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00:00 I don't like skulls. Harboring you from Havana Syndrome and broadcasting live from the heart of Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where i've discovered that one teaspoon equals five milliliters. I'm John C. Dvorak Having grown up in Europe and being completely decimalized

00:43 Is that a word? Yeah. Metricized. Or it's decimated! No, that's always after the show where I'm decimated. You know, I have the biggest problem with ounces and teaspoons and tablespoons...I mean i can follow a recipe but I have no idea... I mean the fact that you figured out a teaspoon is five milliliters that must be a fluke I've decided to make these openings show things educational. I like that, we used to do Confucius says... I think the educational part is good and these are handy tips you can use around the house and in the kitchen

01:23 So I like it, that's a good idea. Well the way you get around...I know what you're talking about this because if look at a lot of recipes there are some European ones they don't care about ounces or anything. No pretty much not. And so you've got to find one good program somewhere that is a converter and just keep looking it up over and over again until you kind of know how many ounces are in a quart and how many ounces are in a liter Yeah, or you can just use you know not those leaders at all Just just use your ounces use your measuring cups the stuff that is tried and true. Most measuring cups have it on both sides now Oh really? You again Yes, I'm measuring cup usually has cups on one end No stop! And the other side is middle of the ear Get out of here where can I get such a fine instrument Amazon? I need this in my life

02:16 Okay, now let me get one of those cool measuring cups so when you put in a dishwasher it washes off all the ink or whatever the paint that's on there and what we had to see what happened whatever that stuff is It's probably not good. Not good for you. Good Ladies and gentlemen This is a value for value program and I'd like to start off by explaining why we are Value For Value, which means we do a show. It creates value that you receive that value if it's valuable to you if not why are you listening? Go away! If it is then return that in time talent or treasure because we don't want creepy corporations We don't want ads. We want to be able to speak freely You know this was not an ad for an Amazon measuring cup

03:05 But here is a perfect example, the perfect example of two things. One why you do not want advertising in your programming because it will take over the programming and it also gives us a perfect example of why TikTok is very very dangerous to the rest of advertising based media particularly Google Facebook Twitter etc. Talk! Talk! Tik Tok Now you may have seen this, uh...this article but the genesis is right here on NBC's Today Show. This is the McDonald's native ad

03:45 Can we go from French fries to a fit guy? That's what we're finding out. 100 days of nothing but McDonalds, let's go! Let's go indeed you heard that correctly Kevin McGinnis from Nashville has quickly become a viral TikTok sensation for documenting his very unique diet journey he is eating as you heard nothing but McDonalds for 100 straight days Chanel And so far he says he is loving it We are going talk to Kevin in just a moment Here is how it all started. I woke up this morning and I weighed in at 238 pounds And I decided that that is absolutely unacceptable So I drove down to McDonald's, I'm gonna eat nothing but McDonald's for the next 100 days But instead of eating everything they give me I'm gonna go ahead and cut the meals in half And he's here with us now Kevin good morning to you morning. You found

04:38 I was watching TikTok and Kevin said he woke up at 238 pounds, he was disgusted with himself. He wanted to finally put his foot down on his weight so he put it on the gas pedal and drove to McDonald's And i thought well this is interesting and I've been following your 10 day journey so far and I think what really hooked me was that its working Absolutely working Where did you come up with this idea? Alright let's just break this down for a moment In no morning show world does Carson Daly get to determine a segment about McDonald's. Ever, ever! That is a plant from McDonalds The guy's TikTok videos have McDonald's logos on it Superimposed and then to add insult to injury we throw in the slogan Oh I'm loving it

05:26 What a hoax now I will say if I eat McDonald's just one time. I lose weight too because I'm just the pass-through guy in that case So, I mean that's very possible but wow what a scam this is and it's so blatant Have you seen this? I saw one I saw one version of it I didn't turn it into a no agenda segment because I never thought I'm remiss because you're right. This is a native ad, it's very well produced... I don't know if i'd call this scam? I would call it a native ad for what it is but they've managed to

06:09 It's incredibly creative. As far as I'm concerned, super kudos to whoever dreamed this one up and then I know people that can do this kind of work and they're not normal advertising people they are these... They're special, they're definitely special. They come up with these ideas and then they have to sell them to the client which in this case would be McDonald's It's easier to sell it to the client, McDonalds than people taking the money. They just take the money and they follow orders I think that it is going really well for TikTok in the advertising world And also on the show notes an important slide from an agency Pitch Deck

06:58 where they are pitching, switching away from Facebook and Instagram and others to TikTok. And the slide is titled Why TikTok? Why Now?, you know the kind of slides right it's like oh yeah they're great here's a slide why now an older audience is moving to tik-tok 16 to was it uh 16 okay sixteen point four percent of viewers wait wait where does that come from I'm not a tick tock deck. No, it's an agency deck. I'm not allowed to say which agency dick you're not low L Yeah, I promise sure is the same. I'm sure this this this deck and they always spelled Dek This deck is

07:42 is being used by more than one agency. Yeah, I would think you're right yes. An older audience is moving to TikTok 16.4% of viewers are 30-39 21 percent are 40 to 50 and 61 percent are female I'd say that's a sweet spot for todays ad. Oh, there you go! Cha-ching! TikTok is the most downloaded app of 2022 in 2020 and this is meant to discredit the other ones In 2022 downloads surpassed Instagram and Facebook See? That is what you give a client or potential client To say clearly Tik Tok's a better place It's on the move! It's trending!

08:25 And here's the killer, more time is spent watching TikTok videos than on Netflix. Viewers spend an average of 90 minutes per day on TikTok. Wow! We're lost as a country and this is why we need to get rid of TikTok. I don't, you know...I've gotten so many so much pushback on this people saying no man that's not true because all the patriots on TikTok they hate that because you know all the stuff is getting banned from YouTube but on Tiktok it's not getting banned trust me brothers can i interrupt yeah please do

09:08 So I go on TikTok once every two days or so, and then it's just to see. Because I'm cookie-less, I don't...I just go jump on it out of the blue. But sometimes they come in from somebody else's, you know somebody says look at this! And so I can think of a few people that we both know very well who watch TikTok all the time it seems. You know who you are? So I go on there and they will, and now just listen to the stream. So I watch the one thing okay well maybe I can get a clip out of that maybe I can't but then I let it go for about five or 10 minutes so I could see what's coming up after and after and after. The amount of

09:46 At least on this one stream that I latched onto, the amount of Democrat hate is unbelievable. It's one video after another... The one that got the biggest kick out of it was...I didn't record any of these...was this guy saying How did we elect this idiot? This guy's a scumbag. And it says Biden walking or staggering around and it's going on and on, this guy is just demeaning Biden as much as he can then clicks to the next one would be something very similar right they're all pro-Trump

10:24 Oh yeah, so it's definitely going on but that's not the reason. So that's why I think we're getting pushback? Yeah of course! But you know the actual term is they're patriot friendly. Okay... If this was a turnoff for advertisers then they would get rid of it trust me That's how it always works I also, the erythritol not this is not necessarily tik-tok related but the erythritol smears which is a guess it literally is Splenda the sweetener erythritol Yes, Splenda. Yeah we talked about on the last episode... We did Now I remember this controversy back in the pod show days 2006-2007 Splenda was one of our first host red advertisers and we had a whole sheet that explained how to push back against the you know it's gonna kill you meme which was out there so this thing has been around for a long long time So why is this resurging now?

11:25 Now it may be that there's competing advertising products in the market, but I thought this was a really good one from one of our producers. Erythritol has been made hugely popular by adherence of keto and similar low-carb diets. This is like the carnivore diet And I know this to be true because I know several, you know keto is always...I mean I think the last five years keto has just gone up and up and up. You know it's out of control. It really is people are going nuts over a Keto! So part of the keto diet is a healthy sampling of erythritol or Splenda in your coffee or your tea or maybe in your cooking

12:08 And the accusation here is that this is actually a way to bring down keto altogether. Now I'm not sure if that's 100% correct, but I like the association because we have to get rid of actual animal protein and meat you know? We have to prepare people for the future food. Well this trend it's going just in opposite direction What do you mean These diets are making people eat just pure protein and fat. Right, right so they want people off of that? Well this isn't gonna do it... That's kind of a lame way to go! I'm just saying it's one answer to the question as to why now? And I just don't see a competing product in the market yet It could be coming

12:55 Well, they try these other things like what's that stuff? Stevanol or steven something or other. Stevia. Good old stevia and it's bitter you know it's sweet and bitter so there's no good I don't like it either. And so they got the aspartame or whatever this is called. Aspartame! You're all over the map! Aspertamie! You know you could just have sugar once in a while yes Spoon of honey, maybe? Oh man. You know what I like for my sweetener is maple syrup. Once you get used to it... I love using maple syrup! You use maple syrup in coffee?! Yup. Match made in heaven. Can I tell you a recipe that I do and you're gonna go, eh, that's disgusting! Okay let me do- you just did it for me so I don't have to do that. When I bake salmon in the oven

13:48 Yeah. On the top of the salmon I'll drizzle just a little bit of maple syrup and then cover that with lemon pepper, and then you bake it in the oven with a little bit of broil for the last three minutes Huh. That was close enough, I'll take a huh! You should try it if you like maple syrup it actually kind of adds... I do like maple syrup, I would put me I'll try maple syrup on salmon yeah just drizzle couple drizzles couple drizzles dump it under quite nice why don't we just get into climate change for a second because I've got some exciting things so exciting about climate change the

14:32 The first thing that I have here really solves a big question that we've been looking at is what is it with all of European countries moving into Africa? You know, we've had the French, Macron. We've had the Germans in there. We haven't had the Brits in there but I'm sure the Dutch are in there of course. We're also in there! The US everyone's in Africa doing stuff and you know of course we're...I'm sure China is part of the reason Russia as part of the reason the U.S. is part of the reason everyone it but what are we really doing? And then this came across my desk

15:14 I don't really have a desk, but my email and like oh yeah this makes a lot of sense because Africa will be the new source of green hydrogen it will be the battery content continent. This huge renewable energy farm is Germany's hope for a greener future It's not being built in Germany though but in Namibia one of Germany's former colonies It's meant to produce green hydrogen the fuel of the future to get away from fossil fuels. That's the promise When he went in Namibia Germany's economy and climate minister Robert Habeck stressed He wants a partnership between equals and avoid a green energy imperialism This is crazy this is becoming

16:00 like a battery country. Industries like steelmaking, heavy transport or chemicals can simply switch to electricity from renewable sources that is where green hydrogen comes in Green hydrogen right now is a lot more expensive than other fuels which is why it's sometimes called the champagne of energy sources partly because of infrastructure transit and safety issues but mainly because massive amounts of renewable energy are needed to create it So we have to look at countries with good preconditions So, because it doesn't have enough wind and solar capacities Germany wants to import hydrogen and its derivatives. In order to do so it has set up energy partnerships with a lot of countries – many in the global south. In Namibia a German company is planning this 10 billion euro energy project. Wind and solar farms will power the process of electrolysis. Water from the nearby ocean will be pumped by a pipeline

16:55 The company promises that the local economy will benefit as well with new jobs and access to energy and water. Minister Habeck stressed that Germany would only import energy that Namibia doesn't need for domestic consumption, and that the project above all has to serve the citizens of the African nation. I'm sure it'll take place. I love green hydrogen as a champagne of energy! I just love it! Yeah, good phrase...I like it Overpriced champagne, in fact. We talked about this a couple of months ago when they first started doing it and what's overlooked in this story is that kind of says some wind and some solar... No! I don't believe you either. They are blanketing the area with these solar panels from China, I might add

17:44 Chinese solar panels and they're pretty much covering up as much of the countryside as they can and then create putting these factories that to create use the electricity to you too. It's usually near the coast Yeah, to break up the water and put the hydrogen a big tanker in it hauled to Europe This is dumb I also don't think it's ever gonna be enough energy honestly You know, nuclear. Yeah if they did nuclear I'd believe it but how about maybe there's putting up coal plants and we're not just saying oh look at the shiny solar panels! And this also explains South Africa. South Africa's entire infrastructure is now on the verge of collapse if we can believe the reporting This is another great country to go in and do this

18:33 And maybe it's just greenwashing, you know. Maybe... who knows? What if it's—you know 10 billion doesn't seem like a lot by the way to create green hydrogen and none of it seems like it's realistic I'm not enough of an energy maven to know if the solar panels can create enough to actually create hydrolysis that on any meaningful level I'm pretty sure they can do a meaningful level, but you still have the problem with hydrogen. It's a terrible product it leeches through everything It's one of those ships is gonna catch on fire one of these days It's just a pain in the ass to work with like Hindenburg ships. Yeah, like the Hindenburg ship Is that the only way to store and transport it

19:27 I can't think of any other way, at least if it's coming from Africa. Yeah they got to put it on a boat! Man... And then get some pressurized containers They're not gonna turn into liquid hydrogen that would really be a pain in the butt Because? This is dumb Well, I just-I really Kind of love that whole story. I was really really really good and it fits in perfectly You know climate change is moving in on us and it's moving in so fast That the 15-minute cities which we know are intended specifically to mitigate climate change now that The cat is out of the bag

20:09 Like we were seeing it in all over the world, certainly in the United Kingdom these 15-minute cities are actually happening. So the BBC came out with a 10 minute piece to debunk that the 15 minute cities are... well what they're doing is they're taking it from... let's put it this way What we know about 15-minute cities, the idea is that you should be able to take public transport or walk to anything you need. Anything your life can provide that is a necessity within 15 minutes Now what comes on top of that are all these cameras and barriers And fines! And fines that make sure that you can't travel outside your zone

20:55 without being fined and that is based upon climate change. So what they're doing now, and the BBC did a very good job of this and I cut that down to two minutes which is still long but it has all the pertinent pieces in there... They are now twisting this and saying this is a conspiracy theory 15-minute cities conspiracy theory none if its true because their idea I know see that they're twisting it by saying people are saying this is climate change lockdown Which of course is exactly what it is, but they're taking one step further and saying you'll be locked in your house. That's not what this is 15-minute cities aren't about that have a listen What if we could create a new normal where we reclaim our time? Again this is the BBC. Our health and well being Food medicine education and leisure all within a fifteen minute walk or cycle

21:48 The idea of 15-minute cities has spread to Paris, Melbourne and South Korea attracted by the promise of lower car use and a better quality of life. But it's also become the focus of conspiracies that travel outside these neighborhoods would be restricted – a sort of climate lockdown. Disinformation researchers say this all started with the pandemic So the idea of climate lockdown first appeared in March 2020 when news of the lockdowns in Wuhan as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic first broke into international news. And the terminology came from a set of accounts in the US who were linked to a fossil fuel think tank called The Heartland Institute. Have we ever heard of The Think Tank, The Heartland Institute?

