Episode 1215 · Thursday, 13 February 2020

Omnipocalypse

A biological weapons expert challenges the official pandemic narrative while the Democratic primary descends into technical chaos and a controversial push for 5G nationalization.

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Dr. Francis Boyle, the author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, claims the Wuhan coronavirus is an offensive biological warfare agent genetically engineered with gain-of-function properties. Boyle asserts the World Health Organization is complicit in a cover-up, while Chinese authorities enforce draconian lockdowns including house-to-house temperature checks and travel passes. The death of whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang has sparked unprecedented public outrage regarding freedom of speech and government transparency in China.

Attorney General Bill Barr proposed a U.S. takeover of Nokia or Ericsson to counter Huawei's 5G dominance as the Phase One trade deal between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping faces force majeure pressures. In the Middle East, a Syrian passenger jet narrowly avoided air defense missiles during Israeli airstrikes near Damascus. Domestic politics remain volatile as DNC Chair Tom Perez called for an Iowa caucus recanvass following the failure of the Shadow Inc app, which NBC News analysts described as a rushed, unsecure deployment. Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg faced backlash for Oxford speech comments labeling himself part of an intelligentsia disconnected from the American Midwest.

John C. Dvorak begins his estate sale with a mint-condition Microsoft Bob frisbee while Adam Curry prepares for a Super Tuesday appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. Sir Ned Knight reports that Australian droughts have flipped to severe flooding, proving the rain stick karma was perhaps too effective. The show acknowledges new knights and producers under the value-for-value model, including Sir Brian the Slow and Steady.


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CHAPTER 01 / 52 Discussion

John C. Dvorak Estate Sale, Microsoft Bob Frisbee

John C. Dvorak announces he is selling off the contents of his closet, describing himself as a classically trained archivist looking for capable hands for his collection. The first item featured is a mint-condition, "virgin" Microsoft Bob frisbee priced at $100. The process of clearing out the estate is expected to take one to two years.

john c. dvorak· microsoft bob· frisbee· estate sale· silicon valley· archivist

00:00 He's a classic Nazi. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. And Sunday February 9th 2020 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1215 This is no agenda! Canceling our cruise tickets and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in 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 am selling off my closet I'm John C. Dvorak Okay, you've got me interested the closet or the contents of the closet all the contents of the closet Oh my goodness. This is a treasure trove Yeah Are you putting it on Etsy? I'm not sure how I'm gonna do this The first item Fred's gonna be done to item by item wait a minute. Wait a second. I don't understand what You're in your classically trained archivist

00:58 Why would you consider giving anything away? I'm not giving it away. No, I mean get getting rid of any now i understand and what how did you come to this? This is big news! It's shocking because I'm worried about a couple of the items...I know they're going to end up getting damaged or something is gonna and they should be in the hands of a capable fellow archivist oh my goodness okay are you gonna do it item per item and can we discuss each one on a different episode of the show Yeah. Okay, what's today? What do we have on the docket I have a Microsoft Bob Frisbee Oh my goodness okay We will be posting a picture later of course I have it of this fine fine collectors item and What do you hope to get for this item on today show John hundred bucks a hundred buck? Ok great

02:02 Well, and how many items do you think you have? How long will it take? About a year. Before we've gotten rid of everything... A year to two years Wow that's fantastic! I'm very excited about this estate sale Estate! Estank! Okay, I have a suggestion. By the way should mention that Microsoft Bob Frisbee has never been flown it's just as mint condition. Virgin! It doesn't have plastic on it or any other markings that will prove its virginity? You can just look at and tell it's never been used okay. Virgin Bob everybody $100 can't wait very exciting

CHAPTER 02 / 52 Discussion

Google Super Bowl Advertisement, Memory and Subliminal Messaging

A discussion regarding the 2020 Google Super Bowl advertisement titled "Loretta" highlights the irony of a service designed to help users remember being completely forgotten by the audience. The ad features an elderly man using Google to preserve memories of his late wife. Analysis suggests the commercial was targeted at an 80-year-old demographic and utilized confusing cultural callbacks from the 1960s and 1970s.

google· super bowl· advertisement· loretta· memory· marketing

02:50 Well, you know what since we're just kind of getting off to a different start there was something that happened on the last show That we as marketers Branders marketers advertising executives. You know should be kind of interested in yes and I'd like to put it market here how? marketeers Yes Let me see okay right away everything that I wanted to do of course falls apart I got it. Let me play for you the piece from the show and Tina actually called me kind of called me out on this she said what was going on there? What exactly did you think you recalled remembered what did you really know a John was talking about this is from 1214 This is about the Super Bowl advertisements had a lot of screwy stuff to

03:53 The Google ad was creepy, that was like enjoyable because it was so bad. Wait a minute which one was that? Oh oh my gosh! That was horrible trying to... Yeah the worst ad I think it's the worst ad. Explain it again. I don't remember all I remember is I just read in my notes horrible worst ad ever creepy google ads So it was not effective in terms of memory. No, so here is what happened I remember... because Tina asked me did you could use that you kind of pretended like you knew what it was and then you said John why don't you tell us fully well knowing that I wouldn't really remember what's going on and then you didn't remember I was immediately looking at the troll room to see if they remembered Tina told me about this and said she didn't remember the ad either

04:42 So I figured we'd play the ad. Hey Google, show me photos of me and Loretta Do you remember what the ad was now? Oh yeah Here's the nutty part! The ad is literally for a service that helps you remember And neither you Me Troll Room Or my wife could remember the AD This has to be some subliminal thing that is wrong with this advertisement Alright with it Say what

05:23 or write with it. Oh, well no but if they're trying to promote something to help you remember... And you can't remember the ad! It's possible it was dug into your brain So this is the and the reason that was kind of creepy because it was clearly an old guy whose wife had died he saying I ever remember all this Google remember for me and then Google of course remembers them will tell him And, you know it was just there's something about what was going on that no one remembered the actual ad. I just wanted to put that as a data point also a data point to this comment Okay here is the problem What was with all these callbacks in the 60 and 70? How old was this audience Exactly That ad was for 80 year olds Oh thats an interesting connection Yeah

06:21 Anyway, well the audio deal callbacks were annoying. I mean they weren't to me I got all of them But you know, I'm sitting there watching it with Jay and she's looking at it going huh? What do you think that's about? Oh Because he didn't know there's no way you would know I have for these callbacks. I mean all that was missing was an F troop a call back That's even hard for me to remember Yeah. All right, we have maybe before we get into debates we do just something a little more international for everybody even seeing the ratings of the debates people don't care that much more in America just as

CHAPTER 03 / 52 Discussion

Dr. Francis Boyle, Wuhan Coronavirus Biological Warfare Claims

Dr. Francis Boyle, drafter of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, claims the coronavirus is an offensive biological warfare agent leaked from a BSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan. Boyle asserts the virus was genetically engineered with "gain of function" properties and suggests the World Health Organization is complicit. The discussion notes Boyle's marginalization in mainstream media due to his past criticisms of Zionism and political figures.

francis boyle· wuhan· coronavirus· biological weapons· who· harvard law

07:01 There's a little, uh... I have a few debate clips. ...side interest. Well why don't we- you want to do some Wuhan Flu to get that out of the way first? Well what do you got? Whatcha got? Everybody's blue from the Wuhan flu! Okay, Wuhan flu. What'd I got? I got this guy He's a professor at University of Chicago. I think that's where he's from his name is dr.. Boyle He's actually the guy your boy. Oh have you heard of this first name Lance? That would be funny wouldn't it No, let me see if I can find his first friend well Francis Boyle he is the and he drafted the biological weapons act in

07:48 And he still works at the University of Chicago. Let's see which one it is... Well, before we play that let's play the update on PBS of the coronavirus story that came out on Saturday and then they'll go right into that. Okay and its title? Coronavirus Update Saturday All right, here we go. to

08:44 days after 64 passengers tested positive for the virus. The coronavirus has infected nearly 35,000 people globally since it was first detected in December Right so the main issues the things that I'm hearing but of course have no evidence of because we really don't know how honest the Communist Party of China is being that every number you hear you should probably just multiply it by 10 That's the general consensus among people discussing at great length Dr. Francis Boyle here has drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that was approved by both houses in the US and signed into law by HW Bush

09:31 And he really doesn't get on mainstream media anymore. I'm not sure why, but I have a feeling that he might've said something during SARS that pissed somebody off and they just ignored? So he shows up on all kinds of other podcasts and radio shows This is my favorite radio station KPU KPOO Are you familiar with KPU FM Actually, I am. I've heard it at the station! I think it's a West Coast... Kay Pooh everybody! Here he is. I routinely monitor outbreaks of disease around the world both for humans and animals to see if there might be a biological warfare agent at work

10:11 So I followed what was going on there at Wuhan, and eventually reached the conclusion that what we are dealing here is an offensive biological warfare agent that leaked out of the Wuhan biosafety level 4... Let's back up. Now you're asking the rhetorical question at the beginning of this clip, why they don't bring this guy on and he seems to be marginalized? Who can bring this guy on in a panic to public? I think it was marginalized before the Wuhan outbreak

10:57 Here's his full credits. He is not a medical doctor, which makes it a little more interesting slash challenging. Bachelor of Arts University of Chicago JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy also from Harvard so he's He is not a medical... Nobody sounds like a very smart person. Well, yes you get a JD from Harvard and make them come louder unit no slouch but again here he is saying stuff that for whatever reason including widespread panic is not allowed on the M5M That leaked out of the Wuhan biosafety level 4

11:41 laboratory there that has been DNA genetically engineered with gain of function properties that simply accelerates the DNA genetically engineering for a bio warfare agent in the first place. And as far as I can tell right now Steve just having read public record it does appear as if it's a combination of what is called the camera that basically you have the SARS and we know that facility has previously worked with SARS, and SARS leaked out there at least twice before combined with the flu virus. And appears also combined with HIV that leads to AIDS at

12:39 Here's probably why it got marginalized. October 26, 2010 Boyle sharply criticized Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stating that quote Obama was bought and paid for by Zionists. That's why Rahm Emanuel was his chief of staff until just recently when he decided to run for mayor of Chicago, Emanuel was bought and paid for it to be put in there the same way Dennis Ross in the White House Mrs Clinton sold her soul to the Zionist in New York to get elected as senator from New York yeah I think that is what kind of gets you kicked off mainstream. That doesn't work so here's the second part of his analysis it's my opinion that you know, it's extremely dangerous. The Chinese government the first case was December 1st and had nothing at all to do with the you know, the food central there that's just

13:31 the This is a specially designated WHO research lab. Now imagine that, the WHO specially designating a biowarfare lab. So the WHO is in on this. These BSL-4 facilities are only good for research developing testing and stockpiling biological warfare weapons

CHAPTER 04 / 52 Discussion

Han Chinese Genetics, Coronavirus Susceptibility and Whistleblowers

The discussion explores the theory that the coronavirus specifically targets the Han Chinese ethnic group due to genetic markers like ACE2. The death of 34-year-old ophthalmologist Li Wenliang is highlighted after he was investigated by Chinese police for warning colleagues about the outbreak. Public outrage in China regarding freedom of speech followed the doctor's death.

han chinese· genetics· li wenliang· wuhan· ace2· whistleblower

14:14 So of course what we don't know, and I take this guy's word for it. No worse or better than anybody else's no one really has information the question is if this did it really just leak out? If this was some flu or some virus it appears as as many have now seen that it appears to really affect Chinese and men in particular, and even was the Han province is that the... No. Han Chinese is a ethnic subculture of the Chinese. It's a genetic difference between Han Chinese and the way with the other ones

14:58 Tibetan Chinese Mongols and all the rest they're all different in some little genetic way and Han is the ones that are Chinese So what we think of as Chinese, and so and the Han are they really only in the Wuhan region? Are they every no-no Hansa all of China. They're all of Chinese Okay, so it's like that's the big problem you Jeff after playing that clip You might as well play this one which I think is It brings some light to this clip. This is the dead Chinese doctor clip? Yeah, yeah, exactly. The Chinese doctor who warned the government about a possible coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital. 34 year old ophthalmologist Li Wenliang warned his fellow medical workers about coronavirus on December 30th

15:46 He was then investigated by police and accused of making false comments. His death has sparked a wave of anger and outrage in China, where the hashtag We Want Freedom Of Speech went viral on Chinese social media site Weibo on Thursday. It would make sense if it really only attacks the Han Chinese. Because Trump doesn't seem overly worried, what we also are not hearing is people who are in the United States and other countries that have the virus

CHAPTER 05 / 52 Discussion

US-China Phase One Trade Deal, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping reaffirmed their commitment to the Phase One trade deal despite the coronavirus outbreak. The discussion notes a force majeure clause that could allow renegotiation if unforeseen events occur. Trump is perceived to be in a strong negotiating position as the virus impacts the Chinese economy and manufacturing output.

donald trump· xi jinping· trade deal· force majeure· china· economy

16:23 We have lots of Americans who are Chinese-Americans and I think many of the cases may be Chinese Americans, and not necessarily Anglo Saxon Americans or whatever the non... Well they won't give the ethnic makeup of the woman who died. The first American to die, the six year old woman They just won't give her name out, which would indicate whether she died. I think generally speaking will give you some indication at the same time on Thursday not long after we did the show Bloomberg came out with a report US President Donald Trump and president Chinese President Xi

17:03 Xi Jinping reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the phase one trade deal signed between the two countries last month. You recall that I had put questions To their force majeure clause which said hey if we're If something happens and you know some freak of nature or something We can't help then we can go back to the negotiating table so that may have been what that was about The two presidents agreed to continue extensive communication and cooperation between both sides, the White House said in a readout of the leaders' call on Friday. They also noted the great achievement of the recent United States-China phase one trade deal and reaffirmed their commitment to its implementation."

17:41 And if it really is something that does not affect many outside of Han Chinese DNA, Trump is in a fantastic position to put the screws to the Chinese and get anything we want because I think that this Going to affect their economy and their output much more severely than expected I mean you ever did that it affects us too because like you said yes, just in time nonsense Yes exactly what so besides. I guess they got some auto industry a lot of telecommunications fiber optics from what I understand comes out of Wuhan

CHAPTER 06 / 52 Discussion

Bill Barr, Huawei Infrastructure and Nokia-Ericsson Acquisition Proposal

Attorney General Bill Barr proposed that the United States or a private consortium take a controlling stake in Nokia or Ericsson to counter Huawei's dominance in 5G infrastructure. Barr argues that a market-ready alternative is necessary to prevent other countries from relying on Chinese technology. The timing of the proposal is linked to the current economic pressure on China.

bill barr· huawei· nokia· ericsson· 5g· attorney general

18:23 And lo and behold, what does Bill Barr do at... was this some think tank that he was speaking at earlier this week? Other countries that do not want to put their economic fate in China's hands are not going to install Huawei's infrastructure. We have to have a market-ready alternative today You need a system that will allow you to seamlessly migrate your installed 4G base There have been some proposals that these concerns could be met by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and or Ericsson through American ownership of a controlling stake, either directly or through a consortium of private American and allied companies. The main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither Huawei's scale

19:14 nor the backing of a powerful country with large embedded markets like China. Putting our large market and financial muscle behind one or both of these firms would make it far more formidable competitor, and eliminate concerns over its staying power. We and our closest allies certainly need to be actively considering this approach. Pretty interesting words from the Attorney General, I mean... That makes no sense! Well the only thing i can read into it is hey finally we've got a chance to get rid of those pesky Huawei dudes here's what we do uh hey if you're interested in investing in Nokia or Ericsson We'll back ya, we'll put some money into your company No worries we need to have that

20:06 It seems like a very... He's right about that. Yeah, but it seems like the timing is kind of, ha-ha-ha, woo! Let's do it now. You know there used to be a story going around I heard this from at least two different sources that the whole Huawei and this also by the way was the way Sun Microsystems used to do business but not on such a sneaky way is that the Huawei spent most of their time doing due diligence on where Ericsson was going to sell product. Right and as soon as they did follow the sales guys around for all practical purposes and when the guys left, they'd go into the company say what did Ericsson bid? We'll do it for 10%. Yes yes well I just find it all very coincidental the timing of it

CHAPTER 07 / 52 Discussion

Middle East Virus Origins, Saudi Arabia and Ashkenazi DNA

A theory is discussed suggesting the coronavirus may have originated in the Middle East, specifically Jordan or Saudi Arabia, as a weapon targeting specific DNA markers. The conversation touches on the ACE2 marker being prevalent in both Asian and Ashkenazi populations. It is posited that China may have been analyzing a foreign bioweapon that leaked due to poor laboratory safety protocols.

saudi arabia· jordan· ashkenazi· dna· bioweapon· 23andme

20:57 obviously good for us in that regard. You know, we had the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Who said, well we have to produce stuff here if they shut down. I think something's coming! I really do that they're not opening anytime soon. Let's go back to analyzing the possibility now why first of all let's go back to the virus itself Now there's another rumor that showed up floated around about how it was like something developed or found Or discovered or something in the Middle East Yes at Jordan specifically now is it possible that

