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1523: Tank Talk

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	Yeah, well you might as well say it now.
	She stinks.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's Sunday, January 22nd, 2023.
	This is your award-winning nation media assassination episode 1523.
	This is no agenda.
	Countering the outrage and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas school country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all awaiting the spray COVID vaccine.
	They shoot it in your mouth.
	I'm John C. DuBois.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the Morning!
	Does everything sound different to you today for some reason?
	Do I sound different?
	I don't know.
	You sound different.
	I sound different.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's just me.
	Hmm.
	What's the gear?
	Your level's low, man.
	Oh, I see.
	Maybe it's here.
	Hold on a sec.
	Let me check.
	Well, that would be the reason.
	Do you want to speed him up again?
	No, no, no.
	It's not that bad.
	No.
	You just had very low energy.
	You were low energy, man.
	Because I'm waiting for the... Have you seen this thing?
	They stick this device in your mouth and they pump you full of COVID vaccines.
	No, that's from the movie.
	No, it's from the... It just came out this morning.
	It's from Toronto or McGill or one of those colleges in Canada trying to get to the act a little late.
	I don't know anything about this.
	Yeah.
	Nah, that doesn't sound right.
	It's a McClatchy story.
	This is from the Glass Onion.
	That's where you saw it.
	You're dreaming this.
	That thing isn't real?
	I'd like to know how it's supposed to work.
	Are they going to create spike proteins in your lungs or what?
	I hope so.
	I mean, the idea, if you recall, we always forget this, that the original idea of the original spike protein generating COVID vaccine, MRA, is to isolate it in your deltoid Make sure that it stays there and then in that little area, that area produces a bunch of the COVID spike proteins which go throughout the system to create the effect, the needed effect.
	Yeah, I kind of remember that.
	That's what it was supposed to be, but then it got shot, you know, it's going every which way and now you're going to spray it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Oh man.
	Um, let's see.
	I guess we're going to go straight to that, huh?
	Are we?
	I don't know.
	If there is- I only got really Ukraine and COVID today is about all I got.
	Well, if there is such a vaccine, I think Scott Adams should try it first.
	You know, I was hoping you're the one that keeps bringing this up.
	I have no clips.
	I'm not going to play anything.
	Other than, don't believe the video you saw.
	Go and watch the whole thing.
	Because we're just stupid.
	We're just lucky, John.
	Just because we don't trust the government is anti-vaxxers.
	That's why we live and are happy.
	Anyway, doesn't matter.
	Just as it's fighting season or this fighting season is over in Ukraine, it's stroke season in Canada!
	So what is this link between influenza infection and stroke?
	Yeah, I didn't know about this either until last year, but it turns out that after flu season, about three or four weeks later, there is a stroke season.
	Mr. Canada is getting down off of a big hump of flu so now we're starting to see more strokes and a friend of one of my colleagues actually mentioned that at work the other day.
	He said, have you noticed how many strokes we're seeing?
	It's a lot more than usual it feels like.
	So anecdotally we're starting to see that.
	I was unaware but it's stroke season!
	Wait a minute.
	What I get the kick out of is the guy saying, hey, have you noticed there's been a lot of strokes?
	Well, let's try to reverse engineer some bullshit so we can make an excuse for this craziness.
	I know.
	I know.
	And it's so obvious, I guess, to us.
	It's baffling to hear people like this.
	These are people giving us medical advice.
	Not me.
	Not me.
	For me it's all heuristics.
	Heuristics.
	What is heuristics?
	Heuristics is like, I have a filter for a compressor.
	Are you going to obsess about this?
	I know what you're asking.
	I want to know what heuristics are.
	Well, let's look it up in the Book of Knowledge.
	Or, as some people might call it, the dictionary.
	Consult the Book of Knowledge!
	Which reminds me to get the browser open anyway.
	I'm sitting here just listening.
	Heuristics.
	Enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves.
	Hmm.
	Process by which humans use mental shortcuts to arrive at decisions.
	Okay, good.
	At least I know.
	Alright, what you got?
	Well, since you were slamming one of our famous celebrities... Yeah.
	You know, and we're always seen as some sort of like, uh... We're always seen as conservative right wing.
	We're not seen as the... Us?
	Us?
	Yeah, some people see us that way.
	And the fact is we're pretty middle of the road and all we do is deconstruct news.
	Pretty much.
	Or, I mean, we deconstruct news, or just play whatever NTD has to say.
	Which sometimes is much better than anything we can get here.
	Yeah, unfortunately I have no NTD clips today, and I've refused- I've now decided to never play another NTD clip, because I'm being mocked.
	I'm being mocked by the artists.
	Oh, so that's why- I haven't seen anything where they're making fun of you on the No Agenda Art Generator.
	I'm sorry.
	That's no good.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so I've taken it to heart.
	They obviously don't like these clips, which are unbelievable, even though the presentation is dubious.
	NHK is worse, by the way, as we've noticed in the last couple weeks.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're much worse.
	They're much worse.
	No, I agree with that.
	Uh, so, the thing is, well, you never, you always bitch and moan about this and that.
	Well, I'm gonna bitch and moan about Candace Owens.
	Oh, I saw her.
	Where did I see her recently?
	What was she on?
	Um, I saw a clip or two.
	She was on a hangout of some sort of thing, uh... Oh, I know who she was!
	No, she was on The Pool Boy!
	Yes, but these clips come from their private chat, you know?
	Guys, this is like a gimmick that we've... People have actually asked us if we wanted to... Why don't we do this sort of thing?
	Oh, you mean like do a premium thing?
	A premium thing.
	I want to explain why... I'm going to explain why it's a bad idea.
	Because our show is a body of knowledge.
	It's not like a Wikipedia body of knowledge, but what we talk about on the show, we refer back to quite often.
	We say, well, then in 19, you know, or 20s, whatever it was, 19, 1910, we played this clip.
	So the idea of doing a private session For the few, the kind of ignorati or whoever that would pay for that.
	The lucky few who will pay.
	The lucky few.
	It's a bad idea.
	But wait, there's a caveat.
	They not only want that, but they want it to be on video.
	It has to be on video.
	We need to see you on video because that's really attractive.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, so they do this little private thing, and so somebody in the No Agenda... Stole it?
	They stole it?
	Somebody in No Agenda Social, somebody put it up on YouTube, and they got taken down, and they put it up again, and they got taken down.
	And I caught it because I'm listening to this saying, this is not good what we're hearing from Candace Owens.
	She's off the rails.
	She's making stuff up.
	She's shucking and jiving.
	And I'm using that in a racial sense.
	And it's annoying, and she's lost all credibility with me.
	I've got four clips to play.
	Okay.
	And here we go with Candace Owens, a bigot.
	Okay, he comes from generation, I always say this, do not underestimate the propaganda of generation Cold War, and also don't underestimate the propaganda that people that lived through polio went through with Big Pharma.
	Like, you have to imagine.
	Wait a minute, didn't you live through polio?
	I was a polio pioneer.
	I got both the Sabin and the Salk vaccines.
	Polio pioneer?
	Yeah, literally.
	You got a little sticker.
	A collectible, no doubt.
	I wish I had it.
	She's talking about me.
	Okay, all right.
	Good, now I understand where you're coming from.
	So I can say this, she's full of shit.
	All right, let's listen to her.
	Through polio, went through, with Big Pharma.
	You have to imagine this world.
	This is why people that think that polio is eradicated are the most difficult converts when it comes to making them understand that vaccines are bad, and the most difficult converts when it comes to making people realize Yeah, something like that.
	that maybe didn't like that there might be some nuance you can rush or people that survived cold war because they have they have russian propaganda russia russia russia is going to kill you all the time because from their childhood so i think that trump comes from a time where the propaganda for vaccines was like he's old he's an older individual he's not he is old he's 80 80 years old 80 something like that right i don't think so I do think that he genuinely believes that vaccines saves lives.
	I have found that old people are the most pro-vaccine.
	You cannot convince them that the COVID vaccine wasn't good.
	And I don't think they're all bad.
	Wow!
	I can see why you're angry about this.
	She is hitting your boomer right between the eyes there.
	Yeah, and totally wrong, besides Trump's not 80, but that's okay.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And they all have computers there.
	It's actually Poole and two other guys and her, and nobody's correcting her on anything.
	I'm glad you're obsessing over this and I'm not obsessing over anything else.
	This is very good.
	This is much better.
	I totally, I'm in total agreement.
	Totally agree.
	You're going to be obsessing over the gear in a minute.
	So, uh, but she goes on, now she starts discussing some real nonsense that is just completely off the rails.
	And it's, and there's four, I got three clips and they're just insane.
	The last one's the most insane, but they're all insane.
	Listen to her and DDT polio and her theory.
	So when polio, when they were reporting super high numbers of polio, just before they rolled the vaccine, don't exact date me, but 1949-ish, and all of these kids are suddenly showing up with paralysis systems, animals as well, they don't tell this part, animals, all of this stuff.
	What was going on was at that time the FDA had passed allowing DDT to be sprayed on people, literally people at school, they were spraying kids with DDT.
	It is now recognized as a poison and the symptoms of when you are sprayed with DDT Okay, hold on.
	Hold on.
	Even I know this is bullcrap.
	This is really interesting.
	I wonder where she picked this up.
	Because, I mean, Tina can remember, and I guess she would qualify as a boomer.
	She's two years older than me, so I'm on the cusp.
	But they didn't have that in the Netherlands when I was growing up.
	They would run behind the DDT truck.
	Like, yay!
	Spray me!
	Spray me!
	I have some numbers here that will kind of back up some thinking.
	I was looking to try to figure out where she got this information, why she's so adamant about it, and to be honest about it, I couldn't find it.
	It's got to be some of the most obscure stuff on the net.
	I couldn't find any evidence of it.
	There was a couple of comments here and there that I think stemming from her.
	I know we've discussed this on the show.
	Didn't the guy who invented it, he was so convinced he would drink it?
	He would drink it, right!
	Alright, let's continue with this clip.
	...to prevent fleas, to prevent insects and to prevent fleas, right?
	So quite literally, there was a mass poisoning by our government, not just here, overseas as well.
	It's probably just like, oh, what about polio was in the UK?
	Yes, all of it.
	They were using DTT as a regular product.
	Now it's DTT, which is a new product.
	For spraying kids with to not get fleas on me.
	It's like literally the signs were like, no fleas on me, DTT, like the posters for getting DDT.
	There you go.
	My mom told me about a commercial where.
	DDT is good for me.
	This was literally what was all around the world.
	She saw a commercial of kids in a pool jumping up and down as a plane crop dusted them with DDT.
	They were being sprayed right in their face.
	Literally, they're like, thank goodness, right?
	Mass poisoning by the government.
	Mass poisoning, the symptoms.
	Now look up the symptoms of DDT.
	What happens?
	You become paralyzed.
	Some of the pictures are too graphic, especially of children that are born because of DDT.
	So just a warning.
	If you can just look up literally DDT, what happens if you're exposed to DDT?
	Because now they acknowledge it makes you paralyzed.
	This is what happens, right?
	Especially when you born.
	So there's this mass poisoning that happens.
	And then they're like, oops, we just poisoned a bunch of people, right?
	So let's say I'm making up a nice round number that 10,000 people were paralyzed, that were showing up symptoms.
	Presumably some of these people actually had some disorder that caused paralysis.
	The rest of them were just poisoned by DDT.
	Okay, first of all, we need to explain the definition of literally, because she's using that very liberally.
	And if she can't even get the DDT part right, You know, I recall that once they got rid of DDT, that's when shit went really wrong in Africa.
	I may have my facts wrong, but this story is not correct, and it certainly is not the cause of polio.
	She says, and she, well, the next clip will clear it up a little more or make it worse, which is what it does.
	I should give some timeline information.
	DDT was actually invented in the late 1800s and somewhat commercialized in the 40s.
	It was used on soldiers.
	They spray soldiers for lice in World War II and everybody got sprayed and it stopped working after a while because the lice developed an immunity to it and they had to use something called Lidan or Lidan or something and they've changed over.
	And it was sprayed liberally around for mosquito abatement and other things.
	I don't know about the fleas.
	And there was a, which they still do nowadays occasionally with malathion to prevent certain kinds of moths from forming in orchards.
	Herb timeline is screwed up because for one thing, The polio vaccine came out in 1954 and then the Sabin vaccine, that was the Jonas Salk vaccine, then the Sabin sugar cube came out a few years later.
	I had the sugar cube.
	I got the sugar cube as a kid.
	I remember that.
	I believe in the 60s.
	Yeah, that would have been... I got it probably in 67?
	No, I was in kindergarten, so what?
	68?
	69?
	Okay, well I was being given out... I forgot when it first came out.
	I don't have the timeline in front of me, but I have most of it in my head.
	It wasn't even, so in other words, that's supposed, the whole thing, she has it as though DDT was killing everybody, giving everyone what looked like polio and so they came with this shot and then they banned DDT and so the whole thing went away.
	DDT wasn't banned until 1972 and it was in worldwide use until 2006.
	And it's still being manufactured in India and used today.
	Where's all these polio cases?
	The reason they got rid of it was some story that the bald eagle was dying from it.
	I think that was it?
	Well, it's actually the story we kept getting and the one you'll run into a lot is the egg shells specifically of pelicans Pelicans!
	That's it!
	I'm sorry, you're right.
	Pelicans.
	Pelicans.
	It was getting so thin that the A's weren't viable.
	And they traced that to DDT.
	Never really, I don't think, know if it was actually totally proven.
	But it mostly stems from Rachel Carson's book.
	What the hell is the name of that book she had?
	It was a famous book that came out and put the scare into everybody about everything.
	I'm looking it up.
	Life and Legacy, Silent Spring.
	Silent Spring.
	Silent Spring, there you go.
	And so that book was a bestseller and it got everyone all jacked up and she was really hated DDT for some reason.
	May I say something for a moment here?
	This is what I love about our show.
	Because instead of, oh, people don't know shit, they're traumatized.
	I'm not going to say you're old, but you're older than I am and you have gone through some of these things.
	And this is, as far as I know, I haven't seen you in quite a while, but you were walking fine.
	I'm still walking fine.
	I didn't see no brace or anything.
	And I know people who have, older people who had polio, and it's not funny.
	Yeah, it's not from DDT.
	No, I don't think so.
	No.
	No, you don't think so.
	It's not from DDT.
	Not from DDT.
	I know it's not so.
	There you go.
	So, let's go to the second part of this rant.
	Also, you've got no COVID, so who knows?
	Maybe you're just a Superman, you know?
	Who knows what's going on with you?
	So the first thing they did was they banned DDT, right?
	And this instantly led to 70% of those cases of 7,000 people.
	I'm using just a $10,000 number.
	7,000 people just like no longer were getting DDT.
	It was like, okay, 10,000 people a year were getting this and 10,000 people now are no longer being paralyzed.
	Then you still have 3,000 people that were still showing like paralysis symptoms.
	In 1954, the AMA, pardon, the American Medical Association decided to change the diagnostic definition of polio and to get more specific in what polio was, right?
	So just by changing the definition of polio, this is when they came up with Gillian Barr syndrome, all of these other things, meningitis, and they were like, well, polio now has specifically been, just like with COVID, right, first it was like, Right?
	I love the tests.
	Okay, wait, let's change the diagnostic definition.
	The PCR test.
	And they caused an artificial drop.
	So the combination of changing the diagnostic definition of polio and stopping spraying literally people with a preclisic agent for paralysis equals in 1957, we eradicated polio.
	It is absolutely bullshit.
	There was no polio eradication.
	They just stopped poisoning kids, and the AMA changed definition of polio in 1954.
	And it is, and people hinge, the number one thing people say when they're not educated about vaccines is, but my polio!
	And I'm like, you should go learn about my polio.
	Please tell me you isolate but my polio.
	Please.
	I do have an ISO rougher, though.
	That's a show title.
	I can't believe we are playing this exclusive content free-to-air.
	This is egregious.
	We might get a letter.
	We might get a letter.
	We might.
	I do- I do have an ISO of her in one of these rants.
	This is not the one I- I don't think it's from the next- It might be from the next one, but let's just play it just out of the blue, this I- Candace ISO.
	Uh, because it- Look at this, look at this, look at this footage.
	This was- This isn't America.
	This is fucking America.
	M'kay.
	Alright, that's a little long for an end-of-show ISO, brother.
	No, I don't have it for an end-of-show ISO.
	M'kay.
	I just started playing because she goes, She does it so fast, she's- She is- She is way beyond the Ben Shapiro numbers.
	Well, she's from the same stable now.
	She works for Daily Wire, no?
	I think she does, yeah.
	Yeah, I think she does.
	So that would be the milieu.
	That would be the milieu.
	And gold!
	All right, so although Shapiro doesn't even work there anymore, as far as I can tell.
	Yes, he does.
	His show is part of the Daily... He is the Daily Wire.
	What are you talking about?
	I was looking into the Daily Wire.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	The guy, you know, he's partnered with a kind of a... I can't believe that you're not going to let me obsess over Claude Adams and you're doing this.
	What?
	Okay, here we go.
	Part three.
	This is the last one.
	Now listen to this.
	This is the last clip I have from Candace.
	And she is...
	I don't know how she's doing this, but she is switching from talking about DDT and polio and she's equating it with the mRNA vaccines and she's mixing up her numbers and you get this.
	They just were basically saying anybody that becomes paralyzed has polio, right?
	Right!
	I think the first polio pops in 1920, but then there's this extraordinary explosion of polio cases in the mid-1940s.
	This is when they were quite literally just spraying kids with CDT.
	And it wasn't exposure.
	They should say the definition diagnostically was anybody that is paralyzed has polio.
	So, meningitis, it could have paralyzed people.
	Guillain-Barre syndrome is paralysis, any form of paralysis.
	And then they just were like, okay, now we need to deal with this DDT poisoning.
	So we need to make sure that like, we've got this MMR vaccine.
	And by the way, also know this, when they first rolled out the MMR vaccine, they had a huge mistake and they actually paralyzed, like, I don't want to make up a number.
