Episode 1152 · Sunday, 7 July 2019

Veergayin

Corporate virtue signaling meets geopolitical maneuvering as Nike pulls a controversial sneaker while European elites bypass voters to install new leadership in Brussels.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 5m listen | 36 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 1152

About this episode

Nike sparked a national firestorm after canceling the release of its Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July sneaker featuring the 13-star Betsy Ross flag. The decision followed reported objections from brand endorser Colin Kaepernick, who allegedly linked the historical design to white supremacist groups. While Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Doug Ducey condemned the move, evidence suggests the controversy may have been a calculated publicity stunt or a strategic payoff involving attorney Mark Geragos and the ongoing legal entanglements surrounding Michael Avenatti.

In Europe, the European Council bypassed democratic norms to appoint Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission and Christine Lagarde to the European Central Bank. Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe delivered a viral rebuke of these back-room deals, comparing the UK's departure to a slave revolt against an oppressive regime. Meanwhile, the U.S. Democratic primary intensified as Senator Kamala Harris faced scrutiny over her shifting healthcare policies and a heated debate regarding her heritage led by the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) movement. Additional reports cover the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Southern California, new EU electric vehicle noise regulations, and the historic walk by President Trump into North Korea.

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak break down the media's shift from reporting on ISIS terror warnings to criticizing the military pageantry of the July 4th celebrations in Washington, D.C. The duo also announces a new radio play project featuring adaptations of George Orwell's 1984 and opens auditions for listeners to provide voice acting. The episode concludes with a knighting ceremony for Sir Herco of Utrecht and a deep dive into the ingredients of the Impossible Burger.


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CHAPTER 01 / 36 Discussion

Independence Day 2019, Ronald McDonald House Operations

Hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1152 on July 4, 2019, broadcasting from Austin, Texas and Northern Silicon Valley. They acknowledge the holiday and mention the ongoing work of human resources and facilities like the Ronald McDonald House, where Curry's wife is currently working.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· independence day· austin· silicon valley· ronald mcdonald house

00:00 Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, right on. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, July 4th, 2019. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1152. This is no agenda. Celebrate! Celebrating America, baby! And broadcasting live from the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State, in the morning everybody, I am Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we just missed the Zephyr and I've got flags on my feet, I'm John C. DeVore. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! You better not be, you better not be wearing them, you racist.

00:40 Yes, yes. Racist. Happy Independence Day, John. Happy Independence Day to everybody out there. May everybody be safe. Yes. And fireworks in legal areas where people always get their fingers blown off. And thank you to all of the human resources of the United States who are keeping our country running today. Because not everything closes. I'm talking about my beautiful wife, the keeper, working today at the Ronald McDonald house. Yeah, someone's got... You can't just close the facility. Kick the kids out. I've suggested this very thing, but that didn't go over too well. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. Well...

CHAPTER 02 / 36 Discussion

Nike Betsy Ross Flag Shoe Controversy, Colin Kaepernick Complaint

Nike canceled the release of a 4th of July sneaker featuring the 13-star Betsy Ross flag following reported complaints from brand endorser Colin Kaepernick. Critics, including Senator Ted Cruz and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, condemned the decision, while media reports linked the historical flag to white supremacist groups.

nike· colin kaepernick· betsy ross flag· doug ducey· ted cruz· slavery

01:24 Where to start? Do you want to dive right into Nike or do you want to ease into it? Oh, we can start with Nike because I got some good... I actually picked out... I did a little research. Oh, I did a little research myself! We both did research. Oh my goodness, we did some research. Well, this should be fun. Well, let's start with the bullshit story from CBS's Nike shoe bullshit story. Nike was set to sell a new sneaker that featured a 13-star American flag just in time for the 4th of July. But the company suddenly pulled them out of stores. If Nike was trying to avoid a controversy, though, it did not work. Here's Meg Oliver. Nike set off a firestorm after pulling their shoes emblazoned with the Betsy Ross flag, an early version of the American flag with 13 stars and stripes used in the 1700s before slavery was abolished. When you look at that early version of the American flag, what does it symbolize?

02:19 Well, it symbolizes what I see. I see the 13th, I see the colonies, and that leads directly to slavery. In some cases, the Betsy Ross flag has been co-opted by white supremacist groups like the KKK. Conservatives lashed out against Nike. Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas wrote, Good thing Nike only wants to sell sneakers to people who hate the American flag. Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey withdrew all financial incentives the state promised Nike to invest in a $185 million factory in Arizona. And former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain tweeted, nothing can happen in America anymore if Colin Kaepernick doesn't like it. Believe in something.

03:04 Even if it means sacrificing everything. Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick is the face of Nike's Just Do It campaign. He reportedly complained to Nike the flag is an offensive symbol of slavery. This is a great teaching moment and it brings us in contact with a history that most of us and most Americans do not want to deal with. In a statement Nike doesn't mention Kaepernick but says they made the decision to halt distribution based on concerns that it could unintentionally offend and detract from the nation's patriotic holiday.

03:39 Thank you for bringing us both sides. Oh, that's interesting. So at the end at the end I have a both side I have the ISO of that because it might come in handy. Thanks for both sides at the end. He said that yeah, hold on Thank you for bringing us both sides Both good ISO. Well Wait, there's something I don't understand. Did she just say that when Nike released the news they didn't mention Kaepernick? Yeah, I Hold on, let me see. Do not want to deal with. In a statement Nike doesn't mention Kaepernick but says they made the decision to halt distribution based on concerns that it could unintentionally offend and detract from the nation's patriotic. Now didn't they at some point have to say that Kaepernick called them and said this is no good? No, I don't think they ever did. I want to make, before we get to the Kaepernick thing, which I think we're going to both conclude the exact same thing when this is over. Maybe, maybe not.

04:34 Maybe not, but I have my conclusions I'm gonna draw, but I do want to mention something where he says that he makes a point at the end of saying, thank you for bringing us both sides. Yeah, what both sides? Which you're supposed to do anyway, what was your thing? And I'm thinking both sides, which includes the comment that Republican groups like the KKK an operation that's not even in business to any extent. It's also not a Republican group. It's not a Republican conservative operation. I don't know that they've ever used the Betsy Ross flag as anything. No. But okay, that's both sides. Yeah, so yeah, you guys did a great job of giving us a balanced report. There's a business side to this, a business report, which I'd like to play from Fox Business, where they asked a couple of astute questions. How did this pass through the cracks?

05:27 of the full chain of command at Nike where it goes into production, the sneakers get made and it takes a Colin Kaepernick to say, hey this isn't cool. What does that say about the organization? They're supposed to be leaders. I see them here as followers. They say just do it. I think they should change their slogan to, should we do it? Should we do it, right? It's interesting because there was, at one point there was really no reaction until Kaepernick got involved and then after that I think the stock probably went down today after The governor of Arizona, Governor Ducey got involved and said we're not going to take away some of the incentives for Nike to do business in our state. So that's why this might be different than the last time. Yeah, for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. Colin said what he said. Nike responded, that was their reaction. Now we see the reaction for the Arizona governor and what comes after this. Again, it comes down to business. But people don't like to be pushed around and until Colin Kaepernick gets out front and center

CHAPTER 03 / 36 Discussion

Nike Marketing Strategy, Publicity Stunt Theory

A theory is presented that the Nike shoe cancellation was a calculated publicity stunt designed to generate controversy and drive future sales. Evidence cited includes Governor Doug Ducey's quick reversal on pulling state incentives and the high aesthetic appeal of the manufactured shoes.

nike· arizona· doug ducey· marketing· publicity stunt· native advertising

06:20 and really becomes a communicator and starts to explain all the things that are important to him. Because then I wonder, well, okay, this flag is no good. How about today's flag? How about the Philadelphia 76ers logo with 13 stars on it? You give people ideas now. I don't know. You got to take the Betsy Ross bridge to get there from New Jersey. You wonder where this goes. Okay. Do you want to tell me about your conclusion? Well, this is a publicity stunt. to sell these shoes, which will be back on the market. The giveaway was, if it hasn't been given away by now, that this bull crap with the Arizona governor telling Nike to go pound sand has been rebuked. He's back on board with Nike. They're gonna put the plan in anyway. Not reported as much, but that's yesterday morning it came out.

07:13 The whole thing and because the shoes already made they're very attractive shoes There if you like Nike shoes, these are really beautiful and Kaepernick whether he said anything or not He's not even a major player with Nike. I mean this whole thing is designed to create a fuss to sell more shoes This is a scam from the get-go That was my initial reaction Until I had a chat with the producer Moe, who actually called me breathless about, you gotta explain what I think is going on here. And I came up with something different, which is, I think the native ad part is where the no agenda thinking goes initially.

CHAPTER 04 / 36 Discussion

Colin Kaepernick Activism History, Dr. Harry Edwards Influence

The evolution of Colin Kaepernick's protest is traced from sitting on the bench to kneeling during the national anthem. The narrative highlights the influence of sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards and former Green Beret Nate Boyer in shaping the optics of the protest.

colin kaepernick· harry edwards· nfl· nate boyer· kneeling· social justice

08:03 I'm not quite sure how they would bring this back. I don't think it was a native ad. First of all, I don't think it was a native ad. A promotion. A native ad is paid for. A promotion. They'd be busted for that. A promotion. It's a promotion. Now, I'm going to go in territory where I don't belong because I am not the sports guy of the No Agenda show, but let's look at Colin Kaepernick's history. Now when he burst onto the scene, he was... and again, this is a lot of information I got from Mo. And Mo has standing. He knows about sports and he's black so he can talk about some of these issues. He said, look Adam, no one was even talking about him being a black quarterback. It was Colin Kaepernick, he had the low-cut hair, he was in GQ magazine, he was the hottie, he was the next best thing. And when he got injured,

09:01 You know, he couldn't gain the weight back and he just couldn't get back on the team. And to review the genesis of his social justice kneeling, this wasn't... he didn't start off by kneeling during the national anthem at all. He started off... actually he was sitting on the bench. He'd been sitting on the bench during the anthem for months before one photographer noticed it She made a deal big deal out of said hey hold on a second. How come you're not standing during the national anthem? You're sitting on the bench. Where's what?

09:37 What one could say is he was basically just being malcontent is the word. It's like, ah, fuck it, I'm not getting started, I'm no good, I'm just sitting here on the bench. And then all of a sudden, he was asked about it in the locker room. This is a famous interview. It is something that's evolved. It's something as I'm getting more knowledge about what's going on in this country in the past, what's going on currently. These aren't new situations. This isn't new ground. It's things that have gone on in this country for years and years and have never been addressed, and they need to be. Will you continue calling to sit? Will you continue to sit? Yes, I'll continue to sit. I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed.

10:22 To me this is something that has to change and when there's significant change and I feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent and this country is representing people the way that it's supposed to, I'll stand. So he was sitting, none of this kneeling business and that's when I first became aware of it. I don't watch anything about sports, I didn't know that the guy was sitting. But it was not that he made a big deal about sitting down for any political stance. He was just being malcontent sitting on the bench and not getting up and not even caring and again just opinions of people who know much more about sports than I do In that same locker room interview. It's a very interesting question not really too concerned about that If something happens, that's only proving my point

11:05 Dr. Edwards has some experience with public stances such as this. You were talking to him before practice. Is he someone you consulted with at any point on the work, right when you decided to do this? I mean once again it wasn't something I consulted anybody on. It was a conversation I had when someone asked me about it. Dr. Edwards is a good friend. He's someone I talk to a lot and run a lot of things by and have a lot of conversations with. We have a lot of similar views. So this is the same interview This is before there was any kneeling and he's good friends and was talking to dr. Harry Edwards before the show Who is dr. Harry Edwards? Does it ring a bell for you John cuz sure didn't for me. Oh, yeah No, he's a big shot at University of California and and also probably the leading sociologist in sports and he was instrumental in

11:53 instrumental in getting, in fact it was 50 years ago, the Olympic Project for Human Rights. He was the one that inspired and got the American sprinters Tommy Smith and John Carlos to raise their black glove, black power salutes when they won the medals in Mexico City. The guy is an activist, super activist. So he's talking to Colin Kaepernick who's been on the bench And all of a sudden it's like, oh yeah, this is a protest. And then he decides, Kaepernick decides to take a knee after former Green Beret and NFL player Nate Boyer told him to do it, which is interesting if you're against police brutality and the weaponized state of America. But a former player, perhaps, here's proof he did that. According to numerous reports, you had a problem, you felt it was disrespectful when he initially sat.

12:50 And according to the reports, you were one of the people that sort of had an influence upon him in terms of his willingness to kneel as opposed to sitting down. For the audience out there, for Americans everywhere, could you explain the difference in your mind between kneeling and sitting? Yeah, the reports, they're interesting. I mean, a lot of people, I think they thought I was encouraging him to protest or that I was behind. I was saying, Colin, you should protest social injustices by taking a knee. And that is not the case. He was sitting, I was hurt by that, I think more than, I saw it as disrespectful, just trying to hurt me. So through that conversation, we talked about different ways to demonstrate what that might mean to people in my community, in the military community. And I thought,

13:36 kneeling showed reverence in some way and respect in some way to those that fought and many of those that gave their life for what the flag and the anthem represents. People take a knee to pray, you know, anybody, almost anybody stand in front of your, your wife to be, you get down on a knee and you ask for her hand in marriage out of respect and reverence for her. What you just explained, did you explain it exactly like that to Colin Kaepernick? Yeah. So it wasn't a kneeling thing in the beginning. He was, I would surmise, initially led by Dr. Harry Edwards and then he kind of evolved into the kneeling, which would get it more up front and center. I'm sure that was agreeable to everybody who was in the Kaepernick camp.

CHAPTER 05 / 36 Discussion

Mark Geragos, Michael Avenatti, Nike Extortion Allegations

The discussion links Colin Kaepernick's attorney, Mark Geragos, to Michael Avenatti and their previous legal entanglements involving alleged extortion attempts against Nike. One host posits that the current shoe controversy might be a form of corporate extortion or a "payoff" scheme rather than a simple marketing failure.

mark geragos· michael avenatti· nike· extortion· jussie smollett· colin kaepernick

14:20 And so then we know what happens and just a lot of back and forth and Trump gets involved in all kinds of issues and eventually Kaepernick gets his first Nike deal. But he also he tries to get hired after he quits as a and again I don't know how all this works but he quit trying to get hired by another team and then it was, help me out here, who was it that wanted to hire him? Damn it. Oh, it doesn't matter. He was blackballed. It does it does well They were they said he was being blackballed and then there was a settlement and he got man like him and some other player got Under 10 million dollars before you take away the lawyers fees

15:06 Then he had a Nike ad, but actually his girlfriend at the time as he was on track to get hired by the team whose name I can't remember, she tweeted out a racist picture of the team owner, you know, photoshopped into Django Unchained, making it look like, you know, the guy was a slave owner. And so, you know, then really nobody wanted him. But who's been doing these deals for him? Well, as is typical in sports, there's a lawyer and the lawyer who did all these deals for him is Mark Garagos. This should ring a bell. Garagos is also the lawyer for Jesse Smollett. He's also lawyer for, let me see, who else did he have? A couple of other of these fine people. At one point even Michael Jackson.

15:58 But where did we hear the Geragos name? We heard the Geragos name in connection with a Nike extortion suit which was just dropped from the media, you don't hear about it anymore, which involved the one and only Michael Avenatti. You remember there was indictments and a big, big brouhaha. I think what happened here, now that Colin Kaepernick has rebranded himself for the Nike ad, he got the big afro all of a sudden, no longer is he this sexy ball player with all the abs, now he's this social justice warrior. who doesn't speak a good game really, and I don't really remember him speaking about Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown or Hands Up Don't Shoot. No, this all came about after this incident where he was caught sitting down, he turned it into kneeling. This to me, if you take the names into account of Jesse Smollett lawyer,

16:56 Mark Garagos, his direct connection with Michael Avenatti. This is an extortion. This was, this is Al Sharpton 2.0. I don't think that this is a promotion. If the shoes show up, then... Then I'm wrong. If the shoes show up, I'm wrong. But this guy has nothing going for him and all of a sudden, even though he's not a spokesperson, he's not out there talking to everybody about it, just one little mention, they stop. I think they got pressured. But where's the benefit to anybody? A payoff! A payoff! Wait, extortion deals are...

17:37 result in cash. They result in more ads. They will result in more ads and Colin Kaepernick will be doing more for Nike. I don't, I, well, I don't, I'm not seeing that. No, I'm, this is again, I think the Kaepernick thing was a red herring. I think Kaepernick's already out of the picture cause they move, they move along and these shoes will be back on the market because they're very attractive shoes and people are going to demand them back and the backlash and everything is all set up. Now it's possible if it wasn't extortion thing that does explain the Arizona turnaround. Where they go, so look, look, we're being extorted. That's why we have to get a new factory. I mean, they could do that. I could see that happening. But I think they went to Arizona and said, hey, look, this is just part of a promotion. I don't know why you're being taken in by this.

18:21 Which is my theory and I and both are equally possible. I mean, oh, they're only put yeah The proof is in the pudding the proof is in the shoes on the market competing theories and one and the compendium The proof of one or the other will be whether the shoes show up again as a product And the whole thing though. Here's the problem. I'm having with your theory. Mm-hmm Is that why are they bringing out a shoe with a Betsy Ross flag on it in the first place? Why not? I mean, it's almost to incite this kind of thing because there is going on right now and this do you hear this on the right wing talkers a lot, the right wing talkers. And I've noticed I started noticing this so much and most of my research went into getting to the bottom of it. The right wing talkers are going on and on about how.

