Episode 982 · Thursday, 16 November 2017

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A wave of sexual misconduct allegations hits Capitol Hill while the Zimbabwean military ends the decades-long rule of Robert Mugabe during a week of global upheaval.

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Senator Al Franken faces immediate calls for resignation after Los Angeles radio host Leanne Tweeden released a photograph of the lawmaker groping her during a 2006 USO tour. The scandal erupts as Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Senator Claire McCaskill expose a culture of systemic harassment on Capitol Hill, where $16 million in taxpayer funds has quietly settled 260 misconduct claims over the last decade.

In Zimbabwe, the 37-year rule of 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe ends abruptly as the military initiates a coup and places the leader under house arrest. Back in the United States, the FDA approves the first digital pill featuring an ingestible sensor to track patient compliance, while the NSA faces a catastrophic security breach as the Shadow Brokers group leaks sensitive source code. Meanwhile, entrepreneur Mark Cuban advocates for rapid AI adoption despite predicted job displacement, and Nigel Farage demands an investigation into George Soros and his alleged influence over 226 members of the European Parliament.

President Donald Trump draws mockery for his squirrel-like grip on a water bottle during a national address, sparking a debate on his known germaphobia. In Florida, a resident fights property managers to keep a designated emotional support squirrel, highlighting the bizarre evolution of service animal regulations and the rise of the fur children phenomenon.


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CHAPTER 01 / 44 Discussion

California Weather Cycles, Global Warming Skepticism

The hosts discuss the current rainy season in Northern Silicon Valley and California, comparing it to weather patterns from the 1970s. They argue that the climate operates in cycles rather than being driven by global warming, noting that reservoirs are being filled and drained repeatedly.

california· silicon valley· global warming· reservoirs· drought· weather cycles

00:00 Politeness is dead. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. And it's Thursday November 16th 2017 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 982! This...is no agenda Roping and groping like Al! And broadcasting live from downtown Austin-Tejas, Capo de Drones Star State in the 5x9 Cluedio. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where it's raining like cats and dogs and will continue to do so all winter just like last year. I'm John C. DeVore It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Finally you got some crappy weather

00:37 Yeah, it'll be this way the whole winter. This happened in the 70s. You know the problem with all this global warming guys is... Only you would know that but yes okay what's the problem with all these global warms? It cycles and cycles and cycles! And we had the same thing it was one year it snowed And then the next year it snowed again. And then the third year, which was pretty close to being like the other two years maybe a little colder It almost snowed but didn't snow and hasn't snowed since But we have these pops of three years between these drought periods This time it's just been pouring rain starting last year of course Filled up all the reservoirs that will take hundreds of years to fill They filled them up so much they had to drain em

01:24 Vote those people out man get moonbeam. I think it's gonna happen again this year They're gonna fill the reservoirs up, and they're gonna drain them you guys got weird weird Thoughts out there man. It's a cycle Yeah, well the moon beam cycle is back for the second time yeah There's this guy that guy yeah? Well, I could not be happier today John what a great day for humanity What a great tag for a day four hashtag me too What happened? Ah, this is not a full complete report but at least it's a clip to get us going. Good morning everyone I'm Sue Herrera here's your CNBC News update at this hour Los Angeles radio host Leanne Tweeden says Democratic Senator Al Franken forcibly kissed her during a 2006 USO tour skit and then posed for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she slept. Franken releasing a statement in which he apologized to her saying

CHAPTER 02 / 44 Discussion

Senator Al Franken, Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Los Angeles radio host Leanne Tweeden accused Democratic Senator Al Franken of forcibly kissing and groping her during a 2006 USO tour. A photograph showing Franken posing with his hands on Tweeden's breasts while she slept has surfaced, leading to calls for his resignation.

al franken· leanne tweeden· uso tour· sexual harassment· predator

02:23 Remember this kid in the same way and said he shouldn't have groped her in the photo Lies don't believe By the way, I love this so much you get started with this show is gonna rock cuz just you get clip of today right off the bat Yeah, the show's gonna rock for sure baby Now that now that makes me laugh. It's very funny and I'm like, oh, money is a jury. And you got it being the picture right now? You gotta take a look at it. You gotta see just do Franken touching Leanne. That's all you need when because it was at a USO

03:11 I don't know if they were in Af- I think they were in Afghanistan. And, uh... So you know she was just there to kind of announce everybody She's a... I think a race does sports radio Sports talk radio I think and she's cute And so Franken was there, it's nice that he was there for you know to entertain the troops. And he had written some sketches and one of these sketches included him kissing her and he insisted that they rehearse this! And during rehearsal he kissed her and stuck his tongue in her mouth What is it with guys doing that? There's a picture of him she's got the helmet on Yes yes she's asleep She's asleep That's the worst kind of predator

03:51 Yeah, oh good. I mean and i know he's probably not a well yeah he did forcibly force himself on her so yes He's a predator yeah i would say he's got to be voted out yeah you should go on permanent vacation guys i think he was one of the although he wasn't one of the loud mouths about the whole thing You know he's like a big shot he's like to press people for one thing or another this is yeah good Well it appears that he's a senator And we missed this somehow it came out the same time as the helper in revelations What's his name again? The news guy yeah, how help her and Journalist members journal can't remember his first name David David Halperin. I think it is I don't think so no helper So and was he removed from duty has he been taken off the air oh yeah, all right well

CHAPTER 03 / 44 Discussion

Me Too Congress, Capitol Hill Sexual Harassment

Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Senator Claire McCaskill share personal accounts of sexual harassment within the federal government. Statistics indicate that 40% of female congressional staffers view harassment as a major problem, prompting calls for mandatory training and reform of the complaint process.

jackie speier· claire mccaskill· capitol hill· sexual harassment· me too movement

04:44 This came out two weeks ago around the same, maybe a little bit longer. Mark there you go Maybe it was a little bit longer ago but somehow it didn't catch my attention I didn't see a lot of news about it this is happening in your House of Representatives Now the Me Too movement has caught fire on Capitol Hill Many of us... This is Jackie Speier Congresswoman from California Congress know what its like because Congress has been a breeding ground for hostile work environment for far too long. California congresswoman Jackie Speier launching Me Too Congress, urging lawmakers and staffers to speak out by sharing her own story So I know what it's like to keep these things hidden deep down inside

05:27 I know what it's like to lie awake in bed at night wondering if i was the one who had done something wrong. She is not alone, Senator Claire McCaskill says as a young state legislator she asked an older male colleague for help his advice he said well did you bring your knee pads? I do think he was joking but it was shocking that he would make that joke to a colleague A recent survey found that 40% of female congressional staffers cite sexual harassment as a problem on Capitol Hill. One in six female aides said they experienced sexual harassment in their offices, but unlike many workplaces on the hill there is no mandatory sexual harassment training to file a complaint victims must go through counseling mediation and cooling off period before filing illegal claim

06:22 All while working in the very same environment where the alleged harassment took place. Now I believe I saw some announcement... They have new rules that they've put through the house, and I did not check those so this may have been- No they're pushing-they're pushing this through. I have a complete report Ah can I just play this one quickie then? Sure Uh This is-oh shoot It looks like I did a Dvorak here. I deleted the wrong bit damn it Well, well, I'll tell you what the clip was no you can't play that it was very short apparently These when there's like when a complaint comes in and there's a financial settlement The US government pays for it yes this is my report okay? What you got here me to one

CHAPTER 04 / 44 Discussion

Congressional Settlement Transparency, Taxpayer Funded Payouts

A new bill aims to eliminate mandatory non-disclosure agreements and secret settlements for members of Congress accused of sexual misconduct. Reports indicate that $16 million in taxpayer funds has been used to settle 260 harassment claims over the last decade.

congress· financial settlements· transparency· taxpayer money· non-disclosure agreements

07:10 Yeah. It happened to one staffer dropping off research at a member's home and the young staffer is a young woman went there and was greeted with a member in a towel, it was a male who then invited her in at that point he decided to expose himself she left and then she quit her job tonight some lawmakers want names well I think it's good to get this stuff out name them Just get it out, lay it out. These guys, everyone knows who these guys are. Nobody says their names but Lindsey Graham to say that means they're Democrats Of course it does! He wouldn't say if it was his buddies Of course not Anyway Onward Currently victims go through 30 days of mandatory counseling sign a non-disclosure agreement undergo thirty days of mediation and a month long cooling off period That by the way is just ridiculous I mean what a...

08:14 If you remember the clip we had from the woman that was kicked out of Fox, The Blonde. I can't remember her name. Greta? Oh no! No, no, no...I know what you mean. The one who sued and started this whole thing What was her name again? With Roger Ailes accusation Yeah, and all the rest of it. She's the one who triggered the whole thing I think every time I count on Marsha no, it's no No, she does not her know why I can't think of it But anyway so right now not great enough. Okay said that again. Sorry You Anyway, the point is that this is common throughout. It's like an industry practice that the Congress adopted but this new bill they're trying to push through will end it and I think it's going to be very difficult for anyone to vote against this. Let's go on to the rest

09:03 But a new bill would make counseling and mediation optional, allow anonymous complaints and eliminate those non-disclosure agreements. would also mean big changes for accused lawmakers who settle harassment claims? David, this new bill aims to beef up transparency and accountability. If a lawmaker settles the claim they would be named publicly and they would have to pay that settlement out of their own pocket. David... Whoa! So the American... That won't happen?! Wait a minute John I'm so sorry

CHAPTER 05 / 44 Discussion

Gretchen Carlson, Forced Arbitration Clauses

Gretchen Carlson highlights how forced arbitration and non-disclosure agreements protect predators while ending the careers of victims. The discussion focuses on how these legal mechanisms prevent the public from learning about systemic harassment in corporate and political environments.

gretchen carlson· fox news· arbitration· sexual harassment· settlements

09:41 I forgot to play the jingle for the segment. And now it's time for your sexual harassment update We have no women jingles, i'm very happy with Michelle's work here Now, it's Gretchen Carlson. Ah! Yes there you go And she had discussed this... You may even still have the clip She discussed this problem of the non-disclosures and all the rest which really does have to go I think nondisclosure should be illegal Here is the clip Over 90% of sexual harassment cases end up in settlements and what does that mean? That means that the woman pretty much never works in her chosen career ever again

10:23 She can never talk about it. She's gagged Now how else do we solve sexual harassment suits? We put in arbitration clauses and employment contracts which make it a secret proceeding So again, nobody ever finds out about if you file a complaint You can never talk about it...EVER Nobody EVER knows what happened to you And in most cases your also terminated from the company and the predator In many cases is left to still work! In the same position he was harassing you So this is the way our society has decided to resolve sexual harassment cases, to gag women so that we can fool everyone else out there that we've come so far in 2017. Yeah! The fish rots at the head.

11:13 My goodness. But the thing that got me about that little report is the $16 million were paid for 260 cases within Congress, staffers and congressmen and all the rest over the last decade. $60 million of taxpayer money! Yeah, that is unbelievable. It's scandalous. We should absolutely name in shame And they should pay it back! That's really, really... I keep my eye on the franken. You made a prediction on the last show and someone shared this-I think you might have seen it was on Twitter again calling us from the future This is the uh what is this? The World University of Higher Education Timeshighereducation.com Are you familiar with that? No It's an educational website

CHAPTER 06 / 44 Discussion

Sexual Misconduct in Academia and Media Booking

The sexual misconduct scandal expands into academia and the media booking industry, with NBC News dismissing executive Matt Zimmerman for inappropriate conduct. Long-standing rumors regarding John Travolta and Al Gore are also mentioned in the context of the broader cultural shift.

academia· matt zimmerman· nbc news· john travolta· sexual misconduct

12:13 And the title is, the headline... Is there a culture of denial around sexual misconduct in academia? Five scholars offer their views. Now I'm not going to read the whole thing but you can guess what's in there Oh yeah! It's on the way Yeah, it's on the way. But I forgot there was going to be a stopover and I'm not gonna have the clip before or not but the stopover seems to be which i mentioned in the newsletter at The Hollywood Agents Which you kind of hinted that because we did note that it was though It was the women setting people up for Harvey Weinstein were largely casting directors female Casting directors who knew what was going on? And they were pushing

12:56 people onto him, towards him. Well listen to this because it may not just be the casting director but maybe an environment or a milieu. This came out two days ago NBC dismisses news executive for misconduct this is Matt Zimmerman senior vice president for booking who worked in the company's news division And he, NBC News recently learned he engaged in inappropriate conduct with more than one woman at NBCU which violated company policy the company said in a statement referring to NBCUniversal. As a result, he has been dismissed." Didn't hear that on MSNBC did you? Gee... No they failed to mention it. So could be kind of the Booker environment

13:43 Which is still a version of show business just because it's news and politics doesn't mean it's not show business. Well, you know I'm booking as a... Booking as the two-way street for one thing it's hard to get people booked and you don't know how many guys are out there doing or women who are doing the booking by saying yeah maybe oh yeah I think I can book on this if you do me a favor but you'll know how much that's going on Yeah! I think a lot Probably. It's not like it's new John Travolta now being accused, like we hadn't heard this for years For years! Especially with the masseuse Well that and remember the picture of him grabbing some guy and grabbing his head and kissing him on the tarmac? Yep That went around... Well that was-that was his boyfriend I think that was a-that was his lover But this was the masseuse 21 year old masseuse And he was really inappropriate with him Aaaaand uh

CHAPTER 07 / 44 Discussion

Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Campaign Tease

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on the Today Show to discuss the future of the Democratic Party and the concerns of the middle class regarding AI and automation. His performance and body language suggest he is preparing for a 2020 presidential run.

joe biden· today show· 2020 election· middle class· digitalization

14:38 I'm still waiting for Al Gore. How come no one talks about him? The horny portal. Where's Gore? Yeah, where is Gore? Come on Al! You already got the other Al and we'll nail you down too according to- We already went through an iteration of Al Gore being a creep now why don't we... Yeah, well I can more women are coming forward. Hmm Well according to the Gateway Pundit a former Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Joe Biden To the residents claims the service often had to protect female agents from him Yeah And they were this of course all came out after Biden kind of kicked off his campaign well yes This is all political crap all of it

15:23 Not all of it. This is a lot of it this is for sure that is for sure Yeah, but and but we know Biden has always been kind of a creep because he's always grabbing people and he's yeah inappropriately licking girls Creepy uncle Joe so creepy uncle Joe on November 13th was given the full four hours on today show Oh And he, I have the clip where I believe it's a little long but this is the clip where I believe he almost announced for...I mean he kind of announced for president and then they kinda confirmed it. This was very rehearsed and I wanna play the clip and then I wanna play two moments within the clip that show how it was rehearsed because there's something that nobody in their right mind would actually say the way he said it. It's one of those things with you.

