Episode 1540 · Thursday, 23 March 2023

Happy in Helsink

Global power shifts as TikTok faces a Washington firing squad, the Kremlin hosts a strategic summit, and Europe prepares for the arrival of a digital currency.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 1540

About this episode

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced a hostile congressional hearing this week as American tech giants Meta and Google reportedly lobbied lawmakers to frame the platform as a national security threat. The proceedings, characterized by some observers as a racialized inquiry, highlighted the intense competition for social media advertising market share. Former Google policy advisor Jacob Helberg and billionaire Peter Thiel are identified as key figures in a bipartisan alliance pushing for the forced sale of the platform to domestic interests to ensure algorithmic compliance.

In Moscow, President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin solidified a strategic partnership, signaling a shift in global power dynamics as BRICS nations like India and South Africa maintain ties with Russia despite Western sanctions. Meanwhile, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde was caught in a prank call by Vovan and Lexis, admitting that inflation was driven by supply chain bottlenecks rather than solely by the war in Ukraine. Lagarde also confirmed that a decision on the digital euro is expected in October 2023, alongside new restrictions on cash transactions exceeding 1,000 euros to curb the grey market.

Humanity is on thin ice according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who used the latest IPCC Synthesis Report to warn of a ticking climate time bomb. In lighter news, Finland retains its title as the world's happiest country for the sixth year, though high antidepressant consumption rates suggest a more complex reality. Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak also explore the bizarre history of 1920s vasectomy mania and the current struggles of Taliban members adapting to office life and internet addiction in Kabul.


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CHAPTER 01 / 46 Discussion

Iraqi War 20th Anniversary, Spectrum Courtesy Calls

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program from Jamaica and Silicon Valley, noting the 20th anniversary of the Iraqi War and National Puppy Day. Dvorak reports receiving a courtesy call from Spectrum regarding an unpaid bill despite not being a customer.

iraqi war· spectrum· national puppy day· montego bay· silicon valley

00:00 Woo, perp walk! All about China and broadcasting live from the heart of the West Indies, Montego Bay Jamaica in the morning mon. I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're celebrating National Puppy Day and a 20th anniversary of the Iraqi War. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In The Morning Wait... The 20th anniversary of what?

00:37 The Iraqi War. Oh man, who is calling you? Take it off the hook! It's like you have a little thing like in the morning you're gonna do your show... You get everything ready, you get your clips ready take the phone off the hook. Hello? Oh my goodness. Oh, it's for Spectrum! It's a courtesy call! It's a courtesy call? You haven't paid your bill I got that one yesterday too We don't have Spectrum here In the morning to you

CHAPTER 02 / 46 Discussion

TikTok Congressional Hearings, Social Media Advertising Competition

The hosts analyze the congressional testimony of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, characterizing the proceedings as a "racial hearing" driven by lobbying from American tech rivals. An Axios reporter and a caller named Grant discuss how Meta and Google use national security concerns to protect their advertising market share from TikTok's superior engagement.

tiktok· xu zichu· axios· meta· national security

01:13 And a morning to you. Hey, so of course it's a show day and the TikTok hearings are underway and you need to turn your speakers down just a little bit What a crock Well there's a couple of things... Can you turn your speakers down? They're really loud Yeah yeah I get this nice nothing i can do by my brain I actually have to grab the mouse You have to implement something Well yes this is not a good look of course The CEO is a Chinese guy You know, it's like I listen to him. He seems like a nice guy! He seems like a great guy and his English is great. I don't know if he's Chinese American or... No it's not too bad but it just has complete command of the English language but it's just not a good look everyone's there like oh Chinese Communist Party look at the guy he looks like a Chinese Communist Party guy you just can't help it this is complete mind control

02:09 Of course, these communist people if you start seeing these they don't smile as much as this guy does. No that's true They're not a smiling group the CCP people but you know how it goes grimace I mean This is a whole this is a racial hearing It's a racial hearing and of course social media stocks are all show yes social media stocks are up today, of course and even C-SPAN Even C-SPAN is all over this and uh, this popped up this morning as no agenda nation is of course everywhere. What's not clear to me is if any of that is still happening? Alright let's talk to Grant next independent in Lincoln Nebraska Hi thank you for taking my call. Inhorn to you both I think that the whole national security stuff with the data that TikTok has

02:57 really falls to the wayside. It's just used as, the guest there said it's like a lot of grandstanding by the politicians and the real issue behind all this is money advertising money and that something that TikTok seems to be equal if not a superior competitor too with Twitter and Facebook in that because of the amount of engagement because the amount users Tik Tok has the ability Bring in a lot of advertising money because of the targeted targeted advertising that they can offer That is basically eating Facebook and Twitter's lunch An opinion that I agree with there was shared with Adam Curry from the no agenda show Right away right away she goes to cut him off, of course But here's the interesting thing the girl you heard at the beginning And I say girl cuz he's a girl

03:51 is the technology reporter from Axios. And she agrees! Well, this is an opinion that I agree with that was shared with Adam Curry from The No Agenda Show but... So Grant, I've got a question for you Did you hear they actually turned him down? The No Agenda Show and they turned his volume down. You can actually hear it go down as she's told to interject. Well, this is an opinion that I agree with that was shared with Adam Curry from the No Agenda Show but... So Grant, I've got a question for you. Do not think- Not so much They turned him down! They turned him down. It wasn't that much. So Grant, I've got a question for you. Do you not think it being owned by Chinese company is a national security issue at all?

04:33 I think it's an issue but i think that uh... uh... it i think that it falls second to the amount of money and that is being nice around a lot of advertising at the time he had financial connections with politicians have with these big social media companies got even better actually So you make a good point. TikTok has been very, very successful in the advertising realm. Also just been really popular in general and Facebook... This is the Axios technology reporter. I mean our guy sounds like someone who knows what's going on.

05:14 Grant it she sounds like a dingbat from the valley. They've also just been really popular in general and Facebook and Twitter and YouTube have taken notice of competition that they get from tick-tock And that contributes to a lot of what you hear from these other social media companies What the problem is is that? You know, they get this technology and she's the axios is not a not a A fly-by night operation? I mean Axios is a very serious news organization. And, but you know she knows about phones. Owned by Lorraine Jobs of course. Oh and she owns that? She own all that? I believe she's one of the main owners. So it was like oh who is on the technology beat? Oh yeah! That's her because she has a phone. She understands TikTok. Now that's exactly what it feels like. It's like this is not someone who understands... Remember the old days? This happened to everybody out there knows these stories back 1980

06:16 era, it was like we need somebody to know something about technology and find someone. Exactly Not necessarily who has a phone but he has a home computer? Yeah! He's the guy make him VP of Technology he's got a home computer Remember that? That was a whole era. Yeah, so nothing has really changed She's got a phone! Make her reporter of technology TikTok has been very very successful in the digital advertising realm What is digital advertising realm I mean isn't it can you just say they've been very successful They've done seven billion dollars in advertising and they're poised to do more that's a report no

06:56 The advertising realm. They've also been really popular in general and say what that's cop speak It's like you add a bunch of words, you don't know right now a professional writer good point Oh, you make it a point tick tock has been very very successful in the digital advertising realm they've also just been really popular in general and Facebook and Twitter and YouTube have taken notice of the competition that they get from TikTok. They have taken notice of the competition? Really, technology lady? Is that your analysis of the situation?

07:37 Facebook and Twitter and YouTube have taken notice of the competition that they get from TikTok. And that contributes to a lot of what you hear from these other social media companies, they may place ads behind other groups that they're secretly funding or not so secretly saying TikTok- What? What is she saying? By the way Axios hire Grant! Grant is the guy you want on this beat not this dingbat. And what is this? What wait, wait, what is she we're gonna go back and listen again Facebook and Twitter and YouTube have taken notice of The competition that they get from tick-tock and that contributes to a lot of what you hear from these other social media companies

08:20 They may, you know place ads behind other groups that they're secretly funding or not so secretly saying TikTok is a national security threat. Oh what she's saying is that YouTube, TikTok and Twitter and Facebook who've taken notice are placing ads saying that TikTok as a national security issue So she, which is called lobbying as well. I mean you know that they're- Or she said groups that they're secretly funding which would be a lobbying group for example. Yes! Oh okay! Well she rises in my esteem all of the sudden. And YouTube have taken notice of the competition that they get from TikTok and that contributes to a lot of what you hear from these other social media companies They may place ads on it. Now this is interesting She says she hears

09:10 from these other social media companies because it's her beat so So does she hear this from them directly? Is this a source, is it an anonymous source. This is very interesting. They may place ads behind other groups that they're secretly funding or not so secretly saying TikTok as the national security threat and maybe they believe those things but what they also believe is that TikTok is major competition and shipping into their dominance. So there's a lot at play here I mean when big tech companies are accused of being monopolists They like to point to TikTok as thriving competition. Look at TikTok, they're making so much advertising dollars there hugely popular among younger users which is a declining demographic for Facebook but in situations like this it's also really advantageous for Meta and Twitter and YouTube and other companies to say well yeah it is the national security concern and you know we're an American company

10:07 So she agrees with our guy. That had not come up in the conversation until Grant, producer Grant stepped in and said everybody straight on the channel that no one watches which is great! Well that could trigger a cascade effect Doubtful... doubtful I don't know I mean, Chris you've been hounding it on this show for a while. Yeah Six months well i can't wait to listen to some of the testimony because i'm sure there'll be some choice We'll see exactly who's compromised but i'm gonna say Rubio Top of the list cuz he's mr security Holly i think is probably compromised although i don't want him to be but i mean come on

CHAPTER 03 / 46 Discussion

Jacob Helberg, Silicon Valley Anti-China Alliance

Jacob Helberg, a former Google policy advisor and member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, is identified as a leader in a bipartisan alliance against Chinese tech influence. The group, which includes Peter Thiel, focuses on global competition and national security issues related to Chinese involvement in the US tech industry.

jacob helberg· peter thiel· google· stanford university· china hawks

10:49 And so the Wall Street Journal did report that a group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel and Washington lawmakers are quietly mobilizing against China's involvement in the US tech industry ahead of TikTok chief executive Xu Zichu's Capitol Hill testimony. Hmm, aren't those the same guys like Peter Thiel that were all for like net neutrality and open internet? And heaven forbid the Chinese are gonna block the Internet. The Iranians are gonna block the Internet so we're gonna block the Internet? How does this work I'd like to understand would somebody from that group tell me what's going on? Spearheading the efforts create bipartisan bi-coastal alliance of China hawks is Jacob Helberg

11:36 Former Google policy advisor who is the newest member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission This is the guy. A congressional research and advisory panel, Mr Helberg also serves as an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security? This is a lot of money John! A think tank that specializes in national security issues and a senior advisor at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics & Technology which is dedicated to research on global competition Oh, global competition. Does that mean blocking the internet? That's exactly what... By the way as we have discussed many times on this show no one in America cares about ransomware or cares about hacking but you take off your turn off TikTok you take that away from the American people people will lose their shit This is not something to be dealt with lightly

CHAPTER 04 / 46 Discussion

TikTok Therian Community, Red-Tailed Hawk Alter Ego

A TikTok clip features an individual named Horace who identifies as a "therian," claiming to be a red-tailed hawk trapped in a human body. The hosts use the clip to mock the platform's content and the idea that such data poses a significant national security threat to the United States.

tiktok· therian· red-tailed hawk· animal alter· identity

12:36 I mean people will not care China can have my information. What good it does them? Well of course it does them no good. Here's the kind of person, I have a clip. Good there we go This is what I got off TikTok That's one of the few times you'll be able to do that ever again This is the talk clip of the hawk girl. I want to say China is going to have her information, it's going to be used for debt with deadly consequences My name is Horace and I'm a red-tailed hawk in our world I do have the body of a hawk but while fronting I consider myself a therian because I am in a human body but my identity is still a hawk not all animal alters will identify this way and I am in fact the only animal alter in our system who does identify this way

13:22 I am doing my best to come to terms with living in a human body. Talk, talk, TikTok! Oh boy... There you go now that's gonna really- That's gonna submarine the American way. Once China gets information on that chick Take her we sacrifice her China You can have her We want to keep TikTok just give it to her That is so phenomenal I love it. It is so embarrassing that these lawmakers, elected officials are going in on this. And I heard a little bit of the testimony this morning they're talking about things like Facebook or Meta basically and Twitter and Instagram they do this they are the ones that build profiles They just don't have the best profiles anymore Go ahead look at YouTube it's all... Hold on

CHAPTER 05 / 46 Discussion

TikTok Creator Economy, Algorithmic Compliance Demands

The discussion shifts to TikTok's success in attracting five million creators by offering higher payouts than YouTube. The hosts argue that the US government's push for TikTok to be sold to an American company is primarily about gaining the same level of censorship and compliance control they exert over other domestic social media platforms.

tiktok· youtube· creators· algorithms· irs

14:19 They may or may not have the best profiles, but does anyone think people like that TikTok has better profiles? They got nothing. No as we discussed they because of the culture of TikTok they have more about... YouTube is people doing shows mostly used to be YouTube broadcast yourself. TikTok has become the broadcast yourself and as we discussed computer vision they have the right content to know more about people what they wear at what they have in their house what they're reading all this stuff They do I think they have better profiling whatever they have it's working better that and we in what way? In the wet. What way is that companies are we've read email after email of companies saying we're moving all of our advertising to tick-tock That's the better way who cares how if there has a better ROI, but don't you think a lot of that has to do with just the reach

15:13 And the way that TikTok works and operates, the way it slips the ads in? I don't think it's because they have better dossiers on the American public. No! They have better profile information on their users that's all and it's not dossier information It doesn't even matter. It's better. It's better and I don't think it's the algorithm either. It's better... you know why did Orcut not work and why did Facebook work? You can't even explain, you can try and dissect it. No one really knows... Why did Google Circles, Google Plus... I could tell you some reasons for that one! Why did Google Plus not work?! Because Google doesn't know what they're doing when it comes to social anything! They are idiots! We're saying the same thing

15:56 We're saying it doesn't even matter, they're kicking everyone's ass. They don't have any information more information that is detrimental to the American public No! They also have 5 million creators boy do I despise that word creators and they are paying them 10 times more than YouTube You wanna see a shitstorm? Those five million people all of a sudden their checks are coming and of course, they're smart. They just oh you know what? How do we how did we get it? How do we get more creators? Oh I know Let's pay them more Everybody is over there That's the American way and then understand why they blame in Chinese for everything It's this whole not that Chinese way This is a witch trial it is it is it is not the American way to do this with competition

16:49 It's pathetic. And I think, you know so what are they saying? Well you have to publish your algorithm... Okay fine we'll publish the algorithm What they really want is they want it to be an American company So that can go in and say Hey do you want the IRS to be on your ass now then you do what we say You filter that person out Amplify this message That's what they run It can't be nothing else They want compliance. I'm not going to argue with the fact that they don't have the control that they have with everything. You will never agree with me, you always say i'm not gonna argue with you it's a phenomenal way of doing it! I agree with you! They want control? They don't have it with TikTok, it is completely out of control they have The Hawk Girls on there what are you gonna do exactly even you are all in on The Hawk Girls

CHAPTER 06 / 46 Discussion

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Meeting, Global Geopolitics

President Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin to strengthen the "comprehensive strategic partnership" between China and Russia. While Western media describes Russia as isolated, the hosts note that BRICS nations like India and South Africa remain on friendly terms with Moscow, marking a failure of long-standing US diplomatic goals to keep the two powers separated.

xi jinping· vladimir putin· kremlin· brics· biden

17:42 You love the hawk girls. The hawk, hawk girls. Hawk girls? I don't know how that poor hawk girl can live in a human body but she's doing pretty well So while China is eating our social media company's lunch While Xi Jinping is meeting with Putin Biden is meeting with the cast of Ted Lasso Doesn't this kind of show you what's going on? That there is something really wrong here. Here is a... Yeah, symbolically I think you've nailed it! Here is the clip from France 24. The grand entrance for one of the few countries still on friendly terms with Russia China's president One of the few countries on friendly terms with Russia?! I'd say that quite a few are on friendly terms with Russia. There are the BRICS

18:40 There's quite a few big ones, even. Yeah this is bullcrap! India? India has very good terms with Russia they're buying their oil left and right there's also South Africa as part of the BRICS What are they talking about?! Still on friendly terms with Russia China's President Xi Jinping was at the Kremlin on Tuesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin He is an increasingly isolated figure on the world stage since launching his war in Ukraine We are each other's biggest neighbor. We are also comprehensive strategic partners For years our relationship has withstood the test of various changes and become firmer as time goes by

19:21 Xi declared China was neutral on the invasion and the two leaders discussed Beijing's peace plan to end the war. A proposal written so far without input from Ukraine, and dismissed by the US for cementing Russian gains and giving it time to regroup. As well as diplomatic ties they strengthened economic ones with a close-to finalized deal that would see Russian gas transported to Asia The power of Siberia Pipeline 2 won't come online until 2030 but could render any further European sanctions on Russian gas far less effective. It's part of a wider push for the two countries to work together. By combining our rich scientific potential and industrial capacity, Russia and China can become world leaders in information technology, network security and artificial intelligence