CHAPTER 06 / 36 Discussion

American Flag Psychological Research, Political Priming Effects

Research from 2008 and 2011 suggests that brief exposure to the American flag can shift voter attitudes toward Republican beliefs for up to eight months. This psychological priming is cited as a reason why Democratic stages often lack flags and why the Nike Betsy Ross flag sparked such intense partisan debate.

american flag· political psychology· republican party· democratic party· priming· university of chicago

17:37 result in cash. They result in more ads. They will result in more ads and Colin Kaepernick will be doing more for Nike. I don't, I, well, I don't, I'm not seeing that. No, I'm, this is again, I think the Kaepernick thing was a red herring. I think Kaepernick's already out of the picture cause they move, they move along and these shoes will be back on the market because they're very attractive shoes and people are going to demand them back and the backlash and everything is all set up. Now it's possible if it wasn't extortion thing that does explain the Arizona turnaround. Where they go, so look, look, we're being extorted. That's why we have to get a new factory. I mean, they could do that. I could see that happening. But I think they went to Arizona and said, hey, look, this is just part of a promotion. I don't know why you're being taken in by this.

18:21 Which is my theory and I and both are equally possible. I mean, oh, they're only put yeah The proof is in the pudding the proof is in the shoes on the market competing theories and one and the compendium The proof of one or the other will be whether the shoes show up again as a product And the whole thing though. Here's the problem. I'm having with your theory. Mm-hmm Is that why are they bringing out a shoe with a Betsy Ross flag on it in the first place? Why not? I mean, it's almost to incite this kind of thing because there is going on right now and this do you hear this on the right wing talkers a lot, the right wing talkers. And I've noticed I started noticing this so much and most of my research went into getting to the bottom of it. The right wing talkers are going on and on about how.

19:13 How and this explains if we remember the Democratic national debate there was no American flags on on the stage Correct, and you listen to the right-wing talkers, and they'll tell you that well You know there's research has indicated that if you see an American flag you become a Republican Okay, and this research is actually valid, but it's not recent research. I And the American flag has been disappearing from stages for this, for the problem. It's somewhat problematic because of a research report that was the first version of this was done in 2008, 10 years ago.

19:53 It was in the political psychology journal and the title is sowing patriotism But reaping nationalism consequences of exposure to the American flag, and this is well researched And I'm gonna read for maybe that's why they didn't have the true American flag and the original 13 colonies flag So it's still not to make people Republican by looking at shoes, but it's possible possible I think that flag is very attractive by the way Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shift. This is from the abstract shifts voters, even Democrats to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior, even though most don't believe it will impact their their

20:37 Their politics, according to a new two-year study just published by the scholar of the psychological science. What's more, according to three authors from the University of Chicago, Cornell and Hebrew University, the impact has staying power. A single exposure to the American flag resulted in significant increase in participants' Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs and implicit and explicit and implicit attitudes with some effects lasting eight months. These results constitute the first evidence that non-conscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability. Now, that study is backed up in 2011, eight years ago. Yeah, but hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You're conflating a lot of things now. No, I'm just reading you this information. You can analyze it after I'm done.

21:34 I'm not conflating anything. I'm just reading from an abstract. This is the one that actually studies, and this was done in Dissociation for Psychological Science. A single exposure to the American flag shifts support toward republicanism up to eight months later. This is that's another whole research and this was all done a while ago But if you listen to right-wing talkers, you think that this happened yesterday all this information. It's not yesterday It's been going on for a while the Republicans and the Democrats both know it the Democrats keep the flag off the stages if they can Obama didn't do that

22:15 He had a flag all over the place. The Republicans try to get the flags up, but they don't try hard enough, which seems to me to be stupid. So the Republicans are dumb and the Democrats are being kind of wily. This became a topic of conversation a little before the shoes came out. So when the flag shows up on the shoes, I think it started this discussion, underlying discussion that's going on because they brought this to everybody's attention. And so the Democrats and Republicans are now taking two sides on the flag and the shoes are an emblematic aspect of it. And Nike's just taken advantage of it. Okay, so you're telling me that a $100 billion company

22:51 International company sat down at a marketing meeting and said, here's a great idea. We will use race, race to promote these shoes. resulting in this kind of discourse on bullcrap news television. Yeah, because it, you know, words matter, symbols matter too. Why don't we wear a swastika for July 4th? Because, I don't know, it makes a difference. The cross burning on somebody's lawn. Why don't we just have a Nike, you know, celebration of the cross? Well, because those symbols are symbols of hate. So we can take PC culture back. It's amazing to me that people who cry the loudest about PC are the ones who didn't show up when the fence first occurred,

23:33 who didn't defend the people who were victims of white supremacy or racism or sexism or misogyny, but now pop up and say, hey, let's not be too PC. If you ain't fought the battle, if you haven't celebrated the process, you can't acclaim the product. So at this point, I think people need to be honest about it and say, it's not a matter of PC. There are many people within communities of color who understand complexity, complication. You can't have it the way you want it. But something so glaring and so apparent, that has to be dealt with. So Nike actually had this meeting and said, this is a great idea. We're going to use race to divide everybody to promote our shoes. I don't think Stardate just evolved into that. They went, it's the flag, the flag, the flag. All these two reports I just read through that you're criticizing me for, both of them aren't talking about race. Neither one of them talks about race. They're talking about the controversy between Democrats and Republicans.

CHAPTER 07 / 36 Discussion

Wall Street Journal Reporting, Nike Shoe Retraction Details

Analysis of the Wall Street Journal's reporting on the Nike controversy reveals that the story relied on "people familiar with the matter" rather than on-the-record quotes from Colin Kaepernick or Mark Geragos. The lack of direct attribution raises questions about the origins of the narrative and Nike's official silence regarding Kaepernick's specific role.

wall street journal· nike· colin kaepernick· mark geragos· journalism· anonymous sources

24:22 Colin Kaepernick, yeah but Colin Kaepernick didn't say anything about the flag and that he's the report is it's racist. Does anybody have a tape of Colin Kaepernick saying anything? Thank you this is exactly my point. Exactly my point. Why is that? There's nothing... he's not out there being a big social justice warrior against this. It's Nike said, oh we got a call, we got to pull it off the shelves. Really? No. Yes. No, no, no, no. This is extortion. Okay, we're gonna shoe show back up. And it may even be part of a longer-term strategy where they don't only show back up, but they show back up with a variety of different flags. Nike should be ashamed of themselves. And if Colin Kaepernick shows up doing more Nike promotion or some kind of political correctness promotion, whatever it is, somewhere someone got paid off for this. I just can't believe

25:19 that a company would risk the whole operation. What if that came out? Hey, I got a great idea. We're going to promote this. This isn't coming out. This is just my thesis. This is Al Sharpton. Nobody else is talking. This is not even close to coming out. It's never going to come out. This is, well, the the promotion part I've heard several people's take on this and you know it's a reasonable thought but it's really not because there's no way a company like this comes up with that kind of marketing strategy where they kept it secret. Oh we'll have these great shoes. I don't know what it costs to bring some shoes to market but it's you know you got design, you got manufacturing, you got shipping, packaging, you got marketing, slave labor and then all of a sudden we're gonna pull back there's a great idea we're gonna create some

26:06 some political and racial controversy just before July 4th? I don't think that you're under... they're from Oregon or they're... I don't think the racial thing was an element. I think it just happened to come into it because who would think that Betsy Ross flag had anything to do with race? It was like... that was the crazy part. It was like... The cra... So far as the marketing guy is concerned, that's a bonus. All right. Well, I think you're wrong and we shall see. But please believe me that the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson model has not kept up with technology, has not kept up. They've not kept up with the perfect scam. They're not doing it right anymore. This is a good one. And look at the people involved. Mark Garagos, Michael Avenatti, who were indicted for extorting Nike. Michael Avenatti had nothing to do with the Betsy Ross flag incident.

27:02 There's no connection between Avenatti and this particular thing you're talking about. The connection is between Avenatti and Garagos who were both named in an extortion suit against Nike this past year. And was it they tried to extort 20 million dollars by saying that Nike was going around that was I'm not arguing that that's a fact Colin Kaepernick is a client of Mark Garagos. Yes, he's client doing a guilt by association thing Which I think is valid in this case except for Alvin Adi. He's got nothing to do with this scam Okay, well, I mean if he does he's really fucked but I

27:42 No, I know what you're thinking. I think it's a good, I think it's very well constructed, but unless if the shoes don't come out, then you're right. All right. That's just that simple. And it doesn't count if they come out with a different flag. No, actually, I'm thinking from a marketing perspective, what you want to do is come out with a bunch of different flags, including the Betsy Ross flag. Well, Betsy Ross flag has to be in play. Because that guy, that black professor's going on about the Betsy Ross flag being something to do with slavery is ludicrous. Right. But did you know... That means all American flags... Did you notice... Are slave flags. Did you notice how the mainstream jumped on this? Couldn't come up with an actual historical reason why this flag is racist. And so the narrative has become there are groups who use that flag.

28:42 Yeah, that's that's the bullcrap right there. Look at the kids. Okay, can you have any website? I want to see if their website has you know what this is John. This is truly a false flag. Come on now My goodness, I'm looking here at the KKK entry they got a they got a Nazi of Symbol on a on a cloverleaf They got a bunch of things, but I'm not seeing Betsy Ross. So this is, I think you're, I think that by the way, I think you're dead on. That has to be what happened. The media had this thing and they had to find some connection to racism. So they found maybe there's one group of some old layer or whatever they call themselves as a Betsy Ross flag is a symbol. I don't know of it.

29:39 It's not in the it's sure not shown as a symbol in the what the hell's the name of that clan movie that was done by Spike Lee black Klansman. Well, there's one. It was there Betsy Ross flag in that I don't know. I don't think so I don't think so and it wasn't in the movie I'm thinking of the great movie that was done in the late 20s at Something of Nations birth of a nation Birth of a Nation was about the origins of the Klan and there was no Betsy Ross flag ever referenced. This is bullcrap. They should be called out on this. So the genesis of the story is from the Wall Street Journal.

30:22 I'll read from the story Nike Inc is yanking a USA themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after NFL star turned activist Colin Kaepernick told the company it shouldn't sell a shoe with a symbol that he and others consider offensive according to people familiar with the matter so earlier with the matter so this so I don't think Kaepernick even called the company and Someone started this thing going, maybe it went straight to the Wall Street Journal, who knows, it was according to people familiar with the matter, and I think Nike heard this, went, holy crap,

31:08 We gotta stop this shit. That's a possibility, but that again says the shoes will never come out. But let's look at it from another perspective. Colin Kaepernick is a public personality. He has an agent. You can call him. Why does the Wall Street Journal not call him Why let me read the column you can say is not available for comment. Let me read the next Let me read the next paragraph it would answer your question after images of the shoe were posted online Mr. Kaepernick a Nike endorser with no more contract reached out to company officials saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery the people said

31:46 Some users on social media responded to posts about the shoe with similar concerns. Mr. Kaepernick declined to comment. Now if this was... Why? Why would he decline to comment? Because all had to happen was this news had to come out so that they would be afraid. No, I'm not talking from your perspective, hell with that. I'm talking about the journalistic perspective. If you're writing a story and this guy's got it, you got a rumor that this guy said something, he's a public personality with an agent and you can get a hold of him and apparently they did, but he declined to comment. Why would he decline to comment? He's an activist, he would have commented. Exactly. Maybe... This story is bogus. Maybe it was Garrigos who said, maybe I'll have Colin talk about your damn shoe.

32:35 Well, that's getting into the conspiracy side of things. But that's a possibility. That's what I do. But again, why wouldn't they quote Garrigos? Because if you're a journalist and you're writing this story, you're getting people on the record on this one because it's not like a secret in the White House. It's not something from the CIA that you can be thrown in jail for revealing. This is a simple thing. Yeah, well maybe... Why doesn't Garagos get quoted? Why doesn't Kaepernick get quoted? The people familiar with the thing. Who are the people? Why don't we quote them? Well that's why I was so interested when I heard your clip. They said there was no mention of Kaepernick in their retraction of the shoe announcement. That's interesting.

CHAPTER 08 / 36 Discussion

Gab.com Mastodon Fork, Fediverse Social Media Competition

Gab.com launched a new social media system based on a fork of the Mastodon platform, aiming for decentralization. The move has faced criticism and blocking threats from existing "Fediverse" administrators who associate the platform with extremist content.

gab· mastodon· fediverse· social media· censorship· open source

33:21 The whole thing stinks. Yes, but we'll keep it at this. We'll keep it between promotion and blackmail. And we'll keep it and we can disagree on this. Well, no, we won't be disagreeing forever. No, no, no. When I'm right, you will come to me and you will come groveling. It's not going to happen. All righty then. Congratulations to Gab.com. They joined the, well, at least they released their new system today. which is a Mastodon clone or fork I should say and they have not completely federated yet so I haven't been able to I can follow myself from noagendasocial.com on Gab I haven't been able to do it the other way around posts aren't showing up yet but it's a big thing that they're doing and already the social justice Mastodon Fediverse is laughing at them and telling them they're losers

34:23 Why? If you're into this federated thing like you are, why would you not just encourage the whole world to go this way? Oh, well, hold on a second. No. The Fediverse is run by social justice warriors. You know, it's built by them. Oh yes, that's right. You told me this before. It's built by them. They're ready to block as soon as they come online. Not everybody, of course. They're phonies. They're just a bunch of Nazis. That's what they're saying. So now that they've got this up and running, and it's not really up and running yet, immediately it's like, ah, losers. I say give them a week or so to get everything going.

35:07 It'll take longer than that, maybe. You know, you got a lot of users, you're trying to make the pub sub activity work and everything. I can just see all the problems. But it's a start. It's a start. Well, good. Gab is a little more open than Twitter, that's for sure. Well, yeah. And there's more Nazis, which is a lot more fun. Well, the Nazis are entertaining. I haven't actually seen a single Nazi post. I don't really do much on Gab. I just check it out. I know they're not so... It seems to me to be pretty much like Twitter, only a little more complaining. Yeah, and you don't see posts with, this tweet is not available. I don't see that, which is the thing that bothers me the most. Well, I mean, I hope I never go to Gab and see this tweet is not available.

CHAPTER 09 / 36 Discussion

European Union Leadership Appointments, Ursula von der Leyen

The European Council bypassed the "Spitzenkandidat" democratic process to appoint Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission and Christine Lagarde as head of the European Central Bank. Critics argue these back-room deals reinforce German and French dominance over the EU project.

european union· ursula von der leyen· christine lagarde· european commission· spitzenkandidat· germany

36:03 Anyway, moving away from the United States for a moment, we have some big news coming from Euroland, from the Eurozone. As it looks like, there have been some decisions made in the leadership Now, the way it works in, and I have a couple of clips here, the way it works in the European Parliament, we have the European Parliament of which we have a president, we have the European Commission, we have the European Council, and we have the European Central Bank. And you recall that we had the Spitzenkandidat process.

36:43 which is each of the parties, the big parties in each of the 27 member states, all say, okay, here's the person we would like to have as the president of the council, of the commission, of the parliament, and choose between one of these. And then I think it is the council itself who goes into the back room and deliberates for days on end, and they choose by secret ballot, they choose the winners, It doesn't necessarily have to be the Spitzenkandidat, interestingly enough. Well there's more than just a little frustration amongst MEPs here in Strasbourg about what has happened over the last couple of days. That yet again it is the Council that is taking control of who should get the top jobs in Europe. For the last couple of decades this place, the European Parliament, has been trying to exert its authority, its legitimacy, it would argue, as the only directly elected elements of the EU institutions.

37:38 that it should be able to put forward its candidates to take over those leech jobs. That's what the Spitsen candidate process was all about. It happened in 2014 with Jean-Claude Juncker, but it seems to have now died with Jean-Claude Juncker because when you look at it, none of the lead candidates from this Parliament have managed to make it into those top jobs. They are frustrated here because they look at those decisions made in Brussels in the back rooms in which EU leaders have been essentially writing down names and scratching out others. It is not, as they would say here, very transparent, not very democratic.

38:17 So who exactly was chosen? Well, it should come as no surprise that a German leader is always needed at the head of the European Union project since it truly is the German Reich that is running this. It's the German Empire. So gotta have a German running the show. And we know what the choices were based on because we actually titled one of our shows after the reason for the choice of the people who have been chosen. National leaders have finally agreed on the nominations for the EU's top jobs, but their choices still have to be approved by the European Parliament. Two women have been proposed for key posts, Germany's defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, to head the EU commission, and the French head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, the European Central Bank.

39:03 Well, the European Council, made up of leaders from all 28 member states, had spent a grueling three days in Brussels trying to thrash out a compromise. After marathon negotiations holding the leaders in Brussels for three days, finally an agreement. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, the only person actually present at this summit, will take one of the top jobs as European Council President. But it's the last-minute outsider, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who's set to take what's considered Europe's top job and become president of the European Commission. We have chosen two women and two men for the four key positions. A perfect gender balance. There it is! I'm really happy about it. After all, Europe is a woman. The other woman is Christine Lagarde. Did you know that Europe is a woman?

39:55 Is that what he said? Yeah, after all, first of all he says gender balance. We knew that's what it was going to come down to. Oh, we got two women, we got two men, we're gender balanced, we are so fair. Positions. A perfect gender balance. I'm really happy about it. After all, Europe is a woman. There you go. Europe is a woman. Just remember that. The other woman is Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund and former French finance minister. Notably, the European Commission president is not being selected as the lead candidate from the winning political grouping in the European Parliament. That would have been Manfred Weber from the EPP. While von der Leyen is from the EPP political family, this choice may mean the so-called Spitzenkandidat system is now over. So not only did they not choose who they wanted... Hold on a second. So that's a huge surprise, the actual way that might be somewhat democratic has now kicked out the door. Yeah, goodbye.