21:34 There this is not a was maybe a bioweapon but not developed by the Chinese because it makes zero sense to me here The Chinese would develop a bio weapon aimed at them if you recall The first one of the first times we were talking about it identified was the ACE 2 marker DNA marker, I don't know from using the right terms but AC to AC II and that is prevalent in Asian, so Han Chinese. I'm not a DNA specialist so i'm shooting from the hip but also apparently an Ashkenazi it's possible that it was initially some kind of either...I don't know about Jordan but I would say maybe Saudi Arabia or some other not friend of Israel who set up for them

22:24 Wow, that's a good... now we're getting there. Yeah! Do you need a little theramin for that? Yeah remember this is why I said everybody on the 23andMe DNA report has Askinazi You may want to be careful around coughing people It could hurt ya So Does it makes no sense to me that the Chinese are gonna develop a bio is maybe they had it and they were analyzing it, and there's just a sloppy operation. And one of the guys caught it walked around town for awhile at the market wherever he started get

23:00 out and then this other guy identified it and they cracked down on him as fast as they could because the government knew what they were doing. And they didn't want word getting out. Yes, yes possibly! That's the only reason you'd... why would you send to call the police on this poor whistleblower? The way they did unless you knew it was going on so they knew it was going on even though they acted like they didn't. Now now they got a problem because I don't think I don't know, maybe i'm wrong but it's...I can't imagine cordoning off 11 million people in the city of Wuhan and letting that and having that work for more than a week or two before people just start burning down the place. Apparently now they filled up community centers and sports halls with beds

CHAPTER 08 / 52 Discussion

World Health Organization, Misinformation and Zero Hedge Ban

The World Health Organization (WHO), led by Dr. Tedros, is criticized for its lack of transparency and its focus on battling "trolls and conspiracy theories" rather than the virus itself. The WHO reportedly contacted social media platforms to remove "disinformation," leading to the suspension of the Zero Hedge account on Twitter. The lack of clear communication from health officials is blamed for the rise of alternative theories.

who· tedros adhanom ghebreyesus· zero hedge· twitter· misinformation· censorship

23:52 And this is what I've understood from virologists. This is, if you don't have a vaccine pretty much the only thing you can do is put people together and wait for it to quote run its course so herd immunity starts to take hold and then it passes So yeah this also isn't really... You know there's nothing being reported! This is the problem because everyone's like Trump Trump Trump That's all that we hear here. So, you know I got to watch Sky and RT and Al Jazeera And and I tried to get a clip from the World Health Organization Press conference which literally they're like okay? I'm gonna do press conference on the website click the raise my hand button or press star 9 if you want ask a question and they had no statement it was just

24:42 questions you couldn't hear, then there's a bunch of people who you almost could not understand including the chief of this meeting. I will read to you from the BBC what they didn't even take a clip of it was so unclipable... What is his name? Dr. Tedros said, I would like to speak briefly about the importance of facts not fear people must have access to accurate information To protect themselves and others Misinformation he says at the World Health Organization We're not just battling the virus we're also battling the trolls and conspiracy theories that undermine our response

25:22 That's us. As a Guardian newspaper headline says today, misinformation on the coronavirus might be the most contagious thing about it! So exactly we really don't know anything and all the World Health Organization keeps saying is oh good job good job and also I'm so sorry I couldn't clip it just was inaudible They're the ones that contacted Facebook and Twitter and said, could you please remove stuff that is disinformation. That's how Zero Hedge got banned. The World Health Organization did that so this if you don't have any kind of information... And my goodness! How many times do we have to go through these epidemics pandemics before they figure out how to communicate?

CHAPTER 09 / 52 Discussion

Professor Jones Shanghai Report, Chinese Lockdown Measures

A detailed report from Professor Jones in Shanghai describes the strict lockdown measures across Chinese cities, including house-to-house temperature checks and travel passes allowing only one person per household to leave every three days. In Wenzhou, police reportedly used hammers to smash mahjong tables to prevent congregating. The report also notes that hospitals are using recycled antiviral drugs rather than high-dose vitamins or minerals.

shanghai· wenzhou· lockdown· travel pass· wechat· vitamin c

26:12 So yeah, this is what you get. You get conspiracy theories and questions... Can you imagine what the conspiracy theories must be like in the city of Wuhan itself? People must be freaking out! These poor people Yeah we got one of our producers is not in Wuhan. Professor Jones. Let me see where's he actually I think he's in Shanghai but he lives there A few notes about what's happening in some Chinese cities. House-to-house welfare checks I had a woman come to my apartment, he is in Shanghai, I had a woman come to my apartment complex walking door-to-door asking if people are sick or taking temperatures. I told her in Mandarin we do not have a problem and she smiled and went away In Wenzhou where I used to live... that's great isn't it?

26:59 In Wenzhou, where I used to live a metropolitan area of about 10 million people has only 1500 confirmed cases of coronavirus. But since February 3rd the entire city is on lockdown people not allowed to leave their house unless they have the pass The travel passes given per household one person is allowed to leave the house once every three days we repeat that From a whole household, one person is allowed to leave the house once every three days. So my friend can go to the grocery store on Monday but can't leave the house again until Thursday The only exception is if you're going to the hospital

27:38 Many cities do not allow more than two people to be in proximity. A group of about six men were playing mahjong, they were all wearing masks a cop came in smashed the tables with the hammer it was posted to WeChat undoubtedly some other person reported them as quote congregating this is a super snitch country I have no idea in which city it was, but there are a few in addition to Wuhan, Hangzhou and Wenzhou that have instituted a forced curfew and no association order. All schools have been closed since mid-January the last two weeks were part of the regular Chinese New Year holiday but kids will not go back to school until March 3rd at the earliest most of the expat teachers have left China before the holiday then another group left China in the last week of January

28:26 Subsequently, places like the Philippines Taiwan Australia have banned Chinese or people who are in China for the preceding two weeks. Just today Thailand is refusing entry to allow anyone from China. They're too busy killing people over there. Furthermore many of my work colleagues cannot return to Shanghai anytime soon because so many flights have been cancelled from the UK Korea Philippines etc I have access to a medical doctor in Wenzhou. He's from South Africa, he has conveyed that his hospital is not treating people with high doses of vitamin C They are not giving people vitamin D3 they're not giving selenium Oh now instead... oh they are not giving selenium chromium magnesium or zinc Instead the standard protocol is just recycled antiviral drugs Those drugs are simply an non-organic derivation of essential fatty acids like

29:17 This is a tough one for me. Phosphatiteclicline? Without the phosphorus, I don't know what that is. Read on! Lastly we can walk around the streets of Shanghai with impunity most people are going out even though most businesses are closed only things that open our big box stores grocery stores bakeries gas stations and hospitals the subway is running with literally no one on the train Shanghai All the tourist areas are closed, museums bars bookstores banking is large electronics no effect there. The funny thing is watching people jog with paper thin masks or even smoking with the mask on!

29:55 That is all for now. Dr Jones from Shanghai." So that's Shanghai! It's not even... It's a good report Yeah, it's a dynamite report We need another one of those reports Yeah we need as many as we can get That is a good report because he brought up a couple interesting points There is a sense that this Chinese specific aspect or Chinese targeted because anybody could get this but Chinese targeted is it's in the, it's underlying that entire report. Exactly People are sensing this or they know this or they already... It's got to be some partial truth to it because from almost day one we've seen you know there's actual meta-they look real! The publications of what's in it? They sure look pretty official I don't know

CHAPTER 10 / 52 Discussion

Idlib Syria Conflict, Russia and Turkey Military Tensions

The United Nations warns of a humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib, Syria, where over 500,000 people have been displaced. Tensions are rising between Russia and Turkey as they support opposing sides in the conflict, despite their cooperation on the TurkStream pipeline. Turkish President Erdogan and Russian President Putin are attempting to resolve differences following a deadly flare-up involving Turkish military personnel.

idlib· syria· turkey· russia· vladimir putin· recep tayyip erdogan

30:53 This story's gonna go on for at least two months. The question is what will happen? I think Wuhan also manufactures a substantial amount of pharmaceuticals, is that possible? Anything's possible! Right now I thought maybe we could get some shortages of things I mean, it's not just steel and iPhones. You know there is other stuff that comes out of... And 5G. Too much stuff! Yeah well this will be a good lesson for a lot of people and that's it. Everybody was Kung-Flu fighting There we are with our racist jingles as always. Somebody has got to do it

31:38 Well, onward to what's next on this. I got some crazy stuff. Well do you want a little review of this couple things? We've got some impeachment stuff we've got debates... I've got some serious stuff which needs to be discussed and nobody in the mainstream media is discussing it and you get it here and there from AJ. You want to do that first? Let's do some serious stuff. Yeah, I wanna get the serious stuff out of the way because we don't... nobody knows what's going on there all hells breaking loose yeah is this with the Russians are they involved with Turks is a crap going on between them well here let's listen just start with this one I got three clips mm-hmm I have one from uh here's one from Al Jazeera and this is the and this will happen in Idlib Syria mess Idlib AJ United Nations has long warned that the last

32:25 and most bloody chapter of Syria's brutal war could take place in Idlib. The Security Council have now been told that is happening. We are witnessing the humanitarian catastrophe that the Secretary General has warned of This is causing totally unacceptable human suffering and endangering international peace and security. The bombing and shelling have forced hundreds of thousands more people to move in the attempt to find safety We now estimate that 586,000 people have moved in the last two months

33:05 They are mostly children. This emergency meeting was called by the US, France and the UK I think the worst nightmare on Idlib has come to pass Her U.S counterpart ended her speech with these words... I want to close now by speaking directly to the Syrian people Yes these are dark days of that there can be no doubt but you're not alone and you're not forgotten But after nine years of war, no one could blame the people of Idlib for feeling abandoned and betrayed by the world. The Security Council has not protected them in fact one permanent member is directly militarily involved in the onslaught they're facing James Bay's Al Jazeera at the United Nations I'm looking at Idlib

34:00 Which is in a weird place, it's between Aleppo and Homs which kind of rules out the traditional pipeline routes. What is... oh okay here we go! How Russia and Turkey are eyeing new deals on Iblib and Libya? Okay! Yeah, Idlib and Libya. I think that maybe this is part of their Turkstream party. What's going on in Libya that those two guys are getting involved? Just look at them! These two gangsters they're involved in anything and everything they can get their hands on

CHAPTER 11 / 52 Discussion

Israeli Airstrikes, Syrian Air Defenses and Passenger Jet Near-Miss

A Syrian passenger jet carrying 172 people was forced to make an emergency landing at a Russian military base after nearly being hit by Syrian air defenses. The incident occurred while Syrian forces were responding to Israeli airstrikes near Damascus. The flight, operated by Cham Wings, was traveling from Tehran and narrowly avoided the same fate as the Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran a month prior.

israel· syria· damascus· cham wings· air defense· russia

34:38 Okay, the situation with over a half a million people displaced and mostly kids is just not acceptable. But it's not even played on democracy now these stories this is like completely ever since Trump somehow and I believe you have to give him some credit for this got us out of that mess yeah I think we still have people there but generally speaking I think we're out and the Turks have somehow taken over and they're fighting the Russians now. It's ridiculous! Let's play this second clip which is Syria mess, this is IR. Turkish President Erdogan said Turkey and Russia should resolve differences over the conflict in Syria Idlib without anger after a deadly flare-up in violence challenged the fragile cooperation between Moscow and Ankara

35:29 The two countries support opposing sides in Syria's nearly nine-year war. In a phone call on Tuesday, Putin and Erdogan highlighted the need to follow Russia Turkey agreements on Idlib that envisage increasing cooperation to neutralise extremists, the Kremlin said. Turkey's report on the same phone call said that Erdogan told Putin that Turkey will use its self defence rights in the event of another attack on Turkish military personnel in Syria At the United Nations on Tuesday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to hostilities to keep the situation from getting out of control. So the Russian Defense Ministry said that Turkish troops were hit because their failure to communicate with the Russian military?

36:16 It could be. Yeah, the thing is of course Turkey thinks they got NATO behind them and who knows what's gonna happen? If they call article 5 we're kind of obliged to go in and oh-oh-oh gasp fight the Russians on behalf of the Turks. That would be fun! And now the last one is this real screwball story which is again making things even more complicated this is the Syria mess with Israel involved So later in the week... Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong one This one. We're learning that Israeli airstrikes in Syria may have prompted local air defenses that almost shot down a passenger jet The plane was on its way from Tehran in Iran to the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday with 172 aboard It was forced to make an emergency landing at a Russian military base in Syria The Russian government announced the near miss only on Friday

37:15 Russia says the plane came under fire from Syrian air defences who were responding to the Israeli airstrikes. And it comes only a month after the Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down by Iran, killing everyone on board. Russia did not name the airline but flight data shows it was a Syrian Sharm Wings flight Sham was hit with US sanctions in 2016 for allegedly transporting pro-Assad fighters to Syria and sending weapons and equipment. Oh man, I don't even understand how can Turkey still remain in the NATO? Didn't they just didn't they buy all this Russian stuff and then by the s400 anti-aircraft missiles or Yeah, so meanwhile right there fighting Russia with Russia's gear. I mean This is a strangest situation It's not very good at all very very crazy Let me I'd like to see some real and analysis here And it's just like completely

38:14 It's hard to imagine it being under the radar after all this serious, serious stuff. But there is baffling how its bad? Well, it's not important if I mean not about Trump that's not my god man and I just there's nothing you can watch in America that is that or originates here even BBC America. It's all Trump Trump. Oh, it's so Such a disservice, such a disservice. I'd like to know more about this. This seems to be a little more than your typical proxy war. This seems to be something real that's going on and we don't want any part of it. It's like we don't even have to be involved in the rubble-ization continues! Isn't that great? Yeah, look at these guys they'll do it Who is gonna go and rebuild? Do we still get to go in and rebuild? When the rebuilding begins you can call on Bechtel

CHAPTER 12 / 52 Discussion

Australia Flooding, Rain Stick Karma and Sir Ned Knight

Sir Ned Knight of the Convict Broadcast reports that the drought-stricken areas around Sydney are now experiencing severe flooding and power outages. The hosts joke about the "power of the rain stick" being too effective and express sympathy for the situation. A quote attributed to Nietzsche regarding the cruelty of granted wishes is used to describe the transition from fires to floods.

australia· sydney· flooding· rain stick· nietzsche· karma

39:17 I've gotten several emails about the situation in Australia with the rain and here's an example. Sir Ned Knight of The Convict Broadcast says, I remember a while ago there was some discussion about how once the rain stick gets used on one location it stays there and the power of the rain stick can build up over time? I don't think we actually discussed anything like that but Then he says, so while we appreciate the efforts of the rain stick in stopping the fires around Sydney please use it somewhere else. It's been pissing down non-stop for three to four days everything is flooded I have no power please make it stop dear Sir Ned." I quote, I believe it may be Nietzsche

40:07 The gods are most cruel when they grant our wishes. And I wish i could change it, but no... We don't have a reverse rain stick. There isn't and you know... A drought stick! I'm sorry with and we maybe was those three extra shakes I gave when we did it now I won't do that ever again. Adam's fault. I thought Australia would be able to handle it you know tough down under Aussies this is a knife yeah No crying So, of course I have sympathy for what you're going through. I see the pictures too but at least you're not burning alive! So we do have a story on this Thailand shooting? I got a PBS thing on that with an ISO... Yeah this is

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Thailand Mass Shooting, Land Dispute and ISO Suggestion

An army sergeant in Thailand killed at least 20 people and injured 30 others in a mass shooting that began over a land dispute at a military base. The gunman moved to a shopping mall 150 miles northeast of Bangkok, posting updates to Facebook during the siege. The segment concludes with a technical "ISO" audio clip regarding backup systems.

thailand· bangkok· mass shooting· korat· facebook· iso

40:55 This is an unresolved story. A couple of things, wasn't there something last year that also happened in Thailand? There's some weird shootings that take place... Let's play this Thailand shooting and then I think you'll be amused by the ISO An army sergeant in Thailand killed at least 20 people and injured more than 30 others during a mass shooting today Police say the man killed another soldier and a woman over land dispute at a military base before driving to a shopping mall. He fired shots along the way and reportedly posted updates to his Facebook page People in the multi-story mall about 150 miles northeast of Bangkok were trapped for hours It was unclear how many were injured or killed at the mall Shortly before midnight police secured the building, more than 100 people were evacuated

41:44 The gunman reportedly had an assault rifle, but as of late today there was no word on whether he had been captured. Okay what was the ISO? Well here's the end of show ISO suggestion That's not very nice! That's not a happy ISO ending By the way, the ISO from the last show people have been saying oh can you please post it I really want to get to be able to say it right. I want to say it right. It's the backup and the backup and the backup and the backup... That's the one everybody loves. A backup and a backup to that backup, and a back up to the backup to the backup. That is what exactly what they did at uh...at the Iowa caucus or? A backup and a backup to that backup, and a backup to the backup to the backup. Son of a bitch bitch bitch son of a bitch bitch son of a bitch gun you thought I was gonna say as a son of a bitch didn't ya? Okay um

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Iowa Caucus Results, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg Tie

DNC Chair Tom Perez called for a recanvass of Iowa voting precincts as Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg remained virtually tied. Sanders declared victory based on a 6,000-vote lead in the popular vote, while Buttigieg maintained a slight lead in state delegate equivalents. The results were described by the New York Times as "riddled with inconsistencies."

iowa caucus· bernie sanders· pete buttigieg· tom perez· dnc· popular vote

42:40 So we do have a little update MSNBC went in full force as I as far as I understand the actual results Still have not been published. This is now What it's eight days or this was seven days almost a week later? They've they've not just not been published Can I play this clip because yes, you're right and III've come up with my own thesis on this This is the, play this clip. This is a hanky-panky in Iowa plus Sanders In election news Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez is calling for a recanvass of some of the voting precincts in Iowa as the latest caucus results show Senator Bernie Sanders and South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg virtually tied with 100% to the results now reported Sanders is still leading in the popular vote by thousands but Buttigieg maintains

43:33 tenth of a percentage point advantage in what's known as the state delegate equivalent race. But The New York Times is calling even these results into question, after its investigation found the results released by the Iowa Democratic Party were quote riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws unquote on Thursday Senator Sanders declared victory in Iowa this is Sanders responding to her reporters question when he had moved onto New Hampshire Mayor Pete's been declaring a win for days now. Why should people believe your victory speech over his?

