Episode 1323 · Sunday, 21 February 2021

Bidenista

A historic deep freeze exposes the fragility of the Texas power grid while global leaders synchronize their recovery slogans under the banner of Build Back Better.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 4m listen | 59 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 1323

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Texas faces a catastrophic infrastructure collapse as a historic winter storm triggers widespread water shortages and power grid failures. Senator Ted Cruz drew national condemnation for his Cancun travel during the crisis, while Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leveraged the disaster to raise $3 million for relief and promote Green New Deal policy goals. The failure of the independent ERCOT grid has reignited intense debates over federalization and the reliability of deregulated energy markets.

Energy providers like Gritty are issuing massive bills to consumers as wholesale prices skyrocket, while financial firms like Morgan Stanley face scrutiny for market speculation. Beyond the freeze, the Cuomo administration in New York is under federal investigation for allegedly undercounting nursing home deaths by fifty percent. International tensions rise as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implements mandatory hotel quarantines in Canada, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte maintains strict curfews despite local court challenges. Meanwhile, aviation authorities investigate Boeing 777 engine failures over Denver and the Netherlands involving Pratt & Whitney hardware.

Distinctive moments include a breakdown of the Ford F-150 hybrid’s ability to power homes during blackouts and a look at the "Build Back Better" slogan's globalist origins. The show honors the legacy of the late Rush Limbaugh while analyzing the "frozen" facial expressions of Joe Biden. Executive Producer Parker Pauly provides the episode art as the community explores the "value for value" model through federated social media.


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CHAPTER 01 / 59 Discussion

Grackles, Crows, and Avian Behavior in Austin

A discussion regarding the behavior of grackles and crows in Austin, Texas, and Northern Silicon Valley. Grackles are described as making a significant racket near grocery stores at dusk, while a "murder" of roughly 200 crows has been congregating in California. Crows are noted for their intelligence and perceived ability to hold grudges against specific humans.

grackles· crows· austin· murder of crows· bird behavior

00:00 He's the Milli Vanilli of COVID. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Sunday, February 21st, 2021. This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation media assassination episode 1323. This is no agenda. Drinking dirty water 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 plagued by a noisy dove. And a murder of crows in John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Well, you know, living in Austin, Texas, I'm very sorry to hear of your struggles.

00:42 Is there some bird there that everyone hates and it's like yes the grackle wreck the place the grackle cracker racket? They are they are the birds from Hitchcock and they sit on the phone wires near the near the HGB around dusk They start showing up hundreds of them and they make a racket. Yeah, grackles are not your friend Well a racket maker besides a stupid dove which keeps making hoo-hoo all day and night. In the last couple of days we've had two murders of crows, these flocks of crows. They have these meetings. Now is a murder, is there a number that goes with a murder or is that just an undescribed bunch? All I know is this group is about 100-200 birds. Right. And they just flock around and they land someplace and they just yak.

01:34 Each other they're doing something that they're I don't know what they're doing exchanging data. I have no idea all I do know is that if a bird if you if you do anything to a crow or Ravens are worse, but anything to a crow the crow will look at you and then for some reason every crow in the murder will now all hate you They're supposed to be very smart animals I would think, yeah. Jeez, I hate it when they all turn on you, that's kind of scary. No, you have to be careful, you always have to be nice to crows. So we are in a bit of a crisis situation in Austin. I thought you already were.

CHAPTER 02 / 59 Discussion

Texas Winter Storm, Water Crisis, and Supply Chain Failures

Texas faces a severe water crisis following a historic winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without electricity. Broken pipes and purification plant failures have triggered widespread boil water notices, forcing restaurants to close and disrupting food supplies at HEB and Central Market. The "just-in-time" delivery model utilized by Amazon and Whole Foods failed during the freeze, leading to store closures.

austin· dripping springs· heb· whole foods· water boil notice

02:13 Yeah, but this you know, yes the Electricity is pretty much still not restored to everybody. I think statewide there's still at least a hundred thousand people who don't have electricity Certainly further out towards dripping Springs, which is kind of southwest of here But ripping Springs. Yeah, it's beautiful dripping Springs is where all the 80s rock guys go to retire. Oh Dripping Springs is going to be a very hot area in the next five years, I think. But our water crisis is pretty desperate. The stuff that you see on the news doesn't even really describe, especially Houston, how bad these broken pipes are. Because that has just messed up every apartment buildings, homes, businesses, strip malls.

03:05 Water is just as necessary as electricity, it turns out, and not having it is just as bad. And because of the water main breaks and some down purification plants, we're under boil notice. And when you're under boil notice, a lot of things happen. There's no restaurants open. Remember when we had the boil notice a couple of years back? Because something messed up with the purification plant, another fine Austin crisis where they had underinvested by $300 million and we were drinking dreck for a week and a half.

03:43 Actually, I do remember that. That was a different situation. Yes, but once you have contamination, then they do a boil notice and restaurants are forbidden from serving food. But also, there's certain types of produce that can't go into the supermarkets and the food situation is pretty desperate. There's long lines to go into any of the kind of three main supermarkets we have, which is HEB, Central Market and Randalls. Whole Foods has been closed. Whole Foods, they have no deliveries. Just in time Amazon failed significantly. So they're closed. Just in time is designed to fail. Yeah. And so when it works, it's just in time. It's just in time. Exactly. Well, the whole electricity situation was just in time. Now what has changed miraculously is these lines in front of the supermarkets. There's no one. I mean, everyone is wearing a mask, of course.

04:44 No one's social distancing. You know, the extra scrubbing down and spraying of the carts. Yeah, that's gone. You know, people are coming out and say, here, here's my cart. You know, oh, thanks, man, because there's no carts left. So the whole Rona thing is falling apart. But I mean, we have Mark Hall. Sir Mark Hall is coming down probably later today. He had electricity, but he ran out of propane and his well was frozen. So he needs to take a shower. So he's coming down to take a shower here most likely, unless he can get his well. I mean, five bucks. But you have to pay it in Bitcoin.

05:27 So, yeah, but it's really, it's a real problem. And, you know, of course, we're Texans and like every other state, you know, you band together. We've got a lot of the local breweries are purifying water for the communities. I'll call them out, Bandera Ale Project and Plow and Print in Kerrville. You know, they're just doing what they can to help. And we have a very political situation on our hands with just like all other forces, we have the political forces at work. We have the electricity players, the generation and the trading, those players at work. And we also have kind of the most egregious

CHAPTER 03 / 59 Discussion

Ted Cruz, Cancun Trip, and Grid Federalization Debates

Senator Ted Cruz faced intense criticism for traveling to Cancun, Mexico, while his constituents in Texas suffered through power outages and freezing temperatures. While the senator has little direct control over the state's utility infrastructure, the optics of the trip were widely condemned as a leadership failure. Concurrently, political discussions have shifted toward whether the independent Texas power grid should be federalized under the Green New Deal or Agenda 2030.

ted cruz· cancun· aoc· texas power grid· federalization

06:19 political thing, well there's two things. So we kind of, we may have gotten a little bit over the, oh it's the Green New Deal and that's not being discussed as much now. Now the conversation is shifting to, well Texas, you know those idiots, you know they've got their own grid so they're not connected to America, which is patently false because of course we can get electricity from Mexico. I mean it's just a lie. But there's this desire, and I think this has been there for a while certainly with the progressive movement, and maybe a part of their Green New Deal Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals overall is to have that federalized.

06:58 Now, for sure what we have now is not good, but I don't want it federalized. But it doesn't matter because AOC, after appropriately calling out Ted Cruz, let me see, this was Cruz made a huge mistake, man. What an idiot. Where is he now? Where's Cruz? I do want to discuss this Cruz notion. Sure. First of all, the guys who've been doing this bullshit are the guys who've been yelling and screaming about masking and staying at home and then they go on a vacation. Texas is open. Ted Cruz has got nothing to do with yelling and screaming about staying at home, and he takes a trip to Cancun. I don't see the big deal. Okay, I can tell you. Except for the image. Yes, that's all that it is. As a Texan, I know that he's a senator representing the state, so he doesn't really control a lot when it comes to this type of crisis. It's the governor and the mayors.

07:59 But the optics were just shit. And I like Ted Cruz, but I too was like, dude, you're supposed to roll up your sleeves. It's a small leadership thing. Yeah, you don't have to suffer with everybody else. No, you don't have to suffer. It's a small leadership thing to be out there and whatever you're doing, but then going to Cancun, getting busted, and then throwing your daughters under the bus? Nah, nah, screw that. I'm going to forgive him for that eventually. It's not the end of his career for Texas, but yeah, it was super bad optics and CNN gratefully took advantage of that.

08:35 In the newest installment of National Lampoon's Winter Vacation, Senator Ted Cruz wanted to get there fast and then take it slow. Leaving on a jet plane, making like Space Jam by believing he could fly. But now that this Sloop John B adventure has come to an end for the New York Speech Boys, it's time for the autopsy. So let's begin here. How bad is that? That couldn't be any worse. Are they just giving up? I think so. I think so. What the hell? Anyway, AOC came down here and a lot of people are doing fundraisers and you know, and I don't think I've really been in the middle of a crisis that I can remember. Like this was a pretty proper crisis. We were very fortunate, but yeah, I think I'm kind of in the middle. And when out-of-staters show up,

CHAPTER 04 / 59 Discussion

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Texas Relief Fundraiser, and Policy Goals

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Texas to join Representatives Sylvia Garcia and Sheila Jackson Lee in a relief effort that raised over $3 million. Ocasio-Cortez emphasized that the disaster was preventable and called for federal support and long-term policy changes. Critics suggest the visit served as virtue signaling to promote the Green New Deal and federal oversight of state utilities.

aoc· sylvia garcia· sheila jackson lee· fundraising· texas relief

09:28 and the message that she was giving, it just feels like virtue signaling and a little disingenuous. It's just the feeling I have. It's still good that she's doing something, but her ulterior motive is very clear. Texas Democratic whip- Sorry, I just wanted to play the clip. I was just going to say before you play the clip, does she show up at every crisis around the country like Jesse Jackson or is it just this one because it happens to play right into her Green New Deal bullcrap? Yes, I think the Green New Deal bullcrap is why she's showing up. And she also, because she started to get a lot of pushback for saying Well, you know, we need more. This is what you get when you ignore the Green New Deal. So she had to do something grand to kind of cover that up so that that wasn't top of the news. Not that mainstream is playing that much of her saying that. But here's the report. Texas Democratic Representatives Sylvia Garcia, Sheila Jackson Lee, as well as New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who stressed the need to support those who are still suffering in Texas and address the issues that helped contribute to the crisis.

10:32 This is not just an issue for Texans. This is an issue for our entire country. And our whole country needs to come and rally together behind the needs of Texans all across the country. across the state. And you know, as was mentioned earlier, disasters don't strike everyone equally. When you already have so many families in the state and across the country that are on the brink, that can't even afford an emergency to begin with, when you have a disaster like this, it can It can just set people back for years, not just for days. And so we have tragedy in this state. We need to rally around the state. We need to rally federal support for Texans and the state of Texas. And we need to make sure that we make short and long-term policy decisions so that this kind of devastation, preventable devastation, never happens again. By the way, the group also announced that they've raised more than $3 million so far as part of their relief efforts.

11:31 So she's all about federalization. That's why she's here. And there's the whole climate change angle is being played. I think this is from... this was actually a fantastic whipsaw on CBS, Nancy Cordes. And this is more about the Paris agreement, but it kind of fits in here. America is back. In his first virtual foreign address, President Biden made this vow to European partners. An attack on one is an attack on all. He said the Trump era had strained the transatlantic alliance.

CHAPTER 05 / 59 Discussion

Joe Biden, Paris Climate Agreement, and Transatlantic Alliances

President Joe Biden officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and pledged $4 billion to COVAX, the global vaccine initiative. During a virtual address to European partners, Biden signaled a shift away from the Trump administration's "America First" policy, aiming to mend fences with NATO allies. Media coverage highlighted the contrast between Biden's diplomatic approach and Trump's previous demands for increased defense spending from allies.

joe biden· paris climate agreement· covax· transatlantic alliance· donald trump

10:32 This is not just an issue for Texans. This is an issue for our entire country. And our whole country needs to come and rally together behind the needs of Texans all across the country. across the state. And you know, as was mentioned earlier, disasters don't strike everyone equally. When you already have so many families in the state and across the country that are on the brink, that can't even afford an emergency to begin with, when you have a disaster like this, it can It can just set people back for years, not just for days. And so we have tragedy in this state. We need to rally around the state. We need to rally federal support for Texans and the state of Texas. And we need to make sure that we make short and long-term policy decisions so that this kind of devastation, preventable devastation, never happens again. By the way, the group also announced that they've raised more than $3 million so far as part of their relief efforts.

11:31 So she's all about federalization. That's why she's here. And there's the whole climate change angle is being played. I think this is from... this was actually a fantastic whipsaw on CBS, Nancy Cordes. And this is more about the Paris agreement, but it kind of fits in here. America is back. In his first virtual foreign address, President Biden made this vow to European partners. An attack on one is an attack on all. He said the Trump era had strained the transatlantic alliance.

12:14 Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money. And he promised to begin mending fences. The United States is determined. How was that? Isn't that a beautiful whipsaw? It's like, here's what he said about Trump and then they just play a piece of Trump. What kind of reporting is this? It's a very weird one. That's why I wanted to jam it in. Had strained the transatlantic alliance. Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money. And he promised to begin mending fences. The United States is determined to earn back our position of trusted leadership. As proof, he pledged $4 billion to COVAX, the global vaccine initiative. And the U.S. officially rejoined the Paris climate agreement today, a move hailed by U.S. allies. It's great, by the way, that Joe has brought the United States back

CHAPTER 06 / 59 Discussion

Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Deregulated Energy Markets, and Infrastructure

Austin Mayor Steve Adler addressed the ongoing water shortage, noting that two-thirds of the city remained without water due to power losses at treatment plants. Adler attributed the crisis to a deregulated energy market in Texas that prioritized inexpensive energy over system hardening and winterization. He called for state leaders to change policies to protect infrastructure from extreme low temperatures.

steve adler· austin· deregulation· energy crisis· water treatment

13:10 Mr. Biden took a tough stance on Russia today. I thought there was something else about the forget about it. That should definitely not be in this category. So I will move on to our mayor. and our mayor for once, and I do not like our mayor, I got real problems with him, but he at least told the truth in his quest, I think, for the same federalization of the electricity grid in Texas. But he told the truth. First of all, I hope your own family, your personal family is safe and well during this time. But what is the greatest need right now for people in Austin dealing with this? Our greatest need right now are water supplies.

13:56 We need, that's our greatest need. The suggestion that the energy crisis that we've had is over is not true because the water situation we're dealing with is the direct result of that. We had a, in essence, a sufficiently deregulated energy system in Texas so that the market didn't build in incentives for people to protect us and harden the system at the low temperatures. We have a system that was prioritizing inexpensive energy. The state needs to learn from this. The state leaders need to change that policies to protect us from where we are. About two thirds of my city right now is without water. And that's a result of some of our water treatment plants losing power, consumption going way up when the pipes are frozen and began to break because we weren't able to keep things heated.

CHAPTER 07 / 59 Discussion

Regional Transmission Organizations, MISO, and Multi-State Blackouts

Rolling blackouts extended beyond Texas, affecting states managed by Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) such as MISO and the Southwest Power Pool. Utilities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma were forced to shed power due to historic demand and natural gas supply issues. In Omaha, Nebraska, residents experienced their first rolling blackouts in years despite being accustomed to extreme winter temperatures.

miso· southwest power pool· rto· rolling blackouts· omaha

14:57 So I believe him to be speaking the truth about the deregulated energy market and there were no incentives and it was a total greed move. And as I went down the rabbit hole of these regional transmission organizations, I didn't really have to go down. The rabbit hole was popping up to me. We have producers everywhere who know stuff about this. But here's what I discovered. It wasn't just Texas. It was all kinds of regional transmission organizations that had rolling blackouts. Some for the first time ever in the existence of the people who live there. Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, they all are part of an RTO called MISO. We begin with the massive blackouts across our viewing area right now. Power is being restored from the North Shore to the South. Our electricity strong arms, Intergy and Clico, were forced to shed power tonight.

15:51 Missouri, part of the Southwest Power Pool RTO. Blackouts by city utilities resumed unexpectedly this morning but have since been called off. Joe Hickman continues our team coverage. He's live with more on what happened and why. Joe? We would certainly like more notification than we have gotten through this. This is quite a historic situation and a kind of a disastrous situation at the same time that we find ourselves in but we feel that we are handling this as the best we can. That's because City Utilities is not its own boss in making those decisions. It's part of a regional electric grid known as the Southwest Power Pool, a wholesale market that coordinates the flow of electricity across 60,000 miles of transmission lines spanning 14 states.

16:34 And one of those states is Oklahoma. Natural gas supplies continue to be an issue for the electric generation sector. We're fortunate today. We did have some intermittent interruptions this morning, but now we, the Southwest Power Pool has taken the region back to the level one, which is where we started this several days ago. So that's a very positive step. And here's what I'm getting from our producers from Omaha. We're in Omaha, we get some extreme low temperatures one to two times a winter for the past three to five years. We have never, never, ever lost power. Some days have been with wind chills sustained minus 25 degrees. Now that we've experienced these temperatures in wind chills in the past three, five years, we have never, ever had a rolling blackout. But on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Omaha's electricity provider, OPPD, was forced to perform these blackout waves across the counties. We have

CHAPTER 08 / 59 Discussion

Energy Market Speculation, Morgan Stanley, and Liquidated Damages

An anonymous utility engineer reported that financial players like Morgan Stanley take significant risks in the energy market by buying future contracts and selling them before execution. When these firms fail to deliver energy, they often pay relatively small liquidated damages fees compared to their potential profits. The discussion compares the Texas situation to California's history with Enron and PG&E's current practice of preemptive blackouts to prevent forest fires.

morgan stanley· energy trading· deregulation· pg&e· california grid

17:32 Our anonymous utility engineer who's checking in heard your discussion about generation limitation in Texas. You're absolutely right. The gas company's primary obligated customer is residential customers. I can also confirm Morgan Stanley is a big player in the energy market. They take a lot of risk buying up energy for the future, then selling it before that contract gets executed. That usually works out, but sometimes when it doesn't, they pay relatively small liquidated damages fees for failing to deliver or take the energy they ordered. So that's another thing. It's a very small fine if you don't deliver the energy. And he of course blames us on deregulation. You can read his note in the show notes.

18:12 What I find interesting about the whole thing is that, I guess it was 10, 12 years ago, 13, maybe longer, we've already gone, California is a leader. We've always been the leader. We do things first. We've gone through all this when Enron was running the show here and then we finally kicked them out and fired the governor. brought in Schwarzenegger of all people, which makes it even more of a mockery. And we haven't had these problems ever since because we don't have this old system in place. Our blackouts now are more of a, which I guess will be coming elsewhere. Well, you still have a regional transmission organization in California. It's been totally deballed. Oh, really? It doesn't have any of the, it doesn't do any of this stuff.

19:00 And blackouts now are only because PG&E, because of all those years of deregulation and what you just described as no incentives to improve anything, the power lines will arc and catch a, start a forest fire. And so now these idiots have to turn off the power in high wind situations where it might start a fire. Right, you got other issues. You got your own issues there. Well, that issue will come to every place else. Whatever we do, we're way out of the game. More than likely. So for sure we have to stop this behavior. It's just not the... Well, talk about stopping the behavior. I have a clip here. If you have to stop the behavior, you should have known about this before. Play the weatherizing clip.