	I think it was, like, literally 50,000 kids got paralyzed by the rollout of the MMR vaccine.
	Really?
	MMR vaccine?
	Beasles, mumps, rubella?
	Yeah, no, I know what it is.
	I had not heard of this.
	Well, 50,000 kids got paralyzed.
	Mm-hmm.
	Okay.
	So it must have been polio.
	Oh.
	I don't know what she's talking about.
	Well, she's literally talking fast.
	Literally.
	Literally.
	Okay.
	You still haven't fixed your mic, though.
	Oh, I'm swinging it around like a madman.
	I do have to move it.
	All I have to do is switch it.
	I have to flip it.
	Yeah, you've got to flip it.
	You've got to fix your rubbers.
	Your rubbers are weak.
	Yeah, my rubbers are banging right here.
	Okay, all right.
	Well, I'm glad you got that out of your system.
	Well, I'm sorry, but it was like... It was worse than that.
	There was other stuff.
	Everything she said was nonsense, and it was like...
	How did she become this icon of the right-wingers because she switched over from being a left-winger?
	I mean, I always admired her for her initial switch over because I heard her on the Dave Rubin show when she discussed how this happened to her.
	And this was years ago.
	And I said, okay.
	And she'd come on and she'd do kind of a... I remember how this happened.
	Then she had the thing... I think she really broke through when she Was it the walk-away movement, or she did a thing with Kanye?
	And they had t-shirts before they did the White Lives Matter.
	It was a long time ago.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Well, okay.
	So, they can't all be us.
	It doesn't take that much work to just look something up.
	Yeah, just consult that book of knowledge, baby.
	What we do is play clips, look something up and say, hey, you're wrong.
	But there is also something to be said for our... Fact check, false.
	For our vast, vast pool of producers who literally work in these fields.
	Yes, we have people that are experts.
	And we make mistakes and we get corrected and we put the correction on the air.
	When we had the Vegas meetup, the Vegas super spreader event, which was at the height of COVID, that's when we learned from the people who are in the medical field who train people on ventilators that the protocol was killing people unnecessarily.
	And we learned all of these things.
	We had geneticists Going, uh-oh, what is this?
	Nothing makes sense anymore.
	They're full of crap.
	I think that's called heuristics.
	I got it in there, didn't I?
	Wow.
	The old callback.
	Well, since we're, we'll do a little bit of COVID then.
	I have, what did I have here?
	Oh yeah, these are kind of fun.
	You remember Team Halo, who were employed early on through the United Nations to promote the initial vaccine?
	On TikTok.
	I think all of them were doctors.
	Are you still there?
	I think so.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	So, they were doctors.
	That answered two questions at once, by the way.
	Yes, it did.
	I'm very happy about that.
	So, they're back.
	They never identified as Team Halo, as far as I know.
	But now they are known as the... What is it?
	The Peds Squad.
	Peds.
	P-E-D-S.
	The Peds Squad.
	Which I think is a very, very bad name because it kind of conjures up pedophile, but... Yeah, the Peds.
	A couple of Peds coming down the road.
	Be careful, kids.
	Wanna know what the Pedsquad thinks about the COVID vaccines for kids under... Oh, they call them Pedsquad.
	I'm sorry.
	Peds.
	Five.
	Relief.
	Happiness.
	Worst.
	Psych.
	Okay, so I'm just gonna play this again.
	Alright, so they're talking about the vaccine for kids under five.
	Wanna know what the Pedsquad thinks about the COVID vaccines for kids under five?
	Relief.
	Happiness.
	Excitement.
	Children under five will most likely be able to get their vaccine starting next week.
	This will make a huge difference to families who have been mitigating For this reason, the benefits of vaccinating young children outweighs the risks.
	But which vaccine is better?
	While it's true that most young children will not suffer from severe outcomes due to COVID, many children have.
	Long-term effects of COVID on growing bodies are unknown.
	For this reason, the benefits of vaccinating young children outweigh the risks.
	All right.
	But which vaccine is better?
	Both Pfizer and Moderna induced a robust antibody response, which correlates to protection against symptomatic and severe disease.
	Both vaccines were found to be safe, with zero cases of myocarditis reported in either trial.
	So what would we choose?
	Basically we're recommending any vaccine that works for your personal situation and that you can have access to.
	In a minute, I'm gonna need a vaccination for my children to protect them.
	Woohoo!
	Alright, so we're out to kill children again, obviously.
	And we're gonna invent incentivize everybody.
	If you're in Massachusetts, good news, we're back to that again.
	COVID-19 continues to be a presence in the Commonwealth.
	The latest data from the CDC shows the entire Bay State is at medium risk.
	And today, the Holyoke Public Library announced a series of vaccine clinics throughout the beginning of 2023 that come with an incentive to get the shot.
	The clinics will run on various days from January to March.
	And for those getting their shot, whether it's your first dose, second dose, or a booster, you'll receive a $75 gift card.
	Walk-ins are welcome, but pre-registrations are encouraged.
	We're back, baby!
	We're back!
	Yeah!
	I'm waiting for the free hamburger.
	That should come.
	And the french fries.
	So, instead of, you know, 30 million dollars a year, or whatever people are making these days, we took a vow of poverty, but make a much more entertaining program, I think, because we have producers everywhere, as I mentioned just a moment ago, and one of them is in a nursing home in Alabama.
	And has sent on to me resources, resources from the health system in Alabama to help increase patients' acceptance of the bivalent vaccine.
	And these are nursing homes.
	And they have, and I have a copy, it's in the show notes, an adult vaccine activity book.
	And it says on the cover right here... Does it come with crayons?
	I think it does.
	It has notes to activity recreation staff, community supporters, clinicians and other immunization supporters.
	We modified or created this activity book to assist you and your residents, customers and patients in learning more about immunizations they may need.
	And right off the bat, there is an old lady getting a shot!
	From a doctor.
	And there's little coronaviruses floating around in test tubes.
	And it's a coloring!
	It's to color!
	And here's the immunization smart word scramble!
	See if you can unscramble these words about immunizations.
	Okay.
	This disease... The world shut down in 2020 due to this pandemic.
	Here's your word jumble.
	Hold on a second.
	Your word jumble is... V-I-O-C-D What could it be, old man?
	Well, since you mumbled it, I can't hear one letter you said.
	V-I-O-C-D.
	V-I-O-C-T?
	D. COVID!
	C-O-V-I-D!
	V. Oh yeah, yeah.
	Then they have, uh... This cough sounds like a whoop, and adults can give it to babies!
	S-I-R-E-P-T-U-S-S.
	What could it be?
	Yeah, pertussis.
	Pertussis.
	Then they have, uh... Uh, what is this?
	Oh, you have to... Well, why... Huh?
	Okay.
	What?
	Well, why do you need to know it's called pertussis?
	Because that, that helps you get in the mood for your shot.
	Okay.
	Yeah, they have a... Vaccine Preventable Diseases Word Find.
	This is to get you to the idea that vaccines work, you see.
	And they have a crossword puzzle.
	Is this an actual little book?
	Yes, it's in the show notes.
	Did you get a copy of it?
	Yes, it's a PDF.
	It's the real deal.
	Oh, it's a PDF.
	Oh, it's the real deal.
	And here's the, they have a maze.
	You start, you go flu to COVID to shingles to hepatitis B, pneumonia.
	Oh, this is disgusting what you're describing.
	Yes, it is horrible.
	Oh, here is a corona, a huge coloring page.
	Of the of the coronavirus spike.
	So they assume that some some 80 year old man or woman.
	Like Trump who's 80.
	Trump.
	Somehow he somehow became 80.
	They're assuming every 80 year old man or woman that's in the nursing home is actually an eight year old.
	Yeah.
	And on the cover, it even has one of, you know how you would put on your book, uh, number one bestseller, instant bestseller, whatever you did, which I thought was genius.
	I didn't do what the publisher did.
	Well, whoever did it was genius.
	They have one of these banners.
	Puzzles, crosswords, coloring, and more!
	Oh, jeez.
	It's a joke.
	Somebody did this as a gag.
	No, it's not a gag.
	It's not a gag.
	Unfortunately, it's not a gag.
	And so our producer says, this is an adult vaccine activity book with pictures for our residents to color, word find games, crossword puzzles, all focused on how great vaccines are.
	I bet the crossword puzzle is a joke too.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	I want to remind us something that happened in the early days of the vaccine.
	I was thinking about this because it's been completely forgotten.
	In the early days of the vaccine, they gave the shots out to a nursing home.
	In Sweden.
	Yeah.
	Killing everyone.
	I think I remember that.
	Yes.
	And then they came back with a with a commentary about all these dead people.
	Well, you know, it was a mistake because you're not supposed to and they've made it very clear that you're not supposed to give this vaccine to people over 80.
	Remember that?
	Over 80?
	I remember it.
	I remember it.
	What happened to that?
	Because they're giving the shot to anyone they can find with an arm.
	Even if you have half an arm, it's fine, we'll jab it in there.
	I got a deltoid there, we can shoot it in there.
	Now, what is becoming more difficult is hiding the bodies, you see.
	Particularly the UK is all over this.
	By the way, I'm going to stop you because you've been doing it too much.
	And you've been doing it, and of course, you do this to me, I'm going to do it to you.
	You say, you see.
	And you do it, and the problem I have with it is, I don't care, but it's what Jack Benny used to always do.
	Oh, well, I don't want to be Jack Benny.
	No, no, I think it's fine.
	The problem is it makes me think it's a gag.
	Okay.
	So, by saying, so how, just by saying you see, is that, is that the problem?
	You see?
	And I appreciate this.
	I want to make sure I, you know, this is what we do for each other.
	Well, it's the way you do it, it's just, and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, you see?
	And it's just a toss-off.
	That's almost as bad as saying right.
	I'm glad you caught that.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	It's not as bad as saying right.
	It's close.
	But it is true, it is becoming hard to hide the bodies.
	And in the UK, they are very, very concerned about this.
	Wait, they haven't jumped to the mulch yet?
	That's who we're going to.
	The mulch?
	Yeah, there's all these stories about mulching the humans.
	No, no, this is purely the numbers, and numbers are being published.
	It's the excess deaths.
	This is the problem, the excess deaths.
	Now, they are Coming up with the makeshift morgues You know as which is which may be used very quick very soon as you know Oh, this is the this is the the Kraken version.
	It's killing people, but we all kind of know what's going on and it's got to a Neal Oliver level who will just and I took a little pin you know Neal Oliver from the Faster and faster our leaders are running now.
	Running from the truth.
	who speaks very slowly from Scotland.
	I clipped a minute from him because this was his latest.
	Faster and faster our leaders are running now, running from the truth.
	Excess deaths are rising all around us like flood water.
	In recent weeks, more people have died than during the height of the pandemic.
	They have not died of COVID-19, we know that much.
	So, what is happening?
	Why are thousands more people dying than usual?
	And why no daily televised announcements of those deaths as we had with those attributed to COVID?
	I can guess.
	Ask the question, however.
	Talk about these deaths.
	Demand answers.
	And watch the chickens run faster still, while lashing out with all the censorship, cancellation, downright demonising of dissent, and more recently, the most egregious insults they can muster.
	All their palpable panic and self-preserving outrage makes plain how much blood is already in the water.
	Health Secretary Steve Barclay, the latest handed the poisoned chalice, was on another news channel this week.
	He was asked about 50,000 excess deaths in the last year, invited to explain them.
	Delays in seeing GPs, he said, delays in treatment caused by lockdown.
	He was quick to point out that other countries were seeing similar levels of deaths that were nothing to do with the virus, as though that somehow made 50,000 people dying here less of a problem.
	If you think it's bad here, look over there.
	That's not an answer worth having.
	That's not an answer at all.
	The fact these deaths are happening worldwide means the attempt to blame them here on a failing NHS or striking ambulance drivers is for the birds.
	It's for the birds!
	This is what people are talking about now in the UK.
	I love that guy.
	I think he's pretty cool as well.
	So, meanwhile, Japan has just lowered COVID-19 to seasonal flu status.
	All right.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Where it belongs.
	And now I want to transition into my wrap-up of Davos 2023, the dance card you wanted to be on.
	So many, so many cool people were there.
	And I mean, I could clip forever.
	I mean you got Tony Blair, you got Christopher Wray.
	It's incredible how many people were there.
	To talk to each other.
	To talk to each other.
	But Tony Blair arguably He still has a Bill Clinton-like status from 10 years ago.
	Yeah.
	You know, he's got his big consulting company, and of course he's very clued in to the UK government, I would say still.
	And I think he's... doesn't he also do stuff for China?
	Probably.
	He was a big advocate for the vaccine at the beginning of COVID-19.
	So now he's on... He's read in.
	Well, he's not just read in.
	He is telling us what is going to happen.
	He's telling us what the program is, what the mission is.
	Does this mean it's going to happen right away?
	I don't know.
	But every single time we hear one of these globalist elitist douchebags, eventually it comes true.
	Just like this vaccine.
	We knew 12 years ago.
	That this is what they wanted to do.
	We've tracked the vaccine scam for over a decade.
	And now, listen to this.
	Tony Blair on a panel with, of course, Albert Bula, the CEO of Pfizer.
	You know, all the shills.
	Hey, don't worry about it.
	We're going to save you.
	We're going to make your life better.
	And it's going to work.
	The politicians are going to be all in on it.
	You watch.
	I mean, the reality is for the political debate in many, many countries now, COVID is In the rearview mirror.
	I mean, it isn't, but... Feel free to interrupt whenever you want to, by the way.
	So, he's sad.
	Oh, man, it's in the rearview mirror.
	We haven't rolled out the whole program yet.
	So it isn't yet, but we'll show you.
	We'll show you.
	Believe me, most of the people sitting in Downing Street at the moment are not talking about COVID.
	Except the G7 and the G20.
	I think you won't get the focus you need unless it's clear two things.
	One, that there is an ongoing challenge and opportunity.
	And I think that is not just about COVID.
	It's about the fact that we are going to have a whole slew of new vaccines, injectables, that are going to deal with some of the worst diseases in the world.
	Okay.
	A whole slew, not just one or two, a whole slew of vaccines, which I'm quite convinced will be mRNA and injectables.
	Injectables.
	Injectables.
	What is it?
	I mean, injectable, from my understanding, that's a beauty product that you inject into your face, you know, to puff up your, your cheeks or injecting your lips.
	That word, the way he's using it sounds like a vaccine to me.
	I mean, I didn't get any other No, but he said vaccines and injectables, so it's probably more gene therapy, possibly.
	Certainly not a vaccine.
	Okay, we continue.
	The opportunity to make big changes in the health of the world.
	Yeah!
	And if you want the politicians to focus, they need to think, look, this is coming down the track soon.
	Because if you tell them about a future pandemic, they'll kind of go, yeah, maybe someone else's problem.
	You tell them, actually, in the next few years, you're going to have the opportunity to make a big difference to the health care of your population.
	That will focus them.
	But the second thing they need is to focus on the opportunities to change health care that have arisen as a result of our experience of COVID.
	Because, you know, when it's all said and done, it was still a pretty remarkable operation.
	By the way, you know, Sepi did a fantastic job.
	You guys deserve a lot of congratulations for it.
	But so I think it's around things like How do you make sure you get the right scientific cooperation and the cooperation between the regulatory authorities so in the future you can clear things much faster?
	For example, on the continent of Africa, if we had an equivalent to the European Medicines Agency, we had an African Medicines Agency that allowed you to have one system.
	What did he say?
	The African what agency?
	The European what agency?
	Medicines.
	Medicines.
	He's saying medicines.
	And what this is about is... He says we need one... I think he's saying one global agency and there's a reason for this.
	If we have an equivalent to the European medicines agency?
	We're an African medicines agency that allowed you to have one system, one standard, which hugely changed the way that vaccines and treatments are introduced in Africa.
	Hello Africa!
	We're coming for you!
	This issue of manufacturing, so a lot of countries learned that if they didn't have... Interesting little flub there.
	Instead of countries, he says companies.
	...medicines agency.
	We're an African medicines agency that allowed you to have one system, one standard, which hugely changed the way that vaccines and treatments are introduced in Africa.
	I think that this issue of manufacturing, so a lot of countries learned that if they didn't have some recourse to manufacturing sovereignty, if you like, either directly or indirectly through partnerships with other countries, then they were at a disadvantage.
	I think there's a huge impetus now for a national digital infrastructure.
	Digitization in healthcare is one of the great... Yeah, off the rails.
	Yeah, digitization, baby.
	We need global... Hey, answer me this.
	How do you go in his...
	No, no, no.
	Not digital currency.
	which is what this sounds like, do you go from vaccines and then having kind of sovereignty over the vaccine manufacturing in your country to digital currency?
	That's what he just did.
	No, no, no, no, not digital currency.
	Digital ID.
	He's going to digital ID first.
	Okay, fine.
	Okay, I'll tell you why.
	Still, how do you get from point A to point B in his stream of consciousness rant?
	He's off the rails, this guy.
	He seems stoned.
	If you go back Yeah, which I won't do.
	He's saying, you know, this will really change everything.
	We need more vaccines.
	What he's thinking is, how can I kill the most people in the most efficient manner?
	Well, in Africa, for sure, they've been trying to do that forever.
	So what he wants is a digital ID, so we can track you, know what you've received, and if you're still alive.
	Do you still have a heartbeat?
	Here's another injectable.
	Of course that's what he's doing.
	He's thinking in the Bill Gates Calculus, and I use that word.
	That's your use for the month.
	How do we bring down the population?
	Well, we know that vaccines will help solve that.
	Bill Gates has said so himself at the TED Talk.
	He wants to kill people.
	They all want to kill us.
	He's part of the Part of the rollout.
	Impetus now for a national digital infrastructure.
	Digitization in healthcare is, I think, one of the great game changers.
	Yeah!
	You know, we should be helping countries to develop a national digital infrastructure, which they will need with these new vaccines.
	And then... What new vaccines?
	What new vaccines do we need?
	You know, finally, it's also about showing people and showing the political leadership... He's out of control!
