ah, yes.
	I would love it when they have to do news stories about COP 27 while it's 25 below in Buffalo.
	What's funny is this Buffalo Bills, a team which is in Buffalo, duh.
	Yeah.
	They play in the snow.
	You play in the snow in these areas.
	But they showed a picture of the stadium.
	It's like 10 feet of snow.
	I know.
	It's great.
	You throw the ball, it would land on top of a snow bank.
	You just go grab it.
	I mean, it's just hilarious.
	Yeah, it's really good.
	So, you know, of course, this is all very annoying.
	I have my, and I have my COP26.
	Oh, no, I know.
	I'm leading you right into it.
	I'm leading you right into it.
	Thank you.
	Yes.
	First, we have to listen to the president, who says you don't have to worry about, you know, this is happening everywhere.
	In Europe, they're now expecting a very cold winter.
	Of course, it'll be the lake effect.
	From that lake over there, the North Sea.
	What was it?
	It was... We know about Germany, there was something else.
	Oh yeah, the UK.
	Oh man, they expect normal class families to not be able to... It's heat or eat is the slogan now in the UK.
	You can't eat, you can't eat.
	Heat or eat, it's horrible.
	You can die.
	We have the same situation here, of course.
	Uh, only our president, uh, he's already figured out what to do.
	We're saved.
	500 for new doors.
	2,000 to install a heat pump.
	600 to replace electric panels.
	These are what, here's what this means.
	If you're living in a home with a drafty windows and doors starting January 1, you'll be able to save up to $1,100 in the cost of replacing them.
	And that's just on the upgrade.
	You're also going to save a lot of money going forward because your utility bills will be lower.
	And that's good for your wallet, but it's also good for the environment.
	Because you're using less energy.
	That's not all.
	If you want to install solar panels on the roof, you can get a tax credit for 30% of the cost.
	It'll bring down the cost of installation by about $7,500.
	When you get to keep saving money on your electric bills for the remainder of the year.
	So the president's solution is, hey, just put some solar panels on your roof.
	We'll give you 30% back after you funded it.
	Hey, you want to upgrade your drafty, leaky door?
	Why do you think, Mr. President, they have a drafty, leaky door in the first place?
	You guys are an idiot.
	Big idiots.
	All right, let's do your... Well, there's not much to it, but I do have a bunch of cop clips.
	Yeah, I want to do some cop clips.
	I don't even see them on here.
	Where'd they go?
	Well, now that's a good question.
	Well, there they are.
	A cop.
	Yeah, crime is good to be mixed with CCP.
	I see, I see.
	Let's go with... I only have two clips, but they're important.
	This is the rundown from the failure.
	This is from PBS.
	The US and other nations offered an 11th hour proposal to rescue UN climate talks from failure.
	The focus was on compensating nations already being damaged by weather disasters.
	Jeff Bennett reports.
	With climate talks nearing the end, the divisions only seem to be widening today as world leaders push past their initial deadline for reaching a deal.
	Today we need to shift gears again.
	Time is not on our side.
	Several climate issues are being debated at the annual United Nations summit.
	And questions surrounding the creation of potential loss and damage payments remain a major sticking point.
	The basic idea, wealthier nations, which have long polluted the most, should give money to poorer and developing nations affected by climate change.
	Germany's foreign minister acknowledged the harmful impacts wealthy nations can create for vulnerable countries.
	Spending money is not an end in itself.
	It's about ensuring justice.
	Climate justice.
	Because we are currently seeing that those who've contributed the least to it suffer the most from the current climate damage.
	The talks were set to wrap today, but have been pushed into the weekend as resolutions remain up in the air.
	A draft decision from the Egyptian presidency was released this morning, outlining a potential plan.
	Some were immediately critical, saying it was vague and left out important priorities.
	Among the key questions, whether a new fund for vulnerable nations would be tied to explicit commitments to phase out fossil fuels.
	The European Union surprised many overnight with this proposal, but it did not appear in the drafts being debated today.
	The summit brought together some of the youngest climate activists to fight for their nations.
	Ah, you caught the same thing I did.
	So first of all, yeah.
	This seems to be the only reason for this summit, as usual.
	And I think the number is 100 billion, and it's already set.
	We already saw the 100 billion.
	They just partied for a whole week.
	And they just had to vote at the end.
	Who was going to get what?
	That's what it was all about.
	Who had the best party, I guess.
	I'm always getting anything it looks like.
	The Chinese aren't going to pony up and the Indians aren't going to pony up and they're going to keep polluting like crazy.
	And so the Europeans are saying, well, you know, it's cold here.
	We're not going to cut fossil fuel for you.
	And so then they discovered, as you've obviously found too, the new Greta.
	Yes.
	Among them, 10-year-old Nakiat Dramani Sam from Ghana.
	Have a hat and do the math.
	It is an emergency.
	If all of you were to be young people like me, wouldn't you have already agreed to do what is needed to save our planet?
	Her speech drew a standing ovation, a glimmer of hope for leaders trying to find unity in the coming days.
	Wow!
	My mind is blown!
	We both came up with a new Greta, but two different Gretas!
	Oh, you have a different Greta than my little African 10-year-old?
	What's her age?
	What's her age?
	Hold on a second.
	Does your Greta have a Wikipedia page?
	I didn't bother to look.
	What's her name?
	But she said Duda Mat, which is a good African accent.
	She's cute.
	My Greta is 20.
	Oh, that's not Greta.
	Greta's 20.
	No, but Greta, this is, this is... No, you have to have a 10-year-old lecturing adults about saving the planet.
	She doesn't even know what a planet is and then get a standing O. My Greta lives in McLean, Virginia.
	She's a spook!
	Yes!
	Yes!
	My Greta is the best Greta.
	I'm happy... Okay, standing ovation for Dudemads.
	Fine.
	Fine.
	Your little African Greta's no good.
	This is the one who's gonna... She's dynamite to look at.
	She's 20.
	Graduate of Stanford.
	Comes from Iran.
	Has strong... You know, born in Iran.
	Now American.
	Greta has to be a child.
	Listen, listen.
	And the WAPO and everyone's all in on her.
	Do you have anything to add?
	I love the science fiction reference.
	I think for me, the biggest thing that I've really focused on is making sure that when we think about accountability, we think about the fact that thinking of it through the lens of individual action is actually a very flawed perception.
	And I think that too often young people feel like we need to think about like our carbon footprint and we need to think about all the ways that we need to act and think more sustainably.
	And I mean, I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about how I live more sustainably.
	student, but I prefaced it by saying that the notion of the carbon footprint was designed by fossil fuel companies and really peddled as a marketing scheme to make us think that we're responsible for the climate crisis when it really is the companies that need to be held responsible.
	And I think for me, being able to educate the thousands of young people that I work with to realize that we need to be holding polluters accountable.
	And part of the biggest way we can do that is by getting involved in political processes and being advocates, going and voting, and then also getting out the vote so that we look at it through a more systemic lens.
	Now, before you justifiably criticize her, this...
	No, you're right.
	She has none of the Greta Hallmarks, but this is the intelligence version.
	This is the deep state version.
	She's everywhere in all the right places.
	This is Washington Post Live TV.
	By the way, does she... I wonder if you can't catch her.
	Does she have short... You should see the TED Talk.
	And they've even dressed her.
	She has big feet.
	That's kind of a downer for her.
	She's got big feet?
	She's got big feet.
	And they put white high heel pumps on her.
	Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
	What if they put a big clown foot on her?
	But she comes from Greta's group, Fridays for Future.
	She also helped organize the 2019 Black Friday climate strike.
	They've been working this girl for a long time.
	She's a national strategist for Fridays for Future.
	Those are the ones with Zero Hour that went into Nancy Pelosi's office.
	Extinction Rebellion.
	She's a part of all of that.
	And then she's in pictures with Nancy.
	That makes sense.
	You want to put a spook in there.
	Yes!
	She's probably smart.
	There she is with Jane Fonda.
	All on the wiki page.
	No, no, no.
	She's a dossier creator.
	Yes.
	She's doing a book on these people.
	Yes!
	She's doing a book on these people.
	Good for her.
	So anyway, I like, I mean, your Greta is more organic.
	Down with that, absolutely.
	But, uh, nah, man.
	They're pushing hard.
	Greta cannot be an adult.
	Hello?
	They're pushing hard.
	She's like a Miss Tennessee, really.
	So she's more like... I'd rather her be like Miss South Carolina.
	And such.
	I do have a COP 27 report which goes over some of the same things.
	Today, a historic step forward in addressing the effects of climate change in the developing world.
	An agreement decades in the making, a global fund to compensate poorer countries suffering climate disasters.
	I hear no objections, it's so decided.
	Yes!
	At the United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, representatives from 200 countries worked into the wee hours to reach the agreement.
	Details, including dollar figures, are yet to be determined.
	Developed countries like the U.S.
	and the European Union and some international financial institutions are expected to be contributors to the so-called Loss and Damage Fund.
	Vulnerable nations like Pakistan, ravaged by deadly flooding this summer, will be the expected beneficiaries.
	What it can do is provide the financial resources that countries will need to rebuild after disasters, to help those who are migrating, who are refugees, to help with food security challenges.
	President Biden addressed the summit on Friday.
	We see our mission to avert climate catastrophe not only as an imperative for our present and future, But through the eyes of history.
	Do you hear they had to edit him?
	They took the beginning of his sentence?
	Listen.
	Convert climate catastrophe not only as an imperative for our present and future, but through the eyes of history.
	Oh, and another edit.
	Oh, man, they have to do four edits for 15 seconds.
	The U.S. and other rich countries had resisted the idea of a fund for years, fearing they could be sued for climate disaster.
	Suckers!
	The new agreement takes away that potential legal liability.
	A show of unity for nations big and small to address a global crisis.
	Suckers.
	Don't worry, you won't be able to sue us.
	What was funny... Yeah, that's cute.
	It was funny watching the show on PBS, because the first clips they showed of Egypt, which would be one of the countries, you know, not responsible for it.
	Yeah, of course.
	They had some great shots of a mosque smogged in.
	It's like, there was a bunch of pictures you couldn't see across the street.
	Wow.
	But yeah, what a fiasco.
	So it's not lost on me that there's a lot of New World Order-like conferences going on right now at the same time.
	We have the, of course, COP 27.
	We have the G20 in Indonesia.
	Or if you're Indonesian, it's the B20.
	Where do those guys get off?
	Why do they get to call it B20 when it's the G20?
	Because they own the venue and they can change the signage.
	By the way, every single guy from Indonesia, all I can think is Obama.
	It's really weird.
	Because he's from there.
	I mean, basically, his dad.
	They all look like Obama.
	And then there's another one, the... Let me see, what do they call this thing?
	This is the... Hydrogen World 2022.
	No, we've been following the Hydra... There's some... also some Russian thing is going on.
	Oh, I haven't seen that.
	I don't know about the Russian thing.
	Yeah, and I think a Chinese event, but anyway, go on.
	There's a lot of events going on.
	Gosh, that really triggers me when you say that.
	What?
	Events?
	No, when you say, anyway, but go on, or go ahead.
	But anyway, go on?
	Yeah, because that's what Kara Swisher does all the time.
	Wow, and I never even watched that show.
	She probably picked it up from me.
	I'm telling you.
	I blame her existence on you.
	I think it's legit.
	It's very legit.
	I think it's very legit.
	But anyway, go on.
	You gotta listen to her do it, man.
	So we've been tracking the hydrogen ever since we heard Queen Ursula say, Hydrogen is the future!
	Green Hydrogen!
	Now let's just review for a moment what the Green Hydrogen is.
	That would be using...
	Renewable energy sources to create enough electrolysis to then have hydrogen as the gas to put into combustion engines.
	Instead of just digging a hole in the ground and pulling out free energy?
	Yes, correct.
	You know, boiling it for a minute or two to, you know, break it up so you can use it for different things and you can paint out of it, everything else.
	Let's don't do that.
	And really right now the only sources, you know, like nuclear energy is the only one that really applies because the windmills and the, you know, you can't do this off a battery charge, I think is the general idea.
	And the whole...
	Green energy, according to everybody, in their own documents everywhere, we're at least a decade out.
	Would you say that's fair?
	At least a decade, maybe two decades.
	I think we're a decade out.
	I think we've been perpetually a decade out.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	Because it's very expensive to do it.
	Because you have to, exactly, you have to generate a lot of electricity and the only way to do it is, you know, the traditional ways, coal, gas or nuclear.
	So it's dumb.
	It's so dumb.
	As you said, why not just get the free energy out of the ground?
	No, we can't do that.
	So here is my boy, Frans Timmermans.
	He is the architect, the executive vice president of the European Commission for Climate Change.
	He is the guy behind the Green Deal in Europe, the initial 500 billion euros already ready to be spent.
	And he did a promo For the next event.
	So I just took his little sound bites out.
	So it's a little bit out of context, but you'll hear how full of crap they are.
	And this is the guy who's supposed to save us before 2030 shilling something that won't be done at least until 10 years from now.
	Hydrogen has a huge future.
	Our economy will be based on hydrogen, so we need to really quickly make sure we have the right capacity to produce enough hydrogen for Europe.
	Well, I think the first priority is to make sure we have enough electricity and green electricity so that we can actually power the electrolyzers.
	The second priority is to build enough electrolyzers.
	The grid!
	third priority is to create the grid so we can get the hydrogen wherever it's needed.
	Well, I mean, ports have always been essential in commodities.
	This is a new commodity.
	This is a commodity of the future.
	And ports should concentrate on affording the investment to make sure these commodities can be part of their economic model.
	It's special because everyone involved in the hydrogen economy is now coming together.
	And so, instead of staying in their own little corner, they're trying to make connections across the board.
	And that's exactly what we need to be successful.
	Well, I think the most important thing is to take this message also to the public.
	So that the public understand that hydrogen is the energy carrier of the future.
	Dude!
	They just did a switch on us.
	It was all electric, electric, electric gear grid, DC grid.
	Now he wants a hydrogen grid.
	This is, this was not, uh, sold to us.
	You know, I was thinking about this as listening to that clip and listening to you.
	We've known about this, you brought up Queen Ursula introducing it, but where did this really stem from?
	Because I've been hearing about the hydrogen economy on and off, and it's always been kind of lurking in the background when they talk about wind power and solar, wind and solar, and clean energy, and then hydrogen shows up.
	Where did this, what's the genesis?
	Somebody out there has to do a little research and send me a memo.
	What's the genesis of this?
	When did this first... Was it in the 20s?
	Was it in the 50s?
	Where did this come from and why and how and why now?
	Well, if I were a scheming kind of guy, I'd think, um, hey, we've been running this wind and solar thing for a while, boys.
	It's running a little dry.
	It is totally running dry.
	It's running a little dry.
	I'm getting tired of saying Elon's going to make better batteries.
	So, I have a plan.
	Let's just say that with this stuff that we've created already successfully, you can see it, that we're going to make a hydrogen economy from that.
	And then it'll give us another 10 years to soak it up!
	Soak it up, baby!
	Here's the other thing.
	The whole thing began, I remember this was at least 15 years ago or so.
	It was during the beginning of the show.
	When the, what the heck?
	What?
	When the Zephyr's gone by at this late hour.
	Oh my goodness!
	Oh my god!
	Listen to that horn!
	Give me a count!
	Seven.
	Seven cars.
	So, steady as she goes, into the abyss.
	Yes, pretty much.
	So, at the beginning of the show, I went and test drove a bunch of these... Cars?
	Fuel cell cars.
	They're all fuel cells.
	When did you test drive them?
	About 10, 15 years ago.
	It was just the beginning of the show.
	I was given an invite to come over to do the track.
	Explain the different versions of hydrogen for propulsion.
	There's two versions.
	One's a fuel cell, which was a big deal.
	And the fuel cell was this little cell.
	It was invented in the, all these technologies were invented in the 1800s, which you always have to remember that batteries were not only invented, but perfected.
	And pretty much the technology we use today is all old technology because there's, they were jacked up about batteries back in the day and they did everything they could.
	Now, every day, oh, we got a new membrane we can use.
	The best we can do is tweak it.
	But anyway, so there's fuel cells, which is an old technology.
	The hydrogen goes through this membrane and some other things.
	I'm not absolutely sure how it works, but it turns the hydrogen going through this, in this process, into electricity, and electricity drives the car.