22:31 being the source of this 15-minute city? No. The source as far as I'm concerned was Oxford! Thank you, and the BBC! Really it was a reframing of very old vocabulary that imagines this future of climate tyranny or green tyranny where Individual civil liberties are stripped away under the pretext of solving climate change. 15-minute cities have been drawn into this narrative of insidious control in the UK one particular target has been Oxford where misinformation has recently led to councillors receiving death threats We have been receiving many calls and emails from worried residents in genuine fear that they might be locked in their own homes. Where's the death threat? The criticism has also been leveled at the way the proposals have been communicated There were no great efforts for everybody in this city to be made aware of what was happening, some people still don't actually know what is happening You can see why certain people turn to conspiracy theories

23:28 There is a wider point in all this though behavioral change is seen by many experts as a crucial part of achieving case legally binding climate targets the UK's climate change legally binding Climate Target Committee has for example urged the government to create plans to reduce demand for air travel and help change people's diets This recent concern and conspiracy shows how these kinds of policies are communicated may be central I love this so they're saying You know, of course we're trying to motivate people to change their diets which means no more meat fake meat etc. Change their travel which means no airplanes don't go outside your zone citizen and now they're actually gonna say you know this is important work We're doing a success wait if you back it up a little bit She says all these crazy things which resulted in people complaining Which she better believe it

24:26 And she says that the pushback is a conspiracy theory. Yes! What's she talking about? There is a wider point in all this though, behavioural change is seen by many experts as a crucial part of achieving the UK's legally binding climate targets The UK's Climate Change Committee has for example urged the government to create plans to reduce demand for air travel and help change people's diets This recent concern and conspiracy shows how these kinds of policies are communicated may be central to the... You're right! She literally says these concerns end conspiracy. Did she say end conspiracy? I think she said something like that it was just like, she passed it off as though first they say we'd like to get people stuck in their houses in a little area where they can't walk too far and they can't travel and they can't ever gonna eliminate air traveling you're gonna have to eat beyond meat

25:21 And people think that this is a conspiracy. The crazy nutters! This recent concern and conspiracy shows how these kinds of policies are communicated may be central to their success What we find in research is actually if you're completely transparent about nudges, so if you know about the idea that some policy proposals are designed to change people's behavior and what the government thinks are positive ways If you actually state what the goals are of the nudge Be transparent and honest about it It doesn't reduce the efficacy of those types of initiatives at all. Very interesting this guy! Hey, we forgot about the nudges... We forgot they have a nudge agency and they do these nudges and England is based on doing nudges? That's why I left it in. And the reason for that is WhatsAppgate which is you know 100,000 messages that Matt Hancock

26:16 over there in the UK during, I think it was December 2020. You know was discussing all of these nudges but the nudges really went much further saying things like hey let's release the new strain or communicate the new strain we'll frighten those... Oh right i saw that We'll frighten the pants off everyone with a new strain now what this tells me is You know, they weren't releasing new strains but they were totally scaring people. And when we do deploy the new variant and I think deploy is probably the messaging about the new variant you know they're not actually deploying a new variant although i wouldn't put it past these creeps

26:58 And then stuff like more mask wearing might be the only thing to consider. Yes, effective free and has a very visible impact! Wearing masks in all settings outside the home and in more workplaces this is going to work for us so that does show that the lunacy of these people And what is this about legally required climate targets or whatever she said at the beginning of her spiel? Oh, that's all Agenda 51 stuff. That's bullcrap! What happens if you don't do it? Do you get a ticket? Yeah... You have to go see a constable?! What do you have to do here? You get shamed! You could be shamed in the next meeting in Paris. Hey, YOU have not been doing your work. No Pierre Herdu for YOU

27:49 Of course, this is exactly what you know Agenda 21 is about and all of these agreements at the United Nations level. Of course! All the climate stuff is all legally binding because we have agreements We have resolutions. We signed off on stuff And this is why you have the mayor of London Sadiq Khan who was pushing another climate change policy which is What's this thing called? It's the ULEZ, ultra low emission zone. That London should be an ultra-low emissions zone. And what does that mean? Battery cars of course! Or better hydrogen cars clean green hydrogen hey so during people's question time which is an open forum where people can question the mayor he decided it was best

28:51 to shame these people who are against the idea of only battery cars or hydrogen cars being allowed into London and he did it with a couple of good old tropes. There were objections in 2006 when we banned smoking from public places, and there are objections now what I find unacceptable though is some of those who've got legitimate objections joining hands with some of those outside who are part of a far-right group Let's be frank, let's call a spade a spade. Some of those outside are part of the far right, some are Covid deniers, some are vaccine deniers and some are Tories!

29:42 So if you're against ultra low emission zone then you are anti-vax, anti COVID and you're a Tory. The mayor has the right to be heard right? Look, this people's question time is an opportunity for you to have an exchange of views. Not a hack or shout please! Otherwise we could end this very quickly If you keep doing that then were just going to end it We're just not going to talk anymore to you OK? We can do that whenever we want Now those people who've got legitimate concerns

30:21 It's a fact by the way, any day fact. Some of you have got good reasons to oppose Uless but you're in coalition with Covid deniers You may not like it... You may not like it... You're in coalition with the far right and you're in coalition with vaccine deniers as well So even if you're not far right a Vax denier or anything that's fringe from his perspective and You have a good reason for disliking this idea, and there's probably plenty uh-huh. You're no good You just as bad as those people yeah pretty much is not a question in answer time now This is a scolding time it says nonsense this guy stinks I you know the fact that he's mayor of London or anything

31:19 I mean he's like Trudeau, he's almost like a Trudeau. Yeah only Trudeau won't let you yell at him like that! He just won't show up for that stuff and then i got one more clip here and this is really about the warming of the earth because now well maybe I should set it up this way have we seen incredible warming of California in the past month? Let me interrupt your clippage. Okay

31:56 With a clip. Oh, very good! And the clip will be just because it elucidates your point Yes I have it under California snowed in In the San Bernardino area of California residents say they are frustrated by the response to winter weather that's dumped record snowfall and back-to-back storms People are still trapped in their homes grocery stores are running out of food some roads remain closed Nina Clark works at the community market in Big Bear where supplies are dwindling. It feels like it's the end of the world or something, like we're just being completely ignored and forgotten about. Natalia Henkelman is a coordinator for a civilian response that has been collecting donations and then using either helicopters or snowmobiles to deliver much needed food she says help is being coordinated. I have notifications from newborns who have no food available

32:53 kids that are starving and it's heartbreaking to see how we civilians have taken a punt to do the job. More snow is forecast this weekend in the time that you've lived in California which has been quite awhile, have you ever witnessed this type of record-breaking snowfall? I guess no, but yes it winter Yeah, I mean there's trapped California mountain residents plea for help snowed in and nobody is giving him any help either. It's like too bad you know your Is warming don't exactly how does that report? gel with this one from Deutsche Welle a new analysis of global co2 emissions put out by the International Energy Agency is a mix of both good and bad news

33:42 The headline figure is a record high for energy-related emissions in 2022 to almost 37 billion tons. That's nearly a full percent more than the prior year on the bright side, rising clean technologies including solar cells and battery powered vehicles helped limit overall emissions. Those technologies are poised to play an even greater role in the years ahead, that's according to the report. All right, Mikhail Sterna is an energy researcher at the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences he joins me for more. Mikhail thank you for coming to the show! The IEA says that recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is proving more sustainable than past crises

34:21 Do you see that there is indeed good news in this report or are we just so desperate to find a silver lining when overall energy-related emissions actually went up? No, I think it's really good news because the energy transition is already working. Without this, we would have three times more emission raising. It's already working! You're soaking in it Madge! So it's already helping in reaching our climate goals reducing energy independence and stabilize our economy. I mean, there are billions of tons of CO2 avoided, billions of euros that don't go through the pipelines to Russia but remain in our economy in your European Germany economy they stay here they create jobs they create welfare so that's the good side but we also like you discussed the IRA we need to stabilize that by doing right policymaking So if I understand it

35:14 We've actually been too successful because you know people are trapped and can't get out of Northern California Because it's all working so well I mean, and we still had oh. I mean this should be warming the crap out of everything But it's not I'm baffled. I don't understand cuz it's a hoax yeah, I Think you go back to the global cooling days in yes. I'm ready to believe that I'll even believe It's because of co2 That makes more sense. It just logically because of more greenhouse gases, it's going we're going into a global cooling that was the promise in the 70s

35:59 Well, it wasn't due to the greenhouse gases. It was due to reflections and the reflection off especially above off the North Pole as more snow increased it reflected more heat off the earth because you had a bigger area so that area reflected the Sun and that would cause the cooling effect once it began and then in the Once the I mean from what I've seen The glaciers have been retreating. And I think that's true, which is good! We don't want glaciers... they're no good. They're annoying? They get in the way and then they... But if those things stop retreating and start going in the other direction we are in trouble That's what I'm on that lookout for

36:52 Yes, it's been the weather here has been. It's actually been quite nice around here because what it does is rains for two days and then its clear and sunny for two days then it rains like hell and then it's clear and sunny so you don't have flooding but all that rain every time the two days comes around it rains here but then it goes up to the mountains and dumps a ton like yesterday down five feet of snow in March up at that mountain. So this is snowing a lot Well, is that your weather report for today? That's what I have for today. Yes yes, it's what we have for tonight some Ukrainian stuff I want to get out with but I First of all I want to get I have a series of clips Okay from Bill Browder oh Oh, yes bill Browder is the uh Is the guy who got kicked out of Russia got put on the no entry list and apparently all his money was stolen

37:49 It's even it's worth reading his wiki page. I recommend it is like reading a novel Oh, yeah, it's almost like a true crime drama. It's phenomenal what this guy has gone through He's absolved his US citizenship he's Become a UK citizen he had the Minitsky whatever it says the bunch of laws were passed thanks to him Because his lawyer was murdered by the Russians and it's just a damn interesting story. But he, for all practical purposes hates the Russians. Oh yes!

38:26 Yeah, particularly the oil guys. He's the one behind the idea that we should steal their money. Oh okay are you gonna prove to me that I'm wrong? Is that what this is about? I don't know what you did that was wrong but he himself says we can't because of sovereign immunity to it. Small correction, small correction I said they are doing everything they can to change whatever international law is to be able to do it that's exactly what I said! I'm not gonna disagree with that but I don't think they're making that much of an effort there you might believe okay I think there's this guy and a bunch other people making noise it's not going to happen It'd be funny if it did but let's listen to him he's on

39:16 He's on M and Poor Show. Yes, yes! And he is being interviewed by Walter Eisenstat or whatever his name is the guy who did the Steve Jobs biography the guy who has got white hair. Asimov? No no, Eisen... The guy who did Steve Jobs' biography. I hear you, that guy. He looks to be a spook as far as I'm concerned, head of the Aspen Institute... Isaacson, Walter Isakson. Thank You trolls! So here we go this is kind of interesting then it goes on and he goes it's got these lot of clips but they're not short but they're not long but they're interesting and I think you'll like them this is Bill Browder one money from Russia.

40:05 We could isolate Russia much further than we're currently doing if we said to everybody, you know It's either us or them and and everybody always votes with their feet and votes with the money when it comes right down to it. We haven't put that to them. We haven't been tough in that way That's one thing we could do there's one other thing which I've been going around the world talking about which I think would make a big difference in the war in Ukraine Which is that? After the war started, the first thing the Western governments did was we froze $350 billion of Central Bank reserves. The war has done at least a trillion maybe 1.2 trillion dollars damage to Ukraine Russia's done the damage We have custody their money Instead of just having that money frozen That money should be confiscated and handed over to the Ukrainians both for their defense and reconstruction

40:56 Putin broke it. He should fix it That's probably the single biggest thing we could do in the very short term To tip the balance and Ukraine's favor in this whole conflict Explain to me the mechanics of confiscating their central bank reserves. Oh, good! Well so at the moment those reserves are protected by something called sovereign immunity. Sovereign immunity means that anything that belongs to a country or state can't be taken away you can't like just move into the embassy because you would like that property because it belongs to that country And normally that would be a reasonable thing and that's how international law has worked for the last, you know many many years. Oh this is good so sovereign immunity who polices the sovereign immunity? This done by treaties and UN resolutions and UN agreements So UN, so the UN It's pretty much the UN and if you violate it

41:56 sued internationally. If you violate it then you get a ticket or what do you get then? Well to rephrase what I said minute ago, yes yeah you get a ticket okay no here's what happens if you do it for example Switzerland has a lot of the Russian money and they refuse to do anything because they say people lose confidence in them and Switzerland is you know banking community we would if we did We would, our stock market would collapse and the bond market would collapse. Really? China would take their money out it goes on about this but that's what would happen we would have an economic collapse if we tried to pull this stuff Can I just say one thing about that and just quickly because i do have some...I'm little prepared for this I didn't know you're going to do broader like it really do like it um we did pretty much the same thing with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

42:54 And the Lawfare blog, I put it in the show notes has a pretty good explanation of how that worked where we literally took their frozen money and paid it in reparations to Kuwait. So it has been done in the past but this may be a different scenario. I'm not a lawyer obviously and It could be done through Australia because Australia does not participate in the sovereign immunity system So I mean it seems like a long shot to do it through them, but not the whole world is on board with this.

43:31 We're running the show here, Australia's got nothing to do with this situation in Ukraine. It would be ridiculous but let's play out this next clip too. Putin has redefined international crime he has redrawn the borders of Europe He's invaded a foreign country He's killed... He's been a mass murderer Killed unimaginable numbers of people and so we're sitting there in this situation where he's redefined international crime And we're sitting there saying, and your money is still protected. We need to redefine international law to elevate it into the level of his... The way he's become an international criminal. What does that mean specifically? That means that laws have to be passed in a number of major developed countries which says that sovereign immunity always applies in every single circumstance

44:25 Except in the circumstance when a country has invaded a neighboring country and committed an act of aggression, which is how this war is being defined under legal terms. So that's the one narrow circumstance where sovereign immunity no longer applies If we did that, if the United States and the European Union and Great Britain and Canada and Japan rewrote their laws to say that sovereign immunity applies in all circumstances other than those then we could then confiscate their money. Just add to that I like that it would mean a rewriting of the rules which is what i said they're working on that

45:03 In November of last year, 50 nations co-sponsored a resolution on establishing an international mechanism for compensation for damage loss and injury as well as a register to document evidence in claims. That's the crimes of aggression which is now somehow going to be the basis of war crimes. It's not there yet it's a resolution just a resolution but I understand what he's saying and that would have to happen and you're saying maybe rightly so that we'll never do that will never commit to changing and getting on board by getting rid of the sovereign immunity. Yes, that's my position. Okay that's good but you know I'm with Browder which I hadn't...I didn't expect to be on Browders side of anything! Yeah there is that let's go at three If you wanted to confiscate the foreign reserves and you've talked about laws being passed in the West would China in India have to go along?