	That you can make a positive difference to your healthcare system by adopting these measures because they've got an impact beyond any particular disease or pandemic.
	So I think if you want to keep the political focus, and I agree it's vital that you do, you've got to show people that this is a continuing issue.
	It's not a future issue, it's here and now.
	It's got a broad set of implications and there are a set of solutions that COVID has taught us.
	Now he's going to stutter his way out.
	I think he's having a stroke.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	If we apply the right political will, we can make our health care systems better, not just for pandemic and disease, but more generally for the health of the population.
	If you do that.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Digitized for what?
	The challenges of COVID to which if we apply the right political will, we can make our health care systems better, not just for pandemic and disease, but more generally for the health of the population.
	If you do that, if you do that, they'll think there are votes in it, and, you know, if there are votes in it, they'll focus.
	He fell apart there at the end.
	He needed another bump.
	He's falling apart.
	Oh, my God.
	All right, so a couple more here.
	Give this guy the hook.
	Get him off the world stage.
	No, he's here to stay, and he's part of the system, and this is what they are going to do.
	They're going to roll this out, digital ID, digital, under the auspices of Freer Health and for all these great new vaccines.
	I don't know what I need a vaccine for.
	Do I need anything else?
	Oh, we're going to have some... Barry, Barry.
	What?
	Beriberi or elephantitis.
	You may have any of those things could be floating around.
	Yeah.
	Nile fever.
	Yeah, well, nah, they got to bring back Zika.
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika, This is going to fall apart.
	This whole thing is a nightmare waiting to happen.
	A couple of other Davos clips.
	Again, this is a wrap-up.
	I don't think we'll go back to this in a future show, unless I missed something.
	The Moderna CEO was on my favorite show.
	The guys who have always been the morning crew from CNBC, who have been there for year in, year out.
	They're always outside the dopes.
	They're always outside.
	They're outside with their coats on and with the snow in the background.
	Okay, you guys can go over here on this cold balcony.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And they bring on the Moderna CEO and they point something out.
	The last time we were here in Davos in the winter, it was January of 2020.
	And I saw you at that point and we were at a breakfast right over here at the Belvedere.
	And you came up to me in this small room and you were talking about how you had actually, you were working on a vaccine for COVID.
	And at that point, COVID-19 didn't even really exist, Jeremiah.
	I think there was no name of it.
	How about that?
	They were working on it in 2019, didn't even know what the virus was.
	No one knew about the virus except the Moderna CEO.
	You know, that reminds me of this clip.
	This is the COVID HCQ.
	This guy is a Yale immunologist emeritus.
	He's a famous professor.
	And he was on one of these obscure podcasts.
	Maybe you know it.
	I think I may have seen it once in my life.
	This guy Dease.
	It's another one of his video podcasts.
	It's very elaborately done.
	It looks professional.
	Could be.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, he's another one of these guys.
	And this professor tells another interesting little tidbit about history.
	He's a hydroxychloroquine guy who says none of this would have happened if they just had this in play.
	Not even to mention the ivermectin guys, but let's listen to this.
	Because it goes to almost everything in the pandemic, not just the people who would have been treated with hydroxychloroquine, but it also goes to the necessity of the widespread vaccination, you know, and how many people have been affected by the vaccines negatively and all of that, the whole, and whether people needed to have vaccine passports all across and whether people needed to have vaccine passports all across the world.
	All of that stems from the suppression of hydroxychloroquine.
	Do you believe those things were suppressed purposefully to set the stage?
	Oh, please tell me he says I do believe.
	Please, I pray.
	I pray he says I do believe.
	The agenda items that you just discussed, or do you think those are coincidences?
	No, I believe that the organization of the management of the pandemic was planned in advance.
	We know that there have been annual or almost annual planning sessions for management of the pandemic.
	It doesn't appear that those planning sessions have been altruistic.
	They've involved spy agencies, they've involved the Chinese, they've involved military.
	It's too widespread of a non-medical audience.
	A non-public health audience to have been solely organized on the basis of just controlling an infectious disease.
	And so I conclude that there's well more afoot than we know about everything that's going on.
	And in fact, we know that hydroxychloroquine suppression activities occurred well before President Trump had even said anything about it, that in fall of 2019,
	The Minister of Health of France converted, changed the status of hydroxychloroquine from over-the-counter, meaning you could just go in and buy it on the shelves, to prescription only in France, and she did it by citing bogus claims that the drug was somehow genetically damaging.
	That is completely absurd because this is a drug that had been used for more than 50 years.
	I was thinking just I think this morning about how CNN railed on Joe Rogan for eating horse deworming paste and then he had Sanjay Gupta on and he was like, well, I don't know why they did that.
	And after that, CNN's ratings were gone.
	Just gone.
	Destroyed themselves.
	There's another clip that I just want to play.
	No, if you've got some COVID stuff, do it now, because I'm going to move away from COVID.
	These are all related to COVID.
	I have three COVID clips from China.
	I think we need to keep up with that.
	Let's do it.
	Let's do it.
	But let me play this other clip.
	You have to look it up.
	This is from a couple of shows ago.
	It never got played.
	Look up Rando Podcaster.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	I thought this observation was, you know, we talk about the censorship and everything, but this little observation I thought would be good to hear, and then I'll play the three clips from China.
	Recently, over New Year, I was at a party and there were a few people there who, how can I put it politely, are immersed in the narrative or drowning in it.
	I was talking to them about the vaccine situation, trying to get through to them, and at one point I mentioned, well they said to me, we haven't heard about this, you know, it's the classic thing, why haven't we seen it on the news?
	Why haven't we heard anything about this?
	And I said, well you know, Pretty much anyone who speaks out gets thrown off Twitter and other platforms and they roared with laughter.
	They could not accept that anybody had been deplatformed, cancelled, suspended for criticising the vaccines.
	You know, that this was totally alien to them.
	And I realised that the people outside of our movement, a lot of them actually have no idea That this censorship has taken place, you know.
	I think it's important for us to recognize here that the censorship itself has been censored.
	And I think that's very important to note.
	Yeah.
	I thought that was an interesting observation because it's a fact.
	The censorship has been censored.
	That's a great point.
	That's a very good point.
	I know.
	That's what I thought when I heard it.
	I said, wow.
	You know, since the way we handle it, this show and all of our producers, we're beyond that.
	And so we can't see that that's going on.
	And it's, I think, a drawback to us.
	It's true.
	Yes.
	I would say in general, things we discuss here, Mmm, maybe 90% have no idea at all this is good.
	I mean people like to You know, they're tired of news.
	They're not really watching news.
	They'll catch a headline.
	They'll see something in USA Today.
	You know, they'll see Martha Stewart promoting the bivalent vaccine.
	Do you see this ad that Martha Stewart did?
	Oh my God!
	I lost all respect for Martha Stewart.
	She already smelled bad.
	I knew that because we shared an elevator together.
	She had bad BO.
	Oh really?
	Oh yeah.
	Hasn't I told you that before, haven't I?
	No, I believe, I would have remembered.
	It was a big Martha Stewart supporter when she got thrown in jail.
	This was before all that.
	This was when I started OnRamp in New York and we were on 42nd Street where we had an office and we would share the elevator at the end of the day.
	No, was it more, it could have been a one-off.
	No, no, no, no, because many people shared the elevator with us and it was kind of a thing around the office like, phew, rode down with Martha.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, maybe just the end of the day.
	I mean, it's not nice to say this about women, but it just popped out.
	I mean, when you're sharpening some samurai sword and you're pretending that that is your protection against COVID, which is a pineapple, and then you're saying, I got it, and she's sewing a blue band-aid.
	You know, it's like you open yourself up to certain criticism.
	Yeah, well, you might as well say it now.
	She stinks.
	It's too bad.
	I wonder if she actually took that bivalent vaccine.
	Well...
	Yeah, I'm sure she did.
	People take these vaccines.
	I got sick of her when she was doing all the chip commercials with Snoop.
	I got sick of him too.
	Sick of all of them.
	Boy, you are.
	Got you in the right mood now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Let's go to COVID Lunar New York China 1.
	Since the abrupt dismantling of the Chinese government's zero COVID policy, many people have been anxious about China opening up to the rest of the world and the wave of infections that have swept through the country.
	But as special correspondent Richard Kimber reports, most are brushing risks and fears aside to celebrate the most important festival on the Chinese calendar, the Lunar New Year.
	Days to go before the start of the spring festival.
	In Beijing, the holiday rush has already begun.
	This is the first time mass travel without Covid restrictions has been allowed in nearly three years.
	Wait a minute, are you sneaking an NTD clip in on me?
	Where does this come from?
	PBS?
	Oh!
	For many of the capital's migrant workers who come to make a better living for their families, it's an emotional return home to be with their loved ones.
	Qinze Guang from Changchun in northeastern China hasn't been back in five years.
	Finally I'm going back home.
	Before I was quite busy in Beijing and in the past three years I couldn't go back because of the epidemic.
	China's Ministry of Transport says it expects travel to double compared to a year ago, to more than 2 billion trips over the holiday period.
	It would mark a recovery to 70% of pre-pandemic levels.
	Scenes at the railway station are in stark contrast with how it looked before China abandoned its strict zero-covid approach, following widespread anger over pandemic curbs.
	Gone are the security personnel dressed in hazmat suits that patrolled transport hubs.
	And QR health code checkpoints, where people had to verify their health status before entering, are nowhere to be seen either.
	Of course it's now more convenient.
	It's easy coming in and out.
	I can go wherever I want.
	But now the virus has been let loose, some aren't taking chances.
	One man we spoke to called Hua said even though he's returning home, he won't be visiting friends or relatives.
	The epidemic hasn't ended.
	I wear this to protect myself as well as others.
	These are the people, and we have them here as well, these are the people that are just lost.
	They're just lost.
	A little bit Diddy in that last thing.
	I liked it that he used the meme, I'm wearing this to protect myself and others.
	Why is that a universal?
	That's always been promoted universally.
	This is how brainwashing works.
	When it's promoted, and even though it's categorically not true, admitted, although proven not true, by just look around you, you know, it's spreading, you're spreading it, you're getting it.
	By the way, I want to thank someone in the troll room.
	Martha Stewart, it's not a stench, it's a musk.
	That is the correct term for a woman.
	She has a musk about her.
	It's better.
	It's more friendly.
	Well, after doing that vaccine commercial, she stinks.
	All right, back to China, Lunar New Year?
	Yeah, part two.
	London-based health analytics firm Airfinity forecasts that China could see as many as 36,000 deaths a day over the spring festival holidays.
	Over the past two months, COVID-19 has ripped through the country, crowding out hospitals and filling crematoriums like this one.
	Officially, about 60,000 people have died of COVID-19 since early December.
	That's according to China's National Health Commission.
	Medical experts say the true figure could be ten times that.
	But it's hard to say exactly where the death toll stands.
	The World Health Organization has accused China of underestimating the severity of its outbreak.
	Earlier this month, it also said a lack of data from the country was making it difficult to help manage the risks.
	Well, this is a big benefit.
	This Airfinity company is fantastic!
	Have you looked at this thing?
	No.
	Airfinity.
	Preempt future health risks.
	Airfinity provides global health intelligence and analytics that decision makers can trust, understand, and act upon to save lives.
	Top news.
	Former editor of The Economist joins Airfinity as an advisor.
	Bill Emmett, former editor-in-chief of The Economist, joins the advisory board.
	Wow.
	What have you got to do with it?
	Who cares?
	This is great.
	Here's an interesting, the stats here are interesting.
	They say that after the Lunar New Year, they're gonna have 36,000 dead a day.
	I'm seeing right here, China to see one longer, more, this is from Airfinity, more severe COVID wave as Lunar Festival fuels outbreak.
	Before it even happens, okay.
	Now, the other thing was the Chinese announced they had 60,000 dead so far, which is a very low number for a country that size.
	But they were doing lockdowns and spraying everybody with DDT and who knows what.
	DDT?
	Callback day.
	Thank you.
	And then we have our producers saying that they're not seeing all this lineup of dead anything so far.
	Nope.
	Yet we listen to NTD and they have video of coffins that go for miles and miles.
	Yeah.
	So we're getting, this is like the Ukrainian war.
	The information we get stinks, like, just like Martha Stewart.
	Yeah, up to Musk.
	It totally stinks.
	And so we're, all we can do is just take these bits and pieces and try to, you know, hopefully get somewhere near the truth because it's obvious we're not going to get the truth from these news sources.
	We can't handle the truth.
	Well, now that's a callback that goes out of the show.
	I'm sorry.
	It's not even within range.
	I'm sorry!
	I'm sorry!
	I'm going back to Jack Benny.
	That's how bad it is with me.
	Well, that's true.
	Jack Benny's pretty much pretty out there.
	Okay, let's go with the last of these clips.
	Hold on, why didn't that fire?
	Number three, here we go.
	Mike Ryan is executive director of the WHO.
	We do want and are working ever closer with our colleagues in China to try and understand better the transmission dynamics.
	We still do not have adequate information to make a full comprehensive risk assessment and therefore we will continue to try to encourage access to that data.
	Medical experts have also warned that the rapid spread of the virus now might make the emergence of mutations more likely.
	Several countries, including the U.S., have imposed travel restrictions on arrivals from China.
	But at the same time, many other places are welcoming the return of Chinese tourists.
	Among them, Hong Kong.
	It's a special administrative region of China.
	Even it had been largely cut off from the mainland until borders fully reopened this month.
	The high-speed rail line behind me that connects the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong has been closed throughout the pandemic.
	Now it's reopening, it's expected to see a surge in the number of Chinese tourists coming across the border.
	And just to give you an idea of how important that is for the Hong Kong economy, before the Covid-19 pandemic, more than two-thirds of the 56 million arrivals into Hong Kong from overseas came from across the border.
	Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the city's fallen into a deep recession.
	Many people are praying a rebound in retail and tourism will help lift the economy.
	But economists remain pessimistic and say a meaningful recovery could take much longer.
	I am blown away by this Airfinity outfit.
	You're obsessing on it!
	No, I don't obsess over everything.
	I can't obsess over... I didn't say you're obsessing over everything.
	I just said you might be obsessing over this Air Affinity outfit.
	You accused me of obsessing earlier about something else.
	You can't obsess twice.
	You can't obsess twice in a show.
	So they have products, products... I'm at my limit.
	Yes, products.
	So they have a COVID-19 product.
	Listen to this.
	The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly evolving and presents an ongoing challenge to all decision makers, even those with well-resourced commercial and medical intelligence teams.
	So this is for, um, I mean, I don't know.
	It's just for newsrooms.
	Is it for hospitals?
	What intelligence teams are out there?
	Airfinity's COVID-19 platform serves as an outsourced analytics unit.
	Through a subscription, your organization receives full access to the most accurate, dynamic and comprehensive scientific real-time data set, insights and forecasting engine on the market.
	Hello, Ron Bloom wrote this.
	Wait, do they have a dashboard we can use?
	Yes, here it is.
	I'm looking at it right now.
	A single platform to effectively manage your COVID risks.
	Airfinity Solutions combines push and platform experience.
	Wow.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	I need a demo.
	newsletters and direct alerts with real-time forecasts based on new developments, weekly intelligence briefings with leading analysts and hotline access with any COVID-19 questions answered in hours, and a user-friendly dashboard with all data on vaccines, therapeutics, and variants of concern in one and a user-friendly dashboard with all data on vaccines, therapeutics, and Wow, wow, wow, wow.
	I need a demo.
	I need a demo.
	It includes.
	Anyway, I'll start.
	Send a note in there, they'll get the salesman on you with a call and show you a demo right away.
	It looks like Zoom.
	It looks like Salesforce for a disease.
	This is great.
	That's probably where it was sold to the VCs.
	Yeah, I think.
	And there's a lot of shills in this thing.
	Okay.
	Well, great.
	Thank you very much for that update on COVID.
	We now move back to Davos, where we just have a couple things left.
	Just to prove that I was speaking truthfully, the Director of FBI, Christopher Wray, was on hand to talk about how good the coordination is here in these United States with the platforms.
	And I think the sophistication of the private sector is improving, and particularly important, the level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI, has made significant strides.
	Pretty much every technology we could talk about today Uh, we see both great opportunity, but great, great dangers, uh, in the wrong hands.
	Yeah!
	Oh, in the wrong hands, great dangers.
	The wrong hands, that's a, that's a, uh, that's kind of a slight- Slightly, uh, Elon.
	No, that thing is aimed at TikTok.
	Oh, good point.
	Yeah, it's in the wrong hands.
	Well, it's going away.
	Okay, the final two clips, we always have to have some futuristic thing coming from Davos, and there was tons of climate change, and we're all gonna stop eating meat, and I don't want to bore you with all that.
	But this was pretty good.
	Please, go ahead and bore us.
	Alright!
	I love this don't-eat-meat-eat-fudge.
	Alright!
	Well, then I will bore you for exactly 40... No.
	For exactly 1 minute and 16 seconds with the chairman of Siemens AG.
	Yes, yes, yes!
	That's the guy.
	So it's a very important point that you are addressing.
	My daughter...
	24 inspired me and said that how can you Advocate for these zero carbon value chains if you still eat meat.
	So I stopped eating meat.
	All right.
	And I also lost all humor, all energy.
	Is his daughter's name Lisa Simpson by any means?
	Now the math would say, well, you need to stop eating meat in 11 years to compensate for a flight to Thailand.
	What?
	Stop eating meat for 11 years to compensate for your flight to Thailand.
	Okay.
	Who did that calculation?
	His daughter!
	His 24-year-old daughter who inspired him.
	She's sitting there doing the math on this?
	Well, she got the programming.
	She's 24.
	What do you expect?
	She's right in the target market.
	I bet he also is very good at pronouns.
	To compensate for a flight to Thailand.
	Yes.
	But if a billion people stop eating meat, I tell you it has a big impact.
	Not only does it have a big impact on the current food system, but it will also inspire innovation of food systems.
	And I predict that we will have proteins not coming from meat in the future.
	It'll be coming from Siemen's lab!
	They will probably taste even better, so why are we trying to mimic meat?
	Oh, better!
