No Agenda Christmas 2025

00:00 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, December 25th, 2025. This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination, episode 1828. This is no agenda. Jolly and merry and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas snow country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody wishes you a happy Christmas, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! So that seems to be a thing. People are saying happy Christmas like you just said. What happened to Merry Christmas? What's wrong with Happy Christmas? Well, there's nothing wrong with it. It just, it seems, uh, it seems like not the thing. We used to say Merry Christmas, then it became Happy Holidays. Yeah, so now they combined the two.

00:52 I... all the liberals around here are saying Merry Holidays. No, no. Really? Merry Holidays! That is so wrong on so many levels. So, so Happy Christmas. Merry Holidays. Well, here we are. It is Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Holidays. Happy Christmas and all that everybody. And we are not really here, which is a... Is this the first time we haven't done it on Christmas? Well, we don't have... I think there's only been four Christmas shows, maybe five.

01:28 So yes, it is as a matter of fact. We normally always do it. You had you have family in town. Yes, and it would seem more family-friendly family-wise or Wiser Not to have hey, you were working or my whole childhood and now you're still doing it you douchebag. That's what I would have gotten And rightly so. Yes, exactly. So it's highly appreciated. We do, however, on the brink have a best of Christmas show, which Sir Donald Winkler put together for us. You know, whenever you put out the call, this is interesting kind of in the dynamics of podcast listening a couple of days, like maybe three days later, people like, oh yeah, I just heard you your call out.

02:15 You know, because you expect this like, hey, I said this on Thursday. You should be telling me on Thursday. It just doesn't work that way. Yeah, that would be the day. It doesn't work that way. So also got professor, the professor from China. He did, he actually did another exit strategies part two. So we have that one in the can because I'm sure something else will come up eventually in our life. So we appreciate him for that. Oh yeah, he's good. Yeah, he did a good... Did he do the first exit strategy? I think he did. I don't remember. And so Merry Christmas, John. Are you celebrating today? No, of course not. We're going to put it off. There's a lot of good reasons for this. What are the reasons this year?

02:59 Well, there's always the same reasons. One, traveling during the holidays. If you're going to travel, you want to... Why does everyone want to... Travel on the same day, there's like the same thing with Thanksgiving. Oh, the world's worst travel day. Let's travel then. Let's do the travel on that day. There's a good idea when you can easily just offset it a day or two. Yeah. But you know, you know, what's the symbolism of having the turkey on Thanksgiving as opposed to the next day or say Saturday? And then the other thing is you can get everything on sale.

03:36 Yes, this is the elbows are gonna be looking at me for everything I do and they can overcharge me for everything that I buy now based on dynamic pricing. Yeah, I will be able to Get everything cheaper because they're gonna look up this guy. He's not paying that he'll pay lower. Wait a minute It's not it's not dynamic price. And what was it called again? It was a preference dynamics to the old one, the old ideas dynamic. Surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing. There you go. That's it. Nailed it. They're going to surveil me and they're going to say, wow. So, so Donald Winkler put together, I would say a rather positive show. Uh, I know he must've searched for a long time, but he put together a very positive show, positive Christmases from no agenda Christmases past. And, and, uh,

04:25 And he also put some, you know, he added in some Christmas end of show mixes, created his own with Suno, of course, so we can have some. Everybody can hate on AI during this happy season. The thing that I was listening to, because, you know, this includes stuff from way back and just multiple Christmases. Holy cow, the cussing I do is off the hook. It's really, it's cringy. Well, if you go back far enough, yeah. Well, don't have to go back that far. Four years? Five years? Well, good. I'm glad you noticed. Everyone's so happy that you've taken over that role for me in recent history. Yes, because yes, I have. I do it less.

05:18 But when I do it, they're always impactful, I believe. Yes, it's super impactful. So I'm not just, you know, the problem with people cussing is as we know, because we listen to all these podcasts, is the gratuitous just, you know, F this, F that, F this, F the F and this, the F and that, there's no impact there, it's just a filler word. And filler word cussing is what gets cringy. Well, that's what you're going to hear. Because when you put it all together, it gets really cringy. So here it is, part one. We'll be back in about an hour or so. Sir Donald Winkler's No Agenda Christmas Special. Merry No Agenda Christmas John and Adam To all the producers and douchebags of Gitmo Nation Hallelujah

06:19 And thank you for your car They said they had heard the show And could not resist trying to to bring me up to the the real gold standard of Yorkshire instead of PG tips I was tickled so and there's a whole box apparently so I can't wait to I

06:58 to get to the office which by the way Monday so I'm flying back tomorrow afternoon Monday evening we have our pod show UK Christmas dinner we're not doing a huge party but it's you know when you put a staff together with spouses and you know some of our our talent who work full-time for productions we're doing you know you're talking 25-30 people so you know You know, of course, Patricia and I were going to go to the party. What do you think shows up today in my email box? An invitation for Monday night starting at six o'clock for the Led Zeppelin one-off reunion concert and party. I'm like, oh my fucking God, I feel so bad for the pod show people that I won't be able to make it.

07:46 You're gonna have to make a showing No, I'm of course. I'm going to the Christmas party the oh man. I don't know yeah, that's Eppelin one off because those guys are so gone by now, but yeah, but it's like that are the Amit Ardigan Erdogan tribute Well, here's his pod safe Christmas song all right. I'm gonna give this so I've not I don't think of I certainly don't recall seeing a YouTube video But I have it lined up you may not hear it through your headphones, but I Okay guys, everyone ready to sing the song? Yeah, I'm getting all crazy! Now remember, it's almost Christmas and nobody has any pod-safe Christmas music, so that's your motivation here. Uh, Cece Chapman, you ready? Ready as I'll ever be. And uh, Lenin Nora from Jawbone, good to go? Let's do this! And uh, Adam Curry, Skyping in from the helicopter flying somewhere above your golden palace, you all patched in there, Adam?

08:37 Adam Adam Yeah, I do remember this actually I'm not gonna play the whole thing. Well, that's that is pretty funny You got to kind of see the video because you can't understand all the all the lyrics and they have it on screen It's been it's been very very cold here in the UK for the past I think the past two weeks just really cold like constantly around the freezing point Which made my Christmas shopping that much unhappier today? Oh, yeah, I used to go Christmas shopping the night before Christmas. Well. That's what I do to last-minute man

09:24 Yeah, well the funny thing is you run into a lot of if you go on Christmas Eve besides the fact that they throw everything on sale You run into and I've done this for years decades You run into fellow travelers who are who are just the same, you know, they're just like you they go in the last day and they've been doing it for years and they all you kind of like your your immediate friends with all of them and you joke about it and it's a just like a whole different crowd of people is mostly men and And they're out, you know, shopping around and it's the funniest thing because it's like one of those deals where you're just like your pals with these people without even knowing them and you all know what you're up to. So a big cultural deal in the United Kingdom. On Christmas Day at 3pm, the Queen's speech to the country. To her, what do you call them? Minions? Subjects. Subjects, that's it.

10:21 and uh... and and we i think we've missed it every single year because you know it's not a nice art is i was up in washington i think it's not the same they think they broadcast on canadian and i'm sure they do because of course canada is controlled by the queen still and it's more than just uh... said dressing witness would just happen anyway that i don't want to get into that to get all the canadians pissed off again uh... so i'm like ready for this And so what she does is she starts off and she says, and not a smile, right? And just horrible. It's just really cold and impersonal. And the Brits are like, oh, we love watching the Queen's speech. Okay, well watch the Queen's speech. So we're all ready. By the way, Top of the Pops came back for a special hour and a half show before that, which was pretty cool. Anyway.

11:11 She comes on and she says, well, you know, what I've learned is that when I work with people who help others in these trying times, that they truly are fulfilled, that they have fulfilled lives and they truly are happy. And then they switch to this ENG footage of her boys, you know, visiting poor kids and then there's Charles somewhere with African kids. And she's like, well, see this is my family, see how much they do for other people, that's what you should do. Merry Christmas. And that was it. And I'm like, it was absolutely, I was shocked. Yeah, I saw it. That's what I see. They showed the kids, they're always, you know, these... Yeah, but they have no jobs! No kidding! It's easy for them to go around doing good when you have endless...

11:57 Tax money to spend and no job and these are just obvious photo ops yeah The guys probably blew in there sat down. Okay took a couple shots. Okay. Let me get out of here and there to wash up Yeah, so this is an uplifting Christmas adventure from the Build-A-Bear Corporation. A nice quiet day before Christmas Eve. And so they have this, I mean it's beautifully done, beautifully animated three, is it a three part series? Is that what it is? I think it was supposed to be more, but the fourth one I realized was taken off and I don't know what was on that one. Okay. So just listen to a little bit of what our kids are being taught here. Actually, I'll fast forward. So it's Santa and Mrs. Claus. They're up at the North Pole. And then we see the nice little polar bears. And they're having fun. They're romping around. And then they come up and they talk to Santa. And here's what they have to say. Oh. Ho, ho, ho, ho. Oh, there. What fine looking polar bears. Pleased to meet you, Santa. I'm Ella. Oh, and this is my sister, Emma. Santa!

11:11 She comes on and she says, well, you know, what I've learned is that when I work with people who help others in these trying times, that they truly are fulfilled, that they have fulfilled lives and they truly are happy. And then they switch to this ENG footage of her boys, you know, visiting poor kids and then there's Charles somewhere with African kids. And she's like, well, see this is my family, see how much they do for other people, that's what you should do. Merry Christmas. And that was it. And I'm like, it was absolutely, I was shocked. Yeah, I saw it. That's what I see. They showed the kids, they're always, you know, these... Yeah, but they have no jobs! No kidding! It's easy for them to go around doing good when you have endless...

11:57 Tax money to spend and no job and these are just obvious photo ops yeah The guys probably blew in there sat down. Okay took a couple shots. Okay. Let me get out of here and there to wash up Yeah, so this is an uplifting Christmas adventure from the Build-A-Bear Corporation. A nice quiet day before Christmas Eve. And so they have this, I mean it's beautifully done, beautifully animated three, is it a three part series? Is that what it is? I think it was supposed to be more, but the fourth one I realized was taken off and I don't know what was on that one. Okay. So just listen to a little bit of what our kids are being taught here. Actually, I'll fast forward. So it's Santa and Mrs. Claus. They're up at the North Pole. And then we see the nice little polar bears. And they're having fun. They're romping around. And then they come up and they talk to Santa. And here's what they have to say. Oh. Ho, ho, ho, ho. Oh, there. What fine looking polar bears. Pleased to meet you, Santa. I'm Ella. Oh, and this is my sister, Emma. Santa!