46:01 Well, so the thing is that all you have to do is get the countries that have reserve currencies revise their laws. So in other words we don't keep our money in China so it's not a reciprocal thing if you get the major reserve currencies of places where Russia keeps their money and by the way there's one other great benefit to doing this which is that if we confiscate Russia's money for invading a neighboring country, who else has got a whole bunch of money in the West that's eyeing China and potentially going to invade a neighboring country? That's China. Now some people would argue that this idea is a dangerous idea because where's... China will just like abandon all countries and keep their money at home but if it's just the US doing this then might happen with the dollar but everybody does together that has a reserve currency

46:57 then China will have to go along with it. I mean they have to be scared of it. Interesting! Your mic is banging a lot. Really? I'm not doing anything... Yeah, but just when you're grabbing it or something and it just... I did grab it yeah yes stop grabbing the... Alright Browder 4 Well hold on Could they do that? I mean it makes no sense. Doing that for Russia, doing that for any country would make everyone pissed off. Isn't China's... don't they have some version of reserve currency at this point aren't they being used as a reserve currency by many countries? One of those baskets! Yeah the SDRs. But yeah but they got so much money in our bonds that what they would do is dump all the bonds

47:49 I mean it's definitely, it wouldn't be bad. Just to follow up and then just because I have these listed 77 no 73 countries 94 countries voted in favor of the reparations resolution Russia got 14 votes against and another 73 countries abstained, and this is in November So it doesn't seem likely but the Russia has threatened that they want to dissolve the United Nations over this Well, that's pretty good You know, I'm kind of all for that too. I'm confused now. Too bad we can't do both! Yeah that would be great. All right this is good. So now i have a clip that's called Idiotic Comment. This is Clip 4. What about in the Middle East? Both Israel and the Saudis don't seem to be on board what are you...what's the reason for that and what can be done

48:43 Well, I think it's really shameful that the Israelis who... Israel is a country that was formed as sort of reaction to genocide are now seeing a genocide taking place in another country and are not helping out that country. I find that really unpleasant and disturbing. Why is that do you think? Well, their argument is that the Russians are in Syria. Syria poses an existential threat to Israel and therefore they've got to play all different sides I think they could easily, for example the Israelis have an iron dome defense situation which prevents people from bombing them. They should provide that iron dome defense mechanism to Ukraine so that the Ukrainian infrastructure isn't destroyed. They can easily help the Ukrainians with defensive weapons

49:39 What is that? We're the ones that provide this so-called Iron Dome, not Israel's now going to give their... Yeah it's Raytheon. Thank you! Raytheon is the one who supplied them, not even the US, it's Raytheon specifically And the Iron Dome around Tel Aviv... Sucks! It sucks, it doesn't work! A, it doesn't work B. It's a small area, Ukraine is the size of two massive countries like France and Germany combined. What are you gonna do? How does that work? This is dumb." So when he said that I'm thinking oh this guy... Oh okay because he's saying the crap now then the other stuff was crap alright well. Well yeah. I still like it. I like the other stuff. Yeah of course you do! You don't have to agree with everything he says. He wants to punish Russia

50:28 I don't. No, I just want to be right! I don't give a crap. Oh that's true you wanna be right. I would like the war to end so we can get on and move over to China. Yes how about that for an idea? Let's move over to China let's get that going lets get something new happening here. I'm tired of Ukraine. Let's go with clip 6. 6 did you do 5 We didn't do five. Do you want to skip? Oh, no we didn't do five sorry five and on the Saudi Arabian side That they've really not been a good ally to the United States that there historically The United States had a deal which is that the Saudis keep oil prices stable to keep the economy stable and in return, the United States provides a sort of military... Hold on. Not entirely true it was that we that the Saudis would sell oil in dollars to keep at the reserve currency of the world not just to keep it stable so I don't know why he's omitting that important fact

51:23 blanket over Saudi Arabia so that they're protected. And the military blanket continues to exist, but they haven't been playing ball when it comes to oil and the oil prices went up because of Putin What do they do? They cut production even more I think the Saudis aren't playing fair game and nor is the United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates are hosting scores of Russian oligarchs Numerous Russian oligarchy yachts are parked in Dubai You know, this is another country that's supposed to be an ally of the United States and they're not playing ball. And so there's a lot of pressure that we could apply it to our allies if we chose to do it in. The United States is very powerful country and I believe should in all three cases. Is he now suggesting that we go over there and point a gun at their head? Say hey yeah. Yeah. And by the way how much you think a military blanket really costs? I mean that's got to be very expensive blanket

52:20 I don't know. Uh, I just find this guy's comments about playing ball and not playing ball Yeah, well they're not they're not you know we know that the Saudis Supposedly are selling oil to the Chinese in their currency Working stuff out which is all these things get resolved but that's all intentional That's all to bring in climate change or whatever, you know green hydrogen. To me that is intentional not from the dollar side. We just kick people off Swift screw ya! China? I think that's what they would do before anything. Oh China your problem we'll just kick you off Swift Just like Russia. That's how stupid these people are our people

53:14 So there's only two left. Let's listen to the bullshit clip One of the things you've always pushed for is going after Putin's wealth personally Tell me how did he get all that money and where is it? And what can we do well so Putin doesn't keep any money in his own name if He did then then whoever had the bank documents to show it could blackmail them Oh, so Putin has to rely on people He trusts I call them oligarch trustees And so when you see an oligarch who's supposedly worth 15 or 20 billion dollars on paper, you can be pretty well sure that half that money belongs to Vladimir Putin. So when we sanction the oligarchs and identify the biggest and richest oligarchs in Russia and freeze their money – not just freezing their money but freezing Vladimir Putin's money. One of the reasons I've been so forceful on the issue of sanctioning Russian oligarchs

54:09 Is because we're sanctioning Vladimir Putin personally and so that we've done a good job with that And you know he says oh this doesn't matter well He's he's fuming when these oligarchs find their assets frozen at different banks around the world. That's my boat All right, so I found this to be one of them more problematic and using that word clips Yeah, I agree with you on that one now Let's start with but the basic premise is Putin has no money in his name because he could be blackmailed. You ever hear of the Panama Papers? You can hide that stuff easily Well, what's the point even hiding it

54:47 Right. He should have gone a different track, he should have said Vladimir Putin has all his money in Bitcoin that's what he should've said that would be much funnier and much more believable. It wouldn't be funny but it wouldn't be true. Much more believable. But say he has his money in gold say he has a billion dollars five billion I mean they make it sound like he's got... Hundreds of billions! A trillion dollars and he could be blackmailed, somehow he can be blackmailed. A guy with that much money? I don't think so! Bill Gates doesn't hide his money this way, so why is he hiding his money in the first place but then the second thing that really got me is if half of the money... Say there's a dozen oligarchs in particular just take 12 off the top that are worth anywhere between 10 and 20 or 30 billion dollars each each one them to half their money belongs to Putin

55:35 Why wouldn't they just get together and kill him? Well this, thank you. You could shoot Putin and you got... you say you're worth 30 trillion dollars but I'm sorry thirty billion dollars and half of that money actually belongs to Putin well you and a bunch other guys you shoot Putin and now the thirty trillion yeah you get the thirty billion all to yourself I mean this is nonsense. It makes zero sense what he said. What Browder is doing here, and maybe that's part of his let's steal the money gambit... He's continuing along the lines of this is not about Russia we don't hate Russia no it's only one person one man it's all of this the whole problem in the world inflation climate change you know Germany having to rape Africa

56:25 Everything is the fault of just one man, one man and one man only and that's Putin. Don't be mad at the Russians! Be mad at one man...Putin This is what this is about for some odd reason I guess they're gonna build it up And then try to explode a cigar or whatever you know that we've tried in the past To kill him and then it'll be ding-dong The witch is dead and everything will be over It's a real buildup here Yeah, well that's a bad idea. Probably but look at who is running the show Victoria Newland Jake Sullivan Ned Price They all hate Putin. Putin specifically. Putin gets in the way of their schemes So let's go now here's one that you'll enjoy This is the last clip from Rauder Okay Now this war isn't gonna end tomorrow like some people that we both know can think

57:21 Duh! Five years, minimum. Here we go! You say this is going to be a long war the way it's going now. Envision for me what will it be like five years from now if this thing is still going on the way it is? Well Putin... his vision in my mind is he knows you can't win the war but he also doesn't care about the lives lost from his side He doesn't really care about the destruction of his military equipment. In this, in his mind what he's thinking is that we're gonna lose patience before he loses patience. He's thinking that in these democratic countries where we have elections all the time Where um... We grow tired and uh..where-where-where we have a limited bandwidth That eventually um...we're going to stop supporting Ukraine And that-that's his only way out of this whole thing Is just to outlast us and so... Wait wait, might be right?

58:23 I think that's my biggest fear. If you look at the trajectory of the Ukrainians right now, they're really causing just no end of hardship for Putin and his military And on the current trajectory, he thought that the Ukrainians probably would eventually succeed over some long period of time and so but But we've we've heard murmurings in the United States and in Europe From far right from all sorts of strange characters saying no more money for Ukraine No more support for Ukraine if those murmurings that are at the moment very narrow sections of The political establishment become bigger sections Putin may very well be right, and that's that's the fear I have is

59:09 Oh goodness, well you're right. This is the Brooks rule goes into effect so this thing has to end quickly or maybe not Maybe not because you know this is the result of the war. As the ongoing war in Ukraine continues, the ones profiting are defense firms Lockheed Martin a major American defense company has now announced a record-breaking annual production goal after massive success if it's high mobility artillery rocket systems or high mass systems on the battleground Yay! Record profits everybody beautiful good job everyone

59:52 Yeah, here's my Ukraine update. This is NPR's... Let's see, where is it? I got it. Ukraine update NPR. Ukrainian troops are helping civilians flee the eastern town of Bakhmut which Russian forces have bombed and shelled for months. NPR's Joanna Kikis' reports military analysts say Ukrainian soldiers may be preparing to pull out of the Besieged City So far Ukrainian military officials say there are no plans to retreat from Bakhmut even as Russian forces inch ever closer NPR recently spoke to soldiers in northwestern Ukraine training to deploy to Bahmut. A soldier named Vadim, who declined to reveal his last name for security reasons says he's planning to relieve members of his battalion already there. They will be there for several weeks and we will change them We are ready But British and American military analysts say Ukrainian forces have blown up key bridges on Bahmut signaling a retreat

1:00:50 Yeah, this is trending. The idea that Ukraine will be pulling out of Bakhmut and here's my version Well there is a lot of speculation around here about whether Ukrainian troops are preparing to withdraw Officially the Ukrainian position is that they are not withdrawing Most soldiers we tried to speak to said no comment when asked about any plans to withdraw were willing to speculate a little bit and what they said was that they were not withdrawing so far but some of them thought that it was more likely that Ukrainian forces would have to pull out of Bakhmut than not. The main reason being, although at the moment its still freezing at night so the ground remains reasonably hard That is set to change in the next few days which means its going to get much more muddy and the ground will be much softer

1:01:39 And at the moment, the Ukrainians don't really have a paved road that they can use to go in and out of Bakhmut. There was a bridge that was blown up a couple of days ago on the road that they were still using. They've replaced that with a pontoon bridge but that makes things very difficult logistically for getting in and out of town At the moment there's still also able to use dirt roads but that won't be the case not for wheeled vehicles anyway, once it gets more muddy. So that's perhaps the main difficulty that they're facing at the moment." What I could not find in any of the reports is the location of Bakhmut which is smack dab in the middle of the Dombas region so a pullout from that to me would mean there's your new border you know? That's...so Dombas just give that let that rest its shit anyway

1:02:31 We don't want it. Let Russia keep that." That could be the new border and maybe that would be the way out. Well, if some parties... I would put our government in that category if some parties insisted on negotiations and ending this thing instead of testing military gear by the boatload at the expense of our taxpayers. Yeah, that probably could happen! That seems to be ending I've been looking into why we can't supply Ukraine with any more ammunition and i got a reasonable answer here from Defense One

1:03:13 They are a website that reports on the defense industry. Yeah, it's got a very good newsletter I subscribe to it. Yes where you get all the numbers 100 million for Lockheed 400 million for Raytheon every day by the way every single day US and allied production of artillery ammunition has emerged as a key problem in supplying Ukraine, which burns through thousands of shells a day fighting Russia's invasion. Ukraine may lose the war if it doesn't receive enough supplies." This is what European Union foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said February 20th. Now here's the problem, obtaining the raw materials might be a problem eventually but not yet he said at an event held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that's a great group

1:04:02 The US already maintains large stockpiles of some of the key raw materials such as the precursor chemicals for explosives. But now, but how much of the other raw materials the U.S should keep in reserve is an open question? The issue really is stockpiling. The question is how much can you afford to do like we can't afford to print more money. The u.s has no shortage of raw materials used for artillery shell manufacture but The production capabilities potentially taking the stress off the US could come from Poland, unlikely. What seems to be the problem is steel that we just don't have enough steel to make this happen and as I read through these pieces I just see a lot of excuses people waffling around you mean does that mean that we can't get enough or that phony blowny steel from China?

1:04:57 Or are we going to export the manufacture of some of this to Poland, Australia? Other countries that want to do this. They have the same issues I mean... The steel mostly is made in China and India nowadays and I mean we could make steel But we make, you know the steels that when we make steel. We make specialty steels You know high-end Stainless steels and things like that used for other purposes yeah as opposed to artillery shells Yeah

1:05:42 I mean, this whole thing may be a test of our...a stress test for the military-industrial complex. And you know assuming it's a proxy war let's assume that we were in this…I mean you can just see him meeting about this with a guy with a pointer. Let's assume this is a war there that we're fighting, the Ukrainians are our soldiers And now we have to supply them. What are the bottlenecks? What are the kinks, what's the... How about this? Supply and demand artificial shortage they just want to make more money Well that could be an element when that wouldn't need to be a shocker No But it could be combination of both

1:06:27 And, you know the general word is we have to save some for China. We got even the Secretary of the Army was saying yeah we shouldn't be giving F-16s to Ukraine, we gotta send them to Taiwan and get it ready for China 2027! We only have a few years left They are solidly running the show here The MIC companies they have everybody by the balls mainly US taxpayers So, sir if you're talking about Ukraine I do have an Ask Adam series. Okay this is always fun. Now there's three clips there's one with the answer and then there's geopolitical ignore those that's number three that's a third clip hold on One of our favorite gambits here ladies and gentlemen The Ask Adam segment

1:07:22 All right. Okay, this is ask Adam Ukraine supply ready? Yeah get it in the early months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine Ukraine's supply lines were abruptly cut off one of the supplies people could no longer get and is what? One of the supplies people could no longer get... Birth control pills.

1:08:00 I'll give you a point for that. Thank you! Play clip 2. In the early months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's supply lines were abruptly cut off One of the supplies people could no longer get? Abortion pills. Ohhhh! I was so close! Wow I was gonna say Viagra at first but then like no you know yeah well you were kind of on the right track but yeah, that's crazy. But this is a kind of let's make some points here about abortion pills and PR Wait a minute! On the last show we have Ukrainian men freezing their sperm so that they can still

1:08:41 Build a country of young Ukrainians if they get killed on the front lines and now the next show four days later We hear that abortion pills were the problem This is cool. Let's make it so we've had these war reports over the last 15 years now and again Yeah, we have to make sure that we angle this the right way So here's the bonus clip that follows all this other stuff ask Adam geopolitical three And there isn't the first reason was Um, cases. The request that first sparked this donation of pills was a plea on behalf of women raped by Russian soldiers My goodness I could have figured that one out Oh my goodness it's always some bull crap like that isn't it? They're raping the women! They're handing out Viagra so they can rape all the women! Oh man Two things aren't changing that much That is so lame

1:09:45 I thought i had something on this. Oh no, if we just get off Ukraine for a minute because I'm kind of bored of it there was... I'm good! Yeah you're good. It was a similar gambit being used in Iran because we still have to kick Iran's ass for whatever, subjugate them to our deal or whatever it is now. Iran's coming back, Iran's trending and it's trending with the poisoning of the schoolgirls. Welcome to The News Hour, let's bring you some breaking news coming out of Iran where dozens of schoolgirls across five provinces are in hospital after a new wave of suspected poisoning attacks Of course authorities have said that it is Iran's enemies behind this but that is pretty vague itself Are they being any clearer about where the finger of blame is being pointed?

