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	Wow.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's Thursday, August 3rd, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1578.
	This is no agenda.
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in favorite region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where Lizzo proves the adage, fat people aren't jolly.
	I'm Johnson Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	And he kicks it off with some real news.
	That's fantastic.
	I can't believe it.
	But I have a clip.
	And now, back to real news.
	And not just any clip, from the BBC!
	Well, the BBC's culture reporter Daniel Rosny joins us live now.
	Thanks for coming in, Daniel.
	Tell us a bit more about these allegations, because they do seem really quite serious.
	Well, I've got the complaint in front of me, and it's 45 pages, is the document, which was filed in Los Angeles.
	Now, these claims are long, and the legal action includes accusations of sexual, religious and racial harassment, discrimination, assault and false imprisonment.
	Is that what you mean by not jolly?
	That's quite a list!
	Some of the claims are against a production company rather than Lizzo herself.
	Allegations though include one of the dancers, Ariana Davis, saying that earlier this year Lizzo had organized a night out for the dancers in a strip club in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and she felt pressured into touching a naked performer in a strip club because Lizzo was leading chants of her name until she did so.
	Holy heck!
	A little sweetened there.
	Yeah!
	That's it!
	Lizzo!
	Big lawsuit!
	Woo!
	Bad!
	Lizzo!
	Bad!
	Those girls, the three of those dancers, the backup singers or whatever they are, were on... What's his name, that guy who went to News Nation?
	Cuomo.
	Oh, really?
	And you were watching this?
	For what reason?
	It was just on this morning.
	I was just getting ready for the show and I turned on the TV and there they were.
	Uh-huh, yeah.
	So I wasn't seeking it.
	Yeah.
	But the one girl, she was very upset because Lizzo was, you know, was cussing her out and was going to punch her out because she said anything.
	I believe this is all to be quite true because it's very, it's not unusual for somebody that's like so held up to such a high esteem in this weird circumstance to be kind of a creep.
	It's too bad because I recall Lizzo on that Letterman show that he did, you know, that was on Netflix, I think.
	And she was really sweet and talented and playing the flute.
	You know, the flute stuff, that kept her grounded.
	I think she dropped the flute stuff and that changed her life.
	Anyway, it's a show day, weird things are happening.
	Your boy, Your boy Brooks, David Brooks, wrote quite the opinion piece in the New York Times.
	Oh, did he now?
	Yes!
	What if we're the bad guys here?
	And he goes into this whole thing, which is really quite fascinating, which is not just fascinating, but self-aware, We anti-Trumpers often tell a story to explain how bad he is.
	And he says, let me try another story with you.
	I'll ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys.
	In fact, we're the bad guys.
	And then he talks about how the elites in the 60s and 70s sent all the working class kids to Vietnam while everyone else got Exemptions to go to college.
	Then the educated class just created this meritocracy trap, where only the rich could really get into all the cool gigs, which is completely true.
	Takes it all the way through to Barack Obama using the word smart in the context of his policies over 900 times, implying that anybody who disagreed with his policies was dumb and stupid.
	Then he just keeps on going and it's really amazing how self-aware he appears to be.
	With a crescendo, let me see, the crescendo here.
	Armed with all kinds of economic, cultural, and political power, we support policies that help ourselves.
	Free trade makes the products we buy cheaper, and our jobs are unlikely to be moved to China.
	Open immigration makes our service staff cheaper.
	But new, less educated immigrants aren't likely to put downward pressure on our wages.
	Like all elites, we use language and morals As tools to recognize one another and exclude others using words like problematic, cisgender, Latinx, and intersectional.
	Problematic.
	Our favorite.
	It's a sure sign that you've got cultural capital coming out of your ears.
	Meanwhile, members of the less educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we've changed the rules so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.
	I mean, it was great, of course, until the end.
	Oh.
	Yeah, you know.
	Of course, we condemn the Trumpian populace all day until the cows come home.
	The real question is, when will we stop behaving in ways to make Trumpism inevitable?
	It's a fascinating piece.
	He completely nails it.
	He within, you know, like 800 words nails the problem with the divide between the elites and the working class or what's left of the middle class in America.
	And then, you know, but you know, but Trump.
	He says it's our fault.
	It's our fault that Trump is here because we're douchebags.
	Fantastic.
	And then Trump wrote an opinion piece in Newsweek.
	When's the last time you saw that?
	When was the last time I saw Newsweek?
	The world is upside down!
	And he writes, the real victim of the Russiagate hoax wasn't me, it was the American people.
	Oh yeah.
	So, it's fascinating to watch what this latest indictment Or slew of indictments has done.
	And I see that you've prepared for it, so I will just play a backgrounder clip and I'll give the floor to you so we can get this out of the way right away.
	Less than 24 hours from now and for the third time in under four months, former President Donald Trump will appear in court as a criminal defendant.
	This for his arraignment in Washington on federal charges related to his alleged actions to overturn the results of a 2020 presidential election.
	The grand jury indictment handed up late yesterday alleging the ex-president's actions amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruct and impede the January 6th congressional proceedings where the votes were tallied and certified and a conspiracy against the right to vote.
	All of it according to special counsel Jack Smith built on destabilizing lies about election fraud.
	Tonight we are learning more about six unindicted and unnamed co-conspirators in the case.
	And Mr. Trump denying any wrongdoing.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	This is, this is... Is it fun that his name is Jack Smith?
	Are all the agents in the Matrix called Agent Smith?
	Yeah.
	Doesn't it just kind of remind you of that guy?
	All right.
	Yeah, he's creepy.
	Yeah.
	All right, John.
	So I have a series of clips in this.
	You might as well play it now.
	Oops.
	Yeah.
	Here we go.
	Warning.
	Amy Goodman clip inbound.
	Okay.
	So I could, you know, you can play the Fox stuff or you can play the MSNBC stuff and you get just kind of these polarized opinions.
	Yeah, it's either, it's completely, it's a nothing burger or he's going down.
	Finally, he's going down.
	It's quite funny.
	So I decided, hell with that, let's go to... Amy.
	I could also go into the middle and get NTD material, but no, let's go to Democracy Now!, because she had a couple of guests on.
	Because of her dynamic cadence, right?
	So she had a couple of guests on, but let's go with her overview.
	This is the Trump indictment overview.
	For the first time in U.S.
	history, a former president has been criminally charged with conspiring to overturn an election.
	On Tuesday, Donald Trump was indicted on four counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, tampering with a witness, and conspiracy against the civil rights of citizens.
	the right of their vote to be counted.
	The indictment centers on Trump's efforts to stay in office after Joe Biden defeated him in November 2020.
	Trump, who was the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 race, now faces two federal indictments as well as a state indictment, a criminal case in New York.
	No other U.S. president has ever been indicted before.
	Trump also faces a possible fourth indictment in Georgia for election interferences.
	This is Special Counsel Jack Smith speaking Tuesday.
	The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.
	As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant, Targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S.
	government, the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.
	Trump's lawyer, John Lauro, decried the indictment as a, quote, attack on free speech and political advocacy.
	The 45-page indictment also references six unnamed co-conspirators.
	It's believed the list includes four of Trump's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebrough, as well as Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official.
	Trump's trial has been assigned to District Judge Tanya Chutkin.
	She's an Obama appointee who's already overseen numerous cases linked to the January 6th insurrection, often sentencing defendants to longer terms than the prosecutors sought.
	Just a couple of comments before you continue with your presentation.
	I was out in Austin.
	Also, I've been monitoring what's going on on XX.com.
	Hey, is Twitter ruined if it's now X.com?
	I mean, don't I get a point for that?
	Anyway.
	So you're telling me you can go to X.com?
	I still go to Twitter.com.
	Yeah, but you go to X.com, it goes to Twitter.com.
	It's only a matter of time.
	Does it say twitter.com at the top?
	No, it says X. Why don't they make up their minds?
	Anyway, so here's, it's interesting, I'm hearing, it's very similar to the very fine people thing, so because of the consistent and endless playing of the clip, go out and fight, fight like hell!
	Which is actually followed by, make your voices heard, make them loud.
	Uh, so that's just fallen off the radar.
	So I'm hearing... No, peacefully.
	The word peacefully.
	Peacefully!
	Thank you.
	And so I'm hearing people not having that context and like, well, he did incite it.
	I mean, he told him to go fight.
	So that's one.
	Another interesting, uh, I'm seeing some otherwise... Where was this?
	You're hearing this?
	Oh, out and about, you know, the hairdresser in Austin, you know.
	In Fredericksburg?
	No, no, in Austin.
	I said I went to Austin.
	Oh, you're in Austin, oh.
	I had coffee with a former New York banker.
	How far is it from Fredericksburg to Austin?
	If you're going to South Austin, about an hour and twenty minutes.
	If you're going anywhere else... How many miles?
	Seventy.
	Yeah.
	So I also had coffee with a former New York banker, so I have some reports from that.
	And I hear, I listen, I listen to what people are saying.
	Otherwise, very sane people I'm seeing online.
	Very mad at Joe Rogan.
	For Joe Rogan saying it's obvious that there were federal agents in the January 6th crowd.
	For him stating the obvious about the obvious?
	Yes, yes, it's a very big problem for Joe.
	Oh, poor Joe.
	And I would just say that it seems like this just, and then I'll let you go, it seems like this entire script Um, is to get everyone mega very angry and start inciting violence anywhere just any kind of violence, please.
	So that then they can be branded as terrorists and locked up.
	I mean, I don't see any other I just don't see any other reason for doing this, because it is very flimsy, I would say.
	Even Megyn Kelly!
	Megyn Kelly apparently is saying, oh no, he's going to jail for the Georgia stuff.
	The Georgia stuff is where he said, I need you to find 11,000 votes, or whatever the exact number was.
	I don't know man, I've done business in America for many years and certainly in New York and I've heard these types of things like you got to go find that because you and that really means it's there and you stole the money.
	I know what it means.
	Everyone in their right mind knows what it means and it's not uncommon.
	Well I'm not so sure.
	I'm not so sure the new generation understands these terms.
	You know, and the context of them.
	But okay.
	Well, there's actually... I said you brought that up because I do have some of these upcoming clips have... Okay.
	...lead right into that sort of thinking.
	Beautiful, beautiful.
	All right.
	So what do we do now?
	So she brings these two stooges on one guy from Public Citizen.
	Stooges.
	And this other guy.
	What?
	I'm laughing at stooges.
	Like, really?
	Amy Goodman had stooges on the show?
	Yeah.
	And it was unbalanced as hell.
	It was just two Trump-hating stooges.
	One in particular, which I don't, I don't know who booked this guy.
	This guy's name is Aftergut.
	It's like he should have a show on after Guttfeld.
	Yeah, so I was thinking right after Guttfeld.
	So after Gutt is an ex-prosecutor, federal prosecutor, who likes you.
	Unfortunately, I wish I had video.
	This is the one time where you see this guy, he's kind of bug-eyed and he opens his mouth and he talks real slow.
	I had to cut a lot of pauses out.
	He talks real slow and he seems nuts.
	And he looks kind of insane, and Amy was not happy with his booking, I don't think, because when they flashed back, he was like, can we get this guy off?
	No.
	But I thought he was the best.
	The best for our show.
	For our show.
	So she introduces him though with a great, with a plumb, and this is, this is the Trump, this clip is called Trump indictment after gut DN intro.
	For more we're joined by two guests in Washington DC.
	He looks like Bert.
	From Bert and Ernie, if he had the same hair as I'm seeing online.
	Doesn't he?
	You have to see him talk to appreciate, because he talks with his mouth way open.
	Oh, fun.
	For more, we're joined by two guests.
	In Washington, D.C., Robert Weissman is with us, president of Public Citizen, one of the groups organizing nationwide, not above the law, Trump indictment rapid response rallies in support of accountability.
	That'll be balanced.
	This Thursday of the arraignment.
	Also with us, Dennis Aftergut, former federal prosecutor.
	He's currently of counsel to lawyers defending American democracy.
	His piece for Slate is headlined, Jack Smith's January 6th Trump Indictment is a Prosecutorial Masterstroke.
	Well, Dennis, let's begin there.
	Masterstroke!
	Can you respond to the significance of this indictment and what these four counts are all about?
	Wow.
	That was the intro now.
	Yeah.
	So she, I think they booked him based on this essay about this master stroke.
	He, by the way, so she's going to ask, he just, you heard what she asked.
	He says nothing.
	He never says anything about anything about the, the indictment, what good it is.
	It's just all about this, the structure and how pretty it is.
	And then it got so bad that when we go into clip three, this clip two coming up and we go to clip three, you're going to hear it.
	That Juan Gonzalez come on and he's like exasperated with this guy.
	But let's listen to what what our great analyst after gut has to say this clip to.
	The significance relates to the fact that this is an indictment that will bring about... Be not forgiven.
	Not just the trial of the century, but the trial of all American history.
	This is an indictment about lies to disenfranchise the American people and about a man who would be king.
	We fought a war of independence in 1776 to 1783 to prevent that.
	That's why this case is more important than any other.
	Well, that's a new twist on worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor.
	I mean, now it would be king.
	We almost had a king.
	Oh, no.
	So I'm watching this it's like oh this guy he hasn't said anything it's just a bunch of screwy stuff and so Juan Gonzalez jumps in with his like well how about some facts or something here besides this nuttiness and here we go.
	I'd like to ask you, this whole issue of these six co-conspirators, they were not indicted along with him.
	Obviously the government probably is hoping for some of them to turn, but if some of them ended up being indicted, what would that do in terms of a timeline for a trial of this kind?
	Nothing.
	What makes this indictment so elegant are two key things.
	One, that it was only Trump who was indicted.
	You can be confident that the others will not be indicted until after a trial date is set so that the trial of Trump goes first.
	Trial of Trump?
	And the other element of elegance is that All of the so many facts alleged, none of which would be alleged if Jack Smith couldn't prove them, all of them go to all four counts.
	That streamlines the trial to ensure that if it is set sufficiently early, the case will finish.
	Well, before not just the November election, but hopefully before the Republican nominating convention in July.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	By the way, this guy's in Sonoma.
	And if you listen carefully, I'm pretty sure he's sloshed.
	He lives near Healdsburg, does he?
	Hey, Trump, it's going to be great.
	Trial of the century.
	Trial of Trump.
	That's a nice one.
	He has a book coming out.
	I'll bet you it's called Trial of Trump.
	Yeah.
	Well, so you can kind of see Juan Gonzalez and Amy kind of rolling their eyes with this guy because he's not providing anything.
	So they switch over to the new guy.
	This is clip four.
	And I'd like to bring in Robert Weissman, a public citizen, into the conversation.
	Your response to the indictment and also to the Trump campaign's statement, which was released on his social media site.
	You gotta stop it.
	You have to listen carefully to the question.
	He doesn't even come close to addressing the question and he just agrees with the other guy.
	This is unbelievably bad.
	This is one of the worst presentations that Amy Goodman could possibly come up with.
	Only available on your No Agenda Show!
	Woo!
	And I'd like to bring in Robert Weissman, a public citizen, into the conversation.
	Your response... Wait a minute, Robert Weissman, a public citizen?
	What is a public citizen?
	No, no, it's publiccitizen.org.
	I think it's called citizen.org.
	Oh, okay, okay.
	- Oh, okay, okay. - And it is a horde, kind of left wing.
	This, by the way, is the most unbalanced presentation you could possibly come up with.
	Wait, wait.
	Citizen.org, those are the guys from the big show and the big climate show.
	Isn't that it?
	I don't know if they're... Maybe.
	It could be.
	They could be involved.
	I'm not sure.
	You have to go look at the website, but Weissman runs the thing.
	I don't know.
	You can't find anybody.
	There's a bunch of... That's a Laurene Powell Jobs outfit, isn't it?
	I don't think this is one of hers, because I couldn't find her anywhere listed.
	Okay, all right.
	Let us continue.
	To the indictment and also to the Trump campaign's statement, which was released on his social media site Truth Social, which said in part, quote, the lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union and other authoritarian dictatorial regimes.
	Yeah, thanks Juan.
	I think Dennis gets it exactly right.
	If you throw out Trump, his supporters, Nazis, Nazi Germany, 30s, and the guy comes back with, yeah, thanks a lot, that was great, man.
	You really didn't hate it, did you?
	Former Soviet Union and other authoritarian dictatorial regimes.
	Yeah, thanks Juan.
	I think Dennis gets it exactly right.
	Talking about how consequential this indictment and the trial will be in American history.
	You know, I think one of the things that's important about the indictment, it tells the story, basically the story we know that was revealed that we saw in real time and that was detailed by the January 6th committee.
	But the charges, which might sound legalistic at first, are really about that conspiracy over many months to overturn the election.
	And one charge in particular I think gets to the heart of the matter, which is not just about interfering with an abstract government proceeding, but denying—a conspiracy to deny people their right to vote.
	It's a civil rights statute tracing back to the Civil War era, and it really gets to the heart of what happened, which is that Donald Trump tried to strip away from all of us our democracy and our individual rights to vote to protect himself and remain in power.
	Oh man!
	Yeah, global, it's different from, I was thinking of global citizen, not something else.
	Oh, maybe.
	Yeah.
	So there is a, this is a delusionary presentation.
	They ask him about Stalin, he goes on about this Trump thing, and it came to a head, I think, with the same character, Wiseman, this Wiseman guy.
	Yeah.
	Who, in the next clip, which is clip five, and then there's a clip this guy, unfortunately, it's got the carrot instead of a six, so you should note that, which is the sixth clip.
	But the fifth clip, I want you to listen to this guy.
	Just go off on Trump and the situation that we've been in when Trump was president and tell me if this is even close to reality.