13:02 Gone it's gone. What's gone tell him dad the North Peak Mountain Peak A mountain is gone? How is that possible? Santa, sir, that's why I'm here. That's why we're here. The ice is melting. The North Pole is melting. Yes, my dear, we know. The climate is changing. There's bound to be a little melting. It's worse than that, Santa. A lot worse. At the rate it's melting, the North Pole will be gone by Christmas. My, my, all of this gone by next Christmas? I don't think so. No! No sir, not next Christmas, this Christmas! Oh, there'll be no more Christmas! Oh, Daddy, quick, you have to stop putting carbon in the air! It's gonna set, there's not gonna be no Christmas! This is, this is fucking, this outrages me. It just outrages me, and I... It's pretty over the top.

14:05 No, this is, I don't know if it's the same one, but this guy, I don't think I've ever seen him, maybe. But anyway, he made this interesting commentary, and he's a Pontrarian entrepreneurial type that predicted the crash and the rest, like everybody else. I just want to read this. He's talking about how can we get the economy going again. He says, if we spend the money at Walmart, this is for Christmas, if we spend the money at Walmart, the money goes to China. If we spend it on gasoline, it goes to the Arabs. If we buy a computer it will go to India. If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. If we purchase a good car it will go to Germany. If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy. The only way to help the money

14:52 at home, the only way to get the money here at home, to keep the money here at home, jeez. The only way to keep the money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer. Since they're the only product still made in the US. I have to do my part, he says. Well, can we just add noagendashow.com to that or dvorak.org slash NA? Yeah, we should send him a note that he left this out. John, my battery died. Have a Merry Christmas my friend. Merry Christmas everyone. John, my battery died. Have a Merry Christmas my friend. Merry Christmas everyone. So anyway, John Merry Christmas to you man. Merry Christmas to you! Thank you so much for your beautiful gift.

15:55 Oh, you liked that? Liked it very much. You know, it's going to determine the entire interior of our house. Everything now has to be red. i think it is a double spot this is a spot are you can put it somewhere next to each other john gave us two beautiful pictures that uh... he took himself these are all to lose i believe john the apparently yes yes so uh... and that is that not have a photographer of uh... of flowers normally but that it these are from the reason i didn't think is it reminds you of holland is he's retaken in holland at the tulip festival which i went to a last year with during my stint at queensday yes and um...

16:32 You know, it's one of those things that everybody in Holland, I guess, talks about. Oh yeah, the Tulip Festival. The Tulip Festival. You go to this thing, it's for people out there who want to know about it. It's actually worth going to, and of course, everybody in Holland feels this way too. It's actually worth going to once. Yeah. I think I went to it in 1973. One of our producers, Clark, sent this note. I thought it'd be a nice Christmas Diddy. Last Christmas I bought Obama t-shirts for my in-laws who are Democrats but are also racists. Nice. We sent them back to Texas from DC and when they came to visit a few months later they brought this one back. Let me do the photo. They probably turned the other one into a hood.

17:19 The next time it came back, just the logo came back cut out. Of course, being the fine son-in-law that I am, I knew we would have to come up with something and send it back. My brilliant wife then had the idea to turn it into a pillow and, here's the kicker, have my six-year-old daughter do the sewing. This way, the pillow is a gift from their granddaughter and her very first sewing project and they will have to keep it. Yeah, work on something else. I'm gonna depress the listeners. They're gonna, what is this? These guys are crazy. I gotta tell you, um, I will, so we had a great Christmas yesterday. Merry Christmas to you, John, by the way. Merry Christmas to you and to all the ships at sea! The boots on the ground! But we watched, uh, as one does, you know, you watch some Christmas movies and Scrooge was on.

18:11 with bill murray which i think is one of the uh... one of my favorite not christmas and i love that film yes for nineteen eighty eight and if you haven't seen it uh... died courage you know at least watch the beginning because of something and i know something very funny again this is nineteen eighty eight bill murray is the president is nix it uh... top executive of a television network the i'd be c television network he's a total dick he's the way the whole most horrible and he's very true to form a television executive actually and it starts off with a doing this big live extravaganza on Christmas Eve which is the the the Christmas Carol the Charles Dickens story

18:50 And so they're in the executive suite and they're looking at the promo for For this extravaganza and so, you know, they've got a nice little promo and and it looks kind of good And apparently the promo is performing quite well But then Bill Murray as the president of this network freaks out and says, you know, this is not you you need to scare scare people that if they miss watching this show, their lives will be over and then he rolls out a promo and it's the funniest thing. It could have been any promo for any cable news network today and of course in 1988 it was outrageous that the promo literally, you see an airplane taking off and the voiceover says,

19:31 this special is so terrifying and you see the airplane explode in midair and the voiceover literally says terrorism and then it's like you know drugs and you see the needle going in the arm. It's exactly like what CNN, Fox and MSNBC are today only in 88 that was seen as an outrageous crazy thing it could never happen. That's crazy. That's crazy that's just that's just fiction it's just a movie. And now we're living it. Just wow. Well, you know, it was something to talk about. Yeah, but you know, it's just like wow, I was... You should have made a clip. Yeah, I should have. My impression kind of sucked. A lot more pleasant now that Christmas has come. Oh! Check out the TSA carolers at LAX.

20:22 This is great. Listen to the report from the Compromised ABC News. This is like so clearly, it's like, alright, here's the Ministry of Truth speaking, please make these guys look human and just listen to this report, it's outstanding. Frosty Snowman is a bunch of TSA jabronis standing in the departure hall with like a keyboard. There's a lot of stress so when our singers start singing maybe you'll get a smile maybe someone will just relieve a little bit of the stress. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

21:04 Hey! Something that we do I think to show a different face for the, you know, of the TSA, more human side. And they're all in their uniforms and they got a couple of guys who like think they can sing, you know, you know those people who then go in and sing Copic. I work with one. The TSA people who have been so bad-mouthed being everybody together everybody in the Christmas spirit Here's the guy who's doing syncopic like you know trying to kind of bit like swing through it all American Airlines flight leaving at 1205 to Miami, Denver, Chicago

21:54 And let's wind it up. What do you think, sir? Go TSA! Yeah! Yeah, we love it! Go TSA, you're awesome! I'm believe my is you the brown shirt course in nineteen thirty eight I you know I don't know if you're making a joke but it wouldn't surprise me if it actually existed yeah do you know who the president is the United States of Europe John boys are the same guy the right guy the what the dish rag guy the dish rag guy yeah yeah you got to know his name he's on point yeah exactly Herman Van Rompuy he had decided to

22:47 uh... leave us all with that while you know you know what he does for a hobby yeah he's a poet he's a guy who is a hike who that's right he wrote us a little hike who i want to hear it well unfortunately it's in uh... he did in that dot slash well that's sucks but it's only three lines so i can translate it like a chance let's listen to it market mid-hike who's a hit still to and for a few silence and happiness From Christmas to the New Year. We're hoping for hope. We're hoping for hope? Yes!

23:28 Silence? What's the silence? You tell everyone to shut up? Yeah, let's do it again. Mag ik het met een haiku zeggen? Een haiku? Stilte en vreugde. Silence and... actually silence and happiness. Silence and joy. Silence and happiness. Yeah, if you shut up you'll be happy. Shut up you'll be happy. Van kerstmis tot het nieuwe jaar. Oh, it's a code. From Christmas to the new year. So you gotta shut up and be happy between Christmas and the new year. That's weird. It's only a week. I don't know, I'm just saying. That's what he's telling us to do. And then the payoff? Hope in the oak. Up hope. Also hoping for hope. What does that even mean? I have no idea what hoping for hope means. But that's what he's saying. Unless you know he's a Bob Hope fan. That's literally what he's saying. Bob Hope fan. Hoping for hope. I received in the mail a piggy bank

24:26 emboldened with the CIA logo from the CIA gift shop. Oh, from one of our nights in the Virginia area. This thing is outrageous. And there was a 20 inside along with the microphone and the sound. Good CIA stuff. I have to beg and then somebody finally, you know, throw it. Okay, well, here's one for you. It was so it's like you look at this thing. It's like, Wow, that's just weird. It's a piggy bank with a CIA logo? Yeah, if you go to... What else do they sell in this shop? We've got to go visit this shop with a camera. And it's all made in China. Yeah, exactly. That's the best part of it. I tweeted it. Yeah, heaven forbid we make a piece of pottery in the United States. Do you guys read The Night Before Christmas at your house by any chance?

25:21 No. Well, this is not like an uncommon thing in America, is we have the night before Christmas. I've never heard of it. You've never heard of the night before Christmas? No, I've heard of The Night Before Christmas. I've never heard of any bunch of corn balls sitting around the candlelight reading it. Yeah, this is very normal. This is very abnormal. Yeah, but The Night Before Christmas is of course a book about, you know, the children were all, you know, tucked in their beds and snuggled with care, whatever, you know, with dreams that St. Nicholas soon would be there to give us all kinds of goodies and crap. So the whole story is about getting stuff.

26:00 It's a sweet story, but it's about getting stuff. So there's a story that this family does, but apparently a lot of families read this particular story. And it comes from Sweden. I had never heard of it before. It's a very long story. It's not like, in America we're good. We get commercial to the point, short, a couple of pictures, you're done, open up your gift before you go to bed. Now this is the little troll. You ever heard of this story? This is about the little troll that wanted to become a human being? It's about Obama? No, it's the little troll who wanted to become a human being and discovered that the way to become a human was to help other people and he helps this little girl and then his life changes and then he eventually becomes... it's kind of a mixture between The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Pinocchio in a way, in a weird way, only with trolls. And it was just... Trolls? Does he finally get on Twitter?

26:59 It was really nice John I have to say it was kind of a non bring a tear to your eyes It did bring a tear to my eye. What is that wrong? Is that so wrong? Yeah, I guess so It is just like the crunch of boots on of Jack Jack boots on Jack Jack boots on fresh snow That's- that's actually uncanny. That's pretty- that's uncanny sounding actually. Let's do a little skit, okay. "'Twas the night before Christmas." Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait until I get to the mouse part. Cue the marching soldiers? Hold on. "'Twas the night before Christmas." Oh, let me do it. Okay. "'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

28:04 However, the brown shirts were out! God. Yes, that is the ghost of Christmas Future, ladies and gentlemen. Played by John C. Dvorak. Alright Johnny boy, what are you doing for the 25th? That's Wednesday. I'm heading up north, and I'll be up there. That's nice. So you'll be up there for Thursday's show? Yes, I will on Sundays too. Oh, okay, nice. Well, that's good you'd be hanging out with the family. And we'll see, hopefully the connection will be as good as this. And I'll be doing my work from up there. Okay, I'm here with the girls. All three girls. Miss Mickey, we have Miss Christina, and we have Miss Rihanna. So I've got the girls here. We're doing an old school family Christmas. And a big meet the kids drink thing tonight. Everyone's dropping by.