CHAPTER 09 / 59 Discussion

Rick Perry, Winterization Warnings, and Energy Policy History

Texas regulators were warned after a 2011 winter storm to winterize the state's power infrastructure, but the measures were never made mandatory due to high costs. Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry had previously advocated for more nuclear and coal power to ensure grid reliability, but faced political pushback for favoring those fuel types. Data from ERCOT indicates that nuclear and coal remained the most stable energy sources during the 2021 freeze.

rick perry· winterization· ercot· nuclear power· coal

19:47 Ten years ago in February of 2011, a massive winter storm stretched from Texas to Maine, hitting just ahead of that year's Super Bowl. Six people were hurt when a wave of ice and snow fell from the roof of Cowboy Stadium. And there was a lot of public hand-wringing after that storm, which also froze natural gas wells and led to power outages across the state. Thick two-inch sheets of ice covered everything, cars, trees, and of course the roads. Texas politicians and regulators were warned that the state should winterize more of its power infrastructure, but those measures were expensive and were never made mandatory.

20:24 Here's energy and climate consultant Doug Lewin. Power plants in Canada work during the winter because they spend the money to weatherize. Do we need to spend that money to weatherize? There's costs associated with that, so there's a policy discussion to be had there. And according to scientists, that policy discussion should probably account for climate change. No! I think that's a red herring, because winterizing is exactly what Rick Perry suggested and was fired for. And winterizing means more nuclear, which if you look at the real graph, which Erkot has now put out, it's in the show notes, Sir Gene wrote a letter to the editor of the Texas Tribune, he's all pissed off about it. Nuclear and coal kept us alive, pretty much.

21:10 And that's what Perry suggested, more nuclear, so he used the big N word and he used the C word. And he had to step down because he had favored other types of fuel and you're not allowed to do that according to these unwritten rules. But that's winterizing. And of course we didn't do that. They fired the guy over suggesting it. So yeah, Texas sucks in this regard, really sucks. Now let me debunk one thing. Or let me at least explain what it means because people are a little bit crazy about this one story. This is about the...

CHAPTER 10 / 59 Discussion

Gritty, Wholesale Electricity Bills, and Price Surges

Customers of the wholesale electricity provider Gritty reported massive bill surges, with some facing charges of over $1,000 for a single week of service. Gritty, which passes wholesale market prices directly to consumers for a monthly fee, had urged its 29,000 customers to switch providers before the storm, but many were unable to do so. The Texas Public Utility Commission is expected to investigate these extreme billing incidents.

gritty· wholesale electricity· public utility commission· texas· energy bills

21:46 electric bills. Some people in Texas who have power say they're getting hit with massive bills. It was a negative $453. Savannah Theipen says she switched to a wholesale electricity provider last year and her bill was never more than $50. But now she got a $600 bill for just two days after she says the company raised prices. I'm really kind of predicting that I'm going to have to pay a lot over $1,000 just for one week of electricity. I just wanted to explain this story because it's going around like everyone's going to get billed thousands of dollars. Not true. There's one small electricity provider in Texas called Gritty. G-R-I-D-D-Y. By itself, you should already know this is not a company you want to do business with. Gritty. It's like some Web 2.0 name.

22:39 they should have spelled it GRDI. Anyway, Gritty. And the way they have 29,000 customers and you don't have to be a customer, there's other options, but people like that option because you paid nine dollars a month just to be a member and then you paid your share of the wholesale price that came through Gritty which comes through the RTO. And when this when these prices started to go up they sent messages, they had all kinds of messaging to all of their 29,000 customers, please switch because you're going to get killed. You got to switch. Now that was a nice suggestion, but there was no way to switch. No one was in the switching business during this crisis. So these people, you know, something's going to have to happen. I think that the Public Utility Commission will probably have to step in for them. But it's not like everyone's getting billed crazy amounts of money. It will be higher and there will be people will be called to account.

CHAPTER 11 / 59 Discussion

Ford F-150 Hybrid, Tesla Camping Mode, and Cold Weather Battery Performance

The Ford F-150 hybrid truck gained attention during the Texas freeze for its onboard 7.5 kWh generator, which can power a home for up to 85 hours. In contrast, electric vehicle owners noted that lithium-ion batteries, such as those in Teslas, see significantly reduced performance and potential damage in zero-degree temperatures. Some owners utilized "camping mode" to run small appliances, though battery depletion remained a concern.

ford f-150· tesla· lithium ion battery· generator· electric vehicles

23:36 And that's your update. So don't send us blankets, don't send us cash, send us water. That's all we need. And kind of the online fundraising, it's irritating. Don't do it. Do they have any way of getting, I mean, collecting money is one thing. Yeah, what are we going to do with it? Distributing is a different story. And if you're not a pro at it, what does AOC know about fundraising and distribution of funds? And no one has told me what it's for. I have no idea. It's just, she's good. She raised three million dollars. It's good. Well, where's it going? What's going on with that? Where's mine? And the only thing I found positive that came out of this, not for the employees of the Ford Motor Company, is a great promotion for the Ford F-150 hybrid truck, which

24:32 The new version has an onboard 7.5 kWh generator. You can run your entire house for 85 hours on one tank of Ford F-150 gas and whatever the lithium ion battery will provide. And you should mention, And the lithium-ion battery, as you mentioned it. Most of the battery cars and lithium-ion batteries, they're pretty much non-functional at zero degrees. Interesting. I hadn't figured it. Yeah. I mean, my neighbor Steve, he just bought a Tesla and he didn't say, he said there's a camping mode.

25:15 You hit the camping mode and then you can charge all your stuff and you can run some appliances off it, but I don't know how long he was using it or if the battery really, if that depleted. I'll have to ask him. But it should. It should. Well, if he kept in the garage and he had some electricity to keep the place warm, it would have been fine, but... I don't... Well, no. No, he had no heat. A lot of cars, a lot of electric cars have problems when it gets too cold. And it also damages the battery. Right. Well, okay, maybe they've worked that out. Maybe they worked it out. So the only thing I have most of the Tesla's here in California, I do have one clip. I just thought was kind of a funny WTF clip from NPR and on, you know, advising people, I guess Texas was advising people to keep their water trickling. And then it, it seems as if the state water department said, no, no, don't do that anymore. That's correct. That's correct. They don't do it. And I think they said that a little too early.

CHAPTER 12 / 59 Discussion

Water Trickling Advice, Main Breaks, and Houston Crisis

Conflicting advice regarding trickling faucets led to confusion during the Texas freeze, with some cities eventually asking residents to stop the practice to conserve water pressure. However, stopping the trickle reportedly contributed to frozen pipes and subsequent main breaks when the system backed up. The situation remains particularly dire in Houston, where infrastructure damage is expected to take a long time to repair.

water main· plumbing· houston· austin water· conservation

26:10 Well, here's the story. Cities are even asking people to not follow the Time-Honored Advice for avoiding a burst pipe trickling the faucet. Louis Pino of Fort Worth is keeping his water flowing for now. I know my water bill is going to be hell next month, but you know, it's going to cost me more if I shut them and then all of a sudden everything freezes. And temperatures will stay near or below freezing until Friday. For NPR News, I'm Brett Jaspers in Dallas. All right. Yeah. The funny thing is, is that the story prior to that says that a lot of the water loss is because of the big mains breaking because it was all backing up into the system because nobody was trickling their water. Yeah. No, that's that's what I understood is there was no big call out for trickling water. It was other things because we didn't have electricity.

27:02 Just you know kind of just that's what the massive news was for the same reason you didn't hear about all these other RTOs doing rolling blackouts. It was just Texas as far as everybody's concerned. So you didn't really hear about the trickle, but I do recall specifically when Austin Water said stop trickling and then they had water main bursts. So someone put some dumb message out there. Because when you stop trickling, then doesn't it start to back up there where it's frozen and nowhere to go? Well, what happens you stop trickling, something freezes, something breaks. And when something breaks and all the water starts, lots of water starts blowing out all over the place. Yeah, that's what we had. That which causes the real problem of water loss, not the trickling. There were some, but so that's just a waste of water you're trickling.

27:52 Anyway, and by the way that guy sounds like he's just had a hose wide open. You don't need to do that. Oh, no, just a little drip. That's all you need Anyway, we're gonna run the bill up that much we had filled up our bathtubs previously So we have that and we're boiling water and we'll be fine But lots of people not gonna be fine for a long time certainly in the Houston area It is not good there, and they've just had thing after this just Houston. It's just not not a good place, man It's cursed it seems like a voodoo curse as the resident aviation expert. I'd like to make a few comments about the 777 which lost large portions of its engine yesterday the first thing I'd like to mention is that this that happened yesterday afternoon and

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Boeing 777 Engine Failure, Pratt & Whitney, and Debris Incidents

A Boeing 777 experienced a major engine failure over Denver, dropping large portions of its cowling into residential yards. This followed a similar incident earlier that day in the Netherlands involving a Boeing 747-400, both of which utilized Pratt & Whitney engines. Aviation experts are investigating why engine components breached their housings, while media outlets were criticized for misinterpreting pilot "heavy" radio calls.

boeing 777· pratt & whitney· engine failure· netherlands· denver

28:41 Yesterday morning, leaving from an airport in the south of the Netherlands, a 747-400 had an engine explode and lost pieces of the engine, floated, you know, dropped down to earth, missed hurting anybody. But actually, I think there were five people who were hurt, one of which was a child who picked up some red-hot debris from this engine. What are the chances of that happening Twice in the same day both Pratt and Whitney engines seems high, but then again random number theory just says otherwise So first to CNN I would like to say if you play an air traffic control clip and the air the pilot is or the air crew notifies that they are heavy and

29:35 That relates to the aircraft and that they are still full with fuel, probably have to dump some. It does not mean as they went on incessantly, yes, the pilot reported heavy damage, heavy damage. The pilot reported a heavy mayday, a heavy mayday. So CNN, you are idiots. And then I will answer the question from a pilot's perspective, what went wrong? Something in that engine wanted to get out and it did. And that's all we know. Well, that's all you're gonna know until they figure it out. Pratt & Whitney's the one that's on the hook. Yeah. I didn't know Pratt & Whitney sold inches to the 777. I thought those were all Rolls-Royce or General Electric. I was surprised myself.

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Justin Trudeau, Canadian Travel Restrictions, and Quarantine Hotels

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced strict new travel restrictions for Canada, requiring all international flights to land at only four specific airports. Travelers must undergo mandatory PCR testing upon arrival and wait up to three days in an approved hotel at their own expense, estimated at over $2,000. Those testing positive will be moved to designated government quarantine facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 variants.

justin trudeau· canada· pcr testing· quarantine· travel ban

30:27 I was surprised. Man, but when you see that cowling pop off in that guy's yard, holy crap. Those engines are so big. I think if I could stand up in the engine and still wouldn't hit my head. Oh yeah, no, you've seen people standing up inside that hole. Yeah, I don't remember how... it's so big. It's so big! He's big. Very big. All right. COVID. Well, yeah, COVIDs, COVIDs. The Netherlands... Let's go to Canada. Oh, okay. Let's go anywhere but the US. Yes, okay, good. COVID, this is Trudeau and his new restrictions. The Canadians should get rid of this guy. Listen to this, this is horrible. Starting next week, all international passenger flights must land only at the following four airports. Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal.

31:26 In addition to the pre-boarding test we already acquire, as soon as possible in the coming weeks, we will be introducing mandatory PCR testing at the airport for people returning to Canada. Travelers will then have to wait for up to three days at an approved hotel. for their test results at their own expense, which is expected to be more than $2,000. Those with negative test results will then be able to quarantine at home under significantly increased surveillance and enforcement. Those with positive tests will be immediately required to quarantine in designated government facilities to make sure they're not carrying variants of potential concern.

32:15 We will also, in the coming weeks, be requiring non-essential travelers to show a negative test before entry at the land border with the US. And we're working to stand up additional testing requirements for land travel. Wow! Nice! Well done! Guess those camps are real. Guess those camps are real, huh? Those camps are real. I guess I lost on that idea. Here's the guy in that I want to hear this Manitoba prime minister. I want you to listen to these the numbers apparent. I almost said it. The numbers it seems in Manitoba are so astronomical. No, this is yeah, go ahead. I've figured this one out.

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Manitoba COVID-19 Variants, Dr. Theresa Tam, and Modeling Charts

Manitoba health officials reported four cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant, though all individuals have already recovered. Despite the low numbers, Canadian Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam released a controversial modeling chart showing a "rocket projectile" spike in cases if public health measures are lifted. Critics described the yellow trend line on the chart as hyperbolic and physically impossible given testing capacities.

manitoba· theresa tam· covid-19 variants· hockey stick graph· modeling

32:58 It's so astronomical that they're worried sick about the variants and they've found a person or two that has them and oh, they don't know what, they're beside themselves. Additionally, we are announcing that three confirmed cases to be the result of B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant have been detected in Manitoba. This is the variant first identified in the United Kingdom. This brings the total number of variant of concern cases in Manitoba to four. All three cases have recovered and have completed their self-isolation requirements. The number of contacts for the cases range from 4 to 24. I also want to note that these are not connected at all to First Nations communities. There is no evidence of further spread in Manitoba related to the variant.

33:43 This is not an unexpected development. We are anticipating variant of concern cases in Manitoba and we are prepared for this. Okay, stop right there because there's a piece of this you're gonna love. I just emailed you a link. You have to see this because what's happening in Canada is Dr. Tam has just finished the Canadian modeling. And the model shows what will happen if they don't continue with enhanced combination of public health measures and individual precautions, you know, the enhanced measures. It's a Twitter link. I'm going to wait. I'm going to keep talking until you bring it up.

34:23 Because this chart is the most mind-blowing thing. So there's this chart that shows if everyone plays by the new enhanced rules, which I guess this is a part of, this no travel crap, then you know everything's just gonna go down the slope the way you'd expect it to. But if not, there's this hyper parabolic... It's not even possible for it to zoom up like this. Do you see the chart? I just got it. Look at the yellow, that is an actual trend line she's predicting if the health measures are lifted. And it goes up to 20. It's the hockey part, hockey stick. No, it's not even a hockey stick, John. That yellow line is not a hockey stick, it's a rocket projectile. That's crazy.

35:12 This is their model. Stupid. I mean, this is there any any data? I mean, even in that short amount of period, you can't even test that many people to get. They had the guy in Manitoba himself said that the three people that had the variant are all OK. They've already been clear because they didn't really catch anything. They just tested with a variant, which I don't even know how who's testing for variants. But OK, I understand there. You can do it. But, uh... It's insane. Insane. And by the way, a little careful there with your variant talk. Okay? You know, people are getting a little upset with how these variants are being described.

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WHO Variant Naming, Stigmatization, and Political Correctness

The World Health Organization's Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove urged the public and media to stop using geographic labels like "South African variant" or "UK variant." The WHO aims to remove stigmatization against countries that identify mutations, preferring technical names like 501Y.V2. This shift in nomenclature is compared to other politically correct language changes in public health reporting.

world health organization· variants· south africa· uk· nomenclature

35:55 and the World Health Organization's Dr. Von Karakhova made a statement about this. There are a number of virus variants that WHO is tracking with global partners around the world, one of which has been identified in South Africa. I would like to urge us not to call these the South African variant or the UK variant. Really we need to try to remove any of the stigmatization against any of the countries that are working hard to recognize any mutations and changes in the virus. As you know, the virus evolves, it mutates, it changes. This is evolution and this is natural. The variant that was identified in South Africa, the 501YV2... So the only way you're now... It's like people experiencing homelessness. The variant identified in South Africa, that is now the politically correct way to say it. So the flu identified in Wuhan.

36:55 possible I think. It's hard to keep up with all this stuff, man. Well when they're that picky about stuff like this then you know it's not there's nothing to be concerned about in terms of health effects. This is nonsense and this stupid chart is idiotic. Isn't it great though? I can't believe my luck on that one. That's so good. Let's go to the Netherlands for a moment. Now, I talked to Christina for about an hour yesterday and so they had the court case which one of these activist groups filed against the government and the court agreed that the curfew was inappropriate and it went far beyond the powers of the government. The government of course went right back at him and challenged that and

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Mark Rutte, Dutch Curfew Court Case, and Lockdown Protests

A Dutch court initially ruled that the government's COVID-19 curfew was an inappropriate use of power, though the government successfully challenged the ruling to keep the restriction in place until a March 3rd hearing. Acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte faced tough questioning from the BBC regarding social polarization and the "benefits scandal" that led to his government's resignation. Reports indicate Dutch youth are using lookout systems to evade police during curfew hours.

mark rutte· netherlands· curfew· bbc· lockdown

37:45 If you recall, the funny part was that the court case was ongoing and then everyone had to go home because it was nine o'clock and the curfew was about to start. So they had to move that to the next day. And now the court has said, well, you know what? We will revisit the issue on March 3rd. Okay, so that's another 10 days from now. And they have an election coming up March 17th. As you recall, the entire government fell over a child payment scam that they had ordered thousands of parents to return money unlawfully and bankrupted many people through this practice. So I think that they'll just have the lockdown until March 17th and they'll do mail-in voting and all kinds of stuff. I mean, it seems like a perfect opportunity to try to pull that one again.

38:35 But the BBC's Anne Holligan sat down with Prime Minister, or I should say acting Prime Minister since she resigned, Mark Rutte and kind of shoved it in. Mr. Rutte, how do you even start to heal and to fix and mend the complex divisions in Dutch society right now and stop people from becoming more polarised and radicalised? We've been traveling around the country and speaking to people who are losing faith in the system. They saw the U-turns over the COVID response. They saw the benefits scandal, the government collapse, the last in the EU to start vaccinating people.

39:18 And they're finding themselves asking, where do I find the truth? And they're increasingly searching in places where the conspiracy theories are spinning around. Does that worry you? And is that something, do you think you can pull those people back and convince them that they can still believe in the government? Well of course I fully respect your journalistic work and the BBC has the highest standards. So he disagrees with what she's saying but how he starts off as well, of course I respect your

39:54 highly regarded journalistic work, you sheet hole. I respect your journalistic work and the BBC has the highest standards and is known for its high quality but on this issue I completely disagree. Yes, there is a small group of people from the start. who disagreed with the government and when they disagreed because they were not saying there was not a virus but they were telling us you are not taking the necessary measures and then we have always tried to engage in a dialogue and to discuss. Yes well you're full of shit. So Christina was telling me how you know the kids they want to visit each other and if you stay past nine o'clock you can't be caught on the street

40:35 And so they have entire lookout systems and SMS text message so kids are hiding behind cars before they can run to the next one to make sure the Nazis don't see them before they can get to their home. It's pathetic. It's just pathetic. And they're taking it for some reason. Although the BBC feels that there's something up. People might not be that happy with it. Yeah, I'm sure they're not that happy with it. Back I'm sure anybody who's a businessman that flies in and out of Canada's not gonna be too happy with it either when he needs to do that. How about she how about flying from Fresno to Hawaii? You could get in trouble and this morning we are learning more about a Fresno couple that was arrested in Hawaii and

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Hawaii Travel Arrests, German Lockdown Justification, and China Model

A couple from Fresno, California, was arrested in Hawaii after refusing mandatory quarantine and attempting to check into multiple hotels without COVID-19 test results. Meanwhile, in Germany, leaked documents suggest the Ministry of the Interior solicited "scary" documentation from scientists to justify lockdowns. Some of the involved scientists had previously praised China's radical lockdown measures as a "heroic" model for the world.

hawaii· fresno· germany· lockdown· china

41:21 Two Fresno residents now in police custody there. It's 22 year old Miriam Rosas and 34 year old Abel Rosas. They were arrested after an alert was sent to their hotel. Now officials say the pair tried to check into the hotel on Tuesday with no evidence of a COVID-19 test or exemption. They were told they had to be placed into a mandatory quarantine, but they refused and left. Officials say the pair tried to check into another hotel saying they were locals but authorities caught up with them and arrested them. What country are we in? Oh, you know Germany has the you know there's the big brouhaha

42:02 that the Ministry of the Interior solicited documentation that the lockdowns were necessary and said, hey, make it as scary as possible. So this is now ongoing and documents are surfacing that were a part of this justification of the lockdown, specifically Otto Koble, who is from the University of Lausanne, and political scientist Maximilian Meyer, he's from the University of Bonn. Just before they gave this recommendation, they were both involved with recommending the lockdown, they had written their own paper in which they praised China's radical lockdown as a heroic measure and raved about the fact that the virus could be fought successfully if the whole world were like China. So that's nice.

