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	I'm gonna go get my shot now!
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, December 22nd, 2022.
	This is your award-winning GiveOnNation Media Assassination Episode 1514.
	This is no agenda.
	Ready for the Arctic Blast!
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're just hoping for a little rain.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	No, man.
	Starting.
	It started about two hours ago.
	What?
	The temperature just started dropping like crazy.
	It was 47 degrees this morning when I went out to walk the dog.
	And now it's... It was 46 here.
	And now it's 37.
	Yeah, but it dropped 10 degrees in two hours time.
	The blast is coming.
	The blast.
	Unfortunately, for those who want to test out their generator, that would be me.
	I don't think we're going to get any snow, which is kind of what you need to have the grid break and go down.
	No, you're just going to get cold weather, which is the worst.
	Yeah, but it's only through Christmas, I think.
	It's up to 53.
	What?
	It's up to 53.
	Oh, well, congratulations.
	Oh, you're welcome.
	What does that buy me?
	Nothing!
	Uh, I love that there's two of us because as I was, um...
	Looking at what we're going to do today.
	You know, John always sends me his clips.
	I never listen to them.
	I always look at the titles.
	I saw that you had done some Zelensky stuff.
	You know, he's our new overlord who tells us how we're going to spend our money.
	Yeah.
	And so I have some color to go around that, but if you have a little presentation, because this to me personally was one of the most insulting moments in American political history.
	Well, you're not the only one who feels that way, but most, I think most people don't feel that way.
	That's the funny thing about it.
	I think we're outliers on this one.
	It's, yeah, it's kind of bizarre.
	Well, let's see.
	Here's the nutshell.
	This is a four second clip that I think this was the nutshell of everything.
	Uh, hold on a second.
	The Lenski one.
	Nutshell.
	Nutshell.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	We have it.
	You know, you can tell he's a comedian.
	You really can.
	What the hell was that?
	Because of his timing?
	The way he pauses?
	Yeah.
	There was an article.
	Let me see.
	What was this?
	It must be... I think it was the Atlantic.
	Let me just see.
	Is this it?
	No, Town Hall.
	But, you know, lauding his comedic timing.
	Like, where did you hear something funny?
	Seriously, like, oh yes, he was just great.
	Have we ever had a foreign dictator address both houses of Congress that they all stood up and applauded?
	Oh, they were giving him standing O's to an extreme.
	I mean, why are we the only ones that are, I mean, even...
	We're the suckers!
	We're the suckers!
	Even M5M, who would hate anything that has to do with spending American money, they're all in on it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, he's so brave.
	He's such a hero, this man.
	And look at him with his t-shirt.
	He knows how to do it.
	He came right off the battlefield.
	I'm surprised he didn't have his munitions belt on.
	He should have had a hand grenade hanging back there or something, at least.
	I thought I had a Schumer clip on here.
	I don't know where it is.
	Well, you look for the Schumer clip.
	No, I got a clip here.
	This is Franz 24 giving commentary on him.
	This is a Linsky F-24 clip.
	President Biden, and you could see President Zelensky, who was pretty emotional, and he did say that they were going to discuss at length very important issues, but that his first and foremost message was one of appreciation.
	Appreciation for US support up till now.
	Now, this is about the, this is not about his speech, this is about him and Biden talking together, right?
	I believe so.
	So I watched that on whitehouse.gov and they had their own little lady in the, you know, they have their own TV studio.
	Wasn't this done in their TV studio?
	I'm sure it was.
	So they're on their soundstage.
	Yeah, they got the two lecterns there.
	Well, that's the one with the, that's the, I don't know where that is.
	It's got the fireplace.
	Trump's used that same set.
	Anyway, so you have your little lady doing the ASL sign language in the corner, and then we also have an on-the-fly translator who, for once, did an accurate translation.
	Truth comes out.
	Thank you, Mr. President, for $45 billion, because this is a big assistance, and I hope that the Congress will approve this financial assistance for our crime country.
	For our crimes!
	For our crimes, ladies and gentlemen!
	Okay.
	Boy, you're really- you're swinging for the fences right off the bat here.
	You like that, huh?
	You like that, huh?
	Yeah, that was a goodie.
	I went as hard as I can.
	I have another one for you, and then I'll leave you- I'll leave you to it.
	I only got three more, but go on.
	Yeah.
	Okay, Kara.
	Oh, I did it again.
	Here is... Okay, go on.
	Here is Al Jazeera.
	Melinda Herring is a Ukraine specialist and deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.
	She says Zelensky's security will be a top priority.
	It's a big deal because there are enormous security concerns.
	We know that the Russians wanted to whack Volodymyr Zelensky back in February.
	So this visit had to be kept a secret.
	It was a secret until the 11th hour, until it was no longer a secret.
	I think it's also significant that he's coming to Washington first to say thank you to President Biden and that he's also going to Congress.
	So I expect him to spend most of his time and energy on Capitol Hill because he knows that Capitol Hill has the most sympathy and can do the most for him.
	I think he's less concerned about Congress than we were three months ago.
	It looks like Congress is going to continue the same policies toward Ukraine.
	On weapons in particular, Republicans are solid.
	Where Republicans are not solid and where I'm worried is budget support.
	And this is the category of money, it's billions of dollars that taxpayers are giving to make sure that the Ukrainian state stays afloat.
	So first, I love that she says that Putin wanted to whack him.
	I mean, since when is this news-type language?
	But okay.
	It's not.
	In fact, if you don't know what it means, because you didn't watch enough of The Sopranos, you wouldn't know what she's talking about.
	Slap him in the face?
	I think it was a mistake.
	To do it in this, because you know, this omnibus bill still hasn't been signed off on, at least it wasn't last night, and I don't know if they're going to have a vote today, which includes this $45 or $47 billion.
	I think it gives them too much wiggle room for the American public to get pissed off about it as people start to learn.
	It trickles out very slowly.
	To us it's fast, but believe me, people aren't paying attention.
	They just think, oh yeah, that flag, I gotta make sure I update my emojis, my avatars.
	But also, we have to point out that Pelosi, Schumer, what's his name, Donald, who's the Republican leader, What's his name?
	The turtle guy.
	Mitch McConnell, the creep.
	McConnell.
	They're all 80 years old.
	They still have a hard-on for Russia from the 60s.
	This is dumb.
	I mean, Pelosi was plotzing herself.
	Hold on, let me kiss you.
	Oh yeah, she had to give him a big kiss.
	And a flag.
	And this is partially...
	And a flag.
	This is trauma from the Soviet Union.
	Totally.
	And it's not appropriate.
	It's not appropriate at all.
	And Schumer was just completely off the rails.
	I wish he had that clip.
	I'm going to run it on Sunday.
	It's so good.
	But let's listen to Zelensky some more.
	This is in front of Congress.
	This is Zelensky too.
	Here, this to me is a complaint.
	He's complaining already.
	So here is the front line.
	The tyranny which has no lack of cruelty against the lives of free people.
	And your support is crucial.
	Not just to stand in such fight, but to get to the turning point to win on the battlefield.
	We have artillery.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	We have it.
	Is it enough?
	Honestly, not really.
	That was the line that the Atlantic thought was funny.
	That's the line.
	It's not funny.
	Yeah.
	It literally wrote that they thought that was, that his human, that there was some chuckling, I guess, which wasn't on your clip.
	Yeah, they thought that was funny.
	We see that as a complaint.
	Exactly.
	It was a complaint.
	Yeah, and that's why Congress, those morons, find it... I'm just kidding.
	I have to use the R word on them.
	Retards.
	I have to use it.
	They're retarded in their thinking.
	They're retarded in their actions.
	Everything is wrong about this.
	This has escalated to a point that is very troublesome.
	Okay.
	It's out of control.
	The flags and all that, okay, I get you.
	It's easy to mind control some people.
	I like the fact that he gave them a flag and they held it up to show everyone to look at it.
	It was backwards.
	That was the flag that he had, just that morning, had had signed by troops on the front lines, which includes an increasing amount of American mercenaries.
	They're getting killed left and right, by the way.
	This is the only clip I have.
	I mean, I could have clipped a lot, but it's just kind of tedious to listen to him.
	So he's trying to, I think, appeal to the Congress and the American public.
	Whoever wrote his speech threw in a bunch of little what they thought would appeal to American tidbits.
	Yes, yes.
	And it was like doled out in a peculiar way and none of it made any sense because it was like what a Ukrainian in a bar in Odessa sitting next to a hooker might think Americans would know about.
	If so, just like the Battle of Saratoga, the fight for Bahmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.
	If so, just like the Battle of Saratoga, the fight for Bachmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.
	What is the Battle of Saratoga?
	No American, no, we don't teach kids American history anymore.
	I don't know this!
	Nobody under 60, which includes you, knows about the Battle of Saratoga.
	And so, but they threw it out there because if you look at American history from a foreign perspective, this is a very important little battle.
	It was really one of the turning points in 1777 when the British were kind of turned back, when this bonehead, I think Burgoyne was his name.
	British guy bringing in a bunch of troops into New York from Canada, charging us from Canada, and they were all beaten back, and there was our guy, we had a general named Horatio Mortimer or something, yeah, Mortimer Gates.
	So this was Saratoga, New York?
	Yeah.
	Well, no, it's a guy called Schuyler, I think.
	Right, right, okay.
	And so, if I pronounced that right, but then this guy Gates, this general, you know, he defeated the British and it did two things.
	The French saw this and said, hey, we can join now because we think these guys could win, which I think is the reference they're trying to get at with this mention of Saratoga in this stupid speech.
	And the other thing is it kind of rose General Washington up because he was supposedly the strategist behind the whole thing.
	So it was important, but not to Americans!
	Well, who wrote that?
	What bonehead wrote that?
	Who would... Somebody, one of his buddies, who wrote the speech, who knew a little American history, and they knew more American history than Americans do.
	No, no, no, no.
	This has... What's our... I'm drawing blanks today.
	What's our Secretary of State?
	Jake?
	What's his name?
	Blinken.
	Abe Blinken?
	Abe Blinken.
	This has his...
	Fingerprints all over it.
	He's the kind of elitist that would come up with that.
	I'm not gonna argue that he's not.
	You're not arguing with me at all today.
	This is very disappointing.
	Why did you show up?
	I don't know why.
	But stop, stop and go ahead.
	It's possible but it's possible that if he then he's totally a Ivy League asshole to think that anybody's gonna relate to that comment but nobody related to it because nobody knows that we're Americans we're not you know From out of the country, and you have to study for our citizenship.
	We're not foreigners!
	We're not immigrants!
	Hello!
	Unless we're an immigrant.
	But there were more than that.
	There was a number of references like that in there.
	I think I had a Roosevelt reference at some point, I think.
	Yes, there was a Roosevelt reference, which he confused, because he also said somebody... I forgot.
	He screwed up.
	You didn't clip that?
	I thought you would clip that.
	It was screwed up when he said it.
	It was Roosevelt talking about somebody, but he confused two presidents.
	Roosevelt, whose wife ran the show.
	Is it not true?
	No, no, you're thinking of Woodrow Wilson.
	I thought Eleanor Roosevelt ran the show.
	No, she was the lesbian in the corner.
	Running the show, hello!
	She may have been running some show, but it wasn't that one.
	You've heard of Elf on the Shelf?
	The No Agenda version is Lesbian in the Corner.
	I'll leave it at that.
	Yeah.
	I won't.
	Yeah.
	I won't.
	Yeah, good.
	Because I can't do it.
	Anyway, so the guy was, you know, he comes up, he does his thing, but it's the standing O's, one after the other, that really got me.
	And then, of course, they, on C-SPAN, when they showed it, they would cut somebody with some mean cameraman, you know, they do this, they're looking for people that aren't standing, and they put the camera on him and zoom in.
	Zap him, zap him right away, yeah.
	And so the two that were typically looking at their phones and not standing at all... Ran Paul?
	Was, no, I didn't see, maybe, Ron Paul, maybe, but I didn't see it.
	Rand.
	Rand Paul.
	Rand.
	Sorry.
	But it was Matt Gaetz.
	Oh yeah.
	Sitting next to Lauren Boebert.
	Matt Gaetz now has a podcast with a stock ticker in the background.
	Oh, boy, it's just like my idea of having the bubbling cauldron.
	Yeah, but be a representative.
	He's like, wants to do... I'm a little sick and tired of these guys with their own podcasts.
	That's our job, dammit.
	Go govern.
	Everybody's got a podcast.
	And I do have one, What's Wrong With These Podcasts, if you want to hear it.
	Well, you're just going to interrupt our boys?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	What's wrong with these podcasts?
	Let me see.
	No, wait.
	Because you brought it up, everyone has a podcast, and I was wondering, whatever happened to Gorka?
	Things I don't think about at all.
	Especially Gorka.
	It's 27 degrees there in Fredericksburg.
	I know, man.
	Wait, 27 already?
	Went down like that?
	That's what I said, yeah.
	Crikey.
	I mean, it dropped like a rock just like in five minutes.
	I told you.
	There's this podcasting group of all these failed... It's not a podcast, it's a radio show.
	It might as well be a podcast because nobody listens to this whole network of them.
	The network is owned by the guy who has the pain pill.
	You know, the one that all the radio guys are.
	Oh, that's why Gorka keeps plugging it.
	Yes, Gorka and Larry Elders and all these guys.
	Elders got a better gig.
	He's on NTD.
	But Elders is also on that radio network.
	Is he?
	Well, there's a bunch of Prager's on there.
	Dennis.
	Yes, they're all on it and they all have to promote the... I can't remember anything today.
	What's the name of that pain medication?
	The pill.
	Yes, some pill.
	So I said, I'm going to go listen to the latest episode of Gorka's podcast and see what I get out of it.
	Or podcast, I'm sorry, it's a radio show.
	But is it any good?
	Let's just listen to it and see.
	But we have so many guests and we have a very special couple.
	I don't really need to introduce them because we have a handful.
	A soupçon, a coterie of freedom fighters in America that are usually singular.
	But these are the most freedom-fightiest couple out there!
	It's Victoria Townsend and Joe DiGenova!
	I wondered where they went!
	We found them all in the same nest!
	It's amazing!
	Relief factor.
	Relief factor.
	Yeah, Joe DiGenova.
	There he is.
	I wonder where he went, too.
	And his wife, Victoria Thunsen.
	Yeah, he cranked me up.
	All right, back to Zelensky.
	Back to one of those 80-year-olds traumatized by the Soviet Union, the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60s.
	Really mind-controlled.
	M.K.
	Altred, whatever.
	Turtle face.
	I used to defend him, but I can't anymore.
	McConnell.
	He's undefendable.
	He's undefendable.
	Making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats.
	What is this?
	That's a tell to me.
	Making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats?
	Making sure the Defense Department can deal with the major threats coming from Russia and China.
	Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians.
	That's the number one priority for the United States right now.
	According to most Republicans, that's sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.
	Yeah, and I agree.
	That is what most Republicans who are all in on the military-industrial complex, the way they are talking right now, is the most important thing.
	And every single one of them who thinks that way should not ever be voted into office again.
	I don't know how they got voted in before.
	And this guy's the worst of them.
	Because we're stupid.
	No, nobody pays attention.
	Nobody cares.
	Listen to No Agenda, people.
	Save your country.
	Save the world, maybe.
	Do you have more from Zelensky?
	That's all I got.
	I see a Zelensky by Schumer.
	Yeah, I found it.
	I found it.
	I found it.
	I found it for you.
	Zelensky by Schumer.
	Seems like the Schumer clip to me.
	Oh, it must have been off the bottom of the... Can I play it?
	Yes, please.
	Mr. President, I see you are in your Ukrainian yellow and blue, as am I, and that's appropriate because this will be a day to remember in the history of the United States Congress when we welcome President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
	This is President Zelensky's first trip outside Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's invasion.
	The president of this young democracy will address members from both chambers in a joint meeting of Congress.
	It's always a high honor to welcome a foreign head of state to Congress.
	Bullcrap!
	Yes, indeed, Chuck Schumer, this will go down in history as the day that you just stood there and were a traitor.
	Literally a traitorous, treacherous, traitorous, against American interest.
	And you're a creepy sock-up.
	I figured I'd provide what no one else provides, which is what Putin's saying.
	Gee whiz, there's actually people reporting on it.
	Putin had something to say.
	Nothing specifically.
	This is from France 24.
	Russian President Vladimir Putin has been holding an extended meeting with top officials from the Russian Defense Ministry.
	The meeting to set objectives for the Russian military mid claims as we just heard there from Ukraine that a new attack has been planned for the new year.
	Putin saying that Russia will continue developing its military potential and the combat readiness of nuclear forces against the backdrop of that offensive.
	Earlier I spoke to our correspondent Nick Halsworth.
	Well, we're seeing some initial reports of what he's saying, and it's all fighting talk.
	He's basically saying, telling his military that Russia has to increase its military potential.
	He's insisting that Russia will fulfill the tasks that set itself in the so-called special military operation. - Yeah, I'm a good one.
	He harks back to the past.
	He says that the Russian troops in Ukraine are fighting like heroes of Russia's previous wars.
	He reiterates again that the task is to improve The military forces.
	He says that they've gained a huge amount of experience in Ukraine.
	And interestingly, he says that Russian military chiefs should analyze NATO's experience.
	I mean, again, casting this not as a battle between Russia and Ukraine, but as a war between Russia and the US, Russia and the West, Russia and NATO.
	So, I mean, it's all fighting talk.
	Whether that is really going to be backed up by the military hardware and the experienced manpower that he needs if he's going to prolong this war and open a new offensive in the new year, after 10 months in which his forces have lost about 100,000 men either killed, missing, wounded or taken prisoner, according to Ukrainian and Western estimates, that remains to be seen.
	Yes, that remains to be seen for me too, how many people are actually dead.