29:07 So we're really festive. Sounds like it's festive time for all. Yeah, it's yeah, it is really nice. I miss the kids so much. You know what it's like when you have young kids around? Like you got JC and his wife. Wife! Hello. Uh, you know, it's nice when when the young kids are hanging around. You learn a lot. It gives you something to grumble about. I learned a lot, really a lot. Yeah, you tend to learn quite a bit. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, December 24th, 2015. Time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 784. This is no agenda. Celebrating a man with a white beard selling camels. Broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in Fever Region 6, Austin Tejas. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's actually been raining for a couple of days and I guess we need it. I'm John C. Dvorak.

30:02 Merry Christmas John Merry Christmas to you and Merry Christmas to all the listeners and producers too and producers and the and the family of no agenda the no agenda family the Knights and the dames and everybody behind the scenes. Oh, yeah Oh my goodness, we're getting good spam in the chat room But I apparently suck roosters. Why? I don't know, because we promote Trump and Putin. We promote Trump and Putin. Trump and Putin. I think today- It's the Trump and Putin show. I'm Adam Trump. I'm John Putin. Putin! I think we need a beer.

30:54 It is in most parts still Christmas Eve. You still have some time for some shopping. Pot appears to be a popular stocking stuffer this year in Seattle. An employee at the Pot Shop in Fremont tells My Northwest that sales in the past two days are the best that they've been since the store has opened. He also said one of the most popular gifts is a comically large joint that sells for $80. This is what I want! I finally know what I want for Christmas! I want the comically large joint that sells for $80. Yes. Yes. Oh Santa. Oh, yes Yeah, I'll tell you about my Christmas presents. Okay, but I received a lot of alcoholic related presents. Oh alcohol related presents. Now that I think about it. Yeah

31:48 I got a I got a whole bunch of cool stuff. I got you know Tina brought her girls over here So we on the on Christmas Eve after the show so we had a little uh almost like a family celebration Did you have a tree mm-hmm? Yeah? Is it a real tree? It's a real tree. Yeah Well, get it out of there, because those things are flammable. I do not park the hoverboard under the tree. Oh, that would be something. I wonder how many... This hasn't been on the show yet, but there's got to be a few hoverboards that were parked under trees, caught on fire, caught the house on fire, burned the place to the ground. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm so sure. Merry Christmas.

32:30 The PBS News Hour has this musical thing, they bring some musical guy on and he tells us a story about how this song came to be or something like that. And this is kind of the backstory of the song White Christmas, which I had no idea was actually a parody. It was a joke tune. Why we think he's gonna live a lot longer than 18 years. And lose his hat. Next for this holiday season, a new way to look at a classic song, Bing Crosby's White Christmas. It's the best-selling single of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold. Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with composer and pianist Rob Capolo, who deconstructs music for the NewsHour from time to time.

33:12 Rob Capelo, welcome back. So nice to be here. All right, so White Christmas, a touching, beautiful, nostalgic song, but started life very differently as a kind of parody. Yeah, you know, we now think of it as this perfect sentimental depiction of Christmas's past, but in fact it originally started with a verse that no one sings anymore and that Berlin actually eliminated from the song that sets the song in Beverly Hills, LA. It actually started, the sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway, and it's actually sung by somebody in Beverly Hills around a pool dreaming of Christmas up north. So originally it was a send-up of the very song that it's become. Set in Beverly Hills but of course came to be known and came to touch so many people because of the historical moment. 1942, Americans, military personnel, far away for the first time.

34:01 Oh John, you've ruined the movie for me now. Completely ruined. I don't think I can ever watch it again. Feeling good. You know, now you know. The more you know, the more you get spoiled. And of course now we basically have Christmas in the lowlands. They probably got Santa Claus walking around too. and then that you know by the funniest thing with you and your a dead discussing that sort of thing is if you go down to uh... rio uh... in december and uh... you for a round brazilite which is the middle of this is like the hottest time of the year it is boiling it's like a hundred degrees and there's all these santa claus is with the reindeer and they well that was that that is kind of like los angeles is weird that way to and and it turns out

34:55 We're in one of those streets where we have two neighbors at war with all house wars with the light stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah That's great. It's we saw it happen We saw because of course there's our first Christmas here and we saw one side like wow This guy's got some lights going and then on the other side and now I said the Mickey yes, he said I think our house is perfect for I think we can do a sleigh and and uh, and it went reindeer on the roof and uh, oh, Mickey says I'm totally fucking up the synth story. Well, what am I doing wrong? She just texted me. She's listening? Yeah, of course she's listening. She's in the car. She's on the way to a meeting. A meeting? Yeah. Sunday for God's sake. Yeah, she works hard, man.

35:41 But, alright, so I guess I took all the romance out of the story. Well, you could add, we can tell the story next week when we get closer to Chris, or I guess it would be farther away from December 2nd, which is I guess when, or the 3rd or the 5th, I don't know. No, the 5th, and then... I don't know man, I'm from America. We always thought it was, and by the way, this Sinterklaas, he's, so he also wears like a red robe. He's got a robe. Oh yeah, pedo. Hey kids. He's got a pointy hat and he's got a big stick, a big staff. I got a stick for ya. I got a big staff for ya kids. But he's very thin, he's not fat like Santa Claus. He's a skinny guy, that's more like it. He has pant legs taped to just the bottom of some short pants taped to his legs.

36:33 But it's it's cute. So actually and so what the family tradition is and this is kind of nice is you And you all draw so the big family comes together usually not just Household family and then you'll draw lots before like a couple weeks before You'll draw a name out of the hat and then you get the name on a piece of paper and then you have to go buy something for that person and turn it into a surprise and uh... with a uh... with the poem which is about that problem but it but but you don't ever so really say all this is from me so you bet is what you do this is an office yet this is been transposed into an american tradition of doing that in the office where they don't want everybody buying everybody i guess right you did right right grab bag very very and somebody invariably gets a box of candies that they don't want well that will do the funny thing is is that there's always some joker who puts together a huge box

37:30 Right and then you get this huge box as a present and then you have to go through like wood chips and my little box after my molasses And all kinds of weird crap in there. It's hilarious and then at the bottom. There's like a like a gift certificate But I I'm sure all the listeners and get Monation lowlands are very disappointed with my explanation Now did you do Disneyland the first day or the second day? We did Disneyland on Christmas. Oh, then you should do it in order. Talk about Christmas first. Let's see, what do we do first? First we went to dinner, I think, in a cafeteria. Well, not that. Okay, yeah, we go to Disneyland and we leave early. I have to say this, I've never seen anything quite like this and we were stunned, I say.

38:21 by the freeway traffic on Christmas, it was like the world had ended and nobody was out. They were all gone, they all left the area. I have never seen traffic like this. There was nobody on the roads. And apparently what was going on was they were already at or going to Disneyland. I talked to one of the police guys as we went into Disneyland, which was all dolled up for Christmas. And in fact, they rewrote a number of the rides and the storylines in the rides themselves for Christmas. I'm under the impression that from

38:59 Halloween until New Year's, for example, the haunted house ride. Yeah. Totally different ride. You have if you if you haven't been on the haunted house ride. I've been on the haunted house ride at Halloween. Yes, it is different. Yeah. Totally different ride. And the one that's a real head scratcher, even though some people didn't want to go on it, but we did at least half of the family did. Is the fairy dirt land ride. Which is also known as it's a small world. Oh, yeah It's a small world after all yeah, that song is just now part of a medley of tunes Yes for the Christmas period which is mostly jingle bells jingle bells and all the rest of these Christmas Yeah, all this low-end and they've changed everything inside. It's like the what happened. Oh

39:53 And so that was interesting and they've also lengthened the ride. I took a movie of it, of the entire ride. Wow, there's some copyright violations somewhere. Oh, there's tons. It's all copyright violations. I'll post it and they'll let it be taken down. And it's 16 minutes. Wow, that's pretty long. They've lengthened the ride it seems and of course it was also bumping into, it was loaded with, traffic was in the, little boats were bashing into each other constantly. Same thing with Pirates of the Caribbean, although they didn't change the storyline, they put Christmas gifts everywhere. And also the African ride where you go through Africa in a boat. They had coins for gifts. That totally changed, they got

40:40 They got every the elephants everything are guard in Santa suits and they got crap hanging off of them It's ridiculous were any of the Dvorak's high when you went there because I know It would have been a good idea yeah, if you had me out there I would have arranged it now the thing is is that the I was told by one of the police security guys that we chatted with or waiting for people, and he says, oh, Christmas is the most crowded period ever. Every year it's the same. He says, do not leave the park. He says, if you leave the park, you'll never get back in because every year the fire marshal shuts it down. No more people are allowed in. And so we stayed in there and watched all the way to the fireworks and then we left.

41:36 Yeah, what I'm when I'm single bills. Yeah jingle bells. What's it got to do with anything that has anything to do with slavery or blacks Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas Carol has a problematic history Because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans in what way? Let me see The legacy of Jingle Bells is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history, says Kiana Hamill, Boston University theater historian, as she wrote a whole research paper about it. Although one horse opens sleigh... let me see... I don't know man. It's a stretch, I think. Just a tad bit of a stretch.

42:25 It was first performed on Washington Street in Boston in 1857. Some area choirs adopted it as part of their repertoire in the 1860s and 70s. It was featured in a variety of parlor songs and college anthologies in the 1880s. It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder. It says it's an unsettled question whether and when Pierpoint originally composed the song that would become known as Jingle Bells. A plaque in 19... Is it like some guy in high school or something? It's got... No, there's no way! It's bullcrap! Well, she got her name in the paper. There's a new book out just in time for Christmas. Coming in, this is new. Daniel, first to you, what inspired Santa's Husband?

43:17 Uh, well, uh, it was sort of inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of pretending- Santa's husband. Stay tuned, you'll like it. Okay, you're beating me up on these clips. Well, I got lots of time on my hands. Inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of pretending that there's a giant war on Christmas. and that traditional Christmas is under attack. So among other things, we were reading all of the news about the Mall of America hiring a black Santa Claus last year. And me and my now wife made a joke on Twitter that if we ever had a child, they would only know about black Santa Claus. And if they saw a white Santa Claus at the mall, we would just explain, well, that's his husband.

44:02 And then Ashley and I knew each other from the internet and from her illustration already and she jumped into my Twitter mentions and said boom new book. Boom cut one. Yeah, and it's out now available everywhere actually. So let me read a couple of pages here. It says like any married couple they have their disagreements but they always manage to kiss and make up usually over a plate of milk and cookies. So we have the gay Santa Claus Santa is black, he's gay, and he has a husband. A white husband. A white guy? Yeah. It's kind of misogynist. He apparently dresses much the same. Mrs. Claus has been wiped from history all of a sudden. It's an outrage. That is an outrage. I'm surprised people put up with this. Everyone thinks it's great.

