Episode 1176 · Sunday, 29 September 2019

Soest Piet

Global leaders face a dual crisis of climate activism and impeachment proceedings as the digital age ushers in new forms of surveillance and corporate upheaval.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 1176

About this episode

Greta Thunberg and the United Nations Climate Action Summit dominate the global stage as the teenage activist accuses world leaders of theft and betrayal. The emotional delivery of her address is contrasted with the theatrical background of her mother, Malena Thunberg, and the strategic shepherding by German activist Luisa-Marie Neubauer. Meanwhile, San Francisco residents face a unique health crisis as a record-breaking heatwave turns street waste into desiccated, airborne dust.

In Washington, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump following a controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Department of Justice reviewed a whistleblower complaint regarding the call but declined to pursue criminal campaign finance charges. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff characterized the interaction as a mafia-style shakedown, while Republican primary challenger Bill Weld leveled accusations of treason. Concurrently, Juul Labs CEO Kevin Burns resigned as Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker implemented a four-month ban on all vaping products.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the UN General Assembly about the rise of digital authoritarianism and the dangers of smart mattresses monitoring citizen nightmares. The episode features a professional jingle submission from Sir Jeff Smith and a caricature of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Spongebob Squarepants character by artist Nick the Rat. The broadcast concludes with a sudden power outage in Berkeley, forcing an abrupt transition to a series of climate-themed musical remixes.


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CHAPTER 01 / 47 Discussion

San Francisco Heatwave, Desiccated Waste Health Risks

San Francisco and the East Bay experienced uncharacteristic 100-degree temperatures, creating conditions where human waste on city streets dries out and becomes friable. This desiccated material can turn into airborne dust, potentially spreading diseases when inhaled by residents. The extreme weather is linked to broader climate discussions ahead of international summits.

san francisco· bay area· heatwave· sea breeze· public health

00:00 He just took art from Spongebob and put hair in it! Impeach we must end broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 the frontier of Austin, Texas. Cap with a drone star state in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where the weather's finally turned normal for one day. I'm John C Dvorak What was it you mean today is normal? It seems to be that fog is semi-in but not totally ends its cooler

00:44 It was 100 yesterday, 100 in the Bay Area. That's not typical for you guys that's Texas weather! It's Texas weather but only lasts for a very short time because it creates an influx of sea breeze usually if I'm not mistaking most people don't have air conditioning in the bay area And indeed, you're not mistaken. Would that would you be one of those people Mr. Dvorak? I don't mind 100 degree temperatures as long as the humidity is reasonable Now does the smell of the poop waft through that hot air and just enhance the experience? It doesn't quite get to the East Bay where i am Oh! That's too bad

01:25 I'm sure San Francisco is stunk up, the place stunk. Stunk! It just stunk to high heaven how much it's stunk. Although it does dry out the poop but then when the poop has dried out then its friable meaning that can be turned into dust and gets turned into dust and then it gets in the air and people breathe the desiccated poop Nice! Yeah, you get all kinds of diseases that way Well, you know why it's 100 degrees. I don't have to tell you global warming yes Yes of course It's all perfectly timed perfectly time for Greta's arrival and for Greta speeches a whole lot second I just lost my entire show prep outline for some reason what happened here? Yeah So I thought there was uh There was a lot going on well. I have a couple of clips about You really want to start with Greta do you want to get the most obvious bullcrap out of the way oh

CHAPTER 02 / 47 Discussion

Severn Cullis-Suzuki, 1992 UN Earth Summit Comparison

Severn Cullis-Suzuki delivered a speech at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro at age 13, mirroring contemporary climate activism. Her parents were established environmentalists who trained her for the role, similar to the modern shepherding of youth activists. Despite the passage of nearly 30 years, the rhetorical strategies used by child activists remain consistent.

severn cullis-suzuki· rio de janeiro· 1992 earth summit· climate activism· environmentalism

02:27 Well, what's the most obvious bullcrap if you're not...if it doesn't involve Greta? The whole Zelensky call that Trump had and the impeachment. This is this is I mean everything got wiped off! Let's do the global warming first. Okay okay all right The other thing is kind of, it's a curious dead end and a charade of some sort. I mean it's just designed to get people hating on Trump so they don't vote for him. Well okay now that we're stuck- Hold on let me just open the segment.

03:06 I have a feeling that'll be used a lot in the coming few weeks. So it could be, could be all right? Yeah, I have a clip from another Greta clone. Well actually it's not even really a Greta clone but I want to play this clip This is another person at the summit This is a very famous, I think she's 13. And she started at nine, just very much along the same lines as Greta and here she is Severn Cullis Suzuki at the Climate Summit. We've raised all of the money to come here ourselves To come 5,000 miles to tell you adults You must change your ways Coming up here today I have no hidden agenda I am fighting for my future

04:02 Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come, I'm here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I'm here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone I'm afraid to breathe the air because i don't know what chemicals are in it. Now you may try to pull a fast one on the producers but your not going to pull it on this podcaster, now I know whats up with that clip! It's from 1992. I had a different version of it was it the same thing? Let me just check this

04:53 Hello, I'm just had applause 1992 it was a good year for abusing kids and she was She's still in the business You know her parents again the same thing one of the parents is an environmentalist and trained or she started at nine And she's still out there. You can look her up She has a wiki page called severin color Suzuki which is born in 79 that wasn't I too so she was 13 and It was the same thing with a good same similar types of parents as gretta i think probably little more together than greta and little less psycho.

CHAPTER 03 / 47 Discussion

Greta Thunberg, UN Climate Action Summit Speech

Greta Thunberg addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, accusing them of stealing her childhood with empty promises regarding economic growth. She asserted that the science has been clear for 30 years and warned that failure to act constitutes evil. Observers noted her intense facial expressions and emotional delivery during the "How dare you" address.

greta thunberg· united nations· climate action summit· mass extinction· carbon budget

05:37 I, you can do it as you wish. I personally don't want to disparage the kid. I mean 16 year old kids are morons they don't know what they're doing. Well she's at least she's sixteen now this other girl was thirteen and she was actually sounding better. I'm just making my own personal policy. I consider this a very insulting naive and i don't know who wrote this for her but it was...I think they went overboard And this is her speech, the UN speech completely from beginning to or that may there may have been an intro at the beginning of the catch. But this is it you should play it and we can just at least say hello Greta. This is all wrong I shouldn't be up here! I shouldn't be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope how dare you?

06:30 You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet, I'm one of the lucky ones! People are suffering... people are dying... entire ecosystems are collapsing We're in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth How dare you? For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight?

07:17 You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation And still kept on failing to act then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe What's missing from the context here is the grimacing facial expression she was making with where left eye starts to close and she's almost Tourette's like I It I felt very bad about this because this is all right. I'm just not gonna disparage Greta because she can't help it in fact there's a clip out there of

CHAPTER 04 / 47 Discussion

Malena Thunberg, Swedish Supermarket Commercial

Malena Thunberg, mother of Greta Thunberg and a professional opera singer, appeared in a surreal Swedish supermarket advertisement involving dancers in masks. The performance features her wailing in a dramatic style while promoting frozen pizza. The clip is cited as evidence of the theatrical background within the Thunberg family.

malena thunberg· sweden· opera singer· frozen pizza· commercial

08:04 Malena Thunberg, that's her mom who I think is an actress of some sort and you don't even have to understand Swedish to hear that she's a nutjob? That's what so great about this clip, and I'll tell you what it is. I think it's a commercial maybe for frozen pizza in the supermarket because she's walking through a supermarket with kind of a Kate Bush type Wuthering Heights robes behind her six guys with eyes wide shut masks dressed in black and she's wailing on about something, and then holds up the pizza. So I don't know if it's a commercial or if... I'm assuming it's a commercial. Listen to it! You'll hear the cadence and know that she's in that job. Now I will go down and buy some food It is nothing strange at all No no no And there are not many assistants and such as people might think No no just me and my dancers I am buying exactly what

09:05 Good hair! This doesn't sound normal. Now let's set some basic info about Greta that is not mentioned. She has an escort, her mom's off there doing frozen pizza commercials or whatever she's doing I'm sure our Swedish producers will let us know she has an escort to take her around all of these UN departments and she visited quite a few when I have a few examples of that Her escort is Lisa Marie Bauer

CHAPTER 05 / 47 Discussion

Luisa-Marie Neubauer, One Foundation, George Monbiot

German activist Luisa-Marie Neubauer serves as an escort for Greta Thunberg through various UN departments, including UNICEF. Neubauer is a youth ambassador for the One Foundation, which receives significant funding from George Soros. Additionally, Thunberg appeared in a video with Guardian columnist George Monbiot promoting "natural climate solutions" like reforestation.

luisa-marie neubauer· george soros· one foundation· unicef· george monbiot

09:52 And Lisa Marie is a 23 year old German climate activist. In Germany she's one of the main organizers for the school strike and she belongs to the One Foundation, in fact she's a youth ambassador of The One Foundation and I'll play the same game i played last night with my wife! Who do you think is the biggest funder of The One Foundation? Soros. Yes, you got it right! First guess! Very good! There he is... He's helping her out and they shepherd this poor girl through all the different UN organizations Here she is at UNICEF Well actually this is the introduction to Greta and 15 of her cohorts at UNICEF And thank you for joining us this morning here at UNICEF house

10:50 My name is Charlotte Pietergonitzka and I'm the Deputy Executive Director here at UNICEF. And for anyone who doesn't know what UNICEF is, we are the United Nations Children's Fund We stand up for the rights of every child in every part of the world everyday Sometimes it is our job to speak up for children when their voices are not heard But more often, it's our job to listen and to make sure that the world listens to them too. And that is why we are here today." Alright so then they abuse 15 other children including Greta Same basic thing... well not the same basic issues but they are suing ummm how many are there? How many are they suing? They're suing umm

11:50 And they're suing eight different countries because they're not acting on their behalf. Then she went over to the World Wildlife Fund, did a little public service announcement with this was an odd pairing George Monbiot who is the extreme leftist... Does he still work for The Guardian? Monbiot? He's best known as it has the most socialist of the socialists at The Guardian and it was a columnist I don't know that he is anymore Well, I won't play the whole thing. It's three and a half minutes you get the idea pretty quickly This is not a drill My name is Greta Thunberg We are living in the beginning of mass extinction Our climate is breaking down Children like me are giving up their education to protests But we can still fix this You can still fix this

12:48 To survive, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. But this alone will not be enough. Lots of solutions are talked about but what about the solution that is right in front of us? I'll let my friend George explain There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air costs very little and builds itself. It's called a tree." And here is the bull crap that really bothers me, he is saying it sucks carbon out of the air No it doesn't! Carbon dioxide So the carbon dioxide we saw move to just carbon awhile ago and here it is in the leader of the movement video they just call it carbon Of course we need to plant more trees but we have to stop using oil you get the idea

CHAPTER 06 / 47 Discussion

IPCC Special Report, Monaco Ocean Cryosphere Findings

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on the ocean and cryosphere following a meeting in Monaco. The report claims with "very high confidence" that ice sheets are shrinking and ocean warming has doubled since 1993. Critics argue the terminology of "confidence levels" indicates the findings are based on consensus opinions rather than absolute scientific facts.

ipcc· monaco· cryosphere· ocean warming· sea ice

13:39 Coordinated perfectly with all of this is yet another IPCC report that came out. We didn't even hear about that and I have a quick news report, but well you'll hear the thing That's pretty funny because they always choose a nice location You know we had the Paris Accord yes everyone can split as a good vacationing spot It's great. Hey um why should we do the assessment announcement John? So what kind what place shall we do it in oh Well, the Bahamas has been ruined for the short term so we have to find some place that's a little more... Come on! It has to be a place where- I wonder why do it? Why don't go to Saipan. No, it has to be a place where I can get my hair done

14:23 Oh, don't you understand? No no no it's too many Italians. I think Monaco would be good for us! So they went to Monaco! Let me tell you about Monaco. It is not easy to get to, unless you're flying by helicopter because that's what everyone does they fly by helicopter to Monaco otherwise it's a substantial enough drive it's very hard to get around in the city its expensive as all heck and of course there's still nothing but elites there so yeah Monaco let's do it there Mark what we learn?

15:16 Good morning. Well, this report concerns the world's oceans and frozen regions in other words the North and South Poles and mountaintops its general conclusions they can't take it anymore The consequences for humanity are severe Until now much of the earths warming has been absorbed in its ocean But according to this latest UN report, tipping points are being reached. Tipping points! Oh oh oh! Another one? Do you hear the sound effect of the falling ice? UN report, tipping points are being reached... Where some of the more severe consequences of climate change can no longer be avoided Okay, so that report goes on. I do have the IPCC special report on the ocean and cryosphere Which i'd like as a word in a changing climate And just to give you an idea if we know so you just heard that science is in shut up This is uh let me just write down cryosphere It's one of these words. I want to remember

16:18 Everything's all in, we all agree. But if you read the report... Let's see I'm going to go to the executive summary which they say is appropriate for media usage and policy makers which i think is always interesting here we go or is it here Observe changes and impacts. Over the last decades global warming has led to widespread shrinking of the cryosphere with mass loss from ice sheets and glaciers, And here it comes this is what they do consistently in all the reports in parentheses very high confidence Reductions in snow cover high confidence An Arctic sea ice extent and the thickness very high confidence It is virtually certain that

17:05 that global ocean has warmed unabated since 1970 and has taken up more than 90% of the excess heat in the climate system. High confidence! Since 1993, the rate of ocean warming has more than doubled. Likely I mean... let's see over here a loss of oxygen has occurred from the surface to 1,000 parts per million Medium confidence Their whole report is full of crap. It's what they always do! They say, you think the ocean by the way be cooling with all these chunks of ice in it but okay... Well and they state a fact and then say high confidence or medium confidence or likely what does that mean? It means obviously not stating a fact. Bullshit no it's not a fact These are all opinions. It's really just... You hear how they report this oh it must be true

CHAPTER 07 / 47 Discussion

Greta Thunberg, Nazi Imagery Comparison Controversy

Dinesh D'Souza faced criticism on Twitter for comparing Greta Thunberg's appearance to a girl in a historical Nazi propaganda poster. The comparison highlights how Thunberg's specific styling, including her pigtails, creates a distinct youthful image. When photographed with her hair loose, her appearance changes significantly, suggesting a deliberate branding effort by her handlers.