1:10:36 No, for right now there is no clear answer being provided by any officials in government. We heard from the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi during a speech on Friday he accused Western powers of carrying out these attacks to try and create instability in Iran and try to create fear amongst the parents of these girls schoolgirls in general in the country we know that the President has tasked the Interior Minister to look into these attacks and also trying to figure out what is happening and prevent them from taking place. We understand that the various levels of intelligence apparatuses in the country are also working with the Interior Ministry, but I think it's important to point out that we don't have any clear answers and the officials haven't provided any evidence they've come up with that would prove Western powers or foreign powers involved in these attacks

1:11:28 What is clear is that they are increasing in numbers which is only making parents more worried. I've spoken to a number of parents over the past few hours who say they're clearly worried about their daughters and they're not sure if they will send them back to school in the coming days." Alright, what is missing from this report? Which she says clearly a lot... What's missing from the report? Well, to me what's missing is that Iranians don't want girls go to school pretty much like the Taliban. Well, so that's why reports here eventually will start well there you know the the Taliban or are you the regime which we need to change in Iran is poisoning the schoolgirls don't want them to go to school but what's missing is any analysis of the poison being used not a single word excellent notice now what do I think it could be when we go back to Havana syndrome

1:12:25 Because you see all these videos of these girls lying on cots, filling up the hallways. By the way that could be a total... They're throwing babies out of incubators? That's also possible I don't know. You know that would that would be a good one. Yeah it could be staged. But i don't see them puking and I don't see puke everywhere. I don't see any of-I don't see them going into convulsions just laying there they're looking like oh I don't feel good Could this be a Havana Syndrome weapon? We may be using that. It's just there is something screwy about this story and the lack of any type of toxicology reporting is telling, I think So it's either phony or could be something like one of our Havana Syndrome weapons which I think we've pretty much deconstructed the intelligence agencies are using on each other

1:13:26 Yeah, I doubt if we have anything to do with this. It's something else but...I just don't see why what's the point? We play these sorts of games you know but that's pretty granular it seems to me for us to be involved. If were going zap somebody with these things we'd zap a couple high up guys and have some fun. Hey! Why don't we do that to Putin?! We should zap him. Yeah, now you're talking! Let's zap him. Putin... Zap him. You know what? The military-industrial complex doesn't want Putin zapped. We can't have that happening. What will happen to sales if the war in Ukraine ends prematurely before we are positioned for the war in China or the War Over Taiwan or whatever we're going to call it

1:14:18 The war in Asia. Well that's been scheduled for 2026, that's a ways off. 2027... That was 26. No it was 2020- so that's what the CIA told us, the CIA guy 27? Yeah, hold on. Burns Bill Burns yeah here it is preparing Countries are increasingly wary of China which is continuing its military build-up the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency's warning of China's intentions in the Indo-Pacific William Burns says President Xi Jinping appears to be readying for an invasion of Taiwan by 2027. We know as a matter of intelligence that he's instructed the People's Liberation Army to be ready, by 2027, to conduct a successful invasion now that does not mean that he has decided

1:15:11 to conduct an invasion in 2027 or any other year, but it's a reminder of the seriousness of his focus and ambition. Burns warned Xi should not be underestimated The Chinese president is currently serving his third term in office It expires in 2027 Burns says he is closely watching Russia's invasion of Ukraine And is likely unsettled and a little sobered by the performance of the Russian military There you go. Yeah, he needs a little action for his re-election. Oh totally! It's an old classic gambit. So there was this... When George Bush ran for reelection and all of the sudden we were on orange alert remember those things at the airport? Uh yeah yes was it just

1:16:02 Yeah, it was just before the election and everyone condemned him for being using it as a political ploy so he'd get reelected. Right. And guess what? If I may ask you to guess... Go ahead! It was a political ploy. So the Treaty of the Sea It has been agreed to but not signed, but this was a big thing this week at the United Nations. And the Treaty of the Sea pushes out a zone I think it's 200 miles from which is like an incredible amount 200 miles from any country's exclusive economic zone

1:16:54 And that will be a protected zone that you can't fish in and do all kinds of stuff. It's like, it was really kind of unclear what the point was of everyone making such a big deal out of this although I do recall Hillary Clinton being all jacked up on the Treaty of the Sea years and years ago actually here 2000 2003 we were playing this. The 2003 treaty between Russia and Ukraine... Oh wait This is 2018, sorry. ...designates the Kurds Strait and the Sea of Azov as shared territorial waters but Moscow has been asserting greater control over the area since its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 particularly since May this year when it opened a new 19 kilometer bridge linking the peninsula to Russian territory to the east of the Kurds Strait So it extends your economic zone essentially so

1:17:56 Although they didn't get a full-on text of this resolution in the United Nations, everyone was all jitty and all jacked and all happy about it. And I'm like what could this mean? Why is this so important? And then i found this... Let's now talk about islands There are islands with an area less than the Vatican City sometimes claimed by three or even more countries Seemingly insignificant Islands hold strategic and economic treasure for countries Every island offshore provides an avenue for military and naval bases. The 200 nautical miles area around the island's shores falling in a country's exclusive economic zone, which means that the particular nation can lay exclusive claim to all the resources available in this area. Now consider this

1:18:49 A country recently found that it has not one, not two but over 7000 islands which were previously not accounted for. The country which has hid the treasure is Japan. So Japan could extend its economic zone with military hardware ours by an extra 200 miles! Wouldn't that be convenient? For them... Yes, that's the point move towards China Now that you have a situation, sorry? What happens when you have a situation this used to be a big deal back in the Nixonian era. We have two islands Kumhoi and Matsu

1:19:34 Yeah, that are across from each other one owned. I think once Chinese and was Japan or ones Korean? I don't know what the two countries are yeah But there would but them the island themselves Let's just say any random to islands that are owned by two different countries are within 200 miles of each. Yeah That's a problem now well it has to be resolved into treaty. It has to be resolved with violence oh Come on, we're going for violence man. Not just any old treaty that's no fun We want some action and got to get something going here Oh man You really like that woman That's what I gotta kick out of you that you follow her This is not Paki Sharma

1:20:19 No? She sounds just like her. Hello, W-I-O-N that's racist of you to say but yes the Indian women often sound alike now she's gone to something called First Post or... Well didn't she leave WION? Yes she left WION this is WION and so they just put a replacement. Sound alike another woman I think they all kind of sounded like you know i'm just saying You'll be hearing from our Brahmin. I know, the difference is this lady leaves long pauses in between...I actually left the first one in but I cut most of them out because she really leaves you...speaking of such

1:21:02 More response from my rant against pod speeding, that is now the official term. Pod fasting was not working for everybody. Pod speeding is the act of listening to a podcast at more than the normal speed we have unscientific evidence but a lot A lot of accounts, first-hand accounts of people saying that it has hijacked their nervous system. They have no patience with the people around them, people they love, their spouses, their children, their co-workers... That it makes them jittery and there are just two more pieces that came in that I would like to share because... I want to mention something here? Yes

1:21:43 I have gotten some complaining notes about this, about your obsession with this. Yes? I'm just trying to save lives that's all and I am backing you on this because i think it is interesting The people who are complaining there you go they are already irritated They're irritated by us even talking about it. Quite, they're slightly irritated Thanks for opening my eyes to the pod speeding side effects. My pod fasting or pod speeding use case was this I try to listen to the show live on Podverse on Thursday and Sunday evening here in Germany, but my wife wouldn't let me listen to the whole show so the next morning I would 1.25 it to re-listened to the bits I heard live and catch up on missed out sections This of course meant that i'm really fidgety on Fridays and Mondays And now I know why and will not do it again

1:22:31 How about that? And this final one from Sir Scovey, Earl of the Piedmont. My dad lost his eyesight entirely when he was 12. In his adult life, he listened to thousands of hours of audiobooks most of which he checked out for free from the National Library for the Blind At that time, NLB provided cassette players with playback speed control in later years, he listened to digital audio books regardless of format my dad routinely listened to audiobooks and eventually podcasts on playback much greater than 1x speed

1:23:09 My dad died in 2019. He was diagnosed with frontal temporal lobe dementia just days prior to his death he struggled often with anxiety and depression in his later years Now my mom has been blind since birth She was a medical transcriptionist for nearly 50 years For decades her words per minute was 120 plus and she often listened to dictation at speeds much greater than 1x For the last two years, my siblings and I have observed what we fear are signs of decline in our cognitive ability. Your point about resonance makes me wonder if long-term exposure to unnatural resonance can be a factor in cognitive decline."

1:23:49 I've consumed a lot of podcasts and audiobooks in recent years. Other producers have noted playback speed was based on the presenters or narrators, and I agree some have slow cadence. I never listened to N.A at speeds greater than 1.0. Normal rate is perfect in fact off putting me to higher playback speeds but I think that maybe we've struck something here about depression and anxiety We could be saving lives with this John Well, I'm gonna give it to you. You're the one doing it but I'm interested in this. This is fascinating. We need some medical advice. There's gotta be something to it because if you start listening everything at 1.5 or

1:24:35 I don't know. Could you listen at two? Oh, some people do sure! I think you could if you had the right pitch kind of a thing as accounting for pitch so just... No that works now the pitch control is built into these systems You know it's like it rarely changes the pitch they first they chop out silences So you sound normal but you're talking real fast. But understand by clear The problem is not listening to the podcast The problem is the rest of the world That's the problem. You can get depressed if everyone is slow and not moving at your speed, and you're jittery and anxious... Yes! Yes! You should probably be listening to the podcast at .8. Now I did get some notes from people saying they listen at half speed and we sound like a couple of drunks according to them. That's bold, that's bold. People are just making fun of us by saying no one listens in lower speeds. I don't even know why they put lower speeds in it except for Ben Shapiro maybe. Yeah what is the point? Ben Shapiro maybe, maybe. Yes Shapiro there's a couple other people. Anyway I'm only doing this

1:25:40 I've given up on my art, our art of creating beautiful programming. Given up on that. Oh by the way we've been accused of being wrong at least 20 times You want to go through this because he has, this guy gives three examples and a couple of yours. So we have a mea culpa? We have to apologize for being error- Maybe maybe not this is from Black Metal Cowboy He says over the last several weeks of episodes I've never heard from this guy before. I've noticed instances in which you and Johnny... We'll be getting weird notes from people that don't show up in the database Exactly

1:24:35 I don't know. Could you listen at two? Oh, some people do sure! I think you could if you had the right pitch kind of a thing as accounting for pitch so just... No that works now the pitch control is built into these systems You know it's like it rarely changes the pitch they first they chop out silences So you sound normal but you're talking real fast. But understand by clear The problem is not listening to the podcast The problem is the rest of the world That's the problem. You can get depressed if everyone is slow and not moving at your speed, and you're jittery and anxious... Yes! Yes! You should probably be listening to the podcast at .8. Now I did get some notes from people saying they listen at half speed and we sound like a couple of drunks according to them. That's bold, that's bold. People are just making fun of us by saying no one listens in lower speeds. I don't even know why they put lower speeds in it except for Ben Shapiro maybe. Yeah what is the point? Ben Shapiro maybe, maybe. Yes Shapiro there's a couple other people. Anyway I'm only doing this

1:25:40 I've given up on my art, our art of creating beautiful programming. Given up on that. Oh by the way we've been accused of being wrong at least 20 times You want to go through this because he has, this guy gives three examples and a couple of yours. So we have a mea culpa? We have to apologize for being error- Maybe maybe not this is from Black Metal Cowboy He says over the last several weeks of episodes I've never heard from this guy before. I've noticed instances in which you and Johnny... We'll be getting weird notes from people that don't show up in the database Exactly

1:26:17 I've noted instances in which you and John have made factually incorrect claims. I do not believe you are doing so purposefully to mislead your producers, You just don't know you're wrong! Okay... The danger comes... the danger, danger Your producers hold you in such high value they believe what you speak is factually correct by default. This confirmation bias leads them to blindly appeal to your authority and propagate all of what you have said as factual! Below I have included three of the approximately 20 instances I've noted over the last 15 episodes I am not an expert in any of these subjects as a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry whose role is currently evaluating and investigating design failures but critical thinking researches still critical thinking research regardless of the subject. Okay so he feels it his duty to apply the same standards for no agenda show, I'm happy... You have to get the list of all twenty items! Oh he's approximately twenty he only has three

1:27:14 And he starts off, John offers his belief that vasectomies change the appearance and mannerisms of men likening them to quote old lesbians. He further claims this change is so profound he can pick out men with vasectomies from a crowd! He also claimed vasectomy reversals are almost never successful This claim is incorrect Hold on. Now the claim, so what he's doing here, let's dissect this approach is to bring up all my opinions which have been verified by more than a few people and in fact it comes from the books that were written about this in the mid-20s 1920s where vasectomies were considered a way of making yourself look more youthful and

1:28:04 And he's taken that and then conflated it with what he thinks is just a wrong opinion, that vasectomies can't be reversed. I'm gonna help you on this let's read on roughly half-a-million men undergo vasectomies in the US each year would have been nice if he included a source to this by the way stop I'm sorry to pull a carrot but go ahead The guy writing in has had a vasectomy. Absolutely, that's why it's number one no doubt about it but he I think he reads Wikipedia Anyway, roughly half a million men undergo vasectomies in the US each year. Roughly 6% will decide to undergo a reversal According to Stanford Medicine no link 90 percent of those procedures are effective Even if one were to debate the definition of effective it is still wait Let me do you'll love this It is still a far cry from John's quote

1:29:02 Almost never. Okay, since you put that in quotes black metal cowboy we do have a transcript tool which thank you very much Stephen B Transcript tool where I can search our transcripts going back about three years and here is exactly what John said Which you quoted? You quoted him as saying almost never effective, you know So now he's got to reverse this It was rarely works. Well, you know he doesn't it doesn't rarely works is the quote my friend not almost never Rarely works yeah if you're gonna be this kind of picky guy exactly by the way I'm gonna use this against you all the time too because it's really fast record regarding vasectomy change but you won't get very far Hold on did you also say old lesbians? Oh

1:29:53 I don't know if you said old lesbians. No, you didn't say old lesbians! You did not! Hold on hold on hold on the exact opposite is true listen to this... As they got older, they started looking like young lesbians. Young lesbians! Not old lesbians! Quote quote quote Study after study most of which are infuriatingly paywalled has shown there is no change in hormone levels of men who undergo vasectomies There are studies that show emotional changes resulting from vasectomies i.e feeling less masculine but those emotions are purely psychological and revert over time

1:30:39 Studies aside, by what mechanic would have mechanics would have a sectomy invoked these changes John speaks up. Well you've got everything wrong so far all of a sect me does is prevent prevents term for sperm from entering the semen The testes still produce the same hormones and release them this guy's but is snipped I agree with you there So your response other than he got all of your quotes wrong besides getting on my quotes wrong including young lesbians Okay, I don't care. I'm just telling you what I think and I have been able to spot these other people have too Exactly And it's and it's been documented in the number of books in the 20s when this was a very popular procedure And it was done specifically to give people a young look correct yeah Yeah, it had it specifically to give people a min a youthful appearance The second one is about me Adam points out

1:31:39 I love doing this. Adam points out earthquakes are no longer measured using the Richter scale and implies something nefarious is at foot, or at least this is incompetence in reporting of earthquakes! I am not a seismologist but the answer was easy to find In fact Wikipedia has a well-notated highly detailed overview on the subject And then he goes into the change that was made to the Richter scale. All I said, all i said was they used the momentum scale and that was changed to make the numbers much bigger than the Richter scale which is used in mainstream media to make things sound often much worse than they are

1:32:22 When it comes to nefarious things being at foot, that is regarding the earthquake machine. As the Secretary of Defense in 1987 I'm going to say Richard Cohen specifically said we and other countries have earthquake technology to evoke earthquakes so there's no debunking on that But maybe in this one particular case, I didn't delve into the momentum scale versus the Richter scale. So you should probably listen a little bit more before you jump Now the third one is my favorite and this is not even you it's about your wife which just gets me mad He blames you but its from Mimi

1:33:11 John claims eggs should never be salted before cooking because the salt makes them tough Is that what you said? It makes them tough. This is Mimi's thing, I've never...I mean I've said it but I'm always referring to her she's the egg expert She wrote a 700 page book too many eggs dot com it's available for free on a PDF just sign up for it and if she is the expert on eggs and she said this another people have written in since I mentioned it on the show That then they all said the same thing that eggs taste better this way No he says they're tough That you said they were tough. Did you actually... Yes, that's what Mimi said. Mimi said it makes them tough and there are other I think Gordon Ramsay also subscribes to this thesis This belief is found in many cookbooks and propagated by many famous chefs In addition to making them tough they say salting eggs before cooking will turn them gay-I mean gray

1:34:07 Others make a contradictory claim that salt will make them turn watery. However, numerous recent experiments – no link provided – have shown it to be incorrect! Salt does not impact color or texture regardless of how far ahead cooking salt was added. Cooking method and temperature are the drivers of texture and color." In fact, John's claim doesn't even match with how the chemistry works. The egg proteins are mostly negatively charged which keeps them apart until high heat is applied. The salt dissolves into positive and negative ions which neutralize the charge of the proteins allowing them to coagulate at lower temperature producing a more tender scrambled egg! Dude...

