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	It looks like the Great Wall of China.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 25th, 2022.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1515.
	This is no agenda.
	Celebrating Christmas and unlike the M5M, we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 16.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, Merry Christmas.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Well, Merry Christmas.
	Woo-hoo!
	Well, Merry Christmas.
	Jean.
	Joyeuse.
	How's your bomb doing?
	Funny you should ask!
	45 states, from Washington down to Texas, up to Maine, are on alert right now for severe cold, wind, snow, and flooding.
	New York is among the latest states to declare an emergency, shutting down part of I-90 to commercial traffic.
	Blizzard warnings have been issued in 10 states, but the biggest story is the extreme cold extending all the way to Florida.
	Some areas of the country have seen temperatures drop 70 degrees in 18 hours.
	And today, a so-called bomb cyclone setting up over the Northeast.
	A flash freeze will be making travel treacherous.
	Oh!
	A flash flood will make travel... A flash freeze will make travel treacherous.
	Nice alliteration.
	Yeah, the big story is that maybe it wasn't the Texas, the crappy Texas grid two years ago.
	Maybe, maybe it just wasn't that.
	As we are burning 90% of all of our energy right now is coming from coal, gas primarily, coal and nuclear, and a small bit from wind.
	And now we see that all the other states are having the same problems we had because, you know, their grid is shitty, I guess.
	It's really quite amazing.
	It just suits the narrative.
	So I picked up this clip.
	Because you keep hearing this, two years ago we had a bomb cyclone.
	Yes.
	Although this is once in a generation, according to everybody, that we had one two years ago.
	We've actually had one, it turns out, every year for the past three years.
	I don't remember when last year.
	Well, let's play your clip first, and then we'll remind you.
	Well, this is the explanation of bomb cyclone.
	You know what the – there's actually a technical explanation.
	I found it.
	Is this bomb cyclone defined?
	Yes, it is defined.
	What is a bomb cyclone?
	It's a weather phenomenon when you have a low-pressure system colliding with a high-pressure system.
	It drives down a bunch of cold air, creates a bunch of wind, and usually precipitation.
	It is marked by a drop in the barometer of 24 millibars over a 24-hour period.
	Now, I've been tracking it.
	I've tracked 14 millibars.
	So unfortunately for all the suffering, I think we're going to fall a little short of earning your bomb cyclone merit badge.
	We'll leave the final call to the meteorologist.
	I'm just a hack at these things.
	What you did get is a lot of flight cancellations.
	Seattle-Tacoma Airport in particular, they got dumped on With freezing rain and that iced over the runways, and the ice is actually harder to get off the runways than the snow, so they had to shut down the whole airport.
	That meant Alaska Airlines canceled all of their flights out of Seattle and Portland as well.
	By noon today, you had just about 4,000 flights that were canceled, so the ripple effect impacted pretty much all the major air carriers and every airport.
	If you're one of the people who made it home on time, you're one of the lucky ones.
	Yeah, this is again a lot of horseshit.
	Merry Christmas.
	Yes, there were some weather events in the aviation system, but I have all kinds of reports.
	Mainly Southwest was cancelling, and they cancelled the most flights.
	Because they had no pilots.
	Remember, it's near the end of the month.
	They literally did not have the pilots.
	They also had 150 rampers walk out in Denver.
	Walked off the job, and I have proof of that.
	I have a memo, it's in the show notes.
	So none of this was really that necessary.
	Of course, maybe, you know, maybe some airports really had bad weather, but a lot of it is just the same old lack of personnel, lack of staff that they just keep covering up with all kinds of weather events.
	And here's proof that we've had three in the past three years.
	From 9 News Colorado.
	Difference between weather and climate is on display in Denver as one of the coldest Arctic fronts in the city's history arrives in a time where global warming takes many of the headlines.
	A single storm like this can't be blamed on climate change, and its occurrence can't refute it either.
	Here's what the research is showing about the connection.
	Scientists have proven that human activity is causing the entire atmosphere to warm, but they've also discovered that the Arctic is warming at a much faster pace than it is in the United States.
	That can cause more chaotic weather patterns, leading to more extreme polar vortex outbreaks in In the future.
	Here's how it works.
	The polar jet stream controls the weather patterns in the U.S.
	When the Arctic is extremely cold, that jet moves fast and remains in a tighter circle, reducing the chances of the most extreme polar air from escaping to the South.
	But since the Arctic- Holy crap, did he say X-scaping?
	Did he say X-scaping?
	Let's listen to this again.
	...of the most extreme polar air from escaping to the south.
	You did.
	But since the Arctic is not as cold as it used to be, the smaller temperature gradient is causing the polar jet stream to slow and become more wavy.
	That increases the chances of Arctic outbreaks in the States.
	A possible result is more extreme single-day cold events, while overall seasonal temperatures increase.
	And there's data to support that.
	There's now been three extreme polar vortex outbreaks in three consecutive years.
	Besides this week's, there was one in February of 2021 which crippled much of the nation's power grid in Texas.
	And another one in September of 2020 that brought the earliest freeze in history to Denver, Colorado.
	And yet the average fall and winter temperatures on the Front Range have been steadily on the rise over the last 60 years.
	Science!
	Yeah!
	There you go.
	Well, hold on.
	Science.
	I disagree with your thesis.
	My thesis?
	I have no thesis.
	He talks about the polar vortex.
	The polar vortex and the bomb cyclone are two separate entities.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	The polar vortex did take place last year, but we didn't have a bomb cyclone for two years.
	It was two years ago.
	That's the first time I ever heard the term bomb cyclone.
	And now, of course, this guy who talked about bomb cyclone on my clip mentions the fact that it's technically supposed to be a 25 millibar drop in 24 hours of the barometer.
	But he only could record 14, so maybe this is not really a bomb vortex either, or bomb cyclone.
	I miss getting mixed up.
	Well, how about... Bomb vortex, that's what it is.
	Hold on a second.
	30 millibar drop, is that what you said?
	24.
	24 millibar.
	Is that anything like two quarters of negative GDP?
	Because that's not... It's exactly the same.
	Just so you know, that's not a recession anymore.
	That's not, though.
	Oh, goodness.
	Well, anybody, everybody, how you doing?
	Merry Christmas to all.
	We are live, which is what we always do if the show falls on a, any day, a holiday, we're always rolling.
	And we're happy to be here and happy to see lots of trolls hanging out and everyone having a good time.
	Most of the country's frozen under.
	I feel bad for... It's not here.
	It's 60 degrees here.
	It's fine.
	No.
	It's, um, it's about, let me see, I think it's 20, it's probably about 25 right now, uh, where we are.
	So it's not too bad.
	And then beautiful, clear skies.
	It's just, it's the perfect, uh, it's the perfect, uh, Christmas day.
	It really is.
	You didn't get your snow.
	You didn't get your white Christmas.
	Did not get a white Christmas at all.
	Um, because it's racist, but also ice is racist these days too.
	Did you know that?
	Oh, you know, I'm all ears.
	The infamous black ice, the thin coating of ice that glazes the road after frigid temperatures that can create dangerous and deadly road conditions.
	But you may be surprised to learn that your first instinct to slam on the brakes may be the wrong one.
	This is a new story.
	Oh, don't slam on the brakes on black ice.
	How can this be a good thing?
	How can they call it black ice anyway?
	That doesn't fit with any narrative.
	At all.
	Well, the funny thing about that story, we have black ice in Washington State and all along the Tahoe area.
	I mean, it's very common and sometimes on bridges north of Sacramento.
	But the thing is about black ice, which makes it interesting, is that you can't see it.
	Right.
	That's why it's dangerous, because it's basically an ice form that just kind of becomes semi-invisible.
	Well, I would like to change the name to Invisible Ice.
	I think Black Ice is wrong.
	That's probably a better name, to be honest.
	Yeah, I think it's really wrong.
	Why would you not slam the brakes on Black Ice if you don't even know you're on Black Ice?
	That's the point.
	Well, here is their advice.
	Experts say take your foot off the gas and keep the wheel steady.
	If you need to brake, do it gently, riding it out until you're clear.
	Steering as best as you can combined with braking or accelerating increases your chances of losing control.
	I wonder how Tesla's do?
	How does the self-driving car do in this case?
	Can someone go and test that?
	I'd like to know.
	I'd like to know.
	Anyway, we clearly have a trend.
	We have a trend which is cold, but just so you know, that has nothing to do with global warming.
	Anything.
	Yeah, anything.
	Just anything.
	NASA even says, yes, just because it's cold for a day, a week, or a season doesn't mean global warming is over.
	All months... Sorry.
	My promise for the first of the next year is I'm going to dig up some clips, which I have.
	recordings from the 1979-1980 era of news shows.
	Don't ask me why I have these.
	Yeah, why do you have those?
	Why do you have those?
	I'm not even sure.
	But I have them.
	And they talk about global cooling and they report everything in just the opposite of being reported today.
	And it's hilarious.
	And these are by lefties.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's so disappointing, all of it.
	It's a scam.
	It's a scam.
	It's a scam and an op.
	It's a scop, I'm telling you.
	It's a scop.
	I'll write it down right away.
	Scam op.
	Scop.
	Scam op.
	Let's see, do we have anything else?
	Well, this, you know, obviously...
	Climate change is still going to be big on the agenda.
	What's happening in Europe with energy is nuts.
	The European Union decided to cap what they would pay for gas and oil.
	And Russia right away went, OK, good, we just won't sell it to you then.
	What kind of bargaining position are you in as a buyer with no options?
	How do they even come up with something as stupid as that?
	I'm not going to pay more than $5 for your hat.
	Okay, I'll keep the hat.
	Exactly.
	Now this is from TASS, which of course is the Russian news agency, which I'm sure is disinformation.
	And here's the headline from today.
	Russia could cut oil output.
	We won't sell supplies under Western price cap, says the energy minister, a finance minister, Anton Silnyanov.
	Says, no, no, we just won't sell it to you.
	Makes total sense.
	And why would you?
	It's a buyer-sellers market thing.
	You just don't have a choice.
	You pay what you pay, or if there's too much surplus and they're trying to dump it, then you lowball them.
	I mean, it's just common sense.
	I don't understand what these guys... I think it's just virtue signaling to their own public.
	We're going to be tough with these Russians.
	Well, the virtue signaling is very expensive virtue signals.
	My daughter's paying twice the amount she paid last year for energy, just for electricity and gas.
	Which is the heat in her home is gas.
	The hot water is all gas.
	That's now twice as expensive.
	And you know how they do that?
	They just say, okay, you now need to pay double the amount at the end of the year.
	We'll find out if you paid too much or didn't pay enough.
	That's kind of universal, I think.
	Certainly in the Netherlands.
	It probably works in lots of countries that way.
	They don't do it here.
	They don't do it here either.
	But that's very normal, where they'll say, what is it like?
	Why?
	They can't do pricing?
	No, because the pricing fluctuates, obviously, and because it's a scam.
	They say, okay, you'll just pay every month, you'll pay 150 euros for the year, that the end of the year we'll see if you use more or less.
	I've seen this work this way in California.
	Oh, so they don't pay by the cubic foot?
	It's just a flat fee per month and they do the calculation at the end, which you really owe?
	Yeah, they make an estimate.
	They make stinks?
	Yeah, I think I remember seeing... I mean, it doesn't stink if you get a big rebate, but it stinks at the end of the year if you get hit with a $500 bill for something.
	I'm thinking that this was... I remember this in California, Los Angeles for some reason.
	I thought they did the same thing.
	No, no.
	No?
	I remember it was expensive.
	That'll be the day.
	It was very expensive.
	It was very expensive.
	Come on.
	Now, on the Russian front... We would do is we overestimate, overcharge you and then apologize.
	Right.
	You might get a rebate once in a while, but I don't remember ever getting one.
	It'd be all for a couple of bucks.
	It's like that random check you get.
	You get one from the state franchise tax board for state income taxes and they'll send you a check for $6.
	What is this?
	Those guys, the franchise tax guys, they have tried for the past... How long have I not been in California?
	Oh, a long time.
	12 years?
	No!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, no, it hasn't been 12 years.
	I'm pretty sure it has.
	I've been in Texas for 12 years.
	Okay, well, the show's been going on 15 years, and for three years of the show, you were in London for at least a year, and then you were in Los Angeles for at least a year, and you were in San Francisco for at least a year.
	I moved to Texas in 2010.
	to Texas in 2010.
	That's 12 years.
	Anyway.
	He's been bouncing around like a madman.
	I don't even know what I was going to say now.
	You distracted me.
	I had something important to say about that.
	You moved to Texas and you moved three times while you were there.
	Except, no, more than three times.
	Many times.
	I think I moved six times.
	I moved six times.
	Six times.
	Six times.
	Geez.
	By the way, you're going to hear a little bit of slissing today, which is kind of pissing me off.
	But what has happened with the temporary teeth, which are now cemented in, is the gums have, you know, the stitches are out, the gums have receded from the swelling, and now there's a gap between my gums and my upper bridge.
	I don't hear a thing.
	Good, if you don't hear it, I'm happy, but I'm spitting on my screen like a maniac.
	It's disgusting.
	You're spitting on the screen?
	Yes, because I really have to enunciate.
	Oh, you mean your cough, your windscreen, the little thing in front of the mic?
	No, no, the screen and the display.
	How close are you to it?
	It doesn't matter.
	I'm projectiling.
	It's like... Because I'm trying to enunciate.
	I'm enunciating.
	Get out of his way!
	You do not want to be near me when I'm doing a podcast.
	I might have to have a new one made up.
	A new bridge that's a little bit higher.
	I'd just like to stick some cotton in there.
	Thank you, Dr. Dvorak.
	That sounds like a dynamite idea.
	Put a piece of wood.
	Shock block.
	We all remember the Inflation Reduction Act and I think we had a clip or two about it or maybe a story how Bill Gates personally Went to Joe Manchin, had multiple meetings, and he really, remember, I think we had a clip of that, saying that he convinced Manchin to get on board.
	And the reason why is, and this is from Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates sold West Virginia's Senator Joe Manchin on this year's Democratic Climate Spending Blowout, which was called the Inflation Reduction Act, but okay, Climate Spending Blowout is another name for it.
	As a way to put unemployed coal workers to work building advanced nuclear reactors, which makes sense because we know Bill Gates has invested heavily in nuclear, which it wasn't supposed to be green until it was.
	And now, says the Wall Street Journal, we learn belatedly these projects all depend on Russian fuel in order to operate.
	Oh, yeah, because we sold all our fuel interest.
	Hillary did that to the Russians as a scam.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	As a scop.
	Scop.
	That's exactly what's going on.
	And so now we're gonna have to go back to the Russians for the, for the nuclear, for the... Hat in hand.
	Hat in hand, yes.
	TerraPower.
	What is the kind of fuel that they need for that?
	It must be, oh, it's high assay.
	What is that?
	Low enriched uranium.
	H-A-L-E-U.
	E-U.
	H-A-L-E-U.
	Yeah.
	High acid, low enriched.
	Very specific.
	What is that?
	It's a, it's a, I don't know.
	Good.
	I wish I knew.
	Okay, but I'm writing down the acronym.
	It's 238, some type of uranium and it has to be, you know, safe to handle it without, and then, I don't know, I guess pre-enriched.
	I have no idea.
	Strong words out there.
	I'm throwing every word I know.
	I like it, I like it.
	Enriched.
	Centrifuged.
	Well, it doesn't matter because that was just a spit in the bucket or a spit on my monitor compared to the $1.7 trillion bill, which we've still been trying to figure out.
	And again, every person who talks about the waste, particularly the Republicans, all they can say is, you know, it's like, oh, it's $10 billion over here and $10 billion over there.
	That's horrible.
	I'm like, whoa, how about the other trillion?
	People can't do the math anymore.
	But Chip Roy is a representative from Texas.
	I like Chip Roy.
	He's not my district representative, but I like this guy a lot.
	So the Senate, this is how it works in America, the Senate signed off, said, this is good!
	1.7 trillion dollars, this is groovy, everybody, send it to the House!
	And I think this has to be done this week.
	Otherwise, we don't fund the government.
	Well, they're going on vacation tomorrow, I guess.
	No, the Senate already went on vacation, and this irked Chip Roy to no end.
	He had a six-minute rant.
	I just pulled a little clip from it, which I think is worth it to hear how most of Americans should be thinking about what their representatives are doing.
	Thank you, Speaker.
	I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania.
	And I can't help but be amused that the gentleman from Massachusetts says that we refuse to come to the table.
	As if the gentlelady who will soon be the Chairwoman of Appropriations, Ms.
	Granger, my colleague from Texas, doesn't want to sit at the table with colleagues on either side of the aisle to come to consensus about how to spend taxpayer dollars, or better stated, how to borrow money we don't have.
	As if that's actually true.
	What table is the gentleman referring to?
	What table does he want us to come sit down and negotiate?
	It's not this table!
	I don't have the power to offer an amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives despite being elected by 750,000 Texans.
	I don't have the ability or the right to be able to stand up for them and have a debate on the floor of this chamber.
	Everything the American people is watching right now is a complete sham.
	It's a fraud.
	A fraud being perpetrated on the American people right before their eyes, right as we head into Christmas, sitting here on the 23rd of December.
	And we had 18 Republicans who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we're sitting here trying to do the work of the people.
	Not spend money we don't have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country.