dinesh d'souza· twitter· propaganda· styling· image branding

18:01 By the way, Dinesh D'Souza got a lot of heat on the Twitter bots for making a comparison with photographic evidence between Greta Thunberg and an old Nazi poster which has one of the Hitlerjugend, a girl who looks surprisingly like Greta with her pigtails. Now although that's... yeah you look at it and go oh man but really it still is ultimately an image if you search for Greta Thunberg hair loose

18:40 I found one picture and only one, and when you see that picture... And you can go ahead just do it on Bing or Google or whatever. Yeah, I've already gone through the pictures because I found that she looked more like Wednesday Addams Well in fact the Algos did that to me too. I saw some Wednesday Addam's photos pop up but when you see her with their hair loose all of a sudden She looks like a young woman This is complete styling. This is definitely image related and it's on purpose Yeah, well It's to get everybody riled up out before we go too far I don't want to get away from this topic too far before We at least play I was kind of more concerned about these kids now I admit I will have taken that I lifted this one mark dice which is a medley a disgusting medley of kids complaining

CHAPTER 08 / 47 Discussion

Kamala Harris, Climate Anxiety Interaction

Senator Kamala Harris consoled a young woman who expressed intense fear and tears over the perceived threat of a "burning" planet. Harris reassured the activist that she was not alone and promised to take on those who lack the courage to address climate issues. The interaction reflects the growing "Generation Z" sentiment that they may be the last generation to survive.

kamala harris· climate change· anxiety· generation z· campaign trail

19:34 all at these various meetups that they have these... Let me guess, complaining they're all gonna die? I'm disgusted by this. Our world is already in flames It's getting hotter we can't breathe We are here because our parents trashed the planet and it's up to our generation to save it Call us Generation Z The last letter of the alphabet Because we are going to be the last generation to survive I hate to do this to you, but i think i can top it. I think i got a topper

20:29 Good, I'd like to hear a topper. This is an appearance by Kamala Harris there's a young woman who approaches Kamala and she is in tears over dying from a burning... She's dying on the spot. She's dying right in front of Kamala. Yes, and this case it too bad we don't have video I implore you to go look at look at it in the show notes 1176.noagendanotes.com because The faces Kamala Harris makes, like, ooh baby with the frowny powder lips. I would argue this with you. I think the face she's making is reflective of oh my god what have we done that we have people like this? Well let's... Just like a female incel! I was scared every day and you just... So here's the thing

21:26 You're right to feel that way, but you also have to remember that we are all in this together. Okay? And you always have to remember that your not alone do you hear me? You always have to remember that. Okay? No baby your not gonna die and were going to be smart and were probably gonna win And we're gonna take on the people who are just failing to have courage, okay? Don't worry baby. You're not gonna die well That's not the message Take that back take that back Oh speaking of take that back hold on by the way that was not a topper now you write in audio It's not a topper I agree But had it take that back Or is it it was really funny

CHAPTER 09 / 47 Discussion

Loose Women, UK Media Reaction to Greta

Panelists on the British talk show "Loose Women" reacted emotionally to Greta Thunberg's UN speech, praising her raw passion. The discussion shifted to personal lifestyle changes and environmental concerns, such as plastic bags killing sea turtles. One panelist cited a statistic claiming 30 football pitches of forest are lost every minute.

loose women· itv· david attenborough· plastic pollution· turtles

22:14 Well, first here's some women from the ITV talk show Loose Women responding to Greta. This is in the UK. A 16-year old environmental activist Greta Thunberg broke down in tears while speaking at the UN climate summit in New York yesterday In this speech she called out world leaders accusing them of stealing her dreams and childhood I watched it Christine, honestly watching that night still brings tears to my eyes because very rarely in this world now do you see people who are so devoted to their passion and it is to see that raw passion about the world. This

22:53 is about future generations. She's so passionate about it and I just, so adorable! I really really respect her and her passion really got to me. And um... Oh yes! You know, look she's 16 years old and i'm really sorry but she's not being melodramatic that we are living in a world where we have to watch what we're doing there are animals that my children will never see. They're verging on extinction I mean, i did a program years ago with David Attenborough about animals that were close to extinction and I was sent to Sri Lanka to look at the turtles because of our plastic use... Will someone think of the turtles? It goes into the ocean and the turtles eat them because they eat the plastic bags because they think they're jellyfish No we need to educate the turtles! And then they die

23:40 is At a rate of 30 football pitches per minute. Oh yeah, it says here 30 football pitches per minute! A MINUTE? That is not a joke that is fact. When I listen to her it makes me think I've got to change my lifestyle and I really did. I went home sat down and thought what can I do what bit can I do to change? Won't somebody please think of the children?!

CHAPTER 10 / 47 Discussion

BirthStrike Movement, Climate Change Childbearing Concerns

The BirthStrike movement, founded by Blythe Pepino, consists of individuals refusing to have children due to the perceived ecological collapse of the planet. Proponents, including some millennials influenced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, cite fears of worldwide famine and 6 billion climate refugees. Critics like Jesse Watters challenged these claims during televised interviews.

birthstrike· blythe pepino· alexandria ocasio-cortez· famine· refugees

24:24 The children are thinking of themselves and I think the funny thing is it leads to this clip Which is the birth strike opener. Is this a This birth strike phenomenon is something that I've sort of had like casual conversations about with friends, but i didn't know that women were actually considering this. Yeah it's not just women either! It's a lot of men couples specifically who are talking about all the reasons why they will or will not have children and now they're just considering climate change and for these birth strikers That is the number one reason and they have declared, signed it into the universe that they will not have children or have any more children because of climate change. Wow what do we feel about this? Does this feel extreme? It kind of does to me a little bit... What the hell did she just say? Let's hear that again! Because of climate change. Wow what do you feel about business? Does it feel extreme? It kinda does to me a little bit but then when you think

25:23 think about it, I've had these conversations not necessarily about climate change but just children in general with my husband and with my friends like you said. And the number one reason for me is money but climate change is another big thing too! It's another thing to consider in a list of things when couples women or men decide to have I have to say that after the UN climate change report came out last fall and they basically said that by 2040 if we let it go up 1.5 degrees Celsius, that we're gonna see more floods more extreme weather people will be moving inland more droughts And I actually thought well if that's in my lifetime is it worth bringing children into this? Yeah

26:01 So Waters, I got one more of these clips. Good. So Waters the Waters World guy on Fox. Jesse Waters? He brings this... One of these promoters of the birth strike which is in other words no babies and of course he's a joker yeah and so this is Blythe and the No Babies Movement on Waters World And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question you know should Is it okay to still have children? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cautioning millennials about climate change and posing the question whether people should even be having more kids. But the movement reaches much further than DC, women in Great Britain refusing to have children until global warming ends I can't have a child until i am absolutely convinced that we are on a seriously seriously different path

26:56 Here to explain the founder of birth strike Blythe Papino. Okay, Blithe what are the risks? When you're doing an interview and someone starts off with okay you You know it's not gonna go well I have that clipped as a possible show killer a show killer show closer but But okay, the way he's very... Even though he has this shit eating grin on his face all the time. He looks a little like Bugs Bunny. In fact, he is the most insulting of all the Fox hosts. Okay Blithe if that isn't a real name. Yeah. Okay Blithe, you're of birth strike. Blithe Pepino. Okay Blithe what are the risks in your opinion of having a child?

27:47 There aren't any risks to having a child, as in giving birth do you mean? Or in their future. What?! If you give birth which your refusing to do but if you get pregnant and give birth what would be the problem to the world or to your child? The problem that we are talking about is that were afraid for these kids futures How would you be afraid of their future were afraid for their futures. But what could happen to the child when they grow up? Well, what we're looking at in the next few decades to the end of the century is worldwide famine. Mass displacement of people yeah famine food shortages across the world as a result of drought in our The places where we grow food around the world and how we feed ourselves Okay so you were also looking at mass displacement of people We're talking five two six

CHAPTER 11 / 47 Discussion

Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode, Environmental PR

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced "Bot Fight Mode," a feature intended to reduce CPU cycles and bandwidth wasted by malicious bots to save the environment. While framed as a climate initiative, the tool grants Cloudflare more power to identify and block traffic at the gateway level. This move follows the company's history of de-platforming specific websites.

cloudflare· matthew prince· bot fight mode· bandwidth· censorship

28:44 five to six billion refugees as a result of climate change. Five to six billion refugees? How many are on planet Earth? Everyone's gonna be a refugee somehow, I'll move over there you move over here. We're all going to be running somewhere Perhaps the most cynical abuse of this situation came to us from cloud flare Who went, did they go public a week or two ago? If they did I missed it. Yeah well so now they're all about the PR and so they jump right in with some climate news and some climate initiatives that have taken And i find this very cynical Malicious bots continue to be a problem on the internet as says the CEO We've decided to fight back

29:42 Because what do bots do when bots are out there wasting bandwidth? What are they doing? They're using up CPU cycles and that is a direct, you can directly correlate that to energy usage and to killing the environment. So from today customers have the option of enabling bot fight mode in the settings of their Cloudflare dashboard Cloudflare, as you know it has no problem removing people from their gateway. And Cloudflare is an interesting company many many organizations use them kind of as a front for all their back-end servers so if you get some kind of attack denial service attack or any other type of attack then the cloud flare people are there to protect you and your server

30:35 But they have no problem completely throwing people off. They've done that to a couple of websites, to say you can't use our service anymore and they determine what web servers or what things are bots so this is...they're really turning it into a very nice censoring machine just by getting everybody to flip on the bot fight mode to fight climate change I find this very... Well, I'm very familiar with this company. You are? And uh..I miss the climate change nonsense. It's too bad they shouldn't do that Yeah How are you familiar with the company

31:19 Well, besides having talked about them on this show about four years ago or five years ago. I visited them and wrote an article about him. I met the CEO. I had him explain to me what the hell they were doing. And I played the pinball machine that's in their lobby. You know em! Yeah. And also have a T-shirt Yes, well... you're an expert. So i know them better than not knowing them. You're an expert on them now This is so wrong Oh my goodness. Spot in my ISO! Yeah, I did...I like that one. I think that's the best for the end of the show. Well, I have another one which is the Blythe one but it's not as fun. No, it's not like Greta and we can probably close it up. That's right, Greta. I'm sure will be using that jingle again in the future

CHAPTER 12 / 47 Discussion

Bill Weld, Trump Treason Allegations

Republican primary challenger Bill Weld accused President Donald Trump of committing treason during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Weld alleged that Trump pressured a foreign government to interfere in a U.S. election by investigating Joe Biden. Weld noted that the statutory penalty for treason is death, though he suggested removal from office as an alternative.

bill weld· donald trump· volodymyr zelensky· treason· death penalty

32:17 So I'm not sure what happened to Brett Kavanaugh. Weren't we going to impeach him? How long ago was that, was that four months ago? That's why the whistleblower showed up. That took the heat off of Kavanaugh This is very interesting I kind of dove into this. We can probably say up front, this is a non-story it's just as dumb as Russia, as the Russia collusion It will go nowhere in fact the telegraphing is that its going nowhere We had a series of speakers and things that happened before the transcript or notes, or whatever it's called, of the phone call between President Trump and President Zelensky. Which is really just two comedians hopping on the phone and riffing together before they spoke And we had a whistleblower and I was able to read the complaint as it came out today

33:17 Which was another thing that's all you this is horrible the bad orange man. He's a he's whole he's breaking the law, he's holding stuff back from us This is all completely wrong we can't have any of this And so we had a couple of clips before the transcript came out and a couple after. And the first one I wanted to highlight is, as far as i know at this point in time, the only challenger to President Trump—the only Republican challenger—so he does want to try and become the nominee instead of the sitting president which has always been said that's a tough nut to crack! This is Bill Weld

33:57 And he clearly was read in on the whistleblower, in the manner that whoever leaked this information or if it was a leaker to begin with and later became a whistleblower. Of course he got all his facts wrong and also had an interesting solution. Obviously cancelling primaries undermines democratic institutions and democratic elections but That's far from the deepest die crime that the president has committed here. He's now acknowledged that in a single phone call, right after he suspended $250 million of military aid to Ukraine He called up the President of Ukraine and pressed him eight times to investigate Joe Biden who the president thinks is going to be running against him Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S election

34:50 It couldn't be clearer and that's not just undermining democratic institutions. That is treason! It's treason, pure and simple And the penalty for treason under the U.S code is death That's the only penalty The penalty under the constitution is removal from office... ...and that might look like a pretty good alternative to the president if he could work out a plea deal Okay, you get a clip of the day for that one. I missed that. Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Orange man bad. Kill him! That guy is a lunatic. Now before we continue with this discussion, I do want to get this straightened out about the whistleblower issue and I found a clip which was from actually a columnist at WAPO of all places on the PBS News Hour explaining

CHAPTER 13 / 47 Discussion

Whistleblower Complaint, DOJ Campaign Finance Review

The Department of Justice reviewed a whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump's communications with Ukraine to determine if a criminal investigation was warranted. Prosecutors in the Public Integrity section examined whether requesting an investigation constituted a "thing of value" under campaign finance law. The DOJ ultimately decided last week that there was no criminal case to pursue.

department of justice· dni· whistleblower· campaign finance· hearsay

35:39 This whole, you know because it's not well understood is he a whistleblower? He's not a whistleblower. They have the DNI guys testifying before Congress as we speak and he's telling them the same thing that this guy does not a whistleblower that has anything to do with the intelligence community why are dragging me up here And here's the rundown. I think this was pretty good, by the way. This is the WAPO whistleblower rundown. Devlin let's get right into this. Whistleblower complaints under the law are from the intelligence community are supposed to go to Congress How did this one end up at the Justice Department?

36:17 Well, it's a pretty complicated path but essentially what happens is once the complaint is made folks in the intelligence community question whether this is a valid whistleblower complaint because the president obviously is not a member of the intelligence community. He's not an employee of one of those agencies So what happens is they get legal advice from the Justice Department. And what the Justice Department says is that no, this is not a valid legal complaint because it doesn't—the whistleblower rules don't really apply to conduct of the president But, interestingly and in some ways more importantly the Justice Department says but there may be a criminal violation here so we need to look at that. So where we the Justice Department are going to take a look at what happened here and see if there's reason to pursue a criminal investigation. Criminal violation of what?

