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00:00 Boom! There you go! There's some lead! Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, August 21st, 2022. This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1479. This is no agenda. Battering up my bugs and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I missed Brian Stelter's last show somehow, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Did you actually go looking for that?

00:35 Well, he made this statement that he was going to explain everything or something or other on Sunday. I don't think they let him do that. Did they let him do that? I didn't find anything. I went to the guy, maybe unless they ran it at four in the morning or something or sometime earlier. But from 10 on when I went downstairs, it's just, oh, I got to check. I'll put it on record. And there was nothing but there's a Zachariah and Pamela Brown and this and that. It's nothing. I couldn't find anything. How about YouTube? I'm gonna have to look at YouTube. Maybe they'll have it there. That's basically where you gotta look for stuff, man, is YouTube. You can't find it on the stations. I'll have to say, YouTube does enrich my life, you know.

01:19 It is a place where you can find stuff. It's pretty good. There's stuff. There's stuff on BitChute too, you know. Yes, no, BitChute, BitChute. And Rumble. Yes, Rumble, BrideyOn, DailyMotion, Vimeo. Yeah, we can keep on going. And NoAgendaTube. And NoAgendaTube. There you go. That's a great place. NoAgendaTube. So I just want to get one thing out of the way because my personal gripe about the hearing aids bullshit. Oh, here we go again. Yeah, well it's kind of, it's important to know because Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act and as part of the big selling point of the Inflation Reduction Act is you're gonna have... Spending money. Lower medical costs for you old people and of course I usually don't consider myself to be part of the old people crowd yet.

02:14 Not yet, but you know I got the hearing aid so I'm a little I do have a little jump there. There's that on the old, but that's all that's a bet all broadcasters, so Okay, so that's you know that's that's what they're out there selling and then I hear our vice president selling it With this message which I shall deconstruct right afterwards greetings everyone lowering cost is one of our administration's highest priorities and that includes health care costs and To that end, the FDA has issued a new rule to allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter. Soon, Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss will be able to buy their hearing aids at the local drugstore or pharmacy. No prescription needed.

01:19 It is a place where you can find stuff. It's pretty good. There's stuff. There's stuff on BitChute too, you know. Yes, no, BitChute, BitChute. And Rumble. Yes, Rumble, BrideyOn, DailyMotion, Vimeo. Yeah, we can keep on going. And NoAgendaTube. And NoAgendaTube. There you go. That's a great place. NoAgendaTube. So I just want to get one thing out of the way because my personal gripe about the hearing aids bullshit. Oh, here we go again. Yeah, well it's kind of, it's important to know because Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act and as part of the big selling point of the Inflation Reduction Act is you're gonna have... Spending money. Lower medical costs for you old people and of course I usually don't consider myself to be part of the old people crowd yet.

02:14 Not yet, but you know I got the hearing aid so I'm a little I do have a little jump there. There's that on the old, but that's all that's a bet all broadcasters, so Okay, so that's you know that's that's what they're out there selling and then I hear our vice president selling it With this message which I shall deconstruct right afterwards greetings everyone lowering cost is one of our administration's highest priorities and that includes health care costs and To that end, the FDA has issued a new rule to allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter. Soon, Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss will be able to buy their hearing aids at the local drugstore or pharmacy. No prescription needed.

02:59 This change will make it easier for millions of Americans with hearing loss, including many seniors, to receive the care they need. And it will also reduce the cost of a pair of hearing aids by hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Every American has a right to receive affordable health care. Today, our administration has taken another step forward in our fight to protect that right. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Let me explain why this is so disingenuous. Besides the fact that it was Elizabeth Warren who got lobbied, she got tons of money from Boz and I think from others to get this change issued. And here's what the change is. The change is only in one thing. The definition hearing aid.

03:47 There has always been a difference. A hearing aid is a sophisticated piece of device that you get from an audiologist, you go through the test, and it's a medical thing. That's really the process, and as a long-time user, I can attest to that. Everything else that comes out of Silicon Valley or China where you stick it in your ear, you use the app and it goes, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, and then oh, all of a sudden it's magical. I'm cured! That used to be known as a hearing amplification device. So the only thing the legislation changed is now the people who make hearing amplification devices, which are not sophisticated, therefore only cost a couple hundred dollars,

04:27 They may now be called hearing aids. So they were always able to be sold through the mail, over the counter, etc. But now they can call them hearing aids and they're not. And guess what? They can probably jack the price up a little bit too. They will jack the price up. To further screw the poor medical The person that uses medical gear. Now you notice that she says people with mild hearing loss. Yes, because that's only an amplification device will probably help some mild hearing loss and most people can even imagine they have mild hearing loss. But then to say look how great this legislation is the Inflation Reduction Act it's going to save you thousands of dollars. Yeah by making you hear shit.

05:17 That's what they want for the American people. Oh yeah, hey you know what you're gonna pay more for a shittier experience and you're gonna like it. Take care y'all. Okay, so just to show you how it works and that's just the beginning of our show ladies and gentlemen. Just the beginning. How you doing otherwise? I don't think you got that off your chest. Well there's another one. I got one more. I'll just lay back, go on. Have you been tracking the James Webb telescope and all of the images that have been coming in? Am I talking about the one guy who took a picture of a piece of salami? That was a pretty funny troll.

05:55 But the real images, the stuff that they get... Did you see that story? It was great. I missed it. I have no... Okay, I'm flat-footed here. Take me home. Take me home, Jeeves. Okay. As it turns out, the images coming back from the Hubble... from the Webb telescope, which allow us to see, you know, like 15 times further than the Hubble telescope, and now, you know, they have brilliant colors, etc. It hasn't really been published yet, but there's several articles and here's an example. Astronomers looking at web. What if the Big Bang didn't happen? As it turns out, it's not looking the way it should. It's not an ever-expanding universe. Stuff that is further away is actually smaller, whereas that should be bigger.

06:48 And everyone's flipping out, they don't know what to do. There's astronomers tweeting like, as I lay awake in bed at 3 a.m., I wonder, did we get everything wrong? This is a phenomenal, phenomenal thing that's happening. Because if you don't have the theory of evolution, what is the other theories? Creationism. Is there a third? Well, it's not binary. Correct. It's not. I completely agree. But if you look at the two big theories out there, it's like they don't know what to do with it. They're stuck. They don't know how to explain it. The science is stumped.

07:28 Okay, let's go back to my when I was a kid. Yeah, here we go 1957 the International Geophysical Year, I remember this very very Donald's I was a state I was a little kid little stamp collector So I remember collecting the steely Dan steely Dan IG why so I was a little kid and I'm looking at the globe Mm-hmm, and I'm looking at South America and I'm looking at Africa and And I'm looking at the big chasm, oceanic chasm in between these two bodies of land. And I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm saying, you know, these two have had to have been hooked together at some point. They fit like two jigsaw puzzles. At the time, I was a little kid who liked doing jigsaw puzzles. If every kid sees this and thinks this, I'm sure, when you're uncorrupted,

08:24 Yeah, and what do I get from the teacher? No! That's a myth, it's not true. That's not, no, no, no, no, no, no, you dumb little kid. And so, okay, whatever. International Geophysical Year comes around in 1957, they discover tectonic plates, and then they follow that up with, yeah, you know what? These two continents were once one continent. And the whole bullcrap, all the years and years and years and years and years of no! Turned out to be, yeah, no, that's exactly what it was. I felt very, I felt...

09:06 Relieved I can imagine a common observation that any normal person would make yeah was true though Everyone denied it. It's officially it was officially denied I find that that set my whole life on the course of becoming a podcaster. Yeah And look at the success you've achieved young man Congratulations top early podcaster pioneer. In March, the Minneapolis Teachers Union negotiated a contract with the district that states non-white people can be exempted from layoffs in order to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination. The district is telling ABC News the contract aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups. That remedy now prompting legal concerns. The Supreme Court has been really clear on this issue that just having

10:12 a policy to prefer one race over another in terms of layoffs is clearly a violation of the 14th amendment. Special interest groups say in 2020 students of color and Native Americans made up 35 percent of Minnesota's K through 12 population but only four percent of the more than 63,000 teachers in the state were people of color. In Minneapolis there's like a gap between the diversity of students and the diversity or lack diversity of their teachers. This is not about trying to pit one racial group of teachers against another. This is about serving students the best. Several black educators in Minneapolis in agreement with the contract. When they see somebody who looks like me and maybe looks like them, they feel a greater sense of connection and belonging in that community. I would say that we would first have to start hiring more educational professionals.

11:04 of color and start hiring more licensed teachers of colors. Others believe the new policy will do more harm than good. There's different ways that we should be hiring, but we should not be implementing hiring decisions based on the color of people's skin. You know, we have, we had a house guest last night, a friend of Tina's who they've been friends since Tina's old days when she worked at the bank. They were both in finance. And she's now a professional executive coach. She does executive training for executives and I'm starting to ask her about it. So what exactly does that mean? A lot of push-ups. Well, it's much more almost like therapy. And part of that is she doesn't have a lot of male clients, but you can imagine men in a corporate setting, they have filters on all the time like, oh, I can't say this, I can't say that. They have trouble managing

12:00 people because of this continuous friction of what can you say and what can you do. But she has one female client, African-American, I think it was a mix maybe, Asian, African-American, I don't remember what it was. And this woman was hired to be like a powerful position and she realized that she was really out of her depth. And then she realized, holy shit, I was a diversity hire. And it hurt her. Wow, it's like finding out you were adopted. That's an interesting analogy. But yeah, yes, and it was that shocking for her. But the worst part was she couldn't do it. And she had to figure out how to resign. So really, the policy that was intended to lift her up and be so kind to her really set her back in her career. It's amazing that people don't think this shit through.

13:00 It's amazing! That's actually a fascinating situation. What else did you learn from the coach? Oh yeah, some other stuff that I got to talk to you about later. By the way, when did Minnesota become the number one woke area? They keep coming up with this stuff one thing after another. It's very strange to me. That's a good point. But this is not new. I mean, I wasn't shocked it was Minnesota. I mean, if it'd be... I'd be more... I'd actually be kind of shocked if it was Iowa. But Minnesota always comes up with this stuff over and over and over again. I do remember... I do remember. Well, I think we have talked about this, that the Minneapolis law enforcement and the way Minneapolis dealt with immigrants, there is definitely, similar to Austin in a way, there's, you know, the right side of the tracks, wrong side of the tracks.

13:51 and well there's a lot of stuff going on in me I want to throw this in mm-hmm again a Minnesota was like Austin contaminated by Californians Oh totally possible I know it was happening because my wife had a bunch of friends and they moved to Minnesota from, because it was cheaper. You know, this is the old, the lure, the crazy lure of the Midwest. Come on, kids! Let's go, it's cheap. Westward, young man! So you go there and freeze your butt off, but anyway, that's okay. So they moved there and they were all with other expats, all of them from California and all in Minneapolis. Hmm, interesting.

14:36 I don't know. I mean, it hasn't been studied. Like Washington State's filled with them. What was the recent news? Oh, more Californians coming over here. They're going to screw up our real estate values. Our homes are going to become worth a lot more money. We can get big. Just how dumb they are up in Washington. Oh no, all our houses are going to become very valuable and we can sell for a lot more money and we can also take out loans on them and really do well because our property and everything in our net worth is going to go up. Get away, Californians. Go back. That's your Washingtonian there. Port Angeles was in the news the other day. I don't remember what it was some woke. There was a they're starting to store cargo container ships and other boats, giant ships in the harbor there because it's the mooring prices are dirt cheap and free. There was something else. It was some woke thing that was hilarious. And I thought, oh, my God, there's a lot of stuff starting to go on. But again, it's Californians.

15:32 Thank you, world! California, the gift that keeps on giving. Well, you're still there. We didn't contaminate anybody. No kidding. You're still there, though. I like it. And there it is. He likes it. Mikey likes it. It's all good, people. It's all good. Oh man, there's so much to discuss. Oh, okay. Well, before you veer off, I do have a teacher's clip. Oh, groovy. People should know what's going on. New Jersey, also contaminated by Californians, is... You know, this is so sad as I consider myself a former Jersey boy. Of course, now I'm a Texan, but I was in Jersey for 12 years. I really connected with

16:17 with the energy of the people, that has obviously changed. I left in 1999, so a lot has changed, but it's sad for me to hear these things, because Jersey was just different, man. It was cool. We were all right. Well the coolness is leaving because his teachers are taking over here we go This is New Jersey teachers versus the public and heading north to New Jersey The largest teachers union there is facing backlash for a new ad it appears to label parents who speak out at school board meetings as Extremists here are the details the New Jersey Education Association posted this ad on YouTube on August 15th titled same thing. The group is New Jersey's largest teachers union with 200,000 members.

15:32 Thank you, world! California, the gift that keeps on giving. Well, you're still there. We didn't contaminate anybody. No kidding. You're still there, though. I like it. And there it is. He likes it. Mikey likes it. It's all good, people. It's all good. Oh man, there's so much to discuss. Oh, okay. Well, before you veer off, I do have a teacher's clip. Oh, groovy. People should know what's going on. New Jersey, also contaminated by Californians, is... You know, this is so sad as I consider myself a former Jersey boy. Of course, now I'm a Texan, but I was in Jersey for 12 years. I really connected with

16:17 with the energy of the people, that has obviously changed. I left in 1999, so a lot has changed, but it's sad for me to hear these things, because Jersey was just different, man. It was cool. We were all right. Well the coolness is leaving because his teachers are taking over here we go This is New Jersey teachers versus the public and heading north to New Jersey The largest teachers union there is facing backlash for a new ad it appears to label parents who speak out at school board meetings as Extremists here are the details the New Jersey Education Association posted this ad on YouTube on August 15th titled same thing. The group is New Jersey's largest teachers union with 200,000 members.

17:01 We don't agree on everything in New Jersey, but we all agree that our kids deserve a world-class education. So when extremists start attacking our schools, that's not who we are. People who only want to fight to score political points should take that somewhere else. New Jersey is set to begin a controversial new sex education standard this fall. It would require public schools to incorporate LGBTQ themed content into their K-5 curricula. Oh man. Man, now I want to mention something here. Now, now I sound like an old fart and I'm going to sound like one. I remember when LGBTQ whatever were starting to make inroads and they were gonna do this or we're gonna do that and they always promised that, they promised, literally promised, and I remember it happening in California, that don't worry about, we're not gonna go into the schools and proselytize, it's never gonna happen with our gay teachers. Just hire us, we'll be fine, we'll blend right in, don't worry about it and now,

18:03 This is what we get. This is the thank you, which is, you know, for accommodation, let's say. It's that the next thing you know, oh, first grader, you gotta learn about LGBTQ+. So I just find this to be... Very subtly offensive. And based on a lie. So let's go to part two of this. It expects students to define terms such as sex assigned at birth, gender identity, cisgender and transgender by the end of fifth grade. The ad shows photos of parents protesting at school board meetings with two news headlines. One titled Some New Jersey Schools Under Siege and the other called Don't Say Gay Bill Introduced by New Jersey State Senator.

18:45 One of the photos was taken in August 2021 at a Nevada school board meeting. Parents there protested against the school district's COVID-19 mask mandate. Another photo depicts a man yelling during a May 2021 meeting in Georgia after the school board rescinded a resolution against the teaching of critical race theory. Republican lawmakers criticized the ad, saying the union is out of touch with parents' concerns. The New Jersey Republican Party wrote, if protecting our children from New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's insane sex ed standards is extreme, then we wear this as a badge of honor. The ad by NJEA has gained over 90,000 views on YouTube and the comments section is turned off.

19:30 So they're disingenuous with their ad itself as showing other areas claiming it's them. And then if you remember the first clip, the woman says, oh, don't come in here and grouse about what we're teaching so you can gain political points. What parent who goes to a school board meeting is looking for political points? They're not running for anything, they're just bitching and moaning. So this whole thing happening in New Jersey is probably one of the worst case examples in the country. Well it's so bad that one of our very own producers, Sir Chris Holman, Dr. Chris, is running for school board of Novi, Michigan. And he wanted us to mention that, so it comes up and there you go. And he's sick of it. He's sick of it! So go to chrisholman.com.

