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00:00 Hang up and hang out. Counting down to 1.2k and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33, the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where... I don't know... uh... the freeway's out there outside the house. I'm John C. DeVore. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning! Now you know why I keep you lower. Your levels have to be lower because there's nothing good coming out.

00:40 You're doing what? I'm keeping your levels lower, man. Hello? I have a couple of projects. Okay. I want to discuss. Okay, okay. One of them, and I'm making this at the beginning of the show so people will say, oh, okay, I can help. And they'll send me mail to john at Dvorak.org. No, no what they'll do is they'll send it to Adam at curry calm saying I couldn't find John's email address. Yes Yes, yeah, well Adam a curry calm is probably easier than John at Dvorak org because you have to actually spill Dvorak remember it or not a calm Yeah, you got to think about it. There's two things different. Mm-hmm

01:24 So I want to put together, and I think you can help me with this, and I know the audience can, especially any that have millennials in the household. I want to put together the definitive list of millennialisms. And what I mean by that is the things that they're associated with. Top of the list, avocado toast. Now, can I ask you, what would the point of this project be? So I can have a definitive list in front of me. I think it's gonna have some value. Okay, dropping T's. What? Dropping T's. I don't know what that is. Important. Dropping T's. Oh, dropping T's. Yeah, dropping T's. I thought you were saying drop in T's as some sort of a PG tips that you... No, dropping T's. Important. Which by the way started with racist. Someone pointed out to me.

02:25 Hmm. That's where the tea first started dropping. It's not racist. Okay, let's make this a game then. I'll give you one, you give me one. Oh, I wasn't prepared, but okay. Avocado toast. I just gave you racist. I gave you dropping teas. Next. Okay, okay. Bone broth. Bone broth? No. No. Oh yeah. No. I don't know anything. Yeah. Okay. Small batch. I got small batch. Well, you didn't call it. You didn't get it. Okay. Artisan. Damn, I'm stuck. Let's just get the show started. Oh man. Anyway, let me give the list so that people won't have to duplicate the effort. What you're hearing here, John, is our meetup from yesterday. This is what you do when you get no agenda producers together at the Lone Star Gun Range.

03:24 I'm still hurting from yesterday. Sounds good. Oh my goodness. It was fantastic. We had 12 dudes only, no dames sadly. Sir Scott of the armory had everything well arranged including just bags and bags of ammo and we must have had 60 different guns. Man, this was great. The sheet up should be done. Did you get to shoot anything weird? No, no. It's a very cool range. They're not... Guy standing of course, you know behind everybody making sure that we're not you know, killing each other each other. Yeah, but they're very very laid-back But it specifically said you're not allowed to have any targets with faces of political figures or other world I'm not kidding. It's actually a rule

04:19 But they had those splatter targets, you know the splatter targets? Those are great. I don't know anything about a splatter target. Well it has a thin layer of, I don't know, basically like a crayon type substance over the target itself. I've seen a similar thing for a BB gun. Could be began splatter targets you shoot the BB and he hit the thing it makes us a splat look Well, it's just it's viewable. You can see it from a distance. So it did. Yes, it makes a nice splattered little thing So you see okay, I hit it. Yeah, it was good. It was yeah we got to do that more often and I and for the first time I shot a what is it 1911 but it's the

05:03 What's the particular brand I'm thinking of? Colt Hammerless. No, not the Colt. I know they invented it, but the other one, the... Ah, come on. Springfield. The Springfield 1911. Wow, what a great gun. It always looked so kind of goof, like old and kind of out of style, but man, that thing works. And I was shooting left-handed in bullseye. Ambidextrous curry, they call me. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we'll talk more about that in our donation segment. So what are we doing, John? Brexit. Brexit, exactly. The show was over. It took hours after the show until they finally had the official call.

05:46 They don't seem to have what we have in this country because we were, kind of after the last show, irked by the fact we know the election had been underway as the show was going on but we figured there'd be some, you know, some preliminary we predict the winners and all this stuff. No, none of that. No, there was, the show was over and we went to look it up and it was zero, there was no votes. Nil-nil. It was nothing going on. Like a soccer game. Well I was getting texts by around five, Yeah, 5-6 p.m. my time for my buddies in the UK like, okay, it's over. But they didn't say Conservatives won or Boris won. Universally, they said we're leaving the EU, which was interesting.

06:28 Because I'm still not sure that's happening. I'm with you on this. Let me do a quick little Reuters roundup of Brexit, which had its interesting sides outside of the obvious Brexit part, but the election brought with it some other interesting issues which are more domestic. Boris Johnson's resounding election triumph will allow him to take Britain out of the EU next month, but could the results spell trouble for the UK and the Union that's bound England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for centuries? While the Conservative party swept the opposition aside across much of England on a promise to get Brexit done, Scottish nationalists captured 48 of the 59 parliamentary seats in Scotland, giving SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon fresh ambitions to seek another independence referendum.

07:21 I don't pretend that every single person that voted SNP yesterday will necessarily support independence but there has been a strong endorsement in this election of Scotland having a choice over our future, of not having to put up with a Conservative government that we didn't vote for and not having to accept life as a nation outside the European Union. So that independence referendum that was very much at the heart of the SNP's campaign. There is a renewed, refreshed, strengthened mandate for that." In Northern Ireland, supporters of a united Ireland won more seats than those who want to remain part of the UK. And anti-Brexit parties took a majority of seats in the province for the first time. Nationalists said the result paved the way towards a vote on whether there should be a united Ireland.

08:06 Throughout the election campaign, Johnson said he was committed to the union and denied accusations that his Brexit deal would create an economic barrier between the British mainland and Northern Ireland. But the result has given Scottish and Irish nationalist leaders hope that the United Kingdom is headed for a break-up. So they want to break up with the EU and then right away Scotland and Ireland are like, you know, we could probably do without those guys altogether. We should stay in the EU. Northern Ireland. Yes, but there's also talk of a unified Ireland. There's all kinds of agendas at play here. Well, the main agenda at play is Scotland. Yes, and in Glasgow they took to the streets

08:55 And of course came up with nothing original. In fact I claim this as my millennial trait on the list. The constant hey hey ho ho fill in your item has got to go. That would be a millennial chant. Well, since I heard that chant in the 60s, 70s and 80s, before the millennials were born... Are you disqualifying me now? I will put it on the list in a special category. You should allow this. You should allow this special category. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'm going to call it what it is. Plagiarism. No, what is it when you steal from another culture? Oh, a cultural appropriation.

09:53 Yeah, I will call what it is cultural appropriation. They stole this from the boomers. That's not cultural appropriation. It's generational appropriation. New term. New term. There we go. We got it. All right. That's a trademark. You've got to trademark everything these days. Okay. Generational. Appropriation. Appropriation. Very good. Well, what did you have from Brexit? Because all I heard was Boris saying... I didn't clip the Boris, but I heard the Boris. Well, the Boris was saying we should, you know, we deserve a break from Brexit. Does that mean they're not going to talk about it anymore or they're not going to do it or... I just thought he sounded like a, you know, like if Oxford had a cheerleading squad of men, he would be the guy. Yes.

10:49 He's pointing, he's pointing and he's saying, yes, we're gonna add more money to the NHS. Oh boy, we're gonna do this. So he's going nuts. Which is the big question, you know, because of the leaked documents from Jeremy Corbyn, is that apparently once we have Brexit done, then the US is going to steal the NHS from the UK. I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that's kind of what the- Apparently nobody bought into that. Now, there was a couple, I have a couple, I go in a different direction. My analysis is focused on why this happened, because this is the worst defeat of labor and the lowest number of people in that party in parliament since 1936. With a big turnout. Right. And the biggest conservative win since Thatcher.

11:43 So it was a lopsided slaughter is the only way to describe it. So this seems to me to be what you really want to focus on. Absolutely, because what could it mean for other countries in the EU or the United States in our 2020 election? I think it means a lot for the United States. And so I dug around to try to figure out what was some of the, what element was the missing element. But first, before I do that, I want to make sure that we're still on board with the way we're going to always look at these things if we're, if we're the progressive socialists in this country. Bring on Amy. So I'm gonna play little Amy Goodman wrapping things up. Yowza! A conservative party sweeping victory all but guarantees Brexit, Britain's departure from the European Union early next year. The party won resoundingly despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson being accused of Islamophobia, xenophobia and sexual harassment. What? Oh my god. Whereas it's actually

12:44 People in the UK were saying, well, the problem with the with labor is because of the anti-semitism of Corbyn. Yeah. But no, that's not it. Misogyny, xenophobia, man, whatever else is on Trump's list. Yeah, and I also heard that, you know, the Russians meddled in their election. Oh, of course. Well, that would come up later. And they need a Mueller report. Why don't we just give them our Mueller report? Just do a search and replace. Trump, replace Boris. Yeah, it'll work fine. And so Mamie also decides that she's going to bring in her experts.

13:27 that analyzes, she brings in George Monbiot. Oh no! Who's an unbelievable socialist and then some woman who is unfortunately I didn't get any clips from her because she was on some Skype link from India. Isn't Monbiot also the Greenie, the Green New Deal guy in the UK? Oh yeah, he's the Greenie. He's all over that. He's a famous columnist from The Guardian. I thought it was so left The Guardian kicked him out. The Guardian didn't even want him. At some point, I think yeah. Well, he's annoying. Let's listen to Mom Bionna what he has to say. If you can just respond to... Wait a minute, is Amy there? Is she on site? It sounds like she's in the UK. No, she's at COP25. Oh, of course. Wrapping up the COP. If you can just respond to what...

14:10 took place in your country? Well it is a very dark day for everyone who believes in justice, for everyone here who wants a kinder, fairer, greener nation. Arguably the darkest day that we've had since the end of the Second World War in this country and we've now stepped into the same political arena as the US has with Trump India has with Modi, as the Philippines have with Duterte, and Brazil with Bolsonaro. These are very dangerous times, just when we need to confront the greatest predicament humankind has ever faced, which is the collapse of our life support systems. Our governments are in the hands of giant toddlers who just want to smash up

15:02 all our public protections, our public services, any means by which the power of capital and those who accumulate it can be restrained. Wow. He really pulled out all the stops, didn't he? Yeah, oh yeah. End of the world. Oh my goodness. Now I did get an ISO from him even though I was hoping to get something better but I did get this. Okay, let's see what you got. Darkest day I think could have been longer because the the full quote was a little Was it the I played with the full quote didn't work that way darkest day darkest day It's not bad, but the full court was dark. It's all cool would have been better But he was he pads when he talks so it was long and I had to cut cut cut and then it still was I didn't I ended up just pulling this little Diddy? Okay, so let's go. It's doable. It's doable. It's doable. I have another one. I want just to see what the competitor is. Oh

15:59 Oh, the competitor I'll talk about later. Well, I got some competitors, but we can definitely talk about it later. Okay, let's talk about it later. Let's go to LBC. Meeting adjourned. LBC. Yes. And so this is Nick Ferrari's on, he's right after the victory and he brings a Tory guy on to discuss the win. So let's listen to Ferrari on Tory win. 49, it's difficult to know where do the superlatives and the supposed Labour red wall is. Holy crap, where can I buy a voice like that? That's the voice I'm looking for.

16:46 never having to get out of Conservative territory. It's an extraordinary picture and let's explore that further with James Cleverley who is chairman of the Conservative Party and of course MP for Braintree. First off, Ms Cleverley, congratulations to you and your team. You must be feeling very happy but of course there is work to be done. When the Prime Minister says people want change, We must change. We must change. We must not let them down. You're the chairman. How is the Conservative Party going to change? You know, just to interrupt, I heard Johnson say this as well a couple times. He said, you know, they're gonna have to adapt, but we must change as well. And therein for me lay the rub that something with this Brexit thing is not gonna be clean. You know what I'm saying? I felt it. I smelt it and I felt it, but Boris dealt it.

17:25 Well, what we have got to do is make sure as politicians of all political persuasions, we need to make sure that the people who voted over and over again and don't feel that politics has worked for them, that they can actually feel that this time it is different. And what the Prime Minister has made very, very clear is that a big part of that is delivering on the referendum result that they voted for but that's not it. That's not enough. You're not going to fight the next election on that respect? No, exactly and this is the point Nick. This is why that is necessary but not sufficient. What we also have to do is make sure that the investment that we've said that we're going to put into the NHS reaches the front lines. They can see it, they can feel it. They see the police officers on the streets, they see transport infrastructure in their towns and cities

18:12 The government is seen demonstrably. I gotta say something here. I lived in the UK. And I was in the NHS, the National Health System, and I saw the issues, I saw the problems that were potential or were there already. And it sounds like somehow they're going to pin all of this on Boris and Trump and anybody else. Whereas the system is kind of fundamentally broken. I mean, the waiting lines, the wait, just waiting for procedures where the hospitals and the equipment is just waiting, not being used. I mean, I've witnessed this. And you know what I mean? It sounds like, oh, well, it's broken. Let's just make it this guy's fault. Well, I'm not sure what, I mean, this guy is representative of Boris, so I don't think he's trying to do that.

19:10 He's responding to the general claim that this is already before the election, selling out the NHS, and no one really knows what that means. But I think what will happen is, you know, Boris starts now, let's just say as of January, and so we, oh, well the NHS is broke, he broke it already. I'm telling you, there's something about that that smells bad. Well, the whole thing smells bad, and we'll get to that, but this analysis is, I'm dubious, I mean they, I think the next clip... And it's important for us because that's what Medicare for all will be, you know, it's the model is kind of that. Medicare for all is in the future, but it's not in the near future and the NHS seems to me to be kind of an, I'd say an isolate of the VA.

20:05 similar in style, the VA is always perpetually broken. No matter who they put in charge, they can't fix it. And then they say somebody makes a big fuss and then everyone scrambles around. They fix a couple things and then it's all hunky-dory. And there's still this long wait and guys dying in the hall and all the rest of it. And meanwhile, other people go to the VA and think it's great. So there's something about certain types of socialized medicine other than France that don't work well. And a lot of it has to do with, I think there's some cultural issues. But anyway, is that the end of that clip? Yes, that's the end of that clip. Okay, so now we bring in the guy from the other side. But in this case, it's a labor guy, but it's not,

20:57 Corbin camp. It's the Gordon Brown camp and this guy's an old hack, an old labor know-it-all who's probably got a handle on why they had their asses handed to him. Besides the fact, well nobody listened to me. And he brings something up that nobody's discussing, so I looked into it and I can see the analog over here in the United States and I can see what this guy has to say to me portends nothing if the analog is correct. And if what I think is correct is correct, which is correct, that Democrats will have their asses handed to them.

21:40 in 2020. management of the party, the policies into which the party went into this election, the leadership that he provided through the election campaign has been found seriously wanting and for the Labour Party to move on from this he needs to step aside so that firstly Labour can understand why it lost but then it can start to put in place what's necessary for political and electoral recovery. What now is the momentum movement Mr. Diamond?

22:18 Well, I think the momentum movement is many things clearly. It's both a policy ideological agenda. It's also a grassroots organizing machine. No doubt momentum will try to continue but the political approach, the strategy that sits behind momentum, which is about trying to mobilize groups of left activists in some parts of the country, has just been shown not to work. It does not connect with the sorts of Britain that Labour needs to connect with in order to win an electoral majority. But how would the next Labour leader, whoever he or she may be, how would they unlock the grip of the activists on the party?

22:57 Well, under the rules which were introduced under Ed Miliband's leadership, it's certainly true that the membership has a much greater say now in leadership elections than used to be the case. That's probably a good thing. But the activists and the membership of the party need now to have the argument put to them. If they want to... Do you think they'd listen? conservative government, if they want to challenge the conservatives and become a serious party of power again, the Labour Party is going to have to change. It's going to have to change its leadership, it's going to have to change its policy agenda, it's going to have to change its strategy. If it's not prepared to do those things, then it will continue to lose, and that argument has to be put to the activists and the members. Okay, I'm interested. Well, then nobody talks about the momentum movement. Yeah, what is this?

23:45 The momentum movement is the analog of the Justice Democrats. Oh, okay. And they took a hold of the Labor Party and they have driven it into the ground. And these are the people that have these meetings where you want to do This is the same crowd that is into pronoun mispronouning dead naming Bringing up all these social justice issues of Jazz hands instead of clapping you name it. It's in there and these but they're really good at organizing. They're all young They're all Millennials that go out there and they beat the bushes and they're all socialists and they're just like the squad of

24:27 And the squad would be in momentum if they were over in the UK. And a couple, I'll just read a couple paragraphs, there's a good entry in Wikipedia. Just look up momentum organization. It first showed up around the same time as the Justice Democrats about this in 2015, at the same time that Bernie Sanders, who would be a hero to this crowd, showed up on the scene to run for president in 2016 was booted out by the Democratic machine and Hillary was given the job. But it's about the same time period, we're not missing too much. It could be even the same organizers with its formation according to the listing here with this formation momentum drew inspiration from Siri.