37:04 Campaign finance law. The question that was immediately presented by the whistleblower's complaint is, Is the president seeking a thing of value from a foreign entity which is a violation under campaign finance law? And and that question quickly turned into could you characterize an investigation by a foreign government as a thing of value? And that's the question they were wrestling with And what was the timing of all this? When did it get to justice and when did the folks in public integrity clear or say there was no violation. So it gets to the Justice Department in late August, and you know different parts of the Justice Department get read-in and get involved at different times but essentially you're talking about the Public Integrity section with some input from the criminal division at the Justice Department and the National Security Division

37:53 But essentially they look at this question and by last week we're told, and that's important because obviously a lot was happening on this issue publicly last week. But last week were told the Justice Department decided there was not a criminal case to pursue here. So... Done! Yeah well but what's interesting is that Democrats and most of the news media jumped on this before they had seen any transcript. Of course, this all happened in July. The whistleblower one day later made his or her complaint it's all... I just read it this morning. I'm not gonna read it to you because it's just very long and it's all hearsay and other people heard this and we're all worried and oh my goodness! Oh my gosh! Oh my gracious what are we going to do?

CHAPTER 14 / 47 Discussion

John Kerry, Nixon Comparison on Face the Nation

Former Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on "Face the Nation" to compare President Trump's actions to those of Richard Nixon. Kerry alleged that Trump used American foreign policy as an opposition research arm for his campaign. The commentary comes amid scrutiny of Kerry's own son's business ties to Hunter Biden in Ukraine and China.

john kerry· face the nation· richard nixon· hunter biden· ukraine

38:39 But what brought out all these numb nuts who were apparently worried, including John Kerry. And why John Kerry? Because his kid had deals with Hunter Biden and I think they...I don't know if they completed everything together in Ukraine maybe even some of the China deals so Kerry had to come on face the nation this was Sunday And, well here he is. What President Trump has done is an abuse if he has done it and the way to prove whether he's done or not is release the transcript of that conversation. That's how you get to the bottom of this, but there's just a... You know for the president United States to be leveraging American foreign policy hocking it extorting the leader of another country If that's what had happened

39:31 is unprecedented and the last time a president did that, Richard Nixon. The Republican Party stood up and held him accountable for the abuse of power this Republican Party today is running for cover that to get a president of another country to be the opposition research arm of this campaign that is a fundamental profound and deeply disturbing use of power. If, if, if hedging his words so let's get down to the actual impeachable part

CHAPTER 15 / 47 Discussion

Adam Schiff, Impeachment Inquiry Evidence

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asserted that the notes from the Trump-Zelensky call provide powerful evidence of an impeachable offense. Schiff characterized the conversation as a "shakedown" of a foreign leader for personal political gain. He credited the whistleblower for forcing the White House to release military funding to Ukraine.

adam schiff· house intelligence committee· quid pro quo· national security· whistleblower

40:20 Adam Schiff was right back up on stage. We haven't heard from him for a couple of months He was very quiet boom there is skin shedding I'm sorry he was shedding his skin. He's back fresh fresh new scales, and he did a little stand-up yeah, don't want you to get too far off the track before we go from Carrie who claimed in that in that little spiel of his that Nixon did what Trump did. It's what he said! I know, it was completely untrue as far as i can recall. Nixon was busted for obstruction of justice because the Watergate break-in Yes What they're saying... Had nothing to do with a foreign government or extorting a foreign government for his political purposes? What is he talking about?! Well this why am going to play Adam Schiff with his new skin

41:17 He did a big stand up, the big speech which has some other excerpts from but first the question was asked what exactly is impeachable that the president did? So what specifically do you see as the impeachable offense here. Well I think in its most naked form and this is what our inquiry's going to look into The President has now admitted the notes of this call and we don't even know if these are the complete notes of that call indicate the President of the United States shaking down a foreign leader, essentially undermining the national security this country for a personal political gain and one that violates his oath of office. So it is very powerful evidence of that kind of potential impeachable offense

42:15 But we want to get the full facts before the American people and we also want make sure that we take corrective action. And I want to thank The Whistleblower, We still don't know whether this is a subject The Whistleblowers can plate but i think this single courageous individual may have had the effect of forcing the White House to provide Ukraine with this funding, knowing that these matters were going to come to light. But this whistleblower has already had a tremendous impact in exposing wrongdoing of the President United States and helping protect our national security in a way

CHAPTER 16 / 47 Discussion

Trump-Zelensky Transcript, Javelin Missile Sale

The released notes of the July 25 phone call show President Zelensky expressing interest in purchasing more Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States. President Trump responded by asking for a "favor" regarding CrowdStrike and the 2016 DNC server. Analysis indicates this was a commercial sale approved in 2017, not the $400 million in military aid frequently cited by the media.

volodymyr zelensky· crowdstrike· javelin missiles· military aid· state department

42:52 that his or her boss was unwilling to do and by that I mean the director as well as the President of United States. Okay, so what it comes down to what they've all said is he had a quid pro quo with holding aid in return for services that would potentially help the president with the 2020 election. So at first I thought it's not even that long we'd read through the call but i'm not going to do that, but I just want to give you the relevant pieces so we can understand what exactly this quid pro quo was according to the notes we really don't know if it's true or not. So this is President Zelensky he says

43:30 I would like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the United States for defense purposes." Then the president says I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine." They say, crowd strike! I guess you have one of your wealthy people on the server they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on in the whole situation. I think your surrounding yourself was the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and get to the bottom of that.

44:11 So, the answer to the javelins is CrowdStrike which has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It has everything to do with Hillary Clinton and her emails and we've talked about the CrowdStrike Ukraine connection before. The FBI never saw the DNC server that was apparently hacked for all everything we know somehow it's in Ukraine. So it was not about Joe Biden, that is after the next piece but here's the thing that everyone is getting wrong in court including Schiff and I'm kind of informed on these things because they're talking about this aid what aid? Fox News! Everyone oh yes with 400 million in aid 400 million... Bullshit

44:59 Can people not read? We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next step. Specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the United States for defense purposes! In 2017, The State Department and the President approved a sale of anti-tank weapons javelins to Ukraine A SALE! This is not aid There's no aid involved. It's a sale, it's what we do We sell our crap to everybody Saudis, we sell them to Germans whoever wants...it's our main business! There is NO AID ZERO And he says we're almost ready- we're scraping together the money, breaking out piggy banks getting those javelins Mr President We gonna buy em from you So right off the bat the premise is a lie there IS NO AID NOWHERE

CHAPTER 17 / 47 Discussion

Chris Murphy, PBS NewsHour Corruption Claims

Senator Chris Murphy claimed on PBS NewsHour that President Trump only mentioned one specific corruption case—Joe Biden—during his call with Zelensky. However, a separate package on the same program noted that Trump also brought up CrowdStrike and the firing of prosecutor Victor Shokin. Critics pointed out the discrepancy between Murphy's statements and the program's own reporting.

chris murphy· judy woodruff· pbs newshour· victor shokin· joe biden

45:57 And I'm flabbergasted by this. You should be and then let's go to PBS because what you said right there is now, I want you to listen to this is a Judy and I'm going to playing two clips out of order here just to be actually referring to your point This is Judy talking to one of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Chris Murphy, a congressman. What's the fuss? This is Chris Murphy assertions on PBS. Senator Murphy thank you very much for joining us given your longtime knowledge familiarity with Ukraine what is your reaction to this memo we are now seeing of the conversation between President Trump and the president of Ukraine in July

46:47 It's absolutely devastating. Within moments of Zelensky asking the president for more help, for increased weaponry to fight Russia, the president asks Zelensky to investigate one of the president's political opponents Joe Biden and make some vague suggestion that Vice President Biden was bragging about getting a prosecutor or stopping a prosecution in Ukraine which is fundamentally not true. There's no way to come away from that phone call without the impression that a priority of the president is to take part in his political campaign for re-election in the United States and, of course this phone call doesn't stand on its own Rudy Giuliani name has brought up several times and we know that Giuliani perhaps others were repeatedly trying to get the Ukrainians

47:43 open up these investigations to politically destroy one of the president's rivals. I don't think we've ever seen anything like it, you are not allowed to trade away the credibility of the United States in order to score political points or destroy your political rivals and i think it underscores the need for the inquiry that House began yesterday Senator as you know though the White House is saying this is just an effort, an open effort by President Trump to encourage Ukrainians to clean up corruption in their government. Well, that would be made more credible if the president had mentioned any other corruption investigation over the course of that call. There are likely dozens of different corruption matters that the president could have pressed the Ukrainians on if his actual concern was cleaning up corruption in Ukraine. He only mentioned one and it happened to be requesting an investigation which is not presently happening against his likely 2020 campaign opponent

48:44 Wow, what a lie! What a lie and this is Judy talking to him. I want to play a package on Judy's show that she ran earlier in the show before she talked to this guy This was the end of the whole kind of segment Now listen to this. This is the previous package, a counter to what Murphy just lied about. Another rapid fire day of news centering around President Trump. He was at the UN meeting with world leaders today but the headlines came from his decision to declassify and release a five-page memo describing a July phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy The text is critical to the fast rising impeachment debate

49:28 It shows President Zelensky bringing up the military, javelin missiles he wants to buy from the United States. Immediately following that, President Trump asks for what he says is a favor – to look into CrowdStrike, the company that concluded Russia was to blame for hacking into Democratic Party email in 2016 – a conclusion the president has questioned After Zelensky responds, stressing the ethics of Ukrainian investigations President Trump next says he has heard about a Ukrainian prosecutor who was unfairly shut down. That may have been a reference to this man Victor Shokin whom the US saw as corrupt and Joe Biden while he was vice president tried to have fired

50:10 A few sentences later, Mr. Trump says there's a lot of talk about Biden sudden that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. So there were three items not one like Murphy said and Judy knew it because this is a package that she pushed so why doesn't Judy say something to Chris Murphy when he makes that blatant lie that you pointed out? Because she's a liar! No, she's I think she's lost. She's they're all in yeah, she's lost it so again just to reiterate when the present with the

CHAPTER 18 / 47 Discussion

Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Ukrainian Corruption Investigations

During the July phone call, President Zelensky agreed with President Trump that the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was a "bad ambassador" who admired the previous Ukrainian administration. Zelensky promised that his new prosecutor would be "100% my person" and would look into the Biden situation. The discussion centered on restoring honesty and investigating ties between the Obama State Department and local corruption.

marie yovanovitch· rudy giuliani· ukraine· state department· corruption

50:46 President Zelensky says, we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. Specifically, we're almost ready to buy more javelins from the United States for defense purposes and I'm reading from the CNN version of the transcript so this could be wrong too The next thing the president of the United States says is that he would like you do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot in Ukraine, knows not a lot about it. He'd like you find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine they say crowd psyched. So I just read that to you Then Zelensky comes back he's going through a whole thing. He starts out, the whole thing is Mr President we're draining the swamp we've learned so much from you really excited to talk to you have been trying to get together and then he says I guarantee you as president of Ukraine all investigations will be done openly candidly of corruption in his own country and then Trump comes back and says good because I hear you had a prosecutor was very good and he was shut down that's really unfair lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your

51:42 You're a very good prosecutor down, and you had some very bad people involved. Mr Giuliani is highly respected. Now it goes on about Giuliani... And then he says the other thing, so it's completely separated from the javelins. There is a lot of talk about Biden son that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about what that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you look and look into it sounds horrible to me! Zelensky comes in and says, oh yeah I want to tell you about the prosecutor. He says I'm knowledgeable of the situation since we won the absolute majority in our Parliament the next prosecutor will be 100% my person, my candidate who will be approved and then he asked Trump for a favor

52:34 The issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty, so we will take care of that and work on the investigation in the end. On top of that I would kindly ask you Mr President if you have any additional information you can provide us it would be very helpful for the investigation to make sure that we administer justice in our country with regard to the ambassador to United States from Ukraine as far as I recall her name was Ivanovich It was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best and she admired the previous president and she was on his side. She would not accept me as new president well enough, which is his entire issue because he could not communicate corruption that was going on between then Obama's State Department and Ukraine! And they were worried we would think they were horrible people

CHAPTER 19 / 47 Discussion

Nancy Pelosi, Official Impeachment Inquiry Announcement

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Pelosi accused the President of betraying his oath of office and the integrity of U.S. elections. This follows previous statements by Jerry Nadler regarding formal impeachment proceedings, despite no full House vote having occurred to authorize the process.

nancy pelosi· impeachment inquiry· constitution day· jerry nadler· house of representatives

53:30 So all it takes is just to read through this to see that they've made this up out of... I mean, it's worse than I've ever seen and immediately jumped to all these conclusions. So much so that Pelosi—I'm actually going to just play the beginning and I'll skip to the end—again before the transcript came out, Pelosi was standing on her podium not her regular Speaker Of The House podium. Oh no! We had five flags we had everything all set up she had her new she had has had new skin. I mean, if you squint at this video of Nancy Pelosi with her new hair and her new skin it's just like when you put the glasses on What's the movie?