44:10 Because I got 6,000 more votes. And from where I come when you get 6000 more votes that's generally regarded to be the winner. Latest polls show Senator Sanders is leading in New Hampshire where seven Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage for a debate tonight ahead of the Tuesday primary Yes exactly what we discussed is that The numbers for the actual, what we would call the popular vote were not even published. This was only about the delegate count and some have surmised and we may have even talked about it this would be a good scapegoat to get people all fired up about getting rid of those pesky electoral college mayors. I think that's an element but i think the real element being uncovered is if we look more and more at it once they came up with the app

45:04 Yeah, perhaps the app was honest and the app worked but because Iowa has been... The Iowa Democrats have been corrupt from the get-go. They're the ones who sidelined Bernie last time. Bernie was irked about what the results were and that's why Bernie put people in all the caucuses to really double check their work. It's possible the app had the right numbers and said, oh my God we can't have this because we want this guy to win or we want that guy to win. Or in the olden days Hillary or whoever else it was. It's possible that the Iowa caucus system was just bad and corrupt and the app proved

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Shadow Inc App Failure, NBC Technical Analysis

NBC News analysts examined the Iowa caucus app developed by Shadow Inc., finding that the coding was rushed and the deployment was poor. Precinct managers were reportedly forced to change phone settings to allow "unsafe" outside apps because the software was not officially sanctioned by the Google Play or Apple App stores. The failure is attributed to a lack of training and back-end data transfer issues.

shadow inc· iowa· app· nbc news· cyber security· android

45:45 Here's an MSNBC report on the app. This is from Thursday, so it was on the last show day so take that into account. Well it's incredible that after all the cyber security concerns and concerns about Russian interference in a threat of hacking The app has actually been leaked. We were able to get a copy of the app from one of the Iowa precinct managers and actually download it, I actually have a copy on this phone here downloaded in New York. Whoa! You're so amazing! And we sent it to analysts who found that coding was rushed, that there was some design and technical considerations

46:24 that were problematic and yet still this app was rushed into use. The biggest issue is... This is such a detailed report, isn't it? While the core functionality of the very kind of simple basic app looked to be okay there's an coding issue on the back end how that data was being transferred to the Iowa Democratic Party servers I mean this is the big NBC News organization they have so many resources They can't tell us anything other than well. Yeah, yeah was rushed It was rushed how do you know if a developer rush to put it together? You did you did you actually have the source code or are you just looking at like some API that it's talking to this is a very low grade report That's the key issue The other thing that we saw because we got

47:13 the email copies of the email chain sent from the developers Shadow Inc. and Iowa Democratic Party to these precinct chairs giving them multiple layers information, complicated instructions asking a lot of the precinct chairs to do on their phones on there Apple phones and their Android phones. And it just looks like a rushed job, and poor deployment. You can't forget that for all the consideration about cyber security issues election is a lot more than just cyber security we're talking about real people on the ground being asked to change settings in your phone go into their phone and change it to allow these outside apps that the phone was telling them what was not safe

47:54 You've got to do that groundwork to train people in advance and people are telling us that there just was not enough training. Okay, so I think we can discount everything from this guy's report except for two pieces One it was about what was happening on the back end which pretty much has once the app sends the data unless it never sent the data Then the shenanigans were on the back end And I think that the real on-the-ground trouble is an oversight and a stupid one at that that they probably did not have their predominantly Android app signed for the store, so you downloaded it not from the App Store or from the Google Play Store whatever it is. Downloaded from their server and your Android phone most people's phones not the typical No Agenda

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4chan Trolling Allegations, NBC News Reporting

NBC News reported that Trump supporters on the message board 4chan allegedly jammed the Iowa Democratic Party's phone lines to prevent caucus results from being reported. The report claims the phone number was leaked on the site at 10:00 PM on caucus night. The hosts criticize NBC for blaming 4chan for the systemic failure of the Democratic Party's infrastructure.

4chan· nbc news· iowa· trump supporters· phone jamming· trolling

48:43 dude named Ben Phone will say, ah you are you sure you want to give permission to this app that is not officially sanctioned by Google and people will freak out so I think that's probably true but i'm with you. This is bull crap and the fact that NBC pushed this out as their technical report almost matches the insane notion that the problems yeah the app was a problem but it was really Trump! So we have some brand new reporting we're scooping right here on NBC News about what went wrong in Iowa and why a hundred percent of those caucus results still are not in. Here's the deal, We're learning more about why the phone lines used to report results were flooded Monday night It wasn't just caucus organizers The Iowa Democratic Party tells us there were also a bunch of Trump supporters apparently calling in jamming things up with the Times... Calling in, jammed things up Great report Some hostile calls

49:41 So where might those supporters have gotten the idea or even the number itself? NBC is first to report this, apparently from one of the most extreme far-right message boards on the internet. One we've talked about a lot on this show called 4chan I think she's confused with 8chan being the really far extreme right but okay 4chan oh yeah that's where it is happening. There is reporting that Trump supporters on these 4chan sites were told to clog the lines basically what's up? Yeah, so there was these posts that came out at like 10 o'clock roughly on Monday night That said here's a phone number clog the lines just stay on these lines and it was the number It was the number for though. The people were supposed to be calling in to report caucus results That's exactly right And here's the deal like it's easy to blame fortune for this but 4chan is gonna 4chan right? Hey John 4Chan is gonna 4chan right

50:33 This is NBC News. It was the number for the people who were supposed to be calling in to report caucus results. That's exactly right and here's the deal, it's easy to blame... Also by the way I would like to say this is the only show in broadcast media today where you will not hear the phrase here's the deal or at the end of the day And except for in the clips, this guy is clearly a Biden man saying here's the deal or he has been... If you say here is the deal that only Biden says it constantly. That's a Bidenism! The number for people who are supposed to be calling in and report caucus results. That's exactly right and here's the deal like its easy to blame 4chan but 4chan is gonna 4chan right? They left a door open this was like a saloon door of bad

51:17 a saloon door of cyber security look Oh, I feel an end of the day coming. He's resembled like prank calls basically uh we're not sure if the idea started on 4chan but it was definitely there on Monday night there are posts to prove it and uh we backed that up with a lot of reporting And you said 4chan is gonna 4chan saying that 4chan is going to try to mess with something big on election night right? It's like saying the ocean is wet and you know you can swim in it

51:53 Oh, thanks. So now let's just push that out there. Let's get that going all 4chan Trump supporters 4chan is gonna mess with it with election night! Oh yeah? Let's get y'all primed up for that Shame on you NBC News shame on you But I think Pute actually set us up at this CNN town hall and told us that he really also thinks this popular vote, it's probably not so good. We have a responsibility to talk about what we believe in and to make the case for what we think is right when it's popular and when it's not. I know that some of my views on what we need to do as a country aren't popular

CHAPTER 17 / 52 Discussion

Electoral College Debate, Pete Buttigieg and Wyoming Representation

Pete Buttigieg expressed his support for abolishing the Electoral College during a CNN town hall, arguing that the candidate with the most votes should win. The discussion counters that the media supports this change to increase advertising revenue in high-population states like California and New York. The hosts defend the current system, noting that it prevents a small percentage of the population from being ignored by the federal government.

electoral college· pete buttigieg· wyoming· senate· democracy· advertising

52:34 Frankly, I'm showing a level of respect for New Hampshire voters' expectation of my honesty when I share with them the view that might not be popular around here. That I think that the electoral college has run its course and in the future we ought to pick our presidents in a way that makes sure that one who got most votes actually gets to be president but I say that because it's the right thing to do and I think everybody left right and center ought to come into public square making the case for what we think is right Okay, hold there's one other thing going on. This is this is gonna be the number one and the media It's gonna be behind it because they make more money I've written about this saying that the media will support getting rid of the Electoral College Because then the advertising makes more sense in states like California New York etc Yeah, so they got to make more money

53:27 But the thing is going to start to hear and I've started to hear it. I don't have any clips, I tried to find some my period gets in passing and then I try to clip but i don't get it but this goes something like this 18% of the public controls 51 percent of the Senate how's that Yeah, I've heard this. This is a good one and that's why Trump is still president! Mm-hmm yeah by the way it doesn't matter when Clinton was president you had the same situation and he got elected by the Electoral College all... That's bah! It's beside the point but 18% of the point what they're saying is that states like Wyoming have two senators

54:14 And they have very little population. Their population in Wyoming is less than the population of the Bay Area, yet they have two senators. It's not right. You say the same with Montana and some of these other sparsely populated states. They all have two senators because the country was set up that way for good reason—the same reason that the Electoral College was set up to keep criminals out of the White House And it worked. Yes, Hillary is not president! You're right! It's part of a larger issue which is I think pure elitism Michael Bloomberg this clip is from 2016 but its surfaced of course during this election cycle

CHAPTER 18 / 52 Discussion

Michael Bloomberg Oxford Speech, Intelligentsia and Social Issues

A 2016 clip of Michael Bloomberg at Oxford surfaced where he refers to himself and the audience as the "intelligentsia." Bloomberg discusses the "fundamental disconnect" between the elite and the general public on social issues like gender identity and bathroom policies. He suggests that nuanced social achievements are not understood by the "vast bulk of people" in places like the American Midwest.

michael bloomberg· oxford· intelligentsia· midwest· gender identity· prison

54:54 He was at Oxford and he was explaining some of the issues with this stupid American public, which he identifies by calling himself and the people in the room at Oxford the intelligentsia. If you think about it We, the intelligentsia people who could make it into this room we believe in a lot... Let's just let that settle in for a second. What is the actual definition of the intelligentsia? Well, it refers broadly I think to the more intelligent people that are highly educated

55:39 and have some control over the society. Here we go, the intelligentsia is a status class of educated people engaged in the complex mental labors that critique guide and lead in shaping the culture and politics of their society as A status-class the intelligentsia includes artists teachers academics writers and the literary. Yeah, John Legend! If you think about it we the intelligentsia people who could make it into this room We believe in a lot of things, in terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people. They're not opposed to you having some rights but there's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world I think it's fair to say that the rights of society comes first

56:41 And so, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the bathroom issue in the United States. Anybody know what I'm talking about? If you want to know is somebody a good salesman, give them the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in the locker room with their daughter. If you can sell that, you can sell anything. I mean they just look at you and say what on earth are you talking about? And you say well this person identifies his or her gender as different than what's on their birth certificate

57:19 And they said, what do you mean? You're either born this or you're born that. I will say in our prison system in New York City we have to have the policy when you walk in drop your trousers and go this way and then that way because you can't sit there and mix things in a jail. That's a practical case where you have to make a decision But it's so many things that we are nuanced and the social issues that we're very proud of achieving aren't believed by the vast bulk of people. I mean... What? Yeah! So he is defending the

58:04 Wow. But you see, the message is that people who can make it into this room, the intelligentsia at Oxford... We are enlightened enough to understand that we need to protect prisoners from being raped but not children I mean that's the comparison he made whether you believe it or not. It means like well in prison it's a different situation! At school? It's a school! And stupid people, they can't...they're not enlightened enough. They can't grasp it. They just can't! I mean that guy wants to be president? Can you imagine what he's the one with the..you know you shouldn't be drinking big sodas. He's a classic Nazi. I think that's a time stamp right there. That's opening of the show People are like oh finally they're gonna say something nasty about Trump good

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Democratic Debate, Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants

During a Democratic primary debate, candidates were asked if their government healthcare plans would cover undocumented immigrants, with nearly all raising their hands. Joe Biden argued that providing coverage is a humane necessity and claimed undocumented workers contribute to the lifespan of Social Security. The hosts criticize the policy, suggesting it would encourage global "medical tourism" to the United States.

joe biden· healthcare· undocumented immigrants· social security· democratic debate

58:59 He is a classic. That's another clip that I'm trying to promote, this is from the first debate. Let me see if I can find it quickly. First debate... This was the first debate where they NBC and everybody stop doing this after this first debate cuz this is I think the killer. And i have a photo which are put in the next newsletter of the first debate where they ask this question at everybody's hands goes up and then you start thinking about it logically realize its crazy but they keep they keep it up just really asked the question how many here think that undocumented aliens

59:42 should get free health care if we have a socialized system that you guys all want. Wait, one of them, Mary Ann and somebody else lifted their hands up then they all lifted their hands up everybody said yes! A lot of you are talking tonight about these government healthcare plans that you proposed in one form or another this is a show-off question and hold them up for a moment so people can see Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. Because our country is healthier when everybody is healthier. And remember, we're talking about something people are given a chance to buy into in the same way that there are undocumented immigrants in my community who pay sales taxes, they pay property taxes directly or indirectly this is not about a handout this is an insurance program

1:00:46 And we do ourselves no favors by having 11 million undocumented people in our country be unable to access health care. But of course the real problem is, we shouldn't have 11 million undocumented people with no pathway to citizenship! It makes no sense and the American people agree on what to do this is a crazy thing if leadership consists of forming a consensus around a divisive issue This White House has divided us around a consensus issue. The American people want a pathway to citizenship, they want protections for DREAMers we need to clean up the lawful immigration system like how my father immigrated to this country and as part of a compromise we can do whatever common sense measures are needed at the border but Washington can't deliver on something that the American people want what does that tell you about this system were living in? It tells you it needs profound structural reform Vice President Biden I believe said your health care plan would not

1:01:40 cover undocumented immigrants could you explain your position? I'm sorry beg your pardon. I believe with the show of hands you did not raise your hand, did you raise your hand? No i did So you said they would be covered under your plan, which is different than Obamacare. Can you explain that change? Yes. You cannot let as the mayor said, you cannot let people who are sick no matter where they come from, no matter what their status go uncovered and you can't do that. It's just going to be taken care of period. You have to it's a humane thing to do but here's the deal. The deal is He's right about three things. Number one, they in fact contribute to the well-being of the country but they also for example they've increased the lifespan of Social Security because their they have a job and are paying social security tax

1:02:28 Hold on a second. How do you contribute to the lifespan of Social Security if you're an undocumented worker with no social security number? Oh, please moving on from Joe. I mean these guys but here's the thing that always gets me and this is going to bite him in the ass there's all this hand raising they're all in on this luckily Klobuchar and Warren weren't in on this was where they had two parters And the problem is, is that okay so I've got some horrible disease and I can worm my way onto a flight to the United States as a travel visa. Yeah and I just check myself into a hospital here and gets paid for it what they're saying is that everybody from all over the world can come to the United States and get free medical care no matter how sick or how undocumented they are

CHAPTER 20 / 52 Discussion

Pete Buttigieg Biography, Rhodes Scholarship and Globalism

The biography of Pete Buttigieg is examined, highlighting his education at Harvard and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. The hosts discuss the history of the Rhodes Scholarship and its founder, Cecil Rhodes, linking the program to "one world government" ideologies. Other notable Rhodes Scholars mentioned include Bill Clinton, Rachel Maddow, and Cory Booker.

pete buttigieg· rhodes scholar· mckinsey· naval intelligence· rachel maddow· globalism

1:03:21 It's crazy to say that. I think it's worthwhile to read through Pete Buttigieg's bio once again, this is not really done he's always positioned as well just a mayor from a very small town in Indiana That's pretty much it. Now, the Keeper grew up partially in these parts and you know it's a good school Notre Dame but its okay It's not an Ivy League school But this is where... This is Poots' roots So from the Wikipedia He's a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University You know we're the intelligentsia assemble

1:04:04 attending the latter on a Rhodes scholarship. It's always a fun one 2007-2010 he worked as a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey this is well known 2009 to 17 served as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, as a lieutenant He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 for seven months then he also worked on the political campaigns of Joe Donnelly and John Kerry. He served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana as we know he still is So his dad was a 29-year tenured professor at Notre Dame and apparently quite the lover of Marxism so Pete is an elite

1:04:56 Yeah, he's a total elite and we should mention something to people out there who are looking for you know little things to check off the box. Rhodes Scholar... The Rhodes Scholarship it was developed by Cecil Rhodes who was responsible for Rhodesia which is this racist operation but nobody wants to mention that part of it and his whole thing in life was one world government Cecil Rhodes was a big promoter of one world government. If you get a Rhodes scholar, you are going to be inoculated brainwashed into every possible one world government scenario there is all Rhodes scholars are really anti-American One World Government people. Let's take a look at the list we'll do it in reverse order will start with the most recent one It's a long list I'm gonna go

1:05:51 Let's see who do we have here? Oh, that's not even Ronan Farrow It's a Rhodes Scholar. Well, let's see Pete Buttigieg is there okay I think Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar if i'm not... Yeah, I wonder how much inundation or indoctrination is what I've been looking for. Indoctrination that Clinton had because that's who was his stoner years. You know Rachel Maddow was also a Rhodes Scholar so she's an alumnus so she and Pete should have a lot in common. I didn't realize that she was one of them Bobby Jindal, Cory Booker we knew that Rhodes Scholar

1:06:31 Going down the list if I see any other interesting names. Well, I think just the fact that Rachel Maddow is what Susan Rice Graham? No, that's not a known name Naomi Wolf Yeah These are all people indoctrinated to the idea of one world government and they're all tend to be egalitarians in their approach This is the thing who came up earlier in this show and how do these well Why do we want to get rid of the electoral college and why do we have the caucuses the way they are? Egalitarianism, which is part of the Democrat ethos. You have their main thing as we talked about on this show before is egalitarianism and justice or equality injustice, the way they put it. And the Republicans are freedom and liberty.