25:10 Syriza, Syriza, another similar movement in Greece and Podemos, another similar movement in Spain. This is international. Both of which were fed by practical grassroots organizing to counter the effects of austerity cuts. As the movement has evolved, it has also benefited from ideas from other campaigns that operate on a left-wing or progressive platform, such as in the United States with the Bernie Sanders campaign. Or to become presidential candidate for the Democrat Party and in 2016 and 2020, or Beto O'Rourke's campaign to become the Democrat senator for Texas. He's grouped into this crowd. Yeah, but this is not, obviously this is not grassroots, this is, you know,

25:53 Soros. I hate to say it but yes this is the Soros funding of all these little groups and you saw the riot, the riots, okay 500 people is not a riot but you saw people demonstrating and their signs all professionally printed, socialist workers of the world, Well, let me continue with another paragraph deeper into the story. Members of the parliamentary Labour Party, PLP, had raised concerns that groups including the trade unionists and socialist coalition, Left Unity and Socialist Workers' Party, SWP, the Socialist Party and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, AWL, might attach themselves to Momentum as a means to join the Labour Party.

26:35 in November 2015 left unity was looking into the possibility of cooperation with momentum and the Labour Party became because it's looking at the possibility of cooperation with the momentum and Labour Party because it shares Corbyn's values. The SWP and the Socialist Party have denied having any intention to be involved, but they're all involved. And what it amounts to is a socialist undercurrent, a grassroots is a term they like to use even though it's bogus like you said. It's astroturf. But they're out there pounding the pavement and that means grassroots. If somebody comes to your door and pounds on the door and says vote for this guy, that's considered grassroots and that's really all grassroots means. But if Soros is paying them or not paying them, it's besides the point. This is an international movement that's taking place that took place in England and it ruined the Labour Party. It's taking place in the United States

27:31 and it's ruining the Democrat Party as we can witness by just seeing how much influence the squad and the progressives and the justice Democrats and all these have a very small organization, but they've got more influence and they've got Nancy Pelosi to knuckle under to impeachment and they're irking the public at large with all their activism. Nobody wants this half of these things that they're promoting jazz hands no you can't clap I mean come on Victor David Hanson, who I know you like from the, is he the Hoover Institution? He does a lot of talks at the Hoover Institute. So, he summed this up in like a minute 15 beautifully in this interview he did and this of course is regarding the United States and the Democrat Party and how this exact same thing is happening to them

28:28 which is kind of, well it's over socialization as was predicted by professor Ted Kaczynski. Look him up. are on the stage and then what are the white people... Yeah, this is for the next debate. Everyone's been cut. They're like, oh, well, wait a minute. And now, of course, as Cory Booker says, there's no more black people on stage for this Democratic debate next week. Cory Booker is now saying you guys are all racist because no black people are on the stage. And then what are the white people saying? They're saying, wait a minute.

29:05 It's a free poll and fundraising is free and if you really like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, black people and white people should vote for them and get higher in the polls. Our only crime is we're beating them and then we watching this said, no, no, no, you're guilty under your own ideologies of disparate impact. because according to your own philosophy if the proportions of a particular profession are not reflective of the actual numbers in the population and even if racism doesn't exist it does exist it's implicit therefore there are six people on that stage they're all white somebody is racist why do we know that because you told us that and that's what happens in these revolutionary movements yesterday's revolutionary is

29:57 today's counter-revolutionary and tomorrow's enemy of the people. Yes, it's called show prep for us. But yes. It's called money in the bank. It's great. What is this Jacobin phase? Do you know what that's about? Jacobin? Yeah, yeah. I can't give it to you off the top of my head, but it's very well described in the Wikipedia. Jacobin. Okay.

30:44 I'll look that one up. But there is a, uh, there is something, and the Democrats know this, there's something to be learned from this one-sided slaughter that just took place in the UK. And yeah, you can be Amy and mumby odd and moan and groan as the darkest days, what the public wanted, because the public is fed up And the public gets fed up and they do come out to vote. And the public is getting fed up with the Democrats in this country and what they've done. They voted them in, in the midterms they put a bunch of them in that shouldn't have probably gotten in in the first place. And instead of doing any work for the locals or doing any work at all, all they did from day one was vote to impeach Trump. When Trump got elected, and this has been pointed out a million times,

31:33 I'll point it out a million times plus one. The Washington Post on the day after he was inaugurated said that the impeachment has begun. The guy hasn't even done one thing and they're going to impeach him and they made it clear they were going to do this. And so they voted these guys in and they were voted in They weren't voted in, I don't believe. I mean there's probably a few people that did vote him in for this purpose, but impeaching the president is getting nothing accomplished and I think the public at large is fed up with this crap. It is crap. Yes and no. Some people are fed up with it, but I like Victor David Hansen's assessment better. And it's that everyone's flawed so you're going to make mistakes. It's just like Chunk Weeger

32:21 you know he's running for Katie Post slot I guess whoever is the the Democrat Katie Hill I think was on a hill yeah naked and the naked the naked Congress I don't care so I do and Whatever. So, you know, he's taking her spot, Bernie endorses him, and then immediately the guy gets cancelled because eight years ago he, you know, on... because he does a lot of YouTube stuff, he did something stupid like, oh, let's rate women by how good they appear to be able to give blowjobs just by looking at their face. Okay, it's a bit eight years ago in the... I didn't even hear it in context, it might have been funny, but

33:03 But now, of all people, Chunk, who is... insane. He does have a legitimate right to run for something because he's been a part of the Justice Democrats, he's been a part of... He was the founder. Yeah, he's a former Bernie bro and the cancel culture goes to work immediately and Bernie has to renounce his endorsement. That's what's happening more than the people are fed up with it. The people, if anything, are just tuning out. tuning out. Well yeah they're fed up with tuning out. They were tuned out with this high turnout, high, I'm just reflecting this based on the, on what happened in England. There was a high voter turnout.

33:46 And it was the highest in history, but it was not a bunch of people tuning out. But tuning out is not the same as not showing up. You're saying that people are fed up. It doesn't matter. It's semantic. You're talking about the UK. I'm talking about the US. Maybe not exactly the same. The momentum movement and the Justice Democrats and the social justice warriors, I agree that's the problem. But I think what's happening is people are seeing that their own leaders, as they like to call them, suck. You know, the first thing everyone says, well, Jeremy Corbyn, he lost because he's an anti-Semite. That's the number one thing I hear. Well, that wasn't reflected in any of the LBC stuff I listened to. Yeah, well, you know, that's why there's two of us. Now, the latest thing with your buddy, Cenk, Chunk, as you like to call him. Excuse me, excuse me. Do not call him my buddy.

34:41 He apparently there's a video I didn't listen to it because I didn't want to ruin myself for the show, but it just showed up Apparently he's advocating people ejaculate horses for kicks. I think this is not a new video I think this is an old video they got turned up and So what's your problem with that? You got a problem with that? I mean, if you don't think Katie Hill being naked and massaging one of her staffers is a bad thing. I think we need more, more politicians massaging their staffers naked. This would be much better for the overall harmony.

35:20 Hey, Anthony Weiner did that. No, no, he was he was sexting little girls John big. He was massaging his staffers Oh ding ding Well, I have some more examples of this taking place because we're about to see the cancellation of Greta She she made a misstep that everyone's trying to Trying to fix unless you have some more on brexit, then I'll just move on. No, I think we're good with brexit I think we've got it covered and at least at least we covered it without just saying well You know these idiots and elected Madman Boris Johnson is a misogynist Xeno phenomenon. No you get paid decent money to do that on democracy now on television We are podcasters. We suffer. We have a different angle a different take which is probably a lot closer to reality Truth is poverty

36:15 So COP25, the big elite climate change negotiation, because it wasn't a meeting, it wasn't a summit, it was continuously billed as the negotiation, kind of fell apart in the last few days with Poland being the problem child. Poland has been left out of a 2050 climate neutrality agreement by the EU after hours of summit haggling with three poorer eastern member states. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland had demanded more funds for economic transition and support for nuclear power. The former two eventually conceded, having won a guarantee that nuclear energy would be recognised as a way for EU states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Poland remained steadfast, though German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was satisfied with the outcome.

37:02 We had intense discussions and we can say that we know where we're going, namely that we want to reach climate neutrality by 2050. One member state, that is Poland, could not commit itself today to how the implementation of this goal should take place. Warsaw said it needs to reach climate neutrality at its own pace. Poland still relies on highly polluting coal for some 80% of its energy, and demands more specific guarantees on how the phasing out of fossil fuels would be financed before taking the plunge towards more ambitious climate goals. This drama came a day after new European Commission leader Germany's Ursula von der Leyen proposed an $110 billion investment plan that would push for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, something she called Europe's man on the moon moment.

37:50 So that Europe's man on the moon moment is not even correctly reflected in this report. But what you're hearing is that Poland clearly said, well we need more money than you're offering for us to change our entire infrastructure. And that's why it's called the negotiation because I think this is what people are finally starting to see is, okay, I live in the Netherlands and I have to, I will have to pay extra Green Deal tax. It's called Green Deal in Europe. We have the Green New Deal which is nothing. The Green Deal is very real. We'll get to that in a moment. And there's dissension amongst the ranks. They want more money and if you're in the Netherlands, they say, well why am I going to give my money to the Poles? Oh, because you're European Union. You're all part of the same family. So Greta gets accosted upon returning home and she says something very unfortunate. The COP25 meeting which is happening in Madrid right now is almost over.

38:53 And we unfortunately probably already know the outcome. World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities. But we have to make sure that they cannot do that. We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall. Greta saying, we must make sure we put them against the wall. has been interpreted as if we need to put the leaders in front of the... I guess we'll shoot them. And here's what's funny. Because everyone who's defending Greta is coming out and saying, oh no no, that's, she just, it's a swanglish, it's swanglish. It's in Sweden we say this but it doesn't really mean that. Well, turns out swanglish is a lot like Dutchless. Because in the Netherlands we have the same saying, we shall hold it against the wall. And it means one thing and its etymology is one thing. Firing squad.

37:50 So that Europe's man on the moon moment is not even correctly reflected in this report. But what you're hearing is that Poland clearly said, well we need more money than you're offering for us to change our entire infrastructure. And that's why it's called the negotiation because I think this is what people are finally starting to see is, okay, I live in the Netherlands and I have to, I will have to pay extra Green Deal tax. It's called Green Deal in Europe. We have the Green New Deal which is nothing. The Green Deal is very real. We'll get to that in a moment. And there's dissension amongst the ranks. They want more money and if you're in the Netherlands, they say, well why am I going to give my money to the Poles? Oh, because you're European Union. You're all part of the same family. So Greta gets accosted upon returning home and she says something very unfortunate. The COP25 meeting which is happening in Madrid right now is almost over.

38:53 And we unfortunately probably already know the outcome. World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities. But we have to make sure that they cannot do that. We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall. Greta saying, we must make sure we put them against the wall. has been interpreted as if we need to put the leaders in front of the... I guess we'll shoot them. And here's what's funny. Because everyone who's defending Greta is coming out and saying, oh no no, that's, she just, it's a swanglish, it's swanglish. It's in Sweden we say this but it doesn't really mean that. Well, turns out swanglish is a lot like Dutchless. Because in the Netherlands we have the same saying, we shall hold it against the wall. And it means one thing and its etymology is one thing. Firing squad.

39:55 So she said it and it means put them in front of the firing squad, but of course, Greta didn't really mean it that way. Sure she did. Of course she did. We will have to do their job and to protect our futures. Bravo! Yeah, bravo! 2019 is almost over and we must make sure that 2020 is the year of action, is the year when we bend the global emissions curve. I love bend the global emissions curve because that's how 15 year olds think. They come up with this kind of stuff. Now there was another episode with her and by the way I'm trying to decide whether she should go back to this Polish thing because there was an incident or something said within that clip of yours that the Polish

40:43 We're kind of wanting to move toward nuclear energy. There was some mention of that and then it was kind of shoved aside and they were condemned because they were whatever. Yeah, the media won't talk about it but more countries are actually lining up nuclear as a part of their Green Deal plan. Well that's going on. The Germans shut down their plants and the French are being told to shut down theirs. This is why it's a negotiation. By the way, Aaron, producer Aaron, he has two daughters who are Swedish and they were kind enough to give us the official. So, you know, this is how these Swedish kids pronounce Greta Thunberg last or just here we go Greta Thunberg and we have another way of Amy's name is Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg. Okay. I got it. I think I can do that. Greta Thunberg. Oh

41:42 So the other thing that just took place was she's on her way back and she was sitting in the luggage arena. She's sitting on the floor on the train with the luggage. Yeah. And so they took a bunch of pictures and this became a big, everyone made a big stink about her. She's well, I couldn't get a seat on the trains were full and all Germans were like yeah. And then they called her out on that saying wait a minute your big push your promoter of the trains are gonna be full and you're gonna make everyone go on them and oh yeah I'm sorry I made a mistake there. And then somebody else dug up the fact that she was with an entourage

42:21 of her pals and they were all sitting in first class and one of them was sitting in her seat. This is why also Greta will get cancelled. It's for all those same reasons. The revolution eats itself. Now, there is some real concern that I have about the Green Deal and the EU. And that's because the brand new Starfleet commander, I forget her name, the woman who will be the big kahuna, she has created a position

42:59 which is the European Commission Executive Vice President for the Green Deal and this commission has eight subcommittees with deputy, I mean there's a hundred and fifty people at least in this Green Deal department that has been created and guess who's running it? My buddy Frans Timmermans So this is the Dutch guy who was a deputy secretary of state for the Netherlands when in fact it was the radio station where they got burned down. And he came in and at the time he was traveling all over the world with the Queen, the former Queen.

43:46 going to Bilderberg, so and I really bonded with the guy like, hey Bilderberger, let's hear what you have to say. And he is really, it turns out the guy, he looks like he's 65 but he's only three years older than I am. So Franz Timmermans has received this role from the new Starfleet commander. and he released his plan and his roadmap which calls for 260 billion euros of investment every year. from the European Union. How about investing in a podcast? Well, I think I may have my chance to finally get this guy on the show to interview him because he's a sales guy and now he's not selling himself to be president of the EU. Now he's selling a deal.

44:40 And I think this is, I can get in with him, particularly after listening to his interview with Christiane Annenpoel on CNN where he explains exactly, exactly what is needed. And the first thing we need is young leaders like Greta Thunberg. What do you make of Greta Thunberg who said that... Let us do that again, you are doing this all wrong lady. Who is Greta Thunberg? Greta Thunberg! What do you make of Greta Thunberg who said that, you know...

45:16 She wrote a list of the things that people aren't doing and they sort of, you know, sneaking around their commitments. Well, we are so lucky to have her. Isn't this amazing that a 16 year old young lady could get... No way! I'm telling you, France is a sales guy in brown shoes. He is a brown shoe salesman. Young lady could get person of the year awarded by Time magazine. Okay, I gotta stop it there. Now we all saw the person of the year cover, which I don't think the magazine is even actually printed anymore, but that's the cover. But did you notice... Fake cover. But did you notice that they're sexualizing her now? And I think it's a huge mistake. They took out the braids, the pippi long stocking, and they have her with her hair flowing backwards. Big mistake! This is not the image of Greta Thunberg. This is like a young

46:12 16 year old woman who's coming into her own big mistake. Yeah awarded by Time magazine I'm really really very excited about that and she's sending a very powerful message and I think we should listen very carefully to what she says that is why the Green Deal we are presenting is a roadmap that could lead us to a climate neutral Europe by 2050 but to go there we will have to take quite a number of measures, legal measures, to make it happen. And Greta can watch very carefully what we're doing in the next months and years and see whether we can actually deliver what we promised. It is my firm belief that we can do that. We'll need the support of all our Member States and the European Parliament, but we can achieve this because we have massive support of more than 90% of the European population.

46:59 Oh yeah, okay. So these guys are so delusional. They believe that in the countries, the Netherlands, Germany, France, I think Ireland, Poland, especially the farmers with thousands of tractors, yeah, and who the population support the farmers in these road blockages. Now according to France, the brown shoe sales guy, 90% support and you heard oh yeah we will need a lot of help from our member states. Yeah every member state, there's 26 of them, will have to pony up at least 10 billion euros. Not all of them can do that so biggers and you know they have these these keys as to who pays what according to size and GDP and it's gonna be very interesting for them to get people to pay for this

47:50 And all it is is just to say, well, we'll hit our agenda 2030 goals, which means we'll have total neutrality. which is interesting in the context of another failed neutrality, net neutrality. They're pushing 2050 though. That's right. So agenda 2030, which is a defined goal of agenda 21, not making it up, no conspiracy theory, no Alex Jones. No, you can go print it out. It leads to, and this is their new mantra, is a carbon neutrality by 2050. And of course the question is,

48:28 We can you do it how realistic is this well if people don't understand that we need to make a paradigm shift That we really need to transform our economies and our societies to face this a challenge Yeah, which means giving stuff up slaves means It's going to be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. We really need to transform our economies and our societies to face this challenge. If people don't understand that, we won't get there. But there's an increasing understanding in society, also in business, that this is something we need to do. And that's why we present this roadmap, which would give us the tools to get there.

49:04 in transport, in our energy, in agriculture, in housing, in all these areas where we need to reduce our emissions and where we could create a huge amount of new jobs if we reset our economy on a circular basis. What does that mean? We need to reset our economy on a circular basis? Didn't he say Did he say circular or secular? No, he said, I'm pretty sure he said circular. Let's listen again to the end. Dobbs, if we reset our economy on a circular basis. Circular. I don't know what, I don't know what he means, circular. He's just making that up. I think so too.