	It remains to be seen.
	So, I guess, listening to our new leader of the Yellow and Blue Party, Vladimir Zelensky, the only way this ends is if regime change is undertaken in Russia.
	It is Putin who has to go.
	Did I understand that correctly?
	Yeah.
	So that's not going to happen.
	I presume that that's just not going to happen.
	So there will never be a peace process.
	But let's say they try to negotiate peace, which has been thwarted every single time, I believe, by us.
	Who would do the negotiations?
	Is it Macron?
	Who would even do it?
	And then what happens to the European Union?
	Erdogan.
	Ooh, Erdogan.
	Yes.
	Oh, good one.
	Yeah, do you think it's in the realm of possibility?
	What will it take to stop this?
	Not in the near term.
	We have to stop this madness.
	I think the way it looks to me is that we'd like to see this thing just drag on forever.
	The military industrial complex wants it to drag on forever, that's for sure.
	It's cash flow.
	It's guaranteed money in the bank.
	And it's good to rally the troops, you know, rally people.
	Un-American not to have a Ukrainian flag in your front yard.
	Exactly.
	Stuff like that.
	Yeah, you can have a lot of fun with this.
	Well, I mean, what it has kind of done has brought to... The blue and yellow day.
	They'll have a day, they'll have a day.
	Yeah, well, shouldn't we replace a day here?
	Flag day.
	Let's replace our flag day with yellow and blue.
	But their flag, Ukrainian flag day.
	Yeah, we should just do that.
	Okay.
	There was something like that they were trying to pull off some reasonable, well, none of this is reasonable, new celebration to celebrate the Ukrainians.
	Oh no, the whole thing is, it's amazing that everyone's so all in on it, just today still, and the pushback I see from a few, mainly Republicans, there might be one Democrat, anywhere in the House or the Senate, they're not even really pushing back.
	Yeah, it's like, well, you know, kind of like, I probably won't vote for... And this comes down to the Omnibus Bill, which is the bill that funds the government.
	And it's so fun to watch.
	Now, the $45 billion of money for Ukraine, that, of course, got people's attention.
	But then we have several representatives, mainly Republicans, pulling stuff up.
	Look, it's $3,000,000 for the Michelle Obama trial!
	That's no good!
	Look, it's $300,000,000!
	And it's like, this is $1,700,000,000.
	You're not even showing me a billion.
	You're just spouting off.
	You're just talking crap.
	Yeah, but it adds up.
	No, I've added up what they said.
	All the stuff, including Ukraine, I've only counted $100,000,000.
	You got $1.6 billion.
	Yeah, it's a hundred billion, but you need to get a thousand, seventeen hundred billion to tell me where all the money's going.
	I know, but they need an audit.
	Most of it's going into a black hole.
	Yes!
	I mean, the stuff they are coming up with is funny though, for example.
	I have a few on here.
	It's funny, but people need to understand they can't do math.
	You're being hoodwinked with these little trinkets by a Republican representative with a, oh, look at this.
	Dude, this has been going on forever, this bullcrap.
	But now it's a really big number, and no one's showing me where the big number's going.
	Well, the humor is obviously lost on you.
	It is.
	And my favorite is the $200 million that we're going to contribute for gender equity in Pakistan.
	This is fantastic.
	I love it.
	But it's still not real.
	I know.
	Where's the other trillion?
	It's pathetic.
	People running around on Twitter.
	Oh, I can't believe it.
	No, it's always been the case.
	These bills are loaded with pork.
	Always!
	And this is nothing new.
	And if you recall, it was President Obama who said...
	We're going to put this on the internet three days ahead of time for any bill.
	He never did it.
	No one ever did it.
	No one ever did it.
	Yeah, I forgot about that.
	That was a good promise.
	Another good unkept promise by the famous Obama.
	Let me see.
	I bet I have it.
	No, I guess I don't have it.
	For sure, I thought I would have that Obama.
	We'll put the bills for three days.
	So you can see it.
	You can read it.
	Yeah.
	Was it this?
	It is U.S.
	policy that Gaddafi needs to go.
	Oh, no, sorry.
	That was when he was killing people.
	Sorry.
	The wrong one.
	Oh, yeah.
	The wrong one.
	Died, he came, he went, we died, he killed him.
	So do you have any clips of any of this incredibly funny stuff?
	No, I don't.
	I'm hoping to collect a bunch of it, but there's got to be somebody, it's got to be us, to re-read the list.
	Well, I mean, I have, the list is known.
	If you want the list, the list is known.
	Do you have the whole list?
	Do you have this one?
	Do you have the LGBT museum?
	Yes, that is on the list.
	But this is all from, what's his name?
	Dan, what's this guy's name?
	Dan Bishop.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	He's the one.
	There's got to be more than one list.
	I mean, it's 1,400 pages, or 4,100 pages, I think.
	Something massive.
	No, here he is.
	$410 million allocated towards border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
	This is, you know, everyone's favorite on the right.
	Yeah, that's their favorite because they can say, well, how about us?
	They don't care about us.
	They don't care about us.
	Now here is a 1.438 billion for membership in global multilateral organizations.
	That's going to UN.
	I mean, obviously we have to... And this is another one.
	The word salmon is in the bill 48 times!
	Yes, it is.
	65 million dollars for salmon.
	Yes, this is what your government has been doing for 80 years.
	This is nothing new.
	You're being hoodwinked by Representative Dan Bishop.
	What was the one you just said before that?
	It was... Okay, I got some clips.
	Three million dollars for bee-friendly highways and another five million for the salmon!
	Okay, here we go.
	Here's the clips.
	Omnibus Rundown.
	These are from NTD and this is, I don't think this goes into that direction, but it does bring out the kind of overview of the whole thing.
	Congressional leaders have unveiled a 1.7 trillion dollar bill to fund the government.
	We take a look at the bill and examine some of it.
	And this, I just have to say, to fund the government.
	You know, we have these two things in American politics which, and I'll start this over, which really piss me off.
	One is, of course we raise the debt ceiling!
	It's un-American not to!
	Which is how we get inflation, by more money printing.
	And there's this, to fund the government.
	Well, yeah.
	And the thing is, every single representative and senator has their little thing that's like, oh, I've got to get some money for my constituents.
	This is what everybody does.
	And the salmon, I'm sure Alaska needs some money for salmon preservation.
	But then it gets thrown into this one big mix, says, look at all this waste, look at all this crap.
	And again, they're just hiding the big numbers.
	Anyway.
	Congressional leaders have unveiled a one- But go ahead, Adam.
	Okay, thank you.
	Point seven trillion dollar bill to fund the government.
	We take a look at the bill and examine some of its standout items.
	NTD's Daniel Monahan has the story.
	This spending season, instead of naughty and nice, Santa brought everyone something.
	What?
	Regardless of- What?
	Is NTD doing shtick now?
	They went from the most boring, most boring- I knew you'd stop it.
	Newscast in the world to doing shtick?
	Yes, they're doing shtick.
	Are you moonlighting and not telling me?
	Because I do like it.
	Senate Democrats are calling on quick passage of the spending package before government funding expires on Friday.
	Thank you.
	There's my boring NTD, thanks.
	This package represents an aggressive and essential investment in American families, American workers, and in our national defense.
	The bill includes a nearly 10% boost in defense spending and roughly $40 billion to assist communities across the country recovering from drought, hurricanes, and other natural disasters.
	It also includes another large round of aid to Ukraine.
	Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians, that's the number one priority for the United States right now.
	I call bullcrap.
	Lawmakers are working to stuff as many priorities as they can into what is likely to be the last major bill of the current Congress.
	Senator Patty Murray says the spending package will increase Pell Grants by $500.
	Well, for students who are struggling to cover tuition or rent, it means making ends meet just got a little bit easier.
	Bullcrap!
	If the bill is successful, future elections may bear its mark.
	One of the most important pieces of this bill is the Electoral Count Act.
	Lawmakers contend that the bill would prevent a repeat of the January 6th Capitol breach.
	It would further specify that the role of the vice president in counting electoral votes is to be only ceremonial.
	Oh!
	So there's some cool stuff hidden in there.
	They got all kinds of crazy stuff, obviously, stuffed in this thing.
	But the... I don't know if you can do that, because the Constitution is pretty... Well, yeah, it would have to go to the Supreme Court, and they slip in stuff that's unconstitutional all the time.
	Obamacare, done.
	That was later ruled unconstitutional.
	Well, in one... The penalty part.
	In a certain kind of form, yeah.
	The penalty part, yeah.
	Yeah, the penalties are the... That was the part they had to kick it out of.
	Yeah, okay.
	But that was an important part.
	That was the part that said, you get fined if you don't have health insurance.
	Yeah, it was important to them.
	Yes.
	Now the thing I thought was interesting is that in there was another McConnell quote saying the most important thing to America right now is Ukraine.
	And what they did is they, well they, that was the same clip I had, but they cut off the part where he says, according to Republicans, according to most Republicans.
	See what they did there?
	Yeah, they do what people do.
	Yeah, that's your beloved NTD.
	Putting their thumb on this?
	I called you yesterday.
	We had an important meeting.
	We never have a meeting.
	We hate meetings.
	It was like an important discussion we were gonna have.
	We screwed it up two days in a row.
	Okay, so now we're talking.
	And all I hear in the background is NTD blasting.
	I'm like, would you mind just turning it down for a second?
	These clips that you're hearing are what I was recording at the time.
	I know, but you're like, oh no, I can't turn it off.
	Now, I'm not going to say that they're not biased.
	You're going to have to open up your little search engine and look up new TNG polar bear.
	Yeah, I got it.
	You want me to play that?
	This is a clip that I had for a couple shows ago.
	I didn't play it.
	But this is an example of where they're full of crap on this one.
	Listen to this carefully.
	early at the Toledo Zoo in the form of twin polar bear cubs.
	The two were born December 1st to their 24-year-old mother, Crystal.
	The babies aren't old enough to be introduced to the public yet, but you can watch them on the zoo's live stream every day.
	When fully grown, these tiny cubs could weigh as much as 1,300 pounds.
	The polar bear population is decreasing, but the breeding program in Toledo offers hope for the vulnerable species.
	Exactly.
	That's bullcrap.
	Yes, total bullcrap.
	Bullcrap!
	There's more polar bears than ever!
	Yeah, there's more polar bears than ever.
	I think there's like 30,000 or something.
	Nah, much more than that.
	No, no, no.
	Well, anyway, so it's not beloved.
	I just happen to think that they have a lot of stories that a lot of other people don't cover.
	I know, but if it wasn't so... Well, you're sprucing it up.
	I appreciate it.
	I appreciate the sprucing.
	Can we go to clip two?
	Yeah.
	No budget was found, just mischief and debt, while the taxpayers hung their poor heads and wept.
	Representative Dan Bishop shared what he called some of the most egregious provisions in the bill on Twitter.
	It allocates about $1.5 billion to Customs and Border Protection for border management requirements.
	However, it prohibits using those funds for acquiring, maintaining, or extending border security technology and capabilities, only permitting their use for border processing improvements.
	But at the same time, it stipulates that $110 million for enhanced border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman remain available until 2024.
	It also includes $3 million for what Bishop called bee-friendly highways, $65 million for Pacific salmon populations, and at least $575 million for family planning in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity.
	Lawmakers will race to complete passage before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday.
	Okay, so New Tang Dynasty is now being co-produced by Steve Bannon, obviously, because he gave them all of the outrage items.
	The small outrage stuff.
	It's exactly what's on the list.
	It's all anyone's talking about.
	And I just, I mean, this is modern monetary theory.
	1.7 trillion, which I think is actually more, almost like 1.9 if you, you know, believe the numbers.
	We just did a, was it eight or nine hundred billion dollar inflation reduction act.
	It never ends.
	And we had another one point something trillion America Cares Act, which we still haven't spent all of that money, at least that's where we're getting money from.
	I find, by the way, now that you mention that, I find it peculiar that we have all this money and then they say, well, we're going to take it from here, that money we didn't spend.
	Yes.
	You want to do this because it's over there.
	We're going to take the money from over here, which is money we didn't spend.
	Right.
	There's all this money we didn't spend.
	Why do you keep wanting more money if you never spend it?
	Well, I think it's money we didn't print.
	So when we say, okay, it was time to print it, we got to print that at the appropriate time.
	So you got to take it easy.
	Oh, I see.
	It's print on demand.
	There you go.
	It's like the publishing business.
	Exactly.
	It's like the Amazon of a budget.
	How much you need?
	We'll print it up.
	No problem.
	All right, since there's talk about the border, let me move it in that direction for a second.
	I heard, what was the, this was on ABC.
	They talked to, wait a minute.
	No, this was not ABC.
	This was, I can't remember.
	Anyway, this is the El Paso mayor, who's a Democrat, Oscar Leaser.
	He has a big problem.
	He has asylum seekers, which are illegal asylum seekers because you're supposed to seek asylum at the appropriate port.
	You have to do it before you go in.
	Our immigration system has nothing wrong with it.
	The law is fine.
	We're not adhering to it.
	That's the difference.
	No law needs to be changed.
	You just need to follow the law.
	I know it really well because I've imported several people.
	I've imported wives, okay?
	I know how it works.
	Hey, our American women aren't good enough for you.
	They weren't, and I made a mistake, okay?
	I tossed them aside, kicked them out of the country, and got me a Hoosier.
	So I think I've redeemed myself.
	Listen to what the mayor of El Paso says about what he needs, really, to help him at the border.
	I had the Arkansas governor on, Asa Hutchinson, who is a Republican.
	No, I'm sorry, this is, we forget all about Don Lemon, who's now doing the morning show over on CNN.
	It's very interesting.
	Don looking thin and trim and young, and he keeps, you know, looking sideways over to the, I don't know, to the monitor to see if he looks good.
	I don't know.
	It's disturbing.
	He's looking for work.
	I had the Arkansas governor on, Nassar Hutchinson, who is a Republican, and he says while the buck does stop with the administration, he does believe the onus is on Congress to... Cool!
	There's a new version.
	He does believe.
	I like that instead of he believes, now we can just use a past tense.
	He does believe.
	This thing is out of control.
	Wow.
	Let's stop with the administration.
	He does believe the onus is on Congress.
	He believes it's a Band-Aid as well.
	Do you think there's room for bipartisanship in Washington?
	And would you like to see that?
	Obviously, yes.
	Pleading the witness.
	Well, it's obvious that we need to work together regardless of parties because this is a U.S.-United States problem that we all need to work together.
	It's not an El Paso problem.
	It's a lot bigger than El Paso.
	And I honestly believe it's bigger than the United States.
	We need to work with the UN, to work with other countries, to be able to come up with a program that becomes humanitarian for everyone.
	Oh, it's a UN-level problem.
	Bring on the blue helmets.
	In Chicago, here they come.
	What?
	The El Paso guy said that?
	He didn't say bring on the Blue Helmets.
	He said this is a... You were mumbling over it.
	Here, listen.
	No, I heard him.
	He said the U.N.
	He never said Blue Helmets, but he said the fact that he even said that.
	A U.S., United States problem that we all need to work together.
	It's not an El Paso problem.
	It's a lot bigger than El Paso.
	And I honestly believe it's bigger than the United States.
	We need to work with the U.N.
	to work with other countries to be able to come up with a program that becomes humanitarian for everyone.
	U.N.
	level.
	U.N.
	level, baby.
	Senator Alex Padilla was on ABC this morning, I believe one of your senators.
	California.
	Nice little gaffe.
	So you expect order and safety?
	Senator, you expect order and safety at the border on Wednesday?
	Your own governor, Gavin Newsom, told ABC News that the immigration system will break when Title 42 is lifted.
	He said your state is not prepared, that sites are already at capacity.
	So what do you really expect?
	And what are the preparations that you... Go ahead.
	Good.
	So I'm not suggesting that it's not going to be a challenge.
	But let's understand why it is such a challenge.
	Because the prior administration starved the very departments and agencies of the resources they need, not just to patrol the border, but to process these lawful asylum claims.
	And that's the reason individuals or even families are coming across the border again.
	Most Americans understand and appreciate there are people who want to come to the United States for a number of reasons.
	That's why we have student visa programs.
	That's why we have work visa programs.
	And yes, it is lawful for someone seeking violence, fleeing violence, excuse me, fleeing violence, fleeing poverty, fleeing for their lives to come to the United States.
	Hey!
	If you're seeking violence, come on in!
	Truth comes out!
	It's a place to be!
	Truth comes out!
	Truth comes out!
	These people mean it!
	Bullcrap!
	I feel very American today.
	Like, this is a bunch of bull crappy people.
	Now, just about those resources, we got a note from one of our producers, Andrew.
	By the way, I do want to mention, I do have two clips on this, but go on.
	I said go on again.
	I know I'm going to say it forever.
	I can't stop saying it.
	It's even worse.
	You said, I do want to play a few clips, but go ahead.
	It was a double header.
	Producer Andrew says, hey guys, I'm a cop for the U.S.
	Forest Service.
	Our agency sits towards the top of the list when it comes to emergency support to national emergencies like hurricanes or oil spills, whatever FEMA ends up managing.
	Don't ask me how that came into force.
	We all got emails early this month to say that Secretary of Agriculture offered our help to the Secretary of Homeland Security to back up Customs and Border Protection in Texas upon the expiration of the Pandemic Exclusion Authority.
	I think it's that Title 42, I guess.
	They wanted a lot of volunteers to head down there on December 18th.
	None of us wanted our Christmas canceled to go down there and be jailers or bus drivers, but we may be voluntold to go.
	The situation is screwed at the border.
	And our people know it.
	Our people know it.
	Seems like they have some stay for some amount of time, but... It's weird, man.
	It's weird.
	It's weird that this is... I mean, you can't say replacement, even though it seems to be exactly what's happening.
