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1631: Pulling a Johnson

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	Oh, right, right, right.
	Right, that's exactly what it is.
	Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, February 4th, 2024.
	This is your award-winning Cuba Nation Media Assassination, episode 1631.
	This is No Agenda.
	Analyzing the info mavericks and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region, number 6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where now I'm wondering whether it's pronounced Gouda or Gowda.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, you came to the right show for that.
	That's right.
	Because it is officially Gowda.
	Gowda.
	G-G-Gowda.
	You gotta do the hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh The small town in Holland.
	No, no.
	Yeah, the small town in Holland is Gouda.
	It's famous for its cheese and one other export product.
	Can you name the product?
	Wooden shoes.
	No.
	Stropskoffel.
	Whatever that pancake is.
	Stropskoffel.
	Hey, that's a good one.
	That's show title right there.
	Stropskoffel.
	No, candles.
	Uh, candles.
	Didn't you know that?
	No, never heard of it.
	Oh my god, they export, I bet you that Gouda exports, that more candles come from Gouda than anywhere else in the world.
	Well, the reason I brought this up is because I'm watching a cooking show that I don't normally watch, but I watch.
	It's pretty interesting.
	It's called The Scandinavian Cook.
	And this guy floats all over the place in Scandinavia and he tells stories about one thing or another, like the big sausage strike.
	Anyway, so he says, and he's making some food at the end, he says, and I'm going to take, and he says, Gouda.
	He's going to put some Gouda cheese.
	You can use a hard cheese or use Gouda.
	I'm thinking Gouda.
	I never heard that pronounced.
	I always thought it was Gouda because that's the way we pronounce it in California when we buy it at the store.
	Yes.
	And now it turns out it's not even Gouda, it's Gouda.
	Gouda.
	I would say in America most people say Gouda.
	But you say Gouda.
	I'd like some Gouda cheese.
	No, Gouda.
	If you don't put the G... Gouda, Gouda.
	Gouda.
	You gotta put the G in there, otherwise it's not worth it.
	Well, it's not gonna work anyway.
	But no one, if you say Gouda, you have to say Gouda.
	No one else will understand you in America.
	You gotta say Gouda.
	You have to say Gouda.
	Gotta say Gouda.
	But where did the word Gouda come from then?
	I mean, who mispronounced it the first time?
	I mean, come on.
	People pronounce things differently in different countries.
	My name in Holland is Adam.
	Or, alternatively, Edem.
	Hello, Edem.
	Edem.
	Edem.
	E-D-E-U-M.
	Edem.
	Edem.
	Kom hier dan, Edem.
	Yes.
	So, and boy, did I hate it when people called me Adam.
	Hey, Adam, can we just have a year, Adam?
	Like autumn?
	Like A-T-U-M-N?
	No, that's just the way you say Adam in Holland.
	Adam and Eva.
	Adam and Eva.
	Anyway.
	Well, it's obvious what's going down now in this political year of 2024 in the United States.
	We have two teams.
	We have... What is that?
	Is that feedback?
	What am I hearing?
	You're hearing a storm.
	That's the storm?
	It sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
	It's bad.
	Here's the strategy.
	We have the Democrats on one side, and their strategy is war!
	Kill!
	War!
	War!
	Iran!
	War!
	Bomb them!
	War!
	And they got some Republicans to participate in that.
	And then on the right, in this corner over here, we have the Republicans, and they're Invasion at the border!
	Illegal migrants!
	And they will do anything possible to keep both of these things going.
	And I would like to start in my backyard with the caravan to take back our border.
	That was Caravan of God.
	Yes.
	God's Army.
	It's God's Army, which resulted in a hundred people going to the border.
	This is one of the most exciting rallies we've ever seen.
	Today, protesters from around the country flocked to a small Texas border town to vent frustration over illegal immigration.
	CBS's Jason Allen is there for us tonight.
	Jason.
	Nikki, good evening.
	This event has been peaceful here today with a lot of these people telling me that they felt called to be here.
	Hundreds of them caravan from... By the way, notice all the God references.
	They were called to be here.
	They're laying it on thick over at CBS.
	...here today with a lot of these people telling me that they felt called to be here.
	Hundreds of them caravan from Virginia here to this South Texas ranch to protest the Biden administration's handling of immigration issues here at the southern border.
	A small but fervent group of people rallied to take the border back in South Texas.
	I think we all as a nation want this to end.
	Both Democrats and Republicans.
	The gathering was part religious revival and part Trump rally.
	Let me tell you, I've been watching this and been getting some boots on the ground.
	This was not religious revival by any stretch of the imagination.
	This is Satan, this is CBS trying to make everything out to be.
	Yes, yeah, God's army.
	Democrats and Republicans.
	The gathering was part religious revival and part Trump rally.
	We need God to fix this because we can't fix this.
	We don't know who these people are.
	They could be our enemies.
	The rally happened near Eagle Pass where there's a standoff between federal and Texas authorities over border control.
	CBS's Camilo Montoya-Galvez is there.
	The Texas National Guard is blocking federal agents from patrolling this section of the US-Mexico border near Eagle Pass.
	As you can see, it has been fortified with razor and concertina wire.
	The US Supreme Court has allowed the Biden administration to remove the wire, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott has vowed to keep it in place.
	Some Eagle Pass residents say they are not pleased with the national attention.
	I think the political fight is up.
	In Washington, and it's at the Capitol in Texas.
	It's not down here.
	At the rally, people say they had to be here to send a message.
	If we stay at home and sit on our butts, we're going to get mowed over.
	This country will be gone.
	Tomorrow, Governor Abbott is going to be in Eagle Pass with about a dozen other Republican governors.
	CBS News has learned that there were threats that Border Protection learned about as a precaution moved some migrants out of a processing facility that was nearby.
	Oh yes, so there you go.
	It was, as predicted, a complete wet turd.
	There's nothing going on.
	Sir Gene is down there and he sent me a couple videos and, you know, it was a press event.
	That's all that it is.
	It's a small little park that is, you know, an area where they close it down, locked it down.
	Yeah, we can't let the Border Patrol come in.
	And then a half a mile further up, there's an open gate and three miles further up, there's not even a fence.
	So the whole thing is a farce, and today I was waiting for it to happen.
	I couldn't get any clips on time of Abbott showing up with a whole bunch of other Republican governors.
	Of course, yeah, this is not political at all.
	Oh, and the timing is perfect for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
	The Republican extraordinaire to pull this stunt.
	He has signaled that this bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill is dead on arrival in the House.
	As you speak to him, do you suspect there'll be anything that can change his mind on that?
	Well, Willie, it will be very interesting to hear his answer on that point because yesterday he made this surprise move.
	He introduced a standalone piece of legislation that would aid Israel That is significant because aid to Israel was a part of that border package that Priscilla was just talking about, as well as aid to Ukraine.
	So the question is, Willie, was that move aimed at effectively killing that border deal?
	As Priscilla just mapped out, former President Trump has effectively been calling on Republicans to kill the deal.
	Basically, he thinks it would be a political gift to President Biden in the middle of this tough re-election campaign.
	I spoke to a top Republican lawmaker overnight who said there is concern about not only what this means for the border deal, but what this would mean for Ukraine aid.
	What message does this send?
	All right, so what he did here was he ripped apart, instead of trying to go through this process of which everyone was pushing for, was one big aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and that had to have some border stuff, and they got some border stuff.
	He pulled what we'll now call a Johnson, and he said, oh no, because of course the Speaker of the House introduces the bills, oh no, I've got a new bill, we're going to send $17.4 billion, which as if it's nothing, that's $17,500,000 to Israel, which is not, they're not going to send a big check like publishers Clearing House, more bombs, more bombs, more cool stuff that we're making,
	So they had Mike show up on Meet the Press this morning with your pal there.
	What's her name again?
	Kristen Welker.
	Welker, right.
	And she asked the obvious question.
	Mr. Speaker, as you know, that bill that you passed in the House would be dead on arrival in the Senate.
	Your Republican colleagues in the Senate have said as much.
	So I guess my question is, did you propose this stand-alone Israel aid package to kill this compromise deal in the Senate?
	No, we've made very clear what the requirements of the House were, and that is to solve the problem at the border.
	Apparently, the Senate has not been able to come to an agreement.
	They've been suggesting texts should be filed, maybe today.
	But we've been told the same thing for months now.
	We've been awaiting their action.
	We cannot wait any longer.
	The House is willing to lead.
	And the reason we have to take care of this Israel The situation right now is because the situation has escalated, of course.
	I mean, the Hamas terrorists have not relented in their attacks on Israel.
	We're now having, of course, U.S.
	personnel being fired upon there.
	And, of course, with the retaliatory strikes that are taking place, the heat has been turned up there.
	Israel has never been in greater need of our support, and the House is serious about that.
	I believe we'll pass this with a wide margin and take care of that responsibility.
	Oh yeah, so Mike, he really relented on that one.
	Never needed it more than ever.
	There was a small moment of clarity when he said this.
	The President of the United States opened the border.
	We documented 64 specific actions that Joe Biden and his agencies have taken to create this this catastrophe.
	They did it intentionally.
	That's why his approval rating is in the tank.
	60% of the people disapproved by your latest poll.
	The reason the presidency is imperiled, as your opening monologue stated, is because this is an abject failure of leadership.
	The American people are done with this.
	The border has to be secured.
	The president has the authority right now.
	He doesn't need another act of Congress.
	He could do it right now, but he's unwilling to do it.
	And that's the message you'll be hearing over and over again, along with all the other great stories of migrants wreaking havoc inside our borders.
	I think what happens now is a couple of things.
	First, the immigration, it's not even through the border, on the ground.
	And remember, when you see these videos, look at how clean their clothes are.
	Their shoes, sparkling clean.
	No suitcases.
	They're not carrying anything.
	That gets shipped on a big lorry.
	You don't have to carry anything besides the lorry when you have a credit card with a bunch of money on it.
	Well, there's that!
	It's not a credit card.
	It's a debit card.
	Let's be honest.
	The money's already there.
	It's not even credit.
	It's good to go.
	Boots on the ground from one of our producers.
	Was in the Bush Intercontinental Airport, going to LA for business.
	Ten refugees on the flight, all carrying bags from the IOM, the International Office of Migration from the United Nations.
	What, they put your logo on them?
	Yeah!
	Yeah, I have pictures!
	No!
	Yes, I have pictures!
	He took pictures!
	Probably got to put that in the newsletter.
	That is so, that is so arrogant.
	Mm-hmm.
	And lanyards, with IOM lanyards.
	Can you believe it?
	So, this is all being shuttled over through, it's all on purpose, it's all by design.
	They're raising $7.9 billion, the IOM is, through Amy Pope, former State Department aficionado.
	The whole thing, and it's, that's, there's even one part that's even worse.
	These info mavericks that are just sticking in my craw.
	And I can put Brett Weinstein up there.
	Not a bad guy, but people get directed.
	And you get directed by people who send you messages, and you know, you get insiders.
	We have them all the time.
	They've sent me on wild goose chases before.
	I'd like to mention things like Quantum dots.
	You don't have to mention quantum dots.
	Quantum dots.
	But I do have something else that you will have to mention, but we'll do it later.
	Okay.
	So along with this, along with this report from our boots on the ground, our producer says 90% of the people I'm seeing are military age men.
	And that is, so that is what the info mavericks are directing you towards.
	The whole idea is to get you to think about this.
	They just changed the battlefield.
	Don't go looking at what's really happening.
	Think about military-age men.
	And we've been hearing this over and over again.
	And how did this start?
	You know, all of a sudden it's just, oh, military-age men.
	Oh, they're sending Chinese in.
	They're going to take us over from inside out.
	And so Brett Weinstein was on talker again to talk about his trip to the Darien Gap.
	This was amazing.
	All of a sudden he's the roving reporter.
	And I pulled a little clip of him and Heather talking about his... I think Heather's always there.
	No, this is the Dark Horse podcast.
	I didn't want to pull the Tucker clip.
	It's more interesting to pull it from there.
	From the home podcast.
	So Brett, what's your thesis after going through the Darien Gap?
	The hypothesis that I want to put.
	I mean hypothesis.
	Not a thesis.
	No, I'm sorry.
	It's a hypothesis.
	What's the difference between a thesis and a hypothesis?
	There is actually a slight difference.
	Hypothesis would be the word you'd use in academia for pretty much the same thing.
	As far as I'm concerned, they're synonymous.
	But hypo is more.
	And also a thesis is something that's produced necessarily.
	So in other words, I wrote a thesis.
	Ooh, or someone wrote it for him maybe.
	Well, listen to his hypothesis.
	The hypothesis that I want to put forward is that the economic migration that is so evident that you saw at the first camp is actually cloaking this second migration, which is traveling a different route, which is housed separately.
	So I have to add to this.
	So he went to the Darien Gap and he saw two camps.
	One was like South Americans, people from Venezuela, Ecuador.
	You know, hey, we want a better life, eh?
	They said it just like that, too.
	Oh, please.
	They said it just like that.
	Nice try, senor.
	But then there was this other camp where he was not allowed to film and it was filled with Chinese!
	Which is traveling a different route, which is housed separately, and which, on the ground, has an absolutely distinct character, and is treated in the inverse way by the authorities.
	They don't want it observed.
	They can't prevent you from seeing it from the edge of the camp, but they do not want you getting any deeper into the thing, they don't want you Okay, so that means he didn't write it.
	And it's not obvious why they would have a different policy.
	In fact, the opposite policy as they did in the Maine migration.
	So anyway, the hypothesis that I want to put on the table, and I'm not saying that I necessarily believe that this is true, but I do believe it is plausible.
	OK, so that means he didn't write it.
	He's been given this hypothesis.
	I also want to say at this point, I'm going to change the definition of hypothesis because I can see this coming to conspiracy theory.
	There you go.
	The economic migration out of South America is cloaking a migration of largely military age Chinese migrants who are motivated by something distinct from they're not fleeing the CCP.
	It's not obvious that they are concerned about the view of the CCP.
	It appears that they're actually facilitated by it, that they've left China with the knowledge of the CCP and that they have joined this migration, which we now try to talk about as one thing.
	But if it's two things, that will confuse things.
	So his hypothesis, which he doesn't necessarily agree with, is that the International Office of Migration is obfuscating these military-aged people, He had a picture of old women, was what I saw, but okay.
	These military-aged people who have been sent by the CCP, which I guess the International Office of Migration is bringing in to take over the United States from the inside out.
	And all I could think of was the former New York banker who said, Adam, we always will beat China, because their population is declining, and we have an increasing population, not by young people having children and starting families, but by open borders.
	And I think this is a part of it.
	And I think they want these Chinese, they're probably really smart Chinese, you know, the good ones, who got skills, who got skills to do stuff.
	Yeah, we can get those Chinese very easily through the H-1B program.
	They don't have to sneak into the country, especially the skilled ones.
	But, how about this, for some sort of a counter-argument to all this.
	First of all, this bit about Chinese losing its population, there's a bunch of people that are on that bandwagon.
	But they don't explain the fact that, oh yeah, they're not going to have anybody working for the old people.
	They can't explain away the fact that 30 to 40 percent of the young people in China can't get work?
	There you go!
	And it's true!
	How does that make any sense in the scheme of things?
	And I'll bet they're military-aged.
	If the population's declining and they're out of control, they can't get workers.
	I bet they're military-aged.
	Well, they're young people.
	They're all military age.
	I think they're 40.
	The whole thing is we want them here.
	We have to remember that this was 20, 25 years ago.
	You could walk across the border.
	There were corporations there going, hey, come on over.
	We'll bring you back at the end of the day.
	How about my hypothesis?
	Oh, all right.
	Yours will be conspiracy theory.
	The United States has a similar situation to China.
	We have all these young people that will never put up with being conscripted.
	It's just not going to happen.
	That boat has sailed.
	We're going to have a volunteer army for the rest of our days of mercenaries and whoever, so we'll bring them in over the border.
	Hey, you want to become an American citizen?
	Here's your path.
	Join the army.
	Put in four years, you can re-up if you want for two more, and you'll become an American citizen after your two-year duty.
	We're gonna put you in the Army.
	I'm with you on this.
	And you're going to fight for America.
	I'm with you on this, and the reason why is because of Steadfast Defender 24.
	Are you familiar with Steadfast Defender?
	No.
	Steadfast Defender.
	Here's a little backgrounder.
	NATO has kicked off its biggest military exercise in decades.
	The alliance will carry out four months of drills.
	Steadfast Defender 24.
	Let me play it out because I'm going to prove your point here.
	That's the name.
	And it aims to showcase NATO's ability to deploy forces from North America and elsewhere to reinforce Europe.
	31 NATO members and Sweden are taking part in the exercises, which will involve around 90,000 troops.
	The drills include naval vessels, dozens of aircraft, and more than a thousand combat vehicles.
	For more now, I'm joined by Eileen Motley.
	She is the Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Defense at the German Council on Foreign Relations.
	It's good to have you with us.
	This is NATO's biggest exercise that we've seen in decades.
	Why now?
	I think it should be clear that NATO is not acting in a vacuum, but rather that NATO is reacting to what Russia has been doing since essentially 2014, violating the sovereignty of Ukraine.
	And obviously that has been reinforced by Russia's full-fledged invasion of Ukraine starting in February 2022.
	And that is why NATO is in the process of planning this big exercise, actually the biggest since the end of the Cold War.
	So this is now underway.
	This was just a few days before it started.
	And what did we hear all over Europe?
	This is a psychological operation on the Europeans.
	Yeah.
	It's Russia.
	And then, oh, conscription.
	Boris Johnson.
	Oh, yes.
	Lieutenant Johnson reporting for duty.
	Read my column in the Daily Mail.