	And then, that's one technology, and that's the one I tested, and those are the ones that I've talked about this on the show before, that when you punch it, really floor it, they scream.
	In a good way?
	Isn't it a good way?
	Like, like it's cool?
	I don't know that it's a good way or not.
	It's just they're screaming.
	They make a racket, but it's a screaming sound.
	I think it's annoying, personally.
	And then the other one, which is what they're headed toward now, is the hydrogen combustion engine.
	Yeah.
	Which just works like a gas engine and it's just the hydrogen is used as the fuel and that's the one that one of our producers who had one of these cars that was made by Toyota made both the fuel cells and they made these other ones where you punch it and a bunch of water flies out the exhaust pipe.
	This is funny.
	Soon to be augmented with some hog urine.
	Oh, got a bad blue with that hydrogen.
	I think it's true, actually.
	I think there's something else that comes out besides just water.
	Well, they claim, according to the... I mean, it's hard to keep up with this because it's been dragging along, starting with the fuel cells, which weren't going to work because they weren't that, you know, that was... I drove seven or eight cars with fuel cells in them, and they'd make too much noise.
	The screaming sound is just annoying.
	They don't really have the torque of a battery electric car, which can really get out of there.
	I don't know.
	I mean, the whole thing seems like it just showed up 10, 15 years ago and they've been dicking around with it and dicking around with it.
	They're trying to promote it.
	They said, well, you know, one good thing is you can put an airplane, you can run an airplane on hydrogen.
	You can't do that with a battery.
	No.
	At least not for more than 15 minutes.
	Okay, so I can totally see where the hydrogen guys, which Wouldn't that be basically big oil?
	The hydrogen guys went, you know, we're going to push it back against this electrical bullcrap.
	15 years ago would make sense.
	And then they killed it or got killed.
	And now they're coming back because they see that, you know, it's dry.
	And I think that's why you see a Frans Timmermans switching, because I can pull up clips from when he first came out with this, which has got to be three years ago.
	I should do that.
	And there's no mention of hydrogen, green hydrogen, no.
	It's all new.
	I remember when it first showed up, it was like the hydrogen economy, we heard that.
	I don't think we paid much attention to it either.
	And then all of a sudden they've just turned on the spigot.
	This is very fishy to me.
	Hydrogen was never, in fact, even during the fuel cell era, which was really popular for about a year, they were talking about fuel cells.
	All they talked about, and when I went to this meeting, all they talked about was how much hydrogen can you get in a tank and what happens if it blows up because 10,000 pounds per square inch, you have to get that much hydrogen in the tank, it's still not enough.
	And the tanks are under your seat, you know, and what are you going to happen if the thing blows?
	And now we got these new tank technologies.
	That's all they talked about was the tanks and the storage of the hydrogen.
	And what happens if you get hit by a truck?
	What happens?
	Are you a pinto on steroids?
	And then they'd claim that, no, these tanks are bulletproof kind of thing.
	And I don't know.
	I just find the whole thing peculiar and I'd like to know, I'd still like to know the genesis of it.
	John at Dvorak.org, you're going to get messages.
	Yes, John at Dvorak.org, send me what you know.
	We have the best, best producers for stuff like this.
	We have somebody out there that knows the whole thing.
	Right now he's rolling his eyes going, these guys are dumb.
	That's what he's doing.
	Yep, pretty much.
	We're used to it, no worries, we appreciate it.
	So then we had the big G20, B20 as you will, and the White House published on WhiteHouse.gov the 22-page document, G20 Bali Leaders Declaration, and this has caused a little bit of consternation.
	I think people are looking at the wrong thing, but I'd like to just, I'd actually I printed out the document and just highlighted a couple things.
	You want to go through that?
	Just a couple of these.
	Because what it tells us is how they're thinking.
	I don't know if they're going to do it all, but this is what came out of this whole big meeting.
	And what really became apparent to me is It's like climate change.
	There's so many committees and subunits and steering committees and boards of important people and leadership stuff.
	All this money is just flowing all over the place.
	And everyone's just trying to represent, I think, their own commercial interests, which is why a lot of this won't come to fruition.
	But this is just a short clip of the health minister of Indonesia, and he kind of set the tone for one of the major agreements in the G20 Bali leaders' declaration.
	So let's have a digital health certificate acknowledged by WHO.
	If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, then you can move around.
	So for the next pandemic, instead of stopping the movement of the people 100%, which clogged the economy globally, you know, you can still provide some movement of the people.
	Indonesia has achieved G20 country has agreed to have this digital certificate using WHO standard and we will submit into the next World Health Assembly in Geneva as the revision to international health regulation.
	So hopefully for the next pandemic, we can still see some movement of the people, some movement of the goods and movement of the economy.
	For the next pandemic, like that happens just every year, Well, they've tried to make it happen more than it actually happens.
	Yeah, that's true.
	But it happens about once every hundred years.
	Yeah, but he said, for the next pandemic, we need vaccine passports.
	And of course... But to bring this up... Well, so we'll get to it in this document, but the vaccine passports, they all agree that this needs to happen, but they're all saying, we need to have a global standard, which to me means, oh, okay, by IBM wants to be the global standard.
	Microsoft wants to be the global standard.
	I'm sure China has some... Thank God nobody can agree on the global standard.
	No interrupt.
	Yes, exactly.
	Thank God for patents, really.
	Thank God for that.
	That's going to save us because everyone wants to... And they also had a patent discussion at the G20.
	But that, I think, is a red herring because this document is not so much about vaccines as about food.
	The thing is, it's really about food and finance.
	And they start off by just marking what this is about.
	14 years ago, the leaders of the G20 met for the first time, facing the most severe financial crisis in our generation.
	And they're like, hey, and we're back again.
	And now we've got serious global economic challenges.
	So they're not talking about economic challenges, and that these have hindered the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
	I don't know if anyone's ever read the Sustainable Development Goals, and we've discussed it from time to time.
	But they're insane.
	Wouldn't you agree?
	These people are insane.
	This year we have also witnessed the war in Ukraine further adversely impact the global economy.
	There was a discussion on this issue.
	I'll bet there was.
	Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it.
	Oh, I condemned the war.
	Does anyone bring up the fact that the United Nations was set up, you know, what, 70 years ago to prevent this sort of thing from happening, and then when it happens, absolutely nothing seems to be done about it?
	Or can be done about it?
	So the whole thing was a sham?
	That might have been in the discussion portion of the agenda.
	They didn't put it in the report.
	But of course, besides human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy, it's constraining growth, it's increasing inflation, it's disrupting supply chains, heightening energy and food insecurity, elevating financial stability risks.
	I mean, that Putin.
	That Putin.
	So they have a new slogan, Build Back Better Is Out, and they did not consult the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group.
	Their new slogan is, Recover Together, Recover Stronger.
	Oh my God!
	What a piece of crap that is, huh?
	Oh man, that's terrible.
	I don't understand how bad they can do this.
	Build Back Better was better.
	They could have gone to Build Back Better Better, and it would have been better than that.
	So they have three points here that they're going to do to recover together and stronger.
	They will ensure long-term fiscal sustainability with our central banks committed to achieving price stability.
	That's what I said.
	They will protect macroeconomic and financial stability and remain committed to using all available tools to mitigate downside risk, noting the steps taken since the global financial crisis to strengthen financial resilience and promote sustainable finance and capital flows.
	I think that means print money.
	And the third one, take action to promote food and energy security and support stability of markets.
	And they intend to do this by providing temporary and targeted support to cushion the impact of price increases, strengthening the dialogue between producers and consumers.
	Hey, you shitheads are ripping us off!
	I think that's what they mean.
	Increasing trade and investment for long-term food and energy security needs, blah, blah.
	Oh yeah, sustainable food.
	Why do they even have these meetings?
	For the drinking.
	I guess, yeah.
	For the drinking.
	There's some nice bars there.
	In Egypt?
	No, Indonesia.
	Have you been to Bali?
	I haven't been to Bali, but I've been to Jakarta and I've been to the bars there and they're dynamite, which is interesting.
	It's a Muslim country.
	It's one of the, as the Muslims would say, we're Muslims who drink and they drink.
	I drink a lot.
	We will take further coordinated actions to address food security challenges, including price surges and shortages of food commodities and fertilizers globally.
	They're basically saying, look, we're going to have to pay for it because our people are going to starve.
	This is another attempt to gouge the American taxpayer.
	Yeah, I would say so.
	Every time we turn around, all these meetings are about nothing more than trying to gouge the American taxpayer.
	And then you get the dopes like Biden and they're giving away money.
	Now, we've heard about the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
	This is the grain shipments that there was some negotiation about.
	Yeah, wasn't that just an initiative to make sure that the ships get through the Black Sea without getting blowed up?
	Yeah, but this was a negotiation with Russia.
	Yeah.
	It's very interesting.
	And of course, this was a Turkey and UN-brokered Istanbul agreement that put the Black Sea Grain Initiative into place.
	So Turkey has some hand in this.
	I'm not sure how exactly.
	They will continue to strengthen the agricultural market information systems.
	As an early warning tool to enhance food and fertilizer inputs, market transparency, and reduce certain market uncertainties.
	So I guess they can have an IT solution to this.
	Somehow.
	Monitoring the cows.
	The more you go into this, the stupider it sounds.
	What is this?
	They go on, it's just a bunch of virtue signaling of the highest order.
	We're going to do this, we're going to do that, and we're going to make sure this works, and we're going to make sure that works, and we're going to do this, and we're going to ensure this, we're going to ensure that.
	That can't do, Jack.
	We have a new slogan, as we welcome the progress to date towards achieving a post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
	Hello!
	Biodiversity back on deck!
	I mean, we've had the jingle for what, a decade?
	And the initiative is 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature as 30% of all land and all sea must be returned to the biodiversity framework by 2030 so that they are protected.
	30% of the ocean?
	so that they are protected.
	30% of the ocean, that's, do they realize how big that is?
	I think that's rather big.
	Yeah.
	Then we have, we recognize, this is the interesting part here.
	We're getting to the end.
	We recognize... Wait, do they ever in there suggest planting a tree?
	No, no.
	I was not able to find tree planting.
	I think that went the way of the battery guys.
	You'd think that would be something you'd want to encourage.
	They already did that with the Trillion Tree Initiative.
	It was a dud.
	We recognize that the extensive COVID-19 immunization is a global public good, and we will advance our effort to ensure timely, equitable, and universal access to safe, affordable, quality, and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
	Safe and effective.
	Is the word safe and effective in there?
	Yeah.
	Safe, affordable, quality, and effective.
	They've added a couple of things.
	So Pfizer was represented at the event.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	Probably more than once.
	They will also continue with global pathogen surveillance.
	Can you say anything about various state actors creating labs that develop some of these pathogens for Biowarfare purposes and maybe should be abolished.
	Was that in there?
	I think that falls under the global pathogen surveillance.
	That they're gonna fund more of that.
	But please take note they say we recognize that the extensive COVID-19 immunization is a global public good.
	Bullshit!
	You don't get to recognize that?
	When Al Roker has blood clots in his legs and his lungs?
	Poor Al.
	No.
	I didn't know Al Roker had all these blood clots.
	Yeah, it's brand new.
	He's been off the show for two weeks in the hospital.
	Yep.
	He is, of course, triple and triple.
	I had a dream.
	Triple and triple.
	Three and three.
	You had a dream?
	I had a dream.
	Mm-hmm.
	That Schwarzenegger died.
	And it was somehow related to the Vax.
	Really?
	Not in the blue.
	It's crazy.
	I woke up and I said, what?
	Schwarzenegger's dead?
	This would be the best Redbook entry ever.
	I mean, not... This would be a hell of a call.
	Day record for Arnie, but...
	Now, we support the World Health Organization mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, as well as all the spokes in all regions of the world with the objective of sharing technology and technical know-how.
	So this entire G20 has been co-opted by this bullshit?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Holy mackerel.
	You buried the lead here.
	No, I was leading up to it.
	It's called a tension arc.
	We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods under the framework of the International Health Regulations 2005, which is what you just heard the Health Minister refer to, to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.
	So they support proof of vaccination for travel.
	We support continued international dialogue and collaboration on the establishment of trusted global digital health networks as part of the efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics, the next one, that should capitalize and build on the success, the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates.
	It was so successful for them apparently.
	The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of the digital ecosystem, of course they would say ecosystem, and digital economy.
	Now, John, I don't understand.
	Were you provided with a memo about said digital transformation?
	No.
	Well, it's been accelerated.
	And we recognize the importance of digital transformation in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals.
	We acknowledge that affordable and high quality digital connectivity is essential for digital inclusion and digital transformation.
	Is there anything in there about chipping?
	Chipping the humans?
	Well, in a way... A little chip in the palm so you can use that instead of your credit card?
	That's a good one.
	Well, we support continued implementation of the G20 Roadmap for enhancing cross-border payments.
	We encourage central banks and other public authorities and payment industries to continue to work collaboratively on these important initiatives to enhance cross-border payments and we also welcome the joint report by the Bank of International Settlements, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on options for access to and interoperability of these central bank digital currencies for cross-border payments.
	Stuff that's never going to appear.
	There's no evidence that will ever appear.
	Let me see.
	Temporary and targeted measures to help sustaining the purchasing power of the most vulnerable and cushion the impact of commodity prices.
	So they're going to inject money.
	Recognizing that many currencies have moved significantly this year with increased volatility.
	Certainly the FTT token was volatile.
	We reaffirmed the commitments made on exchange rates by our finance ministers and central bank governors in April of 2021.
	What was that?
	Did they agree to fix the exchange rates?
	That's what they always do, fix it.
	Well, they're fixing it.
	Let's see, was there anything else?
	Fixed as in rigged?
	Yeah.
	We look forward to further progress by the IMF in operationalizing the integrated policy framework with the Bank of International Settlements for continued exploration of CBDCs.
	Okay, you've gone too long.
	Special drawing rights, financial stability board, a global stable coin.
	Yep.
	I mean, I just need to let you know that it's all in there.
	And I think along with Along with that would go, hold on a second, where is it?
	Would go this little diddy from CNBC.
	This is, you know, Visa, the CEO of Visa is stepping down.
	And so they had the new CEO, he's 65, he's done.
	They had the new CEO coming in and they were talking on CNBC about the future of Visa.
	One good thing that comes out of this.
	And just coincidentally.
	The FTX disaster for their investors and their employees is that we see an acceleration towards regulation and leaning into good stablecoin regulation, because I think that that is what's necessary to build back confidence for people.
	And we'll see over time.
	We are setting up for the reality of crypto potentially having a role in payments and money movement.
	You know, we don't pick winners and losers.
	We ultimately let the consumer and the experience decide.
	But we're creating on and off ramps for crypto players, putting Visa cards in wallets, being able to convert the stablecoin to a fiat currency and be able to use their Visa card to shop anywhere they want to shop.
	We're even working on being able to settle with a merchant at the end of the day who wants to get settled in a stablecoin versus settled in currency.
	So we'll see what happens over time, but I hope this terrible event forces more acceleration in regulation.
	But Ryan, to the extent this is going to evolve under your leadership in a significant way, when it comes to stablecoins, for example, if Visa is offering it as an option...
	Are we assuming, should the customer assume you've done the due diligence to make sure, for example, that everything in reserve is what they say it is?
	Yeah, regulation's key.
	I think we can all agree on that.
	Hopefully it accelerates.
	We want to be involved in any way that people want to pay and be paid.
	And to the extent that stable coins are I don't know, there's something going on.
	a well-regulated environment and you know two businesses want to engage in cross-border payments using stable coins yeah we want to be involved in that and we want to help and we only get involved in things where our brand is going to ensure that people ensure that it's safe it's secure and it's also easy i don't know there's something going on those are those are big networks talking about stuff so i don't know what's going on i don't There is a great story out about FTX.
	I'll just give you the highlights because it's blowing my mind.
	So FTX, apparently this money laundering operation has just been sending money everywhere they can for any kind of edge, certainly for buying up companies that have regulation.
	I think we talked about that.
	You know, they buy 10% here, buy a whole company there, and they put it under the heading of $2 billion of compliance acquisition or regulatory acquisitions just to get regulatory paperwork.
	Yeah.
	Now this came from the Brownstone Institute.