	And I have to wonder how delusional that this group is on this side of the fence.
	And this isn't the MSNBC delusional types.
	This is another, this is a real lefty, delusional type.
	This is different.
	Can I just say, I'm looking at this citizen.org and they are not a non-profit that you can, you know, that you can deduct your donation to because they lobby Congress and federal agencies to advance public citizens' mission of advancing government.
	They're a lobbying group.
	So, you know, it's not the same as Kumbaya, we want America to be better.
	They're a lobbying group.
	All right, let's listen to this guy.
	So this lobbying group is run by this guy, the guy you're going to hear now.
	I think as this case, as the events of January 6th have receded in time, and the Trump presidency has receded in time, it's possible to forget how horrible that period was, the constant assault on decency, people of color, immigrants, democracy.
	And this case brings that back to the fore.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah.
	The constant assault.
	Yes.
	Oh, we have a caller, ladies and gentlemen.
	Hello, Republican line.
	Just take it off the hook.
	The constant assault on democracy that we had during that Trump administration.
	This is a quandary, John.
	I mean, you did not take your phone off the hook.
	Hello, 1975.
	Yeah.
	Are you just gonna let it ring?
	Yeah, I will let it ring.
	Let me see.
	Let's listen.
	Oh, it stopped.
	Oh, okay.
	Okay, so now...
	We, after listening to this guy go on about the horrible four years of Trump and the assault on democracy and the immigrants and how miserable we all were.
	And black people.
	And black people.
	Yeah.
	Who he got more jobs for than anyone.
	Shh!
	Quiet!
	Shh!
	Shh!
	Let's go back to Mr. Aftergut.
	He has a theory here That I have to have a follow-up clip to this because this is so off base.
	If I find it hard to believe, I find it hard to believe this guy ever worked in the government in any real sense and probably why he had to move to Sonoma because he didn't do his job properly.
	Just listen to this.
	We also learned, this is a small tidbit, but it's interesting, that Mike Pence took contemporaneous notes in January of his conversations with Donald Trump.
	Two things about that of significance.
	Number one, it strengthens the case.
	Uh, the evidence, because Jack Smith now has those notes.
	And number two, why does someone take contemporaneous notes that tells us that in late January, the former Vice President, who had served loyally the President of the United States for four years, did not trust him any further than he could throw him.
	I think he's wrong.
	Okay, so.
	Contemporaneous notes.
	Pence took contemporaneous notes.
	I just coincidentally listened to KT McFarlane, who was on Gutfeld, talking about aftergut, and she just made this simple comment.
	They were talking about the Biden meetings and the phone calls and the rest, and I just want to play this little thing because I have some thoughts on this too.
	This is KT McFarlane counter-argument.
	Okay, so here's how this happens.
	When a Vice President, President of the United States, is getting on the phone with somebody, you don't just, like, pick up the phone and say, Hi, how are you doing?
	How's the weather?
	There's a big talking point.
	You get the bullet point.
	What are you going to talk about?
	Obviously, his son has said, Dad, you know, do this when I give you the wink.
	Say this, say that.
	So there's no way.
	The other thing is that there's always a record kept.
	So somebody has a transcript of these conversations, or at least a summary of these conversations.
	There's always a transcript kept.
	Of what?
	As someone who worked for the administrative state myself, you always take notes.
	You don't take notes because you're fearful this guy's a douchebag.
	I would sit... I remember going to...
	My dad was not doing well and so I went to see my uncle because he was very concerned and his sister, his wife was, she passed now, was my dad's sister.
	And he was at the time president of the Korea Society.
	I'm sure some kind of fine spook front.
	So I go to his office in Manhattan and we're sitting down.
	Now this is Adam and his uncle, Uncle Don and his nephew.
	And he gets and we sit down.
	Hey, how you doing?
	He gets out a pad and a paper.
	He says, I'm sorry, man.
	It's just what I do.
	It's from the agency.
	He was taking contemporaneous notes of me!
	That's exactly what they do.
	That's what anyone does who works in government.
	This guy, Aftergut, who claims that it's because, oh, he couldn't trust Trump as far as he could throw him, was talking through his hat.
	He's an asshole.
	And Amy Goodman should be ashamed of having people like that on the show.
	Well, this is, I mean, honestly, both counts.
	I mean, the Trump stuff seems to be really distraction.
	OK, whatever.
	Fine.
	You got an indictment.
	I guess I guess it'll have to play out.
	It'll be interesting to see if they can actually move it to get a court case before I hear before the Republican.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Before they choose a candidate or before the election.
	But on the other side, the same thing.
	All I hear about the Biden crime family is, okay, yeah, I mean, even Tucker, 12 minutes of Tucker with this Devin dude.
	What's his name?
	He had him on.
	Yeah, and it's 12 minutes of, well, we know, ha, ha, because it's all about influence.
	Ha, ha, we know really what was going on.
	You put him on speaker.
	Why'd he put him on speaker?
	Why'd he put him on speaker?
	Well, dude, so what?
	You know, it's like, okay, I mean, this isn't gonna go nowhere because every single person in Congress, I'll bet, no, I'll bet a high percentage, Has a son or a daughter or a cousin who's on staff, has some kind of consultancy.
	I mean, this is rampant.
	If anything, it's showing you the whole picture from both sides.
	It's all lame.
	It's all lame.
	It's super lame.
	In the meantime, if you're done with the Trump stuff, I'm done with it.
	I had to get these clips because I'm telling you, I was so annoyed.
	No, you're right.
	Rightfully so.
	I'm glad you did that.
	And honestly, I didn't get any clips except for the, you know, I got two that were sent to me.
	And I guess, yes, Giuliani is one of the co-conspirators.
	Oh, good.
	Get that guy.
	Let's make fun of his hair.
	I hate Giuliani.
	He's dripping.
	He's dripping.
	Hair dye.
	He's dripping.
	Exactly.
	What I learned from the former New York banker.
	You'd be interested in that.
	One, FedNow will kill all existing processing merchants.
	That was a surprise to me.
	That's the new network they have.
	I'm sorry.
	FedNow?
	What do you mean?
	It's going to kill Costco and Target?
	No, the processing merchants.
	Bank of America, MasterCard and Visa?
	Correct.
	Just passing on the information.
	Two.
	Well, that sounds like an interesting short sale.
	Well, I think that's exactly what he's... He's not necessarily looking at the shorts.
	I think he's looking at the longs and who is in the Fed now.
	So Fed now has legs, according to the most reliable source I have.
	Okay.
	Well, that actually may be a long term... If they wanted to, they could wipe those two guys out.
	Well, I think it's going to happen.
	Two.
	ERC.
	Do you know what this is?
	ERC?
	Yes, ERC!
	Exactly.
	ERC!
	You've probably heard commercials on the radio, the same guys who do Optima Tax Relief.
	Employee Retention Credit.
	This is part of another trillion dollars that was signed during COVID?
	Wasn't that the money that was already spent during the COVID?
	Nope.
	This was the... So, the quote is, this scam is PPP plus 50%.
	Operative word, scam?
	Well, yes!
	Because everybody who knows their way around, and I'm not going to accuse anybody I know, might have been having coffee with them, but everybody who has a business, got lots of PPP money, which they never had to pay back, and now this ERC, and I think, now this is just me thinking, That this will only exacerbate the inflation issue.
	Because it's just going to be this huge, you know, up to a trillion dollars.
	And we know hundreds of billions was stolen, literally stolen, with PPP.
	And it's only people who are smart and, you know, honestly, I know you looked at it.
	You're like, man, can we get some of this, this goodie?
	And we're like, no, okay.
	But we did look at it.
	Did we or not?
	No.
	But we don't have any employees.
	No.
	That's when we thought, oh, we don't have any employees.
	Crap.
	All right.
	We can't get in on the scams.
	Let's put Mimi and Tina on the books.
	Yeah.
	Get some free cash.
	Yeah.
	Well, we can still do it for the ERC.
	No, we didn't do any scamming.
	We could have.
	Well, yeah, I guess technically we could have.
	Sure.
	So just, uh, this sounds like another, yeah, this is interesting because, uh, this is one of the, probably the tip of the iceberg for the reasons that Fitch dropped the United States of America's credit rating from AAA to AAA to AA plus.
	Well, let's talk about that.
	That's a big deal.
	Let's talk about that.
	The U.S.
	for the first time in 12 years has had its credit rating downgraded.
	The credit rating agency, Fitch, has cut the U.S.
	from its long-standing AAA rating to AA+, citing growing government debt and political instability, highlighted by the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
	That triggered Wall Street's worst day in months, with the Dow dropping 1%, the S&P falling 1.4%, And the Nasdaq sinking more than 2%.
	Oh, it gets better.
	These are fantastic.
	I mean, the obvious reason for this downgrade is because of our debt-to-GDP ratio.
	Well, according to Horowitz, and he keeps track of this better than the both of us.
	There's one reason, and one reason only, is when they lifted the debt ceiling to maximum until 2025.
	No, not maximum.
	Unlimited!
	Unlimited!
	That's the sole reason they did this.
	Well, hold on a second.
	That makes no sense.
	For the first time in more than a decade.
	The nation's long-term credit rating has been lowered.
	Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S.
	from AAA, which is its top mark, to AA+.
	The firm said those repeated standoffs in Washington over the debt limit and last-minute deals have eroded confidence in the nation's fiscal management.
	The White House responded that Fitch's downgrade defies reality at a time when President Biden has delivered the strongest recovery of any major economy in the world.
	Okay, so who was really mad about this?
	Why, Janet... Old Yellen, of course.
	That's her new name.
	Old Yellen.
	Yeah, I like it.
	Old Yellen.
	Old Yellen.
	Because Bidenomics rocks, man!
	Fitch's decision is puzzling in light of the economic strength we see in the United States.
	I strongly disagree with Fitch's decision, and I believe it is entirely unwarranted.
	It's flawed assessment is based on outdated data and fails to reflect improvements across a range of indicators, including those related to governance that we've seen over the past two and a half years.
	Despite the gridlock, we've seen both parties come together to pass legislation to resolve the debt limit, as well as to make historic investments in our infrastructure and American competitiveness.
	Is she really that dumb that she doesn't see that the resolution is the problem, the resolving the debt limit?
	Doesn't she see that that's the exact issue?
	Fiscal responsibility is a priority for President Biden and me.
	Earlier this year, the president signed debt limit legislation that included over a trillion dollars in deficit reduction.
	His budget would also improve the fiscal outlook by reducing the deficit by $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years.
	Today, we're here to speak about an IRS modernization project.
	Listen to this, don't worry about it.
	We're going to get some money.
	Don't worry, we'll fill up all the deficit because we're coming for you, little people.
	Launched this time last year, it will reduce our deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
	By ensuring that the IRS has the resources it needs to enforce against wealthy taxpayers and large corporations that have not paid the taxes they owe.
	Oh yeah, and don't worry, it's only going to be corporations and wealthy people.
	Don't worry!
	What a lie.
	Today, Fitch's decision does not change what all of us already know.
	The Treasury securities remain the world's preeminent safe and liquid asset and that the American economy is fundamentally strong.
	I love how she doesn't even say the dollar anymore.
	She just says, well, the treasury securities, you know, the stuff that that kind of is like the dollar.
	Yeah, they're the best.
	Invest in those are the best.
	And besides, everybody loves Bidenomics.
	Democrats may have an uphill climb when it comes to perceptions of the economy.
	Sixty five percent of the people we spoke to say the economy is bad despite the drop in inflation over the past year.
	Nancy Cordes is traveling with President Biden in Delaware.
	Good morning, Nancy.
	Good morning, Natalie.
	You know, job growth may be up, GDP is up, unemployment is down, but according to this new CBS News poll, heading into an election year, many Americans still feel that the economy is not working for them.
	In fact, struggling and uncertain were the words That respondents chose most frequently to describe the current state of the economy.
	More than half of them told us they feel like they're staying in place.
	A third said they're falling behind.
	And while wages are now finally rising faster than inflation, 70% of Americans told us they're just not feeling that yet.
	So it's perhaps no surprise that President Biden still isn't getting much credit for an improving economy.
	People aren't feeling it, they tell us.
	So his approval ratings for handling the economy are tied for an all-time low, only 34% approve.
	As you can imagine, this is a source of endless frustration for Biden aides who have begun to use the term Bidenomics on a nearly daily basis to try to turn that perception around.
	But apparently it is going to take some time.
	In our poll, 6 in 10 Americans said they either hadn't heard the term Bidenomics or they didn't know much about it.
	Now, it's surprising, but CBS is out there bringing down the big guy.
	Bidenomics, haven't known, don't even know what that is.
	Well, they're also making sure they bring down the other guy.
	Both these candidates have got to go.
	That's why they bring in the January 6th thing having to do with the Fitch downgrade.
	The next thing that's going to happen is Moody's is going to have to, they can't sit on their hands because they look like losers.
	And so they're going to have to drop it.
	And then S&P and then you get all three rating agencies will drop the government's worthiness.
	And then Biden is screwed.
	What is the logical conclusion?
	Does interest rate get affected by that?
	A little bit.
	A little bit.
	Okay.
	Because it makes it, you're not trustworthy anymore.
	I mean, if you're not AAA, you're a government and you're not trustworthy to AAA level.
	What?
	We're not trustworthy?
	What?
	What?
	Come on, Africa.
	We're trustworthy.
	Trust us.
	Let's, you know, the other thing is the Biden's promise to bail out Hundreds of thousands of student loans, which has gone eerily silent.
	I don't see people running around thanking him, so how's that going?
	Officials in Los Angeles fear a wave of evictions and a rise in the homeless population.
	The concern comes after the deadline for renters to pay back rent missed during the pandemic has come and gone.
	CBS's Mark Strassman has more in-depth reporting on how LA is not alone with this pending crisis.
	This is a three-day eviction notice.
	Susie Rosman's rattled by reality.
	The bill always rattles by reality.
	How much do you owe in back rent?
	$9,000.
	Can you pay that back?
	As slowly, but not how they want it.
	So, no.
	Rosman got breast cancer, lost her teaching job, fell behind eight months on her rent.
	Just in Los Angeles, thousands of tenants had rent waived during the first 19 months of the pandemic.
	Many owe a small fortune.
	L.A.' 's typical rent, nearly $3,000 a month.
	A 75% jump since the pandemic began.
	And the eviction moratorium on back rent has expired.
	Good afternoon, Legal Aid Foundation.
	At the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, calls for help can wait three hours.
	It's very hard for folks who are barely making it.
	How would you describe the mood on the other end of the phone?
	It's all coming due, like a balloon payment.
	It's frightening, terrifying for most of them.
	In L.A.
	County alone, roughly 75,000 people have no permanent housing.
	Roughly the population of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	We're very concerned about the fact that many more people could fall into... CBS again, man.
	CBS.
	They're going after it.
	There's no reason in the world to throw in Scranton unless you're giving the needle to Biden.
	In L.A.
	County alone, roughly 75,000 people have no permanent housing.
	Roughly the population of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
	We're very concerned about the fact that many more people could fall into homelessness.
	At least nine states have varying eviction protections in place, breathing room to help renters keep their homes.
	But unsettled rent bills are unsettling.
	I'm like at my wit's end because what am I going to do?
	I can't live in my car.
	Yeah, you can.
	Another issue is getting federal rent assistance to people who need it.
	For example, $46 billion was approved, only $3 billion has gone out, and nor the eviction clock is ticking.
	And I hate to report with this next clip, but...
	I've talked to many people about this and, you know, it was one thing when they said, yeah, they're putting fentanyl in the heroin because, you know, it could hook people more.
	Okay.
	Then they're putting it in the cocaine because, yeah, people get more hooked on it.
	Really?
	Okay.
	Then they're putting it in the marijuana.
	Because, you know, it seems like they want to kill their customers.
	This is not what drug dealers do.
	Drug dealers do not go out of their way to kill their customers.
	And now we have Trank.
	And this is it.
	To me, This is the plan.
	It is an unwritten plan.
	It is a policy that homelessness typically results, or a lot of homelessness results, in drug abuse.
	And the idea is to leave these, not to help these people, but give them pipes and syringes.
	Yeah, they're doing that, the government.
	To die, and to rot away, literally rot away.
	This is from TRT, you won't get this on American television, this is Turkish radio and television.
	Half-conscious addicts with deep sores and bent backs are becoming a more frequent sight in several countries, especially in the U.S.
	where the zombie drug has recently gained traction.
	The zombie drug xylosine, also known as Trenc, is originally an animal tranquilizer that is both cheap and easy to access.
	As a result, it has made inroads in illicit drug markets.
	The use of xylosine was first reported in Puerto Rico and Philadelphia in the mid-2000s.
	But experts say that it was in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that its consumption increased exponentially in Philadelphia and in other states.
	And now, in 2023, it is present in most U.S.
	states.
	When consumed, it is known to cause necrosis in humans because it reduces blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration.
	Necrosis, the rotting of human tissue, can ultimately cause victims to require amputation, and that's where the drug gets its nickname, zombie drug.
	While Trink is not an opioid that is used by itself, drug dealers often combine it with depressants or stimulants like heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl to prolong or enhance their effects, or to increase their weight, and in turn, raise their street value.
	These combinations can be lethal, Especially when fentanyl is involved as fentanyl is said to be 50 times stronger than heroin and is often itself used to adulterate other drugs like heroin and cocaine.
	Consumers who use the drug either knowingly or unknowingly ...often fall into an hours-long stupor, and once they wake up, they are already in need of another high.
	Treating xylosine patients is difficult, as it requires that the effects of multiple addictions be mediated, and at times that body parts with infected skin ulcers be amputated.
	This is it.
	This is the policy.
	They can infect tendons and bones.