CHAPTER 10 / 36 Discussion

Ann Widdecombe Brexit Speech, European Parliament Democracy

Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe delivered a viral speech in the European Parliament comparing the UK's departure from the EU to slaves turning on their oppressors. She criticized the lack of transparency in EU elections and the negative impact of EU regulations on the British fishing industry.

ann widdecombe· brexit party· european parliament· democracy· nigel farage· fishing industry

40:53 And Anne Whittacombe of the Brexit party, Nigel Farage's party in the European Parliament, she was pissed off about it. Thank you, President. It's a great honour to speak on behalf of the largest single party in this place. And may I say that if I needed any convincing at all, that the best thing for Britain is to leave here as soon as possible. It was the way that those elections were conducted yesterday. Because if that is this place's idea of democracy, then that is a serious betrayal of every country that is represented here. Because it is not democratic at all.

41:40 And that is just one of many reasons why Britain is right to be leaving this place, hopefully on Halloween. And it is right because there is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on the oppressors. Slaves against their owners. the peasantry against the feudal barons, colonies, Mr. Verhofstadt, against their empires. And that is why Britain is leaving. And it doesn't matter which language you use, we are going and we are glad to be going. I represent the South West of the United Kingdom.

42:32 Can you come to a conclusion please? First day that this place has decided, at least this place has and the powers that be have decided to actually increase the size of fishermen's meshes thereby reducing their income by 40 percent. That's what you do here, that's why we're going. News out long, wir gehen, we're off! The troll room correctly identified this as a as a complete dead ringer for any Monty Python sketch. He sounded so much like it and then to end it with Virgin I didn't know like those those those women in the 30s 30s comedies that used to have that hype. Well I

43:20 like it. Yes. That's the one. A very common character in the 1930s. W.C. Fields used them, the Marx Brothers used them. I can think of a few of the names. Marjorie, I can't remember her last name. There's a bunch of them and they could do that voice. I went to dinner at a friend of mine's house one time outside of He lived in Severus outside of Paris and he had they brought over their cousin or something and she's a young woman about in her I guess 30s me or young 30s or late 20s maybe and she as a young person actually had that voice I've never heard it in the wild ever. I was my jaw has dropped the whole time. Oh, wow. And I learned something but he talked like that. I learned something new in that clip.

CHAPTER 11 / 36 Discussion

EU Electric Vehicle Sound Regulations, Blind Pedestrian Safety

A new European Union directive requires all electric vehicles to emit artificial noise by 2022 to protect blind pedestrians. The hosts play various proposed sounds for these vehicles, mocking the aesthetic choices of the regulation.

electric vehicles· european union· bbc· noise regulations· pedestrian safety· sound design

44:08 That the EU is determining what kind of toilet you can have, how much water it can flush, what kind of light bulb you can have. These are all things that people get pretty irked about. It's really good to the public. I did not realize that they had put in a regulation to increase the nets, the size of the netting. Apparently so smaller fish get through. Fuck these guys. They're brazen, man. Oh no, no, that net's illegal. Oh, you can't use that. There's a before I have one more thing from Nigel Farage, but there's also now a European directive for electric vehicles in the EU. I think by 2022 they all have to make noise because otherwise blind people will get run over. Yeah, this is this is the sound. This is the sounds that are being proposed. Yeah, these are the sounds. No, it's not a joke. It's from the BBC. Well, it could be a joke, but...

45:03 That's the sound the electric vehicles are supposed to make. A song? Yeah, listen. Sounds like somebody, like a bad organ player. I think they should use this. If every music video place is crawling with these cars making that noise, you'd go nuts. This is the one you want. That would be better. Here it comes. That's what you want. Oh yeah, that or this. There you go. Woo! That would be something seeing that come down the road. Now, before you go on, which I want to hear the next clip obviously, is what do you think is going on with Christine Lagarde? Because she's the agent for the Americans in the IMF.

45:47 I believe. You think she's gonna be a mole over there or she's just gonna switch sides and become an EU? Oh no, no this is complete globalization. The US actively worked to get in here in that role by framing Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Remember how fast that went. Oh, yeah that that was a quickie like and it was Cyrus Vance You know Jim Comey's buddy a lot of people involved in all that just he's part of the same globalist network Yeah, I think so, but I but to have her in charge of the European Central Bank. Oh, man, that's interesting That's a big deal. That's that should be fun to watch good old Fifi. She has no banking experience. He's not a banker She's not a banker. She's a globalist shill

CHAPTER 12 / 36 Discussion

Nigel Farage Anthem Protest, European Union Statehood

Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party turned their backs during the playing of "Ode to Joy" at the European Parliament's opening session. Farage defended the protest by arguing that the EU is not a legitimate nation and should not have a national anthem.

nigel farage· brexit party· ode to joy· national anthem· european parliament· sovereignty

46:33 So at the inauguration of all the new members of the European Parliament, they decided to play the European Union national anthem, which is Beethoven's Ode to Joy, a fine Austrian composer. They always resort back to the same kinds of things in Germany, don't they? When they're running the empire. Yeah, they'll be moving Wagner back sooner than later. No, the Valkyries are on their way. And so the Brexit party stood up and turned their backs as it played. to stand up when the anthem of another nation is playing. He called this place a nation. So we obeyed his instructions and we did stand up but we just faced the other way. Yeah but you offended a lot of people. I spoke to MEPs who said they thought it was disrespectful. You are a member

47:31 of this Parliament, your other 28 MEPs are members of this Parliament. Surely you should have just stood up when the anthem was played that is in tribute to this Parliament. Well I tell you what's disrespectful. What is disrespectful is to take the ancient nation states of Europe and And without asking anybody's permission, turn it into a country because that's what the president of the parliament called it this morning. I mean, that's really disgraceful. I'm not going to stand to attention for this anthem. No way. I'll show respect for any anthem of any other country in the world, but not a false creation like this. And I think we did the right thing. No, I agree. Especially when they said it's a nation. It's a national anthem of the European nation. Translation error.

48:20 Mmm, the whole thing is ludicrous. It may have been the guy saying, you know, you will stand for the nationalism of any other nation, why not stand for this? I mean, I think it may have been a Farage may be overdoing it. Oh, well, he's always been against the national anthem of the European Union, and I can understand. They're not really a union yet. Maybe he should have taken a knee. Yeah, get some Nike books while you're at it. I'm Roger Farage for Nike. Then one other thing out of Europe, I find myself in an extremely difficult position. I think I know what to do but it's very hard for me as you know I'm a big fan of the World Cup soccer for women. Yeah, and now the big game's coming up and you're between a rock and a hard place. I've got the American ladies, I've got the Dutch ladies.

CHAPTER 13 / 36 Discussion

FIFA Women's World Cup, USA vs. Netherlands Final

The hosts discuss the upcoming Women's World Cup final between the United States and the Netherlands. They touch on Megan Rapinoe's activism, Alex Morgan's "tea-sipping" celebration against England, and the cultural differences in sports fandom.

fifa· women's world cup· megan rapinoe· alex morgan· netherlands· soccer

49:19 So first of all, I'm really happy that they both made it to the finals because I mean this really made my day Although the game between Sweden and the Netherlands. Oh, I was thinking of you like this It was boring it was a pretty boring game. It's a very boring game. I'd like very much that USA got into the finals without the troublemaker Rapinoe and So, you know, it shows that she's not necessary to win matches. And there's Alex Morgan who was capped, who capped the game. She did a nice little drink and tea at the end there, like screw you, limeys. I thought it was fantastic. The Brits are crazy on Twitter. They're all mad. They say we're rude. Now, first of all, let's start with this.

50:07 They make the crazy observation that the Americans are arrogant and rude. Americans? Arrogant and rude? What? What? There's gambling going on? What? Holy... what an insult. No, this was the insult they were playing on Twitter. It was, well, the Americans were all... they were laying down on the field the whole time. They were faking all their injuries. But of course, they do that because here in Europe, at least you can get medical care. I'm like, okay. Yeah, so I'm tweeting back. Well at least we brexited properly, bitch! Yeah, that's a good comeback. Yeah, this is great. I liked it. I mean the game is, this dumb game is boring. I mean I'm not a big fan, but I do like the fact that we have this woman's kick-ass team. And you know, Americans typically in their sports, they like one team to just be horribly dominant and hateful.

51:07 You first you like him because he started as under the Warriors a good example. And then they get really big too big for their own britches. They won't go to the White House and just show, you know, they own the place. Oh yeah, we're expected to win. Then they lose. Yeah. So it's a very common, just like a theme. It's like a, like a melodrama. It's corny, but fun. So Sunday is the big game. So I guess we'll have to run a best of. Yeah, I know. Well it's on at midnight anyway isn't something like that? Yeah but the score will the no the game play is way before midnight. The game. No I mean our our midnight. Right but how can you this this is what kills me it's like no I'm not gonna watch the game at uh at night after it's already over. Oh yeah it's dumb.

51:58 Yeah, so we'll know the score. It's been shown, they've done studies, if you are rooting for one of the teams, your emotions are pretty much on par with the level of the emotions on the team. When the team wins, you're elated in a very positive way. Your system exhibits elation and when you lose, your system, you're the fan, but you still almost get as much depression about losing as the team does. And so you want to experience that.

52:39 in real time, because you can't experience it if it's three days old. It's like the stale bread. Yes, and you have to stay away from social media and you can't look at anything because people spoil the game I've rarely unless there was something that was you know some crazy thing took place that you'd want to watch it in the replay You know, I'm the guy that watches about two sports games a year. One is the Super Bowl Maybe I won't even watch the World Series really basketball is too fast for me. I guess it's just Super Bowl

53:16 And then the World Cup, World Cup soccer in this case. I've been a big fan. I would be happier if this was women's field hockey because I think that's the sport that would make it in America for that very reason. Thank you very much. Well, that's like volleyball. Yeah, that's a sexist, very sexist approach you're taking here. I don't see it as a man versus woman sex thing at all. I see it as fine athletes out there competing and it's going to be more than probably, it's going to... It's gonna be the end of this, too. This'll be the end of it. We won't be... I mean, just enjoy it while you can because pretty soon men identifying as women will become the USA national women's team. And it'll be just a bunch of big, burly guys. A bunch of dudes winning. A bunch of dudes. Well, luckily that hasn't crept into FIFA yet, so I guess we're lucky in that regard. Man.

CHAPTER 14 / 36 Discussion

Kamala Harris Healthcare Policy, Private Insurance Backtracking

Senator Kamala Harris faced scrutiny for her shifting stance on abolishing private insurance during the Democratic primary debates. While she raised her hand in support of a government plan, her campaign later clarified she supports a version of Medicare for All that allows for supplemental private coverage.

kamala harris· medicare for all· private insurance· democratic debates· undocumented immigrants· healthcare

54:19 Anything, there was a lot of noise about the wall and the cages. Wait, maybe start here. It'll be another, end of this month until we get more democratic debates, but I did just want to play two clips about Kamala Harris. Now, she has been backtracking her hand raising to the give undocumented immigrants universal health care which which the entire lineup on that evening of the debates they all went yeah sure no problem. Senator another defining moment in the debate was when every candidate was asked to raise their hand if they would abolish private insurance in that moment you raised your hand but afterwards your campaign says actually that's not your position so what is your position on private insurance?

55:16 So the question was, would you be willing to give up your private insurance? That's not how it was asked. That's what you heard, right? Okay, that's certainly what I heard. Okay, let's just remind Ms. Harris of what was actually asked. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. That's not quite the same as if you would do that. And in terms of, I am supportive of Medicare for All and under a Medicare for All policy, private insurance would certainly exist and for supplemental coverage. But under Medicare for All and my vision of it, we would actually extend benefits. So for example, vision care, dental care, hearing aids, which currently are not covered. And anyone you know who's a senior can tell you they're extremely expensive. Agist! Expensive and people have to come out of pocket. You don't have to be a senior to have hearing aids. I'm not voting for her.

56:10 Included in my perspective on the issue of private insurance is this and I told the story last night Look any night in America. There is some parent who's got a child who has a fever blah blah blah Okay, I don't want to hear her. Yeah Be on the lookout for the term weaponized ignorance Be on the lookout for it. Yes. Okay. Yeah, this is There have been black leaders out there taught if you if you're talking about Kamala Harris not being African-american not being an American black Let's say you were 80 OS then you will be called out for your weaponized ignorance. How's it weaponized? Oh

CHAPTER 15 / 36 Discussion

Kamala Harris Heritage Debate, ADOS Movement Criticism

A controversy erupted after Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a claim that Kamala Harris is not an "American Black" due to her Jamaican and Indian heritage. The discussion explores the "American Descendants of Slavery" (ADOS) movement's perspective on lineage and how the media labels these critiques as "birtherism."

kamala harris· donald trump jr· ados· birtherism· jamaica· india

56:55 I mean, I can say being called out for your ignorance, even though there's no ignorance involved, it's actually a deeper understanding. But you can say that's ignorance from an ignorant point of view. What's the weapon? I don't know, but I'm just telling them I'm seeing this, I'm hearing this. Weaponize ignorance. I have the two Kamala versus Don Jr. tweets clips. OK, that we're taking to an extreme on democracy now with just a lot of bullshit. California senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris is riding a new wave of momentum following her debate performance last week when she challenged Joe Biden's past history of working with segregationist lawmakers and his opposition to busing to integrate schools in the 1970s.

57:41 Well, Harris has jumped in several opinion polls. There's been also a right-wing backlash online. On Thursday, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted a message from an alt-right personality that read, quote, Kamala Harris is not an American black. She's half Indian and half Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing American blacks like myself. Of our history, it's disgusting. Harris' family were actually slave owners. So, the tweet said, Donald Trump Jr. Stop. So the tweet said. Yeah, so the tweet said. So now when she says that, is she imply, when she said, the way she positions this comment, this is implying that the tweet is bullshit because... Yeah, it's the same as saying claimed. It's like, it's just like claimed. But it was also the intonation. So the tweet said.

58:38 In other words, Kamala Harris is not Jamaican and Indian and her ancestors never owned slaves? Is that what Amy is implying? Weaponized ignorance. The tweet said that she's half Indian, half Jamaican and her ancestors owned slaves. Is that true or not? That is true. Well then why is Amy implying that is not true? Because Amy is a douchebag. Ah, okay, continue. Trump Jr. then deleted the tweet later that night after coming under fire from several other 2020 presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, who tweeted, quote, the same forces of hatred, rude and birtherism that questioned Barack Obama's American citizenship and even his racial identity are now being used against Senator Kamala Harris, unquote. Now, please tell me that right after that, Amy and her Democracy Now! cohorts

59:48 went into Kamala's parents and their history and where she grew up and where she went to school and her true heritage. They did that, I'm sure. It's democracy now, after all. I like the fact that you're using my bit. I know, it's great, isn't it? I'm doing sports, I'm doing your bits. Well, let's answer that question with the next thing that happens here. 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro told CNN Donald Trump Jr. behaved like a coward. This is the game that these folks play. They put something out there. You notice what he did. He tweeted it out and then he deleted it. Like a coward. So he can say, oh, that was just a mistake. But he knows what he's doing. He's giving voice to these racist

1:00:32 utterances about Senator Harris. We need to dispel them immediately and condemn them and then not give them any more life because they're disgusting. Well, the answer to your question is no. That is clearly no. Instead, they attack him as being a racist pig. Now, the thing that's interesting to me about this little brouhaha, which is based on the simple fact that she's half Indian and half Jamaican, I mean, so what? Why don't they just admit it?

1:01:10 No, no, no, you can't admit it. So this is what's interesting. But then that and that's a fact. And then so they try to twist it into a version of birtherism. Oh, yeah, that's that's it. Oh, yeah. Because how does that work? It logically if it doesn't, it doesn't they just they try. Okay, I'll tell you why. Okay, because they're down because I I'm listening to this thing. This is diluted. Yes. Yes. Okay. First of all if you ask anyone any white person in America and anywhere in the world probably What was Barack Obama they will say America's first African American president he was not in fact If you believe that he would the story that he was born in Indonesia

1:01:58 or born of an Indonesian father and a white mother in Hawaii, then he is not African-American. He's not ADOS. He is black, brown, whatever you want to call it. Does not have the complete black experience of African-Americans. Now if you want to believe he was born in Kenya, yeah, I mean you can say he's African slash American but not the same as African-American. Does not have the same the same background. But they were comparing the comparison of Kamala Harris, who was also not African-American, an American descendant of slavery, that's how you get that comparison. They need to pull that apart, pull it away from the God Obama, who also was not African-American, and so they use something convenient. It's I think a dangerous strategy, but it's very convenient because you get to say,

1:02:47 That's birtherism, which immediately makes it racist, and something Trump did, which is also not true, but Trump is universally blamed for starting birtherism. The Republicans have got to get back on the old track that Hillary is the one who came up with the birtherism. Her group, her boys. Her campaign, yeah. In particular, that one guy's name deludes me, but it's their strategy. It was during the campaign in 2008. that this came up. It had nothing to do with Trump in 2016. You know, that was eight years later that Trump started, well actually he started maybe a couple years earlier, just I think as a lark.

CHAPTER 16 / 36 Discussion

Howard University Radio, ADOS Movement vs. Dr. Greg Carr

An exchange on Howard University radio features a caller from the ADOS movement challenging Dr. Greg Carr on the political identity of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Dr. Carr dismisses the caller's focus on lineage as "weaponized ignorance," leading to a debate over black political agendas.

howard university· greg carr· ados· kamala harris· reparations· weaponized ignorance

1:03:29 But I have a clip here, which we'll just dump out of him. We're done with this was a call-in show on WHUR 96.3. This is Howard University radio. College radio, but not a small station. Dr. Greg Carr, he's the chair of the Afro-American Studies for Howard University, and we'll listen to this exchange. Let me see if I can get it rolling. Thanks for calling. What's on your mind? Thank you for having me. Good evening to you also, Dr. Carr. Good evening, brother. I was calling today actually because I am actually one of the people that is a part of the ADOS movement, the American Descendants of Slavery movement. And I actually, I've engaged with you actually on Twitter, Mr. Carr. I actually wanted to make a couple things clear. Actually? The conversation for us, at least, or on Twitter, or with I think a large portion of black America, I'm not saying all, has nothing to do with Kamala Harris being black.

