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	Party!
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 1st, 2023.
	This is your award-winning give-on-Asian-media assassination episode 1517.
	This is no agenda.
	Welcoming the Year of the Rabbit and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody wishes everybody a Happy New Year.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Cragpaw and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Ah, yes.
	Our traditional New Year's horns.
	Whenever there's a celebration, we crack them out.
	Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
	Well, Happy New Year, John.
	Happy New Year to you.
	Yeah, here we go.
	And, uh, has everyone noticed?
	Everyone listening to the sound of our voices?
	How empty your podcast player is this time of year?
	People are jonesing.
	They're like, oh, we have nothing to listen to.
	We have no podcasts.
	There's nothing to watch on TV.
	Oh, because people are doing reruns or not doing anything or taking time off.
	They're going on hiatus.
	Or putting B-teams in who are trying to be funny, which is really the worst.
	That is the worst.
	Trying to be funny.
	Yeah, especially like shows that have a unique personality.
	That now, for instance, Jesse Waters on Fox, I can't stand his show.
	I can't stand him, honestly.
	And then, so he'll have a B-team on, and they're trying to do Schtick, which when he does it all, it already sucks, you know?
	And now they're just doing three levels worse.
	I don't know, I don't watch it.
	Well, trust me, you're missing nothing.
	Well, I say the same thing with Tucker's show.
	They bring on Tulsi, you know, or somebody to try to get through it.
	Yeah, it's not my cup of tea either.
	Do you have resolutions, John, for 2023?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know what they are.
	I have only one.
	Okay.
	I will no longer click on any link that starts with the word BREAKING in all caps.
	BREAKING!
	TRENDING!
	BREAKING!
	It's so... I think BREAKING should be out.
	Yeah, I mean, it used to be Breaking News, right?
	Well, they start all these Fox- all the Fox shows, almost every one of them start with Breaking.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Breaking.
	Breaking News.
	And by the way, it's on tape, so it can't be breaking that fast.
	Breaking News.
	It's not live shows.
	Breaking News!
	Breaking News!
	Yeah, I mean, it's clickbait to the nth degree.
	Stop it, people.
	Stop it.
	Well, the other thing that's somewhat annoying are these roundups.
	Oh, you mean like the year-end roundup?
	Yeah, because they had nothing to do.
	There's no news, so they do a roundup.
	I actually have... I don't... I said in the newsletter we're not going to do one, but I think we maybe could do one of the ones that other people do.
	I've got one here that would be very entertaining.
	Oh, someone else's roundup.
	Okay.
	Well, that's interesting.
	And in fact, I can incorporate with the first of the year Ask Adam.
	Oh, goodness.
	Right off the bat, we're going to go for an Ask Adam?
	Okay.
	Well, I just think it might be appropriate.
	Hey, man, keep talking into the mic, John.
	You're just dropping out.
	Okay, so this is your buddy, K-Part.
	I don't even know who K-Part is, my buddy.
	He's not much of a friend, then, is he?
	No!
	Who is K-Part, my buddy?
	So Capehart is the guy on the news hour, we had the last Judy Woodruff show.
	Oh yes, Capehart, yes, okay, the gay guy.
	So Capehart's the black gay guy from the Washington Post, associate editor of the Washington Post, tuned in to everything, and they're gonna ask, and Judy's gonna do, she's gonna ask everybody, what's the best, what's the happening, what is the What is the most important news story for 2022?
	Ooh, OK.
	And they're going to ask Capehart and Brooks.
	And I was looking, I was thinking, I'm going to ask Adam, I want you to predict what Capehart has to say.
	And I'm going to run down some of the possibilities.
	Oh, OK.
	Now, there's two clips here.
	Do we play one and then the other?
	No, no, you play one and you don't know.
	There's no, like, set up clip for this.
	Well, then let's just do this one.
	First one of the year, people!
	I'm excited!
	So I'm thinking the top news stories, the real top news stories were like, let's take, let's go with the one that's obvious.
	The Ukraine war.
	I think that's the top news story of the year.
	It started in February, took over the whole year.
	It's taken all of our money.
	It's a top story.
	Rachel Ray was just in Ukraine.
	We have completely I would say that.
	And then there are other things on my list.
	Inflation and Putin, which you just mentioned.
	- This war is the news.
	It's not actually the true reason behind inflation, et cetera, but it was everything that was wrong in 2022 was Putin and the Ukraine war, without a doubt. - I would say that.
	And then the other things on my list are inflation and Putin, which you just mentioned, the Chinese threat and the supply chain issues that happened, The Chinese lockdowns, which are huge news.
	Yes, the opening.
	The EU, the COVID trifecta, whatever they call it.
	The triple-demic.
	And the constant threats of a nuclear war, you think that would be big in the news?
	You think so?
	Yes, yes.
	Gas prices, inflation, I mean, okay.
	All right, so let's take a guess at what Capehart, amongst these and whatever else, chose as the top news story, really the top news story of the year.
	Now do I get to guess now or not?
	Yeah, no, you can guess, right?
	Yeah, no!
	I mean, is it yeah or no?
	Yeah, no, I said that.
	Start the new year off right with a yeah, no, and at the end of the day, it'll be even better than that.
	I do believe that this, uh, this Capehart fellow will probably, and I, and just everyone knows, even in the new year, John and Adam do not share their stories, their ideas, and then clips.
	The only thing I look at when John's clips come in is just the titles.
	Okay, you know, he's got some COVID.
	You know, I know I don't have to do anything about the Trump taxes.
	John's got it covered.
	That's all.
	I have no idea.
	I didn't, I didn't know who Capehart was.
	I didn't know that.
	I saw Ask Adam, Capehart, Rappler.
	My thinking is the biggest news story for these jermokes would be January 6th committee.
	That's not even... Of all the ones I've mentioned, you think that's even important?
	No, you're asking me what I think this... Oh, okay.
	Hello?
	Excuse me?
	How does this thing work?
	Play the clip.
	If you look back on 2022, Jonathan, what are you thinking about positively?
	What are you thinking about otherwise?
	And I have to say the news is happening right up until today.
	Kevin McCarthy, Republican leader in the House, agreeing to do whatever he needed to do to secure the speakership.
	Well, of all the big things that happened in 2022, the two big things for me were the January 6 hearings.
	Over the summer.
	They were, as I've said many times on Friday night, they were really important for history.
	But I think after now going through nine hearings, plus the final report, What we've seen, or what I've seen, is these hearings were a slow burn.
	They captured the imagination of the American people, the interests of the American people by the way they were handled.
	But then, and this leads to the second thing that I, a big story for me, for 2022.
	Okay, so, excuse me, excuse me, I nailed it.
	Yeah, you did.
	Okay.
	I know.
	Much to your chagrin, obviously.
	Yes, but at the same time you're on the ball.
	It's true.
	It's a new year, I'm on the ball.
	Wait, he's got a second item, though.
	That must be Ukraine, right?
	Oh, let me think, let me think, let me think.
	What else can we have?
	No, it would have to be something stupid like Elon Musk buying Twitter.
	That's what these guys care about.
	Okay, well, it was stupider than that.
	Here we go.
	Is the results of the midterm elections.
	And I think that those hearings demonstrating to the American people just what was done by the former president of the United States and people who supported him to try to subvert a free and fair election drove a lot of people, not just Democrats, but we saw lots of Republicans joining independents and Democrats pushing back but we saw lots of Republicans joining independents and Democrats pushing back against extremism within the Republican Party and rejecting big lie pushers, the folks who were constantly saying that the 2020 election was stolen and supporters, people who were
	the folks who were Those people who went out to vote in the midterm election saved our democracy in this last election.
	And I think that that is, for me, the biggest story and the biggest result out of 2022.
	Wow.
	I mean, oh goodness, that is just... And this is the guy that's taking over for Judy?
	No, no, he's still in the panel that him and Brooks is yakking to each other.
	I mean, this is, this is so lame.
	There's so much more that is important.
	Well, obviously.
	So this is, this is the media's war.
	That's just what it's, that's just what it boils down to.
	Media's war, and they're going to keep it going in 2023.
	Yes, that is my guess.
	All right.
	That got us off to a, let's do it.
	Well, let me.
	Let me put something in here since, just keeping in with what I would consider to be the incredible scam of the January 6th committee, the CIA podcast is quite unbelievable.
	I don't know if you listen to it at all.
	It's worth subscribing to.
	Well, I introduced it to the show, if you remember.
	I know, I know.
	You introduced it, and then you stopped listening?
	Do I ever listen?
	Yes, I stopped listening.
	Yes, I did.
	So, just because we're kind of, you know, talking about the news and the propaganda, because obviously these are not the top stories that America is interested in.
	In fact, the ratings showed that.
	And this guy, oh yeah, Friday nights were never the same.
	It was must-watch TV.
	It was so lame.
	Lame.
	That it's worth listening to this two minutes now of the Chief Historian, CIA has a Chief Historian.
	Which is interesting.
	Yeah, you get a lot of money, you get a lot of people in there.
	Well, we know that... Probably one of the guys who directs all the book writing.
	Exactly, the book writing.
	There's thousands of people writing articles and news and books, even though, you know, the church committee said, no, no, no, we're not going to have that anymore.
	It's all going to end.
	That was in 1977, I think, 76.
	David Robar, he's explaining in their own podcast how the agency promotes democracy.
	Democracy through their covert action!
	I think one huge misconception falls in the area of covert action, which really is the most controversial undertaking that the agency engages in.
	It's the only part of our core missions where we're implementing, helping implement policy, as opposed to informing it.
	Implementing policy?
	Isn't that... I love what these guys... It used to be, jump out of airplanes, save the world, Catholics in action.
	Now it's something completely different.
	And that's democracy.
	It's democracy.
	Covert action can only be as sound as the policy that it's meant to assist is sound.
	And too often in our history, foreign policies have been quickly thought out, not strategically implemented.
	They're thrown into a crisis situation, and the agency gets dragged along into that.
	And as a result, you have, in those cases, a high level of failure in covert action.
	Oh boy.
	What would be an example of some of their failures?
	Cuba, for instance?
	Would that be one of their failures?
	The Bay of Pigs would be right at the top of the list.
	It would be up there, wouldn't it?
	And of course, I think this is being put out there because they obviously want to eventually take credit for ousting Putin, which is the ultimate goal.
	Another big misconception about covert action is that it's fundamentally undemocratic.
	That the only reason the CIA does it is because the president tells us to go overthrow a government it doesn't like.
	Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
	Or to protect some authoritarian regime it does like, and maybe on the side help out U.S.
	multinational corporations.
	Yeah, like the banana... what was it?
	The National Fruit Company.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's literally running down the list.
	This is really funny, you're right.
	They have things they did already.
	Maybe on the side, help out US multinational corporations that might be invested in those countries.
	That is a totally erroneous statement, because if you Think about more than the small sample of covert actions that were revealed in the 1970s through the Church and Pike committees.
	If you take... Hold on.
	What was revealed during the Church and Pike committees is that the CIA was propagandizing the American people through mainstream media.
	They had journalists on staff.
	They had people writing the news for journalists.
	That's what it was about.
	But now the historian seems to be altering history.
	In the 1970s, if you take, starting out with, the roughly four dozen plus covert actions we have officially acknowledged, I wish we would acknowledge more, because the good news story here is that, by my analysis, roughly seven out of eight of the covert actions we've engaged in have been either to promote democracy where it's under siege, where it's being repressed, or to protect it
	Where it's being potentially subverted by outside actors.
	Is this the job of the American intelligence organizations?
	To save democracies?
	I don't think anybody would argue that that isn't pro-democratic.
	Yes, if you look at assassination plots, Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, a few other places, yes, those are arguably undemocratic.
	Killing a leader is arguably, you know, I had to think about it over the holiday, and I'm like, you know, when you kill foreign leaders, you could argue that's undemocratic, but if it's not a democracy, then it's kind of democratic.
	Cuba, a few other places, yes, those are Arguably undemocratic, because the rulers of those countries either were popular or they were democratically elected, but for various reasons, our presidents didn't want them to stay in power.
	The CIA, as you know, is the only organization in the US government that's authorized to do covert action, so unless you're going to invade a country and take it over, If the president says, do something to get that person out of power, whether it's some kind of election operation or an insurgency or something like that, the agency might argue against it, but it will respond because it works for the president.
	So you've done insurgency operations and election operations around the world.
	Is it feasible that you might have done that to save democracy in America, CIA?
	This organization is corrupt and literally, literally just putting it in your face.
	Well, this bragging thing is bad.
	It's a bad look.
	There's also, did anyone mention to him that during the Reagan administration they produced an executive order to end all assassinations, political assassinations?
	Are they still doing them or they just ignore that?
	Of course they ignore that.
	Of course they do.
	It's really quite interesting.
	They just put that out there.
	And they start off by saying, people think that we just do whatever the president says.
	And he winds up with saying, well if the president says kill that guy, we gotta kill that guy.
	So even though we know what he said, we know that we need some media training would be in order.
	I put this one guy.
	Oh, no, but this is what's so beautiful about podcasts.
	This guy thinks it's a podcast.
	No one cares.
	What are the numbers on that thing?
	And now it's just I'll just talk.
	This has been your thesis since the first day we did our podcast.
	People are very loose-lipped when they go on a podcast and they say things they wouldn't do on a regular broadcast or any other form of media for some unknown reason.
	I've always been baffled by it myself.
	Uh, in the meantime, the Twitter files just keep on being published through the, uh, through multiple...
	Barry Weiss-controlled reporters, the way I see it.
	And what is the latest here?
	The censorship, oh yes, Elon Musk helps with the Twitter files to show that the cybersecurity infrastructure security agency CISA was corrupt and only out there to build communication portals with big tech.
	Facebook, Twitter, Google, TikTok, TikTok, Reddit, Discord.
	And they had liberal groups like NAACP, Common Cause, DNC, Harvard's Defending Digital Democracy Project, all of them in these little pro-democracy propaganda groups.
	But that of course gets no media attention, and these things are released at the end of the year, on a Friday, or worse, on a Saturday.
	Yeah.
	Hey, we released him, man!
	So, for everyone who's all jacked about Elon Musk, the term limited hangout has been really bugging me for a long time.
	I think popularized by Whitney Webb, who is part of the unlimited hangout website.
	I think, if anything, Elon Musk is the definition of a limited hangout with these Twitter files, which means we're giving people something to feel good about and be angry about because, oh my god, look what the government did.
	But because the entire apparatus is giving it no attention, it is therefore just a limited hangout, it goes away, and it will never ever come into the mainstream.
	People will not know about it.
	As is evidenced by the New Year's dinner last night at the Banker's house.
	There we go.
	I have to be a little careful because it was very emotional.
	We know most of the people.
	I think we knew everyone there.
	They've been there before on different parties.
	And I kind of realized that everyone at the table except us are New Yorkers who moved to Texas.
	Often where one half of a couple, the spouse actually didn't really want to have to move to Texas.
	And a couple things stuck out.
	One... Is it usually the woman or the man who doesn't want to move to Texas?
	I would say the woman.
	I would say the woman.
	Well, I can understand that.
	I would say that if I tried to get us to move to Texas, I would get pushback from Mimi.
	She hates Texas.
	It's okay.
	Texas would have pushback against you.
	So, you know, you're not allowed in.
	It's that simple.
	I don't know about that.
	Okay.
	I think I'd be welcomed.
	You, yes.
	But Mimi hates us.
	You just said it.
	She can't come in.
	Unless she's got a number one best-selling book about eggs, then she can come in.
	Oh, that's coming.
	It's on its way.
	Well, so a general tendency was how confusing it could be to be a New Yorker.
	In fact, there was one Jewish New Yorker, which she mentioned several times, and she felt so out of place in Texas and was surprised Living in Austin, how few people were really, really angry about Roe v. Wade.
	And, you know, so this got into children and their daughters and, you know, it was quite emotional and, you know, I was, I guess... Do you mean emotional or heated?
	No, emotional.
	No, it's not heated at all.
	We went around the table and we were supposed to do things I learned this year, or this year I learned, whatever.
	Did you learn anything about January 6th?
	Did that come up?
	Well, in a way, yeah.
	So we went from that to, you know, boy, are we lucky to be in America because, you know, you see what's happening elsewhere and it looks like we're getting very close to having, you know, Nazis in Europe again, meaning the Russians.
	Which my head was exploding.
	I'm like, have you seen the Ukrainian forces with their Nazi insignias, their Nazi salutes?
	I mean, I just gave up on it.
	I didn't even say anything.
	Yeah, you can't get involved with something, a discussion like that.
	No, I would not.
	Because it's from a perspective that's completely erroneous.
	It's like they've been brainwashed to think this way.
	That is exactly the issue.
	We've been in our You know, obvious deconstruction bubble.
	It's where we live.
	We understand how it works.
	You know, we're kind of at peace with the, you know, I think just doing the show and laughing at them, you know, it doesn't freak you out too much.
	But the freak out, there was a lot of stress.
	I could feel that people were...
	We're truly stressed about the state of the world, but we're doing it based upon, you know, a New York Times narrative.
