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00:00 The skies are blacked out over Sao Paulo. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, August 25th, 2019. This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1167. This is no agenda. Fighting the state of fear and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 on the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where there's no fires around here, Yet, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Yeah, no fires around there. Yet. Yes, yet. Exactly. Now, before we start, I just want to make sure I'm talking to John C. Dvorak. As opposed to... Hillary Clinton. Now, when you said this on the last show,

00:56 I was all I wanted to call you and I don't know why it well I was wasn't appropriate at the time I want to call you out and say hey man you sound a lot like Hillary Clinton and in one of our producers who does Gary I think he put it together have a listen what difference does it make oh I'm afraid of that Well, I said that, of course I love that phrase from Hillary, but I left out the operative term, which is... At this point. At this point, if that's not in there, I'm not Hillary. What difference does it make? I just love the cadence, it was so perfect. Fantastic. Okay. All right.

01:39 Well, yes fires we got all kinds of stuff. I do have a deep fake commentary. Oh, oh good. Okay, so we hear let's play the not Jordan Peterson site as it currently exists and what what's going on there? Hello and welcome to not Jordan Peterson calm. This is not Jordan Peterson. In fact, I'm a neural network designed to sound like dr. Peterson Unfortunately, for the time being, the site will remain inoperable. But please sign up to the mailing list below if you would like to stay informed of future developments. The idea of this website is you could type some text in and then the not Jordan Peterson would return an mp3 file. Well, those days are over. That didn't last very long. Which makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't set up like this. And I wonder whether that's really a deep fake if it's not Jordan Peterson himself.

02:34 Hmm, interesting. It's a mailing list deal going on now, which is like, sign up, sign up. I mentioned in the newsletter these mailing list names are worth 10 bucks minimum. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop there. Any mailing list? Does it have to be a certain type of mailing list? It has to be a mailing list that's a usable mailing list. I mean, it can't be just some mailing list from the 40s. No, but so it does, so I can just take everybody out of my address book, say here's a mailing list, I can sell them, my friends and acquaintances for $10. You don't sell them, you rent them. Oh, even better, I can rent them like a pimp. Yeah. I got tons of email addresses that are good.

03:13 There goes the Zephyr by the way. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. And no added car. Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr. Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr. Name the movie. God if I know. The Arrangement from 1969 with Kirk Douglas. Yes, listen again. Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr. Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr. Yes sir, yes sir. You got me. So, and I should know that. Now let, yes. If you had a, if it was substantial, you can't do like you got ten names and expect anyone to give a crap. No, but let's just, let's just do the math for a second. Ten thousand names. You have ten thousand names in your personal address book? Oh, easily. And I bet you they all work. Sure. I got you there, didn't I?

04:11 Wow. Now if we take your 500, whatever you have. 50, I got 50. 50, let's put them together. We can rent those for 10 bucks a pop. I'm digging it. No, no, you don't rent it for 10 bucks a pop. That's what their net worth is. You rent it for about a dollar. Okay, I'll take a dollar. That's fine. 50 cent. I'll take anything. This is, I didn't know, this is the exit strategy. This is renting your names. Yes, that's right. Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't want to interrupt. Keep going. So this looks like it began and ended with a mailing list. Remember the guy that, I don't want to call him the nutty professor, the computer professor. Hi, I'm the, he's kind of a balding guy with a mustache. Hi, I'm the computer professor. I'm going to teach you how to use Word. I'm gonna, you just can buy my CD. Oh yeah, I do kind of remember that guy. Yes. Send us, you know, free, the first one's free. And so he would sell these CDs for,

05:10 free. Now the CD, if you'd want to do the math on this, you can find these CD guys who make CDs and ship them to do the whole thing. It's about a $4 deal. So he's collecting mailing list names at a net of 10 and selling and giving away these CDs at four, making about six bucks a name. So he was not- Where's this guy? Did he retire to the Bikini Islands or where is he? He probably just sold his list off to some broker. In the olden days, this used to be a more lucrative business, but it's becoming more and more lucrative with the email mailing systems that are out there. And so they can get you names of all kinds of different people. You rent them, you send them a note. You can only do it once, of course, and you have to have some seeded names in your list to make sure no one's stealing it. Yeah, it's a business, and it's a good business. It's a good business. Do you want the nutty professor now, or what are we doing?

06:10 Oh, okay. Well, this is the bonus clip I freaked out at. No, I'm sorry. Cause you just said nutty professor. So I'm like, I got this thing queued up. It's like, that's funny. Yeah. That was a mistake. That was a leftover Ngram in my brain. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. I was just talking about the guy who collected names. So I, so I think that Jordan Peterson's up to something because he announced that he is going to start an online university. Okay, that will be a great point. Wow, interesting. Marketing genius. Or someone over there is. Well, let's see. Someone is. We'll see how that plays out. Well, then here's an idea. I'm going to register a specific email address and then we'll see what I get sent to that email address. Everyone should do that. Get a non-existent email address. Let's see if it gets, if it's rented out.

07:02 Oh, that's a good idea. Coded is what the word is, not non-existent. I'm sorry, coded. Coded. Yeah, you should, everyone should do this anyway. I guess we never talked about this on the show, but you should code your email address. In other words, you have a different middle initial, you say, what's your name? And you know, John or John with a C jammed up. So it's John C with no space. I use that a lot. Yeah. And if, but if you have something specific, I would say, Adam Jordan at curry.com and then any email you got you get to Adam Jordan is being rented by these guys. Yeah, that's not Jordan Peterson address. So I yeah, I do I do that routinely just to see who's pulling this who's doing what I don't that do me any good. I mean, ah, those bastards. So I can do okay. Oh, last night.

07:59 Tina the Keeper and I had a lovely dinner with Sir Dave, Dame Melody and Lady Isabella Fugazotto. Oh, the Fugazottos! The Fugazottos were in Austin, yes. And we took them to the Lonesome Dove. And you know, Lady Isabella is the, she's I think 11, I want to say? And she's the Irish dancing champ. What? She's the Irish dancing champ. You know, the river dance? How old is she? I think she's 11. Irish dancing? Should I do a little jig there for you? You know, being a guy who hate like a comedian, you know, hey, hey man, nice to meet you. Tell me a joke. I didn't want to get this child started off on the wrong foot because that's what everyone does. Oh really?

08:46 No, I'm not gonna do that. I hate that. I would never do that. This kid is fantastic by the way. The Lonesome Dove is known for its elk, its other venison, and its rattlesnake sausage. That's the game joint. Yes, the game joint that I took Horowitz to. The Horowitzes. And she was right there, man. Elk sliders, no problem. Rattlesnake sausage, loved it. This is fantastic. And Dave and Melody are fantastic. Really nice. He's army. She's Navy. So there's a built-in strife that is very beautiful to watch Yeah, very good time. Very nice to see them here in Austin. Yeah, of course Dave is Day Melody's a dame lady Isabella has been damed and Dave is a multiple night. Isn't he a baron at this point? He's probably up there somewhere. That's the question comes to my mind is how did their little girl?

09:43 Get into Irish river dancing or whatever it is. God, you know, no, actually, I think, thanks. Yeah, right. I think Tina was talking today, Melody, about it. And I think it was that where there was a, it's the same way I got into fencing. We actually talked, we did talk about this. You get a demonstration at school, you know, it's a, it's a sales job and you're not supposed to. This is how we were turning it. Well, go on. I'm not going to go into that joke. Go on, continue. I'm sorry. So you saw some fencers and you said, this would be cool. And you took a couple of classes. And you sign up. Exactly. It's like, you know, they take a couple of kids from the audience, teach them a few things. Like you get to, you know, in my case, hey man, he's holding a sword, which foil, of course, but sword, you get sword fight. And before you know it, it's like, hey, come by for a free lesson. Okay. And then you're hooked. And then you're in. I did become third in the Dutch national championships in my age range. How old were you?

10:44 I think it was 13 12 around no maybe yeah 11 or 12 same age as as Lady Isabella anyway it was good time picked up picked up a couple of tips a couple of thing yeah he works in in Riyadh Right, so he was he was he's like, ah, I can't get enough bacon. Is there a pork on the menu? Give me pork Craving wild boar Or bacon is really really craving it. Yeah, so it's nice to see them. It's always nice to see some some of our Producers in Austin if it all works out and we can actually hang out doesn't always work out But this one did a great seeing them. Okay Why don't we start off with this?

11:29 with what I think, well I'd love to hear your take on it, the Amazon fires which coincided nicely with the G7 summit meeting. Yeah this is being used as leverage and it's also being used by the globalists you know to say this is a good example man you got this Bolsonaro right-wing nut you know and he's burning down the place and we need world governance. Yes we do, we need that. So let's take a look at, I got a couple of clips here. Let's start with, this is a clip from a couple of shows, not a couple of shows, maybe last show. Amazon burning Democracy Now report.

12:08 In Brazil, public outrage is mounting over massive wildfires that have consumed parts of the Amazon for several weeks. The hashtag PrayForAmazonia trended Tuesday as images of the raging blazes circulated on social media. The skies over the city of Sao Paulo went dark for around an hour during the middle of the day Monday, after winds carried in smoke from the forest fires over 1,500 miles away. The fires are thought to be direct... She's getting lyrical in her older age there. Has wind swept away over the plains? Her style is Walter Cronkite. Walter Cronkite liked to talk like this and so does Amy.

12:52 in smoke from the forest fires over 1,500 miles away. You expect them to say, President Kennedy at this hour, he's dead. That's almost what you expect them to say. The fires are thought to be directly caused or exacerbated by agricultural exploitation and deforestation. Brazil's space research agency has recorded nearly 73,000 wildfires so far this year, an 83 percent increase from the same period last year. Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has worked to deregulate and open up the Amazon for agribusiness, logging and mining since he came into office in January, despite international concerns over the environmental impacts of deforestation.

13:37 Recent data shows Brazil lost more than 1300 square miles of forest cover this year. Climate scientists say the protection of the Amazon rainforest is crucial in the global effort to fight the climate crisis. The lungs of the world, man. So what we have is a is a I don't want to call it a hoax, a climate hoax. But they have these fires every year. They do a lot of brush clearing. They just have a lot of fires and they have the number. Finding that 1300 square mile, which is a big number if you live in California, finding that number is almost impossible. If you look at any of the reports, you're going to find, oh, there's 80% more is what they keep saying. 80% more, 80% more. 80% more than what? Last year? 80% more fires. Yeah. Then last year. Okay. Got it.

14:28 And Bolsonaro says that somebody just, you know, this is like some sort of a scam to set millions of these fires, or millions, thousands of these fires. And if you look at the fire map, they're all over the country, they're not just in the Amazon. And when you look at the 1,300 square miles figure, you have to realize that that is, the square miles of Amazon forests, specifically Amazon forest only, not the rest of the country, which is woodsy, is 2.7 million square miles. So this is really not much. But it's beside the point because this has become a, they talk about, if you look, mostly European newspapers, like the Express is a good example. The sky has been blacked out in Sao Paulo. And so I immediately went to the webcams and I sent you one of them. Yes, let me take a look right now. You can look at this webcam, it'll be a link in the show notes, hopefully. And it's in Sao Paulo.

15:30 And I looked at webcams while you're looking at that one. Yeah, this is the Sao Paulo panorama. Let me see. I should open this up. Yeah, it is downtown. So you see the downtown is loading now. I looked at Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. I'm clicking on the live cam now. Oh, we have a couple of like cotton ball clouds. Oh, it's beautiful. Looks nice. Looks like it looks like a nice day in Sao Paulo. 79 degrees in downtown Sao Paulo everybody. It's JCDNAC on the microphone. So if it's daylight here, in fact it's nicer there than it is here in the Bay Area from I look out the window.

16:13 But no, no, that's not the way the Express has it. And now it's turning out that most of the photos you're seeing on Twitter are from 1998 when there was a lot of bad fires. Yeah, Twitter's really become quite the cesspool now, hasn't it? It's just old photos. So this thing is set up so Macron and all these other people can bitch and moan. And let me mention this. I have a lot of friends in Brazil. And most of them are like most of my friends around the world like most people outside the United States They tend to be left-leaning. Did you mean if not communists? Did you meet them on or cut? No, I've met them when I go there I never was a man. I was a member of Orcut for a few minutes. Anyway, that's where you meet the babes Uh-huh. Sure John their babes. Uh-huh. Well, I don't know I never met him. But that's where you're supposed to meet him. I

17:06 So you want me to do the report or are you just going to make fun of my report? First of all, they all hate Bolsonaro. Like, to an extreme. Why? Because he's a right-wing doofus. They hate him. They hate him to such an extreme it's like he's a fascist. Period. Yeah, makes sense. And so this whole thing is, you know, and they've been trying to, you know, he's kind of like a, I would say in terms of politics, he's like a middle of the road Republican in the United States, but no, in Brazil, which really leans left, they like the social programs. They have a lot of free stuff for the poor and they have a real wealth gap that makes us look kind of like weak sisters.

17:50 And so anybody who comes in there with a capitalistic ideas is a it's got to be condemned. So let's look at this this so they've got this thing going on with these fires and And it's like they use it as leverage and the Europeans are using it more than the Americans. There's a couple of reports here. There was that one from Democracy Now! and I got a second report from NBC which just came out yesterday. Fires raging in the Amazon, outrage spreading around the globe as leaders and activists are demanding immediate action to save the jungle, responsible for much of the world's oxygen. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

18:27 Tonight with the Amazon burning, the political heat on Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro getting hotter. At home and around the world, protests in Canada. France, Germany, England. I'm just really scared that when I'm older the world I'm living in isn't going to be as nice as it is now. The demandables in Ottawa tonight stop those setting the fires. If the Amazon reaches a level of destruction there will be no turning back. And that's your fear? Your generation's fear? Yes, completely.

19:06 The Amazon often called Earth's lungs because the dense jungle is responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen. Now, perfectly... Sorry, I gotta go back. That was so well done. When he goes to the lungs and the oxygen, you hear the birds tweeting all of a sudden. It's beautiful. The Amazon often called Earth's lungs because the dense jungle is responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen. Now, purposely set on fire to clear the rich soil for agriculture. Bolsonaro blaming the fires on aid groups stirring up controversy. Tonight, a firestorm of rhetoric. What's lost will be lost forever. Kerry Sanders, NBC News, Miami. All right, so let's start with the bull crap that everyone's propagating.

19:58 And by the way, I should mention the Amazonian Basin is not rich soil. It's depleted from all those years of producing all those plant matter. The earth, then what you see over and over again, if anybody sees this in any report, earth's lungs were 20% of the oxygen. 80% of the oxygen produced in the atmosphere by the way, which is accumulated apparently over millions of years and if oxygen production stopped tomorrow, it would take a long time to deplete. 80% comes from the algae in the oceans. That's where it comes from. So you have to say that the rest of the 20%, there's no other vegetation in the entire world, all comes from the Amazon? This is bull crap.