	What you see here on the floor of the House of Representatives should make everybody ashamed.
	The People's House.
	Not one amendment has been offered on the floor of this body since May of 2016 in open debate.
	When in fact, what you see here is a 4,100 page bill, cooked up by a handful of people behind closed doors, brought before the Rules Committee, with no ability to offer an amendment, no ability to debate, no actual discussion on the People's House floor.
	And my colleagues on the other side of the aisle know it.
	And we're spending money we don't have.
	Yeah.
	Now notice he says $16 billion in projects.
	Why doesn't he mention the $45 billion going to Ukraine?
	Or perhaps the $900 billion, because this is it, $900 billion of this $1.7 trillion, so almost half, is going to military projects.
	Or pockets.
	Well, pockets.
	Of course it's pockets.
	But no one dares mention this.
	I don't think Chip Roy said it either.
	No, of course not.
	They're all in on it.
	And they just got $800 billion in the National Defense Authorization Act.
	This is double what we typically spend on these assholes.
	So let's listen to this budget analysis, a little 22 second clip, but you have to play the, uh, cause Oh, goodness.
	Sorry.
	I'm going to, this is just a little end of year thing.
	Hold on a second.
	I got to have this on, uh, I got to put this on a, um, on the main, on the main thing.
	Yeah.
	So is it Amy trigger?
	There we go.
	I could just say it, Amy.
	It's taking me too long already.
	I feel stupid about it.
	Here we go.
	Warning, Amy Goodman clip inbound.
	I'm going to have to put this in the hot button seat.
	This has been three times in as many shows.
	It's like the bomb cyclone of the show.
	The bomb cyclone, here we go.
	The Senate bill contains a record $858 billion in military spending, about $772 billion for non-military.
	programs that earmarks $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine.
	It does not include a child tax credit expansion, Democrats say, would have sharply reduced child poverty and hunger.
	OK, the reason I put this clip in there is because they left out this child tax benefit, which would reduce, you know, child poverty, which they would like to brag about, so that Screw the children!
	And the thing is, it's the Democrats.
	They're the ones, the Republicans had nothing to do with any of this because they didn't have any votes in the House, as Chip was bitching about.
	They didn't have it.
	There's no majority in the House.
	The Democrats have that.
	And they have nothing to do with the Senate.
	Because the Democrats have the Senate too.
	So the Democrats themselves left out the child poverty stuff and they're gonna blame it on the Republicans.
	That's what you do!
	Won't somebody please think of the children?
	Yeah, that's how they'll position it.
	Well...
	They could have easily shipped away this and that.
	And the other thing, to give the poor kids some food.
	No, no, no.
	Kids don't need to eat.
	We're just going to give them less nutritious food at cheaper prices.
	Don't worry.
	We've got sawdust coming.
	We'll fix them.
	This is how out of touch and stupid these people are.
	Nancy Pelosi was, and I'm just really negative on the representatives here in the United States.
	Yeah, Merry Christmas.
	Yeah, Merry Christmas indeed.
	In fact, Nancy Pelosi wished everybody, of all denominations, all face a merry...
	Festivals, a merry holiday season, a happy holiday season as she left the chair of Speaker of the House.
	Did our fabulous Catholic Speaker of the House even say the word Christmas?
	Listen!
	Strong bipartisan aye vote.
	Yield back the balance of my time in which everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year.
	Happy holidays.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy Schwanza.
	Happy Hanukkah.
	Whatever it is- You talked over it!
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy Schwanza.
	Happy Hanukkah.
	Whatever it is- Happy Schwanza?
	Are you kidding me?
	Schwanza.
	Schwanza is the Kwanzaa for people with big dicks.
	New Year.
	Happy Holidays.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy Schwanza.
	Happy Hanukkah.
	Whatever it is you celebrate, be safe.
	She did say happy Christmas.
	Merry Christmas.
	She did throw in a schwanza.
	You gotta love the schwanza.
	You got the schwanzas here coming in.
	This woman is horrible.
	What an idiot.
	Oh, goodness.
	Hey, congratulations to Mimi!
	I saw that she... The Dvorak family has launched a book, ladies and gentlemen!
	Yes, you spotted this, yeah.
	Yes, Too Many Eggs is what it's called.
	Well, how could I miss it?
	Everyone was posting about it, and people were talking about... It's a great product.
	I mean, it looks fantastic.
	It's, what is it, 800 egg recipes?
	Well, it's 750 pages.
	8,000 egg recipes, and you can buy the book or also get the PDF, Value for Value.
	I'm very impressed.
	I like it.
	How are sales?
	Do we know?
	Is it going well?
	Well, she just rolled it out to 300 people that are on her Facebook, so the numbers look good for that small test, but anyone can go get it.
	I mean, we're going to push off mentioning it on the No Agenda show until after the New Year.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Now that you brought it up.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	I got marketed to.
	What can I tell you?
	TooManyEggs.com.
	Go get a copy.
	I got marketed to.
	This was the problem.
	Yeah, and it's really, I think it's really good to have a book about healthy protein.
	Real protein, animal protein in these horrible days of fake food.
	Well, it took her about four years to do this book, but the thing that's interesting is that it stems from our ownership of chickens.
	Yes, you had too many chickens and therefore too many eggs.
	Five chickens is too many chickens.
	Three chickens is too many.
	Actually, a chicken It eventually becomes too many eggs.
	Too many eggs.
	Because you get sick of these eggs.
	So she decided that she was going to find recipes for multiple eggs.
	So a recipe is to take 12 eggs and do this.
	And so she started collecting these recipes and then she found these contradictory stories behind the recipes.
	And so she started doing research on the recipe stories.
	So there's a story behind every recipe.
	And so she started grinding this thing out and moaning about it, hating eggs and hating this.
	But then she became this egg expert.
	And this book, it's a labor of love.
	Of course it is.
	All books are a labor of love.
	You don't actually make money on books.
	So I said, I think you make money on it if you do what we're going to do, which is that Value for value.
	In other words, just go download the book.
	It's a PDF file.
	It's free.
	And donate whatever you thought was worth.
	Donate if you feel like it.
	Or, like most people do, say, jeez, this book is too big for downloading.
	I'm going to buy a copy.
	But my idea was, at the beginning, to give the book away, is to Let's make this book important.
	Let's flood the market with a 750-page egg book and see if anybody comes in to compete with it.
	How can you?
	That's impossible.
	Yeah, that's the idea.
	So it becomes seminal.
	Is there a market for egg books?
	It turns out that everybody you mentioned this egg book to, and this has happened to me too, they go, oh, I need that book.
	Yeah, I can understand.
	And anyone with chickens, oh my god.
	I've had chickens.
	Do you know how many chickens we have now?
	Zero?
	Exactly.
	Egg-zactly.
	Eggs.
	Oh, hey-o!
	It's some egg humor on the show.
	Anyway, TooManyEggs.com.
	Oh, good.
	Well, congratulations to the whole Dvorak conglomerate.
	Because I know it's not just Mimi.
	Everyone chips in.
	It's actually going to be Mimi, Jay, and myself.
	Yeah.
	And I'm teaching Jay a sales copy, how to write a sales copy, which is hilarious.
	Is she doing cold calls?
	Hey, hi, do you like eggs?
	Do you want to have so many eggs?
	There's a lot of chicken operators, chicken and egg co-ops and stuff that want this book.
	Yeah.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Well, I think what I would like to see, and this is what you typically publish a book, is so she can get on the speaking circuit.
	I want to see her on the speaking circuit.
	Oh, she's going to have to do that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, she has to go around and... She's got a plan.
	When she gets turned on to egg mode, she's like Robin Williams.
	It's like, you know, she just goes to eggs.
	She can talk about eggs till she's blue in the face.
	Good.
	Well, we'd love to talk to her on Curry and the Keeper.
	About her eggs.
	Hey, we'll help you.
	Yeah, she'll come on.
	Yeah, of course.
	It'd be insulting if she didn't.
	I mean, this is a top show.
	You know, the two of them, Jay and Mimi, have both done research on egg podcasts.
	And there's lots of them, by the way.
	Like thousands of podcasts about eggs.
	I haven't even considered looking at that.
	Yeah, and so they both come back with this like, oh my God, these podcasts.
	Oh, it must be horrible.
	Because they're just so amateurish.
	Oh, you know, this is interesting.
	I just went to podcastindex.org, the definitive authority on all things podcasting.
	Yes, it is.
	We have Eggs, the podcast, Green Eggs and Dan, the Fried Egg Golf Podcast.
	Which combines eggs and golfing.
	Oh, God!
	Tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
	That's a couple of those.
	The Good Egg, The Egg Whisperer.
	Ooh, The Egg Whisperer!
	Dr. Amy Iwazadehida.
	She has a weekly Egg Whisperer show.
	Oh, no.
	Sorry, that's for human eggs.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, okay.
	That gets people to have birth.
	That's different.
	Yeah, there's a lot of eggs, egg podcasts that are not chicken eggs.
	Chicken eggs.
	Yeah.
	And it's also guarding your nest egg.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So it's not all that bad.
	Okay, cool.
	And feel free to promote it again in January.
	On schedule.
	Yes.
	So the actual rollout takes place.
	And this is for people who do not want to have synthetic meats, which is really ratcheting up.
	It's a Wall Street Journal.
	The synthetic meat will change the ethics of eating.
	Yes.
	That's the headline?
	Subhead?
	Consumers will soon be able to dine on chicken and other animal proteins grown in a factory, upending the way we think about nature and technology.
	Yikes.
	Yeah.
	It's... it's... yeah.
	A century ago, a chicken in every pot was an ambitious political slogan.
	It has long since become an everyday reality.
	Americans will consume... By the way, today's chicken is crap.
	Americans will consume nearly 100 pounds of chicken per capita this year, according to the National Chicken Council.
	Up from 67 pounds in 92 when chicken first surpassed beef.
	Well, of course, that's when the PSYOP came in and you were told that beef would kill you and give you cancer and they would live in your colon for a hundred years.
	And then everyone went to chicken and then they started You know, injecting the chickens with crap.
	But yeah, they're really pushing the synthetic, grown-in-laboratory food.
	Yeah, it's going to turn out to be indigestible.
	Yeah, it's going to.
	Well, yes, it will kill people.
	Hello?
	I think that's pretty much the whole idea.
	It's another scop.
	It's a big-time scop.
	Ugh.
	It makes me sick.
	What are you having for Christmas meal?
	What are you guys having?
	Well, everyone's having... Christmas is scattered around.
	We're having our true Christmas will be around... January 12th.
	No, that's right.
	It's going to turn out to be around January 1st.
	Oh, OK.
	But we have to have sun again at Christmas.
	So tomorrow, JC and Jesse and Theodore will be over with a three rib roast.
	Oh, nice.
	For me.
	Oh, that's today.
	I'm sorry.
	That's today.
	They'll be over today.
	Are you ready for them?
	Make sure you're ready.
	Make sure you got the three ribs.
	I got a cellar full of wine.
	I'm always ready.
	Uh-huh.
	So, uh, they'll be over today for that.
	And so I have that.
	Mimi will be having, she's stuck up north because of the snow.
	Yeah, of course she did.
	And so she'll be up there with Eric and the three kids and Dee, and they'll be eating something up there.
	And then Jay and Brennan will be serving a Christmas meal that she's going to prepare for his relatives.
	And are you invited to that with his relatives?
	I actually am.
	And you're not going to go, obviously.
	Well, it's because JC's doing something and the show is kind of eating into it because it's going to be really early, so it's not possible.
	Yeah.
	Well, Tina the Keeper is cooking up a ham, which we got from Nolocheckmeats.
	This year?
	I'm very excited about that.
	That'll be delicious.
	Those guys do good work.
	They know what they're doing, yeah.
	I got some bacon, I got sausage, all kinds of stuff from them.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so that that covers the food aspect.
	Yes, we're done.
	Now there's a lot more that's there's a lot more going on.
	I think this is the story that you know this this is the story that obfuscates what's really going on in the world as we you know we continue to get now I think it's Twitter files a seven or eight Which shows something that we always knew, that the FBI and OGA's, other government agencies, i.e.
	the CIA, have really been embedded in these tech companies and certainly in the social media companies for well over a decade.
	Started during Obama's reign, maybe a little bit earlier, but it really was 2008, that's really when we saw Twitter Grab hold.
	Facebook was well underway.
	And so the FBI and CIA and NSA have been communicating with these companies and nudging them to do things for a long, long time.
	But no, no, let's not be outraged about that.
	Let's this be the story.
	This morning, new revelations that employees of TikTok's parent company were spying on users in the U.S., including several reporters.
	You're right.
	We are totally exposed right now.
	All this data is flowing back to China.
	ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, now acknowledges four of its employees access journalists' private data as part of an effort to find who was leaking company information this year.
	Journalists from BuzzFeed and the Financial Times were reportedly tracked.
	And Forbes says its journalists were also spied on, saying ByteDance monitored journalists' physical location using their IP address.
	ByteDance says their employees' behavior violated the company's code of conduct.
	None of the individuals remain employed at ByteDance.
	Security risks like this have long been a concern of U.S. lawyers.
	lawmakers, who warn China is gaining access to user information of the more than 100 million U.S.
	TikTok subscribers.
	The Senate recently voted to ban the app on federally owned devices.
	The House could follow suit as soon as today.
	When you start getting a look at what China could do with the information, they could do things potentially like, you know, use it to further target people for hacks.
	19 states have also banned TikTok from state-owned devices and Indiana has filed two lawsuits over security and child safety concerns on the app.
	I love what is happening with Mastodon, where these journalists, they're still posting on Twitter, but now they're cross-posting and they're doing some original posting on the Fediverse, and I have a little instance that is just me, just myself, so I can follow all these people and keep track of what they're doing.
	And this is the story.
	Wait, hold on.
	Is that like spying on them?
	Yes, I get their location from their IP information.
	But that's the point.
	When it comes to what's being revealed at Twitter, that's just Elon Musk.
	He's crazy.
	He's red-pilled.
	He's just working for Trump and the GOP and he's ruining Twitter, which is true.
	This is not a story.
	It's crazy.
	It's lies.
	It's disinformation.
	But this?
	Oh no!
	They track journalists with their IP address?
	You know, this is the funny part.
	I have a clip of this too.
	This is a 51 second clip from, again, Amy.
	I won't, I won't play the warning.
	Okay.
	You don't know.
	The warning only needs once.
	You only need once to show.
	Once we're ready, we are ready.
	TikTok security scrutiny.
	By the way, tell me that she doesn't, instead of saying app in this clip, I'm going to, instead of asking you to look for it, I'm going to tell you in advance.
	Instead of saying app, because it's an app, she calls it an apple.
	No.
	N-No!
	Yeah.
	We should have a trigger warning.
	The video sharing platform TikTok has revealed some of its workers track two reporters who cover the company gaining access to their IP addresses and user data.
	One journalist was from the Financial Times, the other wrote for... Hold on, we just have to stop for a second and say, this is standard fare.
	This is what tech companies do.
	IP addresses?
	No, how about location, keystrokes, how you hold your phone?
	I know, it's idiotic.
	Are you walking?
	I mean, all of this stuff.
	Where's your eyeball?
	Yeah, I'm sure they can track that too.
	Microphone, listening in, who's next to you, who's on the same network, all of this.
	Totally.
	This surveillance is what they do to everybody, but oh, they got journalists, location data from IP addresses.
	Cover the company gaining access to their IP address.
	Gaining access?
	You mean looking at the log?
	And user data.
	One journalist was from the Financial Times, the other wrote for BuzzFeed and now works at Forbes.
	Forbes says at least two more of its reporters were targeted for surveillance, which was undertaken as part of an internal investigation into leaks at the company.
	ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, says it did not approve the spying tactics and fired the worker who led the effort.
	This comes as the U.S.
	Senate Thursday passed a provision banning TikTok on most U.S.
	government devices.
	Some lawmakers have been fighting to ban the hugely popular Apple together amidst ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing, saying it poses a national security and privacy risk.
	And there it is, because the whole point is we need to get rid of TikTok to help out our very good donors in Silicon Valley, because TikTok is the most successful app, Apple at the moment.
	The most successful Apple that is taking away all of the good advertisers because they're just a better interface for, you know, for hypnotizing people and just sitting in front of this thing for hours and hours.
	They're hypnotizing people to buy stuff.
	Yeah, they've got, well not to just, yeah.
	And the whole point is, I mean, it's disgusting.
	And there's a lot of interesting things going on with, not so much about this, but you know, the obfuscation of it.
	And you remember Dr. Shiva?
	He's the guy, I think he ran for Congress unsuccessfully, but he also claims he invented email.
	Oh yeah, this guy.
	Which may or may not be true.
	There's a bunch of these Indian pretenders that claim to have invented this and that.
	They never have.
	That's okay, but people give him a lot of credence for that.
	Oh yeah, so he invented email.
	So he's going out on the circuit and he's mad.
	He's mad.
	He's saying that Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Barry Weiss, etc.
	...are all participating in a limited hangout.
	Yes, they are in fact working hand-in-hand with the intelligence corporations.
	I mean agencies, which I believe to be true, but not for the reasons he says.
	He says that he filed a federal lawsuit against the government in 2020 after he received irrefutable evidence that the Massachusetts government used the Twitter partner support portal to cancel him on Twitter.
	And that he and that Tucker and others knew about it and they didn't do anything with the star A, therefore they are in a limited hangout.
