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1542: Digital Dementia

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	Electronic brain.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 30th, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1542.
	This is no agenda.
	Pausing all RAI and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 68.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley where I just got the good news that I'm eligible for 0% interest on all my credit cards if I just press 1.
	I'm John C. DuBois.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	And then you took it off the hook.
	Tell me that, please.
	After you pressed one and you took advantage of that great opportunity.
	I had so many calls this morning that I just had no problem taking it off the hook.
	You know, in maybe, let's see, in maybe about four years, one day that phone's going to ring and it's going to be me.
	And I'm going to say, are you interested in a reverse mortgage?
	I guarantee you.
	It's going to be me.
	And you're going to want to take advantage of that excellent opportunity.
	Wow.
	Did I lose you?
	That's why we're gone.
	Oh, you're back.
	I was like, wow, you really didn't like my joke, I guess.
	I have you again.
	Are you with me?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Real quiet today, I guess.
	Not getting any noise.
	What do you mean?
	No noise where?
	Over the line, because you think I'm not here.
	Oh, you were just being quiet.
	Yeah.
	Well, hi.
	Well, what do you think?
	Are we going to stop the AI?
	Are we going to have transgender war?
	I'd like to start it off.
	Let's start it off with the AI, just so we can go kind of in a fun direction first.
	I have a 4-series clip on the AI.
	Oh, beautiful!
	Let me play a 33-second overview.
	More than 1,300 tech industry leaders, researchers and others are now asking for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence to consider the risks.
	Wait a minute.
	I already am feeling that you and I are on the same page with this.
	are among those who signed a letter calling for a six-month break in the race to develop more powerful AI.
	Musk and others say advanced AI, which allows computers to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, could pose, quote, profound risk to society and humanity.
	Wait a minute.
	I already am feeling that you and I are on the same page with this.
	This is the biggest steaming pile of horse crap ever, is my feeling.
	Bye.
	Well, there's a who-are-they-kidding aspect to it.
	Oh, let's all stop for six months.
	The first thing I thought when I heard that was Elon Musk wants everyone to stop so he can catch up.
	That was the first thought I had.
	Hey, hey, Waz says stop.
	The smartest people on the earth, John, have signed this letter, including Andrew Yang.
	He's probably behind it.
	Yeah, you're not kidding.
	Well, let's go to the AI Freakout series.
	So this is the AI Freakout intro.
	This is the intro.
	Stop training artificial intelligence, at least temporarily.
	That's what over a thousand very notable individuals want.
	They are AI researchers, CEOs, and tech leaders like Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak.
	They signed an open letter that states that AI could profoundly change the history of life on Earth.
	I just have to put this into perspective.
	You know my feelings about Elon Musk.
	Unfortunately, we're not right now.
	Instead, it says we're in an all out of control race to develop systems that no one can understand, predict or control.
	So I just have to put this into perspective.
	You know my feelings about Elon Musk.
	He may be a great sales guy and he may be a great, you know, like I was calling the Kim Kardashian of tech.
	Is he a great tech leader?
	Is he such an incredible visionary?
	I mean he he bought an electric car company and marketed that very successfully Got into rocketry when NASA was out of it.
	So that was very smart and You know, it's not like a huge visionary thing unless you're in the loop on where the money's flowing.
	And Wozniak, with all respect for the Apple Computer Company, he also loved the Segway.
	You know, it's like, these are not the smartest people in technology as far as I'm concerned.
	And you're bumping your mic.
	I'm just gonna say it and I'll shut up about it.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, there have been people on that list that are smart, but who?
	I don't know what the point is.
	This is a publicity stunt, but I don't know what the point of it is.
	I mean, Elon Musk is getting a lot of publicity.
	Wozniak doesn't have anything for sales that I know of.
	I mean, he's involved in some little groups, but I don't know what the point is.
	And let's go to part two.
	So they want everyone to immediately pause training for all systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least 6 months.
	They want the pause to be both public and verifiable.
	Not just that, they even want world governments to potentially step in and implement a moratorium.
	We talked to someone who signed the letter, AI researcher Alexander De Ritter, also a frequent NTD contributor.
	De Ritter says a six-month pause is necessary.
	It doesn't stifle AI research as a whole, and it gives the government time to work closely with regulators.
	AI is a very complex topic.
	De Ritter says that the pause would only work if every country commits to it.
	Because if some pauses and some don't, the countries that don't will have an unfair advantage in the AI race.
	So what are the pros and cons for a six-month pause?
	We get some experts to weigh in.
	The Executive Director of Harvard in Tech, Christa Alenzo, says AI is like a train on the loose with no guardrails.
	She supports the letter.
	AI has tremendous capabilities and it could cause a lot of problems for people, whether it's cybersecurity issues, phishing scams, or even disinformation.
	We really need to get a hold of what is going on when it comes to open source AI, specifically chat GPT, which is a huge problem.
	What?
	What?
	What is she talking about?
	We already have phishing scams.
	We already have all these other things that she says AI's got something to do.
	What is AI gonna do to make phishing scams any different than they already are?
	All I keep hearing is how dangerous it's gonna be and all I see is stuff that's wrong.
	I just, for me, it's like maybe...
	They've come to the collective realization that this is not ready for prime time.
	It, you know, it doesn't really work all that great.
	I mean, how many more pictures do I need to see with people with 18 fingers before, you know, and I can't, someone even made one of me.
	Here's Adam Curry in the mid range.
	I mean, Tina looked at it.
	I had it.
	Tina looked at this and said, this is not you.
	I see that right away.
	I have a picture.
	I should have put this in the last newsletter.
	I'm going to put it in the next one.
	So, Bing or one of these guys have got this art creation thing that you can subscribe to.
	Yeah.
	So, I started asking.
	I wouldn't do a lot of stuff.
	So, I decided to use you as the model.
	Hello, hello, I'm perfect for a model.
	Oh yeah, and so I said I want to see Adam Curry kissing a bear.
	No, we can't have anything like that.
	Okay, I want to see... Wait a minute, it wouldn't let you do that?
	It said no, that's verboten, you can't have that?
	Yeah.
	Because it would have been some big biker dude, you know, big hairy biker dude, or you meant a real bear.
	Well, I just said bear.
	I didn't specify what kind.
	So then I said, I want to see Adam Curry riding a bear.
	So it gave me an image.
	Of some guy that looked a lot like Fabio.
	Nothing like you.
	It didn't look like you at all.
	And I know there's enough pictures on the web that they could have cobbled together a picture of you.
	No.
	This was not a picture of you.
	John, hold on.
	It was a picture of some ridiculous looking character who was just too good looking riding this stylized bear.
	I didn't do it because I had other things to talk about in the newsletter.
	I was gonna run it, and if you saw it, you'd go, yeah, good, I think they nailed it.
	You would, because it's just like some ridiculous picture.
	You know, again... But it's a lie!
	It's not you, it's not, you know... So what I think is happening here is that And I'm gonna focus a little bit here, and I want you to continue with these clips.
	I just want to say, we know that Disney just fired 7,000 people.
	They fired the entire Metaverse division.
	Why?
	Because Metaverse was yesterday's news.
	You don't hear a single thing about Metaverse.
	Four billion dollars.
	Thrown away by Zuckerberg and his, you know, this dream he had, which was never going to come to fruition.
	It was a bad idea.
	It was just a pipe dream of his.
	So everyone now, especially with chat GPT, everyone's tripping over themselves.
	Google barf, you know, sucks.
	Everything, it all sucks.
	It's not good.
	Yeah, I know.
	You have to be a prompt engineer.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	I think they all realize that they're going to go broke.
	There's no advertising model on this.
	You have to actually pay for it.
	It costs a lot of money for this currently.
	They're all going to go broke in this.
	They've created an AI war amongst the tech companies and they all said, oh, you know what?
	We should stop this insanity, regroup so that we can still have a business model.
	That's what I think.
	They know it's no good.
	Okay, I think that's valid.
	That's why they want to maybe stop for six months.
	No one's stopping for six months, so it doesn't make any difference what they want.
	So let's go to clip three.
	On the other side of the argument, a six-month pause could stall progress.
	We've talked to expert Adnan Massoud.
	He's the chief AI architect at UST.
	He has a PhD in machine learning and he's Microsoft's MVP in AI.
	AI landscape is highly competitive and research and organizations around the world are creating more and more advanced systems.
	And there is an inevitability of progress.
	Technological advancements are inevitable.
	Attempting to halt progress will only delay the issues at hand.
	You want to empower the AI research organizations who are already deeply concerned about the ethical implications and the potential risk of these advanced AI systems.
	In Austin, which according to sources is supposed to be the center of all things AI, they're now trying to hire AI engineers starting salary $300,000 to $500,000.
	This is out of control.
	And I know a lot of people, particularly our audience, are going, you don't know what you're talking about, Curry.
	This is the future.
	You're not going to know.
	Every single AI thing that I've seen, my brain, which I think I only use, what, 12% of?
	I got a lot of space left over.
	And already my brain is seeing the pig.
	Oh, the coat pope?
	Please.
	Please.
	Sorry you brought that up right away because I wanted you to go back to that last clip and tell me what that guy said.
	I have no idea.
	Well, you nailed it.
	But he had the right accent to sound authoritative.
	Sorry to be racist.
	I-I-T, that's the I-I-T accent.
	Yeah, that's exactly, Indian accent.
	I don't know what I'm talking about.
	That's exactly it.
	That's right.
	Let's go to clip four, another guy.
	We also got the founder of Eugene AI, Sudeep Roy Chowdhury to weigh in.
	His AI firm helps manufacturers with their operations.
	Chowdhury says a six-month pause is not fair.
	Not fair!
	And that people should be free to develop the technology without government intervention.
	What would we achieve?
	Whoa, hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	Government intervention?
	I didn't hear anyone call for the government to intervene.
	I just heard a whole bunch of... The first guy that spoke on this series of clips brought it up.
	Oh, okay.
	I missed that.
	I missed that.
	And that people should be free to develop the technology without government intervention.
	What would we achieve by not making progress in six months in this technology?
	That I'm not sure.
	What we can achieve by parallelly working towards framework for governing AI-based technology, that part I agree with and I should work on that as a community.
	And not surprisingly, not a single person from OpenAI has signed the letter.
	OpenAI is the leading firm in generative AI.
	It was mentioned explicitly in the letter we reached out to OpenAI.
	Look, I'm going on AI, Adam Intelligence.
	This has PsyOp written all over it.
	This is bullcrap.
	This is some scheme to benefit these guys, probably just to save their ass, because this is an arms race of epic proportions.
	And the only one winning, as far as I know, is Microsoft Azure, probably.
	A lot of this seems to run on NVIDIA.
	They're going to be selling a lot of GPU cards.
	I'm just not seeing the actual application.
	Okay, every teacher who has reached out, boots on the ground, says, like, I can't see that this was not written by my moronic students.
	Please, that's insulting.
	They all see it.
	They all know it.
	Let's go to AI Freakout.
	This is the idiocy showdown clip.
	We tested ChatGPT versus Google Bard.
	Now, with the TikTok ban possibility, we had the two bots get advice for TikTok influencers.
	And T.T. Sean Marshall has more.
	In a small competition between the two top chat bots today, we asked ChatGPT4 and Google's Bard the same question.
	How should a TikTok influencer deal with it if the U.S.
	government decides to move forward with a ban on TikTok?
	Tensions keep rising between America and the Chinese Communist Party.
	The possibility of a TikTok ban to protect U.S.
	citizens' data seems to draw closer each day.
	I asked some people on the street what they would do if TikTok was banned.
	I use it a lot, like way too much, so I definitely cut down my screen time, which would be good.
	I'd probably just go to Instagram, honestly, or like a different app that comes up.
	But I'd probably just live my life, go, you know, have... I'll be sad, because I do really love it, like I'm not gonna lie, it's kind of like entertaining.
	With Instagram, they have this thing called Instagram Reels, which is essentially like TikTok.
	But the only difference is usually when I use Reels, it's not on purpose.
	I just click on one thing, and then I'm down this loophole.
	So it traps you into that.
	To start out, ChatGPT4's answer was more extensive and detailed.
	Bard's answer was pretty basic.
	It essentially said to switch platforms, start a website or blog, partner with creators, and collaborate with brands.
	Bard gets points for also suggesting to use social media ads, which ChatGPT4 didn't recommend.
	But Chad GPT4 gave a few more answers in addition to Bard's suggestions.
	First, back up your content.
	Download and save your videos for later.
	Back up your content.
	Adapt your content.
	Just not stop the clip.
	You gotta back this up a little bit.
	This is the two guys that...
	These things decided to try to copy, you know, they had the real people say what they thought.
	And then they asked the question of the two of these systems.
	And the one system says, back up your content, start a blog.
	I mean, the only thing left out of this is learn to code.
	I mean, it's just a bunch of bull crap bromides that show me nothing.
	It's exactly what you're saying.
	It's kind of weird that we're both on the same page with this one.
	Why?
	Well, it's not the format of the show.
	Was the format of when we see something this dumb.
	We're supposed to argue.
	And besides that, I have been harping on this AI cycle for the last 15 years.
	I mean, the cycle began in the 50s.
	I'll reiterate for people out there.
	The cycle began in the 50s, the mid 50s, and there were all these articles about the electronic brain.
	And they would show all these computers and how they're going to take over everything and they're going to eliminate jobs and the electronic brain!
	And they went on and on.
	It was kind of like, it wasn't AI quite, but then the AI thing came around around, oh, what, 20 years, 25 years later?
	I remember in the 70s when, you know, when the integrated circuit chips, chips was going to do, it was going to say, I don't remember the electronic brain part.
	It was going to do the same thing.
	It's all over now.
	Well, 25 years after the electronic brain came, the AI revolution.
	And this was the artificial intelligence, the fourth generation Japanese thing, they're going to take over, and it was on and on and on.
	Expert systems, that's when those first showed up.
	And that miniaturization.
	And all these things... It's always that.
	And so all these things are gonna... And then it just flopped.
	And then another 25 years go by and we got this again and now we have this stuff.
	And it's the same thing and it shows how weak it is.
	You can finish the clip and you can... It's just lame!
	Now, Chad GPT-4's answer was more extensive and detailed.
	Bard's answer was pretty basic.
	It essentially said to switch platforms, start a website or blog, partner with creators, and collaborate with brands.
	Bard gets points for also suggesting to use social media ads, which Chad GPT-4 didn't recommend.
	But ChadGPT4 gave a few more answers in addition to Bard's suggestions.
	First, back up your content, download and save your videos for later, adapt your content to different platforms, and focus on building a brand.
	Strengthen your personal brand by creating a unique style, theme, or niche that sets you apart from other content creators.
	This simple test did seem to put ChadGPT4 in the number one spot.
	Wow, this is great.
	This is almost like back in the day, in the early days of the web, you know, we'd be advising big companies and they'd say, yes, we want a viral video.
	No problem.
	We're going to put that on the list.
	We'll create a viral video for you.
	You know, it's like, use social media ads.
	Oh, okay.
	What kind of test is this even?
	I'm amazed how many people don't understand that the human brain will evolve much faster than this.
	Everything ChatGPT 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 does will go faster.
	Yeah, I'm sure, okay, if I'm looking... Well, somebody might stop you there, but I want to point out an interesting phenomenon about the human brain, about how movies have adjusted, or people have adjusted to the jump cuts, which never existed 50 years ago.
	They didn't exist.
	People could not deal with something like that.
	It wasn't even an evolution.
	They just started to show up, and the next thing you know, we all, what, what, what, oh, okay, I get it.
	And then you could follow it.
	These things can't even, they can barely answer the question about TikTok, which was what was presented to them here, without saying stupid stuff like backup.
	Backup your hard disk, you know?
	Okay, well, gee, thanks for the good advice.
	What is the one thing that is the Dvorak test for online systems?
	What is the one thing that, as long as I've known you for 15 years, the one thing you always just wanted to get out of the internet?
	The one piece of advice?
	Actually, you've known me since 93.
	That's true.
	About 20 years.
	30 years.
	Holy crap.