	Early this year the New York Times trumpeted a study that showed no benefit at all to the use of ivermectin.
	It was definitive.
	But who funded this study?
	And it's right there on the study page.
	It was funded by FTX.
	And FTX is all over debunking and getting rid of ivermectin.
	They're paying for these studies.
	Now this takes it to a whole.
	Wow, that's pretty weird.
	So in other words, there's some Pfizer angle here.
	Who knows?
	It takes it to a whole.
	Or some angle, some pharma angle.
	Because the problem, we'll just reiterate, the problem with ivermectin is that there's plenty of studies that show that it's very effective in reducing this and that.
	But the problem with ivermectin is we always have to get back to it's cost like a nickel a pill, as opposed to five bucks.
	Or ten.
	And so, ivermectin is no good.
	It couldn't be even considered because it's too cheap.
	And the entire medical system in this country is completely corrupted.
	Now, it's, and of course, I took ivermectin twice.
	I don't know if it helped, if it made me better, but I certainly didn't die.
	I didn't have to go to the hospital, so I felt good about it.
	Its use for COVID-19 would be off-label, and this is what the medical establishment used to say, well, no, you can't prescribe that.
	Even more egregious is that the CDC is now saying, hey, we didn't tell you that you couldn't take ivermectin, it was just a recommendation.
	These a-holes are trying to backpedal on that, but of course the FDA was really the one that went after the medical boards and created this.
	You can't do it, because for the very reasons you just mentioned, it's too cheap to be made generically.
	But again, it's an off-label use and, you know, off-label is... No, it's too cheap to be used, not to be made, generically, to be used by people.
	I'm sorry, to be sold... Yeah, exactly.
	Because then anybody could sell it for pennies and...
	But you know off-label use even the hormone blockers that they're giving to children are an off-label use of a different drug.
	Yeah that's a good point.
	And there's there is and I caught this and I think I mentioned it because I heard it in the ad I said something's going on with this I was singing the jingle and that's why I noticed that they had added language to the commercial.
	You were singing Singing what jingle?
	Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic.
	This is something, a medical headline.
	This is something you talked about, this particular drug.
	There's a shortage of it because people are using it for reasons it wasn't meant to be used.
	Right, and it's getting a whole lot of attention, TJ, so I wanted to break it down.
	This is a drug called Ozempic.
	This is a drug to treat type 2 diabetes, but the class, the generic version, the class known as semaglutide, got an FDA approval for weight loss, and now the demand is going through the roof.
	This drug works by helping to control blood sugar, but it also slows the emptying of the blood.
	The food in the stomach and so it drops people's appetite dramatically.
	People are losing a lot of weight on this.
	Of course, like many drugs, it's being used on label as well as off label.
	Typically, people start with a low dose injection once a week and then go up slightly in dosage.
	Like any drug, it can have some side effects, mild GI side effects like nausea, vomiting, but incredibly effective for treating the conditions of overweight and obesity.
	It comes with a major price tag, up to $800 or even over $1,000 a month if it's not covered by insurance.
	I do have patients whose insurance cover it, and then it can be $25 a month, but everyone is trying to get their hands on this drug right now.
	So, nice ad, Dr. Jen.
	It's effective.
	Minor side effects.
	It's all good.
	Yeah, it's expensive, but hey, man, everyone get their hands on it.
	All the cool kids are doing this drug.
	And this is the solution to America's problem.
	Don't worry about eating healthier.
	Keep eating the garbage and just take your shot every week.
	And it's amazing.
	It's ideal.
	It's amazing.
	Now listen to the commercial.
	Oh!
	People with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly Ozempic.
	In a study with Ozempic, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an A1c of less than 7 and maintained it.
	Oh!
	Under 7!
	And, you may lose weight.
	In the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.
	Oh, up to 12 pounds.
	A two-year study showed that Ozempic does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death.
	Oh, no increased risk.
	Ozempic should not be the first medicine for treating diabetes or for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis.
	Do not share needles or pens.
	Don't reuse needles.
	Do not take Ozempic if you have a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to Ozempic.
	Okay.
	Fetterman.
	Fetterman.
	Get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain.
	Fetterman.
	Oh!
	Fetterman.
	Trouble breathing.
	Serious side effects may happen, including pancreatitis.
	Oh.
	Tell your doctor if...
	Why, Dr. Jen didn't tell me about pancreatitis or the lump in my neck.
	You have diabetic retinopathy.
	Oh.
	Taking Ozempic with a sulfonylurea or insulin may increase the risk for low blood sugar.
	Common side effects are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, and constipation.
	Some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems.
	Oh, I discovered the potential with Ozempic.
	If eligible, you may pay as little as $25 per prescription.
	Ask your health care provider today about once weekly Ozempic.
	There's your $25, so they got some vibe going.
	A lot of these companies will sell it to you if you're right to them, and I think you have to give blood every week.
	Do some experiments, but you get it.
	So this is how sick these people are.
	Oh, we can sell it for $1,000 a month.
	Now let's get some approval.
	Off-label.
	It's a miracle!
	Shame on these horrible people.
	The whole medical establishment is corrupted.
	It's unbelievable.
	And this is what kills me.
	We've had admitted vaccinations out there for billions of people, admitted not effective.
	Possibly not safe, that isn't completely admitted by all of the powers that be, but there certainly were a lot of mistakes made, and a lot of, oh, we're sorry, and oh, well, okay, and now Pfizer and Moderna, oh, we gotta go do some investigation on this myocarditis thing.
	Nobody, nobody gets in trouble, nobody goes to jail.
	But the Steve Jobs chick!
	Tonight the founder of the failed blood testing company Theranos has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
	Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud and conspiracy earlier this year for misleading investors and endangering patients with a bogus blood testing technology.
	Holmes, now 38 and expecting her second child, had requested home confinement.
	Who endangered who in the last five years?
	Ugh.
	Well, if you're going to go for relativism, I think you made a point.
	Yeah.
	But it's good that you at least caught someone.
	This is the new Martha Stewart, you know.
	She's the Martha Stewart of Big Pharma.
	She's uptight.
	This girl's a little bit off her rocker.
	But the thing is, she's going to jail for 11 years because a bunch of so-called smart old horny dudes fell for it.
	Oh, I know, and there's no excuse for that part of it.
	No.
	George Shultz and all a bunch of these guys, a whole slew of them.
	Do I have a thing on Shultz?
	Mad Dog Mattis.
	Oh, and my favorite, yeah, Mad Dog Mattis, the guy who turned on Trump.
	He was the head of the Defense Department at the time, he was the head of Trump's staff, he was the chief of staff.
	Oh yeah, that's right, he was the chief of staff.
	And then he just wanted a very, oh well, you know, I'm gonna go make somebody write a book.
	I said Steve of Chaff.
	I thought that was funny.
	Missed it.
	Yeah.
	It's alright.
	Do you have a thing on Holmes?
	Well, let me see.
	Do you have a Holmes thing?
	Uh, looking for Holmes.
	We are searching.
	Yes, Liz Holmes sentence, PBS 231.
	The former Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison, more than 11 years.
	The penalty was imposed at a hearing in San Jose, California.
	Holmes had been convicted of investor fraud and conspiracy for duping investors about bogus blood testing technology.
	The company collapsed in 2018.
	For duping investors.
	Literally for duping investors.
	You know, what is the point?
	By the way, Judy's leaving.
	Yes, we know.
	And the show is really deteriorating.
	And this woman, who's the new anchor, I was listening to her.
	Judy always had a very professional sounding broadcasting voice.
	This woman doesn't.
	And what is the point of saying 135 months?
	I thought that was interesting.
	I don't know.
	Why don't you do it in minutes?
	Or hours.
	I mean, it doesn't make any sense.
	The number's too high to be using months.
	You know, a billion seconds, you know?
	I mean, it's just dumb.
	Yeah, that's filler.
	It's just bad writing.
	How about that?
	Bad writing.
	Let's chalk it up to that.
	Well, they have a lot of bad writers on this show, and I've got a couple of clips from this.
	I've been getting the NewsHour stuff.
	I don't like going back to it.
	All right.
	Attorney General non-political BS.
	Listen to this.
	By a significant person in American life, in American political life, a former president.
	Back it off, back it off.
	I gotta, I gotta premise this.
	This is... Yeah, set it up.
	So, so this new girl, she goes and she does K-Part and uh... It's a new girl on PBS.
	Do we have a name for the new girl?
	I can't remember her name.
	It's just something, it's a name, it's a forgettable name because it's like...
	It's one of these ethnic names that is just very hard to remember.
	New girl on PBS is the search term.
	Let's see how we do.
	Ah, nope.
	Bad.
	Bad, bad, bad.
	Okay, keep going.
	So Capehart and there's some other guy from the Washington Post on there instead of the... They gotta get rid of this segment, especially with this Capehart guy.
	The guy is just a stooge.
	Listen to Capehart.
	Who is Capehart?
	I don't know who Capehart is.
	Capehart, we've talked about him before, he's the gay columnist for the Washington Post.
	He's a black guy.
	He's very effective and he's always rolling his eyes and he's a super Trump hater and everything the Democrats do is fabulous.
	And Amna Nawaz.
	Yeah, how am I supposed to remember that?
	That's a bad name.
	She should have changed it for the show.
	Annie Oakley or something.
	It's a bad name, period.
	So let's go to Capehart on Pelosi, and this is an example of what I'm talking about.
	Listen to this.
	They talk about Pelosi.
	She's quitting.
	She's not going to be in the leadership role anymore.
	And so they throw this around about, what do you think about that?
	And Capehart says the following.
	By a significant person in American life, in American political life, a former president who just announced he's seeking the Republican nomination.
	This is not Capehart on Pelosi.
	I'm so sorry.
	I'm so sorry.
	I thought you were setting up this clip.
	Where is Capehart on Pelosi?
	Should say Capehart and Pelosi.
	Wow.
	I hear you.
	I hear you.
	I don't see it.
	This is embarrassing.
	Are you doing a search for it?
	Well, I'm going to now.
	I mean, it's not like you have a whole bunch of clips.
	We're going to cut all this out, by the way.
	Set a marker.
	Capehart.
	It's spelled H-A-R-E-T.
	I didn't know the guy's name.
	I was looking under K.
	Oh.
	Sorry.
	All right.
	So here's the guy's answer.
	Let me deal with Speaker Pelosi first.
	I agree with President Biden when he said that she was, quote, the most consequential speaker in history.
	And there's no denying that.
	You look at what she has been able to do as Speaker of the House, most notably getting the Affordable Care Act passed through the House without a single Republican vote.
	She did that?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	They had a house, they had a majority.
	They had a huge majority.
	They had a huge majority during the Obama era and she passed this thing with not one, she couldn't get one Republican.
	What kind of a great speaker of the house is this when you can't go across the aisle?
	This is great.
	This is the difference in reporting.
	You could report the story as she got it passed without any of those idiot Republicans or She got it passed and no one else wanted that.
	There's different ways of reporting it.
	She just forced her own party to vote on it so they can get one Republican vote because they didn't like various aspects of it and so she forced it through with a huge majority of her own party.
	This is not a great Speaker of the House.
	This woman is a catastrophe.
	She didn't... And by the way, that's the only thing you can cite about her greatness.
	She was Speaker of the House, what, twice now?
	And she's accomplished nothing.
	And she's hateful.
	She's mean-spirited.
	We have all kinds of great clips of her just being a jerk back 20 years ago.
	It's ridiculous.
	And that's this Capehart guy.
	He's just an apologist for the Democrats.
	He's a horrible... They shouldn't have this segment anymore.
	PBS is shot.
	She shall be known as Nancy the Uniter.
	They'll do something like that.
	I'm telling you, they'll do something like that.
	You're right, you're right.
	That's how you do it.
	Nancy Pelosi, she was the great Uniter of our age.
	So he goes on, now this is the clip that you played earlier that you thought I was re-referencing.
	This attorney general non-political BS clip, and let me preface it.
	They're going on about this, and by the way, the whole show is about Trump.
	They brought over a guy from The Hague, from the criminal court.
	Oh, the International Criminal Court.
	They brought this guy over to be the new independent prosecutor.
	Yes, yes, yes, this is great.
	And this is a big deal to these guys.
	And Capehart's all in on it.
	He says, this is fabulous.
	The American public wants this.
	By a significant... Sorry.
	Wait, I got more.
	And so he says, he says, and it's not political.
	It's not political.
	People need to understand it's not political.
	And so listen to this.
	By a significant person in American life, in American political life, a former president who just announced he's seeking the Republican nomination for the next presidential cycle, which the Attorney General said was the thing that happened that necessitated this move.
	Okay, hold on.
	What?
	It was the thing that... Oh, him announcing.
	Yes, him announcing is why you needed... the public interest needed to have him being investigated right away.
	Yeah, so it's not political.
	No, it's not political.
	But the fact that he announced, we got to do all this, we got to start scrambling to get to screw him over.
	That's basically what he said.
	But according to Capehart, this is fabulous.
	So anyway, so let's go to part two of this.
	Yeah, and this is what makes me so tired.
	You know, it's like, I think we're just going to go through another cycle of that.
	Necessitated this move.
	And I think it should say to the American people, one, and I think also the Attorney General also announced, yeah, we have been investigating, but we're taking this so seriously that we're giving it to a special counsel who is quite literally out of the Justice Department.
	I mean, he's over at The Hague, if memory serves.
	And this person will be in charge of running the rest of the investigation.
	It is an attempt by the Justice Department, by the Attorney General, to give the American people confidence that the investigations are being done fairly and being done impartially in that no favor is being given or taken away from Donald Trump.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yeah.
	Now, here's what I mean by it's so tiring.
	Even though I love my job, it really doesn't feel like work.
	But when you get reports like this, it's triggering.
	It takes me back six years.
	Former President Trump is lashing out.
	I mean, come on.
	He's lashing out again, John!
	He's lashing out!
	Lashing out!
	Former President Trump is lashing out after the appointment of a special counsel to oversee two criminal investigations involving Mr. Trump.
	CBS's Natalie Brand is in our Washington bureau with the latest.
	Natalie?
	Adriana, the former president reacting to this news is now trying to use it as a rallying cry ahead of 2024.
	This is a rigged deal.
	He called the appointment of a special counsel an expected political stunt and repeated without offering proof what he said about other investigations.
	There it is, without offering proof.
	This horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts.
	But the Department of Justice says it made the decision in an effort to avoid political influence and independently move forward with the investigations into Trump's role in January 6th and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential results.
	As well as Trump's handling of classified documents seized from his Florida estate.
	Trump's former Attorney General William Barr told PBS he believes it's increasingly more likely the former president could face an indictment.
	If the Department of Justice can show that these were indeed very sensitive documents, and also show that the president consciously was involved in misleading the department, deceiving the government, those are serious charges.
	That's serious.
	Now, Trump and his attacks of the newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith also offer no evidence when he describes Smith as, quote, the radical left.
	The veteran prosecutor's reputation among those who know him is as politically independent.
	Is it true?
	Is he politically independent?
	I doubt it.
	Why would you put him in there if he was?
	Now the thing is, where did you get this?
	Because that was a very biased, very poorly executed... CBS was all over this.
	I have one more from CBS.
	Let's hear it.
	We will not laugh.
	We will not laugh anymore at Jeff Begay's.
	We?
	Attorney General Merrick Garland said today that given former President Trump's decision to run again, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.
	It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.
	Tap for the job Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor and former head of the Justice Department's public integrity section.
	He will now decide whether Mr. Trump will face charges in the case involving classified documents found at Trump's Florida estate.
	And whether he and his allies interfered with the transfer of power on January 6th.
	This decision takes a lot of the politics out of it.
	He's appointed a long-time career prosecutor, highly respected, very experienced.
	Historically, special counsels have been appointed to avoid conflicts and political influence.
	The Garland's move comes just days after Trump's 2024 announcement.
	And I'm a victim.
	Setting up a potential rematch with President Biden.
	Well done, boys.
	This horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts.
	We started a long time ago.
	The last high-profile special counsel investigation into Trump's ties to Russia lasted roughly two years.
	Legal experts say this could wrap much sooner.
	I suspect it means we'll see a decision and potential indictment within the first three months of the new year.
	It's overproduced.
	It's too long.
	It's boring.
	I don't think it's effective.