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Egalitarianism vs Federalism, US Constitutional System

The hosts discuss the philosophical divide between egalitarianism, favored by the Democratic Party, and the federalist system established by the U.S. Constitution. They argue that the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy, and that the Electoral College is essential to maintaining the balance of power between states. The segment critiques the notion that the caucus system is "undemocratic" as a misunderstanding of the American system.

egalitarianism· federalism· constitution· sweden· democracy· republic

1:07:17 And so the egalitarian mindset is that everybody's equal to an extreme. This is what's hurting the people in Sweden right now, because every immigrant is exactly the same as a Swede. Exactly. So if you're egalitarian and your approach to things, you can't have an electoral college Because it has to be one man, one vote. And that's which is egalitarian. The American system is not set up as an egalitarian system. It's a federalist system and the reason for the electoral college again is because the states are the ones that are equal not the individuals in the country.

1:07:56 And so you do end up with 18% of the public controlling 51% of the Senate, but that's the way it was designed because egalitarianism is bad. Yeah historically we've seen that doesn't work out very well but if you wouldn't know it from listening to these candidates or the Democratic Party they're all against the popular vote I would there all against the electoral college they all want the popular vote and they keep referring to the United States Constitution yes And they keep referring to the United States as a democracy, and they're just routing around the system and really lying. It's really... I don't think it's good! We have a system if you want to change it that's fine but don't try to sneak in with lying about it and saying this is unfair. How many times have heard someone on CNN or MSNBC say that the caucus system is inherently undemocratic?

1:08:51 You know, that kind of ends there doesn't it? I mean what are you going to say to something like that. It's... Well it is! That's the point of it exactly. I can't wait to talk about the debate and maybe a little bit of the State of The Union fallout but first I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who put the C in constitutional scholar John C DeVorez Well in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry also in the morning all ships at sea boots on the ground feet in The air subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there in the morning to the trolls who have been They're all kind of like poor man America's over it's done no no no it's okay. We'll be fine Will we will the Republic will get through this as well?

CHAPTER 22 / 52 Discussion

No Agenda Stream, Overcast App and Marco Arment

The hosts discuss the Overcast podcast app and its developer, Marco Arment, praising its audio enhancement and smart speed features. They suggest Apple should acquire the app to improve its own podcasting platform. The segment also promotes the "Troll Room" at noagendastream.com and mentions the artwork for the current episode.

overcast· marco arment· apple· podcasting· troll room· audio enhancement

1:09:39 But if you want to commiserate with the trolls, go to The Troll Room. It's noagendastream.com. Let me do a quick head count and see what we got in the troll room today... Oh good one almost 1400. This is good hello all you trolls nice to see you there You can listen to this show live multiple shows live Darren O'Neill does the pre stream an hour before we start live on the show There's just every I think every day We have a live show that Wednesday night Nick the rat and in this podcast at run, and you can know basically discover But do it with trolls If you want to find podcasts, you might as well have trolls to help you. Noagendastream.com Also a big in the morning to Mountain J who I believe is female and I believe Mountain J is woman

1:10:25 Saw her pretty sure she posted on no agenda social.com and forgave me for Miss gendering misgendering her I brought us the artwork for episode 1214 it's an odd name for a woman you think that did You know, I would think twin peaks would be a better name Oh my goodness Dvorak stank chew airy was the title of the episode, of course how could it not be? And the art was... there wasn't a lot of good stuff we thought. Not stuff that really applied this was kind of both said yeah this is a good one and it was the blue red black kinda bumper stickers we have glitch that would be the Democrat donkey

1:11:11 Then we have the red Republican elephant. So that of course is Russian hacking and then no agenda with our little microphone It was just a good piece, and I've started using the overcast podcast app Man it I have to say and I want Apple to be successful They've really done a lot for podcasting but over they should buy the overcast out in my opinion That thing is so good It really has all the pieces you want in a podcast app, including quick updating of the art. In the podcast from Apple app sometimes it takes awhile. Yeah, you have to refresh and buy them

1:11:52 I think they should. Like Apple hasn't got any money. Yeah, but there's a lot of you know so well we invented you know not invented here We already have an app You know these companies like that will sometimes be reluctant to buy something that they already do but as well That's true But they have Marcos put it Marco the developer he also put in Something quite interesting He put in a sound enhancer Just recently and it's it is kind of most of those podcasts that have crappy sound. It does kind of make it more listenable

1:12:33 Yeah, and I'm doing there. Uh listen compression Um i'm a big fan of giving the listener all the control This is the part that a lot of people disagree on with me But I like it like fast forward you should be able to chop stuff up anything You want now that you that you're gonna miss beautiful things is up to you? but I like it I think That's true interactivity Is that you can mess around with whatever you received and that may be part of apples problem of not wanting to do everything Or they want to control everyone wants control anyway Apple traditionally is one that controls us with the Mac and the PC. Yeah, exactly All right Thank you people for show 12 for 15 Yes Let's do this Craig night in a north-to-south as our top donor with $500 Right John has night North South here And I am now the biggest believer in the no agenda karma As you remember three weeks ago You gave karma to my

CHAPTER 23 / 52 Discussion

Craig Knight Donation, Fast Enough Horse Racing Karma

Top donor Craig Knight of the North to South requests karma for his horse, "Fast Enough," which is running in the San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita. Knight also provides an update on his dog, Yuki, who is undergoing chemotherapy after successful foot surgery. The hosts grant karma for both the horse and the dog, noting the high level of competition in the upcoming race.

craig knight· fast enough· horse racing· santa anita· california cup· karma

1:13:31 to my horse fast enough, oh he's the horse guy. Wait wait do we need to listen to the winning horse race again? I don't think so and my dog Yuki pronounced Yuki My horse went on to win the California Cup Derby Oh i guess that maybe that was the California Derby Yes yes! That's the winning horse Well you know they used to have the California Derby here in at local fields that we have in the East Bay called Golden Gate Fields in Albany I can look down on the field where I am and Watch horse racing. Can you see the horses going around? No, can you with that with your with your scope? Can you see the numbers? Can you actually see which horse is running good? I probably could have not been interested Could you shoot a horse from where you are like take one out? Oh yeah definitely You could throw the race interesting okay now

1:14:29 So you watch all these races and then you watch the California Derby. And it's like, what is the difference? This is not even like the same race! These horses that are at this level... so if he won a California Derby The horses of that level are SO much faster than the average horses that run in all these races It's not even close! It's almost frightening to watch Well, he has a fast horse. Well it's the horse of course called fast enough so and that means that this is the level horse I can play they can plan to Kentucky Derby the Belmont there's all the big races oh I'm feeling I'm feeling triple crown with a big no agenda logo on this horses but that's what I'm feeling I'm all in on this now that would be great reminder we don't do karmas for sports games or anything like that but we felt this was okay

1:15:25 since Craig Knight North's the South. He owns the horse! I suppose if somebody owned a football team, you'd help them out? Yeah. Anyway he says his dog had bone cancer and had successful surgery to remove a bone in her foot instead of having to have her leg amputated. Good. She started chemo this last week and is doing great. Oh man that's a lot of money on a dog He says, needs my help again. Or my help your help? My horse fast enough is running tomorrow in the San Vincente stakes at Santa Anita has to take on the big boys this time including the two year. Okay, so this may not have been a California Cup may not be the California Derby, the 2 year old champion and

1:16:10 Bob Baffert monster inside baseball. I don't know what some kind of breeder I guess trainer or something Unfortunately, it won't even be able to watch the race Live as the night north to the south will be on a plane north to Alaska. I would appreciate the karma you can give Love the show is always Yuki would appreciate dogs are people too and F camp F Cancer Jingles, thanks. Craig Knight of the North to South. So what he doesn't mention is this part of the purse that he's donating here? Did we get a piece of the purse? I hope so! Alright first let's do some karma for fast enough for tomorrow You've got karma Alright now...for his doggy Dogs are people too!

CHAPTER 24 / 52 Discussion

Producer Donations, Title Changes and Cyber Meetup

A series of donations and title changes are processed, including Sir Chuck Boyce Jr. of the Data and the Baron of Silicon Valley. A cyber meetup is promoted for the RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 23rd at the Marines Memorial Club. Another producer, Joel Tucker, requests house-building karma as he attempts to convert a school bus into a home.

chuck boyce· rsa conference· san francisco· karma· bus conversion· peerage

1:17:02 You've got karma with a goat twist for Yuki and thank you Boys sure sir hashtag blessed 333 from Yarmouth, Maine Thank you for your courage guy. Can I please request the title change? My current title is sir hash tag blessed and Is anonymous I have decided to go on Go the freelance dude named Ben route as a pants optional freelancer. I think it's time to drop the anonymous and change my title to search chuck boys sir at chuck voice of the data if you could play the twenty thirty,

1:17:48 I'm not Apple. Um, no, I'm not bullet on the pocket. I'm the apocalypse. I'm an apocalypse jingle that would rock Word Chuck Boyce word indeed so he will be sir at Chuck Boyce jr of the data Okay, you consider that done, sir? They I don't even remember that. Sadly, I do. This Fletcher man...I remember all these things! I was thinking about this last night that i am very good at retrieving clips but not all of yours because when you don't name them yourself it gets a little harder. Yeah sure does Sir JD is on the list Baron of Silicon Valley 32020

1:18:40 Hey, Buzzkill Crackpot. I am Little Valley for Valley Health supporting the best podcast in the universe from the Baron of Silicon Valley here's three hundos and a bit to help keep 2020 going three requests answer three requests to go with it one some goat car what? Some goat karma, just goat scream getting into college karma for our human resource. Okay Dame Phynonymous who is getting ready to launch yourself into the world 2 please answer private email requests for connections that yeah he needs to be hooked up with Dame Ashton. It's done it's done the connection was made yesterday yes everyone's connected it's done it's done! You're asking for something we already did

1:19:21 Running out of time to meet up, promote your site. You know Sir Mark is an MBE member of the British Empire and it's always fun you know like I forwarded to Astrid and she forwarded it to Mark and then Mark replied to Sir JD with me on it It was like...you know I'm asking these world-renowned architects members of the British Empire to go hang out With all of our wonderful barons and knights. It's just it's a cool dichotomy then actual member of the British Empire is with our peerage Well, they're also in our periods to them. Yeah, of course they are yes there no man that way up there their way I count

1:20:00 Anyway, promote the cyber meetup during RSA conference in San Francisco on Sunday February 23rd at 333 p.m At Chesty's bar and the Marines Memorial Club. Oh, okay details on no agenda meetups Keep up the great work sir JD Baron of Saigon Valley from the future Konichiwa konichiwa konichiwa Yeah, let us know how your hook-up went with Sir Mark and Dame Astrid. Anonymous in Boulevard, Texas 23456 thank you for the Thank You guardians of reality no thank you anonymous from Boulvardie Joel Tucker in Largo Florida

1:20:54 222.22 in the morning, too many things have happened happening in my favor and I was wondering why I've been having such a good fortune? It finally occurred to me that it was the karma sent by way from the last donation and to be honest I think it came back to me 3x! In my own attempt at living an OTG lifestyle I'm trying to convert a school bus into my new home. Classic look Yeah, there you go. This week I'm undertaking the project of raising the roof to the bus and I would like to request some house-building karma. Thank you for this great comment content that leaves me wondering every Tuesday

CHAPTER 25 / 52 Discussion

Brian Tucker Knighting, Adam Curry Joe Rogan Appearance

Brian Tucker is knighted as "Sir Brian the Slow and Steady" after reaching the donation threshold through monthly contributions since 2009. Adam Curry announces his upcoming appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) scheduled for March 3rd, which coincides with Super Tuesday. The segment includes birthday wishes and "F Cancer" jingles for family friends.

brian tucker· joe rogan· jre· knighting· super tuesday· h1n1

1:21:38 Is it one of those Thursdays yet? Okay, nice. I wonder where the show is... I hope I sent this email to the right spot yes you did If you're new to the program and hearing this for the first time these donation segments it's okay if you feel nauseous just look at the ground the spinning will go away It takes a little bit to get used all the things we're talking about House building karma for you sir You've got karma Onward to Brian Tucker coming in with $211.11 from Kitchener, Ontario Canada In the morning John Adams self-proclaimed douchebag Brian from the December 3rd 2019 Kitchener Ontario Candianavia no agenda meet up here

1:22:21 I had a great time at the meetup. It was like a party! Please de-douche me." You've been de-douched. Before attending the meet up, I did some rough calculations to figure out how much I had donated to the BITU and realized that it was very close with knighthood. I started listening to No Agenda at some point in 2009. I don't remember exactly when it was in the middle of the H1N1 swine flu hysteria. I started on the 11-11 monthly donation in mid 2012 with my January 2020 monthly, and finally reached knighthood entirely on 11-11 donations LGY! Uh...I was also skeptical about the M5M bullcrap in your level headed analysis and humor are much needed voices of reason amongst the media overreactions please knight me a Sir Baron to slow and steady night is he on the list? Sir Brian

1:23:16 Sir Brian, sorry what I say sir Baron. In addition to the knighting and producership it's also my 47th birthday on Tuesday February 11th hence the 211 producer donation 211 birthday date smashed into my regular 1111 which would be actually 2, 22, 11. But that's okay! Let's add me to the birthday list. Jingle requests I would like an F cancer for Abigail the seven-year old daughter of family friends also please send along a karma great goat variety for myself and the entire NOAA Gender Community thank you for your courage and passion in helping

1:23:54 to keep amygdalas healthy. I'm looking forward to Adam's upcoming appearance on JRE! Thanks, Brian Tucker aka Sir Baron. Brian is slow and steady, not unless you say Baron. Thank you very much and yes the appearance is booked March 3rd Tuesday March 3rd Is that Super Tuesday? Is it? I don't know. It might just work super. It will be now, it will be now. I'll be on Joe Rogan experience is right very excited about it. You've got karma that's for Abigail. Sir Jay the medical examiner $202 and two cents

CHAPTER 26 / 52 Discussion

Producer Credits, Value for Value System and Karma

The hosts thank various producers for their contributions, including Dr. Jay the Medical Examiner and Jenna Damico. A mysterious $200 check with the code "Red 331" is acknowledged. The segment emphasizes the "Value for Value" model and encourages listeners to list their executive producer credits on professional resumes and LinkedIn profiles.

value for value· karma· nancy jobs· hillary clinton· red 331· peerage

1:24:40 ITM John and Adam, first of all sorry for the Don Quixote 3 volume note. I have listened for too long to not have contributed before so please de-douche me! You've been de-douched. I signed up for a monthly donation so my douche bag does not fill up as fast. The The magic numbers last Sunday worked. And after a long hunting season with no luck, I got a buck! After having... That's hmmm. After having said you know I always like to find some local hunters that because you can't really eat all the meat and I don't mind having a couple of steaks. Now after having such good fortune in listening to the show on my drive home from Alabama, I knew it had to be in some way related to the date. I would like to call out

1:25:32 Call out my best friend Jojo Kokomo, who hit me in the mouth as a douchebag. I can also please give him some Nancy Jobs karma and some oral surgery boards karma for his wife. I would like to end with a Baron Shakalaka. Boomshakalaka. What are you with barons today? It's boom shakalaka! I don't know why i keep saying baron well you're saying baron a lot I'm seeing it. My eyeball is my, uh... Oh, now you're gonna be a victim? Because you have an eyeball problem? Yeah, the victim. No pity or heartless! With the blue shakalaka Hillary don't eat me that's true thanks for the infotainment Should be info-sane-ment but okay

1:26:24 It's not really infotainment. No, it's info-sane. Dr J the medical examiner Thank you, uh Dr.. Jay yes of course we have all that did he want to he wanted a was a Nancy jobs karma Okay here We go Eat me Hillary Clinton Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs Karma And next, 200 bucks from Bellingham Washington we have Jenna Baron. Demico, $200. ITM John and Adam Wright from upstate Washington here I'd like to use a donation to wish you very happy 34th birthday on 2-11 to my smoking hot boyfriend Sir Ryan the refiner he hit me in the mouth over five years ago and regular discussion of this show since then has helped us overcome the crazy people in our lives

1:27:23 in Washington State. Jobs, karma for all and keep on... choo-ching with the great analysis. Thanks, Jenna! You're welcome, Jenna and so happy that it works for families and for couples it's fantastic Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! All right this next one is a $200 donation and they came in as not this what Eric put here but actually twice So it just came in an envelope was a check no note. No nothing except it said read three three one red Three three one so I assume that means something to somebody it's some kind of code clearly yeah, yeah, it was Red 3-3 1 red 3-3 1 and no note know anything $200 Thank you very much red 3-3 1 red 3-3 1 okay? That's good. That's it. It's good. Oh, that's it

1:28:25 That's our producers and executive producers for show 1215. I want to thank each and every one of them for all their thoughts, and this really helps quite a bit. It does! Thank you it's always good to have support on a Sunday which is the second Thursday of our week and these credits that you now have are real credits you can use them anywhere creditor recognized we have associate executive producer for $200 and above, and up to $300 and above is the executive producer. Put it on your LinkedIn put on your resume... It always results in people asking questions which you can then of course answer any way you want!

