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	It's bull.
	It's bull.
	It's called bull.
	It's bull.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, December 15, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Kid One Nation media assassination episode 1512.
	This is no agenda.
	Following the confusion and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas whole country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everyone has the Christmas spirit.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Ah, yes, the Christmas spirit is in the air.
	That's true.
	Yeah, and climate change solved!
	Solved!
	Solved!
	It's all done!
	It's all over.
	We're good to go.
	We don't have to worry about a zero carbon future.
	We'll get there!
	It's all been fixed!
	Done!
	Is that what Bill McKibben says?
	Bill McKibben's?
	I don't know who Bill McKibben's is.
	Oh yeah, you do.
	Do I know who that is?
	No.
	No.
	This is the big news!
	I mean, I don't see... This should be number one!
	Everywhere!
	Everywhere!
	This is the only story that matters!
	A major announcement is expected today from the U.S.
	Energy Secretary about what some call the Holy Grail of clean energy.
	The Holy Grail!
	It could change how we power our world.
	Incoming!
	ABC's Lionel Moise explains.
	I mean, this news was just off the hook.
	I was so excited.
	We've achieved fusion!
	Ignition.
	Fusion!
	Ignition.
	This is unbelievable.
	This is the biggest bogative thing I've ever heard of.
	And I'm not even a fusion scientist, a nuclear scientist.
	Just what they're saying.
	What do you find?
	I know the story, I didn't clip it, but I know pretty much know the story.
	What do you think is the Achilles heel to the story?
	Okay, I know nothing.
	I know nothing!
	I just listened to Secretary Graham and all I heard was... Well, she knows less than you!
	Let's go through... Yeah, of course, that's why she has the job.
	What I heard right off the bat was that the headline reads, FUSION!
	We've achieved fusion!
	But then you read the sub-headline, it says, FUSION IGNITION.
	And I'm pretty sure that's some kind of bullcrap thing, but let's just listen to our secretary, who was all jitty and jacked.
	Uh, today- This is in case you don't remember, she has the short pixie hair, and the- Former governor.
	Former governor, yes.
	Has no experience- She's not a scientist in the least.
	But she does have huge ears.
	Just massive, like teacup saucer ears.
	Uh, today we're here to talk about fusion.
	Fusion!
	Combining two particles into one.
	Does she flap and then fly into the distance using her ears?
	Like Dumbo!
	Last week, At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, scientists at the National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition.
	That's where I went, oh, okay.
	That doesn't sound like fusion, it sounds like fusion ignition.
	And that is creating more energy from fusion reactions than the energy used to start the process.
	It's the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory.
	Anywhere in the world.
	Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century.
	Or as the president might say... Wait, wait.
	Right?
	Oh, no.
	We're going to ruin your applause line.
	Oh, amazing.
	I do think he probably did say this is a BFD.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh.
	Researchers at Livermore and around the world have been working on this moment for more than 60 years.
	Okay, so I would like, before I play these other short clips of her, just tell us exactly what happened here.
	Well, there's this thing called fusion ignition, which implies that you took less energy to create the output of energy that was created by the fusion.
	And so what they do is they take whatever kilowatts to jam into this little pellet that they had, and then the amount of kilowatts coming out is greater than the amount that went in, supposedly.
	Right, okay.
	And that's kind of what they're talking about happening.
	The part of the calculation that I've heard nothing about is that how much energy did it take to make the pellet?
	that That's what I'm getting from everybody.
	It took like 50,000 lasers to blast one pellet and somehow that was deemed a good thing.
	But we'll just, we'll just let the Department of Energy secretary explain it.
	So, what does this accomplishment do?
	So we just heard what it did.
	What does it really do?
	Two things.
	First, it strengthens our national security.
	Yes, I feel so much more secure.
	Because it opens a new realm for maintaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent in an age where we do not have nuclear testing.
	What did she just say there?
	Somehow it's a nuclear deterrent?
	I don't know what she, when she, what she just said, which I didn't hear this part by the way.
	But what she said there, she's talking about bombs.
	Yeah, that's what I don't understand.
	Why is she talking about bombs?
	I don't know.
	Because it opens a new realm for maintaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent in an age where we do not have nuclear testing?
	No!
	I don't understand.
	By the way, a fusion bomb, or the type of bomb that they make, which is a fission bomb, is a... What's it got to do with this?
	It's got nothing to do with it.
	Why is this better?
	We're making a better bomb.
	Yeah!
	We're number one!
	We got a better bomb, everybody!
	Woo!
	She's off the rails.
	This is not good.
	Ignition allows us to replicate, for the first time, certain conditions that are found only in the stars and the sun.
	stars?
	She doesn't know that.
	She just said it.
	It must be true.
	And the second thing it does, of course.
	Well, this is three things.
	Okay.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	The second thing it does, of course, is my favorite little bit there.
	What do you think it is, of course?
	It makes it so we can have clean green energy.
	Yes, of course.
	And the second thing it does, of course, is that this milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon, abundant fusion energy powering our society.
	Oh, I'm tearing up over this.
	If we can advance fusion energy, We could use it to produce clean electricity, transportation fuels, power heavy industry, so much more.
	It would be like adding a power drill to our toolbox in building this clean energy economy.
	Oh my god!
	If only I could add a power drill to my toolbox!
	What kind of an analogy is that?
	I know!
	It's like everyone has a power drill, lady.
	You're like, give me a hoverboard, okay?
	Show me something that pays off on the big promise.
	No, that's not what this is all about.
	Don't worry, we know what this is coming down to.
	So today, we tell the world...
	We are.
	I don't even want to know what you asked for that.
	America has achieved a tremendous scientific breakthrough.
	Number one!
	One that happened because we invested.
	Oh!
	Sounds like she's winding up for some money pitch.
	In our national labs.
	Oh yeah.
	We invested.
	We invested.
	In fundamental research.
	We'll continue to work toward a future that is powered in part by fusion energy.
	Thank you for the extra sound effect, John.
	Fortunately, private sector investment in fusion research is already booming.
	Good!
	Booming!
	It has reached nearly $3 billion in last year alone.
	Wow, this is great!
	Last week's money to Ukraine!
	Yeah!
	But this is private!
	We don't have to worry about it!
	It's all private, it's good!
	And we've heard from professors That interest among students has never been higher.
	Which is terrific.
	And that's why the Biden-Harris administration is aiming to capitalize on this moment.
	Today's announcement It's a huge step forward to the president's goal of achieving commercial fusion within a decade.
	But there's still a lot more to do.
	Kennedy!
	Oh, listen to the laugh tale after she talks about 10 years.
	To the president's goal of achieving commercial fusion within a decade.
	But there's still a lot more to do.
	What do you mean by money?
	What was the laugh for?
	Because she just said, oh, we'll achieve this, all the, it's the same 10 years.
	Well, usually the laughs in, it's not, I don't know, these laugh tells usually show up before the, the lie, not, although I guess they could show up anywhere, but what, why, why is, what is it even doing anywhere in this talk?
	Let's listen to it again, but what's happening here is the same as green hydrogen.
	It's like, this is great, it's fantastic, we're the best, three billion dollars already in there, and you know, in ten years it'll pay off!
	That's the same hydrogen time frame, lady, it's bold!
	is a huge step forward to the president's goal of achieving commercial fusion within a decade.
	But there's still a lot more to do.
	So much more.
	We'll continue to work toward that goal and find other ways to progress.
	To me it just means it's never gonna happen.
	Ten years, but there's so much more that's never going to happen.
	I think that's what the laugh tale was.
	It's not going to happen in ten years.
	Whatever the case, is this ten year nonsense?
	It's boring.
	If you achieve, besides the, well, let's look at fusion energy, if it's achieved in a positive way.
	It's a big, big deal.
	Yeah.
	And you would ramp it so fast you wouldn't know what hit you.
	So if this experiment was anything real, it could be ramped.
	It could be scaled.
	Why can't you scale it?
	Make the little pill bigger or do whatever you have to do or just make a million of the little pills and it would do it that way.
	So whatever it would take, you would do it as fast.
	It wouldn't take 10 years to do it because it's like this.
	It's bull.
	It's all bull.
	It's bull.
	Find other ways to progress to reach fusion energy.
	So, for example, in September, the Department of Energy made a $50 million investment for public-private partnerships to start working toward... Money!
	...fusion pilot plant designs.
	And we're partnering with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to map out the President's bold vision for driving that intellectual fusion in the next decade.
	Bold!
	Bold!
	Very bold.
	With the highest safety standards, with cost-effective, equitable deployment that positions American businesses to lead and communities to thrive.
	Why does it have to be...
	Equitable.
	Because black people need power.
	It's a little ball of goo that they're flashing a laser on.
	What's equitable about it?
	I don't get it.
	We can't just give that to the white people.
	We have to give it to the black people.
	Next decade, with the highest safety standards, with cost-effective, equitable deployment that positions American businesses to lead and communities to thrive.
	Communities.
	And with a skilled workforce that is diverse and inclusive.
	This is what it looks like for America to lead.
	And we're just getting started.
	Dad, that's why... This is what it looks like for America to lead.
	Just a bold craps a bunch of reporters that are there with their tongues hanging out writing down notes that are useless.
	With those big ears?
	You know what I got a good story about.
	This is so bad I never even heard this part of it.
	With their big ears.
	Flapping in the wind, lady.
	But this does come at an opportune time because we have a massive, massive problem with our renewables.
	Yes!
	So, just recall, in our lifetime, in my lifetime, we had global warming.
	That had to be changed to climate change.
	No, let's start with global cooling, come on.
	No, I just want to stay with the elites part.
	Okay, we'll start with global cooling.
	First there was global cooling, and then there was global warming.
	Okay, so now we're global warming.
	That didn't work so well.
	It turned into climate change.
	And then weather is not climate.
	And now, of course, this is climate-related weather.
	And so we had to roll out solar and wind power, and just at the moment we're relying on it the most with ugly evil Putin cutting off all of our EU and UK gas supplies.
	What happens?
	We are in the middle of a wind drought.
	For several days now, a stiff breeze has skirted the UK, looping around from Norway across to the Atlantic.
	But Western Europe is there in the middle of it all, and it's almost totally calm.
	It'll stay like that for a while yet, and that matters because our wind farms are almost all in Scotland and the North Sea.
	It's not until Wednesday or even Thursday that the winds pick up and the turbines start turning.
	The lack of wind is having a big impact on how we're generating our electricity.
	This has been our energy mix over the last year.
	Wind produced around 28%, gas 42%, and coal just 1.6%.
	But look at the mix from lunchtime on Monday.
	Gas power stations have been ramped up, producing 61% of our electricity.
	Wind is down to a little over 3%, about the same as being generated by coal.
	This snapshot is unusual, but it does show the limitations of renewable energy in some weather conditions.
	Now wait, it's going to get really bad.
	And winds are likely to get weaker with global warming.
	These are the projections on future wind speeds, even if nations collectively reach net zero soon after 2050.
	They drop significantly across the northern hemisphere, shown by these shades of blue, a phenomenon called global stilling.
	And it's caused by rapidly rising temperatures up in the Arctic.
	So globes...
	I can't believe that scientists didn't know this.
	Global warming creates global stilling.
	Why did we even start with the windmills if we knew that it would be globally still?
	I had this clip.
	Oh, you did?
	Ah, sorry.
	My intro is going to be a little more different, but the thing that, after listening to this thing and watching this guy, and he's got this little pie chart with all the energy pieces on there, and then this idea, he could have punched it up, the global stilling.
	It's like global stilling.
	I don't know whether that's even accurate or whatever.
	He says it's based on the fact that the Arctic's freezing over.
	Because it's getting warmer.
	What got me from the very beginning was the fact that England, which is a coal-producing, self-sustaining coal-producing state with giant coal mines in Wales and all over, the reason for the British Isles is for this coal.
	That's what started the British Empire.
	They're using 1.6 And by the way... It's crazy.
	It's crazy.
	It's much less than anywhere else in the world.
	China, United States, we should get those numbers, but they're not that low.
	That's ridiculously low.
	So it brings me to a couple of interesting points.
	I think, at least to me, the first time I went to England in 73, it was coal-powered at the time.
	Now, was that for the Sex Pistols concert?
	Yeah.
	And so, I had to change my shirt two or three times a day because of the soot.
	Mmm.
	Because you do, it was just soot.
	The bottom of your sleeves, black.
	It was black.
	The London Fog.
	And this was after the London Fog.
	They had to put a stop to that.
	That was in 55.
	So, they, around your neck, your collar was black.
	It was just black and everything.
	Now, of course, this was all, they could have that, that could still be going on here where we use a lot of coal, but there are filters, they're called, you know, electrostatic precipitators and cyclones and all kinds of devices that keep that from happening.
	They could have done that in England, you wouldn't have had all this mess, but they were lazy about it.
	And the other thing was, which really kind of Still annoys me to no end.
	Some years later when I was writing for PCMag UK, I went to this big event out in the middle of nowhere and there was this, it was in a giant hall, and in the hall there were like 12 fireplaces all burning coal to keep the place, the whole giant place.
	And it was nice and toasty warm, wasn't it?
	Not only that, it was a beautiful fire.
	Yeah, it looks nice, it feels good.
	It goes forever.
	You get up in the morning, you just go, and it's back?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	It goes for about 12, 15, 16 hours without doing much to it.
	And it's like burning rocks, as I always called it.
	And so they banned in England, because of these idiots, they banned all coal fires.
	So you can't have one in your house.
	You can't have a decorative one.
	You can't have one.
	You can't have a coal fire for any reason whatsoever.
	What is the point of this?
	And it's just like, You're going to ask me again.
	It's either down to 1.6.
	It's a coal country.
	Give me a break.
	You know the answer.
	This is the Great Reset and people are just, OK, I'm going along with it.
	Yeah, well, this began before the Great Reset, but it's definitely an element of it.
	That's what you say.
	The idea that you can't burn coal is ludicrous.
	Well, welcome to the world.
	Everyone knows it's going to kill us.
	It's killing everybody.
	We can't have coal.
	We can't have gas.
	We need wind and solar.
	And now fusion.
	And hydrogen.
	We got no fusion.
	We got no hydrogen.
	This is bull crap.
	We're in for a troubled time.
	Yes, we are.
	Well, luckily in the United States, we talk a big game, but we still have the coal.
	Yeah, well.
	We talk a big game, but we still have the coal and we're still burning it.
	And we're still shipping it to China, too.
	We've got lots of coal.
	We have 350 years I had a question about some energy-related stuff in the United States.
	the ones that are known of power for the whole country.
	If we use just nothing but coal, 350 years, we're good to go.
	I had a question about some energy-related stuff in the United States.
	Maybe this clip can help us.
	We learned overnight that a large section of the Keystone oil pipeline has been restarted.
	The entire pipeline had to be shut down last week after an oil spill in Kansas, but now a section from Western Canada to Illinois is operating again.
	The cause of the spill is under investigation as the cleanup continues.
	Now, I feel very confused by this.
	I thought that this thing was shut down.
	What was shut down?
	I blew and I heard this story.
	Your thought was the same as mine.
	What?
	I thought Biden shut it down.
	So do you know what went on there?
	There was a maintenance problem apparently.
	They couldn't find any evidence to sabotage.
	But why is it working at all is what you're asking me?
	I have no idea how it ever started.
	Ah, okay.
	A troll in the trap... in the trap room.
	Yeah, the trap room.
	Says, it's not the XLFFS!
	Which means, for fuck's sake.
	Because, hey, thanks for being a troll, dick.
	It's the Keystone, not the Keystone XL.
	There's your difference.
	Okay, alright.
	You could have just said that normally, douche.
	Nah, these guys have to be douche.
	That's what they are.
	We got the information.
	That's why they've got no girlfriends, and the social life is crap.
	Hang out with a bunch of fat guys, come on.
	Now, I do want to check in on one other story which I think gives us another little tip of what's a little, it lifts the veil of what's coming in our future when it comes to energy.
	And it was this shorter story that the Clip Custodian got that got me interested.
	Tonight authorities in New York are trying to find out why a massive fire tore through a police impound lot in Brooklyn.
	Firefighters struggled to beat back the flames.
	At least eight minor injuries were reported.
	The facility was filled with cars and motorbikes that had been towed, including many being kept as evidence in criminal cases.
	All right, so I'm like...
	Was this trying to get rid of evidence?
	What happened here?
	This thing is massive.
	It's much bigger than this cliff.
	Thick black smoke shrouded Brooklyn throughout the day, seen far and wide.
	This building, used by NYPD to store evidence, caught fire around 10.30 this morning, according to officials.
	We have about 14 members of the service who work here, and we did have some outside contractors here, about six contractors.
	The contractors went into the warehouse to start performing their task, and they observed a fire.
	Okay, so that, first of all, I'm thinking the contractors went in, started their task, which I don't know what their task was, and then they observed a fire.
	So the contractors may be doing it.
	No, no, change the word observed to started.
	Yeah, correct.
	Yes, exactly.
	And they started a fire.
	Okay, but how did they start the fire?
	Well... The contractors went into the warehouse to start performing their task and they observed the fire.
	But there were challenges to putting it out.
	The FDNY says the metal building partially collapsed at one point as they moved to an exterior attack.
	What kind of fire is this?