	And I was working for the media for two years before he started this podcast.
	That's right.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, 30 from back to CNET days.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	What is the number one question?
	You know the question.
	I'm sorry, I was so upset by your 15-year thing that it just threw me.
	What is the best weed whacker?
	That's all you really want to know.
	Oh yes, the best, okay.
	Yeah, I've been doing this for at least 20 years minimum.
	I have been asking what's the best weed whacker and it's impossible to get the answer.
	Here's the answer.
	It's impossible.
	Here's the answer from ChatGPT.
	Of course, disclaimer, as an AI language model, I don't have personal preferences or experiences with using weedwhackers.
	Right there!
	Who cares?
	Boom!
	Done!
	However, there are many popular and highly rated weedwhackers available on the market, and the best one for you will depend on your specific needs and preferences.
	Okay, so we may need to clear this a little bit further.
	Some factors to consider when choosing a weed whacker include the size and type of your lawn or yard, the type of weeds you need to tackle, the power source you prefer, electric, battery, or gas, and the features you want, such as adjustable height or pivoting heads.
	But it's not answering my question.
	No, of course it's not answering your question.
	Of course not.
	Of course not.
	I was surprised.
	There is a weed whacker, despite all these details that this thing brought up, that is the best.
	It's like there's a best doctor.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, this was very disappointing because I usually hold this guy in pretty high regard.
	I did not know he's a Fox News contributor.
	Douglas Murray.
	Douglas Murray, Harold is one of the intellectual giants of our time.
	Well, it's funny to me because I don't know who you're talking about.
	Oh yeah, you do.
	He's the British guy.
	He loves America and he's written several books about how we're losing our freedom.
	You don't know Douglas Murray?
	No.
	I mean if I saw him visually, let me look him up as if I can recognize him.
	I might know him by face.
	He wrote, let me see, what was his famous book?
	Neoconservatism, Why We Need It.
	The Madness of Crowds, I think was the big one.
	Oh, The Strange Death of Europe, we've talked about him in that context.
	The Strange Death of Europe, Immigration, Identity, Islam.
	Okay, well you don't remember, but we have talked about it.
	We've played clips of his before.
	I'm looking at him now.
	So he's a Fox News contributor, and he's going to weigh in on this extraordinary moment in our history.
	Extraordinary moment when we have to pause AI.
	Some of the smartest people in the world are calling for this.
	It's an extraordinary letter, I have to say.
	Oh yeah, I don't like him already.
	I'm going to force you to listen to him.
	It's an extraordinary letter, I have to say.
	Pretty much unprecedented.
	I mean, these are people at the absolute forefront of the technology we're talking about who are expressing deep concern.
	I mean, to call for a six-month moratorium, basically on further advancements in the area, suggests that they're deeply worried about this.
	I mean, this has been coming on us for 25 years now, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that the ability of effectively the computers to go faster than we can go on the treadmill, that the treadmill of technology is running faster than we What kind of analogy is that?
	The treadmill of technology.
	The computers to go faster than we can go on the treadmill.
	I know what I mean.
	He's come up with a metaphor, kind of, which is indicating that You're going nowhere.
	You're running fast, but you're not going anywhere.
	You're running fast.
	The computer's running fast, and both of you, nowhere.
	Nowhere.
	Oh, I like that, actually.
	Effectively, the computer's to go faster than we can go on the treadmill.
	The treadmill of technology is running faster than we humans can run.
	We've known this for a long time, but the fact that there has now been this This stressing that we're, you know, we could be in trouble.
	They don't know what it's capable of.
	I mean, to call for a six-month sort of ban on this, I think it's quite extraordinary.
	We've known for about a quarter of a century now that this is coming.
	It actually comes from the 90s when Kasparov, the great chess champion, was beaten by... Now lives here in New York City.
	Exactly.
	Was beaten by the computer.
	And he said then, he said, he said, in his notes, he said, the worry I have is that the computer isn't calculating, it's thinking.
	We are 25 years on from that now.
	And the computers are thinking.
	So, let me just stop him there.
	Hey, hey, hey, what is this?
	This is bullcrap.
	The computer's not thinking.
	Correct.
	The computer is merely making a probability calculation, which, you know, the closer it is to zero, it'll be 0.6, 0.4, 0.3, which is how the original and how chess computers still work today.
	And in fact, it's the same way that so-called AI is used in determining what tweets to get rid of.
	You know, it's based upon the large language model, and it's always consistently wrong.
	It's consistently wrong.
	AI is not, in the field, in applications used to protect the children, it's consistently wrong.
	And so it is, as far as I understand it, still the exact same basic idea of chess computers.
	That is computation.
	Chess players compute the probability.
	That's what they're doing.
	They're computing as far ahead as they can, and you've trained your brain to do that.
	And yes, a computer is probably going to be better at mathematics.
	That's not the same as thinking.
	Douglas Murray.
	And he said then, he said, he said, in his notes, he said, "The worry I have is that the computer isn't calculating, it's thinking." We are 25 years on from that now, and the computers are thinking.
	Can you imagine?
	The internet has revolutionized our lives in so many ways.
	It's like the printing press in the Middle Ages.
	We don't know what the consequences of this are going to be.
	And we are currently living through an era where it's printing press after printing press is being discovered underneath us.
	Right.
	And it's just so important for everyone to know these are the smartest people amongst us who are demanding a global pause.
	Not an arbitrary senator from a state.
	This is for real.
	And look at some of these people from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Elon Musk, Andrew Yang here in New York.
	Yes, it's just extraordinary.
	Some of the smartest people amongst us.
	Steve Wozniak and Andrew Yang.
	Some of the smartest.
	So that's just... They never mentioned it.
	I haven't heard Andrew Yang's mention.
	He just mentioned it.
	They keep saying Wozniak and Musk, Wozniak and Musk.
	You talked over it.
	He just mentioned it.
	You talked over it.
	Okay.
	Well, Andrew Yang?
	Yeah.
	He's just a politician.
	One of the smartest.
	And he even... Look, this is the new Idol.
	The new false idol.
	This is the new science.
	We've had science.
	Science getting old.
	Follow the science.
	Follow the AI.
	This is elevating by the actual promoters of crap.
	You know, I can't... Wozniak, he promoted the Segway.
	It was gonna change.
	Cities will change.
	We will never live in a city the same way again.
	Remember that?
	Tell me you remember that.
	Yeah, no, I remember.
	I wrote a long column about it in Forbes Magazine because I had the access to the patents before it was actually released and we, me and Paul Saffo gave me all this information.
	Really?
	You had access to the patents before it was in effect?
	Well, no, as soon as the patent came out, Paul Saffo identified it.
	For some reason, identified, sought out me to say, with pictures of the various devices, saying, look at this bull crap.
	What do you make of it?
	And then I obviously followed up with a column and a follow-up column after the thing came out with all these people saying stuff like what you just said, which is, oh, cities will have to be redesigned to accommodate.
	Yes, to accommodate how we will live.
	And I think the oldest thing is a stand-up scooter that balances itself.
	I didn't see it as anything more than that.
	And it was dangerous.
	Remember the CEO of the company drove off the cliff and died?
	Yes.
	In fact, I forgot about that sad ending to the segway.
	The CEO of the company driving off a cliff on the thing.
	In fact, there's a Mutual Liberty, Mutual whatever it is, Liberty, Biberty commercial where Where a guy drives the Segway into kind of a barrier and goes into the drink.
	Yeah, and it was not the inventor, as many people think.
	No, no, the inventor was, I can't remember his name, but the inventor was an interesting guy.
	So let's just say, currently there's no evidence AI is thinking.
	But this elevates it with all this outrage and panic, panic, panic.
	This elevates it to that kind of level and now of course it has our attention.
	And the whole idea is to replace the old and tired science, all the science, to have AI tell us about, I don't know, climate change, fake meat, all these important things.
	Digital Dementia.
	Digital Dementia is what is being introduced to the populace now.
	Oh, I like it.
	Digital Dementia.
	Yes, I wrote that down myself.
	Did you?
	I did.
	You wrote it down?
	I did.
	So Stanford, Stanford had this big, you know, two weeks ago, oh, the Alpaca AI model.
	It only cost $600, not $5 million.
	Alpaca, Alpaca.
	And we were releasing the code, open code, open source, go to GitHub, get the Alpaca AI model.
	And then they had to take it down because it was kind of dangerous.
	It does something that they call in AI land, hallucinating.
	Yeah, of course.
	Hallucinating means it gets stuff wrong, very wrong.
	And yeah, okay, you can probably say, write a script for me using Rust, you know, which is really handy and it can Yeah, but that's not thinking.
	That's going to stack overflow and scraping the site and putting stuff together.
	And since it uses language, which is deterministic of what word would come after this word, your code's going to be pretty good for that.
	Well, I was watching something on television with this in mind, and I realized that today's news broadcasts with the news readers can all be replaced, and that's the real threat.
	And so the news media has to sense, at least in some way, deep down inside, that they're the ones that are being threatened.
	Well, of course.
	Because they're no good anyway.
	They're not doing any news reporting.
	Well, they've already been replaced to a certain audio, certainly.
	I mean, we hear lots of tech, you know, I would say AI-read news reports and videos that are created with fake voices.
	Yeah, I think and I think that that's you know because that first woman that was in that series Eclipse goes on this 300 million jobs are gonna be lost and it was on and on and on.
	I'm thinking what jobs are gonna be lost by this?
	Well, I think rewriting press releases so you can read them on you know, K-R-O-N-T-V.
	Yeah.
	On the nightly news.
	Yeah, that's a job.
	It's one job that could go.
	You shove the press release into the machine.
	It reads it.
	Jiggers it and gives you some copy, some decent news copy to read.
	Well, just go and look at CNBC, the website.
	How many times, you know, it's like, they have some rudimentary form, maybe even advanced, I don't know, of AI writing their headlines and selecting.
	So the Dow was up, you get a picture, traders happy, and you see these guys, yay, you know, like bye, beautiful.
	And then when the Dow was down, they go, ooh, some frowny faces.
	That's all AI driven.
	So yeah, I'm sure that's going to work.
	There's nothing to be worried about.
	Humans are always going to outsmart this technology.
	And go outside and go without your phone and sniff some air.
	Instead of sniffing farts from the mainstream media.
	This is just so stupid.
	But it is an idolization of technology.
	And that is definitely a mission of the singularity folk.
	Which I'm sure Musk is a part of.
	Yeah, I was like, well, you know, it's great.
	No, no, no.
	I can't say that's true.
	What?
	The Singularity folk, I'm not sure Musk is part of that club.
	He has Neuralink!
	Have you seen Neuralink?
	You know, some of the stuff he does is just to fool with people that want to take it seriously.
	He's a joker.
	Yes, he is a joker.
	He is a joker.
	And if I just might add, when it comes to politicians and this stuff, I mean, most people are stupid.
	I'm stupid.
	You're pretty stupid.
	We're all stupid.
	But the people who we elect and the people who appoint people, the elected people who appoint people, they appoint very stupid people.
	We heard this with Fifi Lagarde.
	She's dumb.
	Not brilliant.
	Not any smarter than anybody else.
	And I'd just like to transition to TikTok for a second so we can discuss this before we get to the horrible shooting in Nashville, which we will discuss.
	You know, so we have the, everyone's, oh!
	Patriot Act 2.0!
	TikTok, we got to get rid of TikTok.
	Let's listen to the stupidest person we have currently in the Senate, Lindsey Graham.
	So, Lindsey Graham is so stupid when it comes to this bill.
	We're talking about Senate Bill 686, which is a Senate bill.
	It doesn't mean that this passes its law.
	There has to be a House version.
	There has to be consolidation.
	They have to agree on it.
	And then, of course, whatever it is, you know, braindead Biden will sign it, no problem.
	But it's not that simple.
	There's a couple other things out there.
	It's also, it's also, this is almost a red herring as far as I'm concerned.
	But Graham thinks he's going on the safe Fox News to discuss this, this restrict act.
	And firstly, it goes on with Jesse Watters.
	Another person I think is pretty stupid.
	Sorry.
	Nice guy.
	Nice guy.
	But it runs on outrage and yelling and, I'm Watters.
	This is my world.
	Okay.
	And he gets trapped right away.
	Why?
	Because, like most politicians, he only listened to his advisor, and the advisor was probably a lobbyist.
	Maybe it was just some intern.
	He didn't read any of this.
	It's also not a simple bill to read.
	There's a lot of legalese in there and referrals to other things.
	But he was all in on it, but he didn't know it.
	Let's try to get some answers out of the Senator Lindsey Graham, who supports this and is here now.
	You gotta be kidding me, Senator.
	Did you read this?
	Yeah, I don't think I support the Restrict Act.
	You don't support this because you were named as one of the supporters, because this is garbage.
	Is this the one with John?
	There's two bills out there.
	One allows a review of businesses that are connected to China, gives the Secretary the ability to protect their data.
	Is that the Restrict Act?
	We got S-686.
	Right here.
	March 7th.
	And we got a bunch of Republicans supporting it.
	Because this thing is crazy town.
	You don't want the government looking into your private phone.
	No, I don't.
	If they have a hunch you're colluding with the Russians.
	We remember how that turned out.
	Yeah, no.
	Well, the Constitution trumps a statute, so let me come back and, you know, give you a better explanation.
	Here's the problem as I see it.
	China is the parent company of TikTok, and my nieces like TikTok.
	I don't mind them using TikTok.
	I just don't want the Chinese government to seize all their data and manipulate the information America sees for political purposes.
	China is helping drug cartels in Mexico.
	China is not a friend.
	Chinese espionage is an all-time high against American business interests.
	So I want to push back against China, but within a constitutional framework.
	You're right about that.
	So, uh, you made these allegations and I'll come answer better next time.
	Well, I mean, because on congress.gov you're listed as one of the co-sponsors of this thing.
	Maybe it's like Fetterman when your chief of staff does all your work for you.
	And he even says, oh yeah, could be, could be.
	Yeah, yeah, my staff did that.
	I mean, honestly, AI would outwit that guy.
	But so they're stupid.
	And none of them actually have read the bill.
	They don't really know what's in it.
	I think it's a red herring because what's really going on here is all the executive orders and the Biden administration national cybersecurity strategy, which no one is talking about.
	This is this is the real crap that's going on.
	And I think this is just a distraction.
	This will never pass.
	It's so obvious, although it's only limited to certain countries.
	They can add to it.
	If this passes, then we're all stupid and we all should go shoot ourselves because this is dumb.
	This is the dumbest thing we could ever do.
	Everyone's on to it, but we're not looking what's really being put out there with executive orders, etc.
	...national cybersecurity strategy.
	We must rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace by shifting the burden to cybersecurity away from individual small businesses and local governments and onto the organizations that are most capable and best positioned to reduce risks for all of us.
	The National Cyber Security Strategy aligns with, supports, and works in concert with a total U.S.
	surveillance system where definitions of information are then applied to cybersecurity and communication vectors.
	This policy...
	is a surveillance system and he's got executive orders up the wazoo that are already being put into place.
	This is CISA, this is all this stuff.
	We're all arguing about the wrong thing here and the net is just being tightened over and over again.
	So, and none of these senators know what they're talking about.
	They don't understand what's going on.
	And it's still protection for the existing U.S.
	technology companies.
	Oh yeah, let's make sure we have something to ban everybody.
	To ban everybody else because, you know, we don't like what TikTok did.
	And Rubio gave it away.
	He did his own special little press conference 17 minutes, two days ago.
	Put it out on YouTube, couldn't put it on TikTok.
	You know, because, you know, they might edit it and make it look weird.
	And I pulled two clips and it shows you exactly how dumb and how misguided this guy is and how compromised he is.
	This is how his understanding of the American people, how stupid we are.
	So let me walk you through a very realistic hypothetical.
	A very realistic hypothetical.
	Woo!
	So let me walk you through a very realistic hypothetical.
	Let's suppose for a moment that China decides they're going to invade Taiwan in 2027 or 2028.
	And the key to a successful invasion or taking of Taiwan is to prevent the United States of America from getting involved.