	Well, they're replacing somebody.
	Replacing somebody somewhere.
	Let's go with Migrant Influx 1.
	This is again, we're back to New Tang Dynasty.
	And now for an update on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
	The Texas National Guard has been deployed near El Paso.
	They are preparing for an expected influx of illegal border crossings.
	Soldiers built fences of razor wire along the Rio Grande yesterday, and today's Jeremy Sandberg has more on the crisis at the southern border.
	Migrants gathered along both sides of the Rio Grande this week in anticipation of the end of Title 42.
	On Tuesday near El Paso, Texas National Guard soldiers and Texas state troopers constructed a nearly mile-long fence covered in razor wire to deter them.
	But it hasn't stopped migrants from attempting to cross illegally.
	Guard members are telling migrants to leave and go to a point of entry.
	Some migrants say they feel they were tricked into coming.
	It's a mockery of us.
	I view it as a joke to give us hope and then, like a child, trick us and tell us that they are going to postpone Title 42.
	Many Venezuelans are fleeing socialism and looking for a brighter future in the U.S.
	Our illusions were completely shattered.
	Now, I'm a little torn over this.
	Where's this voice come from?
	Oh, they got that from Central Casting.
	I'm torn over this because on one hand, I want my daughter to be able to bring her boyfriend slash fiance to come visit, which now has been moved to January 6th.
	If you have not been vaccinated and you do not have a green card or an American citizen, you are not allowed to enter the United States.
	Do you still have the vaccination fence up?
	We are the only country... I was on Grimerica Sunday night.
	Hello.
	Oh, congratulations.
	That's a great show.
	No, not Sunday night.
	Tuesday night.
	Monday night.
	The other night.
	I forget which night it was.
	Yeah, some night.
	Yes, I should have been on this many, many years ago.
	And I'm going to do it again.
	They're great, those guys, the Canadians.
	I debuted my new teeth so they could take a good look.
	Oh, you were on the video.
	They don't really do video anymore, so it was just for them, I guess.
	But I said, I'll show everyone the real teeth when they're in, in four months.
	Anyway, I was like, hey, when you guys come on down to Texas, well, we can't come to Texas, because you're the only country in the world that has a vaccine mandate for entry, and that's true.
	We're the only country left.
	We're a bunch of dicks.
	In Canada, they can phony up some paperwork.
	We don't know.
	Well, actually, I think Darren can because he's a BIPOC.
	He's what they call a Canadian Indian.
	He's actually indigenous.
	So he gets away with all kinds of stuff.
	Good for him.
	But the point being, on one hand, I want that taken away.
	But on the other hand, that seems to be the only thing that Title 40, I mean, if you take Title 42 away, Well, if you remove the mandate that we have at the airports and other ports of entry... You're swamped with immigrants in Texas.
	You think this weather you have, which is now 28 degrees, you'd think it would deter anyone wanting to go there.
	It's El Paso is probably about 12 now.
	Because that's right in the path of the blast.
	Blast?
	The blast path.
	Alright.
	I was looking through old clips and I found some other references to this blast.
	They kept changing the name of it.
	It was Arctic Blast.
	It was the bomb.
	The bomb.
	The bomb cyclone.
	Bomb cyclone.
	Wasn't that it?
	Yeah.
	Stuff like that.
	Let me see.
	Bomb.
	Bomb cyclone.
	I thought it was bomb cyclone.
	Was that bomb cyclone?
	Anyway, let's play Migrant Influx Part 2.
	My family was very hopeful that we would get through to that country and really progress.
	But you see how life is.
	We seem to be dragging the curse of Chavez.
	Title 42 allows US authorities to rapidly expel illegal immigrants.
	A US federal judge had ordered the COVID-19 restrictions to be lifted on Wednesday.
	But Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts put a temporary pause on the order Monday.
	That was in response to a legal challenge by 19 states.
	The freeze is meant to give parties time to respond.
	The White House on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to let the restrictions end, but citing the holiday season and logistical concerns... What?
	What?
	But they're saying, no, no, no, we want a flood of migrants.
	They were actually saying that.
	Yep.
	They want the White House, just before Christmas, wants a flood of migrants, illegal migrants, as we used to call it, illegal aliens, across the border before Christmas.
	Why?
	It's not really happening.
	It's not real.
	Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts put a temporary pause on the order Monday.
	That was in response to a legal challenge by 19 states.
	The freeze is meant to give parties time to respond.
	The White House on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to let the restrictions end.
	But, citing the holiday season and logistical concerns, requested to be left in place until after December 27th.
	Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had this to say.
	42 must be basically enforced and continued on.
	Manchin says it's not just important in the realm of the pandemic, but also the realm of security.
	He says there will never be meaningful immigration reform until the border is secured.
	You have to have a secure border.
	There have to be points of entry.
	There have to make sure that people go through the proper vetting process.
	And those are all things that we can do.
	The U.S.
	Supreme Court now will decide whether to halt Title 42 while the state's legal challenge plays out.
	Yeah, and I think it's disingenuous.
	I look at Greg Abbott and I say, you know, you're not, I don't think he's honest.
	He just, I don't think he's, he's just talking.
	I think you're right.
	I don't think he's honest either.
	And I do have a second opinion on this title 42 clip, but you have to play, unfortunately, you have to play a disclaimer clip.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm sure it's this.
	Warning, Amy Goodman clip inbound.
	Is that it?
	Amy Goodman clip inbound?
	Yeah, of course.
	Title 42.
	In immigration news, the Biden administration Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to reject calls from Republican-led states to continue enforcing the Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy used to quickly expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border without due process.
	The policy was scheduled to end today, but the court temporarily blocked its termination after several states led by Arizona filed an emergency appeal.
	Biden officials, however, asked the court to give them till at least December 27th after Christmas to end Title 42 to prepare for the arrival of what's expected to be thousands of asylum seekers who've been blocked from entering the U.S.
	and applying for refuge since March 2020.
	It's also the American people.
	They have to understand.
	I mean, again, it's because there's no reporting.
	People don't see the numbers.
	And it's El Paso.
	Who cares about El Paso?
	You know, so maybe you'll see that, you know, the El Paso airport has opened up a whole way for people to sleep in the airport.
	Everybody's in the airport sleeping.
	You know, maybe that'll show up.
	Tenth city inside the airport.
	But people are being so misinformed and under-informed.
	Under-informed is really... Why do you think that is?
	Yeah, so they don't get all riled up and get mad about what's really happening.
	Of course.
	But that's what I see, and you know, it's like, Texas, we're a bunch of badasses, but we're just sitting here going, ooh, it's El Paso.
	Yeah, Tina's like, well, can you imagine if they bust out a bus of immigrants to Fredericksburg?
	I know exactly what would happen.
	We would put them back on the bus, drive them to the city limits and say, here you go, don't pass this line.
	Because that's what we do with homeless people here.
	Get out.
	You got a job?
	No, bye.
	Go to Kerrville.
	Go to Bernie.
	Get out of here.
	This is the bomb cyclone clip from 21.
	Tonight, tens of millions of people living in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are bracing for a blast of what's called a bomb cyclone.
	It's a supercharged storm powering up in the Pacific and closing in on the coast.
	It's expected to deliver a river of rain to the region.
	A river of rain.
	Flooding, mudslides, and even evacuations.
	So I don't know if we have the bomb cyclone or the Arctic blast.
	I'm not sure which.
	But can we just take into account here that two years ago, we had an Arctic blast in Texas.
	Never heard of.
	Oh, we've never heard of this.
	It hasn't happened before.
	Our grid sucks.
	We suck.
	Texas sucks.
	We're no good.
	We don't have snow shovels.
	We're idiots.
	Two years later, we get the same anomaly, and yet we're led to believe the world is heating up.
	This is so inconvenient.
	The last time we had a bad snowstorm with freeze was 2011 in Texas.
	So you could say it's happening more frequently.
	Therefore, we are going into global cooling.
	It's a trend.
	Yes, it is a trend.
	Yeah, totally a trend.
	That is just not discussed.
	Back in the 70s, right into the early 80s, when the global cooling thing was a thing, when it was going to have a new ice age.
	Most of those people switched sides and went to the global warming side of the equation, but a number of those scientists stayed and they're still predicting a new ice age.
	Yeah, and they're real popular.
	Well, there's no money in that.
	There's no money.
	Exactly.
	All right, so there's something going on with the climate change, folks, that needs to be looked at.
	The biodiversity is back.
	And we made fun of biodiversity.
	Let me see the earliest date of this jingle is, oh goodness, it has to be 2012, maybe?
	Something along those lines.
	Here it is.
	So for about a decade, and it kind of fell out of fashion, you know, was it, oh, biodiversity, biodiversity, biodiversity.
	And then we didn't hear about biodiversity.
	Yep.
	And now all of a sudden we have John Oliver, Amy Schumer, and many more signed diversity pledge for late night comedy writers.
	Yes, because we need to have equity and we need to love the world.
	And this is not happening in isolation.
	Beatrice, 190 countries have struck a deal to protect biodiversity.
	This deal is being hailed as historic.
	What makes it so significant?
	Many environmentalists are saying that this deal is our last chance to, you know, reverse the trend on biodiversity.
	It's the last chance!
	It's always the last chance.
	So if we look at the situation right now where thousands of species are under threat of extinction, our insect numbers are plummeting, our oceans are acidifying, the situation is very dire and our ecosystems are Under enormous pressure.
	So the steel could change the way we farm, the way we do business, and the way we protect our animals.
	The steel was hammered out in a series of really tough negotiations.
	You mentioned 190 countries.
	Getting them to agree on something is really significant.
	What were the biggest points of contention?
	The biggest point of contention by far was financing, and that's something we already saw at the climate talks, which were also UN talks in Egypt in November, because it really boils down to this, that poorer nations want richer nations to give them more financial aid to help them in their conservation efforts, especially because these developing nations are the ones that really are home to some of the most outstanding biodiversity.
	For example, if you think of the Amazon in South America, Yeah, yeah.
	Hey, put this thing in your lip.
	All right, you're biodiverse.
	So these negotiations got so heated at one point that delegates from poor nations walked out of the negotiations.
	Of course.
	Now, what this is also about, not that it's anywhere in the news or this clip, is about the new asset class.
	So every piece of grass, every piece of nature is going to be commoditized, a value is going to be put on it, it'll be based on carbon.
	Probably 2027, whenever China is going to invade Taiwan, it's all being pushed out.
	2027, 2027 is the new year.
	And so these poor countries who have outstanding biodiversity, They're holding their hand up like, pay me!
	Which of course goes to friendly NGOs and other non-profits who take the money and don't really give it to Africans.
	Here, have some mush and swipe that fly off your kid's face.
	That's how it goes.
	You mentioned NGOs and I just want to, just as an aside, I want to play this clip because this has got me completely baffled.
	NGO licenses.
	The White House has a new plan to make it easier for humanitarian aid to continue flowing around the world.
	The U.S.
	announced the release of new general licenses yesterday.
	The licenses basically allow groups to avoid U.S.
	sanctions.
	Officials say they will make it easier for humanitarian assistance to go out in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia.
	The licenses go to groups doing a broad range of work, including disaster relief and health services.
	The Treasury Department also lists groups supporting, quote, democracy, education, environmental protection, and peace building.
	The licenses can also exempt certain trade items from sanctions like food, medicine, and medical devices.
	What?
	And they can cover official business of the U.S.
	government, the U.N., the International Red Cross, and similar organizations.
	A Treasury official said that targeted sanctions, quote, remain an essential foreign policy tool.
	Now, who's handing out these licenses?
	The U.S.?
	Yeah, that's what I said, too.
	What?
	This is... Okay, so the NGOs are just GOs now.
	I mean, it's one thing to say I'm a non-governmental organization, which means I get money from the government, but it's... I kind of do my own thing.
	And now it's, oh, I'm licensed.
	Well, if you're licensed, then you're part of the government.
	Someone's government.
	Well, I don't think that's necessary.
	Just because I have a driver's license doesn't mean I work for the state of California.
	Okay, apples to oranges, but go ahead.
	Well, I'd like to know what the deal is.
	I never heard of anything like this.
	Nobody's reporting on it.
	How about pay to play?
	Hey, you want to be an NGO?
	Ah, you've got to have a license.
	That would be the ultimate government scam.
	Swing some of that money back towards me.
	Let me get you a license.
	Possible?
	Yeah, no, I'm not... Yeah, I think it might... It's gotta be something like that.
	It sounds corrupt.
	Back to some biodiversity.
	By the way, your temperature just went up.
	It went up?
	Yeah, it's up to 32 now.
	No!
	Yeah.
	Really?
	Was it that?
	Let me check it.
	Do I have accurate weather here on the ground?
	Hold on, let's see.
	No, it's still updating.
	Back to climate change.
	Back to biodiversity for a moment.
	This was... I can't remember where this was from.
	The biggest problem we have, much bigger of course than anything, is cow burps.
	Cow burps and farts, that's what's killing everything.
	That's why we need to have... Kill all cows.
	Kill all cows, have fake meat, have to have everything.
	You have to kill all ruminants.
	Which means goats and everything else because the only animals that can eat this crappy grass that grows all over the place that makes the area useless for anything else, including you can't even plant on it, is these animals that eat that stuff and then they can turn it into actual protein.
	And fertilizer, to be honest.
	The ruminants are amazing animals.
	They, you put... They're great, but they, why do they want to wipe them out?
	Why do, why, why... Why?
	Hello?
	Because that's what's, that's the protein they want us off.
	They want to keep us just healthy enough to be good subservient slaves.
	Hello?
	And here's how they're doing it.
	There's some complex chemistry going on here.
	Cows have four stomachs.
	In one of them, microorganisms break down food into nutrients, producing methane as a waste product.
	Yeah, and protein from the cow.
	It's a beautiful process, but okay.
	Cows burp the fermented food back up and chew it some more.
	Each cow belches a blast of methane into the atmosphere.
	I wish I'd written the script.
	I call methane the fast and furious.
	I call it fast and furious because it has a real punch to it.
	It's more heat trapping than, let's say, carbon dioxide, CO2.
	So it's more powerful.
	If you reduce methane, you reduce warming.
	Mitloehner and scientists around the world are trying to do that by slightly changing what the animals eat.
	Oh!
	You just change the composition of microbes in the room.
	Sure!
	And this doesn't harm the cows at all?
	No.
	From those microbes that produce methane to those microbes that don't.
	Here, graduate students are preparing feed for the university's herd of black Angus cows.
	Then they sprinkle a bit of red dust in each animal's trough before the heifers chow down.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	This is the pulverized bark of the Cabracho tree, which grows in South America.
	Oh, please!
	And scientists working here have found that just a small amount added to cattle feed can reduce cows' methane emissions by 10%.
	Far from this feedlot, environmentalists are angry with the Biden administration for agreeing to legislation prohibiting federal agencies from measuring methane in agriculture, bowing to demands by the agribusiness lobby.
	This administration's abysmal approach to measuring and reducing emissions from methane.
	Listen to this vocal fry.
	Agriculture undermines their credibility in international climate forums.
	Meanwhile, back in California, the cows are munching away, seemingly happy and hopefully less gassy.
	So they basically come up with Bino for cows.
	Yeah, or probiotics, who knows?
	It can't be good!
	No, probably not, but Mimi came up with an article, and I don't have it, I didn't print it out, but it's an article about how it's turning out that these artificial meats that they're manufacturing, like the stuff coming out of Holland and elsewhere, it turns out that the human body, I mean, if it's made just out of plant protein, you can digest it, but there's other stuff that's purely synthetic.
	Yeah.
	It tastes and looks, and it's got everything.
	If you look at the chromatograph, it looks like real meat, but you can't digest it.
	No.
	You just starve to death, eating yourself to death.
	Congratulations!
	You have graduated to the Beef Initiative Academy.
	Exactly!
	And this whole centralized food thing is not good.
	Here's an example.
	We thought it was only Costco in Australia, but you know people were getting whacked out and high and having, or hallucinating from eating some spinach.
	We had the report.
	Now we know what happened!
	The weed responsible for that toxic spinach contamination that put dozens of people in hospital, well it's been identified.
	Sunrise correspondent Tegan Doling is in Melbourne for us.
	So Tegan, what did the investigation find?
	Good morning Mon.
	Initially there were fears that there was some sort of herbicide or pesticide that's caused hundreds of people to fall ill, but it was in fact a weed called thorn apple, which is incredibly toxic and incredibly dangerous to both people and animals.
	Now, it was contaminated in spinach, and there was more than 200 people who fell sick from Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, including a young child in Queensland who actually had to be rushed to the emergency department.
	And those people were suffering symptoms such as hallucination, headaches, and nausea.
	Now, as I said, it was inside salad packages, inside baby spinach, and it was in all of our major supermarkets, Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, and Costco, and it all stems back from Riviera Farms.
	They have actually destroyed the baby spinach crops.
	It's believed that this weed may have actually been harvested among the crops and that's how the spinach has become contaminated.
	They're obviously launching an investigation into exactly what has happened.
	They say that they have also destroyed all of the crops either side of the baby spinach but believe it may have hopefully been an isolated incident.
	All products have been recalled Mons so experts are saying that it shouldn't stop us from putting some greens on the table come Sunday.
	That's what you get with the government arranging centralized food.
	It's all great.
	Yeah, but thorn apple in your food, which is a toxic product, is a toxic plant.
	Apple?
	No, thorn apple.
	Oh, I didn't know.
	Australia's loaded with stuff like this.
	I think it's on Australia where they got that one plant, I can't remember the name of it, but if you touch it... Dude, they got dingoes that eat your babies.
	If you touch this thing, you're in such agony that a lot of people commit suicide.
	This one plant?
	Yeah, you just touch this thing and it's got like, it just puts some poison in your system and you can't, it drives you nuts because it's so painful.