	From the street... It's melting!
	It's melting steel!
	We also are using our drones in the air to pinpoint where we have the fire so we can move around the boats to extinguish all of the fire that's possible.
	This building was used to store dozens of e-bikes and a variety of vehicles as... E-bikes!
	Electric bikes!
	They are truly the most dangerous battery operated devices.
	These things catch fire all the time.
	It's the e-bikes.
	I'm telling you, this was the e-bikes, and they probably ignited a Tesla or two.
	That's possible.
	This building was used to store dozens of e-bikes and a variety of vehicles as evidence.
	They were also storing a large volume of biological evidence, DNA, items from crime scenes.
	But the NYPD says rape kits were not kept here.
	No rape kits, though.
	Why?
	The evidence goes back a long time.
	20, 30 years.
	All of this sounds so sketchy.
	Some of the evidence was also from Sandy.
	Well, we still don't know- From Sandy.
	Evidence from Sandy.
	Hurricane Sandy.
	Oh, okay.
	No, the full extent of this damage, officials believe... What evidence was there from Sandy that they'd have to keep there?
	Weather modification.
	Most of the items in this space are likely destroyed.
	This fire is probably going to go on for a few days.
	This is why I think e-bikes.
	By the time we're able to fully extinguish it and get inside, possibly to, you know, get to the deep-seated areas.
	The NYPD was very clear that this was not a location where they brought cars that were towed for traffic violations, so the public doesn't have to worry about that.
	But they are calling this a loss for the department, and it's still unclear how this would impact ongoing crime investigations.
	Yeah, we're gonna hear a lot more about batteries being unhealthy for your life.
	I'm pretty sure about that.
	Well, yeah, there's no doubt about it, but this still seems to me to be kind of sketchy.
	And listen to this guy.
	Yeah, we lost the evidence of it all, yeah.
	The DNA gone, I don't know what we're gonna do.
	But no rape kits!
	Don't worry!
	That's not the first thing I thought of, but okay.
	Yeah.
	No rape kits.
	Oh, rape kits, don't worry.
	That's not the first thing I saw.
	Don't worry, the rape kits will still be sitting aside and never be looked at for the next 10 years.
	Right, for the next decade.
	But they'll be safe.
	Yeah, we'll have fusion before they check out the rape kits.
	Shoo.
	Yeah, I saw that story and I said, oh, this is so phony.
	Bogus.
	There was one thing that someone had to destroy and they did it.
	How are we going to do it, Louis?
	I don't know.
	We're going to have to burn the whole place down.
	Okay, that's what we'll do.
	I got a note from producer Sandra in Portugal.
	Originally, she's from Porto, Portugal.
	She's not there anymore.
	In the early 2000s, some of our public buses were replaced by hydrogen-powered vehicles.
	Early 2000s.
	This was part of an EU project called CUTE, C-U-T-E.
	These buses ran smoothly all over the city for years.
	Around Obama's presidency, the hydrogen buses were replaced by natural gas powered vehicles, which are still being used.
	This year, our city mayor and the president of STCP, the equivalent of the MTA in Porto, gave a press conference introducing brand new clean energy buses!
	They're hydrogen buses!
	So just, we had hydrogen, it was now, what was the flavor of the year?
	It was natural gas, and now we're back to hydrogen.
	Before you know it, fusion is in your future.
	We have a bunch of hydrogen buses in Alameda County.
	Yeah, sure, sure.
	So I, when they first came out, I decided to take a ride on one.
	And it was at this beginning point, so I could chat with the bus driver, because she's been driving this bus for a while.
	And she says, you know, they don't have as much, and there is fuel cell buses.
	She says, they don't have as much oomph, but they're okay.
	They're fine.
	They're smooth, except they're a little top heavy.
	And it's kind of distressing.
	Because they wobble back and forth?
	Well, I guess they would, you know, on the point of tipping over or something.
	Really?
	I'm not sure.
	That doesn't sound good.
	I guess the batteries are on the roof.
	I'm not sure how this thing's balanced.
	This thing is all dumb.
	Now the worst... Oh, and also, by the way, she also confirmed it makes a whining sound.
	There was, I just have to point this out, I want people to go read the article for themselves, it's from NBC News.
	I could not believe that NBC wrote this, and that of course I could.
	Headline, How Dutch Farmers Became the Center of a Global Right-Wing Culture War.
	Oh, brother.
	Oh, yeah.
	And so they talk to this one guy, Erik Luiten, 52.
	He's a farmer.
	This tall, affable, and soft-spoken man is more likely found tending to 150 dairy cows at his farm in the windswept, green flatness of the Eastern Netherlands.
	A sixth generation farmer on this land, he knows the name of each cow and that of its parents.
	The vast barn echoes to pop classics, including Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
	Someone's Rickrolling somebody here.
	There has been research on what music cows like best, he said, with a knowing grin, and it's not classical.
	Luyten52 is a national organizer in a campaign to stop Dutch government plans to potentially shut thousands of farms in order to reduce harmful nitrogen emissions by half in 2030.
	A plan that critics say will change the country's huge agricultural industry forever.
	Not just critics.
	Everybody can see it.
	Okay.
	And now...
	This grassroots protest movement has been driven largely by ordinary farmers like Lauten and their supporters.
	But it has another element.
	The far right, radicalized by the opposition to strict COVID measures and spurred on by conspiracy theories about globalists dismantling national democracies and importing non-white immigrants to majority white countries, these activists see the farmers as the last victims of an assault on Western civilization itself.
	And then the next one, I'll just read this and then you have to read it for yourself.
	As conspiracy-driven telegram groups, right-wing commentators, and some lawmakers would baselessly put it, Dutch farms are being shut down to make space for asylum seekers.
	Right-wing populists around the world have offered their support for the farmer's stand, including former President Donald Trump, France's Marine Le Pen, and Poland's far-right populist government.
	I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on into, uh, just, uh, racist.
	The only thing they don't do is mention us.
	Everything else is in there.
	Tucker, Russell Brand, everyone got a mention.
	Everybody got a mention.
	We didn't get a single mention.
	Although I did call this douchebag out, this, what's his name?
	Patrick Smith, at P Smith.
	Is that the writer?
	Yeah, at P Smith on Twitter.
	He immediately blacked me.
	They blocked you on Twitter?
	Yeah, this is the stuff, the latest from Patrick.
	Let's see what else he reports on.
	Harry and Meghan take direct aim at the royal family.
	Okay, thank you.
	What the U.S.
	sending a Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine could mean for Putin's war.
	Ancient coins unearthed in desert cave.
	I mean, this guy, he's all over the place.
	Both of that stuff.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so I said we were going to shave his head and march him naked down Main Street.
	Turns out the guy's bald, so it's kind of a bad...
	Oh, that's why he blocked you.
	He doesn't like to be pushed around by people who are bald.
	Bad threat.
	So, I was thinking about this and it's like, so the Dutch are willing to give up an important cultural, I think, probably, just an important cultural Product, that's it.
	Cheese.
	The Dutch make some of the world's most famous cheeses.
	You can't do that without those cows.
	It is, in fact, those cows that make the cheese.
	Indeed.
	No, they don't give a shit.
	You know what?
	So much for Edom.
	And Gouda.
	Gouda!
	Gouda!
	One of the world's most famous and most popular cheeses is Gouda.
	Smoked or not.
	Yeah, screw it.
	I like the medium-aged Gouda.
	I can go for an old age, too.
	But the young, I don't like the young stuff.
	That's a little too much for me.
	I like it when it gets a little soft, but if you can find someone who smokes it correctly... That's what she said.
	If you can find someone who smokes it correctly... In other words, it's not so smoky, it's like... You taste like you got a briquette in your mouth.
	No, I don't like that at all.
	At all.
	So, there you go on the climate change, everybody.
	That's just great.
	Everything's going great over there.
	That's great.
	It's great.
	I don't know how we went from fusion to cheese.
	Well, no, we went from fusion to Dutch nitrogen to cows to cheese.
	And it was you who took us to cheese.
	I did.
	You did, yeah.
	Took us to cheese.
	There was some other stuff going on.
	Let's play This Is The Law in between the fruit-picking robots.
	We are driven by a sophisticated software machine vision.
	Data streaming came from surrounded 3D cameras in the system, in the robots.
	And they're taking a lot of decisions.
	What is the fruit?
	What is the foliage?
	How to access the fruit?
	If it's ripe, not ripe?
	The buzz of flying robots reverberates in a mock orchard bursting with fake apples.
	The robots fly around and pick fruit straight off the trees before depositing it in a bin.
	That makes life easier for farmers, and the machines don't need breaks.
	We can walk also at night.
	The robots are equipped with small LEDs that illuminate the trees and the environment.
	They can walk also at night.
	Actually, they can walk 24-7.
	According to the Israeli story, Our flying autonomous robots, we call it FAR.
	They are small, agile, and cost-effective robots.
	They fly.
	They're equipped with a gentle gripper that holds very gently the fruit with no bruising.
	They have four motors and driven by control algorithms that enable access every foot of the tree.
	The robots are already paired with farmers and orchards in Italy and the U.S.
	There's a great increase in the interest in agriculture technology and the investment is growing very rapidly.
	So going from 2025, the investment is expected to grow by around 20% to 2026.
	But these robots won't replace all farm workers just yet.
	Researchers say the technology would need to be more robust and inexpensive.
	I don't know if you ever owned a fruit tree, but the fruit sometimes is so deep in there.
	I don't know how that robot can get in there.
	It doesn't make sense.
	No, it doesn't make sense.
	It doesn't.
	It's cute, though.
	I like the idea of these robots.
	They're always picking fruit.
	This is just a heads up.
	And by the way, since it runs 24-7, that robot probably goes three hours and craps out of battery life.
	Oh yeah, this is all bull.
	You're absolutely right.
	All of this stuff.
	The electric planes.
	I love the personal drones that you can get in yourself and you can fly around for exactly 27 minutes.
	It's like, just dream on, because Elon failed.
	He did not deliver on the battery technology.
	It's just not there.
	And by the way, let's talk about Elon for a second.
	Elon!
	Yeah, Elon.
	Here's an update on Elon.
	Next, Elon Musk has suspended a Twitter account that's been tracking his private jet.
	Yeah, he previously asked the college student behind the account to stop publishing his jet's location, but now he's threatening legal action after claiming that someone was trying to stalk his son.
	Last month, Musk said he would not ban the flight tracking account, citing his commitment to free speech, but apparently he's changed his mind.
	Okay, apparently he changed his mind again, because as of this morning, those accounts have been reinstated.
	Yeah.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, that's too bad, because I was all happy that Elon's jet had showed up in the Fediverse, so we could still follow it just fine.
	Well, that's probably why it reinstated.
	I have two Twitter clips, Elon-ish clips, I guess, and they're in a nutshell clips, so they're kind of wrapping things up, and this is, I believe, from NTD.
	Multiple legal experts are reportedly saying the FBI may have violated First Amendment rights by allegedly colluding with big tech.
	That comes after journalists released multiple installments of the so-called Twitter files.
	Journalist Matt Taibbi last week released an installment of the so-called Twitter files, allegedly revealing that Twitter's former head of safety, Yoel Roth, not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
	Hey, this is NTD.
	This guy could be working at Begay's level.
	He's definitely a Pegasus type.
	He's a candidate.
	Very distinctive voice.
	Very, very.
	So show that weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI flagged certain tweets to the social media company.
	One of those, for example, was about possible irregularities in the voting process.
	Twitter reportedly decided to add a learn how voting is safe and secure label to the tweet after the FBI flagged it.
	That installment of the Twitter files also shows Twitter's current policy director, Nick Pickles, allegedly working with the FBI and... Come on, man.
	No one's name is actually Nick Pickles.
	That's got to be an alias.
	There's just no way.
	Nick Pickles.
	Hey, Nick Pickles here.
	No, there's no way.
	Hey, everybody, it's Nick Pickles in the morning.
	No, no, no.
	I think you turned sour, that guy.
	Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy No wonder!
	He's taking it from Fox News.
	He's stealing the material from Fox News.
	...company, but only if Twitter is acting on its own.
	However, he said, quote, when a private company is censoring information based on direction, coordination, and cooperation with the government, then legally it may be considered to be acting as an agent for the government, and it may be found to be violating the First Amendment.
	A senior distinguished fellow at the University of St.
	St. Thomas School of Law told the outlet, we now know that the intelligence community interacted on a regular basis with Twitter and other platforms, seemingly to advise them to monitor what the IC considered objectionable content.
	All right.
	Now, before we go to your second clip here, I have the list of retired spooks, FBI agents working at Twitter.
	I know, it's a great long list.
	Yes, let me give it to you real quick.
	Kevin Michelina, current Twitter senior corporate security analyst, 12 years FBI intelligence analyst.
	It's almost all FBI.
	It's all FBI.
	Doug Hunt, he's a senior director.
	He's a 20-year veteran.
	Mark Jaruzelski, current Twitter director of corporate security and risked FBI.
	Douglas Turner, current Twitter senior manager, corporate and executive security services.
	We got one, Patrick G., head of corporate security, a lot of corporate security.
	Corporate resilience, that's Karen Walsh.
	We got Twitter senior staff technical program manager.
	I mean, the whole list.
	I could go, it's like 15.
	Ex-FBI agents working at Twitter in different roles.
	That's crazy.
	Or it's just a coincidence.
	Oh yeah, coincidence.
	And again, we need to remind everybody that when Mark Zuckerberg was man of the year in 2010 on Time Magazine, right there, Robert Mueller, then FBI director still, two years longer than he should have been.
	They had us make a special exemption.
	By law.
	They had to make a special exemption to the law.
	For him to clean up the 9-11 mess or whatever he was doing, he just popped in and said, hey, I was just around the corner in the building.
	How you doing, everybody?
	I was just cleaning up my desk, getting it ready.
	It's so interesting to see that people are surprised by this.
	Really?
	We've known this.
	Gambling?
	Yeah, right.
	Do you need to set up part two?
	No, I think it plays.
	He said the next Congress should make it a priority to investigate contacts between the intelligence community and the platforms to see if government censorship took place.
	Various Republicans in Congress reportedly indicated that they would be in support of such an investigation.
	The Loomis told Fox that the accumulation of accusations pointed at the FBI's Washington, D.C. Bureau, I think make it right for serious investigation by Congress.
	National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby reportedly said on Sunday that the Biden administration is not telling social media companies how they should handle their content.
	Nah, haha.
	Oh, please.
	Oh, please.
	Benghazi!
	What is that guy even saying anything about this for?
	And by the way, these hearings, everyone's all jacked up because the Republicans are going to start these hearings.
	Oh, please.
	Remember the era where they brought Hillary?
	You know, the Republicans were running everything.
	They brought Hillary.
	Benghazi.
	We'll nail her.
	They brought Hillary in and she's just sitting there chewing gum and shaking her head and rolling her eyes and, you know, spitting into a spittoon.
	She doesn't care what they have to say.
	She says, I don't think it's important.
	She's just snapping back at him.
	They got nothing accomplished.
	And that was with that funny looking Texas guy with the long or whatever state he's from.
	He's now got a show on Fox.
	Trey Gowdy.
	Trey Gowdy.
	Yeah, he was the big shot up there.
	Big talker.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	And by the way, Trey Gowdy's show stinks.
	Trey Gowdy had... Trey Gowdy's show... It stinks, man!
	It stinks.
	He had that guy I don't like, that major, what's his name, that comes on and says that we should quit Ukraine and get... Exactly.
	You're so right.
	Because look at the bill that the Senate passed.
	Banning TikTok from government devices.
	Now, I have been of opinion that this is not about the Chinese government spying on anybody.
	Everyone's spying.
	Apps spy, that's just what happens.
	This is about, I think, paid stooges who want to, who are working on behalf of either Twitter, more likely Meta, Facebook, and probably Google, to get the advertising whore, which is TikTok, which is sucking up all the cool money Get them out!
	And who introduced this bill?
	Josh Hawley, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton.
	These guys are all on the take.
	Yeah, they're all advertising.
	They're doing their bidding of those companies.
	You're right.
	That's how I feel.
	We've got it made here, what we're doing.
	And what are these interlopers coming in here?
	They're not even American!
	They're spying on us!
	Let's get rid of them!
	And by the way, just to mention that, The American tech scene has always been lording it over the entire world and to have somebody, like if some search engine suddenly appeared that was better than Google or whatever combination we'd like to use now.
	They'd be bent out of shape because it's always assumed, oh, we're going to go into Europe and we're going to be the search engine because they're too dumb to develop anything themselves.
	So when the Chinese come out with a product, TikTok, which is, you know, spy or not spy, I don't know.
	It's just that they can't put up with it.
	They're losers.
	All right.
	So Elon Musk is doing a phenomenal job at keeping everybody distracted while he puts his payment stack in place.
	It was hilarious to see on Twitter someone tweeted, BREAKING!
	Looks like Elon's creating Twitter XP!
	Yeah, and I love our producers going, oh my goodness, that that's so hard, that breaking so hard.
	We heard it three weeks ago and no agenda.
	It's breaking so hard, bro.
	It totally butt slammed that guy.
	So what does he do?
	He just keeps distracting with the jet story.
	That's good for half a new cycle.
	And of course, the big mother load.
	More changes at Twitter.