	Yeah, always the New York Times.
	Maybe an MSNBC narrative, I'm not quite sure.
	No, probably not.
	Almost no COVID stuff.
	There was very little about In fact, everyone's very cavalier, I would say.
	Like, oh, you know, we're not going to get any more vax.
	No, no, no.
	If we get it, it's just like the flu.
	It's like, oh, wow.
	OK.
	I remember having... They're probably picking up some local propaganda.
	Well, I mean, this is true.
	This is the way everyone thinks in Texas.
	What do you mean?
	Texans aren't all jacked up about masks.
	Austin, are you kidding me?
	Are you kidding me?
	Okay, Austin, I'm saying Texas.
	I'm not saying Austin.
	It's like, there's a difference.
	Well, here's an example from MSNBC, which we could argue is a very liberal channel.
	Joe and Mika from the Morning Joes, they are, of course, the A-team is out, so they bring in the B-team, some news model.
	And she even brings in another B-teamer, Ezekiel Emanuel, if we remember who he is, one of the He's Ari Emanuel's brother, of course.
	Is he the agent?
	No, Ezekiel is the guy who was in Obama's administration.
	I thought it was Ron.
	No, no, they were both in there.
	So you had... I didn't know who Ezekiel was.
	Okay.
	You had Rahm Emanuel.
	He ran the show, right?
	He was the Chief of Staff.
	Then you had, of course, you had his brother, the agent.
	That's off to the side.
	And Ezekiel is... Let me see, what was this guy?
	I think I have it here.
	Let me see.
	He was the... Here he is.
	Zeke.
	Zeke Emanuel.
	Oncologist, bioethicist.
	Bioethicist, right.
	Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
	He, as of November 9th, 2020, is a member of the 16-member COVID-19 Advisory Board.
	So here is the stand-in news model.
	And her, she's just aghast at what the kids are thinking and saying these days.
	Dr. Manuel, thank you for joining us.
	You know, I listened to that doctrine.
	You hear how tough it is inside hospitals at the moment and the fears of new variants mixed with flu that is coming on.
	And you would think that the country would respond by saying, okay, we will make sure we are all up to date on all of our vaccines.
	But I had a Strange conversation with my 22-year-old, my 16-year-old last night, and I said, OK, I've booked you in for COVID updates.
	You're both back for the holidays.
	You're going to get your boosters.
	And both of them said, no, we don't want to.
	We've had enough vaccines, and we don't think we need them.
	How can you?
	I was sort of shocked and appalled.
	Oh, my God.
	Is this the kind of response you're seeing from young people at the moment?
	They think this is over and they don't need any more vaccines?
	Pretty much!
	Yes, uh, but I do would say that, you know, we- Oh, this is a new one.
	Instead of, I do say, I do would say.
	This is a new one to look at.
	I do would say- And they don't need any more vaccines?
	Yes, uh, but I do would say that, you know, we- Wow!
	This is a good one.
	I do would say- Thinking vaccines are gonna prevent getting COVID.
	They don't prevent getting COVID.
	What they prevent is serious illness, hospitalization, and death.
	Wow, so what a difference a year makes, huh?
	Oh yeah.
	Or even just a week, last week we're still hearing that on mainstream, I think it was CBS this morning, oh no no, this helps from spreading!
	This helps from spreading!
	You're all lying!
	Serious illness, hospitalization and death.
	And young people think they're invincible.
	And yes, they are at lower risk from COVID, but that's not zero risk.
	There are only two things that really can prevent transmission of COVID, the COVID virus.
	One is a good mask, an N95 mask.
	wearing it, especially in crowded situations on airplanes and transportation.
	No!
	And the other is better indoor ventilation.
	Unfortunately, we've gotten to a situation where neither of them seem to be a very high priority to reduce the transmission.
	And I think that's where we're at.
	Putting every emphasis on vaccines is not going to solve this problem.
	Now, you know what keeps getting left off the list?
	Not always, but most of the time, like in this case.
	Mm-hmm?
	Washing your hands.
	Oh, yeah.
	Remember at the beginning of this whole thing, it was like, washing your hands, washing your hands.
	So I just want to remind everybody that I'm sure Dr. Jha is a member of the COVID Advisory Board.
	So we have Zeke saying, you need a mask, N95.
	But just this week, we heard... There's no study in the world that shows that masks work that well.
	Okay.
	So, you know, get your story straight, people.
	You're confusing everybody.
	I got a note from a very pissed off producer.
	I just need to share this before we get into anything about Vaxx and COVID.
	He says, and he's from Sweden, Adam and John, I love the No Agenda show, but Thursday's episode pissed me off to no end.
	At least the first segment.
	It was like listening to an anti-Vaxx podcast.
	I know neither of you are anti-vaccine principle, and I'm with you regarding the COVID bullcrap because he had two doses, didn't enjoy them, and got COVID anyway.
	And then he says, F the boostery crap, but honestly, I think you guys spent too long waffling on about the subject.
	It put me off.
	I'm sure I can't be alone.
	I'm a contributor to the show, as when I can, I will continue to be, but I thought I should give you feedback as I see things fit.
	And of course, he says, Happy New Year.
	I just wanted to respond because I'm sure other people feel this way.
	We're not doing this... I totally agree with it.
	We're not... You're in agreement with what?
	With him?
	With you, your thoughts.
	We're not doing this to be anti-vax or piss... We're just reminding you what got you into this situation in the first place.
	Where you just said, I think you're angry at yourself for not heeding our original advice, possibly.
	We're not doctors, you don't have to listen to us.
	All we do is present other people's information and then we show where it might be flawed.
	And when we come around and say, hey, they're doing the same playbook as 2019-2020, all we're saying is, just be aware.
	So if you're angry, you should be angry at The powers that be.
	Not your little podcasters.
	At your government.
	Not the little podcasters who are working on Christmas and New Year's just to help you.
	And they were working on Christmas and New Year's.
	There's a little call and response there.
	I'm backing you up.
	And while we're on it, Scott Adams has gone insane.
	Now what?
	Oh, he's out there saying that I was the first to predict the vaccine would not work.
	I predicted masks would not work.
	People are just like, are you insane, Scott Adams?
	He was all over the mask and vax.
	Especially the vax.
	Now he's saying, no, no, no, I called it.
	Well, let him say what he wants.
	He's getting a lesson in there's no evidence, you see.
	When you said, he's getting a lesson in perception versus what he thinks is reality.
	People perceive you as a pro-vaccine, pro-masking guy, and now you're yelling that you knew it and you said it all along.
	This is, for such an intelligent, mind-control person, because he's very, he's a hypnotist, trained hypnotist, he's really failing on a mass scale.
	Well, I don't know that he... I have to go listen to what he's up to because it doesn't make any sense.
	It's on Twitter!
	It's on Twitter!
	That's why... It's on Twitter.
	Geez.
	I don't look at Twitter.
	I'm not like you.
	Oh, goodness.
	So I'm watching the send-off of Judy Woodruff.
	Oh, we're back to Judy.
	Okay.
	No, no, no, we're not changing the subject at all.
	Okay.
	And so they have all the whole staff, like there's about 50 people clapping when she says, good to buy, you know, and they swing the camera around to this huge staff of people working there.
	All masked up.
	It's 2023 now, but it's the end of 2022.
	They swing the camera around and everybody on the staff and crew all masked up.
	I'm shaking my heads because of something Judy said.
	I don't even know if I have a clip of how she's going to make sure that they get, you know, they fair and balanced.
	We're going to take two sides of the story and I just Shake my head because everything they do is lopsided, one-sided presentations.
	And then there's all the masked up.
	Then you look at the masked up people and say, well, why do you think the news hour on PBS is so lopsided and it's one direction?
	Well, they're all obviously duped.
	Well, no, they're not getting enough oxygen to their brains.
	That could be true.
	That's what's happening there.
	I see people outside around here, especially for some reason during this last month or so, wearing masks outside in the fresh air.
	Let me run through just a couple of short clips, all under a minute, some even shorter, just to let you know where we're at in the psychological warfare for your mind.
	Your mind is being told you need to mask up, you need to get your boosters, anything that comes out and says, get this shot, you got to obey.
	And we go to ABC Good Morning America.
	This is Dr. Alok Patel.
	All right, turning to another story this morning.
	Now to the new year and your kids as they head back to school.
	Concerns remain about COVID, RSV, and the flu.
	Joining us now is ABC medical contributor and physician at Stanford Children's Health, Dr. Alok Patel, to give us some tips on how to help keep our kids and our families safe.
	Dr. Patel, good morning.
	It's always great to have you.
	So Right now, many families, as we know, they're coming back from traveling for the holidays after being in close quarters with... No, they're not.
	They're still sleeping at the airport, you idiot.
	No one's coming back.
	Families, as we know, they're coming back from traveling for the holidays after being in close quarters with friends and family.
	What's the most important thing to remember as we send our kids back to school?
	Oh, what could it be?
	This is an Ask John.
	What could be the most important thing as we send our kids back to school?
	Well, we should make sure that they have all their vaccinations and are boosted.
	Yes, okay.
	That's it?
	Well, I mean, I just, I just... And they should be, vote Democrat.
	That would be the big one.
	Well, good morning, Whit.
	I think the most important thing for people to remember is the combination of the fact that there's a lot of respiratory virus out there, and we all just got done with traveling, gathering with families, and we're going to put all our kids back into an in-person learning setting, which is great for them, but parents need to be aware of the fact that there might be some sickness spread, there might be local outbreaks, and just to be cognizant, especially if you have high-risk children, Or your children or yourself are living with anyone else who is vulnerable.
	So he really didn't give any advice there.
	I was shocked!
	But maybe he'll pick it up in the next clip.
	There was a huge spike in RSV cases in the fall, the winter.
	We heard a lot about them.
	But we've heard lately that flu and RSV cases seem to be on the decline with COVID up.
	Where are we in this triple-demic?
	Well, Janaye, fingers crossed that that decline stands.
	Because you are absolutely correct.
	According to CDC data, influenza and RSV do appear to be peaking in some parts of the country.
	But here's an asterisk.
	If COVID-19 cases are rising and RSV and influenza are coming down from a place that was astronomically high, the worst RSV season we've seen almost ever, and influenza is still high or very high... Almost ever?
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	Almost ever?
	I never even heard of RSV until... I never heard of it until this year.
	Almost ever.
	So now it's almost ever.
	Here's another little issue, which they may bring in later.
	But what happened to the common cold?
	Why was it kicked to the curb?
	Well, how about this?
	How about everyone basically has the same thing?
	It's a flu bug, or a cold, or whatever it is.
	We just turn it into the triple-demic and we just, at random, say, oh, get COVID up!
	RSV down!
	I mean, maybe they're just, it's all one thing and they're just adding names to it to scare us?
	Possible?
	It's possible.
	I think it's mostly not to scare us, but to get us to spend money on pharma.
	I mean, well, we know what the point is, but is there a test for RSV?
	Is there a test for flu?
	Well, in my entire life, I've never gotten tested for flu or RSV.
	Influenza are coming down from a place that was astronomically high, the worst RSV season we've seen almost ever, and influenza is still high, or very high, in the majority of states.
	And so with all that being said, people need to still pay attention to the fact, as we mentioned at the top, that there's a lot of virus out there, and we still have full hospitals, overrun emergency departments, and a pretty bad situation, although it's hopefully going to be better in 2023.
	Full hospitals, really?
	Overrun emergency rooms?
	Do we have any evidence of this?
	I've heard nothing of this kind.
	It's bullcrap.
	So, of course... This guy's just a stooge.
	They have a guy on our local... This guy doesn't show up locally, but he's from Stanford.
	They have these guys that get... Pull them out of these college universities.
	They got a UC San Francisco...
	Guy Hwang.
	Hwang is Asian.
	Hwang Hwang.
	And he comes on and he just goes on and on about you didn't get enough vax.
	You need more shots.
	You know, boosting is great.
	Especially the new bivalent.
	They love saying that.
	The bivalent.
	Bivalent shot.
	You want that for sure.
	And then after three months when they wear off because they're no good and don't work in the first place, you need another one.
	So I have a clip.
	Wait.
	Go ahead.
	As long as I can come back.
	Can I just finish up with the good doctor?
	Oh, I'm sorry, finish the clip.
	Let me just get him out of the way.
	So if you want to, if you're in the television quote-unquote news business, the morning show business, if you want parents to be worried, The best way to do that is start with this question.
	As parents, we often feel anxious about all of these viruses out there.
	You have responded to many of my panicked text messages.
	So, I'm curious, should parents be worried right now?
	I mean, is that not the way?
	To get parents worried.
	I like it.
	Eva, I'm always here for you.
	And as a doctor and a parent, I am not about the worry and the panic.
	I'm about awareness and preparation.
	Awareness is parents need to be aware of what's happening in their local communities and the risk factors of their children and anyone around their children also.
	When it comes to preparation and planning, basic preparation, making sure your children understand hand hygiene, vaccinations are all up to date.
	And planning is be prepared to keep your kids home from school or you yourself may have to stay home if you have symptoms.
	And talking to doctors, Early and not waiting for symptoms to get worse or for a child to be in respiratory distress touch base as soon as you need to and Finally the ultimate advice also heard from some parents considering sending their kids back to school wearing masks I know that some school districts are implementing mask mandates for the first Week after the new year.
	Do you think that will help you know witness?
	this specific setting, masks absolutely can curb the spread of respiratory viruses, especially with rising COVID cases or if kids are symptomatic.
	But you know, it's hard to really gauge how much masks can do if it's just in a school setting and people aren't adopting it elsewhere, such as in other crowded places or in Plains.
	But I think it is a very big signal for people out there to realize that, hey, we're not in a place where you're going to realistically have zero COVID, zero RSV, zero influenza.
	So we need to pay attention to our own individual risk factors and be better about using these tools to protect the community because protecting the community is where we need to be in 2020.
	We're going to have a much better year.
	We've learned a lot about protecting ourselves and that's what it's going to be, a more selfless year directed towards public health.
	Dr. Patel, meet Dr. Jha.
	There's no study in the world that shows that masks work that well.
	Okay, thank you Dr. Jha.
	I should get a sub clip from that woman because she said, uh, you ain't queer if you don't wear a mask.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You're, you're, you're clip.
	Yep.
	We should do that.
	Uh, COVID, but this clip COVID boosters don't work.
	Uh, wait a minute.
	COVID.
	Uh, it says don't work or bad.
	Which one was it?
	Bad.
	It's bad.
	This is NTD.
	Can a third dose of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines actually worsen immune response against COVID-19?
	A new peer-reviewed study published in Science Immunology last week is raising concern.
	NTD's Daniel Monahan has the story.
	Wait, Daniel Monaghan?
	Moynihan or Monaghan?
	This isn't a descendant of the great Moynihan, is it?
	No, there's a million Monaghans.
	Anyway, Daniel Monaghan has this story.
	The study by German researchers determined that mRNA boosting created a high level of what are known as IgG4 antibodies.
	Those are a subclass of antibodies which cause a weaker immune response.
	This is the latest research to evoke scrutiny of federal vaccine recommendations and continuing vaccine mandates.
	Mandatory vaccination is still in effect for certain professions, as well as in education, especially for college students.
	Students are a demographic with lower COVID risks but heightened risks of heart inflammation.
	Dr. Robert Malone addresses COVID vaccines.
	The genetic COVID-19 genetic injections cause far more harm than good and provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy.
	The CDC is still recommending that everyone six months and older get a full series and booster of the original COVID-19 strain vaccine.
	They also recommend a bivalent booster on top of that which combines the original strain and the Omicron strain.
	This is regardless of one's age and health-based COVID risk level or... Hold on a second!
	Hold on a second!
	Let me just listen to that again.
	This bivalent booster.
	The CDC is still recommending that everyone six months and older get a full series and booster of the original COVID-19 strain vaccine.
	They also recommend a bivalent booster on top of that, which combines the original strain and the Omicron strain.
	What I'm hearing the person say is that what are you doing?
	He whistles when he talks.
	What I'm hearing him say is the bivalent contains the Omicron strain and contains the original strain.
	He's not saying it fights it, it fights back, it creates the spike like it.
	He's saying it contains it.
	Yeah, well this is one of those things that should be in your pile.
	This is regardless of one's age and health-based COVID risk level or likelihood of adverse reactions.
	The data now show that these experimental gene therapy treatments can damage your children as well as yourself.
	They can damage your heart, your brain, your reproductive tissue, and your lungs.
	Malone added that this can include permanent damage to your immune system.
	The IgG4 antibody subclass is associated with increased COVID-related mortality.
	That is according to Italian researchers who published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine last year.
	IgG4 study co-author Kilian Schober cautioned against the view that mRNA vaccines are inducing tolerance to infection rather than fighting it.
	He says that further studies are needed.
	You know, on the last show, there was a clip that we had about mucosal... Nose spray.
	Right!
	So, wouldn't you know it?
	There is an mRNA nose intranasal spray being... I think it's being tested right now.
	The vaccine is known as a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine that targets influenza's viral nucleoprotein.