	Everyone's going like, I'm not going to be conscripted.
	I'm not going to.
	Conscription is drafting.
	I'm not going to go into it.
	I'm not going to do that.
	Then we had Sweden.
	Sweden?
	Oh, yep.
	Well, you know what?
	The Commander-in-Chief over there, Bidane, General Michael Bidane, urges fellow Swedes to, quote, prepare themselves mentally for war.
	The Civil Defense Minister, Karl-Oskar Boland, stressed that war could come to Sweden.
	The German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, shared his wild guess that a Russian attack on a NATO country could occur within less than 10 years.
	The Dutch Admiral Robauer, Oh yes, we need to be resilient.
	We have to have a whole-of-society approach.
	They are doing everything they can to get Cold War going.
	And they need to do it now because they need money.
	See, France just ordered 1.1 billion euros of vehicles, helicopters, some other pew-pew stuff.
	Because they know, the minute Trump comes in, the gravy train is over.
	This is their last hurrah.
	They're doing everything they can.
	They're trying to scare everybody into this.
	And I think you're right.
	It's like, Americans, we've given up.
	We're like, no one wants to go into that woke bullcrap.
	We're not going to go into the Army and the Air Force.
	No!
	No!
	Get some Chiners.
	I think you're absolutely right.
	That's the deal.
	It's all, the military-industrial complex is running roughshod on the whole world right now.
	No one's in control of them.
	They just do whatever they want, blow stuff up, and then, and even get the Speaker of the House Johnson to, alright, you know, here's 17 billion.
	It's a tip for these guys, but it's enough for now.
	Just a tip.
	People have to realize, this is what's going on.
	It's just all military.
	Everything we can do for war, war, war, war.
	That's a money maker.
	And it will be very interesting to see what Tucker comes up with, who has been spotted in Moscow, if he actually goes... Hawaii!
	Oh yeah, to interview Putin.
	That's the big rumor.
	Oh?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, Putin will run circles around that guy.
	Well, Putin will get exactly what he wants.
	Yeah, no he will, that's what I meant.
	This whole thing is, it's really disgusting.
	And then, you know, instead of, instead of, I mean, just what, this 86, here, let me play this one clip and then I think you, it looks like you got enough stuff here to cover it, but I just wanted to play This one, uh, where is it, uh, in the region here.
	Yes, this is from our last show.
	Just remember, we had a huge, huge gathering in Congress, in the halls, the hallowed halls of Congress, and this is what came out of it.
	Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands.
	No, no, Lindsay.
	Actual blood is on the hands of dead people with 86 military strikes.
	We're just bombing all kinds of books.
	Lindsay has blood on his hands.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	It's unbelievable.
	And so, let's get Jake Sullivan out.
	Let's get him out and talking to everybody.
	Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake.
	How many did we kill?
	What did we get?
	What's going on?
	How'd we do?
	So the president has been very clear from the beginning, which is that when American forces are attacked, we will respond.
	And we've responded several times over the course of the past few months.
	And then when three Americans were tragically killed, the president ordered ... and serious response which we are now, which is now underway.
	It began with the strikes on Friday night but that is not the end of it.
	We intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked or people are killed.
	I mean, this message that they keep talking about, I think the message is clear.
	Especially because you keep saying it, but this is not over.
	At this point, we are still assessing the question of how many casualties there were.
	Blood on your hands!
	Among the militia groups.
	And our military will continue to provide the President with those assessments.
	We do believe that the strikes had good effect in degrading the capabilities of these militia groups to attack us.
	And we do believe that as we continue, we will be able to continue to send a strong message about the United States's firm resolve to respond when our forces are attacked.
	Jake, do you know if any civilians were killed?
	Do you know if any militant leaders were killed?
	We do not have at this time any Confirmation of any civilian casualties.
	Our military is still looking at that.
	What we do know is that the targets we hit were absolutely valid targets from the point of view of containing the weaponry and the personnel that were attacking American forces.
	So we are confident in the targets that we struck and I will defer to a final analysis, the question of who was taken out among militant leaders.
	I gotta stop you from these clips.
	You've jumped from the Texas trucking to now we're overseas all of a sudden with a bunch of stuff in the middle that you've just passed over.
	It was kind of a work of genius but the show's got to go on for three hours.
	Well, my point was this is just two sides of a political coin that's being tossed up in the media and Republicans are all about the border and then, you know, Personally, I think, you know, the war stuff may be a little more important.
	That's where all our money goes to.
	Yeah, but that's since we started domestically, I wanted to stick with it because I got a bunch of domestic clips I want to play.
	All right.
	As opposed to jumping into the war already, which includes the three by three and over analysis of the attacks with the B1 bombers.
	Yes, God.
	Yes.
	And I should just as an aside, I'll probably mention it, but as an aside, the B-1 bombers aren't even stationed over there, they're stationed in the United States.
	Are you going to do domestic or...?
	I just have to put this point in.
	A B-1 bomber costs $173,000 an hour to operate.
	I just wanted to throw that in there if you want to talk about money wasting.
	Yes, I wanted to talk a little bit about Majorca because Majorca is going to get impeached.
	And there was another big issue on the Meet the Depressed show that you mentioned earlier because he was on there.
	And she was hounding him about this, saying it was political.
	The reason I would like to play some Majorca clips is because this is actually, just for the benefit of the audience, this is an amazing historic event to try to impeach a cabinet member.
	The last time it happened was 150 years ago.
	And who was that?
	I don't even know.
	It was somebody in somebody's cabinet and it was just some, I don't know, maybe the war guy.
	But I want to start with a Majorca analysis from MTD.
	Uh, okay.
	On Wednesday morning... This is the one?
	Impeaching Mallorca?
	Me, yeah.
	On Wednesday morning, a House panel approved articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
	He's accused of breaching the public trust... No, no, I see what... That's why I asked.
	You meant this clip.
	Joining us now to explore the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas... No, you were playing the right clip.
	No, this one says, Mallorca analysis NTD.
	This one says Mallorca Analysis N.T.D.?
	Yeah, the other one just says Impeaching Mallorca.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, why don't you skip the Mallorca Analysis, go back to Impeaching Mallorca.
	Okay, okay.
	And by the way, I think it's Mallorcas.
	Mallorca is a seaside village in Spain.
	On Wednesday morning, a House panel approved articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
	He's accused of breaching the public trust and refusing to comply with the law.
	And just hours later, House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Mayorkas of being partly responsible for the fentanyl crisis.
	Moms and dads, brothers and grandmothers, all of us are losing loved ones to a drug that is being smuggled across the border in droves.
	Where in the world is Secretary Mayorkas on all of this?
	He is the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
	It's his responsibility to prevent these harmful drugs from flowing into our country.
	The full house could vote on Mallorca's impeachment as soon as next week.
	Who was that speaking in the house?
	Who was that?
	I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.
	Is the wind that bad?
	It's that bad.
	Who was speaking in the house there?
	That was Johnson, wasn't it?
	That's what I thought it was.
	I mean, this is also... I mean, they don't care.
	They don't care about people dying in the streets.
	They don't.
	They can leverage the fentanyl thing better than they can leverage bringing the soldiers over.
	Yes, they totally can leverage that.
	And again, it's part of, oh, just let them die so we can talk about it.
	Well, I don't think they're that callous, but it's something you can leverage to get Some attention to the fact that you're trying to impeach this guy.
	And they're going to impeach him in the House, but it's not going to go anywhere after that.
	Which, you know, begs the question, why bother?
	Hello, election year.
	Hello.
	Exactly.
	Let's go to clip two.
	And on the note of how this impeachment is unfolding, Democrats are calling this a political stunt.
	What's your understanding of the legality here?
	Of course, an impeachment is not, strictly speaking, a legal proceeding.
	It is, as our founders, in particular Alexander Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, told us, that it is a political tool, but it's a very serious one.
	And as one of the federal courts, with regard to these cases involving Mr. Mayorkas, has said, look, if in fact you in the Congress disagree with what Mr. Mayorkas is doing, Don't come to us, you have a tool available to you, that is the Congress, and it is impeachment.
	So, the courts have basically told the Republicans in the House of Representatives, you have a tool at your disposal, it's up to you to use it.
	That tool is impeachment.
	Question.
	Is this the same type of process with an impeachment of a president where both houses have to impeach?
	No, technically, once you're voted for impeachment, you're impeached.
	It's exactly the same.
	The House impeaches you and then he goes to the Senate for trial.
	Oh, okay.
	Alright.
	So it's exactly the same.
	According to Johnson, when he was grilled by Kristen this morning, the show that you were referring to earlier.
	She was yellowed up again, by the way.
	She was really yellowed up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I saw the hands.
	I saw it.
	They put a little, they tried to lighten her hands a little bit.
	Not even trying.
	No, no, I don't think they're trying.
	No, I looked at the hands.
	Now you've got me looking at people's hands.
	You can't not look at the hands.
	You should sit on her hands.
	It's no good.
	So, uh...
	Johnson, he says, well, it's not as political as it was with the Democrats going after Trump because they didn't do all the proceedings.
	Because you're supposed to go through a series of meetings and committees and blah, blah, blah, blah, one thing after another before you even bring it to the House.
	You just don't bring it straight up the way Nancy Pelosi did.
	So he claims because of procedure, it's apolitical.
	Which is nonsense.
	Now hold on, let me ask you another question.
	So if they impeach him in the House, it means nothing, correct?
	It's just that you're impeached.
	That's an embarrassment.
	Yeah, but he doesn't get thrown out.
	Does he get thrown off the job?
	No.
	Okay.
	Only if the Senate convicts him, would he then be fired and maybe served?
	Yeah, he's fired, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So this is not going to happen?
	Exactly.
	All right.
	Do you want to take the higher ground?
	You're right, this is all election posturing.
	Yes.
	But it's historic because it's the fact, and that's the only reason I wanted to play these clips because there's a lot of interesting little tidbits.
	The guy that she's interviewing is the guy who was on the impeachment committee against Clinton.
	And he's got a lot of experience with this and so he's got some funny things to say that are interesting to note and the fact is that if you do have it, it seems to me you have a guy who's the head of the Homeland Security.
	That's a big deal.
	That can't keep Fentanyl from coming into the country.
	He's doing a shitty job, and that's what I think the point they're trying to make.
	I never liked this Mayorkas guy anyway.
	But you're not a House representative, so it doesn't matter what we think.
	This is a fact.
	Can I interject one clip, just because we're talking about impeachment?
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you saw this, the PBS Frontline documentary about January 6th?
	Yeah, I did see it.
	I'd like to play a little clip here because this accentuates the point of all of these impeachments and hearings just being TV show.
	Is that okay?
	Yeah, go for it.
	Thompson's committee had gathered a trove of information.
	The challenge, what to do with it.
	The one thing that we knew was the information that we have is compelling.
	The thing we needed to do was tell that to the American people in a compelling way.
	So that's why we brought in a former president of ABC News.
	Yeah, I got a call pretty much out of the blue.
	Out of the blue!
	From the Joint Sixth Committee.
	They wanted a storyteller.
	And while they were brilliant, they were brilliant lawyers.
	Storytelling for a mass audience is not what they do.
	Bringing a guy like this who would think outside the box really did prove to be fruitful.
	And it was Goldston who really began to envision this as, in a way, a kind of mini-series.
	That there would be, you know, sort of nine episodes, and that these episodes would tackle particular themes.
	Attack on the Capitol.
	The investigation.
	The first hearing was primetime television.
	As the nation is about to witness a defining moment.
	The first hearing before the country, the results of the January 6th investigation.
	This is an extraordinary moment in American history.
	When it came to that first hearing.
	Notice the parallel.
	Extraordinary moment in American history.
	Never impeached a cabinet member in 150 years.
	Extraordinary moment.
	Disinvestigation.
	This is an extraordinary moment in American history.
	When it came to that first hearing, we knew how high the stakes were.
	Is about to hold its first primetime hearing.
	We were either gonna, you know, make people realize that this was important, You know, or once you've lost them, you've lost them for good.
	On the evening of June 9th, 8.01pm, the doors opened.
	My heart was beating pretty fast on June 9th.
	And it was a real question of... Can we do it?
	Is this going to work or not?
	Come on team!
	Alright everybody, here we go.
	Here we go!
	I'm in this tiny control room right up the stairs from Cannon Caucus.
	And we count down to the start of the hearing.
	And at that point, what can you do?
	And we're live, people.
	We're live.
	Here we go.
	In three, two, one.
	The Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on a United States Capitol will be in order.
	Without objection.
	We wanted to make sure that this was a presentation that would grab the audience and hold on to them.
	Chairman Thompson loved to say, it's gotta pop.
	So, we of course called this, as it was taking place, we talked about them bringing in this ABC News guy, we talked about them doing this primetime, they didn't even do a series, they did a couple of them primetime.
	My question is, if this is out there, it's on PBS Frontline, if everyone knows that this happened, if everyone saw it go down, why don't the Republicans do this?
	They're not doing it right!
	Well, I'm going to disagree with this.
	No?
	I think that when the Democrats decided to get an ABC producer in and put it on prime time, it had the veneer of a TV show.
	Yes.
	Which nobody really takes that seriously, because they've seen so many of them.
	I'm with you, I'm with you.
	I think the credibility went down, not up, because of the overproduction values created by the ABC guy.
	He was putting on a TV show.
	Might as have been Law & Order.
	I watch Law & Order all the time and after this, I don't, you know, want to change my vote or anything afterwards.
	It's just pure, it becomes entertainment and I, my system, my My entertainment desiring system sees it as entertainment, treats it as entertainment.
	I'm out of there after that and I can go off and do something else.
	I think this was a huge flop.
	But you're telling me that Taylor Swift won't change your vote from Trump to Biden?
	No, she won't.
	Alright, let's get back to your Mallorca clips.
	I think I'm on clip three.
	Now on that note, Speaker Mike Johnson is saying it is Secretary Mallorca's job to prevent harmful drugs from flowing into our country and secure our border.
	How would a Mallorca's impeachment help secure the border?
	Well, that's a very, very good question because even if Secretary Mayorkas were impeached and then removed, which is highly unlikely given the fact that you need a two-thirds majority and the In the Senate to convict and remove him and the Republicans are in the minority over there, he would be replaced by presumably somebody else ready, willing and able to carry out Mr. Biden's policies.
	So unfortunately, it's probably not going to solve the issue.
	But I think impeaching Mr. Mayorkas is called for.
	And would send a very clear message, at least to the American people, that a majority of the House of Representatives is doing everything that it can to correct the awful policies and failure to abide by the law on our southern border.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He's basically saying what you said.
	Yeah, and now I have to ask the question, why did they interrupt all this with that stupid blood on your hands Zuckerberg bit?
	What was the point of that?
	It hasn't stopped anyone from using social media.
	Was that just a flare?
	Now you got me thinking about that.
	I haven't considered that.
	Well, that was a Senate hearing, if I'm not mistaken, right?
	Yes.
	And I looked at the bills that they were talking about and I went through them, you know, as I do, like really through the Kids Online Safety Act, COSA.
	And all I find, yeah, yeah, I see some stuff in there, like some interesting terminology, like addictive feeds.
	Okay.
	But all the stuff is everything you'd expect, you know, in two years we'll implement this.
	You have to, you gotta adhere to guide, nothing, nothing spectacular.
	I mean, it's complete performative nonsense.
	How about this?
	Johnson himself has said this, that the Senate is not going to do anything.
	And as one of the reporters said, he got feedback from the Senate Republicans that they're not going to do anything.
	The Senate is so divorced from the House and so forth, the Republicans in the Senate are so divorced from the House.
	They're just doing stuff.
	This may have been the Zuckerberg thing, just to cover up the fact that this impeachment is going on, so it doesn't draw any attention to it.
	Right.
	Thinking people would care, which they don't.
	Smokescreen, creating a smokescreen.
	Let's listen to the last clip and then we can maybe figure it out.
	On that note, what do you see as the next steps in this case?
	Some are saying it could die in the House, the Senate, as you just pointed out, or could we actually see a conviction?
	What do you see next?
	It will, of course, now that the committee with jurisdiction, Mr. Green's Homeland Security Committee, has reported out two articles of impeachment to the full House, it will be up to Speaker Johnson to schedule a vote.
	Now, whether or not the Republicans will be able to secure a majority for that It is itself a question because of the very very slim majority that they have.
	But hopefully they will have a majority and if in fact a bare majority votes on either one or both of those articles of impeachment, it will in fact go over to the Senate and the Senate will have to conduct a trial and then vote on whether or not to convict and remove Mr. Mayorkas.
	So, this is a political ploy.
	This is done just before the election, so that the Republicans in the House... Well, they got a little bit of runway before the election.
	Yeah, but if they get the impeachment to go through, which will probably take, you know, a month, and then they have to send it to the Senate, this thing will drag on close to the election.
	Because they're just not going to be able to ram it through that fast.
	It's a slow process.
	And Johnson has made a point of making it a slow process by going through all these committees and then there's the Biden impeachment coming up.
	Oh goodness gracious.
	It's just all political.
	Just keep it going.
	I'm out campaigning against the Democrat.
	I'm already an incumbent Democrat and I got a Republican coming up against me and the Republican can say, this person would refuse to vote for the impeachment of the man who's poisoning the country with fentanyl.
	and he's poisoning the blood.
	Poising the blood.
	He's got blood on his hands.
	So, it's all, yeah, totally political, but what else is new with this House and Senate?
	it.
	Bye.
	Well, then I might as well bring this up, because I've determined now that the Taylor Swift op is actually people talking about the op.
	That's the op!
	By the way, I was at the meetup.
	I went to the Albany Mallard Club meetup, and that's exactly what they were talking about, the op.
	They were talking about Taylor Swift.
	I have a couple of clips just to accentuate the point.