	First of all, he's just presuming that anyone gives a crap.
	I mean, do we really care?
	Do the Americans really care what China does with Taiwan, or are we being told to care?
	I'm asking you, John.
	I mean, do you care?
	We're being told to care.
	Okay.
	I mean, I kind of care, because I haven't been to both places, and I like Taiwan the way it is, but do I really care if Taiwan is overrun by the Chinese, or they grab it back?
	How about the Taiwanese grabbing back China?
	I mean, in fact, when I was in Xiamen, China, on the coast, which is on the same straits, across from Taiwan on the mainland, and there's a bunch of these bunkers That are all over the place, they're still there, they're from like World War II.
	And the guy taking me around the area was, I said, what the hell are these?
	He said, oh, this was the Chinese Communist Party after they rousted the Republic of China people and got them to move to Taiwan, had to set up shop here because they thought they were going to reinvade.
	So that could still happen?
	Right, but the story is, well, you know, there's so many chips, it's all coming out to computers.
	Does anyone really think that China won't want to sell us computers?
	Even if they overrun Taiwan, what's their market?
	We are their market!
	We're their market!
	And we put the CHIPS Act in place so we can probably try and make our own.
	Not very cost effective.
	This has been shown already to be a flop.
	So let's go back to the genius Marco Rubio, who I am convinced is completely compromised in this by lobbyists.
	And the key to keeping the United States from getting involved is to convince the American people.
	OK, that we shouldn't get involved because they know we're a democracy.
	Okay.
	They know the public opinion matters in America.
	Oh, you just like Ukraine.
	Like it really matters now.
	We really care now.
	We stop caring.
	And so knowing all this, the Chinese government goes to ByteDance, who by law has to do whatever they're told.
	And the Chinese government says to ByteDance, we want you to align your algorithm to shape American public opinion on Taiwan.
	They won't do this overnight.
	They'll spend a couple years laying this out.
	We don't need a ByteDance TikTok algorithm.
	All we need is Deborah Birx to show videos and everyone will believe it.
	Well, look at these people in China.
	They're falling down from COVID.
	They're dying.
	You didn't need any algos for that.
	You just needed the officials to talk about it.
	We want you to align your algorithm To make sure that people in America are seeing messages that convince them that America should not get involved.
	And not only that, we want you to use the data to target specific American audiences with specific messages.
	So for example, some Americans might see a bunch of videos that allege to show people in Taiwan, probably fake, but nonetheless people in Taiwan supporting a Chinese takeover.
	I like China!
	Take me over!
	Oh, that seems pretty realistic.
	Here's the funny thing about this we always have to remember.
	People watch the videos that they find entertaining.
	Yes.
	If I'm seeing a bunch of stuff about Taiwan... We're gone!
	We're gone!
	I'm just clicking off and going someplace else.
	I'm not gonna watch that.
	It's not entertaining.
	Bring back the cat videos!
	Has he ever looked at TikTok?
	I've looked at TikTok.
	I also look at the Reels thing, the thing that Instagram does, which can be quite good.
	And I'll sit there and watch it for a while because it's like watching television.
	But short gags and bits and dogs and some really crazy stuff and a guy shooting a basketball from across the street and all that kind of thing.
	Yeah.
	It's not a bunch of political stuff trying to convince me one thing or another.
	If I see that, oh, finally I can stop.
	Maybe family members.
	Remember, they have all this data on us.
	Family members of military members.
	We see videos about how thousands of Americans will die if the United States gets involved.
	Others might see videos of Americans... Well, hold on a second.
	You know, if I see videos about how maybe thousands of Americans will die, which could be very true, service members, if we start meddling around, if you do it in an entertaining way, and a cat is telling me, yeah, I might say, hey, let's not do that.
	But come on, Rubio.
	Would see videos about how thousands of Americans will die if the United States gets involved.
	Others might see videos of Americans, or who they think are Americans, arguing, why do we care about Taiwan?
	We should be focused on our problems here at home.
	Yeah, this is what we're saying about Ukraine right now, and you're suppressing those messages.
	Yes, you are suppressing those messages.
	You are ignoring the American people when it comes to that.
	We're all saying that.
	Hey, you know, we got problems here.
	We got homelessness.
	We got shitty education.
	We want a concentrated home.
	All the money you sent to Ukraine could be, we could have every homeless person could have a tiny home.
	Anything but what you're doing now.
	But here it comes.
	Here's the part where he admits that TikTok is just kicking American big tech's ass.
	And he's going to admit this and he's going to use this as a reason to ban TikTok.
	Only in a typical Rubio politician way.
	And when we notice that they're doing something about it, lots of people will say, well, if that happens, then you deal with it.
	Well, once we notice that they're actually doing and we try to do something about it, you know what comes next?
	Here's what comes next, which is already happening now.
	You're going to have a bunch of small businesses in America who depend on marketing and TikTok.
	And I don't, let me tell you something.
	I don't, I don't diminish that.
	It's true.
	I know people that have built up their businesses and they use TikTok for marketing and it works.
	It's better than the other apps for that.
	It's better than the other apps for marketing for small businesses.
	Oh man, if I was one of the sales guys at TikTok, I'd be flipping that.
	Let me tell you something, I don't diminish that.
	It's true.
	I know people that have built up their businesses and they use TikTok for marketing and it works.
	It's better than the other apps for that.
	He doesn't say it's some- no, he says it's better than the other apps for that.
	You know, the guys that are paying me.
	But just imagine, when we go to them and say, guys, we gotta shut TikTok down now, because now it's real, now they're using it against us.
	Those people are gonna come out and say, you're gonna destroy my business.
	In fact, China will probably threaten those people.
	China will probably make it very clear, the US gets involved, we're gonna knock all the Americans off of TikTok, down goes your business.
	Those people will suddenly be asking- Oh, brother.
	Isn't this great?
	Well, first of all, let's stop a bit right there.
	Does this guy have any clue about how businesses work?
	Has he ever run a business?
	Well, he ran a workshop.
	Okay, you're advertising, you're finding that you're getting effective advertising.
	It's working effectively in a specific magazine.
	And the magazine folds.
	That doesn't mean the business folds.
	Yes.
	It means that you either find something else, you may or may not even take a hit.
	If you're advertising effectively, your business will continue even if the advertising stops dead.
	You have a business.
	It's not like it's like, you know, unless it was all direct marketing from that one source.
	Which is not the case.
	Very few direct marketing operations I've seen on TikTok, if any.
	But what I'm hearing him say is exactly the talking points he's been given.
	Hey man, we're in trouble because people are becoming successful with TikTok marketing They're marketing to, as we discussed on a previous episode, they're marketing to people who are in a group and there's no strife.
	They like advertising there and they can target their message because it's only one type of people.
	It doesn't matter what type, any type, you can get that type of person.
	It's very successful.
	And yeah, in fact, I have 70, this is from, what is this?
	RetailDive.com.
	And they published this article and they say here, 75% of marketers expect to spend more on TikTok even as ban looms.
	75%!
	And drawing attention to all this, like Rubio's doing in the band, in fact the band Looming has brought attention to advertisers, that hey!
	This is good stuff over here!
	This is good stuff!
	It works!
	It works!
	So all they're doing is making TikTok more successful!
	What idiots!
	Yeah, that's what I said!
	In fact, China will probably threaten those people!
	China will probably make it very clear.
	They won't.
	They're going to threaten those.
	Hey, we're going to kick you off a TikTok.
	No, they're not going to do that.
	If China wants to cause some problems, I got one of our producers sent me a note talking about classic cars.
	He says you can't buy parts for any classic cars nowadays that aren't made in China.
	American classic cars.
	You want a part, a screw?
	For your car that's a little different because it goes someplace here or there?
	No.
	It comes from China, if you can get it at all, and even the Chinese parts aren't as good as they should be, but they're, it's all China.
	You have no, you know, there's no option, there's no real printed version, they don't have models that you can put in a, uh, into the, um, 3D printers or anything like that.
	What happened to Mopar?
	They just cut out, cut off, they can just, I heard some guy the other day say, you know what we should do?
	In fact, there's one of the clips we had like a week ago.
	Guy says, you know what?
	We just stop all imports from China.
	That'll do it.
	Wow.
	How dumb.
	I'm talking about naive.
	Yeah.
	Let's finish this.
	We're up to our necks with China.
	We can't, we have to find some other way of dealing with this.
	We can't.
	We can't do it.
	And maybe they could just, for some reason, I mean, I'm sure the national security system is also interested in gaining control over China.
	So Rubio is saying two things.
	One, we don't control the messaging like we control with all the American companies.
	For whatever reason, because, you know, we put FBI in there, we have the IRS threaten people, you know, that's, so we don't have that angle, although I think they probably could, because after all it is, you know, it's not a Chinese company that runs us.
	And we got a problem.
	Look, 75%!
	Everyone's moving to TikTok.
	We have email after email.
	TikTok works.
	We like it.
	This is good.
	And so what he's saying here is they need to have some boogeyman, China, to stop this, to blame it on, because people are going to lose their minds.
	And I also don't think it's ever going to happen.
	I'm gonna put that in the book.
	There's gonna be no TikTok ban.
	It's not going to happen.
	Oh, I agree.
	Not going to happen.
	Now, let's finish this out.
	Those people are gonna come out and say, you're gonna destroy my business.
	In fact, China will probably threaten those people.
	China will probably make it very clear.
	The U.S.
	gets involved.
	We're going to knock all the Americans off of TikTok.
	Down goes your business.
	Those people will suddenly be asking their elected officials here not to get involved in Taiwan.
	And you know where we find ourselves then?
	Paralyzed.
	Paralyzed.
	A country that's paralyzed, that cannot act in its own national security interests because we've allowed an adversary to basically use an app that they control and the data that they control To shape public opinion in America over an extended period of time, and we can't do anything about it!
	So this is also a lie?
	So his whole thing is, if we ban TikTok, this is what he's essentially saying, and people should check out my essay on TikTok.
	Yes, I put a link in the show notes to your free and open internet, Hypocrites by John C. Dvorak.
	Link in the show notes.
	The, uh, what he's saying is that if we ban TikTok, which is again, you know, free and open internet, if we ban TikTok, like, you know, we were Iran or something, then the whole Chinese, Chinese Taiwan thing's over?
	Is that what he's kind of implying here?
	So we have to worry about China and Taiwan if TikTok goes?
	Is that, is that the point?
	Yeah, that's the whole, this is to scare you.
	Scare you.
	Couple other things before we move on.
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	And people like, now, I need to say a couple things because I got a lot of love from people.
	Yeah, you're right.
	TikTok's fantastic.
	You know, it's a love algo.
	Ultimately, centralized media is a bad idea.
	Regardless, it's a bad idea.
	It's just a bad idea.
	I would say, for sure, Invest some time in understanding Mastodon.
	That has its problems too.
	But, you know, we have a vibrant community of, you know, people and there's no algos.
	That's the thing.
	As long as there's no algo and, you know, I have some godlike powers there and, you know, I haven't... I've kicked one or two people off because they really just angered me that they weren't participating in the community just to have an account somewhere.
	But otherwise, no, you just leave it alone.
	And sometimes, because we don't have an algo, it's annoying.
	Which is good!
	You know, people tag me on their arguments, like, oh bye, I'm mute conversation, I'm out, I'm not interested in that.
	And that's kind of good, because I don't want to be on Mastodon all day.
	Podcasting, perfect example of 19 years of no messing with the infrastructure, and we've solidified that with Podcast Index.
	RSS, which Google tried to kill off by killing the Google Reader.
	Couldn't do it.
	It's still being used.
	And today there's even Noster.
	Have you heard about this Noster?
	N-O-S-T-E-R?
	You're not going to hear about it now though, I'm guessing.
	But let me ask you a question first.
	What do you think the motive was for Google to kill off Google Reader?
	It wasn't that it was unsuccessful in costing them a lot of money.
	Couldn't make money off of it.
	They couldn't make money off of it.
	It wasn't centralized.
	They couldn't control it.
	So they never thought of it as a good, as a nice loss leader?
	No!
	Are you nuts?
	No, that's what Gmail is.
	Gmail was their loss leader, but they made sure that they could read everything, and now it's very profitable for them.
	Because they, you know, they say right there, we're looking, we're reading your email, so that we can see if there's anything there that we can advertise.
	It's going to be for better ads.
	Yeah, and not for anything else, really, just for better ads.
	Sure.
	Maybe sometimes some of this information data goes to the CIA, NSA, when they ask.
	But if they don't ask, we don't do it.
	Their big thing was Maps.
	I would say the big thing that Google did was Maps.
	They bought Keyhole, which they definitely got from the CIA.
	Google Maps is the best.
	By the way, I wanted to bring up one more thing about Rubio quickly.
	He brought up that Forbes reporter who TikTok was spying on, which is not true.
	TikTok got location data from a reporter and to match it up to see if any, because there was a leak.
	There was a leak of 80 hours of conversation of TikTok talking about what their strategy was and what they were going to do in America.
	And the Forbes reporter started reporting on it.
	And I think you'll probably, you can probably corroborate this.
	Tech companies in America have done this ad nauseam to reporters.
	Let's see where this reporter was.
	Was anyone from our company near this reporter?
	Oh, the AHP did it in a scandalous way.
	It ended up with, I think it was the chairman of the board, ended up getting kicked off, getting fired.
	This woman who was just this horrible, onerous woman, she started spying on about five or six or seven major national reporters.
	But it's one thing, first of all, the woman has the app, so her IP and location data is known.
	And it's like, it's okay for advertising, but oh, now they're going to find out where I am and they're going to see if any of their employees are there and that's really bad.
	How stupid are you, reporter?
	But the funny thing is, Forbes magazine is owned by a Chinese company.
	It is funny.
	So, you know, and even the report is like, you know, that happens.
	That happens.
	It happens.
	But I had written years ago in the 80s, I'd written something for InfoWorld about AT&T had these plans for some chip or some damn thing.
	Some guy was feeding me this information.
	From AT&T and I said, well, you know, he wasn't careful at all.
	And AT&T got a little irked by these leaks and they, I don't know what they did, but they started looking for people within the company that were talking to me and they found the guy and fired him.
	Yeah.
	Did you feel spied on?
	Did you feel violated?
	Or did you feel kind of cool?
	Like, wow, I'm that important they spied on me.
	Well, I know that some reporters who have been spied on, they have had, uh, there's some way of suing and you can make a lot of money.
	Really?
	So I was always looking forward to it, but it never happened.
	Back to Nostra, N-O-S-T-R.
	Notes and other stuff through relays.
	No one owns this.
	No one can own it.
	People can only own apps, I guess, if you want to sell an app, but there's so many open source apps.
	And you can do all kinds of stuff with this.
	Jack Dorsey, he's been seeding the community by helping developers out to bootstrap this.
	It's wonky still, but I can see what's happening.
	It's decentralized, and it's so decentralized that it's just you.
	You and then you can tap into any number of relays, which is in a way like a Mastodon server, but you can have one yourself.
	It's pretty easy to set up on a Raspberry Pi or your buddy can set it up, but you don't need it.
	What do I want it for?
	Oh, right now, the first usage is social media network with follow, you know, the whole thing.
	It's all in there.
	Is it different?
	Why would I want that instead of the mastodon I'm using?
	I think it's community-based.
	Mastodon is cultural.
	The cultural attitude of Mastodon is retarded from its onset.
	In my mind, you know, a bunch of nutjobs who hate everybody and ban and block, and NOSTA doesn't really have that capability.
	You determine if you ban or block.
	You can't really block instances the way Mastodon does it.
	And there's one other thing that... What if I want to block instances?
	You personally can block it, but it's not like someone else can block you from seeing someone else on your app.
	It's a critical difference.
	They have some other and it's just one way you can you can use Nostern and again it's notes and other stuff.
	You could do anything you want.
	You could have blogs run on it.
	Don't go and try it right now, John.
	It's not ready for primetime.
	You'll hate it.
	I'm not seeing any reason I'd want to try it.
	No, you don't.
	I've been pretty good sometimes with identifying stuff, and I think that this has legs.
	This has legs.