20:12 Russia and China released a joint statement affirming that the strengthening of their ties is not meant to be confrontational to other countries. A cold comfort for Ukraine and its allies. Yeah, and then I guess the translation was between the exchange between Xi and Putin as they were saying goodbye as dear friends. We're making change together that hasn't happened in a hundred years! And they're right you even put that in the newsletter it's this is what is happening? This is not supposed to have happened when they opened up China when Nixon and Kissinger figured how to do it and they did it the whole idea was to keep China from partnering with Russia

20:56 And then every president ever since his job has been to keep China and Russia from partnering. And meanwhile, here comes Biden! Yeah! Biden and the staff from the old Obama administration they managed to do it I have to assume they wanted to do it Well we've always thought that Obama was a chai-com He seems that... Remember when he was bowing to them? Yeah yeah he's cow-cowing Yeah Cow-cow-towing and bowing yeah You got any China stuff I got plenty of China stuff. I got some China economy discussion, this is my week of doing some NTD stuff So it's all news you'll never have heard any of this! This is N T D Yeah of course no one will have this because we're too obsessed with Trump getting arraigned, indicted. Wooo perp walk! Crab walk! Where's the perp walk? I'm waiting

CHAPTER 07 / 46 Discussion

China Economic Recovery, Debt and Liquidity Issues

An NTD report examines China's struggling economy, noting that the country is cutting interest rates and reserve requirements to free up liquidity while the rest of the world fights inflation. China's debt has reached 300% of its GDP, and a rise in domestic nationalism is reportedly driving foreign brands out of the country.

ntd· china economy· gdp· inflation· liquidity

21:50 All right, let's go to China economy discussion. Okay NTD to the rescue Antonio kind of zooming in on the economy it seems with this Xi and Putin meeting especially right China has been doing this diplomatic dance in a way they have been helping Russia economically But with those sanctions or even secondary sanctions that could be levied on China, it seems China's own economy has been taking quite a hit. You have a piece out recently called China's economic recovery is uncertain so what are you seeing in that aspect? So while the rest of the world is raising interest rates to combat inflation, China keeps cutting rates and cutting reserve requirements because they're trying to free up liquidity in their banking system and their financial system. Increase the quantity of cash that's available to expand the economy but this is a very very unsound way to expand the size of the economy and it has to be paid for later so China already has debt

22:51 equivalent to 300% of GDP. It's debt is just growing, so I see the Chinese economy really struggling this year. The other issue is that demand for everything is still down in the rest of the world. The rest of the world is still facing essentially somewhere between a recession and stagflation that's keeping consumer demand down. So Chinese products aren't in demand as much abroad. A push for nationalism within China is driving a lot of foreign brands out of China. They're not making the money they were making before, general downturn in the Chinese economy. They could never get consumers to consume in China the way that they did and the way they do in the United States

CHAPTER 08 / 46 Discussion

Josh Hawley, Most Favored Nation Status for China

Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to cancel China's "most favored nation" trade status within two years. The hosts discuss the difficulty of decoupling the US economy from China, citing the prevalence of Chinese components in everything from Walmart goods to electronics and tires.

josh hawley· most favored nation· trade· walmart· chip act

23:36 And Antonio, speaking of this say economic uncertainty that's unfolding in China right now here in the US Senator Josh Hawley is introducing a bill that would cancel the country's most favored nation status within two years. So if this actually passes what would be the impact on China? Oh now we see Hawley's true mission it's not TikTok he wants to screw China Yeah, that's what he wants. This force favorite nation things comes up in the conversation here and there it did I've heard it a few times that they're trying to pull this one Let me ask you a question because let me ask your question In that report they're talking about You know They'll never get anyone any country to consume like America does will we just stop consuming two Chinese products? I don't think so I mean if does that stop overnight or what's their new market

24:23 Well, the problem is this negative report is one of the few you'll ever hear because everybody else still extols the virtues of Chinese productivity and their manufacturing capability in particular. But this report's the only negative one I could find but there may be something to it. The problem is that the Chinese have got their fingers into everything. You can't really build anything without Chinese components or I mean you can't buy a camera that's not made in China. I mean the Nikons and Canon... How about the phones? And all the phones are made in China, yeah! And half of computers are made in China. Dell has got a factory over there they make their computer. So you can do this but

25:07 If you pull most favored nations, which changes the way you can do trading. It's possible that over the next decade we may be able to extract ourselves from China some people I mean... But even Walmart has it. Almost all Chinese stuff. Exactly everything that goes on Walmart comes from Wuhan I don't know. China's dependent on us and we're dependent on them, and I understand we can't get along but as they might say let's try to clip two maybe more things will come out of it. I really really wish that this would pass unfortunately it's one of those things that comes up every

25:50 Couple of years or months or something somebody talks about it in it and it just doesn't go anywhere unfortunately now we are Ratcheting up to the credit of the previous administration and the current administration. We are ratcheting this up on both ends U.S. outbound investment into China, Chinese investment into the United States trade with China to chip ban is huge and we're doing a lot of good things but it's a bunch of piecemeal things that I really wish that we would do something big like removing their most favored trading nation status just outright banning imports from China, outright banning investment in China. Something along that lines because every step of the way we're tightening this or that or making this or that better but meanwhile there's another problem over there it's another problem with playing the whack-a-mole game you know? You knock down this mole and then that one pops up over there and the problem is that all these profits that China is earning all this money that they're getting from US investors It's just going back into weapons ultimately

26:52 It's funding their technological advancement, AI, new age weapons, new age technology space wars all these things and if we can cut off their money they won't be able to do it. I mean it is the same concept of what were doing to Russia We're hamstringing Russia economically so that they can't wage a war Unfortunately they have there buddy China feeding them money through the back door right? Right! If you could cut that off That would be great It's a little more than just Russia getting money through the back door on China. You know, this is where the analysis falls apart you can't what he described it as not possible now I mean it would be ideally yeah cut off all imports just stop them and then what do we do? Our basic vitamin C! We can even get tires anymore that aren't made in China

27:45 The Japanese, all the big Japanese tire firms they have factories in China and make tires cheaper. You just not do it this is we're we were locked we're locked up And what does that chip ban doing? I mean the Chip Act which was they had a Chip Act in Europe They had a Chip Act in United States What has that actually done well their bitching about so must've done something But what it's gonna do is make the China, I don't know that. I'm surprised that the Chinese haven't gotten further in developing fabs and you know It doesn't seem a stretch for them to be able to do artificial intelligence better than Google barf Which came out yesterday in beta? What a piece of did you see my first question about

CHAPTER 09 / 46 Discussion

Google Bard Beta, AI Plagiarism Concerns

A host tests the beta version of Google Bard, which provided inaccurate personal information about Adam Curry's family and history of being banned from Twitter. The discussion covers the high cost of running AI queries and the looming legal battles regarding plagiarism and copyright violations by AI models.

google bard· ai· wikipedia· tina snyder· copyright

28:32 No, I don't know anything about what you've done. Oh okay so i did what we always do it's like let's test this... So I got on the beta It's called Google Bard B-A-R-D What? That was Barf Well that's what you and I call it and that's correct it's Google barf And now..and so I asked a question which you know I was moaning and groaning about other AI being stupid and my question was tell me about Adam Curry. And I'll just read the, you know so it spits out a paragraph directly from Wikipedia and then listen to this... Curry is a vocal critic of the mainstream media and he has been accused of being a conspiracy theorist He is also a strong supporter of Donald Trump In 2017 he was banned from Twitter for violating the company's terms of service Currie is married to Tina Snyder and they have one child together

29:31 Tina, what did you do with our child when I was banned from Twitter? What happened to the kid?! What does she do with the kid!? Where's the kid! But The Apologist... that's what so amazing. People come on and say well it's not really good at that but if you know if you wanted to do a business plan and you can hone it you can tweak it so that it gives you a great idea It'll even register domain name tell you what to get them like what are you people Stop it's not great. It's not gonna be great. It's never gonna be great well Never never is a little strong, but it's a far cry from great people are they love this oh yeah Oh AI so it's like the artist you're like a comic strip. Oh Great no, it's not

30:22 And people are not, we don't remain stupid like this. We as humans our brains are also evolving and we get very I mean I can now detect AI deep fake video deep tape the deep fake audio you're our own brains are also training to outwit the AI I do not believe that AI will outwit the human beings long term Our brains continue to evolve You know, there's also the it's going to be difficult to outwit the lawyers. Yeah at some point this is plagiarism This is a copyright violations left and right no one's really addressed this too much But if this thing is doing illegal work and more importantly they have no way to fund it This is very expensive stuff to run

CHAPTER 10 / 46 Discussion

Podcast Ad Market Collapse, Mark Maron and Acast

The hosts discuss a downturn in the podcast advertising market, noting that even top talent like Mark Maron is being used to pitch for advertisers. They contrast the "existential crisis" of ad-based models with their own "value for value" system, which relies on direct listener support rather than fluctuating corporate ad spends.

mark maron· acast· podcasting· advertising· value for value

31:17 You need ASICs, special ASICS. They would have to basically convert and get rid of all their YouTube ASICS and you've got to get AI... This is very very expensive! The cost of running AI queries is that you're going to have to charge people I don't think that you can offset this with advertising in an ad market that is so bad, that Mark Maron has to now pretend he's... Oh yes let me tell you about how I work with advertisers. It's very interesting! You see this? No, I have no idea what you're talking about. Mark Maron, so he is with Acaste. Acaste is a... By the way, the lights are flickering it's possible our power goes out and generators will kick-in. We'll be back in a few minutes

32:04 Okay, so he's with Acast which I think is a Swedish outfit. And... I thought he was an independent podcaster? Yes he is but his ads come through Acast So they go out and sell the ads. Then I'm reading all these stories from the so-called podcast industrial complex news Oh yes, A-Casters come out with a new series where podcasters talk about themselves. No! It's basically Mark Maron saying yeah I really liked working with this company and here is how I worked with that company they're so desperate they are putting their top talent we all had to do this when i worked in mainstream hey man you got to do some pitches for us You gotta talk to the press about how great the ads are so advertisers see this oh maybe I should advertise with them

32:53 You know what I mean. So they're not going to cover it with ads, the ad market is soft it's down its a problem the economy is not making it easier you cannot fill this hole. I should mention when it goes down like this because it did this at the dot-com crash if you recall in year 2000 the ad market collapsed And it takes about two years or more to recover. It may even take longer on this one, and this may be a doozy I don't know everyone's battening down the hatches in case people hadn't noticed. People are moaning and groan all the advertising based podcasters are... Moaning and groaning! All of them are moaning and groaning Crying existential existential crisis existential the ad market yeah

33:47 I can't Buffalo my listeners anymore by reading ads. Thank God for value for value, man we made a smart choice by accident but we still made a smart choice We couldn't get anyone to add it. I don't think it was by accident No. I think it was done purposely. Purposely no but I mean we figured out that there was a real business model we said hey you know you've got to support us otherwise we can't do it That...we just were like hey! We're not gonna do this if you don't support us And then people did and then we figured out, oh wait a minute. If you really open it up and don't try to be a Patreon or don't try to force people into the Silicon Valley model of $5! No please whatever it's worth to you whatever the information is whatever the value is that you get... Actually the variable donation I think is the key to success that people don't understand. ...and people are embarrassed to do it

CHAPTER 11 / 46 Discussion

John Kirby, Ukraine Ceasefire Rejection

White House spokesperson John Kirby stated that a ceasefire in Ukraine would be "unacceptable" as it would ratify Russian territorial gains and allow Putin to regroup. The hosts question the logic, suggesting a ceasefire would also benefit Ukrainian forces by providing time for training and equipment delivery.

john kirby· ukraine· ceasefire· vladimir putin· zelensky

34:42 They can't they kill that ring the worst boy. Yeah, well golly I don't know I Don't like taking church tip jar would that work? It's not okay I just put a jar out there maybe push somebody puts $1 in there and ask me to play it tune job oh Man So one of the interesting things about this Xi and Putin meeting is that out of it came an idea of, you know maybe we seek some kind of peace with Ukraine. Maybe we can work some stuff out then Xi who by the way I think he traveled to Moscow that's a big deal

35:23 You know, he went there. He went to see Vlad and said hey man we can fix something you know could figure it out and so some ideas leaked out kind of floated You know, like a ceasefire to figure some stuff out. Oh ho! Whoa we can't have that says John Kirby. That if coming out of this meeting there's some sort of call for a ceasefire well that's just going to be unacceptable because all that is going to do is ratify Russia's conquest todays. All thats gonna do is give Mr Putin more time to refit retrain reman and try to plan for renewed offensives at the time of his choosing I'm sorry?

36:01 Doesn't that, doesn't his logic apply to Zelensky and the Ukrainians? No. It gives them more time to retrain and bring more stuff over because there's a lag time for moving product and it's like getting the other...it gave him more time to do this than that in the other... Good observation! ...It sounds to me like it would give both sides more time I'm not going to disagree Good. Russia's conquest today, all that is going to do is give Mr Putin more time to refit, retrain and remand and try to plan for renewed offensives at a time of his choosing We hope, we've said this before, President Xi will call and talk to President Zelensky because we believe the Chinese need to get their Ukrainian perspective here

CHAPTER 12 / 46 Discussion

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink Peace Protest

Medea Benjamin of Code Pink interrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony to demand a peace proposal and negotiations for the war in Ukraine. The hosts discuss the funding of anti-war groups and agree with Benjamin's assertion that the US should prioritize diplomacy.

medea benjamin· code pink· antony blinken· peace proposal· state department

36:49 Oh yeah, they need to get the Ukra... The Chinese need to get the Ukrainian perspective here? What does that even mean Kirby?! But you know, American public groups in American public are also mad about this. The Code Pink lady what's her name again? Oh, the Code Pink Lady. Yeah she's at it. Abe Lincoln was our Secretary of State and was testifying and she interrupted. I have a little clip of her. Thank you Mr. Secretary. The committee will be in order. or in the middle of a teleconference. You're supposed to be a diplomat, start negotiating! You know if you don't like the Chinese proposal where is your peace proposal? The American people want you to negotiate and be a diplomat do your job now! Medea Benjamin, Medea Benjamin is the Code Pink lady. Good for her exactly. She used to have a code pink office one of the main ones

37:59 in the area here. But who's funding her now is my question? The Chinese? Soros probably No, no Soros wants a demise and destruction doesn't he I guess he would. Yeah, he doesn't want anything solved but whoever's paying her that part of the American... But she is right! Of course she is right! We are negotiators we're also great diplomats. I mean come on! Oh I could- oh I have a series of clips here of one of the greatest diplomats and one of the greatest hoaxes of all time and and I love these Russian guys Vovan and Lexis

CHAPTER 13 / 46 Discussion

Christine Lagarde, Vovan and Lexis Prank Call

Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexis successfully tricked European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into a 20-minute Zoom call by posing as President Zelensky. During the call, Lagarde admitted that inflation was driven by COVID-19 bottlenecks rather than just Putin, and expressed a "might makes right" view of the war.

christine lagarde· vovan and lexis· zelensky· ecb· inflation

38:39 These are the guys that, uh... They called up Schumer. They called up—you know all I think it's the same guys All these idiots and they pretend to be you know like— Oh these hoaxers? The phone pranksters from, you know, hey check the calendar it's 1960 Yes well they pranked Fifi Lagarde And they didn't just prank her, they did a 20 minute Zoom call with her and recorded the zoom call. Oh my god! Pretending to be Zelensky So they had video, I presume. Does one of them look like Zelensky? Well so we only see her side and we hear his voice but it's kind of cool because even starting off...I gotta play these clips for you Even at 20 minutes! And i'm just going to pull a few of the gems from this thing

39:35 But before and she's at home clearly, you know She's got her little her office set up and she's got you know I guess our grandkids drew something. She even got a little peace sign Up in the bookcase I'm sure that tick-tock would have dynamite time analyzing her office. And so as the call is coming, and this just shows you how dumb these people are! These people are so stupid now for context she is now the president of the European Central Bank, the European Federal Reserve where they took all the money in Europe and all the guilders and the drachmas and all these cool little monies and made one big euro thing so it's all under her control

40:19 And she used to be head of the IMF, so she is the shill and then she got the IMF job by basically taken down the guy who was in charge. Remember that? Yes, Strauss whatever his name was. Yes, Hans Strauss he had been all of a sudden he had accosted... The hooker! It was the cleaning lady what is the cleaning lady in the hotel in New York it wasn't a hooker. Right yeah sure exactly so but she's a shill but she's also you're gonna see how dumb she is So show of course what do all the elite ladies think of Zelensky

40:57 They all love him. Oh, he's so handsome! He is handsome really? Come on... He is a little normie guy I know but you see of course but you see all the women who go meet you've seen it oh Zelensky, oh Zelensky All the Hollywood, oh Zelensky, oh Zelensky Sean Penn wants to bone him come on everyone loves Zelensky Sean Penn okay So she's primping her hair in the beginning as the call is connecting. She goes, Zelensky, get ready for him! Hello? Can you hear me?