20:51 In fact, if you start reading any literature whatsoever, and I could just quote some of it. Here's one I can read this Dr. Jonathan Foley explained in a lengthy Twitter tweet, the Amazon represents at most 6% of the world's oxygen production. No, that's a good number to have. That 20% number has always bothered me and you're right, the lungs and the 20% meme is rampant. It's like 97% of scientists. It's exactly the same as 97% of scientists and the net of the 6%, if it was 20 or 6, the net-net almost everybody agrees is nil because there's so much rot in these forests which uses up oxygen. As in one nil? What's this nil use all of a sudden? You always say nil. You said nil that you excoriate. I've been watching soccer. And by the way, when I say nil and I refer to soccer, that's typically a game. Yeah, exactly. There you go. So the amount of oxygen

21:55 in total is pretty much balanced, zero. Coming from the Amazon, even though I remember when I was a kid, we're all, the rainforest, the rainforest, and by the way, if it's such a rainforest, like Amazon doesn't put out the fires with the rain. I'm just wondering, just asking. We should pick out the rainsticks. It's so wet. We should get the rainsticks. We should get the rainsticks for the Amazon. I bet you we can save it. I'll bet you in one year this won't be a crisis. Maybe in one month it won't be a crisis if we do the rain sticks. So anyone who says 20% or Earth's lungs in a news report is trying to, is just part of a scheme to for one thing, maim this Bolsonaro character. I need to get in here. Are you done with the deconstruction? I need to say something that I think you're overlooking. Go. All right, I'm gonna play, I only heard one report

22:45 And it's similar to something you had in yours, but I knew exactly what was going on. Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have sparked a hail of criticism against the country's president. He's slammed for not protecting the world's biggest forest. Jair Bolsonaro has now accused environmentalist groups of starting them to embarrass his government. So far this year, Brazil has had more than 72,000 fire outbreaks, an increase of 84% on the same period last year. Regarding the fires in the Amazon, I'm under the impression that they could have been set by NGOs who have been asking for money.

23:24 Alright, that's all I needed to hear because I have the following. I have elites, Hollywood elites. I have the G7, a top summit meeting of world leaders. I have NGOs. This is Michael Crichton's state of fear completely all the way down to the exact scenario except Michael Crichton's state of fear in which he predicted NGOs, non-governmental groups, activists, in his case, would set off dynamite to blow up a huge glacier and then immediately, and at the same time there's this huge conference going on, i.e. the G7, so they could finally tip the scales for climate change, disaster, Green New Deal, whatever. This is exactly the same game. It's the script.

24:19 Yeah. It is, go read State of Fear which Michael Crichton before he died got excoriated for. In his dying day he said you watch, I have the clip, well we don't have to listen to it. In his dying day with Charlie Rose he says I'm pretty sure I'll be right about this and this is exactly that script right down to the NGOs. The NGOs, yeah. As soon as you hear that... As soon as I heard that, I'm like, ah, this is state of fear. So go read a synopsis of State of Fear and you'll know exactly what we're talking about. And so transparent. And then as you pointed out, well done, I like the 20% and the lungs of the world. This was all ready to go. They had the talking points set up, Macron's probably in on it.

25:07 Oh, Macron is the biggest mouth of the group. And by the way, it's the European newspapers that have all these, besides having a lot of fake photos, for one thing they said, well, we can't, and the newspapers, by the way, in Europe don't tell you this 13,000 square miles. They don't tell you anything. So we can't measure it. It's immeasurable. I looked and looked and looked. And then they talk, the skies are blacked out over Sao Paulo. And so I went to the webcams and they're all over the world, people. And Sao Paulo is beautiful. It's just no... In the show notes, you can go take a look. There's no smoke. No smoke. So this is something of a hoax. And it's not like there's no fires, but... And then they say, well, why doesn't he do something about it? The Amazon doesn't have a bunch of fire stations all over the place. It's a joke to even think that.

26:02 People don't even understand how big the Amazon itself is just about the same size of continental Europe. And it goes into three or four countries. It doesn't even, you know, it goes into Peru, it goes into Ecuador. This is bull crap. But this, when you see that, I'm just, my warning is besides the NGO thing, which is obvious, which you picked up on, and I saw that too, is that when you see 20% of the world's oxygen as if there's going to be depletion when there's not, and the Earth's lungs. This is just nonsense. This is bullcrap. And I saw it mentioned by, you know, Shakira. Everybody, John, everybody was saying this. Oh yeah, Shakira. I got a tweet from her. Shakira. Wait, you follow? You follow? CNN is promoting the 20% lung. Do you follow Shakira? No, I saw her. She was pulled a clip from some other article.

27:00 No, okay. I don't follow Shakira because I don't believe she has much to say that I'd be interested in. Unlike someone I know who does follow Britney Spears. Well, she follows me so that's why I follow her. So that's a little different. If Shakira were following you I'd be impressed. I should check. Well, Ida Alken, Ida Alken, she was following President Trump. She is a Danish Parliamentarian. Is that the woman that's in the photos with Macron? I think so. Oh my god. There's this Merkel, this woman and Macron and sometimes Trump. No, no, no, that's the Prime Minister. Ida is a member of Parliament and she put together a hilarious... This could have been Dutch actually. It's like the Dutch are back up Danes and vice versa. This was so... I mean she even talks like a little bit like the Dutch.

27:58 So, you know, who was it the first, maybe it was, was it the Dutch or the Germans who did that funny video take off on Trump? It doesn't matter. This has become a thing for politicians in Europe, and this is all around the G7 of course, to send a message to Trump. I'm standing up, I'm a social justice warrior. So this is the video she puts together. Is it playing? WING WING Windmills! If it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night. Mr. President, I want to present you to the greatest deal you have ever seen. It is so great that I thought I might actually get your attention by standing here next to this bird-killing, cancer-causing, blackout-generating, wind-energy-producing beast here. And look, I'm fine.

28:54 Not hurt at all actually. And that's because there is no scientific evidence that wind turbines cause cancer or blackouts for that matter, but we'll get back to that. And by the way, my name is Ida Augen, I'm a member of the Danish Parliament. And now that you're here, let's talk about the deal. Okay! It's about... You can see what she's doing here, cutting back and forth to Trump. Let's talk about the deal. Okay! Cheap energy and saving the climate. Here's an example. The North Sea region, that's the sea on top of Europe, can produce twice as much electricity as all the coal-fired power plants of Europe combined. And look, it's smaller than Nebraska.

29:40 Imagine the possibilities in all of your great United States of America. And what about the price you ask? It's cheap. It's cheaper than coal actually, even in US. So stop your plans. I know you are thinking about building new coal-fired power plants. Wind is cheaper. Listen to science, listen to your wallet and make a new deal. It's gonna be great. Darling I want to watch television. I'm sorry the wind isn't blowing. Oh yeah, the blackouts.

30:19 Don't worry about your TV dinners and movie nights. In Denmark, where most of our electricity comes from wind, we have on average 15 minutes of blackouts every year. Whereas in US, with all your coal-fired plants, you go dark on average 2 hours every year. So Mr. President, we all know you can do this. Just grab your pen, sign a deal, and let's save the climate. You see, grab, like she's making a grab and buy the pussy joke. You got that? Just grab. Trump made a big mistake. He should not have offered to buy Greenland. He should have said, let's buy Denmark and get rid of this person. My goodness. That was really bad. Now, a couple of things.

31:14 You did an entire, I wish we have a guy that's putting together pieces of our different spiels. Somebody's got to go track down your thing on windmill cost effectiveness and the economics of windmills that you did on this show about a year ago. Is that only a year ago? I don't think it was longer than that. Because it tells the true tale of this windmill. Because let's be honest, if it's that much cheaper than coal, That's why would people be doing it? You just make more money. It doesn't make sense that there's not, everyone's not doing that. There's also not mentioned is the annoyance factor that people have with these windmills that live in the areas where the windmills exist of the noise. It drives them crazy. They have to move out. Right. Uh, I was given a little lecture about that in Holland of all places, uh, where this is giant windmills and they're beautiful, but they're, and they're,

32:14 They make a bunch of racket. They don't, and I believe they don't kill birds either. But when, who, what was this thing about cancer? And she associated that with something Trump said. I've never heard anything about windmills causing cancer. She drew that right in at the beginning. Yeah. I recall hearing something about that, but I don't know what it is, but they call, they cause cancer of your wallet is what they cause. They're all subsidized. They wouldn't be working if they weren't subsidized, take away the subsidies and then they're not so cheap. Now there is one thing Trump is at the G7 for that he said he was going to fight for and it was one of his, I didn't clip it, but one of his on the grass walk into the helicopter stand-up moments. Like, yeah these people they're taxing our companies unfairly.

33:03 Yes, and I have a report. Yeah, well, it's a little more than just that. Tech leaders are sounding off in a big way at the US Trade Rep's office today testifying against a new French tax that they claim unfairly targets him. Hillary Vaughn is standing by outside the trade office. Hillary, you're right in the middle of everything. We're dying to know because we're thinking about retaliation. What besides wine, I'm wondering, might they retaliate against for the French? That's really up in the air. The commenting period ends a week from today and that's when you could really see the US rollout retaliatory action, whatever that looks like we don't know yet. But what we did hear today was US firms tell the US trade representatives that not only could this tax be passed down to users in France, but it also could have larger implications for the industry. Google's Nicholas Bramble saying this in his testimony today, quote, this is a concern for international trade and the wider economy if countries follow the DST model and select

34:00 specific sectors and groups of foreign companies for targeted tax policies. This new tax means that more data will have to be collected on users specific to their location and their actions online, which could raise more questions about privacy and if the government would then have access to that information through an audit. Amazon's Peter Hiltz testified that they have not been collecting the data that they would need to figure out how much they would actually owe France through this DST tax or how much revenue they French users bring the company as a whole. Facebook says that the tax requires a quote massive re-engineering effort at the company to track and then filter revenue by a user's geolocation or their IP address. This is a discriminatory retroactive tax that's been gerrymandered to specifically single out successful US technology services that are very popular in the French marketplace.

34:54 The objective is for French authorities to increase their tax base at the expense of US firms. So US tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon have to make their first payment to France in November, but what's up in the air here is they don't have the system they need to calculate how much money they owe France and a lot of the data they need to figure that out also may not exist. That's total horseshit lady. So you're just an idiot for even repeating those lies. But... You said Ben Shapiro's wife? I have a Ben Shapiro clip actually. But... At least France is up front. You know, the EU High Commission, they like saying, oh you were unfair here and then fining our tech companies. And I'm not saying that it's not warranted, but at least the French are right up front. Digital services tax, DST. You operate here, you pay 3% over your revenue. You know, I think we should shut down services to France if that's what they want to do, but I can't blame them for being up front about it. I thought that was actually pretty good.

36:00 Well, Trump was just... The last time we had a little trade war with France, it was the cheese. Oh yeah, Trump said he was going to tax all their wine if they didn't stop this. That was thinking of you. Because he doesn't drink. He doesn't care. Make a 30% tax. Make him tax something he likes. Worse, he has interest in a vineyard. So he has his own wine. He's got Trump wine, doesn't he? Conflict of interest, you're right. He always had Trump winery. I can't believe they haven't picked up on it. Emoluments clause or something. Yell something. Hello? You're absolutely 100% correct. Why hasn't the media picked up on the conflict of interest?

36:40 They should have. This is what they go, they do. They're so bad at even doing their own crappy job. Yeah, we could do a call for five minutes every morning with CNN, give them their talking points, lean back and make billions. Well, I don't know about the billions part. Okay, thousands. I mean, they're off the deep end. That's why I had to send you this bonus clip to CNN. Oh. Here's Brian Stelzer. He's got some Some woman comes on and she goes on about this book they've come out with, it's a new book with five or six shrinks saying that Trump's nuts. Oh another one of those books, okay. Yeah, they all sell the same, people keep buying them and going nuttier. And so they brought on this professor, this nutty professor, the former head of the

37:29 The psychology department at Duke University, which tells you something about the academic standards at Duke University when you listen to this guy. No offense, you Duke devils. And the guy's supposed to be there to kind of balance the thing, but no, no. He takes it to another level. This is the funniest clip you'll hear for a while. Diagnose. Right, without saying I'm diagnosing because you've never met the man. Exactly. You can describe what you're seeing. So Dr. Francis, I know you disagree with this view that Dr. Lee and a couple other dozen psychiatrists have published in this book. You say it's dangerous to be talking this way. Why?

38:07 Well, I think that medicalizing politics has three very dire consequences. The first is that it stigmatizes the mentally ill. I've known thousands of patients, almost all of them have been well behaved, well mannered, good people. Trump is none of these. Lumping the mentally ill with Trump is a terrible insult to the mentally ill and they have enough problems and stigma as it is. The second issue is that calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we're crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist. Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were.

38:56 He needs to be contained, but he needs to be contained by attacking his policies, not his person. It's crazy for us to be destroying the climate our children will live in. It's crazy to be giving tax cuts to the rich. that will add trillions of dollars to the debt our children will have to pay. It's crazy to be destroying our democracy by claiming that the press and the courts are the enemy of the people. We have to face these policies, not Trump's person. Now, it's absolutely impossible. You can bet the House that the Congress, that Pence, that the Cabinet will never, ever remove Trump on grounds of mental unfitness. That will never happen.

39:40 discussing the issue in psychological name-calling terms distracts us from getting out the vote Wow I'm feel good that guy is really sick I feel bad for him that guy's off the rails but it's like all Democrat talking points I mean it must have been Maxine Waters yeah Jeez. Yeah, exactly. It's exactly what Maxine Waters does. You're right. You're right. This is a Maxine Waters bit and it's like this is academia at the point that we're at right now and that people should be ashamed of themselves and these universities really have to have to deal with this is biased. I mentioned something on one of the tweet and I'm going to mention on here. The conservatives have to make a change here and stop talking and whining and moaning about them being deplatformed and all the rest.

40:34 conservatives, you're gonna have to change your orientation to I'm a Republican and it's not as conservative. You're Republicans and Republicans are being deplatformed. Republicans are being pushed aside. Republicans are being condemned by academia because the Republicans are an established old party, Lincoln's party. And it makes it sound a lot more ominous when you say the Republicans are being screwed over by the colleges today, by the left in the college. You say you can say the left, but it's the Republicans. And saying conservative is really not working. You know, a couple of things about this. The true danger of people psychoanalyzing President Trump is that it's now legal to do that.

41:26 In other words, it is accepted to now look at Joe Biden and say, you know, from a psychological standpoint, top of his head's been off a couple of times, maybe they forgot to disconnect the wire when they put it back on. I mean, we can do this analysis all day long. So I think that's really stupid they're doing this again. That should be off the table, unless Joe's not a serious candidate for them because you get full license to talk about how nutty he is. And he's made gaffes and that, you can say that's misfiring of his disconnected neurons. His brain has been taken out and put back in. Top of his head was taken off twice!