1:04:23 It really doesn't. Most black people don't even care about that. What we're talking about is lineage and ethnicity. That's what we're talking about. And if your family comes rooted out of Jamaica, all of your cousins, your grandparents, you can't be African American. It's very simple. Now, When I say African American, I mean a descendant of US chattel slavery. I don't mean a second generation person whose parents are native born African. Okay? So that's kind of the issue. The other issue that we're dealing with is that Black America has learned from the Obama administration. I would have to agree with you Mr. Carr here that Obama is not the greatest president at all. And if you look at his policies, he actually took away more from HBCU funding than George Bush did, which most black people don't know. But we are largely an apolitical group.

1:05:07 What ADOS is doing is bringing awareness and trying to instill a political education or awareness in the African American community that largely lacks. Ms. Harris's policies do not support black people. That's the problem. Not only does her record not support black people, but black people have been telling every candidate, we want a black agenda. Neither of these two black candidates have one. So that would be something that black people should be looking at. That supposedly these are black candidates, supposedly African American. Mr. Booker is for sure. But these people don't actually have anything for black people. What they have is to share for everyone else.

1:05:45 But H1B1, which Ms. Harris actually supports for Indians, which she is an Indian first because that's who raised her, okay? And secondly, also the immigration policy. I thought that was pretty funny. Hey, H1B1, of course she wants to do that. It's for her own people, for the Indians, that she's half Indian. She's also behind. Do not service the black community. Hold on for a second, Derek. Go ahead, Dr. Carr. I was going to say, Brother Derek, and I hope you hang on for a few minutes, this is the kind of weaponized ignorance. that ADAS, this hashtag is promoting. There is no... And there you have it, weaponized ignorance. And he's going against us. He said... So he... This caller just laid out everything. Wow, that is clip of the day for me. Oh, well, let's bring it on. He actually says it two more times. You want to hear a little more? So this guy, Dr. Carr, who is an apologist, I guess, for someone or something, the Democrats, he's just a Democrat.

1:06:43 And so he's just gonna, he's not putting up with any of this because a lot of black Democrats, actually more white than black, a lot of Democrats period, do not want to see anyone who's black get out of line. Don't, they're getting out of line. Exactly. Uppity. Uppity. Well listen to another 30 seconds here. You don't speak for anyone other than yourself. I hope you don't embrace the extreme xenophobia of Antonio Moore. Or, um, you've had Carnell, Lisa... Antonio Moore is the guy we played who does YouTube from his car. Yeah, he's extreme xenophobia. Sorry, I'm not hearing it, Dr. Carr. They broadcast it on YouTube and some of these other venues.

1:07:25 I'm not sure if you understand, you know, just so we're very clear, when we say we have the data, I assume you're talking about Sandy Darity, my colleague Sandy Darity at Duke. None of this, and I'm sure you've also read the platforms of all the candidates for Democratic nomination or seen the debates. For example, their positions on appointments to the federal bench. The Trump administration has appointed about a fifth of the federal bench in the last two years. These are the judges that will decide our fates. The fates of the people who claim to be speaking for the majority of black people.

1:08:01 And not only is it incredibly short-sighted and deeply under-informed, it's really weaponized ignorance to talk about anything from reparations to immigration visas as, you know, these are the single issues facing the black community. And Derek, with all due respect, brother, I think anyone listening to what you've laid out of the last 60 to 90 seconds can come away very clear about one thing. This is not an informed political opinion and as far as this who is black and who is not black You know, I would encourage you to study not only the long history of reparations movement But the history of African solidarity movements with and on and on I'll put it in the show notes The whole thing is kind of into interesting to listen to there it is. Shut up. Shut up

CHAPTER 18 / 36 Discussion

Producer Donations, Sir Herco Knighting Ceremony

Producer Herco Groenenwegen is knighted as Sir Herco of Utrecht following a significant donation. The segment includes a discussion of Dutch culture, specifically the tradition of eating raw herring, and clarifies the origin of the "service goat" sound effect on the show.

herco groenenwegen· utrecht· netherlands· knighting· peerage· herring

1:14:16 Somebody. Herren Groenenwegen. Oh, let me see. Oh. Herco. Herco Groenenwegen. Almost. Herco. I get that. Kind of. Herco Groenenwegen. Groenenwegen. Yes. I understand he's from Holland. So, yes. $1,100 and 7. Whoa, 70. Oh, 7, yeah. Oh, nice. Kind of miss it should have been 50 kind of miss miss the show club I think we should bonus him and just give him the show club member even though it's not 1152 Well, he got yeah, he was 1102. I thought it maybe just okay. No, no Okay, I'm just thinking anyway quite a note. He says please take editorial freedom. Thank you. I will Dear John and Adam Sir Hendrick Unwittingly hit me in the mouth with Sun Saturday's meetup. So he got hit in the mouth of meetup

1:15:17 That would have been in quick donor. That would have been in. Hey, hey, Hendrik, go find more guys like this guy. Good work sir. Hendrik. Talk about a that's fantastic. I discovered your show. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's not overnight. It's not an overnight success. Almost a year ago via the TPO podcast, the best podcast in the Netherlands, according to the Mueller report. It's true. I read it. And it's true. And I didn't miss an episode since I cannot show up for the Dutch meetup Ah, in my hometown being a giant douchebag compliments for the show. Not only did I not miss an episode, I only recall two pre-recorded episodes in a year. So obvious. So I'm not getting the hit me in the mouth of Saturday's meetup, but okay. He's dedicated is what he's saying. Who would have known that a slick countdown presenter from my youth, you Adam, would become a voice of reason in my life.

1:16:10 Must be John keeping him in check. Exactly. Of course Adam was too slick and commercial back then. From my view, dressed up all black and pointy shoes and such. Pointy shoes? You had pointy shoes, huh? I did, huh? Luckily my brain kicked in when I was a student even back in the 89. I chose the ridiculousness of the upcoming global warming as a subject for a presentation. Your show is a breath of fresh air. I'm looking forward to the like-minded people this Saturday. Oh, he's going this Saturday. I guess. I can write a book rivaling Tolkien with observations fitting the show, but that's not a note. Whoops.

1:16:47 However, I do ponder about the advertising ruling the world. I fully agree this, the advertisers doing the behavior of the platform and media to the whim of a small, uninteresting minority. This is true. This is good observation. In the Netherlands, advertisers like Heineken, Gillette, and even the Dutch Army recruitment have been called out at times. However, in my view, people taking offense and willing to boycott are A, not watching something, I can't read it. material, B lazy pacifists, C men with beards and hair buns and women who refuse to shave for the patriarchy and all drink beer from micro breweries. It's a good rundown of the answers. And then he says, oh here's the reason for his donation amount. I'll get the inevitable 9 foot, so he did 18 plus, so 18 is the shapeshifting Jew donation plus 33 the magic number

1:17:43 Times 11 times 3 so he did a lot of magical numbers to come up with this donation amount Yeah, that was I guess it was it was in What was it in he did the deal and he don't use Croners or anything they use euros he used dollars We can comes up with a hundred thousand. Oh, no, I see 107. Yeah, okay Well, I don't know he came up with a big number is all I know. I He would like to be known as Sir Herco, Knight of the Papal Fiefdom of Utrecht, which he is to rule someday, he said. Good. You're scheduled. Yes, you're on deck. That's what it's for. Go to Dvorak.org slash peerage dot ITM, no dot HTM, all uppercase. You can find out what they'll be responsible for. Neither I or the city of Utrecht are that religious, but it's still home of the only Dutch Pope ever.

1:18:43 Oh, is that so? I didn't know that there was even a Dutch Pope ever at all. I didn't know this either. And in anything remotely papal, it's safer to be a knight than an altar boy. For the ceremony, I'm looking forward to the mutton and meat, but bring some holonsenuwe and kribbelinge. Kibbelinge. Oh, let me write that down. So I gotta get that at the table. Holonsenuwe is the fresh new herring. that whenever they have the new catch, the first catch of the year. You eat it raw? You eat it raw. Well, you slather it with onions. Do you eat it with... it's not that oily crap? Yeah, well it's very fat. So you... Yeah, but no, there's this stuff you buy, it's like tinned usually and it's got... the Danes eat this stuff. I shall explain this. It's a herring that is completely just...

1:19:36 marinated in a thick viscous oil. No, so these have obviously been in salt first, you know, to fry away anything that'll kill you. You hold it by the tail, so they cut the head off, they gut the fish, so then you just have the, you know, the two kind of sides left. You pour some chopped, some diced onions into that and then you tilt your head back, you hold the thing up by its tail and you eat it. And it is dynamite. I'm sure it's good. I like pickle. My hearing, I've been, I generally eat pickled herring. I like the pickling. But, um, and usually you don't get too many of the full fishes, which you can do that with. You got chunks, unfortunately. All right. And then, and then while he does, uh, he has, does he have a jingle? Check on that for me, will ya?

1:20:31 Hold on. He has a question here. He says, PS can you please explain what the significance of the goat is? I get all of the show except for the goats. Well, but well, there's no significant to significance to the goat It's just we started playing this goat because it sounds like a person screaming and then we started mixing it in with other things and then we did someone came over the idea of goat karma and so we put it in with a karma there's no it's just Evolved also there was goat yoga. I think maybe that's when it I don't think so Does anyone know the the

1:21:15 The genesis of the goat? I think it just self-evolved as a lark. A joke. Although Sir Chris Wilson, I mean he apparently is sleeping with the goat. Oh, it was the emotional support animal, that's how it came up. When people were... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, of course. I think it was one of our funny jokes. People were taking peacocks on airplanes. And then we said we wanted an emotional support goat. Well, it's just a funny sound. We play stuff sometimes that doesn't really have a meaning. I mean, that's a goat. Can you imagine having that in your backyard? It's like somebody's being murdered. It goes back quite a while though, this...

1:21:59 This is goat stuff. Yeah, service goat karma. Yeah, here it is. This is it. I knew we had it. You've got karma. We called it service goat karma. So there it is. And it was service goat. Service goat it is. All right. Well, thank you very much. See you at the round table with your Holonchenua and Kibbelinger. Wesley Young from Jamestown, New York comes in with $450 on one of these bank checks with a little note on this. There's no jingles, no karma, no note. Okay, well, thank you very much. This is fantastic Wesley love that. Yes, appreciate Andrew German in Canton, Georgia 412 dollars and 62 cents and that's another check and he sent a hand not a handwritten but a type note shall read

CHAPTER 19 / 36 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits, Peerage Inductions

The hosts acknowledge high-tier donations from producers including Wesley Young, Andrew German, and Vincent James. Several producers are inducted into the No Agenda Peerage as Knights and Barons, with specific titles granted for their financial support.

wesley young· andrew german· mark malin· vincent james· knighting· peerage

1:22:46 Finally, I'm paying off my enlightenment debt to the No Agenda Show. Thank you for your patience and for my persistent douchebaggery since my last donation. This humble token of my appreciation should reserve me a seat at the round table and perhaps ensure a little future karma." And then he's got all his accounting, so he got to 1033. Please knight me, Sir Andy of the Hickory Flat Protector of Small Horses, and he is on the list. Okay, also, please let me do the birthday list. I'm not sure if he's on there 707 because it's lucky and it's my birthday 707. It's a good that is a good day, but my daughter Jay is born on 711 oh Yeah, which I was so thankful for okay, so okay, so Wesley no not Wesley Andrew German yes, he's on the list No

1:23:38 Am I saying that wrong? Yeah, Andrew German. I'm sorry. Yes. He's on the list and we make sure he's his title is proper. Yes, sir. Andrew the Hickory flat protector of small horses. Okay, he continues. I Adam I was in Austin last year on business. It wasn't 10 minutes before I was brushed back by a green scooter and stepped in dog crap. It was the beginning of a wonderful three days. John, we recently sold our startup in the little office by the railroad tracks for a ton of dough and now we have to move to fancier digs. Sadly, I became a bit of a foamer every time I heard the train horn. Special shout out to the Atlanta local 404. Looking forward to our next meetup in a couple of weeks. The shows have been simply the best lately. No jingles, no karma, AMF and best wishes.

1:24:25 I was gonna say, there was something... Oh, he had nothing for the roundtable? No requirements? No, he's good to go. Okay. Love that fish. Thank you very much, Andrew. And see you at the roundtable. Onward here. Mark Malin in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 333.74. Happy Independence Day. Please count this donation as a point for Independence Day contest. Ah, right. We have this. Oh, he's going to count this for, yeah, 74. He's going to put this pennies in. So he's on the he's American. Okay. This contribution honors the American legacy of free speech that Canada does not have, which is demonstrated twice. I read it exactly as written, by the way, which is demonstrated twice a week on the best podcast in the universe for jingles. Can I get John Brennan's innocent until alleged guilty? Fear is freedom from Ben Shapiro and the Ben Shapiro laugh. Adios, mofos. The Ben Shapiro laugh.

1:25:29 I don't think it's labeled as such, but I'll do an equally as good Ben Shapiro for you. People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity. Those are the facts of this world and you will all surrender to them. You pig! Oh my god. You've got karma. Vincent James in Madison, Alabama comes in at $333 and I guess he gets upgraded to knight, becomes a knight. This puts me over the top to become an unknighted, oh, he's going to be an unknighted baron. Well, so here's what happened. I got a note from the back office. Right. This guy has to be knighted first. Knighted, and then he becomes a baron in one sitting. Yeah. This is great. Not an insta-baron though, which is different.

1:26:28 He's apparently, he just was, he's been a knight for a while and he just never cashed in on it. So he's belated. It's not a black knight because it wasn't our screw-up, it was his. And it wasn't a screw-up, he is intentional. I could go on. I will send my accounting via email, which he did, and I'd love to be knighted on the fourth, which is today. I like, this actually was a promotion we could have done. I'll send my title, we got all this stuff and he's coming up with it. You mean we could have done freedom knights? Yeah, yeah freedom nights like freedom fries You know, so we did a lot of we leave a lot on the table we do Because we want to do content in the show which yeah, we got other things to do besides scheming Steve 200 just plain old Steve's he's in Satan's asshole aka Orlando, Florida

1:27:22 Okay, all righty then. Steve from Satan's Asshole. If you've ever been to Orlando during the summertime, you'd understand why I dub it Satan's Asshole. Please give me a de-douching. You've been de-douched. I've been listening a little over two months now thanks to my good friend Kenny the German Kerman. I would also like to thank John the Brewer for introducing Kenny the German Kerman because without him I may have never found the podcast. Thank you and keep up the great work. Love how that works. Thank you very much. Thank you, Steve. And thank you, Kenny the German Kerman. And John the Brewer. And John the Brewer. Who stopped brewing apparently. Oh no. Keith Gibson, $200.

1:28:13 The brand discussion from Sunday was great and another example of the excellent work done by the show Happy to for a happy fourth and he needs of f cancer jingle. Thank you for your courage You've got karma Steve and Keith are our two associate executive producers for show 1152, and that's our group of associates and executive producers for the show. And I want to thank them for supporting this show and keeping everything going on an even keel. Yeah, great turnout for a day off here in the United States of Gitmo Nation proper.

1:28:55 Thank you for executive producing or associate executive producing. It is a duty for some, an innate obligation, and others participate in many other ways. People give lower amounts, we'll be thanking them, $50 and above in our second segment, but also you heard us thank our artists, for our artwork, and there's just a lot of things to be thankful for, particularly on this day of freedom. So remember, we'll be back with another show on Sunday. It could be a best of if I'm watching the World Women's Cup soccer, but maybe I'll just show up just for the heck of it. Please support us at... And now that you know the entire genesis of the GOAT, I mean, GOAT PROPAGATE! Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.

CHAPTER 20 / 36 Discussion

Show Business, Wedding Photos and Newsletter

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak discuss internal show business, including the distribution of Curry's wedding video and photos. They plan to feature exclusive images in the upcoming Sunday newsletter to encourage listener engagement.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· wedding photos· newsletter· cosmic weenie· digital media

1:28:13 The brand discussion from Sunday was great and another example of the excellent work done by the show Happy to for a happy fourth and he needs of f cancer jingle. Thank you for your courage You've got karma Steve and Keith are our two associate executive producers for show 1152, and that's our group of associates and executive producers for the show. And I want to thank them for supporting this show and keeping everything going on an even keel. Yeah, great turnout for a day off here in the United States of Gitmo Nation proper.

1:28:55 Thank you for executive producing or associate executive producing. It is a duty for some, an innate obligation, and others participate in many other ways. People give lower amounts, we'll be thanking them, $50 and above in our second segment, but also you heard us thank our artists, for our artwork, and there's just a lot of things to be thankful for, particularly on this day of freedom. So remember, we'll be back with another show on Sunday. It could be a best of if I'm watching the World Women's Cup soccer, but maybe I'll just show up just for the heck of it. Please support us at... And now that you know the entire genesis of the GOAT, I mean, GOAT PROPAGATE! Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.

1:29:46 I do have a note of business, two notes of business to discuss briefly. One is I still haven't received the wedding video from you, thanks. Oh, I have it. I've uploaded it to the Cosmic Weenie and I will give you this specific link. It's nothing you can accidentally find obviously because it's too big. It's a gigabyte. Yeah, well, so you pretty much just gave everybody license to go and find this video on your cosmic weenie like you can't do a directory listing? No, you can't. You end up with a page. You can't... Let me see. If they find it and they want to download a gigabyte, I'll know. I'll just take it off. A gigabyte is not what it used to be. You don't want to burden the site with a gigabyte downloads.