54:14 They live? They live, yes. She looks like one of those Skeletor beasts so this is before she has any proof or even the notes of the transcript she's up she's pushed to do this last Tuesday we observed the anniversary at the adoption of the Constitution on September 17th sadly on that day The intelligent community inspector general formally notified the Congress that the administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint on Constitution Day. I like the intelligent community instead of intelligence, that's kind of cool This is a violation of law Shortly thereafter press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene

55:05 in his election. Okay, that's quite an extrapolation of what went on here so I'm fast-forwarding through it all to get to the end. It's for Article One powers including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity approval of articles of impeachment And this week, the president has admitted to asking the President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections

55:47 Therefore, today I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Okay, official impeachment inquiry? We heard this on episode 1163 of this podcast from Jerry Nadler This is formal impeachment proceedings We are investigating all the evidence, we're gathering the evidence and we will at the conclusion of this hopefully by the end of the year vote to vote articles impeachment into the House floor or we won't. That's a decision that will have to make but that's exactly the process were in right now So within this process it is an impeachment inquiry

56:29 Impeachment starts with filing of the articles of impeachment and it takes a vote in the House of Representatives. But apparently everyone's forgotten that, and now we're just pretending the president is being impeached which is just emphatically not true! Well, that's well hello. I know but it's that's the idea because they can't do the impeachment somebody sent a very interesting note to us Describing them did the impeachment process to remind us that you read They really don't have any Detroit if there's gonna be a trial about impeachment if they're gonna do all this investigation That's actually gets done by the Senate

CHAPTER 20 / 47 Discussion

DNI Joseph Maguire, Congressional Testimony

Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified before Congress regarding the whistleblower complaint. During the live broadcast on YouTube, viewers noted a public service announcement about stroke symptoms featuring a man with a striking resemblance to Congressman Jerry Nadler. Maguire maintained that the whistleblower rules did not strictly apply to the President's conduct.

joseph maguire· dni· fox news· jerry nadler· youtube

57:06 Well, ultimately yes. But the House has to file... So they don't have to do much more than just file all these... They just file the articles of impeachment and then he goes to the Senate for a trial? Yeah There's no reason for all these hearings. The hearings thing is just a charade, it's just nonsense. It's the way to embarrass and slow down the president from doing anything, keep him from hopefully keep Ginsburg alive and maybe win the next election I think they're blowing at doing that but I... Just as an aside though, I have to say this morning they had the DNI guy live on Fox. Yes McGuire yeah well he testified. And it was a live feed through YouTube

57:47 So I clicked on it, and it starts with this ad of a...I swear people will see this ad. Somebody having a stroke is like this fat guy who is a dead ringer for Jerry Nadler. Really? Having a stroke in this ad and oh what the signs of a stroke are! And they zoom in on the guy. I swear to God, what is Jerry Nadler doing in this advertisement?! Anyway, I don't know. Again that's probably Foxe's idea of a joke. Yeah could be. But it was a real ad but it was a public service ad so why is YouTube running this? Well anyway... There are just couple things I want to finish up

CHAPTER 21 / 47 Discussion

Adam Schiff, Mafia Boss Analogy

Adam Schiff compared President Trump's rhetoric to that of a mafia boss, arguing that an explicit quid pro quo was unnecessary for the threat to be understood by Ukraine. Despite the intense media coverage, polling suggests only 5% of Republicans support impeachment. The Democratic leadership faces pressure from freshman members in contested districts to pursue the inquiry.

adam schiff· quid pro quo· mafia· republican party· polling

58:32 So now we're after the release of the notes and we need to give it some color. And this is, uh, the clip that was played quite a lot and again, we're going back to Adam Schiff so you just heard what's going on but you-you're not doing it right you see? You gotta understand what Trump has really said saying, and this is what Adam Schiff is going to explain. The White House says that this call summary proves that there was no quid pro quo because the withheld military aid never even came up in the conversation. What's your response to them? My response is the President of Ukraine brought up his country's need for military assistance and immediately thereafter the President United States said I have a favor I want to ask you

59:15 and would not let the subject go. There was only one message that that president of Ukraine got from that call, and that was this is what I need, I know what you need like any mafia boss, the President didn't need to say That's a nice country you have it'd be ashamed if something happened to it because that was clear from the conversation there is no quid pro quo necessary To betray your country or your oath of office Even though many read this as a quid pro quo. I'm not concerned whether it is a quid pro quo or not Oh Ukraine understood what this president wanted he made it abundantly clear He made it redundantly clear, he had his emissaries making it clear and Ukraine needed knew what it needed to do if it wanted to get military assistance And that is help the President of United States violate his oath of office

1:00:13 I mean, do these people really think they're going to get away with this? That it will really work that we're all so stupid. Yeah. OK and will it no no. Okay then we're not so stupid apparently well the problem is and we can go into that is there still having the Republicans aren't buying any of this. There's only 5% of the Republicans in a poll saying should be present be impeached The numbers are not, I mean they just keep hounding the pounding this to the public and it's starting to annoy people. A lot of people I think are just turning off to it and I think the Democrats might... And by the way this Pelosi thing? I'm at a point now where I'm thinking Pelosi has just given up! She went along with the program because she says it was the five freshmen

CHAPTER 22 / 47 Discussion

Nancy Pelosi, Freshman Democrats Pressure

Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly shifted her stance on impeachment after pressure from seven freshman Democrats, rather than the high-profile "Squad." These members represent contested districts and fear losing their seats if no action is taken. The move marks a departure from the traditional seniority-based system of the House of Representatives.

nancy pelosi· the squad· freshman democrats· house of representatives· seniority

1:01:06 And there were these five freshmen that you're seven. That's the squad, it's the squad! No no not them Five other freshmen. Oh that that were always against impeachment until this They came in and said we got to do something, you know because I'm gonna lose so they're all newbies in contested districts That could go Democrat or Republican And not the squad the squads been kind of out on our never making any noise into it They get other things to worry about You know what's interesting? And she knuckled to these five freshmen who are all nude nicks, mostly women. In fact you can say they're all women but two of them are actually guys but it could be women. John... The uh... Alright so Pelosi's an idiot Wait let me finish! Pelosi may be deciding that the only way to get this resolved is to let the parties

1:02:08 just lose the house again and just throw arms up in the air, say look I told you guys how to do this. You wouldn't listen to me and now you're all screwed live with it." Really? That's the only explanation I can have for Pelosi knuckling under to five fresh or seven freshmen What is the etymology? These people shouldn't be saying anything. They shouldn't have any opinion, the way this system works is there's a seniority based system if you've been proven that you should be there not just a lucky one shot because it was that off season election and now your starting to throw your weight around now this is not acceptable Nudnik

CHAPTER 23 / 47 Discussion

Trump-Zelensky Press Conference, Biden Corruption Allegations

President Trump and President Zelensky held a joint press conference at the UN General Assembly where Zelensky stated he felt no pressure during their phone call. Trump doubled down on allegations that Hunter Biden received millions from Ukraine and $1.5 billion from China. Trump also reiterated his interest in the 2016 Clinton email server and CrowdStrike.

volodymyr zelensky· joe biden· hunter biden· china· hillary clinton

1:02:53 is Yiddish, stems from Russian word tedious. It's a good word. So the thing that didn't get any airtime and I had to go to C-SPAN to get it is the UN General Assembly besides all the media attention Greta got... The two presidents sat down actually had a press conference President Trump and President... I keep forgetting his name really should know this Zelensky and address the issues. I think you read everything so yeah, I think you read text I'm sorry but I don't want to be involved too democratic open

1:03:41 elections of USA. No, you heard that we had I think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many things and so i think and you ready that nobody push In other words, no pressure. I mean that we have independent country and independent general security. I can't push anyone you know? That's it that is the question...that is the answer so I didn't call somebody or the new general security I didn't ask him I didn't push him

1:04:22 Now, when Biden's son walks away with millions of dollars from Ukraine and he knows nothing... See interestingly Trump is now just doubling down and hammering on this stuff. And they're paying him millions of dollars that's corruption! When Biden's son walks out of China with 1.5 billion dollars in a fund and the biggest funds in the world can't get money out of China and he's there for one quick meeting and flies it on Air Force Two I think that It's a horrible thing. I think it is a horrible thing, but i'm going far beyond that. I know the president and I've read alot about Ukraine and I've read alot about alot of countries he wants to stop corruption Rudy is looking to also find out where the phony witch hunt started how it started you had a Russian witch hunt that turned out to be two-and-half years of phony nonsense

1:05:11 And I think he's got a very strong right to do it. He is the good lawyer, he knows exactly what he is doing One of the great crimes committed is Hillary Clinton deleting 33 thousand emails after Congress sends her subpoena I mean...I've never heard that She has done far worse than that although I don't know how much worse can be and then she said as I remember that although they had to do with the wedding and yoga she does a lot of yoga right so they have thirty three thousand about the wedding over daughter and yoga I don't think so. And that's really Trumps point he is really going after the Clinton server, CrowdStrike, emails... That's really what it is. Yeah I dont think he cares at all about Biden Now remember we talked about WinRed this is the Republican fundraising arm its kind of like ShareBlue

CHAPTER 24 / 47 Discussion

WinRed, Republican Impeachment Fundraising

The Republican fundraising platform WinRed, associated with Jared Kushner, has launched an aggressive SMS campaign following the impeachment inquiry announcement. Supporters are receiving multiple text messages daily requesting $100 donations for a "President Trump Impeachment Defense Team." The strategy mirrors the high-volume digital fundraising tactics used by Democratic candidates like Elizabeth Warren.

winred· jared kushner· fundraising· sms marketing· donald trump

1:06:01 Or ActBlue, I'm sorry. They do all the transactions All of the funds that come through from the chip-in campaigns and that's owned by Kushner and Kushner's buddies they have been on full blast! I'll give you an example of some of these tweets that are coming in And it's always the same amount by the way Breaking news! Nancy wants to impeach President Trump, needs you on his impeachment defense team. We're sending him each donor in one hour reply yes to donate $100 Next one Do you not stand with President Trump? He needs you on as impeachment defense team Adam slick personalized show him support all gifts match two times reply Yes to donate 100 dollars and it's just five a day

1:06:50 They're fundraising like crazy off of this. Of course they are, that's the idea! Yeah I find those texts incredibly insulting... And I'm glad you stayed on the mailing list but i took myself off-I was on Warrens mailing list it was the same thing. John these are text messages These are text messages. Well, I don't have my texts but...I've never received text messages from presidents. That's pretty aggressive It's very aggressive these guys are all over it and i find it quite insulting personally I think it is insulting. It's also, you know...it's assuming that you don't know what's going on with the whole thing and shit. It's almost like oh great look at what they did this is gonna give us an opportunity to bring in a lot of millions. Ugh! That's annoying. You people should be sending their money to the No Agenda show instead And with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who put this

CHAPTER 25 / 47 Discussion

No Agenda Art, Nick the Rat Spongebob Caricature

Artist Nick the Rat won the cover art contest for episode 1175 with a caricature of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The piece features Ocasio-Cortez's head inside the diving suit of Sandy Cheeks, a character from Spongebob Squarepants, referencing her childhood nickname "Sandy." The selection sparked a humorous debate among contributors regarding the simplicity and legality of using existing cartoon frames.

nick the rat· spongebob squarepants· alexandria ocasio-cortez· sandy cheeks· digital art

1:07:42 in cryosphere, John C. Dvorak! Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there in the morning troll room very busy today with all of our trolls Let's see how many trolls we can count today 1051 they are at no agenda stream calm where you can always hop in Troll along say whatever you want to then it's not just our show We've got 24 hours 7 days a week of fantastic shows, and it's a troll room and a stream. All-in one It's like a floor wax on a dessert topping And also in the morning to the artist who brought us just a fabulous another award-winning piece for episode 1175. The title of that was Son of Abidin, as if we had vision that it was coming and this was done by Nick the Rat and it was derived from the discovery that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had a nickname in school her nickname was Sandy

1:08:43 And you should take over John because I wasn't familiar with this caricature. Yes, I mentioned in the process that Sandy is a very common name when I was a kid. I think Adam had a few friends but to me it always invokes the girlfriend of Spongebob the squirrel named Sandy who would go to the hangout with SpongeBob and his buddies, a squirrel in a... And she'd always be in a diving suit. And so she'd be down there because you know, squirrels really can't live underwater like a sponge can. What? And so Nick Durat immediately took one of this SpongeBob, one of the Sandy diving suits

1:09:30 cartoon frames and stuck or Cassio Cortez's head into the helmet. And it just made me laugh out loud when I saw it, and was simple and genius. And whenever we have a laughing out loud moment from either of the hosts that's usually pretty good indication that that's going to be the piece if you look at a piece of art and makes you laugh just looking at it its good no matter what it is So yeah, and that was in his all he entered to he entered early and once because I think he knew you had it Usually nickel nickel do five different pieces just to make sure he's in the running

1:10:09 Some people you know they get they want to get on they so they're competitive with a lot of pieces But when you just drop one in and right at the beginning, it's just like wins. It's because you had a hunch Well was it was a beautiful piece And we appreciate very funny and cute and comic strip blogger immediately put a file to protest that is He just took art from SpongeBob I'm put head in does not realize this walk This is a simplicity have some of these is And it's legal, it's not copyright violation. But this is from the guy who drew two lines on Melania's boobs and won the album art and he's complaining about Nick's piece come on! Yes I love the competition. Artists at war! No agendaartgenerator.com is where you can enter

1:11:07 Your piece, it's very competitive. It's also just fun to peruse through them There's a lot of great stuff that we just are unable to use We have ten times the amount of art that we have episodes or I think we're up to 13 or 14 thousand pieces and of course noagendashop.com Works out a sweet deal with artists if they print stuff on their t-shirts and Mugs and all the other paraphernalia They have and they get 1 3rd 1 3rd 1 3rd goes the show if there's no agenda shop third to the artist No agenda Artgenerator.com thank you and thank you everybody who submitted, who worked on it and for today we'd also like to thank a few people our executive producers are in our exec associate executive producers who keep the show going financially which keeps our bills paid and uh We have a see what do we have? It looks like a balanced list. Balanced list. Associate Executive Producer and Executive Producer four-and-four

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Executive Producer Donations, Corey Ainsworth and Sir Gator

Corey Ainsworth from Wisconsin contributed $365.25, noting that the show has helped his mental health more than medication. Sir Gator of the North Texas Swamps donated $333.33, while Rich Ballard contributed $301.01 and promoted a Dallas restaurant chain called Wing Bucket. A Russian-language donation from a producer named Dubov was also acknowledged.

corey ainsworth· wisconsin· texas· wing bucket· dallas

1:12:04 Nice. I always like the balance. Corey Ainsworth starts it off from Edgerton, Wisconsin $365 and 25 cents. I've been listening to Noah Jenner for a year now and i've noticed a shift in the way of you media and politics my newfound ability to see bias has been more valuable to my mental health than any SSRI I wanted to give back to the best podcast in the universe as i just sold my house it was a rough selling process is the bar was sporting a man bun. I know! I went out to eat with some millennial democrats to celebrate and can report that the creepy uncle joe meme is still alive and well here's to another year jingles dogs are people too respect and some karma please. Dogs are people, too.