	And they have a financial model built in, in some ways similar to Podcasting 2.0, where you can zap people.
	Instead of a like, you can send them some satoshis.
	Give it a year or two, there's something going on here.
	And it's maturing quite quickly.
	But anyway, the point is, We have to do this.
	You have, you know, like homeschooling.
	Get your kid out of school.
	I don't care where, I don't care if they're, where they're at school.
	Get your kid out of school.
	It's toxic.
	It's horrible.
	And, you know, and I just learned yesterday 15,000 Americans a day die from misdiagnosis by doctors and accidents in hospitals as things go wrong.
	You don't really hear about that.
	It's probably one of the biggest killers is medical doctors.
	Not all, of course, are bad, but, you know, we have a lot of doctors who are told to diagnose and prescribe, and people die.
	And you don't get reporting on it.
	You know, your food.
	Now we have the mammoth balls.
	You hear about this crap?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I actually have the woolly mammoth ball.
	Next, the mammoth meatball, but it's not for spaghetti.
	Very gross.
	It's the work of an Australian company.
	They mixed a small amount of woolly mammoth DNA found in the Arctic with lamb meat.
	Researchers say they're making a point about meat alternatives.
	They claim it's a big innovation in food production, not an April Fool's joke.
	Yeah, food production.
	So everyone's all, oh yeah, oh great, yeah, sell, get some mammoth balls.
	Sell meat, yeah, good sell cultured meat.
	The revolution will be decentralized, don't miss out on it, that's kind of my point.
	We have, this is not going to stop, none of this ends well.
	Oh, Elon Musk, this was so funny.
	You've probably heard about this.
	A security breach at Twitter.
	Parts of the company's closely guarded source code were actually leaked online.
	That is the fundamental computer code on which the platform runs.
	It includes security vulnerabilities.
	Twitter has filed a lawsuit to try and determine who was behind the breach.
	And no one cares.
	No one's building a new Twitter out of Twitter's source code.
	Mastodon and Noster and Podcasting, all that source code's open.
	Go build yourself.
	Well, I don't think that was the point.
	The point was that somebody could create some malware.
	Another reason not to be on Twitter.
	Are you really on, I mean, do you really use Twitter anymore?
	I certainly don't.
	You use it more than I do.
	As an inbox still.
	No, I see you post a lot.
	Replies, I reply to stuff.
	No, you, well, I don't know, well, I don't analyze the posts, but you post a lot.
	I tend to only post the new shows.
	You're even smarter than I am.
	That's my point.
	You're ahead of the curve.
	Got a couple notes here about the government ban, TikTok ban, a government individual contacted me shall remain nameless.
	You and John have been discussing the whole TikTok situation over the last few weeks.
	I'd like to provide some clarification.
	Please keep this anonymous, of course.
	When the media reports that apps such as TikTok are now banned from government-issued phones and digital devices, it's a complete bullcrap.
	Any government-issued phone can only be used for work-related tasks.
	All activity is tracked, and on most of them, the ability to even download, use, or install apps is disabled.
	Just another statement to make it seem like a proactive step is being taken, when it actually has never been allowed in the first place.
	Yeah, it makes sense.
	And so it's all... It's all a scam.
	Well, there's one little funny thing that's happening I think is cool, and this could have some effect.
	And this is the Arkansas lawsuit against both Meta and TikTok.
	Arkansas is suing Meta and TikTok.
	The state claims the social media giants are making their platforms manipulative and addictive to children on purpose.
	The lawsuit alleges that both companies violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
	Arkansas says Meta creates their products using complex algorithms designed to, quote, exploit human psychology and foster addiction to maximize user screen time.
	The lawsuit against TikTok alleges that the app routinely exposes the data of Arkansas' consumers to access and exploitation by the Chinese Communist Party.
	This is very analogous to what's happening in Alabama.
	So that was Arkansas.
	In Alabama, three school districts are suing Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat over student mental health.
	Nice!
	Alleging the social media companies have created a youth mental crisis and the platforms are unreasonably dangerous and addictive.
	This youth mental health crisis is infecting all aspects of education.
	Students are experiencing record rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues because of the defendant's intentional conduct.
	These students perform worse in school, are less likely to attend school, more likely to engage in substance abuse, and to act out, all of which directly affects plaintiffs' ability to fulfill their educational mission.
	This, I think, is very analogous to the tobacco laws, and this is what I think the states are going for.
	Hey, these Silicon Valley guys, they are cleaning up.
	Let's get us some of that money.
	Just like the Master States Agreement?
	Go for it.
	I think that, and it's probably a good idea.
	I think it's a great idea, and I think they should do exactly that.
	And if you're going to take it to the way that the tobacco money share went, I think, go for it.
	I think they should do it.
	These guys are making way too much money.
	And we're going to talk about some of that mental health crisis after I say in the morning to you, the man who put the C In the, uh, what did I have?
	I had something.
	I can't remember what it was.
	Chief AI Officer, that's what it was.
	Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, Mr. John C. DeMora!
	Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam McCreary.
	Also in the morning, our ship's seat boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and knights out there.
	And for those of you who are in the troll room thinking, oh, as a donation segment, I'm going to leave.
	No, you missed some good content last time, and we have now been integrating even more content into these donation segments.
	We have two today because people stepped up.
	Let's see how the trolls are doing.
	Trolls in the troll room, put your hands up.
	What do we have here?
	What do we have going on?
	Oh, 2068 for a Thursday.
	We're up!
	We're up!
	Back to our old days, like the olden days during the COVID.
	That's right.
	Well, you know what?
	It's because this is as dangerous as COVID, only for real.
	Oh, more dangerous!
	It's much more dangerous.
	The Trolls are in the Troll Room at trollroom.io.
	You can listen to this show live on Thursdays and Sundays as we bring it to you live, unedited.
	The podcast also goes out live and unedited.
	And they can't take us down.
	This will never go away.
	It's not like you're watching what you think is a podcast on YouTube.
	We're not sitting there with our cans on and microphones.
	No.
	We're an audio podcast.
	You can drive while you're listening to us.
	You can do other things.
	You can do yard work.
	You can be sitting on the lawnmower.
	You can be using your weed whacker.
	You can be doing the dishes.
	You can do all kinds of stuff.
	You can multitask.
	It's a great invention.
	Use a modern podcast app available at podcastapps.com to get all kinds of benefits.
	We have transcripts so you can read along.
	Many people in foreign countries like listening to us and reading along and they find that very handy.
	We've got chapters and also you can get a bat signal alerted when the show goes live.
	Any show goes live that's using the new protocols and it's backwards compatible.
	You can use all of, you can import all of your existing podcasts.
	Don't be afraid.
	Move towards something that is not controlled by a large company.
	Support some smaller guys who are doing some, and gals who are doing some good work.
	Now, as I said, you can follow us on noagendasocial.com.
	It's our mastodon server.
	It's much better than being anywhere else.
	Give that a shot.
	Follow Adam at noagendasocial.com, John C. DeBorek at noagendasocial.com.
	And we, as part of our Value for Value model, we have many artists, professionals, who like to create art that will use, and we're one of the few podcasts who do it, one of the few who actually can, because we accept time, talent, and treasure in return for the value that we provide with our shows.
	And these artists make artwork that we then put on the podcast and people love it.
	And I would say that the capitalist agenda piece that we chose for episode 1541 was one of... I mean, people responded to this.
	This was the...
	TikTok, kind of cheesecakey lady with big red lips and the TikTok heart glasses and has had the love algo there.
	People responded well to this.
	Yeah.
	They really did and we liked it and we looked at a couple... By the way, I wanted to say something about Capitalist Agenda.
	I think that he is also available on Fiverr.
	Fiverr, you know, you can hire him to do stuff.
	More artists should do stuff.
	Five bucks.
	Yeah, more artists should do this.
	We'd be happy to promote it.
	Fiverr.com slash CapAgenda.
	He used to be in the financial industry.
	I'm not sure what happened.
	A lot of... Man, I have two of my... He's drawing... I know what happened.
	He was one of those like a kid in school that won't listen to the history class because he's drawing the teachers.
	He's got a caricature of the teacher.
	And the next thing you know, the principal goes to the principal.
	There's a story that actually is true.
	This has happened to more than a few guys.
	The principal gets, he calls in, you gotta go to the principal.
	The principal sees it, what are you doing?
	And he looks at all the artworks and says, okay, uh, well, I don't know what to say, but stop doing this in class.
	But I'll tell you what, can you do a caricature of everybody, all the teachers in the school?
	We'd really like it.
	Yeah.
	These, these kids.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm with you.
	Two, two of my friends got fired this week.
	Yeah, I heard this.
	One from Sirius XM, he'd been there for 18 years, and one from the Disney Corporation.
	Yeah.
	High up guys, too.
	You mentioned about the Disney guy, but you didn't, I didn't know anything about the Sirius guy.
	Yeah.
	What's happening at Sirius?
	Are you having a shakeup?
	Oh yeah, they fired four or five hundred people, and Steve Leeds, who's the guy who brought me to, he was the guy who called me in Holland and said, hey, you want to come work for MTV?
	And Steve Lees has been in the music business for a long, he used to, he was the promoter for Led Zeppelin, just to give you an idea of how far back he goes.
	That's, that's good.
	Steve Lees is the guy you can call and say, a friend of mine is a big U2 fan, she's gonna be in Ireland, can you hook up with some tickets?
	And what happens is, the girl, my friend, Went to go pick, young woman, went to go pick up some tickets and the manager came out and said, Oh no, no, look, come on in.
	I want you to show me the operation.
	I want you to meet everybody.
	You know, the whole backstage experience.
	That's what Steve Lee's does for people.
	And he's, he built up the talent relation department at Sirius for 18 years.
	Gone.
	Done.
	A new guy came in.
	What does this guy do?
	I don't know.
	Okay, he's out.
	I've seen this.
	Yeah, we know how it goes.
	But, you know, it's real though.
	And when you're a white guy and you're over 50, there's not a lot of opportunities for you anymore.
	Of course, I suggest the recommended no agenda way is be gay for pay, baby.
	Yeah, like, come on.
	Get with the program.
	Get with the program.
	Anyway, so we hope everything goes well with Cap Agenda at that Fiverr.
	Now let's look at some of the art that we did not choose but did discuss.
	What did we look at?
	We looked at the Megastrike stuff.
	You know, Paul Couture also came up with a beautiful piece, the Internet Tools piece.
	His art is just super professional and I wanted to mention that piece because it's so pretty.
	It's called Disgusting Depreciation.
	Oh yeah, he's very good at that.
	That's a gorgeous piece.
	I ended up using another Capitalist Agenda piece called Sportball for the newsletter because I just kind of liked it.
	It was cute.
	The baseball with the running down the spine.
	The other stuff was like, it was not quite up to par.
	There was some Modernistic looking very super kind of surfer stuff from Monsieur Piri Piri, whatever his name is, and it was just always nice.
	Bomb or something, but a bomb with a tic-tac.
	Yeah, that was the Netriot Act, and that was pretty good.
	And I really liked Megastrike.
	Yeah, we liked Megastrike a lot.
	And I wish he wouldn't have put 1541 on, or he'd redo it, because I think that's usable.
	In fact, I think it's reusable.
	You can put different little monikers in that giant ball that the guy's carrying.
	And this was done by BWR Graphics, so I assume, very professional, I have to assume it was a pro.
	Yeah, also we like Megastrike as a title.
	So that's kind of how we got out of that, I would say.
	What else was there?
	Yeah, our art doesn't reflect the title.
	Typically.
	Except maybe one or two times in 15 years.
	And people still making things too complicated, too small.
	So little words, little balloons of people saying stuff.
	It's got to be comically big because if you look at the art page, You know, the submitted artwork, that is the maximum size you're going to see this artwork, probably even smaller on most phones and devices and podcast apps.
	So please take that into account that a lot of these details just get lost.
	You know, like TJ the Wrathful's human resources, sparkles, you know, the no agenda, everything's a scam.
	Yeah, it's just too small.
	You can't even read stuff, you can't see it.
	So you have to take the medium into account.
	Am I saying that right?
	I don't know.
	Close enough.
	Thanks.
	So appreciated.
	We also like to thank people who support us financially.
	We had a very bad showing on the last show and people have definitely stepped up today and we appreciate that and we like to thank the executive and associate executive producers up front.
	These are people who come in with $200 and above or $300 and above.
	It's really appreciated.
	We started off with Julian Carpenter from Glenwood Springs, Colorado with $1,000 who says, I would like to be known as Sir Blue Jay of the Western Slope.
	Can I get a wet napkin and some small rocks at the round table?
	I think we can handle that, right?
	Small rocks and a wet napkin?
	Why?
	I was kind of wondering what is the deal with these small napkin and wet napkin and small rocks?
	Can I get a quick karma from my mom so she can be released from the cold communist clutches of Canada?
	Thanks.
	Yes, absolutely.
	You got that for your mom.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Knight DC in Sherwood, Oregon, comes in with $800.85.
	That's the double D boobs!
	That's the double D boobs, the big boobs.
	Big boobs, yes.
	Switcheroo.
	Thank you both.
	Could I get a health cover for my wife?
	This donation and 319 should dame her till she gets the credit for this.
	Once she's back home she can choose for now though dame bronc rider of the mountain desert will be her moniker.
	Okay we'll do that for now you bet.
	I guess he's the bronc.
	You've got karma.
	So I'm gonna make her the... I'm gonna do the switcheroo here, make sure we get that situated perfectly.
	Okay, boom.
	Onward to $400 from Lyle Pote.
	Pote?
	Pote.
	P-O-T-E.
	Concord, North Carolina.
	Okay, boys!
	This donation makes me a knight!
	I shall be called the Knight of Freedom Mountain.
	Keep up the good work, no karma, no jingles.
	Call out to my smokin' hot wife as a douchebag.
	And he says welcome to the family, Brother Curry.
	Blessings to all.
	Thank you.
	That brings us to Sir Pissant in Peoria, Arizona.
	You don't think it's Pissons?
	I'm pretty sure it's Pissant.
	He's in Arizona.
	Greetings from Sir Pissant of Peoria.
	My previous instantite donation did not include a note.
	Thanks John and Adam for all you do.
	Nowhere else can you get this content.
	Can I get a two to the head, a camel-a-crackle, cackle, camel-a-cackle, and can you see that juice?
	I think you can.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Can you see that juice?
	Yeah.
	And that was 336.66.
	Oh yeah, interesting.
	Zach Nanas is in Los Angeles, California.
	Sorry to hear that.
	$333.33 and says, John and Adam, this donation brings me one step closer to knighthood, which I plan to achieve this calendar year.
	I was compelled to donate for my third time listening to Sunday's donation segment.
	Admittedly, I do occasionally skip the donation segment to get back to the good stuff.
	But while doing the dishes last night, I let the donations from Sunday's episode play through.
	And boy am I glad I did!
	When Adam played the government official calling for Holden Hiscock, I absolutely lost it and was cracking up.
	Had I skipped the donation segment, I would have not heard this hilarious clip, and I shall never skip it again.
	This was clearly a sign from the universe that I needed to make a big donation to the show, and here we are.
	It may have been a silly clip, but the perfect fusion of news deconstruction and hilarity is what makes this, by far, the best podcast in the universe.
	better ways of supporting them with a little treasure.
	May I request a little health karma for myself and for all those who need it?
	Thank you both for your courage.
	Yes, you may, Zach.
	And thank you for that.
	Thanks for listening.
	You've got karma.
	See?
	A short note comes in from David Fugisoto, also 333.33 from Gladstone, Missouri.
	and And he just says, I heart no agenda.
	Job karma, please.
	Merci.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	That's interesting.
	He's usually really busy and overseas and everything.
	He's looking for jobs karma.
	Yeah, he's settling in.
	Yeah.
	Welcome home, brother.
	Steve Bryson, BountifulUtah333.33.
	Thanks for each and every episode.
	This little donation pales in comparison to the sanity and value you both bring to us all, but it's truly heartfelt.
	Be well.
	Thank you, Steve.
	Now we have, let's see, there's a note here.
	I'm going to look it up.
