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	Girls beat me up.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, October 1st, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1595.
	This is no agenda.
	Favoring favelas and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where Canada is not requiring podcasters to register yet.
	I'm John C. Devorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, I didn't expect this to be the first item on the menu, but I have some thoughts about this.
	And Well, as everyone knows, for the last 20 years, I've been predicting this.
	Predicting what exactly?
	That we are going to eventually have to register as podcasters.
	Well, but we already have a podcast license, so we're kind of good to go.
	Well, that's our hope.
	Actually, just grandfather our podcast licensees in.
	That would be good.
	Easily, easily.
	So the idea is that, now Canada already had, Canada by the way, I'm not against the basic premise of if you have a publicly funded, wow it's raining like crazy here, if you have publicly funded media, which Canada does, they also have commercial radio, but just publicly funded media.
	And they've publicly funded their newspapers.
	Yeah, well, that's a different story.
	Put that off to the side.
	Stick a pin in it.
	And France does this, and I think the UK had some regulation at some point, that if you're playing music, as an example, you need to play a certain amount of national product.
	And if it's public media, I'm not necessarily against that.
	But that somehow morphed into the online, what do they call this, the CRTC, which is the Canadian regulator.
	They had the online streaming services regulation.
	And to me, that still is for music and not necessarily for Canadian news or anything like that.
	There's really, although we're starting it now with Podcasting 2.0, there's really not a lot of music in podcasting.
	So now they say, well, you know, we need to, we're probably going to have to have podcast companies.
	That offer audio or video content and generate more than $10 million in annual revenues to also register.
	And so that's kind of being turned into, oh, it'll be podcasts as well.
	So I think there's a lot of people jumping on this, trying to make big noise and, you know, so that they pay attention to them.
	Yeah, I'm a podcaster, not mowing over my dead body!
	You know what I mean?
	Like Jordan Peterson.
	Now Jordan Peterson, he just might make 10 million dollars, I don't know.
	So this would be more for, well literally, an outfit like the Daily Wire.
	Even though, you know, I doubt that they as an American company have to register in Canada.
	And that's kind of the crazy thing about it.
	It's like, do you have to be in Canada?
	Or do you have to talk to Canada?
	If you're talking about Canada?
	I mean, what do they want to do with this?
	It makes no sense.
	Makes no sense.
	Hello?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, but I think you're right.
	Eventually, there will be registration.
	I don't know if that'll happen here.
	But Canada?
	Yeah, sure.
	Europe?
	Absolutely.
	I was in Houston yesterday.
	Ah yes, you went to Houston.
	I did, I did.
	For the Spark Media Ignite Conference.
	What's Spark Media?
	It's a podcast conference for Godcasters.
	I did the keynote.
	How many Godcasters are there?
	Oh man!
	Are you the p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- A podcaster, godcaster put together.
	The other P-P-P-P-God?
	P-Godcaster.
	No, I'm not a Godcaster.
	Good Godcaster.
	They surprised me with a Lifetime Achievement Award, which I was not expecting, which is always kind of weird.
	It's like, my life is over now.
	I'm done.
	Yeah, it is.
	Aren't you supposed to get that when you're 80?
	You know, it's like, you know, it feels like, oh, man, I don't feel good about that.
	It's called the Pathetic End of Life Award that they give out to people that maybe could have won some more awards.
	Let's give you this and you can die in peace.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I guess that was it.
	There's Godcasters that have quite, you know, the focus on the family guys.
	They have millions of listeners.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's pretty big.
	But you know what you don't hear at a Godcaster conference?
	People don't come up to you and say, hey man, how many downloads you got?
	That you don't hear.
	Not from a single person.
	Have you heard that anywhere?
	In the podcast industrial complex?
	Oh yeah.
	Oh absolutely.
	How many downloads do you have for that show?
	It's horrible.
	It's horrendous.
	Do they always end it with a belch?
	No, it's more like... No, it's horrible.
	People are horrible.
	Well, that's because they know that anyone in the in the in the God casting business have relatively no doubt.
	No, that's not true.
	That's not true.
	Yeah, I was surprised.
	I was surprised to see that the audience size, you know, there's a lot going on.
	How big was the audience?
	As I said, again, as I said, the focus on the family podcast.
	Those guys have like four million listeners, I think.
	Send some of the people our way.
	You know, they're big No Agenda guys.
	They talk about us all the time.
	Well, that's nice.
	I don't see it in today's donations.
	Speaking of donations, you know, I'm glad that we at least do donations.
	You see New York Public Radio?
	They're going to cut 12% of their workforce, which first of all, it's amazing that WNYC, how many people do you think that have full-time For a public radio station in New York, and I'll preface this by saying, when I worked at Z100 in New York, the number one station in the market at the time in the early 90s, I think they had 25 people, and that included Bubba the Love Sponge, who did the prize man.
	How many people do you think New York Public Radio, NYC, employs full-time?
	Well then I would have to, it's New York, big, so I would say 25.
	340.
	What?
	340 full-time employees.
	Oh, and they had to cut 10% or what was it?
	Yes, and do you know that... That's 30 people.
	The number of people that are cutting are less than the total number of people that you had at that other station.
	So, you know the Radio Lab?
	You've heard the Radio Lab podcast?
	You've heard that show?
	Yeah.
	22 people work on that show alone!
	22!
	I mean, this... something went wrong in radio.
	Yeah, but once you go to the public coffers, you know, you don't have any sense.
	But it's not really public coffers.
	I mean, they get very little from, you know, they get from the big foundations.
	That's where they get their money.
	La Fontaine.
	Yeah, foundation money, same public coffers.
	The New York Public Radio's president and CEO, his name is LaFontaine Oliver.
	That's your problem right there.
	You got a CEO named LaFontaine Oliver?
	That's an expensive operation.
	Where'd this guy come from?
	The Ford Foundation?
	This guy sounds expensive.
	He sounds very expensive.
	He said in a memo to employees, now listen to this, so where do they get their money from again?
	Public coffers.
	In a memo said to employees that, quote, a free fall in the advertising market had led to the decision to cut staff.
	This reminds me, I was getting some clips for me.
	I didn't do this clip, but I just want to mention it because it's kind of part of this.
	I'm listening to NPR.
	And they had an ad for Squarespace that was clearly an ad with a call to action.
	A code?
	They gave the website, the whole thing is completely out of control with public broadcasting.
	And we knew this in 2009 we were already complaining about NPR selling ads, and they're not sponsored or brought to you by, they're literally selling ads.
	And they had a downfall in 2009, if you recall.
	Okay, moving on to money.
	How are NPR's corporate underwriting revenues holding up in the recession?
	And what about foundation grants?
	So there you go, that was the question.
	Here was the lady who was running all of NPR at the time, her answer.
	Two different stories.
	Underwriting is down.
	It's down for everybody.
	This is the area that is most down for us.
	Sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want.
	Yeah, call it whatever you want.
	Advertising.
	It's advertising!
	The same people who sell radio ads for commercial stations sell NPR.
	It's a farce.
	I love the word farce.
	It's a good word.
	I just don't hear you say it much.
	It's funny.
	It sounds so much like fart, you know, so you can say farce.
	I get it now.
	Farce, farce, farce.
	Anyway, so this is truly the only way to go.
	Wow, they had over 300 people working there.
	Doing what?
	I know.
	I mean, even if you had 20 people doing ad sales, you still have 280 people doing what?
	I really don't know.
	I really don't know.
	I mean, 22 people on the Radiolab show?
	I mean, this is insane.
	Look, everyone went... It's all over.
	This is all over.
	Spotify spent a billion dollars, everyone got all jacked up, and then it was over.
	It's over.
	It's done, people.
	It's done.
	Anyway, the reason why I brought up Houston is not to tout my Lifetime Achievement Award, But I got a lot of... What kind of... was it a big giant trophy?
	Was it a big thing like a sumo wrestler guess?
	Or was it a little plaque?
	Or was it something... a glass thing?
	It's like a wrestler belt, you know?
	What was it?
	It's a glass... It's a glass thing.
	A glass mount.
	A glass thing.
	Yeah, a glass thing.
	You know, it looks like... How big was this glass thing?
	I'd say about the size... About the size of a large hand.
	You know, it's sizeable.
	A large hand.
	Yes, like a large hand, like my hand, you know, and that mounted on a nice, handsome... On a piece of wood?
	A handsome piece of wood, yes.
	You know, I've said this, I don't want to interrupt your story, but I've said this before, I'm going to say it again, and then I'm going to maybe do something about it.
	Okay, please.
	We should have the No Agenda Podcasting Awards.
	Make something official.
	We're the experts.
	Let's face it, when it comes to what's good and what's bad in the world of podcasting, and we should do an award ceremony.
	And those little glass things are cheap to make.
	It didn't look cheap.
	It looked nice.
	We don't even have to give the people anything physical.
	A certificate will work.
	It doesn't matter.
	Fire up the printer.
	That's a printer.
	But yeah, well, beside the point... The Alternative Media Awards.
	No, the... Alt Media.
	Award.
	We keep talking about this and we'll, you know, we'll be long gone and people... Remember those guys?
	No, I don't think so.
	I think this is the upcoming year, 2024, is the year of the award.
	We're going to do it.
	Do you know how many times... I'm tired of talking.
	You know, I've always said this.
	I don't like the idea of talking and no action.
	I hate it.
	Wow!
	Said Mr. Action!
	Please!
	Well, there's a lot of podcast awards.
	That's the problem.
	There must be 50.
	I don't know of any.
	They just had the British Podcast Awards.
	They had the Black Podcast Awards.
	They had the... Last night, in fact, while I was getting an award at the Spark Media Ignite Awards, was the podcast awards by Blueberry.
	Todd runs those.
	He's done them for 17 years.
	And he's now completely virtual.
	You know, there's a whole bunch of different awards.
	Maybe we should just do the Pride, Podcast Pride Awards.
	How about that?
	There's a category.
	Can you imagine how much fun we'd have with those entrants?
	Coolest color hair.
	Best teacher award.
	Best teacher podcast.
	I can just imagine.
	I don't know.
	It seems like a loser to me.
	Why is it a loser?
	It's publicity.
	You get the award out there, it's something to do.
	You haven't heard about a single one of these podcast awards.
	There's no publicity.
	That's because they're no good.
	We can do them.
	And how much do we charge for entry?
	Entry fee.
	Because they all charge an entry fee.
	This is the scam.
	That is a scam, by the way.
	It's the same thing with wine awards, all these award things.
	You have to pay them money to get nominated.
	Yeah, it's a scam.
	I hate to say it, no entry fee.
	We just pick.
	Well, how do we make money on this scam then?
	Value for value.
	Interesting.
	We can get sponsors.
	That's fine too.
	Yeah, we get sponsors.
	All right.
	I don't like the idea.
	I think it's... And we have the troll award.
	We should have the troll award.
	The one that the trolls choose.
	Yeah, maybe.
	That's an interesting idea.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	So the reason why I brought up Houston... Yeah, I'm wondering.
	...is because people are confirming it to me.
	This Colony Ridge deal north of Houston This is the big development that we've only seen by air, where there must be 25,000 homesteads.
	Apparently it's all trailers, and this is where the migrants are now being given 12% unsecured loans for a trailer.
	And I was reading this article, because our Texas Attorney General, who did not get kicked out, He is saying, I'm going to go after this now.
	And he is, well, you know what he's calling it?
	He's calling it Shantytown, a favela.
	And I thought, wow.
	And I thought, yeah, this is exactly what you said.
	And, and, and although people are horrified, is it really a bad idea?
	So they, so they're basically selling them trailers, right?
	Yeah.
	So our Shantytowns are going to be mostly trailer parks.
	Now, Do you remember, this is not a new idea, do you remember, I think it was during George Bush administration, when FEMA was bringing all these trailers in to Florida, wherever the hurricane went, and they were poisoning people with formaldehyde poisoning, because the trailers were poorly made.
	Remember that?
	Well, I thought that was Katrina.
	Wasn't that Katrina?
	Katrina, yeah it was.
	The formaldehyde trailers, yeah.
	Yeah, the Formaldehyde trailers that FEMA was bringing in and putting people in.
	I think a favela or a shantytown completely made out of trailers, so it's a giant trailer park, is a fabulous concept.
	I was talking to two people last night who had been on a mission to Brazil and they went into the favelas and the shanty towns and they said, you know, it was actually quite interesting because, you know, they would knock on doors and, you know, have you been saved by Jesus?
	But they would go in and these people would have expensive wristwatches and beautiful televisions on the wall.
	Which kind of goes to your basic idea that, yeah, it looks crappy, but it's not like it isn't an actual economy and doesn't work.
	It's just, you know, whoa, we're horrified by the idea, but I don't see what option there is.
	There is none.
	I think you're right.
	Unlike Europe, where they have completely gone to problem, reaction, and here's the solution part.
	Well, the big muckety-mucks got together.
	They're working on a deal.
	Listen carefully to what they're doing about the migration crisis.
	I'm sorry, it's irregular immigration in the EU.
	The European Union has been trying to regulate its efforts to deal with the migrant crisis for years.
	Now, finally, agreement may be close.
	By the way, all these people, they don't, this is not, no one gets to vote on this.
	They're just, this is commission work.
	They're just doing it.
	And they're all getting together and all the B-rolls, them laughing and patting each other on the back.
	I have to say, I have to say the EU has taken the administrative state.
	I can't say it.
	Administrative state.
	To an extreme.
	Oh yeah, it's disgusting.
	I mean it's like let's take this idea which the Americans developed and let's institutionalize it.
	It's unbelievable.
	But they're all just hanging out, you know, they go to Malta, they go to Brussels, there's always a different location.
	Because you have found the right balance that the Member States will support and I'm sure that in a few days we will also have the formal decision on the general proposal, on the crisis proposal, and that is very much welcome.
	So just don't worry, we'll have a proposal, a balance.
	You know what that means, don't you?
	Balance.
	That means, hey, Everybody's getting some, and you get some migrants, and you get some migrants, and you get some migrants!
	This step forward for the migration and asylum pact is significant.
	It allows the EU to extend the detention of migrants arriving in the bloc.
	It will also compel members with external borders to deploy more migrant processing centres.
	Don't worry, more is coming.
	You just make more migrant processing centres.
	Everything's okay.
	We're not going to change anything.
	Just have more processing centres so it doesn't look so bad.
	Collectively, that could deter and improve authorities' ability to deal with the huge numbers arriving on Europe's shores this year.
	The move will come as a relief, and not just to those working on the front lines of the crisis.
	German objections had been the last roadblock to progress on the deal.
	Those fell just as the country announced plans to boost checkpoints at its borders with Poland and the Czech Republic.
	Others have already made similar moves.
	After Italy, Slovenia said it was tightening controls at its border with Croatia.
	Now, here's the problem.
	The whole idea behind the European Union, well really two things.
	The most important is the Euro.
	Get rid of your money, you're done.
	We control you because we control your money.
	The second one, no borders.
	Schengen.
	No borders.
	Everybody can cross around, do whatever you want, work in any country.
	And this was the big European promise.
	This was the big dream of, like, the United States of Europe.
	This is what it was.
	And now it's in jeopardy.
	I would like to stress that this is not about establishing internal control, but about reinforced compensatory measures.
	Compensatory measures!
	They just want to get paid!
	Isn't that what that means?
	Compensatory measures?
	Yeah, that's exactly what it means.
	Hey, Joe, it's okay, bring him in, but we just need to get paid.
	Come on, Europe, pay us!
	At risk could be a founding principle of the EU itself.
	The free movement of people inside the Schengen area of the bloc has been described as one of the main achievements of the European project.
	The migrant crisis may have threatened that.
	We are fighting so that the European Union's internal borders can be kept open.
	But we need this European solution, otherwise Schengen is in danger.
	Authorities in Germany alone have recorded more than 204,000 asylum applications this year.
	That's up 78% compared to 2022 and doesn't even include the 1.1 million Ukrainian refugees who fled the war with Russia.
	I forgot that, and the Ukrainian refugees.
	And as we discussed in the last show, this is all a giant United Nations project that's been going on.
	Here, I have another document that I put in the show notes, like that migration replacement document from 2000 in the EU.
	Henry Kissinger, 1974.
	We need to create conditions conducive to fertility decline.
	So we need to... What?
	Yes!
	Where did you get that one?
	This is from his own UN study here.
	For its own merits and consistent with the recommendations... Wait, who published this?
	The UN.
	This UN has got to go.
	For its own merits and consistent with the... This is Henry Kissinger.
	And consistent with the recommendations of the World Population Plan of Action.
	Priority should be given in the general aid program to selective development policies in sectors offering the greatest promise of increased motivation for smaller family size.
	In many cases, pilot programs and experimental research will be needed as guidance for later efforts on a larger scale.
	You know, like sterilizing your kids.
	The preferential sectors include providing minimal levels of education, especially for women, I'll read that again.
	Minimal education levels, especially for women.
	Well, that could be read either way, of course.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Let's assume they mean it in a positive way.
	That's hard for me to do.
	Well, increasing income of the poorest, especially in rural areas, including providing privately owned farms.
	Isn't that kind of the favela idea?
	I think it's more the homestead idea.
	You're taking a negative attitude here.
	I'm sorry, but where is this really coming from?