	It's like the most painful thing imaginable.
	I have not heard of this.
	Tell me in the chat.
	Australia go from being a penal colony to a country?
	It's still a penal colony, I thought.
	Was there some revolution or something and the prisoners broke out?
	No, no, they've been maintained as a penal colony.
	You haven't noticed this?
	Yeah, yes I have actually, I'm sorry.
	Now back, just to finalize climate change because I've figured out the 2027 date.
	2027 is the year.
	And we have a deal, we have a deal in the European Union and I'll explain what that means after this quick clip.
	We start in Brussels where in the last couple of hours EU energy ministers have agreed to cap natural gas prices.
	The agreement comes after weeks of haggling over ways to rein in Europe's soaring energy prices.
	The EU's biggest economy, Germany, had previously blocked efforts to limit natural gas prices, fearing the move could disrupt supplies on global markets.
	Reports say the gas cap is set to come into effect in February.
	Now, what they have not told you is that the real negotiation was about the carbon market.
	Although it's carbon dioxide, CO2, they call it the EU carbon market.
	And they have determined that starting in 2027, taxes will be levied on consumers of gasoline and anything else that can be measured in CO2.
	This will kick off in here.
	It is the carbon market covers suppliers of CO2 emitting fuels using cars and buildings.
	And they do that as of 2027.
	But, of course, they will pass that on once you have trucks, et cetera, emitting CO2.
	That price will be passed on to your consumer products in the supermarket.
	Oh, we need more taxes.
	Yes.
	What is this 2027 thing all of a sudden?
	I don't know why they chose it, but that's what it is.
	However, if fuel prices are as high as they are today in 2027, then they might slip it to 2028.
	And it looks like the price of carbon will be 45 euros per ton.
	They've always tried to do about $50 a ton.
	So it's just more taxes based upon whatever they kind of, whatever formula they come up with.
	Well, you know, that truck emitted some CO2.
	So we got to take that into account.
	We got to put that into your little package of soy here.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	I'm telling you, the world has gone nuts and we're just here.
	We're here observing and either shaking our fists or laughing.
	Exactly.
	Well, I do have something, a nice upbeat little thing as we get ready to take a break here.
	I thought in the spirit of Christmas we would go back to the 19, I think this is 1980s, with a Computer Chronicles Christmas Gift Ideas with John C. Dvorak.
	If you're still looking for Christmas gift ideas, we have yet a few more tips for you from other sources.
	Syndicated computer columnist John Dvorak likes a new game for the Macintosh called Smash Hit Racquetball.
	And for the PC crowd, he picks Traveling Sidekick as a great gift item.
	On the hardware side, Dvorak suggests the Bechtec Fanny Mac, a cooling fan for the Macintosh, or the Curtis Computer Toolkit, including pin straighteners, chip pullers, and other goodies.
	John, how come I miss this?
	I miss your lame-ass Christmas gift ideas.
	Hey, they were good in 1980.
	They were fantastic.
	I love these little tools.
	That's 42 years ago.
	You're playing clips about me that are 42 years old and ridiculing it by today's standards.
	No, I'm not ridiculing.
	I want more.
	I want an update.
	You said lame ass is ridicule.
	I'm sorry.
	At the time, it was great.
	We all bought that fan for the Mac.
	I think the fan, the mag needed a fan.
	Probably to cool it down.
	I would just love to have some Christmas gift ideas from you for an updated version.
	I think you should put that on your sub stack or something.
	You're a legend, man.
	You're a legend with this stuff.
	I'm a legend in my own mind.
	No, you're a legend in a lot of minds.
	So, I think, yeah, well, I'll start doing that next year.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	In the morning, to you, the man who put the C in the lesbian, in the corner, ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. Davora!
	Now, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And the morning to the trolls in the troll room!
	Hello, trolls!
	The trolls hang out all the time, 24-7, at trollroom.io.
	Why do they hang out there?
	Well, because that's where everyone hangs out.
	You can listen to noagendastream.com live.
	It's, like, most shows are live.
	Some of them are pre-recorded, they're podcasts, but it's 24-7, this stream, and there's a lot of interactivity, and it's just fun to watch.
	And they always help out on show days here.
	Let's check it out, let me see if we can find any trolls.
	Huh, interesting, 1777.
	Didn't we have that?
	Whoa!
	Wait a minute, didn't we have the same?
	We have, interesting, 1777.
	Didn't we have that?
	Wait a minute.
	The Battle of Saratoga.
	Hey, you know what?
	Wait a minute, wasn't that the number on the last episode too?
	No, it was something different, but 1777 coincidentally showing up on TV.
	Somebody is feeding you bogus numbers.
	No, no, I just checked, now it's 1771.
	Bailing out.
	The six guys who were responsible left.
	That was the magic striper number.
	You can't beat the sevens.
	Very nice.
	All right, trolls.
	I feel lucky today.
	You can join trollroom.io or follow, follow, follow, follow us on our Mastodon, which is noagendasocial.com.
	You may be able to still sign up.
	We're trying to keep it small.
	Actually, by keeping it small, we have shot ourselves in the foot once again, if you can believe it.
	So we only wanted 10,000 people on our... And we've had this thing for almost five years.
	We want 10,000 people.
	Keep it small.
	Keep it manageable.
	We locked it down.
	We purged people from time to time.
	Powoo.net was just acquired.
	Someone bought the whole server.
	Now they had, you know, like... What do they have?
	Let me see how many people they had.
	Let me see.
	They have...
	They say they have... I can't see it anymore.
	I thought it was a couple hundred thousand.
	800,000.
	800,000.
	Somebody just bought them for eyeballs.
	Yeah!
	We could have sold our eyeballs.
	We haven't got 10,000 eyeballs for sale!
	10,000 eyeballs is not worth anything.
	Hey!
	These are not just 10,000 eyeballs.
	These are sophisticated eyeballs.
	These people are very discerning.
	They know what they're doing.
	Anyway, follow me.
	Who would ever anticipate that?
	Well, there's a lot of things we haven't anticipated on this show.
	No, that's because you know what?
	You know what?
	What?
	We do news deconstruction.
	That's what we do and we do it better than anybody else.
	We do.
	You're so right about that.
	If we were doing startups, we could probably get pretty good at it.
	But what is that NTD then?
	Well, that's not deconstruction.
	That's just torture.
	Follow Adam at noagendasocial.com, John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com, and it'll come to you.
	And by the way, on a lot of those fancy new podcast apps, newpodcastapps.com, you'll see that the comments that you leave on the Mastodon comment thread show up in the app.
	You can even comment from these apps, on all apps.
	So comment.
	Comment often, comment frequently.
	And a big thank you to Tantaniel, who brought us the artwork for episode 1514.
	And this was... She won the contest with that one, by the way.
	What contest?
	I'm not aware of any contest.
	Yeah.
	What's the contest?
	Yeah, who wins the most cover art contest.
	What is it?
	She... We have one more show to go.
	No, two more before... She's way over... She's already over... You can't catch her.
	Hmm.
	Unless we add new shows to this year.
	Well, no, that's not going to happen.
	Tantaniel, uh, Tantaniel brought us, now there was a lot of art.
	There were a lot of different things that we looked at.
	This is the hoodie, uh, which is, uh, now, even though it said no agenda Korean Dvorak hoodie, it was really a John C. Dvorak hoodie because it was a sweatshirt to root for your, uh, I mean, a hoodie to root for your favorite team.
	And that is best team.
	Go best team.
	Cause you're the fair weathered fan.
	And it's true.
	And we both laughed at that one.
	What was the other stuff that we were looking at?
	There was a lot of stuff that was usable.
	I think we could have picked any number of them.
	And that one wasn't in the Christmas spirit, which is kind of a violation of our normal way of doing these things, to say the least.
	But it was just a nice piece.
	It was a very nice piece, and I think the other pieces that were there was the tombstone.
	Mark Haines died from being fat.
	Yeah, we're not gonna use that.
	Yeah, we're not doing that.
	Too much cheese.
	I mean, Darren is our go-to cheesecake.
	You know, when we want a cheesesteak, it's not gonna be there.
	But when you have Dame Kenny Ben doing cheesecake for Happy Hanukkah...
	We have to get the Jewish shapeshifter again.
	The one we wanted, we thought, Happy Hanukkah from no agenda and the shapeshifting Jews with a little disclaimer, this artwork was made and approved by an actual Jew.
	Although we thought it was great, we just thought this was not the environment.
	No.
	To be misunderstood by a bunch of people.
	Yeah, which is exactly what would happen because nobody pays attention.
	And the Jew had a reptile.
	A lizard.
	A lizard.
	Make it worse.
	Make it worse.
	Happy Hanukkah!
	Yeah, Happy Hanukkah to you too, by the way.
	It was day one of Hanukkah on the previous show.
	Yes, it was.
	I looked it up.
	I got bad information from the internet.
	That's the first time ever.
	That's never happened.
	A lot of our shapeshifters informed us, hey, it's day one.
	Day one, boneheads!
	That's right.
	Day one.
	Well, thank you very much, Tantaniel, and Merry Christmas to all of the artists who graciously supply their time and their talent, usually just for ridicule, which is what we do, but it's honest ridicule, because we're just telling you what we feel, and we're like your dream clients.
	We will discuss everything behind your back, but you can listen in.
	Yeah, exactly the same.
	And it helps you become... Just like the pros.
	Yeah, and it helps you become a better commercial artist.
	I think it's a master class in creating commercial art for A-hole clients.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That would be us.
	This is us.
	NoahGennerArtGenerator.com is where you can follow along when we're doing it live, or even if you want to during the show, you can look at it, but you could also use a new podcast app.
	We have them there in chapters.
	Thank you, Dreb Scott, for doing that every single time.
	And by the way, from the artist's perspective, all clients are a-holes.
	Correct.
	So, there you go.
	And that's our time and talent portion of Value for Value.
	We desperately need the treasure part.
	Really, we need it all, and it all comes together, and of course it's only about 4% of the total listeners who send back any value.
	So you should feel real good about yourself, 96%ers, as we thank Ross Jennings from Edinburgh in the Great Britains, who comes in with one... That's the capital of Scotland!
	That's right.
	With one Scot $1,000 and this is to Knight Dame Flo of the Black Isles.
	A dose of goat karma, I do believe, for the new year, please.
	I'm not quite sure what that meant exactly, but we got some service goat.
	You've got karma.
	So that's very nice, Ross Jennings.
	I like the idea of a Scot coming in with and getting one of these Nightings, because, you know, the Queen didn't like the Queen.
	Aren't the Scots notoriously tight?
	Yes, they are.
	They're notoriously tight.
	So this is probably... Not our Scots.
	Not our Scots.
	No, not our Scots.
	We got real Scots.
	We got good Scots here.
	Great Scots!
	Great Scots!
	Robbie Joosten is next, and he's in Leiden, Netherlands.
	And he says, Dear John and Adam, thank you for your great shows.
	I'm looking forward to what you have in store for us next year.
	Coming soon, and beyond.
	And beyond!
	This donation brings me to the knighthood.
	Woohoo!
	Please knight me, Sir Bobby, the re-doer.
	For the round table, I'd like a fright-met Jorvlies?
	Jorvlies?
	It's friet met suerfles, which is french fries.
	French fries with a meat that has basically been stewed all the way down.
	And it's typically horse meat, I guess, is what he's saying.
	Yeah, he says it's kind of horse meat, but something healthy.
	With something healthy.
	Crudités, perhaps.
	We will get you the crudités.
	Robbie.
	Robbie Joosten.
	Crudités.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Robbie.
	And it's Robbie Joosten.
	Robbie Joosten.
	we have the Earl of Murfreesboro, Tennessee with $500.
	Can you make sure you have maker's mark and magic mushrooms and double up on the hookers and blow at the round table because the Earl of Murfreesboro is turning 50.
	You bet doubled up.
	It's all good to go.
	And that's all they want.
	So we're done.
	See you.
	Well, of course the Earl is, is at the table already.
	So looking forward to the price.
	He's that old.
	He doesn't look it.
	He does look pretty good for his age, I agree.
	Anonymous from Redmond, Washington, meanwhile.
	Could be Bill Gates.
	Could be.
	Could be.
	480, 485.
	Uh, please credit this to Rogue Earl of the Pacific Trash Vortex.
	Okay, I love you.
	Please give a Kwanzaa shoutout to Tall Paul, who is just barely not a douchebag.
	And send an R2-D2 karma to all the games and knights out there.
	Don't forget the batteries!
	You've got Sir Manila Envelope is in, oh the Dutch are here today, is in Den Haag, the Netherlands, in the morning.
	John and Adam, Merry Christmas from Sir Manila Envelope.
	Well, Merry Christmas to you.
	I'll grab Sir Nacho.
	Oh no, you grab Sir Nacho.
	Sir Nacho Alcatraz in Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico.
	That's nice.
	We need more Mexican listeners.
	We do.
	333.33.
	When John C. Dvorak calls, Sir Nacho Alcatraz is there to answer.
	Yeah.
	Godspeed, he finally got an email.
	Godspeed and Merry Christmas to all pro-human people.
	Yeah.
	Screw the anti-human agenda.
	Exactly.
	Good point.
	Yes.
	Looking at you, Elon.
	The holographic X, XTOL 1138, it's like crystal, XTOL.
	Crystal, 1138.
	The Holographic Crystal 1138, Abilene, Texas.
	In the morning, gents!
	Holographic Crystal 1138 here.
	THX 1138 for short.
	After many failed print jobs, when upon checking my 3D printer on its successful creation of the desired part and finding the elapsed print time to be 3 hours and 33 minutes, I knew it was time to donate!
	For brevity, bullet points.
	You're the longest donation, regardless.
	One, new paper out on transgenerational aspartame-induced anxiety and changes in amygdala, i.e., you pass on swollen amygdala to your kids from eating rumsfeld goo.
	Ooh, I need to have this paper.
	Two, putting us in pods and having us eat bugs is not a new idea.
	The original soy boy social engineer himself, Plato, advocated a vegan diet to restrict the passions of the population and render them docile.
	Not Plato!
	He was a dick!
	Three.
	The relationship between CO2 concentration in a gas and its ability to trap heat is not, as they'd like us to believe, exponential or even linear.
	It is logarithmic.
	Meaning, to affect a linear temperature increase, you must constantly double CO2 concentration.
	Like all logarithmic curves, the warming will or has already started to plateau.
	Yes!
	We know, the Arctic blast.
	He knows that in Texas.
	That's right, and he's in Abilene, where it was 11 degrees this morning, so it's probably gotten a little bit better.
	I don't know, it could be worse.
	And that's 33333, thank you.
	He says, thanks for all you do.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Stay dangerous!
	We shall.
	Thank you.
	I always like that kind of perspective.
	It's a great perspective and it's real content.
	Thank you.
	We appreciate that on the show.
	Dylan Lang in Chilliwack, BC, Canada.
	He needs a penny to make $3.33.
	This is actually, in Canadian dollars, would be $3.33.
	And it's actually $2.33.41 in American, which tells you something.
	We got it.
	Printing money does work.
	It does the job.
	It does the job.
	It does.
	Tricks the system.
	As I have been seeing 33s everywhere.
	Another guy seeing a lot of 33s last week.
	I thought it's about time I thought it's about time I donated to No Agenda.
	Yesterday, December 20th, was also my birthday.
	I love you, Caitlyn, 3, D-Douche, B-Day, Biscuit, Whole Fruit, Fauci, Wheeze.
	You've been D-Douched.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
	There you go.
	Got it all for you.
	You can decode.
	I trust it.
	Jason Brown, Guntersville, Alabama.
	Roadox 222.
	This donation is on behalf of my best bud, Riley Brown.
	So what does that mean?
	Does that mean a switcheroo?
	Or on behalf of?
	He didn't say, no, it's just on his behalf.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	He's a big time listener and equally as large douchebag.
	I guess he wants to give him a de-douching.
	He doesn't ask for it, but I'm gonna give it.
	I'm gonna give him a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	He says, Merry Christmas, homie.
	And as always, thanks for the hard work, John and Adam.
	Yeah, it was a Christmas de-douching gift.
	That's a nice one.
	By the way, that was an original.
	No China knockoff.
	That was a real one.
	Yeah, I think we've kind of got him out of the bag.
	Uh, Scott Salamango.
	That's a great name.
	In Detroit, he's probably in Local 1, or he should be.
	Because this is Sir Mango Meat.
	Unless he's going to get upgraded here, or maybe he isn't.
	Okay, he's not Sir Mango Meat yet.
	It's an honor to help produce the best broadcast in the universe.
	We're a broadcast.
	We're a broadcast today, baby.
	And with this donation, I'll tack on the additional honor of becoming Noah Jenner Knight.
	Please knight me, Sir Mango Meat, Knight of the Costa Ballina.
	Oh.
	I'll accept standard fare at the round table, but he'd like to request to be nude for the knighting ceremony.
	Alright, I request the blindfold, please.
	Nude like the day I entered Gitmo Nation!
	I will be donning a smoking jacket at the round table.
	Excellent.
	Can I please get a Let's Go Brandon and some French Bulldog karma for a prosperous New Year to all the No Agenda producers.
	Cheers.
	Scott Salamango, Sir Mango Meat.
	Naked.
	Oh, why did this just fail?
	Hold on a second.
	Let's go, Brandon.
	You've got... Karma.
	Can you read the next one, John?
	I've got to fix my media control.
	Dame Abigail.
	She's over here in Alameda, California.
	I'm gonna have to run into her at a meet-up.
	Happy Solstice and Merry Christmas, John and Adam.
	I became Dame Abigail, Lady of the Rhyming Lines, during the 1500 show, which is long overdue.
	So with this donation, I wish to claim my next title, Baronetess Abigail, Dame of the Rhyming Lines.
	For the round table, can I get, uh...