1:34:48 This is the kind of stuff that can just drives me nuts. I love it! Drives me nuts! I wish this guy would take that egg commentary with links and then help them post it on the egg blog that's floating around somewhere that we have. Egg blog, nice! And just post it, it'd be great, we could use it Yeah Alright Now that we've been proven to be factually... 17 items are. If they're all of this severity people should stop listening. They suck these things, by the way let me just say this

1:35:26 This is not that important. A black metal cowboy? Hey, a black metal cowboy you suck! These are... this is not even close to being something worth complaining about I agree If you really want to complain about something do what Russell Brand did Did you see Russell Brand? Let's just set and I wanna play this clip because it's just so Is this the one with Heilman? Yes Oh, Heilman couldn't get a word in. Heilman's the doofus compared to Russell. Russell Brand is really sharp! You know Heilman

1:36:02 Yeah, oh yeah. I know Heilman. Would you say in the past you might even have considered each other acquaintances or friends? I would say acquaintances for sure and everybody was... The rule is and I'll throw out anyone out there wants to know a friend, acquaintance whatever nobody's your friend unless you've been to their house for lunch or dinner or they've been to your house for lunch or dinner Now, I would say that I've been to your house once for dinner and I don't think we're friends. No, I know. Okay? It's not an exclusive thing. I'm saying that if somebody, if you say some is your friend and they don't have that qualifier in there, you've been to their house or they've been to your house for lunch or dinner then they are definitely not your friends. Yes, I have been to plenty of people's houses for lunch and dinner or whatever. And I don't consider them my friends or their acquaintances or be somebody might even like him. Yeah exactly. That's different exactly. So

1:37:01 John Heilman who I think he does mainly reports, you know. He's a does opinion for Morning Joe certainly he is part of the Morning Joe team although i think a lot of times he's on remote not always in the studio and but also appears on other shows but she's always very opinionated and this is the context of what happened here it was fantastic segment The context is that MSNBC, CNN... I mean but also anything every news organization cable network or otherwise has been trying to discredit Fox News by saying they're such liars. They didn't even believe the January 6th

1:37:49 election stolen conspiracy, what they said they did on Fox News but privately they all said oh they don't believe it. And this has just been ongoing- Which we've been debunking for a while Yeah which is just an annoying when you're making each other the news story is what you're doing and your discrediting the entire news business. It took Russell Brand and I appreciate this and part of it because his accent the words he uses, his incredible command of language and something that I didn't like but i think it's effective. He touches Heilman all the time grabs his arm. Yeah he does it! I'm not sure what technique of persuasion that is? It's dangerous because I would say get your hands off me you limey bitch

1:38:40 That's what Holliman should have said. I think he would know that in advance? Oh, maybe... Because he was also calling him Darling and he would touch his arm which like that's really aggressive! He was sitting, this is to back this up. This is from the Bill Maher show just this last Friday and they had Russell Brand on him. Russell Brand took over the show I mean he's one of those guys you'd be hard to work with because he's a Mike hog but he's really good at it and his... He's very good at it! Yeah so he would be tough. He would be one of those guys that you don't want to work with

1:39:20 Because he's gonna dominate the... I mean, his ability to handle Seymour Hersh was one indicator. He is natural at this and I have to say he's feeling his oats, and when he sees somebody that's weak... And Heilman is a writer who doesn't have the kind of broadcasting chops or performance chops that a guy like Russell Brand has. And Russell Brand may actually be boosted on something too for all I know

1:39:55 Although I don't see it. No, he's I think he's clean. I mean you yeah He probably is he was on heroin for a while there. He's clean but he is he sees a weak guy and he just Steamrolls him steamy steamrolled him He did. It's a three minute clip, but it's well worth it. John I've not known you long but I love you already But I have to say that is actually I think he's a master NLP guy or persuader saying stuff like that that right off the bat? I don't know who you are by love you already These are very powerful things he's doing. Brand has chops in this.

1:40:46 These corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners in black rock and vanguard And unless we start to embrace and then also mate like just spiritually if I may use that word in your great country We have to take responsibility For our own perspective. I've been on that MSNBC mate it was propagandist nutcrackery It was absurd And listen to the audience, by the way. The audience who you would presume be mostly leftists at the Bill Maher show they're applauding for a lot of things that if any other right-of-center person said will be

1:41:40 I was like Edward Snowden, no one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people. And i think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous! Make MSNBC better! Make MSNBC great again! And that landed, that's a-that landed that joke. The moment of the end! One more thing you should note is because we don't have visuals here Heilman is trying as hard as he can not to cry. Stop him and not the cry Yeah, but she's also he's leaning way back He's like And he's trying to get a word in edgewise you can't do that with a guy like brand You got to just sit there and let him finish But he kept yeah, then you have to prepare a zinger at the end. Yeah It's only way I can do which you do calm and collected exactly See my friend

1:42:38 See that's the mistake. That's a mistake when Heilman goes Russell darling he's trying to eat trying to mirror him He's trying to play Russells game bad idea Heilman get back to writing. It's always a bad idea to do that. Get back to writing bro this is not your, not your territory it's not your battlefield. Russell darling the moment that you give me a specific example an actual example... Brand was prepared for this you could tell. I'd like to hear a specific example, approval-specific example of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television saying something they knew was false and were saying behind the scenes to people. This is...I'm about to go out there we know that we know that the election wasn't stolen. You've illustrated this example! But i will go out but I will go out on television and say the opposite

1:43:35 I will lie. When's my answer? Just give me a specific example! Give me a specific example! Alright, alright... I'm with you. I think it is a false equivalency Russell. And there is Bill Maher who-I don't know why he said oh I think its a false equivalency so what Bill Maher is saying is that MSNBC never does that they never and the stuff about Julian Assange well of course thats not what Russel Brand meant that wasn't the equivalency hes saying MSNBC also has propaganda. That's what he said and Bill Maher is like, why? He should have stayed out of it that made him look dumb. This was a moment to sit back and just enjoy the ratings But I will go out on television and say the opposite. I will lie. When is my answer? Just give me this specific example. Give me a specific example

1:44:26 I'm with you. I think it's a false equivalency, Russell. It's not! That's your kind of biases! It's not about bias, it's a false equivalency because you don't actually know anything about any of these organizations that we're talking about even MSNBC ones big fucking deal my darling it was more than enough Now he shows he's mad by saying big fucking deal. Hyman sinking, he's drowning here! He is also talking faster than he normally does. Yeah, he's drowning, he's drowning. It's not about bias it's a false agreement because you don't actually know anything about any of these organizations that we're talking about even at MSNBC once Big fucking deal My darling it was more than enough You can't come out with such a carry off What does he mean by non-responsive? What is that what is he trying to say there

1:45:30 He says non-responsive. The Heilman was saying non responsive? Yeah, yeah what is he trying to say there? I don't know because it doesn't make any sense...he's very responsive! Yeah i just didn't understand exactly what he was saying then. I think he was shorted out by then the just listen to Bernie Sanders, someone who plainly legitimately believes in this country and believes it's possible to change but is bound by corruption. He is bound by the lobbying system. Surely its clear to you Bill as one of the great pundits and experts and comic voices that systemic change is required money has to be taken out politics we need

1:46:26 Oh man, props to Russell Brand. That was dynamite! That was really, really good. Really good I really enjoyed that phenomenal Okay let's do one of those guys I've run into these guys in you know it's in public speaking arenas or Russell Brand no into these guys this type a person yeah so I mean the type of person who can't beat in an argument or situation where there is a debate situation

1:47:31 And they'll just you can't do it. I think Shapiro is kind of like that in a debate. Oh, without a doubt! Without a doubt and so what you do is you never get into this with them ever. The funny thing is that this debate that they're having is not the actual debate This whole noise and that's kinda too bad Dominion voting machines, Dominion systems they are suing Fox News for defamation and this is all coming out of Discovery you know the text messages but what it's obfuscating is the fact that Dominion themselves said our systems are shit. You can get wrong results It's easy to hack into you know they're no good That's also in The Discovery all of this is obfuscating that that's a sad part of it That's the sad part

1:48:26 But anyway, it was fun entertainment. We like bread and games that's who we are as a people Before we take our break I'd like to delve into CPAC. I think you have some clips. I'll set you up Sorry, no, I'll just say yeah hold on Tonight, the race to 2024 intensifying as former President Trump makes his case for the Republican presidential nomination. We're going to complete the mission we're going to see this battle through to ultimate victory. Trump taking center stage at CPAC, The Conservative Political Action Conference a once must attend event for GOP stars now dominated by his supporters

1:49:06 We believe in Donald Trump. It is very Trump centered around here. It's not Trump 2024, it's Trump forever. Former South Carolina governor turned candidate Nikki Haley heckled by the crowd. Other possible GOP hopefuls like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence skipping CPAC, highlighting the divide over the party's future. We are over here tearing each other apart And tonight as President Biden mulls his re-election bid he now faces a Democratic challenger Self-help author Marianne Williamson launching another long shot campaign, speaking exclusively to ABC's Jonathan Karl. The Democratic Party needs to be a conduit for the healing of this country but first the Democratic Party needs to look in the mirror and heal itself. She wasn't at CPAC was she? Why'd they bring her in? It's just a throwaway what channel was this? Uh...ABC

1:50:06 I have no idea. Weird though! Just the entertainment value, I have no idea ABC Disney...I don't know yeah. My reports are from NPR and they're not that much different they're not dissimilar but they do have a little more details about one thing or another even though they didn't they produced this before the Trump speech which we can talk about CPAC won. CPAC is often let me put it this way a chorus line for Republican candidates where you know they audition before politically active young conservatives who might want to work in their political campaigns. Has that been the case this year, though? That's a really good way to put it because it generally is something of a chorus line of Republicans who are kind of coming and trying to play to the sort of thousands of conservatives usually young activists who get together there part of the conservative movement really weather vane for the conservative movement is what CPAC winds up being but this time around really not many of those

1:51:01 potential presidential candidates showed up. We did hear from a couple of them, Nikki Haley was one she's the former South Carolina governor who worked as UN ambassador in the Trump administration here's what some of what she had to say She really tried to appeal to the right wing of the party Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic hands down I have traveled the world and back, and I've seen what's out there. America isn't perfect but the principles at the heart of America are perfect And take it from me The first minority female governor in history America is not a racist country

1:51:41 You know, there's a lot in that obviously. And you can tell there she is kind of trying to walk this line. She is throwing red meat to the base hoping to win them over but Donald Trump really has real stronghold on a lot of that base. She really needs to win over white collar Republicans who are the ones who are mostly saying they want an alternative to Trump I find Nikki Haley interesting entrant into this because she literally using DeSantis' lines. DeSantis is anti-woke guy That's all he talks about. He is the anti-woke guy, why would she jump in? By the way her voice... Oh man! Grates! It really does! Zippy thinks it sucks! No it just... Grates! She hasn't got any charisma Zero charisma! She writes... No charisma, grating voice Not particularly attractive I'm sure she has to some people but not particularly attractive She's no like somebody you want to really look at

1:52:43 and to be honest about it. And no, nothing... she's kind of a hawk. She's a little bit of a neocon and I never thought she was that supportive of Trump when she'd been hired by him No? No, she wasn't Well we've been hearing her for running for a long time But she thinks that the chops still run for president She thinks somebody wants to run for president She's like Kamala Harris How about this Could she be a trial balloon for DeSantis trying on vice presidency? No, no. No, no Now try trial because DeSantis didn't speak at this a trial balloon to see what sticks what works so that the Santas can hone his message Just a thought know The Santas is so heads and shoulders above her that I don't think he has anything to do with it

1:53:39 Let's go to part two. Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State also spoke he has been going through all the expected motions of someone who is considering becoming a candidate did he try to distance himself at all from Donald Trump? Yeah, and I was really listening to see what kind of line he was going to draw because it hasn't been clear how he's gonna distinguish himself. But he did try to make something of an electability argument let's take a listen in that We lost three elections in a row And the popular vote is seven of the last eight There are many reasons for this but one of them as I think they've lost trust In the conservative ideas and this is the task that's in front of us and I am convinced we can do it because we're right

1:54:21 You know, Pompeo really took what was kind of an oblique shot at Trump but kind of veiled really. He talked about himself having been a Sunday school teacher and that the country needs that kind of character but his speech wasn't exactly a barn burner neither was Nikki Haley's really and they spoke both in front of half-empty audiences and got just lukewarm receptions at best. Domenico you've covered CPAC for almost two decades And I wonder what this year's CONFAB tells you about the state of the conservative movement in America right now. Yeah, you know it's really fractured. CPAC is usually an event that tells you where the movement is headed and it seems more like it still something more like TPAC, a Trump Political Action Conference because it really just highlighted that even Haley was sort of sandwiched between two Trumps Donald Trump Jr went before her Larry Trump, former President Trump's daughter-in-law went afterward so the bigger news here this weekend almost was

1:55:18 the people who didn't show up. We're talking about Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator and Trump's former vice president Mike Pence who all opted to go to a donor retreat in Florida hosted by The Club for Growth which is an anti-tax group that has been involved in Republican politics for a long time And they are saying that they want to really support somebody other than Trump and these candidates really need the kind of money that comes along with that But because Trump has such a stronghold on party infrastructure In a potentially crowded field, he still looks like the man to beat. You know what's missing from these reports? A single soundbite from Trump! They did this report before Trump spoke He spoke at the very end and the report that you played did have the sound bites from Trump Yeah but not this sound bite Before I even arrive at the Oval Office I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled It will be settled quickly

1:56:22 I will get the problem solved and...I will get it solved in rapid order. And it will take me no longer than one day, I know exactly what to say to each of them. I got along with very well with Putin even though I'm the one that ended his pipeline remember they said Trump is giving a lot to Russia really? Putin actually said to me if you're my friend I'd hate like hell to see you as my enemy Now what's interesting there Is he slipped into I was the one that ended the pipeline How about that I don't know what that means. You're always talking about Nord Stream! Yeah, well obviously... I'm the one that ended the pipeline? Okay. And I can fix it before I come into the Oval Office is that before you're elected or can do it tomorrow? I mean I think that if he how about this for a super gambit He goes on a press tour stands there with Putin and Putin says yeah, you know what I talked to Don and yeah We're gonna we're gonna stop this thing now