42:06 Speaking of... No, they're in dangerous territory and it's also desperate. And they bring this guy on who's supposed to balance the report and instead goes off the deep end. you know, making it sound as though whatever they said in this book is minor because it's like Trump is completely insane and everybody who is clinically insane is being humiliated because Trump's worse than they ever have been and just this and that. I mean, this is not working for them. But I think the conservatives should really rethink their position and start saying, hey,

42:42 You know, it's the Republicans are going after. There's a two-party system and what's, there's not a three-party system. There is no conservative party. And the people that get hurt the most are the Republicans. The Republicans running for office. And so they have to consider that renaming things, nomenclature is important. Well, they need to have strategies. They don't have any strategies. They got none. Neither of these parties. Especially in California. Political parties are full of shit. Ben Shapiro did a self-analysis on his show the other day which someone sent to me and when he said it, it made total sense. Now I know what's going on with him. Do you want to wager a guess before I play the clip? What's going on with Ben Shapiro? He drinks too much coffee? No, he analyzed him. He gave himself a psychiatric analysis without really saying, I'm going to give myself a psychiatric analysis, but he just said it. He said what ails him.

43:38 Coffee. No, that's not a psychiatric analysis. That's a dietary analysis. He's got, uh... You'll never guess. He was talking about mental health and then the truth popped out. ...for them so much sympathy you're going to allow them to loiter in public and pee in the gutter and do drugs on the open streets and defecate. That's sympathy right there. And if you say you want to clean that up, you want to arrest people who are loitering, you want their garbage to be thrown away because it is in fact piles of garbage, If you suggest that there have to be consequences, that the people who are mentally ill and living on the street need to be put in a place where they can be taken care of, without their permission, if they are seriously mentally ill, because many of these people cannot actually make intelligent, rational decisions. If you are a schizophrenic, I have schizophrenia, my grandfather was schizophrenic, and that is not somebody who's capable of making rational decisions. If you say that, like, oh, you're unsympathetic.

44:33 Sympathy and crappy policy matter a lot more than sympathy and good policy so long as you can castigate good policy as unsympathetic. Hereditary. Well, didn't he say I have schizophrenia? Yes, he said I have schizophrenia. My grandfather had schizophrenia. It's hereditary in his family. I don't think he meant to say I have schizophrenia. It was the other guy who said it. I don't think so. Okay, we should analyze this because I really thought he said I have schizophrenia. That's what he said. Without their permission if they are seriously mentally ill because many of these people cannot actually make intelligent rational decisions if you are a schizophrenic I have schizophrenia in my grandfather was schizophrenic. If you're schizophrenic. I know what he wanted to say. He wanted to say I have schizophrenia in my family.

45:26 Well, this is where to get you. You talk fast. Yeah, that's the talk fast problem. So he said he wanted to say I had schizophrenia in my family and my grandfather had schizophrenia as an example. Which if he talked at a normal speed, he could have gotten it out, but he instead left out a big chunk of it. So he said, I have schizophrenia. My grandfather has schizophrenia. Maybe. I don't know. I don't think he's a functional schizophrenic. I mean, it's possible. But he sure talks like he's trying to run away from something. I mean that girl that you heard played earlier that I couldn't stand listening to, she sounded like she was running a marathon and talking at the same time. Well you gotta fit all the bullcrap into 30 seconds, you gotta make it happen. By the way, Thursday was a long ass day for me.

46:15 The show, you know, things happen on show days and the show just ended and so after a post-production everything it's around 3, 3.30 and then I'm like, oh no, what is going on? I hear stuff and it's not like we didn't know this was coming. Your No Agenda Show told you before it came down, a week before it came down, that the CEO of Overstock was talking some weird stuff, played a clip for you, got a clip of the day actually, and the tease came like this. about his involvement with the federal government and a Russian spy, that Maria Butina. That is the wildest story I have ever heard from anybody of any standing in our society. And Overstock is a real company. And he has a story of being asked to be involved with her by the federal government, by the FBI.

47:09 that is almost too bizarre to not take seriously, so I'm trying very hard to get him to come on the show to explain. I would definitely want to hear that. I have never heard anyone anything like what he's saying. All right, we'll see. Chris, thank you. Look forward to it. Coming up, Dancing with the Stars. Dancing with the Stars, yeah. And we're back to... we got some news here. And we're back to Dancing of the Stars, everybody. That's your CNN Entertainment News. I will not bore anyone with the hours of footage that were spent Thursday and into Friday morning on Patrick Byrne. I did a very deep dive, I want to deconstruct it. This got wiped off the map almost immediately by Trump's China situation which obviously we'll be talking about and that may have been fortuitous timing I'm not sure but I think Patrick Byrne has now already been painted as a kook, a nutjob, off to the annals of history with you we don't want to know what you're talking about. And whenever I see a guy like Patrick Byrne

48:10 I really get interested because it's these people, the ones who talk nutty... who often have some very interesting nuggets of information. Now Patrick Byrne has been involved with the Fed, specifically in 2005 to 2007. He exposed the DTCC, I think is what it's called, which is the central clearinghouse for Wall Street brokers. And there's a number of ways that that what is called naked short selling is being applied. But what he uncovered at the time, and this was just before the big recession, is that there were all these failure to deliver stock settlements inside the system. Because you know when you buy or sell stock you're not actually buying and selling it directly from someone else, it goes to this big clearing house and everyone's part of that.

49:06 But when everyone's a part of it, they can also sell stock that they don't actually have. And so then you wind up with much more stock in the system than the market cap allows and the stock will eventually go down, just supply and demand. And he exposed this and was called a kook and a nut job and was excoriated by Wall Street, but he did cooperate with SEC and I think there were some other crimes that he worked with the FBI on. And I think this is part of what people don't understand is that this is actually how the intelligence services work. They co-opt people all the time.

49:42 usually to be a front, you know, to be a company that you hire someone and they're doing something and the CEO knows what they're doing or maybe one or two people know and it's accepted and it's accepted as patriotic that you help your intelligence services out. So we'll skip past all that history but if you go to his website DeepCapture.com. He has videos that explain that 2005-2007 situation very well. And you know, the guy has been a CEO of a company that's been around for 20 years, so you got to give him some credit. But he's kooky, no doubt about it. So here's briefly the history of 2015-2016 and why he is now, or part of why he is now coming forward. Because 17 years ago I helped them crack a murder and they knew me and I helped them a bit on Wall Street 12 years ago.

50:30 So they knew me and they called me in 2015, 2016 to assist in something. And I didn't know who the orders came from, but I assisted. It's some very honorable federal agents and very honorable people, but they named some names. Well, they didn't name the names, that's it. I didn't know who it came from. And I took some orders that seemed a little fishy. in 2015, 2016, last summer watching television I figured out the name of who sent me the orders and this has all now been confirmed to me. The name of the man who sent me the orders was a guy named Peter Strzok. So that got everyone's attention. That's the only piece of information that he has that the news whores are interested in. Oh Peter Strzok we have a name. Connect, connect the dots. What can we do? Oh boy this is very very interesting.

51:20 I've also read multiple interviews with Patrick Byrne, his own writings. It's remarkably similar. It sounds like he's not in control of his thoughts, but the way he says it is consistent almost every single interview. I watched all of them. He was on every single channel. Everybody had the obligatory 15 or 20 minutes with Patrick Byrne and then it was gone. So we figured out that something was going on. He was watching TV and he's like, oh shit, these guys asked me to do stuff that relates to something other than trying to do some law enforcement. And that's where the name Strzok came up. And although he keeps calling the other people X, Y and Z, it's Clapper, it's Comey, it's John Brennan. You said that in one or two other interviews.

52:09 And he consistently says the men in black came to see me because he doesn't want to excoriate the FBI. And I also don't think it was just FBI who came to see him. And we continue with his tale. This is quite an ambiguous situation. But the issue is, I realized that these orders I got came from Peter Strzok. And as I put together things, I know much more than I should know and it's right to keep silent. This country's gone nuts, and especially for the last year when I've realized what I know, every time I see one of these things, somebody drives 600 miles to gun down 20 strangers in a mall, I guess I feel

52:51 A bit responsible. Now this is the only interview where he broke down when he got to this point. He said the same thing. It's like in his mind, the information he has will stop the division that we have in America and with that, Democrat, Republicans, Trump, Clinton specifically that divide is what he's talking about and he Really broke down that was truthfully broke down as like oh I feel very bad and somewhat responsible Because and this is why I have to tell the story which is once we understand the story why it'll be buried I guess I feel a bit responsible So I have to come forward. I went to see my rabbi and you know, you know who my rabbi is, right? Mm-hmm. Who's my rabbi?

53:42 Do you know who his rabbi is, John? This was a very awkward moment. As if everyone knows who his rabbi is. He's not a... I don't even know if he's Jewish, but his rabbi is someone else. Who's my rabbi, David? Tell us, tell us, Patrick. It's this guy in Omaha. It's Warren Buffett, and he mentioned Buffett in a different interview. So he has this information, he goes to Warren Buffett, his rabbi, to say, what am I going to do with this information? And he said, Patrick, you come forward. He said, you can't let this sit with the feds. Let the feds do their job. You have to come forward to the American people. So I am. I never heard of the guy. I only figured out last summer who had sent me these requests. It was a guy named Peter Strzok. And he was doing it on behalf of three officials. I'm just identifying now as X, Y, and Z. They were named to me, and I've identified them to law enforcement.

54:41 Now, just for the troll room, Warren Buffett is not actually a rabbi, okay? I think it's a figure of speech. He's his go-to guy when he has questions like a spiritual leader. So Warren Buffett is a Hillary Clinton supporter. So why does Warren Buffett want Patrick Byrne to come clean with this because he has information that the feds spied on Trump that the feds and by the way this goes back a year before the official fed spying timeline FBI spying timeline that goes back to 2015 and it was Cruz and Rubio. But the true reason this has to come out is not something Trump or Barr or anybody else wants the world to know, which is why this guy is going away. And here's the reason why. I believe there's a massive federal investigation that is going to turn up that there was political espionage conducted

55:37 So, Buffett finds out from Patrick Byrne That they were spying on Hillary Clinton as well. This is not the way the message is supposed to go This is worse than we ever thought the messaging is supposed to be the Clintons paid for research against Donald Trump They had all these people colluding they all got in there. They tried to stop him from winning and then they tried to Stop him tried to get him out of the presidency. I

56:32 We can't have all of a sudden that really the FBI and the CIA are just completely out of control and they wanted to manage the entire election process and that's why Bill Barr and I'm really you look at Bill Barr man this guy is cleaning some shit up. He is cleaning up shit, not for good, he's hiding stuff. He's protecting people. Oh no, I'm not all in on Bill Barr being the great savior. The idea was we're supposed to get a couple of people, we're supposed to prosecute them, get them out, get them done, move on. Bad, bad, bad Democrats, bad Hillary Clinton. It was all a hoax.

57:10 Now, what was going on with Hillary Clinton, and this is where Maria Butina, the Russian, comes in, and I'm not going to go too far into this because here's... Who was in jail from this whole Mueller investigation? The two key people who have real information. Paul Manafort, locked up, locked down, shut up, because he has all the goods on Podesta, they work together, so we can't have him talking. And Maria Butina, for a very minor offense, the way it's written, is in jail for 18 months. We don't want her talking at all. And from what I understand, Maria Butina was actually involved in the Uranium One hustle and I think Patrick Byrne being a crypto specialist, maybe he was

57:57 wittingly or unwittingly, to coin a phrase from Clapper, involved in helping some transfer of funds through crypto. I'm not quite sure. But Boutina was definitely involved in the Uranium One gambit and that was the goods they had on Clinton. So there's all kinds of stuff that was against Hillary Clinton that this administration has no benefit to letting come out. And I think we're never going to hear from Patrick Byrne again on this matter in public. But what was the guy's role? His role was to manage the Russian spy, if she is or isn't is unclear, to introduce her to the campaigns, to the Rubio, to the Cruz and the Trump campaign. I don't know if he introduced anyone, if he introduced her to the Clinton campaign. And they came to him and said, all right, you've got to set some stuff up. And when he started to notice she was... Like what? These meetings, meetings.

59:00 And when Byrne noticed that she was taking meetings that could be potentially harmful, as in if she's a Russian spy, you know, you don't want her taking this meeting. And the Feds then said, no, no, no, just let it go. We want to see what happens. And that's when he became suspicious. Is this anything, is a bunch of seal indictments involved in this? No. Did you not hear what I said? Bill Barr is hiding shit, is cleaning shit up for people that who are not supposed to be exposed. In particular the agencies have to remain, keep their integrity. You can't, if the American public knew that the FBI, not under direction of Obama, but their own

59:47 energy, we're just manipulating the elections, you have a much bigger problem than what they're trying to expose. So no, there's not going to be thousands of sealed indictments that are over the end. I'm taking this seriously. The FBI and CIA are out of control. they were managing the election. I, I, Patrick Byrne certainly believes what he's saying and he has no reason to be untruthful about this. Well, I mean if you're gonna go back, you're gonna take this tact, you can go back to that clip that you have, where Ron Paul says that the CIA took over the place after the Kennedy assassination and so what else is new? Okay, well, I mean obviously

1:00:31 It's not new to us, but to this extent I think that would be very harmful if people had this thinking. I mean the last guy that tried to take down the CIA was Nixon. And if you read the book of secrets, what was the name of the family book, the Bush book that Russ Baker wrote? Family of Secrets. Family of Secrets, if anyone reads that book, and they should read that book, it appears as if the entire Watergate thing was a contrivance done by professional, Russ Baker summarizes the Watergate thing this way, and it's really worth reading. You can also read about people like Woodward and how these guys come into be.

1:01:14 He summarizes it thus, he says that this was set up by very high-end CIA professionals to look like a botched job. So it would come into play and again Nixon was out to get the CIA. He said so. He said the place was rotten and he needed to be taken out. And so they did this Watergate burglary as a botched job. But these guys were too high-ended, according to Baker, to botch the job the way they did. They could have gone in and out and gotten whatever information they needed, no problem. But no, they did a botched job on purpose. To get Nixon out.

1:01:56 to get Nixon out and it worked. Yeah. Well, so that's been a secret since I was a little boy, John. It's like, it's not supposed to come out now. Certainly not on the internets. We can't have this. We can't have conspiracy theories floating around. Holy crap, Bill Barr shows up everywhere. This guy is... He... Ron Contra, he fixed that shit. Yeah, he was the Ron Contra fixer. Total fixer. Now Mueller was a fixer. Mueller couldn't do it. Mueller couldn't fix it right. He tried to have it straight down the middle. It's okay, you know, well then not this not that no collusion No, man, maybe it's okay. Just let it go. That was that was the track that was supposed to be on Maybe we get a Clinton day in court or something, you know just for fun for yucks to make her look like shit

1:02:49 But otherwise, no, nothing. And now, oh no, we can't let them know that we're doing, we're up to the same tricks as from the Nixon-Watergate era. We can't let anybody know that. That's the damning information. That's why Buffett wanted it out. Who would send it for Buffett one way or the other? Hillary. He's a Hillary fan. He does not want Hillary to go down as having paid for... Oh, I see. This makes Hillary look good. Well, better than she looks, yeah. Sure. Well, then maybe he should be behind the... Did you get the hat? Did I get what? The red hat? No, I still haven't received a hat. Oh, there's a red hat that says, make Hillary run again. Did you send it to me or is it going straight to my PO Box? No, it's one of our producers sent it. Oh, that's fantastic. Make Hillary run again. Well, hey, who knows?