	Chapp Williams, do you have that note?
	Chapp Williams comes in a lot.
	This has happened before.
	Chapp Williams comes in, these are checks from the bank.
	Uh, because that's why it's gray.
	And Chap Williams has been sending us 333.33 including two times in a row a couple of shows ago.
	We're like two or three days apart.
	I have not heard from him.
	No.
	But we'll give him a double up karma.
	Yeah, of course.
	You've got karma.
	333.
	Oh, this is the Indy No Agenda Meetup Raffle.
	And they held that in Greenwood, Indiana.
	And it means we have a switcheroo the way this works.
	A lot of meetup groups are doing this.
	We like it a lot.
	Where they all throw money into the pot and then they have a raffle or a quiz or something else.
	Some way for someone to win the executive producership for the episode.
	So this goes to Alicia McHomer.
	McHomer.
	Switcheroo for her.
	Long-time listener, first-time donor.
	I would like a de-douching, please.
	You've been de-douched.
	I have been listening to No Agenda since my boyfriend hit me in the mouth just over a year ago.
	It took me a couple of months of listening on and off to get the show, but once I fell in love with it, I've never missed an episode.
	I would also like to call out my boyfriend, who hit her in the mouth apparently, Joshua Crome, as the ultimate douchebag!
	He's been listening since 2016 and still has not donated!
	Dude!
	I would also like to say thank you to everyone at my first No Agenda meetup since this past Sunday in Indianapolis.
	I would not have reached executive producer on my first donation without them.
	Everybody was kind and welcoming and I had a good time meeting everyone.
	No jingles, no karma, and a hooey-hooey!
	You got it.
	Thank you very much, Alicia.
	Then we come to... Oh my goodness, Tina is making a pot roast and it's making me hungry.
	I'm smelling it from here.
	Ryan Tiernan in North Providence, Rhode Island, see separate email sent to John, $333.
	And in fact, he did send an email.
	He did not, it didn't get forwarded to Jay because he didn't use donation in the subject line, which I try to remind everybody to do.
	And some people forget or whatever, but I want to, before I read the note, I'm going to tell you to put him on the birthday list.
	Okay.
	April 1st, no other details.
	So he's an April Fool's boy.
	All right.
	And Ryan Tiernan birthday list.
	I'm a relative newbie, writes to KnowAgenda, but in a short period of time have come to tremendously value the analysis and levity you bring to us listeners as Nero Fiddles!
	I'm on the Knighthood Layaway Program, but wanted to step it up this month and share some karma with my jujitsu buddy, Brian Hall.
	Recently launching the High Class White Trash Apparel line, he is bringing killer hats, tees, and hoodies to the rednecks, patriots, and slaves alike.
	Please share some goat karma for his venture, and check out his site at hcwhitetrash.com.
	All one word.
	Is that it?
	What's the white?
	No.
	What's the HC stand for?
	I wonder.
	Oh, high class.
	High class.
	Okay.
	Hcwhitetrash.com.
	Keep up the amazing work and thank you for your courage.
	PS as an anti-exit strategy, put those trolls and their CPUs to work mining Bitcoin dust for the show.
	Yeah, trolls.
	Start mining Bitcoin for us.
	There we go.
	You've got.
	I'm looking at hcwhitetrash.com.
	It's kind of funny.
	Yeah, what's there?
	Oh, it's apparel.
	So it's high-class white trash.
	He's got hoodies.
	100% fake and free.
	There might be something.
	I might get some of this.
	It looks kind of cool.
	We'll check it out.
	Yeah, I will.
	Onwards with René Bernhardt-Grüter from Gosau.
	It's in Switzerland, 333.
	I have no note from Renee, so Renee will get a double-up karma.
	Thanks, Renee.
	You've got it.
	Let me look again, because I thought there was something that came in from Switzerland, but I'll look.
	Yeah.
	Why don't you keep reading?
	Okay, we have Amber Ricci Latore.
	Ricci Latore.
	I hope I said that right.
	St.
	Clair Shores, Michigan.
	In the morning, Adam and John, keeping it short and sweet.
	Endless thanks for all the laughs and the true value you provide us.
	Can I please add David M. to the birthday list for the 3.30 show?
	He's added.
	And can I get a biscuit on my birthday jingle?
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	Connection is protection!
	Burr in Michigan.
	Thank you, Burr.
	Ralph in Miami, $329.30.
	Hmm, I wonder what that is.
	I wonder what that is about.
	There must be something to it.
	From Ralph in Miami is all we got there on the note, so we'll just have to accept that numerology.
	We love numerology.
	Dame Zelda in Muskegon, Michigan.
	Switcheroo, $250.
	First Associate Executive Producer, please credit this to Sir Grumpy Old Boomer from his loving dame Zelda of the Turtle Realm for his 69th birthday, which is March 30th.
	And I would like the jingle 6969, please.
	I'll bet you would.
	I got it for you.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Are you back?
	Yeah, I can't.
	There's nothing there.
	You're going to have to take the next two notes.
	I'll take the next one, which is a nothing note, which is from Arthur Sundry in Riverside.
	I'll go look for him too.
	$250.
	So give him a double up karma.
	You've got.
	We're getting to the end here.
	Tom Jandron, Clancy, Montana.
	RoaDux2222 in the morning.
	Gentlemen, my first time donating after listening for about half a year.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Also, Abby, to the birthday list, it's my 45th trip around the sun.
	Please send me some entrepreneur jobs karma and some pass this legislation karma.
	Love you all.
	Thank you very much.
	Yes, I'm going to give you that and then I want to read a little bit of his note here.
	You've got karma.
	Which I did check, it was okay to read this.
	On Sunday you were talking about National Guard deployments to Syria.
	I'm a recently retired Sergeant First Class from the MTANG, Montana National Guard.
	I can tell you that the majority of the operations in Iraq, Syria, Africa and formerly Afghanistan are conducted by the National Guard.
	A large contingent are based in Kuwait and dispersed from there.
	This has been the case for 20 plus years as long as these wars are conducted under the authorization of use of AUFM, Authorization of Military Force, dating back to 2001, instead of formal declaration of war, and I don't see this ever changing.
	Yes, unfortunately.
	That should be Congress's job.
	Actually, it's going to be repealed in the next, it's going to be repealed.
	What, that Congress has to declare war?
	Yeah, I have some clips about it.
	It just showed up and it looks like... Let's play it now.
	Military support filing to be repealed?
	Yep.
	Okay, here we go.
	Next, the Senate today voting to repeal authorizations for the use of military force against Iraq.
	This is a significant moment as Congress tries to reassert authority and military intervention abroad.
	Every year we keep these AUMFs on the books is another chance for a future administration to abuse them.
	War powers belong in the hands of Congress.
	And so we have an obligation to prevent future presidents from exploiting these AUMFs to bumble us into a new Middle East conflict.
	Authorization for the use of military force gave the U.S.
	President broad powers to conduct military operations without approval from Congress.
	Repealing the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of force in Iraq marks a formal conclusion to the conflicts.
	It's also a symbolic reassertion of Congress's ability to declare war.
	Some Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, oppose repealing the war authorizations.
	They argue the authorizations give the White House flexibility to respond to threats around the world at a dangerous time.
	The bill now goes to the House for a vote.
	Speaker McCarthy has signaled support for it.
	The White House also said it supports the measure.
	Wow, that's surprising.
	Yeah, you didn't hear that in the news, did you?
	No, because the military-industrial complex surely won't have it.
	It'll be interesting to see what people fold or buckle on this one.
	And by the way, only about 150 trolls left, so they got this content.
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	150 left out of 2,000?
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	Oh, you mean they left.
	I thought you meant there was only 150 left.
	No, they left.
	They bailed.
	They had more important things to do than listen to content.
	He continues, I've been working a grassroots effort in Montana to get legislation passed called Defend the Guard.
	The law would prevent the governor from releasing National Guard soldiers to combat deployments without a formal declaration of war.
	Yes, this is great.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Senate Bill SB 560 will be heard in committee on Friday.
	We need people to call the state senators, tell them to support the bill.
	Yes, that's how it works these days.
	Get off TikTok!
	Call!
	It's a thing called a phone.
	Him's note and other notes which indicate our National Guard, which is run by the states, for various state purposes, is not supposed to be lifted out to Ukraine or any place.
	We have an army for that.
	Yeah, well, of course the army has been so decimated, and that's probably about right, decimated, only 10%.
	You know, 8,000 service members wouldn't take the shot, and they're allowed to come back now.
	Believe it or not, if you'd want to.
	They've got jobs.
	So it'll be heard this Friday.
	Yeah, so that's tomorrow.
	So call today, SB 560.
	Call your state senators.
	Tell them to support the bill.
	We had it proposed in the House last month and it was narrowly defeated by 11 votes.
	So we have 30 co-sponsors supporting SB 560.
	About 26 other states that have proposed similar legislation this year.
	And Montana's effort even got mentioned on Tucker Carlson's show.
	Oh wow, he says.
	Oh yeah, oh wow.
	I know this is a long note, not Jon's favorite.
	No, it was content.
	Felt it was important to get this information out there.
	Hopefully Noah Jenner Nation can make some calls.
	There's a link and a website to sign the petition.
	DefendTheGuard.us.
	DefendTheGuard.us.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	You both are a national treasure, respectfully.
	Tom Jeandron.
	All right.
	Thank you very much, Tom.
	Appreciate that.
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	I have one more note to read.
	This is kind of funny.
	This is from one of our producers, and she's Megan, and she writes in, Hello, my husband is a religious listener to your show, so I sometimes hear parts of it also.
	Well, I generally agree with many things you say.
	I get frustrated sometimes with how you talk about teachers in the United States.
	Oh?
	I have been teaching at public elementary schools for the past 15 years and I find it very bothersome in your show.
	By the way, we've only talked about what she's going to complain about twice.
	Bothersome in your show that you have said teachers are not teaching students to read analog clocks.
	I don't think we've said that.
	I think we've said people cannot read analog clocks and that might be education related.
	I don't think we blame teachers.
	I blame everything on the education system.
	I think she's right.
	I have taught first, second and fourth grades in Missouri and I assure you that at each of those levels we do in fact teach children to read analog clocks.
	The difficulty is only analog clock my students generally see in a day is the one in my classroom.
	This skill, like so many others in early education, is one that needs to be practiced repeatedly and regularly to be retained until families start using analog clocks in their homes again.
	Yes.
	Or giving their kids analog watches.
	Students will not become efficient at reading analog clocks, no matter how many times they're taught in school.
	I agree.
	We see the same issue with counting money.
	Mm-hmm.
	She complains about that, too.
	So, well, I agree.
	I agree.
	People don't know how to give change.
	Not that it's a skill you need anymore, but yeah, that's a problem.
	It's a problem.
	Sometimes the customer makes out on that.
	So the American media model was in high gear with this shooting in Nashville at the Covenant School.
	And as you know, the American media model is that of outrage.
	It's your fault.
	No, it's your fault.
	It's because of this and because of that.
	We're not going to give you that on your knowage in the show.
	We may give you a few examples just to show what's really going on.
	First, I'd like to say this is not a hoax, even though, yes, a couple of people showed up who have survived school shootings before.
	I believe those to be on the payroll of the anti-gun lobby, and they're probably flown in the next day just to stand there and not really know what they're talking about, but to say, guns, guns, guns, guns, guns.
	So for those of you who said, the Crisis Actors are out!
	Yeah.
	Yes, I think they're PR agents and that's why they show up.
	I think most people have seen those videos.
	Unfortunately, two of my friends know many of the families, some of them personally, and even some of the children who were killed.
	One of my friends was actually a youth minister at this very school for a couple of years and was in the worship team, and so this hits home.
	It's very, very, very difficult to just discuss this cavalierly.
	But there are a couple of things we need to talk about, and I would say the most important one, yes, we're all waiting for the manifesto, but I think you can already kind of guess what's going to be in it.
	We are dealing right now, it kind of goes back to the teacher, although this is not all teachers, but in general we have raised an entire Generation of under-educated, over-socialized, and sadly fully medicated children.
	Tina and I were actually talking about this.
	We have three daughters amongst us.
	I have two stepdaughters and she has one stepdaughter.
	And at one point or another, all of them have been prescribed some kind of medication.
	Now what are the chances of that?
	It is an outrage how much medication is being prescribed to young people.
	And the shooter in Nashville was, I think, 28 from all the reports.
	This is still an age where a lot of people are either given SSRIs, antidepressants, or meth.
	You know, Adderall.
	It's not discussed, it's not talked about.
	The media, just like they won't talk about, you know, what was happening with COVID, they're never going to bite the hand that feeds them.
	This, I think, is one of the biggest problems.
	But what's happened in America, certainly very subtly, over the past couple of years, is Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matters, has been replaced Initially with LGBTQ and now it's just T. It's trans and trans kids.
	And a new term that is cropping up is transgenderist and transgenderism.
	Oh really?
	Yeah, look for those, you'll see them.
	So this is being abused.
	Now I have a lot of different pieces of information that are actually quite interesting that Tina and I have been looking at.
	The first thing that you find out is that many children who have autism And that is apparently really on the rise, talked about in the last show, certainly in California.
	Mainly because there's more people looking for it and testing and diagnosing.
	And I think that over the years we've discussed autism and if you are a kid that likes to walk on your tippy toes...
	You're on the spectrum, you have autism.
	If you like to spin, remember we had spinners?
	We talked about spinning kids?
	Oh, that's autism.
	There is an entire contingent of medical professionals, not all, so I am generalizing, who will talk to these children and will diagnose them as trans.
	This is your problem.
	You're trans.
	And a lot of these medical professionals are people who come from cosmetic surgery, cosmetic professional.
	It's a money grab of epic proportion.
	One child taken through a trans Transformation is worth about seven million dollars, one child, to the medical community and it's all being paid for from the banks and basically insurance companies.
	And it turns out that a lot of school districts, and I think I'd love for some educators to chime in, are seeing something called screen-induced autism behavior.
	Which is even more insidious.
	So when you put children on their screens early on, this is parents fault, but also, look, if you're addicted to screens, you're going to give your kids a screen.
	Walk through the mall, look at the children in their strollers.
	How many of them have an iPad?
	And just, you know, just swiping away, tapping.
	Oh, it's so great.
	Jimmy's so smart.
	He understands how to use the iPad.
	In schools, you are seeing this, it's called screen-induced autism behavior.
	It is not pure autism, because when you remove the screen, there's some withdrawal symptoms, but within a pretty short time frame, then the behaviors go away.
	But this is also an opportunity for trans to be a diagnosis.
	Not taking away from anyone who actually has body dysmorphia, that also exists, but in recent studies, it's all in the show notes, you will see that of the people who consider themselves to be trans or non-binary, really it's only about 8% who actually really feel they're trans.
	Part of this is from the induced behavior screens, part of it is peer pressure, part of it is professionals in the schools.
	There's a lot of things very very broken in the school system.
	And so when you have an event like this you get as usual in the American media model two sides.
	You get the side that is saying, well trans people are crazy and they've got guns and trans are being hyped up into getting guns and protecting themselves, which is true.
	Then you have the other side saying, Christian hate trans people and they've been terrorized by Christians, which is also true.
	But is that the real problem here?
	Is that really what's going on?
	No.
	I think the medication part is what is not being looked at.
	And there's one other thing that is very concerning that has taken place in the last three years, which cannot be overlooked.
	And I have to give it to CBS Sunday.
	They didn't overlook it.
	And this is what happened to our children, certainly in the United States, but worldwide during COVID.
	It sure looks like the pandemic is over.
	Stadiums are open again.
	Crowds are everywhere and hardly a mask in sight.
	But COVID hurt a lot of things you can't easily see, especially in schools.
	I feel like I just need to stand on a mountaintop and just yell to folks, take this seriously.
	Everything is at stake right now.
	Jeffrey Canada knows.
	He's the founder of the Harlem Children's Zone in Manhattan.
	We all knew that the pandemic was going to affect education, but how bad is it?
	We've got the data now, and things are bad.
	They're actually worse than most of us thought.