41:34 I can hear you very well. Okay, Madam President! I'm glad to see you, glad to hear you... I think he kind of has the voice down. That's pretty good. You know right away i'm not liking the voice but it's probably good enough. I wouldn't have bought it but again she's stupid! ...about the economic situation in Europe that assistance to Ukraine depends on and some countries are already openly saying that internal problems are more important for them than It's important to listen this first 45 seconds because he is just setting up, he is kind of getting her in the mood for the hoax. Which by the way has never paid off as far I know and she never catches on it She thinks she really spoke with Zelensky so he is kinda setting stage economics and rarara... Ukraine So I would like to ask you how things are in Europe as a whole How did the crisis hit? What is your position

42:32 Where we have an issue is on inflation because of the bottlenecks that have survived the end of COVID. We are seeing prices that have initially gone up only in the area of energy and then gradually through fertilizers, in particular to food, now on a much broader basis So the inflation that we had hoped would be transitory has continued much longer than thought. By the way, a couple things first of all she says coming out of COVID-19 we got inflation She doesn't say because of Vladimir Putin cutting off the gas to Europe which is the lie that all the politicians tell

43:21 So she doesn't say that. She has her own bullcrap reason, because of COVID. And at a much higher level than expected so as a result of that all central banks and the ECB is no exception have to take measures in order reduce inflation so that people do not suffer from high prices and we have a more stable economy. Okay, so that's just to set up... So she is in the mood now! He's going to say, hey well how are you coordinating? And just listen to where she takes it. How she feels what is the true solution to Ukraine's problems and the question is how do we think What does your colleagues from FIT think about that Do have a conversation with them

44:15 We do of course have conversations, we exchange a lot and actually I will be seeing Jay Powell tonight. We have dinner tonight. We are having a meeting at the Bank of International Settlement in Basel and I'm having dinner with him tonight so yes we talk a lot. Yeah yeah we coordinate! But you know President Whatever is the coming out of this situation, who wins who loses in a way is irrelevant. What matters is that Ukraine at the end of the day wins. So I take the very simple view that those who have the biggest gun at the end of the day win. Oh my God! This is how the elites think?

45:08 Hey, as long as we have the bigger gun then they win. That's how it works right? This is a very stupid basic Wild West cowboy principle which you're all in on It is the case at the moment that the biggest military power in the world is the United States so the United States is supplying the biggest shipment of weapons and is providing a very large amount of funding and that's the reality that we deal with. And I don't think that we can just argue about who wins, who loses it's you who has to win and we have to make every effort we can to support you How stupid are these people?

45:50 She really believes, oh as long as we have the biggest gun. Don't we have a clip? I don't know if you can isolate this clip but didn't we have a clip where... We're gonna fight this until every Ukrainian's dead! Who said that?! There was something it was going to be like... This war is gonna go on until the last Ukrainian standing Hmm, I don't remember basically it was like you know we're gonna just gonna go on into those no Ukrainians left You're gonna all be dead. You know it's just like that was the essence of it They were saying yeah wish I knew what clip that was I can't find anything under Ukraine and then you get it so you saw oh you guys It says it reminds me mad magazine or something somebody's crazy

CHAPTER 14 / 46 Discussion

Digital Euro, European Cash Restrictions

In the prank call, Christine Lagarde revealed that a decision on the "digital euro" will be made in October 2023. She discussed the need for the currency to maintain European sovereignty against private entities like Meta or Google and mentioned that cash transactions over 1,000 euros are being criminalized to prevent "grey market" activity.

digital euro· cbdc· christine lagarde· cash· terrorism

46:34 You know, Kerry everyone's dead except one guy you know. Well we what we know is that the US has always said as long as it takes which doesn't seem to be the fact okay so the final clip Now, now Volvon and Lexis are going all out. And I cannot... Again this woman is so dumb and they throw jokes in here This guy is so good So now he's going to First of all he's gonna suck up to get her You know get her already They're really smart how they do this Suck up to her tell her she's beautiful Smart whatever An then he's going to say okay He wants to know when the central bank digital currency coming The E-Euro

47:16 And she unpacks. Okay, let's stop to talk about sad things I'm really glad to see you and I see a smart woman at this position and i think that you're pretty nice How easy is it the hoax these people? I think you're pretty smart. I'd love seeing a smart woman in your position Ask me anything, but i'm also good user of Electronic money so my question uh you and introducing the electronic euro as they know yeah So how can um? How can switching to an electronic currency help

48:07 Well, two things. Number one it will be decided in October so... There you go! October Europe We are preparing the ground we want to be ready um we want to be trained but it will not be decided until october Everyone's got to be trained on how to do it. They gotta be trained, whoo! It's like a barking seal Well but it's really about training the European people and you'll hear that That's what I'm talking about those are the barking seals We also were talking about We are preparing the ground we want to be ready um...we want to be trained but it will not be decided until October 23

48:46 The reason I'm thinking when she says it will not be decided, what I think she's saying is that's when we're basically announcing. We're going to train everybody October 2023 then we'll just announce it and then its coming so I don't know if that means it happens or maybe it happens in 2024 but the hammers coming down in October digital euro. We are preparing the ground? So didn't, when you were in Holland the last time, didn't they move everything so you can have cash? Ooh that's coming up. We want to be ready we want to be trained but it will not be decided until October 23th The reason I'm personally convinced that we have to move ahead is a situation like the one we are in now. We are dependent on

49:40 the supply of gas by a very unfriendly country. I don't want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country's currency, for instance. An unfriendly country's currency? Wait a minute isn't the petrodollar... Hold on a second she is talking about us! Well is she though?! I think she has moved beyond the dollar The petrodollar is done it's dead No no no She already not thinking about us or the dollar Unfriendly countries I don't want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country's currency. For instance, the Chinese currency or the Russian currency or whatever. Or dependent on a friendly currency but which is activated by private corporate entity like

50:37 You know Facebook or like Google or anybody like I'm user of Bitcoin, too So she's not even talking about the dollar She says oh III don't have to buy our energy in in Chinese currency or Russian currency This is quite spectacular. I think for her to be saying these things and now he's going to start hoaxing her hard on With this, with Bitcoin. Like Google or anybody like that? I'm a user of Bitcoin too so... ...I had bought it when it started and I hope that it also will work through the special system

51:21 He's trying to goad her. She is not going to take the bait, but we'll see what happens. There are many protests in Europe against the electronic euro. What is their reason? You know, it's the beauty of Europe. It has different positions... It is the beauty of Europe! We can control them all! ...it's the beauty of Europe. It has different positions if you ask in Northern Europe for instance in The Netherlands they're quite happy to see the EURO coming We love the E-Euro, bring it to us please. If you ask a young German man he'll say yeah fine. Jawohl! It's good it's good As I said I don't want Meta Google or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe This is the second time she said this what is happening at Google and Amazon and Facebook Meta

52:24 Is she maybe offhandedly, but refuses to say that and she's referring to Musk and his X project? Well that's the one she doesn't mention. That's why... I know maybe is that possible that she's beating around the bush and doesn't want to mention it? I'm all in on that because she does not mention it at all and that's the one coming the closest and that's the threat. I don't want a foreign currency to become the currency of trading within Europe, so we have to be ready Now the problem is they don't want to be controlled They don't want

53:00 Yeah, but you know what? I love this. Yeah, but you know what? You know it's like these are stupid people we're the elites were bigger than them don't want to be controlled they don't want to... But you know what Now we have in Europe this threshold above 1000 euros you cannot pay cash. If you do, you are on the grey market so you take your risk You get caught, you are fined or you go to jail Just so you know In case we hadn't explained it already

53:38 If you pay over a thousand euros cash, you're on the grey market. if you get caught, you get fined or you go to jail just so you know A thousand euros cash might not have been clear to everybody in the EU but if they catch you they can throw you in jail You are on the grey market By the way that's nothing Of course not! A thousand euros what does I mean? Yes it is nothing It's nothing and it's about to get better. You were gonna buy like a laptop from some guy you know, and he said I'll take cash and you give him $1100 or 1100 euros now you go to jail? Yeah if you get caught! You're on the gray market now buddy! On the gray market in euros you cannot pay cash if you do your own the gray market so you take your risk you get caught you are fined or you going jail but

54:30 You know, the digital euro is going to have a limited amount of control. There will be control you're right! Yeah! Woohoo! You are completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts anything that is around 300-400 euros we could have a mechanism where there is zero control Hello slaves 300 euros on your E-Euro and you won't be controlled. Anything under 3, maybe 4... if we're nice to you but otherwise anything over 3 we're gonna control YOU! But that could be dangerous. The terrorist attacks on France

55:09 back 10 years ago were entirely financed by those very small anonymous credit cards that you can recharge in total anonymity. So what she's really saying is, you know right now the idea is we're going to present it as three or four hundred euros and you won't be controlled they won't be registered but terrorism so we're probably gonna have to control at all but will convince you later in October Now he's going to hammer it home. To hit, to hit the... Yeah. So it's like a joke from Russian side that we... Oh they can get lost! These guys are my friends now I love these guys. I'll give you a clip of the day for that funny. Thank you very much.

CHAPTER 15 / 46 Discussion

IMF Ukraine Loan, EU Ammunition Plan

The International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement for a $16 billion loan package for Ukraine, the largest ever for a country in active conflict. Simultaneously, EU ministers agreed on a 2 billion euro plan to provide one million artillery shells to Ukraine over the next year.

imf· ukraine· janet yellen· artillery shells· austerity

56:24 It's quite telling how the elites think and she is a Jay Powell of Europe. Yeah, she is. Meanwhile of course we have this little story which has not been played at all and expected, this going along is expected. Play this one, this is a Ukraine clip, this is IMF in Ukraine. Ah yes I just read about this morning The International Monetary Fund or IMF is offering the country a four year financing package worth roughly 16 billion dollars The IMF said on Tuesday they have reached a staff level agreement with Ukrainian authorities. The agreement must still be ratified by the IMF's executive board, if approved this would be Ukraine's biggest loan package since war started it would also be the IMFs biggest loan to a country involved in an active conflict. The IMF said its executive board is expected to discuss approval in the coming weeks. The Ukrainian Prime Minister and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen welcomed the deal

57:25 So we'll have them completely under control. Austerity, austerities coming Ukraine! Those poor people whatever's left of that country I mean it's got to be over it's just gotta be over or there still was some It's a military industrial complex spending the EU this time. The foreign and defense ministers of the European Union have agreed on a 2 billion euro plan to send desperately needed ammunition to Ukraine now, the deal will provide Kiev with 1 million artillery shells over the next year funds are also intended to help EU member states replenish their own ammunition supplies which have dwindled rapidly since the war in Ukraine began

CHAPTER 16 / 46 Discussion

F-16 Fighter Jets, French Munitions Production

While Poland and Slovakia have agreed to send fighter jets to Ukraine, the US continues to refuse requests for F-16s. A report from France 24 highlights the slow production of 155mm shells at the Nexter factory, which produces only 630 shells weekly while Ukraine fires 5,000 per day.

f-16· poland· slovakia· nexter· artillery shells

58:16 I didn't even know who manufactures ammo in Europe. Do you know? Well, they said Norway...I saw that report. They said Norway has a couple of factories. No! France and Sweden. France for sure but of course they can always go back to Scranton and get the shells from us This is the report along these same lines that i got was little weird because I can't get kind I can't figure out what's going on with these F-16s. Play this no F-16 clip. The US is saying no to sending fighter jets to Ukraine, despite fellow NATO members Poland and Slovakia doing just that. The State Department says Poland and Slovakia's moves would not impact U.S policy Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Poland choice a sovereign decision. Poland announced on March 16th it would send fighter jets to Ukraine becoming the first NATO country to do so

59:15 Poland and Slovakia's move could be a turning point for Ukraine in repelling Russia's invasion. Kiev has asked for fighter jets since last year, only for Washington and other NATO allies to refuse. I think it is clear they just don't want the war to end, they do not want actually kill anybody with F-16s... They keep saying they are going send them but this is a report from yesterday! We're Indian givers Sorry for being politically incorrect. No, we don't want to give them that it we just don't want to give it to him. Let Europe do it all. Well, you got to join the right fighter. Yeah, well, Jetson's gonna get blowed up by the Russians so it's going to be a waste total waste of money his shell is a little different

1:00:04 You know, a million shells. So what? Well listen... A million shells?! I don't think so! 5100... They already blew up a million shells. Well listen to this. Here's some numbers in this report from France 24. 5155 mm shells are fired each day in Ukraine. 5000 are fired each day in Ukraine. Where are they going? Are they doing nothing? The army says it does not have enough for its needs and wants Ukraine's allies to fill the gap as soon as possible. This munitions factory, Nexter is the only one in France making the shells they cost 4,000 euros a piece weekly output comes to around 630 shells currently They were turning out 400 a week before Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began over a year ago The slightest error during the manufacturing process... So it would take them

1:00:59 nine weeks to come up with their daily allotment? A week before Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began over a year ago. The slightest error during the manufacturing process can prove fatal on the front. The shell has to be perfect, otherwise with the speed it goes it begins to vibrate and won't travel straight! It could go in all directions...it won't have any precision! French authorities want to regroup manufacturer of all shell components to France including this powder used to fire the shell. Supplies over the last 15 years have come from Sweden, but from next year the powder will be produced in the Dordogne in France's southwest. A central part of quality control is x-raying each shell to give it the all clear." So that's some kind of move too I'm not quite sure what it means but moving the powder manufacturer from Sweden to France? There's something going on there... Somethings going on everywhere

CHAPTER 17 / 46 Discussion

Antony Blinken, Afghanistan Withdrawal Documents

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Antony Blinken if the State Department does not produce three specific documents regarding the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The documents are believed to contain evidence of corruption related to the exit.

antony blinken· michael mccaul· afghanistan· subpoena· state department

1:01:54 So they're just shooting these things off 5,000 at a pop and then it's like oh heaven forbid that you're not accurate Yeah. Are you kidding me? No do you think that they actually have a target no I think they're just just like fireworks so just shooting stuff around seems I had this funny clip This is a weird request for blinking The State Department is facing a deadline to provide documents on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Congressman Michael McCaul said in the letter that the state department must send at least three requested documents by the end of today. McCaul said, the committee will issue a subpoena if the materials are not produced before March 23rd, the day of Blinken's testimony before the committee.

1:02:46 A State Department spokesperson said the department is providing hundreds of pages of documents and will continue to do so, but he said that he could not answer when the department would provide the three specific documents most urgently requested. So what exactly did they want? They want... I guess there's three dots some sort of corruption thats involved with their leaving Afghanistan and they're looking for 3 specific documents that i guess some whistleblower told them about And they can't seem to extract them. And McCall's in charge of getting that? Mr Military Industrial Complex? I don't get it... By the way, you know Paki Shwarma who was at WION and she left? Your friend! Yes and she's not first post and most of her stories are too long there is nothing really good. It's not clippable But i got one that's very clippable very short and this is about Afghanistan now

CHAPTER 18 / 46 Discussion

Taliban Office Life, Internet Addiction and Quiet Quitting

A report from WION suggests that Taliban members are struggling to adapt to civilian life in Kabul, complaining about traffic, office jobs, and the boredom of "doomscrolling" on Twitter. The former fighters reportedly miss the "jihad life" and are engaging in "quiet quitting" at their new government posts.

taliban· afghanistan· twitter· quiet quitting· paki shwarma

1:03:42 you know, we've withdrawn. The Taliban is in trouble." A recent study shows that the Taliban is having difficulty adapting to typical civilian life They're tired of daily things that haunt most mere mortals like traffic thieves and office jobs How times have changed! The Taliban is complaining about being robbed by common thieves And they despise desktops. Most of them are now quite quitting or doing the bare minimum at their jobs Instead of being the harbingers of doom, they're stuck in Twitter's Doomscroll They complain about spending most of that time on Twitter They've become addicted to the internet

1:04:21 They say they quote-unquote miss the jihad life. The Taliban clearly misses the good things, like causing bloodshed. They're quiet quitting! The Taliban is quiet quitting because they're bored. And they are on Twitter? Yeah, their doom scrolling Of course there's no one to kill There's nothing left to do Decades and decades. I'll wait till they get on TikTok! Decades and decades of killing, like now we got to direct traffic... And law enforcement... We don't want to get robbed by common criminals Where's the jihadi bloodshed? This is great. Yeah this is great. Well done yeah They need a new enemy I guess not sure what they want to do

1:05:13 Well the place is falling apart. It's got of course it is all the reports are so you they're desperate there broke Mm-hmm people are starving to death this not good no NGOs had all been kicked out or they actually haven't been kicked up But they make sure that women can't run them and most were run by women yeah, and so that's the end of that Yeah Is because their women? What is that because they're women you said the way he said that was kind of weird. No, well They people they kicked two women out won't let the women do anything I? Tell them guys those right gun back to their old ways

1:05:53 All right, so because they won't let women run the show and run the office and do all the stuff that you know They're materially good at. Yeah I wouldn't say they are any better than men at it but in situations with an NGO that's pretty much managed by women You need women So no can have that there in that area I've just got a lot of China stuff here that might be interesting. Let's start with, first of all here is the story that we never heard of and I didn't know this was going on over and over again which reminds me you know in San Francisco we have had these