	It's gonna taste better!
	So while we're trying to mimic meat, if we can have a better taste, they will be zero carbon and much healthier than the kind of food that we eat today.
	That is a mission that we need to get on.
	I can inspire you to maybe look at an organization called EAT.
	Easy to remember.
	EAT.
	Who have all the facts on this and who have the policies necessary, the innovations necessary, and the skill necessary in order to make food systems sustainable and healthy.
	And healthy.
	Sustainable and healthy.
	It's gonna be great.
	It's going to be effective.
	Safe and effective.
	If you want pure animal protein, if you want beef, it'll be like caviar, be unaffordable.
	Unless, of course, you live in Texas, you know where to go.
	So now we wrap this all up in a final presentation, which had a panel, which is moderated.
	I'm not going to play that.
	I'm just going to play a little bit of the video they played at the beginning.
	So if we have this full-on digitalization of your health... Did I say it wrong?
	Interject.
	Yes.
	No, you said it right.
	Yes.
	Interject.
	You've been to these things.
	I've been to these things.
	I've been to these conferences.
	I've never been to Davos.
	No, no.
	These things.
	I'm talking about a conference.
	Yeah.
	Conference of any sort.
	They always have panels.
	There's two kinds of, there's two or three kinds of presentation.
	There's a guy who comes up there and actually gives you a, especially in programming conferences, somebody to give you a lecture about some new programming language.
	It's not just a deep lecture.
	The guy's a CEO.
	You also have keynotes.
	First of all, you have keynotes.
	You have keynotes for starters.
	That's usually somebody they pay or somebody that pays them.
	The keynote was the first lady of Ukraine this year.
	So there's your keynote.
	Yeah, so we have a keynote and the keynote may or may not be interesting and educational.
	You have the lecturers who come out with the stuff that is always educational if it's something you're interested in.
	Then you have individual little speakers that speak about one thing or another and sometimes it's good, sometimes it's no good.
	The only thing that you can be sure that you can count on, you can count on this one thing.
	His panels.
	The worst of the worst of the worst in so far as any information gleaned are panels.
	They have a bunch of blowhards that are up there.
	They only get to speak for so long.
	Sometimes there's one guy trying to hog the mic, ruining it for everybody.
	And generally speaking, nobody asks a question that's meaningful.
	They're the worst.
	Davos is full of these.
	Yeah, we had Brian Stelterwater doing a panel, which was hilarious, but you know, these clips are everywhere, so I'm not even going to bother you with any of that.
	But here we had Tony Blair on a panel, blowharding about how we have all these injectables, vaccines, but really the digitization of your health.
	And so once we've digitized that and we've taken away your pure animal protein, you're really only going to be good to be in a cubicle, in front of a monitor, being monitored at how you work.
	And this was a panel.
	And it was moderated by, well, I'm not going to give it away.
	I'll have him introduce himself.
	Hello, everybody.
	Who's that?
	Hello, everybody.
	He's so excited to be there.
	Hello, everybody.
	I'm Nicholas Thompson.
	I'm the CEO of The Atlantic.
	Yeah, the CEO of The Atlantic.
	That's who you want to moderate your panel on futurism.
	Hello, everybody.
	I'm Nicholas Thompson.
	I'm the CEO of The Atlantic.
	And I will be your moderator today.
	We are going to have an incredible session.
	Woo!
	An incredible session!
	Star of the show is Nita Farahani.
	She's a futurist and legal ethicist at Duke.
	Oh, legal ethicist.
	Hmm.
	And she's so smart.
	Oh, she's so smart.
	She's so smart.
	This guy's sickening.
	He's trying to do Tucker.
	That is so smart.
	That's the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say on this show.
	Futurist and legal ethicist at Duke.
	And she's so smart.
	By the way, I find that offensive towards women.
	Women do that themselves to women.
	She's really smart.
	She's so smart.
	You even notice that?
	Yeah, this is making the assumption that everyone else is dumb.
	Yeah, particularly women.
	So it's kind of misogynistic.
	Yeah, I agree with you 100% on this.
	She's a futurist and legal ethicist at Duke.
	And she's so smart and so interesting.
	You're going to learn a ton.
	This is how it's going to work.
	We're going to watch a short video.
	She's going to come on stage and talk.
	And then we'll do bumper room.
	And then we're going to do a little Q&A.
	Questions from the audience.
	And that'll be a wrap.
	And you'll leave enlightened and excited.
	First off the video, it's going to make you... Wait, where's the other people in the back?
	There was a panel.
	No, it's just two people.
	It's just two people.
	You couldn't get anyone else on his panel?
	No!
	No, no.
	You can only have one smart person in the room.
	Can't have more than one.
	And we're going to do a Q&A.
	This guy is so condescending!
	I'm excited.
	First off, a video.
	It's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.
	Let's roll.
	I'm going to use brainwaves to fight crime.
	You kind of talked over it.
	I want to make sure that you heard that, what he said.
	Because he didn't just say the fight crime, where is it now?
	He said, let me go over here, just listen to this.
	Sure, well we can use brain waves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.
	Let's roll.
	And find love!
	Oh yes, it's going to be everything all in one.
	So wait, so I don't, when I go out looking for love, finding love, I don't use my brain waves?
	Or is it brain waves?
	I use my brain but not my brain wave?
	No, you're not going to use the brainwaves.
	The computer, the system will look at your brainwaves and tell you what you like.
	Come on, you understand these things, so we have a little cartoony film?
	And remember, you're going to be excited about the future.
	It's going to be a great future.
	It's so wonderful.
	You're going to leave this panel, this room, just all energized about the future.
	And here we go.
	Let's roll.
	You're in the zone.
	Even you can't believe how productive you've been.
	Your memo is finished.
	Your inbox is under control.
	And you're feeling sharper than you have in a decade.
	Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song, sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play.
	You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure, your state of brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain.
	You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours.
	You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached.
	By the way, your Apple Watch already is doing this.
	Causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up telling you to take a brain break.
	I'm sorry, do you want me to stop the show?
	I need a brain break.
	You need a brain break for months.
	What's that unusual change in your brain activity when you're asleep?
	It started earlier in the month.
	You send a text message to your doctor with a mental swipe of your cursor.
	Could you take a quick look at my brain data?
	Anything to worry about?
	Hey, Doc, could you please take a quick look?
	You can't get a hold of a doctor, let alone send him a text about your brain pattern.
	Doc, can you take a look?
	There's something with my brain.
	What are you opening?
	Waterloo sparkling water.
	All right, now back to the video.
	...to your doctor with a mental swipe of your cursor.
	Could you take a quick look at my brain data?
	Anything to worry about?
	Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team, whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.
	Now, in the video, you literally see a little cloud appear over her head, and it's the colleague in the cubicle across the way, without his shirt on.
	And she's now fantasizing about her colleague.
	And, you know, she knows she's being a bad girl because, you know, that's against HR rules.
	And, of course, they can see that on your brainwave.
	Whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.
	But you can't help fantasizing just a little.
	But then you start to worry that your boss will notice your amorous feelings when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present.
	You breathe a sigh of relief when the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your brain metrics from the past quarter, which have earned you another performance bonus.
	Great cue!
	You head home jamming to the music with your work-issued brain-sensing earbuds still in.
	When you arrive at work the next day, a somber cloud has fallen over the office.
	Along with emails, text messages, and GPS location data, the government has subpoenaed employees' brainwave data from the past year.
	They have compelling evidence that one of your co-workers has committed massive wire fraud.
	Now, they're looking for his co-conspirators.
	It's going to be so fantastic!
	This is going to be a great future!
	I'm so excited about it.
	This is where I stop.
	Did you go on?
	This is where I stop.
	I mean, it goes on for another five minutes.
	I could listen to this forever.
	You get Clip of the Day.
	Thank you.
	Oh, unexpected.
	Highly appreciated.
	And what's weird about it is they're actually They're boosting this idea as though this is something people really, really, like, really want, because I want my brainwaves subpoenaed.
	This is what people like, well, a comic strip blogger, you know, he believes that this is going to happen.
	He says, this is going to happen, you can't stop it, it's AI singularity, and it's all going to end, this is just how it goes.
	They can't even get rid of the African population.
	They've been trying to do that since the 60s.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I am.
	These guys are losers.
	I'm so pumped about the future.
	I love the... you mentally swipe your cursor left.
	I wish I had that on this gear.
	Yeah, well, it didn't fail again.
	That's one good thing.
	That brings me to this thing about productivity.
	It's so good that I feel good because I'm productive.
	I want to bring this clip up.
	This was, I pulled this from the live stream from Deutsche Welle.
	You have been busy.
	Oh yeah.
	And so the Deutsche Welle live stream, which is available on, it's just, it's almost like, you remember Netly or Nutley or Rupley or whatever it is that they have on RT that you show?
	Nutley.
	Rupley.
	Nutley.
	Rupley.
	It's just a bunch, it's just no video, just video of whatever.
	And then they, once in a while they bring in some audio.
	So in this case they had, this was a, I don't know how long this went on for, I saw, I was kind of watching in the background for at least an hour, it was just slamming Russia, it was like a propaganda piece, making it obvious that Russia screwed up.
	And Deutsche Welle is pushing this narrative.
	Sure.
	They had these two different scenes, and one of them I recorded, and it was a woman protester standing outside of a metro station in Moscow.
	And I call it a metro station because it had an M on it, just like it was in Paris, but it was Russia.
	And she's holding this sign showing one of, I guess her boyfriend got imprisoned for mistweeting something.
	Oh no!
	He's in jail right now.
	She's a cute woman and she's holding up the sign.
	A babushka, an old Russian woman, comes up to her and first asks her what's going on and then she starts demeaning her for being, you know, protesting or being anything but, you know... Not being pro-Russia.
	Well, worse than that.
	Listen to this.
	This is a friend.
	He's under house arrest for posting videos on YouTube.
	What kind of videos?
	Instructional videos.
	He is a libertarian and explains what libertarianism is.
	It's one of the political movements.
	Repatrianism?
	Libertarianism.
	It is similar to liberalism, only with a higher degree of freedom.
	To hell with freedom!
	Like in Stalin's time.
	But we had a life back then.
	You've gone crazy with your freedom.
	We had a life after the war.
	Get it?
	1968, 23 years after the war, we got the keys and moved into an apartment with a gas stove and everything.
	Now there's millions, but you can't get a stove.
	Freedom.
	You don't need freedom.
	You need to start businesses, give people jobs and not punish the people who work for it.
	Freedom is what they want.
	I wish Stalin was here to kick everyone's butt.
	Yeah, yeah, the good old days.
	That's Russia.
	The good old days.
	I think that half the population in Russia feels that way.
	It's possible.
	And they're all super supportive of Putin.
	I think everything we've been told about what's going on.
	Yeah, this was a young woman and an old woman clashing.
	And the young woman was tagging the camera and kind of chuckling to herself as this woman was ranting.
	But you could not I don't think it's a minority that thinks Stalin should still be running things.
	The country's historically always had a strong ruler.
	Yes.
	Putin fits right into the picture, you know, even though he's this Ukraine thing.
	He's dying of cancer and Parkinson's and all this other stuff.
	There's no evidence of it.
	I want to go to Russia a little bit later on.
	I just want to stick for a moment with a singularity.
	Well, there's this kind of sub-narrative going on about what's happening in Silicon Valley.
	I have two clips here.
	Tonight, massive layoffs.
	12,000 people losing jobs at Google's parent company, Alphabet.
	Just the latest tech company to slash its workforce.
	Big tech went on an aggressive hiring boom during the pandemic.
	Some of the world's wealthiest companies added tens of thousands to the payroll.
	But cuts are now sweeping the industry.
	Microsoft this week saying it would lay off 10,000.
	Amazon shedding as many as 18,000.
	And Facebook parent Meta cutting 11,000.
	13% of its workforce.
	Twitter, Salesforce and Wayfair also eliminating jobs.
	The tech sector losing more than 70,000 in the past year.
	Did these companies fail to plan for uncertain economic conditions?
	They built their businesses to basically to support pandemic era operations.
	And then suddenly, when that spending is drawn back, when it's not there anymore, they've now got a different type of organization.
	Is this a new reality going forward?
	Companies are going to be a little bit tighter, a bit more controlled.
	And then maybe as we move out through 2024, we might see them grow again.
	The reckoning comes amid recession fears, rising interest rates and frustration.
	You can call it whatever you want, but that's what happened.
	They fired 18,000 people.
	It's really over the course of 2022, 120,000 people who've been fired.
	Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Google, et cetera, Wayfair.
	We had this clip, similar clip on the last show.
	Well, here's another one.
	To the index and to the economy tonight, a massive new round of layoffs in the tech industry.
	Google tonight announcing plans to cut more than 12,000 jobs.
	The CEO emailing the staff saying the company needs to focus on priorities, including artificial intelligence.
	Earlier this week, Microsoft saying it would be laying off 10,000 of its employees after both companies made significant hires during the pandemic.
	So there's a little bit of this, oh, AI, it's AI that's doing that, which it isn't.
	Well, they slipped out and that's new.
	Now, it seems to me you'd need more people for AI.
	AI is non-trivial.
	You'd need more people, not less people.
	It's also bullshit.
	How about that?
	I'm just going to say it.
	Well, then you can lay off everybody and use AI as an excuse.
	That's what you do.
	Well, that's what I'm seeing here.
	I think this is starting to happen.
	Well, my point was already, which is why did Microsoft or Google hire more people during the pandemic I mean, it makes sense for Amazon, and they left Amazon out of these stories.
	Because they had free money, that's why.
	Yeah, it's free money.
	Free money!
	And the free money is over.
	So it was a way to scam the government.
	The free money is over.
	It's over.
	Yeah, oh, scam the government.
	Yeah, yeah, probably.
	Probably, didn't they get all kinds of incentives for hiring people during the pandemic?
	Yeah, you had to pay people extra money for whatever reason.
	Because you kept them on.
	You kept them on, so we're going to give you money.
	Well, we're not giving you any more money, so okay, they're fired.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	There was a very funny article in The Verge.
	It kind of goes along with this story.
	New podcast creation has fallen off a cliff!
	Now, wait, wait.
	I'm going to let you finish that, but I'm going to say to the audience, or the listeners, or the producers, whoever it is, we have an expert here who can give us real numbers.
	And we're going to ask him, after we discuss this, what these numbers are.
	Okay, you may continue.
	I didn't do it, but okay, since you exposed yourself.
	Subhead here.
	The number of new shows that debuted in 2022 was down 80% since 2020.
	This is correct, but two million shows.
	I'm just going to cut to the chase and then I'll get to the punchline.
	Chase first.
	The incredible increase in shows during the pandemic was mainly because of Anchor.
	Anchor is a podcast host which was purchased by Spotify and they have a free system.
	You just go on there and I think they even have an app and now we have delisted almost 2 million podcasts from Anchor because they have One episode, two seconds long, of someone going, test!
	And you have to understand that Spotify says, oh, we have over 5 million podcasts!
	Well, and whereas the podcast, podcastindex.org has 4.2 million, and we do a lot of cleanup, and we have a lot of very smart people, smarter than that brainwave lady, who are, you know, come up with algorithms so we can test this, and it really is, it's horseshit.
	So people were doing this during the pandemic, I'm going to start a podcast!
	And it literally is, Poop.
	We have a couple of those.
	Poop.
	It's just, there's nothing.
	But Spotify used that to prop up their numbers.
	They're like, oh no, we're knocking it out of the park.
	This is investment fraud.
	I agree.
	We're knocking it out of the park.
	Anyway, so let's continue with this article written by, who wrote this?
	Ariel Shapiro.
	Hope y'all had a great weekend.
	We got some big Hot Pod Summit updates for y'all.
	Okay, so we'll move on.
	This year we're trying to... No, where is it?
	Okay.
	People are launching way, way fewer podcasts.
	One thing I keep hearing over and over is that it's so much harder to launch a podcast now than it was, say, three or four years ago.
	And that is usually coming from people at established studios with at least some marketing insight.
	Okay, let me debunk that right away.
	The reason it's harder to start a podcast now from these people at established studios is because the free money is over!
	No longer do we have Exxon creating BIPOC funds for BIPOC content producers for podcasts.
	No longer do we have the big The big checkbox for any kind of ESG podcast that all of these big companies like to drop $100,000 to $100,000 per episode on.
	No, that has now gone back to a max of $5,000 per episode.
	So yeah, people aren't creating podcasts anymore.
	Fewer podcasts were created in 2022 than in the two years prior.
	Even so, the margin is shocking!
	The number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80%!
	Now, some of that can be attributed to the pandemic.
	Podcast creation peaked in 2020 when people truly had nothing better to do!
	That pretty much summarizes podcasting.
	I watch the porn, I'm jerking off, what am I going to do now?
	I know!
	I'm going to start a podcast!
	Now, here's the best line of this article.
	Creators, which I hate as a term, by the way.
	Creators.
	Do you like this term, creators?
	Well, there's actually two versions of it.
	One is creators and the other one is creatives.
	No, this is creators.
	No, this is a big thing.
	You're not a YouTuber, you're a creator.
	You're not a podcaster, you're a creator.
	I create and I do not like that term.
	It irks me, I can't help it.
	What if somebody else likes the term?
	Well, let's read on.
	Creators seem to recognize that until podcast discovery improves, launching a podcast may be a losing proposition.
	The system seemingly cannot effectively handle the number of podcasts that already exist.
	What is that?
	What system?
	I... I kind of agree with her.
	What system?
	Well, that's... that's the issue.
	When she refers... I'm... I'm just taking her side.
	Uh... Okay.
	The system she's referring to is the system of marketing and discovery.
	In other words, there's no way of figuring out... If I want to find a podcast that specializes in weed whackers and reviewing every new weed whacker that comes out, I would be no way of me finding this podcast.
	Now, this is a big point of contention.
	People always, for 20 years now, Well, we need to improve discovery for podcasts!
	It's decentralized.
	Apple tried it.
	Spotify tried it.
	There is no discovery mechanism.
	YouTube has algorithms.
	They own the platform so they know what people like you are watching.