20:26 Double-oh that's that's what's gonna have to happen. Every single no agenda producer has to run for something. Yeah I guess so starts people. I mean we are the last 1.4 million people on earth who can save everybody We have a great end of show mix from the no agenda primetime players circus I heard it is it's long but good and it's very it's a kind of a It's a different kind of end of show. It is. Because it's not a song or anything. It is actually a drama of sorts. But it's a mock advertisement. It's hard to say, you can't really pigeonhole it, but it's dynamite piece of work written by Chris Wilson and performed by Dame Jennifer and a few others. And his son, Felix, yeah. Sir Felix. Yeah, Felix, who's

21:25 Destined to be in show business. Yeah, it's a takeoff really get out of the house It's a take off on some stuff that we've played and kind of falls into I'm not I don't want to spoil it You got to listen to the end of the show. It's gonna be well worth it People were digging the trolls were digging it this morning when I played it pre pre stream despite that listen to it. I reckon All right. You want to take a topic here or where do you want to go? There's some funny stuff that's off the wall. It's a little different. I don't have a lot of COVID. I think I may have something. I definitely have some COVID. I got some monkeypox. There's a new virus out. There's always a new virus. The CDC is reorganizing. You want to talk about that for a second? I thought we talked about it on the last show. Yeah, but now we have Dr. Scott Gottlieb talking about it. Well, let's go with this then. And it looks like we also have a scapegoat.

22:19 Have you seen that, what is her name, Welinski? Not Welinski, Lena Nguyen, Dr. Lena Nguyen. Oh, Lena Nguyen's getting it, getting it, yeah. Well, she deserves it. If she's going to be the scapegoat, that would be great. Yes, yes, she's going to be the scapegoat. I'll tell you, I do that little hypocrite of the week thing at the newsletters. And Lena Wendt comes up a lot because she's, and just until recently, she's the one, we should lock down everyone. And she even made the statement that if you're unvaccinated, you should never leave your house. You should not be allowed. And then she's got that, you know, kind of shit eating grin on her face all the time. She's friendly looking, and she's on all the talk shows, but she's a terrible person. She's a horrible person.

23:05 So she's been, this is from the Boston Globe actually, some attendees in an upcoming conference want to prevent Dr. Lena Nguyen from speaking. Their accusation, she has been expressing views on COVID that are essentially mainstream among the public, says the Boston Globe. But here it is. The scientists feel that, referred to as unscientific for suggesting this spring that vaccinated people should be able to return to a pre-pandemic normal. She is called unethical for largely agreeing with the new guidance for schools from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which relaxed restrictions on distancing masks and automatic quarantine, which I think actually she didn't, but okay.

23:44 Um, she's chided. Chided? Don't chide me, bro! What is chided? You know, ribbed. It's like I do with you all the time. Oh, so it's mean. About your Tourette's maybe. I don't know. It's mean. I don't know, I don't think chided is mean at all. It's gentle. It's called, let's literal... It means a gentle prodding, like a gent... it's not a... no. I'll say this before you continue. Because she's Chinese, they better let her off the hook or they're asking for trouble. Oh, diversity troubles? It's got to be a white person. Escape goes to either going to have to be Fauci. Good point. Yeah. Berks, Berks, Berks, Berks, Berks, take Berks. Berks has already thrown herself under the bus with that book of hers. That was preemptive. Can't be Berks. Preemptive. Well, who's left?

24:42 Fauci, there's a couple of, that guy that was the former head of the... No, no, just throw Jared Kushner under the bus. Just say it was his fault. It's got nothing to do with it. Perfect. Just make it his fault. Anyway, so we were just talking about on the last show about the CDC's reorganizing and everyone's talking about the big picture stuff, but really what's happening will become apparent. But let's just set it up with This interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb from Meet the Press. with Chuck Chip, Chad Todd. Put him under the bus. Right? This would be, that would be great but little chance of it. So Walensky sent out an email and this is the impetus for this discussion. CDC director Rochelle Walensky is admitting that the agency must make some drastic changes to better respond to public health emergencies. As we reported here yesterday in an email to CDC employees, Walensky outlined some of those changes including an overall of how the agency analyzes and shares data and how the CDC quickly communicates information to the public.

25:41 The push for accountability comes as the nation is dealing with multiple public health challenges right now. The extremely transmissible BA5 sub-variant is now, continues to be the dominant COVID strain in the United States. Some new boosters are being developed to target the strain, and that's expected to be available in the fall. The US also has seen an outbreak of monkeypox, with cases now numbering more than 13,000. And then there's polio, which has been identified in New York City wastewater after a case was reported in Rockland County last month. So joining me now to sort of get the lay of the land here of our public health area is Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He's a former FDA commissioner himself, a CNBC contributor, and easily one of our country's foremost experts on public health. Dr. Gottlieb, it's good to see you, sir. Thanks a lot.

26:48 I think she is. I think the CDC director was pretty unflinching in her analysis of what the systemic problems have been at CDC, not just in the setting of the COVID outbreak, COVID pandemic. and the monkeypox outbreak, but going back to Ebola and Zika, even seasonal flu where the agency has suffered systemic problems, trying to... Yeah, they screwed it up. They didn't get Zika to take hold. They screwed up the tiny heads. Gather data, make it available to the public, speak directly to the public, put out guidance that's actionable, that's bottom line that businesses and consumers can interpret. The agency has long suffered from the fact that it has a very academic culture. They are accustomed to trying to collect information, put out analysis in published articles, and not speak directly to consumers in actionable ways. I think she was pretty unflinching in her analysis of that. Actual ways. You know, is on a path to trying to put in place some reforms that will start to address it.

27:40 So that's just all word salad bullcrap. What do you mean? They don't know how to, they don't speak to consumers in actual ways. What does that sentence mean? What is actual ways? He is demonstrating how the CDC communicates clearly. In actual ways? In actual ways. That's him not communicating in an actual way by saying something that's not actual English or explanatory. It's okay because it's all a setup. Here's Chuck Toad. He's gonna set him up with the whole power grab. You know, it's always odd to me, Dr. Gottlieb, that we never, that the CDC director was never the one front and center at the beginning of this pandemic. And whether it was the current CDC director or the previous one, that it was sort of, that it was coming from NIH. You bring up the academic, shouldn't NIH be the sort of more academic environment and CDC be the more public health

28:36 emergency agency. Yeah, that's it. Put Fauci in charge. Yeah, look, parts of CDC are action-oriented. They're operationally driven. But by and large, that organization has a very academic culture where they're accustomed to collecting information and doing very long-dated analytical work. and not putting out real-time information that can inform current decisions and inform policy makers. The decision in terms of whether or not the CDC is speaking to these issues on a daily basis or someone else in the administration was doing that, that's ultimately a decision made by the White House. If you remember during the Ebola outbreak, the Obama administration had Besser, the CDC director, really run point on that.

29:13 and be the spokesperson. During the Trump administration, the CDC director didn't speak to the COVID epidemic. And in this administration, they've had other people running point for them in terms of the communication. That's really a decision by the White House. Running point. Running points. All right. Running point. So you see, this is the problem. And of course, Gottlieb is going to tell us what's going down. Is there any of this in what she announced at CDC that her hands are going to be tied a little bit because of HHS? Well, ultimately she's going to need support of HHS, but I think the real challenge is going to be that in order to fundamentally reform that organization, you're going to need help from Congress. Ultimately, with certain aspects of what they do when it comes to their core disease control mission, and really their national security mission, they need new authorities and new resources. I think in terms of getting a bargain from Congress, what they ought to be thinking about is trying to narrow the scope of the CDC's mission, trying to give to sister agencies components of what CDC currently does at

30:11 other agencies may be able to do just as well if not better. For example, post-market vaccine adverse event reporting, some of the tobacco work can both be handled by FDA, some of the disease prevention research can be handled by NIH. And then go to Congress and say, look, we want to focus on the disease control mission, but to do that well, we're going to need some new resources and new authorities. I think the only way the CDC is going to get those new resources and authorities from Congress is in some kind of bargain like that with a more tightly focused the mission of that organization. There it is. There's your CDC. You know, so I okay. I think you when you made your point in the last show, I don't think you have to pound it home. You view what although I have to say you're still the only one in the media that has brought this up. But you're tired of it.

31:03 I don't know why I get tired of it so fast, but yes, I am. But I'll say this, and what I'll do is I'll repeat what, I'll reiterate what your theory is. And I've been hearing it too, because I've been listening to different, but I haven't been clipping him, because Adam was right. They are trying to, I mean this is what Adam's theory is for people out there that didn't catch it the first time or didn't catch it in that clip. They are trying to rejigger. It's not about re-org-ing. It's about getting them more power because one of the things that happened during this last pandemic is that the health departments were lording it over everybody, but at some point it wasn't working very well because we hated these people. They were all doofuses and dummies and they didn't have enough power to lock us down for some, you know, when they just demanded it. And so- When they felt like it.

32:03 The thesis is that this whole thing with the CDC is a ruse to give them the power to lock us down at the drop of a hat and that will somehow morph, although you didn't bring this in, but it is part of the overall thesis that we both have. This will morph into being able to lock us down for climate change. Oh yeah, oh no, that's... Well, remember, food is medicine, so it's all gonna be connected. It's all gonna be connected. And as I was listening to the show... Thank you, by the way, for that. I don't need to pound it anymore. I'll stop the pounding. Stop the pounding! Stop the pounding! I got it.

32:44 And if anyone else didn't get it, I gave it to you. This is that summary was it. That's it. So and when you listen to these clips, by the way, you'll be hearing a lot of stuff. Yuck, yuck, yuck and away for the next month. Underneath the undertone is exactly that. Oh, we need to do this in order to get Congress involved so they can give us some more power. Yeah, so as I was listening early I was listening to the previous episode which often do for professional reasons uh-huh I Thought sound so good. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I'm just like oh, baby. How we sound? Compression that segue was fab oh man John had a great joke there

33:28 No, in fact I caught Dr. Shah who was one of the people running point on COVID for this White House and the true power came out in this clip. Yeah, sorry. This guy's annoying. You know, I keep forgetting how annoying he is until I see him, literally see him on the screen. Yeah. He's really not good. So listen to where the true power lies. Who will be the first in line? Is this essentially going to... I'm sorry, just to explain. This is about the new bivalent, bivalent, what do you call it? Bivalent? Bivalent. Bivalent mRNA vaccines which are being manufactured

34:10 And he's gonna tell us who's driving that process. Who will be the first in line? Is this essentially going to be a third booster? Yeah, it's a, you know, Lester, here's why the FDA has pushed us to build these vaccines. The bottom line is... Here's why the FDA has pushed us to build these vaccines. Huh? Now, what does the CDC do if the FDA... What does the FDA do? Aren't they supposed to run trials? Yeah, they're supposed to be... They're not telling people what to do. They sure are. They're telling Dr. Jha to build more vaccines. Build them! Build them! Build them!

34:54 This to me is troubling. Lester, here's why the FDA has pushed us to build these vaccines. The bottom line is that this virus has evolved substantially since the first vaccines were built. This is why we've seen waning immunity. The vaccines that are coming in a few short weeks are specifically designed for the virus that's out there. So interesting. I've never heard this building the vaccine. That must be inherent to mRNA, I guess. You build an mRNA vaccine instead of create it, grow it, develop it. We never heard this before. Build it. Build it. I don't know.

35:34 Build it and it will come. It's okay. It's okay. I did point out as anyone who noticed the newsletter, I did point out my thesis, which I wanted to make sure that was out there before anyone else had it, which is that the idea is to have a annual shot. They're already talking about this, so we're going to do this anyway. The annual coronavirus shot going along with your annual flu shot. It's useless, but okay. And then I'm pretty sure, I mean, it makes nothing but sense to me that they're going to go for a twice a year annual shot because there's a winter and a summer version. And there's something they have not, they've been, they've not been able to pull it off with the flu shot because the flu never shows up in the summer.

36:16 But the coronavirus can be a summer cold. I would say it's going to be every three months and I base that. Yeah, I put that in there too as a possibility, but I think they're not that's pushing it. Well, I'm just basing it on Germany's vaccine passport system that they are now have announced and will be rolling out, which requires you to be up to date within three months and to have four different levels if you're topped up. So it feels to me like they're going for quarterly, which is great because you can also then do the quarterly results of Pfizer and Moderna, etc. Just before earnings. Just before earnings. You make a new announcement. Yeah.

37:02 It's perfect. But it's okay because it's done, the programming's in place, people will accept it. Do you remember Film Girl? Remember how we used to have fun about Film Girl over there on Twit? What was her real name? Film Girl. Remember that? No. Yes. I don't remember us ever having making fun of Film Girl. Yes, Film Girl! Come on, she's like, she's kind of an early... Oh man. Film Girl. Let me just see. I can't believe you don't remember this. Christina Warren. Christina Warren. Christina Warren. No, that's not... Yes, that's who we called Film Girl. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, okay. Christina Warren. Yeah. Okay. I worked with her a couple times. Yeah, alright. So you remember Christina Warren?

37:47 Oh, yeah, okay. Well those are just gonna be fond memories. Okay, whatever just just tell me what shot I need to get and I'll get it It's fine. Okay, so there you go. That's the attitude out there. That's what happened with the Tony on Kornheiser on I had a clip of him going if they tell me to get a shot every morning I'm gonna get one Yeah, if everyone wants to be that way, it's fine. By the way, dr. Shah, I had to get the right guy. You're getting mad. Uh-huh. This dr. Shah Every time I look at him I'm thinking, oh, oh, that's where Jeffrey Toobin went. I'm telling you, look at him. It's Jeffrey Toobin. Yeah, it's a little, not quite, but I feel you. A little bit of prosthetics, no big deal. You can pass it. It sounds like him, looks like him. You never see his hands, do you?

38:46 Ladies and gentlemen, he'll be here every Thursday and Sunday. He's the best. Let's go to ABC and talk about some monkeypox because oh my, it looks like, what is it still just men who have sex with men? Is it sexually transmitted? Can you get it from anything else? I mean there's a lot of confusion. Do the vaccines work? What do we do? We're very confused. A story we've been tracking, the first suspected case of human to dog monkeypox transmission happened in France and that news has led the CDC to update its website on the virus including how to protect our pets. So to help us break it all down we have veterinarian and director of virtual medicine at BonVet Dr. Lisa Lippman. Dr. Lippman thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. I'm no stereotypical veterinarian.

39:31 Thank you for having me. So how concerned are you about this recent development? Yeah, so I am really pretty concerned. Number one, any time you have a virus that jumps species to species, number one, it makes it so much harder to control. Number two, we also risk having mutations. The other thing about this is that I think the signs in dogs are signs that can be easily overlooked. So general malaise, you know, the pucks in not obvious spots. We can get a little more to that, but I'm conserved. is that it's transmitted not sexually. In fact, it's transmitted to dogs and to children and it's not sexual though, or it is it. It's very confusing. So talk about how, I mean, obviously when this story broke, you know, the headline a lot of times was, oh, it's mostly sexual contact with dogs. Now, of course, we're trying to get that message out that you can have just direct skin to skin contact and transmit this virus doesn't have to be sexual in nature. So with pets,

40:41 What do we know about the route of transmission? That's right. So the one dog that we know that was infected slept with two owners who were both infected. So they had skin to skin contact. This was an Italian greyhound, a very short haired breed. Skin to skin contact. Pretty much hairless almost. And so they had direct skin to skin contact and 12 days later became symptomatic. And so that direct skin to skin contact is so important. But also thinking about things like their feces, their urine, any close contact right now this is so new and so developing we just have to be as safe as possible. Okay so she's... You know, if I was the reporter I would have asked the obvious question and this one is somewhat lewd. I would ask was it a male or a female greyhound?

41:31 And just to wonder, just wondering. I understand your line of questioning. That's why you are a podcaster and now working at ABC. Probably exactly one of the reasons. Good morning America. I've fallen to the depths of podcasting. So this goes on for segments. I'm actually going to drop another segment about other rodents and go straight to kind of answering your question. You mentioned a little bit, Dr. Lippman, some of the symptoms we might see in our pets. If you can just go over those with us as to what to look out for and then what can we as pet owners do to avoid any sort of transmission? Yeah, so symptoms, again, it's developing but they can be very general. So for just like in people I think general malaise, being feverish, not feeling well, not wanting to eat.

42:20 to having those pustules or vesicles. Again, this dog had them around his mouth, around his anus, and on his abdomen. And these are signs... Come on! Come on! What would your next question be? John C. Dvorak, good morning American Reporter. I would have killed the story right there on the spot. It's not a podcast. Okay, really? This and but I would have said hey lady. They're making me sick They deadpan the stuff. They just deadpan it. It's only skin-to-skin contact. Hey, this dog has almost no hair. So where did he have it? Well, you know, this dog had the mouth and his butt and all. Again, this dog had them around his mouth and around his anus and on his abdomen. And these are signs that again can be so easily overlooked as something else.