	Well, you know, limited hangout.
	This is something Whitney Webb kind of launched and other people like her.
	Limited hangout is where people related to the agencies will, you know, bring some information to the forefront.
	Kind of like giving prisoners in a prison the idea that they're not captive by letting someone escape from time to time.
	That's what a limited hangout, I guess, is what they're saying.
	I thought a limited hangout was like a small group, like a user's group.
	This I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, this is how I understand.
	Even so, if they're hanging out like in some club, you know, like a… No, no, no.
	It's really that you're letting some information out to make it look like, you know, you're... And by the way, I agree with the general premise because, of course, everything is redacted.
	I'm looking at all of these files, they're redacting names, but really redacting dates.
	Oh yeah, I agree with that.
	It's dates.
	They're redacting it because we can't let anyone know that Obama started this.
	We can't start that.
	So they're totally in on it in one way or the other.
	But also, I think Shiva is just... What was going on?
	Was there anything happening in 2020 that might have had precedence over his issue?
	Yes, COVID.
	Exactly.
	So it's very interesting.
	Well, I have one clip about Twitter, and the reason it's even in the pile here is because, again, it comes from one of these swords, in this case, New Tang Dynasty.
	I never heard this one, and this is like, the mainstream's not talking about it, Amy's not talking about it, but these guys are.
	This is FBI-paid Twitter.
	The FBI is staying mum on what other social media companies the federal agency gave money to.
	This after the FBI's payment to Twitter of almost three and a half million dollars was confirmed.
	NTD's Daniel Monahan has more.
	A Twitter employee wrote in a February 2020 email that the company's Safety Content and Law Enforcement, or SCALE, had collected nearly $3.5 million in less than two years from the FBI.
	The payments were reportedly for law enforcement-related projects.
	Dude, is this a robot voice?
	Dale had set up a reimbursement program in exchange for devoting staff hours to processing requests from the FBI and was entitled, Run the Business, We Made Money.
	Kellyanne Conway addressed the FBI's...
	Dude, is this a robot voice?
	It almost sounds like a robot voice now.
	Do we know this guy from New Tank?
	It sounds robot.
	Well, you've heard him before, but the possibility that he's a robot voice is there.
	Yeah, let's continue.
	Entitled, Run the Business, We Made Money, Kellyanne Conway addressed the FBI's activities on Fox News.
	This is frightening to me as an American citizen to think that this is going on under the guise of some official operation.
	Conway is concerned about the First Amendment implications.
	They're sitting on the scales of free speech.
	They're sitting on the scales of justice.
	FBI officials remarked that the government is required to reimburse reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to a legal process, and that money for complying with legal requests is standard procedure.
	The FBI officials also said that Twitter isn't the only social media company that the federal agency provides compensation to, saying, quote, We don't just reimburse Twitter.
	The officials refuse to elaborate on what other companies the FBI reimburses.
	Rand Paul wrote on Twitter that the FBI paid Twitter to censor speech.
	This is strong evidence of the government employing a private entity to censor.
	Meanwhile, Kentucky Congressman James Comer says the FBI was never granted any authority to create a disinformation task force to police the social media sites.
	I want to remind everybody that we have an outstanding search engine of all of our show notes.
	You can find it at bingit.io, B-I-N-G-I-T dot I-O.
	I did a quick little search because I know that this is not news at all.
	Indeed, on episode 603, we discussed Microsoft charging the FBI for giving them user data.
	And this has been going on for a long time.
	$145,000 for a number of requests for information.
	We're charging about $100 back in 2012.
	Every single Silicon Valley company charges the government.
	Chargebacks.
	Yeah, chargebacks.
	This is nothing new.
	The way the story devolved, if you listen to that clip, it went from the FBI coughing up $3.4 million to censorship to some sort of a disinformation program, when in fact, It's the FBI being charged, they're being invoiced for work that Twitter has to do on behalf of the FBI.
	And so it goes like this, hey, who is this guy?
	What's his IP address and where does he live?
	Do you have any of this information on this person?
	Okay, we'll put our guys on it.
	And then he said, yeah, we found him.
	He said, blah, blah.
	He's not a robot or he is a robot.
	And here's your bill for $1,100.
	That's how much.
	So they're charging probably top dollar.
	Sure they are.
	But...
	This is a little more than $140,000.
	$3.4 million means the FBI has got their nose up Twitter's ass.
	Yes!
	Well, not just Twitter!
	Remember!
	No, the big boy has got to be Facebook.
	They've got to be coughing up a lot more than $3.4 million to Facebook.
	2010, Mark Zuckerberg, man of the year.
	Facebook, front cover of Time Magazine.
	Here we go.
	I've just got to say it again.
	I know, you love it.
	Robert Miller, I just happened to be in my office in a different floor in the building and just wanted to say hi!
	How you doing?
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	This has all been going on for such a long time.
	Let me just say something.
	By the way, the show is 640.
	It's a long time ago.
	630.
	And so, yes, it's not necessarily news, but it's new.
	And the point is that this is taxpayer money.
	These guys are just squandering money like there's no tomorrow.
	Weaponizing against us.
	That's great.
	So, back to the journalists who are leaving.
	They say, oh, we're leaving Twitter.
	Yeah, like Rob Reiner?
	No, no one's leaving.
	This a-hole has talked about leaving immediately and all he does now is sit there and bitch.
	Yeah, but it's more interesting to read the journalists.
	And you can find them at journo.host.
	There's a couple other of these places.
	And they're happy to tweet out all the, or toot out all the profiles of all the great journalists who are now on the Fediverse.
	But just like the black Twitter, Professor who came on to say, Mastodon is racist!
	Because it doesn't have quote tweets.
	Quote tweets.
	No quote tweets is racist.
	Black people can be their whole entire selves because it's a call and response mechanism of black America.
	And as long as Mastodon doesn't have that, they are racist!
	And the worst thing you can say is, hey, why don't you build that yourself?
	It's open source.
	No, that's the wrong answer.
	That is a white supremacist answer, obviously.
	But what I've noticed is the journalists also rely on this mechanism.
	The mechanism of quote-tweeting.
	And this did not... The way it started on Twitter is people would make a screenshot of a tweet, and then they'd tweet that out with their commentary.
	And the whole idea is... Well, wait, wait, don't forget, actually what really got to Twitter's upper echelon was Using R.T.
	Yeah, this came after the R.T.
	The letters R.T.
	That was driving everyone crazy.
	Right.
	So after that, Twitter then implemented the quote tweet.
	And the reason why the quote tweet is not available in Mastodon, although it could be, it works on other types of Fediverse systems and people have customized it.
	It's really something that will show up if, you know, it's a client side thing.
	It's not like a network thing.
	You can do this very easily.
	But people on Mastodon never wanted to do this because Really, the only thing it achieves is you can then create your own little sub-thread of people bitching about someone's tweet without them really being a part of it.
	And what happens The past couple of days is Taylor Lorenz pops up onto the Mastodon and she's saying we need journalists will not stick around this app.
	She said app.
	Journalists unfortunately will not use this because we need quote tweets in order to provide context.
	Context so we can do our news better, do our journalism better.
	And here's the interesting thing.
	If you are anything but a leftist, communist, comrade, or journalist, it's all the same.
	When you quote-tweet, you are abusive, it's violence, you're an asshole, you're committing violence against people without even letting them know that they're being violated.
	However, if you are Like Taylor Lorenz, you're a journalist, a comrade, a leftist.
	It's called dunking.
	Kara Swisher uses this all the time.
	When you say something horrible in a quote tweet about someone else and you're a leftist, it's called dunking.
	Yeah, that's just dunking on someone.
	Then it's not violence.
	This is very interesting to me.
	Well, I always thought the quote tweet was useful for making snide remarks.
	Dunking.
	Dunking, John.
	Dunking.
	And so you would... I don't know why they just don't say snide remarks.
	Dunking is like a basketball term or a donut term.
	Yeah.
	In dunking in coffee.
	It's everywhere.
	The quote tweet For those who are left, it's called dunking.
	The quote tweet for those who are right are basically Nazis.
	That's how it works.
	But it's like, I don't think it's important.
	What?
	That's my conclusion.
	The quote tweet?
	Yeah, I mean you can live without it.
	Of course you can.
	Of course you can.
	It's not like anything and this idea of This response thing the black guy's talking about, that's a church thing.
	I mean, is this a religious product that we're dealing with here?
	He's a professor, man.
	He's a professor of black, and he says, oh, no.
	He can be a professor of anything he wants, but I'm familiar enough with that process that it's a church Call-and-response happens in the church, and this is not a church.
	No, I'm in agreement with you, but what you're seeing now is people like J. Rosen.
	J. Rosen?
	No, what's the... Jeff Jarvis, I'm sorry.
	J. Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, same guy.
	Same guy.
	Jeff Jarvis, he's now using that.
	Yes, we need to have quote tweets because, you know, not just... Journalists don't just need it.
	It's racist if we don't have it.
	No, you can't get any documentation of Jeff Jarvis saying that.
	Okay.
	There's no way.
	Okay.
	I'll toot it out later.
	I'll defend Jeff Jarvis in this regard.
	You're going to defend Jeff Jarvis?
	Yeah, in this regard, because I just don't think he's going to be taking that tact.
	Okay.
	Well, I have the receipts.
	I'm not going to look for it right now, but I definitely have it.
	You have the receipts?
	And I will make a public statement in the next show if you prove me wrong.
	Okay, well, start writing.
	I will... I will... Start writing.
	Come on, Matt.
	I have this instance specifically to spy on these a-holes.
	Well, good.
	I think you should keep this up.
	This is good stuff.
	And it's very difficult.
	I have to resist.
	You're going to end up being a journalist by osmosis.
	I have to resist.
	Would you like me to get you an account on my secret server so that you can also follow them?
	No, I'm good.
	I've got plenty to do with my time.
	But let's do this.
	Let's strategize this right in real time.
	Would you like me to get you an account on my secret server so that you can also follow them?
	No, I'm good.
	I got plenty to do with my time.
	Okay.
	But let's do this.
	Get yourself an account as a young woman about a 16-year-old.
	Yeah.
	Can you please send me your young woman profile so I can use that?
	Hold on.
	She's going to be a young woman, 16, a journalism student, but she's on the high school newspaper.
	We're just developing a character here.
	She's on the high school newspaper.
	She's a really cute blonde.
	Kind of ditzy, speaks a little bit with an uptalk, doesn't really know that much and doesn't like history but she's always wanted to be a famous writer because she likes reading novels and she's a big fan of who's that famous, the one famous novelist that all the girls read.
	Oh, the one that Emily, Emily Poe, not Emily Poe, Emily, whatever.
	Emily Dickinson.
	Emily Dickinson.
	Dickinson.
	Yeah.
	Dickinson.
	So she's a big fan of that.
	And she is.
	Look, look, look.
	Why don't you write the profile for me?
	And you go in and you can ask dumb questions and you'll and if you wait, let's get a pic.
	We'll get a picture of her.
	That you can post is me.
	John, I'm not going to do this.
	I'm not.
	This is your beat.
	This should be great.
	You know how to do this.
	I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you an account and you can, you can make up your little lady there.
	And you can, I'm not going to pretend to be anything.
	You know how creepy it is?
	Even what you're saying is creepy.
	Pretend to be a 16 year old girl who likes Emily Dickinson.
	That's creepy.
	Creepy!
	It gets even better when you get the responses from these horny old dogs.
	You got a screenshot of it.
	It is worth the price of admission.
	This is a project we can do together.
	In fact, this may be our exit strategy.
	I think there's a whole podcast in just doing this.
	We could get hired by Spotify.
	I'm telling you.
	This would be great.
	If we never revealed who we are.
	Yeah, this is total exit strategy.
	Totally a great idea.
	Meanwhile, things just going from bad to worse over at Facebook.
	Oh, I'm sorry, Meta.
	Facebook's parent company, Meta, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a privacy lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica.
	Lawyers say the settlement is the most that Meta has ever had to pay to resolve a class action lawsuit.
	Now, I bring this up Because on the last show, we were talking about Wells Fargo, who also were fined by the government, and we were asking ourselves, so where does this money go?
	Where does the metamoney go?
	Where does the Wells Fargo, when they get fined, where does it go?
	And it turns out...
	One of our producers says, you know, you answered this question yourself quite a while ago on the podcast, and that answer comes from Vivek Ramaswamy.
	And this is how government fines are handled.
	That the government cannot use companies to do indirectly what the government can't do directly is something that echoes and reverberates today in ways that are really hard to see because we're designed to be hidden from seeing it.
	I talk a little bit about the book about one of the practices from the Obama administration, for example.
	I talk about the 08 financial crisis, right?
	Well, on the back of the 08 crisis, guess what?
	There were multi-billion dollar settlements with each of the banks.
	They were supposed to pay it to the fisk of the U.S. Treasury.
	Well, guess what?
	Not a lot of those dollars reached the U.S. Treasury, which is by the way, what is the fisk, the public fisk that Americans each have a stake in?
	No.
	What happened was that the Obama administration had tried to get a lot of left-wing nonprofits funded through Congress.
	The Republican-controlled Congress said no.
	Call it obstructionists.
	That's life in a two-party system.
	But they had a creative idea.
	They went in the other direction, and they said, actually, organizations like the National Urban League or La Raza, they used the DOJ to say that we're actually going to settle with you, big banks, and we're going to say that if you give $1 to one of those organizations, we'll give you a $2 offset for how much you owe on this settlement we'll give you a $2 offset for how much you owe on this settlement And guess what?
	It makes for a much better press release to say you give a dollar to La Raza or the National Urban League than it does to give a dollar in a settlement fine to the DOJ.
	Oh.
	Oh, those are 501c3s, a fancy way of saying that's tax deductible?
	Oh, that's a nice benefit too.
	And by the way, you end up paying less money in the end.
	So the Obama administration wins, big government wins, the banks win, they pay less money, and being fond of money, that's actually a very good thing if you're a bank, but also get a great reputational benefit out of it, giving out to non-profits instead of US government.
	I didn't say anything.
	Oh, I thought you said it.
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	The crux of what we need to hear was there.
	Yeah, we got the point.
	Yeah.
	We forgot all about that, though.
	Forgot about it.
	So this is where the money goes.
	It goes into little favorite projects.
	It's a scam.
	It's a scop.
	It's a scop.
	It's another scop.
	The only thing that's not a scop that got turned back, and I don't know if this is like end of year news, the IRS has come out and said, yeah, we're not going to implement that rule just yet of requiring reporting of anything of up to, you know, $600 or more from Venmo or PayPal or anything like that.
	It seems confusing for people.
	So, but no, it's too much.
	It's too much.
	I mean, they have to, right now it's 10,000 is what gets reported when you make a transaction and they're going to drop it to 600.
	Yeah.
	That's like, you know, chicken fee.
	Some people might drop that at the grocery store.
	It's too much work.
	Yeah.
	Well, but there's too much work, but the work is, why should they have to do all this extra work?
	They got enough to do.
	But what I understand is that it's the payment companies themselves who have to do the work.
	It's not the grocery store that has to send that to you.
	The payment app itself says, okay, you got, you know, You spent $600... Yeah, no, it is the bank who... When you do a $10,000 transaction, it's the bank has to do the reporting.
	Right.
	But the banks have got a lot of power, and they're going to have to do the $600 stuff now.
	They can't do it, and they'll be bitching and moaning and groaning.
	There's no way it's going to ever happen.
	Well, I wouldn't go that far.
	Well, maybe with computers it can happen.
	Somebody maybe can code it in and then it can just be automatic.
	I mean, that's possible.
	Well, once we get the central bank digital currency, it'll be built right in.
	No problem.
	Yeah, that'll be the day.
	Okay, all right.
	Just keep saying that.
	You keep talking about your SDRs, too, while you're at it.
	No, I gave up on SDRs and thousands of sealed indictments years ago.
	Which reminds me, where is Joe DiGennaro?
	I did like the report in the register, keeping with big tech for a second.
	Report in the register, and I like the register, they're pretty good.
	Apparently Google is very upset about the OpenAI chat GPT.
	Why?
	Well, I will read parts of the report to you.
	Sundar Pichai, he's the CEO, is apparently in a pickle and is gearing up Google to meet the perceived threat.
	And this is according to an internal memo seen by the New York Times.
	Pichai has upended the work of numerous groups inside the company to respond to the threat of chat GPT.
	Is plucking staff from other divisions to meet the threat!
	It's a code red!
	What?
	It's Code Red, Code Red, this is a problem.
	Oh, they're just irked about people going to that company or what?
	No, they're worried that Google's core product search is going to be displaced by some so-called artificial intelligence that makes people believe that they're talking to something intelligent and that the answers are better, even though they're not.
	Oh, so you think, okay, so here, let me at least give a little impression.
	I am on the computer and I want to find out what's the best restaurant that sells smoked ribs in Oakland.
	So I go to this thing and say, hey, what's the best restaurant?
	And it seems like I'm in a conversation now.
	And the thing says to me, do you like a sweet sauce?
	Do you like a Missouri style?
	Do you like Texas?
	Do you like Georgia?
	What do you like?
	And then I respond and he asked me a couple, the fake thing asked me a couple more questions and then gives me an answer, which is probably paid for by the company that the answer comes from, which is what Google does.
	Of course, that's how you roll.