	Yeah.
	It's not a COVID shot.
	No, but it's mRNA.
	Yeah.
	So we don't want that.
	I don't.
	I don't want it.
	No, of course not.
	I'm just saying... Until they get the mRNA technology fixed, which I don't think is possible.
	Well, listen to this, then.
	Next tonight, the growing measles outbreak in Ohio that's spreading among children.
	Health officials say there are now 82 confirmed cases.
	All children, 32 of those children, have been hospitalized.
	Officials say all of the infected children only received one dose of the needed two doses of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine.
	I'm not aware that you needed two doses right away.
	Never heard that.
	Of the MMR.
	I'm sure we have some trolls with young kids in the troll room.
	I think there have been, you know, the thing, if you remember, I was always fascinated by this, that when swine flu, which we covered extensively as a show, and they started off with that thing, we have a vaccine, but you need two shots.
	You need two shots.
	And everyone was kind of like, you know, I don't know, what do we need?
	People were, I mean, a lot of people went and got two shots.
	That was, that was a new thing.
	It was a new thing to do the two shots.
	And so then they, then if you remember like a year later, they, they said, well, We're going to incorporate the swine flu into the regular flu shot this year.
	And it's just going to be the one shot plus all the other stuff that's in the same shot.
	You don't need two shots.
	You didn't need two shots to begin with, but it was a flop.
	The two shot idea didn't work.
	But they've always wanted to do two shots because you get two shots, it means you get twice as much money.
	And so they ran it out again with this COVID thing with two shots and they took off.
	Now they're backfilling the trench with two shots.
	Two shots this, two shots that.
	You had to have two shots.
	It's bullcrap.
	I'm seeing the trolls, the parental trolls saying, oh yeah, all of this kid stuff all has multiple shots now.
	It's like three for polio.
	Are you kidding me?
	I took a cube of sugar and that did the trick.
	And it was probably just that, a cube of sugar.
	Who knows what it was?
	Yeah, we had the same thing.
	Yeah, well, uh, Trolls, when you say it's always been two to three shots, no.
	We're old, okay?
	We remember our- I don't remember two- I don't remember two shots on anything.
	Anything.
	At all.
	No way.
	Yep.
	No way.
	I agree.
	Uh-uh.
	So, it's not- it hasn't always been that way.
	It's always been that way during your short life.
	Which is gonna get shorter if you keep that up!
	My thinking.
	Uh, so, alright.
	Do you have more on COVID?
	You got more planned now because my COVID clips all veer toward China.
	Uh, the only thing I will add is there is, this is from Sir Jake.
	I've been meaning to let you know that one of my close friends is currently participating in an NIH study and has already received an mRNA HIV vaccine!
	Woohoo!
	Luckily, he seems to have survived it.
	Okay, Sir Jake.
	I just thought I would let you know because of the recent speculation from the show that mRNA will take over all vaccines.
	It definitely will and is!
	His reason for doing it is he wants to be part of ending... He doesn't have HIV.
	I don't know if he's even gay.
	Is that he wants to be part of ending HIV, which I respect, but I definitely wouldn't be ready to jump into a phase one trial for it.
	By the way, you don't have to be, of course, gay to be infected with HIV.
	But again, it's the platform.
	It's exactly what we've been looking at.
	It's the platform, and we're going to use it for everything.
	Well, if the media was doing its job, they'd put a stop to it.
	Their job is to promote it.
	Come on, we know who their paymaster is.
	They would never do that.
	Maybe news, news, real journalists might do that, but not the media.
	N.T.D.
	N.T.D.
	This is N.T.D.
	All right.
	What are we doing?
	COVID.
	Try this one.
	COVID China wow idea.
	Wow idea.
	In China, COVID-19 infections are surging, and here in the U.S., the CDC is considering new tactics to track any emerging new variants, but not without difficulty.
	The agency is struggling with China's lack of transparency around COVID.
	It's considering sampling wastewater from international aircraft as one of its options.
	Oh, man!
	Oh, man!
	I think this is a great idea.
	Play part two.
	Hold on a second.
	I have a question about all of this.
	Infectious disease experts say when it comes to tracking the virus and slowing its entry into the U.S., this policy would be a better solution than the new travel restrictions announced this week.
	The U.S.
	says it will require mandatory negative COVID tests for travelers from China starting January 5th.
	French researchers reported in July that requiring negative COVID tests before international flights does not necessarily protect countries from the spread.
	Back in 2021, for instance, they found the Omicron variant in wastewater from two commercial planes that flew from Ethiopia to France.
	And that was even though passengers were also required to take a test before boarding.
	One researcher cautioned about expecting wastewater data to make a difference in the ability to respond.
	He pointed out that while wastewater sampling could be helpful, the testing takes time.
	Okay, I have a question for you about this.
	So on January 5th, I'm looking at the CDC recommendation.
	CDC writes law now apparently, but okay.
	So I presume the president still has to sign that and make it official.
	I don't know if they have the power to just say, do this!
	Starting January 5th at 1201 a.m.
	Eastern Time, there are new requirements for air passengers two years of age and older traveling to the United States from China, Hong Kong, or Macau, and those traveling from Seoul, Toronto, and Vancouver, Vancouver who have been in China, Hong Kong, or Macau in the past 10 days.
	So they're not, no word about Mexico, but okay.
	These passengers, regardless of citizenship or vaccination status, are required to show a negative COVID-19 test taken no more than two days before their flight departs.
	Those who had COVID-19 in the 90 days before their travel to the United States can instead show documentation of recovery from COVID-19.
	Here's what I don't understand.
	Still on the books on this same page, it says very clearly, non-U.S.
	citizens and non-U.S.
	immigrants What is a non-U.S.
	immigrant?
	Is that an asylum seeker?
	What is a non-U.S.
	immigrant?
	Well, what's a U.S.
	immigrant?
	Thank you.
	You must show proof of being fully vaccinated with the primary series of an approved COVID-19 vaccine before you board your flight to the United States.
	So, that means the airline is responsible for checking to see that you, China man, and China woman, or Canadian, whoever you are, if you came from China, that you, in addition to your negative test, you have to have one of the approved vaccines.
	Boosters are not required, but it will have to be one of the approved vaccines, which are J&J, Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax, and Novavax.
	I am pretty sure the Chinese vaccine is not approved.
	No, it's not.
	So, I don't understand.
	Can you come in with just anything willy-nilly, just a negative test?
	Or is it some special deal for the Chinese?
	Because they can't come if they're vaccinated, unless they're vaccinated with one of these approved vaccines.
	And they're going to make the airlines check this?
	This is some horse manure.
	It's definitely whack.
	It's wickedy wickedy whack.
	I'd like to understand it.
	I'd like to understand what are the rules.
	Anyway.
	It's time to head to those pilots forums and stick your nose in there.
	Yeah.
	Okay, let's go, just a preface, might as well at least play the riots clip so we know that at least there's supposedly riots going on over these, over China.
	China has reopened its borders, but with all sorts of restrictions.
	These include forced quarantine of inbound travelers.
	A video shows Chinese citizens returning from abroad clashing with police over such regulations.
	Footage shows returnees swarming an international airport in Guangzhou, southern China, trying to push open the airport gate.
	According to posts shared on Chinese social media platforms, the dispute erupted over the enforcement of on-arrival quarantine procedures.
	The rules require returnees to spend five days in a designated quarantine facility and then another three days at their personal residence.
	China has promised to lift such restrictions on January 8th, but one post says returnees, including students and tourists, wanted to avoid quarantines before then.
	I think the 8th of January is the date that our vaccination requirement for entry is either end or renews.
	That renews.
	Of course it'll renew.
	They gotta squeeze the last few bucks out of this deal.
	Oh, so now there's a lot of lines in China supposedly, lines going every which way for people to, for lining up their dead to take them to funeral homes.
	China's sweeping- Oh, sorry.
	Wait, wait.
	Let me do a little more.
	Now, at first, it's like, well, this is another phony baloney deal with these lines, but there's no lines.
	They seem to have documented a lot of these lines.
	And the reason, it seems, is because the way the government relaxed the rules and did some certain things, it left everybody flat-footed.
	So these funeral homes couldn't really deal with any influx more than their normal small influx.
	And that's the real reason for these backed up lines.
	And what is the point of the articles to make it seem like China's bad and all their people are just dying?
	Yeah, maybe.
	I'm not sure.
	Let's listen.
	China's sweeping COVID-19 outbreak is becoming more serious.
	The nation's biggest cities like Beijing and Shanghai were first to feel the impacts.
	Now, other major cities are starting to see long lines of waiting cars outside funeral homes.
	So this is clearly bullcrap.
	I mean, we have producer after producer sending us notes saying, this is not true.
	There's some people panicking, but there's no one dying.
	There's no overfull hospital beds.
	Boots on the ground in China says all this reporting is overhyped, and here's NTD participating.
	Yeah, I noticed.
	Makes me question the NTDs.
	We know they're anti-China, so they would probably go along with this.
	...them even lining up the night before to get services.
	Let's take a closer look.
	A video shared online captures the scene outside a funeral home in the central Chinese city of Nanjing.
	On Wednesday, private cars lined up outside the building, all of them transporting human remains.
	A worker at the funeral home told us on Thursday that wait times for here's transportation are indefinite.
	If you make an appointment today, you won't get a hearse today for sure.
	You have to wait for the hearse driver to contact you.
	There's no way to give you a specific time now.
	The worker added that even when the customer transports the remains with their personal car, they still must wait in line outside the funeral home, and that no farewell ceremony is possible for the deceased person.
	Another similar clip comes from the eastern China's Nanchang City, filmed at 2 a.m.
	on Tuesday.
	It too shows a long waiting line outside a funeral home.
	A voice heard in the video says more than 80 cars were already waiting for services.
	First make an appointment and then line up.
	First pull the body over and line up.
	We start working at 5 a.m.
	You must line up the night before.
	Northern China's Xi'an City, the Xi'an Funeral Parlor says it's operating at full capacity all day long, but still cannot meet demand.
	Before the pandemic, the parlor only needed to operate for half a day.
	This, according to Chinese media.
	One resident told us that over the last few days, the situation has gotten worse locally.
	Yeah, I mean this to me just is another version of the videos that came out of China, people falling down dead.
	Maybe.
	NTD is now playing a part in it.
	Well, it's possible.
	I can't prove otherwise.
	Let's go with the second half of this, only 29 seconds.
	With infection rates rising and locals reporting fewer symptoms, he blames the issue on a lack of state preparation.
	To protect his identity, we distorted his voice.
	I couldn't sleep last night.
	I was furious because the country opened up without preparing well beforehand.
	We have nothing now.
	No medicine.
	And the regime is still praising itself all day long.
	It says it's a great victory in the fight against the pandemic.
	So shameless.
	Through this pandemic, the Communist Party has completely lost the trust of the people.
	We'll keep you updated on new developments.
	Okay, so they're just doing something to discredit Xi and try and... They're anti-CCP, so I kind of understand.
	Yes, to an extreme.
	But I don't like that they're using COVID to fulfill their covert mission.
	Well, here's the other two clips that... These, to me, are more interesting, and this is about the... Unfortunately, I spelled dead, D-A-E-D, but it's on here.
	Weeks of obituaries have been hitting China's media.
	Over the weekend, another high-ranking CCP official died amid the latest virus wave.
	Li Ziliu, the former mayor of China's southern economic hub, Guangzhou.
	He was among at least 50 CCP officials who have passed away since the start of December.
	The list also includes 45 prominent scholars and professors.
	Almost none of their obituaries listed cause of death.
	Inside China, it's widely understood that those closely aligned with the Chinese regime enjoy certain privileges.
	So why are people who typically have greater access to resources and other aid getting caught up in the COVID-19 turmoil?
	It's that these people are overprivileged, and for a long time they're in a hospital, like a nursing home, and they're given special treatment.
	And so the privileges that they get end up killing them.
	That's with the infection ripping through China's vast population.
	1.4 billion people are finding themselves ill-prepared for the sudden surge.
	The public, with a lack of natural immunity to weather the outbreak, after nearly three years of COVID-19 restrictions, And the upper echelon of the CCP, who've largely shielded themselves from the pandemic over the past few years.
	Suddenly, both groups may now be more vulnerable to the latest infection wave.
	Beyond that, a source has said that hospitals in Beijing are suspected as the origin of this virus wave.
	According to Radio Free Asia, a CCP insider disclosed that the outbreak has been spreading in major hospitals in Beijing since October.
	But authorities have concealed the news.
	The insider said the cover-up also led directly to the deaths of a large number of retired senior CCP officials that were hospitalized there.
	On the other hand, China affairs analyst Heng He says many CCP officials and... Heng He?
	Hui Hui!
	...of a large number of retired senior CCP officials that were hospitalized there.
	On the other hand, China affairs analyst Heng He says many CCP officials and prominent figures have received organ transplants to extend their lives.
	What's more, a military hospital in Beijing has touted a so-called health project for CCP leaders, with a goal of extending their lifespans to up to 150 years.
	Well, I'm glad you brought this raw propaganda from NTD, who are now just trying to let everyone know that, oh man, you don't want to be in, it had nothing to do with the CCP.
	It's going to kill you.
	Your special privileges will kill you.
	That's just good propaganda.
	Well, I thought the part that was interesting, and the reason I wanted this clip was the was the fact that they're trying to make everyone live to be 150 by stealing Uyghurs' organs and put them into these old farts.
	I don't know how a 99-year-old or a 110-year-old person can handle being on the operating table and having their kidneys replaced and to live 150.
	It's an ambitious thing.
	There's part two of this clip.
	I'm not sure what's on here.
	High-ranking CCP officials or interest groups within this system have a particularly long lifespan.
	It relies heavily on replacing their organs with those from young people.
	Many deaths in the elderly are caused by organ failure.
	But then they become very fragile and need to be carefully protected.
	So the virus is particularly dangerous to them.
	The COVID-19 devastation has continued to unfold in China, despite Beijing's assurance on Tuesday that it's fighting a prepared battle.
	Eh, a prepared battle, yeah.
	I don't know what that even means, but I'll say this.
	I think that they're killing these guys off because they're annoying.
	They're annoying, exactly.
	Anyone with the pronouns, who am I?
	You want a 135-year-old fart?
	A 140-year-old fart telling you, you know, the way we did it back a hundred years ago was not like this.
	I mean, who needs it?
	No one needs it.
	A hundred years ago, you'd have been 40.
	You've been in this prime.
	A hundred years ago.
	Can you imagine having anecdotes that are a hundred or 120 years old that you have personal experience with and you're throwing that in people's faces constantly?
	No.
	That would be great for a podcast.
	Can you imagine the podcast?
	I'd love that history podcast.
	Yeah.
	By the way, the U.S. obvious xenophobic policy towards travelers from China, because that's what it is, at least it was last time, has spread.
	But we do want to begin this half hour with a chance.
	We do want to begin.
	We do want to begin.
	But we do want to begin this half hour with a check of the headlines.
	England is joining the growing list of countries set to require a negative COVID test for travelers entering from China.
	Starting January 5th, passengers will have to submit a negative COVID test before boarding flights bound for the country.
	England joins the United States, India, and France, all imposing similar restrictions.
	COVID numbers have surged in China in recent weeks following the relaxing of the country's so-called zero COVID restrictions.
	Now the last time we had an administration saying, hey, you know, we don't want anyone traveling from China, I'm pretty sure, and I don't want to be a whataboutism guy, but I'm pretty sure everyone was up in arms about how racist it was.
	Oh yeah, and Nancy Pelosi at the top of the list.
	Do we have a Pelosi racist China clip?
	We might.
	Probably do, but who knows how it's labeled.
	I was in the newsletter, I put Biden was under hypocrite of the week.
	Biden's there with the same thing.
	Oh yeah, the same thing.
	Exactly.
	Same thing.
	So that's just to remind everybody.
	Trump's a xenophobe.
	He's a xenophobe, remember?
	Yep.
	There is some new information on how you can die, which, as you know, has nothing to do with vaccination.
	Daily Mail, of course, thousands of middle-aged people are dying from heart conditions that went untreated.
	So if you die suddenly, that's because you missed out on your statins and your blood pressure pills.
	See, that's why people are dying.
	Ah, okay.
	That makes sense.
	And here's another doozy.
	Let me see, this is the... Where does this come from?
	This is a real study, a study from the American Journal of Medicine.
	This new study claims it is unhealthy, get ready John, to distrust your government.
	And the reason why...
	Uh, is that it could actually accelerate a heart attack.
	You could actually die sooner because you distrust your government.
	By the way, the... This is good.
	It was funded by the government, obviously.
	I would think.
	Yeah, this is great.
	This is great.
	That's a good one.
	So please, trust your government so you won't die.
	You will obey.
	Just go ahead and do it, people.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	Follow the rules.
	Please, be a rule follower.
	I do have, I do have.
	You do, you do, you do.
	I do, I do, I do.
	Because we brought, it kind of comes up in the conversation, it's a little annoying, but I want to bring this, it's a kind of real news story.