43:14 or a furry gal. That too, so you know if they're not feeling well in any way and you know that they've had known exposure then it's really important to tell your vet so everybody can be safe. Kill the story! Jeez. All right we kill the dog story we move over to the CIA broadcasting system CBS and mornings Let's see how things are going with the monkeypox over at CBS. After waiting about a month, 20-year-old Edward O'Keefe finally received his first dose of the monkeypox vaccine at this New Jersey clinic Thursday. Frankly, like the government has dropped the ball. To meet the growing rise in cases amidst a shortage of vaccines, the CDC is now in... What kind of... That was a very weird insert I'm just realizing.

43:57 It was almost like a whipsaw listen to this Jersey Clinic Thursday frankly like the government has dropped the ball to meet the growing rise in cases amidst a short was that together got the shots Yeah, he got was that that was some some random there was he bitching about he got a shot and he thinks the government dropped the ball cuz he got Injections that's what that's my point is they just inserted that little clip to to set up the story that the government dropped the ball but has, I'll just play it from the beginning. After waiting about a month, 20-year-old Edward O'Keefe finally received his first dose of the monkeypox vaccine at this New Jersey clinic Thursday. Frankly, like the government has dropped the ball.

44:35 To meet the growing rise in cases amidst a shortage of vaccines, the CDC is now encouraging one fifth of the dose be administered just below the skin, arguing that will stretch supply. The White House says it will distribute almost two million doses to regions that adopt that change. CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky admits there's still a lot the government has to learn about this outbreak, including the effectiveness of the vaccines. We expect protection to be the highest two weeks after the second dose of the vaccine. Second dose! Second dose! 98% of monkeypox cases are in men. 93% among men who reported recent sexual contact with other men.

45:22 and more than 60% of cases are among men of color. We're not reaching men who have sex with men who are black and brown the way that we need to. And now the numbers of infected children have started to rise. What is this? We're not reaching men of the black and brown community who sometimes have sex with men. What did she say? Men who have sex with men who are black and brown the way that we need to. We're not reaching out to them the way we need to, okay. Because black and brown men can't understand English when they're gay? Yeah, they're dumb. They're dumb. And now the numbers of infected children have started to rise. There are at least 12 confirmed cases of children with monkeypox in the U.S. Children are at higher risk for severe monkeypox. It can even be deadly in very young children. Dr. Gounder says the most likely source of exposure to monkeypox for children is through close contact with a caregiver.

46:21 So why do we not have any women with this? And are these children male children? Are they female children? This is very, very troubling. And it's rolling out the black and brown community. They need to... I don't know who's behind this. Whoever's doing this particular program of propaganda is doing a piss poor job. Well, here's what is taking place and I've heard this from many personal conversations the quote-unquote queer community are all looking for monkeypox vaccines because hey I'm around gay people even though it's only men who have sex with men. Texas, New York, California. Hey son you never seen Brokeback Mountain? We met at that shit over here. So

47:18 That means that there's a demand. The product is in demand and it's in the news. The government will also... I was going to say, I have a... I had to take... I took a screenshot of this. I didn't put it in the newsletter. I may put it in the next one. I have a picture of the monkey... monkeypox vaccine vial. that they showed on TV, and I don't know if this is the real deal or whatever, but it says specifically not for use except in a national emergency. Oh, well didn't the World Health Organization declare monkeypox an emergency? Not that I know of. Well, look it up. See, my segue was perfect into the queer community. It's okay. Oh, yeah, don't blame me for ruined segues. It's part of the show.

48:06 The government will also set aside an extra 50,000 vaccine doses available for cities with large gay pride events coming up. But it is important to remember, even though most cases are in men who have sex with other men, anyone can get this virus. The numbers are moving in the wrong direction. Yeah, anybody can get it. But how difficult is it, Tanya, to get? Is there a way to explain that? It is difficult. You shouldn't be overly concerned, but it can spread through infected bedding, infected towels, infected clothes. Oh! What? What? What? Where's the documentation for this bullcrap? We just got through two minutes.

48:47 of men who have sex with men and children and dogs and... But now bedding and towels. Towels, bedding, you know, don't sneeze, mask up. Difficult, you shouldn't be overly concerned, but it can spread through infected bedding, infected towels, infected clothes. So just take precaution. So it's not necessarily just skin to skin when you're talking about bedding and clothes. Don't share towels in the locker room, for instance. All right. Glad mine's got my name on it. Thank you very much. The punchline was or drop the soap, but no stupid guys and can't do anything. It's not a podcast All right. So that's that's the media. That's great Hello 15 forever. That's the media side. Let's go back to

49:37 the big pharma side. Hate to bring him back in, but we do have to talk about Scott Gottlieb one more time. Is the current monkeypox outbreak sort of another exhibit to say, hey, this is how, boy, we were a little slow here and yeah, this is another example of CDC being a little bit on their back foot? Well, CDC and HHS, I think we've suffered from the fact that we've done things very sequentially in the setting of this outbreak rather than in parallel. For example, the issues around the vaccine supply. They could have made some decisions early on to start finishing

50:15 Some of that vaccine, they had 11.5 million doses in frozen bulk product that they could have started finishing right away. Says a man on the board of directors of a company that sells vaccines. While they work with the manufacturers to scale up manufacturing of new stock, those things were done very sequentially and so we didn't have enough supply early in the setting of the outbreak really to address the public health challenge. So I think it's some of the same mistakes that are being made over again. But these really go back a decade. I think the agencies have been operating this way for a very long time. I'm not going to pound that fact. I will take it straight from monkeypox to polio. Very quickly on polio, this finding in the wastewater, is this, this should be containable. How concerned are you though with vaccine hesitancy that if we do try to get some folks revaccinated here, we may have a problem?

51:03 Well, it should be containable, but if you look at that county where it seems to be spreading, I think at this point there is community transmission. That seems to be the message coming out of the CDC and public health officials in New York. That community only has about, Rockland County only has about a 60% vaccination rate, and some parts of that county are as low as 37%. So we're going to have to do a lot better than that if we're going to control the spread of this. And vaccination rates have fallen all across the country. I think a lot of the criticism of COVID vaccination spilled over into people's willingness to take other vaccines. Yeah, hopefully it doesn't cause other nearly eradicated diseases. What did you say, John? Whose fault was that, what he just said? But the question he asked was, Chuck Tott specifically said re-vaccinated. Here's my overall theory and that leads into my final clip on this.

51:54 What if it's all bullcrap? What if this is all just diseases coming to the top because of the severely impacted immune systems and it happened first in the gay party community And so they need something to cover it up. Well, shit, grab that thing from that stupid Austrian company, say it's monkeypox and we'll vaccinate them all. We'll figure this out. Oh, now children are getting it. We don't know exactly. It could be from betting. No, maybe children are vaccinated and are getting it. Maybe that's what the polio thing is. And maybe that's what's happening now in India.

52:29 Even as the spread of deadly COVID-19 virus still prevails across India, the threat of another virus is now threatening the masses. According to the latest report, India has reported 82 cases of tomato flu or tomato fever since the virus was first reported in Kerala on May 6. I cannot wait for the tomato flu to come to America! The common infectious disease targeting mostly children aged 1 to 5 and immunocompromised adults could be a new variant of hand, foot and mouth disease. What? The tomato flu was first identified in Kerala's Kolam district on May 6th. So it's a new form of foot and mouth disease?

53:15 This is horrible. And whoever came up with tomato flu? This is India. India's got every disease known to man. Yeah, but it's immunocompromised adults. It's children who have low immunity. It's children one to five with very few of which have ever had the vaccine in any form. So I don't know. What? What? I'm sorry, what? Children under five? Children one to five get tons of vaccines. have had, I thought you meant specifically the COVID vaccine. Yes. Oh, oh, oh. India's not the same as us. This should be happening here. We're the country that gives 65 vaccinations to the kids. Note from one of our producers. Quick comment on Thursday's show where this came up. We talked about this. The number of pediatricians who refuse to see unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children is rampant.

54:05 My wife and I, when we decided to not fully vaccinate our kids and alter the schedule, found ourselves looking for a pediatrician that would work with us. Turns out that where we live, and this is in Texas, there are only three, and the two that take our insurance were full up. We could not get into what we ended up doing. It was a concierge medicine doctor who's been fantastic. Yes, if you even hint at not wanting to vaccinate your kids with everything, they will ask you to find a different doctor and write you up. When did the doctor police show up? Well, the doctors have always been unwitting participants, programmed dummies in every single eugenics program. So why should this be any different? I was watching this great documentary about the nurses of the Holocaust.

54:53 Because it was really the nurses who were killing the babies and doing all this shit and how that worked in their psyche, you know? And it's so close to the division we have today across the world. Everyone's pissed off at each other and, you know, it's like, brr. I can't believe we're still doing the show together. Can't believe we haven't had a falling out of epic proportions. We've had plenty of falling outs. Not of epic proportions. Well, epic proportions would be great stuff for the show, it'd be perfect for the show. I definitely get it. And with that I quit. Okay, so I think we're done with the genetic stuff. Let's go. I think we're done with that, yes, thank you. Well, there's one more. Might as well play this. This is an evergreen as far as I'm concerned, but it just came up again. The brain-eating amoeba.

55:41 Hold on a second. That's a classic! Health officials say a child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming. Health officials believe the child came into contact with the amoeba on Sunday while swimming in the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha, Nebraska. But this isn't the first time this tragedy hit the Midwest this summer. Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection likely caused by the amoeba at a lake in southwestern Iowa. Officials closed the lake's beach as a precaution for nearly three weeks. People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming in lakes and rivers.

54:53 Because it was really the nurses who were killing the babies and doing all this shit and how that worked in their psyche, you know? And it's so close to the division we have today across the world. Everyone's pissed off at each other and, you know, it's like, brr. I can't believe we're still doing the show together. Can't believe we haven't had a falling out of epic proportions. We've had plenty of falling outs. Not of epic proportions. Well, epic proportions would be great stuff for the show, it'd be perfect for the show. I definitely get it. And with that I quit. Okay, so I think we're done with the genetic stuff. Let's go. I think we're done with that, yes, thank you. Well, there's one more. Might as well play this. This is an evergreen as far as I'm concerned, but it just came up again. The brain-eating amoeba.

55:41 Hold on a second. That's a classic! Health officials say a child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming. Health officials believe the child came into contact with the amoeba on Sunday while swimming in the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha, Nebraska. But this isn't the first time this tragedy hit the Midwest this summer. Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection likely caused by the amoeba at a lake in southwestern Iowa. Officials closed the lake's beach as a precaution for nearly three weeks. People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming in lakes and rivers.

56:22 Other sources included tainted tap water. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting. Those symptoms can progress to a stiff neck, loss of balance, hallucinations and seizures. The CDC says infections are rare, but that those infections are overwhelmingly fatal. I have one more, just a big pharma thing to mention just for the media deconstructionists of which we have many. Do you remember story maybe two weeks ago, it turns out that the Alzheimer's medication is bullshit. It doesn't work. The FDA advisory board voted 10 to 0 against approving it. They approved it anyway and the news kind of came out like, oh this thing doesn't work. Do you remember that? Oh yeah. So

57:13 What are the, and everybody fell for this, what are the chances it's a distraction when you hear or read the headline, Viagra may lower Alzheimer's risk? Do you understand people? This is how it works. Flood the news with that headline. Forget about the fact that shit that we sold you and might've hurt you with didn't work. Yeah, that's. Even Tucker, man, Tucker went all in. I go, oh, this is a joke. He didn't make the connection. He didn't make the connection that this is distraction. He participated in it.

57:50 Yeah, the Viagra. I always pronounce it Viagra. Are you part of the elite set? I've got me some Grey Poupon. I'd like my Viagra with some Grey Poupon. I like my Viagra at mounting time. So let's go. I want to get some Republican Cheney stuff out of the way. Okay. Including a clip I carried over from last year. But let's start with some analysis on the Republicans. this is from new I think NPR's MPT thing away a minute new Tang dynasty wait new pang dynasty I'm still looking for your oh yes some analysis some Republicans okay Oh

58:34 Two clips. Yes, here we go. What does Representative Cheney's loss mean for her future and that of her... This, by the way, is a guy who says, hold on, darling. I'll be back after I take my Viagra. I need to take my Viagra. I'll be right back. What does Representative Cheney's loss mean for her future and that of her party? It means that Liz Cheney and her party are going to be going their separate ways. As you say, she didn't just lose this week. She lost by nearly 40 points. This after having won her current office three times before by big margins. But each of those times she was on the Donald Trump train. And this time she not only stepped off that train, she lay down on the track in front of it.

59:18 Now, there's been talk of her running for president in her present party, but it's hard to see it. Her party is no longer the GOP, the Grand Old Party. That acronym dates back to the Civil War, the forge of the party's founding. Liz Cheney's been casting herself as a throwback to the era of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. She quoted them this week. And to the party of Ronald Reagan and the Bush family and her own father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. But today's GOP is driven by nationalists and populist activists, empowered by former President Trump, and they are not going away. Wow, did you hear his, listen to his breathing at the end of that statement. He's emotional!

1:00:10 and they're not going away. He said, throughout this report he's slightly hyperventilating for reasons that are not, are kind of elusive. Okay, we'll continue it's almost. Empowered by former President Trump and they are not going away. At the same time, we get what can almost seem like hourly updates on legal issues surrounding former President Trump and people in his orbit. Why is that, do you think? Because you keep reporting those hourly updates, douche? What kind of danger does this perhaps pose for Republicans just a few months away from elections? In one sense, we could say it's been a boon for them. It excites the sense of grievance many of their voters have when it comes to the federal government.

1:00:52 The party needs that going into the elections this November and beyond, but it's also obviously a distraction. A rare moment where John and Adam's humor actually worked. That was very funny. I gave him the Amy Goodman treatment. And with... Justified, my friend, justified. It was good. I don't know how many people caught that. Yeah, go on. Most Republicans would much... The troll room caught it. Everybody heard it, believe me. Most Republicans would much rather have the national conversation focus on inflation or the bad memories of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just a year ago. Instead, we're talking again about Trump and the multi-front war that various legal authorities are fighting to hold him accountable for his actions in office and since.

1:01:41 Now the Mar-a-Lago search is just the sharpest... Stop it, stop it. Stop it and back it up because he says they're going after him for all what he did while he was in office and since. Which I guess is because he's got the documents but it makes it sound like these guys are... this is nuts to me. I mean it's as nuts as that Sam Harris guy Right, right. If an asteroid is coming towards Earth, you can lie. Going on about Trump University being the greatest corruption ever foisted on the public. But he wasn't in office during that. He wasn't in office during Trump's stakes. By the way, the winery's doing fine. But he may, okay, so Trump's so corrupt, Trump's so corrupt that before he was president,

1:02:32 He made Trump ties in China. Oh no! What is the deal? I don't know man. They're setting it up. I think they're doing a poor job of vilifying the quote other side but they're trying. It's NPR. And just a year ago. Instead we're talking again about Trump and the multi-front war that various legal authorities are fighting to hold him accountable for his actions in office and since. Now the Mar-a-Lago search is just the sharpest arrow in that quiver right now. We heard former Vice President Mike Pence this week saying, our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level and these attacks on the FBI must stop. That is the old Republican Party talking. It's not clear that the new Republican Party is even listening. Let me ask you about contrast with the Democrats because of course this week President Biden signed the inflation reduction

1:03:30 and act. Are they coming into clearer focus as the midterms approach? Yeah, if you wear hearing aids! We're about 80 days out from the midterms roughly. That's at least two and a half lifetimes away in political terms. Much is going to happen, much is going to change. Right now though, the Democrats are seeing remarkably encouraging polls in half a dozen toss-up Senate races for this fall. So that's happening in Arizona and Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Those are states that voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But we're also seeing competitive races with close polls persisting in Ohio and North Carolina where Trump won twice. By the time we get into the baseball playoffs and the fall campaign season, it's possible that all of this Mar-a-Lago search and all of these other cases will keep grinding on.