	It's only for, you know, it's like, oh, so Bill Barr can say, hey, I'm on CBS this weekend.
	I don't think it's very, very effective.
	It's annoying.
	It's tedious.
	I think it's bad for the ratings.
	I don't think it's... PBS was worse.
	PBS started with it.
	Yeah.
	And they went on for almost the whole first 15 minutes of the show was about it.
	They brought people on and the guys, well, this is a serious situation.
	And they had, I mean, if they would have gotten Bill Barr on it, I'm sure it would have gone on until they invited him.
	I was going to say, did they talk at all about the Homeland Security Committee hearing?
	Of course not.
	So you're telling me that important questions and answers about January 6th, which is critical to media, you're telling me that they didn't cover that?
	Well, I mean, they covered it during its process, when it was happening.
	No, I mean, this Homeland Security Committee meeting.
	This is weird.
	Huh.
	No.
	They seem to take interest.
	This is, um... Higgins.
	He is, uh... This has got nothing to do with Trump!
	Or it doesn't have anything negative about Trump.
	You can't do it.
	Oh, that's what it is.
	Okay.
	FBI Director Wray was on the stand, and the representative from Louisiana, Higgins, asked him a few questions.
	Director Wray, does the FBI have confidential human sources?
	Did the FBI have confidential human sources embedded within the January 6th protesters on January 6th of 2021?
	Well, Congressman, as I'm sure you can appreciate, I have to be very careful about what I can say about when we are— Even now?
	Because that's what you told us two years ago.
	May I finish?
	About when we do and do not and where we have and have not used confidential human sources.
	But to the extent that there's a suggestion, for example, that the FBI's confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6, that's categorically false.
	Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol on January the 6th prior to the doors being opened?
	Again, I had to be very careful.
	It should be a no.
	Can you not tell the American people no?
	We did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol.
	Gentlemen, time has expired.
	You should not read anything into my decision not to share information.
	Director, the gentleman's time has expired.
	I like this guy, this Higgins guy.
	It should be no!
	I got another one from him in a minute.
	That actually was a good one.
	I haven't heard anyone pull that one out of the hat.
	The answer should be no.
	Here's Hawley, who has announced officially he will not be seeking election for president in 2024.
	Which makes him a candidate for something else, I guess.
	Maybe he could be a VP.
	He certainly is... Secretary of State.
	He's a showboater, though, man.
	He's a lawyer.
	I'm not a big fan of his.
	But he is effective, and here he is grilling FBI Director Wray.
	Let's just look at some of the things, while you've been vacationing, that your FBI has been doing.
	I mean, right there.
	Right there.
	Right off the bat.
	According to numerous whistleblowers who have come forward to members of this body, to members of the House, the FBI has been sending more than, in one instance, a dozen armed agents to a rural Pennsylvania home of a Catholic pro-life demonstrator to arrest him at gunpoint in front of his children in early morning hours despite the fact that he posed no risk of violence or threat and had previously offered to turn himself in.
	Numerous whistleblowers, field agents, have alleged that DC, your headquarters, has pulled them off working on child sex abuse cases, working on human trafficking cases, in order to work on January 6th matters for this reason.
	To give the appearance, they say, they say, that there are hundreds of new domestic terrorism cases in the country, when in fact there are not.
	Whistleblowers, field agents have also said that DC has ordered the use of SWAT teams on non-violent suspects who may have attended a January 6th rally and they have been ordered to conduct surveillance and knock on doors of people who were not even in DC on January 6th.
	And again, all of this, according to the whistleblowers, these are your agents, all of this, in order to make it look as if there's a mass surge in domestic terrorism all across the country, when in fact the stats are being padded by political directive in your office.
	They also say, these whistleblowers, the DC leadership deliberately suppressed investigations into Mr. Director, do you think you're still up to this job?
	FBI procedure and have also retaliated against FBI agents and whistleblowers who have contacted Congress, which by the way, they are protected by statute to do so.
	This is what's happening at your FBI while you are evading oversight hearings.
	Mr. Director, do you think you're still up to this job?
	I absolutely think I'm still up to this job and I think our workforce feels the same way.
	Well, I don't.
	And frankly, I think you should have been gone a long time ago.
	And given your behavior recently, I think it only makes it more clear.
	Are there any travel plans today that we should be aware of that you have?
	We're supposed to have a second round.
	Will you be here for that?
	Yes.
	That's a good one.
	You have any travel plans?
	That's so threatening in a weird way.
	Were you planning on traveling?
	Because we're going to detain you.
	And just, I have one more question.
	None of this, by the way, none of this is covered on PBS or by the Capehart dude or anything else because they just don't want to talk about it.
	The news has gotten ridiculously biased and they're just losing more and more and more viewerships as people discover this.
	Exactly.
	I don't know what they're up to, what they're trying to prove.
	They're all worried sick that Trump's going to be president again, and then what?
	The ratings will go up, heaven forbid?
	They're following orders.
	They're just following orders.
	Yes, they are following orders, but whose are the orders being delivered from?
	Now, when I saw Margaret Hoover do her little interview on Firing Line, I wrote about it in the newsletter, Bill Barr.
	It was ridiculous.
	Bill Barr, ex-CIA, Margaret Hoover, MKUltra, by my definitions of anything.
	She goes on and Barr just excoriates Trump, just in a horrible way, and then eventually backs off when she tries to corner him on certain things he wasn't going to go along with.
	And it was just, if anyone can get a look at this, you'll see a pathetic interview.
	But I don't know what, by the way, she was wearing a dress of some sort.
	This dress had to cost two twenty five hundred bucks.
	I mean, maybe five.
	I mean, it was just wow.
	And she's like a little pixie smiling.
	And then every once in a while you get the shakes when he wouldn't answer right.
	It was terrible.
	Oh, now I gotta go watch that.
	That sounds like a very entertaining episode.
	Just look at her, just to look at her dress, and then now I need to match the dress because it's got some white, white kind of highlights on the dress.
	It's got like a flower for some design.
	She's got a white, a white lavalier.
	Yeah, okay, they got budget!
	They have budget!
	Yes, they have a white lavalier.
	I'm sure they have a box of lavaliers that are all colored.
	Oh yeah, Sennheiser makes them in all different colors.
	Yeah, Sennheiser makes them, a lot of these guys make them in a lot of colors.
	But this is a white one.
	So I just want to go back to the Higgins, Higgins?
	Is that his name?
	The Higgins character?
	Higgins, yes, from Louisiana.
	So he also... By the way, You know, that's where John Kennedy's.
	He's also Louisiana, if I'm not mistaken.
	Is he Kentucky?
	No, I think he's Louisiana.
	I think Kennedy's Louisiana.
	Oh yeah, these guys are fine.
	I think he's the one who set the stage.
	Yep.
	And everybody now has to be that good.
	Troll Room informs me the dress might have been Vera Wang.
	I wouldn't be in the least surprised.
	Yeah, crazy ass, that's Vera Wang style.
	She's so 2000s.
	Okay, so now Higgins goes after Mayorkas.
	Mayorkas is the director of Homeland Security.
	And I really don't like this guy.
	This guy is a douche.
	He's a total douche.
	He's got weird alien eyes like there's something wrong with this guy.
	Oh, there's definitely something wrong with this guy.
	And here we go.
	I'm back.
	Secretary Mayorkas, have you used your authority to suppress exculpatory evidence?
	Two points, if I may, Congressman.
	who've come under public attack and condemnation by DHS and the Biden administration.
	Have you used your authority to suppress exculpatory evidence presented by CBP agents who've come under public attack and condemnation by you and the Biden administration?
	Two points, if I may, Congressman.
	Number one, in response to your second question, I don't even know what you're referring to.
	And with respect to your first question.
	I'll take that as it.
	You're on the record of saying no.
	That you have not used your authority to suppress exculpatory evidence.
	If you're an honorable man, then obviously you should be able to say no to that.
	Who would suppress exculpatory evidence?
	Is your answer no?
	I don't even know what you're referring to, Congressman.
	You will.
	And if I may... Secretary Mayorkas, have you used your authority to retaliate against DHS agents who served on special details during the Trump administration, agents identified by your administration as conservatives or Trump supporters?
	Once again, Congressman, I don't even know what you're referring to.
	Before Congress, I'm going to take that as a no.
	Through your authority, Secretary Mayorkas, have you encouraged your chain of command to suppress basic law enforcement actions at the border and harass, victimize, or intimidate experienced frontline law enforcement agents at the border using internal investigations and threats
	of disciplinary action or transfer in order to force those agents to comply with DHS policies that actually injure the security of our homeland and are contrary to the sworn oath of those agents.
	Is that the culture you've created?
	Congressman, I don't even know what you're referring to.
	You will.
	And I am.
	Secretary Mayorkas, final question, sir.
	Wow, also ending with a threat.
	That's such a veiled threat.
	So you have travel plans?
	of Homeland Security.
	You represent mobility, Secretary Mayorkas?
	Congressman, that is what I am dedicated to.
	It's been rumored, Secretary, that you're going to resign prior to January the 3rd.
	Any truth to those rumors?
	That is a false rumor.
	All right.
	We look forward to seeing you in January.
	Wow.
	Also ending with a threat.
	That's such a veiled threat.
	So you have travel plans?
	I hear you're resigning.
	These guys are out for blood.
	Sounds like it.
	I like it.
	That's exciting.
	We're the only ones that can play it because no one else will show it.
	Right?
	This is a fact, unfortunate fact.
	Do you think, just as an overall theory since the whole Trump thing is rather puzzling, do you think he could be playing a heel strategy for DeSantis maybe even to distract Biden?
	I've thought that from the beginning.
	I don't think that's his style, though.
	though.
	The problem is, I don't think he doesn't have the...
	I do not believe that he has the martyr in him.
	Exactly.
	I mean, he knows how to do it because, and of course, WWE, you know, he knows the wrestling heel very well.
	I mean, unless it's like a twofer and then all of a sudden, boom, it's two of them.
	I can't see them on a ticket together, honestly.
	No, I can't either.
	No, that's not going to happen.
	Because he... DeSantis wouldn't do it.
	I don't think so.
	I mean, it would be a great gambit if all these billionaires were in on him being a heel.
	It would be a great martyrdom, but I think you're right.
	I don't think his ego will let him do it.
	It would be a twist that would be totally unexpected and it would work.
	It would work.
	I think we both agree on that.
	It would be a great one.
	And then he could take a lot of credit for it, but he still has this, he still irked about the 2020 debacle.
	And I, you know, and I think he probably with some good reason and the fact that people keep, there was a really funny, I didn't get a super clip of it, but some guy put together a, document of the difference between 2016 when Hillary and everybody else is denying the election.
	They're election deniers and got kicked off of YouTube.
	But I want to play these clips from Arizona.
	This is Carrie Lake coming on at the beginning of this clip.
	And just listen to the bull crap.
	And I believe this is going on, especially in Maricopa County.
	This is Arizona voting one.
	That I am still in this fight with you.
	In a video released Thursday on social media, Lake says her claims of a broken election system have been confirmed.
	When we called for Katie Hobbs to recuse herself over a- Wait a minute.
	Is this an NTD report?
	You got it.
	It's great.
	I like how it says, confirmed!
	Have been confirmed.
	Confirmed!
	It's almost like a sitcom.
	Broken election system.
	Have been confirmed.
	When we called for Katie Hobbs to recuse herself over a year ago, they ridiculed us.
	It turns out we were right.
	The Fox was guarding the hen house, and because of that, voters have been disenfranchised.
	Hobbs, the current Secretary of State, is the top election official in the state.
	As overseer of elections, Hobbs has several duties, including watching the counts and certifying the election results.
	She spoke on CNN.
	And I'm not going to recuse myself from the job that the voters elected me to do.
	Throughout the race, Lake called for an overhaul of Arizona's election system, citing problems with voting machines.
	In the video, she says she was right to question the system.
	On election day, nearly half of all polling locations had problems with tabulating machines and printers.
	But Hobbs said on Wednesday in an interview with the Washington Post, the system doesn't need an overhaul.
	She said as governor, she wants to expand early voting and maybe mail ballots to all registered voters.
	Carrie Lake called for voters who experienced problems with voting to reach out and share their stories, which she then posted on Twitter.
	When we arrived at the voting center, the workers told us that the printers at that location were all broken.
	So they went to the next closest voting center at Litchfield Park First Baptist Church.
	But while standing in the 40-person line, Mr. Kearns noticed some problems.
	We noticed that about two out of every three people that try to scan their ballots just wouldn't scan their ballot.
	The location had only two scanners.
	Neither worked on Mr. Kern's ballot.
	He was asked to put his ballot into door three, but he refused.
	In the end, they allowed him to use the handicap system which prints a larger ballot.
	That worked.
	It took them over an hour to vote, and by that time he estimated the line to be between 100 and 150 people.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The problem is the Democrats, they collected ballots, and the Republicans, they collect votes.
	There's your mistake.
	They'll learn.
	Well, the idea is to fix it, but let's go to clip two of this.
	Steve Handlin arrived to vote at 5.30 in the morning and was ninth in line.
	One of the tabulators was broken, and the other tabulator kept rejecting everyone's vote.
	Emily Weinberg and her boyfriend, Jalen Topps, experienced what they called voter fraud.
	They say a voter registration drive took place at their community college.
	Jalen registered, but when the worker saw he chose Republican as the party, she said, Are you sure that's right?
	When he went to vote, he says he was only given a federal voting form.
	And that they accused him of being an illegal immigrant.
	He provided his photo ID, driver's license, and a social security card to prove he was an American citizen.
	According to Emily, the worker responded, Oh, I'm sorry, we don't accept that as a form of proof.
	This poll observer says 4 out of 7 ballots were failing when he observed from 12.30pm to 1pm on election day.
	I'll never forget the look on these affected voters' faces.
	They were in disbelief that our system of voting was failing them en masse, en masse.
	Arizona election officials say that machines at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center were able to process the ballots that couldn't be read at voting centers.
	Recent results show Democrat Katie Hobbs' lead has dropped from 0.8 to 0.6 percent.
	Under Arizona law, a recount triggers when the margin is less than or equal to 0.5 percent.
	Yeah, so this is still not over.
	No.
	It's a fiasco.
	Yeah.
	We didn't have printed ballots.
	You colored in the boxes and then put it into the scanner.
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	Yeah, it's a mess.
	It's a mess.
	Everyone's giving up, John.
	They're all giving up.
	No, people don't care anymore.
	Eh, I'm not gonna vote, doesn't matter, tell bullcrap.
	And that's the desired outcome, really.
	Yeah.
	That's what they want.
	Okay, a little entremont just so we get back into a happier mood, just before we take a break here.
	We've got some situations coming back again, things that we haven't seen in many, many years.
	And breaking news from North Korea, firing what is believed to be the second intercontinental ballistic missile this month.
	Japan says the missile landed in its exclusive economic zone, but it was capable of striking anywhere on the U.S.
	mainland.
	Vice President Kamala Harris held a meeting with world leaders at the APEC summit in Thailand to discuss the launch.
	This conduct by North Korea most recently is a brazen violation of multiple UN security resolutions.
	It destabilizes security in the region and unnecessarily raises tensions.
	We strongly condemn these actions and we again call for North Korea to stop further unlawful destabilizing acts.
	Because nothing says, we got this America, more than putting Kamala Harris out to take care of the issue.
	So this is obviously yet another military-industrial complex bullcrap stunt, as confirmed by my Uncle Don when he allowed me to ask anything.
	That was one of the things.
	Is it Korea?
	That stuff, it's just sales.
	We gotta have sales.
	And I would say that North Korea, they're proud of what they're doing.
	To them, this is like an Artemis launch.
	And you know who's back?
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	This was their report. - I'm scared.
	Look at that.
	They just go on for 20, 30 seconds of just more ignition.
	There you go.
	I love that lady.
	She's a staple.
	She's a staple.
	I missed her.
	She's back!
	She never really went anywhere.
	No, no, she's been there the whole time.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, saying good morning to you, the man who put the C in the ICBM.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeMora!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning, ships and sea boots to the ground, feedin' the air, subs to the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And a big in the morning to all of the trolls in the troll room, who always congregate there at trollroom.io.
	Good to have you all here.
	They are here pretty much 24-7.