49:46 Anyway, I'm getting this guy on for an interview. I know I can get him. Well, I know a circular basis for a reset economy amounts to. Well, that'll be my first question. How does the circular economy work? What is it? How does it work and how can we profit off of it? Because that's what's gonna happen. I think what he means is, I'm just thinking, You know the recycling logo where the arrow goes to this place and then goes back and comes around like a circle? Yeah, yeah, yeah. A green circle of arrows. Kringlope, yes. The circular, yes. I think that's what he's talking about. He wants an economy that's self-sufficient and is circular in that way where everything gets recycled and... Could be, but taking into account the Secretary General of the United Nations, we played him just two shows ago when he was with Greta Thunberg and he talked about we need to move from taxing income to taxing carbon.

50:46 And I think the European Union is on its way. They have an office, the O- It was more complex than just taxing carbon, quote unquote carbon. It was something else, carbon use or carbon something. Wasn't it carbon something? Was it carbon with another word? Well, hold on. I think we have, let me just listen to this clip for a second. This is the guy. This is Antonio Guterres, who is the UN Secretary General. What is still lacking is political will. Political will to put a price on carbon. Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels. Political will to stop building coal power plants from 2020 onwards.

51:35 political will to shift taxation from income to carbon. Shifting taxation from income to carbon. Yeah, you're right. Of course I'm right. That's right. That's the fossil fools thing. Fossil fools. I think the way they, and you said correctly, is how can you tax someone on carbon unless you track them and know exactly what carbon they're using? And this may be part of the circular system France the brown shoe sales guy is thinking of. This comes from the OBFCM. which is the office of something or else and spying on you for something of the European Commission and this is how they're going to do it in your automobile. The European Union's new light-duty CO2 standards require the European Commission to monitor the real-world fuel and electric energy consumption of vehicles. The data will be recorded by onboard monitoring devices and needs to be transferred to the Commission. This graphic shows four possible ways of transferring the data.

52:37 The three methods shown at the top are not suitable for efficient monitoring of real-world consumption. The first option, periodic technical inspections, is for new vehicles only mandatory after four years and could therefore unacceptably delay the data availability. The second, roadside spot checks, would be prohibitively labor-intensive to perform. The third method, collecting data from managed fleets such as rental companies, is not likely to produce data that is representative of the market. Automatic over-the-air transfer would allow for regular fleet-wide collection of the data. Automatic transfer would also shift compliance responsibility to manufacturers, minimize the risk of human errors,

53:17 and could make use of existing vehicle telemetry hardware. Furthermore, it would be suited for future applications like onboard emission monitoring. Yeah, so that's where 5G comes in. Everybody's happy and we know exactly how much carbon you are polluting or using or wasting or whatever term we want to use. And you will be taxed accordingly. And in fact, I think it will be done automatically and deducted straight from your bank account. No, that's the way to do it. That's how that's clearly where it's going And you drive around and you got a monitor, it's like having a little bracelet around your ankle. That's next. That's also coming. Yeah, that would be next. And the car is your spy. It's your personal spy. It's spying on everything you do, telling everyone where you're going, how much you're spending, did you start the car up too many times. Which, by the way, which reminds me, is anybody else but me annoyed by these idiotic cars that start

54:15 every time they stop at a stoplight? Well, that is a... you know why this is, right? This came from Europe. Because it saves so much gas that keeps starting your car over and over. Well, it does save on emissions. I wouldn't say it saves on gas. The reason why that is in luxury vehicles, but also in the Netherlands in small vehicles, is that is the only way these companies can get their cars to the required emission standard. You cannot disable it, it turns on every single time you start, you can turn it off, but if you don't then you're at the stoplight and it or wherever you set a standstill it'll turn off and they

55:01 assume or they assume that there will be so many turn offs per vehicle per drive and that's they did it's a numbers game. They deduct that from their mission. It's kind of like the diesel scam only now it's affecting you because the car goes turns off. I think it's very annoying. I had first encountered this technology probably 10 years ago or maybe longer, maybe 15 when I was on the mailing list for all these auto companies I was writing about stuff. And so General Motors shows up with this truck that they wanted me to test that had this feature and it was like a big deal. And the guy was going on and on about it. Really? They promoted that as a big deal? Really? Oh, it was fantastic because it did all these great things.

55:48 And so I said, really, I said, let's drive it around. It drove it. It seemed, you know, drove normally because it started pretty quick. Soon as you touched the pedal, it was starting, you're on your way. It wasn't a big deal. Or even if you just touch the brake again or pressurize it. It starts pretty quickly. But I said, well, let's take this thing up Marin. There's this hill in Berkeley called Marin and it's pretty much like the worst hills in San Francisco. Straight up. Grizzly peak with stop signs that are got you where you're on an angle you gotta do the hold on to the break for dear life so you don't slide backwards. So i said let's go up to say to these guys up there driving and so we got to the first stop sign and then it's just i let go of the break.

56:34 I hit the gas, I hit the gas, let go of the brake, and I slid about 30 feet backwards. If there was anybody behind me, we would have plowed into them. And so then when I finally caught it, then it burned rubber trying to get back up the hill, back to the stop sign. And so I kept saying, this is great. You remember I had the Trinity, I had the biodiesel Mercedes station wagon from 1985? Yeah. And I was on one of those hills and the whole transmission dropped out. Were you not in the car with me when that happened? No, I was not. I would have remembered that, believe me. It was quite... it was a similar thing, only downtown San Francisco was a little more scary. I dropped my tranny. Can't say that anymore.

57:19 Yeah, you can. So these guys, this idea, anyway, it just galls me, but this idea of tracking, I've been predicting this for 20 years or more, that the smog checks are part of this scam. Eventually they'll be giving you posthumous tickets for all the speeding you did and all the illegal moves you made based on it. I'm sure the software's being worked on as we speak. Oh, it's already there. And this is what, Tesla has all of that. It's all in there. And they're tracking everything you do. They just haven't given it up yet. No, they will. Well, and I think this is a part of a, you know, certainly for the European Union, this is a part of the New World Order. And I got to tell you, amidst all of this impeachment and FBI, FISA spying, and you know, this of course as we know in the United States is Gitmo Nation, there's no other news.

58:15 But there was news and I'm concerned because it goes back to a very old theory that we talked about in the beginning of the show which was the you know the roll-up of the New World Order. We'd have the European Union which has basically happened they're still trying to bring in a couple other countries into the European Union. Then we'd have Eurasia and then we would have the United States of North America, and then those three would come together in the Trilateral Commission, and then above that we would have the New World Order global government. And, you know, it was laughable until the European Union actually did that, and a couple of the things started to happen. And amidst all of this, we had a... I'm not even sure where, I think it's a bill was signed

59:06 a resolution, yet not ratification, but there were amendments made to the USMCA, that is the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal, which is meant to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, yet just looking at how jitty all the Democrats were when they said, oh look at what we've done. We've done it, we've done it, we've created this fantastic, this is something that President Trump has been calling for for years. He says that he created it. The Democrats then all of a sudden say, well we passed this in the House and we're great and we did everything, and that everything is a whole bunch of amendments

59:51 Which I've only just started to read but I did I did find this podcast. Thank goodness for the podcast From New America magazine, no doubt right-wing Outfit but this guy at least gives us some idea of what is in this document and it by the way is marked up already in the show notes along with Franz Timmermans Green deal so we can all look at that together, but listen to this guy who talks about the USMCA. Negotiated by US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on behalf of the Trump administration, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, purportedly intended to replace the two and a half decade old North American Free Trade Agreement, is part of a much broader agenda that will end the sovereignty and independence of the United States

1:00:43 and eventually submerged the US, along with Mexico and Canada, into a regional integration scheme similar to that of the European Union. On Tuesday, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Christia Freeland, and Mexican Deputy Prime Minister Jesus Sade met in Mexico City along with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to sign new amendments to the USMCA. Officially titled the Protocol of Amendments to the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada,

1:01:21 is a 27-page document of amendments to the USMCA that were negotiated and added to the agreement at the insistence of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to garner their support in order to fast-track the trade scheme in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. This new agreement pushes an agenda that is progressive, as Freeland described it, using the guise of trade to enact progressive policies across the continent that will somehow make North America more competitive as a region. And therein lies the true intent and purpose of the agreement, to merge the economies and policies of all three countries into a single North American region, much like the European Union.

1:02:08 Now I believe this to still be the actual plan. I don't know if we'll get the Amero. I'm waiting for that. I'm still... remember that? Remember a couple years back, it's like, we're gonna wake up one day, the dollar's gonna be gone, it's gonna be the Amero. I had a picture of the Amero in the last newsletter. Really? Oh, excellent. Well, so the Democrats changed stuff and I love it whenever they call it the protocols because that's the stuff that I found in the Lisbon Treaty that was, you know, the so-called Constitution of the European Union but at all these protocols where you can be arrested and driven out of town and tarn feather you and whatever else they want to do.

1:02:47 And where is our president? Is he on board with all this? Is this the idea? Is it just about trade? Because I'm starting to read it and there's a lot of protectionisms. Well, you know, we can do this with cheese, we can't do that. There's a lot of different things very similar to the European Union's documents. Also not dissimilar from TPP or any other global arrangement. And I'm skeptical about how great this is going to be for America. Well, maybe that's the whole idea. Maybe Nancy Pelosi and the boys put this together, threw something together, and then did the impeachment thing to keep Trump distracted. It's like, you know, look at the shiny object, shiny object, look, look, look. That is absolutely... And did this in the background. You know, you're right, because I'll give this president a lot.

1:03:39 But I for that kind of detail no, I don't I mean unless someone's there saying hey, this is what they're doing He's not gonna read it. You think I sit down and read this. I don't trust it. I think it's a problem He's not supposed to Wilbur and Ross and all the other boys Well, they name like Wilbur And that's the most New World Order name I've ever heard, really. Who else is named Wilbur? So I will be looking into these 28 protocols to the amendments because I'm very skeptical as to how great this is going to be. I'm sure there's a couple of gems and there's a couple of gems. With that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, Mr. John C. Dvorak, the man who put the C in the USMCA agreement.

1:04:30 Yeah, yeah in the morning you and mr. Adam Kuriel so in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feeding their subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there and in the morning to Let's roll room. Hello trolls. Good to have you here at no agenda stream calm Which is very much alive contrary to some Dutch tweets. I saw it's like you guys are nuts This is very much alive. The no agenda stream is kicking ass and It's where we have shows 24-7 and you can find out what's playing, what the shows are. I think getmolist.com has an overview of that. It's where the trolls hang out in the troll room, troll each other, troll the shows, but they're never triggering. It's just trolling. Trolling, no triggering. It's all good. Noagendastream.com. Also, are you mumbling about something? Yeah, I just kind of denied that Zephyr just went by.

1:05:20 Nine cars? Economy is... Well, I think more important than nine cars, it's an hour late. In the morning to Thorin. Thorin, who had a change of job, so he has not been able to do art for the show for quite a while, since he no longer can listen live. But we just didn't find anything particularly super compelling in the last round of art for 1198. The title of that show was self-certified. And we just went hunting through the evergreens and that's where we found No Agenda Donating Is Love in a beautiful 8-bit rendering by Thorin. In fact, this was, I believe, one of the oldest images. Let me take a look here. Of late.

1:06:11 Yeah, but I mean we're talking seriously like I think there's in a 300s. Yes, and we're up to 12,000 by now So we really went back, but it's a beautiful piece, and I don't know why we never used it before But thank you very much Thorin for participating at the time and Just goes to show how great the art generator really is because we can pull stuff from it even when we don't have the right submissions, but we do love seeing what you artists do and Go to noagendaartgenerator.com. We're very happy to to fawn over you when your artwork is chosen for the show and it really helps us especially now that iOS 13 updates album artwork, people are seeing it, and children all over the world are happy.

1:06:58 There's some truth to that. Yes, particularly the children. All right, so let's start off with a couple donations here. We have a pretty good showing for the executive and associate executive producers for today's show. $11.99. $11.99. Okay. Starting with Anonymous. Anonymous, who came in with $3,300 and $33 cents. A lot of threes. Wow! Wow! Oh my goodness. Yep. How does... Hopefully you have a note, I hope. A note? Yeah, big note. Damn. He wants to get the jingles in order so Adam can cue them up. Okay, I'll go while you read, I'll look. He wants that's true? Mm-hmm. Or you can look them up on your own. Okay. Well, no, I mean you... Okay. I don't have to read. You're gonna look at this and then read it yourself. Okay. Now that it's out of the way, you mofos ruined my life. We need to ruin more lives apparently.

1:07:56 Here I was consuming the crap coming from the M5M in blissful ignorance, then bam, you hit me in the mouth. Now that comfortable cocoon is gone and I realize how easily it is to control the population by giving them what they want, thank you for opening my eyes and bringing some much needed perspective. Wow. You have restarted the part of my brain that is responsible for critical thinking and my amygdala is starting to shrink. And thank you for your courage. And then he has... Holy crap! Well, Anonymous, thank you very much. And this is probably a great example of the value for value system. And the value that Anonymous put on us ruining his life is quite high. But he was consuming crap.

1:08:48 And he says we hit him in the mouth. I hope someone, I wonder who hit him in the mouth. But then once you're hit in the mouth, then sometimes there's no going back. So he's out of the comfortable cocoon. And thank you very much. And apparently looking for jobs. So we'll give you the most powerful one we have along with your requested jingles. That's true. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Wow, great kickoff. Transitioning from a corporate job to a self-employment. Oh, there's nothing better than that. There's nothing... In fact, may I recommend podcasting? It's nothing like being your own boss, starting when you want to. Yeah, it works out for so many. Sir Patrick Kobel, our...

1:09:44 He's a, he's the, he's pre-Grand Duke Patrick. He's Earl, I think, of Tennessee. $1,199. He's the show, this is the show number, which means he's the show... Oh my goodness, that's right. That has not happened in quite a while. No, and it's gonna happen less and less in the future, I believe. You could probably figure that, yeah. So he says, I know the next show, 1200, is a big one, but I needed to upgrade my donation on 1199 because it has more threes. Thank you both and all the producers for what we all do for the show and our community. Thanks, NoAgenda Meetups.

1:10:26 Title upgrade from Earl of Tennessee to now I don't know if he's in the upgrade list. I don't think so He should be let me double-check. He should be Duke of the South now. Yeah, he's Duke of the South Okay, and I'll work with Foley and Nussbaum as I head to arch and Grand Duke one day Can I get a jobs deal karma? What's the jobs deal karma? I guess he at jobs or deal maybe has a deal and He has a yeah. Oh, yeah, he will for the pending 2020 season and a random he's a random Sharpton. Thanks again for all the producers out there. He is a He's a computer guy the one of the top guys in the country penetration tester and it's a penetration expert I had a long chat with him about this once he he's a pet the kind of penetration expert you have to pay a lot to because it includes breaking right to say this

1:11:18 But it includes, even though it's legal if it's contractual, it includes breaking into the facility. Yeah. Yeah, he's the kind of penetration expert you have to pay up front. So we've got your change noted and I'll throw out a nice Sharpton for you because, hey man, you're the Duke of the South. And we will much. about that be committed. is here.

1:12:16 Mark Rubio's big night in evolution and Galileo mean this whole thing of Galeo America's changed with change unless IT and skillets President Putin doing something similar back in it won't change this fundamental fact about the GOP just how absurd these attacks is Nearly six months after the dangerous traffic jam. The Thai military says my friend for many years a yam yo, a yana, a banzant, a banzant. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Youth thought. Karma. Fresh sharpness, nothing like a little Al, Rev Al on a Sunday morning. That's a gift that keeps on giving. Sure is.

1:13:08 Next is circumvent the law in Brisbane, Queensland at $500 in dollar ruse. I actually came in and learned them. This one came in earlier. This is not really for this show, but this was a wire transfer company called WeTransfer, and it went right into the bank quite effortlessly, which is a surprise to me. No, no, it's not WeTransfer. It's something else. It's WireTransfer. It's not WeTransfer. That's something else. Oh, okay. Well, let's see what it says. Well, I'll just read his notes, see if there's anything in here about it. I think it was We... Wire... Transfer Wire or something. TransferWire.com I'm so good. You're the best.

1:13:52 Thanks for the information when I selected bank at Dvorak.org slash na it actually opened the email instead of taking me to the link you gave anyway anyway anyway oh he didn't he didn't add an s nice no I don't understand why I have sent $500 in dollar ruse and he goes on with the details I will send a note for Thursday show once you confirm it has arrived if I missed the note I would like a jobs karma for the most amazing Dame G money I need an anti-Alzheimer's karma for the drunkard minstrel of Brown Night, Sir Chris, as he keeps forgetting that I attend sessions and talk to him. So in other words, he doesn't really have Alzheimer's. I should hope not. I should hope not.

1:14:40 And that's a donation if credited in didgeridoo dollars, it will also take me to baronet. But I will keep the nomenclature of circumvent the law, protector of privacy, pronounced circumvent. For jingles, I can have a you are going to love President Trump. Hold on one second. Let me first... I'm gonna do this title since we're doing it anyway. Sir Circumvent the Law and He Becomes a Baronet, he says? No, no. He says, it'll take me to baronet, but I will keep the nomenclature of circumvent. Yeah, that's a nomenclature, but he gets the title. Okay, well if you want to give it to me. Of course. I don't think he's gonna bitch about it. And what are these jingles? A lot of people have written in saying they do not want the baronet title.