	Elon Musk is eliminating the Trust and Safety Council.
	The advisory group of civil and human rights organizations was formed to address content that includes hate speech, child exploitation, and suicide.
	Musk said the council was not the best structure for external insights.
	Meanwhile, he faces backlash for attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, suggesting that Fauci should be prosecuted for his actions during the pandemic.
	Some health organizations are now threatening to leave Twitter.
	Oh, they're threatening to leave Twitter.
	Did they read the tweet?
	They just said this random story?
	They never read the tweet?
	No, why would they do that?
	No, it's just, come on.
	So he sent out a tweet that said, he says, my pronouns prosecute slash Fauci.
	Which is funny.
	Yeah.
	But holy mackerel, did the media get bent out of shape about this?
	Well, let's go to Morning Joe with Mika and Joe.
	And they bring on a guy who should know better.
	The superstar in the morning of CNBC, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Mr. Finance himself.
	I can get off Twitter.
	I don't really care.
	But I'm wondering what a guy spending $44 billion on that.
	He's got this brilliant mind for inventing things, for creating things.
	I just every day I wonder why is he acting like a backbench Republican in the House of Representatives instead of like the richest guy in the world, a guy who can actually take.
	It's confusing British politics with American politics.
	That's very funny that he would use, you know, Sorkin is a ex-New York Times hotshot that is also counsel of foreign relations.
	Oh yeah, he's the golden boy.
	He's the golden boy.
	And so he is a I don't know if he's technically a spook, but he might as well be.
	And he comes in to do his hatchet jobs here and there.
	He's good.
	No, he's not good.
	He screws this one up.
	Republican in the House of Representatives instead of like the richest guy in the world, a guy who can actually take the country in positive places.
	I don't get it!
	I don't understand it either.
	I have to say.
	It's lost on me because I also think, I always think that, I like to think that the economics of things make things, you know, rational.
	And there's some things almost irrational to me about what's happening here.
	Both because you would think that advertisers wouldn't want to be around this.
	And, you know, you think about, I don't know if you saw last night, he was at the Chappelle concert in San Francisco.
	He gets booed on the stage.
	And you start to think about all the people who may not want to buy Teslas.
	Genuinely, literally, because of some of this.
	I wish I could make sense of it, but I'm struggling.
	I'm with you.
	So the guy who is in finance and talks about it all day long has not yet picked up on what Musk is doing.
	He's applied for a license, basically to be a bank, but certainly to be a processor.
	Andrew Ross Sorkin, Golden Child, doesn't see it.
	He's like, I don't understand.
	Why would he do all this?
	This is not his assignment.
	What are you kidding me?
	He's a finance guy.
	His assignment is to go after Musk in this situation.
	Okay, good point.
	Not to analyze this in any reasonable way.
	So then we had the, which I think is related, Actually, I'll tell you how it's related.
	One country is already getting ready to use the new TwitterX pay, which will be payment authentication.
	This is my theory, is that Elon wants to have the digital ID and the payment system which I think it would be a central bank digital currency.
	Maybe it'll be different for each country.
	I doubt it's going to be Dogecoin.
	And maybe Australia... No, I don't.
	Maybe Australia will be first.
	A radical plan to crack down on social media abuse is being considered by the federal government.
	For more nines, Oliver Haig joins us live in Adelaide.
	Ollie, how will it work?
	Well good morning.
	Essentially it will work the same as a passport.
	Australians forced to submit 100 points of identification like their driver's license or passport when using social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter.
	Now police will have access to those social media accounts and it's all part of a crackdown on online abuse.
	Now users could be liable for defamation suits or even criminal prosecution.
	It's all part of a plan hoping to deter people from engaging in bad behavior.
	Now the recommendations were handed down by a federal parliamentary inquiry.
	There are reforms that are being considered by the Morrison government with the chairman saying there is merit to remove the veil of being anonymous.
	Yeah, I mean the Aussies, they were so compliant during COVID, why wouldn't you try this there first?
	Oh yeah.
	You know, seems like almost a no-brainer.
	So then we had this, we had a big...
	A big meeting led by Maxine Waters as part of the House Financial Committee and the poster child right now for all things digital payments and all things problematic, Sam Bankman-Fried, was supposed to show up and testify and before he could do that, Well, he got arrested in the Bahamas under very iffy circumstances.
	Like, oh, we don't know if we can extradite him.
	Are we waiting for an extradition?
	Why did you arrest him?
	Well, it's some real estate.
	It was, to me, it sounded like, we can't have this moron testify.
	I thought that initially.
	I'm now not thinking that.
	Well, then let me make my case and I'd love to hear you go back on this.
	First of all, here's the arrest.
	And another big story that we are following tonight.
	The stunning downfall of Sam Bankman Freed, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
	Just over a month ago, he was riding high, a billionaire many times over.
	Well, tonight, he's in jail in the Bahamas, facing U.S.
	charges in what a federal prosecutor calls one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.
	We get more now from CBS's Scott McFarlane.
	Inside a heavily secured courthouse in the Bahamas this morning, 30-year-old Sam Bankman Freed, arrested and disgraced, was denied bail and signaled he'd fight extradition to the U.S.
	This is one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.
	Where the Justice Department charged Bankman Freed with numerous financial crimes, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering.
	Bankman Freed's company, FTX, based in the Bahamas and promoted by top celebrities, was worth $32 billion in January before a run on the company gutted it, leaving its founder worth just more than $100 billion.
	This guy is, I think he's a new guy.
	He's reading it a little bit, a little bit pro, like kind of like MTV-ish.
	You know, until it gutted it.
	He's puking.
	This is CBS.
	This is not a puke fest.
	This is weird.
	...was worth $32 billion in January before a run on the company gutted it, leaving its founder worth just more.
	Do you know what I mean?
	It's not really a news read.
	I don't know what his problem is, say, gutting it.
	Well, he does this the whole time.
	I'm pissed off about being scammed and by losing my money to a scam and a fraud.
	I didn't knowingly commit fraud.
	was one of them, telling CBS News he's two million in the hole.
	I'm pissed off about being scammed and by losing my money to a scam and a fraud.
	I didn't knowingly commit fraud.
	I don't think I committed fraud.
	Two days before his arrest, Bankman Free was asked if he thought he'd be arrested.
	I don't think I will be.
	The FTX founder was scheduled to testify this morning on Capitol Hill.
	Instead, the company's current CEO, brought in to right the ship, described a shockingly unsophisticated organization with no accountants and where expenses were approved by emoji.
	There was no sophistication whatsoever.
	There was an absence of any management.
	I'll tell you why I think that he was not, and I have a theory as to what's going on here, but I'll tell you why I think he was not meant to testify, and that is because he had already submitted his written testimony.
	And Forbes got a hold of this and published the whole thing.
	And you just heard there at the end of that clip this guy John Ray III.
	He is the guy that was flown in immediately, overnight.
	We're not even sure who made the decision.
	He's the guy that was flown in to fix Enron.
	And no doubt fix some things for some people, I'm just guessing.
	This guy comes out of the blue, they fly him in, boom, he's in.
	And right off the bat, Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony says, I really would like to help, but right away the Chapter 11 team came in, locked me out of everything, I can't get to my email, I can't even get into my bank account, I can't pay any bills.
	It's continuously the chapter 11 team, the chapter 11 team.
	That's John Ray III.
	And he keeps saying over and over the first three pages, the chapter 11 team freezing, otherwise interfering with funds.
	I mean, we could be giving this back to people.
	It is my opinion that they didn't want him at any way discrediting John Ray III in this testimony.
	And that's why they had him arrested.
	What is your thought?
	Well, that's as far from my thoughts as possible.
	The guy's 20, what is he, 20?
	He's an idiot.
	And he's also a maniac and he, you know, still thinks that if you let him free he can restructure a whole new deal and pay everyone their money back.
	Yeah.
	He's completely insane, this guy.
	Yes, yes.
	I mean, we're in agreement.
	You want him, and when you're shutting down a company like this for fraud and embezzlement, which is what that guy says, all he did really, is you don't want him running around the company destroying evidence, so you shut him out.
	So what?
	That's not a big deal.
	I wouldn't be shocked by that.
	The thinking was by the Justice Department that this guy could go to any number, dozens of countries, because he had the money, dozens of countries that had no extradition treaty with the United States and then sit himself there and just stay there.
	The word was out that he was ready to do that.
	They had to get him arrested immediately in Bahamas.
	Screw the testimony.
	He's full of shit.
	We've heard him talk to people before.
	His testimony wasn't gonna be any more than it was in their written statement.
	So what?
	Big deal.
	I'm in total agreement.
	You just made my point.
	We can't have this guy messing up anything.
	Let's arrest him.
	So that was my premise.
	They arrested him so he wouldn't testify.
	So we agree, aren't we?
	No, they arrested him so he wouldn't escape the country and end up in a non-extradition place.
	No, I'm going to tell you why in a moment.
	What was he going to do?
	What testimony was he going to give that was going to be meaningful in any way?
	They did not want him discrediting John Ray III.
	That is the only thing.
	Do you have a connection between him and John Ray III?
	I'm telling you, in his testimony, which would have been read, which would have been submitted, the Chapter 11 team is John Ray.
	I'm telling you.
	Okay, well they shut him out?
	Yes.
	Of course, that's what you have to do!
	That's what I just said!
	You're acting like we're saying something different.
	Okay, so he testifies and what's his testimony?
	What's the big thing he's going to say?
	There's nothing!
	No!
	There's nothing!
	He has nothing!
	You're misreading me!
	The culprit... Okay, here's what I'm reading from you.
	They arrested him in the Bahamas so he wouldn't testify.
	No.
	So he would not testify and discredit John Ray III.
	That's all.
	That's all.
	How is he going to discredit him?
	Because he's... I'm reading his testimony, and the whole opening, the first three pages, is discrediting the chapter 11 team, which is John Ray III.
	That's my point.
	But what sort of discreditation are we discussing here?
	He's being shut out of his own company and whining about it.
	It doesn't matter, they didn't want him to testify, period.
	Doesn't matter.
	I'm in agreement.
	I don't think they cared.
	Okay, fine.
	And that testimony you discuss is public, so we all know about it.
	Oh yeah, that's really how things go viral and people find out about things.
	I'm gonna make my case as to what's really going on.
	Federal prosecutors say Bankman Freed also violated campaign finance law, using millions of dollars in customer funds to make illegal campaign contributions to members of both political parties, trying to influence the regulation of cryptocurrency.
	He faces a maximum 115 years in prison.
	Nora?
	Yeah, this story is not over.
	Scott McFarlane, thank you so much.
	Exactly.
	And he is going to go to jail.
	He is the fall guy.
	He is an idiot.
	He is stupid because it is the CEO of Alameda.
	She's the one.
	She made the decisions.
	She co-mingled funds.
	She also probably humped him when he was getting a little bit out of line.
	She's the one connected directly to MIT and Gary Gensler.
	She's the one that has all the connections.
	Her dad is so tightly connected.
	And now she's got the best securities lawyer.
	She's got, you know, who was supposed to be setting up, uh, uh, when he was in government, he would be working on regulation.
	She's the one she's protected.
	And Bankman Freed is going to jail for a long time, completely abused by his parents.
	And it was beautiful.
	The parents, by the way, if you hear some of the stories about them in court, And some of these hearings, they're really a something.
	They're giggling and they're laughing and rolling their eyes.
	They're making a scene.
	Yeah.
	They don't give a crap.
	Their son's going away.
	And they're bad parents.
	They are very, very bad parents.
	And by the way, both Stanford professors.
	Stanford.
	So he was just a... Okay, now if you're going to stop... Let me continue.
	Well, you made a point back there that you're not going to make again, it seems to me.
	There is something amiss about these political donations.
	Yes.
	And the thing that's really... I could see, well, maybe you don't want me talking about that.
	Why did you decide to give Maxine Waters so much money?
	Because you know the Republicans are going to ask questions.
	They're not going to ask questions.
	Well, here's the thing.
	You just brought that up.
	All of a sudden, out of the blue, when it looked like he was really giving to mostly these woke senators and congressmen and people that he wanted.
	He didn't want, you know, anti-Trump people, all that sort of thing.
	The word comes out, well, he gave to both parties.
	It was bipartisan.
	Where did that come from and what bipartisan are we talking about?
	This thing was so meant to be tightly controlled by Maxine Waters, who of course, you know, has taken all kinds of goodies from the FTX crew, that she tried to shut this thing down before even all the House members had asked their questions!
	I would like to enter into the record the closing statements from Ranking Member McHenry and myself.
	And I'd like to thank you, Mr. John Ray III for your presence here today.
	Chairwoman Waters, I've not had an opportunity to testify or to question the witness.
	I'd like to thank you for your presence.
	Chairwoman Waters.
	Parliamentary inquiry?
	Yes.
	Are all members entitled to question witnesses?
	You are, and if you would like to miss the votes on the floor for everybody... Hey, it's the Chairwoman's prerogative to call a recess.
	Just one moment, please.
	That's your decision, not mine.
	Just one moment, please.
	You may go right ahead and have five minutes.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Madam Chair.
	You're certainly welcome, sir.
	Well, you might be right about that.
	I don't have that in my arsenal to argue.
	But I'll say this.
	Maxine Waters is so slimy and slippery, she'll get away with it.
	She'll just be fine.
	She'll be fine.
	We don't need any confusing talk about donations.
	I'm telling you right now, it's the Carolyn CEO chick.
	She's the one.
	Well, you might be right about that.
	I don't have that in my arsenal to argue.
	But I'll say this.
	Maxine Waters is so slimy and slippery.
	She'll get away with it.
	She'll just be fine.
	She'll be fine.
	Oh, sure.
	There were some stars present and some funny moments.
	Yeah.
	It's really hard to find true victims and I've asked around.
	The woman's name, by the way, is Carolyn Ellison.
	I even asked Horowitz, I said, has any of your clients had any losses from FTX?
	He said, not a single one.
	I said, I'm looking for the victims.
	You know, I think this was largely a victimless crime.
	Yeah, there were some big whales and oh, okay.
	Well, Kevin O'Leary, who on one, he didn't lose money.
	He didn't get paid his 12 million dollars for promoting this.
	Yeah, he says it was 12.
	At least one ESG ratings firm gave FTX a higher score for governance than ExxonMobil.
	Give a little testimony that FTX has collapsed stems.
	Actually, I'm sorry.
	My setup was for the Kevin O'Leary clip.
	There's my Kevin O'Leary clip, which features Elizabeth Warren.
	Pay no attention to O'Leary.
	It's what she says that's funny.
	I take issue, Senator, with your concept that it makes it easier to do money laundering.
	Currencies... It's talking about... Now we're talking about all kinds of crypto.
	It's too easy for money laundering!
	...have been used for drug trafficking since the 60s in the American dollar when it was thrown out of a pipe or aircraft in a duffel bag.
	The American dollar is also used by bad actors all the time.
	Mr. O'Leary, I appreciate your point that everyone tries to engage in money laundering.
	That's what terrorists do.
	That's what drug dealers do.
	Truth comes out, Lizzie.
	Drug companies, they want to launder their money.
	Yes, they do.
	Yes, they do.
	And now, finally, we wrap it up with... Who is this Barr fellow?
	He must be another... He must be a Republican.
	Asking John Ray about the ESG score of this company.
	At least one ESG ratings firm gave FTX a higher score for governance than ExxonMobil.
	Given your testimony that FTX has collapsed stems from the absolute concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals who failed to implement virtually any of the systems or controls necessary for a company that is entrusted with other people's money or assets.
	What would you say about this ESG governance rating which rated FTX higher than ExxonMobil?
	I'd get my money back.
	them.
	Exactly.
	These are the cool things you learn in one of these hearings that of course never makes it anywhere.
	It's all a big scam.
	All of it.
	So this Carol Ellison was another, she's a daughter of another professor.
	Yeah, at MIT.
	Yeah, the MIT guy.
	And was at MIT, he was Gary Gensler's boss.
	Okay.
	Also at MIT.
	Yeah, I mean... Yes, Den of Thieves.
	Big Den of Thieves.
	And she's got some hotshot lawyer.
	No, none of them.
	Well, now I have to follow this because... And why wouldn't you?
	She's the mastermind.
	Well, I know she's the mastermind, but why wouldn't you have her in custody?
	She's in New York walking around getting cappuccinos.
	I mean, how she cannot be culpable as the CEO of Alameda, which all of it is bankrupt now, all of it, not just FTX.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	It's a good question.
	Why isn't she locked up?
	Exactly.
	Not only that, but the other guy could be dead by the time they get him out of there.
	Because they put it, there's reports it's like one of the worst jails in the world, the one that he's hanging out in.
	Oh, in the Bahamas?
	Yeah.
	You'd get a shiv.
	FTX.
	Someone sent me a Wikipedia entry.
	FTX, also acronym for Field Training Exercise.
	Just thought that was interesting.
	When it comes to money though, the Rabobank, which is one of the largest retail banks in the Netherlands, has been sending Letters to customers who often get, you know, 200 euros from the ATM.
	And it's a big warning note.
	Hey, we noticed that you've been taking out 100 or 200 euros at a time.
	You really have to know that this is incredibly dangerous to have this amount of cash.