	It's Super Bowl marketing, obviously.
	Yeah.
	They won't need her after this.
	There's this fake clip that's going around which was sent to me several times by people saying, look at this!
	Good morning, Taylor Swift is not a psy-op.
	Taylor Swift is not a psy-op.
	So they took that video, the very famous video of all of the, uh, what was that news outlet that all had the same screen?
	Sinclair.
	Sinclair, yeah.
	And they just added these voices over it.
	Okay, here's what actually is going on.
	Have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?
	Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon Psychological Operations Unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting.
	So is Swift a front for a covert political agenda?
	Primetime obviously has no evidence.
	If we did, we'd share it.
	It's a coordinated marketing campaign by Democrats to leverage celebrities to excite their base into coming out and voting.
	Why alienate your fans with Swifty?
	So you had, uh, what's his name on there?
	Jesse Waters.
	At the beginning.
	Jesse Waters.
	Jesse Waters.
	And what he, I thought you, I thought you were going to play something else because I saw this clip where he actually did on his show, I don't know what that, that was his show or The Five.
	Well, this is a compilation.
	He had a clip of some.
	We played that clip.
	We played the whole clip of that psychological, we played the whole thing.
	Yeah, with the woman.
	Yeah, we played that.
	Talking about, you know, Taylor Swift's a good idea.
	Yeah, we played the whole thing.
	Yeah, so why is he kind of saying that doesn't exist?
	That just seems incongruous.
	This is just a compilation of idiots on television participating in the op, which is just to get people to watch television and go online.
	To watch football.
	And for Megyn Kelly to talk about it, you know, and everyone to talk about it.
	That's the whole point.
	Whatever you do, don't look at the bombs.
	Don't look at the bombs.
	Don't look at the bombs.
	Look at the border.
	Look at the border.
	Look at Taylor Swift.
	Look up Taylor Swift.
	Primetime obviously has no evidence.
	If we did, we'd share it.
	It's a coordinated marketing campaign by Democrats to leverage celebrities to excite their base into coming out and voting.
	Why alienate your fans, the Swifties?
	You know, they come across from every political ideology.
	Why put yourself in one area?
	Don't get involved.
	Don't get involved in politics.
	We don't want to see you there.
	Let's not forget that Taylor Swift has made a career off of writing songs about picking the wrong man, so I don't think we should take advice from her now.
	CBS actually took it one step further and brought in an analyst!
	Alright, they're considered America's favorite couple.
	You know them, pop star Taylor Swift.
	Is the Super Bowl airing on CBS?
	What station does it air on this year?
	Oh, I thought it was on Fox this year.
	Oh, okay.
	That would make sense.
	Alright, they're considered America's favorite couple.
	You know them, pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelsey.
	But the attention on their relationship is also inspiring some truly bizarre conspiracy theories online.
	Some on the far right are claiming the two are part of some kind of liberal plot.
	To swing the election toward Joe Biden.
	So how did these made-up theories quickly spread?
	Jolene Kent has the story.
	Jolene, tell us!
	A pop icon dating a superstar athlete, mixing a trip to the Super Bowl, and you have the ingredients for an alt-right conspiracy built for the age of the internet.
	So is Swift a front for a covert political agenda?
	Right-wing media outlets have spent weeks parroting the baseless claims that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are at the center of a liberal plot against former President Donald Trump.
	Build them up, build them up, build them up.
	And then at the moment of truth, they're going to endorse Biden.
	But the bad blood between Taylor Swift and Team Trump goes back years.
	In 2018, she endorsed two Democrats in Tennessee.
	And during the 2020 election, she threw her support behind Joe Biden.
	Their meteoric rise in popularity in recent months has riled up some Trump diehards, including former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, leading many to speculate, without evidence, that the Super Bowl outcome is, quote, rigged to give Swift a bigger platform to endorse Biden again.
	So now, now we're bringing sports ball into it.
	This whole thing, the whole thing is advertising for the Super Bowl.
	And then- Yeah, oh, absolutely.
	And they brought in some AI!
	How quickly did these conspiracy theories proliferate?
	So, these will typically start to simmer in the dark web and kind of the fringe- Dark web, John!
	Oh, it's the dark web!
	You should have said podcast, but it's the dark web.
	This is where it simmers, in the dark web.
	These will typically start to simmer in the dark web and kind of the fringes and underbelly of the internet.
	And then at some point, they gain traction.
	Can you, do you have directions to the underbelly of the internet for me?
	I'd really like to check that out.
	The underbelly of the internet.
	I'd like to check that out from time to time.
	Around other events, in this case it was the Super Bowl.
	Waseem Khaled is the CEO of Blackbird AI, a company that monitors disinformation.
	Here we can see all these individual little small conversations all starting to connect.
	Khaled showed us how his company's AI-driven platform has been tracking conspiracies about Swift and Kelsey for months.
	So here we actually see that spread, we see it snowballing, and we can actually see a narrative evolve, grow, and become more harmful over time.
	That's not harmful!
	Often when we color code something red, they could be bot-like activities.
	This is proof that social media can take a A kernel of a lie and turn it into an entire corn on the cob.
	Longtime pollster Frank Luntz believes that Trump and his base may have turned on Swift because they worry about her influence on the younger electorate.
	Last year, more than 35,000 new voters signed up in one day after Swift encouraged her Instagram followers to register to vote.
	And for groups looking to undermine Swift or anyone else's influence, Khaled says the disinformation playbook is abundantly clear.
	Whether financial motives or ideological, that this tradecraft that's developed, much like cyber attacks developed over the years, it's designed to be an attack on human perception.
	This whole, it's unbelievable.
	This is all just filling air time.
	Yes, and I will say it is CBS.
	You were right, your first guess was correct.
	CBS is carrying the game, so we have a lot of CBS bullcrap on here.
	That's why!
	That's the reason why.
	The other thing is, I heard, by the way, 25,000, but let's say she got, what, 35,000 people to register to vote?
	Wow.
	I was questioning in the last show the idea that she has 275 million followers.
	And if they are eligible to vote at all.
	Well, let's assume that maybe half of them are.
	But let's assume a third of them are, which is almost 100 million people.
	You can only get 35,000 out of that group.
	It's worse than our getting people to donate to the show in terms of percentage.
	Wow!
	Taylor Swift can't even get us to get people to donate to our show.
	So that's like bogus.
	It's all, it's, and they should, what is the Grammys airing on tonight?
	Well, an op.
	The op is talking.
	Then the Grammys, weren't the Grammys last Sunday?
	No, they're this Sunday.
	They're tonight.
	They're tonight?
	I thought they were.
	No, they're tonight.
	They're tonight.
	No, I was reading on the, just going from my news rundown, I was looking at the winners.
	Various people winning.
	No, no, this has got to be tonight.
	Okay, I may be wrong now.
	Am I going crazy?
	Now you're wondering.
	You're wondering about yourself.
	66th Annual Grammy Awards.
	66, by the way.
	Should be filled with lots of devil stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, it always is.
	That's gonna be good.
	Let me see.
	66?
	Yeah, February 4th, 2024.
	It's tonight.
	Okay, we'll be watching.
	And because, thanks to COVID, they will have a 16-minute dead segment.
	The dead segment is 16 whole minutes?
	Yep.
	That's how many people are dead.
	And it says thanks to COVID?
	No, that's some editorializing by yours truly.
	Uh, just briefly on the AI thing.
	That's a lot of dead.
	You know, Comics for Blogger has put together something called the No Agenda GPT.
	Yeah.
	And there's a link in the show notes.
	And so people tried it out.
	And so there was a question about no agenda social.
	And here's what the AI came back with.
	The platform was created as an initiative to do the right thing for the community, but face challenges in moderation and management.
	It was run by Adam Curry initially, then managed by others, including Ryan Seacrest at one point.
	I love AI!
	It's a comedian's dream!
	It goes along, you know, singing these spines, going along and doing its thing, and then some bomb, some ludicrous bomb is dropped in there.
	I love it!
	This is the same thing with self-driving vehicles, as it turned out, that vandals, like at a stop sign, you know, you could write Put on their stop war and then the car won't see the sign correctly and I mean there's just all these little things you can do to a self-driving car to make it to confuse it because it it's crap it's it's junk there's the whole idea if it wasn't for vandals
	And I actually thank the Vandals.
	There was a thing that happened recently about the Taylor Swift nude pictures.
	There was somebody being interviewed about this on PBS.
	Again, talking about the op is the op.
	That's just what it is.
	It's part of the op.
	And by the way, if you want to take part at least in your own little way in the op, go to DuckDuckGo, type in Taylor Swift AI Nudes.
	Oh, brother.
	And I didn't want to do it, but after I watched this thing on PBS, I was like, are these things even out there anymore?
	Yeah.
	They're not.
	It's millions of them.
	I mean, some guys, it's unbelievable.
	And so, holy mackerel.
	And some of the lewd material is just beyond the pale.
	Yeah.
	So I'm listening to this woman and the guy asks her, he says, uh, so who's responsible?
	Who does this sort of thing?
	And then she doesn't know what to say.
	She's the tech expert and she goes on and yak, yak, yak.
	And what I would have said was vandals.
	We have, they're in our midst.
	They do their thing.
	And it's, it's a good thing they're there because it alerts us to the fact that these, these problems exist and can be exploited so easily by what amounts to just a bunch of punk kids.
	It's really nothing new.
	You know, they're just better.
	There's nothing new and you can't catch them.
	They're just better, that's all.
	There's nothing new, you can't catch them unless they're dumb.
	I think we talked about on the last show, I think that was set up just to, you know, it was two days before the Zuckerberg blood on your hands thing.
	So I think they're just abusing Taylor Swift now.
	She should get out of the public eye.
	This is a very, very dumb idea.
	This is going to backfire on her.
	It will not end pretty.
	Yeah, that's your basic thesis about media in general.
	Yes, you use it for... And every time you always say it, and then about a year later it happens.
	Boomerangs back, yeah.
	You spike the ball and we're done.
	Thank the vandals.
	Yes, we shall thank the vandals.
	I just want to go back to, because I know we have a three-by-three, about this whole reason for launching B-1 bombers, which is, I think, a lot more expensive than one intercontinental ballistic missile, or what Trump did, you know, let's target one dude, let's get Soleimani.
	He died like a dog!
	You know, which gave some... I was always thinking that the whole idea of these predators, where you could pinpoint, you know, who you want to kill, I mean, they could do with even American citizens, but to send a $173,000 an hour bomber from the United States to the Middle East and back... It's not, it's not really targeting, it's not surgical strikes.
	I mean, it's, it's, you're carpet bombing with those things.
	Yeah.
	It's a beautiful plane though.
	It all started with Tower 22, and what we were led to believe is that Tower 22 had one of its drones coming back, and they turned off whatever security systems they had, and then the Iranian drone snuck in a one-way drone, which means it's one of those lawnmower ditties, Which really have a very, they have a very limited range.
	So where that was launched from is interesting.
	But you know, so there's been a lot of analysis about Tower 22.
	And I don't know if you've seen the satellite picture.
	Tower 22 doesn't have a runway.
	They have helicopters, and they have a helipad, and they have helicopter taxiway.
	Yeah.
	So what drone was coming back?
	It wasn't a Reaper drone.
	That needs a proper runway to land.
	That's a good point.
	And every single American aircraft has what's known as an IFF, if friend or foe transponder.
	So if something's coming in, you don't turn off the receiver.
	This thing stinks.
	I'm not believing that this went down the way we've been told.
	Whenever we lose something, the first thing we want is we either destroy or we retrieve our transponder.
	Nobody wants anyone to, unless the Iranians now maybe have an IFF transponder.
	I'm getting this from boots on the ground.
	And the idea of this Iranian lawnmower drone coming in without a transponder, which has a limited range.
	I'm told 2 kilometers.
	I'll give it 20 kilometers.
	It doesn't matter.
	Where did it come from?
	It stinks, stinks, stinks.
	It all stinks of, let's just go and bomb something.
	We don't, we're not even, we don't have no pictures.
	Did we even bomb anything?
	I mean, honestly, do you have any pictures?
	When we did Iraq, we did shock and awe.
	That's what I was hoping for.
	Show me shock and awe.
	No, we say we just had 86.
	We don't know if we killed anybody.
	You know, we got some militants.
	I'm even questioning that.
	Yeah, you are.
	Can I play a couple Kirby clips?
	Because he's always the most fun to listen to when it comes to this stuff.
	Yeah, I just want to mention, before I play the 3x3, I do have a bunch of clips from Al Jazeera about the situation, and I kind of concentrated on an Iranian professor at the University of Tehran to remind us a number of things that I forgot about, and it's going to be kind of a It's a very interesting series of clips.
	Do you want to play those first or do you want to do the... Well, what's Kirby say here in your clips?
	It's Kirby.
	It's always fun to listen to Kirby.
	He's a bonehead.
	A rear admiral.
	Joining us now to discuss more of this from Washington is National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
	John, good morning to you.
	It's great to have you back.
	So we've heard from you and repeatedly from the administration that these strikes against the Houthis are intended to degrade their capabilities, but so far it hasn't stopped them.
	Is there any expectation that the result will be different or more definitive after this latest round?
	Well, we'll see what happens.
	The Pentagon is doing an assessment right now to see what the effect was.
	Not only the strikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday night, but the strikes in Yemen yesterday.
	We are continuing to go after their ability to hit us.
	And in the case of the Houthis, to hit international shipping.
	We are trying to take away their capability, make it harder for them to throw these punches.
	Again, we think we've achieved good effects in both rounds of these strikes, both in Yemen and Iraq and Syria on Friday night, but we're still doing the assessment on that. - You know, I've always seen these videos And the video, it shows the missile going and then all of a sudden there's a big flash and then the camera goes dead and that assessment is clear.
	But there's none of that.
	But John, isn't that the criticism though?
	Is degrading their capabilities enough?
	I mean, what do you say to these shipping companies who've had to travel thousands of miles to avoid this area because they don't have safety and security in the Red Sea?
	I tell them that the president has put together a coalition of 20-some-odd countries.
	Doesn't he know the exact number?
	It's just 20-some-odd?
	I'm telling you, John, this thing sucks.
	It's a good catch.
	It's a good catch.
	You wouldn't know exact... These guys... Yeah.
	Yeah.
	They know the number.
	Yeah, of course they know the number.
	It's none.
	Ships and aircraft and other capabilities in the Red Sea to try to make that passage as safe as possible.
	Now, we can't guarantee that there still won't be attacks on their ships, but we are doing everything we can with the international community to protect that shipping.
	We know how vital a waterway the Red Sea is.
	All right.
	Does he ask him the simple question, which I would have asked if I was the guy there, which is, the Houthis captured a ship and they're using it as a tourist attraction.
	Why don't we go recapture that ship?
	Because I didn't know they were a big tourist country where they're always looking for tourist attractions.
	Because I understand now that the ship is tourist attraction number one and the Seattle fish market where you toss a fish is number two for the Houthis.
	They've been in Seattle for a while.
	They're going there to look at the fish.
	I mean, who are we kidding here?
	No, instead, let's remind our viewers of some important information.
	And it's important to remind our viewers there are multiple operations happening here because separately, you noted earlier, the U.S.
	launched those retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria and Iraq.
	Of course, this is a response to the three Americans who were killed in Jordan.
	Is there more to come with that operation and how soon?
	And I hate to be morbid about it, but We haven't, I don't think President Biden was at the caskets coming home, which you should be, certainly if you're playing it up this big.
	Yeah, he was there.
	Oh, he was there?
	Was he looking at his watch?
	Yeah, in fact, I took a photo of a screenshot of it.
	He had the, the look on his face was, I've never seen, I mean, it's the worst Biden look he could possibly have his mouth.
	It's just that screwball look he has.
	Yeah, he was standing there with his wife.
	I hate to be morbid, but I've seen three pictures, three black Americans, brown, brownish black, one a woman, which Kareem Jean-Paul Pierre Cardew didn't even know.
	Because, you know, she couldn't say, oh, three of our folks or folks didn't even know.
	I mean, is this stock photography?
	I'm really starting to question this now.
	Well, now with AI, you can just make faces.
	Make new faces.
	I'm questioning it.
	There is more to come.
	What you saw Friday night was just the first round.
	And it's not going to be the last one by any stretch.
	I won't get ahead of military operations one way or another, what they're going to look like, when they're going to come.
	But the President has been clear.
	We are going to respond in a forceful way.
	Three Americans were killed.
	Dozens were wounded.
	We have got to respond in a strong and aggressive way, and we'll continue to do that.
	But there will be more.
	There will be more response options as a result of that attack.
	Now, the obvious question is why were you just yappin' and yappin' and yappin' for a week and telling everybody it's coming like you're doing again?
	Why did it take nearly a week, though, to carry out those strikes?
	Did that give the militants time to regroup, hide, and protect their resources?
	Oh, protect their resources.
	Well, it takes time to develop the target sets, to make sure you've got enough visibility on the targets that you're going to go after, so you can be sure you're hitting what you're aiming at, and we feel like we did.
	We have the most sophisticated weapons in the world.
	You've got to make sure you're hitting what you're aiming at, and we did.
	Where's the video?
	But that takes time to develop.
	You know, there's also the weather that can be a factor in something like this.
	I mean, the strikes that we took on Friday night were using manned aircraft, including bombers from the United States.
	And of course, you want to make sure that your pilots are safe and secure as they conduct these vital missions.
	Is this like D-Day, where we had to wait for the weather to clear up?
	Is that where we're at now?
	So weather plays a factor in all that.
	It wasn't an exorbitant amount of time here.
	We needed a little time to prepare ourselves.
	Oh, and as for your other question, I'm sorry I interrupted you, but you also asked about whether the Iranian-backed groups, the militia groups, moved anything around.