1:30:39 I mean, in fact, once you take it down, I'm embracing it. Yeah, yeah, get rid of it. We got our photos. We got the wedding photos, finally. They came back. Oh, yeah. Anything good? Yes! The next newsletter, the Sunday newsletter. The Sunday newsletter could use some photos. Yeah, definitely. There's some... I got some... there's great photos of... Any photos of you dancing? Yes. Good, we'll use those. Yes. There's also photos of the conga line with Horowitz, I think. Oh, I definitely want that. There's actually there's a photo of you I think you me me me Grand Duke David Foley and then Horowitz is in the back and he almost looks like an like a mafia hitman It's kind of standing there. You're protecting us. It's very very odd. These are great photos. So yes We shall ensure you have a few to use Anything embarrassing is always good, right?

CHAPTER 21 / 36 Discussion

Radio Play Project, Voice Acting Auditions

John C. Dvorak announces a project to produce ten short radio plays adapted from classic Broadway scripts and George Orwell's "1984." He calls for listener auditions to fill various roles, seeking to avoid the "squeaky millennial" voices prevalent in modern audio dramas.

radio plays· voice acting· 1984· broadway· auditions· audio drama

1:31:36 It's always the best. And that's what people want to see in the newsletter if they haven't signed up or if they've given up on the newsletter because there's one too many appeals. A lot of people get sick of it. But the newsletter I think is a top-notch product. Yes, I agree. It's an outstanding product, actually. It's always got a laugh. There's always a good laugh in there. So we really... Oh, the second piece of business, I'm sorry, is a reminder. It's been on the list for several shows now and somehow it just keeps slipping our mind. Probably because we talk about it after the show, which is dumb, which is why we don't do that very often, talk about anything except the show. You are working on a radio play. Well, now I'm going to do 10 radio plays. Whoa!

1:32:20 Yeah, because I can do radio plays. I know how to do them. I've done them in this, when I was at Foothill College taking broadcasts, we did radio plays. It was archaic, but it was doable. But we had a real on the air radio station, which is still exists, KFRC. No, so is it KFRC? No, no, it's not KFRC. It's something else. I can't remember, but it's a good station, good student station. But it had a lot of power. It wasn't like a wimpy little local station. Anyway, I've decided because I've been got I don't know why I've gotten a hair up my ass, but I've decided I've been researching Broadway plays from the Burns Mantle series of best plays which he started doing in 1919. Guy was born in 1870 and every year he did this for every season of Broadway and there's a lot of old plays in there that would make excellent short

1:33:17 half-hour radio plays if you adapted them and adaptations is the way you do these things and so I want to do a Ten of them and I need some voice acting talents. Oh, well, I'm glad you came to me John as you know I'm outstanding a voice pronunciator and that's a good example of why not looking for it, but I will say I am missing a Although you have one on the line that might work. I am missing the big boomer, the big booming voice, the front line. I already told you who would be great for that. Yeah, I'm going to try him if he's got the big booming voice. Do we mention him or do we not mention him? It sounds like we don't want to. Darren O'Neill. Yeah, Darren O'Neill apparently has a nice big boomer voice. He's a massive boomer. Hello.

1:34:06 Dare no, dare no is the man. I think. But if anybody out there does work, you know, as a drama, local theater or anything, you want to do some voice work, it's going to be pieced together. It's not like we're all going to go into a studio and do this thing. No, it's going to be posted, which is going to take some time, but all the roles would be just doled out to people and sometimes more people than one so you can get the best of the best. And you just read the script into a mic if you've got a mic and a recording system at home. Into your Yeti Blue. Your Yeti Blue. You use your Yeti blue and then just yak into it and then just send me the tapes and I'll piece them together after, you know, but we need some auditions. Some people need to send some stuff in. I know we have probably about 50 people out there. I already have Dame Tanya, she'll do it. She's an actress and there's a few other people. You have me. Sorry? You have me. I want to be. You can do about six or seven good voices. Really?

1:35:07 I want you to do your crazy voices. Okay, you gotta tell me which one you want. We'll just find stuff for everybody. Oh, so what you're saying is the part was written for me. Thank you, John. I appreciate that so much. There'll be a number of those for sure. And what play are we doing? Well, there's one is an hour. I'm trying to do half hours. I'm gonna do There's a couple of different plays, one's called The Red Planet, which is a very interesting play. I'm not going to discuss these plays in detail now because it would take up too much valuable time. But I'm also thinking of doing the re-adaptation of 1984, which was done as a radio play four times.

1:35:47 including once by the BBC, which took it was a two-hour play, it was too long. But there was a version done in about 1953 by the Actors Theatre Guild out in New York and they had a radio show for a while and they did a version I think is just dynamite, it might be worth redoing. Okay, cool. And, uh, promotion and we're just putting this up with them. Is it a podcast that can people subscribe? You know, it's possible that we could use this as a, cause there'd be half hours. You could run a couple of them as, as half of a filler show when we do a, uh, Oh, that's an interesting idea. Yeah. Yeah. It wouldn't hurt. I like that. There'll be, it'd be family, family stuff. It's a family. It's a family thing. Nice. Well, I'm all in. I like the idea.

1:36:36 Yeah, here's what got me. I know how radio, I collected all, really the great radio plays from the 30s and 40s. And I like them. They're good, they're good material. And then, but they've been continuing to do them to this day. And most of the people doing modern radio plays that they're doing now, like coming out as we speak, All the voicing is done by a bunch of squeaky, kind of fae millennials that have a lousy voice and they can't act. It's just like, it's cringeworthy. And there's two or three troops, a genuine troop of people, maybe six or seven people that are doing a lot of these plays, and they're not good. We could do auditions on the show, short ones.

CHAPTER 22 / 36 Discussion

Mueller Report Movie Auditions, Celebrity Satire

A satirical video produced by Tom Steyer's organization features celebrities "auditioning" for a movie based on the Mueller Report. The actors read real excerpts from the report while pretending to be shocked by the content, a tactic the hosts mock as ineffective political theater.

mueller report· tom steyer· rob reiner· hollywood· satire· donald trump

1:37:26 Yeah. Oh, speaking of which, holy moly, did you catch this, the auditions of the Mueller report, the movie? No, I'm sure this is a gem though. Oh yeah. So, and this is from Tom Steiner, Steyer, you know, the, the, oh Steyer that idiot. Yeah, the impeach Trump guy. So after the stellar, let me see, we had the, What was the thing that Rob Reiner did? Which video? He did one recently, directed... Was that everyone talking about the reading of the Mueller report? Then we had the play, the reading of the Mueller report. So now what they're pretending, and this is... it'll be great in audio only because you don't see the actors,

1:38:15 Very often, or in fact incredibly frequently, actors will be asked to record something at home to read a side, as it's called. So read a side from the script, which is just a little one page typically, as an audition. And that is usually a pre-round that is done before people are called in for a cattle call. But often celebrities or people of some de-lebrity status will be asked to do this. And so they took a handful of celebs and sent them aside for the motion picture, the Mueller report, the movie. And so they're reading from this and the gag is that they're reading from it and they think it's fiction. They don't realize it's real. And of course it's acted.

1:39:05 And it's shit acting which makes it so meta I have to play it for ya. the movie. Thanks for the opportunity. According to Comey's account, at one point during the dinner, the president stated, I need loyalty. I expect loyalty. I need loyalty. I expect loyalty. What? OK. Could you imagine if this was from the real report? Is it? Really? Seriously? No. No fucking way. That's the real Mueller report, word for word. Yep. Come on.

1:40:02 the FBI director that he needed loyalty? Get the fuck out of there. Trump made public statements that included the following. Russia, if you're listening. I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you'll be rewarded mightily by our press. I mean, they gotta impeach this guy, right? Doug, yeah, I'm reading the thing. It's a mess. Is this supposed to be funny or terrifying? Because it's both. They're saying the president's lawyer says the president told him Mueller has to go. And then Trump asked him to say that it never happened? That's in the report? The Mueller report, right? Have you read this thing? This is really scary. This is some terrifying shit. This is a fucking nightmare. I'm just really heavy bummed out. I don't want to be in this. I know.

1:40:46 Oh my god. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I'm fucked. I like that part. Is that how it's gonna end? I hope so. There you go. How fabulous. Oh, so well done, Hollywood. And by the way, where was anyone with a true interpretation of the I'm fucked line? You can interpret that and it's just written right? And everyone interprets it as, I'm fucked! Oh my god I'm fucked! How about, I'm fucked.

CHAPTER 23 / 36 Discussion

Hillary Clinton Email Investigation, Judicial Watch Deposition

Judicial Watch deposed former State Department official John Hackett regarding Hillary Clinton's private email server. Hackett testified that he warned the chain of command about the unlawful use of a BlackBerry and the potential destruction of government records during the Benghazi investigation.

hillary clinton· judicial watch· john hackett· state department· foia· blackberry

1:41:28 You know, could be any type of interpretation. Well, there's a lot of interpretations, but the one that gets me, which is not, you don't have to interpret because we heard him all say it, which is that, hey, he was giving one of his ad lib speeches where he's in front of the large audience of 25,000 saying, hey Russia, see if you can find the 30,000 emails, you know, the press will reward you. He never said he would reward him. And thank you for... We heard that and it's a joke. Thank you for bringing that up. There is some new developments regarding the, well at first it was 30,000 emails and then somehow the magic number came in it became 33,000 emails which I always found peculiar but that was that meant it was important. It's a very important thing obviously. Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch is a right-wing funded group of

1:42:16 lawyers, but they- Maniacs. They are, yeah, they are attack dogs for sure. And their honcho, the guy who represents them on Twitter and elsewhere, is this pumped up guy, Tom Fitton, who's, I'm surprised he's not like kissing his biceps every so often. Well, regardless of his physique, Chris Farrell is not the guy on Twitter, not the pumped up guy, but he is a lawyer and he reports on this particular show, which I don't know if it's a... well, it's the Sebastian Gorka does either a podcast or a radio show and I had to cut the guy out. I had to cut Gorka out of the whole thing because the way he operates, which is unlistenable, is

1:43:02 You'll start saying something, he'll interrupt every six seconds, repeat exactly what you said. Luckily, there was some delay in their communication so I was able to chop Gorka out. But he's fucking, excuse me, he's really annoying. So you sliced him out of there? I sliced him out, so there's a couple of unnatural jumps maybe. What happened is, I'll just give you the background, then we'll go into the clip. Judicial Watch wanted information about the Freedom of Information Act for these documents, for all the emails, everything that the State Department had. And apparently the State Department was so arrogant at being such dicks about it that one or two judges said, you know what, screw you guys, mandatory deposition under oath

1:43:50 Anybody you guys want within the State Department and they got one guy in the record his name is John Hackett and Here is the story about that testimony. This is big stuff because we have John Hackett is a former State Department official He was the guy in charge of what they call the Directorate of Information Programs and Services which is a very governmental way of saying all the records all the four-year related stuff and among others, but in particular FOIA because we had asked, this goes all the way back to Benghazi. So this is the guy at State Department who is responsible for processing and handling all these records and turning them over. He, we deposed him, meaning one of our attorneys, actually two of our attorneys sat down and the State Department and the Justice Department's behavior and conduct in court has been so outrageous that they got really pissed off and they said, you know what? We're not just going to do this on paper. You're going to get government officials under oath and make them swear to it.

1:44:43 And you can ask whatever questions you want. And then the depositions themselves, the transcripts we post on our website so everybody can read what went on. This is outrageous. Mr. Hackett was interviewed in a deposition under oath and he said, look, I warned Hillary Clinton, her staff, the Deputy Secretary of State, a cast of characters. I warned them about what they were doing with records. He had knowledge that they were trying to destroy more than 30,000 emails. And he said, what is your practice? What's your program? How are you arriving at this decision? What's the guidance? She was running her own server. It's completely unlawful. They knew that she was using a BlackBerry. In fact, he said, Mr. Hackett said in her oath, I saw a clip on the television of her using a BlackBerry on a flight and that he goes,

1:45:29 What's with the Blackberry? I mean it alarmed him. This guy was actually trying to do his job He's trying to be a good civil servant, and he was freaked out by it and said what are we doing with this? Set of records who's looking at them? He was astounded by it and he repeatedly warned all the entire chain of command of what was going on on He was alarmed at the destruction of emails. He knew that there was another attorney involved who is essentially the cover-up artist for all of this. In fact, the person was actually working in the Office of Legislative Affairs. This is guilty knowledge for knowledge, knowledge while it was going on. And then in the aftermath, this, you know, what are we going to do to destroy and cover up and hide? It's utterly corrupt. Yeah. This is what Hillary Clinton... What's gonna come of it all?

1:46:19 This is what Hillary Clinton meant when she said we were all hanged together from nooses. Yeah. Yeah, that's what she meant. Yeah. But it turns out she's wrong. Nobody's hanging from any nooses. Not yet. Well, we'll see. I mean, we even, I remember us going, the Blackberry, we're just using a Blackberry. Blackberry. That's not government issued. You can't use a Blackberry. It's a Crackberry. I have a Ask Adam if you want to play. I'm always interested in if I want to play. Do I have a choice? Can I opt out? Yeah, you can say no, not now. I got a clip. No, what I need is my jingle. All right, I will hit my jingle. All right, I'm ready.

CHAPTER 24 / 36 Discussion

New York School Segregation, Charter School Debate

A report on the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education identifies New York as the most segregated state for African-American students, followed by Illinois. The discussion critiques the "phony" nature of liberal diversity programs and the shift toward charter schools in California and Texas.

school segregation· new york city· brown v. board of education· charter schools· california· illinois

1:47:09 Is it? Okay. Well, no, I can do more. I have another jingle. All right. Okay. Sorry I did that. Let's go with number one. This is an interesting guy. It's just been going on. There's a big scandal because the integration in schools, you know, Kamala Harris is making a big stink about being bust when the Berkeley schools were already integrated. And, but no one wants to talk about that, but it turns out the big bastion of liberalism in this country and multiculturalism and

1:47:51 diversity is New York and they're the worst for all aware and display this clip. The landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown versus Board of Education declared school-based racial segregation to be unconstitutional. It was intended to desegregate schools but that isn't exactly what happened at least in New York State. Researchers have found that New York City has some of America's most segregated schools. In the first of a two-part report examining school diversity and equity in New York City, I met with a group of students protesting segregation and visited a district in Brooklyn with a plan to increase diversity.

1:48:28 This is part of our ongoing series, Chasing the Dream, Poverty and Opportunity in America. On the 65th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education last month, students from across New York City gathered in Times Square. They handed out newspapers declaring, retire segregation and called for the city's public schools to be integrated. It's been 65 years. since segregation in schools on the basis of race was ruled unconstitutional. A UCLA study of public schools found in 2014 and again this year that New York remains the most segregated state for African-American students with 65% of them in intensely segregated schools. Okay. The question is what state is number two? Texas.

1:49:13 Wrong. Nah, because Austin Austin has nothing but white schools pretending. Yeah, pretending to be integrated. It's another bastion of liberalism. Illinois is number two. Ah, Chicago. Interesting. Yeah, that's what I thought. I thought was interesting myself. Okay, let's play clip to the study found it was the second most segregated state for Latino students. What is the first most segregated state for Latino students, New York being number two? California. Yes, I nailed it! Woo!

1:49:57 Another bastion of liberalism. They talk a big game, don't they? Talk a big game and that's how you do it. What a bunch of phonies. You talk a big game and do nothing. Just like Austin. Hold on, I gotta write. Bunch of phonies in Austin too. Phonies. You talk, you got your diversity, you got all your programs, you have your meetings, your council meetings, you're phonies. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Big talk, no action. Now, this is just a wrap-up clip. It's got no more questions. We sat down with three New York City high school students, members of the group Integrate NYC, who've been meeting with school district leadership, urging them to implement what they call a real integration plan for the next generation of students.

1:50:44 Looking at how the city is segregated, we noticed that there are five main ways that the segregation happens. The student's plan addresses what they call the five R's. The enrollment process, the resources that are distributed, the relationships in the schools and the curriculum. restorative justice practices and teacher representation. The mission is to have real integration in schools, more resource for everybody. And how do you get there? By getting more young people into the movement because they're the ones that are affected by the system. Telling students that don't feel like leaders that they are leaders and they can make change in their own schools. What does an integrated school look like to you? An integrated school would reflect the Outwards community. If there's

1:51:29 a certain percentage of white students, black, asian, latinx, the school should be able to reflect that. There are students who, like maybe their first language isn't english, right? Students who are english language learners, students with disabilities. There's different ways that students experience life. And all of those different experiences put together in a school community are what make it so different and special and help the students learn from not only the content they're being taught but each other. Each other? They don't know what they're doing in other words. I uh there's some research. You know so I have my I have my thoughts on this type of stuff and let me see this comes from education next.

1:52:14 Today, Los Angeles and California as a whole have abandoned integration as the chief mechanism of school reform and embraced charter schools instead. This has happened all over the country, but California has led the way. It has 630,000 students in charter schools more than any other state, and the Los Angeles Unified School District has more than 154,000 of them. Charters are associated with choice and innovation, important elements of the good life that California is famous for. In a deep blue state, that good life theoretically includes diversity and many white liberals believe charters can achieve that too. After all, a do-it-yourself school can do anything it wants. But it doesn't because you're phonies. We've got tons of charter schools in Austin. Phonies. You bus white children to black schools. That's what I'm for.

1:53:11 Well, I'm not for any of it. I'm just yelling in the wind. I think The whole thing is ridiculous people should go to the school that's closest to them And if it happens to be largely black or wrote largely white or it mixed or they're in the halfway between this and that That's the way it is. You just cater to them, but you make sure that they have the same quality of education, which is the hard part They can't do that So it's just a mess. Well, at any rate, um, and by the way, New York is going to be, if anyone likes to invest in things, I think private schools and maybe charter schools, New York in particular is going to be a target because they are taken down. There's, you know, New York has got a bunch of these special hoity toity school Stuyvesant and the arts and whatever it is, the dramatic art school. There's a bunch of these high schools that are high end.