16:13 Well, it's one of those things where you put a bunch of phrases together in such a way that is not making sense if deconstructed. But this is the truth. He was anything Obama was gonna try to scratch and but he's very calm Do you follow him on Twitter or no? I asked him if he followed me on Twitter Alright we've got Kendra here with a question Jamie Oh Jamie Hi Vice President So the 2016 election was for many Democrats a shocking wake-up call. What changes do you think the Democratic Party needs to make in order to be successful in 2018 and 2020? Well, I want to point out but for 172 thousand votes we wouldn't be having this conversation and Hillary got three million more votes. I'm not saying he didn't win. He won fair and square by the electoral college it makes sense so but there was no landslide here number one. Number two

17:04 I'm referred to in Washington the last 25 years as middle class Joe. It's not meant as a compliment, it means that i am not sophisticated but uh... um... i think there is real reason why a lot of middle-class people are legitimately concerned with digitalization, artificial intelligence whether there are going to be jobs in the future. I spoke at the World Economic Forum and was asked to speak about the fourth industrial revolution and will there be middle class jobs? And so for example i was talking one of the staff guys here today a cameraman about truck drivers and a guy who is a cameraman always wanted to be a truck driver he's driving an 18-wheeler now

17:45 A lot of those guys are wondering whether they're going to have a job in two, five, ten, twelve years. Are they going to be able make a living? So people are out there worried and we don't talk enough to them. My dad used to have an expression he said I don't expect the federal government or the government to solve my problems but expect them to understand it. And i think that our answers... In this last election what happened was because it was such a mosh pit in terms of Hillary's inability not her she tried but to get To get the message out about the middle class about what she was going to do about education What she was gonna do about child care what she's gonna. Do about these things And and and the middle classes I think we have to respond and let them know there is significant Hope we're better positioned than any nation in the world

18:32 to own the 21st century. No, we really are! That's not hyperbole and so I just think that we have to speak more directly to the legitimate concerns of the middle class black white Asian it's not just white high school educated guys and women its across-the-board on that note when you have run out of time for this segment just an informal poll real quickly does it sound like he's running raise your hand If you missed it, he just did the sign of the cross. Former Vice President Joe Biden. Vice President Biden, it's a pleasure to have you here. Thanks. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. He is going to be back along with his wife Dr. Jill Biden. Okay? That's the beginning of the end for him that's when all this stuff began I mean it's not that it's not true and he's not a creep but he would have fared better I think if he would've held off a little bit but now it's too bad yeah let's listen to a couple wrong time frame for him to do that

CHAPTER 08 / 44 Discussion

Joe Biden Scripted Performance, Rehearsed Anecdotes

An analysis of Joe Biden's recent media appearances suggests his stories and emotional appeals are heavily rehearsed and scripted. The hosts point to specific verbal tics and interruptions as evidence that his "middle class Joe" persona is a calculated political performance.

joe biden· promise me dad· rhetoric· scripted speech· political theater

19:37 Yeah, he's made a mistake here. He signaled it too early and now he is the target and you can see that he is going to be wiped out but let us listen to a couple of ISOs here. You can see he almost, I think he almost memorized pretty much all of this that is a little spiel of his. And i'm sure if you hear him someplace else will be here a lot of the same stuff but he throws his dad thing in which kind of irks me because yeah it just does it in a way that is unnatural and just as though its dropped in for reasons well that ice over the dead story better position than any nation to own the one sorry may not know one says daddy

20:24 Yeah, got it. Sorry. He'll make a living so people are out there worried and we don't talk enough to them My dad used to have an expression said I don't expect the federal government or the government To solve my problems expecting to understand it he drops of worry cuts right in the middle of the word I thought that was you that was him Yes! Hold on, let me listen again. Make a living so people are out there worried and we don't talk enough to them my dad used to have an expression he said I don't expect the federal government or the government to solve my problems but expect them to understand it There's no edit there That's... what is he saying?

21:00 I don't know. Because he cut himself off from one thought and he clicked into thought number two where we had to do this dad anecdote, and i'm not sure what the point of that was because it would seem to be artificially inserted as if The federal government, I don't know. You know that he also wrote a book called Promise Me Dad which was about his son who died. That said he promised you'd run for president? Yes yeah so maybe it's a tie-in to that. I have no idea but it was very poorly executed but the worst is this other example which is the 21st century example listen carefully to this better position than any nation in the world to own the twenty first century No we really are! That's not hyperbole

21:44 And so I just think that we have to speak more directly to the legitimate concerns of the middle class, black white. Own the 21st century. Well here's the problem with what he just did He says, we're going to own the 21st century. No! We really are as if somebody is disagreeing with him or as if somebody is arguing when nothing cropped up he just jammed it together as if he's interrupting something. Ah okay so that...so that is..he was ready for the interruption and didn't come There was none because for one thing he's so nervous he ran the...he ran it so tight

22:20 It wasn't even a moment that like if it was a sitcom, they'd be wait for applause. Yeah He maybe needs up his dosage Well here I have an example of this is this is like this is me doing the same thing? I'm gonna do I'm going to as as if I had memorized the script and I'm gonna be on this show talking like this and tell me it's a nut doesn't sound a little weird. I've been thinking about making some changes to the show no, i'm serious don't interrupt me It's something I have to say my dad once said two becomes three and three becomes four I'm not sure why you'd objected this just hear me out are you saying he's a robot? Well that's there's some robotic aspect of something where your You're assuming Like the writers do this all the time And I've always I find to be one of the more offensive things to do

23:08 And I really avoid it, which is assuming you know what the reader's thinking. Yeah and so you'll say... You'll make a statement and then you say no really? Oh yeah! No kidding! As if the person is thinking this not a good thing but you don't know what the readers ever thinking right So you should never make these sorts of assumptions and the way Biden approaches this It indicates to me that this is rehearsed, previously written. And he's executing it very poorly. He's dropping words, he's cutting in the middle of sentences all because it's a script." I wonder if he's doing this under his own power or if he has backing? Well, he's not being backed by Soros. Yeah we'll get to that. We both have the same clip.

CHAPTER 09 / 44 Discussion

Mark Cuban, AI Job Displacement Debate

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban argues that increased immigration and the adoption of artificial intelligence are essential for economic growth. He predicts significant job displacement in the next decade, particularly in data management and manufacturing, through his investments in companies like Hierobotics.

mark cuban· artificial intelligence· immigration· automation· robotics

23:59 He might get a lot of competition from the possible Republican contender, Mark Cuban who is dumber than a sack of bricks. Listen to this he was on a panel with this is I think a Reuters panel with an economist and he's debating artificial intelligence and jobs and immigration you know here's the fact there's a quickest way to get stronger growth if we want stronger growth sustained stronger growth we increase immigration. We have, instead of a million immigrants come into the country every year which adds half... By the way that is conventional thinking sadly ...a point to growth every year we have two million immigrants which is precisely the legislation that got through the Senate back in 2013 to double and I you know we should invite the best and brightest to come and stay here for sure Look can you stop for a second? If that logic is true

24:55 Since we have 11 million illegal immigrants minimum at the point where people were really starting to complain, it was also exactly the point of the economy. It was really just going nowhere fast so if that's true how come we're not just in boom times? Wow now you pose an interesting question Well I'm sure one of the other journalists there did the same thing No They asked that question There were no journos asking questions Some British guy was hosting the forum here for sure And they would come, because this is the best place on the planet to do business. Part of the challenge there though and this brings up political reality is I'm a believer that artificial intelligence is going to have significant disruption or create significant disruption in the workforce. But it jumps, no jumps! It goes all robots Well its not robots necessarily but people who just

25:47 Deal with data in scheduling and moving things around what is that? AI is going to take over jobs for people who do scheduling and move things around Wow, yeah that sounds great those jobs are gone in five to ten years. I'll take the other side of that Let's write it down I'll take it. You're taking the other side of that? Oh, yeah. Our biggest problem is not too much productivity growth. Our problem today is too little productivity growth. I'm just telling you Mark that when I talk to large corporations, the projections are 30% fewer employees now maybe as entrepreneurs can pick up the slack. And over the long run, I think that happens and historically that's what happened but in the short run we have seen significant disruptions particularly in industries and particularly with lower hanging fruit. And I think you're going to see that again. Hey! That is really good Mark You should go out on the road and say I'll protect a lower hanging fruit They will feel real happy about it Really Great What a moron And what he talking? I think he was talking about women jobs

26:50 You know, secretarial work. Yeah you're going to be eliminated women! I do not like him. Every company that I invest in, every startup that I invested in the ultimate payoff is in replacement. I just invested in a company in Nashville called Hierobotics and all they do is place robots and manufacturing lines now there's still people need to manage them so people need to track them and all that but The companies at least these robots don't do it because its less effective or less productive Get your message straight Mark You're going nowhere with this

27:53 Well, I don't know what he's thinking because it has to just be a goal. They felt that way with Trump. It has to be a publicity stunt but he doesn't have the uh He doesn't have like a defined personality like trump did it could be taken further than just like these not yeah And he's not appeal in fact. He's just the opposite of appealing his unappealing at a very Generalize that in a very quick in my core. He's heard the unappealing at the level of my core is where I don't like him Yeah, I've heard enough about him. I know it's not might not my kind of guy There was some thought I think that That will maybe

28:35 This is the political class dreaming this stuff up. They don't know what they're doing because they've been so befuddled by the Trump phenomenon, and they think well maybe there's a sea change and only celebrities like Trump are gonna get elected again. And there was this moment in history when Ronald Reagan was governor of California we had another actor who is US Senator. I forgot his name George something and he was a famous actor elected once or twice. And it was like everyone's thinking, well maybe we just get actors to be congressmen and that never crapped out is this not everybody has the skill set to do any of this stuff

CHAPTER 10 / 44 Discussion

Roy Moore, Alabama Senate Race Allegations

Judge Roy Moore faces allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenagers from four decades ago. His campaign has questioned the authenticity of a signed yearbook presented as evidence, while some Republicans consider supporting a write-in candidate for the Alabama Senate seat.

roy moore· alabama· washington post· yearbook· write-in candidate

29:18 And this brings us to the topic of the day, which I have only one very short clip of just because I find the whole conversation annoying. We're being called out as protecting pedophiles for even discussing this on the show about Moore... what is his name? Judge Moore. Yeah, Judge Moore Yeah. You know, 40 years ago this comes up now just like Franken, just like everybody it's a human when when this is misused for political means nobody really wins But there was one piece of a clip here that I wanted to play. It does kind of show you how the machine works, this is a recording of a WAPO, trying to get the dirt on Moore.

30:10 Seems pretty damning to me. Is that recording legit? I don't know Well that's been the rumor about this whole thing is they've been headhunting it. They've been offering a bounty to get any woman to come forward so you're gonna get some phonies, you're gonna get some false positives there's no doubt about that and there's a couple of... I got more thing here This is legit It's probably just it's probably a hoax

30:57 It could be a hoax. Yeah, probably but that's the but that is the rumor that's going around I'm looking now it so I would I would tend to think it's a hoax But just because the recordings of hooks doesn't mean although WAPA wouldn't offer money for a story III that I just can't believe No, they're not dead hard up Somebody else might offer money to give it to the WAPO. Somebody else might offer money, somebody running against Moore and then tell them to call the WAPO who's working on a story that much more likely. But let's listen to this little tidbit. This is a small sub clip of a longer story on Moore because I find this whole thing it's kind of weird but Judge Moore FRACA CBS

31:39 The Roy Moore for Senate campaign took on one of the women accusing him of sexual assault. Aides raised doubts about handwriting evidence that appeared to show Moore knew the woman when she was a teenager and still more accusers are coming forward Dean Reynolds is in Birmingham Alabama And I've known Judge Moore for 24 years. When these allegations came out within the last week, it was incredibly, incredibly painful for him, for his wife and mom Aides to embattled Republican Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore tried to cast doubts today on at least one of the women who've accused him of lecherous behavior when they were teenagers. Attorney Philip Jeregi said the accuser, Beverly Young Nelson was not telling the truth about her contact with the judge and that her evidence assigned yearbook greeting from the judge may well be a forgery. Release the yearbook so that we can determine is it genuine

32:37 Or is it a fraud? Late today, a statewide news agency reported two more women had issues with Moore. One who said he grabbed her in 1991 when he was married while the other said he tried to take her out in 1982 when she was in high school When she asked Moore if he knew she was only 17 She says he replied yeah I go out with girls your age all the time They joined three women who've said Moore, then in his 30s pursued them four decades ago along with Nelson and another woman who further alleged that he assaulted them. Moore has said those charges are false In the week since the accusation surfaced more has steadily lost support from Republicans Who don't want him as a colleague on Capitol Hill even Richard Shelby Alabama's other Republican senator will vote for someone else

33:27 Be writing in a distinguished Republican. Yeah, I keep hearing about this right in stuff what's up with that? Well, they're gonna probably start a writing campaign in the last minute and try to get every Republican to get the word out. I mean this has worked in the past at that level when Lisa Murkowski won the Alaskan senatorial election as a write-in candidate at the last minute she was kicked she was booted by the Tea Party candidate And it got everybody all bent out of shape because her base of support that allowed her to get reelected year after year was boast parties. It was the Democrats and Republicans, so you could gang up on the Republican side and make it look like a stooge and get... So they did, they bounced her. And she got irked about it and ran as a writing candidate and won!

CHAPTER 11 / 44 Discussion

High School Yearbook Culture, Signature Authenticity

The hosts discuss the American tradition of high school yearbooks and the social protocols of signing them. They express skepticism regarding the Roy Moore yearbook evidence, questioning why a man in his 30s would have signed a student's book in that specific manner.

yearbooks· high school· journalism· signatures· social customs

34:18 So this can happen, this can work. But the thing about this particular report is that you could see the pattern here we're seeing it with Hillary, we see it with that no agenda quote that was floating around Twitter where You said that you were waiting for the next shoe to drop and I said there's already five shoes that have dropped. Talking about Hillary, and that's what they do. One comes out then two then three and then they wait to see what happens. The guy doesn't bail. Then another one, another one, another one... And they keep doing this but this yearbook thing is when it kind of gets... They won't let anyone examine this yearbook. Okay, I was in high school

34:57 I have high school yearbooks. I know how this works, you're in high school you got your yearbook they hand out the yearbooks and you go around... By the way this is a phenomenon that is only known in America as far as I'm concerned so we probably should explain it little more in depth As far as you know Yeah I've been around And I just say as far as you know It's not matter whether you are concerned or not The point is that you, I can tell you what the process is. You get the yearbooks, you usually have them at school that day and then you pass them around everyone passes them around in each class and everyone signs something or it makes a joke or write something and maybe they sign it maybe they don't put a heart over their eyes and stuff like that. Did you do that? A heart over your eyes?

35:43 No, people did that on mine. There's a lot of girls that put hearts over their eyes in high school. John Charles! He so dirty. And let me finish... So what is a 30-40 year old guy doing signing the yearbook? I never had my parents sign the yearbook. boy or whatever, I wouldn't have... They got nothing to do with it. They're not in the class they're not in the school It's about the classes but the school is not about some stranger and it's not about my aunt you know Betsy grabbing my yearbook and writing that thing in there She has got nothing to do with her This is bullshit More importantly Do you still have any of your yearbooks? Of course I do

36:43 You do. I'm sorry, you're an archivist. What am I thinking? I don't have a single yearbook never got one never attended the school that had one missed out if you didn't go to American high schools now I know it was part of the journalism classes I don't know how these things began but it was the journalism yeah in the journal and all these schools I don't know what is like today but in those days You could be on the school newspaper if you had any interest in journalism, or you could be on the school yearbook committee which was also a bunch of journalists because they wrote all this stuff that's in there. They're the ones who organized it and decided what pictures to go with it. It was all done at the school level by students and that's...it was a project then did you ended up with a book, a published book at the end? I guess great fun to do but yeah, I wasn't a newspaper, never did this yearbook

37:37 And so it was like a process. It was like learning experience for kids to do these things and publishing, but it was very specific to the school. I don't know if I could go through any of my yearbooks and find one person that either wasn't in my class or wasn't in my individual classrooms. Nobody's there. My mom didn't sign it So there's something fishy about that yearbook story. Yeah, again you know when it gets politicized then it's a problem and you would think a guy like this who is clearly an evil child predator would have more examples than just 40 years ago he just gave up on it? It was like ah thats no fun anymore I don't like it

CHAPTER 12 / 44 Discussion

Tom Sizemore, Child Molestation Allegations

Actor Tom Sizemore has been accused of touching an 11-year-old girl during the filming of the movie "Born Killers" in 2003. The accuser, now 26, is pursuing legal options against both Sizemore and her parents for failing to press charges at the time of the incident.

tom sizemore· born killers· utah· legal action· hollywood reporter

38:29 Yeah, they should be. You learn from watching TV that once you get a set in a pattern serial killers are good example it actually gets worse. This guy's out now running he should own a strip club by now hiring underage girls the real underage girl story comes to us via actor Tom Sizemore Oh yes. This is a good one Tom Sizemore is accused of touching an 11 year old girl's genitals while filming a movie in 2003 according to the Hollywood Reporter, Sizemore was sent home from the set of Born Killers in Utah after the young actress told her mother what had allegedly happened however Sizemore participated in reshoots several months after the alleged incident and the film was released in 2005