	In fact, I would tell you that we have an education crisis right now.
	The actual numbers vary by community, but according to a nationwide test given to 4th and 8th graders, reading skills dropped to the lowest point in 30 years.
	And in math, nearly 40% of 8th graders couldn't understand basic concepts, the worst performance since testing began back in 69.
	This is not just poor kids who are living in the urban centers.
	It's all over America.
	There's been a dramatic reduction in ELA and in math scores.
	This goes along with the loss of students in school, with the increased violence that's happening and the behavioral problems that kids are facing.
	In my career of more than 45 years, I've never seen anything close to this.
	So listen carefully to what he's saying.
	Behavioral problems.
	There's a lot going on here.
	And it's not hard to see how it happened.
	Experts say remote teaching and a lack of computers at home are to blame.
	Add to that the fear of watching your family members die.
	And it's no wonder millions of young people had trouble learning.
	A reminder, the government, your governments, your states shut you down, shut your children in, terrorized your children, and the media did a good job too.
	Or even making it through the day.
	We have seen an increase of 50% in the number of children presenting to our emergency department from the beginning of the pandemic to last fiscal year.
	50%?
	50%.
	Kids who are in some sort of mental health crisis.
	Yes.
	So what did this place look like during the spike?
	Heather Hustie, Chief of Psychology at Southern California's Children's Health Orange County, says even she couldn't believe how many kids needed help.
	What we're saying, those of us in children's mental health, is it was burning embers even before the pandemic, and the pandemic came and just threw gasoline on that fire.
	We're seeing more and more kids come in who are having suicidal thoughts.
	We're seeing more and more kids come in who are like, my grades have dropped, I can't function anymore.
	And if we don't help kids sort of manage some of these mental health concerns, they can't learn effectively.
	These kids are struggling.
	And if you add into that the screens, and in particular TikTok, who, as we discussed, like to bring communities together, when you have communities on, you know, who like conservative things, or, you know, Christians, it all works, everyone's happy over there, but at the same time you also have communities that say things like this.
	They obviously didn't release a motive as to why she shot up the school, but I have a pretty good guess.
	What have Christians been doing lately?
	They've been banning books about LGBT.
	They've been discriminating against LGBT.
	They are banning drag shows.
	So people are screaming, oh my God, it's a hate crime against Christians.
	But how about they are the ones that were bullying her first?
	And I can't help but think this trans man targeted a Christian school that he attended that he may have had very negative experiences at.
	How much the anti-LGBTQ legislation impacted his mental health to push him to this point?
	People don't just go up and shoot up a Christian school being the demographic that they are in the political climate that we're in just because They felt like it, like all of the other mass shootings when all of these dudes like just did it for fun or, you know, they're anti-semitic or nobody would fuck them, you know, like those reasons.
	It seems like he was an old student from that Christian Academy, also in Tennessee, where they recently banned drag shows in a law that is so vague My wife, who wears men's clothes, but identifies as a woman, could get arrested walking down the streets of Tennessee.
	So, these things are clearly not good.
	When you add this to medicated children, and you have this type of messaging, it's not going to end well.
	Now, you've got to have a 3D view of everybody.
	You look at the other side, this school is connected to PCA, Presbyterian Church in America.
	Which in the 70s split off from the Presbyterian Church and they're extremely conservative.
	One of the things that, and I'm no expert on it, but they won't allow women pastors, they want, no women can educate men.
	This is just from what I understand from my cursory Research on it.
	So, you know, people are different and people have different views.
	But when you add this, the social media, you add the screens which trigger certain behavior and you have adults.
	These are adults!
	Who are saying this stuff, you have a recipe for disaster.
	But the bigger picture here, according to educators like Jeffrey Canada, is that this could be a kind of lost generation, undereducated, to the point where it drags down their future.
	Undereducated?
	Yes.
	Oversocialized?
	Yes.
	And ours.
	I read one study that these kids' earnings, their lifetime earnings, will be affected in the tens of thousands of dollars.
	There's a whole cohort of young people who are not going to get the kind of education that's going to allow them to get the best jobs.
	It's going to cost lots of kids tens of thousands of dollars over there, earning some hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	We keep forgetting that this is about America, that eight-year-old.
	It's going to be 20 when you blink your eye and 25 in a short period of time.
	She needs to be an engineer.
	He needs to be a medical doctor.
	We need to start thinking about these kids as the resources for this country.
	Canada says there are ways to fix this, like intensive tutoring throughout the week, extending the school day, and keeping classrooms open in the summer.
	All right, so anyway, CBS goes on with that, but the core problem is the medication.
	The medication is not good, and you add to that social media with algorithms which, intentional or not, are just destructive.
	And it's up to parents themselves, and they have to stop their own addiction to this crap.
	Take it from an old fart, you gotta stop this addiction.
	That's the only way we're gonna move forward.
	And everything else, if you find yourself yelling, You know, trans people, what's your pronouns?
	Or if you find yourself yelling, Kristen, John are crazy, then you are part of the problem.
	You got to step away.
	This is how they make money off of you and it's off of children's backs now.
	It's pathetic.
	This would be solved with one simple edict or law or it's just completely obliterated.
	Okay.
	Go back to the days when it was illegal to advertise drugs on television.
	I completely agree.
	And we were talking about, television is also a problem.
	When you're watching television, and America and New Zealand are the only countries, but America certainly, where you can advertise direct to consumer, we talk about a tension arc.
	So when you're watching a show, there's a tension arc and it moves up and it goes up and you're like, okay, this is great, it's getting exciting.
	Boom!
	That's when they break For ads, and then right, and your mind is wide open, you're ready, you're in this story, and it's telling you what you have, what you might have, irritable bowel, you're fat, you have diabetes, you're depressed, your depression medication is not working, and then you're back in the story, and it is one of the most destructive things, and turn it off, just turn it off.
	Now there was something funny to all of this, just to keep it light.
	Every single station, when this took place, immediately ran right away and you could watch Fox and they give you your version, and you can watch ABC and CBS and NBC and they give you their version, but all of them made this And I think it's a, I would say it's the White House press shop, as they call it.
	It's their fault, because everybody was waiting for the president to come out and say something.
	They had people on talking about guns, and how horrible it is, and the mass shootings, and anything but drugs, of course.
	And this is ABC.
	This happened to every single station as they cut live to the president.
	Two things.
	Until we figure out a way to create systems within local government that are better... We're going to take it to the podium now, Brad.
	the President of the United States, speaking now.
	My name is Joe Biden.
	I'm Dr. Joe Biden's husband.
	And I ate Jenny's ice cream chocolate chip.
	I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream.
	By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs.
	You think I'm kidding.
	No, I'm not.
	Ben, how are you, pal?
	Did I say Obama by accident?
	So what happened is he was speaking for a women's conference, wasn't notified.
	The press should have been told, we're going to tell you when to cut because he does have a statement.
	They were all waiting for the president to speak, waiting for the president to speak.
	And then he went on about chocolate chip ice cream and some kids in the audience, because he is not media savvy, he's barely life savvy.
	And it was such a wrong moment.
	This is exactly what we didn't need, although maybe you do to show that this guy cannot be president.
	This administration is wrong.
	Everything's wrong about it.
	Did you see that?
	Any of those cutaways?
	It was very funny.
	There was a number of aspects to all this that was interesting.
	One was the insistence that this was all about gun violence.
	The CNN in particular, but also the networks that refused to discuss the The transgenderist aspect of this.
	They never mentioned that, and they deadnamed her, which a lot of people complained about.
	Or then named him, whose name was... She, him, had a Reddit account that somebody in the No Agenda chat room had listed, and I went to it and read all the posts.
	It was quite interesting.
	This person was something of a counselor to transgender youth and never hinted that this person was violent.
	Hard to get him in her because he called her Haley by her name.
	Wanted to be pronounced him her or him he and a name Aiden Which is what this account was on reddit.
	It was very interesting the way they nobody wanted to discuss this they ended up just calling it calling the person Haley and let it letting it go and not even getting into the Violent aspect of it because there is a violent undercurrent going on that's visible with t-shirts And in fact my favorite story is the idiot And of all things, a public relations person.
	In Arizona?
	Yeah.
	This is a person who's a public relations specialist posting on Twitter a woman holding two pistols and with the, in fact I think I have a clip of the, of this describing this.
	Oh wow, you have that?
	I didn't even get that.
	I have a lot of clips.
	Good.
	Let's see.
	Gender foibles, dead-naming shooter, uh... I had to figure out which clip.
	Idiot press secretary clip.
	Transgender identity is causing a controversy in Arizona.
	Governor Katie Hobbs's press secretary is resigning after apparently calling for violence against those who oppose transgenderism.
	Arizona Governor's Press Secretary Jocelyn Barry posted this image on her Twitter account on Monday, just after the Nashville school shooting.
	The caption reads, us when we see transphobes.
	The suspect in the Nashville school shooting was born as a woman and identifying as a man.
	Hobbs' office confirmed earlier today that Berry resigned following pressure from her circle and other lawmakers.
	The governor's office said in a statement, quote, the governor does not condone violence in any form.
	The post by the press secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration.
	Yeah, she resigned, obviously.
	And it's like, wait a minute, you're a what?
	A press secretary?
	This is a person who's supposed to be media savvy.
	That's what, I mean, it's just like beyond me.
	Well, again, again, this is the new Black Lives Matter.
	It's better than Black Lives Matter because you don't have to have a certain skin color to be trans or to be called trans or to be called a transphobe.
	And this is so evil.
	So evil.
	And it's really a small percentage, but even these poor children... I mean, again, this is a Washington Post poll that finds out that most of these trans kids aren't really transgender, but they either feel peer pressure, or they just don't feel like they fit in.
	Again, back to the drugs, back to the pharmaceuticals.
	This is the crisis, but all we do is spend time on yelling about trans, transphobe, trans, anti-trans, woman, not a woman.
	The media, it's their model, and they've gone from racist to transphobe.
	Now we're really killing children.
	Congratulations, media!
	Well, they're not going to stop.
	No, but we have to be aware.
	It's helped out by some of these.
	I have a slew of these TikTok people complaining about one thing or another regarding this.
	Okay.
	And I can play some of them.
	Let's, like, for example, the complaint about This is a person who seems kind of drugged up because it didn't seem too important to them about the shooting itself, but what was really important was they kept deadnaming the shooter.
	This is Aiden Hale.
	That's the name of the Nashville shooter.
	This video is about to be very uncomfortable for a lot of us.
	It's very uncomfortable for me to talk about.
	How old do you think this woman is who's speaking?
	She appears to be about 24.
	Okay.
	We need to talk about it.
	Aiden did a very horrendous thing.
	Period, point blank.
	We need pew pew reform in our country.
	But the way that the media and the police are misgendering and dead naming Aiden is quite concerning.
	It's also concerning that I had to go to the telegraph from the UK to actually get Aiden's chosen name.
	It's upsetting that constantly it is she her pronouns.
	That is incredibly frustrating because even though they did this horrible thing does not mean that we get to do those things.
	That's a boundary and we can hold people accountable without being transphobic even for some of the most horrendous things.
	So while you're watching this also watch for transphobia because it's very clearly coming out.
	Yeah, this is people making it about themselves, which is really, that is just as evil.
	I'm going to make it about myself, make it about my video, make sure you watch my video, make sure you catch me talking about it because I'm really important.
	This is very bad.
	It's not getting any better.
	Listen to this one.
	This woman is, this is just a really weird one.
	This is gender foibles crazy.
	The thing that's complicated about my whole, like, gender situation, and I feel like there are other non-binary people who deal with this too, is the fact that the way I understand my gender and the way that I want other people to understand my gender are two wildly different things.
	Because I, and certain people that I've talked to about this, understand the nuances and complicated relationships that I have with womanhood, so those are included when we think of me as a woman or, say, she-her.
	Like, those weird relationships are still understood.
	But almost everyone else, they don't have that, so they don't get to call me those things.
	To almost everyone else in real life, I am not a woman and I use they-them.
	But then because I will call myself a woman or use she-her, understanding the nuances of it all, I feel guilty when I feel bad about getting misgendered by people who should be using they-them and not thinking of me as a woman.
	I mean, they're not wrong, except they don't know they're not wrong.
	They've been told I'm non-binary and I use they-them, so why are they still thinking of me as a woman?
	Yeah, this is the outrage.
	This person is in outrage mode.
	Programmed to do that.
	Programmed to do that, no matter what your problem is.
	There's no reason to be yelling like that and be so angry about it.
	Seriously.
	There's something weirdly silly about it, but...
	But here's the one that I always thought was kind of a kicker because this reflects some of the t-shirts you're seeing.
	Somebody sent me, I didn't post this in the newsletter, but a bumper sticker showing the trans flag with an AR-15 on top of it.
	And this is the trans woman pushing, I think, pushing violence.
	Trans people in Tennessee, it's time to fucking fight.
	Trans allies in Tennessee, it's time to fucking fight.
	Trans women, if they lock you up for identifying as a woman- Can I stop the clip for a second?
	For one, I want to just warn people, this is extremely profane.
	So you can- you know, if you don't want your kids to hear it.
	The second thing is, this is the voice of someone who's coked up.
	And it's a- it's got that sound- And if I can say, John is an expert at identifying people who are coked up.
	Well, I think you have friends that are good at this.
	Coked up?
	No, friends that are good at identifying it.
	Yes, yes, yeah.
	But you're an expert at it.
	I think so.
	It's a great skill to have.
	Well, this voice with this adenoidal quality definitely qualifies for being coked up.
	Fight.
	Resist.
	You're gonna die anyways.
	We're going to die anyways.
	It's time to fucking resist.
	Fight them.
	Hurt them.
	If they put their hands on you, beat them.
	We are at an attack.
	It's time to fight back.
	Do you hear me?
	Trans people in Tennessee, trans men, trans women, non-binary, fight!
	If they try to arrest you or have you arrested on a felony for existing, Beat them.
	Team up.
	Gang together.
	Get people who agree with you to come and fight.
	Carry a weapon at all times.
	And yes, you have to attack the police officer.
	Allegedly.
	But it's time.
	It's time.
	If they're gonna try to jail and police you for existing, you fight them!
	You fight them!
	And if they lock you in prison, fuck up the guards!
	Bust out of prison.
	Jump in with other trans people.
	It's time we organize a prison bust in Tennessee, guys.
	It's time we organize a prison bust.
	It's time we start fighting.
	It's time.
	If they put their hands on you, fight them.
	Trans people, fight them.
	We will not let them create a genocide of trans people.
	I am so tired.
	I was in a live the other day with two trans people who denied this.
	Out of my way!
	I disown any trans person who disagrees with this notion.
	You are not allowed at the fucking table.
	It's time to fucking fight!
	Transgenocides around the corner, stop debating cis people in your existence!
	I do not debate!
	My existence is not a conversation!
	We fucking fight now!
	Or we die!
	And we're not gonna die debating cis people!
	They're gonna have the last word!
	They're joining your life to call you a man!
	They're joining your life to call you a woman!
	They're joining your life to misgender you!
	To get the right pronouns!
	To tell you that you're not a distant!
	They're fucking with you, and you're an idiot!
	Yeah, this is going to end in riots.
	This is the Black Lives Matter model, and they've just transplanted it, and they're abusing children.
	Mainly.
	Because think of the children, which is always a good one.
	And, and... Man, I don't know.
	I mean, you and I know many parents who are all in on this, too.
	Yeah, it's interesting, and the thing that's going on here, similar to Black Lives Matter, is Marxist dialectic.
	And what they've done, and I've been kind of working on some research on trying to figure out when some of these terms came along, most of them around 1990.
	This is all new stuff, by the way, that we're watching.
	And the development of the word cisgender is the thing that fascinates me, because now there's two, so we now have a split Instead of two sexes, male and female, we have two genders, two gender categories.
	The gender category is trans and cis, and those are opposite.
	And they oppose each other, and one, in the Marxist way, one is the oppressor, that's the cis, and then there's the oppressed, which is the trans.