1:54:04 public schools for kids that are special in terms of like they can sing, they can dance, or they're really smart, like they're geniuses. They put them in these special schools and they keep them there and then they push them off to MIT and they're good to go. Those are all through. They're not going to let those be and you're not going to if you're a smart kid, you can end up anywhere. So private schools is what's going to happen in New York. They're going to take over. They've stayed off. New York has stopped the private school movement. There's a lot of private schools, but they've put a kind of tamped it down by having these special schools for special kids who are really smart or really talented. But now that's over. So there's just going to just fall apart. New York's screwed. And California's not.

1:54:50 No, California's been screwed. California's, we got pooping on the street going on here. No, California's a mess. And then they're, now they're charging this extra gasoline tax. It's going to be, they're going to add, we already have the highest gasoline price in the country. They're going to, by law, I think it's coming up, it's going to be, it's just a drop 75 cents on it. And then they're going to drop every year, another 50 cents, 50 cents, 50 cents forever. Man. So it's just ended. They can't do anything about it at least for now. How long are you gonna hang in there? The best. Well, you don't go anywhere so you don't need gas. You don't need petrol. So you're just hanging around till the poop comes all the way up your walkway. I don't see the poop floating in yet. I'm on the other side of the bay. So it's... When the bay is full of poop, you know, it stinks. So I was watching Tucker Carlson on

CHAPTER 25 / 36 Discussion

Trump North Korea Visit, Tucker Carlson Interview

President Trump's historic walk into North Korea at the DMZ is analyzed alongside his interview with Tucker Carlson. A slip of the tongue during the interview regarding a "shot down unmanned drone" is compared to past government statements about Flight 93.

donald trump· north korea· tucker carlson· dmz· kim jong-un· drone strike

1:55:43 I think it was Monday and he did his whole week from Japan and North Korea and he got an interview with the president and he was at the at the now famous I won't say infamous, but the actual famous crossing of the Demilitarized zone into North Korea, which by the way from everything I saw the president walked that himself no Secret Service. Nothing was around him He walked that himself. I thought that was I was like, all right, you're pretty sure yourself. Yeah, I think that took some nerve. But it took it. He probably didn't take nerve because I believe I was telling people how much I'd love to go to North Korea and the liberals, you know, in the area. Oh my God, that horrible dictator. How would you, how could you do that? You're going to get killed.

1:56:31 I don't believe that's true. I think it's bullcrap. Well, the Trump didn't have a problem walking across but of course the liberals all made a big fuss about it because oh my god. Not just liberals, just people who are nuts. People who are insane. Not just a lot of people. The right wing isn't for this either. But Tucker Carlson was doing something very strange. He was to kept taking pictures of the North Korean Secret Service guys, and he kept showing them from his iPhone Oh look these guys. What did it? It was really weird I mean I don't know why he did that, but he kept saying, oh look at these uncouth individuals. Oh, they look so strange. Whoa, that'll make you think. It's like have you ever taken pictures of our secret service guys? They look pretty creepy too. It was just it was uncouth. Maybe that was just to pass on the images to the CIA or whoever Tucker's really working for. Now there's an interesting point. I like that. So what do you do? You go ahead and take pictures of

1:57:30 You know the crowd you know like I'm taking pictures of the crowd But you're actually zooming in on certain characters, and then you pass them on you get paid well Then He had an interview with the president which was pretty you know dry there wasn't a lot going on But we here at the no agenda show we have a theory that the truth always wants to come out and And it slips out in weird ways and with this president you never quite know But I he slipped out a lot of truths in his in his speaking And he just kind of continues and no one ever calls him on it, which was weird When I heard whatever calls anybody on anything You came very close to sending the US military to strike Iran you pull back at the last moment

1:58:15 You were criticized by neocons in Washington for doing that they wanted you to strike Iran Why do you think they want and I was given a lot of credit by most people a lot of people gave me a lot of public was on your side for sure a lot of people said that was a great presidential moment which was you know rather shocking to hear so we shot down an unmanned drone yeah, and they what Wow, that's a good one. Hold on a second. Right then, Tucker of course caught that because he's listening carefully. Because Tucker, when people interview somebody, they listen to what they have to say. And so Tucker caught that and called him on it and then Trump corrected the problem, right? No, he showed more of those pictures of the security guys. No!

1:59:03 So, we shot down an unmanned drone. Yeah. And he claimed it was over their territory. No, it's worse. He affirms that we shot down the unmanned drone by saying, yeah, yeah. So, we shot down an unmanned drone. Yeah. and they claim it was over their territory, which it wasn't, but they would say that. So on top of it, they'll say unmanned and over their territory. And then we go in before I sent them out. They had to give me everything I wanted to know by seven o'clock. All right, fine. So when I hear that kind of stuff, it's gee, wasn't it like was it Rumsfeld?

1:59:46 Let me find it. I'm sure we have the Rumsfeld. We have a number. Yeah, here this is Rumsfeld talking about flight 93. We have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the best ball in Mosul or the people who did the bombing in Spain or the people who attacked the United States in New York shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon. Yeah, yeah shot down the plane over Pennsylvania sure sure that happened no So when I hear this stuff, I think okay, so we shot down the drone I know it just doesn't sound like he like that's it sounds like the truth wanted to come out that whole thing sound like a bullcrap false flag and the whole thing was a bull crap luckily no one the president didn't fall for it. It's just Thank God we do this show

CHAPTER 26 / 36 Discussion

July 4th Military Pageantry, Major Garrett Reporting

CBS News correspondent Major Garrett reported on the "militarized pageantry" of President Trump's July 4th celebration in Washington, D.C. The hosts discuss the media's negative framing of the event's cost and the presence of military hardware like Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

independence day· major garrett· cbs news· military parade· washington dc· tanks

2:00:50 Who else would I be able to share this stuff with except my wife? And be an old codger. We get to be old codgers in public. Hey, the way I see it. Here's one of the things that got my attention was Well, here's by the way, here's the, I'm going to skip that and go to this. This is the, cause I've been following this, especially on CBS with the major Garrett because the, the media is keeps going on and on, but they don't like to have this.

2:01:26 July 4th thing going on, especially if it displays a flag. Oh no, tanks, tanks and weapons. So now they got the tanks and planes. And so it's now, it used to be a nonpartisan celebration of July 4th. Now it's all about Trump. And they keep saying that. And I don't see that it's all about Trump. It's all about Trump wanting to have a big party maybe, but it's not about that. It's about the party itself. And so I've had a bunch, I kept collecting clips all week about this and Gary is the worst, but they finally backed off a little bit. But I thought we'd do an update of the shin dig, which is tonight, today, July 4th shin dig in Washington DC with the tanks. And here's they still down, they still play this kind of a nasty thing. The president is promising the show of a lifetime tomorrow in Washington. Tonight as we speak, the military hardware is being put into place.

2:02:16 Stages and stands are being prepared and our chief Washington correspondent, Major Garrett, is at the Lincoln Memorial tonight. Hi, Major. Good evening, David. Welcome to a hot and humid steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Over my shoulder you see the Army Band, formerly known as Pershing's Own. Part of the pageantry here. They're working through their rehearsals. To my left you see one of two Bradley infantry vehicles, part of the militarized pageantry. You know, when the President talked about the show, that's an important word because this is his show. Stage managed for weeks by the White House. Of the cost, and there will be many, the President said, well, there'll be very little compared to what this is all worth.

2:02:52 We have one figure that's worth noting. Reportedly, the National Park Service will have to use $2.5 million in user fees from other national parks to help defray some of the costs here. David? Major, we know the president will be there. Who else is going to be with him? Well, let me give you some visuals on that. My photographer Tony Furlow will show you the one bleacher wrapped in bunting. That is for VIPs. Who are the VIPs? That will be for the White House to decide. Some of those VIPs will be Republican Party donors, creating a bit of partisanship, muddying what is historically a nonpartisan event. I think I can top that.

2:03:50 By the way, the host of the Anchorman should have asked him, why are you shouting? Okay. Yeah. I'll top it. See, you really don't understand. You don't understand what this is about. I mean, why do we have military parades? We've had them in a while. I recall being on a drill team. We've talked about this. Were you a baton twirler? Oh no, no, you get an old, I guess an M1? Right one. Yeah, it's heavy as if it weighs a ton you got to twirl it around You got a March and then and we've talked about this for sure many many years ago. No, I would remember yes visual Yeah, remember lies you in this thing. I will I will see you'll be out you the taller guy You'd be out in front in a minute. I will jog your memory code 44 Jugs nothing code if you hear code 44

2:04:50 That means that there's horse crap and you be prepared to march over it or step through it or whatever. That was code 44. Huh. Yeah. So why do we do this? Is it pride? Is it... Personally, I think, you know, with the amount of money we spend on it, I don't mind seeing it and it's a big F you to the rest of the world. That's what we do. Here we are, we've got the biggest, we have the most powerful, screw you, this is us. Everyone else does it except for Europe. They're not they don't have the European Armed Forces. Yes. Yeah France. Well, you see you're all wrong. You're wrong France doesn't do it for those reasons France does it for different reasons and you're so wrong the

2:05:33 that you could never be Joy Reid's friend. You mentioned, you know, France and Kim Jong-un, who, you know, Donald Trump greatly admires Kim Jong-un. He sort of aspires to be sort of a mini, you know, Putin or Kim Jong-un. He wants to be that kind of absolute. Oh yeah, no, this is the, this is, I don't like the term, so I rarely use it, if at all. This is true Trump derangement syndrome. I don't like the term because it's not a real thing, but the, the, The apparent effects of whatever's going on is a real thing. So to say this is tedious. He aspires to be sort of a mini Putin or Kim Jong-un. He wants to have that kind of absolute power. He claims Kim Jong-un's people just adore him. Well, they have no choice because he'd throw them in a gulag and probably kill them. But you think about the Bastille Day celebration. What is that celebration about? What is the message that's meant to be sent by... Oh, well, let me stop.

CHAPTER 27 / 36 Discussion

Joy Reid Tyranny Analysis, Bastille Day Comparison

MSNBC host Joy Reid argued that President Trump's military parade was a threat directed at his political "resistance" rather than a celebration of independence. She contrasted the event with Bastille Day, which she claimed represents a victory over tyranny.

joy reid· msnbc· bastille day· donald trump· tyranny· military parade

2:04:50 That means that there's horse crap and you be prepared to march over it or step through it or whatever. That was code 44. Huh. Yeah. So why do we do this? Is it pride? Is it... Personally, I think, you know, with the amount of money we spend on it, I don't mind seeing it and it's a big F you to the rest of the world. That's what we do. Here we are, we've got the biggest, we have the most powerful, screw you, this is us. Everyone else does it except for Europe. They're not they don't have the European Armed Forces. Yes. Yeah France. Well, you see you're all wrong. You're wrong France doesn't do it for those reasons France does it for different reasons and you're so wrong the

2:05:33 that you could never be Joy Reid's friend. You mentioned, you know, France and Kim Jong-un, who, you know, Donald Trump greatly admires Kim Jong-un. He sort of aspires to be sort of a mini, you know, Putin or Kim Jong-un. He wants to be that kind of absolute. Oh yeah, no, this is the, this is, I don't like the term, so I rarely use it, if at all. This is true Trump derangement syndrome. I don't like the term because it's not a real thing, but the, the, The apparent effects of whatever's going on is a real thing. So to say this is tedious. He aspires to be sort of a mini Putin or Kim Jong-un. He wants to have that kind of absolute power. He claims Kim Jong-un's people just adore him. Well, they have no choice because he'd throw them in a gulag and probably kill them. But you think about the Bastille Day celebration. What is that celebration about? What is the message that's meant to be sent by... Oh, well, let me stop.

2:06:28 Since you brought up Bastille Day, what is the message? What is the message to be sent by having a parade on Bastille Day? Before I have Joy Reid school you. I would say it was similar to the Fourth of July. It was the French Revolution. It was the day that everything, you know, happened. So who are the... who is the show of force meant for? Chopped heads either military armada that's rolling down the streets of Paris It's a message to tyrants what Bastille Day support, you know represents is the victory over tyrannical rule over is that what it represents?

2:07:07 I think it was a stretch, you could maybe say that, because it was when they overthrew the monarchy at the time. I think a guillotine... There were tyrants of sorts, make them eat cake, I think. A guillotine would have been more representative, but okay, I'll take it. Or the king. and over the attempt for the king to return. The storming of the Bastille was about victory over tyrants. What is the message when Kim Jong-un rolls tanks down the streets of his capital? The message is to democracies. It's the messages to people like us, to Western democracies. You better be careful because we, the unified Korean, North Korean people will defeat you. We have nukes. Be afraid of us. So what is the

2:08:02 us? Is it to the resistance in this country? I got tanks. You're talking over the best part. I'm sorry. I was just listening to her ramble. I mean, the 4th of July is the 4th of July and it's about if she's going to use the tyrants analogy, it was because we overthrew the British rule in our country, which were tyrants because they made us pay taxes to them and other minor things at the time. And, uh, but it got, we got fed up. So I don't see the differences that they, He wants to put some tanks in this, which Kennedy did by the way. Listen, listen, listen, before you go off, listen. Who is that message to? It's certainly not to tyrants because he likes tyrants. He loves tyrants. It's not to Putin. It's not to Kim Jong-un. It's not to the Saudis. Is it to our friends, certain democracies who he doesn't particularly like or is it to us? Is it to the resistance in this country? I got tanks. I have this military armada. The message is a threat.

2:08:59 It's always a threat when you roll out your military. But it's to whom is the threat? And I suspect that the threat is to his fellow Americans. And I hate to say that, but I think that Donald Trump styles himself a tyrant, not a defeater of tyrants. That's right. It's the resistance. It's against the American people. He's showing you, you stupid citizen, that he can kill you with his tanks. Do what he says. Brother who is that woman Joy Reed on MSNBC? Yes, I thought she was but I thought that was Joy Reed was the interviewer No, Joy Reed was on in the afternoon like a real primetime. She doesn't get this was real exposure for her. Oh my gosh Yeah Yes, I think so

2:09:50 I don't understand why they put up with that. This is a, to me, this is an executive problem at CNN that they would have her on the air. MSNBC. Oh, I thought she was a CNN person. No, she's MSNBC. Okay, well then I would blame Comcast executives for pushing this sort of thinking because it's really harmful to the public at large. It's extremely negative. It's deluded. dangerous. She's a very dangerous person to be because there will always be somebody that buys into this nonsense.

2:10:28 And it's really shouldn't be, you know, if you could do it on the corner, send out pamphlets, do it some other way. But to be given a free reign on a broadcasting network, which and I would say she does show up on NBC and NBC's... And not a single person on that panel said, hold on a second, you're taking that a little bit far perhaps. They went, oh yeah, yeah, right on. Right on sister you nailed it. We know what's going on orange man bad orange man bad But that she's not the craziest person I caught this week the craziest has got to be our good old hat-wearing friend representative Frederica Wilson of I think she's Florida congresswoman from Florida She's the one with the cowboy hats with the the bejeweled cowboy hats

CHAPTER 28 / 36 Discussion

Frederica Wilson Social Media Comments, Deplatforming Threats

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson suggested that individuals who make fun of members of Congress online should be "shut down." The hosts criticize her comments as a threat to free speech and an illegal call for government-sponsored censorship.

frederica wilson· congress· social media· censorship· first amendment· florida

2:11:19 Yeah, yeah. So apparently she's pissed that people are making fun of representatives on Twitter and social media and she not only is outraged but she has a plan. Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace and there's no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable. We're gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down. Nah, just gonna stop here.

2:11:54 Not a lot of people hold on a second now you condemned me for this some time ago And I'm gonna call you out on this you condemn me because the speed of my clips was off by like 10% or something The speed on this clip is off at least 30% and it should you should just pull it. It's not right There's nobody it's not possible to sound like this that is her voice screwed up. That is her voice That is Frederica Wilson. That is her voice and And as much as you despise the voice or think it's phony and deep fake audio, she is actually saying here that when people make fun of representatives in Congress, they, as in she, and the representatives will work with whomever they want, need to, to shut them down. Now as much as I think the branding conversation we had on the last show was important and a just one,

2:12:50 This is the shit that has... this is inquiry worthy. She's literally saying here she will collude with commercial companies to have people's speech shut down Just because they're making fun of people in Congress. This, although funny to listen to her nutty voice, and I'm gonna play the whole clip, it's only 30 seconds. This is actually, she should be thrown out. on

2:13:41 of Congress, threatened members of Congress. It is against the law. And it's a shame in this United States of America. What do you say to that? My name Miami Dade County. Is that what you're where she's from? Yep. And that's it. Thank you Miami, Florida for giving us this woman as your representative. She's your representative all you sharp operators there in Miami. It's just I love how she says somebody like this even get in office with that voice let alone that stupid hat and the fact that she's you know an idiot.

CHAPTER 29 / 36 Discussion

Producer Credits, International Donation Competition

The hosts read through a long list of donations, noting a competition between American and Canadian producers. They briefly discuss the Canadian television show "Schitt's Creek" and thank various producers for their financial support of the value-for-value model.

maxine waters gravel· canada· independence day· donations· schitt's creek· peerage

2:14:28 I think she needs to be hauled before some kind of commission because she literally talked about deplatforming people as a political operative, as a representative, as a member of the government. That is actually censorship. That is actually illegal. We're on my way off base. I don't know, I'm all for it. Screw it! That hat should be illegal! which is a magic number somehow, someone's pointed that out and I got somebody else trying to do the math so they couldn't do it. But let's start off with thanking Maxine Waters Gravel, who is now up to, this time this donation was $145, so they're making a bum's rush for knighthood for the Gravel. Nice, nice. And by the way, Maxine Waters Gravel is a dual citizen gravel.