1:04:16 But also possible that people will get bored with all that and focus on gas prices, grocery prices. Republicans are gearing up to make immigration a big focus again this fall. We still expect the House will go Republican in November if only because of gerrymandering. But the Senate is quite a different story. There are individual candidates there who might matter more than party identity. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said as much this week and that may have had Mostly the purpose of sending a signal to Republican funders to get busy writing checks. Oh, okay, so it's all political as usual. Duh! Now, I want to remind people that when you start hearing about these polls, you have to remember that the polls are now largely half owned by the media. And to get them to advertise more, the polls are used as a weapon.

1:05:08 I have two things. Well, I want to get my Cheney clip out of the way. Well, this is kind of about the raid. So I'd like to... Oh, well, this is about Cheney. So let's get this out of the way, then you can do the raid. So we're talking about the raid right now. We're going to go to Cheney, then come back to the raid. I just want to understand the logic. No, I'm gonna... well, that last thing was about Republicans, Cheney, and the raid was mentioned, but I wanted to... the whole reason for those two clips was to lead to this clip. Ah, okay, I gotcha. Which was the clip that we... rarely we do this, we discussed after the last show.

1:05:44 because it's a problematic clip because it's hard to understand. This was one of the analysis clips that came out from one of these guys. It's called Cheney Cult and WTF. And I want you people to listen to this carefully and try to tell me what she's saying with it in mind that people like former CIA Director Hayden and others have said that the Republican, it's not Trump anymore. Trump is being removed from this argument. It's the Republicans. All Republicans are bad people. Period.

1:06:24 Please click. A visitor from the future might look back on 2022 and say that this is the year the Republicans became a personality cult. Cheney last night with her father watching from the audience suggesting this is a new GOP. I believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded, but I love my country more. K. You hadn't gotten to it on the last show and then you said listen to this after the show. You're right. Go for it. That's beautiful. What did she say? Let's listen to that last bit again. I believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded. I love my country more.

1:07:11 So the party was founded, we're talking about Lincoln here. I'm a racist, I'm a white supremacist, that's what everyone believes the party's founded on, true or not, doesn't matter. Well let's go with, the party was founded on the principles of Lincoln and the early Republicans. stretched anti-slavery, form of more perfect union, all the rest of it. That's what the foundation was, but she doesn't like that anymore. She likes her country more. What is she talking about? Is she saying that the Republicans are all anti-American or the founding principles of the Republican Party, which she was a part of and so is her father, is bullcrap? What is she saying?

1:07:54 I think your assessment is correct that there is now a... So she's clearly in error here with whatever she's trying to communicate. The idea is to say there's an old GOP and there's a new GOP. And the new GOP, you know, there's hardly any... So they leave the old GOP there for some people that might still want to do something with or... you know, that might have enough influence that they need to use. Like Mitch McConnell, you know, he's old GOP, so he's tolerable. And the message is going out everywhere and what this cult, this whole idea was embodied by, I don't think the guy matters anymore, but he still gets on MSNBC and subsequently sometimes on NBC is James Carville.

1:08:41 James Carville is now an old cranky goat. Not that he wasn't always kind of an old cranky goat, but... He's always been a cranky goat. But eventually... Goat's a good word for him. His wife eventually had to leave him. Not in the sense of greatest of all time, that's for sure. No, certainly not. He's an old goat, but he spells it out a little more clearly. The problem that the Republican Party has is, is, bless them addicts, the former governor of Georgia said famously, the problem with the prisons in Georgia is the quality of the inmate. The problem the Republican Party has is they got really stupid people that vote in their primaries. And when you have that, you're going to get really stupid people demand to have really stupid leaders. And that's where the Republican Party is now. So we pay what huge majorities of the Republican Party don't believe in evolution.

1:09:32 A huge majority of the Republican Party followed Donald Trump and whatever that sound to you. But somehow or another, we pay a greater price for 11% of our people than they do for 65% of their people. People that believe that the election was stolen and they have a right to storm the Capitol, which is a substantial number. People in the Republican Party are evil. Our people are kind of silly. Racism is evil. Misogyny is evil. A pronoun to me is, okay fine. It's kind of like, if you want to be a vegan, I don't care what you want to eat. It's not the same thing.

1:10:22 You know, not all of it. There's obviously some very high quality, you know, smart patriotic Republicans, but they're not the majority. So that's kind of the message. It's like, hey, if you want to, if you're precise and precise, if you want your pronoun to be vegan because, you know, the left is so with it, then that's fine with me. But the rest are racist, misogynist and borderline terrorists. Back to the raid. Back to the raid. First of all, another theory that's out there about the raid, which I kind of like, is that you can read it two ways. One, Trump knew there might be a mole in the organization, fed some stupid crazy shit that he said he would have. The mole leaked it. Boom, they can identify the mole. The second theory, the sub-theory to that, is Trump

1:11:12 Had someone in the organization who he knew would leak on his behalf. That's all possible. The final one would be that they planted something, but they seem to have lost the window for that. I don't think that's happened. But what we've been focused on and what you focused Gitmo Nation on was the Macron documents. Laughed off by the Sockless Soyboys over there at Pod Save America. There's a sex secrets, Macron's sex secrets. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not. Are you familiar with Lex Friedman? The Lex Friedman podcast? Yes, I am. So he had... Unfortunately. It's a very long podcast. It's a very long podcast. It's kind of like a Joe Rogan, but then completely different. The problem, I'm going to just stop you here because the problem is a lot of these

1:12:04 And I don't want to just toot our horn. Now just be careful because I think if I got on his podcast it would be good for the show. I think it would be great for the show. So we actually had a donation coming up where somebody heard you on Megyn Kelly. Yes, I saw the note. How great is that? Score! Score! Score! I knew I could do it. So there's a thing about having two equal hosts. that can keep each other in check as best they can, as opposed to be one guy. Like if you just did the NOA Agenda show by yourself... Oh, it would suck. God knows what would be going on. And how about if you did the NOA Agenda show by yourself? It'd be dynamite. Shut up, Swain! Woo! Okay. Of course. Of course. I gotcha. You walked right into it. What am I gonna say? Of course. This is why we're so good. Alright.

1:13:04 Yeah, oh, okay continue. Yes, you were doing that you were doing that you were doing a clip from the podcast But I have a clip from on the raid that might be no, I'm a second. You can't derail derail my rail anything I find my opportunity. No, no, that's not gonna happen. You were gonna come Okay, you play yours and I get to play mine afterwards, but you didn't feel different. You didn't finish your thought. Oh On the Friedman podcast. No, my thought was that if you... the fact that he does a solo podcast allows him to... He has a guest, but he has a guest every single time. Yeah, but it's always a guest that's different. Guests are not the same as co-hosts. Okay, well anyway, so Lex Friedman, I'm questioning if you know him. He's the guy in the black suit with the black tie, the white shirt.

1:13:49 I don't think you're talking about the same guy. Let me think. Huh. Okay. Well, whatever. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. He's like some MIT high-end engineer guy. He does the podcast on the side. He's a professor. Yeah, and he talks very... He's from Russia. He has a stilted style. Yes. He's not very professional as a podcaster. And yeah, he's well-educated. Yeah. Okay. So he has on this guy... What's this guy's name? This guy's name is Andrew Bustamante. Apparently... I saw this particular podcast. Oh, so you did? I saw the Bustamante podcast, yeah. Many people have sent this to me, this podcast. First thing, I was going to send it to you myself and I said, this CIA guy, Bustamante, he looks so unlike any normal CIA guy, but he did have the talking points and he had the...

1:14:42 the movement, he moved the conversation like a CIA guy would. It's very slick as a matter of fact. If you didn't actually visualize him, but when you see him, he's got missing teeth, got long hair, he's very dark, he looks like a Sandinista. He just doesn't fit the role of an office worker and I guess he was a field guy, but it didn't How many of those guys come on podcasts? I mean, I found the whole thing peculiar. Me too. But I trusted that he was CIA. I had the same feelings. Like, you know, I don't know if you can ever really be ex-CIA, but anyway, you know, podcasts are a great place to go now for agents and talk to people.

1:15:23 So, back to the raid. Remember, this was the Macron papers. We don't know exactly what. They didn't talk about the Macron papers, but Friedman asked something about, tell me about other, you know, about all the intelligence agencies around the world. Who's the best? Who's great outside of the US? And the answer was surprising in context of the Macron papers. So when it comes to reach, China wins that game. When it comes to professional capability, it's the CIA. by far, because budget wise, capability wise, weapon system wise, modern technology wise, CIA is the leader around the world, which is why every other intelligence organization out there wants to partner with CIA. They want to learn from CIA. They want to train with CIA. They want to partner on counter narcotics and counter drug and counter terrorism and counter Uyghur, you name it. People want to partner with CIA. So CIA is the most powerful in terms of capability and wealth.

1:16:20 And then you've got the idea, you've got tech. So tech alone, meaning corporate espionage, economic espionage, nothing beats nothing beats DGSE in France. They're the top. They've got a massive budget that almost goes exclusively to stealing foreign secrets. They're the biggest threat to the United States, even above Russia and above China. DGSE in France is a massively powerful intelligence organization, but they're so exclusively focused on a handful of types of intelligence collection that nobody even really thinks that they exist. How about that? Would you think they could get into voting machines? That's an interesting, you know, I'm well, obviously I didn't hear that in the podcast. I would have clipped it too. Yeah. Interesting. That's interesting because it does bring in the Macron thing. Yeah. And honestly,

1:17:16 If you had said what are the letters of the French Secret Service, I would not have known off the top of my head DGSE. And I certainly would not have known that they were big in tech. What I did know is the last 14 seconds of this. And then in terms of Just terrifying violence you have Mossad. Mossad will do anything. Mossad has no qualms doing what it takes to ensure the survival of every Israeli citizen around the world. So it sounds credible, what he's saying. Yeah, that's very credible. He never mentioned ISI which kind of surprised me. No, no, no, he did. It's earlier in the clip. No, he did mention ISI. He went on and on about MSS, the Chinese Secret Service. He says by reach, he says they have millions of people all over the world. Yeah, they're all over the place. They're in the Bay Area. There's tons of them. Every citizen, he says, considers themselves an agent or potential agent for the MSS.

1:18:16 It's like when you're asked, you do it. And, you know, hello Fang Fang. Yeah, Fang Fang and Swalwell, Swallowswell. So here's my clip. Who's 15 now? What? Who's 15 now, Swalwell? Come on. I'm sorry. You don't even know you're doing it. This is trouble. Raid docs knew. This, I've never heard this. One document shows it was an FBI special agent who authored the request for the search warrant. It also shows that an FBI special agent authored the affidavit. Another unsealed document shows the DOJ was worried about the destruction of evidence.

1:17:16 If you had said what are the letters of the French Secret Service, I would not have known off the top of my head DGSE. And I certainly would not have known that they were big in tech. What I did know is the last 14 seconds of this. And then in terms of Just terrifying violence you have Mossad. Mossad will do anything. Mossad has no qualms doing what it takes to ensure the survival of every Israeli citizen around the world. So it sounds credible, what he's saying. Yeah, that's very credible. He never mentioned ISI which kind of surprised me. No, no, no, he did. It's earlier in the clip. No, he did mention ISI. He went on and on about MSS, the Chinese Secret Service. He says by reach, he says they have millions of people all over the world. Yeah, they're all over the place. They're in the Bay Area. There's tons of them. Every citizen, he says, considers themselves an agent or potential agent for the MSS.

1:18:16 It's like when you're asked, you do it. And, you know, hello Fang Fang. Yeah, Fang Fang and Swalwell, Swallowswell. So here's my clip. Who's 15 now? What? Who's 15 now, Swalwell? Come on. I'm sorry. You don't even know you're doing it. This is trouble. Raid docs knew. This, I've never heard this. One document shows it was an FBI special agent who authored the request for the search warrant. It also shows that an FBI special agent authored the affidavit. Another unsealed document shows the DOJ was worried about the destruction of evidence.

1:18:59 Last week, former Trump official Kash Patel said on his epic TV show that while Trump was still in office, he ordered the declassification of everything related to Russiagate and the Clinton email investigation. Patel said those documents were, for some reason, sent to the National Archives and never disclosed to the public. He argued that only the Constitution and constitutional amendments govern presidents, so the document statute cited by the DOJ shouldn't apply. Now, the thing I thought was interesting was that one special FBI agent behind this whole thing. And the belief is, at least by these guys and some others, is that Trump accumulated a bunch of

1:19:42 dirt on the FBI which targeted certain agents and specific people. Oh, yeah, one of them what I heard was that Strzok was also working like contract working for the CIA and that they wanted to quash that. Yes, you've actually mentioned that in the last show, which is possible that he's got the goods on that too. I don't know. It's got to shake out. It's pretty funny and it's kind of entertaining. Marginally, you know, as the cricket flour is added to our food products and the beef products are going away and things are changing slowly. Yeah, we should probably talk about Mayor Pete after the break. After, I thank you very much and say in the morning to you, Mr. John C. Dvorak, the man who put the seas in Cheney, Carville, please say hello to my friend on the other end, John C. Dvorak!

1:20:37 You wasted a seat. I did. In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea. Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there. And a big in the morning to all of our trolls in the troll room. How you doing, trolls? Let's count them while we're at it. This is a Sunday. Let's see how they're doing. Oh, and they're stuck away as usual. Let's see. Okay. What is a good number these days? 22. 2416, baby. That's good. That's good. That's right. People care. People care. You know why? Holiday? I have no idea. It's just coincidence. I don't know. It's in the charts, I guess. Yes, you too can become a troll. Hang out with everybody. This is a lot of people are listening live. I appreciate that. Go to trollroom.io. You can listen live and you can, of course, troll along with all

1:21:26 all of the trolls, which has been very helpful this morning. A couple of one-liners are doing okay and definitely giving the right feedback. And if you'd like, go get one of those cool new podcast apps at newpodcastapps.com. That is one, a couple there that will alert you when the show is live and you got the troll and everything right in there besides all the normal functions that you'd expect from a podcast app and 19 new features you can't get from Apple or Spotify. What is the one you keep promoting? The live. Live? Yeah, yes, when you go live like we do. The name of the podcast app I'm talking about? Oh, Podverse, I'm sorry. Podverse is the one that does it the best right now. If you want some other cool features, try, was it Fountain, CurioCast, newpodcastapps.com. It's a whole bunch of stuff. But what I wanted to say

1:22:17 is, you know, this has lift off, this podcast index has become the place for developers. If you want to make a cool podcast app, a podcast listening experience, it's all free and open. Go over there, podcastindex.org and join in. There's so much that you can do. Make a podcast app with just one app for one specific podcast. All this stuff can be done. Just want to remind people it's you know this we still have a journey ahead and killing Apple and Spotify working on journey ahead journey ahead Of course, you can follow us at no agenda social.com It looks like we'll be opening up some registration soon as the purge is complete and people purge and people have stopped Lying to me that oh man. I can't believe that I just logged in. No you liar. Yeah, we have logs. Oh

1:23:07 And then, you know, if you want to keep your account active, then use it. If you don't use it, well, give that value to somebody else. But of course you can follow John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com or Adam at noagendasocial.com from any Mastodon instance pretty much anywhere across the Fediverse. And now we need to thank the artist for episode 1478. We titled that one Flexitarianism. Which I'm trying to promote as the word for people who want to get out of this bullshit. It's like if you're a vegetarian or a vegan and you kind of like, maybe I should get some fish or meat or God forbid some chicken, but I don't want the pressure, just tell them you're a flexitarian. It will be fine. Don't you think, John? Do you think that will be acceptable?