CHAPTER 19 / 46 Discussion

San Francisco Mall Fights, Stonestown Galleria Violence

The hosts discuss reports of massive brawls involving hundreds of teenagers at the Stonestown Galleria mall in San Francisco. They compare the current lack of police intervention to their own childhood experiences with gang violence at county fairs, attributing the current situation to "woke" parenting and defunded police.

san francisco· stonestown mall· gang fights· nypd· juvenile violence

1:06:38 these police station gang fights at Stonestown Mall. Wait, it was Stonestown? Stonestown Mall in San Francisco every I guess it's Wednesday when the kids get out of school or they go to the mall and then there's a big fight you can look it up by Google's got lots of movies of them oh okay and these kids are wailing on each other is quite something to see what kind of crap high school kids. And they're stomping each other and they're beating the security guards up, it's just been going on for... And they claim this happened three times over the weekend it was happening and happening and there may be a big fuss about it because cops can't do anything about it cause not enough cops are literally hundreds of kids fighting. And then if you talk to some of the kids or they interview some of the kids has been going on for months these

1:07:35 Just fights in the mall and they're just violent fights. And of course, San Francisco's got lax everything so they can't do anything about it but I remember when I was a kid we used to have situations like this too and it was not like new In fact, in the olden days during these Alameda County Fair on July 4th every single year when I was in high school A riot would break out at the fair between Mexican gangs. Oh! And they just beat the crap out of you. I was there for a couple of minutes, it's all just fights every which way! You look all around you have to be...you don't get caught up in it because you're not member with either one of the gangs and they know who everybody is but it's just like these kids They really have to be policed Now are their particular identifiable gangs? Because when you say that when you were a kid it was the Mexican gangs Are these identifiable? These kids who are ganged and beating on each other? Like if they were wearing specific colors No

1:08:37 They just knew who was in their group and they knew the other guys weren't in their group, and they went after each other. They didn't go after bystanders And it seems like there's Stonestown Mall stuff if you stay out of the way You won't get hurt because they're not going after bystanders. There is somethings going on. The police have been defunded and children are allowed to do anything they want because all their parents are woke It's San Francisco! Hello? Yeah, that's exactly right. What you just said I agree. Do you have a clip? Well let's go to the clip while we're trying to figure out which one it was. It's stuff that you don't hear about this is sandstorm in China

CHAPTER 20 / 46 Discussion

Beijing Sandstorms, Hazardous Air Quality

Beijing and northern China were hit by a massive sandstorm that raised air pollution to hazardous levels, 37 times the WHO guideline. The hosts share personal anecdotes about experiencing sandstorms in Israel and Kuwait, noting the unique "fog of sand" characteristic of these events.

beijing· sandstorm· air quality index· who· negev

1:09:19 Sandstorm in China. A sandstorm shrouded Beijing and northern China on Wednesday as air pollution rose to hazardous levels The sandstorm blanketed buildings and roads in a thick cloud of orange dust Beijing has experienced sand and dust storms over the past several days causing pollution levels to increase drastically Today the air quality index reached a level considered very hazardous to human health, a figure that is more than 37 times the daily average guideline set by the World Health Organization. Visibility is very poor in many areas but residents in Beijing said the weather mostly didn't hamper their daily routine. In terms of effects from the sandstorm there's the smell of dust on the subway but when I go outside I can feel it not much because

1:10:08 entrance is very close to my home. The impacts are not that great but can still feel the effects of it." This is the third sandstorm this month a government agency issued yellow warnings for nearly a dozen provinces for Wednesday and Thursday Beijing has regularly hit with sand storms in the spring with the smog made worse by industrial pollution you've really confused me What does this have to do with the gangs and kids? Nothing. I'm just saying this, but I was discussing about the gangs is the unreported aspect of it which is the fact that nobody said unless your local knows that there's been going on for months on end nationally you think it just happened but Sandstorms in China. I didn't know where's this desert that's creating the sand storms Do we have any Chinese listeners they can tell us no I'd I wasn't a sand storm once in my life

1:11:02 a real one. I was in one too. Mine was in the Negev, Israel and it was a sandstorm and It's like...it's not like what you think when seeing it on movie. It is just basically a fog of sand! I was in the sand storm when we went to Iraq We flew to Kuwait City and we had to, uh...we landed and then we had to wait on the plane for about 45 minutes I say because a sandstorm was coming through. And you're right it's like this big cloud and then it was just gone they were oh okay sandstorm got off and it was done yeah no this one lasted for a whole day Oh that's a real sand storm. It hit Tel Aviv and it was the worst sand storm in their history

CHAPTER 21 / 46 Discussion

Queens Gang Takedown, Drill Rap and Algorithms

The NYPD conducted a major gang takedown in Queens, indicting 33 members of rival gangs. The investigation revealed that the violence was fueled by "drill rap" videos on YouTube, where gang members brag about murders, which are then promoted by Silicon Valley algorithms and music streaming services.

queens· nypd· drill rap· youtube· spotify

1:11:57 I want to go back to the gangs. I have a gang clip by coincidence. Yes, there's big news from New York and this was completely avoidable and there are other people... This is not just some stupid kids well it is But this is something that we talked about maybe a year ago and now they still don't know really who's responsible on how this can be stopped. Listen to this report Officials think this could be the largest gang takedown in history in the borough of Queens and Fox 5 was given exclusive access as it happened. The Queens District Attorney along with the NYPD Chief of Detectives announcing the 151 count indictment of 33 alleged gang members

1:12:46 Our own Lisa Evers was embedded with the operation as NYPD detectives rounded up the suspects and she is here now to bring us this Fox 5 exclusive. Lisa, take it away. Well Chris this long-term investigation began with a murder of a promising teen basketball player Now nearly four years later NYPD detectives tell us they have dismantled two rival gangs who terrorized South Jamaica residents with reckless gunfire using drill music videos and social media to fuel their beefs. I talked about this specifically, the drill rap which is happening on YouTube

1:13:23 where kids are rapping about which other kid they're gonna kill. They go off and they do it, and then they do another drill rap video about killing the kid... ...and then the other team you know the other gang does the same And this is being propagated by YouTube algorithms and sub labels of Sony and Universal Music They give these guys publishing deals to make these records, it hits the algos then Spotify picks them up once they have the record deal and Spotify is then promoting this stuff. This is completely... What? Yes! I got this from Moe. This is drill rap, its happening everywhere It's happening in the UK, all over the world In the weirdest places

1:14:09 But this is a big thing and the Algos pick up their homemade songs and YouTube videos, then they get record deals sub-label publishing deals. And then it gets played on Spotify and then... They're just killing each other! The whole thing is propagated by Silicon Valley in the music industry I'm pointing them out specifically Do you have one example of one kill rap, whatever it's called? Go on YouTube! The lyrics are all about who they're killing. Who they're gonna kill and then they have the count... One example?! Oh my goodness Just go to YouTube and put in drill rap. You'll get it Look at the views And the algos are picking it up I've many examples. I don't have anything clipped Oh yeah Well this is not good

CHAPTER 22 / 46 Discussion

IPCC Synthesis Report, Antonio Guterres Climate Warning

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released the IPCC Synthesis Report, using dramatic language such as "humanity is on thin ice" and "the climate time bomb is ticking." The report claims carbon dioxide levels are at their highest in two million years and calls for a "quantum leap" in climate action.

ipcc· antonio guterres· climate change· carbon dioxide· united nations

1:15:03 But in case you hadn't noticed, the music business has moved to this model of songs about young black men killing each other. It's been that way for a while! There are radio stations that play it... The algorithms promote it... This is what the music business has become. Well, you could make the argument that that's what they want I think-I'm not going to argue with that Exactly Hey, we got a... I think we have to do two donation segments. So before we take our first one everybody bails losers The big IPCC report came out Did you read it? Another one they keep coming out Well this is the new one and this is the It's not just the IPCC report This is the synthesis report And this report doesn't just tell us that were all going to die

1:16:04 It tells us what we need to do about it. And I have a little intro here, it's well worth listening to all seven minutes of Antonio Guterres Because he has a speech, a new speech writer. I'll just have a minute He's got a new speech writer and they're just throwing all kinds of cliches into his speech Especially since the guy you know, um, he can barely speak English let alone tree can't write it They've got someone in there to to just just sex it up to no end dear friends Humanity is on thin ice and that ice is melting fast Oh Good one

1:16:40 As today's report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC details humans are responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years. Yeah! Two hundred years we're responsible for it. Two hundred years! What? Oh yeah don't you argue. Don't you argue. Heating over the last two hundred years The rate of temperature rise in the last half century is the highest in 2,000 years. Whoa! The rate of rise is the highest in 2000 years? Concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least two million years Two million years?! The climate time bomb is ticking Oh brother... The climate time bomb is ticking Remind you of anything?

1:17:28 Yeah, the population time bomb. The climate time bomb is ticking. But today's IPCC report is how to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity, as it shows the 1.5 degree limit is achievable but it will take a quantum leap in climate action quantum leap in climate action. This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector, and on every time frame

1:18:12 In short, our world needs climate action on all fronts. Everything everywhere all at once." And he throws a movie reference in there. What? He threw the movie title in there that just won the Academy Award for Best Picture?! I knew you would love it! What a dipshit... I'm telling you, I don't have any more- The whole report is filled with it It's great Now so this report does something very- I'll be back what did he say that to? Almost So this report is very specific and very debunkable, which is kind of cool because they have these 150 years 200 years and they show the graphs and they show moving up You know the hockey stick If anyone's ever listened to this show previously in the past many years we've played Michael Crichton's

CHAPTER 23 / 46 Discussion

Brian Katt, Climate Data Manipulation

Physicist Brian Katt argues that the IPCC manipulates climate data by choosing the "pre-industrial" period—the coldest point in the last 10,000 years—as its baseline. He notes that natural history shows much warmer periods, such as when hippopotami lived in the River Thames 130,000 years ago.

brian katt· ipcc· climate change· natural history· michael crichton

1:19:05 Michael Crichton videos who of course wrote State of Fear about how climate activists created all these hoaxes, blew up big sheets of ice to try and coerce humanity into jumping on board with their scam. And then he would do lectures everywhere and then he died sadly. Yeah, he died. Michael Crichton, you know, it was Jurassic Park. Died prematurely? Yeah, yeah just suddenly So here's just one simple way of debunking this hoax, this particular hoax which is now – because it's these numbers. It's the two million years, it's the 200 years, it's all these different years and this is physicist Brian Katt

1:19:51 and he will explain exactly how this manipulation is done. that because why do they choose that point? Well, oh let's... Because it's the lowest point. We are at one degree above the coldest its been in the last 10,000 years which is... Let's just repeat that I mean that's remarkable! And the other remarkable thing is its two degrees cooler than eight ten thousand years which is the Egyptian and Minoan period. So this is really important folks because this is data and that essentially the IPCC they always talk about that we are one degree higher than the pre-industrialization period at 150 years ago but what you're saying Brian, is that was the lowest point in the last 10,000 years? Correct! so so in a sense

1:20:52 And that it's been much warmer in two or three previous periods? Yes, and in the last interglacial which was 130 thousand years ago when the country is pretty much where it is now about 50 degrees north from the equator there were hippopotami and elephants on the banks of the River Thames. That would be quite a sight now wouldn't it! It would, and its well known this is natural history and it was six degrees warmer than it is And there were humans wandering around the place, presumably hunter-gathering happily. We're a tropical species! That's how they do it... They just pick a point don't go back too far to show you're warming and that was when it was really cold

1:21:32 Compared to 10,000 years ago. It's called scamming you it's all the lie yeah But you know oh a lie is a lie, but we just heard the The Secretary General of the United Nations saying that she hopes were about to all die It's a question is what's in it for him? For him or anybody that's on this bandwagon money I mean there's other ways are making money well, but this is free and You don't have to do anything. Just read the speech! Yeah, you might have to do a podcast... There's effort in that. It's just money. Just a grab. Or as we might say value Then with that I'd like to thank you for your courage saying good morning to you The man who put the C in cop speak Ladies and gentlemen please say hello to my friend on the way other end Mr John C DeVorez

CHAPTER 24 / 46 Discussion

No Agenda Social, Mastodon Community Management

The hosts discuss the growth of the No Agenda Social Mastodon instance and the "Troll Room" live stream. They mention the need to occasionally mute or block users who engage in annoying behavior, emphasizing the platform as a "sacred home" for the listener community.

mastodon· no agenda social· troll room· podcast apps· community

1:22:33 Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry also in the morning all ships and sea boots on their ground feet in the air subs In the water and all the games of nights out there Let's take a look at our troll room at trolls Joe Hands up, Troll! 1943. I think we're a little above average for our Thursday are we not? Yeah yeah that won't last No of course not it's 1943 and now its 1909 Of course the minute the minute we say hey was this valuable oh don't know I don't want to hear the question because if I hear the question about value I might be compelled to support them Oh no only got to run away run away but you can join The Trolls

1:23:13 at trollroom.io Where are they going? Who knows, oh my god there's no more content left well this is where you're wrong my trolls Trollroom.io you can listen to the stream live Thursdays and Sundays but it's 24-7, the No Agenda Stream is the best podcast network in the universe because it's all talk no commercials and trolling all the time! And from that page you can go right into The Troll Room and troll as much as you like we have lots of live shows or get one of the modern podcast apps at PodcastApps.com which will even alert you and it will dump you right into the troll room on the same app where you get your podcasts, all of your podcasts. We recommend Podcast Addict and Podverse currently are supporting this great feature. Of course you can also follow us at noagendasocial.com I had to block a couple people getting annoying Do you get put on long threads of things that do not interest you at all?

1:24:13 Yeah. It's like, I hate to do it but then I gotta mute the thread and eventually have to mute people or block people it's just...I don't know. I think it's leaking into peoples brains so this is your place everybody this is your sacred home you're part of the community if you have an account there but you can also follow from any other Mastodon account and you can do whatever you want there But people seem to like poop in their own bed sometimes. It's very, very odd why they do that but you can follow John C. Dvorak at Noahjindersocial.com and Adam at noahjindersocial.com we'd be happy to follow you back 1841 there you go 100 gone

CHAPTER 25 / 46 Discussion

Mike Riley, Episode 1539 Zebra Artwork

The hosts praise artist Mike Riley for his "zebra with a ripped-off arm" artwork for the previous episode. They discuss the unique perspective of cartoonists and review other submissions from the No Agenda Art Generator, including various depictions of Donald Trump's potential indictment.

mike riley· no agenda art· cartoonists· zebra· trump indictment

1:24:56 We also need to thank the artist for episode 1539. We titled that one, Putanoids which is a term that we learned on the show and I mean it...we often laugh at the art but when we saw this piece from Mike Riley We both cracked up at the same time and you don't even have to listen to the show You'd have to know anything about our show as Witness from people who are on Twitter who said oh my god I have to stop everything. I'm doing right now and listened to your show This was Mike Riley's zebra with a ripped-off arm Which came from a clip It was like what's from The Good News section of the show

1:25:42 From the supposedly good news that you read on your behalf at the end of the show. Yeah, and Mike Riley has something about his style man and what is it? How would you characterize him? Well he's a cartoonist so they don't think like normal people. Everything is askew It's just impossible to... Even fine artists They can see things and compose in a certain way that is quote-unquote art. But cartoonists are like a different breed. And they have, they just see everything and once they get into it where they really get good is just like wow! I mean used to work with number of cartoonist for some promotional art when I was at PC Magazine. I had an idea in my head that said, I'd just tell it them and say ah I know what to do

1:26:39 And they would just put it together in a way that I would never do, and it's ten times better than my original thought. They're astonishing people. And what I love is we don't have to give any of our artists any direction at all? No, this case is like spot art. They just do it. Now Riley he did enter an earlier piece which was the same with a pink background. Yeah, and I'm glad he switched it to that kind of was that dirty orange? What is that color? Well he probably wouldn't have got it with that other background everything bled into it. It was really a problem literally the blood from the ripped off arm looked at us you know there's no good oh the man as a genius certified genius it was very very funny we're just cracking up

1:27:23 Now we did, of course we look at all the art and you can follow along. NoahGenera...artgenerator.com is where everyone uploads and you can participate too! Let's see, we had Vladimir Putin in jail We had a lot of Trump actually nice stuff like Sir dude named Parker Pauly kind of the Trump a hair coif swoosh with handcuffs that looked pretty cool. There was a 45 with handcuffs, it was okay. It was a Jamaica flag... What else was there? There were a lot of Trump indictment clips which I would say in general would just not really... You know, I don't think that is attractive anymore for any product, would you say? Yeah, agree

1:28:20 There were some concept pieces. Jacques the Robot we talked about. Did you ever find out what... No, I was actually talking about the dinner table for a long time and nobody remembers including JC He doesn't remember what his other alter ego was? The third one yeah 1771 we lost 200 trolls goodbye trolls drown hope you drown Jenny Boys For Life which you use for the newsletter, which I like. But again it wasn't really something...I mean this is nothing that compared to O'Reilly's zero. No there was no comparison There really wasn't what else was there? Some Bitcoin stuff? No. Comic strip blogger with anti-AI art? Nah! It was really it. Sometimes you just go okay that's it. There are just no two ways about it