1:57:26 Would that make Trump popular? Yeah. But would Trump, if Trump could like the promises the Logan Act or one of these things where you can't do foreign diplomacy if you're a citizen even though everybody does it yeah Can he do it as a former president well I mean all they've all done it I'm Trump! I'm putting The Don in the Donbass everybody! You just see it There is one surprise entrant coming in the 2024 election, supposedly. I'm excited about this guy! It's been a long time since the Kennedy name was associated with a long-shot outsider presidential campaign but those days could be making a comeback on Friday Robert Kennedy Jr., speaking at St Anselm College was asked if he's considering a run for the White House in 2024? I am thinking about it

1:58:27 You know I passed the biggest hurdle which is that my wife has green lighted it. How about that? I'd vote for him too! I can't see... now, i'm sure he would run Democrat right yeah But I'm an independent, not affiliated to vote for anybody. I am a politically homeless so i don't have to vote for anybody either but I like him I mean, they'd ruin him in some way or shoot him. It's hard to say what they do. The family does have a bad experience with running for office and being... They shoot them. That's really dark, Devorah. Anyway back to Trump, I listened to his speech which was long and he had a lot- He also won the straw poll which i thought was interesting because that last time you know it is the thing that Ron Paul used always win in old days

1:59:27 And I thought it was pretty good. He had some new stuff, he had this new bit about... He has a new bit that he does, the April Fool's Bit. It goes on and starts with, it says, April Fools' joke and then he cites all of blunders and follow-ups. It needed a little work because it was the first time I've heard this, but it was staged. It was okay. His points are he really hits home with everything that lot of these guys just can't seem to come into grips with some of the issues he says we gotta fix. But at the same time we've already seen him, he's kind of full of crap. I'm not been a fan since he refused

2:00:15 to pardon Snowden and Assange in particular. There's no reason for that, he should have done it unless he had a gun to his head and if he has got a gun to his head then hell we can just vote anybody in there because they all have a gun to their heads. Yeah yeah well... It should be fun I mean we'll probably make it with the show through the 2024 election but that will be the fourth election you and I've been through together? One, two three. Yeah looks like it. We should probably call a quiz at four I mean, goodness gracious. We get the egg book selling first. Hey! I don't have a piece of that action man. I got to get an exit strategy together. I'm going to be the anti-egg guy. If we've already got the value for value book, we're gonna do the same thing. You get a piece of that... Oh okay yeah well now you've seen the numbers? And we also have the primer, no agenda ABCs or whatever it is

2:01:19 That book which had been stolen on forever. I think we need to do consultancy We need to do consultancy that oh, yeah, we actually could if we could get some business can we? Good that's the problem Or with all our knowledge you know I could run in a In 2028, you could be my political advisor. I think you should do a run for Texas governor That would be a fun gig that would be cool yeah when is that? You'd have to move back to Austin but you get in the Governor's mansion. I'm not gonna move back to well at the Governor's Mansion Yeah that's all right. Yeah it gets cordoned off. And Tina just wear big sexy cowboy hats all day

2:02:03 First lady of Texas. And then you shoot a gun in the air, that's the one thing I'm always expecting the governor of Texas to do once in awhile. Hee-yah and then shoot a gun in the air! I think Texas Governor is a powerful position that could be a lot of fun It could be a lot of them. Well maybe that then, we'll have to see when Abbott is out. Didn't we just... no he has another what five years? How many more years do you get here? I think it's four at a crack i don't think it's six yeah We hope not. Anyway. That's only the US Senate And with that as we discuss our exit strategy I'd like to say in the morning to you The man who put the C in the CPAC confact Ladies and gentlemen please say hello To my friend on the other end Mr John C Duvour

2:02:47 Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Well, in the morning to you Mr. Adam Cree. In the morning ships sea boots with the ground. Feed the air subs and water and all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room! How ya doing trolls? Good to see y'all there they've actually handed me a couple one-liners I appreciate it good job their trolls The trolls are in the troll room which you can join at surprise trollroom.io Right there, you can hop into chat and listen to the stream live We recommend getting one of our modern podcast apps at podcastapps.com Podverse, Podcast Addict those are ones that will give you an alert

2:03:22 When the bat signal is sent, when we start the show actually with the pre-stream you can hear all kinds of stuff going on before we hit record and you can get those again at podcastapps.com Now let's see how many trolls are joining us today Let me get the troll count over here Second the counting machine is counting. $2199, so just shy of 2200. How do we write that on the scale? It's about right. Okay well you're about right today trolls! Then if you don't want to do anything live, or if you are hindered. You can always check out the conversations over there at noagendasocial.com Thank you to Aaroner who is still running the show He runs that out of his basement which is highly appreciated It's a full-time gig babying a huge Mastodon instance like ours

2:04:19 At power go out, the UPSs ran down and he had to wait until that came back up. There was just no other way to do it now He keeps refusing value for value Everyone keeps saying hey you know if we can solve some things with throw some money at it But he refuses that he's a good guy. He's a great guy That is there's a tremendous amount of value. He is providing back I personally offered value to him In many ways, and he just no no. And it's if I run into trouble that you know so far So good we also get tremendous value from our artists now every single show while We're doing the show live there are artists listening and you can follow that at Noah Jenna art generator calm You can refresh it in real time

2:05:04 The artists are creating artwork for a topic or something to think is Is appropriate that relates to what we discussed in the episode and it also was a great way for? The show to get attention when we change this artwork people are always like wow. What is this oh, it's no agenda of course and Dame Kenny BEM had just a powerful pop of a piece of art there for episode 1534 We titled that the chit which is a new sitcom coming this season on NBC, The Chit. This was the zap! It had a brain and silhouette of a head and a zap which is related to the Intel agencies zapping each other with the Havana Syndrome weapon it was without a doubt that the font that she used... No, it's very pretty piece and he had a nice kind

2:05:55 interesting shading and it was simple and complicated. It was just a nice piece, it was the best... I mean, I used the piece next to it for the newsletter because I just thought that it's good piece of art but... Oh, that was the... Yellin' in a space suit or something like that? What is is, it's a throwback to Invasion Of Mars The Invasion from Mars movie which you hate? Oh, that crummy movie. Yeah I love that movie! That was terrible. It's like...I think it ruined the career of Tim Burton that one movie He did quite okay after that didn't he

2:06:35 Well, he was on the upswing as being a superstar art artsy fartsy director that was gonna always produce fascinating material after Batman and then He did that Mars movie. And that was the end of it. No no I'm sorry to hear that Okay, well we love the art from Dame Kenny Ben. What else were we looking at? There was a lot of Scott Adams jokes now... You liked Winnie-the-Pooh one over there. I thought it was okay. Roger Roundy really liked that piece Oh he did? Yeah if you look into Mastodon or instances of Mastodon A lot these artists come on there and they predict what we're gonna pick

2:07:21 Yeah, which is always never get it right by the way. It's weird It's a mistake There really is some tick-tock stuff in there Some stylized pieces amygdala therapy cute cute But just entertainment as an enlightenment whoa does that the mic falling out of the cradle or was that you falling over? You just fall down No, it was the Scarlett hit the deck. Oh well it's still working. Hey! Nail that shit down! Zippy be quiet. Um what else? No that was it those are the ones that uh... Those are the high NA now again be careful with a lot of detail a lot of small little things you really just can't see it when when it's at uh you know 256x256. Yeah use some complaint about one specifically okay

2:08:16 I like it came from China. That was cute It was a lot of stuff in there, but it was so hard to see you can't even see the little face Yeah, that's one of your complaints would be the complaint the complaint what there was another one that I thought you bitched about I never bitch about anything III Discuss things with enormous respect and was probably the honey the Winnie-the-Pooh bear That was also too complicated just too much too much too small It doesn't matter. I like the, you know with the Winnie the Pooh bear, i think the bite hand break pot light blue against a kind of cream background was not contrasting. People gotta consider contrast. Yes contrast is key

2:09:07 With this type of art, it's a very... Art can look great on the wall. Can great- Look great on a hoodie by the way I'm wearing my No Agenda appetite for deconstruction hoodie. I love this thing! I know you don't like the skulls that are of course are us. I love this hoodie It is so cool You know people look at me and say oh man Guns N' Roses. And i said look again Look again! Whoa, is that you? That's me baby. Ah it's so cool who did that? It says superstars... Superstars. Noagendashop.com no affiliation with No Agenda Show Actually who did that? An artist That's a good question I forget who did it You should know I should know I feel bad it should be signed somewhere Someone in the troll room Nobody signs nothing Or anything for that matter someone in the troll room will know

2:10:01 It's a pullover hoodie, correct. Noagendershop.com it is truly one of my favorite...it rises above my Salem College alma mater hoodie when I went to school for exactly three months so that's a big piece of value we got from Dame Kenny Ben really appreciate that you can contribute your time talent or treasure and we love thanking our executive and associate executive producers Oh Mike Riley! It was a Mike Riley piece It was? Yeah, and you hated it. I don't like skulls! That's exactly what you said everyone loved it. Because it looks like a Grateful Dead although... And they stole from the Grateful Dead too, considering guns are roses. So better goed gejat dan slecht bedacht. Which means it's better to steal something well than make something poorly. It loses something in the translation

2:11:01 Time to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers. People came in well today, and we appreciate that you want do you have the note from Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Laura Slobovia because I do and and Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch truly anonymous anonymous We have no idea who he is. Every single month, he donates to the show He always has a message which is sincere and heartfelt Wow man you're making a lot of noise I'm trying to get this pop filter away from the mic Okay, you know these things are annoying yes. I would agree And today and it's always an amount which we do not Comprehend we're not sure how he comes up with these amounts and today it is two thousand one hundred and fifty One dollars in complete cash donation to the best podcast in the universe Thank you so much sir on a missive dog patch what does his note?

2:12:00 He says your work plus all the producers offering insight and perspective, the openness and willingness of John and Adam to acknowledge errors as we did earlier in today's show. There you go! Although we burned the guy but yeah... We acknowledged errors. and differences of opinion while continuing their outstanding collaboration, and choosing to rely on their individual capacity to attract willing contributors for 15 years remains a positive influence for me and obviously the many producers that make this effort work. Thank you both!

2:12:43 or thank you to both of you and all the producers that contribute so much to this show. No jingles, no karma and he makes a point in saying this is for February 2151. Oh right. Seronimous thank you so much. You know when I hear him talk like that yeah we should retire and write that value for value book once people understand what you can actually do if you have some patience and are willing to follow the guidelines You don't need advertising in your life. It's really appreciated, and I love that Now check this out Dreb Scott who already contributes so much to the show by doing all of our chapter work for every single podcast which means he listens to every single show sets markers finds images usually from noagendaartgenerator.com and then puts it into Into the feed so you can enjoy that in one of those brand new podcast apps podcastapps.com

2:13:45 He comes in with a show number donation, which I have not seen the show number donation. I think in quite awhile because we're up there $1,535 He's from Oceanside, California and says hello this is from Dreb Scott Duke of the Southern California mega region no jingles no karma it's a little bit longer than normal but it's a show number donation I'm happy to read it answering the call from JCD about newsletter response please accept my humbly submitted show number donation at 1535 yes we accept Yesterday, Saturday March 4th was my birthday and marked the sixth year since my first donation after having been juice pouched a juice pouch for several years. Yes that's his personal word for douchebag

2:14:28 When I became a knight of the No Agenda Roundtable and asked to be known as Sir Benonymous of the 1.5 playback, approximately one year later I took The Adam Curry One Times Playback Challenge! Another life saved or created... I slowed all podcasts down and it made a huge difference in my mental processing. Check this out! I have severe ADHD and had erroneously thought that 1.5 speed was helping me focus better. Turned out that forcing me to slow down caused me to get better control of my ADHD, which by the way almost everybody in the universe has these days. Thank you Crackpot and Buzzkill for the 1.0 recommendation as it has made a difference! To all those pod speeders out there give it a shot try a 21 day 1.0 times challenge this is Scott man thank you

2:15:23 I would like to call out my next-door neighbor, the beer man as a juice pouch. Juice bag! I need a juice pouch jingle... I hit him in the mouth about two years ago and he has yet to donate Thank you ACD and JCD for the best dang comedy and media deconstruction podcast in the universe Thanks for tolerating my lengthy donation note Dreb Scott Duke of the Southern California mega region No, I'm very happy to read that thank you for taking the challenge And we are happy that we have another life saved or created Thank You Dreb Huh. Yeah, nice. Yes I should mention the newsletter. Uh, I think it's it came in March 1st This is when because the newsletter got he was weird and was very weird what happened there So I sent out another note been plain text And I think this is every march first and it happens to it It happens pretty much every quarter and I think as Google

2:16:18 changing their algos for sorting. Oh, oh I know exactly why! Remember the accusation is Google changes the algorithm whenever it's time for the Republicans to send out newsletters and CPAC would have been the reason in fact if you had CPAC in the newsletter which you might have but they always shadow ban and start to bring down Republican stuff around a Republican event how about that? I like it, because so I did get more than one response from somebody saying. I didn't get the newsletter. I looked all over! So in other words some people got blocked completely and they did have a Google account and I do have a note for someone that want to read though this is kind of cute. And I'd like to point out that people who don't listen to the donation segment are losing out on life-saving tips and SEO tips. Okay SEO tips whatever

2:17:19 Producer Laura sent this cute note in. She says, I was planning on giving this week and my debit card was hacked so I can't send my small donation through PayPal. I'm getting a new card by next Friday. So I should be able to catch up then. If you don't send these emails about donations, I wouldn't think about sending money your way. This is something to note for people out there doing podcasts. It's part of our book, another teaser from the Value For Value book coming in 2027 If you don't send these emails about donations I wouldn't think about sending money your way. I see it as a reminder that i need and I don't know if I'm just recalling clearly but when I clicked on the link in this email and took me to the newsletter page it seems like I had a portion of the text missing

2:18:09 Anyway, she's complaining about something else. I don't know what that was that some other issue but Which is I said this from the beginning that these newsletters are because people aren't they don't spend their life thinking about a no agenda Show all day and I do well besides you You don't even do that Katie Texas Katie in Texas sorry or is it Katie Texan? Okay, D, Texas This is uh, I did what you did last time Dame Becky there you go in Katy, Texas I was waiting 721 51 had to pick up the keyboard switcheroo. Oh please credit 720 dot 51 2 Mike Kenny oh And when I saw this name? I would never pronounce it Kenny It would be Cheney that same but she put a handy pronunciation guide right there in the notes pronounced Kenny

2:19:06 Unlike a lot of people who think it's hilarious to put a name in there that we know we're gonna stumble and fumble over, they're just mean those people. Yeah well... They are mostly Dutch! In celebration of his 72nd trip around the sun on March 8th with this donation he achieves knight status and will join me at the roundtable and shall be known as Sir Mike of The Great Katy Prairie, Katy Texas that is He requests homemade limoncello, which reminds me and a rare rib eye. No jingles just lots of karma keep up the good work we love you guys. Whatever happened to our garland family? Oh Elise Garland she's up in the hall. The Garlands! I betcha they're still listening We used to get salmon sent

2:19:56 I never got salmon. Yeah, I think she sent us salmon once and limoncello for sure. No, he just sent me this limoncello! That was so good her limoncello...I hope she's okay. Man, I haven't heard from them at all. Congratulations Knight2B Sir Mike and do you watch TikTok more now that you are in the 70s? Is my question for you. And some karma for you sir. I'll get you some R2D2 karma. You've got...karma Dame Taylor is in Huntington, West Virginia 633.41 Cool numbers today Please accept this donation as a switcheroo for the best man in the entire universe and also smoking hot I might add