39:25 At the time, the allegations were not made public as the child's parents opted not to press charges. However, the unnamed former actress now 26 revealed she has hired a lawyer and is pursuing her legal options regarding both Sizemore and her parents. Sizemore's agent Steven Rice told THR our position is no comment I love the music too Very nice. The all news eventually be having music like that was good morning America's website, so yeah So this is interesting. I just lost my screen ah it's just a Windows machine. It's finally screwing up So I can everything still working but it's just not showing on the screen oh

40:13 Oh, that's not good. This is very bad Take your hands and bang bang bang on the keyboards no let's not hit the escape button That's right. I don't know what just flickered out boy is this the big giant screen Yeah, maybe it's a big giant screen crapped out could be oh, it's back Maybe there's a cable hold on maybe as a cable so long Is back it all seems fine. I have no idea what that way, but it's running on the MacBook Pro That's what I'm worried about think that thing is got some problems remember the Wi-Fi was dropping out and stuff Yeah time to make the transition complete

41:07 Anyway, sorry I interrupted and now I don't know where we were. We're actually pretty done you were talking about Sizemore you talked about grabbing some buddy and now she's suing her parents and Sizemore who knows who after she got to be 26 years old. She sees all this action going around why not maybe she can cash in that what she is thinking? Possibly there is a lot of that We live in interesting times and the greatest thing is you and I don't have to worry about anything because A, we're podcasters. B, we're not douchebags You know, certainly stuff I've said could get me in big trouble these days if I were at a job. You know, I've said to tons of people, you can cry love your hair great dress and all these things that are taboo. Yeah bad very very bad. Well, I would like the contrast. You know, I was thinking about this when I got this clip. I have a clip from 1955 from a 1955 movie. This is a movie called The

CHAPTER 13 / 44 Discussion

The Tender Trap, 1950s Gender Roles

A clip from the 1955 film "The Tender Trap" illustrates the drastic shift in societal expectations for women and marriage over the last sixty years. The discussion references the Unabomber Manifesto's observations on how political correctness has altered language and social dynamics.

frank sinatra· debbie reynolds· gender roles· marriage· unabomber manifesto

42:10 Tender trap with Celeste Holmes, Debbie Reynolds Frank Sinatra and David Wayne is the three characters in this particular scene. And I was watching this clip by so this isn't perfectly for the no agenda show and then as I was thinking about how to use this clip I was thinking what kind of propaganda you know that it's like the movies and mass media give us tell us how to act and what to do and What's acceptable? What's not acceptable and this particular clip would exhibits a number of features that would be rejected by today's culture strongly, but when you think about it wait But when you think about it does it mean that we're right or that maybe the messaging then was For the times or was it better messaging is that messaging change has have been corrupted all I know is a lot different You know and we have talked about this

43:07 On previous shows where you know yes stuff was acceptable then we know what or it was more Acceptable and how that changed over time, and what the reasons were so I'm excited to hear this. What 1959 you said 1955 55 This is your first this your first professional showing them Yes, well aren't you just a little bit excited about breaking through for the first time on oh? The theater's all right but only temporarily Do you think you take here something else Well, yes. Marriage I hope! Oh... Did you have any particular young man in mind? Well there are any number of young men but i haven't found mine yet. A pretty young thing like you shouldn't have much trouble. Well I certainly hope not. I mean your career is just fine but it's no substitute for marriage Don't you think so Miss Cruz? Miss Gillis, I think so Passionately I think so

44:05 Honestly, don't you think marriage is just the most important thing in the world? I mean a woman isn't really a woman at all until she's been married and had children. And why because she's fulfilled! Isn't that right?! Right... You agree? Of course i do What red-blooded American boy doesn't this red blooded American boy doesn't Why not? Well, in order to be fulfilled you have to have a man and it might just possible that what fulfills you might not fulfill him. My man at will! You have his specifications? Well yes I know everything except his blood type Tell us about it. You mean it because this is something I could talk about all day. Your on Miss Gillis

44:56 Well, the first thing I want in a man. He's got to love children How many you think you'd like? Three That's the magic number But not right away The first two years we're going to live in New York I mean We'll be young and will want to have lots of fun And there is no better place to have fun than New York Is there? The children will come later but Not in new york No, we'll move to the country for that Oh probably the first baby will be born In new york At what hospital? at doctors Oh, you're kidding me. Never mind him tell us some more we really are interested Fascinated Look I know this sounds crazy if you don't know me but people that know me think it's quite normal I'm sure they do miss Gillis You have a house in the country and the baby and now what do you do? I have two more babies I didn't say a thing Yes

45:54 Well, when the kids get out of Scarsdale Public High School... Oh! Scarsdale. Well certainly everyone knows they have the best school system in the country. Of course everybody knows that now Joe I mean it everybody in Indianapolis sends their kids to Scarsdale. I've been kidded about this before But I do know what I want. That's good You know the only thing I really hear different between then and now is when she says, you know? I want to have three kids today She would say I want to have three kids one of each gender

46:34 There's 60 genders, she's gonna have to have a lot of kids. Yeah 63. 63 is the magic number. You know if you read the fine work known as Industrial Society and its future it starts off explaining how this in particular... How women were treated but how change where you know words like you couldn't call women broads. Ah she's a great broad they hate it But, you know... and then but men became dudes. You really have to read this work it's by Professor Ted, Industrial Society in its Future. Yeah I've heard of it! Yes and it's also known as the Unabomber Manifesto strangely all kinds of documentaries but no one really says hey maybe I should go read that thing maybe he had something to say

47:21 But he talks about this quite extensively and it is, really the political correctness comes from this change. I'm not saying it's wrong there's a lot wrong with what I hear but that's also the emancipation of women you know no woman in her right mind would talk like that anymore so in other words it's situational ethics So things are the way they are at the moment. Generational ethics? Because, you know talking about the broad order makes me... it makes them mad. It makes who mad? I saw Elaine Stritch before she died on Theater Talk a show that I frequently if i'm going to go to New York to go to theater and she who has played the battle axe on 30 Rocket the mother of the CEO

CHAPTER 14 / 44 Discussion

Trans-Racial Identity, Cultural Self-Identification

The hosts discuss individuals who self-identify as a different race, including a white man named Adam who identifies as Filipino and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank. They compare these instances of trans-racial identity to the proliferation of 63 different gender identities in modern culture.

jadu· filipino· softbank· masayoshi son· identity politics

48:11 And she called herself a broad and made all kinds of sense. It was like, it was like a phrase she loved! Yeah. Where she was 90... Generational. All words have become bad. The question is which generation is correct? That's a good question I like politeness personally that's all so... Politeness is dead Yes let me write that down 48 41 good we'll take that Let's see. Well, while we're on these similar topics... I have a fine example of bi- What is this? He calls himself bi- Is he maybe biracial? His name is Jadu. Lives in America. He was born as a white male named Adam. He now has decided that he's going to call him Filipino. See today you can do anything!

49:11 And he's taken it to such an extreme that he, not just any old Filipino. No! He drives a tuk-tuk which really completes the picture if you've never seen it bing it right now It's a tuck-tuck Yeah they use them a lot in the Philippines Whenever I'm around whenever I'm around the music come around the food I feel like him in my own skin I'd watch The History Channel sometimes for hours you know, whenever it came to that. And nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture I think if you're unhappy with who you are and you change yourself for the better and that makes you happy

49:49 you know, go for it. But I would never say it was a privilege to be unhappy with yourself all the time Well the funny thing is that I had to make sure that wasn't just me because if its just me then there must be something wrong or maybe im just strange uh... so you know i created the group in hopes of getting our message out in a bottle and people started to join. People started to message me about their conflictions with themselves my family knows about my transsexuality but they don't know anything about this it's just, my mom is kind of an older world person and I just think that something telling her something like that would kill her It's too wild. I believe we all have the freedoms to pursue happiness in our own ways

50:37 We can pursue intimacy with whatever partner we want. Yeah, there you go. By the way I think that woman... remember the woman who was in the NAACP? Yes. Who had to do it and darken her skin she said she was black and she's a white redhead from Scarsdale yes I was always on her side. Because if you're going to be in for, and i don't want to use all these cornball phrases from the shays but if you're gonna be in for a dollar or in for a dime, whatever she had gone all the way decided that she self-identified as a black person yes so how can you condemn her

51:23 In this environment where you have 63 genders and those are all that's okay to be a she or they or whatever. You want to be amongst these 63 I don't even know what all the pronouns are if that's okay how come this isn't okay? This guy is on the right track just be whatever you want, you wanna be a black guy wanna be a Chinese you want I mean the guy who runs SoftBank there isn't example He's Korean, but he self-identified as a Japanese. Really? And he sued the Jap... yes! But the Koreans hate the Japanese. And the Japanese hate the Koreans. Interesting

52:02 But he works as a Japanese businessman. Hold on a second, does he have a Japanese passport just because you said I'm Japanese? Yes Does that work can i do that? He did more than that. He went through a rigmarole to become a Japanese That's fantastic Because he needed to be a Japanese to do what he is doing cause he was in Japan and wanted to be with the Japanese company And he self-identified as a Japanese and now claims to be a Japanese but he isn't he's Korean And this, I don't see this being a problem at any level if you're going to take any of it. Either you reject it all or you take it all. Okay? And that means that you can just show up from Mexico or any other South American country at the border and say, I'm American let me in give me my papers That would be probably logical end result yes. I think its defensible. I think it is too if your gonna take that approach

CHAPTER 15 / 44 Discussion

Australia Same-Sex Marriage Vote, Media Representation

Australians voted overwhelmingly in favor of same-sex marriage in a national postal survey, with 61.6% responding "yes." Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to pass legislation by Christmas, though the hosts critique the specific imagery used in media coverage of the result.

australia· same-sex marriage· malcolm turnbull· reuters· postal survey

52:57 If you got 63 genders, this is nothing compared to that. And we're all gonna die. I prefer it...that's why maybe the Debbie Reynolds clip was kind of interesting because things have changed to such an extreme but if you're going to be able to do what this Filipino kid did which he's not Filipino but he is now and I think he is now Interesting. Well, we might as well play your... We both have the clip. It's only 14 seconds your Australia news. What did I have here? I've a longer clip It's the same Australian news. Same topic, this one. Two months after Australia popped the question to its voters an emphatic answer came on Wednesday 61.6 percent of clear responses were yes Australians voting overwhelmingly in favor of same-sex marriage paving the way for legislation to make it legal and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

53:56 isn't wasting any time in getting on with it. Get on with the job the Australian people have tasked us to do and get this done, this year before Christmas. A same-sex marriage bill has already been introduced since the number came out Reuters Tom Westbrook explains what's expected to happen next It's got the numbers to get through Parliament when you add the sort of socially progressive wing of rightwing coalition that is in government plus the left-wing Labor Party that's promised to pass this bill. There are enough numbers in both houses to get this legalised, but Turnbull does face some strong opposition from within his own party from a sort of splinter group of hardline conservatives who are worried about religious freedoms That means there will be a whole season of wrangling amendments to these bills and it is not really clear how long that is going to take or where that might end

54:57 But regardless of what plays out politically, Australians have spoken. The announcement met by colourful celebrations across the country as well as praise from around the world Ellen DeGeneres who's married to Australian actress Portia de Rossi said... Completely not necessary put this in the report but okay. Saying on Twitter it's a good day way to go Australia Almost 8 out of 10 Australian voters took part in the postal survey, a higher percentage turnout than Britain's Brexit vote and Ireland's same-sex marriage referendum. The result marks a watershed moment for gay rights in Australia where homosexual activity was illegal in some states until 1997 Wow! Buncha homophobes

55:48 There's I think there is a lot of homophobes and i think it was reflected in the reporting And that gratuitous mention you cited but, when this story first broke. I'm looking at the news reports and instead of like when The gay marriage thing broke in San Francisco some of these other places You'd see this kind of an attractive happy couple yes The Australian reports always have two goofball looking guys with one missing teeth and they're both bald Yeah, I've got a big much this report interesting you bring that up. This report had rather homely Obese looking lesbian women yeah all these reports coming out of Australia make it look as though if you're gay Interestingly I've heard nothing work Aussies. I've heard nothing from our Australian producers No one has really said anything like I don't think they at least the people listen to our show don't care doing whatever oh

CHAPTER 16 / 44 Discussion

No Agenda Art, Donor Contributions

The hosts acknowledge the show's artists and review significant donations, including a $700 contribution from Sir Onimus of Dogpatch. They discuss the "twofer" knighthood promotion and the responsibilities of those who contribute to the show's value-for-value model.

no agenda art· donations· knighthood· value for value· sir onimus

56:45 Probably don't care. Yeah, government shouldn't be in the marriage business coverage with some of these pictures that's interesting That is interesting hadn't thought about that In fact I did i saw it like oh man they really put some Interesting people in that report but now that your report had you know weird looking guys with no teeth yeah It's a toothless guy And with that i'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you john c where the sea stands for Casanova Dvorak! Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there yes in the morning everybody in the chat room noagendastream.com we also call that The Troll Room that's where it all really takes place We appreciate your showing up And I'd like to say in the morning to Comic Strip Blogger who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 8-1

57:38 And this was the Harvard logo with Alpha November, Alpha Lima or also known as the Advanced Network Analysis Language abbreviated on the front. Yeah also known as ANAL. Yes we You got me sometimes you do have to explain him. Yeah, well we appreciate the work and all the work our artists Do know agenda art generator calm go ahead and check that out And now you may even want to contribute you never know it gets used for all kinds of things that pre-show tweets share The newsletter we love it everybody loves it makes our show better Thank you so we got our the random

58:19 $700 donations from Sir Onimus of Dogpatch. Why do you think it's random? Because it comes in randomly, he says it comes routinely but I check and sometimes for Thursday shows or Sunday then you don't hear from him for a month. But its always the same number? No that is kind of random too but generally speaking it's 700 dollars. Unless he's trying to tell us something! What he's trying to tell well, you just write it. He sends a note what did he say on his note? Well is this isn't one of our most mysterious Supporters and I like him yeah, he does Yeah, we don't know it could be travels. We know he travels. Yeah It could be a very just decided to be a sir. It's all possible

59:07 Congratulations for surviving the longest two weeks in the universe. It was great to hear the stories from longtime subscribers jumping to knighthood with your twofer offer." Oh, nice! Congratulations to the subscriptionaires that made the jump. A significant number of first-time donor InstaNights suggest a successful financial 10 year anniversary sales promotion but like any sales promotion did you bring 2018 donations into 2017? time will tell. In other words, was it a screw-up? Which I mentioned in the last newsletter but you know whatever works. I encourage first time donor instant nights to accept their nightly responsibilities and make up the discount over time

59:57 Having a title without accepting your responsibility is like bitching about politics, but not voting you are no longer virgins Like sex contributing once in awhile is good for the heart What does he mean by that? Well it contributed is good. It was this study that we talked about on the show that makes sure oh I thought I thought he meant contributing during sex I got it No, like sex. Okay got it. Value for... I don't know how you do that anyway what are you doing? Contributing! I'm contributing to the no agenda show. What?!