	If you go to trollroom.io you can pop right into the chat there and you can listen to the No Agenda stream which includes 12, 13, 14 live shows at this point and is 24-7 all talk No Agenda.
	There is some music though for some cool stuff.
	Thank you Darren for doing your rock and roll pre-show before every single episode of No Agenda.
	And, uh, let's take a look at, um, how many do we have here in our troll room?
	Hello, trolls.
	Okay, 2160.
	This feels better.
	It's a hundred down from typical Sunday, but it's better than last time.
	It's better than last time, okay.
	Well, thanks, trolls.
	We're glad to have you here.
	Believe me, we love having you here on this Sunday.
	And the trolls, of course, can also be found individually at noagendasocial.com.
	I have to say, I think Elon has done us a great service, and he has moved a lot of people to the Fediverse.
	Have you seen any people that are familiar to you in the Fediverse, or are you just kind of still in the noagendasocial vibe?
	No agenda socials in the Fediverse.
	I know, but do you see more people?
	To which do you refer?
	Like have you seen Jay Rosen or Jeff Jarvis?
	No.
	No, you should see that on the Feddie.
	It's growing up.
	They're not interested in anything they have to say.
	Of course not.
	Just the whole idea is that there are people who are moving to the Fediverse and enjoying it.
	This is what's surprising.
	I'm surprised.
	Something broke.
	Something broke over there.
	I'd like to thank you.
	You know, here's an interesting little story.
	So at least locally, they announced that, you know, people are quitting and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah What?
	Oh, he's going to relaunch with the new stack and it's going to be WeChat USA.
	No.
	Why else would you shut down offices like that unless you're sending your private investigators to go through everyone's desk?
	One at a time.
	You've got a whole weekend to do it 24-7.
	You've got 24 hours to do it per day.
	I don't know, 48 is a lot of hours there.
	48, 72 maybe total.
	I don't know.
	But you send all the people in there.
	You go through everybody's desk.
	You start looking at everything you can.
	What have they got?
	They're all in their desks.
	Are they communists?
	Are they a bunch of creeps?
	Do they work for somebody else?
	Really?
	How interesting.
	What else would you shut down the office like that for?
	I already told you my idea and you said no.
	Your idea is just what the mainstream media would say, but I'm telling you.
	No, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	No, the mainstream media is not saying what I'm saying.
	You're right.
	The mainstream media is saying nothing.
	Correct.
	So you're right there.
	But no, that's what you do.
	And that's what he's doing.
	He's that kind of guy.
	He works for the, you know, the security state.
	He knows what's going on.
	He's got everybody booked in there.
	Everyone that's working there, their desk has been gone through.
	All right.
	All right.
	Well, we'll know on Monday.
	No, we won't, because they're going to do it right.
	There's not going to be any evidence.
	That's what I mean.
	When there's no evidence, then we'll know that it happened.
	If all of a sudden you're paying your electric bill with your Twitter account, then we'll know that I was right.
	That's going to be a while.
	Yeah, probably.
	Anyway, noagendasocial.com is a premiere outfit on the Fediverse.
	There's a, I think it's, is it fediverse.space?
	You can see a visual representation and you have this huge cloud.
	And then if you look way up to the left-hand corner, there's this little, like an ulcerous growth.
	that is still connected to the Fediverse, but hanging on by a few threads.
	That's where we live because we've been blocked by so many people.
	But we're still in there.
	Would anybody block us at all?
	We were on a block list.
	It's a non-controversial site.
	No, we were on a block list four years ago because, and I will say that some producers on Noage and the Social were totally baiting the tards at Mastodon.com.
	And so we got put on a block list for being KKK Nazi quadroons.
	Don't you remember?
	I can't believe they're that gullible.
	you So in other words, instead of actually doing the job, doing the work, and actually checking things out and seeing for yourself whether something's good, bad, or indifferent, you just hear from a couple of trolls that go in there and... No, no, no.
	It was the official block list.
	They created a block list and we were on it.
	And I think we're probably still on it.
	Yeah, why did we get on it?
	Why did we get on it?
	Because people didn't like what... Because early on, As we were just in the Fediverse, people were trolling the Libtards.
	That's exactly what I said.
	Some trolls got in there and lied.
	No, it was our people.
	Our people.
	We have a lot of jerks, let's face it.
	And so I called them out on it.
	I said, hey, you can say whatever you want, but because of you, we got blocked.
	That's why.
	Yeah.
	So thanks a lot for helping out the show.
	Exactly.
	All right, somehow that turned into a real downer, I don't know, even though we're really smart for being in there, you know, we got great federation.
	All right, everybody, thanks.
	But it still points out the flaw, which is just because some jag off comes in and tells you something, it could be a... and they hate it.
	You know that woman?
	Oh yeah, I know, it's married to her, but she's a slut!
	That sort of thing.
	Yeah.
	But I don't care.
	And you just take it at face value, then you're a douchebag.
	Yeah, but the whole point is that if people don't like being somewhere where no agenda show is blocked, they'll go get an account somewhere else.
	That's the point.
	That's what makes it work.
	I'm just saying.
	Anyway.
	We're outcasts, was my point.
	Thank you very much to the artist for episode 1504.
	We titled it The Uninspired Title of Value Chain.
	The more I saw it, the more I'm like, oh God, what a piece of crap title that was.
	It's really not good.
	We liked it at the time.
	No, we were tired.
	I didn't want to fight you.
	And you had already given me the album.
	I was not about to.
	I wasn't pushing anything.
	I just had a list.
	I had no list.
	I had no list.
	And I had already forced my art choice.
	I didn't have a problem with the art.
	Well, I forced it anyway.
	It was Eli5.
	Explain it like I'm 5 on the blackboard.
	No, you did.
	You forced it.
	I've done it before.
	You've done it before.
	We both do it.
	Very rare.
	But it was like, no.
	I'm picking this art and that's that.
	And then you stand firm.
	And unless the other person, would be me in this case, has a... Wants to fight, yeah.
	No, you better have a pretty good piece to fight with.
	Yes, of course.
	The piece I had to fight with was a piece of cheesecake art, which I thought was dynamite.
	I used it on the newsletter.
	I don't know if you're fine with me.
	I know, but I'm just tired of the cheesecake.
	I know you are.
	Even though if you look at the last ten pieces we used, we have not used that much cheesecake.
	I end up using it on the newsletter a lot.
	Wait a minute.
	You're telling me the last ten pieces we have not used much cheesecake?
	Yes, the last 10 pieces.
	We have not used much cheesecake.
	You're going to challenge me on this?
	We're going to go to the No Agenda... What is it?
	Noagendashow.com.
	Okay.
	Yes, noagendashow.com or .net.
	No.
	All right.
	Let's do it.
	Let's do it.
	Let's do it, big man.
	All right.
	Are you there yet?
	Nope.
	Okay.
	Let's take a look.
	Let us see.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	Okay.
	Last one, two, three, four pieces at the top of the thing.
	No cheesecake whatsoever.
	Not even an image of a person.
	So I have six more chances.
	Browse the archive.
	Thank you for this new site.
	Holy crap, okay.
	We have number 8, Cheesecake.
	No.
	What do you mean 15 years?
	That's a cheesecake.
	Cheesecake entails thighs.
	Legs.
	Oh, it's got hairy legs!
	Yeah.
	There's no cheating.
	1, 2, 3, 4.
	We got 12 pieces.
	There's a picture of a girl's face cut off.
	Orgasmic.
	Like the top of her head was chopped off like Fetterman.
	She's chopped off.
	She's listening on headphones like she's orgasmic about 15 years.
	And it even says almost.
	Come on.
	And then, alright, not the last 10, but then we have Uh, two cheesecake women, and one is... I'm gonna cut home.
	No.
	We have the blogger cheesecake.
	I'm just going back to what you said.
	The last ten pieces, we have plenty of cheesecake.
	There's no example of plenty.
	The word plenty is now all of a sudden... You're right.
	You're right.
	There's no plenty of cheesecake.
	But we have plenty of cheesecake in general.
	Alright, we could've... You know what?
	You know what?
	I'll tell you something.
	If I didn't like the Eli Five so much, I would've gone cheese with you.
	I would've.
	Well, the Eli piece was, I wasn't going to make a big argument with you because I knew I could always use the other piece, but the Eli 5 thing, because I didn't think much of this phrase, it's a beautiful piece.
	It's so professional looking.
	It's, you know, the cheesecake one looks like cheesecake.
	And it's, you know, cartoony.
	This is a dynamite piece.
	I would have suggested In the spelling of no agenda, that there was some more color on the blocks and AG and it could have been done in darker colors.
	I agree.
	100%.
	But yes, it was, it wasn't debatable when it came down to it.
	The piece was too good.
	All right.
	So already there's cheesecake, two cheesecakes for this show.
	So people are getting all cheesecakey.
	Uh, there was an actual cheesecake from Sir Dude Named Parker Pauly.
	Dude Named Parker Pauly?
	Yeah, it was an actual piece of cheesecake.
	Yeah, it was cheesecake, like a New York style.
	Yeah, with the chocolate dripping down.
	What else was there that was, uh... Well, uh...
	Roger Roundy did a couple of interesting pieces, but the piece by Capitalist Agenda, which was the cheesecake piece, it was a rocket, it was 50s style art, it was pretty, and I used it in a newsletter, and that was going to be that.
	But this other piece, which was, who did our piece?
	Nessworks.
	Nessworks did the winner.
	Well, we appreciate you, Nessworks.
	Love that piece.
	I agree with John's minor note about the color of the No Agenda letters, but it was just, it was fantastic.
	And I like the cheesecake too, but you know, obviously it was clear who had to win.
	Thanks to all of the artists competing now more than ever.
	It is, they are frenemies.
	You know, if you guys are on noagendasocial.com, you can see how everyone's like pretending to be nice.
	Hey, congrats, man.
	Great win.
	Bastard.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm looking at some of the upcoming art.
	There's this new Greta piece.
	That's dirty Jersey whore.
	Look at the shoes.
	I can't not laugh at it.
	It's just idiotic.
	I'm going to close this tab because it's just going to make me chuckle the whole time.
	That's part of our time, talent, and treasure for Value for Value for 15 years.
	We have never placed a direct price on this show.
	You've been able to listen to it for free for as long as we've been around.
	We do ask you to consider if you got any value out of what you heard, could you put that into a number and send it back to us?
	Do that in your treasure or your time and your talent is also very much appreciated.
	And Brian Lillard from Prosper, Texas, he definitely put a number on the value he gets from the No Agenda Show.
	He is our top executive producer today with $1,000.
	And I have no notes, so I'm wondering, is he an instant knight?
	What happens with him?
	Do you have any... Do we have anything from Brian?
	No, I got nothing.
	You got nothing from Brian.
	Okay.
	All right, Brian.
	Well, in that case, he should get a little Double Up Karma.
	We'll hear from him.
	We'll hear from him when he feels like bringing it up.
	Paul Littman's next on the list in Peach City, Georgia.
	He's got nothing here on here.
	here.
	333.33. We'll give him a double up karma.
	You've got karma.
	Let me just make sure now.
	No, we don't have anything from Paul either.
	He's next on the list.
	Paul Deffes, D-E-F-F-E-S, 33333, Middleburg, Florida.
	A note will be emailed to John and Adam, and he gives his email address, and I look for that, and... I did get a note from him.
	Oh, good!
	But I now have to look it up.
	I thought it was... I was clearing my notes here, and I noticed there was...
	Give me those letters again.
	I just put them in the search engine.
	P.D.
	What is it?
	The P.D.
	How about the email address?
	P.J.D.
	Just do those.
	P.J.D.
	L.L.C.
	That's the one, yeah.
	Oh good, we got it.
	That's nice.
	I don't know why I didn't print this out, but I did.
	It says do not read.
	The whole thing is do not read?
	No, just the top.
	Okay, this is really a make good.
	He says, my knighting from show 1500 was missed.
	The super double donation show 1500 completed my knighting, but I heard donations have been a bit slow, low since then.
	So I donated another 333.33, which is the one we got here for a double whammy black knighting, a reminder.
	And I think he's on the list.
	I will check.
	Yeah, in fact, I know he's on the list.
	He wants to be knighted.
	Sir Jeff Costas, Black Knight of Middleburg, Florida, and he is on the list.
	Thank you for the many years of excellent news analysis at the Roundtable.
	He does want some secret requests of Rye and Ghislaine Maxwell's client list.
	Apparently, another piece of that puzzle is dropping today or tomorrow.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, you didn't know this.
	I did not know this.
	Wait, I can tell you, because it's not a clip, I just have the... Let me finish this note.
	Love is lit, love and lit, Sir Jeff, and no jingles, no karma, and he needs a de-douching, so let's give him that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Jeffrey Epstein's powerful pals will face new revelations in soon-to-be unsealed documents and this is the latest records to be revealed according to the Daily Mail.
	Very reliable.
	Will include materials related to eight people including Thomas Pritzker, Billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels who was listed in Epstein's little black book of contacts, a former personal assistant to Maxwell named Emily Taylor, and Sarah Ransom, a survivor of Epstein's abuse.
	So, we'll have to see.
	What about Gates?
	It's a dud, man.
	It's a dud.
	This is their tension arc.
	They're just trying to keep us going for another 10 years.
	I used the word twice today.
	I know.
	Well, that's why- I've never heard it before.
	It was a callback.
	From you.
	It was a callback.
	The tension arc?
	Tension arc.
	It's some bullcrap thing they say in television.
	Well, we want to start- What's the tension arc of this segment?
	Of course they use this like a typical- It's like, well, the tension arc is, uh, is basically, uh, I'm just going to do whatever I want to do.
	And that'll be tension for you, line producer.
	Okay, then we have, so is there any, oh, we got all that, Sir Semi Colon in Bremerton, Washington, 333.33, and he says, Sir Semi Colon here, ITM gents, ITM to you, thank you.
	Forest Dukes in Vancouver, Washington, 333.33.
	ITM gents, life has been great, and I want to share my appreciation in the form of an inaugural donation.
	I humbly request a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Keep up the great work, Forrest Dukes, a.k.a.
	Foe Diddley.
	And he wants an R2-D2 Karma for all.
	We have that for him as well.
	You've got... Karma.
	Now this doesn't happen very often, but that's it.
	No associates today.
	Yeah, that's pretty weird.
	Maybe Brunetti's sending out emails.
	What do you mean?
	What does Brunetti have to do with it?
	Brunetti has his heart on for the Associate Executive Producer title ever since he accidentally got it.
	He thinks it's bogative, it's no good, he thinks it's lame.
	He thinks it's a title that in Bollywood, you give to people instead of a raise, you give to people who bring the coffee, you bring the people who go get your dry cleaning.
	Possibly.
	So, it's different in different businesses, though.
	I mean, it's different in podcasting than Hollywood in that regard.
	It's different in publishing, as you know, associate executive producer can mean a lot of different things, but... Well, we're sorry, Mr. Hollywood.
	So sorry.
	Man, touchy.
	A couple of make-goods left over from our 15th anniversary and our 1,500 shows, 15 years.
	Anonymous.
	Hi, John.
	I don't need to read the note on the show, but I'll do it anyway.
	I sent an anonymous donation for my hubby.
	He would like to be known as Sir6112.
	My note did not get read.
	My name should be Dame Fingermole.
	To our surprise, Adam read my husband's note on the 1500 show with the assumption my hubby's last name, van der Haar, was of the Dutch land, but it's actually German.
	Anywho, keep up the great work and don't retire.
	Love you guys.
	Well, we can't, honestly.
	Sir Viles says, hey, I'm sending this from a different email address.
	Show 1500 made two donations and emailed Adam and John.
	The first donation was from my son, Mason.
	This is an early birthday gift for him.
	He would like to be knighted.
	Sir Mason, master of rags.
	Also, de-douche him, please.
	You've been de-douched.
	The second donation was from myself.
	I'm reaching Baron status.
	Please name me Baron of the Northland, Protector of the Greater North.
	He says, thank you very much for a great show.
	Very much, respectively.
	Yes.
	Then we have... Well, this is... Oh, that's the one we got from our knight.
	Yes, the one you just read.
	Courtney Harris.
	Courtney says, what's a girl need to do to get damed around here?
	Sorry, guess you have one more mate good.
	No, we're not sorry.
	Thank you.
	We apologize.
