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00:00 Hook, line and sinker. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Sunday March 12th 2023 this is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination episode 1537 This is no agenda Observing Damonite savings time and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6 In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's wet...I'm John C. Dvorak Thank you for that exhilarating weather report from some northern Silicon Valley. It's wet in Southern California too! It's gonna screw up the Oscars! Oh, that's right the Oscars are today... tonight yeah I have a report of the Oscars? I have a pre-report hold on a second. Well I can tell who is going to win The Best Picture. Tom Cruise

00:55 Everyone everywhere everything all the time that movie who's who is that by? Palace Chinese used to be a Chinese film listen to this important report from now. This was interesting This is WIO and so it's the Indian News Service your friend, but they cut to an Indian dude reporting on behalf of Voice of America which is kind of concerning um Oh yeah, that makes it sound as though WION may be a front. You know this year's Oscar preparation is very hectic because in the past two days in Los Angeles has been raining non-stop so actually yesterday they have a lot of buckets lying on the floor to capture rainwater and the Oscar statues as you can see behind me right there was covered in a rain jacket to prevent rain from like damaging it and you know I

01:44 This year, as you mentioned is very different for the red carpet because it's actually champagne color. Now according to the Academy CEO Bill, he said that the reason for this change of color is because they want it to be more luxurious while Jimmy Kimmel mentioned that they wanted no blood to be shed in this year's Oscar obviously referencing last years slap when Chris Rock was slapped by Will Smith Now this is not the first time that the Academy Award has changed its color from red. In fact, before in 1961 it was actually green and the carpet itself is actually 152 meters long and about 285 kilograms so it requires 18 people to actually set up at about 900 hours now The Hollywood stars will make their way

02:30 Do this red, not red carpet but this champagne colored carpet all the way here all the way towards Adobe Theater on my left. I just love the stats that the commentators have i love all these little nuggets of information did you know that the the red carpet was once green? Oh my! 900 hours because of the union yeah right exactly it's champagne not beige champagne champagne it's champagne Is Moet a sponsor? If you had a color, if you had champagne with that color of liquid in the glass. You'd think somebody pooped in it Oh goodness oh man Did you think that the Moet Chandon is a sponsor? Is that why its champagne champagne even though It's beige there's got to be some tie into this come on maybe There's gotta be

03:25 Well, they're all... They usually serve champagne. Well actually not at this event but are they gonna do tables again or are they going to have a seating? How's it gonna be? You asking me like I know? Like I work for E! Entertainment Television all of the sudden like I'm Ryan Seacrest no no um no And for those of you tuning in from around the world, as many do live on Thursdays and Sundays. Big changes afoot here in the United States. And it's that time of year again get ready to lose an hour of sleep daylight saving time is upon us clocks go ahead spring forward at 2 a.m but there is an effort to make the change

04:04 permanent, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would keep the same time throughout the year. Over 15 years we've been doing this merry little podcast together and it's the same report every year. Whoa! We're gonna make it permanent. We're gonna stop this insanity. Yeah every year. It's been before that. Every...and before that? Every year I actually didn't feel too bad this morning usually I feel much worse I don't know why but how did you feel getting up I felt okay. Yeah, now you have actually... It's an hour later though! I mean i was had to do the show at 10 instead of 11 that kind of cut me short on my pre-show rituals What do you mean? You didn't get up an hour earlier?!

04:51 No. Oh, you just wake up when you feel like waking up? You don't set an alarm and just wake up? I set the alarm for the same time...I've always set the alarm but I just offset the target time for this show So preparation be damned?! Like screw no agenda! I'll just work an hour shorter is that what i'm hearing? Yeah yeah know what you've heard...yeah know You are saying to me. Yes, oh you should get up earlier and ruin it the pacing and everything you've developed over the years that screw up the show for Me so you could show some you know you'd be Yeah, that's what I'm that's what I'm angling for John That's exactly actually I'm very happy that you woke up at your normal body clock circadian rhythm time

05:35 Because you're not as grouchy. In previous years, you were like really... And mind you this is now one of the most dangerous vocations in the world That's us being podcasters. Now to that horrific crime near Seattle, Washington a podcaster and her husband allegedly killed by a stalker police say a 38 year old truck driver from Texas broke into the couples home and shot them before turning the gun on himself taking his own life The woman had filed a protective order against him Why are you chuckling? It is not that funny it is dangerous I'm not chuckling at that I am chucking at the fact What good does it do you to go shooting somebody and then shoot yourself? Nobody knows anything!

06:20 Well, that's not I mean if-I have a longer report if you're really interested but this guy was Here's what scared me a little bit about it. No actually I'm gonna play it for you Tonight police say this man 38 year old Ramin Hodakaram Rezaei Stalked shot and killed podcaster Zuri Sadeghi and her husband before appearing to take his own life Appearing The active hostage situation the shooter is not detained A neighbor says their security camera caught the commotion overnight. It was blood curdling to here investigators say Hoda Karam Rezae listened to Sadeghi's live podcast for people who speak Farsi looking for jobs in the tech industry and befriended her through a chat app they communicated but things quickly escalated this is the absolute worst outcome

07:06 for a stalking case. This is every victim, every detective- Not an accomplice. Every police chief's worst nightmare. ABC News has learned just a week before her death, Sedeghi filed a request for an order of protection against the suspect alleging in chilling detail a pattern of behavior that made the 33 year old fear for her safety. Now pay attention! According to the orders Sedeghi said the gunman left her voicemails more than 10 times a week sending flowers, even sending her husband more than 20 messages a day writing he won't let me go. There are many people who email me 10 times a day who send gifts to the P.O box who say they won't let me go! You don't have this? No... Not like that I know but it's any one of these people could flip in a heartbeat

08:02 You never know. I guess, you never know why? I mean i could see that did she...I didn't know the background of this but she's doing a Farsi podcast this is already Middle Eastern politics which is the most dangerous sort of politics yeah because everyone's nuts That's a shame no it's horrible It's a bad day for podcasting very bad day for podcasting that's okay because we're going to crack down on crime and uh I'm just going to, i am not going to actually spike it but i'm pretty sure that the ball i'm going to reference here is President Biden resurrecting the 1994 crime bill which he was as Senator Biden was

08:51 Was he the co-sponsor? I think he introduced it. I don't know if it was just the co-sponsor and this went hand in hand with Front page, I think was maybe it was Newsweek or Time magazine even New York Times Little Yummy It was The Predators! The nine year old predators and we had to crack down on them And then we got this whole Corrections Corporation of America a real crackdown arresting hundreds of thousands mainly black men And wouldn't you know it. So folks look, MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding the police department Now this is beautiful I have to say when it comes to twisting the truth and lying there's nothing better than saying hey was actually the MAGA Republicans who wanted to defund the police It wasn't the crazy squad or anything like that no it was the MAGA Republicans and he ties into

09:47 the investigation of FBI. So he's like, oh it's law enforcement it's really the MAGA Republicans whoever wrote this concept for him which he somehow is able to get out brilliant so folks look MAGA Republicans are calling for defunding police departments and defunding the FBI now that's a good one I like that one well guess what? they refuse to provide funding that will keep communities safe and secure we talk about crime Well, it's outright my budget invests in public safety. It includes funding for more training More support for law enforcement at a time when they're expect to pay met play many roles We accept our cops to be social workers we accept them to be psychologists mental health counselors You know more cops are killed Responding domestic violence calls than anything else do you know that well folks?

10:48 I don't want to defund them, they need more help. We don't expect a cop to be everything from a psychologist to a counselor These departments need more investment in this kind of help and we're gonna fund proven strategies for accountable effective community policing so cops know the communities they serve And the communities know them. We gotta get cops back on the street Back on the street in the communities they know where they know the people, where they stop in and they know the guy who owns a liquor store. They know the preacher runs that local school...the local ministry. They know the person who runs the local grocery store When we did that on the Biden crime bill, crime just plummeted. Yeah! You did that Joey? Because they know folks. Yeah yeah they know folks It was very successful your 94' Crime Bill Okay

11:48 It's a good investment. He was describing some sort of small-town America where the cops are roaming around on the beat, you know? Yeah. Does he go to this... does the cop just roam into the giant Safeway and know who their owner is? Corporation! There's nobody there. No kidding. Well yeah anyway It was, I just it's like there you go. He is going into the 94 crime bill and it's like problem reaction solution and just blame it on MAGA Republicans beautiful! Well that was too much No no I am stunned but admitted I have not heard a single complaint There were a lot of fact check false I'm sure it was all over the place Fact Check False? No only on your NO Agenda show Sorry people are way to obsessed with dying

12:45 You've conducted a number of studies on the health impacts of daylight saving time. What is your research shown regarding the consequences of this practice on our health? Now what could be consequences of daylight saving time, timeshifting have we do this every year by the way except this year it's even a little bit funnier because we still have COVID and we have... So encouraged depression no No, no. Oh no! Yeah so basically our body has a natural biological clock that controls processes different processes in our body for example the sleep and wake cycles physical activity food consumption and what our research found as well as many studies from the world is that if we disrupt

13:30 the natural biological clock, it can increase the incidence of different diseases such as heart disease increased risk for a heart attack stroke and even diabetes and cancer. There you go! Heart attack, stroke and cancer. Oh yeah, same thing that COVID does. Exactly exactly exactly but depression wise there is well not really depression but there's something going on on TikTok Now you know I'm gonna save that, I'll save that for later. No use TikTok now! Another TikTok update everybody! Women and all I found are white women but women on Tiktok are complaining about their Adderall, Vyvanse or Ritalin

14:21 And if you recall, there was a while back there were a couple stories that there seemed to be a shortage. Maybe that was during the supply chain that there was a shortage of precursors or something for Adderall and there was some replacement? I'm not quite sure, although Vyvanse... Replacement would be meth. Yes correct they talk about it It's DMeth or something but what's happening is women it's not working for them anymore they're blaming this shortage although Vyvanse as far as I know has not changed and and I think that we may be just reaching a point if you hear how long these women have been on Adderall or Vyvanse

15:06 Is it possible that meth at a certain point just you just become kind of used to it It doesn't work for you anymore. Is that possible? Do you know anything about meth? No, I have no note. I've no idea Well, I put them out. I mean if does it make sense I get used to your body says all more this stuff and whatever I put a little I put a little Super cup together for us You're 100% not receiving Adderall coming from someone who has diagnosed ADHD and has been on this medication since I was 9 I'm currently 26 I did some research to get... Nine and currently 20, so you've been taking meth for her whole life. ...I haven't been able to function lately So this is my bottle and i swear to you it used to say Adderall XR 20 milligrams not de-amphetamine when comparing Dexedrine and Adderall directly adderall showed the ability to decrease symptoms of ADHD overall

15:54 And there is no evidence that Dexedrine could. I personally think they're giving us Dexedrine during this shortage, but that's just me Yeah no they're not working I had to go take a drug test for my new job. And so of course, I woke up that morning took my Vyvanse like two or three hours later, I go do this drug screen. I just got my results back today there's no amphetamines in my system. Is it just me? Or is anyone else's Adderall just not working? I'm on like a 20 milligram extended release. And, I feel like ever since everyone's been talking about the shortage and stuff all the new bottles that I get...I feel like they only maybe work on some days or if you drink coffee to maybe get it to kick in? Y'all may have figured out why my Vyvanse isn't working. I was diagnosed with ADHD 10 years ago and I've been taking ADHD meds on-and-off for ten years

16:55 and this shit is different. okay, this is for anyone who takes any sort of like stimulant, Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Concerta...any of those. Concerta? excuse my language! This shit-this shit is not working I don't know what they're giving us but it's not it. It's not- I love how fast they're talking They seem to be high anyway Not IT. This isn't real they're giving us a sugar pill or placebo something Every single morning I used to take this. I would get like the instant butterflies in my stomach, I'd feel the need to go to the restroom and it would be this extreme focus all day and like a terrible terrible feeling right before i go to bed A little bit of anxiety and I couldn't fall asleep None of that now granted its helped my sleep but thats how I know its not working So there's discourse about ADHD meds not working lately And they're being like a national shortage

17:45 Some of my Vyvanse works and sometimes it doesn't. So I'm gonna start making a chart, because when I'm on it right now, It's not working so when it works I can feel a come up where just like sit there for a little bit I'm like yep meds are kicking in and then they do stuff like make appointments or clean or do my homework or read And they don't make stupid little jokes constantly in my head and I took it I should have come up by now? And I'm thinking a lot of dumb stuff! Today's dose is not working and they're from the same bottle But the other day it was working. So today I'm going to go get my refill because Walgreens said they have five days to get it or they're gonna just put it back because you know, why don't they just automatically send us the ADHD meds? Like do they really expect us to come and get it anyway? I'm going to make a chart and when it works and when it doesn't work and I will report back in approximately a month. I'm sorry. I hear junkies

18:38 I'm hearing correctly. Oh this saddens me, it's funny but it saddens me to no end and these women are addicted they're junkies! I'll bet you they're listening at 2.0 speed too Yeah, maybe. They're not listening No no they're not listening but this is an epidemic and so the minute if something changes And I don't know if it changes I mean if you've been taking it since you were 9 and your 26 now yeah Okay Maybe maybe you just immune to it It just doesn't work well enough and that one lady said well You know I take some coffee in a I feel a little bit better This to me is like wow this is sad

19:26 Well, they could be right. Because I noticed this myself with certain drugs that'll take once in a while and over-the-counter for example naproxen which is Aleve. Uh huh? I find it the generic Aleve the naproxen generic doesn't work at all! That's interesting you say that because when my... When i had my first surgery of my mouth I could take ibuprofen, and got these big 600 milligram ibuprofens but I tried an Aleve. An actual brand name Aleve did nothing just nothing! And that was brand name so I don't know...I don't know maybe the Chinese are screwing us over? They could be or the Indians most of this stuff comes from India

20:14 Well this Vyvanse or whatever it is, is interesting. I never heard much about it before. It's another... I've taken it! Oh yeah? What is it like? Well I took it once because... For what? To see what my daughter was on She's not on it This is a long time ago This is 2011 I think And she was taking Vyvanse and I'm like well let me try one of these See what that's like I was tripping balls! It's a time release I mean, that thing lasts 12-14 hours. You just... really! I got a little sweaty and speedy. My drug has always been marijuana. My drug is the opposite of Vyvanse. I hated it. I can't believe anyone would voluntarily take that. It's another variation, major variation on an amphetamine so its speed

21:10 How do you get away with selling this stuff to the public at large is beyond me. Well, I think this is the telemedicine that's what I'm learning the telemedicine systems like the one we talked about The one that Weight Watchers bought so they could prescribe Ozempic to their clients and pretend like it's oh yeah It's our program don't worry a program as says it's what's working In fact, I got a note from one of our producers. I'm over 50 and for numerous reasons can't lose the weight the way I used to My last physical had me as pre-diabetes i.e., I had to make a change or I will have type 2

21:52 And by the way, we're all pre-diabetic. Trust me We're all pre cancerous predead. We're all pretty dead. My wife and I starting you started using Moderna which is like ozempic for weight loss? I lost 20 pounds in the first month The cost is $300 for four shots They're taken weekly The diabetes version is about 1,000 a month and sold in special injectors For me it was a simple choice do this now or do it later with diabetes so he's been convinced We can afford to do this but, you know... I say we can afford to do this. In fact the amount we spend is saved in not eating out with these drugs your appetite drips and you really don't want to eat all that much. I'll bet the Vivense does that too! This class of drug has been used in Hollywood and by the elites for decades finally available to those of us in the upper middle-class aren't you happy?