	And by getting these big amounts, these 100 euro bills, you're actually propagating fraud and money laundering and drug trafficking, because this money has only been touched by money launderers and fraudsters.
	And they're sending this to their customers.
	Is this true?
	I have two notes, two letters, pictures.
	Do you have any photocopies of the notes?
	I have photos, yeah.
	Well, it's Dutch.
	Well, I want to put them in a newsletter.
	Okay.
	How about I do that and I translate it for you?
	Yes, please.
	Thank you.
	Let me just see what... I'm going to bring it up right here.
	There's a couple of... These, actually, people have been tweeting these letters.
	And yeah, they say it's, here we go.
	Let me just embiggen this for a second.
	Translating on the fly.
	Oh man, why can't you just put the picture in there?
	You take me to Twitter to go click on it again.
	I'm so fed up with this linking shit.
	Okay.
	So they give you some alternatives.
	The risks of cash money.
	If you're getting bills of $200,000 and $500,000, you are risking using cash money and being unwittingly involved in whitewashing, laundering, terrorism, financing, and other criminal activity.
	This could also be the case... So you buy an apple in the corner store, and you give the guy a couple of euros, and now you're involved in money laundering?
	It goes further.
	You could even be involved if you accept a large bill like this.
	How does that work?
	Well, if someone says, hey, I owe you 200 euros, and they give you 200... I guess there's a 200... Yeah, there's a 200 euro bill.
	You accepting that, you could actually be helping criminal activity.
	How?
	Just by keeping them... I'm reading it in real time, John.
	They're not saying how.
	They're saying... So they're just saying?
	Yes!
	Yes!
	I'm reading it live, okay?
	Money from... No, I get what you're doing.
	I'm just asking the questions that would be obvious to anyone who has common sense.
	Money that originates in criminal... with criminal activity ...is often cut into smaller pieces and put into the financial system.
	Scissors?
	The system.
	The system.
	200 Euro.
	So they are whitewashing a million Euros but they split up in the 200 and 500 Euro bills and it's probably all criminal and you shouldn't be taking out of the ATM.
	So any cash is criminal.
	There you go.
	We should get a jingle.
	Cash is criminal.
	And it used to be 500 Euros.
	They've now made it 200.
	Mm-hmm.
	Criminal cash, maybe even better if we just swap those around.
	There's your jingle.
	No, no, no.
	Cash is criminal.
	Cash is criminal?
	All right, jingle makers, get on that.
	So that's what's happening.
	That's nuts.
	Yeah.
	And still.
	You're talking about one bank.
	Here's another bank.
	This is my WTH clip.
	Play it.
	Danish Bank.
	The Justice Department announced that the largest bank in Denmark has pleaded guilty to defrauding American banks and will forfeit $2 billion.
	Danske Bank also agreed to a separate settlement with the U.S.
	Securities and Exchange Commission ...and will pay over $400 million to settle charges.
	The bank also settled with Danish authorities.
	The agreement with the United States settles a long-running investigation into billions of dollars in illicit payments.
	The case has plagued the company for nearly five years and was part of one of the largest ever money laundering scandals.
	Prosecutors allege the bank lied about their customers in Estonia and anti-money laundering controls.
	As a result, U.S.
	banks accepted $160 billion from high-risk clients outside of Estonia.
	Officials are still investigating the case.
	There's so much corruption coming out.
	Let me just ask the question.
	You just read that note.
	The banks seem to be the criminals.
	Why are they pinning it on the poor customers?
	Hello?
	Hello, of course!
	So what piece of shit bank was it that wrote that note you were reading?
	The Robobank.
	The same bank that owns Mechanics.
	FYI.
	They don't own Mechanics.
	They bought Mechanics.
	You told me that they were purchased.
	No, no, no.
	Mechanics purchased a Robobank A subsidy that was in the United States.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Other way around.
	Okay, so from the Rabobank.
	That's the bank.
	Well, they got the right name.
	Rob you back.
	Robbo.
	Robbo.
	But meanwhile, things are popping in the EU.
	Everybody's corrupt.
	I think the details of this case so far is partly what has shocked people across Brussels and beyond.
	So Belgian prosecutors came out on Friday and said that they carried out a series of raids on properties across Brussels.
	They'd seized 600,000 euros in cash And as well over the weekend, we learned that among those arrested, four had been charged.
	Among them is reported to be Eva Kalli, who is this Greek MEP, a vice president of the European Parliament, one of 14, although she has now been stripped of her powers by the European Parliament president, Roberta Metzola, also reportedly charged Francesco Giorgi, a parliamentary assistant, and her Ewa Calley's partner, so among the four charged, we are told.
	Now, I think for MEPs, the European Parliament, it's going to raise some big questions.
	And the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has today come out and said there is a question now of public trust in the institutions of the European Union.
	And MEPs are in fact now gathered or gathering in Strasbourg, the French city, where they meet for their regular plenary session.
	This unfolding scandal is completely overshadowing events there and is likely to dominate proceedings.
	So the Greek hottie is the one in the headlines, but there have been four socialist members of European Parliament who have stepped down now because of this.
	Pietro Bartolo, Andrea Cozzolino, Maria Arena, and Mark Tarabella.
	So it's all socialists, all on the take, all in this scam to vote Qatar as the The place for the 2022 World Cup and they apparently took bags of cash, money, not crypto, by the way, cash, cash money.
	And it's the liberals!
	It's the socialists who are doing this!
	The socialists!
	They're bored.
	Okay, I have just an interlude.
	Listen to this report and I'll tell you who this is.
	51-year-old Katherine Aru Jones faces a judge in bond court on Friday instead of a national audience that many know her from under the name of Kathy Aru as a former contributor for Fox News.
	Now we see her in this mugshot.
	What we find here is a very An incredibly tragic situation of elderly exploitation.
	An arrest affidavit says Catherine Aru Jones victimized her 88-year-old mother, first without her knowledge, transferring ownership of her mother's home to herself through a quitclaim deed, and then stealing $224,000 from her finances, including proceeds of a reverse mortgage.
	I could keep going on.
	So, she kidnapped her mom, she stole her money, reverse mortgaged her house.
	Who was she?
	She was the liberal Sherpa from Tucker Carlson's show.
	Another liberal!
	Do you remember her?
	Oh, no, I don't, but if I saw a picture of her, I probably would.
	She's also the one who, after appearing on Tucker's show for a couple years, then accused him of sexual harassment in a hotel, and Hannity, and a couple other Fox people.
	Oh, you can't trust these people.
	And it turns out that she... She's a criminal.
	Yes!
	She's a grifter.
	But she literally was the... The liberal spokeswoman.
	They always like to have their balance coverage.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	You gotta see that whole bit.
	And she looks like so haggard compared to how she looked kind of cute as the liberal.
	Sure.
	They have makeup artists at Fox.
	Good ones.
	All right.
	There's more a little bit more about this Eva Colley thing.
	This is dynamite.
	Qatar denies any involvement but Kylie has now been charged by Belgian police as part of a corruption investigation.
	They raided 16 homes in Brussels on Friday and seized 600,000 euro in cash.
	along with computers and phones.
	Trade union boss Luca Vicentini and former MEP Antonio Panzeri have also been questioned.
	Greek authorities have frozen all of Eva Kiley's assets and those of her family.
	There will always be some for whom a bag of cash is always worth the risk.
	And what is essential is that these people understand that they will get caught.
	Some who have worked inside the European Parliament are not surprised by the scandal.
	I think that the real problem here that we need to address is the fact that the wrongdoings of MEPs, not just MEPs but also the very senior staff members in there, are actually covered up by the administration.
	Questions are now being asked about positive statements made towards Qatar by European Commissioner Margarita Skinners.
	This is not the way to organize a press conference here.
	Journalists had to force a response during a Monday press conference.
	We are at the status quo, but indeed if any kind of new information occurs, we will have to act and react to that.
	Apart from being extremely serious, analysts say this is very embarrassing for EU authorities, as they always present the bloc as being whiter than white, pointing the finger at alleged corruption around the world.
	It's understood officials here in the EU are bracing themselves.
	Sources tell us there will be further revelations in the coming days.
	Oh yeah.
	The top official at the Bank of France, central banker Sylvie Goulard, stepped down during a probe of suspicion of accepting bribes, influence peddling, illegal conflicts of interest, breach of trust.
	It's happening everywhere.
	They're squeezing people out, man.
	They're going to blame all these people for the pending collapse.
	Whatever's going to happen.
	Now, how did this begin?
	We knew about it, it was a week ago, when this woman, you know, we first found out about it and now it's been just, it's been, I don't know, ballooning in importance.
	How did this begin specifically?
	It's all of a sudden, all I know is we heard about the raids.
	Yeah, but what?
	Somebody had to be a whistleblower in Qatar.
	We don't know anything yet.
	We have no information.
	We don't know anything.
	And there's something very suspicious about this because once you get on the take...
	You're going to be on the take forever because you have to do stuff.
	But the thing that's great, that makes this story great, is this Ava Kylee.
	She's too pretty for politics.
	There's no way.
	It makes no sense.
	Have you seen her?
	I went and looked at a gallery of her photos.
	She is... I was... and I'm gonna... we sound like a couple of executive producers.
	No, this is why we talk it this way.
	Yeah, this is what we do.
	She is...
	I think moderately attractive and she has, but I've given her about a 70% photogenic result because there's a lot of photos of her that do not make her look as pretty as she does in her best photos.
	And the only ones that the media is showing are the pretty photos, so I think we may be Okay, we're being duped a little?
	A little?
	I think we're being duped a little because, you know, the pretty girl has to be, you know, conniving pretty girl, mean girls.
	I mean, it has all these... She got long legs!
	Long legs.
	And that sort of thing.
	So I'm not convinced if you saw her in person that you'd be that impressed.
	Okay.
	Well, but still, you look at her, you go, you're not your typical member, European Parliament, vice president of the, of Starfleet command.
	It's just not, it's not typical.
	Not typical.
	Yeah.
	You know, remember, that's interesting, actually.
	When did Dominique Strauss-Kahn get kicked out?
	That was some time back.
	But wasn't that just before the financial collapse?
	No, we need a timeline.
	I don't have a timeline.
	No, we can get it on the Wikipedia.
	I can tell you exactly when that happened.
	Because he got kicked out by... Ligard, wasn't it?
	Ligard, yeah.
	There's also another person who, if you look at a lot of photos of her, you're going to find some real gems of making her look like, holy mackerel.
	Oh yeah.
	So when was he kicked out?
	He was kicked out...
	Twenty... Why is this so hard to hear?
	2011.
	That's a little, little late.
	No, it's a little late on that date.
	Way too late.
	Yeah, it's way too late.
	Interesting.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I guess there was something else going on we don't know about.
	Now, there's also...
	Which is more than likely.
	There's also these reports that Merkel...
	Now, they're Russian reports, of course, from RT.
	That's why.
	Because, you know, you're not going to hear that anywhere else.
	We might as well read it to you.
	Well, the Merkel stuff that's floating around the out-of-country intelligence community is that she's just a stooge for the United States.
	She was useless for Germany.
	Confession by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
	Sounds like a stretch.
	But apparently she said something in some... some... I'm kind of on board with the idea that this provocation took place for the purpose.
	I don't know what the long game is, but some people think it may be to combine nicely with this corruption scandal.
	I think the EU is under attack by the United States.
	Especially when central bankers are going down.
	Yeah, something's up.
	Especially, especially.
	Did you get a little note, speaking of elites, about the Biden Department of Energy official who was stealing these suitcases?
	The suitcase guy, we talked about him on the last show.
	Right, but I got an answer about, you know, you were saying, why don't we have something to protect these suitcases?
	Right?
	A system that would be in place to make it so you can't steal suitcases so effortlessly.
	So Joe, who is our insider in the industry from NLREA.net, which is airline.net.
	Backwards.
	Heard your comments.
	Basically, it's a cost-benefit thing.
	At airports that have high theft rates, they rope off the bag pickup and a guard verifies the bag tag with the bag check sticker on your ticket or app.
	This is rare, though.
	Very rare.
	I have never encountered it.
	The airlines are responsible for the cost of lost bags.
	If the cost of stolen bags exceeds the cost of guards, the airlines will pay for guards.
	It's rare it gets to that point.
	Exactly!
	It's so simple.
	It's so simple.
	It's always been that way.
	It's cost-benefit.
	It's the Pinto effect.
	It's... Whatever.
	Pay the bills.
	Who cares?
	It's not going to blow up that much.
	It's easier to pay.
	Easier to pay.
	Cheaper.
	Cheaper to pay.
	Hey, and with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C's in the cash is criminal.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeMora.
	Hello, Mr. Adam Curry, also good morning.
	In the morning you've got boots on, graphite in the air, substance in the water, Davidson Heights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	Hello, trolls.
	You can find them at trollroom.io.
	They hang out there.
	They're usually trolly, but they give us good information.
	Sometimes it's just affirmation, and there's always a good joke in there, a one-liner from time to time, and we love welcoming these trolls.
	You can listen live to this broadcast.
	As we do it before this studio audience of trolls on Sundays and Thursdays.
	But there's always something going on at noagendastream.com.
	So let's see how many trolls we have in there.
	It's a little low.
	It's a little low, man.
	1775.
	That's low.
	Yeah, last it was, I think we had 2,000, 1,900 or 2,000.
	Yeah, that was a good day.
	Last week, last Thursday.
	Yeah, that was a good day.
	This is not so great.
	Well, maybe because, you know, they look at the news.
	They've got the holiday shopping.
	The whole eastern seacoast, the Midwest is snowed in.
	I think we have a lot of people that can't even listen.
	What, because they got no internet?
	They got no power?
	Yeah.
	Possibly.
	More than a few.
	Could be.
	Anything's possible.
	It's a real mess.
	Well, you can also check the activity on noagendasocial.com, which is our Mastodon server.
	We've had that for several, three years, four years, I think, almost.
	Almost four years.
	Really?
	Three and a half, for sure.
	Three and a half years.
	I think so.
	Geez.
	Yeah.
	No, I had it before we moved to southeast Austin, so it's at least three and a half years.
	And so we were part of the Fediverse.
	Now, by the way, the Fediverse didn't start with Mastodon.
	It goes back to GNU Chat.
	So, you know, it's been around for a long, long time.
	Yes, you always have to mention GNU Chat.
	Yeah, because otherwise, you know, people take credit for things.
	It's like GNU Chat was there before Mastodon.
	Mastodon is a great interface.
	Polaroma.
	It's all kinds.
	You can make your own.
	We don't make our own, but we've got Aaroner who runs our instance with a lot of TLC because, man, it's a lot of bandwidth storage.
	It's a pain in the ass.
	It's not very efficient, but it works and we're happy and that's where I think we still have a couple slots in our 10,000, our 10k limit.
	Go to signup.noagendasocial.com and just follow Adam at noagendasocial.com, John C. DeVorek at noagendasocial.com.
	From anywhere where you are, get on the Fediverse.
	There you go, we said it.
	Let's see, thank the artists for episodes.
	Yes, this is very controversial, this artist thing.
	Yes, this is very controversial.
	So we always, as a part of our value for value model, which means we believe that we create a very valuable product.
	If you think it's valuable, return that in some fashion.
	We ask for time, talent, treasure.
	We'll get to the treasure in a moment, but the time and talent definitely comes from our artists who make sure that we have some art to, well, some art to choose from.
	From Noah to ArtGenerator.com every single episode.
	And we do just that.
	I have an announcement.
	I want to... You're supposed to say something.
	Ladies and gentlemen, John has announcements.
	For all the artists, for the next few newsletters, I'm gonna need some Christmas art.
	And I've been digging into the archives to get the ones I've been using for the newsletters.
	Like, these are all very old.
	The last couple newsletters.
	And I would just, you know, anything.
	We've got very little Christmas art.
	It's all Twitter.
	Like, if I look at the page, there's a lot of greens, and there's a bunch of tweets, and there's Twitter art.
	And it's just, there's very few, there's very little seasonal art anyone's doing.
	And I'm complaining about it, but mostly for the benefit of the news so I'm not having to use really, you know, art that's, you know, eight years old.
	None of it's stolen.
	But I'm just saying.
	I'm looking at this page of art and it's just like, this is nothing even remotely seasonal about any of this stuff.
	Well, the first thing we'll do is we want to congratulate Tantha Neal.
	I believe that was two in a row for her.
	Yes, it was a very controversial choice.
	We selected the This Bag Has No Agenda, which we both liked.
	The tag on the bag, John took immediate exception to the Curry Dvorak coloring on the bag itself.
	Yeah, it was hard to see.
	It was.
	In fact, I didn't even see it with my eyes.
	All I saw was the tag.
	I didn't even see... I didn't tell you at the time.
	No, I had this feeling that you saw it, because you weren't complaining about it at all.
	Well, now we, so first of all, there's a couple of issues.
	You right away said, I really like the Elon Musk, comic strip blogger, Joker art.
	Yeah.
	And I said, here's my stand.
	By the way, this is important for the artists to hear.
	I refuse, now I won't always catch it, I refuse to put so-called AI-generated anything into this program.
	Certainly art.
	Now I said, I thought, I do not have that same opinion, and I vouched for my Slavic brother.
	You did!
	You did!
	Like a shill!
	Like a Slavic shill!
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	That's what you're supposed to do.