1:29:01 They say, oh yeah those guys. Yeah he's gonna be on Joe Rogan you know? Say that! It sounds impressive I think and it helps the show which is part of our Value for Value system we'll be thanking more people in the second segment but of course we'd like you to support us for our next show which will be Thursday To participate in The Value For Value Network go to devorak.org slash n a And you know that you are officially part of the No Agenda Intelligentsia Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. I had one comment...I think you even mentioned it but now the president is saying everyone's saying

CHAPTER 27 / 52 Discussion

Government Incompetence, Democratic Debate Ratings and Doping

The hosts discuss the historical failure of government-run projects, citing the Obamacare website debacle as evidence that the state is unqualified to manage complex systems. They review the ratings for the ABC News Democratic debate, which drew nearly seven million viewers. A claim is made that Joe Biden appeared to be "doping" on stage using a nasal inhaler during the broadcast.

obamacare· healthcare· democratic debate· abc news· joe biden· ratings

1:30:00 Well, you know if the Democrats can't even tally up votes how can they run the economy? How can they run health care and we have such short memories. Can I remind everyone of the Obamacare website debacle How long was that thing delayed in launch? Months. Months and months, how much did it cost like six seven hundred million dollars? It wasn't just a website to be fair was connecting to legacy systems but that is exactly the debacle that is not exclusive to Democrats its when government gets into these things they have no business or they don't have the knowledge, the culture

1:30:46 And so instead of saying, oh you want these people to run their economy or healthcare? How about self-driving cars drones facial recognition. You want them to run that? That's the question I have not anything else keep it out they don't understand it and it's not just Democrats but government in general I think is not currently qualified to run these types of things Okay, you made your point but it's time for the debates. Uh... okay? No so the debates went on they were terrible It was a little lively at the beginning they got Biden apparently they doped him up enough that his eyeballs exploded At one point I think Stier was talking and Joe turns around has his back to the audience and snorts something

1:31:47 I missed this. Yeah, it's in a wide shot now you can't...it may have been a nasal stick whatever it was there was doping on the field! I'm telling you and he turns his back entirely and his hands are up to his nose so I don't know what he was snorting? Well the olden days in the 70s when The drug cocaine was a big deal because it got the cover, I think it was Man of the Year on Time Magazine. And probably the usage of it was less than it is today. There was an old trick of getting these they used to have this Vicks... Yeah, yeah, the Vick's they still have and those Vicks things are actually addictive by themselves! Yeah, little inhaler of some sort and people would load them up with powder. Yeah. And then they'd use that maybe that's what he had but we wouldn't surprise me

1:32:42 Well, but it was odd. It was just odd the whole thing was odd I got four clips that goes before one of them if you're interested in the ratings worse six Just under seven million people watched it was ABC so they always get a get more than anything else I'm actually surprised it was higher than I would have expected but I think that's also considering it's a Friday night That's the entire activated political audience in the United States. It's probably that all the people yelling on Twitter is probably them that watch this I think that's a good chance that you're, the real active politically active audience in the United States is about six seven million yeah not much more. I think that sounds right for all the noise it's a very small percentage of the country

CHAPTER 28 / 52 Discussion

Bernie Sanders Impeachment Rant, Tom Steyer and "Crook" Rhetoric

Bernie Sanders delivered a passionate speech regarding the precedent set by Donald Trump's impeachment acquittal, warning that future presidents will feel empowered to bypass Congress. Tom Steyer is also featured calling Trump a "crook" and "incompetent." The hosts describe the Democratic candidates as "depressives" who focus exclusively on negative aspects of American life.

bernie sanders· tom steyer· impeachment· donald trump· constitution· socialism

1:33:37 So let's do a few things here. You definitely had Bernie going on with it, he isn't- Here is Bernie's impeachment rant I thought was good. We sat for two weeks listening to the impeachment process and here is what I think the horror and the danger of what happened was not only the acquittal of Trump who in fact committed impeachable offenses and obstructed Congress It is the precedent that has set The precedent that it sets And what that precedent is about now is in the future. You're gonna have presidents who say Governor, you want highway money? You better support me or you're not gonna get it because I am the president. I can do anything I want! Hey Congress, if you wanna investigate me don't be ridiculous Who cares about the congress?! Who cares about the separation of powers!? WHO CARES ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PRESIDENT?!?! I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!! I HAVE ALL OF THE POWER!!!! I love that bit that he did there

1:34:42 By the way, presidents do that to the governors. They say hey you're ready to get any support from your state I'm not giving you any highway money they constantly do that crap Do you mean? Now i'll do it in a minute It's okay yes keep going I thought that was a good line and actually That should have been a possible ISO I didn't make it either Yeah You're right That's a good ISO Because I like my ISO so much I think Anyway, before we play this is another one that was good. But before we play the other ones I want to play just Bill Maher clip D he had Banyan on no, I saw it Yeah, man, it wasn't very good It was just banyan talking over him and then the audience booing him but let's this part I wanted to play before I played the next

1:35:32 debate clip. Your side the people who hear those words you don't think eventually it translates into action They see people on our side as less than worth. No absolutely not Wow how about literally Hitler Nazis am I missing something? It goes on and on of course Yeah, but the way Morris sees it no no his sides fine So let's listen to this debate Steyer doing his name-calling

1:36:11 But he's been, the Republicans have rolled over. They've had a sham trial they refuse to have witnesses they covered up the truth for the American people And it doesn't matter anymore that he's a crook, and he has always been a crook and always will be a crook. Right now what we have to do is beat him in November. We have to beat him because he is incompetent and bad for the American people. That's the case that we have to make now Is he a crook? I knew this two years ago! Is he going to be more of a crook now that he believes he can get away with anything Of course he is! OF COURSE!!!

1:36:48 Tone of hinge that guy. There was a lot of well what I saw, what I noticed is it started off kind of slow. If you start with Joe he always sets the pace and Joe was in third gear of a seven speed transmission and so it slowly starts getting up there and then I think it was probably Steyer who first poured the gas on And then everyone's like, oh maybe that's where we go. Maybe we kind of do a little Trump, little yelling and make it loud and then Bernie got louder and then everyone got a little bit louder except for my favorite of course Amy Klobuchar. I think it really missed the mark because all I heard except with for few exceptions was how shit everything is

CHAPTER 29 / 52 Discussion

Alexander Vindman Removal, Amy Klobuchar and Friday Night Massacre

The removal of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council is discussed as a potential basis for new articles of impeachment. During the debate, Amy Klobuchar defended Bernie Sanders' ability to work with Republicans, citing their joint efforts on pharmaceutical legislation. The media's framing of the Vindman removal as a "Friday Night Massacre" is highlighted as a setup for future political conflict.

alexander vindman· amy klobuchar· national security council· impeachment· pharmaceuticals· canada

1:37:42 Everything is shit. It's horrible, this is no good... I mean we are- These guys are depressives! I wake up and I'm part of the most racist system in the world in all of history And in fact, I'm responsible for it all of these things and I'm gonna die. I can won't be able to afford anything I'm gonna dive poverty hunger sickness There was not a almost a sparkling light not to be found amongst Anything that anyone said and it was this it was so repetitive Well, let's listen to this is the blazes clobber char and her bogus Oh by the way This is a

1:38:24 Well, no let's play the Biden to Klobuchar first and I want to play the other one because they have a follow-up to it. But here is the deal whomever the nominee is that President is going make up lies about he thinks he has free reign right now One of things that I think is really important we have to be authentic with the American people about what were gonna do and how are gonna do it And by the way Colonel Vindman got thrown out of the White House today walked out I think at the same time he should be putting a medal on Vindman not on Rush Limbaugh I think we should all stand and give Colonel Vindman a show of how much we supported him. Stand up and clap for Vindman! Get out there! This is who we are!

1:39:17 The Democratic Party's last presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders' track record in the Senate. I'm sure we were able to hear that question. Okay sure! Neither of you. The Democratic Party's last presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has criticized Senator Bernie Sanders' record in the Senate saying nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him he got nothing done. Senator Klobuchar you serve with Senator Sanders in the Senate is he going be able to get this support? Not if you like him, but is he going to be able to get the support that he needs from Republicans? I like Bernie just fine. We actually have worked together on a number of things, including pharmaceuticals. We actually had to vote late at night one time, Klobuchar-Sanders amendment... It was not to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries since in this great state of New Hampshire or like in Minnesota and Vermont we can see Canada from our porch

1:40:17 And we ended up getting I think 14 Republican votes and they might not have noticed what was happening late at night, but we got those. I'd like to say something about the Vindman part this is your next article of impeachment Lieutenant Vindman, Lt. Col. Vindman his brother who was a problem but they'll find out soon enough and Sonderman all you know Oh Friday night massacre this is the next articles of impeachment the media is already setting it up its wall-to-wall fallout whistleblowers retaliated against witnesses woo you watch this is the next article of impeachment it's coming

1:41:05 Well, it is definitely coming. And it's gonna be this! It's going to be abuse of power for firing these guys from the National Security Council. But you know, Vindman wasn't actually... didn't lose his job he just got back where he belonged. From the National Security Council? Removed from the National Security Council? Yeah well they've been trying to cut it down anyway You don't have to justify it to me. It's totally stupid The whole thing is dumb but that's what they're going to waste our time with next It's going to be about that and then everyone is going to want the brother to show up, the twin brother. But we can't have that because he is not really just a National Security Council guy He is a hedge fund guy with big fines for shady business dealings with Eastern Bloc countries So waste Meanwhile people in China are dying

CHAPTER 30 / 52 Discussion

Trump Mar-a-Lago Tax Comment, CBS News Reporting Accuracy

The hosts debunk a claim made by Amy Klobuchar that Donald Trump told friends at Mar-a-Lago they "just got a lot richer" after the 2017 tax bill. Analysis of the original CBS News report shows the statement was "reported" by an anonymous source and never verified. The segment also critiques the "Trump lie counter" maintained by mainstream media outlets for failing to update with new data.

donald trump· mar-a-lago· tax cuts· cbs news· fact check· lies

1:41:54 So I got this last clear, well, Syria. Let's go here's Klobuchar and then she makes this assertion which they did some research into taking on a president, if you want to talk about being tough enough to take him on. Taking on a president that literally went down to Mar-a-Lago after he signed that Republican tax bill and looked at all his friends and said you just got a lot richer That is exhibit A for those carpenters in Pennsylvania Did he do it? No there's no evidence of this This was

1:42:32 This was a big story about when that tax plan was put, I think ahead of a clip. That was one of them and it gets it in there to see what the tax plan clip tax cut bullshit 2017 play that he's also touting the passage of his tax cut legislation but it's what he reportedly told guests at his Florida club that is raising some eyebrows I predict that Santa will bring you building blocks. President Trump's night before Christmas was full of... What did he say there in that little snippet? nothing to do with you're gonna get richer. It was just a whipsaw and the report itself, he started over He says reportedly this was a CBS planted story Oh of course I will start it over I want to hear the report He's also touting the passage of his tax cut legislation but it is what he reportedly told guests at his Florida club that is raising some eyebrows Well I predict Santa will bring your building blocks

1:43:35 So they just threw that in there and you connect it in your brain so its almost as if you heard him say something but he said something else. He said Santa will be bringing building blocks, this is before Christmas Okay. President Trump's night before Christmas was full of good cheer in front of the cameras He and first lady Melania took calls from children to give updates on Santa Claus from Trump's luxury Florida resort Mar-a-Lago Take care of yourself, and Santa is going to treat you well! he also sent seasons greetings to members of the military stationed overseas Your families have been tremendous

1:44:13 Always underappreciated the military families. Let me guess the report doesn't actually include the line You're all gonna be you're all a bit richer now, I guess that's not in their report You're never gonna hear Trump say it and he denied saying it. It was just as all reportedly, it all came from a CBS story where this somebody said he said it who is supposedly at a table nearby and then I guess he told the reporter its bullcrap but that's okay we don't care you got the list of lies that Trump does but these aren't lies. Now that's interesting you bring that up because I went back to it

1:44:50 to get some new ones to talk about on the show. They have not reported any new lies, it's stuck at 1,624 lies... He's lying! ...January 20th and they're just- they're not updating it I'm very disappointed. He lies every day I wanted to read a new one for you, but it's all the same. Oh, I'm sorry 16241. Yeah, 16241 that now the last update was January 18th and that's it so well. So Amy is basically lying here You know? I was thinking about this because Amy had a couple of good bits She'd always point to herself when she wanted to say who could be a better president or who could be the one that can beat Trump

CHAPTER 31 / 52 Discussion

Amy Klobuchar Debate Performance, Chris Matthews Endorsement

MSNBC's Chris Matthews praised Amy Klobuchar's debate performance, stating she "seemed like a president." Klobuchar utilized a story about Franklin Delano Roosevelt to emphasize her empathy for the working class and distanced herself from "billionaires" and "newcomers" on stage. The hosts analyze her strategy of targeting the New Hampshire audience through a moderate, relatable persona.

amy klobuchar· chris matthews· msnbc· fdr· empathy· new hampshire

1:45:43 Yeah, if she actually came out and with a little more aggression and said look these guys are no good I'm the one that can beat Trump. These other these are all bunch of white old white men You know what except for Yang? And who knows what he doesn't he's doesn't even have any experience I am the one she should go on in bright and does not say she's well this Smartest went up there technically I think what connected with some voters and certainly some in the media, which i will play for you was this end of kind of her pitch

1:46:23 and she compared herself to FDR. There's an old story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when he died his body was put on a train and went up across America And there was a guy standing by those tracks along with so many Americans He had hi hat on his chest and he was sobbing A reporter said sir did you know the president? The guy says no I didn't know the president but he knew me me. He knew me, and I will tell you this there is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now and I would bring that to you if you have trouble

1:47:06 Stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent. I know you and i will fight for you if You have trouble deciding If you're gonna pay for your child care or your long-term care, I know you and I will fight for you If you have trouble figuring out if you're gonna fill your refrigerator Or fill your prescription drug. I know you and I will fight for you I do not have the biggest name up on this stage. I don't have the biggest bank account I'm not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people. I am asking you to join us at AmyKlobuchar.com. I am asking you to believe that someone who totally believes in America can win this because if you are tired of the extremes and our politics and the noise and nonsense, you have a home with me. Please New Hampshire, I would love your vote and I would love the vote of America. Thank You