22:44 He says if I were blessed with great self-control of my eating, I would not be in this situation. I'm a realist so he's only has given up He says he can't he can't do it. He doesn't have the He doesn't have the willpower the willpower yeah But these telemedicine health guys these are the ones These are the ones that are prescribing all kinds of stuff and And by the way big story about cerebral Cerebral is another one of these telehealth apps. They got caught sharing millions of their patients' data with advertisers! Oh, so much for HIPAA... That's great! If an individual created a cerebral account the information disclosed may have included name phone number email address day blah blah blah online self in addition

23:42 The individual has completed any portion of Cerebral's online Melf Health self-assessment. The information disclosed may also have been included in the service the individual selected." So they just sold that! Now, they're getting fined for it but it's not like you're hearing much about it. It's really nuts. The allopathic medical system is out of control. Yeah well how about this? You'll love this Wall Street Journal March is a special time for college basketball fans who kick back on the couch for days to watch the two-week NCAA tournament known as... MARCH MADNESS! It has also become a shining moment for some urologists who see the games as a perfect time to peddle vasectomies. Yes, the idea of pairing male family planning with march madness appears to have been very successful

24:42 Yeah, so how about that? How does that work? Vass Madness. You'll see the commercials. Vass Madness along with March Madness I have not seen any of these commercials Well they say it's coming They say its coming Clinics are advertising VASS MADNESS Recover on the couch, glued to the TV guilt-free. Oh yeah if you're going to be watching all these games... Baby I want to watch the games don't interrupt me! Well you can if you're recovering from your vasectomy. I wonder how many of our producers have been tricked into this?

25:19 I think half of our producers have had a vasectomy. That's where they complain about our reports They're about to leave us Back off, they get really mad It's like you can't talk about EVs You can't talk about vasectomies you can't talk about it. I'm sure people global warming is out Hey man, I have ADHD just stop busting on my meth yeah, you do whatever you want? I was a druggy for all my life Marijuana, still. Still tobacco as well. God just thinks like wow they've got a hold of us man They got us by the balls literally Well you did play a Biden clip I want to get a couple Biden clips out of the way All right Biden is not very good at math

26:10 I just met, I won't embarrass them by pointing out. I don't have permission but just met a woman who has health care costs that are $600,000 a year, $7,000 a month Well guess what? How can you possibly deal with that? Well we just dealt with it So that sounds like he multiplied by... He did an extra 10 times there Well, it says 7 and 6. It wasn't even that. It was some who knows what random number. Who knows what he was thinking? Well then there's this one here which is funnier and he did... He says it twice to make sure you don't miss it. Morning. Sorry we're a little late. It's all my fault. Look I think we got a good jobs report. I'm happy to report that our economy has created over 300 thousand new jobs last month

27:09 And that's on top of a half-a-million jobs we added the month before. All told, we've created more than 12,000—12,000 jobs since I took office—nearly 8,000 of them manufacturing jobs. That means overall we've created more jobs in two years than any administration has ever created in the first four years. And uh...I think all this matters. It was no accident." You're still mass bumping. I don't know why... Oh, sorry that was my fault yeah I knew i did that it's got to be careful well the job so that's Biden's ability to analyze Yeah well jobs are gonna change pretty soon you have a lot more unemployed and been following these Silicon Valley bank closure I wouldn't say collapse but... A lot of people are blaming Peter Thiel Did you get that far? oh I got much further than that! Oh we'll take us there okay Well first of all

28:07 Whenever I get an email from Andrew Horowitz saying yeah this could be pretty big, I pay attention. And Horowitz is he's a pretty level-headed guy. He doesn't really go too nuts well I have two reports and then we can we could and I 100% 5 by 5 agree that Peter Thiel started the bank run but let's listen to some of the Mainstream reporting, here's ABC. From New York to California today panicked customers scrambling to pull their money out of Silicon Valley banks only to find them closed All our money is in the bank I don't know how we're going do our payroll I don't know what are we gonna do now It's the biggest bank failure since 2008 financial crisis

28:49 Regulators this morning shutting down and seizing the assets of the bank, a go-to lender to the tech industry. Many of those businesses today cut off from their cash. I hope we get most back but yeah it's definitely concern It all came crashing down in just 48 hours as the bank tried to shore up its finances, the panic only spread on Wall Street. The bank's stock plunged and customers started pulling their money out once that happens it's just inevitable it's going to fail high interest rates have left many tech companies with less cash on hand forcing them to withdraw more to meet their expenses this is a bank perhaps a handful of banks that are getting nailed by the fallout from from the problem in the tech sector and uh... it's not a economy wide or

29:35 a banking system-wide problem. We pressed the White House on what this means for the tech world. How concerned are you that we could see a ripple effect just throughout this specific sector? I just want to reemphasize that we are in a fundamentally different position, uh...that with the reforms of the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, we've put in place stress tests and other tools our regulators have to provide more resilience for our banking systems All right, so what happened here is not crypto related although there's some exposure there with a stablecoin USDC which I fully expect to collapse because stablecoins are crap. What happened here is

30:20 is really, yeah the big banks the Big Four too big to fail. They had to over capitalize they've been stress tested but all the other regional banks smaller banks like Silicon Valley Bank they actually argued the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank argued to weaken regulations and I believe since COVID-19 they didn't even have to have 10% of reserves And the biggest problem for that, which is almost a classic idiot bank move is they invested in bonds that you have to hold to maturity.

30:58 HTM is what it's called. That means you can't just sell them off, so they had a lot of these bonds which are because the interest rates have gone up so quickly and as we know prices of bonds work inversely to interest rates that means they're worth less money if you want to go and sell them And this went so fast Which is what our Federal Reserve has been doing that They found themselves overexposed like 1.8 billion dollars and they started selling these unprofitable bonds. That's when Peter Thiel on Wednesday, I think told all of his portfolio companies so I don't know how many of those are it could be 10 could be 20 could be 100 but these are companies that he's invested in either directly or through maybe one of the venture capital firms He started calling everybody say take your money out Take your money out take your money out That is what triggered an actual run on the bank when everyone's going Oh crap let's take our money out and

31:54 They didn't have the cash on hand. They were $900 million short and just couldn't give anybody the cash This was I guess kind of expected, the regulators came in and shut it down And the way these things work is if you every bank account in America, if it's an FDIC Bank which I think they all are They are insured up to $250,000 per account So on Monday If you had a million dollars in an account You'll get 250 thousand at minimum that's what's going and whatever else happens we're going to see before We move any further into some of the details

32:31 The way Silicon Valley works, and I've witnessed this twice. Once when I took my company public in 1996 we went... We took it public with a small New York firm but we went around to the big companies and they immediately bring in Wilson Sonsini which is Silicon Valley's law firm very very famous Is it Wilson or Sancini who is kind of like called the godfather of Silicon Valley? I'm one of the two you may know that better than I do and that's you know, and they'll run come, you know deals don't play on both sides of deals. It's incredible what a what kind of Monopoly they have but when we raise money from Sequoia Capital Kleiner Perkins Sherpa low Ram Shri Ram But the main to the main tour Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins immediately

33:24 as a covenant in the deal and you're going to bank at Silicon Valley Bank. And if you remember, you and I bought a lot of lunches and wine with an SVB credit card. So the way it kind of works is They have their money at SVB or at least chunks of it and you know, okay we're gonna raise this money. You get the money and it really is just transferred from one Silicon Valley bank account to the next one And because you are in this trusted circle which the bank connects everybody you can then get easy debt financing Oh, you need a two million dollar line of credit? No problem! Um...and so it's very incestuous

34:06 And I'm pretty sure a lot of the owners of the bank, shareholders in the bank were with the same people. So yeah just incestuous exposure and because of this they say 50%, I would say maybe 75% of every single venture capital backed firm not just in Silicon Valley we're talking firms in Sweden, in Denmark, in The Netherlands, in The UK Everywhere. If you raise money through a big, not even a big one but one of the 350 or 400 venture capital firms you're going to have a bank account at Silicon Valley so this is going to create a large culling of the herd

34:49 Big time. Yeah, because payroll you know coming up on the 15th payroll money had already been sent into Silicon Valley Bank or sent or supposed to be sent from it to the payroll companies they didn't go out so now people aren't going to get paid Obviously there's a lot of companies that are, I'd say the majority of venture capital backed companies are not profitable. They already had to fire people rain stuff in because you know it's gonna be tough if you're based on advertising and may not make any advertising money for the next four years so how are you going get through? They got a line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank thats everything is dried up so we're gonna see firms

35:30 collapsing in the next few days, in the next few weeks. Let's go to CBS. Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank this week officials in Washington are expressing concern when banks experience financial losses it is and should be a matter of concern. Silicon Valley Bank is the 16th largest in the country with 209 billion dollars in total assets late last year according to the FDIC The bank is known for serving tech startups and venture capital firms. Silicon Valley Bank failed largely because of its links to the tech industry, because tech is getting nailed by... I'm sorry?

36:13 It says it failed because of its links to the tech industry. Oh no, you're going to hear every single bull crap. You're gonna hear all kinds of bullshit stuff in the next few days Largely because it's links to the tech industry cause tech is getting nailed by all the rise in interest rates and change in consumer preferences. No it's not! I'm happy to stop. You want a comment? No, i'm just saying this guy's whoever this analyst is full of crap. Surprise surprise! A rise in interest rates and change in consumer preferences

36:48 On Friday, state regulators shut down the bank transferring control of its assets to a new institution controlled by the FDIC. In a statement the agency said customers would be able to access their funds no later than Monday morning but it only ensures deposits up to $250,000 The bank serves some major companies like Roku Pinterest Shopify and Etsy which warn sellers that some deposits may be delayed Small business owner Amber Fields now swept up in the chaos. I'm a mom of three, I run small business, I did this for my home

37:25 Those funds feed my family and pay my bills. The effect is also being felt overseas, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying his government will take steps to assist businesses that are impacted. Ah yes I should have mentioned Israeli companies as well of course there's a lot of investment from Silicon Valley in Israeli companies so it's going it's going to affect a lot now here's a couple of fun little things Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker He actually, until this happened he was on the board of directors for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. The... what is it? What's the guys name? Who is it I think maybe the chief operating officer

38:16 Or maybe, yeah I think it was the chief operating officer. He actually was at Lehman Brothers when it collapsed so you know there's just they were very involved in diversity equity inclusion and focused on lots of important things like that and meanwhile everything they just were exposed to all kinds of problems now What this also did and hasn't been mentioned that much but will be is it made people around America certainly nervous about regional banks. And regional banks just like Silicon Valley Bank did not have to have the same type of over capitalization that the big, you know too-big-to-fail banks have and so their stocks were down you'll see what happens but what is happening this weekend as people are

39:01 you know, their bank runs happen because people have no faith. It may not even be an actual problem with the bank so if people are just saying all weekend long oh man you know the regional banking go down they get your money out of the bank there could be a run on regional banks and that could actually be very serious but it's not because there's necessarily any anything wrong. Now we go to CNN, who literally could not get anyone better than Robert Reich to explain it to us. What does this mean for people outside of the Silicon Valley bank universe? What does this mean for the average borrower if anything

39:39 So far it doesn't mean anything, but the big question is one of contagion. That is what we saw in 2008 was when one big bank and a couple of others started to fail could not pay their depositors could not actually pay up what they owed they were closed and and regulators had to move in very, very quickly. But we ended up with a financial crisis because one bank banking card easily starts tipping over other cards it's a house of cards now we don't know yet about contagion what we do know is that this bank was obviously overextended and this is related to the Fed because as interest rates went up

40:23 and this bank was lending to a lot of startups. This bank simply could not handle it I think that this is the biggest economic news today, it's not this jobs report The job report was good and signals to me a soft landing but in terms what the Fed is going to do this bank implosion, potential contagion may reverse Jerome Powell's direction, it may lead to instead of a half-a-point increase at the March meeting. It may lead to no increased off in fact it's even conceivable that interest rates start dropping out but fear that we're going to be in deep trouble

41:07 So I'm sure this is what a lot of people, certainly in the tech sector would love. Hey let's get that qualitative ease! Let's get money cheaper again we need to have cheap money which of course will only result in higher inflation for you know you for the prices for your groceries etc And so now we're in the what are we going to do phase and typically they can find a buyer for a bank like this, like JPMorgan Chase would be good one. They get it for almost nothing and anyone who had money in there might lose 10 percent maybe more that depends on the deal that they cut but already

41:51 Washington and Silicon Valley are talking about a special vehicle, the Federal Reserve. We need to bail out? This is going to be interesting if the Federal Reserve forces you know however they do that forces a bailout You know, and this is really only it's only a hundred billion dollars. I mean you know the money we gave so-called gave to Ukraine could fix this problem but if you start going down that road who knows where it's going to end up? You have advocated for the Fed to stop increasing the interest rate why before this issue with Silicon Valley Bank

42:33 I don't see any wage price inflation. Wages, according to Jerome Powell are pushing up prices. Well that's simply not the case look at todays report for example we're seeing the smallest wage increase in over a year Prices continue to rise that is absolutely true, but wages are not pushing them up It's not the workers are doing so wonderfully well But what's pushing up many prices domestically in big companies that want to increase their profit margins? And so they have monopolies or near monopolies oligopolies They are using the opportunity using inflation as an excuse to put up their prices So this is at its

43:14 At its bottom here, it really is an antitrust monopolization issue. It is not a Fed interest rate problem." The venture capital firms 350 of them have written an open letter say that hey you know we'll work with any new owner if you find one but... We get stories like this more than 60 percent John community solar financing involves Silicon Valley Bank we will not be able to stop climate change if these companies go out of business. Oh brother, this is a good one! Yeah oh yeah wait for it you can just wait for that to happen it's like oh no these are and none of these companies are making any money and they're not supposed to that's why their venture funded but it also may just be a great moment for the venture capital money companies too