	I can't speak to that specifically.
	We do the best intelligence assessment that we can in terms of developing these targets.
	So he knows nothing, we know nothing, the weather was not cooperating.
	Did you call anybody over there?
	Did you pick up the phone and say, hey, stop killing our people?
	Anything like that?
	I wanted to just pick up on something.
	You said recently that the US is not speaking directly, no direct channels with Iran in the region.
	Why not?
	Some say that's exactly what should be happening to prevent further escalation.
	Yeah, call somebody.
	It's not like we haven't had direct communications with the Iranians before.
	What I said was we haven't had any direct messaging.
	Oh, they're DMing now.
	They were DMing.
	I'm sliding into your DMs, Mullah, but we're not doing that anymore.
	Direct communications with the Iranians before.
	What I said was we haven't had any direct messaging to the Iranians.
	Facebook, do you think?
	Or are they using WhatsApp to DM?
	...Iranians since the attacks... But isn't now that pivotal moment for that discussion, those direct talks?
	No, we've got to shoot more crap!
	We're sending a pretty strong signal with these strikes that we took on Friday night, and I guarantee you that we're going to be sending another strong signal to the Iranians and to the groups that they're backing, the IRGC, and the groups that they're backing over coming days.
	John Kirby, thank you so much for your time this morning.
	We do appreciate it.
	To me, this is outrageous.
	It's outrageous.
	That brings me to some different group of clips.
	Okay.
	There's this guy Joe Pachinko.
	He's a colonel, retired.
	Oh boy.
	Who they brought on, this was yesterday, this was brought on the PBS.
	Is that retired in air quotes?
	I think so, yeah.
	Because when you listen to him talk, he talks as a group.
	And the group he represents is the intelligence community.
	It's never mentioned, but when you read between the lines, just listening to him, he's getting information.
	Why does he have any of this information?
	He's a retired colonel.
	What does he do for a living?
	They never say.
	But he's somehow an expert on the topic, and they brought him in.
	It's the first time I've ever seen this guy, and he's actually pretty good.
	As we come on the air tonight, the United States is carrying out a second wave of airstrikes against dozens of Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen.
	We gotta start using that.
	As we come on the podcast today, here's what's going on.
	The two-day assault is in response to last weekend's drone strike in Jordan that killed three U.S.
	troops and injured dozens more.
	Last night's air assault struck sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iran-backed militias.
	Pentagon officials said it took just 30 minutes Friday night for B-1 bombers and other U.S.
	aircraft to hit more than 85 targets.
	Iraq and Syria said the attacks killed at least 34 people, both members of Iranian-backed militant groups and civilians.
	Joe Baccino is a retired U.S.
	Army colonel.
	He was the top spokesman at Central Command.
	Joe, talk about how you design an event like this, a retaliatory strike like this.
	Wait, is CENTCOM the guys who let all the planes come through on 9-11?
	Wasn't that CENTCOM?
	Central Command, I have no idea if they let the planes come through or not.
	Think about how you design an event like this, a retaliatory strike like this.
	On the one hand you want to do something strong enough to get their attention, but on the other hand you don't want to do anything too strong.
	So John, there's basically a range of options from low level of violence to high level of violence.
	You know, the high level, you're talking about strikes inside of Iran.
	Low level, you're talking about the kind of little precision strikes we've done, we've been doing since November.
	This is about what we've done, you know, just tonight and then last night, is in the low to medium range.
	Okay, so you present these options to the White House, the Pentagon makes a recommendation, ultimately the National Security Council and the White House renders a decision.
	It's Buccino, with a B, B-U-C-C-I-N-O, and he is under inspector general investigation as of May 5th, 2023.
	That's interesting.
	Good look.
	So they, when they say B1 bombers, bombers.
	Bombers.
	That implies there's more than one.
	Yes.
	I agree.
	So I just wanted, let's say three.
	It's like a billions of, literally billions of dollars.
	Well, millions anyway.
	Millions.
	No, billions.
	Well, probably a billion.
	It just seems expensive to me.
	There's markup.
	There's markup.
	You're talking wholesale.
	We're looking at retail prices here.
	Yeah, of course.
	They're rampant.
	The whole thing is... I hate to say it because we have lots of military personnel, but I think they know as well.
	Everything is corrupt.
	And there was this young man, 18 years old, at the church, and he's going off, you know, he's a Marine.
	He did his basic training, now he's going to California.
	He'll be in the region within six months.
	It's disgusting.
	What does the response from Iran and from these militant groups, what does it tell you?
	I'm cautiously optimistic right now.
	Iran has denounced the strikes, but they haven't said anything about a retaliation.
	There's signals here that Iran wants to pull back on some of these Shia proxy groups, that maybe they've gotten a little bit out of control or out of the control of Ismail Kani.
	He is the senior commander of the Quds Force in Iran, in Tehran.
	And so maybe he wants to pull them back.
	So I'm optimistic about that.
	Does he have that control?
	Is he able to pull them back?
	What we're hearing is that, you know, you think about Qasem Soleimani, you know, this powerful figure, shadowy figure who really controlled these forces so tightly for so long.
	When he was struck, that really degraded Iran.
	It really took away their capability, but it also took away their ability to control these loose groups in Iraq, in Syria, in Jordan, in Yemen.
	And they've gotten a little bit out of control and now he's trying to pull them back.
	So there's concern in Tehran.
	There's concern in D.C.
	Nobody wants to escalate.
	So I'm optimistic about that.
	We don't want to escalate.
	We're going to do more.
	We're going to do more.
	I'm reminded of the, we had a clip, it was probably six months ago, for someone who says that a lot of this was a scam between, and we're still in close contact with Iran to make sure that they get their monies and some other, and stop their nuke program to some extent, or at least be in bed and stop their nuke program to some extent, or at least be And all this is a cover for the fact that we're really working with Iran.
	I mean, I don't know if that's even a possibility, but that's what this one guy claimed if you recall that clip.
	Trying to think.
	I don't have that per se, but I did hear, I don't know if I clipped it this morning, that what is being done here is seen as nothing.
	They're doing nothing to Iran.
	I think it was probably Mike Johnson.
	He said that, you know, we should be cutting their money off, doing stuff like that.
	Yeah.
	Let me see.
	Hold on a second.
	I think I have it here.
	Yeah, listen to this.
	What Jake Sullivan just said, I listened to that interview.
	It was interesting.
	We need to make absolutely clear to Iran that nothing is off the table.
	You know, we maintain peace through strength.
	That was the Reagan doctrine.
	That's what President Trump bombed him again, eh?
	Continued, and that's what we have to do right now.
	We should not be appeasing Iran.
	That's what the Biden administration has been doing for the last three years.
	We are projecting weakness on the world stage.
	And frankly, Kristen, that is why our adversaries are acting so provocatively.
	What we need to be doing right now is turning up the heat on Iran.
	We need to act to decimate the Iran Central Bank, the assets that they've held there.
	We need to lean on international banks to seize the assets of Iranian proxies.
	We need to put Big-time pressure, maximum pressure on their oil exports.
	There's a lot that we could do to Iran to send a message.
	Instead of this appeasement strategy, it's just simply not working.
	Including strikes, Mr. Speaker?
	Including strikes, just to be clear?
	It should not be off the table.
	Let me give you just a quick example.
	This is from this morning.
	In the Trump administration, we used a drone and three missiles to take out Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad.
	That sent a strong message and it quelled all of the activity there.
	What we're doing right now, we're using potentially hundreds of munitions to strike close to 100 targets so far, but we're not going right to the heart of the matter.
	I think that's a real problem.
	So I think you're right, and I think Johnson is agreeing here by saying, we're not really doing anything to Iran.
	We're just shooting some stuff, we're just spending money.
	And we should cut off their banking?
	Yeah, that ain't gonna happen.
	No, because, well, if we do then we just- They just work with Russia anyway.
	We just bring in pallets of dollars, remember that?
	Yeah, they send in like four billion dollars in cash.
	Yeah, just drop it off in cash, no problem.
	By the way, this Buccino guy, he was suspended last year from command, and a command climate survey ...found that 97% of his staff reported a hostile command climate.
	Two-thirds of them reported low morale.
	Roughly another quarter reported they witnessed sexual and or racial harassment.
	This is an interesting guy to bring on PBS.
	Yeah, that's what you mentioned.
	Good work.
	I think we're on clip three.
	Some Republicans in Congress have criticized the Biden administration for, what they say, waiting too long.
	This strike was last weekend.
	It took a full week.
	What do you make of that?
	What do you say to that?
	Oh, I agree.
	I agree.
	Look, if there's an intellectual thrust of the Biden foreign policy, it's conflict avoidance and, you know, avoidance of escalation.
	And that's generally a good impulse for an American president.
	Here, it doesn't serve us well.
	And if you look at the history of Iran, it doesn't serve us well here.
	You know, for five days, we've been talking about this.
	For five days, we've been talking about what we're not going to do.
	And I think it signals to Iran That they can continue to kind of push us around, they can continue to strike at our bases, and we're not going to make them feel pain.
	Because what we do to the Houthis here in Yemen, what we do to these Shia groups in Iraq and Syria, it doesn't really manifest in pain in Iran.
	Yeah, so that goes right along with what Mike Johnson just said.
	It's not really doing anything to Iran, we're just spending money.
	And getting everybody all riled up, and I guess the thinking there is, hey, I'm a war president.
	You better hurry up and someone's got to declare war.
	How much longer can President Biden be authorizing this stuff?
	Not much.
	I think half of it's illegal already.
	All of it's illegal?
	It's not going to work as a war.
	It's the idea, this old political idea that once you've got a war president, you've got to keep him in office.
	Yeah, don't change a warring team.
	Yeah.
	No one's buying that.
	Uh, I mean, they may have bought it in the 50s, but no.
	I think I got one more.
	Yeah, one more.
	Flying bombers halfway around the world to do this.
	Obviously, there are operational reasons for this.
	They carry a tremendous amount of payload.
	They can fly supersonically.
	But was there also a message being sent?
	This is all about a message.
	So the message here is more important than anything you've hit, anything you've destroyed, any of these Shia groups that you've killed.
	The B-1 bombers are important because, you know, they can fly under radar coverage, and if you're going to hit inside Iran, you're going to hit inside Iran with a B-1 Lancer.
	What comes next?
	Well, I think what comes next is you're going to see more passes in Iraq and Syria, like we did last night.
	You're going to see maybe more strikes on the coast of Yemen.
	Here tonight, we hit the capital.
	I don't think we'll do that again.
	I think we'll hit coastal battery sites.
	I think this will go into next week, for a few days into next week, and then we'll see.
	Then we kind of wait.
	Did Iran get the message?
	How is Iran going to respond?
	How are these Shia groups going to respond?
	That's what's next.
	So it'll be the same sort of targets, or will the targeting change?
	No, you're going to see the same kinds of targets, the same level of violence, and really you're going to see these bunkers.
	There's a lot more bunkers.
	So these complexes that, you know, you think about Dorazor in the east there in Syria, and Abu Kamal, these are complexes that have hundreds of bunkers within them.
	And so, you know, there's a lot more targets you can hit there.
	We hit 85, that's really not very much.
	There's a lot more we can do here.
	Joe Pacino, retired U.S.
	Army colonel, thank you very much.
	Retired.
	You still want to talk more war?
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Maybe this guy was put on the PBS NewsHour as punishment.
	A lot of these guys don't like to do these things.
	That's a good point.
	Punishment.
	It's like, okay, we need a spokesperson for this.
	You put him on.
	I've never seen him before and he's not bad.
	No.
	He does kind of give away the fact that he's got more information than you'd think he should have.
	Unless you have to work for him.
	Doesn't sound like such a cool dude to work for.
	Well, maybe he'll straighten out.
	No, he doesn't sound like a good guy.
	He's not a manager.
	Can I switch to something else for a minute?
	Because we're going to lose people.
	We might as well play Africa and China clips.
	You got Africa?
	No, no, no.
	Have you ever seen this guy?
	He does a YouTube channel.
	He used to be a tech lead at Google.
	He's an Asian guy.
	Kind of like a know-it-all kind of dude, but he was a very popular YouTuber.
	Okay.
	And he laid out a, oh, should I say a hypothesis about what's happening.
	How many tech, I think the big question I keep hearing is all these tech layoffs, you know, even Jack Dorsey laid off a whole bunch of people and it's been hundreds of thousands in the past couple of years of technology people have been let go.
	Yeah.
	And I think as I was listening to Dvorak Horowitz Unplugged, you know, the consensus is it's not like there's some bad news coming.
	Something else is going on.
	And it's not necessarily that we, oh, we're headed into some horrible recession.
	And this guy had a kind of an interesting thesis.
	I want to share it because to me it was like, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
	And it kind of started with Elon Musk.
	You want to hear it?
	Of course!
	Tech layoffs are surging.
	Over 25,000 roles already cut just in the month of January.
	We saw PayPal cutting 9% of their roles.
	2,500 people gone.
	Microsoft cut 1,900 people from their gaming division.
	Unity cut 1,800 people.
	That's 25% of their workforce.
	Amazon, Twitch cut 35%.
	Discord cut 17%.
	And there's a whole string of other layoffs in the tech industry here.
	We have a tech jobs chart here showing a notable decline in tech roles according to Indeed where Jobs and software, IT and information has just gone downhill.
	Coding may just be dead.
	I mean, we're talking massive fundamental changes underway here.
	Coding is dead.
	Apps are dead.
	Now, amidst this backdrop of tech layoffs, this comes at an interesting time when so many YouTubers are quitting, retiring really rich.
	So there's this wealth gap between 95 employees and influencers, which is something I've talked about before, where we have these two class of people, right?
	Half of millennials are basically poor, they can't afford anything, and they're stuck in these dead-end 95 jobs, and the other half, they're raking it in with Lamborghinis and Gucci and Rolexes, living in these mansions, traveling all the time.
	And isn't it funny we now have the social media trend that watch me lose my job on TikTok as the tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media for views.
	So while their nine to five jobs are burning down, their social media channels are thriving.
	And you see these people finally wakening up to that.
	And I think this may have something to do with the extreme dissatisfaction of younger generation of workers, because it is.
	I mean, I'm seeing these trends.
	A lot of the I'm quitting YouTube is, you know, just to get views and like, oh, I didn't quit.
	No.
	Oh, you begged me to stay.
	But there's a lot of money has been made.
	We even just saw a recent renewal by Joe Rogan, although it's not quite the same as As his initial deal, same goes for Caller Daddy, you know, their upfront and revenue sharing deals.
	But I think people are seeing this and then what used to be the big hero, you know, oh, he's a ninja, ninja coder.
	Remember that?
	Remember we were hiring ninjas?
	Ninja coder!
	And they were making two, three, four hundred grand.
	I mean, lots of money.
	And this guy says, you know, no, we've we've we're done.
	We've built it all.
	So here's what I think is happening.
	We essentially reached a local maximum in technology where we invented basically digital drugs, social media, where everybody is now just addicted to this digital opioid.
	And they're just vegetating in front of their screens watching short videos, TikTok videos, YouTube videos like this one.
	And nobody really wants to do anything else.
	People are just totally content.
	People don't need to buy anything.
	They don't need to download new apps or websites.
	It's kind of like building someone a TV and then asking them if they want anything more from you, any apps or websites or services.
	No, they just want to watch their shows now.
	And so in a way, content became the new software where a lot of value creation shifted from the tech stack, the infrastructure of building that first TV.
	Now that it's built, we don't need the builders for that.
	We just need someone to maintain this TV.
	And then value shifts into the show's creation.
	It's kind of like the movie industry where the sound engineers and the stage engineers and production designers, they don't really get paid much, but it's the show stars who get paid the most.
	And so similarly, at the time when Twitch is laying off 35% of its staff, software engineers, managers, college-educated 9-to-5 folks, its top star and streamer, Pokimane, is leaving Twitch.
	Voluntarily.
	She's not being laid off here, folks, with rumors of her finding a potentially $75 million deal.
	So it's just funny.
	There is this divide where some people are leaving the company because they're fired, and then some people are leaving because they're retiring.
	Basically, they're done.
	This rings true to me.
	Has there been any new exciting app, any new development?
	I mean, we have really nothing.
	I mean, AI?
	Really?
	Where's all the coders for that?
	I mean, sure, Buzzkill, there's definitely a market for them, but not Not for, not for, not the level that we had before of, oh, we've got to build all this stuff out.
	And you know, once Instagram created their version of TikTok and TikTok is TikTok.
	You know, this guy calls it the low opportunity era.
	But still, with all of this quitting, whether voluntarily or not, I think it reflects a low opportunity, low growth, stagnant era that we're living through where there's just nothing really exciting going on.
	A lot of technology that should have taken off like Web3, the metaverse, AI, it didn't really get too far.
	You know, AI may have some potential, but it's also the playground, mostly of big tech companies that have the data and GPUs to train on.
	Most normal people aren't going to be doing that.
	The ChatGPT store was kind of a buzz.
	It was just rappers on ChatGPT.
	You've got Apple Vision Pro, pretty expensive, limited market.
	And that should be clear by now, apps and websites are long dead.
	People stopped using those as soon as they began vegetating on short form videos.
	And so with everybody vegetating on digital drugs, the game industry is also suffering because it simply costs too much per minute of entertainment.
	We can see U.S.
	consumer spending on gaming here, which is down 14.5% in the past three years, and it's basically a stagnant industry in an area where there continues to be inflation and rising costs.
	So a lot of companies are seeing weak consumer demand.
	All the meanwhile, YouTube ad sales soared $9.2 billion in a blowout quarter as they're firmly back in growth mode after a quiet year last year.
	I don't know.
	To me, it sounds very plausible that they're done building.
