Episode 1217 · Thursday, 20 February 2020

The Elders

A landmark Supreme Court ruling on homelessness reshapes West Coast policy as Michael Bloomberg faces a Stop and Frisk reckoning and Michael Avenatti heads to prison.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 1217

About this episode

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Boise, Idaho, effectively upholding a Ninth Circuit ruling that prohibits cities from ticketing homeless individuals for sleeping in public when shelter beds are unavailable. This landmark decision forces West Coast municipalities to provide housing solutions before enforcing camping bans. Meanwhile, attorney Michael Avenatti faces up to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike.

U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, specifically examining whether former CIA Director John Brennan withheld critical intelligence from other agencies. In the 2020 primary, Michael Bloomberg faces intense scrutiny over his expansion of Stop and Frisk policing in New York City, even as rumors circulate regarding a potential vice-presidential ticket with Hillary Clinton. Overseas, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced a seven-day reduction in violence agreement with the Taliban, while Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema proposed a ban on tourist cannabis sales to combat over-tourism. In France, public hospital staff are resigning administrative duties to protest budget cuts that have left patients on stretchers for days.

Bernie Sanders drew massive crowds at the Tacoma Dome, sparking a debate over arena capacity versus Donald Trump's rally figures. Comedian Bill Maher questioned the military's role should a sitting president refuse to vacate the White House, while Snoop Dogg's criticism of Gayle King ignited a firestorm on Morning Joe. The Podcast Academy's new Golden Mike Awards received a cold reception as an industry insider scam.


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CHAPTER 01 / 32 Discussion

Bernie Sanders, Tacoma Dome Attendance Speculation

Bernie Sanders held a campaign event at the Tacoma Dome in Washington, drawing comparisons to Donald Trump's rally attendance figures. The venue, a 23,000-seat arena, reportedly saw large crowds waiting outside. Speculation remains regarding whether the senator successfully filled the large-scale rock concert venue to capacity.

bernie sanders· tacoma dome· trump· washington· campaign rally

00:00 Cholera awaits. Evaluating amygdalas and broadcasting live from opportunity zone 33 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 everybody's disappointed. I'm John C. Dvorak Wait a minute who's disappointed about what yeah Bernie didn't show up here. Oh

00:37 I saw get every place but in the Bay Area that I know of. I'm sorry. I have no idea. I'm on a loop, which is always possible. I have no idea what's going on. What's happening? What Bernie Bernie Bernie's it's Bernie mania. Do you have a clip yet? Can you back this up a man in Texas? We don't have no Bernie mania here. Oh, they don't Bernie's not going to go to Texas to get the hang him. No, they won't. He's welcome in Austin. No, Bernie's very welcome in Austin. You know better than that. So what, he was supposed to show up for something? No, he never was supposed to. He's up in the Tacoma Dome. Oh. And by the way, that won't get covered, but I'd like somebody in Washington, I don't know, I think it's maybe today or it might have been yesterday, but if anyone can go to this event at the Tacoma Dome, I'd like to know if he actually fills it.

01:31 There's any empty seats. How many? Trump's always bragging about there's no empty seats. No, no, thousands of people outside Tacoma. There is usually a big line outside. I don't know why they're staying there. You can't get in. It's a 23,000 seater. Tacoma Dome? Yeah. It's a big venue, yeah. Yeah, 23,000. I'm just looking at the... Well, you said what? 23,000 seats. Yeah, that's a big venue for a little dome. Yeah. Supposedly for rock concerts. Rock concerts? Yeah, hey. What rock bands have been there? Rock concerts. The Rolling Stones 2020 Tour is coming through.

CHAPTER 02 / 32 Discussion

Supreme Court, Boise Homeless Camping Ruling

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the city of Boise regarding a Ninth Circuit ruling on homeless encampments. The lower court determined that ticketing individuals for sleeping in public when no shelter beds are available constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. This decision effectively prevents West Coast cities from enforcing camping bans without providing adequate housing solutions.

supreme court· ninth circuit· boise· eighth amendment· homelessness

02:13 The Takoma Dome. It is, of course it is. I can't believe those guys are still doing it. I can't either. It's amazing. They jack them up before they get on stage. See, well I guess we could dive right into that. But actually, I want to do this up front because this always is at the end of the show and I want to put it in the beginning. We talked about it maybe one or two episodes ago, this Ninth Circuit court ruling about camping. in cities, which was instigated by Idaho and it went to the Ninth Circuit. And the problem is that there is people were saying we cannot just take these people and take their tent and move them away because that is equal to taking their home and therefore is cruel and unusual punishment.

03:09 And this is what's been used in Austin and many other cities around the country to say, well, we can't ban this camping, which of course is happening on completely, you know, in places where you're not allowed to camp. And the, so the Ninth Circuit... Which brings, by the way, which opens up another Pandora's box of if you go to a state park or whatever you do and you go, you're actually camping? Yes. Can you just go camp anywhere now because you know, you can't stop anyone from camping anywhere? Well, that's only if you're above the law. And as we learned on the last episode, if you have a job and you are functioning in society, then no, you can't do that because then we need to fine you and take your money. If you have no money, let them camp.

03:56 So the Ninth Circuit tried to figure out what this would be, because this is cruel and unusual punishment is a constitutional issue. It is what a part of what amendment is that? Do you know offhand? It's in the Constitution, I believe. I think it's an amendment. I don't think so. Let's see. No, I think you're right. Here it is. Cruel and unusual is a phrase. The Eighth Amendment, no I'm right. The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted. So it is an amendment, the Eighth Amendment.

04:36 Anyway, the Ninth Circuit couldn't figure it out. They kicked it to the Supreme Court, and here's an update. Today, the Supreme Court denied without explanation the city of Boise's petition to appeal what's seen as a sweeping ruling in the federal Ninth Circuit from last year. That lower court ruled that Idaho's capital city was in violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment when police here ticketed the homeless for sleeping in public. Now, cities in the West, from Idaho to Washington to California, can't enforce such rules against the homeless until they've found shelter for everyone who needs it. And most cities in the region don't have enough shelter beds on any given night, which means if they ticket the homeless now, they're in violation of federal law. Attorney Thea Nae Evangelist represented Boise in its appeal. And cities' hands are tied. You want to say something?

05:26 Yeah, well, they make it sound like there's some law that's been written it, but during violation of the Constitution. That's okay. Well, we could by saying federal law, you mean, instead of I think they actually mentioned at the end and don't have enough shelter beds on any given night, which means if they ticket the homeless now, they're in violation of federal law. Attorney Thien a evangelist represented Boise in its appeal homeless. No, it's against the law. You can ticket them but not for sleeping, I mean camping, in public. So no, you can't. At least... Ticketing them is not cruel and unusual punishment. Does that mean all tickets are cruel and unusual punishment? No, no. Then I might have to start the clip over. They very clearly say that if you don't have a space for them to go, then it's cruel and unusual punishment.

06:20 But that's different than ticketing them. Listen again then. Today the Supreme Court... By the way, are you and I really arguing for the courts? Yes, I am. I am. I am doing exactly that. Today, the Supreme Court denied without explanation the city of Boise's petition to appeal what's seen as a sweeping ruling in the federal Ninth Circuit from last year. That lower court ruled that Idaho's capital city was in violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment when police here ticketed the homeless for sleeping in public. Now, cities in the West, from Idaho to Washington to California, can't enforce such rules against the homeless until they've found shelter for everyone who needs it. And most cities in the region don't have enough shelter beds on any given night, which means if they ticket the homeless now, they're in violation of federal law. So this is interesting. Only if you can provide beds for everybody can you then start ticketing them.

07:17 So it can't be just, hey I got a bid for you, no I have to bid for everybody. Attorney Thea Nae Evangelist represented Boise in its appeal. And cities hands are tied now by the 9th Circuit's decision because it effectively creates a constitutional right to camp. Major West Coast cities like Los Angeles are grappling with growing tent cities and the public health and safety fallouts from them. Many filed briefs in support of Boise's appeal. Evangelist says everyone agrees the solution is more low-income housing and services, but she says this decision makes it virtually impossible for cities to do anything in the interim. And we have an outbreak of diseases and a very dangerous situation for

07:59 people who are living on the streets and for everyone. And the city needs to have the tools available to deal with growing encampments. In a statement, Boise's outgoing mayor, Dave Beter, said he hopes the city's next administration continues to fight in federal court to get clarification about how to comply with the law. That's seen as unlikely, at least here. The mayor lost in a heated election this month to a more liberal Democrat who had criticized the city for criminalizing homelessness. Maria Foscarina heads the National Center on Homelessness and Poverty, which helped represent the Boise homeless who brought the case. She says the court has now affirmed that ticketing or jailing homeless people isn't working. The solution is addressing the root of the problem, which is that people can't afford a place to live.

08:46 People don't have access to the services they need. Foscarinas hopes this news will force cities to stop turning to the courts and start finding long term solutions. There you go. How about rousting them? That seemed to be specifically about ticketing them. By the way, it also brings up the kind of the logical conclusion to this sort of thinking, which is like, I'm driving my car around and there's absolutely no place to park. Can I just double park? And if you take it me, it's cruel and unusual punishment. Are you homeless? No, I'm talking about my, I'm just taking the logic of the argument that if you can't, there's no housing, there's no way that these people could find a place to sleep or, or live dead. Therefore they can just.

09:35 Park themselves wherever they want. What's that different than me double parking when I can't find a parking spot? I think that's a great idea. Next time you're up in Washington, you're visiting the fam. You should try that and let me know how that goes for you. I will. Of course, it's crazy, but there you go. Cholera awaits. And the worst part is this happened three weeks ago. I only found out about it now. They don't want people knowing about this. No, no, we're too obsessed with Trump. We're too obsessed with that. So boring.

CHAPTER 03 / 32 Discussion

Michael Avenatti, Nike Extortion Conviction

Attorney Michael Avenatti was found guilty by a jury for attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike. Previously famous for representing Stormy Daniels against Donald Trump, Avenatti now faces up to 40 years in prison. Additional charges against him include defrauding clients and mismanaging funds related to a book deal.

michael avenatti· nike· stormy daniels· extortion· fraud

10:18 You know, there were complaints. I saw some donation complaints. I'm like, I liked it when we had more European news, so I got you some good European news today too. But I need to start off with this. What was the complaint? Not enough European news because it's all Trump, Trump, Trump. And it's not, but it appears that way. We can't keep the strut what we have in front of us. I don't think I got any Trump today. I got one thing maybe. I am concerned. I got other kind of Trump ancillary news like this is kind of funny. Avenatti news is good. Yeah, the rundown? Here we go, hold on a second. Michael Avenatti rocketed to fame two years ago as the attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Trump. But his meteoric rise was matched only by the speed of his catastrophic fall.

11:05 Today a jury found him guilty of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike by threatening to go public with claims that the shoe company was illegally paying high school basketball players. Nike denied that claim and said today the verdict speaks volumes. He's in a bit of a state of shock. Avenatti's attorneys say he plans to appeal. Avenatti is Avenatti and he's a strong guy and obviously he's disappointed but He's a fighter. Avenatti used his fame as Daniels' attorney to dominate the spotlight as he excoriated President Trump for allegedly having an affair with Daniels and then paying her to cover it up. But for the fact that he's president, he would be indicted on numerous criminal charges.

11:52 charges. He even suggested he might run for president. But now it's Avenatti who faces numerous criminal charges. In addition to today's guilty verdicts, for which he could get more than 40 years, he is accused of defrauding Daniels in a book deal and defrauding other clients of millions of dollars. Avenatti has been held behind bars since January for violating his bail conditions. His attorneys say he's reportedly in the same solitary confinement cell that held El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord. They say he's being treated like a caged animal. What a story. Jeff, thank you. What a story. No, no. That's only half the story, CBS. And I'm glad you played that so that I can play you the compilage

12:37 of the lead up to the rise and subsequent fall of Michael Avenatti. I bet somebody put this together. Oh, of course! The free beacon. You gotta love the free beacon. They got nothing else but time on their hands. And this does fit perfectly in my rule of the media boomerang. If you abuse the media, For your own personal gain, it will eventually boomerang back and hit you with at least equal but often multiple times the force. You are something of a folk hero now. I owe Michael Avenatti an apology. I've been saying enough already Michael I've seen you everywhere. What do you have left to say? I was wrong brother. You have a lot to say. I am just dying

13:34 I'm trying to hear what you think. These people all like you. I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller. We think you guys are the tip of this spear that's going to take down Donald Trump. Mike Lavinati's a beast. Okay, that's true. And he's a beast. He's a beast. I hinted to her and I hinted to him. But he has a great bigger calling here that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti and Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name That's fascinating. Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avenatti. He has no doubt created sheer panic.

14:24 and Donald Trump's very fragile mind. Michael Avenatti is laying down the law as guest co-host. Is he really thinking about running for president? One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news. You look at the field of Democrats right now and Avenatti's the one who stands out. If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avenatti. I've always said that they need a fighter. Look, I mean we're going to continue to use the media. I think we've used it with great success. All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs. So, therein lies a potential end of show ISO. All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs. Just putting it out there. We'll see how you feel about that. Why did he even say that?

15:13 He was off the rails. He really thought he could say and do anything and thank God for YouTube I will say it YouTube truly is much more important than anybody realizes not for you know Everyone to go on there and yell and left and right about what they feel or think No, it's for documenting the media Because you can get almost anything anytime pretty much on demand And you can see you can see the the hypocrisy over weeks months years. It's it is really a We'd hate to say it, but it does need to be protected It's an important resource for the world Otherwise how we get all this we never get this put together

CHAPTER 04 / 32 Discussion

Bill Maher, Donald Trump Transition of Power Fears

Comedian Bill Maher expressed concerns on his program "Real Time" that Donald Trump may refuse to leave the White House if he loses the 2020 election. During an interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar and a panel featuring Van Jones and Katie Couric, Maher questioned whether the military or police would intervene. Panelists pushed back, citing the military's oath to the Constitution rather than the Commander-in-Chief.

bill maher· amy klobuchar· van jones· military· dictatorship

15:59 No, it's impossible. And you heard in there Joy Behar over and over and you also heard Nicole Wallace, Nicole Wallace, Larry O'Donnell, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I mean it's unbelievable. Speaking of Bill Maher, actually I'm worried, I'm a little worried about our fellow American citizens and I think my observation of this started And I believe I told you about this, when the young woman who does my hair, she started off like, well, you know...

16:41 Trump, you know, he's a dictator. Aren't you worried that he won't leave the White House even if he loses or even at the end of his second term? Do you recall this? That? Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of that again. And I retorted with my common retort to that, which is, yeah, they said that about Bush. They said that about Nixon. They said that about Obama. Yes. There there is and by the way, I believe your libjo friends also say this or they on have they mentioned the not leaving the White House bit? Oh, you know, I don't have that one documented. It's possible. Maybe you can throw that one out, you know, lob that grenade see what comes back and I think what's going on, you know, they've been kind of on to me recently. Gee. Okay. I was

17:31 And I think what's happening is the leaders of the people who really, I'm not going to say the left, but just the people who really despise Trump and are afraid of him for all the reasons, have been mind-controlled to such a degree that now they see that their leaders, and their leaders are Bill Maher, you know, the view. It's not politicians. They look to... And I know that people watch real time with Bill Maher and I think they're seeing that there's despair and they're broken. And I watched the... The reason I watched the Friday episode was because Amy Klobuchar was going to be the interviewee, you know, the beginning interview.

18:18 But what happened there made me watch the entire show. I pulled a couple of clips. It's really sad what is going on here. Listen to Bill Maher with Amy Klobuchar. So, okay, I'm gonna ask this question because I ask it of every Democratic politician that comes on here. I'm saying you win. Okay. You win. Great. I'm glad we agree. That's different than him leaving. That's what I want to know. What is the plan? And I think we need to start talking about it now, because it's very hard for me to imagine you winning the popular, the electoral vote fair and square, and him sending out a congratulatory telegram. Great. So glad you won. We had a good match. And let me tell you where I keep the, you know, important papers.

19:05 He's not leaving. These people are not going to give up power. What is the plan if he says, I find irregularities, the people who ran it in Iowa screwed it up again, I have to stay, it was rigged. He's already said this many times. What do you do then? The first thing you do is now you start now and that is to win big which I believe will help and now just don't secondly Come on, you win all these states in the country harder for him to say secondly you make sure that we have back up paper ballots, you push for, those are my bills, you do everything to protect our elections. You're living in the era of fake news. Okay. And there's no facts anymore. It's just about power. We have always had a peaceful transition of power in this country. Always have had. We have. Correct. And I believe. We are now in a different world. When you have the people on your side in a big way. Oh he has a lot of people on his side, the ones with the guns.