	Overdose reversal drugs that are often used for opioid addicts are not very effective on xylazine, making treatment even harder.
	Drug abuse is rampant in the U.S., where more than 109,000 lives were claimed in 2022 due to overdoses and other drug-related issues.
	This is it.
	This is the policy.
	Let them rot away and die.
	It's a farce.
	They don't care.
	They don't care.
	Let them rot away.
	These people are now beyond repair.
	These are broken, rotting zombies.
	And I think it's government policy at this point.
	Trank.
	What drug dealer goes out of their way to get Trank?
	To put that into the drugs?
	Oh yeah, dude, you may not be here next week, so buy now while stocks last.
	No!
	It's horrible.
	Yeah, it's not a... it's obviously the drug dealer is a... there's something... yeah, you're right.
	It's a supply, John.
	It's a supply.
	This makes zero sense.
	I'm sure we have a drug addict or drug dealer in No Agenda Nation who can set us straight, but I'm... I just... it makes no commercial sense.
	To do this.
	And you can see the tranq victims.
	You can see them because they're the ones that are bent over like they're doing yoga.
	It's amazing.
	Yeah, they're the ones bent over.
	Yeah, they're bent over, their hands are touching their feet.
	It breaks my heart that this is what it's come to.
	It's insane.
	I love how they threw in Pennsylvania there once again.
	That was kind of interesting.
	Oh, yes.
	Yeah, they did.
	Well, let's listen to these clips.
	I got migrants in Manhattan.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But there's also, I've got a homeless clip by Cori Bush being discussed on Democracy Now!
	with some numbers.
	Let's do that one first, since that ties in.
	Missouri Congressmember Cori Bush has reintroduced the Unhoused Bill of Rights, which could provide universal housing in the U.S.
	by 2027, helping some 1.5 million people who now live on the streets.
	Bush was herself once unhoused and forced to live in her car with her children.
	She said, quote, We have the power and money to end the unhoused crisis.
	We just need the will to reorient congressional priorities, she said.
	Yeah, priorities.
	Ukraine!
	Yeah, that's right.
	The thing is, she's a big supporter of that too, so what are you going to do?
	Yeah, the migrants in Manhattan is another gem.
	Let's play this.
	Here in New York, hundreds of migrants have been forced to sleep on the streets as Mayor Eric Adams declared there's no more room.
	He called out the Biden administration for failing to help as over 90,000 people arrived in New York City over the past year and a half.
	In July, the mayor said New York City would distribute flyers at the US-Mexico border, telling asylum seekers to consider another city.
	Housing and rights advocates have blasted the Adams administration for its handling of the situation.
	This is Murat Awada of the New York Immigration Coalition.
	Another slap in the face to our, you know, historical New Yorkers who've been here and our most recent arrivals who are just seeking a little bit of help in this moment.
	We need to actually stop doubling and tripling down on broken systems like our emergency shelter system and actually invest in getting people out of emergency shelter and into permanent housing.
	New York officials are calling on the federal government to allow for expedited work permits for asylum seekers.
	Oh yes, there you go.
	That makes sense.
	And this, oh, the replacement theory is a lie.
	No!
	No!
	We're going to sterilize the future generation as much as we can.
	That's also actually happening in New York.
	We'll get to that in a moment.
	By the way, I was going to maybe put this in the newsletter at some point, I probably still will, and I can't get a clip because the clip, for some reason, the CNN clip of this is not working and I tried on different browsers, it will not come up.
	But do you remember in 2013, A woman was arrested in New York, New York State, for bringing a couple of strippers to a 16th birthday party of her son at a bowling alley and they arrested her because of the strippers were doing lap dances and you know being semi-lewd but not lewd necessarily.
	But they weren't reading books!
	This poor woman was arrested in 2013, but now they have, you know, they have drag queens and and nudes and other things with little kids.
	What are you talking about?
	Her boy was 16.
	Okay, so excellent point.
	So let's listen to one other clip about the situation in New York City.
	And remember, we have people dying on the street, tranks turning into zombies.
	It's not quite as cool as zombies, because they're not really mobile.
	They can't, like, you know, saunter into the, you know, they can't go through the tunnel.
	They're really pretty immobile.
	So, no Michael Jackson video.
	But, so we're killing them.
	Homeless just die.
	Go, here's a crack pipe.
	Go ahead.
	Yay!
	Here's a syringe.
	Migrants?
	Uh, what?
	In Midtown Manhattan, it's a scene of human misery.
	Asylum seekers sleeping on sidewalks outside of the Roosevelt Hotel.
	36-year-old Adrian Daniel Jose is among dozens of people waiting to get services, leaving his wife and three kids in Venezuela.
	Your glasses broke.
	That's when you arrived in Mexico.
	And so tape is holding your glasses together.
	And you've arrived here in America with the clothes on your back.
	From this moment on, it's downhill.
	There is no more room.
	To reduce the chaos, Adams and the mayors of Chicago and Denver are asking the Biden administration to expedite work permits for migrants.
	There has been no comprehensive response yet from the federal government or the states that have the ability to provide the help that is desperately needed.
	Thousands have been bused from Texas to cities across the country, part of Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott's controversial Operation Lone Star.
	In Newtonite, Texas DPS confirms troopers have begun detaining some fathers traveling with their families on trespassing charges, while children and their mothers are turned over to U.S.
	Border Patrol.
	The move is reminiscent of the Trump administration policy, Have you slept?
	No, I can't sleep in this situation.
	I can't sleep.
	Back in New York City, Natalia and Maxim Sabatina from Russia are seeking political asylum.
	Have you slept?
	No, I can't sleep in this situation.
	I can't.
	It's not safe for me, for him.
	To cut down on illegal border crossings, the Biden administration barred asylum claims from those who don't first seek refuge in other countries.
	But a district judge ruled against it.
	Unless a higher court intervenes, officials will need to stop that policy starting next week.
	What?
	The woman's from Russia?
	Yeah.
	Coming across the border, getting on a bus, and then going to New York?
	Yeah.
	She's from Russia.
	Did she walk over?
	Mayor Adams is now considering putting up migrant tents in Central Park.
	That'll improve the city.
	Definitely have to do that.
	We gotta get some pictures.
	This reminds me, remember it was like about, I don't know, about a year ago they were putting the migrants in large encampments on the various streets of the residential areas and blocking the streets off?
	It's out of control.
	They're doing this in Chicago.
	They're just throwing them on the streets.
	They're sleeping in airports.
	They're sleeping in police stations.
	And, again, priorities, right?
	Priorities.
	Kids the priority in New York City.
	For many kids, camp helps add some sparkle to their summers.
	Or a little chunkier.
	At New Country Pride Camp, that sparkle is a lot more literal.
	The 14th Street Y and New Country Day Camp are in the middle of Pride Camp.
	Now in its third year, the program is specifically aimed at serving LGBTQ plus kids and children of people in those communities.
	These pride campers from across the New York City area have come for a taste of typical summer fun.
	Everybody here is part of the LGBTQ community, so you have a lot of people that are just like you.
	From my experience, when a bunch of people in the same community gather together, it's so much easier to talk to them and make friends.
	Camp staples like swimming, rock climbing, and arts and crafts, but the campers also get some more pride-centric activities, all with a focus on inclusivity and self-expression.
	I did a lot.
	I'm a battle-worn, zombified vampire.
	Dude, put the kid out on the street.
	He can have a real zombie experience.
	I'm a battle-worn, zombified vampire.
	And LGBTQ plus counselors are also on hand.
	They help show the kids the joy and connection of being in the queer community.
	I have these trans kids coming to me and saying, are kids going to use my pronouns in middle school?
	It's tough to see them recognize that school is not going to be the same as Pride Camp.
	If this camp existed when I was younger, I would be a very different person.
	I'm just going to make a guess here that most of these people are not poor.
	I think my internalized homophobia would be much less.
	One of the realities still today about being an LGBTQ plus kid is a sense of isolation.
	When kids are here at Pride Camp, they are accepted and they are part of the group.
	And the hope is they'll be able to take that sense of belonging outside of these campgrounds.
	Fewer than 40% of LGBTQ youth have found their home to be LGBTQ affirming, and just over half, around 54%, found their school to be affirming.
	So, that tells me that we have a lot of room for growth.
	While some of these kids at Pride Camp do see it as pretty much like any other day camp...
	Well, do you think you'll want to come back to Pride Camp next year?
	Yeah.
	To others, it's a much-needed place where they're able to have fun and fully be themselves.
	It makes me feel like there are people who, like, know about this and it's not just, like, a thing I made up.
	Five-year-old.
	Yes, it's not just something I made up.
	Okay, so this is where the priorities are and it's obvious and we also we know again from from the banking community that America wins as long as our population grows and the only way to keep that going is by allowing And I don't care how many times they say it's Congress's fault or whatever, the President of the United States should go out and say, no.
	No more.
	Say it in 15 languages and no.
	And then, and no is no.
	And let everybody know.
	That is no.
	You can't come in anymore.
	We got to reorganize everything.
	We got to set everything straight.
	It is, this is not being highlighted.
	People know it, but it's not really, it's really not being highlighted what's happening.
	It's really sad.
	Talk about lying to the public with Jack Smith, his main complaint against Trump.
	Yeah, and this is why it's all a distraction.
	It's a huge distraction.
	Illinois is doing all the same things as New York.
	Governor Pritzker recently signed more than 130 bills, and among the new laws, one allowing non-citizens to become police officers in Illinois.
	Hello, I'm reporter Scott Schneider, live in the studio with details on this.
	Scott.
	Anthony Anelli, this law requires that immigrants be legally authorized to work under federal law.
	The bill's sponsor called it a natural progression, now that some undocumented immigrants can become healthcare workers and military members.
	However, it's been highly criticized by Republicans and the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police.
	The FOP issued a statement earlier this month ahead of Friday's bill signing.
	It reads in part, what message does this legislation send when it allows people who do not have legal status to become the officers of our laws?
	This is a potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement at a time when our officers need all the public confidence they can get.
	that's i'll give you a clip of the day for that's fine what is wrong with these the people that are running these governments Especially Illinois is the worst.
	These elections have been rigged to keep these people in office.
	There's no doubt in my mind about it.
	Because no citizen in their right mind would put up with this.
	Pritzker couldn't have possibly been elected by anybody!
	The contrast is what's so interesting.
	All of this focus put on Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	All of that focus, and then all of the focus on LGBTQ+, and how beautiful, and everything's great, and we have to be loving, and then letting migrants come across the border and rot on the street along with the homeless Who are literally rotting from this horrible tranq drug.
	This is evil.
	This is evil.
	I can't even blame these politicians.
	They're captured by some evil spirit, dare I say.
	Satan?
	And now listen to this.
	That's the best excuse I can come up with.
	Now listen to Dr. McCullough, who Pride flag, this colorful pride flag, it's on my sub stack and on my Twitter feed, was recently updated to overlay the autism infinity symbol that was the symbol of the Autism Society since 1999.
	And in the upgrade it said this is to include neurodiversity.
	Neurodiversity.
	Why autism?
	Why not stroke or multiple sclerosis or some other condition?
	Well, this is what we've learned.
	A paper by van der Meesen from the Netherlands now, nearly 15 years ago, pointed out that young people going for gender change were autistic.
	At least 20% had the clinical diagnosis of autism.
	And now more recently, a big survey, 600,000 people, LGBT survey, surveyed using standard psychometric instruments, and guess what?
	LGBT, particularly the T, is off the Richter scale for autism and autism spectrum disorder.
	So...
	As predicted.
	These are likely a high percentage of children who are autistic.
	How they get that way is the second question.
	Because... I don't remember that when I was growing up.
	So something happened.
	Something happened.
	Maybe it's just all made up.
	Maybe it's all just DSM-5.
	We just made it up.
	But we know from Aaron, the concerned psychiatrist, No, the concerned therapist, sorry, that this is mandated by her trade organizations and by the political organizations she must belong to for licensing, etc.
	That you have children who are showing clear autistic tendencies.
	No, what you have to do is you have to tell them they're the opposite sex, they're confused.
	Then we have screens.
	Screens.
	Screen-induced autism.
	All teachers know this is a real thing.
	Luckily, if you remove the screen, it goes away within a week.
	But we have children and young people, even older people, displaying pure autism.
	And it's not even from brain damage other than the screen that they have their face planted in.
	And then... And now it's time for our Trans Mouth Agenda Update.
	Self-destruct initiated.
	This came in the NVRIC Intelligence Bulletin for the most recent one.
	You get these all the time, don't you, John?
	People send these to you?
	Yep.
	Intelligence Bulletin.
	New Anarchist Violent Extremist Propaganda.
	The Northern Virginia Regional Intelligence Center is issuing the attached NVRIC Intelligence Bulletin.
	Summary.
	This product, I like how they do that, we should do that more often too.
	This product provides situational awareness regarding recent anarchistic violent extremists, online propaganda promoting, here it comes, tranarchism.
	Or the use of violence against... I'm liking it!
	Or the use of violence against entities perceived to discriminate against and threaten the existence of the LGBTQIA plus community.
	While the NVRIC has not identified any specific credible threat to the region related to these posts at this time, some have been observing recirculating among AVE, that's Anarchistic Violent Extremist affiliated groups, who have a presence in the National Capital Region.
	Tranarchism!
	So, now they're going to be riled up to be violent?
	Well, we've already spotted this a while ago.
	I mean, the guy girl that went and shot up all the kids and then mutilated them at the school.
	Yeah.
	That was a trans mask.
	It's just an updated version.
	There was another example of that.
	But there was a, yeah, there was something else.
	You brought something just before this and unfortunately we're on some other topic and I had a thought about it and you changed it on me.
	Lost my thought.
	About the LGBTQ camp?
	No, no, it was after that.
	It was just before you brought this trans-anarchism thing in.
	It was about Illinois making illegal people, illegal aliens, can't be illegal person, making them police officers.
	Yeah, which is bad.
	It'll come back.
	Meanwhile, in Canada, Oh yes, Justin Trudeau came out as gay, didn't he?
	Wait, before we get there... No, he did not.
	Oh, I thought he did.
	A trans woman requested her maid, you know, the medical assistance in dying, because she says, I've been sterilized, I have an imitation vagina, it's horrible, I'm in mental anguish, I would like to die.
	And they declined her!
	They declined her.
	I thought they were all in on that.
	She does not qualify.
	But come back in a year and we'll see how you're doing.
	Yeah.
	So, we are upside down and inside out.
	And that's, yes, indeed, announced on Instagram, which, oddly enough, due to recent legislation, can't even be reported as news in Canada because he did it on Instagram, a meta-slash-Facebook product.
	Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife of 18 years say they are separating.
	In a joint statement, the couple said they had, quote, Many meaningful and difficult conversations before coming to this decision.
	Part of their post on Instagram reads, quote, as always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build.
	It's very, very sad, of course, whenever a marriage breaks up, certainly when they have children.
	But the Babylon Bee did have the line.
	Babylon Bee.
	Their headline stated, Canada shocks Justin Trudeau married to a woman.
	I mean, that was pretty funny.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, there's a lot going on, but the media, this is why we deconstruct media, the media is just giving you Trump bait, Biden bait.
	It's just as bad.
	The Biden stuff is no better.
	It's, I mean, here, I'll play, here's ABC.
	Back here in the U.S.
	tonight in Capitol Hill, where House Republicans are investigating the President's son, Hunter Biden.
	Today, the House Oversight Committee holding a closed-door hearing with Hunter Biden's former business partner and friend, Devin Archer.
	Let's bring in our senior investigative reporter, Aaron Katursky.
	He's live in Washington tonight.
	And Aaron, Hunter Biden's former business partner was asked whether Hunter Biden had ever put his father, of course the President, on a speakerphone with clients.
	He was asked that, David, and according to lawmakers who were in the room, Devin Archer told them that Hunter Biden would often put his father on the phone during business meetings, apparently to impress clients and associates.
	Archer answered questions several hours behind closed doors and testifying, according to one lawmaker in the room, that Hunter Biden was, quote, selling the illusion of access to his powerful father and put him on speakerphone with different And to clarify, Aaron, the calls involved Joe Biden when he was not president.
	Congressman Dan Goldman said the two never spoke about business.
	Instead, he said Archer described the calls involving President Biden as casual niceties like the weather.
	And the White House has long said, David, that President Biden and his son were never in business together.
	David.
	And to clarify, Aaron, the calls involved Joe Biden when he was not president.
	This was before the presidency.
	That's right.
	Well before the presidency, even after he was vice president out of office, David.
	Yeah, this and this is all.
	Wow, that's a whitewash!
	Yeah, but this is all being played out against each other.
	The timing is perfect.
	Yeah, I know, I understand what you're saying and I agree, but if you're gonna do it, at least have some fun with it.
	You don't whitewash it, you try to jack it up.
	Well, let's see how CNN does it.
	The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is expected to meet behind closed doors with a former Hunter Biden business associate.
	Devin Archer served with Biden on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
	And according to the subpoena from those Republicans, quote, Archer played a significant role in the Biden family's business deals abroad, including but not limited to China, Russia and Ukraine.
	CNN national security reporter Zachary Cohen has the details.
	Zach, there's a lot of conversation about what's going on right now in terms of Archer and the Justice Department and in terms of what's gonna happen behind closed doors.
	Can you explain what's actually happening today and how this fits into the kind of broader issues that Archer's dealing with?
	Yeah, good morning, Phil and Poppy.
	Look, Devin Archer is somebody who House Republicans have really hyped up as someone they view as a key witness in their investigation that they say is focused on Joe Biden himself.
	And they've been trying to connect the president to what they call his son's shady foreign business dealings.