1:13:02 R-E-S-P-I-C-T You've got karma. You know, those two fit together very nicely actually. Yeah I guess it's just the same chord? Same something? Same beats. Same vibe. Surgator of the North Texas Swamps comes in with $333.33 from Providence Village in Texas Jobs Karma would be appreciate appreciated thank you for the sanity Sir Gator of the North Texas swamps. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! You thought, karma. Uh Rich Ballard $301.01

1:13:49 Thank you for the show wanted to wish both of you happy birthday. My wife 917, Robin 61, the keeper son 915 Justin 32 the douchebag and my other son Jesse 33 who has no nickname. He has no nickname Jesse he's just there. Yeah yeah Jesse got no nickname The Kid Well, actually Justin's the kid. My son Justin could also use some baby making karma and I would use some extra house selling karma as a percent of the profits I made on a small investment in a restaurant chain around Dallas called Wing Bucket. So anyone in the area check it out so I can make more donations. Love all the news analysis that I can't get anywhere else with the humor

1:14:37 We need to keep this going! No jingles, no karma. Sir Richard the Lionheart." Except he actually asked specifically for some karma so we'll make sure we do it You've got karma Actually, wait a minute. No it's actually in NJ with nj JK. Oh yeah no jingles and nothing just car no just oh jobs Karma Yeah, wait he didn't ask for jobs karma. No jingles just Karma I think that's what it is all right good well we did it then we did it right complicating matters with the Dubov lattice loft came in from Moscow an

1:15:17 In or moscow three hundred dollars i look for a note from him can find anything you have anything to tell us it gets curiously came in on my spreadsheet my original love your old paypal account. My paypal account as in syrillic. And so I had to translate it and it said, gave me this name by the way Dubov. There's a third name in there and it said to me that when I tried translating from Russian to English says this is Ukrainian! So his name according to the translators is Ukrainian

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Knighting Ceremony, Sir A Source Familiar With The Matter

An anonymous producer from Michigan requested a title change to "Sir A Source Familiar With The Matter" after a previous knighting error. Sir Jeffro of Rockwall, Texas, donated $250.52 for his 52nd birthday, requesting a medley of Al Sharpton clips. The segment highlights the community-driven financial support model of the podcast.

knighting· michigan· jeffro· rockwall texas· al sharpton

1:15:54 I recognize the name now. I think he's donated before, pretty sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure well if you have anything for us let us know but in the meantime thank you. Thank You Comrade! We've got an associate executive producer starting with Anonymous in Michigan and he sent a check and a note it's always one of the better ways to stay anonymous Thank you for doing the research for me and for us. You and the fellow producers keep me sane, here is 272, for September 29th it's 272nd day of 2019! Now...you got your pen? Oh yes I want to know-and i didn't send this to Eric because like just it was handwritten and I wasn't gonna be able to cut and paste

1:16:42 I want to notify you that by error, mostly on my end. I think i was not properly knighted by ceremony maybe that can be resolved today with that I humbly request that I'd be allowed to change my title from Sir Roscoe to sir a source familiar with the matter okay And then he needs, so I just would just re-night him. Got it. Oh no no no! He just wants a title change? You sure what he wasn't nighted at all is that what you're saying? It wasn't properly night and maybe that can be... Okay let's do a title change if that works for him if it doesn't he can write again

1:17:30 Soon to be sir with a da-da-ba-ba-bah, ba-ba-ba-bah. He says jobs and general karma please. Okay? Jobs! Jobs! Jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! All right next another birthday boy Sir Jeff Geoffro of the Rockwall in Heath Texas 252 I'm sorry $250.52 And he writes, and John and Adam I often wish there was more i could do for the no agenda show. Unfortunately im not particularly creative enough to make album art. I don't have time to figure out the technical ways to make clips and Im not funny

1:18:18 But I do have cash, so i'm making my annual birthday donation as we turn 52 on Saturday. I find that a donation to the no agenda show is the best gift that one can give themselves It helps to ensure that you get a birthday present two times a week for the whole year. I'm also big fan of DH Unplugged and Grumpy Old Benz, and i wouldn't have known about these podcasts without No Agenda Thanks for all the hard work that you do to help us cut through media madness and find the truth For jingles, I'd love to hear a medley of Sharpton clips

1:18:55 Along with little mac and cheese a goat karma is always a plus. Thanks again, sir Jeff row yeah in honoring the newsletter which I thought was one of the better Opening titles impeach we much I thought that gave me a little kick. I thought we'd do some og sharp tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin our national drive to push back or whether we have More to go to build a movement of resistance but resist we much we must

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Baron Doom, Liberator of the Minnesota Slaves

Donald O'Malley attained the rank of Baron, choosing the title "Baron Doom, Liberator of the Minnesota Slaves." He shared details of his new software business, a fundraising platform for PTOs and small nonprofits. His note emphasized the importance of allowing open disagreement within the listener community to help new listeners transition away from hyper-polarized media environments.

baron doom· minnesota· value for value· pto· nonprofits

1:19:36 And we will much about that be committed. You slaves can get used to mac and cheese, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese. You've got karma. And onward to Donald O'Malley $240 and 93 cents you have the PDF there? I do, but I didn't put it into my shul folder. But i can get that quite simply and quickly

1:20:20 Yes, I thought I could. He writes...I was gonna have you read it but i can do it. ITM gents please feel free to read what you think is necessary on the air done now all I want specifically request my karma and title change the rest up to you our requests business karma as my only jingles of a software developer better yet solution provider not a coder who started business with previous supervisor over this past year in their first product is now live with the first paying customer we created a fundraising platform focused on school. PTO PTA and other smaller nonprofits that are largely ignored as or raped by vendors this is one of my ways of sharing the value for value model explained in the excruciating detail below, here's changes he needs title change and protectorate i have reached barren status

1:21:14 and I would like to claim the state of Minnesota as my protectorate. I would like to be referred to henceforth as Baron Doom, liberator of the Minnesota slaves." Okay hold on... Baron Doom, liberator of the Minnesota slaves? Yes, Aaron doom Liberator and yes if you pronounce that with doom do liberate of the Minnesota slaves I will read a little bit of this He says before I explain my value for value journey since it does have something to do with us. I want to bring a Counterpoint to why I think it's important for people to write in and indicate that they don't agree with everything You say I also think it's important for you to read that and preferably without berating them

1:22:03 Okay, up to you. When you hear or read that, you are reading it with a mind already open to the no agenda way of thinking. However new listeners who are trying to break their minds free from the masses are caught up in a hyper-polarized environment we're expecting to blindly and without question accept and agree with our side no matter what! The societal requirements make it hard for new listeners they hear no agenda and understand that we just get to think for ourselves while disagreeing openly when we don't agree with whatever the group you're disagreeing with. When people write and indicate that they do not agree with everything, I think it's very important but okay now he goes on and on about this issue which I will now address. Yes we do mock many a people who come in with any comment whatsoever especially when they say that but the reason is not because they're saying that they don't agree with everything is because it is always assumed

1:23:07 that they don't agree with everything because nobody would. In fact, Adam and I even on today's show about the one upmanship clip we disagree constantly not at not constantly but we disagree enough and it's which is a reason once crackpot once buzzkill and so is not that were mocking them or could condemning them for disagreeing with us ever but for them even bringing it up that's it that's all there is to But I appreciate this note and I will not mock you since you're now a baron so the Barons are not mockable Off with his head he might say, so be careful. Yeah Treason leads to death okay anyway thank you very much for that And Sir Finch is next I think on the list sir finch comes in with two three four five six one of my favorite donations

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Sir Finch, China is Asshole Jingle

Sir Finch contributed a "1-2-3-4-5-6" donation and requested the "China is Asshole" jingle. The hosts concluded the first segment of executive producer acknowledgments, emphasizing that these titles are legitimate credits that can be used on professional resumes and LinkedIn profiles to recognize financial production support.

sir finch· china· donald trump· fundraising· value for value

1:23:59 Impeach we much. We love a Donald Trump, by the way that is the only reason this newsletter did so well I agree with you It was great! I cracked up and as Tina, she laughed out loud wherever she was at work Yeah it's very funny It's good one It's funny...I don't know why it just came to me in some moment No it's like God made it to you Impeach we much. I would love a Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is a hoe jingle and a large dose of jobs goat karma thank you for your courage sir Finch. Donald Trump don't trust China! China is asshole! Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! You thought... Karma

1:24:47 It cracks me up every time I hear it. No, it's funny! Every time I hear it, it's funny. It's funny, it's one of those things that are funny So that concludes our list of associate executive producers and executive producers for show 1176. We want to thank each and everyone... Each and everyone of them. I must have been listening to Ben Shapiro for helping the show. No, sounds more like you were listening to Nancy You're just leaving words out. Exactly, thank you these are executive and associate executive producers just like Hollywood these credits are real anywhere credit to recognize that will be accepted if not we're happy to vouch for you please put it anywhere that makes sense for you on your resume even works but on your LinkedIn profile executive producer or associate executive producer

1:25:41 of the No Agenda Show episode 1176. Thank you very much for your karma and for your courage, and for all of that! And we'll thank more people in our second segment You can also obtain one of these coveted titles for our Sunday show just go to devorak.org slash n-a Well at least now we know exactly what the definition is of quid pro quo Our formula is this We go out, we hit people in the mouth Yes, the vape wars! And we have a huge development in the vape wars as witnessed by this clip. Breaking news

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Juul CEO Resignation, Massachusetts Vaping Ban

Juul Labs CEO Kevin Burns resigned as the company suspended all advertising and lobbying efforts in the U.S. This coincides with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declaring a four-month ban on all vaping products following a spike in lung illnesses. The industry shift occurs as major tobacco companies pivot toward new "heated tobacco" technologies.

juul· kevin burns· charlie baker· massachusetts· altria

1:26:46 As the heat on e-cigarettes increases, Juul Labs CEO Kevin Burns announced his immediate resignation. On CTM last month Burns gave a blunt message to young users... Don't wait! Don't use Juul Don't start using nicotine if you don't have a pre-existing relationship with nicotine. He uses Juul in the house whenever he wants The company has also suspended all advertising and says it will not lobby the Trump administration on new vaping laws saying in a statement It will fully support and comply with the final policy when effective On the first day of a four-month ban, smoke shops across Massachusetts had empty shelves. The moratorium of e-cigarette products includes flavored and unflavored containing tobacco and or marijuana which is legal in Massachusetts and both online or retail sales

1:27:33 Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said it was necessary for health officials to get a handle on the spike in vaping-related illnesses. This temporary ban will allow state government and medical providers the time they need to understand the dangers and respond accordingly Massachusetts governor says he can extend the vaping ban beyond the four months and other states are taking similar steps. Neighboring Rhode Island just issued a ban for all flavored vaping products, and California is urging its residents to stop vaping altogether So let's put this all together We had a Vape Industry Insider

1:28:10 who was in the advertising side of the business and said this is all just delaying tactic, and this is maybe a week-and-a-half or two weeks ago. All of this noise about vaping and people dying... It's all noise! All that tobacco industry is trying to do is slow down the vaping craze so they can come in with their real new product which dry tobacco It's not really a vaporizer, but it was a smokeless system known as IQ OS IQ OS and something that we Wasn't really on our radar is after Altria bought jewel for 18 billion dollars they were working on a merger with Philip Morris and

1:28:58 And now this, the CEO of Juul has been replaced with a top tobacco executive. now it looks like Altria and Philip Morris will merge but on very different terms than Altria would have wanted. And let me read from the New York Times, I mean that it's on and off about the merger but I'm pretty sure that they'll get together, but Philip Morris has said the two companies are now going to focus on rolling out the IQOS heated tobacco product in the United States. They emphasize that IQOS, which Philip Morse International sells abroad and has received FDA approval for sale in the US is not an e-vapor product. IQOS is a pen like electronic device with battery pack that resembles cigarette case It features heating blade that warms tobacco stick

1:29:55 and emits a vapor with the taste of tobacco, but with fewer noxious chemicals than cigarette smoke. The FDA has approved it for sale in the United States and said the product could help people to quit smoking! The agency is still weighing whether to permit IQOS to be marketed as a reduced-risk product." So this was the plan we knew something fishy was going on yes it's very dangerous to vape nicotine salts at high wattage or sub-ohm as they say, so low resistance. So you're really burning that it can create benzene acid and that apparently is what is drying up in people's lungs and making them very sick and making them die I think maybe even up to

1:30:47 Eight or nine people globally now still less than tide pods that people ate. But there you go for the four hundred thousand a year from smoking so they really and they went after the vape industry on the hill there was a There was a hearing about vape products and they brought in Vicky Porter who's a vape advocate, and Rashida Tlaib for some reason is on this committee. And she took her orders from wherever it's coming from I guess from the tobacco industry because that was the whole point to ruin the vape industry outlaw vaping states are poor

1:31:26 Pulling vape the outlawing vape vape stores are shutting down. There's no more access to it Yeah, you can still have your jewel maybe who knows? Maybe they'll just convert to IQOS I don't know so she did her job was on health and so it's so important that you all continue to speak truth about this because the long-term effects is very dangerous especially because they have been targeted towards youth and then you almost quarter I was reading because i want to know more about you and your beliefs, and I respect that we all have different beliefs but you call yourself a converted conservative and reformed Marxist. Are you conspiracy theorists?

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IQOS Launch, Philip Morris and Altria Merger Collapse

Philip Morris International (PMI) and Altria ended merger discussions to focus on the U.S. launch of IQOS, a heated tobacco device already approved by the FDA. Critics suggest the recent vaping health scare was leveraged by the tobacco industry to destroy independent vape competitors. During a congressional hearing, Representative Rashida Tlaib questioned a vape advocate's motives, accusing her of being a conspiracy theorist.

iqos· philip morris· altria· rashida tlaib· fda

1:30:47 Eight or nine people globally now still less than tide pods that people ate. But there you go for the four hundred thousand a year from smoking so they really and they went after the vape industry on the hill there was a There was a hearing about vape products and they brought in Vicky Porter who's a vape advocate, and Rashida Tlaib for some reason is on this committee. And she took her orders from wherever it's coming from I guess from the tobacco industry because that was the whole point to ruin the vape industry outlaw vaping states are poor

1:31:26 Pulling vape the outlawing vape vape stores are shutting down. There's no more access to it Yeah, you can still have your jewel maybe who knows? Maybe they'll just convert to IQOS I don't know so she did her job was on health and so it's so important that you all continue to speak truth about this because the long-term effects is very dangerous especially because they have been targeted towards youth and then you almost quarter I was reading because i want to know more about you and your beliefs, and I respect that we all have different beliefs but you call yourself a converted conservative and reformed Marxist. Are you conspiracy theorists?