20:04 I think we'll do this. I think that the law, what we have to unite on as a country is that the rule of law cannot handle four more years of a guy that thinks he's above it. Democracy can't handle... Will you at least start asking the people in power, like the police and the military, what would you do if he said he wouldn't leave? Would you at least start asking them, get them on the record? I think that... This is sad that he's I don't know if he actually thinks this He sounds like he does he sounds sincere and it's a shame that she didn't say Bill you're acting like an idiot This is not gonna happen. Well look never happened before and why are you thinking this way? Luckily when he sat down with his panel right by the way does Trump have his own army? I don't think so. Oh, I think you need to listen to some clips. Oh

20:53 When he sat down with the panel, which was comprised of Van Jones, who I like. I like Van Jones. He's interesting and he has contrarian views sometimes. Some other nudnik, I forget his name, and Katie Couric, a former Today Show, a big NBC CBS host of the CBS Evening News. Was she CBS? And a flop of a way. Why do I think she was NBC? She was always CBS? No, no, she was at the Today Show and then CBS lured her away to be the anchor. And then she went to Yahoo and then we lost her for a couple years after the Yahoo move. So I'll give props to Katie Couric because she jumps in at the minute he sits down with the panel he starts again and she kind of pushes back.

21:38 Okay, I know I'm the crazy person because I say he's not leaving. I just were obsessed with this bill Yeah, it's only our country. I'm sorry. I'm a little obsessed But what is what has made you so focused on this everything Donald Trump has ever done. I laid it out a couple of weeks ago He said it himself in 2016. He said if he's when he thought he was gonna lose its rigged He doesn't accept any I guess that the question I ask is is In countries where they pull that kind of stuff off, the generals turn out to be traitors. I have not seen any evidence yet that the generals are actually unpatriotic. If that happens, I think we're in trouble, but I think America's military would be happy to walk in there and take him out. We'll see.

22:25 It's all great that we're so happy with the hypothetical best outcome. Because that's what solves problems. Hoping and smiling. So you think, okay, that might be enough? No, no, no, no. He can back up his fear. He backs it up with assertions, but he can back up his fear that the military won't take Trump out if he refuses to leave. Okay, so let me just say, the way dictators take over, is they buy off different factions. You buy off the donor class, like with tax cuts. You buy off the business people with getting rid of regulations. You buy off the military, you're right, with some of them don't like him, but he gives them everything they want. A lot of money goes to the military. And then there's the police. Here's what I don't understand. The list he just gave there, that's how you win an election.

23:18 It's not how you convince the military to keep you in power. These are all things that are very obvious that yeah, people would like these, they like their forces funded properly, they want the police respected. And that's to get them to vote for you. But Mars sees that as no, no, that's how dictators work. He's bought them all off, bought them off. I don't know exactly how, but he's- This guy needs to be checked out. Van Jones very irrational. Yes, this is what I'm saying. This problem, this sickness has really gone too far. Van Jones pushes back again. He loses but he won't leave and then who gets rid of him? The police? This is the police. Well, I mean, I just, I get it. Look, I understand your concern. I'm serious. And you can, bad things happen in countries and people have taken democracy for granted for way too long. Yeah, we're not that special. Exactly. And I think we forget

24:15 A democratic republic is the most rare and fragile form of government in human history. They almost never work out. Is that true? No. Why would he even say that? I don't, I didn't quite understand why. It is a rare form because people don't like it because you can't do things like Mars describing. You literally can't stay in the office if you're kicked out or if you're voted out, not kicked out, but voted out. They're trying to kick him out. You get voted out. I mean, why doesn't he say the same? Well, if he gets impeached and found guilty, why doesn't he stay then too? I mean, none of it makes any sense because the problem is the way the system works. If he stays in, he's not going to stay in office and his office is not, you know, he's not,

24:58 Maybe under some nutball circumstance, if you're assuming he's crazy, stays in the White House and they just wait him out. They starve him out. Meanwhile, Congress does its own thing. It's passing bills and there's a new president signs the bills and it's all that. You know, everything else continues because you can't stop that process, whether the president is there or not. I mean, Woodrow Wilson was was it being a coma for like a year while his wife was acting as president? The, uh, this is just completely insane. It's not a fragile system. It's a very, very strong system. It's just that people don't like to implement it. And fragile form of government in human history. They almost never work out. And that's why we have to be vigilant. But about 90% of police support Trump.

25:46 He has amazingly, and when he mentions, he says this outright, he says, we have the rough people. And then he mentions, I love this, the military, the police and the bikers. Like, like if you had the whole US military and the police, that wouldn't be enough. Let's bring in the guys with the pool cues from Baltimore. It just shows you how little Donald Trump knows about the military in which he refused to serve. Because when you think of Jim Mattis, when you think of General Kelly, the so-called rough people, Marine and, and, uh, Marine generals. These are people, everyone I've known in the military, Van is absolutely right, they are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. They are the most patriotic Americans. And they understand that the Constitution is not a formula for a dictatorship or for a man to extend it. Hey, can you back it up? He says that Trump doesn't understand these people and he says he refused to serve?

26:36 He didn't refuse to serve. Refusing to serve is refusing to serve, which I'm not serving. He got off on some deferment. That's different. Oh, of course. These are people, everyone I've known. So this is Gershon from the Washington Post, I think. Yeah, yeah, nerd with glasses. He has got the funny looking glasses. Yeah, yeah. Van is absolutely right. They are sworn to uphold the constitution of the United States. They are the most patriotic Americans understand that the Constitution is not a formula for a dictatorship or wait did I not go back far enough to catch that bit probably? refused to serve The Washington Post lies the Washington Post. Thank you good point. These are the same people who have the lie database on Trump

27:23 That's just a blatant lie. Yeah, I'd say. The Constitution of the United States, they are the most patriotic Americans. And they understand that the Constitution is not a formula for a dictatorship or for a man to extend his... But they're also sworn to follow the commander-in-chief. They're sworn chain of command. But it is one of the great achievements of American democracy that our military swears allegiance to the Constitution not to the Commander-in-Chief and we and we do have been on all the way down what did the Senate do with impeachment didn't they swear an oath I'm sorry it was oh brother he goes off the rails was Brett Stevens was Brett Stevens from the New York Times yeah

28:03 Oh wow, they're clones. Yes, thank you Troll Room. Although you didn't have to be a dick about it. WRONG AGAIN! Thanks trolls. He has the exact same voice as the other guy because the other guy was just on News Hour. Well thank God and this will be the last one from the Mar Show, thank goodness Van Jones brings everybody back to sanity, kind of, but already my head was, my mouth was open watching this. Like, holy crap, he's saying with such conviction, this is not the Bill Maher Act. He means this. He truly has some fear and you hear the audience, you can hear pin drop. They're not hooting and hollering the whole time. They're like, they're worried. Enter Van. You know, the thing I like about what this conversation is this.

28:49 You're assuming that the Democrats can win and then he won't leave. I would like to talk about what it's gonna take for your first part of what's gonna happen. Yeah, I know. Well, by the way, interesting. 44% of Democrats think the Democrats will win. No, we can't. 80% of the Republicans think they will win. And also I saw polls, it's Bernie, Biden and Bloomberg. It's three 78 year old white guys. So this is very depressing for people who hate Trump.

CHAPTER 05 / 32 Discussion

Dave Winer, Rachel Maddow Tyranny Discussion

Software developer Dave Winer discussed a segment from Rachel Maddow's show featuring Yale professor Timothy Snyder regarding the threat of tyranny in America. The commentary suggested that the country is entering a lawless phase where political opposition, including figures like Michael Bloomberg or Hillary Clinton, could face jail or exile.

dave winer· rachel maddow· timothy snyder· tyranny· bloomberg

29:42 What we're never gonna do we got old white people they're never gonna win Trump is never gonna leave we're in a dictatorship and smart people are Are going nuts enter my lib dev you have the lib Joes. I've got a lib dev a developer and And I know him quite well. He's the co-inventor of podcasting, Dave Weiner, and his most recent podcast included this bit. I think he was talking about the Rachel Maddow show. But just listen to... They're being poisoned by these shows. It's very concerning to me. I don't care if you hate Trump, hate... I don't care. You're an American and you're sick. Rachel Maddow, she had Timothy Snyder.

30:31 who is a Yale professor who's written a couple of books lately about tyranny and about what we're going through and what history tells us is going to happen and how we should fight it. And so she is very fixated on now it has happened and it's no longer a threat, but we're living in a lawless country now. And she's right. We haven't seen the full effect of it. We will. Each of us will, and it may take a while, but we're not going to get off this path. Bloomberg or not, it really doesn't seem like we're going to get off the path. We're going to put in a good fight because Bloomberg is, is the next thing after impeachment. As you've got a guy with an infinitely deep pockets and the will to fight and the intelligence to do it intelligently.

31:29 But it's really, it's probably, it's too late because they'll stop him. They can put him in jail and they will put him in jail or they'll deport him. And Obama will go live in exile somewhere and Hillary Clinton and anybody who is potential opposition to Trump will either go into jail or will go somewhere else. So that's where we're going. This is an illness and it's concerning. He's gonna deport Michael Bloomberg? Deport him? They're gonna deport him somehow. Do these guys have any familiarity with anything that's realistic or the law itself or the Constitution or this country and how it operates? Yes, yes, yes of course they do. They're very intelligent people but something has snapped.

32:19 And it's you're right. Some snap. Do you think they're going to deport Michael Bloomberg? You said it right. They've been poisoned. They continue to be poisoned, literally poisoned. Yeah, their brain is being poisoned, is being poisoned by Rachel Maddow. He named her. Yeah. Lawrence O'Donnell is a good example. He was in that prominently represented in that last clip of Avenatti. And there's a bunch of them. Joy Behar is another one. She was a big hater. She had her own show for a while now. She's on The View and she's a terrible person. She's the same age as Bernie. I had a thought about some of this, particularly when it comes to social media. And it was just a passing thought, but it made some sense to me. What a lot of politicians forget or they

CHAPTER 06 / 32 Discussion

Social Media, Geographic Profile Identification Proposal

A proposal suggests that social media users should be required to list their geographic location in their profiles to provide cultural context for their statements. Using Donald Trump's Queens upbringing as an example, the argument posits that understanding regional communication styles could reduce online friction.

social media· twitter· queens· regionalism· discourse

33:06 I think people in general forget that we are the United States and the United States is, you know, it's different territories and when I... A collection of states. Yes, not the United People of America, United States. If you're in New York and if you're from New York and someone starts talking about anything and I know that person's from New York or there's context like Dave Weiner who lives, I think he just moved upstate but he was in New York City for six or seven years. I have a little more context about his thinking. If you know when you see me on Twitter, which you will now because I changed my profile name, you see Adam Curry dash Texas. You know I'm in Texas. You know I'm going to have a certain view. People have forgotten this, and certainly on social media. So when someone says, I hate the Bulls,

33:58 You know, well, let's see where he's from, you know, and then you can maybe he's from Texas or maybe he's from Florida, Miami Heat, whatever it is. And you immediately have context, but because we don't have that, people immediately just start freaking out over shit. And I think it should be mandatory, and I've done it, to put your place in your profile name. People have context what you're saying. I think it will actually make a little difference in the discourse online I think it'll make zero difference because I don't think people understand the basics I don't think a person for I mean Trump's a good example He's from Queens they talk a certain way there And he acts a certain way not the same as Manhattan by the way not though not even close. Oh, I

34:46 And Brooklyn's also different. But that's my point. It's from Queens, which is the real middle class kind of brag about everything area where they have a certain pat or a certain way of talking. They're very identifiable and it offends everybody not from Queens. Right. I think it would be a little more helpful if people identified where they're from. Yeah, I don't think it would help myself say it again. It won't make a difference. Well, I am a social engineer, so I'm thinking it will work. You're hopeful is what it is. I have compassion. You found this very depressing. Not depressing. This Bill Maher thing is dead serious. Not depressing. And by the way, if Trump blows in with a landslide in 2020 when he's going to have to quit,

35:31 They're gonna bring up the topic again. What if he doesn't quit? Somebody, by the way, I wouldn't put it past Trump to do this just as a joke. Yeah, it could be vice president. Pass the law, we're gonna run again. Yeah, try to repeal the amendment that prevents the president from running more than twice, right? And they'll put you know somebody by the way There's a guy in Texas that puts that in or a couple of people Congress people that put that they were putting it in during the Obama administration Yeah, of course we heard the same. It's exactly the same exactly the same. I'm just concerned that I've never seen people who I know are intelligent, smart, learned. I've never seen this type of behavior. So it's... I'm not... Putin's calling the shots. I'm not... well, they didn't even say that. I know, but that's what they're thinking. But it's truly... and they are being poisoned. You said it. That was the best way to look at it. They're being poisoned. Yeah. And of course it happens on all sides.

CHAPTER 07 / 32 Discussion

John Durham, CIA Russia Investigation

U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating the origins of the Russia probe, specifically looking into whether the CIA under John Brennan withheld information from other agencies. Brennan dismissed the inquiry as a political tool used by the Trump administration. Durham's background includes high-profile cases such as the Whitey Bulger investigation and CIA torture inquiries.

john durham· john brennan· cia· department of justice· whitey bulger

36:32 But, you know, maybe people hearing this will take note. You're being portal- Well, one of the reasons that we do this show is to try and see where the antidote. Yeah. Or in some cases, the anecdote. I think more the anecdote than the antidote, yes. So on the other side, of course, you know, there's a... How many sealed indictments there are? More than 100,000. Yeah, we're getting close now. We're getting real close. Brennan showed up because, you know, now we have the Durham report. Oh, it's got, oh, it's, it's, there's thousands of sealed, hundreds of thousands of sealed indictments going to jail. Brennan shows up on, I think, CNN or MSNBC, of course, because he's paid, he's paid on Hardball. And so the allegation is, by the way, the New York Times had an interesting article about the allegation that

37:29 And I'm summarizing, CIA knew what they wanted and they just kept poking and fishing and trolling until they got enough pieces to put together to try and make this collusion, Russian collusion stick. And so in this piece, the New York Times actually buried, buried the information that some of the stolen emails that have been recovered included emails from President Obama. It's buried in that story, which is, of course, should be a huge one.

38:05 It should be a high. Push that to the front, not to the back. These guys are corrupt. Completely buried. But here's Brennan appearing on Chris Matthews to of course laugh off this nutty investigation. Now the New York Times is reporting that the ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russian probe itself also appears to be driven by Trump's political interests. According to people familiar, the US attorney leading that inquiry, John Durham, appears to be pursuing a theory that the CIA, under its former director John Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result and was nefariously trying to keep other agencies from seeing the full picture. However, FBI and NSC officials, quote, have told Mr. Durham and his investigators that such an interpretation is wrong.

38:51 And based on a misunderstanding of how the intelligence community functions. Let me ask you, Mr. Director, how do you respond to this inquiry? Well, I think it's kind of silly. Is there a criminal investigation now on analytic judgments and the activities of CIA in terms of trying to protect our national security? I'm certainly willing to talk to Mr. Durham or anybody else who has any questions about what we did during this period of time in 2016. And so I don't know what—I have not talked to him yet. I understand that I'm on his list of people to be interviewed. But it clearly, I think, is another indication that Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice to go after his enemies in any way that he can. People are innocent until, you know, alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.

39:35 Okay, words to live by. His own words, he's guilty. Words to live by Mr. Brennan. We'll play that again. People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity. Yeah, that's the American way. Thank you, John Brennan. Yes, so the New York Times article headline, Justice Department is investigating CIA resistance to sharing Russia's secrets. Now they've kind of made it that. Well, we didn't want to share because, you know, we don't want anything to leak out. That's a good one. And the funny, and I don't have a clip, but I've heard many people say, yeah, this special investigator, he's like some dude from Connecticut, you know, Trump threw him in there. It's like, who is this guy? It's worth looking up. John Durham.

40:24 And he is indeed. He was appointed in February 2018 to the District of Connecticut United States Attorney. But he's known for leading an inquiry into allegations FBI agents in Boston police had ties with the mob. That's the Whitey Bulger case. 2005 CIA interrogation tapes destruction. That is the current director of CIA. Was it Gina? Is it Haspel? What's her name? So that he investigated. He's a crime buster. He has done some significant cases. Significant. Yeah, the Whitey Bolger case was major. Also the torture investigation. Yeah. The enhanced interrogation. Now that doesn't mean that this guy isn't, you know...