	And because Devin Archer was involved in some of these business transactions with Hunter Biden in places like Ukraine and China, They believe that he could provide evidence that does speak to that point, connecting the president to the foreign business deals.
	Now, it remains to be seen if that evidence exists and if Archer can deliver it, if he even has it.
	But this all speaks to the broader polarization around the Hunter Biden congressional investigations that Republicans have really warmed up to the idea of prioritizing as they seek to potentially try to impeach the president based on some of these claims about his foreign dealings and his links to Hunter Biden's foreign dealings.
	A huge disservice to the American people.
	Close the border, you douchebags!
	Stop, stop, stop people from being eaten alive, the flesh being eaten alive on the streets.
	Do something productive!
	It's, it's, this is, wow.
	I mean, it's so obvious for these two things happening at the same time, and that's all our representatives are doing.
	Oh, Biden, oh, the big guy.
	Oh, Trump, Trump, Trump.
	And you know what's going to be next?
	Come on, John.
	You know what's next.
	What?
	Come on.
	Now to new COVID concerns this morning.
	The number of people testing positive in hospitals appears to be ticking up.
	Stephanie Ramos is here now with the reality check.
	This is a rerun.
	This is no good, this being next.
	They've got to come up with something better.
	No, no, no.
	They're going to do it.
	On what those numbers mean.
	Good morning, Stephanie.
	Hey Michael, good morning.
	These days it's almost impossible to tell how many COVID cases there really are.
	Oh no!
	The CDC has stopped keeping track.
	That was always true.
	And most people don't report their cases anymore.
	No, because we're not dying from it, but that doesn't matter.
	So, the best way to track the virus is counting people who test positive.
	Boy, she likes to emphasize her words.
	Track the virus!
	Hospital admissions, and that number, while pretty small, is on the rise.
	According to new numbers from the CDC overnight, COVID hospitalizations have increased 12% in the week ending July 22nd, compared to the prior week.
	But to put that into perspective, hospitalizations still remain at record lows.
	There were a little more than 8,000 weekly hospitalizations.
	And just to compare, peak Omicron was more than 115,000.
	Deaths have not increased, but there could be reporting delays.
	The federal government is now setting its sights on treating long COVID with new studies and a new office to lead the response for people still suffering from the virus.
	Okay, so there's a lot in this report.
	Obviously, the people aren't dying because the vaccine is working.
	Clearly, we know that.
	Yeah, the vaccine has worked.
	But, you know, we've got to get our old boy back on the scene.
	We've got to get him.
	We've got to start talking about the new booster.
	It's the bivalent booster.
	It's the one for the new variant.
	We already know the new variant.
	We couldn't predict it before, but there's a new variant coming and you got to bring him back.
	I mean, he won't debate anybody on Joe Rogan, but he's back on the tube.
	So we are seeing that there's an increase in cases, but what about hospitalizations specifically?
	Yeah, I mean, what, about two or three?
	It's Hotep Hotez, ladies and gentlemen!
	Three weeks ago, we were looking about the best we ever have been in several months, and so that was really good news.
	And the numbers are still generally good, but they are going up.
	As pointed out, the Houston wastewater now has been rising pretty steadily every week.
	Houston wastewater has been rising steadily, so now they're just looking at people's poop.
	Yeah.
	I see COVID in your poop.
	Yeah, it's going up.
	Better get a booster.
	From 50% to 70%, 90%, now 135%.
	135% of what?
	It was that trend.
	And nationally, hospital admissions over the last week are up 10%.
	Huge jumps.
	Huge jumps!
	But there is a concerning trend, so we still have to be cautious and recognize there's still a heck of a lot of COVID out there.
	Well, there's still a heck of a lot of COVID out there, everybody.
	Oh, but what about the booster?
	Well, Dr. Hotez, everyone is being encouraged to get a booster shot, of course.
	Many people that we speak with say that they're just, they're done.
	They've had enough shots.
	So what advice would you have for someone who maybe didn't get their last booster shot in 2022?
	People are saying, I've had enough shots!
	So what advice do you have to tell them?
	What are you going to do to get them to get more shots?
	It hasn't killed them yet!
	Yeah, now this becomes a little complicated because if you're over the age of 65 or immunocompromised, you are eligible for a second bivalent booster.
	I took it a few months ago.
	The issue is now there's likely to be a fall XBD booster for the currently circulating variants available sometime in the fall.
	The problem is I can't tell you when, whether fall means September, October, November.
	So the conservative thing to do would be to still get that bivalent booster if you're eligible.
	The good news is The vaccine is working.
	This is the good news.
	I mean, yeah, I don't know what those long COVID people are.
	They've got COVID.
	They've got COVID really long.
	That can't be anything to do with the vaccine.
	The vaccine is working.
	Health officials in Georgia are sounding the alarm after a rare death from what is known as the brain-eating amoeba.
	It's working.
	It's working.
	It's working!
	The brain-eating amoeba's back!
	It's back, everybody!
	It's not the vaccine, it's a brain-eating amoeba!
	The unidentified victim is believed to have become infected while swimming in a freshwater lake or pond.
	A Las Vegas toddler died from the amoeba earlier this month.
	Swimmers are urged to prevent warm freshwater from going up their nose.
	Yeah!
	How many years have we been hearing this thing?
	The flesh-eating amoeba is an old standard.
	Been around for a while.
	That and the flesh-eating bacteria, those brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria, which we haven't heard much from recently.
	No.
	Now I like the HOTEP coming back to get more jabs into people because they obviously haven't had enough shots.
	But you should put the getting over vaxxed in the same category as trying to kill everybody.
	First you're trying to sterilize the kids.
	Let's do that for starters.
	With the parents' consent.
	And then the the trank is good.
	Yep, the trank is good now.
	Free pipes, hey, free crack pipes and everything for everyone.
	We're on track!
	We're doing good!
	My favorite thing is they denied giving away the free crack pipes.
	Yeah, that's the best part.
	And then somebody opened a package, oh look, there it is.
	Oh, I guess we were giving them away.
	And bringing people from other countries like Russia and Venezuela and make them cops!
	This is groovy!
	Defund the police!
	Does anybody think something's fishy is going on?
	And so I've been a lot of people have been sending me interesting studies about AlphaGal which I mean you just have to have to admit that the AlphaGal stuff The way it was blanketing the airwaves that, oh, it's the Lone Star Tick.
	Yeah, that's what's making people not able to eat meat.
	Now, couple things.
	This is real.
	People have had this alpha-gal allergy.
	They've had it as far back as the 90s.
	It's not that it's not real.
	It's a little unclear.
	I can't really find any... Could have come from Plum Island.
	There's no real studies that I've found that show how exactly the lone star tick Splice is a gene that then interacts with mammalian meat.
	But I'm totally willing to believe this.
	I'm not anti-science.
	But when I read studies, and these are all from NIH, this is an older, these are all older, which is always fun to see.
	This is from 2016.
	Ticks may cause allergic reaction to red meat and shingles vaccine.
	So now I'm just wondering, you know, what, what is this alpha-gal?
	Well, alpha-gal has been used as an adjuvant.
	The way you phrased that, I didn't understand what you said.
	You can say that the tick is going to cause allergic reaction to meat and the shot?
	Shingles vaccine because alpha-gal is used as an adjuvant in vaccinations.
	And let me explain adjuvant.
	I know what it means.
	But not everybody knows that.
	Let's explain it again.
	The way vaccines typically work is you get a shot, the way it used to be before mRNA, and the shot would contain an attenuated or dead version of the virus, and there was always something else, like a hamburger helper, in the shot, which is known as an adjuvant, which would aggravate your immune system.
	No, we pay attention to the dead virus.
	And this is only new because in the olden days when I was a kid, they didn't use adjuvants because they had enough dead virus to give you the shot.
	This is a way of cheapening, like you said, hamburger helper, a way of cheapening, making a stretching, stretching the product.
	It's like filler.
	The big controversy was mercury, which is still used as an adjuvant.
	I thought mercury was only used as a preservative.
	Okay.
	This is why people hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., because this is what he fought against for many years, as he believes, and I think still believes, that the adjuvant use of mercury was causing autism.
	So leave that as it may.
	It turns out Alpha-Gal is a fantastic product as an adjuvant because the body responds violently to it.
	Let's say somehow this tick has put this stuff in your body and then you get the shingles vaccine which contains Alpha-Gal.
	You know, then you have an anaphylactic response.
	Enter the next study.
	Anaphylaxis after zoster vaccine implicating alpha-gal allergy as a possible mechanism.
	Zoster vaccine is... It's shingles.
	Is that shingles as well?
	Yeah, no, it is shingles.
	That is the vaccine.
	No, it's MMR.
	No, MMR is measles, mumps, rubella.
	I know, I'm reading the study.
	Oh, subsequent, I'm sorry.
	Subsequent testing of selected vaccines revealed the presence of alpha-gal allergen in MMR and zoster vaccines.
	You're right.
	So the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and the zoster, which is the shingles vaccine.
	So they've been putting this alpha-gal stuff into vaccines as an adjuvant and now people are having allergic reactions to it.
	There's also some... So how about this for an idea?
	The tick is bull crap.
	It's these shots that are giving people meat allergies.
	Now let's go back to 2016.
	This is bioethicist Matthew Liao.
	We've played this clip before.
	We played it in a context of evil World Economic Forum ghouls.
	But when you think that this came out in 2016, and what we're seeing now, And particularly in combination with vaccines that they use this stuff in the vaccines, this clip becomes pretty relevant.
	But if they have a weakness of will, they say, oh, this this steak is just too juicy.
	I can't do it.
	I'm one of those, by the way.
	So, you know, but so here's the thought.
	Right, so it turns out that we know a lot about, so we have this intolerance to, so I, for example, I have milk intolerance, and some people are intolerant to crayfish, so possibly we can use human engineering to make it the case that we're intolerant to certain kinds of meat, to certain kinds of bovine proteins, and there's actually analogs of this in life.
	There's this thing called the long star tick, where if it bites you, you will become allergic to meat.
	I can sort of describe the mechanism.
	That's something that we can do through human engineering.
	We can kind of possibly address really big world problems through human engineering.
	So the whole idea that he had there was why don't we engineer humans through the same process of the Lone Star Tick.
	I never heard of this horrible slew of people who couldn't eat red meat in 2016.
	And why don't we just do that because then we'll save the planet.
	This is all about climate change.
	Did they actually do it?
	And I didn't get this shot, so I can still eat my meat.
	I'm eating my meat!
	I'm eating your meat!
	That's so good.
	So... They're insane.
	Possibly.
	Well, there's a possibility.
	Now, I've discovered one other thing.
	We need to take a break.
	This is a good bit, by the way.
	Thank you.
	I'm very proud of myself.
	Because, you know, some people got really mad at me.
	This is so simple, man.
	This is how it works.
	It's a tick.
	And I said, OK, that's fine.
	But I'm seeing all of these vaccines that contain alpha-gal in a gelatin form used as an adjuvant.
	I mean, I'm just reading the science.
	It says it right there.
	There are other adjuvants.
	You don't have to use that one.
	No, go back to Mercury!
	We can be autistic, but at least we can eat a burger.
	Let's keep it American, people.
	Now, one other little bullcrap story that was uncovered.
	Thank you very much, producers.
	On the last show, the big hype about, oh, it's the heat domes, everybody's dying, it's climate change, global warming, global boiling.
	Okay, a couple things.
	One, Greece has now said, yeah, most of those fires in Greece were started by humans.
	What?
	Not by climate change?
	I'm shocked.
	Italy, which also had a lot of fires because of climate change, is now deploying drones to catch arsonists in the act because it seems to be that it's humans setting the fires.
	And then we had this report which we couldn't figure out.
	This morning, the record-smashing heat wave is expanding.
	Triple-digit temperatures are possible in the Plains and Midwest in the coming days, from Wichita to Minneapolis.
	And by week's end, temperatures near 100 for Chicago.
	We got smoke, we got heat, then we got storms in the forecast all for the week ahead.
	Doctors warn this heat can take a toll on your heart.
	A new study finds the soaring temperatures combined with poor air quality can double your risk of suffering a deadly heart attack.
	In Arizona, it's the pavement causing a surge in patients at the Phoenix Burn Center.
	Remember this?
	We were like, what people are getting burned on the pavement?
	What is wrong with you?
	Yeah, you were suggesting they're walking around barefoot.
	Why?
	We have just been seeing a huge spike in the number of people with contact burns.
	Huge spike in the number of people with contact burns in Arizona.
	Okay.
	Uh, you know, most people don't realize that the pavement, concrete, cement, sidewalks, rocks, the temperature of those surfaces can get to be 170 to 180 degrees, which is just a little bit below the boiling temperature of water.
	So it only takes a fraction of a second to get a really bad burn.
	Okay, so now we ha- so this was confusing to me.
	By climate change, I mean, we all knew when I was growing up in the 70s, you don't walk outside with bare feet.
	You might stick to the melting tar on the road.
	This was in Maryland.
	I remember this.
	We would play with the tar because it was melting.
	But for some reason we have an increase in people coming into the hospital with flesh burns from climate change.
	Well, thank God James Harris is boots on the ground in Phoenix, Arizona.
	I think he's Phoenix.
	And he explains exactly how climate change is doing this.
	The big story in Phoenix right now is that we had like over 200 people die because of the heat.
	That's what we're being told.
	Heat death, heat related deaths.
	And so we had a big summit with President Biden and with Mayor Kay Gallego.
	And they were talking about all the things they can do to curb the climate crisis that we have.
	They're talking about planting a billion trees.
	In the desert.
	Also, they're going to have mobile cooling stations and set cooling stations and a home heating office and they're going to go around and they're going to make sure that the workers have mandated water breaks.
	All of this because it's hot in the desert in July.
	Will I have a better idea?
	Why don't we tell the truth about the people who are dying in the streets here?
	They're the homeless.
	And why are they dying?
	Because they are on fentanyl.
	And when they get all drugged out, they lay on the hot asphalt.
	And if you lay on asphalt where it's 114 degrees and you don't get up, you're gonna die.
	That has been the bulk of the heating deaths in Tucson.
	And they're using those people to push their global climate warming, climate change agenda.
	It's despicable, but that's what Democrats do.
	But yes!
	You could have turned it up a little bit, it was low.
	Yeah.
	So that's what those deaths are.
	The deaths are the same zombified, tranked out people who are homeless and burning alive.
	Their flesh is rotting and they're burning alive.
	But no climate change.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, on that happy note...
	Well, before you go, before you go to that, you're on climate.
	I do have one clip, just as kind of a counter-programming clip.
	OK, please.
	Surprising.
	I think it was on democracy now, which is kind of surprising.
	But this is the problem you're going to end up with eventually.
	At some point, the liberal progressives are going to have to, you know, take you at the fork in the road, fork in the road ahead.
	Which way are we going to go?
	This is climate.
	Lithium in Argentina.
	In Argentina, thousands of people representing different indigenous communities arrived in Buenos Aires Tuesday as part of a protest caravan.
	Among their demands is a halt to lithium mining projects in their territories.
	This is Fabian Cruz of the Huancamachi Indigenous People Council.
	These common resources of the people, we want to protect them.
	We understand there are multinational companies that come and take the lithium from Argentina, but leave nothing behind.
	They leave nothing for Argentina's development, and they strip the communities of their territory.
	To us, that is genocide.
	Lithium is used in many electric devices, including electric cars, but its extraction causes soil degradation, water shortages, damaged ecosystems, and often displaces local communities and destroys existing landscapes.
	And it's destroying a fine American institution known as the Ford Motor Company, because no one wants these things.
	They don't work well in the heat.
	They don't work well in the cold.
	No, if it gets too cold, it won't start.
	It won't work.
	I know here in America we're Americans.
	I know, I know we'll figure this out.
	We'll look around, we'll wake up one day and go, oh wait a minute!
	We should choose people who actually represent us and care about us.
	But in the meantime, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the trans-anarchism.
	Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only, Mr. John C. DeMora!
	Well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	they sat there.
	And in the morning, the trolls in the...
	The trolls in the troll room.
	Joke out.
	This thing is funny.
	Woo!
	Where are the trolls?
	I think the trolls are burning up on the sidewalks.
	2039.
	2039.
	It's above average.
	It's above the average.
	And we're always happy to have our trolls here.
	And remember, during the segment where we talk about donations, We always have a special interview with our guest of the day and the Powerball number, so you may want to stay tuned.
	And there is some hilarity to discuss.
	Now, did you see that email that came in this morning?
	Probably not.
	From Peter.
	Funding question, he had.
	Funding question.
	Hold on a second, let me bring this.
	It was too bad, it came in at 12.15 my time.
	And now for some reason, my email won't load, of course.
	Why would it?
	Because he's new, and I guess he has not yet heard of Value for Value, how it works.
	Value for Value is a concept we pioneered almost 16 years ago now, and the reason for that was because we knew we could never take any commercials on this show.
	Commercials is... you might as well just self-censor yourself.
	You okay?
	Yeah.
	You hanging in with us?
	Well, that's interesting.
	That whole email seems to have gone away.
	I got it.
	Oh, I got it.
	Here it is.
	And so we decided that instead of, you know, like Patreon saying, you've got to subscribe to a subscription.
	You've got to be on a program.
	We said, you know what?
	Maybe, maybe this wasn't the show for you.
	Maybe you're like, you know, whatever.
	Maybe you get great value from it.
	We can't tell.
	We also can't tell what value means to you.
	So, whatever that means to you, whatever your personal situation, send that value back to us.
	You keep saying with due respect, with due respect, with due respect.
	This means that he's got no respect.
	Are you talking about this guy?
	Yeah, Pete in Oakland.
	Well, I'll get to that in a moment.
	Well, you started with it.