	This is about the, about the The murder that took place in Idaho and they finally found the... Yeah, they found him apparently through related DNA evidence and I'm still asking, what was his motive?
	Well, there's the motive problem.
	Well, you look at him, he's a psycho.
	No, I haven't seen it.
	I want to play this clip.
	It's a short clip.
	It's Idaho murders.
	It says Idaho.
	Over six weeks of unanswered questions and anxiety culminated in an arrest today in Pennsylvania.
	We have an individual in custody who committed these horrible crimes.
	And I do believe that our community is safe.
	Okay, a long way to go.
	Nice, very appreciated.
	Well, how about with that, I thank you for your courage to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C's in COVID China.
	Wow!
	Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other end of the first time in 2023, Mr. John C. DeVore.
	In the morning, USA, I'm McCurry.
	In the morning, all the ships at sea in 2023.
	Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	That's right.
	2023, we kick it off right, and we are here for you.
	We're here to make you feel good about the crazy world that is falling down around you.
	And let's see if we have some trolls hanging out.
	Now we've had... I think we have a troll counting mechanism issue.
	Let's see if it's... If it's around 1773 or 1777, I'm gonna really have to take a look at the systems.
	But first... Let me see what's up here.
	And let me see, we have... Oh no, I was incorrect.
	1889, we're up!
	We're up on New Year's Day.
	All is not quiet on New Year's Day.
	It's another one of those historic years, though.
	It's weird.
	We should have more than that, I think.
	Well, maybe not.
	People are probably still hungover or they're not listening on New Year's.
	No, no, no.
	But they'll be happy.
	They'll be happy they can listen to this fine podcast.
	We work on New Year's.
	We do.
	We work on New Year's.
	We worked on Christmas.
	I'm very proud of that.
	Again, this has always been our strategy for global domination is to pop up when there's nothing else to watch.
	When there's nothing else to watch or listen to, we're here.
	We're here for you.
	This is how we gain market share.
	Just go to the show, people.
	If you really want to make it in podcasting, you've got to bust ass.
	Trolls, the trolls have been with us for, wow, it's probably 13 of the 15 years we've had the Troll Room, maybe even a little bit longer than that.
	We love having the trolls.
	You can join them at trollroom.io, which means you can just go there.
	Right away, you can log into the chat.
	It's an IRC chat, so you can log in many different ways.
	And you can listen to the stream live, knowagendastream.com.
	It's a good deal.
	It doesn't cost you anything.
	What networks sit on IRC network?
	Well, I think it's the void0.net.
	Oh, he has his own network?
	Yeah, for about 13 years.
	Yeah, I think it's irc.void0.net, I think.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
	Well, if you go to TrollRoom.io, you can get all the information on how to do that.
	Thank you, Trolls.
	Nice to see a little uptick there of people.
	Oh, I'm sorry, ZeroNode.
	My mistake.
	It's ZeroNode.net.
	Oh, that I know.
	Exactly.
	Why didn't you correct me immediately?
	We appreciate you trolls being here.
	We appreciate y'all hanging out and all of the great Happy New Year's messages.
	It's a very nice family we've got on noagendasocial.com.
	We've been on the Mastodon Fediverse train for about five years.
	We welcome everybody else who now has an account.
	Now you too can participate instead of going, Now you've been told what it is, and now that it's popular amongst journalists, you can join in!
	Follow John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com or Adam at noagendasocial.com.
	Now I received from Tante Neal, I believe, and I do believe, and I put it in the show notes, a beautiful overview of all of the top lists of artists who participated in our value for value system.
	Where we ask for time, talent, treasure, and of course, every single No Agenda episode has unique artwork.
	Brand new, never used before, and we feel it's a great benefit.
	It's also just a beautiful art project.
	And we have the winners of the top of 22, 2022 artists.
	Did you, you received this as well, right?
	Yes.
	You want to, you want to go through this?
	No, I don't have it in front of me.
	Go.
	Okay.
	And it's in the show notes at nashownotes.com or noagendashow.net.
	It's really cool because Tantaniel put it together so you see her top.
	So she was number one.
	Tantaniel, number one of 2022 with 19 of her pieces of art chosen.
	Looking back at them, they're stunning.
	They're really cool.
	The 104 shows.
	I'm sorry?
	104 shows a year.
	Yes.
	And so she took 19 of them.
	Yeah.
	Capitalist Agenda 14 and Nestworks 13.
	So, Tantaniel won by a nice margin.
	A Joe Biden-esque margin, I would say.
	Pulled ahead there at the last minute.
	And 2 and 3 were very close.
	Capitalist Agenda and Nestworks.
	Now, we did have Which is a conjugation of we do have.
	Ten networks, ten newcomers, I'm sorry, who participated.
	And they also won.
	Nico Syme, or Syme, had four.
	Rick Harris had two.
	Pet Rex Tafka Pointy Rhetoric Whose name I don't remember, but I do remember the art.
	I don't either.
	I saw the piece, but I don't remember the name.
	I don't remember the name.
	And I think brand new, a real new entry on the scene, and almost unintentional, was Dirty Jersey Whore with two.
	That was quite amazing.
	Dirty Jersey Whore came in, one of those being the new Greta.
	And then we have the, for when we go live, we announce that with a Twitter, a No Agenda, of course, a Fediverse announcement, and I use Unique Art for that.
	Parker Pauly used most, 1, 2, 3, 4, about 12 times, in fact.
	And if we look at Darren O'Neill, Who did not show up on this year's charts.
	According to what I'm seeing, he was the winner of 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.
	His streak is over.
	I think he's burned out.
	2019 and 2018.
	His streak is over.
	I think he's burned out.
	Or better artists have come along and they have just swooped in with more professional looking art, which is what we can talk about on this last piece we used.
	Yeah.
	And they just kind of knocked some of the... I wouldn't call Darren O'Neill a hack, but he's not.
	He's not a hack?
	He's not a hack, but what he does is he knows how to crank art out that's usable and always usable, always good.
	So we chose, let me see, of course it wasn't Tom Tennille who we chose for the previous episode, which was the, we titled The Carbon Bomb, a good title.
	This was the last one of 2022.
	And it was, I mean, it was a no-brainer for us.
	Well, actually, it wasn't a no-brainer.
	There were two choices.
	We looked at Tantaniel, because we wanted something that really said, hey, 2022 is ending, we're going to 2023.
	Tantaniel had the flip over, kind of like an old-fashioned digital clock, and close second was Capitalist Agenda with the button.
	You prefaced this whole thing saying it wasn't Tantaniel, and then she's the one who won.
	I said it was Tantaniel.
	What do you mean?
	Oh, you said it was.
	I thought you said it wasn't.
	No, I said it is.
	It was her.
	It was her.
	Yeah, it was.
	It was her.
	That was just a slam dunk.
	For her.
	Absolutely.
	Okay, guys, I won the year, but let me win the last one, too.
	Just spike it in your face, people.
	What else?
	We had some other ones.
	Well, we looked at the capitalist agenda countdown with the big button, and then there's this little green thing in the corner.
	We couldn't figure it out.
	Yeah.
	It was a 33.
	I don't understand.
	A 33 of what?
	Was it a battery?
	I couldn't tell what that was.
	It didn't work for us.
	There's also a goat jumping, which wasn't...
	Oh, I did.
	I liked the 22 to 20.
	I liked it.
	Tantaniel's piece basically was the most professional looking, slick, stood out, nice piece.
	Didn't have any of a, any comic-y kinds of look to it.
	It wasn't like a, we didn't bring down the level of, uh, Of, I don't know, flash that she provides when she does a good piece.
	Also, there's an insider's perspective that people need to understand is not correct thinking.
	I saw a lot of people saying, wow, I can't believe that it wasn't Mountain J's goat jumping from 2022 cliff to 2023.
	Yeah, I'll tell you why.
	A, didn't look like a goat.
	Two, at least not your traditional goat as in we see silly goats.
	It's a mountain goat.
	The inside, it's insides, it's way too inside stuff.
	New people will not be, they'll be like, what is that?
	Is it a goat podcast?
	I'm not interested.
	It's too inside.
	People don't understand our goat theme.
	Yeah, the goat.
	That's why we don't typically choose a goat thing.
	We haven't chosen a goat ever that I know of.
	I don't think so either.
	And also, you know, very funny.
	Lots of AI-generated art.
	Really cool, everybody.
	You know, I don't have to know if it's AI-generated or not.
	It's just soulless, soulless crap.
	So that's the way I see it.
	Soulless.
	You shouldn't be uploading that.
	If you threw it through an AI generator, which is not even AI... I'm so tired of it.
	I'm so tired of it.
	And you were right, by the way.
	You were right about this bogative AI crap.
	Hold on, I'm going to bing up this article.
	This is from thecollegefix.com.
	TRENDING!
	All caps.
	Students earn A's on tests and S's with ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence.
	Yeah, there's a big plague.
	There you go.
	We were talking at the dinner table last night.
	JC's very aware of this and talking about how he has a professor friend who says he can identify this stuff by just looking at it.
	I think I can too.
	Yeah, I know you said that.
	I think you might be, we'll see.
	I said to him, I said, because I thought it might be a good idea to set up a small company, he should, because he's AI, into AI art, AI everything, to try to catch these kids using AI to write their papers.
	So you can have universities and professors subscribing to his service.
	Subscribe, yeah.
	Yeah, which is what's already going on, but it's mostly for plagiarists, you know, just steal other stuff, and that this is more difficult.
	And my comment to him was, and whatever the case is, the professor can spot it now, if this stuff becomes big, he's not gonna spot it forever.
	And I say the same thing to you.
	Yeah, not forever.
	You've heard me say this to you too, and you're, I can spot it!
	I don't know, because maybe with the art it's more spotable, I think, but with the writing thing of what I've seen, I think you can, especially at the college level where people can't really write anyway, they're kind of lame, you know, they're lame.
	I think making inroads, I think this is a huge issue for the colleges.
	Now, when I was a kid, we had blue book tests.
	And so you'd go and you'd be sat down in an auditorium or someplace and you were taking your History 101 or whatever class it was, and you had to sit down with a blue book, which is a book you had to buy.
	It's a small book.
	It said blue book on it.
	And it was a live test.
	You had to write your essay in pen into the blue book.
	Within an hour or two, however long they gave you, the question would be asked to all the kids at once, and you would sit there and write your essay out.
	There's no way you could cheat doing that.
	I feel that the sole...
	So when it comes to art, yeah, I'm pretty sure that I can, I'll be able to do it.
	It may, I may not see something and say, Oh, that's AI art, but I, I'm, you just won't like it.
	Yeah.
	It just, I'll feel like it doesn't feel just, it doesn't hit me.
	It doesn't strike me.
	Art has to hit you.
	Uh, the same now for sure.
	They're a long way off from being able to sample my voice and, and make, and do a show.
	Where the AIs think, no it's not coming, it's horseshit.
	So as a test, I asked OpenChatGPT to write a 500 word essay on V for Value for Value 2.0 podcasting.
	And it wrote a word salad that I think you'll be able to catch time and time again.
	I'll just read you the last paragraph from this 500-word essay that I asked.
	That's all I said.
	Write a 500-word essay on value for value, and I spelled it value number four, value 2.0 podcasting.
	I know every single article that this came from.
	I can see it.
	I recognize, because it's some pros and cons.
	And I've read all of it, of course.
	This is my creation.
	So I know where this came from.
	And then at the end, it ends just like a New York Times piece always ends.
	Overall, lightning value-for-value podcasts represent a promising new trend in the world of podcasting that has the potential to create a more efficient and mutually beneficial relationship between creators and listeners.
	While there are certainly challenges to be addressed, this model has the potential to revolutionize the way podcasts are created and supported, and could lead to a higher overall quality of podcasts.
	I'm going to identify this crap every single time.
	It's just word salad.
	They've created something that can type pretty well and it sounds like a person.
	Who's writing a word salad?
	This is not good writing.
	And you've got to question the professors who are accepting this drivel that they're getting written by AI.
	They always accept the drivel.
	Because if a student writes in an academic style that's wordy and lengthy and hard to read and very... it's the type of thing you'd get in academia.
	They always give it a big A and they always deny that they do that.
	No, no, no.
	I only give good grace and good writing.
	No, they don't.
	It's never been the case.
	It never will be the case.
	I think they can be bamboozled in a minute.
	And why would you pay good money or take out a loan to go to school Just to party and have AI write your stuff.
	I mean, what are you doing with your life?
	Party!
	I'm telling you, what is the point?
	Meat chicks!
	Anyway, yeah!
	Now you're talking.
	We highly appreciate...
	Really highly appreciate the work that all of our artists have done.
	I've never seen it as a competition.
	I think every person who submits art, it's appreciated.
	It also looks pretty just in general for people to go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	It's nice, yeah.
	Or if you look in a new modern podcast app, which you can get from newpodcastapps.com, Dreb Scott puts in a lot of these pieces of art that are from each episode because they're about topics in the episode.
	He puts them in the chapter images.
	It's a great enhancement to podcasting and really, really appreciate it.
	I want to thank everybody who sent in a note saying, you guys, you're so stupid!
	Did you get a couple of those?
	No.
	About the Satchel of Richards?
	Oh, one guy sent it to me.
	He just said, it wasn't a nasty note, it was just a note.
	He says, you know what Satchel of Richards means?
	It's a sack of dicks.
	And I said, oh, no kidding.
	And you know, I got a lot of this, I can't believe!
	I can't believe!
	I didn't get any of that.
	I can't believe.
	And I'm like, you know, we make this look easy.
	Do you have any idea what we're doing?
	I can't believe we make it look easy.
	Do you know what we're doing?
	And like, when John is reading something, I could be setting up a whole different segment.
	You know, John's looking for horns when I'm talking.
	I mean, we're multitasking to the max here, people.
	So a little bit of grace would be appreciated.
	Grace from our audience?
	All right, what am I thinking?
	We love to thank all of the Value for Value givers and that includes our executive and associate executive producers.
	We kick it off today with the monthly donation from one of our largest and I would say in a way uncredited Supporters, that would be Sir Artemis of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia has never requested, in fact has rejected any other titles.
	He would probably be way up in a Grand Duke status I'm thinking by now.
	He'd be very close.
	Oh no, he's Grand Duke.
	Yeah.
	And he sent us, now this is interesting because we never, the amounts are never the same as far as I know.
	We don't know exactly why they are I haven't got a clue.
	But he sent in 2121, 2,121.
	What do you think this is about?
	I haven't got a clue.
	And I haven't, it's not like a show number.
	It's not like 20, you know, the year 2030.
	I have no idea.
	He did send in a note, and I'd like to read that, from Seronomous Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	Happy Hanukkah, and Merry Christmas, and you forgot Schwanza, and thank you to all the producers.
	Even when you two are away, the producer product was outstanding.
	Hear, hear.
	It was outstanding.
	I enjoy this time of year.
	Despite the reported decline of faith-loving people, sometimes we see the benefits of goodwill during these holidays, even some courtesy and a few smiles of adults.
	To Jewish producers, after many years of terrorist branding, I encourage you to remain strong in your faith during these renewed trying times.
	Like all prejudice, it just seems to persist with a minority of individuals that do bad things and the media stirs up the issue to build readership.
	I don't forget my experience that before 9-11 nobody cared if you were Muslim in the U.S.
	Again, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and no jingles, no karma.
	Interesting.
	Well, he is the one guy who has grace.
	He does.
	He's showing it right now, during this holiday season.
	He's showing grace towards the Jewish people.
	And goodwill toward men.
	Okay, that's beautiful.
	Thank you so much, Saronimus.
	We appreciate you.
	Yeah, we do.
	And his notes are always poignant, poignant.
	So onward with, what do we got here?
	If I got to get back up here.
	And $23, which is a kind of a... Well, that's... $20.23.
	$20.23.
	That's this year.
	That would be the year donation.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Yes.
	And it's from our buddy Sir Nacho Alcatraz in Mexico.
	Hey!
	Wait, let's do a little Mexican home, just like... Now, he's used to a different sound on Mexican podcasts and Mexican radio.
	Yeah, that's Mexican radio.
	That's Mexican radio, right there, Mexican radio.
	They love the echo.
	They do.
	Even the guys on Ham Radio is like, uh... Oh, hold on.
	Oops.
	I didn't mean to do that.
	The guys on Mexican radio... on Ham Radio.
	Secure the exit!
	Secure the exit!
	Secure, secure, secure the exit!
	Is that true?
	Yes!
	Oh, yes!
	They love Echo on the ham radio in Mexico.
	You bet, brother.
	You bet.
	So he writes in when JCD calls, Sir Nacho Alcatraz is there to answer.
	Let this 2023 be the Gregorian number that brings Klaus Schwab and his Aquila acolytes back to the underworld.
	That brings us, sends us, which sends us, let's rewrite it for him.
	Let this 2023 be the Gregorian number that sends Klaus Schwab and his acolytes back to the underworld where they came from.
	Nice.
	Hooray for humanity at Godspeed.
	Now we have an interesting double donation, from what I can see here, from Dame TJ of the Side Eye.