41:15 I mean, I... It sounds like he's a guy that can do the job. Yeah, I'm not so sure that Barr is clean. I mean, I keep seeing people saying, oh, no, this is great. He's going to do it. Thousands of sealed and diapers. No, no. Barr's dad hired Jeffrey Epstein at the school he was principal of or director. I mean, his connections with Barr and Mueller, they work together. Of course they did. These are cover-up artists. Everybody works together eventually. The question is who, they're gonna have one or two are gonna go down and everyone else will be safe. So there's gonna be sacrificial lambs. Well since you brought this up I had one annoying clip I might as well get it out of the way. Oh yes we love annoying clips. It's annoying to me.

CHAPTER 08 / 32 Discussion

Mark Shields, PBS NewsHour Russia Collusion Commentary

PBS NewsHour commentator Mark Shields claimed that Donald Trump's intervention in the Roger Stone case stems from a fear that Stone could link him to WikiLeaks and Russia. The commentary reflects a broader media sentiment of resignation and alarm following the Senate's vote to acquit the President in his impeachment trial.

mark shields· pbs newshour· roger stone· wikileaks· trump

42:04 So I'm watching the PBS News Hour and they have Mark Shields and Brooks. Brooks is out, he's taking the day off and they put the guy from the Washington Post in who I thought was under Bill Marshall because they have the exact same voice. Coincidentally, there's a guy in the New York Times who you were called out for making a mistake, even though it's my mistake. And I should mention the fact that they have the exact same voice and they wear the same goofy, they wear goofy glasses. It's milieu. So they're both the same kind of guy but so but shields at the very end of the thing I got to be too part but and this again relates everything you just played shields.

42:44 Says the following this is shields the worst This is the worst part 1 PBS and just listen to this these guys and I mean Mark Shields is 82 years old He's an old liberal. He can't they can't get this out of their craw. They can't get it out of their craw What is it play the clip mark? Just a few seconds Judy. I mean Here's a man who's pushing prosecutors to prosecute James Comey and Andrew McCabe, and intervenes for Mike Flynn and for Roger Stone. Why Roger Stone? I think there's open speculation and very plausible. Roger Stone's the one person that could tie Donald Trump.

43:26 to WikiLeaks and to the Russians in the 2016 campaign. After all that investigation? After all that investigation. That's what he did. That's what he was lying about. He was the intermediary. And I think that it's not out of loyalty or affection. I think it's out of vulnerability. He's still concerned with that 2016 election rather than worrying about 2020. I don't think that's actually... Are you kidding me? I don't think that's true. There's no defined link between WikiLeaks and Stone, is there? Well, yeah, I contacted him once and it's possible he had some relationship, but it's got nothing to do with anything. This is all dreamed up. The Russia collusion thing, they can't get it out of their craw. Trump is more concerned about 2016 than 2020. Is that right? You think that's true? What kind of nut are you? Well, he's spreading... And you're getting... By the way, this guy's getting paid good money.

44:24 by PBS to spew this unbelievable paranoid garbage. This is like, this is conspiracy theory. To the max. It's unbelievable that this would be on the air. And it's part of this. It's like a virus. It's part of the sickness. He's spreading more. He's definitely part of it. But listen to the second part and you can get a better clue and you get the resignation part of it, which is what you've been observing. The resignation that we're all subject to this tyrant character with the red hat. Judy, how about, how do you feel if you're Susan Collins, if you're Rob Portman, if you're Joni Ernst and said, oh yes, we voted to acquit, but he's gonna change. He'll be chastened. He'll be chastened. I mean, this is the new chastened Trump. I mean, he's unburdened and unfettered and scary. Scary. Orange man bad. Very scary.

45:23 I'm laughing, but it's really sad. This is PBS. These are people that matter when they say stuff. By the way, I didn't know he was 82. He looks pretty spry for 82. I'll give him that, Mr. Shields. Well... No? I think he's erudite for 82, so there you have it. I mean, except for the fact that he's lost his marbles. Yeah. And he can't think straight, and he's just a Trump hater. And when he starts shaking when he talks about Trump, I mean, these guys are just, they're unhinged. Well, what happened, the way I see it, is after the Senate vote, the not guilty verdict,

46:10 Then it was like everyone just went even though they knew it was going to happen I guess they still had some hope that maybe you know there were there was some coalition and maybe Mitt Romney even said hey I'm gonna do it Let's see if I'm getting one else on board or what whatever happened. There was the letdown was Much larger than I expected it would be for certainly for media types. I mean I watched Rachel Maddow I mean it wasn't even clippable it would take 30 minutes just for her to say boo-hoo I mean, that's really what it came down to And it's, it's, it's just, I feel bad. Let me add a little element to your thing before you finish, which is these are the people.

CHAPTER 09 / 32 Discussion

Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton Vice President Rumors

Rumors circulated that Michael Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a potential vice-presidential running mate. While viewed by some as a trial balloon to gauge public interest, critics argue that a ticket featuring two New Yorkers would be politically unbalanced and potentially face constitutional hurdles.

michael bloomberg· hillary clinton· vice president· trial balloon· 2020 election

46:52 that are supposed to be decoding things for the public at large. And they're supposed to be doing it in an accurate way. But they're so blinded by their own prejudice and bigotry that they can't do it. I mean, they're supposed to be the ones telling us, oh, here's what's going on and now you can go back to work. I mean, that's what it's basically what the news media is supposed to do. Here's what's going on, now you feel you should feel better, you can go back to work, you know what's going on. That's it. But they can't even do that. The simplest of jobs, they can't do it. Meanwhile, I believe it's only a trial balloon, but I'm pretty sure I said that we needed to be on the lookout for Michael Bloomberg to invite Hillary Clinton to be his vice president. And that's exactly what the rumor was, according to people familiar with the matter, which I took to be- There was a million tweets about this and they were going, oh, you guys are right. I get some credit. I guess I don't remember doing it, but you did.

47:49 And they go on and then they always play the clip. It says Michael Bloom wants Hillary. He wants Hillary. But if you read what actually happened, all the reports say he's considering Hillary. Yeah, it's a trial balloon. That doesn't mean anything. I'm considering Hillary. No, but I'm not arguing that if you heard what I said. No, I'm not arguing about you. I'm talking to the public that's all jacked up about this. It's a trial balloon. And I think it went over reasonably well, actually. I think it went over pretty well. You're not going to get two people from New York on the same issue. That's so unbalanced. That's not even allowed. I think there's a constitutional issue with being from the same state. I heard that too, but I don't see any evidence of it.

48:41 And besides that, she just happens to, you know, just take a move to Arkansas for the week. Yeah. But it's beside the point. There's no way that two New Yorkers, we already get, first of all, all these liberals in particular, bitch and moan about Trump. He's a New Yorker. What, are they going to get two now instead of one? We had at least a little bounce with Pence being from Indiana. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's ludicrous. John, thank you. You're making my point for me. It's ludicrous. Why is it ludicrous? Look at who is saying. They're unhinged! They have lost their minds! So I mean here's two contract, well not contract, two clips. One from MSNBC, one from CNN, and this is really the title of these clips should be

CHAPTER 10 / 32 Discussion

Democratic National Convention, Superdelegate Rule Changes

Media outlets are discussing the possibility of a brokered Democratic convention if Bernie Sanders fails to secure a majority of delegates. Under new rules, superdelegates—referred to by some as "party elders"—cannot vote on the first ballot but would become decisive in subsequent rounds of voting.

bernie sanders· superdelegates· dnc· brokered convention· chuck todd

49:31 What are we going to do about Bernie? Because they're already massaging and positioning what is going to happen. Now there were some changes made to this process, the Democratic primary process, whereas the superdelegates who are the elites who screwed Bernie over in 2016, They don't come in until a second round and no one has explained exactly what that means, but from what I understand you have to have your 1500 delegates or whatever the exact number is. If you don't have it, then it goes into a round of chat and if we don't fix it, then we go into around another chat, but that's when the superdelegates come in. And so the goal of course is to have the superdelegates or the elites

50:14 Just determine who's going to run for the Democratic Party. That's well. That's what it is It's it look at look at who these super delegates are so here's Chuck Todd cast And the panel talking about Bernie. This is a part of the campaign that we never had to worry about four years ago Yeah, and I think the question becomes what if we get to the convention and Bernie Sanders? Does not have any more near a majority, but he has a plurality He has 35, 37% of the delegates. And he goes to the convention and says, I want more primaries than anyone else. I have more delegates than anyone else. I dare you to deny me the nomination for superdelegate. You don't have superdelegates anymore. I mean, on the first ballot, you don't have the members of Congress who would be the elders. I mean, that was exactly the reform that the Bernie Sanders people demanded.

51:04 Hey, you're way off. It's not the elites. It's the elders! It's the elders. Oh my goodness. And that was Andrea Mitchell. That's Andrea Mitchell saying this. She's an elder. Totally. She and her hubby Greenspan. They are... Yeah, they're both in their 80s and they're both elders. They consider themselves to be the village elders. They will take care of it. But oh, I have to wait a second round. Let's see how CNN does. Remember, the last nominee to go in who actually had the majority was John Kerry, if you remember. 2008, Hillary had to send her votes over. The same thing happened in 16. Sanders had to send... The last one who's actually gotten this on the first ballot, people forget, is John Kerry in 2004. But of course, the change in rules relative to superdelegates not getting a say on that first ballot this time, but having a say for the subsequent ballots, if it comes down to that...

51:58 That's a very fractious... This is more of a mythical thing on these superdelegates. It really doesn't. But let me say if someone goes in and has the most delegates and the superdelegates change that, forget it. Go home, burn the house down. Yeah, but that's exactly what's going to happen. Well, I think you're correct. They're setting us up for this scenario. Yep. That's why they're discussing it almost exactly the same way as though some memo went around. As often does happen in these circles. So they're setting us up. So the convention, they expect to be a brokered convention. Now, I wonder, you know,

CHAPTER 11 / 32 Discussion

Michael Bloomberg, Stop and Frisk Policy Criticism

Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign is facing scrutiny over his past support for "Stop and Frisk" policing in New York City. While Bloomberg has apologized, data suggests his administration expanded the practice significantly compared to the Giuliani era, with a lower rate of weapon recovery and higher rates of citizen harassment.

michael bloomberg· stop and frisk· rudy giuliani· ados· new york city

52:40 I think Bernie can win outright, but not if they're gonna keep... Not if Bloomberg is involved. This is the guy that's gonna screw things up for everyone. He's coming. He's not gonna debate because he probably can't debate. If we were advising him, we'd tell him not to debate. Do whatever you can to not debate. Yeah, no, you get that kind of bankroll? Just keep spending money. Don't do it, yes. And apparently there's somebody was talking about in Virginia where he's also dropping lots of money for his campaign. He's also running those Obama ads, which is the ones he's running those a lot here. Yeah, where it looks like he's vice president. He looks like he's vice president. It's hilarious. Well, we have the now already and I hate hate to burst your bubble. We'll know by Tuesday. Biden is not going to win South Carolina.

53:32 He's just not. And I can tell you that the main problem is, again, the spoiler, Michael Bloomberg. He is out there with Mike for Black America. I mean, huge, huge signs. He's meeting ADOS everywhere. Mike for Blacks. Woo! Mike, way to go! I want to mention, I watched the Mike for Blacks event, and in the background is all blacks, maybe one Chicano. And then I started noticing the background. I've talked about this before. I just want to savor that you said the blacks are one Chicano. It's just an era that I love, John. It's nothing wrong with the guy. And but it was all blacks and they were all like Adam, you know, a lot of a mustachio. They're all a little older. I saw a lot of whites in the black for America, too, a lot.

54:25 Yeah, I was going to take a screenshot and look at it again. But the one that really got me, because I started noticing the backgrounds and I don't know if it was, I think it was Reagan who first started doing this in their speeches where they would put a background of people which they never used to do. You never saw that with Kennedy, Nixon, Eisenhower, nobody. But Reagan started making it more show business. He put the background of people back there. He started by putting military and then he just made it everyday people and Trump is taking it to the next level. Trump always has at least at least four women who are attractive or at least catch your eye. You see the blonde... wearing the women for Trump shirts. They got a Trump hat and they got a Trump shirt. They have a Trump sign maybe. There's usually one blonde who's pretty good-looking and she's right there in view like around his head.

55:15 head. So you have to start looking at her. You don't want to see her. Stop watching. She's like a scene stealer. And rightfully so. It's much better than, you know, Mussolini. Yeah, than Mussolini, of course, man. Exactly. So, and there's a couple others usually, and they're just so enthusiastic and they're, they tend to be and often are quite pretty. So I checked out Bernie's group behind him. I'm telling you, if you look behind on a Bernie thing, this last one in particular, it's everybody's over 70 and they're all old farts. It's like a ton of old farts and old battle axes. And they're all behind Bernie shaking their fists every time Bernie says we gotta stop the 1%. I have a clip from Bernie's little thing here, which is where I saw these battle axes.

56:05 Hold on, let me play a little jingle. Why doesn't Bernie sing? Oh, I don't... that's the wrong one. I'm sorry. Never mind. Never mind my jingle. Well, what was it gonna be? We had a song... I can't find it. Don't worry about it. We'll just keep going. Well, I don't see the Bernie clip on here. You don't see it? No. Well, then... well, why don't you... let me just... while you're maybe looking... I'm looking and looking, I'm not seeing it on here. Well, I just wanted to say that Bloomberg is going all out. He's, as you said, he's got the ads where he's vice president to Barack Obama.

56:43 And he's getting endorsements, uh, Ados, former Columbus mayor. Mike likes Mike. A big endorsement for Michael Bloomberg, who has ignored early primary states and focused on states like Ohio. Former mayor. Hey, this sounds like she could be Jeff Becke's sister. Michael Coleman said it's his past relationship working with Bloomberg and Bloomberg's experience. as mayor of New York that has him sold on the billionaire candidate. The thing about being a mayor, you're the closest to the people. People pick up the phone, they come to you, they say this is my problem. This is what's going on. But it's Bloomberg's time as mayor that has drawn criticism from voters, particularly the city's stop and frisk police policy that disproportionately impacted people of color. I think it's a fair criticism, but you know the true test of leadership

57:34 is to own up to your mistakes and to to take responsibility for the mistakes you've made in the past. But some don't think he owned the mistake soon enough. It took years after his time in office for Bloomberg to apologize for the practice. Coleman says he wishes the apology came sooner, but still believes it's a sincere one and believes African American voters who any Democratic candidate will need in 2020 should feel the same. Not only has he owned it, He has said we're going to go after the African-American vote and we're going to make a difference in African-American communities in a positive way. There was one little bit of I don't know if you found the clip yet, but there's one bit of data. I'm not going to find it. I remember producing it. I just don't have it on. So one bit of data. And I tried to clip it from Giuliani on someone else's podcast. But just forget about it. It's not worth 20 minutes. You still wouldn't get what he's saying.

58:35 Giuliani started Stop Question and Frisk in New York City and it was very successful and the numbers are what's interesting, the contrast between Giuliani and I was in New York when Giuliani cleaned it up and he did a fantastic job. It was stop, question, and frisk. And they stopped and questioned a hundred thousand people in a year, and 50% indeed had a weapon on them, were in the process of a crime, committing a crime, or you know, or had some reason to actually be frisked and subsequently taken in. 50%. And that was a very successful program.

59:15 When Bloomberg came in, he started- it went from stop questioning Frisk to stop and Frisk. And no one remembers that it was stop questioning Frisk. In fact, I think that's one of the egregious parts of Bloomberg's tape is that he said, you gotta throw him against the wall! Because he's, you know, he's a horrible person thinking that. But the numbers is what bothers me. The numbers went up to 600,000 people stopped and Frisked in New York on an annual basis, but only 10%! So marginally a little bit more than the hundred thousand would stop questioning Frist, but he just threw it all against the wall, totally harassed citizens, and really got the same results. But six times as many altercations between the law enforcement and citizens. Bloomberg is a dick.

1:00:08 He does not care. Bloomberg is the Nazi pre-dem. He is! He does not give a shit. Democrats now think it's their savior. He does not give a shit about this guy. This is a weird irony. Exactly. He doesn't give a shit about anybody. I don't think he cares about anybody no matter what color they are. It's just that, you know, they, hey, stop drinking sugary drinks because, you know, I gotta tax you because you're too dumb. He also took salt off the table if you remember that one. Yes, because you're too dumb to regulate your own diet, stupid, stupid people, dumb. That's who they're now all jitty about. Very disturbing. Very disturbing. It's more than disturbing. And they see him as a great savior because he's got deep pockets. Because he's got money. Yes. That's the worst. Well, he is definitely... Again, we have to stop for a split second and realize that a lot of this slant is because of the money and because of the media and because of the media's need for that money.