	You see these boats coming over and this is pretty much the only thing the mainstream media shows that I can find at least.
	This is all NGOs.
	This is all non-governmental organizations.
	And a non-governmental organization gets money, receives money from the government to do certain tasks.
	Austin has a billion-dollar NGO Now there's your exit strategy.
	To resettle migrants, asylum seekers, in the United States.
	Now listen to this.
	I even like the way that title reads.
	The ministers responsible for migration.
	They're responsible for it.
	I even like the way that title reads.
	The ministers responsible for migration.
	They're responsible for it.
	They're not responsible for stopping it.
	No.
	The European ministers, they have ministers whose job it is to bring in migrants.
	European Union ministers responsible for migration gathered to try and hammer out agreement on a proposed migration and asylum pact.
	Discussions yielded no final deal.
	Spain, which currently holds the EU presidency, struck an upbeat tone saying that the talks had underscored the need to tackle the migrant crisis.
	The Pact on Migration is today more than ever a necessary agreement.
	We cannot do without it.
	It is one of our most immediate challenges, which will require flexibility, effort and generosity from all of us.
	I open up for questions.
	The EU's top migration official, Ilva Johansson, was also upbeat, saying an agreement was imminent.
	This woman's a piece of work.
	This is, this is, oh man, you know the hair, you know the jacket she's wearing, you know the jewels she's wearing, and she's, oh, she's upbeat!
	I'm sure that in a few days we will also have the formal decision on the general approach on the crisis proposal, and that is very much a welcome.
	Welcome.
	A clash between Germany and Italy in talks stalled progress.
	One sticking point was over the role of NGO charity ships conducting migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
	So all you have to do is get on a rubber boat, look dangerous, and then you send up the flare, and whoop, here comes the NGO boat.
	Well, don't worry, we'll take you to safety.
	Italy's foreign minister meeting his German counterpart in Berlin spelled out Italian concerns.
	Nobody is waging a war against NGOs.
	We only say, however, that they cannot be, as Frontex said, a sort of magnet to attract irregular migrants, who then, let's say, are always brought to Italy.
	The clock is ticking on sealing a deal that is vital to address the migrant crisis in Europe.
	Officials say an agreement needs to be in place by February with the European elections due in June.
	This with an estimated quarter of a million irregular arrivals in the EU so far this year.
	So they have to get some kind of deal done before the elections?
	Why?
	Because someone else comes in and then they get the NGO money?
	That sounds very suspect.
	It's not good.
	It's interesting.
	These NGOs are the subversive, modern version of a subversive Marxist.
	Not even so subversive.
	No one talks about them.
	No one mentions them by name.
	And then the government pays for it.
	It's like paying for your own demise.
	I'm going to hire a hitman to go after me.
	And this stuff happens all over our own country, where NGOs or non-profits, you know, advertising, whatever you want to call it, they get money from city governments, local municipalities, and they have no incentive at all to solve problems.
	That's one of Austin's big problems.
	We got homeless, now we need another $600 million to solve that problem.
	And what do they do with it?
	Oh, let's go buy hotels.
	Let's stick them in hotels.
	Let's spend it on hotels.
	The hotel thing is phenomenal.
	So now in Los Angeles, even though it's not just irregular migrants, which I think is a great term, the homeless, now Los Angeles has a solution.
	They're not going to buy up hotels.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Here's the, um, what is this outfit?
	The America or the, um, hotel and accommodation.
	organization, the L.A. chapter.
	They have a, not these guys, but the city has a proposal, what to do with homeless and irregular migrants in Los Angeles.
	The fight that we have in Los Angeles is one of the worst public policy ideas, perhaps the worst public policy idea I've ever heard of, And that is to take the homeless population that deserve a serious solution to a serious problem and try to patchwork that problem by placing them in hotels alongside a regular tourist and families and paying guests.
	This sounds great.
	and I'm like, And he's going to tell us why it's great.
	It is a disaster waiting to happen.
	It doesn't help the homeless.
	It would destroy the industry almost overnight.
	I mean, look, consumers have choices.
	Look, they don't have to go to Los Angeles.
	They don't have to go to California.
	They can choose somewhere else.
	But if they want to go to the L.A.
	area, they can simply choose a hotel outside of Los Angeles.
	That's not that difficult.
	No consumer is going to actively make a selection where they know that a homeless population is going to be in the room right next to them or at the swimming pool or in the lobby.
	I mean, these are people, this population that needs help.
	It is a serious issue.
	They need medical professional help.
	Hotel workers are not trained for this.
	And to put them in that type of danger, it is a terrible idea.
	What we know for certain won't work and should never even be proposed is this idea of mixing that population with the regular traveler, the mom and dad that are trying to take their kids on vacation.
	That's just a terrible idea that is dangerous for the guests, but more importantly dangerous for the hotel workers that have to come to work each and every day and try to deal with a situation for which they've never been trained.
	Homelessness is a very serious issue that we all believe should be dealt with in a serious manner.
	This particular proposal is not serious.
	It's very dangerous.
	We certainly want to make sure it stops here in Los Angeles so that no other municipality in the country tries something this dangerous.
	For a better life beyond your freedom, build back better for someone else.
	Hey, how about making it a tourist attraction?
	You too can live next to a homeless.
	Stay at the Hilton.
	Swim with the homeless.
	It's like swimming with the dolphins.
	Swim with the homeless.
	It's like swimming with dolphins.
	Poop in the halls?
	Speaking of poopin', San Diego has a great idea.
	Many downtown public restrooms have been overwhelmed by drug use, people with mental illnesses, and sanitary issues.
	Folks, especially families with young children, don't feel comfortable, and paying $15 for a 15-minute bathroom break makes a lot of sense.
	Hundreds of people have been signing up for the Rest Space app just as it starts to make a name for itself.
	Hosts make 70% of the fee and rest space takes 30.
	So you can rent out your bathroom.
	On an app.
	Oh God.
	So people can poop in your house.
	It's like ride-sharing.
	Yes, poop-sharing.
	Only it's shit-sharing.
	It would have been a great show title if it wasn't.
	Yeah, share your bathroom.
	Poop-share.
	Yeah, it's great.
	I mean, someone's going to have to, at a certain point, someone has to say, hey, I have a cause here.
	My cause is this has to stop.
	This has to stop.
	It's not going to stop.
	Boots on the ground.
	The Biden administration, this is an ice boots on the ground, has turned ICE, ready, into a travel agency.
	They stopped apprehending anyone because they do what they're instructed to do, which was release and often have to facilitate transportation to other states as requested by the detained illegal.
	They've largely just stopped working because they have no authority to do anything to enforce immigration laws, even if they are criminals.
	So ICE is, you know, we were talking about the small town cop who couldn't even get ICE on the phone, just kept getting voicemail.
	Because they're getting paid to sit at a desk, go to the gym, and just wait for the next administration to come in, which may or may not be better.
	You never know.
	Well, it sounds like people are looking for a job.
	That's the place to work.
	Now, if you thought that was bad, the land of ABBA, the land of Spotify, The land of the Swedish chef is falling apart!
	Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has vowed to defeat criminal gangs after a recent surge in violent attacks.
	His comments follow a series of explosions reportedly connected to a gang war.
	The centre-right politician slammed, quote, irresponsible immigration and failed integration.
	On Thursday, Christensen also said he had summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with this unprecedented crime wave.
	On Monday and Tuesday, two powerful blasts ripped through residential buildings in the centre of the country, injuring at least three people, while three others were killed overnight Wednesday in separate attacks.
	Bombings and drive-by shootings have claimed dozens of lives in September alone.
	Two gangs, one led by a Swedish-Turkish geonational who lives in Turkey, the other by his former lieutenant, are reportedly involved in the feud over drugs and weapons.
	It's gang warfare now.
	Just gang warfare.
	In Sweden.
	It sounds right.
	In Sweden.
	You know what?
	It doesn't sound right in Sweden.
	It's all South Sweden, come on.
	Melbourne.
	South Sweden.
	Malmo.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yeah.
	And in New York City, they almost had the right idea.
	You know, we got all these irregular migrants, and I'm just making jokes about it.
	These, of course, are people.
	I mean, we can't stop seeing them as human beings.
	They tried to wash them off the streets!
	It's a historic deluge in the New York City area, which has drenched the locals.
	Heavy rainfall caused significant disruption to communities, public transport, and flooded several basements.
	As authorities scramble, the downpour brought back the memory of Hurricane Ida, which dumped record-breaking rain on the Northeast and killed at least 13 people in the Big Apple in 2021.
	This is not an ordinary rainfall.
	This is historic.
	We are on track to possibly create a new record of 10 inches of rain falling in literally 24 hours.
	The last time we even had this number was in 1955, and that was over a two-day period.
	Wait a minute.
	So did we have climate change in 1955?
	I guess so.
	If you look at the list, this is like number nine on the list of rainfalls in one day in New York.
	Most of them took place in the first decade of the 2000s.
	There's a lot of stuff that goes way back.
	And this is not that big of a deal.
	It happened the way I hear it.
	I have two clips on this.
	Let me finish this because the resident here tells you what the real problem is and I've received several emails.
	I have a thought on the roof.
	I'll just finish this.
	This is Hurricane Ida level water.
	According to the weather and city officials by 2.30 p.m.
	local time as much as 15 centimeters of rain was recorded in several areas.
	Including Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, and John F. Kennedy International Airport.
	The city had been experiencing during the week mostly steady rainfall, which triggered a flash flood in the area.
	As the rain briefly slowed, residents emerged from their homes to take stock of the damage and begin draining the water.
	Now that's what the residents say.
	system from this location.
	So all the rainwater, they are not able to drain out from this area.
	So it's coming into our house.
	Now, that's what the residents say.
	You got no drains working.
	The sewers aren't right.
	But that's not what the news is.
	You know, we are really, really suffering.
	Systems producing more intense rainfalls have become more commonplace in many parts of the United States due to the climate crisis.
	Scientists say more extreme and intense weather patterns are set to become the norm across the globe as the situation gets worse.
	Yes, it's climate change!
	Of course!
	So this happened in 2011?
	It was the storm of the century.
	It was the worst thing ever, and it did the exact same thing to New York, and it was during our show where we remember most of these stories.
	Yes, we're like elephants.
	And they threw tens of millions of dollars at fixing the infrastructure, and I know what happened.
	They stole it.
	The contractor says, hey, that was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
	Nothing's going to happen again in our entire lives.
	Let's just pocket the money and do nothing.
	I think you're right.
	That's exactly what, it's the only excuse because now some of the pictures are fabulous.
	They have this one shot of inside one of the subway stations and water squirting out of those white tiles.
	And this is not a new, I mean, I used to live in New York and New Jersey.
	We got flooding like this.
	We had the subway stations flood.
	I mean, I remember this.
	So they took the money and ran.
	They did nothing.
	Corrupt.
	Corrupt.
	Climate change is the world's greatest excuse to do nothing.
	And I'm going to change my stance.
	Because climate change is 100% man-made.
	Yes.
	I know what you're saying.
	It's 100% man-made.
	For sure.
	I'm all in.
	And by that, of course, you mean this man created the whole idea.
	Of course, created the whole Oaks, yes.
	I got two clips on these floods.
	This is New York City floods one.
	In New York City, up to five inches of rain fell in some areas overnight into Friday, following a week of steady rainfall.
	A flash flood warning was in effect for the city until midday, and Mayor Eric Adams urged people to stay put if possible.
	I am issuing a state of an emergency for New York City.
	Of an emergency.
	Wait.
	State of an emergency.
	It's not a state of emergency, it's a state of an emergency.
	That's right, I'm the mayor!
	I am issuing a state of an emergency for New York City.
	I mean, that alone is like, don't you just think, okay, well, we're screwed!
	We're screwed!
	Based on the weather conditions, I want to say to all New Yorkers, this is time for heightened alertness and extreme caution.
	If you are home, stay home.
	If you are at work or school, shelter in place for now.
	What?
	Shelter in place?
	Shelter in place if you're at school?
	For how long?
	The city reported no storm-related deaths or critical injuries as of Friday afternoon, but the floods caused major disruptions to the city's subway system and the Metro-North commuter rail service.
	The rainfall also shut down Manhattan's FDR Drive and delayed flights at LaGuardia Airport.
	It would have been funner if he said...
	Shelter in place and wear a mask!
	Now that would have been dynamite.
	There are significant portions of the subway system that are shut down.
	We are starting the process of reactivating certain lines, but when water covers the electrified third rail, we have to do inspections so that that will be unfolding slowly.
	The subway is another great piece of infrastructure.
	Some 18 million people in the New York metropolitan area and in other major cities along the East Coast were under flood warnings, watches, and advisories.
	New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.
	So, nobody died.
	It can't be that bad.
	No.
	I got a stepdaughter in Brooklyn.
	She's not calling crying.
	There you go.
	And Brooklyn was supposed to be one of the main places.
	But yeah, this is what happens.
	And especially these airports.
	Come on, look at the location.
	Look at how they're set up.
	Yeah, they're built on a flood plain.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, hello?
	That's because it's a nice flat area.
	That's what you do.
	Well, it's good communication mechanism.
	Climate change.
	Climate change.
	I do have some other kind of, another clip about New York that is, I think, more interesting because I was thinking about it.
	You've been, you lived in New York.
	You've been in New York.
	Sure.
	Everyone who's ever been in New York knows about these garbage, piles of garbage on the street 24-7.
	Sure.
	Well, they're going to finally decide to go to bins, like every other civilized part of the world.
	Like, so we can have the bin police, like in the UK.
	You can have the bin police because of the rats.
	Yeah, rats!
	Now for a story about fighting an all-too-common urban scourge, rats.
	For decades, New Yorkers have thrown out their garbage in plastic... Wait, is this that 342-person station, WNYC, in New York?
	Is that what I'm hearing here?
	Well, it is public broadcasting, so it could be.
	Bags on city sidewalks.
	They haven't used bins.
	Bins?
	Until now.
	City officials are starting to require more hard-sided trash containers.
	Why are we in America using the term bins?
	This is not an American word.
	We don't say dust bin.
	We say trash can.
	You know what I mean?
	Trash container.
	Well, you know, this is interesting as you bring this up.
	This is classic news deconstruction.
	Ah, there you go.
	Here we go.
	Stand by, everybody.
	So I've got bins in the whole East Bay because waste management companies generally runs most of it.
	Yeah, the mob.
	And so they have these bins and the big garbage trucks come by and they grab the bins with the big hook and they pull it over and dump it in.
	Yeah.
	And these things, cans to me, because we used to have garbage cans within memory, garbage cans is a big galvanized can, like a giant can with a lid that Tightly fits, and I think the square things that have a flip lid that get dumped into the truck is a bin.
	I've always thought of it as a bin, but you're right.
	It's not a can.
	Cans have to be made out of metal.
	But we don't typically talk about bins in America.
	Bins is a UK thing.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Some other word, bin, just, it's okay.
	It snuck into the vocabulary.
	There's nothing we can do about it.
	But here in Texas, we will not say bins.
	Oh, you don't say bins.
	You have bins, though.
	No, we, no, no.
	It's a trash.
	You have cans?
	Trash bucket.
	I don't say anything but bins.
	We don't talk about bins.
	They haven't used bins.
	Bins.
	Until now.
	City officials are starting to require more hard-sided trash containers.
	And as Austin Cope reports, they hope it will slow the city's growing rat population.
	It's a Friday night in Manhattan, and Elton Mitchell and I are standing in front of a row of apartments with a big stack of black trash bags out in front.
	You can hear a few very faint, high-pitched squeaks in the background.
	Right now we see just a bunch of garbage that's out there and we see, we hear rats actually making noise.
	Rats?
	Yeah!
	Hanging out?
	Saying hey we're being on the radio too.
	They're doing hip-hop!
	They're actually not quite close enough to the mic.
	They're making a lot of noise which is very scary because if you walk down the block you never know they'll run right across your foot and who wants to get bit by a rat?
	But what does that have to do with the trash bags?
	A lot, because they're inside those bags.
	You're scared to walk by because they're eating whatever's inside the bags.
	So what would you do if you were walking by these bags right now?
	I'd cross the street.
	Who is this expert?
	This expert on rats that they're talking to?
	This is like the expert you had in the last couple of clips.
	That Mexican guy.
	I'm an expert on rats.
	You know, you got garbage, you get rats!
	I walk in the street.
	I do, I walk in the street.
	You know, but then you don't want to cross over to the other side because there's bags on the other side, too.
	This is exactly the kind of thing officials here are hoping to solve.
	New Yorkers put out around 44 million pounds of trash each day.
	Since the late 60s, most of it has gone right onto city sidewalks like this one.
	New Yorker Ocean Thomas says it's no wonder there's so many rats.
	When you visit other towns, right, one of the first things you notice being a native New Yorker is that, wow, this town is so clean, and it doesn't stink.
	And the thing that stands out the most is that, one, the trash is not all over the place, and if it is trash cans that are out, they're contained.
	Now, the city started making people put their waste in bins.
	Now, when I first moved to New York City, that was before we had bins.
	I don't have bins yet.
	No, no bins.
	Yeah, and the trash was just outside, you know, they picked it up at night.
	Beep, beep, there come the trucks, waste management.
	Yeah, made a lot of racket.