44:54 So what are you doing for Christmas? Are you going to Washington? No, everybody's all spread out on Christmas. We're having our Christmas here at the house on like the 29th or the 30th. Oh, and what do you mean? By the way, I've been advocating this for years, which is pushing off Christmas because of two reasons. One, I'm cheap, and right after Christmas you can go to all this Boxing Day and all these places that are selling this stuff at a deep discount and you can buy a bunch of last minute gifts at a good deal, and then you have your Christmas where there's not a big rush. I can get a turkey cheaper. I'll cook a turkey or a goose.

45:34 And you are Scrooge, man. No, I'm not. I'm not saying it's just for that, but it's like you can do it. Literally, you don't have to be everything has to be on the day. Oh, we got this on the day. Oh, it's my birthday. It's got to be on the day. I'm not a big bully. I don't I'm not buying that. It's not a Scrooge thing, but as a benefit, I see it as a Scrooge thing. Yes. Well, we're going to Chicago. Yeah, I heard that. Well, I'm telling you, I'm telling the whole audience just saying. I know, I was just saying I heard you're going to Chicago. Yeah, going to Chicago and so it's Tina's family, it's like 18 sisters, her mom, her girls, it's gonna be... Girls night out. Oh yeah, it's gonna be a whole bunch of women and then I think three dudes like... Oh yeah, you guys are screwed over. We are totally screwed.

46:24 We get better at these as we go along, don't we? I don't think so. Okay. Well, Merry Christmas, John. Tomorrow's the big day. Merry Christmas to you and Merry Christmas to everybody listening. Yeah, tomorrow is the big day and it's a nice Monday Christmas. It's perfect for everyone gets a little extra time off, although I think next week everybody takes a whole week off, so... Oh, really? Who gets to do that? We don't get to do that. We have a full show. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Kids. Yeah, we're gonna be back on Thursday live because this is a special show So you could go to Chicago. Yes, and I could go shopping at the last minute important stuff Yes, because you'd like to get everything on the cheap and celebrate the last minute I like to get into the last minute cuz like a men's club Yeah, I've been a member of this club for many many years. I

47:10 Yeah, you go in there and there's all guys. It's not pretty. Oh, no, it's not pretty, but everybody knows what's going on and there's all men. Yeah, y'all give that look like, eh, eh, eh. Yeah, there we are. The head nod, right? We're here again. Yeah, hey, how you doing this year? Now, you have not actually celebrated Christmas yet. No, it's coming. You guys are very interesting, you Dvorak clan, I'll tell you. Yes. We do, we're on the, uh, what do you call it? On the cutting edge, is that what you were going to say? Untraditional, no, uh, unorthodox. Unorthodox, yes, yes, yes. And we're not even Jewish, hey. Well, we were in, uh, Chirac for, uh, for the festivities. Yeah, I want to hear more. And we had a white Christmas, that was fantastic. Yeah, I can bet you did. My goodness, I had forgotten what cold was like.

48:05 You get it's not good white Christmas is a no fun. It was zero degrees, and then you get what is this? You can't in half these places They won't let you even start a fire so you can't have like a cozy fire and a white Christmas. It's you know The Airbnb that we had had a fireplace on gas, but the gas wasn't hooked up to it Which was somewhat disappointing and I've written a review about it good pisses me off Yeah, what's the point? What's up with windchill? Windchill? What about? What do you mean what's up with it? People use that as like a death knell. Yeah, they do. Well, the windchill does make a difference. No kidding. I, you know, just walking outside and then there was no, there was actually no wind when I was outside and my legs just froze. It was so unbelievable. I had forgotten all about it. I'd lived in Jersey and New York and... Yeah, but you were, you know, people have to realize

49:01 we notice this going back and forth from Washington, is that your pores literally change from hot weather pores to cold weather pores. But it takes weeks. It just doesn't do it automatically. So when you're coming from hot weather pores, which is what you have generally speaking in Austin, and you go up to Chicago, it's gonna be freezing cold. So you're right if you're there yours have to adjust the pores in your skin have to adjust yeah, I didn't know this Yeah, and so when you could this is why people when they come down from the northern climes Like Mimi's up there most of the time should come down here. Yeah, and she and it'll be like 50 I've also noticed though that men and women do have a

49:48 Different temperature settings for themselves. Well, there's that there's a little bit of that but it's really mostly the pores That's why you were so cold. Hmm This is the one now it may be too late. But the just saying Merry Christmas instead of happy holidays was a bonanza Really? Yes Especially in a store, like just say to the person who's helping, Merry Christmas! And it's gonna be like, say Happy Holidays. You gotta say Happy Holidays. Well that, okay, let me mention something here. That is very retrograde. That argument is over years ago, but okay, if they're still stuck with that in Chicago, that's a little different. Well no, let me tell you, and this goes very, very deep.

50:42 And it's obvious why this is happening, because Merry Christmas equals religion equals Republican. That's equals Trump. Your holiday stems from, it stems from Holy Day. John, I'm all... You should throw this at them. You're more religious than me. You saying Happy Holy Days. But let's play this clip, Merry Christmas versus Happy Holiday. Okey-dokey. for happy holidays. And by 2005, the change upset several cable news hosts like Bill O'Reilly. But frustration with the term may be less about religion than politics. A poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found 66% of Democrats prefer storage use the term happy holidays.

51:50 While 67% of Republicans say stores should only say Merry Christmas. On the campaign trail, candidate Trump promised to bring back the phrase. Politics aside, Mr. Trump's not the first president to say... Merry Christmas. His predecessor used the phrase every year. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone. Merry Christmas everybody. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody. Past presidents also use the term happy holidays Which comes from Old English for the term holy days and Christmas is the only federal holiday based on religion Serena Marshall ABC News, Washington Right, and there's no reason unless they're apparently Democrats or the yes. Yes, literally. Well, come on aren't all Millennials Democrats?

52:37 Yes, okay, so I'm telling you the sequence is Merry Christmas crazy religious people crazy religious, right? There's a war on God. There's a war on religion. I'm not not Islam of course, but Christianity and even Judaism I think this war on Jews and So when you say Merry Christmas, it's religious, you're crazy religious right, you're Republican, you're Donald Trump. And then the Jews on Facebook, who I'm friends with, facebag friends, they had their, and these would be liberal friends of mine,

53:17 And they would say, go ahead, wish me Merry Christmas. For me, it's just Monday. You go to work. What are you doing on face bag? Do some work. Tell them to talk about it with Hanukkah Harry. Who's Hanukkah Harry? Oh, we talked about this on the on the Noah Gen. I'm sorry on the I didn't hear it. Oh Yes, Horowitz says that the Jews have a has a have a Santa Claus like character called Hanukkah Harry. Mm-hmm because the kids Jewish kids they're seeing all this stuff going on They got the tree you see trees and the Santa Claus and all this stuff with the kids and so they've dreamed up a Hanukkah Harry and apparently has been on forever a lot of

54:01 Non-jews don't know about it, and they have it some sort of tree called something as they've got another was a parallel universe Christmas Starring Hanukkah Harry, so it's bullcrap. You gotta take the day off. They're not working on Monday That's funny. Yeah, I thought so what I never heard a Hanukkah Harry no Daddy? Yes, Felix? Do they celebrate Christmas on their agenda? No, they're podcasters. They're too poor to celebrate Christmas. Can we make a jingle for Adam and John? What would you like to make the jingle about? Donald Trump. That's a good idea. Get ready to shout, get ready to cry, get ready to pout, I'm telling you I'm

54:53 Donald Trump is coming to town You better resist Get into a fight You're gonna take on the fascist old right Donald Trump is coming to town He's literally Hitler We know he's full of hate Daddy, what's the difference between Santa and Donald Trump?

55:44 I don't know. Santa's good for bells and Donald Trump's good for jingles. Donald Trump is coming to town. Get the Antifa flags. Start flying it high. Set fire to shit. Punch the land of my guys. Donald Trump is coming to town. We know he's pure evil. We know he's Putin's mate. Mortis would punch him in the face. Yet the Antifa flags start flying high. He said fire this shit, punch red and white guys. Donald Trump is coming to town. Donald Trump is coming to town.

56:44 Please don't eat me Donald Trump! Done. I'm gonna 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! See I told you a lot of cussing you heard it. Well this is my first time listening to this it's quite an entertaining yeah you yeah you yeah yeah you could probably knock it off. I did knock it off it's now I'm clean I'm the clean version I'm Mr. Clean baby Mr. Clean.

57:25 I think I'm gonna probably, I'm gonna stop touching it all except once a show. Okay and it's gonna be so on point, it's just gonna, everyone's gonna go, wow! That was the perfect moment. Exactly. Okay. Well, even though we are taking this one short break for the first in all the Christmases that we've actually continued to do the show, we do appreciate your thoughts and prayers and love and gifts during this giving season. Yeah, the show must go on so people still have to help us. Yes, and you can... It costs the same amount to ship this show as it does the rest of them. It actually... And we're actually working. Hello, I'm talking now, you're talking. It's not like we're not doing anything. Yeah, it got recorded at some point. It was so funny. I'm trying to... John and Adam trying to coordinate something is, you know, you don't want us running the government or certainly not the military. Like, imagine us coordinating D-Day.

58:25 It's like, because normally we record... Of all things to think of, D-Day. Just because that was a big coordinated effort. That's what it feels like for us to... That reminds me of the joke. So what is, what's worse than finding an apple or I'm sorry, let me get this straight. You blew it already. I blew it. I'm starting over. So what's worse than finding a worm in an apple? I know the answer. What? Half a worm. No, the Holocaust. Appropriate. Appropriate. All the Candio fans are laughing. And I do wish all of our friends, all of our friends a very, I hope they can be calm during the Christmas season. Tucker, Candy, Nick, Megan.

59:24 Yeah, that's the group. Dave Smith, Dave Rubin, everyone's jumping on it. I guess Bannon spoke at the thing too and nobody talks about Bannon at all. It's like, you're all... Bannon? Oh yeah, he was there? Bannon's kind of been cut out. Well of the clips, it's just the clips. No one watches full anything anymore. That's why we're still audio because you're kind of like, well, I got some time to kill anyway. If it's video, you know, the video's going, you know, you look down, oh there's another cool video, let me play that instead. Boom, you're gone. The only way to win with video podcasts is to have clips. And then here's the clip show. Man, we're gonna do another year, no video. We're gonna make it until we fall down. So anyway, go to noagendadonations.com. Support us with time, talent, and treasure.