CHAPTER 12 / 32 Discussion

Michael Bloomberg, Minority Voter Outreach

Michael Bloomberg's heavy investment in advertising has reportedly increased his name recognition among minority voters compared to candidates like Pete Buttigieg. Anecdotal evidence suggests that while younger voters favor Bernie Sanders, Bloomberg's visibility through saturation campaigning is gaining traction in diverse communities.

michael bloomberg· pete buttigieg· advertising· chicanos· polling

1:01:03 Absolutely. So we may be, you know, fooling ourselves with his popularity, seemingly what it is, because the media is going to push the guy, promote the guy, because the media gets lots of money. He has single-handedly raised the price of advertising rates around the country. Yes, he's buying up time left and right. And now if he goes to a couple of primaries, or I guess he'll be in a couple, He's gonna be in the county and he just bombs out and he just says I've just wasted my money pulls out boom the the roof will cave in and the he'll be excoriating. Well, you know what what everyone is hoping is that he will continue just like in 2018 when he poured a hundred at least a hundred million dollars into 24 house races and 23 of them flipped and

1:01:55 from Democrat to Republican, I mean it can be done. I mean from Republican to Democrat, it can absolutely be done. Americans, I love us, but we elect our leaders, our representatives the same way we buy our washing powders. Like, oh I saw that ad again. I was talking to my Mexican friend Mexican- well he's not American yet, but he's Mexican. And I always like to say, okay, so what's going- you know, Jose, he was at the wedding. I say, Jose, what's going on? Who are people talking about? He says, well, Mexicans, and in our language that means illegals in the construction business in Austin, said they don't like Trump. They do not like Trump. He says, Mexican-Americans, he says, like my son, yeah, they kind of have some, you know, not everything, but they like some Trump. And I said, okay.

1:02:47 How about Bernie Sanders? He said, yeah, young people are excited but older people not so. Say how about Michael Bloomberg? Yeah, Michael Bloomberg. Yeah, I hear good things. How about Pete Buttigieg? Who? I said Pete Buttigieg. Who? I said the gay guy. No, no. Hasn't even heard of him. So Bloomberg come with the amount of advertising and exposure he's been able to purpose, he is already beyond Buttigieg. In my, of course, my completely scientific but very small poll. Yeah, source one. Small poll. Poll of one. Well, no, he was representing a whole slew of people. Chicanos, actually, I hear they like to be referred to. Yeah, Chicanos.

CHAPTER 14 / 32 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits, Listener Donations

Executive producers Sean McCall and John Waldorf contributed $333.33 each to support the program. Other donors, including Dennis Garcia and Jacob Forrester, provided financial support while requesting "de-douching" ceremonies and sharing personal anecdotes about introducing the show to family members.

executive producer· donations· value for value· bloomington· minnesota

1:11:09 More at the beginning of the show pretty much like credits of a Hollywood blockbuster Which each episode of the no agenda show is so who can we thank as our executive producers for today? It's at least as long as a blockbuster the Irishman. Yeah, Irishman is maybe a half hour longer. Yeah Sean McCall and Bloomington, Minnesota starts us off at $333 and 33 cents. He's got a note here. I TM I tweeted at him regarding a fellow producer. Oh Oh, okay. Did we get to steal their art? But they gave us money. Life is good in America. This is only on the No Agenda show and probably only in America. Yeah, I'd say. I'm overdue for a contribution. So I thought now was a good time to show that there's no ill will on this end. In fact, I'm sure a plug of announcer voice, liberty maniacs.com

1:12:09 here is easily far more valuable than any paid ad on the social feedbags. I got blurry vision today. You guys have brought together our best friends into a text group who all listen to NOAAgent and talk about the BS news. That said, I'd like to call out Mike, Colin, I'm sorry, that was Mike, Colin, Peter, and Eric. I think Mike is the guy that was the artist Scott aka Woody provided the show art a few weeks back.

1:12:49 So I think that counts as value for value. So he's not gonna call him out Thank you both for the persistence and sanity. It's changed our lives for the better Sean in Bloomington. Oh, that's so nice Sean. Thank you Thank you very much So so nuts and adding executive producer to his credit list for today. We really appreciate it. Thanks for y'all being cool Curiously, John Waldorf and Sunrise Minnesota Nuts is next. Oh! 330, with the same amount of money. Huh. 333.33, very strange. Random number three. ITM Janssen's early second donation on the road to the round table, two-thirds of the way there. I produced show 1189 and had planned to wait till summer for my next installment, but when the

1:13:42 But when the Menard's lumberyard receipt hit 333.33, I knew it was time. That's a lot of stuff. Well a lot of people and they'll often tweet pictures when they get a table 33, you know parking spot 33 receipt or $33. Yeah, it's it's usually a sign from the universe. Yeah saying hey those guys are doing no agenda. They need your help. Yeah Anyway, he says he's digging the coverage of the sweet and sour sickness. Oh here it is. This is what I read I kind of missed the euro updates. Oh

1:14:19 Maybe I missed the euro updates. There you go. Maybe Adam needs to make a trip again Calling out my nephew's already gone too much Kurt and Matt is douchebags Two of them Okay much-needed health karma for my dad and f cancer for Becky top it all off with a China is asshole and a just send your cash. Love you guys. Keep up the good work pitch in slaves John Waldorf Esquire, I'm trying to think It's not just send your cash. It's I haven't played that one a long time. Isn't it water? Yeah water blankets. I don't remember There's a bush under I know but I what if I couldn't find it anymore? I don't know

1:15:15 This never happened. Well, let me do the, I have to look for that now. It's completely gone. I don't know what happened to it. Well, let's do the, here we go. You've got karma. China, you asshole. It's gone. Dennis Garcia is next on the list. We'll get back to that one later. 33333 is in San Francisco. I'm turning 33 today, February 15th, and decided to get myself a Noah Jenner producership. Thanks for all the media deconstruction you do. You keep my amygdala small and healthy. Please contribute. I'm sorry, please continue to keep an eye on Europe. There you go, number two, right after the other one. This is again, conspiracy.

1:16:10 France in particular is having a rough time. I do have a France clip, one that no one will deal with this guy. I actually, I did, I called, I pulled a couple of Europe clips too. The protests haven't stopped since the yellow vest started to demonstrate. I'm also becoming a knight, see accounting? I think he's on the list. I would like to be known as Sir Did, pronounced Deed, Sir Deed, Sir Deed Data Janitor of the Noé Valley. Can I have some ribeye and bourgogne at the round table? Also you need some relationship karma. Is it bourgogne or bourgogne? That's bourgogne. Bourgogne? Yeah, bourgogne. It's burgundy. He wants some burgundy wine. He wants some pinot. Okay, ribeye and bourgogne. I thought you said... Oh yeah, ribeye and bourgogne. Bourgogne. I have to remember this stuff because I got to serve it at the table for them. Yes, relationship karma. Of course you can have that.

1:17:05 You've got karma. And by the way, regional pronunciations may vary. It could be Borgonia somewhere, but I don't think so in Borgone. Whatever. In Bordeaux, they pronounce the T's that the French normally don't speak. So when you say you get corrected, if you go when I first went to France, I actually can speak French is the 70s. And I say, you know what I mean? Thirty, you know, five. Yeah, they would say they look at you and stare at you and they do the typical French correction. Tron to sank. Oh, really? I learned tall sank. I didn't learn. That's that's Parisian. And they hated the Parisians in Bordeaux. In fact, when I first was in Bordeaux, I'm driving around a rented car that I rented in Paris.

1:17:57 that I drove down to Bordeaux. And so I'm driving around, you know, I'm being told to say Toronto. And... So you're clearly, you're irked. You're driving around irked. Well, no, they're running me off the road left and right. These guys are punking at me and giving me the finger. I'm thinking, shit, I'm a terrible driver. I was talking to one of the wine guys there and he says, I was expressing my disgust with the drivers. He says, Really, since people don't drive like that around here and then he looks at my car, he says, oh, you've got Paris plates. There's a, these won't number at the beginning of the plate is where the, where the cars from. And I had, I was driving around a Paris car and so they, that's why, yes. By the way, I found this.

1:18:51 I don't even remember that one. It's not the one I was looking for, but we have so much shit. I don't remember that one either. I've never heard. It's a long- Meanwhile, we do remember, we do have associate executive producers and the first one is Jacob Forrest. Wait, he needs Relationship Karma. Oh, yes. Denise, Dennis, Dennis Garcia, Denise, Dennis, I guess. One and one. Maybe Dennis, but it says Dennis to Mike. Okay, Relationship Karma with a goat twist I think would be appropriate today. You've got- I'm sure it's probably pronounced Dennis. He is a guy. Yakup Forrester, Jacob Forrester, 26969. Jake Forrester, Hebron, Kentucky Jingles, don't eat me, bro.

1:19:36 Jaidyn, we must eat the babies. That sounds pretty good. Jaina is asshole. This is the Clipsy ones. Random El and Goat Karma. You got too many Clipsys. We don't actually have an eat the babies ISO. It never was an ISO. It's a minute 50, so I'm gonna have to... Oh yeah, don't eat the babies now. It's out. I'm sorry. Can't do that. John, this is my first O'John. Where's that? Oh, Adam and John, I see. Adam and John, this is my first donation and thus I would like to be properly dedouched. We can do that. You've been dedouched. I'm going to pronounce it dedouched. I was hit in the mouth.

1:20:20 this past summer by my brother, Sir Night-Night, who is a douchebag, as I have yet to hear him donate since I began listening. Wait a minute, he's a knight! How can he be a douchebag? I don't understand. Sir Night-Night. He clearly is not a douchebag. But he asked his brother, called him out, so you better run it and let him fight. Okay. Douchebag! I would like to also call out my future brother-in-law, Boo Vazquez as a douchebag. I hit him in the mouth months ago and have yet to hear from him in the in a form of a donation. Get it on men, anyways.

1:21:04 As a newer list right truly enjoy all the info saying that you both provide on both thursdays of the week. First i was a bit confused on the inside jokes and topics however he picked up on pretty quick he's got it or i listened and easier was to catch on what i am i still struggle with are the lucky numbers. If you could make any time to expand on this, I would greatly appreciate it. A few things I, okay, a few things I enjoy the most, well, it's a long story. A few things I enjoy the most about the ins and outs of the show are the way Adam says the word major. No, I stole it from you. John butchering any European name. No, I'm butchering the Dutch. No, pretty much any name.

1:21:52 Well, I have butchered a few names, although before I began this show a decade ago or more, I prided myself with the ability to pronounce almost anything. And I have to say that when I hear you mention kind of offhandedly, my vision's a little blurry today, I'm happy. I'm like, oh, this will be great. Can't wait to hear how you read stuff. And the non-triggered community that the show has helped cultivate. I truly believe that if there are more No Agenda listeners, the world would be a much better place. We agree by the way. Totally. I'm trying to spread the word about the show as much as I can. I recently shared animated NA to my dad and

1:22:29 and my manager about Trump's 16,000 lies according to the WAPO. They both enjoyed the commentary and the visuals provided by Dame Jennifer. I figured I can ease them both in this way, ease them both into the show. I never listened to any other podcast before, but I am so grateful my brother hit me in the mouth so I can enjoy the best podcast in the universe according to the Mueller Report. Nice, catching on. Thanks. Thanks, Chris. My 2020 goal is to gain knighthood and attend a meetup. Meetups are all over. Attend one as soon as you can. Please give up the good work and Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

CHAPTER 15 / 32 Discussion

Associate Executive Producers, Numerology in Donations

Associate Executive Producers including Zachary McLean and Joe Bisesi contributed to the show, with many utilizing "lucky numbers" like 33 and 88 in their donation amounts. The hosts discussed the significance of these numbers in the "No Agenda" community and clarified the concept of "Dimension A" as base reality versus media-driven "Dimension B."

numerology· 33· value for value· kobe bryant· dimension a

1:23:08 Okay, so we don't have the must-eat babies and but I think everyone else everything else I can do for you so thank you very much Jacob and Thank you for your courage. Don't eat me Bojied and you're scary, so scary. China is asshole! R-E-S-P-I-C-T You've got karma All right, thank you. Sean Brown's next up $234. The newsletter prompted me to empty my PayPal account. Oh, it works. Finally. Yeah. I have been listening for years and never donated. Keep up the great work and thank you. Thank you, Sean. From Salt Lake City. Thank you so much.

1:23:59 He didn't ask for a de-douching, so I guess we just leave that as it is. Yeah, well, if he maybe doesn't want one. That's what I have to assume. Zachary McLean in Cottage Grove, Minnesota nuts. 220-222. A lot of Minnesotans in today. They're listening for stories about Amy. Feeling inadequate. ITM feeling inadequate. Not donating in a few weeks. Go chefs! He wants that jingle go chef. We don't have a go chef jingle and no no he just says go chefs, then he says jingle colon Okay, he just throws that in because he thought it was funny deep fake John there goes the zephyr Doesn't exist oh wait there is one no that's and that's not true. I'm hold that kid. Let me check there goes the zipper only seven cars though Oh my god. That's he really wanted that I

1:24:57 That's the deep fake of Peterson. Yeah, Peterson. Yeah. Okay, Bernie. I have all the power the power or the president joke one. That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good we had a big debate about that one idea for in the show mixer last show and a real-time mudflaps check from John. Hold on. Yeah. Oh boy, they're bigger than ever there. He looks like the tide must be out. Oh, yeah, horrible. Just mud mud everywhere. All you can see is the mud. Black Knight yet to claim and will wait, not necessarily. I preached the scam of Tesla. By the way, you can wait all you want. That doesn't mean you're a Black Knight. I preached the scam of Tesla on Twitter and freed him to the zero hedge. Elon Musk killed Epstein.

1:25:45 Yeah, do we need to disclaim that this so we don't get sued by the thing so by the estate or something like that? Obviously high humor. Yes. It is indeed high humor. No jingles. No, no karma got one jingle for you I'm the president of the United States. I have all of the power. Yes, you do You do Bernie Also wanted the jingle with the I played Zephyr. I played it. Oh you played but you played it in line. It's linearly Okay, good enough Joe Brother Joe Bisexual. Bessessy. Oh Bessessy. I told you my pitch is a little blurred.

1:26:30 20510. I'm excited to take part in the Dame Drive and gift my wife her Dame hood on the Noah Jenner Nation. Lady Cara of the Wicca Pog is an amazing mother, wife, and I'm quite happy to have her at the round table. Pickles and sticky green at the round table, please. What's sticky green? I don't know. Okay. I've got it. President Trump doesn't say. I'm putting in the order right now. There's $150 for the Dame Drive accounting below and 55 10 for the make Chris Wilson a dude. I'm sorry, a Duke drive. Oh, is this songs are totally rad. I know you've got somebody's gonna have to be a Chris. You keep them track of this. Keep track of this, Chris. Otherwise, you're never gonna get it.

1:27:25 I would like to ask a few questions and hopefully add some content. I saw a headline on Fox News that the helicopter company of the flight where Kobe died was not cleared for the inclement weather. Is this real? We did a whole thing on this and Adam, I think, covered it probably better than anybody in the news networks, especially Fox. Seems to me if you're cleared to fly, whether shouldn't matter since it can sneak up on you mid-flight. Yeah, you should listen to that episode because the second part of your sentence there means you probably didn't listen or understand it. No, they did not... Of course we don't have the episode number handy. Some in the chat room might.

1:28:09 They did not, it's a part 135 which means they can do helicopter services but not on instruments. And that is pretty much 99% of all helicopter transport companies. We're really ones that operate and lease them out. They don't have that. So yes, but it doesn't that's why you need to listen to it because the situation that took place It was mistakes were made way before he got into the weather. You don't just get in weather like oh I'm on instruments. I'll live no so and there were other issues with this many of nature of customers in that Service, I thought was the most interesting. Yes, exactly. That's something you don't we don't consider

1:28:56 I must ask for clarification, he continues, regarding your explanation of dimensions of A versus B in a recent show. I thought dimension A was Fox News, believers, and dimension B was CNN and MSNBC. No, dimension A is reality. There you go. Reality. Dimension B is unreality and it could be on Fox News, it could be on CNN, all of those people are over in Dimension B. Dimension B can be crazy on both sides of the political spectrum. We point that out quite often. But there is a base reality, this is, you know, the reality. Isn't the show teaching us to be straddlers? No! If anything, you don't want to be a straddler of the dimensions.

1:29:47 You want to be solidly in the reality dimension. Okay, is this not right? No. In a previous dimension segment, you made it seem like the show was dimension A and the M5M is dimension B. Yes. Yes, there you go. You got that part right. What if someone came to your door one day and had proof that they were your brother or sister? Would you slam the door in their face after saying, do you know where your data is now slave? What is this sentence? Am I reading this wrong? What if someone came to your door one day and had proof they were your brother or sister? Would you slam the door in their face?