CHAPTER 17 / 44 Discussion

Manned-Unmanned Teaming, Aviation Technology

A donor provides information on "Manned-Unmanned Teaming" (MUMT), a military technology that allows jet and helicopter pilots to control drones from their cockpits. This technology is being integrated into Apache helicopters and fighter jets for advanced surveillance and combat.

aviation· drones· military intelligence· mumt· apache helicopters

1:00:37 Value for value during this celebration was difficult to assess. Twice as long half the news, but you're still my only... Yeah we noticed this. But you are still my only major new source and from what I gleaned from discussions in meetings you covered what I needed so thanks! Monthly subscription closed You missed the obvious House of Troll's trigger word Hot News! Ha ha hot news Got hot news. Yes, that's what they triggers the algos I think the algos are listening for hot news uh-oh time to retweet this one Does he need anything No, no and then JNK puts it on the end of it so its NJN K Timothy Pearson Austin Texas right down the street from you 333 33 He'll be our second associate or executive producer we have two in one today

1:01:30 John, I've been a traveling contractor upgrading working on an aviation restructuring plan. And then he mentions the manned unmanned teaming which is worth looking up kind of interesting what it manned unmanned teaming? Yeah, manned unmanned teaming what it in a nutshell your jet pilot and you have your you have control of a drone flying alongside you And then you tell the drone to go down and do some surveillance around some area that you don't want to get shot at. The drone does that, and you have your screen on your jet. You say oh it's clear let's go down there. Actually seems to be more for helicopters

1:02:13 No, it's for jets. Okay I have a page here from... I take it back as for jets and yeah choppers, Apaches specifically since they got all that gear and so the it's the latest thing but he says I believe this fits into Adams' and yours theory of the CIA on The Rock and the military intelligence on a roll. Thank you for keeping me sane in a country brainwashed by the m5m love and light keel kilo gulf 5 Romeo tango Quebec 73 73s kilo 5 alpha Charlie Charlie and They have an acronym for it mumped Stupid army moment MUMT moment. Do they really talk like that?

1:03:06 Can I get some mumped over here? Yeah Okay, we need to good jingles alrighty should have mentioned them earlier Oreos are too delicious or like cocaine and too delicious to believe as the follow-up which is nice combo yes Okay someone sent me the perfect one from that. There's another thing. I got a end of karma No, he doesn't say karma. Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine! It's almost too delicious to believe my friend. That's a good combo. It is a good combo. All right and now we dropped you our associate executive producer Sir Ronald Gardner in San Diego 200 bucks and he says please accept this 200 bucks on behalf of my son Jace

CHAPTER 18 / 44 Discussion

Producer Credits, Birthday Announcements

The hosts read notes from associate executive producers and perform "de-douching" ceremonies for listeners. They acknowledge birthdays and grant "karma" to various donors while announcing new titles for the No Agenda Roundtable.

executive producers· birthdays· de-douching· karma· sir bill of osaka

1:03:56 Jace Gardner, please give him a good de-douching and goat scream karma since his birthday is on show day November 16th Please add him to the birthday list. He is on the list yes, we will take care of great work Yes, and then you want a deducing You've been D douched You've got Now I want to since we have lots of time in this segment, I want to get some of these errors out of the way. Ah yes! We had a couple of make goods i think one of my things already included but I got this too uh... actually sent an email to you the day before the anniversary so since it's my first time donor and no idea what to leave a note or blah blah blah thank you for your dedication and that this is from

1:04:45 Andrew Parker, thank you for your dedication thoughtful deconstruction of the media. It's an outstanding it's outstanding my friend Paul Goulet hit me in the mouth approximately 1.5 years ago Hmm one point five on the way to a sectional tennis tournament I have been hooked ever since this is my first donation a de-douching is in order You've been D douche Sadly, sadly I must call out Paul and his wife Stephanie as freeloading douchebags. They have been listening for years your show has enriched

1:05:24 our friendship even more, and I appreciate everything you guys do. So here's the value for the invaluable that you two have provided for us." Our tennis friends know not to ever say anything that sounds like...and there is just a bunch of hacks right here. I can't read this. A round doesn't. One aside is another Unicode here I can't read. This was brought up a few episodes ago where Regarding John McCain and Millennials. I apologize mr.. Devorah, but as a late millennial myself something about you is endearing As a cantankerous grandpa it's the Bernie effect Yeah That's what it is love you to Adam in your dramatic Facebook Facebook post readings Which we haven't done for a while now he has some jingles that are backed up and we might as well give them Sorry didn't do this earlier

1:06:13 At the end he wants medical school karma. He wants Yoko accompanied by me playing the recorder I guess he wants a double hit of horrible Putin don't worry be happy and John saying it's a scam, and we reject the last one which is the goat scream Okay, well we did there is something as goat scream karma which we've been doing yeah once you give him that every medical school Karma same thing yes goats cream karma okay? But it also includes baby making Karma for Paul and Steph the douchebag ah the old in-and-out a why is he oh gowa? Okay, so you know what to do. I know where to fall in ok good God

1:07:10 Don't worry, be happy. Don't worry, be happy. All right. No you're supposed to be- no! You messed it up! You're supposed to say it's a scam! You messed the whole thing up! I thought that was gonna play the clip It's A Scam? NO! You gotta say it... IT'S A SCAM! You've got... Harmony. I got another one here. This is a good amount of money, oh this one's already been... Eric's got it on there, this is Mark Taylor. He's listed on there. I can do him right now. Oh okay do that. He was already knighted during the donation palooza

1:07:59 So this is a make good. He says, okay I don't need to be knighted again obviously but please accept my donation that when double will push me over the edge tonighthood I would like to be knighted Sir Hip Old Guy of Southeast Austin another Austenite. We should hang out hip sir hip old guy. Yeah we're gonna. The envelope please! I've enjoyed your show since episode one Was Austin even a city at the time? I don't think so. I love the truthiness of it all, so ITM to you both and thanks for producing TBPCITU! I would like Rent Boys and Gin & Tonic that's why we have them already for ya Clips Hillary Birthday Cupcake Don't eat me Hillary Goat Scream Look At All That Juice And Karma I think he means this This is just so beautiful Thank You Donald Trump Thank You My Cupcake

1:08:55 Hillary Clinton! Oh my gosh, can you see that juice? You've got karma. Okay, on the credits or also as a knight? Both I guess. No no no he's already a knight everything is done. So what's his name? No no no no! What's his name? Bill Parin and he'll be the executive producer. He's Sir Bill of Osaka. Use his surname. Oh Sir Bill of Osaka Yeah, Bill of Osaka We gotta go to Japan... we don't have enough people in Osaka. We gotta go to Japan man. Andrew Parker

CHAPTER 19 / 44 Discussion

Listener Feedback, Administrative Errors

The hosts address specific listener requests for "house buying karma" and correct administrative errors regarding previous donations and knighthood ceremonies. They emphasize the importance of using the correct subject lines when emailing the show for corrections.

karma· house buying· errors· corrections· matt farrell

1:09:49 He says everything was done but his email was never read even though he donated enough money for it to should have been read. Thank you for outstanding and thoughtful deconstruction of the M5M, it's outstanding! Thank you. Oh well this is one we just read a minute ago. Same thing. Good work. You know what? He sent in twice that's the problem. Okay there we go Ray Jacobson We've been talking about him for awhile. He said he won a simple house buying karma for his donation which was a twofer House buying karma was in the memo of the online bill paying check. For your information, a previous donation with a karma request resulted in winning a free iPad at Abyss Seminar." Boom! What? So there's something to this. Wow. That's interesting Yeah I like that

1:10:37 My father passed away with a reverse mortgage and now we have to pay off the reverse mortgage or sell the house. My sister's very ill, legally disabled with her hernia operation which went bad and needs some place to stay. The property has a guesthouse which is generating 1800 a month income through Airbnb." If you're ever in Ashland Virginia area, you can stay there. We have some credit card challenges my mortgage payments have been denied it goes on. So quick house buying karma would be appreciated love of the show. You've got karma. One last little change is again a accounting change, Steven Jaffe last week I made an instant night donation for my son Spencer Jaffee but Adam knighted me no I'm already at nights or circumstance the correct hashtag would be Spencer Joffy sir edgewise Knight of the border wall

1:11:32 So why don't we just... We're at night-im today, I said. Okay so again it's Jaffe... what? Spencer Jaffe. Spencer Jaffe. Hold on. Sir Edgewise. Hold on. Knight of the Border Wall He says I'll leave it up to your discretion if requires a new ceremony yeah well he does. I will tell you that I remember this name and I remember reading it but its okay. I'm not... I don't remember the border wall thing I would have remembered that. I remember these things. Okay well we'll reenite him then. Well do it again! That's right. Bash his other shoulder And here's the last one. So, this is the end of this little list. I didn't hear my name on the nightings in 976. I thought i might have missed it? It was a helluva episode! Let me read like he's written it...

1:12:16 I didn't hear my name on the nightings of episode 976. Thought I might have missed it, it was a hell of an episode! But I went to the show notes and listened to Nightings again today... And to see my name listed as executive producer and you did read my note but I wasn't properly knighted. After listening a second time poor Adam was getting hoarse toward the end. Almost 8 hours non-stop podcasting was truly amazing. Congratulations again on 10 years." So he, and I guess his original note here. What's his name again? His name is Matt Farrell. M-A-T-T F-E-R-R-E L-L Got it And he doesn't give himself any sort of fancy name Sir Matt Sir Matt

1:13:01 And that is the end. If you have another problem, anyone out there? We didn't do anything right. Use ERROR in all caps in the subject line. I'd do a SORT before this show and look at what we got! Is everyone following this instruction well? Do they do it all uppercase? No some of them don't. All uppercase is preferred but some of them don't and some add little extra stuff which is the real problem here... When they do a follow-up note to say, thanks for correcting what you know. I got more than if you thanks for correcting that line error. Yeah that's not helpful people no

CHAPTER 20 / 44 Discussion

Maxine Waters, Glamour Women of the Year Awards

Congresswoman Maxine Waters delivered a fiery speech at the Glamour Women of the Year awards, urging millennials to organize and calling for the impeachment of President Trump. The hosts compare her rhetorical style to historical demagogues and criticize her perceived narcissism.

maxine waters· glamour magazine· impeachment· millennials· narcissism

1:13:42 I appreciate the thank you notes, but not with that subject line. And we both thank our executive producers and associate executive producer for today's program that is really appreciated. It's always tough after a big celebration like that so people supporting us with the value model is great and we have another show coming up on Sunday. Devorac.org slash NA. So you should be out there doing the important work of propagating the formula. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. That's right ladies and gentlemen it's time for Auntie Maxine! She's on the scene Maxine always ready to do what needs to be done she takes no prisoners Did you see her at the Glamour Awards?

1:14:53 I did not. This is a rather long clip, but it's worth listening to all of what she has to say. So Glamour Magazine is a magazine and they have their own award show as you do then we know how those work We all have lunch and decide who's going to win. That's the way it works. It was like, yeah were gonna give them award too this year. I know! Let's get Maxine Waters She's a fan favorite Wow Thank you so very, very much. Let me take a moment to thank Glamour for honoring me this evening I feel so very special and i thank you for all of the other women who are being honored here this evening. I've decided that she actually suffers from narcissism when you listen everything is about her

1:15:45 It's not really about what she wants to do with the president. I'm going to impeach Trump. People say don't do it, I am gonna do it! This is very special Thank you for thanking me And to glamour just let me say this that what you do here this evening in honoring us really does confirm that you appreciate all of the work that we attempt to do to bring about justice and equality in this society, in our country and in this world. And when she says we she means I A big round of applause for Glamour! Thank You Glamour! To the young men in the audience here this evening and especially those up on the balcony

1:16:38 I am so pleased to see the interest and concern that you are showing in what is happening at the highest levels of government. I see you, and I hear you, and I encourage you not only to register, to get involved. But I want you to organize. I want you to join progressive organizations. I want you to seek out opportunities to serve on boards and I want you to do everything that you can to get ready to run for office." Good message! I like that. This is your time

1:17:23 I'm claiming my time, and I want you to claim your time. You are smart! You are bright! You are intelligent and i don't want you to be intimidated by anything or anybody. You see what is happening at the highest levels of government and I want you to know that you have the opportunity to do something about it This is your country. This is your future and our democracy is at stake, and so Not only am I depending on all of the progressives everywhere, but I'm depending on young people. I'm depending on the millennials to do what we know they can do. You see again what is going on? You understand who is being disadvantaged you understand who has been undermined and you also understand those who would intimidate you and try

1:18:24 to dismiss you and keep you from becoming what you want to become. Trust yourselves, do not doubt yourselves! Do what you know your mind and heart is telling you to do. And ladies and gentlemen, and our young people in particular... You recognize when a leader is irresponsible. You recognize when a leader is dishonorable and disrespectful of you, you recognize when a leader is dangerous even if that leader is the President of the United States of America.

1:19:07 I want you to have the courage. I want you to know that you can stand up to him or anybody else, and for those who say to me, You are asking for something too soon and too early be careful don't jeopardize yourself Don't say what you're saying right now but i continue to say Impeach him! What an insane maniac. This is, if she were speaking German it would have sounded like Hitler with that crowd I know it sounds just like Hitler yeah

1:20:32 I mean, that is out there. The editors must be...I wonder what the editors are thinking? That was a mistake! Oh come on they invited her because that's what she wants Well maybe but it just seems like an embarrassment to the magazine Pretty much the same thing. Yeah, I you know and apparently people are telling her no don't risk your status you might be you could be president Maxine You could be president Don't do that What is it with all the old people running for president including our current one a little tired of that?

CHAPTER 21 / 44 Discussion

Presidential Career Paths, Josh Hawley

The hosts discuss the traditional career paths to the presidency, debating whether serving as a governor or a senator provides a better foundation. They highlight Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley as a potential future candidate currently running for the Senate.

josh hawley· missouri· governors· senators· presidential strategy

1:21:11 Yeah, they can't find anybody. You know I saw the other night I saw... I mean you got Tulsie. Tulsie should run! I like Tulsie also the Attorney General for Missouri was on Tucker the other night and i forget exactly what he was on for but like this interesting guy young guy smart guy it could even be a democrat I don't know did doesn't matter that could be a presidential qualities Look him up. I know what you mean, and I feel the same way yeah It's just get someone with you Josh Hawley is his name Let me see is he? Republican okay Yeah, I like him a lot now He's running for Senate

1:22:02 in the 2018 election. Okay, that's the path right? Senator then president one term senator- No no no it's not the path to pass this governor then president. Obama became senator for one session and then was president. That's because he was only there for one session, and that's why he never voted on anything always voted present He didn't vote on half the bills because if you're in the Senate You show your cards by having to vote on certain legislation If you're a governor like Reagan was, you could show that you've governed but you're not voting You're not putting me...not making bills. You're not showing your cards

1:22:41 But you're an executive, which is what the president is. He's an executive to the standard route that's the best route. You can do it any way you want but the best route and Kennedy was a senator. Clinton was a Hillary, she lost. She was a senator but she was also Secretary of State so she can kind of cover up her past Obama you're right those are recent but those are all quickies the old-fashioned ways you become governor you show your an executive in a big state Ohio California New York you run got it well then the guys going down the wrong path

CHAPTER 22 / 44 Discussion

Twitter Verification Policy, Hate Speech Guidelines

Twitter has begun removing verification badges from accounts that violate its new guidelines regarding hate speech and behavior. The hosts discuss the shift from verification as identity authentication to verification as a perceived endorsement by the platform.

twitter· verification· blue checkmark· hate speech· censorship

1:23:18 Yeah, but if he's not if he's gonna well. Let's see 2020 20 in that long He might be able to pull it off But he's a Republican and they're good They're not gonna pull Trump no matter what anyone thinks let me crazy unless you think I think trumpet quit I Think you quit Thank you to quit wouldn't surprise me if we quit I'm just looking at Twitter And you still have your verification badge yeah the great unverification has begun Yes, I tweeted about this saying yeah Twitter for anyone out there doesn't know Twitter's is you know everyone knows what it is. But they're gonna start taking the check marks off of people if they disagree with the way they think

1:23:59 I always thought that check marks were to prove that you are who you say you are. It was so if you send a note to some famous celebrity and they get the check mark, yeah You know it's its them because they've been verified yes Well how does that here? Here is the note that people are receiving who have been unverified quote we gave verified accounts visual prominence on the service which deepened this perception of I think it was endorsement We would have addressed this earlier, but did not prioritize the work as we should have. Twitter said it's designing a new authentication and verification program and...

1:24:40 That would mean in the meantime, it will remove verification from accounts whose behavior does not fall within the new guidelines. And the new guidelines state verified status can be lost if a person breaks Twitter's rules or promotes hate on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin sexual orientation gender identity religious affiliation age disability or disease So you better be careful what you tweet, brah. I'm wondering whether Twitter would take it as a bad mark against you if you hated Facebook?