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Anthony Fauci, UK Fear Porn, and BBC Plague Village Report

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted that life in the U.S. might return to normal by Christmas 2021, a timeline skeptics view as a way to extend restrictions into the next flu season. In the UK, the government and BBC have been criticized for "fear porn" messaging, including a report on the historic "plague village" of Eyam. The report used the village's 1665 quarantine history to justify modern school closures, despite showing that isolation did not prevent historic deaths.

anthony fauci· nhs· bbc· eyam· fear porn

42:54 Thanks for nothing. Yeah, it's that people are waking up. I kind of enjoy that. I enjoy seeing it Fowchee has the latest update on us, you know when things will return back to Normal tonight the question on Americans minds when will life get back to normal? That likely will be as the president said by the end of the year by Christmas Oh, yeah, just in time for the flu season so we can extend it again. That's how cynical I've become Well, yeah, I don't know what to tell you. UK has updated their public service announcements, the fear porn on the radio. Could you look a COVID-19 patient in the eyes and tell them the risk isn't real? Could you tell an intensive care nurse on a 12-hour shift that you never bend the rules? Could you say in all honesty that you only ever leave home when you absolutely have to? Around one in three people who have COVID-19 have no symptoms and are spreading it without knowing.

43:59 Are you absolutely positive you're not one of them? Says who? Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives. They got a whole series of these. Oh, I got two two clips myself. Okay, what you got? The BBC is out of control Yes, they are. I mean all you have to do is go to the BBC site. It's all here. I'm stare I scare him So this is the BBC, you know There's no reason again to do this commercially because there's no do not pay for by the government You have to assume the government's kind of behind this pushing this narrative. And if you see Boris Johnson, you know, you have to wonder what the hell's going on in the UK. I think a lot of it has to do with the Remainers trying to

44:43 reassert themselves. Anyway this was a BBC report they found a plague village an old village that was well you hear the report but I'll have to tell you something that you didn't see after this runs. Are you worried about what's happening now the virus? Of course everyone is. I don't know how long it's going to last. Oh great, oh fear porn music. This is Eam, a village I visited at the start of the pandemic. Hi Mike. Hi. How are you? Yeah, I'm alright. I came because of its history. In 1665 the village quarantined itself because of the great plague. But now, almost a year into the pandemic, how have they been coping? This is firefighting. Everybody has to accept that their children will take time to catch up and some will take a lot longer.

45:37 When I was last at the school, it was a place for all the children. Good morning, squirrels. It's great to see you all. Now in this classroom, it's only the children of critical workers who are attending. Man, that's the same vibe and voiceover they do when African villages, you know what I mean? Look at these poor children who still have a classroom. They start this thing off by talking about how this village was isolated itself, which you have to do. Yes. But at the same time they showed a bunch of gravestones of people who had the plague. So I guess the isolation didn't do jack. They showed a whole slew of gravestones outside the village from the villagers of people who died during the plague era.

46:31 Wow. Kind of countermanding their own point, but this is the kind of thing the BBC is trying to do. They're doing this scary, oh, we're all going to die. And the kids, these pathetic kids, there's like three people in a classroom that should have held 30. And the kids were sorrowful because they had no friends and they had to be, you know. And they potentially can kill grandpa. So they're feeling really good about themselves because that's what they've been told. Yeah. Empty chair at the table. It's right your fault, your fault child. I mean, it was nothing to play, but you and I sent a rare email back and forth about the BBC interview with Bill Gates, which was just unbelievable. Packed with fear porn, done in a cathedral. I mean, it was just, the whole thing is insane, bombastic. They've gone, you're right, off the rails. Off the rails. Now here's another BBC report, this time on a whole town in Brazil that's going to be vaccinated as a test. They're using us as guinea pigs.

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Brazil Vaccination Experiment, Serrana, and Infection Rate Testing

The city of Serrana, Brazil, is being used as a test site where the entire adult population of 30,000 people will be vaccinated. The BBC reported that the goal is to determine if mass vaccination of a whole city leads to lower infection rates and allows for the removal of masks. Critics labeled the experiment Orwellian, noting that health officials typically maintain that masks are still required after vaccination.

brazil· serrana· vaccination· bbc· guinea pigs

47:32 So Ghana has around 45,000 residents. When a survey was carried out last year it was found that around 10% of people here had had contact with the virus. had had contact with the virus. So the idea is to vaccinate the entire adult population here, around 30,000 people, so they can find out whether by vaccinating an entire city, it'll lead to lower infection rates. By the end of the day, what we want to know is how we can get the level of vaccination that we can take out the mask and restart life before pandemic. Well, they're going to be in for a rude awakening. You don't get to take your mask off after you've had the vaccine. No. Well, did you if you listen to the premise?

48:28 They said they're gonna vaccinate the entire city to see if it lowers the infection rate. What? Let me just hear that again. They said it was such a straight face. Sahana has around 45,000 residents. When a survey was carried out last year, it was found that around 10% of people here had had contact with the virus. So the idea is... What does that even mean, contact with the virus? But okay. We vaccinate the entire adult population here, around 30,000 people. So they can find out whether by vaccinating an entire city, it'll lead to lower infection rates.

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Andrew Cuomo, Nursing Home Investigation, and Emmy Controversy

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have opened a preliminary investigation into the Cuomo administration's handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The New York Attorney General alleged that the state undercounted nursing home deaths by 50%, with the actual toll reaching 15,000. Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted to withholding numbers to avoid federal retaliation, leading to calls for him to return his International Emmy Award.

andrew cuomo· nursing homes· brooklyn· bill de blasio· emmy

49:09 Bend over, Dvorak, bend over. That's the best. That's like, it's so Orwellian. It's off the scale. And this is again BBC. Oh my. Now, before we get into vaccines, because I got some fun things, we've discussed it, but I just wanted to give a little update on the cleansing of the Democratic Party, the purge. Thank you everybody for helping Joe Biden get into the White House. CBS News has confirmed that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have begun a preliminary investigation into the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. We are witnessing the unraveling

49:54 of a cover-up. in the implosion of a lying and corrupt governor. In a recent report, the New York Attorney General alleged the state undercounted deaths at its nursing homes by as much as 50%. Now the state's death toll is estimated to be 15,000. Even Cuomo's fellow Democrats have begun to turn, joining state Republicans who want to cut off the emergency powers granted to the governor at the onset of the pandemic. There clearly needs to be a full investigation. We're talking about thousands of people who are lost. Cuomo has said he made a mistake by not providing accurate information after an aide admitted numbers were withheld from the public to avoid some sort of retaliation from the Trump administration. No excuses. I accept responsibility for that. It's going to be fun. I hate to say that the schadefreude is high for me on this.

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Council on Foreign Relations, Darwinian Law, and Mutation Errors

A podcast from the Council on Foreign Relations featured a discussion on "Darwinian law" and virus mutations. During the segment, a speaker mistakenly stated that "vaccines are mutating" both overseas and at home, rather than the virus itself. The error went uncorrected during the broadcast, highlighting a lack of quality control in high-level policy discussions.

council on foreign relations· mutations· darwinian law· vaccines· gaffe

55:36 And mink fur is very popular in China and that's how it got... and it's... it equals... you wear fur... you wear fur, you die. Oh, wow! When did you learn this? Yeah. When did you hear this? This is great! You solved the riddle! It's to protect the Chinese! I made it up. It's the mink link. You did it! I made it up, but it makes nothing but sense of your messaging. I'm sorry, you did not make that up. John, tell me about the thesis you asked. had on the make-believe. The fur. Yes, the fur. They have taken and found COVID-19 virus on fur. And fur has been used since ancient times as man has used that to stay warm and also for fashion back in the Stone Ages, right?

56:20 Although nowadays it's not necessary because the synthetic fibers will do the trick. Although we have to realize that synthetic fibers come from oil. Oh my goodness, this is a clear climate problem. So I don't know what we're gonna do. Cotton. Cotton's the answer. Raytheon. No, radon. What was that horrible thing they made suits out of? Dacron. Dacron, that's what it is. Dacron comes from oil. Of course it does. Everything comes from oil. Don't tell anybody. A great, great, I love it when this happens. The Council on Foreign Relations is, you know, they have to have their podcast. They got to talk about stuff.

57:02 But I don't know who's editor in charge over there, but they need some quality control. And then of course, there's this big concern about the virus mutating. In some ways, Bob, we're sort of seeing Darwinian law playing out before us. The viruses are mutating. The mutations that make the virus more likely to replicate are taking hold. And we've seen a variety of these. We've talked about the UK variant, the South Africa variant, the Brazil variant. But I want to point out that it's not just that the vaccines are mutating overseas, they're also mutating here at home. Did you catch it? No. Listen again. It's not just that the vaccines are mutating overseas, they're also... Maybe the virus is mutating. I don't think the vaccine is mutating. It's hard to hear him sometimes, isn't it? This is a problem because for one thing, this guy has the modulation that just... whatever he says, you're not going to hear it. Yeah, puts you to sleep and proof is in the pudding.

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Pfizer Vaccine Storage, Dosing Delays, and Israeli Study

A new Israeli study published in The Lancet suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine is 85% effective, supporting the UK's policy of delaying second doses. Pfizer also submitted data to the FDA showing their vaccine can be stored in standard pharmacy freezers rather than ultra-cold units. This revelation raises questions about the necessity of the massive prior investment in specialty deep-freeze infrastructure.

pfizer· lancet· israel· ultra-cold storage· fda

58:04 Yeah, put me to sleep twice. Oh my goodness, we have such great stuff. Wall Street Journal podcast is just on fire. We've got a new Israeli study and man is it telling us something new. The findings of the Israeli study published in the Lancet Medical Journal come as more countries weigh whether to delay second doses. Our reporter Boyan Penchevsky has more. That seems to vindicate the decision made in the United Kingdom to delay the second dose in order to vaccinate more people as quickly as possible. More and more evidence is mounting from similar studies that actually delaying the second dose

58:46 is a sound policy. Wow, who's this guy? Hold on a second, hold on a second. He sounds like a ghoul. Well he is. I would like to suck your blood. But listen to his message. More and more evidence is mounting from similar studies that actually delaying the second dose is a sound policy and if this were to be proven without a doubt then basically countries like the United States would find themselves being able to practically double the number of people they vaccinate overnight. Wait for it. Pfizer and BioNTech still recommend that a second dose of their vaccine be administered 21 days after the first. Separately, the companies also said today that their vaccine can be stored and transported in normal freezers rather than at ultra cold temperatures between minus 112 and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, which has posed logistical challenges. So

59:42 What we've learned here is that, yeah, you know, you can delay the second shot. It's not a problem. Oh, by the way, that $2 billion we spent on super ultra freeze devices, ultra deep freezers, yeah, that wasn't really necessary, but someone made out like a bandit. What utter, utter bull crap is this? And it's all over ABC too. This morning, the winter weather creating vaccine chaos, slowing shipments and delaying tens of thousands of vaccinations across at least 42 states. Not a problem. In New York, two mass vaccination sites set to open this week delayed because of shortages. In Los Angeles, 12,000 vaccine appointments canceled because there's not enough supply.

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Vaccine Competition, Pregnant Women Trials, and Mixed Messaging

Johnson & Johnson is seeking FDA approval for its vaccine, which may require two doses despite being initially marketed as a single-shot solution. Pfizer has begun testing its vaccine on 4,000 pregnant women, a group previously excluded from clinical trials. The rapid changes in storage requirements and dosing schedules have led to public confusion and skepticism regarding the consistency of pharmaceutical guidance.

johnson & johnson· pfizer· fda· pregnant women· moderna

1:00:30 While states deal with the backlog, new questions about vaccine doses. Some researchers now claim one dose of the Pfizer vaccine is already highly protective. They're urging authorities to delay giving second doses until all priority groups are vaccinated first. And now the Johnson & Johnson vaccine still awaiting FDA approval could end up being two doses due to concerns about new variants of the virus. I believe that next Friday the vaccine will be reviewed and probably approved at one dose and it'll only be more if we can then give boosters later in order to affect the immunity towards the variants. Meanwhile, Pfizer will now test the vaccine on 4,000 pregnant women, a group excluded from the first round of trials. Yeah, line up ladies! Woohoo! So this is like, this is like, you'd imagine there's a board meeting and the Johnson & Johnson saying, are these guys getting paid for the two dose thing? Yeah, boss.

1:01:30 Why don't we just tell them they need two doses of ours too? You'd realize that'll double the bottom line. Oh, okay, well we can do that. Meanwhile, you go back over to the Pfizer guys and say, what's Johnson & Johnson up to? Oh, they're asking these guys to do two doses. Those bastards, okay, we're pushing for three doses of ours. And listen to this. Pfizer submitted new data to the FDA showing its vaccines can be stored in standard pharmacy freezers instead of ultra-cold specialty freezers. That could expand distribution to more vaccine sites. In addition, an Israeli study finds that a single Pfizer vaccine dose is 85% effective. Okay, this is again multiple agendas at work. Pfizer is advertising. We know because we had Bill Gates on 60 Minutes brought to you by Pfizer. Pfizer wants to push that they're effective. Pfizer wants to be the leader. Hey, you know what? Yeah, you guys are horning in on our business. We'll show you.

1:02:24 Yeah, you still need that second dose. We're 85% effective with one and you don't need a freezer! Ha ha ha, Moderna! At what point will people just go, I can't believe any of this anymore? I can't... the amount of mixed messages... you have to take the same vaccine from the same company. Oh no, you can take a mix of one and the other. Oh, it's gotta be frozen. Nah, it doesn't have to be frozen. I mean, it's one thing, oh, it's 85% with one shot? Yeah, you don't need two shots. Oh, you can have two shots. Oh, you only need one. The mixed messaging has got to drive people crazy, but they're still lined up. The parking lot over at the Oakland Coliseum was onto the freeway causing a traffic jam.

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CDC Life Expectancy Data, UK Mandatory Vaccines, and Job Markets

The CDC reported that U.S. life expectancy dropped by a full year in the first half of 2020, with a two-and-a-half-year drop for Black Americans. In the UK, several firms are exploring "no jab, no job" policies, attempting to make COVID-19 vaccination a condition of employment. Critics argue that these mandates are being pushed by corporations rather than the government to bypass legal hurdles.

cdc· life expectancy· uk· mandatory vaccines· employment

1:03:14 Yeah, so they didn't test the vaccine on pregnant women. So 4,000 lucky candidates. I'm sure they can't wait to test this puppy out. But they do have some incredible data, such as this. And tonight, the profound impact of the pandemic. The CDC says COVID-19 dropped life expectancy in the US by a full year in the first six months of 2020. For black Americans, more than two and a half years. And how do they know this? What kind of calculation does that?

1:03:50 Have we had a lifetime? Have we had a lifetime? And now I gotta call Mo. Mo, you're black so two and a half years minus two and a half, bro. I mean, what the hell? It's stupid. It's so stupid. Meanwhile, UK firms are trying to make vaccines mandatory with the no jab, no job meme. UK firms. So it's the firms, it's not the government, but these companies are saying, yeah, we want to... Oh, they're all, there's a bunch of idiots. By the way, I'm now going to, we haven't discussed this, there's nothing really to discuss, but I would say three, four, five years ago, the term jab

CHAPTER 27 / 59 Discussion

Military Vaccine Refusal, 82nd Airborne, and "Jab" Terminology

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reported a surprisingly low vaccine acceptance rate among U.S. troops, with fewer than half of the elite 82nd Airborne Division agreeing to the shot. While the military has historically mandated vaccines like anthrax, the COVID-19 vaccine remains voluntary under its current emergency use authorization. Observers also noted the sudden shift in American media toward using the British term "jab" instead of "shot."

82nd airborne· lloyd austin· military· vaccine refusal· jab

1:04:37 was only used in the UK and now all of a sudden it's become common knowledge, commonplace in the United States. All the TV people showing jab, jabs, jabs, the jabs, the jabs. It used to be called a shot. But somebody decided that a jab is less violent or something and they keep showing it on television, it's sickening. They show the people getting a needle in their arm, the upper arm, the deltoid, the bicep, And you watch this and it's just gross to watch and they keep showing it. Yeah, they do. It's not going over too big in the military.

1:05:17 Surprise, surprise. Austin's day one message to the troops had vowed to do everything we can to vaccinate our workforce. With this Pfizer vaccination, it is completely voluntary. Now he is dealing with what one official called a surprisingly low vaccine acceptance rate. Two-thirds overall and less than half in the elite 82nd Airborne Division. I don't know what they're going to do there. I think you've, aren't you kind of Obligated in the military? This is what's strange about this. This makes you wonder the value or even the benefit of the vaccine. In the military, they can give you a vaccine or shoot you up with anything because they did it with the anthrax and some of these other experimental drugs that nobody in their right mind wants to take. But in this case, it's voluntary? How does that make sense?

1:06:12 So far as the past has been concerned as what we witnessed before Well, why is it all of a sudden this one is voluntary and then they turns out that half the guys don't want to take the shot I don't know in the elite forces and a third of them in the other forces. There's 82nd airborne Like it's enough out there to kill me. Thank you very much. Oh Take my own risk. There's that that story is untold. There's something fishy about it. Yeah, I I see. I think that's about all that I've got on deck. I don't know if I've got any more. Do you have anything? Oh, I do have one fun little thing. Just a little ditty to hold us over. Because if at all possible, I'd like to discredit Anthony Fauci. Because I feel he's... You haven't been doing that? Yeah, I want to discredit him a little bit more on his record. I've been talking a lot about HIV.

CHAPTER 28 / 59 Discussion

Anthony Fauci, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, and Expert Credibility

A 2010 clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci shows him dismissing the likelihood of a cholera outbreak in Haiti following the earthquake, claiming the disease was not present there. Shortly after his statement, a massive cholera epidemic broke out in the country, eventually linked to UN peacekeepers. This incident is cited by critics as evidence of Fauci's history of inaccurate public health predictions.

anthony fauci· haiti· cholera· earthquake· expert

1:07:08 I thought this was kind of funny. We often hear people say, mistakenly but understandably, they're concerned about an outbreak of cholera. There is no cholera in Haiti, so it would be extremely unlikely that there would be an outbreak of cholera in Haiti, even though you don't want to completely rule it out. It's not the first thing that you think of when you think of an outbreak of water-borne disease. That was right after the Haiti earthquake and lo and behold truth was... We are back as promised with our exclusive reporting on who was responsible for a monumental health crisis going on not far from our shores. An epidemic of cholera that broke out in Haiti after the earthquake there almost four years ago now. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's your expert.

1:07:56 Between that and yeah, wear a mask, don't wear a mask. The guy's a, he's a, he's a pitch man. He's a pitch man. That's all he is. A pitch man. I don't know if he has any patience, if he does any of that, but no, this guy is evil. And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who first identified the C in cholera, John C. DeVore. Well in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Also in the morning to all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to every single troll in the troll room, which is to be found at noagendastream.com. Let's see how our trolls are doing here. Hands up trolls! Let me do a count. Let me do a count. Let me do a count.