	That doesn't exist in podcasting.
	It never has.
	It probably never will.
	How did we become a podcast that is here for over 1,500 episodes for 15 years?
	We're still doing it.
	We still kind of like each other.
	We have families.
	We have homes.
	We don't have Joe Rogan money, but we're doing okay.
	Why?
	Was that because of some magical discovery process that we used?
	Well, a couple of things.
	We both know how to sell things.
	And we both had a minimum audience each that we brought to the table from the get-go.
	If you start with an audience, you can build an audience.
	And the rest of it was word of mouth.
	Thank you.
	It's really word of mouth.
	Wait, wait, the best part, and the real kicker, the kicker, the big kicker, is a super high quality product.
	Exactly!
	Thank you.
	That's all.
	Have an outstanding product and everything else will take care of itself.
	We have grown consistently every year, year over year, three to five percent in audience and everything.
	Would you say that's a fair number?
	I think in audience, I think in revenue, it's gone, uh, it peaked during COVID.
	Oh, well, in revenue, it peaked during COVID, but, but just our growth in general.
	No, I think, yeah, I think, uh, we pick up, we lose people, we lose man overboard.
	Oh yeah, we lose lots of people.
	We lose people.
	And we usually pick up, I think we probably pick up 1.5 people for every one person we lose.
	I would say the number one mechanism for discovery for podcasting is going on other podcasts.
	That's your discovery mechanism.
	That's how it works.
	You sent me some Dallas-based podcast network overnight, whatever, I saw it this morning.
	Never heard of them, but they could be doing just fine because you don't need to be the huge behemoth.
	You just need to have people who support you for an outstanding product or something that enough people find outstanding.
	I couldn't find one on there, but okay.
	You're supposed to say, but okay, go ahead.
	Most of these networks I very rarely find, maybe there's one carrying the whole load.
	It was Joe Rogan that catapulted us into a much larger audience.
	Would you agree?
	I think it jacked us up by a good third.
	Yeah, I would agree with that.
	I would agree.
	Now the other thing is, and then I can end this, Advertising doesn't work in podcasts.
	It just, I mean, yeah, it works if you have a sponsor, if you have kind of like the brides magazines where you're selling brides dresses.
	It just, it's not effective.
	The whole programmatic advertising.
	Oh yeah, don't worry about it.
	You just do your show, just grow your show and the ads will appear.
	It's going to be great.
	No, because podcasts are not brand safe or suitable.
	Good podcasts.
	No podcast.
	No podcast is ever going to be brand safe or suitable.
	I think you, I think I could, I think the two of us could do a brand safe podcast.
	It would be the most boring shit on earth.
	I didn't say it was going to be any good.
	I'm just telling you we can do it.
	You said no podcast.
	I disagree with that.
	And just to let you know how the advertising industry thinks about platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and podcasting, anything, they actively, actively combat you with their money.
	Which is pure censorship!
	Advertising always equals censorship.
	Going to go back to WEF for a second and Davos.
	This is Richard Edelman, the CEO of Edelman Interactive, or PR, I don't know which one.
	Huge advertising and marketing agency.
	And here's how cavalier he is about what he does with his clients' money.
	So I think the first thing that, because I mostly work with business, that business needs to do is
	Deprive platforms that spread disinformation of oxygen Stop advertising Pull your promotion money make sure that they understand that they have a consequential impact on society and the boycott of Twitter for several months has had a modest modest impact, but I think the Facebook one failed
	And, but the necessity of getting it right in the platforms that are probably primary source information for a third to 40% of people is urgent.
	It's urgent!
	We have to, we have to save the world of disinformation.
	This is the problem.
	This is why it doesn't work.
	Would you say?
	Well, that's a dickish thing for him to come out and say.
	How about a dickish thing for him to do?
	What?
	It's a dickish thing to do, not just to say, but to do.
	Yeah, to do.
	But that's Edelman.
	He's always been kind of this way.
	You know him?
	You know him?
	I met him.
	His name happens to be Richard, so it's interesting you call him a dickish thing.
	That's kind of... There you go.
	I like that.
	Anyway, so we don't have any advertising.
	It doesn't work for us.
	It never will.
	It never has.
	We just go on the slow train all the way to the end station.
	We'll be here spitting in the microphone when we keel over.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank him for his courage, the man who put the sea in CREATORS!
	Please say hello to my friend on the other end, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John C. Tavora!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, also in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	We've been very patient since we had quite a few false starts this morning.
	We do this show live.
	Most of you know that.
	And we had some technical difficulties.
	The band-aids are holding, so we're not quite sure exactly what I did to solve it, but the band-aids are holding.
	That's good.
	And they hang out in the troll room.
	They're alerted by the bat signal, which you do just before we start.
	You can get that bat signal on Podverse.
	Also, I think we have a new app that is doing that, Podcast Addict.
	They also have a bat signal, so when we start the show, we send out the signal, you get an alert on the very same app you use to listen to podcasts, and you click on it, it dumps you right into the troll room with the live stream, which is 24-7, and that's where these trolls come from.
	Let's see, did it work?
	Did we get anybody here?
	2102.
	2102.
	What's that?
	I said it's possible.
	Is it good or not for a Sunday?
	No, it's possible.
	Sundays usually should be 2300.
	No.
	So it's reasonable.
	I think I figured out what happened with the equipment there and finally why it's working so well.
	Okay.
	You let it warm up.
	People should know that.
	The tubes.
	When you get anything, let it warm up a good 10 minutes.
	Yeah, that's just a tip for all you creators out there.
	Yeah.
	Let it warm up.
	Not only can you follow us live in the Troll Room, but you can also literally follow us in the digital sense on noagendasocial.com.
	noagendasocial.com is a limited Mastodon instance.
	We've had it since 2017.
	We have maximum 10,000 slots in there.
	We want to keep it manageable.
	It's quite a lot of effort to keep a largest instance like ours running.
	There's real cost to it, which right now Aaroner just refuses to take any value for value, and he's loving doing it.
	So, so far so good, but he may at a certain point ask people to help him out.
	Yeah, he may just say, hey, you know what?
	I'm out of here.
	You could do that too.
	Exactly.
	And I actually... It's gone.
	I kicked someone off again.
	I limited someone again.
	I'm getting pretty good at it.
	Oh, you kicked another one?
	I didn't kick him off.
	Oh, kick him off.
	Don't even bother with this in-between stuff.
	I'm a little sick of people posting nothing but screenshots of Twitter.
	Is that something?
	Without a link, by the way.
	Which is, it's like a double violation for me.
	Well, what if, so if they put a screenshot of Twitter and a link to that, to the tweet, would that be okay for you?
	I'd feel better about it, yeah.
	I'd feel better about it.
	I hear I have a disagreement, although I have nothing to do with this platform and I have no say over it except I can complain to you.
	I might kick you off.
	If I get sick of you, I'll kick you off.
	Yeah, yeah, you would.
	I would.
	But you're already showing signs of wimping out.
	Now, let's go with this thing here.
	Sometimes you see something on Twitter that is so funny you do a screenshot of it and you just post it because who cares the link to it?
	I'm with you.
	I'm with you on that.
	If your entire account is screenshots of Twitter, that's every post, that's boring.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, you can't just do that.
	You have to do other things.
	I don't mind if people post memes and all that stuff.
	That's fine.
	But just, you know, and I say, hey, and I even said, hey man, that's kind of boring.
	Well, there's one guy that I say half the memes I put in a newsletter come from one or two people on the No Agenda social.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	But if I make a comment, remember, I have God power.
	On the social.
	And smell.
	I have a musk.
	So if I say, hey man, don't do that, and you're like, you're triggered by this!
	You're gonna get limited right there and there.
	I'm not getting mad anymore.
	I'm just like, let me just let me just teach you a little less about time.
	I'm quick to reinstate too though, but I just like now, you know, I'm just gonna put you in the corner here.
	Just put you in the corner.
	This is not a democracy.
	You don't get to determine what we're doing here.
	That's me and John.
	If John says kick someone off, I'll kick him off.
	I've only had one guy I've suggested that about.
	Did I do anything?
	No, and that was over a year ago.
	No.
	Oh.
	Just be decent, okay?
	Just be decent.
	You can go off the rails whenever I go off the rails all the time.
	But if all you're doing is just sitting there posting images from Twitter with no link, I'm going to say something about it.
	You give me lip, you're done.
	I love being that guy.
	And I learned this by watching you, okay?
	No, this has always been your style.
	No, it has not.
	It has not.
	I would never kick anybody off.
	I'd never censor anybody, but now I'm just sick of it.
	I'm getting old and cranky, as I said.
	Now, all of our artists, I think, are on noagendasocial.com, so it's always fun to follow them and how they always pretend.
	But hey, good job, I'm so happy for you.
	You know they're lying.
	They're like, oh yeah, my art was so much better.
	And we like to highlight the artist who created the artwork that we chose for the album art.
	Which is very unique to No Agenda.
	There are very few podcasts who have creators that can do this.
	Because we have such a huge community of creators and creatives, we are able to choose from quite a selection every single time from noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And we selected a rather modern piece from Mountain J.
	Uh, which was kind of like an Escher-esque, I'd say, type of piece.
	It was a bit of a Hail Mary.
	I like the Escher-esque.
	Escher-esque.
	Cute, yeah.
	It was a bit of a Hail Mary because the one that I wanted, you really hated.
	Which one was that?
	You didn't want the, what I thought was, and I think it was Mike Riley, you didn't like the skulls, which I thought was just a fantastic piece.
	Oh yeah.
	I reject skulls, worms, blood and guts, anything that is, like, offensive to the eye.
	But it wasn't offensive.
	It was a take-off of Appetite for Destruction, a Guns N' Roses album.
	No, that's what it is.
	Oh, it has some old music references, so you had to go for it.
	No!
	No, I didn't have to go for it.
	I just liked it.
	I thought it was good, and I used it as the bat-signal art, and people love that.
	Yeah, good.
	No, it wasn't going to happen.
	Now, then again, that's probably why you rejected my idea of doing what I liked the most, which was the polar bears.
	The one with the yellow sunglasses.
	Yeah, but it was boring.
	I thought it was just cute.
	Yeah, but... So we were coming, and I think the point is that we were coming from different, and we couldn't come up with any consensus.
	No.
	And this piece was staring us right in the face, which was this crazy piece that we picked.
	Yeah.
	And then the more you look at it... The more you see, the more you see, the more you see.
	The more you look at it, the more you say, this is a tremendously modern, beautiful piece!
	I agree, I agree.
	We both thought that was really nice.
	It was a lot of weird duds in here for some reason.
	Again, I'm looking at that no agenda appetite for deconstruction.
	Wow, so smart, so good, so well done.
	That's something for the shop.
	I'd wear that t-shirt.
	Which one?
	The skulls!
	Oh, yeah, once you get a shop, make a t-shirt for Adam and send it to him.
	I indeed see the NTD art.
	People are making fun of you.
	If you haven't seen this, NoahArtGenerator.com.
	There's so many pieces.
	There was a lot of John Kerry things.
	What's funny is the John Kerry piece with it with the horrible hand that I guess is maybe from from looks like E.T.
	hand or whatever pushing against the John Kerry set is what Roundy predicted was gonna be the pick the piece we picked when it wasn't even in consideration.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	It shows you that there's a lot of difference between an artist and someone who chooses art.
	Yes, a huge difference.
	And artists' brains are not wired like normal people's, and so... I would say we looked briefly at the Parker-Pauly V4V cufflinks.
	The red V4V.
	Oh yes, yeah, well, I also like the... The gas station, you like the gas station.
	The gas pump.
	I like the empty gas pump, yeah, I did like that.
	There was the badge, because I got a badge now.
	I have a badge, a Union Pacific badge.
	Somebody sent me.
	You actually have one of those badges.
	That's not what the badge looks like.
	The true Union Pacific badge.
	I'll take a picture of it and put it in a newsletter.
	I'm just seeing this piece.
	Sir Thirsty.
	Eggs.
	This is a new one, I think.
	Eggs are the new fentanyl.
	And the reason I bring that up is yesterday, we had producers come through town, Paul and Melissa, he's known as Sir Lastrow, Black Knight of the Ninjas, and their family, their children, they have like 18 children, beautiful children, lovely children, and they're homesteaders, and they brought us two and a half dozen of their own eggs from their own chickens.
	Did you tell them about the download toomanyeggs.com?
	We talked about that extensively, of course.
	I would immediately promote that.
	Everybody who knows about this book goes nuts.
	People love the book.
	In fact, Tina has some questions she wants to ask the author.
	The author's available for questions on Fridays after three.
	And they included in here two blue eggs, which I'd never seen before.
	Blue eggs are usually aracanas.
	Easter chickens, he said.
	Araucanas?
	I don't know what that may be.
	Araucanas is an egg, it's a blue egg.
	There's other chickens that lay blue eggs.
	There's chickens that lay black eggs and dark brown, light brown, spottled.
	There's a bunch of different egg colors, but the blue egg typically is the egg you can trust, and this could be folklore or myth, but it's the egg you can trust to eat raw.
	Oh, blue eggs!
	It's the egg you can trust!
	You can eat that raw.
	So if you're going to make a milkshake or something or a smoothie, you want to throw an egg into it.
	You want to find a blue egg.
	I can hear Tina gagging already.
	It's funny.
	Really?
	Nobody's ever had an egg in their beer or a milkshake with an egg in it?
	Sure, but not my wife.
	No, she's finally... She's from the Midwest, I heard?
	No, she has ovumphobia, but she's gotten over that.
	She can eat hard-boiled eggs.
	So I could throw an egg into a milkshake and if I didn't tell her... She wouldn't know.
	Because you can't tell, isn't it?
	No, she wouldn't know.
	But, you know, that would be a gross violation of your relationship with her.
	That would break the trust.
	I've never done that kind of thing before, it's no big deal.
	Anyway, as we're walking back to the car over Main Street Fredericksburg, here's what people said.
	Those people are carrying gold.
	We had the egg cartons.
	Bucket of eggs?
	What?
	Just the egg cartons.
	Like, oh, careful now.
	Those people have gold.
	It's eggs, man.
	It's a new caviar.
	Thank you very much, Mountain J, for your outstanding work.
	We appreciate it.
	We appreciate the work of all of the artists.
	From one of those same modern podcast apps, which you can get at newpodcastapps.com, you can see a lot of these pieces of art flipping by in the chapters, which Dreb Scott always does for us.
	It's Podcasting 2.0.
	You should check it out.
	It's cool.
	It's new.
	It's new.
	There is a lot of innovation, just not with the big companies.
	It's all part of our value for value.
	The eggs were also, of course, a value for value.
	They would not take anything in return.
	They said, no, no, thank you.
	This is just for the fabulous, fabulous shows you do and everything.
	It's highly appreciated.
	You have to send me half the eggs.
	I do.
	I do.
	Well, they actually live near San Antonio.
	So if you come visit next time you're here, we'll go down and we'll get you some eggs.
	Now we're going to thank the executive and associate executive producers for this episode 1523.
	These are the people who came in with bigger donations, which is exactly how it works in Hollywood, except here you get a credit right away.
	It's a forever credit.
	It's a credit you can register anywhere that credits are recognized and accepted.
	And we will vouch for your credit if anyone ever questions you.
	And throughout the years we've had times when we actually had to vouch.
	Yes, indeed.
	This person was an executive producer on our show and we highly appreciate it.
	It was great work.
	We'd have them work for us again.
	Anytime.
	And we kick it off with a switcheroo.
	Right off the top here, Sir CB from Harris, Minnesota.
	$333.33.
	This donation is from the Goat Karma Producers Local No.
	and 33 cents.
	This donation is from the Goat Karma Producers Local Number 33 Meetup Producer Credit Raffle.
	Woo! that This is a, I think, a very good, what do you call this, a good trend that these meetups, and the meetups are getting big.
	I mean, we have a couple of meetup reports today, which, I mean, there's a lot of people going to these meetups, and it's regular, they have a lot of fun.
	So they do these raffles where people donate for the show, and the executive producer credit goes to their winner for the Goat Karma Producers Local Number 33 Meetup, Anonymous Jamie!
	And he, it's a he, and he asked for some cheap sweet Chinese de-douching.
	Do we have a, do we have a, we don't have a Chinese de-douching, do we?
	No, we don't.
	It's something we don't have, I don't know why.
	You've been de-douched.
	There you go.
	We'll just have to deal with that.
	We had an awesome turnout on Friday with a total of 20 nights.
	Dames and producers, our hosts, were very interested and a few were hitting the mouth.
	No Agenda Meetup's a fantastic way to spend an evening and meet like-minded people.
	Big bonus, one of our producers raises cattle so everyone got his info for some Klaus Schwab resistant beef.
	Get it now before it's priced out of the market.
	Thanks again for all you do.
	Keep up the good work.
	Sir C.B.
	Knight of the Black Thumbnails, 73.
	He, of course, is also a ham, so we say yay and we'll give those good people a service goat karma.
	Thank you very much.
	You've got karma.
	Well, that brings us to Sir CB, who came in from Minnesota.
	No, that's the one we just did.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	What am I thinking?
	Okay, Zadock Brown III in Makawao, Hawaii.
	He came in with 333.33, and there's no note from him, so I'm going to give him a double-up karma.
	You've got And while we're there, let's go to Amy Sullivan.
	I can't find anything from her either.
	She's in Edmonds, Washington.
	Or Washington, as it might be pronounced.
	333 so she gets a double up karma as well you've got double up karma and that brings us to Matthew Parr in Wilmington North Carolina where I actually get to Yes.
	333.
	He came in with Read 33, and I should mention... Please do.
	...that we did have a new donation level, which is the Binary Knight, which is $1,000.01, because 1-0-0-0-0-1 equals 33.
	We got big pushback, I saw, on Knowledge Into Social about that.
	What was the pushback?
	It's too close to LGBTQ, man!
	It's a binary thing!
	We don't like it!
	I agree.
	Well, apparently nobody liked it because we got nothing.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait.
	We got a note about this.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me find this.
	Sir Face Tension.