1:30:27 After saying do you know where your data is now? It's like I'm not quite sure this thing has to do with the 2023 and me maybe I have no idea what it means. Anyway, I I wouldn't say that anyway, this concludes my questions. The last one was pretty odd And will you just what happens when you straddle? This concludes my questions. I'll leave you with the fact that I love this podcast. I MoFax too. Just going back to the question about the magic numbers, we didn't actually answer that. The 33 is the magic number and we just noticed a long time ago that whenever something was weird in the news, the number 33 is always mentioned for no apparent reason.

1:31:15 And it's yeah, and you just start to notice it cropping up now. There's also 42 which is the most important number in the universe for that I I point you the answer to everything in the answer to everything in the universe. Thank you for that I point you to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and there's also 11 and 7 which are lucky numbers and 8 is the Chinese lucky number Yeah, so and 88 is even more lucky 8 8 8 is even more lucky and 8 8 8 8 The license plates in Hong Kong are sold for millions of dollars with those numbers on there. So the interesting thing about numbers is once we started doing value for value, it didn't take long before people started sending codes.

1:31:57 in their donation numbers. Yeah. Such as Jews like to send something with 18 in it, very lucky for them, and they do that at weddings, at bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, it's like $18.18, you're pretty stingy, but okay. So everyone has a relationship to a number, and when it's an executive or associate executive producership, then that is often explained to us why that is important. Exactly. And we are all when we started noticing it was like there's a penchant for numerology amongst the listeners of this show and the producers. Really everybody has something with an everybody in the world has a favorite number or lucky number. I believe this is probably true but we exploit it. That's right we exploit it. We exploit it. Just be honest about it we exploit it.

CHAPTER 16 / 32 Discussion

Listener Letters, New World Order Jingle

Tristan Allen celebrated his 16th birthday with a donation and requested several show jingles. The hosts also addressed a listener's "mondegreen" regarding the "Propagate" jingle, clarifying that the lyrics refer to the "New World Order" rather than a "New Water Order."

tristan allen· jingles· new world order· rubbleizer· george clooney

1:32:52 And it's turned out to work out, which is even more interesting. People like these numbers. Anyway, and if you get a bill for $33.33, yeah, it's the cosmos. Christian Allen is our last associate executive producer. I assume I'm pronouncing that correctly. Maple Ridge, BC, $200. My Tristan is 16 on Monday and he and has asked me to donate to No Agenda. I did this last year for him as well. Yeah, helping him work towards knighthood. He and I both love No Agenda and he would donate on his own if he was working. Below is his letter. I love this. Could I please have some karma for me and my family as well if I'm if it is alright a few jingle requests.

1:33:44 They are Rubble iser George Clooney's a spy and Vladimir's don't worry be happy on a Putin. Also, please add me to the birthday list as my birthday is on Monday. Thank you so much for the great podcast you produce every week twice. I'll always be checking on Wednesday or Saturday to see if there's a new episode because I always look forward to listening. It's always a new episode. I'm always learning about topics not covered in the news or in school either for that matter. I like to know how old our friend is here for that matter. I want to thank my parents for me. You turned 16. Oh, he's 16. Duh. Yeah. I want to thank my parents for being the best I could ever ask for always being there for me and teaching me important life skills. Without them, I wouldn't be here and I wouldn't I would have very little direction in my life. Well, that's nice. Keep up the amazing work. Signed Tristan. There you go. Yeah, we do have we do have one make good. I wanted to read it. Did he ask for jingles or anything? Yes, he did. And I'm

1:34:49 I'm looking for the number station, the Rubbleizer Out. It's another one of those. Oh, that one. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, it's a good one if I could find it. What the heck is going on with me today? That doesn't... I don't know. Yeah, and even if I look for Rubbleizer, I got lots of rubble, but I don't have the... It's named something weird, I know that. See, Mike? I feel really stupid now. Anyway, I will work on the other ones first. What do we have? Anyone at regular karma? George Clooney is a spy. Got that, yeah. And don't worry, be happy. Got that, and... George Clooney is a spy. Don't worry. Be happy.

1:35:46 Don't worry, be happy. Don't worry, be happy. You've got karma. It's just something's wrong. I mean, even the the Clooney is a spy bit was the wrong one. What is going on? Did someone touch my machine? It wasn't me. Mars aren't that long you have one make good donation notary which is from twelve sixteen miss jamie see she's writing this note because the donation show twelve sixteen my was a two two hundred fourteen dollars thirty three cent donation that apparently losses a company note.

1:36:31 Apparently PayPal does not like a line of emojis followed by Cliff Notes version of War and Peace. And this was a night, she's on the nighting list I checked. And she's meant to be nighted, but she's gonna be nighted today. And she wanted to be a black knight, but that's not our fault. So it wasn't, she doesn't get it, I told her that. And she said, okay, I'll just be the lady of the highway. Anyway, Given the federal government's having classified piloting a 40-ton vehicle amid a sea of insane four-wheel drivers hell-bent on killing themselves a safety-sensitive function thus making me eligible for random drug testing, I hereby request sausage and sauerkraut at the round table.

1:37:21 Okay, sausage and sour. I think we've had that before at the roundtable. Maybe, it makes sense. This is a classic. I also have two questions for Adam. Okay. In the propagate jingle, why do they say new water order? I think they say new world order. That's what I thought. She's hearing new water. So I think you're I think you're mishearing and when you give karma with the twist of goat What part of the goat are you twisting to use your imagination? Yeah, you can tell by the sound hello Inquiring minds want to know no jingles, but I could use some patience karma for dealing with the suicidal four-wheelers out there

1:38:07 Running the I-35 through the construction in Austin. It's the worst. Yes, it really is. This Jamie of the highway. Yes. And isn't she a ham as well? Yeah, she says 73s. Yeah, 73s. K5ACC. Still not able to find the darn rubble-izer. That's really bothering, but I did find the correct Clooney and she wants a Karma, which is still I just want to play the Clooney one since we didn't have the right one. Does she need anything else for this make good? Just regular Karma. Good Karma. But is it goat Karma or? No, I know she didn't say goat Karma. Okay. George Clooney! George Clooney! George Clooney! Is a spy! Just catching up. You've got Karma.

1:38:54 So let's stop the show for a second and ask you what was it, why, what was it labeled? What changed? I found it and I also found out why I couldn't find it. And this is a good tip for everybody. This is yes a good tip. People will often, and this is legacy stuff, people will often... Legacy. I just, are you just like one of these guys like, are you with the Fugees? You're just gonna repeat everything I say? Yes. In the background. Of course, because it's important. Legacy. Legacy clip. Yes, it is important. If you send me a clip Please leave the spaces if you're going to in the in the file name a lot of people will do Underscores or that's old-school like hackers. So you do that each word is capitalized So the reason why I couldn't find this is I'm looking for the string and of course this is regular expressions that I'm using and in order to get some reasonable hits and not a huge list I

1:39:51 I know it's like numbers, number station, but this is all written together. No agenda, number station, all one word. So I will change that now after I play it. India, hangout, mic, stand by, 33, 33, 33, Robilizer out. Ah, that's what it was. And that does happen. So then if you just I'm looking for whole words when I do it, that's the way the search is set up. So long way of saying, hey, just send it to me with spaces. Spaces are valid characters, no? Nowadays. Not on PayPal, but otherwise, yes. That would be very nice. Anything else? Was that it? No, I wanted to thank all these folks for producing show. What is it? 1217. 1217. That's right.

1:40:51 We will That's the heavy lifting. We just went through yeah, yeah, it's gonna be much shorter the second one We'll be back of course with the more deconstruction on Thursday at this point, the first or second Thursday of the week and I... oh that'll be just before we go to Florida and Sunday will actually be from Florida so doing a meet up there more about that later but the point is if you'd like to support us it is value for value we like crazy numbers just explain it to them go to devorak.org slash n a now let's see if you too hear new water order

1:41:29 Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Water! Water! Shut up! Not even close to water. I think you could hear it. If you want to, you could hear water. I tried. It's just because of the whirr. Water! Water! In that case, it came through clear. I don't know what happened. Certainly an interesting mishear.

CHAPTER 17 / 32 Discussion

Podcast Awards, The Podcast Academy Critique

A new organization called The Podcast Academy announced the "Golden Mike Awards" to honor top shows in the industry. The hosts criticized the move as an "insider scam" designed to commercialize the medium, arguing that podcasting's strength lies in its independence from mainstream award structures.

podcast academy· golden mike awards· bloomberg· iheartradio· wondery

1:42:10 I want to thank Olaf, Sir Wolwo, Wolwo, W-O-L-W-O. He's from Deutschland. Hallo Deutschland! Adam John. Being a producer of the NOA Agenda Show and at the same time a member of the Content Marketing Association in Germany called the CMF, the Content Marketing Forum, I came up with an idea. I would like to donate the submission to the Best of Content Marketing Award for the German contest. Yes. I would like to submit the animated No Agenda show as a YouTube series to promote the No Agenda show. I'll fill out all the forms, etc., cover all expenses as a way to hit people in the mouth. What do you think? Should I proceed?" I said yes. I didn't even ask you, John. I said, yes, let's do it right away. You didn't have to ask me. And I think it's... You know what I'd say. Of course, you'd say yes.

1:43:03 What a great idea. Awards? It's a great... Oh, don't get me started on awards. Have you followed the latest controversy? No. So there's been I think two or three different podcast awards. And yeah, I think I Heart Radio has their own podcast awards. Yeah, it's just like Playboy used to give awards to its writers. I mean, come on. Right, so there used to be something called the Podcast Academy. I don't think I'm a member, but I do remember they put me in the Hall of Fame. I remember that. So now some other podcast network has decided to resurrect the Podcast Academy

1:43:49 and subsequently do awards. And the thing that was interesting is this was announced partially in a Bloomberg article where, let me see if I can actually have it here. If this is Bloomberg, it's very funny actually. Yes, Bloomberg. Podcast producers are creating their... This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg, you know, owned by the guy who's not really running. Podcast producers are creating their own version of the Oscars. The newly formed Podcast Academy plans to hold Golden Mike Awards in early 2021.

1:44:31 Hernan Lopez, founder and chief executive officer of podcasting startup Wondery, didn't they raise money? Didn't Wondery raise like a ton of money? Maybe. Wants to create the Academy Awards of Podcasting. Lopez has recruited 10 of his peers to form the Podcast Academy. Hmm, did you get a memo? Yeah, I guess we're not peers. A non-profit group modeled after similar organizations in film, TV and music. The association will host a new award show, the Golden Mics, in 2021 to honor the top shows and crafts people in on-demand audio. And I think this is where it comes. Born in the halls of public radio,

1:45:17 Podcasting has emerged as one of the fastest... Whoa! I know. What? Exactly. Did Johnny come lately, suddenly, or where it all came from? No, this is Bloomberg and... No, I'm just saying, Bloomberg is claiming that public radio had something to do with the origin story? No, no. Born in the halls of public radio. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Well, they're full of shit. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Go on.

1:45:53 Well, so the article is you know, so it just kind of goes downhill from there, but it's based on an interview with him So, of course, you got all the all the old-school. He came out of these a hack from public radio Is he he may be I don't know might be hey, I'm a hack from public radio. That's a good point. That's a good point Anyway, I just wanted to say public radio, you know, they get the problem with public No, let's not even do that. Let's just talk about awards and If I can just say, fuck awards. I mean seriously. I love awards. I like being... the award that really meant something to me was the Marconi Award in the Netherlands.

1:46:33 because it was it's a long established true academy of broadcasters and it was for my contribution to broadcasting. So in other words, fuck awards except the one you won. No. And it's an elitist award. It's only something that's been established. It's like a big shot award. But screw the rest of them. So they should have no other awards. Correct. You won one of the top awards you can possibly get. That's exactly why I bring it up. No. That makes sense. No, my point is that awards are meaningless. Please look at award shows. Is it you really think this is going to make a difference in anyone's life? Look at the ratings. People don't care about awards. It's just a sad ploy to commercialize your show.

1:47:24 And I when I received my award it was not for my show, it was not for the No Agenda show, it was something else. And so now they're going to have all these categories and this is where it gets a little more interesting. You plugged the show I hope. You saw the acceptance speech. I can't remember it. I thanked you. I didn't thank the show. I thanked you. I did not promote the show. Well, thank you for thanking me, but yes, okay. And unfortunately, I forgot to thank my wife and my daughter. It was pretty dumb. I did thank Medicaid and PED. I made bad choices in my acceptance speech. It was a rush job. You need a card. Checklist. But the biggest, oh, I'm reading back to the

1:48:04 The biggest award shows become an industry unto themselves, with consultants getting paid millions of dollars to help win awards. There are months of campaigning and hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and the payoff is measurable. Sales of the latest Grammy winners jumped 100%. So it's just like, it's a circle jerk and here's the best, it's like we want to celebrate the people behind the mic who produce and write the... Wait a minute, that's not a problem. So what the article says the following, these awards are commercial garbage and it takes a lot of work to win one of them because you have to hire consultants and experts and you gotta load up and then we give an award to this dumb guy who we're honoring because he's good at his job. I mean there's something missing from the logic here. If you're gonna give awards to people that are good at their job,

1:49:01 You don't need all the accouterments, you don't need all these consultants and all the rest of it. Okay, I'm sorry, I don't even know what I'm talking about. It's just irksome. It's just awards are just stupid. No, they're not stupid. They're very valuable. They take up places on a mantle. People ask their conversation starters. There's a lot of value to an award. You're talking about the actual award award having it in your hands the award. Yeah. All right. It's just podcasting is not the same as the music business or television or movie. It is by definition not a mainstream medium. So there are hundreds of thousands of podcasts and you're only going to honor the ones that are on the Wondery Network or the iHeart Network.

1:49:57 So it doesn't really serve... It's an insider scam. Scam! Scam! That's what it is. I wasn't saying it for that matter. I got drawn into this conversation. I didn't reply to the thread at all. But it was like, oh, adding Adam Curry. I'm sure he wants... No! No, no, no. You know what's good? I want Joe Rogan, March 3rd. That's gonna help the show. Don't need an award. What happened to the Webbys? Gone. What happened to the... No, they're not. John, they're completely bankrupt. The whole thing is done. The Webbys is over. I didn't know they went bankrupt. Pretty much. The Streamys, same thing. I never heard of the Streamys. Is that from the urologist conferences? Yes, yes, yes. They have the Streamys at the urologist conferences. You too can become a Streamy.

CHAPTER 18 / 32 Discussion

US-EU Trade, Airbus and Boeing Tariffs

The United States increased tariffs on European Union goods to 10% following a WTO ruling on illegal subsidies for Airbus. These trade tensions have expanded to include 25% tariffs on products like French wine and cheese, which consumers are beginning to notice in retail pricing.

tariffs· european union· airbus· boeing· wine prices

1:50:48 The streamies, I should probably write that down. Consider that as a new category. The streamies. Yes. For those of you who have SureFlow. Well, we won the podcasting, podcasting award. Yeah, back when it was a news show. Yeah, back when it was, you know, was still when it was important when it counted, when the people were voting on it. Yeah, not a bunch of schlubs. In some academy we know nothing about. Oh my goodness. All right, before we go a step further, I have to do two European clips because people are irked that we're not doing them. And I'm sure you have one as well. I do. The first is something that was interesting. I did not know this was taking place. I knew some of it. Here is tariffs that the U.S. is

1:51:44 Leveeing on the European Union. The 10% tariff was introduced back in October, after the World Trade Organization ruled that the US could legally impose tariffs worth 7.5 billion dollars or 6.9 billion euros. That was because the EU had been caught illegally subsidizing Airbus. But the WTO has also ruled that the US were guilty of subsidizing its own giant aircraft manufacturer Boeing. In the coming months it'll rule on what level of tariffs the EU can impose.

1:52:28 Since the October ruling, the US has also slapped a 25% tariff on other EU products, including wine, cheese, coffee and olives. Airbus has said the tariffs will only increase trade tensions between the EU and the US. Well, that's the point, is to increase tensions, to whip you people in shape over there. To the Airbus, Boeing, that's a fight that's been ongoing and quite honestly is protectionary at this point. You know, because Boeing is in trouble with the 737 MAX. Southwest Airlines has 85 of them just sitting in the desert waiting until the glitch can be fixed. But it's the wine. I've noticed this and I wanted to ask you. I like a 2016 Pinot Noir. That's the year. But you can't get it for under 20 bucks now. Have you noticed the prices have gone up since these tariffs came in?