CHAPTER 29 / 59 Discussion

No Agenda Community, Social Media Federation, and Episode Art

The No Agenda community continues to grow through federated social media servers like gitmo.life and noagendasocial.com. The show's art for episode 1322, titled "Dark Fake," was created by Parker Pauly and featured winter themes relevant to the Texas freeze. The hosts discussed the technical criteria for selecting episode art and encouraged listeners to use new Podcasting 2.0 apps to view chapter-specific imagery.

no agenda social· gitmo life· irc· podcasting 2.0· parker pauly

1:08:37 Oh, I can't get a count. Someone do a count for me. My count powers are gone. Thank you, Darino. And the count is... 2256. Nice, 2,256 trolls hanging out. You can join them right now if you're listening live, but you probably aren't because you're not in the troll room, but you could be. Go to noagendastream.com. There's an IRC chat room which you can connect to any IRC client, but there's one on the web right there you can use and the live stream. You can list tons of podcasts, live shows before or after this show. It's a community. And ask that community for an invite while stocks last too.

1:09:16 Noagendasocial.com. We are going to cut it off at 10,000 members, but you can federate. And I'd like to highlight gitmo.life. That is a new server that has been set up, gitmo.life, and they federate with noagendasocial.com. So you can sign up there as well. And that is how it should work. Nice and distributed. And a big in the morning to the artist for episode 1322. We titled it Dark Fake and Parker Pauly came in with an outstanding piece of art. It fit the bill perfectly. The blue, white ice snowflakes, stay warm Texas state.

1:09:59 I think we both agreed on that pretty much like, boom, that's the one, right? And, Oye, we had... there was something else. Yeah, there was a few that we liked. The one we both liked but had to turn down was the one with the kangaroo with the... The blue ball gag. The blue ball gag. Yeah. And that was Trent. But we nixed it. We thought it was funny. It was the blue ball gag with Facebook on it. That's what it was. But we nixed it because we felt that the ball hadn't been photoshopped well enough. It's one of those situations where the thing is just got a slight, it's off just enough to make you... We accept a lot of off art, but this was a little bit more than we could take.

1:10:52 And it's too bad because Trent emailed me and said, hey man, I thought I had a chance. And I said, well, yeah, and again, I said what happened? We weren't happy with the technical part of the ball. Yeah, it looks like the ball's kind of off to your side, like you're holding on your... This is just was the... So here's his response. Wait, wait, wait, here's his response. No, I knew it. I should have spent more time on that ball, but it was getting late You should have seen the look on my wife's face when she saw my screen after midnight and was full of full-screen ball gag images He said all he had to say was don't worry babe is for no agenda you also like the thermometer

1:11:35 thermometer yeah it was right between the stay warm and the ball gag ah that's where the thermometer belongs right beneath between the stay warm and the ball gag that's how i like other than that there wasn't much there was a piece which still kind of You know, Mountain J did a piece using the coronavirus image, which I've nixed. Yes. And it was actually a pretty good piece, although I don't know what it meant. It was just kind of, it's just pretty. A lot, and there's a lot of good pieces, but some of them, again, you've got the size that shows up on the overview page of the art generator. That's your size. That's the size that it's going to show up at. Not the beautiful, you know, giant size, the 525 or whatever. It's not going to show up like that.

1:12:19 So there's lots of little, little, you know, tiny words that just, that are the joke and it just doesn't work. So here's like Texas temperature 33. It's just small stuff. It's too small. I'm just trying to help. That's all. Just trying to help. Yes? There's a lot of nice, I mean, we get a lot of good art. Some good art coming up. Indeed. Before we continue, and I would like to remind everybody that these artists can be seen at noagendaartgenerator.com. You can participate yourself in this competition, although everybody kind of wins. A lot of the shows up on t-shirts, hats, mugs, you name it, over at noagendashop.com. Newsletters. Newsletters. But also if you're using one of the Podcasting 2.0 podcast apps at newpodcastapps.com,

CHAPTER 30 / 59 Discussion

Joe Rogan, Spotify Strategy, and RSS Feed Reactivation

Spotify appears to be struggling with its strategy to corner the podcast market, as Joe Rogan's original RSS feed has been reactivated to post clips. Despite the exclusive deal, Rogan is again posting content to YouTube, suggesting that Spotify is having difficulty converting listeners to its proprietary app. This move is seen as a sign that the "walled garden" approach to podcasting is failing.

joe rogan· spotify· rss feed· youtube· podcasting

1:13:10 You'll see these images flowing all over lots of people are now doing chapter images and of course we have a lot of imagery to work with so I'm very happy about that and just before we move on I wanted to say two things one I couldn't find it in my red book, but did I not predict that Joe Rogan would come back to free and open podcasting? Well, it's nothing I remember. I mean, I mean in passing you probably said something like that. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me that he said something like that. You were skeptical of the whole Spotify deal. So what happened all of a sudden, and I think this is Spotify cracking because they really thought they could corner the entire podcast listening market with one app.

1:13:57 No, so now they're back to posting now. It's Clips more YouTube clips and the old RSS feed has been reactivated and he's and there's now clips Like the Elon the clip from the Elon show are now being put out on the old podcast Feed and I would say that's because they're having trouble converting people to their app to listen to the show This is the podcast on Spotify. Well, not enough from what it seems. So before we start on the rest of it, I have one thing to do. We get this can. Oh, that sounds so good. I'd rather be than right here. My redneck socks and blue ribbon. Enjoy.

CHAPTER 31 / 59 Discussion

Rush Limbaugh Legacy, iHeartMedia Strategy, and Future Formats

Following the death of Rush Limbaugh, iHeartMedia plans to continue his time slot by airing "best of" clips curated to match current news events. Critics argue this is a poor strategy and suggest that a younger host should take over the three-hour live format to provide fresh commentary. The 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET time slot remains a highly valuable piece of radio real estate after Limbaugh's 30-year tenure.

rush limbaugh· iheartmedia· mark stein· radio· syndication

1:14:54 And I did want to make one observation that this would be a tip. This is a tip if you are a budding podcaster. If you want a tip, and if you want to do something that could be potentially very successful. I was reading a blurb about the Rush Limbaugh show. Rush Limbaugh passed away, and so what is going to happen to this show? And the answer is his syndicator, which is iHeartMedia, a premier but a division of iHeartMedia, for the foreseeable future they will continue to run best of Rush

1:15:32 with some of the stand-in hosts like Mark Stein and whoever else sits in from time to time, they will be connecting the best of Rush clips to each other and make them relatable to the stories in the news that are happening today, which I think is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. I bet you the numbers stay up. But I think, and if I were a younger man, And we didn't have no agenda. I would do a live show, three hours. I'd copy his format for as best as I could. Three hours. I'd start it at noon Eastern, from noon to three. I'd be taking calls and I'd just beat the hell out of it. I'd have an app so you can stream it. I'd be a Republican. You've got to be all those things.

1:16:22 Anyone who thinks they can do it should give it a shot because I think people will be looking for some freshness In that exact that that has been how many years has that time slot been his 30? No Well, well he started in 87, but this time slot probably pure on 90. Yeah, probably 30 just the thought 30 This is that's what Tim pool should do not that he's you know the next Rush Limbaugh But I'd be doing that at that be streaming live at that time. I Well, if I was a younger man and I was listening to Rush Limbaugh all the time and now he's gone, I would just switch over to Jim Rome. He's the exact same time I listen to him. The way this podcast works is not through creepy... What's the line you use in the newsletter? I like it. Not through creepy ads or creepy Chinese sponsorship. It's a good one. Whatever that is, it's a good little line. Instead, we ask for your time, your talent, your treasure.

CHAPTER 32 / 59 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations, Better Beef Cows, and Costco Graphs

A group of producers from Pritchett, Colorado, known as "The Horrible Horde of Better Beef Cows," contributed a significant donation to the show. The segment also includes a "pro-tip" for listeners on how to use Google Maps' store traffic graphs to find the least crowded times to shop at Costco. This data-driven approach allows shoppers to avoid the long lines currently seen at major retailers.

pritchett colorado· wagyu· costco· google maps· donations

1:17:22 to help us produce the show. That's why everyone who is listening is not a listener, you're a producer. And let's thank some of the executive and associate executive producers came in with financial treasure support for episode 1323. 1323. I had a phenomenal, I did that last newsletter. And probably the first time I made a typo in there and nobody caught it. Well, I caught one. No, no. This is a big typo. Really? I said it was for show 1322. Oh, oh, oh, the previous one. Okay. And this would be the typical, you got the number of the show wrong. I know that guy. Yeah, he comes up, he shows up. He's very annoying. He's very annoying. He comes up. No, that guy didn't show up. Too late now.

1:18:24 Well, meanwhile, of course, the horde comes in from Pritchett, Colorado with the show club numbers. Holy crap. $1,323. Haven't had that in a while. My goodness. In the morning. No jingles, any cow karma, ignore the PayPal name. We're requesting the title, The Horrible Horde of Better Beef Cows. Hopefully there's still room on No Agenda Social. Yep. Pinners or Pinners in Pepsi? I think it's Pinners. Pinners in Pepsi. Pinners in Pepsi at the table? Yeah. Thank you for exquisite sound quality and content, the horde. Now, is he growing Wagyu?

1:19:02 Don't know or just prime or what's he doing? Where's anything Colorado Colorado's got a lot of cattle a lot of cattle ranchers. No idea Okay, thank you karma. Yes. I don't really have cow karma. Oh I could do that. Wait wait I've got this You've got Beefy baby It's how you do it, folks. Tight. Too tight for this market, Devorah. Tight. Trenton Scoville is tight, or he was probably once in a while. 76544. Yes, we do the segues too. Mm-hmm. ITM again from Charlotte, where Charlatians are seeing a lot of New York State licenses plates. Shout out to the strong contingent of North Carolina dames, knights, producers, we have tons of them and listeners, lots.

1:20:02 Many small amygdalas in this state, thanks to you both. Looking forward to the Charlotte meetup on February 25th. The donation brings me to Baronet. Please dub me Baronet. You got it. A scovie of the Piedmont. Assuming approval by the peer committee. Approved. May I request a 2012 silver oak cabernet and a bone-in filet mignon for the round table? You got it. I ordered it from the hoard. I'm guessing the 2013 was better, but I'm just guessing I haven't had it. I had a 2017 JJ Pinot from Willamette Valley. Yeah. That was good. Are you familiar with that? Willamette Valley, Oregon makes tremendous Pinots. Yeah, but there's a lot of crap ones. I just wanted to throw it out there. In fact, the crap ones are so outnumbered by the good ones, it's actually kind of pathetic. Just helping the wine talk, baby.

1:21:04 Yeah, well good. Well people look easy to get a Costco. No, I got it at Randall's. That's all. Costco is a line like 10 mile line. Really? Oh yeah. If you ever by the way, this is a little tip. He's got a bunch of stuff here that he doesn't want us to read. I would mention that and he's got his his numbers here. We have read that Trenton. Thank you. Costco. If you go on Google. and you type Costco, your local store on the far right side. I think, I don't know if this is everywhere, but I know it's local. You have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, because it's got a little Costco sidebar. It says Costco, and it's to show store hours. You scroll all the way down to the bottom, there's a small graph showing the minute by minute number of people who are at the store. If it's low or it has a normal graph, and then it shows you what's going on now.

1:22:07 Oh, okay. Does it work? Is it real? Yes, it's great. I look at the thing and I say, oh, then this starts to trend down and I see what it would be like in the next hour. And then I can see the trend line is going down. That means there's going to be nobody there. I'll go over there. There's nobody there. And it's the best. It's one of the little benefits that I don't even know how they're doing it. Yeah, it's up to the it's up to the minute. Let me give Trent his Trent and his jobs Asian dog karma jobs job. No, he wanted Trump full-throated right? That's what he wanted. Here we go jobs jobs jobs I

CHAPTER 33 / 59 Discussion

Millennial Job Loss, Odometer Milestones, and Knighting Dogs

A 26-year-old listener from Medford, Oregon, shared his story of losing a supervisor job at a ski resort due to lockdowns and moving to a 7-Eleven. Another producer submitted a photo of his 2003 Ford 7.3 Power Stroke hitting the 333,333.3-mile mark. The hosts also discussed the possibility of knighting dogs, noting that a Springer Spaniel was recently awarded the Order of the British Empire.

medford oregon· 7-eleven· 7.3 power stroke· springer spaniel· knighthood

1:22:59 330 334 from Phoenix, Oregon from Wyatt were mess Phoenix, Oregon Wow, I know where that is greetings to you both face whole noise radio wave private entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs. Mr. Werness, a 26 year old here from the greater Medford area. He's a millennial. Moved out of the crap hole state, California. Yeah, you moved into the worst crap hole state as far as I'm concerned. Looking for a new home after losing my job and house from the lockdowns in April 2020. I lost my job at a ski resort rental shop. Through hard work and stressful days,

1:23:43 It was my first time in my life I had a promotion to supervisor. One week later I'm laid off, no money for rent. I work at a 7-Eleven like store, extremely boring. Politics have been crazy these past 14 months and my uncle just accused me of wanting to kill people. What did he do? He said, since I said cloth muzzles do not provide protection from the cornholio virus. On my birthday he said this. You guys are the greatest and I've been listening since 2018. Call me out as a douchebag for not discovering your pod earlier. No, no. No, well okay. Douchebag! Now you can de-douche him. You've been de-douched.

1:24:26 You'll hear from me again next month for Jingles Just Jobs Karma for those who need it. Kay, thanks. Bye. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Rolling along with Jacob Schmidt in Madison, Indiana, 333.33. Sitting them out by my friend, a fellow producer, Trent from Indianapolis on a road trip last year. And I haven't missed an episode since. I believe we're both third. of the way to knighthood now but he should probably be closer since the road trip was to pick up his Porsche. Well now! Thanks for the sanity and all the great jingles that confused the hell out of my wife. No jingles, no karma for him. Scott Moore in Franklin, Tennessee 333.33

1:25:18 This donation is in response to my current odometer on a 2003 7.3 power stroke. I saw it. Hitting the 333,333.3 mile mark. Did you see the picture? Photo attached. It was good. Which I'll go download because that would be good for the newsletter. 333,333 and three tenths of a mile. That's some kind of special thing, man. That doesn't happen often. Can that be an odometer producer? I mean, if you got something like that, I mean, that's almost, almost as good as... The odometer donation. Oh, odometer donation. I was thinking about a dog donation for knighthood because they named a Springer Spaniel Order of the British Empire. I posted it on No Agenda Social. Oh, really now? Huh. Yes. A Springer Spaniel has been given the Order of the British Empire. Well, then we should be able to knight dogs. I'm thinking so. The Queen can do it. Yeah, they are people too, after all.

1:26:14 Well, that's a good point. And that would be the jingle. Perfect. All right. Well, think about that. People out there, you give us some ideas, we'll do it. We'll do what you want. I would like this donation to go towards the future night, nighting of the aforementioned truck, Cecil the diesel. Boy, he's going to night a diesel. Yeah, I mean, come on. So, a dog. I mean, come on. Dogs are people too. Let's be honest about it. Yeah. May we share many more road trips together, man. That's a, that's a, 333 miles. That's a lot of miles on a 7.3 diesel. Now they're built to last. Yeah, they are. May I ask for jobs karma as I find myself working for someone else after an 18 year stint of self-employment? Eh, you know what? You're used to being self-employed, you can always go back to it. I'm sure this will work out. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! I'll grab...

CHAPTER 34 / 59 Discussion

Parker Pauly, Israel's Geopolitical Role, and One Belt One Road

Producer Parker Pauly contributed art and a donation, reflecting on the "value for value" model. A separate discussion explored a listener's theory that Israel is shifting its primary geopolitical alliance from the U.S. to China. The theory suggests that COVID-19 hysteria and domestic unrest are distractions from the "One Belt, One Road" program and a controlled demolition of the current global order.

parker pauly· israel· china· one belt one road· zionism

1:27:07 Grab Parker Pauly who we just congratulated as being the artist for the previous episode $333.33 he is from the Sasquahanna Valley WSQV 95 AFM, Sasquahanna Valley! See? I still have the t-shirt. In the morning, it's my first donation to no agenda and it's long overdue. I failed my upbringing. My mama, rest her soul, always said, Parker Pauly, whatever you do in life, don't be a douchebag. Please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. Sounds like she was a fine woman. When did I start listening? Let's just say one of John's Sunday visits to Petaluma led me to the best podcast in the universe. I've enjoyed the insightful media deconstruction and decidedly twisted entertainment for a long time. After the past year with the never-ending crazy gravy poured over Looney Tunes with a double serving of bunkers on the side, I've become even more appreciative of what you two and the broader producer community do. And I've been reminded of what my mama always said, Parker Pauly,

1:28:09 Always remember the golden rule is value for value and don't be a douchebag. I've recently gotten involved by contributing art and I'm honored that you have selected my work a couple of times, but as far as value for value goes, I am playing catch up. So today is a small step in the right direction, but not the last. Oh boy, this is running long. My mom always said, Parker Pauly, be sure to keep your donation notes short and sweet for the Crackpot and the Buzzkill Fellow and don't be a douchebag. I'll try to do better time next time mama. No jingles but a Jobs Karma please. Thank you. Stay safe and stay warm. Thank you Parker Pauling. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for Jobs. I bet his mom was a fun person to hang out with. How do you assume it's a he? You said his. Parker is an androgynous name. It could be a woman or a guy. I am biased because I know two Parkers in Austin.

1:29:05 And Parkers, male Parkers, they look like Parkers. It's hard to explain. They look like Parkers? Yeah. Was it valets at the front of the restaurant? Is that what you're saying? No, Parker is kind of more like a collegiate nerdy kind of dude, but he's dressed snappy. And he has kind of a tinge of elitist upbringing. Who else names their kid Parker? Well, I agree with the elitist aspect. Who would name a kid Parker? And I would like to say, I didn't ask on your behalf, but C-Mike, our producer C-Mike, who has nine kids. C-Mike with the nine kids, yes. He says that his second son's middle name is Adam, named after me. So I wonder if there's a John amongst these nine children. I doubt it. They were all born during the show.

1:30:00 They're all born between 9 and 12 Eastern Time? Yes, sir. Yes, that too. And in the past 14 years. Mr. Dabalina in San Diego, California comes in with $333. I think I'd like to keep myself anonymous, so let's call me what I just said. Mr. Dabalina. I donated some money a few shows ago and Adam put my name out there in harmony with the rap. It's Mr. Dabalina, Mr. Bob Dabalina. Anyway... Thank you for not putting an S on that, or a Z. I wish I was so cool to say that I've listened to you for years, but alas, I found you through the JRE show. Bing! There it is. Rogen Donation.

1:30:44 I very much appreciate and respect what you guys are doing. It makes me sad that it took me so long to find you. Yes, people at this, as we go into show 5000, we'll see, we're picking people up. In show 1322, you mentioned that Fauci won the $1 million prize for defending science, but you didn't mention that the award came from Israel. You guys then went into a clip talking about Israel's draconian vaccine passports. My question for you, what in your opinion, by the way, would she put two and two together? Thank goodness. That's why she acted a lot. That's why she's a producer. My question for you is what in your opinion is Israel's role in all of this?

1:31:22 Zionists do have a heavy influence on the M5M, Hollywood banking, and Wall Street. I think that basically Israel dumped the US some time ago and now dating China, though the US doesn't get it. The US is now Israel's late night booty call while China and Israel are planning their wedding in nursery. The baby is the One Belt, One Road program. And all of the nonsense, COVID hysteria, race wars, etc., are all designed to distract from that fact. That's quite an effort. A controlled demolition, if you will. Look, before anyone says it, one can criticize a political party like the Zionist, there's a Zionist party, without it being racist.