	So I get, okay, Joe's Smokehouse there on 46th Street.
	Now, what was your question again?
	The question is, is that what they're fearful of?
	No, no, no.
	No, your question about the, what was your actual query?
	The query was, what's the best smoked ribs in Oakland?
	Okay, let me just type it in.
	Let me see what comes back.
	What, you have this thing running there?
	Yeah, of course I do.
	What do you think I am, a techno dweeb?
	There are many great places to get smoked ribs in Oakland, including Smokey J's, Barbecue, Brown Sugar Kitchen, and Everton Jones.
	That kicks Google's ass.
	Let's try.
	Whether it's true or not is irrelevant, of course.
	It's totally irrelevant.
	So when we hit that into Google, the same question, I get ads, smoke and woods, smoke ring, smokehouse, champion smokehouse, the 10 best ribs.
	I mean, I don't get I get a list of answers.
	I think this is the core.
	The core is, this thing just came back and gave me an English answer.
	Whether it's true or not, these will of course also be ads.
	It will not be the best smoked ribs, but it will feel better to people.
	And the funny thing is, didn't Google fire a guy who said, hey, I got sentient AI running?
	Didn't they just fire a guy?
	Was it Microsoft?
	I thought it was Google.
	People get fired all the time.
	Yeah, but it was a big deal because this guy said it's sentient.
	It could be Google.
	But this is interesting.
	You may be onto something.
	Well, not you, Google.
	Google may be onto something.
	You're going to get screwed.
	This could kill them.
	That wouldn't kill them because search engines are good for more than just answering the best smokehouse.
	But you know what it might do?
	Wait a minute.
	You got the two systems up.
	Let's see.
	Here's the question.
	I always bitch and moan about this.
	I know exactly what your question is.
	The question is, what is the best weed whacker?
	Exactly.
	Would you like to phrase the question perfectly for me?
	What brand of weed whacker is considered the best by most experts?
	Hold on.
	By most experts.
	Okay, so we have, what brand of weed whacker is considered the best by most experts?
	I'll do a question mark and let's see, give me an answer.
	Come on!
	Most experts agree that the Stihl brand of weed whacker is considered the best.
	Now let's go to the Googles and see what they say.
	S-T-I-H-L?
	Yes, Stihl, yes.
	How about that?
	Yeah.
	That's a pretty concise answer.
	I'm impressed.
	So if we go to the Google, first of all, it doesn't like the way I spelled Whacker with an H. Did you mean Whacker with W-A-C-K-E-R?
	It should be spelled with an H. Yeah, there you go.
	And what I get is an ad at the top, of course.
	Find ten best weed whackers.
	Then I get top ten, top eight, top string trimmer.
	I don't get an answer.
	And people love this.
	You know what?
	The thing that a lot of technical people are using Is how do I, um, you know, um, how do, what JavaScript code do I need to create this particular action?
	Or, I mean, people go to what's the, what's the, the main place where everyone, everyone searches for their code.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Uh, for your code answers.
	Oh, there is some.
	Yeah.
	Everyone.
	Yeah.
	I can't, I can't remember.
	Come on trolls.
	Tell me what it is.
	Um, they will eventually stack, uh, stack overflow.
	So Stack Overflow is where you go and ask, you know, and now with this OpenAI, because it's code, the OpenAI system actually gives you just the code and says, here, go ahead.
	So even though it's not better in the background and it's far from intelligent, I agree.
	I think this is an interface that blows Google away.
	And the fact that they fired, that they fired a guy who said, yeah, I've got, I made it, is even funnier.
	Well, that's ironic more than funny.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so now I... Strictly ironic, but you know, it's not that they don't deserve such things, but this happens to every company, you know, they fire the inventor of this or that.
	I'm fascinated now.
	What is the website that I have to go to to get the answer, to ask these questions?
	It's chat.openai.com.
	chat.openai.com.
	Now, you're going to have to...
	You have to sign, it's going to take you a little while because you have to have a... I'm not going to do it now.
	You got to have a bogus phone number because it does ask for a phone number.
	Oh.
	So if I said, uh, why, why... Why do I have to have a phone number, you dipshits?
	Why don't you put that in there?
	I already did this.
	I said, what is the number I gave you to sign up with?
	And it says, well, what number do you think it was?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Bye.
	So it's, it's not intelligent.
	What number do you think it was?
	This is like Eliza from 1977.
	From 1977.
	What is the best book of egg recipes?
	I bet you this changes over the next two months.
	Oh, I hope so.
	There are many books that contain great egg recipes, so it really depends on what you're looking for.
	Here are a few suggestions.
	One, The Ultimate Instapot.
	Two, Egg Recipes by DK.
	Three, The 4-in-20 Black.
	And this, it just, it's going on, it's not stopping.
	So yes, this will, this should change.
	This should stop it dead.
	It keeps, it's already giving me five.
	Yeah, too many eggs.
	Ultimately, the best book will depend... Okay, okay.
	What do I do with too many eggs?
	I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying.
	Hard-boiled them!
	It just came out.
	They have not... It hasn't been scraped yet.
	No, of course not.
	But the point is... It'll be scraped and it'll be at the top of the list by January 15th.
	I believe Google is in real trouble.
	No, no, I'm going to say I do believe.
	Google is in real trouble.
	You can do believe whatever you want, but let me go back in time without the sound effect.
	When I was doing Silicon Spin in the late 90s, it was from about 97 to 2000.
	We did four years.
	I was there four years and then they killed the show because they hated me.
	It's not hard to do.
	No, what are you going to do?
	Nothing.
	You know, it's a two-edged sword, my personality.
	So, all during that era when I'd ask certain kind of stock questions.
	I do this constantly with different kinds of people and different professions that I ask people generally.
	So what are you using for a search engine?
	And Google had been in business already.
	I think they were even public by then.
	No, they got public shortly thereafter.
	But they were major in business in 1996, 97.
	And everyone said Yahoo.
	Right.
	Sure, I'm sure they did.
	Yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo.
	Yeah.
	And they said Yahoo right till the year 2000.
	They kept saying Yahoo.
	And it takes half a decade before you can unseat somebody like Google.
	It would take a decade to kill Google.
	Yeah.
	And they're going to go out of their way to buy this thing.
	You watch.
	You can't buy this thing.
	This is part of the OpenAI project.
	You can't buy it.
	Oh, it's completely open?
	Yes.
	You can't buy it.
	So it's public domain?
	Kind of.
	Kind of.
	Well, anybody can hook up to it.
	So, I mean, if you do a question like, what is the best podcast in the universe?
	And you get an answer like, it's difficult to determine the best podcast.
	There's old crap she doesn't even know.
	Some popular podcasts that have received critical acclaim and have a large following include This American Life, Radiolab, The Daily, and Serial.
	Alright, so this is my point.
	It's shit, but it does talk to you.
	And here's another question.
	What do Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak do together?
	Now that's a reasonable question.
	And answerable.
	Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak are both media personalities who have worked in the tech and media industries.
	They co-host a podcast called No Agenda, which is a weekly show that discusses current events and media from a libertarian perspective.
	The podcast has been running since 2007 and has a large following.
	Correct.
	Curry and Dvorak are known for their irreverent and often controversial takes on current events, and their show is known for its offbeat humor and critical examination of the media.
	Correct.
	In addition to No Agenda, both Curry and Dvorak have had successful careers in their respective fields, with Curry working as a media consultant, incorrect, and entrepreneur, correct, and Dvorak working as a technology journalist and commentator.
	I mean, this is not bad!
	This could be the new... It's not right, but it's not bad.
	It's as good as Wikipedia.
	This is the new book of knowledge as far as I'm concerned.
	It's funnier.
	It is funnier, yeah.
	Half of that is obviously, and when they say, I mean half of that is from Wikipedia, that's obvious to see.
	Regenerate response, what is, you can get another response?
	Anyway, so that, this is just as crap as artificially intelligent, AI created art, which I do not support.
	Well, I'm reminded for some reason what came to mind is your affiliation with and adoption of, for a very short time, of this open source Alexa.
	Oh, Mycroft!
	Mycroft!
	Yeah, Mycroft.
	Yeah, Mycroft.
	Whatever happened to that?
	Oh, they're going quite well.
	They have a new box out and everything, but it's just a bad It's an open... It's just a bad Siri.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	It gives you the same answers, more or less.
	It just recognizes you poorly and speaks poorly because you're not communicating with a very expensive data set that, you know, that Google or Apple have put together.
	So it's okay.
	It's open source, but meh.
	But if you want to say, you know, okay, Mycroft, turn on the lights.
	Yeah, all right.
	I mean, we used to have a thing for that.
	It was called the Clapper.
	It was much faster.
	Clap on, clap off.
	So I just thought that was very interesting.
	Also, in the news, I guess Leo's gonna have to close down the studio, the LastPass studio, as LastPass got hacked.
	And if you don't know what LastPass is, you do, but most people won't.
	It is an all-in-one store, all your passwords in here.
	You're safe, trust us.
	So hackers stole the customer vault data in a cloud storage breach and data includes master passwords.
	Sensitive customer information has been taken.
	Right before Christmas, can you imagine that meeting?
	Over at the last pass?
	What happened?
	I know nothing about this hack.
	Okay, well then let me read to you.
	Customer account information related metadata including company names, end user names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses were compromised.
	Cloud storage access keys, dual storage container decryption keys.
	The threat actor copied information from backup that contained basic customer account information.
	Also copied a backup of the vault data from the encrypted storage container, which is stored in proprietary binary format.
	This is not good.
	Now, I don't know if they can break into it easily, but this shouldn't be happening.
	And it just shows centralized stuff is dumb.
	No, you know, I've always avoided those password keepers.
	Even though all these tech guys are always recommending them, it seems to me, well, you know, if somebody hacks that, then what?
	Yeah, I'm not a fan of the LastPass.
	I've never used it.
	I use Vault Warden on my own server, on my Umbral.
	I use a notebook.
	Yeah, it's probably better.
	Code in and stick it in a drawer.
	Tina does the same.
	She's a smart girl.
	Yeah.
	Well, she's a keeper.
	Hello.
	We all know this.
	So, there you go.
	That's going on in your tech world, everybody.
	There's your tech report for the day.
	Wow.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the scop!
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end on this Christmas day, Mr. John C. DeVore!
	And in the morning to you, Mr. Wet Pants.
	Also in the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air.
	Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to the trolls in the troll room, who are very loyal.
	They've come by to hang out and stay with us for our Christmas Day live celebration.
	We do it on all holidays, it doesn't matter.
	Including New Year's Day, we'll also be live for that as well.
	And we appreciate it.
	Let's see how many trolls showed up today.
	Let's count them, shall we?
	We had 1777 on the last episode.
	Today, despite it being a Christmas day, 1,357 trolls listening in.
	day despite it being a Christmas Christmas day 1,357 trolls listening in this is nice 1,357 1,357.
	So that's about half the normal audience.
	Well, actually, recently, no, it's about a third less.
	Yeah.
	Well, good for them.
	I'm glad that they got something.
	At least, maybe we can cheer them up because they're obviously home alone.
	Or they're listening with the family.
	There could be a bunch of them.
	There could be a room full of six that only counts as one when you do the troll count.
	I think, yes, I think many could be... They could be around the tree as they're opening gifts and they've got the show in the background.
	Yes, as we speak.
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	Never thought about it but there you go.
	Now it's a problem.
	Quote tweet.
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	Actually, when you sign up as a new member, you're automatically following us.
	I set that up.
	So, you know, we're the most important ones, obviously.
	And a big thank you to Nestworks for bringing us the artwork for episode 1514.
	We titled that Holiday Heart, which is a big thing.
	Never heard it before.
	The drop in left and right.
	Oh, we had another sad...
	Sad passing.
	Hold on a second.
	It was... Departure.
	Yes, departure.
	Here we go.
	He was only 38.
	This is, and this came from Adweek, as you know, we subscribe.
	Some very, very sad news to report on Christmas Eve.
	Dax Tejera, Tejera, the executive producer... Gotta retake Sarah.
	No, it's T-E-Y-E-R-A.
	Okay.
	Okay, but you know.
	The executive producer of ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos died from a heart attack Friday night.
	He was 38, almost 38 years old.
	How about that?
	Never had a heart issue.
	Died.
	Suddenly.
	Happens.
	So that was the title, and the artwork that Nestworks brought us was very simple, actually kind of cute at the same time.
	We wanted a holiday piece of art.
	It was a request card to Santa.
	Dear Santa, donate.
	Instead of a Christmas gift, we just want you to donate, Santa.
	Can't you do that for us, please?
	Now this is interesting because this came in on the evergreens and it was a last ditch.
	We were, we were stumped for art.
	It was difficult.
	And we, you know, the one I liked, which was... You liked the car, the powered by methane.
	I liked the car with Paul Couture, but it didn't have any Christmas colors.
	And then he did a Santa Claus with a snowman in black and white, as though it was a black and white, like, cartoon.
	But we're looking for holiday colors.
	Holiday cheer!
	And then he had another thing, some S&M thing, Christmas Horrors Unimagined, which I was not going to be picking.
	That was a little weird.
	And the other pieces all came in was, you liked The Z Parties United, or Two Parties United, I'm sorry, The Two Parties United, which is the comic strip blogger.
	Yes.
	But that had nothing to do with the holidays.
	Nope.
	I liked Happy Holidays 2.0 by Nessworks, which was the little cheesecake, a cartoon girl's 50s drawing, which I used on a newsletter, because it's just a nice piece.
	It's well done.
	It was just too much.
	Cheesecake can't just be our go-to all the time.
	No, I'm against it.
	I'm the one who promoted it, and now I eschew it.
	Because it's just people overdoing it for the purposes of doing it, and they're not doing it right.
	That's the problem.
	It's not something you just throw a pretty girl on there and expect, you know, that to be picked.
	Well, that's what people have come to expect from you.
	Oh, if I throw this on, Devorah will like it.
	Hey, by the way, Santa Claus on the cross?
	No?
	No, Santa Claus on the Cross is not happening.
	What else is not?
	There's a couple of things not happening.
	Carishwisher.
	By the way, comicstreetblogger, keep putting in your art that it's AI-generated, so you guarantee it will never be chosen.
	Because I will veto every- That's for your benefit.
	Right.
	As long as he knows that I will veto every single piece of art that is AI-generated, because I think it's ruining careers.
	With subpar crap that people go... It's no different from the chat GPT.
	Wow!
	That art is great!
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	It's not.
	It's a mess.
	Personal opinion, but no.
	So I'll outlaw all of that.
	I think we chose the right one, though.
	We got the best one, the best bang for the buck.
	And it was in the evergreens.
	It wasn't on the main page, which was interesting.
	Yeah, well, that's happened probably two or three times over 15 years, or 12 years.
	Oh, maybe more.
	I think we've selected from... I don't think it's been that often that we hit the evergreens to get the art.
	Well, we really appreciate it, Nessworks.
	It was good and looking forward to what we choose today.
	You can always follow this in real time if you're listening by going to NoahArtGenerator.com, coincidentally maintained and built by Sir Paul Couture.
	So we don't give favorites just because he built something, although he is good.
	And you can refresh it, see stuff coming in real time.
	We already see stuff coming in for today.
	And in those same modern podcast apps, we have chapters which show, our show shows all of everything that we're talking about.
	Pretty much everything that, as long as it's not too offensive or too horrible, it'll show up in the chapters.
	Dreb Scott does that.
	It's a really cool way to show off everybody's art.
	as part of our time, talent, and treasure requirements for sending value back to the program.
	We also like treasure, and we're going to thank our executive and associate executive producers right now.
	We also have some Christmas knights and dames, I believe, so we'll kick it off with Dorn.
	Dorn?
	Is it just Dorn?
	Wait, I'm missing something here.
	That's what it says.
	No, no, no.
	It's Sir Hoest Cadaver.
	I was only seeing the location.
	Hold on.
	I've got to resize this for a second.
	Sir Hoest Cadaver is in Doorn in the Netherlands.
	Nederland.
	$1,000.
	And he says, in the morning, crackpot and buzzkill.
	Adam and John.
	Thank you, too, and all the producers of The Noah Agenda, for the outstanding, entertaining, overwhelming, amygdala-shrinking experience in the form of the two-weekly sanitation.
	This is Dutch, so I'm reading it verbatim.
	Much appreciated.
	This comes with a donation of $1,000 for the instant damehood for the love of my life, Sabine, to be dame bien boost of the ultra... ultra... hmm...
	What do you think that is?
	Ultra... Ultra... Ultracatum.
	But it has an I in there.
	Tray.
	Ultray.
	Ultracatum?
	Ultracatum.
	That's it.
	Ultracatum.
	Stubborn as she is, I have hit her in the mouth so many times that she had to have jaw surgery.
	Okay.
	As a result of the jaw surgery, I lie in bed at night next to a jaws-like experience dental brace.
	I'm not complaining.
	She has to go through it, and she did it with grace and admirability.
	And admirably.
	After her broken jaw, which was done for medical reasons, and wearing braces for two years... Oh, she really did get hit in the mouth.
	The end is near, and we celebrate with a short, relaxing road trip to Friesland.
	Friesland boppa!
	Where we will refill the barrel of Friske Hinder Whiskey.
	She seduced me on Christmas Eve 10 years ago and I'm always grateful to her for that and she became the love of my life and she will become a No Agenda dame because No Agenda dames and knights stay together.