	Kugles, kugles, kugles, kugles is Lithuanian potato pudding.
	And Kentucky mules.
	Also, if there are Christmas dames, how about a solstice baronetess?
	Yeah, we can give you that if you want it.
	Sounds pretty sexy to me.
	Yeah.
	Lithuanian women.
	Yeah, in honor of my title, I've included the poem I wrote for show 1500, which is still relevant for upcoming show 1515.
	Oh, by the way, I have that poem.
	Christmas Day show where we work as others take off.
	We're going to do the show and it turns out to be show 1515.
	I know, isn't that whack?
	Yeah, it's whack.
	It's lit.
	It's very lit.
	15 reasons to donate to No Agenda.
	At the end of the poem, would you play the 3333 Rebelizer jingle and a goat scream karma?
	Love and light, love is lit, love you both, may you be blessed with abundance this year.
	Wait, she wants us to read the whole, it's a long poem, it's not short.
	She wants us to read the whole poem?
	Well, that's what she says.
	All right, I'll do that.
	How long is it?
	That's what she asked.
	That's what she asked!
	Here it is.
	I'll read it.
	I'll read it.
	And then she needs the 33 magic jingle after that for some odd reason.
	Rub-a-lizer, yeah.
	Oh, rub-a-lizer.
	She wants rub-a-lizer.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on, hold on.
	And a goat scream.
	Yeah, I had the rub.
	And a goat scream?
	She's getting a little... Oh, she's out of control.
	She is.
	Here we go.
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	Our formula is this.
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	World! Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	I'm going to do a little deconstruction of lies!
	Media lies.
	What?
	Media lies?
	Someone's lying on the media?
	So MSNBC, there was a big hullabaloo, at least on the left, over Trump's tax returns.
	From what I understand, there was pretty much nothing in them, or am I misunderstanding?
	No, there was pretty much nothing in them.
	Yeah.
	But it was the way they played it.
	So let's, we're going to go to your friend, Mia, Maya, whatever her name is on MSNBC.
	My friend?
	The Brzezinski woman, isn't she?
	Oh, Mika, Mika, Mika.
	Mika, Mika, Mika.
	Mika.
	Mika, Mika, Mika.
	Mika, Mika and Joe.
	The morning Joe's Mika.
	The Mika Brzezinski show.
	The elitist show.
	Yeah.
	And I'm going to play three clips of short, and then I'm going to play Kevin Brady, who's, I have a clip, he's a congressman that was on the committee that released these, but he's the Republican who they wouldn't listen to, so listen.
	Let me just understand one thing.
	Are you okay?
	Have a lozenge.
	Barely, I need a lozenge.
	This is very extraordinary, I believe, to just release a citizen's taxes to the public.
	It's kind of Icky, isn't it?
	I mean, isn't it something that's... It's bad, it's bad.
	It's... everyone agrees with it, that it's bad, because now the privacy of the IRS... I'm surprised the IRS put up with it.
	The IRS is... they probably suggested it, those dicks.
	Sorry, that was John who said that.
	I'm not... I'm thinking that's not true.
	No, you think they're good guys?
	I don't know whether they're good guys or not, but I don't think they like the idea of this being a policy, because now everyone can grouse.
	They're like, oh, you gotta... why should I give you anything?
	Yeah, exactly, because you just disclosed it, you horrible people.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm all in.
	The IRS, you're right, they should have totally said no.
	Yeah, that's what they should have done.
	They should have had some backbone.
	Yeah, nothing.
	So let's go with Trump tax return MSNBC.
	Joining us now, we have the Democratic member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Tom Suozzi of New York.
	And it's really great timing for you to be on.
	We want to ask about these tax returns.
	We've learned a lot about Donald Trump this week, just this week alone.
	He's dealing with a lot, Tom.
	The DOJ, of course, getting these four criminal referrals from the January 6th Committee.
	As we've been discussing, we're not necessarily sure what they'll be doing with them, if anything, but they probably are going to be taking a good long read at the January 6th Select Committee's full report, which is being released to the public today.
	We can't ...put aside the documents that he took from the U.S.
	government, um, and to Mar-a-Lago, that, um, you know, right now is being investigated, whether he stole them, and whether he's returned them, and... Wait, is that still a story?
	Is she stuck in this?
	Am I mis... I thought that was kind of, like, over.
	That didn't result in anything.
	Oh, you're in the wrong world.
	If you go to their world... I mean, Dimench B?
	Yeah.
	Dimench B, they're gonna be... that's all you care about.
	Also known as Cluster B, which I thought was an interesting way of describing it.
	Criminal... I like it.
	Cluster B is pretty good, isn't it?
	I think Cluster B... No, I'm going to start using it.
	You don't have to have Cluster A, you use Cluster B. You don't have to have an A. Stole them, and whether he's returned them, and the criminal exposure that he faces there.
	But the tax returns this morning are proving a number of things.
	Some basic things, like he lied about being audited.
	And it proves a number of things about Trump's financial dealings, his financial moves, moves he made to avoid taxes, paying very, very, very low numbers in taxes in one year, paying zero in taxes.
	This guy just became more of a hero than ever to most Americans, Mika.
	and also losses.
	So my question to you, sir, is what is the wrongdoing that has been exposed so far here as these tax returns are finally being revealed?
	When President Trump decided to break with tradition and not release taxes, people said, well, what can we do here?
	Well, the good news is we can count on the IRS.
	They're mandatorily required to audit the president.
	We started digging into that, and we released yesterday and found out yesterday, really, that they didn't do their job.
	The IRS was dormant.
	They didn't pursue the president without fear or favor the way they're required for every president.
	What?
	Okay, that goes counter to everything I understood about the case, but okay.
	Go ahead.
	Also, there are a couple of things.
	She's a good propagandist.
	She starts off with, he lied, which turns out not to be true.
	And then the way she asks the question, what is the wrongdoing so far?
	Which indicates there's nothing but more.
	I mean, whatever.
	More is coming.
	That's just so far.
	It's just getting started.
	We're just warming up.
	This is terrible.
	So let's go to part two of this.
	So now we are proposing legislation that every president must be audited.
	Because right now it's just a regulation of the IRS.
	It's not a law passed by Congress.
	We're proposing a law that says every president must be audited on a timely basis.
	You have to have enough resource.
	I mean, the IRS had one person looking at one set of his taxes from 2016.
	They didn't look at the other years.
	And they didn't have any experts.
	People on partnerships, on foreign affairs, on the different sophisticated transactions that this president was involved in.
	So why?
	Why?
	Hold on a second.
	I saw some of these tax returns.
	All of that is in the business, not in his personal taxes.
	I don't understand.
	This guy's full of crap.
	That's just not true.
	There's no special trickery here that's going on.
	I mean, unless I'm... I mean, I can... No, no, this guy's full of crap.
	Yeah, okay.
	That this president was involved in.
	Yeah.
	Weird.
	So why?
	Why was it dormant?
	Why was he not audited?
	Is anyone asking the question and pursuing the answer?
	Wait a minute.
	He's... I don't understand.
	They released his tax return, his personal tax return, and what comes out of it is he wasn't audited?
	I thought the Trump organization was under a constant audit.
	Is that a lie?
	It's a total lie.
	She has just bought, all that MSNBC does, literally lies.
	That's going to be the continuing push, because we need to make sure the IRS is doing its job on everything that they do, but certainly on this as well.
	Was it because it was the President's appointee, or was it because the whole system has just been broken down?
	We don't know the reason that the IRS did not do its job.
	We don't know if somebody called up and said, The Treasury Secretary was appointed by the President.
	The IRS Commissioner is appointed by the President.
	Do we know if there was a phone call made or was this just because the whole system had broken down?
	We had to pursue this in a way that was not political.
	Just to look at the legislative requirements that To do our job as a separate branch of government, what can we do to ensure that every president and every vice president is getting audited?
	Well, you, sir, should drink some Drano.
	That's what you should do to make sure that you're out of the picture.
	Because you're a piece of crap.
	So here we go.
	This is the last 17 seconds.
	Okay, but like a thought game for you.
	What are the chances that a presidential candidate who refused to release his tax returns and said he was under an audit becomes president and continues to say he's under an audit when it turns out he was completely lying and never was?
	So there we go.
	So let's listen to the Republican co-chair.
	He's the second there on the Ways and Means Committee.
	This is out in the hall.
	They recorded him.
	And this is Kevin Brady.
	And listen to this guy talk about this.
	It's a lousy recording because it was done in a noisy hall, but you can hear it, I think.
	I would note Republicans offered an amendment that would refer these documents, investigation of Joint Committee on Taxation, a credible, experienced organization that has conducted similar reviews in the past, such as the Enron investigation, experienced organization that has conducted similar reviews in the past, such as the Enron investigation, to review fully and with
	to review fully and with adequate time the IRS presidential audit process and to bring back that analysis and report to Congress within 90 days.
	We provide an alternative that focuses on the purported reason for this, releasing these tax returns without creating a new precedent that can jeopardize the privacy of the review.
	With that, questions?
	What exactly was in the report that they are submitting to the full house?
	All the Donald Trump's tax returns over the past six years, including his business returns, all the documents?
	So, I'd say in summary, they were the tax returns of President Trump for six years, including the tax returns of eight affiliated businesses.
	It also included the audit notes and trails on those audits.
	Uh, what became clear is that, um, almost all those audits that the IRS is doing is not yet complete.
	Uh, so, any characterizations of the returns themselves, you have to acknowledge this is incomplete at this time.
	Um, it does have the, uh, returns themselves.
	Um, and, what else?
	The IRS audit reports themselves.
	The majority report.
	Oh, excuse me.
	Yes, the majority report.
	sort of a rushed analysis by a drug committee on taxes, which had only about 11 days.
	All right, I'm glad we got it on the record, but you got to tell me what I was listening to.
	Okay, so what he said was, it was six years of Trump's returns, plus eight affiliated businesses, so there were business returns also looked at, all of them with the audit notes that, They were all consistently and always under audit.
	And they are still under audit, according to this guy, saying that anyone who says that he was an auditor or was an under audit is full of crap.
	Mika was lying.
	My girlfriend was lying?
	Hard to believe.
	It's just beyond me how they can just do this, and I've seen it elsewhere.
	They say, oh, he was never audited, and he wasn't under audit.
	He was, according to this guy who's also on the same committee, says he's still under audit.
	It's like a continuation audit, which is what Trump said.
	Yeah, when you have zero income, take all the losses, you'll get audited.
	You're gonna get audited all the time and he's got eight companies that they also looked at and audited and then it was presented with the auditing notes.
	But we knew that there was nothing here because otherwise it would have leaked out weeks ago or months ago and would have been, oh, but now it's just flailing arms of Mika and they're a little flabby.
	Mika, you should work on that.
	Tone it up, girl.
	Anyway, I just found it to be disgusting.
	You're right.
	And so while everyone is falling over this, and all the taxes, and Zelensky and everything, we're being robbed!
	This morning another scandal is rocking Wells Fargo.
	The bank has been ordered to pay 3.7 billion dollars to settle a number of violations.
	including charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages and incorrectly taking overdraft fees.
	In a statement, the CEO says the bank identified a series of unacceptable practices that we have been working systematically to change.
	It seems that they are not only too big to fail, they're also too big to jail.
	It's the latest in a string of massive fines for Wells Fargo.
	In 2020, the bank paid $3 billion after employees opened millions of phony accounts without the customer's knowledge in order to meet sales goals.
	As the employees falsified records, investigators say the bank collected millions in fees, reportedly targeting minorities who speak little English along with college students and seniors.
	Racist!
	You had to open 10 accounts every single day.
	Since at least 2016, Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged federal regulators to break up Wells Fargo, once calling the bank's former CEO gutless at a congressional hearing.
	Have you resigned as CEO or chairman of Wells Fargo?
	The board?
	Have you resigned?
	No, I've not.
	Have you returned one nickel of the money you earned while this scam was going on?
	And the board will do... I will take that as a no, then.
	Now shut up, Pocahontas!
	...the latest fine against Wells Fargo, calling it much-needed accountability.
	And so where does this money go is always my question.
	Does it go to the black and brown people who were racially targeted?
	What they did, I got the breakdown.
	It was, I think it was 4.5 billion, was that the whole fine?
	3.7.
	It was 4.7.
	The way I heard it, 3 billion dollars went back to the people they ripped off.
	And a lot of this was repossessing cars that didn't, you know, repossessing cars.
	Oh no, reposing cars.
	Enclosing your mortgage on your house and stuff like this.
	Oh, these guys are horrible.
	And so $3 billion goes back to those people, and between $1.5 and $1.7 goes into the government coffers as the fine.
	They should be shut down.
	$3 billion is compensation, and the fine goes to the government.
	This is the second time they've done this.
	Second or third.
	This company is really... I don't know.
	I mean, it has to be something else going on.
	There has to be part of a money laundering thing the government's involved in.
	Arms dealing.
	There's something going on with this company.
	Tina had her 401k, IRA, her nest egg.
	It was managed by someone at Wells Fargo.
	She pulled it all.
	She pulled it all.
	Pulled it all and gave it to Horowitz.
	I don't know if that's better.
	You won't get ripped off.
	I said, hey, you can listen to how you're doing every week on Tuesday.
	You can hear John and Andrew talk about your investments.
	It's great.
	Hey, you know what?
	Maybe Wells Fargo was tied up in the FTX thing.
	I mean, you're right.
	Something is very fishy about those guys.
	It has a real BCCI feel to it.
	Yeah, and if you go there, the place is buzzing.
	I mean, we have a Wells Fargo down the street.
	It's a lot busier than Mechanics.
	And then the funny thing is the manager, the current manager of the Mechanics In Albany that I bank with, he's ex-Wells Fargo.
	Oh really?
	I brought it up with him once and he says he had to quit the bank.
	He says it was just too much.
	It was just, he couldn't work there.
	It was so bad.
	Let's go to Bank Manfred.
	Here's just a quick update.
	Tonight, the young founder of FTX, who authorities say lost billions of dollars from investors and customers, returning to the U.S.
	tonight to face charges now stemming from the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange.
	Sam Bankman-Fried, waiving extradition from the Bahamas today.
	Authorities flying him to New York, charging him here with wire fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance violations.
	So they're taking this very weak young man who, you know, it's just a matter of perception.
	You looked at him before with the floppy hair and the out-of-shape body and the rocking and the kind of weird borderline, probably spectrum-type, beyond-the-spectrum behavior, and he's a genius!
	But if you just flip that for a second and say, you are actually abusing a very sad young man, and who's getting off the true criminals in this?
	My personal opinion, Caroline Ellison.
	Have you seen a good picture of her?
	Oh man!
	She also has a sad look.
	Yes.
	She doesn't look like the type.
	I mean, I could be wrong because you never know.
	I mean, there's a whole TV series called what is it called?
	It's called Meet Mary Murder, which I think is one of the.
	Great TV shows.
	It's about a lot of psycho women and men that find a mate, you know, they somehow meet him and then they marry him and then they murder him for money.
	So it's possible.
	I mean, I don't know.
	Well, her dad is at a high level, you know, Gary Gensler, you know, so they're all connected.
	She, you know, what is being, oh, she's cooperating.
	She threw him under the bus.
	You better believe she did.
	Because a lot of the money that was being moved was from Alameda.
	She was the CEO.
	But this poor young man on the spectrum, and I take pity on him.
	I take pity on him.
	His parents are abusing him.
	His parents are going to let him rot in jail.
	They're the ones that should be rotting in jail.
	The whole thing is disgusting, and I think it's much deeper than what we're seeing at the surface.
	Well, there'll be somebody who knows what they're doing.
	Sure.
	Come out with a book.
	Oh, sure.
	What are you, QAnon?
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man, that's like JFK.
	They release nothing.
	Well, maybe not.
	Never gonna happen.
	You brought something up earlier.
	You brought a classic clip up from the 80s.
	Then you talked about Vocal Fry.
	I was just digging around the archives and I found a couple classics on Vocal Fry.
	Including this one long discussion, it's a minute 29, a discussion about vocal fry from this woman, which I thought was really good.
	And then I have an example of vocal fry.
	Do you want to play these?
	These are kind of entertaining.
	So which one?
	Faith?
	Do we play the classic Faith first?
	Yeah, just go to Faith Sally's on vocal fry.
	This is a good clip.
	It's long.
	Oh, with dynamite.
	We love some fry in the morning.
	America's young women are running out of oxygen.
	What else could explain why so many of them sound like this?
	Believe it or not, there's a scientific term for the way a Kardashian speaks, and it's vocal fry.
	It's a low, creaky vibration produced by a fluttering of the vocal cords.
	Speech pathologists call it a disorder that verges on vocal abuse.
	Call it a quirk, a trend, or an epidemic.
	Vocal fry is everywhere.
	A recent study of women in college found that two-thirds of them use this glottalization.
	When I was a tween in the early 80s, the Valley Girl was born.
	She brought us Like and Uptalk.
	And there's been, like, a general cultural agreement that, like, that kind of speech leaves the user sounding airhead-y and unprofessional.
	But Vocal Fry is unique because researchers have found that women who talk this way are seen by their peers as educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile.
	You love him, and he totally complimented you.
	Complimented you.
	Some linguists even suggest that creaky young ladies are evolving our culture as linguistic innovators.
	Well, metaphorically, I encourage every woman to find her voice.
	I'm dismayed at how low it can go.
	I'm burned out on the fry.
	It sounds underwhelmed and disengaged.
	It's annoying to listen to a young woman who sounds world-weary, and exactly like her 14 best friends.
	Oh my goodness.
	This was when?
	2013?
	2013.
	How long?
	Oh man.
	I forgot how... Well, that takes us to Jill Abramson.
	The Queen of Vocal Fry.
	The Queen of Fry, ladies and gentlemen.