	Yeah, the guys from New Jersey, the Sopranos, would pick it up.
	But this was 1987, and New York was a crap hole.
	And we had rats!
	Big ones!
	And you used to walk down the street, Columbus Circle.
	Yeah, you'd see a big rat once in a while.
	Yeah, it'd be rats!
	No, you'd see it all the time.
	It's like this large, cat-sized rat.
	And New York was in severe decline at the time.
	You need, you know, this is, I gotta say it, before Giuliani came in with Mayor Bratton, he cleaned up the crime, Police Chief Bratton cleaned up the crime and cleaned up the city.
	And so, this may be peak rat?
	I don't know.
	You have another clip, so I presume you've got more rat info.
	More on the rats.
	Rats!
	Over the past couple months, large businesses have to do it, and so do restaurants, grocery stores, and other places that serve food.
	Next March, all businesses will have to.
	Private residents don't yet, but officials say more rules are on the way.
	Finding where to put all this garbage isn't necessarily easy.
	Victor Edwards lives in a neighborhood where the city's testing out new containers in the streets.
	No, no, no.
	We put the garbage where we've always put the garbage.
	Staten Island.
	Hello!
	Victor Edwards lives in a neighborhood where the city's testing out new containers in the streets.
	If you look across the street where cars are parked, you will see that it takes up approximately four parking spaces.
	Edwards leads a community board that represents residents' opinions.
	He hopes the city can plan for more than just the pests.
	We definitely want to get rid of rats.
	I'm not saying I want to live with rats.
	But by the same token, I want to take into consideration all the other factors.
	Physically challenged people who have to carry these bags now and lift them up and put them in.
	Our seniors, the same thing.
	And then parking.
	Officials hope to balance out larger bins in the street with smaller ones on the sidewalk.
	But they say there will be some trade-offs.
	Danielle Mills lives in the Bronx and owns a car.
	She's okay with containers in the street, since sometimes people just throw their trash there.
	taking up parking anyway, so I would prefer the bins to be there.
	And I don't have a problem with sacrificing parking to make sure that, you know, we keeping the streets clean and cleared from garbage.
	And for Tamika Jordan, it really gets back to the Rodans.
	No one wants the little Mickey Mouse in their homes.
	I don't.
	I'm very afraid.
	That's not a rat.
	I'm very afraid.
	She hasn't had any at her place, but she's seen some near where she works.
	So as more bins go in, she's glad the rats will have a harder time reaching their next meal.
	I'm just thinking about this logically.
	Living in New York, do you know how many bins you need on the street to... Stop.
	42 million pounds of garbage a day?
	Let me think.
	How many bins does that make?
	Lots of bins.
	A bin business is a day.
	Who makes these bins and invest?
	Or do what European countries have done.
	Like Rotterdam, they went underground.
	So you go outside and there's a chute.
	And you drop your bags down the chute.
	They go, you know, it's a big hole, but it's, you know, you don't see it on the top, just the entrance.
	What if you threw a body in there?
	Oh, yeah, it would be fine.
	And then the truck comes by and it has its own and it pulls this whole huge thing out of the ground and dumps it into the truck.
	That's the way to go.
	Except, you know, if you drill down in New York City, you know, the roads will be falling down.
	God knows what you're going to hit.
	Now this, of course, is one of the big problems with our pollution is waste.
	And the waste is plastic.
	Plastic takes up a lot of space.
	And, you know, and we're just going to replace it with more plastic bins.
	But luckily, scientists have a solution for plastic.
	And I'm very excited about this.
	This is a new ecological breakthrough.
	Plastic pollution is a looming global crisis.
	The world now produces more than 380 million tons of it every year, an amount projected to triple by 2060.
	At a glance, this looks like Oh no!
	What?!
	Oh, no.
	What?
	What?
	Oh, no. no.
	But scientists say the ice cream very much remains a research project, not quite ready for consumption, but rather a starting point to rethink the way we approach plastic waste.
	Perhaps misconception around what it actually is by the end of the process that it is no longer plastic.
	But I think as part of that, it is really important that we take the safety side of it really, really seriously and we make it very clear that this has to go through exactly the same food standard processes as any other food ingredient.
	Yeah.
	It'll be safe and effective.
	Don't worry.
	It's all good.
	Safe and effective recycled plastic vanilla.
	But they give you enzymes so you can dissolve it in your body.
	Oh yeah.
	Electrolytes.
	Now, maybe New York City is bad, but that's nothing compared to France right now.
	We know that France is under attack.
	We know Macron is under attack.
	The French are not playing game, not playing ball.
	They got too many nuclear plants.
	You know, they're just pains in the asses.
	The EU doesn't like them.
	They're tired of him.
	So let's give him something to really, really think about.
	The French government taking the extraordinary step today of rolling out a national plan to stop an invasion.
	An invasion of what appears to be bed bugs infesting the country's biggest city.
	Oh, not the bed bug story again.
	Oh, this is bad.
	Just months before they're supposed to host the Olympics.
	And these bugs are not just in their namesake beds.
	They're in trains.
	In movie theaters.
	They're in the big airport in Paris.
	Look at this.
	You can see here what looks to be a bed bug crawling along the armrest of one of the high-speed trains in France.
	You can imagine, people are just thrilled to see it.
	They love it.
	They do not.
	It stressed me out because this morning I had to take the train and I wondered whether I would find some.
	So I felt a bit hesitant but at the same time I know there are some also in cinemas and somewhat everywhere.
	So I paid close attention when stepping on the train and looked to see if there were any crawlers on my seat.
	Josh Letterman, I'm just going to tell you, I don't know if I'm going to get through this.
	Like, it is, I mean, this is an infestation so bad that the French government is stepping in to fight this battle.
	Like, what is the plan here?
	Yeah, I'm so glad that we're talking about this on a Friday Night Howie.
	I'm never going to be able to fall asleep tonight, so thank you so much for that.
	But seriously, this is a crisis for the country.
	the French government because this is the kind of thing that normally households deal with at the family level.
	It's not the kind of thing that governments are used to dealing with.
	And so they really have to figure out quickly how to get their hands around this.
	And they're focusing first off on the transportation system, because that's really where you have high density of people, heavily trafficked areas where this kind of thing can really start to spread very quickly.
	Now, I think this is sabotage because it didn't start like in New York.
	Totally.
	In New York they had, you know, hotel bed bug problem.
	We reported on that years ago.
	No, that was the entire country.
	There was problems in San Francisco.
	They also talked about bed bugs in the theater.
	It was major, major stories.
	We have clips still in the archives.
	I could maybe dig some up for the next show.
	Talking about the bed bugs.
	That's all they talked about.
	Well, no, it's Democrat cities is what you're saying.
	That's what I'm hearing here.
	But you are right.
	The theatres.
	This is sabotage and it started in the theatres.
	The UTC cinemas had initially ignored reports of bedbugs.
	However, it made a U-turn after customers threatened to boycott its cinema halls.
	The chain has admitted that bed bugs are present in at least some of its cinemas.
	It published a statement saying that it was sincerely sorry for all the victims of bed bug bites.
	However, the cinema says that there are no grounds for compensating victims.
	The statement further underlines that the scourge of bedbugs concerns all public places, along with private homes in France.
	Bedbugs have been discovered this year in theaters, hospitals and prisons in France.
	Prisons?
	They were also found in the Mercedes underground network.
	A recent report by the French government said that bedbugs had spread to about 11% of French households and were causing sleep loss, mental health problems and absenteeism.
	This is good.
	This is gonna bring down their economy!
	Well if they keep promoting it, I mean bedbugs are, bedbugs are not hard to stop.
	Bentonite and the spread around households and corners and stuff, it kills them all because they can't walk across it.
	And then if you own the theater, Why wouldn't you have already sprayed it with malathion a number of times to get any kind of critter out of there and nobody's going to know?
	I don't know.
	It's not going to poison this whole thing.
	You're right.
	This is some sort of a setup that's being done for a reason by someone.
	Well, the Olympics.
	The Olympics was the key part in the first report.
	The Olympics are just months away.
	And it's in France.
	Paris, I think.
	Yeah, it's Paris.
	It's in Paris.
	Yeah, this is some sort of a program.
	Can you imagine you have the Olympics, you spend hundreds of billions of euros on setting up your venues and getting everybody ready, and the whole world goes, nope, not gonna go.
	I'm not going.
	Bedbugs.
	Bedbugs.
	I'm not going.
	Hey, they could turn them into a snack.
	Take too many of them.
	I guess if you had a kind of maybe a like a popsicle stick coated in honey and then you roll the bed bugs on them so you eat like, you know, get to eat a lot at once.
	I wonder if they're edible.
	Then dip it in chocolate.
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	There's something up with this.
	Yeah, I agree.
	It's like an extortion plot of some sort.
	Somebody did this.
	They don't like Macron.
	I mean, and I think, you know, of all the problems in France, this could get the French mad enough to kick him out.
	All right, we're sick of you now.
	We got bedbugs.
	We got irregular migrants.
	We got bedbugs.
	We lost our ass on the Olympics, which they always do anyway.
	Every country, yeah, every country loses out on that.
	It's never good.
	It's never good.
	Yes, it's amazing they get suckered into doing it time and again.
	There's got to be unbelievable amounts of bribery involved in the Olympic program system.
	So here's a question, because it doesn't make any sense, and you predicted something else would happen.
	I'm not blaming you, I'm not calling you out, but we were in Houston, gas was $3.79.
	$3.79 for gas.
	$379.
	I'm sorry, $379. $379 for gas.
	And here, in Fredericksburg, we're paying $460, $470.
	But California?
	Residents of California, they are already feeling the squeeze.
	Gas prices causing major pain at the pump.
	ABC's Derek Dennis joins us now with some efforts to change that.
	Derek, good morning.
	We're talking over $8 a gallon.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely, Janae.
	$8 a gallon for regular unleaded.
	That's the staggering price in some areas of California.
	And drivers are frustrated.
	Parking their cars or feeling forced to just pay up.
	The national average, about $3.82 a gallon.
	California's average, more than $6 a gallon if you're lucky, but topping $8 a gallon if you're not.
	Prices up 80 cents across California in just the last month.
	And here's why.
	Gas prices are tied to the global oil market, where it's all about supply and demand.
	Oil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia have been cutting back on supply, driving up oil prices.
	So what's being done?
	Governor Gavin Newsom approving a short-term fix, transitioning the state to using a cheaper winter blend of fuel, while Republicans want to suspend the state's gas tax, saving 58 cents on the gallon.
	Now, you know a lot about this stuff.
	You know a lot about the winter blends.
	You know a lot about the oil and gas industry in general.
	What is going on?
	Why is oil so expensive?
	Is it even that expensive?
	Is it 90?
	It's 90, but which, you know, it doesn't mean it should be 750 a gallon for gas.
	Around my area, it's 650, which is kind of high.
	It's still high.
	Yeah, it's really high.
	I think it's a gouge being done, I think it's somehow being orchestrated, and I think it all has to do with trying to get Biden out.
	Well, this was a very interesting report that I heard.
	What you're saying there may be true.
	Listen to this.
	A report from the California Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.
	They found an unusual spot market transaction that led to gas prices skyrocketing.
	And we know that 50 cents of it was as a direct result of one spot market transaction.
	Is it the oil companies and the refineries doing this, that one single transaction, or was it?
	We don't know.
	State Representative Mike Levin sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking them to investigate the transaction.
	Because we're fed up with these oil companies and market manipulation and price gouging, and we need for the Federal Trade Commission to work with the state of California to investigate, get to the bottom of it, and hold those to account if anything is going wrong.
	So a spot trade.
	So someone did a trade which had some bogus, bogus price in there.
	Yeah.
	That'll do it.
	Well, for short term it will.
	It's enough to get everyone irked.
	But there's something up with this, uh, some of the stuff going on with getting, getting rid of Biden.
	I've noticed this.
	I don't have any clips on this.
	I have, uh... I do have a couple.
	I do want to play some Biden clips, though.
	He was in California.
	Yeah.
	Yay!
	You have a clip.
	You have a special clip we've been holding on to.
	I do?
	Yeah, you do.
	You have the Biden clip about him and LL Cool LL Jay.
	Oh, I, uh...
	We played it after the show.
	You didn't play it on the show.
	No, I also didn't... I didn't clip it.
	I had... No, you played it to me.
	I played it from the YouTube, I think.
	Oh, well, let's play Biden in California mumbling.
	President Biden visits California for a two-day trip.
	He attended several private fundraisers in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday evening before making his way down the peninsula on Wednesday.
	We're in a situation where we used to have a significant portion of our GDP going into research and development, and it got down to 0.7% from 2%.
	Biden's remarks came as he met with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
	Speakers said they will report on recommendations on medical patient safety and experience, as well as possibilities and risks of artificial intelligence, They want to use it to predict weather extremes as climate change, create materials, and understand the origins of the universe.
	Wait a minute!
	We need AI now?
	To validate this stuff that has been going on?
	Biden's visit and fundraiser events come as Congress continues to grapple with an impending government shutdown on October 1st.
	Both houses are unable to agree on budget bills.
	But Biden told reporters during his California visit, I don't think anything's inevitable in politics.
	And I'll just say, if we have a government shutdown, a lot of vital work in science and health could be impacted from cancer research to food safety.
	Oh, shut up.
	Now, I clipped a subclip already, Mom.
	Tell me what he says here.
	Subclip.
	I don't think anything's inevitable.
	Oh, I can hear it.
	He says, I don't think anything's inevitable.
	And that's true.
	I have the clip.
	I have the clip.
	During the Congressional Black Caucus Phoenix Awards.
	Yes.
	That's the one you're talking about.
	Two of the great artists of our time representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America, LLJ Cool J. By the way, that boy's got, that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs.
	That boy.
	Yeah, that boy.
	Boy, oh boy.
	All right, Joe.
	He's got biceps, you know, he's bred that way.
	They make them like that on the cotton farms.
	Isn't that exactly what he sounds like?
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	You know, um, Newsom... Let me see if I have this here.
	Newsom, who is, he's, you know, he's making moves.
	Newsom's making moves.
	He's trying.
	So they raise the minimum wage for...
	Fast food workers in California.
	Here's a quick clip.
	California is raising the minimum wage for fast food workers.
	They'll soon be paid $20 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the country.
	The governor says the increase acknowledges that many fast food workers are their family's primary breadwinners.
	There's a lot of mythology about fast food.
	You know, Johnny used to learn the value of hard work.
	You know, he'd work a few hours in his first job.
	That's not the case, folks.
	That's a romanticized version of a world that doesn't exist.
	We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice.
	And stabilize an industry.
	About half a million workers will be affected by the increase.
	Critics say the wage hike will place a bigger burden on both businesses and consumers.
	So now I'm watching this take place.
	I'm watching this Newsom announce this.
	And this has nothing to, this was a reparations move.
	It was like, it was literally like Newsom is saying, I'm giving you reparations, and it was received that way.
	A victory for hundreds of thousands of people across the state of California.
	Boy, these were some tough mountains!
	For some, the new bill, which raises the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour, feels like righting a historic wrong.
	This is for my grandmother, my great-grandmother, Johnny Tegels, my grandmother, Bobby Pittman, and for my children.
	This is for my ancestors.
	This is for all the farm workers, all the cotton pickers.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom said the bill is a recognition of the fact that a majority of fast food workers are breadwinners.
	80% of the workforce in these fast food places, 80% are people of color.
	Two-thirds are women.
	We have the opportunity to reward that contribution, reward that sacrifice.
	And stabilize an industry in turn.
	I mean, come on!
	That's interesting.
	That was not played up here at all.
	This was France 24.
	That's where it came from.
	All the cotton pickers!
	My ancestors!
	What?
	Were your ancestors working at... So somebody working at McDonald's flipping burgers is a reparation for cotton picking?
	That's... and... yes!
	That was a good one, if they pull that off.
	But listen, listen, because there was a quid pro quo.
	There's more.
	There is, there's a quid pro quo.
	What a remarkable moment.
	Labor and business groups negotiated long and hard over the deal.
	In exchange, unions agreed to drop their efforts to make fast food corporations liable for the misdeeds of their independent franchise operators in California.
	See?
	So McDonald's... But they got out of what?
	What scam was going on?
	What was that all about?
	I think McDonald's was under, you know, and all the other ones, I'll just use McDonald's, were under pressure for the misdeeds of the franchisees.
	So if the franchisee was underpaying a black person... So they were going to go after the deep pockets of the McDonald's corporate.
	Yes, yes.
	And so now the state said, no, can't do that.
	Exactly.
	They sewed up some deep pockets is what they did.
	Good work.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, the whole thing's a scam.
	you You can't just brush it off like that, just say the whole thing's a scam!
	Well, that's no good.
	I sure can!
	Well, okay, then while we're on this... And by the way, stop for a second.
	Yes, I'm stopping.
	I will back up, because you kind of glossed it over, you shot through it like, you know, like a prune through a duck.
	Yeah, you were condemning me for the fact that I had predicted that after the holiday that the gas prices would drop like a rock, which they normally do, and they didn't.
	So I was wrong.
	I think you've admitted that more than once already.
	But I didn't say it to say you're wrong.
	It's like, this is different because you typically are correct in these matters.