1:25:21 Interesting. Well, we can put this to the task... That would be a conundrum in the classic sense! Yes, we could put it to the task. You're the only one here who was verified I don't- I do not want the mark of the beast. I do not want the mark of the beast. I'm sure that you get that checkmark verified. You're the first one to go. You know? The first one on the train. Yeah, so what'd you think? So you know, so you don't wanna mess around and try something because of your coveted checkmark status I have been cowed into submissiveness. Good, I'm glad you're gonna do it! You could've tested it, I know you are! I'll test Facebook! I love it... I hate Facebook. Yeah but you have to be based on maybe do by the way there's too many old people there say that if you say is too many old people there that without would then they can't say that but that's not them that would not prove anything

1:26:14 But that's ageism. I wanted the target Facebook because Facebook would be the target that would make them have to think twice and if they took my check mark away for hating Facebook, and hate-hate-hate would be the words I'd use then I would say Facebook and Twitter are colluding! Oh yes how delicious. Yes too delicious good idea All right, what have we got here? I have a couple of funny clips. I do think we should take a little break here and listen to... Do you have this Farage rant on Soros? I love the Farage! Yes, I do actually. The full rant once again in the EU Parliament and it was what I liked about is he started off about the Paradise Papers. Do you have the full rant including where she says

CHAPTER 23 / 44 Discussion

Nigel Farage, George Soros Influence in EU

Nigel Farage addressed the European Parliament, alleging that George Soros and the Open Society Foundations exert undue influence over EU policy. Farage claimed that 226 members of the parliament are listed as "reliable friends" of the organization and called for a formal investigation.

nigel farage· george soros· open society· european parliament· guy verhofstadt

1:27:03 Nigel Farage, you have two minutes. Mr. Farage, two and a half minutes I have it not just that with music with creepy music Oh no music play mine then i don't have music Okay hold on I like it with music. Mr Farage, two and a half minutes. Thank you as Mr Scavici said at the start of this the leak of all these papers and lists of people with offshore holdings has come about because of The Society Of Investigative Journalists but what's not been said this morning i think is relevant is that the funding of these investigations came from one George Soros now i say this at a time i'm going to come back to so what? And it may have some personal interest for you as well

1:27:42 I say this at a time when the use of money and the influence it may have had on the Brexit result or the Trump election has reached a level of virtual hysteria. Just last week the Electoral Commission in the UK launched an investigation to find out whether the Leave campaign took offshore money or Russian money. This came about as a result of questions asked in the House of Commons by one Ben Bradshaw, somebody linked with an organisation called Open Society I just wonder when we're talking about offshore money, when we're talking about political subversion, when we are talking about collusion I wonder whether were looking in the wrong place. And i say that because George Soros recently gave Open Society his organisation which of course campaigns for free movement of peoples and supports supranational structures like the European Union he recently gave it 18 billion dollars

1:28:41 And his influence here and in Brussels is truly extraordinary. Open Society boast that they had 42 meetings last year with the European Commission They've even published a book of reliable friends in the European Parliament, and there are 226 names on that list including yours sir I thought you'd find this interesting We even had last week Mr. Verhofstadt lobbying on behalf of Mr. Soros at the Conference of Presidents in a battle that is going on with Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary if we're gonna have a debate

1:29:19 And we're going to talk about full political and financial transparency. Well, let's do it! So I should be writing today to all 226 of you asking some pretty fair questions Have you ever received funds directly or indirectly from Open Society? How many events have you attended? Could you please give us a list of the meetings of all the representatives including George Soros yourself and I think this Parliament should now set up a special committee to look into all of this. And i say that because I fear we could be looking at the biggest level of international political collusion in history.

1:30:04 And what was great about the video, which in the show notes 982.noagendanotes.com is the camera cuts away from him to look at all these a-holes smugly laughing. Yeah, Verst... What is it? Versto... Hoffen? What's that guy's name? Verhofstadt! The Hoff! The Hoff! Hallo Deutschland! Here's the Hoff! So where's he from? Ehh, Verhofstadt. I should know this. Well i thought you would it would be either Holland or Austria or Germany I think he is from... He's Dutch but does he represent the dutch? Belgium Oh Belge He's a Bellech we call that a belg

1:30:53 Even the word sounds nasty. BLEUGH! Like a, like a belch. It's a belch there you go. It's a belch That's our new word for the Belgians But I would love to see this list this 226 names so there's a book that we can get it has this in there? I guess so yeah Thank You Book-book I guess here thanks for all they help you've given us huh stooges I wonder that guy was snickering. Yeah, oh the couple of guys were snickering like really for Round of applause from everyone around him people hooting and holler in the background yeah because they weren't getting to pay off Exactly like hey get those guys. They're not sharing Bastards hmm happens yeah

CHAPTER 24 / 44 Discussion

Michael Morrell, TPP and Intelligence Community

Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morrell criticized President Trump's foreign policy and his relationship with the intelligence community. The discussion focuses on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Morrell's claims regarding Chinese influence in the region following the U.S. withdrawal.

michael morrell· cia· tpp· china· richard nixon

1:31:40 Alright, so I thought that was entertaining. Yeah, I clipped it as well Of course, it's totally and that's Farage is certainly in that setting is always entertaining So I have another kind of internationalist clip okay? This is a didn't get the very beginning of it this is Mike Morrell our CIA guy on the CBS morning show which is you know run by Charlie and It's a CIA show. Yeah, Gail is an undercover agent sure. Nora yeah, Gail no. Nora for sure but there are couple of things he's commenting on Trump and his visit overseas and how he changed his mind about this trying to slam Trump but not doing very good job about it and then out of the blue

1:32:28 Like in the middle of this conversation, they bring something up that Morrell misspeaks of. Out of the blue they just start talking about TPP which Morrell refers to as TTP STP I think is what he was thinking. So he screwed up on that but and it was just like, what are they talking about? And then there's a logical inconsistency and actually it's just a blatant lie on the part of Morrell which I'll discuss. People...and thats exactly what he did here with President Trump. Did you say that he believed him or did he simply say that he thought Putin was sincere or he believed what he said and later said

1:33:10 that he cast his vote with our national security people. Right, well he did change his tune Charlie to the latter saying you know he's with our intelligence agencies I think the key issue here with regard to the president and our intelligence community is that he seems to think it's a political entity, a political tool And that scares me because the last president who saw our intelligence community that way was Richard Nixon, who then used the FBI and the CIA inappropriately. And my court messages had sent to US intelligence when you see the President abroad flip-flopping as some people say that he did? Well it makes them wonder whether he's listening or not to what they say and these are individuals who take great risks right for this country

1:33:57 going to take those risks if the president's not listening. How significant is it that the United States has withdrawn from the TPP and then during this trip you see these other countries that the President was visiting in a sense coming together with TPP and therefore making it possible for some kind of relationship? with the Chinese? Charlie, I think that's a great question. I think the most important thing that happened on this trip is the tentative agreement between 11 countries to go forward with TTP without the United States in the room This is going to benefit economically all of those eleven countries We're not gonna benefit and this is also gonna strengthen Chinese influence in the region again we're the big loser

1:34:40 All right, Michael Morrell. Thank you for joining us. Welcome! Who's he working for these days? He is still working for the CIA and when he talks about the intelligence community... ...He is talking about the CIA not talking about NSA or MILDIA. He isn't talking about anybody but the CIA let's face it. You can tell. What I thought was interesting that Nixon misused FBI AND CIA Did he? Yeah Did he? I mean, he said that but did Nixon? What do you think? I don't think so. I thought it was only the FBI. I could be wrong and i don't even just think he did that much with the FBI this is bullcrap all you have to do is read The Family of Secrets and you get all this stuff about Nixon how he's screwed by the CIA

1:35:24 Let's go over a couple of things he said. He says all these countries are going to go ahead with what he called the TTP, which is the TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership and they had this was like Charlie asked his question out in the blue obviously it was rigged question it was put in there on purpose because they had a big graphic. Oh they were ready? They were set for it yeah this was not like charlie ad libbing So they put the, it shows all these countries and all these little countries in the AZA group. ASEAN countries Malaysia Indonesia and then he somehow morale says that the Chinese are going to benefit somehow from what? From TPP? Because this group with a TPP was always set up by us

1:36:13 To benefit us. And not the Chinese, it was to screw the Chinese and even if these guys do it by themselves without us they can still make a separate deal with us. It's still to screw the Chinese is not to give the Chinese more influence unless the Chinese joined the group and they weren't allowed too so that's bullcrap. He just wants to make the president look dumb The other thing is about this, the TPP which you'd think somebody would bring it up once in a while. Which is since Morrell's apparently all-in Why is it such a secret agreement that no one's ever been able to see the paperwork on it? Because there was some paper work that got out. It was meant for us to screw people, that's why! No, it was meant for the drug companies to screw everybody this is a very drug-centric agreement from what anyone can find because you can't find much out about it so the idea was going to be like the World Trade Organization which has its own set of laws that we have to obey

CHAPTER 25 / 44 Discussion

Opioid Crisis, Addiction Treatment Industry

A study suggests that over-the-counter medications like Tylenol and Advil can be as effective as prescription opioids for pain relief. Meanwhile, private equity firms and large chains like Acadia Healthcare are aggressively acquiring profitable addiction treatment centers to capitalize on insurance payouts.

opioids· tylenol· acadia healthcare· private equity· addiction treatment

1:37:11 Even if they violate our laws from our country, we'll go along with the WTO. We won't be able to double fry our french fries? Yeah stuff like that yeah stuff like that so this is just galls me to watch these segments where it's just like propaganda its anti-american propaganda pro large corporations uh pro open borders and all the rest of it for what good does it do anybody nothing no good well since you brought up Since you brought up Pharma, I got a couple clips here. This fits in the Oreos just as addictive as cocaine category. Taking a combo of over-the-counter meds like Tylenol and Advil might relieve your pain just as well as a prescription painkiller it's a new study out of New York where the researchers followed hundreds of people who had to go to the ER for something and they found that the patients who were given a mix of ibuprofen and acetaminophen reported virtually the same amount of pain relief as the people who were given prescription pain meds

1:38:14 Some experts say that ER prescriptions have helped to make the opiate crisis even worse. And studies like this show that over-the-counter meds may work just as well and not be as addictive. That doesn't surprise me! I would like to see the study, morphine is a pretty powerful suppressant of pain maybe if you tell people it's morphine and then give them paracetamol or whatever amitaphen? But we have enough doctors in the audience who can certainly give us some insight to that. But this report, was to me really galling it is from NPR. We have one of our producers is just so he must listen to NPR all the time.

1:39:07 He brought this to my attention about the opportunities of the opioid addiction crisis. The first time Ray Tommasi got hit up by an investor, it was kind of out of the blue. This guy called me up and introduced himself. He said he knew about us. The guy represented a group of investors. Tommasi didn't want to say whom but they were looking to buy addiction treatment centers like the one he runs in Massachusetts. It's called Gosnald on Cape Cod. She had checked around and learned that we were one of the more reputable programs. We had a good reputation in the community, we had a nice array of services and he wanted to know if we were interested in becoming part of his company." Tamazi was intrigued. Gosnold is not-for-profit group of clinics it makes money on some services like inpatient rehabilitation and uses that income to pay for stuff that doesn't make money like family support groups or putting counselors in schools

1:40:04 Tomasi knew the investors had the money to build new buildings and expand existing clinics, things that would take him years of fundraising. But when it came down to it, the investors were only interested in buying the profitable programs. A detox setting or a rehab program they have a much wider stream where revenue can come from. It's covered by insurance People are willing to pay for it if they have the resources to pay for it. But the money-losing prevention programs, long term care or sober residences? Investors didn't want those! Tomasi thinks those things are important though so he didn't sell. They're almost like investments that a community minded provider would make in order to do the things that they think the community could use. But since that first meeting two years ago, calls from potential buyers keep coming

1:40:54 Last month, at a conference he was approached three times in a single day. He says the investors ask him about occupancy rates insurance reimbursement future demand for detox and treatment there weren't a lot of questions like what are you doing? What actually happens in these places A little bit but not much And that's a key issue Tamazi says he is a health care guy who thinks about what a patient needs to recover His suitors are money guys looking to offer a product that's in demand. Tomasi won't say which companies have approached him, but he says they include private equity firms and the biggest national chains. One national chain that has been on a shopping spree for addiction treatment centers is Acadia Healthcare. Six years ago it had only six facilities but today it has 587 across the country and in the UK What's driving Acadia's growth?

1:41:43 Joey Jacobs is Acadia's CEO. At an investor conference last month, he pointed to two recent laws. Jacobs declined our request for an interview but told investors that the Affordable Care Act is driving their growth in part because so many more people have health insurance That, combined with the mental health parity law that requires insurers to cover mental healthcare and suddenly there's a huge stream of cash for Acadia and other companies to tap into. Disgusting! Wow... There's a clip I'll give you a borderline on that one that's a beauty

CHAPTER 26 / 44 Discussion

Afghanistan Opium Production, Hamid Karzai

Opium production in Afghanistan has nearly doubled in the last year, reaching record levels. Former President Hamid Karzai criticized the U.S. strategy in the region, claiming that the ongoing war is breeding violence and alienating the Afghan people.

afghanistan· opium· poppies· hamid karzai· taliban

1:42:25 In the backdrop of this, uh... came out today and it's in The Telegraph but I'm sure the statistic is correct. Opium production in Afghanistan has hit record levels again doubled in the last 12 months! Yeah, I had a clip there Oh you do? I did, there's not much to it. No, I won't play it. Oh, I'd love to hear it. It is word that opium production in Afghanistan has nearly doubled this year the United Nations and the Afghan government report production is up 87% from 2016 Afghanistan is the world's top grower of poppies used to make opium and heroin That's right baby USA foam finger big foam finger number one we're taking care business But Karzai is taking care of his well We are because Karzai pissed he didn't like us He was on

1:43:16 Was this BBC maybe? Yeah, they got cut out. He got cut out! Yeah... But he's making waves. Okay. He got cut out of the deal. Yeah that's the problem exactly In August US President Donald Trump announced his plan to escalate the U.S involvement in Afghanistan America's longest ever war and to send more troops to fight the Taliban You tweeted that you strongly oppose this Hey was this guy tweeting too I didn't know that I like that. Is he verified? Shut down the service. He verified because it sounds pretty hateful. That you strongly oppose this new US strategy, that is quote again... Oh that just hit me Trump's gonna get unverified

1:44:00 He's going to get unverified. No way, you want to put money on that? One dollar Mortimer. Against the national interest of Afghanistan how is it against a national interest of your country to have your allies sending you more troops to fight the number one threat to peace in your country the Taliban? The Afghan people are sick and tired of war in whatever name that may be when we welcomed the United States and Afghanistan in 2001 the Afghan people for the first time accepted and supported and welcomed a foreign military power in the hope that finally we'll have peace, progress and stability. And for a number of years that was true. But the US government would say they're sending more troops now

1:44:43 for the same reason that they sent troops in the first place. Yes, which is to guard and help the transport of the poppies and we're sending more troops because production has doubled! In 2001? To defeat, to fight, to beat the Taliban The Taliban are the cause of the violence in Afghanistan they would say not US troops They are not anymore the only cause of violence in Afghanistan The war itself is breeding violence in Afghanistan I want the Taliban, who belong to Afghanistan, who are Afghans, to come back to Afghanistan and to sit down with their own people and bring peace to Afghanistan. And through that, bring the stability to our life that we need." If 40 percent of the country in the past three years have fallen in the hands of the Taliban, that speaks for the failure of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. The U.S. failed in Afghanistan because they

1:45:39 They didn't cut me in. They did not target the sanctuaries, they did not go to the sanctuaries to those sources of training and nursing and financing terrorism. No, of course not! They rather went on attacking Afghan villages, Afghans homes, Afghan children. They created prisons in Afghanistan. They violated Afghan sovereignty in every imaginable way The way they behaved in Afghanistan, the heavy-handed military behavior in Afghanistan caused the Afghan people's alienation. And that alienation is bringing about the trouble that we have. Okie dokie then... Well I call bullcrap on that you're right! They cut him out then he's pissed Yeah and he can't say anything but being cut out because then he admits he's a criminal You know I was talking to Steve Pachanek the other night

CHAPTER 27 / 44 Discussion

Steve Pieczenik Interview Announcement

The hosts announce an upcoming long-form interview with Dr. Steve Pieczenik. They request assistance from a local producer in the Melbourne, Florida area to help facilitate the recording with high-quality audio equipment.

steve pieczenik· interview· melbourne florida· cia· military intelligence

1:46:34 And I got a whole bunch of stuff somebody just gotta parse And I said, you know...and somehow the opioid epidemic came up. He said, well he's a doctor so I put that on the doctors and you know doctors just prescribed all this stuff to people and I said well yeah but we're also protecting the poppy fields and he had never really heard this theory! I was surprised it was very well explained in that movie which was when i said Denzel Washington who said American gangster yes oh my god you're right hello what are you doing? You don't know this?!