	We still play clips from her, but this was when... I don't remember it quite, but it was a... She's talking about, I think, Hillary being the frontrunner for a president, something like that.
	And this is just classic Jill Abramson vocal fry.
	It looked like she was the frontrunner.
	In fact, the prohibitive frontrunner.
	Okay.
	Now, here's an actual Jill Abraham Fry.
	You know, obviously, I read the New York Times, like, all day long.
	Mainly on my iPad app.
	Ah!
	Setting the standard.
	It is interesting.
	I was talking about this with Tina last night.
	We do a show together, Curry and the Keeper, and as I'm listening back to the show, I said, you know, you have a very nice, appealing voice to listen to.
	And in general, and I think I would like to hear from women, but I think women also agree that many female voices are just not great to listen to.
	Would you say that?
	No, I agree with that.
	But some female voices are dynamite and they don't have any fry at all.
	They're just musical.
	Or not piercing.
	I mean, I know that this is really misogynistic, particularly... No, we're two radio executives now.
	Well, we're podcast executives because this is a big... If you go to a podcast conference and say... It's all vocal fry.
	Yes!
	It's horrible, and you can't say that.
	Yeah, most women, especially the type of podcast that the two women, I have a term for it, the two women dipshits.
	Oh yes, this is a great term.
	Yeah, something like that.
	It's not misogynist at all.
	No.
	The two women dipshits chattering.
	They're all vocal fry, and they try to outfry each other.
	It's a fry-off!
	It's a fry-off.
	There was a video going around, the guy who goes and gets in a coffee shop and he just starts to rail on the ladies for the fry.
	Yes, we had a clip of that.
	Do we still have that clip?
	I don't, it might be under fry, I have no idea.
	It was from a sitcom and this guy goes off on this girl who's a barista and she's throwing the fry at him and he starts chewing her out and giving her crap and then she comes out with her normal voice.
	To get him out of there.
	Yeah, I wish I knew.
	I don't have any idea what that would be called.
	I don't think I have it either.
	But yeah, and as we deconstructed, a lot of it has to do with attention.
	Well, this is one deconstruction, that it sounds like a baby crying.
	And this was a musical deconstruction that someone had on this.
	It sounds like a baby crying, and that is often used to get attention, and it's all subliminal.
	Women aren't actually thinking about doing this, but they do.
	While we're on the misogynistic tip, this has been going around, the Stanford, the Stanford's, who was this?
	Yes, Stanford University, Published a list of words and phrases you are really not supposed to use because they fall into categories of things that can hurt people.
	Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words really, really hurt.
	Really, really hurt.
	Have you seen this list?
	No, but I'm sure it's a dynamite list.
	Okay.
	Words no longer allowed to be used because they are offensive from the ableism category.
	This is, you know, where if you would say, wow, bite into that apple, Adam, I would say you're a horrible ableist just because you can and I can't at the moment.
	So that's what ableism is.
	Yeah.
	So you can no longer use the words insane.
	Lame, crazy, a tone deaf, and spaz.
	My wife was talking about this list back and forth.
	She said it's great.
	It's a great list because I can still use my favorite word, idiot.
	Idiot is not on the list.
	You're right.
	Yep.
	But spaz is so horrible that Beyonce had to go back and re-record a track on her album to remove the spaz word.
	That's pretty powerful, man, if you get Beyonce to do that.
	Culturally appropriative.
	Uh, you cannot say the word brave.
	So you go into a burning building, you're not brave?
	No, because that perpetuates the stereotype of the noble, courageous, savage.
	You see, the brave... I think the word brave predates the noble, courageous, savage.
	Not according to Stanford.
	You should look that up.
	I will.
	Along with that, of course, tribe.
	Tribe is no longer allowed to be used because that would equate indigenous people with savages.
	And here's my favorite.
	What's wrong with the word tribe?
	It's historically used to equate indigenous people with savages.
	It's not used that way anymore.
	Are you at Stanford?
	Do you have a degree from Stanford?
	No.
	No, but Cal beat Stanford in the last big game.
	Okay, well, you're not good at words, you're good at game.
	Also, for Bowton, guru!
	Because this is appropriative of the Buddhist and Hindu relations.
	What if the guy's a Hindu?
	Well, then you can use it, of course.
	It's only for white people at Stanford.
	Uh, gender problems.
	Oh, he, she.
	It's just, it's just, you're just not using that anymore.
	Ladies, landlord, landlady, gentlemen, freshmen, congressmen, you guys.
	All foreboding.
	Seminal.
	Oh, terrible.
	Seminal is not allowed.
	Transgendered.
	This is confusing.
	Transgendered is not allowed because this term avoids connections that being transgender is something that is done to a person and or that some kind of transition is required.
	Oh goodness.
	What does that even mean?
	It means because if you say someone's transgendered, then that's not their whole self.
	It means they went through some kind of transition, which of course is exactly what happened, but you're not allowed to say it, according to Stanford.
	These guys have lost the plot.
	Okay, here's a couple other words.
	Abort.
	You can't say abort.
	You know why, obviously.
	Because it could unintentionally raise religious or moral concerns over abortion.
	And here's my favorite.
	American.
	This is not a good word to use, apparently.
	Oh, no.
	This term often refers to the people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S.
	is the most important country in the Americas.
	Thug.
	We know thug is not allowed.
	Is there any other country that uses the word American to refer to themselves as a people?
	I know in Canada they call themselves Canadians, and Mexicans are called Mexicans in Mexico.
	And Costa Ricans call themselves Costa Ricans, they don't call themselves Americans.
	And South Americans, you're in South America, the Brazilians think of themselves as Brazilians.
	So why can't we are the United States of America, we call ourselves Americans, we should call ourselves the United Statesians?
	Yes!
	There you go.
	What do we call ourselves?
	Just call them assholes of the world.
	That's what everyone thinks.
	Especially with these lists.
	Okay.
	Oh!
	We violated many things just today.
	Homeless person, immigrant, prisoner, and prostitute.
	No longer usable because these are person first language terms.
	And people are not defined by just one of their characteristics.
	Wait a minute.
	So you can't say police officer either, I guess.
	He's a cop!
	I guess you can't say steel worker.
	There you go.
	There's violence words, violent words, and you use this one.
	So who, what department over at our vaunted Stanford, which is right, I can see it from here, what department came up with this bullcrap?
	They should be ashamed of themselves.
	Well, let me link into, yes they should be.
	Oh, well now it has a password all of a sudden.
	They're just trying, they're trying to, They're trying to ruin the country.
	And the language.
	I think it's the psychology department.
	Oh, the psychology department.
	They're losers.
	Let's see.
	A couple more here.
	So, you use trigger warning.
	That is very violent.
	Very violent.
	You shouldn't even use it.
	War room.
	Hello, Steve Banyan.
	Pull the trigger.
	Can't use that.
	What about pump da brakes?
	Is not on the list.
	But it should be.
	Killing two birds with one stone.
	Violence against animals.
	Oh no!
	I love this one.
	Long time no see.
	You can't say that.
	Because, you know, the etymology of long time no see was originally used to mock Chinese.
	Long time no see.
	Bull crap.
	Well, that's according to Stanford, the psych department.
	Just saying.
	Just saying.
	It's a joke.
	Somebody put this out as humor.
	These Stanford guys do this stuff.
	I don't think so.
	They write up stuff like this and they put it out as though it's real.
	I mean, they did this years ago during that famous Stanford-Berkeley football game where the band was on the field and Kel won the game.
	They snuck in and printed the entire Daily Californian on the side and passed out copies all over the Berkeley campus telling everyone that the NCAA rejected the game results.
	And everybody believed it.
	And it was like, they do this constantly.
	This is a joke.
	This is a joke.
	I'm telling you right now.
	I don't think it's a joke.
	Folks, time!
	Here is the true humor.
	It comes, of course, from anyone involved in today's health.
	And that is celebrities and clergy and health ministers all alike.
	Let's make a mockery of COVID because it's that time again.
	We've got to just flood the airwaves with messages of getting boosters and be very afraid of all kinds of other things that are swirling around.
	And it's time for some of the worst, the absolute worst writing in history.
	Here's the Canadian health minister who does a little skit with Mrs. Claus.
	Are you all set for the holiday season?
	Of course.
	I must say, Dr. Tam, it just warms my heart to see everyone in Canada, especially kids, working so hard to keep the holidays safe and cheerful for all.
	So am I, Mrs. Claus.
	Every child in Canada has definitely earned a place on the nice list.
	Their parents and caregivers too.
	It's been a tough season with lots of viruses making people sick.
	Thankfully, Santa and I are feeling as healthy as ever.
	We are both up to date with our vaccinations, including COVID boosters and flu shots.
	That's so good to hear.
	I always tell Santa to make a list and check it twice.
	One, stay up to date on your vaccinations.
	Two, wear a mask in crowded indoor places and make sure it fits nice and snug.
	Three, wash your hands to the tune of jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
	Great advice.
	Great voice, too.
	And they also have some Asian woman up there who's the health minister.
	What is it?
	Great voice, too.
	Thank you.
	Great advice.
	Great advice.
	You're great, Mr. Santa Claus.
	I'm going to go get my shot now.
	Let's go to Oklahoma, where the clergy has been influenced.
	Here's the bishop.
	Hello, my name is Bishop Poulsen, and I am the bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma.
	So as soon as I had the opportunity to get the COVID vaccine, I got it as quickly as I could, and it was a great experience.
	Very easy to do.
	What?
	It was a great experience!
	What?
	What is this guy?
	He's a liar!
	He's a bishop!
	The schedule didn't have very much at all in the way of side effects.
	Now, just as this plays forward, remember that a lot of money went towards bringing in faith leaders, celebrities, clergy, all kinds of people.
	This guy's one of them.
	He took the money.
	And all, and it's, no matter what it is, this is why we have Reverend Al, the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
	They are the ones that are brought in to tell the community what they should believe.
	When I think about getting the vaccine, when I thought about getting it myself and did get it, when I think about it for others, I think of that really central command that Jesus gives us, which is to love our neighbor as ourself.
	We know that this vaccine is very effective, very safe.
	And so even if it's a minor inconvenience for us, we might have a few mild symptoms, we have to get it scheduled on the calendar, we know that that can protect somebody in our family, can protect somebody in our church community, protect somebody in our workplace and beyond.
	And that is something that Jesus would have us do, to protect those that we can.
	Even if it comes with just a little bit of inconvenience for us.
	I got mine, and I hope that you will too.
	So, alright.
	Blast, femur!
	Yes, I agree.
	And also, what they do, and I say they, this is the propaganda team, they bring They bring back the lie that you need to get vaccinated to protect other people.
	We know this is patently untrue.
	This has been admitted and proven, but they're just pretending it doesn't exist.
	And clergy, how about some celebrities?
	It goes through your mind when you hear a lot of the anti-vaccine rhetoric.
	This is Sean Penn.
	It's a cowardice of conviction.
	I think that it is an unwillingness to engage in a culture of common sense that at this point it seems criminal to me, actually.
	I really feel that if someone chooses not to be vaccinated, that they should choose to stay home, not go to work, not have a job.
	These, you know, as long as we're all paying for these streets, we got to ride safely on them.
	And so I'm just hopeful that the mindset will change.
	And it started, we know that this really started with leadership voids.
	And now I think that there are some examples of leadership that are being helpful with it.
	But we really got to get everyone else, everybody on the same page.
	And I think the CDC should be much more clear.
	I mean, they're just working on the old playbook.
	It worked before.
	But it's a blatant lie.
	It's working again.
	It's a blatant lie.
	All right, well, since we're talking about About vaccines and mandates, and I want to reiterate that luckily not everyone gets sick from the vaccine.
	It seems to be a percentage of people, but it's a percentage that is worrying.
	I have people in my family and my friend circles who have been vaccinated.
	I'm very worried for everybody, but luckily not everyone goes through a bad time.
	Uh, but the people who are or will go through a bad time, well, you know, again, this, I've never heard of this before.
	I've been doing this show for 15 years.
	I would, I notice patterns.
	That's kind of what I do.
	People dying around the holidays, people dying from whistles on, uh, at soccer matches, people dying from all, you know, well, Oh, stuff like this.
	We turn now to your health this holiday season, and we're not talking about the flu or COVID, but about your heart.
	The risk is serious, and doctors are trying to spread the word.
	See, and literally throwing, it's not COVID or flu.
	Don't worry about that.
	It's your heart.
	This morning, doctors are urging Americans to put heart health at the top of their holiday to-do list.
	That's because more people die from heart attacks between December 25th and January 1st compared to any other week of the year, with Christmas Day being the deadliest day of all.
	Doctors say the leading factors include family stress and falling out of good habits like healthy eating.
	It's not just An issue that holiday heart is a benign condition.
	It actually is a very potentially serious condition that causes people to develop heart failure symptoms.
	Increased alcohol intake can also result in what doctors call holiday heart syndrome.
	Have they said it enough?
	Have they said holiday heart enough times so we don't have it?
	I love it!
	Suddenly, holiday heart, holiday heart, have some holiday heart, have some eggnog.
	But that's when binge drinking causes irregular heartbeats, which are associated with a higher risk for stroke.
	Is this true?
	Does heavier drinking accelerate your heartbeats?
	I don't know any of this to be true and what I find peculiar is that I think a lot of people actually eat quite well on the holidays.
	You got some nice bird meat, which is, you know, it's not like eating a big prime rib.
	Uh, you've got some usually potatoes of some sort or sometimes yams and vegetables.
	Excuse me, are you saying a prime rib is bad for you?
	No, I'm just saying if you're going to look at healthy food, generally speaking, people would say that a bird meat would probably be healthier than beef meat.
	I disagree.
	I disagree.
	I think the beef... Okay, well, no, I know.
	You can take either side, but let's say you have prime meat.
	It's beside the point.
	You're not eating a hamburger from McDonald's, let's put it that way.
	You're not eating a wood chip meal that's from one of the fast food places.
	You're eating prime rib or turkey meat or a ham or something that's well prepared.
	Not true, not true, not true.
	The Jews, they go eat Chinese crap.
	Yes, they do.
	Typically on Christmas, they brag about it.
	I've talked to horror witches about this.
	I'm on the inside of this.
	And yeah, they love to go eat Chinese food, but Chinese food is very healthy.
	Are you Jewish adjacent?
	Is that what you're telling me?
	Once a week, Jew.
	That's me.
	Wait, there's more.
	I have never heard of this.
	Ever.
	be more predisposed to it but you can have no history of any heart related conditions and drink excessively or consume too much alcohol during the holidays and you could create a situation where you develop atrial fibrillation i have never heard of this ever congestive heart failure even in the absence of any pre-existing risk factors a lack of sleep is another major you're concerned.
	A new survey found adults, on average, lose 39 minutes of sleep per night over the holidays.
	And if you're hosting a holiday party, prepare to get even less shut-eye.
	Party hosts reported sleeping up to 83 minutes less than usual on their party night.
	All contributing factors that doctors warn could spoil the holiday fun if you don't make time to take care of yourself.
	It could spoil your holiday fun if you fall down dead from a heart attack.
	Thank you, ABC.
	Australia has an even more egregious way of communicating that you just might die, you just might be unlucky, but it's not from anything that you put into yourself.
	No, no.
	A Santa visit is part of the Christmas tradition for many families.
	What would you like for Christmas?
	One health expert says he's promoting unhealthy eating habits unless he loses a few belt sizes.
	And I'm calling for a healthier representation of such an iconic figure which is Father Christmas.
	Doctor says obesity shouldn't be celebrated at a time when so many people overindulge.
	Statistics show that there is a significant increase of heart attack and fizzes to the ER during this period of the year.
	We should not associate this wonderful, joyful time of the year with the need of overeating.
	An idea professional Santas are losing their hats over.
	So, don't be fat because you can die from a heart attack.
	But they're conflating it with Santa.
	Santa's a bad example because he's fat.
	I'm so tired of this.
	So now we have... You're not tired of it.
	You lap it up.
	We have Strep A. Strep A. Strep A. Meanwhile, doctors are monitoring a rare bacterial infection in children.
	At least seven children showed up at a hospital in Missouri with a variety of symptoms that turned out to be a deadly invasive form of Strep A. Symptoms include rashes and unexplained swelling.
	One of our producers in the UK in the business says, I want to mention the outbreak of strep that has killed many children in the UK appears to be linked to the flu mist nasal flu vaccine.
	And here are indeed two links from PubMed.
	A live attenuated influenza vaccine enhances colonization of streptococcus pneumoniae and streptophyllococcus aureus in mice.
	So in other words, the vaccine is killing the mice.
	And a second one, the effects of live attenuated influenza vaccine in nasopharyn, that's no stuff, bacteria in healthy 2-4 year olds, and they came up with a randomized controlled trial, was not good for the 2-4 year olds.
	So this vaccine... The product itself is contaminated.
	It sounds like it.
	Yeah.
	And they don't have to worry about it.
	Who cares?
	Quality control goes out the window because you're all covered.
	Don't worry about it.
	It's all good to go.
	You're vaccine covered.
	That's right.
	So then... We gotta bring liability back into play here.
	This is nonsense.
	This is crazy.
	I'm with you.
	I'm with you.
	So we have all kinds of shortages.
	And because of the shortages, this is what we talked about on the show.
	In an effort to combat the so-called triple-demic of flu, COVID, and RSV, the Biden administration is set to release Tamiflu from the Strategic National Stockpile.
	The prescription antiviral will be sent to states that request it.
	Officials hope it will ease some of the supply issues affecting respiratory medications.
	So they're going to release Tamiflu from the stockpile.
	Too new.
	From the stockpile because it's hard to...
	Now, I find this a very challenging report because I had 800 milligram pills of ibuprofen.
	I had amoxicillin.
	I had hydrocodone.