	So, something else happened, and that's why... Yeah, you did find that there's something else, which we haven't gotten to the bottom of.
	Well, no, what you're saying, it's a Biden thing, is to make Biden look bad.
	I think it's to get rid of Biden.
	I'm seeing more and more of these little idiosyncratic, small little touches here and there, and it all looks like anti-Biden stuff.
	I think, and this latest thing with the impeachment inquiries and some of the new stuff coming out, It's pretty damning and they don't know what to do about it except oh no there's no evidence that's not working.
	Now before we go there, you know what I'm missing?
	We can wait on that.
	You know what I'm missing?
	Dianne Feinstein.
	So she passes away.
	And the only thing that I'm seeing is, oh, yo, who's Newsom going to replace it with?
	We're going to do it.
	Where are the retrospectives of her life?
	I mean, her politics may not have been in agreement with mine, but she was a force to be reckoned with.
	Wasn't she mayor?
	Of San Francisco.
	She was cute when she was young.
	If you look at the pictures, she was cute.
	Yeah, she was cute.
	Good-looking woman.
	She had an amazing career.
	Shouldn't they have this on the shelf?
	Shouldn't they have been ready to, like, honor her?
	Have you seen anything of this sort?
	Yeah, a couple of things here and there.
	They're minor.
	They weren't the big deals.
	Mostly what I've seen is testimonials.
	Oh, she was a great gal.
	And she was like our friend.
	You know, she'd come over to dinner once in a while when she was in town with her husband.
	You know, that kind of thing.
	And of course, you know, we should do the retrospective.
	We should have put one together about her and the fact that she was an apologist for the Chinese government and she encouraged government trade.
	She made millions and millions of dollars off the Chinese back.
	That she had a chauffeur who was a Chinese spy.
	This is my favorite.
	These are old clips from, let me see, this is from 2019.
	We're gonna go in and share this letter, and we're gonna do it all together.
	Share it in front of Feinstein.
	We're asking her to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
	We are trying to ask you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
	Remember when the kids came into her office and like, hey, we want you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.
	Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.
	Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years.
	What we can do... Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the people who are going to be living with the consequences.
	So the kids are pleading, please, Senator Feinstein, please save our souls!
	I was elected by almost a million vote plurality.
	And I know what I'm doing.
	So, you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
	I hear what you're saying, but we're the people who voted you.
	You're supposed to listen to us.
	No, there were a bunch of kids.
	I'm 16, I can't vote.
	By the way, stop.
	She literally says that.
	You stepped on it, but... Well, okay, we're going to go back, but she said, because you're going to go back to play this again.
	We're the people that voted you?
	That's what the teacher says?
	I don't know what you're saying, but we're the people who voted you.
	Yeah, that's a 16-year-old.
	You're supposed to listen to us.
	That's your job.
	How old are you?
	I'm 16.
	I can't vote.
	Well, you didn't vote for me.
	It doesn't matter.
	We're going to be the ones who are impacted.
	I understand that.
	I have seven grandchildren.
	I understand it very well.
	Senator, the cost of not taking this action is far higher than the cost of what the Green New Deal will be.
	And there is enormous popularity for this bill around the whole country.
	And we're asking you to be brave and do this for us and for your grandchildren.
	And the thing is, they did it.
	We got the Green New Deal.
	It's called the Inflation Reduction Act.
	Yeah, that's the Green New Deal.
	And it just made inflation worse.
	It made inflation worse and it hasn't done anything.
	And here is our favorite Noah Jindal soundbite.
	And her head is gone.
	That's the Diane we know.
	And her head is gone.
	That's the one we all know and love.
	That's the Diane we want a retrospective of.
	No, I'm not going to get it.
	But yeah, she was the big pro-Chinese.
	She was also the one that was spied upon by the CIA directly, even though she at the time was the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
	And she got all bent out of shape about it because she found out, if you remember, this is during that era where they had the torture report that they wouldn't release and she wanted it released.
	And so then they, just as a retrospect, She wanted it released.
	They wouldn't release the torture report.
	Then they said, okay, we'll put the torture report in one of those closed skiffs or whatever they are.
	And people can go in and look at it if they want to read it, if they're members of the committee.
	And then so then that's when the Republicans turned it over and got the Senate back in the day.
	Got the Senate back and this guy, I think his name was Burns or whoever his name was, the guy who was the head of Burr, maybe.
	Was the Republican head of the Senate Intelligence Committee and he said, I don't want to look at it!
	Yeah.
	And he refused to look at it.
	Because he's a, I guess, you know, the CIA told him not to because it was like restricted.
	But whatever the case, this is pathetic.
	This whole situation, this government of ours.
	Well, gets better.
	The F-35 op, which I call an op, I said it resembled Top Gun 2 so closely, where Cruz ejects.
	It's a weird thing, just like the 9-1-1 call of this top pilot.
	And then the next scene is Ed Harris saying, son, Maverick, you're out.
	You're yesterday's news.
	We're working on planes that don't need pilots.
	Well, wouldn't you know, not even 18 hours after we played that clip and discussed it, here is a video brand new, brand new on the YouTubes from the Air Force Research Labs.
	Our senior leaders have been clear and direct in saying we're dealing with new technology and we're dealing with a new threat.
	We need to go fast in determining the competitive advantage of autonomy and how to ultimately operationalize autonomy for the warfighter.
	We are trying to figure out how to integrate artificially trained neural networks trained in a simulation.
	How to integrate those into the real world.
	In this case, integrate them into controlling an airplane.
	We need to recognize that AI is here.
	It's here to stay.
	It's a powerful tool.
	Collaborative Combat Aircraft and that type of autonomy is revolutionary and will be the future of Battlespace.
	Yeah, Battlespace!
	Future Battlespace!
	Autonomous planes in the future Battlespace!
	So we have boots on the ground in the air, yes?
	Yeah, no.
	We have boots on the ground.
	You got a note, yeah.
	We have the boots on the ground, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and I'm not going to, and we got a lot more than we can discuss.
	Uh, in the systems directorate, dealing specifically with autonomy and air systems.
	Yes, the military wants self-flying planes, but it's going to take many, many years because every single one of these, this is our government, this is our military industrial complex.
	They want this, but oh, we can't make that happen fast because every single one of the systems are made of different solutions.
	That have been developed by different directorates, reads different contractors, and are at different stages of completion.
	There's no agreed-upon spec for interface or communication between any of the systems.
	So, it's a boondoggle.
	But they created a cool video.
	Get everybody all excited about it.
	It's a boondoggle.
	It's a boondoggle.
	It is.
	It is.
	It's a super boondoggle.
	Well, it's because you don't have people with technical enough skills at the top that can say, hey, no, you got to do it this way.
	No, we can't have these.
	No, just develop.
	Just no.
	Just no.
	The classic, just no would be great, but the classic trick would be IBM's technique of doing two, no more than two, parallel developments and then picking one.
	Uh, they would do this, that's how the PC came about.
	Please.
	Oh, is that, that's how the PC came about?
	Yeah.
	You know, you called me a Luddite the other day on the show.
	Oh, has that finally gotten, do you remember?
	Well, I heard it, but then I was like, Chad GPT, what is a Luddite?
	What is a Luddite?
	And this stems from, um, The textile era.
	The jacquard weave.
	The lace frames, I guess.
	Yeah, right.
	Where, um...
	So they're bringing in the automated looms.
	Is that what you'd call them?
	Jacquard, I believe, is the product.
	And, you know, kids' arms were getting chopped off and stuff who were working in there.
	So they say.
	But then they went in and they busted up all of the machines.
	They broke them all.
	Yeah, they threw a wrench in the works.
	Oh, is that where that comes from?
	A wrench in the works?
	I believe so.
	The Luddites.
	Yeah, these people are called... I don't know why the word Luddite stems from some guy named John Ludd or something.
	I'm not sure.
	But I don't remember.
	I didn't look it up.
	But yeah, there's the people that... General Ludd.
	Push back.
	They're people that push back against what was going on.
	And I think they were justified.
	You should have taken it as a compliment.
	I do now, now that I've seen it.
	By the way, while I was looking around, Do you know where the word algorithm comes from?
	No, I don't, to say the truth.
	No, no.
	It is, it is a word that was shaped after a Persian mathematician who first came up with the idea of these rules-based mathematics, and his name sounds like algorithm.
	It's like, something like that.
	But then, then when I'm messing around, I look up algos.
	The Greek word for algos ...is literally pain and suffering.
	I thought that was... That is interesting.
	...kind of poetic, in a way.
	Yeah, that's kind of our show in a nutshell.
	Pain and suffering.
	Yeah.
	So anyway... We're talking about pain and suffering.
	Yes.
	Nice transition.
	I have some clips on the RFK Junior Op.
	Ooh, I have an email!
	Oh, well, I wonder if the clips should be... Well, I think the clips should go and then the email.
	Okay, yeah, sure.
	Let's do this.
	It's a three-parter.
	It's actually two-parter plus a kicker.
	The kicker is only seven seconds, but there's two parters.
	But he's opened up a headquarters and he's taking it very seriously and he's... I think we're at the beginning of stage two.
	RFK Jr.' 's campaign appears to be gaining momentum.
	His team just opened up a new headquarters in New Jersey.
	There, the presidential candidate explained how he'll help Americans and quote, drain the swamp.
	NDD's Jason Perry attended the grand opening.
	I believe that President Trump wanted to drain this off, but he just didn't know how.
	I know how to do it.
	Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democratic presidential candidate, spoke at his newly opened campaign office in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
	And he said this about Trump.
	And he appointed Scott Gottlieb, Pfizer's partner, business partner, to run the FDA.
	And Gottlieb went in there and did an $88 billion favor for Pfizer.
	Then RFK Jr.
	explained how he knows how to, quote, drain the swamp.
	I've brought over 500 forces of these companies.
	I've sued all of these agencies.
	I've sued DOT.
	I've sued FCC.
	I've sued USDA.
	I've sued EPA, NIA, CDC, FDA, all of them.
	And when you sue them, you get a PhD in how to unravel corporate capture.
	Corporate capture is a term which refers to regulatory agencies being built.
	Dominated or influenced by the industries they are supposed to regulate.
	And he explained how the relationship between the US military and the defense industry, also known as the military-industrial complex, has affected average Americans.
	Wow.
	What station called it the Military Industrial Complex?
	What station was that?
	NTD.
	Oh, okay.
	No wonder.
	No American station would do that.
	No, you can't anymore.
	So he's got the... I thought it was interesting that what he's doing is he's stealing Trump's thunder for Drain the Swamp, saying that, you know, it's a great idea, but Trump couldn't do it, I can.
	Which, in other words, he's got... No, Trump's no good.
	And then he has some comment about Gottlieb, how Trump got suckered the way it's implied that he got suckered into putting this guy in as the head of the CDC or whatever it was at the time, or FDA, I can't remember.
	FDA.
	Yeah, FDA.
	But yeah, FDA.
	And then so he's so it's interesting.
	He's he's complimenting Trump for the ideas, but he can't he's not no good at implementation, whereas I am because that's what I've been doing as a lawyer.
	A very interesting trick, it's well thought out.
	Which to me fits right in with the idea Trump wins, Kennedy becomes Attorney General.
	That, I can't put, I have no evidence that you're wrong.
	Uh, at all.
	So I can't argue against you.
	Part two.
	He also highlighted the war in Ukraine, noting that by March of this year, the US had approved $113 billion in aid to Ukraine.
	And that same month, by the way, we cut Medicare in this country.
	We cut 30 million people, 15 million people from Medicare, and we cut 30 million people, 30 million Americans food stamps from $283 a month to $23 a month.
	Try feeding yourself on $23 a month.
	Kennedy also pointed out in that same month the government provided a $300 billion bailout to banks.
	And then he explained what he's going to do for Americans, given that over the past two years, housing prices have gone up significantly and mortgage interest rates have more than doubled from about 3% to 7%.
	As I've said before, We kicked off the great prosperity in this country, that 50 years that, you know, economists and social scientists, we became the richest country on earth.
	We started it with a housing boom.
	And as soon as I get into office, I'm going to launch another housing boom.
	I'm going to issue a new class of mortgages for 3%.
	I'm going to finance that by selling Treasury bills at 3%.
	I don't like his plan.
	It doesn't sound good.
	What doesn't sound good about it?
	his economic plan here in his newly opened New Jersey campaign headquarters.
	And he stayed after his speech to take selfies with everyone.
	I don't like his plan.
	It doesn't sound good.
	But it doesn't sound good about it.
	He says he's going to sell bonds at 3%, which is kind of below every other bond.
	Well, it's tax-free, though.
	That's a big difference.
	And he's going to create loans at a 3% rate.
	Yeah.
	Which it just was a few years ago by itself.
	Yeah, right.
	I mean, why don't we stop?
	Why don't we put a cap on the debt?
	Price controls.
	Price controls, yes.
	You like it?
	You think it's a good idea?
	I'm asking.
	I don't know if it's a good idea or not.
	I haven't really tried to figure out whether it is.
	I like the market doing its own thing, personally.
	Yeah.
	But the op is complete because now we know NTDs.
	You're talking about regulatory capture?
	Mm-hmm.
	This is a little sub clip here, a little clip at the end.
	Tell me NTD's not in on the op.
	If you want to watch Kennedy's full speech, you can visit NTD.com.
	Jason Perry, NTD News, New Jersey.
	This is NTD.
	So they're the front op, the front news organization for the op.
	We'll keep an eye on that.
	Someone's got to do it.
	Somehow I wound up on the email list for all the Zoom calls of Kennedy.
	What is it?
	It's called People for Kennedy.
	So this is his ground game.
	I wonder how you got on that list.
	I didn't get on it.
	And it's, you know, they're very Yeah, exactly.
	Somebody put you on it.
	And here's the latest.
	To the fearless believers, passionate change makers, and motivated citizens who make up People for Kennedy, while we had placed our outreach on a bit of a hold as we were waiting for our candidate and the campaign to make some critical decisions, it looks like planning behind the scenes for an independent run was the exact right call.
	Yes!
	Our People for Kennedy leadership team has been busy behind the scenes preparing for the independent run.
	And there's a call today, 4 p.m.
	Pacific.
	Now do we know that this is official or is this off the books?
	Does this Kennedy has anything to do with this?
	Do we know?
	We don't know.
	But there's a lot of people who apparently are on these calls and and you know I I I think there's still a flair for the DNC saying, hey, you know, I'm pretty serious about this independent, uh, independent party.
	If, if you don't let me in, if you don't, uh, don't play fair with me, this may be a last ditch, you know, like a last, last call.
	Like, come on.
	I don't think it's the last call, but it's definitely a shot across the bow.
	Well, they're saying that it's coming a week earlier than they thought it would be.
	People4Kennedy.com.
	Let me see.
	People4Kennedy.com.
	Number four.
	Let me see.
	People number four Kennedy.com.
	Hmm.
	It must be just a bunch of groupies.
	I'm not sure.
	Or it could be the Republicans, who knows?
	Speaking of, so while I don't, I don't, I really don't know what's happening.
	While Kennedy is doing that, saying, you know, I'm going to take down, I'm going to sue the CDC and the FDA and the EPA and the FBI, and I'm going to restructure the CIA.
	Here's Trump, here's Trump in California at the GOP convention.
	And we will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft.
	Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store.
	I mean, what is this?
	Why is he doing this?
	He's a genius.
	Do you think that's genius?
	He got a lot of attention from everybody and their sister.
	And he got a big round of applause at the convention.
	And it's funny.
	Unless you're the one stealing.
	Well, don't steal.
	You won't get shot.
	Yeah, but that's... When the people with the umbrellas during the George Floyd Gambit, when they broke the windows on all the stores, that's what kicked it off.
	I mean, I talked to Mo about this.
	He says, this is not going to, this is not going to subside.
	It's only going to get worse.
	Only going to get worse.
	You know, did you see Philadelphia earlier in the week?
	Yeah.
	I mean, that was a mess.
	The looting.
	And it was for another person shot.
	And then, you know, there's instigators.
	Don't use any excuse.
	There's instigators.
	There's all kinds of stuff going on.
	This was something from Trump's speech that I thought was quite funny.
	They're taking a shower.
	They're told to hurry up.
	You're only allowed a small amount of water when they take a shower.
	That's why rich people from Beverly Hills, generally speaking, don't smell so good, you know?
	Typically.
	You ever notice an earthquake?
	Their hygiene is not good, but it's forced to be that way.
	So when you meet somebody with a beautiful house in Beverly Hills, you know that person is sort of disgusting underneath.
	See that I like, that's good.
	That's a rewrite of his old material about the not enough water comes out, you can't wet your hair.
	But what's interesting is it actually falls in line into a weird way with the World Economic Forum, the new messaging for climate change.
	And there's this woman, what is her name?
	She is, let me see, I have her here.
	She is Mariana Mazzucato and she is a climate, she's an agenda contributor.
	There you go.
	So she's in marketing.
	And she's complaining about how they sucked at getting everybody in the world vaccinated.
	And we have to have different messaging for climate change now.
	That's also, of course, true with COVID, right?
	We are all only as healthy as our neighbor is on our street, in our city, in our region, in our nation and globally.
	Did we solve that?
	Did we actually manage to vaccinate everyone in the world?
	No.
