Episode 1272 · Thursday, 27 August 2020

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Federal health agencies face a backlash over testing protocols while the Republican National Convention tests the limits of the Hatch Act amidst civil unrest.

By The No Agenda Show | 2h 57m listen | 45 chapters
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sparked national outrage after revising COVID-19 testing guidelines to exclude asymptomatic individuals. California Governor Gavin Newsom and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo immediately rejected the federal change, characterizing the move as a political maneuver by the Trump administration to artificially lower case counts. This shift in health policy coincides with Hurricane Laura being downgraded to a category one storm as it moves toward Port Arthur, sparing Austin from the predicted deluge.

International COVID-19 spikes in Argentina and France contrast with the media's silence on Sweden's lockdown-free approach, while NPR reports a mysterious disappearance of the flu season in the Southern Hemisphere. In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer launched a massive vaccination campaign to prevent a dual-outbreak scenario. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into nursing home deaths in New York and Michigan, and the Federal Reserve announced a major strategy shift to allow inflation to rise above 2% to manage national debt. In Kenosha, media narratives surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting are being challenged by raw footage that complicates the white supremacist label applied by mainstream commentators.

Melania Trump’s Rose Garden address and Mike Pompeo’s speech from Jerusalem at the Republican National Convention drew sharp Hatch Act criticisms from PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor. Adam Curry prepares to join Joe Rogan in Austin to launch the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, a decentralized effort to protect the medium from Big Tech deplatforming. The episode concludes with a look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to save the post office by purchasing stamps.


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CHAPTER 01 / 45 Discussion

Hurricane Laura Downgraded to Category One

Hurricane Laura was downgraded to a category one storm after initially being categorized as a dangerous category four. The storm's path shifted northeast of Houston toward Port Arthur, sparing Austin and surrounding areas from significant rainfall.

hurricane laura· port arthur· houston· category four· weather update

00:00 This is a radio guy, a radio guy playing vice president. Going dark and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm worried sick that Hurricane Laura is going to knock you out, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Yeah, that's a- that's... was kind of a valid concern yesterday, but I woke up this morning and I've been kind of checking the news and has this thing been downgraded to a category two?

00:48 I didn't know what it was categorized as. Oh, yes, yesterday it was... California, we don't care. No, you got your own problems. No, it was a category four. Tina lived in Florida so long and she knows what that really means on the ground. And let me see if CNN says anything. It's just category four. That's really bad. Okay, here it goes. It's now category one storm. All right, there you go. I'm glad we had everybody out there. Rain for you. You need rain? No, we're not even rains not even it's you know, it's off of its It's like Port Arthur. It's off of a more further northeast of Houston. It's quite a ways away from us. And so I well good so No, we have zero rain we could use it. Yeah, no rain so far none at all But that's okay because that then we can go back to our your regularly scheduled programming which is outrage

CHAPTER 02 / 45 Discussion

CDC Changes COVID-19 Testing Guidelines for Asymptomatic Individuals

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its COVID-19 testing recommendations to state that people without symptoms may not need testing, even after close contact with an infected person. Media outlets and public health officials expressed outrage over the change, suggesting the policy was influenced by White House pressure to reduce reported case numbers.

cdc· covid-19· testing· asymptomatic· amy goodman

01:51 And before we get to the obvious topic that you and I are looking forward to talk about, we do have an update on COVID-19. Some outreach. I have COVID clips. Yeah, well good. Then let me start. You want to start at the top and start with Amy worried sick that this is getting worse than ever? Amy and CNN both. Oh no, we have to do that no matter what. Hold on a second. Where is it? Which clip is it? Let's see, it'd probably be COVID, Amy's, COVID flew south one, but the COVID gloom. There we go. Gloom! The United States reported 1,147 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday with over 37,000 new confirmed cases. Many of the latest outbreaks have come in schools and on college campuses as students return for fall classes.

02:45 In Tuscaloosa, the University of Alabama reported more than 560 coronavirus cases. University of Missouri confirmed nearly 160 cases on its first day of classes. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly altered its COVID-19 testing recommendations, saying people without symptoms should not be tested for coronavirus, even if they've been in close contact with an infected person. The CDC's new advice drew alarm from public health officials who say the recommendation could accelerate the spread of the disease. I love this story. This is such a great story. Just as a backgrounder, during the reporting there was shot after shot after shot after shot of somebody

03:33 Taking a long probe and shoving down somebody's nose a mile. I can't turn away. Oh, this is the old school, the one where they shove it up into your brain. Nice. Yeah. Oh, well, that's really smart. Show that. They're doing some dumb things. But this story is fantastic. And you heard the slant from Amy. Quietly, they changed it, implying they snuck into the website in the dark of night. Shh. Let's... I mean, people check the CDC website every five minutes for new information. But no, no, no, no, this change shall not stay stand CNN was outraged They have their doctor. I think it's Elizabeth Cohen. You know, it doesn't make any sense I'm not just gonna say what I'm gonna say what and I'm gonna let you fill in the blank. This is Ridiculous the CDC used to say if you've had close contact with someone with coronavirus meaning within six feet of them for 15 minutes or more you should get tested now they're saying

04:35 You should consider getting tested. Notice the voice inflection! But you might not need to unless you're a vulnerable person, which usually means older or have an underlying health condition, or your doctor or local public health official tells you to. What?! But people who are exposed to someone with coronavirus should get tested. Experts will tell you that that is the case. Why wouldn't you want to get tested? And this kind of back and forth with very subtle language where you have to click on three different places to figure out what they mean is crazy. It is not public health communication. It is clearly pressure from some force in some way. You want to communicate clearly to the American public? The CDC knows how to do that. They do that for a living. They are not doing it here and there must be a reason for it. Oh yes, I've even heard that sources inside CDC say there was pressure from the White House, which is probably true.

05:34 But this is not abnormal and it doesn't say stop being tested. They quietly changed it. They didn't go out and say stop being tested. No, you jimokes did that you morons. That's what's hilarious. I'll go back to the other assertion, which is that they talk about this as though it's a, they keep showing this test. I wouldn't want to get tested watching these videos. They're doing everything wrong if they're trying to be on message and get people tested. And of course the hypocrisy of a CDC change, which on March 6 we had very different information about wearing masks and the CDC was saying this. Right now in the United States people should not be walking around with masks.

06:21 You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to this. Right now people should not be walking around with a mask. You know the clip, I don't have to play the whole thing. But when the CDC changed, everyone went, come on, it's the CDC, things change, we've learned more about the virus. And now, now it's Trump of course. Which by the way I don't dispute. But I also understand why. This thing is over. You're terrorizing people for no good reason. But, Dr. Cohen will double down. This is a change that was made on the website that is so subtle and wasn't alerted. Okay, it's not

07:01 It's subtle, it's very clear, they even have a change, you know, what is changed in each update, kind of like, you know, what are the new features of your virus or your software. And so it's not subtle, it's there, but they didn't go out announcing it. You did all the work, dummy. making. The language is subtly changed. Americans aren't going to get this. You have to have sort of a team of scholars pour over it as if it were a biblical passage. Really now? It was in plain English to me. It didn't seem like a biblical passage that I needed some scholars to decode, which by the way I also have access to. She has dropped a little subconsciously

08:06 Americans aren't going to get this. Oh yeah, because we're dummies. No, we're not going to get the virus. Oh! Truth comes out. Let's hear it again. Americans aren't going to get this. You have to have sort of a team of scholars over it as if it were a biblical passage to figure out what they're trying to say. Oh, what a liar. I mean, I could read it if you want me to, but I think you'll take my word for it. I will say 1,200 people dead in the last 24 hours reported in a policy that may lead to fewer tests and fewer known cases. Ask yourself why?

CHAPTER 03 / 45 Discussion

Governor Gavin Newsom Rejects New CDC Testing Guidance

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will not adopt the CDC's revised COVID-19 testing guidelines. Newsom and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo criticized the federal change as a political move by the Trump administration to deny the scale of the pandemic.

gavin newsom· california· cdc· andrew cuomo· public health

08:50 And we might as well get one response from a governor to this news. Gavin Newsom, I don't know if you've been watching. I got a couple of good clips out of it. He's doing a daily show. He's got callers. He's taking calls. Hey, caller. He's got nothing else to do. Well, but it's interesting. Hi, Governor. The CDC is now saying there is no need to test even if you've been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19. And we've heard Governor Cuomo criticize this change as part of President Trump's policy of denying the problem and wanting fewer people to take the test. My questions are, do you agree with that? And what's your response to this recent change in guidance? I don't agree with the new CDC guidance period, full stop, and it's not the policy in the state of California. We will not be influenced by that change. We're influenced by the CDC.

09:39 those that are experts in the field that feel very differently. CDC is the experts. With respect to the CDC, no, that is not the policy guideline that we will embrace or adopt here in the state of California. So CDC is no longer the experts, but it was the same. Well, they're the experts when they agree with them. Yeah. I mean, this is nonsense. I mean, first of all, they say, well, the CDC is independent and Trump has been trying to do this and that. And they ask for masks and Trump hates the mask. So why didn't they not do that? But they did. I mean this is bullcrap. These guys are just cherry picking whatever they want. If the CDC, the way I see it, the CDC says that, I'm good with it. The inconsistency that the way the media interprets official messaging, you know, and my goodness there's a great

CHAPTER 04 / 45 Discussion

Austin Public Health Officials Criticize Student Social Gatherings

Austin's top medical officials expressed disappointment after photos surfaced of college students gathering in large groups on city streets. The segment contrasts the lack of medical criticism toward large Black Lives Matter protests with the strict warnings issued to students returning for the fall semester.

austin· university of texas· black lives matter· social distancing· protests

10:28 timeline of hydroxychloroquine that showed up on things called tablet. I put it in the show notes. It's a thousand miles long, but it takes you all the way. It doesn't tell you whether it's good or not. It shows you everything that happened, when it got politicized, how that worked. It's really interesting. But, you know, the point is people get confused by the media who are actually, I think it's their job to scare and confuse people. But they're making it so easy that people will just give up. I mean, so we had Austin, we had protests, the protests were broken up with horses, someone was killed, died during one of these protests. Protesting what? Black Lives Matter. I'm getting to a point here. So here's Austin's top doctor yesterday and now all of a sudden he's really upset. I have to say that yesterday I spoke about

11:25 college students being a part of this community and taking that individual responsibility and ensuring that they are not the focus of infectious outbreaks. And I was disappointed to see the photos yesterday of groups of young people together on the streets of Austin. We need to do better. We all have to be engaged in this mission together. We have to show that as college students in Austin, Texas, that we can be responsible as well. forego the usual and customary things that we do as college students temporarily while we fight this very dangerous pandemic. I think it's important for student leaders to stand up as well and to say that same message to their peers, that we have to be responsible right now and we have to ensure that we are not going to be the cause of a substantial outbreak. Okay, so you want to confuse these kids and now you can't be outside.

12:26 protesting, nothing was said, it's all fine. And now, oh no, you gotta go inside. The kids have become apathetic here. They don't care about politics. I'm liking the new pronunciation. Apathetic. Apathetic. What am I doing wrong? What am I doing wrong? Apathetic. But I like apathetic. That's the Dutch slipping in there. Yeah, they don't care. They don't care about anything. They're disillusioned. They're done with it all. They find it stupid. But you know they put up with so much of this. Well of course, of course. They all would like some money. Where's my check? F-capitalism. Where's my check?

CHAPTER 05 / 45 Discussion

New York Exempts Celebrities from COVID-19 Quarantine for VMAs

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo granted celebrities an exemption from mandatory quarantine rules to attend the MTV Video Music Awards. This move drew criticism for creating a double standard between public health mandates for citizens and special treatment for the entertainment industry.

vmas· mtv· quarantine· celebrity exemption· andrew cuomo

13:14 I hear a lot of that. Half capitalism, I need some capital. But you know, like Sunday, the Video Music Awards are going to be in New York. Well, of course, the governor has exempted celebrities from quarantine when they come into New York to attend the Video Music Awards. So that's, you know, this is... Really? Yeah. Yeah. That's the kind of messaging. And then if Maine says, Hunters, we'd really like you to practice social distancing while you're out during this bear hunting season. I mean, come on! Even I can laugh at that!

CHAPTER 06 / 45 Discussion

Global COVID-19 Spikes and the Absence of Sweden in Media

International reports indicate record daily COVID-19 cases in Argentina and France, with spikes also noted in Italy and Germany following reopening efforts. Critics point out that Sweden, which avoided strict lockdowns, is rarely mentioned in current mainstream media coverage of the pandemic.

argentina· france· sweden· reopening· lockdowns

13:52 Social distance while you're social this bear hunting, please so we do have a couple new things that we've learned It was a great before we go there. I wanted I want to get the Harry scary reports out of the way Oh, yes, okay. Oh goodness Harry scary go back. I want to go back to Amy cuz she's got it's just not us That's we're all gonna die No, well, they've got a world report here In international news Argentina reported a daily record of over 8,700 new coronavirus cases and 381 deaths Monday in Europe France confirmed a spike of nearly 4,900 new coronavirus cases Monday the country's highest single-day figure since the beginning of the pandemic

14:34 Several other European countries including Spain, Italy and Germany have also had a rise in new COVID cases after reopening. After reopening, they should not have been reopened. Yes, they violated the... Here comes the slow Zephyr, by the way. Slow Zephyr, ladies and gentlemen. Slow Zephyr. Let's go. Here we do. How are we doing on the slow Zephyr? Eight cars. Wait a minute. Hold on. We're on a slow, slow eight cars. Economy stable. I think the market's going to move sideways. Just like the train was doing.

15:18 So the theme is always the same, reopen, they prematurely reopen. Of course, nobody in none of the reports in the last weeks or months have mentioned or talked about or even mentioned Sweden, which never closed to begin with. Or a ventilator for that matter. Or ventilators, haven't been mentioned either. Where are all the people dying on the ventilators? Nah. I got more. Yeah, oh good. Good, good, good. We like them. Now this is good, we go to NPR for this one. You're going hardcore. And this is a whole report, this is a two-part clip, a whole report on what's going down in South America, which is kind of dubious because I want you to listen to these two clips because I don't understand what the messaging is here. Okay. Because it's vague, it's about how the flu season disappeared. It just wasn't there and only the COVID season?

CHAPTER 07 / 45 Discussion

NPR Reports on Disappearing Flu Season in Southern Hemisphere

NPR reported that the flu season in the Southern Hemisphere, including Chile and Australia, effectively disappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic. While health officials attribute this to masking and social distancing, skeptics question the accuracy of flu testing and suggest the data is being used to promote increased flu vaccinations in the Northern Hemisphere.

npr· influenza· southern hemisphere· chile· flu vaccine

16:15 It's strange. This is the strangest report and they never really make any conclusions or tell us anything valuable. It's very just a strange report. This is COVID flu South one flu is a seasonal illness. Flu infections peak in the winter. Well, winter is coming. I'm already gonna have a problem with this report. flu winter. It's disgusting. By the way, I have another clip coming up with a woman has There's nothing vocal fry is bad enough, but vocal fry whispered into the mic is really bad Oh, that's ASMR Flu is a seasonal illness flu infections peak in the winter well winter is coming to an end in the southern hemisphere and people there have just gone through a strange flu season one deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and

17:06 NPR's Nell Greenfield Boyce reports that... Hey man, who wants to listen to that? I'm sorry. It sounds so condescending like she's talking to kids. It's NPR. That is their model. We talk to kids. Their experience may be a sign of what's to come in northern countries like the U.S. When the virus that causes COVID-19 started spreading widely in February and March, public health officials in the Southern Hemisphere realized they were about to face a double whammy. Their flu season starts in May or June. There's always deaths and hospitalizations from flu. And now here was another severe respiratory virus? The countries took it very, very seriously. Silva Aldeguerre is the incident manager for COVID-19 with the Pan American Health Organization.

17:56 He says Southern countries did all they could to prepare for flu. They bought more vaccine. They vaccinated more people during the pre-flu season. Then they waited for influenza cases to start rising. They waited and waited and waited. Now we are well advanced during the flu season in the South, and we have not seen any spike any upsurge of flu. Flu hasn't totally disappeared but it's way way down. For example take one three-week period in the middle of winter in Chile. He says over 3,000 patients with flu-like symptoms were tested. And zero tests were positive for influenza. Ah okay the tests may be no good.

18:47 You know, it's funny you said that because I was thinking the same thing. Why did you say that? And I want to mention something else. In my entire life, and I'm older than you, I don't remember hearing about influenza tests. No, me neither. It's just all of a sudden it shows up in the news as oh, there's a normal thing. Oh, there was tested for flu and it wasn't the flu. It was tested for COVID. But when I was a kid all my entire life, I've never been tested for the flu. You get the flu. You know what it is when you get it. It's very distinctive. But I've never been tested for and I never heard of anyone being tested for but all of a sudden now we're hearing about testing for the flu. Well, I just find this to be peculiar. COVID has brought us many miracles, John. One of them is a test for the flu and no flu in South America. It's a beautiful thing. Should we listen to part two?

19:45 Yes, please. Hundreds of those tests would normally be positive for flu. The same pattern is being seen in southern Africa, Australia. Kanta Subbarao directs the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne. We are totally surprised. I mean, we have had influenza activity in January and February, and we have a few isolates from March, and then it just totally dropped off. So why did this happen? No one is really sure, but everything being done to stop COVID-19 is surely hitting flu as well. So the restriction on travel is a big

20:23 big element, mask wearing, hand washing, and all the social distancing. Still, she says the northern parts of the world should not be complacent and think they're off the hook for flu. Because influenza surprises us, viruses surprise us. We're sort of seeing very little influenza activity in the southern hemisphere. But That doesn't allow me to predict that that will be the case for the Northern Hemisphere. She and other flu experts say, get vaccinated. This is one of those years that it's more important than ever to get your flu vaccine. Stacey Schultz Cherry is a flu researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She says scientists always look at what flu strains are circulating to make predictions about what should go into next year's flu vaccine.