1:03:41 Anyway, I'm still on my list. So I think I think Patrick Byrne is uh, well, we'll see. Well, he's gone back to his blog which he hadn't been writing on since 2015. No, I mean no, um, 20... 2007 I think. Let me take a look. No, he's just pissing in the wind. Yeah, he is unfortunately because he well I mean he knows interesting stuff and if obviously it's my beat I'll follow it but believe me and you know then we get the China thing which just blew him out of the water and I think we should talk about that in a moment. After I thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who put the C in China John

1:04:24 Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Also in the morning to all the ships at sea. Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there. Yes, and while you're getting whatever you were swearing under your breath about because you don't have something handy or ready, I will say in the morning to the troll room, Hello trolls, how you doing today? No agenda stream calm is where all the trolls hang out live during the show on both Thursdays of the week But you can go there 24 hours a day. There's always a show on that's fun to listen to talk discussion music Pod safe music. It's it's dynamite. No agenda stream calm go listen go troll go hang out together and participate also

1:05:11 A big hearty in the morning to the artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1166. That was Mike Riley. Yeah, this one we have to discuss. Yeah, so we have a couple of unwritten rules. We try to have... we have three elements that are post-production. One is the opening clip. that we choose. One is the title and one is the artwork. And the title is last. So it's typically it is... we do credits together, we do that, then we choose the artwork, then we choose the... No, first we find the opening clip.

1:05:52 Then we do the artwork and then we choose the title and I think we both already had in our minds That taco Risto was going to be the title Yeah, pretty much and we like that title so much even before we went to no agenda art generator comm We knew that what would not work is under the unwritten rules those three have to be separate. I They are three separate topics and I don't think we've ever really broken that rule. I think there was one time we came close to breaking it, it was dubious. Well there's always an exception to something.

1:06:28 So everybody did really interesting taco show art. Yeah, almost everybody. Everybody did taco and we were just like, well none of it's really outstandingly funny or great. I mean a couple borderliners that we thought were pretty good like the Taco Time, the podcast Are you looking at the art? I'm just trying to recall what we had going on there. It's mostly taco stuff. Taco Time, Shell, Shellcast. And it turns out there's thousands of taco podcasts. Who knew? Did you? Did you know? No! There's thousands of taco podcasts. We were thinking, oh, this is a great exit strategy. Taco podcast. No. So anyway, we looked at all those and

1:07:23 Then one of the first ones submitted was this environmental projection agency that Mike Riley did, and it was a beautiful piece. It comes from an Al Sharpton flub versus the teleprompter. And you know, it had the green plant and the camera. It just made so much sense. So that's why we did not go with the taco. But thank you very much, Monsieur Riley, for your work on this outstanding piece of art. We feel it's very important and a big part of how our Value for Value network operates. So thank you very much. And we, yeah, it was great. NoahArtGenerator.com, please go and participate if you want to, or you can just look at all of the

1:08:15 thousands of great pieces of art that have been put up there, of which only 10% has been used for the actual show. A lot of it used on t-shirts, mugs, etc., newsletters. NoahJennerArtGenerator.com And now in our value for value moment where we do not play commercials, we have no corporate interest whatsoever. In fact, I like what you said in the newsletter that there were certain moments of the last podcast where we speak in sometimes borderline terms just to get to the root of a story. But the way we do that would probably get us suspended or fired on any M5M channel. Oh, absolutely.

1:08:58 I don't think there's any doubt about it. We can't actually do this show in any other venue. I mean, we could, but we wouldn't be the same show. I mean, we'd just be, you'd be yucking it up all the time. You know, we'd do a lot of jokes. Now, John, don't say it. Don't say those things. Yeah. Yeah. Like that. And it would be dynamite. It would be good, but it wouldn't be the same show. It'd be a different show, but it would be good. And you know, it's something you can think about. So let's thank a few people. There's one missing from here, which I do have the note on though. I don't know why it wasn't picked up. Starting, we got the top of the list is David, what do you think, Boda? Boda, David Boda. In Monroe, North Carolina. And he came in with $1,167. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. $1,167? He's a show producer, the show amount.

1:09:56 Yeah, duh. It's been a long time since we had one of those. Actually, we have two. After seeing the replies to the variety... the vanity tweet about Conan O'Brien driving the podcast revolution. That's a good one. It became clear to me that you guys don't get enough respect. Thus, I felt compelled to step up and contribute. This is interesting. I wonder why the width on this thing is so high. Let me move it over a little bit. I felt compelled to step up and contribute 1167 to show 1167 of the best podcast in the universe. Thanks for the double Thursday shot of sanity each week. Please keep it up because your work means a great deal to a great many. I'd like to be known as Sir Euchre of Sandy Ridge, North Carolina and look forward to the

1:10:53 Ever tempting mutton and mead. See you at the round table. P.S. Adam, do you remember the story behind your smoking melted CDs? Yes, I do. Was he one of them that sold that to me? He. Yeah, here's the he's got some jig you do give us the story after this but he's got a citizen pew pew Obama you might die roundtable he wants to add some blatts beer I didn't know they still made that and bacon jam I need to put that order in for the for the kitchen. Hold on. Let me see. I'll meet. Mmm. Do we have anything like that? Yeah. Okay. I've got it in I put the order in

1:11:38 They'll have that. Alright, and he has some jingles that he'd like us to play. Anything else that he said there? No, but after the jingles you're gonna have to explain this smoking CDs. Okay, citizen. Why is that not playing? Come on, Obama, where are you? You might not... There we go. You've got karma. He was being pew-pewed up. No, this was when we were living in Guilford in the UK and I think We weren't home and Christina had I know she had a party. Yeah, probably at a party. She was very good at concealing that Anyway, I got back and I noticed that my weed was gone like So this was the mistake she made also there was a burn hole in the windscreen in front of my microphone. I

1:12:33 So I'm like, all right, what happened? Oh, well, yeah, some friends were over and you know, they had nothing to smoke. I said, my dad won't mind. Yeah, but they left me with nothing. So then they sheepishly, I don't remember who it was, some boys came over later and said, well, you know, we have some hash for you. I'm like, okay, but you guys are a-holes that you did that. And so it wasn't the best hash, but it kind of worked, I guess. But later I found out that these fuckers, they had melted CDs down and sold that to me as a block of hashish. What? You didn't notice that it tasted like plastic? No, it did not taste like plastic at all. Yeah, I think maybe the story was bogus.

1:13:27 That's a true story. No, I mean the story that they told you was bogus. They were just to get you. Oh, well, that could be. That could be. Hey, you smoked a CD, dummy. They got me twice in that case. Thanks guys! Yeah, that would be the case. And thank you David Boda. I don't know if you were part of that gambit. Boda must have been one of the guys. I don't think so. And thank you so much for your support of the work, the show, and all of the work all of our producers do to keep us going. Thank you. So the missing donation, which should be right here, I thought it'd be at the top, is Sir Anonymous, a dog patch. Ah, I was wondering if he was okay. We haven't heard from him in a while. Yeah, he came in with 1162. Huh.

1:14:11 So I believe this was supposed to be the show number 1162 and it just showed up late or he didn't mail it or it got bounced around. I have no idea. He may be doing remailing things, which is I have a sense as to what he's doing. Okay. Wait, he's doing what? Remailing. This is an old trick you use when you're overseas and you want to mail, like for example, if I want to mail, I could try it, but if I want to mail a note to Kim Jong-un, I'm probably better off sending my letter to a remailer in China. Ah, yeah, so it'll actually get through. Who would then post it. Yeah, got it.

1:14:50 And this guy is such a, really is a serious, I'm going to be anonymous guy, that it's possible that he does remailings and that's why this came in late. So we're going to give him the five bucks and make him the show. So we have two guys that will be show 1167. I like this. I like this. Yeah, we got two. Holy, but he does have his normal long note which we will read for this kind of input yes Thanks for all the producers for their continued support of the show keep supporting even when we disagree at least we aren't Snowflakes and melt from the blowback yeah Efforts to take freedoms away seems to be running amok in the eastern hemisphere

1:15:33 China imposing rule over Hong Kong and India over Kashmir will lead to bad outcomes. Hong Kong news has pushed India's oppression of the front page off the front page during Kashmir's Eid celebration. Fortunately, Saudi Arabia simultaneously used its financial muscle against India investing in 15 billion into India's largest refinery and locking in a long-term oil customer, displacing Iran who is pushed aside by US sanctions and he says yes that was sarcasm. Hong Kong and Kashmir are at risk of becoming Palestine like with mainland China and Hindu Indians. That's a good observation. Well what's interesting again is that I mentioned this on the show is that

1:16:23 I don't have it in front of me, but the population of Kashmir is like 55% Indian Hindus. Right. 35% Muslim. No, it's 45%, 35% and 20% of the population is Chinese. Oh, right. Yes, exactly. People don't realize that the population of Kashmir is 20% Chinese. They're the lungs of Kashmir, man. The lungs, man, it's the lungs. My lungs. Settlers buying up property and imposing their will. Kashmir, which is the Chinese he's referring to, Kashmir has too many weapons and allies, but two nuke powers facing each other is of no concern. Hong Kong will use its financial power to resist as long as possible, but China is patient and has greater financial resources plus a military. I really hope the US will stay away from both.

1:17:14 Military use is, we're not going to do anything in Kashmir, we don't even care. Military use, although the Chinese being in there, we might care. No, no, no. We're on India's side. We're on Modi's side. We've already declared our allegiance to Modi. We're not going to do anything. And by the way, the funny thing is Modi was not allowed, you know, they talk about, you know, they're banning people from coming in and they're... removing press credentials. Modi was not allowed in the United States before he became prime minister.

1:17:51 I didn't know that. He was a radically kind of a right-wing nut. Anyway, face it, US is only 5% of the world population with economic development and of the country's US military dominance is prolonged. In prolonged BOG conflicts is suspect peer-to-peer is different. I feel drone swarms and autonomous car- Hold on, I'm sorry. BOG? What is that? Go back, go read that sentence again. It's what it says, Prolonged BOG Conflicts. Capital B, Capital O, Capital G. I was hoping you'd look it up. Keep going, I'll look it up. Yeah. I fear drone swarms and autonomous car bombs in our future. Yeah. Tesla. You don't even need to put the bomb in it.

1:18:37 That's right, just have it crash. That's perfect. One show comment, John, you suggested having a president with business experience would be valuable in a recession. Hoover's successful business experience didn't help and probably hurt while Truman's failed business experience probably helped. Government is not business but politics and they are, but politics and they are distinct professions. I agree with that in terms of how and why decisions are made. Secondly, the current office holder is less a businessman than a brand manager.

1:19:13 An important source of his income is royalty payments for the use of his name. He will protect his brand over everything else. He has successfully made his vision of the US a brand. But Americans are fickle. We all know brand management is dynamic and he seems caught in his own rut and needs to refresh his brand. No jingles, no karma. He might have meant BOTG as in boots on the ground. Maybe that's what he meant. Boots on ground? Boots on ground? Maybe that's what he meant. Yeah, that's what he means. Okay. Prolonged boots on ground conflicts. US military dominance and prolonged boots on ground conflicts is suspect. Got it. Got it. Okay. Well, Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch, receiving one of your communiques, your communiques a la missives, is always a pleasure and thank you for your unwavering support

1:20:12 of the work we do and yeah keep that kind of information coming with or without a donation. That's the kind of information that we can use and appreciate that. And he never wants anything right? NJNK? Yep. Okay I got to give him a karma. Is it bad to give him a karma? Maybe. Then I won't do it. Don't want to. He says NJNK, NJNK it is. But thank you for your courage. This is for a reason. Yes thank you for your courage. Luke Mudge in Denver Colorado 1,000. After listening, he says, to last Saturday's donation segment, the last Sundays, I knew it was time for me to step up. I have lost track of how long it's been since listening to No Agenda. How long I've been listening to No Agenda, but

1:21:05 But last time I donated was back when the 69-69 donation was still a thing. It's been a couple years. Yeah, it's been long. Welcome back Luke. We even lost our girl I think. Yeah. You have kept me sane with your analysis through hours of prep work for my Asian Fusion food truck. Oh, so he preps food in the food truck while listening to the show. Nice. You might find a finger in there, but... Unfortunately, the food business has proven to be too much work compared to the income. Yeah, I can believe that. I can understand that. I mean, you know, and the food truck to me that I always go to is the taco truck. I always fall back to just a good old taco truck when I buy some fries.

1:21:53 So I decided to start looking for a day job. This, by the way, is foreboding for the food truck business. So people, if you get a cool food truck, you should get rid of it. Oh, if you're using it, you should use it. Yeah. Yeah, you should support it. If you got one, you should get rid of it. It's not going to be forever. No, for sure. This is a depression phenomenon, by the way. If I can get a Jobs Carmen, possibly a 69 jingle, it would be appreciated. Bring pork buns and buds to the roundtable if there is room now does he yes? So he becomes a knight today. Yes, I don't see where it says that well. It's in blue He's on the list and it says sir Luke of Northern Denver Let me just double check and make sure you what I've got here. It is an instant night donation There'd be no other reason to do it. Yeah, well. He doesn't say he's donated before oh

1:22:48 He said he donated back when the 69-69 he might have done. Oh, yeah. Alright, put him on the list or he's gonna- No, he's on the list. He's on the list. He already was, so I look forward to seeing him at the round table whether he's been there- You're gonna put the pork buns and buds? Hell yeah, got him on the order! 69! 69, dude! Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! Yeah! Onward to Thor, Thor Maruzik, you think? Maruzik, yeah, I'd say that's right. 3033.33, first time donor, long time boner, very long time in fact, been listening to Noah Jennings since episode one, having been a fan of DSC for some time. The weight of douche guilt is just unbearable.

1:23:46 I don't know if this donation earns me a right to be deduced or not, but I'll leave it to you. Yes, he does. Deducing him right away. You've been deduced. Of course. I'm soaking his guilt. As for jingles, I'd like you to play Here Comes the Zephyr, pronounced by Jordan Peterson, sounding Sounding AI by the AI version followed by Clippity-Clop, the message is clear. And for old times sake, oh that's for the message is clear for old times sake. Thank you for the best podcast in the universe, Thor, the Ukrainian from Toronto. There goes the zephyr.