	No, but I'm setting up to the reading of the note.
	Okay.
	Hey, come on, man.
	Who's opening the segment here?
	Well, I thought you were somewhere else in the overall kind of timeline.
	I thought you were further along.
	Well, I'm explaining it to this guy, Peter, because he clearly doesn't understand.
	And I'll read his note.
	It's a friendly note.
	I don't think so.
	Hey, Adam and John, another Rogan transplant to Noah Jenner, which I've become an even bigger fan of than Rogan's podcast.
	Well, hello, that's very kind of you.
	As always, at one time speed.
	I mean, so he's not nuts.
	He's also listened to the show for a while because we only talked about one time speed like months and months ago.
	Yes, so he has been around.
	Good deconstruction.
	I've got a question regarding you guys funding requests at the end of each podcast.
	That I find interesting because he's clearly skipping the donation segment if he's only hearing it at the end of each podcast.
	I wonder what he's hearing at the end.
	He just hears, donate to no agenda?
	Or what?
	I mean this with all due respect.
	Boom.
	Since I love No Agenda and I have the utmost respect for both of you guys... Boom.
	But aren't the both of you individually pretty well off financially?
	What?
	This is... What is that supposed to mean?
	This is what I find interesting.
	Somehow... Are we supposed to do volunteer work and then... and deplete our savings to zero?
	I think it's the spend... it's the spend-down program.
	That's right.
	Start a podcast, die poor.
	It's a good idea.
	So, more power to you if you are, but if that's the case, why ask for funding at the end of each podcast?
	He said it again, end of the podcast.
	We don't ask for money at the end of the podcast.
	We ask it right in the middle, boom, right in your face.
	Right now, this is not the end.
	He says, now he goes on to understand the value of the show.
	He says, I'm probably wrong in my presumption here.
	Yes.
	And definitely appreciate the lack of sponsors on the show.
	Lack?
	It's called absence.
	There's no sponsors.
	There's no sponsors.
	It probably costs a lot more to create each podcast than I'm aware of due to that.
	Wait, does he imply that if you have sponsors, the creation costs of the show are a fixed price, a fixed cost?
	Yes.
	It wouldn't vary with sponsors.
	No, it's Adam and John's time, which we spend all of our live long days doing this.
	Bandwidth and whatever else, that's all fixed costs.
	That's not something that fluctuates.
	It's worse than that.
	The more people that listen, the more money we spend, technically, on bandwidth.
	That's the problem of podcasting.
	But that's not the idea of value for value.
	I mean, do you walk into a store and say, you know, Well, actually, you know what?
	Maybe that's it, because people walk into stores all the time now and go, you know, these guys got enough money.
	It's a public company.
	I'm just going to take this.
	That's what they're doing in San Francisco.
	That's my point.
	This is what's happening.
	This is where this guy's thinking is.
	Yeah, this is shoplifting.
	This guy's basically from the perspective of a shoplifter.
	He's a podcast shoplifter right here.
	Yeah.
	He says, it probably costs a lot more to create each podcast.
	Do you know how much Um, like, uh, let me just give it.
	How much a car costs to make?
	It's less than you think.
	How about clothing?
	How about, how about a Yeezy?
	There we go.
	Let's talk about Yeezy.
	A Yeezy sneaker probably costs five dollars to make.
	Not if it was a one-off.
	No, but they're not one-offs.
	The podcasts are.
	You're going beyond the sale here, hold on.
	So it costs $5 to make.
	You can't buy it for under $500 in the store, and they're so valuable, which is all in the eye of the beholder, that you can not buy them for under thousands of dollars if they're a special kind or not used, etc.
	So, you know, it's not about the cost.
	And all we've ever said is we just want to be able to pay our rent.
	That's all.
	Pay the bills.
	Pay the bills.
	And we've been able to do that.
	And we're very, very happy.
	Sometimes it's a little unnerving because it's a seesaw.
	Because, indeed, we have to remind people, which is why we also send a newsletter to remind people that we have a show coming and that we need that supported by the people who we actually call producers.
	So I'm just giving him a little education here.
	Yeah, okay.
	But he even goes on to say, he says, all of the other podcasts I listen to, annoyingly, do have breaks in their shows.
	Again, just asking with all due respect.
	No, due respect would be sending us $5.
	Yeah, five bucks would be all we ask.
	The respect you're giving us is more like a buck fifty right now.
	No, it's zero.
	He said, I'd like to stop being a douchebag and start regularly contributing to the show, but that's just a thought I've been having pop up during these funding segments.
	I wonder what he's heard.
	First of all, have we ever said, fund this show?
	Not that I know of.
	Oh, he's from Oakland.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, he's a fan, he says.
	Yeah, he's an Oaklander.
	He probably robs the mailman there.
	That's what they're doing now in Oakland.
	They're robbing the mailman?
	No!
	It's a huge scandal in Oakland.
	Letter carriers are getting mugged and the Oakland police can't seem to do anything about it because there's nobody working there anymore because they defunded the police and then they got no cops and they're asking for 500 more cops after defunding and then the same thing's happening all over California.
	Also, I will note that in our funding model, there's no increase for inflation.
	Now, you can look at all the prices in the grocery store you're shoplifting from.
	Those prices have gone up significantly.
	Our income has only dropped since COVID.
	Because of inflation.
	Because of inflation?
	Our real income, yeah.
	Yeah, right.
	No, but even the numbers, just the top line numbers have decreased.
	Well, this is true because we had a bonanza during COVID.
	Because people clearly were home and thought there was a lot of value.
	And now they're... Now they're like, eh.
	Now they're like this guy, like poor Pete here, who's, with all due respect, Pete.
	Pete the shoplifter.
	Pete the podcast shoplifter.
	He's a podcast shoplifter.
	He's a podcast shoplifter.
	Anyway, we appreciate all the value we receive from the producers of No Agenda Nation, and that can come in the form of time, talent, or treasure.
	Treasure's important.
	We need to pay the bills.
	And we're still getting by, so we're very grateful.
	But if everybody chipped in, like the Democrats, uh, what is it, uh, what's that blue thing, Act Blue, always asking you to chip in, chip in, chip in.
	If you chip in, Then we would even have to have a funding segment.
	I like that by the way, funding segment.
	And lots of people chip in in other ways.
	One of the ways of your time and talent is our artists.
	Now we know from experience and from actual Fact, statistical fact, that the artwork that is always different for each No Agenda episode, it reminds people there's a show, it brings them to the show, it's great for hitting people in the mouth, and people go, hey, what is this?
	This is a cool image.
	And then this is how we bring people in.
	More people, the more chance we have of maybe getting someone to help us in the funding segment at the end of the show.
	So, Nessworks really did a beautiful piece about the Alpha Gal, speaking of, and had it all, just all the bits, the new kid on the block, it was a dynamite piece, it was vibrant, it really popped, just everything about it was good, although
	There was an angry Twitter thread because, you know, so this tweet went out and then some joker, you know, of course, probably didn't listen to the show and went, Alpha Gal, oh, that chick needs a bulge in her pants, thinking that it was a trans thing.
	Well, that started off a whole thread of angry people.
	Well, that's just a thread of angry douchebags.
	I don't know what they're talking about.
	No, I'm just saying that's what it is.
	And we want to thank all of the artists, actually, who contribute to this contest.
	Let me look at the leaderboard right now.
	Right now, Tantaniel is number one in the top ten from the past year.
	Nestworks, number two.
	They're neck and neck.
	They are.
	Well, it's 14, 13, 12.
	Capitalist Agenda, number three.
	And Nico Syme trails by a whole horse length with nine.
	Dennis Dame, Kenny Bencer, Paul Couture, correct the record.
	Dirty Jersey Whore, brand new entry this year.
	Along with Parker Pauly.
	Coming up the rear.
	Coming up the rear, Parker Pauly.
	He's coming up Dirty Jersey Whore's rear.
	That's right.
	So let's see what else we looked at that did not get chosen.
	Not that it was not worthy, it's just we have to make a choice.
	Mike Reilly, who we like as an artist.
	He's a real comic artist and he was desperately trying to put together Africa, Russia, With a mask, it just, it didn't work.
	I mean, I can't say much more than it just, it was good peace, but it just didn't work.
	Honorary mention for comic strip blogger, always, always with a butt.
	He had a dog nose I thought was quite entertaining.
	You actually liked the dog nose but considering I cut the entire Bassett hound break out of the show because that's only for people who listen to the live stream.
	Didn't think it was appropriate.
	Dame Kenny Ben with a Hail Mary with a random cheesecake girl.
	Totally a Hail Mary.
	Yeah, that was, uh, it was cheesecake-y, but it was, and it looks, it does look like it was, uh, part of AI to me.
	That looks like an AI piece.
	Yeah, we are, we are getting a little irked by the AI stuff.
	It's getting a little obvious.
	Yeah, we see it.
	If we identify it, we will, if, and I can identify it, Adam can identify it.
	Generally speaking, if you get it by us, okay, great, but we're still looking.
	Yeah, good work.
	We're still looking for it, so.
	Yeah.
	Um, I kind of like Quake It Off.
	With Taylor Swift, the World Destruction Tour, you nixed that right away.
	Probably rightfully so.
	Yeah, she doesn't need any more publicity from anyone.
	There was some alien stuff that didn't quite work.
	People trying to do more Africa.
	I appreciate the efforts to try and get Africa into the artwork, but...
	Just not really working.
	We had a couple of lone star ticks.
	Yeah.
	This piece was the only piece that had everything going on.
	It really was.
	It had everything going on.
	There was no debate about it.
	No.
	And it just popped.
	I mean, just look at this thing.
	Like, bam!
	It's in your face.
	And in its own way, a little cheesecake-y, I'd say.
	A little bit.
	In its own way.
	So, congratulations, Nestworks.
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate the support.
	It makes a difference, and it is a fantastic way to participate as a producer of the No Agenda Show, and that is what we call all of you who participate, and again, we really appreciate that.
	Now let's go to the talent portion of our competition, I mean the treasure portion of the competition, and we have a whopping beautiful donation right at the top, and I'm not sure, we'll have to look at this note here, from Emily Andrews in Salina, Texas, $17.20!
	Which is, wow, like, boom!
	What is this about?
	Let me take a look at the, uh, she'll be our top executive producer.
	And her notes, she wrote a note, very simply.
	Dear Adam and John, thank you for your work.
	God bless you both, your sister in Christ, Emily.
	Emily Andrews.
	And no explanation.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Yeah, 1720 means something to her.
	It means something to us.
	Yeah, it does.
	It means a lot to us.
	We're very thankful, Emily.
	We appreciate that.
	Next on the list is Sir Gypsy Mathematician in Gaithersburg, Maryland, 64642.
	Now this came in as a, the top thing was a letter.
	This came in actually as a check from those bank checks.
	You can go to your bank and you can have them send money out.
	Or you just do it online.
	You can just do it online.
	And yeah, there's a lot of online systems that let you do it.
	A lot of online banking lets you do it.
	So that's what this was, and there's no note, except that we know it was Sir Gypsy Mathematician, because that's on the check, as the note on the check.
	And we'll give him a double up, Karma, and then we'll wait for a real note.
	You've got... Karma.
	Onwards to the UKs with 54321.
	Love that number.
	Thank you, Sir Leigh, from Nottingham.
	Nottingham.
	Crackpot and Buzzkill, I'm feeling 54321 could be a great reset donation.
	Well, we're all for that idea.
	Oh, yeah.
	But I'll forgo the complimentary anal schwab.
	If I can get... Okay.
	If I can get some F-cancer and karma for a dear friend plus L-G-Y black knight from way back sir-lay of the UK.
	You've got karma.
	Arnis Clemens in Tallinn.
	Hold on.
	Sorry.
	Needed to add the yay.
	Arnis Clemens from Tallinn, EE.
	Where's that?
	Ethiopia?
	Check that out.
	EE?
	Where's EE?
	Estonia?
	It feels like it would be Estonia.
	Estonia is very highly wired up and we'd have people there.
	Okay, let me see.
	Well, that's interesting.
	TopLevelDomain.ee, no?
	Estonia, correct.
	You are correct.
	Yeah, Estonia, okay.
	You nailed it.
	$333.33.
	I have been invited, I could go meet the guy who runs Estonia.
	One of our producers.
	We can have him as the special interview for our next end of show funding segment.
	333-333 and all Arnis says is, thank you!
	And we say thank you for that note.
	Thank you.
	Sir Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina, 333-333, loved the last show.
	Shout out to Charlotte's Local 704 Meetup Group from Sir Kevin Dills, Duke of North Carolina and organizer of Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday Monthly Meetup.
	And we thank you Sir Kevin Dills.
	Okay, now we have Todd Williams in Buckeye, Arizona.
	And, Todd... Is this... I'm not mistaken.
	No, this is not the right... Here it is.
	Yeah, Todd sent us a sheet of paper.
	Yeah, that is kind of a funny thing.
	This is hard to deal with, but we have a hello team.
	He actually has two notes.
	One says dear listeners.
	And one says hello team.
	I don't know.
	I'll read hello team.
	Hello team.
	I remember our two champions actually on the radio way back then, listening to Dr. Bob at night on KGO.
	Dr. Jekyll to Adam says, heckle, John C., hey, that was so cool.
	You're writing it.
	This is what it says.
	And then selling some big-ass code for a million bucks.
	That wasn't me.
	It wasn't me.
	Back when a million went a long way.
	Okay.
	Well, then he says, dear listeners, I caught at the – I'm going to read this per se – I caught at the time some of the subtext.
	John C. was explaining his options, and I so missed the lead.
	Time, attention, and detail are great tools for our first two filters, awareness and perception.
	My deep struggle has always been with the twin's sister, discernment.
	She can put your lights out without sometimes even sensing the blow.
	Mr. Heckle displayed a deep Vulcan mind meld by taking the option which allowed for his greatness.
	Range of motion mentally, physically, all before money.
	Okay.
	And a Karma for that!
	Thank you.
	You've got Karma.
	Thanks, Todd.
	That was clearly code from the numbers station.
	Please decode, yes.
	Jack H is in Keene, New Hampshire, and we do not have a note from Jack, so he gets a double up for $3.33.
	You've got Karma.
	And Sir Nick is in Tucker, Georgia.
	333, he sent the note to me.
	Remember, send that to notes at noagendashow.net.
	He is the Knight of Abundance from Tucker, Georgia.
	Says, you can imagine my surprise when having a disease that nobody's heard of, not even my doctor's called AlphaGal, all of a sudden blankets every news channel and every single one of my friends sends me messages saying, holy shit, you're on TV, you're on TV!
	Here's what happened.
	I was at summer camp back in the early 90s.
	I took my shirt off one day to shower up, and I had a fat tick feeding away on my life juices.
	We got rid of it, and about a day later, a big red ring appeared around the bite area.
	Yeah, this is typical of tick bites.
	I was treated for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and told I would be fine.
	Immediately after, my food intake started to have obvious effects on my body.
	Hives, rashes, intense vomiting.
	After years, and many, many inept doctors later, I was basically walking death.
	6'3", 145 pounds.
	I ate 6,000 calories a day when I was about to die of hunger.
	What the television doesn't tell you is that alpha-gal syndrome means you cannot eat any mammalian meat.
	Not just red meat, any mammal.
	No squirrel, no raccoon.
	Oh, what a bummer.
	No pork, no beef, etc.
	You get my point.
	I eat chicken!
	Always!
	And I'm forced to take vitamin B12 injections two times a month, seeing as I can't get it in my diet.
	Life goes on.
	I'm a happy, grown, well-adjusted human resource at the moment.
	Sorry for the note so long.
	No jingles, please.
	General life karma.
	Thank you for your note, Sir Nick.
	We certainly will give you some life and health karma.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Larry's up from Columbus, Ohio.
	And he says, what's up dudes?
	Dudes!
	Sir Larry here to promote a couple of meetups this month in Ohio, Friday.
	And he goes on with these meetups, which we will mention on the meetup segment.
	My dream is to one day rival Indy's meetups.
	Oh, he's a competitor.
	For anyone that needs to take online sexual harassment or DEI training for they-them corporate slave profession, I highly recommend listening to Steel Panther while you're doing the work.
	Steel Panther!
	Now Steel Panther is a kind of a punk band that... No!
	Yeah.
	No.
	What are you talking about?
	Steel Panther is a band.
	It's a comedy band.
	Yeah, it's a comedy band, but the style is punk.
	No, the style is hair band.
	It's 80s hair band.
	Well, they're funny.
	They're funny, but they're not punk.
	Well, okay.
	Well, they're very lewd.
	Yes.
	But I guess, but the lyric, it's very creative lewdness, it's not just your normal stuff.
	No, it's good stuff.
	Could I get some R2D2 karma for the Ford Probe that I'm still working on?
	Sure.
	I'm sending this donation to the Best Podcasting Universe instead of AutoZone for parts and tools!
	Hey!
	Connor Bailey is a douchebag!
	Oh, and Adam, congrats on BoosterGram Ball Bell launching.
	I'm going to be sick having you DJ for V for V. Okay, it's BoosterGram Ball, not Bell.
	And he says it's going to be sick, not he's going to be sick.
	Although some people might get sick, you never know.
	Here's your R2-D2, Karma.
	You've got... Karma.
	MillagendaMeetups.com, check out his Ohio meetups.
	Mr. Josh is in Warren, Michigan.
	And a row of ducks, 222, 22, and has a long note, which I shall summarize, handwritten.
	John and Adam, I have not missed an episode ever since catching Adam's first Rogan appearance.
	Rogan!
	This is my first donation, so please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	I continue to live in lack.
	And told myself that I could not afford it.
	Please allow this row of ducks in cash make up for my douchery.