2:20:40 I've been donating $33.33 for a while now and this is the remainder to bring him to knighthood before we get married next month! I heard John's call via the newsletter and have been meaning to send this to both of you for awhile as you have blessed us with job karma, and would like to return the favor." Thank You This man deserves the world and that includes a knighthood before we wed Please Knight him Dataman or should we say dataman? What do ya think? Dataman or dataman What do you think? Well, I think Datta Man... Yeah like he's Datta Man. Who is that man that's Datta Man?! He's Datta Man! I think it's kind of cool. Datta Man of the rock hard greens okay. He will have Lone Star Beer and Salmorejo at the round table no idea what that is but I think I pronounced it right

2:21:28 To my love, thank you for making me laugh keeping me safe and making me a better person. I can't wait to marry you soon Thank You John Adam. You are truly the best Dame Taylor. Thank you so much So She didn't actually give us his name Just yeah data man night him dad at only what is real name is? Yeah What it's all we'll just will just put in the credit this too sir dataman of the hard rock greens No problemo. We'll do that for you, yeah. So it's cool. Sir Don Francis is up next and he's in Chandler Arizona 333 dot 33 gentlemen I believe this makes me a baronet thank you for doing the work can i get a

2:22:18 Boogity in honor of my smoking hot wife Dame Stephanie and some dog karma Love is lit sir Don Francis the baronet of Chandler Karma You ask, we play. Sir Dilsaver or Sir Dilsaver? Springfield Missouri 333 dot 33 loving that executive producer forever credit donation number as sir dill saver here this three thirty three dot thirty-three row of threes donations to celebrate sir Bradley deal savers third birthday on Monday March 6th he

2:23:07 He is starting preschool Monday, so we could use some karma for him his teachers and classmates. What? Is he a terror? Karma for him his teachers and the classmates! He's coming up to you if you want to mention the rest on the show of course Oh here We go Bradley is nonverbal autistic he likes to listen to The Noah Jenner Show with his dad and laughs each time he hears the karma jingle All right So this should be a great day Monday March 6th starting preschool You're gonna have a great time Sir Bradley Dilsaver and for you, why don't we give you a double up karma so you can laugh twice as much. You've got... Karma Have fun! Let us know how it goes Ross Judica in Rodonga Australia sounds like someplace in the Outback

2:24:00 ITM landed lads heard about the donation challenges thought it's an opportune time to help out after 12 months of listening Keep on work keeping on no karma. Just a great show from the land down under Russ Us Utica Utica so that I doesn't count as Utica in Odunga Victoria ain't Oz All right, thank you. Oh these are good Forrest Dukes in Kamas Washington 333 dot 33 gentlemen Thank you for what you do Well there are many aspects of the show that I enjoy one of my favorites is the attention to language that you both practice your ability To highlight things both said and unsaid to scrutinize loaded language and to expose the verbal games played by many a refreshing And informative in other words words are cool and stuff dudes

2:24:50 This belated donation is in response to episode 1527, in which you both rose another notch in my estimation by calling out Merriam-Webster for the hacks that they are. I do believe they are the worst of dictionary options! Keep up the great work Forest Dukes aka Fo Diddley." Got it thank you very much That's interesting Beth Kellogg in Sumter South Carolina Please deduce me. You've been D-douche'd. Beth Kellogg, it's been too long she writes thanks for everything ITM Oh these are cool now when people get really short here I like this Inaki Esperanza Eloriaga from Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico

2:25:35 333 33 just landing got the note the weird newsletter failure email and I'm here doing my part. The newsletters are the only emails I read through and enjoy John, please don't nuke them Will you okay? Yeah, please don't people love him Baron at large comes in It's just old baronet large in Bridgewater New Jersey Thank you for all you do, 333. Baron at large! People really heard your call out man Anonymous in Cambridge Massachusetts 333 Heard you were low on donations hope this helps Semper Supra Thank you very much This is great I love this Adam X in Babylon New York 333

2:26:17 My name is Adam X. I started listening to you during COVID and it has kept me sane through the insanity of what we now call reality. Cook me a McCricket burger with a side of microplastics, thanks! Thanks from Long Island." It's so nice to see so many people came in during COVID, particularly women. I like that Adam X came in but a lot of mama bears showed up and they're still hanging around and believe me when you've got the whole world looking up at stupid balloons you still need your no agenda show Sir Hope Report in Pendleton Indiana 333 No Jingles No Karma from Sir Hope Report thank you and thank YOU!

2:27:03 Rebecca Waters is up from Albuquerque, New Mexico and she makes it even shorter at $323. Keep it coming! Much love! Oh so nice. Sean Brown Harriman Utah 321.65 hmm I decided oh, I see I decided to cleanse the remains of the PayPal account I want to get my wife Natalie deduced she manages our for human resources and does a spectacular job Please deduce and play a classic jingle of your choice your choice John classic jingle I want to share a secret. See if you can find it Yes! This time, I named it appropriately You've been de-douche'd Oh there's no winning We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere but we laugh alot Now everyone hug and share a secret Now you can catch me three times on that I'll fail twice but the third time will come back Sir Kevin McLaughlin is up Whoa he's... what was he doing up here?

2:28:04 He's up but three hundred fourteen dollars and fifteen cents Wow Locust, North Carolina Early Pi Day donation. Oh I forgot about Piedy's coming. Oh 314. Yeah miss it every year. Thank you We've caught it we've caught at several times not a leave miss it most often Early Pi Day donation response, although it's not a big success. Nobody cares In response to the newsletter failure rate Archduke of Luna lover America and boobs that guy so cool man Next on the list, Catherine Boudreau in Carlisle Massachusetts. Adam and John I've only been listening for a short time but i wish i had found your show sooner as my world shrinks because everyone around me has lost their mind your show is a refuge for me thank you oh Catherine welcome yes we are here to give you sanity and for as much as we can because we do laugh a lot We laugh a lot

2:29:02 You know it's funny because you got me turned on to the idea of having a couple fake accounts and some of these journalists mastodon instances oh yeah So I stumbled onto another couple that ssf Bay that man something some local thing with a bunch of another local journal master don't think another bastard, and there's a bunch about and It's hilarious, the amount of insanity amongst these people who all quit Twitter. Right! Because of Musk Yes because of Musk I wouldn't and I would never buy a Tesla in fact i'm burning mine it's unbelievable how nutty these people are yeah I know I know Cody the black metal cowboy Oh there he is He was our complainer well

2:29:55 He's the complainer, yeah. Now that he donated you know we love you! He's the best We burned him and he gave us money Thank You Cody the black metal cowboy Long Beach California always living it up down there in Long Beach There used to be a amusement park down there called The Pike Which we had one of the greatest roller coasters in the west coast in the world He's gonna debunk you on that. He's gonna tell you that was not the great Gotta be after his time he probably never got to go there they tore it down $248 and 16 cents, he's got the right thing here says no notes No jingles no karma so the guy is actually quite good And and we were wrong we said these people who complain never donate and there It is bucking bucking the trend

2:30:42 Cody the black metal cowboy. I appreciate that, if i had known that I would have gone softer on him No probably not Thank you ma'am Sir Lucas in Federal Way Washington bless you 202-202 a nice palindrome Sir Lucas of the Lost Bit A shot of baby making karma would be appreciated You've got karma Since we're short I'll take the next one Brian Taylor In Katy Texas wait a minute We know the tailors in Katy, Texas. I finally made associate producer yes $200 and 13 cents over halfway tonight! I got my smoking hot wife Karen pregnant the week after the Bastrop meetup. Whoa! There you go no agenda strikes again

2:31:33 We're available for all of your weddings and bar mitzvahs. Based on my spreadsheet calculations, this is... And I attribute it to the karma we got that weekend! Thanks, Lea Louise His name is Logan He's a male slash boy But we expect him to identify as Wolverine after Krav Maga training Rolando, it's Rolando Gonzalez gave me the intro to you and I was so starstruck. I probably sounded retarded talking about how I found y'all on YouTube and have been a fan since headbangers ball Anyways, it was great meeting you and Tina. I've been man overboard for a month or so But I'm back now. I need all-purpose karma Thank you for all you guys have done and do you know Brian Taylor? Thank you so much And thank you for

2:32:15 Well, you could have named your kid after one of us. I mean honestly that would have been the proper thing to do but at least admitting that we are responsible for your human resource is a really good feeling thank you so much. You've got karma! Garrett Hampton in Broken Arrow Oklahoma Fed up with the indoctrination of your kids are Let me read this like it should be an announcer announcement fed up with the indoctrination Of your kids what they're getting at school join us for the homegrown generation family Expo a live interactive online homeschool conference starting tomorrow Monday March 6 sign up at Homegrown Generation dot-com

2:33:12 Alright, good one. Zadok Brown III I think in Makawao Maca wow, maca. Wow, maca. Wow, maca. Wow, oh Well we do the mic around $200 no notes so give you Another no note from Todd Vossen Davenport Iowa give him a double up 200 bucks Oh

2:33:50 You've got Karma Well, we're over the number for doing two separate segments I did notice that but I think Considering where you like it. I kind of like what the one one long segment Mm-hmm. Well now listen to the content we had in this It's not like it's a you know There's no reason to listen to it The content was good. No, I'm not arguing with you let's do it ready we're gonna go on part two just the names and people to donate less 50 to 200. Blast it bro blast it! Anonymous in Billings Montana 150 Joe Campagna in Ontario California is a switcheroo for his sister Angela Koumbaras Damehood Sir Knight of the Eastside Maplewood Minnesota nuts

2:34:49 One two three four five and by the way Joe Campani was one two, three four five Gabriel Adams in Blackfoot Idaho one two three. Three three Peter Regis shnig, regish dig nigg. I hate this guy. This name is impossible in Thornton Colorado 10289 he's gonna have to send me a pronunciation print Gazetteer Carrie Jackson and Watertown Tennessee 100 Cheryl Peterson in Auburn California hundred Eric Renaud or Renaud in Sutton, Massachusetts 100. Kevin McAtee in Centennial Colorado a hundred Michael Kellner in Rippon California one hundred he says John you're scamming us with your problem with the newsletter shtick I don't think so no it's not very only if you're honest does it work

2:35:51 William Taylor in Higginsville, Missouri 100. Shameless the Hillbilly Whisperer in Attica Indiana a hundred. A lot of hundreds here John Robinet 100 Paul Hamm a hundred from West Palm Beach Florida and he needs to de-douching for his brother Steve You've been de-douched Craig Wax and his smoking hot wife Rimrock Arizona David Parton in Pensacola, Florida. A hundred... These are all hundreds! Thank you John and Anna for keeping us informed. Greg Hunter of Springfield Missouri a hundred now we drop down to Sir Kevin McLaughlin's back with it he's already an executive producer so I guess it can't go much higher but he had another 8008 to keep his streak going

2:36:40 Boobs Matthew Bruner in Dale, Indiana 8008 and I have to read this note. We don't normally read notes down here But this one says I see why Sir Kevin McLaughlin Donates This Amount it Feels Good Interesting Stephen Mclean in Chilliwack BC 7777 he needs a de-Douching You've been De-Douched He needs to call out Christine as a douchebag. Darius Walker in Charleston, West Virginia. 7714 by the way Steve was 7777. 70... 714 he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched! Wayne Cartini in Torrington Connecticut 7421

2:37:33 Kate Smith in Leonardtown, Maryland 6969 Brian Furley 5510 Simon Belgrove in Highland New York 55 A de-douching is needed You've been de-douched Jason Benson Gunsmith Gladewater Texas He needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched And he came with 53 33 sir Chris Abraham $53. He's got a birthday He'll be 53 ah make Michael gates 52 80 Jared Smith in Fort Wayne, Indiana 5199 love you guys Christopher Jones in Paris Texas 5151 John Foley and Chicago Heights 5115 Teresa Statham statheim dot I am not high

2:38:31 In Plymouth, Minnesota and that's 51. The Boys at the Shack in Boulevard New York 5033 Dame Night in Edmonds Washington 5015 Sir Michael in Snohomish Washington 50 now this would be all the $50 donors name and location here we go John Ferretti Garrard Pennsylvania James Neal in Spring, Texas. Monica Boyle in Brooklyn New York Colin Pettit in Fairfield Iowa Anna Drake and Whitetown Indiana Eric Adams not the mayor in Middlesex Vermont Does he need anything? No Sir Jub-Jub of the Jiggly Bits In Elkton Florida

2:39:25 Joseph Green in Stevenson Ranch, California. Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Canada. Carl Vogler in or Vogler, Vogler. In Dillon Beach California he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched! Clendy Villar in Austin Texas first time donor give him a de-douche. You've been de-douched! Good old Sir Matthew Januszewski in Chicago 50 William Martin, Crandall Texas. Michael Labar in Williamstown Michigan Alex Zavala in Kyle Texas James Scherrameda in Napa-Noc New York Villareal! Villareal! Lane Brown and Eugene Oregon Steven Crummy in El Cajon

2:40:20 By the way, give Lane Brown a de-douche. You've been de-douched! He's going to a meetup. Taylor Elric in Phoenix Arizona Steven Powers in Midlothian Virginia Kurt Patrick in Nainamo Canada Victoria Island Vancouver Island Jason Mertz in Boise Idaho By the way, Kurt is an actual on-the air personality at a Canadian TV station. Oh really? Oh that's cool! Hey news guy! That news guy... hey news guy! We'll get a clip from him eventually. Yeah Jason Mertz in Boise Idaho Ryan Ebbeson in Bellingham Washington David Swift in Riverside Connecticut and last on the list is Brett Farrell who I believe is in Oklahoma City

2:41:14 And these people all made show 1535 a reality. Yes, in a big way! Very big way thank you all so much thank you to everyone who came in under $50 typically for reasons of anonymity but also a lot of people who not enough but a lot who aren't sustaining donations we lost a lot with the PayPalpocalypse if you'd like to consider coming back for that we appreciate it go to our website for this vorac.org And of course we thank all of our executive and associate executive producers who came in big time today really saved the day, saved last month actually so we appreciate that. These are credits that are official they're real anywhere credits are recognized you can try well you could of course put it on LinkedIn or you could put them on your

2:42:02 On your resume, but also IMDB. It's a perfect place for people can see you say hey Yeah, you don't believe me I'm a producer You know I'm executive producer of an actual media property go to imdb.com They don't mess around they kick y'all off if it's fake and look at all the other heavy hitters who were there so we appreciate all that you have done and Give you all the goat karma Thank you so much. You've got our mind So that and everyone else together, thank you for making 1535 a reality. Our formula is this... We go out we hit people in the mouth.