	She sent in two separate number, two separate donations, and two separate notes.
	One for $402 and one for $408.
	And I shall read the notes.
	Note number one.
	Good morning!
	Because... Oh.
	Because I'm... Oh, I thought it was a... Didn't I just read it was a Dame?
	What did I miss here?
	Dame T.J.
	Well, this is the reason Jay was discussing this with me about what to do with these notes.
	And I said, well, let's just combine them.
	They say, no, no, you can't do that because these notes are separate.
	Interesting.
	Well, I'll do the first one.
	And T.J.
	decided Christmas Dame.
	Yeah, it's a Dame.
	Well, it says, because I'm a dude named Ben.
	So that's what's confusing me.
	Oh, dude named Ben adjacent.
	Okay.
	And go by my initials.
	I get misgendered a lot.
	Okay, there you go.
	I just did it.
	Now you're reading the, wait, I think you've, even though she's got it in this order.
	Oh.
	I think it should be read in the other order.
	Okay.
	Personally.
	I'll start with number two then.
	I'm donating $102 for each of these users from No Agenda Social.
	Oh, this is like a giving promise.
	Please give them a group deducing since I don't know who does or does not need one.
	Well, this is interesting.
	Okay.
	Partisan Night Slut, at Effortless, at knowledgeinthesocial.com.
	Master Obi-Han, at Obi-Han.
	C-Tree, which is at C-Tree.
	And at Dame underscore Ramos.
	Yes, we got it!
	You've been de-douched.
	I'm sorry.
	Dan Ramos.
	I'm sorry I'm misgendering left and right.
	Eh, I did that the other day.
	I got called out for it.
	Now we... Well, you get called out for my misgendering.
	Because I'm a dude named Ben Adjacent and go by my initials, I get misgendered a lot.
	Thanks to this donation, I will become TJ of the Side Eye, Christmas Dame, and at least one milieu will get it right.
	I'd like to embrace my feminine side and request pool boys and pinot grigio at the round table.
	Ho ho!
	A tall order.
	John's pick if he doesn't mind talking about the white wines.
	Okay, do you have a pick for her?
	Unfortunately, the Pinot Grigio is a tasteless piece of crap wine.
	Although I have to say that I got a bottle from a guy.
	I'm going to put this out there and see if I can find out who this guy is because nobody knows.
	Amy at Verite.
	gave a party and this guy showed up with bottles of wine and he gave me two bottles.
	And one of them was a Pinot Grigio.
	And I have to say that just doesn't have a brand.
	It's like a homemade wine and probably the best Pinot Grigio I've ever had in my life.
	I do not like Pinot Grigio.
	So any Pinot Grigio, they're all the same as far as I'm concerned, except this one.
	But I can't track this guy down because I wanted to talk to him.
	So I'll call it the Pinot Grigio from the Verite party.
	Okay, good enough.
	Okay, Verite Party.
	Okay.
	Well, at least the back office knows what to order now.
	That's good.
	Okay, and then let's see.
	Here's a quick plug for the No Agenda Marketplace.
	Huh.
	Marketplace.yanoagenda.com.
	Y-A.
	Noagenda.com.
	Buy from your friends.
	Look at that.
	I'm going to look at that.
	Also, add your business so we can buy from you.
	Please give me jobs, karma, and life starting over karma.
	If you're with us, your job and your life is always good.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma.
	The question on my mind is, is this person on the Dame list?
	There's all this accounting here and I assume this is to get her over the top to be on the TJ of the Side A Christmas Dame.
	Yes, she's on the list.
	I have her on the list right here.
	And I'm looking at the marketplace.
	I'm going to put this in the show notes.
	I had no idea this was taking place.
	We've got different gear, seeds, first responder tactical gear, seeds, the No Agenda Tea Club, Roger Roundy Fine Arts.
	By the way, we have to plug the No Agenda Tea Club more seriously at some point.
	Their tea, they make a pot of tea, is quite good.
	It's a big deal, I agree.
	I mean, you open a bag of their black tea and you just, it's just a terrific product.
	This guy's sourcing tea very, he's doing a good job of it.
	I think he's doing it in Portugal.
	Yeah, he's doing it in Portugal.
	Very weird.
	Grant Nelson's next on the list.
	He's in Placerville, California.
	Uh, no jingles, no karma, $333.33.
	All right, beautiful.
	Thank you very much.
	Sir Stonks Trader, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, thank you for all you do.
	Enjoy the New Year holiday and keep up the good work, Sir Stonks Trader.
	Thank you, sir.
	Everybody loves a stonk.
	They do.
	Uh, Kimberly, oh brother, Calouette, I'm guessing, in San Antonio.
	Sounds right.
	Uh, and she has to say, ITM, happy New Year's, gents.
	Enjoy the New Year holiday and keep up the good work, Sir Stonks Trader, I.T.M.
	No, no, no, no, you're all over the place.
	Oh, we missed, now you got Grant Nelson.
	I got Grant Nelson.
	And then I did Sir Stonks Trader and now you're at Kimberly and you're out of control.
	Oh, okay, I see, it was just a little... You're out of control.
	I.T.M.
	and Happy New Year, gents.
	I'm a Roganite.
	Rogan.
	And this is my first donation, so please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Sadly though, my husband also listens.
	Oh no.
	He continues to be a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Thank you both for all you do.
	No jingles, no karma.
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	We're happy to do that.
	Then we have Scott Horton in Malibu, California $333 and we love that.
	Thank you so much executive producer for you The best podcasting universe is my go-to twice weekly.
	I was hit in the mouth by a Hollywood of the good times ...culture podcast.
	Hollywood of the Good Times culture podcast and want to call out Dario as a douchebag!
	No, douchebag.
	You can't get a de-douche.
	This is the last one of the barrel?
	And they're hard to... They just jump into my hand.
	They won't load.
	They won't load.
	They're the wrong size.
	That's what I needed.
	That's just loading wrong.
	I need to be deduced.
	Oh.
	With illegal goat karma.
	Legal goat karma?
	Well, you get a deducing.
	You've been deduced.
	We can play some Goat Karma for you.
	My first donation was 333.33 for episode 1500.
	I realized that you had a boatload of donations, so I understand why I still have the stench of douchiness on me.
	Can I get an It's Science?
	Two to the head.
	Okay, two to the head.
	Yes, and a little girl.
	No, it's not a little.
	Is there a little girl Boomshakalaka there?
	Yeah, Boomshakalaka.
	Boomshakalaka!
	Okay.
	Uh... Boomshakalaka.
	Um... I don't know what... This is what that would be called.
	Kid, maybe?
	Anyway, um... I hope you two never find an exit strategy.
	Well, I got this one.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	And is this it?
	Boomshakalaka.
	No, that's not it.
	I never heard that one.
	Hold on, now we gotta find it.
	I don't have a Boomshakalaka kid.
	What is it?
	Laka Boomshakalaka?
	Boomshakalaka!
	No, that's not it either.
	How come we can't find the kid?
	Boomshakalaka!
	Boom.
	Ow!
	Ow!
	I know why.
	Boo!
	Chocolata!
	Boo!
	Chocolata!
	There you go.
	Why couldn't you find it?
	You've got... Oh no!
	I'm a mess!
	Karma.
	It was the yak goat karma.
	It was too.
	I'm all over the place today.
	Starting off the new year right.
	There you go.
	Yeah, it is actually.
	Steve Schneider's up from Round Lake, Illinois.
	I'd like to finally claim my title change from Sir Stephen Schneider to Baron S. Carl Schneider and shamelessly plug my book, Dodging Death by S. Carl Schneider.
	Available on Amazon.
	I wonder what that book is about.
	Oh, well, we should probably look at some of the... The statement says, look inside, you know, look inside.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Thank you for your courage.
	We have another author on board.
	Sir Tin Death, from San Jose, California, 23333, associate executive producer, first one for this show, and of the year.
	Dear John Adam, just want to thank you for being the anchor in my sanity over the last few years.
	This donation is for my 33rd birthday on January 1st.
	Whoa, magic number!
	No jingles, but please pump some F-cancer karma for my brand new smoking hot wife who has metastic triple negative breast cancer.
	Dude, we were recently married on October 2nd.
	Happy New Year.
	Well, I want everybody to be thinking and praying for her.
	And of course, we'll roll it out for you right now.
	A big one.
	You've got.
	Our minds.
	Just F that cancer.
	Thank you.
	Less depressing.
	No, Douglas Murray comes in from Missoula, Montana.
	$213 and he has at this new dollar per second donation level.
	Which would get us to a million dollars in 12 days.
	In no time.
	I can only afford three minutes and 33 seconds of compensation.
	Which is $213.
	But I listen on 33x speed so it all adds up.
	Happy New Year.
	The logic eludes me, but it's funny.
	Someone sent me a continuation of the time thing, and when you get to a quadrillion, If you made a dollar, if you counted one number every second or made a dollar a second, it would take all of time, all of time ever that we are, all of the Earth's time, billion years, like 1.9 billion years to get to that number.
	And I think we'll soon be seeing quadrillion stimulus packages and payments to Ukraine.
	Just give it to Ukraine.
	Hell with us.
	Hell with the potholes all over the place.
	Give it to you, Cray.
	We have Rita Harrington from Sparks, Nevada.
	202.30.
	Thank you.
	Which, of course, is as requested, a 2023 donation.
	Happy New Year.
	Thank you, John and Adam and the Knowage on the Show producers.
	And thank you.
	Does she have an extra note here?
	Seems like, or could that come in as a check perhaps?
	I can't, I don't think it was a check.
	It has a gray box, I'm not sure.
	No, it was, I can't, mine's too light.
	That's fine.
	Pastor Mike in Edmond, Oklahoma.
	John and Adam have spent an enlightening two years listening to you, to you fellas.
	It's been an enlightening two years listening to you fellas.
	Thanks for all your hard work.
	I really do appreciate it.
	I would give a shout out to the man who introduced me to the show, Pastor Mike.
	So this is not from Pastor Mike.
	No, it's not.
	It's from somebody else.
	Yeah, this is a... This is a mistake.
	This was a note that came in.
	I think this was one of the notes.
	Well, whoever sent this note, and we'll make a make good, we seem to enjoy that.
	So, turn on make good.
	Hey, remember, Q1, everybody.
	Oh, wait, we are in Q1.
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	We'll make sure that we get that right, but Pastor Mike is on the list.
	Christopher Dale is in King George, Virginia.
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	Associated Executive Producership.
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	Happy New Year.
	Also, Adam, my keeper is going to Utah next year with your keeper.
	You mean this year.
	And the 75 hard cabal.
	Where are you taking the men of the No Agenda and Curry and the Keeper nations?
	Oh, that's a good idea.
	So, the Keeper is doing this thing in October, I think.
	It's six days hike.
	Or three... I don't know.
	It's like three-day hike, and then they're all gonna go to Vegas for two days?
	Sounds suspicious to me.
	I would say yes.
	Because one of the cabal has a timeshare in Vegas.
	That can add to no good.
	So I'm thinking, we all hang in Vegas and we just spy on them.
	That was my thinking.
	Okay, go do that.
	It's not my wife.
	Well, I don't understand what that has anything to do with.
	Well, you want to go spy, but it's because the Keeper's going to be there.
	No.
	Otherwise, you wouldn't care.
	There's going to be a whole bunch of men alone.
	We got to do something.
	There's going to be men?
	No, the men of the women are going away and the men are all alone.
	So we need to do something.
	Yeah, let's do a special.
	There you go.
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	Let's have a new donation just for this.
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	All All set.
	How about Ukraine?
	How about Ukraine and Russia?
	I ain't got nothing.
	I got a couple things in Ukraine and Russia.
	I mean, I'll take a look.
	Maybe there's something.
	First, did you see the Christmas party invite from the Ukrainian embassy?
	No.
	In DC.
	So you have the beautiful card.
	I have a scan of it here.
	On the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ambassador Extraordinaire and Penipotentiary of Ukraine.
	Penipotentiary?
	I can't really read it.
	I need to look at the word.
	Her Excellency Mrs. Osaka and Defense Attaché Major General Boris Kremenetsky request the pleasure of your company and guests at the reception.
	And would you believe that they had not only the Ukrainian logos, but also North of Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin on the card.
	Oh, I love it.
	On the card.
	Yeah, I have to take and put that in the next newsletter.
	It's so disgusting.
	It is disgusting.
	If it was our embassy doing this sort of thing, it would have Pfizer, Moderna, and Abbott, maybe, labs.
	Abbott labs, yes.
	We have different orientation.
	President Zelensky has announced an alliance with BlackRock once we're ready to rebuild Ukraine, which I found quite interesting.
	Typically, it's with a rebuilding company like Brechtel, KKR, etc.
	You're right, it's usually with investing guys who do the work, not guys who invest.
	Not speculators.
	Right.
	Well, they don't have to speculate because it's all going to be government money.
	I think the government's just going to give money to BlackRock.
	BlackRock doles that out.
	I don't see... I don't see... This is how we get to a quadrillion, possibly.
	Of course, we had to end the year poorly and start the new year poorly, according to ABC.
	Next tonight, the war in Ukraine and Russia ending the year with terror.
	A massive missile attack on New Year's Eve causing widespread destruction.
	Ukrainian officials tonight saying they shot down 12 of 20 Russian missiles fired, but at least one person was killed and several buildings in Kiev were damaged.
	President Zelensky addressing the Russians directly today, saying President Putin is, quote, burning their country and their Sure.
	ABC also interviewed Ukraine's spy chief I don't know if he's really their spy chief or he's just like that.
	Remember the pilot ghost?
	Non-existent people that ABC would interview.
	Yeah.
	Here is just a brief little bit about what Ukraine is doing or maybe we should say what our guys are doing under the Ukrainian flag.
	Did Ukraine strike a Russian airbase?
	I can't give you an answer right now on this question.
	Okay.
	Only after ending of this war.
	After the war you can answer that?
	I think so.
	What's your reaction to it, even if you don't claim responsibility?
	I'm very glad to see this.
	That's my reaction.
	That's your reaction?
	You're happy to see it?
	Yeah.
	Do you think there'll be more?
	I think so.
	Inside Russia?
	Deep inside Russia?
	Deeper and deeper.
	And in Crimea?
	Crimea is a part of Ukraine.
	It's our territory.
	We can use any weapon on our territory.
	Okay.
	So I guess we're going to have deeper and deeper, deeper missions and explosions into Crimea, maybe other, maybe even Russia itself.
	And this has the Central Intelligence Agency all written all over it, as far as I'm concerned.
	We had a article come out in the British press.
	It claims that U.S.
	Army Special Ops veteran claimed intelligence agency and NATO are conducting sabotage missions.
	That would be a number of things.
	It probably also includes the Nord Stream pipelines.
	This guy Murphy, former senior trainer advisor to SWAT teams, Iraqi SWAT teams, it's a very confusing article, and he does claim that the CIA and President Biden are personally authorizing missions.
	I'm sure that's all true.
	This is the biggest scam of the universe.
	And it's just, I hope it ends.
	I mean, I'm a little bit encouraged by the BlackRock news because that means that, you know, they do plan on ending it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's a good analysis.
	I mean, that's, you've got to, you got to consider that that's in the cards.
	They actually want to end this.
	We probably still have more stuff in inventory that's got to be shipped out.
	Yeah, you know what was really sad?
	I was talking to Sir Gene, formerly known as Sir Gene Zaruski.
	Yeah, he moved to Minneapolis in his, I think it was just before his teens, I think.
	And every year, we were just, you know, saying Happy New Year, a little bit of back and forth.
	And every year, as far as I've known him, and we've been in the Austin area, Sir Gene has had a Russian New Year party, which I believe is around January 12th for the Orthodox calendar.
	And I said, hey... It's the 6th or the 7th, isn't it?
	I think it's the 7th.
	I thought the 12th.
	It could be the 7th.
	Yeah.
	I said, well, are we doing a New Year's?
	He says, no, not this year.
	I said, why not?
	Well, don't you know?
	I said, what do you mean?
	Every year this event was held at the Austin Russia House.
	Russia House, which survived COVID just fine, and a lot of stuff didn't survive COVID, but two months after the illegal invasion, they were out of business.
	They even tried removing the name.
	It was just like R House, you know, with the letter R. They changed it to Ukraine House.
	And I said, Gene, how about products?
	I can't get any products.
	Can't get any of the, you know, Russian kvass and the stuff that he likes, you know, the herring, stinky fish, and eggs, and beets.
	It's just, it's not available.
	Not available anymore.
	Although, in San Francisco, we have plenty of Russian stores.
	Yes.
	That's what he said.
	He says it's very interesting.
	San Francisco, London, you can get anything you want.
	So, I don't know if it's selective or not quite sure what happened, but I think it's sad.
	Sad that... Well, it was very...
	Weird about it is that Austin is this big liberal community, like San Francisco.
	Yeah.
	And you'd think they'd be more liberal.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, they're not.
	Because the Russians that live here in this country are not attacking Ukraine.
	Yeah, but you just can't have something called Russia House.
	It's just bad.