	I threw most of that out.
	It just gave me gas and constipation.
	But now we have these reports popping up.
	Well, this just in, two of the nation's largest pharmacy chains are now limiting purchases of ibuprofen and acetaminophen for children because of short supply and high demand.
	Amid nationwide outbreaks of flu and other respiratory illnesses, CVS says it's limiting shoppers to two products each.
	Walgreens is limiting online orders to six over-the-counter pain and fever relief products for children.
	Six products?
	This is not a shortage!
	This is a bogo!
	You guys, this is a promotion!
	It's too much.
	This is bullcrap!
	If there's a shortage, you don't need two bottles of ibuprofen.
	Who needs six?
	Yeah, I mean, I get a bottle of ibuprofen and it lasts for months on end.
	Like six months, one bottle.
	Here's a good morning America hour three with the doctor.
	And this is not good here, our doctor said- It's not good here, doctor!
	Your pharmacy chain's- We gotta sell some more ibuprofen!
	In the sales of children's pain medication as a result of this surge of respiratory viruses.
	What do we need to know?
	Well, there's a move from pharmacies as well as the federal level to avoid people from stockpiling these medications, which have been so useful for patients... Well, they're just telling us to.
	This is a big pharma end of year.
	They're like, hey, you know what?
	Jump inventory.
	Yes!
	children during this winter season.
	So here's what's going on.
	I just wanted to define exactly what we're seeing.
	So due to the increase in demand and supplier changes, products are seeing constraints.
	And with that, places like CVS and Walgreens are limiting the amount that patients can get.
	For example, in CVS, two medications per patient.
	And I'm talking about fever-reducing medications and those medications that we use to treat symptoms, for example, Mucinex.
	Also, there are limitations applied to those products bought.
	Mucinex.
	Hold on a second. - ...that we use to treat symptoms, for example, mucinex.
	Mucinex?
	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
	I gotta go back.
	I get that sentence before this.
	It's like CVS and Walgreens are limiting the amount that patients can get, for example, in CVS, two medications per patient, and I'm talking about fever-reducing medications and those medications that we use to treat symptoms, for example, Mucinex.
	Mucinex is not a fever-reducing medication, is it?
	No, it's a, uh, what do you call it?
	A, uh... Antihistamine.
	No, it's one of those things that makes you cough up phlegm.
	It's a term for it.
	Congestion.
	Yeah, but there's a term specific for something like euthanasia.
	By the way, while you're playing that, I am on Amazon.
	There is so much Tylenol for children available from a hundred sources and ten packs.
	10 packs.
	There's just like tons of this stuff.
	I mean, this, this just, I mean, Mucinex.
	These are lies.
	Yeah.
	Mucinex is owned by, isn't that owned by Ricketts?
	I think these are some of the biggest.
	Ricketts?
	I think Ricketts owns them.
	Yeah.
	Ricketts.
	Ricketts was a client at one point.
	I think maybe at Podshow.
	Huge, and they do a lot of consumer goods.
	Anyway, I'm skeptical about this being a fever-reducing medicine for children.
	Also, there are limitations applied to those products bought online, and right now the FDA is working to reduce the impact.
	Oh, wait, how many can you buy online?
	You said ten?
	Ten packs?
	Well, there's a lot of two-packs, but it's so much you can get online.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's page after page.
	But we still need to work on it.
	That's if Tylenol for children alone.
	I didn't look up anything else.
	Ensure that people prevent them from stockpiling and collecting these medications, because they can be so helpful.
	And you only really need one bottle of Tylenol, for example, to last you a season.
	Don't buy the whole rack.
	So you don't need the whole rack from the whole family pack.
	You just need one bottle, and that's good enough.
	So if parents see empty shelves, and they're desperate because they have a kid at home with a fever, can they break up adult medications, or they should stay away from doing that?
	I would avoid that.
	As an emergency physician, a part of my clinical experience involves toxicology, or patients who take too much of some medication, and unfortunately, children are often the victims of that.
	For example, some people may not know that aspirin can be really harmful for children, and they're just trying to help reduce their fever, and they may think that giving them that will be helpful, but I always have to advise to not do that.
	That's good to know.
	Thank you, Dr. Darian.
	Fabulous.
	Thank you, Doc.
	So good to know.
	This has scam written all over it.
	Now, again, I think children are in dire straits because of masking and they're more sensitive and Lord knows what else has been injected into them or put into them.
	But again, we're just seeing the fear-mongering being ratcheted up and make sure that you know that if you don't have a booster that you're going to kill Granny.
	I mean, it's the same stuff.
	When will we say enough?
	And unleash ransomware on these television stations.
	Oh, there's an idea.
	The big three, ABC, CBS, NBC, and all of NBC News and CBS News should have ransomware rampant around their systems.
	They should kill those stations.
	They need to shut down.
	That's not going to happen.
	Shut them down.
	No, it's not going to happen.
	Well, they'll run out of money before anything else happens.
	And this is happening.
	I think we're going to... They've got to stop advertising drugs on the television.
	We're the only country that allows it.
	No, New Zealand also allows it.
	Oh, the great country of New Zealand.
	Here, I have a report for you.
	Did I play the report about the smoking?
	Yeah, we did.
	We played it last show.
	The feds ban smoking for everybody.
	Let's talk about Elon before we go to nightings and birthdays, etc.
	I have two clips.
	Okay, let's do them.
	I got Elon, Twitter Musk, one, and this is an Amy clip.
	You can't say, don't say trigger warning.
	That's violence.
	Elon Musk said he'll resign as Twitter CEO once he finds someone, quote, foolish enough to take the job, unquote.
	Musk tweeted the announcement Tuesday evening after Twitter users voted yes on his poll over whether he should step down.
	Musk waited a day and a half before commenting on the results.
	This comes amidst deepening turmoil at Twitter.
	On Tuesday, 100 former workers filed complaints against Musk and the company, alleging illegal termination, sex-based discrimination, and failure to pay severance.
	Okay, yes, good one.
	That's the basic story, but let's go to part two again.
	Yeah, that's Amy's level, exactly.
	Meanwhile, Twitter continues to leak internal documents via selected reporters and what they're called... Hold on!
	See, this is... Twitter is leaking?
	No, they're not leaking, they're publishing through selected... Ah, shoot!
	Oh gosh, oh goodness.
	Hold on.
	What happened?
	Did the dog bite you finally?
	No, I made a big spill.
	A big spill.
	Dump something.
	Don't let it get on the gear.
	No, I was lucky on the gear.
	It's all in my lap.
	Let me tell you what I was doing.
	I heard you open your can.
	Yeah.
	And I got jealous and I have three mugs.
	I have three mugs.
	Jealous?
	Yes, I was jealous.
	One with coffee.
	One with water, and these are all like Joe Rogan Yeti cups, and one with a small can of Dr. Pepper, which I'm like, oh, I'm going to have my Dr. Pepper.
	Oh, Dr. Pepper, the quicker picker-upper.
	And so the Dr. Pepper is just in the can to keep it cool, and I opened it up sideways to help the can fall out, but it was the water cup, which was full.
	So that's all in my lap.
	Okay.
	Oh, you painted a crazy picture.
	Yes, I did.
	Alright, back to the- So you got water in the lap?
	So you look like you peed yourself while doing the show.
	Pretty much.
	Meanwhile, Twitter continues to make internal documents via selected reporters in what they're calling the Twitter files.
	On Tuesday, journalist Lee Fung posted part eight of the release, which shows how Twitter assisted the Pentagon in an online influence campaign by protecting certain accounts at the military's behest, including fake ones.
	Right.
	This is very interesting because it fits perfectly into the repealing of Smith-Mundt, which was actually in a National Defense Authorization Act during Obama.
	And along with that, I would say that these documents are beautifully redacted.
	They are redacted.
	It's horrible.
	But wait, what are they redacting?
	They're redacting the fact that all of this stuff took place during Obama's tenure.
	That's what they're redacting.
	They're taking out the year and the date so you can't figure out that this all was put in place during Obama.
	That's interesting.
	Where'd you get that from?
	From my wife.
	Good for her.
	To be honest with you.
	I want to say I'm glad you caught this other aspect which I missed and I shouldn't have.
	Which is that she used the word leaked.
	Inappropriately.
	It's not being leaked.
	No.
	It's not like leaks, like something under the table.
	It's being done officially.
	It's exactly the way Glenn Greenwald did the Snowden files.
	It runs through lawyers.
	Lawyers redact.
	They take stuff out.
	This is all controlled.
	And I'm sorry, but Barry Weiss, Schellenberger, and all these other people, they are... I don't think they all know it, but they are being used.
	I would agree with that.
	Well, interesting you bring this up.
	Let's talk about big tech for a second because we still have to get rid of the real problem in big tech and the real problem is the money problem.
	on Tuesday I'm sorry I already played that all right well interesting you bring this up let's talk about big tech for a second because we still have to get rid of the real problem in big tech and the real problem is the money problem the problem is Facebook Twitter to an extent certainly although it's not Twitter doesn't really care um
	Google, they have one big problem, and the big problem is the ad money that is left, because that's drying up very, very quickly, the first budgets to get slashed are online, and we can talk about that a bit more, because I listen to Pivot, my hate listen, And they have two ad breaks.
	Two in pivot.
	Both ad breaks.
	That's Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.
	Both ad breaks were empty.
	No ad.
	So we'll be right back.
	And we're back.
	No ad break.
	No ad to the sports.
	So they kept the clock where there's an ad break and they announced it as though that maybe someday in some distant future someone could drop an ad in there and maybe they get a nickel or two.
	Are you kidding me?
	Let's just swallow your pride and go through and finish the show without an ad.
	That's not how it works.
	This is interesting because Tina also questioned this.
	The way it works is these are ads that are sold, so you just do the show and they insert ads in the breaks.
	After the fact.
	But they had nothing.
	They didn't even have a house ad to sell.
	Well, if you ever watch Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, trigger warning, she always takes these breaks and they've never had an ad in the 20 years of the show.
	Well, the fact that it's drying up on top podcasts like Pivot says that this is a real problem.
	And all the money that's left is going to TikTok.
	So I had the top Republican commissioner from the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, on my show a few days ago, and I asked him about TikTok.
	He told me that American kids using TikTok are bombarded with addictive content, pushing self-harm, pushing eating disorders, while the Chinese version of the app in China is pushing educational material and a mandatory time limit so Chinese kids can't be on that app too long.
	Do you think China's doing that purposefully, trying to use TikTok to harm American children?
	The short answer is we don't know, but Brennan Carr has called it digital fentanyl, and I think that comparison is apt for two reasons.
	One is he points out digital fentanyl.
	It's highly addictive, highly destructive.
	It's increasing the loneliness, isolation, and rising rates of suicide and depression we're seeing among America's youth.
	And also, like actual fentanyl, ultimately you can trace it back to China.
	The precursor chemicals for fentanyl come from China.
	The other thing is that... Hey, hey, hey, listen Mr. Gallagher.
	Why don't you go do something about actual fentanyl, you douchebag?
	Whether or not they're doing it intentionally, there's another asymmetry in our relationship.
	Chinese propagandists, Chinese wolf warrior diplomats are all over our social media companies, Twitter, Facebook, spreading dangerous lies about the United States, attacking us.
	While at the same time, they deny their own citizens in China access to those very same technology platforms.
	That doesn't make sense.
	That's not a reciprocal relationship.
	So one thing I've encouraged Twitter executives to do is to apply a standard that says if you deny your citizens access, we won't allow you access to our platform to spread dangerous lies.
	There's all sorts of ways we can get at the information competition, the ideological competition.
	That's an essential part of winning this new Cold War.
	Hey, hey, hey, how about educating the kids a little bit?
	Maybe in school, actually have them learn something like American history.
	Maybe the War of Saratoga.
	That might be useful.
	Stop making sense!
	So the US Senate just voted unanimously to ban TikTok from government phones.
	TikTok is a popular app that is from China.
	You have a bill to ban TikTok completely.
	nationally over its ties to China and because of national security risks.
	For the 100 million TikTok users in the U.S., including two-thirds of teenagers, including two teenagers I know very well, what information could the Chinese government be collecting about them?
	Hold on, stop the clip.
	Clip stopped.
	Is he talking about a couple of his teenage lovers?
	What is he talking about?
	I think he's talking about... Does he?
	I think he does have kids, yes.
	Oh, okay.
	I take back what I said.
	Remember, Jake Tapper, who was a prominent guest... Oh, I thought this was Cooper, Anderson Cooper.
	No, no, it's Jake Tapper, but he was... Oh, it's Jake Tapper.
	He sounds like Cooper.
	That's funny.
	Not at all.
	Well, he doesn't beat today.
	I don't know.
	Tapper, who was right there front and center at the Deputy CIA Director's birthday party at his home.
	Oh, that's nice.
	With the rest of CNN?
	In the U.S., including two-thirds of teenagers, including two teenagers I know.
	I can see where you get the Cooper from.
	It's a little adenoidal.
	Yeah, no, it's a little adenoidal.
	He's got that, and here's the problem.
	Once you're glued into that thought that it is Cooper, then it's Cooper.
	Yeah, you keep hearing it.
	But Jake, it doesn't sound as gay.
	Well, no, now that I know who it is, I hear Jake.
	I'm pretty close to keeping these things normal.
	In the U.S., including two-thirds of teenagers, including two teenagers... By the way, Pooper also has a kid, FYI.
	Just so you know, in 2022, gay guys can have kids, you know.
	It's all right.
	Good for them.
	Yes.
	Well, what information could the Chinese government be collecting about them?
	And should they delete that app?
	They should.
	And I recognize, particularly as a younger member of Congress, this will make me very unpopular with your teenagers and many others.
	But the fundamental problem is this, Jake.
	TikTok is owned by ByteDance, and ByteDance is effectively controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
	The editor-in-chief of ByteDance, for example, is a CCP secretary and has talked about making sure all product lines, all business lines follow appropriate political controls.
	So the question we have to ask is whether we want to give the CCP the ability to track our location, track what websites we visit, even when we're not using the TikTok app itself.
	And increasingly, since a large percentage of young Americans use TikTok to get their news, whether we want them to have the ability to selectively Edit that news.
	It's as if in 1958, given that TikTok is on the cusp of becoming the most powerful media company in America, we would have allowed the KGB and Pravda to buy the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, all combined.
	They didn't?
	Well, here's the sad thing.
	They're pointing all fingers at China and TikTok.
	Now, first of all, the fact that the whole US government has banned themselves from loading the TikTok app on their phone shows you how many people are in bed with big tech.
	These guys are funded by pharma and tech, pharma and tech.
	That's who's paying for your representatives.
	Maybe there's... I'll be...
	I'll be generous and say 10% of your politicians may not be affected by this, but they're the ones that are here today and gone tomorrow because they got no money, they can't be on committees, the whole thing is so corrupt.
	And to say, oh, this is, oh yeah, no, it's national security.
	The real danger is our own media and technology services businesses.
	And I would like to go back to the 1970s.
	We had a committee called the Church Committee.
	And the church committee, and you can go look that up, famously, the question was asked, hey, do you have any CIA agents working as reporters?
	Well, yeah, kinda.
	Where?
	Oh, I don't know, CBS, NBC, ABC, all the big ones.
	Oh, and then they had to take it into secret Q&A session because it turns out that the intelligence services were all rife throughout journalism.
	Who knows, Kara Swisher could be a spy.
	She certainly wants to be one.
	She could be a spook, she could be an intelligent asset.
	It would be a new technique, because generally speaking, spooks don't draw attention to themselves by saying they want to be spooks.
	Correct.
	But, like I said, it could be a new technique.
	In 1975, what was the state-of-the-art computers in 1975?
	Well, the first microprocessor was coming out around then, and 75-76 is when hobby, 80-80 hobbyists were starting to build different kinds of computers.
	It was beginning.
	The personal computer revolution was beginning in 1975.
	In 1975.
	Let's go back to August 17th, 1975.
	And let's listen to Senator Frank Church, the one I just told you about, on NBC's Meet the Press.
	But let me tell you this.
	In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, The United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air.
	These messages are between ships at sea, they could be between units, military units in the field.
	We have a very extensive capability.
	of intercepting messages wherever they may be in the airwaves.
	Now that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies.
	We must know.
	At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people.
	And no American would have any privacy left such as the capability to monitor everything.
	Telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter.
	There would be no place to hide.
	If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny.
	And there would be no way to fight back.
	Because the most careful effort To combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.
	Such is the capability of this technology.
	Now, why is this investigation important?
	I'll tell you why.
	Because I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America.
	And we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision.
	So that we never cross over that abyss.
	That's the abyss from which there is no return.
	And hello from the other side of the abyss.
	Yeah, we're on the other side of the abyss.
	Yeah!
	Hello!
	This started a while ago.
	This is done.
	This is a beautiful clip.
	It explains so perfectly what the problem is.
	So when you see the drip, drip, drip on purpose of the, I believe, even intelligence controlled sub stack gang, this is all a part of it.
	You are in their matrix.
	They hear everything.
	You fart, they know it.
	They know everything.
	I totally believe that.
	They were doing experiments on social networking back in the 70s.
	I don't know about the farting part.
	Okay, well, as long as you're near your phone.
	You have to be near the computer.
	If you fart while you're on the computer, they know.
	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 I'm wondering when that was going to happen Let's go with thanking a few people and starting with Loralee.
	Loralee Rinne in Statesville, North Carolina.
	$133.13 and she says, Merry Christmas, guys.
	And she's looking for some job karma.
	We're going to give you some of that at the end.
	Jason Bible, B-Y-B-E-L, or Bibble, Bible, I think it's Bible, in Austin, $112, $120.12.
	Amanda West in Red Wing, Minnesota with a birthday, $100.
	The birthday shout out to Batman.