1:32:05 Disagreeing with policy does not make someone an anti-Semite. It's like saying you disagree with the Democrats or Republicans mean you hate America. Sometimes it does. Have you ever read the Zin book? P.S. this now puts me over and qualifies me as a knight. I forgo my username so I created a new one. LOL. And he's got the one belt one road from foreign policy magazine linked. And then he has Ben-Gurion's prediction from years ago linked. He says that the Israelis are selling out the US. I really don't think so. I don't think so. That doesn't seem right. But you know, there's a lot of people out there. We'll find out soon enough. We will. We'll be right on top of it.

CHAPTER 35 / 59 Discussion

Vaccine Shaming, Baronet Dubbing, and Chiberia

Listeners reported instances of "vaccine shaming" where friends and family insisted on vaccination without providing scientific justification. New titles were granted to producers in Alabama and Chicago, with one listener coining the term "Chiberia" to describe the freezing conditions in Illinois. The segment includes various "jingles" and "karma" requests typical of the show's interactive donor format.

vaccine shaming· alabama· chicago· chiberia· r2-d2 karma

1:32:55 Was there no jingles? No nothing? I don't believe so. Okay, well he's just on the list then. Cameron Hunter, 333. Jingles. Take this virus. Can you see the juice? Fauci wheeze. I'll get straight into it. My friend's mother told us she got the vaccine. After a few minutes of discussion, I said I wouldn't be taking it. Her reply was, but you have to. And I said, why? Her reply was, you just have to. I take anything they give me. I outlined the points, the most important being COVID-19 survival rate. My friends all with adequately small amygdalas pointed some more things out, which was nice to see. Love you guys. The vaccine shaming has commenced. Come talk to me about equality when I can't leave the country due to the vaccine.

1:33:49 Yeah. Adam, stay warm. And John, you might forget this from time to time, but I need to remind you, stay safe! Love and light. Take this virus. Oh my gosh! Can you see that juice? There you go. Actually, that's pretty good. It is a very good one. Sir Laron Southeast, Southeast somewhere, Southeast Alabama, I guess. 3.30. Gents, with this donation, it's an honor to become a baron and claim the Wiregrass Region Protectorate. To be brief, no jingles, no karma, love the show. I sent PS about Texas power outage to jayatdivark.org. Keep up the excellent work, Sir Laron Southeast, Al.

1:34:38 Swizzy from Chiberia, Illinois $250 we know where that is Swizzy from Chiberia says since I was so savagely called out as a douchebag by Emily on the last episode Can I please get a de-douchin? Yes, you can You've been de-douched He douched. I shudder at the thought of crystals and sage. I started listening to you guys back in February of last year after Adam was on Rogan. I swear I heard that voice before and realized it was the dude with the hair on Headbanger's ball. I've since become a diehard No Agenda fan and haven't missed an episode. I came for Adam and I stayed for JCD. John C. Dvorak is my buzzkill spirit animal. Hey!

1:35:20 Thank you for keeping me sane over the past year in more ways than you can imagine. May I please have a mac and cheese jingle for Emily, and you're gonna need a Bitcoin and an amen, oh woman, as well as a R2-D2 karma. Yeah, we can do that. You slaves can get used to mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and cheese cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a bitcoin. A man and a woman. You've got

1:36:00 Karma. There you go. So I believe Chiberia is a conflation between Chicago, where he's from, and Siberia. I think that's correct. Because they have a little snow going on there too. Mm-hmm. Tomas? Not a little bit. It's insane how much snow they got. That's Chicago. My stepdaughter's out there. It's pretty bad. And her job, she works for one of the aldermen. And her job is to arrange volunteers for snow shoveling. Yeah, that ain't happening. There's no shoveling going on now. Tomas, my cocus, in Pasadena, California, 220.20. Oh yes, Tomas. Monday, 222 is our one year wedding anniversary.

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Married Gays for No Agenda, St. Petersburg Birthdays, and JD Moore

Tomas and Jake, the "official No Agenda married gays" from Pasadena, celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary with a donation. Amanda Eid from St. Petersburg, Florida, honored her husband Neal's 52nd birthday, noting that the show helped keep their family's sanity intact during 2020. Additional birthday credits were given to JD Moore, highlighting the show's role in connecting listeners across the country.

pasadena· st. petersburg· married gays· birthdays· jd moore

1:36:48 We celebrated with a small weekend getaway and a fancy dinner last night. But what better gift than our second donation to No Agenda? So happy anniversary to Jake from Tom. A simple karma for another year of happiness would be great. P.S. Thanks again, John, Adam, and Tina for your hospitality when we visited Austin. The official no agenda married gays can't wait to go to dinner again soon. Nor can we. You've got karma. They are very cool. They're cool guys. It sounds like it. Amanda Eid in St. Petersburg, Florida 220.21 and she sent a note.

1:37:37 Handwritten I might add so I'm gonna read it or you can read it. You have a copy. I want to see you do this Okay, I didn't have it up here, but I'll do it. No problem. I can do this for you It is quite a beautifully written note birthday donation John Adams donation is honor of my smoking hot husband Neal's 52nd birthday on to 2021. He's an amazing dad to our two human resources, ages 12 and 9, and the best husband ever. It's been about three years now since Neil ever so gently hit me in the mouth and I've been hooked on no agenda ever since. Sadly, this is my first donation, so please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. As nutty as 2020 was, our family managed to get through it all with our sanity intact, thanks in no small part to your twice weekly amygdala shrinking media deconstruction. Even though our kids don't listen to the show yet, they reap the benefits from it simply by having two parents who do couples, who

1:38:37 Who do? Couples who know agenda together, stay together. There you go. Oh, this, I didn't see the jingles. I'm just realizing that. You've got biscuit, biscuit on the birthday. I can't read it. OMG amazing. Sorry, that I should have been prepared for that. Little girl yay. Amazing. And then little girl and with any karma associated with that? No, but she says go bucks. And I'm sure she wants that said. Okay, you do the go bucks bit go bucks. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday Not bad yeah, I still got it people still I'm not talking about the story Oh people are telling stories with these jingles. It's a very good story

1:39:25 Should be some sort of an award for these stories. Maybe we'll start one, don't you think? Yes, yes. Force people to do stories instead of just random jingles. That means we can have a meeting about it. Katherine Jennings won't be at the meeting. $210. She's smart money. She wants us to switch her route and credit this to JD Moore. Okay, we can do that. ITM gents, please credit this to JD Moore for his birthday on February 24th. Thank you so much for all you do to keep us sane. NA is truly the B-P-I-T-U. Stay safe. Happy birthday from your under-socialized, over-informed JC crew. Jingles! Everyone hug and share a secret. Oh, there's no winning. We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot. Now everyone hug and share a secret.

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Scott Adams, Tim Pool, and Podcast Mentions

Dilbert creator Scott Adams recently mentioned No Agenda on his show, though the hosts noted he often prioritizes mentioning Tim Pool. Adams reportedly acknowledged the show after a prompt from his live chat, but the hosts expressed mild disappointment that he rarely mentions them by name despite their long history in the medium.

scott adams· tim pool· podcasting· dilbert· attribution

1:40:17 We got a really couple of great end of show mixes today and Rexo is back, Rexo solo. And it's kind of similar to these notes that... The people keep saying, you know, because of the show, and they say, John Adam, I think it's really the show and everything goes along with it, because it's much bigger than just us. That at least that gave them some perspective and some humor or something. There's something that happens when people listen and they just, the amygdala obviously, but they just feel better about everything and artists freaked out. It's like medication, only it's good stuff.

1:40:56 Yeah, why don't you play this then, play this clip. Scott Adams on No Agenda. Hold on a second. And you can see some other ones, yeah, the No Agenda, No Agenda podcast, I would say that would be another. Excellent example. That's right. Excellent. Now, mind you, that came after he said Tim Pool, but OK, we'll take it. Oh, no, no, no, it's not true. You're not telling the truth. I'm pretty sure after he said Tim Pool about 50 times and is after he says all these people and then he and he never talks. It's not that he says pool cast. He never names the podcast. He just names our podcast and then never mentions our names.

1:41:35 He can remember, because you know, you're not really a friend. You haven't been to his house. You don't know anything about him. Maybe he's just forgetful. Well, I think there's an element of forgetfulness based on... I'll take it, man. And by the way, it wasn't his own volition, it was someone in his chat. Yeah. I hate to say it. So really, it was kind of a bummer to hear that after all. It was. I'm just kind of bummed out. But he likes Tim Pool. Yeah, the Pool Man. That's right. Thomas Schmitt.

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Lockdown Skepticism, Horseshoe Casino, and Nashville Meetups

Producers in Chicago and Nashville announced upcoming meetups, including a gathering at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. The hosts noted that online communities like "r/LockdownSkepticism" frequently use clips and information from the show. These meetups serve as a way for "slaves" to build local networks and resist ongoing lockdown measures in their respective states.

chicago· indiana· nashville· meetups· r-lockdown skepticism

1:42:13 Shannone, Shannone, Shenone, I don't know, Shannone. Shannone, that's gotta be it. I think Shannone sounds right. Yeah, Thomas Shannone. Thomas Shannone in Chicago. Shannone here. Shannone in Chicago, $202.02. Yeah. Just returning from some value to your boat, this COVID analysis has been generally very strong and necessary counterweight to the M5M fear porn. I think lots of anti-lockdown web pages and message boards such as the R-Lockdown Skepticism take cues and clips and info from you too.

1:42:51 Yeah, I believe there's a lot of people that take stuff from us. More than usual in the recent days. We also publish it. We publish our clips and stuff. It's a free... That's always been our system. It's fine. We wouldn't mind a little credit once in a while. Would be nice. Yeah, but no, no, they're just stealing. I also want to take this opportunity to cordially invite all the slaves to Gitmo Nation and especially the slaves in Gitmo Nation Deep Dish That's a good place. And get Monation the region to celebrate my last weekend as the magic number of the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. Oh, oh, hey, hey, you might bump into my sister-in-law's. They go to the Horseshoe in Hammond, Indiana? They go to the boats. They love gambling. And Lisa always wins. But I'm not talking just a little bit. Two grand, five grand. It's crazy. Well, that's...

1:43:51 There are people like that. Yeah, she is one of these people who she's walking along, oh there's a hundred dollars, she picks it up right off the ground. I'm not kidding. That's what, it's just people like that. It's, it's, that's not, I'm not one of those people, but she is. It's very funny. The meetup will be on March 13th from 2 to 4. Check the NOAgenda meetups website, it's noagenda meetups.com for the details. Chicagoland needs a meetup and I hope to see you all there. If you don't come, I'll assume you support JB, Laurie and the lockdowns. He's talking about Beetlejuice, is that what he's talking about? Not in Indiana.

1:44:33 J.B. Laurie? Isn't that the mayor who was just talking about lockdowns? I guess. No jingles, just baby making R2-D2 karma for myself and my smoking hot wife. You've got... And last but not least, Sir John Knowles, the Baron of Murfreesboro in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. $200. The Baron of Murfreesboro is requesting Jobs, Karma and a reminder that there are two meetups in Nashville this week. Come one, come all to either or both. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

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Joe Biden, Botox, and Emotional Expression

A discussion regarding Joe Biden's physical appearance suggests that his "frozen" forehead is the result of heavy Botox use rather than a prosthetic mask or body double. Experts in plastic surgery note that Botox in the forehead can lift the eyes but also physically limits the ability to show expression. Research suggests that being unable to perform facial movements like smiling can actually inhibit the corresponding internal emotional responses.

joe biden· botox· plastic surgery· emotional expression· body doubles

1:45:16 And that's our group of producers, executive producers, associate executive producers for show 1323. Thank you very much each and every one of you. Beautiful looking group. These are titles that you can use anywhere in show business on your CV, your resume, just to impress people, business card, pickup chicks, pickup guys. If only I could find that unknown, you know, I'm a executive producer of the NO Agenda show. These are yours and they're yours to keep and we really appreciate that and I'm very excited about our next donation segment where we thank other people. We have a number of, the meetups are off the hook.

1:45:53 We have some good meetup reports and the producers have come through once again. We eat, we live! One more episode. Thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show. If you'd like to do that for our next show on Thursday, just go to... devorak.org slash N-A. Thank you for contributing your time, your talent, and your treasure to the best podcast in the universe! Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Squirrel! I'd like to

1:46:33 Make an observation. There's a lot of conspiracy stuff that's always going around. I'm the conspiracy therapist. So first I would just like, I should have pointed out earlier, but no, I don't think China brought down the grid in Texas. So just put that out there. They are an issue. They're an issue. And there's this firm belief based on screenshots of video that the Biden you see is an imposter wearing a prosthetic mask. And there's plenty of people pointing to where the mask is over the throat and I'm like, people, you know how his forehead is frozen? I believe in body doubles, but seriously, like a Mission Impossible mask, that's what you think is going on here? He's Botoxed up. That's why the wrinkles in his forehead are stuck. He's completely Botoxed. And when you do that, I know a lot about plastic surgery.

1:47:30 A lot. My first ex-wife is like put together like Mr. Potato Head. I know all of the different pieces. I know how it works. And the Botox, it's mainly in the forehead and when done properly it can lift the eyes, it can even lift the cheekbones. So that's what's going on. The man would be a sagging mess if he didn't have the Botox. Droopy dog. Yeah, exactly. I don't think it's a prosthetic mask and we're being duped. I like it, but no. I don't think that's true. We have to go back about six, seven years when there was a nice clip and it was not discussed at all. I wish we could find the clip on Botox. But where they brought up the fact

1:48:10 that if you are Botox in areas of expressiveness, in other words, you get surprised, your eyebrows go up and all, and you can't express these things muscularly, it actually cuts off your ability to have those emotions. Yeah, that's right. Remember? Yeah, let me see, what is this? I'm sending this message to you, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. No, that's not it. What? It says Botox mom. I was just going for an alarm so I could make it. No, I think you're right. The idea was that when you laugh or when you smile, you physically change something in your body. The chemicals change in your brain and you feel good. You laugh and it's like, even if it's a fake laugh like I just did, it gives you endorphins and stuff. Well, it's like a fake smile. A fake smile is actually healthy. Yeah, it will make you happier.

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Rush Limbaugh Eulogies, Matt Taibbi, and Media Bias

The death of Rush Limbaugh prompted a wave of critical eulogies from journalists like Matt Taibbi and S.E. Cupp, which the hosts characterized as "stumping on a grave." Limbaugh's early career, including a failed TV show on ABC that was reportedly sabotaged by a hostile audience, was discussed as a turning point in his career. Critics of Limbaugh are accused of cherry-picking 35 years of content to paint him as a "hate-spinner" without acknowledging his comedic roots.

rush limbaugh· matt taibbi· s.e. cupp· cnn· radio history

1:49:08 And when you can't do it, you become just a cranky old wife. Well, that's what's happening here before our very eyes. Yes, Joe can't make any expressions. Now I was watching, I've got a couple of clips here on Putin, and I was hoping to do a third clip because one of our musicians, producers, known for his, it doesn't like to be mentioned, I don't think, but he's known for his prowess on a guitar that has a lot of strings. And sent this thing from Lou Rockwell talking about Putin's discussion at the World Economic Forum, which was a couple of weeks ago, going on how Putin was putting down the whole idea of global governance and one thing after another. It's this whole

1:49:58 It was like a pretty inspiring piece, but it seemed as if the Rockwell organization or even the writer, nobody listened to this speech. I went back and listened to it. I could get nothing from this boring 45 minute Putin speech. He just said none of these things. It was a bogus write up. But we do have some Putin information here from this guy who's a who's another journalist, a friend of the The useful idiots Matt Taibbi and Katie. Before you continue, did you see Matt's eulogy of Rush Limbaugh? Whose? Matt Taibbi's eulogy on Substab. No I did not. It was horrible. Luckily Rush Limbaugh can no longer spin hate like he used to.

1:50:44 He's like, you know, he's like, uh, very disappointing from him. He has a, uh, you don't need to stomp on the guy's grave. It's just, it's just not appealing. We don't even do that. We'd like to do that stuff. I've seen on another one was S E cup. Yes. She came out with a long standalone piece on CNN or wherever she's working. I think it's CNN. Uh, and it was just really, it was, I listened to Rush Limbaugh since the beginning. And I saw the fact, I saw at the very early days of Rush Limbaugh, he had been given a spot on ABC TV. This was in the first two or three years because he was a phenomenal. Yes. And he recorded that at the MTV Studios Unitell video on 57th Street because we had to build up a big audience and place for big audience. It was the Sally Jesse Raphael size audience because they taped that there too.

1:51:44 Pretty big audience. Well, he was, he bombed on this thing. Yes, I know it didn't go well. Well, it didn't go well because they loaded it up with Rush Limbaugh haters in the audience. The networks did not want this guy to be successful. I didn't remember that part. I did because I saw it. Yeah, yeah. And I said, because I was watching him, listening to him, I said, this guy's got a lot of talent. He was funny. He's always really humor based because he wasn't as, he became more analytical as he got older. But he was mostly just kind of like, he might as well just do race humor. But it was funny. His stuff was funny and he had a really advanced sense of humor. And when they put him on this TV show, it was a set up to fail and he did fail. And it put him back two or three years, but then he made a comeback. He was very hurt by this event. And if you watched enough of him long enough, you realize that he's

1:52:39 He's repetitious, he does a bunch of things the radio talk guys do. He likes to yammer. He talks to the producer and the producer never, you never get to hear from the producer. He's a black guy. Yes, nerdly. And it's mostly, he's really a comedian of a sort. And to take all of his stuff, all the bad things he said over what, since 1987? What, 35 years of, This is like people, reminds me of people who take me out for, oh, Dvorak's always wrong. Look what he said about the mouse. Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah, but when you're... And so, Rush, yeah, stop. If you pass before me, brother, I will punch people in the mouth if they do that as your eulogy. Promise. Promise. Promise. If they do the mouse thing, like you just said... By the time...

1:53:35 By the time I'm done, the mouse will be done too. This is true. It's pretty much out. Yeah, it's pretty much done. That's true. Pretty much done now. So these stand alone little gripes about 35 years of content and picking this and picking that and saying he said this, he said that. is really chicken shit. And I really doubt that Matt Taibbi ever listened. Most of these people never listen to the Rush Limbaugh show. Well, it goes like this. Oh, listen to this when he was a DJ, a top 40 DJ. Oh my gosh, QKV. Oh man, he was a top 40 DJ and now we can't spin that hate. That's what they all do. It's the same thing. Like, oh wow, did you know he was a bad top 40 DJ?

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Riley Williams, Pelosi Laptop, and SVR Allegations

During the impeachment trial, charging documents for Riley Williams alleged she intended to steal a laptop from Nancy Pelosi's office to sell to the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service. Media outlets used this allegation to suggest the January 6th Capitol riot was infiltrated by foreign spies. Critics pointed out that the "quote" used by journalists was actually a summary from a document rather than a direct statement from the accused.

riley williams· nancy pelosi· laptop· svr· russia

1:54:21 So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. So, uh, back to Putin. may have intended to steal information and give it to a foreign adversary. According to charging documents, Riley Williams allegedly helped steal a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office to quote, send the computer device to a friend in Russia who then planned to sell the device to SVR.

1:55:09 Russia's foreign intelligence service. While we can't be certain if or how many foreign spies infiltrated the crowd, or at least coordinated with those who did, we can be sure that any enemy who wanted access to our secrets would have wanted to be part of that mob inside these halls. I want you to start it over because there's something in here that really galled me and these two, none of the Katie or these people picked this up and it really is a, I would say it's an integrity thing. It's a journalistic technique. And when he says quote, when you say something, well then quote, you assume it's somebody saying something. Right.