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1:01:10 That's right, your No Agenda show is 100% supported by listener donations. So, if you want to prevent anal leakage and keep your amygdala small, firm and round, donate to No Agenda. Your service goat will thank you. Boxes. Yeah, you give each other boxes. That's dumb. Why go and alienate our UK producers? Well, they picked up on Boxing Day in Canada. They used their Boxing Day up there. Now we're thinking about it. People talk about it. I bet it's going to be a millennial thing, Boxing Day. You watch. You can just put money on it.

1:01:53 I always thought, you know, when I think originally I thought it was some Australian thing because that's what was in the UK and had to do with kangaroos. Boxing. I always visualized a couple kangaroos with boxing gloves on. Okay. On Boxing Day. Well, I'm glad that you've been put straight. But again, I think it's a fine millennial trait. That's how it'll be brought in. Boxing day. Oh yes, we have Friendsgiving and Boxing Day. We don't celebrate Christmas, we celebrate Boxing Day. Don't you see? It's headed that way. Celebrate Boxing Day. We celebrate Boxing Day. Christmas is pre-Boxing Day. So people will put up with a lot.

1:02:41 And that's apparent in the United Kingdom. Christmas is cancelled in the UK. We cannot continue with Christmas as planned. No, we cannot continue. It was all over the news. The US media loved talking about this story. In the United Kingdom, a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly. And today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new restrictions for areas in Britain's southeast, including London. He urged all residents to stay home for the upcoming Christmas holiday. It is with a very heavy heart, I must tell you, we cannot continue with Christmas as planned.

1:03:20 The variant has turned up in several other countries and mutations are not unusual. British officials say this variant does not appear to be deadlier, but it does spread more rapidly. Man, I'm gonna call some major bullshit on this. This makes no sense. This new variant, we touched on it briefly on Thursday. But come on, there's been talk of different strains for months, it's never an issue, nothing's happening, nothing to see here, don't look at it. Now we got to cancel Christmas. Oh yeah, because of this strain. Man, and they brought this out at five o'clock in the afternoon with the deadline by midnight. People went crazy trying to get up north anywhere, anywhere out of the central east part of the country to just avoid being

1:04:11 It's locked in your home. Get out of London, people! And here's the crazy thing. The Netherlands just announced, I'm sure other EU member states will follow, they're stopping all flights from and to the United Kingdom. A smaller Christmas is going to be a safer Christmas, and a shorter Christmas is a safer Christmas. This is our COVID Christmas. In Paris, Christmas lights and a nightly curfew. It's a horrible thing to think that we would be here as the World Health Organization saying to people, don't hug each other. It's terrible. But this year, if you love your family, if you really care about your family, we won't have these get togethers. What we're going to do is I will guarantee you that grandpa or grandma won't be here for Christmas. This is our COVID Christmas.

1:05:06 It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas Everywhere you go Take a look at the big box stores opening once more While restaurants and bars are told no It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas Ploys to stay indoors But the jittiest sight to see Is the media will be broadcasting fear porn Slaves that are mutants, or syrians that shoot Are the wishes of Tony and Bill

1:04:11 It's locked in your home. Get out of London, people! And here's the crazy thing. The Netherlands just announced, I'm sure other EU member states will follow, they're stopping all flights from and to the United Kingdom. A smaller Christmas is going to be a safer Christmas, and a shorter Christmas is a safer Christmas. This is our COVID Christmas. In Paris, Christmas lights and a nightly curfew. It's a horrible thing to think that we would be here as the World Health Organization saying to people, don't hug each other. It's terrible. But this year, if you love your family, if you really care about your family, we won't have these get togethers. What we're going to do is I will guarantee you that grandpa or grandma won't be here for Christmas. This is our COVID Christmas.

1:05:06 It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas Everywhere you go Take a look at the big box stores opening once more While restaurants and bars are told no It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas Ploys to stay indoors But the jittiest sight to see Is the media will be broadcasting fear porn Slaves that are mutants, or syrians that shoot Are the wishes of Tony and Bill

1:05:52 They will use science to ensure compliance till all of our veins have been filled. And they'll take it live on TV just to prove that it won't kill. It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas. Everywhere you go, empty chairs at empty tables, people who just weren't able to wear a mask wherever they did go. Oh, it's beginning to look like COVID Christmas. Soon Freedom Pass will start. But the thing that'll make you free is the mRNA vaccine plunged into your arm.

1:06:41 Well, none of the vaccines at this point appear like they'll work with a single dose. You know, the side effects were not super severe. That is, it didn't cause permanent health problems. Are these vaccines safe? Yeah, but some of that is not dramatic where, you know, it's just, you know, super painful, but... It's beginning to look like COVID Christmas. Soon Freedom Pass will serve. But the thing that'll make you free is that mRNA vaccine. Plunged in too.

1:07:34 COVID Christmas for sure. You know, you can't sugarcoat it anymore. It's all about human life. Yeah. No kidding. Have you noticed that the news reports on COVID deaths initially often stated the age of the victim, but now it is seldom mentioned? No, of course we can't have that. We can't have you figuring out statistics for yourself. My question to COVID fear mongers, how many of these supposedly died of COVID would have been alive today if there was no virus? Probably less than half. The empty chair guilt trip narrative is mostly false.

1:08:29 I love the empty, oh there's gonna be an empty chair, there's always an empty chair unless you don't have enough chairs. Don't you think? And why, and if grandma dies do you actually leave an empty chair open at the table? With a meal in front of it? Yeah yeah yeah. For grandma? With a place setting? Possible. Come next Thanksgiving and Christmas there will be empty chairs, but most of these empty chairs will be due to diseases other than COVID. Also, most empty chairs caused by COVID all will be because of the virus being contracted somewhere besides the family get-together. Family members will hear being cheated out of

1:09:16 Out of a final gathering with their now the final gathering with their non now departed relatives because of the government Induced fear funded by taxpayers of course and promoted by the media. Hello. Yeah. Yay Sir, Donald of the fire bottles count of Eastern Washington Spokane Valley. Okay. Thank you very much. There's no karma. Thank you very much We got to wrap this up, but I did want to make mention of There is a song in the Netherlands which was done by Joep van der Hecke, who is a cabaretier, which is old-school name for stand-up comic in the old world. And he wrote this song, this must be 40 years ago, called Floppy. And Floppy is a song about a rabbit, hence the flappy, flappy ears.

1:10:11 what happens to Flappy, this poor boy's pet rabbit on Christmas Day. And would you believe that this song, this Floppy song, has been covered by Todd Rundgren of all people? And I just want to play a little bit. You can guess how it ends, but it's just so weird to have this old traditional Dutch song, creepy one, covered by Todd Rundgren. It was Christmas morning, 1961. I recall the empty pen where my rabbit bed belonged. And my mother told me, don't go in the shed. And if I'd just behave, then I'd get something yummy later on.

1:10:53 She also didn't know where Floppy was, and said she'd ask my dad who was busy in the shed. So, you know what happens at the end of the song, right? The rabbit's dead. Yeah, they eat the rabbit for Christmas dinner. Yeah. I can't believe Todd Rundgren covered this. Well, maybe he likes rabbits. It's a horrible, sad song. The kids running all over the place trying to find Flappy. Flappy and he's not in the shed. Where's Flappy? And then he's on the table. They ate Flappy. Yeah, well it's kind of a sick. It's not for a sick. It's very sick. I just found it very odd that Todd Rundgren would do that, but maybe that's Todd.

1:11:39 Will Santa still be able to visit me in coronavirus season? What if he can't go to anyone's house? Rainier, it's rainier. His level of immunity? He can come down the chimney. His level of immunity. He can come down the chimney. I'm vaccinated Santa Claus. I'm vaccinated Santa Claus. I'm vaccinated Santa Claus.

1:12:31 I vaccinated Santa Claus, for Santa Claus is good to go. Hold on a second. Yes, yes. Did he not vaccinate Mrs. Claus? She doesn't count. He's a misogynist, dolce freak, that guy. He's gonna get Corona, if this is true. From the elves. Nothing about the elves in the world shop. What about the elves? They need a shot? Yeah, they have two. Everyone gets two shots. Santa Claus is good to go.

1:13:18 The audio horn, all the horn. It was a tinny sound. The voice was also professional. This was a professional voice. This is not like, hey everybody I'm gonna set this bomb off. I'm a crazy nut job. 5G man! 5G's got, hey ho, 5G's got to go. 5G man! Because that's the message I'd have. 5G is killing you. I'm gonna save you. Let's do it now. You got 15 minutes. That's the message I would be putting out there. Yes, and there'd be pamphlets blown into the air or something. I mean, you do something. You just don't blow something up and then have somebody else theorize it was about 5G. No, no, no, no. If you're making a protest about 5G, you're protesting. Yeah.

1:14:05 But well, let's listen to this 25 seconds before the explosion because someone did something interesting which I want to try on you I don't think it'll work, but let's listen Also, I listened really closely some isolation and what you're hearing before this area must be evacuated now they say all buildings and This is a professional type of announcement, you know, if anything it came from a script that that has them This is something that you might fight Club I kind of suspect the

1:14:49 the smart light lamppost to be doing this. That's the kind of sound I'd expect from the government when they hear something telling you to evacuate. It doesn't sound... It's very governmental sounding, you're right. It's a good point. You can hear this message. That's right now. If you can hear this message, evacuate now. If you can hear this message, evacuate now. Implying that there was some thinking done about the loudness, the blast. If you can hear that message, then you're within the blast zone. It just, that is really, I don't take that one lightly. And see if you get anything out of this. But someone reversed this audio. Which is my favorite devil trick to do.

1:15:42 And they claim, now it's much easier when you read the words on the screen than I think your brain goes, oh yeah, I hear that. But they claim in reverse you will hear, are you ready? Are you ready? This will be quick, are you ready? And ends with Merry Christmas. See if you can pick any of that out of this. I literally hear Merry Christmas to all. I hear that. Yeah, I can hear Merry Christmas to all. And the other one, I hear mostly are you steady? Yeah. But it's like, you can hear it, it's like looking at clouds.