	Ian Field, $100.
	Red Wing, Minnesota with a birthday.
	$100 is a birthday shout-out to Batman.
	Ian Field, $100.
	Jennifer Ryan in Snoqualmie, Washington, $100.
	Keith, she's got the pronunciation here.
	Hold on.
	I gotta read his note.
	Gents, in the morning, this $100 secures my knighthood.
	It's a couple of, what's the one that, I can't remember.
	There's one particular town which has a debatable pronunciation.
	Keith Johnson in Midland, Michigan, $100.
	Hold on.
	And he's going to be a night.
	Yeah, I got to read his note.
	Gents, in the morning, this $100 secures my nighthood.
	I'd like the title of Sir Beavis of the Saginaw Valley, if you could.
	I'd like Faygo cream soda and extra sharp pinconing cheese at the table, please.
	Pin-coning?
	Pin-coning?
	Pin-coning.
	Pin-coning cheese.
	I have no idea.
	I've been listening to the show from the start.
	And John, back to the Cranky Geeks days and appreciate all the work you two put in.
	73s.
	Kilo, Bravo, 8, Sierra, Oscar, Echo.
	Well, 73s.
	Kilo, 5, Alpha, Charlie, Charlie.
	Nightlight Snacks in Lynnbrook, New York.
	A hundred.
	Chris Palmos in Thomasburg, Ontario, Canada.
	A hundred.
	That's a nice, nice... What's a double verbal fry?
	What is this?
	What?
	We did a whole spot on... That's interesting.
	Vocal fry by coincidence.
	Dan and Tracy Sullivan in Tinley Park, Illinois.
	See you at Tashnoto.
	I have these notes.
	There's two of them.
	These are handwritten notes that we received?
	No, these are cards.
	These are giant cards.
	I don't know if they got scanned in because it says first note.
	Yeah, they got scanned in.
	So this is... I got two of them.
	It's hard to open.
	From Dan and Tracy Sullivan.
	Hope you, your family have a wonderful Christmas.
	Thanks for all the hard work.
	I love these cards.
	Please add a donation to our account.
	We're down to 29 in Hill Country now.
	You do the counting yourself, and we trust you.
	We trust you.
	The honor system.
	Dame Patricia in Miami, Florida.
	That's Dame Patricia Worthington of Biscayne Bay.
	And she says, this is a card in.
	Merry Christmas to the world's best podcasters.
	Oh, thank you.
	Not just best podcasters.
	Yeah, it got sent to us anyway.
	Wrong address.
	All right, thanks.
	Christopher Walker in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	It's the birthday, and that's 9876.
	I hope your mouth is healing nicely.
	It is.
	You know what?
	In the medical profession I've learned, here's how it goes.
	Nice healing!
	I had no idea.
	This, you've got really nice healing.
	It's like, not like it's healing nice, it's nice, this is nice healing.
	It's like a, it's like a thing.
	That means it's going nice.
	It's going nicely.
	It's nice.
	Nice.
	Kevin McLaughlin's up.
	Locus, North Carolina.
	8008, which is Boob.
	Donation Archduke of Luna.
	Uh, Jake Wirill in Kerwin, Kansas.
	8008 needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Another boob-lover, Matthew Snyder there in San Francisco, California, 8008, also needs a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington.
	6-9-6-9.
	I always thought it was 6-9-9-6 with him.
	Edward Bala in Rathdrum.
	Rathdrum.
	I-E.
	What is that?
	That's not Ireland.
	Is that Ireland or is that in... I think so.
	Yes, a wee donation.
	Yeah, it's Ireland.
	Oh, yes, yes.
	5-6-7-8.
	Just a wee donation, obviously.
	Stephen Judd in Springdale, Arkansas.
	Guys, I see that Stephen sent a note to a non-existent address, so... No agenda.net, that's funny.
	Yeah, we have that, but there's not an email address on that.
	It's like, people just guess.
	So, don't worry, Q1, we're going to have a great new donation page, everything's going to be fixed, and it's going to be solidified, you're going to love it.
	Q1 is going to be...
	Well, at least we can get, well, notes at noagendashow.net is nowhere on the donation page.
	Nowhere.
	No, it's not.
	Okay, so that will help.
	You really think so?
	No, but at least it gives me something to bitch about.
	Oh, yeah. yeah.
	Catharina van Esch.
	Well, you're gonna have to pronounce it.
	See if you can pronounce it.
	She's in Hilversum, Netherlands.
	Catharina van Esch.
	I don't even see her.
	Oh, Van Esch.
	Van Esch.
	Van Esch.
	Catharina van Esch.
	Dat snap je zelf toch ook wel?
	Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Tatiana Prince in Hollywood, Florida.
	Joe Oswald in Lithia, Florida.
	Michael Sikora in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
	Mike David Wendling in Marietta, California.
	Robert Hanna in Poway, California.
	A lot of Californians today.
	Sir Patrick McComm in New York City.
	Robert Case in Mill Springs, North Carolina.
	Chris Galian in Meridian, Idaho.
	Christy Jones in Demarest, Georgia.
	Stephen Crummey in El Cajon, California.
	And last on the list is Matt Illingworth in Montclair, New Jersey.
	I want to thank all these folks for... Oh, there's actually another one more.
	Yeah, you have to read it.
	Well, and by the way, Matt, my old stomping grounds, Montclair.
	David Higgins in Santa Ynez, California.
	California, $50.
	And Michael Sikora wanted a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you to these producers and all the producers came in under $50 for anonymity, of course, and you You may still be on one of those long-term sustaining donations.
	We really appreciate those.
	It does pick up the slack in the slower months, like around Christmas time, and every single time we go into a recession or depression.
	It's appreciated.
	It helps us get through.
	And for those who requested it, we've got a Jobs Karma.
	Jobs!
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	Y'all, here is the birthday agenda, Dylan Lang, celebrated on the 20th.
	Gummy Nerds, his birthday is today.
	Amanda, uh, wait, is tomorrow.
	No, it is today, the 22nd.
	Amanda West, who wishes Batman a happy birthday, for today, the 22nd.
	Darius Unity wishes his youngest daughter Lillian a happy birthday.
	She turns five today.
	And he wants her to know how much he loves her and her sister.
	Earl of Murfreesboro turns 50 and James Little turns 53.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	One change to be exact.
	Dame Abigail, Lady of the Rhyming Lines, becomes Baronetess Abigail, a Dame of the Rhyming Lines.
	And thank you very much for your additional support of the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000.
	Dame Abigail, welcome to the Baronetesshood well-deserved.
	We do have a lady coming up to be a Dame.
	This is a blade.
	Hold on.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	You want to put that one back?
	It's 18 degrees in Fredericksburg as we speak.
	Here you go, everybody.
	Up on the podium, Flo, Scott Salamangal, Robbie Yostan, and Keith Johnson, all of you who supported the Noah Jenner Show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the K-D as Dame Flo of the Black Isles, Sir Mango Meat, Knight of the Costa Ballena.
	Sir Bobby the Redoer and Sir Beavis of the Saginaw Valley, for you we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, also Frippin' Sure Flakes, Horse Meat, of course, and Crudités, Maker's Mark and Magic Mushrooms, Phao Cream, Soda, and Extra Sharp Pink Honing Cheese, and of course, we've got some sparkling cider and escorts, bong hits and bourbon, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pavlum, and the favorite, mutton and mead, doubled up today for those who are naked.
	You can have more mutton now if you like, and while you purge on that, go to noagendanation.com slash ring so we can get the address to send it to.
	Once we have everything in, we are shipping about like every seven or eight weeks.
	It's a bespoke order, obviously, because we have your size, which you also need to give us.
	But it does come with the wax to seal your very important correspondence.
	It is a signet ring and of course we have the Certificate of Authenticity.
	Thank you all and welcome once again to the roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	No Agenda Meetup!
	It's like a party!
	Yeah, we had a big party at the No Agenda Meetup in Indianapolis, the December 22 Indy Meetup.
	You gotta check these guys out, man.
	They are on fire!
	Hello, this is Maria.
	And this is Mark.
	Merry Christmas from the Indianapolis tribe!
	Stay safe!
	New Yorko here with my smoking hot wife and our little human resource.
	Merry Christmas to all, to all the knights and dames out there.
	God bless.
	Hello, this is Chloe, the smoking hot wife.
	I, Tim, John, and Adam, nod from Indianapolis.
	Merry Christmas and stay safe!
	I'm from Newcastle and I just want to say Merry Christmas to my son, Sir Ryan Thomas, who hit me in the mouth about 14 years ago.
	Happy Holidays!
	Hi, this is Sir Rupert of the Maypole.
	He, him.
	Merry Christmas to all the producers and a Happy New Year.
	Looking forward to Q1.
	Sir Benny here.
	I'm doing this early because I'm going to go back drinking with everybody.
	Everybody have a good Christmas.
	In the morning, day is one.
	Hey, this is Emily.
	I'm starting something fun here.
	Bye.
	Hey, this is Diane.
	I told you I'd be back.
	Guess what I got for Christmas?
	This is Sir Fodfather and Dame Doreen Adele from Indianapolis wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
	Brittany Shaver, Zionsville, Indiana.
	Hey, this is Drew from Carmel, Indiana, having a great time at the Christmas party, eating Nolacek's summer sausage, and still not vaccinated.
	In the morning to you, John and Adam, this is Nick.
	Sinterklaas is KGB.
	Soiree de Pete is MI6.
	Hey, this is Guzman of the Midwest.
	Adam, John, I've only known you for about two years now, but the Indie NA meetups are the best, and so is No Agenda.
	Thank you for everything you do.
	Hi, this is Cindy from Carmel, ITM.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Merry Christmas, John and Adam.
	In the morning!
	Merry Christmas!
	I mean, come on, if there was an award for the best report, it's got to be Indiana.
	They're really doing a great job.
	A lot of people there and they still shove it into one report.
	Beautiful.
	Well done.
	And The Keeper and I are coming to your meetup in the new year.
	Guaranteed.
	She's from the Indianas.
	So we look forward to that.
	And if you've never been to one of these meetups, you can tell these are all degenerates.
	But look how much fun they're having.
	They're all on the spectrum.
	They're all something.
	Everyone's got something weird and we love each other for it.
	You need to go check out a No Agenda Meetup.
	In fact, you can go Friday if you happen to be in New Haven, Connecticut.
	Now it says the organizer is Roundy, and I'm going to think that's Roger Roundy.
	Elm City Meetup, 7 Eastern at the Anchor Spa.
	And then it's to the Owl Shop.
	Now it really sounds like a Roundy operation.
	I could be wrong, but it says Roundy.
	Coming up the rest of this year, we have Anchorage, Alaska on the 28th, and Canton, Michigan, also on the 28th.
	Then in January, Kernersville, North Carolina, Keyport, New Jersey, Knoxville, Tennessee, New Paltz, New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sonomish, Washington.
	Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
	Petersburg, Ontario.
	Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Wyoming, Minnesota.
	Los Banos, California.
	Durango, Iowa.
	Toronto, Canada.
	I mean, we are bad.
	We are nationwide.
	You gotta be a part of it.
	If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
	No agenda.
	Meetups.com.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You wanna be where you want to be Drink it all, hell's flame You wanna be where everybody feels the same And I want to thank everyone who sent cool stuff to the P.O.
	Box.
	I have books for the, of course we're working on Christmas, but you know, second day of Christmas, we have books, I got all kinds of cool letters to read through, t-shirts, I got a bottle of mead, I mean all kinds of great stuff.
	Oh you got a bottle of mead, that's cool.
	I got some bottle of wine from Amy over there at Verite and she's having a baby.
	Yes, in May.
	That's right.
	She sent Tina and I a couple of bottles as well.
	Like a beautiful... Did you get the box?
	Oh, the box is worth the price of a bottle.
	Oh!
	The box is beautiful with three bottles in it.
	Or did you not get the three-bottle box?
	No, I only got one bottle.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, I got three bottles.
	I like the idea.
	And I have a new beer box.
	Don't drink that wine.
	I hate to say you shouldn't drink it for the holidays, but...
	When wine gets shipped from here to there like that, it takes three months to settle on.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, okay, that's a good point.
	Don't start drinking it.
	Thank you.
	I mean, she would like to have us drink it probably for Christmas.
	A good turkey wine for sure, all of them.
	Well, we're having ham from Nolochek Meats.
	Oh, good for you.
	Yeah, Tina said, I want a ham.
	I said, let's get it from the official supplier of Noahage and the Nation.
	The other thing, just put a microphone in the room and have you stand up and do some talking.
	Oh boy!
	I'm glad the show's over.
	You have any ISOs?
	I do.
	Okay.
	I have... I have two.
	One is lies.
	I don't want to hear any more of these lies!
	Okay, not horrible.
	I'm not against it.
	Okay, the other one is changing.
	We're changing people's lives!
	Also good.
	I only have one.
	Here it is.
	That's all I got.
	Oh, if it had a punchline to it, it'd have been great.
	It's nice and clear.
	I like we're changing people's lives.
	I think that's... I think so too.
	I think that's really good.
	I like that a lot.
	Okay, we shall use that one.
	And let's end this show because we got some end of show mixes coming up.
	We have the Tyrannical Lisp.
	We got Coach Mike.
	We got Rolando Gonzalez.
	We got Secret Agent Paul.
	We got the Rebel.
	All in your end-of-show mixes.
	Credited on every single credits page.
	Up next, we've got bowl after bowl.
	Dun D, Dun the Internet, Sir Spencer and Dame DeLorean.
	I don't know if that's live or not, but it might as well be, because those guys are crazy!
	And, thank you very much.
	I'm 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, well, it's kind of crummy out, but it's not cold and crap like it is in Fredericksburg.
	I'm John C. Duborek.
	We return on Christmas Day.
	Remember us.
	In your prayers and in your pocketbook.
	Christmas Day, everybody.
	We're working.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until Christmas Day, adios mofos, and have a good hooey-hooey and such!
	You better not cry, you better not speak.
	You better black up, we need a black heat.
	Sinterklaas is coming to town.
	He's making a list.
	He's filling his bag.
	He's gonna find out who's been a douchebag since the class is coming to town.
	He knows what you've been searching.
	He looks at you with scorn.
	He knows your browser history and collection of goat porn.
	You better wake up.
	You better download the latest No Agenda episode.
	Sinterklaas is coming.
	Sinterklaas is coming.
	Sinterklaas is coming to town.
	Center class is coming.
	To town.
	Away, away, away, wrote the rebel John Mastodon.
	John Mastodon was a rebel.
	He wrote the internet.
	John Mastodon, a meme load in mom's basement alone.
	He got fighting mad, this rebel led.
	Free speech for thee, but not for me.
	Called me S, his friend said, yes, you rebel.
	John Mastodon, John Mastodon, started coding.
	He built a pedivert.
	John Mastodon decided he should name it for himself.
	When he was done, he cried, Both great and small to share their views and spread the truth and animate on Mastodon.
	Evil Elon.
	Evil Elon is a villain. .
	He never plays fair.
	Evil Elon bans journalists from the public square.
	Now, Elon has to cheat, it really stinks, he blocked the link to johnmazdadon.com.
	John Mazdadon, he will eat up.
	What firewood might tell us about the economy right now.
	In Europe, people are stockpiling firewood as energy bills soar in Europe.
	In Germany, the price of firewood has risen 86% in a year.
	In Bulgaria, it's nearly doubled.
	Even in Switzerland, where inflation is relatively tame, the cost of firewood rose 26% in one month.
	Across Europe, people are bracing for energy shortages this winter, as tensions over the war in Ukraine disrupt Russian gas supplies.
	Trump tried to warn Germany, but they just laughed him off.
	Germany will become totally dependent.
	On Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
	Other wood products are being impacted too.
	The cost of toilet paper has spiraled as the energy required to cook wood pulls.
	Hope becomes more expensive.
	High demand for wood isn't just an economic issue.
	Relaxation of logging laws has led to environmental protests in Hungary.
	Higher wood prices could lead to illegal logging and over-harvesting and a shortage of timber for building.
	Burning wood also emits more particle pollution than road traffic and more CO2 than fossil fuels.
	Even so, it seems firewood will help tackle Europe's energy shortages this winter and nudge it closer to energy independence from Russia.
	Bloomberg suggests lapcats, quilts, and brisk walks to stay warm and make the best of a bad situation.
	As we journey into the Great Reset, just know that your unelected overlords at the World Economic Forum are working tirelessly to create energy equity where everyone is equally cold.
	How is your country handling the energy crisis?
	Reporting for the Great Reset, I'm the Tyrannical Lisp.
	Winter is coming, but the mood is gloomy in Europe.
	This winter cities are reducing the intensity of lighting while companies are turning down the heat.
	Airport officials are expecting to see 3 million passengers come through here this holiday season.
	We're already seeing crowds at the airport as some start their holiday vacation earlier.
	But as we celebrate, we sadly also must realize many cities across Ukraine are having a very different experience this year.
	I only come home once a year now because it's just way too much to come back and forth.
	We have to use less energy, less electricity and fewer illuminations but at the same time we cannot deprive Parisians, children, visitors, tourists of a moment of shared collective joy.
	I love Christmas.
	Some call them layaway angels, others call them secret Santas.
	A secret Santa paid off more than $100,000 worth of layaway items at two local Walmarts.
	Several shoppers at Burlington Coat Factory in Union Square were surprised to find out their layaway balances were paid in full.
	Someone had come in earlier that day and paid for all of the items on layaway.
	And she said, yeah, he come in and he paid off everyone's layaway, totaling $65,000.
	The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
	Love each other with genuine affection and take delight in honoring each other.
	This is what the holiday season is all about.
	Merry Christmas.
	I wish you all a very happy Christmas.
	Happy Holidays everyone.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy Holidays.
	We're saying Merry Christmas again.

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