21:12 And even though flu cases are oddly low, they'll still be able to do that. I get it. It became a promotion. I get it. So it's a promotion. Now let me bring up a couple of journalistic issues. Oh, please do. First of all, They had 3,000, what looked like the flu, and they tested and they got no flu in Chile or wherever it was. Did anyone ask if the tests were flawed or maybe they had a bad batch of tests, test swabs or whatever the testing mechanism is? Did people have symptoms? Was there one question asked about the possibility? No. Secondly, the second question that comes to mind immediately

21:52 What did all these flu sufferers who didn't have the flu what was it that they had? 3,000 of them I'd like to know what it was Was it a bad cold they never said they never asked this is really Classic bad reporting that we see we see just it just oozes out of NPR. Oh, yeah They leave things out of the they don't even put it in the question bank. Oh Well, the push for the flu shot, the vaccine for the twindemic is still very much in play. Yes, we have Governor Whitmer of Michigan, who I'm sure is pissed off that she's not Kamala because I'm sure she was vying for it, but now she's going all out by it.

CHAPTER 08 / 45 Discussion

Governor Gretchen Whitmer Launches Michigan Flu Vaccination Campaign

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the "Facing the Flu Together" campaign, aiming to increase state vaccinations by one million people. The initiative is designed to prevent hospital overcrowding during a potential second wave of COVID-19 by reducing influenza cases.

gretchen whitmer· michigan· flu shot· vaccination· hospitals

22:37 getting the flu shot. Lit thing I will do today. Mi Whitmer announcing a new p bump up flu shot use ahea season to help with hospi a potential second wave i When we all get our flu v thousands of flu patients out of the hospitals and prevent overcrowding. The governor stating CDC estimates of roughly 740,000 Americans hospitalized from the flu last season with Michigan in 2018 ranking 38 out of the 50 states for people getting the flu vaccine.

23:16 Fluenza has the power to infect millions. The state launching the Facing the Flu Together campaign with a target of a million more Michiganders vaccinated than last year, a 33% increase. The flu vaccine does not cause the flu. There are some people whose bodies may respond to the flu vaccine with mild body aches or runny nose. That is not the flu. Ignore the pain. That's your body mounting an immune response so it can fight off the flu. The flu vaccine prevents anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of cases of the flu every year. All right, a nice little 33 in there. Always happy to hear it. Thank you very much, Governor Whitmer. Now, the entire screenplay is being unfolded down under in Australia.

CHAPTER 09 / 45 Discussion

Hydroxychloroquine Restrictions and Medical Freedom in Australia

Australian politician Craig Kelly criticized state governments for threatening doctors with prison time for prescribing hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients. Dr. Harvey Risch of Yale University also argued that the drug's effectiveness is being suppressed by the media and political interests despite evidence of its benefits when used early with zinc.

hydroxychloroquine· australia· craig kelly· zinc· harvey risch

24:03 Everything we saw happening here is if no one has learned no one was watching is happening there and Of course hydroxychloroquine is now the huge problem Because we can't have people taking it. We need some laws. Oh wait, there are laws. Here is a New South Wales politician Craig Kelly speaking out about what he finds is a scandal. On the drug hydroxychloroquine. And it's not about whether my opinion thinks the drug is effective or not, Deputy Speaker. It's about whether the big hand of government has the right

24:39 to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship and to say to the doctor that you cannot prescribe this drug to your patient if you think, not only it would help them, but it may save their life. That's what we're currently doing in Australia. At the state level, we have state governments that are putting rulings in that are actually making a doctor liable to go to prison if he prescribes. hydroxychloroquine to one of his patients if he thinks it may save their life. Now what is this based on Deputy Speaker? Well it's based on the findings of our national COVID-19 clinical evidence task force and their recommendations are and I quote

25:30 Based on the available evidence, hydroxychloroquine is potentially harmful and no more effective than standard care in treating patients with COVID-19. We therefore recommend that hydroxychloroquine should not be used. How did they come to that recommendation? Well, it goes on. Evidence informing this recommendation comes from nine randomised trials that compared hydroxychloroquine plus standard care to standard care alone. But when you go and you look at those nine trials that they looked at, not one of them looks at the way hydroxychloroquine or the doctors that advocate for this drug say it should be used. The doctors say it should be used with zinc and also an antibiotic such as azithromycin, Deputy Speaker, to give you a word to say for non-medical people.

26:24 That is how they advocate it for and also that it must be prescribed and taken in the first five days after someone becomes infected. You know, it's actually quite possible if you look at hydroxychloroquine, if you look at, gosh, there's the convalescent plasma, which is not something new. You look at the Mike Lindell ointment, flower sap. You look at Laron Limab, which is something that's been approved. You look at this, I mean there's all these different... We're probably going to do a lot of damage to influenza. I think, you know, chicken soup. I mean there's all kinds of things that have yet to be studied properly. However,

27:11 Dr. Harvey Rich is making the rounds. Don't expect to see him on CNN or MSNBC anytime soon. He's the editor of the International Journal of Cancer Research. He's a serious guy. He has the credentials and he's angry at the media. Somehow we've let politics overrule science. And it's an absurd situation. People have compared this to 1984 and the Ministry of Truth and so on that's limiting what people can say on objective facts. It's beyond belief. Here's the thing, I think they know that the treatment works. I think that basically they're afraid to even let it be tried because letting it be tried would show that it works. So the message has to be shut at all costs.

CHAPTER 10 / 45 Discussion

Perth Woman Jailed for Violating Western Australia Border Rules

A woman in Perth was sentenced to six months in jail for hitching a ride on a truck to enter Western Australia from Victoria without authorization. The harsh sentence was intended to serve as a deterrent against violating strict regional COVID-19 travel restrictions.

perth· western australia· border control· quarantine· jail

27:59 because anything will leak out and in fact it is leaking out and you see across the country people who started to speak up who become almost deathly ill and have been turned around in three days or sooner even and these are now public figures who are speaking up who said that the medicine saved their life and it's very difficult to you know close all the leaks in that dike that are being suppressed by the media that are trying to do that. Maybe one day the history book will be written and we'll learn more about it. Well, that's been my prediction from the get-go. But let me read you, while you're talking about Australia, I want to read this article. Perth woman who hid in truck, she didn't hide in the truck, she took a truck ride to enter Western Australia from Victoria. Cops' harshest penalty yet.

28:50 A Perth woman, how much, she was in Melbourne to visit her sick sister. She was given a pass to go back to Western Australia. She went into hibernation for 14 days at an expense of $2,500 in a hotel. She decided to hitch a ride on a truck instead and just go in and hang out with her boyfriend. They never caught her at the border or anything, but they found where she was living with her partner and then she got arrested and they threw her in jail. For how long? Well, I was going to say that I think the punishment currently in Australia if you violate that rule is they shave your head and they make you run naked through the streets. I'm sorry, wrong fascist. Six months. Yes, it was six months. You got six months in jail for going back home. Is that G-A-O-L jail? Maybe.

CHAPTER 11 / 45 Discussion

China Bypasses Trump to Influence U.S. State Officials

Chinese President Xi Jinping is reportedly bypassing the White House to appeal directly to U.S. state and local officials for economic cooperation. This follows reports of massive Chinese bot campaigns on Twitter designed to encourage lockdowns in Western nations like Italy and the United States.

xi jinping· china· twitter· bots· andrew cuomo

29:47 But she ended up, six months, they're gonna obviously appeal, but they're not gonna get anywhere because the magistrate says this is gonna just send the message that we need to send to keep people from pulling this stunt of this horrible virus that's gonna kill us all if we don't jail this woman in a virus-laden prison for six whole months. This is like, what is wrong with these people? Well, taking into account this New York Times article, which details how after the Wuhan lockdown, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of bots controlled by Chinese entities swarmed all over Twitter with lockdown messages targeted specifically at Italians in Italy. There's a lot going on with China in this. It just, I mean, for the New York Times to even write that is surprising.

30:51 to me, although I don't think they have their China daily anymore. I think they nixed that, it was getting a little too hot under their feet. So they had this massive social media campaign and I'm sure they did the same with New York. I mean, it's so bad, Cuomo, he talks about the Europe virus, he doesn't even say the China virus. I think I have a clip of that. Yes, you're right, he makes a point of it. Shoot, I thought I had... Dorsey's concern is from Europe. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, oh no, this virus is from Europe. Here it is. I think this is him. February 2nd, the president ordered a travel ban from China. March 1st, we have the first confirmed case in the state of New York. By March 19th, New York State is totally closed down. No state moved faster from first case to close down than the state of New York.

31:44 This is really old. We have a full travel ban from Europe. No, I'm sorry. That's I was looking for something else where he literally says It like Trump says the China virus. He says the Europe virus Please but we know we know that New York is already owned by China and just as predicted dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot-dot Cooperate with us. China's Xi bypasses Trump in appeal to state and local officials. I told you.

32:21 State and local officials in the United States can strengthen economic ties that offset the worsening rivalry between Washington and Beijing, according to Chinese autocrat Xi Jinping. We must actively cooperate with all countries, regions, and enterprises who are willing to cooperate with us, including states, localities, and enterprises in the United States," he said this following his annual policy retreat. So he's offering money. I mean, this is the China model. Well, it's working in Australia. They got that one whole the whole state. They got him on lockdown. They got the hydroxy out of there and the fear is baked in. And you've just got to appreciate the, you know, the NBA. OK, sure. I'm sure that China is behind this NBA bull crap. It's oh yes, it's Black Lives Matter bull crap. I don't know. I don't know what. And did you see the WNBA?

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WNBA Players Kneel and Wear Seven Bullet Hole Shirts

WNBA players knelt during the national anthem and wore t-shirts featuring seven bullet holes on the back to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. The demonstration is part of a broader wave of athlete activism following civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

wnba· jacob blake· kneeling· national anthem· activism

33:18 Oh my goodness, well let me just tell you, so National Anthem, they're all kneeling and they're all wearing t-shirts with the seven bullet holes on their backs. Oh that's the late, the seven bullet holes, yeah. Yeah, but on their backs man, it's like oh okay, well maybe we should find, yeah. This is seditious stuff. Seditious is exactly what it is. Now there's two more, there's one more thing. This actually was Agent Orange who heard it from the U.S. Embassy and lo and behold, it's a I don't think it's a news article yet. Let me see. I have a link here. This is probably yes, it's just the Justice Department. So this came out yesterday. Department of Justice requesting data from governors of states that issued COVID-19 orders that may have resulted in deaths of elderly nursing home residents.

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DOJ Investigates Nursing Home Deaths in Four States

The Department of Justice requested data from the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan regarding COVID-19 orders that may have led to excessive deaths in nursing homes. The investigation focuses on whether state policies violated the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.

department of justice· nursing homes· andrew cuomo· new york· michigan

34:11 Hello Cuomo. That's what I'm thinking. Hello Cuomo. Data will help inform whether Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. 10,000 murdered by Cuomo. Regarding New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan's response to COVID-19 in public nursing homes. This is a big one and you're not going to hear about it. Quiet about that. I don't want anybody to know. Not in our media we won't. Well, no, maybe no media at all. Who cares? I think, oh well, yes, I did have just one more. There is some hope and it looks like the Irish, the Irish are fed up. They want to be let out. Time for change. There's a big protest. This is one of the protest organizers. I'm not exactly sure who's behind this. Dolores Cahill, C-H-H-I-L-L.

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Anti-Lockdown Protests in Ireland Led by Dolores Cahill

A large, mask-free demonstration took place in Ireland to protest COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns. Organizer Dolores Cahill addressed the crowd, advocating for "truth and freedom" and claiming that Ireland is leading a global movement against fear-based pandemic policies.

ireland· dolores cahill· anti-lockdown· protest· dublin

35:10 It was a big, big demonstration, peaceful, no one wearing masks, everyone just chilling out. And I just clipped a bite a minute of it so we can listen. Make sure that I'm here to give you information and I want to be held to account. If my information is wrong, I will correct it and I'm asking you to do the research and find out for yourselves. So I'm going to tell you very briefly three things. who I am and that there is really good news about corona 19, covid 19. Number two, if this good news is true, what changes should we be making in Ireland and in the whole world? And number three, that Ireland is actually leading a movement in the whole world to set these changes on the map.

36:11 The opposite of fear is love. They want you to be afraid. You have to love yourselves, love each other and love Ireland. We are the change. Truth and freedom. Truth and freedom. You got it, okay. Well you can't hear I couldn't hear it. Oh really? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I actually it's weird I just heard some peace and freedom. I heard that that was well, okay. All right anyway So there there's some kind of movement going and then the only the only thing I have left over is Welcome to your future, slave. We are seeing fights like this go viral. I don't have the mask. Where businesses find themselves at times in verbal or physical confrontations with customers. My doctor would not let me wear a mask. Trying to enforce mask requirements often under state or county orders. The horrifying videos, you know, they're horrifying. They're just, they're just, they're

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Robotic Assistance Devices Deploys Mask-Enforcement Robots

Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) has deployed a robot named ROSA to identify and warn individuals not wearing face masks in businesses. CEO Steve Reinhardt noted that the level of public compliance is significantly higher when a machine, rather than a human, issues the instruction.

rosa· robotic assistance devices· steve reinhardt· face masks· automation

37:07 They're not fun. Steve Reinhardt is CEO of Robotic Assistance Devices and he's trying to take the ugliness out of these encounters by deploying a robot. We developed a face mask analytic so we can either say look for people with face masks on, look for people without face masks on. They call the robot Rosa which means responsive observation security agent. When Rosa recognizes a person about to enter a business without a mask you hear and see the warning immediately. It is a non-biased, non-confrontational approach to reminding people to wear their face masks. The robots creator acknowledges someone could choose to ignore the messages. But he says businesses are bracing for the possibility they'll have to enforce COVID-19 safety measures for years to come. And they hope to avoid scenes.

37:58 Like this. You have a machine tell you to do something. It blows my mind that the level of compliance is just skyrocketing. I love that. That's the that's the guy that owned the CEO of the company says when a machine tells people to do it, the level of compliance has just blown him away. How about that? Wow. It's like the overhead drone. Yes, the same thing. Exactly. Social distance. I know. Wow. Yeah, well, and so it begins. Well, I do one intermediate observation here based on something I've been watching this for a while. And since you mentioned China, this is China related. So the independent out of the UK is pretty much on the heels of the Guardian as a Trump hating nexus. Sure.

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The Independent Reports on Trump Meltdown Over Putin Call

The Independent published a report claiming Donald Trump shouted at National Security Advisor Michael Flynn during a lunch with Theresa May because he missed a phone call from Vladimir Putin. The article also touched on UK-China relations and the role of Huawei in Britain's 5G infrastructure.

the independent· vladimir putin· michael flynn· theresa may· huawei

38:57 And I think it's because they're gonna try to roll out a US version, something the way the Guardian has, you know, Guardian is actually a hybrid. It's half of it's United States and half of it's... Right, in the US, yeah. And the rest of it used to be originally, when I was a kid, it was a very highly regarded paper called the Manchester Guardian, and it came in a... It was printed and appeared in the United States as a kind of an onion skin paper. It was very strange. And it was considered one of the great newspapers of the world at the time. And then it became very socialist oriented with a whole bunch of socialist columns and they took over the place. And it's become now it's just the Trump hating vehicle. The independence is much the same. But I'm reading this, the latest crazy story in the independent and I'll read the headline. Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin. Former number 10 aide says. Oh my.

39:52 And the story is about apparently a dinner or something that was going on with Theresa May in Washington. This is a while ago, obviously. And it was Trump, apparently somebody passed the, well I'll just read this. Mr. Timothy, working for May, says, by a fairly extraordinary lunch during which Mr. Trump shouted at his then National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn. Quote, somebody just mentioned it passing that Vladimir Putin had asked for a call with him. Right in front of us, he absolutely shouted down Mike Flynn. Like really shouted. This was at a former dinner, it was a lunch a minute ago, but now it's a dinner.

40:27 with butlers and fancy crockery and he was properly shouting him down at the table. Which, you know, I've never heard about this. This is a while ago, but you think you would. You keep reading about what a dick he is and Flynn was just apparently a wimp for putting up with it. Yes, ma'am. All of a sudden, the article says Miss May's senior aide said he was surprised his former boss allowed Huawei, a role in developing Britain's 5G infrastructure, criticizing her 2019 decision to approve the Chinese firm as very, very unwise. He described Ms. May as being a cynoskeptic during her time in charge. He said that, and he goes on and he starts, he changes his tone saying, unwise meaning it was unwise to reject Huawei.

41:19 He said former George Osborne, I don't know what this has to do with Trump shouting down Michael Flynn. It's otherwise people won't read it. You gotta have Trump in there if you want people to read the article. George Osborne had been mistaken in developing a strategy to make China's best friend. He said the problem is that is you can't go all in with China without undermining your security relationship. And then he goes on and it's just, it just drifts off. And I couldn't figure out what the point of it was at all. But I would keep an eye on this paper, by the way, just because they're up to something. And this was a little like throw down with China. Look, we need some money. Okay, I'm with you. Look, China, we're gonna start talking about you a little bit, but you know, it could go either way. Let us know how you feel about that.