	And the cis, interestingly enough, includes gay men, gay women, they're all cisgendered,
	heterosexuals and that's all the various genders within the cis community and then the trans have all the intersectionals and all of this, all these rather new inventions and it's to create this Hegelian Marxist dialectic so you have this, you know, this opposition one group to the other and the whole invention of cisgender which should have been rejected from the get-go is part of this.
	That's why they created it, so you can create this model that you're describing as similar to Antifa or Black Lives Matter, which is exactly the case.
	But you end up with some crazy stuff and I have two more clips.
	And one of them is this one, which again is profane and people should be careful.
	This one is actually kind of funny.
	This is an obvious dude who wants to be recognized as a woman, even though he shows no characteristics of one, but gets bent out of shape in a store for being called sir.
	And he just goes nuts.
	And this is the profane misgender rant.
	Excuse me, it's ma'am.
	It is ma'am.
	You need to settle down and mind your business, okay?
	Ma'am, once again, ma'am.
	I said both of you.
	No, you said sir.
	Once again, it's ma'am.
	I actually said both of you guys.
	Right beforehand, you fucking said sir!
	Motherfucker, take it outside!
	If you wanna call me sir again, I will show you a fucking sir!
	Motherfucker!
	I need your corporate number!
	Because I'm going to call them and talk about how I was misgendered several times in the store!
	I need your corporate number now!
	Well I'm going to ask you for the fifth time to stop calling me a man!
	Because quite clearly I am not!
	So in this Marxist dialectic, what are the earlier examples in Marxism of these types of
	Well, the bourgeoisie was created for this purpose as a term to really incorporate the middle class and the elites as the oppressors of the poor and the working class because the whole Marxist thing began as a It's just an oppression model that they can use to get you to be oppressed.
	We're going to take over the world.
	The workers control the means of production.
	Why are they being oppressed?
	It's just an oppression model that they can use to get you to be oppressed.
	You're in the oppressed class, which in this case would be trans, and you have to fight it.
	You have to, you have to revolt.
	You have to have a revolution.
	And we're at that stage now.
	I mean, now we're actually at that stage, which I think has very little, maybe, and we don't know what the manifesto says.
	Again, you know, you add drugs to this problem.
	We kind of know what it says.
	We kind of know what it says, but you add, you add pharmaceutical.
	This is the new thing.
	I don't think That the bourgeoisie and the peasants, that there was, you know, mind-altering drugs involved in this, of which we don't really even know how they work.
	Well, that reminds me, when I was a student myself in grammar school, elementary school, whatever you want to call it, I don't know, nobody committed suicide.
	Let alone felt like it.
	No.
	I don't know when they started committing suicide, but it wasn't during those years.
	I have one last clip, which is that this is a woman on PBS discussing some of the issues going on about these laws, which she says is really what's triggering all this.
	And in Tennessee, you can make that argument because the law is just some anti, it wasn't anti, it's not anti trans, it's anti Teaching kids stuff, more or less.
	Yes, it's inappropriate behavior in front of children.
	Yes, but they like to call it anti-trafficking.
	And this is interesting because this comes from the woman doing the speaking on PBS, not the host, but the woman that they brought on, is from an operation called NBC Out.
	Oh?
	Now I never heard of NBC Out.
	No.
	And NBC Out is a LGBTQ++ news source from NBC that's been around, that showed up, first appeared in 2016 as soon as Trump was elected.
	And it's pretty much anti-Trump, anti-Republican news stories.
	But let's listen to this.
	Oh yeah, and I just wanted to add.
	Whenever you hear Christian on the news, that's code for Republican.
	Trump.
	That's really the idea here.
	It's not even against Christians, it's just Republicans.
	Trump.
	Heaven forbid a Democrat be a churchgoer.
	Legislation targeting LGBTQ people has just been growing exponentially over the last three years.
	So you have more than 400 bills targeting LGBTQ people that have been filed so far this year.
	Stop a second.
	Targeting?
	Yeah, targeting, and the word use of, at least it bothers me, of exponentially, which she'll prove herself by showing some stats, is not true.
	You should add logarithmically just to make it even better.
	Exponentially.
	It's been growing, but not exponentially.
	Legislation targeting LGBTQ people has just been growing.
	Exponentially over the last three years so you have more than 400 bills targeting LGBTQ people that have been filed so far this year in state legislatures and As those have been filed, they've been growing increasingly more extreme, and the best example we have of that is gender-affirming care bans.
	So, when those were first filed a few years ago... Notice the term, gender-affirming care.
	Gender-affirming care.
	This, is this not also part of the Marxist playbook?
	And I think it's okay to say... Yeah, to rewrite the language, yeah.
	I think it's okay, as a capitalist country, as a republic, that's where you and I are, that's how you and I, and we're old!
	Until you and I were brought up, this is bullshit.
	This is new stuff, it's made up.
	As those have been filed, they've been growing increasingly more extreme, and the best example we have of that is gender-affirming care bans.
	So, when those were first filed a few years ago, they targeted minors, which advocates said was still already very extreme.
	More recently, this year, we saw the first ever bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for people up to 26 years old.
	So as they're growing more extreme, conservatives are also feeling like they can add on these bills that would have previously sparked more backlash like bathroom bills.
	And as you just noted, bathroom bills are not happening in a vacuum.
	There was a new PBS NewsHour NPR Marist poll that found 43% of Americans now support laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors.
	54% oppose such laws.
	That's a 15% It's a bit of a stretch to go from bathroom bill to gender, to call that a gender-affirming care bill.
	A bit of a stretch.
	They bunch all this stuff together.
	It's quite interesting to listen to.
	By the way, if you talk to Mo, You know, Obama's second term, which of course, black America knew that Obama was not African-American ADOS.
	Yeah, and he wasn't doing much for the black community either.
	Well, he did nothing in his first term, but you know, first of all, Michelle, she's ADOS, so that's cool.
	But then the second term, he went right for the gender bathrooms.
	And that turned everybody off.
	It was like, okay, alright, so we're not getting anything.
	Obama started that.
	It sparked more backlash, like bathroom bills.
	And as you just noted, bathroom bills are not happening in a vacuum.
	There was a new PBS NewsHour NPR Marist poll that found 43% of Americans now support laws criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors.
	So when you look at all of these anti-LGBTQ bills that have been proposed, the gender-affirming care bans, bans on education about gender identity, do you see a difference in the outrage to these bills?
	Yes, absolutely.
	We've seen a huge difference in outrage, for example, to what advocates have dubbed Florida's Don't Say Gay and Trans Bill, which targets education there, and between outrage directed at these gender-affirming care bans.
	And I think that's for a few reasons.
	First is just because most people know lesbian, gay, bisexual people, but they're much less likely to know trans people, and they're even less likely to know trans youth.
	So they don't know what their lives look like.
	They don't know what their health care looks like.
	And as a result, they're more susceptible to misinformation about it.
	A lot of these bills describe healthcare for trans youth as mutilation.
	They say it permanently sterilizes them, that trans children are receiving surgeries when that isn't the case.
	That's a lie.
	That's a total lie.
	Okay, so where does... So let's just keep... Right, but this all comes from media, driven in many cases by politicians.
	Politicians who will do anything to get the votes.
	Once you get in, and this by the way is not, this is not just America.
	I see this in the Netherlands, a socialist country by design, and they now have, you know, like gender education primetime television with naked people.
	I mean, it's really quite amazing how far this is going and I think a lot of people are like, hey, you know, maybe I'm old-fashioned, you're being told you're old-fashioned, but you know, the result is clearly not good.
	This is also coming from All the institutions, and I've got to hand it to Matt Gaetz.
	He really, really did a number on, uh, what's, uh, what's our, um, Joint Chief of Staff, Austin, what's his name?
	Lloyd Austin.
	Lloyd, yeah.
	Lloyd Austin.
	The guy with the mask and the shield and the hazmat suit.
	So listen to what Matt Gaetz did, uh, and he was talking to Austin and to Millie, and he starts off with Austin.
	I guess my question is, how much taxpayer money should go to fund drag queen story hours on military bases?
	You know, drag queen story hours is not something that the department funds.
	Wait a second, that's actually not what the record seems to suggest.
	You were going to fund one at Ramstein Air Force Base, that one got cancelled, but that's D.O.D.
	insignia, that's a drag queen story hour for children, then also at Malstrom Air Force Base, outside of Great Falls, Montana, you had a Drag Queen Story Hour for kids.
	At the Joint Base Langley-Eustis, you put on a Drag Queen Story Hour on a Saturday for the first-ever kid-friendly Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Summer Festival.
	And at Nellis Air Force Base, you had the Drag You Nellis on June 17th.
	Who funded these things, Mr. Secretary?
	Listen, drag shows are not something that the Department of Defense supports or funds.
	Why are they happening on military bases?
	I just showed you the evidence.
	Why are they happening?
	I will say again, this is not something that we support or fund.
	So you think hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour on a military base isn't supporting the Drag Queen Story Hour?
	I stand by what I just said.
	But you may stand by it, but it's belied by the evidence over and over again.
	I mean, are you aware of the piece, Biden's military, Air Force Base in Montana holds drag show, drag queen story hour for kids in the Western Journal.
	Are you aware of that?
	Again, I will say what I said before.
	You're saying what you're saying, but I guess it just doesn't comport with the facts.
	So then, to prove that Black Lives Matter is kind of on the way out, or to prove the point, I don't think that's why Matt Gaetz was doing it, he now switches to General Milley.
	You'll recall General Milley made this big deal about, I want to understand white privilege, I want to know what it's about, I'm deeply concerned about this.
	Yeah, we actually had a clip of it.
	Well, here he is now.
	General Milley, this will be my last time to question you.
	You mentioned two years ago that you wanted to better understand white rage.
	And so my question is this.
	Did you read this book?
	No, not at all.
	Well, it is What is White Privilege is the book.
	And it's actually written by a DOD official, a senior official in diversity, equity and inclusion.
	And there are now hundreds of these books in dozens of schools.
	And I wonder if you guys connect this to your problems with recruiting.
	I've never read it, never seen it.
	Frankly, I don't even think about that stuff.
	Go ahead and put up the next slide.
	Go ahead and put up the next slide, please.
	Okay, well, in the next slide, this is a tweet by one of your employees in charge of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and it's patently racist.
	They say that she had to give Karen the business, that she talks about caudacity, presumably of Caucasian people.
	You're arguing for me.
	That's terrible.
	It's wrong.
	She shouldn't be doing that.
	Should she be fired?
	That's a DOD employee, not U.S.
	military uniform.
	Should they be fired, Secretary Austin?
	Again, as you heard in your subcommittee here, this incident was investigated.
	And they're still employed.
	General's time has expired.
	Can I get copies of those?
	Because I'd like to take a look at those myself, actually.
	Take a look and find out what actually is going on there.
	Because that's the first I'm hearing about that kind of stuff.
	I don't read those news stories.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	I'd like to take a look at those because I don't agree with those.
	Well, they're now in the official records.
	I think those things shouldn't be happening.
	Period.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for that admission.
	There you go.
	Backpedaling all the way out onto shore.
	So, Black Lives Matter out.
	Trans kids and gender-affirming care in.
	And the whole country is, and the world really, is in irons over this.
	Because, oh, you know, poor children's gender-affirming care.
	There's all these words that we're using.
	And I think the statistics show that it doesn't always turn out really well.
	And then, just to make sure we get all the Christians and the Republicans and the Patriots all worked up, Fox News, here's Miss McEnany, who doesn't remember her.
	We're paying an awful lot of attention to a Wall Street Journal and University of Chicago poll.
	Boy, because those guys were right about Trump in 2016.
	They were right on the money.
	So these polls are really, you know these polls are good.
	Listen to this.
	We begin with a new and disheartening poll on the direction of where our country is headed.
	Right there.
	Sigh up, incoming.
	Incoming, sigh up.
	And what they reveal about the core values that have defined us as a country for generations.
	New Wall Street Journal polls showing patriotism, religious faith, having children, and hard work have declined in importance to Americans.
	Check this out.
	Patriotism plummeted over the last 25 years.
	Back in 1998, 70% of those surveyed ranked it as being very important to them.
	Now, just 38% feel that way.
	More than 60% said religion was very important to them in 1998.
	Now, just 38% feel that way.
	More than 60% said religion was very important to them in 1998.
	Today, well, it's less than 40%.
	And family values, like having children, also have dropped sharply in 1998.
	In 1998, 59% of Americans believed having children was very important.
	Now, just 30% do.
	The polls are not entirely surprising.
	We have seen the deterioration of America's core values right before our very eyes.
	You don't have to look far.
	From the distortion of the American flag, as a symbol of patriotism, into one of oppression.
	And while the kneeling for our national anthem on one football field, well that was applauded pretty widely, the kneeling of a Christian high school football coach, Coach Kennedy, in prayer on another football field, that got him fired.
	It took the Supreme Court to right that wrong.
	Meanwhile, children are being taught that America is systemically, excuse me, racist.
	And for those of you without kids, well, the left says don't have them for the sake of the planet.
	The polls just reaffirm what we've been witnessing for decades, the decline of American values that have helped define the national character of our country.
	Couple things.
	One, if you really look at the numbers, all this drops off end of 2019, into COVID.
	So, you know, you almost have to strike that from the record, that three-year period, so they don't really tell you that.
	It's like, oh, it's a steady decline, and now we're, it's all the way down here.
	Two, once again, the very pretty Kelly McEnany, McEnany, Is bringing in religion, bringing in a divisiveness, they all do it.
	And yeah.
	And you got to, where does this, where does this come from?
	Is this truly like, like that Russian guy said, Oh yeah, we, we set this up 30 years ago.
	And I mean, you know, it's been going, it's just, it's really paying.
	We got enough people in the population now that is really paying off.
	You can make good money.
	And talking about polls, I got this poll thing I got to read.
	Because I think these polls, you know, when I read this you'll see what I'm talking about.
	This is a poll from intelligent.com and it's about college students.
	The headline is, survey finds one in eight prospective students refuse to attend Florida public colleges due to DeSantis' education policies.
	Now I'm going to read this thing.
	I'm going to read part of the results.
	I'm going to read a kicker.
	Survey results show that 91% of prospective college students disagree with DeSantis policies.
	Among this group, 27% say they are unlikely to attend a Florida state school and 57% say they These numbers are actually quite high when you hear what the kicker is.
	Say they are likely to attend.
	Of those unlikely to attend the state school, 49% say it's due to DeSantis' education policies.
	Oh, really?
	Conversely, the top cited reason prospective students will attend a state school despite disagreeing with DeSantis are all the school's locations and school programs.
	Okay.
	Oh, however, 78% are concerned that this education policies will negatively impact the education.
	Now, the kicker to all these polls is, who took the poll?
	Yes, that would be good to know.
	You want to hear who took the poll?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	1,000 Florida students who disagree with DeSantis' educational policies completed the full survey.
	Wow.
	So you start off.
	Yeah.
	Does this remind you of anything?
	90% of all scientists?
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Climate change.
	Yep.
	Exactly.
	You take a group that hates DeSantis and poll them and they give you a negative result on DeSantis and then you make that the headline.
	This is bullcrap.
	This is a virtual lie.
	And it's meant to Create the vision, the American media model, and I think you nailed it.
	You can make a lot of money with this, just like climate change.
	And there it is.
	For the root of all evil is the love of money.
	Now, before we split, I have one more lying clip which will really get your hackles up.
	Okay.
	Do you remember the 2020 Portland riots?
	Yes, of course.
	Well, let's just try to rewrite history as best we can on PBS.
	They have this new woman on.
	There was kind of a multi-culti looking South Asian type.
	I can't figure out what her ethnic background is, but she's new and she takes part in all these.
	And here she is discussing with another, with a guest, her book.
	And you listen to this and tell me what's wrong with this report.
	And Adrienne, in your piece titled New Anarchy, you explore years of political violence, some by militia groups in America and abroad, and you focus heavily on violent clashes in Portland in 2020.
	You report that were instigated by right-wing extremists.
	Do you think that those clashes in 2020 in Portland are a warning that they could potentially happen on a larger scale nationally?
	I think that when you talk to people in Portland, you hear some who would say that what happened there was really unique to Portland and not necessarily replicable.