1:15:27 It's just in title only, he can call himself whatever he wants. Just crossing the T's and dotting the I's. Two T's the way he has it. For Jingles, can I please have a, you are going to love President Trump. What is that? I don't think we have that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy JCD, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's true. Thank you for your courage. You're going to love President Trump. I don't remember that either. I mean, the cleaner rings a bell, but it's not something we play. I don't think so either. It's just wishful thinking maybe. And a jobs karma as well? Wishful thinking!

1:16:12 Jobs jobs jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs You've got Harm not. Not messing around, man. Throwing in a good. So we transfer.com is you people want to check it out. Does work. Wire transfer. I don't have all the details. I'm going still going back and forth with him on how to make it work. Well, wire transfer.com. A wire transfer.com. Why? Why get we transfer? Because there's a real we transfer service. But do not try to send your money through that. That will not work well. All right. Onward. Thank you. Circo Ventola.

1:17:02 Glad we got that straightened out too. And cool that it doesn't, you know there is crap going on now. I was just reading Venmo is, which is PayPal, is fighting with banks because banks will not, for some reason they're saying, oh there's a technical issue we can't let you connect your Venmo account to your bank account. Obviously the banks are setting up all these free services amongst themselves to circumvent, to coin a phrase, these other services such as, what is it, Venmo and then there's Cash app and a number of other ones, but they're doing this internal transfer between the banks Which is as far as I can tell almost free that internal that international transfer was not free But I believe it's like 0.9 percent of

1:17:53 If I read correctly, I did look through this. For wiretransfer.com? Yeah. For some of the... It's pretty low. It's very low. Generally speaking, it's like a hundred buck fee just at the top and then you have to... and then the other side has to pay 20 or 30 bucks. It's a total... Swift is extremely expensive. All right. Anyway, thank you. It's expensive to someone sending 500 bucks or even a hundred, or a hundred particularly, but 500 because they don't discourage it. They want wire transfers to be five million dollars. Yes, whereas we all know really that Bitcoin is the way to go.

1:18:31 I digress. Joshua, Anonymous in Virginia is next on the list. $420 and he sent in a he or she and I can't tell actually. Okay, $420 you have my attention. Please keep me anonymous. On this Giving Tuesday I decided to donate to the best podcast in the universe and give myself a, ah, it is a woman, a damehood. At the same time, I would like to be dame anonymous of colonial place. I do believe she's, I do believe. I do believe she is. I do believe she's on the list. I do believe she's there. I do believe. I do believe. No requests for the round table. I would like home renovation. I would like home renovation karma.

1:19:20 Well, you know, that's a very good request. You've got karma. What was it? I mean, I know we have the big 1200 coming on Thursday. This is an interesting influx of executive producers. Do you think there's a reason for this besides another outstanding newsletter? Well, the money came in before the newsletter went out, for the most part. So it must just be for the work. I believe it's... I think Kobold hit it. I think it's because of 1199. There's something magical about 1199. Good point. Good point. Well, thanks. And thank you, Anonymous. We didn't really have to do much work. It's just magical. Magical! And where in Virginia is this game? In Virginia? Mm-hmm. I don't know. Okay. I'm just thinking Langley? No. Definitely not Langley. Okay. All right. I know that much. Okay.

1:20:19 Thank you. See you at the roundtable. Anonymous Dame to be Joshua Landis next on the list of $400 and he's got a birthday coming up. Hi, John and Adam. Today is Friday the 13th. Today this Friday the 13th is my 40th birthday. So please give me a birthday shout out that was Friday a couple days ago. Please play a couple of L Sharpton jingles Adams choice. Also shout outs to Carl from the W ATP who are these podcasts? I don't believe it was mentioned on the show, but that podcast can be heard on the No Agenda stream. Yes, I knew that, but I didn't know it when we talked about it. That's right. Yes, we have a lot of great shows on the No Agenda stream. It's a fact. I wish they would do, I've said it before and nobody's really taking it too seriously except as a joke.

1:21:13 I wish they'd do identifiers at some point in the show. So if you're listening to the show, maybe every 15 minutes of the show, you might mention what it is that you're, what the name of your show is. Yeah. Well, that was a number of times and I'm just going on and on and I said this is a great show But I can't listen for hours. I got other things to do. Okay, so what's the name of the show? I can never find out so We solved this There is now link to so you could find out exactly what was on the streams on no agenda stream calm just an FYI if you're in the troll room while you're listening, which a lot of people do you can go in and anonymously and

1:21:56 You just type exclamation mark NP for now playing. So I'll do that now. Exclamation mark NP in the troll room and it says now playing, no agenda live. So it'll tell you what's playing upon request. So if I'm driving around in my car streaming the stream in my radio, which is what I see as the future, how does that help me? If you I think if you listen to the stream in your car it actually will have a metadata readout that plays continuously. Okay, now if that works I'm happy. I think it works, yeah. I think it does work. Alright, anyway he continues with his note. If not, it'll work by next week.

1:22:45 A continues with this note, I do not believe it was mentioned on the show, check it out all the best Baron Fox bats of the Cook Islands. He's the man with the tan. He's the man with the tan. We gotta go hang out with him. Cook Islands. It's gotta be, how does it like take 20 hours to get there? Horrible, horrible. Yeah, it's horrible. Horrible. Let's see. I got some new Sharpton's. Let's see if there's anything good here. Though one candidate who made a big splash entering the race last month will be notably absent from the event. Okay, that's one. Let's see this one. And does that really matter if you are compromising the future of this democracy that we call how we run this country?

1:23:31 I like that one. This democracy that we call how we run this country. All right, nice. Did he want a karma as well? I don't think so. Didn't say. There was no request. Okay. Onward. Thank you very much. Rudolph Vaselli. $350.33. As an executive of episode 1146, And so on and so on this donation give me a seat at the roundtable, please night me sir Rudolph Vesely the night of the open source All right for my nighting ceremony. I like some some some Lova's no some Mattai I can't just thought I'm Unicode here. I can't tell what it is. It's Slovakia but cheap and I can kind of read it and

1:24:18 Svikova, Na, Smetana and Slivovici. And someone else can correct me, if not that's how it's going out within about an hour and a half. Okay. Sounds like some kind of Ruski thing. Oh, it could be. Or it sounds Eastern European more than Ruski to be honest about it. Okay. And he continues. RE, Slack, Adam, you're absolutely right. about working outside of working hours and John isn't.

1:24:56 John has never worked in the current environment. I'm working now! But you're not... Hello? Do we have slack? What do you call this? We're not... we don't have... Chopped liver? We don't have slack. This is what he's talking about. The slack environment. The millennials who are being worked to the bone day and night by continuously being on slack. Should I put that on the list? Should I put it on the millennial list? Oh yes, and I have... Slack? Oh yeah, slack. We need a term for it. If you're over-slacked, if you're slack... Yeah, people that are gonna help us on this list. Yeah, but yes, and by the way, I got at least five other emails from people who say, absolutely, it's horrendous, we are expected to be online all the time, working whenever, and slack is the culprit.

1:25:52 So when I'm at dinner and I got the Millennials over, I have JC who's the tech guy, he works at a company, and he is constant. I'm serving the meal and beep, beep, and he said, what, get out, and I always, bitch, get off your phone. No, the phrase is, hey, Millennial, hang up and hang out. That's the phrase, hang up and hang out. I'm using it. Now, while we're on this anyway, just stop the donation segment for a moment. And I don't know if it was Rudolph who sent this to me, but this Slack thing has gotten so bad they now have extra plugins, extra features you can purchase to upgrade for your millennial workforce experience, and it's called Disco.

1:26:37 And our friend Veronica Belmont is happy to promote it here. Jessica here is doing an awesome job. But I don't want to always have to wait for our one-on-ones to be able to tell her. Good thing we just got Disco. It allows us to give positive feedback in our Slack channels right when and where great work is happening. Jessica just squashed a major bug that we've been working on for weeks. So I'm going to give her a star on our engineering channel. That way the entire team can pile on with emoji reactions, animated GIFs, and other words of encouragement. This is what's happening John, so I've nailed it. I've nailed it. They're taking these teenagers and young adults back to kindergarten with a little star on your forehead when you were peaceful and quiet during quiet time. You know what the problem is? You can tell that she's screwed up because she said gif.

1:27:32 Instead of obsessing about that, this is really interesting. There's something going on with it and you're seeing it in your own household. Ask JC, ask him if he got a little disco slack, if he got a disco slack star, and did he feel good about it, and did the rest of the dev team pile on and send him all kinds of animated gifs? That is pretty pathetic. I told you. And it is very kindergarten. I think that that ended, I think that ends, if I'm not mistaken, I can remember my grammar school years. I said grammar school the other day in front of everyone. What's a grammar school? What? It's like getting stickers. Like, good job, here's a sticker. You used to get a couple, you could see stars and stickers. Or a lollipop. And then I think by the fourth or fifth grade, I think by the fourth grade, this is my experience. Yeah. By the fourth grade,

1:28:30 It went to a lettering system. A, B, C, D, F. And then it stayed that way. It never went back to stars. So why is it going back to stars now that people are in their 20s? Are they that pathetic? And maybe that's the projection that we keep hearing that you always, because of that Dutch saying, whatever I say, you are, I am, is the projection we're getting when we hear George Monbiot mention all these world leaders and saying they're all in diapers. Because this group is the ones that are in diapers. George Monbiot's in diapers. Yeah. All right. But it's... I'm telling you...

1:29:14 Oh, there's no winning. We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot. Now everyone hug and share a secret. And let's give everyone a disco slack. I like... I don't... I don't have time for my one-on-one, which is scheduled through the scheduling system. Oh no. So I'll just hand out a little disco. Sad, John. Sad. Hey kids, keep... I mean, I've got emails from people at Ring. Ring is apparently the worst environment for this. Curiously, I have a Ring clip today. Good. Well, let's continue with Rudolph because we... Rudolph, Rudolph. Rudolph, let's get back. Okay. For my... Now he's okay. We got that. For Slack, Adam, you're absolutely right. John's wrong. Wrong!

1:30:00 He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's never worked in the current environment. This is not about working hard. This is about being stressed all the time by slack slash phone slash MS teams that is always active and beeping in your pocket. There you go. Your own son has this as a director within. The thing is, here we go. I know we can't get off of it. It's so it's mind boggling. It's not like he I don't know if his lack of self-awareness Because he doesn't seem annoyed. No, it's called training. He's been trained like this from from the get-go And it's like am I say hey get off the phone or whatever that phrase I should be using I'm gonna try hang up and hang out hang up and hang out hang up and hang out

1:30:47 And it sounds dopey. So anyway, he says, oh, it's work, it's work. And he gives me the brush off. He gives the hand in the air kind of thing, you know, the slapping air in front of yourself. You hold your hand up and slap a little bit, slap air. It's work, it's work, it's work. Does he mutter under his breath? Okay, boomer. Does he do that? No, no, he doesn't do that yet. It's coming. It's their own anger at slack being slackified that they have to say this. Oh slackify. Slackified. That may be the word we're looking for. It just it falls out like diarrhea. It's great. Slackified. Slackified. That actually might be both a good word for the list. Slackified. Yes, good one for the list. All millennials are slackified. They're slackified dude.

1:31:34 As director within a large it corp he continues in the UK i always tell people in my org turn off your phone and don't work outside working hours of cider working hours since i need you fresh and well rested if you really need or if you're asked escalate to home. Escalate to me, but there's a term right there. Escalate to me and I'll... I'm gonna try this on Tina. Baby, if you need something, if you need some food, just escalate it to me. Escalate to me and I'll make sure that you get more than just thank you. I appeal to all managers that are listening, tell your people the same.

1:32:18 and be transparent and tell them that this is not better for them. It's also better for you since a good culture and a happy employee have give better results. This will differentiate you as a leader, not just another quote-unquote boss. And I really appreciate Rudolph writing in with this or should I say Sir Rudolph to be the knight of open source. What I'm seeing is an abundance of, and I think it's typically, all new company or most new companies are really technology companies. Even WeWork, I'll give them some of that because you know it's the scheduling but it's also how the employees are

1:33:06 are handled or mishandled and I think it's a combination of open office plan where everyone has their headphones on, no one's communicating in this groovy open office space which, you know, John you and I knew this really didn't work a long time ago. In fact you're the king of building a fort out of your little You're a little section of the open office plan. You should see Dvorak. He's got stacks in front of him, got stuff on the side. You know, he can sit there, no one can see what he's doing. You were really the king of that. But everyone's got, it's an open office. No one says hello when you walk in. Everyone has their headphones on and all communication is completely outside of any context because it's only in Slack. And just like today's modern communication where these kids have been taught in WhatsApp and text message, the only way to show the context of which you are writing is with fucking pictures, with an emoji.

1:34:05 Otherwise, no one will know if it was a joke, is it meant lovingly, no one will know. In fact, I think if it doesn't have an emoji, it's always considered to be borderline negative. Well, no disagreement for me. All right. Thanks, Rudolph. You brought up some good content in this segment. It's appreciated. Gary Thompson's next on the list from Simpsonville, South Carolina, $350. I was just hitting the mouth on episode 1163. I like people that were hitting the mouth within 30 shows and they're already executive producers. and I've been hooked ever since. Your value for value model and the way you approach the deconstruction of the M5M as happy warriors, yes, that's us, is unfortunately all too rare in today's world. For 17 years, I've passed the time during my 40 minutes one-way commute by listening to the various M5Ms, but now I listen to your podcast and it's greatly improved my time in the car as your roughly 360 minutes of weekly podcasting content fills up almost all of my 400 minutes of commute each week.

1:35:09 My first donation of $350 is in honor of the PPM level of atmospheric CO2 that was supposed to destroy the world. Eventually everyone will realize what a gigantic fraud this climate scare was and folks like Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt will be shown to be nothing short of criminals. Until that day comes, keep hitting us folks in the mouth. Clip request L Sharp. Wow, it's L Sharpton Day. L Sharpton resists we much. Shut up already, it's science. And Obama, you can die and that's true. Yes, what I would like to do first is go back to Rudolph. He actually requested a jobs car, so I'll give him that one first. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

1:36:00 You've got karma. But resist we must. We must and we will much about that be committed. Shut up already! It's science! You might die. That's true. There we go. Nailed him. Yes, the jobs karma we did should have that's all right. We took care of it another anonymous donor in Chicago $333 and 33 cents. Okay. Let's say somebody's balancing their budget I'm the first time donor $333 and 33 cents. I need a de-douching You've been de-douched

1:36:43 I'd also like to call my buddy Rebel Pundit for being a douchebag. He introduced me to the show a few years ago and to my knowledge he's never donated beyond recruiting listeners for the best podcast in the universe. Thank you both for everything you're doing to expose the M5M, let alone for inventing the whole damn medium of podcasting in the first place, Adam. I plan on becoming a knight, but I figured why do it all in one shot when I can force you to play around, play sound drops of my choosing at least three times as EP along the way. That's right. I love how he slips in EP. It's slick. Very slick. Very industry of you.

1:37:24 Yes, very industry, EB. EB. And if you're in banking to be EVP. After all, it's not the destination as they say. Anyway, anyway, I was slow to your show at first, mostly because my introduction to your program involved me listening to you criticize my work. More on that when I become a knight. Oh, okay. I don't know. I don't know. But it also took time for me to catch on. and appreciate the brilliant media deconstruction that was taking place. As my amygdala returned to its normal healthy size, it all became clear to me and I fell in love. That's all for now. I'll share more information about myself and how I came to listen to your show in future donation letters. Please play Obama, hello everybody, two to the head and boom shakalaka. A little good. Hello everybody. Hello. They got a couple of them.

1:38:23 Hello everybody. You remember this? I do. It's old. Hello, hello. I love when people remember the old stuff. Richard Kicklier probably does. He came in with $333.33. He needs gold karma and a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Even though Jub, John, Jub, John snubbed me at a tweet recording in 2012, I have decided to move past that and donate for the incredible value you provide.

1:39:04 Oh, I'm not sure what he's referring to, but it was in 2012. So that was seven years ago. And that's how long it took him to get over that snubbing. You have real impact. Imagine what I go through every show, every show, every show. You've got. Niels Den Boer. Job. John who snubs is a job. Job. Job. Job. Niels Den Boer. 33333 from the Netherlands. ITM John and Adam. It's my magic number 33rd birthday. Okay. On a 1212 show day.

1:39:49 Wow, it's amazing, had to donate, no deduce yet. Climate change is slowly killing my old 90s Toyota with E10 fuel they're starting selling at most pumps in the lowlands. Yeah, you can't get away from it now. You can't even buy old fuel. Yeah, it's all the ethanol stuff they're throwing in now. And I have a 69 jingle for my smoking hot wife and a karma. Thank you for your courage for the best podcast in the universe and a gruten ut brabant. something. Niels and Breda, Breda Lowlands. 69! 69, dudes! You've got karma. You got it, man. You got it, Niels. Thank you very much. Now we have a dispute coming here. Uh-oh.