	It's the Slavic Uma.
	In fact, I even think you took on a bit of the accent.
	I will, I want this art for my Slavic brother!
	Exactly.
	And so, I don't feel this way, but the way this is done, you should note, it's a hundred percent agreement.
	Veto power.
	And we both have veto power, so if Adam's like all giddy about some piece of shit, I'll just veto it and that'll be the end of it.
	So he's vetoed all AI art, so don't even try it.
	I have.
	I have.
	And of course, everyone's going to try and get it by us now.
	Do whatever you want, but you are hurting your brothers and sisters.
	And you're asking to be banned.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't know where from, but we'll ban you for something, okay?
	We'll take care of you.
	We'll ban you.
	We're just gonna ban you.
	So we looked over the other pieces, and there was, uh... There wasn't that... I mean, there was all kinds of stuff.
	There was kind of okay, and it was usable.
	There's a lot of usable pieces, I have to say.
	I did like... Immediately before the tag, you liked a No Agenda sub-stack Heroes.
	Which was the best piece.
	It was the prettiest piece, without a doubt.
	Capitalist Agenda's piece, the Substack Heroes, we don't want to go on too much about this because people can't see this necessarily, but gorgeous piece, but I was of the impression that by putting Substack Heroes on there, and not with no explanation, it indicated that we, the two of us, were Substack Heroes, and we weren't, and the reference was to Taibbi and Barry Weiss, and so That got killed for that reason, the logic of it.
	I'd like to say two things about this.
	One, of course I completely agree with you, but people can follow along if they have a modern podcast app, newpodcastapps.com.
	When we're talking, you look at the app, when we're talking about it, the art changes, or you can just bring up noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Part two is I have to say something about the substack heroes.
	Because I wanted to investigate what is going on with this Barry Weiss, with Taibbi, with this, you know, thefreepress.com.
	And so I signed up to Substack as a creator, as a Substacker.
	I haven't published anything, nor will I. Oh, write some essays.
	But right away, no, I'm not, no.
	Right away, I got some, I got a marketing message from Substack, an email.
	It said, what can media empires look like on Substack?
	Exploring a new model for media organizations.
	So I open up the email.
	What does it say?
	When Barry Weiss launched Common Sense on Substack, she set out to create a media institution that is much bigger than herself.
	So as I predicted... Wow.
	As I predicted, this is all... Glenn Greenwald's behind it!
	It'll come out.
	I'll bet you you got, didn't you get this email from Substack?
	I joined Substack years ago.
	Maybe they just sent it out, but this went to all creators.
	No, I get nothing.
	Anyway, I get nothing.
	It's in the show notes.
	It's well worth taking a look at.
	Yeah, I think that's dynamite.
	So, back to this piece.
	It was good, but the piece next to it, you actually liked.
	I didn't care for it, but you liked it a lot.
	The jour-no-list.
	I just thought it was too simplistic.
	Yeah, and I didn't fight you on that.
	I didn't fight you.
	No, well, it wasn't going to happen.
	And we both came to the agreement about the tag, because the tag was so beautiful, the way it was done, in terms of its professionalism.
	It was so pretty that we reluctantly picked it.
	No offense to Tantaniel, but it was not the one that... I would say that Substack Heroes was probably the piece that would have happened if it wasn't a confusing piece.
	But Tantaniel snuck it in again.
	She's sneaky.
	She's really good.
	She gets a lot of pieces.
	That's how art works.
	She's sneaky.
	She's sneaky.
	But I'm very serious.
	I'm very troubled by all things.
	And it's, you know, it's just it's AI.
	It's not artificial intelligence.
	And what you're reading is, you know, the open AI chat GPT.
	It's basically Alexa that speaks better English.
	It's stupid.
	And I'm sick and tired of people.
	Oh, look what, look, I made a poem with it with it.
	Oh, look, I made a song with AI!
	Oh, I wrote you a letter with AI!
	I did a report in AI!
	Why don't you go away?
	I get a timecode, please.
	Yeah, I'm so sick of this jacked-upness over AI, especially when it comes to art, any kind of art, writing, musical performance, recording, this art.
	No.
	Keep people.
	Keep people.
	I think we got it.
	Okay, I'm done.
	We get the point.
	Now let's thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1512 and we kick it off with Stuart Walton who comes to us from Stafford in Great Britain.
	$1,000.
	He's in blue.
	I'm saying he's going to be an instantite.
	Let's see his note reads.
	Dear Uncle John and Uncle Adam.
	Okay, I feel old.
	Thanks.
	Stuart from Stafford here.
	As you can tell, It has been over 12 years when I promised to be in touch if I ever broke the bank on the lottery.
	Well, I'm not that lucky, but the financial wheel of fortune has turned in my favor this month, and now time to pay back the best podcast in the universe.
	I love it when people make... That's fine too.
	We're happy with that value.
	12 years, and you're paying for it now.
	Thank you.
	And I now wish to claim Christmas night status as per your latest email with an instant night donation.
	I've donated $5 per month for many years, celebrated Mother's Day and Father's Day for the last few years, a few other donations which probably has taken me over the $1,000 level.
	Oh, she buried the lead here.
	But I may have been too lazy to do the accounting and claim the title, ironic given that I'm an accountant.
	Always the same, the shoemaker with the bare feet.
	That's right, shoemakers' kids have no shoes.
	I wish Adam and yourself continued good podcasting karma, and please may you never find that fabled exit route.
	Onwards for the next 15 years of the best media deconstruction.
	Happy Christmas, that's what they say in the UK, and the very best wishes from England.
	Stuart Walton, he says, no jingles, no karma, but can I have biltong and any wine from South Africa at the round table?
	What's biltong?
	I have to look it up.
	Biltong.
	Probably some other South African thing.
	Mmm, biltong.
	You know, when you go to a bar in South Africa, they, they, one of the, instead of having like, you know, they have the little snacks.
	Yeah, don't they roofie you right away, don't they?
	They have ostrich jerky.
	Nice.
	Which is so good, you can't believe it.
	What South African wine do you recommend?
	Oh, just a pinotage of any sort, I guess.
	Pinotage?
	Pinotage?
	Just a pinotage.
	I don't have a brand.
	South African beef bit loin slicing.
	Guys, do a pinotage.
	Anyone, doesn't matter.
	Just get it from the cellar.
	Okay, that's good.
	All right.
	It's a form of dried cured meat that originated in South African countries.
	Which I guess is what the ostrich would be too, would be a form of it.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's jerky.
	Yeah.
	Hello.
	Jerky.
	Yo.
	All right.
	I'm sorry.
	Sean Stedman.
	Go podcasting.
	333.33.
	This came in as a bank transfer and I want to mention something here.
	Did you miss his note?
	He has a whole note here.
	I have the note.
	I'm going to read the note.
	I just want to talk about the bank transfer.
	Oh.
	I don't know what mechanism he used.
	It was USAA.
	It was some system that he's got.
	He got the money straight into the bank, which I had to tell Jay about the amount, because if you're going to send these notes in, put the amount in there at least, so I don't have to go look it up.
	This is the best form of getting money to us because there is no charges whatsoever to us.
	Oh, excellent.
	If, for example, PayPal, when you send a thousand bucks, about 25 bucks goes to PayPal.
	Or even if you send in five bucks, you know, they get like 50 cents.
	If you send a check in, that's really a good way because you can control the message the best.
	You write a note right there and scratch out your name.
	There's a $0.15 check cashing charge for every check that's sent in after a couple of hundred checks.
	And so you pass that at the beginning of the year.
	So that's $0.15.
	This is no charge.
	That's good.
	This is zero.
	This goes $333.33 straight into the bank without any middleman skimming, no skimming going on.
	Anyway, I'll read the note from here.
	Uh, thanks for the 1511 make good.
	I hereby claim my first executive producership.
	Uh, consider this a Rogan donation.
	I wouldn't have learned better without him.
	I wouldn't have learned better without him.
	Okay.
	No jingles, much karma.
	F-cancer for Mother Animus and Job's Karma for Sister Animus and myself, GoPodcaster.
	Yeah, it says Job's, not just Job's Karma.
	Job's Karma.
	Job's.
	Job It's been a while.
	Andrew Murrieta is in California.
	And, uh, 333.33.
	Andrew here.
	This executive producership goes out to my pops, Jesse Scalarud, who hit me in the mouth about a year ago.
	Been hopelessly glued to the show ever since.
	Best to you and Gitmo Nation over the holidays.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Nice note.
	Tyler Boyd in Cary, North Carolina.
	In the morning, John and Adam, and all my fellow producers, great news!
	I have now reached a level of knighthood on the best podcast in the universe.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Tyler Boyd, bringer of Islam to the whites!
	All right!
	To learn more, check out the Islam for Europeans channel on YouTube, okay, where we discuss the idea of white people converting to Islam in large groups.
	John and Adam, your work is valued much higher than the numbers we muster.
	Onward!
	Thank you, Tyler.
	And so, interesting, Tyler.
	Now, is he No, so he'll be a knight today.
	Good.
	Anonymous is in Wichita, Kansas.
	First associate executive producer with that number, 234.56.
	Sorry for not emailing the whole No Agenda Notes email, but it's confusing!
	No, it's not noagendanotes.com, it's noagendashow.net.
	You know, we're gonna... Notes at...
	Yeah, fine.
	We're gonna revamp- Look at me, fine!
	We're revamping the whole Dvorak.org slash NA page in Q1.
	Everything has to change.
	We gotta make it easier.
	And people read very, very poorly, I have to say.
	Anyway.
	And listen even worse.
	And listen even worsely, yes.
	I digress.
	Worsely.
	I have to thank the show and community for the Mectin blister packs.
	There you go.
	I started feeling a little feverish last week, Thursday early evening, and immediately pulled out a blister pack and out of the safe.
	That's where you gotta keep them.
	My wife, who's a licensed nurse, of course yelled at me.
	I said, hey babe, I trust the No Agenda community over you.
	What are you, licensed nurse?
	By Friday night, I was 100% okay again and continued the regimen through Sunday.
	I don't know if it was the vid or the flu or a nothing burger, but thank you all for bringing the blister pack to my attention.
	No jingles, no karma.
	And are you still married?
	Is the question.
	Well, he's gonna be lording it over.
	You said I were no good and I'm fine.
	Remind me that I've got a, uh, I've got a clip about the ivermectin.
	Ivermectin clip.
	Ivermectin clip.
	Yeah, I got one.
	I got one.
	All right.
	All right.
	Onward with, uh, Corey Plantenberg in Madison, Wisconsin.
	200.
	This will be our last associate executive producer.
	We're a delight.
	Hopefully by the Christmas time, because we're doing a show on Christmas, and to double up, we're doing a show on New Year's Day!
	What are we thinking?
	Who else does this?
	Maybe there's no audience, but we're still doing it.
	We're doing it.
	And I feel good about doing it because, you know, I had to bow out for two shows.
	Now, we didn't do repeats or anything lame like that.
	There were new compilations of dynamite stuff.
	But yeah, I feel good about giving people the extra value just at the end of the year.
	I feel good about that.
	Yeah, I do.
	I do, too.
	I like to do it.
	And, you know, it gets you out of the, you know, especially when it's on Christmas, and it gets you out of the family quagmire that's going, like, sorry, I gotta do a show.
	You're always working on Christmas.
	Yeah, that's what we do.
	Hey, I can't help with cooking.
	I gotta do a show.
	Yeah, well, the problem is you end up cooking anyway.
	Yeah, not me.
	Cory, this show's over in, eh, how long does it take to cook?
	Cory Plantenberg in Madison, Wisconsin, 200 bucks.
	Thanks.
	Dear John and Adam, long-time listener, first-time donor, thank you for the value you bring to my life as a loyal listener to the best podcast in the universe.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Cory Plantenberg in Sun Prairie.
	It's actually in Sun Prairie, not Madison.
	And I want to thank him and everybody else that came in with some producerships at this level.
	It makes the show work and it's the only way we can get the show, it's in fact the only way the show can be done with the kind of material we present.
	It can't be done by any commercial mechanism.
	You know, they now have a new term, it's safety and suitability.
	So it used to be brand safe, you know, the content has to be brand safe.
	Now it's safety and suitability.
	Not just if it's safe, it's if it's suitable.
	Now what do you think, advertising-wise, would be suitable?
	I like, by the way, by the way?
	Safe and suitable.
	From the other side of the fence, I like it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, safe and suitable.
	Safety and suitable.
	You know, there's one advertiser that is safe and suitable for the No Agenda show.
	And who might that be?
	Fleshlight.
	That's the only one.
	You know the early days of Joe Rogan, that's all his advertising was.
	I know.
	I was watching Kevin Smith.
	You know Kevin Smith, the director?
	Yeah, the director.
	Now he's the one that told Joe years ago, you should get Adam on.
	So I'm very thankful to Kevin Smith.
	Hey, I sent a note to Joe, and I still have it.
	2011 begging him to put you on and he sent me a note back.
	What'd he say?
	Well, you know, can you come on in the meantime?
	And I said, yeah, if I can, but then of course he's forgotten all that.
	But yeah, we've all been pushing to get you on that show.
	You're a natural for that show.
	I don't know.
	I don't think there's a five, a fifth, a fifth moment in there for me.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Oh, you get back on, but it'll be, it'll be, hey, hey, how come you haven't been on?
	He's just like a Hollywood guy.
	Anyway, thank you all very much.
	And welcome back, people who skipped the donation segment, you morons.
	You missed some good content.
	You might want to go back and check it out.
	No, don't tell him!
	Don't tell him!
	Just go here.
	Thank you all for your time, talent, and treasure for producing episode 1512.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Now I'm going to remind myself about the Ivermectin clip.
	Yes.
	This is Dr. Chris Schumacher.
	He is a Candanavian.
	He is a member of the College of Family Physicians of Candanavia.
	So he's not a slouch.
	I don't know if he's a super-duper guy.
	I don't know much about him.
	But I liked his message a lot and here it is.
	The important thing to realize is that North American science spent 15 years figuring out what to do with the next COVID.
	It was back 2002-2003, the original SARS-CoV-1 occurred.
	And so all sorts of experiments went on to determine what would be a useful response.
	Were something similar to occur?
	And the research was done.
	It was research was all done by 2015-2016.
	And DARPA, D-A-R-P-A, the American research arm of the U.S.
	military, it specifically knew and specifically recommended and passed the information on to the CDC that ivermectin in particular was the absolute number one product to be used in the event of a coronavirus pandemic.
	It was fully known that ivermectin and certainly hydroxychloroquine as well were highly antiviral
	and immune modulatory and those two things were the key to modulate the immune response plus to be antiviral as well those elements were both totally proven in vitro and in vivo with animals so that it was known and of course we knew it was completely safe for humans because these medications have been used for 35 to 40 years in humans and so that's what was sitting there ready to be used at the next pandemic I gotta say I believe him totally.
	This sounds so... Clip of the day!
	Clip of the day!
	Oh goodness!
	It's been so long since I've gotten clip of the day, I don't even know where the button is anymore.
	Thank you so much!
	Yeah, you do.
	Clip of the day!
	I know what I'm doing, obviously.
	That is a tremendous clip.
	Isn't that Diney?
	Isn't that Diney?
	It's... Wow!
	Diney.
	There you go!
	You get clip of the day, then you blow it up by saying Diney!
	Jeez!
	To corroborate, here's your future president, Ronald DeSantos.
	Governor Ron DeSantis called out Big Pharma, the focus, COVID-19 vaccines.
	He wants the Florida Supreme Court to investigate any and all wrongdoings.
	10 Tampa Bay's Malik Rankin joins us now with what's next.
	Malik.
	Governor Ron DeSantis is petitioning the Supreme Court to form a grand jury.
	This announcement followed a roundtable discussion with the Surgeon General.
	DeSantis is also creating a public health integrity committee led by the Surgeon General.
	In a press release from the governor, the committee will assess federal public health recommendations and tailor those guidelines to Florida.
	So other governors and I have talked about the need to have a panel of experts who can counteract nonsense when it's coming out of these institutions, that are not going to just go along with the flow and follow precooked narratives, but will actually do evidence-based analysis.
	DeSantis says pharmaceutical companies refuse to release patient-level data for independent researchers.
	DeSantis also says the adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine has not been appropriately shared with patients, and he believes it's created a lack of public trust.
	Yeah.
	Now, of course, Roger Stone, everybody's out there saying, oh, man, he's just doing that to mess with Trump.
	Well Stone stayed on Trump's side which is interesting because everybody else has turned on him.
	I was watching a guy who was a CNBC guy that was on Trump's White House, Larry Kudlow.
	He was on with Kellyanne Conway and he was just slamming Trump.
	He's turned.
	But just sticking with the COVID for a moment.
	Here's British Parliament, MP Andrew Bridgen, and he corroborates the same thing happened in the UK.
	The British Heart Foundation covered up research.
	Madam Deputy Speaker, it's also been brought to my attention by Whistleblower, from a very reliable source, that one of these institutions is covering up clear data that reveals the mRNA vaccine increases inflammation of the heart arteries.
	They are covering this up in fear that they may lose funding from the pharmaceutical industry.
	The leader of that cardiology research department has a prominent leadership role with the British Heart Foundation and I'm very disappointed to say that he has sent out non-disclosure agreements to his research team to ensure that this important data never sees the light of day.