	Anyways, a shout out to the No Agenda Lowlands community and the best Christmas and New Year wish for the producers and listeners of No Agenda.
	The best podcast in the world.
	We'll add universe to that.
	You've been de-douched.
	And a Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Karma.
	And for the roundtable, Bean Boost Homemade Risotto and Frisk Hinder Whiskey in its own cask.
	We got it lined up for you, no problem.
	And let me give you a little bit of Jobs, Karma here.
	Here we go.
	Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and Jobs.
	Let's vote for Jobs!
	You've got Karma.
	Onward with Michael Cheney and Katie Texas.
	Switcheroo!
	Woohoo!
	This is to celebrate the 51st anniversary of my darling wife and me meeting on Christmas Eve.
	This will make Becky Cheney a dame.
	Uh, call her dame Becky of the great Katie Prairie.
	Double Karma, please, and give her steak and Texas sheet cake.
	All right.
	Sheet cake.
	You've got... Karma.
	I don't know what a sheet cake is, honestly.
	I don't.
	I guess it's pretty sheety.
	Ah, Matthew Januszewski is no stranger to this list.
	He's in Evanston, Illinois.
	F me, duke me.
	I'm sorry?
	No, go on.
	Sorry.
	F me, duke me.
	Accounting sent separately, this donation puts me well past duke level.
	However, I've never written into the show, not even for knighthood.
	Well, I've recently participated in white flight and moved to the suburbs for a larger woodshop space.
	I am still a Chicagoan, and heart so, upon arrival of the Peerage Committee, I would like to claim Chicago as my dukedom, and hence, if you want it, you can have it, I'm sure, and henceforth be no problem as Duke Matthew, the Unknighted of Chicago.
	Good talk!
	Let's do it again at Archduke.
	Thanks, Matt.
	Love this guy.
	I mean, we're going to give you the title whether you want it or not.
	Well, there's something that needs to be discussed.
	Which is?
	Which is he's never been knighted, so how can he get the dukedom?
	Without ever going on the podium to get knighted.
	Why don't we insta-duke him?
	Insta-duke?
	Okay.
	But put him on the knight table to do it, so he gets like, you know.
	Gotcha.
	Hold on a second.
	Yes, we can do that.
	Yeah, I think we can do that.
	Let me see.
	It's up to you.
	No, I'll do this.
	I'll do this.
	Januszewski, we will put him up on the knight table.
	He's definitely been contributing forever.
	Yeah, so whether he likes it or not, we're putting him there.
	Done.
	Consider it done.
	Onward with Sir Walkman, the Duke of Buckeye, and he's in Louisville, Ohio.
	I think it's Louisville.
	Could be.
	Louisville, Ohio.
	Could be.
	Merry Christmas, and thank you, Adam.
	You too, John.
	Sir Walkman, the Duke of Buckeye, he is in at $500.
	Nice.
	$450 for Sir Nacho Alcatraz from Ciudad de Mexico.
	Neil deGrasse Tyson can roll up his cheap, smart-ass seasonal zingers and stick them up his... Merry Christmas, Sir Nacho Alcatraz.
	Great one, I like it.
	Thank you very much.
	Benitis, Ben-N-A-I-D-U-S in San Francisco, 333.33, dined with Sir Pete Boyle and got the 33 placard ordering food and decided to donate.
	In other words, they put the thing on there?
	33.
	Yeah.
	Later was listening to Peter McCullough's substack, took notes, viewed source code, became founding member, purchased Audio Hijack to ISO time, talent, and treasure.
	Hit me up with an I got information, man.
	If time permits, good luck on your oral surgeries.
	My man, Merry Christmas.
	I've got information, man.
	New shit has come to light.
	All right, brother, thank you.
	I'm good.
	I'm good with the next surgery in about three months from now.
	So, so far so good.
	Michaela King is in California in Temecula?
	Temecula?
	Temecula?
	With my monthly donation since Rogan 2020, this additional donation brings me to Damehood.
	Oh, nice!
	My son Luke needs a health karma.
	He is in a care center after a motorcycle accident, but he is in room 333.
	Please, no sad aww from Adam.
	I can take it.
	Love you both.
	Okay!
	Alright!
	We're happy!
	We're happy he's doing good, but I will give him a goat if you don't mind.
	You've got Bike accidents suck, man.
	Motorcycle accidents suck.
	Sir Chris in Walnut Creek, California.
	Dear John and Adam, Merry Christmas to you and the entire No Agenda family.
	Please add the lovely Dame Kristen to the birthday list.
	She's on.
	I experienced a regrettable donation failure for the Thursday show, so here's a slightly belated donation.
	She celebrated 29 years yesterday, December 24th.
	Happy birthday, Bird.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you for your courage and all the best to you in the new year.
	Sir Chris of Caramel, Caramel, not Caramel, but Caramel by the Sea.
	Jared Smith, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Switcheroo!
	Okay, switcheroo right away.
	Please give the credit to my beautiful wife, Shelly Winky, I think.
	Winky?
	Winky?
	Should have sent along a pronunciation guide.
	Winky.
	Winky.
	Would like some karma for the new year?
	Thanks for everything you do, guys.
	You got it.
	No problem.
	You've got karma.
	Best note yet is from Rita Harrington.
	She's in Sparks, Nevada.
	She comes in with the same amount of 333.33.
	These people will all be special executive producers for the Christmas special, which is what we're doing.
	Merry Christmas, John and Adam.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	That's it.
	I love that.
	Kyle McInnes, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, peace on earth.
	Merry Christmas to you all.
	Would love some family karma for everyone and hope everyone finds some joy and hope this holiday season stay warm and to many blessings in the future and fortunate tidings and support for those in need.
	Beautiful.
	Thank you, Kyle.
	You've got karma.
	And it looks as though I get the second best note.
	Besides the best note, the second best note comes from Vincent Visconti II in Lantana, Texas.
	Thank you both and all the producers out there for making this Christmas a merry one.
	Vinny, Sinead, and Aof, I guess.
	Aof?
	A-O-I-F-E?
	How do you pronounce that one?
	Maybe it wasn't supposed to be an L. I think it was supposed to be an L. Maybe it's Alfie?
	No, it wouldn't be Alfie.
	A-O-I-F-E.
	Anyway, good luck in your future at school.
	Yes.
	Sir Goon, Kansas, Overland Park, 33333, hello John Adam, Merry Christmas.
	Merry Christmas to you.
	This donation brings me to Baron.
	Alright, please name me Baron Goon.
	I'd like my pierge to be grid square 14 Sierra.
	You got it.
	I'd appropriate some R2-D2 jobs, Karma, as I'm pursuing a new job.
	My current job has me doing a lot of traveling, and I keep remembering John's story about a guy eating nuts on the plane.
	Would you mind playing?
	It's called fisting nuts.
	It's not eating nuts, it's fisting nuts.
	Just go for it, John.
	Tell us your peeve about the fisting method of eating snacks on an airplane.
	I see this on the airplane and it's very annoying and I think it will result in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch.
	Guy takes his bag of peanuts and he throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand and then he makes a fist.
	Around the nuts.
	Around the nuts.
	And then he shakes his fist to try to bring a nut to the little hole.
	Stop.
	To the little hole.
	And then he throws a nut in his mouth from his fist.
	From his fist.
	Then he does it again.
	He shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
	It is annoying as hell to watch.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	Jobs and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	David French is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
	He also joins up with the 33333.
	Crackin' Buzz, Merry Christmas to you and all the dames and knights out there.
	Please spread some joy with a random Reverend Al jingle and an R2-D2 karma for all Sir David French, Baron of Bits, Bites and Bourbon.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
	You've got... Karma.
	And there's our buddy Sir Cal from Lavender Blossoms.
	LavenderBlossoms.org in Northville, Michigan.
	Merry Christmas.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Please give a health karma to all those who support our little business, LavenderBlossoms.org.
	From Sir Cal and the family, wishing all of you a very Happy New Year.
	Great product.
	You've got karma.
	We love that product.
	Yeah, they do good work.
	Onward with Sir Yogi.
	Sir Yogi is... Parts Unknown.
	It came in as a mail-in check.
	I have the note.
	And it's $300.
	On show 1499, the wife and I became instantites.
	My note was read and hers was lost in the shuffle.
	Oh no!
	Due to my not knowing how to properly send notes.
	She was the last person named at the round table and was given the title Dame Janice.
	I'm requesting this $300 executive producer be credited to her.
	Okay, so that's the switcheroo.
	So this goes to Dame Janice.
	Dame Janice.
	Okay.
	Got that.
	And that her title be changed to what she had originally requested.
	Oh, Jane.
	Okay.
	That's a little longer than Jane.
	All right.
	What is it?
	Dame Janice of the Bombing Range.
	Nice.
	We live near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, think WW2 plutonium production, and our bedroom community has an actual bombing range in the back.
	Also, add her name to the birthday list as she turns 64 on December 26th.
	Happy birthday, babe.
	I'm assuming that's on there because it's highlighted on here.
	Yes.
	Please give her a goat karma for her birthday.
	Thanks for keeping us sane, Sir Yogi.
	You've got it.
	Perfect.
	Night of the Carnival Midways.
	Dame Kim and Sir Rob are in the Netherlands near Lone, and he comes in and says, I'm drunk.
	Kim is feeding the horses.
	Merry Xmas, dudes.
	Regards.
	Dame Kim and Sir Rob.
	Perfect.
	That's it.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Joel Nelson's up next and he's in Rochester, Minnesota.
	Hold on a second.
	Before we go there, Rolando Gonzalez, who is a, I think even we have an end of show mix from him again today.
	Rolando sent an executive producer donation, but somehow the PayPal's decided to put him in abeyance.
	This does happen.
	Yeah, I told him we'd give him credit.
	He came in and he'll be on the list as a Christmas producer.
	He said I think $333.33 or something like that.
	Yeah, $300.
	$33.33 or something like that, 300 it.
	And he says that it was $333.33.
	He got, this happens on PayPal.
	It's called Pending Transaction.
	They randomly pick someone every few thousand donations.
	They'll just take one and take a look at it like quality control.
	It's like doing QC on hard disks.
	You just randomly take one from a certain batch.
	Like tasting a chocolate just to make sure it's good.
	Yeah.
	And so he got stuck in this little vortex and he'll probably show up.
	It passes in about two or three days and he'll probably show up in the next list and we'll probably double credit him because we're just going to read away.
	Yeah.
	But he is going to be on today's executive producer list.
	He's been around.
	Yeah.
	You can take the next one.
	Joel Nelson, Rochester, Minnesota.
	Merry Christmas.
	Thank you for your continued effort on this twice weekly InfoSainment.
	R2-D2 karma for my mama and human resource number two due May 2nd.
	Preparing a knighthood so that he can sit next to his sister Dame Ada at the round table.
	Of course we got an R2-D2.
	RT YouTube first.
	You've got Karma.
	All right.
	Sir Greasemonkey's in here for $250 from Odessa.
	Odessa, Texas.
	And he just says, Cavalier donation.
	Birthday, December 27th.
	Sir Greasemonkey of the West Texas oil fields.
	There you go.
	Okay.
	Hold on a second, I see I gotta get...
	Two little things set up here.
	We have Sean Stedman.
	Merry second Thursday and thank you for your courage and work.
	Yet another holiday show.
	This donation makes me a knight.
	Please knight me, sir.
	Face tension.
	Knight of the retail space.
	F-cancer karma for my anonymous mom and a Job's karma for all the retail slaves during the season.
	Yes, indeed.
	There's a lot of people working.
	Jobs!
	Chris Daly checks in with 215.15.
	Was there a reason I'm seeing the 215.15s?
	Hang out.
	Mike, stand by. 33, 33, 33.
	Rubble Eiser out.
	Chris Daly checks in with 215.15.
	Was there a reason I'm seeing the 215.15s?
	What kind of, what was this?
	These are ad-libbed versions of, I said, it was 15, show 15.
	Ah, yes, of course.
	And I said, go for it, see what you can come up with.
	And so we're getting, we got a lot of two 1515s, one 1515s, and 1515s.
	Oh, I like that.
	That's pretty good.
	1515s and 1515s.
	Oh, I like that.
	That's pretty good.
	Okay.
	This donation brings me to knighthood.
	Please knight me, Sir Chris of Cascadia.
	At the round table, I'll have the house standard, bong hits and bourbon.
	You got it?
	But could we please also have some catnip and dog biscuits for the pets of the knights and the dames?
	You got it!
	Thanks!
	No jingles, no karma.
	Says Chris.
	Thank you.
	See you at the podium.
	Isaac Contreras in Chula Vista, California.
	233.
	Much love and respect.
	Thanks for the deconstruction of idiocy and ignorance.
	And thanks for the laughs.
	Merry everything and happy always.
	Blessings to all.
	Hari Krishna.
	Interesting.
	Alex Bell is in Cary, North Carolina.
	$200, the final donation, the associate executive producer, and also the longest note.
	Alex says, I've donated $200 today.
	My first donation.
	With this donation, please de-douche myself, my husband, Jason Bleu, my boss, Adam Menzies, and my boss's sister, Melissa Menzies.
	A very Merry Christmas to these three douchebags.
	You've been de-douched.
	Everyone use the same one if you don't mind.
	Supplies are short.
	Adam and I are on our way to knighthood as we are working hard on our exit strategy.
	Our pact is to knight and dame each other with names of our choice for one other upon execution of said exit strategy.
	He thinks he's going to get a boring name like Sir as a Service or Sass.
	But what he should plan on is Sir Drunk Adam, Sir Spreadsheet Adam, or Sir Disappointed Dad.
	The choice is all mine.
	Melissa, aka Kitchen Beats, FYI, she's female Curry and is proud to be misgendered by the one and only Adam Curry himself.
	Did I misgender Melissa?
	You're a bad person.
	I am.
	Remember, your pronouns are comrade.
	What you might not know about her is that she is the OG troll.
	She's been listening to No Agenda for longer than anyone I know and spends her days trolling the internet using her finely curated trolling skills earned many moons ago on Napster.
	Was Napster, could you troll on Napster?
	I don't know if there was message boards on Napster.
	Maybe like, hey, this is the new Britney Spears song.
	Oh, you know, you could put up a fake song.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Yeah, you could do that.
	She is also lovingly known as the valedictorian of LinkedIn Learning, where she spends most of her time making jokes so great that HR needs to hear them.
	A kidney transplant in a couple of months is going to ensure that the troll lives.
	Nice.
	A big shout out to her mom, Kidney Mom, for being the best mom ever and the organ donor for the now deduced daughter.
	Holy crap!
	That's love!
	Jason is my super hot husband, and we've never had a fight, but is in desperate need of a de-douching because he's the second biggest douchebag I know after my boss, Adam.
	You've been de-douched.
	Merry Christmas to you both.
	I'll be back when it's time to knight him.
	Big love, Alex Bell, card girl, Cary, North Carolina.
	All right.
	Beautiful.
	Thank you all so much for supporting us on this Christmas day.
	Surprising, so many people coming in.
	Really appreciate that.
	That's beautiful.
	These are our executive and associate executive producers.
	We have a special name for them today.
	They are the Christmas executive and associate executive producers.
	The 2022 No Agenda Christmas special executive producer.
	A mouthful that we will have in the credits, as we always do.
	You only have to write it once.
	NoAgendaShow.net.
	And thank you for your time, your talent, and of course your treasure.
	We'll be thanking more producers later on, and if you'd like to become a producer of The No Agenda Show, and would like to do that from the old, boring website, we've got a new one coming!
	Queue one!
	Time, talent, treasure, we appreciate it all.
	Thank you very much for supporting the Noah Judd Show!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Woo-hoo!
	Ah.
	I got some, I'm going to play a few clips about the border wall.
	Oh, good, because I got some stuff on that too.
	That'll be good, good, good.
	I have three clips I want to play because they're contrasty.
	Contrasty?
	They're contrasty, so let's listen to border wall contracts for starters.
	U.S.
	Customs and Border Protection says it's accepting bids from contractors for construction of barriers along the southern border.
	Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants at the border are weathering out harsh temperatures, waiting for Title 42 to be lifted so they can cross into the U.S.
	Okay, there's contracts going out to put up border walls.
	How about that?
	How about that?
	Yeah, but I'm going to play, before I play part two of that clip, I'm going to play this clip, which is an Arizona report from Democracy Now!, Amy, about taking the border wall down.
	Listen to this.
	Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey has reached an agreement with the federal government to dismantle his illegal makeshift U.S.-Mexico border wall, built with double-stacked shipping containers and razor wire.
	Ducey's administration has spent over $80 million on the project since August, which he said was needed to fill in the gaps left by former President Trump's incomplete border wall.
	Ducey has until January 4th to remove the barrier one day before he leaves office.
	And what happens if he doesn't do it?
	Are the Federalis going to come and arrest him?
	I don't know how he's going to do it.
	Have you seen pictures of this thing?
	It's massive!
	It looks like the Great Wall of China!
	It does.
	It does.
	It goes up and down.
	It's beautiful.
	It's actually very creative.
	I thought, I never even heard of this until this lawsuit came about.
	But hold on.
	I have a question.
	Just a regular constitutional states' rights question.
	Do you not, as a state, have a right to do whatever the heck you want?
	Can't you just put up... I would think so.
	Yeah.
	If I just want to put up... Hey, I decide right there on this line, I want to put some razor wire and stack some containers.