1:40:38 It's from Robert Fittler. Uh-oh, dispute. 333333, period, in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Hi, John and Adam, as always, No Agenda is an amazing podcast. The quality of No Agenda is so obvious that when you try to listen to pretty much any other podcast out there, it's better. I thought I'd give my night layaway program a kick in the seat in the pants. No, I'm still not quite there. While doing a little plugging for my company, Copperline Consulting, copperlineconsulting.com, We're just a couple of dudes name ben who firmly believe in value for value model well john will likely cringe at this i came firmly to believe in the model after reading. Atlas shrugged about thirty years ago no agenda has proven the model so explicitly showing that if you offer an exceptional product people will willingly pay to be part of it.

1:41:27 And if there was ever an example of this in action, it's the fact that I still donate even after John insists in making irritating analogies with my last name. I can stand with rhymes with comments, but my smoking hot Jewish wife for some reason takes offense to that kind of thing. Gee! Wow, thank you, Robert Fittler, for sending this in because I of course totally agree with you. It's always a rhymes with. It's like an old DJ tick.

1:42:10 Anyways, he writes. Boy, this hit in all caps I might add. A quick shout out to Sir Ryan Brady and his smoking hot girlfriend Caitlin with a great couple of evenings at the local shooting range. Ryan also did a great job with the meetups here in Pittsburgh. As to my best friend Tony Tarygni, who turned me on to the show back around show 100. I would like some Fear is Freedom AOC goat scream F cancer for my lymphoma. And some of the Trump Pelosi jobs karma. I'm likely to be approaching the end of my 11 year contract here in Pittsburgh and will need some sweet, sweet karma to keep paying the bills. Here's looking for many more years of no agenda, Robert.

1:43:01 Hitler dug in Pittsburgh. Okay. Thank you very much Robert and thank you for this wonderful note. It's interesting that people always say fear is freedom. Oh, yeah, okay. This is the AOC revolution. That's what it is That's the fear is freedom when we got that one well. Thank you, and we'll gladly hand out some f-cancer for you. I hate that shit. Who here is ready for the revolution? Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs and Jobs. Let's vote for jobs You've got karma. Was that the appropriate jobs karma? Yes, asked for a Trump Pelosi jobs karma. Okay. I pay attention. Now, did he want fear is freedom and then? No, it's the what he means is the fear is freedom AOC. That's the one that I played which is Oh, you know what? I'm sorry. I think you're right.

1:44:09 This is the one he wanted. I fucked it up. Sorry. We'll do it again. Why is it not playing? That's the one. Okay, you're right. We got it. Sorted. Sorted out. Okay. Uh, well. Viscountess Dame Patricia Biscain-Bey. She wrote a note. Let me find it. And she's our first associate executive producer for... And she will be the associate executive producer. 11-9-9-er. Now she comes in a lot. And here she comes in, she sends a card, a nice card. Always. And then she always puts a very small note in. I'm going to celebrate my birthday, 12-6, by contributing to... I think she's on the list. You should check please. I will. By contributing to my...

1:45:06 to my main, to my main, I don't know what that means. So both of you, so both of you and your families, you two, anyway, you two are invaluable. I would love job karma for my two daughters, no jingles, by Countess Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Let's follow it up by another note from Sir Donald of the Fire Bottle, actually technically Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles Count of Eastern Washington Spokane Valley. Correct.

1:45:48 This donation, the sun in my eyes here, sun's out, sun's out, what's this? What's that bright spot in the sky? Don't you have your green visor on? It must be global warming. This donation marks five years of listening to the best podcast in the universe. Sir Atomic Rod hit me in the mouth back in the days via his Atomic Insights podcast. Adam, please give delivery drone karma to the dames and knights for all the Christmas packages they are sending and receiving. Sir Donald. Okay, uh, karma it is... Here it is, the drone's off, and hold on, and here we go! You've got karma. Delivered by a drone. The future. Sir Shyster, destroyer of cones.

1:46:43 in Moses Lake, Washington, just down the street from our buddy Sir Donald. $233.33. Howdy! I found myself in these jobs, Carmen, my wife and I embark on a journey of economic refuge from Connecticut. Unfortunately, my wife has already secured an excellent, oh fortunately, did I say unfortunately? You said unfortunately. We get it, we know what you mean. Eh. Fortunately, my wife has already secured an excellent job opportunity across the country. In contrast, I'm going to struggle to transition away from the career I've loved for over a decade. Well, if you love it for over a decade while you're transitioning from it, but okay. In favor of escaping from the state that's becoming increasingly inhospitable as it attempts to solve every problem with increased taxation, Connecticut. I would also like to ask for some karmic intervention to get rid of those two senators you've got. I'd also like to ask for some karmic intervention to help

1:47:37 Offload our house so I can sever the last of my ties to Connecticut and join my wife in Washington. Oh, he's still stuck there. Yeah, because of the house. And the taxes in Connecticut are insane. Thank you for, well, that's, a lot of this has to do with the fact that they know that New York taxes are worse, especially in the city. Yeah. And Connecticut. That's where all the hedge fund managers live. They all move to Connecticut because it's nicer than, or they think it's nicer than Jersey, even though it's not necessarily true. And so they decide to gouge him. Yep, yep, yep. Thank you so much for the BPITU, Sir Shyster Destroyer of Cone, soon to be resident of Moses Lake.

1:48:18 Adam, please stop saying, oh, important, with the missing T dropped. It's like nails on the chalkboard. Well, I understand. It is important. We need to keep pointing this out. It's everywhere. It's rife. Or do we just give in? I'm okay with just giving in. Well, you've already given. I still say important. Let me give the guy... Important. Let me give him some jobs, Karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Thank you very much, Sir Seister. I hope that works out soon. Annoying. John Elmers. Next in line in Shawnee, Kansas. 2-12-12.

1:49:06 sending a hearty Christmas and seasons wishes to both of you and all the slaves out there. I prefer the numerology of the show. There you go, here it is. I prefer the numerology of the show, 1199, but also donating 12s for the upcoming show, 1200. Can I get some ACT test taking goat karma for my youngest human resource, Andrew? Also any L, oh man, any L Sharpton, It's Ella Sharpton Day, 1199. It is. And a Sandy OC, are you ready for the revolution again? Mm-hmm. Keep up the excellent deconstruction. Adam, thank you for your patience when John is in one of his cantankerous moods. Love and light. I like that word. Yeah, I like it too.

1:50:02 R-E-S-P-I-C-T. Who here is ready for the revolution? You pigs in human clothing! You've got... karma. Cantankerous. It's alright, you know. It's love, baby. Steve Denton in Kennesaw. Hold on a second. Oh, okay. Yeah, Steve Denton in Kennesaw, Georgia. Kennesaw. Kennesaw. I think he has a note. Kennesaw. Says JCD has note. Yeah, JCD has a note. There it is. A lot of notes today, a lot of donations. We want to thank all these folks for helping us to an extreme because we really weren't pushing for a big show. No, and since it was on a downward slope, this is fantastic. It's amazing. It's astounding and always surprising how the roller coaster

1:51:02 Evens out, but it's still a roller coaster which makes life interesting which keeps me at least on my toes So I'm happy for after considerable bit of time as a new agenda lurker I've decided now is the moment to for my inaugural shipping in please find enclosed initial donation of 205 Consequently I shall formally request A dedouching. You've been dedouched. 205 is a donation amount significant in that I'm a career radio industry employee and this amount is the sum of the simulcast frequencies of one of my stations in Atlanta at 107.5 and 97.5. Oh nice, combined-o.

1:51:46 Combined dough. Let me say how much I appreciate the steadiness and enlightening work you both provide in media deconstruction. It's stunning to be shown an example of the subtle phrasings that reveal hidden and even subconscious agendas of so many talking heads and pontificators. I'll observe that one never knows the depth and breadth of skills and experiences of the no agenda nation. Case in point, many shows back from for a baffling reason of some sort, the topic of Rick D's disco duck surfaced. Yes.

1:52:23 I started my radio career in high school as a junior achievement participant, though I have been in sales and sales management for decades now. My first 10 years were spent as an air talent music director and program director. One of the markets I worked was in Bowling Green, Kentucky at an AM station that may have been the smallest market in America with a billboard reporting point. So, As a program director when I needed the new 45 that came in the mail from the RSO label it was widely reported in the trades as a station making an early add to its playlist of this musical car wreck.

1:53:08 What can I say? I know a teenage listenership magnet when I hear it. The end result, it's pictured on the next page. It isn't a gold record for Disco Duck, mind you, it's a platinum record. I have a few other gold records, but this is my favorite award for its sheer improbability. As I head into my 49th year in radio, here's my best to you both. And here's encouraging other douchebags to chip in. Steve Denton in Kennesaw. I gotta tell you, I wouldn't mind having a piece of the disco duck. That was classic. Very nice. Now, does he need a karma? Did he request that? Because I've forgotten about it. I'm giving him one. There you go. Thank you very much, Steve. You've got karma. Oh, radio bros, we do appreciate them. Of course.

1:54:06 All right, what do we got here? We got T. Odelsting. Now this came, this is like an anonymous note, came in a card, no address, no return. I don't know where he's from. Postmark was unintelligible. Crackpot and Buzzkill, I would like some of the sweet Pelosi jobs karma to help me close a possible job offer. Thanks, T. Odelsting. Okay, we got that for you. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And finally last on the list, Poppy and Foxglove. I'm sure that's some Cockney rhyming slang that we don't get yet. Well, it's from Australia, so it's not Cockney. That's what I mean. Poppy and Foxglove means...

1:54:58 Something. To Adam and John, dear lords of the best podcast in the universe, thank you for your courage. We, Poppy and Foxglove, have recently started listening to The No Agenda again after a long absence. We used to listen quite a lot in the first days but never sent you any money. Sorry. We must ask that you grant us two overdue deduchings at $100 each, please. Okay. You've been deduced. That's the one. And here's the second. You've been deduced. We live on the south coast of Australia facing Antarctica.

1:55:41 When we get a hot day predicted, the Weather Service reports, quote, there will be a castro-catastro-catastro-I'm sorry. I'm trying to-he's got it in all caps. There will be a catastrophic weather day this week due to climate change, unquote. Helps keep the slaves fearful. Yes, we retired boomers ponder the questions of origins of humanity and and purpose intelligence and AI and the Electric Universe 12,000 years ago our ancestors survived in ice and flood. Thank you for your courage poppy and Fox glove

1:56:24 Well, thank you Poppy and Foxglove. I wonder if they know any of the other producers around? Because I don't know if a lot of our people are on the South Coast. I don't know. They did send pictures of themselves. I don't know which is Poppy and which is Foxglove, but one of them is a photographer. That's got to be Poppy. Or Foxglove. And that's it. Wow. That is the producers and executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1199 that really helped us a lot this week. And we do have the famous show 1200 coming up. It'll be a special and you get a special executive producership for that if you want.

1:57:06 But this was pretty phenomenal for $11.99. Who knew? Yeah, surprising and incredibly appreciated. Thank you, executive producers and associate executive producers. A lot of you already know this, but we did see a couple of new people coming in. These are credits that are very valuable because, go ahead, look at Hollywood. If you can say I'm an executive producer or an associate executive producer, it means something. Use this where it's recognized. LinkedIn seems to work. Job postings on Indeed, for some reason, it seems to work there. But also just put it in your Twitter profile or anywhere else online and people will take note of it, especially us, because that is

1:57:48 a clear signal that you are a producer of the best podcast in the universe and we'll be thanking more of those producers later on our second half and you can participate there's still time for the special episode 1200 coming up on Thursday to learn more about it go to Dvorak.org slash N A and we're gonna come up with some solutions for all of you Millennials who've been slackified our formula is this we go out We hit people in the mouth. I think, I can't get out of my mind this this slackification of the Millennials. There's got to be some tips that we can give them that are based on very old inter-office principles. When you know when someone sends you a star or berate you through the slack I mean that there's got to be some

1:58:56 Nobody gets berated. Yes they do. That's exactly why the CEO of the Away Luggage Company was kicked out. She was berating her employees on Slack. You just proved my point. You berate, you're out. Yeah, but you know Okay, now I have a feeling that's only one company where it happened to work out I'm not so sure that's going to work in other organizations But but there's got to be what you know the first thing I'd say is set up a private slack group Where the only thing you discuss is what time you're going to meet everybody outside the office for lunch or something

1:59:40 Stop, stop just chatting around. It's unhealthy. It's unhealthy. I think the solution is more technological. Bots. Well, you can put a... Slack is very... it's good for bots. You can do a lot of cool bot stuff. Write some scripts. And right then parse the incoming message. Here it comes. And just send out, have a bot send back an appropriate response of any sort. You don't have to pick up the message. And then if it turns out, because once in a while you're going to send out the wrong message, like somebody died and you're going to miss, the bot's going to make a mistake and say, oh, well, that's too bad. But you have to still meet at noon tomorrow.

2:00:24 Let's work on it. I don't care, I won't be there. Something like that, you don't want that when somebody died. And then you can apologize and then you can describe what happened and you say, I'm so into this company that I've been writing these scripts for these bots so we can all use them and just, you know, technologically kill the thing. That'll do it. It needs some work, Chuck. It's like a cover your ass memo. It's just a cover your ass bots. It warrants some more thinking. Well, I've been thinking about this for a while. In fact, that's what I'm going to do. What was that phrase I need? Hey millennial, join the group and be cool. What was it again? Just say, hey millennial, join the group and be cool. That's exactly what it was. Hey millennial, join the group and be cool. Or hang up and hang out.

2:01:15 Hang up and hang out. I'm gonna challenge JC to write some bots for these things. All right good response bot One of our producers is a big fat liar. I Mean it really a huge liar Well, we've had this before. We had the guy on the oil rig was my favorite. Well, we've been tracking the Secret Santa layaway payoff for years. No sooner do we remind everyone it's about to happen does it happen and then our producer comes in and says, no, no, I've been in corporate marketing here in Arkansas.

2:02:00 for 20 years, whatever he said, never has this come up. I'll probably pitch it though. This is so much bull. I've seen nothing, nothing but Walmart payoffs. week and it's never any other store it's always Walmart. Hannah Hayes knew Monday was the deadline to pay for her items on layaway at the Anniston Walmart. She walked in on her lunch break to pick up her children's Christmas gifts. I said I just want to check and see how much I owe on my layaway so I can get it off and you know in time for Christmas and She said, OK, so she pulled up my account and she said you don't know anything. And I said, excuse me. Haynes had heard the cashier correctly. Someone had come in earlier that day and paid for all of the items on layaway and she said yeah, he come in and he paid off everyone's layaway totaling $65,000. The only thing he asked was that each person received this paper. It reads God loves you. Jesus paid the price every day. I wish I could.

2:03:01 Thank the anonymous person for being so obedient. For some shoppers, this gift came at the right time. I'm grateful. I'm extremely blessed, shocked, but I'm happy. I'm about to start. Haynes says she is sure to pay it forward in honor of this Christmas miracle. Every day I'm going to wake up like how can I bless them? How can I show someone That type of love it's so this was Alabama. We had it in Florida. We had it in Michigan It's everywhere and it's always the story is always Walmart Okay, I brought this up with Mimi

2:03:45 And I also said that we had predicted this, you in particular, about a week before the whole deluge of these stories, which came the next show, which was great timing. Because most of the time, the stuff we predict so far in advance, years before it happens, and we never get the credit we deserve. So she said, that's only because Walmart's the only place, she refuses to shop there, she hates the place. Walmart's the only place that does layaway. And then I said, no, that's not true, there's plenty of places to do it. So right now I just looked up, and you can just go to layaway in Google or Bing, I Binged it. And Burlington, Coat Factory, Big Lots, Baby Depot, T.J. Maxx. Yeah, they all do it, they all do it. Marshalls, Sears, Kmart.

2:04:29 Sears don't do a layaway at sears boy there's nothing left of sears. I'm just saying it's on the list the point is that it's always walmart. The stories and they run these stories and they're all there they're all feel good stories and the stations. Two things, one, is it a native ad in all cases or is it just good publicity, good marketing, good PR or is it native ads in many situations? And I have to say, especially when somebody's name crops up, somebody, there's a pastor, one of them was some preacher, paid $10,000 worth of layaways for some of his people. And I'm wondering if, you know,

2:05:12 $10,000 is nothing to Walmart. You give the church $10,000, use the guy's name, he's not gonna complain. It's a lot more dishonest. They run a native ad, boom, you got some publicity, everybody feel good about Walmart. The thing that bothers me inherently, and I understand that Walmart and Target, these are very important stores for poor people. I'm not dropping it. For poor people, because that's where you can get cheap shit from China that you essentially need for your life to continue. However, the... who's calling me here? Stop that. What I take issue with is this is always for the Christmas shopping, which means these people are buying, you know, they put on layaway cheap Chinese crap as gifts.

2:06:02 And it's especially around this time we got to think of a number of things and what you're doing with your money and who we're helping with that. And the backdrop of this local story for me here in Austin, I really can't get all too jacked up and happy for these people who got their layaways paid off. Bill Bryce from the downtown Austin Alliance says the Sprung Shelter is still on track to be built by around March. And I think that's still realistic if things continue to come through and right now we're starting to narrow down potential sites. The ATX Helps Coalition that includes the Alliance and the Austin Chamber of Commerce needs three million dollars for capital costs to build it.