1:24:01 It's acceptable to me. Thank you very much, Tante Neal, who brought us the artwork for Flexitarianism. A lot of discussion post-production on which piece of art to choose. This was the cricket all bug shortening in the vein of Crisco after we deconstructed how Crisco came to be and more importantly what the future of Crisco is. Now there were several, there were a couple of these actual examples. Well first of all let's go to the elephant in the room which was the, it's competitor which was Sir Ned's Cricko cricket grease can which was rejected by me largely because it was, you know, and it's just some little thing, it's a very minor thing because it's a better idea. I like cricket grease on the label, I like

1:24:53 That still has, they're not, neither one of them map to a round cylinder. Tantaniel didn't for sure, it's just flat. She didn't map, but you don't have time. You're doing Photoshop, you're trying to get a good art. That's right, they got a family to feed. You only have 15 minutes or so to do these art pieces. But the problem with Net sir net Neds was it wasn't centered. It was like the cannon was it bothered you it bothered you to know it No, and it was like it wasn't it what and it should have bothered you because you're the the most free OCD guy Yeah, so so it was just like it was just turned for some reason and just like why why yeah? It was not a binoculars

1:25:38 So I got kicked off. It did. The other one also the can fits in the frame a little better, it doesn't go into the logo and she curved her logo. It was good. She did a better job. I remember... There wasn't much else. Well, Capitalist Agenda did the CDC building blocks which I thought was creative but you looked at it and went, which I understand. It's like, it's okay. It wasn't... you know it's like just was okay another one so boobs uh uncle cave bear no that's all out you like we weren't doing any brian stelter material that's for sure i'm not gonna put that guy on our cover no we want people to listen to the show not be repulsed they see him oh he's doing they must have a guest they finally got a guess it's brian stelter

1:26:25 I know, well listen, hey, maybe we screwed it up. You were somewhat enamored with Sir Ned's Hunter in the Basement, Hunter Are You There, which I nixed for context, I just thought no one could really get that, even if they heard the show. No, that's not true. I mentioned specifically I don't like those shouting boxes. I don't like the little bubbles. I don't like the thought bubble. I don't like the voice bubble. I don't like that. I stand corrected. That's what you said. I knew there was something about it. I stand corrected. They're called, there's a name for that device. Talker or something. Anything else? No, there really wasn't. It was very... There was some crudité.

1:27:11 There's some nice breasts put in there, but it really... Hey, did you get a lot of people emailing you about the crudités from Dr. Oz? No, I got not one note. I got notes that said, come on man, don't you guys understand this carpetbagger from Jersey? You know, he's like, oh crudités, like you and John, you know, you've got refined palates. I'm like, hold on a second. Is this someone who I think might be a Republican or someone, I mean I have no interest in being any type of party member of anything. I don't give a shit about Dr. Oz, I find the whole... I find most political stories annoying, but you played the clip and I happened to guess that crudité might be the issue. But the message I got from, I think, Republican voters who emailed me was kind of, you know, it went like that. Like, well, you know, it's like crudité, you guys might know. Clearly they know what crudité is. And like,

1:28:06 So do these Republicans themselves think that the majority of Republicans are idiots? That they have never heard of crudités? That this is not a known word in flyover states? I didn't go to college by the way. You know, it felt kind of like, geez. Yes, but you lived in Europe. You lived in Europe. They eat crudités in Europe in French restaurants. No, what they call it over there is vortelges. Just carrots. Vortiches. Wow. There's a good one. Vortiches. No, it just felt like, gee, you know, it's like if it's not Cheney trying to break up the Republican Party, do it to yourselves. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive. Maybe they're Democrats that we're bitching. Oh, this is totally possible. I could have... It was just like, geez, I mean, is it really that

1:28:59 Because it has a French sound like entrepreneur is hard to remember what that entrepreneur you big you big phony Thank you very much Once again to heck who was it now I've already forgotten who did the art in Neil. Yes, Tantaniel. There you go Thank You Tantaniel all the vortices. She's Dutch. Yeah, that's why I'm giving her vortices. Oh Anybody can play along with this game, which means if you got 15 minutes and a great idea and you're handy with your tablet, your Photoshop, etc. Jump it. No agenda. Artgenerator.com. Get cracking. Or just follow it if you're watching the live stream. Or go back now and you can see all of the selections that we passed over. Or you could actually be using one of those cool new apps and it shows up right now. I mean, we've changed the world. We've changed everything. It's just amazing. Now let us thank...

1:29:50 Some of the producers who keep this show on the air, we ask for time, talent, treasure. I reiterate, when it comes to treasure, you, for $5 a month, maybe a big deal to you, that is just as appreciated as any other donation. It should be you. You need to feel good about it because you put yourself out, you put as much value back as you could. Sometimes it's time, sometimes it's talent, but twice during a show, we like to thank the people who came in with the treasure. Kicking it off with Edward Foltz. with $1,000 from Frankenmuth, Michigan. And right off the bat, it's a switcheroo. Switcheroo for Zach McClellan. Now Sir Zach of Fudge Duloc. Good to know. Who introduced me to the show 12 months ago. He needs a de-douching. Oh, hold on a second. Let me get the de-douching machine. Where is my de-douching machine?

1:30:43 Bill? I don't know, my de-douching is not working. You've been de-douched. Alrighty, says from Frankenmuth, Michigan. Dankeschön. Well, dankeschön to you. Good. Well, and that takes us to over to San Francisco right across the bay, right across the bay. Yes, right across the bay. Benjamin Natus, it's $333.33, San Francisco. I was on Twitter reading a tweet from Elon. Someone commented on it. Please read at hidden exposed comment plus my response. Well, I didn't think through that instruction set. I didn't realize that. Just put it in the note. Yeah, just tell us what it was, bro. I'm not going now and making it complicated for us. I got a spreadsheet on this thing here.

1:31:33 I plug my new Detroit meetup next week. Are you in the local one? Are you doing your own Detroit meetups? We don't have any information here. Jingles, Climate Gate, Chemtrails. By the way, we'll go look at that later. Climate Gate, Chemtrails, uh, Florid, what's this Florid, oh, Florid in my cup. Oh, and then he's got a kind of URL here for something. Don't know what. That's the link. That's the link to Elon's stuff. Oh, is it any good? I don't know. I'm getting the jingles together. Okay. To the gate, to the gate, to the climate gates. Tempratos. This part of waking up is fluoride in my cup. Alright, so here's...

1:32:25 Elon Musk tweets, still so grateful and it's a story about Billie Eilish and okay we'll put that in the show notes everyone can look at that. It doesn't jump out as being hilarious or... spectacular at this moment to me. Has Elon ever, I mean he does some good comebacks like a counter puncher might do, but has he ever done anything straight out funny? Yes, he has subpoenaed the ad companies that Twitter uses. Oh well that is funny. Because he says that there's 65 million more spam accounts than Twitter admits to. So I think that's a pretty funny move by Elon, personally. Onward.

1:33:25 Karma for return to sanity in our country, please. Short and sweet. Thank you very much. We would like to thank you for that. Of course. Thank you, Peter. You've got karma. And from a Javan or having J.A.V.A.N. Fisher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, three thirty three thirty three. And he's got the best note of the day. It says donation. So I give you a double douche double de douching or a double no a double karma. Oh a double karma Okay, I wasn't prepared for that but yeah, I'm slow today John. I'm not quite sure what's going on with me here. We coffee Yeah, I'll drink some more you've got

1:34:10 Farmer. That was the wrong one. It's the farmer one. We have Jeff in Oakley, California. 333.33. Jeff, please. Got it. Gentlemen's greetings. I'm a cop and work in the same department as the Baron Anonymous Cop. John, if you need an armed escort to go bug shopping, let us know. I live close by. Bye. Resist we much? Jingles he asked. How about that? Well, that's interesting because I know where Oakley is. And if Baron Anonymous Cop is the same cop that I'm thinking of, he lives quite a distance from Oakley. I mean, the precinct, not the precinct, the town that they're policing is quite a distance from Oakley. I'd like to know

1:35:02 how you get from Oakley. Oakley? I mean, well let's see. I'm skeptical about if these guys actually know each other. Let's see if we can make a love connection. The GOP infighting is escalating. Politico says Democrats are outright jitty. Happy to watch the GOP implode. There you go. A little bit of Al for you. Sir Andy of Terrigal Beach is our first associate executive producer. 227, 55. 55. Dear John and Adam, I knew it was time to donate these 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Aussie dollars. Okay, he has to be upgraded to executive producer. Yes. When I heard the note from Kyle of the Brothers of the Serpent podcast, I have been following these boys since I first heard you read out a donation letter from them two years ago.

1:35:54 And I will be catching up with them in November. Between the best podcast in the universe and these two Texas farm boys, my sanity and faith in humanity is assured. They are big promoters of the value for value model, but need a bit of help in getting their podcasting 2.0 up and running. Okay. Please credit this donation to my another switcheroo. Credit this donation to my smoking hot girl Kyle Thompson. Also can I get a birthday shout out to my son Eddie Cantrell who turns 13 this week and he's on the list. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. He gets a biscuit. He gets a biscuit.

1:36:34 No jingles, no karma. No, but I just need to... what was the name again? Sure, Andy... Kylie... Kylie! Kylie! It says Kylie with IE, so... Okay, so we switcheroo that. Got it. Okay, then we have a note here, which I believe I have from Rami. Where's Rami? Here we go, Rami. Rami. Is this OneNote? Yeah. Found your podcast when Adam was... Oh, this is the one. Found your podcast when Adam was on Megyn Kelly's podcast. Wow! This is what she says. Another metalhead 80s Cali survivor. Love this value for value model. I love to barter.

1:37:23 I love to barter my wares. Please, de-douche me! You've been de-douched. This is from my business account. Still holding on! Thanks! Uh, Dorami. It's actually Do-rami. Okay. Rami. Thank you, Rami. Thank you very much. Don't think she needed anything else, or he. Dora me. No, no, no, Rami. I get a dora me fine. Got it. So she does bags or something. I think she sent a card and Jay went to her website looked as I looked at this her work. She's a really great artist. Oh, really? Don't know that she sells these things but cool. They're quite good. Cool. Right. Good tech. All talent.

1:38:11 Oh, my turn. You're up. Yeah, you're up. Ah, well I'm in Trego, Montana and I'm looking at Joseph Rizzi, 20822. Switcheroo, another switcheroo? Yep, we can handle. Happy birthday, Patty and Rizzi of Tucson. on August 22nd. Love, Big Mike. Be Sir and Joe. Jingles. Uh, jingles. No ye slaves. The Baron Vladimir. No, no, no, no, no. Jingles. Respect. Boogity, boogity. Oh, I'm sorry. I jumped to the next in yellow note by mistake. Right. R-E-S-P-I-C-T. Boogity, boogity, boogity.

1:39:02 Now we got Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from Nevada, Colorado. 202.02, we love the 202.02s. Know ye slaves that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, enslaver of the spice planet Dune, is returning to earth to retrieve his goats and celebrate his birthday. The Baron will be hosting a meet-up for Gitmo slaves and commands those able to attend to attend! A high member of his court, Robbie the Fire Bernstein, will be presenting a conspiracy comedy show. Hey, see now? Now we're talking!

1:39:44 Now we've got meetups with entertainment. Loving this. Laxburg, Colorado, August 27th, Christina's birthday, Saturday. Check out noagenandmeetups.com for more. Kindly make the Baron's birthday forever known as August 29th. Play a double dose of stereo goat karma, also known as the luge karma. Let's see and to go coming to give the barons for goats safe interstellar transit And also play I like bugs for yourselves you lowly bug eaters. How kind thank you so much. You've got You've got

1:40:38 Let's see if I get this name right. Jasper Newt in Haarlem, Netherlands. Nout. It's actually Nout. Nout. Jasper Nout. And U-I-J-T. I can be excused. That's not one anyone can pronounce. No, no, not at all. Although after 15 years you'd think you'd pick something up. I picked up Harlem. $200.33. This is a beer pot leftover from the No Agenda Harlem Town Meetup. Big thanks to Sander, Cindy, Martin, Sam, Belinda, Aaron, and Hessel for your courage. Rotterdamers in the house. Lovely evening. Next one on Sunday, 9-11. Jasper and Pascal. And see, that was good. You said Jasper. Very good.

1:41:31 You did pick some stuff up. I'm very happy about that. And our final associate executive producer, shortish list today, is Raymond Smith who's in Penfield, Pennsylvania. Stonks Karma of the Yak variety, please. That is all for now. Thanks. Can't beat that kind of note. You've got karma. I want to thank these people. These are the executive and associate executive producers for show 1479. I want to thank each and every one of them to making this show happen. And we've got more people to thank later in the show. And when you become an executive or associate executive producer of the NO Agenda Show, you automatically are assigned a credit, a real credit, which you can use where credits are recognized, linked in your curriculum, your

1:42:23 your resume, IMDB, an official place for real credits. Lots of No Agenda producers there, check it out. And if you'd like to become an exec or an associate exec, go to this website to find out more. Dvorak.org slash N-A. Thank you all for producing episode 1479 of the No Agenda Show. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Heatwave in China. Hold on a second. I was prepared for a lot but not for Heatwave in China. Let me see. Oh, you got a whole bunch here. Excellent. Not a China. Yeah, because you listen to Heatwave in China. This is I think NPR, NPR, NPR. And I want after the four short clips.

1:43:28 I want you to tell me what's wrong with this picture after this is done. Let's go with heat wave in China. Not a China where people have been dealing with record-breaking temperatures since early July. The heat is so severe some cities in southwestern China cut power to all factories this week and we are Beijing correspondent Emily Fang is on the line. Emily thanks so much for being with us. Hi Scott, thanks for having me. Help us understand how severe this heat is. It's pretty bad. China's been in this continuous heat wave officially for the last 68. Is this an NPR reporter or is she a stringer? She's very breathier.

1:44:06 days, which is the longest heat wave on record since China's National Climate Center started keeping records back in 1961. More than 240 cities this week said they forecasted temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit. That's pretty hot. The country's issued its first national drought alert in nine years. And it's pushed places like central Hubei province, for example, to pretty extreme methods. They're so desperate for rainfall that they said this week they're starting to seed clouds, which is this experimental method where you shoot metal up into the clouds. So you think you might have rain. Oh, you mean like geoengineering, cloud seeding? Hold on a second. Let's just listen to what she said. She said

1:44:51 experimental method which is when I was a kid, again back in the 90s during the International GF, they were doing it all the time in California. They used silver salts and it was always a salt. They didn't shoot metal into the clouds. Hey, here's some lead. Let's just take it. Yeah, but hold on a second. Maybe they're doing something else under the guise of cloud seeding. She doesn't know what she's talking about is the point. Well, she doesn't know what it is. It's not an experimental method. It's been used for eons. And you don't shoot metal up in the cloud. That way everyone who owns a shotgun in California can make it rain. Just boom, there you go. There's some lead. So this is irksome to no end to me, for somebody who doesn't, never heard of such a thing. But okay, let's continue.

1:45:42 years and it's pushed places like central Hubei province for example to pretty extreme methods. They're so desperate for rainfall that they said this week they're starting to seed clouds which is this experimental method where you shoot metal up into the cloud so you think you might have rain. Okay I just need to play that again so you could hear her say it. Are we ready for the second clip? Yeah, go. It's not proven, but this is how much they need water because the lack of water is even affecting the power supply in other places. A province called Sichuan in the southwest is about 80% reliant on hydroelectric power except they don't have rain. Okay, this is another one. This shows you how dumb shit. Without rain, you can't have a lake, I guess. Without rain, you can't have hydroelectric power, I guess. I never heard this. You knew this?

1:46:31 Ah, so okay, so now we're... Why is this, why is NPR put this crap on? Because they're sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Climate Change Chapter. Hello! Actually, the amount of money that Bill and Melinda Gates gives to NPR, which I think I have the numbers here because it was printed out last year, somebody came up and documented this, is like 30 million dollars. You consider that to be a lot or not a lot? Seems like a lot to me. We don't make that. Where's our money? Okay, let's go. Again, back to the podcaster bit. And this is the time when the demand for energy is much higher because people are relying on air conditioning to keep cool. So this week, Sichuan, that province which has more than 80 million people decided it was cutting off electricity to most factories for about seven days so they can ensure people would have power at home and the power grids wouldn't overload.

1:47:27 And that can't be good news for the world supply chain, can it? It is more bad news because a number of major multinationals have factories in Sichuan. There's an electronics component maker named Foxconn. There are American companies like Intel and Texas Instruments which have factories there that are highly reliant on stable power. And these factories together make important components for our cars and electronics. So even though the power is just out for a week, it's going to take them far longer to restart production once again when the power turns back on. And that's only going to make this ongoing global semiconductor shortage worse.

1:48:03 On top of that, China's already suffering from economic pressures because it has these on and off again COVID restrictions. And this heat wave does not help. And you see this impact already in the most recent economic statistics for the country. They came out last week. They're pretty dire. They show that consumer spending missed all forecasts. The official youth unemployment is nearly 20%. Unofficially, it's probably much higher and home sales have fallen. Oh man, how come they never say that about American numbers? Unofficially, inflation is probably much higher. No, they never do that. Let's go to the last clip and then I'm going to have to ask Adam a question. What's wrong with this picture? What we're seeing this summer in China is likely going to become more and more common. There was a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 that forecast a big part of northern China could become unlivable by the end of the century because of extreme heat.