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Federal Reserve Shifts Inflation Strategy to Maintain Low Rates

The Federal Reserve unanimously approved a new strategy to allow inflation to rise above 2% before raising interest rates. This shift signals a long era of low rates and suggests the adoption of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) principles to manage national debt.

federal reserve· inflation· interest rates· mmt· wall street journal

42:14 That's the way I'm seeing it. You're gonna start seeing if you start seeing anything pro-China and the independent. You gotta think about it. Yeah. I did have late breaking news and a deconstruction from the former New York banker. Oh, I need this. You do. So this is from the Wall Street Journal headline, Fed unanimously approved shift on inflation goal ushering in long era of low rates. Subhead, the Federal Reserve unanimously approved on Thursday a new strategy that will effectively set aside a practice it has followed for more than three decades to preemptively lift interest rates to head off higher inflation.

42:52 So the New York Bank, and in the article the word symmetrically is used, and so he deconstructed this whole thing in two sentences for us. Targeting inflates the banker. Targeting inflation symmetrically means low rates for a long time. Average interest rate for debt is now around 2% down from 8% in the 90s. We can borrow much more for the same interest expense and when the average interest rate drops from here, we'll borrow even more. MMT is here to stay. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, sounds like something like that's going on. That could be related to the slow eight cars effort.

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Quantum Financial System and Ripple Cryptocurrency Rumors

Rumors circulated regarding the launch of a "Quantum Financial System" on August 27th, allegedly utilizing the Ripple (XRP) blockchain to replace the SWIFT system. The theory claims the new global monetary system will be pegged to gold and utilize off-world nodes, though financial experts remain highly skeptical.

ripple· xrp· quantum financial system· blockchain· gold standard

43:34 It's eight cars, but it's slow. Now, because he sent this to me, I have to mention today, according to the stories I've been hearing for a year, if not longer now, in relation to the cryptocurrency ripple, which is also known as XRP, that today, August 27th, the quantum financial system will go into use. And this is a fantastic story about a new blockchain-oriented global

44:13 monetary system very analogous to Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency and it will replace the SWIFT system which is currently used and of course we use that as a weapon and so we cut people out of it like Iran they can't they can't use it because they've been bad boys and girls. And to back this up They have all kinds of documents referring to things like, actually from the office of the currency controller on their website a PDF and this has been given to me several times as proof. You can tell from my scorny voice I'm very skeptical about this. I would have been all in five, six years ago but you have completely ruined me in this regard. And the idea is

45:04 that this is going to be a global currency which will be used for citizens to receive and send money to their government as well as peer-to-peer with no transaction fees, interestingly enough, and it will be pegged to the gold standard which has been Trump's evil plan all along. It was supposed to happen today. This is part of the global reset. So keep your eye on it. The best part is that, and people say this with a straight face, and I'm not scoffing at them because this has come from financial people, from lawyers, they've heard it from their accountants. Several people have sent this to me. As a kicker, this blockchain also has nodes that are located off world.

45:48 So I can't wait to see the global reset take place. This sounds like a lot of fun and you know it's not like the elites haven't called for a global reset or a financial reset. It's not like this hasn't been discussed out in the open by World Economic Forum. I just love that you know apparent this was the story behind Ripple for a long time. Oh yeah, it's gonna be something really special. I'm even there amending myself on this one, but I want it to be true. I really world. That's the giveaway. I know it's like everything is believable. But then when the off world come things coming in like, well, now you're on my turf. So now I got a problem with your story. Damn it.

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Build Back Better Campaign and Green New Deal UK

The "Build Back Better" campaign, coordinated by Green New Deal UK and funded by the European Climate Foundation, has become a global political slogan. The movement involves organizations like Greenpeace and 350.org, aiming to link COVID-19 recovery efforts to radical climate change policies.

build back better· green new deal· greenpeace· 350.org· boris johnson

46:40 Anyway, I'd like to say that what you're hearing about the news and how the media reports things in the United States is exactly the same everywhere else. Go to France 24, go to RT, go to Sky News. It's all the same. It's all the same political bullcrap about treatments and vaccines and shutdowns and lockdowns and fines and shut up slave and And above all, it's about Build Back Better. Even the Dutch now have a Build Back Better going on. And this is related directly to the Green New Deal. If you go to buildbackbetter.co.uk or maybe .uk.org, I think. The Green, wait, no, I'm sorry. Green New Deal, here it is. Green New Deal, that's D-E-A-L, not D-I-L-L.

47:39 I think is what it is. Here's their about page. We believe... so this is buildbackbetter.uk.org. There we go. We believe working together will give us the best chance of succeeding in this moment. This is a movement made up of organizations and groups from many different places. We are teachers, health care workers, students, and organizers who are fighting for change. No financial information, obviously.

48:14 As a campaign we are run by a steering group so Build Back Better is run by a steering group. The campaign was initiated... So it's the no agenda show. The campaign was initiated and is currently coordinated by Green New Deal UK. Stop, stop, stop, you gotta stop. What? Is there steering groups? This is high school stuff we're talking about here. Well, let me tell you in high school they talk about steering groups when the steering groups be some become something that's important to the Conversation. So we're gonna we're run by steering groups. This is bullshit

48:56 Steering groups? Are you kidding me? Because go back and start reading it again from the beginning because it's dumb. It's like very, very, it's juvenile. Steering groups? My experience is a steering group is when everyone tries to grab the wheel and you crash. Yeah. The campaign was initiated and is currently coordinated by Green New Deal UK, working with a growing range of groups and organizations. The campaign is drawing on existing funding from the European Climate Foundation and the Oak Foundation. That's who's sponsoring Build Back Better.

49:47 Along with, this is a steering group, Green New Deal UK, Med Act, Greenpeace, Greener Jobs Alliance, Public and Commercial Services Union, UK School Climate Network, Joint Council for Welfare and Immigrants Workforce, and the New Economics Foundation, Friends of the Earth, 350.org. So that's what is behind all of this. All of this Build Back Better, and here's the Netherlands, I have the same. It's the same bunch of boneheads. Yes. It is, but 350.org, that guy. But they've all got, I mean, the connecting everything, build back better, his political statement. This is like, what is it, Terminator 3 where he had this guy who's made out of liquid metal and all of a sudden they'd all come back together and he'd reform?

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Linking COVID-19 to Climate Change and California Heatwaves

Political leaders and activists are increasingly connecting the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change to maintain public fear. Governor Gavin Newsom cited record temperatures in Death Valley and unprecedented lightning strikes in California as evidence of a climate emergency requiring state-led "re-education."

climate change· covid-19· gavin newsom· death valley· heat dome

50:38 It's like all these little organizations 350 and all the rest of them and they're all forming one monster. Yeah, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take you right into into the the political stuff with this little set so first we start by realizing that coronavirus is connected and is now openly being connected to climate change and You're crazy if you don't see that Yeah, you are. You're crazy if you don't see it. You're crazy! Build Back Better is the theme that connects building back from coronavirus to climate change. Exactly what we expected. We've now been taught how to be afraid. As long as you can make people afraid enough,

51:24 by saying they're going to die. You do transference, you make them afraid of this, then you transference them. They weren't afraid enough about climate change, it was going nowhere. In fact, they were losing out after Climategate and some of these other things. Big problem. They got that behind them and they couldn't get the fear level back up. Now you got them so they're fearful and they're afraid of their own shadows. And you just transfer that fear from covid to climate change. You just make it OK. Your fear is actually you connected to. And by the way, I don't want to tell them how to do their job, but I do have one. One little tip they could have used, they haven't used it, it's probably too late, which is during the Black Plague, there was a climate change taking place during the Black Plague and because the temperatures had gone up a couple of degrees... Oh, I hear you! They could blame COVID on climate change. That's what they haven't done. What a... what such an easy one!

52:23 Yeah, I thought it was an easy one and I was afraid to mention it, but now it's like a little late in the game. What do you mean? The Curry-Dvorak consulting group... We could have done it. We could have hammered that shit. They would have been way ahead of the game with our help. Instead, Gavin Newsom, where he could have used our strategy, had to connect it to, you know, Wow, heat. One thing we do know, however, is we dealt with an unprecedented number of lightning strikes, some 14,000. What we do know is we dealt with unprecedented weather, a heat dome in the west coast of the United States. What we do know is we had 130 degree weather here in the state of California, which arguably, if it's not a world record, it's very close to being the world record. And Death Valley. The hottest record.

53:09 That's what I like so much about it. It's the hottest ever. It's never, it's never happened. Of course it's in Death Valley and then I'm in Death Valley. What the, who cares? Well, he's got to use it. Uh, the hottest recorded temperature in modern world history. We do know that it impact in terms of our capacity to even provide the energy needs, not only here in this state, but put pressure even outside this state. So that is somewhat anomalous. It's anomalous in the context of what we grew up with decades ago. They're almost becoming exceptions more like the rule.

53:48 And as a consequence, it begs the question, is what the scientists have been saying, 98 plus 99 percent of them for decades. I thought I stopped. Can I stop this and bring in a fact? Yeah, sure. July 10th, 1913. That was our impression of the mainstream media. And we continue.

54:47 It is overwhelming, the evidence. If you don't believe in climate change, alroshit, please come to the state of California and we will re-educate you or ultimately enlighten you. Wow! Come to California. We will re-educate you. Please come to the state of California and we will re-educate you or ultimately enlighten you as to the consequences of the earth and its temperatures increasing and the consequences that are having in terms of droughts, not just wildfires, as well as floods.

55:28 Okay, I have an idea. This is easily executable and we have the producers. This is, after all, the best podcast in the universe. We have the producers to do this. I would like a pre-print study That's what you know, that's we get all the time and it's always all that's not scientific doesn't matter in this case a preprint study that just has a whole bunch of word salad in there that shows that climate change and the increase in temperature is the direct direct cause of COVID and let's just get it out there. See what happens. I mean we might as well show how good we are and

CHAPTER 21 / 45 Discussion

Analysis of Political Slogans and Jonathan Pye Rant

Comedian Jonathan Pye criticized Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" slogan as uninspiring and vague. The segment compares various political catchphrases, including "Make America Great Again" and "Hope," noting that successful slogans often rely on broad concepts rather than specific policy promises.

jonathan pye· joe biden· build back better· maga· political marketing

56:11 You know, for the exit strategy. It's just a thought. We can do that. It's still very doable. Yeah, you know, put a couple of doctor names, affiliations, you know, and a statement of no conflict. Ah, it's going to be fantastic. We should really consider that. Last one on Build Back Better, even though Boris Johnson uses it himself, our favourite comedian news guy, Jonathan Pye, did his little rant about the Biden campaign slogan. So what's his slogan? Well, you know, like Biden for America, right? What's his slogan? Build back what? Better? Better? Better build what?

56:56 Build back better. That's awful! I mean, what does that even... Build back better? You sure about that? With a campaign slogan as catchy as that, how can he lose? Build back. It's almost as bad as I'm with her. I'm with her, i.e. it's all about me. Hand me the crown that is rightfully mine. Build back better. Make America great again. Superb campaign slogans. Brilliant. It says nothing and yet says everything. Obama. Hope. Brilliant! Doesn't mean anything. Hope? It's a concept. It's a dream. Like making America great again. You know, it doesn't mean anything. You're not promising anything. It's just concepts. Even Lock Her Up had a certain charm. Lock her up! You can't or you won't. Doesn't matter. Let's shout it anyway. Drain the swamp. Another good one. And he has, hasn't he? Lock her up.

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Media Coverage of the Republican National Convention

Mainstream media outlets consistently used the word "dark" to describe the Republican National Convention (RNC), mirroring a DNC press release. Despite the media's negative framing, the convention was noted for its high production value and upbeat tone compared to the Democratic National Convention.

rnc· m5m· cnn· scott adams· political conventions

57:59 You never know. It's like, is that real? It's so good. I like that so much. Just remember, ladies and gentlemen, here in the United States, we have an age old tradition. We elect our leaders. We choose our leaders the same way we do our laundry soap. We look at the marketing, we let the messages influence us, and we've seen quite a bit of it this past week, John. Quite a bit of what? Of laundry soap marketing. Oh yeah, well there's always that. Oh you mean you're talking about the Republican convention? Yeah, I told you I'd take you into the politics. Yeah, one giant infomercial. It was actually, yeah. But I'll tell you this, just overall, I've been watching both, I watched both of these things. Television perspective? The Republican one, I thought it was better presented. That's debatable. And I thought it was much more up-tempo, it was more upbeat.

58:52 They had a positive it was positive. It had a positive vibe. It wasn't like our yeah, I'm down. I'm sorry I'm gonna have to stop you right there. I'm sorry. I need to stop you for a supercut Yes, I need to stop you for an m5m supercut. Oh the m5m. Well, I want to hear this Here's your m5m supercut about The light nature of the RNC. It really took a dark turn. It was very ominous. Painting a dark picture. Painting a dark picture. Painting a dark picture. But a lot of people saw a very dark picture. Dark and dystopian. Absolutely dark. Dark portrait of America. Darkness, doom, and gloom. It quickly

59:42 quickly turned very dark. Pretty bleak, dark and scary. There were certainly a lot of dark and dire pronouncements. Pretty dark vision as well. Yeah, it's darkness and fear. Some of the speakers were quite dark. But there were also dark appeals to the president's base. As for the Biden campaign, it did release a statement calling the first night of the RNC dark and divisive. Dark! Well, I think by the way, that last little part of the superclips is what triggered the rest of it. It was the DNC's press release saying it was dark and divisive. So everyone's oh, yeah, that's what it was even though I don't know how many people actually watch it. I know the thing that's interesting is if you recall in 2016 at I think after one of the debates Scott Adams identified this as some kind of super persuasion a super persuader who would put the Democrats up to using the word dark and what I think is they've overplayed their hand they've just pulled it out again and

1:00:39 Come on, I mean even Rolf had to say it was well produced. You know There was some actual CNN actually saying oh Wasn't all that crazy. Really? This is true. I mean they did blast the individuals and they did Tapper came out and said well today's speakers include Donald Trump jr. A liar Oh no! I wish I had that clip. I was just watching a jaw drop. But let's listen to what NPR thought of the whole thing. Now, day two, we already got through day one. Now we're going into day two and you were expecting an analysis of some sort, maybe an overall, you know, she did well, he did well, she didn't do well, I didn't like the way this speech went. No, no, no.

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Melania Trump's Rose Garden Speech and RNC Production

First Lady Melania Trump delivered a keynote speech from the White House Rose Garden, which drew criticism from NPR and others for potential Hatch Act violations. The production, reportedly influenced by Mark Burnett's team, utilized high-end cinematography and lighting to create a polished television event.

melania trump· rose garden· rnc· mark burnett· hatch act

1:01:28 Let's listen to how NPR saw day two. Days after unveiling the replanting of the Rose Garden, the First Lady used it as the backdrop for a political speech. Yeah, in a departure from tradition, she turned federal property to her husband's personal political use. She acknowledged the crisis overshadowing the president's re-election campaign. I know many people are anxious. Now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also spoke from Jerusalem. He was on an official trip, though he maintains it was his personal time. It was the first time in 75 years a sitting Secretary of State addressed a national political convention. His predecessors had said their job was to speak for the country, not for a party. NPR national political correspondent Mara Liason is on the line. Mara, good morning.

1:02:15 Hi Steve. The first lady's speech was maybe the centerpiece of the evening. What stood out to you about it? What stood out to me was that she didn't downplay the pandemic. She didn't call it an offensive nickname. She was trying to make it clear, make the argument that the president takes it seriously, something he doesn't always convey himself. She even said, quote, I don't want to use my time attacking the other side because that just divides the country. She also acknowledged racial unrest. She clearly understood that the two top worries for the voters the Trump campaign wants to reach and win back suburban women. She also spoke in front of a small cheering crowd without masks, which is unusual. And that raised some ethical and legal concerns because she was speaking from the Rose Garden, which is part of the official White House complex and it's not supposed to be used for partisan political events. Before we get into that,

1:03:09 Just back to the television production, the differences in production, which was what I was hearing after the DNC was, oh, you know, Trump is scrambling. He's doing all these other things. It's not going to be that great. The production, well the differences in production, we were just talking about it. So clearly someone was given a mission and power to create whatever the vision was for the RNC televised streamed convention. And I hear that it's possibly two top producers from Burnett's shop who did that, which makes sense. Yeah, I heard that too. That makes sense. The DNC to me is emblematic

1:03:51 of a bunch of people you have Hollywood producers, directors, actors, you've got the top of the line, you've got all the money people, everything you need. And they were in a steering committee. At Spielberg for God's sake. And the steering committee, like everyone, no one is empowered, no one's really in charge, they're probably all over socialized and afraid to offend. Oh I don't want to thund you. They can't just say fuck it this is no good let's do it like this. Television is a contact sport. It's hardcore. Yes, we discuss this on this show a lot. Yeah, and you're going to be talked to strictly and curtly and sometimes it'll hurt. That's a burn, Curry. That's suck. You can't say that. We'll do it again. I can ask once or twice why, but at certain points, like, the crew will look at me like, shut up.

1:04:43 Let go home. Yeah, we want to go or or or or if I could move it to a meal penalty They kind of liked me for that. So it was very very difficult difficult Last night, you know, I mean the second night was just Fantastic. I thought the way the first lady that production was top-notch Oh yeah, they have cameras at the... This is Burnett again because this is like a... Top notch. It's like the survivor, it's like here comes the Bachelorette, you know? It was beautiful. Yeah, and because you have a camera position here and there. You never saw these cameras by the way from the deep shot. Well, you know, they had to rip away Michelle Obama's crabapple trees for the camera so it's such a horrible, horrible...