2:06:41 What they have now is $50,000 from individuals, far less than they hoped for. We are talking to a number of six-figure, seven-figure potential donors. We have had some commitments made that we're just trying to button down, and so things are rolling along. A specific site for this shelter has not yet been determined. But the Downtown Austin Alliance tells me that as a default backup plan they could look at using the state-owned property where homeless people are currently being sheltered along 183 and Montopolis. But what about homeless donation fatigue? With funding funneling through the city, Echo, Salvation Army, the state and ATX Helps,

2:07:19 Will the charitable dollars dry up? I really think that the opposite is probably more likely. Once we get some momentum and once the community sees that what all of us are doing, working together, state government, city government, all the non-profit partners, private sector together. Yeah. No. Clearly no. People are much more interested for some reason in paying off cheap Chinese crap gifts on layaway at Walmart than Even one Walmart donor, Secret Santa, gave more money to that than the $50,000 they've raised to build a shelter in Austin for the invisible homeless who were shipped out of downtown. No one gives a crap, you hypocrites! Well, I mean, when you make that accusation, you're actually assuming that these donations, or not donations, but these layaway payoffs are not a scam.

2:08:18 And they're not, nobody's doing that. It's just Walmart getting publicity. Walmart could help out with the homeless. Walmart could help out with the homeless. Instead of moving, you know, moving inventory. But I guess it's an overall issue where everyone gets a real feel-good feeling for the holiday. Oh, that's so nice. A secret Santa paid off the poor people's layaway. Oh, I'm so happy. But no one cares. No one cares about other people. It's all commercialism. You almost sound like Seinfeld there. No one cares. I can't do it now. Damn it, damn it, damn it. I could have a career. It would be good. Well, while we're on the topic of these sorts of things, I do have the native ad, I believe a native ad, another feel-good story. These feel-good stories are getting on my nerves.

2:09:07 Because I'm cantankerous. Yes, which one is it? Which native ad is it? Well this one is, I believe it's a native ad. I just have no proof but apparently if you listen to some of these guys who are publishers nowadays almost everything's a native ad and most of the television stories are nothing but native ads. This is the native ad for Ring. Zarek and Petrula de Kraans are pretty excited to have their hero dad home for Christmas. Because touching base wasn't so easy last year. There wasn't a lot of Christmas cheer when he was gone. Last fall, Army Major Peter de Kraans left for Kuwait. It was his third deployment, but his first away from the kids. By the time they'd wake up to go to school, I'd be in a secure building and there'd be no way to be able to call them. So his kids

2:09:54 started giving him a ring. My dad was like one day why don't you guys go tell Heidi or dad you can use this function he can see it over there and it like blew their little minds. I hope you can see me soon daddy because I really want you to come back. It blew dad's mind too. Bye daddy I'm going to school to learn a lot. Oh my gosh, that's adorable. Yeah, and Peter is back for good. He retired from the Army just a little while ago, 20 years in. Wow, well we sure thank that entire family because service members are serving right now. It's a good reminder. We're grateful for his service. And they're a bit of celebrities now because this video has gone national, right? Thanks to Ring? Oh, national! Thanks to Ring, yeah.

2:10:46 Well they had to actually this this is not brand new it's about a week and a half or two weeks old it kind of competed with the other story which has not stopped With these hacks of the specifically the ring devices this morning two families say their ring camera systems were hacked Essentially allowing people into their homes without ever stepping foot inside In Mississippi this chilling video from inside Ashley LeMay's home shows her eight-year-old daughter Alyssa frantically searching for an invisible intruder I'm your best friend. I'm Santa Claus. You can hear the male voice ask the young girl to destroy her own stuff. You can do whatever you want right now. You can mess up your room. You can break your TV. Alyssa, scared and confused, cries out for help. Mommy! I can't even put into words how violated I feel. And it really is my worst nightmare.

2:11:51 I was keeping scared. I was scared in my room for a few days. I'm still a little bit scared of it. And in Georgia, a stranger hacked into the ring camera in this couple's bedroom. I was terrified. The couple who has asked to remain unidentified says they purchased the camera so they could watch their dog while they were at work. The couple, shaken by the ordeal, reported the incident to ring the home security system company, releasing this statement. While we are still investigating this issue and are taking appropriate steps to protect our devices based on our investigation, we are able to confirm this incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring's security. The LeMay family in Mississippi has since filed a police report. Ring suggests using their two-step verification system, using strong passwords and creating shared users on your account instead of sharing login information all to keep

2:12:46 Your home a little bit safer, but I listen to these idiots at the end, but really scares little girl had to be just frightened I know she seems to be handling it. Okay, and then I know who really think she called for her parents absolutely They have no other commentary than, oh, good thing she called, she's a good doobie, good thing she called her parents. What we're seeing here is the beginning of the end. This is exactly what we deserve to have this happen to us. There was actually a podcast. Let's stop and make an even deeper analysis. For one thing, thinking you're violated because you put a camera on the internet in your house. You are violated now. You feel so violated. You know, by the way, I think a lot of this started, this whole idea may have started or some of it at least, and I think they've taken this commercial off the air.

2:13:39 It was the Allstate Mayhem commercial. Ah yeah, yeah, where the guy's breaking in, breaking into his car, driving over his motorcycle. Yep. Yes, he goes up to the guy's ring doorbell, he says, hey I'm gonna steal your car and the guy says wait, wait, and he goes and he busts up the car and he runs over the motorcycle and drives off as the guy watches from a distance. I don't know, but it seems to me that that could have given somebody a good idea. Well, I believe that there was a podcast that had, and I forget the name of it, I was looking through my notes, maybe I have in the previous show notes, and they encouraged, I think there's also some software that will allow you to rapidly try different email, username, password, excuse me, combos on the Ring system. Maybe someone developed that, it's hitting the API somehow.

2:14:31 And now they keep claiming that has nothing to do with the breach although interesting that we're not hearing this about any of the Google or the face bag or the Apple products. You're only hearing this about the ring doorbell. Is it possible there's a backdoor hack? In other words, there's a master password. That's very possible. A master password will do the trick and that gets into the wild? Well, there's lots of... Sky's the limit. There's lots of technological analysis of how the ring system actually can expose your Wi-Fi password when you're setting it up. You know, that may not necessarily be the same. But, you know, people use the same passwords. I think it's... I saw a survey in our Duke of the South would know better.

2:15:21 Patrick Coble, but I'm sure it's up in the 70% range. People who change their passwords use the same password and add a 1, 2, 3 or something. We have not even succeeded in educating our human resources in basic password management. If schools did that, I would be a little more pleased, but we can't even do that. No, because it would interfere with gender studies. How many people use their pet's birthday or their birthday or their kid's birthday and I love the secure password. Now I'm gonna defend people who use password because and I've noticed this before in the in the olden days of DOS

2:16:10 It says, somebody's never used a computer before, they're an idiot. No, you don't have to be an idiot, you just never used a computer before. You're gonna make a very good point here. The woke, slackified people will scoff, but you're about to make a good point. You go and you're actually one of those people because you've never used a computer, so you look at the manual, you actually go follow the instructions, and it says type password. Yeah. And so you type password, P-A-S-S-W-R-D, and then you hit the button and it opens the thing. Oh, okay, well that's interesting. I typed password because they told me to type password. If you're going to be a literalist and it says type password, then you type password. It's not because people are stupid. No, it's just what it is. There's an element of what's stupidity, but if you're told to type password and you type password,

2:17:07 Yeah, people type passwords. Anyway, let's do a little bit of local color. And when I say local, I mean local forget-mo-nation. So I do have some things I'd like to share regarding the impeachment of the 45th president and the potential elections for 2020. I think we need to do some of that. And what happened on, let's see, Thursday, what we didn't cover, of course, was the approval of the articles of impeachment. And it's gotten very complicated for people.

2:17:46 Well, first of all, they weren't really approved on Thursday. Correct. They were approved on Friday because they shut it down at the end of the evening. Because they would get no news coverage. Right. Because all the deadlines had closed for the newspaper so they wanted to get news coverage. But oh, a little guy, what's his name, slamming the door. Gavel, Nadler. Oh, Nadler. Nadler, right. He says, oh, I want everyone to think this over. So we're going to reconvene tomorrow at 10 a.m. and they did it at 10 a.m. so we get into the news cycle. Good work. Well, so the evening before we did have a couple of good little yippers. Hank Johnson, who's the representative from Georgia, what is under his chin?

2:18:33 He has, uh, what he used to have a little beard. Sometimes he still has this little white beard and then he also has some, some skin issues where he's got white spots on his skin. Oh, it's like vitiligo or something? Because I can't really see it. Yeah, whatever you call it. Anyway, it doesn't help him when he's talking this kind of unbelievable crap. Well, I tell you that brings to mind the picture of President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in New York in September at the UN. And a big chair for President Trump, little chair for President Zelensky, big, six foot four, President Trump, five foot 11, Mr. Zelensky, President Zelensky. And they're standing there and President Trump is holding court. And he says, oh, by the way, no pressure.

2:19:33 And you saw President Zelensky shaking his head as if his daughter was downstairs in the basement duct taped. I mean, I've heard some good stories during this impeachment, but I like this one. The guy looked like Trump had his kid in the basement duct taped. You'll say what I want you to, won't you, Zelensky? That's some pretty good prose he put together there. Yeah, that was quite funny. I think it was a good job. Now what we are able to do in this age of the internet

2:20:11 is use it as collective memory. Certainly in the United States of Gitmo Nation we forget everything about everybody and you know and look eventually OJ will be it will be at the Heisman Trophy ceremony again. Trust me it's just a matter of time. Americans forget and we love a comeback story and so you know these things just come and go. In the last three years we've heard certain things from the media that turned out to be not true and they without a doubt colluded with government officials, mainly in this case the intelligence community, which would be John Brennan, Clapper, Comey. And so now we can lay side by side what we've heard from the in the past three years

2:21:04 from your government and their collusional sources in media and the actual truth because now we also have testimony from the Inspector General Horowitz who was very clear about what was and what was not going on with the FISA warrant and we call that a supercut. There is nothing that the FBI did that was wrong in the Carter page surveillance warrant, correct? I think they followed all the correct procedures. We found that investigators failed to meet their basic obligations. Nonetheless, I think it's important that the American people see the actual facts that were presented to the FISA court and understand that the FBI was acting appropriately. You did find that an FBI employee doctored an email in order to support the Carter Page FISA application, correct? Correct.

2:21:51 I think the notion that Pfizer was abused here is nonsense. Certainly our findings were that there were significant problems. There's a lot that the FBI knew about Carter Page that had nothing to do with Christopher Steele's reporting. We concluded that the Steele reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a Pfizer order. A lot more there than simply the Steele dossier, which is what the Republican memo would have suggested to the American public was the key element of that FISA application. That, of course, is not true. The FISA applications relied entirely on information from From the primary sub sources reporting to support the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government. The court was told and given evidence that demonstrated the underlying political motivation. Christopher Steele, is it fair to say that he had a political bias against Donald Trump? Given who he was paid for, there was a bias that needed to be disclosed to the court. It was all nonsense.

2:22:52 And the FBI finally has its day with the American people and I hope they pay attention to it. You know, I think the activities we found here don't indicate anybody who touched this. So it's kind of nice to hear that they were on the news for years talking absolute shit. I mean, we have to believe someone's report somewhere. And then we have the Steele report itself. Which, and I don't think anyone argues that the Steele dossier was just a bunch of, oh let me use the word malarkey. Is there any argument about that at this point? I mean I've heard everyone say, well you know, the discredited Steele report. Is that an across the board agreement now?

2:23:36 Yeah, but that doesn't mean that's the meme. No, but we can still compare what was said then to what we now know to be true. Parts of the now infamous dossier on Trump have proven to be true. I know the history of the dossier, but it hasn't been discredited. In fact, it's been the opposite. It's been corroborated. much of the dossier has been corroborated. This discredited dossier which was paid for, paid for. Your intel community has corroborated all of the details in there, the meetings. All of the content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our intelligence community assessment which from other sources

2:24:12 in which we had very high confidence. We know that with the FISA application, the relevant parts of Christopher Steele's dossier were corroborated. If the application included information from the dossier, it would only be after the FBI had in fact corroborated information through its own investigation. We also know that as time goes on, more and more parts of the Steele dossier get corroborated. So when the president just refers to it as fake dossier, that is false? I don't think that's the accurate characterization for the entirety of the dossier. The investigators have corroborated part of the dossier. The dossier has been corroborated by the intelligence community. U.S. investigators have corroborated some of the allegations in that dossier. We do know that parts of it have been corroborated. It's not been corroborated, but it hasn't been disproven either. Is there anything in the dossier that has been disproven?

2:25:05 No. whole big parts of it are holding up. The dossier holds up well. None of it has been disproven. All of the allegations in it, I don't know that anything has been disproven. It's a fact that none of it, not one word has been disproven. In fact, a lot of it turned out to be right on the money. Former high-ranking intelligence officials have told us on the record that there is nothing in the Steele dossier that they know to have been disproven. Much of the dossier has been corroborated. Do you not accept

2:25:41 I don't agree with that, Alice. This is our reporting and this is what crime fighting agencies have said. That the FBI would not have just taken a dossier to the FISA court and used that as their predicate for the surveillance. They had to corroborate it themselves. That's how they operate. So those are your news prostitutes telling you that it was not disproven, it's completely above board, everything checks out, and of course it did not. And while I was looking at these little fact toys, I came across our classic clip that we've been looking for for quite some time. This is the 2010 interview, just to show you how smart our intelligence community is. The 2010 interview with Janet Napolitano, known as Lucy, with John Brennan, known as the douchehead from CIA, and Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.

2:26:35 they were doing an interview about how scary the world is and Diane Sawyer when she was still on ABC refers to a big story that had just broken that morning and this was done in the early afternoon this interview where 12 terrorists had been arrested in London. We all remember the story 12 terrorists arrested and this is how it went down during that interview. I wondered, how did they stay in control with so much information coming in every day? For instance, the afternoon of our interview, the day's news had been filled with the terror arrest, 12 people in London just that morning. But when we asked the director of intelligence... First of all, London, how serious is it? Any implication that it was coming here? Any of the things that they have seen were coming here?

2:27:31 You read the arrests of the 12 by the British this morning. Yes, this is something that the British informants about early this morning and was it was taking place later in the interview I came back to the director. Did he really not know I was a little surprised you didn't know about London director copper. Oh I'm sorry. I didn't you reference London, but you didn't talk about the arrest. Yeah, that's our genius intelligence community. I didn't know Didn't know anything so yeah, I remember that clip. These are the crime-fighting agencies crime-fighting agents crime-fighting agencies I tell you

2:28:16 Yeah, this the thing about the dossier which we played extensive clips about it in the last show about the thing being a complete fraud and the only way it even got to FISA is because one of the lawyers of the FBI illegally changed a note from the CIA. Right. And he's gonna be in, well if he's not in jail by the time this is over with it's gonna be a surprise to me. Of course he won't be counted as you know you want Manafort, Paul Manafort. Is the guy you want to talk about because he's in jail. It's really pretty disgusting and it just never ends and all those clips that you played I could hear I knew most of those voices of all the people pushing the dossier. Oh, yeah, and they're all MSNBC and CNN.

2:29:00 Pretty much. I think there may be a couple of outliers, but mostly that that did those two networks or yeah or NBC News in general I would say anything an NBC side Comcast ABC. Yeah all of that but mostly MSNBC and long long rants by Brandon Rachel yes, of course For the 2020 election, well, we were waiting for it to happen. Mayor Pete was getting some traction. They made a big joke about him, I think last night on Saturday Night Live, that he has no black people who will ever vote for him. That's the meme. But now they have a new name. Now I've been calling him by his gay name, which is Mary Pete, which is, I'm not saying out of disdain, but I call Elton John Sharon. I've done so for years.

2:28:16 Yeah, this the thing about the dossier which we played extensive clips about it in the last show about the thing being a complete fraud and the only way it even got to FISA is because one of the lawyers of the FBI illegally changed a note from the CIA. Right. And he's gonna be in, well if he's not in jail by the time this is over with it's gonna be a surprise to me. Of course he won't be counted as you know you want Manafort, Paul Manafort. Is the guy you want to talk about because he's in jail. It's really pretty disgusting and it just never ends and all those clips that you played I could hear I knew most of those voices of all the people pushing the dossier. Oh, yeah, and they're all MSNBC and CNN.

2:29:00 Pretty much. I think there may be a couple of outliers, but mostly that that did those two networks or yeah or NBC News in general I would say anything an NBC side Comcast ABC. Yeah all of that but mostly MSNBC and long long rants by Brandon Rachel yes, of course For the 2020 election, well, we were waiting for it to happen. Mayor Pete was getting some traction. They made a big joke about him, I think last night on Saturday Night Live, that he has no black people who will ever vote for him. That's the meme. But now they have a new name. Now I've been calling him by his gay name, which is Mary Pete, which is, I'm not saying out of disdain, but I call Elton John Sharon. I've done so for years.

2:29:52 But now we have an actual new name for Pete Buttigieg and here it is. Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete! Wall Street Pete is his new name. This is what the activists are yelling at him. Who I'm sure are Bernies, but it's the Wall Street Pete. I like it. Yeah, there's a bunch of this going on. There's a lot of these, some of these activists are quite, they're training to be dirty tricksters. They're pretty good at it. Very good. They had this thing that went, the Bloomberg thing went on where they did a, they took, it was a takeoff. It was again another attack on Pete.