	So highlighting water as a global commons and what it means to work together and see it both out of that kind of global commons perspective but also the self-interest perspective because it does have that parallel.
	It's not only important but it's also important because we haven't managed To solve those problems, which had similar attributes.
	And water is something that people understand.
	Climate change is a bit abstract.
	Some people understand it really well.
	Some understand it a bit.
	Some just don't understand it.
	Water.
	Every kid knows how important it is to have water.
	When you're playing football and you're thirsty, you need water.
	So, there's also something about really getting citizen engagement around this and really, in some ways, experimenting with this notion of the common good.
	Can we actually deliver this time in ways that we have failed miserably other times?
	And hopefully we won't keep failing on the other things, but anyway.
	You know this kind of woman.
	Ugh.
	Ugh.
	The worst.
	Yes.
	But we failed miserably.
	Did we actually, were we able to vaccinate every person in the world?
	Wow.
	So climate change, ugh, people don't care about climate change.
	Just say, you're not going to have any water!
	That's what she's saying!
	Yeah.
	She's a creep.
	They should hire the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
	We know how to do it.
	We could definitely do better than her.
	So... Well, I've got a kind of a tribute series of clips that might be worth playing now.
	A tribute?
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I like tributes.
	This is a tribute to the Moms for Liberty.
	Really?
	How are they doing?
	You know, when I'm mayor of Fredericksburg, I'm going to let them run the city.
	That's my plan.
	That's my platform.
	That's right, which we've talked about off mic.
	There's calls for me to run for mayor.
	There's actual calls.
	I'm calling for it.
	I just do a podcast with you every morning.
	You say, hey, how's it going in Fredericksburg?
	Well, let me tell you, John.
	Hello, caller.
	Yeah, my trash didn't get picked up.
	Oh, okay.
	Take care.
	That is kind of the drawback to the job.
	Where's my bin?
	They stole my bin.
	All right, Moms for Liberty.
	I like Moms for Liberty.
	Oh no, what's happening?
	And so they had the head of the Moms for Liberty on, I believe this was NTD.
	Is this the national chapter?
	Because they have chapters, it's all individual chapters.
	Yeah, but this is the national.
	Okay, all right.
	And I think this is worth, there's a three-part clip, and I think it's worth listening to what she has to say.
	Is there a connection between the Justice Department's targeting of a parental advocacy group and the Southern Poverty Law Center's designating one prominent group as extremist?
	We speak with a co-founder of Moms for Liberty about the many challenges facing parents who want a stronger voice in their children's education.
	Tiffany Justice, thank you so much for joining us.
	Thank you for having me today.
	I really appreciate it, Tiffany.
	To begin, the Heritage Foundation is suing the FBI and DOJ on your behalf.
	Moms for Liberty, what are they trying to find out here?
	Yeah, we're trying to find out, is the SPLC talking about Moms4Liberty, about me and the co-founder Tina Deskovich with the Biden administration?
	And it seems like the answer is yes.
	Apparently they have something to hide because they haven't replied to any of their requests for information.
	And why do you suspect that the FBI, DOJ, or the Biden administration is acting on the SPLC's behalf?
	You know, when COVID hit, parents had a lot of questions, right?
	Their schools were shut down and they were speaking out.
	They were very concerned about what they were seeing taught to their children.
	And they asked a lot of questions.
	And I think what we saw was a reaction by the Teachers Union, the National School Board Association to go to the DOJ, right, and to instigate some action on the Biden administration to protect them.
	The truth is, only 3 in 10 children in America are reading on grade level, and I have to be honest, I think it's something that the education-industrial complex really wants to hide.
	Wow, there was a lot in there.
	So, who's suing who?
	Well, the Moms for Liberty are suing for information regarding the fact that they were put on a terrorist watch list.
	And they believe it's because of the Southern Poverty Law Center who doesn't like them.
	Oh, well the Southern Poverty Law Center are douchebags.
	Of course that's what happens.
	We know that, but not everybody knows that.
	Not everybody knows that.
	Because they have such a cool name, Southern Poverty Law Center, the good people.
	I mean, that's like one hour cleaner.
	Exactly.
	By the way, I like the fact that this woman's name is Tiffany Justice.
	It's a good name.
	It's a great name.
	It's a good DJ name.
	Hey everybody, Tiffany Justice in the morning.
	Here's the weather.
	Yeah, it's a good morning zoo name.
	It's a good WWE name.
	And now, Tiffany Justice!
	Tiffany Justice!
	And so, what has been the fallout on your group, especially after the SPLC added your group to this hate and extremism report?
	Yeah, they put a target on the backs of American moms and dads and there are people citing the SPLC designation and trying to use it to hurt us, to cancel us, to dox us, to shut us down, to threaten us, to justify violence in many times being suggested and it's concerning to us and you know we know what the SPLC designation has done with other groups in the past and there's no doubt that it was meant to try to damage our reputation and our ability to be Americans and to have our voice heard which is our constitutional right.
	And Tiffany, I want to cite something you wrote.
	So you said that exercising our free speech rights to attend public school board meetings that decide how our public schools operate is not extremism, it is American.
	So how does the criticism that you all have received kind of reflect society's changing view on parents' goals in their children's education?
	The idea that parents getting involved in their children's education is somehow anti-government or extremist is just ridiculous.
	American parents want to have their voice heard at that very local level, and we endorsed in over 500 school board races in 2022, and over 275 candidates were elected to school board office.
	And 76% of those, Tiffany, were first-time candidates.
	So what you see is a whole new group of people getting involved in American politics, and I think it's making the people in power very, very scared.
	This is exactly what they're doing, because, you know, it is the Moms for Liberty people who are like, yeah, you should be mayor.
	Come on, come on, you can do it.
	Yeah, they're political activists.
	But I think this is not a good idea.
	You know, you want your message to not be, oh, they're doxing us.
	That's what's going to happen.
	You need to go into, you need to carry firearms.
	You know, they need to get more radical, I think.
	And as we head into this 2024 election season, education has become a huge issue for all sides.
	It's just a thought.
	It's just a thought.
	I think it's the third part.
	Yeah.
	And as we head into this 2024 election season, education has become a huge issue for all sides.
	What do you see as the solution here?
	More parents getting involved, more community conversations happening.
	We just had a town hall in Montgomery County, Maryland.
	We had Jewish parents, Christian parents, Mormon parents, Muslim parents coming together to talk about how we move forward to protect our kids.
	Unifying parents around parental rights is what's going to save this country.
	At Moms4Liberty, we believe that, and we're going to keep bringing parents together across the country.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	Now, of course, she mentions all these different religious groups, but they're all parents.
	This is happening worldwide.
	There is a trend, and this is a clip that I got last week.
	This is Belgium.
	Belgium, of all places.
	Listen to what's going on there and see if you can find the common theme.
	Since the start of the school year, these five letters have ignited tensions in Belgium.
	EVRAS, the French acronym meaning Education in Relational, Emotional, and Sexual Life, is an educational workshop proposed to be given in schools that's provoked the anger of these demonstrators.
	Muslims, fundamentalist Catholics, and conspiracy theorists have joined together to demand the suppression of these workshops.
	They teach our children, if you're a boy, but believe in your head that you're a girl, you can become a girl.
	Concerns are so strong that several schools have been set on fire in Belgium over the past weeks.
	This father disapproves of such vandalism, but he says as a Muslim he doesn't want his children to receive this teaching.
	It's a big problem to be forced to accept something that we cannot accept.
	It doesn't just concern the Arab and Muslim diaspora.
	In the last demonstration, there were also many Europeans.
	The tools used in schools come from family planning programs.
	Their director has agreed to show us the equipment used.
	Equipment.
	Here I have a booklet that allows you to talk about the issue of periods.
	It's a way for her to counter the misinformation about these workshops, especially on the question of gender.
	There's a lot of confusion.
	When we talk about gender, there's already the question of gender stereotypes.
	That's important to address when it comes to equality.
	Now on transition issues, obviously no one is going to encourage a child to transition.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Not yet.
	So you hear the same thing, of course.
	Almost identical.
	It sounds like a story from around, you know, Illinois or someplace.
	This is like a worldwide phenomenon that is orchestrated.
	Yes.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh, it's just like, it's all globalist stuff.
	I thought it was interesting.
	Muslims, radical Catholics, And conspiracy theorists!
	What kind of religion is that?
	All the same.
	Throw them in there.
	They're identical.
	And they're a little, you know, in little old Belgium, they're lighting the schools on fire.
	Yeah, that's probably the way to do it.
	Not if I'm mayor.
	Talking about your gun-toting Moms for Liberty, I think lighting the school on fire is probably... Not if I'm mayor.
	I'm not going to be lighting those schools on fire.
	No.
	Alright, I think we have to do this now.
	Boost back better, everybody!
	COVID is still with us, and there's trouble in paradise.
	Trouble in paradise.
	We've got a problem.
	I don't know if you heard, but these free shots are not free.
	And I shall go back to a couple weeks ago when we had Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA administrator, now on the board of Pfizer and what's the Illumina?
	Illumina?
	Illuminati.
	Illuminati.
	He's on the board of the Illuminati.
	This is what he said a couple weeks ago.
	What's different as we go into the fall and back to school is that the federal government emergency programs have largely stopped.
	So people have to actually plan getting their vaccine.
	You can't get them for free everywhere.
	How is that going to impact what the season looks like ahead?
	Yeah, so insurers are going to cover these vaccines in the same way they cover flu vaccines for people who have insurance.
	For people who are underinsured or uninsured, the administration has a program where people are going to be able to get these for free at pharmacies.
	That program should be up and running by the time these vaccines become available.
	And they'll also be free of charge at federally qualified community health centers and also public health departments day one.
	So they should be widely accessible.
	Well, it doesn't mean there's not going to be gaps in coverage in people who face certain hardships, but broadly, most people should be able to get these free of charge without a copay, based on what I'm seeing right now from the insurance companies.
	So, free.
	It should be free.
	So, they're doing a deal.
	So, at the time, they were doing a deal.
	Hey, look, we've got to have these free.
	We've got to get this all jacked up.
	We've got to get people free.
	Free boosters.
	Oh, Celine.
	Dr. Celine.
	It seems like I have a problem.
	All right, so some people are having trouble with the updated COVID-19 vaccine being approved by their insurance.
	What's going on there?
	So you've had a transition from the U.S.
	government providing the COVID vaccine to now business as usual, which means the private sector.
	And so there have been a number of glitches with insurance, billing codes, shipping of vaccines, which has led to a lot of problems.
	If you have private insurance, whether it's private, Medicare, Medicaid, you should have your free vaccine.
	No cost to you.
	It's covered by insurance since September 11th.
	But because of these glitches, there have been some issues.
	You may want to wait until early to mid-October just for these things to get ironed out.
	If you do get your vaccine now, you may need to resubmit or appeal a denial.
	But you should get it for free.
	The No Agenda Show always gets very suspicious when we hear the term glitch.
	A glitch!
	Shut up about the glitch!
	I think something happened.
	I think there's something with the vaccines.
	They can't ship them out.
	They don't have enough.
	They want people to wait.
	Something is up.
	Glitches are bullcrap.
	But their computer systems don't work now?
	Is that the glitch?
	So they're blaming, uh, the fact that they're not, so they're making some, in other words, a phony story.
	You're, you're making the claim that there, there's no, uh, the vaccine might not be available.
	It might not be working.
	It might be something wrong with it.
	There may be a million things wrong, but they're blaming insurance or creating a smoke screen.
	Yes.
	A glitch.
	In terms of using the word glitch.
	Yeah.
	Very suspicious.
	Yeah, probably.
	Yeah, there's no reason for this sort of thing.
	And then, you know, they're covering it up with the other free stuff, which we know, but these clips are still worth listening to.
	Getting later into the fall here, and we might be looking at another COVID surge.
	Hey, everybody!
	Hey!
	You know, we got football seasons coming up.
	You know, we got, you know, closing down baseball.
	But, you know, we're coming into the fall.
	COVID season's here!
	It's getting later into the fall here and we might be looking at another COVID surge in the not-so-distant future.
	Not-so-distant future?
	Why is he puking at me like this?
	The federal government is once again offering free home test kits to Americans and for more on this we are joined by CBS News medical contributor Dr. Selene Gounder who is also editor at law and public health at KFF.
	Dr. Gounder, thank you very much for being here.
	So free COVID tests once again, why now?
	So as of yesterday, covidtest.gov is up and running again.
	The government wants to make sure everybody, every household has tests on hand ahead of the holidays because you have people of different generations who are coming together, close together over the holidays.
	So it's a risk for grandma, grandpa.
	We just want to make sure that people know if they have COVID and might be infectious to others.
	Don't kill grandma!
	Okay, so now this is another problem, and there's not a lot of answers coming out of the doctor.
	A lot of us have those tests stockpiled, and some of them have expired.
	I have tons of them.
	Sometimes with food, sometimes with medication, even though it's expired, you can still eat it, or it's effective.
	So the FDA has extended expiration dates on the tests.
	There's actually information about this on the cbsmornings.com website.
	You can look up your specific brand and see if yours is still valid.
	Now Horowitz bitched about this because he wanted to get some tests and he went to the website and on the website it said, hey these tests probably have an expiration date that already shows they're expired.
	But no!
	We've extended it!
	And when asked, when pressed on what is the date, she can't really answer it.
	I heard you say that I know we can look it up, but if we don't feel like looking it up, is there a certain time, if it's two weeks late, that the expired tests work?
	A month late, two months late, do you happen to know?
	Yeah, I mean, two weeks a month later is not an issue, but you really don't want to be using it.
	She's really just making it up.
	Yeah, two weeks forward, you know, it's like milk, you can still drink that.
	A month late?
	Two months late?
	Do you happen to know?
	Yeah, I mean, two weeks a month later is not an issue, but you really don't want to be using it way beyond the extended expiration date.
	Way beyond?
	What does this mean?
	Way beyond extended.
	A little bag of chips.
	There's no good.
	Go for it.
	It's not going to hurt you.
	It's not going to hurt you.
	I believe in healthy.
	Dr. Slingander, thank you very much for being here.
	Appreciate it.
	I mean, a valid question, a journalistic question, which you can't expect from CBS Mornings, would be, well, if they're expired, what happens?
	Do they give you faulty results?
	Do they give you false positives, false negatives?
	These are the questions the American people deserve to have.
	Exactly.
	That's the exact question you'd ask.
	But the fact that they're not tells me something.
	What happens when they expire?
	Do they not work at all?
	Or do they just make everything, you know, false answers?
	Or what specifically happens?
	By the way, these are chemical tests.
	It seems to me that the reagents used and everything in between is lifelong stuff that should go for years and years and years.
	It's not a bunch, as far as I know, it's not a bunch of sketchy organic compounds that are going to react, you know, prematurely and become useless or peroxides that are going to blow up the test.
	Like they were good to begin with.
	Well, there's that.
	These tests are not real.
	They don't really show you anything.
	I think you should repackage them as pregnancy tests.
	Now there's an idea.
	Gender reveal test.
	Anything.
	There you go.
	It's a boy.
	It doesn't matter.
	You can become a girl later if you think you feel like that.
	Depends on what you choose.
	Update on the Russell Brand situation.
	Although it has quieted down a little bit.
	But as predicted, they're going after Rumble.
	This is a dangerous Rumble.
	Very dangerous.
	And Rumble also owns Locals.
	Oh, it does!
	Yeah, which is Glenn Greenwald's outfit.
	You know, the one that he got stock for.
	And moved from Substack.
	And here we have an outfit called the News Movement.
	They look like volunteers, but their website looks a lot like the Global Coalition for Tech Justice.
	There's a lot of money going after big tech, but really problematic platforms like Rumble.
	And so they feign as a news organization.
	And if you're a news organization and Russell Brand is on Rumble, what do you do?
	You know how journalism works.
	What do you do?
	Who are you going to go interview?
	What are the questions you want to ask of Ryan?
	I don't know, but you develop a hit piece.
	Yeah.
	We're in the midst of a crisis.
	Oops, sorry.
	I need to play this one first.
	Massive brands including Burger King, Asos London, Barbican Centre and HelloFresh have pulled advertising from Russell Brand's Rumble channel.
	Three of the companies have removed their ads from Rumble altogether after the news movement found they were appearing alongside Brand's videos.
	Burger King has paused advertising on Brand's channel while broadcasters and police look at claims of rape and sexual assault against him.
	Brand has a huge audience on Rumble with over 1.4 million followers.
	There's been concern about the increasing discussion of conspiracy theories on his videos.
	The comedian's been accused of rape and sexual assault against four women.
	He denies the claims.
	TNM approached other brands including Ralph Lauren, eBay and Hilton Hotels whose ads all appeared on Brand's channel, but none of them replied to requests for comment.
	YouTube suspended ads from this channel on their site for allegedly violating creator policies and the BBC's removed some shows brand-made while working there.
	Burger King said the company had paused all advertising while investigations into the allegations are ongoing.
	Asos declined to comment, but TNM understands the company removed their ads this week.
	HelloFresh said, thanks for pointing this out to us.
	We have manually removed our ads from Rumble.
	The Barbican said, we've now asked our media agency to exclude this site from where our ads appear.
	Rumble has said it doesn't plan to remove ads from Brand's content altogether, but it hasn't replied to requests for comment.