	He says, Sir Face Tension here.
	Early in the 900s episodes, a producer brought up the 1000.01 knighthood donation that represents 33 in binary.
	Huh?
	And the No Agenda show cleans up a whole cent when you have to chip in 1k versus 999.99.
	As a knight of the bank transfer, may I request the status of binary knight at no cost to the show?
	I don't think it works that way.
	But it's up to you.
	Well, I think what he's saying is you donate a thousand dollars and then you pitch in a penny.
	No, that's, that's... Or there's no more, no longer, maybe saying this.
	No longer will 999.99 be accepted.
	There you go, that's it.
	I'll pitch in, well no, because then everybody will be a binary knight.
	You have to donate with the penny!
	That would be my idea.
	And some people might not want to be a... which is showing today.
	Exactly.
	Maybe nobody wants to be a binary knight because it does impinge on... I'm a binary teacher.
	I'm binary.
	Non-binary.
	It makes it non-binary.
	Okay, well then that's binary, which means you're normal.
	All right.
	Well, great idea, John.
	Successful promotion.
	Well, you know, it's always like throwing something against the wall.
	Meanwhile, let's get back to Matthew Parr in Wilmington, North Carolina.
	First time donation, please de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you for quickly becoming my main source for current news on my favorite podcast.
	Keep pounding and remember... Okay.
	And remember to never turn your back on the Wolfpack.
	Please call out Will and Jake Ramsey for being douchebags.
	I'll do one more for him.
	Douchebags.
	Douchebags.
	Please send goat karma.
	Something from Trump and everyone will need a Bitcoin.
	They did dumps.
	They call them dumps.
	Big massive dumps.
	They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.
	You've got... Karma.
	Whit Campbell, Savannah, Georgia.
	This is our first Associate Executive Producer.
	We are still... The list is short, man.
	Short list, but... Short.
	Do you want to do the full thing, the full segment, all in one go time?
	Yeah, why not?
	Like I did last time.
	Is it short?
	Sure.
	Short.
	We don't have to split up these donation segments, but there's a lot more show coming after this.
	It's actually shorter than the last show, so there's no problem.
	In the morning, Adam and John.
	Long time douchebag since Adam's first appearance on JRE.
	Guess what?
	On Tuesday, I'm going for my fifth time.
	That's a record.
	Well, for me it is.
	Now, there's plenty of people... Yeah, it's a record for you.
	That's what I meant.
	Yes, a fifth time record.
	I was finally compelled to donate today after a good friend of mine was released from the hospital.
	He was diagnosed with the VID-20 two days ago and was immediately prescribed Paxlovid, or Paxlovid, by his doctor to, quote, cure the symptoms.
	Within 12 hours, he called the doctor and described his new symptoms.
	The doc told him to call an ambulance, go straight to the ER.
	Oh, man.
	Once he arrived at the emergency room and told them what was going on, what medication he'd received, he was bumped to the front of the line and taken straight back.
	Within six hours, he was in a medically induced coma in the ICU where he remained for eight days.
	Holy crap!
	Once he was brought out of the coma, he stayed in the hospital for another 14 days to keep him stable and bring him back up to speed via IV infusions and a plethora of drugs.
	He was told this is a rather normal occurrence and the regimen of drugs they give to... What?
	Yeah.
	He was told this is a rather normal occurrence, and the regimen of drugs they give to counter the Pax Lovid usually avoids severe cases such as his.
	I wish I knew more specifics, but I was blown away by the whole story in general.
	We all hear stories like this, but when it happens to you or someone you know well, shit gets real.
	Thanks for everything you do.
	Keep exposing the truth.
	Sorry for the long note.
	Jingles.
	Uh, oh, de-douche it.
	You've been de-douched.
	And an R2-D2.
	Karma, love and lit from Savannah, Georgia, from WITC.
	You've got... Karma.
	Wow.
	That's a horrible story.
	It's right up there.
	It's bad.
	Pax Lobe.
	Anonymous in Biloxi, Mississippi is super anonymous with $250 and no note, which means double karma for anonymous.
	You've got... Karma.
	Sir Nick of the Black Forest from St.
	Cirque.
	St.
	Cirque, Switzerland.
	Oh.
	Dear John and Adam, keep up the great work.
	Can I please request a shot of Jobs Karma from my lovely wife, Natalia?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Luca, Karma.
	Okay, Ricky Freckleton, Lakelands, Australia.
	230, now is that, do you think that's dollary dues?
	Well... Because 230... No, no, no, I don't know.
	I don't think so.
	No, okay, good.
	Well, you're associate executive producer, no note, so you get a double up karma as well.
	You've got...
	Meanwhile, Sir 23, Knight of the Electric Sea in Buxton, Great Britain, with 22323, I was pleasantly surprised to hear in the donation section last year that there are now other producers in my small hometown of Buxton, Derbyshire.
	Karma, please, for them, and that's Gregory and Jill.
	You've got it!
	Sounds like a meet-up.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Um, hold on a second.
	Now we have another blue one here.
	What is this?
	This is Sandy, uh, McMahon from Kootenay Valley, British Columbia.
	Did I say that right?
	Let me see.
	Oh, it's, uh, Sandy Mickman.
	There we go.
	Mickman, with a pronunciation guide.
	Kootenay Valley, British Columbia, Candanavia.
	Now that you're done blowing discount knighthoods out the door, I'm here to claim a premium 2023 knighthood.
	I have earned this lofty status with no discounts and only genuine American petrodollars, not Canadian justy bucks.
	Justy bucks.
	I like that one.
	So now I can smugly gloat to other Canadian knights like an American openly carrying his automatic pistol.
	I would like to be named Sir Knight who says, Knee.
	That's N-I.
	And will enjoy a bowl of blunts and your swampiest oldest scotch at the round table.
	I don't know.
	If blunts and scotch is a good combo.
	I think, uh, not to mention, I know cigars work with scotch.
	Yeah, but, mmm, well, a blunt is a cigar.
	It's just, uh, it's spiked.
	Thanks for the house-buying karma last time.
	It worked, too!
	Lastly, please add my Australian daughter, Amelia Lucas, to the birthday list.
	She turns 30 on the 22nd.
	This is for today, hence all the twos.
	Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, RoaDux222.22.
	And is now pregnant with her second human resource!
	Woo-hoo!
	I'm wishing her a great year ahead from Sandy Mc... Mc... Let me do it... Let me do it right now.
	Sandy... McMahon.
	McMahon.
	McMahon.
	Uh... And... Oh, do you want some jingles?
	Oh, goodness.
	I'm trying to cut down on those.
	Let me see... I'll do... You could eliminate the jingles, wouldn't it?
	We probably, yeah, we probably, when it's so short like this, we probably should.
	Fear is freedom.
	Subjugation is liberation.
	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world.
	And you will all surrender to them.
	You pigs in human clothing.
	There you go.
	All right, we got you everything you wanted there.
	Sherilyn Phillips in Meade, Washington.
	Stay brave and stay on team.
	Stay on team reality.
	I think that's how you're supposed to pronounce it.
	Team reality.
	I'm praying for you.
	You're very appreciated.
	I heard about No Agenda back again on Rogan, and now always listen.
	Adam's going to be on Rogan again next week.
	So, hello, this is your discovery mechanism.
	That's how it works.
	It's not for everybody.
	Not everyone should do a podcast.
	Well, that's true.
	And he goes on, uh, it says on Beck or Rogan, can't really remember, but no jingles or Carmen.
	Then we have Top Notch Heating and Air from Manti, Utah.
	If you're in Manti, Utah, you want to go to Top Notch Heating and Air and we're going to give them a double up.
	That's how good they are.
	All right, we're gonna blow right through this.
	Yeah, let's start with Bill Durkin in Greenville, South Carolina.
	He's got a birthday coming up for someone.
	It's 1-2-3-4-5 is his donation.
	Then Sean Carlisle in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1-2-2-8-3, Justin Bible.
	In Austin, Texas, which is the Bible Belt.
	1-20-12.
	And then Plano, that's Jason Bible, and this is Justin in Coffeyville, Kansas.
	He's 100 bucks.
	And he says he's been a de- a douche.
	Give him a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Ian Field, Parts Unknown, $100.
	Ross Rebich in Kennewick, Washington, another $100, and they got a birthday coming up for someone.
	Ty Robinson in Queen Creek, Arizona came up with 8888, which is a good number, but then he has a note for someone who gave $8,000, but it's got a nighting coming up.
	So here you go, Adam, take it.
	I'm sorry, what am I doing here?
	Oh, you're reading the nighting note.
	Oh, yeah, I have it here.
	I do have it here, I'm sorry.
	This is, okay, in the morning, this is from Drew Williams, correct?
	My No Agenda donation raffle winnings of $320 at Sunday's Indy and No Agenda... That's Ty Robinson.
	Well, where is Ty Robinson's note then?
	This is the line 20.
	Dude, I'm like setting up... You read this stuff.
	I'm setting up the meetup.
	Okay, I'm just saying you're the one that usually likes to take these.
	I don't want to take... With this lucky 888 Chinese New Year donation, I've become a knight.
	I'd like to claim the title of Sir Tai Defender of the Taiwan Singer of the YoPandaBandCamp.com.
	That's YoPanda with a dash dot bandcap dot com.
	Go over there and check it out.
	Sorry for the plug.
	Oh, OK.
	I'm sorry I did it then.
	But I know night titles are all you're guaranteed to read subproducer level.
	This is technically my entire advertising budget for the album.
	Maybe with my kids.
	Poor guy!
	Go see it.
	Check it out.
	Yo-panda.bandcap.com by reading that a second time.
	He says he's going to donate some of the money and we're going to jump down here at the round table like Mormon vices of wives.
	And Dr. Pepper, which they have in Texas, by the way, that's where it was invented.
	And only if Knight, with the encryption of mutton, and if only Knight, with the exception of mutton, please leave out everything else, as they aren't my style.
	Well, you don't have to take anything that's at the table.
	It's got a big, the big giant round thing, you spin it around and take what you want.
	Yeah, it's a Lazy Susan, what's your problem?
	I don't, that's what it is, it's a Lazy Susan.
	Or a Lazy Adam in this case.
	I don't want to waste good mead if no one's going to drink it.
	Oh, somebody'll drink it.
	Uh, Sir Ty, T-H-I-E, I spelled this way because my parents were too scared to do, so it, to do, to do it legally despite naming me after the country.
	Huh.
	Oh, T-Y-E, that's what I see.
	Ah, I see.
	Ah.
	All right, onward.
	Well, thank you, Ty.
	We're glad to sit at the round table.
	Another 888 comes in from Uh, Owen's story in Dallas and he says, please call out my mother, Kathy, as a douchebag.
	You heard him.
	You know what to do.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina, 8008.
	Boom.
	Aaron Groon in Meade, Nebraska, 8008.
	Ronald Shull in Lexington, Minnesota, 8008 with a birthday.
	Um, So he's doing a birthday thing because of somebody didn't do it, his wife.
	Kate Fisk in Upper Dicker.
	And if you've ever been to Upper Dicker, you know what I'm talking about.
	Kate Fisk, Upper Dicker, UK.
	And it's also a birthday coming in.
	And that, by the way, 5663 is upside down eggs.
	63 is upside down eggs.
	Huh?
	Okay.
	Yeah, it is.
	Sure.
	By the way, we gave Melanie Lawson a birthday call in the last show, but she'll get it again, apparently.
	Srinivas Murthy in Culpeper, Virginia, 5271.
	Claes Henry in Rancho Palos Verde, California, 5242.
	Casey Garrett in Weewahitchka, Florida, 5123.
	See Garrett in Wewahitchka, Florida, 5123.
	There's a birthday there.
	Forrest Martin, Parts Unknown, 1505.
	Andrew Ben, Sir Andrew, Imperial, Missouri, $50.05.
	Now the following people are $50 donors, name and location, if I have it.
	Daniel Laboy, Sir Daniel in Bath, Michigan.
	Julian Robbins in Aptos, California.
	Joseph Stark in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, PTC 21.
	Peter Landis in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	Asha?
	Manectela in Oakland, California.
	Robert Case in Mill Spring, North Carolina.
	Patrick McCombs, Sir Patrick in New York City.
	Christy Jones in Hollywood, Florida.
	Robert Hanna in Poway, California.
	Matt Dillingsworth in Montclair, New Jersey.
	Hey.
	Stefan Moegling in Richmond, Virginia.
	Stephen Crummey in El... You know, we've never had anyone from Hollywood, California donate.
	Stephen Crummey in El Cajon, California.
	Kathy Morose in Williamsport, Maryland.
	Michael Stratum, parts unknown.
	And last but not least is Jason Maurer in Vancouver, Washington.
	I want to thank these people for making this show 1523 a genuine reality.
	A very genuine reality, literally a reality, and thank you to all of those who came in under $50.
	That's where you're always going to be anonymous.
	We don't read below the $50, but it's also where people who survived the PayPalpocalypse still have subscriptions for sustaining donations.
	Those are highly appreciated.
	Certainly on, well, January has been a very slow month, but we do appreciate everyone.
	It's certainly the Our formula is this.
	Without hesitation, the executive and associate executive producers, those are your forever credits.
	You can use them anywhere that these credits or that any credits are recognized in the show business world.
	And if you'd like to find out how to become a producer of the No Agenda Show, here's a website to go check out.
	Thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show episode 1523.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	A make good night note from Drew Williams who says, In the morning, Adam and John, my No Agenda donation raffle winnings of $320 at Sunday's Indy NA Tribal Meetup has put me over the $1,000 level accounting below.
	Honored to have finally reached knighthood as an executive producer.
	So please knight me, sir.
	Andrew of Carmelot.
	Carmelot.
	Drew Williams, Carmel, Indiana.
	And please knight me, Sir Andrew... Oh, I got all that.
	Oh, he wants Putin on the Ritz as his one jingle.
	Yeah, I think I can find that one for you, since you are becoming a knight.
	I think we should do that for you.
	If you're blue and you don't know where there's fake news, why don't you get your Gitmo fix?
	Putin on the reds.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so much, yeah.
	Here's your list.
	Kate Fist says very happy birthday to her friend Melanie Lawson.
	Turns 50 tomorrow.
	Casey Garrett turns 26 tomorrow.
	Bill Durkin will be celebrating tomorrow on the 24th.
	And he also wishes his sister, Beth, and nephew, Patrick, a happy birthday for the 24th as well.
	Ronald Scholl turns 43 on the 25th.
	John Carlisle turns 40.
	And Ross Rebich, or Rebich, or Rebich, wishes his daughter, Marion, Marion, Marion, Marion Rebich, a happy birthday.
	She's turning 16.
	Thanks for the pronunciation guide.
	And happy birthday to all of you from the best podcasts in the universe.
	No title changes, but we do have one, two, three, two nights.
	And no, three nights, actually.
	Sandy's a man.
	So, here is a triple blade.
	You got a blade?
	There you go.
	Nice blade.
	Ti Robinson, Sandy McMahon, all of you up on the podium.
	You are now officially Knights of the Noah-Jenner Round Table.
	After I pronounce the K-V with your names, you are Sir Andrew of Carmelot, Sir Ty, defender of Taiwan, singer of YoPanda.Bandcamp.com.
	That's Yo-Panda.
	And Sir Knight who says, For you, we've got Hookers and Blows, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	Blows?
	It's new this time.
	Also, Bowl of Blunts and Your Swampiest Oldest Scots.
	We've got Mormon Vices of Wives and Dr. Pepper.
	Along with that, we've got Geishas and Sake, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils.
	Breast milk and pavelmen, of course.
	We have your mutton and mead.
	Head over to noagendersnation.com slash rings.
	Let us know where to send the ring.
	Let us know where to send that handsome sealing wax that makes it all look that much better when you seal your important correspondence with it.
	And, of course, we have the ever-important certificate of authenticity that is as thanks for becoming a knight.
	It also is for dames if you happen to be one, but not today, of the No Agenda Show.
	Thank you again for supporting us so much.
	We got a short list on the meetups.
	We got three dynamite reports.
	The first one did not make it on the last show.
	Oversight from the production crew.
	That would be me.
	This is the New Year meet-up report from 5-1-12, Texas.
	This is Baron Scott, Great White Hunter of Gitmo Nation.
	Farmer Chris here.
	I miss you Adam.
	This is Baron Chris in charge of the protectorate of North Austin.
	Sir Thoth of Valhalla.
	Will Curry here.
	This is Sean in the morning.
	This is Jason in the morning.
	This is Brendan from Local 512 in the morning.
	Adam and John, Zooey G here.
	First time at Meetup and I'm still trying to spot the spook.
	In the morning!
	It's a rub.
	Hi, this is Sven, in the morning.
	This is Sir Eric Nguyen, the New Nguyen Dynasty from Dallas, Texas.
	This is Sir John Lennon, patron saint of the hierarchies down here from Fort Worth.
	Happy New Year!
	Jay here, Sir C Sharp of .NET.
	Lost in Austin with the teensy bots!
	Thank you for your courage.
	Live from Austin, thanks for all y'all do in the community.
	Oh, this is great.
	Everybody should come out to every one of these you can.
	This is Keeper Christine.
	Happy New Year, Gitmo Nation.
	And nice to hear Farmer Chris there.
	Wish I had seen him.
	He's been around for a long time.
	We go to the Goat Karma meet-up.
	This is Local 33, the winter warm-up meet-up.
	And they've gotten so creative!
	Hello John and Adam, this is Sir CB coming to you from the Cornerstone Hunting Prime.
	Goat Karma producers local 33 winter warm-up meet-up.
	We're in Wyoming, Minnesota and having an absolute ball.
	This is Ryan, I came here for the hookers and blow and found good people.
	Acceptable compromise.
	In the morning this is anonymous Jamie and I am not the spook.
	Hi, this is Danger Ranger, a.k.a.
	Meryl.
	Thank you for your service.
	First meet-up!
	Hi, this is Lila from Lake City, the birthplace of water skiing, and I get the title for traveling the farthest.
	Mike from Nourishment in the morning!
	ITM John and Adam.