1:32:06 I think my politics are entirely irrelevant to this hearing. Oh, okay Why were you winking at one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle? You winked because I know Glenn Grothman oh That's what so the winking did he introduced me? He is a friend of mine Okay understand I didn't know what the winking was cuz I thought maybe there was something like a conspiracy thing going on there. I didn't know. You think there's a conspiracy in this hearing, ma'am? No! No...I actually think people are speaking truth here and you can provide information that they do not- May I address the truth? Well, no, no. Well, the truth to you is very different for the majority of people in this room who do believe that children are being targeted by vaping. The truth for me is I quit smoking with these cigarettes and so did 8 million other people. You're still smokin', ma'am. You're still smokin'. Thanks.

1:32:50 Thank you, thank you. And I'm not lying under all of them. Order please! Yeah just another shit show on the hill but it and now this just off business wire... It was terrible what the hell's going on there? That's Rashida Tlaib Just off the business wire Philip Morris International Inc., the makers of IQOS today announced that merger discussions with Altria Group Inc have ended Andre Kalantapudlalapala, CEO of PMI said after much deliberation the companies have agreed to focus on launching IQOS in the US as part of their mutual interest to achieve a smoke-free future. So what they're doing I think is because... I think that Juul guys were suckered into this and this maybe it's a question for you know that you and Horowitz can talk about

1:33:39 I have the feeling that they lured them in to then make this big stink about vaping products and under the guise of, hey man we're gonna acquire you. But then killed them! Killed them, killed the company, killed the whole industry it will be illegal back to bathtubs everybody just to market IQOS and now they're tossing them a bone like, you can market this because they do own some IQOS patent I think. Yeah go ahead you can market this and then they'll buy them at a much cheaper price that's what i would predict would be next is Altria is a massive target now that the distance taken place

1:34:21 So there you go. This whole thing has always been about putting the slaves back on actual tobacco products with actual horrible shit in it, although much less than traditional cigarettes and the news media helped them and so did politicians good job everybody! We didn't help them. No we didn't but that's... That's the way of the system is yeah that's it It works somehow. Yeah, so we can retire the vape wars jingle because the vape wars are over and I can't wait to try out this IQOS it sounds like a real turd Sure it smells like one too. A tobacco which reminds me of Barbarians at the Gate a movie a must-see for no agenda producers barbarians at the gate was about the leverage buyout what's that Philip Morris? No RGR RGR Nabisco

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Black Pete Controversy, Soot Pete Transition in Apeldoorn

The Dutch city of Apeldoorn has banned the traditional "Black Pete" character from the annual Sinterklaas arrival, replacing him with "Soot Pete." This new version features soot smudges rather than full blackface, intended to represent a character who has come down a chimney. The change follows years of protests and national debate regarding racist stereotypes in folklore.

black pete· netherlands· apeldoorn· soot pete· sinterklaas

1:35:15 And the whole thing fell apart because they had developed a smokeless cigarette, spoiler. A smokeless cigarette that actually was smokeless except when you lit it with a match then it smelled like actual poop and that ruined... anyway It's a great movie to watch I think is an HBO production actually Well another controversy is now boiling And I have three clips which are, I find them very entertaining. It's about the latest on Black Pete... Oh not again! You know why? We're coming up on December 5th that's when Black Pete appears in the Netherlands Here is a good backgrounder on Black Pete and what they're going to do about it because we knew this was gonna happen. I think we predicted it on the show that Black Pete cannot go on forever

1:36:09 And so they've come up with a new way of – they came up with the solution. Matthew Feeney Santa's helper in The Netherlands is known as Black Pete, and we've spoken about Black Pete on this show before and their controversies surrounding him and the helpers. Now according to folklore, Black Pete is Amor from Spain, and when people dress up as him they often daub their faces with black paint And therein lies the problem. Many believe the Black Pete character promotes racist stereotypes, there have been violent confrontations over the issue and has even sparked debates in the Dutch Parliament DW correspondent Stefan Boss grew up in The Netherlands but this year is going to be different Stefan Yes it's going to be radically different I would say Wow! I love that you got this clip of a Dutch guy Sean, that's great

1:37:01 Because for the first time only peats with soot wipes will be allowed. They even call him the Soot Pete, no longer the Black Pete. Okay yes! So what you're saying is instead of painting your face fully black you just can daub soot? Yes. As though because you know traditionally Santa Claus comes down the chimney and if he come down the chimney you're going to pick up some soot. Exactly. And that is really a dramatic development because it was announced even by the national television broadcaster and they announced that for the first time only soot beads will be allowed to participate in this annual entry. This year is Apeldoorn and the municipality there was saying well we are not really awaiting black

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David Sedaris, UN Reparations Consultant

Author David Sedaris famously commented on the Dutch tradition of "six to eight black men" entering homes at night. The ongoing controversy is linked to a UN consultant's efforts to secure reparations for former Dutch colonies like Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Activists argue the character is a vestige of the slavery era, while many locals view it as a harmless children's tradition.

david sedaris· suriname· united nations· reparations· blackface

1:37:57 Peets anymore so the black Pete has been banned from Appledorn Wow are you familiar with Soot? I was not up to speed on these Soot peet but we know it here because of the Noah Tjenter show which is, you know it's the best podcast in this universe according to The Miller Report So I got two more clips. The last one is the short one, but let's hear more about Sutz-Piett. Okay so some foreigners are quite surprised by the whole Black Pete debate American author and comedian David Sedaris has written a story about the tradition. The story is called Six to Eight Black Men and he once read it to a group of Dutch students This I think is the greatest difference between us in the Dutch

1:38:44 While a certain segment of our population might be perfectly happy with the arrangement, if you told the average white American that six to eight nameless black men would be sneaking into his house in the middle of the night he would barricade the doors and arm himself with whatever he could get his hands on. Six to eight did you say? David Sedaris there and yeah he's talking about your average white American well what about your average black Dutch person It is very interesting because there are very different reactions. Of course the people from the group called Kick Out Zwarte Piet, that is even here existing... They are very happy with this latest arrangement because they cite history. They recall that in 1863 slavery was abolished

1:39:35 in the former Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, ending some 200 years of slavery. And they view this Black Pete character as a really left over from that horrible time now I've also spoken with other people his friends from Suriname and they find this discussion ridiculous Even one of them told me, well it now means that I can no longer play the character of Black Pete. But it is a very divisive issue in The Netherlands What was also interesting that in recent years even a massive police presence was necessary to welcome Santa Claus Now that's of course not really how you want to celebrate what is really a children's feast

1:40:25 You know, while that was playing I was looking for Back to the Archives. This whole Black Pete controversy started many years ago, we covered it on the show by a woman whose sole responsibility as a consultant to the United Nations is to prove that reparations are needed for the former colonies of European countries. So when he mentioned Suriname Indonesia I think well Suriname Netherlands Antilles Those were colonies and she started this, it would have started anyway but it was always intended to spark a conversation about reparations for

1:41:07 slaves of the Dutch colonies and that conversion is alive in the Netherlands today. Many people who are from Suriname or Netherlands Antilles background are saying, oh yeah we deserve that money we can't wait to get it and that will be the next report you hear so um... That's the origin of this and now of course its turned into a whole blackface thing In fact, the funny thing is with all the grief that Justin Trudeau is receiving. Apparently the Prime Minister of Holland dresses up as Black Pete all the time! Many times have politicians been the Black Pete or the Sinterklaas, the Santa Claus

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Mark Rutte, Dutch Hate Speech Laws

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte defended Black Pete as a harmless tradition, noting that his friends in the Antilles do not have to paint their faces to play the part. Meanwhile, new legislation in the Netherlands could impose two-year prison sentences for speech that "creates a split in society." Critics argue these laws effectively criminalize controversial opinions and instigate censorship.

mark rutte· roderick velo· netherlands· hate speech· free speech

1:41:49 Yeah, well this comes up in the third clip. The third part Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte he's got he actually went the other way He's saying well actually there's nothing to apologize for because this character is harmless This is a old children's tradition Sinterklaas and black Pete And it is not green peat or brown peat, it's black peat. So I cannot change that this is an old tradition and... ...I can only say that my friends in the Dutch Antilles they are very happy when they have Sinterklaas because they don't have to paint their faces! When I'm playing Black Peat I am for days trying to get off the stuff from my face So, Stefan just a final question. Do you think that next year when it's not an Apple Dome and they have a new city is going to host it? Are they going to go back to Black Pete or are they going to go with the new version of SotPete?

1:42:36 I think they are going with the Thoughtpeat simply because this has been a development for some time. They have very, very slowly changed the character. I have to say that even in recent years you could still see a Black Pete mixed with Peets with different colors so i think this is a development and i expect that slowly but surely Black Pete will disappear from the television screens here in The Netherlands. Wow! Great report. And this comes along, you know this is important because there's protests I mean for the past couple years we've had the pro-Petes and anti-Petes you know people literally yelling and screaming at each other while children are there waiting for the holy man to come on his steamboat from Spain with his black Pete so it's been very traumatizing but this comes along with an interesting tweet from

1:43:36 the Justice Department of the Netherlands, Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, justice and security or safety from Sir Roderick Velo who we all know TPO podcast he's been a longtime supporter of the show there's been some changes in Dutch law for certain crimes, so if you participate in a criminal organization you can now get 10 years jail time. If you have an illegal gun which is any gun and if your not licensed almost no one is 8 years. If you participate in porn shaming what's the term? You know where you post some naked picture of your ex

1:44:24 Yeah, it's something shaming. Something shaming... Two years of jail and here's the one that he highlighted Porn-shamming I think it is yeah Here's the one he highlighted if you instigate hate discrimination and violence ie The right to freedom of speech may not be misused To create a split in society So if you say something that causes a split in society, you can get two years of jail in the Netherlands. That means you can't say anything! Meanwhile... Oh Black Pete and I hereby call... Soot Pete. I here by call that we have to stop with fat Santa Claus

1:45:24 It's turning it's making fun of fat people because they're not always jolly so that to be jolly and they have to be generous and funny and wise. No! Nope, no more Fat Santa Claus We may not hear anything on that but I'm just saying its ridiculous Actually if you put up a website and started making a fuss You could start a movement I got enough work on my hands with keeping a podcast going. Well, I thought you were sincere that you really wanted to stop Fat Santa? I'll let someone else take care of that work! No no no no no...

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Emmy Awards Ratings, October 8th Supreme Court Case

The 71st Emmy Awards saw record-low ratings, down 26% from the previous year. During the red carpet, actress Laverne Cox highlighted an upcoming Supreme Court hearing on October 8th regarding Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Activists claim the Trump administration is trying to make it legal to fire transgender workers, though the legal focus is on the definition of "sex" within the act.

emmy awards· laverne cox· supreme court· title vii· civil rights act

1:46:09 Well, I thought you...I had a hunch you were unfamiliar with Soot Pete. I was not familiar with the Soot Pete no and i'm glad that I put those clips together to educate ya about your own country. Former residence. Thank You! I want to go back there's something coming up and I want to put it on people's radars to the Emmy Awards which were the lowest rated ever I believe it was down 26% I mean why not? It was quite boring most of it there was no host. Can I make a comment here? Please do I failed to watch them, I had Monday Night Football on. Which was the winner of the night? It was dinner time but I failed to watch them and then I realized the next day as I read The Overnights and looked at The Hollywood Reporter in these other trades, realized that I'd missed them and said well I can always download it there's places you can download these things

1:47:03 and watch it later, get some clips out of it. And then I failed to even do that. I was so disinterested. I don't need to listen to a bunch of Hollywood doofuses lecture me about one thing or another. I really found myself kind of repulsed by the show. I never even bothered to see a clip of it. We watched the whole thing. Good there wasn't really any super highlight, but what caught my eye And I of these award shows I really like watching the red carpet because that's where I can see what people are wearing You know what they're really saying you because it's not really well staged or lit you can yeah? People often

1:47:46 things shine through and you just see other things you may not see on the show itself. But something that came back continuously was October 8th, I think it was Laverne Cox who is the trans woman who is most famous for her role in Orange Is The New Black and she was on the red carpet telling everybody about October 8th, October 8th that the evil Trump administration is trying to make it possible for any employer to fire you just because your trans! And this was a theme throughout the evening. It was called out on stage and then Laverne would stand up and hold her purse, which was specially made by some designer I've never heard of which said trans life matters whatever October 8th you know because there's going to be a Supreme Court hearing on October 8th regarding Title VII of the Civil Rights Act so

1:48:42 I'm a no agenda producer, so i want to find out what is going on. Can this be true? Is the Trump administration trying to create some kind of legislation so that any employer can fire a trans worker? This sounds horrible! So there's an amicus brief which is a letter that was sent on behalf of friends of the court... A lot of documents In fact, in all of the documents surrounding this October 8th case the word transsexual does not even appear. All the cases that are mentioned are about gay men there's not I don't even think well there is mention of same- female same sex partners but certainly not of transsexual and i'm going to explain

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Title VII Civil Rights Act, Sex vs Gender Identity

The legal debate before the Supreme Court centers on whether the word "sex" in the 1964 Civil Rights Act includes sexual orientation and gender identity. Current case law suggests employers can fire individuals for being gay as long as the policy is applied equally to both men and women. Activists seek to expand the definition to provide specific protections for LGBTQ+ individuals under federal law.

civil rights act· supreme court· gender identity· employment law· amicus brief

1:49:32 what's happening here. And it's really what's misunderstood in the Civil Rights Act, it is absolutely legal for an employer to either not hire you or to fire... and this is based on all the case law and the explanation in this brief It is legal for you to be fired or not hired based upon the fact that you are gay because that has nothing to do with sex, and this is what they want changed. They want the word...the meaning of the word sex to also mean gender, gender identification anything but male and female reproductive systems

1:50:19 You are allowed to not hire or fire someone based upon them being a gay male as long as you do the same, this is the equal rights part of this act, to a female who is gay and-or living with it with a same sex partner. It would be crazy if employers could not decide who they want to hire. That is exactly what this movement is trying to do, it's to solidify that anyone who claims they are not of a straight up-and-down orientation heterosexual will be protected

1:51:02 And it's fascinating to read this. I've put a PDF in the show notes that is highlighted and marked up so you can see it, because they never really even considered that... You almost think that oh you can't fire someone because they're gay well you can as long as your consistent between men and women! And for some reason this has now And it'll be just like this impeachment inquiry, it'll be just like the jewel. The media is spinning it literally saying Trump doesn't want anyone to have to hire or confire at will and

1:51:38 transsexual person and it's just not true. It's just a lie, and honestly I think it's probably good idea...I like the equality of it! I think you should be able to say look I don't like the way you look I'm not gonna hire you and that's okay as long as you could also say it to a woman whose looks you don't like You can't discriminate between the sexes that's law if they want to change that Write something new, write another amendment or something. But this is a fight that is just ridiculous and it's- And I'm all for trans people! I don't care! I'm from Amsterdam We got black peets I don't care! I don't care if they remove them and turn them into sootpeats

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California Appearance Discrimination, LGBTQ Legislation

In California, there are efforts to prevent employers from discriminating against workers based on appearance, including tattoos and body modifications like gauged ears or horns. Analysis suggests a historical link between the legislative goals of wealthy LGBTQ+ advocates and the civil rights movement. Critics argue these laws infringe on a business owner's right to choose the public face of their company.

california· san francisco· body modification· mofax· harlem renaissance

1:52:20 But the Civil Rights Act is very simple. It's straight up and down, you can read it for yourself it's not difficult to understand but I'm sick and tired of the lies that the media just propagates without reading anything That's why we do this show I guess so its well worth a look into that This has been a trend, it's very noticeable in California kind of make it, luckily as well for bigger companies. I think under 25 you're pretty exempt from this but they've been trying to make sure that you cannot be rejected because of your appearance and this was promoted by there's a lot

1:53:07 people in San Francisco Bay Area, let's say that have gauged ears. You know big holes in their ears and they're tatted. Their faces are all tatted up and they have horns embedded in their head. That's my favorite! Some bone put in there. They do plastic surgery so you look like you have two horns and your lip is pierced and just got a bunch of...you know you're just horrible looking And these people want to make sure that they don't get discriminated against because of their appearance. When in fact, if you're running a business especially if it's public facing

1:53:46 You can't have some of these people being a public face of your company if they're gonna gross people out. I personally- Well, you can! It's the company's own choice. They can do whatever they want. But that's what... That's what i'm saying in California they're trying to make it so you can't do what you want right? You have to hire this guy by law and as I learned from a long conversation with Mo, mofax.com The connection between black Americans and LGBTQ as leverage to create legislation on behalf of wealthy, typically white people in America goes back hundreds of years. You've heard of the Harlem Renaissance in the 20s?