44:02 you know, write off a whole bunch of really bad investments because everyone's just looking for... You know it's a crapshoot. Eh let me get the next unicorn yeah we'll invest in that and invest in this It's kind of been very fun to watch Jason Calacanis He's now tweeting in all caps. He is beside himself because he, you know, he is like an angel investor and his whole it's a very simple process but basically he gets people to give him money, he invest their money and then he pitches those companies to actual venture capital firms I'm kind of giving the abbreviation

44:42 So he's holding a bag, I mean not personally but his investors are gonna be holding a big bag of crap. Now when something like this happens I am typically all ready to jump in and say ha-ha! This is how they introduced the central bank digital currency! I do not have to do that Because everyone else is doing it for me like General Flynn. I want people to go read executive order 14067 Executive Order 14067 signed by Uncle Joe the 8th of March of 2022 and it went into effect on

45:20 13 December 2022, so just this past December. And there are already corporations and elements of our US government that are already beta testing what's called central bank digital currency. Central bank digital currency. That's what that executive order is all about And this was accentuated on Friday on Tucker Show, which I do not watch anymore but people sent me the clips so how could I avoid? Kristi Noem who was the governor of what is she South Dakota? I think she's South Dakota. And she mentioned that the UCC update in fact article 9...UCC is Universal Commercial Code I think it's

46:00 It's something that originates with lobbyists in Washington, D.C., it goes to the states, the states have to ratify it. You know, states just like any other politician you know hey I just ratified this how much did you give me for my re-election campaign? Ten grand okay yeah fine! It's too complicated to read anyway she vetoed this in South Dakota bill that was passed by the lawmakers. I became aware of this bill it wasn't introduced until almost halfway through our legislative session we started reading through this bill that was over 110 pages long, it was sold as an update to the guidelines

46:39 of the Universal Commercial Code backed by all of our financial institutions, our banks as we started reading through it. We saw the section of the bill that changed the definition of currency and essentially what it did was paved a way for government-led CBDC and it also banned any other form of cryptocurrency or Bitcoin or digital currency that existed. So for me, it very clearly was a threat to our freedom in South Dakota we are the session that completes its business earliest in the year We are the first ones to really look at this bill and find out the truth of what's in it And I did veto that bill. I'm asking my legislators to change their minds

47:20 to make the right decision and help me kill this bill once and for all. But I'm telling you, Tucker we've got the same language coming to over 20 other states. I believe it's to pave a way for the federal government to control our currency and thus control people It should be alarming to everyone that it is being sold as a UCC guidelines update There's no rush to do this We need to be smart and make sure that we're doing what we can to protect people. I find it ironic that we also are having this discussion at the same time, we have banks and credit card companies talking about coding gun in ammunition in a separate code so they can track it. So not only can they tie these two issues together if the government doesn't approve of what you're purchasing, If they have the only form of digital currency out there and that is endorsed and utilized in the country They can control how you spend that money

48:08 take away all your freedom. So from a perspective of what does that mean for you at home, first of all don't panic if you have more than $250,000 in one bank account and what are you doing? Someone should have advised you differently. So I think the FDIC insurance, although there was if you recall about a year and a half during COVID there was a whole shuffle at the top of the FDIC they kicked out the chairman of the board and they brought in some woke crazy people so who knows what's going on there? If this could be a part of anything...I don't know There's a I don't, I do not think this is going to be the introduction of central bank digital currency this particular moment. It's possible you could go to sleep You know it's great that happens over the weekend all these things are always supposed to happen over the weekend. You might wake up with instead of dollars Feddy coin or Feddy dollar it wouldn't mean that much to you except for course for the obvious control that can be implemented. It is interesting as a side note that Elon Musk has

49:09 you know, openly been entertaining the idea of me maybe buying Silicon Valley Bank. I don't think he will it seems like a hassle he's getting his licenses to do so anyway to create the X dot com that is always dreamed up but that would be an interesting thing for it to happen So just sit tight and don't panic is what I would say But It's clear that we're being set up for something like this in the future And that's my report Well, it's a good report. I don't think we're being set up for anything necessarily...I just think this was a stupid idea to have everything concentrated in this one SIVB because of the entire valley being somewhat corrupt in that manner what's the point?

49:55 of having every company in Silicon Valley and every individual and every payroll go through this one single bank without backup? We may find out, who knows. I mean you don't really know but it was just... There's got to be corruption involved there is no other possibility Of course of course And it was so clear Why should my venture capitalist tell me what bank to work with Do you want the money son We had covenants in our deal. Yeah, I'm saying but why? Well because i think that they were all shareholders Yeah, that would be it. That's called corruption. It is called coercion! I don't know if it's corruption but yeah... We'll see how bad again will certainly be a culling of a lot of crap that needed to go anyway. It simultaneously helps the Federal Reserve with exactly what they've been complaining about like well you know the job market too strong we got to have more unemployment maybe this will help? I don't know how many people will be unemployed with the collapse of many companies

50:57 We'll know in 60 days. And maybe even less I think this will be the story for the next week and we'll just have to pay attention because it's very possible someone or some people will be really pushing the fear and you know what? Tonight at the Oscars if there is a lot of Silicon Valley bank jokes then you'll know that it's coming. I don't think they can deliver a joke Hey, they can change the carpet Yeah, yeah I think the carpet was on sale. What do you mean to call this dog shit brown carpet? Champagne! We got it cheap! Champagne my dear friend! Champagne! If they're gonna do anything wild with central bank digital currency at whatever level whatever version it won't happen until the Ukraine war is over and that's what I'm waiting for

51:56 Well, let's listen to some Ukraine clips. I have a bunch. Oh good! The War of Logistics clips... These are all... This is actually what I consider these five clips to be an excellent backgrounder on I don't know what they're trying to accomplish. It seems as though they're looking at this war in some way, stress-tested the defense industry in some way because they can't make enough stuff for these Ukrainians These guys are unbelievable Well let's go with Ukraine War of Logistics 1. It has been 80 years since a war with logistics on this industrial scale

52:33 Ukraine fires as many 155 millimeter artillery rounds and about who is this from who did this report cuz I like that editing right off the bat. This is That may be me, this is NPR Ukraine fires as many a hundred and five stop Throughout this report there are scattered some really new explosions, rocket launches and machine guns. And he's talking to one guy in an office when you're hearing this stuff. It's like Washington DC is under attack! Wait... I had this... That's the new Ukraine war sound effect we picked up earlier so we'll see if they use that one

53:18 Ukraine fires as many 155-millimeter artillery rounds in about five days as the U.S. produces in a month. Many of them are forged, finished at 1500 degrees and painted here, a 1950s factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The machinery is decades old but until now it suited US needs. Iraq and Afghanistan were not dueling artillery battles But today, the 20,000 artillery shells the plant creates every 30 days is a fraction of Ukraine's needs. Ukraine's defense minister, Alexei Reznikov recently wrote to the European Union in letter described to PBS NewsHour that Ukraine can only fire one-fifth of what it could because of munitions shortages. We saw that ourselves on the outskirts of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine

54:11 This team told us they did not have enough artillery to fire constantly. Oleksandr commands an artillery unit in the 93rd Brigade Do you have what you need in order to complete this fight? We do have equipment, but we need more and more because they won't stop until we stop them The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. Last month, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said defence industry couldn't deliver fast enough and had to expand quickly This is now becoming a grinding war on attrition and the war on attrition is a war over logistics

54:55 Yeah, no one wants to pony up. We're just not making the old ammo. We're ponying up as much as we can! In Scranton? That's almost our president's home! So what is the last war of attrition that we've had in the last hundred years? What does...in this context what does attrition mean? It means you just keep killing people. Iraq? World War I That was the classic war of attrition. There was nothing, no strategy there wasn't anything just killing everybody as fast as you can they kill as many as you can and they kill as many as they can and you kill as many as you can and that's the attrition we're talking about people so this is basically a war well a war of attrition where you just keep killing it this is a killing mess This is a World War I style

55:55 Outrage. Could we call it World War 1.5? Okay, sorry didn't mean to piss you off! Well that's the speed that people listen to the show. I wonder how those bombs sound at 2x speed... Yeah, that's exactly what they sound like. So right there he is telling us that this is a version of World War I. The last great war! The last war! This is unbelievable! It's given it a way, okay let's go to clip two sorry. The US defense industrial base is not fully prepared to conduct an industrial style war or to deter that kind of war Seth Jones directs the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies And recently wrote a report about shortage of materiel Empty bins in wartime environment

56:52 The US has had operational plans for major war, but I think what hasn't happened is to tie those plans directly to acquisitions needs right now. Already the U.S. has sent from its stockpiles more than $32 billion worth of weapons including more than a million 155 millimeter shells, 1600 shoulder-fired Stinger anti aircraft missiles 8500 Javelin anti tank weapons 18 hundred Phoenix Ghost drones and 38 high mobility artillery rocket systems. What the U.S has been able to do is use a range of its stockpiles of weapons, that challenge though is that a number of those stockpiles are now decreasing in the production lines aren't rising two levels that we need them for future contingencies

57:41 It's not only about Ukraine the military always plans for contingencies including a war in the Pacific with China What was that thing? They just slid off there. That sounded like a like a high Mars probably so we've given them a million shells and they're telling us it's not enough we need five times more they've shot a million shells and Where? To what?! A million shells. Yes, a million! A million I tell you... Why not!? Okay let's go to clip three And now the Defense Department is spending billions to increase production including modernizing the Scranton plant as seen in these before and after photos Already production has increased nearly 50%

58:38 Overall, the army hopes to increase artillery production 500% in the next two years. The largest production expansion since the Korean War. Bill LaPlante is the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment I spoke with him on Wednesday and began by asking whether the West could meet Ukraine's needs for artillery We'll do our best and we have been doing our best to meet the demand as it comes in. And of course, the devil's in the details as to which caliber but yes does the piece showed on the 155 millimeter? We have already funded the factory at significant amounts to get that production rate ultimately up at five times that amount which is almost unprecedented and It's not just producing but what were also buying and getting from around the world in different stocks

57:41 It's not only about Ukraine the military always plans for contingencies including a war in the Pacific with China What was that thing? They just slid off there. That sounded like a like a high Mars probably so we've given them a million shells and they're telling us it's not enough we need five times more they've shot a million shells and Where? To what?! A million shells. Yes, a million! A million I tell you... Why not!? Okay let's go to clip three And now the Defense Department is spending billions to increase production including modernizing the Scranton plant as seen in these before and after photos Already production has increased nearly 50%

58:38 Overall, the army hopes to increase artillery production 500% in the next two years. The largest production expansion since the Korean War. Bill LaPlante is the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment I spoke with him on Wednesday and began by asking whether the West could meet Ukraine's needs for artillery We'll do our best and we have been doing our best to meet the demand as it comes in. And of course, the devil's in the details as to which caliber but yes does the piece showed on the 155 millimeter? We have already funded the factory at significant amounts to get that production rate ultimately up at five times that amount which is almost unprecedented and It's not just producing but what were also buying and getting from around the world in different stocks

59:21 to supply what the Ukrainians need. Every day we try to move something to the left, whether it's finding equipment in another country that we can ship in or anything that we can do to find stocks." As we just saw Ukrainian soldiers a few weeks ago outside of Bakhmut told me they didn't have enough. That was an artillery piece, and older artillery piece Soviet era. It was with another mortar unit. They said they didn't have enough mortars also firing Soviet-era mortars this isn't only about American European weapons is it's also about getting Ukraine older weapons which many of the units still use right? That's exactly right. It's a constant challenge of do we find or produce the old Soviet Russian equipment, or do we give them new equipment and that's what you go through that every day

1:00:01 You know, it kind of reminds me in the Netherlands as you know on December 31st. You can go pick up your pre-purchase fireworks and I and you can legally set well they changed the rules a bit this year but you can legally set it off for New Year's Eve And it's like, you know we'd go and we have our parents vouch for us or whatever. We get our big bag but of course we would have that a week in advance and be shooting stuff off... Then it is just on the 31st all day long as much as you can just throw more! More! They're just blowing stuff up but its doing nothing Are they just blowing up our stockpiles?

1:00:47 That's what it looks like. So, what happens if China wants to fight us? We got nothing! They'll crank it up Yeah well then we'll crank it up You know this is... This makes no sense Well they make the point that um The Korean War we had tha-we cranked it up And so I looked at the military budget for the Korean war and then during that era the Military Budget for the United States during that when we had it cranked up because of the Korean war The military budget was $44.9 billion, which is less than you know... let's just spit in the bucket but let's balance it for inflation and make it 400 thousand, make them four hundred million yeah that's still half of our current budget

1:01:36 Less than half. But that budget... And that's when we were cranking it up! But that budget is not going into ammunition, I look at the email every day and saw another one $3 billion to Hawaii to build a dry dock Okay i'm sure we need it now they're just being spent on junk Not ammo All right, let's go to clip four. But on air defense specifically I've been told they're running out of s300 parts weapons all over the world and so therefore they have to go to West I think for air defenses and frankly for ground forces what you're seeing is having to Go from the old Soviet systems to almost certainly Western systems for the reasons You said

1:02:21 And this is all, of course before we get to Ukraine's spring offensive. You are trying to figure out how to get all these armored vehicles and their parts into Ukraine How do you know that they'll have enough of those munitions? Those parts, those modern weapons To be able launch some kind of counter-offensive in the coming weeks What were doing is working with the Germans The Poles and other countries When we have a shortfall on parts Say for certain version of Leopards To scour and find those part even to the extent we can find advanced manufacturing of 3D print. So, we're working on each one and the idea is to make sure that there are enough parts to sustain for each model. Why not give Ukraine uh...the longer range weapon known as the ATACM which would fly a hundred eighty miles that it's been requesting so far the administration has refused? Yeah its been a policy decision today that the long-range weapons which we have been providing which is about an 80 kilometer precision guided weapon is sufficient in range for the targets

1:03:14 that they have. I think for when you get into types of capabilities are well beyond it, you get into policy issues and sustainment issues of whether or not it's an escalatory thing." If I could though intelligence officials tell me that specifically the capacity of the ATACOM and range of the ATACOM is a red line for the Kremlin in terms of what Ukraine would be able to hit if it were to use that weapon in Russia but why is there concern given that Ukraine has promised not to use American weapons inside Russia? Like we're not... Oh no, don't worry. We promise not to use it! We're not gonna send anything to Moscow. Look at that one go!