1:48:57 And that conversely means that flash flooding is becoming more and more common because the ground is not able to absorb water when it does rain. And this week alone in China there were two flash floods that killed 22 people. There's Emily Fang, thanks so much. So the question is what's wrong with this picture? Yeah, what's wrong with this picture? I'm not sure John, you've stumped me. Where? is the blame on global warming. Oh, goodness, you're so right. This was a... Wasn't it a little bit in that last clip about sea level rise? No, not really. Hold on, hold on. Let me just listen. What we're seeing this summer in China is likely going to become more and more common. There was a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 that forecast a big part of northern China could become unlivable by the end of the century because of extreme heat.

1:49:49 And that conversely means that flash flooding is becoming more and more common because the ground is not able to absorb water when it does rain. And this week alone in China there were two flash floods that killed 22 people. There's Emily Fang, thanks so much. Wow, she should be fired immediately. Her contract should be terminated. You're missing the point. There was no mention whatsoever on global warming because it was a report on China and China already told Biden to stuff it so far as their cooperation with their global warming bullcrap. And it would reflect poorly on Biden to remind people of this. So they just dropped the topic. I think this was just an attempt to cover for Biden.

1:50:35 Hmm because if you recall when the Taiwan visit took place with Nancy Pelosi the time yeah, the Chinese was so irked They said we're not even gonna cooperate in the goal and global warming anymore. They'd have to remind people of that If they brought global warming up in that report Yep, and you know they were itching to then that was NPR new Tang Dynasty That was NPR. Not New Tang. No, New Tang Dynasty doesn't. No, this was NPR refusing. Normally NPR is all over. They always say, oh, global warming, global warming. But this time they didn't. I just found that fascinating. You know, all the reports about Texas and no doubt we have a drought issue, but they've really been hyping it up about, oh, it's so horrible. It's a triple digit for 50 days, blah, blah.

1:51:27 If you remember in 2010, I did my first meetup in Austin, Texas. I happen to remember the temperature that day. 112 degrees in the shade. And it was, you know, and we had an outdoor meetup with 33 people. I remember it well. I moved to Texas very soon after that, despite the climate change clearly telling me to stay in California. And for the next two years I lived in a house that had a view over Lake Travis, which there were no boats in Lake Travis. You were not allowed to have your boat because the water was at the bottom. The boathouses were 50 feet above the waterline.

1:52:10 But no this somehow is the worst summer ever a little bit of a little bit of life experience a little bit of Observation goes a long way 2012 was the same 2012 was actually worse than 2010 and all the good old boys around here will say we'll tell you Remember 2012 see yes, I do I was here soon Well, that's typical. But now that you mention Texas, though, I do have to play the Texas clip. My favorite. Are we still on climate change? No, no, we're off of climate change. Oh, I was just going to say one more thing about climate change. No, no, we'll pick it up in a minute. Okay, Texas. What do you got about that? Well, it's a climate change my well I okay. Don't worry. This is ill fit this to me I have to I never was a big fan of glen of Abba Glen Abbott But I have to say Gregory, but I Glenn is good. We'll take whatever it is. I never know on

1:53:07 Abbott and Costello. So Abbott, I really love this guy now because I just think, and I don't know why other places don't do this, but the idea of busing the migrants to Washington D.C. and New York City on the Texas dime, It's gotta be money well worth spending. City officials are trying to put a clearer plan in place as they strain to accommodate them. In New York City this week, people packed into buses pulled into the Port Authority. People arrived hungry, thirsty, some with medical conditions. Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro says the city has a new interagency plan in place to provide services, including schooling for children. Non-profits and volunteers have largely been stepping in to help.

1:54:04 fleeing crime and poverty back home only to face uncertainty and homelessness once they arrive. Texas Governor Greg Abbott started moving the migrants in April, he says, to highlight the Biden administration's border failures. The majority, more than 7,000, have been bused to Washington, D.C., where the mayor has renewed a rejected request for the National Guard to help. Yeah, this is quite humorous. Actually, we wouldn't typically do this, but I do have a report on this as well from New York, from ABCWN, I think it's the A&E New York station.

1:54:41 Typically I wouldn't play it because you just kind of gave the info, but it'll be fun to compare ABC and NPR to the reporting on this, see how much is the same and what is additional, if anything. Tonight, migrants seeking asylum arrive at all hours in New York City. Officials are racing to come up with a plan to help care for them. We've opened 13 hotels to increase our capacity. And we're looking at every single option that we have. Officials say more than 6,000 have come already in the last three months. Early this morning, two buses from Texas pulling into the Port Authority in Manhattan carrying 78 people, among them at least 15 children, one just two months old and a pregnant woman days from delivery. She was taken to a hospital.

1:55:25 Nightline meeting 18-year-old Amaro just after he got here last week. I'm still a boy who's very young. I hope to have better opportunities here, he says. It took him two months to reach Texas from Venezuela. With more and more children on those buses, today city officials announced a program called Project Open Arms to try and quickly integrate some 1,000 migrant children into New York City public schools, simplifying the enrollment process and calling for more bilingual teachers. Officials also had a message for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been sending the buses on a one-way trip without coordinating with officials at their destinations. We're asking the governor to please stop and let all of us work together to figure out how we can best provide the assistance that these human beings need. Stop Glenn Abbott.

1:56:16 So, this little kicker to this, which you heard in the beginning about what the plan is in New York, and this is a well-known plan in cities that don't have their shit together. Austin did the same thing. What are they going to do? Well, tonight the mayor of New York City issuing an emergency solicitation seeking bids for up to 5,000 hotel rooms and other facilities that can accommodate and provide services to these migrants on just a 24-hour notice, Lindsey. still need more hotel rooms. Mola, thank you. I'll tell you how this works with asylum hotels. There's many examples, but the Netherlands was a story just this past week. Asylum seekers, as they're called, they are basically coming from all... This has been going on for 12 years. They've been just letting anybody into this very small country.

1:57:17 they put them up in and now of course it's from they used to be from Syria recently and now it's obviously from Ukraine and but the people are from all over and a lot of the Muslim asylum seekers they're put in hotels and they're now rioting they're rioting because they don't like the breakfast and lunch listen we don't like this Dutch breakfast you give us you give us bread and cheese and and bread and jam, it's not culturally appropriate. So just give us money and we'll do it ourselves. But of course you can't cook in a hotel room. So this has now become a problem and they're fighting. It doesn't work out. This is so distressing. And a lot of these people, you ask them, yeah, Joe Biden said, come on, it's good. We'll hook you up. We'll give you a phone. We'll give you a debit card.

1:58:10 It's so, so wrong, inhumane, just a-holes. So the rest of what... While you're talking about, I got two more clips to play about migrants. This is a different story. This is about Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a collapsed state. Yeah. And there's something in this, these clips just kind of got my attention. So I looked, they're not that interesting, but these people are trying to escape Sri Lanka. This reminds me of something Ron Paul said, not Rand Paul, but Ron Paul said some years ago, but play Leaving Sri Lanka, WTF.

1:58:50 And more from Sri Lanka, as anarchy gripped the capital city of Colombo in May, a couple gambled their family's life savings on a two-week, nearly 3,000-mile voyage with their two young sons. The decision ended in ruin. This Sri Lankan Navy vessel is looking for potential human smuggling boats. As more people look to escape the crisis-hit country, patrols along the coast have become more regular. They check this fishing boat. It's carrying nothing more than nets and fish. Leaving the country unofficially is illegal in Sri Lanka, but people have increasingly been willing to take that risk. Leaving the country is illegal. Yeah, that's how you do it, man. You lock everybody down. This is what, remember when Ron Paul said, you know, you build a fence, you do, you know, it's not to keep people out, it's to keep you in. Which is, you know, what happened in East Germany is a good example.

1:59:47 I just found that distressing. These poor people are stuck there and they can't get out, transport themselves out. Now you got to stay here and suffer. I mean, there's a part two of that clip. That's pretty much the point. I don't mind listening to it. Nearly a thousand people have been arrested this year to date, almost a record-breaking number. Minou McCullough's husband is among them. In late May, they boarded a 30-foot boat under the cover of night with their two teenage sons. They paid their life savings of $1,400 for the one-way trip to Australia. We only had seawater to bathe with and use in the toilet. We couldn't use fresh water because then we could have run out of it. We suffered from hunger unlike ever before. Not even in our childhood did we suffer such hunger. Then we couldn't sleep because the boat was rocking so much. Their ship suffered a fuel problem and eventually it was intercepted by the Australian Coast Guard.

2:00:48 The family was sent back to Sri Lanka. Meenu faces the charge of leaving the country from an unauthorized port. Her husband is accused of an additional charge of assisting in the logistics of the journey and now awaits trial in prison. Assisting in the logistics of the journey is also a crime. It's also incredibly sad. It's part ESG, part poor monetary policy. creating too much money. You think that's funny? Or bad? Check out Venezuela. If you need proof of how bad it is in Venezuela right now, look at this purse. This purse is made entirely of the bills of the Venezuelan currency, the bolivares. Inflation is so high that this money is now completely worthless. And so my friend Jorge over here has gathered a ton of this stuff and turned it into commodities, into purses, into sculptures.

2:01:45 It is worse than it sounds and it sounds pretty bad. The country's inflation rate will rise to 1 million percent. So this guy is selling purses on the street that he's made basket weaving style out of old bills from yesterday. I mean, that's done. I mean, of course, there's a dollar economy, a a black market dollar economy in Venezuela, a million percent. That's done, right? What's next? Yeah, it's a failed economy when that happens, to say the least. But how will people eat? What's going to happen? How will they figure that out? It goes to a barter economy when that happens.

2:02:30 That's pretty much goes to a pure barter economy unless you have dollars. So things are falling apart here in the United States, particularly when it comes to our transportation system. In addition to that, the climate change, I would like to read this to you. I can just use the headline. In Australia, here it is. Bank Australia has announced starting 2025, it will no longer finance personal loans for combustion engine automobiles. So you... So unless you save up and buy an old clunker or you're willing to finance a Tesla or some other battery car, you're not gonna have one. So that's how they do it to you. When it comes to flying, we've had some issues here in the United States.

2:03:20 mainly because pilots and aircrew have been treated like shit for many, many years. The whole business is a government bailout business. The government de facto really operates most of these airlines. And then when it came to vaccination status, a lot of certainly pilots said, you know what, screw you. I'm not risking my career. I'm not risking my health. I don't trust that it's not safe. And they were all dismissed. And now they either won't come back or they're saying, you know, pay me. Right down to where I think was Delta Airlines. They their negotiations. They've even negotiated Personal to me luggage for every pilot that that's how pissed off they are, but it doesn't matter because mayor Pete He's got a plan

2:04:04 Tonight, the Department of Transportation putting airlines on notice saying fix your problems or new rules are coming. Secretary Pete Buttigieg writing to America's 10 largest carriers that the level of disruption Americans have experienced this summer is unacceptable. Noting that in the first six months of this year, roughly 24% of domestic flights have been delayed and 3% canceled. The secretary said to take a step back. Let's rethink where we are in the industry and actually get back to scheduling an operation that you can actually accommodate. The airline's lobbying group not staying quiet, responding that the pandemic has wreaked havoc on all businesses, saying industries across the economy are facing a range of challenges.

2:04:48 including a tight labor market and the government tonight with direct requests for airlines to provide meal vouchers for delays of three hours or more and lodging accommodations for passengers who must wait overnight at an airport because of disruptions within the carriers control. These people are so disconnected you can't even get a hotel room overnight so many flights are canceled. They I have a report from the Niu Tang Dynasty on the same topic with Buddhajaj. It's slightly different in the way they took it, but they also left out the people who quit because of the forced vaccinations. Of course they would. Or vaccination mandates. But they left it out of their report too, but they take a little different perspective.

2:05:36 According to FlightAware, more than 40,000 flights have been canceled since June. Buttigieg says the Department of Transportation is going to publish an online dashboard where travelers can quickly and easily get all the relevant info they need for their flights, including cancellations and delays. The Federal Aviation Administration says some of the flight problems have been caused by staffing problems at air traffic control facilities. I mean, I'm not even going to play my 11 second clip kicker, which was the same. Thank you. Beautiful. It's another dashboard. Wait, let me see what ABC called it. So what are you owed if an airline cancels or delays your flight? Well, the Department of Transportation now says it's going to launch a website in the next few weeks, making that crystal clear no matter which airline you fly.

2:06:24 I like dashboard much better. Yeah, dashboard. Dashboard is the way to go. Hello 1980s. Yeah, it's the same people who brought you the Obamacare website, no doubt. But this is so... So wrong putting it all onto the airlines. This is not this is only going to worsen the situation People are now gonna be demanding their vouchers and where's my hotel and it's going to come to blows people are gonna get hurt and meanwhile meanwhile The elites of the world, not you and me, not you, we're all scum. No, the elites, they get this.

2:07:10 firm order in the last two years for boom. The company is still years away from building its first commercial airplane. Boom says the overture jet will fly as fast as 1300 miles per hour, cutting international flight times by about half. American Airlines has the option to purchase another 40 overtures in the future. Boom will build the planes at a plant in Greensboro. The first model is expected to roll out in 2025 with first flight in 2026. Yeah, eat your bugs in your stand-up seat you stupid serfs. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, as we cruise now at 60,000 feet, we have just broken the sound barrier. We are now going, oh look down there, if you can see it's one of those slave aircraft. That's right, remember those days people when you had to fly like that? Enjoy, enjoy our short trip to Paris.

2:08:04 That's what it's gonna be. That sounds about right. I think that's exactly what you'll be hearing. The quality might be a little better because it's expensive. Probably not. It's gonna be very similar to that. It sounds the same. I have two 1970 throwback clips. Yay, yay! Alright, do we need a time back machine? Do we need... Do we have a time back machine? It's not clips from there, it's clips about then. So no, you don't know. It's not a true old clip. Which I do have in the archives. Well I was just thinking maybe just like one of those? I don't know, maybe. Alright, alright. This is UK 1973, this is a couple about the inflation now and then.

2:08:48 Hello. So how did Britain handle the crisis back then? Energy rationing marked then Prime Minister Edward Heath's tenure. The Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries had declared an oil embargo, forcing Heath's government to consider some extreme proposals. This footage from December 1973 shows customers being led by workers with gas lamps in darkened stores on London's main shopping street.

2:09:30 Britain today is unlikely to face such prolonged blackouts, but experts say anything that threatens a world of contactless payments and computerised tills will add to anxiety over the country's ability to withstand social and economic shocks. Consumer price inflation peaked in 1975 at 24.5%, And it was not until the 1990s that it fell sustainably into low single digits. Like 50 years ago, Britain today faces double digit inflation. The Bank of England expects to see inflation exceeding 13% this October, which would be the highest rate in 42 years. Yeah, it's a mess over there. I'd love to hear a clip too and then we can talk about what's expected to happen.

2:10:23 Okay. The first impulse towards inflation was a combination of domestic forces. Historian Alwyn Turner agrees there are similarities. but also big differences such as the background of top politicians. I think our problem now is a lack of knowledge. We don't have anybody around in politics who can remember what it was like with inflation. Certainly not in office and indeed many of them not at all because this is quite a young generation of politicians we know of now. So I think there's a danger in possibly in the other direction. People are slightly lost by it.

2:11:26 Heath, like Johnson today, had aspirations to shift Britain's economy into a higher gear. In 1972, his government announced a budget to double the rate of economic growth, which stoked inflation. Today's leadership frontrunner, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, has been accused by rival candidate Rishi Sunak of making a similar mistake with her vow to slash taxes. In the end, Heath paid the price for his handling of the economy and worker relations. He lost to the opposition Labour Party in a 1974 snap election. Yes, I remember a lot of those. The mistakes made in the 70s look like they're going to be made again by Liz when she gets in. It's only good, it's only the 70s again if you screw it up the same way. Yeah, well that's what they say that Liz is going to do. She's going to screw it up the same way. Mess it up.