	Google and Brand himself have yet to reply to us either.
	So they just went to all the advertisers and said, hey, do you know you're advertising next to this horrible conspiracy theorist, so-called rapist?
	What's a brand gonna say?
	By the way, have the charges been filed on his rapes?
	I don't think so.
	No, of course not.
	You know, the media are not allowed to speak about this as a gag order.
	And you can be sued by the British government if you interfere with their possible, maybe, investigation because it's still, you know, kind of iffy with if they're gonna do anything.
	But they literally said you cannot report on this Russell Brand issue, on this particular part about the rapes, because if you do, then you may be seen as interfering in an investigation and you can be hauled into court by the government.
	Yeah.
	How does that work?
	They do that stuff all the time in the UK.
	That is... wow.
	Magna Carta be damned.
	No freedom of speech.
	It's the model.
	It's the model of the future.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And so here's this global coalition for tech justice and they're all up in arms.
	We're in the midst of a crisis and every second counts.
	2024 is a make-or-break year for democracy and freedoms globally, as over 2 billion people are due to vote in 65 elections across the world.
	But we worry.
	Are social media companies ready for the election tsunami?
	Will they stop online disinformation, hate and abuse spilling over into real-world violence?
	They happened in the past.
	Do you remember this guy?
	They're showing the shaman guy.
	He stormed the U.S.
	Capitol with a mop of concrete.
	He stormed it!
	So they show the shaman guy, they highlight him in the video, and they're saying like, he led the insurrection.
	Do you remember this guy?
	He stormed the US Capitol with a mug of angry Donald Trump supporters in 2021 after Trump refused to concede defeat in the presidential race.
	Two years later, supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil also attacked government buildings.
	In the lead up to the attacks, social media was flooded with disinformation about the legitimacy of the vote and calls for violence.
	This happened in stable democracies and before Silicon Valley giants sacked staff meant to keep their platforms safe to cut costs.
	These are not isolated cases.
	Big tech companies have a track record of allowing abuses and undermining democracy.
	And 2024 will pose the biggest risk yet to people and elections, with social media at its most powerful.
	Investments in platform safety should be proportionate to the risk of harm, not market size.
	Companies must address this gross iniquity.
	They invested billions to protect the US elections and neglected global majority countries, where they pose a serious risk to rights and freedoms in 2024.
	The clock is ticking.
	Will big tech protect people and elections?
	So, yeah.
	What the hell was that?
	So, what they're claiming is that all the... Give me the name of this operation again.
	Oh, it's the Soros... Surprise, it all leads to Soros.
	The Global, or the Open Institute.
	Global Coalition for Tech Justice.
	Ford Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Institute.
	They should all be ashamed of themselves for letting something like that get produced under their auspices.
	Yes, yes.
	Don't you think?
	Yeah, I agree, I agree.
	But, you know, so what they're saying now is, oh, it's all the tech companies and they fired all of their trust and safety staff and it's all their fault.
	No, they didn't.
	No, that's what they're saying.
	Literally, they're saying, oh no, they want to cut costs.
	Well, that's for sure.
	And in France, they're taking a page out of our playbook from the Obama days, because we know how this started.
	Just to reiterate, all of this started with bullying.
	For at least two years, we had reports about, oh, kids get bullied, and they're getting bullied, and it's bullying at school and bullying.
	And I know this because we kept saying, how we grew up, sticks and stone, and we're not even from the same generation.
	Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
	You know, you got to stand up to the bullies.
	But no, what do we get?
	We got bullying laws.
	Which were inherently unconstitutional.
	Yeah, anti-free speech.
	Yeah.
	But we got local laws, and now they're just ratcheting it up, and now, now we gotta do this in France.
	The new measures will include citizen training courses for bullies.
	Serious cases could be referred directly to prosecutors and the worst bullies could end up in prison.
	There'll be a new bullying hotline and November the 9th will become a national anti-bullying day.
	The government is promising school children it means to protect them.
	From your classes to your bedrooms, sometimes 24 hours a day on social networks.
	For you, bullying is everywhere and all of the time.
	So the mobilisation must be universal.
	Everyone has a role to play.
	With all my government, we stand with you and will fight relentlessly against bullying.
	School bullying hit the headlines earlier this month with the suicide of a 15-year-old boy known as Nicholas.
	He attended this school near Paris and had only moved there this term after being bullied at his previous school.
	The tragedy shocked France.
	It was also revealed that local education authorities sent a threatening letter to Nicholas's parents after they complained about the bullying.
	Days later, President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte, a former teacher, visited the local town hall to talk to local officials and then spent time with Nicolas' family.
	Bullying in French schools is a growing problem, with a recent poll indicating 14% of children have suffered some form of harassment at school.
	Bullying.
	Harassment.
	I grew up with nothing.
	I mean, I had Tourette's, the wrong hair, the wrong shoes, stupid blue jeans.
	Add dumb.
	Add dumb.
	Where's Eve?
	I was bullied.
	And by the way... Girls beat me up!
	Until you told me that, the add dumb moniker that you received in the Dutch schools.
	I never heard of that gag in my entire life.
	Well, you don't know a lot of Adams.
	We had Adams in our schools, but that little bit never eluded me, I guess, or eluded us.
	But what, I mean, we just, we need to, people need to stop this.
	How about suck it up?
	Well, here's the thing about that one kid who killed himself.
	He must have been somewhat suicidal.
	He quit the school because he was being bullied there.
	Immediately goes to another school where he's immediately bullied.
	Is there a bully underground network or something?
	Where you'd say, hey, Bill's coming over there and he's been bullied over here, so make sure you bully him.
	So something's up with that story.
	Well, it's to control messaging.
	It's to control what Silicon Valley messaging is doing.
	We need to go back to RSS, people.
	That's the answer to everything.
	Look, podcasting is still free and available.
	Until the end.
	No, there's no until.
	We even have ways where you don't need a hosting company.
	You can just throw it on IPFS.
	It lives out there in the interplanetary file system.
	This has all been taken into account.
	There's no way.
	They can never take down podcasting.
	But people need to go back to blogs.
	You know, Google hates RSS so much.
	What was the most popular RSS product?
	Google Reader.
	They loved Google Reader.
	Everybody loved Google Reader, yeah.
	It was like, you know, email for blogs and you could, you know, you could... Yeah, it was great.
	Yeah.
	And then they shut it down.
	What'd they do?
	Google Plus.
	Which died.
	Of course, because it's stupid.
	And now they're closing down Google Podcasts.
	Why?
	RSS.
	What are they going to give you in return?
	Oh, you can put it now in YouTube Music.
	Yeah, we'll ingest your RSS.
	Uh-huh.
	I don't know why they have such a hard-on for RSS.
	Because they can't control it.
	And they can't algolize it.
	They can't control a lot of stuff.
	Maybe they're scared.
	How about that?
	Maybe they're scared of something that people actually will use and like and have control over.
	How about that?
	They need to keep tricking people into staying up.
	If you're on Instagram and the algos see that, remember pain and suffering, the algos see that you're about to close the app, they shoot you five likes.
	Oh, you got five likes!
	Oh, let me go check it out real quick.
	How about if your kid's being bullied, how about no phones in the school?
	Get off the apps!
	Somebody was, I don't have the clip, but it was one of the old clips that we didn't play.
	Somebody was talking about, I think it was Kennedy or somebody else saying, well he's getting a lot of flack on the social media, but he doesn't care because he's not on the social media.
	Exactly.
	You know, if you're not on the social media, It's not going to have any effect on you and people aren't even going to do it because well, you know, let's bully her.
	Well, she doesn't, she won't ever read it.
	So what difference does it make?
	I got other things to do with my time.
	There was a guy yesterday, um, he was from Nashville and done a lot with, uh, uh, with Nashville music companies and worked for Dave Ramsey and you know, all these people knew, knew a lot about social media and algorithms.
	And he says, if you have a hundred thousand followers, And you want to send out a message.
	Do you know what percentage you will actually reach?
	Because the algos don't really send it to your followers.
	Do you know what the percentage is?
	It's shocking.
	It's got to be less than 10%.
	- Less than 10%. - 4.93. - Yeah, that sounds right.
	4.93.
	And I think I empirically figured this out myself by messaging, or seeing the effects of messaging on Twitter when I had 10,000 followers in the early days, and I have 100,000 followers in the early days, and I have 100,000 followers now. - Yeah.
	And I would get good, and the same thing with Mastodon.
	I get good responses to a suggestion or a link, and I get almost nothing when I do it on Twitter now with 100,000.
	No, there's no, they're not seeing it.
	Nobody's seeing anything.
	So everybody's now moving, including, it was specifically mentioned that MailChimp is going to be offering SMS text service.
	So that you can then send the newsletter, I guess with a link, to people's phone.
	Yeah, I don't have any.
	I didn't collect numbers.
	I'm sorry?
	I don't have numbers to send it to.
	No, no, I understand, but I'm just saying that's where, because email has been so suppressed.
	It's ridiculous.
	I mean, we could, this is, what is RSS?
	It's just email by subscription, but now we have to go with the...
	With the MailChimp system, but now people are using text messaging more and more.
	Guess what?
	Apple's gonna come in, they're gonna have all kinds of filters and algo, so your iMessage will stop anything from coming in that they deem problematic.
	Here, I have two clips.
	Okay.
	Kind of on the topic.
	All right.
	TeensPhones1.
	Ooh.
	Teens are distracted by around 237 phone notifications per day.
	According to a new report from Common Sense Media, of the 200 teens who participated, many got over 500 notifications.
	One-fourth of these notifications came during school hours.
	The teens then looked at their phones for an average of 43 minutes, some for as long as 6 hours.
	The kids would check their phones over 100 times per day on average, some saying they struggled to put them down.
	She may receive 150 snaps in a day, if not more.
	There's a constant snap attack.
	Psychotherapist Karl Nassar's 14-year-old daughter is also barraged by phone notifications.
	He says having a good relationship with our teens is a key way to deal with the issue.
	How do we have the conversations over and over again about, okay, you know, it's dinner time, let's put the phone aside and let's have our meal.
	You know, when is something really important and when can something wait?
	Teens can also access age-inappropriate content on their phones.
	Almost half of the teen participants did so, accessing content like pornography, betting apps, and violent games.
	A small number use social media to chat with strangers, a risky phenomenon that can lead to problematic interactions with adults.
	Yeah, I actually heard a statistic similar that people in general touch their phone over two and a half thousand times a day.
	That's definitely not me.
	Mine's still in a drawer.
	I haven't used my phone since December of last year.
	I know, but you're also not interested in betting apps.
	No, who needs that aggravation?
	Don't bet on sports.
	All right, part two.
	Teens are very lonely these days.
	What?
	The lockdowns kept them away from their friends, made their only communication, for the most part, online.
	So their phone becomes their friend.
	Uh, and that is really sad.
	Psychiatrist Carol Lieberman says parents can take the phones away for periods of time and set time limits.
	They should also introduce their kids to other activities, like sports or dance class.
	That will help them realize what they're missing out on.
	It's always a process, right?
	There's no end to when we, you know, when she's got it and we leave her alone.
	Psychotherapist Karl Nassar says his 14-year-old daughter has matured with her phone use.
	She can distinguish between notifications that are important and ones that can wait.
	But there are still times when she gets hooked, and that's when the conversations begin anew.
	Well, there's a very simple solution to this.
	It's very simple.
	And it could be cool.
	I mean, parents, listen up.
	Get your kid.
	Get all your kids friends and give them all a $25 Baofeng handheld ham radio.
	Let them all get a license.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Early, early version of the old fart who's on the, on the ham all day.
	Ham's one of the, one of the, uh, frequencies all day.
	We're working with a repeater.
	Uh, yeah, that's probably better.
	Yeah.
	And you can do digital modes so you can, you know, you can send texts and stuff and it'd be cool.
	Yeah.
	You can relay, relay messages, talk to kids around the world.
	Yeah, around the world.
	Yeah, around the world.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	In the morning to you, the man who put the C's in the corporate capture.
	Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend and the other one and only, Mr. John C. DeVorex!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane.
	In the morning, our ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	Hello there, trolls.
	Oh, there you go.
	Hello, trolls.
	Let me, hands up for a second.
	Hurry away so fast.
	We're two bucks into the show.
	We got 2135.
	2135.
	So we were probably around 24 earlier.
	Look, 24 is average, so we're down 300.
	We're down.
	Where is everybody?
	Where'd the trolls be at?
	I think they got bored with our topics today.
	I don't think so.
	Our topics have been nothing but on point.
	We are bringing you the world in 20 minutes.
	10-10 wins.
	Why are we not talking about that they'd want to hear?
	What's going on?
	There's a battle going on between the Kardashian sisters?
	Do you know about that?
	No!
	Are they mad?
	Chloe's mad at the other one?
	Yeah.
	Oh, wow.
	No, I was not aware.
	There's that, and what else is kind of crappy?
	You get all this good stuff on TMC.
	How about we tease some TikTok clips coming up?
	I do have a couple.
	Yeah.
	That are beauties.
	Okay, so stay tuned, everybody.
	TikTok clips are TikTok clops.
	TikTok clops are clipping up!
	These trolls are listening live every Thursday and Sunday, and you can join them by going to trollroom.io.
	Right there, you can sign in, you can listen along, noagendastream.com.
	Lots of live shows, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all talk, no agenda, no commercials.
	It's great, and it's a real community that hangs out.
	Of course you can also become a part of that and always get alerted when something is new as in when we're going live and there's plenty other shows that know how to access the Bat-Signal with one of the podcast apps at podcastapps.com all based on RSS so you know that it'll work and not going to get deplatformed or anything like that.
	Of course, you can always follow us at noagendasocial.com, which still seems to be a reasonable place.
	It's basically social media without algos.
	I'd say it's pretty decent.
	You can take the Baofeng idea for the ham radio, but you could also set up a Mastodon server for the kids at school.
	Keep your eye on what's going on.
	Make sure that you can, as an admin, You can check everything.
	People can report.
	You can take it into your own hands, parents.
	How about that for an idea, John?
	Yeah!
	Thank you for your enthusiasm.
	Follow Adam at noagendasocial.com, John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com.
	We are value for value, and one of the reasons for that is we didn't want to have any meetings with advertisers, but also we knew we would never be able to have any kind of conversation about any of these topics without the news movement, what those guys called, calling up our advertisers. what those guys called, calling up our advertisers.
	Hey, you hear what those guys said?
	Yeah, dipshits.
	Yeah, what those guys said?
	Well, you want to advertise?
	Hey, Burger King, do you really want to advertise with those guys?
	Well, that's what they do.
	Yes, that's what they do.
	So instead, we just said, you know what?
	Why don't you just send us any value if you get any value from the program?
	We got lots of people who were very thankful during the lockdowns.
	I think we have presented multiple angles to different stories that help people feel much better, most frequently heard.
	Oh, no agenda is valuable to me because I know I'm not the only crazy one.
	There's more like me.
	We have meetups that go along with that.
	We can meet more of these same people.
	And it turns out they're, you know, they're kind of like normal people.
	Yeah, with real jobs and real lives and real families.
	And we like to be a part of that.
	And all we ask is that you return value one way or the other at some point, regularly or not, whatever you can do.
	Time, talent, or treasure.
	Boy, we have so many people who contribute time.
	We appreciate all the promotion of the show that you do.
	Oh, we could use some new SEO people, though.
	Remember that one guy came in and he SEO'd us and we're still the top five pages in Google?
	They can never get rid of us now?
	Remember that guy?
	Yeah, no.
	Yeah, it was someone who did that.
	It was early, early on.
	We used to have cool domain names.
	Mitt Romney, didn't we have mittromney.com?
	There's a lot of great domain names.
	There used to be a page filled with them.
	Yeah.
	Oh, we still have it.
	The page is still there.
	Getmoldest.com.
	And we, of course, we have BigMike2024.com, just in case.
	You never know.
	You never, never know.
	Another way people help us out is with talent.
	Boy, we have a lot of talented people.
	People do jingles, they do clips, they do end of show mixes.
	Also have information, boots on the ground.
	And we love having brand new art.
	Art that is created by professionals who get additional value from us.
	We critique them, honestly.
	We do.
	You know, you never get that.
	You know, you can be, you know, trying to, trying to get a gig, you know, trying to, Hey, here's some of my work.
	And they'll just say, nah, or they won't even call you.
	Won't even call you.
	Yeah.
	They don't even bother.
	They don't even bother with that.
	We'll at least tell you what, what happened and what went right or went, went wrong.
	So we want to thank Dame Kenny, Ben, who, um, who came back and this one just jumped off the page.
	This was the attack him rocket.
	Beautiful piece.
	By the way, I got a note about this, the ATAKMS.
	Where was it?
	Yeah, what did you find out about the ATAKMS?
	So, ATAKM is A-T-A-C-M-S.
	That's an acronym for these types of rockets that we have sent to Ukraine to shoot at Russia.
	And here is a note from a producer.
	I work at Lockheed, the simulation department, for five years on the ATAKMS program.
	The way the media is pronouncing the acronym is pretty funny.
	I admit I like it, but that's never how we pronounce it.
	It's A-tac-ums.
	I-tac-ums.
	There you go.
	A-Y-E.
	I-tac-ums.