1:55:58 You assume that somebody said this quote that you're saying quote. He's quoting from the charging document. Right. In that case you're supposed to say, according to the document, or I'm reading from the document. You don't say quote as though somebody is speaking these words because they were nobody said this. We are just schooling Matt Taibbi today. Pay attention Taibbi. You're gonna learn something here. He doesn't care. But let's play this again. This is this bullcrap quote. There's no quote. It's not a quote. He's taking

1:56:35 Yeah, okay, go ahead. You can get through an impeachment case without having a little call back to Russiagate and you pointed this out. Dan, can we see the clip? And at least one of the insurrectionists may have intended to steal information and give it to a foreign adversary. According to charging documents, Riley Williams allegedly helped steal a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office to quote send the computer device to a friend in Russia who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service. While we can't be certain if or how many foreign spies infiltrated the crowd or at least coordinated with those who did, we can be sure that any enemy who wanted access to our secrets would have wanted to be part of that mob inside these halls.

1:57:26 Oh my God. All right, Aaron, can you take that? What's your take on this, first of all? I mean, there's a lot to unpack here, but... Well, we can't be certain if there were foreign spies or how many there were. We're still going to use this platform to falsely suggest that the mob was overrun with foreign spies. Yeah. And that is what we're going to include in this very serious impeachment case we're making against the former president. It's this mentality that Democrats have been afflicted with. You saw it too on Hillary Clinton's podcast where she had on Nancy Pelosi. So she had seen the phone logs, right? Or the phone calls on January 6th to see if Trump had been on the phone with Putin? Yes. Hillary Clinton was talking to Pelosi and she's saying, I wonder if you agree with me whether you want to see

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Democratic Russia Obsession, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice

Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi discussed the theory that Donald Trump was in contact with Vladimir Putin during the Capitol riot, continuing a long-standing Democratic focus on Russian interference. Figures like Susan Rice and Joy Reid have previously attributed various U.S. domestic issues, including the George Floyd protests and the ADOS movement, to Russian bots. Rachel Maddow even suggested that Russia could freeze Americans by hacking the power grid, a claim revisited during the Texas freeze.

hillary clinton· nancy pelosi· susan rice· rachel maddow· russia

1:56:35 Yeah, okay, go ahead. You can get through an impeachment case without having a little call back to Russiagate and you pointed this out. Dan, can we see the clip? And at least one of the insurrectionists may have intended to steal information and give it to a foreign adversary. According to charging documents, Riley Williams allegedly helped steal a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office to quote send the computer device to a friend in Russia who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service. While we can't be certain if or how many foreign spies infiltrated the crowd or at least coordinated with those who did, we can be sure that any enemy who wanted access to our secrets would have wanted to be part of that mob inside these halls.

1:57:26 Oh my God. All right, Aaron, can you take that? What's your take on this, first of all? I mean, there's a lot to unpack here, but... Well, we can't be certain if there were foreign spies or how many there were. We're still going to use this platform to falsely suggest that the mob was overrun with foreign spies. Yeah. And that is what we're going to include in this very serious impeachment case we're making against the former president. It's this mentality that Democrats have been afflicted with. You saw it too on Hillary Clinton's podcast where she had on Nancy Pelosi. So she had seen the phone logs, right? Or the phone calls on January 6th to see if Trump had been on the phone with Putin? Yes. Hillary Clinton was talking to Pelosi and she's saying, I wonder if you agree with me whether you want to see

1:58:16 If Trump spoke to Putin before the Capitol riot, implying obviously that Putin and Trump somehow orchestrated this mob, they cannot really say anything anymore without attributing it to Russia. I can't figure out what their hang-up is that they have to keep doing this, this attribution to Putin. Well, so you don't look at China. Hello. Ah, that's obviously not you mentioned it. But this reminds me of the time I went to the dinner where this woman says Putin's calling the shots in this country. It all stems from this Putin, Putin, Putin thing. But let's listen to part two of this and there's another little...

1:59:02 zinger in here. Political nightmare we've been living in for more than four years now, where basically uniquely American defunctions are blamed onto Russia, including a Trump inspired mob. They can't even leave Russia out of that. Point out that Nancy Pelosi, her response to Hillary Clinton included saying, you remember when I was rude to Trump in my blue dress? Mm-hmm. saying this stuff out loud. Yeah, and she said, and what I said to him was, and this is like the moment that's captured in infamy in that photo, with you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin. Which is really, it's an act of projection because with these people, for them, everything leads to Putin. They've spent four years blaming Putin, not just for electing Trump,

1:59:50 But also for – you can pick any topic like Kamala Harris. There's a clip of her in The Breakfast Club where she says that the Russians, that whole Colin Kaepernick thing, The Russians started that. The Russian bot started that. And she heard that. And Susan Rice went on CNN during the George Floyd protests and wondered whether Russia was fueling that too. Right now, you know, millions of people are without power in Texas. And remember, it was two years ago that Rachel Maddow went on a show and said the Russians could freeze millions of Americans to death by knocking out their power. So there's nothing under this democratic derangement syndrome that Russia cannot do. Well, that was very interesting.

2:00:40 Because it was it was in fact it was Joy Reid who said ADOS were Russian bots That's the story how they come it was Susan Rice. No, I haven't I didn't know that one, but it could add it that wasn't in there Well, they were talking about the Russian bots I know because that was the Colin Kaepernick thing was about ADOS That's how I first met Moe cuz that's why I remember it so well. So anyway, they're confused. That's just a nitpick for me. I It's not that pertinent. It's just bad. It's just bad journalism. Well, the... I don't know, it's still continuing it seems, this Russian insanity. I don't know what's... how's the words gonna end up. I think you nailed it. It was just to distract us from what's going on with China. And all the people in Congress who have relations to China. But the... the Dimench

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Dave Winer, Insurrection Memo, and Political Polarization

Dave Winer, a co-founder of podcasting, published a ten-point memo regarding the January 6th insurrection, labeling all Trump supporters as "traitors" and "insurrectionists." Winer argued that the two sides of the country can no longer coexist and that people should turn their backs on family members who support Trump. This stance is cited as an example of the extreme "cult-like" polarization currently affecting American political discourse.

dave winer· podcasting· insurrection· trump supporters· polarization

2:01:38 A or B thing is very, very real and it's, you know, people have their, completely have their own reality. And I just wanted to share this because of someone who I know, I respect, who I co-founded podcasting with, Dave Weiner. And he wrote a blog post about the insurrection and Trump supporters after the insurrection. And I feel it important to read because While I understand how people have a certain view of what happened and what needs to be done, I don't like this. So, he has a ten-point memo. One, the U.S. is great at elections. We have been running them since inception longer than any other country in the world. We are the gold standard in elections. What? Two, our elections are not perfect, but their imperfections heavily favor Republicans. What? Three,

2:02:35 The 2020 election was a standard U.S. presidential election. Sorry, even I have to laugh at that one. Four, it was secure, fair, and not in any way rigged. Five, Joe Biden won the election in terms of votes and the electoral college. I'll give him that one. On January 6, Trump supporters attacked the US Congress and came close to overthrowing the elected government of the United States. This was and still is shocking. We have not fully processed yet what happened on January 6. Well, I agree. What? I agree you haven't fully processed it because that's... Say the least. That's not... I don't know about we came close to overthrowing the elected government, my lord. Seven. And this is where it gets... Wait, wait, stop. Does he envision that guy with the horns on his head sitting up there at the speakers thing pounding the gavel while a bunch of maniacs are out there voting on laws? Running the country, exactly.

2:03:38 Good one, thanks for the visual. Okay, seven. Whether you think Trump caused it or not doesn't matter for this question. Trump supporters did it in his name. It seems impossible for one to support Trump at this point and not also support and accept insurrection. If you self-proclaim as a Trump supporter, you also support the overthrow of the elected government of the United States by force. Sorry if this is news to you, but you are not a patriot, you are a traitor. 8. Before the insurrection, you could possibly shrug off our differences, but now your friends who are Trump supporters are no longer willing to accept the result of a fair election, and the response to the fair election is to try to overthrow the government. You can't accept this. Even if they are family members, you have to turn your back on them.

2:04:32 I thought Julian Castro said it brilliantly at the impeachment trial. Asked if he was concerned about Trump winning in 2024, he said no. He was afraid of Trump losing. He's afraid of a repeat of what happened on January 6th, and he's right to be afraid. And then 10. Trump supporters live in an incompatible alternate country. The two cannot coexist. We have to defeat them. It's not just about the people who crash the Capitol, it's about the people who accept that. No excuses, not interested in discussing, we do not coexist. And that's very patriotic, Dave. Thanks for that. Not discussing. Not discussing. It's very patriotic.

2:05:19 So I would, by the way, it was Castro who made that speech that Tayebi played where he says we're the Russians. Of course, of course. I'm sure Weiner will post about Putin next. He's like the canary in the coal mine. He's all in. But this is a little bit further, you know, like you have to turn your back on family. Oh brother. It's very culty. Just because he hates his brother. You know, that's his own person. He's projecting with that one. He's it's like a member of a cult. Yeah. Well, I mean, of course a tribe a cult whatever you want to call it, but that's okay But maybe you should expect people to call you out when you say that stuff, but no not worth discussing not gonna do it. It's just sad Good, just let him get dead. Yeah, he doesn't need to discuss it if he's just yeah critique him and let it slide

2:06:14 I want yeah, he can't he won't discuss it because there's nothing to discuss in his mind No, we almost points are accurate according to him and he doesn't nobody's you know, okay, I miss enough You should introduce him to the Lib Joe's they might get along. They probably will They already know At least one of them's a friend of it of pointers. Oh, really? Good. Yeah guaranteed. I'll never hear about it then. Okay, and What else you got? I got a couple things here that first of all, let's get this out of the way. These are old clips. I want to get out of the way because I think it's important. This is the McKinsey.

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McKinsey & Company, Opioid Settlement, and Purdue Pharma

McKinsey & Company agreed to a $573 million settlement for its role in "turbocharging" the sales of OxyContin for Purdue Pharma. The consulting firm reportedly instructed sales reps on how to bypass FDA restrictions and target doctors to increase prescriptions. This story has received limited coverage in mainstream media, likely due to the firm's deep ties to the CIA and political figures like Pete Buttigieg.

mckinsey· purdue pharma· oxycontin· sackler family· opioid crisis

2:06:52 Very not played much, but we have to make a point of the McKinsey and company, the big superstar consultants that everyone's, oh, I was about work for McKinsey, McKinsey, McKinsey. You can't get fired if you hire McKinsey. You can't get fired. They got busted for the opioid crisis in this way that this play clip won. The opioids crisis that has taken hundreds of thousands of American lives has gotten less attention during the pandemic. But it's no less dangerous. In fact, the CDC says that drug overdoses and deaths have grown substantially since the pandemic began. Now, one of the world's most powerful corporate consulting firms has agreed to a major settlement for its role and trying to quote turbocharge sales of painkillers. Stephanie Sy has our update. Good evening, Judy. The settlement holds McKinsey and Company financially accountable for its extensive work with Purdue Pharma and other drug makers to aggressively market highly addictive painkillers.

2:07:51 The agreement allocates $573 million to 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories to fund opioid treatment, recovery and prevention programs. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has been leading the legal battles against McKinsey and Purdue Pharma and joins me now. Madam Attorney General, it's a pleasure having you on the NewsHour. want to dive right in. The velocity, the breadth of the opioid epidemic and how many American lives it has devastated is astounding. How much of that would you ascribe to McKinsey Consultants' strategies to sell more OxyContin?

2:08:34 Well, Stephanie, what my office's investigation uncovered is that, in fact, McKinsey was right at the heart of this. McKinsey, to be clear, what our investigation uncovered was consulting with the Sacklers and Purdue. They were instructing them on how to boost OxyContin sales, how to get doctors to prescribe more and more to patients. McKenzie consultants actually rode along with went with Purdue sales reps to doctors offices here in Massachusetts to critique them on how effective they were at selling OxyContin. Yeah, this is such an under told story. I'm it's of course this was PBS. This is Judy Woodmuff.

2:09:22 Did the guess they're not sponsored by who do I guess they're not not sponsored by any pharma this week or whenever this was broadcast Because this story can't be told on on any type of commercial television You will not hear the story on mainstream media and that is this a half a billion dollar fine This is Pete Buddha judges alma mater McKinsey. Yep. Yep McKinsey great guys in the CIA great guys. I Play part two. McKinsey advised Purdue how to avoid FDA and pharmacy restrictions. They later advised Purdue on how to enter the market for opioid rescue and treatment medications because McKinsey knew that people were overdosing and dying and getting sick from Oxycontin. So McKinsey's fingers are all over

2:10:10 over this. It's why we came together as states. This is the first multi-state resolution that will return, importantly, millions and millions of dollars to our states right away that we're going to use directly for treatment. And also importantly, Stephanie, we did something for the first time, set up an online document repository where in months' time, everyone in the country, researchers, the press, the public will be able to see McKenzie's emails, memos, and the individuals who were involved in this effort. And the Sackler family or you know with Purdue Pharma, this is a second time around for them because the first time they hooked people on drugs was was it Mother's Little Helper, what do you call it?

2:11:04 Yeah, but I don't know what it is. It's a very famous. I'm drawing a blank for some some weird reason one of the yeah One of those alley em or something wasn't was it felt no it wasn't Valium. Maybe it was Valium. It was Valium Yeah, it could be badly. Yes, well, they know how to make money in the business They know the business but to bring in McKinsey to jack up their everything so they can make even more money that there were you know They're just as though they didn't have enough money is, again, like you say, you're not going to hear this story in the mainstream media because they're so sold out to the Chinese and to the pharma that it's embarrassing to listen to the big networks. And what are they going to do? They can't not, they just shut up. Anyway, it's a pathetic situation but there's nothing you can do about it.

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Sky News Australia, Joe Biden, and Dementia Claims

Sky News Australia aired a blunt editorial claiming that President Joe Biden is struggling with dementia and is unfit for office. The segment highlighted that while Biden was "napping" or playing Mario Kart, Vice President Kamala Harris was taking calls with foreign leaders, a task usually reserved for the President. The Australian media's willingness to discuss Biden's perceived lack of capacity is contrasted with the "sanitized" coverage in the U.S.

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2:12:02 Here's a guy from Australia. This is something, another thing we don't hear in this country. This sort of, you know, we used to have in the 60s, 70s probably more than any other period, these editorials on all the mainstream, not mainstream, but the local news networks. And there'd be a guy come as a specialist and he'd come out and yak about something. Usually three or four times a week. In Australia they still do it. And this is a guy, and I don't even have the whole thing, it only took a minute, of this guy, he's famous in Australia, he's on Sky News, he does editorials, and we have not even come close to hearing anything like this in the American media. This is a guy going off on Biden. It's clear to me at the least that US President Joe Biden is struggling with dementia and is clearly not up to the task he's been sworn in to do.

2:12:57 This was apparent to many during the election campaign, but such was the hatred for Donald Trump by the partisan and poisonous mainstream media. They chose not to highlight anything that actually may have derailed a Biden victory. Even now, after he's been sworn in, many of them are still refusing to speak the truth about Biden's lack of capacity. It was quite telling that while President Biden was playing Mario Kart and napping all of last weekend, apparently he had no official duties, his ambitious deputy Kamala Harris was telephoning foreign leaders.

2:13:33 That's a novelty for a vice president. And this week he emerged to participate in a sanitized town hall being interviewed by the Bidenista, Anderson Cooper of CNN. Biden properly gave away his teleprompter and the result was nothing short of a disaster. Bidenista. Yeah, I like that term. That is good. Well, yeah, especially for Anderson Cooper. There's so much surprising stuff going on the the Wall Street the Washington Post editorial board Is that a big deal when the whole editorial board writes something? I mean is the editorial board is it like the New York Times it has some weight behind it or is it not that it used to be I would say in the 60s and 70s and maybe into the 80s it might have been back in the day and

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Washington Post, Bitcoin, and "Arcane Technology"

The Washington Post editorial board published an opinion piece claiming that Bitcoin's boom will not dethrone the dollar. The article was criticized for describing Bitcoin as being created by "arcane technology," a term the hosts found ridiculous given that it relies on cutting-edge GPU and ASIC hardware. Despite the skepticism from legacy media, Bitcoin's price reached a milestone of over $58,000.

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2:14:27 But nowadays it really doesn't mean anything because they all think it's, they've loaded up these editorial boards with think alike so they're all on the same page on everything. So if they all decide to put their names behind a thought or a position or an editorial, it doesn't mean anything anymore. And I don't think anyone pays any attention to it. Okay, well, there was something the editorial board wrote about Bitcoin and just the first The first sentence is worth laughing at them about. Opinion. Bitcoin's boom won't dethrone the dollar, but that doesn't mean there's no danger. From the opinion by Editorial Board. Listen to this. Suddenly, Bitcoin is big. Created not by a central bank, but by arcane technology that revolves around the ability of miners using huge assemblies of computers to solve complex mathematical problems.

2:15:26 I mean that sentence alone disqualifies them from continuing to write. What arcane technology are they talking about? You mean the souped up high-end graphics processors, bitmain machines? Really? That's arcane? It's cutting edge! Meanwhile, Bitcoin crushing at 58,248. Keep it up. Well, that's very specific. Yes, well I have the chart always up here in the studio. Let's talk about the purge. The purge continues and we've got a purged entity coming back or attempting to come back and that is Parler. And Parler, I think we know that they fired the CEO. He kind of went quietly too. I'm not quite sure what happened to him. But there's an interim CEO of Parler and Parler, I think, is coming back online. It's Mark Meckler.

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Parler Interim CEO, Mark Meckler, and Technology Stacks

Parler's interim CEO, Mark Meckler, discussed the challenges of rebuilding the platform after being de-platformed by Amazon, Apple, and Google. Meckler noted that the "technology stack" had to be rebuilt from the ground up, leading to various glitches and "bumps" in the web and iOS versions. However, he did not clarify what specific concessions were made to Apple to regain entry into the App Store.

parler· mark meckler· apple· app store· technology stack

2:16:25 Is he one of these rent-a-CEOs? Do you know Mark Meckler? No, I never heard of him. Okay, probably is a rent-a-CEO. So they interviewed him on American Thought Leaders, Jan Jekielek. I respect ATL. The only question that I wanted to know which wasn't asked was what concessions did you make to Apple to get back in the App Store? It would have been nice to know that. Because that was the main thing of the de-platforming from the App Store. They didn't have the right moderation policies and it could, the app could potentially connect people to dangerous language. So that question never came up and there's no answer. But if you ever hire a CEO for a technology firm and he speaks like this guy in the next minute and 10 seconds,

2:17:11 You should fire him immediately. It's been working, but not entirely perfect. I wanted to give you an opportunity to just kind of give us an update of where things are at right now. Yeah, for a little background, you know, when you get taken off the Web, I think most people underestimate what that means. If we use a website and it works flawlessly, we never think about the technology. And having had to dig in to see the technology stack that's required to run something like this, it's incredibly complex. There are a lot of layers to it from the ground to the cloud. And all of that stuff had to be rebuilt in order to be back on the web. So we knew there would be some limitations. There have been. There have been some bounces and glitches along the way. And so I agree with you. I think the web version is working better. We had some problems with the iOS version for those who are using Apple devices.