1:16:38 You know, yes, yes, yes, and you can hear what you want if I had to see if it's pretty so if you pre you've I say you up you should not have given me may I know I said yep, I was dumb that so I'm already primed to hear that just like the old trick you doing it to an audience. I've seen it done. It's very interesting. Is that picture of the rabbit that looks like a flower or something? It looks like two different things. It was anyway you tell half the audience it looks like something you tell the other half the audience and it's Suggested and then when they show that you have raised hands and right whatever was suggested is what they? Report so yeah, I wish you hadn't had done that. I'm sorry I was pretty sure you wouldn't have gotten anything if I hadn't told you that yeah, well, that's the idea yeah But I like it. I don't know why someone would do that and post it, but I like it and

1:17:31 So, will we really know? Mmm... doubtful. Now we can play Covis Relief. Covis, Covis, Covis. Alright. Butt slam. Covid relief for millions of Americans remains in limbo tonight after Congress and the White House spent months negotiating the deal. President Trump called it a disgrace and then left Washington for Mar-a-Lago sowing chaos before Christmas. Shut up, slaves! Shut up, slaves! Now John before we get too far away from Christmas, I do have a question for you when Did Kwanzaa really become a thing in the United States or Canada for that matter? Do you recall? I don't know that it ever became a thing. It was an invention It makes no sense because it's supposed to be a harvest festival or something and I said right in the middle of winter Here anyway

1:18:34 Would you I could look it up, but I know you have something to tell me so that's it. No the other know that but Was it during Obama's years that no way for Obama? Okay, how far do you think like according to the the book of knowledge? Just just I'll just tell you that Kwanzaa was created in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots and and it was specifically an African-American holiday and his and this Maulana Karenga, who created it, said his goal was to quote, give blacks an alternative to the existing holiday of Christmas and give blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history rather than simply imitate the practice of dominant society. So this would be if you are truly... So he just said... He made it up. Well yeah, he made it up, but he's refusing to acknowledge the fact that

1:19:29 a good portion if not the majority of black Americans are Christians. Well, yes. Yes, correct, correct. So he's insulting them in some way. I don't know anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa. Yes, you do. Very famous person who celebrates Kwanzaa. You? No, no, no, no. And let me just specify. Kwanzaa is celebrated on the winter solstice, December 21st. So this came out on the 25th on Christmas. This is the most famous person who celebrates Kwanzaa. Happy holidays everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa. Like so many other holidays, we will be celebrating Kwanzaa a little differently this season in our home.

1:20:19 We'll be doing it over Zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa. Every year our family would, in our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations and we'd tell stories. So in Canada, when she was growing up, because That's where she grew up. But maybe after she was 12 when she got back to the United States, they started celebrating Kwanzaa. But she makes it sound like this was really a thing in her non-African American household. Which is an African, it's actually, it is the worst form of cultural appropriation you can do as a person, I think, regarding Kwanzaa. It's pretend that you celebrated it, you're not African American. It's not a black thing, lady, it's an African American thing. If that, because I agree, if I say to Moe, happy Kwanzaa, he spit-takes at me.

1:21:12 You're like, bro, we're Christians. We celebrate Christmas in our house. Our home. We'll be doing it over Zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa. Every year, our family would, and our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations and we tell stories the kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs and smoke weed, elders, and of course afterwards elders? The elders? The cult. The hell is she talking about? The tribal elders John don't you get it she's African now

1:21:48 She's African-Canadian-American, Tupac-loving, Kwanzaa-celebrating Indian-Jamaican. We'd sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs. Smoke her the peace pipe. And we would light the candles and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal. Oh yeah. And of course there was always... Yeah, go ahead. This is a great piece. Somebody has got her... Somebody convinced her to do this. I don't believe she came up with this idea on her own. Yeah, yeah, you gotta do that. I think they're making a fool out of her. But wait until you hear how deep she goes. I mean it's one... I think I could pull this off the way she's doing it because she's lying. There's no way that she celebrated Kwanzaa with the elders in Candanavia with her Indian mother, her Jamaican dad.

1:22:40 This is no way like the no, there's no way no, there's no way. Hold on Let's listen to this what she does like the candles on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs And and we would like the candles and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal And of course there was always the discussion of the seven principles and my favorite I have to tell you was always The one about self-determination, Kujichagulia. And you know, essentially it's about, you know, it's about be. Be and do. Be the person you want to be and do the things you want to do and do the things that need to be done. It's about not letting anyone write our future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves.

1:23:25 And that principle motivates me today as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all Americans. So to everyone who is celebrating, happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours. Well, you know, one of the things we're overlooking here is the way our fabulous rulers, their leaders, Our leaders are dealing with this. I do have a Christmas message that came out from Ontario. We got a little Canadian action here. The CDN is the name of this clip. The Ontario finance minister, Rod Phillips, he gave a message to the public. Nice and uplifting, I'm sure. Now I know that this Christmas is a bit different than Christmases in the past.

1:24:17 We're meeting virtually and online and not able to be in person with as many family and friends as we'd like to. And I want to thank each and every one of you for what we are doing to protect our most vulnerable while we celebrate this very, very special but challenging holiday season. It's all there. The folksy hey there, the fireplace, the sip of eggnog at the end, the lovely words, a beautiful Christmas message from a politician to his constituents. That of course is Ontario's Finance Minister Rod Phillips. But unbeknownst to us, that whole scene might have been a bit of a ruse. While that image and that video was tweeted to Ontarians, we have now found out that Rod Phillips was sunning himself on a beach in St.

1:25:03 And it's been a big mystery as to where is Ontario's finance minister. Just a few short weeks ago, the Toronto Sun started inquiring to his office as we heard rumors that Rod Phillips had left the country. Well, how could that possibly be? Rod Phillips is a leader in this province. He is one of the most senior cabinet ministers in the country. He is also part of the team that crafted the lockdown rules where we saw the big box stores stay open, where the small businesses were shut down. He couldn't possibly have said to all Ontarians, stay home, shut down, and then jet it off to a sunny vacation. Well, it turns out that's exactly what he did.

1:25:38 So as news broke that Rod Phillips had indeed gone on a very lovely vacation while the rest of us cancelled our trips, cancelled our vacations, cancelled seeing family, basically cancelled Christmas, did everything by Skype and Zoom and FaceTime, just like the government told us to, only move for essential services, the Finance Minister of Ontario decided that he's going to get on a plane and go to St. Bart's. Yeah. Well, this is good. This is and that's this and when she says we did this we did that no he didn't lady you're lying No one's doing it all you're lying. We're all lying if you if you say oh, hi. Oh, I follow the rules You're full of crap. I disagree with you

1:26:17 I think a lot of people follow the rules by next-door neighbors for sure The lib joes for sure because they won't even get together with each other. This is not true There's most people I mean, yeah, there's a number of scoff laws and other people that all let's do the circumvent. Let's do what we can My son and his wife, but they're all locked down, right? Yes. Yes, but do they not cheat at all? There's not a single time say well, I really shouldn't have done that I don't know that they did. I don't know this. I mean, maybe they cheat, you know, in some way they take the mask off to, you know, to do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cheat, cheat, cheat! It's not like flying off the same Bart's. Do they have the mask over their nose or under their nose? It's always over the nose. Oh my gosh. A little harsh, but you gotta live with it. There are rules in the world, so you kind of have to follow them. I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it. All right!

1:27:16 We know the police are searching for a motive for the Christmas Day bombing. It turns out that suspect, Anthony Warner, was very interested in several conspiracy theories. A source familiar with the Nashville bomb investigation tells ABC News that Warner may have been tracking a conspiracy about lizard people. Authorities tell ABC News that Warner may have spent time hunting for alien life forms in a near state park. Although it is not the park that we've been, that park has not yet been named. The source tells ABC News that thoughts about those conspiracies were found in writings associated with the suspect Warner. This is an ongoing investigation. At this time, it's unclear if these beliefs are connected to the Christmas Day bombing. The sources familiar with the bombers thinking believe that the lizard people are running the show. Wow. They just, whatever you do.

1:28:09 Don't let anyone think anything about this, okay? I know there's no bomb crater, I know there's no- I know there's all kinds of carbon, blackened soot, which looks like it might have been a directed energy weapon. They're coming for me. But please, just keep focused on 5G and lizard people. Do you have more clips? Do you have any idea of clips? Because I got a couple. No, I got nothing. I've been following it. You know, the guys, you know, this is all bogus. Where's the guy's note? That's what I want to know. Exactly. What kind of good QAnon lizard people hunting 5G denier

1:28:50 suicide bombs himself and leaves no note or as we would call it a manifesto because this is bullshit Alright, part three. We'll take a look at these long COVID testing lines across the country right now with the threat of Omicron and Christmas just three days away. Many people are wanting to make sure they are healthy and can gather safely with loved ones. Stop the clip. Okay, are you alright? So there are people that they're not sick. They want to make sure they're healthy. But so I'm standing there, I'm doing 40 push-ups, I'm you know doing some jumping jacks, I'm doing some pull-ups. I wonder if I'm healthy, I think I'm gonna go get tested. What kind of idiots are these?

1:29:40 They're healthier. You're not you know if you're healthy these people should be on television if you're catching something Yeah, maybe um I think you got the sniffles. I think yeah, I'll go get tested Why not but no these are people they're just all healthy they just want to get tested just in case It's a way many people are wanting to make sure they are healthy and can gather safely with loved one It's actually quite evil doing this kind of reporting. We don't even know if that's true, but they're reporting it this way and it's telling people even if you're not sick, you better test yourself. It's very, very, it's a psychological operation.

1:30:18 and this evening a possible game changer in the fight against COVID. The FDA has granted emergency use authorization for Pfizer's antiviral pill. Studies show the oral treatment is nearly 90% effective against severe illness and death. What does nearly 90% mean? Is it 89? Why not just say 89, 87, 88? They don't have any numbers. As we get closer to Christmas, demand for testing is surging. Demand is surging? What kind of, what, really? Lines like this one here at this Washington DC testing site are long and lines like this can be seen all over the country. We are expanding our testing capacity.

1:31:07 Washington DC is one of the latest cities to require vaccines for people 12 and older at indoor venues. The demand for vaccinations and booster shots has also caused long wait times heading into the holiday weekend. I'm getting my code shot, second one. You had to put the abused child on it, didn't you? That's the reason for the clip. It's horrible. A little kid comes out, I just got my shot and I'm gonna get my second shot any minute. I'm gonna be a- But wait, why was that in the testing clip? They just threw it in gratuitously. I don't even believe those people are in line for tests. I don't believe there's this big demand. I don't believe it for a second. I've talked about this, remember last year, March, April, Berkeley had a drive-thru testing thing. I would drive past that thing once a week. No one. Nobody was in line. Nobody. Here's the president. One of the other things that we know that has to be done is more testing.

1:32:08 Because Omicron spreads easily, especially among the unvaccinated. It's critically important that we know who's infected. That means we need more testing. And on that score, we're now where we should be. Yes, we have over 20,000 free testing sites. Yes, we've used the Defense Production Act and spent $3 billion to greatly expand the number of at-home tests available for proof. Hi kids, just popping in with an update to let you know everything is shaping up nicely for Christmas Eve. Santa, Mrs Claus and all the eligible elves have had their booster shots. Santa is well kitted out in the best layers of protection. His mask is well fitted and the sleigh is naturally ventilated. So I am happy to report that Santa has the all clear to take off.