1:24:24 Only seven cars though You've got karma Thank you very much Funny when I heard that the first time I didn't hear the only said now. Are you sure it's Thor because I have e whore I H o r is that a mistype or because I see it twice now I have a feeling it may be May not be Thor might be I well, how would you pronounce but maybe that's what I was asking for the pronunciation I H o r I whore e whore I or I or okay. Well, I mean it can't be a mistake a typo twice because it also I or The troll room is being very helpful with the phonetic phonetics of this. Yes. Thank you troll room. I understand I whore yes, very funny. I

1:25:23 I or if we're doing it wrong let us know but thank you so much for your support of the show and yes, deduced as is appropriate. All right, now we got a couple of email ones. I'm gonna switch these around because I already looked up Stephanie Whitehead. Stephanie has note in JCD's mailbox. And I do have that. And she came in with 277.88 to be the first associate executive producer. We're gonna backtrack on this. Her email is, while we're hung over and enjoying our weekly No Agenda Sunday brunch, I'd like to say happy third wedding anniversary to Sir

1:26:01 a Nives, K-Nives of the Providence Plantations this coming Tuesday, our anniversary is on the 27th. And Sir Nives, or Knives, I get it. K-I-V-E-S with a capital V in the middle. They got you on that one. Pass me that Knives, will ya? Yeah, that's what it is, it's got a capital V. I got it. Was born on July, okay, he needs to be on a birthday list, I think. Oh no, July 1988. Never mind. 27-7 is 88. Here's another reason for this number. Her donation. That's the donation number 277.88. Which I will explain in a short poem. A creative medium I haven't seen on the show. Which is unusual because we've had poetry, high-end poetry, on the DHM Plug Show. We've had haikus here from time to time.

1:26:58 The 33's there haunting me at the time the price paid my phone battery. A sign that it's time for a donation, but also for a celebration. As wife of Sir Knives of the Providence Plantations, reaches $1,000 today and becomes Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay. Oh, well she's definitely not on the list. Pronounce Narragansett for those unfamiliar with our tiny city. Everyone knows how to pronounce it. Stephanie Whitehead Whitehead becomes what's her name gonna be? Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay. Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay. Excellent. Well, I'm glad we cut that. She continues. Not my best poem, but after a long work week of writing, cue Adam's cheesy TV guy voice.

1:27:54 on-brand creative content for the global markets. I need to return to reality with the help of my smoking hot husband and of course, the best podcast in the universe. So she's a copywriter. For the round table, I request MDMA and IPAs. Now that's a woman right there. Nice. And if you have any leftover Adderall and LSD from Sir Knives' nighting, we can make it a real party. I also brought lots of free Play-Doh for the kids' table.

1:28:30 I'm bringing this all to the table today. It's funny. All right, jingles. All right, unprepared. Go hit it. Well, I'm going to read you the jingles. Then we're going to she's got one last thing at the end so you can have time. I'd like to a couple deductions, a relationship karma, goat flavored, please. And that's true. Like the 33 is another thing that perpetually perpetually haunts me. Which is, that's true. She keeps hearing it. So she just needs a relationship goat karma and that's true. One last thing and I'll send out, get out of your hair. It seems that there have been meetups everywhere in the world except for New England. We're gonna do one in Boston.

1:29:10 I am going to that one i'd be willing to smartier joke writer is i'd be willing to organize one somewhere near the rhode island area but only if crackpot and or bus kill would be willing to make the trip out here in person on a date of your choices maybe asking a lot. I'd be honored to even consider i'd recommend the fall because there's actually nothing like autumn in new england we familiar. Thank you for your courage. Happy anniversary to my beloved Sir Knives. Hey, are you gonna go? Did I hear you say that? I said I'd go to the Boston one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, fantastic. Mimi wants to go and see some friends. She has a bunch of friends there. So it's a double... Elizabeth Warren? Is she gonna go visit Liz? Liz. Absolutely. Well, thank you very much, Stephanie, and we will see you at the roundtable later for your daming turning you into a true lady. I love it! That's true.

1:30:05 You've got karma. Oops. Well, he's anonymous and Redwood City. So much for squirrel mail. But anonymous in Redwood City says it's amazing the feeling a donation to the show can provide. Also, there's two X reward points from my credit card as it as it is before the Labor Day deadline for extra rewards. Everyone make note. Almost a knighthood shooting to join the table by the end of the year I'll keep it short and sweet a shot of jobs karma would be great for an upcoming interview and a and a columbian for and and a columbians it says for crump would put a smile on my face.

1:30:53 I'd also like to gauge support for a meetup at a brewery or beer garden around Northern Silicon Valley, Redwood City, Palo Alto perhaps. Yes, we're gonna do one down there. It's probably gonna be in Cupertino. John, what day of the week would you prefer? Well, it'll be on the, we'll be talking about it in the newsletter. So yeah, expect something soon. And thank you very much for your support of the show. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! By the way, um... Your squirrel mail is getting pretty tight on the old verbiage list there. I get people who are resending emails to me because the word poop was in it and your spam filter blocked it. Yes, we had a new sysadmin because of the word poop. And he has got a word checker so if the mail consists of anything, poop,

1:31:56 anything, piss, anything, it gets killed and it gets sent right back to you. So don't cuss in your emails to me. I mean, Chris Wilson has probably had the most problems because he can't write anything without having something in there. Onward, Richard Hufford in Tampa, Arizona, 233.33. Honored to be associate executive producer celebrating 300 episodes since 867. Karma for everyone listening, step up to the plate and help John and Adam. Our world would be a lot darker without their no agenda show. Love and light to you gents. All things are reverend Al, thanks. According to my records, this donation should take me past knighthood. Happy to be Sir Richard of the Ludwigs.

1:32:46 Okay, for the Ludwig's. Yes. Crown Royal and ginger ale always works for me. Perfect. This is getting really long for today. Maybe some THC bomb flower. I don't know what that is. Yeah, I don't know what that is either. Yeah, and you would know. Love all things Reverend Allen. Karma for the No Agenda listeners. It works! It works! Love and happiness to the newlyweds. Onward, No Agenda Nation. You and John are the very best. It's a long version just for you. We haven't played it in a while. He's getting lunch at the Chipotle. The tortise in the race.

1:33:28 Kim Kardashian, Sigourney Weaver, R.E.S.P.I.C.T. They're all jitty. R.E.S.P.I.C.T. There's no real conflict. Resist. We must. Resist. We must. We must. And we will much about that. What do you think my favorite word in there is in that little speech, that song? Uh, well I like jitty. That's my favorite. Well, Chipotle's good too, but tortice. Tortice in the hair. The tortice in the hair! Getting all jitty with it!

1:34:20 Oh, it's Disser Dave Fugazotto. Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! 222 bucks. Thanks for your sanity and... $222.22. Thanks for your sanity and for your courage. He's baron of Kansas City. I should have known better. Baron of Kansas City. Missouri. In Mitcham, Victoria, Australia. 200 even. This is my second donation, adding 200. I previously donated. I love the fact you guys are unencumbered in your discussions, but are humble enough to admit when things go wrong or things you don't know, you admit these things. Yeah, we do.

1:34:57 We don't know anything, a lot of stuff. You can't know everything. A great example of the amygdala challenge insta-boys out there. Can I have jobs in property selling if that's a thing? Yeah, karma for my brother. I will subsequently hit him in the mouth real good. I'll do it real good. Come here brother. He's in Melbourne he says here okay. Yeah of course we can do that. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs. Karma. Now it appears I have to do another search for Blanco 75. Well, I'm not gonna do the whole squirrel. No, you know you shouldn't do that again. I do not want go 75 I do not have him in my emails. No, I don't know what happened to his note. It's right here apparently Oh, oh great more information for you

1:36:00 Birthday, okay. Oh, geez. I'm going to the end of the email first. Birthday. Ready? Got a pen? Happy birthday to my wonderful and smoking hot wife Dame Ashley, lady of the lake on August 28th. Note, ICM, forgive me, pod fathers. For it's been a while since my last donation. I signed on to my PayPal account and found that I had a $140 balance I didn't know about. So I decided what better way to spend it than to get one step closer to my knighthood and support the best podcast in the universe. And we recommend people go look if they have a PayPal account. Most people just use their credit card when they click on a donation button. But if you have a PayPal account,

1:36:45 That money sitting in there is languishing. Last time I wrote in, Adam called me a hero for working with the millennials that play with kinetic sand and won't look you in the eye when they talk. I'm happy to say that I negotiated an independent contractor deal to get out of that place and now work from home so I can concentrate on real estate investment business. I wish homes were like that. I even connected with a couple other investors from the No Agenda show and encouraged any others to get in touch. Chris at Wish Home. I would Chris said I wish homes dot com. Oh, OK. Our entire family, my wife, myself and six kids. Yikes. All listen to the show. No. Now that's nice.

1:37:32 And so happy birthday. You got it on the birthday list as you get on there. Yeah, I put we have to make we love to make fun of the stupid things that kids bring home for social studies homework. Oh, did you see? I'll wait until you're done with this. And I got to yeah. And by the way, if you have some really stupid stuff, scan it, send it to us. We like to make fun of it to things I like the definition of Things I like. The definition of a law is a set of rules everyone agrees to or the insistence from teachers, what? Okay, let me just start over. Things like, these are things that he gets. The definition of a law is a set of rules everyone agrees to or, okay, that's one of the things. Yeah, that's not a law, but okay. That's what the class teaches. That's why they're laughing about it. Yeah, I know, that's what I'm saying. This is what the class teaches.

1:38:28 or the insistence from the teachers that we live in a democracy. I'm still waiting for one of them to bring home the question, what is the purpose of government? There isn't one. I would like our response. That's what would be our response. Yes. Yes. I'm sure the teachers love us. Anyways, anyways, he says, keep up the good work. The whole family relies on you guys to keep us safe. Have you noticed that this is now accepted in common parlance? Adding an S to anyway, anyways. I mean, I'm tired of it. I don't correct people anymore. I'm like, you're an idiot. Anyways. Guys do it as a, as a, as a, Oh no, I hear this. Oh, get out of the house. Okay. I'm gone. I'm done. Okay. I got one. We got to start. This is a, uh, in advance of us, either one of us using this phrase, which is starting to crop up everywhere.

1:39:26 And I'm just, if you should agree with me, this has got to be banned from the show and people if they hear it, they should boo the TV. Pump the brakes! I've not heard this one. I'm familiar with it, but I haven't heard this one. Oh pump the brakes on that story Oh pump the brakes on that idea. That's a real old one. That's an old one pump. That's like 60s. It's back And I've heard at least five times recently and I saw it in one of the articles on the Brazilian fires It says pump the brakes on the stories about the fires And that was doubt someone that got me

1:40:02 Did Christopher need any karmas or jingles? Business karma for why wish homes it would be said to be helpful. We can do that of course You've got karma. I did want to say John in the category of producers and their kids I'm sure you saw it but for those who didn't on the tweeters one of our anonymous producers is For some reason I guess it was okay for us to play this because he tweeted out a video his wife had sent to him Did you see this? No, so his his wife sends him a video. I guess he's on the road and Here's what she says your daughter was playing with one of the little

1:40:45 Pianos and guess what? She said she did this little jingle on the piano and then she said You are D douched Yeah, so you think she doesn't listen to your podcast, but she totally does so Awesome words were picking up there Let's just let you know What do you do means no, but when I hear oh A message that starts with, your daughter is like, ding ding ding ding, alarm bells. Your daughter. And then, you think she doesn't hear your pod, your podcast. And then, interesting words she's picking up there. I presume that they're okay with this, otherwise he wouldn't have tweeted out that video, I guess. I think, I hope it's an inside joke between them. Well, it sounds to me as though the missus

1:41:43 doesn't listen to the show or like us. That's correct. That's my guess. Yes. Which happens, but at least the kids are listening and that's a plus. Yeah, that's a good start for our next 20 years. Matthew Barr is our last on the list for his associate executive producer and he's in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Dear John and Adam from Canada, thank you for the outstanding news deconstruction. You guys are awesome. I've been listening since 2013 and after a couple of shows I was hooked. It's been a while since I've donated and would request to be de-douched. Absolutely. You've been de-douched. Remember that children.

1:42:28 And in fact, he goes on, my wife sometimes will humor me and listen to the show, but my kids love the show. And I've been listening with me since they were nine and 11. They especially love the jingles like, that's true. And of course, the I've got ants song. I've recently started a small business, so I'd like to give a quick plug to Rebels Depot at rebelsdepot.com. We sell dark and cutting edge designs in the alternative fashion market, including skull fashion and jewelry, which is popular.

1:43:10 popular stuff with the Millennials. I'd like to offer NOAGEN a list. It's 15% off of all of our products at RebelsDepot.com. Use the discount code NOAGEN and 5% of all sales will be donated back to the show. I'd like to request the I've Got Ants song to be played at the end of the show and if you can fit it in. My kids love that song. Also, If I can get a small business goat karma, that would be great. Thanks again This truly is the best podcast in the universe Matt. I'm looking at rebels depot.com cool stuff There's a in particular. There's a steampunk t-shirt. That's dynamite It's like hot topic only good Very cool. Yeah, absolutely. You got your new business karma. Thank you for your support. You've got a

1:44:01 And that is our nice list of associate executive producers and executive producers for our show 1167. Thank you all so much. This was big for us and it really helps now that we're just getting through the dog days of summer. Appreciate your support of the show and you know I was talking with the Sir Dave Baron Dave last night and you know he said it's so weird it's like It's like catching up with family or something. I know the feeling. It's exactly what it is. And that's what we are. We're one big family. And I have to keep saying, this show would not be what it is without our producers. And everybody contributes in some way. And we love to thank our financial producers, the execs and associate executive producers, right up front as soon as we can within the show. So thank you so much for your courage. We will be thanking more people in our second segment. And we will be back here for more Deconstruction on Thursday. To help out, go to... Devorak.

1:44:54 Oh, I do want to do special karma, health karma. Sir Chris, not Sir Chris Wilson, but the other Sir Chris who went in for the electrical cardio version that converted his a-fib to sinus rhythm with his heart has reverted. It hasn't depressed me, but it's frustrating me. It's not cancer, thank God, but it's disappointing me and keeping me from being like you, Adam, and being a spinner. Can't spin with a-fib. No, that might be bad.

1:45:54 Love and Light. Also, Karma for Isaac Pigott, who has apparently, for reals, cancer issues. We hadn't heard from Pigott in a while, and we actually came up at conversation just last night. Where's Ike? So we're going to hand out two Karmas for health, and of course we'll add some F-cancer here. With a twist of goat! You've got... Karma. Karma to you my friends. Okay, China. This is kind of where we left off before the donation segment. What we... what? I'm sorry? Well before we do that, could you look on the spreadsheet and see if there's a J. Spencer Krusteck anywhere on there?