2:17:56 But we're not up on the app store yet, which means you can't upgrade your app. We can't remove the bugs from the app, so we have to wire around those. And so I think there is a little bit more glitchiness there. Part of it is load glitchiness as we get surges in traffic as we do media. We're doing our best to manage those surges. What I expect today is much better than we were on Monday. And I would expect to see, you're still gonna see bumps and hiccups along the way. But over the next week or so, you should see that really even out and things should be a lot better. I got 99 glitches. And put a goatee on there will ya glitch glitch you said that hurt me yeah bomb technology stack was worth it But what's the technology stack so he also said we has to be rebuilt from scratch Why because why because they're I don't know because it was glitchy the previous one I

CHAPTER 48 / 59 Discussion

Google Social Failures, Orkut, and Google Reader

Google has a long history of failed social media attempts, including Orkut, Buzz, and Google Plus. Orkut was notably successful in Brazil before being shut down, while Google Plus failed to gain traction against Facebook. The hosts suggest that Google could regain public favor and damage its competitors by bringing back Google Reader and fully supporting RSS, which would empower independent bloggers and podcasters.

google· orkut· google plus· google reader· rss

2:18:56 The whole yeah, that explains it. Do you remember when Mevio hired the guy to be CEO and he came from Remember, he was the guy did all the attaboys. He wanted to give people $100 in the meetings What the hell Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff remember Jeff he came from he was it was like a Bing Gordon Kleiner Perkins insert. Yeah, I kind of remember Jeff crap He was front was he from a gaming company was no he was from Shoot, but it was like that. You know, the guy who knows absolutely nothing, nothing, just looks good for the investors.

2:19:34 And I had a thought, because we've got Parler and you know, you've got the Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, but really the social media networks, you know, it's Facebook, it's Twitter, and Google has struck out. And Google has tried, they tried with Orcut, which became a huge success amongst transsexuals in Brazil, and that was too much, they could never... Everybody in Brazil. They like to say that it's transsexuals, but it's everybody in Brazil. Didn't it start that way? It just caught on it for some reason. Brazil is a very social, social, social. It's a very social culture, like extremely social. Yeah. Don't throw a party around somebody stubbing their toe.

2:20:21 And for some reason Orcut just fit right in with their mentalities. And I just don't know why they pulled the plug on it. I mean, or when they sell to somebody down there, this always baffles me why these big giant companies, they have a money-making scheme. It doesn't go quite the way they want it to, so they just close it even though it's doing well somewhere. And so then they came on, what was the thing before Google Plus? There was something that was also... Yes, it was... Buzz, Google Buzz. It was something like Buzz, yeah. Yeah, trolls will know. It's something like Google Buzz. Yeah, Buzz. And they failed on that because you exposed everyone you were following or whatever. Oh, it was stupid. And then they got rid of... Now, in the meantime, they killed Google's RSS reader because, you know, they knew how to do this. And so then they came up with Google Plus and your Circles, and now that's closing. I would like to give whoever's... Sundai, is that his name?

2:21:21 Who's running Google? Yeah, Sundy. I'd like to give him some advice. If you would like to simultaneously kill, to some degree, it'll take a while, if you'd like to simultaneously hurt your competitors in Facebook and Twitter, and if you'd like to get a little bit of compassion back for your company, which is hard because you're a bunch of assholes, here's an idea. Bring back Google Reader. Bring back Google Reader with a one-click subscribe so everybody can go back to little blog posts And then you can make it possible for people to have a timeline Bring back Google Reader support RSS you will be loved for it, and I think they could really destroy

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Ozy Media, Carlos Watson, and Laurene Powell Jobs

Ozy Media, led by Carlos Watson, is being promoted as a major media entity for millennials, though critics suggest its traffic numbers are inflated. The company is largely funded by Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, which also owns Axios. Ozy recently faced a lawsuit from Ozzy Osbourne for trademark infringement regarding their "OzyFest" event, which many consumers confused with the rock star's "Ozzfest."

ozy media· carlos watson· laurene powell jobs· axios· ozyfest

2:22:08 Over time they could destroy Twitter for sure. I'm not sure about Facebook It'll take a while but if you come because they just they just want a social network and they can't do it and they killed the one that people were using It's just a thought that that's not happening. Okay, I know so I did get four clips that have been been carrying with me I just want to get out of the way. They must be heavy quite a burden. Oh You have no idea. Okay, but they have to take painkillers. Oh There's only three So there's this guy named Carlos Watson and they're promoting this website that they claim all the kids are going to. Everybody's all jacked up about it. They got 50 million people that they're gonna sell it, it's up for sale and then you find out it's a Loren Jobs operation and you find all the hype for it is all in Axios where they never mentioned that the two companies are pretty much owned by the same woman.

2:23:09 And so there's a black guy running it, which is good for the... EDI. Yeah, there you go. And I just want you to hear, I only have three clips really, there's one of them's just a guy stammering. But I want you to hear these three clips and tell me what you think of this guy. And one of them is very short. This is Carlos Watson Ozzie, and the website's named Ozzie. Topical about issues and personalities, is that right? Mostly unscripted. They started as town halls. And then just last week we announced that we sold our first two scripted shows, which we're super excited about and I think are going to be important. And that's a very different skill set that you're going to need to bring to the table. Very different skill set, but very much in Ozzie's keeping. You know, Ozzie is the kind of folks who on one hand are doing

2:24:07 Lifetime's coolest new dating show, which will be called Science and Dating. It'll be coming out next year and they're almost done casting for it. And on the other hand, we've got the History Channel's biggest new mega doc this fall. You sublime to the ridiculous, right? Why not? Why not? You know, I feel like we're in this moment where, as you and I were talking about before, like kind of the boundaries are gone in lots of ways. You know what I mean? Lots of stuff happens at home from the personal to the professional, from the surprising to the...

2:24:43 to sometimes the kind of core. You have, you know, obviously grown in a very short time. You have also attracted some very prominent investors in Emerson Collective, in Mark Lazzari. What do you think it is about Aussie? What was the pitch, the elevator pitch that you gave them that attracted that kind of high-powered investment that I'm sure has been a real boost for you. Well, since both of them are NBA owners, I'd like to say it was my basketball skills. It was your jump shot. Exactly. But given that that would be fake news, as they say. For a media company, it's pretty shitty audio the guy's producing there. I wouldn't have stood for that personally. Well,

2:25:33 This the big claim to fame that they've managed was a thing in New York at Central Park some before Kovac called Ozzy fest Mm-hmm, and he finally got sued by Ozzy Osbourne good and I think this Oz fest is Ozzy's thing. Yeah So this is Ozzy Fest and it sounds similar and they got, they had you know a bunch of speakers Hillary Clinton and others showed up. It's very Democrat oriented operation. They just skew to the Democrat side and I've never heard of this operation. I have some experience with this operation. With Ozzy? Yes I do. I'd like to tell you the story. Let me finish my little thought on Oz. So Ozzy sued him and if I'm in New York and I hear the Ozfest or Ozzy Fest, I would think it was the Ozzy Osbourne thing and I'd go to see it if I because I figured there would be some bands there instead I get a bunch of haranguing politicians. Totally valid under the Lanham Act. You would be a confused consumer. Ozzy Osbourne has a case.

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Ozy Media Interview Tactics and Content Archiving

A host recounted a negative experience with Ozy Media where they were interviewed under the guise of promotion, only to be told the content would be "archived" rather than published. The interviewer was reportedly unprepared and lacked basic research on the subject's background. This tactic of collecting interviews for a database without immediate publication is cited as evidence of Ozy's questionable business model.

ozy media· podcasting· mtv· interviews· content strategy

2:26:32 I think he has a big case. But they brag about, oh we had 200,000 people, and I think yeah, 90,000 of them thought it was Ozzy Osbourne, not you. Yeah, probably. Okay, what do you know about this group? When I was promoting Podcaster Pro, what are we now, three years ago? Almost, yeah, more than three years ago. A great product idea which did come to light, stolen in concept by Roda, and if they would just send me one I wouldn't be bitter about it. And by the way,

2:27:08 They're incompetent not to send you it, but they should send me one too, by the way, but they're incompetent not to send you one. I think they're embarrassed about something about it because Horowitz is always bitching about the thing. It's very close to my original idea. I've said on many different places, the only things that they have to go back and fix, which they haven't done, but it's okay. Just ignore me. Ignore me. It's fine. Ozzie. So I was promoting and I can't remember how we got some word out, but anyway, I got an interview request from Ozzy. I'm like, cool. This is a, you know, I look at the site, they got interviews with lots of interesting people. I'm like, this is pretty cool. The guy, this Watson guy does interviews. No, no, no, an employee, not him, Ozzy. Oh, it wasn't him, because he has his own podcast. No, no, no, stop. This is before all of this. This is three years ago. They started a little different. They started, which now they're creating their own content.

2:28:07 They tell you the story and then you'll understand. So I do the interview with a femaleennial and she's dumb. She's dumb, not because she's stupid, because she has not done her research, she doesn't know about my MTV background, and she's clearly reading off a piece of paper with a couple of questions. But I put up with it because I'm promoting something here, so I know kind of the law, you know, be careful if you're promoting something, that boomerang can come back, so I'm always careful. And then at the end she said, that's great, so alright, well great. I said, well when are you going to publish it? Oh no, we're not publishing it. We just put it into our archive and then when there's a story about podcasting or MTV or you, then we might pull it out. So are you fucking crazy? Where was that mentioned that you're just going to put it in your database? I said, don't you ever call me again and I hope you fail in your career, child.

2:29:01 And that's what they did. They just went around collecting interviews and now they've, of course that didn't work out so well, so now they've turned some of that content or the people who were doing that into like a, I don't know, some kind of podcast video network of shows that they're now trying to sell because they clearly have no business model. And I'm still angry when I hear, when I tell the story. I was so insulted by that. I never heard of these people. Yeah. Let's play part the second clip. Yeah, I will I will I will look up The person's name for our next show and tell you who that was. Okay, but meanwhile, let's play clip two Yes, I mean I think part of it is I think both of them are

2:29:46 are big-minded, bold thinkers. And I think they liked Ozzie's desire to not just be one more media entity focusing on today, but that desire to bring people tomorrow. I think they both believed in that. And I think one of the things, Cynthia, that I said to both of them is I said- People are going to look at this and they're going to say Ozzy is for millennials and Gen Z and that that's who Ozzy's for. But the truth of the matter is, I believe what my mom always believed, which is that Ozzy's a state of mind. And whether you are nine or 90, you are about what's new. So what he said there was his mom has always believed that Ozzy's a state of mind.

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Carlos Watson, McKinsey Background, and Silicon Valley Pivots

Carlos Watson, a former McKinsey consultant, has raised over $70 million for Ozy Media since 2013. The company has recently "pivoted" from digital news to producing TV shows for major networks, a move skeptics view as a way to burn through remaining venture capital. The operation is described as a "Silicon Valley job" where a losing operation is eventually sold to a larger entity to protect investors like Larry Sonsini.

carlos watson· mckinsey· silicon valley· venture capital· pivot

2:29:01 And that's what they did. They just went around collecting interviews and now they've, of course that didn't work out so well, so now they've turned some of that content or the people who were doing that into like a, I don't know, some kind of podcast video network of shows that they're now trying to sell because they clearly have no business model. And I'm still angry when I hear, when I tell the story. I was so insulted by that. I never heard of these people. Yeah. Let's play part the second clip. Yeah, I will I will I will look up The person's name for our next show and tell you who that was. Okay, but meanwhile, let's play clip two Yes, I mean I think part of it is I think both of them are

2:29:46 are big-minded, bold thinkers. And I think they liked Ozzie's desire to not just be one more media entity focusing on today, but that desire to bring people tomorrow. I think they both believed in that. And I think one of the things, Cynthia, that I said to both of them is I said- People are going to look at this and they're going to say Ozzy is for millennials and Gen Z and that that's who Ozzy's for. But the truth of the matter is, I believe what my mom always believed, which is that Ozzy's a state of mind. And whether you are nine or 90, you are about what's new. So what he said there was his mom has always believed that Ozzy's a state of mind.

2:30:29 Did she a mind reader or did she even know that Ozzy existed when he was a little with these? He's like telling what I was a little kid. My mom said Ozzy's a state of mind. Oh, OK. Did we miss something? Did we miss something somewhere? That's kind of interesting. The truth of the matter is I believe what my mom always believed, which is that Ozzy's a state of mind. And whether you are nine or 90, if you are about what's new and next, if you're curious, if you're the kind of person who occasionally or often says why not, and not just why, when presented with something different, in fact, if different is not

2:31:09 something to get past but instead something to excite you when I say, hey, let's try this restaurant. It's a little different. Let's meet this person a little bit different. Let's travel here. Like if you're the kind of person where different is actually, you know, draws you to that, then And then I think that's what both Mark Lazzari, who's obviously been a legendary investor at Avenue Capital, and I think that's what Lorene Powell Jobs, who has been an incredibly impressive investor and game changer at Emerson Collective. I think that's what both of them, I hope, I think that's what they believed in when they saw Ozzie. Oh man, okay. Wait, I have to play the last clip because this guy can't stop talking.

2:31:54 And he doesn't say anything. He's terrible. And so this is the example, they asked him a little bit about research and what does he do for his research. And he claims that he literally calls people, but he can't just say, I call different people and we do a little research. No, no, he has to put it this way. And this is his little spiel on marketing. Oh, sorry, I thought you were gonna do this. Hold on. marketing yes got it South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico okay you can what did I do it wrong what did I what am I doing wrong no it was me I mis-edited it And I've been carrying this stupid clip forever. All right, let's just play Carlos stammering and we're done. Wow, John. I mean, that's that's a curry level, curry level fail on that one. All right. Stammering. Listen to this. This guy who is Jamaican. OK, just please do not be confused. I mean, he's American, but two Jamaican parents. Let's just be clear.

2:33:01 Where did he start his career? McKinsey! Yeah. And then he went on to be a total douchebag for a long time. And Ozzy, yeah, so he already raised $70 million in that first go around in 2013. So he's out of money. So he's either, this is either a re-raise or it's, you know, and they pivoted. They pivoted. The publication expanded. I'm reading from Wikipedia. Let's say pivoted from a daily digital news publisher to producer to TV shows for major US and international. This is the Ron Bloom of Ozzie. Yes, he's also part of a scheme, Loren Powell, who owns Axios and owns this largely.

2:33:51 where you go to Axios and you read about Ozzy, there's all it's got millions and millions, 50 million users, again. And it's up for sale and everybody wants to buy it. Other investors, Larry Sonsini, this is a total Silicon Valley job. Oh yeah, the lawyer. A total Silicon Valley job. So they're going to pull a Silicon Valley where our losing operation is going to be sucked up by an operation that can afford it. They've done this with at home and all these different... Oh gosh, yes. Well, at home, what was the... What was that other brand? They got sucked into some phony baloney merger. I mean, they know how to do this and you get some good accountants in there and it gets pretty shady. But this guy knows how to sell. Yeah.

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Oakley School Board Scandal and "Babysitter" Comments

Members of the Oakley, California, school board were forced to resign after a "hot mic" incident during a Zoom meeting. Board members were caught disparaging parents, claiming they only wanted schools to reopen so they could have their "babysitters" back. The incident went viral, leading to intense local backlash and the eventual resignation of nearly the entire board.

oakley· california· school board· zoom· hot mic

2:34:41 Unbelievable. It was a cool little noodle gun thing I just wanted to share. Oh, did I get that? Yes, here it is. I don't know if you saw this. This was the California school board in whatever small place in California. Not even a small place. Oh, this is one in Oakley. Oakley, yes. Is that small, Oakley? Yeah, it's a small little town up in eastern Contra Costa County. And this great story. Yeah, and this just kind of says it all where they had a school board meeting which was on zoom planned and whoever was responsible for connecting their conference call to the zoom and broadcasting it was clearly not aware they had already started broadcasting as they're talking and the teachers of the school board, I'm sorry, but it consists of teachers

2:35:31 are basically just bitching about the parents and that they want them to open up and here's what one of them said. Right. We have a vested interest in this process and they don't know what we do behind the scenes and it's really unfortunate that they want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back. Right. Right. But there was more. So all that was really hilarious about how the parents just want their babysitters back and that really does say it all because they have been demoted.

2:36:37 in the current situation that they are to babysitters because of the stupidity of how this distance learning has been set up. But this is the vitriol. This is exactly how they think about your children. And then the cool part is when they get found out, when someone figures out what's going on because emails are flying. Uh-oh. Laura Launier, just FYI, you guys have the meeting. We have the meeting open to the public right now. Yeah, and they all had to resign! I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist piece of shit! Actually, to stretch the story out a little bit. I got my pasta glock locked and loaded! Go ahead, stretch. They didn't, they refused to resign at first. Oh, I didn't hear about that part.

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Donor Credits, Birthday List, and Value for Value

The hosts read the names and locations of producers who contributed to the show through the "value for value" model. The segment includes a list of birthdays for listeners and their families, including "smoking hot husband" Neal and Sophia Cantrell. The hosts emphasized that the show is entirely supported by the time, talent, and treasure of its audience.

donations· value for value· birthdays· producers· credits

2:37:26 Oh yeah, that's a local story. And so they, and then, you know, everyone really got mad at their arrogance and they all bailed. So they did all resign. The guy who didn't resign was the head, I think, the school boy. I think he's still hanging in there, but he's apologizing for them. I love it when the noodle gun strikes. I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. I own no agenda Yes, we do have a few people to thank for show 1230 1212 23 1223 Michael small 123 58 sir Lucas of the lost bits in Tacoma Washington 1111 Teresa fly in Cornersville, Tennessee 100 sir John Knight of the st. Patrick patron saint of engineers 88 88 He's in Heber Springs, Arkansas

2:38:28 It says, Quad Snowman of the South. Joanna Griffin in New York, New York, 80. Alicia Durante in San Diego, California, 78, 43. Birthday call out. John and Adam, please wish... Okay, we got that on there. Anonymous70, Baroness Monica in Drayton Valley, Alberta, 6060, one of our Albertans that stay with us. Sir Bebop, boop, Sir Beboop, Sir Beboop, Night of the Frozen Tundra, 5678, probably in Canada too, I'm guessing. Michael Heenan in Fairmont, Minnesota, 5678.

2:39:08 Nicholas, and the birthday there, Nicholas Wagenfeiler, and Havre de Grace, Maryland, 5555. Sir Donald Winkler, 5555, he's in Deutschland, Berlin. Hello Deutschland, here's the Hoff! And the birthday list is in play for him. Greg Edwards in Chicago, Illinois, 5510. Patrick Nestor in Saint-Savours, Quebec, 5151. Kurt Sundberg, Baron of the Vortex Ring State in Mercer Island, Washington, 51. Daniel Laboe in Bath, Michigan, 50. Sir Andrew Gusick, sir, Greensboro, North Carolina. Lynn Kissig in Newark, Delaware. Daniel Martin. Hold on, Lynn Kissig is first time. Oh, never ask for a de-douching. Please de-douche me. You've been de-douched.

2:40:10 And then Dan... Mart... Daniel Martin, $50 and he is also requesting a deducing. Now these are $50 donors and they were given the name and location of the last few which is Jason Wright in Fort John, BC, Julian Robbins in Aptos, California, Lucas Deaton in Dayton. Deaton and Dayton. Deaton and Dayton. Megan Emery. Robert Case in Mill Springs, North Carolina. Adrian Mueller in Cascadero. And last but not least, Matthew Grice. And those are all our

2:40:53 Producers for show 1323. Yes. And we thank everyone who came in under the 50. Sometimes to be anonymous, we have a couple of those 4999s I see you, but also people who are on our sustaining donations. These are much smaller amounts that you can spread out. You can really make it up yourself. It is value for value after all. Whatever you think this is worth to you, whatever the entire community of No Agenda The whole Gitmo nation with all the websites, all the search engines, all the show notes, the social network, the troll room, all of that. If it's worth anything, just put into numbers, send it off to us. We love that. And we thank everybody for your courage and for producing the best podcast in the universe. We'll do it again. Please join us on Thursday for that and go here to find out more. Dvorak.org slash N A Final card for everybody who needs it. You've got

2:41:47 Harmony. As we move towards the final week of February, here's the birthday list. Amanda Ides says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband. Neil turns 52 yesterday. Sir Andy of Tarago Beach, his beautiful daughter Sophia Cantrell turns 15 today. Michael Heenan, happy birthday to his wife Chelsea, 28 tomorrow. Sir Donald Winkler, 46 tomorrow as well. Katherine Jennings, happy birthday to JD Moore, who'll be celebrating on the 24th. And Alicia Durante says happy birthday to James D from San Diego. And we say happy birthday to all of you from the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah. Title changes, turn it, baby.

