1:21:04 We do have a few people to thank for show 1243 and I'm gonna have you read because you read part of this note already And you know where are you red? Where you didn't read yes, and this is from sir mark and Dame Astrid Duke and Duchess of Japan at all the disputed islands of the Japanese Sea and they came in with three hundred thirty-three dollars 33 cents and with a whole bunch of nice pictures of themselves their staff They are wearing masks and bragging about it. Oh, yes! Dear John Adam thank you for your courage the last few months of your virus deconstruction has been the best I wanted to give an update from the front line here in Japan we have dodged the bullet so far have only 739 deaths for a population over 126 million that's 5.8 deaths per million compared that to the US with 267 deaths per million Of course
1:21:53 That includes people who drink themselves to death. And the UK with 511 deaths per million, which is definitely people who drink themselves to death! Japan is an incredible 100 times less than the UK we have... that I'm curious they must be...I bet you the Japanese are accurate with their diagnosis of death, their cause of death do what do you think? I would agree with that. The Japanese are known for precision. We're not, apparently! Everything has to have a stamp and approval so they're not going to mess around. This is why the Lexus is such a good car...the ones made in Japan. Is that why the Lexus is such a good car? It's one of the reasons
1:22:35 Okay, now back to masks. And he says we've been doing it right yeah masks work the whole country wears them for flu season every year especially in the most crowded mass transit system in the world you wear them so you don't give your cold to others and people have been doing this for years and it's no big deal no stigma attached It's also meant that that we had, oh it's also important that we had more stock. Yes several billions of them there was just enough to go around mass usage went up with COVID but it also meant that it was the weakest flu season over 10 years and we went through the hotels that he spoke about contact tracing is big here not electronic just lots of legwork all the resources have been put on that end uh on I mean put on that end
1:23:19 on phones in mass transit, and on tracking COVID clusters. We might have been lucky getting a weaker strain but it helps not having to shake hands just bow no huggy kissy greetings no talking on phones in mass transit hand sanitizers almost everywhere high adoption of touchless electronic payment systems as well as burner cards Finally, the health care system here has a low barrier to entry. My kids can go to the local doctor themselves just take their national health card mom might rock up later very much neighborhood policing system. It's it's a very sophisticated disciplined society which has a lot of downsides too
1:23:56 The kids get a feeling for what's going on. It's by no means perfect, the prevention testing measures can be seen as flawed, the reporting flawed Japan is flawed but all the micro actions combined make it a rather safe place to be right now there's a lot to be learned from this fuzzy logic and staying calm Sir Mark and Day Master Duke and Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea thank you so much for your courage and I can't wait to see you guys in Japan hope to go this year Hope to go. There's any flights? Yeah, exactly. Next on the list is Fred Librand in Medfield Massachusetts nuts $333 at the direction of Adam I've sent 333 to produce a next episode my last donation was episode 12 2-2-2 and de douching and Sprinkling of job karma would be appreciated give him a deducing You've been D douche
1:24:52 My son, Flynut Junior. Fly-not junior Yeah I've seen him around has a May 25th birthday. He's got one, and so does he. I think they're both on the birthday list you might want to check. Here's an update on what's going with the medical PPE. It ties to some of the Kaylee McEnany quotes that are making the rounds. One of my manufacturing sites produces layers used in N95 surgical masks. Here is part of what I think has been going on with lockdown and how PPE played a role
1:25:28 One, as the COVID hit the US we started summarizing more clearly what we knew about the industry. We guessed that the U S would make about 6 million N95 masks per day and the government was supposed to have a stockpile of 90 million based on 2004 paper but when created there was never more than 85 million at the start of the RONA it had about 12 million. As an example California's first request was for 20 million In late February, HHS said 90 million was wrong. The correct number should have been 330 million! Seven days later, HHS says the right number was really 3.5 billion! As we've dealt with the military via the Defense Production Act my guess is that the military and the rest of the US government did the same math and realized that the whole situation was hopelessly out of whack
1:26:24 Wait, we can make how many masks? That's not enough. At this point with the nature of the disease being very unclear the best option was to simply shut things down and give the supply chain time to get caught up. Masks and PPE will be part of the national... Meanwhile you can impeach Trump over this. Mass and PPE will be part of national defense strategy going forward. There's hoping that the rumored bill, that is a version of the Barry Amendment for medical supplies has passed soon. The Barry Amendment is legislation that requires the military to buy certain items from producers in the continental US
1:27:02 Kayleigh McEnany had a great quote in the recent briefing. Furthermore, what Crimson Contagion brought us is that President Trump was right all along about misguided economic and trade policies that left America vulnerable to pandemics." Well not vulnerable to pandemic but vulnerable due to a pandemic Yes, yes. But I totally get it so you Fred and Junior are on the list Thank you very much You see he seems to have a thing for Kaylee McEnany Yeah, I think that's the first time she's ever been mentioned in a donation segment before two times Donates again? You can assume it's gonna happen one more time Here's your jobs karma Fred Jobs jobs jobs and jobs Let's vote for job
1:27:54 You've got karma. And thank you for the support! Amy wrongfully said, that would be probably one of your clips. That quote corporate lobbying firms are being... Oh that's right we talked about the corporate lobbying firms being bailed out she's wrong there's no bailout provision for lobbyists I think we explained that but he says people should not misinterpret what that means lobbying firms including our own are making all-time high profits thanks to the abundance of new bailout slash appropriations bills
1:28:39 The biggest problem, love this. The biggest problem will be a lack of lobbyists next year because so many will retire following this year of record profits Can you believe that shit? The stage 4 and stage 5 stimulus packages are coming. Stage five he's talking about, are coming next and will likely include up to $5 trillion in new spending this is coming from the one of the money guys in DC so you can take that as some version of a future prediction sent some of the rock record profits to your way. No Agenda producers who need help of an evil corporate lobbyist can reach us, in case you need an evil corporate lobbyists, you can reach the official no agenda lobbyist firm at LobbyMeAtProtonMail.com. Jacob thank you very much for your courage and it's appreciated especially the knowledge that a stage five is coming up to 5 trillion dollars! Wooo!