	We got nothing.
	We've got no other ideas except quantum computing, but that's still on the horizon.
	It's an interesting hypothesis.
	I can't argue with it.
	I mean, there are people that... This has always been the case in high tech.
	I remember going back into the late 70s when you first had the S100 bus come out.
	The S100 bus.
	Remember those days, people?
	I don't.
	What was the S100 bus?
	I have no idea what that is.
	It was a bus, you know, a backplane that had 100 pins on it and it was called the S-100 bus and it was developed...
	I think the Altair is the first one that they developed a kind of a quasi version that got formalized and became a standard.
	It was in play until the IBM PC came along with its own bus.
	RS-232.
	Is that what replaced it?
	RS-232 is an interface protocol.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	I don't either.
	I'm just throwing stuff out.
	So there was this guy, there was the early days of microcomputing, which is what it was called.
	There was all these graphic guys that had come along and there was one guy who came out with a thing called a Hercules card.
	I think it may have even been around here, Hercules maybe.
	But Hercules made this graphics card that became kind of a quasi-standard because it was so good.
	The guy made a shit ton of money.
	I mean, not by today's standards, but by the standards back then, yeah.
	A shit ton of money and he As soon as he cashed out, he just took his, uh, put on some sandals and moved to Mexico and he never was heard from again.
	And I knew the guy.
	It was just like, yeah, I'm rich.
	I'm outta here.
	I'm done, smart man.
	He didn't, he didn't, was not a serial entrepreneur.
	Didn't, didn't go, didn't fall for that scam.
	Like how to spend your, oh, I'll use my own money.
	Dumbest thing I've ever done.
	I'll use my own money to make more money.
	Dumbest thing I've ever done.
	So this type of personality in tech is not an unusual character that would just develop something, make enough money to get, do more than get by, but you know, you think you got a lot of money and you don't.
	I mean, you do for like a year or two and then they bail out and they go away.
	And so maybe there is an element of that going on.
	There's one other thing that he said, which I think is something that is very DH unplugged, and it all started with Elon, and I think he has a point here.
	I think it was really Elon Musk who kicked off all of the firings when he fired 80% of Twitter's workforce, saving the company massive amounts of money, cutting bloat, and so a lot of other tech CEOs probably saw that too and realized they wanted to cut through all of the management bloat as well.
	So Instagram here is also announcing they're cutting a level of management.
	The TPM role, or Technical Program Manager, is essentially being eliminated at Instagram.
	In what Mark Zuckerberg called the year of efficiency aimed at removing layers of management, the result was thousands of layoffs last year and reduction in management ranks And this effect was probably also compounded by overhiring during the pandemic as well as hopes that AI can possibly help improve some of the efficiency of current workers, although general consensus seems that AI is not behind the current wave of layoffs.
	That is coming later on.
	Another potential factor behind tech layoffs is Section 174, a new tax bill that came into effect last year which essentially made software engineering salaries non-deductible in the first year.
	You have to amortize that cost over 5 years, with only 10% deductible in the first year.
	The industry is changing these days.
	Everybody and their dog is coding.
	Immigrants are coding.
	Fresh college grads are coding.
	ChatGPT is coding.
	It's becoming an oversaturated field where employers are realizing they don't need to pay you $300 to $500K and free cafeteria food for two hours of work a day.
	So that's the R&D tax credit that Joe Biden overrode that with an executive order.
	Yeah.
	So no wonder.
	Yeah, that I didn't know.
	Yeah, I didn't know it either.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	That becomes a big deal.
	You have to change everything.
	Because it changes the way you do the books.
	Which reminds me, since Zuckerberg was mentioned, I should mention this, can you check the price of MetaStock?
	I think it's probably way beyond the $400 that I was willing to bet it would never reach.
	Yeah, you weren't willing to bet.
	You made a $500 bet.
	Oh, I did?
	I thought you didn't take it.
	No, I didn't take the $5,000 bet you wanted to make.
	Okay.
	Well, here's the clip calling names.
	And we've got a whole panel of douchebags who are going to narc on you constantly.
	They're dead!
	No, they're not.
	That's like Facebook.
	How's that $400 stock doing?
	Just kidding.
	You wait, you wait.
	I will bet you $500 right now that Facebook will never get back to $400.
	Unless they do some... yeah, unless they... The bet's on.
	I'll take it.
	With the same float.
	Can somebody record this, please?
	With the same float.
	You're not allowed to manipulate by changing the float with a split or reverse split.
	That's bullcrap.
	Dude, float is never the same.
	There'll be some issuances.
	There'll be some buybacks.
	There's a million reasons that the float won't stay the same.
	I said with a split.
	With a split or reverse split.
	Now you're adding a bunch of disclaimers.
	Never mind.
	You don't want to do the bet.
	Oh, I'm done.
	$5,000.
	$5,000?
	$5,000?
	No, I'm going to tell you this.
	Pussy!
	$5,000.
	No, I'm going to tell you this.
	Pussy!
	Pussy!
	I'll do the $500, but the reason I won't do the $5,000 is because you can't afford it.
	I'll never get paid.
	Point made, point made.
	You're afraid.
	You're afraid.
	I have no fear.
	So yes, I was alerted to this.
	I honestly did not remember the way that went down.
	It was about two years and four months ago, episode 1492.
	And after having hearing that, because of course people sent that to me, I apologize.
	I was not only... I defaulted to my carnal mind.
	I'm ashamed and embarrassed because I called you names.
	And I really... I repented for this.
	I am very sorry.
	And I want to thank you for having grace on me for not taking my $5,000.
	And I will gladly pay you the $500 from the bet.
	And I'm sorry.
	Well, thank you very much for being sorry.
	The $5,000 bet...
	Yeah, you're right.
	You should thank me for not taking the bet.
	But in there, I did say you wouldn't pay it, because you're not going to pay a $5,000 bet.
	Nobody does.
	And that's my tip to people out there who want to bet with people.
	When somebody makes an outrageous bet, don't do it, because you're just going to cause friction.
	If I even get the $500, I'll be surprised, but I will take it, and it will go to a charity.
	Can I send it to you in Bitcoin?
	Come on.
	I don't have a wallet.
	I'll set you up with a wallet.
	You never know.
	I mean, it's like kind of doubling down for you.
	I'd rather have cash.
	I'll send a pallet of dollars.
	Now, we could.
	I am sorry.
	That was very embarrassing.
	I heard that and I was unhinged.
	And as I said, I defaulted to my carnal mind.
	That's not good.
	I don't like what I heard there.
	Yeah.
	So I will, if you want, I'll put the bet in abeyance if you want to do double or nothing for Facebook hitting a thousand.
	No, I'm done.
	I will, I'll take my lashes.
	I'll take my lashes.
	I'm not going to go there.
	Nope.
	No, I'm done.
	I've never been good with stocks.
	I mean, I'm the guy that sold all my Bitcoin at $900 thinking this is dynamite.
	Hey, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
	We're talking about this on DHM plug.
	If I had bought say $200 worth of Bitcoin at 25 cents.
	Yeah.
	The likelihood of me keeping it past $400 Bitcoin is probably nil.
	The best, the only way you can do that is you buy it for 25 cents and then somehow lose track of it.
	And then suddenly, years and years later, find the key to the kingdom, your old wallet.
	That's kind of what happened.
	But it gets worse.
	The story is actually worse.
	Because I took the money from the Bitcoin I sold and I day-traded it.
	Wow.
	Why don't you go into commodities while you're at it?
	All right, since we're doing old clips, I want to play something that just aired.
	I want to play a classic No Agenda clip.
	This showed up on Tucker Carlson, some guy named Callie, Callie Ed, I think his name is, and he has like a healthy, you know, he's a healthy medicine guy.
	What do they call it these days?
	There's a term for it, I keep forgetting.
	A functional medicine doctor.
	Oh, I haven't heard this.
	Oh yeah, a functional medicine doctor.
	And he promotes, you know, everything except pharmaceuticals.
	And he's on with Tucker and he brings out a, this clip was sent to me by many people, usually for the same reason.
	He says, oh, listen to that.
	I cut it down a little piece here.
	But you're saying that Pharma buys TV spots Not to convince people to ask for specific drugs from their physicians, but to subvert the news business?
	This is an open secret working for Pharma.
	I never even thought of that.
	This is an open secret.
	The kind of silly ads you see between the news breaks, the points of that is not, it's largely to impact the customer, but Pharma's already got that.
	They've already bought off the doctors.
	They're good on that.
	No, this is an open secret.
	The news ad spending from Pharma is a public relation lobbying tactic, essentially to buy off the news.
	The news is a refer... They're not investigating Pharma.
	Oh, I've noticed!
	The news has become basically a referee that you are a terrible anti-science Luddite for asking why You know, the shots that we require our kids to get that fundamentally by their own advertising change the immune system of that child for life, why it's gone from 20 to 70.
	To even ask that question, the news referees that and calls you anti-science when the two largest vaccine makers in the country are literally criminal enterprises uh blacksmith client and merck uh in the past five years has settled two of the largest criminal penalties in american corporate history for bribing and misleading uh bribing doctors and misleading uh creating misleading research who make who are the two largest vaccine makers so you literally have the media playing referee that you can't even ask a question
	so this was a big revelation for tucker carlson and uh he's a big revelation You mean what we've been talking about for how many years?
	Well, I went into bingit.io.
	I went into bingit.io, which there's a new version coming, by the way, which will be killer.
	And I was able to go back.
	I mean, we had other mentions of advertising, but this was the most succinct, no agenda episode 343.
	Here we go, let's go back and see what we said at the time.
	What choice does he have?
	He's running a commercial show that has sponsors on a network that relies, like everyone else, on drug advertising.
	What's he supposed to do?
	He could take the donation model, And make less money.
	I mean, I don't know what you expect a guy to do.
	He has no choice in the matter.
	He is like everybody else in the media.
	Everything that people watch out there is bought and paid for by big pharma.
	Big pharma is right now probably one of the biggest advertisers.
	They're making so much money on some of these sketchy drugs.
	That, you know, you can't say what, and then you have the vested interest of the war on drugs.
	Yeah, but it's important for people to know because Jon Stewart does come across as the voice of reason.
	I tell it like it is, guy.
	Yeah, but he's not.
	He too is beholden to the pharmaceutical industry in this case.
	It's a six minute clip so I'm not going to play it but there's a link to the actual video.
	There you go.
	Thirteen years.
	Thirteen years.
	It was a theme and it's always been a theme with us.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	And it has to be, and we're the one, and we always mention it, we're one of the two countries in the world that allow pharmaceuticals to advertise prescription drugs on TV.
	That's right.
	You know, they've always advertised aspirin.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But they control, they control all the messaging.
	Yeah, but it's a mechanism of control, so they own the media.
	The media's been co-opted, captured.
	Remember the capture, they've been captured by big pharma, so they can't say anything.
	It is... This is news!
	What's going on in Canada right now?
	I pray this does not come to the United States, what is happening there.
	This is about M.A.I.D., which is just, I love the acronym M.A.I.D.
	because you think of a maid.
	I'm coming in here, I'm going to sweep around.
	Oh, I'm going to kill you, which is medically assisted assistance in dying.
	And Canada has put a pause on this.
	And this is very disappointing to the, to the, to the industry, to the death industry in Canada.
	The federal government is defending its decision to delay the expansion of medically assisted death to include those suffering from mental illness.
	It's the second time they've pressed pause on the legislation.
	James Cowan is a member of the board of directors for the advocacy group Dying With Dignity and he joins me now.
	James Cowan is good to speak with you.
	Get ready for this ghoul!
	So your organization says the work has been done to move forward now.
	How do we reconcile that with the reports and the statements from various governments saying Canada's just not ready to do this?
	Well, I think you have to go back and look at what was said at the time that the postponement, the Sunset Clause was extended last year, and Minister Lemetti was very clear as to what the markers were.
	There needed to be the consideration of the report of the expert panel, there needed to be a An educational program developed so that clinicians could be prepared for this.
	There needed to be better data collection.
	The regulators across the country needed to have time to prepare regulations and guidelines.
	And all of those markers have been met.
	So there are obviously some people in this country who do believe that the system isn't ready, but many more, particularly those who are actually engaged in doing assessments and delivering made, they testified before the committee that they were ready.
	And so I'm personally disappointed that the government now intends to Kick the ball down the road for some indefinite period of time.
	I don't know how long that is, but I'm more disappointed for the relatively few Canadians who meet the very strict criteria and were hoping and waiting for the day when they'd be able to apply for MADE and if they were successful to receive that service.
	It's a service.
	And what this was about was they didn't want to include mental disorders.
	People want to die because they are depressed.
	I mean that's like one of the hallmarks of depression.
	And this guy wants to kill people over it.
	It's baffling to me.
	You know what's kind of baffling about the whole thing?
	Is that The Canadians have got this M.A.I.D.
	deal.
	They would find somebody and then they put them to, I don't know what they do to them, but they die.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, everybody's happy about it.
	In the United States where we have executioner's row, we can't put anyone to death because, oh, you know, this doesn't work.
	That doesn't work.
	We can't get any more of this drug.
	I mean, how can the Canadians so casually put the normal citizens to death and we can't put anyone to death who's on death row?
	We can't kill criminals.
	How does that work?
	I think we both had a clip about that, about they were going to suffocate some guy.
	Use nitrogen?
	Yeah, suffocate some guy.
	That was the latest one.
	I think I had a clip a couple of shows ago.
	Yeah, here it is.
	Alabama is set to execute a criminal with nitrogen gas tomorrow, a method never used before.
	The U.S.
	Supreme Court just declined to block the state.
	The man in question survived a different method of capital punishment two years ago.
	I mean, I'm always surprised, like, oh, don't kill him, that's cruel, you can't, but killin' babies?
	Nah, it's cool.
	That's all good.
	Let's go protest for that.
	I'm always baffled by our attitude towards death in the United States.
	Well, I'm baffled by the Republican and Democrat schism regarding this.
	The Democrats are okay with killing babies, but they're not okay with death row.
	Oh no, we can't have the death penalty.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	The Republicans are just the opposite.
	They're not good with killing babies, but kill these bastards in jail!
	So, I mean, it's just like, both sides seem to have a, like a, you know, maybe you should switch some views back and forth.
	I'm, the only person I kind of think is not a hypocrite is one that doesn't want to kill babies or the death penalty.
	Or kill everybody!
	Yeah, and if we're gonna kill everybody, I want the primetime rights.
	I've said this for many years.
	Yeah, this is your goal in life.
	This'll be my exit strategy.
	I want to produce... Oh, you'd be worth... Billions.
	Billions.
	I'd be able to pay off that $500 bet.
	In a heartbeat.
	In a heartbeat.
	Well, you never pay off the $5,000 bet, that's for sure.
	I can do the 3x3, or we can go through the Iranian professor, which I could also push off.
	Well, why don't I do two quick, fun climate change clips?
	And then we can do the three by three.
	How does that sound?
	All right.
	All right.
	So the first one is very underreported and it is climate change related, but the farmers in Europe are on the move.
	Everywhere.
	All countries.
	They're not- Yeah, not very well covered, by the way.
	At all.
	Tractors clogged the Luxembourg Square in Brussels Thursday during an EU summit.
	Their goal?
	Deliver their message of less bureaucracy and better prices.
	A movement that started several weeks ago in the south of France has not erupted across Europe, with farmers now blocking roads in Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Romania, Italy, and Spain.
	And in France, the anger has moved from the provinces to Paris.
	Earlier this week, farmers blocked major arteries into Paris with their tractors.
	And yesterday, almost 80 people were arrested outside the international food market to the south of Paris after farmers descended on the area and were met by armored vehicles.
	Their anger is centered around the need to make more money.
	They generally say they need less red tape, less environmental restrictions, and protection from cheap foreign imports.
	France has proposed giving livestock farmers 150 million euros per year to ease their concerns.
	The EU Commission has responded by suggesting they'll limit Ukrainian imports of sugar, poultry, and eggs.
	They say they'll also ease restrictions on the use of land left fallow for environmental reasons.
	But the plans still need to be approved by the 27-country member bloc and the European Parliament.
	Yeah, by the way, not a mainstream clip.
	You cannot get a mainstream clip that overviews all of these protests on all of these roads.
	No, there's nothing.
	We're not covering it.
	And especially with the farmers where they have the armored tanks and the tractors on one side.
	It's unbelievable, and this is going on all over the place, and a lot of it does have to do with this Ukraine war, because you just saw the little clip.
	Oh yeah, no, all the Ukraine... Kargile owns Ukraine farms, and so let's move them into Europe.
	You know what, and I want to do the last climate change clip, but I got a PDF from one of our producers, and it's, you know, I'm gonna open it up here.
	This is Celebrating 10 years in Ukraine!
	10th anniversary of Boeing in Ukraine!
	A decade of growth!
	I did not know this.
	In January 2014, that's the year of the Maidan Putsch, that's when the United States primarily took over the entire country, the very first engineers walked into the brand new Boeing Engineering and Technology Center in Kiev, Ukraine.
	A decade later, Kiev is home to almost 1,200 engineers.
	Together they support engineering for almost all of Boeing's commercial platforms.
	Initially, the site started operations with no more than 50 engineers focusing on engineering products related to the second generation 737 and the Boeing 757.
	What are the chances that some of these things are coming out of Ukraine?
	And 10 years?
	10 years of Boeing in Ukraine?
	Did you know this?
	No.
	Until you just said it right now, I didn't know it.
	I mean, that's really... Well, why are we sending them any jets?
	Why don't they just make some F-35s right there in Ukraine?
	There's a Boeing... They do the 777, the 777, the 777X, the 737, they do the 787 program, as well as payload design for 737 and 777, and the eco-demonstrator, whatever.