	Everything Russia... Bad!
	You just can't have it.
	Bad.
	I mean, that's xenophobic now.
	And then we ended up the year 2022 with a spate.
	It's three.
	I forgot that we already had this death.
	Tonight, the world mourning the loss of a giant, Pelé, the Brazilian legend many consider the greatest soccer player of all time, dead at age 82.
	And then we got this.
	Good evening.
	There is only one Pope tonight.
	Benedict XVI died today, ending an unprecedented decade in which the Catholic Church had two living Popes, one reigning, one retired.
	In 2013, Benedict became the first Pope in 600 years to resign, saying that at age 85, he was no longer up to the job.
	And then the woman who I knew personally and actually liked quite a bit.
	Tonight, tributes pouring in from around the world for Barbara Walters, who died at age 93.
	So many honoring her as legendary, a trailblazer, and iconic.
	Most noting how she shattered glass ceilings everywhere she worked.
	With a career that spanned more than 60 years, Barbara was the consummate interviewer.
	Yeah, I liked her.
	I always liked her.
	Except when she did the view.
	When she started doing the view stuff, it got a little annoying.
	But I liked her.
	I thought she was pretty cool.
	So we've had three.
	So the Great Reset is on.
	We've had some good deaths so far.
	The Queen.
	Pele.
	The Pope.
	How about this new Pope?
	He's the one that's got to go.
	He's looking a little peaked.
	Around the gills.
	Yeah.
	I have some Trump taxes clips.
	Yes.
	As they roll out his taxes.
	And the more I listen, this is from PBS, Judy's Last Day.
	The more I listen, it's like everything Trump did on his taxes that you could figure out, especially paying no taxes in 2020, they're all legit.
	He did nothing illegal.
	Exactly.
	That's the beauty of it.
	In fact, what he did in the most part was, I think, help boost the economy by running a bunch of, excuse me, Money losing businesses.
	And he also donated millions of dollars to charity, which they would not mention in any report.
	They did.
	They did mention it here, but it was a scam.
	I missed that.
	A charity here, a charity there.
	I didn't hear about a scam, that's pretty funny.
	No, what it was, I don't know if I have it in these four clips, which I'm trying to keep short, but in this report they mentioned that he gave this huge piece of property to charity and he had legitimate appraisers, appraiser for $20 million, and he Gave it away, and the IRS came back and said it's only worth nothing!
	So, um... Really?
	Pretty much, yeah.
	Between nothing and eight million is what it was worth.
	Okay.
	So, let's listen to this.
	Following a long legal battle and public debate, House Democrats today released six years of former President Donald Trump's federal tax returns.
	Documents totaling thousands of pages.
	Our Lisa Desjardins has more.
	These are Trump's personal and business taxes from the years he ran for and served as president.
	Democrats defend the release as part of a probe into whether the IRS delayed auditing him.
	But in a video, Trump blasted the move as a political hit.
	Although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand, they're extremely complex.
	The radical Democrats' behavior is a shame upon the U.S.
	Congress.
	What information did we learn today?
	To discuss, I'm joined by Russ Buettner of the New York Times and Nina Olson, the former national taxpayer advocate.
	Oh, good.
	I'm excited to hear what they found.
	Well, actually, the National Taxpayer Advocate was pretty cool.
	But let's go on.
	Russ, let me start with you.
	You've looked through these.
	You've been poring over them all day.
	We already knew a bit about the bottom line here.
	The committee last week released these total taxes that the president paid as president.
	Former President Trump paid from anywhere from a million dollars to nothing in taxes while in office.
	But Russ, tell us, how much more do these documents today tell us about the former president?
	Well, I think what they do is they provide sort of a continuum from reporting we had done previously when we obtained 20 years of his tax returns of a couple of years ago.
	And you see more of the same, that the businesses that he runs generally report massive losses, tens of millions of dollars a year.
	The businesses that were tied to his entertainment and his licensing operations, they do okay.
	There's no expense.
	Expenses associated with running those, and it doesn't really require much in the way of business expertise.
	And he continues to benefit from the inheritance from his father.
	The one big year that he had in here, 2018, he reported a $24 million positive taxable income.
	That was the first time in a decade he'd reported a positive taxable income, but underlying that was the sale of of $26 million worth of assets he had inherited from his father.
	So that's what made what was actually a typical year for him, a money losing year, look like a winning year, was again his inheritance when he's a 70 plus year old man sitting in the White House.
	Oh, wow.
	A bit ageist there.
	That was a New York Times guy, so he has a slant and he sticks to it.
	Old man in the White House.
	Joe Biden's 80, by the way.
	By the way, they can also pull out the old, he didn't make it himself.
	He was privileged.
	He got it from his daddy.
	Yeah.
	That'll come out soon.
	The thing is, I think what I'm seeing and what you're probably seeing as well, there's nothing out of the ordinary.
	There's really not anything out of the ordinary in these tax returns for the type of businesses he was in, and they really don't have anything.
	There's no smoking guns, so they're going to just use hyperbole and stuff.
	Pay as fair share comes up a lot.
	Oh, yeah.
	The other person on the panel is actually a little bit more balanced than I thought that was unusual for PBS NewsHour, but here she goes.
	Nina, of course the big question we keep coming back to, there's a public debate over how does someone like Donald Trump pay zero in taxes during some years?
	What did you learn from these documents and what do you think this says about our overall tax system?
	Yeah, you know what you really see is the role of net operating losses that are carried forward for years, charitable contribution deductions that can't be taken in a given year and eat up all your income and then you can carry it back or carry it forward.
	The Trump Hotel had a rehabilitation credit that was carried back a year and can go forward for 20.
	And what that does, what's really interesting is that Congress back in 1967 tried to deal with the fact that there were millionaires that had not paid any taxes and they created the alternative minimum tax.
	And in many of these years, practically every single one of them, the former president was hit with the alternative minimum tax because it means if you use all these tax preferences, you may be able to eliminate your taxes and so they make you add things back in.
	But still, other credits ate away and offset even the alternative minimum tax.
	And that's clearly something Congress needs to look at.
	No, Congress needs to look at you making $600 a year and being paid through Venmo.
	That's what Congress is interested in.
	I don't care about this.
	This is unbelievable.
	So let's go to the last clip.
	Well, I think what you're saying is a good point, that there are ways that wealthy people with a lot of assets and good accounts can get out of paying taxes.
	I think one of the big ones that Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to benefit from is the ability to have businesses that are losing money and to use that loss to write off your income tax, to reduce your income taxes.
	on something like a job on television.
	You know, his job on television had no expenses associated with it at all.
	He just showed up and he was filmed and edited to look like he looked.
	He made some years $20 million from that, $200 million just from being on television, and he was able to use the losses from his golf courses and his hotels to reduce that taxable income.
	That's not something that's widely available to most of us.
	Oh, bullcrap.
	Anyone with a pass-through LLC can do this.
	You're full of crap.
	And do you notice how the TV news models are all saying stuff like, well, he just had to show up.
	He didn't need any talent.
	Not like us.
	He just had to show up.
	And they just edited him into something that was good.
	And he got $20 million.
	They're envious.
	That's a good point.
	They're very envious.
	He was, uh, he had all, yeah, they make it sound like some no talent walks on his thing.
	They give him $2 million a show or whatever it was, or a million a show, I guess, 20 shows.
	I thought he made 20 million.
	So give him, and it's not that he's the only one making a million dollars a show on television, network television.
	Would that, Highly rated show.
	And it makes it sound like a schmuck.
	He doesn't do any work at all.
	He just walks in, reads from the script.
	He reads the prompt.
	He's done.
	Like they do.
	It's all they do.
	They don't do any work.
	And it's like, yeah, you're right.
	It's envy.
	It's I'd like to go back to a supercut from 2017 about Trump and his taxes.
	And they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.
	And hasn't paid taxes, perhaps, for the last 18 years.
	The revelation that Donald Trump didn't pay income tax is Donald Trump.
	Is avoiding paying taxes.
	He won't pay taxes.
	The fact that he hasn't paid taxes for almost 20 years.
	He hasn't paid taxes in 20 years.
	Probably hasn't paid taxes in 18 years.
	We know he didn't pay his taxes for 20 years.
	He didn't pay income taxes for 18 years.
	Donald Trump hasn't paid taxes in the past 20 years.
	We're not even talking about the fact that Trump didn't pay taxes.
	Now the idea that Trump hasn't paid taxes in nearly 20 years.
	That means Trump hasn't paid taxes since the year his next wife was born.
	Even if Trump hasn't paid federal income taxes for 18 years, who the heck cares?
	I think the biggest scandal is not that Donald Trump hasn't paid tax for 15 years, it's that we've got a tax code that allows it.
	The Indiana governor shrugged off the likelihood that Trump didn't pay federal income taxes for nearly two decades.
	Donald Trump's tax returns have surfaced.
	Paid, uh, $38 million.
	Looks like $38 million in taxes.
	She made me stay up till 9 p.m.
	to tell me that Trump pays taxes.
	Yeah, remember everyone was, oh, didn't pay, didn't pay, didn't pay, didn't pay.
	Yeah, he paid every year except 2020.
	Yeah.
	But that's the news media.
	They're liars.
	They're a corrupt group.
	Now what this does... They're told to say... Where did that 1820 come from?
	Why was it passed around like that so much?
	Why everyone's repeating it?
	They're parroting somebody else saying it.
	I think, uh, what was Democracy Now's take?
	Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Tuesday failed to meet a congressionally mandated deadline to turn over President Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.
	It's the second time Mnuchin has refused a congressional order to turn over Trump's tax records.
	In a statement, Mnuchin said he'd provide a final answer on whether he would comply by May 6th.
	I should have done an Amy Trigger warning.
	Sorry, people.
	Yeah, so anyway, turns out he did pay taxes.
	Turns out he just did it in a way that many, many, many business people do their taxes.
	Especially if you have multiple business lines.
	Yeah, Warren Buffett's a classic example.
	Classic, classic.
	Now, with this comes a Pandora's box of sorts.
	Now that we have found out that Congress somehow has the right to not just get someone's tax returns, I think they actually have that right, they are in charge of the money after all, they hold the purse, but they can also publish it.
	Well, that opens up a whole new bag of worms, can of worms, bag of poop, can of worms, and who better to describe exactly what can now be done than our favorite lawyer, Joe DiGenoa.
	Oh, I don't think there's any doubt now that this has regrettably, may I say regrettably, opened up the floodgates on Congress getting tax returns.
	Right now, the new Republican chair of the House Finance Committee, Ways and Means, can say legitimately that they are continuing the investigation of the auditing of presidential tax returns by getting those of President Biden and his family consistent with what the Democrats have done with Trump.
	We're just going to continue what the Democrats started.
	Yeah.
	And that'll just go on and on for endless sessions.
	I can already see Hawley and all these, and all these Jim Oakes, like, oh, the Biden crime family.
	Nothing, well, it may be interesting and exciting television, maybe, or radio, probably not.
	But I think... Well, when we get hold of it, it will be good.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Um...
	Yes.
	You want to switch topics because I do have another Ask Adam.
	Um, yeah, sure.
	Interregnum.
	Sure.
	All right.
	This is a different variation of the normal Ask Adam.
	Oh.
	I'm going to play you a clip out of context.
	You provide the context.
	Okay, clip out of context.
	I provide the context.
	Clip one.
	Yep.
	The Christmas tree was decorated with fruits and fresh pieces of meat.
	The Christmas tree was decorated with fruits and fresh... What was it?
	Cuts of meat?
	Pieces of meat.
	Pieces of meat.
	And what is the question?
	What's the context?
	What is it?
	What are they talking about?
	If you just played this clip to somebody... Yeah.
	Out of context, what would you try to guess this is actually about?
	I don't think I could guess.
	I would say this is probably an NTD report.
	That would be my guess.
	Can I hear the clip again?
	Please!
	Yes.
	The Christmas tree was decorated with fruits and fresh pieces of meat.
	This must have been for starving, like it's so cold, animals, stray animals need to eat or something, and it's a variation of the pine cone with peanut butter and seeds.
	You know, that's better than nothing.
	Let's play the clip.
	For most, the Christmas party is long past, but not for animals.
	A zoo in Berlin is serving up a crunchy Christmas tree as snacks for its tiger family.
	Tiger?
	The Christmas tree was decorated with fruits and fresh pieces of meat.
	Both adult tigers and their cubs were excited about this late holiday treat.
	An official at the Tierpark Zoo said such a feast comes only once a year.
	I was pretty close.
	Yeah, I'm surprised how good you are at this.
	I think, well, you've been duping me for, you know, a decade and a half, so I picked up some things along the way.
	Yeah, I know, I get it.
	I have to come up with more misdirection that's better quality.
	It's on me.
	I have a couple of climate change clips which I think are of interest.
	It's been very fun to watch these electric vehicles fail in the cold.
	and this is kind of we weren't hearing this two years ago which I find odd we We had the big freeze in Texas.
	There are lots of people in Austin and around Texas with Teslas who clearly must have had a degradation in performance.
	This is not new.
	We've kind of heard about it with one of the hurricanes that hit Florida.
	This is like two or three years ago and they talked about how they sent him some software updates so they get better mileage.
	Right.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, but that, that was, no, that wasn't better mileage.
	No, the distance.
	No, better mileage.
	No, longer distance.
	Not better.
	Longer.
	And that's an upgrade.
	Longer is better.
	That's what she said.
	Beat you to it.
	Anyway, I'm sorry.
	Continue.
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Go ahead.
	Yes.
	No, you're saying it wrong.
	But go ahead.
	But go ahead.
	I gotta get the but go ahead.
	Well, NPR is trying to explain something that is happening.
	with one of their repeaters out in California.
	Now, radio, good old radio, some of you might still listen to it, especially NPR, they will have in an area, certainly if it's a big area or if it has a lot of varying terrain.
	Yeah, we have here in the Bay Area, we have like four of these things.
	Right, well they're shutting one down!
	You're listening to KCBX News, I'm Benjamin Purper.
	As of today, our 89.5 FM broadcast in the city of Santa Barbara is off the air.
	A phenomenon called atmospheric ducting led to faraway radio signals interfering with ours.
	Now, radio ducting?
	I don't know.
	I am a ham radio operator, I am current on my license, a general... Atmospheric ducting.
	Atmospheric ducting.
	Have you ever heard of this term?
	I've heard a troposphere bounce, which is probably what this is, this particular... It would be ionospheric bounce, probably, but this is what we call skin.
	We call this propagation.
	We call this the top... It bounces and bounces down.
	We call this the top of the solar cycle.
	You could hear the Los Angeles channels clearly in Olympia, Washington, at night, to this day.
	Yeah.
	The reason this happens every 11 to 12 years is because of the solar cycle.
	And we're now at or near the top of the cycle.
	Ham radio guys are super happy because, especially on shortwave or the frequencies that we operate on, you can use a very small amount of power.
	You can get all the way around the world because it's bouncing off the ionosphere and the earth.
	FM signals, FM frequency modulated signals, Don't have all the same characteristics, but as you point out, it'll definitely work.
	But they're gonna try and explain this to us in a way that I find baffling.
	Erratic weather or other changes in the atmosphere can cause radio signals to travel much further than usual.
	In our case, atmospheric ducting has caused a distant radio signal from fellow NPR member station KPBS in San Diego to overlap with ours, rendering it unusable.
	So, how does this all work?
	You get changes in the lower atmosphere when you have these atmospheric ducts and it changes the way the signals propagate.
	That's Leib Washburn, an oceanographer at UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute.
	He says FM radio signals are normally transmitted in what's called line of sight.
	This is when a radio transmitter is in a direct line with radio receivers that catch the signal.
	But he says warm air masses in the lower atmosphere can create these atmospheric ducts, which can cause radio signals that would normally end up going vertically into space to bend back towards the Earth's surface.
	This process then repeats over and over, which allows the radio signals to be received at distant radio stations.
	So normally, where the radio waves at a distant location would be passing way overhead and you wouldn't receive them, you now have a way by this bouncing up and down for the radio waves to follow the Earth's surface.
	And so they can go a lot farther.
	And I think that's exactly what you're seeing in your radio station from San Diego.
	They can go hundreds of miles by this process.
	Ducting can happen from a variety of factors, and not just over bodies of water, but also over land.
	So while there could be other factors at play in disrupting KCBX's Santa Barbara signal, Washburn says it makes sense that warmer coastal waters could lead to the San Diego signal overwhelming ours over time.
	The temperature in the ocean would affect the overlying atmosphere.
	It's water vapor in the atmosphere that really is one of the big control signs.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	There you go.
	It's because of climate change.
	the amount of water vapor and its distribution over the ocean.
	Yeah.
	Whether or not climate change is directly causing the ducting issue here, the ocean is projected to keep getting warmer along with the rest of the climate.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Okay, there you go.
	It's because of climate change.
	How about adding a few watts to your signal, dumb shit?
	Or making those guys direct differently.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah, you could be requiring the FCC for interfering with somebody else's signal.
	That's correct.
	And there's a lot of tests that take place, even just using the same frequencies for different transmitters.