1:53:26 No. Because I wasn't thinking about it. I just said to Tina the other day, I said, man, the wine is expensive. It's like you should be able to get a good bottle for under $20. It's crazy. That's what I learned. That's what I learned from you. Well, not a 2016. Not a 2016. You have to go with your phone and a camera and go to the store and then go to the drive and then call me and then we'll put it on the screen. I can see what you're doing and I can tell you what to get. Right, so you haven't noticed the 25% tariff on French wine? No, I have not. Well, that's odd. Most of the French wine is done on long-term contracts and I don't know how they deal with the tariffs. And then, thank you, I have a clip from the European Union from the Starfleet Command, the European Parliament. Just a short one, but I thought a fine

CHAPTER 19 / 32 Discussion

European Parliament, Mick Wallace Reprimand

Irish MEP Mick Wallace was reprimanded in the European Parliament for using the term "gobscheit" to describe Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. The incident highlighted the colorful language sometimes used in EU legislative sessions.

mick wallace· european parliament· juan guaido· ireland· gobscheit

1:54:23 A fine little piece of politicking in the EU. An Irish member of parliament, Mick Wallace, is reprimanded. For something he said about Venezuela's Guaido and in particular to the Europeans I had you do not agree that the recognition of Guaido is an absolute embarrassment To anyone that has to occupy this chamber and it's a disgrace on on the part of the member states of Europe that so many of them have a recognized elected gobshite Mr. Wallace, Mr. Wallace. Now you did use the word gobscheidt sir and I would like to reprimand you over that. It's called Guido gobscheidt which is a... Gobscheidt? Gobscheidt! Shithead? I guess but gobscheidt you get reprimanded. Well gob would be a British Britishism for a head and scheidt is German for for shit so shithead.

CHAPTER 20 / 32 Discussion

France, Public Hospital Staff Protests

Public hospitals in France are facing significant strain as doctors and nurses protest against budget cuts and "the politics of accountancy." Staff shortages have led to patients waiting on stretchers for extended periods, prompting hundreds of doctors to resign from administrative duties in protest.

france· healthcare· nhs· hospital strikes· budget cuts

1:55:22 It's making these up as he goes along. The word gobscheit. The gobscheit. Well, the Brits say shite. Gobscheit. Okay, it's British. I like gobscheit. I think that's a great term. I'm going to use it myself. Thank you for introducing me. I like gobscheit. Now, the clip I have is, this is the story that they're not going to play here because the French We don't talk a lot about NHS and some of these different health systems in Canada and England, but the French really have a great socialized medicine system. A lot of Brits moved to France in their older years so they get taken care of by French doctors. Very common. But apparently it's falling apart too. Walls around Paris' Hôpital Saint-Louis attest to rising anger among doctors.

1:56:12 Medics say they lack funds and manpower, they're short on care and admin assistance, and over 70 nurses' posts remain unfilled. It's our appeal to the public. Hospitals save you, so let's save them. This hematologist says low salaries and rising workloads are driving staff away. Beds are being lost because we lack staff. So sometimes you see patients waiting on stretchers in the emergency ward. People are suffering and it's not acceptable to leave them on stretchers like that. Cutbacks are not just theoretical.

1:56:52 practical consequences and we see them on the ground every day. French public hospitals have been hit by walkouts for 10 months. Wow. Medics saying budget cuts and market-based policies by successive governments have left patients suffering Yassine is one of hundreds of doctors to have given up their administrative functions in protest. We need to find another way of sounding the alarm bell for the public and the government over the problems in our hospitals. These days, it's the politics of accountancy that's running the hospitals, whereas it should be the politics of public health. Gee! Did you hear that? The politics of accountancy? Yes. The bean counters. Yeah.

CHAPTER 21 / 32 Discussion

Amsterdam, Tourist Cannabis Ban Proposal

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema is considering a ban on tourists purchasing cannabis to curb "over-tourism" and antisocial behavior. Residents complain that cheap flights and Airbnb have led to an influx of visitors who harass locals and strain the city's resources.

amsterdam· cannabis· tourism· femke halsema· red light district

1:57:38 This is what always happens. Yep. And it even happens in the best public health system in the world, France. We'll just give them that. It's the same in the UK, the NHS, the same problem. The bean counters come in and they say, you know, we can cut. Why don't they bean counters, for example, go after the Pentagon in the United States? They don't do that. Oh, wait, don't we have an audit? Too much work. Go audit somebody else. Okay, we'll go audit somebody else. Yeah, what they do then is they come out and audit me. Bastards. The mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, she's a greenie, she's been around for a long time, I don't like her particularly. She is, although I think this is a good idea, or it has to be done, is considering banning tourists from buying weed when they visit Amsterdam.

1:58:35 Because it's out of control. Why? It's out of control. It's out of control. People come to Amsterdam, get high, get drunk, puke everywhere, piss in mailboxes, harass the whores. Hey, how tall are these guys? What? What? I said, how tall are these guys that can piss in a mailbox? In the Netherlands they have mailboxes in every... the front door has a mailbox? A mail slot? A mail... yes, exactly. Hey dear, what's that sticking in the flap there at the door in the front? And then they go to the red light district and harass our whores. Hey, hey, hey, it's got to be done. Over and out. I agree with the mayor on this. F**k off. Sorry, I didn't mean to use that, but I do mean it. It's ruining the city.

1:59:25 What was it any different than it used to be? Cheap air flights have made it just so enticing for all of Europe to Friday leave, go to Amsterdam. Well, blame the airlines then. Okay. I mean, they make the place enticing like you just said, and everyone plows, flies there because it's cheap and it's not that expensive to stay there. compared to other places. Airbnb is another point that these it really is Silicon Valley to some degree. It's Airbnb, it's EasyJet and there's a couple others but I think EasyJet really really started the trend.

2:00:07 And there's no respect, let's put it that way. We're not Vegas. How about policing a little better? You got a guy drunk in public, stoned and drunk and puking. Hit him over the head with a club and throw him in jail. You're mistaking the Netherlands for some place that actually has police that can do anything. Oh no, they are afraid. The police are afraid. They walk away from trouble. They don't get involved in fights anymore. There's no policing. Of course, and that is also part of the mayor's policy. Oh, she's going to increase the police? No, no, she's going to take away weed. That's not going to solve the problem.

2:00:49 No, but it's news from the locals can still buy weed. But yes, yes, you've got a car. So in other words, so you're going to go to a weeds place. It's tracking up the economy. And you're going to sit there and you're going to say, well, I can't buy weed. Does anybody want to buy some weed for me? Or you just say, I got you just say, I got some weed, man. Want to buy some weed for me? You know, there's that. Yeah. You make a little create a lot of middlemen. Yeah, it's going back to illegality. It's never been legal. Anyway, that's just what's going on with Europe. We are so much better when it comes to weed in America and LGBT, open sexuality. You can't do that in Europe anymore. You get beaten up by people who disagree with it. Well, while we're overseas, let's take a look at the, get an update on the Afghan deal.

CHAPTER 22 / 32 Discussion

Afghanistan, Taliban Peace Agreement Progress

Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced that a seven-day "reduction in violence" agreement with the Taliban is imminent. If successful, this could lead to a formal peace deal and the gradual withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan.

afghanistan· taliban· mark esper· mike pompeo· peace deal

2:01:45 Oh yes, I'm curious. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told a panel at the Munich Security Conference today that he believes a peace agreement with the Taliban looks quote very promising. A seven-day reduction in violence is expected to be formally announced tomorrow and if successful it will be followed by a US-Taliban peace deal. But Esper did acknowledge today that there are risks. We have to give peace a chance that the the best if not only way forward in Afghanistan is through a political agreement. and that means taking some risk. Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday to discuss the details of the plan which includes the gradual withdrawal of US forces. So I don't really understand if there's any change. It sounds like the same old same old to me. Sounds like it to me too.

CHAPTER 23 / 32 Discussion

Coronavirus, Global Outbreak and China Lockdown

The CDC is intensifying efforts to combat the coronavirus as deaths in China surpass 1,500. Reports from Shanghai and Wenzhou describe severe lockdowns where residents are restricted to their homes and international schools are being used as quarantine sites, disrupting global supply chains and education.

coronavirus· wuhan· shanghai· cdc· quarantine

2:02:36 Let's do another overseas story. Of course, it's coronavirus. I got a couple of different stories. I got one, the longer one is the CBS overview. You want to play that? Yeah, let's see. Wait, CBS. Coronavirus vaccine plus CBS overview. Ah, got it. Tonight, the CDC is intensifying the battle against the deadly coronavirus that has infected more than 50,000 people worldwide. More than 1,500 people have died, nearly all of them in China. Carter Evans now on China's drastic measures to stop the outbreak. This is what can happen to people who don't wear masks in the epicenter of the outbreak.

2:03:17 As security forces patrol the streets of Wuhan during a total lockdown. For medical personnel, protective gear like suits and masks are in short supply, as is adequate care. Hospitals and clinics are overflowing with the sick and dying. In the US, the CDC is ramping up its own response to the epidemic by setting up five laboratories around the country where people with flu-like symptoms can now go and be tested for the virus if their flu results are negative. This has scientists around the world race to develop a vaccine. So you're using DNA and genetics to teach the body how to attack the virus? Exactly, and to recognize the virus and then attack it immediately.

2:04:00 Inovio Pharmaceuticals in San Diego has already successfully developed vaccines for Ebola and Zika. Dr. Kate Broderick says the coronavirus vaccine they're working on now is showing promise. It's currently being tested in the lab, literally as we speak, and we're manufacturing large-scale quantities of it to get it into human testing by the early summer. Noticeable the following, and you should probably do this check, Christina Rotterdam and Ellen now in in Chicago both of them have expressed just in casual conversation they're extreme they're not worried about much extremely worried about Corona they've something something about how it was presented or how it's still being presented has really scared Millennials

2:04:54 And I'm not sure if this is consistent, but I thought that was interesting that those two both kind of said, um, I don't care about much. I really don't want this coronavirus. That sounds a little afraid of it. Well, there's 1500 deaths. So let's play the flu update and listen to the deaths of the flu from the flu. And listen to the final conclusion. By the way, this one is from PBS because the CBS story left out an important fact at the end that's reported here by PBS and The Flu. The US government is preparing to evacuate about 400 Americans tomorrow night from the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined at a Japanese port. That's Corona Update Saturday. Well, then tell me what I'm supposed to do. The Flu Report, PBS. Okay, you totally said something different.

2:05:41 It's okay. Back in this country, a second wave of the flu is hitting children especially hard. U.S. health officials said today that 92 children have died so far this season. That is the most in 10 years. Overall, some 26 million Americans have caught the flu and about 14,000 have died. Those numbers are not especially high compared with other years. I have a complimentary clip for that. from the dr. drew the press is creates hysteria and headlines that are now divorced from the facts I will not know when we actually have a pandemic coming I will not be able from reading I'll put them on hold from reading the press I will not be able to know

2:06:26 What we've got on our hands and this is a perfect example that so here are the headlines now Tens of thousands of more cases that we had realized 300 dead in China When the headline should read in spite of it being milder and infecting many more tens of thousands people that we knew The death rate still remains just 300 people. Mm-hmm. The numerator versus the nominator is point oh oh oh oh oh oh three percent Right, I don't know. It is in other words you put 300 over 40,000 That's the death rate for them from coronavirus right because they're realizing now it was much more widespread much milder much less likely to kill anybody except people that are immunocompromised and are old or at risk for complications of our illnesses you are much more likely to die the flu right now and

2:07:15 than the coronavirus right now. Why isn't that the headline? Why aren't they saying get your flu shots? A reminder, don't worry about this one, the CDC's got it. That's a very good point. It's a good point except for the fact that they do tell you to get the flu shot. I honestly I haven't seen a commercial for the flu shot or a promo for it in a while. Well, we had a couple of clips of it recently. No, just I haven't seen it. But the point is of the clip that I had here, which is 14,000 dad compared to the 1,500. Right. Technically the way they see in China if it's killing Chinese, it's times 10. They have to lock it down. It's much more important. I have an update from our professor in Shanghai, Professor JJ and ACJCD. Things are much worse.

2:08:12 There's no problem with infections and illness. Rather, the crackdown on travel and commerce has dropped off to a trickle in certain places. This is in Shanghai. However, in Wenzhou, I've been taught how to pronounce it. A metro area of 10.6 million people, people are locked inside their apartment complexes. When I asked a friend if she could escape by saying that she wanted to go to a hospital, she said that she would be arrested if she did so. The high-speed train no longer stops at Wenzhou. Hence, unless people have a car, they cannot leave the city and I trust that highways are blocked off anyway.

2:08:52 The stores and markets are not getting new supplies. My friend Hefei, in Hefei, about 230 miles east-north-east of Wuhan, is also on lockdown. He works at an international school. They locked him in the school! They do let him leave the compound once a week to buy food. Relatively, I'm living in paradise in Shanghai. All the markets are open and well-stocked. One more major issue with school closings, technically kids are still in school online. They have assignments or video lectures. But the British exams, the IGCSE and A-levels are coming this spring and many students will not be prepared. That means a huge number of Chinese kids who would otherwise attend university in the UK, Europe, Canada, and the US and Australia will not be eligible. Just another effect of the just-in-time model of modern assembly line society. So there you go. They're still keeping them locked in though. That's very interesting. The whole thing is just to put the squeeze on us.

CHAPTER 24 / 32 Discussion

American Factory, Obama Documentary Review

The Oscar-winning documentary "American Factory," produced by Higher Ground Productions, examines a Chinese-owned glass factory in Dayton, Ohio. The film highlights the cultural clash between Chinese management and American workers, ultimately suggesting that automation is the inevitable future of manufacturing.

american factory· barack obama· netflix· automation· dayton ohio

2:09:58 Well, I don't see how it puts the squeeze on us. I think it puts the squeeze on them. We lose a lot of our suppliers are all in China. Well, no, not all. I mean, we have some people have gone to alternatives. There's India, there's Vietnam and apparently some American factory. This actually brings me to a point that I was going to bring up later, but I want to do it now. I watched the documentary American Factory. Are you familiar with this documentary? Yes, and it was like who was the people behind it? It was it was the Obamas. Yes. Well, actually it's participant media and that's Jeff Skoll. That's the you know, the PayPal guys. That's where all their money came from. It's semi Elon Musk type crowd, but Jeff Skoll is a very elite.

2:10:50 And then if you if you watch the documentary stars up push it participant media then much later on you get a little higher ground productions You know not really a big deal, so it's more to me like a stamp of approval in fact It took a little bit of the trailer the Oscar goes to I'm sorry. This is not the trailer. They won the Oscar for best Documentary I guess I will play this now the Oscar goes to American Factory Notice you don't hear any Obama name in here at all whatsoever.

2:11:49 Our film is from Ohio and China. Go Buckeyes! And, um, sorry. And, but it really could be from anywhere that people put on a uniform, a punch clock, trying to make their families have a better life. Working people have it harder and harder these days. And we believe that Notice, by the way, this is not a This is really why I wanted you to hear this part. The award was, you know, they have trophy babes on award shows. This was clearly a Chinese, a young Chinese man who handed them the awards. And we do need to remember China owns a large portion of Hollywood. So keep that in mind. Thank you, Academy.

2:12:54 Thank you to everyone who trusted us to tell your story. Xie xie, Chow De Wang. Thank you to our unstoppable crew, our beloved friends and family, Yi Chen Zhang, Mi-Jae Lee, our unstoppable editor, Lindsay Yutes, and to those big-hearted people at Netflix, Participant Media, Higher Ground Productions, and the tough, inventive, great people of Dayton, Ohio. Okay, quick little, and I'm gonna get into my review. Quick little... Why is everybody so unstoppable? What is, what was the reference to unstoppable? What does that mean? Oh, I'll get to that. I think it's a part of my review. Here's a quick little 50 second piece of an interview with

2:13:37 The director and just Julia Reichert I guess in our hometown Dayton, Ohio There was a big General Motors plants that actually like built the middle class of Dayton as factories often do you know the blue-collar middle class? Yeah, but you know people could send their kids to college that was security. They could own a home It built that kind of middle class of our town so that plant closed in 08 as the economy was Collapsing around us. Yeah, we didn't know that was gonna happen. We made a film about that and called The Last Truck. So fast forward about eight years and that plant stood empty, you know, raccoons living in it, rusting, very sad blight on our community. And a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur bought the plant and brought over 300 or more Chinese supervisors, workers, and hired 2,000 American blue-collar workers.

2:14:30 And all I will say is, complications ensue. Okay, so you understand, you get the premise of the movie, of the documentary. So I decided to watch this because, you know, it won the award, it popped up on Netflix, I knew that the Obamas had put their stamp of approval on it, but really nowhere is Obama, Michelle or Barack mentioned, it's very minor titling, I was surprised by that. But it has their seal of approval. The minute I turned this documentary on, the first thing I thought is, oh, it's dramatized. I thought they had reenacted something because you're literally inside the Chinese billionaire entrepreneur. I'm doing big air quotes because like that exists in China. You're in his jet, you're flying around, you're very intimate, very, very, you know, and it's a lot of subtitles because he doesn't speak any English.