1:05:31 which is probably why they ripped them out. They had, it was, it was, you're right, it was like the Bachelor, the Bachelorette, it was, you know, where this phone call, somebody picks up the phone and the camera's right there on her. And you don't think that that's fishy, nobody thinks any of this is fishy. It was extremely high-end production compared to the Democrats who have Spielberg, for God's sake. But, and just the props. This, I think, was a great speech by the First Lady. The only thing she's being criticized for is her outfit. It was too militaristic, whatever. I would criticize her because I still think her accent is annoying. Well, you and Bette Midler, buddy. She literally got burned on Twitter for saying that. Yeah, well... Hey, artwork, everybody. There you go.

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Hatch Act Allegations and RNC Naturalization Ceremony

The Trump administration faced accusations of violating the Hatch Act by using federal property and personnel for political purposes during the RNC. Events cited included a naturalization ceremony for five immigrants and a pardon for a former bank robber, both filmed inside the White House.

hatch act· mike pompeo· naturalization· pardoning· rnc

1:06:23 You are the wind beneath her wings. You and Bette Midler. Really? I think it's cute. I think it's kind of cute. I mean, that's what it is. Now, I agree 100%. I think this is one of the finest Considering what their limitations were and all NPR could come up with was, well, there's a violation of the Hatch Act. In fact, if we want to go in that direction, I want you to play Amy's version of the Hatch Act violation. The Trump administration is facing accusations it's broken the law by using the powers of the federal government to aid the president's re-election campaign. During the second night of the Republican National Convention, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the convention while on a work trip in Israel in an apparent violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from participating

1:07:21 participating in political activities. House Democrats are now investigating. Two parts of Tuesday's convention were filmed inside the White House. Trump pardoned a convicted bank robber who went on to start a non-profit to help formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society. Trump, along with acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, held a naturalization ceremony inside the White House for five immigrants from Bolivia, Lebanon, India, Sudan and Ghana. The evening ended with a speech by First Lady Melania Trump in the White House Rose Garden. Melania Trump spoke in front of a live audience. It looked like several hundred in the Rose Garden, where the vast majority of the attendees, including President Trump and Mike Pence,

1:08:07 did not wear masks. CNN reports many attendees were not tested for coronavirus prior to the event. All right, I need to play. I got your mish. I got a mish clip. I'm so proud. It's not easy for me to get a mish clip. That's usually your beat. So we had last night was Trump loves chicks. Women are empowered, women rock, Trump gives them all the opportunity, there's more women in senior positions. I mean this is what the message was, I did not go ahead and fact check it for you. Tuesday night was

CHAPTER 25 / 45 Discussion

Yamiche Alcindor's Nazi Rally Comment on PBS

During PBS coverage of the RNC, reporter Yamiche Alcindor claimed that Donald Trump said there were "very fine people" at Nazi rallies in Charlottesville. The comment was criticized as a significant journalistic error and a misrepresentation of the President's actual 2017 remarks.

yamiche alcindor· pbs· charlottesville· nazi rallies· rnc

1:08:43 all about Trump's not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a racist, man. We got everybody coming on. Hershel Walker is not a racist. Just not a racist, not a racist. Well, this did not set well with Judy and Yamiche. Yamiche, what we are seeing is an aggressive attempt on the part of this party and of President Trump to say I'm not a racist. We heard that from Hershel Walker a few minutes ago. We're hearing now from State Representative Jones of Georgia, saying this president does have support among black Americans to push back on the narrative that they say is not the whole picture about him. That's right and the Republican the

1:09:40 And then, of course, while he's in office, President Trump has really, really beat up on the Black Lives Matter movement. He's called it, he's called people anarchists. He's called them not good for America. He's really called into question whether or not people should be taking to the streets after we see deaths like Jacob Blake in Wisconsin or George Floyd in Minnesota. So the RNC tonight is really trying to push back on that notion, but critics of President Trump say that no matter what people around him say, the president himself has really been the person giving his critics their ammunition. We can think back to his response after Charlottesville when he said there are very fine people that go- No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, you blew the- Been the person giving his critics their ammunition. We can think back to his response after Charlottesville when he said there are very fine people that go to Nazi rallies and even- It's nude!

1:10:30 New and improved! There's not very fine people. Holy shit! There's not very fine people on both sides. I missed this! It's very fine people at the Nazi rallies. Nazi rallies. Very fine people go to Nazi rallies. How does this woman have work? How is she even in the business? She's the worst journalist ever. There are plenty of very fine black reporters that should have her job. Let's hear it one more time. Giving his critics their ammunition. We can think back to his response after Charlottesville when he said there are very fine people that go to Nazi rallies and even now

1:11:06 We're in the midst of this racial reckoning. He's talking about the idea that he doesn't think that police reform or systemic racism is as widespread as Democrats make it be out to seem. Oh my goodness. Okay, Clip of the Day. Thank you. I was waiting for it. I think that's appropriate. Clip of the Day from Yamiche Nolles. I gotta send that to Scott Adams. That is the best version of very fine people I've ever heard. Yamiche Nolles on PBS. On PBS, your national treasure. Wow. Yeah, it's beauty, isn't it? Okay, I want to go back to something in the first clip that we drifted away from. Was the comment from NPR that

CHAPTER 26 / 45 Discussion

Mike Pompeo's Jerusalem Speech and Historical Precedent

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's address to the RNC from Jerusalem was the first time a sitting Secretary of State spoke at a convention in 75 years. The last instance occurred during the Truman administration, after which President Eisenhower discouraged the practice.

mike pompeo· jerusalem· harry truman· secretary of state· rnc

1:11:47 Pompeo, when he gave his speech, was the first time, and they mentioned that he fought for 75 years, and everybody wants to avoid doing it. Well, 75 years ago was the, we're talking about the 1946 election against Dewey. And 75 years ago, the only person that was Secretary of State was Truman's Secretary of State. So the last person to do this was Truman. And before that, it was not uncommon. It was Eisenhower who killed the practice. And then since then, no one has done it since. No one's had the guts to do it. And the longer you wait, the harder it is. So Trump reintroduces the practice that Truman was the last guy to do. I just thought that should have been mentioned, but nobody said anything. Well, Tuesday, really the Tuesday airing was the trigger fest. I mean, it was just with the naturalization

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RNC Diversity and Media Reaction to Black Speakers

The RNC featured numerous Black and minority speakers, including Senator Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, to counter narratives of racism within the party. CNN commentators dismissed the diversity as "tokenism" and an "indirect appeal to white voters" rather than a representative shift in the party's base.

rnc· tim scott· nikki herley· herschel walker· cnn

1:12:43 Excuse me, Rona, with the naturalization of the new citizens. What else? The pardoning. I think the first night was great. The first night was Trump just doing like a talk show. It's like doctors and nurses. Yeah, what are you feeling? Okay, we are unaffiliated on this show and have always been. That's why I can tell you from donating to both campaigns that not only did Trump ratchet that shit up to seven times match, but so did Joe Biden! Also seven times match. What does that even mean? It's bullcrap. I told you what it is.

1:13:33 There's money that is unaffiliated because the person or the organization doesn't want their name connected to the donation, so the way they get around the reporting requirements, some loophole lets you use that cash in someone else's name with a match. I think seven times is kind of stretching it a little bit, if you don't mind me saying. Yeah, I agree. But what I saw, so I preface this by saying in America we buy, we elect our leaders the same way we buy our soap, washing soap. And I think Trump will win, including the popular vote.

1:14:20 And I've been picking hits all my life, whether it's songs or news stories or technologies. You've been picking your nose. I said it in 2015 when everyone was laughing. It'll be just as good for this show if Biden wins. Oh, it might even be better. It might even be better. I think it might be better. But also the country won't be lost if he doesn't win. The country is better than that. I like the concept that what they're doing and they don't want a lot of people they kind of grudgingly admit that it's a little better than the Democrat horrible Democrat convention where people are literally sitting on their couches at home poorly mic'd giving a speech. Wait you have to hear the response

1:15:11 after the he's not a racist night from CNN says okay this is great in terms of what the Republicans were accomplishing this evening what they try to accomplish you're right wolf I think they definitely were trying to appeal to the base obviously they were showing a lot of diversity in the people that they had speak this evening it's not representative of the Republican Party as a whole, certainly not representative of the Republican Party or the Trump administration here in Washington, D.C. How much do you think of some of this tonight was sort of giving permission to more moderate white voters

1:15:48 that, you know what, it's okay for you to vote for Donald Trump despite his rhetoric on his, you know, some of his racist rhetoric over the last three years. Yeah, I mean, I think that is often what it's about. It's sort of an indirect appeal to white voters when you kind of put black issues black people black republicans are front and center as we saw happen tonight. Nikki Haley obviously a woman of color and then Tim Scott and then a couple of other African Americans. I mean on the whole The Rohogan party actually isn't very diverse. It sort of seemed a little diverse tonight with Tim Scott making that final sort of keynote address and then Nikki Haley making a kind of keynote address. But by and large, you know, this is a party that is right now based on sort of white identitarianism. You know, they can just say they feel that they were tokens. That's what they're saying. They're too chicken shit to say it. They're just tokens.

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C-SPAN Caller from Minnesota Expresses Fear of Riots

A self-identified Democrat from the Twin Cities called C-SPAN to express her fear of local rioting and her disappointment with the DNC's failure to address community safety. She stated that the RNC's messaging provided her with a sense of hope that was missing from her own party's convention.

c-span· minnesota· twin cities· riots· black lives matter

1:16:48 Yeah, they just tokens, tokens. So insult even to say that is insulting. Yeah. How dumb are these people? That's the that's what's starting to be picked up by. Yes, yes, of course. There's a break here. I want to play a C-SPAN call. This was a woman who came in on the Democrat line. I believe she's not a phony. You know, a lot of people call on the other line, I don't pretend to be one thing or another. And I think this harkens back onto your concept that it's really about selling soap. And if you look at the at the Republican convention, it's slick. It's the infomercial is it's well done. It's it's it's the phony baloney reality TV.

1:17:32 It's a... you nailed it, it's Burnett's people, there's no doubt about it. And let's listen to this caller, and I think she's sincere. Yes, I'm a Democrat, and our convention last week is no comparison to what I've seen in just the last two nights. What do you mean? I'm from Minnesota, where all these riots and looting and the burning started, and I I mean, not a mention about us last week, about saving our communities, helping our homeless, rebuilding our businesses. And this convention just in the last two nights has awakened me that there is hope, that there are people that are willing to fight for us people in our communities. Barb, are you in the Twin Cities area or outside?

1:18:26 In the Twin Cities. Right outside the Twin Cities. Have some of the protests frightened you? Oh, absolutely! They've been seven miles away with a new John Johnson of our party going into a neighborhood with 200 of Black Lives Matter supporters terrorizing innocent neighbors in a community. It is scary. And Barbara's gonna have to leave it there. Thank you for calling everybody this evening. We'll be back again tomorrow night. I really believe, and this is just, as a television guy, I think it supersedes everything.

1:19:14 Television and imagery supersedes in the American public don't underestimate the American public. That's a big mistake So totally huge. It's a huge mistake. Yeah, I mean look at what's popular on television And that's what people I mean, I know a very intelligent children in their 20s who love you Number one show is it not bachelor bachelorette? Oh It's what it is. It's that theme, it's that vibe, it's the smoothness, it's the... Every element. The only thing that really, really was so wrong was Judge Jeanine 2.0. I mean, I can just see Don Jr. going, yo, Kim, chill, baby. Down 50 dBs. The dog biscuits are blowing me away. That was wrong.

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Paul Begala Advises Democrats Against Hatch Act Focus

Democratic strategist Paul Begala suggested that Democrats should not fixate on Hatch Act violations regarding the RNC, as most voters do not care about such technicalities. He praised Melania Trump's speech for acknowledging the pandemic but suggested the President should have spoken from a "morgue" to highlight the death toll.

paul begala· rnc· hatch act· melania trump· dnc

1:20:08 So let's float back to NPR and they had this the Trump hater and famed very well-known Democrat strategist Paul Begala talking about the RNC event, and I just thought this would be worth listening to. I want you to know you're not alone. And we should note this adds a message for the Republicans. Other convention speakers who've mentioned the pandemic have generally praised the president for successfully fighting it in their view. How did Melania do? I thought she did very well. I thought she was the best speaker last night. Unfair to compare her to Michelle Obama or Jill Biden at the Democratic convention, but it is interesting. Dr. Biden used her time to humanize her husband, to tell the story of how their family had been shattered by tragedy and how they knitted it back together, using that as a metaphor for then what she hopes her husband can do for the country.

1:21:03 Mrs. Trump didn't go that route. She at least was the only person who spoke from the reality-based world, though. We're in the middle of a pandemic and you would have never known it from the other speakers. So I'm glad she did that. And it was noteworthy that she was, to me, as somebody who used to work in that White House, speaking from the parking lot formerly known as the Rose Garden. I'm not very happy with her aesthetic, but I did like her speech. Well, let's talk about the location, because that was one of several questions about this. We have Melania Trump from the Rose Garden. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke from Jerusalem while on an official trip. Now, he said he did it on his own time. Our correspondent Mara Liason has noted that the laws on this are weak. It's hard to say, you know, these people should go to jail or something, but there are laws and prohibitions against using federal property for personal political purposes.

1:21:53 My question to you as a political pro is, do you think voters care about that? Not many. No, I do because I'm a nerd. But I think it would be unwise for the Democrats to fixate on that too much because we're in a pandemic. I think the Democrats ought to say, look, the president should speak from a covid ward. He should speak from an ICU unit. He should speak from a morgue. From a morgue. The president should speak from a morgue. I think it's a rare double clip of the day. Now that is advice you will never get from the Curry-Dvorak consulting group. Mr. President, we think you should speak from the moor. No, but that's his advice. Now, obviously he's still plugged into the machine, and so we have not seen the Democrats.

1:22:40 Hound the president about the fact that he did the Rose Garden and the media is the m5m the media is doing it right The media has is baked off on it NPR has not I got story after story with their moaning and groaning But NPR's influence is nil. They got a lot of air. They got a lot of air time to fill so they got to do something what's the story of the point and I think Bhagat is correct that this is not nothing to harp on and it I and the fact that Pompeo spoke is, so what? It's kind of a so what moment. But that brings me to one of the WTF NPR. This came from, this is a Pence, a very short clip from NPR. And I want you to listen to this carefully. And this is a total

CHAPTER 30 / 45 Discussion

Mike Pence's Radio Background and RNC Platform

Vice President Mike Pence's polished delivery is attributed to his former career as a conservative radio talk show host in Indiana. Additionally, the Republican Party announced it would not adopt a new platform for 2020, instead pledging continued support for President Trump's existing agenda.

mike pence· indiana· radio host· rnc· political platform

1:23:26 What? What? What? They quote... You just have to listen to this clip. It just makes zero sense. Vice President Mike Pence often quotes the Bible in his speeches. Pence referenced this passage in the Old Testament during a surprise visit to the Republican National Convention on Monday. I just can't help but think of those ancient words, that who am I? And who is my family that you've brought us this far and I want to thank you for the honor of this day. Pence has helped President Trump shore up white evangelical voters and as the vice president gets ready to address the GOP convention tonight, NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with some of those evangelical voters. Okay. What was the point of that quote? Not sure.

1:24:15 They dropped this crazy quote in and, oh Pence, oh he's a Bible thumper, oh Pence is thumping a Bible. And here he is again, and he said this. And then they play this innocuous, I don't even know what it means, it probably could be, you know, it's probably interpretable, but. I learned something about Pence that somehow I did not know. But it put everything about Mike Pence into perspective for me. He's a radio guy. This is a radio guy! A radio guy playing vice president! He's brilliant! He is a radio nerd like us! Except, you know, he's more of the, I'm Mike Pence, good morning. What? Yes! His career was in radio! What? Yesssss! When was this? That's the whole... Did you watch last night?

1:25:09 Dun dun dun, nasty boys and nasty girls. You gotta... Oh no, this was what tripped me out. They did this whole, you know, the bio piece. Is that why he's got that voice? Yeah, is everybody? It's Mike Pence in the morning. Yeah, look at his career. It'll trip you. Life and early background, blah blah blah blah blah. Early career. I'm just looking at Wikipedia. I can't find it, but they had there was this whole bit of and they had him doing good morning, Indiana So now I know this is Even the name Mike Pence in the morning. This is a radio guy And it doesn't mean that he's not sincere or that he's not a good manager. I don't know but

1:25:58 His whole appearance everything says classic radio guy face perfect for radio Yeah, polish it up a little bit very interesting. It made me total sense now yeah, one of the WTF quote Clips and this is just an 11 second short clip. That was just like a I'm it's just a I You just had to play it. As the Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, the Republican Party announced it would not adopt a new platform and instead pledged its support to President Donald Trump. What? She should have used the word fealty.

CHAPTER 31 / 45 Discussion

RNC Focus on Minnesota, Maine, and School Choice

The RNC targeted key swing states by featuring speakers from Minnesota and Maine, focusing on issues like logging, farming, and fishing rights. The convention also emphasized school choice as a tactical move to appeal to parents frustrated by ongoing school closures.

minnesota· maine· school choice· vernon jones· rnc

1:26:42 What does that even mean? They pledged their fealty to Herr Trump. I mean this is the stupidest thing. For one thing, why do they need a new platform? It's the same president. So they didn't change the platform. So what? How is that even reportable? Here you go. Mike Pence radio show from three years ago. I can't help myself. Memorial Day. I know you're... Okay, okay, okay. Back it up again. No, I'm not gonna do it. You're just stepping all over my clip. I'm gonna let you go. I'm sorry. The point is, what is the point of... They pledged their fealty to Trump.