2:12:22 So there was an article in the Financial Times, which I mean the Financial Times, it costs a lot of money, it's not easy to crack the paywall. So this was a real article and the title is A Winter Energy Reckoning Looms for the West. And they paint a very, very, very bleak and dark picture in particular of the European Union. It starts off across the world, politicians are ever more desperately looking to contain the explosive consequences of the energy crisis. In those parts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa already mired in multiple economic and political difficulties, the crisis is providing catastrophic. Those who import liquid natural gas must now compete with European latecomers to the LNG market seeking an alternative to pipelined Russian gas. It's so bad that in this article they even reference politicians having backroom conversations about possibly cutting some kind of deal with Putin because they know that their people are going to be very cold

2:13:26 very unhappy, possibly starve. Now RT blames this on the US, which I think there's some validity to it, about how he played it. But what's interesting is that this kind of happens in the same backdrop of the Iran deal. And I'm kind of wondering, since Venezuela has now stopped oil shipments to Europe, and natural gas, I wonder if Iran, which I think don't they have one of the largest gas fields or untapped resources there? Do you think that the idea of these globalist elites is to make Iran the new Russian gas station for everybody? Well, I don't see how they can make that work, personally.

2:14:17 So I hope not. Well, they're hell-bent on doing some kind of deal. So I don't know. It just felt like something like that. They're an unreliable resource, Ron. Well, this is a fact. There's nothing good over there for sure. Let's see. What else do we have here? Well, I have the little report here with a kind of a kicker in it which involves the Russian which is the shipping grains. in shipping out grains. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says getting more grain out of Ukraine is vital if world food prices are to go down. He was speaking in Istanbul, where Turkey is coordinating an international effort that's enabled the resumption of grain shipments through the Black Sea despite the war. Just yesterday I was in Odessa port and saw the first hand the loading on a cargo of wheat onto a ship.

2:15:20 I was so moved watching the wheat fill up the hold of the ship. It was the loading of hope for so many around the world. Kuteresh also says it's very important to make sure that Russian food and fertilizer, which are not subject to the sanctions, are also given unimpeded access to the global markets. What a crap show. So what... Yeah, what a crap show. Oh, fertilizers be exempted from all these horrible sanctions. Oh, interesting. Well, they... Grab a few yachts, but this... They realize that people are going to starve. Yeah, the public isn't going to put up with this crap. They will go for people's heads. They have to be very careful, very, very careful. People are... They're getting pretty fed up.

2:16:10 I just want to play more from George Monbiot because he now he was on BBC. Your buddy, your new buddy George Monbiot. Monbiot is the commie from hell. He's a writer, journalist, whatever. The globalist douchebag but you know writes for the Guardian and for a was on get what I played the last time But now he's on BBC hard talk spewing this food production is a success story. Absolutely. It's been an astonishing success In fact almost too much of a success we produce roughly twice as many calories as we need but a huge amount of that is wasted by being channeled through livestock which is very inefficient use of calories or a

2:16:53 Very wasteful to channel your calories through livestock. Um, biofuels and then some of it is just wasted. Um, so we've got this tremendously productive system, but it deeply threatens earth systems on which we also depend entirely for our survival and which itself depends upon. What's an earth system? Do you know what an earth system is? It's some bull crap. I want to mention something. It seems to me that you mentioned it. Livestock is one of the best ways, one of the least wasteful ways because you could, unless they die from no water, they kind of maintain themselves and so they don't have an expiration date when they're in the field. They're just munching away and you can kill them to eat them. I'm sorry about that. No, it's fine. You can eat them at different ages. You can let them get old.

2:17:44 I mean, it's like, you know, it's kind of like very flexible. It seems like very flexible as opposed to something with like vegetables, for example. When those things are ready to pick, you got to pick them and they go bad if you don't distribute them right away. They don't, they rot and they rot in the field. Less so with livestock. Well, just like we're being prepared for the elites to be flying over us at twice the height and three times the speed, we're being prepared to eat bugs and not eat beef. Earth systems on which we also depend entirely for our survival and which itself depends upon.

2:18:19 Agriculture depends on a habitable planet and is already being hit by a series of climate shocks, water shocks, soil shocks. Soil shock! Ducks! Shocks! Which agriculture is driving as much or more than any other industry. Tell me a little bit about the soil because in the book you literally and metaphorically dig deep into what is happening to the soil beneath our feet. Oh, this is... I'm interested now. What's happening with the soil? What is happening? Soil is not just an ecosystem, it's also a biological structure. It's like a coral reef. It's built by the creatures that inhabit it. Soil is now like a coral reef, which by the way has tripled in size in Australia. Magically.

2:19:04 to the giants of the soil, earthworms. And that ecosystem is entirely dependent on the life forms within it. If those life forms disappear, if we wipe them out, the soil literally collapses. Its structure, which has been built by those organisms, collapses. Many of the ways of producing it are devastating to that soil from which we receive 99% of our calories. So for instance, if you apply too much nitrate fertilizer, paradoxically it can destroy the fertility of the soil because The bacteria in the soil, if they have too much nitrate, they burn through the carbon which they use as a cement which builds the soil structure. So the whole structure collapses in on itself, the soil becomes waterlogged and airless and it can actually inhibit plant growth. John C. Dvorak, your professional chemical analysis of these statements.

2:19:55 Well we know that over fertilization is not good, that's why you have to rotate crops. There's plenty... the farmers know how to deal with this. They've been doing that for centuries and generations. They've been doing it for centuries and the newer farmers do it even better and even the corporate farmers do it well. This is bullcrap. Well, let's listen to his solutions. I divide the food system into three. Grain or arable farming, horticulture, that's fruit and veg, and protein rich and fat rich foods. And we desperately need farming to produce arable. Don't you hate it when... Veg. Vegetables, fruit and veg and protein rich and fat rich foods. And we desperately need farming to produce arable and horticultural products. But I think by far and away the most benign thing we can do and indeed it gives us the best chance we have of getting through this century is to take the production of protein rich foods

2:20:51 out of farming altogether and into the factory. So, without being very specific and blunt about it, you are saying that livestock farming as we know it right around the world from the Welsh sheep farmer to the Maasai herdsman has to end. Human beings have to stop raising animals for meat. The harsh truth is that livestock farming is the greatest driver of those disastrous impacts which I've already mentioned and yet It produces very little of our food by comparison to the smaller drivers of those impacts which are the arable and horticultural production. It's obviously an important component and I'm not saying take away animals from subsistence farmers at all, but for those of us who have a choice of diets

2:21:39 Yes, we should be getting out of meat eating, getting out of milk and eggs and switching towards not just a plant-based diet, but I want to see those crucial protein sources replaced by microbial protein produced through precision fermentation. It's an enhanced form of brewing. Precision fermentation. I am so excited about my burger being precision fermented and oh no, let's look into the future which is actually now. Nothing is impossible. Taco Bell, it's testing a new plant-based meat alternative at some of its locations. So the fast food chain announced it has debuted a new crispy melt taco at some restaurants in

2:22:22 Alabama of all places. Yeah, right. So the meat alternative is made with soy and pea protein blend. It's inspired by classic Taco Bell flavors and this comes as Taco Bell partnered with beyond meat for more vegetarian and vegan options. Those products will be available before the end of the year. Always Taco Bell and those native ads. That's a native ad. But let's... Boy, can I just... Can I just say one thing? Isn't Taco Bell tacos already not beef? I was always... That's exactly what I was going to say. They are the OG plant-based protein, which is wood. Yeah, they got wood in there. God knows what's in a Taco Bell taco. Sand, sand, silica, silica, sand, sand. The sand is the best part. And dirt. I'm sure there's dirt in there because it tastes like dirt.

2:23:08 It's nothing like a Taco Bell taco if you want to taste the future. The question is are we just going to laugh our way as the titanics? Yes, we are. And by the way, wasn't it the Judge Dredd movie where they're driving around and somebody says, oh every restaurant's now a Taco Bell. That's the futuristic one with Wesley Snipes. Okay. Yeah, it's with the people. Yeah, that exactly demolition man. That is the future. Demolition man with every restaurants and Taco Bell. And the radio plays jingles. That's all the songs the radio plays. And then the people live underground and you know what they eat underground? Bats.

2:23:52 They'll eat rats. You know the French during the French Revolution ate rats because they had nothing else to eat and there's a number of French recipes for a rat that are supposedly pretty good. So you can get that can happen. Have you ever tried? No, God no, I don't want to eat rat. I haven't eaten squirrel either, but I do like rabbits, so you know, what's the difference if you really look at it objectively? 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. Yeah, on No Agenda. In the morning. I can tell you some people that don't eat rat.

2:24:33 Andrea Ludlam is one of them. She's in Holmes Beach, Florida. 9999. Thanks for the hard work. She sent some kids through school, good. Anonymous in Wysatta, Minnesota. Wysatta, Minnesota is a very famous place because it was where a lot of the early CD-ROMs came from. Really? Like CD Interactive? Remember that? The CD Interactive? Yeah, there was a number of companies and for some unknown reason they focused, they were all on Maybe it was just one big company, it was in Wysatta. 99.99. 9999. 9 or 9 or 9 or. Joe Fossett, or Fossett, in Springfield, Missouri, 9333. This is a birthday, oh, you know what? I'm telling you, this is not on the birthday list. This one's not on the birthday list? I'm pretty sure. Okay. So what am I supposed to do?

2:25:40 Semi-anonymous, whatever that means. A birthday donation for Joel. Happy birthday, Joel. Okay. You can write while you're writing it and I'll keep talking. Nicole Weirman, 8888, and she's in Toulaton or Toulaton, Toulaton, Toulaton, that's it. Toulaton, Oregon. John Cooper in 8008, that's boobs. In China, Michigan, there's a town named China in Michigan? That's rough, man. That's wild. Yeah. Wuhan Street. Where do you live? 35 Wuhan Street in China, Michigan. China. I'm in China. I live in China. You can honestly say I live in China. Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Duke of Luna, lover of American boobs is back as usual. Yes. Week after week, show after show. 8008 from Locust. Daniel Rodriguez in Doral, Florida.

2:26:39 7175 oh you're laughing at his note I'm laughing at the number 7175 in Hacksaw. Oh and it says to Adam's tits. Yep. T-I-T-S 7175 very funny. Uh-huh I even missed that. Sir Rick in Arlington Washington 6996 Sir Jim Zuckel, Sir Jim in Beverly Hills, California, 69-69. Bruce Schwalm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he's 69-33. Samantha Gonzalez in San Antonio, Texas, got a birthday to his sweetest husband.

2:27:19 5821, Jason Chapman, McHenry, Illinois 5678, Franklin Montarosa in Dodge City, Kansas 5678 again. Oh, Jason needs, by the way, Jason Chapman needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched. He really doesn't need one. Corey Cotton in Cleveland Heights, Ohio 5510 and you got a birthday and a de-douching. You've been D-douched. James Frederich in Stockholm. Stockholm, Wisconsin. What kind of country are we running here? I don't know. I live in Stockholm. Okay, good. 5510. Where is it? Not far from China. China's nearby. Jason Petri in Green River, Wyoming.

2:28:14 And he sent a note in 5510, by the way. He sent a note showing me that Cheney probably did get 75% in Teton County, Wyoming, when I was questioning the likelihood. Because it's all Democrats, he says. It's a university there, so they're the same old, same old. Scott of the tall corn in Davenport, Iowa, 5510. Brian Navarro in Los Angeles, California, 5333, another birthday, a shout out. Sir Andrew Benz in Imperial, Washington, 5005. And the last of this group are all $50 donors, name and location, a fairly short list, starting with Michael Jansic in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan, Julian Robbins in Aptos, California, Joseph Gwaltney,

2:29:06 in Dendron, Dendron, Virginia. Sir Andrew Gusek in Greensboro, North Carolina. Amy Bryant in Erie, Pennsylvania. Happy 26th anniversary, Jason. Christy Jones in Demerest, Georgia. Christy Jones in Cumming, Georgia. There's a weird coincidence. Robert Case in Mill Spring, North Carolina. Michael Statham in Statham in parts of Nodame, Knight in Edmonds, Washington, and last but not least, Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington. I want to thank all these people for making this show work. Yes, for quite a long time now, 15 years coming up in October, and we did have a note from John Jolly, surprise, Knight of Enchantment.

2:29:57 And he says, Podfather and Buzzkill, August 26th is a great date in the human resource department. Joycey Jolly, our granddaughter whom we've raised and a No Agenda fan, turns the magical age of 18. Serendipitously, my contributions since my knighthood on show 999 have totaled another grand, accounting below. And rather than go the baronet route for myself, I would like to bequeath a damehood to her for her 18th birthday. Now that's a granddad right there. I petition that from this day forth she shall be known as Dame Flipper in all the realms. Okay, you just went from a cool granddad to questionable She would like a chicken Alfredo and watermelon juice the round table and the little girl said yay while the goats screamed her proud grandparents John Jolly's surprise of the enchantment and Masu and I guess we can we can give a little bit of it. She wanted a was there a goat? Yes, we do need a goat You've got

2:31:00 And if you'd like to become a producer of the NOAJENDER show and of course we thank everybody who came in under $50 as well often for reasons of anonymity but you might be on one of the many programs that are incredibly important their subscriptions you can make one yourself there's some magic numbers there you can do per episode per week per month per year whatever it is if If you get value from this show, send it back to us one way or the other. Learn more here. A surprising list today actually. Joseph Rizzi says happy birthday to Patty and Rizzi of Tucson celebrating tomorrow. Joel Fawcett, Pfeiffer of the Sunday morning two hour folk hour will be 42 tomorrow. Corey Cotton 51 tomorrow. Joel, actually we had Joel,

2:31:54 Brian Navarro, his son Ian will be 14 on the 23rd. Jessica and John Dale say happy birthday to the daughter, Caitlin of the Writing Cave, 18 on the 24th. Baron Harkonnen celebrates on the 27th. Joyce E. Jolly, 18 on the 26th. You just heard Sir Andy of Tarrago Beach. Happy birthday to his son, Eddie Cantrell. Samantha Gonzalez, her sweet husband, Freddy Vieira. And Larry Mason says happy birthday to his wife, Patricia. Happy birthday from them and everybody here at best podcast in the universe. Ah, Joicy Jolly! Come on up here! Joicy Jolly, thanks to Grandpa, who clearly loves you very much, you have now become an official Dame of the Noah General Roundtable. I'm very proud to pronounce the K-V as Dame Flipper in all the realms.

2:32:56 Congratulations and make sure you head over to the round table to get of course your requested Chicken Alfredo and watermelon juice along with Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Beer and Blunts, Cowgirls with Coffin Varnish, Rubenesque Women in Rosé, Geishas and Sake, Vodka, Vanilla, Sparkling Cider and Escort, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pablum, Bong Hits and Bourbon or Mutton and Mead. That's something you need to try. It goes, mutton goes great with mead but also with some watermelon juice. So Check that out and also remember to go to noagendernation.com slash rings to pick up or actually to allow Eric the shill to get your information so we can send to you. So we can send to you your official Dame ring along with your wax to seal your important correspondence and of course your certificate of authenticity and thank you very much for becoming a Dame. Thank you to grandpa for helping you with that and welcome, welcome human resource to the No Agenda Roundtable of our Knights and our Dames.

2:33:53 Yes, No Agenda meetups, as we heard now often with entertainment, comedy shows, all kinds of stuff happens. I did want to say we got a meetup report from the flight of the No Agenda out of, I think, California. This might have been the train station meetup. Too much train noise, unfortunately. Way too many edits for me to make. Just the phone passed around. Sometimes it don't work, but they did have a good time and I suggest if you can check out more of those Flight of the Noah agenda meetups in the future. Red 33 Boston, they know what they're doing. In the morning! In the morning! In the morning! Sir Ernesto here. Stay dangerous. ITM, this is Sir Paul.

2:32:56 Congratulations and make sure you head over to the round table to get of course your requested Chicken Alfredo and watermelon juice along with Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Beer and Blunts, Cowgirls with Coffin Varnish, Rubenesque Women in Rosé, Geishas and Sake, Vodka, Vanilla, Sparkling Cider and Escort, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pablum, Bong Hits and Bourbon or Mutton and Mead. That's something you need to try. It goes, mutton goes great with mead but also with some watermelon juice. So Check that out and also remember to go to noagendernation.com slash rings to pick up or actually to allow Eric the shill to get your information so we can send to you. So we can send to you your official Dame ring along with your wax to seal your important correspondence and of course your certificate of authenticity and thank you very much for becoming a Dame. Thank you to grandpa for helping you with that and welcome, welcome human resource to the No Agenda Roundtable of our Knights and our Dames.