1:03:56 And we should trust them. Yeah, we should trust them when they say that we should just oh yeah They promise the progress would just trust him because they've never been known for their dishonest ever ever It's Ukraine you can trust Ukraine That's not corrupt so it sounds like that there You still using Soviet gear that? We have to supply parts for ya and we have to scrounge The parts from all over the place and we even have two For the Soviet gear we have to 3D print some of these things, which probably don't have templates necessarily but I'm sure there's enough engineers around that can 3D print some of these parts. Which is the future and it's just a fiasco at this point but at least there's some kind of light at the end of tunnel maybe but you have to listen to this clip and you can kinda tell

1:04:49 What the Ukrainians are thinking is not necessarily what we're thinking and how this thing comes to an end which you think is going to be sooner than later, I'm not gonna disagree with that but Totally convinced, but there is a little guy. There's a funny little gag at the end of this guy this assistant Defense guy so here we go well I think it's one of the concerns I think there's multiple concerns and the other piece of it Is what to put extend? It will make a big difference in the battle and those are all part of the calculation To what end are you trying to procure weapons for Ukraine to re-seize all of its territory that it has lost since 2014? We're providing everything we can, that we believe they need. And I would say this – we are going to be there with them until its over and as long as we need too. Not for the least of which is if we think it's expensive now, if Putin prevails, it'll be really expensive

1:05:43 And so this is really that important and we're going to provide the equipment they need. Ukraine argues it won't be over until it re-seizes Crimea? That may be their view. That may be their view. Play the end again and don't step on it because he giggles Oh I'm sorry, oh i didn't hear the giggle, I'm sorry Ukraine argues that it won't be over until it re-seizes Crimea That may be their view. Wow! Well already Zelensky was denied appearing in the Oscar ceremony tonight Yes good for them Well here's what I like about this story

1:06:22 He has an agent. William Morris Entertainment pleaded, made a plea to the Academy to spotlight Zelensky. We can't even get a William Morris agent? I mean Mike Simpson! Hey Mike Simpson, William Morris Entertainment Agent... Yeah thank you we should be able to get you as an agent for John's bit part At minimum. Yeah, even that yeah there you go at minimum money at minimum Unbelievable that this guy has the gall he also they also tell I'm using an agent They think it's funny but the gall it takes hey we have our own we're doing something here hey You know it's like what do you want to get involved with though? It's an award show yeah and

1:07:09 Well, I'm telling you my feeling is it'll be all Silicon Valley jokes tonight. About Silicon Valley bank jokes... I will bet you a dollar Okay well we're getting a lot of dollars here okay one dollar You haven't gotten one yet One dollar then this will be easy to do that if there is any joke so be less than five total No, no. What do you mean? So you're pegging it at five? I have to have five jokes about that to win the game? Oh well everything's gonna be about Silicon Valley jokes! Blah blah blah... What do you mean so one joke counts?! Let's say three

1:07:53 Okay, I'll take your five. I'm not afraid you're gonna take the five. I might take the five Yeah, I was just about to give into this really dropped them all I'm gonna take the five But I'll have to write you a check for my Silicon Valley bank account Bloomberg came up with an interesting little ditty the other day EU has no clue of whereabouts of 86% of frozen Russian banks central bank assets and You know there's the 300 billion dollars that was supposedly frozen? Oh, they're scattered. They can't find it! They couldn't find more than 36.4 billion and then you have Medvedev... uh Medvedev... Medvedev he said oh may I point out they have 300 billion dollars worth of foreign assets frozen in Russia so that's a wash. It's a quid pro quo or wash yeah it cancels each other out

1:08:49 He says it is a happy coincidence. It would be enough to recompense Russia for what might be stolen from Russia Well, that's kind of interesting I didn't know one no one broadcast that No heaven forbid anyway we're still using Evil Putin and Russia to try and capture the rest of the country's in the EU sphere to try and get him into NATO and Try and get him into you know, into the war You see what's going on? And Georgia Moldova though is the interesting one as you know QQ one of our producers. He's from Moldova he says, you know that the President of the woman who I think she's president Prime Minister guy Moldova no Moldova is a woman. What am I saying? Oh, I'm singing a Belarus Yeah now Moldova is a woman

1:09:41 that, you know she's all in on EU but the Moldovans may not be all-in on EU and NATO. And here's Kirby reacting to a question from a White House correspondent who I've never seen ask a question before And she looks Israeli in a way, but I'm not sure where she's from. She recently has said that there was a Russian plot to sort of overthrow her government and break Moldova's path to Europe It was something that President Zelensky himself had also warned about What is the US assessment of this possible plot? More broadly what is the concern about Russia

1:10:22 attempts to sort of influence these pro-European governments in the region, even though it's right now focused on Ukraine about other countries in the region? So what I'll say about that is deeply concerning reports. Certainly not outside the bounds of Russian behavior. And we absolutely stand with the Moldovan government and the Moldovan people, yeah? But you have no confirmation from U.S side of intel about that? I know no independent confirmation but we're certainly not questioning their capacity, the will of the Russians and Mr Putin to try to do that is perfectly right up page our ad average playbook

1:11:11 Oh, pay Jeffers playbook. Yeah! I was gonna you know everyone's talking about oh he's gonna take over Moldova. I don't think Kirby was ready for this question because you know they're so focused on Georgia trying to make it look like Russia and of course There's a government in there that wants nothing to do with the West. They don't want to be part of NATO or whatever, they're sick and tired all this crap. Let me see Moldova... let me just take a look at the map I'm gonna refresh my memory. Yeah, Moldova is in such a great spot. Well, Moldova if I'm not mistaken has that little strip of land that's butted up against Ukraine that is considered Russian? Yes it's on the southwestern

1:11:56 flank I think yeah something like that, but it's right there and it's like a buffer between the Ukraine and the main part of Moldova and they The Russians been wanting to get capture that they can't seem to yes. It's right near Odessa And at borders on Romania Yeah There's a lot of talk right now that the Russians are really angling to get Odessa I think that's a lost cause at this point. I don't think they care, I think they want Donbass They want to you know That's what they want that that's the well if you look at there There's some of the takeover maps where they take over a big chunk in Ukraine Odessa is included They'd love their own all of the ports because there's money there But Odessa is neat cannot go to the Russians and probably never will but it's been discussed

1:12:47 So any, well that could be for you know five years from now when this thing cranks up again they could go get that. But I don't know...I'm just not seeing much movement. The Moldova thing is weird it's weird you know does that mean that we need? We can't send anything anymore! We have no ammo, we got nothing. I don't know what the plan is. They may be at a stalemate that little laugh tale you had there, the little giggle like oh yeah that's what they think. It looks like it's ending! That to give away this is well that's what and is not answering the question either it's like saying you know do you think that next thing

1:13:34 Ukrainians want to take and want to take back Crimea, and he says yeah I've heard that's what they think kind of I don't know. Yeah It's like I don't think so that does not they're not getting that's not part of it We'll be here forever if that happens yeah goodness. I wish we knew a little bit more well. I wish they stop it What stopped the war? Yeah Well, they have the wherewithal. They have supposedly we have diplomats that are professionals and meanwhile of course we lost you know the war between Saudi Arabia and Iran which is mostly a Pyrrhic I guess or whatever you want to call but they had a proxy war going on in Yemen between the two and it was brokered to peace by the Chinese! This was beautiful i have a clip reconciliation between old enemies

1:14:25 A declaration signed by our kingdom, Iran and China. This announcement on national television in Saudi Arabia followed the release of a joint statement with Iran that the two Middle Eastern countries brought together around the table in China and re-established diplomatic relations. We agreed to open a new chapter between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia after having no ties for seven years while observing the interests of both countries. This video released by Iranian state media shows Iranian and Saudi officials alongside China's most senior diplomats. Sunni Saudi Arabia cut ties with predominantly Shia Iran in 2016,

1:15:17 after an attack on its embassy in Tehran carried out by Iranian protesters after the Saudi execution of a Shia cleric. Re-establishing ties could have wide implications across the Middle East, particularly in Yemen where the two rival Gulf powers are locked in proxy war as well as Iraq and Lebanon Riyadh and Tehran will reopen their embassies, and will also restart economic and security deals signed in 1998 and 2001. The White House welcomed the rapprochement saying it's any interest to de-escalate tensions in the region. Brokers Beijing meanwhile praised the wisdom of the two countries I think this is a baller move by China really cool they did this because now they've got

1:16:06 Saudi Arabia, Iran Russia they got a pretty formidable front now in the front. They got a formidable group and And what does that do for our sales of weapons and training and advisors to Yemen? Does that end is that over now as there's well we were selling to Saudi Arabia and they were using it in Yemen Yeah believe me We have advisors helping them out in Yemen I'm sure yeah I think it puts the kibosh on it. It doesn't change the fact that the Saudis will probably still keep buying our F-16s or F-35's, I'm not sure what we're selling them. China is going to negotiate the peace between Russia and Ukraine this is the way out Well that was the thesis that showed up in the show about a month ago

1:16:51 And the fact that they did this little side bit, which is like okay look here's how it works. We're gonna show you how good we are and then they negotiated. You want to see let me pick two crappy countries that hate each other? Okay yeah right let me show you how we get these two together. Yeah yeah and they got them together out of the blue by the way I didn't know about this happening no there was given any penny heads up on this by the media that's for sure. No, there was no precursor at all and so boom! This happens okay now we can deal with the rest of it we can hook these two guys we get the Ukraine thing

1:17:31 It's an embarrassment. Oh yeah, we praise a bull crap! Our people should be ashamed of themselves. They're not they're completely obliterated. They have abort for... I don't believe it. Okay so.. They can't be how can you be humiliated like this? And then say well that's great oh they're humiliated but they want to save face and China is going to let them save face there the kings of saving face And everything, I talked about the pivot to China. is Averill Haynes. She represents the US, I think she's a National Intelligence Director... She is the dumbest woman I've ever seen in the intelligence community Well she's running it and this report sadly cut it down 48 seconds has some music under but this is from testimony in Senate In brief the CCP represents both the leading and most consequential threat to U.S national security and leadership globally and its intelligence specific ambitions and capabilities

1:18:33 make it for us our most serious and consequential intelligence rival. During the past year, the threat has been additionally complicated by a deepening collaboration with Russia which also remains an area obvious of intense focus for the intelligence community We do see them providing assistance to Russia in the context of the conflict And we see them in a situation in which they become increasingly uncomfortable about level of assistance and not looking to do it as publicly as might otherwise occur, given the reputational costs associated with it.

1:19:10 Yeah, sure. They don't care about their reputation so just bear with me for a second it behooves everybody for China to end the Ukraine conflict because we are already moving away from Ukraine you're not on the Oscars your agent fire your agent get a new one it's not gonna work we're not gonna let you on the Oscars that happened that right there I know it's over in America if you're shunned from show business as the end of your career And he's an actor, comedian. So we have the intelligence community... Oh yes! They're very sophisticated they got balloons so we need some money for our intelligence okay great so we got the dumb Avril Lavigne over there

1:19:49 I have here in front of me a memorandum. It was not Avril Lavigne, it's Rachel Lavigne No no Avril Lavine is singer why you gonna be so complicated? You're right yeah sorry Who is I believe Rachel Levine's daughter now so that's very possible I don't know I have in front of me a memorandum for all Department of Defense personnel dated as stamped March 2nd, 2023 from our Secretary of Defense. You know him if you wouldn't recognize him because he has a mask and shield on. I'd like to read a little bit from this memorandum since day one is secretary of defense i have been guided by three priorities defending the nation taking care of our people and succeeding through teamwork

1:20:36 Wow, what is he running? The Silicon Valley startup. What an idiot! Over the past two years we've made tremendous progress in all three arenas I'd like to thank each and every one of you for your commitment and hard work as we look to the year ahead these same three priorities continue to guide all that we do so he's prioritized these challenges I'm going to give them to you in order of appearance and Order of priority number one. This is the order of priority the order of priorities So number one is the most prior by the most prior the most high priority highest priority exactly defend the nation prioritize China as the pacing challenge

1:21:25 An increasingly aggressive China is trying to shape the international rules-based system, New World Order, to suit its authoritarian preferences. This is a generational challenge and the Department will rise to meet it! To do so we must embrace integrated deterrence which charges us to coordinate our efforts across all warfighting domains, theatres and the spectrum of conflict to create new and more complex dilemmas for adversaries." More money. Adversaries. Yeah, that's what I meant adversaries thank you we must continue to break down stovepipes across the department... stove pipes across the department? Improve our cooperation with the interagency and Congress and work with their allies and partners to improve operational planning

1:22:12 Blah blah blah. So, we are to strengthen our deterrence posture in the Indo-Pacific by developing new concepts and capabilities. Ka-ching! Deepening our alliances and partnerships... Hello Philippines! Expanding our activities and operations... Hello right off the coast of China As a threat from PRC evolves will provide Taiwan self defense capabilities consistent with the budget we need I'm sorry with the Taiwan Relations Act All right two Tackle the acute Russian threat. We will not be drawn into Putin's war of choice, but we remain resolved to defend every inch of NATO territory working closely with our allies. We've already strengthened NATO's eastern flank and it will continue to strengthen our collective defense and deterrence. It's over!

1:23:02 address advanced and persistent threats. The department will also remain vigilant against dangers including North Korea, Iran and the global terrorist organizations! Innovate and modernize. Here we go! America's dynamism has always been at the heart of our strategic advantage to tackle emerging challenges, we are modernizing every aspect of the joint force from hypersonic weapons to our joint warfighting concept... Our joint warfighting concept? Are they making concept vehicles?! From data analysis to artificial intelligence, ooh chat GPT war version. We are also accelerating the development of advanced technologies to deliver new capabilities to the force this sounds like a Silicon Valley pitch and then of course on the list meet us meet the climate crisis well this is not number one no that though this is number four I'm giving them to you in order

1:23:59 Number four you've already given me about ten of them. No I gave you one One was China two was Russia three persistent threats Oh, yeah for is innovate and more than modernize and five I'm sorry is meet the climate crisis our strategy and planning addresses the security implications Of our changing climate we are developing new platforms to mitigate logistical risks in contested environments Whatever happened to the fish that were on the streets of Miami? Flopping on the streets in Miami. Where's the fish? Let me see, uh... That was a... What is this? There they are!