	Why is that illegal?
	I don't understand any of this.
	And so they're going to take this.
	They spent 80 million to put up.
	They're going to take it down.
	Now let's play part two.
	Of the other clip, Borderwall 2.
	U.S.
	Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, is accepting bids of up to $400 million per task for the construction of barriers and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border.
	The agency's posting says it's awarding five-year contracts involving design and construction of border infrastructure, including border barriers, anti-climb features, enforcement zones, roads, gates, bridges, drainage control, cattle guards, lighting, detection systems, cameras, towers, and communication fiber.
	The posting comes after the Biden administration this month announced that it will start work to close gaps along the border wall.
	Those gaps include seven in the Border Patrol's Yuma, Arizona sector, and one in the El Paso, Texas sector.
	New work will also be performed in the San Diego sector, which covers western Arizona and part of eastern California.
	What?
	Construction costs for each contract range from $50 million to $400 million.
	Oh, okay.
	We have to take it down because we have our own contractors, our favorites, all lined up to take over.
	Is that what I'm hearing?
	This is the Biden crime family at work.
	Yes, that's exactly what you're hearing.
	Nobody's going to mind those two stories.
	Well done, well done.
	But yikes.
	So it's an illegal border wall so that we can put up a legal one.
	That's like the $10,000 toilet seat.
	It's crazy.
	It's expected, but it's crazy.
	Build the wall!
	Now, I know where this leads.
	Because something happened yesterday that I'm seeing this.
	It's going to happen all over Europe.
	And if we continue to keep the U.S.
	borders open, And allow people to just come in en masse and don't really have a place to put them, because, you know, we're busing people around and it's ha ha ha ha, we'll throw them in San Diego, ha ha ha ha, throw them in L.A., ha ha, San Francisco, ha ha, New York.
	It's not really solving anything.
	This will be the result.
	What happened in Paris is coming to every country in Europe and to the United States if we keep this up.
	Good morning, Janay, and Clash is once again breaking out between protesters and police here where thousands had gathered in support of the Kurdish community.
	We just saw protesters charging police.
	This coming just a day after a gunman opened fire on a Kurdish cultural center, killing three people and injuring at least Three others.
	They are now in stable condition.
	A suspect was arrested.
	He is a 69-year-old man who was under investigation for allegedly attacking members of a migrant camp last December with a sword.
	Officials saying this attack this time around was racially motivated and that he was clearly trying to target Foreigners.
	Now, last night a vigil was held by members of the Kurdish community.
	That sadness turning to anger as protesters clashed with police last night.
	They were hurling objects at police, setting trash cans on fire, and police firing back with tear gas.
	Today, clashes once again breaking out at this demonstration.
	We could feel tear gas in the air.
	Many pointing out that Kurdish activists were also killed back in 2013 and many questioning whether French officials are doing enough to keep members of the Kurdish community safe here in Paris.
	I don't think that these protests are just about keeping the Kurdish community safe in Paris.
	No, people are sick and tired of all European countries just letting people come in and giving them food.
	Dutch children, I'm just going to take it to where I know what's going on, Dutch children are going to school hungry, never happened before that I can remember, but the asylum seekers, they get rooms on a cruise ship, they get three meals a day, and this is, you're going to breed this contempt, and this is going to happen here as well.
	It's the same thing.
	Committed a crime, was let out, committed the same crime, committed another crime.
	People go apeshit over that.
	The Interior Minister, when he was at the scene piecing things together, he talked about this 69-year-old retired train driver who, quote, was clearly targeting foreigners.
	So nothing yet to indicate that he was targeting the Kurdish community as such.
	What is clear is that he was targeting foreigners.
	He has what the French judicial jargon would be racially motivated antecedents.
	Meaning that where he has been on the record with the law enforcement authorities in the past, it has involved violence against people he perceives as being foreigners.
	The most recent, obviously, being almost a year ago exactly, here also in central Paris area, an attacker with a knife, a saber actually, against a migrant camp, for which he was only recently, and when I say recently, very recently, in the past 15 days, freed from detention.
	Which is obviously something now also raising a lot of eyebrows in certain quarters of the French political establishment.
	Why did he get out?
	What were the reasons for his release from detention?
	Was he not still considered potentially dangerous given his past record?
	He was not unknown to the police authorities.
	But it is important, as you did, to stress, François, that at this moment it's broadly believed that he's had a record of attacking foreigners, those he perceives as not being French, un-French, but not specifically, no hard link motive-wise to attacking Kurds specifically.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That is correct.
	It's really interesting.
	The French, I mean, they're acting as if the French should be all accepting and stuff, but you know, the French, they're very nationalistic.
	They always have been.
	They had their own television standards, CCAM.
	When everyone had regular headlights on their cars, they had yellow ones.
	Those were yellow.
	They had yellow ones.
	They dropped that for some reason.
	I still can't understand what happened.
	The European Union came in and made a big stink about it.
	No.
	But it was a real thing for a long time.
	But it's just, it's like, this is part of the Great Reset.
	It has to be.
	To let someone out 15 days after they've already committed a similar crime, and the guy hates foreigners.
	Yes, this is what you get!
	I just go back to the Netherlands for a second.
	I told you, I think we discussed briefly that now the Dutch are admitting that they were a part of slavery.
	And the reparations are on deck, and this has been going on for years and years and years.
	It started with the Black Pete, Sinterklaas, and the Black Pete, and it was racist, and that brought up the racist history of the Netherlands, which no one has ever heard of.
	You've never heard of the Dutch being a bunch of racist dicks who actually transported slaves, but now we have to apologize.
	In an effort to come to terms with its colonial past, the Netherlands has apologized for its role in slavery.
	The country once had an extensive colonial empire in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas.
	Hundreds of thousands of people were enslaved and sold by Dutch merchants over centuries.
	Now the Dutch government is planning to invest in education and awareness programs to tackle racism.
	But the apology Was not welcomed by everyone.
	An apology for slavery that some say is long overdue.
	Posthumously to all enslaved people worldwide who suffered from those actions.
	To their daughters and sons and to all their descendants until today.
	But ever since it became known that this apology would take place, there's been controversy surrounding it.
	First, there's the timing.
	Groups in Suriname, for example, a former colony of the Netherlands, say they would have much rather had it on July 1st, 2023, which marks 150 years of the abolition of slavery there.
	And the way it's presented?
	No, we don't accept the apology.
	Then there's what happens after the apology.
	The Dutch government says it will dedicate around 210 million US dollars to raise awareness about the history of slavery here in the Netherlands.
	And another 28 million to build a slavery museum.
	Advocacy groups welcome the idea, but they say it is also time to have a conversation about recreations.
	From my understanding, it does not include direct payments to descendants who have families or ancestors who were enslaved.
	I think that's still questions that are being asked and not yet fully answered.
	After all, the slave trade funded the so-called Golden Age in the Netherlands by exploiting some 600,000 people between the 17th and 19th centuries.
	And the template for this?
	And this happened, I want to say, 25 years ago.
	All Jews in Europe, descendants of... I think it was just, if you're Jewish, you were automatically descendant of the Holocaust, and there was a lot of money that got paid.
	A lot.
	And so that's what everyone is going to be measuring this by.
	And so right now it's these slaves, but then it's going to be, you enslaved the Indonesians, you enslaved, you know, which is true.
	But now, now it's, it's just, it's, this is how it all, this is how it starts.
	I don't know what to make of it.
	Well, it's, it's, uh, Yeah, I don't know what to make of it either.
	Other than that, it's going to happen.
	It's going to happen.
	It's just a money grab, come on.
	Yeah, but you want to go up there and say, it's just a money grab.
	You want to try that?
	It's just a money grab.
	See how that works out for you?
	I'd say it here.
	A lot of people, I don't see anyone throwing tomatoes at me.
	But okay.
	Let's talk a little bit.
	I got a bunch of clips on the J6 report came out during our show.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	During our show on Thursday.
	And so I got some clips about it.
	I got some Amy Goodman clips.
	This is the best person you want to listen to because she's not going to like Donald Trump much, but she knows she probably should.
	Because he's against the man.
	Yes.
	Let's go with the... I'm gonna play these clips.
	Let's start with J6 report number one.
	The House Select Committee is urging Congress to consider barring Trump and other people involved in the insurrection from holding public office, citing the 14th Amendment.
	Ah!
	There it is.
	How does that work with the 14th Amendment?
	Let's analyze this.
	Let's open up the 14th Amendment.
	Okay.
	To discuss.
	All right.
	I mean, there, of course, the whole thing is...
	Well, why are we even...
	Let's just consult the open AI chat.
	Oh, do that first, yes.
	What is the question?
	What do I want to ask it?
	How does the 14th Amendment keep Donald Trump from running for office?
	Oh, good one.
	Amendment keep Donald Trump running for office.
	Oh, I'm excited about this.
	I spelled everything right, more or less.
	Okay, running for office.
	Here we go.
	Let's see.
	The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution does not specifically address the issue of presidential candidates or election.
	However, it does contain a provision known as the Equal Protection Clause, which states that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
	This clause has been interpreted by courts to mean that states must apply the law equally and cannot discriminate against certain individuals or groups, including on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or other characteristics.
	It is worth noting the 14th Amendment has no direct bearing on the eligibility of presidential candidates or their ability to run for office.
	The requirements for becoming president are outlined in Article 2 of the Constitution and include being a natural-born citizen, being at least 35 years old, having lived in the United States for 14 years.
	There's no requirement that a presidential candidate must be protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment in order to run for office.
	I'm impressed.
	I'm impressed, too, because this thing basically said, no, it's bullcrap.
	It's bullcrap.
	Let me just say, is it bullcrap?
	Question mark, because it's a chat.
	I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're asking about.
	Oh, well, you know, OK, never mind.
	OK, so it's bullcrap.
	They're going to do it.
	They're trying to push this.
	And it was like that.
	And of course, Amy did not question this any.
	I mean, the dumb AI robot did a better job.
	Unbelievable.
	The robot wins.
	Let's go to clip two.
	The January 6th committee is also calling for reforms to the electoral college certification process and expanded efforts by the government to combat far-right and white supremacist groups who played a key role in the January 6th insurrection.
	The report documents how many of the first rioters to break into the Capitol on January 6th were members of the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, believers of the QAnon conspiracy theories, and other white nationalists.
	The report was issued Thursday night, three days after the House Select Committee voted to refer Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
	And I ask the dumb bots, can Trump run for president in 2024 just to offset Amy?
	Answer.
	Under the United States Constitution, any natural-born citizen who meets the age and residency requirements is eligible to run for the office of president.
	There are no provisions in the Constitution that would disqualify someone from running for president based on their past actions or conduct.
	Therefore, it is technically possible for former President Donald Trump to run for president again in 2024, assuming he meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the Constitution.
	It is worth noting, this is a computer, this is funny, It is worth noting that whether or not Trump will actually run for president again in 2024 is a question that only he can answer.
	Well, you silly bot.
	He already answered that.
	There's been much speculation about his plans, but at this time it's not clear what his intentions are.
	You're behind, bot.
	Bad bot.
	The bot's behind about too many eggs.
	Bad bot.
	Bad bot.
	The bot's always going to be about a month behind.
	I said bad bot, and it says, I apologize if my response was not helpful.
	As an artificial intelligence, I'm not capable of having personal feelings or intentions, okay?
	So they bring in this guy John Nichols from The Nation, and he's now going to discuss, because he analyzed the J6 report, and he's going to tell us what he thinks, and of course it's all, you know, Trump should have been shot according to him, but let's go to J6 report, John Nichols, Nation, D.N.
	Well, it is a significant report.
	There's simply no question, Amy.
	It is very long.
	It has an immense amount of detail.
	And I think one of the most striking things is the clarity with which this report says what committee chair Benny Thompson has been saying since the start of their public hearings.
	And that is that this was a coup attempt and that Donald Trump was at the center of it.
	The report comes back to this again and again and again.
	So that the whole preoccupation, this is the whole left, the whole left believes this.
	And the right's thinking it was just like some sort of a riot coordinated by the FBI gone bad.
	But okay, let's go to part two of this guy.
	Propose taking steps that will allow to have much more clarity Article 14, Section 3 of the Constitution, which says that an officeholder who supports an insurrection or gives aid and comfort to an insurrection, participates in an insurrection, can be barred from office.
	And so they want to give clarity to that so that Congress can act on that issue in the future.
	Now, all of this takes us back, Amy, to the reality that this Congress, particularly this Senate, failed.
	back in February of 2021 in the impeachment process.
	Had Donald Trump been convicted by the Senate, then we would have had clarity on these issues at that point.
	Because that didn't happen, now we have a series of recommendations which in some ways are an admission that Congress doesn't think that the impeachment process probably will ever work, so they want to have another vehicle to bar those who participate in insurrections.
	Is he saying Article 3, Section 2?
	Of the Constitution.
	This is bullcrap!
	I think it's all bullcrap by this guy.
	But you can see that he's not, he doesn't like the Constitution, he doesn't like anything.
	When you listen to, which is one of my points about the whole thing, listen to the last clip from this guy and you're gonna see where he's coming from and why, you know, he should not be listened to.
	He might as well be like Fareed Zakaria, you know, let's just toss the Constitution aside and write something new that we can rewrite it every year.
	The final thing I'll mention as regards the recommendations, and it's a disappointment on my part, is that the committee did not make a clear statement that the Electoral College should be abolished.
	Because the fact of the matter is that the Electoral College is the root of a lot of these problems.
	I think not.
	This, you know, convoluted, you know, mess of a system, which has, you know, the votes being counted at certain points and then transferred to Congress and all that created the real opening for Donald Trump and his allies to do the things that they did.
	And I think that while abolishing the electoral college would be difficult, it's something that clearly the committee should have recommended.
	Okay, that makes sense.
	So what they really want to do is just get rid of the Electoral College.
	The safety valve of American politics.
	The safety valve to keep us from having President Al Gore and to keep us from having President Hillary Clinton.
	It was a mechanism put in place for the purposes of keeping people like that from winning the presidency and it works fine.
	And, but they want to get rid of it because they think that, you know, a national vote, a national government, a national, the states should go to, by the way, the same people that feel that electoral college should be ousted also don't believe in states' rights and think we should be just a nation.
	Yeah, one nation, under God, indivisible.
	Yeah, with a federal police department, federales.
	Yeah, they'd love that.
	That's a long shot, though.
	I mean, that's not something you're going to fix in the remaining two years.
	No, it's never going to get... To get to that is going to take, I don't know what, but it's nothing on the horizon.
	These guys are living in a dream world.
	They're just complainers.
	I do have an ABC report on this.
	You do have?
	I do have, and I do believe it's good by John Carl.
	Thanks for nailing me on that, but go ahead.
	The January 6th committee's final report...
	What's bad?
	Tina did that to me the other day.
	She interrupted me and said, go ahead.
	What?
	She's listening to the show too much.
	The January 6th committee's final report details Donald Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
	And it recommends that he not be allowed to run for office ever again.
	In its 845-page final report...
	The January 6th committee says the violence that day was the fault of one man.
	The crescendo of Donald Trump's, quote, multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
	I love the crescendo of his multi-part plan.
	That's beautiful.
	Capping 18 months of investigation, the January 6th committee's report lays out that plan in meticulous detail, mirroring their dramatic public hearings and offering some additional new details, making several recommendations, The boldest, that Donald Trump and others who engaged in insurrection be disqualified and barred from holding government office.
	No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again.
	He is unfit for any office.
	The committee's recommended reforms include changes to the law on certifying the presidential election and increased penalties for threatening that process and for threatening election workers.
	Over the course of eight chapters, the committee describes Trump's plan from his constant lies about election fraud that his own advisers repeatedly told him were false to the pressure he and his allies put on nearly 200 state level officials to overturn the election results.
	When that effort failed, Trump then turned to his supporters.
	In the end, he summoned a mob to Washington, and knowingly, they were armed and angry, pointed them to the Capitol, and took... They were armed?
	Armed and angry!
	200 state-level officials to overturn the election results.
	When that effort failed, Trump then turned to his supporters.
	In the end, he summoned a mob to Washington and knowingly they were armed and angry, pointed them to the Capitol and told them to fight like hell.
	The report is a roadmap not just for the American public, but for history and for prosecutors.
	The committee is also releasing thousands of pages of transcripts of witness interviews and other evidence.
	This is fantastic.
	They are going to psyop the entire world, certainly the American public, into believing there is a legal way to stop Trump from running for office or anybody who was a part of the insurrection.
	This cannot end well.
	This is a time bomb.
	And I don't even think Trump would win if he runs.
	But to stop him and others from running for office, this can only lead to Parisian reactions.
	Do you not think so?
	Well, they can't stop anybody.
	This is bullcrap.
	They can't get, you know, they're not a criminal operation.
	They're legislators that put this thing together.
	No, they can't.
	No, I know.
	I know that.
	What?
	I know that, but they're saying the Justice Department has to do that.
	The Justice Department can't do that either.
	It's illegal.
	I know it's illegal, but it doesn't mean that they won't do it.
	They won't do it.
	They're not nuts.
	They're gonna try everything they can.
	Why would... Yeah, that's true.
	I'm not gonna argue about they're not gonna try everything they can, including just... but it's just all... they're trying to just create bad publicity and trying to make Trump look like a bad guy.