1:47:11 He really didn't. Well, that means the circles he's in probably doesn't even consider that so he's on some well he's on military intelligence right? So he would know. Those operations are run by the CIA? Ah, you're right what am I thinking oh by the way He agreed to do an interview for The No Agenda Show for a special show Okay And i'm going to do that early next week Monday Tuesday or Wednesday What I need is I need a producer anyone who's near Melbourne Florida which is about 30 miles outside of Gainesville Uh, because I know. I know enough about him that this is not going to he's not going to get a mic hooked up to his computer. I need someone who has a laptop and has a USB mic at least set of headphones AT 2020 would work something simple or if somebody got a good rig yeah the good rig is good too so email me adam mccurry dot com

1:48:08 Okay, because I really want to do that. I think it'll be fun to listen to it's a talk with this guy for an hour like we can record this you never hear him just talking unless he's interrupted by commercials or Jones and You know and then everyone you can think about what you think of yeah? I'm sure would be very entertaining anyone will listen to that yes So get your producer hat on people meet meets celebrities work for the no agenda show Meet celebrities. He's probably be a funny guy to meet All right, let's go we need to do some catching up on oh by the way I have a clip from another old movie Yeah, I don't know what to use this for but this is the no ISO and the answer is finally No The answer is no Absolutely and finally no finally and positively no It's going in the end of show I like it

CHAPTER 28 / 44 Discussion

Donald Trump Water Bottle Meme

The media and Senator Marco Rubio mocked President Trump for his manner of drinking from a water bottle during a televised address. The hosts discuss Trump's known germaphobia and the squirrel-like way he held the bottle with both hands.

donald trump· marco rubio· water bottle· germaphobe· media coverage

1:49:07 It's a good one. Yeah, where is that from? By the way we got hot news! Uh oh hold on a second... Hot News! This became a headline people were mocking it became a meme and CBS ran it on their nightly news Trump drinks water I was waiting for that. Today gave an account of his Asia trip that appeared, for a time might run as long as the 12-day journey itself His mouth got so dry he had to stop and search for a bottle of water To quench his thirst And a few minutes later it happened again

1:49:49 You'll recall Mr. Trump on the campaign trail mocked then-rival Marco Rubio for taking a water break as he delivered the GOP response to a State of the Union address Within moments today, Senator Rubio pounced with this review of the president Needs work on his form Has to be done in one single motion and eyes should never leave the camera But not bad for his first time I didn't know Rubio had done that. That's pretty funny. Yeah, it was pretty funny Just to talk about it for a moment because I saw The thing that wasn't it wasn't so weird that he had a well first of all yeah, yes cotton mouth I mean obviously the guy been smoking some reefers like holy crap man. I got four twenty I gotta have a drink But the way you grab the bottle with two hands was very odd and they really white noise like a squirrel Yes, like a squirrel and you wiped off the top. You know is like a germaphobe

1:50:47 Massive germaphobe. By the way, that doesn't come up in the conversation much but it has before he is indeed a germaphobe yeah So yeah like a squirrel that was weird It's very strange. It was very weird and the meme is all over the place of him drinking Well I mean karma's a bitch man of course look right? Yeah no karma's yeah well But yeah, he's in fact I tweeted to the picture of him drinking for our pre-show tweet. I like it so much I got a couple more hate Trump's love things here. Um, so this is- the headline is...

CHAPTER 29 / 44 Discussion

Elephant Trophy Import Ban Reversal

The Trump administration has reversed an Obama-era ban on importing elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues that regulated sport hunting provides incentives for local communities to conserve the species.

elephants· trophy hunting· zimbabwe· fish and wildlife service· conservation

1:51:26 This is really good. I kind of got wind of this, I didn't know the whole story but it just seems stupid so i never followed up even now I'm gonna find out yes the Trump administration...this is from The Hill, a Trump hating blog. The Trump administration is reversing an Obama administration ban on bringing to United States the heads of elephants killed in two African countries The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which is not quite the same as the President but is the administration said it has determined that hunting African elephants in Zimbabwe and Zambia will quote enhance the survival of species in wild, which is standard by which officials judge whether to allow imports of parts known as trophies of animals.

1:52:10 Quote, legal well-regulated sport hunting as part of a sound management program could benefit the conservation of certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting much needed revenue back into conservation. An FWS spokesman said in a statement late Wednesday after Hunting Group Safari Club International announced the policy Imports will be allowed for elephants killed between January 21st and the end of 2018. So, you know people are losing their shit over this and if you look at the face bag posting pictures of his sons when they went on their lion hunting expedition Yeah A bunch of animal killers, a-holes... And that may be I could never shoot an animal

1:52:57 Unless I was really hungry. Yeah, but a squirrel in the backyard house to shoot if they ever get a shot and good shot out of my music I have a pelican by yet to get him I saw a school trap them a couple times not him But these bat squirrels that ruin my plum tree by going into the tree and then taking one bite out of each plumb I had one of those moments yesterday where you're driving where you're driving and you're in traffic, and you see the squirrel on the side of the road like... Am I gonna go? Am I going to go? And you think into yourself. I'm gonna see this squirrel get run over! And damn if it doesn't happen! And he makes a- He made a bounce! It's a rodent! It's a tree rodent! Things are nasty You are wrong John! Wrong again Dvorak

CHAPTER 30 / 44 Discussion

Emotional Support Animals, Service Squirrels

A man in Florida is fighting to keep his "emotional support squirrel" despite property management rules against exotic animals. The hosts discuss the increasing use of support animals, including pigs and goats, and the resulting tension with ADA regulations for legitimate service animals.

emotional support animals· squirrels· ada· goats· property management

1:53:40 They're not just that. Uh-uh! Yes, no. Oh... Ryan Boylon and Brutus his emotional support squirrel? That's right squirrel are inseparable He rescued her last year after Hurricane Matthew But Boylon Boylan could lose her. Property management at Island Way discovered Brutus and exotic animals are not allowed. They say Boylan never told them about the squirrel he was in a notice to give up the squirrel or be evicted I was very sad that he had to basically push every single limitation that he could to try to get me out because of

1:54:24 of human rights, claiming discrimination. And they sent a letter to the association on his behalf stating the Fair Housing Act protecting emotional support animals. Sherry Arfa is a former board member. Well I'm not sure she's being discriminated against... you know, it's like any emotional support dog. People ask questions." Condo officials say it is a liability if something happens. It's not just like with any animal, you can have the nicest dog and they could bite somebody... there's no guarantee. She feels the squirrel should be free. As I said, if it was a gerbil or something that your branch had hiding under the bed, I'm sure that would be fine but a squirrel?

1:55:06 It's a wild animal. And boy, Lon he does have a doctor's note for the animal that he sent to the association back in July but he has not re-signed the lease under the new owner of that unit which is also supposed to be approved by the board so again it's pretty interesting to see where this case could go To some a rodent John...to others its support animal Yeah I know about this story This is fantastic. We don't have the clip, I don't think but there was a support pig... Yeah! I looked for a clip and the lady got kicked off the plane because her support pig was running up and down the aisle and was wreaking havoc? Yeah making a squealing sound Nobody made a clip of that no one videoed it. I'm very surprised. I am stunned by it But uh, ADA who I'm not really a big fan of but they should be making big statements right now. I'm tired of this

1:56:02 And it's really distressing for people who have seeing eye dogs and other service animals who perform a specific service. Emotional support is not valid under the ADA regulations, and I agree! Get out of here with your damn support service squirrel... emotional support pig.... And I saw this video some woman in Texas she has her goat or service she had actual goat she takes it shopping In the shopping cart. Yeah, I got- yeah listen Listen to her listen she's and she's doing it only because she wants people She wants attention like yes is my goat yeah he likes shopping Adrena gets to go to the store and go shopping today She talks with like a baby we're gonna go do this during your shopping today We gotta buy some dog food, and it was too hot outside so she's going shopping Mommy

1:57:04 Say hi to the man there. Hey, there goat! No one says excuse me get that stinking animal out of here goats are mean I've had goats I don't like goats you feed them your turn around they boom They write and right in the back of the knees right in the butt right in the back of the knees no It's worse because you buckle you fall down and fall on the horn But yes, emotional support gerbil. That's my favorite. Now the other thing that I've noticed...I was watching...I was just going through the dials in there where sometimes you have to stop and watch. I hated to do it but it was Wheel of Fortune. Vanna White man! How long is she gonna live? She's hanging in there. Yeah she still looks good.

CHAPTER 31 / 44 Discussion

Fur Children, Jeremy Clarkson Allegations

The hosts discuss the trend of people referring to pets as "fur children" and "dogters." They also speculate that Jeremy Clarkson may be the next target of sexual misconduct allegations as the new season of "The Grand Tour" premieres on Amazon.

fur children· vanna white· jeremy clarkson· amazon· the grand tour

1:57:59 I met her. She's really nice. They had this woman on, there was a bunch of couples who were youngster and their grandparents you know it was some theme they were in Disneyland and this woman she does it so smoothly the young girl she is a millennial and she says uh... and she mentions her partner Louise and they're two fur children Elliot and Isaac just boom right onto to next thing And I had to stop and... What? I almost clipped it. I just didn't... Fur children, two dogs! Yeah, Rudy Sarzo. You don't know who that is. Rudy Sarzo very famous bass player played in Dio, White Snake and the guy is the Cuban Hurricane he's really an amazing bass player He and his wife don't have kids and I think there are medical reasons for that so they have a Yorkshire Terrier

1:58:56 And here's Rudy, who is like... He got the hair. He has got the leather on and everything. He is badass even though he was now 60 but still be a bad ass quiet riot I mean this has been in lot of bands and these carrying his damn dog around which she calls his Dogter. Dog-ter? Dogter. So our Dogter Is the dog got medical degree? No! Yeah, I find that a lot of these people with this you know for children. It was just slip by everybody babies yeah It's like okay well whatever yeah, no oh and right this just in before we take our break In the never-ending story of the hashtag me too here is a potential next candidate for naming and shaming seeing as the new season of The Grand Tour

2:00:00 It's coming out on Amazon. Thank you Adam Beast for this, uh... For this nudge Jeremy Clarkson I'm sure is going to be called out as a horrible man Well he seems to have all the characteristics of a horrible man He always- well he beats people up! He does all kinds of horrible things Yeah And i'm sure he's really rude to women? I would think so. He seems like he's rude to everybody So we can just wait for that it's coming Yeah, well you're probably right. And now I have this article that i want to read... Oh and that's on Netflix right? No Amazon. Well same thing it's on the streaming service! Yes that's why he'll be called out. You're right yeah target number two what am I thinking yes why am I even questioning this? Well I said amazon you just didn't register. I wasn't paying attention like yeah I guess

2:00:49 I wanted to do this cool story about Sean Hannity's advertisers who are being targeted and he has a huge tweet campaign, don't advertise on Hannity show. Yeah this is like a third iteration of attempting this the problem...and i don't know what you're talking about in specifics but let me just say so you will know kind of a little background on this it's always been countered by a reverse Boycott so if you're advertising or have ever advertised on Hannity and you pull out they go after you The Hannity supporters is a huge. It's like oh, I see okay. I see so so everybody loses because Because the products don't people boycott the product yeah the other side Oh the other side does have power hmm

CHAPTER 32 / 44 Discussion

Sean Hannity Advertiser Boycotts

Efforts to target Sean Hannity's advertisers are being met with reverse boycotts from his supporters. The hosts also criticize The Blaze for requiring specific browser updates to access their content, viewing it as a barrier to information.

sean hannity· boycotts· the blaze· browser updates· media activism

2:00:00 It's coming out on Amazon. Thank you Adam Beast for this, uh... For this nudge Jeremy Clarkson I'm sure is going to be called out as a horrible man Well he seems to have all the characteristics of a horrible man He always- well he beats people up! He does all kinds of horrible things Yeah And i'm sure he's really rude to women? I would think so. He seems like he's rude to everybody So we can just wait for that it's coming Yeah, well you're probably right. And now I have this article that i want to read... Oh and that's on Netflix right? No Amazon. Well same thing it's on the streaming service! Yes that's why he'll be called out. You're right yeah target number two what am I thinking yes why am I even questioning this? Well I said amazon you just didn't register. I wasn't paying attention like yeah I guess

2:00:49 I wanted to do this cool story about Sean Hannity's advertisers who are being targeted and he has a huge tweet campaign, don't advertise on Hannity show. Yeah this is like a third iteration of attempting this the problem...and i don't know what you're talking about in specifics but let me just say so you will know kind of a little background on this it's always been countered by a reverse Boycott so if you're advertising or have ever advertised on Hannity and you pull out they go after you The Hannity supporters is a huge. It's like oh, I see okay. I see so so everybody loses because Because the products don't people boycott the product yeah the other side Oh the other side does have power hmm

2:01:39 And he has a big audience. Well, I was going to read this article but when i clicked into it from the blaze I get this screen that says please update your browser we at the Blaze support the latest Firefox Chrome Edge Safari Opera almost all mobile browsers and Internet Explorer 10 plus please click the button below to update your browser No! Why would I do that? why don't you just let me in? Yeah, they browse standard HTML or whatever they're using Whatever your browser is you should be fine, but they want but they want me to use the new Mac OS Which I think only comes with the updated os because i'm using safari for a number of reasons. They're douchebags What do they what did they get out of it? 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 on NO AGENDA

CHAPTER 33 / 44 Discussion

Final Donor Credits, Value for Value

The hosts read the final list of donors and producers for the episode, including those contributing to "night layaways." They announce a potential meetup in London and reiterate the show's reliance on the value-for-value model.

scott baron· australia· london meetup· knighthood· value for value

2:02:39 Now we do have a few people to thank, very few for show. What is it? 982. Head to the grand 1000. Black Baron, I'm sorry black knight Scott Baron of North Georgia $150 and he has apologized. He created some confusion. He does need some F cancer karma. Okay, We can do that since he is a Knight and a Baron And a Baron, well we should give him a double shot of that then. I think it's Boe, B-O-W-E in Dingley Village on Australia $111.11 Andrew Davis $71 also in Australia and he has a birthday call out for his smoking hot wife Emma. Send the picture! Jackson Butler that is $71 from Andrew. Jackson Butler 6666

2:03:44 And let me get everything here organized. Which we'll do, we'll do all that at the end. Andrew, that was Andrew Davis 71 Jackson Butler 6666 Christopher Dexter 5678 John Fitzpatrick and Heber Springs Arkansas 5633 Sir Luke the Baron of London in London I hope he shows up with the meetup or going to have it either Next Friday or next Saturday, we're determining that as we speak. And I want to if anybody's interested in going do this London meetup send me an email with the subject line London error. What? No not error London and then you'll be on the smallest shortlist and also sent out a mail. So are just gonna go hang out in London for a week that's kind of cool yeah nice with Mimi Yeah nice

2:04:38 Mika Miller, okay now the following people are name and location. All $50 donors who wrapping this up quickly. Mika Miller in Bethel Pennsylvania John Camp in Antlers Oklahoma which I mentioned all time Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard Washington Sir Eric VM the baronet of the valley in Van Nuys California Trevor Hoagland in Portland Oregon John Holler in Missoula, Montana. Uwe Putz I believe in Deutschland? I think I got it. Jeffrey Williams birthday call out in Mount Shasta California and Sheila Demodoren, De-moderen, de-moderen, de-modern parts unknown Chris Lewinsky Sir Chris to you in Sherwood Park Alberta Canada where the money used to be

2:05:32 Donald Schwartz in Chino Hills, California and Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus, California. That concludes our list of well-wishers and producers for show 982. Yes I believe it's Micah Miller not Micah. Micah. Micah complains about you doing that. It's Micah. Oh Micah sorry. Well thank you donors! It still is our value for value model 10 years strong we need all the help we can get And the way it works is very simple. You listen to this show for free, you sit around do whatever you want It's out there, you grab it thinking that was kind of valuable What was it worth to you? You just come up with a number and go to Dvorak dot org slash NA and that keeps the program going Of course I wanna thank everyone who came in under $50 dollars, you can use that if you wanna stay anonymous or be on one our many many programs which include night layaways Which a lot people are coming into fruition now Like reverse mortgage only in goodway

2:06:28 And all of a sudden you get a knighthood after... Well, how long does it take if you're on the 33 month? We have people who've been done. The $50 is obviously 10 months. Right. No I'm sorry that's 20 months for the 50 layaway yeah But people have been on the four and five dollar and achieved knighthood Yeah took them the whole ten years It was worth it Plus they get couple bonus donations on top of them That's true Well thank you all very much I highly appreciate it. Have a couple of karmas for everybody and remember that you can support us for the Sunday show. Devorak dot org slash NA. Jobs, jobs and jobs! Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma.