1:29:13 But we appreciate the work that all of the artists do. I mean, you really... You kick ass every single show We have so much to choose from Now we haven't gone back to The Evergreen Archives in many many months, I don't think Because there's just always something that we can choose from. We did about five months ago Yeah, but that's many many months...five months ago And it's already filling up now You can follow along at NoahArtGenerator.com The artists do this live on the- and by the way O'Reilly He had to haul ass on doing that thing because it was near the end of the show If I recall? Yeah, I don't believe he had a zebra in his back pocket Is that a zebra in your back pocket?! Or were you just happy to see me

CHAPTER 26 / 46 Discussion

Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch, Two Dollar Bill Advocacy

A long-time donor, Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, sent a donation including two-dollar bills and dollar coins. He encourages producers to use these denominations to spark conversations and create a "shortage" at banks, as a way to keep physical cash usage interesting.

two dollar bill· cash· dogpatch· lower slobovia· jefferson

1:30:00 NoahArtGenerator.com, thank you again to all of our artists we appreciate the work you do I hope you appreciate the critique that we give you because no one else will be as honest with you as we are that's for sure Now let us thank the executive and associate executive producers for episode 1540-1540 And we will kick it off with our monthly massive supporter Sir Onamich... Sir Onamich? Sir Onamitch! Sir Onamis of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia 2252. He always comes in with numbers we have no idea what they mean, but it's always very meaningful to us he receives so much value from this show This is what he returns back to us and I want to read his note which as usual comes in with cash and Is typewritten? And actually...is that printed or is that a typewriter can you tell me that must be printed? I'm pretty sure it's a printer but

1:31:01 Yeah, he has to be printed. From Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia Thank you for the continuing hard work and keeping us informed of world events and reminding us of the bias in reporting to sway our views I am certain none of the producers have ever used any of the techniques learned on your show To influence a romantic interest or other in their own best interest Well that's an interesting observation Answering an unasked questions, I use two... Oh yes he often sends a $2 bill or multiple two dollar bills in his donation. I use two dollar bills because it has the best artwork of any US currency What is on the two-dollar bill John? Jefferson. Hmm! I also use dollar coins which i believe are some of the better minted coins oh he's going for quality cash

1:31:52 I encourage No Agenda producers to request $2 bills at banks and use them. Using cash is already becoming arcane, using denominations that don't have a natural place in most cash tills is just fun sport and results in many wonderful expressions." Yes! And you meet fun children from other lands when you do it. You'll have a conversation. You might even date someone because it's a great conversation starter. Next Meetup... I'm waiting for them to do a big head two dollar bill Next meetings next meetup use the $2 bill or dollar coins as challenge coins. As someone that requests both denominations at banks, it does not take much to buy most of a branches two-dollar inventory and like toilet paper producers can create a two dollar bill shortage All right

1:32:42 Thank you so much. Love that, love your notes, love the value return and thank you very much for supporting the show He refuses any titles he's just synonymous of Dogpatch and Lois Leboviad That's it And we are very very grateful to what he has done for this show over many years So now we have moving on Another fine donor Ryan and Jessica Sorenson in Havre, Montana. Montana one five forty fifteen hundred dollars and forty-sixteen fifteen hundred and forty dollars

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Bad Potato of Beaver Creek, Executive Producer Donation

Ryan and Jessica Sorenson of Havre, Montana, contribute $1,540 to become Dame Jessica and Sir Bad Potato of Beaver Creek. They share a story about their restaurant closing and request "yak karma" for a fellow listener, Mike Dorman, who is struggling with workplace mandates.

beaver creek· pastrami· montana· yak karma· build back better

1:33:23 BBB jingle and goat karma, please now shut up and take my money. Okay start talking again It's why we send our cash Mm-hmm little stream of consciousness opening there I think mm-hmm this donation is a split for me and my gorgeous wife Jessica Sharing executive producer status. You'll both be on there. Brings us up to Dame and Knight's status in before inflation increased prices, we shall be known as Dame Jessica and Bear Paws. I shall be referred to as Bad Potato of Beaver Creek the county's largest county park, I might add

1:34:04 Beaver Creek. I will be, uh...I will bring homemade pastrami and hot rod jalapeno amber. I think that's a beer. To the round table, since my restaurant closed... ...I need an outlet for my cooking needs and other casualty of BBB? No boy! Also please wish my oldest son CJ happy birthday It is not until April 14th but better now than not at all Thank you for the entertainment Keep it up Love is Lit For a better life beyond your freedom Build back better For someone else You've got... Karma.

1:35:02 We gotcha. No jingles, no karma! Thank you for your courage. Well thank you very much. Your care is Viscount of Greater Boston. Very much appreciated. I'll hit Mike Dorman since that was so short He's in Redmond Washington In the morning Jen has been listening since Adam's appearance on Tom Woods Tom Woods donation please deduce You've been de-douched May I have some old fashioned yak karma for my mental health? I've been overly resentful since my employer forced me to get the jab Love and light Mike of course we got some yak for you, man. You've got Kuku is QQ in Key West Florida 400 bucks title change is FEMA theme parts dweller clarification qq is actually

CHAPTER 28 / 46 Discussion

Arizona Meetup, No Agenda Jeopardy

The Baroness of Baja Arizona reports on a successful meetup in Tucson that raised $397. The event featured "No Agenda Jeopardy," which the hosts suggest renaming to "No Agenda Trivia" to avoid legal issues. Several individual donors from the meetup are recognized for their contributions.

arizona· meetup· jeopardy· trivia· baroness of baja

1:35:57 Q tab q oh Using since 1998 for email services that were asking stupid question like F name and L name in the US The queue has completely different sharp has come. I'm just gonna read this ask him Completely different charge seems hmm I'm not sure exactly what he means by that. But he came in with 400 bucks, whatever it was. And he'll get a title change so he's gonna receive that thank you very much Q TabQ Up next we have Dame Kendra Riverside California $399.96 and she sent in the note...a card actually looks like a St Patrick's Day note

1:36:48 What does it say here? Dear John Adams, sorry I abandoned you during the great PayPal purge of 2022. This donation represents one year of 3333 monthly contributions! Hope this cute puppy brings some Irish karma will reinstate monthly donations in Q1 Lots of love Dame Kendra I can't see the front of the card though And the front of the card was torn off for some reason. Jay took it off. Oh, there's some probably some art purpose It was a cute puppy. She's oh really national puppy day I think it was a cute puppy. No thank you very much We appreciate that I'm going to stop this for a second and and bring in a 397 donation which is from the Baroness of Baja? Oh

1:37:39 Police credits 397 Tucson ladies and gentlemen start your liver's pre st. Patrick's Day I have the note here with them with the list of people they contributed in Okay, so this is from this is a meetup donation Yeah, okay gotcha now it wasn't scanned because it's on deep red paper oh And blue ink on top of that very hard to read But I'm gonna read a couple of these names. Now this first one, I don't want to read because it's under 50. Dame Beth came in with 100. Cole from Casa Grande Ruins... Oops! Well, there was something I can't tell you who that is. That's under 50, under 50, under 50. Coyote Shitposter Club, 100

1:38:31 Another under 50. Meyer from the Casa Grande ruins, 100. Somehow this all came to 397. Okay, well I got what I could do. It's the best I could do and I want to thank everybody at the Arizona meetup. But I like this idea of doing some collections for the show or at these meetups Yeah, it's a very good idea And what did they say here? Special thanks to Tim for bringing no agenda jeopardy much fun was had by all jingles mud flats in our formula Is this the two we got wrong other must have been for the the Noah gender Jeopardy ah

1:39:09 Hanging our heads in shame, thanking for your courage Dame Beth Baroness of Baja Arizona. Because of what's happening in Greenland right now the maps of the world will have to be redrawn This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay And here's the other one you got wrong happy to play it Our formula is this We go out we hit people in the mouth I like this idea of no agenda jeopardy. We should really call it no agenda trivia to avoid any issues. Miguel Espinal in New York, New York... is this MIGS?

CHAPTER 29 / 46 Discussion

Anniversary Donations, Pregnancy and Birthday Karma

Listeners Miguel Espinal, Kelly Schirmer, and Kelly Conway send donations for birthdays and anniversaries. Schirmer requests vacation karma for a missed honeymoon in Barbados, while Conway requests "pregnancy karma." Valentino Argero promotes his grooming product company, Castel Silano.

barbados· pregnancy karma· ann arbor· castel silano· birthday

1:39:53 You're checking in from New York City shout out to my brother clindi for his first donation love and prayers to my boy Philip Tesla not on IG who lost his mom a while ago mad love to sir Michael Anthony and Mark s who I met at a meetup 3383 My birthday we got you covered brother. No problem Kelly Schirmer in Concord, North Carolina ITM, this donation is a switcheroo. Make a note for my husband Jason Allison happy fifth anniversary on 323 I hit him in the mouth on 2021 and we've been listening ever since he donated before i did

1:40:30 So may I please get a de-douching? You've been de-douched. We were supposed to take a belated honeymoon to Barbados on March of 2020, but the world went mad instead and we have yet to get a redo on our trip Can we have some vacation karma please thank you for all you do to keep us sane in an insane world we selfishly hope You never find an exit strategy, the donation is for him. But if I could please hear the 3x3 jingle for myself? Thank you...for your courage and such! And now it's time for 3x3 Experiment by JC Dean Comparing stories from ABC CBS & NBC The Never Ending 3x3 You've got karma

1:41:20 Now, if you could do this next one for me because I didn't grab these jingles and I'll grab them real quick now that would be helpful. Valentino Argero in Ann Arbor Michigan and he writes please add website castelsilano.com with show credit thanks We'll put it on the show credit thing. Of course we will, of course we will. Jingo screw your freedom Noah drone again show note ITM keep the great work going you know who else does great work my company Castel Salano a small company in Ann Arbor Michigan that makes all natural grooming products for men check us out at castelsalano.com LLC Valentino

1:42:17 Argyro. Screw your freedom! No... Oh, that's the full one hold on Don't want the full track we'll do the shorty here Now I got this note from about chap Williams who donated twice Don't forget Eric Nilsson. Oh i'm sorry did I forget Eric Nilsson? Didn't mean to do that. Eric Nilsson says thanks for the immense value 333 thank you He's an odd place there because we got Chap Williams who donates $333.33 twice Yeah, these came in from the...these are bank checks So they came in from one of those payment services which we get a lot of checks from And I looked at the two checks because they came in kind about the same time But one was dated the next day so there's two different dates one day apart Okay well he'll get an executive producership for that

1:43:13 Kelly Conway's and she said you should get a note from no I have no notes. Do you ever know to have? No, no, no zero no but well then we got karma Kelly Conway, Seville New York 326 91 good morning Adam and John it's been a while since my last donation turning 32 on March 26 this weekend just wanted to birthday shout out Hence the donation of three twenty six ninety one got it. Thanks for all you do want some new pregnancy karma in the meantime Well we can help you with some new pregnancy Karma. You gotta Kelly Scott karma Now we have some of our very few of our in fact we have two

CHAPTER 30 / 46 Discussion

Palindrome Donations, Northeast Texas Hog Story Meetup

Donors Sir Otaku and Sir Dirty Jersey Whore contribute using palindrome amounts. Dirty Jersey Whore promotes an upcoming "Hog Story Meet-Up" in Gladewater, Texas. Ashley Slater is recognized for creating hand-tooled leather journals for the hosts and their families.

palindrome· texas· hog stories· leather journals· gladewater

1:43:57 of the palindrome donations for this. Palindrome today is 3-2-3-2-3, yesterday was 3-2-2-2-3 and those are the two that got the attention. Sir Otaku in Flower Mound Texas he's 32223 which is a palindrome lucky palindrome I couldn't pass up to palindrome donation here Here is to more of the best podcasts in the universe, Sir Otaku Duke of the Northeast Texas and the Red River Valley. Anonymous in Aspermont Texas 322 dot 23 there it is The Palindrome In the morning gentlemen thank you for the amazing media deconstruction every week no jingles but I do need jobs karma this high school ag teacher is done and ready for something new also add me to the birthday list

1:44:46 33 on the 22nd. Nice! You've got it all covered. Love & Lips, anonymous from Texas. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! Broken Wall Films in Carson City Nevada 222.22 a bunch of ducks but this is a switcheroo please make a note please credit Garrett It looks like Elaine, or A-L-A-I-N as associate executive producer and add him to the birthday segment. Got it got it got it. Birthday is 322 he's crushing it and going to no agenda meetups in Charleston South Carolina happy birthday from the best brother in the universe and the best podcast in the universe okay? Got it that's what you noted sir Dirty Jersey Whore Gladewater Texas 21976 also associate executive producership

1:45:43 Crackpot and Buzzkill, Sir Dirty Jersey Whore here. No jingles but I would like a jobs karma just a quick note to promote the upcoming Northeast Texas meetup this Saturday one day only! Northeast Texas Mushroom Hunt Outdoor Movie Bonfire & NO Agenda Slash Hog Story Meet-Up Oh that's cool up with the hog stories Come join other fellow Gitmo Nation slaves at Fred Lobster International Speedway in Gladewater Texas It starts around 5ish We'll be providing pulled pork sandwiches some other goodies For more information and to RSVP go to noagendameetups.com Jobs, karma much appreciated thanks y'all be good please go visit that meetup Sir Dirty Jersey Whore is an interesting dude you'll like him jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! Now here's Ashley Slater

1:46:37 It comes in with $202.33, I don't know where she's from it doesn't say did you get the goods from her? She sent a couple bound and... We are of course here in Jamaica so if it came in while we were here I have not received it. Oh well she does leather goods Really? Oh, oh the notebooks. Yeah I read this. No he didn't get it. I read the note and remember what you're talking about yeah Well they are dynamite. Cool so you received them Well she said that by now my talent donation arrives in your hands I guess not prior to this being read as I made each of your own leather bound journal with hand tool design and a 33 incorporated into it also sent one to Mimi and Keeper

1:47:29 There you have it. For my birthday, my husband dude named Ben commissioned me to make each of your journal and so he bought them for us. So he gets some sort of credit I guess. She made them though? Yes she did make them. Yeah. She's gonna be hosting a meetup. I hope it's on the MeetUp thing. You send it to nojennameetups.com A meet up with my husband and friend Marina on Friday March 31st at first at Cowboy Jackson Bloomington 7-10 I'm not sure if it's on the meetup. She hopefully is. I'm sure it is, and then she has some Instagram links which I can't read because... Well, what you need her Insta handle is ashenfire underscore originals we'll put in the credits so you can find it there No jingles no karma but say hello to our three daughters Katya, Gwyneth, and Luz. Yes hello!

1:48:28 I know, I'm waiting for you to say that. Lexi! Hello! Wow... They think it was pretty cool. Thank you very much! Oh mom! Thank you very much, Ashley. We will be... I'm sure that...I saw the pictures and I am sure they are beautiful. Can't wait to pick them up! And our last Associate Executive Producer Brett Bird from Katy Texas. Karma would be appreciated from Brett. Let me just see...1656 trolls still left? Okay well the good guys are still here. Thank you very much Brett. You've got karma.

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Jimmy Dore, Dutch Farmer Citizen Movement

The hosts criticize independent commentator Jimmy Dore for his coverage of the Dutch provincial elections. They argue that the "Farmer Citizen Movement" (BBB) is not a grassroots victory for farmers but a marketing creation of big agriculture and chemical companies, accusing Dore of blindly trusting New York Times reporting.

jimmy dore· netherlands· farmer citizen movement· bbb· new york times

1:49:07 And I think these are executive associate executive producers for show 1540 and we have one week left until the brand new donation site comes online. Everyone's very excited You can look at the old one now vorac org slash and a thank you all for supporting the best podcast in universe episode 1540 our formula is this We go out or hit people in the mouth I'm very disappointed in many deconstructionist podcasters who we typically really appreciate. Like Jimmy Dore, we both are Jimmy Dore fans and you know what I am going to do. I know where this is going!

1:50:09 I'm so disappointed that everyone just mindlessly and blindly follows Facebook and Twitter posts, and thinks it's all good. Well this is why we're the best podcast in the universe because for one thing it makes a difference to have two hosts. Correct. Although Jimmy Dore has a sidekick! Oh those sidekicks are different those are guys just making jokes on the side. It really is a one-man show. Exactly exactly And also we have boots on the ground everywhere and we incorporate those into our show. We listen to people, we read the emails that we receive, we appreciate and value boots on the ground reports from people who know what they're talking about. Everyone's an expert in at least one thing. Everyone is an expert in something!