2:15:30 and very candid conversation. When you say that Chinese entrepreneurial billionaire like that exists in China, what do you mean? There are billionaires in China. There's probably more than there are here. Yes, but you don't exist outside of the party. I think that's what I mean. You are a part of the Chinese part of the system. You're part of the system. So yes, you're an entrepreneur, but an entrepreneur for us means I'm bucking the system. You go against something, you create something new. This guy basically took a factory that built trucks and moved his car glass company into it.

2:16:13 The whole documentary is consistently... now they picked six Americans to follow, so they brought in 300 Chinese workers and they of course live, you know, five to an apartment, they work 14-hour shifts, they work six days a week. The Americans, the ones they chose, I felt were kind of schlubby. I mean, there was a thousand American workers, the ones they chose, each of them had an issue. And so the contrast was continuously, look at these workers and then look at the Americans. And then, you know, the Chinese are pushing the Americans, you know, it's like the shadow system where they have people supervising you and the Japanese were very good at that, now the Chinese are doing that. And they keep showing this dichotomy between the American workers who are like, hey man, that's dangerous, we want a union. And then the Chinese billionaire entrepreneur is literally in this documentary saying, wow,

2:17:15 they're just no good. They're overconfident, the American workers have received too much encouragement as children, they have no, they're lazy, they're out of shape, they're not healthy, they don't want to work hard, they have very, very odd cultural ideas, and then the other Chinese executives are saying we can't even teach them, their fingers are too fat. So So it continues on like this, then some of the executive management, the US management is invited over to China and they witness company songs, the whole indoctrination. But continuously for an hour and a half, it's Chinese workers great, high output, disciplined American workers, shit. And this goes on, and I'm like, what is the message? Why is Obama involved? What is going on?

2:18:10 And as you know, Obama was very friendly to China. He went over there right his first term, bowed himself down to his toes, and oh yes, and all this Chai Com money came in, everything was allowed, just lots of stuff. It happened before Obama as well, but Obama definitely the promoter. And then in the last five minutes, it all came together. So this crescendo of American workers suck, they're no good, you should, and you heard the director say we should unite working together. They go through this whole thing of how bad they are and that you see them shattering glass and making mistakes, all expertly edited and produced. I'm sure that it's not like that throughout the whole factory.

2:18:54 And then at the last four minutes, it's like, well these American workers are really no good. And then they unveil, take off, showing the billionaire who's once again come to Ohio to visit for this problematic plant, even says, you think I like coming here? It's a pain in the ass to come here every month. I hate it here. Get your people in order. Get these stupid Americans to work right. And she says, no worries. And he uncovers two robotic arms. And then The movie starts to end, they throw up a title. By 2035, 283 million Americans will no longer have work because of automation.

2:19:35 And I'm like, oh my god, this is Obama's fuck you to Trump. This is the, you can't stop it. You can't make Americans competitive. You can't have, where's your magic wand? You can't have factories do well in America. It's all gonna be automated and the Chinese are gonna win. That was the message and it was incredibly disturbing. Un-American and just, and of course they won the award. China owns Hollywood. by an Asian guy. I think he was Chinese. Come on! It was really, really, really disturbing to see how we just were made to look like shit and that China is the answer to everything and that they're gonna overpower us with their automation anyway. That's my review. Wow. That's the best review you've ever done. Seriously?

2:20:31 Yeah, I was dynamite. Thank you. Well, I wish I'd seen the movie so I could at least thrown in a wrench But I sounds like I don't need to do it's worth watching and again it started off. I thought it was a reenactment I'm like I can't put this documentary you don't typically get that kind of access for anything and And literally this Chinese guy the billionaire is just I'm these stupid Americans. They can't do anything. They just no good, huh? Yeah, huh? So all right. Well, that's a good warning. Yeah, I suggest everybody go take a look at that and then while I'm on the topic on Netflix It is on Netflix. Well, by the way, there goes our opportunity for Netflix But it truly an Obama FU to Trump that that that that's really what it was The Munich Security Summit is on now in Munich

CHAPTER 25 / 32 Discussion

Munich Security Conference, Nancy Pelosi Huawei Warning

Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned European nations against adopting Huawei's 5G technology, labeling the company a national security threat. During the conference, a Chinese official challenged Pelosi, questioning if Western democracy is so fragile that it could be threatened by a single technology company.

nancy pelosi· huawei· 5g· munich security conference· china

2:21:33 And Nancy Pelosi is there. She's speaking. Of course, why wouldn't she be there? Yeah, the congresswoman from San Francisco makes nothing but sense. But what she's doing though, she's doing her anti-China bit. This is regarding Huawei and 5G. And we'll just listen to her set up here. Now I'm going to say something that may not be agreeable to many of you here because you invited candor, no lecture, but candor, and that is the subject of 5G and cybersecurity. China is seeking to export its digital autocracy through its telecommunication

2:22:15 Giant Huawei. Telecommunications infrastructure, Nancy, try one more time. Huawei, threatening economic retaliation against those who do not adopt their technologies. The United States has recognized Huawei as a national security threat by putting it on our entity list, restricting engagement with US companies. Nations cannot cede our telecommunication infrastructure to China for financial expediency. So what's interesting about Nancy Pelosi doing this is she doesn't do this at home because that's Trump's message. So she's over there in Munich saying, well, and she can't even pronounce telecommunications, she's over there laying down the smack like all of a sudden she invented this China thing. I haven't heard her say anything about China ever since we followed her until Trump came along.

2:23:03 And then it got interesting because some clearly high-ranking Chinese official stood up, a woman, and she said this. I'm from the National People's Congress of China and I have a very good memory of your successful visit, the construction dialogue we had about the relationship a few years ago. My question is about Huawei. We, I think my knowledge of the how the world work is that technology is a tool and China since its reform started 40 years ago have introduced all kinds of Western technologies Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, they are all active in China and the things

2:23:50 Since we started with 1st G, 2nd G, 3rd G, 4th G, all the technologies came from Western countries, from the developed world. And China has maintained its political system. The system led by the Communist Party has become successful, it's not threatened by the technologies. How come if Huawei's technology with 5G is introduced into Western countries, then it will threaten the political system? Do you really think the democratic system is so fragile that it could be threatened by this single high-tech company of Huawei?

2:24:33 I liked her question a lot because it really said, hey, what's wrong with your system? Your democracy is so fragile that you can't handle our 5G. Well, we took your 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and we didn't change. No, we know exactly why. So how would you answer this if you were Nancy Pelosi? I would say that to have a communications network that is covering the entire country, any country that has ultimate back doors and access by the Chinese government so they can spy on every single thing we do and every little message we send so they know more about us than we know about ourselves. That's a threat to national security of any country, no matter how big or how democratic or how anything. Sadly, you weren't there. Nancy Pelosi, the

2:25:30 Just bag, oh bag of bones at this, what are you doing there Nancy? Let me just say to you that our polluting back there that Huawei was created by reverse technology of American... What she's trying to say is Huawei was created by reverse engineering American technology but no, our representative from San Francisco I don't know why she's there but that's how it comes out of her mouth. Many of you that are applauding back there that Huawei was created by reverse technology of American initiatives. That was one of the main ways that they got started. So, yeah, we take, we know the capability that Huawei has. We do not want to emulate the Chinese system. So it isn't a question of we have Huawei and we are a model, so why are you afraid of Huawei?

2:26:21 We understand the power of technology, and I say, and I've been tracking China for 30 years on trade and the rest of it in terms of intellectual property and the rest, and I tell you, unequivocally, without any hesitation, be very careful when we go down this path. This is the same Nancy Pelosi who spearheaded taking away the capability from the president to stop ZTE from doing anything in the United States. Two-faced! Two-faced! And shitty at it as well!

CHAPTER 26 / 32 Discussion

2020 Democratic Primary, Campaign Trail Update

Democratic candidates are shifting focus to Nevada and South Carolina ahead of Super Tuesday. Bernie Sanders continues to target the "1%," while Michael Bloomberg is engaging in a public feud with Donald Trump via social media as he prepares for his first primary contests.

bernie sanders· elizabeth warren· amy klobuchar· pete buttigieg· super tuesday

2:26:57 Vote this woman out. I mean, if she doesn't die beforehand, I don't want to speak ill of her. But you can't be done? You can't vote her out? No, it's kind of funny. I mean, that is, it is a canard. She is, she is a canard. She's just, she looks like a canard. It's so bad that that's our representation during this. Yeah. The hell is she doing over there? Well, I don't know. Good point. I have one just to show and get this out of the way because we do have to yeah We need to take a break. I've been going to brief me about this I want to get these two clips done. This is the campaign rundown Done by PBS on what's going on so we know who's what and what's what the 2020 race? Sorry

2:27:47 I'm sorry, this is clip one. The 2020 race and the leading Democrats are moving south. If we stand together as one people, we will not only defeat Trump, we will transform this country. In a sweep through the Super Tuesday state of North Carolina today, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont aimed to springboard off his win in New Hampshire. This is a campaign which uniquely is prepared to take on Wall Street, the insurance industry, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, and the whole damn 1%!

2:28:34 Shaking hands in neighboring South Carolina was Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Absentee voting is already underway there. Warren lunched in Charleston with hip-hop artist Benny Starr. The map is quickly expanding. Warren and Sanders started the day in the East, and Sanders plans to be in Texas, a big Super Tuesday state, tonight. But most 2020 hopefuls are farther west in Nevada. Today, the next day to decide drew an all-star lineup. of former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire activist Tom Steyer.

2:29:13 Buttigieg is hoping to maintain the momentum he got from the Iowa caucuses, where he narrowly edged out Sanders, and in New Hampshire, where he trailed just behind in second. In Las Vegas, Klobuchar criticized ideas for government-run health care by Sanders and Warren as too far left. Two-thirds of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not on that bill the sanders warren bill uh... and so that's another reason it's not we're not going to pass it uh... and uh... since we're in vegas i'd say if you're a number is not on the wheel maybe you don't want to bet on that number

2:29:51 No, that was the Bernie clip I was talking about earlier that I couldn't find. Yeah, he's coming to Texas. And he has the goes on and on and he and he's that was actually cut down because between each one of his things, the insurance companies, there was a big round of applause and the military industrial complex, a big round of applause. And behind him was a wall of old farts, old smelly farts. And they were shaking their fists like, you know, it's almost like a group of people that were irked. because they got none of it. Let's go to clip two. The calendar is driving the campaigns. The Nevada caucuses are in just over one week on the 22nd. Then South Carolina's primary is the Saturday after that. Then comes a kind of big bang for the Democratic map, Super Tuesday, when Democrats hold 16 contests and decide on a third of their convention delegates.

2:30:45 That is the central focus for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Now third in some national polls, Bloomberg is pointedly tussling with President Trump in back and forth tweets and at his campaign events like this one in Houston last night. The president attacked me this morning on Twitter and he attacked me again this afternoon in an interview. So let me say this, Mr. President, you can't bully me and I won't let you bully the American people. President Trump also has his eye on a big map. Next week he begins a campaign swing through Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and California. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Lisa Desjardins. Oh, Lisa Desjardins. You know, we've got to get that voice. Bloomberg's got this talk about a feet elite.

2:31:38 He's got this kind of funny voice. He's very... You can't bully me. He sometimes goes a little like, can't. It's a little bit like Connecticut. Yeah, Connecticut. You know, I don't think... It's just very, you know, it's kind of... I don't like his voice. It's got a slight New York quality to it that kind of makes it better, but he sounds like a creep. And he's a dog hater. Is he? Yeah, he's... Yes, he hates dogs and there was an article I had in the show notes, I think two shows ago. Whenever someone says, oh you and your dogs, because they have two dogs, he says, that's my wife's dogs. He's not... I don't think he's married. His partner's dog. I think he just lives with a woman. Julie. Julie. It's actually, you're right, he says it's Julie's dogs. I think Julie is her name. I don't know her name, but she's taller than he is.

2:32:33 And they've been hanging out, they hang out. He doesn't like gal pal, he doesn't like all these terms. I was reading about this. The guy's got all kinds of issues. He's got a yacht, he's got six houses and they're all huge. No, he has 15 houses. 15 houses, I didn't know that. Well, he's got 50, but the yacht, this is gonna get, oh yeah, he's gonna represent me. The guy's got, not only that, but it's a pretty good, it's not a Prince of Dubai yacht. But it's a pretty big yacht. Would you agree that the mainstream is in some kind of irons right now? They can't quite figure out who to root for. I mean, they know that half it's the money is Bloomberg. So they have to continuously bring Bloomberg in because he's doing gratuitous advertising. It's a bonanza. Yeah, he's paying their salaries. They love it. It's a bonanza. This is the problem. This is why the Noah Genis show is better, by the way. We don't have Bloomberg money.

CHAPTER 27 / 32 Discussion

Listener Birthdays, Linux Mint Installation

A listener from Australia shared a story about her son, Ben, who installed Linux Mint on her computer to improve her technical experience. The segment included birthday shout-outs and a comparison of the podcast's humor to the classic British radio program "The Goon Show."

linux mint· australia· goon show· benny hill· donations

2:33:27 That's for sure. And he needs some goat karma, give you that at the end. House Buying Goat Karma. Sir Herb Lamb, the Earl of Georgia, $808. Brandon Foster, $75. This list is short by the way. Penny Mosier in Australia. You think you pronounce that? Moli-a-be-nee-nee? Moli-a-be-nee-nee? I don't know how to pronounce it. It's just crazy sounding. You got me. $67.

2:34:23 She has a birthday shout out for her son, a dude named Ben turning 30 on the 19th. Long time listener. He is a long time listener on a donation program and has always shared very funny jingles and stories from your show. I thought I would try it late last year and now I listen regularly. Ben is an OTG kind of guy too and has a flip phone. Etc. Then he updated my computer and put me on Linux Mint. I'm very happy. Success! I'm very happy with it. When Ben was young... It's actually... He's named Ben. Dude named Ben. He's actually named Ben. Installing Linux Mint for mom. When Ben was younger, he was a great fan of the Goon Show. And I think you are quite like them with your jingles and sound effects and being so funny. At least I can understand you better and appreciate your media deconstruction too.

2:35:13 Well, thank you so much, Penny, and thank you, Ben. And The Goon Show? Are you familiar with The Goon Show? Yeah, it's an old British show that I guess was syndicated in Australia. A number of famous comics evolved from there into the single acts. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, excellent. It's like proto-Benny Hill, in my opinion, with more comics. Hey, you got a good kid there, Penny. You got a good kid installing Linux Mint on his mom's computer. So next up on the list is Sir Walwo in Munich, Germany, 6-006. He's the one that's doing the submission for the German marketing contest. Bill Gress in Westland, Michigan, 5555.

2:36:04 Best podcast in the universe, he says. Michael O'Meally in Toronto, Ontario. He needs some jobs, Carmel, give that to you at the end. Sir Austin Barron of the Puget Sound in Seattle, 5150. Chris Lewinsky, Sir Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta. And he begins our $50 list. These are people that donated $50 name and location. Chris, John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma. Adam Morey in Middleton, Maryland. Michael Shambaugh in Topeka, Kansas. Vicki Ferris towards her Damehood. Paul Dubois in Kerr-Hunkson, New York. Huh, I wonder where that is.

2:36:52 And last but not least is Michael Burlett in Odessa, Florida. I want to thank all these folks for supporting No Agenda with this, these producerships and for show 1217. Thank you. Yes, thank you to those who did donate. That was a very short list. It's one of the shortest we've had in months, I think. I think. It looks pretty short too. I always do it by file size. It's like, oh my God, we're not even hitting 80K kilobytes on this spreadsheet. But the people who did support us with our value for value model, thank you very much. And also those under $50, we actually had a couple who took advantage of the under 50 rule, 49.99, several who were there for anonymity, assured anonymity, but also people who are on our subscriptions, please consider taking one of those out.

2:37:44 It does help, in fact it helps a lot. If everyone had a subscription every month, we could do a lot more content. But we love seeing the numbers. We love the numerology We love our executive producers associate executive producers and everybody else who supports the best podcast in the universe Thank you so much. If you'd like to support us some more go to the vorac.org Slash and a jobs and health car jobs jobs and jobs. Let's vote You've got karma It's your birthday, birthday, on November 10th. That's right, it is the 16th of February, 2020. Here's our list. Miss Jamie of the Highways is happy birthday to... I'm sorry, wrong one. Here we go. P. Hooper.