1:47:58 So I think that was very good for the audience at hand. She totally distanced herself from the other people on the stage, I'm not the most famous one...I don't have the biggest bank account.. I'm not a newcomer with no experience F you Mayo Pete! But I feel YOU and you know who felt Amy? You know who really felt Amy?! Chris Matthews from MSNBC was all jitty about it. I thought Klobuchar was wonderful, I've never seen her this good! I think she showed in the last week audacity which you want to see from a politician is audacity Spontaneity don't have it on the damn script be somebody home with the lights on somebody who's there

1:48:46 a human being and that's how she came across tonight. She never raised her voice, she was confident, she looked I'm sorry it's weird to say this...she seemed like a president tonight. Woo! An endorsement from Chris Matthews who went unhinged by the way over Bernie. Unhinged you got to play this for you and in it totally solidifies theory that a lot of older people in politics, in the country in general and certainly in the media are still traumatized by the Cold War, by the Russians, by communism. You know how old is Chris Matthews? He's got to be in the mid-to late 70s

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Chris Matthews Socialism Rant, Bernie Sanders and Fidel Castro

Chris Matthews went on an "unhinged" rant against Bernie Sanders' socialism, expressing fear that a socialist victory could lead to "executions in Central Park" similar to the Cuban Revolution. Matthews questioned Sanders' past praise for Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union. The hosts suggest that older media figures remain deeply traumatized by Cold War-era communism.

chris matthews· bernie sanders· socialism· fidel castro· cold war· executions

1:49:32 So I think he says yeah, it's like 70. Yeah, but listen to what he does when it comes to Bernie. I have my own views of the word socialist and I'll be glad to tell them share them with you in private and they go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude towards Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War, there would've been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering okay? So i have a problem with people who took to the other side...I don't know who Bernie supports over these years! I don't know what he means by socialism One week it's Denmark We're gonna be like Denmark

1:50:12 Okay, that's harmless. That's basically a capitalist country with good social welfare programs. Denmark is harmless! It's pretty clearly in the Denmark category... Is he? Yeah Are you sure- how do you know did he tell you that? Well I mean that's what he says and it's what his agenda calls for right? He's not calling for any- Let's see let's figure that one out But we haven't seen a campaign yet where video of him praising the other version which is Castro has been used will be used We haven't seen how that plays out Of how Tandor- What effect that had has I love how the vasectomy boy there jumps in like, okay well you know it's not really the Cuban Revolution anymore shut up man we're gonna do something else. Okay boomer! But basically this was a pro-Trump rant Trump should take this to steal this and use that that was unhinged man It was funny Wow wow

CHAPTER 33 / 52 Discussion

Opportunity Zones, Tax Law and Modern Monetary Theory

A discussion on the 2017 tax law highlights the "Opportunity Zones" program, which allows investors to defer capital gains taxes by investing in underserved areas for ten years. The hosts argue that the law actually hurt some wealthy individuals by capping property tax deductions. They also touch on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), suggesting the government's ability to print money has kept the economy afloat despite massive debt.

opportunity zones· tax law· capital gains· austin· mmt· gentrification

1:51:24 I do have one clip i want to play because I played the switch back on that tax thing and the fact that Trump supposedly said something at Mar-a-Lago which is bullcrap. We have a, one of our producers is a major, major tax attorney and sometime back when this tax law was passed you talked read a note from him. And I can attest to this is that people who the upper classes that are going to supposedly getting the benefits of this tax relief got no benefits because they put a cap on on tax crossovers in other words property tax and all the rest of it. It had a limit, and many people who are especially the billionaire class they have tons of property that they would write off to taxes now they can't do that! They end up having to pay more. This is bullcrap. Yeah as the anonymous gay accountant yeah famous locally yes and in addition to that

1:52:21 And of course the jury is still out, we'll see. But one of the biggest tax cuts which is like a 10-year program is the opportunity zones and you know we've looked into that extensively how it works You have capital gains from... capital gains and if you invest it into opportunity zones then in ten years you can take it all out tax free So it's kind of a deferred tax advantage, but in the meantime it's supposed to put money to work in underserved areas for 10 years. Now the allocation of that I think is up to states and states can delegate that down so some of it will get used improperly but in Austin there are 50 or 60 opportunity zones and it's being built now will it ultimately

1:53:12 Help gentrify these now on a poorer neighborhoods probably but it was in effect a reinvestment into the country And you know no one ever defines it. It's all Apple did repatriate a lot of money So there were some good things going on there and as you can see what it didn't do is didn't really screw anybody In fact, if anything it proves their point that modern monetary theory kind of works. Print whatever you want! It doesn't make a difference everything keeps going up. You know see how long that goes on? Now I do have one more clip... yeah it works for awhile

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Yamiche Alcindor PBS Report, Undocumented Immigrant Crime Rates

Yamiche Alcindor of PBS NewsHour is criticized for claiming that "undocumented immigrants do not commit more crimes than American citizens." The hosts argue this is a logical fallacy because the act of being an undocumented immigrant is itself a crime. They discuss the shift in media lexicon from "illegal alien" to "undocumented immigrant" as a way to manipulate public perception.

yamiche alcindor· pbs newshour· undocumented immigrants· crime rates· fact check· lexicon

1:53:52 may work forever. Now that if you look at the money as something other than money, I got this clip because it had to go back and get this clip. This was after the Trump State of the Union speech and it was Yamiche Alcindor on PBS NewsHour. And she dropped this little ditty in there because he was talking about immigrants and it's a rewrite which I think it was always intended to be. Just listen to this Yamiche clip from PBS. And quick, Misha, you referred in your report what's been referred to as either misleading or inaccurate statements the president made during the State of the Union? That's right. The president has been someone who has not shied away from bending the truth if it

1:54:41 pursuits his political will and this speech was no different. He talked about a lot of different things that were misleading including the fact that immigrants were committing a lot of crimes study after Shetty shows that undocumented immigrants do not commit more crimes than American citizens I think that is wrong, I think- Fact check false? No no he was talking specifically Well, I don't know. You tell me what you were thinking while I set my mind straight. The thing that gets me is that this meme showed up a number of years ago right after Trump first came down the escalator and the meme was that immigrants don't commit as much crime

1:55:23 American citizens. Right, but that's not the same as illegal immigrants? Yes! That's the point. She said undocumented meaning illegal aliens who are committing a crime even by being here so there is no way that can be possible The meme was first immigrants and it was used to trick people into associating immigrants with undocumented immigrants or illegal aliens, which they took that term out of the lexicon because you can't say an illegal alien. No people can be illegal! And so you change it to undocumented immigrants

1:56:00 But then, so the idea was to make the association in your brain but never to really say the association just say immigrant. And she actually said it incorrectly here? She said it incorrectly because The association has been so finalized that she can get away with it. I never saw anybody correct her on this, it wasn't on the next day show there was no mea culpa No now thats the way they're gonna say it and its bull crap Its total bull crap and she should have been called out for it Yeah I didn't hear anybody say anything during this little interview I didn't see Judy correct her I think you made your point

CHAPTER 35 / 52 Discussion

Ed Z Texas Email, Trump-Hitler Comparisons

John C. Dvorak shares a targeted email from a sender named "Ed Z" in Texas who compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The email uses German phrases like "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer" to characterize Trump's rallies and rhetoric. The hosts dismiss the email as an example of an "amygdala close to rupturing" and note the lack of evidence for such extreme comparisons.

ed z· texas· hitler· propaganda· amygdala· spam

1:56:39 Yeah, I know. You could have put in a little rant thing at the end! Oh, I could have... damn it! Case in point you know when I set up my whole Linux environment and re-implemented all my filters there was one of course stuff that I changed or started new then if someone was in my bounce file which pretty much deletes the email sends replies saying no I'm still not reading your email you're deleted So this guy got back through Ed Z in Texas and he sends form letters because even the font is different. He sends it to everybody, but I just want to read it to you. Trump is not Hitler! But when an American president addressing those mass rallies signals that all honest journalists, all Mexican-Americans, all non-Christians, all Californians, and in fact all voters for the Democratic Party

1:57:35 are disloyal enemies of the state, he doesn't even have to spell it out nor use the words in the language of his own old relatives from the old country when he echoes the sentiments which those who hope for a new Hitler are waiting to hear. Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer! When I was small and my aunt from the old country told me to do everything I could to keep Hitler from gaining even one posthumous victory, I had no idea what she was talking about. I guess I had to be shown what moves you! Regards your pals Ed and all the free Texans." So that's a kind of shit that people take away from it. That's how far it goes

1:58:16 It's sad. That's an amygdala close to rupturing right there, very sad. Now this guy... so this is some guy that you've gotten spam from and you're trying to block him? It's not spam he targets me and I blocked him but then when I reset all my filters was rebuilding my mail it came through again with one of his notes I wanted to share it that's the kind of bullcrap that people actually believe Yeah, there's no evidence. There's no evidence of it now you already went to the state of the union stuff I wanted To go back to debate for one second Two strategies that I want us to keep, so a couple of strategies. Amy is clearly going for the uh i get you, I know you, you know me we are one yeah it's weak um well we know what Bernie's going for Pete? Uh I'm just not sure he is clearly an intelligence asset and he worked for intelligence He's very similar to Barack Obama in fact they caught a little bit

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Elizabeth Warren ADOS Pitch, Joe Biden Obama Card

Elizabeth Warren is noted for her appeal to the "American Descendants of Slavery" (ADOS) voting block, though the hosts claim her plans lack substance. Joe Biden is featured heavily leaning on his association with Barack Obama, defending the administration's record on climate change and gun control. Biden's strategy is seen as a desperate attempt to reclaim his status as the frontrunner.

elizabeth warren· ados· reparations· joe biden· barack obama· climate change

1:59:16 opening of Saturday Night Live last night where they had hashtag white Obama for Pete. I thought that was very funny. Elizabeth Warren, she understands that no one can win the Democrat vote without the ADOS bloc voting block the American descendants of slavery and but she's gonna pitch it you know I'm glad to stand on this stage with my fellow Democrats who talk about how important the black community is at least in election time here year after year after year, election after election. Democrats go to people in the black community and say boy we really care about these issues racism is terrible we all want to do something and then somehow the problem just seems to keep getting worse well I think it's time we have real concrete plans that are going to make a difference in people's lives

2:00:06 Yeah, which is totally empty because she doesn't have a plan. Steyer actually said reparations and then it was like cut off and moved on and like... Shut up you! But Bo Jiden He decided it was time. Endorsement or not, I'm going full on Obama-bama-bama-bama-bama! There's people right now facing what I faced and what we faced without any of the help that I had. We must move now. I'm against any Democrat who opposes, takes down Obamacare and then a Republican who wants to get rid of Obama. Let me turn to Senator Sanders... President Obama did a heck of job. To compare him with what this guy is doing is absolutely, I find, immoral

2:00:57 As the Vice President of the United States, I work with a man who in fact we worked very hard to see to it that we dealt with these issues in major way. I think you're so underestimated Barack Obama and Dean he's the first man to bring together the entire world 196 nations to commit deal with climate change. We increased that background check during the Obama-Biden administration I'm also the only guy that got assault weapons banned The president turned to me and said, Joe get our combat troops out of Iraq All right so he decided now's the time i don't care if he's not endorsing me I'm going to play off the Obama Biden... He pulled the Obama card Well but there was a moment and I think this was a pivotal moment

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Joe Biden Same-Sex Marriage, Obama Administration Policy Shifts

Joe Biden questions why current Democratic candidates are proposing policies that contradict the Obama-Biden administration's record. He points out that while the party now pushes for "Medicare for All" and ending deportations, Obama deported millions and focused on the Affordable Care Act. The hosts agree that Biden makes a valid point about the party's sudden shift away from Obama's legacy.

joe biden· barack obama· same-sex marriage· medicare for all· deportation· healthcare

2:01:43 for the voters, for the viewers at home, for Democrats, for the people on stage. He made a very good point and I think it kind of... It might have created some brain fry The politics of the past I think were not all that bad. I wrote the Violence Against Women Act, I managed a 900 billion dollar recovery act which in fact... I love his list of accomplishments! Recovery Act. Well done, Joe! Which in fact put millions and millions of dollars into his city before he came and helped save his city I was able to do it that I was able pass the chemical weapons ban arms control and i was the first major leader holding public office to call for same-sex marriage so you remember when he gave that interview and then we're supposed to be a big reveal that Obama is going to come out for same sex marriage? And Joe popped like

2:02:45 three days early and everybody was pissed. This is probably still one of the reasons Obama's not gonna give him any endorsement By the way, I think we caught a flub here let me go back to the beginning The politics of the past, I think were not all that bad. I wrote the Violence Against Women Act. I managed a $900 billion... Oh it is billion. I thought he said million-billion. All right back to the moment is coming. Arms control and I was the first major leader holding public office to call for same sex marriage so I don't know what about the past Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad? What happened? What is it that he wants in a way with we were just beginning

2:03:23 It was just the beginning of what will be the future, moving this country beyond where it is now in significant ways. And there's ways to do that and one of the ways to do that is to make sure you have someone who knows how to get things done and can lead the free world at the same time." This was to me a very good point if Barack Obama was so fantastic and everything was great Why not build upon what he did? Obamacare is not gone yet. It's not done, it has not been repealed... why NOT build upon that?! Everybody LOVED Obama! Everybody loved the- I'm sorry, the Biden-Obama administration. Everybody thought it was great

2:04:06 Why are we trying to do something completely different? That was never the plan under Obama, Biden-Obama. It was never the plan to do that. Why all these changes what happened what is wrong and I think he's making an excellent point if we all love Barack Obama so much in how he ran the country why is every policy completely in fact some cases the opposite of him The opposite! Obama deported millions of illegal immigrants. We're not going to stay on that Obama plan, no no we're gonna let them all back in. Obamacare was flawed and we wanted to improve? No no screw it let's just do Medicare for All What the hell happened that's Joe's question and I think a large part of his constituency

2:05:01 thinks the same. But it matters not because no impeachment, no Bo Jaiden he's dropped! No one cares about him He can't get above fourth place anymore It's over and done with I disagree of course Yeah but you'll agree with me that this why the Democrats are in fact want to implement policies counter to what the great Obama did is something that is just not discussed Is not recognized I'm totally agree with that and he makes a good point. Maybe he should have like started that point earlier. Well Pete of course... It's late in the game to dream that one up. Well, Pete Buttigieg had an answer.

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Pete Buttigieg ICE Contracts, Giant Oak Controversy

Democracy Now reported that Pete Buttigieg's campaign removed the name of Jacob Shapiro, former president of Giant Oak, from a fundraiser co-host list. Giant Oak has reportedly received $45 million in contracts from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The hosts discuss the controversy as an example of the "crooked" nature of political fundraising.

pete buttigieg· ice· giant oak· jacob shapiro· democracy now· fundraising

2:05:46 So those achievements were phenomenally important because they met the moment. But now we have to meet this moment and this moment is different, the next president is going to face challenges from global health security like what we're seeing coming out of China to cyber security and election security challenges that were barely thought of a few years ago. That's all we heard of a few years ago! What are you talking about Poot? Sigh up Pete get out of here I Have one little mayor Pete thing which is kind of funny. It's like a you know Democracy now is not a big fan of Pete yeah, this little story doesn't didn't go anywhere anywhere else but democracy now played it

2:06:35 In more election news, the Daily Beast reports earlier this week former Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign removed the name of the former head of a data company that contracts with ICE from the list of co-hosts of a Buttigieg fundraiser in Washington D.C., being contacted by the Daily Beast. Jacob Shapiro is the former president of Giant Oak, which was founded by a former high-level Customs and Border Protection official and has received nearly 45 million dollars in immigration and customs enforcement contracts over the past six years. Nah who cares? Move on people we're all crooked here move on don't focus on him don't give him any fodder what I thought would be helpful

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State of the Union History, Joe Wilson "You Lie" Incident

The hosts compare Donald Trump's "reality show" State of the Union to Barack Obama's 2009 address, where Congressman Joe Wilson famously shouted "You lie!" The media fallout at the time attributed the heckling to racial animosity. The discussion notes how political discourse has shifted, with both parties now engaging in open disrespect during presidential addresses.

state of the union· joe wilson· barack obama· nancy pelosi· racism· heckling

2:07:20 Because, you know this show changes our attitudes change. Trump basically broke everything which is fantastic I mean it invigorated my thinking as like oh it's something different going on there's a new way of doing politicking so the state of the union was rowdy It was unprecedented in the reality show moments, of course. Which is just great marketing he's a marketeer connecting personal stories to his outcomes taking responsibility for it taking credit for it and at the same time setting a trap like you can't criticize that because you're gonna criticize the lady with

2:08:05 the premature child who's still alive. You're gonna criticize the Tuskegee Airmen? You're going to criticize the guy from Redemption with his alcohol problem and came back and is now has a, is an upstanding member of society? No you're not gonna do that We had everybody dressed in or everybody Nancy squad dressed in white And all sudden they are all up and screaming House Bill 3! House Bill 3! So the rules have changed Let's go back to the President Obama State of the Union, which I think at the time we too thought it was inappropriate when this happened. And this is a little bit of the...I forget which Republican said, you lie! When it came to immigration in hindsight, I think the guy was right because it was about rights of undocumented workers

2:09:04 And also the media and the political fallout. So this would have been... I don't remember what year this, do you remember when the ULI thing was? What state of the union that was? It's a while ago. I'm thinking 2009. I'm thinking something like that as well just to show you how things have changed. It was early, early. This too is false! The reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally It was stunning to hear such a statement made on the floor of the House from the President of the United States this speaking.