1:24:42 They're flopping. People are noticing the largest downpour in the history of the UK was just a year ago last fall and there have been wave after wave of these downpours, the sea level predictions in low-lying coastal areas not least on the banks of The Thames are ones that people are now taking into account Oh! The Thames is overflowing I was in Amsterdam earlier this week Believe me, they're looking very carefully at this. In making this movie I went to Miami Beach and saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets of Miami Beach. Flopping! Flopping around during the highest of high tides that's happening on a regular basis. Regular basis. How about some photos of more recent examples? So the second part was taking care of our people. I'll just run through this quickly grow our talent

1:25:38 So grow our talent. What does that mean? To remain the strongest fighting force in the world, we must recruit and retain the best of America. Yeah why don't you jack us up with vaccines we don't want! That helps. That grows your talent. Build resilience and readiness... whatever. Ensure accountable leadership. You're right. And then succeeding through teamwork join forces with our allies and partners sell them some crap they don't want strengthen partnerships across America and build unity within the department. So there is really nothing about you the Ukraine war, it's not the existential threat that it was There's no whatever-it-takes we're gonna defend NATO It's all about China so China gives us... it's a gimme! It's like it's almost like hey this is great thanks China

1:26:24 And now we got Iran to say, oh we're very worried about Iran because they work with China. We've got Taiwan, oh they're gonna take... and you know what? China will probably just not do anything until 2027 it's just gonna end we're just gonna build up where... They might not do anything the latest from Burns who had the 2027 predictions he is now backing off saying yeah what you just said yeah you know they might not do anything then why would they Why would they? Just watch us flailing around like idiots. If we were smart, we just continue to build up our financial resilience because ultimately China's trying to put together I think a financial group you know BRICS is basically that but a financial group and make their money the someone's gotta be the reserve currency of green energy I guess it's not gonna be it's not supposed to be oil or gas or anything

1:27:21 So I just see this as a non-starter, which we're gonna be... it's going to be fear mongering on the news every single day all across the Western world. Be afraid China, China, China and you know and maybe there'll be little things they do here in there but i just don't see that think it is great! They want more money? They don't care? Just wanna blow stuff up on TV pitch for more money We have no one actually go and fight anymore We have like 50,000 ready troops. We don't even have the half a million that we're supposed to have. It's really bad! Let's see... Over the past week we had Queen Ursula came over to visit

1:28:15 Ursula, Queen Ursula the president of the European Union Commission I think it's the commission. So after Schultz came over and Schultz of course like hey man you know we got to like step out of this Ukraine thing let's blame it on the Ukrainians so we have an out Queen Ursula comes in because now it's time to go back to the green deal, the hydrogene clean hydrogen. Yes so she flies over the same way that... In and out baby! In and out yeah. Comes out or flies over I mean again because they don't trust any other form of communication but okay

1:28:51 Well, she did do a – she gave a speech addressed the media and if you recall the big problem with the European Union and the US is the Inflation Reduction Act where we said – we made this, you know, a lot of money. Was it $1 trillion? I think it was? Yeah. How's that working out by the way, has inflation tempered any is it any better? No! It keeps going up. Oh crazy and you know all kinds of subsidies are a trillion and a half dollars lot of money that we put up for green initiatives

1:29:29 Except in there, it's like well you know we'll give subsidies for electric vehicles and hydrogen stuff but it has to be 60% US made. And somehow that was a fast one that was pulled because this is what Queen Ursula has been bitching about for months now we've played several clips And I guess they struck some sort of deal. We agreed on a transparency dialogue concerning the incentives What's a transparency dialogue? Is that like a podcast? I think it is a podcast, transparency dialogue That's what it is Wow! We agreed on a transparency dialogue concerning the incentives that are given to the clean tech industry For us this is important on both sides of the... I like this we kind of overlooked this but

1:30:14 It used to be green tech, you remember that was Kleiner Perkins who put together a whole bunch of investments and companies for green tech. Now it's clean tech And clean tech is hydrogen as far as I can tell. Clean tech industry for us is important on both sides of the Atlantic to know what kind of incentives are being given through the clean tech industry, to make sure that we join forces to boost the clean tech industry that is crucial and paramount for reaching a circular economy, a net zero economy. A few weeks ago

1:30:49 we had already an agreement concerning electric vehicles accessing the American market. Today, we agreed that we will work on critical raw materials that have been sourced or processed in the European Union and to give them access to the American market as if they were sourced in the American market We will work on an agreement what that is concerned. There you go So it's for the raw materials that we're gonna dig we're gonna dig up parts of Europe, which I think actually will be Canada so it's like a It's a pass-through because Ursula went to Canada and said hey You know, we need your raw materials. We need your green stuff Because you have a lot of gas And then you ship that to us and then we'll probably ship it off to America they're doing some kind of

1:31:40 some kind of deal so that they dig up other countries. Yeah, dig up Canada! Alberta is just ripe to be dug up Dig up Canada Meanwhile we have nothing to worry about because our national laboratory in the US has cracked the battery technology code We'll be able to go thousands of miles on one charge it will charge in five minutes Oh, it's all I didn't see this. Oh goodness the coming EV batteries will sweep away fossil fuel transport with or without net zero

1:32:21 I wish, I wish i had a clip. I'll just read the first paragraph The Argonne National Laboratory in the US has essentially cracked the battery technology for electric vehicles discovering a way to raise the future driving range of standard EVs to 1000 miles or more It promises to do so cheaply without exhausting the global supply of critical minerals in the process Why? it's almost like zero point energy I have seen these stories so many times. Ugh! How many times have we seen a new battery technology? We have to remember, everyone should remember that all battery technology except for little bitty things like the membrane and some of the packaging and all the rest of it. All battery technology was beaten to death in the 1800s Yeah! We had battery cars in the 1800's And then once the gasoline powered engine came along Everyone went screw that battery piece of crap

1:33:23 We've been through this. It's the Argonne IIF battery, it's a global breakthrough Well I'm skeptical... I am very skeptical Because we've heard this. There's nothing new in battery technology 2005 I have a report here 2005 new scientist and rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in six minutes last ten times as long as today's Rechargeables and could provide bursts of electricity up to three times more powerful in a in a Nevada lab Oh 2011

1:33:59 A pioneer in battery research who already successfully launched a $350 million company to supply batteries for the likes of GE and Chrysler has done it again. Only this time, it represents the complete reinvention of battery technology as we know it! It will fully replace fossil fuels especially oil!" So we've seen this film... And you could probably go back another 10 years and find something else This is my setup for your battery for car. I have no idea where your clips are, but I figured it set you up Okay, this is just a back okay? Yeah, I get the battery clips. Yes. I see batteries for cars and like this I got to set them up This is perfect Play the clip play clip one let's go with batteries do I want to go electric or hybrid oh

1:34:50 The Biden administration would like you to. The administration wants at least half of new car sales to be electric in 10 years. To make that happen, car manufacturers need batteries—lots of them! But here's the thing... China has a tight grip on the materials and production needed to make those batteries According to the International Energy Agency, China made 75% of the world's lithium-ion batteries in 2021. The U.S. made only 7%. This is yet another area where the US and China are competing on the global stage so we thought this would be a good time to ask how the us can make progress on electric cars and renewable energy when china dominates the market

1:33:59 A pioneer in battery research who already successfully launched a $350 million company to supply batteries for the likes of GE and Chrysler has done it again. Only this time, it represents the complete reinvention of battery technology as we know it! It will fully replace fossil fuels especially oil!" So we've seen this film... And you could probably go back another 10 years and find something else This is my setup for your battery for car. I have no idea where your clips are, but I figured it set you up Okay, this is just a back okay? Yeah, I get the battery clips. Yes. I see batteries for cars and like this I got to set them up This is perfect Play the clip play clip one let's go with batteries do I want to go electric or hybrid oh

1:34:50 The Biden administration would like you to. The administration wants at least half of new car sales to be electric in 10 years. To make that happen, car manufacturers need batteries—lots of them! But here's the thing... China has a tight grip on the materials and production needed to make those batteries According to the International Energy Agency, China made 75% of the world's lithium-ion batteries in 2021. The U.S. made only 7%. This is yet another area where the US and China are competing on the global stage so we thought this would be a good time to ask how the us can make progress on electric cars and renewable energy when china dominates the market

1:35:28 We call Amos Hochstein for that. He's the special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security in that role he advises President Biden on energy as a national security matter, and his portfolio runs across agencies so we thought he'd be good person to talk about this and he is with us now Mr. Hochstein welcome thank you so much for joining us It's great to be here Michelle really great to have this conversation Thanks for that So just start us off Is the US in a race with China to acquire the materials for these car batteries? I think we're in a race, not necessarily with China but we're in a race to ensure that we have for the United States. A diversified sourcing of these batteries and solar so it's not just about the battery. So if you think about the way you just presented it Michelle We have the battery in it has a number of components and the car has even more components

1:36:21 And they all come from places like Sub-Saharan Africa, from South and Central America, Southeast Asia. And we have to source those so one thing President Biden wants to do is make more of those batteries here at home We want to do more mining here at home but we know that we can't mine in the United States for everything that we need No! We won't have it Go dig up Canada Much better idea. Well, there's some mines and I think the Carolinas have some lithium mines and Nevada is another place of course Nevada yeah This numbers were just...I didn't know this! I didn't know that China made 75% of all the batteries and we made 7%. When did that happen? I don't know

1:37:06 What happened by the way wasn't that what did I read something about lithium like stock stocks for lithium are weighed down for some reason? Something so yeah, do you know why yeah. I don't know why that is I looked into it okay But I couldn't figure out is just a who knows what what's going on with lithium but we have two facilities in the United States to lithium companies and Canada has a couple of lithium plays that run on one of those, I don't even know if it's existing anymore but they used to have stock exchange on the west coast of Canada that just did mining stocks. It was called a mining stock exchange used to be penny stocks and you can invest in some of these penny lithium stocks. I think it might not be a bad idea

1:37:57 But anyway, we don't offer financial advice. Disclaimer! Yeah I agree don't listen to us ever. Ever by Bitcoin. Don't listen to me just saying... Don't listen to him especially you know okay Protect yourself from the banking collapse! There you go. All right, part two... We don't want China to control the supply for the whole world just like we didn't want Russia to control the supply of energy for its neighbors so we have to learn from the mistakes of the Russia war and now implement that here and make sure that when you... Whoa whoa whoa, learn from our mistakes? From what is it, the Russia War? The Russian war yeah What Russian war

1:38:42 You know. The one in Ukraine? Yeah! What does it have to do with lithium? You tell me. So we have to learn from the mistakes of the Russia war and now implement that here, and make sure that when you buy that electric vehicle or you install that solar panel... That its not controlled by one country. Hmm. You mean China which controls 100% of the solar panels?! This guy is great. Not controlled by one country. So a fact sheet released by the White House last month said, quote, The US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources for many of the processed versions of these minerals globally China controls most of the market for processing and refining for cobalt lithium rare earth's and other critical minerals end quote as I said this

1:39:32 from the White House. How did we get to this point where China essentially has control over this market and the US is playing catch up? Over the last 10 years, China has invested in acquiring mines in primarily Africa and some in South America so they own a lot of mining they own a lot of refining and processing of those materials when they come out on the ground you got to turn them into battery grade material And then they want to build the batteries. And we wanted things cheap, so we were willing to buy whatever was on the market at the lowest cost. China then reduced the costs subsidizing it. We bought the cheap stuff from them and our own industries went out of business." So what happened to Elon's Gigafactory? I thought he had all the answers! Well for him... I mean correct me if i'm wrong but China controls him

1:40:26 I mean, aren't they the biggest? Well he's got a plant there and they always threaten him with one thing or another if he doesn't shut up about something. Shut up! Iran shut up! Shut up Iran we chop you in half your money your Tesla That was my Xi Jinping impersonation. Yeah, very good. Yes, very good. I'm interested in why this happened? The why it's not as much as the constituency but maybe even to the contrary what the Chinese wanted to do was take away our industry we've ensued them under the Obama administration and accused them of anti-dumping meaning that they were selling product for less than what it was costing them to produce

1:41:08 And so because we didn't think ahead of what is doing to our industry, they essentially took us out of business. We didn't really care because we think about things in a free market. We always talk about how we want this to be in a free market and one actor in this free market was acting exactly the opposite. They were subsidizing and pouring money into it and using their influence around the world to take over the supply chain And once we lost the supply chain, we lost the industry. So if in 2010 we were the dominant solar power manufacturer today, we barely even exist but that's all about to change. Oh oh it's all about to change as we dig up Canada

1:41:55 Well, he never goes into how it's about to change. The big change they're pushing for is hydrogen and the New York Times had a pretty big article about Australia that Australia will be the world's biggest hydrogen producing nation because they're going to put proudly Chinese solar panels all over the outback! Yeah this is great We always forget Michael Moore's documentary. that he, the last one that was famous that he did which is still available you gotta scrounge it up someplace about the environmental movement. Yeah which was all about nuclear being the best thing Well thats what turned out to be but he kept showing example after example of failed experiments for green energy including that giant solar panel that was set up down in the Arizona desert

1:42:59 Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Huge! This would be similar to what was going to happen with the Outback. It's huge it was a big giant lash up that you went to visit it...it was just in shatters, it was in tatters, it was a mess Well the outback certainly is big You can put a lot of solar panels in there. Yeah, but how many panels can you get? Who's going to monitor it? Okay and they're all Chinese are gonna sell a lot of panels yeah but I'm always thinking about this you know there is some economic thinking where if somebody's gonna pour money throw money away

1:43:37 and they're gonna sell you a solar panel for 10 bucks, and 10 bucks of it is their subsidy. And you're actually getting the solar panels... You paying ten bucks but you're actually getting $20 worth of solar panel. That this is a benefit, its net gain in wealth to the receiver And the Chinese have done this in their entire history. And they always make a fundamental error at the end, they'd never cornered the market correctly. This happened with Chinese and the Japanese silk industry the Japanese developed a silk industry and they were making these fine silks. They had these worms and all the rest of it, somehow I guess over this is in about, I don't know 14-1300s 1400's it was long time ago and the Chinese smuggled some of the silk worms out because they didn't know about this and started making silk and took awhile but you can make a lot of bugs so they started making silk that was good enough to compete with the Japanese stuff and they lowball them

1:44:39 They would sell it for one-tenth the price. Best price! And this continued and continued until it put the Japanese silk people out of business Are they coming to get you? What is that siren? It's like all hell breaking loose around here Yeah, what's going on? That's right near...that's closer than normal I don't know where they are. Okay, anyway... No, I like the silk story keep going So they put this the silk guys in Japan out of business basically took over the world's silk market and that became you know Silk trading was a big deal during the Silk Road You know that was called that for a reason because people were trading everything they could get to get this Chinese silk They never jacked up two prices What an idiot

1:45:25 No, it was best price. We got the best price we took over the market why should we jack up to prices? And that's always kind of been their attitude It's like we got a product is making money where is not like us We always think everything in terms of what we do right corner the market You know bunker hunt cornering the silver market. Let's just Jack it up Now seems like they're there at the door John I'll go down, hold on. I'l let him in." Meanwhile as we're on this green energy kick which is just the stupidest thing people just aren't having it...I love the Brits you know the this ULEZ the ultra low emission zone which is only a part of London right now but they want to make it out a lot of London where um yeah you come into the ULEZ zone and you come in with the wrong vehicle and you get a bill

1:46:23 And so now the Brits are just cutting the wires, painting the lenses black ripping them off sawing them in half. Good! Yeah of course it's good you need this kind of vandalism this is insane what this mayor is doing Sadiq Khan they're going to install 2750 of these things by August that people are not having it pellet guns. Pellet guns, um see what else do we have? Whoa! Sorry I don't have anything else on the climate change Do i have anything here oh I do actually I'm sorry uh yes I do have some climate change this is the Netherlands you know there's a big vote coming up on the 15th

1:47:23 I think it's the provincial elections and Geert Wilders is out who has been under protection for 15 years or so because you know there's a what's it called against him not the jihad but a fatwa. Because he was anti-immigration And he said no, we're not built. We're not an immigration country were not build for all of the Turks and Moroccans. A little dinky country like that is not build for a big input of all kinds of foreigners at all At all! It doesn't make any sense So this is about shutting down the 3,000 farms The farmers are out protesting again They went all the way down to Brussels You know...we've studied this closely This was one of

1:48:12 The Tri-Cities project where they want the Netherlands as you called it to be a bedroom community And so of course Wilders is out with his with a security detail and he answers the question about the farmer eliminations. What do you make of the nitrogen emission reducing policies? What do you think the real story is? Well, I think it's leftist rubbish The real aim here is to get rid off our farmers for some leftist nitrogen kind of agenda and to make room for even more non-Western immigrants, asylum seekers and build houses and centers for them. And it's something that is totally different than the current elite is telling the people." I like leftish. Instead of leftist, I like leftish. Leftish!