1:33:01 I'm also happy to report that all of the reindeer are healthy and symptom-free. But just to be extra sure, Rudolph has had his COVID-19 test to confirm his red nose is not a COVID-19 concern. Hey, hello Dr. New, are you checking on Rudolph's COVID-19 test results? Hello Dr. Tan, I was just looking at Rudolph's results. I can confirm the results are negative and he's free and clear to guide the sleigh on Christmas Eve. Wonderful! I guess that red nose really is just a light in the way. What is the point? Hold on a second. What is the point? This is a big lie. No kidding! No, I want you to play CBS report. Oh no, wait a minute. Are you telling me that Canada is lying about the state of Santa? Santa. And Nancy, the World Health Organization also said today Santa is immune from COVID so we do have some good news there ahead of Christmas. Nancy Chen, thank you. What? He's immune? According to the World Health Organization.

1:34:06 Oh Fouchie, won't you get a little closer my dear? Jab me baby, slip needle into my arm, no harm, I'm an awful good slave. Fouchie baby, hurry up and jab me tonight. Jab me baby, a fourth and fifth booster shot too for you You'll take care of me dear, Fauci baby Hurry up and jab me tonight Think of all the fun I'll miss

1:35:04 All the New York restaurants I can't visit Next year I'll be just as good A sixth, an eighth, anything you say Jab me baby, I want a shot and four is not a lot But I'll keep wearing my mask Fouchie baby, hurry up and jab me tonight Jab me baby, slip a needle into my arm No harm I'm an awful good slave Fouchie baby, hurry up and jab me tonight

1:36:05 Shit. Alright, there it is. This is... My teeth just fell out. All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. Seriously, my front teeth just fell out. My two front teeth. Stop drinking. If you don't mind... You sound fine and this is distressing. You're telling me I sound fine? All he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth. Well, now you don't when you make a point of trying to... He's trying to sound like Dylan. Go on, be Sean. So it literally just fell out now. Okay, we'll be taking a break and we'll be back. No, let's just go, let's just do it. I'll go all the way through. It'll take me 15 minutes. We're so close to the end, let's just keep it going. He's got karma.

1:37:00 I'm telling you, the world has gone nuts and we're just here. We're here observing it and either shaking our fist or laughing. Exactly. Well, I do have something, a nice upbeat little thing. I thought in the spirit of Christmas we would go back to the 19, I think this is 1980s, with a Computer Chronicles Christmas gift ideas with John C. Dvorak. If you're still looking for Christmas gift ideas, we have yet a few more tips for you from other sources. Syndicated computer columnist John Dvorak likes a new game for the Macintosh called Smash Hit Racquetball. And for the PC crowd, he picks Traveling Sidekick as a great gift item. On the hardware side, Dvorak suggests the Bechtel Fanny Mac, a cooling fan for the Macintosh, or the Curtis Computer Toolkit, including pin straighteners, chip pullers, and other goodies. John!

1:37:54 How come I miss this I miss your your lame-ass Christmas gift ideas Can you give us there were good in 1980? We're fantastic. I love these little tools 42 years ago You're playing clips about me that are 42 years old and and ridiculing him by today's standards No, I'm not ridiculing. I want more. I want a name ass is ridicule. I'm sorry. I At the time it was great. We all bought that fan for the Mac. I think the fan, the Mac needed a fan at the time. Probably to cool it down. I would just love to have some Christmas gift ideas from you for an updated version. I think you should put that on your sub stack or something. You're a legend man. You're a legend with this stuff. I'm a legend in my own mind. No, you're a legend in a lot of minds. So I think, yeah, well I'll start doing that next year.

1:38:48 All stuff like this. We turn now to your health this holiday season and we're not talking about the flu or COVID but about your heart. The risk is serious and doctors are trying to spread the word. See and literally throwing it's not COVID or flu don't worry about that it's your heart. This morning, doctors are urging Americans to put heart health at the top of their holiday to-do list. That's because more people die from heart attacks between December 25th and January 1st compared to any other week of the year, with Christmas Day being the deadliest day of all. Doctors say the leading factors include family stress and

1:39:24 falling out of good habits like healthy eating. It's not just an issue that holiday heart is a benign condition. It actually is a very potentially serious condition that causes people to develop heart failure symptoms. Increased alcohol intake can also result in what doctors call holiday heart syndrome. Have they said it enough? Have they said holiday heart enough times so we don't have it. I love it. Suddenly holiday heart, holiday heart, have some holiday heart, have some eggnog. That's when binge drinking causes irregular heartbeats which are associated with a higher risk for stroke. Is this true? Does heavier drinking accelerate your heartbeats? I don't know any of this to be true and what I find peculiar is that I think a lot of people actually eat quite well on the holidays.

1:40:10 You get some nice bird meat, which is, you know, it's not like eating a big prime rib. You've got some usually potatoes of some sort or sometimes yams and vegetables. Excuse me, are you saying a prime rib is bad for you? No, I'm just saying if you're going to look at healthy food, generally speaking, people would say that a bird meat would probably be healthier than beef meat. I disagree. I think the beef is much healthier. Okay, well, no, I know. You can take either side, but let's say you have prime meat. It's beside the point. You're not eating a hamburger from McDonald's. Let's put it that way.

1:40:46 You're not eating a wood chip meal that's from one of the fast food places. You're eating prime rib or turkey meat or a ham or something that's well prepared. Not true, not true, not true. The Jews, they go to, they go eat Chinese crap. Yes, they do. Typically on Christmas they brag about it. I've talked to horror witnesses about this. I'm on the inside of this. And yeah, they love to go eat Chinese food, but Chinese food is very healthy. Are you Jewish adjacent? Is that what you're telling me? I'm a once a week Jew. That's me. Wait, there's more. Certain people might be more predisposed to it, but you can have no history of any heart-related conditions and drink excessively or consume too much alcohol during the holidays.

1:41:33 and you could create a situation where you develop atrial fibrillation. I have never heard of this ever congestive heart failure even in the absence of any pre-existing risk factors. A lack of sleep is another major concern. A new survey found adults on average lose 39 minutes of sleep per night over the holidays and if you're hosting a holiday party prepare to get even less shut eye. Party hosts reported sleeping up to 83 minutes less than usual on their party night. All contributing factors that doctors warn could spoil the holiday fun if you don't make time to take care of yourself. It could spoil your holiday fun if you fall down dead from a heart attack. Thank you, ABC.

1:42:16 Australia has an even more egregious way of communicating that you just might die, you just might be unlucky, but it's not from anything that you put into yourself. No, no. A Santa visit is part of the Christmas tradition for many families. One health expert says he's promoting unhealthy eating habits unless he loses a few belt sizes. And I'm calling for a healthier representation of such an iconic figure which is Father Christmas. Doctor says obesity shouldn't be celebrated at a time when so many people overindulge. Statistics show that there is a significant increase of heart attack and fizzes to the ER during this period of the year. We should not associate this wonderful, joyful time of the year with the need of overeating. An idea professional Santas are losing their hats over. So don't be fat because you can die from a heart attack. But they're conflating it with Santa. Santa's a bad example because he's fat.

1:43:21 I'm so tired of this. What firewood might tell us about the economy right now. In Europe, people are stockpiling firewood as energy bills soar. In Germany, the price of firewood has risen 86% in a year. In Bulgaria, it's nearly doubled. Even in Switzerland, where inflation is relatively tame, the cost of firewood rose 26% in one month. Across Europe, people are bracing for energy shortages this winter as tensions over the war in Ukraine disrupt Russian gas supplies. Trump tried to warn Germany, but they just laughed him off. Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy.

1:44:13 if it does not immediately change course. Other wood products are being impacted too. The cost of toilet paper has spiraled as the energy required to cook wood pulp becomes more expensive. High demand for wood isn't just an economic issue. Relaxation of logging laws has led to environmental protests in Hungary. Higher wood prices could lead to illegal logging and over-harvesting and a shortage of timber for building. Burning wood also emits more particle pollution than road traffic and more CO2 than fossil fuels. Even so, it seems firewood will help tackle Europe's energy shortages this winter and nudge it closer to energy independence from Russia. Bloomberg suggests lap cats, quilts, and brisk walks to stay warm and make the best of a bad situation.

1:45:14 As we journey into the Great Reset, just know that your unelected overlords at the World Economic Forum are working tirelessly to create energy equity where everyone is equally coal. How is your country handling the energy crisis? Reporting for the Great Reset, I'm the Tyrannical Lisp. This is how out of touch and stupid these people are. Nancy Pelosi was, and I'm just really negative on the on the representatives here in the United States. Yeah, Merry Christmas. Yeah, Merry Christmas indeed. In fact, Nancy Pelosi wished everybody, of all denominations, all face a merry...

1:45:54 festivals a merry holiday season a happy holiday season as she left the the chair of Speaker of the House did our fabulous Catholic Speaker of the House even say say the word Christmas? Let's listen. Strong bipartisan I vote yield back the balance of it my time and which everyone a happy healthy and safe New Year happy holidays Merry Christmas happy schwanza happy Hanukkah whatever it is. You talked over it. Merry Christmas happy schwanza happy Hanukkah whatever it is. Happy schwanza?

1:46:31 Are you kidding me? Schwanza is a Kwanzaa for people with big dicks. New Year, happy holidays, Merry Christmas, happy Schwanza, happy Hanukkah, whatever it is you celebrate, be safe. She did say happy Christmas, Merry Christmas, she did throw in a Schwanza. You gotta love the Schwanza. You got the Schwanzas here coming in. This woman is horrible. What an idiot. Oh, goodness. What are you having for Christmas meal? What are you guys having? Well, everyone's having Christmas scatter around. We're having a true Christmas will be around January 12th.

1:47:16 No, that's right. It's gonna turn out to be around the January 1st. Oh, okay. But we have to have Sontag in at Christmas, so tomorrow, JC and Jesse and Theodore will be over with a three rib roast. Oh, nice. For me. Oh, that's today. I'm sorry. That's today. They'll be over today. Are you ready for them? Make sure you're ready. Make sure you got the three rib. I got a cellar full of wine is I'm always ready. Uh huh. So, uh, they'll be over today for that. And so I have that Mimi will be having, she's up stuck up north cause of the snow. Yeah, of course she did. And so she'll be up there with Eric and the three kids and, uh, uh, and D

1:47:57 And they'll be eating something up there and then Jay and Brennan will be serving a Christmas meal that she's gonna prepare for his relatives. Ah, and are you invited to that with his relatives? I actually am. And you're not gonna go obviously. Well, it's because Jay sees doing something and the show is kind of eating into it because it's gonna be really early so it's not possible. Yeah, well Tina the keeper is cooking up a ham which we got from Nolocheckmeats this year. I'm very excited about that. That'll be delicious. Those guys do good work. They know what they're doing. Yeah, we got some bacon, I got sausage, all kinds of stuff from them. Okay, so that covers the food aspect. Yes, we're done.