	I am pleased to put myself on a $5 monthly donation going forward.
	Thank you, that's all we really asked for.
	And the reason that he donated was not because of the enormous value we provide.
	No, it's for the weird things that were happening, I guess.
	A construction friend told me that that day his crew finished up repairs on the 33rd floor of a building.
	In downtown Detroit, today I listened to Crow 777 Radio.
	Episode 463, Movies and TV.
	Invented the aliens and UFOs in your mind.
	At the 1850 Timestamp, they talked about how Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, 1938 radio broadcast on CBS Radio Network ran commercial-free.
	The broadcast was psychological warfare.
	Yeah, hello?
	Hello?
	It was just the beginning.
	And then when I walked past a broken digital clock it read 2-2-2.
	I knew it was time!
	Thank you for your value for value.
	It is truly as important who funds the media entertainment we consume.
	You have saved my sanity and amygdala ever since.
	I found No Agenda because most of my family and friends think I'm crazy.
	Sorry if the note is too long.
	You are my favorite podcast and I appreciate No Agenda very much.
	Thanks from Mr. Josh.
	And thank you, Mr. Josh.
	And we'll give you a Karma.
	And he also wanted a Sharpton.
	So, let's give him a Sharpton.
	Come on, Sharpton.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
	You've got karma.
	Now we have, uh, John, I don't know if he wants his last name mentioned.
	Wait, wait, what happened to, uh, to, you, uh, to, uh, Damaskene?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Oh, I missed him, but oh, I can see why I missed him.
	My brain doesn't want to try to pronounce his name.
	Evgeny Damaskin in Boston, Massachusetts.
	Do not try to pronounce my first name.
	I'm just Damaskin.
	222.
	Yes.
	All right.
	And then I'll go to John, and John is from, where's John, from Tucson, Arizona.
	Yeah, that's right near where the zombies are burning on the street.
	Enclosed is my donation of $217.69 to KnowAgenda, the greatest podcast in the universe!
	Breakdown!
	$69 is the number of trips around the sun from my fantastic wife, Melody.
	And we never had a fight!
	Truly the greatest gift in my life.
	Please give her some random birthday jingles.
	Well, we don't do random birthday jingles.
	What we typically do is we will give someone a biscuit for their birthday.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	117 is for the 117 Fahrenheit temperature in my backyard last week.
	And he handily gives us a 47 centigrade transmogrification.
	This is a temperature donation suggested by a fellow Tucsonian.
	100 kicker!
	So you'll read my note.
	If you can't tell, I'm an engineer and hope to help out the show in the future with boots on the ground from the mining industry.
	Please, keep up the courage instead of thank you for the courage.
	John, the raggedy-ass old miner from Tucson, Arizona.
	P.S.
	my human resource, Kim, keeper of the Nutty Fluffers from Oregon, is probably also sending Melody a birthday shout-out.
	It's a family affair.
	We love that.
	Thank you so much.
	And we'll give you a Karma.
	Thank you, Raggedy Ass Minor.
	You've got Karma.
	Raggedy Ass Minor!
	Michael Kellner and Rippin'.
	Although we in the Bay Area call it Rippon, but it's Rippon, according to them.
	California RIPON 20202.
	Greetings, gents.
	With this donation, I believe I'm now a knight.
	Please knight me, sir, prize.
	With P-R-I-S-E, Keeper of the Unknown.
	For the feast, I would like crispy succulent pork belly, raclette, and plenty of polliner Munich lager.
	I would like to invite all to take a friend, leave a friend meet up in Rippon, California on August 12th.
	That's Rippon, not rip on.
	It's probably even close enough for you, John.
	Love you both.
	No homo.
	Jingles.
	No sweat off my balls.
	Obama sucking soot and too delicious to believe.
	Wash your hands.
	No sweat off my balls.
	You might die.
	Sucking in soot.
	you might die sucking in soot it's almost too delicious to believe my friends Remember to continue to wash your hands and stay safe!
	I haven't heard the sweat off my balls in a while.
	That was cool.
	Thank you very much.
	Michael, I'll see you at the round table in a little bit.
	Colonel Luke Powell!
	Checks in with 270.
	John Adam, after hearing my name on the show, the word douchebag behind it from Eric Adler last week, I thought I should clear my name by making a donation.
	I've been a regular listener for the last seven years, but I've never donated, so please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	I would note, I would note, it's not the value that made him send some value back.
	It's being called a name by someone else.
	Yeah, it's peer group pressure, that's how we do it.
	Seven years?
	And it took you that long for the peer pressure?
	Seven years?
	My goodness, man.
	Okay, well thank you very much.
	Report all shoplifters.
	That's a good one.
	270 represents the year, 2007, the last time that Eric and I flew together, and the last time we've seen each other in person.
	I'd like to call out Justin Casada, who is not only a douchebag, but also skips the donations section every time he listens.
	I'm sure he's busy tending to his cows, but that's no excuse.
	I like this.
	This is an ongoing shoplifter extravaganza.
	A douchebag comes clean, douchebag someone else.
	No jingles or karma, just keep up the good work.
	Thanks, Colonel Luke Powell.
	W5 Bravo Sierra Whiskey and 73s from Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	Linda Lou Patkin in Lakewood, Colorado.
	Jobs, Karma, and for a competitive edge, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive search needs.
	That's ImageMakersInc, with a K, dot com.
	Or look for Linda Lepotkin under the show, uh, Executive Search.
	Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, I'll keep doing that while she keeps singing.
	This is like a stare-down contest.
	Yeah, it's like chicken.
	A game of chicken.
	Who's going to bail?
	Who's going to bail first?
	You are Linda Lepatkin!
	ImageMakers, Inc.
	with a K dot com.
	Thank you to Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles that got your note.
	Disturbing.
	Appreciate it.
	And thank you, Sir Mike, of the Axehead Watch Company.
	Did you receive your wooden watch?
	Yes, I did.
	It's dynamite.
	Yes.
	Because he said, you know, this is how... You two losers have not given me any... It's like he says, here's a free watch.
	Just pick from the catalog.
	And neither one of us did anything.
	Too much work.
	No, it's like, you know, it's like, man, it's cool you donate.
	We don't need to take your product.
	Well, there's that, but he sent us these watches.
	They're dynamite.
	They're just, it's like a regular watch only with a very elaborate band, but it's all wood.
	So Tina picked it up from the P.O.
	box and she had it unpacked and at home when I came home and I said, have you seen this watch?
	She said, yeah, it looks like it's made of wood.
	Why it is!
	It is made of wood, completely.
	Except for the mechanism.
	But yeah, it's very nice.
	And I did just want to highlight for a moment... Do we have a website for him?
	We should give him a plug.
	One of the make good notes.
	He doesn't have his website on his, he says it's Axehead Watchmakers.
	Sir Michael Grader.
	You can probably do a search and find it.
	Yes, search under the producers.
	Do a search, yes.
	And I wanted to thank Sir Paul Couture.
	He deserves a special shout out because he is, you know, he created and maintains the No Agenda Art Generator.
	He gave us an archive of the entire art generator, which is important that we have that in case, you know, someone keels over.
	It's a, it's a gigabyte of art, which is kind of cool.
	And I just wanted to mention, he's very close to the next generation.
	Some of the new features, uh, support for more than one... Nicholas Drupal?
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's coming up.
	Support for more than one podcast.
	Most of the podcasts on the No Agenda stream are included already.
	That's kind of cool.
	John's like, hey, they're honing in on our business.
	It's cool, John.
	This is an important one for me.
	Default 3000 by 3000 file handling for the fools at Apple to get their insanely large image size requirement without having to download and upscale manually.
	Yes.
	It is dumb.
	I always have to do that, because that is... If you don't have that image size, your show won't post on Apple.
	Yeah, it's unbelievably stupid.
	We'll give artists the ability to have more than one profile from a single account, so you don't have to be the same persona to submit art for Nick the Rat's radio.
	Has no agenda, so if you're embarrassed about submitting art under your professional name.
	Artist profiles with value-for-value details built in.
	Personalized headers and bios.
	Artwork details page will include the option to include a description of the artist.
	Of two artists when creating their artwork, new tools to make it easier to deal with bad actors, and a complete REST API!
	For other devs to build new tools, bots, etc.
	Come on, man.
	That's cool.
	That's cool.
	And this is one of the beauties of the No Agenda Nation.
	We just have so many cool producers, people who really understand what true value is, and we appreciate that.
	And if you'd like to become a producer, an executive producer or an associate executive producer like these fine people, you can go to the following website.
	And remember, these are credits that will last forever.
	A lifetime.
	Forever you will have this credit.
	You can use it on IMDB, open up an account there, you can use it on your LinkedIn, your resume, and thank you for producing episode 1578!
	Our formula is this.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	It's no sweat off my balls.
	So I should take a minute and report on my little journey up to Sacramento to see Brunetti's new movie.
	Oh!
	First of all, wow, you left the house.
	Great to hear it.
	Yeah, I did.
	That's cool.
	Looks left, that looks right.
	And when you say Brunetti, that is No Agenda Show producer?
	Dana Brunetti, who was also, I mean, that's his big triumph as a producer, but he's also done things like House of Cards, Fifty Shades of Greyer, and Greyest, and Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, Grey, This is a preview.
	There's a difference between a premiere and a preview.
	Oh, this is for the insiders.
	This is very hot.
	This is for the insiders.
	Actually, in his case, this is local neighbors.
	Oh, very nice.
	So everybody had a John Deere hat on.
	Wait, did he rent a theater?
	A theater?
	There's some deal that Sony had, this is a Sony movie, and I think Sony just let him have it for free.
	I don't know what the deal is, but because there was a lot of stuff about go to sonypreviews.com and you can find some free movies to go to.
	But so yeah, it was free.
	So we go in, it's a big IMAX screen, it's quite nice.
	The story is phenomenal.
	This Gran Turismo story, which is a true story.
	Based on a true story, right?
	Is unbelievable.
	It's one, it's going to be, I, two things.
	One, it's besides being a, just a terrifically done movie.
	It, uh, I think it's going to be seen as one of the great race movies.
	Cause there's all these, race movie comes out.
	Yeah.
	This has got to be one of them.
	And no matter how many times you say unbelievable, he's not giving you a bit part.
	I'm just letting you know.
	I'm not getting, I already gave up on that.
	Just more free tickets.
	So, it's about a kid who was really talented at playing Grant.
	There was a couple of things in there.
	Like, I like to look at the timeline of this story because they mention Uber and looking at a phone in the backseat of Uber, that's in the script.
	And I'm thinking, I don't think this is in the right timeline, but okay.
	Uh, but they, it's about a kid who got so good at playing a video game that Nissan took him under their wings and taught him to be a real race car driver.
	Oh.
	Which he became.
	Under the tutelage of a very skeptical trainer, and the kid ended up winning Le Mans!
	Yes.
	It's a cool story.
	Did he produce the movie?
	Yeah, he's a producer.
	One of the two producers.
	Oh, okay.
	Big.
	So when does this movie come out?
	I think it's the 11th or the 21st of August.
	Well, and when is the... I recommend it.
	It's worth it.
	And I don't like movies.
	So here's what's happening.
	Since he can't have his cast promote the movie because of the strike, they're not allowed to, he's now resorted to the Noah Jenner Show to promote it through podcasts.
	Yes, he has and I did.
	Just as planned.
	We're very proud of him.
	Dana Brunetti, not to be confused with Dana Brownetti who did Fifty Shades of Gay.
	Troll Room is incorrect.
	Different movie, different guy.
	It's too bad.
	I think that other guy works for Trudeau.
	He's a Canadian.
	Because Tina and I would have loved to have come to the red carpet premiere.
	Although we've never been invited to any of his red carpet premieres.
	I'm just saying.
	Has he actually done a movie since we know him?
	This is his last movie and of course he comes out at the beginning and he says, this is my last movie ever.
	I quit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He does keep doing that.
	Doesn't he?
	It's like a bit, it's like a, it's like a shtick.
	That's good.
	I think it's good.
	I think it's good.
	Ah, um, okay.
	Let's do a little Africa because there's some stuff has been happening.
	Let's get an update on this Niger coup.
	A senior State Department official tells us the U.S.
	does not believe Purgosian is behind the coup in Niger.
	What?
	Oh yeah, we've already moved Russia into position.
	It's all Putin!
	Putin is doing it!
	Putin is doing it!
	Where today the President was seen publicly for the first time since being ousted.
	Purgosian, of course, for people who don't know, is a hot dog boy known as the CEO and the leader of the Wagner Group.
	Our Courtney Kuby is the only U.S.-based journalist inside Niger.
	Tonight, the first glimpse of Niger's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, not seen since last week after a coup.
	Bazoum smiling, meeting with the leader of Chad, who's now trying to mediate in Niger after several West African countries called on the coup leaders to give up power.
	It's interesting that the US government cannot call this a coup, don't call it a coup back, Because the minute we acknowledge it's a coup, law states that we can no longer send humanitarian aid to Niger, which probably would be uncomfortable for some.
	But here's NBC just calling it a coup.
	Coup leaders to give up power, warning them to release President Bazoum in the next week or face possible military action.
	Such measures may include the use of force.
	Over the weekend, thousands took to the streets of the capital here, mostly peaceful, supporting the coup.
	Some waving Russian flags, chanting, Long Live Russia!
	Though violence erupted outside the French Embassy, crowds burning a door and throwing rocks at windows chased off by tear gas before they could breach the outer walls.
	Tonight, the coup leaders have not responded to the ultimatum, vowing to defend Niger from aggression, accusing France of planning a military intervention.
	Both France and the U.S.
	have military bases here in Niger.
	Adding to the tensions, should the U.S.
	designate this as a coup, more than $400 million in U.S.
	aid and military training would immediately be at risk.
	Any questions?
	Eroding years of U.S.-Nigerian partnership, training to combat terror groups here.
	And we have boots on the ground from Niger, which is always nice, from one of our producers.
	I am in the Iowa Air National Guard, serve as the Deputy Fire Chief.
	I was deployed to Agandes, Niger in 2017 to 2018.
	So this is the setup.
	Let's see what the United States is actually doing in there.
	You didn't hear this on CBS or NBC.
	We landed in Niamey, probably Niger, October 4th, 2017, as the Tongo Tongo ambush was happening.
	Pretty intense situation.
	The base was quickly flooded with quick reaction force, QRFs, Special Forces personnel for a rescue slash recovery mission.
	Anyways, our mission at AB-201, that would be Air Force Base, was to build a runway in the middle of Africa.
	Why were we building this base?
	We were told it was a mix of terrorism, human trafficking, and to get a stronghold in the region before China could.
	Now, the way this is written, I wonder if the human trafficking is because we were human trafficking through your air base?
	FYI, there were also uranium mines nearby.
	This project was a giant waste of taxpayer money.
	A disaster.
	I could go on and on with stories about this place, but one quick one.
	A couple rotations after we left, there was a fire chief from a Wisconsin ANG unit there.
	He said they sent him and a couple others into the local village to buy goats, because they weren't even getting food shipments.
	This base was a logistical nightmare.
	I've included some articles you might find interesting to shed some light on our involvement.
	And he says he can send me a redacted proof that it was him, but you don't have to.
	He is anonymous, of course, and we believe you.
	I completely believe you were there.
	So, there you go.
	It was to thwart China.
	Now we see that report was very interesting, that it's not like Russia has done this coup, which was mentioned, I think, eight times in the report.
	Coup, coup leaders.
	Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup.
	But it seems like they want the Russians in there.
	Let's talk to a spook and find out what's really going on.
	Here's Richard Engel.
	In Ukraine, Russian troops are battling an intensifying Ukrainian offensive.
	And doing it without some of their most experienced troops.
	Mercenaries from the Wagner Group are off the battlefield after their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched a short-lived mutiny.
	Putin branded Prigozhin, once a trusted aide, a traitor, but then cut a deal with him.
	The potential reasons why are now becoming more clear.
	Tonight, Prigozhin posted that Wagner troops are, for the moment, in Belarus awaiting orders.
	And video from Belarus shows the mercenaries training special forces.
	Poland, a NATO ally across the border, is on high alert, just in case.
	But Africa seems to be Purgosian's main focus now.
	We reported how Wagner, in coordination with the Kremlin, props up weak African leaders, including the president of the Central African Republic, in exchange for control of gold and diamond mines.
	Just last week, Putin hosted 17 African leaders in Russia.
	And on hand to greet them was Prigozhin, who says his network in Africa is expanding.
	Prigozhin challenged Putin and embarrassed him.
	But it seems as long as Wagner is still in business and still making money in Africa, an accommodation is being worked out.
	Okay, I think you and I both consider Richard Engel to be a spook reporter.
	Yes, he's a mouthpiece for sure.
	So, here's what I'm hearing.
	We're sending Hot Dog Boy, the focus of Ukraine, the focus, the number one focus, now, now, now, now he's in Africa.
	Everything going on in Africa is all Putin's fault.
	It's all the Hot Dog Boy, it's all Putin's guy.
	And this war in Ukraine must end.
	And we got a little taste of what's coming.
	Elsewhere overseas, Saudi Arabia is the latest country to express an interest in trying to settle the war in Europe.
	The Saudi kingdom announced over the week... Notice the term war in Europe?
	Yes, it stuck out like a sore thumb.
	The Saudi Kingdom announced over the weekend... What reporter is this?
	This is Willie Geist on the Morning Joe Show, MSNBC.
	...in trying to settle the war in Europe.
	The Saudi Kingdom announced over the weekend that it will host a peace summit next month to begin talks on a way to end the conflict.
	Now, Russia is not invited, but the Associated Press reports that Brazil, India, South Africa, and several other countries are.