	This is Sir Bates.
	Stay safe.
	Greetings from South Minidishu.
	This is Jake.
	ITM.
	Circuitous route of the scooter clubs.
	ITM slaves.
	Hey guys, this is Alan Graves.
	I got hit in the mouth by Sir Corn McDonald in 2015.
	Once I found out JCD was involved, I hit him right back in the mouth.
	In the morning!
	Hey, I guess I'm the wrap-up girl.
	This is Sir CB Sugar Mama.
	Thank you very much.
	And thank you for your courage.
	Sir Corey McDonald in 2015.
	Once I found out JCD was involved, I hit him right back in the mouth.
	In the morning.
	Hey, I guess I'm the wrap-up girl.
	This is Sir Stevie Sugar Mama.
	Thank you very much.
	And thank you for your courage.
	In the morning.
	And the final meetup report comes to us from North Idaho, the Sanity Brigade.
	The North Idaho Sanity Brigade at the Selkirk Abbey with a meetup full of completely unprepared individuals, as always.
	I am completely unprepared for this.
	You always are.
	In the morning, Black Knight, Sir Ellie Fox here.
	Definitely identified as the spook almost immediately.
	No, immediately.
	Unless you hear it from the government, it is not true.
	ITM from DudeNamedJeff, the creator of the No Agenda Marketplace.
	And my Smokin' Hot girlfriend... Polly.
	David the Acupuncturist, get stabbed for your health.
	Spread the gold digger.
	Adam, ChadGBT is not that bad.
	It sucks, but it's not that bad.
	Northern Idaho, shapeshifting away the night and enjoying it.
	Good food, good people, good company.
	Woo!
	This is Jason, the Weightlifting Polack.
	Having a fantastic time with a bunch of great-ass people, drinking some fantastic beers.
	That should be...
	Meaningful.
	Fun.
	Meetup.
	Love you all.
	Oh, okay, the hooey-hooey made up for the disgusting burp.
	Keep it tight, people!
	Keep it tight!
	And comedy, it's hard.
	It's hard.
	At noagendameetups.com, this is where you can find your tribe, find the people who are part of the No Agenda family near you.
	If you can't find one near you, start one yourself!
	It's always guaranteed a party!
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the knights and dames.
	You wanna be where you want me Drink it or hell's the name You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Alright, alright, alright Lots of show for you.
	I've got a lot of show.
	Jam it all into one.
	Keep those donations short, people.
	It's good.
	Keep it like low numbers.
	It's very appreciated.
	A lot more show for you.
	Well, we can cut it short, that's the way I see it.
	No, I'm not going to cut anything short.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to cut anything short.
	What do you got for ISOs?
	That's a lot of damage!
	That's all I got.
	Horrible.
	What?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, I'm not going to say anything, but you've dropped the ball on this deal.
	No, what do you mean?
	I've had some really good ones.
	Oh, okay.
	How about this?
	I have two.
	You're not going to say anything, but you're going to lie, say I dropped the ball, and then you're going to say, okay.
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	Let's go with done.
	We are not yet done.
	I like that one.
	That's a good one.
	And then thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	No, I like we are not yet done.
	That's a great, that's a great ISO.
	You know.
	That's just a great ISO.
	What can I say?
	When you have a great ISO.
	We're not yet done.
	You have a great ISO.
	Unfortunately, we kind of have to, have to go to Russia.
	Uh, talk about some Russian stuff.
	Don't you think?
	Did you think it was, yeah, I have a bunch of kids too.
	So I, don't you think that old babushka when she goes on and on with your freedom and Stalin would have kicked your butt and all this, sounded a lot like Schwarzenegger?
	No.
	I think it's some Eastern European thing.
	It grew your freedom.
	All right, red alert, red alert, red alert, red alert.
	This happened in 2014.
	Red alert.
	Out of the war in Ukraine tonight and the Pentagon just announcing a short time ago a massive new round of military aid from the U.S.
	of 2.5 billion dollars worth.
	Including about 90 striker combat vehicles and 59 armored Bradleys, also known as tank killers.
	It comes as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Germany meeting with allies to try to provide even more assistance to this fight.
	And we have learned that CIA Director William Burns traveled to Kiev last week to meet with his Ukrainian intelligence counterparts, as well as President Zelensky to discuss continued U.S.
	support at this critical juncture in the war.
	The last time the CIA director went to Ukraine, it ended up poorly.
	Wait, you said this was from 2014?
	Yeah, in 2014 when Brennan went to Ukraine, the whole government got kicked out.
	They had the whole Maidan thing.
	So this is now, this is today.
	I thought the clip was from 2014, you introduced it peculiarly.
	No, you just weren't listening.
	I said, this happened in 2014, the same thing.
	Red alert, this is always a bad sign when the director of CIA, I don't know why he needs to go over there.
	There's no reason at all.
	Thank you.
	I have two clips that I want to get out of the way.
	I still can't figure out why Brendan was over there.
	What was he doing?
	Why did he have to be there?
	Why didn't they send somebody else?
	Why does the director have to put himself in that situation?
	It makes no sense.
	That's because something bad is going to happen.
	Why does he have to be there if something bad can't they do this without the guy himself?
	Literally going literally literally going there.
	I don't know.
	I don't know All I know is we we detect trends and that's a trend They take his blood or something and that has part of the part of the whole process.
	He has to be there until they have fresh blood to drink?
	Satanic ritual.
	Exactly.
	You nailed it.
	But it sounds like.
	You nailed it.
	Meanwhile, all the defense ministers of all of the world are at Rammstein Air Base in Germany.
	And they're discussing, well, they're discussing Germany being douchebags.
	Western military leaders meeting in Germany have failed to reach agreement on allowing German-made battle tanks to be sent to Ukraine.
	Going into the talks, Kiev was optimistic that Berlin would give approval for its powerful Leopard 2 tanks.
	There is something really weird going on.
	The Germans don't want to send their Leopard tanks.
	after the German defense minister said his country was still weighing the decision.
	The indecision sparked protests in Berlin and pleas from other countries to provide the weaponry.
	There is something really weird going on.
	The Germans don't want to send their leopard tanks.
	There's discord within the German parliament.
	Well, it's even more, yeah.
	And I think there's a couple of things going on.
	One, the EU is pissed with us.
	The EU is not happy.
	In fact, I have a clip here from Turkish radio and television, their international division, TRT, which gives a little bit of an explanation.
	The war between Ukraine and Russia already has a winner, the USA.
	We're number one!
	We're number one!
	True profits are causing tensions with its European allies.
	This is the problem.
	They are pissed that we're... I think they have to pay us for some of this stuff.
	They have to... There's some financial deal going on that we're unaware of.
	Well, I think what's happening is they have to give all of their crap, like we're doing, all the old crap.
	The Leopold tanks are not necessarily crap.
	It's a good tank.
	And then they have to buy new crap from our guys.
	We're putting our money not into Ukraine, we're putting our money into the military-industrial complex.
	Yeah, but we don't build that tank.
	No, but they're going to have to buy new tanks from us.
	I think that's what it's about.
	The war between Ukraine and Russia already has a winner, the USA.
	And America's financial profits are causing tensions with its European allies.
	Nice music.
	These are choices that will fragment the Occident.
	Because they create such differences between the United States and the Europe.
	And now, I must be very honest, brutally honest with you.
	Europe isn't strong enough right now.
	We would be in trouble without the United States.
	Top European officials are upset with Washington and accuse it of making a fortune from the war.
	Meanwhile, Europe is struggling with numerous consequences of the war.
	So what type of fortune are the Europeans talking about?
	Since the beginning of 2021, the U.S.
	has sent nearly 25 billion U.S.
	dollars in military aid to Ukraine, making it the largest supplier of weapons to the country.
	Ukraine will eventually have to pay some of that sum back with interest, as the country has contractually agreed to purchase weapons from American defense industry manufacturers.
	U.S.
	defense contractors are amongst the biggest winners of this conflict.
	Their stocks have climbed up by 38% since the beginning of the war.
	Meanwhile, European countries are being pressured by the U.S.
	to provide financial aid to Kiev.
	This can be seen as America's attempt to have some sort of financial guarantee in Ukraine.
	Ever since the war began, Europe has been forced to look for other energy suppliers than Russia.
	The US was kind enough to provide those services, but the price Europeans pay is almost four times higher than what Americans pay for the same fuel.
	Energy bills increased following Russia's restrictions of gas supplies to Europe.
	According to Europe's biggest gas and oil companies, higher bills are here to stay.
	With no end to the conflict in sight, Europeans will continue to be frustrated at the way the US is ignoring the impact of its policies on its European allies.
	And there you go.
	You with your yellow and blue flag, your yellow and blue emojis and profile emojis, you are helping the military-industrial complex screw Europe and Ukraine.
	Well done.
	Well done.
	We're number one, everybody.
	I don't think anybody sees it that way.
	They don't even know that the fax is an unhealthy product.
	No, but that... How many people do you think we've saved or created with this show?
	I think we've saved or created millions.
	Yeah, I would say... I agree.
	Maybe a hundred million.
	I'm not going to argue with that number.
	Let's go with the series of clips from PBS on this tank bull crap.
	And this is Ukraine Needs Tanks.
	Ukraine tonight is still battling through a winter of war and still appealing for tanks to help turn the tide against the Russians.
	The U.S.
	and dozens of other countries wrestled with that question for more than five hours today at a meeting in Germany.
	In the end, there was no agreement on providing tanks.
	They did agree to send hundreds of other armored vehicles, but Ukraine's leaders said they'll keep pressing for the tanks.
	Here, have some of these vehicles.
	These Bradleys.
	Yay!
	So, um...
	It also turns out these tanks are everywhere, these German tanks that have been sold to all kinds of countries, and these other countries want to give them to Ukraine, and we've nixed that too.
	We're the ones behind nixing it.
	Of course.
	No, no, no, no, you can't give it, no, no, no, we've got to get rid of these Bradleys.
	It's got to be our tanks, our stuff, we've got to get rid of our stuff.
	We've got to get rid of these Bradleys.
	No, not our tanks, we don't give them our tanks either.
	Wait, wait, wait, do you think that Lloyd Austin, do you think that he threatened the Germans?
	You better not be selling those tanks.
	Well, somebody had to threaten him.
	Let's go to part two.
	Wait, he said, at the US base in Rammstein, Germany?
	Rammstein, yeah.
	Where we just have a base in your backyard?
	We are horrible!
	I'm saying, come on, some of us are.
	Well, not us.
	We're number one.
	Ukraine will soon receive an unprecedented amount of new weapons systems thanks to a deal made by a group of some 50 nations today.
	But the weapons do not include the one item that Ukraine calls its priority, Western tanks.
	Nick Schifrin reports.
	For Ukraine's Western military... Wait, stop the clip.
	I love a clip that starts like that.
	Okay.
	This clip is loaded with that sort of thing.
	And it's actually, I was thinking of pulling it.
	If I pull it all, it'd be a good one minute of sound effects of guns.
	I agree with you.
	This is the way to do it.
	Here's my question, though.
	It's more than that stupid music that the Turks are playing.
	What kind of gun is it?
	I don't know.
	It's whatever it is on the CBS sound effects album.
	It sounds like an AK-47.
	No, that's faster.
	The weapons do not include the one item that Ukraine calls its priority.
	Western tanks.
	Nick Schifrin reports.
	That's a .50 cal, that's a .50 cal.
	That's your AK-47.
	And back to the sound effects for CBS.
	For Ukraine's western military, support today was the best of times and the worst of times.
	For the first time, the U.S.
	will send Stryker armored personnel carriers.
	That's in addition to hundreds more Bradley fighting vehicles and European armored vehicles designed to provide Ukraine with the fundamental building blocks for how modern armies fight.
	It's a major upgrade to Ukraine's mostly Soviet-era armor, Dude, we actually sent all that old crap there.
	They're playing a...
	Wow.
	Kyiv, try and re-seize.
	By the way, I didn't want to just interrupt where he's talking about how a modern army fights and all the rest of it.
	This is the same gear that we took away from the Marines.
	Oh, I've gotten so many emails from Marines who say, we're always getting screwed.
	We always have to fight for our own stuff, but we never get anything.
	And remind me, I've got to mention something about that right after this.
	Territory.
	Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
	This is a very, very capable package.
	Oh, package!
	If employed properly, it will enable them to be successful.
	But Ukraine did not get the item it says it most needs.
	Western tanks.
	There are 2,000 German Leopard 2 tanks across Europe.
	Germany today resisted calls to send its own tanks or allow other countries to re-export their Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
	Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
	And I can thank you hundreds of times.
	And it will be absolutely just and fair, given all that we have already done.
	But hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of tanks.
	Hundreds of what?
	Hundreds of weapons or something.
	I thought he said hundreds of thank you.
	Oh yeah, maybe he said that.
	Play it again.
	Absolutely, just in fear, given all that we have already done.
	But, but, hundreds of thank you are not hundreds of thanks.
	Yeah, that's what he said.
	Hundreds of thank you.
	Hundreds of thank you, yeah, are not hundreds of thanks.
	That's pretty cute.
	Can I just interject real quick about the Marines?
	Because you brought it up.
	Please.
	So the Marines, if we go back to the problem with the Marines is they were going to be stationed in Japan.
	And the Marines rightly say, hey, you know, we're like... By the way, let's get it straight, stationed in Japan as sitting ducks?
	Stationed in Japan, where typically they go out, you know, they're quick, quick force, they go out, they do stuff, they store stuff locally if they have to, they bring their satchel of stuff with them, but they're not really meant to be stationed far away, certainly not as sitting ducks.
	The Global Times, this is what I was looking for, This is what's going on.
	It blew me away, this analysis.
	Japan risks turning itself into the Ukraine of Asia if it follows the US strategic line.
	Think about it.
	Wouldn't it be perfect?
	So, we already boosted the military-industrial complex by leaving everything in Afghanistan.
	Now we're getting rid of all the other crap we still had, boosting the military-industrial complex, as long as it takes war in Ukraine, which we completely antagonized and started, and please don't give me the Russia cut off their oil and gas is bullcrap.
	That's not the historical fact.
	And now, oh, I got an idea.
	Let's have China Go to war with Japan!
	They have some history.
	And, you know, we'll have the Marines over there, and this will be the new Ukraine, the new theater.
	There's something to it.
	Okay, I think, well, the problem with the thesis, I like the thesis in the long term, but there has to be a conflagration between China and Taiwan first.
	And so what you do is you set that up, goad them into that, so you get that little skirmish going, and so then the Chinese decide to go after Japan to distract us.
	I just can't see Japan being a primary target, that's all.
	The military-industrial complex are insane.
	You think?
	Well, I just want people to understand.
	They're insane.
	They do not care about life.
	All they care about is more money for themselves.
	Money?
	Money.
	And it's evil.
	It is pure evil.
	Alright.
	I would recommend, again, the movie, Pentagon Arm... I think, what is it called?
	Pentagon War.
	Pentagon Wars.
	And War is a Racket by Smedley Butler, the book.
	Read that while you're at it.
	Yeah, it's a classic.
	Anyway.
	Okay, onward with clip three.
	Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
	The Germans are defending themselves against this like a devil protects himself against holy water.
	The U.S.
	and Europe are upgrading Soviet-era tanks.
	But the U.S., too, has refused to send its own M1 Abrams tanks.
	U.S.
	officials say its jet engine and jet fuel make it unsustainable.
	Germany's government says they'll only approve tanks as part of what they call a transatlantic lockstep decision.
	We don't fear anything.
	We have just responsibility for our population in Germany and in Europe.
	And we have to balance all the pros and cons before we decide things like that.
	There's a reason you have tanks.
	The tank can absorb hits from almost anything.
	Retired General Ben Hodges is the former commander of the U.S.
	Army in Europe.
	The gun it has, the commander's stationed ability to find targets, it's unsurpassed.
	So whether it's an Abrams or a Leopard, that kind of capability would be needed as part of the spearhead.
	Point of personal privilege with a question?
	Yes.
	Is it a leopard tank, a Leopold tank, or as this guy said, a Leopard?
	Which one is it?
	Well, I think it's pronounced... Well, I always thought it was a leopard tank, but when he said Leopord, which is like Prince Leopold from the, you know, the 1800s or something, now I don't know.
	I think it's Leopold with an L. And that guy said something completely different.
	Well, let's look... You know what?
	unlike other podcasts.
	Here we go.
	And you know while we're at it, we'll do GPT. .
	Can I be of assistance?
	Yes, chat GPT.
	Is it a Leopold tank, a Leopard tank, or Leopord?
	It's... Is it typing?
	Yes, it's typing.
	It's very slow because the system is overloaded because people are, you know, having it create art.
	It's Leopard.
	L-E-O-P-A-R-T.
	Leopard.
	But I've heard them say Leopold.
	No, I've heard an Ellen there from time to time.
	Well, let me go with this.
	Wikipedia with L-E-O-P-A-R-D 2.
	The Leopard 2 is a third-generation main battle tank originally developed by Krauss-Meffel in the 1970s for the West German Army.
	The tank entered service and it goes on and on.
	It doesn't have a T?
	No.
	Then why are people saying Leopold?
	I hear them say Pold.
	Maybe I'm just biased.
	I'm hearing it.
	Maybe the guy who was on PBS is full of crap.
	Yeah, how about that?
	When the U.S.
	Army fights, it uses what it calls combined arms.
	Infantry, artillery, but also tanks that the U.S.
	sells all over the world.
	U.S.
	officials say that M1 Abrams tanks are too difficult for Ukraine to maintain.
	The Abrams has a jet engine, requires a jet fuel.
	Oh.
	What's your response to that?
	I think these are a series of statements that are not terribly inaccurate, but it's sort of a condescending attitude, and I would say, let the Ukrainians figure it out.
	They can figure out how to do the fuel.
	We do it.
	Egyptians do it.
	Saudis do it.
	It will enable the Ukrainians to be successful.
	The U.S.
	says its long-term goal is to give Ukraine the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.
	It doesn't use the word victory.
	The problem is the Secretary never says what success is.
	And to me, this has been the missing thing all along.