1:54:36 I don't know if you know about that. Nah! Okay, but anyway three lesbian black women...I mean it's amazing when you see how closely tied legislation is to LGBTQIAPK and black people in America. It is continuously put together and abused to create legislation that really only behooves rich people, and usually rich white people it's mind-boggling when you think about it but has it really got crazy to think when you see what is being pushed upon our children besides the climate

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Mattel Creatable World, Gender-Neutral Dolls

Mattel has launched "Creatable World," a line of gender-neutral dolls designed to allow children to customize their toys without traditional gender labels. The company claims the product was developed in response to parents' concerns about "genderizing" toys for "Generation Alpha." The dolls come with various hair lengths and clothing options that can be mixed to create masculine, feminine, or neutral looks.

mattel· creatable world· gender-neutral· toys· gen alpha

1:55:19 crisis and emergency and making them all afraid. Now Mattel! who have had their issues with their toys, have released a new toy. Kids right now especially Gen Alpha kids which are kids under the age of 10 they see gender very differently They experience gender very differently It's the perfect time to introduce this new doll line that is truly gender neutral Introducing Creatable World A doll line designed to keep labels out and invite everyone in The whole objective of the stall was eliminating all the adult labels that we put on it. From the kids, they did not want their toys to be labeled They don't want rules set around their play and what we heard from parents was an increasing concern about genderizing toys This will be really challenging for a population of people We'll challenge people's points-of-view about how they think boys and girls should play

1:56:29 Well, you get the point. It just goes on and on so they've released a gender neutral doll which can be both boy or girl Or at the same time you're gonna have half of the doll boy half the dog girl and the kids love it There's evidence in the whole video kids love it. It's great fantastic and parents are concerned I wonder why no they're concerned about gender Did you really that actually they said we developed this because parents are concerned about? Gender identifiable dolls, they don't want that no parents want every doll to be just as on be neutral yes like their kids Do you know you made a call

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Joe Biden Gaff Jingle, Sir Jeff Smith

The hosts reviewed potential new jingles for a "Joe Biden Gaff of the Week" segment. A submission from Sir Jeff Smith, who is currently touring with Bob Dylan's son's band, was praised for its professional quality. The segment highlights the ongoing contribution of professional musicians to the show's audio production.

joe biden· jeff smith· jingles· bob dylan· seat sitter

1:57:14 on the last show and you specifically said we need a Joe's gaff of the week jingle do you have a Joe Biden gaff for us? I do not have it no those the Joe Biden gaffs generally run on Sunday. Oh, okay! But if you have a jingle I'd like to hear it in advance...I have two and you can choose or we can alternate the first one is from Sir Seat Sitter Then we have one from one of our old buddies who's currently on the road with Bob Dylan's kids band, Sir Jeff Smith.

1:58:06 No offense to Sir Seat Sitter, but no offense to Sir seat sitter. But Jeff Smith is a killer that's the one you want He does that in the middle of the night he can wake up and just write that and record it is It's not easy to do this stuff. Yeah, he is indeed a jingle guy. That's so true A good lyricist should be able to write jingles and that's what he does. We have some outstanding end of show mixes, I think we have...we got a lot in of Greta, of course there is just some really outstanding work. I don't even know if i can play them all for todays end of show unless we end on time it's just so much its phenomenal

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Adrian Lamo, Leo Laporte NPR Disparagement

An NPR special on the late hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned in Chelsea Manning, featured a clip of tech host Leo Laporte from "The Screen Savers." The program's framing was criticized for treating Laporte as an obscure figure from the past rather than an active leader in the podcasting industry. The segment also touched on Laporte's recent comments regarding the Green New Deal.

adrian lamo· leo laporte· npr· chelsea manning· hackers

1:58:57 I'm blown away. Blown away. I did run into an NPR thing i wanted to play because it was funny and its kind of a, normally I don't want to go out on my way to defend a fellow podcaster who is Done quite well for himself in fact made a lot of money and but it seems because he's now a podcaster who is demeaned I thought oh This guy if you're familiar with Adrian Lamas the hacker who died mysteriously, and he's the one who turned in Chelsea Manning

1:59:36 They did a special on him trying to follow his career. It was very boring and it was too much of this kind of thing, right? But I just found this to be incredibly insulting to a mutual friend of ours, a podcaster. This is probably one of the few moments in Adrian Lama's life when he was truly anonymous because before all this happened, he was a hacking rock star You know him as the guy who hacked Yahoo, AOL Time Warner, MCI Worldcom, Microsoft and very famously The New York Times. Adrian Lama one of the most celebrated hackers in the world today. Welcome to the screen savers was an old cable television show all about technology it aired in the late 90s and early 2000's

2:00:22 and the host was a guy named Leo Laporte. Do you define yourself as hacker? Do you consider yourself a hacker? It's not a term that I try to sell myself, people use hacker... He definitely had an original approach to things. Lorraine Murphy writes about hacking So why is that disparaging for him? They make it sound like the guys not in the biz some guy named Leo Laporte in the late 90s they make it sound like he's a nudnik from, you know the past. Hey hey hey! You're using that word too often Dvorak I will stop using it they make him sound like a schlemiel from the distant past when he's inactive He's in the business That to me seemed insulting and I'm not here to defend Leo but I just thought that was the way they handled

2:01:14 I just thought it was insulting. There's another clip from Leo which i put in the show notes because I want people to hear it, It would fall under the Green New Deal and im not going to say anything about it but he deserves to be kind of disparaged after that one Well thats another story But thats a different reason too Yeah I know Im just saying OTG goin' OT I'm an OTG kinda guy I'm an OTG kinda guy. Time for that off-the-grid segment! We are all OTG kind of guys, and I wanted to start with the truth that always wants to come out... And maybe I'm just looking too much into it? Maybe I'm hearing too much but....

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Amazon Echo Frames, Alexa Privacy Concerns

Amazon introduced "Echo Frames," prescription-ready smart glasses equipped with directional microphones and speakers for Alexa integration. During the presentation, an executive's slip of the tongue suggested the microphones allow Amazon to hear the user's world. The frames, priced between $69 and $79, lack cameras but are designed to keep the Alexa assistant constantly present in the user's daily life.

amazon· alexa· echo frames· privacy· bluetooth

2:02:01 Amazon did a big presentation yesterday of their new Echo line. Echo, echo! Familiarly known as Alexa but they have to stick with their branding for some odd reason I guess they couldn't trademark Alexa although echo must be hard too And they've got it in a ring, they've got some kind of mood ball that kids love and its just the spy stuff. It's just spy stuff! Its microphones with the speaker, the microphone is always listening and its trying to interpret what you're saying or what else it might be hearing And they have a new product, but listen closely to what the presenter says. I'm pretty excited because we have two different day one edition products to show you The first one we call Echo Frames. Frames! And this is them. Echo frames allow you to get done more around you and be more present in the everyday

2:03:07 They look just like regular prescription glasses. In fact, the fact that I'm still talking to you says they are prescription glasses—they have my lenses in them! And they're incredibly comfortable. They are only 31 grams, you barely know that you have them and we intentionally not put a display in them We've not put a camera in them...we want you to focus on your everyday and Alexa should be here to augment that through the day and built into this is very discreet directional microphones That allow me to hear what's going on but not the world around me Now this is the problem I have with he saying

2:03:42 He's saying this has very discreet microphones which allow me to hear the world that's going on and not everybody. What he might have meant to say was speakers so that he can hear what these frames, these glasses are saying But is he really as an Amazon echo leader? Is he not saying we want to make sure that I, Amazon can hear what's going on around you. I think the truth came out here let's listen again. Texas should be here to augment that through the day and built into this is very discreet directional microphones That allow me to hear than not hear what's going on but not the world around me Am I just looking too far into this

2:04:32 Well, I'm not gonna say that. It's kind of confusing what he is saying What is he talking about? So unless what you say is probably what he's talking about which is that He's representing Amazon and so yes, he can hear everything that your hearing Yes Because it doesn't make sense what he said otherwise And maybe it was just a really dumb mistake But that's how it came out. So what are these things? It's glasses, so it spectacles with just glass in it and It has...it connects to your phone through Bluetooth And it just looks like my glasses, my black rimmed glasses nothing spectacular you can put Prescription lenses in them. There's microphones in the glassware? Microphones in the feet In the stems what do you call them

2:05:27 Feet stems the back now the the things that go behind your ear. Yeah, so it's the back That's the back no not at the back It's the sides is the whole thing then okay? So they got two microphones on their little ear stems yet stems exactly and then to show another with what your ears hearing this also The microphones are hearing because they're right next to your ear hole No There's nothing in your ear hole know there right next door there. They're close. They're behind it They're behind your ear hole you know we could be sticking out Well, he had them on so I saw it. I saw the presentation. Okay so they're behind his ear? They're behind his ear yes and the microphones are in there so that you can walk around and go hey Alexa what time is it oh It's waiting for you to start saying... then has some speakers or what yeah it has little speakers That's what he may be meant to say So only I can hear what Alexa is saying so it has little yeah The thing do the whole

2:06:23 Does it vibrate or is there a big speaker? I don't know how this works. It doesn't make any sense, why would anyone want this?" No Amazon wants you to buy... they're practically giving the stuff away and it's all 69 bucks. Oh yeah that's cheap! It's real cheap. The frames are nice and they're giving it away Well not giving it away but almost. It's $69-$79 which is cheap for frames And has all this stuff in there They've taken a loss on that They just wanna listen what your doing and sell you some gear But by far do i wait stop this what im interested in now there's no cameras unfortunately but there are things can pick up the sound around you another words can you record disc and use it as a recording device so you like is a eavesdropping system.

2:07:12 If you, well I don't think it's intended for that. I don't think you can do that look only Amazon has that capability so i guess if you say Alexa and then it starts recording you can go into your Alexa account and see what it recorded but now it's not a very good way to do it now they got a ring so you can press the ring in the talking to the ring he put the ring to your ear And everyone, yeah, CNET is like, oh this is great! Fantastic. I'm really loving all this cool Echo stuff. Um...I probably should have waited for this one but... Did you see Boris Johnson at the United Nations General Assembly? No he did not He went over-the-top OTG out of his effing mind and I loved it Mr President your excellencies ladies and gentlemen

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Boris Johnson, UN General Assembly Tech Speech

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly warning of the dangers of "digital authoritarianism." He described a future where smart cities, voice connectivity, and mattresses monitor citizens' habits and nightmares. Johnson cautioned that data has become the "crude oil" of the modern economy and questioned whether algorithms should be trusted with life-altering decisions like mortgages or medical care.

boris johnson· united nations· digital authoritarianism· algorithms· censorship

2:08:07 faithful late-night audience. It's customary for the British Prime Minister to come to this United Nations and pledge to advance our values and defend our rules, the rules of a peaceful world protecting freedom of navigation in the Gulf, to persevering in the vital task of achieving a two state solution in the conflict in the Middle East And of course I'm proud to do all these things but No one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this assembly. There has been nothing like it in history." What do you think he's gonna say? What do you think he's going to talk about? Well, if he talks about 5G that would make sense Oh way beyond that not just 5g OTG When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past

2:09:01 Print, the steam engine. Aviation, the atomic age I think of new tools that we acquired but over which we The human race had the advantage which we controlled and that is not necessarily the case in the digital age You may keep your secrets from your friends From your parents Your children Your doctor Even your personal trainer But it takes real effort to conceal your thoughts from Google. And if that is true today, in future there may be nowhere to hide. Smart cities will pollulate with sensors all joined together by the internet of things. Vollards communing invisibly with lamp posts

2:09:47 So there is always a parking space for your electric car, so that no bin goes unemptied. No street unswept and the urban environment is as antiseptic as a Zurich pharmacy But this technology could also be used to keep every citizen under round-the-clock surveillance. The future Alexa will pretend to take orders. But this Alexa will be watching you, clucking her tongue and stamping her foot in future voice connectivity will be in every room and almost every object your monitor your mattress will monitor your nightmares your fridge will beep for more cheese your front door will sweep wide the moment you approach like some silent butler your smart meter

2:10:39 will go hustling of its own accord for the cheapest electricity and every one of them minutely transcribing your every habit in tiny electronic shorthand stored not in their chips or in their innards, nowhere you can find it but in some great cloud of data that lowers ever more oppressively over the human race. A giant dark thundercloud waiting to burst and we have no control over how or when the precipitation will take place. And every day that we tap on our phones, or work on our iPads as I see some of you are doing now We not only leave our indelible spore in ether but we are ourselves becoming a resource click by click tap by tap

2:11:31 Just as the Carboniferous period created the indescribable wealth, leaf by decaying leaf of hydrocarbons. Data is the crude oil of the modern economy and where... Do you want me to go on? Another minute and thirty Oh, go this is great. By the way before you continue I've been saying this for the last 30 years oh of course This is nothing new except You didn't hear about this because it's not a big thing on the Silicon Valley companies No they're not going to play this They're really promoting it Only The NO Agenda Show

2:12:09 Plays this sort of thing and as you ask me if y'all want to go another minute and a half, of course It will play the whole thing just as the carboniferous period created the indescribable wealth leaf by decaying leaf of hydrocarbons data is the crude oil of the modern economy and we're now in an environment where we don't know who should own these new oil fields, we don't know who should have the rights or the title to these gushers of cash. And we don't know who decides how to use that data can these algorithms be trusted with our lives and hopes? Should the machines

2:12:47 And only the machines decide whether or not we are eligible for a mortgage, or insurance. Or what surgery or medicines we should receive? Are we doomed to a cold and heartless future in which computer says yes or computer says no with the grim finality of an emperor in the arena. How do you plead with an algorithm? How did you get it to see extenuating circumstances, and how do we know that machines have not been insidiously programmed to fool us or even cheat us We're already using all kinds of messaging services that offer instant communication at minimal cost. And these same programs, platforms could also be designed for real-time censorship of every conversation with offending words automatically deleted indeed in some countries this happens today

2:13:44 Digital authoritarianism is not, alas the stuff of dystopian fantasy but of an emerging reality. And the reason I'm giving this speech today with this slightly gloomy proem is that the UK's one of the world's tech leaders and I believe governments have been simply caught unawares by the unintended consequences of the internet a scientific breakthrough Far more reaching in its everyday psychological impact than any other invention since Gutenberg and he went on for a little bit longer, but that was the best part the first five minutes I was blown away by it. I'm like Damn yes It was great But what was the point just not to talk about brexit?