	Now there's a newsletter, a sub-stack called Doomberg.
	Have you ever read this or ever heard of this?
	I don't think so.
	Doomberg, they used to, I think they were nuclear energy, or not, energy consultants, and their clients liked so much what they were doing, they said, you guys should start publishing some of this, and it's a very expensive sub-stack, I think it's $30 a month?
	Yeah, that's one of the reasons I probably won't read it.
	Right, so I did subscribe for one month.
	I'm not sure it's worth it yet, but let's just call it value for value because this Doomberg, which is, it's a collective, you know, they're not identified by name for whatever reason.
	We're on what Bitcoin did podcast for some reason and explained or gave a view of what happened in Germany
	With their shutting down of the nuclear plants, why that happened, and more importantly, what, and I didn't clip all of this, but, you know, if you want to start a new nuclear facility, people would say in the United States it would probably take you about 10 years before it's finished.
	And the reason for that is not because it takes 10 years to build this.
	You can build most plants, certainly modern reactors, in under a year.
	It's because every single group comes out and starts lawsuits.
	That's why it takes so long.
	And, of course, you can imagine who these groups are that start lawsuits.
	You think they're greenies, but of course they're oil and gas people, because they don't want the nuclear to come in, which, according to Dumberg, is the only way forward for the world when it comes to energy.
	But, you know, the path has to go through nuclear, and that's the thing that is most puzzling about the climate change movement, as they have rebranded themselves, is their deep opposition to what is the obvious solution.
	A freshly built nuclear power plant today comes with essentially no risk, could last a century, produces carbon-free electricity effectively indefinitely, is technology we completely understand, And the energy payback period itself is less than six weeks, so the total amount of energy that goes into constructing a nuclear power plant gets paid back in six weeks.
	Whereas with solar, you're looking at a period measured in years.
	And so, yeah, there will come a time where we land on the same answer, only after we've tried all the stupid ones.
	But the proactive shutdown of much of Europe's nuclear fleet, especially in Belgium and Germany, There's a scandal of ethnic proportions and the genesis of that movement needs to be investigated because I think if you do, you'll find significant foreign interference with that particular domestic policy.
	There's a lot of evidence that Russia is behind much of the German opposition to nuclear energy.
	The former Chancellor of Germany sits on the board of Gazprom and it's just unquestionable that prior to the Ukraine invasion, the biggest beneficiary of of European fallacies on nuclear energy was Russia.
	In fact, as we've learned, the entire German manufacturing sector became addicted to cheap Russian natural gas.
	And the struggles they're going to have in the years ahead can be tied directly to the fateful decision to roll the dice and join with Russia for something as critically important as their fundamental energy needs.
	I'm kind of kicking myself that we never really thought about that because, of course, Helmut Kohl, former chancellor, is on the board of Gazprom, or at least was.
	And, yeah, it makes so much sense that Russia was just like, no, you need more gas, do gas, do gas.
	And turn off the nuclear, man.
	Turn it off.
	You don't need that stuff.
	It's bad.
	It's going to blow up one day.
	We're all going to die from the nukes.
	That, now that's Russian interference or Russian propaganda or whatever, warfare, information warfare.
	I think it's true.
	Oh, it's, yes.
	I think what, I mean, well, that guy's an insider and from his perspective, he'll see the stuff that we can't be, well, we're never wrong about the, I don't think, about the nuclear energy being a big deal.
	The interference with it, you would think just on the surface that it's a bunch of lame greenies, and you wouldn't think the logical thing is by following the money you see it's Russia.
	Russian gas guys.
	And probably our petroleum companies too.
	Sure, sure.
	Which is what you do.
	That's how you do business.
	You got a competitor, you do everything you can to thwart them.
	Yeah, makes sense.
	There's a new book out called a cultural history of climate and this was a little disturbing because in this book reveals that even minor changes in climate may result in huge social political and religious convulsions and as we head into what I think you and I are kind of on board that we're in a continuous
	Global cooling into a new ice age which could take thousands of years, but even the trending evidence you can tell me it's it's warm blast of Arctic bomb bomb air, you know from the jet stream That's that's making it freezing in, Texas I've been here for a bit, you know, in the last three years we've had three of these events and the last one that was really cold was 2012.
	So would you agree that we're probably more likely into a cooling?
	Going into a cooling?
	I think that's what all the evidence actually shows.
	Why it didn't catch on.
	With the radical greenies, I think it's because they hate oil and gas companies so much at some visceral level because we're burning up, you know, we're just burning fossil fuels and this is unfair.
	For some reason, I think they somehow switched somewhere.
	It had to be in the mid 80s when they came up with the idea of, you know, global cooling was It was catching on.
	It was a big deal, but it wasn't doing anything negative.
	It wasn't affecting these fossil fuel companies who we're trying to ruin.
	And then, of course, they put themselves in a bind about the nukes.
	Like, we don't like nukes.
	We don't have a reason for not liking them, but they're dangerous.
	That's why we don't like them.
	That's it.
	They're dangerous and they kick off a bunch of stuff.
	You can't get rid of it.
	It's terrible.
	Which is no longer true, of course.
	So this Wolfgang Berenger's book states, and this is the sad part, and he's looked at, I haven't read the book, but this is a blurb that I came across, so historically cooling has always resulted in major social upheavals, whereas warming has led to a blossoming of culture.
	How about that?
	Interesting.
	So, no wonder we're all depressed and mad.
	It's because it's getting cold, and it's even worse at telling us that it's not true.
	It just pisses us off more.
	Yeah, perhaps.
	Warming also led to the Black Death.
	We shouldn't always remember that.
	Well, you know, we're just talking about happiness.
	I mean, you can be dead and happy, like in Canada.
	Well, yeah, this is a dilemma.
	And it will continue throughout the year without Greta when we get the new people coming on board.
	Although Greta, all of a sudden, there was a very weird Greta distraction of the week, which was very interesting that people were sending me emails and, oh, you know, he pissed off Andrew Tate.
	I don't know.
	I've heard of him.
	I think he's been on Tucker Carlson.
	This is like a QAnon type figure.
	People are just like, either he's a pedophile, he's a sex fiend, or he's an influencer, or he's a very smart man.
	I don't know.
	I don't give a crap about this guy, but man, The amount of stories that came in, I just have to play some of this idiocy so we have it on the record of something that no one should care about at all.
	Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are arrested in Romania as part of a human trafficking probe.
	News broke late Thursday evening by BNO News that the pair were arrested on December 29th.
	Now this news comes just hours after Tate made waves with climate activist Greta Thunberg going back and forth on Twitter about carbon dioxide emitting cars.
	Tate, who had previously been kicked off social media platforms for so-called misogyny and hateful ideations, had also made news last month.
	As Long Crime Network's Sidebar reported, he sued YouTuber Ethan Klein after Klein called him a sex trafficker.
	Now at the time, Tate's attorneys sent Klein a cease and desist order.
	Some reports now say Romanian officials used Tate's social media to confirm he was in their country before his arrest.
	Which turns out to be not true, and he might be running a webcam farm with webcam girls.
	It's like, oh no, he was working on a movie with Anne Hesch and Chris Cornell to expose the pedophiles of Hollywood.
	People, calm down.
	You're being distracted.
	Totally.
	And I think, here's a good thing to be distracted from.
	Listen to these two stories.
	This is Google... Google.
	Google suit.
	Oh, Google suit.
	Google suit one.
	Google is set to face a class action lawsuit.
	It accuses the tech giant of collecting information and tracking children's behavior online without consent.
	The lawsuit was originally filed in 2019 against Google, YouTube, Cartoon Network, Hasbro, DreamWorks, Animation, and Mattel.
	The lawsuit was able to move forward recently after a lower court dismissed it last year.
	The companies are blamed for running targeted ads to children based on Google's persistent identifiers.
	These identifiers refer to unique IMEI numbers of a device or the IP address.
	They allow Google to track the behavior of a user over as much as 80% of the Internet, And from there, Google can create profiles used in targeting advertising.
	By tracking the online behavior of children without parental consent, Google and other firms are accused of violating the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and similar state laws.
	Google, Google, don't you know trafficking children is the government's job?
	You shouldn't be doing that.
	Meanwhile, I have no idea how many lawsuits have been filed and how many Google's involved, but there's another whole different one here in this next story.
	And Google has reached a $20 million settlement with the state of Indiana.
	This is over the big tech giant's alleged deceptive location tracking practices.
	Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita released a statement this week.
	He said that the latest settlement reflects the state's commitment to protecting Indiana residents from big tech's intrusive schemes.
	The settlement came about after Rokita filed a separate independent lawsuit when negotiations between Google and a coalition of state attorneys general stalled.
	As a result, Indiana received roughly twice as much money as it would have received in the other lawsuit.
	Multiple U.S.
	states opened investigation into Google's location tracking practices after an exclusive report from the Associated Press in 2018.
	The report took issue with two Google account settings, location history and web and app activity.
	Both lawsuits say Google has been falsely leading users to believe that changing their privacy settings could stop the company from tracking their location.
	Yeah, this of course was an NTD report, because you'll never hear this in American media.
	But I think this comes from that test where the guy turned off, didn't he like remove the battery almost of these Google phones?
	He did all kinds of stuff, but they still tracked him, even though he opted out for everything.
	So that was the scandal of that particular suit, is that they, oh, if you don't want us doing that, just click this box.
	And so you click the box and they still do it.
	That's really the scandal as far as I'm concerned.
	They're liars!
	But 20 million, how does that help the users who were tracked?
	That doesn't go to any pieces.
	It goes in the coffers of the Indiana state government.
	Let's take a look at some Big Pharma for a moment.
	As you know, President Joe Biden proclaimed that, we took all Big Pharma!
	We finally got him!
	I got hairy legs!
	And one of the main things was the almost, you could almost call it open source medication, insulin.
	Which, I mean, there's no patent on it.
	Anybody can make it.
	In the United States, I think we pay five times more than any other country.
	Of course, if it's done through the insurance scam, etc.
	So what did the president promise?
	He said, I'm going to lower it!
	I'm going to put a cap on insulin!
	Well, not for everybody.
	Tonight, the CDC is warning of an alarming surge in diabetes in coming decades among Americans under the age of 20.
	It's already at 47%.
	How could it get any more alarming in the coming decade?
	Treating the disease with insulin can be very expensive.
	And in our series, Side Effects, Gotti Schwartz looks at why a cap on prices in the new year will still leave tens of millions behind.
	As inflation rises, insulin prices in the U.S.
	remain by far the highest in the world.
	We are definitely seeing people that have diabetes ration their insulin more than they've ever been.
	And how dangerous is that?
	It's incredibly dangerous.
	I mean, you are dealing with people's lives.
	For years, some have chosen to head across the border to buy insulin in places like Mexico.
	Like this group we accompanied in 2019.
	But this year there was hope that all that could finally change with the Inflation Reduction Act and talk of a nationwide cap on monthly insulin costs.
	When the legislation goes into effect in January, there will be a $35 a month limit on what patients pay out of pocket for insulin, but only for those with Medicare.
	Awww.
	That leaves 20 million people, uh... That's bullshit!
	I thought it was gonna cut it, make it... Why would it be just people with Medicare?
	They already have a good deal.
	Everything's free.
	Well, I thought you started off by saying that's bullshit.
	Correct!
	Because it's not true.
	We didn't take on Big Pharma.
	We kowtow.
	Why would they?
	Kowtow to Big Pharma.
	And the worst person in the world when it comes to Big Pharma is Elizabeth Warren.
	I will briefly review that she took lots of Lobbyist money for her re-election campaign indirectly or directly from Bose.
	Bose make headsets.
	Bose wanted to get into the hearing aid game.
	I am a user of hearing aids, proper hearing aids.
	I use Widex and they don't pay me for that.
	They should.
	They're very expensive, but they work and you have to go to an actual doctor called an audiologist to get them perfectly tuned and fit.
	And that's what you should do because Particularly for men, if you can't hear properly, it can lead to dementia, to withdrawal from society.
	There's all kinds of things that can go, with men in particular, can go very, very bad if you start to lose your hearing.
	And having bad hearing aids, or worse, hearing aids that are marketed as hearing aids but aren't, are literally amplifiers.
	Where you don't have to go to an audiologist, a trained doctor, trained professional, to do this.
	No, it connects to an app and the app goes... Can you hear this?
	And then all of a sudden, magically, these amplifiers have been tuned for your hearing.
	It's not true.
	It's a hoax.
	It's a lie.
	And the thing that changed is Elizabeth Warren put in legislation that Silicon Valley companies mainly, but anyone making a hearing amplifier could now sell this over-the-counter under the name hearing aid.
	And the first ads of 2023 are out.
	Do you have trouble hearing conversations?
	Are you constantly asking loved ones to repeat themselves?
	Do you miss out on discussions or talking with friends?
	Then you would benefit from Nano Hearing Aids.
	Don't waste thousands of dollars on expensive hearing aids or settle with the frustration of cheap amplifiers.
	Right now you can get two revolutionary Nano CIC Recharge Hearing Aids.
	Regularly $794 for just $297.
	$594 for just $297, or opt into our payment plan of four easy payments.
	I love how affordable the nano hearing aids are.
	Compared to some hearing aids, they're as much as $3,000, $4,000, $5,000.
	Don't be fooled by higher-priced hearing aids.
	The CIC ReCharge is a true hearing aid, not an amplifier.
	It has rechargeable technology that many customers say is superior to more expensive models.
	These nano hearing aids are fantastic.
	They're affordable.
	They're easy to fit into the ear.
	And what really impressed me is I'm hearing things I haven't heard in years.
	Our friendly operators are standing by to take your order.
	So...
	Warren, who is the founder of the Consumer Protection Board, is now allowing this type of commercial to air, where these guys who literally make, a year ago were called hearing amplifiers, because legally they couldn't call them hearing aids, are now slagging off excellent devices, saying, don't be fooled by that pricey shit, you don't need that!
	It's disgusting.
	It's lies.
	It's lies.
	And I didn't what?
	And it's all part of the same, you know, advertising pharmaceuticals.
	It's the same league.
	People here in Fredericksburg, Texas, do you know what they fear the most?
	They fear Big Pharma.
	They don't fear much else.
	Big Pharma.
	They really are.
	Good for them.
	They really are afraid of that, and they think that they're doing all kinds of stuff.
	They feel that they're also... They are!
	Correct.
	Sounds like they were afraid of that thing.
	Yeah, correct, correct.
	And before we take our second break here, just to show you how far ahead of the curve your No Agenda show is, do we remember this jingle?
	Nap for Humanity.
	Yeah, Nap for Humanity.
	We even had a photo from Butler's daughter.
	We had her model of the Nap for Humanity t-shirt.
	So how long ago do you think this jingle was made?
	At least 10 years.
	At least 10 years.
	New report from NPR.
	It can be hard to find a moment to just rest.
	And when you can find the time, you might feel like you should be working on something instead.
	But rest can be a form of resistance.
	I don't want to be under the guise of believing that I have to be productive in order to be deemed worthy.
	I am enough now.
	Tricia Hersey founded The Knapp Ministry back in 2016.
	She uses performance art, social media, and photography to promote the healing power of rest.
	She's the author of Rest is Resistance.
	And for NPR's Life Kit, Shireen Marisol Maragi spoke with Hersey, starting with the four tenets of The Knapp Ministry.
	Tenet number one.
	Rest is a form of resistance because it pushes back and disrupts white supremacy and capitalism.
	No!
	Just so you know, I don't know why, I don't know how, but it pushes back on white supremacy and capitalism.
	Our bodies are a site of liberation.
	And that brings into the semantics the idea that wherever our bodies are, we can find rest.
	Naps provide a portal to imagine, invent, and heal.
	Our dream space has been stolen and we want it back.
	We will reclaim it via rest.
	There you go.
	You have to nap for humanity.
	Well, I mean, the race... The initial napping thing was because it was green.
	Climate change, correct.
	It was climate change, but they changed it to white supremacy.
	So climate change moves toward white supremacy.
	Nothing can be more dubious in my mind.
	This is bull crap!
	I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Actually getting a hang of the mechanism.
	I love it.
	I love you for that.
	You are getting that.
	Inside baseball people pay no attention.
	Well, I don't know what happened to my spreadsheet, but there's so many tabs that you're going to have to start reading.
	Oh, I can get us going.
	We have M. Andrew Jones in this series of producers we want to thank, who had the sack of Richards, the satchel of Richards, 111.11, and there is a note associated with that.
	Let me see if that's a satchel of Richards thing.
	John Adam, making it rain in the new year.
	Born, what is it, Baron of America's Mountain, M. Andrew Jones.
	Okay.
	And so, yes, we understand what a Satchel of Richards is.
	Sir Vesa Florison from Colorado, $101.23.
	Thank you very much.
	Adam Frederick, Orange, Vermont, $189.
	He says, this is my usual $80, $66 plus $20, $23 new year equals jobs, karma, and deduce.
	He says, this is my usual $80, 66 plus 20, 23 new year equals jobs, karma, and deduce.