	This, Madam Speaker, is an absolute disgrace.
	And that was just part of a 21-minute rant.
	It's really... I've got a couple of COVID clips here that aren't specifically in the direction you're headed.
	But there's some just weird stuff cropping up here and there.
	I'm gonna play the COVID weirdness with vaccines in China.
	China says it will allow a foreign vaccine to be used in China.
	But there's a catch.
	Beijing said Friday it would let German nationals living in China receive German vaccine BioNTech.
	This in exchange for Germany granting an import permit to a Chinese vaccine.
	Though that jab would only be used on Chinese nationals living in Germany.
	This, I believe, is part of the subtext that we know about the idea of creating these vectors, these disease vectors that target genetics.
	I'm convinced they're freaked out about this.
	You know, I'm seeing more and more stories like this.
	Let me just grab this for a second.
	Something about Indians.
	Where was this?
	No.
	Can't find... Yeah, sudden deaths explode in Germany.
	I thought there was a... I had a story somewhere about that Indians were dying at some crazy rate, unexpected, which I thought were from...
	from either COVID or vaccines.
	It's very difficult to figure out which it is now.
	Yeah, because we don't get the details.
	That's the problem.
	Of course we don't.
	Here's another clip.
	This is interesting.
	This is our future.
	Chinese COVID tracking tools.
	After major protests in China, the regime appears to be loosening some of its harsh COVID-19 measures, including the use of one COVID tracking app.
	However, a new COVID outbreak is spreading in the country.
	Here's NTD's Tiffany Meyer with the story.
	A major contact tracing app in China is going offline.
	It marks a big step in loosening COVID-19 restrictions.
	But it's far from the only health tracking method used during the pandemic.
	The app is called Mobile Itinerary Cart.
	It launched in February 2020, almost immediately after the pandemic broke out in Wuhan, China.
	Operating via smartphones, the app can trace back where a phone owner has been in the last 7 to 14 days.
	When an app user enters an area designated by authorities as posing high risk of infection, the app would change the user's status color from green to yellow or red.
	Both of those colors limit the phone owner's access to public spaces and transportation.
	Other reports say Chinese authorities manipulated the apps manually, changing the statuses of human rights activists to red to block them from leaving their homes.
	This app has more than 1 billion users, almost as many as China's population.
	Concerns have also focused on data safety and privacy, as huge amounts of data have been collected in recent years.
	Chinese authorities said they would delete the data after the app goes offline.
	Despite the shutdown, another major tracking app is still being used.
	The country's health code scanning system.
	This app also functions on smartphones.
	It uses the same three-color status system, but instead users self-declare where they've been.
	Man, they better hurry up because Elon's gonna take that business.
	He's going to have that business, don't worry.
	You know, once we adopted that stupid color system for the airports during the Bush administration, it's been a plague and I think we're never going to get rid of it.
	Here's the article.
	Rise in heart attacks amongst healthy young Indians.
	What's driving it?
	As many as 51% of people have one or more individuals in their close network, this is from India today, who have experienced heart or brain stroke, blood clots, neurological complications, cancer acceleration, and other sudden medical conditions in the last two years.
	What could be driving this?
	I have no idea!
	Next we have, I read this, sudden deaths explode in Germany.
	Doctors are warning!
	Heart attacks spike this time of year.
	It happens every year.
	Funny, I've been doing this show for 15, I don't remember a single report.
	But I guess it's true.
	And then we have... the pots.
	Then we have the- oh wait!
	We do have the pots, yes, the pots.
	This is the pots.
	This is what it's all about.
	Well, a new study finds a link between COVID infection and a debilitating heart condition.
	So the findings were actually published today in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, and it corresponds with earlier reports that COVID may actually trigger a disorder in the nervous system.
	NBC News medical reporter, Berkeley Lovelace, joins us now.
	Berkeley, it's great to have you with us.
	First off, what exactly is this heart condition, and how do people know if they have it?
	Yeah, so this was basically one of the early discoveries of people with long COVID.
	So POTS is a condition of the nervous system where people can have several symptoms such as rapid heart rate, lightheadedness, chest pain, fatigue.
	And people can also sometimes confuse it with other things such as anxiety or depression.
	And so because it's so confusing about the symptoms, it can also take years for people to get a diagnosis.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	So be aware of that heart condition.
	But here is what I found really interesting about the study.
	It also found a connection between mRNA vaccines for COVID.
	And potential heart conditions.
	So this is the second condition.
	We're talking about those Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
	How concerned should we be about this?
	Oh no!
	What are we going to do?
	I think you should debunk it.
	Right.
	So they did find a link between the vaccines and this condition, but it was to a much, much smaller degree than what we see with COVID infection.
	So the researchers said the odds of getting POTS is about five times greater with the COVID infection than with vaccination.
	Okay, there's an unanswered question a journalist should have asked.
	to get sick from COVID you would be more likely to get this heart condition than if you get the vaccine which could prevent you from seriously better off with the vaccine and so yeah experts say the best way to protect yourself is to get vaccinated including developing POTS as well don't get POTS get boosted there's an unanswered question that journalists should have asked you know what it is I know what it is which is okay
	now when we're discussing this does this include people who had COVID but also had the shot but got COVID after they got the shots Maybe shots and boosted.
	Did you track people that had one shot and then this disease if they had COVID or if they had like All their shots and boosted twice and then they got COVID.
	Was that included with those people included in the study or was just people or was it just people just people that never had a vaccine ever and got COVID?
	No, they did track this and they saw that people who had COVID and got boosted developed winter vagina.
	There was nothing with POTS.
	POTS stands for postural orthostatic Tachycardia syndrome.
	And it can also be confused with anxiety.
	Come on.
	What's that got to do with pustular?
	I don't know.
	I'm just telling you this.
	You heard the man.
	The whole thing.
	I had the last newsletter which was mostly memes.
	It was a collection of memes.
	I had one in there.
	It says, scientists now say that getting the flu shot will prevent heart attacks.
	Yeah, isn't that beautiful?
	And even, but you know, this heart attack thing, which is, now we know it's very normal for people to, for heart attacks to spike this time of year.
	We do have a lot of Indians, you know, it's not really our problem because, you know, in this case we're in Melbourne.
	But because it's so normal and this happens all the time, we've decided to up our game in Down Under.
	The life-saving machine is now within walking distance for every resident in Reservoir.
	Every home is now within 400 meters of a defibrillator and over 3,000 people have been trained in CPR.
	27 defibrillators have been rolled out at homes around the suburb, transforming the fifth deadliest area for cardiac arrests into the safest.
	Sudden cardiac arrest affects and impacts almost anybody.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's not about age.
	It's not about gender.
	It is simply a killer across the board.
	Over 6,500 sudden cardiac arrests occur in Victoria each year.
	80% happen in the home.
	CPR within the first six minutes is crucial.
	And coupled with a defibrillator, it increases survival rates to over 50%.
	Start CPR.
	Rest.
	Rest.
	Just 11 months into the Australian first trial, it's already saved a man's life.
	St.
	John's are in the process of selecting the next area to benefit from the program, but they are calling on the Andrews government to pitch in and provide funding to roll it out around the state.
	Man, it's going to be great in Australia.
	You've got defibrillators everywhere.
	You've got to show your ID to get on Twitter.
	Well done, people.
	Well done.
	So my last COVID clip is actually more about flu.
	And I just thought this was interesting.
	Now, this is a long, this is the Tamiflu story.
	This is a long, was actually a long report that went on two or three or four or five minutes talking about shortages of Tamiflu.
	Tamiflu is under attack, by the way.
	Because it works.
	Because it works.
	It's no good.
	But that's not what the report's about.
	Sorry.
	This is what the report's about.
	It's about the shortage that's starting to show up because there's all kinds of like, uh, and I went to the pharmacy and looked and there was, there is a shortage of children's Tylenol for sure.
	There's hardly any around.
	And this is a bullcrap story, but there's an interesting little tidbit to this story in terms of reporting.
	And I just thought it was, it stood out like a sore thumb, at least to me, and you can play it and I'll tell you what it is afterwards.
	At West Marin Pharmacy in Point Reyes Station, pharmacist Zhuzana Byron has almost run out of children's liquid Tylenol.
	So you're down to your last one?
	This is the last one.
	And we can't get anything else from the whole cellar there.
	She's also having trouble restocking her supply of Tamiflu, the leading antiviral prescription medication to fight the flu, a problem pharmacies across the country are experiencing in the midst of a worsening flu season.
	Maybe two, three weeks ago, it just boomed, just kind of exploded.
	Her supply of Tamiflu ran out two weeks ago.
	We've run out of it, and we can't even replace it by purchasing more from the wholesalers because they're also out.
	Tamiflu isn't the only antiviral medication that can fight the flu, and Marin County's deputy health officer said pharmacies may have an easier time right now getting alternative medications to fight the flu.
	Reporting in Greenbrae, Emma Goss, KTVU, Fox 2 News.
	Okay, what stood out to you?
	Does anything to you stand out like a sore thumb?
	What's the alternatives brand name?
	You're right.
	I was very curious what that was.
	They didn't give you the alternatives.
	Well, it's not even plural.
	The alternative to Tamiflu is Relenza.
	Oh, that's right.
	I should have known that.
	And Relenza is probably better.
	It's also more expensive.
	But it's probably better because it's something you just breathe it in instead of taking a pill.
	As good or better and some people in the early days of bird flu fear it's the one thing you can use against bird flu.
	Tamiflu doesn't seem to be effective but Relenza is.
	So Relenza is the product you want.
	But they go out of their way not to mention it.
	And I've noticed, and Relenza has been commonly, you know, it's been marginalized since the get-go.
	They never mention the brand name.
	It's a GlaxoSmithKline product.
	GlaxoSmithKline and the other one's Roche.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	So to me it was like, why don't you mention Relenza?
	And you'll never hear the word.
	I don't think I've ever heard on broadcast any of these networks.
	I've only heard it from you on this podcast.
	You've mentioned Relenza and Tamiflu and you've been a big believer in it and you're still with us.
	So this is good.
	Yeah, it works great.
	Now one of our producers, who is an absolute insider in the vaccination world has come to me in complete anonymity.
	And there is now some evidence that there are two lipids.
	These are the nano lipids.
	This is the stuff that the Pfizer vaccine uses to transport their little spikies.
	I'm being very simplistic.
	Two of these lipids were not approved for human use, or have not been approved for human use yet, maybe that's a better way of putting it, because these lipids are not fully soluble in the human body, so they begin to accumulate inside the liver, and they can cause inflammation, and they respond to foreign nanoparticles, and this is a brewing scandal
	I don't know if it'll ever come out, but to have two non-human approved lipids used in the vaccine is quite egregious.
	Maybe that's what's accounting for the clots.
	Yeah.
	Who knows?
	Who knows what?
	Who knows what?
	Now, last clip for me on this topic.
	We are going into the season.
	And by the way, this flu thing, friends of ours, I might note that the friends who have this have been jabbed and or boosted.
	They're very sick.
	It's like a week sick in bed, moaning, groaning, and it's flu.
	Did they get a flu shot?
	I shall ask.
	I shall follow up.
	I didn't ask.
	Usually the people that are all jacked up with COVID shots usually get a flu shot right away.
	Yeah, I'll ask, I'll check.
	So this is UNICEF, United Nations.
	This is the outfit that likes to protect the children.
	Sketchy at best.
	They've done a propaganda video for children.
	This really meant to tug at your heartstrings and get your child to talk to you about the future of the COVID vaccine, and really how bad you adults screwed it all up.
	You've actually killed us, so many people, unnecessarily.
	So let's not do that again this year, people.
	In 2020, scientists developed life-saving COVID-19 vaccines in record-breaking time.
	It was miraculous.
	It saved the lives of my parents and grandparents.
	In just a few months, nearly everybody in my country got the vaccine.
	I lost my mother right at the start of the pandemic.
	So many doctors and nurses got sick.
	School closed down.
	But then came the vaccine.
	You said life would return to normal.
	You restored our hope.
	And you promised you wouldn't stop there.
	You said you'd help other countries.
	You promised to share vaccines with the whole world.
	To make sure it ended everywhere, for everyone.
	But you took too long.
	You brought up supplies and held them back.
	Just in case.
	You let people in other countries suffer.
	Doctors and nurses kept getting sick.
	Teachers died.
	You let the virus carry on, going around and around and around.
	And you changed into even more dangerous variants.
	Then it all came back.
	Again, and again, and again.
	Schools closed.
	Life kept getting turned upside down.
	For all of us, things could have worked out so differently.
	You knew that no one is safe.
	Until everyone is safe.
	I think that's the end of it.
	Alright, let's end this bunch of statistics.
	They should have substituted the word dead for safe.
	Exactly.
	It's, um, it's really, it's unreal.
	Not everyone is safe until, not anyone is safe or dead until everyone is dead.
	The Biden administration will be making the at-home COVID tests available for free again this winter.
	Woohoo!
	I've got another batch of them.
	So I've gotten so many COVID tests, so I've gotten the... But you don't take them, you're just hoarding them, right?
	You're collecting.
	No, I'm passing them out to the kids.
	Don't give these to your kids!
	They come from the government!
	Who knows what they've done with them?
	It's already too late.
	So this last batch, so I got the original four, I think a pack of four from over the mail.
	Remember, they just sent a note to the mail.
	Boom, you get some.
	So I got those.
	And then I went to get a prescription filled early on.
	They said, you want some free COVID tests?
	I said, they're free?
	I said, yeah.
	So they gave me like four.
	And so then I go in there again, a few weeks ago to refill something.
	And there's a sign saying, make sure to ask for your free COVID tests.
	And if there's a sign that says free anything, JCD is right at the front of the line.
	You got that right.
	I say, what's with this?
	He says, oh yeah, let me look you up.
	And he looks at my, you know, my insurance and says, oh yeah, you're eligible.
	So I'll pack some up and you can get them, pick them up this week.
	It's eight!
	A box!
	A box of tests!
	When he looked you up, didn't he recommend you get a COVID shot and a flu shot?
	No.
	Well, what kind of system is that?
	Where's the cross-cell?
	It's a blender on there.
	Somebody's making a mistake.
	But the point is, There's a huge box of these things.
	Who's paying for this?
	You are.
	Well, then I'm getting them.
	Yeah, I know.
	We have been looking at a lot of different accidents in traffic, not just traffic on roads but traffic in the air.
	This had to be addressed, and the American Journal of Medicine has addressed it in a study here, which they used 11,270,763 individuals, and they've concluded COVID vaccine and they've concluded COVID vaccine hesitancy is a reflection of psychology that probably contributes to traffic safety.
	Now, They tested whether COVID vaccination was associated with the risks of a traffic crash and what came back was, no, no, it's only those who are hesitant who have crashes.
	Yeah, nobody else crashes.
	I mean, this is, and it's, you read through this like, I don't understand how they can even do this.
	It's lunacy.
	These data suggest that COVID vaccine hesitancy is associated with significant increased risks of a traffic crash.
	I'm speechless.
	This was also in the newsletter.
	To people who don't subscribe, they should.
	I don't know why they don't.
	You can subscribe from every Show Notes page.
	There's a link right there.
	I don't know.
	It's just beyond me.
	Why are you asking for money too much?
	We talked about the catastrophic contagion that was supposed to hit in 2025, the one they did the tabletop exercise for, and the one guy that stuck out as a sore thumb was Tom Daschle.
	And one of our producers pointed out, Daschle was also the guy that received the anthrax that was mailed after 9-11.
	I just thought that wasn't interesting.
	I don't know what the connection is.
	He's a stooge.
	That's an implied connection.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	That's what it is.
	He is a stooge anyway, but interesting.
	All right, well, I have a couple of... Before you go away, I have some COVID stuff to back up your... Oh, okay.
	...to back up your thesis of the platform.
	mRNA is a platform.
	Yeah.
	You want to just reiterate that?
	It's got to be ditched.
	They've got to ditch this platform.
	I'm just saying.
	What do you mean they have to ditch it?
	They're expanding it.
	They're expanding the platform.
	I know.
	This is a huge blunder.
	They're trying to kill us.
	This is not going to work.
	But go ahead, but go ahead.
	Well, tonight there's promising news for skin cancer patients about a possible melanoma vaccine made by Moderna and Merck.
	It uses mRNA technology, which was used to make those COVID vaccines.
	Moderna says a small study showed the cancer shot and immunotherapy drug combination significantly lowered patients' risk of relapse or death.
	A larger study is planned for next year.
	Yeah, those mRNA vaccines, oh yeah, and there's more!
	A British teenager is now cancer-free, thanks to a new treatment being described as revolutionary.
	Thirteen-year-old Alyssa had exhausted all traditional options to battle her leukemia, including a bone marrow transplant.
	That's when she enrolled in a clinic trial, a clinical trial, using a new gene-editing technology called base editing, when doctors use healthy, altered cells to kill cancerous T-cells.
	Alyssa's cancer was gone in six months.
	Scientists hope to use the same technique for other diseases.
	Such a huge breakthrough.
	Such a huge breakthrough!
	It's almost like fusion ignition!
	Such a huge breakthrough!
	You know, if this was actually a huge breakthrough, it would be bigger news than it is.
	Yeah.