	The AP cites a high-level U.S.
	official saying a representative from the Biden administration is expected to attend the event.
	Okay, so how are we going to keep everything kind of... Now, what event is this again?
	The peace talks.
	The Saudis are putting together peace talks.
	In Saudi Arabia?
	Uh, I don't think he's... Did he say where?
	Hold on, let's listen to that again.
	Elsewhere over... Hold on, let me listen.
	Let me listen again.
	Alright.
	The AP sites a high level... Oh, here?
	Now, Russia is... Oh, here?
	Not saying where.
	Basically, the BRICS are invited, but not Russia.
	Oh, maybe they're doing it at the BRICS conference.
	reports that India, South Africa, and several other countries are.
	So basically the BRICS are invited, but not Russia.
	Oh, maybe they're doing it at the BRICS conference.
	Maybe that's where they're doing it.
	The AP cites a highly...
	We're gonna try and get some peace going.
	There was a sad... Let me see, where was this?
	Putin is not going yes less official saying a representative from the Biden administration is expected to attend the event.
	So we're moving everything away.
	We're going to try and get some peace going.
	There was a set of sad.
	Let me see.
	Where was this a kind of a sad note for, for our boy Zelensky.
	The Jerusalem post wrote an article.
	What happens in Ukraine?
	If president Zelensky is assassinated.
	Oh my God, you're kidding!
	No!
	That is like a shot over the bow!
	Under Ukraine's constitution, the transition of power would default to the chairman of Ukraine, who would absorb the responsibilities.
	But the Jerusalem Post goes on to say, When the president, the source, oh this is interesting, this by the way was, oh wow, this is even crazier.
	This is Jerusalem Post.
	When the president is unable to fulfill his duties, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, that's their parliament, takes over his responsibilities, said Mykola Knyazevsky, an opposition lawmaker from the western city of Lviv, according to Politico.
	So Politico is now on this as well.
	Therefore there would be no power vacuum.
	However, the source reported not all Ukrainians may be so supportive of such a backup plan as Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk has a trust rating of only 40% in the opinion polls.
	So under the circumstances that Zelensky is assassinated, the Ukrainian government would likely be headed by Stefan Chuk as a figurehead, the head of the president's office, Andril Yermak, Foreign Minister the head of the president's office, Andril Yermak, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, and Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.
	Dude!
	Walking dead, man!
	Well, we predicted this, or we didn't predict anything.
	We mentioned this possibility.
	A while back.
	Probably a year ago, when we had that one show art that had him in the clouds with the... Assassination attempts against Zelensky have increased rapidly over the course of the war.
	What kind of... We don't know this.
	No, that's what it says here.
	I know, but again, it's like you introduce non-standard facts to make them facts.
	But wait!
	And so it doesn't become a surprise when it happens.
	Assassination attempts against Zelensky have increased rapidly over the course of the war, Zelensky's advisor Mikhail Podolyak said in March 2022, according to Politico.
	Wow.
	As the Jerusalem Post reported at the time, one week of March saw three attempts made against Zelensky's life by Wagner forces.
	Well, there you go.
	Wagner assassinates Zelensky.
	Wagner moves down, so we get these new Jamoks, I'm sure that... That's not an assassination, technically, is it?
	They're at war, and the Wagner group is on the side of doing Russia's bidding, and they happen to kill the guy.
	Is that an assassination, per se?
	No, but the Jerusalem Post is probably telling us Mossad is going to do it, I guess, and they'll blame us.
	Yeah, well they write for them, so okay.
	They'll blame it on Wagner.
	Wagner moves to Africa, and then we tidy it all up with Poland!
	And Poland has deployed troops to its eastern flank along the border with Belarus, after Russia's closest ally allegedly violated its airspace.
	Warsaw says Belarusian military helicopters crossed into the country in the past few days.
	They also believe Wagner mercenaries are stationed in close proximity to Polish territory.
	They allegedly relocated there following an aborted mutiny in late June.
	Poland says they pose a threat to their national security.
	Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Warsaw is inventing the accusations to justify a build-up of troops close to the border.
	So that'll be the new front.
	It'll be Poland, Belarus, Poland.
	You know, that'll be kind of the tension area.
	We'll pay attention.
	And Zelensky is gone.
	I don't know anything about these Jamoks that they're talking about.
	Yeah, the new guys.
	We gotta look into these new guys.
	This whole thing stinks.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Zelensky, you know, I hear Dallas is nice this time of year.
	Well, he's been spending a lot of time out of the country, if you haven't noticed.
	Yep.
	But I love how it'll be Wagner.
	If I was him, I would spend even more time out of the country.
	I love how he thinks the writing is going to be Wagner.
	Of course.
	Of course, Wagner.
	And then, just by coincidence, with all this stuff going on in Africa, What did you know we had a little conference in Washington D.C.
	with Africans.
	The U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, told young leaders from Africa Wednesday that collaboration as equal partners is necessary to meet today's challenges to food security, preventing conflict, and combating climate change.
	Some of the brightest young Africans, that idea is really at the heart of our approach towards sub-Saharan Africa.
	The approach is focused on what we can do with Africa, not for Africa.
	It reflects the incredible diversity and influence of the continent.
	Wait.
	It's not recognized.
	It's interesting if you listen, if you parse it a little differently than what he's, what he's, what it sounds like he's saying. .
	What he's saying is not for Africa, but with Africa, like we're going to be partners.
	If you use the word with as in something you own, what am I going to do with this thing?
	Yeah, what am I going to do with you?
	You listen to him say that with it in mind that it's like a toy.
	Yeah.
	What are we going to do with Africa with them?
	We're going to do with them.
	And so he softens the blow by saying, by bringing in the for, we're going to do for Africa or with them.
	No, it's not any of that.
	It's like we own the place, or we're supposed to, or we're going to.
	Our approach towards Sub-Saharan Africa, the approach is focused on what we can do with Africa, not for Africa.
	It represents the incredible diversity and influence of the continent.
	It also recognizes the important role that young Africans... Wait, stop again.
	Stopping again.
	Stopping again.
	It almost, it has to be what he means, because he says we're not going to do anything, because he says we're not going to do anything for Africa.
	No, we're going to do it, well, he's there with young African leaders, so what he's implying, I guess, at the time is, how can we help you help yourself?
	Yeah, that's what it sounds like, to them, because they're dumb.
	Because they're Africans!
	He also recognizes the important role that young Africans especially have in shaping our planet.
	For the generations to come.
	We're committed to working with young African leaders like you today and for years to come so that together we have an opportunity to build a world that's a little bit more stable, a little bit more resilient.
	A little bit more prosperous for all.
	A little bit.
	Hold on.
	Just a little bit.
	This guy snags his lips too much.
	It makes me want to stop the tape.
	But a little bit.
	Now Africa is loaded to the... Everyone knows this.
	The Chinese for sure.
	It's loaded to the gills with riches.
	It's all kinds of good.
	But you're not going to get any if it's going to be a little more, a little, little, little more prosperous.
	If he was sincere, if there was actually trying to do some good for Africa, he would say, you're going to be a lot more prosperous because there's a lot of stuff there worth a lot of money.
	But no, no, it's going to be a little bit.
	This is terrible.
	We have an opportunity to build a world that's a little bit more stable, a little bit more resilient.
	A little bit more prosperous for all.
	And one more just interesting little tidbit that you probably didn't hear because of all the TRUMP BIDEN!
	TRUMP BIDEN!
	Is what's happening in Tunisia.
	Now we remember, we recall, the Arab Spring started in Tunisia.
	Now, I think you and I believe that that was Hillary Clinton's techno experts that started that.
	We are now.
	And you're calling turkeys and the ones here are responding!
	And it was over bread prices we were led to believe.
	And now, France 24 brings us this little news bulletin.
	The Tunisian president, Caïs Saïd, has sacked Prime Minister Najla Boudin.
	He did so without giving an explanation.
	The new Prime Minister is former central bank executive Ahmed Hashani.
	Local media have highlighted Saeed's displeasure over a number of shortages, including of bread.
	Okay.
	So we've kicked the guy out, we've fired the Prime Minister because the price of bread, man!
	And then they bring in the central banker?
	The economic hitmen are all over this one.
	Something's up.
	Yeah, rubalization is on the way, people.
	Something is indeed up with that.
	Wow.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	I don't have anything from Africa, but I've got, like, the rare update to, uh...
	To Burma.
	Yeah, get the mic in front of you again.
	I'm sorry, I'm trying to find this sheet.
	I got the Burma update.
	It's from Amy.
	Burma's military rulers.
	Burma update from Amy.
	Burma's military rulers granted to Pose Leader Aung San Suu Kyi a pardon in five of the 19 cases against her.
	Suu Kyi was ousted and detained in February 2021 military coup.
	She'll remain under house arrest.
	She's a Nobel Peace Prize winner who once fought against the Burmese military but later defended its genocide of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.
	Out of control.
	It is.
	Oh, and another thing here that I didn't mention.
	ended a state of emergency and delayed elections that have been promised to take place this month.
	A local rights group says over 3,800 people have been killed in the military's crackdown on post-coup protests and over 24,000 people arrested.
	Oh, brother.
	Out of control.
	It is.
	Oh, and another thing here that I didn't mention, Burkino Faso complaining.
	The president of the transitional period of Burkina Faso...
	They said they're siding up with Nigeria, if I'm not mistaken.
	Yep.
	Uncontrolled supplies of Western weapons to Kiev have a negative impact on security in Africa, he said.
	Yeah, because they're all going to Africa.
	He emphasized that this weaponry... The American public is... Stupid.
	He emphasized that this weaponry eventually ends up in Africa where terrorists acquire it.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	It's so obvious.
	danger.
	Well, your no agenda show has been telling you that for quite a while now.
	Yes.
	Ugh.
	It's so obvious.
	Yes.
	Can I go back to, uh, to climate change for a moment?
	Because there's some, we missed an important day.
	I guess you missed something.
	Yeah.
	Well, well, there were two things.
	One is a sad day.
	Was it Earth Day?
	Did we miss Earth Day again?
	No, no!
	Earth Overshoot Day!
	Humanity has burned through Earth's annual budget for resources in under eight months, known as Earth Overshoot Day to the 2nd of August.
	What?! !
	This is not by presidential decree.
	I have not seen this anywhere, but it is Earth Overshoot.
	We just missed Earth Overshoot Day because we've burned through our budget.
	There's no more resources.
	Marks the date on which we've used up all the resources that the planet can regenerate already in one year.
	This sounds like a big ball of hocked up hooey to me.
	This is bullcrap.
	But there is good news.
	Oh, that's good news!
	Global boiling.
	Our annual budget is roughly five days later than in 2022.
	Oh, we're getting better!
	To tell us more, I was earlier joined by François Germain, researcher for the National Fund for Scientific Research.
	Well, basically, we're consuming way too many resources.
	Many more resources than the Earth can actually provide in one year.
	Which means that if we continue living this way, we will not be able to keep the Earth uninhabitable in the long run.
	If we want to see the glass half full, we can say that we've managed to stabilize this day over the past few years.
	If we want to see the glass half empty, we need to remember that this day ideally should be December 31st and not August 2nd.
	Really right now, and probably the most urgent thing, is to move out of fossil fuels.
	Fossil fuels today continue to represent about 85% of our energy budget, that is of the total of the energy that we produce on a daily basis, And this is clearly what is leading the world towards a climate change above 2 degrees.
	So the top priority is certainly to move out of fossil fuels.
	I love the climate change.
	Change.
	Earth Overshoot Day, which you can find at overshootday.org.
	Marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
	Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by the Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that provides decision makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.
	Well, isn't that interesting?
	Seems a bunch of bullcrap.
	There's something, you know, I want to just point out something for people.
	It's interesting.
	Yeah, I think there's like stock market people doing a lot of this stuff.
	Oh, for sure.
	And I want to discuss these just for a quick second.
	The price fluctuation of ExxonMobil.
	Ooh, OK, there you go.
	When ExxonMobil, when Trump was in office and just before he got out, he made us energy independent.
	At the point Trump got in, it was the Exxon Mobil floating around $80 a share.
	When we got Energy Independent, it dropped down to $30.
	Biden got elected.
	And Biden's going to shut down this and he's going to shut down that and he's going to shut down the pipeline.
	What he did was create a supply and demand problem.
	The stock has gone, since Biden got in, from $30 approximately to $107.
	And insiders are still buying it.
	Well, how does that work?
	They should be dying because... You'd think!
	You're telling me this is a scam?
	It's a scam!
	Well, listen to this.
	Your Noah Jenner Show once again.
	Years, maybe a decade ahead of the times.
	Germany now debating the need for Siesta.
	Amid sizzling temperatures.
	Doctors recommend Germans take a midday break.
	It's here!
	There you go.
	Nap for Humanity!
	That's right.
	That's fantastic.
	We are so ahead of the ball.
	Ahead of the ball.
	Ahead of the ball.
	We're on the ball ahead of the times.
	On top of the news, ahead of the times.
	The final thing I have here, which I did not know about.
	Have you heard of meat glue?
	Yes, I have.
	It's used in some restaurants.
	There was this report that I caught and a guy is demonstrating it and he mentions the compound used in this and it's like a minute, I want to play it.
	Yeah.
	So what you're seeing is the guy is taking bits and pieces and scraps from other things and using as a kind of, there's that word again, hamburger helper for filet mignon.
	And so you put this, you smash the meat in there with this glue and then, well listen.
	It's the meat industry's dirty secret.
	A way of turning the scraps too small to sell as a premium steak back into a juicy plump eye fillet to sell for a premium price.
	So clever, you'll never tell.
	Not even an expert can.
	I've just got some fine diced, diced beef and my special enzyme.
	Just gonna mix it up a bit.
	Why have we got the masks on?
	Because it's dangerous.
	See that?
	Don't breathe that in.
	This powder is transglutanamase enzyme, otherwise known as meat glue.
	Meat glues come in a number of forms.
	Some produced by cultivating bacteria, the others, the primary ingredient comes from the blood plasma of pigs and cattle.
	Specifically, the coagulant which causes blood to clot.
	In the food industry, it has amazing properties.
	So just get a little bit out, about a teaspoonful.
	Yep.
	Just over the top like that.
	And with our gloves on, of course, we mix it up.
	Then roll it in plastic film and refrigerate.
	Six hours later, you have a solid piece of meat.
	Essentially, you've got a reborn, rebirthed eye fillet.
	More or less, yeah.
	And it's not just beef.
	Pork, lamb, fish, and chicken are all stuck back together using this glue.
	I'm shocked!
	I think McNuggets and some of these fast food chicken nugget things are made with that stuff.
	But this stuff, it's dangerous to breathe in.
	Yeah, because it'll glue your lungs together or something, I guess.
	I don't know.
	I've never played with it, but I know about it.
	And it's an enzyme, transglutaminase.
	And you can't, you have to use gloves as well.
	Yeah, because it'll glue your fingers.
	It's glue!
	Hello!
	It's an adhesive, only it's a organic adhesive.
	I love this health line.
	Meat glue is a food additive used to improve the texture and appearance of processed meats.
	Transglutaminase is safe, but its links to higher increased risk of bacterial contamination may also worsen celiac disease or gluten sensitivity symptoms.
	Well, that's interesting.
	I didn't know that.
	This has got to be in everything.
	Oh, is it?
	Well, you're buying your meat from that guy, the Texas cattle guy.
	Texas Slim.
	It's not in anything he does.
	No!
	Beefinitiative.com.
	Of course not.
	I'm not crazy.
	But this is just, this makes me sick.
	I would assume that fast food restaurants use it in all their Chicken McNuggets.
	I would assume that a lot of hamburger chains would have it in the hamburgers, the formed patties, because they're a little too well formed.
	And I would, and I guess you can do all kinds of things with it.
	I know that in some restaurants they use it for certain kinds of, like if you make a Beef Wellington and you want to It has been suggested that the surge in people diagnosed with celiac disease may be linked to the increased use of transglutaminase in food.
	However, there is no scientific research.
	Directly linking transglutaminase, just a coincidence, to an increased risk of disease, although research in this area is ongoing.
	The FDA classifies transglutaminase as grass, generally recognized as safe, and the USDA deems the ingredients safe to use in meat and poultry products.
	The European Union has banned the use of transglutaminase in food since 2010 over safety concerns.
	Meat glue!
	People, meat glue!
	No!
	Just no!
	No!
	No!
	That's disgusting!
	And you knew this?
	And you've withheld this from the group?
	I wasn't a withhold, it's just a fact!
	I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda!
	Imagine all the people who could do that!
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab!
	Yeah!
	On No Agenda!
	And we do have a few people to thank for show 1578, I believe.
	Which is 200 years after 1778.
	Or before, actually.
	What am I thinking?
	Chris Kraslinski started that over.
	200 years after 1778 or before actually.
	What am I thinking?
	Chris Kraslinski started that over.
	Chris Kraslicki, Kraslicki, Kraslicki in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania starts us off at 15665 with a happy birthday to Graham.
	Steven Peterson in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia, 150.
	Belshuseko, parts unknown, I'm thinking Eastern Europe, 133-33.
	He's in Vienna, Austria, actually.
	That's nice.
	There you go.
	Uh, Ronnie Chambliss in Attica, Indiana, 100.
	Kevin McAtee in Littleton, Colorado, 100.
	Baron Ladekin, 100.
	Uh, John Robinet, 100.
	Brian Aguilar in Bellefontaine, Ohio, 100.
	Needs a de-douche.
	Oh, needs Lincoln Hanson de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	And we'll give you some health karma at the end.
	Alexandria Spook Meetup came in with a hundred dollars with a switcheroo for she's the winner of the lottery.
	Future Dame Didi.
	Didi?