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Boris Johnson, US Presidential Eligibility Speculation

Following his UN speech, the hosts speculated on Boris Johnson's potential to run for U.S. President, noting he was born in Manhattan. While he has since renounced his U.S. citizenship, the idea of a debate between Johnson and Donald Trump was presented as a high-entertainment scenario. The discussion occurred as Johnson faced ongoing political challenges regarding Brexit.

boris johnson· manhattan· presidential eligibility· brexit· 2020 election

2:14:33 I guess. And he also got to give the needle to some people who apparently were on iPads while he's talking. Oh yeah, but here here's what i was thinking you know when he fails to Brexit which we've predicted and I think it was probably what is you know it will not happen he'll get kicked out he won't be prime minister...I think seeing as he was born in Manhattan he should probably give 2020 a go! He could-he could ease his US born? He's old enough? He could run for president He's US born. You didn't know you didn't you know that never been a citizen? No, I think he I think legally he could be I think he can yeah

2:15:21 Give it 2020 again. Yeah, that's what we need. Yes! A pen... That's exactly what we need. Like blah blah blah yeah I would love to see Trump- More than anyone could take. I want to see Trump and Boris Johnson debate each other that would be the best ever. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah they'd be fab They're on no agenda Yeah, we do have a few people to thank for show 1176 starting with Sir Herb Lamb Earl of Georgia and Sugar Hill $160.16 it's been 59 days since his last donation one of those long spells unusual Kevin Coburn in North Olmsted Ohio 150 Tyler Habba

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Associate Executive Producers, Julia Knauss Damehood

A diverse group of producers contributed to show 1176, including David Eckersley from Perth and Brian Dennis from Ontario. Dennis requested that his donation be applied toward a Damehood for Julia Knauss, sparking a discussion on the bookkeeping required for cumulative donations. Other contributors included Jambo Joe, who provided historical audio clips for the episode.

julia knaus· perth· australia· ontario· massachusetts

2:16:22 in Melrose, Massachusetts. That's one two three four five Edward Halsey in Oakland California donate we much It scored like that I love it too Donate We Much Anna Pressler Oh no oh no Oh No Pressler No Priester Yeah there you go And Soost Soost Yeah very good Ono Soost is what he said Ono Priester and Soost Soosed. Soosed! It's like soot. Soosed Pete. Soosed Pete, Soosed Pete. Writing it down... Okay John Patrick in Decatur Illinois 100. Ohno is a hundred. John Libic Did you get David Eckersley? David Eckersley 100 he's an Aussie

2:17:20 says from Perth, but now he's in the Pacific Northwest. Kind of the same John Libic birthday coming up 9999 and Glenn Gardner New Jersey Anthony Fields in West Roxbury Massachusetts 9269 Brian Klimchak I'm guessing 75 Sir Gary Blatt in Wayne Pennsylvania 6660 Sir Welloff of the Wet Drains in Albany, New York. 5555. Brian Dennis in Ontario Canada. Some town. 5555 he does have a call out. Love the show please keep up the great work my donation goes on and says it's worth more I guess 76 bucks in Candianavian money

2:18:16 Uh, let's see... is to be put towards Julia Knauss' knighthood. See this is- I like that the- Oh the Knauses are back! Well he's not a Knaus but people are donating to other people's Knight or Dame hoods. I think that's fantastic Well somebody's got to do some bookkeeping on this because we don't do that and so somebody has to Julia you're making notes. Every time somebody does another 70 and by the way it is credit is 7641 canadian which is 7641 so add up your own do some accounting julia

2:18:53 Anyway, he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched! And he was hit in the mouth by Eric Knauss and has been a regular listener since October 2016th I'd like to call out my 11 year old son Chase as a douchebag. By the way most eleven year olds kids are douchebags no matter what so... Yeah you don't have to call them out. There's no need to call them it's like we all know John Cruz, we continue. John Cruz in East Wenatchee Washington 5550. Sabode Peth in Metairie Louisiana 5510 Gordon Walton Golden Knight and Baron of Mason County Texas 5510 And wait wait wait it's this is happening he says please apply to my daughter Catherine Walton's Damehood so Catherine you got to keep track of it

2:19:52 Jessica pedigree in monticello arkansas fifty two fifty birthday call out coming up. Sven Eriksson, 5230. Joseph Hansen in Carlisle, Pennsylvania 5151 Robert Majors 5151 Jonathan Evans 5050 Scott Nelson maybe Sir Scott Nelson in Melbourne Florida 5001 the following people are $50 donors name and location as appropriate we do have locations on all of them Joe Winky in Santa Rosa Alois Libel, Newark Delaware. And Joe is Jambo Joe? Yes, Jambo Joe and yeah I sent Jambo Joe actually sent one of the clips that we used earlier. I want to thank Jambo for doing that. The 1992 clip of the woman or the girl. Alexa Delgado in Aptos California Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsborough Oregon

2:20:53 Jesus Allen in Austin, Texas. Julian Robbins in Aptos California and last but not least Michael Webb in Scotts Valley California I want to thank all these folks for contributing too and helping produce show 1176 Yeah very nice Nice list there And of course we also have people under $50 most of these four and or a lot of them for anonymity 4999 so they don't want to be mentioned We will make no mistake because that's the hard line when you stop But also people on our subscriptions. There's a lot of different ways you can support us Support us financially and you can find all that at Dvorak org slash na I know it's like what how do i remember that just ask your kids to remember they love the jingle Dvorak dot org Slash n a I have a special karma shout out for my buddy Gregory David Jacobs that I wanted to do first, I'll give him a goat twist You've got

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Birthday Acknowledgments, Baron Doom Title Change

The show acknowledged several birthdays, including Robin Ballard and Sir Jeffro of Rockwall. Official title changes were finalized for "Sir A Source Familiar With The Matter" and "Baron Doom, Liberator of the Minnesota Slaves." The hosts thanked the community for their continued "courage" in supporting the value-for-value model.

birthdays· baron doom· sir roscoe· minnesota· virgo

2:21:51 And people who need the jobs. Jobs, jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. Well, we're ending the month 26th of September 2019. Here's the birthday list We have a Richard Ballard who has quite the list for his family first of all his wife Robin the keeper She turned 61 on the 17th His son Justin the douchebag turned 32 on the 15th of September

2:22:27 and his other son Jesse will be 33 on October 6th. Does that mean they're all Burgos? Further, Sir Jeffro of the Rockwall turns 52 on the 28th John Livick says happy birthday to Jim Harvey he celebrates today his 58th birthday and Jessica Pettigrew says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Joshua Pettigrew 41 years old tomorrow Happy Birthday for everybody here at The Best Podcast in The Universe! Title changes, and face the slaves. Title changes don't want to be a douchebag. Nah these guys are definitely not douchebags we got title changes for Sir Roscoe who now will be known as sir A Source Familiar With The Matter and Sir Doom becomes Baron Doom liberator of the Minnesota Slaves And thank you both for your support of The No Agenda Show the best podcast in the universe

CHAPTER 46 / 47 Discussion

Berkeley Power Outage, Show Outro

The broadcast ended abruptly when the co-host in Berkeley, California, lost power due to a grid failure. After a brief attempt to reconnect via amateur radio frequencies, the remaining host in Austin, Texas, concluded the show. The episode finished with a series of "end-of-show mixes" featuring themes related to Greta Thunberg and digital privacy.

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2:23:24 You know, I have a meetup report today. It's like a party! From the Burning Man Meet-Up. Hello? Jean Claude did you just give up on me? Okay...I'm going to stop for a second What what Jean? Yeah can hear hello do you hear me okay now tell me what happened

2:24:07 Okay, let me see kilo 5 alpha Charlie Charlie do we have an emergency generator anywhere in the Berkeley area? Hey Jamie yeah, can you drive to Berkeley and give John some power a little bit out of my range I do have a 2001 inverter on board but unfortunately Berkeley's a little out Yeah, copy that. Jamie's in the... I'm actually streaming this. Jamie is in an 18-wheeler in Texas Let me see John, I think Connecticut N1 ID? Are you there John? Yeah, I am here at N1 ID Well can you get over with a generator to Berkeley? Yeah if you could wait like three days for me to drive it over

2:25:00 It's not blowing, the wind is not blowing so it's not going to be producing anything and its kind of overcast. So I can't watch the TV Okay, all right so I'll just take us out then and end it. And I'll do all of the Ender Show mixes that came in how does that sound? All right adios well there you go let down by the grid once again and That will conclude This broadcast I'm sad to say don't think this ever happened where we actually had to just cut the show off

2:26:04 Well, the good news is we have a ton of end-of-show mixes. We've got UK PMX who's back on the scene! Good to have him back. Jesse Coy Nelson hero protagonist with vocals by Blaha. We got Fletcher Sir Seat Sitter and of course the ever effervescent Sir Chris Wilson all bringing you their end-of-show mixes it's Greta Heavy but man is it good And I am coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in Austin, Texas. We are the capital of the drone star state You can find it In FEMA region number six on all governmental maps John of course is from northern Silicon Valley California we will return on Sunday hopefully with some power restored until then

CHAPTER 47 / 47 Discussion

End of Show Mixes, Greta Thunberg and Algo Prison

The episode concluded with several musical mashups and remixes. These included a "Greta Thunberg vs. Put on a Happy Face" mix and a song titled "Algo Prison" about social media censorship and shadow-banning. The final audio segments featured satirical takes on climate change messaging and the "best podcast in the universe" branding.

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2:26:50 Remember us at thevorac.org slash N-A and adios mofos! And such... This is all wrong, the world is waking up I shouldn't be up here, I should be back in school I shouldn't be up here

2:27:28 I should be back in school. No matter how angry i am, I should be back at school. Change is coming whether you like it or not. You are still not mature enough to tell if like it The world is waking up

2:28:06 This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here, on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope! How dare you? Gray skies are gonna clear up but on a happy face Brush off the clouds and cheer up Put on a happy face How dare you! You have stolen my dreams, My childhood with your empty words Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note Don't worry... Be happy

2:29:00 How dare you and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. I don't think you're happy enough That's right. I'll teach you to be happy I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs Now boys girls, let's try it again How dare you! Have I hurt you? Don't be silly. Acting brilliant! Thank y'all, thank y'all! I see the algo running It's crafting my newsfeed And I ain't seen Alex Jones since My computer disagreed I'm stuck in algo prison My timeline's not my own But that algo keeps a-running

2:29:57 And I keep checking my phone. When I was just an incel, My mama told me son Always be a good slave Don't ever meme for fun But I trolled a man on Facebook Just to watch him cry When I see that owl go running Bow-ell and sigh I've got my channel going, it's the trending words to search Subscribers added daily and i'm selling lots of merch But I ran afoul of Shareblue, they'll demonetize me They'll shadow ban my channel Not Advertiser Friend. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2:31:39 Well if they freed me from suspension, If that U-Count was mine I think I'd glitch the code and toss my safety to the side Far from Algo Prison That's where I want to stay. I guess I'll hop on 20 meters Say what I want to say Change is coming whether you like it or not. With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less 8 and a half years

2:32:39 and a half years eight, eight and a-and a-and a eight and a-and a-and a-and a-and a-and a half years eight, eight, eight, eight, eight and a half years these, these numbers are too uncomfortable How dare you? We will never forgive you. The world is waking up. Thank You

2:33:38 She got a huge amygdala and she's somewhere on the spectrum. Well, to be a six-hole of the whole population Child of an entire generation It didn't make sense when you say the world's done Your brain got washed so you passed it on To all the kids living overseas your sorrows must be so keen You wanna slip down from a rope? You cross the ocean in a sailboat Hey now, you're Bantit Toonbury Scam on campaign Hey now, you're Greta Thornburg Hair up in rain

2:34:26 It's a cool world, but it'll never get colder. It's only warm now that's why we never border. Me and A-Base are dipper, that's why they keep Hemorrhaging viewers They say I got cats, I don't really live But I still eat polar bears can swim My worlds on fire so they tell me That's what Bill Nye always says to TV You're a bitch in many, you just damn often get paid for doing Greta Thunberg, Hera Hill 3 Yes, I'll admit we're getting greater She's out of her mind

2:35:31 Getting so much greater all the time. We're getting greater all the time, Greater, greater! We're getting greater all the time, Greater, greater! Getting so much greater all the time The best podcast in the universe!