	The local Boeing team made the courageous decision to continue their work during the war!
	Boeing Global is providing unwavering support, ensuring the safety of employees.
	I mean, come on.
	It's like, that's the last thing you'd expect.
	Boeing's been there for, they're celebrating 10 years.
	We're not being told anything.
	This is not news that you're watching, people.
	Stop it.
	And get off social media while you're at it.
	Meanwhile, of course, they take and bomb the Antonov plant.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Which makes a better jet than Boeing.
	It's got more engines.
	All right, here's my final climate change clip.
	It's a classic because he brings back some super tropes that we love.
	It's Christiane Amanpour, the globalist on CNN International with her fellow globalist Al Gore.
	So, I just want to ask you, you know, James Hansen, the NASA expert who was one of the first on climate warnings, has warned that, you know, unless there's some massively radical thing to happen very soon, the magic 1.5 degrees number will, you know, will be surpassed.
	And there seems to be a struggle over the experts over that.
	Where do you come down on that?
	I like how she talks about the magic 1.5 number.
	That's kind of a setup.
	It's a magic number.
	Yeah, which is exactly right.
	She got the right language there.
	It's a magic number.
	Well, I have the deepest respect for Jim Hansen and also for his colleagues who have a slightly different view, but they agree on most things.
	You know, half of the calendar days in 2023 were actually above 1.5.
	And in November there were two days above a two degree margin above the pre-industrial temperature.
	So yes we we're running out of time to solve this in time but and we're running some unacceptably high risks with large global Systems that are important for the flourishing of humanity that are now being destabilized.
	So the sooner the better.
	The issue you're referring to is over how sensitive the climate is to more and more greenhouse gas pollution and ultimately they agree on far more than they disagree.
	They're all saying the same thing.
	Switch away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and stop using the sky as an open sewer.
	That's the basic problem.
	Well, he's back to the sky as an open sewer.
	We're putting 162 million tons up there every day.
	And the accumulated amount, it stays on average each molecule for about 100 years.
	And the accumulated amount today, Christiane, ...is trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 750,000 Hiroshima-class Oppenheimer-era atomic bombs exploding on the Earth every single day.
	He's expanded it to Oppenheimer-era!
	This is beautiful, Al!
	I love it!
	Well, he gots a movie reference in.
	Yeah?
	Oh yeah.
	So for you dummies out there who don't know anything... About Hiroshima.
	About Hiroshima, the old bomb, and all the rest of it, we have to bring in the movie reference so you dummies can understand what I'm trying to talk about here.
	Nobody's listening to me.
	750,000 Hiroshima Oppenheimer era bombs.
	750,000 Hiroshima Oppenheimer era bombs.
	A day.
	A day.
	I want that on a t-shirt.
	It's beautiful.
	Al?
	Al Gore.
	Al Gore.
	Gotta love him.
	All we need is a price on carbon.
	Once we get that price on carbon, we're good to go.
	Then everybody can shut up.
	Did we talk about the fact that the IRS has created some rules?
	They've stopped a lot of them.
	If you have a company, it could also just be an LLC, if you do something that creates carbon credits, you can sell those.
	So you don't have to be, you know, you don't have to be a big corporation.
	You can be a small LLC and you can, I don't know, plant some trees.
	We've talked about this strategy before.
	Yeah, like 10 years ago.
	Yeah.
	But now they are allowing it, that you can sell your energy tax credits to any other company.
	Yeah.
	What's the mechanism?
	I'm sure that they'll have some exchange.
	I don't know.
	This is from the tax guys who are telling me this.
	It might be on the books, but that doesn't mean you can do it.
	Well, it says it right there and I'd have to look it up because it was a couple shows ago.
	I guess we didn't talk about it.
	But yeah, this is part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
	You know, you get half of anything that you do, you get tax credit for.
	So if you just buy a car, like an EV, you don't even have to use the EV, you can write off half of it in tax credits.
	Don't even have to drive it.
	It says it.
	I don't think inflation is going to come down anytime soon.
	I think we're in for a... What were they talking about?
	Oh, we'll be cutting interest rates.
	Oh, now it'll be March.
	Oh, maybe it may be... I don't think it's going to happen at all.
	I don't think they should be cutting them.
	No, they should be raising them!
	The economy's going the way Biden claims, which is watching Welker on that show.
	Oh my God, you know, things are going so well.
	We've got no inflation and no unemployment.
	Everything's the best economy ever.
	I don't understand why the people don't see this and vote for Joe.
	I got an angry message.
	About our millennial Gen Z.
	There's so many beautiful emails we receive from people.
	We get tons of good mail.
	The Gen Z's like to write.
	Yes, they're very long.
	And some of them love their job.
	And they just grind away.
	And the things that they were hoping they would do.
	I love my truck and I love what I do.
	The things they were hoping to get into.
	Now they're just doing it as a hobby.
	And they've bought homes.
	And they don't live in cities.
	and they watch Little House on the Prairie.
	But, but I got to, I got this one from this one, one person who was like, It was, you know, boots on the ground, how bad the job market actually is.
	I work construction, had to leave the job.
	My boss violently attacked my mother.
	I got a job as a cashier.
	My boss ghosted me after I was hospitalized with, like, just horrible story.
	And so I write back and I say, well, You know, that's not really much.
	I mean, you've had some bad breaks, but it's not like that doesn't happen to lots of people.
	And I get the message back, you and John are a couple of old pussies.
	You would have hung yourself a long time ago in my shoes.
	Okay, well that kind of ended that conversation.
	Yeah, unless you got the wrong guy in dialogue.
	That's right.
	Alright, let's hit it everybody!
	Now it's time for 3x3!
	Experiment 5JCD!
	Here we go everybody!
	Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC!
	The never-ending 3x3!
	It's the never-ending 3x3, which means we have a 3x3 and a plus, and we're going to see just how programmed the news is.
	Of course, this flows through to your social media.
	It's all the clips you see.
	Megyn Kelly will get all upset about it, and remember, Code Bongino at checkout.
	Let's start with Mary Bruce at ABC.
	Oh, nice!
	the powerful retaliation the U.S. had promised, unleashing a major counter-strike on Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria, a direct response to the drone attack that killed three American soldiers and injured more than 40 on a remote U.S. base in Jordan.
	The U.S.
	saying the airstrikes began at 4 p.m., hitting 85 targets in seven locations inside Iraq and Syria, including command and control operations centers and intelligence hubs, taking out rockets, missiles, and attack drones belonging to militia groups and their Iranian sponsors, who facilitated attacks against U.S.
	and coalition forces.
	The U.S.
	dropping more than 125 precision munitions from multiple aircraft, including B-1 bombers that flew from the U.S.
	President Biden tonight saying this is the first wave of a response that will continue at times and places of our choosing.
	And warning, the United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world.
	But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this, If you harm an American, we will respond.
	Notably, none of today's strikes hit Iran directly.
	The President remains concerned, not wanting to start a wider war.
	Just hours before, a powerful reminder of the weight of these decisions.
	The President performing one of his most solemn duties as Commander-in-Chief.
	witnessing the dignified transfer of the three service members killed in Jordan.
	One by one, their flag-draped cases carefully carried across the tarmac.
	The president placing his hand over his heart alongside the first lady and defense secretary Austin, honoring the fallen.
	You know what gets me about this?
	It's like if you hurt an American, we're going to come and get you with our B-1 bombers.
	How about the fentanyl?
	We all recognize where it comes from.
	How about Gonzalo Lira?
	You know, the guy who the Ukrainians killed him.
	It's so disingenuous.
	Yes, because you're right.
	The whole thing's a facade.
	It's bullcrap.
	And by the way, don't most of these ceremonies, when they come over, drape it right out of the thing to have the families there?
	They didn't have the family.
	I remember the families there because I remember the time during the Clinton- Wait, wait, wait.
	They didn't have families there?
	No, it was just Biden and- Red flag.
	The phony Lloyd Austin and- Red flag.
	Red flag.
	And the wife.
	But you remember, because usually the families, because I remember that one time there's a bunch of people that came over and Hillary was the Secretary of State and the woman, I think we had a clip of it, the woman was, she says, Hillary is so cold it was like hugging a lizard, you know, she went on and on about it.
	Yes, yes, I remember that.
	It's like, where's the family?
	I hate to think.
	And of course, if there's a family that is grieving over their service folk, then that's horrible.
	I hate to think.
	And of course, if there's a family that is grieving over their service folk, then that's horrible.
	But if they weren't even there, that doesn't make it.
	We have military people.
	They'll tell me what's going on.
	Isn't the family, by definition, flown in for this?
	I always thought they were.
	I don't know.
	I mean, most of the time I've seen this event, which they don't like to show anymore.
	They stopped doing it after the Vietnam War, but they did it this time as a photo op for Biden, obviously.
	Yeah.
	Even though he has such a look on his face, they can't use the photo op for anything.
	It's just like he has a grimace on his face, like he doesn't like being there or something.
	It was very peculiar.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Alright, well let's go back to the 3x3 and let's move to NBC with Peter Alexander.
	Oh, I hope we have a launch sound!
	Tonight, the American retaliatory strikes have begun.
	U.S.
	Central Command saying late this evening, U.S.
	forces began striking more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria, using numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers flown from the U.S.
	The targets, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Quds Force and affiliated militia groups, hitting their command and control operations centers and intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, and unmanned aired vehicle storage, among other sites.
	President Biden tonight saying, our response began today.
	It will continue at times and places of our choosing.
	Adding, let all those who might seek to do us harm know this, if you harm an American, we will respond.
	The US strikes come in response to that deadly drone attack by Iranian backed militias that struck Tower 22, a desert outpost in Jordan, killing three US service members.
	That attack among more than 160.
	I'm sorry, I got to stop this.
	Have you In any of these reports, or any report, have you heard the names of these three service members?
	Yeah.
	You have heard the names?
	Yeah, yeah.
	They read the names off on a couple of shows.
	Okay.
	Killing three U.S.
	service members.
	That attack among more than 160 against American targets by Iranian-backed militias since October.
	President Biden had previously authorized limited strikes in response that even he acknowledged had not deterred the militias.
	And the president has been under pressure to respond more forcefully, especially after American service members were killed.
	All of it just hours after the Commander-in-Chief performed one of his most solemn duties, attending the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, as the remains of those three U.S.
	service members returned home.
	The President and First Lady joining the grieving families of 46-year-old Sergeant William Rivers, a soldier... You know, they say that they joined the family.
	I saw the pictures of them standing there.
	He didn't say any family people, but okay, if he says so, then maybe they were.
	The President and First Lady joining the grieving families of 46-year-old Sgt.
	William Rivers, a soldier's soldier, his cousin said.
	24-year-old Sgt.
	Kennedy Sanders, whose family said she was always full of life.
	And 23-year-old Sgt.
	Brianna Moffitt, her parents remembering how she could light up a room.
	The U.S.
	today also launching preemptive strikes on the Iranian-backed Houthis.
	All I see is pictures of them with other service personnel.
	The way he also put it, if you parsed it, it could have been that Biden met with the families elsewhere.
	They weren't on the tarmac necessarily, if you listen to the way he presented that.
	But, whatever.
	That was Peter Alexander.
	Now we're going to move to Nancy Cordes, one of the top rung of the reporters for CBS.
	Oh, come on, CBS.
	Is that a nat pop?
	They start off with like a little fart.
	I think they put the sound in differently.
	But if I'm not mistaken, most of these reports always show the B-1 bomber taking off, which is quite a pretty sight.
	I mean, the B-1 bomber is just a beautiful product.
	And it's no Antonov.
	Pentagon officials say two B-1 bombers were among the military aircraft used to strike more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria.
	The targets included command and control centers, weapons depots, and drone storage facilities.
	All of them linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and affiliated militia groups.
	Oh, they're affiliates.
	The strikes were approved by the president and launched just a few hours after he welcomed the bodies of three fallen service members back to U.S.
	soil.
	Welcomed?
	Welcomed?
	This is... This is disgusting.
	Welcome back, boys!
	Girl?
	Boy?
	Welcome back!
	Come on.
	That usage is dubious.
	It's dubious indeed.
	It's cringy.
	The president and launched just a few hours after he welcomed the bodies of three fallen service members back to U.S. soil.
	All three were stationed in Jordan at a U.S. outpost known as Tower 22 that came under fire last Sunday.
	I can tell you right now there's going to be a movie titled Tower 22.
	It will be Amazon Prime or Netflix.
	Well, you know, the title itself is there.
	Yeah.
	For the taking.
	Yep.
	It's a good title.
	This, this is the lie.
	Air defense system had been temporarily taken offline to allow a U.S. drone to return from a mission safely.
	An Iranian-made drone.
	This, this is the lie.
	This is the lie.
	No.
	...that came under fire last Sunday.
	The base's air defense system had been temporarily taken offline to allow a U.S.
	drone to return from a mission safely.
	Okay, so I just want to know, was this a helicopter drone?
	I'd like to know a little bit more.
	And why did you have to take your air defense systems offline?
	This is very, very... I'm with you 100%.
	I said 100% and I'll say it again.
	I'm with you 99.9%.
	Let's go.
	We know that you can definitely feel our pain.
	President Biden called their anguished families this week.
	Look, I know.
	I really do know.
	I got one of those phone calls.
	quarters at the base, wounding 40 and killing Army Reserve soldiers Will Rivers, Breonna Moffat and Kennedy Sanders.
	We know that you can definitely feel our pain.
	President Biden called their anguished families this week.
	Look, I know.
	I really do know.
	I got one of those phone calls.
	This is, oh my God.
	This is not, this is not how you do this.
	You don't air the phone calls.
	Oh, let's do a Zoom call and let's release it to CBS.
	That's a good point.
	I've never seen that.
	Those are private calls that wouldn't go on the air.
	That is just wrong.
	Unless it's staged.
	Wrong.
	Which is wrong.
	U.S.
	officials blamed the attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias.
	I don't think the adversaries are of a one-and-done mindset.
	And so, they have a lot of capability.
	I have a lot more.
	Wary of setting off a wider war, the U.S.
	has avoided striking Iran directly, despite at least 165 attacks on U.S.
	forces in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas conflict began last October.
	Iran's president warned today, we will not start a war, but if a cruel force wants to bully us, the Islamic Republic of Iran will give a strong response.
	This is some Rocky-level crap they're pulling here.
	This is dumb.
	I can't believe.
	I'm ashamed.
	I'm ashamed.
	I am ashamed.
	I'm ashamed of this.
	Ashamed of what they're doing.
	Ashamed of the reporting.
	Ashamed that people watch it.
	Ashamed there's money in this.
	Bring back Taylor Swift.
	That's what we're good at.
	Alright, here we go.
	It's a CBC.
	This is like the bonus clip and this is Chris.
	Oh, we didn't do CBS yet.
	No, that was CBS.
	That was CBS with the bad Nat Pop.
	Yeah.
	Okay, let's go to CBC and wrap this thing up.
	At 4 p.m.
	Eastern Time, U.S.
	military forces struck more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria.
	These strikes were against Iranian Revolutionary Guard targets and other Iranian-backed militia.
	The facilities that were struck included command and control operation centers, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages and logistics and munitions supply chain facilities.
	Syrian state media says the strikes hit near the border between the two countries and several people are dead.
	Used in the attack, and again this is from U.S.
	Central Command, aircraft including long-range bombers flown from the U.S.
	as well as 125 smart weapons capable of precise target hits.
	U.S.
	President Joe Biden said then, Paul, that the U.S.
	will respond and today the president is in his home in Delaware after spending the afternoon At Dover Air Force Base at a ceremony for those fallen soldiers.
	Well, speaking of Biden then, any word on this from the White House?
	The president just issued a statement, Paul, shortly after the strikes.
	He said in part, and let me just read it to you exactly as it is written.
	This afternoon at my direction, U.S.
	military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia used to attack U.S.
	forces.
	Our response began today.
	It will continue at times and places of our choosing.
	The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world.
	But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this.
	If you harm an American, we will respond.
	Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin added to that in his own statement, Paul.
	He said, the president and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces.
	We will take all necessary actions to defend the United States.
	Our forces and our interests.
	Which again brings up your point about, what about that journalist guy, character that's been detained in Ukraine?
	No, he was killed.
	He died in prison.
	Oh, I didn't know he died.
	Oh yeah, this is weeks ago.
	Yeah, so they don't care about him.
	What do we do about that?
	No, nothing, we don't care.
	No, we don't care.
	No, but what we have to do, we have to spend months and months and months crying about, what's that guy, the journalist, the Washington Post journalist, Khashoggi.
	Khashoggi.
	He wasn't even an American.
	And we didn't go over and blow up, well that's why we didn't go blow up Saudi Arabia.
	There's probably other reasons we didn't blow up Saudi Arabia.
	I'm just gonna say this is all, this is all theater.
	And I don't know, I'm still reeling over the fact that Israel somehow let guys come over with motor gliders and the fence was open.
	The military-industrial complex, writ large, is out of control.
	And they don't care.
	I think, well, the don't care part is, like, I think they do care, and I think your earlier thesis, oh, I'm sorry, hypothesis.
	Hypothesis, yes.
	Was about, once they know, once Trump gets in, this is, the game might be over.
	It's over, yeah.
	So let's spend, spend, spend, let's have some fun, let's rack up the money, fatten up the bank account, set up a Swiss account, and let's get ready to party.
	When Trump comes in, we'll take some time off.
	It's all over.
	It's all ending, people.
	It's all ending.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	In the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the cutting bloat.
	Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
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	And in the morning to the trolls in the troll room listening online.
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	Stop moving!
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	21-23 today.
	On the total count.
	Short.
	Short.
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	What was the word?
	I missed it.
	I said midget.