2:15:36 So that is $71 for being half-Candanavian. Apologies, Maxine Waters Gravel says, for burning down the White House and also apologies for Justin Bieber and Trudeau. And $74 for being half-American. No apologies ever for anything. Gravel on. Okay, so far we have, I'm going to start doing a count. These are the offbeat donations. We have one to 74 from earlier and then we have one and one. So we have two to one. Okay, just count. We'll get down to the nitty gritty when we get to the real donations. Jeffrey Jack's Parts Unknown, $115.20.

2:16:20 Happy Fourth of July, you got nothing there for birthday or anything. John Robinet, $100. Darren O'Neal, big voice Darren. Boomer, boomer, boomer Darren. $100. Darren the Boomer. Lon Baker, $100. Baron Ladekin, $100. Andre Haas in San Diego. Is he of the Haas racing team? Haas, Haas, Haas, Haas. Or the Haas family that owns Levi's, I don't know. Either one is good. He says, here's a hundo for your efforts against political BS and M5M mind control. I am ever so grateful that I found your podcast roughly 10 years ago when I was just a kid in high school. I even converted my sister Nina and my wife Karen into regular listeners. Nice.

2:17:14 When he says hundo that reminds me of Rick D's you remember Rick D's? Well Rick D's a very famous morning radio disc jockey and he did a parody song or a funny song disco duck in the 70s But he was so rich that probably still is If someone got him coffee, he'd be like, thanks man. Here's a hundo He gave people a hundo. It was a Rick Dee's hundo and he gave him a hundred bucks. Hey, how you doing Rick hundo? That's a bit that that's a boss you want. Yeah, that's the job I want

2:17:54 Yeah, he has some jingle because he put Kabbalah, they put the karma at the end and if you can get a pew pew ready, that would be great. Oh, I'm sorry. What are we looking for? Yeah, I'm listening. Pew pew at the end of it, or a little read out here. All right, all right. Go. Onward. I'm going to mention this, we don't do jingle requests at this level, but the jingle request for Alternative Universe is not a jingle and you can't request it. GL Rockwell, 8841. Sir Herb Lamb, Earl of Georgia, 8008. A boob for America's birthday, he writes. Nice. Happy Independence Day. Stephen Hightower, now here we go, 7419, so that counts as a 74.

2:18:38 Anonymous, 74, and these are all 74s. These are the 74 guys. And Steven is the Sir Torialta Baronet of Slownoma and Glen Ellen. Slownoma. Anonymous, Eric Sleer in Chicago, it's her Sir Hamus, parts unknown. Anthony Rodriguez in Tucson, Arizona. Jim Garbozewski, I'm guessing. Joseph Willis, James Moore. Sir Up? Pity or syrup? Sir Eric VM, Baron of the Valley in Van Nuys. Sir Jeffro of the Rockwall. Joel Blazick in Reno. Sir Gator of the North Texas Swamps. Cassidy Eastwood in Oklahoma City. Christian Moreno in Costa Mesa.

2:19:31 John D. Carney in Alpharetta, Georgia. Can you, while I'm reading this, can you do a head count so I have a number? Now all of a sudden I'm in charge of this? No, just count the numbers of 74s. Sir Matthew Blackknight of the Ice Giants in San Diego. I mean, I can do it, but then I'd be doing it at the end. Brian Warner in Bell Creek. Sir Thomas Nussbaum, who should get a call out, a noose bomb. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He's actually a Grand Duke. Sir John Helmrich. John Helmer in Shawnee, Kansas and Sir John Knight of St. Patrick, patron saint of engineers with J. Paul Michaud. The patron saint is from Heber Springs and Paul Michaud is from parts unknown. That's our total of 74 votes. 22. 22 on top of two. So that's 24 total. Meanwhile, in between here, we got Jonathan Riesman, 73-33.

2:20:42 Christopher Harabaric in Pickering, Ontario, Canada with 71 and that would be our first 71 donor. This is a bit late since the day itself but it's passed but here's a July 1 donation. Okay, so now we got the Canadians coming in. Here they come. Sylvain Trudel in Montreal. Sir Tristan Banning in Toronto and that's the end. So there's three. Let's see, how'd we do Canada? 24 to 4. There's no pride, man. They just got no pride. You know what they do have? Schitt's Creek. What about Schitt's Creek? Have you ever seen this show? Yeah, I saw it since it started. Oh! We just finished season 5, the last one. You've been watching it all along? I love that show! It's a very funny show. And if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't have known it was Candanavian.

2:21:38 It's kind of- It's un-Canadian good. Well, you got Levy, Gene Levy, who's part of the old Second City troop out of Toronto. Chris Elliott. And Chris Elliott, who's Bob Belia's son. who's dry, you know, the dry humor side of the business. And then you have Catherine Harris also from Toronto and then the girl and the young guy. Catherine O'Hara. Catherine O'Hara? Catherine O'Hara, I'm sorry. And I think there's mostly Canadians, yeah, in that thing. It's just a classic kind of... It's a great show. It's produced by the CBC. Borderline farce, yes.

2:22:14 Yes, it's completely no. I think it's over the borderline farce. It's it's fantastic great show So thank you for that Canada too bad. You don't love your country Well, it's still part of the Commonwealth yes, that's true. That's true. So we you know hail to the Queen Sonia Payne comes in at 69.69 Paragon, Indiana. Sir got Nate from Sebastopol 69.69. Matthew Scott and Willard, Missouri 56.46. It's got an mp3 file. That is an interesting donation. It's a 5G 4G donation 5 6 4 6 remember? Oh yeah. I like that the 56.46 rock against 5G 4G donation. Good good good. I'm liking it.

2:23:04 Sir Tom Dorry in De Forest, Wisconsin, 5510 double nickels on the dime. Sarah Blaze in Squamish, BC, 55. You can count her as a Canadian. I couldn't even add six bucks for her own country. I'm just kidding, Candanavians. We love you. Yeah. Especially you Albertans. Francisco Tejeda, 5432. Hold on one second. Sarah Blais, let me just make sure that made it through to the birthday list. I see, is that her who says she's got a birthday there? Today, July 1st, is his, yeah, Nathan Rothenberger. I don't think it did. Okay, Nathan Rothenberger from, who was it from?

2:23:54 I'm Sarah from Sarah just Sarah's good Sarah he knows who she is okay yeah see I'm glad I caught that yeah I'm glad you did too Francisco Tejeda 5432 Sean Lukachuk 5240 Jeremy Cartwright Rockford Illinois 50 these are following donors of 50 it wraps us up Jeremy Cartwright Matthew Januszewski in Chicago. Villareal, Villareal, my favorite name in Mercedes, Texas. Bart Grootkerk in Haaren. Very good. Bart Grootkerk in Haaren. Haaren.

2:24:36 Serena Catania, loves the show. Thank you for telling it like it is. Actually, what does she say? Thank you for telling it like it is with knowledge. We can see all sides and make intelligent decisions. You guys rock. That's right. Wait till you see my wedding pictures of me dancing. You'll see how much I rock. I didn't see you dancing, but when you dance, do you have both thumbs in the air and you pump your thumbs up in the air and then just kind of kick randomly? There is one actual shot of me dancing and I have my fists out there and one thumb in the air. Oh yeah, oh yeah. It's super embarrassing. Elaine Venice used to dance like that on the Seinfeld show.

2:25:24 Some people would get that gag. Yeah, I remember that. Robert Dreykosin, Esmeralda Gack in Ripon, Wisconsin. Michael Janoski in Lindora, Pennsylvania. Bradley Ledin, parts unknown. Scott E. Knight in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jason Deluzio in Chatsford, Pennsylvania. I think it's Sir. And Aichi. Kitagawa in San Francisco. We want to thank all these folks are helping us get show 1152 out the door, which with your help that we can do this. Thank you very much. Did you know that during this program, the largest earthquake in decades hit Southern California?

CHAPTER 30 / 36 Discussion

Southern California Earthquake, July 4th Show Wrap

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California during the live broadcast. The hosts conclude the show by discussing local holiday plans, the quality of fireworks displays, and reminding listeners to support the program via the value-for-value model.

earthquake· southern california· usgs· independence day· fireworks· value for value

2:26:10 6.4 that's been expected 6.4 you didn't well Southern California, so you wouldn't feel anything no you wouldn't feel it Let me see 1033 a.m.. Quake was centered in the Searles Searles Valley About a hundred miles from Los Angeles. Well be safe. Yeah, make sure you check in on Facebook Do a safe check-in, everybody knows. Well yeah, please be safe. I saw some of the... Well, six is... Yeah, what scale? What scale? The problem is it doesn't make any difference anymore what the number is because this is all... they've taken the Richter scale out, which was an objective recording and now it's all... I'm sorry, it was an objective recording, now it's all subjective. You know, you type in, you go to the USGS site and tell them what you felt. Yeah. I just... I like to count casualties.

2:27:02 Yeah, that's how that's that's good in California keeping them pretty low. Yeah, you got no casualties is great earthquake. Yeah, it was fun for the ridership for the cleanup Thank you to all who supported the show today. It makes us super happy because here we are. It is supposed to be... I was drinking my coffee out back doing the... about 5 30 this morning, the show prep. Already I could hear the neighbors. They're getting ready for 4th of July. They're getting stuff out there. By the time I got my coffee before we started the show, they got the music playing. Yeah, sir. Gene texted me yesterday. Hey, I was gonna be out of town, but now I'm in town So hey, what are you guys doing for 4th of July? I said well, we're all working. Thank you very much I started 530 Tina will be up around the same time You know after all that around 4 this afternoon gonna have a burger watch some TV and go to sleep You're not yes, I am. What else are we gonna do? Gene coming over well

2:28:03 I thought well you know he nailed it he said well for a free meal I'll go hang out with non boring friends that's exactly right we're totally boring on 4th of July we work someone's got to keep this great country rolling what he wanted to come over in the morning I thought you'd want to come over you're good did the fireworks show I don't know about you but I'm tired after the show Well, here we have fireworks everywhere and we got a lot of fireworks, most of them mediocre and a lot of them in the fog. But the best fireworks displayed generally speaking, and it's not the greatest anywhere, but it's a really good Fourth of July fireworks show is in Richmond over the San Francisco Bay yesterday.

2:28:44 There's no fog. They did it last night. It's a nice show. It's not the most expensive, but it's a very nice show and well thought out with a good finale. And there was enough of a breeze because the problem you have with firework shows is that around here, usually there's no breeze on fourth and the smoke starts to accumulate. So as all the fireworks go into the same exact spot, It just is it behind all the smoke from the previous explosion, but no it was moving in a mile So you get to see everything as clean as a whistle and that was yesterday today. It'll be lousy

2:29:24 That's the peerage committee, John. They want me to do the damings and the nightings and the title changes and everything, so I might as well comply. I was going to go on and on about fireworks. That's right. Thank you very much. Also, everyone who came in under $50, you're supporting the Value for Value Network in a way that works incredibly well for us with value, but thank you to everybody who supports the show in any way you do. And for financial support, which we do need, another show on Sunday, please go to... dot org slash n a couple of carmas as requested jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs you've got karma and then i need to pew pew with that i guess there we go pew pew pew pew pew

CHAPTER 31 / 36 Discussion

Birthday Announcements, Knighting Ceremony

The hosts read listener birthdays and perform a formal knighting ceremony for new members of the peerage. They provide instructions for receiving knight rings and sealing wax, encouraging new knights to share photos of their regalia.

birthdays· knighting· peerage· no agenda nation· rings· ceremony

2:30:18 Alright, let's take a look at the birthdays. Today is July 4th, 2019. Nathan Rothenberger, Sarah says happy birthday to you. July 4th is your birthday and she says I love you forever and always, babe. May you be blessed today. Then we have Sonja Payne says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Nathan Payne of Paragon, Indiana. And Toby Langford will turn 47 on the 6th of July. And finally Andrew German will be celebrating on July 7th, 7-7. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe! Quickly at our meetups we got a nice list of them today Meetup taking place in Seattle and Washington DC go to no agenda meetups comm To find out exactly where this would be taking place tomorrow the 5th in Lisbon and

2:31:09 That is in Portugal and I'd love to this is a Lady Lisboa who's organizing that so an actual Dame you get to meet her July 6 Utrecht the Netherlands July 9th in Knoxville, Tennessee the 11th Charleston, South Carolina July 13 in Atlanta, then we have the 19th Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20th Southwest London comes back and congregates also. There's a brand new meetup listed to Chicagoland Chicagoland meetup and I want to make sure that people are aware of that one I'm going to I Wish we could do that one. I'm not sure we can go on July 20th be great to get there

2:31:47 Chicago. The 26th, St. Louis, also Portland, Oregon. Then on the 27th, Buffalo, New York and Frisco, Texas. And on July 28th, that's what we have on the list so far, will be Central Florida. And Thank you. Everybody who set these up is go to know agenda meetups calm find out if there's a meetup near you It's just this is something that is incredibly healthy to do you can meet people who are maybe not always like-minded, but they're not gonna be triggered and freak out because everyone just has good conversation and Yeah, it's kind of like John like you and I 11 years together We never had a fight it worked even though we we differ from opinion from time to time

2:32:26 NoagendaMeetups.com. And let me see, do I do this in the right order? Because we do have a title change today, which will be a brand new knight going to Baron. So this is the Unknighted Baron. But first, let's get our blades out here. There you go. That's your Fourth of July blade. Or are you just happy to see me? And I'm hereby proud to pronounce the KD Sir Under The Radar, Sir Vincent Grilling Man of Greenbrier Woods, Sir Andrew of the Hickory Flat Protector of Small Horses, and Sir Herco Hoonabega. For you we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Holons and Yua and Kibbeling. We got chilled Polish potato vodka, trophies and tires, smoke cowgirls and coffin barns, vodka mill, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escort, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablon, and mutton.

2:33:34 And mead, it's a favorite and it is all yours. All you have to do is go to noagendanation.com slash rings Please fill out the information get that off to Eric so we can get you the right size get your address etc all your postal deets and Once you have a winch or in receipt of your ring your sealing wax and your official certificate Please tweet out and and toot toot if you're on the mastodon Federation tweet and toot pictures of your pride of being a no agenda night Okay, we have a One major title change today you heard it earlier sir Vincent who was just knighted as grilling man of Greenbrier Woods now becomes the Baron of the Alabama Gulf Coast to the Florida panhandle That's quite a territory. Can he have all of that?

CHAPTER 32 / 36 Discussion

Border Crisis Imagery, Nayyirah Kuwaiti Testimony Comparison

CBS News featured drawings by children in border custody to highlight conditions at the southern border. The hosts compare this media strategy to the 1990 "Nayyirah" testimony regarding Iraqi soldiers and incubators, which was later revealed to be a public relations fabrication.

border crisis· cbs news· nayyirah testimony· incubators· propaganda· cages

2:34:33 Can he have the whole thing from the Alabama Gulf Coast to the Florida Panhandle? That whole swath? He's a baron, yeah. That's not that much. Alrighty then. Fantastic. May have a competing baron in the area. We'll have to work that out. Well, for sure we want to thank everybody who became a knight for your incredible perseverance and sticking with us and sticking with the show. I'm glad you have something to show off now. They are great at meetups. People love to see the night rings and Dame rings at meetups bring it along and they beep if you're near your soulmate Your twin flame It lights up near your twin flame Okay I just only really have one or two more topics the the the bullcrap debate over what's happening at the border is just going insane and

2:35:38 The CBS this morning went to an all-time low And I and I don't have the full report. I wish I had that I just couldn't find it this morning This is very reminiscent of we needed to get into the Iraq War and it wasn't really happening We needed some more need people to get on board. We needed the country to hate them and hate the Iraqis and so a daughter of a was it Hill Norman I think daughter of a big this is the yeah the Iraq war with the first one the first one yeah storm with Bush Bush one yeah

2:36:16 So we needed to get some some buy-in and we didn't have you know weapons of mass destruction stuff We really needed was something that would that would touch the American hearts and whenever you want to just think of the children just just do something with children and you're good to go because everybody So instead of well, I mean so the original template for this was a The Iraqi soldiers came into the infirmary ward and they took the babies out of the incubators and threw them on the floor! Yeah, that's a good one. We have that clip somewhere. Yeah, that's worth looking for. Let me see. Incubator? No. I don't think it would be under that. What would it have been under? Hilton, uh...

2:37:02 testimony Iraq war probably under a rock. Let me see Hill and Knowlton scam maybe. Thank you very much. That would be part of it. Our final witness is also using an assumed name and again we ask. This was on this was in the Senate was it not? No this was actually this was what interesting about this was a special hearing With senator with the whole with the regular Congress people, but it was not in an official setting It was some something scam ish about the setting our friends in the media to respect the need to for her to protect Oh, what I had forgotten about this whole setup. We call on now you're on to testify Mr.. Chairman and members of the committee my name is Nayyirah, and I just came out of Kuwait and

2:37:57 My mother and I were in Kuwait on August 2nd for a peaceful summer holiday. My older sister had a baby on July 29th, and we wanted to spend some time in Kuwait with her. I only pray that none of my 10th grade classmates had a summer vacation like I did. I may have wished sometime that I could be an adult, that I could grow up quickly. What I saw happen to the children of Kuwait and to my country has changed my life forever. It has changed the life of all Kuwaitis, young and old. We are children no more.

2:38:39 My sister with my five-day-old nephew traveled across the desert to safety. There was no milk available for the baby in Kuwait. They barely escaped when their car was stuck in the desert, desert sand, and help came from Saudi Arabia. I stayed behind and wanted to do something for my country. The second week after an invasion, I volunteered at the Al-Adhan Hospital with 12 other women who wanted to help as well. I was the youngest volunteer.