2:33:53 Yes, No Agenda meetups, as we heard now often with entertainment, comedy shows, all kinds of stuff happens. I did want to say we got a meetup report from the flight of the No Agenda out of, I think, California. This might have been the train station meetup. Too much train noise, unfortunately. Way too many edits for me to make. Just the phone passed around. Sometimes it don't work, but they did have a good time and I suggest if you can check out more of those Flight of the Noah agenda meetups in the future. Red 33 Boston, they know what they're doing. In the morning! In the morning! In the morning! Sir Ernesto here. Stay dangerous. ITM, this is Sir Paul.

2:34:44 Uh, yes. I'm sorry, I don't really know what to say. Hey, in the morning, it's Sir Karras by Count of Greater Boston. In the morning, this is Sir Nathan Lee, and I just saw a hot girl on a bike go by. Wait, what? Yes. It is summertime. And someone's calling for me, that's cool. Hi! Alright, thank you for your car- this show was excellent, we really need it. It's fricking important, thank you so much. In the morning! In the morning. Good morning, Red 33 Boston, and thank you to the following organizers who are set up for meetups. In fact, today, the Mighty Niagara Region Meetup, that is well underway, so hopefully you got there. Taylor and John come to Vegas, that'll be six o'clock Pacific time, that is also today. And then the next one is on Thursday the 25th, the Summer Amygdala Shrinkers Meetup in the Denver City Park.

2:35:37 Then you just look at August September it is jam-packed all the way through one two three four meetups alone on my birthday on September 3rd It's gonna be off the hook no agenda meetups. This is where you find your community also known as your community Which you will see is completely different on the external than anything you ever believed would be old young short tall fat skinny gay straight whatever queer all this stuff and Red blue right left you get the idea you will love it. You will come together and You control it because no agenda meetups comm is completely producer organized if you can't find one start one yourself

2:36:26 You wanna be where you won't be Triggered or held to blame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a par- Like a party Do you have, uh... Isos? I have one. Okay, let's see, where is your ISO? How about you? I have two. I have two, so not much better. I wonder how we're going to fare today. Let's see what you got. Our work is far from over. Huh? The end of the show, our work is far from over, isn't that a fact? And it's clear, it's crystal clear.

2:37:10 Yeah... Yeah... Our work is far from over. Mmm... I actually have... I'm gonna... I have three now. Let me see. This is a... Oh, what do you mean you have three now? Stop whining and eat your bugs. Kind of like that. That's cute. That's cute. Yeah, how about... Um... You've just gotta think COVID. No, but I think this is the winner. Well, that sucked that I think it's Hey biggest laugh. How can you there you go? As far as I'm concerned we have a winner ladies and gentlemen It's not often that we get to do one that is ourselves, but very good. Very good Oh As we go towards the how are we doing on time today actually as we go to it now, okay. Um, I

2:37:56 You know, the big hullabaloo this week was, oh, the prime minister of Finland was dancing like a slut. Did you follow the story? Oh, I saw it. And it's interesting. I couldn't get behind it as an interesting anything. It's just so what? Well, I think it's a distraction. What else they got to do in Finland? And by the way, isn't this the time of year where it's pretty much... I've been to Finland. Isn't this the time of year when it is 24 hours a day of sunshine so you're probably eating you party a lot No, this is something else. I can I think I know what this is. This is a distraction Of course now this is by the way as prime minister could go Rockin I like her, you know, look I don't give a shit what she does, but why was this clearly private video released? with her

2:38:50 Yeah, I mean she's simulating sex acts. It's what you do when you're hanging out and dancing. It's not meant... When you're drunk. It doesn't matter, but it's when you're 30 maybe you shouldn't be doing that. Maybe, I don't know. It doesn't matter to me because all I see it is is a distraction from what she said one day earlier which the news definitely did not want you to hear. Well they didn't start the war. But at the same time we have to realize that they are supporting the war. I think it's not right that Russian citizens can travel, enter Europe, Schengen area, be tourists, see the sightseeing while Russia is killing people in Ukraine. It's wrong. I think that this had to go away. She said, Russian citizens, you can't come to EU anymore. No, it shouldn't happen. That got no play. I think they had to distract from that. And who knows what else she said.

2:39:42 Huh, that's, well, I'm not gonna argue this one. It makes sense because they don't want to say stuff like that because the Russians when they come to Europe they spend a lot of money. And they also, there are certain haunts all in Europe that the Russians flock to. So it's not just a rich Russian spending a lot of money, it's a lot of Russians. And I think they can't put up with this comment like that. As soon as this Ukraine thing's over with, the Russians will be welcomed back. I have my Russian story. I just think this is hilarious because The Russians have managed to their benefit to oust all the American companies so they got rid of Starbucks. Starbucks bailed and so the Russians just took over the Starbucks stores. They did it legitimately. They took the leases over and did the rest. Play this clip and then I'll tell you the funny part about it. Starbucks may have left Russia back in May but a new chain of coffee shops in the capital Moscow is hoping to replicate its success.

2:40:41 In more ways than one, Russian restaurateur Anton Pinsky and rapper Timati debuted new venture Starz Coffee on Thursday. Its logo and font might bear a striking familiarity to any coffee drinker walking down the street, but Timati insists it's all about perception. So they took the Starbucks and they took and kept Star, the same exact, you know, they took the actual Star and they took the S off of Bucks and moved it over, took Bucks out. They have the same woman logo that's circled with the goddess of whatever it is in the middle. Didn't change that at all. And coffee underneath is exactly the same. So it's Starbucks without Buck.

2:41:31 They took the buck out of Starbucks and it's just the same store. And I thought it was genius the way they did it, unlike the McDonald's guys who took over McDonald's and changed the logo. Yeah, what a mistake. Well, they learned. They learned. The Russians are trolling in good ways. Now there's a story out, Russia offers mother heroin metal and $16,000 if you have 10 children or more. I mean, that's just trolling, isn't it? It's like, hey, we're gonna overpopulate y'all. So while all that great news was going on about Starbucks, did you hear about this? Tonight the US announcing a massive $775 million military aid package for Ukraine. It includes more ammunition for the HIMARS rocket systems.

2:42:19 16 new howitzers and for the first time the Pentagon sending 15 ScanEagle reconnaissance drones to better identify key Russian targets. It comes amid growing fears of an impending disaster at Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia that could lead to radiation contamination across the continent. Russia ordering its staff not to show up to work today as both sides warn of an escalation. Ukraine accuses Russia of using the plant as a military base. Ukrainian officials posting this video showing Russian vehicles inside the plant. ABC News has not verified the date this video was taken. After shelling, newly released before and after satellite images from several days ago show scorch marks in the area near the plant. Nearby communities taking no chances, conducting disaster drills in response to those attacks. First responders practice putting on protective gear and treating the injured.

2:43:18 So besides this almost a billion dollars, which who gives a billion dollars? It's nothing. We need Sir Atomic Rod Adams to weigh in here. I would like to know is this particular nuclear plant in its current state and Sir Rod Adams, I mean he knows a lot about this, he's on top of this. Would it inf... Well he's also in the milieu. Yes. So everyone would know. What I'd like to know is if you bomb this, will that indeed release radiation and contamination or is that maybe a little over overblown. Well I think the whole thing whether anyone's gonna bomb it, the Russians definitely won't bomb it because the radiation is gonna go right into Russia. Yeah but I don't think it even will happen. I don't even think that a bombing at this point will make anything bad. I don't think it'll happen either. I think that this is just a phony bologna, it's a MacGuffin. It's a phony bologna pop. MacGuffin. MacGuffin. Explain MacGuffin.

2:44:15 A MacGuffin is a gimmick used in mystery writing, where the whole story is about recapturing an item, a jewel, a dossier, a government secret, anything. It's a MacGuffin. That thing, it doesn't matter what it is, it's just used as an excuse to complete the mystery story. And so it's a meaningless item is what in the big scheme of things is a meaning is it might be a valuable diamond But it's a meaningless item and it's always referred to in this trade as a McGuffin McGuffin. I like it It's a very good term and you'll see it in a lot of stories if you look at a story where they're going after something because they're trying to capture this or that you know a lot of James Bond movies and other these movies have a involve a McGuffin McGuffin

2:45:08 McGuffin. There you go. McGuffin. I'm not sure which one I like better. McGuffin. Show title, McGuffin. I wrote it down, in fact. I wrote it down. I got one last clip then. Just to keep us up. I'll let you play that as last. I have a short 31 seconds, an update on Kiev, how things are going in Kiev. And the only reason I really want to play this 30 seconds is because you know who the mayor of Kiev is now, don't you? It's Klitsch. It's been Klitsch for a long time. Yeah, I know, but we have to remind ourselves that Klitsch is now the mayor. This is one of the guys who Victorian... A big six-foot-eight boxer. Yeah. Who was outstanding heavyweight, is the mayor of... Well, of course, both the brothers, there's two brothers involved.

2:45:56 Yeah, and they're pretty much very smart. They're gangsters. Well, they're very smart gangsters if they are. Of course! These people are top of the world. But listen to an update from the mayor of Kyiv. Normal life is slowly coming back to Kyiv. We open right now much more restaurants, cafes. It's the business coming back and slowly starting to work. But it's illusion. blue sky sunshine summer and We have never forget this couple of hundreds canada's east of kiev. It's hell It's big bottle where our patriots defend our country So it's not you look at kiev and it looks like it's kind of okay, but don't over there. It's hell It's hell and it is hell there just read about

2:46:52 them having no weapons. Nothing is getting to the front lines, there's a couple links in the show notes. Veterans are coming back, dude, there's nothing. Everything gets stolen, everything is sold. It's going everywhere, you know, it's horrible. We've got clip after clip, we've been playing these clips for weeks. 30% max goes to the actual fighting. So a lot of, so the, I asked around, where are these weapons going that we send over there that never reach the front lines? They're going to the Kurds, they're going to oligarchs and they're going to Russians. Russians have overrun the biggest ammo depots and missile storages and they've taken them all. Well that's why they need that guy back there, arms dealer. He knows how to do this. Alright, we're gonna get him back, get Griner up for that guy. Okay, my last clip is just a final closing story to the Jihad John case.

2:47:51 They finally wrapped up these guys, a bunch of them, and here's how it ended with the Ngu Teng Dynasty reporting. Now to a gruesome saga of terrorist torture. A member of an Islamic State cell known as the Beatles could be sentenced to life in prison in a US federal court. He was found guilty in a plot that led to the beheadings of US journalists and aid workers. 33-year-old El Shafie Elsheikh was found guilty of the charges by a federal jury in April after a six-week trial and hours of deliberations. The jury concluded that he was part of an Islamic State cell nicknamed the Beatles for their British accents. The cell beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria.

2:48:31 El Sheikh was born in Sudan and raised in London. He was accused of conspiring to kill four American hostages. Two journalists and one aid worker were beheaded on video. The fourth hostage was raped repeatedly by the group's leader at the time and then killed. El Sheikh's charges carried a potential death sentence, but US prosecutors told British officials they will not seek the death penalty. The Beatles are back. I forgot about them. The Beatles. Yeah, that's Ice Cream. Hey, where's your mind's been? I was listening to a Darren O'Neal show today.

2:49:08 And one thing he does, he reminds me how bad some of these bands are. The Clash, the worst. I was actually not talking about the Beatles. No, I know you're talking about the jihadist Beatles. But I was thinking of the Beatles because I was thinking why doesn't Darren O'Neill play Yellow Submarine? I think that would fit right into his thing. That's one of my least favorite Beatles songs. Yellow Submarine. I really don't like Yellow Submarine. Pull that out of the archives and put that in there. Okay. Well, thanks for your musical advice. We'll take it into account when we're programming the stream. Up next, we've got Behind the Schemes live over there at noagenderstream.com, trollroom.io. Enjoy that, slaves. You will. Boost the boo-berry and lavish. End of show mixes. We have the clip custodian who came in, Neil Jones, with a beautiful Monkey Pox melody.

2:50:04 Medley. And then, as promised, the no-agenda player, Sir Chris, taking the lead with Sir Felix and, of course, Dame Jennifer Buchanan. I think you'll enjoy hanging around for this one. Something completely different, but completely on target. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in FEMA Region No. 6, in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Thursday with another multi-hour media deconstruction. We hope you will join us for that. And remember us with your value for value at Dvorak.org slash NA. Till then, adios mofos!

2:51:03 First and foremost, let's just start from the beginning. How exactly is monkeypox spread? According to the CDC, 98% of monkeypox cases are in men. 93% among men who reported recent sexual contact with other men. Look, the CDC says the vast majority of cases have involved men having sex with other men, but late Friday night, Illinois officials reported that a daycare worker tested positive. The CDC, the warning over the weekend about children under the age of eight. Now to the monkeypox outbreak spreading in the U.S. A seventh child has now been infected. First suspected case of human-to-dog monkeypox transmission. It happened in France. First and foremost, let's just start from the beginning.

2:51:47 How exactly is monkeypox spread? Well, as much as many people don't want to accept this, it is primarily a sexually transmitted infection. When we first started to get those reports and then it wasn't just cats, it wasn't just dogs, we saw it with other animals as well. We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly. Growing concern over the global spread of monkeypox. The nation's monkeypox outbreak is spreading. I'm Dame Jennifer Buchanan and I am president and director of research here at the Animated Institute for No Agenda Sciences.

2:52:33 This is an interdisciplinary program where we work with agenda expanses and agenda expression for human resources as young as three and their families who are questioning their agenda or who are not left-right binary. My name is Sir Felix Wilson and this is my No Agenda journey. A person's agenda is important to their identity. I'm Sir Chris Wilson. Felix's father. While many human resources are happy in the agenda they are assigned at birth, there are some who are born with an agenda that doesn't match the agenda assigned to them. We call this agenda dysphoria. From when I first held Felix in my arms, I knew he was a special human resource.

2:53:15 But when the doctor told me what his agenda was, it somehow didn't feel right to me. One of my first memories as a young child was that I didn't feel comfortable with the agenda I was assigned at birth. Somehow I felt different from my friends. It was when he started school we started to notice the difference between him and the other children. What was different about you and the other children? They would play news clips of Donald Trump on the television and everyone would go boo. What did you do? I'd say, yay! You know, like little girl yay. What did the other kids do? They'd all laugh. It was at that moment we realized our son identified with No Agenda and enrolled him in the institution's Young Producers program. We started him off trying his No Agenda identity in small ways to see how comfortable he was. So in the morning...

2:54:03 in the morning and thank you for your courage thank you for your banana how did you feel when you did that? felt pretty good I was asked to do a speech for class on a famous person. I chose to do mine on Adam Curry. I thought it would be the best time to come out and tell people about my NOAA gender. Were you worried about what might happen? That's a great question. That's not a great question. I thought that when the school found out that they would take me away and give me new parents to live with. Do you remember what the class said when you came out and gave your presentation? They all laughed and then got up and danced. When I played the Christmas jingle, Donald Trump is coming to town. It was then that we knew we had to act before he became an adolescent.

2:54:45 We started him immediately on amygdala blockers. We got Felix a pet goat called Maxine Waters. And we fed it mac and cheese by our own friend. We removed bugs from his diet. As soon as he was ready, we performed media deconstructive surgery and spent time each week with no agenda affirming activities, identifying propaganda and recording jingles before puberty set in. cute and innocent voice would change forever. We knew time was running out for Felix. Soon adolescence would take over. So Felix was set on a heavy course of begging for donations.

2:55:27 It paid off. I remember how I woke up that morning. My phone was filled with notes of congratulations. I didn't know what happened. But I had a sneaking suspicion of what it might be. Through the generous support of the No Agenda community, an anonymous producer had sponsored Sir Felix to become a member of the No Agenda Roundtable. I remember that morning my dad came in and woke me up all excited. For the Wilson family, it was a dream come true. It was wild beyond anything. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.

2:56:11 That day was the day I could look everyone in the eye and say my child isn't a slave anymore Yes, I went to bed as Felix and when I woke up I was sir Felix the early night a night of the no agenda roundtable and daddy Yes, Felix, you know what you were on that day. What a douchebag? agenda reassignment is an original production by the gitmo players guild starring a Dame Jennifer Buchanan, Sir Felix Wilson and Sir Chris Wilson. Written, mixed and produced by Sir Chris Wilson for the NO Agenda Podcast. Go to devorak.org slash NA to support the best podcasts in the universe. devorak.org slash NA. The best podcast in the universe! Mopo. devorak.org slash NA. Well that sucked.