	So it's an I-tac-um.
	It's not a-tac-ums.
	It's I-tac-ums.
	Yeah, that's no good.
	No, I-tac-um's no good.
	It has to be a-tac-um.
	A-tac-um.
	A-tac-um.
	A-tac-ums.
	The media just did that.
	They just did that just to make it, you know, sound good.
	They jacked it up.
	They did a good job.
	Very good job.
	So Dame Kenny Ben, thank you so much.
	It was a good piece, Dame Kenny Ben.
	We looked at a couple others.
	I remember us, you know, we had the NA noise.
	I guess when Phoebe got picked up, you were hitting your noise machines and people were making art about that, which is kind of weird because that would never show up in the actual finished product.
	No.
	That was taken out of the show.
	We had a lot of Taylor Swift related art.
	That's not gonna happen.
	She skits enough publicity without us helping.
	Yes.
	People keep sending me notes that she's transsexual.
	Oh, please.
	Yeah, I'm just telling you.
	And that I'm crazy for not seeing it.
	What, she's a guy?
	Yeah, and so is Megyn Kelly.
	And there's a couple more.
	Well, Megyn Kelly has masculine features, but she's no guy.
	She's not a dude!
	It's weird though.
	It's weird.
	And I said, so what?
	And then my point is like, okay, so this is some big hoax that I'm falling for and?
	And what?
	And there's never ever an answer on that.
	And you can't see it.
	Yeah.
	She's a guy and you can't see it.
	Uh-huh.
	I'm telling you.
	I'm telling you.
	There wasn't, you know, Justin Trudeau with a Hitler mustache?
	No.
	No, that's not happening.
	I'm not going to do that.
	And also the Babylon Bee already did a whole gag about it.
	Yeah.
	So we looked derivative.
	Was there anything else we liked?
	Was there anything else?
	No, there was nothing else we liked.
	Um, what was this, uh... Oh, people are really taking the Swift thing to a whole new level, man.
	The what?
	Like, the Taylor Swift, like... Okay, we have a Taylor Swift shoe.
	I don't understand.
	A lot of the... You know, what's the football player... What's the Taylor Swift shoe?
	It says it right there.
	It says, shoe with NA on it.
	It says, NA Swift Balance Model 333.
	I don't understand it.
	But that's the name of it, but it's just like one of our cleaners, the shoe has nothing to do with anything.
	I know.
	So, yeah, it just didn't seem like there was... There was no life, there was no...
	None of the artists weren't jacked up, they weren't happy to do anything.
	I think the definitive piece is We're Sorry, A, which I think pretty much summarizes the art.
	But Dame Kenny Ben's art just jumped off the page.
	It's like, wow, yeah, that's what you want.
	I mean, that rocket is coming right off the page.
	That was beautiful.
	Thank you very much, Dame Kenny Bennett.
	And of course, we appreciate the effort by every single one of our artists.
	Let me see.
	It looks like there may be some stuff that's... I haven't looked at all of it yet, but...
	If you want to follow along, if you're listening to the live show, you can do that in your app and you can, I'm sorry, you can, while you're listening live, you can go to NoahArtGenerator.com and just refresh and you'll see this stuff show up.
	It's pretty funny how a topic goes by.
	You can see within five minutes, boom, there's a piece of art that goes along with it.
	Or after the fact, Dreb Scott puts a lot of these pieces into the chapter art, which will just switch.
	Even while you're driving and you're listening to the show, you'll see the put, but just switches right on your dashboard.
	It's pretty cool.
	Then we have the talent, I mean the treasure portion.
	Which came up slow and low today.
	I think total donators in the mentioned category just over 40 which is Kind of pathetic.
	All the way through 50, yeah.
	It's low.
	But you don't know what's happening.
	I mean, you don't know.
	Maybe we're in a recession, depression.
	Maybe people have no money.
	There's no evidence of that.
	Maybe they just don't like what we're doing.
	We need to do more Kardashian stuff.
	Well, anyway.
	You need to bring it.
	You need to bring some Kardashian news next time.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I will.
	So we'll start off with, and this is nice, we do have a couple of executive and associate executive producers.
	We always appreciate anything you send us.
	I mean, we can't tell what's a lot of value for you.
	Five dollars may be an incredible amount.
	We're just as happy with that.
	Now, William Robb is in San Antonio, Texas, and I think he got a little bit of the wrong idea about our donation segment.
	Now, he is very happy because he becomes a knight today.
	But then he says, this note is very... and he sent 345.67.
	He says, this note is very important outreach to the Texas producers in the Round Rock and surrounding areas.
	A pretty dang big hailstorm came through last night, last Sunday evening, and totally blasted just about every roof in town.
	He says, I can help you!
	And he says, I'm a service professional with M&M roofing, siding and windows.
	Give us a Google.
	Which I think is great.
	But then, he goes into a whole pitch.
	Like an ad copy.
	Yeah.
	And we're not going to read that.
	He's upping the ante on Linda Lou Patkin.
	Yeah, but we're not going to do that.
	I didn't, I didn't, I didn't appreciate that.
	With phone numbers.
	No, it was overdone.
	Yeah, phone numbers.
	Yeah, I think the plug he wanted, you just gave it.
	Yeah.
	M&M roofing, siding and windows.
	Yeah.
	Boom.
	Done.
	And he says, it's all you get.
	And he says, give him a big in the morning.
	No discount, no discount for our people.
	Where's our, where's our coupon code?
	Ah.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	Get it together.
	Come on, man.
	He says, uh, no, he does say we're very happy for him.
	This donation also makes me a knight.
	I haven't missed an episode since Adam's first appearance on Rogan, and every donation segment I always wonder what my knight name should be.
	Well, now I know.
	Please knight me, Sir Excellency.
	At the round table, please source the finest gluten-free smoked kelp dip and whatever wine John would recommend to pair with it.
	Well, that's, uh, that's up to you, John.
	What, uh, what wine do you recommend?
	I think a Texas wine for this guy in particular.
	Okay.
	I don't even know if they're still in business, but I've always said you find a vintage bottle of Pheasant Ridge Cabernet, you got something.
	Pheasant, let me write that down.
	Pheasant Ridge?
	I don't know if they're in business.
	I mean, I would have just said Augusta Vin or Grape Creek or something, but okay.
	Hey, it's good.
	Jingles.
	F-35 guy scream, goat scream, and then a Howard Dean scream.
	Oh, and he also, I scrolled off my page here because this note was so long, and then he wanted a little girl yay.
	So I can do all of those for you.
	Stand by, here's your sequence.
	I said, what in the world of this?
	Yeah, they all do kind of sound like...
	By the way, our goat scream is being used by other shows now.
	Yeah.
	What do you expect?
	I know.
	I know.
	It happens.
	You know, somebody, one of these other shows, I was looking at some podcasts because there was people sending me links.
	You know, these guys are terrible, but I have to say, there's another podcast that uses, uh, they try to do album art, new album art for each show.
	They do one show a week.
	Yeah, and I have to say there's an aesthetic issue here.
	Okay.
	One of the things we have going is that the two of us seem to have some sort of some overriding good taste when it comes to what should be presented as opposed to shit-looking stuff.
	Yes.
	Well, okay.
	Just saying.
	Yeah.
	Brandon Johnson's next on the list.
	He's in Olympia, Washington.
	He came in with 333.
	He's got no note that I could find.
	Okay.
	If he has one, he can send it in later.
	We'll read it as a make good.
	Give him a double up karma.
	You've got karma.
	I got the round table asking, what's the name of the wine?
	Pheasant.
	Park?
	Sorry, what?
	Pheasant Ridge?
	Oh, Pheasant Ridge.
	Okay.
	Yeah, this is Pheasant Park.
	We can't find it.
	No, it's Pheasant Ridge.
	Okay, they got it now.
	It's fine.
	Then we have anonymous from Fort Worth, Texas.
	333.
	And we have a note, which I have here.
	It was sent in.
	Let's see what this note is.
	Handwritten on a mimeograph.
	No, this is a...
	Graph paper.
	Thank you, that's what I was looking for.
	Dear Adam and John, emergency jobs karma for my sister, please.
	Anonymous, Fort Worth, Texas.
	You got it, of course.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Next on the list we have John Sell in Dodge, North Dakota, 327, and he wrote one of these notes in, this check, and he says, Adam and John, if Trump manages to get his year long expo built, What is that?
	Do you know anything about this?
	Year-long expo?
	No.
	He wants to build an expo like a World's Fair and to last a year?
	Which is how long they usually last, about a year.
	I've not heard of this.
	I'm hoping it's near a quarter-mile track.
	With a nearby pizza joint next to an arcade across from the roller skating rink.
	Your writing, by the way, is mediocre.
	With a nearby pizza joint next to an arcade across from the roller skating rink.
	As for the show, Macrovertat?
	I don't know what he's saying.
	What is that?
	I don't see, I don't understand what it says.
	The M-A-C-T-R Vertat.
	Hopefully you guys have a booth to showcase the history of podcasting at the Expo.
	Okay, we'll try to get a booth at the Expo.
	Yes, booth at the Expo coming.
	Anything for him?
	We'll be good there.
	That's the note.
	Thank you, John.
	Give him a double up, Karma, just for being, uh, complicated.
	You've got... Karma.
	We've got Sir Tooth Fairy from Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Indiana.
	308.
	Hey, show 1594 was spectacular!
	Could I get a Fauci Wheeze, a Trump Space Force, and life is a scam?
	Well, thanks, Sir Tooth Fairy, you bet!
	Space Force. Space Force. Space Force. Life is a scam. .
	This thing is a scam.
	This whole thing.
	Life is a scam.
	This thing is a scam.
	Life is a scam.
	Everybody's in on this scheme.
	This whole thing.
	Death and destruction.
	Life is a scam.
	This thing is a scam.
	This whole thing.
	Life is a scam.
	This thing is a scam.
	Our motto.
	Right there.
	Dame Beth.
	Maybe her motto, too.
	She's in Tucson, Arizona.
	$271.
	And she writes in.
	Heil, boys!
	Heil!
	The humble slaves gathered on September 21st for the Too Hot Tucson Meetup, and libations and laughter ensued.
	We celebrated the 25th trip around the sun by Vince Dame, and our donation is to help make this Dame a knight.
	Ha!
	Please give him a biscuit for his birthday.
	Dame Beth.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	Done, Dame Beth.
	Thank you very much.
	N.J.
	Mazzoni, Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Happy marriage to Paul and Lauren!
	Twelve years together!
	Married September 30th, 2023, and they never had a fight!
	My bro Paul Mazzoni hit me in the mouth six months ago after prodding me a couple of years.
	Long time douche, but not anymore.
	Please de-douche it.
	You've been de-douched.
	N.J.
	Mazzoni.
	Thank you.
	Sir Mike the Fortunate in Fuquay, Varina, North Carolina.
	This is a meet-up call out next Saturday, October 27th.
	We will be having an N.A.
	meet-up at Stony Acres Farm in Cary, North Carolina between 3 and 5.
	Stony Acres is a neat little hobby farm about five minutes from downtown Cary.
	You won't have to read this now.
	October 7th, not 27th.
	October 7th.
	Prior to the NOAA Agenda Meet, there will be a Meet MEAT up with a local rancher at his hobby farm.
	That's good.
	If anyone wants to purchase locally raised beef and have it delivered to the NOAA Agenda Meetup, now is the time.
	Good one.
	There's a link in the NOAA Agenda Meetup's page on details about the event.
	Please RSVP since parking is going to be a bit tricky.
	I don't know how the RSVP is going to change anything about parking.
	There are chickens, dogs, cats, and lots of goats on the farm.
	Come out next Saturday for beer, some college football, and lots of goat karma.
	The host Jace, Jace and Emily got started listening to your show when I invited them to a meetup, when I invited Jace to a meetup.
	No agenda meetups are a great way to introduce someone to the show.
	Please credit this donation to Jace.
	Okay, let's just switcheroo then.
	You have to make a note.
	A douchebag no more, Sir Mike.
	All right.
	Beautiful, Sir Mike.
	All right.
	Yes.
	I love that they're doing the meetups.
	That started in Austin, I think.
	Sir Scott, Baron of the Armory.
	I like the idea of a pun.
	Yeah, but also working with a local rancher, very important.
	Did you see that, I think Texas Slim tweeted that out, that the USDA was trying to come up with some herd sharing rule where you can't share your herd with other people unless you go through a supermarket or some crap like that?
	Oh, please.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	And I guess someone put in an amendment so that didn't happen in whatever bill.
	It's very sketchy, I know.
	But it's going to happen.
	It'll be a climate change thing.
	Don't worry.
	Oh, you can't be sharing that.
	Oh, got to get rid of it.
	Linda Lou Patkins up!
	Lakewood, Colorado, Jobs Karma.
	For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
	That's all.
	That's the extent of a plug.
	Well, with ImageMakersInc.com.
	Or just find Linda Lou Patkins under the show's producer list.
	Happy Sweet Sixteen!
	Ooh, how far away are we?
	What is the date of our Sweet Sixteen?
	Do we have a date?
	It must be a date.
	Yeah, it's October 26th or something like that.
	26th, 27th, yeah.
	We'll have the date by show.
	1600 happens before the show, I think.
	Okay, yeah, five more shows.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Thank you all very much, our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for episode 1595.
	As you know, and even if you didn't, here's news for you.
	This is an actual credit that you can use anywhere credits are recognized and accepted.
	You can use it on your LinkedIn page, in your any profile really, any social media profile.
	You can put it on IMDB where The entertainment industry puts all of their credits, and of course, your resume.
	It looks really handsome, and if anyone ever asks or questions this credit as an executive or associate executive producer credit, just let us know.
	We will vouch for you, and thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	John's gonna take us through to 50.
	We got some meetup reports and some nightings.
	Here we go.
	Yeah, starting with Rita Harrington and Sparks.
	160.
	Dame Taylor and Dataman in Castroville, Texas.
	10606.
	Some karma for you at the end.
	Podhouse Studios.
	I like it.
	Good name.
	In Dos Palos, California.
	10179 birthday call-out coming.
	Hannah Johnson's also got a birthday call-out coming from Blaine Washington.
	$100.
	And needs a de-douching.
	Needs a de-douching.
	Here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Actually, it's her smoking hot husband, Mark.
	He needs a de-douching of Morgan Hill, California.
	Done.
	Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas.
	I guess he's getting a knighting or something?
	Yeah, let me read this because he'll be knighted today.
	We'd like to read knight notes.
	In the morning, today's donation is just a drop in the bucket for the value I've received from the show.
	I've been listening since Adam's first appearance on Rogan, and Tina told me about the show.
	Really good work team.
	One or the other.
	Proud to say the keeper hit me in the mouth.
	I listened to the live stream and again on the podcast to catch everything I missed.
	I guilty listened as a douchebag until show 1500 double credit couldn't pass that up.
	I advise all of you to take advantage of something so wonderful happens again.
	Stop being a douchebag and get on a monthly donation or at least a one-time donation.
	You can see how many of your friends tell you that they've heard your name on the show and I'd like to call out Byron Severance for We're being a douchebag!
	Douchebag!
	That being said, I've reached knighthood a couple of months back, but wanted to save it for the 16th anniversary show.
	Could I please be knighted as Sir Rean, the Nick U Dad?
	That's N-I-C-U, Nick U Dad.
	Thank you again for all you do.
	I've always wanted to say this.
	Could I get some goat karma and a Sharpton medley?
	Thanks again, and sorry for the long note.
	Yeah, I think we should do that.
	We like to stop for knights, so I can give you a little bit of a... Yes, we've got a fun little Sharpton medley.
	She's getting lunch at Chipotle.
	The tortise in the race.
	Tim Kardashian.
	Sigournoye Weaver.
	Russia.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
	They're all jitties.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
	You got it.
	Harmline.
	There we go.
	I'll see you on the podium in a moment.
	Robert McGee, 100 bucks.
	Ireland?
	It looks like Ireland.
	Hamburg?
	In Bellingham, Washington?
	Looks like it.
	90.
	Here we go.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
	He is the Archduke of Luna.
	Lover of American boobs.
	15, 8008.
	And he has no more melons to plug in.
	By the way, I think there are some Asian melons that he has failed to recognize.
	Oh, no.
	Just a note.
	Jim Boreth in North Wales, Pennsylvania, 6666.
	Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502.
	Edward Bala in Dublin, Ireland, Small Boob, 6006.
	Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006.
	Kevin McLaughlin's back at 6006, again, lacking the specific melons.
	6-0-0-6.
	Small boobs.
	Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington.
	55-10.
	Sir Pauly Bravo.
	Greeley, Colorado.
	52-80.
	Bradley Kirby in Burleson, Texas, $51.20.
	And now we have $50 donors, and I'll wrap off the names and the locations, starting with Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado, Justin Kaler in Blufftown, Indiana, David Steele in Mobile, Alabama.
	Or Mobile.
	Mobile.
	But mobile's good.
	No.
	Uh, Gary Rule, because it's Alabama, who cares what you say?
	Uh, Gary Rule in Merrimack, North, New Hampshire, North Hampshire.
	Uh, Julie Mendeneo, Menadio, Menadio in Costa Mesa.
	Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Kyle Mann in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Jill Woods in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
	And it would be nice to move the scroller.