	Instead of saying we want to help Ukraine win, We talk around that a little bit.
	If we don't get that part right here, this war will go on a lot longer than it could.
	On German tanks, the National Security Council spokesman said today the U.S.
	was not, quote, arm-twisting Germany, but working inside the coalition to provide Ukraine what it needs.
	All right.
	All right.
	I'm kind of bored of the tanks now.
	Well, let's go to some more analysis.
	Let's go to, uh, this is a, uh, I'm sorry, it's still about tanks.
	Yeah.
	We're going to be hearing about tanks for a month.
	No, not on this show.
	After this, no more tank talk.
	Okay, if you say so.
	I will avoid the tank talk and I won't wear the tank top.
	So let's go as B.A.
	and Analyst One.
	Welcome to Tank Talk.
	For more on all this, we turn to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahl.
	This guy.
	Joins us from the Pentagon.
	Colin Kahl, welcome back to the NewsHour.
	As we heard from the Secretary of Defense earlier and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the goal of the weapons packages that the U.S.
	and allies have announced in the last day are to conduct what the U.S. calls combined arms in order for Ukraine to liberate occupied territory.
	And yet a key component of combined arms is the tanks.
	So are you tying one of Ukraine's arms behind its back by not providing those Western tanks?
	Look, I think the main message coming out of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which was this meeting of more than four dozen countries at Ramstein Air Base, was one of unity and solidarity in support of Ukraine.
	This is – huh?
	This guy is one of those bureaucrats that just talks a good game, probably a total know-nothing, and works for, of course, Lloyd Austin.
	Where's the analysis?
	There's no analysis whatsoever.
	Here we go.
	As the lead-in noted, we announced a package in the last 24 hours of $2.5 billion of additional assistance.
	That brings the total to close to $27 billion since Russia's... Bullshit!
	Bullshit!
	We're over $100 billion!
	Yeah, I know.
	invasion last February.
	All told, allies and partners have provided enough armor for several mechanized brigades.
	So as Secretary of Defense Austin made clear, we do believe that we are providing
	So as Secretary of Defense Austin made clear, we do believe that we are providing Ukraine the capabilities in combination with the training to allow them to change the dynamic on the battlefield and really move away from the kind of trench-style warfare that we're seeing in places like Bakhmut and Solidar to, you know, being better able to combine fire and maneuver.
	This is a sales guy.
	He's a sales guy.
	You think?
	And what is he talking about?
	What trench warfare are we talking about?
	That's the third time you said you think.
	I did?
	Yeah, you got it.
	I'm saying you think?
	Yeah.
	Oh, I remember saying it the first time.
	Yeah.
	Just saying.
	Just saying, this is the second time you've said that.
	No, I haven't said it at all!
	I haven't said it at all!
	Let's go back to tank talk!
	Brigades, of course, an average of about 3,500 troops each, kind of the building blocks for how the U.S.
	thinks about how to fight.
	But, didn't we see at the beginning of the war what happens when you don't conduct combined arms?
	The Russians, after all, did it piecemeal and the Ukrainians picked them apart.
	So, is there still the ability for Ukraine to conduct what the U.S.
	calls combined arms?
	What station did this air on?
	It's PBS.
	It's your PBS.
	It's a network.
	So this guy, the questioner, the interviewer, is also in the sales business.
	He's leading this witness.
	Without these Western things.
	Hold on a second.
	Also, this new term has come up, which has been hounded.
	They pound this term on the show.
	Combined arms.
	Yeah, what does that mean?
	It means you got a tank, you got a battery of missiles, you got some Patriots, you got a small airplane, a Piper Cub, a bunch of M-16s.
	It's like a party favors package.
	Yeah.
	Combined arms.
	Combined arms.
	I have no doubt that the Ukrainians can engage in combined arms warfare.
	But it's not just about stuff.
	It's about the training.
	The collective training in particular.
	We're working alongside... Oh, yeah.
	This is... Look, we are... We're building new hardware...
	We gotta get some more money with the training!
	Shoot, I'm sorry.
	I should have known better.
	Cannon Gauge and Combined Arms Warfare, but it's not just about stuff.
	It's about the training, the collective training in particular.
	We're working alongside...
	The reason that Boeing was in there, because the way he said it is as though... We're not talking about the Fort Sill people.
	And I'll just say on the tanks issue...
	Wait, stop.
	Maneuver warfare.
	The reason that Boeing was in there, because the way he said it is as though...
	We're not talking about the Fort Sill people.
	No, we're working in the field.
	He sounds like we got men on the ground in Ukraine.
	We do.
	And if it's not our own guys, it's mercenaries...
	There's mercs everywhere.
	You know, we saw from the German defense minister today that they're still engaged in ongoing deliberations on the leopards.
	We know that there are more than a dozen countries that also have leopard tanks, and they're having conversations with Germany.
	So I think we just have to let this process play out.
	Oh, let the sales process play out.
	Hey, wouldn't it be great if we got an audit from the Pentagon just to kind of know, you know, what the money... Oh, I'm sorry!
	We haven't had an audit from the Pentagon in... 25 years at least?
	Forever.
	Forever?
	Mm-hmm.
	Okay, well I'm then... Before I wind this up with some fun non-tank talk clips...
	The military-industrial complex is screwing over more European nations.
	You will recall that Australia suddenly started to buy our ships instead of the French ships?
	Remember that, Fruckus?
	Oh, yeah, that was a good... That was a dynamite, uh, gimmick.
	There's another one!
	Meanwhile, the federal government will unveil plans to secure 40 new Blackhawk helicopters for the Australian Army.
	The $2.8 billion purchase will replace the Defence Force's troubled fleet of 41 European-made Taipan helicopters.
	French.
	Headland capability for the army.
	Major General Jeremy King says the Blackhawk has a proven track record for reliability backed up by the robust supply chain.
	So, thank you Airbus makes those French helicopters.
	Okay.
	So, screwed you there too Frenchies.
	You know, the French... No wonder these guys are irked at us.
	They hate us.
	Of course.
	Well, they can't sell for crap.
	Get a clue, people.
	They don't know how to sell.
	That's their problem.
	I mean, that's all it is.
	Oh, goodness.
	Okay.
	Let me just go through three quick clips here just to bring us up to speed on some important things, such as the demise of Houston, Texas.
	And welcome back to the second half hour of The Factor Uncensored.
	It's been a notorious McDonald's on Main Street near downtown Houston.
	People nearby, residents, wanted to go but couldn't because of the aggressive homeless population and panhandlers who seemed to hold America's favorite fast food restaurant hostage.
	Things became so bad at the burger stop that some nicknamed it Crack Donalds and McStabby.
	We're caught up with some...
	I like McStabby personally.
	I love it!
	Crack Donalds and McStabby.
	Now, France 24.
	The European news is sometimes very good.
	This is France 24.
	With a quick review of the UK's online safety bill.
	Now, this is the bill that is supposed to keep us all, supposed to keep the British people safe from, I don't know, disinformation and horrible things that can happen to you online while you're on your phone.
	You know, and maybe someone's bullying you.
	Let's see what is on deck for the UK people.
	Well, it's time now for Tech 24 with Peter O'Brien.
	Hi, Peter.
	Hi, Muncy.
	So we're talking about online safety, in particular the UK's online safety bill, which made some significant steps this week.
	Well, the major news was that an amendment means that executives at tech firms could face prison in the UK for up to two years if they fail to protect children online.
	But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
	A lot of things have been made criminal in this bill.
	It's now passed the House of Commons and is in the House of Lords.
	These include cyberflashing, which is sending obscene content to strangers online.
	Often this is done by AirDrop, the Apple app.
	Deepfakes, which superimpose people's faces onto pornography.
	And downblousing, it's pretty obvious what that is, taking photos down a woman's top.
	What happened to Upskirt?
	We went from Upskirt to Downblasting!
	I was thinking the same thing!
	This is a travesty!
	So what's not in the law then?
	Well, a previous version wanted to address content which is legal, but harmful.
	So things like disinformation, racism, misogyny.
	In the end, this was taken out after lobbying from free speech advocates.
	Oh, not those free speech advocates!
	The platforms are now required to remove content if it infringes their terms of service.
	How has the bill been received?
	One foundation that's not very happy is the Wikimedia Foundation, which of course looks after Wikipedia.
	Rebecca McKinnon, Vice President for Global Advocacy, told the BBC that the threat of harsh new penalties that the online safety bill brings will not affect just big corporations, but also volunteer-led sites like Wikipedia.
	And there are also concerns What do they do?
	Are they doing downblousing on Wikipedia?
	How bad can it be on Wikipedia?
	I'm looking up Rebecca McKinnon now to see if she has a big top.
	...increased age verification that the bill would require.
	Some experts say the internet simply isn't built for such mass age verification in a way which is secure.
	There it is.
	That's what it's all about.
	Age verification, digital ID.
	It's coming, people.
	Get ready for it.
	It already was in Alabama, I think.
	If a website has more than 33% pornography on it, you have to use a government state approved ID to go on this website.
	They're insane.
	This is where it's going.
	You can't stop it.
	Learn how to use Tor, people.
	And now, this was my favorite, not a lot of people reported on Janet Yellen.
	Significant issues.
	Right now, as you know, we're out of money.
	The debt limit needs to be raised.
	Janet Yellen herself said last Thursday, we're going to have to start doing drastic measures because now we're out of money.
	We can't borrow anymore from the banks.
	The Federal Reserve will print it up and make it so we can borrow it and pay them back interest.
	Why we do that, I don't know.
	So what would you do if you're Janet Yellen?
	Would you be Head down, trying to talk to lawmakers, trying to convince them, hey, you know, we got to do something.
	Is that what you would do if you were Janet Yellen?
	Would you be here?
	I'd be drinking.
	Pouting the continent's enormous economic potential, U.S.
	Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen kicked off her 10-day trip to Africa on Friday.
	It's Washington's latest attempt to extend its sphere of influence in the region in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
	Russia's barbaric aggression against its neighbor is particularly being felt by Africa and its people.
	What?
	Russia's war and weaponization of food has exacerbated food insecurity and caused untold suffering.
	And the global economic headwinds caused by the actions of a single man.
	I love this.
	So not only is Europe in trouble, Ukraine is being decimated, and I mean that in the right sense of the word.
	But Putin, Putin himself is now, is now screwing up Africa.
	This man is so powerful for a dead man walking with his cancer and all his other ailments.
	It's amazing!
	It's the first high-profile visit of a senior US official this year, but by no means the last with the President, Vice President Kamala Harris and other cabinet secretaries expected to visit the continent in 2023.
	In December, President Joe Biden hosted the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the first since 2014, where he announced that the U.S.
	would commit 55 billion U.S.
	dollars to the continent over the next three years.
	But even as the U.S.
	tries to get African countries on side, on Thursday, Mali's position was clear.
	Its latest shipment of warplanes and helicopters from Russia arrived in Bamako following similar deliveries in March and August last year.
	Ensuring the security of the Malian population is not a luxury, but a necessity.
	As Mali's relationship with Paris and the West soured, the junta has increasingly turned to the Kremlin to fight the country's growing jihadist insurgency.
	There you go.
	It's the Russians.
	The Russians are selling their warplanes to Mali and other countries in Africa.
	I mean, the more We move forward in time in the future, the more it's the same.
	It's all the same.
	Yeah.
	It's a bunch of hustlers.
	The hustlers, exactly.
	And shame on all of the Uniparty in Washington D.C.
	who are allowing this to happen, probably benefiting from it.
	I don't hear a single person saying, you know, this is kind of fucked up.
	They're not allowing it, they're wanting it.
	Yes, that's my point.
	It's so disappointing.
	Because it's always the same.
	Okay, well that was uplifting.
	No, it wasn't, I'm sorry.
	I have an uplifting clip for you and this will be my last one.
	I am, let me see, I'm happy someone caught this for me.
	Let me see, where is he?
	This is Reverend Al.
	We don't get something good from Reverend Al, usually, but he's back, baby.
	He's back.
	Can't Democrats at least crack a little smile when you look at the fact that the Oversight Committee really has set themselves up with conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, weirdos, political freaks?
	Um, so yeah, there is that, you know, snorting water kind of moment.
	But, you know, I think the administration is going to be ultimately the adult in the room because of what's going to be opposite them.
	You know, they're just by default going to be the adult in the room.
	But I think you have to be careful that you look like an adult.
	What you don't want to look like is that you're just as immature and giddy or jitty as those that... There it is!
	He corrects himself from a giddy to a jitty!
	Don't want to look like is that you're just as immature and giddy.
	Right.
	Giddy as those that.
	Yeah.
	The GOP infighting is.
	Yeah.
	Political says Democrats are outright giddy.
	Yeah.
	So he says the word correctly.
	And then he corrects himself.
	And so he corrects it to his stupid pronunciation.
	You know why?
	You know why?
	Gif and gif.
	That's why.
	Let me give those boys from No Agenda something to play.
	That's what he's thinking.
	Rev.
	Al loves us, man.
	He loves us.
	He loves us.
	Well, he's a lover, not a hater.
	Yes, he sure is.
	Wow, I'm totally exhausted from this show.
	I don't know why.
	Too much war.
	Too much... You were tense over the system going down again.
	But the Tank Talk, that really just took it all out of me, man.
	Too much Tank Talk.
	Tank Talk.
	Where's Tank Girl when you need her?
	Sounds like a new podcast.
	Tank Talk.
	Tank Talk.
	That sounds like a jingle coming up.
	How long will the tank talk last?
	End of show mix is Tom Starkweather, Si Ong Lee, Matty J, and Leo Lapuke, who's back.
	Nice to have you back, Leo.
	Coming up next, we have a live show on NoahJennerStream.com called The Funny Thing About Murder.
	Phoenix hosting us.
	All right.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in FEMA region number six in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where it's now clear, there's not a cloud in the sky.
	Kind of chilly, but it's nice.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Until then, adios mofos for the hooey hooey and such.
	We, a select group of human beings, by far is not fabulous.
	This is the third lowest growth rate in the last decades.
	This is a planetary crisis.
	Which media are you with?
	I am an independence journalist from the Philippines.
	Mass extinction, air pollution, undermining ecosystem functions.
	It's pretty extraordinary.
	Great.
	And particularly important, the level of collaboration between the private sector and the government.
	Time to check in with our lizard overlords in Davos, Switzerland.
	What are they up to?
	Peaceful, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable.
	I think we're going to have to think about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online, you know, from freedom of speech to the freedom to, you know, to be free from online violence.
	Almost extraterrestrial.
	Or even more.
	What do you think about on your yacht, sir?
	Have a nice day.
	We have to act!
	It's pretty extraordinary.
	Those who are just bystanders, observers, and even go into the negative, critical, and confrontational.
	That's what we're using as an open sewer!
	Have a nice day.
	Thank you very much.
	Combating a triple threat.
	Myocarditis.
	Increased risk of stroke.
	Disinformation.
	This is where we plan to pause the vaccine rollout.
	There's a lot of uncertainty at the moment about what's causing the excess deaths.
	Covid mRNA vaccines do carry a cardiovascular risk.
	Safe and effective.
	The original trials of Pfizer and Moderna with mRNA vaccines showed the absolute risk of serious adverse events was at least 1 in 800.
	Safe and effective.
	Combating a triple thrash.
	Myocarditis.
	Increased risk of stroke.
	Disinformation.
	A biased vaccine poses a true risk.
	When did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?
	What about the sudden deaths?
	How many boosters do you think it'll take for you to be happy enough with your earnings?
	What do you have to say about young men dropping dead of heart attacks?
	Two and a half billion dollars, Strykers, Bradleys, a series of other vehicles, and a number of other countries making other, some very large contributions to Ukraine's defense.
	The question, however, by Vladimir Zelensky kept coming back to tanks.
	The United Kingdom's government has confirmed that it will be the first NATO country to supply its ally with Western tanks.
	A bunch of pig-eaters wearing towels on their head trying to find reverse on a Soviet tank.
	Big, heavy, expensive, gas-guzzling logistical nightmares.
	For German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the tanks question is a red, red line.
	Germany has not yet approved its own tanks.
	We want to see the U.S.
	send their own tanks first.
	The United Kingdom sending their tanks was simply not enough.
	Germany and I suffered the pressure.
	So the battle tank the American military built to fight the Soviets in Europe is not appropriate to fight the Russians in Europe.
	President Putin could end this war today.
	It's he started it.
	It's his war of choice.
	And he could end it today.
	Bill Burns, the CIA director.
	Bill Burns briefed Ukrainian President Zelensky in Kyiv last week.
	The secret meeting comes as U.S.
	officials are closely monitoring potential Russian offensive in the coming months.
	Offensive operation to liberate as much Ukrainian territory as possible.
	Don't even think about putting on one single inch of NATO territory.
	America's leadership and prestige depend Not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interest of world peace and human betterment.
	I am a hard coal miner.
	I'm a terrible shot.
	I used to be a lifeguard.
	I used to drive a tractor-trailer.
	I was in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping.
	God's true God traveled over 1,250,000 miles on that track.
	250,000 miles on that track.
	When I was a law professor.
	Quite an awful lot of them, including me, I have bronchioliasma.
	Inside the green zone where I've been seven times and shot at.
	Went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class.
	Graduated with three degrees.
	I got involved in the civil rights movement.
	I was appointed to the academy.
	I'd be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you'd like.
	I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do.
	I was the only guy, only white guy to work on this side.
	I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN ambassador.
	I'm a civil rights man.
	I was the only lifeguard in the project.
	I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community.
	Joe Biden over and over and over again just makes things up.
	They think I'm kidding, man.
	I wasn't arrested, I was stopped.
	I was not an activist.
	I was not out marching.
	I was not down in Selma.
	I was not anywhere else.
	Because I'm so damn old.
	Joe Biden now concedes he did not graduate in the top half of his law school class, that he does not have three degrees from college.
	Joe Biden ranks 76th in a class of 85.
	I swear to God, true story.
	I swear to God, true story.
	True story.
	This is God's truth.
	My word is a bite.
	Joe Braden and I agree.
	Not a joke.
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