	This is another experiment they're going to conduct on the American public.
	Or the world public.
	Yeah.
	I fear you are correct.
	Yeah.
	This may be the second.
	I mean, maybe there's going to be two or three of these tests.
	I mean, they're thinking about doing the MRNA for the flu.
	Oh, sure.
	And they're going to roll that out.
	And this cancer thing, which is really a stretch, it's going to be, well, you know, we'll be here watching.
	Mask up.
	It's so pathetic.
	We're going through the same cycle and everyone's forgotten everything.
	And it'll be the same.
	Same old, same old.
	I do have two Ukraine clips that I think we need.
	You do?
	Or, if you want to wait, I have a What's Wrong With... What's Wrong With Podcasting.
	Oh, yeah, let's do it.
	Let's do... Well, yeah, let's do that.
	Let's do it.
	And then you... And then you... Whatever.
	You go.
	Do something.
	So you got me triggered on to this pre-press thing.
	Oh, good.
	So I go look it over, and I'm thinking, who are these writers?
	And there's this one writer, Catherine Katt.
	And she has a podcast.
	Mm-hmm.
	Let's see what kind of person this is.
	This podcast is called Feminine Chaos.
	Oh wow!
	Can we get the domain name?
	It's got a picture of a goat, like a devilish goat with a unicorn spike sticking out of its head.
	I just want to play two clips from this.
	It's just another one of those podcasts.
	I've described these to you before.
	I think the original description was giggling dipshits as a category.
	It's not meant to be pejorative.
	It's just a category.
	It is what it is.
	It's a category of podcasting, which is, to me, something wrong, because this is what's wrong with these podcasts.
	I'm not, what's wrong with these podcasts, which is a podcast, which is quite good, by the way, you can go check it out.
	This is what's wrong with podcasting, and that's these categories.
	Let's listen to clip one here.
	This is the way the podcast begins.
	Hello, this is Kat.
	This is Phoebe.
	Welcome to Feminine Chaos.
	Why are you already laughing?
	Was there not a dog growling?
	Oh, I think you heard the cat.
	The cat is purring.
	Or a cat purring.
	Sorry.
	I was excited by the early arrival of an animal on the scene.
	Not counting the one I'm currently petting, who's lying here next to me sweetly.
	Oh.
	Well, I think Rasputin, my cat, is purring because he's very excited.
	He's finally gotten comfortable enough in his identity and in our relationship to form a sexual attraction to me because he is demisexual and also a goddamn pervert because we're not the same species.
	How's that for an opening?
	That's an opening, alright.
	Please tell me this has no advertisements and has not been bought by Spotify.
	So far.
	Because this has smash hit written all over it for those guys.
	Now, this cat person is one of their journalists over at the Free Press and she's a specialist in some things like demisexuality.
	She wrote an essay on it.
	What is demisexuality?
	You look it up.
	You look it up.
	I don't have time to go into it.
	But I do have time to play another clip from another one of their podcasts, where they, again, they're talking about the cat to an extreme, and it's just a short 21 seconds of more of the same of this sort of podcast that I really don't like.
	I was thinking, like, how can we segue into this?
	You know, speaking of people...
	Yeah, yeah, no, same.
	Especially this cat who is, once again, rumbling in the microphone.
	Their tongues are like sandpaper.
	I don't even want to engage with that.
	You know, I feel like I'm doing him a favor by letting him lick me.
	This is exactly, this is, okay, what's wrong with these podcasts?
	This is how women of this age speak.
	I have some of them in my life.
	I've heard them.
	They talk this way and it's very hilarious.
	And if we were talking like that, like, oh yeah, I like the guy, I like the dog, blow me!
	People would think we're crazy.
	Am I wrong?
	It's beyond me.
	But I'm just pointing out the only reason I even found this podcast, even though I was looking for an ISO and I couldn't even come up with one, is maybe the licking part.
	Yeah.
	Was because this is one of the journalists on this free press operation.
	I'm going to maybe look at some of the other ones to see if they all got, everyone has a podcast.
	So apologies to the what's wrong with the podcast guys.
	This is what's wrong with podcasting.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	It's only short hits.
	So there you go.
	Well, these were two dynamite hits.
	Thank you very much.
	No, let's... Go to Ukraine!
	Let's go to Ukraine!
	Yeah, so Ukraine... The latest thing is... This is unbelievable, this Patriot missile story.
	Let's play this.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is nuts.
	The US may be sending a battery of Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
	It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently put pressure on Western leaders to provide more advanced weapons to counter Russian air attacks.
	We will look at a full spectrum of security assistance and defensive capabilities that are available within our common inventories when we consider Ukraine's needs.
	We continue to consult and advise our Ukrainian partners on how best to integrate their air defense systems.
	According to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, The announcement will likely follow later this week.
	The plan has not yet been publicly announced because the decision has not been finalized.
	If approved, the Patriot would be the most advanced surface-to-air missile system yet provided to Ukraine by the West.
	I have two short reports on this.
	Can I just roll these out since... Please!
	Please!
	I think it's unconscionable that we're sending this sort of weaponry over there.
	It's just prolonging the war.
	I think the idea is to get it... make it bigger.
	No, I... yeah... I mean, to me the idea is...
	We need to have some kind of new shield-type weapons, and we need to develop them.
	Iron Dome!
	Yes, and we need some money for that, and we just want new gear.
	So we need to, of course, ship all the crap off to Ukraine, and that's what's happening.
	And this could be a big development in the war in Ukraine.
	CBS News has learned the Pentagon is preparing a plan to send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine.
	The Ukrainians have been pleading for more help to defend themselves against Russian rockets.
	White House approval could come as soon as this week.
	That is CBS.
	Here's ABC.
	Following breaking news overseas, explosions rocking Ukraine's capital.
	Drone strikes reportedly hit two administrative buildings in downtown Kyiv.
	Kyiv.
	Local officials say there were Iranian drones used by Russia, but no immediate word on casualties.
	Meanwhile, sources say President Biden is poised to approve a plan sending long-range Patriot missile systems to Ukraine to fend off Russian strikes.
	They would be the most sophisticated weapons the Pentagon has provided for the war.
	No, no.
	Yeah, provided.
	The most sophisticated defense weapons will be now created with the money.
	And Europe just spent 18 billion.
	Did we have another couple billion?
	And check this out.
	French social media has erupted as store clerk on Avenue Montagne reports Zelinsky's wife, who was in Paris to get her hair done and to hang out with Macron, Spent 40,000 euros worth of Christmas shopping in Paris.
	Wow.
	The French are outraged.
	I'll bet they are.
	I'm outraged.
	40,000!
	This is... Oh, man.
	That's a hell of a Christmas.
	Yeah, right?
	When's the last time you spent 40,000 on Christmas shopping in Paris?
	It's been a while.
	It's been a while.
	So here's the second clip, which makes me think they're trying to expand this war a little bit, is the Belarus involvement, potentially.
	Belarus remains non-committal about getting involved in the war in neighboring Ukraine, but the country appears to be conducting joint military training with Russia.
	Moscow says the exercise is carried out, quote, day and night.
	Russia's Defense Ministry published the latest video.
	The footage shows tanks navigating through a woodland in Belarus.
	The soldiers set up temporary bridges and conduct explosive drills.
	One day before the video came out, Belarus announced an emergency military inspection.
	It involves setting up readiness in the south of the country.
	Belarus has said it won't join Russia's attack in Ukraine, but on February 24th, the president allowed Russian troops to push into Ukraine from Belarusian territory, and in October, he ordered domestic forces to deploy with Russia near the Ukrainian border.
	Strategy analysts say there is a possibility that Belarus could intervene from the north, but that it would amount to a distraction for Ukraine.
	Yeah, I'm not sure.
	So now the report got confused.
	I don't even know what he's talking about here.
	I don't understand it either.
	What's the strategic point?
	Yeah, what's the distraction?
	What's the distraction?
	They're attacking you from Belarus.
	I mean, what?
	Distraction from what?
	I guess the Donbass.
	Well, now I have to look at the map for a second.
	Let me just see where Belarus is in relation to all this stuff.
	We've got to overlay a pipeline or something on top of this.
	What's going on?
	It's always the same.
	It's always the same.
	So Belarus, let me see.
	Oh, you know that everyone except Google now is working on an open mapping system?
	They just announced.
	It's like the OpenLinux Foundation, which of course is owned by Microsoft, duh.
	They're now working with, who are they working with?
	Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, TomTom are launching Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data.
	So they're trying to do something against Google.
	Anyway, so now I'm looking at Belarus.
	Good luck.
	Google's been driving those little devices around.
	I see them all the time in the Bay Area.
	Waymo, they say.
	That's what the logo is, is Waymo.
	They're everywhere.
	And the newer ones are really cool looking.
	They don't have all those things sticking out every which way.
	It looks like a nightmare.
	It's like they've come up with a product, an actual product that sticks on the roof of these things.
	Like the big cylinder that spins around?
	Yeah, you don't see any of that.
	It's all enclosed and encapsulated.
	They don't look the same as they used to.
	They don't have the cornball cylinder spinning around and cameras sticking out left and right.
	It's like a big dome.
	Well, TomTom has pretty good maps.
	Yeah, TomTom, they're the ones that compete with Garmin.
	I got some good stuff.
	Something going on there.
	I can't find anything obvious about Belarus.
	I'm sure we'll have some producers out there who can help us.
	Yeah, we need Belarusians to help us out.
	We need some Belarus info.
	Just a quickie here.
	That's all I got for Ukraine.
	I thought it was interesting to hear what I heard on Deutsche Welle, the Nobel Peace Prize gaffe.
	I have not heard this.
	What is it under?
	Nobel?
	Nobel Peace Prize?
	Nobel.
	You mean the noble?
	The nobles?
	The winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize have collected their awards at the ceremony in the Swedish capital Stockholm.
	Rights activists from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus won this year in a strong rebuke of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, repression of civil liberties at home, and support for the authoritarian Belarusian government.
	What?
	Well, we knew it was going to go.
	This is just a political award.
	It's a joke.
	Yeah.
	But I would think of all the news operations in the world, they would know and not make the gaffe of saying that the Nobel Peace Prize was given out in Stockholm, Sweden.
	Because it's not.
	It's given out in Oslo, Norway.
	That's right.
	And Deutsche Welle messed that up?
	Deutsche Welle?
	Big-shot news organization with hot shots and copy editors and writers and everyone screwed it up and said it was a stock.
	That's where the Nobel Prize is given out, not the Nobel Peace Prize.
	What idiots.
	Well, that's what I was thinking.
	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.
	That's what we do best.
	We find the idiots, and we point them out, because we never make mistakes on this show.
	We expose them, but hey, we mea culpa whenever we have to.
	We do mea culpa a lot, and there's only, you know, we don't have a... The thing that gets me, they have teams of people.
	Teams.
	Teams.
	Fact-checking.
	We have the troll room fact-checking us, and, you know, the best we can do.
	Although they're probably better than your teams of people.
	They are better, and of course they're much better than teams of people.
	Kidding me?
	Well, we're starting off in Missouri City, Texas, and there's a guy there named James Crane, who gave us 150 bucks and said, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Yeah.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Locust, North Carolina.
	I'm sorry, I skipped a couple.
	I skipped Stephen G. Bottoms in Reno, a hundred bucks.
	And Lucas Williams in Roswell, Roswell, New Mexico, a hundred bucks.
	Sir Kevin, I want some souvenirs from there.
	There's got to be like these cool souvenirs from Roswell.
	And I think Lucas can help us.
	We have a couple of people who live in Roswell, I believe.
	Yeah, we do.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina.
	Hooray for him.
	He's continuing the pace.
	8008.
	Oops.
	Devon Rotter in Mansville, Washington.
	75 bucks.
	I have to read his note.
	Tears of laughter.
	I thought those days were over.
	Thanks.
	You're welcome.
	I don't know what that even means.
	He was laughing so hard he was crying.
	That happens on our show on an occasion.
	Yes, which is the goal.
	That and spitting milk out the nose.
	Yes, it's a classic.
	It's the best.
	Andrew, just plain old Andrew in Quebec.
	Now, Andrew in Quebec, he sent in a postcard and he had a suggestion here.
	He said, I think you should call it, when someone donates before the person who hit them in the mouth donates, a leap douching.
	Leap douching, yeah.
	Leap douching.
	I'm not so sure.
	I like the postcards.
	I also like the Christmas cards people are sending.
	A few people are sending them.
	Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, R-I-O-N.
	I'll say Ryan.
	I'll say Ryan.
	Albion, Michigan.
	It's a switcheroo for his lovely lady, Haley Dunham.
	And it counts towards her knighthood and he needs a de-douching and add it to the birthday list for today.
	Oh, we can give you that.
	He's on that list.
	You've been de-douched.
	There you go.
	Christopher Dector 5678 Samuel Corp in Ketchikan, Ketchikan, Alaska.
	Happy 44th trip around the sun.
	It's from Dame Vox.
	It's from Dame Vox.
	It's a Dame Vox donation to Sam.
	That was a switcheroo of sorts.
	Michael Wendell in Meadowin, New Jersey.
	Oh, we're already at the $50 level.
	Yes, again, very few donations today in this season, Christmas season.
	I just want to see some seasonal art.
	We're running out of time.
	Michael Wendell, Madowen, New Jersey.
	These are all 50s.
	Gary Mao in Woodland Hills, California.
	Christopher Campion in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard, Washington.
	Real Deals Now in San Antonio.
	San Antonio's got the Real Deals for you now.
	Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas.
	Kevin Dills, Sir Kevin, in Huntersville, North Carolina.
	Bridgette.
	Bridget You've been deduced.
	Ten years married and we never had a fight.
	He hit me in the mouth after he discovered No Agenda back in 2020.
	You two have been a real light in the dark for us while the whole world went extra crazy.
	In the morning to both of you, thank you for all you do.
	And he's on the list.
	Brigitte.
	Brigitte.
	Uh, Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood, and he likes, uh, I've got ants.
	Yeah.
	Uh, I don't know if we play at the end of the show.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	We'll work it in somewhere in the next couple of shows.
	Chris Lewinsky, Sir Chris in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Uh, Kelly McDill in Madison Hills, Kansas.
	Easy Landscapes.
	Easy Landscapes.
	If you're in North Stonington, Connecticut, check them out.
	It's right next to Real Deals Now in San Antonio.
	Then we have Grant Convey from Lincoln, Nebraska, who I think is in blue here, so he's got something going on, I'll read his note.
	Discovered your show when the Twitter algo recommended I follow Adam after I started following Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast account.
	Wow.
	That's weird.
	Yeah.
	The first episode I listened to was the Sunday prior to the 2016 election, and boy, am I glad I found you, because who knows what I would have discovered or what would have happened to my sanity otherwise.
	Needless to say, I was hooked ever since.
	Please knight me, Sir Grantlius.
	Of the Great Plains, seeing there's already an abundance of food at the round table, I humbly request minstrels and merriment to keep my fellow knights in good cheer.
	No, jingles, some birthing karma for my wife who is pregnant with our first human resource and due at the end of the month would be greatly appreciated.
	Douchebag call out for Brad Jezuski.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Stopped.
	That was really weird.
	Here we go.
	Where's the douchebag?
	Now the douchebag... Now it doesn't work.
	Douchebag!
	He broke it!
	There it is.
	And last on our list is Lisa Piles in South Lake, Texas with $50.
	I want to thank all these people, all 30 of them, including the people earlier, four out of 30,000 for helping us produce this show 1512 and make it all possible.
	And we can't do it without your support.
	Indeed.
	I'm just getting a late order in on the minstrels and merriment.
	We should get a order of tech services to get that douchebag thing fixed.
	Is that one of the Chinese ones?
	Exactly!
	That's the Chinese de-douching.
	Those things just go off at the most inopportune times.
	Completely wrong.
	Thank you all very much for supporting the NOAA Gender Show, and again, thank you to the producers who are executives or associate executive producers, as they came in earlier.
	Those are the forever credits.
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	But also, many people still on those subscriptions, those sustaining donations.
	We appreciate it.
	Those do keep us going in thinner, leaner days like today.
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	And the karma as requested. You've got karma.
	A short list again for today.
	Ryan Schultz, happy birthday to his lovely lady, Hayley Dunham.
	Her birthday is today.
	Dame Box of the Gateway, happy birthday to Samuel Corb, 44 on the 17th.
	And Bridget, or Bridget Rose, says happy birthday to her husband, Chris.
	and we say happy birthday and congratulations from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Two title changes for today.
	Sir Furr becomes Black Baron of the I-4 Corridor, and Sir Benjamin Ritgers becomes Black Baronet of Boone County, and that is in Iowa.
	We have a couple of night notes to read here before we continue.
	I think also one make good.
	Yes, Randy... Loffelmacher.
	Loffelmacher is the pronunciation.
	Loffel.
	Loffel.
	I wanted a Loffel.
	Dear John Adam, my path to knighthood was via the $4 per week plan!
	Yes!
	Yes, my hero!
	Hooray!
	I am so glad to finally arrive!
	Please de-douche me!
	You've been de-douched.
	I got a made in the USA one for you.
	Truly grateful for the Tyler service you provide to us.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	I found the podcast when Adam went on the Kaiser Report five years ago.
	I've been hooked ever since.