	But when you look at it sort of broadly, the sense that right-wing extremists can find a city that may be left-leaning or disproportionately represented by left-leaning folks and go there and sort of draw them out into violence, which is what happened in Portland, certainly you could imagine that happening in other Blue cities surrounded by red excerpts.
	And so I think more than that, though, it's less about replicating what happened in Portland and more just the sense that political violence is by pretty much every measure worsening in America and paying attention to sort of how that trend line is going and what we should be doing about it.
	This was literally Black Lives Matter, Antifa.
	It was a George Floyd riot by Antifa.
	Yes, yes.
	Wow.
	Who was that right wing?
	This is a lie.
	This is PBS gaslighting the American public, at least the public that religiously watches PBS.
	This is gaslighting.
	This is bullcrap.
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	You know that.
	Sure.
	Chris Goodman in Leander, Texas.
	Ray Howard in Kremlin, Colorado.
	Amy Zipkin in Greensboro, Georgia.
	Kim Winship in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
	Justin Kaler in Blufftown.
	Bluffton, Indiana.
	David Steele in Mobile, Alabama.
	Jill Woods in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
	Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Herbert Hess in Spring, Texas.
	Brent, a lot of 50s.
	Brent Schicke in Lake Worth, Florida.
	Kyle Mann in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Julie Minadeo in Costa Mesa.
	Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Aaron Joyce in York, Pennsylvania.
	Angela Pickering in Sour Lake, Texas.
	Holland Kilbourne in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.
	Colleen Cahill in San Francisco, eh?
	Patrick Cannon in Cranford, New Jersey.
	Anonymous in Oklahoma City.
	Andrew Watson in Fairhope, Alabama.
	Claudia Delemy in Harrocksville, Quebec.
	There's a better way of pronouncing it, I know.
	Marcus Benders in Cebu City, Philippines.
	Yeah, Dutchman living in the Philippines.
	Yeah, good life.
	Sir Mike in Georgetown, Texas, and last on the list, or last two, is Stephen Crummey in El Cajon, and The Manz in Parts Unknown.
	Thank you all for helping make this show a success.
	Thank you.
	Today it was.
	Yes, thank you all as well, and a make good from Sir Animus of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	I have to explain this.
	Okay.
	So I make a point of always giving his numbers out, right?
	Because he has these numbers, these codes, we think.
	Which we don't know what they mean, but they are clearly important.
	And on the last one, I said it was, what was it, what does it say, 2450... 2252, I think you said.
	Who knows what could have happened.
	I feel very bad about that.
	I feel bad.
	I feel very bad.
	It's the first time in 15 years that I've made that kind of blunder with a guy of the importance of Seronimus, so I apologize.
	Yeah, of course.
	Well, it's the first time and we will try to never make it again.
	Sorry about that, Seronimus.
	Um, let's see, uh... So, we had that, and... Well, of course, I want to thank everybody who supported, including our executive and associate executive producers, and also people who came in under $50.
	These are sustaining donations.
	They're very, very important, because when, like last show, things are low, at least we have a base.
	We really appreciate that.
	You can find more about that, how you can participate, how you can become a producer of any kind, at vorac.org.
	And we have a couple of, uh, karmas here.
	You've got karma.
	And then, uh, jobs, karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And thank you all very much for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	Thank you.
	Amber says happy birthday to David M.
	Celebrating today, Dame Zelda wishes Sir Grumpy Old Boomer a happy birthday.
	Turns 69 today.
	John, uh, Tom Gendron, 45 today.
	Robert Ludwig wishes his late wife a happy birthday.
	She would have been 51 today.
	Sir Andrew Walker turns 34 today.
	And Ryan Tiernan will be celebrating his birthday on April 1st.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	We have no titles, but we do have a dame and two knights to bring into our family.
	Here you go, here you go.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	You don't bring that one out often.
	Sir Knight's DC wife up on stage here, Julianne Carpenter and Lyle Pote, or Pote.
	All of you have supported the Noah Jenner Show one way or the other in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	It's the honor system, we trust you implicitly, and I'm very proud to pronounce the K-B as Game Bronc Rider of the Mountain Desert, Sir Bluejay of the Western Slop, and Sir Lyle Knight of the Freedom Mountain.
	For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Wet Napkins and Small Rocks.
	We've got some other things like Beer and Blunts, we've got Rubenesque, Women and Rosé, Geishas and Sake, Vodka and Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Esports, Ginger Ale and Gerbils.
	We've got Breast Milk and Pablum, or of course, the big favorite at the round table, Mutton and Mead.
	All three of you, please go to NoAgendaRings.com and anyone can check it out if you want to see what these handsome and beautiful rings look like.
	They're Cignet rings, which mean you can totally hit people in the mouth with them.
	It will leave a mark.
	Or you can use the enclosed wax to seal your important correspondence with and press it right in there.
	And of course, we have a certificate of authenticity.
	Thank you again for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	Welcome to the roundtable.
	No agenda meetups.
	All right, let's see what we got on the meetup list.
	These are producer-organized meetups.
	This is where you need to go if you are serious about your community, communite, the No Agenda Gitmo Nation community.
	You can actually, just starting in an hour or so, go to the Denver area April Fool's Writers Room Meetup.
	That'll be today at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
	Tomorrow, the must-be high number 9!
	7 o'clock at McSorley's Wonderful Saloon and Tavern in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
	What do you mean, yeah?
	You're gonna be there?
	McSorley's the best.
	Oh, you've been there?
	Oh.
	Years ago.
	Also tomorrow, the 2023 Secret Spy Balloon Symposium, 7 o'clock at Cowboy Jack's in Bloomington, Minnesota.
	On Saturday, April Fool's, but it's no joke, the OKC Ooey Hooey Meetup, not a joke, April Fool's Day Meetup, 1 o'clock at Garage Moore in Moore, Oklahoma.
	We have the NA Fort Wayne Club 33 Weekend Dancers, 1 o'clock at Hall's Tavern and Coventry in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Indiana, the Hoosiers, man, they're off the hook.
	Also on Saturday, Local 512, No Agenda, No Fool's Day Meetup, 1 o'clock in Doc's Backyard, Sunset Valley.
	Of course, Baron Scott of the N.A.
	Armory will be hosting that.
	The Osaka Castle, Cherry Blossom Viewing, and Amygdala Shrinking, 1.33, Japan time.
	Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
	That's Sir Bill of Osaka.
	That's actually a pretty good group.
	And they've been around for over 10 years at least.
	The tiny amygdalae of Anchorage.
	April Fool's potluck, two o'clock, Sir Lane's House, Anchorage, Alaska.
	Go to noagentomeetups.com for details on the location.
	The Northeast Ohio April Fool's Day No The Fool and Not-a-Joke Meetup, 3 o'clock at Bottle House Brewery and Meadery in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
	And the long-awaited Southwest Chicago Suburbs Meetup, 6 o'clock at Two Brothers Towel House in Aurora, Illinois.
	This is all Saturday.
	April Fool's Day, FEMA Region 4 Championships, 7 o'clock Central, Buffalo Wings in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
	And we have the, ah, Sir Jeff.
	Jeff Tohig.
	This is on Sunday, show day, the in-the-morning, not-a-joke meetup, one o'clock at Urban 360 Pizza, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Go say hi to Jeff, he's a great guy.
	Plenty more meetups.
	If you can't make those throughout the month of April, and it continues all the way, it goes all the way through next year, basically, you can find all these at noagendameetups.com.
	They are producer-organized.
	You have no idea how much you will have in common with people who look nothing like you, act nothing like you, It's incredible to witness one of these.
	Go once, it's like potato chips.
	You will have to go again and again and again.
	And it's connection to your community.
	Connection is protection.
	NoahJennerMeetups.com.
	Always like a party.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Drink it all hell lame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	I got so wrapped up in everything today, I have exactly zero ISOs.
	I have none either!
	I thought you were... I was gonna give you, you had no defaults!
	I was counting on you!
	Well, you've made a mistake.
	What happened was my... my little B-Link computer blew up.
	Oh really?
	That doesn't happen often.
	Well, it wasn't the computer, it turns out.
	Luckily, I had a backup whole computer, so I just grabbed it from the other room.
	But then I had to install all this stuff, you know, over and over.
	That's why you've got an ODT file.
	I had to reinstall everything.
	I did notice the ODT file.
	Woo!
	Johnny going open source!
	I love that.
	I love that.
	So I had to like, oh god, I lost all my passwords.
	Luckily, I figured out most of the passwords, except for noagendasocial, so I didn't go back on there.
	And it was the little hard disk.
	The little solid state drive.
	The little bitty one.
	Wow.
	So I put it in the other machine.
	No.
	No, it wouldn't boot.
	That doesn't happen often.
	Yeah, that's annoying.
	But the machine still works, but now I've got to populate it with a little hard disk or something.
	Well, I'm going back in the archives years ago.
	Just do some needle drops.
	We'll pick one.
	Okay, here we go.
	Needle drop one.
	Okay.
	Needle drop two.
	The powerful, controllable... No, that's too long.
	Needle drop three.
	Kiss my fat ass!
	Ooh, alright.
	Ass.
	Needle drop four.
	Love you mean it.
	Let's go with love you mean it.
	Love you mean it.
	We haven't done that forever.
	All right, love you mean it, it is.
	We have not done that forever.
	Okay, that is, how about that?
	That rarely happens.
	So we had, I have one thing to mention.
	I do have a clip for it, which is that the great, oh I'm going to be arrested Tuesday scam that you pointed out.
	Yes.
	You know what's happened, right?
	Uh, no, honestly, I didn't.
	Play the clip.
	Grand jury delayed a month.
	And the Manhattan grand jury examining former President Trump's alleged role in the hush money case is taking a month long break.
	Meanwhile, a judge has ordered Mike Pence to testify in the January 6th probe.
	The Manhattan grand jury investigating allegations by District Attorney Alvin Bragg against former President Trump isn't expected to vote on an indictment for at least a month, according to sources.
	The reason?
	A pre-planned month-long break that was scheduled in January.
	Oh, no.
	Okay, well that was a storm in a glass of water, as we say in the old country.
	Well, there's a couple of things that I'm going to save until Sunday.
	We do have some interesting news from Ukraine, which we did not touch on at all today, so we'll do that.
	We have, well, I'm going to leave With this, let me see, where did I have this?
	I just had this clip.
	Also, Israel, I have some boots on the ground information about Israel, which I think will be fun.
	What's the boots on the ground about the situation in Tennessee I didn't hear?
	What do you mean?
	You said, you didn't say that, you didn't read from a boots on the ground report.
	No, I, my boots on the ground was, this was real.
	I have two people, two friends who... Oh, okay.
	Oh, right, right.
	Okay.
	I just was confused.
	I think that was, that was good enough.
	But this one, this is Monica Crowley.
	Who was a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
	I'm not sure if that's an important job.
	No, I don't think that's true.
	Yes, that is true.
	Monica Crowley.
	I thought Monica Crowley, all she ever was, was the administrative assistant to Richard Nixon.
	Uh, no.
	Consult the Book of Knowledge!
	Let's take a look before we leave.
	I don't want to be wrong.
	She's not old enough.
	Monica Crowley.
	Maybe think of someone else, or maybe there's a different one.
	Monica Crowley's not, she looks younger than she is.
	Monica Elizabeth Crowley, born 1968, so she's younger than I am, was the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S.
	Department of the Treasury.
	So that is an assistant secretary, but public affairs.
	No, she's a PR woman.
	She's a PR lady.
	Well, that makes sense because she was going on and on and on about the banking crisis, and I thought you'd get a kick out of this.
	Monica, the world's reserve currency.
	You said it's a privilege for the United States for the dollar to have been the world's currency.
	How does that relate to each individual American?
	How has that changed or impacted or improved our lives throughout the last several decades?
	Yeah, I mean, it's given the United States incredible dominance in the world in terms of the economic system and in terms of trade.
	It's kept prices down.
	So whether it's energy prices, whether it's your food prices, the entire global economic system is reliant on the safe and secure dollar.
	But that is no longer true, again, because we've been printing money like crazy and devalued the power of the dollar and the value of the dollar.
	But on top of it now, again, oil is the critical linchpin of this.
	If Saudi Arabia decides to join with America's enemies here and start trading oil in different currencies, that is going to undermine the entire global economic system.
	And here at home, you know what it's going to mean for us?
	It's going to mean raging inflation so much worse than anything we have ever experienced.
	And I'll tell you, they're setting it up so that they can then come to the rescue by introducing central bank digital currencies.
	If they were to do that and the United States already has a pilot program, that may.
	That means the loss of your individual economic freedom because the government will have total access and control of everything you buy and sell and the ability to turn it off like that.
	Oh man, when I hear that, now I know it's never going to happen.
	Totally ruined it.
	I have to agree.
	Totally ruined it.
	And I thought she was a real, like, financial person.
	She's a PR lady.
	Gipped.
	Gipped again!
	She used to have a radio talk show.
	You mean like us?
	We have a radio talk show?
	Kinda.
	Alright everybody, I hope you enjoyed today's deconstruction of the news.
	I hope that your amygdala is properly sized.
	Let's not go out and rage and don't fall into the outrage trap that the mainstream media, social and otherwise, wants you to fall into.
	It's just not worth it.
	Go outside!
	Take a deep breath.
	Yes, exactly.
	Good idea.
	Get some fresh air.
	Have a glass of pinot.
	Coming up next, we've got on NoahJennerStream.com, Hog Story with Carolyn Blanion and Sir John Fletcher.
	Episode 345.
	That's got to be a good one.
	End of show mix, we've got a nice Sir Michael Anthony produced by Matty J. Joint.
	And a classic from Darren O'Neill.
	Which is Dvorak's chair gently squeaks by popular request.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6 in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday with another show full of deconstruction.
	Until then, remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Adios, mofos, and a hui hui.
	And such!
	Hey y'all!
	In the morning!
	I tune in to hear The best media deconstruction While the forax chair gently squeaks
	Stories of lies and of worldwide destruction.
	While the 4X chair gently squeaks.
	I don't know why nobody told him how to grease that thing.
	And I recall what Edwards told him.
	And I recall what Adam would scold him.
	Now who controls him?
	I look at the world and I can't see it is burning.
	Bye.
	Thank you.
	While the forest chair gently squeaks.
	The media lies, but still no one is learning.
	While the 4X chair gently squeaks.
	The 4X chair gently squeaks.
	I don't know how.
	You can't ignore it.
	Does he like that thing?
	Does he like that thing?
	And if you imagine it then he'll start to pour it.
	He can make it sing.
	I look at the world and see the people asleep in while the Borax chair gently squeaks.
	No agenda is needed to keep the lies from creeping.
	Still the Borax chair gently squeaks.
	Still the Borax chair gently squeaks.
	Squeak!
	Squeak!
	Squeak! Squeak!
	Squeak!
	Oh my God!
	Look at Elizabeth!
	Oh, my God!
	Will you listen to that squeak?
	Yo, New York City! New York City!
	This is your mayor.
	We got too many rats.
	We got, we got too many.
	I hate rats.
	I hate rats.
	Everybody in the city knows I hate rats.
	Who's that moving outside of my house?
	Looking just like a Times Square Mickey Mouse.
	Rats in the garbage.
	Rats on the train.
	Rats on the street.
	And rats in my brain.
	The only good rat is a dead rat.
	Ain't gonna stop until every rat gets whacked.
	Payin' six figures for a new rat tie And no, it ain't no courtesy, why?
	Never gonna tell you who they are But I paid a lot of money that I took from y'all Cause I'm the godfather of NYC Orderin' hits on every rat I see Uh-oh, who's that?
	It's me and my thugs Whackin' all the rats and slappin' little bugs There's nothin' I hate more than rats Not even violent crows I'mma kill every dirty rat.
	Cause it's rat killing time.
	I hate rats.
	I hate rats.
	Everybody in the city knows I hate rats.
	I keep getting tickets at my property for the rats and the doo-doo they be dropping on me.
	I hate rats.
	I hate rats.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org slash NA.

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