	Danielle First in Kekona, Wisconsin.
	Jordan Heino in Salem, Oregon.
	Justin Heiner, another Heiner in Vine Grove, Kentucky.
	Dotted Mind in Lincolnshire, Lincoln, UK.
	Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
	Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
	Jason Hartung in Gardner, Massachusetts.
	Aichi Kitagawa here in San Francisco.
	And last but not least, Walker Phillips here in San Rafael.
	I want to thank all these people for making Show 1595 a, uh, producible.
	Producible.
	Thank you, and especially thanks to people who are on those sustaining donations.
	We really appreciate those recurring ones.
	And everybody under $50 who typically come in for reasons of anonymity or sustaining donations, we really appreciate the value.
	All the time, talent and treasure that you send back to us.
	It keeps us motivated, keeps us going, and we're still here almost 16 years.
	If you'd like to support us and become a producer of the No Agenda Show, well, just go here!
	And thank you one and all, especially the Execs and Associates, for supporting 1595!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	And the karma you requested is right here.
	You've got karma.
	We have Sir Robertson of Two Sticks turning 44 today.
	Anna Johnson wishing her smoking hot husband Mark Johnson a happy one.
	He turns 40 on the 7th of October.
	And Vince Dame is turning 25.
	We say happy birthday to these people on behalf of the best podcast in the universe!
	Hi, Phoebe.
	She just came home.
	Hi, baby.
	Hello.
	Phoebe came home.
	I'm so happy to see her.
	But she just came home now?
	Where was she?
	Was she out hitchhiking?
	Remember?
	Yes, she was out hitchhiking.
	Don't you remember?
	We had her picked up.
	We went to Houston.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, there you go.
	You didn't pick her up when you got back?
	No, she was dropped off.
	We have a pick-up and drop-off service.
	Hey, baby.
	Hello, puppy.
	You don't know what's going on.
	Give me your blade, man.
	We got some people waiting here on the podium.
	Yeah, I got it right here.
	Oh, nice.
	There you go.
	William Robb and Alex Zavala!
	Step on up, both of you!
	You have supported the Noah Jones Show in the amount of $1,000 or more, and we really appreciate that, and hereby are very proud to pronounce the KB as... Sir Excellency and Serene the Nick You Dad!
	For you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
	By request, the finest gluten-free smoked kelp dip and pheasant ridge wine.
	We also have some harlots, some howl dolls.
	We got some beer and blunts.
	Rubenesque lemon and rosé.
	Gakes and a sake vodka vanilla.
	Bong hits and bourbon sparkling cider and escort ginger and gerbils.
	Of course, we've got breast milk and pablum.
	Or if you wish, mutton and mead.
	Welcome to that roundtable of the Knights and the Dames.
	Go to noagendarings.com.
	Go take a look.
	Everybody can see them.
	They're handsome.
	They're beautiful.
	Only you two, however, today can receive them by sending us your ring size.
	There's a handy sizing guide there and an address where we send the ring, some wax to seal your important correspondence with because they are signet rings.
	And of course, the Certificate of Authenticity.
	Noah Jinder Meetups!
	Yep, the Noah Jinder Meetups.
	There was one in Houston.
	We couldn't make it.
	It was the same time as the awards show.
	Hopefully we'll get a nice report from them.
	The Texas meetups are always grandiose.
	Really, all around the world these meetups take place.
	It is a companion to listening to the best podcasts in the universe.
	It's being a part of the community, of your local community.
	You really need this because when the caca hits the fana, connection is protection.
	You want to know these people.
	Here's an example of the people in Columbus, Ohio.
	This is Sir Leary letting John know that Ohio does have meetups.
	Hello, this is the Knight, formerly known as Sir Bubba Hotep, and I'm letting you know that Damon Bingman's real name is Gayman Fagman.
	Hey now, this is Damon, and I will die on Retard Hill.
	Jane Trinity, visiting from Fort Wayne, having a great time.
	Sir PBR Street Gang, see you in Indy!
	Adam.
	In the morning, gentlemen, this is Mark from Columbus, where we always keep our phones on the line.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Yeah, I don't have a name.
	I don't even listen to your show, but my buddy Sparky did, and he used to contribute, and I've sent you messages from Tucson.
	Aloha.
	Thank you, gentlemen.
	Idaho also has some people hanging out there, particularly in North Idaho, the Sanity Brigade meetup.
	Once again at the Selkirk Abbey in Post Falls, Idaho.
	It's Sir Scott the Jew.
	The bartenders at Selkirk used to be hot, not ugly with green hair.
	I'm just kidding, Nick's gorgeous.
	Sir Devo here, shapeshifting back west from Minnesota Nuts, as John likes to call it.
	But I gotta get my TikTok fix once in a while.
	This has been a very good meetup.
	Nick the Bar Tender here with the No Agenda Crew, and just for the record, my green hair is bitchin', so y'all best deal.
	Hell yeah.
	And Denver, how's it going up there?
	Oh, they got a production.
	Here we go.
	Hello, Denver.
	Corey from Denver, in the morning.
	This is Mary, it's my first meet-up.
	It is like a party!
	Alex here, in the morning, first meet-up.
	It's Jim from Denver, in the morning.
	Colorado Care Bear, checking in.
	Sir R, Peter Gishan, great evening.
	The moon's in retrograde or something, but it's wild.
	I mean, come on.
	Don't just want to hang out with people like that.
	They sound fantastic.
	No agenda meetups taking place today at, well, let's see, at Barcade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Noodle gun safety meeting.
	Oh, you've got to be a part of that.
	Or on Wednesday, the Wednesday Webster County When Your Whistle meetup, five o'clock at Community Tap and Pizza.
	That's for Dodge, Iowa.
	And the next show day, Thursday, Northern Wake Rocktober.
	October at Compass Rose Brewery in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Coming up this month, Toms River, New Jersey.
	Here's my old stomping grounds.
	That'll be on the 7th.
	We got, let's see, we got Arkansas, North Carolina, Alaska.
	Oh, Chapala, Centro, Jalisco, Mexico.
	Interesting.
	Alabama, Oregon, Houston, another Houston, another Indy Meetup.
	We've got another North Carolina, Albany, California.
	Hey, Albany, California, that's in your neck of the woods, John.
	Yeah, and it looks like they're going to have it at a, I think it's called a Get John Out of the House Meetup.
	It's going to be at a dark bar.
	Oh, with a dark room?
	A dark bar?
	No, it's just dark.
	It's one of those bars.
	An old-fashioned bar from, like, the 50s.
	Well, you're gonna go, aren't you?
	I mean, they're doing a meet-up to get you out of the house.
	Probably will.
	I'll probably go.
	Don't make me call Jay.
	I will go to this meet-up.
	Maybe Jay can come to the meet-up, too.
	Yeah, she should be your chaperone.
	Just in case, you never know.
	No Agenda meetups.
	There you go.
	John's going to be at the Albany meetup.
	I'm going to be with the Keeper.
	We're going to be at the Indy meetup beginning of December.
	Details to follow.
	But most importantly, go find the people from your local No Agenda family.
	Get Monation.
	It's everywhere.
	You need to hang out with people because otherwise, you know, you're just sitting at home just listening to the show where there's really fun people to be hanging out with.
	NoahJenOfMeetups.com.
	If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
	It's easy and always a party!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered on hell's lame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Well, you're going to win because I have no ISOs.
	And I feel very bad, but I was traveling and didn't get the ISOs.
	Well, I have a, uh, one ISO I think that's a fail because I think that wasn't clipped right or something.
	Oh.
	And that's the stinks ISO.
	Let me see.
	Doesn't stink.
	It's not that bad.
	It's a little short.
	Doesn't stink.
	Okay.
	And so then the other one, which I think it will, it's, it's a good evergreen ISO.
	It should work.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah, well, since we have nothing else, we'll just have to do.
	Well, thank you so much.
	Talk.
	Talk.
	TikTok.
	As promised!
	John's TikTok clips.
	He has some dynamite ones.
	We're very excited about your TikTok clips.
	First of all, let's play this one.
	This is the classic TikTok genius discussing Musk.
	And this is a person who I believe is dead serious.
	If there's 10 billion people on earth and Elon Musk has 200 billion dollars, can't he just give each person 1 billion?
	And here's the twist, he will still have 190 billion dollars left over.
	Isn't that concerning?
	Oh, wow.
	Wow, wow.
	Yeah, that's, that, yes, I think you're right.
	That person is dead serious and dead stupid.
	Dead Stupid.
	That's a good show name.
	Dead Stupid.
	Okay, so now I've got a TikTok.
	This is a guy who does, who puts his image, a black guy, who puts his image on the screen and rolls his eyes while some TikTok nutcase is going on about something.
	He's really good.
	I gotta start following him more.
	But he comes up with a little bit at the end.
	So this is kind of a two-parter, this all-in-one clip.
	Where he pretty much elucidates, I think, the real problem with pronouns and the way he does it is, I like it a lot, but let's listen to the pronoun woman who is really a disturbed looking individual.
	Y'all, I'm tired.
	Seven in the morning at the physical therapy office, misgendered by someone who I've told my pronouns to.
	And I said, just to let you know, my pronouns are they, them.
	And they went, oh yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And then I had to explain too many times to my physical therapist That I didn't want to do an exercise where I had to crunch my face into my boobs because that gave me, gives me gender dysphoria.
	And I ended up getting upset and started to softly cry and then quietly beg to leave.
	And have the physical therapist just email me the exercises so I wouldn't have to actually be in the space to do them and I could just do them at home.
	You know, I don't feel comfortable in most places in society, but when it comes to being at the doctor's office, It's important to feel cared for, respected, have your humanity honored.
	And I'm just, um, I'm tired.
	I'm real tired.
	Um, and I've had a rough morning.
	Somebody raised this nut.
	Somebody did.
	You should be ashamed of yourself.
	You're raising a feckless individual that cannot function in society as a functional human being.
	It's your fault, mama.
	Daddy, whoever raised this person, it's your fault.
	Just, just admit it.
	It's your fault.
	There's no way in the world you're an adult and you getting butt hurt and you crying softly in the doctor's office because somebody forget to call you something that's not even grammatically correct.
	Like the pronoun is not grammatically correct.
	It's not English language.
	You cannot be a singular person, but yet you're calling yourself a plurality of persons.
	You cannot be a they fool.
	You just one person.
	You can't not be a them.
	You just one person.
	And how are you mad at other people who refuse to defy the English language?
	How about you have the respect for the humanity of others and accept the fact that some people may not want to call you something that is not even reasonable.
	And it's not even appropriate when it comes to the language that we all agree to speak.
	I think it works better when you can see the guy.
	I thought it was better if you can see her and.
	Yeah, well, yeah, that's for sure.
	You know, it's interesting, at the conference, there was a vocal coach, and this guy is really a vocal coach for singers, but some of the biggest names in country and gospel, Nashville guy.
	Sure.
	And he was trying to explain, well he wasn't trying, he was succeeding very well, at what you need to do if you really want your voice or what you're saying to come across in a way that people not just hear it but are drawn into it.
	And he does this with, you know, he's the kind of guy that You know, someone's gonna go on stage, they got 10,000 people in the audience, they call them two hours before, it's like, I can't, I can't, you know, I don't have my voice, it's not the way I want it to be, I need you to help me.
	And he said, and he gave examples of this actually with Simon and Garfunkel and some other song.
	It's the same song but sung in different ways.
	He says, if you prolong your consonants, Your what?
	The consonants.
	The consonants.
	He says, and he gave examples, it was amazing how when you prolong your consonants, as I just did, how people get drawn in and listen to you and you're much more enjoyable to listen to and your information will come across better.
	It is the exact opposite of what these morons are doing.
	Because they're extending their vowels and dropping their consonants like T's.
	Mmm.
	I just thought that was fascinating.
	You're right.
	Vocal fry.
	Whereas it's the T's and the S's and the D's and the G's.
	G's.
	G's.
	Anyway.
	Free lesson, everybody.
	I've got one more clip that I think is important.
	Well, actually I have two very important news.
	We have some sad news coming from American zoos.
	It seems that Chinese pandas will leave America.
	We're talking about some of the most popular attractions in Washington, D.C.
	zoos, not to mention Atlanta, Memphis, San Diego as well.
	I haven't personally seen them.
	I would have loved to see them, but it seems that given... Look at that!
	Who doesn't want to see pandas?
	It just makes us happy.
	But it seems given the ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing, they will no longer be available after more than 50 years of spending time here in the U.S.
	Aww.
	Can they recall the pandas?
	Are they allowed to do that?
	They were always licensed.
	The zoos never owned them.
	Oh, I didn't know they were licensed.
	All pandas in the world are licensed by the Chinese.
	There's a Eula.
	I didn't know that.
	I didn't know that you had to license them.
	And so they can retract the license?
	At any time they can retrieve the panda.
	Wow.
	And if they have babies, the babies belong, as part of this like a typical classic EULA, the babies belong to China too.
	Wow.
	So I was always thinking that one of these zoos would be creative and kind of slip a baby panda, you know, by everybody, but they never managed to do it.
	And this one, I don't know if you have anything else, but this is the last clip.
	There was a hearing, which didn't get a lot of traction, and it was about the Lahaina fire.
	And you recall that our insider in the electricity industry had found out that even though the power had been shut off from the power company, that the hotels We're still pumping their energy back into the grid through their generators.
	Do you remember that?
	Yeah, I remember it.
	Well, now here is the president of Hawaiian Electric, Shili Kimura, and here's what she testified to.
	On that day of fire at 6.30am, what I will refer to as the morning fire, appears to have been caused by Hawaiian Electric power lines that fell in high winds.
	The Maui County Fire Department promptly responded to this fire.
	They reported that by 9 a.m.
	it was contained.
	After monitoring it for several hours, the fire department determined the fire had been extinguished.
	They left the scene in the early afternoon.
	At about 3 p.m., a time when all of Hawaii Electric's power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours, a second fire, the afternoon fire, began in the same area.
	The cause of that afternoon fire that spread to Lahaina has not been determined.
	We are working tirelessly to figure out what happened and we are cooperating fully with federal and state investigators who have indicated it may take 12 to 18 months to conclude.
	How about when we know exactly what happened?
	The wires were down, they were energized because the hotels had their generators still hooked up, were pumping energy back into the system.
	So they, now they gotta, now there's some, I think there's some negotiating who's gonna take the fall for it.
	Yeah, that's why the 18 months.
	What a, what a... It doesn't take 18 months to do that kind of investigation.
	Of course not, of course not.
	It's hooey, it's hooey, I tell you.
	It's hooey.
	It's hooey, it's hooey hooey.
	Very sad that they can't just come clean with people, you know?
	That story dropped out, didn't it?
	I've never even heard it.
	Well, I mean, forget about just the fire in general.
	Oh, yeah, I know.
	Forget it.
	People are homeless out there.
	It's nuts.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, we have the Bulls with Buds with Stephen Bell.
	Wow, Stephen Bell, one of the big software developers of Podcasting 2.0.
	It should be fun.
	End of show mixes, Billy Bones.
	Let me see, we have a classic Obama phone remix, and we have Brendan F's boogity, boogity, boogity.
	Can't get much better than that.
	We'll be back on Thursday.
	Until then, I'm Adam Curry, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	There you go.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, Where I remain.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	There we go.
	We'll be back on Thursday.
	Please remember us.
	Send us some value at dvorak.org slash NA.
	We'll see you then.
	Take care, everybody.
	Adios, mofos!
	Ahoy, ahoy!
	And such.
	We have a bunch of different subcultures of birds around here.
	There's blue jays, there's crows, there's ravens.
	But these doves have moved in.
	They've never been here before.
	The first time I saw it, I thought an owl was up here during the day.
	There's doves!
	The worst!
	It's driving me nuts!
	I'm gonna get a rifle as soon as I start picking them off.
	I hit a .22.
	How about a .38 IACP?
	I mean, what's your problem?
	And all they do is go... Boo!
	Boo!
	Boo!
	The worst!
	It's driving me nuts!
	There's doves You have no idea how much I hate these girls I do.
	I do now.
	I do.
	I do now.
	And finally, for the most unusual pre-race prayers you will ever hear. for the most unusual pre-race prayers you will ever hear.
	Heavenly Father, we thank you tonight for all your blessings.
	You said, in all things, give thanks.
	So we want to thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you've brought before us.
	Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyota's.
	Thank you for the Fords.
	And most of all, we thank you for Roush and Yates, Margaret, to give us the power that we see before us tonight.
	Thank you for Jim and performance technology and the R07 engines.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We'll be right back.
	Give me a phone.
	He's both Obama and President, you know!
	He gave us a vote!
	We want you more!
	He's both Obama and President, you know!
	He gave us a vote!
	We want you more!
	Rami, you suck.
	Rami, you suck.
	You on full stance on Social Security.
	You got low income, you disability.
	Minority get on problem phone.
	Minority get on problem phone. Minority get on problem phone.
	Minority get on problem phone. .
	He gave us a phone.
	He gave us a phone!
	Give me a phone!
	Give me a phone!
	He gave us a phone!
	Give me a phone!
	He gave us a phone!
	Give me a phone!
	He gave us a phone!
	Give me a phone!
	He gave us a phone!
	He gave us a phone

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