	Only wish I could have caught up earlier.
	I'd like to be dubbed Sir Spoonmaker Christmas night.
	And he wants cold cans of Brooklyn lager and sour diesel reefers at the round table.
	You're speaking my language, my friend.
	Speaking my language.
	Then we have Fabio Alves, who says he was getting ready to yell at PayPal for cancelling his subscription to No Agenda just to find out that I finished my night layaway plan.
	For that, I would like to claim my seat at the roundtable.
	His night name will be Sir Barambolo.
	Oh my goodness, I got some requests here that I hadn't seen.
	He wants at the roundtable... Where did it go?
	This is...
	Guarana, caipirinha de picanha?
	Guaranar.
	Guaranar?
	That is the soda of Brazil.
	It's a berry, it's a high caffeine berry, caffeinated berry.
	I usually keep a jar, a bottle of guaranar soup.
	Soup.
	The berry?
	Syrup.
	The berry itself is caffeinated, or they inject it?
	Yeah, it's a little sweet little berry.
	It's not sweet, you have to put a lot of sugar in it, but it's a little high-octane berry that's from the Amazon.
	They make the syrup out of it called guaraná, and they make a soda called Antarctica, and it's drunk all over Brazil.
	And when you first have it, you go, this is delicious!
	It tastes like apple juice!
	And then you get buzzed, get wired on it.
	The Brazilians are either drinking coffee or they're drinking this stuff.
	They're just on caffeine to the max.
	The more you know, in the morning.
	Final note from Sir Benjamin.
	We just made him a baronet.
	His note is he donated 110 on, my goodness, it was a double up, the 220 during our 15th anniversary.
	We just have to get him over the line and become baronet.
	Finally caught up on shows.
	Very welcome back and found out my donation wasn't mentioned.
	We did it!
	This does make you a black baronet of Boone County, Iowa, Sir Benjamin.
	Those are the notes that came in, so we do have a couple of nights to congratulate.
	I think we need a big... You got a Christmas blade?
	I do!
	With the right colors, check it out!
	Pretty!
	All right, Christmas Nights!
	Up on the podium, please, Randy Loffelmacher as Stuart Walton.
	I hereby pronounce the K.U.
	as Sir Spoonmacher, Christmas Night, and Sir Stuart the Angry Accountant, also a Christmas Night.
	Then we have Tyler Boyd and Fabio Alves and Grant Convey, and they check in as Knights as well.
	Proud to pronounce the K.U.
	as Sir Tyler Sir Boyd, bringer of Islam to the whites, Sir Barambolo, and Sir Grantlius of the Great Plains.
	For you we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, Bill Tong and any pinotage, minstrels and merriment, Brooklyn lager and sourdough for recess, and the caipirinha, picanha, guarana, something that caffeinated Barry.
	And, of course, we got mutton and meat, so go over to NoJenInNation.com slash rings.
	It's working again.
	And give us your ring size, where we can send it to.
	And please have a bit of patience.
	We order a lot of rings.
	It's all custom, because you have sizes, which you give us.
	It's not like we can say, hey, just give us a whole bunch of rings!
	It's a very, very complicated premium item, and it's beautiful.
	It is a signet ring, which means you can hit someone in the mouth and leave your mark, or you get some wax to go with it to seal your important correspondence.
	And, of course, we always include the beautiful Certificate of Authenticity.
	Thank you again for becoming Knights of the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
	And a pretty good party going on.
	Let's see, where was this report from?
	I can't remember.
	This is Wild Bill of the Central Ohio Meetup, and we're at the Ruckmore Lounge.
	There you go.
	This is Sir Bubba Hotep.
	Hotep and Bill.
	This is Nick.
	The last two people you heard are on the wagon, but I sure ain't.
	I'm not either.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anonymous and the U.S.
	Postal Service accepts your donations.
	Hey now, it's Damon.
	Donald Trump, don't trust Twitter.
	Twitter is FBI.
	FBI is Biden.
	Biden is China.
	China is asshole.
	There you go.
	Nice breakdown.
	Then we have the group that is so large they always have the longest report, but they're good.
	It's those Dutchies.
	This is the Amstelveen Hoei Hoei Meetup.
	Hi Adam and John, this is the Amsterdam Meetup Hoei Hoei Zeepkist gathering in the morning.
	In the morning America, hello to you.
	This is David, producer of the Zeepkist Hoei Hoei.
	And this is Thursday.
	Hi, Frank, a.k.a.
	Mike, in the morning!
	In the morning!
	Day in Pamsterdam, on a nice huey huey!
	Sir Goesgedave, stay safe and healthy!
	The future Sir Jaap of the Sustainable Development Valley... eats the bugs!
	It's really nice.
	Yes motherfuckers, this is Sir Hendrik from Amstelveen.
	In the morning, dear Sebastian, I'm a Twitter quitter.
	In the morning, without worries.
	In the morning, having a great time here at David's birthday.
	We're Sir André, night of the empty Paypal account and we're enjoying traditional Dutch cuisine.
	Pizza, no bugs.
	In the morning, this is Natalia, formerly known as the Lady of the Lithuanian Buttplug, but today, tonight, I am the Lady of the Candle of Intentions.
	Thanks everyone for a warm meet-up in a cold Amsterdam suburb.
	And this is Mari, soon-to-be dame of the Amsterdam, the realms of the Netherlands, signing off from Amsterdam.
	Ha!
	If I may say...
	That group is dynamite!
	I can't... I mean, I don't really feel like going traveling to the Netherlands, but I gotta meet some of these people.
	How many of them?
	There's like 50 people!
	What is this thing where the Dutch adopted a hooey-hooey thing to such an extreme?
	It... I don't know.
	You know, they have a... They just like saying it, I think.
	They have a Telegram channel and they were just... everything was hooey-hooey this and hooey-hooey that.
	Unbelievable.
	It's great!
	Well, you can hooey-hooey today at the NISB 3rd Thursday No Agenda Day Meetup, 5 o'clock, Post Falls, Idaho.
	That'll be at Selkirk Abbey.
	North Wake Christmas Courage Warm-Up starts at 6 o'clock, Compass in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	New on the list, Charlotte's Thirsty Third, Thursday of the month.
	It seems like it's something that comes back every month, so I don't know why it's new, but it's at 7 o'clock, Edge Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Saturday, the Strunk and Amygdala Support Group meets at 2 o'clock Eastern at Taft's Brewporium in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	And on Sunday, our next show day, the Lowcountry Christmas Cookie Meetup, 2 o'clock at Lowcountry Manor, and that's in Charleston, South Carolina.
	December 18th, Cindy and Drew's Caramel Christmas No Agenda Indie Tribal Meetup at Cindy's Place.
	Contact Cindy.
	And also, this is on Monday then, I guess the 19th, Deck the Halls with Pizza, a Suburban Chicago Meetup, 5 o'clock at Salamo's Pizzeria and Our Bar in Western Springs, Illinois.
	These are just a couple of the meetups that are scheduled.
	We have them scheduled all the way through January.
	As I can tell, you need to have a look.
	Go check out noagendameetups.com.
	This is where you can find your community, your people, your folks.
	You will not regret it.
	If you can't find one near you, start one!
	noagendameetups.com.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You wanna be where you want me Triggered on hell's flame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Yo, yo It's like a party.
	Okay, the pins in my mouth are hurting today.
	So, uh, I have to do what you did last time.
	I'm forfeiting.
	You have no issues?
	No.
	Oh, wow.
	Oh, wow!
	Oh, wow!
	I have three.
	I'm not particularly crazy about any one of them, but I think, well, you choose.
	Ready?
	Here's number one.
	Now that blew my mind.
	It's a little long.
	But I kind of like the sound.
	Uh, this one.
	Now, I do believe.
	I knew you were gonna laugh.
	I knew you were gonna laugh.
	Yeah, but I'm not picking it.
	And the final one.
	Why is this happening?
	All right, the first one is really, it's clear, it's loud, it's not really too long, and that's the one I'm picking.
	You said you gave me the opportunity to pick, I'm picking it.
	I give it to you.
	All right, thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Hey, a little update on Germany.
	I think we should get an update on the Reichsburger plot.
	Remember the prince?
	Yes, and I curiously have a follow-up to that.
	Whatever you play, my clip will be following it, which is scammers everywhere in Germany.
	Germany is still in shock after last week's nationwide raids targeting far-right suspects.
	It now appears their network may have been wider than first thought.
	Members of the German Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee revealed that investigators found more than 100 letters of so-called declarations of confidentiality, From people who supported the group's cause.
	The alleged plotters also planned to form more than 280 homeland security units, intended to become a new army.
	They were supposed to make arrests and also carry out executions.
	This shows how concrete the threat posed by this group really was.
	Now, authorities are discussing potential political consequences.
	One hot topic is whether to tighten Germany's gun laws, already among the strictest in Europe.
	Intelligence agencies say the plotters had gathered a substantial number of weapons.
	But before making wide-ranging political changes, lawmakers want more information.
	On the question of gun laws, I would like to understand exactly what kind of weapons are involved and how they attempted to procure weapons.
	Before we call for a tightening, we have to see if there is any problem at all in the legal framework as it is today.
	Public officials deemed anti-democratic could potentially be dismissed more quickly.
	This comes after revelations that a former MP for the far-right AFD party was allegedly part of the plot.
	If the former MP still had access to parliament, then there could now be stricter rules for entering official buildings.
	So here's my takeaway from this report.
	One, war on guns.
	Can't have guns in Germany.
	If you got a gun, you're probably a sovereign citizen movement, the Reichs... What is it called again?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Fourth Reich.
	Fourth Reich.
	And if you're undemocratic, you gotta go.
	Yeah.
	The Reichsburger movement.
	The Reichsburger movement.
	The Reichsburger.
	I still have only seen one guy.
	Yeah.
	One guy.
	Where are all these other guys?
	I haven't seen a display of guns.
	I haven't seen anything but one guy.
	But apparently 26, 30, 100 arrests.
	100?
	Hundreds.
	Hundreds.
	They've all signed documents to prove it.
	Yeah, they were going to create a new legal system.
	Well, my clip's got nothing to do with these guys.
	This is about German scammers in Germany.
	A German tax lawyer has been jailed for his role in what could be one of the country's biggest post-war frauds.
	The scheme, known as Comex, deprived the country of more than $1 billion in tax revenue.
	Hanno Berger is the most high-profile professional convicted for the tax evasion scandal.
	According to prosecutors in the German city of Bonn, Berger allegedly helped investment bankers swap shares between 2007 and 2011.
	They managed to collect multiple tax reimbursements for taxes they only paid once.
	Berger was arrested in Switzerland last year and extradited to Germany in February.
	The court found him guilty of aggravated tax evasion and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
	The former lawyer was also ordered to pay back nearly $130,000.
	He also faces a second criminal trial in another city next year.
	Again, they're not bankers per se, but investment bankers.
	What's going on with the bankers in Europe?
	They're all corrupt.
	Well, I think that now that the money has dried up, because there's just no more free money.
	So now stuff is falling apart.
	It looks like to me.
	Yeah.
	I have just two linguistic short clips, both 40 seconds by coincidence.
	This is my new segment, who writes these scripts.
	What's wrong with these script writers?
	Here's our vice president.
	So to Africa's young leaders I say, I am an optimist about what lies ahead for Africa and by extension for the world.
	Because of you.
	Because of your energy, your ambition, and your ability to transform seemingly intractable problems into opportunities.
	Simply put, your ability to see what can be unburdened by what has been.
	I thank you all.
	She's with the unburdened again.
	They're bringing back her old punchline.
	She's a moron.
	I have one clip from Africa with Biden, but I want it to be the last clip unless you have something else.
	No, here's my linguist, my second linguistic clip.
	Okay.
	This is Janet Yellen.
	Now, I make fun of people, bankers who say finance.
	I'm in finance.
	Or as some will say, finance.
	Finance.
	Finance.
	And it's okay, some of my friends talk about cinema.
	Yes, I love the cinema.
	And I can laugh at it.
	You've seen cinema?
	The woman in Arizona?
	No, cinema like the film.
	Celluloid cinema.
	But explain Janet Yellen to me.
	What is 2023 going to look like for the average consumer?
	So I believe inflation will be lower.
	I am very hopeful that the labor market will remain quite healthy so that people can feel good about their finances and their Personal economic situation?
	I mean, it's been decades since the American consumer has had to deal with inflation like this.
	Yes, and I hope that it will be short-lived.
	We learned... What is that?
	What is that?
	What is that?
	Short-lived?
	I've heard that in academia.
	Are you kidding me?
	No.
	I mean, it's short-lived, right?
	I'm not nuts.
	It's short-lived.
	Well, I would say short-lived.
	You'd say short-lived.
	But I have heard...
	Short-lived.
	Yeah, it's not a shocker to me to hear that.
	So she does not go grocery shopping then, you know what I'm saying?
	Like, this woman is completely isolated from human existence.
	Ivory Tower-ish, yeah.
	Yes, okay, alright.
	Well, nothing could be worse than Joe Biden, though.
	Here we go, Joe.
	And for all of you in this room, for making this a form of success.
	Particularly in Prosper Africa, deal room.
	That sounds like something you shouldn't be saying.
	You know, Prosper Africa, deal room.
	I kept asking, where's the deal room?
	I think I'm looking at it.
	Oh, man!
	What is wrong with our president?
	What isn't wrong with our president?
	Okay.
	We encourage him to go off script more often.
	We certainly do.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, if you're in TrollRoom.io, hang out.
	Planet Rage is coming up.
	Oh, Blue Eyes is the title of it.
	That Larry show is Larry and Darren O'Neal.
	Both coming at you.
	End of show mixes from Dee's Laughs.
	Neil Jones, our very own Clip Custodian.
	Kitchen Beats.
	And we kick it off with the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
	There you go.
	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 we're actually expecting a report from Darren O'Neill about why they won't take his $8 on Twitter.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We will return.
	On Sunday, join us here and remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until Sunday, hooey hooey everybody, as we say adios mofos and such.
	Shit.
	All right, there it is.
	This is the...
	My teeth just fell out.
	Seriously, my front teeth just fell out.
	That's not ridiculous.
	If you don't mind.
	You sound fine, and this is distressing.
	You're telling me I sound fine?
	All he wants for Christmas is his two-pentee Well, now you don't when you make a point of trying to sell You're trying to sell a sound like Dylan Go on, be strong.
	So it literally just fell out now.
	Okay, we'll be taking a break and we'll be back.
	No, let's just go.
	Let's just do it.
	I'll go all the way through.
	It'll take me 15... We're so close to the end.
	Let's just keep it going.
	All I want for Christmas is my two-frontier.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Go on.
	Go on.
	Yeah, not a nice light because, you know, I came up with a tough, a tough-ass COVID, okay?
	You don't want to get this.
	It's not funny.
	No.
	Funny.
	You don't want this.
	This will kill you.
	What's the matter with you people?
	Well, the reason it didn't kill you is because you've been boosted.
	Ah!
	Okay?
	If you're not boosted, If you'd not boosted, you could die.
	Calpain might be coming back, not really an attack.
	Gotta clean up the diet, I admit I started to slack.
	Too much junk food, I was becoming that dude.
	Cutting out the sugar, never tried the book of my dude.
	Working out to the work I wanted to.
	Sick man, guaranteed to change your mood.
	What about Gargan saying that we push 40%?
	People swear they know you back in the day, they cook it bent.
	What could be finer than trading for a 6-9 at Merchant of Death?
	Victor Booth for a Brittany Griner.
	Jason Whitlock, you too funny my dude.
	OJ trading Marguerite for Nicole.
	I'm fearless for Savage too.
	Political pawns, they're going on and on.
	And then the public yawns, and now one more game will be watched.
	And it's what it spawns, when it's on.
	A WNBA star for a terrorist.
	Joe Blow's head is gone, and some people seeming pissed.
	Could've done the deal with Russia right from the start.
	But identity politics has the Biden administration and Kamala Harris apart.
	Mr. Whelan will have to wait for now.
	Yo, his bro more upset than him being left in jail.
	Wow.
	Diet over merit, I don't wanna hear it.
	It's more of a lifestyle.
	You're worried about yourself.
	But you can get infected and will get infected if you put yourself at risk.
	And even if you don't have any symptoms, you're propagating the outbreak because it is likely that you, even if you have no symptoms, may inadvertently and innocently then infect someone else.
	I've said it many times and I'll close by saying it again.
	We have to be concerned about the mutants.
	We need more vaccine money.
	I'm just going to put it out there.
	Every single American has to be vaccinated.
	We'll not stop working until we've completed this.
	You could say we're a victim of success.
	People are very serious about the safety of vaccines.
	You've got to do the trials on these things.
	It has to be looked at in a very careful way.
	We don't know if they'll work to avoid deaths.
	We don't know if they'll work to avoid transmission.
	We don't know if these vaccines will work.
	And you'd like it to be very safe in all the populations that you indicated for.
	No side effects.
	And then you'd like it to avoid the individuals against the vaccine getting sick.
	We need more vaccine money.
	I'm just going to put it out there.
	Every single American has to be vaccinated.
	I will not stop working to complete this.
	Kamikaze drones.
	These are lethal drugs.
	Thank you.
	Kamikaze drones.
	Kamikaze drones.

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