CHAPTER 28 / 32 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, Round Table Inductions

Several producers were elevated to the peerage of the No Agenda show, including Dame Jamie, Lady of the Highway, and Sir Dude Named Daniel. The ceremony included the traditional reading of the "Round Table" menu and instructions for receiving official rings and certificates.

knighthood· damehood· round table· value for value· peerage

2:38:39 This is a belated one. Says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife Lisa Stelter. Was on Valentine's Day when she celebrated. Ron Tharpe says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife Christine. She turned 51 on the 13th. Dennis Garcia, 33 yesterday. Tristan Allen will be celebrating tomorrow. And Penny Mosier says happy birthday in advance to her son who will be 30 on February 19th. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. No title changes, but we do have a one two two Damings and and we love the dames the dame drive never stops two damings and we also have two nights, and I've got quite the list of stuff that we have at the roundtable so I'm gonna wait the sword do you got the big one I got the whopper Yes, you do

2:39:34 Up on stage, Miss Jamie of the Highway, Kara Bisesi, Daniel Tomas and Dennis Garcia. Hello! Thanks to your support of the Noah Jenner Show and the amount of $1,000 or more, you get that coveted spot here at the round table of the Knights and Danes and I am very proud to pronounce to Kate the Dame Jamie, Lady of the Highway, Lady Kara of Wicca Pog, Sir Dude Named Daniel, Knight of the Infinite Forgotten Wisdom and Sir D Data janitor of the Noe Valley for you. Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Sausage and Sauerkraut, Rib-eye and Bourgogne, Pickles and Sticky Green, Steel Reserve and Black Miles, Geishas and Sake, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils.

2:40:16 Then the favorite that we always have at the roundtable mutton and mead please pick up your rings actually go to know agenda nation comm slash rings and that is exactly where the shield will pick up the information and Get the ring and the sealing wax and your certificate out to you as soon as possible and welcome to the roundtable our new Knights and dames A special request before I go any further from C Mike. He's a long-term producer of the show. He has eight human resources. He's keeping alive and needs some jobs karma. I'm gonna give that to him. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

CHAPTER 29 / 32 Discussion

No Agenda Meetups, Global Listener Gatherings

Listeners held meetups in diverse locations including Tokyo, Japan, and Manama, Bahrain. Upcoming events are scheduled for Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio, and Albuquerque, providing opportunities for "No Agenda" producers to network and discuss media deconstruction in person.

tokyo· bahrain· florida· texas· meetups

2:40:58 That's right the no agenda meetups they're like a party quickie from the there was a more or less an impromptu Tokyo meetup Which was held recently on the 12th in Tokyo several members of no it is by the way from sir JD baron of Silicon Valley Several members of the Noah's in the nation and peerage gathered in Tokyo on the evening of February 12th 2020 the Knights and dames in attendance included sir Mark Dame Astrid the Duke and Duchess of Japan sir 3d Knight of Osaka and yours truly the Baron of Silicon Valley the assembled shared rounds of in the morning and thank you for your courage as well as tasty cocktails and snacks at Dame Astrid and sir Mark's amazing complex of books art and hip kids in Tokyo yes

2:41:55 They built this, it's like this, I forget what it's called, the tea site I think? Anyway, they showed them all the secrets. It's a huge, it's like a library, a meeting place, a place to get food, all in one. A very successful format they've made, our day master and Sir Mark. Showed the secret how you can get to the secret sake bar By pulling apart, you know pulling aside a Chinese screen There will be an extensive review at no agenda meetups calm and I'm glad that this all worked out because it was kind of a last-minute thing He said gee I'm in Tokyo can't get me in touch with the Mark and Astrid and it worked out fantastic. So I'm very happy about that Thank you for the report. And now we go to our Earl sir Dave

2:42:45 Fugazotto who did his meetup in Manama Bahrain This is sir Dave Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia, I'm at the Sherlock Holmes pub in Manama Bahrain for the most marvelous Middle East meetup in Manama Unfortunately, I sit here alone and didn't have any takers today but It's been fun in the meantime, just kind of hanging out with the heads of John and Adam. Great conversationalists as always. It's almost like they're right here with me. Anyway, I hope all things are well in the rest of the world at other meetups, and I look forward to trying this again at some other location in the morning. And no-agenda meetups are so cool, even if no one comes, they're fun.

2:43:41 Thank you. Thank you, Earl Dave, for that report. Of course, he was probably still high from seeing the Yanni concert. So he's probably just so happy. He was buzzed. Here's an overview of some of the meetups you may want to attend if there's one near you. Actually, there's one happening today in South Minneapolis, Dr. Hammer at the Ven Brewery Taproom. Monday, Fort Lauderdale. That'll be Rocco's Tavern. Look for the guy in the Spice Forest T-shirt. Thursday Kitchener Ontario local 42033 meet up in Kitchener at Moose Winooski's. Chris I'll be organizing for you. Thursday the 20th Magnolia, this coming Thursday Magnolia Texas local 667 Houstonians come for craft brews at the Lone Pint Brewery in downtown Magnolia Texas Joe organizing. Then we have the Delray Beach Florida meet up six o'clock on Friday the 21st

2:44:34 I will be there, Tina the Keeper will be there. It's at the Saltwater Brewery. There'll be many people, many organizers. I think Crystal and David Culp are the ones that ultimately are managing the No Agenda Meetups entry. Thank you for that. Brand new for Saturday, back home here almost, San Antonio, at the Flyer Saucer on Hoobner Road. Andrew White organizing that at 5.30 on Saturday. The Snow Agenda Banff, I've skied there actually. Banff meet on the slopes for the snow agenda details on the website Josh Cox and Also on Saturday Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oh, that's Jeff tohig who has been a supporter of the show I believe he's a sir and he just recovered from a Motorcycle accident and so he's back on the stick so to speak I've known the guy for I think

2:45:31 Eight years? And since I've known him, like two motorcycle accidents. It's messed him up. So go check him out and say hi at the Sidetrack Brewery Saturday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Springfield, Missouri, two o'clock, the first Springfield, Missouri meetup at Lindbergh's Tavern. Caleb Brinkman organizing that for you on Saturday. Also on the 22nd, Durham, North Carolina. Meet at the Briar Creek Beer Garden in Raleigh. Shrinking amygdala will leave more brain room for the thinky stuff is their slogan. Jeez, Saturday is huge. LAX flight 002 of the NOA Agenda. That will be in the LAX area. Meet at the Proud Bird on Aviation Boulevard. This is fantastic. Missoula, Montana, Local 406. Also on Saturday, their second meetup. Christopher Raymer organizing for you, Circus Media.

2:46:22 And on Saturday as well, Three Mile Island EVAC Zone Meetup. It's the South Central Pennsylvania Hillside Cafe in Goldsboro, Pennsylvania near the Three Mile item. Matt Weaver is organizing that and thank you very much for all the work that everyone's doing. If you want more details, go to noagendameetups.com. If you don't see anything near you, here's a crazy thought. Why don't you go ahead and set one up for yourself? They're great. They're like a potty. So I was so I was remiss in not reading this note from Daniel Tomas Oh Would you just knighted? Yes, which I'll read now. Okay, so

CHAPTER 30 / 32 Discussion

Department of Justice, Presidential Intervention Authority

A discussion regarding the President's constitutional authority over the Department of Justice featured a clip of a legal expert with a notably high-pitched voice. The segment explored the norms of prosecutorial independence versus the President's legal standing as the head of the executive branch.

department of justice· executive branch· constitution· ben shapiro· helium voice

2:47:23 I humbly ask for my knight named to be Sir Dude named Daniel, Knight of the Infinite Forgotten Wisdom. And he'll take sushi and pho at the round table, if the kitchen can scrounge that up, and apparently they can't. Finally, it would be possible to get a little bit of moving karma, goat style, that would be amazing. My smoking hot wife and I are finally moving out of our studio. Oh, very good. So but you do that for him and then we'll be fifth. Yes, in fact, in fact, I will I'll give him a special little addition there You've got karma now before we get there I only I only have the one I

2:48:11 I so possibility which I played very early on which was this one all of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs so do you have that's gonna beat mine which is not the ISO for end of show but it's an ISO based on this clip now I want to play this clip This is the president's ability to run the DOJ. This is a big, big controversy on talk radio, left and right. The president came out with a tweet saying, you know, I can do whatever I want. I could tell the DOJ to go, you know. hang someone and they have to do it. I don't think he actually said that. Well, he didn't say that, but that's the way you'd think he said that. That's what you'd think he said if you listen to the left wingers. But it's beside the point. He apparently does have the constitutional ability and nobody really exploits it except apparently Roosevelt had four Germans literally hanged during World War II under these circumstances. Really? But yeah, but that's beside the point.

2:49:12 It's this clip where this guy's trying to explain it. And this is Judy, and this is the guy. And I listened to his voice and I said, oh my God, this guy's voice. And I have a little ISO of it. He literally has a voice of somebody on helium. Okay, clip first. Yeah, play clip.

2:49:56 No, in a nutshell no. I mean you may be able to find one or two instances in our history where presidents have directly intervened but it certainly is not something that is regularly done. I'll say this, look, the president as a constitutional matter is right, he heads the executive branch and he has the power if he wants to exercise it to do it. However, There is a very well established norm that governs the Justice Department where I served, where presidents understand that they can't be seen as politicizing the Justice Department and allowing prosecutorial decisions be determined by partisan considerations. That's why you have separation. That's why presidents have respected the independence of the United States Department of Justice. Sounds a little like Ben Shapiro.

2:50:38 Has a little bit of that... Well, he's a fast talker, I think that's what you're picking up. But listen to the ISO of his voice where he maxes out the helium sound. That they can't be seen as... No, come on! That's not from the clip. Yes! Really? I'm telling you that's from the clip. From the same clip. If you play that clip again and hear that part which is right in about the middle of it, yes, that is from the clip. I did not... I will doctor stuff and you can call me out and I'll admit to it. This is not doctor. That is his voice. We'll listen again. That they can't be seen as... And now back to the clip. ...tweeted today, which is essentially that he has the right to ask the Justice Department to intervene in a criminal case. Is this something that presidents have done before?

2:51:23 No, in a nutshell no. I mean you may be able to find one or two instances in our history where presidents have directly intervened but it certainly is not something that is regularly done. I'll say this, look, the president as a constitutional matter is right, he heads the executive branch and he has the power if he wants to exercise it to do it. However, there is a very well-established norm that governs the Justice Department where I served, where presidents understand that they can't be seen as politicizing the Justice Department and allowing prosecutors... You're right! My God. Well, get him off the air. It's horrible. Get him off the air. It's no good. Horrible man.

CHAPTER 31 / 32 Discussion

Snoop Dogg, Gayle King Kobe Bryant Controversy

Rapper Snoop Dogg's criticism of Gayle King following her interview about Kobe Bryant sparked a heated debate on "Morning Joe." Host Mika Brzezinski called out major media organizations and corporate partners for failing to sufficiently defend King against online threats and harassment.

snoop dogg· gayle king· oprah winfrey· kobe bryant· morning joe

2:52:04 So that ISO is no good for the show. No, it's not really I think well, yeah, it wasn't meant to be it was just Voice this guy has I do have just a crazy off-the-wall Unhinged clip if you're into him, it's completely show business driven, but it does involve Joe and Mika So maybe you'd like that actually Christina sent it to me okay, so I don't know if you followed the the controversy of Snoop Dogg Calling out Gale, Oprah's friend there. Gale King. Gale King. Yes, I followed it. Oh, so you followed that whole thing? Well, you might like the most recent Mo Facts where Mo actually dove into it. The real problem of what Snoop's issue was is that both Gale and Oprah have a history of going after black men and letting white men slide. That's really why Snoop was angry.

2:52:55 Harvey Weinstein, you know, a lot of people. They don't attack at all. Les Moonves, Charlie Rose, all these people they work with, oh well, you know, blah blah blah blah. But when it came to Kobe, you know, so you understand it's an issue about these two black women going after black men and that's what Snoop was so mad about. And that's, you know, so neither here nor there. But what happened on Morning Joe With Joe and Mika. I mean, they did not understand the context, nor did I honestly, the context of Snoop Dogg, what he was saying. He wasn't saying go attack Gale, but you know, Gale went into this whole, oh, I'm getting death threats and I can't sleep. And then Oprah came out and said, oh, it's so horrible, so horrible.

2:53:48 And Christina sent me this. She said, dad, this is something I think probably fit in your show. Where's corporate America? Because there are where is corporate America? Where is Viacom partnerships? Let me say it again. A black female journalist fears for her life this morning. Her children are facing abuse and threats. At the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Viacom, nobody is talking about this. After preaching on a mountain for years about how dangerous it is when Donald Trump threatens members of the press. Well, guess what?

2:54:34 I think it's dangerous when Donald Trump threatens members of the press. And I think it's dangerous when pop culture figures threaten members of the press, especially a black woman doing her job who is only doing her job. You know what? We can have a debate whether the question should have been asked or not. We're so beyond that right now. We are so beyond that right now. What's the conspiracy of silence about in New York Times? Why aren't you writing about this? What about you, Washington Post? Wall Street Journal? Where are you? Viacom? Where are you? A black woman has gone to bed, a journalist, in fear of her life.

2:55:27 Wow! There's your amygdala unhinged, guy. Yes, yes, that's exactly what's going on here. So via I guess she works on CBS. Yes of my icon. Yeah calling them out big deal Holy crap, though, what you call out your own network you douche. Hey, there you go That's gonna do it affiliates I hope you got the memo we're running just a little bit late But we do have some fab end of show mixers for mixes from sir seat sitter. We've got sir Chris Wilson We've got Tom Stark weather It's just a cornucopia of great stuff. Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. That is where you can support the best podcast in the universe. Were you scoffing? What did I just hear? No, I was just wondering why my network is crapping out on me all of a sudden. Oh, well, it's because it's the end of the show. Coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in Austin, Texas. This is the capital of the drone star state, FEMA Region Number 6 on the governmental maps in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

CHAPTER 32 / 32 Discussion

Joe Biden, South Carolina Campaign Speech

Joe Biden delivered a speech in South Carolina utilizing religious rhetoric to emphasize his resilience in the primary race. The episode concluded with a musical mix featuring commentary on Hillary Clinton's potential entry into the 2020 contest and the ongoing "Orange Man Bad" media narrative.

joe biden· south carolina· hillary clinton· 2020 election· campaign song

2:56:33 And from Northern Silicon Valley, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. I'm John C. DuVorak. We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda. Remember to support us, duvorak.org slash NA. Until then, adios mofos! And remember, Grumpy Old Ben's coming up next on noagendastream.com. Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Adios! Come on everybody! You know the routine. It's Orange Man bath time! I'm gonna sing my song which won't take long We found another brief so we're going to impeach! On impeach again, like we did last winter Impeach again, like we did last year Let's impeach again, impeachment time is here Around and around and oh again, baby man

2:57:43 Joe Biden's gonna win South Carolina. Joe Biden's not gonna win South Carolina, no way! Well, you know what, he is giving it a good old try. Yeah, this is this is from a speech he gave We don't feel no ways tired. We've come too far from where we started and I don't believe he brought me this far So he's speaking to a crowd of a DOS and where we heard that before I don't feel no ways tired I've come too far this far to leave me

2:58:48 I don't believe He brought me this far. I know the Lord ain't brought me this far, so He can drop me off here, did I make myself clear? We don't feel no ways tired. I don't feel no ways tired. We've come too far. I've come too far from where I started from. I don't believe He brought me this far. I don't believe He brought me this far. I don't feel no ways tired. But I think I'm gonna get the Wuhan flu Because Bill Gates thinks fire weapons are cool When a rich pedophile makes great specific viruses That's white privilege, white privilege Making Anthony Baller the biomass There's Hillary!

2:59:44 Is she gonna do it? Maybe, you know, if she doesn't 100% close the door. But a Hillary run would be so delicious. Will it happen? It's almost too delicious to believe, my friend. And Ron, I think the key word here is not if she is going to run. When? She hasn't foreclosed the possibility. I guess she has not. Fueling speculation that she may actually run again. I even think Hillary Clinton or Bloomberg or some centrist comes in here. Could Hillary Clinton be running in 2020? I'm not running, but I'm going to keep working and speaking and standing up for what I believe. Hillary Clinton says she will not be running for president again in 2020. You know they say the third time's the charm, right?

3:00:28 I, as I say, never, never, never say never. And I will certainly tell you I'm under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it. Is she gonna do it? So maybe there does need to be a rematch. I mean, obviously I can beat him again. So will she give us what we want? Another run? The best podcast in the universe! All of my sexual fantasies involve handcuffs.