1:46:52 Because he did send a note in this morning as if he maybe had donated something yesterday. It's came in too late to do it today if he didn't. No, I do not see him, Spence. He will be bumped to Thursday for his knighthood. Oh, geez. Okay. There's no specific reason that has to be today? Well, it could be today. But then it might show up again on Thursday. Right, well cutoffs are cutoffs. Yeah, so we'll put you on Thursday. China okay, China China China, that's where we left off where the news what I felt was significant news of Patrick Byrne and the Russia collusion was rudely interrupted our conspired this conspiracy theory has been interrupted by something about China and Just to get us in the mood for China. I think

1:47:46 I'm gonna play the full clip but the ISO speaks for itself. This was just one of the most dynamite ISOs we'll ever get, I believe. This was a protester in Hong Kong. Yeah, that's definitely the... there's no topper for that. I need a t-shirt. China is asshole. That's a t-shirt right there. Asshole. That's fantastic. I love the Chinese now. Well, the Hong Kong Chinese have always been kind of... It's very funny. China is asshole. It's A-S-S-H-O in case you're wondering the spelling of asshole.

1:48:52 Well, I have a couple of clips about the tariff mess. Yes, I'd like your take and I have a little Chinese. Let's play the clips first. These are, I believe, from NBC, Trump tariff mess. We start with that one. Tonight, President Trump threatening to hike tariffs on some Chinese products in response to Beijing this morning slapping new tariffs on $75 billion in American-made goods. The president unloading a series of furious tweets, including this extraordinary directive. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies home. President Trump, who doesn't have the authority to do that,

1:49:30 Revealing his anger amid recent warning signs a recession could be on the horizon. While some US companies have started looking for other places like Vietnam to produce their products. Many businesses want to move could be time-consuming and costly, threatening to put them out of business. The president also lashing out at his hand-picked Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell tweeting, my only question is who is our bigger enemy? Jay Powell or China's Chairman Xi? That swipe after Powell today didn't rule out future interest rate cuts, but suggested the central bank was limited in what it could do to buffer the president's trade policies. Mr. Trump's repeatedly ignored the longtime tradition that a president respect the Fed's independence. Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve have totally missed the call. Jay Powell's made a big mistake. The latest clash hours before President Trump heads to the G7 summit with allies waiting, already anxious about a slowing global economy.

1:50:25 Peter Alexander NBC News the White House. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they're framing this in a very interesting way. Yeah, well, they're framing it in and the financial way saying that because which is really strange. I mean, I've always understood economy great. You got to raise the rates. to combat that, to slow it down a bit. But now it's great and we're gonna cut the rates, which is kind of the opposite of what we've always been told. And I guess that's the framing of it, is we, you know, the financial policy, that's why they put that in the same story with China? I guess. Do they know what they're doing?

1:51:11 Play clip 2. This is Tom Costello caught in the crosshairs of America's feud with China. Peerless precision near Boston, a defense and aerospace contractor. The trade war has sent the cost of steel and aluminum soaring, cutting company profits in half. If I have to raise prices, there's a really good chance that I'm going to lose that job the next time around and possibly the customer. Wall Street today went into a nosedive with Apple and automakers hit hard after China said it will retaliate against US tariffs with tariffs of its own on American-made products, targeting American-made cars, farm products, oil and clothing, making them more expensive in China.

1:51:52 Meanwhile, the National Retail Federation is rejecting President Trump's demand that American companies leave China, writing, is not working, it's doing significant damage to our economy, it risks running the economy into a ditch. Tonight, US business is holding its breath. There's no end date to this as far as I'm aware, which is even worse. Everyone's on the edge of their seat right now waiting to see what's going to happen next. And Tom joins me now. Tom, put this in perspective. Are there any estimates on how much this trade war might cost American families? Yeah, JP Morgan, for example, says it could cost the average household a thousand dollars a year with the tariffs taking effect in September, then again in December. And if this trade war worsens, that number could grow even more, Lester. All right, Tom Costello, thank you. Hmm, okay. Funny thing that's being conflated here we should mention.

1:52:56 The United States with the, I don't know, 350 million out of a 7 billion population. They keep saying this, in fact actually Anonymous mentioned it too, but he just did the real number. He says the US is 5% of the world's population. In that report they said the US is 5% of the world's consumers. We are the lungs of the world's consumers my friend. We're the lungs of the world's consumers. This is bullcrap. The population of 7.53 billion are not consumers in the modern sense of the word. Somebody you know that's pounding

1:53:37 rocks in some obscure area of the world in a native environment or the one million people that live in the rainforest, I got that figure out of the blue, that are pretty much primitives, really shouldn't be counted as consumers. The number of Western-style consumers is probably a lot less than 7.53 billion. Yeah, you'd think. Just mention that. But they always try to do this to say, you know, they always try, it's a demeaning thing to say, well, you're 5% of this and you'd show up 20% of the world's resources. Well, that is the AOC message. That is the message of the world's left. America bad.

1:54:21 Yes, but it's for the purposes of world government. Of course, of course, we know what the purpose is, of course. Merck bad. Merck bad. I don't know, to be honest, but I don't know what to make of this. If you have any thoughts on this, Ray. Yeah, I have a couple of things. Let's hear it. Well, first of all, the president said, I can absolutely order these companies to do that. You should take a look at the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Which is indeed true. The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act does give the president sweeping control of economic transactions. Is that the Carter administration? I believe so. I think so. A Democrat, yes.

1:55:13 As of March 1st, 2019, presidents had declared 54 national emergencies invoking IEEPA, 29 of which are still ongoing. Typically national emergencies invoking IEEPA, that's what we're going to call it, last nearly a decade, although some have lasted significantly longer. The first state of emergency declared under the NEA and IEPA which was declared in response in the taking of US embassy staff as hostages by Iran in 79 will now enter its fifth decade. So that's been ongoing. So this is not atypical, but it's Trump so it has to be dictator Hitler, literally Mussolini. So that is what it is there. Now the president also tweeted out something else.

1:56:01 and I don't have it in front of me but he said look look these guys aren't playing ball and they promised to stop the fentanyl. They have not stopped the fentanyl. This is what I think he's signaling something interesting here and it is a big deal. It is. There was a big bust recently of fentanyl too, huge. Yeah, and you know, so much fentanyl has been confiscated, it could kill everybody in America twice over easily. And so I just wanted to go back in history for a moment. I did some diving on this, on China and our relationship, and the first thing I came across was the movie from John Pilger, a movie slash documentary,

1:56:49 about, it's called The Coming War on China. It came out in 20, end of 2017, 2018. It's a complete, I mean, the whole thing is, it's good to see something like this and it's in the show notes from one-sided perspective. It's a very globalist, anti-American documentary. The first half is all about the Marshall Islands and how we killed everybody and used people as guinea pigs and blew all the shit up and and how we're horrible and we're just encroaching around China. That's what it's all about. And it's good for background, but there was one bit in there that I didn't know too much about and that is the opium wars. And in fact I had a conversation with my millennial here at home who corrected me and said no this was about silk and stuff and you know and I she studied this in school so she would know. But this documentary

1:57:41 I'm not gonna argue... Studying something in school doesn't mean you know anything. Correct, but that's not how you approach it. What you do is you go and research it and you play some shit on the show. For the American elite in the 19th century, China was a gold mine. of drugs. Warren Delano, the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the American opium king of China. He was the biggest American opium dealer, second to the British. He welcomed the first American ship into China to help out with the opium wars. Much of the East Coast of America, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, were born from opium money.

1:58:25 The American Industrial Revolution was funded by huge pools of money. Where did this come from? It came from illegal drugs in the biggest market in the world, China. Let me get this right. The grandfather of arguably the most liberal president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a drug runner. Yes, sir. Franklin Delano Roosevelt never made much money in his life. He had public service jobs that were very lowly paid, but he had yachts, he had summer homes, he had mansions in New York City, the kids went to private schools. He inherited a fortune from Warren Delano, his father, who was the American opium king of China.

1:59:08 If you scratch anyone with the name Forbes in their name, John Forbes Carey, Secretary of State John Forbes Carey. That's the present Secretary of State. Yes, sir. You'll find opium money. His great-grandfather was an opium dealer. How big was opium money? Opium money built the first industrial city in the United States, Lowell, Massachusetts. It built the first five railroads in the United States. Opium money all over the East Coast, but it wasn't talked about. It was called the China trade. And if you go to various museums, you can see tees and silks,

1:59:44 Exhibited and they keep quiet about all that big opium money And so the literature and I thought that was interesting and the literature that is taught, you know talks about the China trade Specifically, but the opium wars and all that is kind of pushed over to the Brits, you know It's a the Brits did that and then they and then of course they colonized and they took over everything but we had American military in Tiananmen Square with on horseback riding around and And interesting about John Forbes Carey. I didn't know that that was the source of some of his wealth so Taking that into context. There's a new movie that was announced this week called claws of the Red Dragon I don't think it's gonna be slated for the theatrical release. It's produced by Steve Bannon Yes, that's Steve Bannon as we like to call him on the show and

2:00:36 And he sat down for an interview, I pulled three clips which relate specifically to what we just heard. to the tariffs and strategies and it appears to me that he's still on good speaking terms with the president. All that must have been a lot of posturing to get him out of the White House because I mean this is all in, all in from all sides. Here he is talking about the tariffs and of course the Minor spec that we are as a country compared to China's 4,000 year history Trump's program is a half a trillion dollars in tariffs right to tariff goods because he knows the Chinese can't respond correct and here's why they can't respond people in the United States have to understand one thing the Chinese look at us as a tributary state to them and let me explain that

2:01:31 China's been around for 4,000 years, right? They've had good runs and they've had bad runs. Okay, but one thing they know and the reason they're still organized as a nation over 4,000 years, right? They know how to handle allies and they know how to handle bad guys. Okay, now what they've done is they got this system called barbarian management And they know how to manage barbarians the way they manage barbarians is they take the leaders of the barbarians and they give them a taste of the good life and You're gonna be you're gonna be something special you're gonna get a special deal now What happens back into the tributary state is whatever happens that's your problem? that

2:02:25 guy from Yale who wrote Hillbilly Elegies is the best sociological study of the Trump voter. And it was JD Vance who told me, he says, hey, those studies that come out of MIT and Harvard show that there's a direct correlation between the factories that left for China, the jobs that left with them, and the opioid crisis. It's not about tariffs. What this is about is human dignity and self-worth. Those factories went, Wall Street made the money, the corporations benefit from it for lower cost, and devil catch the hindmost on the workers. We're Jamestown to their Great Britain. Okay, and that's why the tariffs at the scale that Trump put them up at, they can't respond to.

2:03:03 So I thought of, I don't know if it's in the movie, but I found it kind of interesting that he made that connection. He says there is this connection between the jobs going to, the manufacturing going to China and the opium crisis that we, opioid crisis that we have here in the States. It, you know, I don't take anything for granted. These are not just coincidences in my mind. You know, I think China's very happy to say, here fuckers, remember that? Take this. I don't put it past them. And why would you? Very different culture. Well, the opium wars did end. So they can stop the fentanyl? Oh yeah, of course they can stop the fentanyl anytime they want to, but they're not. And man, Scott Adams did a periscope and he was like, kill him, just kill him. He lost his stepson to overdose and he's like, we should just go in and kill the executives of the companies making that.

2:03:55 Talk to someone who's affected by it directly you get a different message than you and I might put out there. So then, and this is a long intro, it only took three clippies. And again going back to this documentary from Pilgrim, About the disputed islands we talked about them a lot in fact day mastered and sir mark You know they do reign over the disputed islands, and they're not happy there in Japan They are not happy at all about what the what the Chinese are doing now They're in the South Chinese Sea, and I had not heard of where this came from where they're The Chinese notion that they can be anywhere in that body of water, and it's you know That's kind of like Malacca Straits. This is us and

2:04:40 You know, this is, we patrol that, we keep it safe, it's open, that's the super highway of all shipping lanes. Now these guys have got these bases they're building and it's called the nine dotted lines or nine dashed lines and he goes into it in this clip. China considers the South China Sea to be the internal sea to China. I know. The nine dotted line of 1949 is a joke. They think it's a territorial sea. I know. They are not prepared. The first thing they'll tell you that the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of China is not to be questioned. Not to be questioned. And they consider that non-dot line, you know, the more people put it into documents, the more people put it on TV shows, the more people that re-infer that meme, they want because they believe that that's reality. You ask me what's going to happen, the South China Sea

2:05:31 The situation in Qatar and the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea are the two greatest hot spots in the world for a global conflict to start, okay? Not Korea. Korea's a vassal state of China. The whole Korean thing is nothing but a Chinese drama, okay? And President Trump's doing an amazing job on it. My recommendation is I think the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who to me has been very even-handed with China and really tried to build a relationship, I think you ought to give the Chinese 72 hours 72 hours to take every radar, every offensive thing on military, all the jets, everything out of the runways, everything off the islands. You get 72 hours to take it all off.

2:06:13 And on the 72nd hour and one minute, the United States Navy is going to go in there and take it off for them. And then I think they ought to take those reefs and they ought to dismount them and turn them back into international waters. They say the United States is provocative. by putting the United States Navy back into the South China Sea to keep the sea lanes open. I happen to believe where this relationship is going, and the lack of a real response that China is going to have, that they're going to try to do something provocative in the South China Sea to try to initiate a response. And I think the President ought to be proactive on this. I don't know if that's gonna happen but this nine... War, war! Yes, of course. This nine dash line, it's on the Wikipedia. That's crazy. It was some map that came out in 1912

2:07:09 And there's, it's literally a couple dashes around this entire China Sea, like that's our borders right there. It's, and they believe in that. I didn't know about this nine dash line thing, but that's where they get this, this territory from, they say that that is, that that is theirs and clearly Banyan wants us to start a kinetic war over that. But this is the most interesting thing he said, last clip for this, and he explains here how Trump, you know he's a very stable genius, has actually worked with great headwinds without pumping the brakes on it.

2:07:53 to create an entire manufacturing zone to compete with China. Yes, the tariffs in and of themselves on a nominal number, an absolute number are not huge, but we look at the convergence of everything. What Trump has done is said, hey, we're at economic war and we're going to hit back with him. We're going to hit back with the three or ones to stop the forced technology transfers. We're going to put these tariffs into the scale they've never seen before. We're going to have the ability if we so desire to liquidate companies like ZTE to basically cut them off from their component parts. in the West, they'll be out of business in 90 days. Also the new things about investments, about these limitation investments. The Siphius reform that people are talking about. You bring all forces of government together on that and the stopping of intellectual property, you have something. What Trump has done, and this is why NAFTA was so important, the new NAFTA deal that he's created,

2:08:44 is basically setting up a geo-strategic manufacturing base to counter East Asia, okay? And Japan is very quickly gonna be part of that. A bilateral deal, not some TPP deal, or just one among many. A direct bilateral deal with Japan as a partner. We've got one with Korea we're updating. And then the EU, Juncker has already told Trump, has already indicated that they're gonna be a part of this too. What Donald Trump has done in less than two years against the second law of thermodynamics, right? The immutable law of the rise of China. What he's done is reoriented the entire world's supply chain away from China. And this is gonna have economic growth opportunities that are gonna be incredible. And he's done that kind of single-handedly against the fighting of the corporatist lobby, the fighting of the Wall Street investor relations department, et cetera. So that's why I think it's really heroic.