	Yeah, Didi.
	Todd Webster in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, 83-34.
	It's a beef donation of some sort.
	Sarah Fluitt in Squim, Washington.
	Happy birthday call out, 8008.
	Birthday down on the list.
	Kevin McLaughlin, of course, in Concord, North Carolina, 8008.
	This time he's promoting GAC Melons.
	GAC, G-A-C.
	Unsure what that is.
	Sir E. in Blairsville, Georgia, 8008.
	Aaron Gray, and it's always the people in the South that seem to like that donation.
	Aaron Gray in Thornton, Colorado, 75.
	Frankie T in London, UK, 72, 60.
	Get a new human resource.
	No, I think he's welcoming.
	We had a new human resource.
	Sir Daniel had a human resource, right?
	Yeah.
	Oh, that's what it is.
	Yeah.
	Sir Daniel, a guy who does no agenda meetups, has a new human resource.
	And we plugged it in the newsletter.
	Unfortunately, the new human resource is not named Adam or John, which was a disappointment.
	But a girl.
	That's why.
	That's all the more reason not to name her after us.
	It could have been Jonna or Adama.
	Okay.
	Dena Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 72-27 palindrome.
	Jim Boreth in North Wales, Pennsylvania, 6-6-6-6.
	Kevin McLaughlin's back already with 6-0-0-6, this time promoting the Snap Melon.
	The Snap Melon, for you to keep your score.
	Corbin Nixon, Houghton, Louisiana, 60.
	Brian Furley, 55, 10.
	Virginia Watson, Ketchikan, Alaska, 53, 53.
	That's a switcheroo.
	A switcheroo for Lisa Hunter.
	You're on the birthday list.
	Eric Hochul, our buddy in Mulrose, Deutschland, 52.
	And his name actually comes through nowadays.
	Yeah, how about that?
	Used to be a mess on the spreadsheet.
	Bob Butler, because he's got an umlaut.
	Bob Butler in Cumming, Georgia.
	50-69.
	Onward with Dotted Mind.
	Dotted Mind in Lincolnshire, UK.
	Ah, now we've got $50 donors.
	I'm going to just read these off, name and location.
	Justin Heiner in Vinegrove, Kentucky.
	Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
	Thomas Trem in Willoughby, Ohio.
	Claire Thornhill in Toronto, Ontario.
	Jordan Poino in Salem, Oregon.
	David Hudson in Lombard, Illinois.
	James, Sir James Sheremetta in Nappanock, New York, Jacob Martinez in El Monte, California, Kurt Patrick in Nainai... Okay, well, I'm not even going to pronounce it, but he's in B.C.
	I got condemned, even though I always pronounce it N-I-N-I-A-I-M-O, and they say, somebody said, it's not N-I-N-I-A-I-M-O.
	But I've always, I've been there.
	It's N-I-N-I-A-I-M-O, as far as I'm concerned.
	You pronounce it, you do what you want, girl.
	Go.
	Carl, Carl Middleton, Gordon, Victoria, Australia.
	Business selling karma.
	We'll give you that at the end.
	And ah, good old Alan Bean in Beaverton, Oregon.
	He's a baron.
	And Ichi Kitagawa in San Francisco rounds it out.
	We want to thank all these people for making show 1578 a success.
	Not just that, we want to thank everyone who came in under $50.
	Reasons being anonymity, typically, or they're on one of the many No Agenda sustaining donations.
	These are incredibly important.
	If everybody who listens did a sustaining donation once a month, we wouldn't have to have this funding segment at the end of the show.
	And we appreciate you all so much, especially those who are on those sustaining donations.
	I have a few make-goods from previous episodes.
	Oddly, we must have missed Sir Kevin McLaughlin's 6006 for the last episode, 1577, where he was promoting the ananas melon.
	Oh, the ananas melon.
	Yes, which is a pineapple melon.
	I've never had one.
	Summertime is the perfect time to show off your melons, ladies.
	Okay, thank you.
	We have Jonna.
	Jonna was an associate executive producer on the last show, 23335, and here's the note as the make-good millennial mom of four young human resources writing in to confirm that kids do indeed eat bugs.
	Everything from spider ants to living hermit crabs, if that counts as a bug.
	I do believe only one of them seemed to enjoy the experience before, so maybe a quarter or so of us will not be totally disappointed by food quality in 2033.
	Wait until you introduce them to meat glue.
	Adam and John, you both are household names!
	Thank you for producing the best podcast in the universe.
	The $2.3335 I sent last week but didn't send a note is a birthday donation from my smokin' hot husband, Joseph Dorman-Steelman, who turns 35 on 8-8-88.
	Well, there'll be...
	Together we have an eight, a four, a two-year-old, and a six-month-old.
	Navigating bedtime for all of them is one of the things we look forward to least in our day.
	Not exaggerating when I say listening to the show on the same set of AirPods every show day has been a very positive thing for our marriage.
	Saving marriages, one marriage at a time.
	And we listen aloud.
	When we listen aloud, our oldest is quick to reprimand us.
	We should dare, we should skip over any part of the donation segment.
	Good man.
	Because he says, Mom, there's valuable information in this part.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	If you'd play Graham some goat karma, that would be very much appreciated.
	In fact, it would be dynamite.
	Yes, of course, we'll do that.
	Love and light, says John, and we appreciate it.
	And a May Good from Tricia, 2280, wishing Sir Egghead a happy birthday on July 31st.
	Sorry we missed him.
	I hope this makes up for the lame present I came up with this year.
	We love you and think you are the best, PJ, Big Sweetie, Little Islam, and Maple the Puppy.
	John and Adam, thanks for doing what you do.
	Our family loves listening.
	Then we have our layaway knight for today, because yes, you can become a knight of the No Agenda Roundtable just by laying it away one bit at a time.
	He says, hello, No Agenda Nation!
	At the start of 2020, I looked around and asked, is anyone else seeing how bonkers things have suddenly become?
	Since then, I have obsessed about getting to the bottom of everything.
	Thankfully, Adam and John were able to periodically scrub my amygdala and keep me on track.
	Thanks to everyone!
	I should like to be known as Sir Purple Pitchforks of the Grand Valley Standard Fair Will Do.
	Cheers from John B. And yes, sir, you are listed and ready to go for the podium.
	Thank you all very much for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	To become a producer of any sort, go here.
	Vorag.org slash NA.
	And here is our list.
	It's not short.
	Anna Jean Thomas, born July 26, 2023.
	Welcome to Noah's Yonder Nation, you human resource.
	Tricia wishes Sir Egg Head of Blade a happy birthday from the 31st.
	We just read that.
	Sir Ron Blackknight of the Nueces Canyon turns 75 today.
	Happy birthday, Sir Ron Blackknight.
	Dame Vox of the Gateway turns 53 today.
	Lisa Hunter turns 53 tomorrow.
	Kim wishes her son Dom a happy birthday for the 5th.
	Max and Sarah wish Sir Chris of the Benevolent Order of the Choo Choo's a happy birthday for the 5th.
	And we have John who wishes her husband Joseph Dorman Steelman a happy birthday.
	He turns 35 on August 8th.
	John wishes his wife Melody a happy birthday, turning 69.
	And Chris Kerslicky wishes Graham Luan, or Luan, a happy birthday, and we of course say happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Whoo!
	Wow, nice set of birthdays.
	Two nightings.
	Yeah, wow, I'd say.
	Wow.
	Two nightings.
	There's a blade.
	I got a blade.
	That's your blade?
	Oh, okay.
	That's your blade.
	It's a bonus blade.
	That's a bonus blade.
	Up on the podium, John B. Michael Kallner.
	Both of you have completed your runs to knighthood.
	No dames, unfortunately, today, but that means there's more hookers and blow for you.
	And the Rent Boys and Chardonnay, if you so request.
	And I'm very proud to pronounce the K.B.
	as Sir Purple Pitchforks of the Grand Valley and Sir Prize Keeper of the Unknown.
	Both of you now are knights of the Noah Jenner Round Table and, as you wish, you can have Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys & Chardonnay, Crispy Succulent Pork Belly, Raclette, and plenty of Polliner Munich Lager!
	Also with that, we've got some Bach & Vanilla, Bon Hits & Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Nesquik, Ginger Ale & Gerbils, Breast Milk & Pablum, or...
	The effervescent mutton and mead, which is right here at the roundtable.
	Please go to noagenderrings.com.
	You can see the lovely night ring we have all lined up for you.
	Also, we have them for dames.
	No dames today, but you can just look at those pictures and dream on.
	Send us the address where we can send it to, along with your wax to seal your important correspondence and your certificate of authenticity.
	And thank you for both becoming Knights of the No Gender Roundtable.
	No Gender Meetups.
	An important part of your No Gender Diet means a meetup.
	You've got to do these meetups.
	There is one near you for sure.
	If not, you can always start one.
	The No Agenda Meetups, they're producer-organized.
	You go to noagendameetups.com.
	Sir Daniel there, new daddy.
	Say hi to him, say congratulations.
	He maintains all of that and we have a beautiful website for it where you can set up your own meetups, you can see ones near you, you can even file meetup reports.
	It really is a great place to get to know what No Agenda Nation is all about and you'll see in these times ahead.
	Yeah, as that employee retention cash starts flooding the market and everything starts going crazy once again, you'll need to know how to survive and there will be people at your No Agenda meetup who will help you with that.
	Connection is protection.
	And if you're in the Austin, Texas area, we've got a very fun meetup coming up for you.
	Take me down to the river where I can hold your body close to my heart.
	It's Keeper Christine.
	Grab your Keeper and fellow producers and take them down to the San Marcos River on Sunday, August 13th for the 3rd Annual Float Meet.
	Go to noagendameetups.com for details, RSVP to both the float and the meetup.
	Take me down to the river.
	I want to go down to the river.
	Great production there.
	Yes, that is the float meetup, so you can float on the river and then have a meetup afterwards.
	Sadly, the Keeper and I will be on our European jaunt, so we won't be able to make it.
	Can I ask you a question?
	Yes?
	Have you ever been to the Alamo?
	I have.
	Okay.
	It's very small.
	It's very disappointing.
	This is really dinky, I know.
	It's kind of weird.
	This coming Saturday, we have a NOAA Jena meetup, the NOAA Jena Fort Wayne Club 33 meetup.
	Ivermectin optional, 2 o'clock at Ziano's Italian Eatery, DuPont Point in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Sir Dr. Pepper hosting that.
	Also on Saturday, the Red 33, Red 33, Leo Sun Summer Fun meetup.
	You know it is Sir Nathan Lee Miller, the chaotic good knight who organizes that.
	And that will be at the Castle Island Brewery in Northwood, Massachusetts.
	And also on Saturday, the Suds Insanity Meetup, 5 o'clock in the Oconee Brewing Company, Lake Country, Greensboro, Georgia.
	Dame Cece is your hostess.
	Just looking at this list, we got a lot going on in the month of August.
	It'll be hot.
	People will be getting ready to hang out together.
	Go ahead and go to noagendameetups.com and take a look at this list.
	See and find one near you.
	Plan your weekend or whatever day it is around it.
	Take the family.
	Human resources are welcome.
	Connection is protection.
	noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one near you, start one.
	It's easy.
	It's like a party!
	with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered or held to blame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	It's like a party.
	It's a big-ass party.
	I only have two ISOs.
	I'm kind of lame on the ISOs these days.
	Then why don't you play yours?
	Okay.
	100%!
	Oh, please.
	Holy heck!
	That's all I got.
	The last show.
	That's all I got.
	That's all I got.
	Okay, I got four.
	Oh, I'm sure you'll win.
	One, two, three, four.
	Let's start with thanks, guys.
	Okay.
	Thanks, guys.
	Have a great weekend.
	Okay, it's a little muddled, but not bad.
	Yeah, it's a little muddled.
	Let's go with goater.
	So this gets my goat.
	No, I do not like that.
	That's so good.
	How about this would be different.
	This is just clapping.
	That's so different.
	We're not going to do it.
	How about bye-bye?
	Bye-bye.
	Yeah.
	Done.
	I love that one.
	Bye-bye.
	Is that from NTD?
	Uh, no.
	I like her.
	It's actually a classic.
	I like her.
	Bye-bye.
	I like that one.
	Bye-bye.
	That's cute.
	It's cute.
	It's like evergreen.
	It should be used more often.
	It's cute.
	Very cute.
	Do I have one last clip?
	I have one last clip too.
	Why?
	My clip is kind of funny.
	Okay.
	Well, then let me do my clip and then, because it's not, it's funny for us, but it's kind of funny.
	Do you recall what we learned years and years ago when Europe, the EU, decided that it would be best to thwart people from smoking by putting horrible images of disease on their cigarette packages?
	And what turns out, people actually buy more They smoke more, and they trade their packs.
	Like, hey, do you have emphysema?
	Yes, I have some.
	You want to trade for a gangrene?
	You have the rotten teeth?
	You got the gum disease?
	These things do not work, but Canada did not get the memo.
	Canada has new regulations to deter smoking and they are a world first.
	New rules take effect today that require warning labels on individual cigarettes.
	Advocates hope that will give anyone pause before they puff.
	Albert de la Tala is here with us this morning to tell us what changes as of today.
	Good morning Albert.
	Good morning, Heather.
	People won't necessarily see the messages right away, but cigarette manufacturers have about a year to have warnings on all king-sized cigarettes they sell.
	The new regulations from Health Canada are aimed at both helping smokers quit and deterring others from picking up the habit.
	Have a look at some of these messages.
	Warnings such as poison in every puffer printed on paper, the paper around the filter.
	They'll be written in English and French.
	In terms of the timeline, as I mentioned, the king-sized cigarettes, they'll be labeled by the end of July of next year.
	Regular-sized cigarettes and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes will have to be labeled by the end of April of 2025.
	I just love the individual label.
	Poison in every puff.
	I mean, that's beautiful.
	I'm telling you, I think you analyzed this completely wrong.
	Oh, do tell.
	You say that the Canadians didn't get a clue.
	I think they did get a clue.
	They know the research.
	They need to sell more cigarettes.
	So they rolled out this idea and the stupid Canadians bought into it.
	I think we should also put meat glue in every bite.
	I mean, that would be perfect for your nuggets.
	So, my last clip is Biden going off about something, and this is where he says, he actually uses, I think he says, fighty fight.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Fighty fight?
	I'm honored to oversee the greatest fighting force, literally, not figuratively, in the history of the world, and that's not hyperbole.
	And I might add, the most diverse fighting force in the history of the world.
	I think he said fighty fight, fighty fight, fighty fight!
	Oh, goodness.
	Well, I don't know what to say.
	Other than, we will be back on Sunday to bring you more of the madness.
	We are so happy to do it for you.
	Because we try to spin you down in this spun-up world.
	Remember to eat your meat glue and get your poison in every puff, everybody.
	And whatever you do, make sure you fight about Biden versus Trump, otherwise it's just no good.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, we've got the Millennial Media Offensive, you'll want to stay tuned for that.
	End of show, mixes, all Trump, the haters from Nostradamus, Leo LePuck, and a classic John and Adam Trump rotation clip.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region No.
	6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return right here on Sunday.
	Please remember us.
	Oh, that's right.
	This is the end of show funding segment.
	I just realized it.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash and hey.
	Until Sunday, everybody.
	Adios, mofoza.
	Hooey, hooey.
	And such.
	Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
	Trump leaders got no reason.
	Trump leaders got no reason.
	Trump haters got no reason to live.
	They got little minds, shifty eyes.
	They walk around telling great big lies.
	Wearing pussy hats, climbing their teeth.
	Telling us how things are going to be.
	No one knows Trump haters.
	No one knows Trump haters.
	No one knows Trump haters around here.
	Trump haters are not the same.
	It's you and I.
	Patriots such as I.
	It's all that fall.
	See it all from lies.
	They use it's why.
	Trump haters got nobody.
	Trump haters got nobody.
	Trump haters got nobody to love.
	They got safe spaces when running high.
	Crying their eyes out.
	Scream at the sky.
	Got sanctuary.
	Free stuff for all.
	Socialist leaders.
	Stomping the wall.
	Taking our free speech.
	And we'll come to.
	Burning our flag.
	A red light and blue.
	No one knows Trump haters.
	No one knows Trump haters.
	No one knows Trump haters around here.
	I'm talking about dishwashers.
	Amen.
	I'm talking about dishwashers, sinks, toilets.
	Toilets and showers.
	You don't get any water.
	Try going and buying a new faucet.
	You turn it on, no water comes out.
	We won't talk about toilets.
	But how about the shower?
	I have this beautiful head of hair, I need a lot of water.
	You turn on the water, drip, drip, drip.
	Drop on the water.
	It's a very unpleasant experience.
	Trump!
	Oh!
	A situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrobes.
	I'm talking about dishwashers, sinks, toilets.
	I have my list and you might want to see if there's anything I left out.
	This is the Trump rotation.
	There's two categories.
	There's the regular and then there's the criminal.
	But here we go.
	Ready?
	Yeah.
	Liar.
	Incompetent.
	Unhinged.
	Illegitimate president.
	White supremacist.
	Racist.
	Bully.
	Immature.
	Russian agent.
	Narcissist.
	Mean.
	Long ties.
	Insane.
	Tweets too much.
	Small hands.
	Small penis.
	Big red button.
	Criminal.
	Mean.
	Racist.
	Immature.
	Thin-skinned.
	Runs the mob.
	Has no money.
	Unstable.
	Fatter than 239 pounds.
	Bankrupt.
	25th Amendment should be instituted.
	He hates women.
	Misogynist.
	Holds grudges forever.
	Plays golf a lot.
	Obstruction of justice.
	Money laundering.
	No wonder we're making America white again.

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