1:50:58 So this is the Farmer Citizen Movement Party which kind of swept the elections, the provincial elections in The Netherlands. They got 17 seats in government it's a big deal unfortunately this was all a marketing campaign these two guys who have been have an advertising company and have been advertising and creating campaigns for all of the big I would say big agriculture, chemical companies. Really if you look at their...at the party program they're all in they feel the nitrogen crisis well is understandable they are not

1:51:39 as is advertised, the party that all of a sudden the whole country voted for because everyone wants to stand behind the farmers. Yes they might have done that and they might have thought that but this party is not... They're not the good guys! They are all in on the tiny homes, they're all in on nature before the farmers and I just need to play this clip of Jimmy Dore because he really missed the mark and the egregious part is he's reading from the New York Times and thinks the New York Times is going to give you the truth. Come on, Jimmy! You know better than that! So the government announcement comes... so are you gonna get rid of family farms in The Netherlands? That just seems crazy I mean it's like paper straws I thought were stupid but this is like... Ha! You're right. The sidekick is worthless It's-it's a-you gotta have two hosts. You gotta have two who can catch each other and check each other

1:52:31 In one of their largest ever demonstrations, farmers demanded that scrapping the recently announced plans by The Hague... Why do I tell you all this? Because the Dutch pro-farmer parties swept the elections. Fascism! So those farmers so they state yeah they're gonna be called white supremacists fascists Nazis You know that. That's actually a good observation The fact that they're not being called white supremacist and Nazis should give you a clue 3 W's. Women, Russia, Racism. What'll it be?

1:53:18 Palmer's party has swept provincial elections in the Netherlands to become the biggest in the Senate by channeling wide dissatisfaction with the Dutch government and a sharp challenge to Prime Minister Mark Roots administration. This is good to see isn't it Kurt? Aren't you happy to see this, this is something finally something somewhere there's a positive note somewhere that people are starting to somehow take control back of their governments. The result puts the party, the Farmer Citizens Movement which has fewer than 11000 members according to its website on track to become a major player in a government body that approves or rejects legislation that comes out of the House of Representatives. Some Dutch voters said they viewed the party's success as a victory against the country's elites as well as the government. They said it just like their Brexit!

1:54:07 So I hope Jimmy hears this. We appreciate what you do, ma'am but you got it all wrong on this one and and you should never trust the New York Times! Yeah, going to the New York Times to get the confirmation is like the world's worst thing to do in this particular moment. Well here's another one and just we'll stick with big ag or big pharma in this case it's all chemicals This is another one of these used to be Denmark but oh no We've been doing this show long enough where remember I used to be Denmark now It is Finland There's another reason to be happy in Helsinki For the sixth year running, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report. The UN-sponsored index that measures GDP per capita social support life expectancy generosity and corruption according to... Wait what? Did she say six years running? That's what she said I don't remember it being six it used to be... No thats bullcrap we had Denmark was last year! And the year before Let me see

CHAPTER 32 / 46 Discussion

Finland Happiness Index, Antidepressant Consumption Rates

Finland was named the world's happiest country for the sixth consecutive year, but the hosts correlate this with the country's high rate of antidepressant consumption. They note that Finland has more than doubled its daily dose of antidepressants, comparing the situation to the drug "Soma" in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

finland· happiness report· antidepressants· iceland· soma

1:55:08 There must be competitive happiness reports. No, this is the one I think this is the one looking at when's the last time we had the Happiness Index and the last time it was 2014 no that's last time we reported on it least Anyway, we'll continue. ...ought life expectancy generosity and corruption according to the study Finn's strong feelings of communal support and mutual trust helped them navigate difficulties like the COVID-19 pandemic as well as liberty to make their own choices And faith in their government with minimal suspicion of government corruption All right so happy in Helsinki Why do you think they're all happy in Helsinki? Well

1:55:57 We also happen to have the antidepressant consumption index and Finland doubled the amount of people per capita. What is the actual number here? I'm sorry, the DDD, the defined daily dose... This is new! So Finland, the number one country with the most antidepressants daily dose I guess the defined daily dose is Iceland. They went from 71 to 153 Sweden went from 45 to 105 Norway from 4 only a small increase for Norway France a small increase but Finland more than doubled 36 defined daily doses to 82

1:56:54 And so if you're wondering why they're all so happy and trust their government, there's your answer. The Netherlands who always show up on the list actually went from 31 to 47 but I would say look for Iceland to be the happiest country next year and maybe Portugal who went from 32 defined daily dose to 131 They are drugging you people! Yes that is why you are happy Of course Happy in Helsinki Wow, Brave New World. Yeah! Yeah Soma. Right out of Huxley. Soma right on. Sad but Soma I'll just stay on Big Pharma because there's another change coming up i love this this is you know if we haven't given big pharma enough enough of our minds our bodies our health let's

1:57:48 Let's add this to them, shall we? In 2022, doctors performed more than 42 thousand transplants in the US. But there are still 104 234 men women and children currently on the organ transplant wait list and every 10 minutes another person is added to that list 17 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. The proposal would open up a competitive bidding process for other organizations to possibly take over the network with the goal of shortening wait times and saving lives. And creating a great marketplace! I think they should just give it to, turn that over to the Chinese Yeah they know how to do it This is totally what this is You know be careful you're going to hear this story that John and I grew up with

CHAPTER 33 / 46 Discussion

Organ Transplant Proposal, 1920s Vasectomy Mania

A new US proposal aims to open the organ transplant network to competitive bidding. This prompts a discussion about the "vasectomy mania" of the 1920s, where people believed transplanting gonads could restore virility, leading to bizarre historical reports of "ball theft" in New York alleys.

organ transplant· competitive bidding· vasectomy· virility· ball theft

1:56:54 And so if you're wondering why they're all so happy and trust their government, there's your answer. The Netherlands who always show up on the list actually went from 31 to 47 but I would say look for Iceland to be the happiest country next year and maybe Portugal who went from 32 defined daily dose to 131 They are drugging you people! Yes that is why you are happy Of course Happy in Helsinki Wow, Brave New World. Yeah! Yeah Soma. Right out of Huxley. Soma right on. Sad but Soma I'll just stay on Big Pharma because there's another change coming up i love this this is you know if we haven't given big pharma enough enough of our minds our bodies our health let's

1:57:48 Let's add this to them, shall we? In 2022, doctors performed more than 42 thousand transplants in the US. But there are still 104 234 men women and children currently on the organ transplant wait list and every 10 minutes another person is added to that list 17 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. The proposal would open up a competitive bidding process for other organizations to possibly take over the network with the goal of shortening wait times and saving lives. And creating a great marketplace! I think they should just give it to, turn that over to the Chinese Yeah they know how to do it This is totally what this is You know be careful you're going to hear this story that John and I grew up with

1:58:53 Even though we're separated by a couple years. So I heard about this guy and he met a girl while he was on a business trip, and then he woke up the next morning in a bathtub filled with ice and on the mirror with lipstick it said We've taken your kidneys Yeah, that's not a time to get to the hospital You know, that organ theft not to go back to some of the older stories but I'll bring up the details of this one later. But during the mania for vasectomies in the 1920s there was a lot of talk about transplanting balls because it added virility so they would take

1:59:41 gonads from one guy who's supposed to maybe dead and then put him in another so you have like four balls. And at one point there was a problem with people doing exactly having that exact same thing happen with the missing kidney where they get knocked out in a New York alley and they would have their balls stolen Wow Ball theft. Yeah, I got some stories to tell when i get to it. I'll write them up and then we can talk about them another time. Put in the newsletter! Sounds like a groovy one for everyone to be grossed out by. Donations will skyrocketing. I'm already itching my stomach feels weird. I don't know if I like this topic at all

CHAPTER 34 / 46 Discussion

Donald Trump Arrest Hoax, Bank Run Rumors

Despite Donald Trump's prediction of an arrest on Tuesday, the Manhattan Grand Jury stood down. The hosts discuss a Newsweek report suggesting Trump supporters might stage a bank run in protest, noting that while laws against inciting bank runs exist, they are rarely enforceable without proof of profit.

donald trump· stormy daniels· mike pence· bank run· newsweek

2:00:22 Instead, let's go to the orange man. The stuff that actually obsessed our American news media all week. The Manhattan District Attorney investigating Donald Trump's hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels told the grand jury hearing in the case to stand down for today. Sources tell ABC News jurors were informed at least one additional witness may be called to testify before they decide whether to indict the former president Trump declared over the weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday. That obviously did not happen, but New York is still bracing for protests after Trump called for his supporters to turn out a few people so far seem to be heating his call former vice president Mike Pence who saw firsthand what happened when Trump called for protests January 6th said people should not protest this time I would discourage Americans from engaging in protest

2:01:17 if in fact the former president is indicted. Oh man, it's like did we not say this was a hoax? This was lame! This was not gonna happen I'm pretty sure we said that Yeah last show yeah It's like don't...don't...we're not buying it Although I do like what Newsweek did. Who owns Newsweek these days? They used to be the spook publication. I think it's some independent group that is a small, small publisher. I'm not sure anymore. Bloomberg owned it for awhile Trump supporters plan bank run to protest his arrest That's a great setup! If there's a bank run just blame Trump

2:01:59 Trump did it! I got the info on the law about bank runs for you. Yeah, I found out about it too What did you get? That in 20... there was actually something of a law then that was repealed in 2012 first free speech purposes It used to exist No where I got it from when I was a kid I guess I knew about this law But it was taken care of removed from service in 2012 There is no law Well Section 9A2 of the Securities Exchange Act prohibits any person from directly or indirectly using any means of interstate commerce... ...or communication to make false statements, or omit a material fact that could affect the value of securities with the intent to deceive or manipulate the market. This applies to a wide range of securities including stocks bonds other investments also banks but you have to they have to prove that you profited from it

CHAPTER 35 / 46 Discussion

Agenda 47, Trump Plan to Dismantle Deep State

Donald Trump revealed his "Agenda 47" plan, which includes a 10-point strategy to dismantle the "deep state." The proposal involves creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify documents on government spying, reworking FISA courts, and establishing an independent auditing system for intelligence agencies.

agenda 47· deep state· fisa· term limits· truth and reconciliation

2:02:56 Otherwise, it doesn't really count. Yeah well on the topic of Trump yes I have no I mean this is again the reason I get NTD every couple weeks I'll do this mm-hmm Do you know anything about Trump's ten point plan an agenda 45 or whatever? It is 47 no He has a wait and I think us the 10 point plans sounds familiar But I had certainly not heard a clip or anything about it Well, here's a clip. Former President Trump revealed his plan to dismantle what he calls the deep state yesterday as part of his agenda 47 for 2024 Meanwhile demonstrators both in support of and against him took to the streets Antitis Jeremy Sandberg has more on Trump's 10-point plan Oh Of course we didn't hear that That would be crazy

2:03:46 Before we play your second clip, here's what we did hear during that possible perp walk and describe the potential situation as a fun experience. Joe said that might be fine in front of the cameras for him but I think it's different when you get in there and you're having I could wait for it but you know we all know about having your fingerprint taken and picture taken. We call them a gun right? That's called whistling past the graveyard He's not looking forward to any of it. He's horrified, he's just talking big the walls are closing in. The walls have been closing in since 2016 2015! The walls are closing in again we have so many mega eclipses of walls closing in by these douchebags

2:04:38 Trump vowed to aggressively remove rogue bureaucrats, uproot corrupt actors in the national security sector and rework FISA courts if elected in 2024. He plans to create a truth and reconciliation commission. To declassify and publish all documents on deep state spying, censorship and corruption. He's promising to crack down on government leakers that he says collude with media to create false narratives and says he will ask Congress to create an independent auditing system to monitor intelligence agencies, to make sure they're not running disinformation campaigns or spying on citizens. He's also proposing term limits for members of Congress. This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people

2:05:36 Reactions to Trump's possible upcoming indictment were mixed in New York on Tuesday. Both supporters and adversaries were on the streets making their stance known Proponents in other parts of the country like Alabama and Florida said they were not protesting but rallying in support of Trump instead. We're not going to just lay down and pretend that this is normal or that this is right, it's not right They've spent millions of US tax dollars coming after him instead of working with him to help our country And I think its ridiculous but like I said it's benefiting Trump for the longer I love our governor But Trump's our man

CHAPTER 36 / 46 Discussion

Sam Harris, Misinformation and Expert Opinions

The hosts critique Sam Harris for his comments on "misinformation," where he argued that people like Candace Owens should not have opinions on complex topics like vaccines or climate change. They review Harris's background as a "New Atheist" and his previous statements justifying dishonesty if it helps remove Donald Trump from power.

sam harris· candace owens· misinformation· atheism· john brockman

2:06:17 Did you hear about Chris Rock? No, what about Chris Rock. I guess he did his latest stand up in DC and the muckety-mucks were there including Nancy Pelosi and Chris Rock said are you effing stupid? You're going to arrest Trump? Do you want to make him more popular do not understand how stupid you are? Yes! Yeah, he's right The M5M man, I got two clips here that just need to play. One is since we're talking Trumpian stuff Sam Harris he... How did Sam Harris get popular? He's such a dick! I've never seen him! His podcast is very successful or was I don't know if it still successful. I'd never seen it and I don't watch him. I never heard of him before but somehow became popular. I don't know what did you do before

2:07:19 I don't know. But he's very, very popular. He listened to his latest. We're swimming in a sea of misinformation where you've got people who are moving the opinions of millions of others who should not have an opinion. That's us, John. We should not do that to ourselves! We should not have an opinion on these topics like there is no scenario in which you should be getting your opinion about vaccine safety or climate change or the war in Ukraine

2:07:55 or anything else that we might want to talk about from anyone. Candace Owens, from Candice Owens, right? It's just like she she's not a relevant expert on any of those topics and what's more, she doesn't seem to care. Right And she's living in a culture that has had amplified that not caring into a business model and an effective business model, right? So it's just like great some. And then there is something very Trumpian about all the oh, there it is very Trumpy well okay alright so what makes him someone you should be listening to by his own standards you remember what the last time we played Sam Harris what he was saying right no yeah you do you do Sam Harris born in 67 was an American philosopher neuroscientist

2:08:42 Okay, author and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics including nationality religion ethics What does he got to do with any of this? I don't know Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion and Islam in particular And is known as one of the four horsemen of the new atheism along with Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett all of them most of them in fact represented by John Brockman My agent seriously, oh that's a Harrison The end of faith won the pin Martha Auburn you okay? So he's a famous atheist

2:09:22 And so he's got cred because of that. I think this is when we first introduced him on the show, was when he said this... Yeah honestly that thus far is the most harmful aspect of his presidency it's just it's the complete ruination any standard of honesty in political discourse and its astonishing to me accepted that this is even possible, much less actual. So I don't think i'm alone but I am continually having the bewildering experience that I just cannot believe this person as president and it really... He was the one who said.. I wish had the right clip he said

CHAPTER 37 / 46 Discussion

Inside with Jen Psaki, MSNBC Show Premiere

The hosts provide a "producer's critique" of Jen Psaki's new MSNBC show, "Inside with Jen Psaki." They criticize her wardrobe, hair, and teleprompter reading skills, suggesting she may have been "sabotaged" by colleagues at the network. Despite the critique, the show debuted with 1.1 million viewers.

jen psaki· msnbc· television production· ratings· sabotage

2:10:08 No, it's okay to lie if it's about Trump. It's okay to lie about... Oh here this is it. Hunter Biden at that point literally could have had... Remember he said it's okay we it's okay to lie about stuff as long as it's getting rid of I don't want to play it as long as it's getting rid of Trump remember that? You believe me you believe me Okay so let's go to the approved media and it's finally out finally we have her show Inside is what's called inside with Jen Psaki As we know, she was the spokeshole for... They actually gave her a show? They gave her a show. They cut it! Yep, they gave her a show and let me give you my professional opinion since you and I have been in our past We've executive produced and we've produced many mainstream products including television And I would say first of all Her hair is disastrous

2:11:06 I don't know who did her hair. So we're doing our producer talk? Oh yeah, I have to get an image where am i going to get this just go inside with Jen Psaki and make sure you get the one where she's wearing all white a mistake as a news person what are you an angel So her clothing is good. She definitely do not want to wear white. All white is wrong. In the olden days it was actually illegal, because it blew out the tubes. That's right! It blew out the tubes but it's not a good look The hair is a disaster. I'm sorry, the hair is just a disaster and any woman who looks at her hair At least the clip that I've seen it will admit It's a disaster. You found the website? Looks like the rats are eating out of it And she can't talk! No this is not good This white is no good

2:12:01 Of course not. Do you see her hair? She looks like a nurse or something, she doesn't look... Or somebody should be locked up! She looks like a mental patient Yes yes you're right it looks like a straightjacket and she can't read With the recent news of Donald Trump's looming indictment we've seen Trump allies attack prosecutors in all sorts of ways But one attack in particular stood out to me. DAs in New York and Atlanta are to blame for Trump's legal problems. Yes, you heard that correctly woke DAs are to blame here This is the worst prompter read ever she can't do it this is a mistake they blew it She's worse than Joy Reid

2:13:04 She cannot read. Read. Take for example the news this past week of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. It was a big deal and it's a complicated issue one that we could probably devote an entire show to but instead for some Republicans the real problem had no connection at all to any economic policies at all Oh, did she say at all? At all. This is horrible that the writing is bad she can't read the prompter... No, she can get better with the prompter but her, she was the school marm, I don't have to do that to you give an interview show! Do anything but this reading a prompter is not what... You nailed it Of course we're executives we know what talking about

2:14:05 No one ever asked us for our opinion. An interview show would have been ideal Yeah, where she can... I think she's very capable She has the nasty kind of style that is perfect for an interview show And with that you tie your hair back That red hair You tie it back The red hair is cool but you gotta tie it back Don't try to be glamorous with your feminine hygiene product commercial You know, I'm looking at this picture. If she didn't have a 40-inch waist maybe this white thing would look good Wow! Okay you went there. I'm happily married i'm not gonna go there. I won't say stuff like that This is not what you say to any woman ever That would be the end for you Yeah oh done... you don't do that But come on you know I'm right Of course you are On The Money

2:14:58 The Curry Dvorak Consulting Group is always available. We're open 24-7, do they call us? No! Who did Mika and Joe produce this it's horrible well she has to be seen in my opinion if you look over the landscape of MSNBC which is struggling yeah she has to be seen as when she came in she had to be seen as a threat to a number of hosts. Oh, because of the background? Ah good point so someone sabotaged her. They sabotaged up to fail. Yep yeah you are on the money. You would look at you and redheads are great in white! You look so slim in that

2:15:40 Your hair is dynamite. Oh yeah, oh it's really... Flop it out a little more and they put you in white. The part is all over the place like I'm a hair guy and me and Pierre we go way back. I can't see on the pictures that have the part but if the part is wandering all over the place that means no effort was put into it so now she's been sabotaged Yes! It looks a bit like Roseanne Rosanna Dan She's got the frizzy look You know? Like Monica on Friends This is bad Only on NOAHgender do you hear this sort of catty commentary. But we're also correct? No, we're totally right! Do we have ratings for the show yet?