2:09:49 that does not excuse a congressman's boorish behavior. Hopefully it can be sorted out without resorting to name-calling." How did we get to a point where it is okay to yell, you lie at the president while he is speaking the president not being welcome in American classrooms, to people casually wearing t-shirts with his image and Hitler and The Joker. This is awfully cavalier, awfully casual if not callous so Phil where does this come from and are we saying now that it's okay to openly criticize the president to get this anti-Obama movement fueled? Some people here sense racial overtones to the Wilson heckle. Showing disrespect to a black president is something that some South Carolinians, I think a minority can accept much better than if the President were not an African American. I don't know how you cannot

2:10:48 Say that this has a racial factor associated with it the very first President in the television age to be heckled The first president to suffer a heckling in that situation is the first black president an overwhelming portion of of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man. So, the more things change, the more they stay the same it's all of course immediately because he's black totally unbelievable that connection is made but okay

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Political Polarization, Social Media and Future Impeachments

The hosts predict that the cycle of "tit-for-tat" political warfare will continue, with the next Democratic president likely facing impeachment almost immediately. They attribute the decline in decorum to social media and a public that enjoys being "entertained" by political conflict. The segment concludes that honesty about this behavior is preferable to "holier than thou" posturing.

polarization· social media· impeachment· republicans· democrats· entertainment

2:11:26 Here's what here's what's going on This tit-for-tat will go on forever. So we had a Republican guy clearly a racist who you know and Implications of calling him Hitler and the Joker and all those memes were there it's the same thing We have longer memories than most because we got clips to back it up It was also at Bush now, of course it was but But because the Republicans started this one in particular, Republicans started with heckling the black man. Woo! This is not who we are! And so now we get that mayhem that we get about the Republican president and guaranteed the next Democrat president is going to be impeached on day three in office because the people who we elect are shitheels pretty much all of them

2:12:18 this is what goes on all the time. So anybody can be pretend to be holier than thou but you're not and we've changed too, we become much more accepting of this type of behavior and social media has a lot to do with it overall discourse how people communicate but let's not kid each other This it things have changed and me personally I like it. I like it when people are just honest It's for the benefit of those who enjoy being entertained all the time How can you argue any of that? It's so obvious, that's the correct way to view it! I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda Imagine all the people who could do that Oh yeah they'd be fab Yeah on no agenda

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Associate Executive Producer Credits, Melody Fugazotto Austin Visit

The hosts read the list of $50 and $100 donors, including Dame Melody Fugazotto, who recently visited Austin. They recount a dinner at the restaurant "Fix" and discuss Melody's background in the military and her involvement in the competitive Riverdance community. Other producers from the Netherlands, Canada, and various U.S. states are acknowledged for their support.

melody fugazotto· austin· fix· riverdance· saudi arabia· peerage

2:13:06 Yeah, as time flies. It does. So we have a few people to thank for our show 1215 is not a real long list but it's a good list starting with Sir Davey $133 and 33 cents He's got something in his note there you might want to look at it. Borislov Myronov, $128. John Carney and Alfreda Georgia one two three four five and he some jobs karma for a smoking hot wife will give you that right at the end Thomas Wilkinson in Ottawa Ontario Canada You got bored with the Democrat debates huh? I wonder why Kevin McLaughlin Earl of Luna in Locust North Carolina

2:13:50 8-008. Black Knight, Sir Lineman of the Net in Anna, Illinois 6969 he gets boosted to baronet. Very nice. He's on the list Russell Road 6789 He's got a birthday for someone? Sir Jeffrey Zellin and Oakland Michigan 6688 You've got an F cancer call out for a night you should probably do that right now At this very moment, yes.

2:14:40 In Lincoln, Nebraska 5663 another happy birthday shot. Also Ben's got a birthday lot of birthdays today. Yeah it's a big list Chris Roetiger wrote Rootger and me TTC Wyoming not New York 5510 we call it New York I think last time but it's not as in Wyoming Dame Adrienne in Calverton, New York 5510 another birthday shout out to my spoken husband on his 40th. John Fitzpatrick and Heber Springs 5317 John Davis another birthday 52 from Brentwood Tennessee

2:15:20 for birthday on the 7th. Sean DeSantis in Fort Pierce, Florida thank you for your courage $50 and 33 cents and the following people well nope sorry Dame Catherine The Patient uh fifty dollars and one cent got another birthday shout out to Bill Walsh Sir Saturday and now we have 50 dollar donors name and location if I have it Sir Robin of the Ultras Highlands in Utrecht Netherlands. Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, California. Hey Drew! Melody Fugazotto. Dame Melody Fugazotto. Yes we had a very nice dinner with her last night she was... Oh yes well let's talk about that we'll talk about it now okay um We took her to Fix you know f-i-x-e that's the that's actually where Tina and I had our first date back in the day. Oh they should have taken her to the Iron Bear

2:16:13 Have you been reading your Twit magazine again, Mr. Dvorak? Are you checking out those hunky boys again?" And she's studying at UT. She was not with Dame Isabella because she is getting ready for yet another dance competition there. We got a lot of inside info on the Riverdance community. Wow! There's a lot going on Not to be repeated on the show, but oh my gosh. This is very competitive And of course Sir Dave is the Earl he's still in Saudi Arabia And it was really nice. It was nice to have Dame Melody to ourselves, you know just to chat and she I mean she travels so much in their ex-military So they they kind of never stopped traveling like that's such a keep on moving everywhere live in different places Really good time so nice too to be able to host her here in Austin Well, she donated $50. She's located supposedly in Gladstone Missouri Yeah this week

2:17:14 Edward Mazurek in Memphis, Tennessee. Jonathan Meyer in Zinnia Ohio Tony Smith these are all $50 donors Tony Smith and Fort Worth Texas Larry Haye in Mooresville North Carolina Jason Gay and North Glen Colorado And that's a donation honor of my eyes open brother Aaron When is Adam's show with Rogan coming? We got that, that's March 3rd. Okay, alright. Where are his brothers at? Sir Kyle Meyer in Atlanta Georgia and Jeffrey Ziniman in South Euclid Ohio those are all our

2:17:52 Producers for show 1215 want to thank each and every one of them contributing to the show making it happen Yeah, thank you. And also people who come in under 50 to remain anonymous or for those Who are on some of our programs? You heard we have a night coming up I think in fact Brian Tucker 1111 a month and he started Well was it about 2009 yeah So we started 10 11 years ago. Yeah, but its value that we appreciate and clearly he's received some value in return so you could not be happier. Thank you all very much and please consider supporting us for our next program, will be pronouncicating that broadcast on Thursday to support us go to our very easy-to-remember website Dvorak dot org slash NA For those who request it Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! You've got

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Birthday Announcements, Title Changes and Sir Brian Knighting

The show concludes with a long list of birthday wishes for producers and their families. Two title changes are announced, and Brian Tucker is officially knighted as "Sir Brian the Slow and Steady." The hosts explain the process for receiving a No Agenda Knight ring and certificate, thanking the community for supporting the "Value for Value" network.

brian tucker· knighting· peerage· birthdays· value for value· rings

2:18:49 Karma It is the 9th of February 2020. Here's our list, we got a couple of belated birthdays John Davis says happy birthday to his daughter Captain Kim Ah yes I believe she's flying the B-52 now She celebrated on the 7th Russell Rhodes happy birthday to his son Vikram turned 10 yesterday and Dame Catherine DePation Happy Birthday to Bill Walsh Sir Saturday who also celebrated on Saturday. Coming up we've got Brian Tucker turns 47 on the 11th, Jenna Damico happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend Sir Ryan The Refiner Ben Klinger happy birthday to his brother Ram 33 years old today Aaron Myinsberg happy birthday to brother Kevin Myinsberg celebrating tomorrow and Dame Adrienne says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Joe he turns 40 years old Happy Birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe

2:19:50 To change We've got two title changes for today. We have our Black Knight becomes Baronet, Sir Lineman of the Net Raleigh Hawk and Sir Hashtag Blessed become Sir At Chuck Boyce Jr. Of The Data thanks to their continued contributions in another $1,000 dollars to the No Agenda Show to support our Value For Value Network Thank you very much. It is highly appreciated Only one nighting for today, but at least we have one we haven't had one in a few shows Yeah Oh, that's a good one We got our blades out from Brian Tucker Brian come on up to the podium here Brian thank you for supporting the no agenda show for the amount of $1,000 You become a member of the NOA agenda Knights and dames here at the roundtable And I am very proud to pronounce the case beat

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Norway Meetup Report, Moose Burgers and Spooks

A report from the first-ever No Agenda meetup in Norway describes a successful gathering where participants ate moose burgers and drank expensive beer. The organizer, Michael Bernstein, mentions spotting a "spook" who dressed like Pete Buttigieg. A special shout-out is given to Hans Peter for providing a tour of the city prior to the event.

norway· meetup· moose burgers· spooks· pete buttigieg· hans peter

2:21:44 Like a party! We do it we had number of meetups These meetups are sorry. Did we do the upgrades to some people's status? Yeah, the titles Oh missed that somehow I must have zoned out Dozed off for Dozed off for a moment yeah Thanks for checking and yet we did We have a meetup report from Norway. This was the first one, Michael Tinyhomes Mutualwin.com Bernstein John Adam happy to report that last night's first ever Norway No Agenda Meet-Up was a rousing success! In total we had five slaves that enjoyed moose burgers. Mmm. That sounds good actually. That sounds good. I'm going there next time. I'd love a moose burger. I would love a moose burger as well

2:22:38 Hmm. Mooseburger's expensive Norwegian beer and non-triggering Convo, while most likely spotting the spook... you know who you are! I believe the Norway team will make this a regular event and even though I saw the picture it was obvious. Anyone who looks like Mayor Pete probably is spooked Dress-wise. I believe the Norway team will make this a regular event and even though unfortunately, I will not be able to attend... ...I'll be donating $33 on behalf of their continued success one special shout out to Hans Peter Who picked me up hours before the event to show me this fantastic city. How incredibly no agenda awesome is that? And I allow the use of the word awesome because yes, that's exactly who we are We got your knights and dames in Tokyo taking care... It sounds corny but we are a family

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Middle East Meetup Reports, Ramallah and Toronto

Jesse Coy Nelson provides an audio report from a bar in Ramallah, Palestine, where he waited for potential No Agenda producers. Nelson has been traveling through the Middle East, including Beirut and Cairo, attempting to organize meetups. A brief, rowdy report from a Toronto meetup is also played, featuring several local producers.

ramallah· palestine· beirut· cairo· toronto· jesse coy nelson

2:23:29 We have some meetup reports that were sent in via audio. Jesse Coy Nelson, who has diligently been going around the Middle East trying to organize... well he's organized meetups and has been unsuccessful in Beirut was unsuccessful in where was he after that? Ramallah. Well here is his report from the Ramallah Meet-Up Hey, this is Jesse Coy Nelson here in Ramallah Palestine I feel like a bit of a stalker as I wait outside of the bar Barley's to see if anybody goes in. I'll give it another 20 minutes past the meetup time It was a long shot but I figured I'd give it a try

2:24:11 As far as Ramallah, it's very interesting. Very busy bustling place go along the main street you got lots of restaurants cafes lots of nightlife and people are just out and about and It's always interesting to go to a place what you hear about And you wonder what it's like and you go there and find out And it's very nice here. Okay? Think in a hundred and thirty different countries or something. He's not gonna stop and he will be in Cairo on Tuesday, and we'll be talking about that in a second in the overview meanwhile We had the Toronto meet up me AT report Hey, this is Bishop, but it's rope time so I'm out of here This is Michael having fun in Toronto

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Illinois and Connecticut Meetup Reports, Brandon the Only Black Guy

Meetup reports from Southern Illinois and Fairfield, Connecticut, are featured. In Illinois, producers enjoyed mac and cheese and celebrated a title change to Baronet. The Connecticut report features a producer named Brandon who jokingly complains about being the only black person at the meetup, along with various "douchebag" and "millennial" self-identifications.

illinois· connecticut· mac and cheese· jeffrey epstein· millennials· peerage

2:25:13 In the morning, this is Sir Dwight the Knight. I have nothing else to say... In the mornin', this is Sir Acid of the Candanavian Woods! There's always one guy at The Meetup that sounds like that if you notice that? Yeah! There's always one guy- That's a funny point yeah It's oh there's always one guy that sounds like this in the morning This is sir acid of the Candanavian woods from the Toronto meet up A half-hearted in the morning from everybody. We had the Shillinoisians meet up. This is Black Knight, Sir Lyman of the Net pretty soon to be Baronet of Southern Shilinoy that's how you say it we're here at St. Nicks and Du Quoin having our second annual or second meeting of the southern Shilinoyans and

2:26:02 Really enjoying our time here at St. Nick's really proud that I'm at the point where I get to be considered a baronet that Get my title change finally and so i'm gonna pass along a mic to the mic along to Kyle here Hi, I'm Kyle And uh...I'm a douchebag! I'm also a millennial and ironically I ordered mac & cheese tonight Yeah! Yes! Uh..i'm Steven DeCoin and I too am a douche bag and it's like a party Hi, I'm Faith. I am married to Steve! And this is my first meetup. Hi, I'm Michelle and this is my first me up as well This is Joey Hawkins or Joseph Hawkins again with the southern shill annoyance and all end with a shut-up slave Yeah, we're enjoying the mac and cheese here tonight at st.. Nixon DuCoin, Illinois Once again from the Southern Shill annoyance All right, Sheila noyans Dame Jamie

2:27:00 In Connecticut, hosted a meetup. I had to...I don't know if they recorded this on a One of those memo recorders, or it was all kind of like all nasal high-end. So we'll see how well this comes through. Come on everybody! It's Brandon once again the only black person here Step up chip in goddammit Apparently Brandon goes to a lot of meetups and complains he is the only black guy at the meetup which I think is great Come on everybody! It's Brandon once again the only black person here Step up chip in goddammit This is douchebag Zach from Stratford Connecticut Military industrial complex here we come. My fiance threw me off by not going. It's SOS in the morning and happy to be at a meetup in Fairfield where just moved to, nice place to move too In the morning Sir John aka Red Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself Hey it's Matt the McCarthy

2:27:53 Millennial. John knows a lot more about beer than I do. It's Jordan Barron of Pearl Harbor in the morning Sir Matt Hatter from the broke state of Connecticut, I am not having sexual relations with a Democratic candidate. And this is Dame Jamie! I've had a kid on my tit! Rowdy bunch there in Connecticut. Rowdy bunch! So as I said, we've got the Club 33 in Cairo on deck for Tuesday. I hope someone's in Cairo to have Jesse Koynelson so nice that he's doing this but at least we'll have left our stank on all these different places We can always say there was a No Agenda meetup is just very small Wednesday no agenda local one and Plymouth Michigan Friday and most marvelous Middle Eastern Meet up in Manama

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Upcoming Meetups, Bahrain and Florida Delray Beach

The hosts announce several upcoming meetups, including the first-ever gathering in Manama, Bahrain, at the Sherlock Holmes pub. Other events are scheduled for Stockholm, Minneapolis, and a Florida meetup in Delray Beach on February 21st. The noagendameetups.com website is praised for its infrastructure and community value.

bahrain· manama· delray beach· florida· minneapolis· stockholm

2:28:46 And that is Bahrain. And that is, oh this is D'Ser Dave Fugazotto Earl of America's heartland in Saudi Arabia This will be the first ever Manama-Bahrain meetup at the Sherlock Holmes pub in the Gulf Hotel This coming Friday, Stockholm the NOA Agenda meet up there. Look for the organizer in the NOA Agenda Space Force T-shirt looking extremely American at O'Connell's Irish Pub in Gamalastan that will be Michael hosting for you and next Sunday the Minneapolis warmup at five o'clock The Venn Brewery Taproom in South Minneapolis Dr. Hammer is your organizer I have a note here okay

2:29:28 I believe we were going to a night our meetup. Meet up no agenda, meetups dot com admin? Yeah. Did we check on that do we have a night name for him? Daniel? I don't know. I know it's Daniel but I mean what he a night name. I know his name but the nightmare was supposed to be a surprise maybe Well, I'm sure he's surprised now. Hey Daniel, how you doing? Daniel let us know what your night name is gonna be because it's well-deserved noagendameetups.com is providing tremendous value not so much for the monetary for the show but For the show! For the producers of the show It kicks ass over any other infrastructure that we've tried that was commercial like meetups.com