	My donation was read on show 1500, but I didn't get damed.
	She has a little teared up emoji.
	Please see my original note, knowing that it's a woman who sends it.
	Only women will do an emoji in a donation note.
	I think you might be right.
	Well, they have a lot of emotion to turn, that they need to express.
	To unleash.
	Toxic masculinity on sale here.
	Please see my original note below, sent back on November 2nd.
	Know you are fixing the system and suggest an access database.
	Oh yeah, that's gonna do it.
	We love you for that.
	That was the... Courtney Harris.
	Thank you so much, Courtney.
	Yeah, acne.
	And you know what?
	It's universal.
	Everyone has a copy.
	Brandon.
	To keep things short, you mentioned my double donation episode 1501, but didn't read my email or night.
	I just finished listening to episode 1504.
	Still haven't been nighted.
	We're going to correct that today.
	I've been listening since 2011.
	Even donated in person at Adam's 50-50 birthday party in Tokyo.
	Wow.
	Could you please make my life worth living?
	And knight me as Sir Brandon, Black Knight of the Order of TNT.
	Yes, your life will be worth living.
	We shall do so.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Happy 15th anniversary to the best podcast in the universe, Love and Light.
	Robert Ludwig in the morning.
	Thank you for all the deconstruction you do on show 1500.
	You mentioned my name and donation, but I did not get my knighting.
	No, we'll fix that.
	I didn't think too much about it because it was crazy and you would do make-goods, so I've been listening still, but something said during the show 1504 that made it sound like you were about done, the make-goods, I didn't want to be left behind.
	I've included my original email.
	I don't care if you read it now.
	And he will be knighted as Sir Boober, the most sane man.
	Two more.
	David Miller.
	I was a double donator to show 1500.
	Donation was credited, but no knighthood.
	It is worth the wait for Black Knight status.
	You got it.
	And finally, and he's from Bayonne, New Jersey.
	Bayonne.
	Oh, and he, uh, needs, uh, jolt cola and beef jerky at the round table.
	Wow!
	Yeah?
	I haven't heard about jolt- I haven't heard the name jolt cola for a decade.
	And he wanted some yak karma.
	You've got...
	Which I think is a good combo.
	And finally, Nathan Scheuermann, uh, in the morning, this is not a sad note, but stick with me.
	Oh, that's a setup.
	Yeah, totally.
	Oh, goodness.
	This past year or so, I've lost two 13-year-old dogs and then my 62-year-old father, Brian, to esophageal cancer.
	I quit my job of 12 plus years earlier this year when it became too much to bear and have been working on my bachelor's degree which will be completed in a few months.
	It was really important to my dad that I did that.
	I turn 40 on November 9th and though the first half of my life has ended on a sour note, I've got high hopes for the backside of the hill.
	Been listening to the show for many years and have been a subscription plan for about that long.
	Based on what PayPal says, I've already contributed and the double credit promotion.
	This should put me over the threshold for knighthood.
	Please dub me Sir Shuey of the Land of Ice and Snow, Skor Vikings.
	Um, you bet, Nate.
	I don't see how...
	Um, this is not a sad note.
	It still made me a little sad.
	So we're happy that, uh... Oh my God, my voice.
	You tell me that this is not happening.
	My voice is crapping out on me.
	I need a lozenge.
	I need a lozenge.
	Yeah, but I don't have a lozenge.
	I've, uh... Alright.
	What do you have?
	What was that?
	I don't know.
	I gotta stand up.
	It's... It's... It's somehow sitting down.
	My diaphragm, I don't know what it is.
	Phlegm.
	It's phlegm.
	Thank you very much, Nathan.
	Thank you to all these individuals who supported us in our 15th anniversary, our 1,500 shows, 15th week.
	It was a big one for us.
	Thank you for bearing with us.
	And you now will all be mentioned, of course, and get your official pronunciations for your knighthood and or damehood.
	And again, if we missed you and you're still not in this list, please let us know.
	And if you'd like to become a producer of the best podcasts in the universe, like our executive producers today, who get the title as a forever title, please go to...
	Thank you again for your time, talents, and treasure for the No Agenda Show.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Oh.
	There we go.
	Missed fire.
	Alright, everybody.
	How about a super cut?
	You know, it's always a good day when we have a supercut.
	This is the one that claims the social media is a danger to democracy.
	Social media?
	Social media, yeah.
	Social media is a danger.
	I mean, January 9th is too, but social media is dangerous to democracy.
	Ready?
	More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first.
	The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.
	Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda into control.
	Exactly what people think, and this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
	Oh.
	Oh, goodness.
	It's so dangerous to our democracy.
	There you go.
	There's your mainstream media in a nutshell.
	And we've got a new one to use.
	We need some alliteration.
	T-T-T-T.
	What can we do with T-T-T-T?
	Announce the ever-growing turmoil over at Twitter.
	Yes, it's turmoil over at Twitter, everybody!
	Turmoil over at Twitter, ABC.
	Announce the ever-growing turmoil over at Twitter.
	Scores of employees apparently headed for the exit overnight after Elon Musk told workers to decide whether they wanted to stay or go.
	A flood of farewell messages rolling in at Twitter after Elon Musk gave employees an ultimatum.
	Commit to working in an extremely hardcore fashion, including long hours at high intensity or leave with three months severance.
	Now, sources tell ABC News dozens of employees are resigning, with many sending the salute emoji over the company's internal messaging board.
	Meanwhile, Twitter employees were reportedly locked out of office buildings overnight, giving the company more time to figure out who still works there.
	I've been talking to people all day.
	One former executive who recently exited told me that with all these departures, it's going to be hard just to keep the lights on over there.
	Really?
	Is it going to be hard?
	I mean, so is there a guy who would keep the lights on, make sure the switch is in the on position?
	It was really hard to keep that on?
	I mean, that guy's gone.
	Now someone might turn the lights off.
	Really, ABC?
	It's going to be hard just to keep the lights on over there.
	It comes as a group of Democratic senators call for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Musk's recent actions.
	Musk has not responded to requests for comment, but in a tweet last night, he seemingly joked about how much he paid Twitter, roughly $44 billion, posting, how do you make a small fortune in social media?
	Start out with a large one.
	It's the latest turmoil since the billionaire purchased Twitter.
	Musk immediately fired 50% of the workforce.
	Then, one of his ideas allowed users to pay for the verification checkmark.
	Twitter paused the feature after people were impersonating celebrities and brands.
	And last week, ABC News obtained exclusive audio of Musk in another meeting, demanding his employees return to the office.
	If you can't show up at an office and you do not show up at the office, resignation accepted.
	End of story.
	Some advertisers have now paused spending on the platform until there's more clarity on Twitter's direction.
	In Musk's other tweet last night, he said usage on Twitter just hit an all-time high.
	Oh, I love it, I love it, I love it.
	Okay, so he put the kibosh on work from home is what he did with that one.
	They don't point that out, they just say, you know.
	But what I love is that You know, like all companies, but certainly Twitter, which has been around for a long time, and certainly when it comes to trust and safety and HR and all of this, they had layers of middle management.
	Layers and layers and layers of people who, why would you show up?
	They're not doing anything.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	You're not doing anything, you might as well just stay home.
	I mean, I've built enough companies to know.
	It just happens.
	You just get all these people.
	And if there's enough money, which there isn't anymore.
	Anyway, let's see how CBS handled the alliteration.
	Tonight, Twitter turmoil continues.
	I mean, come on!
	ABC and CBS?
	I have the PBS version of this.
	I don't think they use that.
	Hold on, let me finish this one.
	Tonight, the Twitter turmoil continues.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	But that's a three-parter, yes.
	Tonight, the Twitter turmoil continues.
	Tonight, Twitter turmoil continues.
	The new owner, Elon Musk, is scrambling, quite simply, to prevent the social media platform from collapsing.
	Oh no, John, it's collapsing!
	He said without evidence.
	This after hundreds of vital employees quit.
	Yes!
	Exactly.
	He said without evidence.
	If it was Trump, it would be without evidence.
	But no.
	...media platform from collapsing. This after hundreds of vital employees quit. CBS's Jonathan Vigliotti spoke with an engineer who was laid off. Oh, vital. Tonight, as questions mount over Twitter's future, Elon Musk offered little reassurance he has a permanent plan, tweeting, what should Twitter do next? The culture at Twitter under Elon Musk was definitely a culture of fear, of uncertainty. of anxiety.
	Justine DeCaires worked for Twitter for three years before being laid off, along with reportedly nearly half the staff earlier this month.
	DeCaires is part of a class-action lawsuit against the company.
	Will Twitter's lights stay on?
	I've seen systems start to fail already and I expect to see smaller things break and then slowly bigger things start to break, especially with all the expertise that went out the door yesterday.
	This week, Musk gave remaining employees an ultimatum.
	Pledge to be extremely hardcore and work long hours or resign by 5 p.m.
	Thursday.
	FedUp employees went online counting down the deadline.
	The New York Times reporting as many as 1,200 left.
	It's really the Twilight Zone, and it continues to get more bizarre by the day, and I think Musk, you know, with initially the 50% cuts and now sort of the ultimatums internally, it's become a game of throne.
	Musk later tweeted a skull and crossbones, followed by this image of a Twitter tombstone.
	I mean, we had thousands of engineers, and it's not like they were sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
	Yeah, they were.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Musk has called for an emergency meeting for all remaining engineers.
	In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform, Major.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Why?
	Because they don't have control over the messaging the way they like it anymore.
	They're just trying to start an exodus.
	Why is CBS going to back off?
	Because they built their own Mastodon instance.
	I don't think so.
	Of course not.
	Your first answer was correct.
	I thought you were going to reiterate it.
	They lost control.
	Maybe the agency lost control or maybe, who knows, somebody lost control.
	But this is nonsense.
	You don't need a thousand engineers.
	It's a glorified website with a database backend.
	I mean, in essence, you're right.
	Now, Musk is dropping breadcrumbs, which could be a total false trail, but there's like pictures of a whiteboard, and it's kind of interesting because it shows all the different Blocks of logic that ultimately create what you see on Twitter.
	And they use an audio analogy of mixers.
	So we have the home timeline mixer and into that, they've got a submixer of the ads.
	Oh, this is like a takeoff of the parody.
	That was on YouTube.
	Completely.
	Yes, like the whistleblowers, who are also sketchy, who did that whole half-hour special of the dials in the control room trying to mess with you.
	It's probably exactly like that.
	And so they have knobs.
	What I'm saying is, it's not like an algo.
	Twitter is the algo.
	That whole thing is just one algo, and if you see what's being mixed into your timeline, i.e.
	into your brain all the time...
	So that may just be something old because why would he show that?
	From the same board room, not a board meeting but you know like a conference room, there's a video of him and I don't know these other players but they seem to be his confidants and they're laughing about what they should do and actually they're laughing about all these idiot engineers who for years have been trying to create an edit button.
	Which, as you know, has been unsuccessful.
	How long does that take?
	They have been working on an edit button for a year.
	Well, it's hard.
	It's a tricky situation.
	And it's incredibly complex.
	Yes, good one, indeed.
	I mean, we don't even have an app that's as good as WeChat in China.
	In China, you live on WeChat, basically.
	Yeah, everyone's like, they're like, you live on WeChat, you do payments, you do everything.
	It's like, yeah, it's great.
	Basically, WeChat is kick ass.
	And we don't have anything like WeChat outside of China.
	So I was like, my idea would be like, how about if we just copy WeChat?
	Hey, copy them.
	Copy WeChat.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I guess.
	Okay, so Adam has a new theory.
	By the way, and before you get to the theory, that's the way it works in Silicon Valley.
	You see somebody doing something right, you copy it.
	Yep.
	How hard can that be?
	You don't steal their code, although they do that too.
	Bah ha!
	Here comes Adam's new theory.
	What is one of the largest investors in Tesla?
	I do not know.
	Tencent.
	Really?
	Yes!
	Who has a big stake in WeChat, Tencent?
	How about this?
	He's not stealing the code.
	They're giving it to him willingly.
	Why not?
	That's the real way to do it.
	Make a lot of noise, make a lot of bullcrap, and just bolt on the WeChat engine.
	You're done.
	Yeah, you're quiet.
	That's a great one.
	I have no pushback on that, unfortunately.
	Thank you.
	Unfortunately.
	Then you would be this brazen.
	Then you would be like, ah, screw the engineers.
	Although, I've had a company with seven.
	This is pretty brazen.
	They're not only screwing, they're mocking them.
	Outright, and publishing this.
	Yeah, to make it worse.
	So that would be the way to do it is just have the technology stack already to just bolt it on, put, you know, they're probably all they're doing is putting the finishing touches on the, on the design, just so you know, to make sure that Twitter looks good.
	And, uh, they may have no ads, no ads.
	Don't worry about it.
	We're good, we're good, no ads.
	And it'll work for iPhone users first because, uh, Android is just, just slower with, uh, with, uh, I think the implementation with iPhones, what they really like.
	So I think it'll roll out iOS first.
	But it feels to me like that would be the strategy.
	I'm liking the theory.
	It's got everything going on and it could have actually been pre-done in advance before he even made the $44 billion bid working with them.
	Yes, yes.
	Because he already knows the players because he's got an investor there.
	He probably talks to the CEO and he can say, hey, what do you think, and the way he stammers, what do you think if we took your technology from the WeChat and put it as a core Stack.
	Uh-oh.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	That's not how it went.
	No.
	They call up.
	Hello, Iran!
	Iran!
	Iran, I have good idea!
	You put WeChat in Twitter!
	Somehow, these guys become Japanese.
	I don't know why.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	I think they drove it.
	It could be.
	And I think the bullshit about the pricing was a delay.
	You're tight with the guy.
	You're tight with the guy.
	Yes!
	Somebody comes up with this idea in advance.
	Elon mulls it over.
	He's got the big dough.
	He does the deal.
	He backs off of the deal for some reason because somebody comes in and says, you can't do that because of... No, timing.
	He needed to buy time.
	I don't think it was about the price at all.
	He needed to buy some time.
	Maybe because... Maybe WeChat or maybe Tencent went, Iran, I don't like you.
	Now you have a problem.
	Now you have a problem, Iran.
	Now why don't you just go be 100% racist?
	Now you know why we're up at the little nub at the corner of the big giant Fediverse.
	It's you.
	It's you!
	You're right!
	I'm sorry, I have to dial it back.
	I used to be able to do that and it was hilarious.
	You've become woke, Dvorak.
	That'll be the day.
	He's just become woke.
	Here's a funny thing.
	On to other things.
	Here's a funny thing.
	This is the Trump.
	You heard about the Trump Twitter suit?
	This is a very funny lawsuit because he could make out on this, but it's got nothing to do with the Elon.
	But this is the funny Trump Twitter suit clip.
	I didn't know.
	I didn't know anything about this.
	Former US President Donald Trump has asked an appeals court to revive his lawsuit against Twitter over his permanent suspension.
	His November 14th filing alleges that government officials use social media platforms as so-called cat's paws to suppress opinions, and that those opinions turn out to be correct, or at least debatable.
	The filing references Hunter Biden's laptop, the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2020 election integrity.
	The legal brief draws an analogy with Galileo, Who was convicted of heresy by the Catholic Church.
	It reads, the earth does revolve around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who dropped off a laptop full of incriminating evidence at a repair shop in Delaware.
	The lawsuit against former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey and the federal government seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
	It also demands a court order requiring Twitter to immediately reinstate his account.
	The cat's paw theory of liability?
	This cat's paw, you should look it up.
	Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
	It's crazy.
	This has cropped up in the news.
	I have never heard this term until like a month ago.
	No.
	And now this is the second or third time I've heard it referenced.
	So somehow it's in play.
	And I'm not sure why or how.
	This is NTD.
	It's obviously they picked it up from someplace else, but I don't know why it's in play, but it is.
	So cat's paw is one of these little phrases.
	Here we go.
	Recently, this is from 2011, the Supreme, so it's an old one.
	The Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the U.S.
	cat's paw theory of employer liability under which an employer may be liable for discrimination in an adverse employment decision against an employee where the ultimate decision maker is unbiased and has no discriminatory motives.
	Huh?
	Under this theory, the discriminatory motive of a non-decision-maker is imputed to the decision-maker and employer where the discriminator has some significant influence that leads to the adverse employment action.
	It's like top-down.