1:49:04 It's a nice dish we make here at the restaurant. It is leftish, it is leftish overs and of course climate change is killing us left and right and making our travel very very very unpleasant In the past week several airline passengers have been severely injured or killed when their flights experienced severe turbulence on March 1st seven people were hospitalized in the plane cabin was left a mess when an Lufthansa flight encountered significant turbulence over Tennessee. A few days later, a woman flying on a business jet was killed when the aircraft was violently shaken and forced to divert to Connecticut. Scientists expect turbulence like this to become more frequent due to climate change. Yep there it is! Scientists expect... Y'all gonna die in the sky? We're gonna die in the sky people?! I had a uh-I was on a plane once and I was sitting in first

1:48:12 The Tri-Cities project where they want the Netherlands as you called it to be a bedroom community And so of course Wilders is out with his with a security detail and he answers the question about the farmer eliminations. What do you make of the nitrogen emission reducing policies? What do you think the real story is? Well, I think it's leftist rubbish The real aim here is to get rid off our farmers for some leftist nitrogen kind of agenda and to make room for even more non-Western immigrants, asylum seekers and build houses and centers for them. And it's something that is totally different than the current elite is telling the people." I like leftish. Instead of leftist, I like leftish. Leftish!

1:49:04 It's a nice dish we make here at the restaurant. It is leftish, it is leftish overs and of course climate change is killing us left and right and making our travel very very very unpleasant In the past week several airline passengers have been severely injured or killed when their flights experienced severe turbulence on March 1st seven people were hospitalized in the plane cabin was left a mess when an Lufthansa flight encountered significant turbulence over Tennessee. A few days later, a woman flying on a business jet was killed when the aircraft was violently shaken and forced to divert to Connecticut. Scientists expect turbulence like this to become more frequent due to climate change. Yep there it is! Scientists expect... Y'all gonna die in the sky? We're gonna die in the sky people?! I had a uh-I was on a plane once and I was sitting in first

1:49:56 traveling somewhere and I was sitting next to another, a guy who traveled a lot. He was like a salesman he was traveling probably two-thirds of the month and so we get into this, you've probably done this, get into these horror story exchanges. Yeah well I was on a flight one time! So yeah, we got into this turbulence discussion and I said to him We flew over a, the worst turbulence I ever experienced. We were coming in over Ontario and it turns out that we were told later because they threw the plane everywhere, everywhere just was a horrible experience of wings about to break off. And somebody said- I'm pretty sure they were! Yeah so somebody said oh yeah that's there they tested the B1 bombers flies around if you catch them you know if you get into

1:50:46 turbulence of that thing. Atmospheric river, atmospheric river! It throws you all over the place I'm telling the guy this story he says no really and he says you know first of all did all the overhead cabins pop open and throw luggage all over the place and hit in the head? And I said, no. Then he says well then you've never been in turbulence right? By the way that the solution to turbulence is a slow down believe it or not and that lady who was she was on the plane with her husband on the private jet i can tell you what most of the people who are injured

1:51:26 from turbulence don't have their seat belts on. Yeah, that's absolutely true because if a plane drops 10 feet and you're sitting there you go up ten feet and hit your head in the ceiling! And I'll tell you that i am always have my seat belt on always I mean pilots are not stupid And the lady in the private jet, she did not have her seatbelt on and she died from a laceration to the head. Who knows? She probably got thrown and hit her head on some fancy table... She should've been flying all over the place! Yes! But most people in private jets don't use seatbelts I know-I remember Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins

1:52:06 This was when he took me and Bloom and Marta on his Galaxy, which is a huge jet really. No, Challenger as a global challenger to fly from San Francisco I guess it was what airport? To LA for the launch of the Tesla which was the Roadster at the time which Elon did in or really Sequoia Capital, Elon did it in an airplane hangar. And first of all it was wall to wall private jets five of them from ex-PayPal guys just everyone came on their private jet and this is a new jet that Ray had so I sat up front in the jump seat between the two pilots because you know there's only such short flight from San Francisco to LA like oh I'm gonna fly upfront! So I didn't need to sit back drinking cognac

1:53:00 So, as we're landing a new plane somehow the pilot made an error and the nose wheel brake was locked. So you land on the main landing gear and as the nose wheel came down the minute that hit it was like... Of course, they unlocked it very quickly. But Ray Lane was in the back sitting across from Ron and Marta and he had literally said this thing is so smooth you don't even need your seatbelt He went flying forward with his glass of whiskey everything It could have been a really really bad situation because these people are arrogant you get rich you get stupid Really unbelievable

1:53:43 And so this is the tip we're gonna give you that is a valid tip. Always wear your seatbelt even when, hmmm, seatbelt sign is off everybody keep it on! Keep it on. Yeah unless you have to go in the bathroom... yeah and even then wait until you're absolutely certain that there's not a little lick of turbulence and be at least 30 thousand feet before you even consider that Well that's our tip for the day. That was kind of an arrogant elitist tip that you'd get on this show which accounts for lousy donations in the next segment And with that I would like to say in the morning to you and thank you for your courage, the man who put the sea in Dig Up Canada Ladies and gentlemen please say hello to my friend on the other end Mr. John C Devorah

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1:55:35 Unbelievable. These people should be ashamed of themselves they do not care about the people who support the program because that's what this is and you know what the people who leave, they're not supporters No there probably aren't and they don't care about us discussing the art 2287 2287 why? They really bail fast Oh yeah oh yeah they bail like little bitches I'm out of here. This is a donation segment, all they're gonna do is beg for money. Yeah that's what we do anyway for those trolls still remaining We love you thank you for staying with us keeping it going strong in fact turn up the volume You will not regret it What is this Adam? I listened to the donation segment but after the count I can go have a life okay and that is noodle man 33 I'll block him forever

1:56:30 Noodle man. Noodle man, douche-man is what you mean? Right! Thank you to the trolls we do appreciate the trolls they're very helpful and they can be helpful during the donation segment as well that's why we love having you here You can go to trollroom.io that's how you participate you get a little chat box there you can listen to the stream live We do this twice a week Thursdays and Sundays And it's like having a live studio audience you know it's uh...and sometimes we name check ya I mean if you're noodleman33, and Doug gave Karma for that guy? Oh man it's unbelievable how mean people are. 2243 we've lost 150 right there

1:57:12 Let's get to work. All right, good idea of course you can also Download one of those brand new and modern podcast apps at podcast apps calm And if you get Podvert pod verse or podcast addict Then it'll actually give you an alert when we go live with the show You log in boom here in the troll room We've got the stream live even if you can't if you miss it It's your podcast app you can listen to it and you will get notified within 90 seconds of publishing. You do not get that from Apple, you don't get it from Spotify or Google Amazon That is part of Podcasting 2.0 You can also follow us at noagendasocial.com, it's adam at noagendasocial.com, johncdvorak at noagendasocial.com We're all on the Mastodon tip we've been doing that for five years So we're established and I don't know if you...I don't think you can get any more slots on our server But you're more than welcome to follow us from any mastodon instance that hasn't walked us There is a million of them there is more than a million No, there's not quite a million but there's a lot

1:58:11 It's quite a lot. And yes, indeed we always like to thank our artist who brings us the artwork which we choose from noagendaartgenerator.com You can go there now if you're listening live and refresh and you'll see what the artists are doing as we speak. You can also see one of the many many choices We had for the previous episode which was episode 1536. We titled that killer clown And this art was loved by many. It came to us from Roger Roundy, second in a row he's going for the hat trick

1:58:46 This was the turtle Mitch upside down with a little Chinese crown. Of course signifying Mitch McConnell, do we have an update on the minority leader? Turtle man? On Mitch? No I don't think so not for this show we don't! Okay well we hope he's okay... We don't know By the way the exodus seems to have stopped our bitching stopped it that's really cool thanks if you're still here trolls we love you We'll be giving away a car to one of you later today. Roger, thank you so much! Let me just take a look at... He had a very funny comment about this art in the No Agenda Social. Yeah? He says that's what I needed to know. To humiliate someone's appearance

1:59:36 Humiliate and he went on and on about you know just everything bad about the art in terms of being negative Yeah, imagery. Mm-hmm And he says that's how your win yeah? Then you could have been a part of that conversation if you were following along no agenda social calm Now there were a number of pieces, let's see what did we see? We had some Schultz pieces by the way. You said that lots of people know the Hogan's Hero...Hogan! I got- Hogan! That's where we got our some of our early jingles based on Hogan. I got exactly two both of them over 40. So

2:00:15 Okay, anybody who's under 40 that's familiar with Hogan's Heroes and Schultz saying I see nothing or anything like that send an email to adam at curry.com saying I'm in that boat John's right I Would put a dollar on it but I won't I got the dollar running on the five jokes We also have $1 running on something else by can remember That's long-term. It was December, but I don't know what it was for Anyway let's take a look we had So we have some some Schultz stuff We had the pre show mix cassette tape no that didn't work we had doped gold

2:01:01 We had some just weird stuff. There wasn't anything real... Oh, I like the mastermind. Brownie walked away with it He did but i liked the changes here which was the Ukraine flag being peeled back to show to reveal the Chinese flag. Well, I liked that one. I didn't like the cursive letters that were used instead of bold Curry Dvorak and changes here And you said you didn't even see what it was You couldn't even parse it Right. Much mentioned actually yeah kind of But no. I like that one. Roundy actually had two, he had two different color backgrounds and we went with the obvious beautiful Chinese red. Yeah he probably...I'm guessing that he did the first one and then he's thinking well what can i do to improve it? And because they all artists do that

2:01:52 if they think it's not quite a hundred percent there. And then so when he put the red background, made look like the Chinese flag and then the stars around his head yellow made it even more like the Chinese flag and that was at winner I don't know if the other one would have won hmm well The one we looked at was Matthew Dropko Tucker's big dud We actually considered that for a second because it was higher did higher up on the list Yeah. Then the roundy one... I liked a drop coat piece right away! Yeah, you did but then once we saw... Are you hearing me okay? Because people are saying that the stream is stuttering. You sound good. Okay well then we're fine it's somewhere else. Some January 6th stuff

2:02:49 No, I think that's it. And then all the other stuff is new... I do love Tantaniel who keeps trying to get us to talk about—I guess she's into crocheting? Yeah she must be! Well what the crochet community believe it or not there's a crochet community quite a big one. There's a knitting community as a crocheter an embroidery community have meetings they go lot of them are in sewing machine shops And you go in a bunch of women go in there, and they all get it machine to dick around with So that they learn how to do certain tricks so what? What they were trying to do and what has been very disappointing to the crocheting community see this is the kind of content that people are missing out on if You want to have artificial intelligence create a crocheting

2:03:41 I guess, is it a pattern or what do the crocheters go off of? It's not a template. Yeah and so they would upload a picture of Curry Dvorak And the crocheting template that came out was not really cool looking for us Just couple balls We look really stupid There was no good So now i don't think we're ever going to choose anything like...we're probably not even gonna talk about the topic except in the donation segment where all the good stuff happens Time to kneel interesting our stream is dead. I have no idea why my people I'm connected I've no no idea what people are having a problem It's okay mothers have to deal with it You know what that's what happens when everyone leaves all of us sudden in the streams. Yeah, could be their fault therefore Thanks trolls good work and thank you very much Roger roundy Two in a row the way it works here as if you get three in a row you get a hat trick

2:04:36 And that comes with all kinds of prizes. Yeah, that and two bucks give you a cup of coffee This is a value for value program That's why I don't hear and we could be playing ads by the way with a million listeners per show That's a thousand CPMs Let's say we read two spots about $25 We could do fifty thousand dollars in episode Yeah, for about as long until they found us out. Until they figured out what we were talking about and it would be over very quick! So we exist by the grace of the people who feel they've received value from this program and let's be honest

2:05:16 You got a lot of value today. You don't have to worry, you know what's coming up. You'll be the smart person in the room Monday at school or work and hey I know what's going on with the Silicon Valley bank thing...I know what's going on we're moving to China Don't worry! Don't be freaked out! Don't get so upset! You'll be the one that has that calm and peace over you Surely that is worth some value? And for some people it is And they return that in the form of time, talent and treasure which is all we request. Many people do lots of things for us We have people who also help produce the program with clips and websites and other boots on-the-ground information But of course we also need some treasure in the Time Talent & Treasure Department and Rob Wing is our top executive producer today He's from Essex from Epping in Great Britain $500 and he says hey John and Adam

2:06:10 He has the longest donation note, but since it's short and he is the top I'm going to read it all. Hi John and Adam, Rob Wing from Essex here. For those that don't know Essex is in the UK it's much like East London but with lots of trees Big fan of the show ever since I heard Adam on JRE around three years ago Rogan donation! I really appreciate all you guys do and of course what the producers do Before we go further i have to admit this is my first donation so obviously I need a de-douching Obviously you need that You've been de-douched

2:06:52 Nice to see things are unraveling with the lockdown files here in the UK. Apparently, The Telegraph paper has enough content for the next three months... Oh this is the WhatsApp chat files So I'm looking forward to when they get to the vaccine efficacy. It's not getting a huge amount of coverage in the UK for reasons that listeners will understand, but the information is starting to get out there more and more even the BBC reported on it and thats saying something You'd think there would be more outrage but either people aren't aware or like my douchebag brother-in-law Ronan Ronan. They simply don't want to know but these are the same people that were happy to belittle me or lumped me in with the flat earthers at the time for questioning the narrative, or for not taking the vaccine accepting the vaccine into my life I'd appreciate a douchebag jingle for the in-law just done lastly I want to thank my smoking hot wife Lara who appreciates you keeping my amygdala small love is lit says Rob anyone say uh... Don't eat Me

2:07:54 Bojiden, okay. Oh, hold on a second... Don't eat me, Bojiden! Where is that Bojiden? Don't eat me. Is it Bojiden or...? Yeah but I have... It could be Bojiden All I have is Hillary This is very weird. Don't eat me, Bojiden Hmm. You're a Bojiden! Yeah, I'm looking at Bojiden... Oh here we go for some reason- oh apostrophe go figure. Don't eat me Bojiden you're scary so scary! And wanted it followed by a goat karma? We got it for ya no problem. You've got karma. Sir Michael Klink is up next. Klink?!