2:30:13 Uh-uh, noagendameetups.com perfectly suited for us is where you can find a meetup near you at the time near you and if there isn't one all we have to do is start one put it on the calendar yourself and The Keeper and I will be in Florida Delray Beach Meet up on the 21st of February see ya there! Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days There we go. So I have three clips left that i want to play for sure okay um

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Boeing Starliner Software Glitches, SpaceX Competition

NASA is investigating Boeing's Starliner project after a second software glitch was discovered that could have caused a "catastrophic failure" during re-entry. While SpaceX continues its parallel project, the U.S. remains dependent on Russian engines and vehicles to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. The competition between Boeing and SpaceX is described as "heating up" despite these technical setbacks.

boeing· starliner· spacex· nasa· software glitch· russia

2:31:06 One of them is, I think... oh well let's just play this again. This is kind of an odd clip. This is talking about this PBS report on the Starliner or so with starlighters like there's idea of the independent launches into space by Boeing and SpaceX whatever they're called And apparently the Boeing stuff is again, they're having all kinds of software issues and here's a report. So later in the week we also had kind of an update to some of the things that people were figuring out about the Starliner project what was happening? Right now there are two companies that are creating these new vehicles to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station and they're getting really close to actually putting people on those vehicles

2:31:49 But before they do that, they have to do these uncrewed flight tests. And Boeing did its uncrewed flight test in December and it didn't really go according to plan at the time a software glitch prevented the capsule from getting into the right orbit so it didn't actually go to the International Space Station like it's supposed to but now we're learning that there was actually a second software glitch That was corrected at the time, but if it hadn't been corrected it could have been a catastrophic failure for the spacecraft and it could have maybe been destroyed when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. We don't know because fortunately they fixed it but it is kind of highlighting that Boeing has having these coding problems and NASA is really doing a deep investigation into that

2:32:38 As the Starliner project is happening, you also have the SpaceX project that's kind of working in parallel and that is planning on putting people into orbit. Right so initially when they chose these two providers it was supposed to spark competition and man since then that competition has really heated up they definitely are constantly going back-and-forth with one another and trying to prove and beat out the other provider Beating out the other provider. Thank you, provider. That was kind of interesting this is going on we're still sending our guys to the space station thanks to Russia! Their engines yep We don't have them. Well their engines and then there are vehicles too I mean would they do we have to go to Russia? Yeah Our astronaut goes to Russian gets on a Russian product and shoots it up They shoot it up and there you go. I found this in interesting clip This is the Trump comment clip

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Johnson Amendment, Executive Order and Church Politics

Donald Trump claims to have "gotten rid of" the Johnson Amendment via executive order, allowing pastors to speak politically from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status. The hosts discuss the history of the amendment, which was intended to prevent government-subsidized religious organizations from engaging in partisan politics. They predict this will lead to fundamentalist preachers openly campaigning for Trump in the 2020 election.

johnson amendment· donald trump· 501c3· churches· executive order· atheism

2:33:34 It's just something he's given some talk to, he was like giving talks all the time. He said this little ditty in here and I kind of looked into it but it did catch me off guard. In the coming months my administration will hold summits just like this one in cities across the country working closely with community leaders workers entrepreneurs employers and faith leaders our great faith leaders so many great people I've met You know, we got rid of the Johnson Amendment so they can speak their will. Okay John do tell us about the Johnson Amendment. Well apparently this was put in place I think in the 50s and it had to do with 501c3's and how they can, they can't come out for... And I think it also has to do with churches because that's what he specifically referring to where if you're a church and you're a pastor You can't go in front of your congregation and say vote for Trump

2:34:33 We've known about this for a while and Trump decided with an executive order to just kill this thing. Really? Yeah, I thought it's like has not been talked about, is underreported the media is flat-footed again they don't know what the hell they're doing... I'd say they want to report on that as something horrific! You think?! Horrific! Now wait a minute that's not true Wasn't it before the impeachment? I recall there was a brief moment of reporting. Ah, can't remember... It certainly was on the radar just briefly and dropped right off

2:35:12 But yeah, to have short... I think the complaint went something like this. Well you know you can't not be paying taxes and have the government subsidize your church if it's all going to be political then it's emoluments clause! That was the original thinking behind it in Johnson Amendment just like you're getting a tax break and now we can mix government with religion and somehow that logic was... Fair point! You know, if you're going to get tax breaks there's certain things... Okay. If you're gonna have a tax-free organization your speech will be controlled that's why we never went that route for this very reason! And you don't want the government telling you what you can and can't do

2:35:58 Well, that's gone by the wayside I think and unless it gets challenged. That means the next president can turn around because the next to 2010 election you're gonna have a lot of fundamentalist preachers evangelists preachers telling people to vote for Trump Because you know they're gonna do that especially if Bernie runs cuz he's a socialist religion He said atheists should put a stop you want to vote for an atheist You know, so this is like a little thing that nobody you know. This should be a scandal to me if I was a Democrat but they're too stupid. Vindman! Vindman! Vindman! Vindman! Vindman! Vindman! Lieutenant Colonel please in fact i think Biden should have been called out for not calling him lieutenant colonel yes i think there was a big issue

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El Paso Shooting Report, "White Man" Descriptor and Hate Crimes

A Democracy Now report on the El Paso Walmart shooting is critiqued for its use of the phrase "the white man" to describe the suspect. The suspect was charged with federal hate crimes for targeting Latinos in a racially motivated massacre. The hosts compare the "white man" descriptor to the "Florida Man" meme and question the consistency of racial labeling in criminal reporting.

el paso· walmart· hate crimes· democracy now· racism· florida man

2:36:51 So now this is a report, this may set a new trend that I don't. This is a classic democracy now kind of let's add a new element to the way we report stories and this is the report on the old El Paso shooting apparently they've found the guy guilty or whatever but it the way it was reported to me introduces some real problems. I'm looking for the clip John which one? Oh sorry it says report on old El Paso shooting. In El Paso, Texas the white man suspected of killing 22 people in an El Paso... Gotta love that's that white man report! That's exactly what this is you can't how do you get away with saying the white man?

2:37:37 Well, it's kind of you're going to say the black man the Puerto Rican that Mexican. You're gonna start using that all the time as an adjective in front of whoever is doing stuff I mean if you started doing that you've got a good down the road to perdition but let's play it again. I think that uh The white man is the new Florida Man You know, like instead of a Florida man just start over. Just replace search and replace a Florida man with a white man in El Paso Texas the white men suspected of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart last August has been charged with federal hate crimes The alleged killer is accused of targeting Latinos in racially motivated massacre moments before the August 3rd shooting The shooter published an online manifesto echoing President Trump's rhetoric about an invasion of immigrants

2:38:25 Oh boy. Well, if you're going to... I really paid attention to this white man thing. Yeah. If you want- You do that with all black criminals or did somebody rob a bank? The ...I just don't see it. I mean, I don't see this as a good thing. Okay well, to be fair in context of the report which claims it was racially motivated against brown people Although they said Latinos should have said brown people. To be honest, that would be the style guide If you're gonna say a white man, you gotta say he shot brown people That would be fair But I think... But in the context it was racially motivated

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Austin Bridge Fire, Underground Homeless Catacombs

A massive fire broke out under a highway bridge in Austin, Texas, revealing an extensive system of underground homes spanning three football fields. The camp included couches, TVs, bunk beds, and furnaces carved into the earth. Firefighters and Hazmat teams struggled to access the site due to the density of debris and thousands of discarded needles.

austin· texas· homeless· fire· catacombs· hazmat

2:39:06 I'm going to wind up with three clips for today about the homelessness situation in Austin, Texas which is quickly becoming a model of how not to do things. Especially when you have examples of California, Washington State, Oregon we have very clear models of how it does not work so we'll start with hold on a second We start with a big... now this actually happened earlier in the week. We had a very big fire under under a highway here in Austin

2:39:47 Couches, TVs, propane tanks. Actually padlocked areas mattresses trash and literally hundreds of needles It's an entire system of underground homes Stove tops refrigerators bunk beds all built into this bridge I like landscaping And so i dug a big ass cave into the wall under the bridge about 10 feet off the ground. Ridge Johnson believes he's one of about 100 people living under the bridge I mean, I built a furnace and chimney in there and it's nice and warm and cozy this catacomb like camp spans roughly three football field Monday morning it went up in flames we come down here for medical calls a lot with all

2:40:29 always feared there being a fire. Well, there was a fire upon arrival. There were no residents of the camp that we had to deal with and rescue everyone appears to be okay though firefighters were worried about spaces and possibly people they just couldn't reach it is definitely very unsafe situation for our firefighters as they're gonna have to dig through this stuff for hours Hazmat has been called in just to make sure that you know it's safe for our guys to go down there. Tech stops and hazmat to the scene as their bridge inspectors were unable to access the fire starting point otherwise. They've become very resourceful and dealing with lack of no power

2:41:04 Last week, the city began cleaning up homeless camps and watersheds as part of a $250-thousand dollar yearlong contract that could be extended. The city is flexible on how many sites they'll clean up this year But right now they're slated to clean approximately 20. This site was not on the city's initial list of spots to clean and TextDot tells us the bridge is fine, Ritz Johnson tells us the room he carved out under that bridge is also okay He plans to return as soon as possible So this was quite... To me quite spectacular Three football fields of dwelling space dug out underneath the highway apparently not

2:41:47 any danger to the integrity of the structure, but something caught fire and it's burning. There is all kinds of stuff. The guy who you heard in the beginning of the report said oh no I like building things he could be an architect I guess but now he decides to do that under the bridge And I have no, uh...I really am losing compassion for the campers because that's what this is. They've been driven out of downtown so no longer do we have people camping in downtown Austin by ordinance but go ahead and just go out anywhere else you want to and these aren't even Austinites anymore that these are many of them vagrants and harassing people in their cars with squeegees etc., and I'm becoming quite negative about them

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Austin Homeless Policy, Matthew Doherty Consultant Hire

Austin City Councilmember Allison Alter is criticized for suggesting that needles found at homeless camps are primarily for "health reasons" like insulin. The city recently hired Matthew Doherty as a $100,000 consultant to address the homelessness crisis. The hosts point out that Doherty was previously fired by the Trump administration for failing to solve homelessness issues in California during his tenure under the Obama administration.

austin· matthew doherty· homeless· needles· insulin· barack obama

2:42:30 As always, we have our monthly meeting in Austin. It happens on Thursday You heard in the report hundreds of needles found around this camp This is from the Thursday council meeting Councilmember Allison Alter She had something to say about these needles And I just wanted to point out because you know folks are expressing concern over the needles that people use needles for health reasons and for insulin and other stuff I believe that's what we were seeing. And so, I just wanted to throw that out there that a lot of folks who are homeless have health issues and they're using the needles for health reasons. That doesn't make them safe to be on the ground but it is... That is one of the reasons that we may be finding those in those areas

2:43:21 Well, this woman is about to be run out of town. Oh yeah! The needles are clearly for health issues for insulin which I'm sure they have in their refrigerator right nearby This is how insane it's become in Austin Texas that she can't even admit that people are doing drugs No no no no... It's for health reasons don't be so mean to them please So now the city of Austin has yet again a fabulous idea. If you recall, we had a consultant come in who the reports at the time where she quit after one day on the job now they've changed that to four months but she really didn't do anything. But don't worry we found another consultant! City of Austin is recruiting more help internally and externally it'll work on homelessness issues today the council approved hiring Matthew Daugherty as a consultant already helped shape national homelessness policy for years. KXAN investigator Kevin Clark spoke to city management about

2:44:20 the decision to increase staffing and the difficult lessons learned last year. T lives life on the streets, she's far removed from the homelessness policy debate inside City Hall where the movers and shakers are changing again. The city wants to pay close to $100,000 dollars to Matthew Daugherty who would work through the end of September to help Austin Doug Daugherty has national connections, having been executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. We're certainly looking forward to his ideas so ultimately recommendations that he provides connections and coordination This comes as Austin is creating a homelessness services division within the city's public health department it's expected to include multiple full-time employees in a public information officer It gives what was a one person

2:45:07 Homeless Strategy Office, it gives us the support that we need and believe is much more appropriate. Lori Pampilo Harris resigned as Austin's homeless strategy officer on the job less than four months in emails from December about her long-term goals for homelessness policy she told city management I was hoping for enough time to do an appropriate assessment asset mapping and intersectional discovery that would lead to some concrete planning and action steps I never was given the space or time to do this appropriately, or with the focus needed. She also told staff that they have seen it being exhibited from elected officials that they are looking for solutions for today and not solving of issues in future. I have a challenge with that." There's a lot that Lori could have, additional support from an administrative perspective that Lori didn't have but we certainly learned in terms of lessons

2:45:58 Sorely lacking from this report about the brand-new consultant to fix Austin's homelessness problem is the actual background of Matthew Doherty, who was appointed in 2015 by the Obama administration to lead the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness which was tasked with coordinating the federal response to homelessnes across 19 agencies including Department of Housing Urban Development Education Labor and Commerce fired last year by the Trump administration for utter failings mainly in California. This is the dickhead we're bringing here to fix it in Austin, can you believe that shit? Yeah of course! And they don't even... That's what you do in Austin. They don't even report it. You got lots of money and just throwing it away. They don't even report it and somethings gonna happen

2:46:50 You know, I think the point that really your real point is why wasn't that reported by the news media that you have there in Austin? They can look it up. You looked it up! It was so hard! I had to do a whole search and type the guy's name and spell it properly. It's insane. I can understand how hard this is. So much work... Oh my god! It's like everyone's a teenage girl. Oh, do I have to? Do I have to?" Really really really disappointing. That's funny. Yes, so The struggle continues in the capital of the drone star state everybody and on Thursday I have an OTG update that I'm dying to share with you We got lots of good stuff And who the heck knows what else is gonna happen because it's nuts out there Oh by the way United Kingdoms of England get more nation East good luck with that storm They got a massive Storm coming

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UK Storm Warning, Show Sign-off and Final Mix

The hosts sign off with a warning to listeners in the United Kingdom about a massive storm with 90 mph winds. They promise an update on the "Wuhan virus" for the next broadcast on Thursday. The episode concludes with a signature audio mix featuring clips of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and other political figures from the day's discussion.

united kingdom· storm· wuhan· austin· drone star state· sign-off

2:47:46 It's like everything shut down. No flights, no trains, bridges... They're looking at 80-90 mile an hour winds? Yeah So we're thinking of you We're thinking of ya Yeah, we're thinking of you. Think of us too! Please think of us consider supporting the value for value network of The No Agenda Show at Dvorak dot org slash NA and we look forward to returning back to you probably with well if we still if we don't if we're alive will have an update on the Wuhan virus and everything else is going on coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 in the frontier of Austin Texas capital of the drone star state We are FEMA region number six I'm proud of it

2:48:27 In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're having a little windstorm up here...I'm John C. Dvorak We return on Thursday right here on now and not not not not wiggle wiggle but no agenda until then adios mofos! And such Oh yes, end of shows from Fletcher and Starkweather. But that doesn't make it right. Everybody knows who this guy is. Come on man, that's astounding. That's the issue. You're gonna get fired! What you see is so sad... You're fired I'm looking forward to this man. You know what I'm talking about?

2:49:33 do what he did. This grand experiment we call democracy will have been fatally, fatally, fatally, fatally eroded. He's had enough! Pretty good. Nailed it. So smart. Pretty good. Nailed it. I have the greatest idea. I am so smart. I am so smart. Let's go. My Republican opponents Henceforth, for with indubitably affirmative

2:50:19 affirmatively. We're the Democrats! Joe, I want to answer. Really? I think you should come over. I keep listening to this same debate and it is not real. I'm the President of the United States. I have all of the power. Good for Republicans and Democrats. You saw what happened when that happened. These things are all connected but that's the point so are all of the things that need to change Americans feel like the political parties have been playing you lose i lose you lose i lose for years And do you know who has been losing this entire time We have a drug offense, they go directly mandatory prison. I mean, excuse me, mandatory treatment not prison but at the end of the day there's no way around it you may want to nibble around the edges corruption and that's what we can run on. We bring our party together it's an issue we can all

2:51:08 all agree on and fight to end the corruption. I got this bill, well the reality is actually Joe Biden's right! They call me, I talk to them and I believe that I can get it done. Meeting the moment, meeting the moment we had a moment in the last few weeks. Close your eyes everybody remember what you saw on television. Largely black and brown women who do this work. Entrepreneurs who are black and brown and minority to be able to get the heart and soul of this party is diversity, black people Latinos AAPI people Native Americans and white people but for goodness sakes pull it together. Get out there! Who we are is who we are We're not what Trump thinks

2:51:53 The best podcast in the universe! The whole thing is a joke.