2:09:37 Sounds plausible. He's got to get some people to sign off on some stuff though. Time to invest in Mexico. Yeah, or Canada. Canada is a part of that. Yeah. So, and I don't know if Juncker, you know, if he, if any of that power carries over with the new election. But, no, anyway, I'm curious to see what this Claws of the Red Dragon movie will be. Well, we're probably one of the few people to actually watch it. Yeah, and who would care. But the guy's not a dummy, that Banyan. No, he's not. He's no dummy. A little pompous though. This interview was done in a hangar with a jet and Mercedes parked next to the jet. It's like, oh brother. Yeah, that's a bit much. Undisclosed location, a hangar. Very funny.

2:10:42 Yeah, why? What's the point? I don't know. Man, what else we got? Oh, do you have anything on Brexit? I hear weird stuff. You know, I'm looking for Brexit stuff and no, because the Brexit thing is kind of like languishing with pretty much what we've talked about already. There's some stuff we should at least mention Italy having their tribulations. That hasn't been discussed at all. No. Let's play this. Okay. Italy has been plunged into a political crisis as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he's resigning. He made the announcement after far-right Interior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, withdrew support for the right-wing populist coalition in power and called for a no-confidence vote. Giuseppe Conte took aim at Salvini as he addressed the Parliament yesterday.

2:11:35 It is clear who is the person responsible for the government crisis, but if they lack courage, the political courage, no problem, I will assume it. I believe this is the only conclusion, the only necessary, transparent and coherent and linear conclusion. I thank you very much. Dude, that guy's got like strings of goop when he's talking in his mouth. You hear that? I have the courage, the political courage, no problem, I will assume it. I believe this is the only conclusion, the only necessary, transparent and coherent and linear conclusion. I thank you very much. The outgoing Prime Minister Conte then headed to the presidential palace to formally submit his resignation.

2:12:16 If a new majority coalition cannot be formed to run the government, the president will likely call for early elections. While political analysts say Salvini is unlikely to ascend to the premiership, the immigration hardliner could gain more power as his popularity continues to grow in Italy. So what does this mean in your estimation? Well, I think it's just another, you know, it's another falling, falling, it's another take over by the migrants that have created these situations in these countries that is untenable and they're gonna end up having to be run by the central government in the EU.

2:12:54 I mean they already put somebody in earlier, remember that was a couple years ago? They took over Italy and then they let it pass back to... Oh yeah, they had the technocrats come in. Yeah. Whatever his name was. They're gonna do it again. Jeez. And I understand... He's a mess. I understand Bojo might be pushing for a snap election before the October 31st date. Well, you know what that means Nigel Nigel Nigel In the Netherlands in the Netherlands a Nigel song. What's that? Making time for Nigel The Nitz the Nitz Chris Wilson could find that song and make it into a Nigel song the Nitz making plans for Nigel there you go. Yeah, the Nitz everybody. It's nuts. Yeah

2:13:45 In the Netherlands, thousands of Dutch have signed up for a beach party for Brexit. On October 31st they will all stand at the beach and wave goodbye to the UK. 52,000 might be going. Seven for sure. Is this some sort of a joke? No, they're really gonna do it. They're gonna stand on the beach and wave goodbye to Britain. The Dutch still have some humor. I'm happy to see that. Well let's talk about something a little off topic. Yeah. Or not totally off topic but vaping. Oh boy. Okay. We're vaping death by the way. So let's try, I got two clips. I got e-cigarettes expose on NBC. Let's play that first. The safety of e-cigarettes is under increased scrutiny as even more people including teenagers are being hospitalized for severe lung disease linked to vaping. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren has more on the urgent call for action.

2:14:48 This was 17 year old Tristan Zofield less than a month ago. I could just feel my heart just pounding out of my chest. His lungs so damaged he was unable to breathe on his own. The day they intubated him was probably the worst day of my life. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong until they found out Tristan had been vaping. He's now one of more than 150 cases of vaping related lung disease being investigated across the country. No one has been able to establish what type of e-cigarette or what flavor or what brand or put any one thing together that has

2:15:23 led to this increase. The American Vaping Association says the evidence continues to point to street bought vaping cartridges containing THC or synthetic drugs. Tonight the FDA, which regulates e-cigarettes, says it's working with CDC and state health officials as quickly as possible to gather more information. Scott Gottlieb was the head of that agency until April. We addicted a whole generation of kids on nicotine through these vaping products and this isn't like a teen fad that you can just turn off. He calls it an addiction crisis. We're going to be at a point where we have to ask whether or not some of these products should come off the market. Tristan, who's likely to have permanent lung scarring, vows to never touch an e-cigarette again. When you walk into a high school or whatever, like you walk into the bathroom and you'll see 10 or 12 kids huddling around, either passing one around. If the short-term effects are this bad, then you know, what good can come out of it? Questions now facing health officials and millions of kids headed back to school.

2:16:20 Well now as the resident vapor of the Noah's show Before you do that. I want to play the next clip Okay, cuz I do want your input on this and I know where you're going already Because of the giveaway that was in the first clip But so NBC always likes to do a couple of these the same story or a few two or three times you'd usually at least twice So this was the follow-up story And they brought this one out just because somebody died. Next tonight, that alarming headline about e-cigarettes. Health officials are reporting what may be the first deaths linked to vaping. And the CDC warning tonight that cases of lung disease are rising among people who vape. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren has the latest. Tonight, the possible connection between a mystery illness and vaping taking a deadly turn. Unfortunately, yesterday we received a report of a death of an adult.

2:17:12 in someone who was recently hospitalized with severe respiratory illness. The CDC is on the ground in Illinois as the number of people hospitalized has doubled there in the past week. 193 cases are now being investigated in 22 states, mostly in teens and young adults. The symptoms? Cough, shortness of breath and fatigue. on alert, asking patients if they've been vaping. It's not sure whether it is a particular compound, a contaminant, it's nicotine, it's THC, nobody really knows. According to the CDC, many patients, but not all, have acknowledged recent use of products with THC. The actual

2:17:50 ingredient in marijuana which vaping advocates say is the real problem. 31 year old Sean Bills is in a medically induced coma in Utah. His wife has turned over all his vaping paraphernalia to the local health department to try to help find a link in an increasingly dire search to find answers and prevent more deaths. Alright you wanna is there something you wanted to know before I start? Yeah I'll say a couple things before you start. This seems to be some sort of a setup. They're going after doing something. There's something behind this. I don't know what it is, but I'm always concerned with these news stories where the term they don't know shows up. This is like those drugs they sell and say, we don't even know how it works, but here it is.

2:18:39 We know it works, but we don't know why. I mean these things always concern me and this they don't know. I mean this there's enough, there's hundreds of people that are being hospitalized. You'd think they'd know more than nothing. All right, all right. Well obviously there's messaging that went out. Who knows maybe even the Hollywood Health and Safety Lear Foundation is in this. E-cigarettes, there's no such thing anymore as an e-cigarette. Have you seen anyone walking around with a thing that looks like a cigarette with the end lights up like it's a cigarette? Yeah. Ten years ago, so this e-cigarettes, this is a positioning word because no one uses e-cigarettes anymore. I don't think you can even buy the e-cigarettes.

2:19:23 What they don't want to say is Juul, that's one part, because Juul is owned by one of the largest tobacco manufacturers. They bought it for eight billion dollars. So in the first story, very, very cautious to point out that these pre-loaded pods, very dangerous, this street stuff. But in both stories, they don't talk about the... and I was just recently at the vape store and I was talking my vaporista. And you know there is no more homemade juice that you can buy anymore, you can still make it of course. It's all FDA approved now, it's gone through the regulatory process. Just in Texas, no on the September they will be raising the age limit for all nicotine related products from 18 to 21, so they really want

2:20:10 this market to be fluid and they want people getting the legal stuff. And that's the problem is when you get these and I've had many I've tried many cartridges Justin the drug dealer would you know like a year or two ago he's on and he'd be putting it together and it was shit and you know I'd like take one drag it was THC and God knows whatever I'm like no this is like the CDs that were melted man I can't smoke this makes you cough it's no good This the approved Produced ones that do go through a regulatory process including THC from California are quite good So this is all about getting everybody on the legal stuff It's just like marijuana like weed itself out of our minds and gone from the conversation And I just was thinking of this yesterday. I'm like oh look look look I found a seed one seed and

2:21:04 When you used to buy pot, John, back in our pot days. Pot. You'd have to get the Peter Frampton comes alive double album to separate the stems and the seeds from the weed. There were so many seeds and you could grow your own. So it's all, it's a trick. It's a mind control. Don't think about how you can make this yourself or grow this yourself or anything like that. Go to the approved stuff. And that's all that this is. But clues there are they're complaining about the THC preloaded cartridges would have nothing to do with kids apparently are vaping in schools. And I also don't think many of the THC cartridge producers put nicotine in there as well. So, it's positioning, there's big money behind it, it was more native ad than anything. We'll find out. It's all regulatory, we've been looking at this for how many, two years now?

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2:28:03 Old folks minding karma for a Viscount Sir Baz man flew karma for irritable Homeless doc o karma to the professor and some cash flow karma my way would be nice finally if you're okay with it There goes the Zephyr. Yes, of course. We played that several times Thank you for your courage and my resulting small league amygdala Love you all cheers from sir Chris the drunken minstrel and your karma will be bundled in at the end Thank you very much, sir. Chris. You don't have to do that you specifically but we appreciate it What I found interesting is 8008 turns out to be 5206. Jackson Butler in Leveland, Texas 5150, Sir Phenom 5090 in Appleton, Wisconsin. Another birthday for Kevin Mazenberg, parts unknown.

2:28:56 Dude named Kevin 5013 we got a birthday list on the birthday list following people are $50 donations Name and location if available starting with sir crack in Ireland Ie I'm sure that's that's Ireland. Mm-hmm a little raw stuff on Don sounds like any place but Ireland Alexa Delgado in Aptos, California. Brett Pinter, Derek Bird in Clifford Park, New York, 50. Julian Robbins, Aptos, California. Jesus Allen in Austin, Texas.

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2:30:28 Slash N A Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. It's your birthday, birthday. I'm no one's champion. It is the 25th of August, 2019. Here's our birthday list for today. First of all, we have a belated death. A belated wish from Kevin Meisenberg to his niece Ella. She's celebrated on the 13th of August. Eileen Sauer turned 69 today. Kevin Meisenberg says happy birthday to his niece Hazel. He's on time for this one. Her birthday will be tomorrow on the 26th. Brandon Hills says happy birthday to Sir Jack Mormont. And Christopher Blanco says happy birthday to Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake. She celebrates on the 28th. Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.

2:31:26 Let me see we have no title changes today, so that's kind of good. Let's get into our nightings right away I'd like to do those if I can get your big blade up big blade beard is Monster Blade Up on the podium, please. David Boda, Luke Mudge and Stephanie Whitehead. You three are about to enter the round table of all our No Agenda Knights and Dames. They're here ready for you. We've got special orders on deck for what you wanted. And this is because of your support of the show and $1,000 or more. And therefore, proud to pronounce the Kate, the Sir Euchre of Sandy Ridge, North Carolina, Sir Luke of Northern Denver and

2:32:01 Lady Butters of the Narragansett Bay, for you we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, MDMA and IPAs, Adderall and LSD, Play-Doh for the kids, Bluffs Beer and Bacon Jam, Pork Buns and Bud, and of course, aside from the sparkling cider and escorts and ginger ale and gerbils, we've got Mutton and Mead. Who doesn't love a little bit of Mutton and Mead? Go to noagendination.com slash rings and we'll have Eric DeShill get back to you as soon as possible to send out that hit him in the mouth in Latin in reverse. NO AGENDA MEETUP! Meetups, meetups, that's right! The meetups are going great. Quick report from Salem, Oregon, Local 33. We had 16 attend our latest Oregon meetup. It sent a nice picture, a nice diverse crowd. Our meetup included a cover art slideshow and since there were so many new faces we had a recap of the No Agenda Jeopardy game played at the Portland meetup.

2:32:56 which I have received. I guess there's a whole bunch of things that go along with it. It's like a trivia game, but it is indeed in the vein of Jeopardy. We also included another round of the Gitmo Nation National Anthem, which is great. People just start singing it, they know all the words. We collected only a little cash, $25 submitted by PayPal. It was in a jar with your heads attached to it marked, dollars to reject any exit strategy, contributions directly to no agenda. So I guess... They don't want us to exit. As always, reasonable amygdala sizes prevailed and easy conversation flowed. Thank you for your courage, Tim, the gentleman of the Manor Executive. Now I have a list of the new meetups, the meetups that we have starting today. Nebraska at 3.30 p.m. and these are all local times, of course. The inaugural Nebraska NOAAgenda Meetup, a meeting place for great minds and open discussion. It's at Cosmic Eye Brewing. Tyler is organizing that.

2:33:55 On Thursday, this is the Burning Man Black Rock City, 2.33pm to 4.20pm. Get it? at Big Puffy Yellow, that's the camp, it's at 6NK, we're called Big Puffy Yellow, ask for the original Jason. If someone doesn't know who that is, then ask for the other Jason, who's not as good-looking as the original Jason, you'll be able to figure it out. Then we have August 31st, that is Saturday, Busan, South Korea, 7 p.m. This will be at the Galmegi Brewing Company, And that starts at 7pm. The 31st on Saturday, the Sao Paulo meetup at 9pm. This is at the Raniere Tabacaria. If you can find it because it'll be dark all day because of the fires. Yes, grab your flashlights and head over there at 9pm. Also on Saturday, the 31st, the Cottage Country meetup.

2:34:54 Petersburg, Ontario, Canada 7 p.m. That'll be at Riley's if you're up at the cottage looking for something to do meet your like-minded no agenda pals for some non-amygdala busting conversation and that is organized by Sir Richard Knight of the Kawarthas September 5th, that'll be two days after my birthday, Thursday, Canterbury Ale House in Seattle, Washington. Patrick organizing that at 7.30 p.m. Friday the 6th of September, the first Calgary meetup. God, I'd love to go to Calgary. I went to the Stampede years and years ago and had a good time. That's in Calgary, Alberta, the Wild Rose Tap Room, and that starts at 4.30 in the afternoon. Sir Michael of Calgary in Vegas is your host. September 7th,

2:35:36 Zurich late summer meetup 6.15 Central European Summer Time just like last time in April we'll meet up again different location it will be the Rivington and Sons bar yes the Rivington and Sons bar in Zurich heads on the stick PDFs are available Okay, great. Rolfe is organizing that and then we have the rest of September, the 11th in Orlando, the 14th El Paso Las Cruces, the 14th Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 20th Manville, Louisiana across the north from NOL, the 20th as well Nelson, British Columbia. There's a date change, a new date so make sure you look that up.