1:27:20 It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard for her say. What is fealty? Is that a lion's or a leech's? That's something you read in a fictional book. Oh, I pledge to fealty. It's like some sort of... They give all of them, you know, it's like some sort of a Holmes or Harry Potter type thing. Yeah. Game of Thrones to the to the evil side. The Republican Party has thrown, they've given, they've pledged their support for to Trump. It's just ridiculous. Anyway, I just, oh man. Yeah. And last night wasn't so enjoyable. It just wasn't.

1:27:59 It was okay, the speeches were good and they were personable and I love seeing, you know, whenever you see someone who's, you know, standing up when they clearly shouldn't be. And I think it looked like there were some exoskeletons or some really interesting technology the wounded warriors had in the front row at last night's Pence acceptance speech. But that, you know, Fort Detrick, that was beautifully lit too. That was, you know, what do we really know about Fort Detrick? I thought that was nice to see. They got the aerial shots, they explained this is where the Star Spangled Banner was written. They had some jib shots of the speech from Melania that were just like, wow! They had a crane, it wasn't even a jib. No, it was not a jib, they had a crane. They had a crane shot. That's expensive. It was actually just entertaining television. The content, you know, okay.

1:28:53 There was some funny, some, you know, little tearjerker, but at least it flowed over you, not like a one nonstop Zoom call. But it wasn't speak, yeah, it wasn't like a crappy Zoom call, it was really... It was pretty if you just turn the sound off and watch that you'd say wow this is well done Yeah, but not too much it didn't go because you have that level with title cards and beauty shots And they hadn't you know they put the light so yeah, you could do it. Well. That's why Burnett's you're right That's why again Burnett is the is the king of this, but he didn't go over the top like you've look at no you Did you look at what's the mark Levin? He does the show on Fox and

1:29:33 Yeah. Too much. That's like, oh, Republican lettering and everything. It's overproduced. He's got a fireplace. The whole, it's stupid. Lame, lame, lame. Exactly. Exactly. No, Burnett is, is to watch a guy that, of course he's been doing this forever. Yeah. And he's kind of a screwy guy if you ever see him with his wife. Oh, these guys are all whack jobs. They gotta be. Yeah, he's definitely a whack job, but he's got a sensibility about doing this type of television that is, you want to work for a guy like that just to see what you can learn. Meanwhile, the Democrats had Spielberg, that's what they got, nothing. So here's the hidden message that I picked up, which I think is important for the Trump campaign, is Minnesota and Maine. And Minnesota

1:30:26 is important. That came through to me as we had the farmers, we had a logger, all Minnesota nuts who, it was a message to Minnesota. Minnesota, Trump is doing good for you. And Maine, this has got to do something with some Voodoo electoral college stuff that he's being worked on all of a sudden the Maine lobster guys, you know they they they got their turf back that Was taken away in the name of protecting something and that was another big message that came through so I think it was you know, Minnesota and Maine is a big focus for for the campaign for the Trump and the Republicans and I also realized I've been to Bemidji, Minnesota. I just I just remembered that and

1:31:12 Bemidji. I heard someone say Bemidji, I'm like... I've been to Bemidji, Minnesota. You've been to Bemidji. I have. It was a very bad Top 40 radio station. I used to travel around and do the morning show. Where is Bemidji? In Minnesota, I don't know. I think they have a small airport. Is it near one of the lakes? That I don't remember. I don't remember. How can you forget a name like Bemidji? Yes, there's 10,000 lakes. It's right near the lakes. It's right near the lakes. Couple other before we got to take our break. Couple other things. Heavy on the school choice.

1:31:51 Trump has been pushing this real hard and I think that's a tactical move which may pay off with you know with schools not open or problematic problems opening schools Vernon Jones, I'd say That's the Democrat state representative from Georgia who I think he literally said, you know I'm a free man in Jones's you sure got his name, right? Yeah, Vernon Jones. Okay. Yeah, Vernon Jones. I Also, thank you to the First Lady for being pretty much the only person who every single time consistently said our country. She may have been hard for you to understand, you can bet they're watching, tweeting each other, but I really appreciated that. That was nice. You just don't hear it enough. Yeah, I agree.

1:32:46 So that was good and yeah, just Pence being a radio guy, it disqualifies him for presidency. I'm sorry. He cannot, he will not support Pence, a radio guy. We cannot have a radio guy running our country. It's just not going to work. I know our profile. It's not good for us. What do you think? I'm flabbergasted by this and I don't know, I think there has to have been a radio guy already. I mean, there hasn't been enough radio since radio really came into vogue in the 1919s. So since then, I don't know how many radio guys may have snuck in. I mean, a podcaster, sure.

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No Agenda Show Art and Deep State University Merchandise

The No Agenda show featured artwork by Cesium 137 for episode 1271 and announced new merchandise at the No Agenda Shop. Items include "Deep State University" t-shirts and hoodies, with a portion of the proceeds supporting the show's artists and production.

no agenda shop· deep state university· podcast art· cesium 137· merchandise

1:33:27 Well, the podcast is down the road. Hey, and with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in convention, ladies and gentlemen, John C. DeVorek. Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, also in the morning to all the boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water. and all the dames and knights out there. To the end of the morning to the trolls in our troll room. Let me get a little troll count. Hands up, trolls. We have 1484. We are 16 low, but we also had the slow eight car Zephyr, so maybe it's connected. The trolls, it's a live chat room. It's open 24 hours a day, every single day. What's the number today? Is it only 16? No, we're 1484. Oh, Jesus, terrible.

1:34:12 It's the quantum financial reset, baby. It's like everyone's off world. They got no time for the troll room. You can go to the troll room by going to noagendastream.com. You can listen to this show live. We have many shows running on that same feed 24 hours a day, podcasts. You can, you know, communicate, talk about it, troll each other, troll live shows, and certainly hit Doug up for an invite to noagendasocial.com, our federated, non-algoized social network where you can actually enjoy the signal-to-noise ratio, and that's at noagendasocial.com. And we'd like to thank the artist for the artwork for episode 1271. We titled that Three Screws.

1:34:56 This was a John choice. You were very adamant and you really liked it, and I completely agree. This was by Cesium 137. It was a beautiful piece from behind, shot from behind the back of a crowd. The crowd's a little bit, you got depth of field out of focus and the sign being held up as we need no agenda. Technically, I think a very good piece. Very big problem for promotion. Yeah, because it didn't show up well on Twitter and people do artists should make a note of what Adams about to tell you Look at how Twitter sir almost any social network when when you post a picture an image it will crop that and What you want is the sweet spot you want you know the main message to pop out in that image

1:35:45 in that frame the social network gives you. Because what we saw here was literally two arms and some crowd, which sucked because it's such a great image and it worked really well otherwise. And that's like this morning I had the same thing. I was looking for a pre-piece of art for the pre-stream and I got one But the big 1272, which in that case for the pre-stream I like doing that, didn't show up just like some fire in hell. It was not a very inviting thing. Hey, we're live! Come on over to the fire in hell! So that's just a note. Otherwise, I mean, obviously, thank you so much, CZ. And thanks to all the artists. You do phenomenal work. And the value that the show gets from doing this is really off the charts. And as promised,

1:36:38 Great art shows up on cool things. Art becomes reality. No Agenda Shop tweeted out this morning the Deep State University t-shirt, sweatshirt, and I believe hoodie is now on sale. And that's, remember that was the artwork. Yeah, yeah. I do remember as a matter of fact. Well, this is where you can get really excited that that's now on sale. I'm digging around. Oh, you're digging right here. Deep State University. I'm just looking at here. No hoodies. They got a T-shirt. By the way, this is not our operation. These guys are independent from the show. They they they work with the artists, give the artists a cut, donate a cut to the show. They got hats with it. Oh, we have tote bags now. Oh, boy. Party time tote bag. Hmm.

1:37:31 We have Tumblr. Oh no! We got tote bags. Remember the tote bags we never gave out 10 years ago? Yeah, the 33 bags. Yeah, because they had toxins. Chinese toxins. Yeah, well the black ones stunk too. It was just horrible. Enjoy your tote bag, just don't put any fruit or vegetables in it. We're not sure. It was a great story and Eric had these bags and we went like, holy crap, this is toxic. I didn't want to give anyone in the house. It was so bad. Ah yes, that was the end of the 33 tote bags.

CHAPTER 33 / 45 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations and COVID-19 Physician Reports

Executive producers contributed significant financial support, including a $500 donation from a Manhattan resident struggling with lockdowns. A physician from Virginia also shared medical insights from JAMA regarding the lack of efficacy for Remdesivir and the successful use of hydroxychloroquine in India.

donations· hydroxychloroquine· remdesivir· jama· medical studies

1:38:08 Such a shame. Anyway, noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can share your art, you can take a look at what's done and it's amazing how many pieces we get. It's part of our value for value proposition. You get out of it what you put into it and we really appreciate the executive producers and the associate executive producers who come in with big financial support every single show and we're gonna thank them right now. Yeah, let's start off with Diana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada. Laughlin! Who is, which is just outside of Las Vegas, $828.55. And she says, I have emailed full note to John. Let me guess. There was no note under the subject line donation. There's no note under the subject or under the sent line Carroll or Diana. So I don't know what email you use, but let me tell everybody this.

1:39:05 If you could put this information into the note at PayPal, cut and paste the email into the PayPal. You cut it and paste it. Because if you hit the return key, it sends it. So you just cut and paste the whole thing, drop it in there. Because you wrote this, you might as well write the whole thing. So I'm not scolding you, but I'm mentioning to people that if you use, a lot of people use like, you know, Jimbo as their email address. You know, they don't use their name. There's a ban on Jimbo now. They don't use their name, they use something else. And so, yeah, maybe the email note came in earlier, I missed it, I don't look at everything that comes in necessarily. But if you don't have donation in the subject line, that doesn't help. There's a bunch of mistakes people make and then I don't get the email. I don't have it either. So I feel bad because we only... But she has the gist of it here, so I'm not too concerned. Yeah, but how do we... We don't have a night name?

1:40:05 Well, maybe it was a surprise. Well, I don't think it is a surprise. She's credited to her smoking hot hubby this donation to Danny Carroll. Not only is it his 55th birthday, we have him on the list for that at age 28, but this brings him to the roundtable, so we'll just add him as Sir Danny Carroll to the roundtable. I'm all in on that, and if he wants to change it later, that's perfectly okay. Yeah, we always do upgrades. In fact, unlike Delta, we always do upgrades here at No Agenda. Yes, we do. Mark in Manhattan's next on the list had $500. I have to, by the way, besides that gripe, and I'm sorry, Dan, for that, but I have one other gripe coming up. Mark in Manhattan, 500. And it's like, you know, you get picky. Eh. Mark in, meanwhile, 500 bucks from Mark. Semi-anonymous note, but for anyway, it goes on about he's an art generator.

1:41:03 Yeah, he goes on about that's not important. I have been a douchebag for far too long. This is important I started listening when Adam still lived in Los Angeles. That's a long time ago Yeah, well, I've contributed some art and even one piece used for the show 1263 I've long neglected a proper monetary donation. Your reasonable information-based coverage of COVID-19 has been priceless and kept me sane while living through the M5M fear porn coverage of the pandemic in New York City. So he's a New Yorker. He's in Manhattan. He's a Manhattanite. Currently suffering through an... It's gotta be miserable being in Manhattan for the last six months. You know, the greatest city in the world is... sucks.

1:41:44 Your reasonable information-based coverage goes on. I'm sorry. Currently suffering through an ongoing lockdown despite having one of the lowest infection rates in the country. Seems Cuomo has decided Trump being out of office is the final indicator that will allow New York to open back up. With the money from China. with the money from China. He left that out. Please accept $500 to start my long delayed journey to knighthood. No need for jingles, but assuming things are semi-anonymous, I could really use a short shot of karma to help me through an extended legal and financial battle with my horrible ex-wife.

1:42:19 Holy crap! No! Oh my gosh! Well, yeah, first we're gonna deduce. You've been deduced. There's nothing like a little goat karma for that problem. You've got karma. That should solve it. Next is David Drake at $3.7655. He brings him halfway tonight, who I'm glad to know. I love what you and John do, although I can feel my amygdala growing larger by the news coming out of Australia regarding invasive monitoring. He is, by the way, he's in the United States, but invasive monitoring of citizens. We need to fight against that. I'm a Virginia phys...

1:43:03 physician, and I have many of, and many of us believe the COVID stuff is overblown. Many of the physicians in Virginia of all places. I've attached some recent articles from the last JAMA. Somebody must have pissed off JAMA, which is more an opinion journal these days than a research journal. Literally two to one opinion to research articles. I don't know how you want these broken down, but this first article, and he goes on with a discussion of the- Remdesivir? of rendesivir having no effect. I'll just summarize. Rendesivir has no effect and studies that prove it. Article 2, I wasn't going to read this, I'm going to read them. Race and COVID, a study of over 11,000 hospitalized patients with COVID concluded there's no difference between black and white patients. Yes, I have that study in the show notes if anyone wants to see it.

1:43:54 And then he's got a third one, which is face shields. It talks about how the face shields may or may not work, but for workers who became symptomatic, this is in India, they were all treated with hydroxychloroquine and all four recovered. And he says, in speaking with colleagues, this is a doctor of mine, we were both agreed we take hydroxychloroquine if we were COVID positive. Yeah, of course, of course they would. $376.55. Thank you, Dr. Drake. Andrew Young's next on the list from Cincinnati, Ohio, 339.39. Thank you both for this show. I've been enjoying it for years. Keep it up. Donation is a gift to myself for my 39th birthday. You're on the list Friday the 28th. Also, shout out to my tall, shady buddy Chris who turns to big 40 next week. Do we have him on the list, Chris?

1:44:49 Yeah, I think he is. Yep. He's on the list. I think... Well, hold on. I'll double check. Chris, I just recall that. I'm pretty sure... No. So we'll add Chris. I'll do that. I'll add him to the list. Okay. And then he says, Jobs Karma for everybody. Interestingly, Andrew Young isn't even on the list himself. What is this? He's in yellow. Hey, he's not on the list. What is this? Okay, Andrew Young. I'll tell you what, let me do the Jobs, Karma, and then you can do the next one. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Next on the list is Sir Baltimore John of the Mud Flats in El Cerrito, which is right down the street from me, literally. 333.33.

1:45:45 Thanks for helping me cope with stay safe and ad nauseum. Merely thinking of responding go fuck yourself is enough to keep my amygdala properly sized. Adam, thanks for recently redirecting me and the rest of the producers to the World Economic Forum website, aka the greatest globalist rabbit hole on the web. It's indeed true. Yeah, you go there, you're gonna spend some time. Which is good. It's very which is what you guys support the show for and with that's exactly the point. You'd love it It's a lovely lovely sight. It's great jobs in human resource and they leave it all out there because they figure people are too stupid to note that there are this big there's something about Hubris, it's it's it reminds me of the old green bay Packers the original team when they're Vince Lombardi. I

1:46:39 People always say, well, they pretty much told you what they were gonna do and then they did it. And that's what's going on with these guys. They're telling you what they're gonna do and then they're gonna do it and nobody's gonna stop them. Anyway, he wants jobs and resource karma for everybody left to have more money and more kids. Okay. Top it off with some sharp and good sirs. Please, thank you for your courage, love and light. Stay safe, buckle up. With Jesus, with gratitude, Sir Baltimore John of the Mudflats. Man, we haven't had a single jingle request, so I'm hitting you with some... We just had one, yeah. Well, I mean, this is the first one, really. A number, I just... Yeah.

1:47:23 He's getting lunch at Chipotle. The tortise in the race. Kim Kardashian, Sigournoy Weaver, Rush, R-E-S-P-I-C-T. They're all jitty. R-E-S-P-I-C-T. There's no real conflict. Resist. We must. To resist, we must. We must and we will much about that be committed. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

CHAPTER 34 / 45 Discussion

Impact of Lockdowns on Recovery Meetings and Local Businesses

A producer from Wisconsin reported that local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings are being forced to close because they can no longer afford rent due to lockdown restrictions. The shift to online Zoom meetings is described as "soulless" and ineffective for those struggling with addiction.

aa meetings· lockdowns· wisconsin· recovery· mental health

1:48:12 Sir Luke Rayner, the Viscount of London and the South East in London. This is a first associate executive. He's $203.33. He's in UK, London, UK. Londoner. March was the last time I donated. Lockdown basically reduced my income by 80%. Thank you. Thank you, government. So I really was just getting by. Happily, I'm now able to run cycle events again around the English countryside just in time for winter. Oh, good. He says ironically. I found I'd fall behind on shows during the lockdown and have

1:48:50 and have mammoth sit-down sessions to catch up. No driving or exercise will do that. Thanks for, oh he probably listens to what he's on his bike. Thanks for continuing to be there for all the producers. I'd like a Reverend Manning Karma for this weekend event. Keep up the great work. Sir Luke Rayner, the Viscount of London. Oh my goodness, we haven't had a request for Manning in a while. Here we go. They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin. You've got karma. You're gonna need a Bitcoin. Stephen Reilly, $203, no note from him. At least winning that are findable. Christopher Baron, thank you, Stephen. Christopher Blanco, Sir Real Estate of the North Coast in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, 200 bucks.

1:49:45 Birthday wish happy birthday the ravish ravishingly beautiful Dame Ashley lady of the lake August 28 nice ITM It's been 166 days that we were told 14 days to slow the spread Back in business in Easter if you recall flatten the curve Flatten the curve Emperor DeWine still has given zero indication of when we as Ohioans will be free to live our lives again. It's getting old. The other day I was accosted by a masked warrior outside the Chipotle. He said I was an a-hole for not wearing a mask and threatened to punch me in the face. Oh brother.