	Midget?
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	You can't say midget anymore?
	No, you can't be able to say midget.
	Oh, you have to say little person.
	I mean, unless you're my age for the last 25 years.
	They are short trolls indeed.
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	I get it now.
	He's right.
	Hopefully I'll get 500 bucks from Oscar Mary over there at Fountain.
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	The time and the talent comes in so many different ways.
	People organizing meetups.
	Actually, we had Had dinner last night with producer Ashley and her husband Ben.
	They were coming through Fredericksburg for her 40th anniversary.
	They had organized, I think, one of the first Minneapolis meetups in the middle of winter and had 30 people show up and were just blown away by the community that is comprised of the No Agenda slaves and producers.
	We also love it when you send us treasure that does keep the lights on everywhere, and we want to start by thanking our executive and associate executive producer.
	Oh, wait!
	Before we do that, let's thank our artists.
	Almost passed over it.
	We need to thank the artists who brought us the artwork, because this is a big piece of time and talent.
	We have multiple pieces to choose from every single show, and we want to thank Nesworks.
	Uh, I said 40th.
	Tina's texting me.
	Did I not say 40th birthday?
	Did I say 50th or 100th birthday?
	Did I make her older than she is?
	What, so you got a back channel going on with Tina as you're keeping you honest?
	Yeah, of course!
	Hello, she's a producer!
	She does a lot for the show.
	Stuff you don't even... She's going to be very happy about the $500.
	Yeah, rub it in.
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	Believe me.
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	I said 40th anniversary is her 40th birthday.
	Yeah, I got a back channel.
	She's the best, man.
	You should be happy.
	Where's your back channel with your family?
	Are they listening?
	Nobody cares.
	Hey, Nestworks brought us the artwork for episode 1630.
	That was titled Potty Mouth Parrots, which is a title you were just dying to get out there.
	And there were a number of...
	Candidates?
	I have to go look at the submitted art.
	The one we chose by Nestworks was Zuckerberg with blood on his hands with a go bag that had a little transistor radio and a toothbrush in there.
	Oh, I missed that.
	Oh, you didn't see the transistor radio and the toothbrush?
	Well, I mean, looking at it now, I see it's obvious.
	I didn't get the cane, though.
	What was the cane referenced to?
	I think it's the Monopoly guy, isn't it?
	Oh, right, right, right.
	That's exactly what it is.
	The guy should have the top hat and the whole thing.
	Perfect.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I missed that, too.
	That's just Neswork.
	Neswork's piece was dynamite.
	Yes.
	The more you look at it, it's like the Mona Lisa.
	You know, the more the longer you look at it, the more you see.
	It's just beautiful.
	It's a perfect piece.
	But you did like the piece next to it.
	Yes.
	Francisco Scaramanga had a go bag submerged in the water with fish.
	I just like the go bag idea.
	So I was OK with I think the Nestworks go bag was funnier.
	Yeah, I didn't get to fish in the goldfish.
	Well, it's because you were complaining about flooding.
	It was your go-bag because, you know, you were flooding.
	Sweet Cheeks submitted a, um, that looks like a kind of designer go-bag, which I wasn't quite sure.
	That's not a Louis Vuitton.
	Looks like a Gucci maybe?
	I'm not sure.
	No, it does look Louis Vuitton to me.
	No, I think it's Gucci.
	That design is not... I think that's Louis.
	A number of people said in Taylor Swift... Too small.
	Taylor Swift, which nah, we're probably not going to do Taylor Swift.
	No.
	Taylor Swift's verboten.
	Don't do Taylor Swift.
	There were two swearing parrots, which didn't quite hit it.
	A little sigh up on the prairie, funny, but not great execution.
	I kind of liked Dame Kenny Bent's false flag.
	It was just cute.
	But you nixed that.
	And was there anything else we liked, or was that it?
	I didn't think the false flag indicated much of anything.
	No, it was just a... No, this Nessworks piece was hard to beat.
	Yeah, it was good.
	We appreciate the work of all of our artists, of course.
	That's a great example of time and talent being put in there, doing it live.
	You can look at it at noagendaartgenerator.com.
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	And this upgrade is just phenomenal.
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	So this is the only way that podcasts really can survive is by support from the people who listen, who we do not call listeners.
	We call you producers and you have an obligation to produce.
	It can be boots on the ground.
	It can be a jingle.
	We have lots of those.
	We've got some ton of good news jingles as requested.
	Artwork, you name it.
	There's lots of ways you can participate.
	Just go out and hit somebody in the mouth.
	Or send us some treasure.
	We definitely need that.
	And we want to thank our executive and associate executive producers.
	And we kick it off with... This is from the Albany Meetup.
	This is the Get John Out of the House Meetup.
	And the credit for this, I guess they had some mechanism, you'll have to tell us, goes to Eric Toon.
	Toon.
	T-O-O-N.
	52833.
	It's amazing how they got the magic number in there.
	Now, was this...
	Do you know anything about this?
	About what?
	About how this, the mechanism, how did Eric... Yeah, the guy who does the meetups and who did the meetup became, decided that he's going to collect all the money that he can and he went from person to person.
	Okay.
	And he accumulated, there's others that sent it, gave me a The proper form, which is a check or something in an envelope with a note.
	And are they listed in this?
	Yeah, they're in there.
	Oh, good.
	There's only a couple of them.
	Oh, good.
	Because most of it came through to the third party.
	Do you want to give us a quick little update on the meetup?
	It was about 45 people.
	Wow.
	Seems to me.
	That's good.
	It was a big meetup.
	Was my head on a stick?
	No, your head was not on a stick, nor was mine, and I think that that's slowly fading into the past, and that idea, and everyone was, it was a wide variety of people, including A poet from Berkeley.
	We read one of her poems once.
	A truck driver who drives logging trucks.
	Nice.
	And he says, yeah, everybody, if you're a trucker, you'd listen to podcasts.
	Yes.
	Which is what you do.
	I know.
	And we had a guy who invented a new form using MEMS of a headset.
	MEMS?
	MEMS?
	What are MEMS?
	MEMS.
	MEMS?
	MEMS.
	M-E-M.
	M-E-M-S.
	Look it up.
	Micro-Electronic Magnet or something.
	It's a small movable MEM.
	It's gonna be the next big thing.
	It always will be.
	It'll be the next big thing and always will be.
	He invented that?
	Did he have an example?
	No, no, he took MEMS and made a microscopic speaker that then if you put it in earbuds, since it has no latency with the sound, it's crystal clear.
	It's fabulous.
	It's going to be, if they get it out the door, a fabulous product.
	How many MEMS did he have in this thing?
	There's one mem per side.
	So two mems?
	Yeah, two mems.
	Nice.
	Okay.
	And he was there with his fiancée, who was...
	So, she was adamant about the Taylor Swift-Kelsey phony baloney relationship and she was gonna kill somebody about it.
	This is what I... Kelsey only dated black girls!
	What's he doing with this white woman?
	Oh, I heard he was gay.
	That was the latest I heard.
	Well no, she's supposed to be gay.
	Taylor Swift?
	Taylor Swift's supposed to be a lesbian.
	Nah!
	That's the latest.
	No.
	Oh no.
	And here we are participating in the op.
	And by the way, yes we are.
	And by the way, just download some of those photos.
	She's obviously a lesbian.
	You can tell me what she's up to.
	It's in the photos.
	Thanks, John.
	That'll be in the newsletter.
	We'll in the newsletter for next.
	Sign up to the newsletter, people.
	Sign up to the newsletter.
	So yeah, it was just generally a good group and they had, there was a lot of, a variety of people as usual that was attending.
	But I'm going to keep an eye on these MEMS guys.
	MEMS, all right.
	MEMS on the word.
	My ex-strategy.
	Sell these things.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it was just a good meetup.
	Jay showed up with Brennan and Hey, when are they getting married?
	April.
	Didn't you get your invite?
	Yeah, but I saw the... Are they registered somewhere?
	Because we've got to send them a gift.
	I'm thinking of sending them $500.
	Can't afford it.
	All right.
	All right.
	Let's move on with our next executive producer.
	Well, next is SDG in Oakland, California, who came in with $350.58.
	And he just wants karma, or she could be a she, it's SDG.
	That person wants karma with a twist of Rev Al.
	That was $350.58.
	And Priscilla O'Leary is in Ramona, California, 343.75.
	And this is in memory of Paul, a faithful listener.
	We're sorry that we've lost Paul.
	And Priscilla O'Leary is in Ramona, California, 343.75.
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	We're sorry that we've lost Paul.
	Thank you, Priscilla.
	and And Christopher Lowry, which is similar, from St.
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	Oh, plus P's.
	Yes, thank you.
	I do believe I'm overdue for a donation.
	Your hard work's appreciated.
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	Baron NBS in Chicago.
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	We know what that's about.
	ITM, John and Adam.
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	I'm a dude.
	Oh, Lucas, I always thought you were a dude.
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	So I don't know what my ring size is.
	But my smoking hot girlfriend told me hers.
	I think I get that hint.
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	I'm taking some orders here that I see for the round table which I hadn't put in yet for our next donation and that is from...
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	Trump, I'm gonna come, of course, followed by the whole load.
	Yep, yeah, it's a well-known combo.
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	That's not an ISO per se.
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	Is it?
	Maybe it's in a series.
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	I'll see if I can get it at Teleprompter.
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	You are true national treasures.
	I hope you never find an exit strategy.
	I don't know.
	Mems on deck.
	Many blessings.
	South Florida Franny.
	And now you get to thank Sir Julian.
	I get to thank Sir Julian.
	He's from the big Bastrop meetup.
	That's him and his dame.
	He's in Page, Texas, according to this.
	333.
	Gentlemen, Sir Julian here, a good friend of mine, has a budget for promoting the latest drop from country music artist Dusty Black.
	Clearly the smartest thing to do to spread the word about this song is to get a mention on the best podcast in the universe.
	The song is titled, Me and Jesus, and he's got a link, a link to link l-i-n-k dot to slash me and Jesus.
	And it can be found on all the major streaming services.
	Proceeds from the song are going to charity.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Sir Julian, the Duke of Bastrop County.
	Hey, Sir Julian, hit me up.
	I want to put it on value for value.
	We got that in the apps now.
	We're doing all kinds of cool stuff with that.
	Thank you, Sir Julian.
	Hey, look who's back with an Associate Executive Producership as Sir Ara Dadarian.
	Yeah, there he is.
	From Tobuco Canyon, California, 250.
	He says, thank you.
	Well, thank you.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	No, thank you.
	Sir.
	Sir.
	Sir 2, is it the Roman numeral 2, Pope De-Ciclismo?
	Pope De-Ciclismo in Rio Verde, Arizona?
	I believe so.
	250 bucks, thanks for all you do.
	Sir to Pope DeCiclismo.
	I'm thinking it's Sir Eel Pope DeCiclismo.
	Oh, Sir Eel.
	Oh, maybe.
	I think it is.
	Carla Heidsma is in Zeewolde in the Netherlands.
	That's not anywhere near Gouda.
	But she does give us $225 for an Associate Executive Producership.
	And since there's no note, she will receive a Double Up Karma.
	You've got Sir Eric the Greasemonkey in Concord, Virginia, 222.22, it's a row of ducks.
	Thank you for your courage, no jingles, no karma!
	Sir Eric the Greasemonkey.
	And with a nice row of ducks, 222.22, we have Matt Lee, who sent us a note with a picture of his odometer, which shows 22,222 miles.
	John and Adam, I stopped by the grocery store a few days ago.
	As I placed my truck into park, I was hit in the mouth by my odometer.
	Thanks, guys.
	No jingles, no karma.
	He says, I'll leave it up to you.
	No need to read my note.
	It isn't terribly interesting.
	No, it was nice.
	I like that.
	It's always fun to see what people donate for.
	Paul Schneider, 20480.
	Add me to the birthday list for February 4th.
	Thanks.
	You got it, you're done.
	Rob Alter, Kansas City, $200.
	Associate Executive Producer, no notes, so for you also a Double Up Karma.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	So there we have Linda Lupatkin in Lakewood, Colorado.
	Uh, 200 bucks asking for jobs, Conor, for a remarkable resume that gets results.
	Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
	That's ImageMakersInc with a K dot com.
	Or just find Linda Lupatkin under the show's producer list.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma.
	And Sir Reishmeister is in Mountain View, California.
	I hope he still has a gig there.
	It's been weird in Mountain View.
	$200 also.
	Yeah, he was at the meetup.
	Oh, he was.
	And that's $200.
	And, uh, yeah, he left a note that just says, hey, uh, thanks.
	Thanks for the memories.
	Well, I'm going to give him a single Karma then for that.
	You've got Karma.
	And that concludes... No, there's actually one more.
	You have to read the next one.
	Oh, I see it, I see it.
	Yes, because it's $230.23 in Canadian dollar.
	Sir Spencer Sumner in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
	And, of course, we respect the Canadian dollar dues.
	And this will be a title change should the Peerage Committee approve from Sir Spencer Baronet to Sir Spencer Sumner, Viscount of Alberta.
	I'm sure that's okay.
	I do not hear any objections.
	I guess it's okay.
	Any objections?
	There is no other Viscount of Alberta.
	With deference to Sir Robert Goschko, Viscount of Sherwood Park and Stracona County, who has already laid claim to where my family and I call home.
	Okay, so you're good.
	It has been nearly 10 years since I first donated to the show.
	By the way, I should mention you could jump him, become a duke.
	That's right.
	You could take over the whole province.
	That's right.
	And then make him your slave.
	It has been nearly 10 years, you serf.
	10 years since I first donated to the show and over 15 years since I started listening as I began listening in high school and turned 30 late last year.
	No agenda has been with me... You're an old man now!
	No agenda has been with me for over half of my life.
	I don't know how I feel about that.
	It's a test case for something.
	It doesn't feel good to me somehow.
	My keeper, Patricia and I welcomed our first human resource, James, last fall.
	I'm grateful.
	What are you drinking?
	Topo Chico.
	Oh!
	You know, I thought it was from Texas, but it's not.
	It's from Mexico.
	It's from Mexico!
	You never said you thought it was from Texas.
	You said that's what they drink in Texas.
	That's what we drink in Texas, yes.
	My keeper, Patricia, and I welcomed our first human resource, James, last fall.
	I'm grateful to be living in a non-spun-up state and to be raising our son with the same outlook and values.
	I'm sure he will be a fine human resource.
	The show continues to have a profound impact on my life and, by extension, the lives of my wife and son.
	Thank you for all you do.
	Sir Spencer, Sherwood Park, Alberta, and we will have your title change coming up shortly along with a night, a day, and we've got some meetup reports.
	And again, thanks to all the executive and associate executive producers who came in for us on this episode, 1631.
	We thank everybody who donates.
	All you have to do is send some back.
	If everybody sends some back, these donation notes and these segments will be short.
	It's not how it works, it's not how it's ever worked in 16 years, but our gratitude remains the same, and John will take us through the notes, which include all the way up to $50.
	Yeah, let's start with Colleen Cahill from San Francisco, 133.33, got a birthday coming up for her wonderful fiancé, Michael.
	Brian Warner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 105.35.
	Baron Ladekin, Houston, Texas, 100.
	John Robineau, 100.
	Daniel Shuler in Caledonia, New York, 100.
	Eric Ecuador in Richmond, Virginia, 100.
	Angela Garcia, she was at the Meetup, $100.
	She had, uh, oh she, ugh, should be on here.
	She needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	She also mentioned it was a Rogan donation.
	A Rogan donation?
	So Angela Garcia was interesting.
	She has one of those... I don't know.
	I never asked her.
	I usually ask people what they do.
	I forgot to ask her.
	She has a show business face.
	I don't know how to put it.
	She has exaggerated features that...
	Belong on stage.
	Does she have a big head?
	Her head is not as big as yours, but it's the right size for a show business.
	I have a small head.
	What are you talking about?
	She needs to go into show business.
	Okay.
	She'd get picked all the time, left and right.
	She's distinctive looking.
	She looks like an actress.
	She looks like an actress.
	I'm thinking The Bachelorette.
	Maybe.
	Anonymous, this is a hard, that's a hard game.
	Just go on a cattle call, you're better off.
	Anonymous, $100, see attached note two.
	I don't have it.
	Let's see, take a look and see if there's anything on there for us.
	Yes.
	Hold on.
	He says, Anonymous says, you should mention the PO box on the show more often.
	I'm sure there's a lot of paranoid listeners who want to donate, but don't want anyone to know or leave a digital trail.
	Well, it's on no agenda donations.com.
	Yes, and also on Dvorak.org slash NA.
	Yeah.
	And I put it in the newsletter.
	Yes.
	But I'll mention it.
	Box 339, El Cerrito, 94530.
	And you can run that back if you need to.
	Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona, $99.99.
	Paul Eaton in Albuquerque, New Mexico, $99.00.
	David Cox in Dallas, Texas, $8.00.
	I need a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Kevin McLaughlin comes in with 8008.
	He's the Archduke of Luna.
	He says, ladies, remember at 45 you should consider an annual mammogram screening.
	Christian... Hold on, hold on.
	I want to say something about that.
	The new thing is thermogram.
	That's the new thing the ladies are getting, a thermogram.
	Thermogram?
	Yeah, so instead of, the mammogram is really, it's a very horrible process.
	The thermogram is, they use a sensor to see if you're heating up.
	It's a different process, a different type of sensor.
	Christian, Christian, Christian Groylish in Lakeland, Ohio, 8008.
	Sir Herb Lamb, eh?
	There he is, Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Good to see him again, yeah.
	8008.
	Saw the bat signal, had to donate.
	Sir Christopher Patrick Hill in Parkerville, Washington, Western Australia.
	I'm sorry, Western Australia.