2:08:44 Clink! Oh God! Lombard, Illinois. ITM guys? Okay I can take a hint. All the Hogan's Heroes talk last show it's been awhile since my last donation. Aha! Drummed up a donation if you could play Fletcher yelling Hogan That doesn't exist. I don't think it does either we had Fletcher do all this stuff based on the Hogan. Based on Hogan but we never actually, but you know what as I was because I looked just to make sure? Fletcher has done some outrageous stuff for us if you don't mind.

2:09:26 We had that one and we had ladies and gentlemen it is time to rob a lies It's a little bit funny. No, it's not He has done so much like oh I don't know where that came from Oh, this was a good one Anyway, no we don't have that one. So you just got a nice a nice He'll send one in yeah Oh I hope so I hope so All right. Well that was it oh yeah well that was easy um Wait he wanted No wait a minute is that? No would you did we miss Massimo? I think we missed Massimo

2:10:18 Yeah, we miss something. Yeah Massimo Cattaneo Oh I miss Massimo okay you can read that one as he's from Noosa heads in Queensland Australia John Adam please expect this bag of threes That's three hundred thirty-three dot 33 from Massimo from Kinkin Queensland Australia the equivalent of Galt's Gulch for my dayman I go karma for everyone because we will need it and donate every once in a while people Chiao Thank You You've got Karma I believe that was chow. What did i say? Ch-yow. Okay, chow, chow, chow. Sir David in Grapevine Texas switcheroo for Dame Karen okay we can do that yep done uh New Jersey and big goat to my best girl the newly minted Dame Karen who will be celebrating her birthday on 313 as a dame

2:11:17 Okay, it's a birthday too. I'm not sure she's on the list of you usually put some yellow in here? I know this is an exact ring. I know this isn't the exact ring She keeps asking for but hopefully it will do for now No agenda has been the official podcast of The Road Trip and as we come to realize our exit strategy of life on the road We look forward to many more years and at least one more presidential campaign. Wishful thinking, wishful thinking! That's coming... Her placeholder name will be Dame Karen Keeper of the Travel Hounds and she'll have a

2:12:00 a Pinotage from the Stellenbach region and Blackened Red Snapper and Asparagus. Oh, Isaac was confused by the ring... Yeah she's getting her ring but she wants a wedding ring. Now we understand! Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve We got it Okay and Blackened Red Snapper and Asparagus Happy birthday Dame Karen I was going to ask you, we had a wine the other night. We were invited to dinner and I enjoyed this very much. I wanted to mention it to you so I could ask what you thought of it. It was Spring Mountain Vineyard, Elevette 2004. Are you familiar? Well Spring Mountain Vineyard is a very famous place. The literal set

2:12:53 for the soap opera Falcon Crest. Oh, I love yes! I love Falcon Crest with Lomanzo...Lomanzo...Lomazo...Lomenzo? What was that guy's name Lorenzo Lamaze? Lamaze-Lorenzo yeah they were very popular winery back in the 70s when they first cropped up and they've always had decent wine haven't had a spring mountain wine probably for 20 years so i can tell you much but it well because it was at 2004 or so literally almost 20 years ago. Yeah, it was a great...it was really dynamite! Was it a cabernet? Yes. What kind of characteristics did it have to be like a cabernet or tastes like a merlot? No, like a cabernet. It's uh..It was bold I would say meat about medium not you know if he had smooth tannic it was dry

2:13:43 Little bit acidic tasted notes of blackberry plum dark fruit tobacco chocolate. Okay, it's enough little leathery earthy smoke Reading from the app burnt Haitian orange is my all-time favorite Edward Muse yellow Waterford Michigan to hood 222 dot 10 row of ducks and then a stick in Return for hours of binge listening in the spirit of red pilled America support what you love or it goes away This is so true. F cancer for Derek Hunter, he says. You've got karma. Words... True words were never spoken Edward thank you Yeah actually that's quite something to note Brian Agro in Cumberland Michigan ITM please de-douche me You've been de-douched By the way his donation is

2:14:43 21687 and I should if i didn't mention it but our texan is 313 the switch roof or Dame Karen. I don't know if I said the price. Oh probably not. Cumberland, Maine by the way not come on in Michigan. Cumberland, Maine ITM please deduce me a possible exit strategy for you he's got to deducing already sorry turn me turn this show turned the show now I'm sorry turn the aftershow more from What are you reading? No, I'm trying to figure out what he's saying He says turn the after-show mixes from Kovac into a Broadway musical. Can you not read it just said no I've got blurry vision this morning. All right Please call my brother Dan a douchebag Bring back two three by three jingles 3x3 and John's OTG

2:15:37 OTG gonna OTG and that's not mine. That's just my song Brian agro of Cumberland, Maine Will bring back to three by three jingles 3x3 okay? He wants to support the show Send your cash. You will obey. And now it's time for 3x3 Experiment by JCD That's what he was talking about Comparing stories from ABC CBS and NBC The never-ending 3x3 And here is what he asked for John Cena, Vorak Baker, Life Time Today's Teddy K. He's an OTG kinda guy Wait that's not the one I think it's this one No This is the one OTG going OTG That's your song baby right there Yeah and then you did a bit on OTG Yeah We don't do that anymore Because we lost everybody to TikTok

2:16:36 So yeah, now we're just telling people to not listen at two times speed. You know not kill yourself Thank you Brian and nice idea Yeah, I'm not gonna happen We do have some I received five kind of five end-of-show mixes all beautiful songs I received a couple like from Sir Brian with an eye which are meant to be the equivalent of shoving bamboo sticks under your fingernails John so i'm going to refrain from playing that But it was good, it was good by the old standards. So get your singing caps on people! Sir Baron John Helmer from Shawnee Kansas our last donation this is very short eight donors for executive and associate executive producers this is very very poor showing. Yes seven actually

2:17:23 You're right, 7. We're to 1537 in the morning John Adams sending value for value $200 plus a show donation of 1537 oh that's an interesting way to do that like that no jingles but I'd like a shot of sales karma to meet quota for the second half of our fiscal year thank you for your courage sir Baron John Helmer Shawnee Kansas so i will give you some of that sales karma. So we're gonna go real quick here through the $50 donation, John's going to give it to you while I get set up for our meetups. Everything is short today and be very, very sure. Yeah, the meetups are short too. $102.85 comes from Peter Regischnig. We love this guy! Give us a pronunciation guide brother we're struggling. Adam Bergener in

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2:19:56 I'm father of eight human resources who had the snip to be done with kids. The jokes are just part of accepting consequences of the choices we make." I don't rag on them, i'm proud of you! You've done well, you've done your part. Good job yeah you should just...I mean he must be tired brother that's all I can think. Third day is probably still tired. Norristown Pennsylvania 55-55 Clock boy. I forgot about clock boy. Clock Boy has a message for us, don't forget to set your bombs forward one hour! Oh man, I remember Obama. He had Clock Boy come to the White House? Oh yeah, Clock Boy the phony Highland Heights in Kentucky's with this clock boy because of 5510 Yeah then he next thing you know he moved a Libya This is the Clockboy situation what got me kicked off initially from the note from the from Twitter deal report show Yeah Because you were saying it was bullcrap and they were all in on Clockboy

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2:21:48 It's got a funny little note there. And then William Dolgay, last but not least 31 total donations in Bristolville Ohio really poor I don't understand why he fell off like that Well it was because people were like man no more good Ender Show mixes we're just we're not gonna donate Well they're gonna get a good one today Apologies everybody, what happened is some douchebag unleashed a DDOS attack on our stream. The minute we hit the donations because it's funny you know it's funny to do that Why don't we not stream anymore? I'm tired of it! I'm tired of trolls, I'm tired of the stream being attacked We're under attack John You love it

2:22:34 Was that it? That was it, right. Yeah thats our whole group of well-wishers and supporters for show 1537 want to thank each and every one of them for helping. Make no mistake we love you! Thank you for supporting our show thank you for supporting your show It is after all the best podcast in the universe because of you if you'd like to learn more about where you can donate Special thanks to our executive one. It was it one executive? No, what we had three executive producers for executive producers and Three associate executive producers hey you're gonna look good on the credits today they are forever credits They are will stay with you for as long as you live and beyond register them at IMDB calm they are accepted there You'll see lots of

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2:23:56 Well, we're going to keep everything short today. Dave Bessore wishes his grandson Michael Big Mike Bessore a happy birthday here turned three on the 10th. Oh how lovely! And Sir David Keefer of The Travel Hounds wishes Dame Karen a happy birthday her birthday is tomorrow and we say Happy Birthday for everybody here at the back office and the front office with the best podcast in the universe And we have one Dame to bring up on onto the now she's getting a ring today not the ring She maybe wants but it'll be a good start this ring. Yep, you go Yes because you're getting you're gettin double-teamed by the blades there Karen Please

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2:23:56 Well, we're going to keep everything short today. Dave Bessore wishes his grandson Michael Big Mike Bessore a happy birthday here turned three on the 10th. Oh how lovely! And Sir David Keefer of The Travel Hounds wishes Dame Karen a happy birthday her birthday is tomorrow and we say Happy Birthday for everybody here at the back office and the front office with the best podcast in the universe And we have one Dame to bring up on onto the now she's getting a ring today not the ring She maybe wants but it'll be a good start this ring. Yep, you go Yes because you're getting you're gettin double-teamed by the blades there Karen Please

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2:25:18 But you might enjoy the mutton and mead and scurry on over to noagendanation.com slash rings Anyone can go take a look at these they're beautiful rings their signet ring so you can seal your official correspondence with it We do supply some wax for that along with your official certificate of authenticity And thank you again for becoming a dame, and thank you to your future husband for supporting us and supporting You here on the NO AGENDA show We have no meetup reports, but we do have a promo. So let's play that! We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an urgent announcement from the Pacific Northwest The North Idaho Sanity Brigade will return to their regularly scheduled third Thursday nayday Meet up at the Selkirk Abbey in Post Falls and remember folks

2:26:10 Listening to podcasts at 1.5 makes you a merry. A merry? That's an insult I haven't heard since the 40s. I don't know what it is, I don't know what that insult is. A sissy I guess... yeah, a merry! Guess Monday we have a meetup scheduled for you at Spree in Springfield, Missouri 6 o'clock and Blair's all-american sports bar and grill that's Springfield, Missouri By the way You can find all of these or read along if you want to it no agenda Meetups comm on Tuesday pretty fly for a pie guy. Ah yes John 314 pi day Tuesday forgot it again brah

2:26:51 Well, how did I forget it again? Today's the what. Yeah but you can't do it on Thursday! Another failed promotion from your No Agenda show 530 at Greenlee Pizza Company in Greenlee Colorado March 15th Wednesday Fort Wayne Red Pillars Club 33 they meet at 633 at Ziano's Italian Eatery It's on DuPont Road in Fort Wayne Indiana Oh the Indianas man they're great Who's yours? And then on our next show day Thursday the Tucson ladies and gentlemen start your livers pre st. Patrick's Day meetup You know what that's gonna be about That's at four o'clock at Canyons Crown in Tucson, Arizona Dame Beth organizing for you also on the next show day North Idaho sanity brigade He just heard their promo right there Selkirk Abbey post Idaho, Idaho Falls

2:27:40 Also on Thursday, the Mule Worms are for Chickens Not Children conference 630 at Lincoln's Roadhouse Denver Colorado. Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday coming up at 7 o'clock Edge Tavern Charlotte North Carolina and then we have what March 17th Gary Indiana? Are you kidding me?! Gary Indiana! My goodness, I want a meetup report from Geary Indiana. We the Indiana's out of control st Louis Missouri on the 17th Oklahoma City on the 18th point Magoo Mugu California at a point Mugu On the 18th Mount Laurel Township New Jersey Blue Island Illinois Chicago and the 18th star Idaho in the 18th sheep shop put up

2:28:23 She's... she's shopped. She shopped Bavaria, Germany! She shopped. Go ahead hit me with a Hogan Oh God! Also in the 18th, Cincinnati Ohio Independence Township. I mean we have just it's all the way through March with a...all the way through April and we even have May We have all over the world Tom's River April 15th oh my god middle stomping grounds It's no agenda meetups this is where you get to be with your community If you feel you don't fit in, and let's be honest most of us don't. if you're listening to the Noah Jenner Show You're different than most but there may be a few around you There maybe more than you know even in Gary Indiana NoahJennerMeetups.com is where we can find your community near you remember Connection Is Protection Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days

2:29:21 You wanna be where you won't be. Triggered on Hell's Dream! You wanna be where everybody feels the same... It's like a party Always like a party I came ready for bear with my isos today, what do you have? That's good cause i really didn't have much but I got a couple But why don't you play yours first and see if I can top em Okay, uh..I start off with This one No my baby shut up Okay. So much bullshit! We're drowning in it! A little crude... Truth and justice are on our side

2:30:01 Kind of like that one. This little muted really crazy stuff Amy I like that one how about this one it activates your amygdala come on come on And then the good guys are the bad guys there you go, I like crazy stuff and I'm like it activates your amygdala Those two were good. I like crazy stuff because it reflects the show okay really crazy stuff all right What do you have? Well, I have a door shutting that's clip from something is ISO door Shows it was hold on let me just I mean if you want a door Door. I got Oh open door. It was door closed door closed. I got a door closed for you That's a door now that sounds like a cartoon door and your other ISO oh

2:30:55 Yeah, this I think is a good ending to the show because it tells you what the show's all about. Instructive. Oops sorry there we go Really instructive Nah! Really crazy stuff Are we really instructive or really crazy stuff? Okay yeah I think mines clearer... Yeah but that doesn't matter But your right Go with crazy Okay thankyou Let's see Yo This is interesting It's been three years It's been three years since this crazy period started. These are the sites the nation will never forget, the devastation from COVID-19 leaving its mark on millions of families but three years later this trusted resource tracking the pandemic for all to see is gone