1:50:28 I took a step toward him and told him to go ahead. He backed off and turned around and went back inside. This is getting insane, he continues. To anyone in Northeast Ohio who is looking for a night of refuge from the insanity, join Dame Ashley Earl Walkman and myself at the Hooley House in Copley, Ohio on Saturday, August 29th. More info on the NOA agenda meetup site. That's this coming Saturday. The last meetup had over 20 attendees and I look forward to seeing you all. That's a lot. Sir, real estate of the North Coast. Okay. That's going to be listed in the... Now the next note you can read and it brings me to my second complaint, which I mentioned earlier. Any more notes like this, which are...

1:51:13 So big that they fill up my screen. Well, we are going and I'm just saying this because of notes like this Okay, well, I don't want to complain about the donation. No, but we Adam and I have talked about this word limits are coming or Word limits are coming. So but what he did, Brett W., first he starts out by saying, in the morning please keep my donation anonymous. Thank you for all you do and the donation is my humble contribution. Just karma please. I've also attached some clips from a recent episode. Hope you find it interesting. So this is a combo. This is not meant to be read and he did attach these clips.

1:51:56 It came in too late for me to focus on the... so each one is a set up. So he's like, he's really doing... he actually did a good thing here. So he's producing a couple clips. He's producing the clips which I haven't had the time to review with his write-ups. Of course I have it in the system but I got it this morning and it's kind of too late to do this stuff. But he does say, he has a boots on the ground report from Wisconsin. I'm also a member of a fine program of recovery, which has helped me in many others in many ways. I attend an AA meeting locally and local Serenity Club that rents the space out for all local meetings. A-A-N-A, hmm? M-A, uh, A, uh, Alon, a whole bunch of A's. Al-Anon. Al-Anon, thank you.

1:52:40 Pays the electric, makes sure somebody is there to open the door and start a meeting. The club can't afford rent anymore. No meetings. Oh man. Much less donations. Usually we pass a basket at every meeting so it'll be no more meetings starting after this weekend. This is fucking crazy. There are hundreds of people who this will affect locally to me. I know we're not the only local chapter facing this. People are being told to go to these online Zoom meetings, but these are soulless and just not what people need to recover from addictions. Yes, we talked about this in Austin. It was a huge travesty because Austin, most of the AA meetings are at church and school, school buildings and church buildings. This is a travesty. I agree with this. I'm sorry I berated him for so long. No, it's okay. That was not a long note. No, it's okay. But it is in play, I should mention.

1:53:25 the idea of word limits. Word limits is in play. Yeah. Word limits in play. Yeah, word limits in play. This idea of cutting these guys, these are the guys who need, they need the stability of these meetings. Of course. And they're getting screwed. It's almost as though they're doing it on purpose. They, and I've used they and I'm always condemning Adam for doing it. They are doing this on purpose. Yeah, it's, it's un... It goes right along with... It's cruel. Yeah, it's cruel. Thank you. Thank you. It's cruel. Yeah. Well, I'm... maybe, uh... Maybe someone can help in the area. Maybe someone knows something. How do they, you know... I'm almost seeing no agenda meetups, you know, just like we almost need to have a... a something... like an NAAA meetups.

1:54:25 This needs to be coordinated. Someone needs to jump in. This is also a huge health issue. Huge. Okay, well now I'm probably bummed out, but thank you very much for bringing it to our attention once again. And I'm going to throw some massive goat karma at you. Thank you very much. You've got karma. And Brett, you know, if you're not on noagendasocial.com, join, you know, maybe there's people there. This is where people help each other with all kinds of interesting things. You know, jobs, technical issues, deaths, births. It's very personable. Maybe it can help you somehow. Maybe we can get some contact and get a place to get something done. It's very disturbing. And of course, none of this is really discussed. The only one kind of talking about it is Trump. I don't see medical people talking about this or CNN all outraged.

1:55:25 Yeah, I want to thank these folks for producing this show 1272. That's what we got here. Yes, and we will be thanking our full production staff in our second segment. Looking forward to that. And remember that you executive and associate executive producers, these are actual credits. They're valid anywhere credits are recognized. I got a nice note from somebody who is up for a job in I think it's Google Russia. Or Google, I don't know, if some local Google office and he gave me a heads up that I might be getting an email for a referral, well I'm happy to do it. It wouldn't be the first time. Both of us are available for that. That is part of these credits is we will actually vouch for you. And please consider supporting us for the Sunday show. We'll have lots more deconstruction. There's plenty more to come here on today's show, but to help us out and to

CHAPTER 35 / 45 Discussion

Podcasting 2.0 Initiative to Preserve Free Speech

The "Podcasting 2.0" project aims to create a decentralized index for podcasts to protect the medium from deplatforming by major tech companies like Apple and Spotify. The initiative seeks to incentivize app developers and ensure that podcasting remains a platform for free speech and value-for-value exchange.

podcasting 2.0· apple· spotify· joe rogan· deplatforming

1:56:19 Bring the value that that you get from the show. Please go to to vorac.org Slash n a well we pretty much know who produces the best television Our formula is this We go out we hit people in the mouth I did want to mention something jump before we move back I think I've mentioned Podcasting 2.0. Oh, yes. Okay. We're all on pins and needles about this. All of us podcasters. Good. So the project is coming along very quickly. It's working well. I wanted to... probably by Sunday I can... I will talk a little bit more about it. There's going to be a podcast for developers.

1:57:20 that we'll, I think we're going to produce it tomorrow and it'll be just for developers. Kind of analogous to the way podcasting booted up. But I'll tell you the first phase, just to make it understandable where I'm coming from, is, and this is partially because of deplatforming, of Alex Jones, which had this domino effect through different podcasting apps since everyone kind of sucks off of the Apple Index, which I gave to them in 2006 with my meeting with Steve Jobs. He wanted the blessing for podcasting in iTunes, which of course I was completely cool with. And I said, well, here's a copy of the index, the database. So this index is probably about 1.8 million podcasts

1:58:08 And if you look at the problem with Rogan going to Spotify, we're in this interesting scenario where basically other apps are competing with each other. So you have the Apple podcast app. which has no discernible business model and they've been a good stewards of their index, but you go through the Apple vetting process, you can't just put something up there, it has to have all kinds of tags, otherwise they won't let you in there. And if they don't like you, then they can take it away, even taking some of their own podcasts off to move them into different areas. So there's a cancel feature I don't like.

1:58:47 And then we basically have like radio apps like iHeart who have purchased Stitcher and now they're building their own database or they and they have deep analytics because it's closed and they can advertise, slip ads into all podcasts or before them or whatever it is for your enjoyment. Same thing with Spotify. Their business models are corroded because they have to pay for every music stream. So they see this huge opportunity and And power to them, can't blame them. The issue that we have in podcasting and what I'm focusing on is developers of podcast apps have zero incentive to do this. They're not part of the financial flow, if there is any.

1:59:30 And it's an enormous amount of work to create a podcast app. There's aggregation involved, you know, notification when things update. You know, they usually will resort to polling from Apple, which doesn't really provide an API. You can kind of do a search and get some stuff back. But there's no incentive. And I think that we figured out some incentive for developers, just like we started back in the day with the with the first podcast receiving apps, I think there's a way to incentivize. And in fact, phase one is the motto is preserve podcasting as a platform for free speech. And phase two will be retool podcasting into a platform of value. And I wanted to let you know because not only is this podcast coming, but

CHAPTER 36 / 45 Discussion

Adam Curry to Appear on Joe Rogan Experience in Austin

Adam Curry announced he will be the first guest at Joe Rogan's new studio in Austin, Texas, following Rogan's move from California. The appearance will focus on the future of podcasting and the growth of the No Agenda producer community.

joe rogan· austin· spotify· podcasting· studio

2:00:27 On next Wednesday, I will be, we're recording it. I'm the first guest in Joe Rogan's new Austin Bay studio, which I definitely plan to talk about this, because there's nothing better than doing that when, you know, it's one of his first Spotify shows. So I think it's gonna be a great week. Well, he's been doing the Spotify shows, at least he's got them in the can, my understanding. Yes, he does. I think he has the first week in the can. This would be just the first one from Austin. Yeah, the first one from the studio, yeah. So he's building a, what is he doing? Is he building a, is he buying a building? Is he buying his property? What's, how's this working? Well, I haven't seen it. You know, I've been helping him with the, with the move, whatever he needed, you know, resources, et cetera.

2:01:15 And I think that he has... Yeah, I know what you mean. That means what restaurants and bars are good. No, actually he had an emergency and he needed a desk, a new desk for in the studio. And he said, do you know, and it's like two weeks ago, he said, do you know what... Oh, you got that guy that built your desk? Well, I said the guy's building my desk right now, but if he's what you want, then I can put my desk on hold. Which I did, and I think he's billed. I haven't talked to him, but I think he's billed. I think that worked out. Oh, that's dynamite. So stuff like that. And yes, restaurants, obviously. And what hairdresser for the girls? I mean, of course, this is what you do. Welcome to Texas. So I'm very excited. I mean, to be in this, there's not much better than going on the Joe Rogan show than being invited back on the Joe Rogan show. And I'm sure that tickles all of our

2:02:05 Our Rona Roganize very much This was quite funny I got my haircut yesterday and Johanna who does my hair she's like now, you know, I love Joe Rogan show I said yeah, yeah, of course You know, I was I wanted to ask you, you know Do you think that you could let him know if he needs his hair done and I looked at him like oh You're serious? Oh, you mean there's no hair under that hat? No, there's not. But he does have a wife and two daughters. So anyway, so I hope to be able to talk about the new project on the show, but of course all about the NOAAgender show and how tickled we are with the quality of producers that have showed up since the first appearance. The Roganites are nice to have. It's a good group. I noticed this.

2:03:00 They're a good group. Yeah, so all right. Did you get any any action from doing the Tom Woods show? Um, yeah, well we had Yes, definitely. I've I thought we had a donation or two. Didn't we have a donation? I don't remember maybe yeah No, well Tom Woods. It's another perfect crossover. Yeah, so whenever whenever I feel despair about How... Well, whenever I feel despair about how the M5M is just crushing humanity with lies and deceit, they are. I always think it's the end for them. Look at Rogan, look at the No Agenda show, look at Tom Wood's show. Hey, I'll put Tim in there. What's a Tim Pool? People are not thinking like the elite messaging system wants them to anymore. And that's just good. And I'm just happy about it.

2:04:00 And our our Joker cover is coming out. It's already you know the the 33 hello Yeah, I'm here. I'm here the special 33 cover. It's already a collector's item I don't know what you're talking about our Joker Batman Joker comic book cover. Oh our oh Yeah, I forgot about that completely yes. We have a superstar comic book. We have a lot of people like this guy oh Not like this guy, not like this guy. This is... Well no, this guy is, this is, okay. Of this caliber. We have a lot of high-end guys in various fields. Exactly. And we have a high-end comic book guy who does those ridiculous drawings that, you know, I don't know how anyone can do any of them and there's a, there's very few people in that league and he considers himself second tier. Right.

2:04:57 Anyway, it's pretty funny. So the first one it's out for collectors and I already saw it. It's like 60 or 70 bucks on eBay. And there'll be two more. This is just the light 33, which is a slight reference. Apparently the next two covers will be much more apparent. I have to say, I'm not a comic book guy, but I'm kind of jitty about that. There's something cool about it. It gets, it's real, it's real cred for us somehow. I dig it. I dig it. It'll look good on the wall. Let's put it that way. Ah, and now to get back to the news, I would like to identify a new term, which is trending. You didn't roll this out. What do you mean? Yeah, I did. I did the whole thing. Oh, why did I miss it? I must have zoned.

2:05:42 You're flooding your own zone, JCD. You're flooding your own zone. No, it's like, you know, the show is becoming so routine that I'm missing parts of it now. Okay. Zone. All right. We'll have to keep you awake then from time to time. Just throw a goat scream at me. Actually, I've been spending my time looking at the second half donations. Yeah. We have like 10 of them. I know. It's really pathetic. It's very short. It's a short show. But I would like to talk about the trending word of the moment. See if you can identify it.

CHAPTER 37 / 45 Discussion

Media Use of Rorschach Test Terminology for Kenosha

CNN commentators Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo described the civil unrest in Kenosha as a "Rorschach test" for the country. Lemon warned that internal polling and focus groups show the rioting is hurting Democrats, signaling a need for Joe Biden to address the violence directly.

rorschach test· don lemon· chris cuomo· cnn· kenosha

2:04:57 Anyway, it's pretty funny. So the first one it's out for collectors and I already saw it. It's like 60 or 70 bucks on eBay. And there'll be two more. This is just the light 33, which is a slight reference. Apparently the next two covers will be much more apparent. I have to say, I'm not a comic book guy, but I'm kind of jitty about that. There's something cool about it. It gets, it's real, it's real cred for us somehow. I dig it. I dig it. It'll look good on the wall. Let's put it that way. Ah, and now to get back to the news, I would like to identify a new term, which is trending. You didn't roll this out. What do you mean? Yeah, I did. I did the whole thing. Oh, why did I miss it? I must have zoned.

2:05:42 You're flooding your own zone, JCD. You're flooding your own zone. No, it's like, you know, the show is becoming so routine that I'm missing parts of it now. Okay. Zone. All right. We'll have to keep you awake then from time to time. Just throw a goat scream at me. Actually, I've been spending my time looking at the second half donations. Yeah. We have like 10 of them. I know. It's really pathetic. It's very short. It's a short show. But I would like to talk about the trending word of the moment. See if you can identify it.

2:06:20 This what you said was happening in Kenosha is a Rorschach test How many times we heard this one the Rorschach test test? Which is the I don't know where they got it from I don't know why they would use it nobody knows everybody everybody I've heard all over CNN It is not I'm just waiting for the supercut and the Rorschach musing themselves the Rorschach test is the inkblots correct yep, and And I think it's their version of one movie, you know, one screen, two movies. That's why they say Rorschach test. Oh, interesting. I like that. I like that. And this was actually a pretty decent exchange between Don Lemon and the Cuomo kid talking about the riots in Kenosha, which I think we should definitely discuss in a moment, and how that is... Well, listen. I do think that

2:07:14 This what you said was happening in Kenosha is a Rorschach test for the entire country And I think this is a blind spot for Democrats. I think Democrats are ignoring this problem We're hoping that it will go away, and it's not going to go away And so, unless someone comes up with a solution over the next 73 days, or 70 so, however many days. 68 days. 68 days. So it's not gonna, the problem is not gonna be fixed by then, but what they can do, and I think maybe Joe Biden may be afraid to do it, I'm not sure, maybe he won't, maybe he is. He's gotta address it. He's gotta come out and talk about it.

2:07:55 He's got to do a speech like Barack Obama did about race. He's got to come out and tell people that he is going to deal with the issue of police reform in this country. and that what's happening now is happening under Donald Trump's watch, on Donald Trump's watch. And when he is the president, Kamala Harris is the vice president, then they will take care of this problem. But guess what? The rioting has to stop. Chris, as you know and I know, it's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups. Okay, it goes on a little bit, but I wanted to stop here. Don Lemon says specifically, Chris, as you and I know,

2:08:37 It's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups. Are these journalists or are they DNC insiders is my question. Have they been giving this research? Are you asking this question seriously? Yeah, well not so much seriously as in what a tell. They're openly just openly saying that they got the research and we know it's a real problem so it's gotta stop. That's what the focus group says. It's one thing... Yeah, they're not reporting. Thank you. They are now recommending action. Yes, exactly. If it's like, okay, focus groups apparently say that this has got to stop. No, no, no. That's not how it works. And this is a big tell. Then they will take care of this problem. But guess what? The rioting has to stop. Does he have to guess?

2:09:27 Well, it's almost like me with my- Does he have to stop and guess? It's almost like my rhetorical question, I guess. Riding has to stop. Chris, as you know and I know, it's showing up in the polling. It's showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing, it is the only thing right now that is sticking. And the Democrats tonight stuck with that, right? And they also stuck with the theme that you said, the coronavirus. You got the coronavirus and you have Kenosha. And on Kenosha, this is another excellent example of the elite messaging system just not working anymore. I didn't have to do much work.

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Analysis of Kenosha Shootings and Media Narratives

Video evidence from the Kenosha shootings involving Kyle Rittenhouse suggests a complex situation involving armed civilians and protesters. While mainstream reports labeled the event as a "white supremacist" attack, raw footage shows confrontations and attempts to disarm the shooter before shots were fired.

kenosha· kyle rittenhouse· jacob blake· wisconsin· civil unrest

2:10:09 It's everywhere who these people were, who was involved, what the... There's video from multiple angles. You can clearly see what's happening here. And for these things to be taken the way they are, it's, you know, it's like white supremacist, Nazi kid with a long gun, the long rifle. You mentioned this in the newsletter. As this narrative is now being built, Whereas, you know, this is, unfortunately, this is what Mo predicted to me last week. He says, I see a civil war between white people and we're sitting back on this one. I think he's right. That's a pretty good one. Yeah. Well, this is in isolated areas, but I have two clips on Kenosha. Okay.

2:11:02 Kenosha's is is problematic. I Whoa, you said problematic nasty. I know I why I will say it but I usually warn people First of all, I want to play NPR's the um report This is a very short clip on it. Just a little bit about Kenosha. This is not the report There's not the one I should be playing first. The first one is the there's a longer clip but but the um report I like because it uh, Because the woman says, um, and then the guy says, um, and they say, um, a lot on NPR. It turns out if one person says, um, the other person starts to say, um, and I could ring the bell on all the ums, but I'll let you listen and hear for yourself. They at that time urged a lot of the people who were with them to go home and to respect the curfew. And a lot of them did, but some didn't and some stayed.