	8008.
	And that came in.
	From Australia, via Stripe.
	We now have Stripe.
	Nice.
	That you can donate via, and it makes it so, go to noagendadonations.com, there's a little link there, so, we had nothing but trouble, like, New Zealand, you couldn't donate to the show.
	That's right.
	Alexander, except for sending a check, and they don't even know what a check is there.
	Alexander Salishower, Salishower, Salishower, Salishower.
	In Shaker Heights, Ohio, 75.
	Daniel Carroll, Laughlin, Nevada, 72, 27.
	Sir Becoming Heroic in Sherrerville, Indiana.
	6886, Jiggly Boobs.
	That's the one he's trying to make that take hold.
	Christy Jensen, meanwhile, in Huntington Beach, California.
	6611.
	And she's trying to make this take hold, which is 6611.
	Dangling Balls and Double Dicks.
	For the ladies.
	Okay, Christy.
	For the ladies out there.
	We'll see if that goes anywhere.
	Yeah, undoubted.
	Christy.
	Christy.
	Cameron Ling in North Branch, Minnesota.
	6131.
	Sir Ladyboy in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey.
	6006.
	Formerly known as Bobby Brindlehorse.
	Yeah.
	With an I. Bobby with an I.
	Tim Hazel is 5809.
	Ah!
	Another donation from PayPal.
	Thanks, PayPal.
	5796.
	We love PayPal.
	I don't understand why they... That's gotta be a refund or something.
	No, they just love us.
	Gerald?
	They're listening over there.
	They're like, hey, these guys are using us.
	Let's send something to them.
	Okay, now, in Peru, Indiana, we have a guy named Gerald Przewski, I'm guessing.
	Przewski.
	You never know.
	Przewski.
	But he's there in Peru, Indiana with $57.
	And he says he's literally giving his plasma for this program at $11.11 a month.
	Wow.
	He wants to de-douche.
	$10.11 a month.
	Oh, wow.
	He wants to deduce.
	You've been deduced.
	Donating.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Joseph Witzos in Spokane, Washington, 56, 78.
	That's time, talent, and treasure all in one.
	Yeah, and plasma.
	Brian Furley, 55, 10.
	Alex Rickman in Peck, Michigan, 55, 10.
	Sir Tom Dory in DeForest, Wisconsin, 55, 10.
	Douglas Pilgrim in Hingham, Massachusetts, 55.
	Sir JubJub in Elkton, Florida, 55.
	Get rid of the puppy!
	Lydia Terry in Clifton Park, New York, 53.
	Sir Touchy Puss in Bozeman, Montana, 5272.
	John Ferretti, 5272.
	Angela Pickering in Sour Lake, Texas.
	John Ferretti, 5272. Angela Pickering in Sour Lake, Texas.
	Sour Lake, Texas.
	5272. Bill Johnson in Grovetown, Georgia.
	Wants karma for her mama, give you that at the end.
	Uh, says it's cheaper than therapy.
	Now he finally got to the $50 donors.
	Charles Peterson in Albuquerque.
	James Scharametta in Nappanock.
	Jacob Martinez in El Monte, California.
	Kurt Patrick in Nanaimo, B.C.
	Lynn Malinowski in Stafford, Virginia.
	Foster Birch in New York, New York.
	Susan Kritnich in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.
	Simon Chong in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
	Ralph Johnson in Lake Isabella, California.
	Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Sir Brian Watson, that is.
	And Walker Phillips in San Rafael, California.
	Brett Farrell in Oklahoma City.
	Aichi Kitagawa in San Francisco.
	Sir Mix in Fort St.
	John BC and JBY Ketelar in Amsterdam.
	And he says, I'm probably the biggest douchebag ever.
	Apologies.
	Been with Adam since the Daily Source Code.
	Please de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	And that is our group of, uh, donators for the show 1631, which helped boost it from its doldrums that it was going in with.
	And I want to thank all these people and thank the sad puppy.
	Man, the wind is really howling there on your end.
	It's crazy.
	A 50 mile an hour wind blast in the house.
	Yeah, is the house literally moving on its foundation?
	No, but the tree next to the window is.
	Oh, that's what that screeching sound is.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, thank you all very much.
	And of course, we want to thank everyone who came in under $50.
	That is for reasons of anonymity.
	People who do $49.99 and all the way down to the lot of $4 still.
	That's from the early days.
	And thank you to some of these people who showed up again.
	And for people who say, hey, it was time for deducing.
	It's been a long time.
	That's very much appreciated.
	That's how it should work.
	That is how value-value operates, and we love you for it.
	And of course, we have a karma here for the people who requested it.
	You've got karma.
	For a mom out there, and thanks again to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1631.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Squirrel.
	Shut up!
	And if you want to become a producer, go to knowagendeddonations.com.
	Colleen Cahill wishes her fiancé Michael a happy birthday.
	He turned 33 two days ago on the 2nd.
	Franny says happy birthday to her husband, Kimo Sabe, 55 years old today.
	Paul Schneider celebrates today as well.
	Jeff Moore will be celebrating on the 6th.
	And Sir Matty of Central Oregon wishes his dad, Fred Cousins, a very happy birthday, as do we, and we're praying for healing there, Fred.
	Fred, thank you all so much, and happy birthday on behalf of everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	And we have a super non-douchebag who gets his title changed, Sir Spencer.
	You heard him, he's been a baronet for a long time.
	And with his upgrade today, he becomes Sir Spencer Sumner, Viscount of Alberta.
	And we're waiting for him to make the jump to Duke.
	Thank you very much, Sir Spencer.
	We have one dame and one knight to bring into the round table here.
	We've got the one dame, one knight sword.
	That's the one!
	I've seen it before!
	Up on the podium, please, Danielle Doherty and Lucas Hoon.
	Both of you support the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more, which you can do and find out more at noagendadonations.com.
	And now you become a knight and a dame, and I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Dame Donkey Puncher of the Round Pen and Sir Lump the Grump.
	For you, we've got hookers and blows.
	We have Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	By special request, Mangos and Sticky Rice.
	Also, Harlots and Howl Doll, Pepperoni Rolls and Pale Ales, Gates and Sake, Vodka Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escort, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Crest Milk and Pavel.
	We've got Cowgirls and Coffin Varnish, which is tasty.
	And, of course, Mutton and mead, which you, yes, I can see you both like the mutton and mead.
	While you're munching on that and sipping on the mead, go to NoAgendaRings.com.
	Everybody can take a look at those beautiful Knight and Dame rings.
	To get yours, it's personalized.
	It is a Cignet ring, so it comes with wax to seal your important correspondence and a certificate of authenticity.
	NoAgendaRings.com is where you will be able to give us your ring size.
	It has a handy ring sizing guide and an address to send it to.
	And if you are the lucky recipient of a No Agenda PhD in media deconstruction, go to that same website and give us the information so we can send out your certificates, your diplomas, because they are ready, willing, and able for you.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Yes, the No Agenda Meetups, this is where you can hang out with your community and As we've said before, there's no spelling community without unity.
	If you want connection, which is protection, you have to go to a No Agenda Meetup.
	And this is exactly what happened in Rogersville, Alabama.
	This is That Dame Stitchy Woman from Rogersville, Alabama, at the first Rogersville Meetup at Nimzey's, and I am here with... Hey, this is Sweet Cheeks from Clarksville, Tennessee.
	Peggy from Pulaski, Tennessee.
	And Susan from Muscle Shells, Alabama.
	In the morning!
	Hey, men, there's chicks over there!
	There'll be another one, I'm sure.
	Go get them!
	You want some unity?
	It's in that community in Rogersville, Alabama.
	And, of course, we have a Meetup Report from the Get JCD Out of the House Meetup.
	Hey, this is Evan behind the lines with Genocide John.
	Happy to be here.
	In the morning, this is Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II.
	We're here at the Get John Out of the House Meetup, and I just saw Lloyd Austin in the corner of the bar.
	Hanging out with some pigs in human clothing.
	Hey, this is soon-to-be Sir Chandice Roy, and we got John out of the house.
	This is Joey C., and I want to say to everybody here, let's give John a big... In the morning!
	Everyone's drinking polar seltzer.
	In the morning.
	Thank you, John and Adam.
	We love you guys.
	Wow, you were cutting it up there.
	You got everyone on here just laughing about what you're drinking.
	The comedic stylings of John C. Dvorak in the Meetup Report.
	Beautiful.
	Only one Meetup to mention until the next show, which will be on Thursday.
	On Tuesday, the 6th of February, the Naperville Freethinker Society meets at 6 o'clock at Quigley's Irish Pub.
	In Naperville, Illinois.
	On the horizon, on the 10th, is the big No Agenda Austin meetup at Doc's Backyard.
	Sunset Valley is what we call that.
	You can find out more about it at noagendameetups.com.
	The 17th, Fort Wayne.
	We have Tallahassee, Florida.
	Toms River, New Jersey.
	Garden City, Idaho.
	Los Angeles, California.
	I'm sure there's Leo Bravo.
	Indianapolis, Indiana on the 18th.
	Florence, Kentucky.
	Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore on the 22nd.
	Kilkenny, Ireland on March the 2nd.
	There's so much coming up.
	We are truly international.
	That's what the No Agenda Nation is, is an international community.
	You definitely want to go to one of these.
	Man, you need to cut the branches on that tree.
	Yeah, I'm noticing.
	Is that a crazy thought?
	I'm going to have to get an arborist out here, because when we have these southern winds, it's a very rare condition.
	It blows the tree into the... Yes.
	Helps John get an arborist.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I need an arborist.
	It's a tree dude.
	Out here we call that bird dog with a chainsaw.
	If you'd like to learn more about the No Agenda Meetups, you can go to noagendameetups.com.
	Easy to search, easy to find places near you.
	you if you can't find a meetup near you just like the people in Rogersville start one yourself sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days you wanna be where you won't be triggered or held flame you wanna be where everybody feels the same it's like a party it's like a party
	I will say this tree that's blowing around here is an oak a very old oak and it's very dense it's a very dense oak and it's delicious it's delicious have you tasted the oak Well, I use it for barbecues.
	Oh!
	Now don't you have to, it's a living oak though, don't you have to dry it?
	It doesn't take very long.
	You take the trimmings, if it's trimmings, it takes about six months.
	It's a big chunk, yeah, maybe.
	But I have a pile of wood for barbecuing it.
	When's the last time you cooked out?
	Last Friday.
	And what did you make?
	I made a... I made a... What did I do?
	I made filet... No, it wasn't the filets.
	I can't remember.
	I made either chicken... Oh, no, I had... Korean-style, those, you know, when the Koreans make this very thin-sliced meat that you can cook just instantly.
	That's what I made.
	Very good.
	It's like the shabu-shabu meat.
	Shabu-shabu.
	Only you barbecue it.
	Alright, I'm gonna hit you with my ISOs that are not all great.
	The two by Rachel Maddow.
	Yeah, right.
	Them and What Army.
	Okay.
	I think that's a non-starter.
	Another one by her.
	Government shmoverment.
	I have, uh... I wanna be a globalist?
	How do I get in?
	Let people enjoy things!
	No.
	You talked over that.
	I'm gonna play that again.
	Play the first one again.
	What, the one, the Globalist?
	No, the Rachel Maddow one.
	Oh, you like that one, huh?
	Okay.
	Yeah, right.
	Them and What Army.
	Them and What Army.
	No, I don't like it, because I couldn't, I, I, that's why I wanted you to play it again, because I couldn't understand what she said.
	Oh.
	She says, yeah, right, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah.
	Them and What Army.
	No, and then the other one was... Government Shmoverment.
	Yeah, what's that got to do with the show?
	Nothing.
	It's nothing.
	It's lame.
	Go.
	What are your ISOs?
	I don't have much better, but I have better than that.
	Let's see what we got here.
	Hold on.
	It looks like you're recycling.
	Uh, not necessarily.
	Okay.
	I got we great.
	I tell you what, we're great.
	Okay.
	We're also very modest.
	Yes.
	Wow, good job.
	Wow, good job.
	I like that one a lot.
	And then wow, wow.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	No, I like wow, good job.
	Okay.
	Because, you know, that'll make me feel like we did a good job.
	Wow, good job.
	Yeah, that's good.
	I like that a lot.
	I got good news.
	Oh, yeah.
	Good news, everybody!
	John's got good news, but he was not able to keep it to one minute, so this better be really good news.
	It's 1.35, it's still under two.
	Yeah, you were trying to keep it on the report.
	I had to leave this stuff, and I could have edited it down a little bit.
	I took some spaces out, but it's too good of a report.
	I believe this came from Virginia.
	This is good news, the girl and the chickens.
	A little girl in Blacksburg is looking to add old hens that farmers no longer want or need since they no longer lay eggs to her aging flock.
	10 News photojournalist Greg Moore shows us the passion behind her unique rescue project.
	So I've got these smushy apples for the chickens.
	They love almost any food.
	We have four chickens.
	Hi girls!
	This one is Fiona.
	Hi investigator!
	And then the other white one over here is Featherfoot.
	And that's a brownie in there.
	A lot of people think of chickens as egg or meat dispensers.
	But I see them as animals with personalities.
	This is Featherfoot.
	I want to adopt more.
	You're a pretty, fluffy chickie.
	And Investigator.
	Even when she was itty-bitty, she was out there playing with the chickens.
	I got you, chickie!
	I got you, chickie!
	She could barely even talk at the time, but she was herding chickens.
	It was pretty cute.
	They're really nice to just hang out with.
	So sometimes I like to take my schoolwork out there and do it with them.
	She says that she wants to start her own chicken sanctuary.
	Your chicken rescue center.
	So that's one of her dreams.
	If you have a dog or cat that you really love and you get them lots of snuggles and treats and toys, I do sort of the same thing for my chickens.
	I like to hold them and snuggle with them.
	Aw, how cute!
	That's the cutest thing, right?
	That's adorable.
	Yeah, I mean, chickens with personalities.
	They're just her pets.
	Don't think of that so much.
	That's what America's about, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	Local good news covers that just makes you feel good about the world.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Do you know what I'm saying, John?
	Come on.
	The visuals were even better.
	The Nat Pops were fantastic.
	I mean, you don't want to hear launching missiles.
	You want to hear chickens.
	You want to hear little babies going, hey girls, that's beautiful.
	Good news, good, good news, good news, good news, good news.
	Yeah, very good news.
	And I appreciate the new jingles, everybody.
	That's super good news.
	We have a whole scala of good news jingles to choose from right now.
	It's very, very good.
	We have some end of show mixes coming up.
	We got Rexo, we got Tom Starkweather, we got some classics.
	Classics on the way.
	You can find all of the credits in the credits for the show at knowledgeintheshow.net.
	And coming up next, let me see.
	Oh, if you want to know the latest in podcasting, it's the Podcasting 2.0 show, episode 166, titled Country Clever.
	You definitely want to see that.
	You want to listen to it.
	Find out what's up.
	Get one of those modern podcast apps.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in FEMA Region No.
	6, where it's not as blustery as over there on the West Coast.
	In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where, yeah, it's blustery, it rained all night, but it stopped raining, it's just windy.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
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	Oh my God!
	Alright!
	Yeah!
	5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 car trains.
	Woo!
	Woo-hoo!
	Calm down.
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	I stay out too late.
	Got nothing on my face.
	That's what sheeple say That's what sheeple say I don't follow mandates I just look the other way At least that's what sheeple say That's what sheeple say But I keep breathing Can't start quarantining It's like I got this freedom
	In my mind saying not without a fight Cause the government will say That I'm actually going to mitigate But I'm just going to take Take it all And the parents going to hate All the rules I'm going to break But I'm still going to take Take it all I rarely even sneeze
	And if I do it's allergies And that's what they don't see That's what they don't see This whole thing is overblown Make the rules up as they go And they think that we don't know They think that we don't know But I keep breathing The thing is overblown.
	The thing is overblown.
	Make the rules up as they go.
	Rules up as they go.
	And they think that we don't know.
	Mm-mm.
	They think that we don't know.
	Mm-mm.
	But I keep breathing.
	Can't start quarantining.
	It's like I got this freedom in my mind.
	Say it not without a fight.
	Because the government will say, say, say, say, say.
	That I'm escalated, gay, gay, gay, gay.
	But I'm just gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it all.
	Take it off.
	And Karen's gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
	All the rules I'm gonna break, break, break, break, break.
	But I'm still gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it off.
	Take it off, take it off Hey, hey, hey Just think, boy, you've been getting down and out About the media and the dirty, dirty elites of the world You could have been getting out into the streets My best friend brought his new girlfriend She's like, oh my God Please put on a mask And to the lady over there With the crazy odd stare Just come over, baby Give me a break, break, break Yeah, oh
	Cause the government will say, say, say, say, say That I'm excommunicated, gate, gate, gate, gate, gate But I'm just gonna take, take, take, take, take Take it all, take it all And the parents gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate All the rules I'm gonna break, break, break, break, break But I'm still gonna take, take, take, take, take Take it all, take it all Take it all, take it all Take it all, take it all
	Take it all, take it all.
	Rising into a nation.
	Upspeak?
	Someone makes a statement, but it sounds like I'm asking a question?
	Non-renormalizing pitch?
	Gestulation syndromes?
	Hiya, Pfizer.
	Hi, Ben.
	You got any extra shots?
	Sure, Ben.
	Sleeves up.
	I'm a Pfizer girl in a COVID world.
	I'm the classic mRNA test.
	It's 95%.
	There's no argument.
	I'm no contagion with my vaccination.
	with my vaccination Come on Pfizer, let's go Pfizer With a fast on Come on Pfizer, let's go travel Only if it's a special Oh, we're having so much fun We'll have to do this again for my second shot.
	Oh, I love you, Ben!

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