2:30:37 They set up a bunch of guys to make it look like it was a Bloomberg rally and then they played some song and they yelled Bloomberg. I have a clip of this song. Oh, I didn't, I missed this. Oh yeah, this is pretty funny. They're doing the dance, but the only difference between the Pete Buttigieg and their Bloomberg dance, besides the Bloomberg theme being set up by some dirty trickster, probably a Bernie guy, was that Out of the blue it did yell Bloomberg in the middle of the air plays the Bloomberg Bloomberg clip So the whole clip was this some disco song and then this guy yelling Bloomberg every so often and they're doing the pointing and that lousy dancing is all a mockery of the Pete Buttigieg dancers. Ah. Well, the funny part was this

2:31:40 His droll Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg actually is under a little bit of fire for his own news organization two clips Bloomberg News is a global media giant 2700 journalists around the world a TV network a magazine all of whom will now be handcuffed in covering their bosses presidential campaign but does that trust extend to the company Mike Bloomberg built which limited coverage of its founder when he ran New York City. Editor-in-chief John Micklethwait told the staff yesterday, we will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike and his family and foundation. That prohibition extends to Bloomberg's rivals because we cannot treat Mike's Democratic competitors differently. But, and this raises the appearance of partisanship, the company will continue to investigate President Trump. It's not clear whether Trump's family would also be fair game as opposed to Joe Biden's son.

2:32:36 The company will largely limit its coverage to Bloomberg speeches, policies and polls. An initial story said he's offering his own mix of moderate policy stances and experience in business, government and philanthropy as a way to beat Trump. So the way that he explained this is quite interesting, although I don't necessarily disagree. It's not a good look for someone running on the Democratic ticket. I think it also goes without saying he's no fan of yours. He recently said, Mini Mike Bloomberg has instructed his third-rate news organization not to investigate him or any Democrat, but to go after President Trump only. What's your, well you've got a nickname already, what's your response to what he said? Well I don't know that I would accept the nickname.

2:33:19 name. I think people have said to me, how can you investigate yourself? And I said, I don't think you can. But even your own news reporters have complained. They think it's unfair that they're not allowed to investigate other Democratic candidates because their bosses in the race. You just have to learn to live with some things. They get a paycheck, and it comes from the company that I started, not running at the moment, turned it over to somebody else to do that. But with your paycheck comes some restrictions and responsibilities. Shut up, noodle boy! You're not reporting on me! Very few people would say that.

2:34:00 I love it. No, I think he's just being honest but I think he's being naive. Very naive. This is not something you can just say like that. Will not work. Tracking the swoop, we have a few more interesting data points that Hillary still may be entering the race. Witness the new documentary. I want to vote for a woman, just not that woman. Her greatest strength is her greatest weakness. She's unlikable because she's unlikable. She's so smart people always believe there is some deviousness. I provoke strong opinions. What you see is what you get. I said I really want to marry you, but you shouldn't marry me. Chelsea put herself between us and held both our hands, trying to keep us together.

2:34:58 You know, you do me better than I do me. I want to push the envelope as far as we can push it. If I said, back up, you creep, would I sound angry? One of the most admired and one of the most vilified women in American history. Somebody asked me, what do you want on your gravestone? I said, she's neither as good nor as bad as some people say about her. It's a Hulu documentary. That is directed by the same woman who did The Kid Stays in the Picture, one of my favorites. What's interesting, the release date is March 6th, and I don't know where that puts us in the timeline of Hillary still running or not.

2:35:42 But is March, is March any, is there anything of consequence in March that we see? Well, what you want to look at, you got to take Bloomberg's approach because he's the one, Bloomberg is the one who has got a clue here. Let me just find the date. You want to look up Super Tuesday and if it's before Super Tuesday, you've still got a potential here. Super Tuesday is March 3rd. Well, this is coming out March 6th. I think. So this is coming out the two days, three days after Super Tuesday. That seems wrong. Well? Let me just double check and see if they've changed that date or not.

2:36:26 Mmm, no, I think it's still March. That's really up So she would expect to have a sweeping win or something going on on Super Tuesday and then hit it Follow it up with the doctor burner. Yeah a Hillary afterburner possible possible Banyan, Steve Banyan was on the Money Honey. I know, it's not a pretty picture. And he reiterated what he keeps saying. Just assess the field for us because Bloomberg is now in, you call that obviously Hillary Clinton, you saw the Howard Stern thing, Hillary Clinton is waiting for her shot to come in and say I'm going to save the Democratic Party. That Michael Bloomberg is a liberal or moderate Republican, he's not a Democrat, she's going to come in, this whole thing's going to come down to Super Tuesday, I don't think anybody can win it right now.

2:37:12 in the primary process. Bloomberg's gonna drop a money nuclear weapon on Super Tuesday for all the big states. I think Hillary Clinton is waiting in the wings to come in and say, I'm gonna save the Democratic Party from Michael Bloomberg. You think she still comes in? 100, you know, Michael, the Howard Stern interview tells me more than anything that she's coming in. Wow, unbelievable. All right, and Bloomberg has been a factor. Kamala Harris is out. He's already polling. He's already spent more money on ads than she raised the entire time. Back in a minute. Steve, great to see you, Steve. I heard from my LibDev friend that he also is seeing only Bloomberg ads in New York. So they're playing in California where you're seeing them and in New York. I'm not seeing them in Texas, I might add.

2:37:58 Oh no, you're out. What do you mean I'm out? You're out. Texas isn't important to Bloomberg. He figures that's going to go into the Republicans. Right. I mean he's not, you know, he's not Beto. He's not going to appeal and Bloomberg's not going to appeal to Texans even though if they're even there are a few, I mean in Austin they'll probably get some votes. But no, he was going to big guns. He's got these ads. I've seen, I see him every day and I, they're not that good. He's not like, I'll record a couple, he's not setting the world on fire with these stupid ads. It's not what appeals out here. He's a New Yorker, he has no clue how to trigger in a good way the Democrats from California. I've seen some of the ads and all I see is Mike Bloomberg with a lot of black people. That's what I see. In fact, as Mo pointed it out to me, he said count the black people in Bloomberg's ad. It's all black people everywhere.

2:38:53 So he's pandering big time to the one group that actually needs pandering. Because I think the black vote is in play. I think it is too. Not the whole, all the black vote, there's still way too many locked down black voters. No, the black men, black women are the ones being catered to. The black men, I think there's possibilities for the Democrats to actually lose some of that. But yeah, these ads are not, they're just not gonna, I don't think he's, no. He has, this is a pipe dream. I made this prediction before and I get ridiculed for it because in 2015 I didn't think Trump would get the nomination. Yes, we know.

2:39:40 Because there's a number of people that keep mentioning that in the mouse comment from 1984. But I'm gonna say that Bloomberg hasn't got a shot at this. I don't see where's the route? I don't see it. Well, who's gonna vote for this guy? He's a rich billionaire from New York. We already got one. He's in the White House. We don't need another one. I mean, these guys, this is what the competition is? A bunch of billionaires running for president? I don't know. I don't get it. Well, I don't care. What's the appeal to the Democrats? It makes no sense. I don't care about Bloomberg. I only care about Hillary. And I think that her new face, which has destroyed her look, is another sign. I'm convinced that's not her. That's the double. It's possible.

2:40:24 And does Bill really schlep his saxophone everywhere with him? Just in case? Bullcrap, he doesn't carry a saxophone with him. Just in case he needs to pose? I've never seen him with the saxophone for the last decade, now he's got a saxophone. That picture man of Hillary, that close-up, someone send it to me and like photographer like 8,000 megapixels? I have that picture and other pictures. in the newsletter. And I very carefully point out that this is pretty much, now somebody sent me a note, I will relay the note, he says, well you know if you shoot with an 85 millimeter lens you're gonna get one look. And then when you shoot with a 35 millimeter wide angle lens it's gonna distort. And yes, to a point, not to this point,

2:41:06 This is a goofball woman, doesn't look anything like Hillary as far as I'm concerned. If you look at the gestalt of it, eyeballs bugged out. I mean the whole thing is wrong. It's not Hillary. So is this just a test? Let me point something else I didn't put in the newsletter. I might put in the next one. I might write a paper about this. I have, and this was, I don't care if it was a 35 or not, I have a profile shot of her and the profile that was run in the Daily Mail, and you can really see the differences with the profile shot. And by the way, her mouth naturally has a little uptick on the side on a profile shot. It's very distinctive. She doesn't have it in the fake Hillary doesn't have it. The second thing is she's in New York going to a big party and she's gonna let her hair look like that? No, never. Thank you. And I cannot believe that people, I don't know if they're people or bots, were tweeting, oh my god, she looks so good. I'm thinking, oh my god, what a disaster.

2:42:01 The filler shifted, something went wrong, this is horrible and yes, thank you for the hair comment. Atrocious! People have become blind in addition to completely moronic. And was this the same body double who wore the purse on the wrong shoulder? I'm pretty convinced that it is. So is this then a set up to get us prepared for this look when she can't make certain appearances and sends the double? Well, I don't know. The double's no good. They're gonna have to do some more work on her. One phrase that pays is the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group. I'm gonna show my salute by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab.

2:42:51 We have a few people to thank for show 1199. I do have a thing that first I got to get out of the way. I forgot to do this during the first segment and that means you have to get your pen out. Okay. Our $3,300 donor, anonymous donor from Parts Unknown. Yes. actually sent another note in. He sent one to you. You got the jingles in, but we missed somehow, we missed this part, which is his knighting. He's an instict baron, actually. And I want to read this part. By the way, he also continues that he felt like a douchebag for never contributing before this is his first donation. On my drive home from No Agenda meetup, I looked down at my odometer and it read 33,

2:43:38 333,000 miles. What's he driving? I knew I had to do something. He needs a de-douching. Oh, of course. You've been de-douched. Does he have a barren name? Yes. Okay. I'm continuing to read. Please dub me as Sir Lily of the Valley. I would like to claim the territory of the Santa Ynez Valley east of 246, including the surrounding mountains. Now he thinks he's got a beef with DH Slammer. He needs that resolved if there's an issue, so he doesn't know. But he does say he for the roundtable he has a request. Okay. And it's Ebleskiver and AquaVite. Ebleskiver. A-E-B-L-E-S-K-I-V-E-R.

2:44:32 K-I-V-E-R and what it is, it's a round, round Danish. I'm sorry, K what? A-E-B-L-E-S-K-I-V-E-R. Yeah, Able Skiver. And Aquavit. I do have the pronunciation guide here. I have on the list of the clips, pronouncing Evil Skiver pastry. Evil Skiver. You want to play the clip? Oh, you have a co- oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had that. Um, where do I find this? Pronunciation is the word keyword. Got it. Ebelskiver. Ebelskiver. Ebelskiver. Ebelskiver. Ebelskiver. That's very helpful. What is it now?

2:45:21 Evil saying evil skiver evil skiver evil skiver it is That's what you get aqua VT and aqua VTS got okay excellent He also wants some eggnog, but he doesn't he's not making a point of it. Oh shit. I'm throwing the eggnog So eggnog for it would do eggnog at Christmas Anyway, so that needs to be clarified so he gets his full knighting and credits and he needs to be on the list. Okay, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. He just sent that in. We're Johnny on the spot here making it happen. Making it go. Very good. Now we have, actually he sent it in earlier. Robert Doland starts off our list of producers, regular producers, $120.90 in Shelby Townsend, Michigan. There's a long war and peace note here.

2:46:10 We're very behind and we read notes 200 and above. I'm just gonna remind you. David Nixon comes up with $112. We'll read through there, see if there's anything. Tommy Barnes in Midland, Texas. 100. This list is not that big. The big list was the first one. Richard Hufford, $100, and he's gonna be, looks like he's gonna be knighted today. Joseph Salishower, something, 100. Kurt Kubel in Wysata, Minnesota, 9911. This is interesting, that used to be a home of one of the early CD-ROM producers.

2:46:54 Oh really? Big time. Ronald Shul, 8008. Wait a minute. That's why we've never heard of it. We've never heard of Wysata. I've heard of them. Took the whole place down with that CD-ROM stuff. He says he wasn't getting credit for his boob donations. Who, Robert? No, Ronald Shul. 8008. Huh. He says he sent two previous boob donations to Pop Money. With no credit on the show that that's not necessarily true. I do look at the pop and I do believe I do believe boy man second time this show you're really slipping. I'm on a roll. I do believe that I Saw that donation I didn't see two of them But I saw one of them come through on pop money, and I thought it was mentioned on a later show well I expect boobs to be mentioned, so I'm disappointed if we're screwing that up I

2:47:49 I'll take note. David Nowes in Petrolia, Ontario 7516. Brandon Foster 75. Sam Van Hoer. Can I just stop you for a second because it's gonna go fast. David Nowes will have a birthday call out on the list for Oma, that's grandma, Oma Nowes December 15th. She has seven siblings, five children, 16 grandchildren, hence the 7516 donation. And that's to be credited her for the Dame Drive and she is tracking them. Excellent, Oma Nause. We are on the list. Brandon Foster, 75. Sam Van Hoer in Amsterdam, 64. Sam Van Hoeren. Sam Van Hoeren. Hoeren. I think there's an N. Hoeren. It's Hoeren. It doesn't say that on here. I know. Okay. I like it. He'll be 32. All right. You're on the list, Sam. Anonymous in Austin, Texas.

2:48:43 Keep me anonymous. 606 Small Boobs. Kim Burden, 60. Christopher Dechter, 5678. Thomas Miller in Naperville, Illinois, 5555. Lucas Zuha, 5533. He's in Deutschland, I believe. Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Go Packers. 5510, double nickels on the dime. Gary Marquardt, 5520. Now we should read this one because something's happening. I see by the blue attached my accounting showing my final approach and touchdown at the No Agenda Roundtable this week. I'm retired and after sporadic larger, larger, larger, I'm like already in beer. Larger? Larger, larger donations a few years ago just canceled my subscription to the Minneapolis Tribune, affectionately known as the Pink Sheet.

2:49:35 in these parts and started donating the money to No Agenda. For listeners with limited resources, it's all about prioritized allocation of resources. Find your value and pay for it. I've added a double nickels on the dime this week to make sure I flared over the threshold. That's a nice aeronautic term. I've canceled my weekly subscription to get away from the PayPal skimming and will be sending a check each week from now on. Also a belated thank you for the F-cancer karma from last year. My daughter Jenny is now cancer free. We're not taking credit, but I'm just very happy. Please knight me Sir Gary of Casco Point on Lake Minnetonka and give a shout out to my son John who hit me in the mouth years ago. You can also call him out as a perennial douchebag. As I don't think he's ever coughed up a single farthing. He's got a good gig now and it's time to man up my son! At the round table I'd like banana bread warmed with butter to go with my mead.

2:50:36 Okay, please play don't Hillary don't eat me Hillary Hillary cackle. Yes. Well, we'll do those. We'll get those rolled for you I got to do an emergency emergency order for the roundtable. Keep going John I got to get this this order in otherwise we'll never make it. I think Millennials are also cheap. We have a few that donate to the show and they make a point of letting us know that they're Millennials. I think it's because they're signaling us that yeah these guys are cheap. Cheap. Not me. Totally cheap. Michael Burlett in Odessa Florida the following people are $50 donor donators starting with Michael. Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Sir Chris Lewinsky to you. Andre Pijo, Pijo, Pijo, he's in Holland. You have to pronounce that one, I'll never get it. Pijo. Pijo in? Rijswijk. Rijswijk. Rijswijk. Rijswijk. Rijswijk. Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington. You know my daughter can't do a trill. No, it's a millennial thing.

2:51:40 Brandon's of why import orchard washington patricia dame patricia good old days she is again there she is. She's a bike in miami mark johnson in aurora colorado adrian ramos parts unknown and last but not least, Sir, I believe Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia. I want to thank all these folks for producing show 1199 and we also want to thank everyone who under their donation amounts that also contributed to keeping this show going and it's really you that keeps the show alive. Well, because you're producing it and that's the big difference between this podcast and every other single podcast out there that I'm aware of. Maybe Grimerica is one or two who are in some ways connected to the best podcast in the universe. Briny, yeah. But Briny does the Patreon gig too, which is pretty anonymous. That's disappointing. Well, it doesn't matter.

2:52:36 But this is how radio works. This is the future. We are the postmodern version. You're living it. You're not just living it, you're a part of it. One day when you're our age, you'll be able to say, hey, I was a part of that. And you'll have, some of you will have something to show for it. If not a piece of audio, maybe a ring, maybe some other things, maybe some peerage, maybe a whole piece of the world after the Armageddon and the collapse comes. We are the Bauhaus of the era. Oh my god, I love you when you say that. Please remember us for our next show which will be episode 1200. It's on Thursday. Go to...

2:53:17 Here's your list for December 15th, 2019 as we start to round out the year. We've got Viscountess Dame Patricia Worthington. Now she celebrated on December 8th just making sure she heard her birthday wish. Mark Krodowski. on the 12th of December, Joshua Landon December 13th, Neil Stenbuer on the 12th, David Now says happy birthday as do we to Oma Now, she just heard what a grand family she has spawned. Today is her birthday and Sammy Van Horen, 32 today. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. Let's see, what should we do first? Let's do titles. Title changes.