2:12:00 Well, we should say the city of Kenosha Police Department has tweeted out that there were two fatalities last night and that they're following this with an investigation. I know we don't know much, but do you know where this became deadly? Was this around the protests that you're talking about or somewhere separate? Yeah, it was in the kind of general vicinity of the protests within about a couple blocks. And what we know about the investigation into the shooting so far is that they're focused on a group of civilians, I should say, who were there armed with guns and who were looking to protect private property. That's what they said, at least. They were there to try to prevent looting and things like that. I can't make fun of it because I do a lot of that. Typically, when I'm trying to keep

2:12:51 Keep the flow going while I'm looking for clips or a story all day. I Get complaints oh well, then this noticeable to somebody Like that um um are you saying um or uh? You know I do you know a lot apparently too I Well, I can call you on you know, I please do tune into that but call me on you know, I'll call you on your leash. I'm more tuned into your lip smacking which you have reduced to zero at least on this show. Yeah, and so unfortunately, I can't really tune into too many things. I'm not that well and part of the reason for the reduction in lip smacking is a change to my compressor settings. I was peeking out on the smack.

2:13:41 Oh, by the way, while we're talking about that, let's discuss this a little. Smack? No, I'm listening to NPR and they do not use a compressed sound to an extreme. And when you look at the waveforms, it's very hard to normalize. Because the guys are... because you're talking into the mic so close that they will... it's just strange. It's a very quiet sound. They're always close micing. Everything's close mic. And they talk like this. And they have a very, they have the dB ratio, signal to noise ratio is very extreme, so it's very silent. Yes, it's kind of the opposite of your, the opposite of your sound. It's totally the opposite of the way I do it. I like a lot of noise.

2:14:28 So, I just, it's interesting to look at the waveforms because it's so alien to everything else I clip. Especially the networks where it's just compressed and looks really pretty. The professional though, like it should just boom like a block, a flat block of sound. It's like a flat block but not with NPR. Anyway, let's play the report on Kenosha, Kiyosha shootings. Alright. Video filmed by a bystander shows a young man with an... I'm sorry? What? This is Democracy Now! Oh, it says it? Okay, yeah, it is too much. Video filmed by a bystander shows a young man with an assault rifle being followed by a crowd of protesters. He falls to the ground before shooting into the crowd as protesters attempt to disarm him.

2:15:13 Kenosha police said early Wednesday morning armed vigilantes, they called them militias, have been in the streets and they're looking for a man with a long gun. That's a white man with a long gun. No arrests have been made yet and those killed have not been identified. The violence came on the third night of unrest in Kenosha following the police shooting on Sunday. Jacob Blake, an unarmed 29 year old black man. An officer shot Blake seven times in the back as he was getting into his car. His three young children witnessed the shooting. Blake was reportedly trying to break up a fight between two women before the shooting, but the police have not explained why they went after him at all. All right, wow.

2:16:03 Let me take that in reverse order. She said, shot him in the back seven times he was getting into his car. I mean, even the short bit of citizen shot video we have shows that that's not true. He was breaking away from the cops who had him under shot, guns drawn, say stop, stop, stop. He walks around his car, stop. They try to hold him, whatever car it was. Now, the excessiveness of seven shots, I can't talk about that. That, I mean, all I know is you go to the range, you shoot, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, before you know it, you shot off three or five. And that's definitely not very controlled. But we don't know enough about that. And then Crump shows up and now he's being martyred. No one should die. And we have a, we got a note from, where is it here?

2:16:59 Someone at the... in law enforcement there. Hold on, I have it. Here, Wisconsin Police Internal Memo. This is Adam and John. I work for the state of Wisconsin, the boss of our department. Released this wonderful message. I'm not going to mention who. Last night... Oh, this is actually from... Okay, I'm sorry. This is the boss of her department. Last night Governor Evers released a statement on the shooting of Jacob Blake and I join with the governor in hoping fervently that he survives and heals. I also know hope is not enough. Today he and the lieutenant governor announced a special session on policing accountability and transparency convening at noon.

2:17:43 Next paragraph. There's a long history of systemic racism in law enforcement and other government systems, and I include health systems in that list. And yet, to use the word history to describe this ignores the current reality that Black, Indigenous, and people of color live on a daily basis in our state. It is not enough to hope for change. It's not enough to reflect and listen. As I wrote after George Floyd's murder, it's not enough even for us at DHS, there we go, to acknowledge our own complicity. These actions can be a part of our journey but are too passive, to be enough for this moment and it goes on. I mean, this is not settled yet, what happened here. It's too soon and it's too raw and it's fucking political. That's the stuff that makes me mad. That makes me mad. And then working back,

2:18:32 We all saw the videos of what happened. Almost everyone had a gun, bunch of white guys. One guy's chasing the guy with the long rifle, the long gun, throwing stuff at his head. He turns around, I'm gonna shoot you, some words are exchanged. He goes towards the guy with a gun, he shoots him in the head. Okay, then someone else comes along, he trips, he falls to the ground. The guy comes up in front of him, the shooter's on the ground. He's not shooting! He's pointing his gun at him. Then the guy lunges. He twists and gets shot. I'm sure that would... I mean, this is not Call of Duty. This is not a video game. It's real. But to say that protesters were murdered in cold blood? No! And we can see it. We have the actual video. But it's the Civil War. Civil War amongst white dudes.

2:19:30 Well, dumb white dudes. You know, it's open carry state. Yeah, I'm gonna go. Of course, he's like, I got to protect stuff. Even though it's not my town, I got to go protect stuff. And then people who are not from his town and they're all fighting and everyone's got criminal records and they've been in jail for it's a mess. It's a mess. Well, I'm not saying it's not a mess. No, no, I know you're not. I know you're not. But that report, the reporting on it is shameful. Just shameful. The reporting is a mess. The mainstream media is a mess. There's your mess. I wanted to bring one other

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Steve Bannon Indictment and Non-Profit Scams

The indictment of Steve Bannon regarding the "We Build the Wall" campaign highlights broader issues with non-profit fundraising and financial transparency. Critics argue that many non-profits operate as scams that funnel money to contractors and political interests while enjoying significant tax advantages.

steve bannon· build the wall· non-profits· sdny· fundraising

2:20:20 Topic up we talked about before you do that. I do have two ISOs. I want to run by you Oh, please. Yes. What do we have on the ISO front? Well, I got two I got morgue Wait a morgue Where's that from kind of like you heard it earlier? That was a day for do it from a morgue Okay, got it. Now. The other one is is related to the industry just as a side I do have the Kellyanne Conway story and Which has the second ISO in it. Well, I'll play the ISO first. How about I play the ISO? Play the ISO first, less drama. Less drama, more mama. I like that. Do you have better ISOs than that? No, I have zero ISOs. I like this one. I like the Kellyanne Conway, less drama, more mama. Okay. Because that'll be it for her for a while.

2:21:18 We won't be hearing from her. She's out. She's out. She's done. She's cooked. And this has to do with our show in general and what we do. I made a stink about the indictment, the Bannon indictment about the charity and how they had clearly said, you know, this guy will never not get a dime. 100% goes to the cause of we build the wall. You remember the story? I do. Yeah, so it was eight page indictment and I'd read it all and I excoriated Bannon for what he did because this is exactly the stuff that Black Lives Matter does with all these little subgroups and you know and we're fundraising on behalf of them and so it's very sketchy and I was very specific to say that I feel that

2:22:12 Bannon gets no preference over any of these non-profits. I've been reading Form 990 since almost the beginning of this show, and I am so disgusted by the protections and the financial tax advantages and the marketing ability of a non-profit piece of shit, because that's what most of them are. I'm sorry, I'm cursing today. But I'm very mad, and I was very clear about that. Well, pushback came. You just hate Bannon! You're part of the attack on Breitbart! I'm like, what are you talking about? Breitbart. And even Sir Brian of London, he, you know, so there's this guy, Barnes Law, whatever the guy's name is, and there's this piece of video, and he's saying the other side of the Bannon story. So I watch it, and I'm like, clearly they don't understand

2:23:04 that I am not here as some partisan hack against anybody. I called it exactly the way You'll hear in this clip only for some reason, you know, it's like a Rorschach test. It appears we have another victimless crime just like the NRA case. The Southern District of New York, I guarantee you if they had somebody, even one person anywhere in the country who said they only gave the money because they thought not a penny would go to anything other than physical wall construction, they would have put him in the indictment. I've done plenty of these fraud cases, I've watched and studied many more. They always include four or five most sympathetic victims right up front in the indictment. Sometimes they keep them Jane Doe and John Doe, but often not because they're usually going to be witnesses at trial. So you want that maximum level of empathy, maximum level of sympathy, completely missing from the indictment. So that's a backstory of what was going on with Build the Wall. The second part is background of fundraising campaigns.

2:24:06 Here's if this indictment is held up you could indict 90% of charities in America You could indict every single political campaign in America. You could indict the Trump campaign and everybody part of it Thank you for making my point. That's the point. It's not about it's not always about right-left This guy that guy it's about the principle of nonprofits and it's a joke. I It's a joke and I'm very... We've got people who are just contractors. Oh, I've got a non-profit. And then they can take a non-profit gig from the Dell Foundation. And then they non-profit... their non-profit gets the money and then they do a 1099 to themselves. It's... We chose not for that model for a whole bunch of reasons.

2:24:51 And it's just a scam now. I mean, there's legit profit, uh, non-profits, but this? Nah, stop. We do it, form 990-EZ. It's, it's, it's just a scam. When you say that, 990-EZ, that means it's encouraged. Yes! It is. So all this is encouraged and so then I think the people that would bitch about your commentary about Bannon would be a Banyan, would be... I think they have a gripe. Yeah. You seem to single him out. Yeah, where I do the same for all nonprofits, for all of them. Yeah, you think they all... Well, but then again the government seems to be encouraging this. Yeah, well... Now why?

2:25:44 Yeah, yeah. Because in the end, and I'm gonna say these words on purpose, at the end of the day, it gets funneled to the politicians. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Or the media. We're not going to say anything about anything because the media is actually at the double end of the day, the big butted end of the day. You have the real beneficiaries of all this and you never hear them complaining unless they're doing it for political reasons and Bannon is a target as is Breitbart. It goes to the media for so they can print newspapers with big ads saying to do this or to do that and they make the media makes the money.

2:26:29 I mean they make the money from the big pharma so they don't say anything about big pharma. They make the money from the politicians, they don't say anything about them. Exactly. It's the media that's bad. We, on the other hand, we do not take any of this money in any way, shape or form. So that's why we don't make as much as we could. Oh no, no, absolutely not. But also we're just kind of uninterrupted which is nice. I just want people, I'd like people to pay attention for the Trump troll of the week so you can get prepared for it. He's already launched it and of course we know what he's trying to do but here's the troll. I want Joe Biden and myself, he says, to be drug tested before the debate.

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Donald Trump Calls for Pre-Debate Drug Testing

President Trump called for both himself and Joe Biden to undergo drug testing before the presidential debates, suggesting Biden's primary performances were "jacked up" by performance-enhancing substances. The segment also theorizes that Trump's confidence regarding COVID-19 may stem from having already recovered from the virus.

donald trump· joe biden· drug test· debates· hydroxychloroquine

2:25:44 Yeah, yeah. Because in the end, and I'm gonna say these words on purpose, at the end of the day, it gets funneled to the politicians. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Or the media. We're not going to say anything about anything because the media is actually at the double end of the day, the big butted end of the day. You have the real beneficiaries of all this and you never hear them complaining unless they're doing it for political reasons and Bannon is a target as is Breitbart. It goes to the media for so they can print newspapers with big ads saying to do this or to do that and they make the media makes the money.

2:26:29 I mean they make the money from the big pharma so they don't say anything about big pharma. They make the money from the politicians, they don't say anything about them. Exactly. It's the media that's bad. We, on the other hand, we do not take any of this money in any way, shape or form. So that's why we don't make as much as we could. Oh no, no, absolutely not. But also we're just kind of uninterrupted which is nice. I just want people, I'd like people to pay attention for the Trump troll of the week so you can get prepared for it. He's already launched it and of course we know what he's trying to do but here's the troll. I want Joe Biden and myself, he says, to be drug tested before the debate.

2:27:20 He feels that he says Joe Biden He saw the debates in the primaries and he says I think Joe was jacked They gave him some drugs all of a sudden he had all this energy. That's not him. I want to make sure it's a fair playing field I want us both drug tested for performance enhancing drugs That's a fantastic troll And I think it's, I believe it's necessary. He needs to be tested for, because he's jacked up. It doesn't even matter. The point is a couple of things. Go ahead. No, it doesn't matter. But I think, by the way, you and I have talked about this long ago during the debates. So it's not as though it's a new idea. But let's discuss something else. Biden has refused to get tested for COVID.

2:28:10 Trump says he gets tested all the time. I think Trump, and it's just a theory, I just thought about this, I think Trump has had COVID. He's so confident. Yeah, you may be right. Yeah. And that's why he took the hydroxychloroquine. But why wouldn't he say that I had it and I'm okay? Why wouldn't he do that? Is that, is he's waiting for the, is that a, is that a, it's the October surprise. You know a couple of people, you know a couple of people personally. Of course, of course I do. That have had COVID and they won't admit it to anybody. My nephew just got it, Julius. You met Julius, Tiffany's son? Yeah. Yeah. He got the biggest hassle, he felt flu-y, flu-y for a day. The biggest hassle now is mom has to get a test and wait and then she might have to quarantine.

2:28:56 Yeah, well it's a problem. But when Trump took the hydroxychloroquine out of the blue, you don't just take it for no good reason. Why would you do that? It makes no sense. He took it because it was part of the regimen because he caught COVID. He's being tested all the time. Oh, looks like he got it. Boom. Immediately took the hydroxychloroquine, zinc and the other thing. And He mentioned that he did and everyone was like, oh he's gonna kill himself, he's self-medicating, he's gonna kill himself. He got over it. If he went for the antibody test, you'd probably find he had antibodies. And now he walks around because he knows he's had it already and it's been cured. He's a patient, he doesn't need to worry about it. He really looks unconcerned when he's roaming around. I like it. I think that's a great theory. I'll take that.

2:29:47 I'll take that. And that's why he looks so... I mean, I can walk around and everybody... I don't care for anybody in this audience who's got COVID. I've already had it. I've been cured. I'm good to go. Yeah, that was the number one comment on MSNBC and CNN coming out of Pence's... which nice, by the way, have the national anthem at the end. Nice touch. Another brilliant television production move. Very, very smart. It would have control that guy is so good. Yeah, I mean I do want to play the Kellyanne cut I want to play the Kellyanne Conway fiasco story, okay? Get that out of the way no or

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Kellyanne Conway Resigns to Focus on Family

White House advisor Kellyanne Conway and her husband George Conway both announced they are stepping back from their political roles to focus on their family. The decision follows public social media posts from their 15-year-old daughter, Claudia, who expressed intense opposition to her parents' political affiliations.

kellyanne conway· george conway· claudia conway· lincoln project· resignation

2:30:26 Well, no, I'm not sure. No, let's do Kellyanne Conway. This comes as longtime White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said she plans to leave her job at the end of this month, citing her family. And her husband, George Conway, who co-founded the Lincoln Project, is also leaving. The Lincoln Project. The couple's 15-year-old daughter, Claudia Conway, had said she's seeking emancipation from her parents and tweeted she's devastated her mother is speaking at the Republican National Convention. Conway replied, talking about stepping back from her job as a top senior advisor and counsel to the president from now on. Less drama, more mama.

2:31:15 Wow, yeah. Amy couldn't even deliver the line right. No. And yeah, so I guess they're gonna try and save the family. You know, the kid's all pissed off, wants to be emancipated. It's a humiliation to the two parents. Yes, that they're both of them. I would say both parents were lousy parents How do you get a kid just completely out of control and so so, you know brainwashed by her peers or the school? I don't know why but she hates both parents because they're Republicans. How does that happen to a 15 year old? Do you think she hates them because they're Republicans or she just yes I've listened to all this stuff. I've read all their tweets and

2:32:03 Wow, she hates them. She hates her parents because they're Republicans. She hates Trump to an extreme She hates her mother because she works for Trump She hates her mother because she wants to give a speech at the RNC which she did and she hates her dad because he's a Republican even though he hates Trump too Still not good enough. Yeah So how do you get a 15-year-old in any family, I don't care what family it is, if you're raising your kids, usually if you're two Democrats, I was raised as a Democrat, I was a happy Democrat when I was 15, I'm a Democrat, and it was no big deal, that's what you expect, your parents beat it into you, you're gonna be a Democrat, and you are. How do you become this girl?

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No Agenda Knighting Ceremony and Global Meetups

The show concluded with a knighting ceremony for Sir Danny Carroll and a list of upcoming No Agenda meetups across the United States and Europe. Producers are encouraged to gather in person to foster community and discuss the show's "value-for-value" philosophy.

knighting· meetups· sir danny carroll· no agenda nation· community

2:32:53 Well, that usually happens when you don't support the No Agenda show. production of No Agenda Show 1272 and starting with Sir Dodger of Panhandle came in from Pensacola, Florida with $100. Mack Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona, another $100. Sir John Knowles, the Baron of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 8008, followed by David Forbes at 6006 in Chicopee, Minnesota. Wesley Stewart with a birthday comes in at 5757. Sir Christopher Kessler

2:33:45 From Marshfield, Wisconsin 5510 double nickels on the dime sir J boy in Aldi, Virginia 5280 David McLean in Cuba, Missouri uh... fifty and the rest of fifty dollar donors name a location as appropriate chris mall me no location tied grub in kappa commission uh... cases allen your buddy in austin texas julian robbins in aptos california michael kaufman in hillsborough oregon brook net perian boys you know i don't know a richard gardener to richard gardener in chicago illinois

2:34:21 Rob Lee Hall in Hillsboro, North Carolina. And last, Sir Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan. That's all we got. We're done. And we want to thank all these folks for supporting us and show 1272 and helping produce it and getting it out of the door. And those under the $50 level, which we do not address for brevity and anonymity, thank you all very much, especially those of you on one of our subscriptions. We'd love to have you join that part as well as your one offs. Please check it out at Dvorak.org. And for everybody who needs it, including Daryn O's mom, who, remember she went in for like acid reflux, turns out double bypass, went through everything cool. She's going to be fine. I'm very happy about that. But jobs from some other people as well. Here it is and well deserved. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.