	So in other words, if you're like a minion and you take some action that turns out to be discriminatory because you are influenced by the corporate culture, which is influenced mostly by the CEO and Dorsey in this case, then the cat's paw Cat's Paw has something to do with that.
	I don't know what it has to do with cats.
	Is it trying to basically sue someone personally around the shield of corporate liability?
	I think that could be.
	Yeah, it sounds like it.
	Whatever it is Trump's got, you know, Trump's not unfamiliar with legal shenanigans.
	I like it Cat's Paw.
	So Cat's Paw is in play.
	We have to take a look at it.
	I like it, yep.
	Okay, so there's another big story that came up.
	And I do have a lot of clips for this from PBS and Newtang.
	Newtang.
	It's the Saudi prince all of a sudden.
	Double your excitement.
	We got Newtang and PBS children.
	Get ready for it.
	If you want to tune out, now is the time.
	Hey, parents, don't give your kids any sugar.
	They'll be bopping off the walls when they hear this.
	Yeah, very funny.
	Yes, the Saudi prince.
	I know, it's like all of a sudden we're all on his butt.
	Everybody's all jacked up about this.
	And there's some good arguments.
	In fact, the better arguments come out of PBS, even though they're a little dull, but it's PBS.
	And it's like, I'll give you one summary, which is the head of state The idea is that the Saudi prince that Biden hates became the prime minister under some circumstance and the head of state is exempt from certain kinds of legal actions and so Biden's stepping in it for no apparent reason.
	Hello, that's not under the cat's paw law.
	True.
	So let's play the New Tang Dynasty stuff, which is a little funnier.
	This is Saudi Prince Immunity 1.
	The Biden administration Thursday determined that Saudi Arabia's crown prince should be granted immunity in a lawsuit over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
	NTD's Jessica Beatty has more on what many consider a controversial U-turn on the part of President Biden.
	The Biden administration has suggested immunity for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	This despite the fact that the administration has said Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, was murdered in 2018 at the prince's direction.
	Bin Salman, who denied the allegations, was recently made the Saudi prime minister.
	Because of this, the administration says the prince now qualifies for immunity as a foreign head of government.
	The head of democracy for the Arab world now, Sarah Leah Whitson, criticized Biden's immunity suggestion Friday, saying Biden previously promised to hold the crown prince accountable.
	To instead, two years later, have him intervene in a judicial proceeding that he did not have to intervene in, to instead say that he is immune from prosecution, to literally block his prosecution, is a pretty shocking development.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	Okay, because he's a head of state, or former head of state, or current, what is... Well, he's a prime minister, which means he's the head of state of some sort, but everybody acknowledges that the head of state is the king of Saudi Arabia.
	So that is like a point of contention.
	Weak, weak, weak.
	We're not falling for it.
	And so why is Biden, you know, Biden is just, I guess someone said, you know, you're going to have to do something because Biden needs to get that oil pumping.
	Yes, but it's not working.
	Can't even get his own blood pressure up.
	Let's go with Saudi Prince immunity.
	The federal lawsuit against Bin Salman was brought by Khashoggi's fiancé and Whitson's group.
	It alleges a team of assassins kidnapped, drugged, tortured and killed Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and dismembered his body.
	Khashoggi's remains were never found.
	Whitson says Biden's move gives the Crown Prince a green light.
	Shielding him from accountability is giving him a green light to keep at it.
	Keep attacking people in the United States as he has been doing because they criticize him.
	Keep jailing women and men in Saudi Arabia because they have an opinion about the politics of the country.
	The filing, however, said the Biden administration takes no view on the merits of the present suit while calling the murder heinous.
	The administration did say it imposed visa restrictions and other penalties on lower ranking Saudi officials.
	Ah, always give it to the lower rankers.
	Stick it to them!
	So now we have a more sobering report from PBS.
	That was exciting.
	Now the real stuff comes, okay.
	State Department, Saudis and WTF1.
	This is actually kind of, there's a number of interesting things in this report.
	The State Department issued a legal opinion yesterday that said Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has immunity from U.S.
	courts.
	The Crown Prince has been sued in the U.S.
	by the fiancée of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
	He was murdered in Saudi's Istanbul consulate in 2018, and U.S.
	intelligence believes MBS ordered the killing.
	Meantime, for months, the Biden administration has been pushing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production amid high gas prices.
	So, should the U.S.
	have been tougher with Saudi Arabia?
	For that, we get two views.
	John Bellinger was the legal adviser to the State Department during the George W. Bush administration.
	And Gregory Stanton is a former State Department lawyer and founder and president of Genocide Watch, a nonprofit that seeks to stop genocide and its perpetrators.
	Okay, just the two guests.
	What do you want a genocide watch guy giving opinions on this particular topic for?
	It's idiotic!
	He's just there to create noise about Saudi Arabia, you know, killing the Yemenis.
	Well, he never brings that into the conversation.
	Really?
	Well, then what is he doing there?
	You'd ask me?
	I would like to know!
	That makes no sense.
	But he's there anyway because he's a good chatterbox and he yaks, yaks, yaks.
	He talks well.
	And so here we go with the part two of this.
	Welcome to you both.
	Thank you for being here.
	Let's jump right in.
	Greg, what do you make of this call by the U.S.?
	Was this the right decision?
	I think the State Department got this wrong.
	The fact is that the law here is the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of the United States.
	And in the opinion they gave, they only cited customary international law.
	In fact, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act has a number of exceptions that have been actually passed by Congress and signed into law.
	The 2008 Defense Act was accompanied with an exception to allow people to sue certain governments that were declared to be terrorist states.
	Right, like Iran.
	But then in 2016, there was another act passed, the Justice for Victims of Terrorist Act, that specifically takes a lot of the need for the State Department to designate a country as a terrorist country.
	And it makes it possible to actually sue anybody involved in murder, in torture, In hijacking and in hostage taking.
	You think this should have fit under that exception?
	I think that it's very clear that MBS was responsible for the murder and for the torture of Jamal Khashoggi.
	Let me bring in John on that point then.
	I mean, President Biden has said, and he did agree with the CIA assessment, that MBS did or the operation that led to Khashoggi's killing.
	So why issue immunity in a murder case?
	Well, I think for the reasons you just mentioned, this was a very uncomfortable, if not unpalatable decision for the Biden administration to have to make, given the really awful circumstances of the killing for Jamal Khashoggi.
	But the administration was simply complying with its obligations under international law.
	What?
	Yeah.
	What obligations under international law does he speak of?
	Well, let's play part three and you'll find out.
	International law recognizes that heads of state and government, like now Prime Minister bin Salman, enjoy immunity from civil suits or in fact from criminal prosecutions.
	In the courts of other countries.
	So under international law, he had immunity here.
	And for that reason, going back decades, every administration has asserted immunity on behalf of any foreign head of state who is sued here in the United States, often for really horrific actions.
	When I was legal advisor of the State Department, I had to sign an immunity determination for Pope Benedict, who was sued with respect to the clergy scandal.
	So this was not a favor to Saudi Arabia.
	This was simply compelled by international law.
	Rick, what do you say to that?
	Decades of precedent here.
	I think the reason that that doesn't hold here is that MBS is not the head of state in Saudi Arabia.
	He is prime minister, right?
	Well, they just made him prime minister, so he might be able to, you know, argue this point.
	But the fact is, the head of state in Saudi Arabia is the king.
	This is just a prince.
	So the only one who would have this right under the international law would be the king.
	What would be the U.S.
	options in this case?
	What would you have liked to see happen?
	What I would have liked to see is that he could be sued, and that is specifically allowed under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and its exceptions.
	He's not being tried criminally here.
	This is a lawsuit to get a compensation for the murder of a man.
	A very great man, in fact.
	So, for me, this is not a case where it was governed by international law at all.
	Such a great man that the pronunciation of his last name has changed yet again.
	Everyone's up to speed on this.
	You know, the arch enemy of the Saudis is Qatar.
	Are they not arch enemies?
	She's one of them.
	So is Iran.
	Right, right.
	But Qatar actually retaliated against the U.S.
	making this move.
	Did you realize that?
	No, this is news to me.
	Soccer fans are getting ready to celebrate Sunday's World Cup kickoff, but the party plans got downgraded after host country Qatar banned alcohol at the stadiums.
	This sudden reversal surprised Budweiser.
	The global beer giant paid $75 million to be the official beer sponsor.
	A now-deleted Budweiser tweet captured the corporate mood.
	Well, this is awkward.
	That's a direct attack on American commerce.
	I never thought of that, because I knew about this, and Qatar's a fundamentalist Muslim country, and it always surprised me that they would serve beer there anyway, but it was initially allowed, it seems to me, and now they pulled back on it.
	You might be right, but the problem with your argument is Budweiser's not an American company.
	Oh, you're right.
	It's Belgium now.
	You're right.
	Good point.
	Well, there goes my theory.
	It was an attack against Europe.
	No, I think it was just a... I think they didn't... Here's the thing.
	I think there's evidence of not ponying up enough.
	Yes.
	Did you...
	Now, did Biden make an announcement about this, or is this just something that got out there and people are grabbing it?
	It came out of the State Department.
	But they didn't do a huge announcement.
	Someone caught it and started making trouble.
	That's what it sounds like.
	I don't know if it was huge or not.
	They're not covering this properly.
	No.
	We don't see Blinken or anyone.
	Of course not.
	Oh.
	I don't understand this.
	I'd like to know.
	I mean, does it have to do with 9-11?
	It can't be just... It has to be 9-11 because, you know, there was all these families who wanted to sue Saudi Arabia for 9-11.
	No, I think this really has nothing to do with anything except kissing his ass to get him to pump more oil.
	Why don't they just pump more American oil?
	I mean, why did... No, you can't do that.
	It's no good.
	Climate change.
	Climate change.
	I don't know.
	Here's a good story for you.
	Yes?
	55 tons of pot!
	Spanish police say they confiscated over 55 tons of marijuana, the largest amount of the drug ever seized in the country.
	How is this good news for me?
	How is this good news?
	And weighing more than an adult humpback whale.
	Good one.
	dismantled in a northeastern region of the country and 20 people were detained on suspected electricity fraud and offenses against public health.
	All the marijuana farms were concealed as legal hemp plantations.
	They were registered by a trading company and located among other warehouses.
	Agents seized over 187,000 plants and 21 tons of marijuana buds between June and October.
	In a separate bust earlier this month, Spain announced it seized over 35 tons of marijuana, a record-setting amount at the time.
	Spanish officials say that 55 tons of the drug could have an estimated value of almost 130 million dollars.
	I like that.
	I like Something's going on here.
	This is a war on drugs, obviously.
	I like the comparison with the humpback whale.
	I think the Belgian authorities are close second.
	They announced, according to VRT News, they have their agents.
	Now, you know, Belgium has big ports.
	Big, big ports.
	You know, rivals.
	Antwerp.
	The port of Antwerp is an important port.
	Isn't Antwerp in Belgium?
	Yes, that's what I'm saying, Antwerp.
	You said Rivals Antwerp.
	Oh, Rivals Rotterdam is what I meant to say.
	Rivals Rotterdam, Antwerp.
	Rotterdam's a huge port.
	When it comes to drugs, Belgian authorities now say, hey, we have seized so much coke, it's overloading the incinerators.
	That's a good one.
	That's a good one, yeah.
	But we're not seizing anything here.
	We're just letting it come through in its fentanyl.
	I think it's Joe Biden.
	Nah, not just Joe Biden.
	So Boebert, it looks like Boebert, our friend Boebert.
	She's not my friend.
	She's your friend.
	She is now.
	Your friend Boebert.
	She's never been my friend.
	She won't even return calls.
	Yes, yes, because you met her on OnlyFans.
	Yeah, Boebert wins in Colorado, maybe.
	Representative Lauren Boebert has declared victory over challenger Adam Frisch, even as the race appears headed to a recount.
	I call bullcrap.
	Boebert is leading Frisch by just 551 votes.
	That's according to unofficial results from the Colorado Secretary of State's office today.
	Tell me you have no other ISOs but that one.
	I've got that one.
	Okay.
	But I have another one too.
	Ah, good one.
	I just couldn't resist putting that in.
	I have two stories on Ukraine.
	This is boots on the ground from one of our producers.
	From January 1st, Poland will be forcing Ukrainian refugees to pay for their accommodation.
	Well, I would hope so.
	According to Polish officials, this will motivate Ukrainian visitors to find work in Poland as quick as possible and rent accommodations at their own expense.
	The initiative will be aimed at those who have been living in sanatoriums, boarding houses and hostels for months, about 20% of the overall Ukrainian refugees.
	Poles do not hide the fact that some Ukrainians who live for free will have to return to Ukraine because they will not be able to pay for their own accommodations.
	The Polish employment agency, Gremi Personal, reports that because of high prices, only 52% of Ukrainians now rent their own flat or room.
	The rest live at the expense of the company where they work or the government.
	So, the majority of those who live at the expense of the state have been taken off the payrolls as of January 1st.
	That should make for some fun tension.
	That's January 1st.
	I think it'll be over by then.
	I have one short Ukrainian clip and it's about the power going out again.
	In Ukraine, the government said waves of Russian strikes have disabled nearly half of the energy system.
	The winter bombing campaign has plunged millions into darkness for hours on end.
	Officials also warned today that freezing temperatures are now adding to the pressure on disrupted energy networks.
	Alright, here's mine.
	The Russia-Viagra story.
	It's a classic.
	The New World Order likes to use it.
	It's code.
	I think it's code at this point.
	So just like, where else have we seen this?
	Libya.
	ISIS, Libya.
	Oh, they're giving their fighters Viagra to rape and pillage!
	Now you know those two, the Russian comedians, I think they have a radio show, those two dudes who keep calling people up and and pretending to be Putin.
	They're hilarious, those two guys.
	So those two guys love, I'd love, you know, these are the kinds of guys I'd love to meet them.
	I would drink a vodka with those guys.
	They did a, you know, quote-unquote interview with Pramila Patan.
	And she is the United Nations Special Representative on Sex Violence in Conflict.
	And she is, in fact, the one that told the media about the Viagra story.
	So these guys... Now, you gotta watch the whole video for the full effect.
	It's long, so I only got a minute twenty.
	Um, they start off by saying, hey, you know, what we're hearing is that it's not just men and women that rape women and girls.
	They're raping men and babies.
	And so they're laying into her.
	And it's like, well, do you have any, have you investigated that you have proof that this is happening?
	Cause we really need to do something about this.
	And here's where we pick up the conversation.
	Reminder, this woman is responsible for sex and violence in conflict.
	She is a special representative of the United Nations.
	So she is the one that, uh, that told the media this story.
	I ask you because you know, that's, uh, Russians also try to, No, like I said, it's not my role to go and investigate.
	It's not the role of my office.
	I have an advocacy mandate to provide strategic leadership on prevention and response.
	But when I have engaged with the media, since I returned from Kiev in May,
	I have mentioned that I have received reports from survivors and frontline service providers about women and girls being detained in basement of buildings in Mariupol, gang-raped for days, with Russian soldiers being equipped with Viagra and other drugs, and also they share... So you did not make any investigation about Viagra or something like that?
	It's not my job to make an inventory.
	I do not have a mandate.
	I sit in New York, in an office in New York, and I have an advocacy mandate.
	My role is not to investigate.
	The investigation is going on by the Human Rights Monitoring Team and the International Commission of Inquiry.
	In their report so far, there is nothing about Viagra.
	So far in the official report, there's nothing about Viagra.
	I just have an advocacy role.
	Service providers on the ground tell me what to say.
	That's what I do.
	Wow!
	That's a great... I'll give you a clip of the day for digging that up.
	Thank you very much.
	That is actually one that I clipped myself.
	I'm very proud of that.
	I'm sure someone turned me on to it, no doubt.
	So, we always knew it was bullcrap, but now you see how it works.
	There's a lady in New York, and she just sits there, and, oh, we got Viagra, they're raping!
	Okay, I'll talk to the media.
	I checked the report, there's nothing about it in there, but I'll talk to the media.
	Wow.
	Yeah, wow.
	Wow is right.
	I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	We do have a few people to thank for show 1505.
	I think somebody would pick up on that, but no.
	Oh, yes.
	It stands for ISOs.
	Oh, Iso is interesting.