2:54:01 Here we go with our title change is Sir John Helmer. Thank you for your additional $1,000 support in for the best podcast in the universe. He becomes a baronet today. Earl Patrick Coble becomes Duke of the South and circumvent the law although he will not use the title is hereby bestowed with a peerage title of baronet and thank you gentlemen for your courage and for supporting the best podcast in the universe now we have let's see one two three four five well four nights and one Dame so we need some blade edge there's mine there you go

2:54:47 Get the other one. I like the other one better. I'll put this one back. Now they're putting on the... Here you go. Careful, don't cut yourself. Anonymous, Gary Marquardt, Rudolph Vesely, Anonymous in Virginia, and Richard Hofford, please gather here on the podium. All of you are about to enter the very coveted round table of the Noah's Gen, the Knights and Dames, thanks to your contributions in the amount of $1,000 or in some cases much more. I am very proud to pronounce the KB. Insta-Baron Sir Lily of the Valley. We'll be looking over Santinae Valley. Sir Gary of Casco Point on Lake Minnetonka. Sir Ruruf Vesely. Dame Anonymous of Colonial Place. And Sir Richard of the Lugwigs, who is a Black Knight. For you, hookers and blow, rent poison chardonnay, evil skiver and aqua beet, banana bread warm with butter to go with my mead, eggnog and rum.

2:55:38 Svikova na smetan and slivovici and mutton and meat. I ran out of time. That's how much it was. But look at the feast we have at the round table. And you, gentlemen and lady, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings. There's a place where you can hand out all of your information so Eric Lachow can get you your well-deserved night ring, your ceiling wax, as well as your certificate. And thank you, bless you, and thank you for your courage. I have many other bits of business to do here. Jeremy sent in an emergency request. My dad just had emergency open heart surgery to have an LVAD, I don't know what it is, I don't want it, surgically implanted after he was waiting for a heart transplant because he was having kidney and liver failure thanks to his heart and medicine.

2:56:30 Geez, he had the procedure on Tuesday and is still not fully out of sedation because of his liver and kidney failure. I've been playing his favorite podcast and music and he responds to commands just after he listens to such. My dad hit me in the mouth back around episode 250. I can't afford to give any money, but could you give Gerald Haig some wake-up karma so I can play it for him? Maybe it would help him become more aware. Cheers from Jeremy. So, um, let's do this. Uh, Gerald Haig. Gerald Haig, time to wake up. Wake up! Wake up! We got your goat! You've got... karma.

2:57:12 That could go either way, honestly. It's meant well. Okay, well yes, well we meant it well. Exactly. We had a couple of meetups over By the way alert the affiliates were going a little long today obvious reasons So first of all big thanks to Sir Scott who organized the the no agenda sheet up there at the here in in Austin, Texas. Actually was in Lockhart at the Lone Star gun range. Fun was had by all. I don't even know if I got to meet everybody. It was you know but he had the table with the heads and he had everyone had a badge and and he had his reloaded ammo which sometimes wouldn't even fit in the chamber but

2:58:03 They were just bags and bags of ammo. As long as you gave him the brass shells back, he was happy. It was good. I would do it again. And I encourage this activity for all NOAA agenda meetups if possible. Then we had the MCO number three meetup. MCO, this would be, what was MCO? Colorado, I think it's Colorado. Good turnout tonight, nine people can't wait to meet in February. Sir Loin of New Smyrna and Baronet Sir Don of Taintsville from Ovito joined us slaves at Deadly Sins Brewing and it was a very fun time. They sent a quick little sound snippet. From the third local MCO meetup you're listening to the No Agenda Show. In the morning! Who's killed?

2:58:54 And there was also a meetup in North Carolina. East of North Carolina shills. Everybody say hey. Hey. Tell me you meet Hillary Clinton. In the morning. Alright, let's pass it around. We gotta speak? You don't have to. Tyler, this is Tyler and I'm enjoying my small amygdala. Hey, this is Jim, in the morning. Um, hey camera. Shut up slaves. In the morning Adam and John get my nation All right, not as tight as I would have liked to have heard it But it would look like everyone had a good time was actually a video just played the audio of it sometimes good if you introduce yourself and then

2:59:54 just say, you know, whatever you want to say. Love these meetups. This is good and we have some more on the books for Thursday. This coming Thursday, Charles and South Carolina holiday meetup. That will be at 530 at the Edmonds Cast Brewing Company. On Friday the 20th, the inaugural meetup of the Southern Chilean Nissan. Oh God. Oh, Shillenoisans, there we go. The Southern Shillenoisans, that will be at Quattro's in Carbondale, Illinois. Join us as our amygdala shrink in untriggered conversational bliss. The 20th, the Valley of the Sun Slaves, Scottsdale, Arizona. That will be at Whiskey Row at five o'clock. Jenna Tolles organizing. The Saturday San Antonio area meetup, six o'clock at Big Hops on Bitters.

3:00:45 Then we go to... oh, then we go a whole week from now, but it is a new one, I'll mention it. December 28th, it'll be the Coffins Christmas in Orlando. This apparently is going to be something special. Christian Coffins will be arranging also, not this Saturday but next Saturday, Gitmo Lowlands Utrecht meet up at six o'clock at Fourth Trajectum. This will be the... how many... this is the... I don't know... Sir Hendrik organizing that and then more coming in January no agenda meetups comm is where you can find all the information about the meetups where you can put in your meetup report also if you don't see one near you well for God's sakes woman go make your own set one up get it going no agenda meetups comm have we done everything I think we've gotten through all the all the business paperwork paperwork exactly all the paper I do want to thank your buddy Horowitz he sent us a

3:01:45 Cookies? Did he send you cookies? Yes, he's a big fan of this one cookie company out of New York. The Bang Cookies? Bang Cookies, they're about, they're the size of a, I don't know, like a landmine. A hockey puck? A hockey puck. They're bigger than a hockey puck. I usually keep a hockey puck in the freezer. Let me tell you, everybody loves these cookies. They're tasty. They're tasty cookies. There are lots of chocolate in them. Yeah, it's Sir Gene and he's a very... He's discriminating, man. He will not eat something he doesn't like. He said these are probably the best cookies he's ever tasted. So what do you think? That's an expensive cookie. I think they're 20 bucks a pop. That guy's joking. Yeah, that guy, that podcasting over in Florida is going quite well apparently.

3:02:36 Alright, well we told the affiliates would be going long, but I feel like we should still oh yes, I want to I want to do this Taylor Swift thing just for a moment because we followed Taylor Swift ever since you introduced her to the show. How many years ago now? Ten? We caught her when she was a kid. No, you. Not we, you. You caught her when she was a kid and she was noodling around. She was being promoted in a very odd and professional way that looked rigged to me. And so I figured that she had something going on. Then we looked into her father who was a super

3:03:12 major investment banker with Merrill Lynch and they moved the family to Memphis or Nashville, moved the family to Nashville. Next thing you know, she's getting all these deals. And I figure since his job was a, he was a money manager, a big shot money manager for the high end guys. He goes to Nashville, picks up a few big clients. brings his daughter and funnels her right into the system. She goes right in there and has the talent to maintain the position that she's in. Yes. The only thing that is pretty much impossible to do as a budding artist is to get a record deal with distribution that includes you owning your rights. Owning, in this case specifically, the publishing rights. That's how record companies operate. They give you an advance,

3:03:59 which you will pay back every penny with interest in advance to record your record, every cab you take, every hotel you stay in, everything you will have to pay back will be recouped as we call it. And on the other side of that is the publishing. And publishing is a very specific right, which means you can determine when this album will be pressed, when it'll be made into a CD, a cassette, a record, or an mp3. You will determine if it can be used in advertising. You will determine how it can be used on television, in what way. When you say you, are you talking about Taylor Swift? The owner of the publishing. The publishing rights. So I'm talking about the record company.

3:04:44 That is you every person gets that deal. There's no exceptions and Later in life when you become extremely rich Then you have an opportunity to buy it back Paul McCartney tried to buy his publishing back But Michael Jackson had already purchased it and that of course that's where we had to kill Michael Jackson. That's a whole nother podcast Taylor Swift wanted to buy back her rights and she didn't like the deal that she was given. The deal that the owner of her publishing rights gave was, well, I'll let you buy back one album for every album you give me a piece of.

3:05:23 Which is one way of doing it, but she clearly was not in a position to negotiate for the price that they wanted for her catalog. And by now she owns her own publishing with this new record, but her old work, her very successful work, was up for sale and she just couldn't afford it. In fact, the people who purchased it have a lot of money. George Soros, the Carlyle Group, and some other bunch of jamokes. And they saw the opportunity of making money on this money in the future. So Taylor Swift goes on the Billboard Women in Music where she received some accolade for being fabulous, which I completely agree with. I'm a Swifty in heart. I love her songs. I love what she does. But what she did here

3:06:09 is bullshit. Which is where she's just completely off. They have, they know the investment. They know what this is worth. They don't even do due diligence on her. This is nonsense. This is like buy, it's like you, but you take out a mortgage at a bank and then the bank sells the mortgage to somebody else in New York and now they bundle the mortgages. Very good analogy. You're still paying. I don't have the bankers coming over to the house doing due diligence on me. Because she's lying. To ask how.

3:07:02 I might feel about the new owner of my art. We don't care. You don't own it, Taylor. The music I wrote, the videos I created, photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs. And of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced. I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it, though. And let me just say that the definition the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying But he's always been nice to me when I'm raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music You don't have a right to own anything in this life Taylor Swift and this is so disingenuous it's Almost makes me want to turn in my Swifty card. I

3:07:59 I'm very disappointed that you then also had to disparage men, and I know a lot of women in the music industry who are just as shit. And that was gratuitous. Well, the whole Empire TV shows most, you know, can be said to be about women. The, yeah, no, the gratuitous disparaging of men just to get a couple extra, you know, pops on the charts was gross. Very disap—and we have supported Tay-Tay From day one almost. How do you feel about this, John, being a Swifty of the first order? I've never really been a Swifty. I personally think that she's maybe done maybe five decent songs that are kind of okay. And the rest of her stuff, I'm not a big fan of her stuff. I think she's a talented marketing person and this is part of her marketing that she's doing now. This is a marketing scheme. She's working an angle. Well, I'm very disappointed by it.

3:08:57 And I just want people to understand how it works. And she's pretending that she has some rights in this. No, not true. All right. Sorry I wanted to take us out on a high note, but I can't because I'm just so angry. Okay, well I've got two things I wanted to get out of the way, but before we do that, I would like to get this Al Green clip out of the way so people know that this whole impeachment thing is a scam. And this is Al Green, if the Senate does not convict. So I do believe... You've said it twice so far this show, so that's why. You probably clipped this, you just couldn't get it out of your brain. So I do believe that if the Senate does not convict, other articles of impeachment may be considered. Currently we're considering two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

3:09:53 But there's much more, much more to be considered. And it is my opinion that we will still have work to do if the Senate does not convict. Now what the hell is he talking about? What is he saying now? They're gonna re-impeach. Re- oh the... So if the Senate does not convict, they'll just impeach him again. Because the House actually impeaches when they vote. That's the impeachment. So they're just gonna keep impeaching? Well, this brings up the question about in England, the Parliament had used to have a king, there used to be kings that would reintroduce bills. This is kind of what the EU does with, you know, you vote again, you didn't do it right. Vote again, vote again, vote again. You didn't do it right, idiot. They may have to enact legislation because this group of creeps, I'll call them,

3:10:48 are they're just going to re-impeach him and there's been two or three people that have said that this is gonna happen they'll just re-impeach him and they'll keep doing it so this the whole house is gonna be tied up this way you got to vote these guys out the whole house is gonna be tied up for the next five years impeaching Trump over and over again. Isn't that I mean I guess they're that tone deaf I guess they really think that's the way to go Well, Al Green sure does and a lot of the other black, the blacks, mostly blacks in Congress that are pushing. This is another woman plus Waters. And they're just pushing and pushing and pushing. They want to impeach and impeach and impeach over and over and over again. So whatever you're going to do. Now the other thing I have, I do have the two Miss Universe clips and then they still have a little bit on the Afghanistan papers I wanted to discuss. Let's do Afghanistan papers. That's much more important than anything else.

3:11:45 Really? Yes. Yes. We promised to talk about it on the last show. We didn't get to it. Here we are. We're going to we're going to bump it again. First over, we got the overview clip. This came from a WAPO podcast because you can't find anything on it except in a podcast. And she kind of explains what happened. And then we have the second clip, which includes a couple of the some of the stuff they uncovered, which are old recordings. The war in Afghanistan is now entering its 19th year. making it the longest running war in U.S. history. I covered the Pentagon for several years as a beat reporter. That is Craig Whitlock. And I was a foreign correspondent before that. I would go to Afghanistan sometimes.

3:12:25 And one thing you would always hear commanding generals say is we're making progress or we're turning the corner. The past eight months have seen important but hard-fought progress in Afghanistan. Since I spoke to you almost 16 months ago, we have made much progress. 2011 was a real turning point. But we are at a crucial turning point. I think it's possible that by the end of this year we will have turned the corner. This would happen month after month, year after year. But I will say we've come a long way since 03. You never hear the commanding general say we're losing. First let me just say that we're not losing a war out here by any means. Or the war is not going well. I feel like you know we're making some steady progress. I think we have turned the corner.

3:13:24 And I think also that the Taliban recognized that that corner has been turned. Are you telling me that the corner has been turned? Yes. Turned the corner. Now looking ahead to 2018, as President Ghani said, he believes we have turned the corner and I agree. Some lawmakers like Senator Warren noted this. General Miller, we supposedly turned the corner so many times that it seems now we're going in circles. Since the start of the war, that has been the official line from the government. But now, Craig has obtained a collection of secret recordings and documents that completely unravels that official narrative. It's so disappointing that the only place you can hear about this on a podcast that is playing a clip from a podcast.

3:14:13 It's pathetic. Two trillion dollars, two and a half thousand lives, American lives, five thousand wounded. How many dead in Afghanistan? The wounded is way over five thousand. US. US. Yeah, I'm saying the wounded, the US one is way over twenty thousand. Oh really? Geez. Now, this guy spent three years because he knew about these recordings and they're all debriefings. of all the generals and everybody that passed through and all the recordings are the same, they're all, no, we're losing our asses, this is stupid, we're just wasting money, this is not going anywhere, we're not changing anybody's opinions, this is dumb. And they can't get this into the public domain. And now they're gonna play, I'm only gonna play 30 seconds of some of the recordings

3:14:58 The main player that you hear in the first voice you hear is General Flynn. in conflict. We are not really here to win." Thousands of pages, documents and recordings like these, laying out in private what was never said in public. They really do bring to mind the Pentagon Papers, which were the Defense Department's top secret history of the Vietnam War. To me, this is kind of like the Vietnam effect. After 15 years and counting,

3:15:35 In Afghanistan, I don't think we're any better organized than we were back then. Oh, no wonder we had to get rid of Flynn. He was making trouble. Flynn was definitely one of the loudmouths in this thing. Making trouble. Yeah. What will anything come of this of these Afghanistan papers? Can we can we throw anybody in jail? Can we string anybody up? Can we can we impeach an old president? Can we do anything about this? Does anybody care? No, no, no, no and no. I mean we care on our show. Yeah, we care a lot actually, but it's... And people should look into this and this being downplayed because oh my god we got to impeach the president who wants to get us out of Afghanistan and maybe that's part of the reason they want to impeach him because if you get out then they start doing the analysis and then all of a sudden it turns out that everybody was a screw-up. So you stay in, you stay in forever. Stay in forever. Nobody gets busted.

3:16:37 We will be here once again with you on Thursday, episode 1200. 1,200 episodes of Your Best Podcast in the Universe. Could not be prouder of the work we've all done together, producers. End of show mixes we've got We've got sir Chris Wilson with the gem Leo LaPuke and a nice little punk thing little diddy grumpy Old Ben's will be talking about operating systems on no agenda stream next and coming to you from opportunity zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas From FEMA Region No. 6 and the governmental maps in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where we're an hour late, just like the Zephyr. I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. Can't wait to meet you all for episode 1200 of the show you produced. Until then, adios mofos and such!

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3:18:31 On the other side of the ocean? How dare you! So get all cross and bitterish, just wheat and wine. Scald some wild leaders and soon you'll be on the cover of Time. This is a girl so gloomy, she doesn't fly, just sails. She's always preaching to me how society will fail. We'll bring destruction all over the place So put on that greater face You have stolen my dreams, 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

3:19:25 We are 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? This is a climate crisis, filling us full of dread. Greta has advised us we're going to end up dead. This spells the end of the human race. So put on that Greta face. 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... Hi, this is Adam Schiff along with my servants.

3:20:10 I mean, staffers, just taking a break from writing up subpoenas for phone records, maybe yours, to say... All I want for Christmas is Trump's impeachment, Trump's impeachment, Trump's impeachment. Gee, if I could only get Trump's impeachment, then I could wish you Merry Christmas! Been so long since this started, was hanging up 2016 Christmas wreath. Gosh oh gee, Nancy Pelosi still had her original teeth.

3:20:46 All I want for Christmas is Trump's impeachment Trump's impeachment, Trump's impeachment Gee, if I could only pass Trump's impeachment Then I would wish you Merry Christmas! I want nothing, I want nothing, I want no way forward There's a place there, to do the right thing, I want you to know And this is the final word for the Great Uncle Hubert! The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. Darkest day.