CHAPTER 34 / 44 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, No Agenda Roundtable

A formal knighthood ceremony is held for several high-level donors who have contributed $1,000 or more. The hosts grant them titles and welcome them to the No Agenda Roundtable with a traditional list of humorous perks.

knighthood· roundtable· spencer jaffe· matt farrell· benjamin shirky

2:07:27 Here's your birthday list for today which is November 16th 2017. Sir Ronald Gardner says happy birthday to his son Jace Gardner, he celebrated yesterday sir Luke Baron of London also celebrating his birthday yesterday Danielle and Jeff Williams say happy birthday to Peter Konowski it's his birthday today in Amsterdam Andrew Davis, his happy birthday to his hot- has smoke and hot wife Emma Davis 1971 November 22nd. Happy Birthday from creepy uncle Adam and John here We like to be creepy a little bit Let me see what we have some nights actually we have ooh This is very nice I get to bring a favorite on stage here That's your cue to pick up. Oh, sorry here just sorry I got it Okay Come on up here spooky off

2:08:17 Benjamin Shirky, Matthew Forrest, Spencer Jaffe and Matt Farrell. You are about to become members of the NOAHGENA Roundtable of the Knights and the Dames for your support of the program in amount $1,000 or more thank you very much! And for that I hereby pronounce the K-V Dame IT Sir Man on the Mount Sir Edgewise Knight of the Board and Sir Matt. For you we have at the round table the requisite hookers a blow rent boys and Chardonnay well The Ren Boys and Gin & Tonic, Redheads and Rye's Organic Macaroni and Plasticizers Beer and Blunts Brazilian Hotties and Chakacha Cowgirls and Coffee Barners And of course Mutton and Mead! Along with some of those ginger ale and gerbils which is my favorite Go to noagendannation.com slash rings and Eric the Shill will take care of you once you give him all your details Thank you for supporting The No Agenda Show also known as... The Best Podcast in the Universe

CHAPTER 35 / 44 Discussion

Alt-Right Recruitment, Discord Gaming Servers

NBC News reports on how the alt-right movement utilizes gaming platforms like Discord to organize and disseminate white supremacist ideology. The report links the tactics used during Gamergate to the mobilization of supporters for the Charlottesville rallies.

nbc news· discord· alt-right· gamergate· charlottesville

2:09:16 Fact fact all right. I got a couple of things here I got a couple of things now, but I need to do this because otherwise we're one out of time and I teased it I tease my wasn't I didn't say I wanted to step on your thing But okay, this is what to make sure that I had a couple of things too. I'll keep you I'll keep you in mind from NBC News how gamers are facilitating? I should do this with an echo Hey, where is my uh... Oh! That's interesting. Where's the console? Oh it moved. Damn. Upgrade. I haven't upgraded yet this is still the old rig Uh here's the title NBC News how gamers are facilitating The rise of the alt-right You will not replace us Before white supremacists neo nazis and white nationalists marched in Charlottesville Virginia In August they were organizing behind a computer screen

2:10:17 A lot of that organizing happened through a messaging service called Discord, which was originally created to connect video game players to one another. This is just the latest in the long-running shared history between the gaming community and Gaming culture has always been racist, it's always been sexist but the internet has sort of allowed us to just sort of see what is always in there. Emma Vossen is a PhD candidate studying how sexism seeded and gaming as replicated in the real world Her study is based on Gamergate A movement that began with intimidating and harassing female video game journalists under the guise of fairness in video game journalism

2:11:00 The harassment quickly gained traction. It helped catalyze the alt-right movement, which secured power and prominence during the 2016 election cycle. When you were studying Gamergate and you were really looking at the techniques that they used it's impossible not to see the same techniques being used by Trump supporters According to Vossen, the gamers and the alt-right share common ground. As people who are marginalized are fighting for equality those who traditionally had privilege you know especially white men feel that they are being oppressed by these people who are trying to just be treated as equal Why do you hate black people? African Americans are dirty, they're stingy

2:11:43 Xbox Live and PlayStation Network both allow players to chat live while gaming. They have become havens for hate speech against women and minorities. What I had noticed and witnessed was what I call linguistic profiling, like just based on how somebody sounds you know they kind of lash out in very inappropriate ways. Who votes for mission? Do they allow girls who play Call Of Duty in America? Wow do they allow morons to play Call of Duty in America. Not everyone in the gaming community is sexist or racist, we are having this sort of internal cultural problem with sexists and racists gamers

2:12:20 So, what happens when these behaviors move from the gaming world to the real world? Keegan Hank studies a progression of the alt-right on the web. Discord as a platform kind of had a meteoric rise in the alt right now I think many of the members of the alt right were actually aware that because they were also members of video game community many of them are discord became almost a requirement for a lot of these people if you wanted to be actively involved with movement Discord is anonymous and lightly monitored, which allowed the alt-right to control communications and access for thousands of users. Some discord servers controlled by alt right leaders made users post pictures of their Caucasian skin in order to participate This allowed the alt right to centralize its message and disseminate information around the Charlottesville rallies. Discord service played a substantial role in fomenting the riots that led to the death of Heather Heyer

2:13:11 After facing pressure, Discord shut down the servers used to organize in Charlottesville. The company stated, Perhaps not surprisingly James Alex Fields Jr., the white supremacist charged for Hyre's death was no stranger to video games In 2010 his mother filed a complaint against him claiming he struck her in the head and locked her in the Because she told him to stop playing video games Yeah, that's it. That's that's how you know your kids gonna be an alt-right douchebag Yep So this discord service they can pack it up. Yes I think this is very interesting okay They're gonna go after this isn't a voice system You know what are you gonna? Go out the next Skype we can't do you can't do conference calls and

2:14:04 You know, because that's where they're communicating. They control everything from there Yeah So it's not so much about the video gaming which is kind of a mislabeling of the issue that they're bringing up here But about the server that they use to communicate and command and control Now we're gonna see some issues with this I don't know why this... It just seems kinda...it seems like a salvo of some sort because It's just a bunch of douchebags playing a game and then talking to each other. Yeah, but they're saying that this is where the alt-right is born... Where it's cultivated, where it's a petri dish of hate! I thought there was a bunch of KKK guys? They don't play that game. Yes they do with their hood on! KKK plays Call Of Duty?! Yeah yeah with their hoods on sure they do Their hoods on Alright everybody got your head your hood on you got your RPG okay let's GO

CHAPTER 37 / 44 Discussion

Randall Saito, Hawaii State Hospital Escape

Randall Saito, a man described as a psychopathic predator, escaped from a Hawaii State Hospital and traveled to California via charter and commercial flights. He was eventually apprehended in Stockton, California, after a 72-hour search.

randall saito· hawaii· psychiatric hospital· escape· san jose

2:18:15 Now everyone's expecting an honest tip from you and there you go again Again, I'm such a hole. You are oh Wait a minute I got to get the jingle for this one And then I want to hear some of your stuff hold on this is great listen to this report Oh yeah, you can see times up 28% because this is very interesting time maybe more being

2:18:57 So, the injection of equity from the Koch brothers. This is this huge conglomerate you have the brothers Charles and David Koch they're widely known for supporting a conservative agenda so we'll see what happens here whether it actually happens putting these two big publishers together brothers They're back on the scene. Yeah, it's about time we can hate him again. Yeah they yeah Back on the scene so I got a couple of things I got there's a story that came out about this escaped psycho I just want to play these clips I got three little clips That first had the long report and then two kind of alt reports which have different information CBS and ABC

2:19:51 And it's kind of second half the show stuff, the way I see it. Tell me that I'm wrong about this. Let's start with Escape Psycho from Hawaii. Next tonight here the all-out search after authorities say a psychopath escaped got in a taxi then boarded a flight and ended up in California Here is ABC senior national correspondent Jim Avila tonight The sooner we get there, the better. The man in the backseat of this cab is in a big hurry he just escaped from a psychiatric hospital. And tonight, questions mounting. How did Randall Sato a sadist and necrophiliac accused of gruesome murder get away? And did he have help? Sato was locked up for more than 35 years after being acquitted in the slaying of a young woman by reason of insanity But around 10 o'clock Sunday morning Sato slipped out of a Hawaii State Hospital walking about a mile to this park where he was picked up by that taxi

2:20:50 Making a phone call to a possible accomplice. Chartering a plane from this small airfield to Maui, where authorities say he boarded a commercial flight to San Jose California the hospital not reporting their patient missing for nine and a half hours Tonight Sato arrested peacefully in another cab at this Stockton gas station All of a sudden there were sheriff cars all around and they went right up to him, and without incident were able to apprehend him. David the arrests were at these gas pumps The cab was on the way to Reno Back in Hawaii authorities say they suspect an inside job David Wow I think i know what that's about Well let's play the ulcer now I want to hear what you have to say Now the ulcer slide They tell a different story One story is the guy was

2:21:49 They didn't report him missing for nine hours. The other story says he didn't report him missing for two hours One side says he was a necrophiliac, the other one says he's a serial killer It's very interesting difference Let's play Escape Psycho This is the alt version on CBS A man once described as a classic serial killer is back in custody tonight He escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Hawaii on Sunday and was captured today 2,400 miles away in Stockton California. Okay there's a reason I wanted that stop there not sure what it is let's continue

2:22:29 Late this afternoon, Hawaii's Governor David Ige admitted... His escape should never have happened. Randall Saito's roughly 72-hour flight to freedom ended when California Sheriff's deputies took him into custody The 59 year old man authorities call a psychopathic predator escaped from the hospital Sunday morning He was last seen heading to breakfast Instead Saito somehow walked to a park and called a cab Dash cam video obtained by our Honolulu affiliate KGMB shows him getting in, carrying a backpack with supplies including a cell phone.

2:23:11 He took a charter flight to Maui, where he was then able to get through security under an alias and boarded Hawaiian Airlines' flight to San Jose California with a ticket apparently booked online from the hospital. It wasn't until two hours later on Sunday night that the hospital reported him missing In 1979, Saito shot a random woman in the face with a pellet gun then stabbed her to death. He was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity two years later and sent to the mental hospital. Prosecutors had said Saito fit the criteria of a classic serial killer and in 2015 had successfully prevented him from getting day passes out of the facility Hospital administrators could not explain how he escaped on Sunday

CHAPTER 38 / 44 Discussion

Real ID Act, RFID Tracking Theories

The hosts theorize that the media coverage of Randall Saito's escape is propaganda designed to build support for the Real ID Act. They suggest the escape may have been a controlled test of tracking technologies, including potential RFID chipping.

real id act· rfid· tracking· propaganda· stockton

2:23:59 Also still unexplained is how Saito managed to get hold of that backpack and cell phone he was carrying, and of course how did he pay for the two airline tickets? Anthony. Anna Warner with an incredible story It really only took me about 30 seconds to realize what was going on during the first clip but during the other 2 I got the information. I know what this is Okay go This is propaganda of the highest order. It's CBS, both of these clips? No no the first round was ABC and then this second two clips were CBS Well what you notice is a lot of talk about flying and how he traveled How did he get so far...how could this all be possible

2:24:39 Then I happen to know what's going on right now is we are preparing the slaves of Gitmo Nation for January 22nd, 2018 at which point the Real ID Act will go into effect. Specifically meant to thwart you from flying if you're not authorized! Well, there's that element is in play. I agree So I expect a lot more of these flying how did you fly? What ID did you use? I think that's gonna be the focus because they're getting everybody ready to say it's really good to have this real idea Yeah, it is because you know them crazy psychos can't fly You this this is propaganda. I'm convinced well. I'm convinced. I took a different tact. I think it was a test and

2:25:24 I think this was a controlled test and i think maybe your element is an element of it. Okay, but the but i think for starters uh the guy was with somebody within the facility or somebody who gave him all his stuff so he had the money in the backpack and got to fly to maui to catch another plane or fly from maui to catch a plane into the states and they were caught in stockton in the middle of nowhere Stockton? In the middle of san fernando or the San Joaquin valley In the middle of nowhere, Stockton. They surrounded him and banged his back in jail he was headed to Reno What was in Stockton? What was in Stockton is I decided that's where they were going to end the test And I believe this guy was chipped Hmm... Okay! I like that too

2:26:11 I do like that. How else, how do you get this guy's made a clean escape? He's flying on a regular with a false ID flies into California and he lands in San Jose then he takes a cab or just find some way to get the Stockton and they arrest him at a gas station in Stockton this is bullcrap He had to be chipped and this had to be a scheme. This has to all planned in advance, and I think they have a lot of people that are chipped And i think it's going to be plot point in a lot of stories nowadays where you're gonna have this little RFID a detector which you can run over your whole body to see if you've been chipped, where you've been locked up and knocked out. We have to give you a small examination, take a little breather of this gas, ain't chip yet." Not even that hard these days all you have to do is take a pill! There's now something that you may think is better than a pillbox for remembering to take your medicine

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Digital Pills, FDA Approved Ingestible Sensors

The FDA has approved the first "digital pill," a version of the drug Abilify that contains an ingestible sensor to track patient compliance. The sensor transmits data to a wearable patch and then to a mobile device, allowing doctors to monitor medication schedules.

abilify· fda· digital pills· proteus digital health· tracking

2:27:02 It's a pill that tracks when you take it with an embedded sensor. US regulators just approved it! It is medicine from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals' drug Abilify for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression The tracking device was developed by Proteus Digital Health That's a medical technology company with over 300 patents The sensor gives doctors a way to see if patients are swallowing their pills on schedule It's about the size of a grain of salt and it gets activated when it gets wet from stomach juices. There is also a patch the patient wears, and after the pills taken, it transmits its signal to the patch Then a digital record is sent to the patients mobile device The chip by the way will pass through digestive system normally. It could really help patient with complicated medicine routines like people suffering from diabetes or heart conditions The pill has been in works for awhile. The sensor first was cleared by FDA in 2012

2:27:52 Mm-hmm. There's your mark of the beast there's your chipping yeah, but that you pooped that out Yeah, I think there's one in it. There's one in every pill so you get a new on each time You poop yeah But you yes you do but if you're just under run you're not taking any pills and let's take I had the prescription They were stupidly taken because it was for abilify is for the psycho drugs Yeah, well I'm thinking that he was chip-chipped. The old fashioned way and you know where you get the chip in ya and California is a perfect place to catch a guy like that because California is... people don't realize this but San Francisco's a good example there are sensors all over the city that pick up your fast track data

2:28:38 Which is on your car. Yes, and that's RFID essentially? Yes and so the fast track device in California I always take my fast track and I keep it in the glove box wrapped in tinfoil Yeah yeah I noticed it did well I think the glove box does the trick but to do it right I would wrap it in tin foil Hello, and so that as they take it out then you put it on the dashboard And it works fine But what they want you to do of course is to glue it permanently on your windshield with this little With this so they can track everywhere sure something tracking everywhere and they then besides that they have license plate readers Everywhere in California. Yeah, are you driving around I can tell where you've been Why do you live there? Why did he put up with come to Austin we'd like to well get back to fight it and

2:29:26 So there's all these issues and I think with the chipping and everything, because there was no chance this guy was going to... But I think they wanted to see how far he'd get. And when they got to Stockton, then said maybe we better bring him in. It could be either or a combo? Could have been all of the above Or just a happy coincidence? Seems unlikely that they're gonna find this guy. I mean it's just not possible! When i was talking to Pachenik He said, wow. The news is so nuts. What do you do again on your show? Like he doesn't know my handler like he doesn't know what are you doing in a show that media deconstruction Oh, everyone's talking about all this stupid Jeff sessions and all that but the real story was about the NSA

CHAPTER 40 / 44 Discussion

Shadow Brokers, NSA Source Code Leak

The New York Times reports that the "Shadow Brokers" group has been selling actual source code used by the NSA to breach foreign computer systems. Intelligence officials suspect the leak involves one or more insiders within the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit.

nsa· shadow brokers· david sanger· russia· cyber security

2:30:17 Like, what are you talking about? The NSA! Their own guys are hacking them. The whole thing is falling apart and no one's talking about it And he referenced the New York Times article which I had saved for the show notes to review before the show and when i read it...I was pretty astounded It's David Singer wrote it He's from the New York Times We'll have a little listen We were trying to answer essentially one big question How could a group since August of 2016 That's Singer or Sanger I think it's singer. Sure? No, now that you say it, I'm not sure...I think so! Would it be Sanger?!