2:42:51 And we got a nice list of birthdays as well. Dred Scott, as he came in with the show number donation celebrated his birthday yesterday March 1st Today my sister in Italy Willow turns 54 and on Friday she gets her Masters in Psychology Happy Birthday sis! Dave Clevenger turns 72 today as well. Sir Dilsaber wishes his son, Sir Bradley Dilsaber a happy birthday turning three on March 6th tomorrow. Sir Chris Abraham turning 53 on March 8th wanted to get in on time. Dembecky wishes Mike Kenney a happy birthday turned 72 on March 8th Wow we've got another 72 birthday and Lucien celebrates his or her birthday today apparently Happy Birthday from everybody here the best podcast in the universe

2:43:41 She's thirsty, yeah! One title change today. We've got Sir Don Francis, we heard him earlier. Sir Don Francis now becomes a baronet and changes his title to Sir Don Francis Baronet of Chandler and we thank him for his additional $1,000 donation to the best podcast in the universe two nights to handle out today Happy to do it ask you question first sure How old is Willow? 54. So when were you... I met her at the wedding Yeah. How many years ago was that? It was 19, May 19th 2019 so it's what four years ago yeah three years ago four years ago something like that she looked like she's 27 then she can't possibly be this age She is definitely the baby of the family and clearly the smartest

2:44:44 Clearly the smart... Getting your master's at above 50, I think it's pretty good. And she's got a baby face! I know it's irritating. Give me your blade. Oh there you go. There we go okay perfect Mike Kenney and the guy known as Data Man Could you all step up here on the podium thanks to either your direct or contributions. On your behalf in $1,000 or more I'm very proud to pronounce to Kate Vee as Sir Mike of the great Katy Prairie and Dad Man of the rock hard greens! Gentlemen for you we've got hookers a blow well maybe not for all of you red poison chardonnay homemade limoncello and a Lone Star beer and some orejo also rare rib eye

2:45:35 We got Harlan's and howl doll we got Ruben s women in Rose a we've got ginger ale and gerbil sparkling cider and escorts bong hits and bourbon vodka vanilla breast milk and pablum but of course everyone always goes straight for the mutton and mead and If you want to see what these handsome rings look like go to know a generation comm slash rings And the two gentlemen in question should also use the form there to let us know where to send them. And what size is you would like for your ring. And thank you all again so much for supporting the NO Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe! which is odd, typically we do. But March is chock-a-block full all the way through April what we do have however is a chock-a-block. Chock-a-block it's a perfect expression We have one two three...We have four Meetup reports so here we go Denver Let's get it on this is John G Due from the Millennial Media Offensive here at the biweekly Denver meet up every

2:46:41 other Thursday. And this is Tacos and we are not talking at 1.5 speed here, this is Mitch Pierone I'm talking at one point five feet. Servido you could call me Gabagool Vito because I don't want to be Meatball Ron. YTM. You're alive! Playing at point 5. This is Colorado Care Bear It's Jim from Denver in the morning. I do believe this gulag is lit, this is Colin back to me already it's been a great meetup we have them every other Thursday come see us yo Leo Bravo's in Los Angeles hey everybody that's Leo Bravo where at Meetup number 37 and passing the phone around for folks to give us their greetings Hey Adam and Job in the morning This is Bill and don't worry Adam I'm not going to damage your ears with my terrible Dutch Hey guys this is Rick and it's cold out here no joke

2:47:37 Hello, this is Angie representing the ranch. In the morning! And Eugene Oregon had their meetup. What up slaves? This is B-dubs we're hanging out at Papa's Pizza having some slices and good conversations a good connection because that is protection and it's an up. This is Lane at Papa's Pizza in Eugene, and this is a one-and-a-half machinist meetup. This is Ella in the morning. Hi guys! Fishing for beef... Shut Up Already! Nooo! There are no spooks here. Hi this is Sir Trevor the Machinist In The Morning, this is Sam E O. IN THE MORNING!!!

2:48:19 Yeah, this is a perfect example of out-of-phase if you're ever wondering what that sounds like That's exactly what it sounds like. It's okay These are all producer organized producer run the meetup reports all done by producers It's amazing any of this stuff works at all last one ok see the oui oui meet up Hey Jimmy James here again at the OUIOUI MeetUp passing this mic around Fan in the morning. This is Dave, in the morning my son was gonna come here he's a douchebag He didn't come with me maybe next time Caleb In the morning Douchebag Rogel here always traversing cultural decline Hey this is Cody and uh...in the morning I am not a douchebag Another Dave here in the morning Dame Cassidy Eastwood of Dimension A John and Adam thanks for all you do! In the morning And good luck out there That's the crew baby And where the f*** is Brett Farrell? And those dudes at Antler Oklahoma Where y'all at man

2:49:11 You can tell that people have a good time at these meetups. Yes, some of it's alcohol-fueled obviously but it is so important to find your community particularly in these days where everyone's over socialized you know I don't know if I could talk to anybody about anything I'm so worried about saying anything wrong It's horrible No! I wish you could see the pictures Everyone looks so different It looks like none of these people belong together and of course we do because you are part of the NO AGENDA nation NO AGENDA family Connection is protection. It's true! Go to one of these meetups, you will not regret it You will keep going back for more just like those damn potato chips To find out more go to noagendameetups.com If you can't find one near you start one yourself it's easy and it will be a party! Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days

2:50:01 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 party Yeah, baby! Like a party... Hmm They are like a party I gotta win 17th of April Keeper Curry and The Keeper going to the No Agenda meetup in Nashville Tennessee Very excited about doing that one Uh, oh crikey. I see i have uh one two five four you have four yeah for that four well let me play mine first i don't know if they're any good what does all of this mean kind of like that like that one goggles no it's trump goggles that's no good um we're not listening to this on 1.5 i like that one appropriate it's appropriate and the final one it's ridiculous

2:51:03 Also, not like the two of them. Okay? All right so I'll take it's mine aren't that much better So let's go with Start with ISO detail every detail matters It's nice and clear that's for sure every detail matters again Let's go with Fowchee prosecuted ah I got this one too But I decided against it I should be prosecuted it works better with video that one I just wanted to play it. That shit-eating grin he's got on his face. I so great! Really great to have this conversation Okay, not bad not bad Not bad and then last is money your money has been thinking about you? I would say is a toss up between really great to have this conversation and What does all of this mean

2:51:56 I think maybe the winner is this one. We're not listening to this on 1.5. Yeah, let's just go with that thematic. Yes, that's exactly what we're looking for. Thematic. Okay now what can we leave people with? Oh i'd like to say I'm still a little upset about the restrictions that the United States has as, i think the only country left in the world that does not allow non-citizens or non residents to enter the United States without a vaccine proof of vaccination. And the fact... It's unbelievable! That we have lawmakers pleading for the president to make an exception for uh the tennis player Novak Djokovic

2:52:47 pisses me off. You're calling for an exception for a celebrity? No, they should just drop the whole thing! Yes! And the lawmakers who are requesting this exception screw you This thing should be long gone. Long gone Check the calendar Yeah and they're not dropping it until May I'll betcha they will try to prolong it again Horrible people Why bother?! What's the point!? I don't know It's racist Yeah, Biden's a racist. Biden is a total racist jerk Have you noticed I have some battery clips? Here's the Biden clip He's talking to a bunch of black guys Biden divine nine. I know real power when i see it divine 9 We're honored to have presidents all the presidents here tonight and I want to thank him By the way You know I'm not smiling I may be white boy but im not stupid Oh man yeah What a dick

2:53:49 That's just such a dick thing to say. I may be a white boy, but i'm not stupid! What does that mean? Most white boys are stupid president?! That's what he said... That is so disappointing and of course no one really calls him out for it No of course you can't they cover for him It's the opposite maybe I don't watch Tucker anymore I'm done with Tucker I think Tucker has got some good shows Yeah well if you find anything let me know Well, you'll hear it on clips. Here's another interesting... This Biden doing a... Some fake Biden some podcaster did is terrible! It sounds nothing like Biden and then the podcaster sheepishly comes out with some commentary afterwards this is lousy Biden fake draft notice clip

2:54:42 Hold on. Oh, it's fake news. The illegal Russian offensive has been swift callous and brutal Yeah already is like no its barbaric Putin's illegal occupation of the impending Chinese blockade of Taiwan Has created a two-front national security crisis that requires more troops than the volunteer military can supply I have received guys It sounds like Biden in 1985 maybe Now this is the problem. The old Biden doesn't talk like Biden. Received guidance from General Miller, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs that the recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act as is my authority as President. The first to be called in a sequence determined by national lottery will be men and women whose 20th birthday falls during calendar year 2023 I can't listen to it

2:55:31 It's horrible. I'll play the last seven seconds just because no don't play anymore so just played his lousy Biden fake podcast Just fake podcasts this is the podcaster apologizing for the lousy job He did god bless our troops and god bless ukraine what we just played for you was a sneak preview coming attractions a glimpse into the world beyond. Now that was an AI, I don't want to say recreation but maybe a pre-creation of President Biden designed and scripted by our producers here for the show. Okay who is this podcaster? Who is this podcaster? I refuse to answer that question! By the power vested in me as the Podfather...I denounce you!!

2:56:24 Yeah, I thought you'd get upset. And it really sucks man! That's no good! The thing is... This is bullcrap You're not reinstituting the Selective Service under any circumstances The whole thing is dumb People are stupid Did you? Okay What what? Alright, I'm gonna play this So, you know we're just talking about AI and how it's going to take over the world. All right? So now they've taken... You know the job of disc jockey on top 40 radio stations or any... Light FM WLTW Hi everybody! They now.. It's already

2:57:06 Even in the 1990s when I was doing Z100 at WHTZ, The Flamethrower! In New York. Now I was a celebrity on the air so I could do little more than most jocks but the program director Steve Kingston at that time... He would literally say to disc jockeys just read the card A monkey can do this job Just do your job Read the card Read the weather Talk the record up Never back announce Do your job a month? He actually said never back announce. Oh, no never back announced or never back announced That's annoying yep Never backing out only moving forward coming up on z100. Hey Shanika what's your favorite song? What you say radio station? That's right you win tickets So now this whole GPT

2:58:02 AI thing has gone so far that they now there is now an outfit the radio GPT who are seriously selling a a fake AI driven disc jockey and their promo reel is read by the same fake disc jockey you will soon be hearing on radio stations. Tell me when you can't, when you just can't handle it anymore. Futury is revolutionizing the audio industry with the launch of Radio GPT, The world's first AI-driven localized radio content solution Radio GPT combines the power of GPT-3 technology with Futury's AI driven story discovery and social content system, Topic Pulse. As well as AI voice tech to provide an unmatched localized radio experience for any market in any format using Futurey's patented automation link and patented Topic Pulse system along

2:59:00 Along with AI voice technology, Radio GPT brings a radio station to life. Is it coming to life for you yet John? I can see what's in your music log and talk about the songs or artists on your station. So choppy! Oh yeah it is horrible. In your local market right now and talk about it in real time. I can post on your Facebook Instagram Twitter and TikTok during my show and talk about what's coming up. Hey cut this horrible stuff out we all know there I am great at teasing and pre-promoting content going into breaks. I can talk about the weather or traffic. I can see how many people are listening right now through future streaming, and say hello to certain locations

2:59:45 I can take open mic audio from listeners using future immobile and incorporate their thoughts questions and feedback into my show. I can't take it myself anymore this is what they really think the future is going to be, its like just cut out all humanity...and by the way that this is a video and in the AI robot woman doesn't blink it's really creepy we all know there's been we've caught a number of robo calls that are now robots. And most of the time it's pretty standard, but there's a couple ones that have shown up that are decent. They're little overconfident though because they don't have any real... If you spot them because I'm now skeptical and I'll tell you one guy calling for the police retirement fund or some local police. Oh! I despise that call

3:00:41 Now this guy calls, he got a big deep voice. Yeah. Big deep voice and this guy used to be a real person but they've robotized him You're right! And so he called... I've got the reason i spotted is that I didn't spot it at first and I don't know why didn't spot it at first, but i spotted it because he called again. And this time I said hey wait a minute you just called uh a little while ago and he didn't respond right? He clicked into some other sub routine and they started talking about something else and I said wow are you a robot?!

3:01:18 And I guess he doesn't get called out too much for that because most of the robot callers that are robots, they say yeah well no. I'm a real person and this deep voice guy calling for the police association is the best except for the fact that once you know it look for him everybody. Once you know him he's not good at correcting issues because in the middle of the second call What's your first name? Oh, yeah. There was a long pause Wow You know that that's really That's really interesting now because the other one I mentioned that guy called me maybe two weeks ago and I despite because I remember for one time I almost got roped in

3:02:10 And I was like, yeah or the police something or something wherever you... Beautiful deep voice. Yeah very deep hey how are ya doing? And it's just years ago that I almost got roped in and it's just the guy like do you care about the police? He keeps asking all these questions like of course I care about the police And at the end, I just smelled a rat. I'd like any of our law enforcement officers or anyone... Like you ever get any money? Yeah! I would like to know is that legit? Is that something we should be supporting? Or calling the police about it? It all feels so wrong and I don't like it. This robot guy was the best I've heard so far The other one kind of stumped me the first time but then I heard again

3:02:57 And it went like this phone rings. I say hello, they don't hear but I don't have any back room or anything Hello yeah Hello hello hello oh hey? I'm sorry. I'm sorry II didn't hear you at first I I'm Jane from the blah blah blah he goes on and on this little bullshit thing at the beginning And I thought that was very creative and after the second time of course it's obviously a robot. But be on the lookout for these things, record your conversation! Let us know if that is legit or not cops. Coming up end of show mixes Tom Starkweather, Matty J., Rolando Gonzales we have Foneboy in Phoenix live or up next on noagendasteve.com stay in the troll room

3:03:45 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, FEMA Region number 6 in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley Well right now it's sunny and it's where I remain. I'm John C Dvorak We return on Thursday for another episode of Deconstruction The Best Podcast Universe No Agenda remember us at dvorak.org Until then adios mofos a hooey hooey and such! This is the most dangerous time in the history of our country because some bad things happened. You know, now in terms of money and kind of trillions and trillions we're talking about it's not that much We're now in a Marxism state of mind to communism state of mind which is far worse They have the greatest line of bullshit of any group of people

3:04:39 They want windmills all over the place that ruin our fields, kill our birds and are very unreliable. There would have been no dead people. Baby bonuses! The war among birds. They want windmills all over the place that ruin our fields, kill our birds and are very unreliable People do like me to go off script a little bit right? It's a little bit more risky but it's more exciting They want windmills all over the place that ruin our fields, kill our birds and are very unreliable It seems every single day It's April Fools Day.

3:05:38 I like TikTok. Of course you do, it's ruining people! TikTok grown men who are scrolling for an hour. Let me go on Tiktok and only do it maybe a couple times a week. I'm all for it by the way What is Tiktok or any product like that? Either TikTok gives us their data which probably no different from Facebook or Instagram but okay So what am I going to do, dick around on TikTok? People are addicted to TikTok. I like TikTok. This is what is occupying people's minds is TikTok. China is using the app to spy on Americans. There you go! The ban does not impact the more than 100 million Americans and teens who use TikTok on non-government devices

3:06:26 We want to track our people. We can't have someone else doing that I don't use my phone too No matter what anyone says about TikTok or even your current assertions, I need my TikTok. I like Tiktok Teaming up with Russia Fentanyl it's all about China This is the pivot I'd track down everyone who had TikTok on the phones and fire up fire It's all about China Nobody needs TikTok I like TikTok. We've got new findings to report on the mysterious ailment called Havana Syndrome. Havana syndrome. Havana syndrome. Havana syndrome. Possibly some kind of energy weapon, maybe a microwave device. Pulsed microwave energy in a certain form of pressure wave within the head. Still so many questions and not a lot of answers

3:07:13 Symptoms range from dizziness, headaches and memory loss to cognitive impairment so severe that some victims say they can no longer work. There's no credible evidence... The mysterious neurological symptoms... Pre-existing medical conditions... Still so many questions and not a lot of answers! The U.S. government has a lot more information than we do. Havana Syndrome. 200 State Department personnel and CIA officers inflicted around the world. 7 different US intelligence agencies. It remains as much of a mystery as it ever was. The potential is focused on Russia. Pre-existing conditions, conventional illnesses... and environmental factors. That's still classified. The Havana Syndrome, collectively a mysterious illness we were not confident in the form of microwave radiation A new law requires the government to compensate victims for qualifying brain injuries We didn't have any direct evidence There is no credible evidence that a foreign adversary has a weapon What? Who is causing these incidents? Havana syndrome multi-year investigation And many of these...

3:08:12 There you go. No agenda strikes again! I don't think we're friends You're no good, you just as bad as those people It's a terrible product