	Dame Meowdeson in Altamont Springs, Florida did come with 15050, which is 1505.
	So she actually is the only one who, uh, who did anything in that regard that I can see.
	And she's in Altamont Springs, Florida, as I said.
	Oscar Goebbels is next on the list.
	He's the Sir Hugger of Kitties and Zondom.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	Jason Bible.
	Austin, Texas, 12012.
	We still have a shortfall here.
	There's less than 40 people who donated total, over $50.
	Richard J. Lindquist in Squim, Washington.
	1-0-1-0-1.
	Mind Over Media in Salem, Oregon.
	$100.01.
	James... Hold on.
	If I may just stop and read this for a second.
	I'm a longtime donor from years ago.
	Chiming in again now.
	I sadly lost my wonderful wife, Bea Lisa, to a brain tumor.
	She and I love the show together.
	This is in her memory and to support all you do to inform and entertain us.
	From Bob.
	Thank you, Bob.
	We're so sorry about that.
	James Zuckel in Beverly Hills, California, $100.
	Daniel Kaufman in Menasha, Wisconsin, $800.
	And he has, I think he is knighted today.
	I've been with you guys since episode number one, followed each of you long before No Agenda.
	I'm thankful for the show and the community that surrounds it.
	Today, I am proud to take a seat at the round table.
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	Regards, says Daniel.
	Thank you very much, Daniel.
	Cued up and ready to go.
	He came in with 8-0-0-8 along with, guess who?
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna, lover of America.
	And boobs.
	And boobs.
	8-0-0-8, Locust, North Carolina.
	Claudia, you know, I wonder if they had a Locust invasion.
	Why would you name a town Locust?
	There's reasons, man.
	I'd like to know.
	Baria dilemmi.
	Dilemmi, I'm thinking.
	In Quebec.
	Canada, $75.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996.
	QQ in Key West, Florida.
	Ah, QQ.
	Hello, QQ.
	QQ, QQ.
	QQ is a dynamite Russian guy.
	He is going to rival Sir Gene for cool Russian guy.
	Friend of the show.
	QQ, QQ.
	Daniel Mariano in Pflugerville, Texas, $55.10.
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	Greg Mellon in Glenmore, Pennsylvania, $50.47.
	Awesome job with the second segments of the past few weeks.
	Yeah.
	Uh, and then we go to Matt Schillig in Decatur, Georgia.
	And now we go to the $50 donor starting with Sir Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas, Alexander Vodejo in Gig Harbor, Washington.
	These are all fifties.
	Andrew Gusek in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Christy Jones in Demore, Demorest, Georgia.
	Uh, Christy Jones again in Cumming, Georgia.
	That seems to be like the same person, which means it's 100 from Christy.
	Well, at least that's a coincidence.
	Robert Case in Mill Spring, North Carolina.
	Matt Bolke in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
	Matt Eilingworth in Montclair, New Jersey.
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	She comes in a lot.
	Michael Statham.
	Parts Unknown.
	Sir Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri.
	And Jason Marrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr And of course, thanks again to our executive producers only today, and thank you to them, and they get their official credit.
	I also want to say, we had a dinner last night in Wimberley, Texas, and I met... Where's that?
	Wimberley?
	That's... Where they do the British Open?
	Yeah, who lives there?
	Paul Simon moved there recently with Edie Burkell.
	Wimberley's nice.
	And we met Kathy, and she is a true 100% JCD fanboy.
	Yeah, good for her.
	She's a smart woman.
	Fan girl, fan girl.
	John, she's your type, too.
	I'm just saying.
	Thank you very much, producers.
	Also, those who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity, if you're still doing some of those subscriptions, stay on them, please.
	If not, we'd appreciate it if you'd take one.
	Yeah, let's get a little bit of service going for everybody.
	You've got It's your birthday, birthday!
	And Michelle Viotko says happy birthday to her fiancé!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Celebrated on the 13th.
	That's it for the birthdays, everybody!
	Short and sweet.
	Cause we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave us some of them nights, some of them days.
	And we have one title of changing today.
	Servile becomes Baron of the Northland, Protector of the Greater North, and we appreciate your support of the show, of course.
	Then we have two dames and a slew of knights, and these, of course, will be black by nature, or the ones that we have missed.
	By the way, it was mentioned here that if you don't like the title Black Knight, you don't have to use it.
	Somebody did complain saying, I don't know, why'd you name me a Black Knight for?
	I don't get it.
	And so the Black Knights are named because they were off, we screwed up.
	Wow, someone rejected the covered moniker.
	Yeah, they rejected the Black Knight moniker.
	Because you can't earn a Black Knighthood.
	I mean, that has to come from our err.
	Yeah.
	We have to err in order for that to happen.
	So you don't need, if you don't like it, you don't have to use it.
	Yeah.
	No skin off our nose.
	All right, then.
	I need a good blade here, because we do have quite a few people still today.
	All right, I got the stainless steel.
	Nice.
	Up on the podium, please!
	That anonymous lady.
	Courtney Harris, also Daniel Kaufman.
	Anonymous dude.
	Mason, Jeff Costas, Brandon, Robert Ludwig, David Miller, and Nathan Scheuermann.
	And here we go.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the case.
	The officially Dame Finger Mole, Dame Court, guardian of the aerodrome.
	Sir Dank Steady of Doty Island.
	Sir 6112.
	Sir Mason, master of rag.
	Sir Jeff Costas, black knight of the Middleburg, Florida.
	Sir Brandon, black knight of the order of TNT.
	Sir Boober, the most sane man.
	Sir Arizona, black knight of the peninsula.
	And Nathan Shorman.
	Sir Shuey of the land of ice and snow.
	And for you, we've got, of course, all the usual accoutrements at the round table, which also includes mutton and meats.
	So while you're feasting on that, please head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Get yourself logged in, checked in, give us a size.
	By the way, those of you who are waiting, I think we're just about, or just put in a big order.
	I saw the invoice, so it's a big order.
	Four rings, it'll take a little bit.
	You know, supply chain issues and Putin, war in Ukraine.
	In fact, that should be my answer.
	People say, hey man, I've been waiting six weeks for my ring.
	How come I haven't gotten it yet?
	And my answer should not be, you know, honest.
	It should be Putin.
	Just Putin.
	Putin did it.
	Noagendanation.com slash rings, and we appreciate your support of the No Agenda Show.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	It's like a party!
	Yes, it's like a party.
	I don't have any meetup reports taking place today though.
	I'd say that's probably over by now.
	The Crossroads of America Tribal Meetup at St.
	Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis?
	Maybe not.
	It's probably still rockin'.
	Also today, the TMI EVAC Zone November Meetup.
	Now that is definitely on the end of the tail end.
	Evergreen Brewing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
	The Secret Society for the Prevention of Sobriety, 4 o'clock Zulu time.
	But that would be Rock Island Public House in Blue Island, Illinois.
	Zulu is not central, by the way, so I'm not sure who decided to put that in there.
	Myrtle Beach tourist season is over, and they're celebrating at Arcade Bar the Old Maldoros by the mall in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
	Still ongoing.
	And the No Agenda Friendsgiving Family Festival extravaganza, 5 o'clock at Skipper's Pier Coastal Cajun Kitchen in Gladewater, Texas.
	That is your dirty jersey whore who's taking care of that.
	And I believe that we had the Kansas City meetup was postponed.
	I have a feeling it may have been postponed to today, but it wasn't because of lack of interest.
	They excoriated me for saying that.
	No agenda meetups, a place we can go hang out.
	I was telling your new fangirl, Kathy, that she should go to one of those California meetups and she should meet you in person.
	Yeah.
	Because you can meet celebrities.
	And if not, you'll always get a celebrity's head on a stick, which is awesome.
	Or you can meet one of the two of us.
	There's that.
	NoahJennerMeetups.com.
	Find one near you.
	If you can't find one, start one yourself.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want to be.
	Trick or treat.
	We wanna be where everybody knows the same.
	It's like a party.
	Big-ass party.
	And I have exactly zero isos.
	So you win.
	Well, I have two.
	Okay.
	And they're both, uh, they're, they're... Well, you know, they're not the kind I like, but let's go with bullcrap for starters.
	I call bullcrap.
	I'm liking that one.
	I liked it from the get-go.
	And then the other one, which I think is more interesting and should top bullcrap, which is stupid.
	Predictably stupid.
	No, man.
	I like bullcrap.
	Wow.
	I can't help.
	Yeah, it's crisp.
	It's very crisp.
	It's crisp.
	I think the crispiness is just what does it.
	Crisp is a big deal with these ISOs.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	True.
	Crisp is a very big deal.
	Very big deal.
	I've got a number of leftovers here.
	I've got a couple of things.
	I have one thing that I would just like to play if you don't mind.
	It's Alexstine99.
	Remember Alex Stein?
	No, I don't remember Alex Stein.
	Alex Stein is the guy who goes to all the town halls and he'll dress up as a trans woman.
	Oh, that guy!
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's great.
	Well, he, now, this guy, I'm, I'm, my hat is off to him.
	So he goes to Denton, Texas, and at some, uh, I don't know what kind of, uh, yoga studio or something, they're going to do drag time, uh, drag, drag time story hour, whatever it is for the kids.
	And so he goes out to obviously make fun of everybody and out in front are a whole bunch of quote-unquote Antifa dressed in you know in the black with the black the what do you call the Balaclava, with their AR-15s, or it looked more like AR pistols or something, you know, just draped.
	And so they're completely black, they look like the Antifa militia.
	Yeah, they look like a militia.
	And he just walks right up to them and just gets in their face with his selfie camera, he doesn't have a cameraman, and just laughs at them, standing right face-to-face with them.
	See, this guy keeps on trying to bump me every time I walk by.
	Dude, I'm walking down the street.
	I'm standing here.
	I'm alive.
	Let him go sideways.
	Alright, Alex, I think you need to leave.
	I'm not leaving, guys!
	You guys, you're trying to get in my way!
	I'm here on a public street!
	Get out of my way!
	Oh my god, guys, I'm so scared!
	The Antifa, they brought their play guns!
	Their squirt guns!
	Oh my god!
	Your arts and crafts times!
	If this messed up your arts and crafts time, you guys wouldn't be able to go home and play with those.
	Look how scary they are!
	Oh my god, this guy's so scared!
	I'm so scared!
	He's got his gun!
	His big gun!
	He's a big, bad guy!
	It's literally standing right in front of two of them and they're just looking at him.
	Oh my god!
	I'm so happy you're protecting these children so they can go get indoctrinated and go in there for transgender story time.
	You're such a good American.
	God bless this guy.
	Look at him.
	I'm scared!
	I mean, these people, these are the real cowards.
	They're hiding behind their masks.
	They got their little guns.
	They think they're so tough.
	We're at a bookstore here in Dent, Texas, where they're trying to do drag queen story hour.
	And of course, typical people here with their mask on, not able to actually stand up for what they believe in, because they're all cowards.
	And I mean, he is completely, um, He's freezing their brains.
	They don't know what to do with this.
	He's not adversarial.
	He's not saying, I hate you, whatever.
	He's just making fun of them.
	And they're frozen.
	They don't know what to do.
	They can't respond.
	It's great.
	This guy deserves some kind of medal.
	Yeah, he does.
	I like him.
	Me too.
	I have one last clip then, which is slightly educational.
	Oh, you sure that's not dangerous, that we start to do that?
	It's a House rules change.
	This is an NTD report about what the Republicans are up to.
	They're immediately starting to change House rules, and there's a little tidbit at the end that I thought was a wow.
	House Republicans passed some expected rule changes on Thursday.
	Several of the rules proposed serve to weaken the power of the House Speaker.
	Here are the details.
	On Thursday, House Republicans passed the first round of several expected rule changes.
	The conference addressed 12 of 24 proposed rule changes put forward by GOP members.
	Several of the proposed rules weakened the power of the Speaker.
	Many Republicans remain lukewarm about the prospect of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.
	One of the new rules passed by the conference would make it easier to remove a sitting Speaker.
	The rule allows a majority of the GOP caucus to vote to remove the Speaker.
	Currently, the Speaker's seat can only be vacated following a motion from the House Majority Leader.
	Under the new rule, any member can put forward a motion to depose the Speaker.
	A majority of the conference must then agree to the motion before it can go to a vote.
	One effect of that is to prevent Democrats from placing someone in the Speaker's seat.
	Republicans do have a majority in the House, but Democrats could propose someone like Liz Cheney and get enough supports from both sides of the aisle to actually make her the Speaker.
	Cheney was defeated in her primary earlier this year, but the Constitution does not require that the Speaker be a sitting elected member of Congress.
	Wow!
	Did you know that?
	No, in fact, back at you, my good friend.
	Of course I didn't know that!
	Educational clips are the way to go.
	And how can we know that Adam doesn't know that?
	Because Adam is not like John.
	Adam can't actually sit through NTD like John can.
	Which just goes to show why there's two of us on this program.
	N.T.D.
	N.T.D.' 's the best.
	N.T.D.
	I got no complaints now.
	But I'll say, you're right about there not being entertaining.
	It's unfortunate.
	Oh my goodness.
	Wouldn't that be a hoot?
	Liz Cheney, Speaker of the House.
	I can be Speaker of the House.
	I like that idea.
	Alex Jones, Speaker of the House, everybody.
	Jordan Peterson, Ice Canadian, doesn't count.
	That's very funny.
	All right, everybody.
	End of show.
	Mix is Dee's Laughs.
	Professor JJ comes in along with Jesse Coyne Nelson.
	And up next on NoAgendaStream.com, we have Pod of the Pal.
	Pal of the Pod.
	Congressional Dish.
	That's nice to have congressional dish on the stream.
	And this will be about Jennifer Briney's visit to C-SPAN.
	It'll be inside C-SPAN.
	That should be fun.
	That should be entertaining.
	That's next on noagendastream.com, 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.
	And the Bears beat Stanford, if I haven't mentioned that before.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	We return on Thursday, one hour earlier for the Thanksgiving festivities, right here on your No Agenda Show.
	Until then, adios, mofos, and such!
	And a hooey, hooey.
	Ontario, welcome back to Mask Mandates.
	Suggestion for now, they put it out as a bait.
	It's a trap.
	Do the help of stopping the spread or make things worse?
	There's been no debate.
	I can't breathe, using privilege.
	Glad that you asked.
	Imagine asking permission not to have to wear a mask.
	But sitting in your car or your home, feeling alone.
	Cause you believe you about to fall victim or a prone.
	To a virus not to survive, I mean 99.8.
	Depending on comorbidities and age, guessing you were straight.
	My condolences to those who passed away.
	My condolences to those who had their vaccines in jury.
	Never shame or mention the latter publicly.
	The Pfizer docs are coming out for all of us to see.
	But who lied to you?
	They lied to me.
	I mean, CDC, some agree.
	The world's most reputable leading health and government agencies proceeded to mandate the Vaseline for you and me.
	Man, eat please.
	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?
	Get up and howl about America and democracy.
	There is no America.
	There is no democracy.
	Which is more valuable?
	Your vote or your money?
	They say I can sell anything.
	You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mysterio, and I won't have it!
	There is only one holistic system of systems.
	It is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today.
	It is air and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance, your money, or your vote, or your country, or this world, or the corruption that is taking over every single county in this nation.
	The natural order of things to do.
	And you have met all the primal forces of nature.
	And you.
	And you will be punished!
	Am I getting tilted yesterday?
	Which is more valuable?
	Your vote or your money?
	There is no other.
	You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
	It is ebb and flow!
	Tidal gravity!
	It is ecological balance!
	All necessities provided.
	Am I getting through to you, Mr. Biel?
	Even just today, a missile was sent in, probably by Russia.
	Probably by Russia.
	Probably by Russia.
	To Poland.
	Poland. Poland. 50 miles into Poland.
	And people are going absolutely wild and crazy.
	Wild and crazy.
	Wild and crazy.
	We've got to get out of this stench.
	Smell bad.
	Stench?
	Wild and crazy.
	Election denier from that wing of the party.
	How are you reading these tea leaves?
	Probably by Russia.
	Probably by Russia.
	We've talked about this.
	Ditch.
	Yes!
	Definitely not a Republican way, that's for darn sure.
	Darn sure.
	Even just today, a missile was sent in probably by Russia to Poland, 50 miles into Poland, and people are going absolutely wild.

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