	You just said yourself that these people are all in, they completely believe it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So what... and I think a majority of the country The vocal majority, let's put it that way, will say, oh yeah, he can't run.
	And we agree.
	We agree with the Justice Department.
	Merrick Garland, he said it.
	In fact, this is unprecedented historic!
	The committee says it hopes its final report and its public hearings are just the beginning, an initial step.
	They have also recommended criminal charges for Donald Trump and others in his inner circle.
	Of course, that decision is entirely up to the Justice Department, which has its own investigation well underway.
	Will?
	That historic initial step.
	John Carl, thank you very much.
	Historic.
	You know, you and I should probably start recommending criminal proceedings to the Justice Department.
	For the Biden crime family.
	Using the same rationale.
	Well, you know, they can take it or leave it, which is what the real, what Carl's really saying there.
	They recommended the Justice Department do it, but they can take it or leave it.
	Yeah.
	Well, when it comes to the justice system in the United States, we're seeing a lot of things that are, I think, out of the ordinary.
	This Arizona governor race with Carrie Lake, it was a pretty tight 17,000 vote difference.
	vote difference.
	And, you know, now there's all kinds.
	And by the way, she didn't win her lawsuit to overturn the, to insurrectionize that election. - Yeah.
	Here's a quick clip.
	To politics now.
	Tonight, Republican Carrie Lake has lost her bid to overturn her loss in Arizona's governor's race.
	A judge said that Lake did not provide evidence that the election was stolen.
	The official count shows Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by about 17,000 votes.
	And I agree.
	There's no evidence that was presented that showed it was stolen.
	Stolen, that's the key word.
	But there was a lot of weird stuff, like ballots that had different sizes, so they would either not be scanned or be shrunken down.
	It could provide for a difference.
	It's just a pot full of every trick in the book.
	You've heard previous testimony.
	Were you here for Mr. Jarrett's testimony?
	Yes, sir, I was.
	And did you hear Mr. Jarrett testify that in the November 2022 general election, a 20-inch ballot was used?
	Yes, sir, I did.
	Would a 19-inch ballot image projected on a 20-inch piece of paper used in the election in Maricopa for November 2022 have when it was placed into one of these vote center tabulators?
	It would cause it to be rejected.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	There you go.
	So they'll do that.
	And there's no outrage.
	Not real outrage.
	But it's coming.
	Very sad.
	Very sad what's happening here.
	There's also no outrage...
	So amazing to watch all these people sucking up to Zelensky.
	You know, it looked to me like Zelensky came to D.C.
	in Air Force Two.
	I saw him getting off Air Force Two.
	Did we fly that guy in?
	This I don't know.
	I do have one Zelensky supercut.
	Okay.
	Yes, I've seen this one.
	It's good.
	Politicians in the press often toss around...
	Because when they steal from us, we're never credited.
	Ah, good point.
	But the supercut appeared on Tucker Carlson.
	Yes.
	So I want to make sure that the credit goes where it's due.
	Politicians and the press often toss around comparisons to Winston Churchill, but this time, minus the cigar and the whiskey, it fits.
	President Biden face-to-face with the man who has drawn comparisons to Winston Churchill.
	And in a dramatic wartime appearance reminiscent of Winston Churchill in World War II.
	This was historic.
	Some people have compared it to when Churchill came.
	Zelensky is very much acting in the Churchillian tradition.
	What could be a Churchillian moment?
	I mean, he is a modern Winston Churchill with an iPhone.
	Someone who probably is the most courageous and inspirational leader since Winston Churchill.
	Where Winston Churchill stood generations ago, so too President Zelensky stands.
	So you're almost saying that Zelensky's had a harder job than Churchill has?
	That's exactly what I'm saying.
	This is a historical figure.
	This guy actually can be compared to Winston Churchill, the Lincoln in 1860.
	Man, were there Republicans in that bunch too?
	There must be.
	Well, technically, Margaret Hoover was in there.
	The Council on Foreign Relations spook that's got her own show.
	And she was nodding her head and going on about his, she's the one who said his job is harder than Winston Churchill's.
	I just love the Churchillian.
	It just sounds cool.
	A Churchillian is great.
	He's very Churchillian.
	Let's listen to Zelensky now that he's back home.
	This is coming to us from ABC.
	We do move now to the latest on the warning.
	We do move now.
	Now this is even better.
	I do believe now.
	I think we should introduce this into the lexicon.
	We do move now.
	You have to add a now to the do.
	So whatever you do...
	I do think now.
	I do believe now.
	We do move now to the latest on the war in Ukraine.
	And President Zelensky back home from his historic visit to Washington.
	The country now facing a tough winter as the fighting with Russia stretches into its 11th month.
	Britt Klenit is on the ground there in Ukraine with more.
	Britt, good morning.
	Good morning, Whit.
	Fresh from that very important trip stateside, Zelensky is now back here in Ukraine with the extra U.S.
	backing of $1.8 billion in a video message saying he's returning with good results, with things that will really help, and thanking the Biden administration.
	Zelensky also getting a boost from the G7 this morning, announcing $32 billion in economic support.
	And as that worldwide aid comes in, reports that Russia's resources are depleting.
	And Moscow appears to be growing more reliant on private military company the Wagner Group.
	The US now confirming it received weapons to help Putin's war from North Korea.
	Something Pyongyang denies.
	Now this is fighting in the east rages on.
	Both sides claiming they've caused heavy casualties there.
	And Putin also saying he wants the war to end as quickly as possible.
	Now that's the first time he's called it a war instead of a special military operation.
	Is this another sign of an escalation?
	This is incredible to me.
	If you're reporting that he wants to end the war, your obvious next line is, well, he's finally calling it a war, isn't he then?
	How about let's stop this insanity?
	No, none of that.
	But there's also some insanity within the reporting.
	When did Russia lose all its ability to make armaments?
	They've still got Sukhoi, and they've got the MiG people, and they've got... There's a bunch of jets they make, and they make planes.
	I think Ilyich is still the one jet maker.
	There's a bunch, and they still make the rocket engines for the world, even though we, you know, Rocketdyne makes some, but the Russians don't.
	They've got our nuclear fuel!
	And they got our nuclear, I can't even say it, fuel, and they can't make a bullet.
	They have to get weapons from North Korea.
	Does this make any sense?
	No.
	And if the U.S.
	media, mainstream media, was honest, then they would have played a little bit of what Putin said and what the Kremlin is talking about.
	We don't get that from U.S.
	media.
	We get it from the Turks, TRT.
	The U.S.
	remains Ukraine's biggest single supplier of weapons and money.
	Zelensky told his people it had been a good trip.
	We are coming with good results, ones that will really help.
	When we say patriots in Ukraine and in the U.S., we mean the protection of state and the people.
	This issue is solved.
	There is also financial support.
	There are other agreements.
	We will speak about them later.
	Not surprisingly, reaction in Moscow to Zelensky's U.S.
	visit has been negative.
	President Putin accused the U.S.
	of conducting a proxy war and risking escalation with its new weapon supplies, but then appeared to discount the effectiveness of the Patriot missile.
	Stop for a second.
	Please note that the ABC report said he referred to it as a war.
	The Turkish radio and television report that he said it was a proxy war.
	A slight difference there in obfuscation, ABC.
	Not surprisingly, reaction in Moscow to Zelensky's U.S. visit has been negative.
	President Putin accused the U.S. of conducting a proxy war and risking escalation with its new weapon supplies, but then appeared to discount the effectiveness of the Patriot missile systems, just granted to Kiev.
	It's a fairly old system, India.
	It doesn't work like our S-300, but our opponents say it's a defensive weapon.
	Okay, we'll keep that in mind.
	And there is always an antidote, so its deployment will be in vain.
	It will only prolong the conflict.
	No, let's not report on that, people.
	Well, we remember the days of the Patriot missiles after the Scuds.
	The Scuds.
	The Scuds versus the Patriots.
	That was no good.
	The Scuds were funny.
	I was in Israel shortly after that.
	War broke out and the Scuds and the Patriots are going after each other and I was told that the Israelis were sitting outside watching because it was a highly entertaining fireworks display.
	Yes!
	Because the Scuds would go up and the Patriots would never hit them but they'd blow up and they'd make a nice explosion.
	And the Scuds, he said, all the supposed, this guy's Says he knew.
	He says all the scuds that were supposedly knocked down by the patients, none of them were.
	They were just no good and they blew up on their own.
	They embedded themselves headfirst into the ground and did nothing off them.
	We saw a lot of that.
	And then you'd have just shots over and over and over of this.
	And this is the sound from that, from that era.
	Yeah, America.
	Ugh.
	I've got one more, I only have one more supercut which I also took from Tucker.
	I mean, you've been all over Tucker and Amy.
	No, this is the same show.
	What are you doing?
	What are you doing, man?
	I'm getting supercuts.
	I want to see what they're stealing from us.
	Yeah.
	So I want to see what they're taking from us and I want to get if they have these super cuts because they're you know super cuts are entertaining.
	They mock the media but this one is actually got Tucker on it and it's not as much of a super cut as a funny cut and this is about Bankman Freed and how the CNBC crew were so in love with this guy because I don't know why Because he's, you know, sketchy to begin with.
	But they were just falling all over themselves.
	And the worst case was Jim Cramer.
	They fell in love with Sam Bankman-Fried.
	They wanted to be Sam Bankman-Fried.
	They told us Sam Bankman-Fried was the new J.P.
	Morgan.
	Here's a tape we're going to watch at least once a month for the rest of our lives.
	It's that good.
	They call him the J.P.
	Morgan of crypto, right?
	Yeah, the Michael Jordan of crypto, if you will.
	So what should you care about a floppy-haired, vegan, fidget-spinning crypto billionaire who occasionally sleeps on a beanbag chair?
	During the so-called crypto winter, the 30-year-old CEO has been referred to as crypto's white knight.
	JP Morgan of this generation.
	I think it's yet to be determined.
	Yet to be determined.
	Is he Vanderbilt?
	He could be.
	Is he Harriman?
	Possibly.
	Is he the incredible Moliere scandal?
	Is he Carnegie?
	If he gives a lot of libraries, he is.
	Oh, man, they don't have the one where he cries.
	Where he says, I was wrong.
	They didn't put that in the supercut.
	That's too bad.
	Kramer, I was wrong.
	Kramer did this with what was like Bear Stearns.
	He was encouraging.
	Same thing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, I don't know how long.
	I mean, I don't like Kramer.
	When I was doing spots for CNBC, he would always hog the airtime.
	Oh, I'm sure he's a dick.
	I'm sure he is.
	And this continuous kind of mistake, CNBC and these financial operations that pick stocks for you, they're not supposed to be so unskeptical of a guy like this Who's an obvious freak of some sort, and fall all over themselves like that.
	They should do a little work, maybe, and warn people.
	The guys who do all the work and warn people are off, never on CNBC.
	Oh, please.
	This is not what's... I think the reason why everyone was falling, fawning, is because The connections that Sam Bankman-Fried has are very deep, well known, so well known in fact that SEC General Counsel Dan Berkowitz is leaving the agency.
	And that was mainly because he was whining and dining with Sam Bankman Freed.
	And he's a regulator.
	He's a regulator.
	And he was hanging out and they caught on to him.
	So that guy's got to leave.
	Well, after 34 years of public service, it's time for me to pursue something new and different challenges and opportunities.
	And spend more time with the kids.
	And spend more time with the family, exactly.
	Now to the latest on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
	He's been released on a $250 million bond as he faces multiple fraud charges and the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
	Aaron Koterski has the latest.
	Aaron, good morning.
	Whit, good morning to you.
	Before we go any further with this, a $250 million bond, am I mistaken that you'd have to put up at least 10%?
	Yes, but if you recall, it's been exposed that no money was put up.
	No, but isn't that typical?
	First of all, what happened to no cash bail?
	What happened to that?
	That's right there.
	He put up nothing.
	There was no cash.
	So it didn't work out.
	It just has a number attached to it that's meaningless.
	Has the latest.
	Aaron, good morning.
	Whit, good morning to you.
	Once a globe-trotting crypto billionaire, Sam Bankman Freed this morning is living with his parents in Palo Alto, California, after federal prosecutors said he committed a fraud of epic proportions.
	Released on a $250 million bond, Bankman Freed left court with an ankle bracelet, strict monitoring, and a ban on doing any business worth more than $1,000, although the judge said Bankman Freed achieved sufficient notoriety after the collapse of FTX, so it's unlikely anybody wants to do business with him.
	Bankman Freed said only three words in court.
	When asked whether he understood the consequences of bail jumping, he answered, yes, I do.
	His release followed the guilty pleas of his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and FTX co-founder, Gary Wang.
	The FBI said the pair admitted they were willing participants in the fraud, and now they're cooperating with the Fed's will.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah.
	Let the real culprits go.
	Screw the beanbag floppy dude.
	Oh man, I feel almost bad for him.
	Well, some people have speculated the parents were really behind it.
	Some people?
	How about your partner on the podcast?
	Yeah.
	They abused this child and now he's living with them.
	And don't worry.
	Don't worry, Sammy.
	We'll take care of you.
	No one really serves any time.
	Don't worry about it.
	But maybe this time they'll actually throw this kid in jail and toss the key.
	Just to make an example out of somebody.
	How about this?
	The guy's a freak.
	Maybe the parents never liked him.
	What can we do with Sammy?
	I got an idea!
	I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
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	Oh, that's right, lopsided.
	Lopsided boob.
	Sarah Pelequin in Niagara Falls, slowly I turn, Ontario, 75.
	Christian Tierhart in Abbotsford, BC, 69, 69.
	Sarah, by the way, is donating for the coolest uncle and dog dad around, Johnny from Canada.
	So, just wanted to add that.
	Hey, Jenny.
	Johnny from Canada.
	Brian Aguilar in Belafontein, Ohio, 69.
	Sir Dodger in Dame Meme in Barton, Vermont, 6789.
	Sir Brian in Bowick.
	Oh, he's in South Africa.
	Or Zimbabwe, one of the two.
	No, Z.A.
	is South Africa.
	He is doing $64.25 and he's got a birthday, a couple birthdays, we got him on the list.
	Mark Krasinski in Los Osos, California.
	Oh, with a reverse lopsided boob.
	This is a cheap-ass version of the same donation.
	It's a cheap-ass lopsided boob.
	60-08 cheap.
	James Story in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 60.
	Tobias in the Real Estate Services in Gardner, Kansas, 58, 88.
	Jim Andreanakos in Glenview, Illinois, 55, 57.
	And this brings him to knighthood.
	He will be, sir, Jimitri the Christmas Knight.
	Oh, good.
	Linnea Nilsson in No.
	Chelalem, I think.
	I don't know how it got Clealem.
	This is a screw-up, but this has got to be Chelalem.
	Makes you wonder.
	Washington.
	$55.55.
	We've got a bunch of $55.55 here for some unknown reason.
	Matthew Dropko, our friend in Delaware, Ohio, $55.55.
	Robert Wills in Riverside, California, $55.55.
	Casey Garrett in Wawachichka.
	Wawachichka, Florida?
	Never heard of it.
	55, 55.
	Dame Terrace in Urbana, Illinois.
	Urbana.
	55, 50.
	Marcus Mueller in Montabaur.
	Montabaur, Deutschland.
	55, 22.
	Mont de Bauer, Deutschland, 5522.
	Chris Engler in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.
	It's interesting that Marcus, who is in Deutschland, says Merry Christmas, and Chris, who is in Ontario, says Fröhliche Weihnachten, which is German.
	German, yeah.
	Eric, yeah, it's...
	You're only interesting to us after 15 years of reading notes.
	Eric Ortega.
	Oh, I found something cool on the notes finally, John.
	Look at it.
	Eric Ortega in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 5110.
	John D. Carney in Alpharetta, Georgia, 5110.
	Subodh Peth.
	Hey!
	Where's Sabode Ben?
	Been a while.
	In Metairie, Louisiana, 5510.
	Dean Roker, 5510.
	Stephen Atwell, Steve Atwell in Bloomfield Township, 5432.
	Merry Christmas, no agenda show.
	Devin O'Connell, Boylston, Massachusetts, 5151.
	Bunga bunga.
	Sir Silverin, Silver Springs, Maryland, 5151.
	And we're getting there.
	We're almost done.
	Catherine Morton in Charlotte, North Carolina, 5111.
	Thanks for working on Christmas.
	You're welcome.
	Emmanuel Urbando in Miami Lakes, Florida.
	5033.
	Reg and Meg Hufford in Tempe, Arizona.
	Look at that wall when you get that chance.
	5033.
	And now we have the $50 donors.
	Name and location.
	Kate Haskell's at the top of the list, followed by Alexa Delgado.
	Kate's in San Rafael and he's in Aptos, both in California.
	Forrest Scott Brinkley in Christianburg, Virginia.
	April Davis in Austin, Texas.
	You know her.
	Baron of Belmont in Belmont, North Carolina.
	Timothy Brashears in Cookville, Tennessee.
	Tom in Hengelo, Netherlands.
	Hengelo?
	Hengelo.
	You got it right.
	Hengelo.
	James Woodhouse in Dalmany, California.
	Chris Stewart in Princeton, Ontario.
	Dame Janice Oliver.
	She actually sent a nice card in.
	She's sweet.
	She's always doing this.
	She sends a lot of donations.
	Isn't she Dame Knight?
	Isn't that her?