2:35:19 Yeah, nearing the end of the month, here is our birthday list for today, the 27th of August, 2020. Dina Carroll says happy birthday to her smoking hot hubby Danny, turns 55 tomorrow. Christopher Blanco, happy birthday to his ravishingly beautiful Dame Ashley. She also will be celebrating her birthday tomorrow. As will Wesley Stewart who turns 57. Andrew Young will be 39 tomorrow and says happy 40th birthday in advance to his buddy Chris. Sir Nathan Lee says happy birthday to Linda Lee. Her birthday is on September 28th but he's getting it in early. And JJ Reine de Blanc, September 29th. And today I am celebrating my

2:36:04 My little baby daughter who turns 30 years old. Happy birthday, Christina Valerie Curry. Your daddy loves you very much. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. 30 30. That's a there you have it. I'm a nutshell. I'm 100 now. Well, we have the one-nighting, which is done by his beautiful spouse for Danny Carroll. So if you bring out your wonderful spouse blade. Yeah, you got it right here. Nice. Nicely done. Danny Carroll, it's all up to you. Come on up. This is a rare sight that we only get one nighting on a show like this, but very happy to have you here. Your wife is one heck of a lady and we look forward to receiving your official night name. But until then, I'm very proud to pronounce the KU Danny Carroll as Sir Danny Carroll.

2:36:56 Night of the Noah Jenner Roundtable where we bring you for the new entrance, Puckers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay. We got Parliaments and Pale Ale, Kabab and Persian Wine, Brisket and Barrel Aged Copper Ale, Polish Potato Vodka, Vodka and Vanilla, Geishas and Sake, Rubinous Women and Rose. We've got Breast Milk and Pavlum, Ginger Ale and Gerbil, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Bong Hits and Bourbon and The table favorites, our house mutton and our house mead. And once you have your name and your ring size, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings. Actually, I think that's where Eric helps you determine what your ring size is. And we'll get that out to you as soon as possible. And thank you very much for- Can't go to a jeweler anymore. Your support of the No Agenda Show. Then Eric the shill is taking off. He's going on a trip with his family

2:37:49 And many people know the Schill, certainly our Knights and Dames interact with him. He's going on a No Agenda listening tour, and he wrote a little bit here. This is part of a six-state back office listening tour for the No Agenda show. Eric Schill and the family will be on the road traveling through our western states hosting meetups in cool states. and legally permitted protests in the shitty states. With some luck, John or Adam will make it to a meetup or two as well. All right. We could use some help from local producers to find a great location for a meetup, restaurants with outdoor spaces would be a fine place to have a quote protest, a peaceful protest, but casual beers at a park work too. We'll be posting specific dates and locations a week or two in advance of each meetup as we wander the Western states

2:38:35 So he's looking at the tri-cities of Washington, Missoula, Montana, Fort Collins, Colorado, Provo, Utah, Vegas, Nevada, Lake Tahoe, California, Nevada, and that'll be on noagendameetups.com. So that should be fun. Meet the Schill and his family. They are a very beautiful and fun family. I would, a couple of things. I would write him a shill at noagendanation.com. And one of the things I think you should always inform him when you're suggesting places, he's got these kids, he's got three kids. Does your state allow kids in certain bars to serve food? It's a lot more complicated than you think. That's true. And so he needs to be notified of this because he doesn't know the laws in Montana, for example, regarding children in bars. In California, it's open game. You can, you know, pretty much bring kids anywhere. Oh really? Well, generally, if it's a pure bar that nobody under 21 can go into, a pure bar, you can't let kids in.

2:39:37 Got it, but in Canada for example. I believe you can like in our release in BC I don't think you can even let kids in the place where there's they serve alcohol. I mean almost I don't know there's anyway the rules are different from place to place and It's it needs he needs to be informative of this all right. That's Sheila Noah Jen the nation calm Oops. Here we go. Yo, it is indeed like a party. We got a couple of them coming up this Saturday. West New York local boob. 8 double 08 meet in the park.

2:40:14 Also on Saturday, Midland, Texas is 2 o'clock. Chili's in Midland. On Saturday, South Florida, Palm Beach at 5 o'clock. The Reike Princess is organizing that. Check noagendameetups.com for details on it. In Northeastern Ohio, 6 o'clock at Hooley House, Copley, Ohio. Then Sunday, the 30th, Anaheim Hills, 1 p.m., out of the Park Plaza. Also on Sunday, the West Seattle Burien School from Home Redux at 4 o'clock. And coming up in September, my birthday, September 3rd, the Londoners unite on the 4th, Salt Lake City, the 5th, the Low Country tubing on the Edisto River in South Carolina, wow. Midland, Texas on 5th of September, Oklahoma City, we got the 6th, South Jersey pig roast. September 9th, Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Cocoa, Florida on the 11th, Niagara Falls on the 12th, Agora Hills, California, Sussan City,

2:41:12 California on the 12th, Columbus, Grove City, Ohio, then Amsterdam on the 18th, Monroe, Washington on the 26th, and the 26th, Long Beach, California. We have some meetup reports. Here is the local Philly 76 meetup report. Hey Adam and John, it is Sir Scatman of Norristown. We are at Fado Irish Pub. This is Philly local 76 where we are getting it aroused. This is Lady Wind Off The Lake. the late. Supertiser in the morning and right now in the evening. In the morning, this is Jay. In the morning. This is Cheryl with Mike. Thank you for your courage. In the morning. This is William Alston again from Baltic Baltimore. All right. Thanks again, guys, for a great podcast. No, thank you. Wonderful to hear these reports. I'm glad everyone's having a good time.

2:42:02 Going out chillin be clumsy don't get triggered and the NA local one sent us there I guess this was from their meat shoot, and they sent us the no agenda 33 salutes Michigan local one present arms Yeah, there's nothing weird about those no agenda people I love that I love that. Ducks came falling down. There were like 15 different calibers going off there. Thank you very much. Not even simultaneously. So if you want to be a part of this crazy bunch, you're welcome. No matter where you are coming from, who you are, what you believe in, just come out and be honest. Everyone's cool. It's no triggering. We don't get mad. We talk, we chill. We have a good time. NoahJenOfMeetups.com. We chill, baby.

2:42:55 Noagendameetups.com if there isn't one there near you all you have to do is go ahead and start one. It's that simple. Noagendameetups.com it's like a party! Sometimes you won't hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want be Triggered or held to blame Where everybody feels the same It's like a party We haven't done an OTG segment in in quite a while I just wanted to fit one in real quick since it keeps getting pushed back. There are some important important things to talk about Number one is Apple coming up with a big change in iOS 14 and

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Apple iOS 14 Privacy Changes and Smart Speaker Surveillance

Apple's iOS 14 update will require apps to get user permission before tracking them, a move that Facebook claims could significantly hurt its advertising revenue. Additionally, reports indicate that police requests for smart speaker recordings have increased by 72%, raising further privacy concerns.

apple· ios 14· facebook· smart speakers· privacy

2:42:02 Going out chillin be clumsy don't get triggered and the NA local one sent us there I guess this was from their meat shoot, and they sent us the no agenda 33 salutes Michigan local one present arms Yeah, there's nothing weird about those no agenda people I love that I love that. Ducks came falling down. There were like 15 different calibers going off there. Thank you very much. Not even simultaneously. So if you want to be a part of this crazy bunch, you're welcome. No matter where you are coming from, who you are, what you believe in, just come out and be honest. Everyone's cool. It's no triggering. We don't get mad. We talk, we chill. We have a good time. NoahJenOfMeetups.com. We chill, baby.

2:42:55 Noagendameetups.com if there isn't one there near you all you have to do is go ahead and start one. It's that simple. Noagendameetups.com it's like a party! Sometimes you won't hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want be Triggered or held to blame Where everybody feels the same It's like a party We haven't done an OTG segment in in quite a while I just wanted to fit one in real quick since it keeps getting pushed back. There are some important important things to talk about Number one is Apple coming up with a big change in iOS 14 and

2:43:52 which will effectively no longer allow apps to track you with the Apple identification number. I think it's an advertising ID number. Facebook is saying that this could halve their audience network revenue, i.e. selling your information to others, by 50%. And I think Apple is, it's very interesting, Apple is saying, well, we'll probably have an opt-in And I think they should do it for all tracking, anything, you know, even for, I mean, just the whole kit and caboodle is like, oh, you can have this app. Do you want it to track you? Because what Facebook will say is, well, you can use our app without opting into the tracking, but then you can't post or whatever. That's how you do it. Yeah. That's like the EULA. Yeah.

2:44:44 Yeah, you don't say you don't agree to it. You can't use the program. Yeah, so that's it, but it's a standoff. It's extortion. It's a standoff between Apple and developers. I'm all for it. Well, you know me. I don't really care. Yeah, I know. Well, I did have a, you know, one of our producers in light of the potential ambassadorship for the flip phone, which by the way, I did get a note back from From the guy and long list of ideas very light on money I will get paid. I didn't see a lot of mention that long list of... Yeah, that's kind of the... Yeah, I would say that. You know what? That should be flipped.

2:45:26 Yeah, well, and yeah, it starts off with well, of course we could always, you know, have you make money on every phone you sell through a spread like okay So I haven't answered the guy yet, but I'm skeptical. This is gonna be anything good, but I was thinking that when it comes to all this hygiene and and people worried and masks do we need to remind people that smartphones actually are a great way to spread coronavirus and Or and everything else and everything else thing you carry. Yeah, I mean worse than money I mean this would this would be my my pitch you need a flip phone man You don't you do not want you don't want that that big screen is just catching all that Rona What do you think the drops don't they fall on your screen you put up to your face you touch it with your hands another thing no one's ever talking about and then obviously not you mention it and then

2:46:29 We have the information that police requests to access recordings from your smart speaker are up 72%. Now you know why I got rid of it. Now you know why I never got one. And it's too bad because I love the technology. The business model is a non-starter for me. And I have a fun clip to play us out with. I don't know... I got three clips that need to be played. All right, we need to do those post-haste. First of all, one's long and two are very short. So it's... I'm gonna start with the long one because I've decided that I'm now going to do this once in a while, not a lot, but this is a QAnon report. Uh-oh! Do I need to put the glasses on? No. Okay. Whatever you do, don't put the glasses on. I want you to hear this without the glasses. Okay. And this is from a podcast with Neon Revolt himself.

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QAnon Election Theories and Hillary Clinton's Advice

QAnon theorists suggest that Joe Biden may be replaced on the Democratic ticket by Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama before the election. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton publicly advised Joe Biden not to concede the election "under any circumstances," predicting a prolonged legal battle over the results.

qanon· hillary clinton· joe biden· election· conspiracy theories

2:47:25 The author of one of the QAnon books and one of the top guys who pushes the QAnon agenda. Oh, okay So neon revolt is gonna tell us what's gonna happen with the election according to what he's been hearing Although they they do a thing at the end which I didn't put into the clip which is saying well You know, it could be just disinformation for a purpose But let's listen. This is what's gonna happen. Joe Biden, by the way, is not gonna be the guy on the ticket. Oh, I've been trying to understand this is this comes from a more recent Q drop is that Q basically said that Biden and whoever is running maybe now what now we know it's Kamala Harris aren't the real ticket and that at a certain point it's gonna switch over to

2:48:09 This is my reading of it. I could be wrong. A Hillary and Obama ticket. Like Michelle or Barack? No, I'm thinking Barack. Really? Because he could, he could, the argument can be made that he can legally run for VP. Right, right, right. And if you think about what they're doing with selecting Biden and how much of a stutterer, like, come on, how often have you known the Democrats to choose a candidate that is like physically, yeah. It's like optics are everything with them. There's a reason that Biden is having, you know, all this mental fog and, you know, it looks like he's a dementia patient up on stage. It's because the intention is to replace him.

2:48:51 Isn't it too late at this point? How would they get Hillary and Obama on the ticket across all 50 states? What could happen, and this is what I theorized, is that because of all this dementia stuff, it could be the pretense for a medical issue with Biden. So if Biden has a stroke and suddenly can't physically run, They can, the Democratic Party can then vote on a new candidate. Right. And just totally, you know, we've been through... Will they delay the election? Because I mean, is there enough time at this point to make that type of, that's a big change, you know? There actually is. This can be done. There was an article about it in The Hill not too long ago. I can post that in the comments too. But this can theoretically be done and I think this is actually what they're going to do. So, again, it's amazing.

2:49:40 Before Biden actually became a candidate, what was the talk of the town? The talk of the town was Burisma and Ukraine. And now that kind of had to go away because if they talk about it now you're attacking a political. There's nothing like a good swoop theory to come back. This is when we need it. I kind of dig in that. I didn't know the term Q drop. Oh yeah. There she is swooping over here she is too this is the second clip this is Hillary I'm not conceding oh Yes, I have see a second Hillary are not conceding. Yes, here we go. Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is gonna drag out and eventually I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is. In relation to the Q drop

2:50:39 This is a short clip from Colorado local news started about the post office, but then quickly went sour. by any evidence. Hey, speaking of those, Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert is one of two QAnon supporters, candidates for Congress, invited to the White House for President Trump's big speech this week. QAnon, you'll recall, is the conspiracy theory that President Trump will soon round up and execute his political opponents who are satanic cannibals that drink baby blood.

2:51:19 It just keeps getting better. First it was rounding up the elites who drink baby blood. Now he's going to execute them. Yeah, execute them. Wait until Yamiche gets a hold of this. Do you have another clip? Because I have one more. I have one more. You can have one more clip. I do have what my last clip, which you can play at the end or you can play now, you can play whenever you want. This is the lost Biden gaffe you were talking about on the last show that we didn't isolate, but I do have it isolated. It's very short. And this is the funniest thing he gave when he gave his acceptance speech. What's it called?

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Joe Biden Gaffes and AOC Post Office Advice

Recent clips highlight a Joe Biden gaffe where he stated there is nothing the country has been able to accomplish when working together. Additionally, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew mockery for suggesting that the best way for citizens to save the post office is to buy stamps.

joe biden· aoc· post office· gaffes· stamps

2:51:56 It's called a lost recent, I'm sorry, recent lost Biden gap. Ah, okay, here we go. And there's never been anything we've been able to accomplish when we've done it together. I know, a lot of people caught this. There's nothing we've been able to accomplish. We can't accomplish anything when we do it together. Yes, that is exactly like your steering committee. Now instead, I have a final clip from Sandy. Sandy Ocasio-Cortez, she's going to tell you something here that was foretold on the No Agenda show just by her own journalistic integrity and boots on the ground.

2:52:46 You will remember this great way that you children can help out. Hello everyone. I have been thinking about ways to help you help the post office and I think I've got an idea and I'm interested in hearing your thoughts. So one of the best ways to support the post office is to buy stamps. What do you all think? Come on man, I had that a week ago. I had that a week ago. Yeah. Buy stamps. Buy stamps. There you go. That is just, it is so sad. I tell you.

2:53:26 Well everybody let me see what we have coming up next Nick the rats with some tree talk on no agenda stream calm you can enjoy that we have end of show mixes from OVDB and Jesse Coy Nelson and Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of rabbits get pulled out of the hat tonight of course would be reporting that on on Sunday show And coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the capital of the drone star state, Austin, Texas, FEMA Region Number 6 on the governmental maps. If you're looking for me in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it smells like smoke, but doesn't smell as bad as it did a couple of days ago, I'm John C. Dvorak. And it doesn't smell like those tote bags we once had.

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2:54:54 We should, as we're thinking about recovery from the pandemic, resist the call to return to normal. Normal was an eco-cidal economic system. The new world order is here and they're in our face and no one gives a crap, no one's paying attention. Gee, that's weird. Ha, ha, ha, yeah. Build back better. Economic system. Build back better. Industrial. Build Back Better United States Build Back Better Reality My Build Back Better Plan Revolution Building Back Better Green New Deal Build Back Better Equitable Inclusive Build Back Better

2:55:42 I guess you make a joke about the fact that people have mispronounced Kamala as Camela. Kamala, the Ugandan headhunter brought here by the wizards. What makes Kamala Harris African-American? Nothing at f***ing all. Her name is pronounced Kama like the punctuation mark. Look, Kamala. So what? That's how it is. Kamala. Nothing her name right is actually. So I'm disrespecting her. Kamala Harris. So is she African American? No. So she is black? She is black. Okay, there we go. Kamala Harris is black, not African American. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown addressed his past extramarital relationship with US Senator Kamala Harris. So we now know the two matchups going into the November election, Mike Pence and of course President Trump, and Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden. What is your take on Kamala Harris being added to the team?

2:56:36 Kamala Harris, also known as the Ugandan Giant, has died after a brief battle with COVID-19. She clearly can't do any kind of stand-up, which you shouldn't do without an audience. Vice President Poonce. Jellystone National Park. No, the other one. Yozumite. When they gaze upon the Semites. The Semites. Bowery. Sequoias. Kamala Harris, that's the politician, right? That's the lady running for vice president. What makes her African-American? I don't know. She don't act like it.

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