2:36:20 The 20th, Oregon Local 33 will convene again. The 26th in Luxembourg, the 26th also in Vegas, the 27th in San Antonio, Texas, the 28th in Avra de Grasse in Maryland, and Copenhagen Round 2 rounds out the September meetups. and we already have four scheduled for October 1 in November. If you want to know more, go to noagendameetups.com and if there isn't one near you, start one. How about that for an idea? And thank you because these meetups seem to be very helpful to people.

2:36:57 And I'm just tickled by the reports. I love seeing it. We've started something, you've started something here that is just continuing. It's a legacy somehow outside of us. All we're doing is trying to help you organize it and thank you. And there we go. That's what I got for the meetups and we've done all of the administrative work for today. Alright, let's listen to some, this is a little item they played on NBC and I kind of want to run it because this is irksome to me. That is the real ID.

2:37:35 With the summer travel season almost over, the TSA began warning travelers at airports today they may not be able to fly without a driver's license that complies with the new Real ID law next year. Here's Tom Costello. Ladies and gentlemen, you have both sides available, please step down. It's the daily crush. Two and a half million passengers surging through airport security checkpoints. Starting today, TSA officers now offering a friendly warning. Next year, make sure you have your star on your ID because you have to be in compliance with the Real ID Act. You're going to be accepted next year, okay? As of October 1st, 2020, you won't be able to fly if your driver's license doesn't have a Real ID star in the top corner. With the clock ticking, state DMV offices are bustling.

2:38:23 I know it's kind of hot outside, but be patient with us. It's cool inside, believe me. In Virginia, they've even deployed mobile DMVs to handle the load. Everybody required to prove their identity with four forms of ID. I brought my passport, so I have a valid passport. I brought my social security card and two more like a current driver's license a utility bill payroll stub birth certificate or military ID If you've changed your last name, you'll need proof a marriage or divorce certificate. It's not just flying You're also going to need a real ID to enter a military base or even a government building

2:38:58 Don't wait till the last minute and absolutely when you come in, be prepared. Passed after 9-11, the Real ID law creates a single national standard for all 50 states. It doesn't matter when your license expired, by October 2020 it has to be Real ID compliant or you will not be permitted to fly. He's free and he's drills on the backs of this world and you will all surrender to them. You pigs in human clothing! That's what's coming! Now this was a thing that the right-wingers in this country, conservative Republicans, were all about. Bitched and moaned and groaned about it. We're not gonna do it. We're not gonna do it. We're not gonna do it. And a lot of states never took the bait, including California. We're not doing this crap. But then everyone knuckled under and nobody's complaining about it. And let me ask you this.

2:40:00 To get the real ID the way they discuss it, you need your, you can have a bunch of different ID, you can have a birth certificate, maybe social security card, a proof that you pay a bill. This of course keeps any homeless person from getting proof of the bill, passport, military ID. You need four forms of identification that they accept. Am I correct on this? Well, that's what I heard. Don't I get an ID automatically, a real ID with my Texas driver's license? No. And my passport is not real ID enough? Your passport, here's the joke. This is the joke. You can use your passport, right? You can use a passport to get on the plane. Yeah, of course.

2:40:46 Well if I can just use the one form of ID, the stand-alone passport to get on the plane, why can't I use the stand-alone passport to get my real ID? You must comply. Why do I need my passport plus my birth certificate plus a bill? Plus a driver's license. Why? Why? We want you to dance, monkey boy. I'm gonna ask you again. You have not answered the question. You're just ridiculing me. I'm gonna ask you again. If I can use the passport to go on the plane, why can't I use the passport to get the real ID? If you keep asking me like I'm a fucking government official, I'm gonna keep ridiculing you. I don't have a goddamn answer. It's unbelievable. Why? Does this make any sense to you? Let me ask a different question.

2:41:35 Why do I, I just don't, because now I gotta go, and by the way, there's lines are out the door because you go up there and you say, well, I got this idea and I got that. Now, now, now that's no good. We need this. We need that. I mean, come on. How many people past the age of 40 have their social security card? I still have. a very, not with me of course, but in a wallet, a very worn out, with my signature from when I was in high school. I've carried that with me throughout somehow managed it's with my stamp collection, which is not big. It's not big. I do. I only want I also have my FCC class one radio operator license for a beyond the Z 100 in New York. I still have that license too. Yeah, but is that ID? No, of course not. I've got a collectible. It's not ID. I have some real idea. I never thought of using this. I have, believe it or not.

2:42:38 I'm just pulling it down. I have it hanging here. I have a US Merchant Mariners document. Now you're talking. Yeah, this is a Merchant Marine document. I have a Costco executive club membership. I have a Costco executive. Oh, okay. Does Costco work? John. This is obviously a scam. This is obviously some gambit and I'm not gonna go and get one. Here's my passport if that's what you need and fine, you can take a look at that. I'm not gonna go stand in line, be part of your slave system. No! I'm not either. In fact, I... And I'm gonna do exactly what you're gonna do, because I always have my passport with me when I travel. I have a special slot. And you know why? Because you never know when you have to, like, travel somewhere else all of a sudden. Bug out. Bug out, yeah.

2:43:30 You never know when you have to bug out. Panama, here I come. So you have to have your passport with you anyway. Yeah, I'm going to use the passport to go on an airplane when they get to this point, but I find this whole thing obnoxious. Yeah, I'm with you. Especially the part where you passport you can use, but you can't use the passport to get a real ID, but the passport's okay if you want to get on the plane. And you need a real ID to get on the plane or a passport. And let me just say, all of this, you need this to travel on the plane is unconstitutional. You don't have to accept this at all. You have freedom of movement. This is true, you don't need any ID to get on a plane legally. No. Now, a carrier can refuse you. An airline can say, well we don't know who you are, you don't have proper ID, we don't want to take you. You can have a separate discrimination suit if you wanted to do that. But the TSA, the government,

2:44:21 They have really have no constitutional ground to force me to identify myself in any manner to them to travel. Yeah. That's it's unconstitutional, but... And I recommend you from now on don't use any ID and travel that way. Okay, so I'll be in Texas for a long time. And by the way, the only connective, I think this is a connective clip. Mm-hmm. Because what we just talked about and you played your little thing at the end. This is a story that's kind of screwy. This is NBC. This, by the way, it's all because of Trump. Nazis in high schools now.

2:45:02 Oh no! A now viral video showing high school students singing a Nazi song and giving a Nazi salute is sparking outrage ahead of a school board meeting tonight in California. Miguel Almaguer has details now on what appears to be an escalating and alarming trend in America. This short video obtained by the Daily Beast captures high school students in Southern California giving the Nazi salute and singing a song used to inspire Nazi troops. The teens reportedly members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School making the gesture before an award ceremony last year. Shared on social media, district officials strongly condemned the video saying they learned of the incident in March. I'm not surprised but I'm horrified.

2:45:50 Every single time because I know we're seeing not even the tip of the iceberg the disturbing video in California comes as this image was captured in Florida at Universal Orlando part of NBC Universal officials at the family theme park saying Hate has no place here, after four people on a ride appeared to give the Nazis salute while flashing this hand sign often linked to white power. The incidents, including this one, also involving high school students in Southern California, part of a disturbing trend. Racist propaganda nearly tripling last year. And now tonight on both hosts, another sign of troubling times. Miguel Almaguer, NBC News.

2:46:35 Wow, okay, this is pretty deep. First of all, having lived in Europe, I could not give you a single Nazi song. And I lived in the Netherlands, we learned a lot about the Germans in World War II and the collaborators and the Nazis and the NSB and I do not know a Nazi song. What is the song? They don't play the song they just say this and they use the other thing which has been bugging me since the fire story at the beginning of the show. which is just the vague, the amount of racist or Nazi propaganda, whatever they said there at the end, has tripled. Does that mean it's gone from one to three? Yeah, well this is a good point. This was signaled by the New York Times. They said it's going to be about race, it's going to be a race hate, and I guess this is easy to bring it in because Nazis are white supremacists. See, Heil Hitler! California! I'm a robber! California!

2:47:36 Maybe they were singing that John California over all And Nice. Yeah, yeah, it's possible they don't give us any details. This is more of this vague, vague kind of like propagandistic news. Oh I know what the song was! Of course I do! Springtime for Hitler! And Germany! Do you know that this Pledge of Allegiance in the United States before my time

2:48:23 That kid stood there saluting the flag in what looked like a Nazi salute? Yeah, that used to be until even the 30s and 40s for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that was the way we did this pledge at least you gave it was a Heil salute. Yes. Yeah, there's plenty of photos. There's an example in the one of the Olympic Games where the Where the whole American team gave the salute. You always have to look it up on the Google images. So I have some information for you. 1231, 131 and 201. All three time codes is where your audio glitched momentarily. We have a pattern. Yeah, so you want to call them with that information.

2:49:15 Adjust accordingly for your local time zone. We've been... Where did Glitch, who said this? Well I'm listening, I have a headphone on. Oh you, it wasn't the chat room that kept cutting in? No, no, no, you're talking, okay, we don't talk much outside of the show. Before the show you said, make time codes of when my... well let me explain to everybody. Time codes of when something happens with the audio, we've had some issues in the past two shows. And I'm like, oh great, I got some extra work to do. I put it underhand somewhere. And so I've been writing it down. And it's one past every half... Yay! We got John C. DuBois with glitches one minute past every half hour. Everybody right here on the...

2:49:57 The morning zoo. Good, it's getting more interesting. Yeah, so something going on. I wonder if you call me, that's where their next test is going to be. Oh, I'm going to do another test when I call you. Okay, we'll do that. Oh, we're going to do the numbering test until we nail this. But if we're seeing a pattern, this is like reminding me of the era, I don't know if you remember this, but if you were in the early era of telecommunications with modems, especially the little ones you'd strap the phone to. Oh, you mean the acoustic modem? Yeah. Yeah, I love those. But any modem, in fact, whatever you could, however you could hook it up, when you're in certain parts of Europe, and I think Switzerland was one of these places, they would put a, they would spike the line every like 10 minutes or every 20 minutes. Oh yeah, you know why they did that? Is to, and this happened in the Netherlands all the time. When I was growing up, it was, you know, very socialist and everyone had a phone. We had the same phone, the gray phone, and you weren't, and it was illegal

2:50:53 to even unplug it, let alone plug something else into that. So they'd send these bullets of voltage across the line periodically to blow up your answering machine that you brought from New York if you happened to have been lucky enough to go there, or that cool cordless phone which was illegal. So they'd blow these spikes through and it would fry the equipment if it wasn't the state-sanctioned post-telegraph and telephone issue gray model. It was great. Good times. Just a quick note from me, I have lots of stuff, I'm moving over to our Thursday show. The FDA is about to clear over-the-counter sales of hearing aids.

2:51:38 And of course I have hearing aids and I've become somewhat of a... What? Yes, I've become somewhat of a... Why can't... didn't you just buy them over the counter? No, no, but I will remind you of my experience. You can only buy them through an audiologist. Interestingly, hearing aids are pretty much not covered by any health insurance. The hearing aids are really a $300 product, but they sell them to you for $3,000 and that is because of this scam. And my audiologist, Amanda Lovely, she said, hey, she even said the first time I showed up, she said, our time is limited because they're changing this. And it starts with Bose. Bose has developed what they call the self-fit hearing aid. And they are,

2:52:29 trying to get approval from the FDA for this, but CVS, it's a big drugstore chain in the US, is now already closing their hearing centers because the thought is, and I want to say something about this, that you will be able to buy hearing aids that come from Silicon Valley instead of the Scandinavian countries where most of the good hearing aids are manufactured. Designed, I don't know if they're all manufactured there, but they're certainly designed there. And there's a lot of incredible advances in digital signal processing technology. My life has changed, it changed almost overnight when I got these things and the people around me as well.

2:53:13 But I am staunchly against the idea that silicon... and I've tried many of them, I've ordered these... there's kind of a gray line between amplifiers and hearing aids, which is total horse crap. You could see this coming down Broadway, they were gonna deregulate this. But if you think you can get hearing aids that will self-fit and work without adjustments, without someone who knows what they're doing, you're mistaken. And so we'll see what products come out, but you really need someone who knows what they're doing in order to get you perfect hearing, mainly because you don't know what it is anymore. You don't know what your ears should be sending to your brain.

2:53:59 And a good audiologist does 90% of the work. They do it with your audiogram, but it's never there. That extra 10% is what gives you the full adoption. So I'll bring more information on this as it comes. And if anyone wants a consultant for their hearing aid product, John and I are available. I'm the eyeball guy For all your eyeball and eardrum needs John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry consultant group here for you We will take you through it cataracts and eardrums. There you go. Another podcast developed right here And we'll find out there's a thousand of them. Yeah, right in advance thanking Bill Walsh Tom Starkweather and Darren Oh along with

2:55:01 A tip of the hat to Cold Acid for the idea. That would be the last mix in this sequence. For our end of show clips. Thanks to all our producers executive associate and otherwise also everybody who supported the show It is your show and we appreciate the opportunity to be able to spend all of our time on it Since you are financially supporting us as well Please keep that up at the vorac org slash na they're coming to you from female region number six an opportunity to zone 33 here in Austin, Texas on the governmental maps in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where, I don't know, I'm not going to get a real ID. I'm going to use my Merchant Mariner's ID. I'm John C. Dvorak. Up next, the Mark and George show, In Between Vacations on NoahJennerStream.com. Take it easy everybody. Until Thursday, adios mofos and such. I got ants.

2:56:12 I got ants. I don't know if we had ants. We had ant invasion. I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine, fine grind black pepper, we were having dinner and yeah, I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it. These things are peppery. I got ants. I got ants.

2:56:54 These ants, they don't need a lot. And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around here. I backed him off by doing the burning trick. You just torch them. And you leave them there. The only ant, there are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back. I got ants. I got ants. I got ants. I got ants. Ants. Ants? Ants!

2:57:41 After a morning tweet storm from President Trump. President Trump erupted a few hours ago. Via tweet, the president then ordered American companies to start looking for alternatives to China. Every day with the tweets made it possible that the tariff rates will change on China. Said the cost to consumers this year from higher tariffs on Chinese imports will be $1,000 per household. American families will pay an average of $1,000 a year because of the higher tariffs on China. Reinforcing his threat to force American businesses out of there, fueling worries about sending the global economy into recession. If they don't want to be seen as, look, we're hoping for a recession so Donald Trump will lose. Tensions between Trump and the other leaders could throw the world into a recession. And if they do that, we'll be taxing their wine or doing something else. We'll be taxing their wine like they've never seen before.

2:58:30 The French Champagne went back and forth. You used the word pinballing in the opening. I think that's a very good description of it. They're pretty baked when you get there. That's true. Have another beer. You've obviously had a few beers already. That's true. I tune into here the best media deconstruction While the 4x chair gently squeaks I don't know why nobody told him How to grease that thing And I recall what Edwards told him

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3:00:28 Oh my god! Look at Wilson and Squeak! The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. China! China is an asshole!