2:16:20 Let me see. Asterisk ratings inside with Jen Psaki, it's a stupid name too I don't like the name It's like she not giving us any inside information. Ooh! Premiere ratings she nabbed 1.1 million viewers. I'll give her that That's a lot for that. I'll give her that network. Oh, that's because curiosity Let's see how long that lasts let me see what the demo was I'd like to see what the fall-off was air Sunday night 9 a.m.. Oh oh so it airs on this It said oh really they've put this in the morning and Sunday morning show well That's when people are watching. That's a great spot she now but just competition at that hour okay, but listen to this

2:17:06 The number one spot in the key demographic, 2554. 137 thousand viewers you're not gonna what can't that's a hundred and thirty seven that's 137 CPMs no one day losing money on her yeah yet to have more numbers at that group so the the premiere marks a strong start for the former White House press secretary hosted show with the previous Sunday 9am slot brought in 573 thousand viewers so she debuted well Debuted well, we'll see. I think that's...I agree. The people are tuning in for the old show! That's why. Hey where is my old show? Hmmmm Well she won't carry it We'll see if they're trying to sabotage her right off the bat She hasn't got a prayer The way it works? No. Reddy Kilowatt in the troll room says It's viewers who passed out drunk watching Saturday Night Live Okay

2:18:06 Good one. Oh my goodness, yeah but I'm just we know this stuff We know the sub this is not good So the next thing that starts happening as they stay bring in some consultants Oh moving her hours around if their hours change one time over it's over Well, we think we should move you to the 11 o'clock spot You know in Hollywood and in a TV land It's always the second weekend that counts So, you know if you have friends in Hollywood and of course we do They'll say hey congratulate on your new movie. I'm gonna go see it Oh no No Go the second weekend second week because they never want the drop-off so they're always asking their friends and family go the second weekend That's the same for a television premiere. And so the secondary tune in to me don't tune in next weekend

2:18:59 By the way, we have as many people listening to this podcast as she has watching her. And she's making millions! Hello? What's wrong with this picture? I think... She got Asians man. I'm gonna say she did eight million a year for this show. Boy they know MSNBC's got their heads up their asses They've got money though. They've got money. Comcast Money That's right Big Comcast money. A good honor, but I'm telling you it's a mistake. It's a mistake. It's a mistake. It's a mistake. You know she probably also besides being sabotaged...I can't see her being friendly to the crew Oh you're so right and that especially in cable that's key

2:19:46 Oh yeah, because they don't get paid enough anyway. And they'll be the ones that are going like oh your hair looks great I'm looking at it right here in my monitor and it looks great! Exactly With a thumbs up and okay sign That's exactly, I used to if they ever made a good closeup of me we had two camera people Warren and Celeste. They both passed away sadly they were older than me but they passed away kind of early I felt. I had a concept called curry cash and if they would make me look really good with a shot or close up after the segment I walk right out put $5 on top of their lens curry cash. Wow! It was well known curry cash was a thing

CHAPTER 38 / 46 Discussion

French Pension Protests, Macron and the Guillotine

Protests continue in France after President Emmanuel Macron bypassed Parliament to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Protesters were recorded chanting about the decapitation of Louis XVI and suggesting a similar fate for Macron, highlighting the intense public anger over the reform.

france· emmanuel macron· pension reform· retirement age· louis xvi

2:20:29 Nowadays it'd have to be a Honda. Oh well this is, yeah back in the day... Back in the day. Okay so there's couple of things going on around the world and I would like to highlight the first one which is France This report explains that I believe. Here in Paris police have banned protests opposite their country's Parliament That comes following unrest triggered by the government imposing a pension reform and bypassing a vote on the issue Well that protest banner stretches from Place de la Concorde and surroundings to parts of the Champs-Elysees. Opposition MP's have meanwhile filed two motions of no confidence, they're set to be debated in Parliament on Monday They are hoping to garner enough support to topple the cabinet and repeal the laws raised the retirement age from 62

2:21:20 to 64. So this is the French, they don't mess around of course the rest of world is saying well what's up with that you stupid frogs we're at 67 already Yeah, it's 67 I think now. Most of the world is 65-67 but of course there will be no money for retirement. There'll be zero money left over when i get there and people are going to take into the streets... The French they don't stand for this crap They don't like it. Now politically they've not been able to do what needs to be done because there is a provision in French law that you can bypass a parliamentary vote

2:22:03 and they can try and stop that, it's kind of like a veto from the people. The first one failed I think the second one if it has not already will fail as well however the French are quite well known for not putting up with politicians And I'm going to play this little clip because even though they cannot protest outside of government They are protesting in quite some mass and I will play this See you can hear what they're saying here Here we go. Louis XVI, Louis XVI, on l'a décapité! Macron, Macron, on peut recommencer! Which means, Louis 16th, Louis 16th, we capitated him. Macron, Macron it could happen again.

2:22:56 I love that just as it rhymes. They're just bring out the guillotine Yes, they're just saying it they're just saying that now you think they would really do at the frame It's possible though You never know what to fry mean you yeah? I know if they leave it in your mind that it is always possible You don't want to mess around or a little nutty They are oh hey They got they get bigger cojones than the rest of the world people Just going along with it whatever like there's no longer here about Israel Oh man, hold on a second. This was... where did I get this from? This might have been Deutsche Welle. Israel's former spymaster is speaking out against the government's plans to overhaul the country's legal system. Journalist Iris Mackler is covering this for us in Jerusalem so Iris what did the ex-spymaster say? Yes he emerged from the shadows and he wasn't comfortable but his city was doing it in order to issue a stark warning

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Israel Judicial Overhaul, Mossad Spymaster Warning

A former head of Israel's Shin Bet has warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the judicial system is a "judicial coup" that could lead to a dictatorship. The hosts call for more information from listeners on the ground to explain the nuances of the protests.

israel· benjamin netanyahu· judicial reform· mossad· shin bet

2:23:55 These legal changes, he says are like nothing Israel has ever seen before. It's a judicial coup which will lead Israel into a dictatorship." Once he said that, he went on to say that what he fears is that it will also bring about the collapse of Israel's defense institution. That's the shin bet that he headed, the Mossad even Israel's military because Once you change the system, once it's a dictatorship then he fears that people simply won't serve Won't defend it in the same way because it's not the same flag if the flag of a dictatorship and or a democracy So we'd love to hear more from our producers out there. You know I'm gonna have to this has been going on for awhile There's been a lot of protests over it which is Netanyahu wants to change some aspect? I don't know the details of the judicial system

2:24:47 But mostly the judges he wants to get rid of a bunch of Supreme Court judges and move guys around And everyone's bent out of shape about this now I don't know why. Somebody has got to give us a briefing on this because we're not getting the reports we need And while we're on that topic, there's another thing that has been going on which many of our producers have reached out to us about. I'm pretty sure neither of us understand it just yet. I do have a clip now this is about what's going with the Canadian CIA, the CSIS how they've been leaking certain information and the general thinking is

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Han Dong, Canadian Election Interference Allegations

Canadian MP Han Dong allegedly advised a Chinese diplomat to delay the release of two detained Canadians to prevent a political win for the Conservative Party. While Dong denies the allegations, the story has fueled concerns about Chinese interference in Canadian elections and calls for an independent inquiry.

han dong· justin trudeau· csis· china· election rigging

2:25:29 Trudeau will not survive this? And I do have a clip here. In February 2021, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor had been detained in a Chinese prison for nearly 800 days but while they languished away Ontario Liberal MP Han Dong allegedly advised a top Chinese diplomat to hold off on immediately freeing them Two independent national security sources have told Global News that Dong spoke with China's Consular General... It was the Huawei lady who they had locked up. That's what that is about, the Huawei heiress. She wasn't locked up ever? House arrest. House arrest. News that Dong spoke with China's Consular General in Toronto Han Tao and suggested to him that if Beijing released the two Michaels then federal conservatives would benefit how exactly is not clear

2:26:23 Dong allegedly initiated the discussion with the Consul General, where he also allegedly recommended that Beijing offer some show of progress with the two Michaels cases to help benefit the liberals according to the two sources. Dong confirmed a Global News that the conversation took place but denied he initiated the discussion and says that he advocated for the two Michaels to be set free At every opportunity before they returned home, I adamantly demanded their release to Canada without delay," said Dong. Any suggestions otherwise are false and are attempts to mislead you your readers and slander me." The two Michaels had been jailed in apparent retribution for Canada's detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou but at the time of Dong's conversation with the Chinese diplomat, the Prime Minister had publicly been calling for their release This is an issue that is a top priority

2:27:14 Trudeau's office says the prime minister only learned of the conversation with the Chinese envoy after Dong told PMO. But Dong only informed the prime minister's team after Global News reached out for comment as a Chinese Canadian, I am so proud to be a national security official, told Global News that by the time the alleged conversation in February 2021 took place, CSIS had already classified Dong as a close friend of the consulate based on his history of calls But they had also considered if Dong was acting as a back-channel interlocutor between the Canadian and Chinese governments. The PMO denied that theory saying at no time was mr. Dong ever used as a back channel Global News has not been able to independently verify what was said in the communication between dong and the consul general we reached out to ceases for comment on the dong conversation a Spokesperson for the agency said they can neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of the information man Do you understand any of this?

2:28:11 No, but it brings me to some clips that maybe I don't know if this would help at all but about the Canada election rigging involving the Chinese. Yeah this is connected to it somehow. It's gotta be let's go with these clips of Canada election rigging As Ottawa looks into reports China tried to interfere with Canadian elections, a new poll out tonight suggests those reports have some Canadians worried about the state of our electoral system. Here's Marina von Stackelberg Justin Trudeau re-elected with a minority government in 2021, an election result accepted by all the federal party leaders. Despite reports China tried to interfere and sway the results in the Liberals' favour. So there is no question that yes there was attempted interference from Beijing into our electoral processes we know how important it is for Canadians

2:29:05 confidence in our system. But according to a new poll from Léger, some Canadians are worried about that system of more than 1500 polled last week 71% said they feel the electoral system is safe but 29 percent said They do not. I would say 10, 15 years ago, I would not have dreamed of asking the question it was sort of just a fait accompli that we trust our electoral system. The poll also asked about the last two elections 33% believed foreign interference greatly compromises the legitimacy of the results Conservative supporters were more concerned. 53% were worried the elections had been compromised. I think Canadians of all political backgrounds are asking what has Justin Trudeau got to hide? 72 percent of all respondents want an independent inquiry into allegations of foreign interference

2:29:59 Public trust, I think has been blown out of the water. It's tragic that we need our electoral system to be strong and to appear to be strong. And so the work of this reporter or any public inquiry is going to have to be really fast. We cannot go into the next election with all of these black clouds hanging over us. Oh, I know what this is about. Of course they want a ban on TikTok It makes nothing but sense. The Canadians already banned TikTok on the government, again I'll bring this up, I brought it up before they ban these countries and these governments are banning TikTok on the official phones Yeah Why is Tiktok or Facebook or Twitter or anything on a government phone in the first place? Well they need to get their porn Hello

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Anti-Asian Racism, Canadian-Chinese Relations

The hosts discuss how allegations of Chinese interference are being met with claims of "anti-Asian racism" by the Trudeau administration. They explore the history of Chinese activists warning Canadian authorities about Beijing's influence and the potential links between Canadian research and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

racism· canada· china· wuhan· sheng xue

2:30:55 Okay, part two. Amidst all this there's also concern from within the Chinese Canadian community about racism and potential backlash and as Lisa Xing tells us some say they've been trying to warn authorities about Beijing's interference for decades After almost 30 years of criticizing Beijing Sheng Xue says she's faced all kinds of harassment from the Chinese government My cell phone number all were published online to the advertising, telling that I am offering sex service. Despite several attempts, the journalist says Canadian authorities largely ignored her warnings Beijing was harassing her. I kept silent for a long time

2:31:41 With Ottawa announcing it's investigating claims China meddled in Canada's last two elections. Some vindication for those who say their warnings have largely gone unheeded until now. better late than never. China accuses some people in Canada of spreading lies that it's interfering in Canadian politics, while the PM defends one of his own MPs accused of being involved—allegations Justin Trudeau has suggested have racial undertones. This activist warns against focusing on race in the search for what really happened.

2:32:18 I think the first thing we need to be very sure about is that racism is not being used as a shield. to deflect from the real issue at hand. He says that means calling a public inquiry and creating a foreign agent registry, but there's concern that done without care that could lead to more attacks and accusations especially as anti-Asian racism is on the rise, a result of the pandemic and worsening relations between Canada and China Okay here's what I'm expecting any day now The connection between Wuhan and Canada, Canadian researchers. We kind of don't go back to that but in the very beginning there was a lot of traveling back and forth. It went from Fort Detrick to some operation in Canada then it went to Alberta?

2:33:11 Yep, and then somehow I ended up in Wuhan this bullcrap. And then just to mess with us They say that they published my phone a sex phone You know the other thing that's kind of interesting is that there's sudden creation of this anti Chinese Sentiment is great and I live in an area where it's like you know we got you go to the Chinese market all the time you Go to the China Chinatown the Chinese market all the time its giant There's a lot I think the red, the red. The Communist and the CCP are the ones who instituted this idea so they can now point a finger like what you just heard in that last clip where it says well oh one of Trudeau's stooges Oh this is racism! Blaming the Chinese for this. Getting ready to use it. Has there ever been any commentary about racism regarding the Chinese before? That's all recent that's very recent Canadians are not racist

2:34:04 So let's go to the final clip on this, maybe we'd learn something. Members of the Chinese community are quite worried about people may somehow label them as medium or agents of the Chinese government As the investigations continue there are calls for that work to involve consultations with the Chinese diaspora those who are after all the targets of the interference You know there's a podcast also on NOAA Gender Stream, the Millennial Media Offensive. They're all over this and I think they may be from Canada. Oh good for them! Yeah so let's get some details let's get some info that we can understand because even the terminology is just foreign to us it's difficult you know when they say the PMO okay the Prime Minister's Office I get that but

2:34:56 You know, it's just a lot of words that aren't the same and it stinks. The whole thing stinks and I agree. We're looking at something that has to do with COVID, has to do with China in general...something is going on! There are some funny stuff here. I have two kind-of offbeat clips so far as Canada is concerned. This was funny. This is Canada This clip is called Canada scamming immigrants. As Canada makes a big push to bring in more immigrants, some are sending a warning tonight to would-be newcomers be careful who you choose to help you through the process Chris O'Neill Yates introduces us to one woman now out tens of thousands of dollars after hiring an agent not actually authorized to provide immigration services Good! Well done

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UNESCO Silence, Uyghur Cultural Genocide

A new report accuses UNESCO of remaining silent on the CCP's "cultural genocide" against Uyghurs in Xinjiang due to Chinese funding. The hosts question why the broader Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, has not been more vocal in defending the Uyghur community.

unesco· uyghur· xinjiang· genocide· saudi arabia

2:35:48 Take their money. All right, what was the other funny one? Well I don't know how funny this one is but this is the interesting ball-less characteristic of the United Nations. This is the CCP versus UNESCO. This is an NTD... you're not going to hear this anywhere because it's not good. It's NTD exclusive I've never heard this story anywhere else. The United Nations Agency dealing with education and culture is under fire it faces accusations of being complicit in ongoing atrocities by the CCP against Uyghurs and their culture entities Daniel Monaghan has more a new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project says the CCP is carrying out systematic actions against Uighur culture and heritage