2:31:42 Johns Hopkins University posted its final update before discontinuing its COVID tracker because of a lack of available data. CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. John LaPook points out even if the spotlight is dimmed... Dr. John LaPook, because of a lack of available data CBS News chief medical correspondent dr. John Lapuk points out even if the spotlight is dimmed COVID is not over oh there are still hundreds of people dying each day in the United States The question is how do we start getting back to more normal daily life? The virus isn't going away neither has the pain at 1.1 million lives lost to COVID-19 in this country

2:32:22 But the pandemic's impact on our everyday lives is fading. The Biden administration plans to end the COVID public health emergency declaration in May, not fast enough for conservatives who opposed vaccine mandates. We chose freedom over Fauciism. The pandemic changed some parts of American life forever plus there's the toll on public trust There has been a devastating collision of public health and politics. And that's something we're going to have to address with better communication, better explanation and better investment in our public health system. Do we actually have a public health system? Is that the correct characterization? That's a good question I don't know if we do... No! NIH, UK... We don't have a public health system. We've got Public Health Control

2:33:15 Yeah. That's about it? No. Well we don't think we have to... Let's talk about public health, let's do the fluoride report and get that out of the way. Oh I heard about this! Isn't there like a lawsuit or something taking place? Well let's find out. Okay here we go oh may i just say Early days of no agenda, I was moaning and groaning about fluoride in the water. NTD reached out to the HHS for comment but didn't immediately hear back During fall last year a US District Court judge lifted his stay on a protective order that order shielded the NPT's recent study on the toxicity of fluoride from release

2:33:51 Most recently, in a February meeting the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences agreed to publicize the NPT's report. The institute is expected to post the report on NPT's website before March 15th. The posted documents could play a major role in the second trial phase of the ongoing legal battle A previous review on fluoride conducted by the NPT found that fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans. However, the report said that conclusions were based on a higher amount of fluoride than is found in US drinking water. Advocates of fluoride use argue it could prevent tooth decay

2:34:34 The next court hearing in the case is scheduled for April 11th. I really apologize, this is the first clip that should have been played prior A study on the potential dangers of fluoride is expected to be released soon as part of a lawsuit against government agency According to plaintiffs, the Department of Health and Human Services previously blocked the studies release The Fluoride Action Network or FAN filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency or EPA back in 2017 FAN is trying to ban the use of fluoride in public water supplies in the US. The National Toxicology Program, or NPT conducted a study on fluorides toxicity however the NPT hasn't publicized this study yet internal emails seem to indicate that this study wasn't published because the federal government interfered in its publication The attorney for the plaintiffs received internal CDC emails through a Freedom Of Information Act request

2:35:30 The emails were quoted in this court filing, stating A.S.H. Levine has put the report on hold until further notice. A.S.H. Levine is a reference to the United States Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine. The attorney claims that the emails confirm that the CDC was opposed to the NPT releasing the report and that leadership at the top levels of the Department of Health and Human Services intervened to stop the report from being released. Wow! Bombshell they're trying to kill us. Well, we always knew that I mean the way I've always heard the story is Fluoride in your water is a runoff product from heavy industry Yeah aluminum being one of them In order to hoodwinked the people into it into Putting an internal water they say well you know, it's good for your teeth It'll protect your teeth

2:36:24 Yeah, turns out there's no evidence of any of this. Do you know whose water is heavily fluoridated? Austin Texas Which explains why they're so liberal. Well Mimi single-handedly prevented the fluoridization of the water supply up in Port Angeles area. Good for her! Tracked it down to, you know there's one company nationwide that's behind I think they have a contract with some

2:37:00 contract to get rid of all this. It's hard to get rid of fluoride, but it's not hard to get rid of if you can dump in water supplies and let us just dilute way down and nobody will notice. But one company is Delta Dental. Alex Jones has been on this for decades and I knew that this was bad when I read Legacy of Ashes, which is about the CIA includes my uncle Don and right there it said that they would often the CIA would put fluoride into the enemy camps water supply to make them nice and docile so they could go in. Yes that is in that book Override the you know overrun the camp And when I asked Uncle Don Is this all true? He said yeah now That's pretty much where remember it

2:37:56 The War on Chicken. Yep, the war on chicken continues! Well the recent bird flu outbreak is prompting health officials to consider rolling out new vaccinations for birds as a highly contagious bird flu continues to mutate. The disease has devastated poultry populations and this most recent outbreak 58 million birds have died an all-time high The Biden administration has not officially approved these kinds of vaccinations for birds yet, but if it gets the green light well it actually won't be the first time. Many poultry are already vaccinated for diseases including bronchitis." I didn't know that we were vaccinating chickens against bronchitis! Now Canada...I gotta blame Canada this is from Popular Mechanics and I'm not sure where they're reporting on it

2:38:50 A hybrid breed of super pigs, Super Pigs? SUPER PIGS! a mix of domestic pig and wild boar is running wild in Canada and are migrating south. Highly intelligent and possibly invincible super pigs are invading America You know, we have a lot of wild hogs in Texas. And they are... They are a real problem! There's super problems everywhere they show up. It's the super problem for the regular ones but how about these SUPER PIGS? Well you know we should

2:39:34 Kind of maybe get the kids in high school, teach them about gun safety and then go out and kill these damn pigs. The super pigs have become... I will say that by the way baby wild boar? Tasty! Unbelievably tasty! This is why they're highly intelligent. Super pigs have become adept at fending off recreational hunters sometimes with entire sounders That's a term for a group of pigs. Turning nocturnal to avoid the hunting, other times the sounders will disperse making them harder to locate or change their patterns and retreat to forest or wetlands The best strategy at reining in the super pigs has been employing the Judas pig concept Have you ever heard of the Judas pig? Is that where they tag one pig? Yeah exactly with a GPS collar

2:40:28 Yeah, a Judas pig. Wow well that's gonna be interesting hunting at night that's a whole different challenge oh yeah no that's going to be problem if they start showing up like raccoons and you got something going on so I have found a clip this is an interesting clip it's got nothing to do with anything we talked about the elections okay And I thought this was a good rundown that we should all know, which is...this is running foe. But this is from Brooks on Brooks and Shield and he actually explained something nicely because it keeps cropping up why do people when they start running for president they keep running and running where they should

2:41:16 bail out but no it's not that easy to do. Listen to this he said the bigger thing is these Republicans have to know when to get out how does that strike you? Well, he's right in theory its a lot harder in practice because if your running for president your raising a ton of money and so you build up these war chests and suddenly couple weeks go by doesn't look so good A. Do you want to look at your donors and say sorry you wasted your money You're not allowed to give them the money back And so and you have to spend it that election cycle. And so it's actually hard to withdraw because you got this pot of money there, and the instinct is to say I'll just stay in. I've got this money. I might as well see what I got and spend it. And so since it's structurally hard to get out for this fundraising reason I've described a lot of them are going to face the temptation to stay in longer than they should. And that will split the field. I think it's a real problem for anybody who does not want Donald Trump to be the nominee. Ha! I didn't know that

2:42:12 Yeah, I wasn't unfamiliar with it myself. That's interesting you know Bobby Kennedy is uh Is hinting at a run of course? You can't actually say i'm running because then there's all kinds of changes with the money I guess oh yeah, you get yourself in trouble right now. You can only hint and there are certain ways you can hint Well the hint is out because they're looking for money let me see what was it uh Where was this headed somewhere but it's like you know oh here it is the um What is for the website? TeamKennedy.com join Robert F Kennedy Join Bobby's movement for a free and fair America for all You know, the minute we said hey Bobby Kennedy I might vote for that guy people like man he's tied to Big Pharma Tied to this Those are the same guys who quit the chat room during the donation Well then another thousand got DDoS out of existence

2:43:11 Stupid trolls. Someone does that on purpose just to piss me off. Well, they are successful. Yeah it worked. It worked. for the day. Is at least get this, another thing... This is the reparations we have a situation in California where nobody else is doing it We never were a slave state! We're always neutral state but that's beside the point I love it yeah you're gonna give reparation to all black Americans? We are going to give people $50,000 every black guy in the state who qualifies and then again making them qualify as an issue because well some of them don't qualify but we were working on it

2:43:53 And we're gonna give everybody, and everybody by the way all the black community entire black communities all for this. The California task force studying reparations for black residents wants to revive a reconstruction era agency as part of its first in the nation statewide reparations plan 50,000 seems a little insulting well that's just one of the suggested amount some people have suggested half a million yeah I saw five million I thought that's what I saw five million there but that could have been in the bin play yeah the higher it goes the less likely its gonna happen let's everyone's got to

2:44:33 deal with that. $50,000 to me is a lot for someone who didn't do jack shit." You know I've talked with Mo about this often by the way he has that horrible flu so we didn't have a show this week and he's down and out um and he says the amount is well first of all you know how come we can do Was it the Inflation Reduction Act for one and a half trillion? He wants the T word. He wants reparations for all black Americans has to equal up to a trillion, but only if there's atonement! It has to be a trillion and you have to say you're sorry. And he bases that on a legal thing which has some validity... But this 50 000 really?! Then what happens then we have then it spreads to other states every state is going to do that

2:45:24 And this is California money? Or is it... Oh! It's gonna spread to every state because nothing is going to happen. Right, and unfortunately the 50- here's your $50,000 dollars, its in Silicon Valley Bank Stock. Stock! Oh that was better! Silicon Valley Bank stock! Oh goodness Goodness gracious. I do have this one clip something going on in Canada We've been tracking this for quite a while B's Bill C 18 and from what? I understand bill c18 the idea is it would force companies who publish bits and links of news stories to four Canadian companies to pay

2:46:13 Canadian news organizations money for the links they put up and from what I understand... Well let's listen to the clip in the moment we can figure out what is going on. Google is flexing its digital muscles on some Canadians and now Heritage Committee MPs want them to answer for it The MPs have summoned top executives to testify on Monday after the tech giant moved to temporarily limit news access for about 4% of its Canadian users. It's just a test in the event that Parliament passes Bill C-18, the Online News Act. It will compel tech giants to compensate media companies for republishing and linking to their content on their platforms. It is something that some experts are opposed to including my next guest Michael Geist thanks for joining me

2:46:57 Oh, thanks for having me. So Google is throttling access to Canadian news for some of its users in response to this legislation if this bill is passed in it's current form do you think Canadian News will just disappear from Google entirely? I think it's a real possibility if we're honest about it. All they've done, not sure that throttling is necessarily the right word obviously they removed the links to some Canadian news sources for about 4% of their user base but given how popular they are that still affects quite a number people But given the costs associated with this legislation The government envisioning Google could be required alongside Facebook to pay 35%

2:47:37 of the news expenditures for every newsletter outlet in the country just for linking to their content. I don't think we should be particularly surprised that a company like Google would say, listen if that's the requirement if you link you have to engage in that kind of payment or don't link they're going at least look at the prospect of not linking it all Yeah, so they get to pay 35% of the news organization's cost. Hey welcome to 1990 Check the calendar we went through this in Canada or just in America I remember an America Canada around the world The whole thing about links all you can't link to my content your stealing content You're stealing photos deep linking is as bad as killing the music industry Or whatever no that was home taping

2:48:24 Yeah, so this is the dis started with a frame the long-lost frame which they used to hold frames. Yes frames We still use our classic ring we still use frames and the blink tag here in there Oh the blink tags gone only on the dot H I think that cat running back and forth across the screen is the best no No, it was a whack the monkey Punched the monkey and whacked them all that's what it was. I remember oh No, these guys are idiots. This is the this is telling you how stupid The media is at the highest levels Correct and then because the media benefits it's not gonna benefit the small news organization It's gonna benefit the big guy as it always does they're gonna benefit anybody cuz they're gonna get cut off And actually that's what Google's gonna do no links to you

2:49:17 And who cares? Very easy to do. Who cares about Google? It's like the... Well, who cares about anybody linking but they're trying to nail everyone who links so screw those anyone who doesn't want to be linked put little robot tag in there don't link it should be on that probably in the code Yeah yeah if Google is going down man and its gonna take awhile but you know people are on TikTok no one cares No one cares about Google no one cares about fake have you noticed that meta is just no longer discussed I think they shut that thing down. You're not going to hear about Meta and the Metaverse at all. If I didn't have a dollar already hanging on the Oscars tonight... Alright, we'll go for the Oscars first then see how we fare later on It's about averages really for me. Just gotta average out $1 a year which is pretty much what were doing so far

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2:51:44 He recalls the time, the funny gems kept him satisfied Seems those times are gone and now it hurts him so much No Agenda has a little mastodon instance that the no agenda listeners inhabit Every day they post as many memes as the server can handle. Till the admins have to crack down and cap it, but listen to me... All you know-er gender trolls aren't making end of show mixes like you used too! Some of you post too many memes on no agenda social and some of you are listening too fast

2:52:40 Another user with a podcast obsession is subscribing to his favorite feed. He navigates his way to edit the setting, To increase the rate of audio playback speed One day he sets it up to 2.5 times To maximize the information he gets His health is fading and he doesn't know why It's causing damage to his personal relationships Y'all don't hear me? All you no-agenda trolls Aren't making end of show mixes like you used too Some of you both do

2:53:38 There are many memes on no agenda social, and some of you are listening too fast. which we got a lot of during lockdown, but you just hate everything that we have for everything. You hate it all! It's horrible There is not one mix in the entire collection Of course many of these trolls can also find or reach or follow on knowitinthesocial.com Which I also will say is getting a little rowdy People are a little unhinged Have you seen any misbehavior on knowitinthesocial.com? A lot of people just

2:54:17 Posting me all day long. Oh my goodness it cost a lot of disk space people don't care you guys are very unthankful Ungrateful by the way stop DM me I do not respond to DMS on no, it's just social calm I just don't notice them because they only have a little like there's no flag So I click on an on accident boom is about to be ended all backed up You know agenda trolls aren't making and the show mixes like you used to some of you Too many memes on our agenda social And some of you are listening too fast John's complaining that there's no mixes Adam's trying to give us a chance COVID's the ball, we're all sick and woe We'll have to go back to eating ants Christ, you know it ain't easy

2:55:14 There's no how hard it can be Winning to show me the tears Is going crazy for me Men trying to go in those toilets Y'all used to think that was weird But haven't you heard? Women are swerve Even with balls and a beard Christ, ya know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The wind has just shown me a kiss, It's gonna crucify me. Pfizer wants to give me your blood clot, China wants to steal my ID, Ukraine wants my cash I got a rash and everybody blames it on me Christ you know it ain't easy! You know how hard it can be

2:56:12 Listen when we talked about lockdowns When we said the jab was a scam Fifteen million cities are coming Better get out while you can, Christ can know it ain't easy You don't know how hard it can be This one will crucify me

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