2:30:52 So Sanger, David Sanger is one of the guys who handles this sort of story. Dennis Sanger probably I'm sure i'm wrong. A group since August of 2016 right in the middle of the presidential election been able every month to come out and offer for sale samples of what clearly was code used inside the National Security Agency to break into foreign computer systems And the reason it's bigger than Snowden is that Snowden revealed the code names and some of the descriptions Of programs, the NSA did around the world not scrapped many of them and forced them to go do many other things What the shadow brokers as they've called themselves are putting out on the market

2:31:34 is the actual source code itself. So if you are an adversary state, you look at this and you can go into your computers and say is the NSA inside my system? David near the end of the article is one of the most important nuggets as to who it's believed to be what nation-state behind this operation And you indicate that a number of US officials have a very strong belief that This is tied to Russia That's right. Now, that does not necessarily mean that Russia was the first one to hack into these systems and you can imagine that the NSA and particularly the unit that got hacked here which used to be called the Tailored Access Operations Unit they're basically the special forces of the NSA They preserve their stuff pretty closely so a lot of people believe there had to be an insider or several insiders And maybe still is an insider in the system that was bringing the data out

2:32:29 But they also believe that the Russians ultimately got that, whether they go it because the people on- the insiders were working for them or simply put the stuff in a place where Russians could access. Seems like a newsworthy story to me Well I'm glad he told- clued you in on that story because that stories not getting any play at all for some reason Well, it's really disturbing. This is a... I mean it's not like we didn't know about these guys and not like we didn't know about the distribution of this but what's new was The New York Times, the paper record, The Old Grey Lady reporting that it must be one or multiple insiders. Interesting! Well intrigue continues amongst intelligence agencies And the media What are they? Why are they so quiet? I don't understand why their quiet They were told to be quiet

CHAPTER 41 / 44 Discussion

UCLA Basketball Players, China Shoplifting Apology

Three UCLA basketball players who were detained for shoplifting in China issued public apologies and thanked President Trump for intervening on their behalf. The hosts discuss the scripted nature of the apologies and the political optics of the situation.

ucla· china· shoplifting· donald trump· apology

2:33:23 Yeah, I have a gratuitous clip for you sir Because I found it the UCLA players thanking the president With that being said I take full responsibility for the mistake. I've made so I've shortened this significantly because they all admitted They were shoplifting and this is not who they are not who they want to be as men You know you look at these punks. Are you gonna slap them? They're all forced to read these statements pretty funny uplifting I know that this goes beyond me letting my school down but I've let the entire country down. Before, before I thank everybody who worked so incredibly hard to help us return home safely, I want to thank the Chinese police and the government for taking care of us and treating us well during our time there. To President Trump and the United States Government, thank you for taking the time to intervene on our behalf we really appreciate you helping us out. I'm grateful for this UCLA team that stood strong beside us and made it possible for me to be sitting here in front of y'all today

2:34:30 I'd also like to thank President Trump and the United States government for the help that they provided as well. I would like to thank everyone involved in this whole ordeal, thank you to Chris, Doug, Gloria and Jerry for staying with us the whole time Thank you to police department which treated us very well Thank you to the Pac-12 and UCLA community that helped us the whole way And thank you to United States government and President Trump for your efforts to bring us home Must be so hard for any... Canned. Yeah, of course it's canned! It must be so hard for any news organization to use that clip with someone thanking the president for saving their ass Oh and by the way black guys Black guys! To me black guys they're racist what is he thinking? Let them rot in jail those black guys I'm sorry sons-of-bitches Sons-of-bitches Right

CHAPTER 42 / 44 Discussion

Northern California School Shooting, Kevin Neal

Kevin Neal engaged in a shooting spree in Northern California, killing his wife and neighbors before attempting to attack an elementary school. The school's quick lockdown prevented further casualties, though the hosts question some details of the official narrative.

kevin neal· rancho tehama· school shooting· lockdown· california

2:35:21 Okay, I got two things left. I'm done all right first of all I went and then the last one by the way is about Mugabe which we haven't talked about we should talk about yes Which has been a coup in Zimbabwe yeah also military showed up on television Hello! I am now your anchor So that's but I want to do this other story first because it more relates to the escaped psycho Okay, this is a story that could have had more legs. Nobody's really playing into some us another psycho Oh A shooter in Northern California who was gonna kill a bunch of people killed his wife He killed his neighbors and he's got a gun couple guns And he's coming down to kill the kids in the local school and they have a picture of them that they keep running Of him looking like a crazed maniac

2:36:07 I've n- this is one of the greatest photos, we should try to track a copy of it down and put in the show notes. One of the greatest photos of a crazed maniac you'll ever see! Okay hold on let me take a look... Hold on a second What's his name? I don't know his name he's in that report Okay California Once your run the report then you can get his name In a stolen truck Neil drove here to- I got him already He looks like uh... Ah..He looks like uh what's his name On drugs with a beard who's that all right all right? All right that guy not actor a little bit, but yeah Isn't that a great picture. That's fantastic. That's the guy you want killing ya That's the one and that's by the way the picture that everything all the networks kept showing that exact same pictures though There's no other picture this joker well No It's kind of like the paddock picture with his eyes closed and by the way he's cross-eyed if you look at it know

2:36:57 No, this guy. Oh this guy? Yeah, yeah look at all loony Looney Tunes It's great in a stolen truck Neil drove here to Rancho Tehama Elementary School But he couldn't get in Frustrated Neal shot 30 rounds in six minutes But the school went on immediate lockdown after hearing gunshots a quarter mile away 30 rounds and six minutes What was you pulling it with his pinky like one of the time like pooh? I heard but she makes it sound like who is shot 30 rounds And I'm thinking what let me do the math on that that is five rounds a minute Good work. So yeah boom, that's click

2:37:39 Boom get in but by the way, the guy he looks like the Unabomber too. It's kind of that because yes great elementary school But he couldn't get in Frustrated Neil shot 30 rounds in six minutes But the school went on immediate lockdown after hearing gunshots a quarter mile away That meant kids went into classrooms and hid under their desks Maybe you had to use like a muzzle, you know just tamp it in there and get the pour the gunpowder. I mean we're laughing about kids being shot at so that well yeah but this story is dubious because they said school went on lockdown because somebody heard gunshots a quarter mile away well yeah

2:38:25 So as soon as you hear a car backfire and put the school on lockdown? Yeah, I mean... That's not necessarily. Yeah, I hear stuff in Austin all the time which is like, is that gunshot? Would you go on lockdown immediately apparently they do it just to tie up with the guy Let me ask you very important question What was the guy doing at quarter mile away shooting into the air what was he shooting at a quarter mile away listen to end of that again Hold on, I already dumped it sorry You do this all the time. Well, you know I kept it in for quite a while. Okay here we go. Back a little... Here we go. Could be uh... The shot shooter company?

2:39:24 Who detects that? This is the middle of nowhere bumfuck California. No way! Hmm, well I think someone really did die there and they dug up his wife under the floorboards Yeah no that's over at his house he shot his wife He said yeah no Oh my god Anyway that was over in this house and then he shot his neighbors And then maybe a quarter mile away from school where they heard this shooting and decided to go on lockdown Well okay now you make a good point If it was in, as you said, bum-F California maybe they don't hear that kind of stuff so often. So a quarter mile away might not have been that crazy. That's where they hear it all the time! There's hunters guys shooting at the tree in the backyard... You know? Come on. Let me ask you another question when is the last time you actually heard an automobile backfire

2:40:19 I mean, be honest with me. When's the last time you heard that? You old coot! Come on! I nailed you on that one." Yeah, you did. You got me. It's true. That's crazy. When I was an air pollution inspector... Ah here we go yes But there is a hill around here and I had to area standard oil and I have to go up in and discuss the stench in some parts of Richmond. And there's this hill called... The black neighborhood, John? Is that what you're saying is that code? No no it was a racy white neighborhood. Blacks never complained about anything! It was always in white neighborhoods and so uh There's this street, real long, it's a hill

2:40:58 like a San Francisco Hill type of thing called Mosier. And if you went to the top of it and came down with these, the cars we had were like American Motors there's a certain kind of car that was used by the government but it turned out that if you turned off the ignition which didn't lock the transmission or do anything just turn off the ignition and you went down this hill with it in gear I wasn't the only guy doing this, by the way. And you turned the ignition back on about halfway down... Oh! You got a big boom? A huge explosion. Now, I had- you're like this- I had a Saab 90. It must have been, I don't know maybe 20 and it was a real piece of crap and it ran on liquid petroleum gas just to make it even more interesting. Down by the handbrake there was a choke

CHAPTER 43 / 44 Discussion

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Military Coup

The military in Zimbabwe has placed 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe under house arrest, effectively ending his 37-year rule. The coup was reportedly triggered by Mugabe's attempt to position his wife, Grace, as his successor.

robert mugabe· zimbabwe· military coup· grace mugabe· house arrest

2:41:52 And the same thing, if you just let off the gas off the accelerator and you pulled up to choke. You push the choke down and hit the accelerator... I probably could have blown myself to bits with LPG. But actually bought the car for that feature! I thought it was cool as I watched this. Wow. Yeah, it just came to me this I've completely forgotten about that. Well these things come to mind good so let's do my last clip is Is actually an educational clip and I followed this on all the networks? This is Mugabe It has been the military's taken over Zimbabwe And they pushed him Mugabe put him under house arrest 94 year old senile a-hole that run the country into the ground but there was a couple this particular report which I believe was on CBS and

2:42:42 It brought in this information that the other networks didn't feel like discussing. And the information is that he started shacking up with his secretary, I don't know how many 20 years ago or 15 years ago and decided to make her the assistant Premier or Prime Minister gave her this position of that she was going to take over the government when he died. And she's just some bimbo, it's like an unbelievable bimbo and none of the other networks seemed to explore this much but I thought...and apparently it was the reason they finally got rid of this guy because they weren't gonna put up with that so let's go with it

2:43:25 It looked like a coup as tanks rolled into the nation's capital overnight. Military police and tank, wow it was real! And soldiers took over the state broadcaster but Zimbabwean General Sibusi Somoyo denied it We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military takeover. Instead, Robert Mugabe who was ruled Zimbabwe by fear for 37 years is now under house arrest 93 years old and in failing health he's regarded by his critics as a brutal tyrant who ran the country into the ground

2:44:06 He's perhaps best remembered for sending out bands of thugs who seized white-owned farms, drove off owners killed livestock and then left the land fallow. The economy went into freefall unemployment soared the Zimbabwean dollar was printed in denominations of billions Despite this, Mugabe's grip on power only strengthened. But ultimately it may have been his wife Grace nearly half his age who was his undoing when he tried to position her as his potential successor

2:44:42 Known as Gucci Grace for her lavish shopping sprees and flamboyant fashion choices, she was Mugabe's secretary before entering politics two years ago. Now her husband is in the military's custody power finally may be slipping from Mugabe's hands No one knows where Grace Mugabe is. There are rumors she's already fled the country and with Robert Mugabe under house arrest, Anthony, Zimbabweans are waiting to see if he will step down. Deborah Pata thanks Deborah Wow that's a good report

2:45:18 Yeah, I thought CBS was the... well CBS being part of the system. I was gonna say who's their guy? Who is there a guy or gal they're putting in? I mean we are sure that we have some involvement somewhere along the line and why weren't we running Mugabe? No, I don't think so! We had nothing but trouble with that guy. Well good! You know the Brits tried to run him and you know they couldn't do it and we couldn't do it but I think we could do the military guys. Yeah yeah well another question for Pruchenik Yeah, ask him what the deal is. Sure yeah tell me the story and I'm surprised they haven't shot the Mugabe in the head which they should have done well that's why you'd think... I think right now it is They did this to see what would happen there's no reaction by the public Now they'll shoot him in the head oh he died of a heart attack? I'm sorry yeah uh I guess distress was too much for him Okay we can put that one in the book

CHAPTER 44 / 44 Discussion

Brad Sherman, Clinton Investigation Comments

Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman made a controversial comment on the BBC, stating that questions about the Clintons will not be put to rest until their enemies are put to rest. The hosts use this to conclude the show alongside a montage of "no" clips.

brad sherman· clinton· jeff sessions· bbc· investigation

2:46:16 I'm down on that. Within a week, this is short term predictions. I have one final clip very short and i like this kind of clip but I want to thank Jeff Taylor producer Jeff for finding this as we know when celebrities or even people who are ugly in show business known as politicians When they're abroad, when they're certainly in the UK's, get Monation GMT. Yeah, it's a little looser when they do an interviews they say stuff and The Truth always wants to come out this is kind of a combo clip Of not giving a crap because I'm in England who was gonna listen to it And The Truth wants to come out This is Democratic California Congressman Brad Sherman Mr Sessions I'm sorry on BBC 4

2:47:04 Mr Sessions, though today left the door open to such an investigation but he made it clear that he didn't believe there was currently any basis on which to appoint a special prosecutor. On the other hand from The Democrats point of view is this an opportunity potentially to simply clear things up and put all these questions finally to rest? The questions about the Clintons will not be put to rest until all of their enemies are put to rest. Uh-huh, yup, I think that just about clears it up! Yeah good one. We want to put them to rest we know how they operate over there, the Clintons

2:47:52 And we'll be on watch for that. Let's see if Mugabe gets shot, what else are you waiting for? Academia sex scandals Yeah, that will take a while yeah and don't be on waiting for Al Gore to be outed again That ain't gonna happen We got protection somehow All right everybody thank you very much for listening Thank you for supporting the program and the work remember us for our Sunday show at Dvorak dot org slash A N A Until then, coming to you from downtown Austin Texas capital of the drone star states here in the common law condo and the 5 by 9 Cluedio. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where the tide's in and the schemers are out I am John C. Dvorak We return on Sunday right here on NOAgenda until then adios mofos

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