2:36:37 Everything that gives the Uyghurs their unique cultural identity, according to the report is being targeted by the CCP. That includes tradition music dance religion language poetry and more The CCP is also destroying mosques and other religious sites and restricting the use of regional languages The report says this as part of a broader campaign of genocide in the region of Western China known as Xinjiang UNESCO is the UN cultural agency that's... Wow, hold on a second. That was a weird edit I want to hear that again. ... campaign of genocide in the region of Western China known as Xinjiang They just inserted that! Did you hear that? Like a whole different voice just pops in

2:37:18 Like they had to end it. They did not. Now there's a reason for that, I'm sure. Also destroying mosques and other religious sites... Maybe they had the wrong thing. Yeah they fixed it. ...and restricting the use of regional languages The report says this is part of a broader campaign of genocide in the region of western China known as Xinjiang UNESCO is the UN cultural agency that serves to protect cultural heritage around the world The report charges UNESCO with remaining silent when it should speak up Peter Irwin of the Uyghur Human Rights Project asks, where is UNESCO when the Chinese government is literally destroying the identity and culture of Uighurs? Good question. Irwin believes UNESCO is refusing to speak out due to funding it receives from China Meanwhile The UN Human Rights Council took the rare step of voting down a motion to discuss human rights abuses by China against Uighur in October last year There can be no doubt about the gravity

2:38:12 and the scale of what has been reported in Xinjiang. It was only the second time in the council's 16-year history that a motion was rejected, The vote was seen as a blow to the credibility of the United Nations itself No country no matter how powerful should be excluded from council discussions UNESCO continues to acknowledge the Chinese regime as the protector of Uyghur heritage in the region. Uyghurs and Muslims are among many groups that experts in human rights monitors say are persecuted by the CCP, other victims include practitioners of Falun Gong Christians Tibetans and more Wow! There's definitely some stuff going on with China and the rest of the world Here is what gets me about these Uighur reports The Uighurs are Muslims

2:38:59 The Muslims have what they call, so far as their universal brotherhood is an ummah which is the world of Muslims. And they usually stick up for each other in a very aggressive way And it seems to me that why we're Saudi Arabia in this situation where they get the lot of oil control of who gets what? Where's the Muslims in India that are affected by this because it affects the Umma. Where are the Muslims of the Middle East involved with China? And the Chinese just did a deal with them, hooking Saudi Arabia with Iran. Yeah! Where is their complaining about this? Decades of fighting... It baffles me where the Muslim community is as a whole regarding these Uyghurs they I hear nothing from them How about this

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Donor Roll Call, Executive and Associate Producers

The hosts read the names and donation amounts of executive and associate executive producers for episode 1540. Notable donors include Francisco Scaramanga, Kevin McLaughlin, and various "Brahmin" and "Baron" level supporters from across North America and Europe.

jason bible· francisco scaramanga· amanda pedricks· srinivas murthy· ryan the stable boy

2:39:52 It's all about the money, it always is. China is now that we are clearly... We are destroying the petrodollar from the inside out by removing the petrol part and making what you call the windmill dollar this sun panel dollar solar panel which all made by China. The China is on deck they're gonna take over and people are scared and they just like oh you know most politicians well I'll just go to the winner How about that? Well, that's one possibility because I can't think of anything else. None of this makes any sense. I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda! Imagine all the people who could do that... Oh yeah, that'd be fab! Yeah on no agenda in the morning And we have a few more people to thank for show 1540. Yep On our way

2:40:51 Let's start by naming names and giving out amounts. Taking numbers! Starting with Jason Bible, B-Y-B-E-L in Austin Texas $112 dollars and 120 dollars and 12 cents Erica Levenberg in Los Angeles California one twenty He needs some health and job karma give you that at the end Douche Baggins in Spring Beach Texas 1111 South Jersey Meetup came in as a switcheroo. Coaster donation money collected for the selling of 3D printer coaster and raffle for the South Jersey meet up winner is Kylie Hotchkiss, okay she gets the credit for $110 donation Kate in Chicago Illinois 100 I saw no agenda plate in Chicago Kevin Nespinski Chicago also hundred dollars Ian Field one hundred dollars

2:41:44 Francisco Scaramanga in Arlington Heights, Illinois 8008. Kevin McLaughlin running for the borders. Locusts North Carolina 8008 he's keeping up to pace has not missed for almost a year now Matthew Morrison Denton Texas 8008 Jeremy Hirschman in Sheboygan Wisconsin 8008 William Alston in Baltimore, Maryland. 8008! I'm gonna roll. Amanda Pedricks Montreal Quebec

2:42:23 Or Quebec. 75. Catherine Morton in Charlotte, North Carolina. Birthday coming for her? 7449 Sir Rick in Arlington Washington 6996 Joseph Stegman and Thousand Oaks California 66 James Moran Jackson California 60 Mackenzie Armstrong in Chesterfield New Jersey 5555 First-time donor probably give her a him hurry him her her a deducing You've been D douched Some dude named James in Carnegie, Oklahoma 5555 Stephen Stark and Brandon 10 to Florida 5510 He's talking about Google barf Nell in Elm City North Carolina

2:43:13 5510 Troy Funderburg in Spokane Washington, 55. Srinivas Murthy our Brahmin from Culpeper Virginia 5271 Henry Baron of the Outpost West and Rancho Palos Verdes for 5242 Bob Butler in Cumming Georgia 5069 Ryan the Stable Boy in Edmonds Washington $50.50 A de-douching for him, please. You've been de-douched! Andrew Benz, Imperial Missouri 5005 along with Forrest Martin parts unknown 5005 the following people are all $50 donors name and location

2:43:56 If I have it. Robert Case, Mill Spring North Carolina, Christie Jones in Demorest or Demarest? I'm sorry Georgia Matt Illingworth in Montclair New Jersey Joel Koppen COPIN in Bethlehem Pennsylvania John Sao... I think he needs a de-douching You've been de-douched He's going to a meetup. John Seaborn, Auburn California Daniel LaBois or Daniel in Bath Michigan Julian Robbins and Aptos California Dame Kyle Dame girl Kyle not Kylie in Orangevale California. Yes we often get that wrong

2:44:37 Tatiana, Tatchana Prince in Hollywood Florida. Sir Patrick Maycomb New York City Robert Hanna in Poway California Jonathan Straub and Roswell Georgia David Perdue and Snow Hill North Carolina Michael Romano and Sebastopol California John Lawrence and Hellots Texas Donald Locke in Pottsville Pennsylvania Bart Beekvelder in Vagel Nord Brabant Kate Haskell in San Rafael, California. Alexa Delgado in Aptos. Leanne Shipley in Covington Washington and last but not least Michael Statham Parts Unknown I want to thank all these people for making show There's a good show today Show 1540 a winner Thank you indeed And we have two nightings coming up from which I read the notes which came in because they were under the exec or associate executive level Charles

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Knighting Ceremony, Sir Charles and Sir Joonta

Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak perform a formal knighting ceremony for several high-level donors, including Sir Charles of the Salt Marsh and Sir Joonta of the Ditch People. They explain the "knight and dame rings" available to supporters who have reached the $1,000 donation threshold.

knighting· sir charles· sir joonta· dame jessica· value for value

2:45:35 Let me see, where is this? Charles. Sir Joonta he will become. All I ask is that you give a shout out to Behind the Schemes with Lavish and Boobury it was their show that truly pulled me into the no agenda community at large and he requests henceforth be known as Sir Joonta of The Ditch People And then we have Charles, Charles with a Z. In the morning Adam and John after almost five years of monthly mostly subscription payments I reached level knighthood accounting attached I'll keep this note short and sweet as I'm busy transitioning from the People's Republic of Maryland to the low country of

2:46:12 South Carolina, I wish to be knighted Sir Charles of the Salt Marsh. If possible like to steamed crabs and Irish car bombs at the round table also please add me to the birthday list for March 21st keep up with fine work it's much appreciated thank both of you your on the list thank you all very much to our executive producers are associate executive producers Everybody who supported today's show along with those under 50, who of course are on many of those subscriptions and some who want to be anonymous. We really appreciate it! Thank you for keeping the Value For Value going and this podcast going It is not for nothing the best podcast in the universe! Javorak.org Slash N-A-R-M Karma for anybody just might need it You've got karma

2:46:59 It's your birthday, birthday. I'm so glad you're here. And here is your birthday list! We got Miguel Espinal who turned 39 on March 3rd Sir Charles on the 21st That is a couple days ago. His brother wishes Garnett Alan, happy birthday March 22nd Anonymous turning three on the 22nd Hey that's...that was yesterday right? Catherine Martin turns 49 today Kelly Conway turns 32 on the 26th and Ryan wishes his son CJ Happy Birthday in advance for April 14th Happy Birthday from everybody here at The Best Podcast In The Universe! It's your Thursday yeah Toot toot toot toot Title changes, turn and face the

2:47:42 Go ahead and turn and face the slaves. Q tab q, he has upped his support of the No Agenda Show and now becomes the FEMA theme park dweller! We appreciate his support very much if you want anything else like a baronet or whatever is supposed to be added let us know we're happy to take care of you. We do have some edame in a couple nights to take care The regular good night. Oh, that's a good way Jessica Sorensen up on the podium Charles Shunta and Ryan Sorenson Hey, mr Two of them there you go Both of all of you have supported the Noah Jenner show in the amount of $1,000 or more And I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as

2:48:29 Dame Jessica of the Bear Paws, Sir Charles of the Salt Marsh, Sir Shunta of the Ditch People and Sir Badge Potatoe of Beaver Creek. For you we've got Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay by request! Homemade pastrami and hot rod jalapeno amber steamed crabs in Irish carb bombs We got some my geishas and sake Ruben S women and Rose Vodka vanilla bong, hits and bourbon sparkle cider and escort ginger ale and gerbils breast milk and pabulum. And of course we've got the mutton in need! And you can go to NoahJenOfRings.com take a look at the handsome knight-in-dame rings that we have there's Cignet rings anyone could take a look at them but only these people can order them and that means there's no cost associated because you are now knight in dames along with that yeah there's a handy guide to let us know what ring size you need because they are bespoke

2:49:16 and we will send that with some wax to seal your important correspondence with, and also with a certificate of authenticity. And thank you again for supporting the No Agenda Show! Yes, the No Agenda Meetups a fine value for value proposition part of the entire no agenda nation community Entirely producer supported in fact sir Daniel who runs the show you put it in the newsletter He returns value by running noagendameetups.com

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Meetup Reports, Cabbage Smash and Future Events

The hosts review a report from a "Cabbage Smash" meetup in Illinois and announce upcoming events in Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, and Texas. They emphasize that these meetups are entirely producer-supported and essential for community connection.

cabbage smash· meetup· florida· texas· south carolina

2:49:54 And he has a registry for his forthcoming human resource. What was the... Yeah, it's got a baby coming! Ah and he is going to name the baby after us as usual? I'm hoping we'll see There's a link in the newsletter, people should check it out. We have one meetup report, it is written report The Goodbye Beetlejuice March 18th This is from Dame Courtney we had seven Southside slaves present for the Goodbye Beetlejuice Cabbage Smash Two of which were knights and one dame One new attendee an OG listener from 2008 very nice For further information about cabbage bash It was like batting practice with cabbage

2:50:31 and you just kept hitting cabbage until it was no more. Fortunately, the flail broke after four years of use for the Cabbage Bash. Hopefully the event will have replacement flail... What's a flail? What's a flail? I don't know what a flail is. It's sort of a bat, I'm guessing some sort of thing that you swing at to make you flail at the cabbage. Ah! It's like a pinata stick. Oh, okay. I did see the video invitation to Mike from Geary Indiana to come over Blue Island is only 30-minute drive many from Chicago thought about heading to Gary but traffic that time and direction is prohibited until next time Dame Courtney Thank you very much name Courtney Here's what's coming up meetup wise You can hit the rational drinkers club at 530 at stodgy brewing company for Collins Colorado should be able to hit that no problem

2:51:14 Super time! Six o'clock at Miller's Ale House in Orlando, Florida. Oh the Duke of the South Sir Patrick Coble in Florida taking care of that nice Saturday breaking New Hampshire a two o'clock Shooters Tavern and Belmert New Hampshire Flight of the Noah agenda number 39 333 p.m. Steelcraft City of Long Beach in Long Beach California Leo Bravo hosting that as he always does also Saturday the Northeast Texas mushroom hung outdoor movie and bonfire 530 at Fred Lobster International Speedway I asked that's the one with the dirty Jersey whore hosting and finally on Sunday next showed a Myrtle Beach Conway last-minute river party 4 30 at Rusty's house. It's a private residence So that's in Conway, South Carolina so go to no agenda meetups calm get all the information for that if you're in that in that

2:52:04 locale in that area and of course you can start your own meetup it's very easy it's noagendameetups.com there is no franchise fee or anything like that, its all about getting together with your community something you need now more than ever in these troubling times because connection is protection! NoAgendaMeetUps.com always guaranteed a pate! I believe you have, you seem to have a lot of ISOs today. So let you uh...I only one so... You have one player's in there? No! no i want to do mine last if you don't mind okay let's start with the hold on

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End of Show Mix, Biden Gaffes and Sign-off

The show concludes with a clip of President Biden struggling to pronounce a memorial name and a discussion of vinyl records outselling CDs. A musical mix by Neil Jones and Sir TJ the Wrathful plays as the hosts sign off from Jamaica and California.

joe biden· neil jones· montego bay· silicon valley· vinyl records

2:53:03 Gotta get my glasses so I can read. Yeah, yeah start with sick sick okay? They're all sick Okay, okay Sexy so talented and so sexy too long but I like it as long but I like it. Yeah, I like you try heck Yeah, okay Heck yeah Mmm. No, I'm like sexy better Okay, well then try this one hot I just felt something hot on my legs Okay, I only have one powered by the way those are all those were all sent to me We're not all of them but a couple of them from Fletcher found them out of the blue and he says look at these old things nice. I think I have a contender Only have one but I think it's a contender powered by hydrogen technology Hey

2:53:57 Come on. You don't like it? Compared to hot on my legs? Well, let me see I think it's a... So talented and so sexy too That's pretty good and the other one was- I just felt something HOT ON MY LEGS! That's disgusting. That's disgusting What?! I think hot talented and- So talented and so sexy too Okay you can use that one but I think- I think thats the one Yeah I think the lewd one might be funnier Well, I'm not going to argue. Use the sexy one! The sexy one reflects better on this show

2:54:36 It does because otherwise it sounds like you know we just put a gob of goo on someone's leg. It's not good man, it's not a good look for us at all. Well talking about not good I got one last clip. All right let's play it Tell me what Biden says here Okay there is only one that's titled Biden and I'm going to presume this is it. I am proud to use my authority under the Antiquities Act And I want you to know it's a big deal. The Havana qua May, I'm having trouble. Thank you! I got it

2:55:15 Oh man, Havannik HaMeh? What was this about?! It was some memorial he was dedicating. He couldn't pronounce what it was! It's almost like us with meet-up places you know people are yelling at us that we pronounce them the wrong way This is the President of The United States We're lost...the dollar is lost Biden's lost Everyone's lost And we'll have more uplifting news on Thursday's show. I will be back in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, very excited about that Or not! No, shh... There is only one flight out on Saturday That's it We're making it It's happening Coming up next on NoahJennerStream.com Oh look at that Curry and The Keeper episode 34 Nice That's a fun little show you should listen to from time-to-time Thank You Bemrose for scheduling that

2:56:06 And we've got two end of show mixes. We have one from the Clip Custodian himself, Neil Jones and we have Sir TJ The Wrathful and his human resources known from... ...We Don't Talk About Brandon back with a Lego takeoff mix very nice little ditty. We appreciate that coming to you from the heart of the West Indies here in Montego Bay Jamaica in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And for Northern Silicon Valley where I should mention that the sales of vinyl records surpassed that of CDs in 2022. How about that? I'm John C. Dvorak We return on Thursday right here on NO Agenda Remember us at dvorak dot org slash NA Until then, adios mofos and a hooey hooey and such!

2:56:57 Oh yeah, I don't trust banks. Quickly is this the end? The end of what? Why don't you put in the bank? I don't trust banks. No, I don't trust banks either... Don't trust big banks or small banks All together i decided to close this account It's not a good money but still money for especially retired people I don't trust the banks!

2:57:47 Oh yeah! I don't trust... I don't trust... I don't trust... Okay girls, what did we learn from today's episode? That you're a D-bag. What? Noah, I'm a proud knight! Oh... ummm.... That drum's not fun. Ha! Well that's normally true but anything else? Let us think!

2:58:35 If it's on the TV How could they just lie like that? All time, they've been trying to control the masses That's the scare It's a war for your mind you will find It's all propaganda This is a scam Moon landing, JFK Everything is run by the CIA Manewasher, brave elite On the mainstream 3, 2 ,1 GO! Have you heard the show? Everyone's talking Curry Dvorak deconstructing That's their job pointing out stupidity With an awesome no agenda community The media just lies and lies And Curry Dvorak can show you why Value for value is there way Cause they ain't in it just for the pay 15 years of awesome producers The best podcast In the universe Shut up slave Everything's a scam

2:59:38 We found a scam in this whole... No way! But that's a scam, that's an epic scam. It's a scandal to me This is a scam I would say it was a massive scam The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak dot org slash N-A So talented and so sexy too