	Well, I'll deduce you.
	You've been deduced.
	Thank you.
	Diane Schwanenbeck in Johnsburg, Illinois.
	$100, thank you.
	Brian Mickey in Prague, Oklahoma.
	Wishing my smoking-hot wife, Aerie Curaghi, a very special birthday.
	Pronounced Aerie Curaghi.
	Got it.
	Much love.
	Best New Year.
	David Bevers, or Beavers.
	In Boise, Idaho, $100.
	Sir Boober, Nevada.
	It says Nevada.
	Iowa, which seems odd, but who knows.
	Yeah, I think he's donated before.
	With a boob.
	Are you caught up now?
	No.
	8008, boobs for the new year.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin from Locust, North Carolina, the OG boober.
	And he says B-O-O-B-8-O-O-8, the donation from Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs!
	Holy crap.
	I can continue from there, but I'll let you do the next two because one's involving knighting.
	Peter Regiching, Regichnig?
	Regit, Regich...
	Okay, Westminster, Colorado, love is lit, thank you very much, with 8-0-0-8 and other boobs.
	And here's Dame Chrissy X from Springfield, Virginia, with 8-0-0-8, a boob donation.
	Please accept this donation of 8-0-0-8 and accompanying request for a title change.
	You got it, let's see.
	Since January 10th, 2022, I've no longer been Sir Pindernet of the Lucky 13, but Dame Chrissy X.
	I hereby formally request a title change in recognition as the first publicly transgendered dame and producer of the No Agenda Show.
	Now we do have other transgender dames.
	This is not the first.
	But I don't know if we have a transgender dame.
	I'm pretty sure we do.
	We definitely have producers.
	But I've heard Adam's request for feedback from many trans producers, but I felt it was too new to me to legitimately respond.
	After nearly a year, I think my opinions count.
	Everyone's opinion counts.
	And you two have a shit ton of misperceptions.
	Oh.
	With love and light for you both.
	Chrissy X, P.S., started HRT, which is hormone replacement therapy, about five months ago, hence the 808.
	I could really use a boob karma.
	I'm curious to know what our huge misconceptions are.
	No one ever tells us.
	Well, send another donation.
	Let us know, Chris.
	And you will be Dame Chrissy X, you bet.
	Very happy to do that for you.
	Dame Lee is next on the list in Annapolis, Maryland.
	By the way, Dame Chrissy, I should get your karma at the end.
	Yeah.
	75 bucks from Dame Lee.
	God bless you both.
	Onward with Sir DH Slammer in Buelton, California.
	$73.78.
	Some complex formula he's got listed here.
	Ivan Babic in Astoria, New York.
	$60.
	James Garaba in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada.
	51.
	Greg Melton in Glenmore, Pennsylvania, 50.
	47.
	Herbert Hess in Spring, Texas, 50.
	Oh, in fact, all these people would be $50 donors, name and location.
	Face Lover Company, LLC in Costa Mesa.
	Cassidy Eastwood in Oklahoma City.
	Matthew Hussar in St.
	Petersburg, Florida.
	Brent Chickie in Lake Worth, Florida.
	Kyle Mann in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Rockets.
	Dotted Mind in Lincoln, Great Britain.
	Pro Flooring LLC in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
	If you need your floors, go there.
	Andrew Sawyer in Duncan, B.C.
	Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
	Justin Heiner in Vine Grove, Kentucky.
	Claire Thornhill in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
	Jill Woods in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
	And last on our list is Tony Helfest in Fort Worth, Texas.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	That's our group of producers.
	We want to thank each and every one of them for helping make this show a possibility.
	We do have a couple of make-goods as we clear out the rest of 2022.
	This is from Darren, D-A-R-R-O-N, Adam and John.
	Yeah, I'm one of those stragglers from show 1500 that took advantage of the two-for-one show credit, donated 500, that didn't have his information read on the show.
	Apologies for the delay in writing, as in this was my first monetary donation.
	Feel free to de-douche if you deem it necessary, highly necessary, for... You've been de-douched.
	He says...
	I do believe this would make me a Black Knight, so please bestow upon me the name of Sir Darren Shredder of the Six Strings.
	No jingles, nothing needed at the round table, just a Happy New Year karma for you and the entire No Agenda fam.
	Another guitarist in the audience.
	He does say, I do have one thing to ask of the both of you, other than listening to the best podcast in the universe, what do you guys do to keep a positive outlook and not feel helpless with the ridiculous amount of bullshittery that we are presented with on a daily basis?
	I can answer that.
	Well, and preface, he says no smart-ass answers, John.
	Okay, I'm done.
	Go for it.
	Give us the smart-ass answer.
	We get the kick.
	We get a kick out of deconstructing the news and seeing the BS and we can... It's just hilarious to us.
	That's hilarious to me.
	Yeah, I see it all as funny.
	I'm with you.
	It's very funny.
	And it's very funny that people get sucked in by it.
	And then you have to witness them.
	That's kind of scary, by the way.
	It is a bit scary.
	Then we have anonymous.
	I apologize for this late note.
	My smoking hot wife donated towards my knighthood on show 1500.
	She is Melanie Coyle, and a note was mentioned as a switcheroo for me.
	Alas, I was not called to the roundtable.
	If this marks me as a black knight, may it be so.
	Accounting has been, uh...
	Oh, he has all the accounting here.
	Please call me anonymously to the front and I'll arrive swiftly.
	I shall be named Sir Recoil, Black Knight near the Natchez Trace in Middle Tennessee.
	The food on the table is perfect.
	I have brought whiskey from my infinite bottle to share.
	You got it.
	Cheers to this new year!
	I do request to be added to the birthday list for January 3rd.
	We're doomed!
	And I need Dee and the rest of the No Agenda Signal group called out as douchebags!
	Douchebags!
	And a goat scream would be great to start off this new year.
	Okay, well, why don't we do a, since we needed a karma, previously we'll do a service goat karma for you both.
	You've got Thank you to these producers, to these knights, to these dames.
	Thank you to everyone who came in under $50 for anonymity.
	And, of course, some of you are still on the sustaining donations.
	These are monthly subscriptions.
	They're lower amounts, but a lot of people become knights and dames by using this.
	If you consider that, we would really appreciate it.
	Learn more at our website, dvorak.org.
	It's a birthday, birthday.
	Oh, so much.
	Yep, here's our list for today.
	Two, Sir Tim Depp.
	Thirty-three today, happy birthday.
	Also, my sister Tiffany celebrates her birthday on January 1st.
	And Brian Mickey says happy wish, uh, happy birthday to... Eri Q. Raggy.
	A very special birthday, and I would presume that we now also need, uh, Sir Recoil on the birthday list, as he just requested.
	But he's not quite Sir yet, so we'll have to hang tight.
	Happy birthday to everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Changing titles today, we have the big change.
	Sir Pindernet of the Lucky 13 becomes Dame Chrissy X.
	Sir Brett Farrell becomes Viscount of the Seven Hills of Cincinnati, and Sir Stephen Schneider, Baron S. Carl Schneider, all for supporting your No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	We really appreciate that.
	Thank you so much.
	And welcome with your title change, amongst many other changes, to Dame Chrissy X. Now, we have a couple of dames, a couple of knights to welcome to the roundtable.
	So, do you have a New Year's blade or something that is appropriate?
	Right here.
	Look at that, it's got a sound effect.
	Up on the podium, please, Elizabeth Farrell, T.J., Darren, and Anonymous.
	All of you who support the No Agenda Show up to a grand.
	We appreciate that, and therefore, I'm very proud to pronounce the K.D.
	as Dame Elizabeth Farrell, Dame T.J.
	of the Side Eye, Sir Darren, Black Knight, Shredder of the Six Strings, and Sir Recoil, Black Knight, near the Natchez Trace in Middle Tennessee.
	For you, we've got, by request, Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, but also Pool Boys and Pinot Grigio from the Verite Party.
	Add to that Harlots and Haldol, Redheads and Red Eyes, Rubinettes, Woon and Rosé, Gates and Sake, Vodka, Milla, Bong, Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, and of course the Mutton and Mead.
	That's all you need.
	You're going to feel, I mean, after this whole vacation week, you're going to be stuffed sitting here at the table.
	Of course, we have our new knight with his own best bottle of whiskey that he's sharing.
	Please, when you have a minute, go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Let us know where we can send the ring to.
	We start, I think we have some going out periodically as these are bespoke.
	They're custom ordered for your size.
	We need that information as well.
	They come with wax that you can seal your important correspondence with and a handsome and very official looking certificate of authenticity.
	Thank you all so much and welcome to the round table, our brand new Knights and Dames.
	Yup.
	Parties everywhere.
	You know, you like the New Year's Eve party, you like your Christmas party, you like your office party.
	We have parties almost every single day across NOAA Gender Nation.
	People self-organizing into a No Agenda meetup, hanging out with each other, welcoming each other.
	It doesn't matter where you're from, what you are, who you are.
	Everyone loves each other in No Agenda Nation.
	They're fantastic, these meetups.
	Thank you, Sir Daniel Knight, who has diligently kept NoAgendaMeetups.com moving and improving.
	Thank you to Mimi, of course, who is always managing these in the back office.
	It's quite a job still.
	People have all kinds of ideas of what a meetup should be, and she keeps that on the straight and narrow, keeps everything in the schedule moving.
	And we have a meetup report from the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
	I do believe we are here at the North Idaho Sanity Brigade, third Thursday.
	We've created a monster, John.
	I think this, I think, I do believe is out of control.
	I believe so.
	I do believe this is what's going on.
	I do believe, you're right, yes.
	I do believe we are here at The North Idaho Sanity Brigade, 3rd Thursday, Nay Day Meetup.
	The centerpiece at the table is a vat of mac and cheese, which had non-bug protein at the bottom.
	It made for some delicious eats.
	Claude the Gypsy here, I brought the mac and cheese.
	Sir Devo here, knight of the shape-shifting Jews, OG, enjoying good company here in Northern Idaho.
	Mrs. Reb, the gold digger.
	Do you think they accept gold donations?
	This is a dude named Jeff, here for the 33 degrees.
	It was a good meetup!
	That sounds like it.
	And coming up, well, today we have one meet-up.
	This is the first annual Schwanza New Year Liquid Lunch Packer Game Viewing and Meat Raffle.
	And it started at noon, so I think, I don't know if the game is over, but it was in Oregon, Wisconsin, at the headquarters bar.
	On Thursday, which will be the 5th of January, New Year, same old PSYOP, there's a meeting, a meet-up for that at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
	And on the way, the 7th, I'll just give you what's happening in January, so you can go to noagentomeetups.com, get all the details.
	Kernersville, North Carolina.
	Keyport, New Jersey.
	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	Knoxville, Tennessee.
	New Paltz, New York.
	Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	Snohomish, Washington.
	Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Camp Hill, PA.
	Petersburg, Ontario, Canada.
	Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Wyoming, Minnesota.
	Los Banos, California, Cincinnati, Ohio, Durango, Iowa, and Toronto, Canada.
	These are No Agenda Meetups, just a few that are being held across the world, across our country.
	There's so many on the calendar for the coming months.
	You can be there, too.
	You can be at any of these meetups.
	If it's near you.
	If it's not near you, start one yourself!
	noagendameetups.com.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	Alright.
	I have failed at producing an ISO.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Yo.
	All right.
	I have failed at producing an ISO.
	I have one ISO, and it is Judy Woodruff's send-off, a goodbye clip at the very end of the show, and this was her exit from the PBS NewsHour.
	Please stay safe and we'll see you soon.
	Oh no, she actually said that?
	Yep.
	Please stay safe.
	Please stay safe.
	Well, if you're surrounded by people wearing masks in the studio, that's the first thing you think of.
	Please stay safe.
	We'll miss you, Judy.
	We'll miss you.
	We'll miss you, lady.
	We'll miss you.
	All right, any last, uh, I'm thinking of, I might have a clip here, there might be something.
	I got a couple of things here that are kind of interesting about, I think this is interesting for some reason.
	This is a sniper.
	That was arrested by, I don't know what police and how to even track this guy down, but this is the kind of crazy stuff in a security state that you run into.
	This is a sniper found in weird circumstances.
	Serbian police have arrested an Afghan army general and a sniper wanted by France on terrorism charges.
	The apprehension occurred during a raid on a migrant camp.
	109 illegal immigrants were found at the makeshift camp.
	The police said 29 of them were, quote, interesting security-wise.
	The police added that the two men were wanted on international warrants for multiple criminal acts.
	There were no details of the suspected crimes or why the men were wanted by France.
	Police also seized an automatic rifle, ammunition, and a small quantity of marijuana.
	Last month, Serbian police uncovered 600 illegal immigrants near its northern border with Hungary.
	The Western Balkans route via Turkey, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Serbia is the main path for illegal immigrants into the European Union.
	Oh, hmm.
	Hmm.
	That's the problem.
	Okay, I think Croatia as of today, this is all happening in the region, there's all kinds of weird stuff.
	I think Croatia enters the Schengen zone today, which means if you make it to Croatia, you don't need a passport to get into the rest of the Schengen zone, which is all of the EU, of course, except the UK, who's not in the EU anymore.
	That could be what's happening.
	It's interesting, because I always thought they were already in the Schengen zone.
	No, I understand that as of today they're in the Schengen zone.
	Now, I may be wrong, but I need to look at this, because this is interesting.
	This is interesting.
	Something going on.
	There's something going on.
	There is something going on.
	Yes, definitely.
	Okay, you want to leave it at that?
	Yeah, I think we're good to go.
	Yeah, I think it's... I think we did a yo man's job here on the first... Yo man!
	Yo man!
	How you doing?
	Looking forward to our next podcast, which will be on Thursday.
	I hope you all join in then.
	We'll have... I don't know.
	I think... I don't know if the mainstream will be back or not, but at least we'll be able to deconstruct media from around the globe.
	United States.
	Who knows?
	Who knows what the new method is, what the new meme is, what the new talking points are.
	You can be sure that we'll mock it.
	That's guaranteed.
	Thank you all very much for a great last year.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	Happy New Year, John.
	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 I'm also wishing everybody a Happy New Year.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And coming up next, we've got the Lotus Effect with Phoenix and Phone Boy.
	That is on noagendastream.com.
	Just hang out in the troll room.
	End of show mixes.
	Oh, we've got to do the classic ACDC COVID Greatest Hits.
	We've got new track from Mr. Information.
	Uh, and he's a new, uh, end of show mixer, so we'll see, uh, how much we like him.
	Remember us at theborac.org slash N.A.
	until Thursday.
	The adios mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such.
	Hey, CDC's greatest case.
	Singing, singing, singing Now available with proof of vaccination.
	you've been fast and strong you'll get all time classics like I got the chair it's been too long I'm going to be fast yes I got the juice I took two tell me not the fancy what you want me to do cause I'm fast enter to win a signed copy of the album by Brian Johnson I took a fast vaccine during quarantine.
	It was the worst damn shakes I have ever seen.
	I'm not gonna lie!
	Quarantine for just two weeks.
	Stay away from me!
	Sing!
	Sing!
	We'll tell you lies!
	Sing!
	Sing!
	And ignore all your cries!
	Pills!
	Pills!
	Oh, Angus!
	Are you alright?
	Pills!
	Pills!
	You're shaking!
	You're shaking!
	Pills!
	Pills!
	Somebody call a doctor!
	Where's Peltier?
	Pills!
	Pills!
	Dr. Fauci, hello.
	He is real, hello.
	Dr. Fauci, I'm palsy, hello.
	Some believe the news on TV would never fib to you and take every drug that these thugs want to give to you.
	Sick, their plan is quick to ban us.
	Cats need to be slapped like Rick Moranis.
	Honey, I shrunk the amygdala.
	The M5M says you better behave.
	The CIA says...
	Shut the plane!
	The Who's sending you to an early grave.
	Don't resist and you won't exist in this brave new world.
	Order always taking human life in vain.
	Once you're hit in the mouth, it's never quite the same.
	Rise early in the morning to the knights and dames.
	Up and at them, hit the john, then ignite the flames.
	Yo!
	Crackin' buzz got the sound that can unify.
	True to life, take you from the darkness back into the light.
	And who am I?
	Just a guy tryin' to euthanize.
	Suck a buzz, bustin' rhymes to open up your fuckin' eyes.
	Talkin' high, the CDC is after you.
	Kickin' in your door with hazmat suits.
	Pass that loot.
	Wear your mask.
	Get your backs.
	Ask not about side effects you've passed.
	Just get your damn shot.
	Follow the directive.
	It's safe and effective.
	From legal action, pharma companies are protected.
	Condition your behavior.
	Elicit reaction.
	Elon's not your savior.
	He's just a distraction.
	Part of the faction.
	Feeding you psyops.
	While politicians flip-flop faster than flatjacks at IHOP.
	And why not?
	Chief have a very short attention span.
	Not to mention zero apprehension to a pension plan.
	Take your stimulus.
	Take your pills, take your lies, take your UBI's.
	Stick them where the sun doesn't shine, we'll be fine.
	Just avoid any kind of food with soy.

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