1:48:49 Ho ho ho, global citizens! This is Santa Claus! I am checking my list to see who is being naughty or nice according to ESG. The worst punishment will be for the climate change deniers! If you are naughty, do not worry! We will not put a lump of coal in your stocking! Coal is made of carbon, und carbon is verboten by ESG! So we will just take your stocking und your other gifts. You will get nothing and be happy. Another tradition is the leaving of cookies and milk for Santa. These cookies must be 100% vegan and the milk must be soy milk. Under ESG, there will be no more cow milk and of course no more meat. You may also leave for Santa cookies made with the cricket flour and a glass of

1:49:43 Cockroach milk, but even I will not eat this you will eat this maybe not this year Maybe not next year, but we still have plenty of time to implement agenda 2030 So now is the opportunity for giving the hugs exchanging the gifts and eating the ham Make the most of your unsustainable freedom while you still got it. We at the World Economic Forum wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New World Order. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good luck!

1:50:21 You know Clinton and Cosby are Kelly and Colby Weinstein and Spacey and Jared from Subway But do you recall? The most famous rapist of all, Jeffrey Edward Epstein, had an island full of kids, filmed them with politicians for Israeli influence. All of the deep state assets were afraid of his arrest. They didn't want their sex crimes posted to the internet. So on Moggy New York night, the Clinton cartel came. Cameras glitched and the guards napped while Jeffrey Epstein's neck was snapped.

1:51:19 Then all the media coverage said it was a mystery. You're not allowed to protest and we're blaming the Chinese. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. Well that's an enlightening report. Uplifting for Christmas spirit. Your Christmas spirit must be flying high. So along with this, of course we have to... my Christmas spirit is very high.

1:51:59 Well, I find it to be ridiculous. I thought the whole idea was you take the Ozempic so you can chow down. No, no. I think the reason why people are stopping is because otherwise you're throwing up all day. You know, it's like you go to have Christmas dinner. I got to go take a dump. I got to go puke. I don't feel good. Tis the season for holiday feasting. And now some using medications like Ozempic, Mungero and Wegovy for weight loss say they're taking a vacation from the drugs. unpopular opinion in the semiglutide world. Julie Stoll-Kelley, who lost 38 pounds, says she's forgoing the appetite-suppressing semiglutide in favor of feeling less uncomfortably full and fielding fewer questions during festive meals. She skipped her dose during Thanksgiving. What I noticed was I was still able to eat the things that I really wanted to indulge a little bit. I just had to be really conscious about how I was feeling,

1:52:54 What I was eating, how fast I was eating it. For Kaylee Svensson, who lost 90 pounds on Moonjaro, cutting back this time of year is a financial decision. A trade-off to put presents under the tree. It's something that is financially extraordinarily expensive for our family to afford because our insurance isn't covering it. If I can make a box last six weeks instead of four that will save me a couple hundred. I think this, I'll continue in a minute, I think this may be part of the ploy to get this thing on Medicare. Look at these poor people. They can't, they, in order to put presents under the tree. Yeah, they have to sacrifice.

1:53:35 Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas. I know that I had a great Christmas. We had one of the human resources and her boyfriend here. That was great. And I made double dip depression slave stew for the day after Christmas, which everybody loved. If you've never heard of that, it's a no agenda staple. I've published the link to the recipe in the show notes. Of course, the Dvorak family celebrates traditionally on the 29th of December. No, actually, traditionally we actually celebrate on the 1st of January, which was done in the 14th and 15th, or the 15th and 16th century by the Tudors.

1:54:14 They would always do it on the first and we feel this is more traditional. We want we believe in a traditional Christmas So we do our gifts on the first of January and are they doing it all at your place or where's it taking? Yeah, everyone's gonna be here. Oh, that's nice Eric as well as he coming up from SD. No Eric's gonna stay he says they know he snowed in Oh, so you won't be able to come in there. Of course, of course. It's in South Dakota. Oh my goodness. He's starting to talk like South Dakota. Oh really? He's doing that now? No, not yet, but it's coming. I have to put my glasses on. Yeah, you can put your glasses on and look at the mic. It's the Christmas miracle. Now wait a minute, before you play it, we've had

1:54:56 Animal stories. Yes. We've had people stories. Babies in tornadoes. We have everything so far but we haven't had this kind of Christmas miracle. The holidays had a rocky start for the Hansons but getting their car back just in time for Christmas they say is the best gift they could ask for. We got the news that it was stolen right after Thanksgiving. The only thing worse than having your car stolen is having it happen around the holidays. So it was gut-wrenching. Matt and Christy Hansen loved their 1995 Acura Integra so much they invested $18,000 and were storing it for their son. But their plans vanished when it was stolen from a body shop on November 29th. It would be the best Christmas miracle.

1:55:40 And that was one of the things that she had said that it would really be a Christmas miracle and make their Christmas if they were able to find their car. Travis Christensen saw the story on KSL, but no one could imagine what happened next. It was like a needle in a haystack. On a work drive, Travis spotted the car tucked behind a building in Taylorsville. I got a closer look at the car and thought, man, this really looks like the car. And so I was able to go and dig up the KSL article. He messaged me. I think I found your car. He sent some pictures. I couldn't believe it. He didn't want any of our reward money. He was just happy to get our car back. It felt really good to be a part of that and help get that car back to them so they could drive it and enjoy it and continue to make memories with it. Travis knows firsthand what it's like to have a car stolen, making this experience that much better. It's a really fun story to be a part of. This is another chapter in this car's story.

1:56:37 As for the Hansons, they plan to pay it forward. I think it's a reminder that we can help other people more than we know. Now as you heard, Travis isn't interested in that monetary reward, but he says he really wants to take a picture with the family and of course the red Acura. I'm going to make a case L5 news. Isn't that nice? You could have cut it down by 30 seconds. As long as it's under two minutes, I'm good with it. Well, it was a nice miracle. A Christmas miracle. It's a Christmas miracle. The Red Acura is back. Oh, I'm so happy. A good news story from JCD. Happy vibes for you and me. And we all feel better now he's done his bit. So back to reality, that's turning to shit. Yay! Good news, everybody.

1:57:36 Coming down the mountain and broadcasting live from the heart of Da Vinci's hometown here in Florence, Italy. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And I'm from northern Silicon Valley where it's wet. I'm John C. Dvorak. Really? That's all you got? It's just wet. It's just wet everybody. I thought you were going to be in Amsterdam. No, I was in Amsterdam the first day and then we're now we're in Florence because we're here for Christmas. And I understood that you were going to go to right to Italy and to do whatever it was you're doing and then go to Amsterdam and do the show there. Well, you have it exactly backwards now, don't you? Obviously. Now we went to Amsterdam first to do some stuff there. And then we went to Italy for my brother-in-law's 60th birthday. And we're staying. We're going to be here for Christmas. That's that's what's going on. I can't. How did how could you get that so wrong?

1:58:32 I have no idea. It's unbelievable. So we almost didn't make it tonight for the show, which was rather exciting. Well, this is going to be an interesting story. Maybe not. This is the happy holidays clip. I have some commentary. You're starting with talk clips right off the bat? All my clips are talk clips. This is hurting the show. Wishing people a Merry Christmas when you don't know what holiday they celebrate is sort of like wishing someone a happy birthday when you don't know when their birthday is. Like, yeah, I get the sentiment, but you're a little off. It's neither here or there, but I get a kick out of the people who insist on saying Merry Christmas instead of just saying Happy Holidays. Happy Holidays, everybody. We're back to this again. We still haven't figured this one out. We can't say Merry Christmas. But here's the question on my mind. When is 4th of July? That's a holiday. Yes.

1:59:30 Do we say happy holidays? No, we say happy 4th of July or happy Independence Day. It's Veterans Day. Yeah, but hold on a second. This year, I saw your newsletter, you know, we still celebrate important things like Kwanzaa. and Festivus and? Kwanzaa is not a holiday. And Hanukkah started on the same? Hanukkah is not a holiday. There's no, you don't take, there's no federal time off for Hanukkah. There's no federal time off for Kwanzaa. I see what you're getting at. You're getting at the holiday part. So what, so if you say happy holiday, like say yesterday or today, what are you referring to? Why don't you enlighten me?

2:00:20 You're referring to Christmas. Yes, so why don't you say Merry Christmas or Happy Christmas? Because it's Christmas we're talking about here because when New Year comes knowing that's another holiday You don't say happy you don't say hey you say Happy New Year. I say Happy Holidays during New Year Why is it only Christmas? You know this issue comes up because there's a hatred of Christians explanation On the 12th day of Christmas, no agenda gave to me. 12 years before extinction. The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. We're all gonna die! 11 jingles jingled. Someone's getting cornholed today. Yum! Boom boom! So good to eat! Oh my god! That is amazing! This is a bunch of scumbags! Can you see that juice? That's true. That trick's false. 33.

2:01:16 That's a magic number. Nine Trump rotations. Narcissist. Mean. Long ties. Insane. Tweets too much. Small hands, small penis, big red button. Criminal. Eight glitches reported. Glitch. Glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch. Seven Obamas knowing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Six foamers foaming. Oh my god! Oh yeah! I'll see you at the football! Yeah! See you Mike! Five emotional support goats. Four job commas. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Three John's chair squeakings. Two little grilliers. Yay! Yay!

2:02:04 And an hour shot in dealer's choice. Is this crown hog day too? Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas. Well, well, well, Sir Donald Winkler, you have deserved your executive producer credits. Actually, we've got producer producer credit. Yeah, yeah, that's the big which is curiously and in the biz That's more valuable than executives the executive producer is that you know exec is a suit. Yeah Yeah, you want to be a producer and you are one sir Donald Winkler We appreciate that a night a night jumping into you know, I actually sent a really nose and he said nice note He said

2:02:50 ever since COVID, haven't been able to support you with much treasure, so I'm really happy I can contribute this way. And that's exactly... Oh, that's nice. Yeah, that's how value for value works, and we live by it, and we die by it. So remember to support us at noagendadonations.com. We will return on Sunday's show with a fresh new brand perspective on everything. That was a lot of good stuff. That was a lot of good stuff. Until then, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Christmas Central in Fredericksburg, Texas. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're having, you know, we're getting a little rain finally. I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Sunday. See you then. And remember us at noagendadonations.com. Adios, mofos! Ahoy, hoy! And such. No Agenda Christmas

2:03:53 John and Adam To all the producers and douchebags of Gidmore Nation Hallelujah And thank you for your courage The best podcast in the universe! Hopeful. Dvorak.org slash N-A. Merry Christmas, you filthy perverts.