	Yeah, she's Dame Knight.
	I'm sorry.
	That's right.
	Dame Knight.
	She sent us a nice little card.
	Nice card.
	Merry Christmas.
	She crossed off the stuff that was printed in there and repurposed the card.
	Good work!
	As one does, of course.
	Andrew Butterfield in Bettendorf, Iowa.
	Charles Boyd in San Marcos, Texas.
	Danielle First in Kaukauna, Wisconsin.
	I got that wrong, I'm sure.
	John Walter in Wenatchee, Washington.
	Michael Romano in Sebastopol, California.
	John Lawrence in Hootersville, Texas.
	Oh, no, Hellotts.
	Hellotts.
	Hellotts, Texas.
	Bart Bickwalder in Vigel, North Brabant.
	Close enough.
	And last on this list is David Perdue in Snow Hill, North Carolina.
	I want to thank all these folks for making our Christmas a good one.
	And thanks for listening and supporting this show that we work.
	We got a number of night notes.
	I'm not quite sure.
	Are these night notes that we have not mentioned?
	I don't know.
	There's one that's confusing, but I just think you might as well read them.
	Steven Judd.
	The Christmas night offer made me do a double donating December with double nickels on a magic number to push me over the amount to get my knighthood.
	I started listening to Noah Jenner after Adam showed up on Twit with his guns.
	Plus, I was already a JCD fan since the days of reading tech mags.
	Haven't missed a listen since 2014.
	Only the amygdala of a No Agenda listener is as healthy as mine.
	To everyone who's been listening for more than a month and not donating, you know the value you receive, so sign up for a monthly plan of any amount, and I mean any amount.
	Make sure you sustain this product.
	I myself am an example of steady, sustaining contributions, and I call out all freeloaders.
	That's douchebag!
	And he will be knighted, sir, up in butter.
	And he will have fried chicken and Belgian waffles at the round table.
	Did I get those?
	Let me see.
	Belgian fried chicken and Belgian waffles.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Let me just make sure I have that.
	I don't think we had that set.
	We do now.
	Then we have Ron Sprouse.
	Adam and John, I hope this note makes it in time.
	I guess it did.
	Uh, I want the title of Sir Ron of the Nueces, River Canyon.
	For the round table, wacko whibs and a flagon of mead.
	Flagon?
	A flacon?
	Flagon, I guess.
	What is a flagon?
	What is a flagon?
	It's like a, it's like a, it's like a, like a decanter.
	Okay, we'll take it.
	Brian Roediger.
	Good morning, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	No jingles.
	Just karma with this donation of 333.33.
	I bring myself to a long-awaited knighthood.
	I would like to be known as Sir Bing, knight of the BMWs and Bulldogs.
	Have the usual fare at the round table.
	I've been waiting seven years to ask this question.
	Adam, did you approve of the hilarious Jonathan Coulton chipmunk's Christmas spoof, Podsafe Christmas, and is there a story behind it?
	Oh, man.
	Uh, that's a long time.
	When was that?
	When was that?
	Seven years ago?
	I thought it was longer than seven years ago.
	No, that's longer than that.
	Way back.
	I think it was much longer than that.
	Pre-show.
	It was, it was maybe 17 years ago.
	Yeah.
	You know, 2006, that was because of the Podsafe Music Network, and of course I approved of it.
	I mean, it was kind of hard to hear, and someone sent, I think he might have sent it to me, Brian, and going back and listening to it is, you know, it's like a takeoff of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
	Very hard to understand what the chipmunks are saying, actually.
	So, yeah, I did not disapprove of it.
	Scott Bagwell says, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
	Hope this finds you and yours well.
	I don't believe I received, I don't believe, this is new.
	I don't believe I received credit for this donation, for this donation, for show 1499.
	If I missed the recognition, I apologize for the inconvenience.
	If I didn't get acknowledged, please throw me in somewhere as soon as you can.
	You're in.
	You're in.
	If you can't find my original submission, all I asked for was Jobs Karma, the original Pelosi one.
	Thanks for the best podcast in the universe.
	Coming up for you.
	Oh, and that's it.
	Those are the, uh, the four night notes.
	So let me just, uh, give the, uh, jobs, karma, and the regular karma.
	Whoa!
	You got... Whoop, not that one.
	You got jobs!
	You got jobs, karma!
	That's exactly right!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And if you'd like to become a No Agenda producer, and we also love all the people who came in under $50, go to our website devoregg.org slash N-A.
	There we go.
	Yes, we do have a birthday list.
	On it, Sir Chris, who wishes Dame Kristen a happy birthday.
	She turned 29 on December 24th, yesterday.
	Sir Brian, 64, when he's 64, that is today, December 25th.
	Happy birthday there in South Africa.
	Sir Grease Monkey of the West Texas Oil Fields 41 on the 27th.
	Dame Tara wishes her mom Barb a happy birthday on January 1st and her nephew Owen on January 3rd.
	Both happy birthdays.
	And Sir Yogi says happy birthday to Dame Janice of the Bombing Range.
	And that are your, those are your birthdays.
	And we say happy birthday to everybody here from the No Agenda Show.
	And no douchebags, but lots of title changes.
	Sir Goon becomes Baron Goon of the Grid Square 14 Sierra.
	Sir Mike Gates Viscount of Colorado becomes Sir Mike Gates Count of Colorado.
	Duke?
	Never been knighted?
	Who's Duke?
	Never been knighted?
	Oh, uh, Sir Matthew Januszewski will become Duke Matthew, the unknighted of Chicago, and we have also put him up on the stage for, uh, for his, uh, because he's never been knighted, so we gotta put him up there, and I've got a sword, we got some dames, we got some knights.
	I got a great sword, a brand new one!
	Nice!
	Up on the podium, ladies, we want Sabine, Sabina, Becky Ginney, Michaela King, The Dudes, Matthew Janiszewski, Steven Judds, Ron Sprouse, Brian Roediger, Sean Stedman, Chris Daly, and Jim Andrianakos.
	I am proud to pronounce the KB as...
	Dame Bien Boost of the Ultra Centrum Hill Ridge Forest, Dame Becky of the Great Katy Prairie, Michaela King, Dame Michaela King, Duke Matthew the Unknighted of Chicago, Sir Uppenbutter, Sir Ron of the Nueces River Canyon, Brian Roediger, Sir Bing, Knight of the BMWs and Bulldogs, Sir Face Tension, Knight of the Retail Space, Sir Chris of Cascadia,
	And sir, Jimitri, Christmas night and for you, we do have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, homemade risotto, friska, hinder and whiskey in its own cast, steak and a Texas sheet cake, fried chicken and Belgian waffles, catnip and dog biscuits, wacko webs and a flacon of mead, and as requested, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, and of course mutton and mead.
	You need to go right now to noagendanation.com slash rings, grab yourself.
	Um, no, don't grab anything.
	Let us know where we can send the ring, your wax, which is, uh, goes with the Signet ring for stealing your important correspondence and the official certificate of authenticity.
	We need a ring size.
	We need your address.
	And in the meantime, enjoy, um, all of the goodies we have here at the round table.
	And thank you all for coming in almost the last show of 2022.
	It is highly appreciated.
	Brand new No Agenda Nights and Days.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	It's time to party!
	Parties be had!
	Parties everywhere!
	Parties and reports of the parties.
	Hi everyone, this is Leo Bravo at No Agenda Meetup number 35.
	I'm passing the phone around.
	Some folks have something to say.
	Hey, this is Sir Robertson of Two Sticks and I'm glad to be here in the morning.
	I'm from San Diego.
	I'm going to San Diego.
	What?
	Dame Swaggerpants, wife of the dude with the hydrogen car.
	This is Steven of the Orange Curtain, and I love the green hydrogen!
	In the morning!
	Giddy up!
	Well, if you have a green hydrogen car, would you please send us some details?
	We're very interested in this.
	We are, after all, hydrogen aficionados.
	We do have a couple of meetups just before the end of the year.
	On Wednesday, the 28th, Lunch With The Night, RSVP, please.
	Noon Alaska time, Bear Paw Bar & Grill in Anchorage, Alaska.
	We also have the local one, Cash If Freedom Sit Down Dinner, I think it's Cash Is Freedom, at the L.A.
	Bistro Canton in Canton, Michigan.
	Oh, very confusing, that's Sir Timothy of No Fix title arranging that.
	Coming up in January, Kernersville, North Carolina, Keyport, New Jersey, Knoxville, Tennessee, New Paltz, New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Snohomish, Washington, Indianapolis, Indiana, Camp Hill, PA, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Charlotte, North Carolina, Wyoming, Minnesota, Los Banos, California, Durango, Iowa, and Toronto, Canada.
	Just a few.
	You can find them all at noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one near you, you gotta start one!
	It's your obligation and your right!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want to be.
	Drink it all, hail the flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	Like a party!
	Like a party.
	I got a headache, you know why?
	No, why?
	Because I'm, these, uh, these temporaries, like, I'm, I'm grinding my teeth a little bit, and it's just, it's giving me a headache at the base of my neck.
	It happened yesterday, too.
	I gotta stop that.
	Yes.
	Sucks.
	Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.
	Only when I laugh, Doc.
	Only when I laugh.
	ISOs!
	What do we have, Jean-Claude?
	Do you have ISOs?
	Do you have ISOs?
	I have a couple.
	Oh, let me do mine then, because I only have one.
	Ready?
	Ready, Teddy.
	Happy Swanza.
	How could I not do it?
	That's actually not bad.
	Might be the winner if I... Okay, so I've got two, uh... I don't have them on this list.
	What are they called exactly?
	You have, um... I see So Long and All Folks.
	Okay, uh... Start with So Long.
	Happy Swan.
	Oops, sorry.
	Sorry, sorry, sorry.
	So long, folks!
	Okay, so that's unintelligible.
	Try the other one.
	That's all, folks!
	No.
	I think Happy Schwanza is the winner.
	Yeah, unfortunately, yes.
	Those were taken from a post of every That's All Folks endings of Mary Melody's cartoons for the last 50 to 100 years.
	I don't know how many years.
	And they weren't as crisp as I'd like.
	But Schwanza's good.
	I mean, the idea of what you were doing there was all right, but, you know, it just didn't quite cut it, unfortunately.
	Well, it's hard to top Nancy.
	Believe me, no one wants to top Nancy.
	Hey, do we have anything else we want to do or just want to leave?
	Well, you might as well just at least do this one because it's just the poor women in Afghanistan might as well...
	Give them a little love and at the same time blame Joe Biden for this.
	In Afghanistan, a group of women took to the streets of Kabul Wednesday to protest the Taliban's ban on women and girls attending universities.
	Taliban forces arrested five protesters and three journalists.
	Some of the women said they were beaten by security forces.
	Guards also prevented hundreds of women from entering their colleges a day after the ban was announced.
	This is Mariam, a student at Kabul University, who was turned away from her campus Wednesday.
	When I got close to the university, I saw a strange environment.
	Taliban Humvees were parked at the entrance gate, and the Taliban were behaving so badly, telling us, return to your homes.
	Girls have no right to study anymore.
	This situation has a very bad impact on every female student.
	Dozens of male university professors have resigned to protest the ban, and some male students reportedly refused to take their exams.
	Meanwhile, a new report finds the U.S.
	unlawfully failed to compensate foreign workers who suffered injuries or death while working for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.
	Tens of thousands of foreign workers from countries including Nepal and the Philippines supported the U.S.
	military, working as guards, cooks, and construction workers.
	Afghanistan.
	She did it.
	She did.
	No, she doesn't.
	I have other clips we can play on the next show where she's even more aggressive about pronouncing it weirdly.
	But I wondered about that clip.
	Humvees.
	Thank you, U.S.
	government, for giving them the Humvees so they can keep the girls from going to school there in Afghanistan.
	Joe Biden.
	I need to play a couple clips at the end because we have to alert our producers as to what's going on in the world.
	And they're rolling out the same script from three years ago.
	Warning, warning, warning.
	ABC.
	Ever since China dropped its strict zero COVID policy this month, cases of COVID-19 have been exploding.
	It's clear that China...
	is now grappling with its largest ever wave of COVID infections.
	Shanghai's health authorities are now urging residents to stay at home over the holiday period.
	It's difficult to get a clear picture of what's happening on the ground because of a lack of transparency from Chinese officials.
	But in a rare acknowledgement by one senior health official on Friday in just one city alone, a staggering half a million people are being infected by the virus every single day.
	There are images emerging of hospitals overwhelmed by the surge of infections.
	There's patients that are slumped on the floor and in corridors.
	And intensive care units are turning away ambulances.
	Now, China has a low vaccination rate among the elderly, which could make a lot more people vulnerable.
	And with a lunar new year coming up in January, a time when many people will be traveling across the country, the fear is the number of COVID cases are only going to rise.
	Exactly the same as 2019.
	Exactly the same.
	And into 2020.
	Lunar New Year.
	It's going to spread everywhere.
	Hello, Italy!
	Are you ready?
	Are you ready?
	Because you're going to be PSYOPT again.
	Oops.
	You're going to be PSYOPT again.
	I'm out of control.
	You'll be SCOPT again.
	You'll be SCOPT again.
	That's right.
	SCOPT this, China.
	Mainstream media.
	I mean, it's everywhere.
	I'll play a couple of those on Thursday.
	If it's still relevant.
	If we don't all have COVID again.
	Hey, happy holidays, but more importantly, Merry Christmas.
	And happy Schwanza, if you're into it.
	John, for you, happy Schwanza.
	Schwanza.
	Schwanza.
	It's all the rage.
	Thank you very much for joining us if you're listening live at NoAgendaStream.com.
	We do have another live show coming up right after this.
	That will be The Lotus Effect with Phoenix and Phone Boy.
	Those two are pretty interesting to listen to.
	That's at NoAgendaStream.com.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region number 6 in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, Where we wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And we wind it up with end of show mixes from, um, let me see, we've got Wayne Yothers, we've got Dee's Laughs, along with Mr. J and Sir Michael Anthony.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	Until next time, adios mofos, hooey hooey and such!
	We are looking at a winner of severe illness and death.
	Get vaccinated.
	Get your kids vaccinated.
	Get a booster shot when you're eligible.
	Wear a mask in public indoor settings.
	There is action you can take to protect yourself and your family.
	You're looking at a winter of severe illness and death.
	For yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
	400,000 shots per day now.
	202 are fully vaccinated.
	202 million are fully vaccinated.
	202 million are fully vaccinated.
	57, excuse me, 500.
	I'm hungry.
	I'm not sure I got the right number.
	Boosters are free, safe, and convenient.
	So don't forget your...
	Get vaccinated.
	Get your kids vaccinated.
	Get a booster shot when you're eligible.
	It's time.
	It's time.
	It's past time.
	You're looking at a winter of severe illness and death.
	And I understand why you believe crazy things.
	And I understand why you think crazy things.
	I'm the same way.
	Derek Birch?
	I can't remember if he has a... a moniker.
	And Matty J!
	Uh, Dee Slavs?
	What's the next thing they're gonna fear, monger?
	Another virus, climate change, or world hunger?
	They're passing out billions in every direction.
	Not a TV show, but we divided by intersection.
	Marvin asked in 71, what's going on?
	Finishing the year in 22, where did we go wrong?
	Pay attention to everything, the truth reveals itself.
	It's what Molfax said, I say it to myself.
	Met the man, you said, hey, release your Delph.
	It's Christmas time.
	I'm always moving like the elf on the shelf.
	But I don't play these childish games.
	Only one I play is with my nephews.
	I cut off all my childish dames.
	Forgot about the guitars like Eddie Hazel.
	Funkadelic is funky, not fresh like homegrown basil.
	To all the producers, thank you for the three T's.
	Time, talent, and treasure, I think we all agree.
	John C. Dvorak and my man Adam Curry host the best podcast going into 2023.
	Value for value, international lifestyle.
	Twice a week, yo, we love it all the while.
	You put a number meaningful to you.
	Just donate, don't be a shapeshifting you-know-who.
	Shout out Maddie J for the, um, instrumental.
	We going mental.
	I don't know, but it was, I mean, it was one of the more serious ones.
	Way back in the day.
	This one now is probably, he probably got the same one that I got like a month ago, which I'm not vaccinated.
	Well, I got the Johnson and Johnson, I got the ghetto vaccine and you know, I got the Johnson and Johnson right when it was first available, which that, that was probably just like syrup.
	Earth for all I know.
	Something like that.
	Ho ho ho, global citizens.
	This is Santa Claus.
	I am checking my list to see who is being naughty or nice according to ESG.
	The worst punishment will be for the climate change deniers.
	If you are naughty, do not worry.
	We will not put a lump of coal in your stocking.
	Coal is made of carbon.
	Und carbon is verboten by ESG.
	So we will just take your stocking.
	Und your other gifts.
	You will get nothing and be happy.
	Another tradition is the leaving of cookies and milk for Santa.
	These cookies must be 100% vegan.
	And the milk must be soy milk.
	Under ESG, there will be no more cow milk.
	And, of course, no more meat.
	You may also leave for Santa cookies made with the cricket flour and a glass of cockroach milk.
	But even I will not eat this.
	You will eat this.
	Maybe not this year.
	Maybe not next year.
	But we still have plenty of time to implement Agenda 2030.
	So now is the opportunity for giving the hugs, exchanging the gifts The best podcast in the universe!
	MoFo.

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