2:39:16 Other women were from 20 to 30 years old while I was there. I saw the Iraqi soldiers coming to the hospital with guns They took the babies out of incubators incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor Academy Award winner ladies and gentlemen meet up find out who's this is because I'm doing these radio plays We need to find her so just so you know this turned out to be a total lie and Maybe she was the daughter of an ambassador. I think yeah, she was the daughter of somebody important and she was a set up It was put into this apparently she's pretty good actress and they put her in in front of Congress to give this cock and bull story Which was just a complete it was complete hoax and it was done by Hill and Knowlton. Yes They had dreamed it up. They had given her the script and it was total lie and this is not just hearsay and

2:40:15 So now we get, and this is a great script, you can use it for anything. Let's take some children and make them scream climate change. Let's do that, it's fantastic. Kids, works. It's a great way to go. Just if you want to tug at the heartstrings. And that's what CBS This Morning did. President of the American Academy of Pediatrics toured two CBP facilities last week. and tells CBS News they are no place for children. Dr. Sara Goza received these pictures from a social worker that were drawn by children recently released from CBP custody, showing them in cages. It paints a terrible picture. Imagine the effect it's going to have on these kids for the rest of their life here in the United States of America. This just should not be. It's a devastating report by every measure. We as adults can debate cages or not cages, but those drawings... Let me tell the story right about that.

2:41:05 So have you seen these drawings? Wait a minute, I want to, I have not, okay first of all no. And I want to point out something they said which was their disclaimer. We can debate cages or not cages. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm gloss that over but you can't deny these well the reason why yeah, take a look at the pictures the reason why they say that is because It doesn't look like a cage at all. You see bars you see bars or a fence Which is you know what the kids and it's interesting that all of them are drawn and this is the this is why I think it's total bullcrap

2:41:42 They were drawn from the reverse angle. So not what a child saw, but... and they were also done on canvas, which was mounted. I mean, it was not just drawn on a piece of paper, John, it's canvas. Someone went out, got canvas, and said, now draw something. It doesn't really matter. It's the way you spin this and the way it's just abuse. It's abuse of children. The whole situation is sad for everybody everywhere. The whole thing is just really, really sad. Now drawings by children who are held in boxes or whatever. Cages. Cages. Well in this case. You see them? You see these? By the way, this is on CBS. This is the CBS website. Yeah.

2:42:32 You see it? You see the... Well, they got one here. There's one I... The day I'm looking at it, there's a bunch of them. But the one I'm looking at is actually an overhead view. Oh! Pfft! Looking down on the kids... Of course. ...with blankets and then there's... It's... Yeah, it's horrible. Mm-hmm. It's also bullcrap. And it looks like... They all, by the way, all look like they were drawn by the same person. Yeah. It's... Exactly. It's just abusing children to make a point. Now, I have one... And by the way, this was part of a concerted effort nationwide because there were protests over here at El Cerrito Plaza again where I went last time because that's when they had the protests release the full report and I have my sign that I collected.

CHAPTER 33 / 36 Discussion

Port Angeles Protests, Local vs. National Issues

A local anecdote describes a protest in Port Angeles, Washington, regarding children in cages at the border. A resident questioned protesters on why they were focused on national border issues rather than local homelessness, highlighting a disconnect in activist priorities.

port angeles· washington· protests· border crisis· homelessness· mimi

2:43:14 And then apparently now they had another one. It was about children's in cages, children in cages. And so they have one of these protests up in Port Angeles, Washington with a bunch of people bitching and moaning about children in cages and Mimi's there. It was fairly famous in the town for being a troublemaker. And so she starts, she's beguilingly goes past all these mostly old farts, old Democrat farts. And she starts to ask grilling each one of them about why, why are you so concerned about the kids in the Texas holding facilities? We have homeless around here. We have issues around here that need addressing immediately and it's local. Why are you protesting the kids in Texas?

2:43:56 And then nobody had a good answer and then she then had some more mean questions. I don't even want to know. We need Mimi in Texas though. We need her in Austin. We're gonna need some help. Well, she was there, you know, waiting for the wedding and she didn't think much of the place. Oh, well thanks. It's all right. Don't come don't don't let the door hit you on the way out I've won one final clip for reads a caria the plagiarist from CNN But he is a globalist that people listen to and he did a he's against the Constitution. He wants it redone. Oh My god for context. Yes Zakaria Constitution

CHAPTER 34 / 36 Discussion

Fareed Zakaria Asylum Analysis, Immigration Policy Reform

CNN's Fareed Zakaria argued that the U.S. asylum system is being gamed and requires significant legislative reform. He noted that while the "credible fear" standard has expanded, the actual number of refugees meeting the legal criteria remains relatively low compared to the total number of arrivals.

fareed zakaria· cnn· asylum· immigration law· un convention· border security

2:44:41 I don't know if we have a clip. Yeah, we might have. We might have. Doesn't matter. What I have here is his take on the immigration situation at the border, which as you recall was a manufactured crisis until it wasn't and then it was kids. It didn't exist. Then it was kids in cages, which it isn't, but now it's just Trump is killing babies, throwing them out of the incubator. They should do that. I saw Trump come in. grab the baby from the incubator and throw it on the floor cold floor cold floor here he is here's my take given president trump's mean-spirited and often bigoted attitudes on immigration and throwing babies on the floor from the incubators cold floor cold floor me to say this but he is right that the united states faces a crisis with its asylum system

2:45:35 Democrats might hope that the out of control situation at the southern border undermines Trump's image among his base as a tough guy who can tackle immigration, but they should be careful. It could actually work to the president's advantage. Since 2014, the flow of asylum seekers... By the way, please take note that he doesn't really give a crap about the children and the asylum seekers or the immigrants. He only cares about Trump winning another election. That's what this whole piece is about. Is what it sounds like. Yeah. Democrats, pay attention. He's right and he's going to win if you don't, I don't know, lie more? ...into the United States has skyrocketed. Last year, immigration courts received 162,000 asylum claims, a 240% increase from 2014. The result is a staggering backlog with more than 300,000 asylum cases pending and the average immigration case has been pending for more than 700 days.

2:46:31 It's also clear that the rules surrounding asylum are vague, lax, and being gamed. The initial step for many asylum seekers is to convince officers that they have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries. And about 75% meet that criteria. Some applicants for asylum have suspiciously similar stories using identical phrases. Many simply use the system to enter the U.S. and then melt into the shadows or gain a work permit while their application is pending. Asylum is meant to be granted to a very small number of people in extreme circumstances, not as a substitute for the process of immigration itself. Yet the two have gotten mixed up.

2:47:16 As The Atlantic's David Fromm has pointed out, the idea of a right to asylum is a relatively recent one, dating to the early years of the Cold War. Guilt-ridden over the rejection of many Jewish refugees during World War II, the UN created a right of asylum to protect those who were fleeing regimes where they would be killed or imprisoned because of their identity or beliefs. This standard has gotten broader and broader over the years and now includes threats of gang warfare and domestic violence. These looser criteria, coupled with the reality that this is a safe way to enter the U.S., have made the asylum system easy to abuse. Applications from Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans have surged, even though the murder rate in their countries has been cut in half. More broadly, hundreds of millions of people around the world who live in poor, unstable regions where threats of violence abound could easily apply for asylum.

2:48:14 Do they all have the legal right to enter the U.S. through a back door, bypassing the normal immigration process? The Trump administration's approach has been mostly to toughen up the criteria, hire more judges, push Mexico to keep applicants from entering the U.S. But a much larger fix is needed. The criteria for asylum need to be rewritten and substantially tightened. The number of courts and officials dealing with asylum must be massively expanded. People should not be able to use asylum claims as a way to work in America. There needs to be a much greater cooperation with the home countries of these applicants, rather than insults, threats, and aid freezes. No one fix will do it, but we need the kind of sensible, bipartisan legislation that has resolved past immigration crises. Democrats have spent most of their efforts on this topic assailing the Trump administration for its heartlessness. Fine.

2:49:10 But that does not address the roots of this genuine crisis. If things continue to spiral downward and America's southern border seems out of control, Trump's tough rhetoric and hardline stance will become increasingly attractive to the public. Keep in mind that the rise of populism in the Western world is almost everywhere tied to fears of growing out of control immigration. Yeah, you'd think they'd notice that but I guess not. You'd think that guy could say that in a little less words. Yeah, I agree. But I thought it was important to play it because he does lay it out pretty well. But there's a couple things I don't understand. So the INA, the Immigration and Nationality Act, recognizes

2:49:53 a asylum Is it nationality or naturalization? What did I say? No, it's Immigration and Nationality Act, actually. Oh, I thought it would be nationality. Okay. Naturalization? Yeah, no, it's a... Well, this is coming from the Wikipedia, so take it with whatever you want. Oh, that's probably accurate. The United States is obliged to recognize valid claims for asylum since... under the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and its 1967 Protocol. As defined by these agreements, a refugee is a person who is outside their country of nationality, who owing to a fear of persecution on account of a protected ground, is unable or unwilling to avail himself of the protection of the state.

2:50:42 So it's about the state being against you. Yeah, this is like, this is so, this what we're saying here is I wish you had, we had one, I don't know if we do, a Fletcher Soros. This is a Soros scam. He's orchestrated this to just embarrass the, our system in general. Yeah, no, it's bullcrap. The whole thing is nonsense. Let me finish the, so it's, Owing to fear persecution, okay, protected grounds include race, nationality, religion, political opinion, and membership of a particular social group. But then here's the part that's very confused. So I don't see how I'm afraid of gangs, domestic violence qualifies, and those are the people of course that don't qualify, but you know by the time there's a court hearing they're gone.

2:51:34 They're there and they've melted into the shadows But each year the president the United States sends a proposal to Congress for the maximum number of refugees to be admitted into the country Under the asylum law for the upcoming fiscal year and this is typically goes unchallenged. I haven't I'm just seeing this now I have not looked into it but here is for the last seven years a The totals, so there's an allocation, oh yeah, so there's the ceiling and then there's the actual arrivals. In 2013, the ceiling was 70,000, actual arrivals 58. That remains 70,000 through 2015 and the numbers all remain just, I mean literally 69,987.

2:52:27 I wonder if these numbers are bogus, actually. 2017 ceiling was 110,000, but only 53,000 were arrivals. For 2018, the ceiling was 45,000, but only 22,000 actual arrivals. So there's a lack of people who are actually looking for asylum? Or they're not processing them fast enough? Or, I don't know, but it seems... Well, you're gonna have to find out because now it's your beat. Yeah, I'm going to find out. Because it seems like we have hundreds of thousands of people coming in, but they're not really even hitting the ceilings. And these ceilings seem reasonable. 30,000? 70,000 in some years? 70,000 is a good number? Yeah. I thought they... You can absorb that quite easily. Yeah. So... Huh. All right. Well, I have two last clips.

CHAPTER 35 / 36 Discussion

July 4th Terror Warnings, Media Narrative Shift

The hosts observe that the annual media narrative of imminent ISIS terror attacks on July 4th has largely disappeared under the Trump administration. They play clips from 2015 featuring James Comey to illustrate how the government previously used the holiday to warn of "crowdsourced terrorism."

james comey· fbi· isis· terrorism· media narratives· independence day

2:53:34 One is a 4th of July clip that we don't hear anymore. This is from 2015. Generally speaking, during many of the president, pre-Trump, instead of talking about tanks and wrecking the roads and doing all this other stuff, We generally heard something like this. Including plots timed to the July 4th weekend, U.S. officials tell CNN. Director James Comey says the FBI has made more than 10 ISIS-related arrests in the last month, some tied to the holiday. They stopped the stuff that was trying to come at us for July 4th.

2:54:28 But that now it's July 7th and 8th, and they're on to the next thing the foiled attacks included targets coast-to-coast and were unsophisticated With plans that included guns knives and other weapons fitting Isis's public calls to supporters to attack in any way possible Investigators believe that ISIS members overseas enabled the plots, recruiting and encouraging Americans to carry out attacks on U.S. soil, even selecting possible targets. Comey calls it crowdsourcing terrorists. Senator James Rich telling CNN Wednesday that time was critical. Some were quite imminent, actually. Within days?

2:55:08 Within days, there was one, of course, there was even one that was within hours or minutes. The foiled plots come as the FBI continues to warn that terror suspects have gone dark in cyberspace, increasingly communicating through encrypted messaging that is widely available but impossible for the intelligence community to monitor. July 4th weekend may have passed but US officials tell CNN that the risk of terror attacks remains very high. Based on very recent past trends, ISIS has been willing to and able to push out information to Americans and a small number have at least been willing to try to act based on that. Our Jim Schudo reporting there from Washington for us. You know you are so right and I was just looking through the the archives.

2:55:55 Back to 2014, 15, 16, 17, no not 17, 13. Every single year, 4th of July, oh ISIS terror attack, they're gonna get us, they hate our freedom, they hate our liberty. You're so right. And what happened? This year we don't have that anymore? There's no terror? We're done? Trump changed the narrative. Just shows you how much bullcrap it really is. It's bullcrap bullcrap. I have one last clip to finish the show unless you have one because this is a show closer. Yeah, no, we'll close the show.

CHAPTER 36 / 36 Discussion

Impossible Burger Ingredients, Show Sign-Off

The show concludes with a report on the Impossible Burger and the use of "heme" to mimic the taste of meat. The final segments include a satirical song about Antifa and a montage of audio clips before the final sign-off.

impossible burger· heme· plant-based meat· soy· independence day· antifa

2:56:34 Okay, and it also brings us back up to speed on vegetarianism, meat burgers, and it's about, we like to do food stuff on this show. Yes. And this is a little run down on the Impossible Burger. Many Americans will spend the Fourth of July barbecuing, but for a growing number, traditional meat will not be on the menu. In today's morning rounds, we look at the rising popularity and health effects of plant-based meat. Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger have exploded in popularity. The two alternative meat brands are available in more than 40,000 restaurants now and grocery stores combined. Dr. Tara Narula is at the table. We should know Tara comes from a house divided. She's a vegetarian. Her husband eats meat. Tara, hi. I like your husband.

2:57:21 So what's in this meat? Well, this is so interesting because actually these companies are not necessarily catering to people like me who are vegetarian, but to my husband. Those who eat meat, they're mimicking us. They do. And so they're mimicking the taste and the texture, the chew, the sizzle, and even the bleed. So bleed. That is weird. Which is pretty amazing. So when you compare the Beyond Burger, for example, an Impossible Burger, they're relatively similar, but they differ in kind of the key components of their protein. So Beyond Burger uses pea based protein, Impossible uses a soy based protein and then they both have mixtures of some oils in them either canola oil or coconut oil. And interestingly also you find the Beyond Burger in the meat section. They're specifically putting it there because they want to capture that market. Can you capture the taste or maybe you're not supposed to really capture the taste? Let it be what it is. One of the differences between the two is Impossible Burger claims that they have found

2:58:13 the reason that meat tastes like meat and that's something called heme. So heme is an iron-containing molecule. You may have heard of hemoglobin or myoglobin. All animals and plants have it and they basically have extracted this from the roots of soy plants and then grown it in yeast and then taken that heme and put it in their burger. And they're saying that that mimics the flavor, the aroma, the taste in your mouth. Which one is it? Impossible Burger. So are they healthy? These plant-based burgers, are they healthy or healthier? Right, so that's really a great question. Good one show closer for sure. I'll be here all the week well done We're having bison burgers tonight before we watch TV. Those are delicious. Yeah, that's what you want people yeah, it's a soy Yeah

2:59:08 Well, happy Independence Day, John. Happy Independence Day to you and all the listeners who care about Independence Day. Of course, the Canadians don't, and why would the Europeans? They don't care. But we do. We do. We care. And happy Canadia Day, a couple days behind. And know that Nick the Rat is coming up next on noagendastream.com and that we have some end of show mixes. Let's see, brought to us by Sir Seatsitter, MG and Danny Luce. Coming to you from the frontier of Austin, Texas, FEMA Region No. 6 and all the governmental maps. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday. Please remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. Until then,

2:59:56 Adios, mobos! And such. Howdy, y'all. It's me here again with a quick reminder about what's really important on this 4th of July. You see, a lot of people are proud to be Americans. And that's wrong. If tomorrow the orange man was gone, I'd be happy with my life after the communist win.

3:00:35 Everything will be just fine Hittin' Nazis with crowbars And with cement milkshakes Cause the fag is an Asian fascist It's not like Nazis can't be gay And I'm proud to be an antifa man Rising up against free speech And I won't forget the M5M for always Defending me and I'll gladly stand up, throw at you a balloon that's full of pee. Cause it's the only route to stop the orange man from being president for eternity.

3:01:25 Remember folks, America sucks and it's never too late to start punching Nazis and violently assaulting Republicans, centrists, journalists, and anyone who made Hillary lose by voting for Jill Stein. We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of water, out of, when we have water bottles, out of plastic, sorry, away from plastic towards paper. We have recently switched to drinking

3:02:06 This is some next level Illuminati shit. We're so pregnant. It's true. They've been growing babies in cows. It's true. Not here. That's true. And the gods were funny. In the life, you don't get to change. It's true. Babies. Drinking water bottle. It's true. So I got the debts pretty much. I have a legitimate conclusion about this. Obviously, he's in trouble with this underdog. Yeah, he needs it all the time. Or just having fewer of this. Plus, when we have water bottles out of plastic cups. That's true. And the cars performing.

3:03:02 Like drink box water bottles. If you find yourself pregnant, that's true. And just having fewer of, that's true. Plus plastic, uh, sorry, away from plastic. That's true. And the gigantic. Pretty much there, Jesus. What? Conclusion about this, or were you taking me somewhere? Poor Alphys. True. Busted. Democracy needed all the time. Gatler choiced. Lived so that the mammals could flourish for half a billion or two billion years. Ambushed by Kamala Harris.

3:03:55 You know, he was the winner of hammering and hammering and hammering. Well that sounds painful. Hit the buzzer. There you go. It's all good. So I mentioned this to Mimi, so no, he always has a shit-eating grin. Okay, we can all go home.

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