1:29:44 Everybody, everybody... He's got nothing but money. Party man party! Well at least he is sharing it with us that's good news. The associate executive producer the first one is Arnis Selmans I can't find any note from him he said $289 and 56 cents He is in EE, I think. Is that Estonia? Or... Estonia! Yeah that's Estonia. He's in Estonia. Oh yeah Tallinn. Allow me to use my nifty new search bar in Microsoft. No I don't have it either let me see Search. Joanne Brady's next on the list at $220.22 By the way Arnas if you got something there you want us to say we'll send along
1:30:22 In 222 in Phoenix, Arizona. Please accept Corona cash of the best podcast ever Thanks also call out my brother Michael Brady for being a douchebag Okay Dame Jennifer by the way Arnett's appears to be a sir so I'm gonna get that straight Dame Jennifer is next on the list at 200 bucks Here's to your share of the very generous contributions we received recently regarding animated no agenda I still have major rona brain but i am so thankful i stumble on the no agenda almost ten years ago a big netty as bug nutty as i am lately i shudder to think how much crazier would be without another where she's one of the nervous rex. I'd show you think how much crazy ride me without your show and the wonderful producers i've met along the way no jingles is good definitely use a
1:31:17 Huge jobs car and maybe the Trump Pelosi combo to shake things up. She puts that as a question mark Mike My answer to that is no why? Don't shake you don't want to shake things up with experimental sketchy X Jingles, you know X's in like a experimental vehicle. The Rona has not been kind to the bottom line Please also sprinkle it out to the producers who are having trouble these days PS The 17th is my actual birthday and I feel so lucky that this is also a show day Well that sounds like she should be on the birthday. Yes She is on the birthday list actually funny Mm-hmm show day Thank y'all for your courage and support our tribe is amazing
1:32:05 Good old Dame Jennifer. And Dame Jennifer of course just did another fabulous episode of Animated No Agenda, which was the helicopter money. People don't understand us they think that we really do not understand the concept of helicopter money but interestingly it's not its HeliPayments is a whole different deal. HeliPayments in Ireland is not the same as helicopter payments that come from the Federal Reserve No, I thought it was did you see it? Did you see the... I have not. I didn't know what came out Oh my goodness! It's your bit Well, I'll check it out for sure Very funny very very funny I love seeing my own bits Your bits are the best You should use a marker to make sure that no one takes your bits Thank you Dame Jennifer And here we go with only jobs karma that makes a difference Jobs jobs jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs! You thought
1:33:06 Harma today is your birthday on the list Forrest Martin 200 bucks parts unknown. He should be on the birthday list and Let me see if he is I thought I saw him there earlier could be wrong Just making my yearly birthday donation here rights and congratulations Adam in The Keeper on their anniversary also Now he remembered it's said the 19th, so that's two days away Thank You Forrest Also thanking you both gentlemen for everything you do, keeping people informed and entertained. I would like to get an official de-douching? You've been dedouched! As it got lost in the shuffle last year... And since my job situation has improved since i was first able to donate a year ago at Jobs Karma for everybody who needs it. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs
1:34:00 And that's our list of associate executive producers and executive producers for show at 1243. It's back to our normal amounts, I think everyone is over COVID-19, I guess? Well what i appreciate the most of the shows we've done in the past couple months is people feeding back just like Dame Jennifer said no matter what it is People seem to find some comfort in listening to us and I'm proud and happy about that, but I want to thank everybody because it's really the producers. Long ago we noticed that it is better to have producers than listeners because they actually do stuff and produce and make things happen! There's no way this show would be what it is without you, without the people who support us financially, The Clips
1:34:51 Thank you. Extra thanks to so many producers who are sending, if you send a YouTube video pre-queued with the timecode it saves so much time! Thank you. Listings of time codes preclipped it's incredibly appreciated Because that's what it is. And that's why we're the best podcast in universe end of story These people, of course are executive producers and associate executive producers and they can Use these credits wherever they want to because they're official and when people see a credit They recognize it gives you stature And maybe a gig which is what a lot of people are gonna be looking for soon if not already Thank you again for all of your courage. Remember we do have another show coming up on Thursday and to support us for that go to Dvorak dot org slash N A Lots of mouth hitting going on good to see it We're happy to have your board our formula is this? We go out, but hit people in the mouth This song is such an interesting song