2:42:38 Title Changes, we have an upgrade for Sir Trenton Scovel, he becomes the baronet, Scovie I should say, of the Piedmont and Sir Laron, the Southeast Alabama becomes baron of the wiregrass region. Thank you both for supporting the NOA Agenda show in that additional amount of $1,000 and and that will be updated at noagendapeerage.com. Then we have three nightings. One is posthumously one is for Bumper Morgan. Bumper Morgan who passed away in May of 2020.

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Knighting Ceremony, Bumper Morgan, and Peerage Upgrades

A formal knighting ceremony was held for several producers, including a posthumous honor for Bumper Morgan, who created the "polar vortex" jingle. New knights include "The Horrible Horde of Better Beef Cows" and "Mr. Dabolina." The ceremony includes the traditional granting of "hookers and blow" or "mutton and mead" at the virtual No Agenda round table.

knighthood· peerage· bumper morgan· the horde· mr. dabolina

2:41:47 Harmony. As we move towards the final week of February, here's the birthday list. Amanda Ides says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband. Neil turns 52 yesterday. Sir Andy of Tarago Beach, his beautiful daughter Sophia Cantrell turns 15 today. Michael Heenan, happy birthday to his wife Chelsea, 28 tomorrow. Sir Donald Winkler, 46 tomorrow as well. Katherine Jennings, happy birthday to JD Moore, who'll be celebrating on the 24th. And Alicia Durante says happy birthday to James D from San Diego. And we say happy birthday to all of you from the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah. Title changes, turn it, baby.

2:42:38 Title Changes, we have an upgrade for Sir Trenton Scovel, he becomes the baronet, Scovie I should say, of the Piedmont and Sir Laron, the Southeast Alabama becomes baron of the wiregrass region. Thank you both for supporting the NOA Agenda show in that additional amount of $1,000 and and that will be updated at noagendapeerage.com. Then we have three nightings. One is posthumously one is for Bumper Morgan. Bumper Morgan who passed away in May of 2020.

2:43:24 his wife and they listened to the show for many years. And he's the one that did the polar vortex jingle that we use from time to time. And for all of his contributions, but also to radio, he was, I think I worked with him when he was at Y107 in Nashville. He'll be missed, young guy too, like 52. So we have The Horde coming on board and Mr. Dabolina. So we need some bladeage. I got that one. I got this one. I like it. So, bumper Morgan in spirit! The Horde and Mr. Dabolina. Why don't you join us here at the round table because you're about to become knights of the round table with no agenda, knights and dames. And I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Sir Bumper Morgan, the horrible horde of better beef cows and Sir Dabolina. For you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and Chardonnay, but also by request, pinners and Pepsi and 2012 silver oak Cabernet Sauvignon and a bone in filet.

2:44:25 Maybe you'd like some brown cheese and aquavit and small hove or maybe some vodka and vanilla, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, maybe some geisses and sake, or how about just... Yes, mutton and mead. It's a favorite and you can collect your well-deserved Noah Jenda night ring and the sealing wax and your certificate by going to noahjenda.com slash rings. Eric the Shoe will be very happy to help you out and get that off to you as soon as possible. And thank you again. for supporting us. It's so nice to have such a large roundtable. I think what Baron Scott here in NOAA JIN and Austin has been doing with the NA 512 meetup and the group that became a support and help group throughout the electrical and water crisis was probably some kind of

CHAPTER 55 / 59 Discussion

Meetup Reports, Netherlands Secret Meetup, and Super Spreaders

Producers submitted audio reports from various meetups, including a "clandestine" gathering in the Netherlands held in defiance of curfew laws. Other reports came from Walworth, Wisconsin; Springfield, Missouri; and Agoura Hills, California. These events are described as "super spreader" gatherings of like-minded individuals who support the show and its mission of media deconstruction.

meetups· netherlands· wisconsin· springfield· agoura hills

2:45:21 Stimulus or I mean there's a lot of meetups. It's just crazy full how many meetups are taking place and I have four reports I now usually when I get these reports I edit them down to make sure that they're you know kind of okay Just before we started I got one from Kenosha, and it was sent in by sir Ramsey Kane It was it was done great end of show mixer So I'm hoping he edited it if not just we'll have to deal with it. Here's the meetup report. Oh Okay, here we are at the Backwater-Wisco meetup in Walworth, Wisconsin. I'm Ramsey Caines. Oh, I'm sorry, Sir Ramsey Caines. Coming at you live. Here you go. This is Brian. I'm calling out all the Fox Valley, Illinois residents. We got a meetup. I came all the way up here only an hour and a half. We can do it. Ramsey, you'll come down. This is Esme from Ripon, and we drove two hours of this meetup for our second meetup in the space of about four weeks. Go Packers!

2:46:16 In the Netherlands, it is foreboding to have any kind of meetup, certainly after nine o'clock. There was a clandestine meetup by a number of producers and it was codified non-digital recording. Hi Adam, John, we have to be really silent because we're doing a secret meetup in the Netherlands. I'm here with and with Sander. We're having a great time in the morning. In the morning, here is Santa speaking. I expect that the new Prime Minister of Holland will be Donald Trump. Don't know somebody else. Keep cross our fingers what will happen soon. Be quiet! The hookers are still in the basement. We expect to have the cops come soon. But everything... Fuck! Police! I'll give Tim just... Here he is coming.

2:47:13 This is Sir Tim, Knight of the Chichinanigans. Fuck the Avondklok. Alright guys, thanks. We go to Springfield for their Super Spreader event. Hey, this is Caleb Brinkman here at Lindbergh's Tavern and we're just wrapping up the Springfield Super Spreader event and we got some people who want to talk to you. Hey, it's Amanda Dullsaber. My husband still has not made me a dame. He's a douchebag. Apparently I'm a douchebag. This is Josh. In the morning, Dustin Road here and it was another great event. Go podcasting! And Agora Hills. Okay everyone, this is uh...

2:47:51 Leo Bravo at the flight of the no agenda meetup number 12 in Agoura Hills I'm gonna pass the phone around I have a lot of folks here I have some words to say. It's Steve Banstra from Nashville I came all the way to California just to say that Kriegs is still a douchebag JD Anymouse in the morning in the morning John from Calabama glad to be here dude named Tim in the morning Hello, it's our Craig Porter the Ronin 73s came up here from Carlsbad great time at the meetup here Hey Adam, uh nice hair. This is slick Rick. This is Eric in the morning at night. Happy podcasting. This is Thomas the engineer I'm halfway to becoming a knight in the morning. It's a song

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Upcoming Meetups, Nashville, and Brisbane

A schedule of upcoming No Agenda meetups was announced, including events in Nashville, Houston, Denver, and Brisbane, Australia. Listeners are encouraged to visit noagendameetups.com to find or start local gatherings. These meetups are highlighted as a way for the community to build resilience and social connections outside of mainstream digital platforms.

nashville· brisbane· denver· houston· meetups

2:48:30 Hey, this is Tommy the Heretic from Santa Barbara. I just want to thank Leo for putting this on. I'd also like to say Leo Bravo is a spy. It's a spook, not a spy. Thank you all very much for your meetup reports. And here are the meetups. In fact, there was one added today. It's been underway for a couple hours. So only if you went to noagenameetups.com would you know that there is a last-minute meetup in Virginia, the de-douching cold popcorn extravaganza. Now also today at 3.33 Aussie time, which means it's already done. It was Cooper's Alehouse meetup, so it's already Tuesday there.

2:49:09 Speaking of Tuesday, in the United States, the Nashville No Agenda Lil Fouchy Wheeze fan club kicks off at 6 at Smoke and Thighs. On Thursday, the Houston Tabletop Games, they kick off at 6 p.m. at T in Victory. That's Houston. Also on Thursday, the Denver Pure... Pierogi Paloza at 6 p.m. in Kinga's Lounge, that's a new listing. The TMI EVAC Zone meetup in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna Valley will be at Crossed Water and that is on Thursday. Also Thursday, Charlotte, North Carolina at 7 o'clock, Triple C Brewing. And then on Friday we have the inaugural Brisbane Aussie Shots in the Arm Slaves Meetup 530

2:49:51 Eastern Standard Time for Aussies. It's an updated venue, the Morton Bay Trailer Boat Club in Manly in Queensland. And also on Friday, the Block and Bar Grill for the 719 local Colorado Springs, Colorado meetup at 630. That's just a selection of what's coming up this week. We have them packed all the way through February and well through March and far beyond. Go find one, go hang out, you'll like it, the people are fun, you'll have people you can rely on for weird situations and you have a community. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself, it's easy, noagendameetups.com, it's like a party. ♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days ♪

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Mars Rover, Chinese Embassy Bombing, and Build Back Better

The landing of the Mars rover Perseverance was compared by NPR to "throwing a dart from D.C. and hitting a bullseye in Dallas." This analogy prompted a look back at the 1999 CIA bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which was officially called an accident despite three precision missiles hitting the target. Additionally, the "Build Back Better" slogan used by Joe Biden is noted as being identical to phrases used by leaders in the UK, Netherlands, and the UN.

perseverance rover· mars· cia· belgrade· build back better

2:50:40 You wanna be where you want me Triggered or held to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Alright, ISO time. ISO time. You got any ISOs? Uh, my ISOs aren't as good. I heard one during the clip set I thought it would have been a better one than I have. But let's play them. Okay. Uh, I have... I think I only have this one. Know what you have done. You know what you have done? That's the one you got? Yeah, I guess there's not much to brag about. No, I think this will do it. It's huge! It's a little noisy. It's so noisy. It's noisy. It sounds like she's in a cable car. It's huge! It's huge. It doesn't sound as good. Shoot, man. Well, we need some kind of ISO. Well, the best ISO was the beginning of a clip I had. Yeah.

2:51:35 On the BB if you listen just the beginning of this clip the BBC report on the on the plague village. Mm-hmm Listen to the old lady. Okay, hold on a second. Let's see. We'll do it live Let me see we got are you worried about what's happening now the virus? Of course everyone is I don't know how long it's going to last Oh beautiful, oh, yes, the lady is ours. Oh This is the voice. What a bullcrap voice. Good one. You got anything else before we leave? I have a couple of things I want to play. One, because we have some, I put this in the show notes. Play the Mars mission dart analogy off of NPR. Today with the touchdown of the rover Perseverance on the Martian surface, landing the completed by far the riskiest part of the mission, placing the car-sized plutonium-powered rover on a five by four mile strip.

2:52:32 The feat likened to throwing a dart from Washington, D.C. and hitting a bullseye in Dallas. The rover's cameras almost immediately began broadcasting pictures from the Martian surface. The rover, nicknamed Percy, will spend the next two years collecting rock samples and other material that at some future date will be collected by another mission and returned to Earth. Yeah? So it's like taking a dart from Washington, D.C., throwing it and hitting a bullseye in Dallas. Now, the first thing I thought of when I heard that was, gee, that's interesting. How did we hit the Chinese embassy by accident?

2:53:12 Oh, this is why you wanted it in the show notes. Okay, I got it. In 1999. Nice. With our pinpoint GPS CIA program precision, how could we miss and we hit the Chinese embassy? Shocker! Now, so I thought about that, so I looked it up to get the details and the new information that's come to light on this bombing, I didn't know half of this story. People should look into the show notes and read about this accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. For one thing, we launched a lot of bombs in the area. The CIA had access to only three of these guided missiles.

2:53:59 All three of the CIA guided missiles hit the Chinese embassy. Whoopsie! Not one, not two, all three. They had the right information. They also had the do not hit list which was everybody the database the database They had the right list they also found discovered that the CIA had the right maps because they made that they said oh Well, it's an accident because we had the wrong we are old maps and they it turns out so there's nothing to indicate that That the CIA didn't bomb the Chinese embassy in 1999 on purpose. Mm-hmm even though they claim well was you know was an accident which kind of gives them a Little bit of reason to be angry at us and retaliate it killed three Chinese reporters is all the real fallout was besides destroying the building It's not friendly

2:54:52 And I would recommend people read the whole report because it's a very, very intriguing set of circumstances where this thing was hit. And I was immediately reminded of this hitting a dart, throwing a dart from Washington, D.C. and hitting a bull's eye in Dallas. We can do that, but we can't miss. The Chinese embassies, okay. Yeah, it's under China in the show notes is where I put it. I have one, quickie. You know, I think that this show was one of the first, mainly through our show notes and search engine, bingit.io, that we discovered how this build back better was being used all over the world by every government, including Joe Biden. We got

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Boris Johnson, Globalist Slogans, and Show Sign-off

Boris Johnson admitted that the "Build Back Better" slogan likely originated from a UN disaster relief program, confirming suspicions that global leaders are following a coordinated messaging script. The hosts concluded the episode by thanking their producers and announcing the next show for Thursday. The sign-off includes a reminder to support the show via the "value for value" model at dvorak.org/na.

boris johnson· un· globalism· sign-off· podcasting

2:55:39 My goodness, the new Japanese Prime Minister, the Dutch Prime Minister, the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Crudeau Prime Minister, and Boris Johnson. And hopefully, since enough people have pointed out that this is clearly some UN-organized term that they'd like to bring back, and now they've collectively decided to all use it for some kind of globalist takeover. Boris couldn't keep it up without saying something about this. And he projects. We also want to work together on building back better from the pandemic, a slogan that I think Joe has used several times. I think he may have nicked it from us, but I certainly nicked it from somewhere else. I think probably some UN disaster relief program. But we want to build back better.

2:56:35 Joe nicked it from him. I don't think so. I think they all nicked it from somebody, but it wasn't each other. I think they all got the same marching orders. They got the same memo. Yeah, the same memo. Hey, hey, hey, hey! I really find it disgusting what's happened to Boris Johnson. He went into that hospital and a different guy came out. Yeah, and it's apparent. And the different guy is a bad guy. Get rid of him. Yeah, he's not so cool anymore. Coming up next on yournoagendastream.com, told you it was a cool place to hang out. Grumpy old Benz, they'll be doing a show about Aussies versus the big tech. That'll be cool. Now the end of show mixes are dynamite. We got us some Rolando Gonzalez to kick it off. Then, Rexo Solo returns. And these are beauties, these are full-on productions. And we wind it up with some Andre Coleman, and then we will

2:57:40 It's time for us to start drinking wine. And we'd love to see you back here on Thursday. Please consider supporting the show with your time, your talent, or your treasure, Dvorak.org slash NA. Coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of the drone star state Austin, Texas. FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the trains are rolling, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Thursday right here. Remember us at dvorak.org slash NA. Until then, adios, semofos! And such.

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End of Show Mix, Corrupt Industries, and Variant Hysteria

The episode concludes with a musical montage and a spoken-word list of "corrupt" industries and entities identified over the past year, including big tech, pharma, and teachers' unions. The lyrics touch on themes of political hypocrisy, the "frack attack," and the perceived brainwashing of children. The mix ends with a series of news clips highlighting the media's focus on COVID-19 variants and the "biosecurity state."

end of show mix· corruption· variants· brainwashing· media

2:58:26 Let's add the energy markets to our list of stuff we learned in the past year that is completely messed up, corrupt, and not in our best interest. I'll just run down the list because I think we should keep it. The American people deserve to know. Education, teachers' unions, universities. What they're teaching, messed up. A black man admitted to light bulbs. Politicians all hooked up to China like Mitch McConnell and Swalwell and then there's Pelosi and all these corrupt a-holes. We just don't know. We got elitists who are eating out at French laundry. Ridiculous bullshit! We got Cuomo's killing old people who gives a crap. It's scary! The pharmaceutical industry pushing shit down your throat. We're trying to understand that. Opioids, which is ridiculous.

2:59:12 people and they lied about it. Sackler for the second time around did it with Vicodin. Biology and disease are formidable opponents. Medical community. How about health insurance anybody? Anarchy, anarchy, anarchy! That's not a scam. Just China. They're not following the rules. NBA, Apple, Nike. using slave labor, stock market, Wall Street bets, climate change. The finding has not been peer reviewed. Central banks, fiat, white helmets, fake news, corrupt media, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, big tech, big agriculture. As American industry steps up to help so are America's doctors and scientists. That is a World Economic Forum UN 2030 sustainable development goals in process.

2:59:54 Whether they know it or not, they're just contributing to the propaganda. Take back our lives! Insincerity is now being pulled apart. The agencies are primarily concerned with protecting their own reputations. You're a liar! A broadcast liar! Meanwhile, we're all here in a farmer-controlled biosecurity state. Hot mic, hot mic, hot mic! That was... shit. Are you paying to the devil? I Coming off of that election, I think I'm depressed. This might be a grab for attention, but nonetheless, I've been trying for weeks to write an end of show mix. Funny how coming up with nothing's got me stressed. So here we go. How about a song about writer's block? How about a song about are you convinced that Biden won? Because I am not. You can keep that snake oil. Before I buy that, I'll go on Robin Hood and buy a stock.

3:00:57 from firetruck, but I'll have to circle back to that. I'm trying to keep up with executive orders. They're coming at me back to back. I'm trying to keep up with gas prices and make sure all my liberal friends notice that they rising because of Biden's frack attack when all the while I can't stop thinking, not my president. I know I sound like a child, but they set the precedent. If I know what's good for me, I won't let them take up residence inside my brain, driving me as insane as them leftist getting right there. That's where no agenda's needed. That's where my amygdala's start getting overheated. The hypocrisy that I am seeing's getting so egregious. And I don't understand how they can think that we don't see it, or maybe they don't care, cause they consider us defeated. I can't disagree when a sitting president can be deleted. I used to think that we were different. Americans have guns. What good's a gun if its only purpose is to ensure you keep it? By the way,

3:01:48 I don't think they'll try to take them. I think they're brainwashing your children. So one day, they will hand them over willingly, like here, this thing is dangerous. And I don't think there's anything that we can do to change it. Right there. That's where no agenda's needed. That's where my amygdala's start getting overheated. The hypocrisy that I am seeing's getting so egregious. I don't understand how they can think that we don't see it If they tell us 2 plus 2 is 5 enough, will we believe it? Cause I just watched the vast majority give in to mask authorities All because of something someone said on TV With zero scientific proof of any efficacy I feel like I'm taking crazy pills Amazing how they make me feel like maybe I'm the one that's living in dimension B Potentially dimension C, mentally minority

3:02:33 And currently everything in the world's depressing me And right there, that's where no agenda's needed That's where my amygdalas start getting overheated The hypocrisy that I am seeing's getting so egregious And I don't understand how they can think that we don't see this You are going to prevent the emergence of variants here in our country. I'm feeling a little leery. You need to get vaccinated when it becomes available. This is a virus that none of us have ever experienced in our bodies. It was just red.

3:03:17 and angry and high. Yeah, but some of that is not dramatic where you know it's just you know super painful. We're working hard to earn your trust and we know that adverse reactions to the vaccine are rare but they can still happen. We need to make sure there's not severe side effects. In essence, ultimately yes, ultimately yes. In essence, ultimately, yes. We are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country. It appears vaccines are less effective against the new variant. She still could have virus in her nasal pharynx. Before mutations take hold, it would be prudent to wear a mask. A man who previously recovered from the virus has been reinfected with the South African variant. The UK variant. South African variant. The UK variant.

3:04:08 The South African variant. Seven variants. The vaccine variants. Homegrown here in the United States. I mean, once they're fully vaccinated. We are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country. We have not seen yet in this country. The best podcast in the universe. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. I don't know how long it's going to last.